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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES
50th YEAR, NO. 66.
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Nancy Debrix, Beaufort, Held
In Murder of John \N. Tyson
Hearing Set for Tuesday
In Countv Court
Nancy Debrix, Beaufort, will be"
charged with murder and given a
preliminary hearing in county re
corder’s court Tuesday, Guy Sprin
gle, chief of police, Beaufort, re
ported Wednesday.
Nancy, reportedly the common
law wife of John Wesley Tyson,
42, is charged with shooting Tyson
with a .12 gauge shotgun at 6:40
p.m. Monday. The shooting occur
red at their home at 313 Marsh
St., Beaufdrt.
Tyson died as he was being
wheeled into the emergency room
at Morehead City hospital. He was
shot in his left side at the waist.
Chief Springle had been at the
home about half an hour before
the shooting. He said he had been
called there. When he got to the
house, Tyson asked him to get
Nancy out of the house.
The chief said that Nancy replied
she had helped work for the house
and it was as much hers as it was
Tyson’s. Chief Springle told Ty
son that if he wanted him to get
Nancy out of the house, he would
have to get the necessary eviction
papers.
The chief said he then advised
the two to settle their argument
peaceably. Chief Springle was ac
companied to the house by ABC
officer Marshall Ayscue.
The chief said he left and went
home and hadn’t been there more
than 20 or 30 minutes when he got
a call to go back to the house. He
found Tyson lying on the kitchen
floor about 15 feet from the front
1 door.
Nancy, he said, was on the front
steps and the gun was inside the
front door. She told the officer
that she started out of the house
after the chief had left and Tyson'
forbade her leaving. She said he
booked the front door.
Then she said he struck her and
knocked her to the floor. ,She told
the..chief.that she th^n asked Ty
son to leave her alone and she
* would get out. At that, she relat
ed, Tyson started toward her with
a pocket knife.
She said she grabbed the gun,
which was by the front door, and
warned him not to come closer.
When he continued to come toward
her, she said she fired, but she
didn’t think the gun was loaded.
When Tyson fell, Nancy ran
across the street and told Evelyn
Barrett to call the law, that she
had shot John. Evelyn went to
Cole’s store and called chief Sprin
gle. Tyson was taken to the hos
pital in the Adair ambulance.
Nancy is being held in the coun
ty jail without bond. Chief Sprfn
gle said that deputy sheriff Bruce
Edwards assisted him in the in
vestigation.
k Monday is Last Day
To Submit ASC Petitions
B. J. May, manager of the ASC
office, Beaufort, reminds farmers
that Monday is the last day for
receiving petitions nominating peo
ple for ASC community committee
men.
From those listed on the peti
tion, the community committee
will select 10 on whom the farmers
will vote, Mr. May explains, This
, is a procedure different from that
of other years.
The slate of nominees is to be
completed and announced by Fri
day, Aug. 25. The election will be
Monday, Sept. 11.
Nick Allen of Allen and Bell
Hardware, Newport, broke his arm
Wednesday morning at about 10 o’
clock when he fell from the plat
form at the back of his store. He
was taken to the Morehead City
hospital in the Newport rescue
ambulance.
200 Teachers
Expected Next
Week at Hotel
Two hundred vocational and in
dustrial education teachers are ex
pected in Morehead City Monday
to attend the annual conference of
industrial educational personnel,
conducted by the State Department
of Public Instruction. The confer
ence will be held, at the Biltmore
hotel.
It will continue through Thurs
day and will train the teachers for
the coming year’s work. The
teachers are scheduled to go to
Marshallberg one night during the
week to learn about crab meat
processing.
H. J. Williamson, manager of
the Biltmore hotel, announces oth
er conventions through September
as follows:
The state Civitan convention will
be held this weekend and on Aug.
25 the 493rd Engineers will con
vene. Aug. 26 the Voung Adults
Club of North Carolina, State Corn
Millers association and Nationwide
Insurance Co. will meet at the ho
tel.
Sept. 5 and 6, Eastern North
Carolina public health service;
Sept. 7 and 8, General Equipment
Co.; Sept. 8 and 9, North Carolina
Telephone workshop; Sept. 12-15,
department of conservation, North
Carolina Forest Service; Sept. 17
18, Phillips 66; Sept. 21-23, North
Carolina Moose clubs; Sept. 24-26,
Southern Retail Furniture associa
tion.
Mayor Names
Fire Board
Mayor Leon Mann Jr., Newport,
has appointed a rural fire board
consisting of Ray Lackey, chair
man, Y. Z. Simmons and Clarence
Millis. Their terms will run for
two years, retroactive to July X of
this year.
Mr. Lackey was formerly presi
dent of the Newport Rural Fire as
sociation, which included a rural
area beyond the town limits. Since
most of that area (Newport town
ship) is now being taxed for fire
protection, some rural fire asso
ciation members beyond the town
ship boundaries need protection,
mayor Mann points out.
Under a former agreement, they
will receive this protection until
Dec. 31, 1961. But the town pro
poses negotiation of a new con
tract, running from July 1, 1961
to July 1, 1962, which would serve
people in the rural area beyond
Newport township as far as Wild
wood.
The monthly fee for this service
-would be $50 a month to the town
plus cost of repairs on any equip
ment if damage occurred at a
rural fire.
Mayor Mann has suggested to
Mr.. Lackey that the present di
rectors. of the rural fire associa
tion negotiate a new contract with
the town or that directors from
the “out of township” area of the
Rural Fire association meet and
form another organization for the
purpose of arranging, with the
town, a plan for fire protection.
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Look for the Special
BACK-TO-SCHOOL
SUPPLEMENT
in the
Tuesday, August 22
Edition of
THE CARTERET COUNTY
NEWS-TIMES
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Hugh SalterTakes Oath Monday Night,
Begins Four-Year Term as Marshal
Carteret’s former sheriff, Hugh
Salter, began his four-year term
as federal marshal of the eastern
district of North Carolina Monday
night.
The ceremony, in the courtroom
of the courthouse, Beaufort, mark
ed a number of “firsts.” Mar
shal Salter is the first federal mar
shal from this county, it was the
first time a superior court judge
(W. J. Bundy, Greenville), has
sworn in a federal court officer in
this district, and it was the first
time such a ceremony took place
in other than a federal court.
Credit for bringing the ceremony
“home,” rather than having the
marshal take the oath in Raleigh,
goes to Odell Merrill, register of
deeds. Mr. Merrill obtained per
mission of federal judge Algernon
Butler to have judge Bundy ad
minister the oath.
Mr. Merrill acted as master of
ceremonies at Monday night’s pro
ceedings. Brighter bulbs in court
house chandeliers put a brilliant
light on the affair. Bunting, flags
and a welcome banner at the front
of the courtroom gave a festive air.
After marshal Salter swore to
“support and defend the consti
tution of the United States” and
carry out his duties without fav
oritism, judge Bundy presented
him his commission, a parchment
scroll.
Three hundred persons witnessed
the oath-taking. In a brief speech,
marshal Salter thanked those to
whom he gave the credit for his
advancement to his present post:
his many friends, the late Murray
Thomas, C. G. Holland, Irvin W.
Davis, and senators Sam J. Ervin
and Everett Jordan, who nomi
nated him for the marshal's posi
tion.
lie paid tribute to those with
whom he has worked as a county
law enforcement officer, individ
uals and all law enforcement agen
cies. He made two recommenda
tions :
• That his successor, sheriff
Robert (Bobby) Bell organize a
See CEREMONY, Page, 8
Ferry Landing Should be Moved
To Cedar Island, Resident Declares
By MONROE GASKILL
Cedar Island
I, like most of the residents of
Cedar Island, believe the auto fer
ry should be moved from Atlantic
to Cedar Island in order to open
up all of Carteret county to tour
ists.
The views of some Atlantic resi
dents as detailed in the Aug. 15
Cars Collide
Near Motel
Two cars collided on the Salter
Path road Monday, where it is in
tersected by the road to the Little
Hurricane motel. Charged with
failing to yield the right of way
was Charlie P. Smith, Salter Path.
The accident happened at 2:50
p.m.
According to patrolman J. W.
Sykes, Smith, in a 1960 Ford, was
headed east on the Salter Path
Road. Chandler H. Chasteen, Or
chard Hill, Ga., was headed west
in a 1961 Corvair.
The patrolman said as Smith
turned left into the road to the
motel, he collided with the Corvair.
Mrs. Chasteen, who was with her
husband, hit her head against the
windshield. Their 2-year-old daugh
ter, Cheryl Denise, in the back
seat, was not hurt.
Damage to the Ford was esti
mated at $150. Damage to the
Corvair was estimated at $200.
Highway Officials View Bridge, Ferry Spots
The State Highway commission
apparently managed to do its view
ing in the Morehead City area
Wednesday “without being enter
tained by pressure groups.” This
was in compliance with a wish ex
pressed by Merrill Evans, chair
man of the commission.
The board was here to view two
pressing problems, the location of
the proposed Morehead City bridge
and taking over ferry service
across Bogue sound to Emerald
Iaie.
Education Board Opens
Bids on New Classrooms
Marshal Hugh Salter takes his oath of orfice, in a voice loud and
clear, at the courthouse, Beaufort. Administering the oath, right is
superior court Judge W. J. Bundy.
New Sheriff Sworn In
mm
Former chief deputy Robert (Bobby) Bell, right, takes oath as
sheriff Monday noon. The oath is 'dmlnistered by A. H. James,
clerk of superior court.
issue of The News-Times I be
lieve, in all sincerity, to be in
many instances gross distortion of
both truth and fact.
1 would like to examine the views
of these Atlantic residents item
by item as follows:
1. Concerning the road, which
admittedly is a secondary road,
it is good enough to carry 70 school
children across twice daily nine
months of the year. I don’t think
anyone would object to riding on
that kind of road.
2. Concerning the bridge—There
was a time when it was operated
by hand and was a slow process,
but not anymore. It is as modern
as any bridge in the county,, and
it can open and close accordingly.
3. Concerning water over the
road—the mail carrier told me to
day, in the 12 years he had car
ried the mail, he had never miss
ed a trip because water was over
the road.
4. Concerning the telephones—It
is true we haven’t had telephone
service to the Island, but the
cables are being laid as fast as
possible and I was told today we
would have service to the island in
approximately three weeks.
5. As far as the hospital is con
cerned, I don't know of any com
munity in the county with the ex
ception of Morehead City and Sea
Level that have one. We showed
our willingness for a hospital to
be built in the county by the vote
in our last election, which is more
than our critics did.
Here are some of the reasons
No decision was made on either.
The commission will meet Thurs
day, Aug. 31, at Raleigh. Whether
a decision is made at that time is
debatable.
Because of the tremendous im
portance of the bridge situation, it
is possible that the commission
chairman may set a date for a
special meeting ' to consider that
problem only.
W. 8. Winslow, chief highway
bridge engineer, claims the relo
cation of the bridge 1,800 feet
why the ferry should operate from
Cedar Island:
1. It can make two trips daily
whereas it now only makes one.
2. Where it now only carries 44
cars daily both ways, making one
trip, it could carry 88 cars daily
making two trips, for the economy
of the state and service to the
most people and not for selfish
ness or personal interest to a few.
The ferry should operate from
Cedar Island.. I take issue with
no one. I’m merely stating facts.
Highway Officials Visit County
In sunny Carteret Wednesday were Charles Snell, second division highway engineer; Ben Roney, direc
tor of secondary roads; Merrill Evans, state highway commission chairman; highway commissioner D. G.
Bell, Morehead City; and W. F. Babcock, director of highways.
north of the present bridge would
cost $3 million more than relocat
ing at the present site.
Commissioner D. G. Bell remind
ed Mr. Winslow that he was per
haps not painting a full picture for
the highway commissioners. He
pointed out that a 10-year long
range plan for highway improve
ments in Morehead City includes
a by-pass slightly north of the
present Arendell street which
would tie in with the more north
erly bridge site.
Wheat Growers
Will Ballot
On Allotments
Wheat growers will decide Thurs
day whether they want marketing
quotas for their 1962 wheat crop.
Any farmer who planted more than
13.5 acres of wheal in at least one
of the years, 1959, 1960, or 1961,
is eligible to vote in the referen
dum, announces R. M. Williams,
county agricultural agent.
Every elegible farmer is urged
to vote, he says. Two-thirds of the
voters must approve the program
before quotas go into effect.
Important points for wheat grow
ers to consider, Mr. Williams said,
are the following:
The wheat stabilization program
will cut 1962 wheat acreage allot
ments by 10 per cent across the
nation. If wheat marketing quotas
are approved, cooperators will be
eligible for 1962 wheat price sup
ports expected to be around $2 a
bushel. The present support level
is $1.79, which is 75 per cent of
parity.
If quo'»s are not approved, there
will be no limit on wheat placed
on the market, but support at 50
per cent of parity would be avail
able to farmers who comply with
their wheat acreage allotments.
Goal of the new program is to
reduce government stocks of wheat
—now at nearly l'<* billion bushels
—by 100 million bushels. Estimat
ed savings to taxpayers would be
$50 million the first crop year.
Farmers will be voting at local
polling places through the 39-statc
commercial wheat area. The coun
ty ASC committee will have charge
of the referendum in Carteret.
Wheat growers will cast their bal
lots at Gaskill’s Feed and Seed
store, Beaufort.
“We urge all eligible wheat
growers to east their vote in the
wheat marketing quota referendum
Thursday,” Mr. Williams empha
sized.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Aug. 18
12:37 a.m.
5:51 a.m.
6:42 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 19
12:45 a.m.
1:29 p.m.
6:41 a.m.
8:24 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 20
1:43 a.m.
2:30 p.m.
8:07 a.m.
9:38 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 21
2:52 a.m.
3:40 p.m.
9:37 a.m.
10:39 p.m.
He also pointed out that with
federal funds, and taking into con
sideration other factors, the north
erly location would actually cost
only half a million more.
Mr. Winslow said he was not
aware of a 10-year long-range
highway plan for Morehead City.
Mr. Bell sympathized with Mr.
Winslow, noting that the bridge
engineer is being faithful to his
recommendation made during the
tenure of the former highway com
mission. That was a recommen
Sept. 5 Set
As New Date
For Hearing
# Subdivision Plans
To be Reviewed
• Building Inspector
Assigned Duty
County commissioners and mem
Iters of the planning board decided
Monday night to set another public
hearing on proposed subdivision
regulations. The two groups met
at the courthouse, Beaufort.
Although another hearing had
been recommended by the plan
ning commission at a hearing Aug.
7, the Aug. 7 hearing had not been
advertised for two weeks as re
quired by law.
i Odell Merrill, clerk to the county
j board of commissioners, was re
quested to properly advertise the
: forthcoming hearing, which has
: been set for Tuesday, Sept. 5.
I The county and planning offi
: cials agreed that the county build
ing inspector should handle all pre
j iiminary work in connection with
! a divider of land filing his plat
with the county.
After the preliminaries have
been taken care of, the planning
commission would then determine
if the proposed subdivision of land
meets with regulations.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to Mr. Merrill, were Dr. L. J.
Dupree, chairman of the planning
commission; Mrs. E. H. Piper, W.
C. Carlton, M. G. Coyle, C. H.
(Dick) Lockey, members of the
commission; Moses Howard, chair
man of the county board of com
[ missioners, and county commis
hiionefs '’astro Smith, C. %. Chap
i pell, Skitmrr .'hafk and David Yeo
mane.
Guard Can Use
27 More Men
F/Sgt. Dennis M. Goodwin, unit
administrator for the Morehead
City National Guard unit, reports
27 enlisted positions open in the
unit. He said the guard's allowed
strength is 88 men but only 61 are
on the roster.
The sergeant said men between
18 and 35 who pass an aptit'ide
test and have not received their
pre-induction orders from the draft
board are eligible for the National
Guard. Seventeen-year-olds can
join witb their parents written per
mission.
Volunteers sign up for three
years. Drills are held each week
and there is two weeks annual
summer encampment. Guardsmen
are paid for each drill.
Men desiring further information
may contact Sergeant Goodwin.
dation for the bridge to stay vir
tually where it is.
But commissioner Bell contends
that for the overall economic good
of the state, for the growth of the
port and back-up land area for
warehouses, a more northerly
bridge location is necessary.
Mr. Winslow estimates that fer
ry seryice between Emerald Isle
and Cedar Point will cost $65,000
annually.
The highway commissioners had
a dutch luncheon at the Buccaneer
• prices nigner
Than Expected
Because the prices bid on con
struction of two new classrooms
at Newport and four new class
rooms at Beaufort were higher
than expected, the county board of
education decided Tuesday to pro
ceed with only two classrooms at
Beaufort.
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, said the board
hopes that more money may be
come available, while cbnstruction
is in progress, to permit adding
the other two.
In other words, they hope the
bills, now stalled in congress,
which formerly permitted the
county to carry out school con
struction. will be passed.
The bills of benefit to this coun
ty for schools arc 874 and 815 and
arc included in the general educa
tion bill passed by the Senate, Mr.
Joslyn reported. That bill is now
in committee in the House.
If it comes out without the 874
and 815 features, other legislation
is in the mill to put through 874
and 815 separately, but all this
takes time and is putting a kink
in Carteret school plans.
“If we don’t get the money these
former laws made available to us,
we’ll be out in the cold,’’ Mr. Jos
lyn said.
Because some states need this
money badly, politicians are hold
ing up passage of the general edu
cation bill, hoping to use the 874
and 815 features as a lever to get
the whole package passed—which,
of course, contains certain ele
ments objectionable to those who
favor 874 and 815!
The board passed a resolution,
in its August session Tuesday, en
dorsing continuation of the 874 and
815 laws as now written.
Mr. Joslyn said persons interest
ed in schools cpuld help by writ
ing congressman David Hender
son, House Office Building, Wash
ington, D. C., aod other congress
men they may know requesting
that these laws: be continued.
Mr. Joslyn sfcys that represen
tatives in wasnmgion say mey
hear from the “school people” but
they don’t hear “from home” as
to what citizens want.
Bids on the proposed classrooms
totaled $63,302. Low bid on the
general construction work was
submitted by Trader Construction
Co., Havelock, $43,681. (The re
quest for bids included the alterna
tive of two classrooms at Beau
fort. )
Beaufort Plumbing was low bid
der on heating and plumbing,
$7,550; and Piner Brothers, Willis
ton, was low bidder on electrical
work, $2,071.
The contracts are expected to bo
let in about a week, as soon as the
architects, Stephens and Cardelli,
New Bern, draw them up. The two
new rooms at Beaufort will be add
ed to the new wing at the east of
the present building and will be
occupied by third grades.
The two new rooms at Newport
will be attached to the primary
building by a walkway.
Mr. Joslyn reported that addi
tional teachers allotted on the bas
is of one teacher for every 20
teachers will be used in libraries
and in guidance work; also that
Smyrna and Newport will come
under the vocational home econom
ics program for the first time this
year.
He recommended that the board
draw up policies under the new
“quality education'” program.
Members of the board of educa
tion are Robert Safrit, Beaufort,
chairman; D. Mason, Atlantic;
Theodore Smith, Davis; W. B. Al
len, Newport, and George Wal
lace, Morehead City.
ABC Officer Smashes
Still on Laurel Road
A 50-gallon bootleg still on the
Laurel road was destroyed by
county ABC officer Marshall Ays
cue Thursday of last week.
Officer Ayscue said the still was
hot from being run. A hundred
gallons of mash were destroyed,
by ax, along with the boiler. The
still was located about 200 yards
from the road.
motel at 12:30 p.m., with Bob At
kinson of the Blue Ribbon restau
rant as caterer. At 1:30 they
boarded the state fisheries com
mission vessel, Hatteras, to view
the port from the water.
They also rode through the port
area by car. At Emerald Isle
they viewed the proposed ferry
route from a boat.
The commissioners spent Wed
nesday night at the Buccaneer mo
tel, Morehead City, and left by
See COMMISSION, Page 3