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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES •«' 50th YEAR, NO. 67. TWO SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Two Defendants Object to Fines, Appeal Cases Two defendants, John Hoadley Kendall and Charles Andrew Dav is, entered appeals to $10 fines handed them by county recorder’s court by judge Lambert Morris Tuesday. Kendall was found guilty of fail ing to yield the right of way and fined $10 and costs. Davis was convicted of careless and reckless driving and was fined the same. Both cases were transferred to the next term of superior court. Bond for the two defendants was set at $30 each. Judge Morris ordered eight de fendants, charged with having im proper exhaust systems, to pay court costs. The eight were Stev en Herbert Bige, Linda Dickinson Pollock, Marvin James Miller, Avon Darral Davis, Derrell John Forrest, Charles Frederick Crow ell, Luther Thomas Salter and Paul Edward Brown. Brown was also charged with having no reflectors on his truck. John Amos Lee Knight was sen tenced to two years in jail for fail ing to comply with the terms of a suspended non-support sentence of May 10, 1960. On that date Knight was convicted of non-support by judge Morris and sentenced to two years in jail, suspended on pay ment of $15 a week to the welfare department for the use and benefit of his wife and children. Testimony Tuesday showed that Knight had not been making week ly payments to the welfare depart ment and judge Morris ordered the defendant to serve the two years called for in the original sentence. Jerry L. Arnold was fined $127.57 plus court costs after he was found guilty of public drunkenness, dis turbing the peace and damaging city property. The $127 was ear marked for the town of Atlantic Beach to cover damages to a pa trol wagon. Other defendants, their charges and the findings of the court were as follows: (Some of these cases are “old” cases, but have been entered In the court records now. Due to the system tlto court uses to keep up with defendants who are. given time to pay fines or costs, the defendant’s name and judgment are not put in court min utes until he meets conditions of the judgment.) Everett Ingram Jr., attempted larceny, $25 and costs. Carl Little, having no reflectors on truck, costs. Fred Goodwin, violation of fish ing laws, bond forfeited. / Saundra Willis Gillikin, having no operator’s license, not prosecut ed James Wilbur Salter, speeding, $50 and costs. Peggy Ann Cannon, speeding, $50 and costs. Elizabeth Stewart Barfield, care less and reckless driving and hav ing no operator’s license, $100 and costs. Donnie Lewis, violation'of fish ing laws, bond forfeited. Lowell Stewart Avery, speeding, coats. Clayton Howard, assault, dis missed. Richard Keith Fowler, having improper lights, bond forfeited. Frank. Pittman, using loud and See COURT, Page 4 Heavy Rain Hits Area Last Week Rainfall during the past week totaled almost 3 inches, according to reports from the Atlantic Beach weather station. The exact reading was 2.73 inches. Last Tuesday the rainfall totaled .82, on Wednesday it was .03, Saturday l.M, Sunday .71 and up until 10 a.m. yesterday .07. The high and low temperatures for the past week: High Low Monday .82 76 Tuesday .78 72 Wednesday ..84 72 Thursday .......92 67 Friday . 85 74 Saturday . 75 75 Sunday . 79 78 Yesterday .... .— 77 The high readings are the read ings at 1 p.m. daily and the low readings are those at 1 a.m. daily. Wind was to the north, northeast, and east from Wednesday through Saturday and was variable Sunday. Burlington Visitor Rescues Fisherman Vacancies Exist Numerous vacancies exist in the 9307th Air Force Reserve Recovery squadron, Wilmington. Those in terested in becoming a member of the squadron may contact Julian £*is4ie Jr., loot Bridges St., phone Is He Fast or Just Big? Photo by Norwood Young First entry in the Carteret preliminary crab race to be held on Jib Square in Morehead City Friday, Aug. 25, at 2 p.m., is this Core Sound gentleman held by Mrs. Nancy Willis Piner, Willlston. The crab was entered by her rather, Ulmer WUIis, North Carolina’s clam king. The winner of the preliminary race will be,entered in North Carolina’s first annual crab derby at Morehead City Saturday, Aug. 26, at Z p.m. Morehead Board Reaffirms Ban on Sunday Beer Sales New Commissioner Jerry J. Willis was sworn in • as Morehead City town commis sioner Thursday night at the Morehead City municipal build ing. The oath was administered by A. H. James, clerk of superior court. Mr. Willis replaces Bud Dixon, who resigned recently from the board. Mr. Dixon is head of the county hospital board of trustees and said he was holding two of fices, in violation of the law, Mr. Willis was serving on the town zoning board at the time of his appointment to the town board. He was asked at the town board Thursday night to obtain his replacement on the zoning board. CCC to Meet Coastal Carteret Communicators, citizens band radio operators, will meet Friday night at 7:30 at the Beaufort fire station, according to Mrs. Wiley Taylor Jr., publicity chairman. All citizens band op erators are invited. - Elgin Johnson, 34-year-old Negro fisherman who slipped into the wa ter Saturday noon at the LST ramp. Radio Island, was rescued by H. C. Flinchum, Burlington. According to Flinchum, he and three friends, R. M. Bueschel, J. R. Edwards, and M. T. Hargis, By a 3 to 2 vote, Morehead City" town commissioners reaffirmed Thursday night a town ordinance prohibiting beer retailers in town to sell beer for off-premises con sumption Sundays. Voting in favor of letting the beer retailers sell beer by the package or case between 12:30 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. were com missioners Russell Outlaw and Dorn Femia. Voting against were commissioners S. C. Holloway, D. J. Hall and Jerry J. Willis. Mr. Willis said he is not person ally against selling people beer to take home or out on boats, but he said he feels the people are against it. Mr. Holloway and Mr. Hall said that people had spoken to them and asked them to keep the lid on Sunday beer sales. Commissioner Femia said it is not fair to make the in-town beer sellers pay a city, county and state beer tax and then keep them from selling beer on Sunday. He said people can go less than a mile out side town and buy beer from some one who doesn’t pay a town tax. Commissioner Holloway said the Sunday ban was voted in at the request of town beer dealers dur ing the second world war when they couldn’t get all the beer they wanted and they wanted a rest from beer selling on Sunday. See BOARD, Page 2 Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Aug. 22 4:13 a.m. 10:42 a. 4:51 p.m. 11:34 p. Wednesday, Aug. 23 5:24 a.m. 11:41 a.m. 5:53 p.m. . . Thursday, Aug. 24 6:23 a.m. 12:28 a.m. 6:48 p.m. 12:39 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25 7:18 a.m. 7:40 p.m. 1:20 a.m. 1:33 p.m. E E were sitting in their car waiting for the rain to stop when they saw Johnson slip on slime on the ramp and go into the water. Flinchnm pulled off his clothes and went after Johnson, who was almost exhausted by the time his rescuer reached him. When John son was pulled ashore, the lour Crab Derby Program FRIDAY All Day—Ocean pier fishing and crabbing contest—Bogue Banks •2 p.m.—Crab Derby elimination at South end of 7th street, More head City SATURDAY All Day—Ocean fishing and crab bing contest—Bogue Banks 11-12:30 p.m. — Water skiing ex hibition by Carteret Outboard Runabout association, Morehead City waterfront 1:15:2 p.m. —Concert by Marine Corps Band from Cherry Point 1:30 p.m.—Crowning of North Car olina Seafood Queen 2 p.m.—First Annual North Caro lina Crab Derby 3:45 p.m.—Award of Trophies to winners 4 p.m. — Sailboat Races (three classes) waterfront 6—Awarding of sailing race tro phies 7:30 p.m.—Award of trophies and cash prizes for the derby pier contest, at the Atlantic Beach Town Ilall SUNDAY 2 p.m. — Outboard Races (three classes) Taylor’s Creek, Beau fort 3:30 p.m.—Inboard race on Tay lor’s Creek 4:30 p.m.—Award of trophies for inboard and outboard winners Lions, Wives See Color Pictures of Canada Members of the Morehead City Lions club and their wives were shown color slides of Canada at the club’s ladies night meeting Thursday in the hotel Fort Macon dining room. Dr. L. A. Whitford, State college botanist, showed the slides which he made on a recent trip to Can ada.' men took turns giving him artifi cial respiration. They called an ambulance when Johnson was able to breathe on his own. Johnson, who lives at 509 Cecil St., was discharged from the More head City hospital Sunday. Fliachum said that Johnson, though dose to unconsciousness, Town, Hospital Board to Ask County to Up Welfare Fund Two Boards Meet Thursday In Municipal Building Fisherman Lands Octopus Friday Duke Marine lab, Pivers Is land, received a gift Friday— an octopus. The octopus, which measures 18 inches across when spread out, was caught by Tim Eugene Creed, 18, Smyrna, Ga., who was fishing off the Aviation Fuel Terminals dock. He put a piece of hogfish on his hook. The octo pus grabbed it with one of his tentacles and hung on. The catch was made at 8 a.m. Friday. Geddy Bennett, superintendent at the terminals, called Duke lab and offered them the critter. Though caught occasionally in these waters, an octopus is sel dom taken on hook and line. The youth who caught the octo pus is the son of the chief of in spections, Naval materiels, who was here over the weekend to make an inspection at Aviation Fuel terminals, Radio island. F. C. Salisbury Wins $50 Award County historian F. C. Salisbury has been awarded a $50 prize by the Progressive Farmer maga zine for his Civ il War tale of Emelinc Pigott, Carteret’s Con federate spy. His story will appear in True War Tales from the South by Clarence Poe, to be published Sy'VSS Carolina press in December. Mr. Poe is editor of the Progressive Farmer. Mr. Salisbury, a resident of Morehead City, is president of the County Historical society, a regu lar contributor to THE NEWS TIMES and has received numerous awards for his historical articles. Dr. Rachel Davis To Talk to Club Dr. Rachel Davis, Lenoir coun ty’s representative in the general assembly, will be the speaker at tonight’s meeting of the Carteret Business and Professional Wom en's club. The club will meet at 7 at the home of Miss Anne Pittman, Mitch ell Village, Morchead City. Dr. Davis is a practicing physi cian at Kinston. She has a home at Atlantic Beach. Dr. Davis will be introduced by Mrs. James Smith, club legisla tive chairman. Mrs. Smith earn estly requests that every club member make an effort to be pres ent. She remarked, “It’s embar rassing to have an important out of-town speaker and then have only a handful of people show up, as happened at the July meeting!” Mrs. Frank Sample, club presi dent, will preside at the business meeting. Coast Guard Cooperates In Crab Derby Events Two waterfront areas will be closed for several hours this week end because of events in the crab derby. The US Coast Guard announces that marine traffic will be prohibit ed from the Morehead City water front from 11 a. m. to 12:30 p.m., and from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday for the ski show and sailboat races. On Sunday, power boat races will be held on Taylor’s creek, Beau fort, from 2 to 4 p.m. The area closed to marine traffic will be from the postoffice dock to in front of the dock at Pivers Island. was panicky and almost pulled both of them under. He was about 15 feet from shore when FUnchum got to him. Flinchum, Edwards, Bueschel, and Hargis are employed by West ern Electric, Burlington. They were here on a weekend fishing trip. ► Members of the Morehead City hospital board of trustees and the board of town commissioners de cided Thursday afternoon to go after the county for more money to meet cost of treating welfare patients in Morehead City’s mu nicipal hospital. David Willis, hospital adminis trator, said the amount the hos pital is now receiving for welfare patients (from the county) is $16 a day. The cost, per day, per pa tient is $17.51. Mr. Willis said an increase in the amount allowed per welfare patient was raised this past July 1 and the hospital is now getting more . than it did in the past. The joint meeting was the out growth of the appearance of a Morehead City citizen, Skinner Chalk, before the town board last month. He requested that the town not levy 5 cents to support the hospital, as it has annually for the past 20 years. George McNeill, town attorney, told commissioners and hospital trustees that the board could levy or not levy the 5 cents, as it sees fit. Even though tax bills have gone out for this fiscal year with the 5 cent hospital levy noted, he said that since the budget has not yet been adopted, the 5 cents could be diverted to the general fund. A. B. Roberts, chairman of the hospital board, said he thought the 5-cent levy yielded about $6,000 an nually to the hospital. Mr. Chalk suggested last month that ABC funds due the town be diverted from the hospital. He contended that if the hospital charged what it should and under took a business-like way of collect ing what it is owed, it wouldn’t have to be subsidized by the town. Hospital trustees say, “You can’t run a hospital like you run a busi ness.” (Mr. Chalk’s reply to that is that all you have to do is get government in anything and that business, or whatever it may be, runs at a deficit.) Morehead City hospital trustees felt that Thursday’s meeting at the | municipal building was called “to | lake our money away from us.” Mayor George Dill explained that the meeting was called “to deter mine from the trustees what their financial status is” and whether the subsidy they get from the town is still required. "Skinner says the hospital is making money,” the mayor com mented, “and we’d like to know where the surplus is.” Mr. Roberts said that the hos pital cashed $12,000 of its bonds re cently (money that accumulated during the second world war was put in bonds)—the hospital was in debt $18,000 June 1 and its account at the bank overdrawn by $4,000 at that date. It was pointed out that the hos pital audit of 1959 showed that the hospital made a profit in that year. “Who made that audit?” Mr. Rob erts wanted to know. He was told that Frank Sproul, New Bern CPA, made the audit. Hospital board members then said that the audit showed a profit See HOSPITAL, Page 2 Civitans Register Three hundred Civitans con vened at the Bill more hotel, Morehead City, for a slate wide convention Saturday, hosted by the Morehead City Civitan club. Highlight of the convention was the presentation of a Century Citizenship award Saturday to Beaufort’s Ma Taylor. The award was presented by Zeb C. Hop kins, lieutenant governor of Civi lan zone M. Four Accidents Happen During Rainy Saturday -< Mailboxes, Road Machine Struck Suffering severe cuts about her face and head Saturday morning in an auto accident was Mrs. Marie Harrell, route 1 Morehead City. Also injured in the acci dent, at 2:30 a m. was Terry Gar ner, route 2 Newport. Both were taken in the Bell-Munden ambu lance to Morehead City hospital. According to patrolman W. E. Pickard, who ‘investigated, Mrs. Harrell was driving a 1960 Ford owned by Glenn Millis, route 2 Newport. Mrs. Harrell was leaving the Country Club road to enter highway 70 when she lost control of the car, the patrolman said. It took down four or five mail boxes on the right on the Country Club road, crossed highway 70 and hit a motor grader that was park ed on the new highway right-of way. Garner was treated at the hos pital and discharged, but Mrs. Har rell was still hospitalized yester day. Damage to the car was ex tensive. Charges against the driv er are pending, the patrolman said. How's This? Photo by RoftaaJd LewU Ray Ban, 408 Macon Ct, Morebead City, was thrilled speechless recently when he caught this 3-pound flounder off Ottis’s dock, More head City. Tackle? Piaflth hook on Hack sewing thread with shrimp for bait. Other activities at the conven tion included a cabinet meeting Friday night, a luncheon Satur day and a buffet supper and dance Friday night. Shown reg istering Saturday m o r n i n g, above, are, left to right, John Hopkins, Bill Gorden and Wayne McCanless of High Point. Doing the registering is Robert Sea mon, left. • Four highway accidents Saturday were investigated by state high way patrolman J. W. Sykes. At 9:10 a m Saturday a 1952 Dodge, driven by Lynn Gilbertson, USN, Ch?*ry Point, was struck in the rear of a 1960 Chrysler driven by William L. Paleat, Smithfield. The accident happened on highway 70 in front of the Rex restaurant, Morehead City. Injured was Barbara Poteat, 12, sister of the driver of the Chrysler. She was taken to Morehead City hospital for treatment of an ankle. Also in the car was a brother, Bob by, 14. According to the patrolman, Gil bertson, with two passengers in his car, had stopped to turn left into the restaurant. It was raining hard at the time, patrolman Sykes said. Both cars were headed west. Poteat was charged with driving too fast for existing conditions. Owner of the Chrysler is the driv-, er’s father, Dr. Hubert M. Poteat Jr. Damage to the Chrysler was estimated at $700; to the Dodge $150. . Mrs. Ruth Frances Gillikin, route 2 Beaufort, was hospitalized after the 1956 Pontiac in which she was riding went into a ditch at 11:30 a.m. Saturday two miles east of Beaufort on highway 70. The patrolman said that Nellie G. Cooley, route 2 Beaufort, daugh ter of the injured woman, was driving. She had passed a car and as she pulled back into her own lane of traffic, skidded. Mrs. Cooley was charged with driving too fast for existing conditions. Damage to the Pontiac was esti mated at $200. Joy C. Miller, 4, suffered a bruis ed arm at 1:45 p.m. Saturday when the 1957 Chevrolet her grand mother, Anna J. Reid, was driv ing, hit the rear of the 1960 Olds mobile driven by Porter Dillon, Raleigh. Dillon was on the Sportsman pier road at the beach, waiting to enter Fort Macon road. Mrs. Reid came up behind him, the patrolman said, and knocked him across the road. Mrs. Reid, of route 4 New Bern, was charged with driving with in sufficient brakes. Damage to the Olds was estimated at $450, to the Chevrolet $300. A 1980 Chevrolet driven by George D. Simpson, route 2 Beau fort, turned bottom up in a canal at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, two miles west of Sea Level. Simpson, with « passenger, was headed east the patrolman said. The Chevrolet had passed a car, then skidded into a canal. Dam age to the car was estimated at $500. The car had a slick tire, the patrolman said. The driver was charged with driving too fast for existing conditions. Breaks Arm Jan Merrill, 11, of Morehead City was admitted to Morehead City hospital Sunday night with a broken arm. She broke her arm in a fall from a porch at the Ted Garner home, Morehead City. Jan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. CooUdge Merrill.
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