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50th YEAR, NO. 101. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Wise Men Follow Star
Members of the Core Creek’ Methodist church have depicted the three wise men seeking the Christ child,
in observance of the Christmas season this year. The church is located on highway 101 north of Beaufort.
FCC Allows
30-Day Delay
Persons in the Morehead City
area who have evidence support
ing contentions that proposed West
ern Union substitute station serv
ice would be "inadequate,” should
get their evidence to the Fed
eral Communications commission,
Washington 25, D. C., no later than
Jan. 14, 1962.
Skinner Chalk, president of the
greater Morehead City chamber of
commerce, said yesterday he has
received a letter rrom the FCC
saying that the substitute service,
desired by Western Union as of
Dec. 19 (today), will not be per
mitted.
Instead, 30 days has been allow
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dence that would tend to convince
the FCC that the proposed sub
stitute service would be unsatis
factory.
The same hours would be main
tained as are in effect now, ac
cording to Western Union. A sub
stitute station, at City News stand,
would handle business when the
regular station is dosed.
Mr. Chalk said that any users of
telegram service interested in see
ing the present system continued,
may contact the chamber of com
merce office, if they wish assist
ance in contacting the FCC.
Theatre Alters
Policy on Flats
Members of the Carteret Com
munity theatre set a new policy
Wednesday night on use of stage
floats by others than the theatre.
If churches or civic organizations
want to use the stage at the More
head City recreation center, with
theatre scenery, the flats may be
used without charge, provided there
is no admission charge to see the
presentation.
If the Oats are not in place, or
must be rearranged for use by an
other group, the group desiring the
flats will furnish the labor and the
flats will be erected under super
vision of theatre personnel.
If the flats are to be used for a
production to which admission is
charged, the theatre will charge
$20 to put them in place. That is
the policy that has prevailed in
the past, according to Mrs. Tressa
Vickers, theatre president.
The theatre members met at the
Webb civic center. They discuss
ed roles in the forthcoming pro
duction, The Egg and 1, which will
be staged in February.
Fire Destroys
Four Apartments
Fire Sunday morning destroyed
a four-unit apartment building,
owned by Beatrice Monroe Collins,
at 1401 Fisher St., Morebead City.
The fire, which apparently start
ed in the kitchen of a middle apart
ment was fought for nearly three
hours by firemen from both More
head City stations. After extin
guishing the blaze around 3 a.m.,
firemen were called back at 6.30
when fire broke out again in one
of the end apartments.
All bat one of the apartments
were occupied. ,
The initial alarm was received
at the station at 12:20 a.m. Fire
alqp occurred at the same apart
ment house', causing considerable
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Mayor G. W. Dill Comments
On Town Sewage Problem
Mayor George Dill, Morehead'
City, said yesterday that claims
that Beaufort and Morehead City
have made no effort to comply
with state stream sanitation regu
lations on sewage were made "on
the basis of a technicality.”
According to E. C.. Hubbard, ex
ecutive secretary of the stream
sanitation committee, the two
towns had not applied for a fed
eral grant and had not filed prog
ress reports required by the com
mittee.
The secretary said the iwo towns
would be called to account Thurs
day, Jan. 18.
The mayor said that Mr. Hub
bard knows the situation in Beau
fort and Morehead City.
He added that both uMinicipali
ties arc hoping to effect a solution
to their sewage dumping through
federal financing, but some other
steps have to be taken first.
Both towns are already in debt
and will not have those debts paid
off until the early 1970’s. Mayor
Dill said that the towns cannot ob
ligate themselves further in this
respect.
“The powers-that-be at any lev
el,” the mayor remarked, “can’t
force the towns to sell bonds when
the state prohibits us from doing
it.”
The state stream sanitation com
mittee, J. V. Whitfield, chairman,
is concerned about pollution in, the
Beaufort-Morehead City area be
cause it affects shellfish resources
and recreation potential.
The towns have complied, ac
cording to town officials, with re
quirements to obtain “temporary
permits” for the dumping of raw
sewage into surrounding waters.
Holiday Decorations Will
Be Judged Thursday
Christmas decorations on More
head City homes will be judged
Thursday night in a contest spon
sored by the Morehead City Wom
an’s club. Mrs. Gus Davis, club
president, said out-of-town judges
will start looking at the homes at
7 p.m.
Cash prizes will be awarded for
the most artistic doorway, best
overall decorations, and best out
door scene or outdoor Christmas
tree.
Grass Catches Fire
Morehead City firemen extin
guished a grass fire Saturday
night on a vacant lot at 1403 Shep
ard Str No damage was reported.
Heads 4-H Drive
Frank I.angdale, Beaufort, hys
formally accepted chairmanship
of the campaign to raise funds
for a state 4-H camp in the coun
ty. The project is known as the
4-H Development program.
USCG Afds
Two Cruisers
A pair of cabin cruisers, one
aground and the other with “engine
failure, were assisted by Fort Ma
con Coast Guardsmen Saturdaj
and Sunday.
The Saturday assist was made
to the 36-foot cabin cruiser, Craw
ford II, that ran aground in Core
Creek. Fort Macon crewmer
aboard the 30-footer refloated the
vessel and took it in tow to More
head City. The craft was ownec
by J. Gaston Grimes, Lexington
N. C.
Coast Guardsmen were callec
out again early Sunday morning
to aid the 35-foot cabin cruiser
Dando, which was stalled with en
gine failure near Newport lighl
number 34. The boat, owned bj
Edward G. Murray, Milford, Conn,
was taken in tow to the Moreheac
City Gulf docks.
Crewmen on the two assists were
Adams. DC-3;- Granger, BM-3;
Goff, FA; Shields, SN; Styron
BM-1; Lewis, EN-1; and Brooks
SN.
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Woodmen Dress
Up the Town
# Town Employees
Paint Candy Canes
# Public Donations
Help with Finances
With the cooperation of the town
and public donations, Woodmen of
the World have decorated the busi
ness section of Morehead City.
Rows of red lights span the street
and stars adorn the strings at the
east and west end.
The Woodmen furnished paint
for repainting large "candy canes”
which are attached to greenery
covered light poles along the
street. The painting was done by
town street employees who also
gathered the greenery and twined
it around the poles, Woodmen re
port.
The following letter, relative to
Christmas decorations, was sent
THE NEWS-TIMES yesterday, by
Capt. Ottis Purifoy:
Dec. It, 1961,
Dear Editor,
This is a letter to publicly thank
| the Woodmen of the World for their
; line efforts in providing Morehead
I City, with a fine display of Christ
1 mas lights.
i It is a wonderful feeling to drive
through town and sec the expres
sion of Christmas shining, as a
welcome sign, for citizens and vis
itors alike.
I personally want to thank the
' Woodmen of the World, for pro
| viding our town with these decora
tions and sincerely appreciate each
j individual’s hard work and time
spent for the display of Christmas.
Again, I say thank you, Wood
men, for your personal Christmas
gift.
Yours truly,
Ottis Purifoy
Ottis Purifoy, Owner
Lucky 7 Fishing Fleet
Congressman
Speaks to Club
Congressman David N. Hender
son was the guest speaker Thurs
day night when the Morehcad City
Rotary club met at Rex restaurant.
Mr. Henderson was accompanied
by his administrative assistant,
Charles Whitley.
The congressman discussed a
number of items which will come
before the congress when it con
venes next month. Among these
j are extension of foreign trade
agreements which expire in June,
and proposed legislation to com
bat communist tactics.
Mr. Henderson concluded by say
ing that he would be glad to hear
from anyone in his district.
f No business was conducted by
the Rotarians at the meeting.
Farmers May Sign
Up Now for ASC
Financial Aid
Farmers may sign up now for
financial aid on conservation prac
tices they will undertake on their
farm in 1962.
The County ASC committee has
set Jan. 15 as the deadline for the
initial sign-up period. The work
a farmer plans to dq must be ap
proved by the ASC and the farmer
must carry out the practice in ac
cordance with ASC regulations.
The ASC office also announces
that it will accept requests, begin
ning Jan. 2, to have allotted crops
pre-measured* The charge is $3
plus $1.25 per acre, minimum
charge $8.
Further information may be. had
by contacting the ASC office, B. J.
May, manager, courthouse annex,
Beaufort.
Board Rezones Portion
Of Ann Street, Beaufort
Beaufort town commissioners, at
a hearing in the town hall yester
day afternoon, rezoned that por
tion of Ann Street where Brooks
and Mason funeral hdme is located.
The zone was changed from resi
dential to funeral home use only.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Dec. It
6:05 a.m. 12:29 a m.
6:31 p.m. .
Wednesday, Dec. 2*
6:54 a.m. 12:37 a m.
7:19 p.m. 1:16 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 21
7:39 a.m. 1:24 a.m.
8:04 p.m. 2:05 p,m.
Friday, Dec. 22
8:22 a.m. 2:09 n.m.
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Police Investigate Three
Knifing Scrapes Saturday
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Ground Broken for New Building
Dr. A. J. Hobbs, New Bern, district superintendent of the Methodist church, turns the
for St. Peter’s educational building. In the background, left to right, are the Rev. J. P.
William McCabe. C. L. McCabe, William Yeager, and Mrs. J. L. Baldwin, members of
mittee. (Photo by Mrs. William McCabe)
first spade of earth
Mansfield, pastor;
the building com
Ground was broken Sunday aft
ernoon for the- first unit of a
$225,000 church plant to be built
by Camp Glenn Methodist church,
Morehead City. The new church
will be St. Peter’s Methodist church
and will be located on Hodges
Street in the Mitchell Village sec
tion, west of the highway 70 and
24 intersection.
The first part of the three-part
building program will be the edu
cational building. Construction is
expected to start immediately. It
will contain eight classrooms and
a fellowship hall. Estimated cost
Is $75,000.
Fort log
Docks Bulge with Big
Shipments in November
By S. W. HATCHER
Chamber of Commerce
Santa may be busy this month,
but he couldn’t be busier than the
state port was in November! Com
modities handled totaled over
65.000 tons.
Warehouse employees worked
long hours to handle incoming
truck and rail traffic. The num
ber of trucks and cars ran in ex
cess of 150 a day for several days
during the month.
. Overtime wages somewhat com
pensated for the long days, espe
cially with Santa just around the
corner.
Wc find it most fascinating to
look back on a month’s activity
and note the origin and destination
of the many commodities handled.
Over 10,000 tons of North Carolina
tobacco, grown from the moun
tains to the coast passed over the
docks, destined for Antwerp, Rot
terdam, Bremen, Hamburg, Le
Havre, Manila, Hong Kong, Singa
pore, Bangkok, Yokohama and
Kobe.
Tapioca flour, used in many
North Carolina industries, was im
ported from Bangkok, Thailand,
through your Morchead City ter
minals as a monthly import item.
Paperboard from both North and
South Carolina, in considerable
tonnage, passed through Beaufort
inlet, to find its way to Bordeaux
and Rouen, France. Although light
in November, grain shipments have
and will benefit many North Caro
lina farmers. It’s another export
commodity.
Among the “specials" for the
month, we find a fair shipment of
tea from Ceylon passing over the
Morehead City docks. Obviously,
next summer, we can appreciate
this more. We all like iced tea!
November was a top month in to
bacco shipments, breaking several
records. Most of this activity re
sulted from unusually large ship
ments to Japan. One vessel, the
Shizuoka Maru, loaded almost
5.000 hogsheads.
If it were possible to trace this
tobacco back to its origin, that is,
to the farmer who produced it, the
monetary value of a good export
program could better be realized.
North Carolina ports arc playing
a vital part in this realization.
Sbriners Plan Dance
The Carteret County Shrine club
will have its annual Christmas
dance Wednesday night at 9 at the
Biltmore hotel. Tickets are avail
able from Tommy Russell, Vernon
Guthrie and M. E. Bridgman,
[Morehead City. Proceeds will go
to the crippled children's hoapital.
The loan for the building is be
ing obtained through the National
Board of Missions of the Metho
dist church. O. C. Lawrence, Ot,
way, is the general contractor. The
contract for electrical work Went
to Hatsell Electric Co., Beaufort,
and the plumbing contract to Beau
fort Plumbing, and heating and
air-conditioning to Styron Plumb
ing and Heating, Morchead City.
The second unit to be built will
be the sanctuary and the third,
an office and conference rooms.
Members of the building commit
tee are William McCabe, chair
man; Mr*. J. L. Baldwin, M. .1.
'Lockhart, C. L. McCabe, William
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Liquid cargo is also flowing in
and out of our port, affecting North
Carolina economy in far-reaching
ways. Glycol from Kinston is ship
ped by tanker to Freeport, Texas.
Glycol is a by-product of the Du
Pont processes at Kinston.
Dow Chemical refines the glycol
into a consumer product, which
again finds its way back to North
Carolina in the form of automobile
anti-freeze.
Then, of course, our own Trum
bull Asphalt and Lloyd Fry Roof
ing receive their basic product,
asphalt, through Morehcad City
some 8,437 tons in November.
The existence of deep-water ter
minals in North Carolina, as point
ed out before, affects almost ev
ery Tar Keei across' the state, but
to “ring a bell” locally, we quote
the following figures from Novem
ber shipping through Morehead
City:
• Payrolls of $85,000 were pour
ed into our economy directly
from port activity!
• Export value of cargoes, ac
cording to US Customs declara
tions were in excess of $14
million!
Sales in retail stores of the More
hcad City-Beaufort area were no
doubt boosted from purchases
made by crews of the 35 vessels
calling here in November. Steam
ship officials, shippers and others
frequent our stores, restaurants
and motels.
An active-growing port means
much for a more prosperous North
Carolina and the growing need for
a more-balanced world trade.
More important—imports and ex
port through North Carolina ports
means better living for YOU.
Schools, Banks, Offices
Announce Closing Days
Thursday will be the last day of
public school, prior to the holidays.
According to the calendar set by
the county board of education,
school will reopen Tuesday, Jan. 2.
The banks and most business of
fices will be closed two days,
Christmas Day and the day after.
Stores are expected to reopen on
Tuesday, the day after Ohristmas,
but retailers have made no an
nouncement as to plans.
The courthouse, Beaufort, will
be closed this Saturday through
next Tuesday. The Morehead City
town hall will be closed next Mon
day and Tuesday. There will be
trash pick-up in the downtown area
only on those two mornings. .
I Yeager, Mrs. Edgar Simpson ana
Mrs. M. L. Mansfield.
Forty persons attended the
ground-breaking. The property con
sists of 2'ti acres, is a block long
and 200 feet deep. It was acquir
ed from I. F. Rochelle, developer
of Mitchell Village.
The congregation hopes to sell
its present property, just west of
Morehead City. The property con
sists of a frame church, a home,
and land 150 by 300 feet fronting
on a dual-lane highway. The church
was originally a school and was
bought by the congregation from
the county board of education
i about 1900.
Joyce Townsend
Struck on Head
Miss Joyce Townsend, Atlantic
Beach, suffered a gash on the top
of her head between 12:30 and 12:45
a.m. Sunday when she was assault
ed by an unknown person at Atlan
tic Beach.
According to deputy sheriff Billy
Smith, Miss Townsend was going
up the unlighted stairs to her apart
ment over Joyce’s restaurant,
which she operates, when a man
struck her and tried to grab her
pocketbook.
The officer said the two tumbled
down the stairs, but the assailant
didn’t get the pocketbook. He took
fright and ran.
William Earl Wilson of the At
lantic Beach police department,
heard Miss Townsend scream and
called the Morehcad City police
(the restaurant is located outside
the town limits.) Morehead City
notified the sheriff’s department
and Morehead City officers helped
the county officers search the area
for Miss Townsend’s attacker.
She was taken to the Morehcad
City hospital in a Morehead police
car.
Patrol Officer Reports
21 Arrests on Weekend
Sgt. R. H. Nutt of the state high
way patrol office, New Bern, an
nounces that 21 arrests were made
as a result of saturating highway
101 near the Carteret-Craven line
over the weekend.
Violations included no insurance,
improper registration, no opera
tor’s license, improper lights and
improper mufflers.
County troopers were assisted in
the operation by sergeant Nutt,
Cpl. Arthur Fields and troops N.
H. Robinson and Thad Jernigan of
Craven county.
Postoffices will be closed as
usual Sunday (day before Christ
mas) and on Christmas day. They
will reopen Tuesday.
The IJeaufort town hall will be
closed Saturday through Tuesday.
There will be no garbage collec
tion Christmas day or the day aft
er, but all garbage will be picked
up Wednesday, according to Ron
ald Earl Mason, town clerk.
THE NEWS-TIMES office will
close at noon Friday and reopen
at 8 Tuesday morning, Dec. 26.
The Tuesday, Dec. 26 issue, will
be a day late because of the Mon
day holiday.
Firemen, policemen, hospital per
sonnel and state troopers will be
working as usual Christmas day.
* Beaufort and county offi
cers investigated three “knife
incidents’’ Saturday night.
Ollie Hargett, Beaufort, is in
Morehead City hospital with
a gash in his throat, Zede
kiah Green, Beaufort, was
slashed on his neck and right
arm, and a hit and run driver
pulled a knife on another
driver at Mulberry and Live
Oak streets.
Joshua (Junior) Carter, Beaufort,
is in the county jail, without bond,
charged with assaulting Hargett
with a deadly weapon. Carter gave
himself up at the county jail after
Hargett was taken to the hospital
by assistant police chief Carlton
Garner.
Officer Garner said the cutting
occurred at the Chicken Shack on
Queen street at 6:30 p.m.
According to deputy sheriff Bruce
Edwards, to whom Carter surren
dered, the two argued over a cut
ting scrape they were in a year
ago. At that time, the deputy said,
Hargett cut Carter. Hargett served
time on the roads after he was con
victed of the assault.
When Carter gave himself up Sat
urday, he said that he had thrown
away the pocket knife he used on
Hargett.
Green has charged Henry Far
row, Beaufort, with cutting him.
Farrow is in the county jail under
$100 bond. Green says he was
standing in front of the Chicken
Shack at about 9 p.m. when Far
row came up and cut him “for no
reason."
The officer took Green to the hos
pital where Dr. L. W. Moore sewed
him up. The 5-inch gash in his
throat narrowly missed the jugular
vein, officer Garner said. The cut
on Green’s right arm was about 3
inches long.
Later that night, the assistant
police chief said he was called to
Mulberry and Live Oak streets,
where a Negro Marine in a 1959
Pontiac;-headed cast on Mulberry
street, had stopped for a red light.
The officer said the Marine told
him a car going west crashed the
red light and hit the Pontiac, caus
ing about $50 damage. The car that
hit the Pontiac stopped. The Ma
rine whose name officer Garner
did not know, said the other driver
stopped, got out of his car, but
protested when the Marine wanted
to call the police.
He drew a knife and the Marine
told a woman companion in his
car to go to a phone. With that,
the other man, who according to
the Marine, was drunk, jumped in
his car and drove off.
The Marine got his license num
ber and police are investigating
further.
Two Cars Collide
Sunday in Front
Of Drive-In
Two cars collided at 12:30 a.m.
Sunday in front of El’s drive-in,
Morehead City.
State trooper W. J. Smith Jr.
said that Marietta A. Willis, route
1 Newport, was charged with fail
ing to see that a movement in
traffic could be made safely.
The officer reported that she pull
ed out of the drive-in, turned west
and was hit in the rear by a 1960
Ford driven by Cary D. Wilson,
route 1 Newport. Wilson was head
cd west
Damage to the station wagon
was estimated at $400. Damage
to the Willis car, a 1957 model,
was estimated at $150.
News-Times to Publish
Babson's '62 Forecast
THE NEWS-TIMES will publish
Babson’s Business and Financial
Forecast for 1962 after Christmas.
A careful checking of the Bab
son Predictions, made in the Busi
ness and Financial Forecast for
1961 upholds the remarkable aver
age of the past years by being 83
per cent correct!
Watch for Babson's Business and
Financial Forecast for 1962 in THE
NEWS-TIMES.
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