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61st YEAR, NO. 20. SIXTEEN PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA
. FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1962
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS
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Conventioneers
Due This Season
• Chamber Prepares
For May Cruises
• Retirement Futures
Revealed by Director
The Morehead City area can ex
pect more convention visitors than
ever before, according to the great
er Morehead City chamber of com
merce committee on tourists and
conventions. Five thousand con
vention-goers are expected during
the summer season.
Dr. Russell Outlaw, chairman of
the committee, said that the first
convention is three weeks away.
Giving his report to chamber di
rectors Monday night at the Inlet
inn, Beaufort, Dr. Outlaw remind
ed them that three cruises will
leave Morehead City for Bermuda
May 4, 9 and 23.
One of the cruises, comprised of
mutual insurance agents, will at
tract persons from Connecticut,
Mississippi, Alabama, West Vir
ginia and Illinois, as well as North
Carolina.
Plans for the cruises propose
concerts by the Morehead City and
Beaufort school bands as the ships
sail, and welcome posters in res
taurants. Parking for passengers j
will be arranged and an informa- i
tion booth at the port was dis
cussed.
Giving of souvenir sea shejls,
ivith an Atlantic Beach decal on
them, was proposed.
Dr. Outlaw reported that letters
are being written inviting school
children to visit Hampton Marine
museum and Fort Macon.
Ben Alford, chairman of the ad
vertising committee, said no money
will be spent unless it is in the
bank. He reported that a talk and
film on sports fishing would be pre
sented last night at Winston-Salem
by chamber members and Bob
Simpson, of Fabulous Fishermen.
H. S. Gibbs Jr. reported that
the Central Coastal Development
Corp., Morehead City, has raised
$16,000.
Frank Cassiano, chairman of the
military affairs committee, said
450 men retired from Cherry Point
last year and 1,400 from Camp Le
jeune. It was suggested that con
crete steps be taken to interest
those persons in retiring in this
county.
Two resolutions were passed.
One endorses a right-of-way pro
posal for the outer banks highway
at Corolla and the other a ferry
from Wilkinson’s Point to Hancock
for the convenience of Cherry
Point workers and tourists.
A membership meeting will be
held at the Hotel Fort Macon Mon
day, March 19, where plans for
county-wide membership meetings
will be discussed.
The next board meeting will be
at Atlantic Beach.
William Davies gave a financial
report. Memberships of January
and February amounted C> $2,
782.64. Paid out was $2,765.18, leav
ing a balance of $19.46 on Feb. 28.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to those mentioned, were pres
ident S. W. Hatcher, Glenn Adair,
Moses Howard, Dom Femia, John
R. Jones Jr., J. C. Sherill, Wil
liam H. Smith, Norwood Young,
A1 Dewey, Joe DuBois, manager,
and Mrs. John Jones Jr., secretary.
Day of Prayer
To be Observed
Four county churches have sched
uled special services today in ob
servance of World Day of Prayer.
Worshipers are invited to attend
the service most convenient for
them.
‘ North River Methodist church
will have its service at 9:30 this
Morning, according to the Rev.
Leonard Mayo, pastor. At 10 a.m.
there will be a service in the First
Presbyterian church, Morehead
City, the Rev. Charles L. Kirby,
pastor.
An afternoon service will be con
ducted in First Baptist church,
Beaufort. The Rev. Billy Mobley,
pastor, announces that the service
will start at 3 p.m.
Churches in the Newport-Wfld
wood area will Join for a union
service at 7:30 p.m. in the Wild
wood Presbyterian church. The
Rev. John Viser is pastor of the
host church.
The ferry, Sea Level, starts op
eration today, leaving Atlantic for
Oeracoke at I a.m.
SALUTE TO 4-H'ers
In This Issue
Special Articles
In Observance
of
4-H WEEK
County to Help
Get Better Road
Into Airport
Coanty commissioners authorized
inclusion in the 1962-63 budget
funds for the county’s share in
paving the road to the Beaufort
Morehead City airport administra
tion building.
The state has agreed to pave its
part of the road. The road ends
several hundred feet from the ad
ministration building, at the air
port boundary. Because the last
part of the road to the building is
on county property, the state can
not pave it.
Cost of the paving was estimated
at $4,000.
J .L. Humphrey, county road
superintendent, was asked to check
on a drainage problem at Cedar
Island. The request came from
Dennis Goodwin, Morehead City.
Approved for forwarding to the
State Highway commission was a
petition for the state to take over
Knox drive and Bogue avenue in
Mitchell Village.
The board approved petitions
presented by Jim Young, Stella,
soil conservation committeeman,
requesting Army engineers to sur
vey the White Oak river and ad
joining creeks with a view to im
proving drainage and making the
waterways navigable.
Two Hunters
Fined Tuesday
Ronald Goodwin, Cedar Island,
and Harold Daniels, Atlantic, were
fined Tuesday in federal court,
New Bern, for violation of hunting
laws.
They were given a hearing be
fore Mrs. Eleanor Howard, US
commissioner. State and federal
game protectors apprehended
Goodwin and Daniels Saturday,
Feb. 17, in a blind ’ in the Cedar
Island area.
Both were charged with attempt
ing to take duck and geese during
closed season and hunting over a
baited area. Daniels was also
charged with hunting with an un
plugged gun.
Goodwin was ordered to pay $100
fine and Daniels $25
For operating a motorboat with
out certificate of number, Julius
Willis, Davis, appeared before jus
tice of the peace Elmer C. Smith,
Morehead City, Wednesday. He
was apprehended at Davis Monday.
He was fined $10 and costs but
the fine was suspended.
Newport Group Will
Stage Dance for Funds
To raise funds for new band uni
forms the Newport Band associa
tion will sponsor a St. Patrick’s
Day dance Saturday, March 17,
in the high school gymnasium.
Dancing will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Admission will be 25 cents for
students and 50 cents for adults.
If both parents attend, their daugh
ter or son will be admitted free.
If Petition is Drafted on Hospital,
County Board Wants It by April 2
A petition for referendum may
be in the future on the decision of
the county board of commissioners
to put the county hospital on the
Webb tract on Bogue sound.
A delegation of doctors made
a heated protest to the decision
during the meeting of the board
Monday afternoon, minutes after
the decision was made.
The board, after voting unani
mously on the site, added that the
board would not entertain sugges
tions on sites, but would consider
a petition signed by 15 per cent of
the county's registered voters. The
referendum, giving people a chance
to vote on sites, if it occurs, would
be of an advisory nature, as the
board has the sole jurisdiction in
choosing the site, the commission
ers said.
1 The beard also put a time limit
The 500-foot oil tanker, Gem, of Liberian registry,
broke in half in heavy seas 73 miles east of Cape Look
out yesterday morning. Each section of- the ship con
tained members of the crew.
Lt. John Riddell, commanding officer of Fort Macon
Coast Guard station, got word of the disaster at 11:30
a.m.
The Coast Guard cutter Jonquil, based at Fort Macon,
got under way at 11:40 a.m. and was expected to reach
the drifting sections of the vessel by 6 p.m. yesterday.
Details of the Gem’s break-up were not available at
press time. She is presumed to be a victim of the lashing
seas whipped up by Wednesday’s vicious northeaster.
People in this area are warned that high tides will
continue through tomorrow and persons who have evac
uated from low-lying land are warned not to return.
This information was relayed to Bill Moore, Atlantic
Beach weather station, from the US weather bureau
at Wilmington, at 11:30 a.m. yesterday.
Robert Lee Humber Will
Speak at Beaufort Tuesday
Robert Lee Humber, founder of <
world federation, will give a report
on the movement’s progress at 7:45
p.m. Tuesday in the fellowship hall
of the First Baptist church, Beau
fort.
That date will be the 21st anni
versary of the North Carolina leg
islature’s passage of the resolution
on world federation.
“The approach to world peace is
still the greatest issue before our
generation,” Mr. Humber said
Wednesday in announcing his ap
pearance in Beaufort. ‘‘World con
ditions accentuate the importance
of world federation.”
In his annual report, he will com
ment on world conditions, develop
ment of the European community
and the relationship of world peace
to those situations.
Mrs. Humber will accompany her
husband on his visit here. They
plan to arrive Tuesday and return
to their home in Greenville that
night.
Mr. Humber has usually report
ed on world federation at Beaufort
over the Christmas holidays, but
was unable to do'§b this past year
because he was out of the state;
The world federation movement
had its beginning on Davis island,
in this county, at Mr. Humber’s
home there. At his invitation a
group of persons had gathered to
launch the program, whose aim is
world peace.
Debate Begins
At 1 P.M. Today
Morehcad City high school prin
cipal Lenwood Lee invites the pub
lic to hear Havelock and New Bern
debating teams in Morehead City
school auditorium at 1:30 p.m. to
day.
Morehead City’s teams will be
debating at Havelock and New
Bern. This is the 50th anniversary
of the North Carolina High School
Debating union and everyone who
has ever debated as a part of that
organization will be honored guests
at today’s debates.
The debate topic is Resolved:
That the federal government should
equalize educational opportunities
by means of grants to the states
for public elementary and second
ary schools.
Members of the Morehead City
affirmative team who will be de
bating at New Bern today are
Donna Bell and Jimmy Thompson.
The negative team debating at
Havelock is comprised of Lorraine
Hatcher and Mattie Phillips.
Mrs. Hattie Lee Phillips is More
head City debate coach.
The Morehead City town board
will meet at 7:45 p.m. Thursday
at the municipal building.
on presenting the “straw vote”
petition. All petitions would have
to be presented by the April 2 meet
ing of the board.
The doctors’ group, consisting of
Dr. L. W. Moore and Dr. John E.
Way of Beaufort, and Dr. S. W.
Hatcher of Morehead City, accused
the board of breaking a promise
to put the matter of choosing the
site before the people.
Dr. Moore, who was first to
speak before the board, stated his
unalterable opposition to the chos
en site. “This is a very, very
foolish move,” he stated, “I can’t
understand why anybody would
pick this site.”
Dr. Moore saM that the site de
cided upon was not in the center
of population and that the people
in the eastern portion of the county
were not considered in the decision.
Red Cross Roll Call
To Start Thursday
The county Red Cross drive
will open next Thursday, an
nounces Garland Scruggs, chair
man of the Red Cross chapter.
Mr. Scruggs commented this
week that the Red Cross has pro
vided numerous services to the
county—first aid courses, water
safety courses, services to fam
ilies, plus assistance during
storms.
“It is my hope,’’ he remarked,
“that we may raise $5,000 and
include in this year’s program
establishment of a blood bank.”
Board Accepts
r
s
The resignation of Charles S.
Long, faculty member at Newport
school, was accepted Monday by
the county board of education. Mr.
Long, who resigned because of ill
ness, has taught vocational agri
culture at Newport school 31 years
and eight months.
He has been replaced by Robert
S. Grady, Duplin county. The board
adopted a resolution commending
Mr. Long for his devoted service.
A resolution of respect was also
passed relative to George Banks,
Beaufort faculty member who died
recently. It was forwarded to his
widow.
The Morehcad City school com
mittee presented a resolution com
mending Dr. A. F. Chestnut, for
mer committee chairman, who is
now serving on the county board
of education.
Because of retirement require
ments, the state must have approv
al of those who continue in educa
tion beyond the age of 65. The
board approved four who have
reached that age and will continue
teaching or handling administra
tive duties.
The board decided to exact no
damages from the contractor who
built the addition to the Beaufort
graded school. It was decided that
the walls had to be pre-cast and
the delay in construction was not
the fault of the contractor.
At the request of the Smyrna
school committee, two area lights
for the school were approved. The
committee had requested four.
Robert Safrit, chairman, presid
ed. Board members present were
D. Mason, Atlantic; Theodore
Smith, Davis; W. B. Allen, New
port, and Dr. Chestnut.
Charles Long
“Why west instead of east?”, he
asked the board, “There is no need
for the extra travel involved. The
hospital will have to be serviced,
travel arrangements will have to
be made for help.”
Dr. Moore also stated that the
ones who would have to run the
hospital should have some say in
the matter, and that if the site was
nearer to the center of the taxpay
ing population, neither Morehead
City or Beaufort would mind. “It
could be in Beaufort,” Dr. Moore
stated, “and Morehead City
wouldn't mind.”
Dr. Hatcher stated that be had
understood that the board would
put to a popular vote two sites,
the Webb tract and Crab Point,
provided that the vote would be
See PETITION, Page 7
Board Says Building Code
Violators Must be Prosecuted
Builders of shell and pre-fabri
cated homes who are violating the
county’s building and windstorm
codes must be prosecuted, county
commissioners ordered Monday at
their March board meeting at the
courthouse.
Luther Hamilton Jr., county at
torney, agreed that warrants must
be sworn out. Harrell Taylor,
building inspector, said some build
ers make an effort to comply with
the code. Others are ignoring it.
Commissioner Gaston Smith de
clared, “If wc don’t make every
body comply, let’s do away with
the codes.”
Commissioner Skinner Chalk,
who is in the insurance business,
said a firm in New York that
morning told him by phone that it
didn’t want to insure property in
this area. When he told the firm
that the county has a building code,
it said it would reconsider.
“We’re going to be right back
where we started, if this code isn’t
enforced as it should be,” he ob
served. “All those companies have
to learn is that we're not enforcing
it and they won’t write insurance.”
Odell Merrill, clerk to the board,
remarked, “Those who do business
with shell , home builders need
more protection than anyone.
There have been a lot of repos
sessions and foreclosures and it
makes our economy look bad. Lots
of these home buyers don’t have
anything and when they find out
they’ve got a poorly constructed
house, they’d rather lose what
they have in it than pay for it.”
Mr. Hamilton described some of
the shell homes he’s seen and the
sloppy way they’re put together.
In response to a letter from the
board, Robert Garner, county elec
trical inspector, appeared. Owen
Fulford, Harkers Island, voiced
a complaint about the inspector1 at
the February board meeting.
Mr. Garner said that A. D. Ful
ford, county sanitarian, could ex
plain the situation.
Mr. Fulford’s complaint was that
he was denied electricity but a
neighbor was approved. He said
he wanted “everyone to be treated
alike.”
A. D. Fulford said that on Jan.
29 Owen Fulford went to the health
department for a septic tank per
mit for a trailer on Harkers Island.
On Jan. 30 A. D. Fulford said he
inspected the tank and found it to
be a metal drum of the type not
approved for septic tanks. There
was also an unapproved shallow
well on the premises.
A. D. Fulford said he explained
the requirements for an approved
well and Owen Fulford agreed to
comply.
A. D. Fulford said he returned
Jan. 31 and Owen Fulford had
complied with regulations. Then
he went to Maxwell Willis at the
Harkers Island REA office and
told him it was all right to furnish
electricity to Owen Fulford.
The sanitarian also conveyed
this information to the electrical
inspector who gave his OK.
Mr. Garner said Owen Fulford’s
neighbor who had been approved
for receiving pmwer had complied
with regulations and that’s why he
got power before Owen Fulford did.
The county sanitarian said that
for years he’s been trying to en
force sewage regulations and got
only partial compliance. Since the
new system of denying a place
electricity until sanitation regula
tions arc met, he is getting almost
a hundred per cent cooperation.
“In this county,’' he observed,
"we’ve got more tv’s than we have
flush toilets. If we can keep their
tv off ’til they get fludh toilets or
approved privies, everyone will be
better off.”
Moses Howard, chairman of the
board, reported that a plumber at
the beach was complaining that
he couldn’t get power to operate
his tools. Upon checking it was
learned that a temporary permit
for power had not been granted
because the builder had not gotten
a building permit.
See BOARD, Page 7
S3 5J
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
10:43 a
11:12 p
11:38 a
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1:00 a
1:27 p
1:54 a
2:26 p
Friday, March 9
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Saturday, March 10
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5:
Sunday, March 11
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Monday, March 12
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Tuesday, March 13
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in. 8:
27 a m.
48 p.m.
17 a.m.
37 p.m.
13 a.m.
33 p.m.
20 a.m.
41 p.m.
30 a.m.
50 p.m.
High Tide Floods Streets
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Yesterday morning’s high tide brought water over Front street* Beaufort. This is a view looking east.
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The backwash of Wednesday’s northeaster put part of Morehead City’s streets under several inches
of water. The tide backed up through sewers. This shows flooding on Shepard street, looking west, to
ward 10th.
County Survives Wednesday s Severe
Northeaster with Little Damage
Carteret weathered well Wednes-1
day’s northeaster that devastated
northern coasts.
But highways and communities
here were experiencing high water
both Wednesday and Thursday. The
Cedar Island school bus did not
run Wednesday because it couldn’t
get through water covering the
causeway between Cedar Island
and Atlantic.
Even though there was water on
the causeway yesterday, the bus
was able to get the island children
to Atlantic school.
Lt. John Riddell, Fort Macon
Coast Guard station estimated
tides at Vn to 4 feet above normal
at' Fort Macon yesterday.
Cape Lookout reported water
much rougher than during Donna.
The station boats could not make
routine runs to Harkers Island.
Sheriff Robert Bell went to South
River Wednesday morning at the
request of Sam Duke, Wilmington
weather bureau, to check on con
ditions there! George and Joshua
Hardy, South River, estimated
tides were 2 feet above normal at
10 a.m. Wednesday. •
The sheriff said that water was
12 to 14 inches deep over the Mer
rimon road at Cedar creek and
Back creek bridges.
The highway was flooded at the
approaches to all bridges on high
way 70 down east. Low land in
many communities was under wa
ter, but damage was not expected.
A slackening of wind yesterday
saved the county from extensive
damage.
Winds were clocked up to 50.
miles an hour at the Atlantic Beach,
weatlier ■ station. The most force
ful guests were between 5 and 7
a.m. Wednq^ "I rtd*
The Chili*** voasf'Guard cutter
berthed at Morehead City, left
Wednesday morning to .go to the
aid of a merchant ship a hundred
miles east of Hatteras, but was
not expected to reach her until 5
a.m. this morning because of bad
weather and heavy seas.
The ship was the SS Chun Lee,
Chinese vessel, that was out of
control and could not maintain
steerage, according to lieutenant
Riddell.
The Diamond shoals lightship
was dragged a half mile off sta
tion Wednesday night and the
Chesapeake lightship, much far
ther north, had broken her moor
New Official
Tommie Lewis, Har' *
has been named to me V
board of commissioners. He fills
the naexpired term of David Yeo
mans, Barkers Island.
ings. The forward compartment
was buckling and tbe ship was in
danger of sinking. The cutter,
Cherokee, out of Norfolk, was
standing by.
Silt men were evacuated by heli
copter yesterday morning from
Caffeys inlet lifeboat station just
north of Kill Devil Hills in Dare
county. John M. Midgett, group
commander, Cape Hatteras, said
the station was settling and lives
of the men were endangered.
Dare county was extremely hard
hit. Old-timers reported the dam
age worse' than in any hurricane.
Stale trooper, W. J. Smith, Beau
fort, was called to special duty at
Manteo Wednesday morning.
Snow fell in Carteret Wednesday.
E. Stamey Davis, Morehead City
weather observer, reported .13
inches of rain Tuesday and .07 of
mixed snow and rain Wednesday.
People buttoned up overcoats
and pulled hats a little tighter as
cold winds blew from the north.
In Beaufort tides were backing
up on Front street yesterday.
Trash cans and other loose articles
were blowing around Wednesday
and in Morehead City a showcase
of fish mounts, at the foot erf S.
Eighth street, hlew over hack ward
when supporting posts gave way.
Temperature and wind direc
tions:
Mu Min Wind
Monday . 60 40 jSW
Tuesday .......-48 30 NW
Wednesday ....,...,.40 33 NW
Inward Not Gamer
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» page 1 read “Tommy Ga
instead of Tommy Howard,
lame in the newsstory was
lorry if you were cool
to that sometimes just
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