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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
$l»t Year — No. 100
Three Sections — Twenty-Four Pages
MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C.
Friday, December 14, 1962
Published Tuesdays and Fridays
County Board Hopes for Bond
Referendum in Coming Year
Aiming at a bond referendum in
1963 to finance a school building
program, county commissioners
have asked the county board of
education to make “a cost survey
6f all the school needs of Carteret
County without further delay.”
The commissioners met in the
courthouse Monday night, continu
ing their Dec. 3 session.
A cost survey—determination of
how much money will be needed to
build new high schools in the east
and west and improve present
schools—is necessary to find out
the amount of money to be bor
rowed.
Whether to borrow the money
will be left to the voters.
. Commissioner Headen Willis said
he doubted if an “industrial cen
ter” should be included in the
public schools program]
Commissioner Rudolph Mason
called an industrial training center
“an advanced school, a continua
tion of high school,” inferring that
it is proper to include it in a school
bond referendum.
Commissioner C. Z. Chappell
suggested that the referendum
could be set up two ways: to bor
row money for public schools as
the people know them now or to
borrow for the schools plus an in
dustrial education center.
In answer to a question from
commissioner Moses Howard, W.
R. Hamilton, board chairman, re
marked that the county would fur
nish the industrial building and the
state would furnish equipment and
instructors.
“Where would the industrial
l^iilding be?” Mr. Chappell asked.
Mr. Hamilton said he thought the
site should be determined prior to
the referendum.
Wiley Taylor Jr., county attor
ney, said that the board of educa^
tion is being asked for its recom
mendations only. The county board
could determine later, he said,
whether the industrial center should
be lumped in or separated from
the proposed bond issue.
All commissioners, including the
chairman, voted in f. Oi of the
resdhition asking the board of edu
cation for the cost survey.
In answer to a question from
commissioner Willis, Mr. Taylor
said he thought the purchase of
the East Carteret school site would
be made final this past Wednes
day.
The board also voted to turn
over to the board of education by
July 1, 1963 all the funds that have
accumulated in the school con
struction accumulative account.
The amount is estimated to be at
least $800,000 by July 1.
The vote came after mayor
George W. Dill, Morehead City,
raised the question as to whether
the board of education did or didn’t
have the money.
Ronald Earl Mason, auditor, said
$635,000 is now on hand and the
remainder will accrue as taxes
come in. Mayor Dill, who said he
**as at the meeting only to find
out what was going on and not at
someone else’s behest, wanted to
be sure that the board was going
to get the money and that it
wouldn’t end up some other place.
He was assured that the money
was earmarked for construction
of the West Carteret high school.
Hubert Fulcher
Heads Force
Hubert Fulcher, former assis
tant chief of police, Morehcad
City, has been named chief and
will begin his new job Monday.
The town commissioners met in
"special session Tuesday afternoon
to make the selection from sev
eral applications.
The new chief served as assis
tant chief from 1945 until 1955. In
1955 he resigned to operate the
sportsfishing partyboat, the Blue
Water. His total years of service
on the force are 14.
A native of Morehead City, chief
Fulcher has taken correspondence
courses in finger printing and cri
minal investigation. He was for 35
years a member of the Morehead
City fire department. During world
war II, Mr. Fulcher served two
and-a-half years in the Air Force.
Chief Herbert Griffin’s resigna
tion from the force will become
effective after tomorrow. A native
of Swan Quarter, he attended'
^Morehead City schools and joined
the police force in 1947.
From captain he was promoted
to chief, succeeding the late chief
E. J. Willis, when chief Willis re
tired from the force in 1957.
Chief Fulcher was sworn in at
11:05 a.m. yesterday by mayor
George W. Dill. “I appreciate the
confidence the commissioners have
placed in me,” chief Fulcher said.
"This is a big job and I will do
my best to fulfill the responsibil
ity.”
Russell Wasson, Beaufort, Lives
To Tell of Bullet Wound in Head
Russell Wasson
. . . now home in Beaufort
Guantanamo Evacuees
Get Word to Return
Cold Wave Hits;
Mercury Dips
To 14 Degrees
Ice and below-freezing tempera
tures were on the weather menu
served in the county this week.
Fourteen degrees was recorded
early yesterday morning.
Below-freezing temperatures ar
rived Tuesday night. The highest
temperature Monday was 42, ac
cording to E. Stamey Davis, of
ficial US weather observer, More
head City.
Tuesday’s daytime temperature
was 53 and Wednesday’s 52. A
bright sun brought warmer tem
peratures yesterday, but the cold
was expected to continue through
tonight.
Monday’s low was 25, Tuesday’s
32 and Wednesday’s fc3.
Ice covered almost all small
creeks and rivers. At the edge of
Newport river, Morehead City,
“steam” was rising early yester
day morning, due probably to the
water being warmer than the cold
shore.
Referring to his records, which
date back to 1947, Mr. Davis said
that 16 degrees was recorded on
Dec. 12, 1957, and 19 degrees on
Dec. 13, 1957. In 1960, mercury
dropped to 19 Dec. 13 and was at
20 on Dec. 14.
The fourteen degrees of early
yesterday is probably a record,
however, for this time of year.
While there may be some cold
temperatures recorded in mid-Dec
ember, the cold usually doesn’t last
more than a day or two.
Some plumbing, systems were
frozen yesterday morning, but
were expected to thaw during the
day.
B. F. Copeland, Beaufort nur
seryman, said that probably all
camellia bushes in this area have
had bud damage. Those close to
the water may have escaped, how
ever.
The camellias may open, but will
probably have brown centers, he
said. Especially damaged, he be
lieves, are the double camellias
(See WEATHER Pg. 2)
Beaufort Firemen Make
Two Calls Wednesday
The Beaufort Fire department
reported two fires Wednesday. The
first was a fire under a furnace at
the home of Mrs. J. F. Duncan
Jr. on Front street. No damage
was reported at the fire, which oc
curred at 8:50 a.m.
The second fire was a flare-up
of burning soot in a chimney at
212 Live Oak St. at 7:55 p.m. The
house is the home of Virgil Woo
lard and fire chief Gerald Woolard.
► Mrs. Frank Lewis, Beaufort, was
notified Wednesday that she and
her four children are to report to
Norfolk Tuesday for the trip back
to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Mrs. Lewis, whose husband is a
supervisor in the power plant at
Guantanamo, was evacuated with
other wives and dependents Mon
day, Ott. 22, prior to the announce
ment by President Kennedy that
Russia had to get its war-making
machinery out of Cuba.
The Lewises were transported to
Norfolk by ship but expect that
the return trip will be made by
air. The family had been at Guan
tanamo seven-and-a-half months
when the evacuation was ordered.
While here, they have been liv
ing in an apartment. After the
emergency passed, Mr. Lewis came
to Beaufort for several days’ visit,
then returned to Cuba.
The word among the dependents,
on the day that they were eva
cuated, was that the Cuban govern
ment had cut off the water flowing
into the giant US Guantanamo Na
val base. (The base is supplied
from water resources beyond its
boundaries.)
But the information was appar
ently false. Naval authorities state
that Castro has carefully avoided
such measures. Had the water sup
ply been stopped, the Navy had
planned to supply the base with
water brought in by ship.
Soon after Russia moved its
missiles out, dependents were told
they could probably return by
Christmas.
Mrs. Sue Lynch Mills has been
employed as assistant to the coun
ty auditor, Ronald Earl Mason,
auditor, reported yesterday. Mrs.
Mills is a resident of Beaufort and
for nine years was an employee
of Carolina Telephone and Tele
graph.
Russell Wasson, Lennoxvillc
road, Beaufort, is a walking mi
racle. A 32 calibre bullet' went
through his head. That was almost
two months ago. Today the only
things revealing that he may have
had a terrifying experience are a
slight paralysis on his right side
and a groove across the top of his
head which one might not notice
unless he points it out.
Mr. Wasson was alone in the
bedroom of his home late Saturday
night, Sept. 22. Mis Italian Beret
ta pistol went off, putting a bullet
in his head about an inch and a
half in front of the lop of his left
ear.
The bullet coursed upward anil
went out the upper right part of
his cranium. Doctors gave' his wife
no hope that he would live.
He was rushed to Morehead City
hospital. No one expected him to
live through the night. But lie did
Since he is a veteran of 2u years’
service in the Navy, a Marine heli
copter was requested and on Sun
day, Sept. 23, he wa^ flown from
Beaufort-Morehead airport to the
Portsmouth Naval hospital.
There he underwent one opera
tion on Tuesday, Sept. 25. "We
didn't think he would live through
that,” Mrs. Wasson reports.
Within a few days he was on the
road to recovery. The big question
Was whether he would ever be
able to walk, control his muscles,
feed himself and do the simple
things of day-to-day living.
He said he was conscious of what
was going on about him most of
the time following surgery. Mr.
Wasson came home to Beaufort
Monday, Oct. 22, exactly one month
after the accident (Mrs. Wasson
said her husband was trying to fix
tpe pistol and it went off.)
Although be was in the service
during world war II (a motor
machinist’s mate) he came through
without a scratch. He broke a leg
once in an auto accident. After
the war, he was working on a
dredge, slipped and broke his arm.
Other than that, the bullet wound
is the only major injury he has
ever sustained. Prior to retire
ment, Mr. Wasson worked at Cher
ry Point and with the Coast and
Geodetic Survey. He’s a native
of Indiana, but married a Beaufort
girl,, the former Bessie Pake of
Lennoxville.
Mr. Wasson has slight difficulty
in speaking, but otherwise he ap
pears to be normal in every res
pect. He says “they grow ’em
tough in Indiana.”
T. H. Potter
Speaks to Club
T. II. Potter was the speaker
Tuesday night at the Beaufort Ro
tary club, giving a talk on em
ployee-employer relationships.
Mr. Potter commented on the
Dale Carnegie course, points to
consider in the relationships, and
recited several of his personal ex
periences in applying lessons learn
ed in the course.
Guests at the meeting were Dr.
John Gainey, Fred Lewis, Thomas
Noe, George Dill, Jack Roberts, all
of the Morehcad City Rotary, and
Rotarian Ben Humphrey, White
stone, Va.
The Beaufort Rotarians will have
their Christmas party and ladies
night Tuesday at the Surfside res
taurant.
Children View Tree
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David Hall, 8, le|t and Braxton Hall Jr., 11, take a look at a
Christmas tree lamp made of glass marbles, 776 in all. The tree
was made by their father, Braxton Hall, who is a TB patient in the
Veterans’ hospital, Newport News, Va. The Halls live at 105 Eme
tine PI., Morebead City. Mr. Hall has been hospitalised for the
past eight months. . ,
11-Year-Old Girl Found;
Two Others Still Missing
Holiday Rush
Begins at City
Postoffices
# Postmasters Give
Mailing Tips
# Postoffice Hours
Increased
The annual rush is beginning for
postoffice employees in Morehead
City and Beaufort, according to
Morehead City postmaster Harold
Webb and Beaufort postmaster
John Betts.
A steadily increasing flow of ho
liday cards, packages and other
items has begun to come in and
go out to residents of the More
head City and Beaufort area.
Increased hours have been an
nounced for both postoffices, with
postoffice services available from
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except
Sunday in Morehead City and 8
a m. to 5 p m. daily except Sunday
in Beaufort.
The Morehead City postoffice has
added two temporary clerks and
an Army truck, plus space in an
other building to cope with the
rush. Packages go into the build
ing used in the summertime by
the Yacht Basin marina and
there are sorted for delivery.
There’s not enough space for this
type of work in the postoffice.
Both postmasters urged mail pa
trons to get holiday mail into the
postoffices as soon as possible to
prevent delays in delivery at the
last minute before Christmas. Mail
for recipients in other states should
be mailed as soon as possible to |
insure delivery before the holidays.
Everyday precautions in mailing j
are even more important at this
time of the year. Addresses should ]
be complete with zone numbers,
plainly written, printed or typed.
Abbreviations of city or state
names should be avoided. Return
addresses should also be used,
especially on packages.
Cards mailed first class get to
their destination sooner, and the
postoffice has issued a new four
cent stamp especially for Christ
mas use. The stamp has a holiday
theme and is printed in Christmas
colors.
Free labels for local and out-of
town delivery arc available at
(See POSTOFFICES Pg. 8)
Official Finds
Out About Ditches
The joys of being a county
commissioner have already come
to Headcn Willis, Republican
member of the county board. ■
Commissioner Willis, during a
discussion on roads Monday night
at the Courthouse, said, “If I’ve
got to dig myself every ditch that
I’ve been told should be dug,
I’ll not live long enough.”
Maintenance of ditches along
roads is one of the jobs of the
State Highway commission. When
the ditches grow up in weeds or
clog with dirt, people want them
dug out so that they will drain
the roads and prevent water
from running where it shouldn’t.
Requests for clean ditches are
usually channeled through the
county board to the road super
intendent who is stationed by the
highway commission in the coun
ty.
Beaufort Board Receives
Seven Applications for Job
Members of the Beaufort board
of commissioners met in executive
session following the regular
meeting Monday night at the town
hall, to consider seven applications
for the position of town clerk. The
vacancy was created when the
former town clerk, Ronald Earl
Mason, was appointed county au
ditor.
The Applications were screened,
but action was deferred until. Mon
day night, when the board will
have a special meeting.
Mayor W. H. Potter presided at
this week’s session. He announced
that the representative from the
merchants association to the plan
ning board has not been appointed,
but said the appointment would
probably be made by the next regu
lar meeting.
The board approved a recom
mendation that $8,000 be transfer
red from the operating budget to
the debt service fund and, in the
same, motion, approved the pur
Jennie Eubanks
. . . found at Charleston
Three Civil
Suits Started
• Gqme Agent Sues
For $10,000
# Notes, Insurance
Figure in Two Cases
Civil actions recently started in I
superior court include Malvern H.
Cecil, US game management
agent, against Lloyd 11. Mason. At
lantic; Leroy Guthrie against
Joyce Lee Townsend and Mildred
Louise Spivey vs. the First Nation
al Life Insurance Co. of America
and the Accident Insurance Co.
Cecil alleges that he suffered
painful physical injury as the re
sult of Mason’s hitting him with
an automobile Feb. 18, 1962 on
e.:c Cedar Island road.
Ite is seeking $10,000 damages.
As the result of the accident, Ce
cil says he is permanently injured,
having recovered only 75 per cent
use of an ankle. He spent 14 days
in the hospital, had his foot in
a cast for 45 days and was on
crutches 14 weeks.
Guthrie is suing Miss Townsend
for $3,800 plus 6 per cent interest
from July 15, 1962. Guthrie signed
two promissory notes on First
Citizens bank for Miss Townsend
on April 18, 1962. One was for $2,
800 and the other for $1,000.
The notes came due July 15,
1962 and' were allegedly not met
by Miss Townsend.
Mrs. Spivey is suing insurance
companies who have denied a
claim for $2,000 (two $1,000 poli
cies) which Mrs. Spivey filed fol
lowing the death of her husband,
G. T. Spivey, Dec. 14, 1961.
Mrs. Spivey is seeking payment
of the policies, which she claims
were in force at the death of Mr.
Spivey, plus costs of the court ac
tion and interest.
Committee Visits
Duplin Communities
Members of the community de
velopment committee, Ncuse De
velopment association, visited in
Duplin county Wednesday.
leaking the trip from this county
were Jim Hux, chairman of the
committee, R. M. Williams, agri
cultural agent; Mrs. Floy Garner,
home economics agent, and George
Creech, grower.
Mr. Hux said the group was im
pressed with the work done in the
Potter’s Hill and Smith commu
nities where residents, by their
own resources, have made big
strides in community develop
ment.
chase of a $15,000 certificate of de
posit.
It was reported that flashing
street lights, to be elected near
the school, have not yet arrived.
Two requests for street lights were
received; one for an area near
Queen Street school and the other
to provide light in shadowy areas
at the rear of two stores on Front
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Dec. 14
10:23 a.m. 4:01 a.m.
11:01 p.m. 4:43 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 15
11:14 a.m. 4:46 a.m.
11:54 p.m. 5:29 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 16
12:03 a.m. 5:34 a.m.
_ 6:20 p.m.
Mouday, Dec. 17
12:43 a.m. 6:31 a m.
12:51p.m. 7:16 p.m.
Older Ones May be Going
To Memphis, Tenn.
Back home with her parents today is 11-ycar-old
Jennie Eubanks, who disappeared in Beaufort Saturday.
Jennie was located by the sheriff’s department in
Charleston, S. C.t Tuesday. She was at the police depart
ment after being picked up at the Charleston bus station
by officers.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Eubanks, her parents, left Beau
fort for Charleston immediately^
and brought her home.
Jennie's 13-year-old sister, Tan
ya, and 22-year-old Shclba Jean
Swann Hardison, are still missing.
Deputy sheriff C. H. Davis said
the two older girls told Jennie they
were going to Memphis, Tenn.
►There they were going to “pick up
a car” and return to Charleston
to get Jennie.
Jennie said that after the Christ
mas' parade in Beaufort Saturday
they caught a bus to Morehead
City. They got off the bus near the
forks of highway 70 and 24. and
started to walk toward Swansboro
on highway 24.
A motorist gave them a ride to
Swansboro. From there, they hitch
hiked to Jacksonville, then to Wil
mington and to Myrtle Beach. S.
C. They walked about two miles
at Myrtle Beach, then “four young
boys" picked them up there, bought
them hamburgers, and took them
to Georgetown, S. C.
There they caught a ride to
Charleston, S. C., and continued
hitch-hiking until they got to Sa
vannah.
At Savannah, deputy Davis re
ported, the two older girls put Jen
nie on a bus bound back to Char
leston, telling her that someone
would be at the Charleston bus
station to pick her up. Deputy
Davis said he didn’t know where
they got money for bus fare.
(When the girls left the Eubanks
home Saturday, they were believed
to have no more than $2 with
them.)
When Jennie got to Charleston,
there was no one at the bus station
to meet her. The taxi dispatcher
noticed her when she tried to make
a phone call at a pay booth. She
said a lady on the bus had given
her a dollar.
The dispatcher notified the po
lice and they picked her up. She
told them that she was from Vir
ginia. She said that the other girls
told her to say this and that if she
didn’t, she’d be put in jail.
She also gave her name to Char
leston police as Kathy Pierce.
Sheriff Bobby Bell was calling
cities south of here, putting out a
missing persons report after a lo
cal milk truck driver reported that
he saw a car pick up the three
girls on highway 24 last Saturday.
The sheriff assumed the three were
headed south.
When he called the Charleston
police station and started to give
the description of Jennie, he was
told the child was there.
The Charleston police said she
was starved and cold, but other
wise all right.
John Edwards of the State Bu
reau of Investigation has been re
quested by the sheriff’s department
to assist in locating the other two
girls.
The oldest, Mrs. Hardison, had
gone to live with the Eubanks
within the past few weeks. She
had been living with relatives, ac
cording to Mrs. Eubanks, and some
differences arose. She said Mrs.
Hardison arrived at the Eubanks
house one night, crying and saying
she had no place to stay.
The Eubanks took her in. Mrs.
Hardison and her husband arc sep
arated.
street. Police commissioner Earl
Mades was asked to check into
the advisability of putting lights
in the two areas.
A complaint was reported from a
property owner relative to a junk
yard which he claims is lowering
the value of his property. Action
on the complaint was tabled.
It was decided that parking me
ters will operate the week before
Christmas. Mrs. Hazel McCarthy,
temporary town clerk, said the new
meters seem to be working out
very well. Commissioner David
Farrior commented that there
seem to be fewer red (time elaps
ed ) meters now and he felt sure
shoppers enjoyed the convenience
of being able to deposit pennies
as well as nickles.
The commissioners passed a re
solution commending Albert
Coates, who retired in September
from the Institute of . Government,
(See BOARD Pg. 2)
County Board
Approves Road
Petition Monday
# James B. Willis Gets
Courthouse Job
• Clerk Swears In
Coroner Munden
Approved by the county board
Monday night and forwarded to the
State Highway commission was re
quest for the addition of Morgan
street, Radio Island, to the sec
ondary road system.'
The road petition was presented
by commissioner Rudolph Mason,
who said that it was three-tenths
of a mile long, had six occupied
homes on it and the property own
ers would grant a 60-foot-right-of
way.
Signing the petition were Henry
L. Holt, Laura Holt, Charles H.
Finer, Manic L. Finer, and Sam
Morgan.
The board requested that deputy
sheriffs be on duty at basketball
games in the county where muni
cipal officers have no jurisdiction.
When it was suggested"that the de
puties may not always be able to
get to the games, commissioner
Moses Howard remarked that per
haps constables in the area could
be oh duty.
The board decided that Ronald
Earl Mason, county auditor, should
also be employed as tax supervisor
and custodian of county buildings.
James B. Willis, who is in the
sign painting business in More
head City, was named assistant
tax supervisor, succeeding Pren
tiss Garner. He was scheduled to
start work Tuesday. It was an
nounced that Mr. Willis would at
tend a tax supervisor’s school at
the Institute of Government, Cha
pel Hill, Dec. 17-18.
David Munden, Morehcad City,
was sworn in as coroner by super
ior court clerk A. H. James.
I. D. Gillikin and Clifford Tilgh
man asked that marl be put on
the Copeland road near Beaufort.
Commissioner llcaden Willis said
shoulders of highway 70 should
be better maintained.
Chairman W. R. Hamilton said
that state highway commissioner
Buddy Phillips has been asked to
meet with the county board in
January.
Commissioners Moses Howard
commended county road superin
tendent J. L. Humphrey and said
he could do more if he had more
men. Commissioner Hamilton re
marked that Mr. Humphry- s abi
lity was not being quest . i.
Commissioner Howard asked if
the letter had been drafted stating
why auditor James D. Potter had
been fired. Commissioner Mason
said that the books “had not been
posted since September” and the
auditor from Williams and Wall
could not bring the audit up to
date as soon as he had supposed.
Commissioner Howard said the
books had been in good shape for
26 years, he didn’t see why there
should be a delay on presenting
to Mr. Potter a letter stating why
he was let go.
Luther Hamilton Jr., former
county attorney, said Dee. 3 that
the letter should state i..at he was
fired “for purely political reasons.”
The board app"oved a request
from Bob Pate, entertainment
chairman, Morehead City Country
club, for permission to display pic
turesque fireworks piece? at the
club New Year’s Eve.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to the commissioners mention
ed, was commissioner C. Z. Chap
pell.
Among the 20 or more spectators
were Joe Rose, Leslie Moore, Bob
Reed, Vernon Paul, Charles Da
vis, Gordon Hardesty.
Luther Hamilton Jr., E. D. Wil
lis, John Miller, mayor George W.
Dill, Dan Bell, and deputy sher
iffs Carl Bunch and C. 11. Davis.
Workman Injured
Charlie Rollison, Beaufort, was
treated in the emergency room at
Morehead City hospital Wednesday
morning. Rollison, who is em
ployed at Fry Roofing Co., report
edly fell and struck hi* head on
a concrete floor.