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51st Year — No. 104
Two Sections _ Twelve Pages MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C. _Friday, December 28, 1962Published Tuesdays and Fridays
Residents Will List Personal
Property Starting Wednesday
8-Year-Old Child Killed
By Car on Merrimon Road
Tax listing in the county will begin Wednesday.
Personal property will be listed this year as well as
improvements and addition to any real property, accord
ing to Ronald Ear! Mason, tax supervisor and auditor.
Property to be listed is that which is in the resident’s
Rash of Auto
Accidents Keep
Police Busy
A rash of auto wrecks kept the
Morehead City police department
busy over the Christmas holidays.
Several persons were injured in
the accidents.
On Saturday, Mrs. Doris Saun
ders Wilkins, Salisbury, received
leg and back injuries in an acci
dent on highway 70A. Mrs. Wilkins
I was admitted to the Morehead City
hospital Saturday and discharged
Tuesday.
Mr. Wilkins, driving a 1055 Chev
rolet, was coming out of the road
to Morehead Gardens at approxi
mately 3:45 p.m., when her car
and a 1958 Rambler station wagon
driven by James Elwood Leary,
Morehead City, collided. Leary was
going west on 70A at the time.
Mrs. Wilkins was charged with
failure to maintain a proper look
out by police officer Bruce Con
way.
Sunday, Janies B. Taylor, route
1 Newport, received cuts on his
head and chin after his car, a 1960
Falcon, left the road on Bridges
street near 29th street. Taylor was
reported to have lost control of the
car. The car veered across the
highway and cut off a telephone
pole before turning over. Damage
to the car was estimated at $500,
and $50 to the pole.
The accident, which happened at
about 8:42 p.m., was investigated
by Capt. Joe Smith, who charged
Taylor with speeding, driving on
% the wror.„ side of, the road and
reckless driving.
On Monday, three accidents were
reported, the first at 10:10 a.m.
at Bridges and 6th streets. George
Ray Jones, Wilmington, was going
west on Bridges in his 1956 Chev
rolet, when his car collided with
a 1958 Ford driven by William
Clyde Lockhart, route 1 Morehead
City.
Lockhart was going north on 6th
Street at the time. 11c was charged
with failure to yield the right-of
way investigating officer Ed Gas
kill.
Damage to the Jones car was
about $150 to the left front, and
about $350 to the front end of the
Lockhart car.
At 8:15 p.m., Fred Austin Pe
terson, Morehead City, was turning
into an alley off the 2300 block of
Arcndell street in his 1959 Chev
rolet, and a collision resulted when
Mrs. Evic McArthur Taylor, route
1 Newport, allegedly attempted to
pass. Mrs. Taylor was driving a
1956 Mercury.
Mrs. Taylor was charged with
passing on the right and reckless
driving by officer Bruce Conway.
At 11:10 p.m., two cars were
severely damaged when they hit
head-on on Evans Street near 19th
, Street. Two men were injured, both
' requiring hospital treatment.
Charles Joseph Kaufmann, a
Coast Guardsman from the cutter
Jonquil, was headed east on Evans
Street when Fred Ray Thompson,
route 2 Beaufort, turned off South
19th street onto Evans, heading
west. Thompson was reported to
have gone around a parked car
shortly before the cars hit.
Kauffmann was still in the More
head City hospital Wednesday with
head and back injuries. Thompson
was examined for injuries and dis
charged the day of the accident.
The Kauffmann car, a 1950 Mer
cury, and the Thompson car, a 1962
Ford, were severely damaged.
Thompson was charged by investi
gating officer Bruce Conway with
driving on the wrong side of the
road and reckless driving.
Owner of Shop Reports
Loss of Day's Receipts
Reported to Morehead City police
Monday night, Christmas Eve, was
loss of a black plastic bag contain
ing receipts from the Dress Shop,
Morehead City, for the day.
The bag was reported lost by
‘1 Mrs. Vernie Bowman, owner and
manager of the shop. The bag con
tained cash, checks, sales tickets,
and cash register tape for Monday,
Dec. 24.
Mrs. Bowman believes that she
dropped it as she got in her car
on Eighth street or as she got out
of her car at her home, lSOOVii
Arendell St. Efforts to locate it,
however, were of no avail.
Anyone who has any leads as to
location of the bag are asked to
contact the Morehead City police
department.
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►possession on the first day of Jan
uary 1963.
Real property is land or build
ings. Personal property is auto
mobiles, refrigerators, tv’s, jewel
ry, furs, boats and similar items
not permanently attached to the
land.
Listers will be on duly Monday
through Saturday during January.
Persons who do not list in that
month will be subject to a 10 per
cent penalty.
Listing in each township are the
following: Mrs. Jean Willett, At
lantic; U, E. Swann and Mrs. Eva
Johnson, Beaufort; Mrs. Dora Day,
Cedar Island.
Ronald Salter, Davis; Charles W.
Hancock, llarkcrs Island; Mrs.
Selma Mason, Harlowe; Mrs. Thel
ma Carraway, Merrinion.
Troy Moore, Marshallberg; Bill
Orton, John Baker and Mrs. Eva
Bravaldo, Morehead City; Mrs.
Dan Bell, Newport.
H. Byrd Willis, Sea Level; Mrs.
Dolly Taylor, Smyrna; W. A.
Bryant, Straits; and W. E. Guth
rie. White Oak.
Tax listers met with (he tax sup
evisor at the courthouse Friday
afternoon and received written as
well as verbal instructions as to
how the listing should be conduct
ed.
Beaufort township residents will
list at the courthouse and More
head township residents at the mu
nicipal building.
Other listing will take place at
homes of listers or centrally lo
cated community buildings.
Woman Held
On Theft Count
Out of jail under $400 bond is
Mrs. Gcorgie M. Wy8tt, Newport,
who is charged with theft of cloth
ing, bed linens and a tv set from
the home of Betty MeLackan, New
port.
Deputy sheriff C. E. Bunch said
Mis. Wyatt was arrested Friday.
A distant neighbor of the McLac
kans (who were getting ready to
move to Fayetteville), Mrs. Wyatt
allegedly walked to the house and
removed items in it.
The officer said the clothing and
bed linens were recovered as was
the tv, which was found in the
woods.
The Wyatt home was located
about 500 yards from the McLac
kan house, which is on a loop road
west of Newport. The theft is re
ported to have taken place in the
daytime.
NCFA Will Meet
At Morehead City
The North Carolina Fisheries
association will have a special
meeting and clambake from 5
to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, at
the Elks club, Morehead City.
Guests from North Carolina
State college will speak on the
seafood industry.
George Garner, secretary of
the association, asks that all
members who have not yet re
turned their postcards, making
reservations, do so without delay.
If the postcard has been mis
placed, write or phone Mr. Gar
ner at the Pamlico Packing Co.,
Vandemere, N. C.
1963 Auto Tags Will Go
On Sale at 9 Wednesday
1963 license tags will go on sale
at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning
at the First-Citizens bank loan de
partment, Arendell street, More
head City.
Sales will stop promptly at 4
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28. The new
1963 tags must be displayed on all
vehicles by midnight Friday, Feb.
15. * .
After the ne^-tag rush, probably
about the first'of March or April,
sale of 1963 tagf in this county will
be taken over by the Greater
Morehead City chamber of com
merce.
Motorists have received license
renewal cards in the mail, with a
pamphlet of instructions on how
to obtain 1963 license tags. Those
who no longer hold automobile in
surance may not use the card to
obtain a new license, however.
When the license plate registra
tion fee is $10 or more, an add
itional fee of $1 is required to fi
nance driver education courses in
high schools. Persons renewing
their registration by mail are re
minded to include this extra dol
lar, per vehicle.
Further information on obtain
Robert Humber
To Give World
Federation View
• Founder of Movement
To Speak Sunday
• Meeting to Start
At 3, Beaufort
Robert Lee Humber, Greenville,
founder of the World Federation
movement, will Rive the 22nd an
nual report on World Federation
at 3 p.m. Sunday in the First Bap
tist church fellowship hall, Beau
fort.
Mr. llumber comes to Beaufort
each year at this time to meet with
the remaining 38 Carteret coun
tians who 22 years ago at Davis
Island signed the original state
ment endorsing the principles of
world federation.
Invited to Sunday’s meeting are
all friends of World Federation and
others who are interested.
Accompanying Mr. Humber on
his visit will be his wife, and his
son, John L. Humber, and family.
Resolutions approving the prin
ciples of World Federation have
been adopted by 16 state legisla
tures and ten other states have ap
proved the principles of interna
tional cooperation as embodied in
the United Nations charter, Mr.
Humber said.
At the annual meetings Mr. Jlum
ber reviews events of international
significance during the current
year and traces the trend of world
policies in the field of international
cooperation.
Mr. llumbcr said yesterday,
“World events in recent months
have confirmed ii.e WiUlum and
inevitability of organization of the
world community under the prin
ciples of international law enforc
ed by judicial procedure and an
international police force.”
Davis Island, in this county, is
owned by Mr. Humber and it was
at hisihome there that a group of
Carteret friends met in December
1940 to organize the World Federa
tion movement.
Many believe that Carteret will
have a prominent place in history
because of this event.
Deputy Sheriff Cites
Woman Driver Saturday
Cited early Saturday morning by
deputy sheriff C. E. Bunch was
Mrs. Gwendolyn Forster, Bridges
street, Morehead City. Deputy
Bunch said that Mrs. Forster was
charged with drunken driving.
According to the officer, military
police had spotted the car, a 1960
Ford, which was being driven in
an erratic manner. Mrs. Forster
was apprehended at the Do-Nut
House, west of Morehead City.
Deputy Bunch said the right side
of her car was damaged.
Class to Reunite
The class of 1942, Smyrna high
school, will have its twentieth an
niversary reunion at Mrs. Russell
Willis’s restaurant, Morehead City,
Saturday night. A clutch dinner will
be served at 6:30 p.m. All class
members and their guests are in
vited.
ing new tags may be obtained at
the licensing office in the First
Citizens loan department or from
state troopers.
Hours for sale of tags are 9 to
4 p.m. daily and from 9 a.m. to
noon Saturday. Sale Of tags will
stop promptly at the closing hour,
whether people are lined up or not,
according to E. B. Fleming, mana
ger of the loan office.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Friday, Dec. 28
HIGH
8:55 a.m.
9:29 p.m.
2:53 a.m.
3:38 p.m.
LOW
Saturday, Dec. 29
0?38 a.m.
10:19 p.m.
3:32 a.m.
4:18 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 30
10:28 a.m.
11:14 p.m.
4:12 a.m.
4:59 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 31
,11:24 a.m.
4:57 a.m.
5:45 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 1
12:10 a.m.
12:22 p.m.
6:00 a.m.
6:48 p.m.
Santa Begins His Ride
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Santa begins his ride in Morehead City last Friday with the aid of the Morehead City Fire depart
ment. Helping Santa are Nolan McCabe, at the wheel of the truck, with Itay Rice to his right, and
at the left, Dallas Guthrie, Ronald E. Willis, and Clyde Young. Santa distributed fruit to children
throughout town.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
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A creche, all of ceramic figures, is assembled in the living room of the home of Mrs. Dwight
Johnson, 2304 Evans St., Morchead City. The creche occupies most of card table and sits in front
of the fireplace. All of the figures were painted, glazed, and fired by Mrs. Johnson.
Deductions for Social Security
Will Increase Starting Tuesday
Adrian Hatfield, social security
district manager, announced today
that his office now has on hand
copies of a printed explanation of
the social security tax increase
scheduled for Jan. 1, 1963.
The explanation is available upon
request to the New Bern social
security district office. Mr. Hat
field noted that a number of em
ployers have already ordered cop
ies to enclose with employees’ pay
checks on the first pay day in Jan
uary.
Starting with that first pay in
January, Mr. Hatfield said, the
worker’s social security deduction
will be increased by one-half of
one percent on the first $l,Suo of
annual wages. With this increase,
the amount of the social security
tax will be 3% percent for an em
ployee, with a matching amount
contributed by the employer.
The social security law as origi
nally enacted in 1935, called for a
beginning tax rate of one percent
for employee and for employer on
the first $3,000 of annual earnings,
with gradual increases until the
top rate of 3 percent was reached
in 1949.
These tax rates, it was estimated
would be required to finance the
retirement benefits of $10 to $85
per month, the only type of bene
fits provided under the original
law. But the scheduled increases
were not permitted to go into effect
and the tax rate did not rise to one
and one-half percent until 1950.
Many improvements have been
made in the original law, Mr. Hat
field said. Benefits have been add
ed for the dependents and sur
vivors of workers and also for dis
abled workers and their families.
Also, benefits have been increased
several times to take account ofH
rises in the cost of living.
Under the present law, benefits
to workers <55 and over range from
$40 to $127 a month. A retired
couple may collect as much as
$187.50 per month. Family pay
ments range up to a maximum of
$254 per month.
Under the law as it now stands,
there will be two more increases in
the social security tav rate, one in
1966 and the last in 1968. Each in
crease will amount to one-half of
one percent, so that beginning in
1968, an employed worker will be
paying 4uk percent of his annual
earnings toward his social security
protection.
The difference between the origi
nally planned top tax rate of 3
per cent and the top 45s percent
rate that will go into effect in 1968,
will go partly to pay for the add
itional protection and higher bene
fits, Mr. Hatfield pointed out. It
will also help make up for the mon
ey not collected because the tax
increases scheduled for the 1940’s
were postponed.
Mr. Hatfield said that employers
and the general public may obtain
printed copies of “An Explanation
of Your Social Security Contribu
tion” by visiting, phoning, or writ
ing the Social Security District Of
fice at 308 New St. The telephone
number is Melrose 7-5108.
Employers may also wish to re
quest copies of the new social se
curity employee tax table for the
convenience of their payroll of
fices.
Stuart Hollowell, field represen
tative from the New Bern social
security district office, is in Beau
fort every Monday, beginning at
IQ a.m., in the courthouse annex.
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New Chief
Hubert Fulcher
. . . Murebead police chief
Lloyd Pigott Writes
Smyrna School Patrons
Lloyd N. Pigott, a resident of
the Smyrna school district, has
distributed to residents of the dis
trict a letter questioning the ad
visability of consolidating Smyrna
school with Beaufort.
The letter is dated Dec. 22 and
signed by Mr. Pigott. His conclud
ing sentence states that he intends
to inform the Smyrna school dis
trict residents of consolidation
plans “as well as my thoughts on
the subject.”
Eight-year-old George William Petteway was killed in
stantly at 7 o’clock Wednesday night on the Merrimon
road when struck by an automobile.
The youngster, son of John C. Petteway, ran into the
path of a 15)59 Cadillac driven by Mrs. Clayton Fulcher
Jr.. Atlantic', -according to state-1
trooper W. E. Pickard.
Mrs. Fulcher was headed toward
Beaufort on the Merrimon road.
With her was Mrs. Pauline McIn
tosh, Atlantic. The trooper said
that the boy, a colored child, ran
onto the highway from the left and
into the left front of the car.
His father said that he was wear
ing dark clothes. Mrs. Fulcher said
she didn't see the child until the
instant he collided with the car.
She slammed on brakes and the
ear skidded into the ditch on the
left.
The women were not injured. The
youngster had left his house to go
across the road to an aunt’s house,
his lather reported. The body was
taken to Morehoad City by Bar
row's Funeral home and from there
to Godette and Sons Funeral home,
New Bern.
Names of survivors and funeral
arrangements were not available
at press time.
Trooper Pickard said the acci
dent, was Unavoidable. No charges
Were filed.
The fatality brings the number
of county highway deaths even
with liiGI. eleven.
Hospital Takes
Part in Program
Morehead City hospital is one of
the first too hospitals in the state
to subscribe to a three-year pro
gram to inform young people about
vocational opportunities in the
liclfi of health.
The program will be conducted
by the North Carolina Hospital
Education and Research Founda
tion, Inc., an agency of the ^lorth
Carolina Hospital Association. J.
Minetrcc Pync of Burlington, presi
dent of the Foundation, has an
nounced that grants to assist the
program have been awarded by
The Duke Endowment ($25,000 an
nually for three years), the Z.
Smith Reynolds Foundation (an
equal amount), and R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co. ($5,000 annually for
three years).
Subscriptions from hospitals, 11
hospital auxiliaries and the Hos
pital Care Association of Durham
Service Industries, Inc., and the
Hospital Savings Association of
Chapel Hill Service Industries, Inc.,
amount to almost $20,000 annually
for the three years.
Mr. Pync said that now seems
possible to start the program Jan.
1. The major portion of the $250,000
budget for the three years has
been subscribed.
Autos Crash
Head-On Friday
Two cars collided head on at
6:45 p.m. Friday two and one half
miles west of Newport, according
to state trooper W. J. Smith, who
investigated.
Trooper Smith said that Frankie
D. Loveland, Cherry Point, was
going east on highway 70 in a 1956
Buick station wagon. Loveland told
the trooper he saw a car coming
towards him on the wrong side of
the road so he pulled onto the
shoulder. The car kept coming and
the two collided on the shoulder.
Driving the oncoming vehicle, a
1960 Oldsmobilc, was Roy A. Sim
mons Jr., Cherry Point, the troop
er said. Simmons was charged with
driving on the wrong side of the
road.
Trooper Smith said Loveland suf
fered a broken arm. A passenger
in the station wagon, William M.
Port wood of Cherry Point, suffer
ed a cut on the head. Simmons
had a cut beneath his lip.
Police Cite Motorist
For Drunken Driving
Beaufort police reported a quiet
holiday season. There was only one
arrest on other than a minor
charges.
Van Bittner Plunkett, route 1
Holly Ridge, was charged with
drunken driving. Bond was set at
$150 for his appearance in county
recorder's court.
Creche on Display
The nativity scene at Core Creek
Methodist church, highway 101
north of Beaufort, will be open for
viewing through Sunday night.
Night-time hours are 6 to 10. The
Rev. Leonard Mayo, minister at
the church, says, “Come and see
the Child that brought hope to the
world.” A picture of the tableau
appears on page 6 section 2 of this
issue.
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Dance at Beach
Will Launch '63
March of Dimes
The 1963 March of Dimes in the
county will be launched with a big
New Year’s Eve dance Monday
night at the Pavilion, Atlantic
Beach. Dancing will begin at 9
p.m.
The dance is being sponsored by
the Miriam and Esther Rebekah
lodges of Beaufort and Morehcad
City, sponsors of the March of
Dimes. The campaign will continue
through January.
Chairman is Mrs. Robert Rus
sell, Beaufort.
“Nobody needs help more than
crippled children and so many arc
not able to obtain the kind of care
they’re entitled to. But following
the pattern of its triumph over
polio, the March of Dimes is work
ing to solve this problem where the
need is greatest — in the fields of
birth defects and arthritis,” Mrs.
Russell declared.
In emphasizing that these con
ditions afe among the leading
causes of disability among child
ren, she pointed out that there
arc more than 250,000 American
babies born each year with signi
ficant birth defects — 700 such
children horn each day.
“And there are 11 million Ameri
cans afflicted by arthritis or rheu
matic disease, thousands of them
children and adolescents. And mil
lions of dollars are still needed to
aid the thousands paralyzed by
polio in former years,” Mrs. Rus
sell said.
In the only program of its kind
by a voluntary health agency, the
March of Dimes is striving to bring
expert medical care to every com
munity in the nation to help child
ren crippled and disabled by these
conditions. More than 50 March of
Dimcs-supportcd treatment centers
have been established in many
parts of the country, and the fast
growing program is providing first
quality medical care for birth de
fects, arthritis and polio patients
through teams of medical specia
lists.
This expanding program, having
centers affiliated with nearly half
the nation’s medical schools, is
pioneering ip developing new care
and treatment techniques to min
imize disabling and crippling by
these diseases, the chairman said.
“We are especially pleased to
report,” Mrs. Russell continued
“that the most recent Birth Defects
Special Treatment Center will be
established at the University of
North Carolina Medical School and
North Carolina Memorial Hospi
tal, Chapel Hill.
The center was officially approv
ed on Nov. 6, 1962 and is supported
by seventy-two North Carolina Na
tional Foundation chapters.
The theme of the 1963 March of
Dimes is “Give for the Life of a
Child.’
Tickets for the dance at Atlantic
Beach are available wherever pos
ters advertising the dance are dis
played. They are also being sold
by members of the Rcbckah lodges.
Damp Weather
Ushers in Yuletide
Weather remained cool and damp
this week, with light showers be
ing recorded at the Atlantic Beach
weather station on Monday and
Tuesday.
Rainfall was .28 inches Monday,
r.nd .02 inches Tuesday, Christmas
Day. Temperatures ranged from
near freezing and freezing at night
to the lower 40's and 50’s in the
daytime.
Winds were variable and skies
cloudy.
Driver Unhurt When
Car Runs Off Highway
Lloyd Harold Fulcher, Stacy, es
caped injury about 1:30 a.m. yes
terday when the 1961 Mercury he
was driving ran off highway 70
■at Davis.
Deputy sheriff C. H. Davis, who
investigated, said Fulcher was
alone at the time. Fulcher toldy^i
the officer that he fell asleep. The
Monday ...
Tuesday
Wednesday
Max. Min. Wind
42 32 Var.
42 34 Var.
50 34 Var.
car was believed to be
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