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• • Page -5- Born in the house in Morehead City was Clifton Guthrie, the prominent award- vd.nning photographer who now has- photographic studios at the location. Clifton is the grandson of Abner Guthrie and,the son of Thomas Guthrie, who with his brothers operated for many years the Carteret Fish and Oil Company. Thomas was about 12 years old when the house was moved from Rice Path, Upon graduation from high school Clifton joined the Navy v/here he remained for about Zk years when he retired. Upon retirement from the service he took up press photography and over the years has collected more than a score of awards for exclellence and enterprise from the prestigious National Press Photographers Association, On assignment, he has photographed every president of the United States since Franklin ,D. Roosevelt except Dwight Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter, Clifton and Mrs. Guthrie were not enchanted v/ith the location of the house on 12th Street, and about six years ago moved it to a nev/ location on Route 2^. The move could only be made during daylight hours, so it rested over night just off Bridges Street at the site where the nev/ Post Office is being constructed, Si.nce the Guthries were in the process of building a new home for themselves on the Sound opposite Bogue Banks, the "House from Rice Path” was sold three years ago to a I-ir„ Henderson v/ho picked it up and moved it to a nev/, and final location, on Hibbs Road some five miles away. And oddly enough, although no longer on the Sound, it is almost exactly opposite its original location in Rice Path, eue OUR hAYOR, Kan Haller, brought us this statistical report shoi'd.ng our town’s fiscal position compared with that of other tov/ns in our immediate area, A comparison of the tax rates of the municipalities in Carteret County (save for Indian Beach, v/hich levies no taxes) shows the follov/ing; 1) PKS - 20^2 per ^JlOO of assessed value 2) Cape Carteret - 3O0 ” 3) Emerald Isle ~ k) Atlantic Beach - 500 5') Nev/port - 550 6) Beaufort - 9O0 7) Morehead City -SI*00 " (The County rate is 550) Comparing the assessed valuation of the real property in these tov/ns as of 1/1/1977, v/e find: 1) Emerald Isle - .,'^0,000,000 (but this figure includes personal ^ , as v/ell as real property) 2) PKS - 57,816,^51* 3) Morehead City - 31,988,051 4) Atlantic Beach - 21,09^,680 5) Beaufort - 17,903,^37 6) Cape Carteret - 10,222,786 7) Nev/port - 9,709,329 *PKS had, in addition to the assessed value of its real property, per sonal property assessed at .52,09^,510- It is anticipated that, be^- cause of new construction, not less than /53,500,000 will be added to the tax rolls during this year. The popuDation. of these various communities as of 6/30/1976, according to 4- L>s ^ TvT T ^ l\/ •* ^ ”1 T -1 4“ “1 T. T • 1) Morehead City - 5,670 2) Beaufort - 3,860 3) Newport - 2,090 k) Cape Carteret - 1,020 5) PKS 680** 6) Atlantic Beach 560 7) Emerald Isle 260 For Fiscal ’77 the State has determined the PKS population to be 770 As of 6/30/1976, according to the League, the cash and investments held by these Tov/ns v/as: Cash Investments Total 1) Morehead City .i’33,87^1- ^1,73^,920 ,J1,768,79^ '' 2) Beaufort 15,759 5'+9,9't6 565,705, 3) Newport 42,916 95,^57 136j373 If) PICS If,071’ 98,if33* 102,50V
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