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A Merger of THE BEAUF03T NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TRIES (Established 1936)
I VOLUME XXXVII NO. 1
BEAUFORT AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAYMAY 18, 1948
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Domocrals Pal Themselves On Bach
At County Convention Saturday
Beaufort
USCG, to Receive Plaque May: 31
NEWS-
EMES
Group,
t
W Attend
Big Re-Opening
Of Morehead Field
147 Take Free Airplane
! Rides; Airport Again Op
erates Under Earl Taylor
Unra thi.n 1 WW nersnns nftpnri-
ed the gala re-opening of More
head City airport, 5 miles west of
j the city, on Sunday, and 147 avail
1 ed themselves of the offer of free
. Diane rides.
The first free-rider was on hand
f at 7; 30 in the morning. And from
then until well after 6 p.m. planes
vere aloft, carrying air enthus-:-
lasts, two of them registered from
; Chicago, several from New Jersey
i See AIRPORT Page 6
Eight Morehead
City Girls Enter
Jaycee Contest
Eight Morehead City irls have
already entered the Miss More
i head City beauty and talent con-
test which will be staged Saturday
! night, June 12, at the Rod a thea-
tre, Atlantic Beach.
l They are Gwendolyn Willis. Ja
i ' nice Lewis, Viola Styron, Jean Far
i rior, Orilla Hughes, Lois Chad"
wick, Betty Roache, and Anne Gil.
hi Tft Jip'prb'xnH3f 80 Hh
casn .ana roercnanHse nut 'Cn
presented by 43 Morehead City
merchants as pie$ for the win
ner and runner-up. One hundrd
U dollars has been contributed by the
jaycees wno are sponsoring tne
content. They will send the win
vler all expenses paid, to Carolina
Beach later this summer where
she will compete fn the Miss North
Carolina contest,
All unmarried girls between the
ages of 18 and 28 are eligible to
, compete. Entries may be made at
f Weidon's jewelers by registering
j With BUI Flowers, Jaycee.; V
r-' . Chairman of the contest commit-
tee is A. P. (Jack) Roberts.
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450 Teen-Agers
r Four hundred fifty Teen-Agers
frolicked at the Teen-Agers frol
icked at the Teen-Aee iamboree
f., Saturday night at the county rec
f. reatlon center, Shepard street,
J- Morehead City.
' Bingo, roller skating, and danc
!' (ng followed a formal presentation
of honorary Teen-Age club mem
'berships to Lockwood Phillips,
publisher of the Carteret County
i News-Times; Grover Munden, pres
ident of the broadcasting station,
and Fred Lewis, Morehead City,
' Mayor George Dill, the only per
) son holding an honorary member
i ship until the two other presenta
f tions were made, was caught at
!, the door without his membership
.card Saturday night and just like
a Teen-Ager, was fined 10 cents
- before he was admitted.
The mayor, like a good fellow,
: plunked down his fine and prom
, ised that he wouldn't forget any
f more. He also made a speech be
fore the jamboree got underway
and presented a "future Teen-
Ager," his 5 year-old fair-haired
daughter, Susan, who gave the club
.members a big "hello" over the
public address system.
Many out-of-town guests visited
the ; recreation center. Cohen
Tart, Jr.; president of the Teen
Ags club at Dunn, with six other
Dunn boys and the athletic coach
at Dunn high school, Paul Wagner,
were present
Other guests were from South
Boston and Biverdale, Va; Miami,
Fla.j Greenville, , Winston-Salem,
' Greensboro, Goldsboro, Burlington,
Monroe, and Wilson, i ? i ;
Also represented were Swans
boroHavetock, Otway, New Bern,
Newport, and a large crowd from
Beaufort
: A large number of lampshades
were recently given to the club by
p. G. Sell, Morehead City mer
chant ; -
Attend
Jamboree
Delegates Pass Motion Split
ting District 7 Into Two
Sections
That Carteret county was the
best-organized county in North Ca
rolina and that the democratic par
ty should try to hold it together,
was the opinion of Democrat mem
bers present at the county party
convention held in the courthouse
Saturday morning.
Present were precinct represen
tatives from Cedar Island, Atlan
tic, Sealevel, Stacy, Davis, Smyrna,
Marshallberg, Straits, Otway, Bet
tie, Harkers Island, Beaufort, Wire
Grass, Harlowe, Salter Path, More
head City, Newport, Lowe, Felle
tier, Cedar Point, Merrimon, Broad
Creek, Bogue and Stella.
Judge Luther Hamilton, who
spoke at the meeting, introduced
a motion passed by the group pro
posing that the Seventh District be
divided into two districts of three
counties each, Carteret, Craven
and Onslow, and Jones, Green, and
Lenoir. He said that the conven
tion should back this move since
the present size of the seventh dis
trict is too big and too uncommon
in interests.
Will Bell, Charles Webb, More
head City, and Leslie Davis, Beau
fort, of the resolutions committee
resolved that the Democratic party
continue the achievements in coun
ty, state and national scale as it
has done in past years. Ray Ball,
Harlowe representative, said that
"gas station talk" concerning the
primary election of May 29, seem
ed gratifying.
Young Democrats' Part
Introduced at the convention as
members of the Young Democrats
of Carteret county, were Harvey
Hamilton, Josiah Bailey, and Clay
ton Fulcher. Reporting on the
Young Democrats convention held
recently at Charlotte, Harvey Ha
miltoa said that a large vote is
predicted. He said that the Yourtg
Democrats would aid by "bringing
qufkloa as to the role jk YoUi
Democrats in the party in view ol
"a striking apathy toward party
organization," Judge Hamilton re
marked that it was "young men
like you who set it in motion:
and the time would come sooner
than believed that the mantle ol
responsiDimy would tail upon
their shoulders.
Judge Warns Party
Warning that the bolters of the
Democratic party in the South
were wringing their own necks,
Judge Hamilton said that "nothing
could be a more foolhardy act than
to follow in the footsteps of those
who would lead us away." He said
that the point of debate was lareg
ly over President Tfuman's civil
rights program, adopted by all De
mocrats including every N. C. dele
gate in the 1944 Democratic con
vention, as "a mere sop to a mi
nority group in this country."
He urged unity of Democrats in
"meeting the common foe" in Nov
ember, and said he hoped that if
a motion is made to bolt the party,
on the floor of the state conven
tion Thursday, May 20, there
wuld be someone to get up and
talk it down.
Twenty-four delegates and 24
alternates are slated to attend the
convention from Carteret county.
Mrs. 0. E. Swann's Mother
Dies at Warrenton Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna
J. Gardner, Warrenton, mother of
Mrs. U. E. Swann, Beaufort, were
:onducted at 3:30 Sunday after
noon from Gardner's Baptist
church, Warrenton. The Rev. Gil
mer Parrish, pastor, officiated, as
sisted by the Rev. R. E. Brick
house. Interment was in the church
cemetery.'
Mrs. Gardner died at her home
Friday after a lengthy illness. She
was the daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Rodwell and recent
ly celebrated her 87th birthday.
She was born April 8, 1861 and
was married to the late J. C. Gard
ner Dec. 5, 1883. ,
At the time of her death Mrs.
Gardner was the oldest member of
Gardner's Baptist church.
Surviving besides Mrs. -Swahn,
who returned last night from her
mother's home, are four sons,
Jesse Gardner, of Macon; J. M.
Gardner and ' A. 1 J. Gardner, of
Gibson, and J. C. Gardner, of Hen
derson; a sister, Mrs. Richard
Fleming, of Vaughn, two brothers,
H. E. Rodwell, of Macon,, R. R.
Rodwell of Norlina, five grand
children, and one great .grandchild-
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Boar Meets TeaJfht
Morehead City town commission
er!, will meet at 7:30 tonight in the,
I mayor's oL'lra at e municipal
Boat Keel
Bogue Sound Soon
V
It won't be long now before the
Captain James Iloncock, shad boat
being built by Theodore and Lewl
lyn Phillips, slides down the ways
at 4he boatyard on Evans street.
The Captain James is the 375
ton menhaden boat at the west
side of the Phillips office and saw
mill on which construction was
started in March 1947.
The other craft, a sister ship to
the Captain James, is much farther
from completion, and is being
built at the east side of the mill.
Construction has been delayed
frequently, the builders say, be
cause of difficulty in getting "long
leaf unbled 100 per cent hart
pine." Sawmills simply won't take
orders for it, Mr. Lcwellyn de
clares, and his desire to construct
l.yboat of prime timber has wade
necessary to locate pine trees
Carteret County, the Land of
Rotarians Hear
Postmaster Webb
This week, May 15-21, the post
office department celebrates its
30th anniversary of airmail ser
vice, Morehead City Postmaster
Harold Webb told Rotary club
members at their weekly meeting
Thursday in the Fort Macon hotel.
His talk held particular import
ance, since air mail service was es
tablished at the Beaufort More
head City airport two weeks ago.
After the talk, Rotarians asked
Mr. Webb questions concerning the
new air service. Guests at the
meeting were Bobby Kellog, back
field coach at Wake Forest college,
and Albert Ellis, candidate for
state senate, from Jacksonville,
Onslow county.
Explaining the muchly-discussed
issue of why Morehead City alone
had received the prestige as ter
minal mailing point, when the
airport was in Beaufort, Mr. Webb
said that the initial fault lay with
Civil Aeronautics Board survey. It
is up to the board to survey a pos
sible future air service field and
to report its findings to the post
office department.
However, immediate arrange
ments were made to send Beau
fort's airmail directly to the field,
the Morehead City postmaster
said, when the error was discover
ed. Former plans called for send
ing Beaufort's air mail over to
Morehead City and then bach to
the airport.
The only difference that result?
ed, Mr. Webb continued, was that
Morehead City alone was repre
sented on the cachet, a rubber
stamp used for stamping first
flight letters. First flight letters
stamped b ythe cachet are import
ant to stamp collectors, he added.
Concerning the benefit of air
mail service to the public, Mr.
Webb emphasized the time-saving
value. He said that mail leaving
Beanfort-Morehead City airport on
the 1:10 daily flight should be in
Chicago in about 7 hours. He add
ed that Piedmont Air lines service
connected to all points, and urged
people to have their airmail into
the post office by the 12 o'clock
Boon deadline.
, Present im f fx Post office,
he concluded, was its desire to be
rated again as a first class office.
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Will Hit
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Photo by The Carteret News-Times
on any private woodlots, all the
way from Louisiana through Geor
gia, Alabama, Florida, South and
North Carolina.
Lumber-searching will not be
over with the completion of the
present boats, either, for the
brothers plan to build 10 more, at
a different location, however. They
have two sites under consideration,
one farther west of here on Bogue
Sound, and another on Inlet Is
land. The Captain James and the Mat
tie Hyles Philips, which Mr. Lewcl
lyn plans to name the other craft,
are being constructed now on pro
perty where the Philips' expect
to build homes. The Mattie Hyles
will be named after Mr. Lewellyn's
daughter.
.tach of the boats will be 136
See BOAT KErX Page '
By F. C. Salisbury
Carteret county can rightly be
called the wettest county in the
state. Not from the standpoint of
its three liquor stores, or the ''ac
tivities of its stills and bootleggers,
abut for the fact that the county
is nearly surrounded by Water,
while from its inland sources flow
some 25 rivers and creeks of good
size.
Persons acquainted with its wa
ter courses, claim that any commu
nity in the county can be reached
within a mile or less by some na"
vigable body of water.
While the county does not lay
claim to the entire source of the
White Oak river which forms the
boundary between Onslow and
Catreret counties, yet it contri
butes to its waters to a large ex
tent. Out of the Lakes Pocosin,
that vast waste of Pamlico muck,
covering hundreds of acres in the
northwest section of the county,
flows part of the waters of Hun
ter's creek which forms the boun
dary line between Jones and Car
teret counties.
Emptying into the White Oak
river are two large creeks, Had
not's and Pettiford which are sup
plied' from the waters of the Lakes
Pocosin. Besides these two large
tributaries, there are the Taylor,
Steep Hill, City Weeks and Stark
ey creeks that add their waters to
that of the White Oak.
Along the shore of Bogue Sound,
between Cedar Point and More-
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Jaycees Make Successful Bid
For 1949 State Beauty Contest
Firemen Answer Two
Falsi Alarms Yesterday
About 10 Beaufort firemen at
1:35 Monday morning answered a
false alarm at Box 14, at Moore
and Front streets, and about aq
hour earlier a false a aim was
turned In from box 36 in Morehead
City.
E. D. Rhue, Beaufort, drove the
pumper to the box. He said that
the alarm evidently had been pull
ed by men in a car, because fresh
tire, marks were found Id the
street.
' Daphne Pake, Beaufort, is one of
nine Ipnfnra 'at :i,'fcJuflaft PartHn
preachers college who was installed
as a member ' of the - American
Home Economics association Tues
day evening at ceremonies on the
campus.
Beaufort group, U. S. Coast Guard, stationed at Fort Macon, will
be presented with a plaque May 31 in recogniton of their heroic serv
ice in rescuing the crew of the motor vessel, Norfolk, when she ran
aground a mile and a half off Fort Macon March 7.
The plaque, contributed by "citizens of coastal North Carolina,"
will be presented at a Coast Guard ceremonial dinner at New Bern
in the Centenary Methodist church.
In addition to Fort Macon Cocst
Guardsmen and their families and
friends, expected to number 125,
special guests will be Lindsay
Warren, controller general of the
currency, Washington, D. ('., Gra
ham A. Barden, New Bern con
gressman representing the third
North'" Carolina district, Commo
dore J. E. Whitbark, commander
of the fifth Coast Guard district,
and Commander II. J. Webb, legis
lative counsel, United Stales Coast
Guard, Washington, D. C.
Staged by the Now Hern R-itary
club, the banquet is open to the
public. Tickets will be sold as long
as space is available. The tickets
may be obtained at the chamber
of commerce office, Morehead City,
and Guthrie-Jones drug store.
Beaufort.
The Rev. Thomas Kfyer, New
Bern Rotarian, in charge of the
arangements, commenting on tlx
affair today, said, "The Const
Guard is the guardian of the shore
of our nation and during peace
time they are the rescue agent and
protector of shipping. Too many
times these men have come to the
rescue and assistance of distress
ships and pleasure craft and no
mention of their heroic deeds has
been made ..."
Rev. Mr. Fryer staled that the
banquet is informal and that every
effort is being made to make, it
a night of entertainment for the
Coast Guard.
The plaque, 16 inches wide and
32 inches deep, has the Coast
Guard emblem in the upper right
and upper left corners, and bears
the following words: "Presented to
Beaufort Group, USCG.'in recog
nition of outstanding service in the
heroic rescue of 22 men from MV
Norfolk March 7 and 8, 1948."
Great Waters
head City, are several large creeks
that drain the low land bordering
the Sound. The largest of these
are the Broad and Gales creek
while Deer, Goose, Saunders, Jum
ping Run, Spooners and Pelloticr
creeks play their part in draining
the low land and add their waters
to that of Bogue Sound.
Carteret county has the distinc
tion of being the only county in
the state, hat within its bounda
ries, rise and empty three large
rivers, the Newport, North and
South rivers. Here again the Lakes
Pocosin furnishes the main supply
of the Newport river as well as
several smaller streams flowing
from the Pocosin that empty into
the Newport, before reaching the
Narrows where it broadens to over
a mile or more in width before
entering the waters of Bogue
Sound between Morehead City and
Beaufort.
Along the, North shore of New
port river, after leavins the Nar
rows, are tow creeks of commei-cl-al
importance. Core creek serves
as the southern approach to the
canal of the inland waterway, con
necting northward with Adams
creek, thence into Neuse river.
When the old abandoned Club
Foot canal was the connecting link
between the Neuse and Newport
rivers, the Harlow creek served as
the southern approach to this old
waterway.
Similar to the Lakes Pocosin,
See GREAT WATERS Page 6
The beauty and talent contest at
which Miss North Carolina of 1949
will be chosen will be held in
Morehead City, Skinner Chalk, Jr.,
former president of the Morehead
City Junior Chamber of Commerce
and delegate to the convention at
Winston-Salem, reported at the
meeting last night in the Fort Fort
Macon hotel. The contest will be
held in July, 1949:
Mr. Chalk, Bobby Bell, and
Bruce Goodwin who represented
Morehead City Jaycees at conven
tion put in the bid for the pageant
as instructed at last week's regular
meeting,,,, v.- -,',
The group went on record last
night to request town commission
ers to begin parking meter opera
tion hours at 9 a.m. rather than 8
and to discontinue operation of the
meters after 1 ,0'clock Wednesday
afternoons.
Friday's News-Times
Will Honor Graduates
The next issue of the Carteret
County News Times will honor
the 167 high school graduates of
the county. Their pictures will
appear, along with stories on
their high school years and gra
duation art vities.
Thin ikituc will be published
Friday, May 21. Commencement
tveeh begins Sunday, May 23,
with baccalaureate services.
44 Names Drawn
For JuiyService
Judge Harry L. Stephens
Scheduled to Preside Dur
ing Term June 7-14
Eighteen of the following 44
persons will bo chosen for grand
jury service, June 7-14, to pass on
criminal cases docketed in superior
court under Judge Harry L. Ste
phens. The remainder will be sub
ject to duty as petit jurors.
C. T. Whitehead, Morehead City,
route 1; John W. McCabc, New
port, route 1; Mrs. Daisy Cannon,
Newport; T. T. (Tom) Potter,
Morehead City; Harry Gillikin,
Beaufort, route 1; Dallas Goodwin,
Roe; Chas. William Hancock, Har
kcrs Island; Mitchell Hamilton,
Sealevel.
James Willis, Atlantic; Ralph
Morris. Atlantic; Mrs. Ethel Wil
lis, Smyrna; E. E. Davis, Beaufort;
Odel Guthrie, Marshallberg; 'Ca
therine Hamilton, Beaufort; Daniel
Willis, Beaufort.
EUjah Salter, Sealevel; Walter
Ycomans, Harkcrs Island; Louie
Hancock, Harkers Island; Ammie
L. Willis, Davis; Clintton S. Gar
ner, Newport; Troy Morris, More
head City; M. W. Garner, Newport.
Earl G. Johnson, Harkers Island;
Connie Daniels, Stacy; Elizabeth
Simpson, Beaufort; Andrew Ful
cher, Sealevel; Raymond L. Paul,
Beaufort; Claude R. Guthrie, Beau
fort; II. C. Whitchurst, Straits.
Lummie Cottle, Morehead City;
Allen Graham, Newport, route 1;
James M. Davis, Beaufort; J. G.
Weeks, Newport, routel; Waddell
Daniels, Marshallberg; Mrs. Eloise
Garner, Newport; James D. Pot
ter, Beaufort.
E T. Finer, Marshallberg; B. S.
Jones, Newport; Gerald Davis,
Marshallberg; Denard R. Lewis,
Marshallberg: J. E. Roberts, More
head City; Allen Jone-i, Sr., New
port, route 1; Murray Robinson,
Atlantic; C. H. Davis, Davis.
Petit jurors drawn for the sec
ond week of superior court, are:
Virgil Hamilton, Atlantic; Miss
Edith Lockey, Newport; John G.
Jones, Beaufort; Fernie Yeomans,
Harkers Island; Alfred Willis, Har
kers Island; George T. Whealton,
Morehead City; Mrs. Lottie Gil
likin, Atlantic.
Charlie Robinson, Atlantic; Mrs.
Charles N. Bennett, Morehead
City; Wilson Golden, Beaufort,
route 1; W. J. Dail, Beaufort, route
1; Charles Harris, Sr., Marshall
berg; John B. Styron, Morehead
City.
Arlie Daniels, Roe; Wesley F.
Willis, Atlantic; Eric Hill, Davis;
Guy T. Daniels, Beaufort, route 1;
Roby Fulcher, Atlantic; Albert
Murphy, Davis.
Wildlife Lab to Evict
6 Foot Alligator from Pond
Wanted: home for one six-foot
alligator.
The housing shortage is getting
worse all the time now even rep
tiles are being deprived of, living
quarters. At least one is.
He is living at present In the
concrete pond at the south of the
Fish and Wildlife laboratory, PI
ver's Island, where he's been for
the past several years, under a
chicken wire.
Now the laboratory has to get
rid of him under the same ru
ling which the government issued
regarding release of the terrapin.
It's not every day that somebody
is willing tcrgive away a nice 6
foot alUgatpr. It's not every day
that anyone wants one either. But
therehe is If nobody wants him
for a pet, he'll simply be turned
loose to fend for himselft , f
Guy Smith, Jr., Beaufort Glee Glob
Win At Lions' Talent Show Friday
Guy Smi'h, Jr., "Beaufort's own
Frank Sinatra," and the high
school glee club walked off with
top honors at the Lions club talent
search held at Beaufort school
Friday night, and as winners, will
have a chance for the. $225 in
prizes in the grand finale to be
held at the county recreation cen
ter, Saturday night, May 22.
l.Hst two entries in a field of 23
contestants, Guy Smith sang "Old
Man River," and the glee club sang
two selections, "You'll Never Walk
Aloiie," and "Begin the Beguine."'
All three pieces were presented
recently in the high school's mod
ern song and dance revue, under
the direction of Mrs. Charles Has
sel). Mrs. Hassell Friday night
played the piano accompaniment
for both winners, and also for oth
er contestants who presented se
lections from the modern song and
dance revue.
Judges for the talent search,
heard by about two hundred peo
ple, were Mrs. Joseph House,
Grover Munden, and Miss Hazel
Noe.
The two winners from Beaufort
make a total of 11 contestants who
will vie for the first, second, and
third prizes in the grand finale.
First prize winner will be given
$100, second prize winner, $75, and
third prize winner, $50. Winners
there also will be featured at a
stage show to be held in the Roda
theatre in the near future.
Other finalists are Bobby Morris
and Lois Rhodes, Atlantic; Caro
lina Slim and Genevieve Guinn,
Smyrna; girls' glee club and the
Coastal Playboys, Harkers Island;
Ruth Webb Bailey and the girls'
glee club, Morehead City; and
Jackie Smith, Newport.
Outstanding on the program Fri
day night at the Beaufort school,
judging from applause, In addition
to the winners, were the Guthrie
Children, who played and sang a
selection of songs; Thelma Willis,
who tang the "Dickey Bird Song;"
and Bobby Smith, who sang "Swan,
nee River."
Other contestants were Billy
Simpson, Ruth Whitehurst, Ann
and Ted Splvey, Herman Austin
and Billy Hudgins, Joan and Joyce
Chadwick, Earl Noe, Bitsy Brooks,
Gene Lewis, Eleanor Gaskill, How
ard Jones, Jimmy Modlin and Jim
my Guthrie, Barbara Piner, Frank
Gil' kin, Carl Edwards, Neva Bell,
A. C. Blankenship, the high school
girls' trio, and the high school
girls' chorus.
Truck, Cab Collide
Sunday Morning
Michael Giannattasio, 1909 Fish
er street, Morehead City, and S. H.
Dervin who lives at the .trailer
camp just west of the City limits,
escaped injury in a taxi-truck col
lision at 8:30 Sunday morning just
west of Morehead City at the rail
road track which runs by the
Hardware Building and Supply
corporation warehouse.
Mr. Giannattasio, who drives
cab for City and Service cab com
panies, reported yesterday that he
was proceeding west from More
head City in his '48 Chrysler cab
when the half-ton pickup truck,
driven by Dervin came out of a
dirt road on to the highway and
turned west.
The cab driver attemtped to pass
the truck, but an approaching oar,
he said, forced him to pull back,
hitting the rear left side of the
truck.
"It was either hit the oncoming
car or the truck. 1 chose the truck"
he said.
The impact caused the cab to
sway, and the wheels, catching in
the railroad tracks, caused the cab
to overturn, landing on the side
opposite the driver. .
The cab was damaged to the ex
tent of approximately $300 and the
truck, approximately $25.
George Hayes Pays Fine
On Drunkenness Charge
George Hayes, Fisher street,
charged with public drunkenness,
paid a $23 substitute fine in Morr
head City mayor's court yesterday
afternoon. Hayes was - arrested
Sunday morning by Officer Ed
mond Willis. '
Continued until next week was
the case of Jimmy Long, Jt ore
head City, also charged witiT pub
lic drunkenness.
. Mr. Hayes' offense was his sec-
nd. Mayor George pill reported.
Tidewater Players
To Sponsor Dance
Teams Will Choose Girl
- Queen of Baseball Wed
nesday, May 26
Highlight of the Tidewater Semi
pro Baseball dance, to be held
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Wednesday
evening, May 28, at the county
recreation center, will be a beauty -
contest. The dance is being given
to raise funds mostly for umpires'
equipment, and will feature The
Collegians, ranking college orches
tra which recently played at the
New Bern Shrine dance.
Eight contestants will vie for
the title of "Queen of the Tide
water Semi-pro Baseball League,"
each contestant representing one
of the eight teams in the league. .
Team players and managers are
now busy deciding who will be
their contestant at the dance. Ac
cording to League president, D. fcL
Lashley, the baseball queen will be
chosen largely for "curves."
Newport will select their beauty
contestant at a dance being given -ot
Newport this weekend. Haver
lock already has decided on their
entry.
Believed to be the first time that '
a queen has ever been selected to
rule over baseball, Mr. Lashley
said today that she will be feted
with gifts and honors Wednesday
evening. She also will rule at the
all star game, to be played later on
in the season, after a parade is .
held in her honor in Beaufort and '
Morehead CM.. , . ;
Judges at the dance will be fronV"
out of the county.
Body Of Soldier
2
To Arrive Here
Walter Moore, son of Mr. and '
Mrs. Allen Moore, Sr., of Harkers
Island, is one of the 2,530 Ameri
can war dead being returned to
the United States from Africa, it
was reported by the war depart
ment recently. Mr. Moore, 27, was
killed in 1042 in the invasion, of
North Carolina, after having scry
ed six years. ( ...
He will be buried at Harkers
Island. His brothers are Macon
Moore, United States Coast Guard,
and Staton Moore. Another broth
er, Guy Moore, is deceased. 0
Fifty-six of the dead being re
turned on the transport Barney
Kirschbaum are from North Ca
rolina. They were interred origin
ally in temporary military ceme
teries near the battlefields of
North Africa. .
Under the program for final ba
rial of World War II dead, next
of kin may elect to have the body
returned to the United States for
burial in a privste or national 'Ce
metery. They may request also 4t
terment in a permanent American
military cemetery overseas or a
private cemetery in a foreign coun
try. ,
Town Animal Cessisry
Eeceives Firti VicUa v
v,'
. First dog to be burled in Ber
fort's new animal cemetery beh'
the city hall was an old bird d
which had been impounded the i
gular May limit. He was gar
by Dr. C. E. Paden, Veterlnar
Formerly in the week, Mrs. J.
Baxter had balled out' four of I
dogs In the city's new pound,
had found homes for them.
The pound was built recent?
an effort to counteract the r
menace by ridding the city of i
dOgS., .; sf
Local Di ! Cz
V7i3 Fby d Ckki: I
The Beaufort High school f
and the Morehead High, t
band will be guests of the C
County Shrine club at ' t'
ners' spring ceremonial ar
other bands for Shrine :
Thursday evening they wi l
the potentate's bail as t
the Potentate
From
Harkers Isl
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