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COUNTY 3 ;-''?;,: ; "n'- oacuati::!, pictures, stczes sectem 2 A Merger of TEE BEAUFC3T NEWS (EsIaMished 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TRIES (Established .1938) VOL. XXXVII NO. 2 BEAUFORT AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1948 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS 5T r? T I M E S. w.s 10c 1 1 II I Car Overturns; Three Men Escape Serious Injury Shade Smith, Morehead, Held on Charge of Drunk en Driving Shade Smith and H. T. Piner, Morehead City, and Billy Styron, Beaufort, narrowly escaped se rious injury and possibly death a bout 8:35 Tuesday evening, when their 1941 Chevrolet sedan over turned five or six times on high way 70, west of Morehead City. Mr. Smith, the driver of- the ve hicle, is being held on a charge of drunken driving, and is to ap pear in recorder's court. All three men were taken to the Morehead City hospital after the crash. According to authorities, Mr. Smith, traveling at a high rate of speed, passed an automobile, attempted to get back to the right hand side of the road and lost control of the car. Highway Patrolmen V. L. Spruill snd M. V. Hooper came upon the wrecked Chevrolet accidentally, when they heard a horn blowing " continuously and stopped to inves tigate. Minutes later, an ambu lance was carrying the men to the hospital. Mr. Smith and Mr. Piner were released from the hospital after a check-up. Mr. Smith suffered laceration of the head and hands, and Mr. Piner suffered skin bruis- es. Mr. Styron was kept overnight at the hospital with chest and head injuries, and was released yester day. Owners Will Pen fees: Mf Augl 2 At Lcoliout l Pony penning at Diamond Pen on Cape Lookout will be held this year on July 2 and August 2, Dr. Lutwr Fulcher, one of the owners of the horses, said today. About 20 of the 100 head running loose will be sold, after the "beaters," modernised by airplane and jeep, drive the ponies up the 20-mile stretch from the north, and the 4 tnile stretch from the south into the pen. The ponies sell for about 5u and $80 a head, and buyers usually purchase them for pets. Other owners of the steeds which are de scendants of an Arabian strain shipwrecked off the Carolina coast a couple hundred years ago,, are R. J. Chadwick, Gloucester, and Will Fulcher, Marshallberg. All it costs to have a brand re corded on a horse of your own' is 10 cents, probably the cheapest re cording in the county, said Dr. Fulcher. As for feeding expense on the banks, there is none, because the ponies thrive on sea grass and hay headard. Boats will leave for Cape Look out from the post office dock at Markers Island early in the morn ing on the days of the penning. Agriculturists Visit Connly Turkey Growers County turkey growers were vis ited Wednesday by R. M. Williams, county agent and Lee W. Herrick, extension turkey specialist of State college, who discussed with them problems of turkey growing. Flocks in the county range in number from 20 to 200, and total . more than 800 birds. All are mar ' keted locally in the fall and win ter. - Growers are C. C. Dennis, Bogue, , Dewitt Truckner, Pelletier, Gordon ; Laughton and Ruf us Oglesby, Crab Point, Manly Eubanks and Mrs. . Jeff Sabiston. Beaufort, Will Har desty, Alex Taylor, and Archie Hardesty, Harlowe, Bernard 'Mor xis and Mark Wiggins, Stella. Poppy Days Near ' Poppjes will be sold in Beaufort and Morehead City May 21 and 22 i , by the , veterans of foreign wars - and in Morehead City Saturday, : May 29. Proceeds f roni the sale will ' be used for rehabilitation and wel v tare work. -, ; . -, Cafeteria to Close Hay 28 ' Beaufort school cafeteria will continue to serve meals through next week, closing Friday after noon, May 28, T.' G. Leary, prin cipal, reported todav. Sctfo'oT will cloce :.y, Key 31. : ,.T . Steeri-ri-ri-kel He swings and he misses. Catcher Pasquale takes his cut in Sunday's game between Beaufort and Morehead City which Beaufort won, 7-4. , Note the ball settling in Catcher Cagle's glove. However Pasquale didn't do this often, putting the game on ire in later innings with a two run triple to the left side of the center field gym roof. That's Morehead City Coach Moose Tenney in the background in front of the dugout. Coaching at third base is Beaufort Coach Charles Hassell. (Photo by Luther E. Lewis). Rotarians Consider Chamber Of Commerce Reorganization Reorganization of Beaufort's Chamber of Commerce may be a chieved in the near future, if Beaufort Rotarians approve the plan, at a meeting of the Rotary club inthe Inlet inn next Tues day. Tuesday night each member decided to, bring a business man to the next 'meeting to discuss the new Chamber's possibilities. Char lWetiHeii, Executive, Secretary of the- Kfteton Chamber of Com merce, will speak. , r Dr. A. D, ' Underwood, of the state health dental s department now visiting schools throughout the county, said at Tuesday night's meeting that physical defects, in cluding bad teeth directly affect the mental attitude and progress of today's school child. In this speech, Dr. Underwood cited as an example a 10-year-old boy, with bad teeth. He said that the boy's schooling might suffer, causing him to drop behind and then cover a possible inferiority complex with a bullying attitude. This would be harmful both to the It's of Paramount Interest To Everyone: Excellent Food 4-Year-Old Girl Killed By Auto Frances Futrell, 4 - year - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Futrell. route 1, Pikeville, Wayne county, died in Onslow county hospital 2:15 Wednesday morning from injuries received about 2:35 p.m. Tuesday wjien a patrol car driven by Highway Patrolman L. J. Parrish. Swansboro, struck the child at the eastern approach to Broad creek bridge. A coroner's jury of 6 from Beau, fort and Morehead City, who inves tigated the accident Wednesday, returned a verdict that the child had come to her death in an un avoidable accident. T. C. Wade, Francis Wade. P. C. Salisbury, Morehead City, Elmore Davis, Hubert Salter, and Dennard Glover were members of the jury, the first to be drawn by County Coroner Pritchard Lewis since he was appointed to that office sev eral months ago. According to testimony, Mr, and Mrs. E. A. Futrell were sitting in their car parked to the right of the road east of the bridge. The child was across the road, wading in the water below an embank ment. Patrolman Parrish, returning from recorder's ' court, Beaufort, swung to the left purposely to a void striking anyone who might be coming from behind the auto mobile to cross the road, it was reportedr An embankment hid the child from ( view, and when she suddenly ran up the embankment and started to cross the road, the left front fender of the automo bile struck her. The patrolman cracked up the automobile trying See GIRL KILLED Page S boy and to society, he added. Staling that the state was pay ing 30 million dollars a year for education, Dr. Underwood said that tax payers were losing one third Of that, since, according to the doctor, one-third of the grade school children failed yearly in their studies. As for the aid of the state health dental department itself, he re marked that "'we do a much lor those who cannot afford private treatment as we fossiMy can." He pointed,, out that, the department was undrotaffeli with five dent were 40. .',. He said that where the dentists do not have the time to work on each child's teeth, they make an examination and pass their diagno sis on to the parent. Introduced as a guest at the meeting was James Alexander, Greenville. Rotarians were urged to attend the special ceremonial dinner, to be held at New Bern. May 31, in behalf of Beaufort Group, U. S. Coast Guard, station ed at Fort Macon. The south, generally, has come in for a lot of criticism lately on its traditional "fine southern cook ing." It all started when Colum nist Hal Boyle let loose with his blast against it last year in a tour of the southern states. North Carolina did not escape, and the coastland particularly was not saved By the excellence of its corn sticks, hush puppies, or what ever? ' The News and Observer on Mon day commented on the situation in its editorial columns under the heading "Gastronomical Desert" Mention of two locai restaurants, aside from the fact that all cafe owners and patrons may be inter ested, prompted us to reprint the editoiral here. Ed. A fisherman from Chicago Can be on the North Carolina coast in seven hours now ready to go out and drop his line in the Gulf Stream. And that's fine. But, ac cording to Duncan Hines, who sets himself up as -the American au thority inthe field, beyond Kaleigh (where only one cafeteria satisfies him) there are only three eating places worthy of a decent Ameri can's appetite. Not a single hptel in or east of Raleigh gets , Mr. Hines' praise. : Along the whole North Carolina coast which is getting ready for the summer influx of visitors, this professional evaluator of good eating lists only two places: the Sanitary Fish Market Restaurant in Morehead Cfty and a restaurant called;. St. Johns iTavern in Wil mington. In all the big area behind it from Back Bay to Little River and from Hatteras to Raleigh, he lists only a place called Wilro in Rocky Mount In the whole State of North. Carolina he puts down only 31 ; places which, deserve a good appetite's applause. . Mr. Hines and his restaurant re porters may bepo hard to please. Indeed, there are certainly some See PARAMOUNT PAGE S , Bill KittrelL ECTC Will Sunervise i f' Simmer Sports Beaufort Civic' Groups Con tribute to Summer Recre ation Fund Beaufort youngsters this sum mer will have a chance to parti cipate in a recreational program consisting of baseball, Softball, volIeyt ball, tennis, swimming and gym activities, under the guidance of Bill Kittrell, physical education major at East Carolina State Teachers college. The summer pro gram, from June to September, is being paid for by funds being con tributed by Beaufort citizens. Main purpose of the activity is to give every child supervised re creation. Mr. Kittrell has worked with youngsters in this area for two years at Camp Morehead, in structing various sports. He recent ly was introduced at a Parent Teacher Association meeting and at a Beaufort Rotary club meeting. Swimming instruction will be held, somewhere along the water front, at times to be announced Mr. Kittrell also will be in charge of the Junior Tidewater league, with teams consisting of young baseball players in the county; The school field and school ton nis courts will be used for instruc tion in athletics. JCs To Entertain Contest Entrants Girls who have entered the Morehead City Jaycee beauty con left will be guests of the Jaycees at dinner Monday night at the Fort Macon hotel. :t Following dinner they will go to the county recreation center on Shepard street where they will practice numbers to be presented in the Contest Saturday, June 12. The committee which will super vise and assist the girls there in cludes Mrs. Helen Carlton, Mrs, A. T. Leary, and Mrs. Bertha Stal lings. v. ;.. f ; Jaycees emphasize that talent, poise, and personality will figure more importantly in judges deci sions than ieauty. Winner of the title Miss Morehead City will com pete for the Miss North Carolina title, and Miss North Carolina will be entered in the Miss America contest at Atlantic City. Girls who have entered, in ad dition to the list published Tues day, are Ella Margaret Morm and Mary Ann' Turnage, according to Bill Flowers, in charge of contest entries. . i. r " LATE BULLETIN: Panl Ck land, manager-director of the dog track reported at pressthM that opening date will be June 30. .-'J - Negro Prisoner Drowns in To Escape FromCausewayRoadGang Beaufort Commissioners Will Hear Opinions On Town Limit Extension Residents east of Beaufort who will be affected by the proposed extension of town limits will have an opportunity to express opinions on the matter to the town board at, is regular meeting Monday night, June 7, in the town hall. Graham Duncan, Jr., in a recent interview, pointed out the advan tages to be gained by out-of-town residents in becoming a part of Beaufort. On the average, Mr. Duncan said, the present east-of-Beaufort resi dents will save 75 cents weekly on garbage collection, they will re ceive police and fire protection, and have the privilege of voting in town elections. At present, no definite lines have been set for (he proposed exten sion. Should the move be under taken, these boundaries will then be designated, Mr. Duncan point ed out. No change can be made before the legislature meets in Jan uary, about seven months from now, he added. The commissioner remarked that the town will lose money on the addition for the first five to 10 years, but tha he annexation will mean also an increase in popula tion of approximately 1.000, a fac tor important in attracting indus try o his area. Two Cases Heard Tuesday Will Go liSuperiorXQjjrt Two cases heard In recorder's court Tuesday will go to in Super ior court Juqe 7. the result of ap peals by defendants. In one, Helen S. Hardy and Mar garet Brown were sentenced to three months in the state house o) correction, and Benny Hardy, to three months on the? roads, for keeping a disorderly house. They are under $7,500 bond each. In the other, Hastle Baber was order ed to pay $25 and costs of court for interfering with an officer in the performance of his duty. He posted a $200 bond. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Brown, all of Merrimon, acted as their own counsel, after refusing Judge Morris' suggestion of a week's continuance to enable them to secure a lawyer. Mrs. Hardy did most of the examining of the five state's witnesses, an examina tion which included a verbal battle with thi! mother-in-law of Mr. Har dy's former wife. In taking the stand herself, Mrs. Hardy said that the "bad reputa tion" spoken of their one-room by state's witnesses, was caused by personal feelings against her. She added that their evidence was hearsay, and that not one had tes tified he had seen strange men enter the house or had seen im proper conduct. - Most of the Merrimon people on the stand emphasized that the children in the house were not re ceiving proper care. Living in the house are nine occupants, includ ing the three defendants, and six children, it was brought out. In the Baber case, major con troversy centered around State Patrolman Corporal Spruill's in ouiry as to the physical ability of Mrs. Baber, to drive car after he had stopped her for a routine check-up of car lights. Mrs. Baber Testifies ' Mrs. Baber testified that Cor; poral Spruill bad grasped her arm roughly in ordering her from the V See TWO CASES Page 8 Stale Cpiondric Society To Med Here Next Year Annual business meeting of the North Carolina- State Cytometric society will be held at the begin ning of May next year in either Morehead City or Atlantic Beach, Dr. J. O. Baxter, Beaufort opto metrist, reported today. . This year the three-day conven tion, held to discuss technical ac tivities, was at Oarlotte. Beard Fails to Meet Failure to obtain quorum made it impossible for the Morehead City town board to meet Tuesday night. A meeting. will be arranged for an afternoon during the com ing week, the city clerk reported. Dredge Builds Up Beach Causeway Homes Near Completion, Dunes Club Undergoes Improvements Dredging is under way along the causeway at Atlantic Beach. Spoil age is being thrown along the highway to replace land which had been washed away during the past several years. Many of Ihe new homes at the beach are nearing completion. Ap proximately 10 new cottages have gone up at Money Island and a new road is under construction there now. Average cost of Ihe homes being built at Club Colony is $12,000. Several of the builders there arc C. H. Rawls, Raleigh, E. B. Lang ley, Kinston, Irvin Morgan, Jr., Farmville, aul other eastern North Carolinians. Two of the 15 homes readv for occupancy in June at Ocean Ridge are being built by Alfred Williams and Col. William Joyner, both of Raleigh. Mayor and Mrs. Newman Willis, Atlantic Beach, have moved into their new home at the intersection of the causeway and he road to For Macon. Several thousand dollars worth of improvements are being made now; to the Dune's club, 'private membership club east of Atlantic Beach.. The dining room this sea son will be under the supervision Ray Garrett, proprietor of the Blue Ribbon club. . Rev. 7. D.JCaviness Hakes Report On Hew fea District Conlajiice The Rev. W. D. Caviness, pastor of Franklin Memorial Methodist church ' and Morehead Circuit, Morehead City, yesterday released for publication the report on the New Bern district conference of the Methodist church which met in Simpson Methodist church, Grimes land charge, the beginning of this month. The Rev. Mr. Caviness was elect ed secretary of the conference, N. F. Eure. Ann Street Methodist church, Beaufort, lay leader for the Beaufort-Morehead City zone, gave the laymen's report, the Rev, Haywood Harrcll, Straits oharge, the report on rural work, and the Rev. C. M. Mitchell, Atlantic cir cuit, the report on quarterly con ference records. The preacher's licenses of the Rev, W. Y. Stewart, pastor of Core Creek church, was renewed, as well as that of the Rev. Char leu J. Tilley, pastor of the Oera coke charge. ' Beaufort and Morehead City were reported to havj made pro gress on payment of the College Advanco principal. Thus far New Bern district has paid $33,830, Ba lance due is $72,708. During the past year 3S5 on Gerald Wqollard, Bobby Dunn Help Sports Fishermen Catch the Big Ones It's always open hou;e for all boat captains and sports fishermen at Gerald Woollard -and Bobby Dunn's Office and job shop. Beau fort. Located off Fulford street by the Beaufort and Morehead City railroad in the first quonsel hut j built in Carteret county, the two ex servicemen are now working on all types of sinkers for both Inside fishing and Gulf stream fishing, i But these men don't, get their ideas simply from the books. What they think out, in theory or hear! from such well-known skippers as Jesse Pagels, Jack Styron. Teeney Piner, and Bill Ballou, they try out themselves. - Soon to be in production are one and two-pound submarine tinkers; weighing About one and one quar ter ounces up to 12 ounces; a type of sinker recently requested by j James Earl White, 21-year-old Richlands Negro, and prisoner on the road gang working along the causeway between the Atlantic Beach bridge and Atlantic beach, was drowned 2:30 Monday after noon in about 10 feet of water. Artifical respiration attempts, made by Fort Macon Coast Guards men who recovered his body 40 minutes later, proved unsuccessful The Coastguardsmen under the di rection of G. H. Meekins, chief boatswain, worked on him about an hour before giving up. Mrs. Clara Ipock was a startled eye-witness of the tragedy, watch ing the drowning from the down stairs window of her home on the causeway. Mrs. Ipock said that she looked out of the window while using the sewing machine, and saw the convict leap into the water, about 25 feet away. She said that he shouted "Help" after he found out that the water was deep. Two fellow convicts who tried to rescue the drowning man, were forced back because neither could swim, she said. She added that it seemed to her that the man was trying to escape. She said that while talking with Deputy Sheriff Murray Thomas af ter the drowning, he mentioned to her that the man had tried to es cape numerous times before, the last attempt being made only three weeks ago. Mr. Thomas had left the scene with one of the state highway patrolman only a few minutes before the drowning, she said. W. R. Skimmer, superintendent of the Newport prison camp stated that Guard Jesse Graham in his report said that the prisoner was trying to escape. Mr. White asked him, the guard reported, if he could sit down on the side of em bankment and cool off. When the guard gave hjs permission and turned his back 4 waWt IcMb Imi road, the prisoner lerfped lntd the water, it was reported. Coast guardsmen who were call ed to the rescue, had to probe for the body with dragging gear. certificate, and 408 subscriptions were received for the North Caro lina Christian Advocate, Methodist magazine. According to the report on mis sions, Methodists In America for the first nine months of the pre sent fiscal year raised four mil lion dollars for world service. The 22,000 members In the New Bern district contributed $17,000, while the total contribution by North Carolina Methodists was $136,000 or an average of 40 cents per member. It was recommended that contr' butions for world service be in creased. Other reports were heard on youth work in the district, summer assemblies for young people, the Methodist orphanage, temperance program, Louisburg college, and evangelism. The sermon, "Rediscovery of Old Paths," was delivered by the Rev. II. A. Chester, pastor of Mt. Olive circuit, and the devotional was in charge of the Rev. E. C. Vale, pastor of the Hookerton charge. Approximately 23 pastors and laymen, representing every charge in Carteret county, attended the conference. - Captain Jesse Pagels, and found to work out well. Now working on squid molds and block tin squid for drum, channel bass, amberjack, dolphin, blue fish and mackerel, they fol low the reasoning: "Name it and you can have it; if we haven't got it, we'll make it for you." And in addition, they're willing to throw in some advice as to just how effective the type of sinker is. Be it banker sinker, pyramid sinker, wrap-around sinker, cush ion, sinker, or slip sinker, they've got personal experience to draw from. Both have fished these waters here and the waters un and down the-eastern coast Gerald a, few yts back; using buck tail squid and fishing out of Indian River in let, Delaware, landed a 7 pound 8 ounce trout to win honorable men Attempt Lions To Choose Contest Finalists Saturday Night 11 Contestants Will Vie For Cash Prizes Totaling $225 Prizes totaling $225 and an ap pearance on a Saturday night stage show at the Roda theatre June 3, will be offered to the three win. ners of the Lions club talent fi nale, to be held 7:30 Saturday night at the county recreation center. The finals completes the contests conducted by the More head City Lions club In different communities in the county. t First prize winner will be award ed $100, second prize winner, $73, and third prize winner, $50. Elev en contestants will participate in the evening's programs to be judged by out-of-county residents. A variety of entertainment will be offered, ranging from classical selections to lighter numbers. Fi nalists arc Bobby Morris, recent Juillard school of music scholar ship winner, and Lois Rhodes, At lantic; Carolina Slim and Gene vieve Guinn, Smyrna; girls glee Club and the Coastal Playboys, Harkers Island; Ruth Webb Bai ley and the girls glee club, More? head City; Jackie Smith, Newport; and Guy Smith and the high school glee club, Beaufort. Ft tii n l ltiavcrUiiiDrao Testimony 'False Connecting testimony on the wit ness stand in a special session of Mayor's court Wednesday, brought from Morehead City Mayor G. Wi, Dill the remark that "it was the most lying he had heard since 00 became mayor." The testimony, not yet cleared up, came in the case of Arnetta Baker and Junius Morse, both of whom accused each 'other of driv ing the Dodge 'which ran into a parked International truck at 10th and Bridges street early Wednes day morning. Both are being held under $130 bond, to appear in recorder's court Tuesday under Judge L, R. Morris. Also carried over to recorder's' court was the case of Thelma Mumford, charged by Mrs. Madge Reynolds of Arendell street with stealing $37 worth of merchandise in her home. !" Mrs. Reynolds said that Miss Mumford had stolen an alarm clock and dresses from her house. Miss Mumford said that Mrs. Rey- ( nold knsew she had the items and -that she brought them from her. In yet another case heard )n Wednesday's soecial court session, Thurman Waller was fined 2 c court costs for public drunkenness. Mr. Waller was arrested Sunday night after refusing to . pay a Morehead City driver his $5 fare, according to testimony. Mr. Waller said he had forgotten most of what ' took place but that the cab driver had asked for $12. ci tion in a Field and Stream contest. He has fished out of Shark River inlet with the well-known sports men John Vian and Ed Maloney, and both Bob and Gerald have -fished here with Captain John Dickinson on the yacht Idle-On. . Gerald got most of his molding experience under John Vian at the . Brooklyn Institute of Technology. After graduating from Beaufort , high, he ' attended the Hemphill Diesel engineering school and fi nished a year's training there, l.e also served a four year apprentice-' ship at the Todd Shipyards in N. Y., considered the largest privaijr . ly -owned yard in the world,.! p. went back' to Brooklyn Tech af: i three years in the armed forces v : Bobby Dunn attended Beau' t school, and Jn the Navy ser 1 ati apprenticeship as a ship to smith. Both he and Gerald hav Sea WOOLLARD Pc f