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ARTE RET COUNTY 10c SECOND PREIABY i CCIIEIG UP JUNE 26 A Merger of THE BEAUFORT MEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 38th YEAR NO. 8. BEAUFORT AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1948 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Wholesalers Win Meter Argument vQeaufort Board Agrees To Move Six Meiers On Fronl Street After an hour of arguing, which for the greater part was more lo gical than heated, William Way, of Wnv's Fish house, Charles Davis, of Davis Brothers fish house, and William Arrington, of Rams y's wholesale house were granted what they termed fdemiate park ing space in front of their places of bus'ness on Front street, Beau fort. This concession was granted by town commissioners at a call meet ing Thursday niyht at the town hall. It was agreed that tw;i park ing meters in front of the drive ways at each place of business should be removed. This will en able large trucks to back un to the fourfoot platform at Way's, Davis', and Ramsey's to unload. In return the three wholesalers will nay the town $150. each con tributing $50. The six meters will be placed elsewhere. Mr, Arrington, who was the first to address the commissioners, flat ly stated that he and the other two petitioners did not want free parking space, they merely wanted space to park. "I'm in favor of parking meters," he continued. "I want them, but I also want SDace to get in my door!" J. O. Barbour, chairman of the pnrking meter committee, asked what Mr. Arrington proposed in order to remedy the situation, and Mr. Arrington replied that they wanted it the way it was before the additional meters were put in about two weeks a?o. Mr. Barbour explained that this was done because there was talk of those three business places be ing favored over others, having space to load and unload. t The ' " wimiTnnWTdimiNtd, however, that Hie tfire petitioners had a different problem than other business establishments in that their entrances ' were four feet above the sidewalk. .... Mr. Arrington pointed out fur ther that he and' the fish house owners paid the town once before for the privilege of having an en trance to their loading platforms from Front street. Mr. Barbouf asked the petition ers if they would operate for 30 days with the meters as they were, and if after that time, the meters still imposed a hardship, then an attempt would be made to solve the problem. This the petitioners flatly refus ed. Mr. Davis declared that in every other town with parking meters, loading zones were provided, and that if Beaufort didn't give them the consideration they deserved they would be forced to move their business to Harkers Island or At lantic. Leslie Moore, of City Grocery who attended the meeting, pointed out that delay in loading fish often means that a trucker may miss his market and if the market is shaky, he or his employer frequently stand to lose a lot of money. , Trucks recently have had to wait, the commissioners were told, until parking meter space was empty. Mr. Moore remarked also that he was among those at first bitter ly opposed to the meters, but said that if it was up to him to say now whether they should go or stay, he would say, "keep em." Mr. Barbour stuck to his stand that no decision should be made at the meeting that night, but when it looked as though arguing would continue, Commissioner Graham Duncan moved that the meters; be removed and the, town reimbursed by the wholesalers con concerned. Those who attended the meeting were Mayor Lawrence Hassell, Mr. 'Barbour, Mr. Duncan, John Rat cliff e, Clifford Lewis, commission ers, (Commissioner David Merrill "did not attend), William Hatsell, town clerk, Mr. Moore, C. Z. Chap pell, Oliver Davis, Chief Louis B. Willis, Jack Neal, Albert Chappell. Mr. Arringtony Billie Arrington, i Blythe Noe, Charles Davis. Hugh 1 Salter, Cooch Chadwick, William 1 Way, and J. N. Miller. Croaian Ships Bai Bail 1 To Kcnlncky Bolarians ' , Three thousand five hundred i pounds of rat bait left Croatan Frozen Foods, Inc., Morehead City, lr for the Rotary, club of Mavfield. t Kentucky, Sunday. Cro4Un Is the ,(j only plant manufacturing this rat , bait for the department of the ln . j tertor,"whkh is sponsoring: a a-,:-tt tion-wide tat elimination ' cam r . t, nak'B. i 1 v Ky--r.r::- 'r- Hew Oyslcr-Opening Machine Goes . I t :wr 4fvi$: 'A 1 I ; u J . i . -' I : SS v AVr , fJMMMMMHnMHaHMaMSMHKipaSMBsHsaHMRaH - ' " 'J Anybody Here Pilot Escapes Injury In Forced Landing Donald W. Leavitt, pilot, a na tive Pennsylvanian stationed at Camp Leeune, miraculously es caped Injury at 7:35 Sunday night when the left wing was torn off an Aeronca plane forc ed to land on the road to the University of the Sea, west of Morehead City. Damage to the plane, which was based at Jacksonville, is es timated at $400. Cpl. V. L. Sprulll, head of tke county highway patrol, report ed that Leavitt evidently became lost. The plane landed about 35 feet from the state . police headquarters. The wing was torn off when It ran into the gate at the entrance of the uni versity property. Francis Tyler, Beaufort Graduates With Honors Francis Tyler, son of Mr. and Mrs. C P. Tyler, 121 Front St., Beaufort, received a bachelor of science in commerce degree cum laude from, the DePaul university college of commerce at the uni versity's June commencement ex ercises in Chicago. The university president, the Very Rev. Comerford J. O.'Malley, C. M., i warded the degrees to the 722 graduates, the largest gradu ating class in DePaul's history, Tyler, an accounting major, was headmaster of the DePaul chapter of the Delta Sigma Pi internation al commerce fraternity. In 1946 he was winner of the Praetorian scholarship award presented an nually hv the Praetorian fraternity to the highest ranking Commerce underclassman. AEC Officers Raid Still in Craven County Prohibition's ally, the still in the. woods and the bootlegger, took another licking over the week end when Marshall Ayscue, AJ?C enforcemetn officer, raided a 100 gallon steam still in, the Big Neck section of Craven County. Accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Murray Thomas of Carteret and Sheriff C. B. Berry and Deputy snerilt caivm Wetherington, ' of Craven, Officer Ayscue seized be sides tne still, z.zoo gallons mash and 36 gallons of whisky of j ".,,, r fhoto bjr AycMk Brown Seen Elmer? By John Havas Oh, the woes of a newspaper re porter! The Carteret County News Times reporter who was assigned to cover the postmasters' banquet at Atlantic Beach recently got his story all right, but wasn't sure who he was when it was time to go home. All dressed up and his appetite whetted by visions of a delicious dinner at the banquet, the writer 'startrd off the night appropriate ly enough by missing his bus for Atlantic Beach. By hitching rides, he got there before the bus did. More people showed up for the banquet than had been expected, so the reporter, who had gone without supper, was by passed in order to make room for the large crowd. While the scribe was watching the postmasters devour their din ners, an elderly man rushed up to him and exclaimed, "Let me shake your hand, son. let me shake your hand. You've handled a difficult situation very Well. You've accom modated a large crowd in an ad mirable manner." The reporter tried to explain that he was 'not .the hotel manager, but to no avail. . A middle-aged woman then ap proached the News-Times writer and asked him if he could seat her party. The hotel manager rushed to his assistance and explained to the woman that it was not the head waiter she was talking to, but a reporter. A tall, gaunt genilemen was next in line in this parade of mistaken identities, mistaking the correspon dent for the master of ceremonies and asking him to make announce ments. As soon as the reporter had his story he hid his notebook and pencil, which undoubtedly had con tributed to these adventures in confusion, and headed for the nearest cafe. j A hamburger is no substitute for p chicken dinner, but it's nice to eat in a place where the people know who you are. ' .' Gordon Davis Graduates Gordon B. Davis, of Beaufort. was one of, 126 graduates who re ceived degrees last week: from East Carolina .Teachers .college. Mr. 'Davis, who hmcompleted a course in. teacher-training, received bachelor of science degree. On Market Dr. II. F. Prythercli, commercial fisheries scientist at the United talcs Fish and Wildlife station, "iver's Island, is shown here with Lcroy Schieder, right, inventor of a new type of oyster-opening ma chine which whirls oysters through seven metal drums, causing them to open. The machine is a practical ap plication of Dr. Prytherch's pat ented principle relating to relaxa tion of the muscle in bivalves. Dr. Prytherch and Mr. Schieder met last spring at Manteo when the Beaufort scientist was making a survey of Albemarle Sound in connection with the Buggs Ishnd dafii protect. In the course of conversation Dr. Prytherch learned that Mr. Schieder is a native of his own home town, Binghamton, N. Y. Dr. Prytherch demonstrated the machine recently at the annual conference of Oyster Growers and Dealers, the National Shell Fisher ies association, and the Oyster In stitute of North America at A bury Park.iN. J. The seven whirling barrels can open 1,500 oysters an hour and re duces cost by half, Dr. Prytherch explained. The scientist is shown in the lower picture with oysters after they have been removed from th opener. He has received so many written inquiries about the machine that it has become impossible to answer them all. The device will be man ufactured, he reports, in New Jer sey, and the first one will be in stalled in an oyster plant at Nor folk. And the Lights Went On! Power' in Morehead City and Beaufort went off at about 20 minutes past 8 last night and wasn't on again permanently un til 10' minutes after 9. George Stovall, local manager for (he Tide Water Power com pany, at presstlme last night could not state definitely what the difficulty was other than that Cherry Point, from where power is relayed, went out and the entire load was thrown on the local plant which was un able to handle it. Suburban Opinions, Residents of Ocean Breeze poll ed by the Carteret County News Times are five to three against be coming a part of the town of Beau fort, (While Highland Park resi dents are divided, 50-50, ovev whether they want to be located within the town limits. Ocean Breeze people who are a- gainst the movement, in general, feel very strongly about the ques tion. Others, in expressing their opinions, qualified their state ments with one or two "ifs.". One Ocean Breeze housewife said, "I'm definitely not for it. I don't think anybody around here is. What's the need, when we have running water and other con veniences?" ..... . v Another young lady, when' told that- for taxes paid she would gat fire and police protection, garbage collection and other benefits, re marked, "Knowing Beaufort as we do, we don't think we'd get any thing but the taxes." , '.. Others who expressed them selves negatively on the question felt the same. Several men could not see how Beaufort could afford to pave 'the streets, and extend the Miss Viola Styron Wins 'Miss Morehead Tension at Town Hall mfm i "'Cp r if I . The windows were open and the stove was cold, but things were hot at last Tuesday's night's meet ing lr Beaufort where com missioners were bombarded with complaints about parking meters, railroad dust on Broad street, and extending the town's limits. These pictures, taken at Hu mecting, arc typical scenes of a commissioners' session when the town isn't being run just right in the opinion of its citizenry. In the top photo, Mayor Law rence Hassell is seated at his desk in the foreground, Claud Whcatly has the floor by the stove, and among the spectators arc C. Z. Chappell, C. D. Jones, Jr., .lack Neal, John Steed, Oliver Davis, and Will Arrington, Jr. Tn the lower picture, left to right, are Blythe Noe, T. T. (Tom) Potter, Roy Willis, Judne J. V. Duncan, Lockwood Phillips, and Clifford Lewis and John Ratcliffe, commissioners. Convention Opens Today The North Carolina Association of Commissioners and Auditors start a three-day convention today at the Ocean King hotel in Atlantic Beach. Racing Freight by Air Two and a quarter tons of print ed matter for the Carolina Racing association were flown to Beaufort from Greensboro Saturday by Pied mont Airlines. Residents on Joining sewerage system when the town was in debt. Said one man, "Under the pres ent set-up, the town could not af ford it, because it is heavily in debt Under ordinary circum stances I would say yes." When the question of fire pro tection was brought up, another man stated, "If we have a fire here, all we have to do is turn on a hose." The people who expressed them selves favorably to extending Beaufort's boundaries to include Ocean Breeze had varied reasons for doing so. ' One housewife and mother who said she thought it would be a good idea added, "Our fire insurance rate is very high. When we first got our policy it was high enough, but when they found that there were Wio fire hydrants here, they raised our rate over a dollar a month." She also pointed out oth er advantages, such as garbage col lection and paved roads. Another young housewife believ ed that, both Beaufort and Ocean Breeze Would - definitely benefit from a union. She thought that Photo by James Biggs Sunday Crowds Swarm At Beach Atlantic Beach was swarming with crowds Sunday. Those who sought secluded spots along the beach from Fort Macon to Ocean Ridge wi re simply out of luck. Courie's at Money Island Beach, the concessions at Atlantic Beach, and Morehead City restaurants did a rushing business as well us the fishing cainos along the causeway. Airports were busv and route 70 traffic was heavy but, amazing lv. there were no auto accidents. Summer cottages were brimming with babies, young folks and olds ters, while lots of peonlc were eyeing the los which will be put up for sale tomorrow. Talk was mushrooming about a golf course everybody seemed to have those nroverbal tiny black in sects in their br ches and money in their pocket Recorder's Ce Cancelled Because of the civil term of court now in session, no recorder's court will be held today. Express Town "anything for the advancement of Beaufort would be a good thing." An elderly woman, who explain ed that she would soon be moving away, said she was in favor of the movement. "It would be nice," she said, "if the roadway were paved so we could get in and out." Other residents gave valid rea sons for becoming a part of Beau fort but some said they were in favor of it only "if aid comes im mediately." Highland Park residents did not feel too strongly about the prob lem of annexation. A housewife there said she was for the move ment because garbage . disposal was a problem, and at the present time her family had to transport and dispose of garbage the best way they could. A young man who said he was against joining Beaufort remarked that Highland Park is kept "clean er than the city." The opinion of most Highland Park and many Ocean Breeze resi dents was summed up by a woman who said she would say yes if the town fathers "put it in black and white," and Uhother who asserted, "Yes, if they do what they prom ise." , , . City of 1948' Miss Viola Styron won out over 10 other beauties in the Miss More head City pageant at the Roda theatre Saturday night to be crowned "Miss Morehead City of 1048," and become elicihle for "Miss North Carolina" and possib ly ' Miss America" honors. She was awarded a large number of gifts contributed by Morehciid City mer chants. t he runner up spot went to Miss Klla M:ii-";iret M irris find third po sition to Miss Ililma Chadwick. The contest was divided into four principal Darts. The girls were indeed in both evening dress and bathing suits. They were then judged for talent and pcioonnlily. The criteria for high honors wi re beauty, voice, manner of speech, disposition, eencral culture, special talents, health, and similar attri bules. Point System Used The girls were rated on a point system in each of the four main parts, with fi"e points being award ed for first place. fnur for second, three for third, two lor fourth, and one for iffth. The contest opened with each of the girls parading first individu ally and then as a group onto the stage j'ltircd in evening dress. The same procedure was folowcd with each girl dressed in a bathing suit. Talent Show (Jiven The contestants then put on a talent show. Jean I'',irrior sang "Desert Song," Wynne Ilanlinan did .' dance routine with (iale Guthrie, Kiln Margaret Morris did a monologue, Kllen Gould did a bullet solo, and Orilla Hughes saiv' "To Kach His Own:' Hi) 111:1 Chadwick staged a roller skating waltz with G. K. Willis, Lucy Willis sang Serenade of the Bells," Lorene Turner played a Lmcdlcy of "Tonight We Love" and "That's My Desire on the piano, Lois Chadwick did a tap dunce to "Dark Town Strutters Ball," Nel lie Bell did a monologue, and Viola Styron presented a Spanish Dance with Clifton Phillips as a partner. Of the original contestants, only five were eligible for the final phase of the judging, which was a personality ratini?. The five girls consisted of the three winners plus .lean Farrior and Ellen Gould. Master of Ceremonies Harold Sampson qui.wd each of the girls in order to stimulate an impromp tu conversation. The winners were then weeded out of these five. Mayor Crowns "Oueen" Mayor George W. Dill crowned Miss Styron as the new beauty queen, and when he asked her to say something, the winner excited ly sputtered: "Oh, gee! 1 don't know what to say, I'm so happy. I would like to thank you, the judges, and the Morehead City Jaycees for making me "Miss Morehead City." Right now I'm the happiest girl in the world!" Throughout the pageant, 1.1st year's "Miss Morehead City," Co retta Thompson, reigned from a throne in the background of the stage. At her side she had the king and queen of the Jaycees' Kiddie contest, Buddy Garner, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Garner, and Dot tie Chalk,- 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Chalk. The judges of the contest were Mrs. R. F. Conley, Miss Arlcnc Me Clane, and Capt. McClure, U. S. Marines. Women who coached the girls in rehearsals were Mrs. A. T. Lea rv, Mrs. W. C. Carlton, Mrs. Ber tha Stallings, and Mrs. Maude E. Mayer. The second and' third place win ners, respectively, won a wrist watch and a radio. All the rest of the long list of prizes were award ed to Miss Styron.. Gifts Presented The gifts presented were as fol lows Whitewav Laundrv, $10 in service; The Beauty Nook, perma nent wave; Morehead City Beauty Salon, manicure, shampoo, and See MISS MOREHEAD Page 7 Postmaster Webb Receives C6mmendalion on Meeting Letters commending Postmaster Harold Webb on his handling of the recent convention of the State Association of Postmasters at Morehead City and Atlantic Beach are arriving on his desk in batches. Among those who have written fre J. Tracy Moore, Greensboro i-jsthiaster; J. Harmon Llnville K-ernersville. associate leditor of Tar Heel Postmaster; Pearl E. Lin ville, ' Oak Ridge, state secretary of the association and vice-president of the national body of post masters; William G. Henry, Wash ington, -D. C, publi crclations counsel lor Capitol Airlines. , . Title, Carteret Clubs Win District Gavel Carteret Countv home demon stration clubs won the attendance gavel awarded annuallv at the dis trict meeting Thursday at New B-Tii for ''oing. proportionately, the longest distance with the larg est number of club members. Forty one Carteret club women attended the 20th district meeting where they heard Miss Ruth Cur rent, slate home demonstration agent. They left hv bus at 9 o'clock Thursday morning. The meeting was held in the re creation building at New Bern and was attended ly women from Jones, Craven, and Pamlico coun ties which ;ire included in district 20 with Carteret. The annual meeting last year was held at At lantic Beach with local club mem bers as hostesses. Next year's meeting will be in June at Trvnton, Jones county. During the course of Thursday's meeting. Mrs. B. F. Copeland, pres ident of the countv council, read a report of Carteret's accomplish ments during the year which was written in rhvmc by Mrs. Hugh Take. Mrs. Pake also responded to welcoming addresses. Mrs. Carrie Gillikin. home de monstration ai'cnt, termed the meeting a success and remarked that local club women are going to do their best to retain the atten dance gavel by having the largest delegation at next year's meeting in Trenton. Next Thursday. June 24, home demonstration clubs will stage a flower show nd dress revup. Time and place will be announced later. Tobacco Farmers To Tour Farms Lawrence A. Garner, supervisor' of the Lower Neuse Soil Conser vation district, has announced that a soil conservation field tour will be conducted at 4 o'clock Thurs-' day afternoon at Samuel Pollard and Floyd Garner's farms. All county tobacco farmers arc invited to attend. They will meet on Mr;' Pollard's farm where it borders route 70 north of Newport and at Newport high school. ' On this tour farmers will see most of the soil conserving prac-r tices recommended for well-drain cd soils being properly used on the land. This includes terracing, con-, tour tillage, contour strip crop ping, a special row arrangement for tobacco, permanent sericea lc. pedcza meadows, a two-year tobac co small grain rotation, cmtolaria, a wildlife border, and timber stand improvement. Erosion and drowning of tobacco have been major problems' OB these two farms in past years. Nq Mr. Pollacd and Mr. Garner have worked out a method of farming, the land in cooperation with the Lower Neuse Soil Conservation District which is controlling .ero sion and managing the rain water in such a way that it no longer pockets in the low, places. , ., Another soil conservation prac tice being used which will interest most tobacco farmers is the two year tobacco smnll-?rain rotation which is the best tobacco disease controlling rotation known, .-...i Mr. Pollard attends the veteran's farmer training program where Floyd Garner is an assistant in structor under the supervision of C. S. Long, Vocational Agriculture teacher.' n j ine farm tour will be conducted by Robert Williams, county agent, and the timber stand improvement work will be explained by Hoy Beck, county soil conservationist. Tide Tabid HIGH tQW Tuesday, June 15 " ; 2:38 AM 9:05 AM 3.18 PM 9:58 PM Wednesday, June U 3.40 AM 10:00 AM 4:17 PM 10:59 PM Thursday, June 17 4:40 AM , 10:55 AM 5:13 PM . 1L-55 PM Friday, June 18 u ' 5 34 AM 11.46 AM 6.09 PM . - i
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