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C A R.TER E T CdUNTY Astronomical Data Sun ScU Tonight 7:24 P. M. Sub Rises Tomorrow 4:54 A.M. Moon Rises Today 4:57 P.M. Moon Sets Tomorrow 3:09 A.M. lOe A Merger of TEE BEAUF0BT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 38th YEAR NO. 9. BEAUFORT AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY J. W. Gilliliin, Bns Line Operator, Replies lo News-Times Editorial Potato Digging Nears Completion Government Buys Greater Part of Crop at Support Price of $2.90 Just fi"p more local farmers have yet to dig up their potatoes, R. M. Williams, county agent, re ported I his week. These men are the Ball brothers, L. N. Connor, Hugh Swan, 0. W. Lewis, and D. S. Lewis. Most of the county's pota toes have been going to the gov ernment at $2.90. Mr. Williams reported that this season's potatoes have a great deal of scab and some blight. Damage has been done also to the tobacco crop by aphis, better known to farmers as plant lice. C. S. Long recently put on a demons tration of controlling the amount of damage caused in this manner at the farm of Floyd Garner in Ncwptrt. Long, in his demonstration, used Isotox as a dust and as a spray, Parathion dust, and Vapotone. Ob servations of these treatments sfnwcd that Vapotone is as effec tive or more so than any of the others. None of these treatments is be ing recommended, however, to far mers by the extension anamolgist, James T. Conner, Jr., because little is known of the detrimental elects, if my, to plants or animals. Since much damage was done to the quality of' tobacco by this in sect last year after the tobacco was cured and ready for market', Mr. Williams feels certain that many farmers will be interested in try ing this material to control it. All of these materials must make direct contact with the insect to b effective. Mr. Williams pointed oat that tlsraJfcfiy' of Jfintlfcl .stuck the. tap half ! t plant- 110 Lots Sell At Beach Acctb One hundred ten lots were sold Wednesday afternoon at auction on Atlantic Beach, A. B. Cooper of Atlantic Beach incorporated, re ported today. Gross sale totaled $30,000, the Average price for each lot being about $250. The lots went to 40 buyers, all of them from upstate. Two free lois given away were to Sybil White, of Durham, and A. A. Dady myle, New Bern. Approximately 300 people at tended the sale which was con ducted by Walter and Gurley. Kins ton auctioneers. A total of 160 lots had been developed and offered for sale. From now tn the property will be sold in private transaction by the Atlantic Beach Realty com pany at prices much higher than those received at auction, Mr. Cooper intimated. The main reason, he remarked for selling off the residential lots Wednesday was to encourage con struction of cottages. Burned Pole Causes Power Failure Monday A power line pole between Goldsboro and LaGrange flashed over and burnt down Monday night causing power failure On practi cally all Tidewater power lines from that point east. According to reports from the local plant, Cherry Point went out and although the load could have been carried locally, it would have been at the rjsk of burning put generators. . The auxiliary plant in Beaufort was ready to co into operation, George Stovall, Tidewater manager reported. The pumps were primed and a man was standing by, but Mr. Stovall said that he was in formed ' that power would come through in about 40 minutes and that by the time the auxiliary plant would have been operating, the regular system would be in use. ' Dogs Have Their Day Approximately 80 dogs visited the veterinarian Wednesday at the municipal building, Morehead City. Some squealed while, they were inoculated against rabies, others submitted quietly. Seventy-two dog tags have been sold to date. AU dogs must be tagged by July 1., J. W. Gillikin. owner and opera tor of Gillikin Bus line. Morehead City, in a statement to The News Times today stated that his line is in no way obligated financially to the town of Morehead City, nor is he in any wsy obliged to comply with requests or rulings of the town in regard to operation of his business. Mr. Gillikin made this statcnent in reply to an editorial which ap peared in The News-Times hst Friday wherein it was mentioned that for six months the town had received no remuneration from the Gillikin bus line. Subsequent investigation has proved that town officials were confused on the issue. Since Oct. 1, 1947 the bus line has pBid 6 per cent of its gross receipts to the State Public Utilities commission. The utilities commijjioa says Mr. Gillikin, has received this a mount, as they request, every three months. Aside from this, it has made no other demands of the line other than that it operate and maintain the buses. "In the past year I don't recall one trip we've ever missed," re marked Mr. Gillikin in regard to complaints that have been trade as to irregularity of runs. "That was when we had a blowout." "AH during the winter we car ried school children from their doors to school, waited for them and carried them back to their doors and all we get for that is criticism," he continued. Since school has ended, the buses have not run west of 28th street "because," Mr. Gillikin said, "in one week we didn't get more than three riders up that way. Besides, the streets are in such awful shape it tears our buses up. Mr. Gillikin stated that new schedules are being made up this week and will be posted for the information of bus patrons as soon as possible. Gillikin buses operate between Beaufort, Morehead City, and At lantic (Beach. In Morehead City, 3A. presepL . .they leave Pth Yd TrenSeiirtreets ewf Tiofff at 19 m antes before the hour, he report ed. "I operate the bus line to the best ef my ability," stated Mr. Gil likin, '.'I have complied with ev ery law concerning it and will con tinue to do so." ' The News-Times regrets the as persion cast on Mr. Gillikin re garding financial obligations in connection ith his bus line. Serior Court Term Continues The superior term of civil court, in session all week, ia expected to continue today at the court house in Beaufort. The caae of Guthrie vs. Russell, concerning an auto ac cident, was being heard yesterday. W. B. Rodman Durham, of New Bern, was appointed referee in the case of Davis and Howe. vs. Morgan in which C. R. Wheatly, Jr., was attorney for the plaintiff and J. F. Duncan and R. A. Nunn were attorneys for the defense. The case of Lynott vs. Brooks has been continued and it is ex pected that the following cases will be continued: Howe vs. Wal lace et al, Howe vs. Southern Felt company, and Howe vs. MadU As phalt Roofing corporation.' The suit of 'Oliver Becton vs. Henrv G. Edwards was settled Tuesday after attorney for both parties agreed on a judgment of $750 damages against the defen dant. Becton brought the suit after be ing injured by a trailer that broke loose from Edwards' car some time ago. After hearing the evidefae of the court, Edwards'; attorney went into conference with the law yer for the plaintiff, with the re sult that Edwards, agreed to pay damages plus aU. costs. In the -suit of John Jones a- gainst David L. Redfern. both the plaintiff and the defendant got to gether and settled their differences before the case was brought to trial and each paid half-of the costs. The case concerned a land dispute. Robert Stephens Receives Decree in Architecture .. . ; - ' ' A' Robert Howard Stephens, ion of Mrs. A. V. Pierson and grandson of B. H. Stephens. Beaufort, was one of 949 to graduate recently from the Georgia School of Tech nology, Atlanta. Ga. Young Stephens, who is affilia ted with his grandfather now, in as an architect, was awarded a bachelor of science degree in ar chitecture. ' . miss Joyce Johnson W ins Beaufort Beauty Crown Race Track Opening Nears Pictured here with their owner, P. C. Kordham, Kinston, left, and their trainer, R. Townsend, right, are seven dogs destined to see action on the $200,000 race track west of Morehead City. Begin ning Friday, June 25, and continuing through Tuesday, June 29, (ex cept Sunday) there will be a schooling period during -which dogs will he run and adults and children will be admitted free of charge. After June 30, however, official opening of the track, and begin ning of pari mutuel betting, no minors will be allowed on the premi ses, photo by Ray Garrett County Officials Hear Four State The State Association of County Commissioners and the Associa- I tion of County Accountants of North Carolina yesterday morning con cluded their 41st convention at Atlantic Beach. The three-day meet ing, which opened Tuesday, was attended by 300 delegates and their wives. Four high-ranking state officials addressed the commissioners and auditors Wednesday, A. H. Graham, chairman of the state highway and public works commission, Charles M,. Johnson, director jet tb local -government commission and candidate' for governor, Attorney General Harry McMullan, and Dr. Ellen Winston, head of the State welfare department. Other speakers included Bran don Hodges, Democratic nominee for state treasurer, Albert Coates, director of the Institute of Govern ment, Chapel Hill, and Gordon Maynard, secretary of the Portland Cement association. Kerr Scott, who will oppose Mr. Johnson in the June 26 primary, was invited to attend the meeting but informed the commissioners by telegram that he was unable to be here. Mr. Graham, head of the high way commission, gave a summary of the work of his department since 1946 when the end of the war "made more than maintenance of roads possible. "No Surplus" , He emphasized in his address that the state highway commission does not have the vast financial surplus most people believe. When World War I ended there was a. surplus of fifty million dol lars, but since that time the high way department has been spending more than its current annual in come, he explained. He told the commissioners that each county would be supplied soon with statistics from Raleigh on the amount of funds spent in their own county on roads since Jan. 1, 1946 and what the propo sals are for 1948. Johnson Receives Oration Mr. Johnson, for 22 years affilia ted with county government af fairs, was greeted with long and See COMMISSIONERS Pg. 8 Parents of Th To Celebrate It's been 50 years of wedded bliss for the Jacob Wades, of 1002 Fisher st., Morehead City, parents of the three Wade brothers of baseball fame. Sunday marks their 50th wedding anniversary, and all their children and grand children will be home to help cele brate the event except two of the boys, Ben and Jake, who are com mitted by contracts to play ball, The three famous brothers. Ben. Jake, and Charles Winfield, bet ter known as "Croaker", all start ed their basebaU careers at More head City high schooL Winfield, the oldest, went to State College after high school and starred on the team there. He was then bought up by the Detroit Ti gers of the American League as an outfielder and farmed out to Winston-Salem of the Piedmont League. He then drifted into the Texas League and the PaciflcnCoast system without having gone to col League, after which he retired. , ' lege like his two brothers bad. Last Executives Among the resolutions adopted by the county official yesterday which will be drafted into bills and presented to the legislature in Jan uary was a recommendation that FoetMaeoa b fully restored Vm a recreational and historic cemcf for all the Pople of .North Caro lina." It was ordered that a copy of the resolution be sent to the governor and other state authorities. The commissioners endorsed the recommendation that twenty-five million dollars be appropriated for building schools and that the funds be allotted to the various counties in proportion to the number of pu pils in the county, and that every year after this bi ennial appropria tion, 25 per cent of the state sales tax be used for school construc tion. Improvement of farm to market roads was urged, and the commis sioners also- recommended that their terms be staggered, half of the number on a county board elected every two years. Other resolutions advocated bills whereby funds could be recovered from the estates of recipients of state and federal aid, state contri butions would go to counties ifi which tuberculosis sanatoriums are located, and legislation concerning individual counties would be hand led by the county board concern ed, rather than taken to the gen eral assembly in Raleigh: Officers elected yesterday morn ing to head the association were R. P. Holding, president, from Smithfield, Clarence Parks, vice president, from Rutherfordton, and J. C. Skinner, executive secretary and treasurer, from Warren county-Mr. Holding served the past, term as vice-president arid Mr. Skinner enters his 27th year as executive secretary and treasurer. ree Famous Ball Players, 50th Wedding Anniversary . Jake, most renowned of the three also went to. State College and made his mark there as a pitcher. He worked his way onto teams in the Texas, and International Lea gues, and then went to Detroit. From there he went to the Chicaso .White Sox, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees, Washington Sena tors, all in the American League. After spending nine years in the American League, he pitched for Jersey City , in the International League, last year, where he had a 17-3 record. He was traded to San Diego in Pacific Coast League, but had .a sore arm and waa re turned, east to Buffalo. Jake is reported to have never really liked ball, but 'played as a means of livelihood. ! Ben, the third of the famous trio, went straight from hkh school to the Chicago Cubs farm Winner of the "Miss Beaufort" beauty pageant for 1948 is Miss Joyce Johnson, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Johnson, Front St., Beaufort. Miss Johnson was se lected from among 15 other beau ties in a contest Monday evening at the Surf Club, Atlantic Beach. The pageant was sponsored by the Beaufort Junior Chamber of Com merce. Runncrs-up in the contest, in the order they were chosen, were Eliz abeth Willis and Fay Laughton. Each of the 16 entrants, attired in evening dress, paraded individ ually around the d:ince floor near the audience and all assembled as a group in front of the band stand. After those 16 left the floor, the judges recalled seven of them to reappear for a final reckoning. The seven finalists were Joyce Johnson, Klizabelh Willis, Fay Laughton, Betty Lou Merrill, Ad die Carrow Thomas, Norma Kirk, and Ester Fodric. Winners Announced The winners were then announc ed and John Butler, president ol the Beaufort Jaycees, crowned the town's new beauty queen. Miss Johnson, who was born in Florida, catre to Beaufort in 1931. She attended the schools ii Beau fort and spent a year each at Louisburg and Meredith colleges. She is presently employed as sec retary to John Staton, insurance agent in Beaufort. As "Miss Beaufort." Miss John son will go to Wrightsvillc, Beach July 17 to try for "Miss North Car olina" honors. The judges for the beauty con test were Dr. Theodore Baxter, of "Baxter's" in New Bern, Frank Fagan, of a radio studio in New Bern, and Capt. Kicklighter, Ma rine, stationed at Cherry oint. Master of ceremonies for the evening was Jimmy Wallace, and Mrs. Virginia Hassell was program director. Dance music was fur nished by Jimmy Livingston and his orchestra. Thanks Expressed Wallace, speaking, .in behalf, of, the-, csjecea,' expressed apprecia tion "for assistance from Mrs. Vir ginia Hassell. Fox-Downum, Davis Bros., Mrs. Helen Hassell of the local radio station, Ruth Peeling of the News-Times, and the Beaufort merchants who donated the prizes for the three winners. Odell Merrill, chairman of the Jaycees' committee in charge of the program, was also publicly thanked. These are the prizes divided a- mong the three winners: $100 from the Jaycees to Miss Johnson; $50 cold wave, Margaret's Beauty Shop; nylon hose, Beaufort Do partment Store; traveling bag Eastman Furniture Co.; three am ners with all the trimmings. The Griddle; $10.50 in groceries, M. T. Owens; T-bone steak dinner for two, the Carolina Grill; and 21- jewei wrisi waicn, uaxier . Five dollars in dry cleaning, Ideal Dry Cleaners; one dozen bottles of shampoo, Ramsey Groc ery Co.; bottle of perfume, Bells Drug Store; Greenbrier sterling, Bell's Jewelry Store; handbag, The Vogue; electric toaster, Western Auto; grease job, Gulf Service Station; cigarette lighter, Jarvis Herring jeweler; 10 pounds flour, Rumley Feed store; blue sweater, Davis Bros.; $25 cold wave, Ann Street Beauty Shop; Lucien Lclong set, Joe. House Drug Store; slip, Rose's; free pass, Beaufort thea tre; electric clock, City Appliance Co. i $5 in groceries, A 4c P Tea Co.; General Electric travel iron, Carteret Hardware Co.; $24 share in the cash prizes. Trunk set, Guthrie-Jones Drug Co.; $5 in groceries. Potter's groc See MISS BEAUFORT Pg. 8 year at Nashville of the Southern Association, Ben, also a pitcher, won 17 and lost 11. Ben led the league in batting with a blistering mark of .426. Be cause of his booming bat, he was used often as a pinch-hitter and as a substitute fielder. He pitched for the all-star team of that league last year and was the winning pitcher. This year' he was sent up to the Cubs, but he became 111 and never had a reaf chance to make the grade. Back at Nashville now, he has a 7-and l record. Ben will be married to a More head City girl, Miss Betsy Stalling, July 16 at the First Methodist Church. , Wade Brothers Park, where the Morehead City team of the Tide water League and the local high school team play their games, was named In honor of the three boys. U Sm ANNIVERSARY Pg. S j i. VJ 'Vr John Butler, right, president ni l lie Beaufort Junior Chamber of Commerce, crowns Miss Joyce Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John II. Johnson, 'Miss Beaufort,' at the beauty contest Monday night at the Surf club. Miss Johnson won out over 15 other con testants. The picture of Miss Viola Styron, who' recently won the "Miss Morehead City" crown will appear in Tuesday s iiapcr. Rrinson's Monkey Decides 'Time to Get Religion!' The pet monkey owned by Wnllnce Biinson, of Morehead City, is n Baptist, police dis covered Sunday. Saturday morning the monkey was reported to police as missing and nt large. Brinwin, fearing that the animal might bite some body, told police to shoot it if it was necessary. About 10 a.m. Sunday morn ing, Chief Willis of the More head City police department re ceived a call from the First Bap tist church by someone who ex claimed there was a disturbance being created in the Sunday school class there. When police arrived, the miss ing monkey was gallivanting a bout the Sunday school room. Brinson was notified and put ' ting on gloves for the occasion, caught up with the roaming pri mate before he could get into any mischief. It seems that the pet had en tered the church through an open window and was the first one in Sunday school that morn ing. Students See Film on Seaweeds The weekly series of evening lec tures held every summer at the Duke Univresity Marine Labora tory was inaugurated Tuesday night by the showing of a color film of the seaweeds of the Flori da Keys by Dr. Robert H. Williams, associate professor of botany at the University of Miami and assis- tant director of the university's marine laboratory. Dr. Williams visited the Duke laboratory for two days and left Wednesday for the Virginia Fish eries laboratory at Yorklown. Ro bert M. Wiliams. Carteret county agent, brought his movie projec tor to Piver's Island and showed the film. In addition to students and in vestigators of the Duke Labora tory, the film was seen by Dr. A. D. Shaftsbury and students of the W.C.U.N.C. laboratory and by Ha rold Leahy and Dr. Carl Baker of Sperti Foods, Inc. v Future evening lectures at the laboratory will be held on Wed nesday nights. The subject matter is usually a report on some phase of marine or other biological re search that the speaker has done. The public is invited. More Folders Ordered Morehead City Chamber of Com merce recently placed another order for 15,000 pamphlets adver tising Morehead City and the Car teret coast. An original order of 15,000 about a year ago was ex pected to last two years, but wide circulation of the pamphlets has made a quick re-order necessary, Robert Lowe, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce reported. JC's Entertain Miss Viola Styron Viola Slyron, "Miss Morehead City of 1948," was LHiest of the Morehead, City Jaycet'M at the re gular Monday evening dinner-meeting at the Fort Macon hotel. Miss Styron expressed her happiness at being selected for the honor, and added, "I want to, thank each one of you who made this contest pos sible." It was ,'iiiiuiunced in the meeting that the Jaycees Softball team would play the fire department two days after the meeting. A sum of $25 was appropriated to buy equipment for the team. The club also voted lo appoint a "jay bird" who will fine out-of-order members a sum of ten cents for each offense. The money rais ed through this plan wi" go to ward additional equipment for the softball team. The Junior Chamber asked Its members to save as much waste paper as possible for the Jaycec's waste paper drive. It will be col lected and sold in the near future. Awards were given to the Jay cees' two outstanding committees of the past year, the Americanism and Christmas activities commit tecs. The members of the Ameri canism committee who were thus awarded were Joe Bailey, chair man; Ethan Davis, W. D. Caviness, and Graham Whitehurst. Members of the Christmas acti vities committee were Bobby Bell, chairman; Kenneth Wagner and Floyd Chadwick, Jr. Quincy Stimpson was civen the attendance award for the evening. Next week's meeting will be held at the Carteret County Recreation Center where a buffet sunner will be served. The Jaycees will invite about 20 people who helped put over the beauty pageant as guests for the next meeting, which will also be a ladies' night. There will be dancing that night, and the proceeds of the dinner will rgo toward keeping up the recrea tion center, Ministerial Association Plans Petition Circulation The Coastal Ministerial associa tion, which on June 7 appeared before .county commissioners tb request a liquor referendum in the county, have proceeded with plans to obtain signatures of 15 per cent of the number of persons who vot ed in the last general election for governor. Rev. J, F. Jolliff, pastor of New port Methodist church, president of the association, has appointed the following committee to draw up the petition and start its circu lation: the Rev. H. tl. Cuthrell, Marshallbcrg Methodist church, chairman, the Rev. Winfred Davis, pastor of the First Baptist church, Beaufort, the Rev. L. A. Tilley, pastor of First Methodist church, Morehead City. The next meeting of the minis terial association will be Monday, July 12. , , Chamber Plans Membership Drive Board of Directors Meets, Discusses Bus Service, Garbage Problem "Move Ahead with Murehead" will he the theme of Morehead City's Chamber of Commerce mem bership campaign the first week in July, the board of directors decid ed Tuesday. , Membership will be solicited by mail and businessmen will be' urged to take advantage of bene fits derived by membership in the organization, Robert Lowe, exe cutive secretary, pointed out today. Those on the membership com mittee directing the campaign are A. B. Cooper, I. K. Pittman. L. D. Gore. II, I'. Scripture, C. N. Ben nett, W. C. Matthews, and W. C. Carlton. The board of directors also dis cussed regularly-scheduled bus ser vice for Morehead City and the negligence of several Arcndell street merchants in regard to gar bage heaps at the rear of their places of business. Mr. Lowe stated today that the chamber is actively interested In providing bus service "for the, good of the people as well as the busi ness man." Although," he continued, muni cipal bus lines operate under the State Public utilities commission, the commission usually acts on re commendation of the town con cerned. The Chamber of Com merce is seeking cooperation on this issue with town officials. Mr. Lowe termed the trash and garbage heaps in the alley south of Arcndell street in the business block as "deplorable." Storage space for the garbage should be constructed, he remarked. The heaps now constitute a nuisance and fire hazard. Cooperation of the iwwii una m-rii soiiciiea in correct'1 ing this problem also, he conclud ed. . . Rotarians to Visit Harkers Island Beaufort Rotarians with their wives and friends will go by beat Wednesday afternoon to Harkers Island inn where they will have a seafood dinner, followed by ail evening of entertainment. "C, Alonza Willis and David Jones were named bv R M William. president, to plan the outing. Ron tartans who will not attend should notify Mr. Williams by tonight They are requested to notify the -president, also, if they are going to take additional guests besides their wives. B. J. May, president elect who will be installed in July, will at tend the Rotary district assembly June 29 and 30 at Wrightsville Beach, it was announced, .' Tuesday evening's speaker,' the Rev. T, R. Jenkins, Rotarian and pastor of Ann Street Methodist church, delivered an address, on his profession. '. ' The minister, he said, besides' being a preacher, must.be an ad ministrator, executive, business man, counselor, and psychologist. He must be fully-trained, must know the Bible, and know people. , Rev. Mr. Jenkins cited some of his personal experiences in coun seling and emphasized the inval uable factor of faith. t "The ministry is a life requir ing self-discipline," he remarked, "but any worthwhile life requires discipline." Guests at the meeting were Thomas Horner, New Bern, who will assist Rev. Mr. Jenkins in pastoral duties this summer, T. Rrown Williams, of Dunn, and W. C. Matthews, Morehead City. " Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday. June 18 5:34 A.M. " 11:48 AM. 6:05 P.M. Saturday, June 19 6:28 A.M. 12:47 A.M. 6:55 P.M. 12:35 P.M. Sunday, June 20 V. ' . 7:15 A.M. 1:33 A.M. 7:38 P.M. 1:20 P.M. Monday, June 21 -7:59 AM. 2:17,A.r:. 8:20 P.M. ' 2:05 V.l Tuesday, June 22 . M:43A.M. 2:58 A t'. 9:00 P.M. ' 2:46 P.I . (Eastern Standard Time) '