North Carolina Newspapers

CARTERET COUNTY Astronomical Data Sun Sets Tonight 7:02 p.m. Sun Rises Tomorrow 5:24 a.m. Moon' Rises This Morning 11:35 a.m. Moon Sets Tdnight 10:31 pan. to A Merger oi THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 4- 38th YEAR NO. 25. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY, AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1948 EIGHT PAGES PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY If q 10c Mullet Line' Sale Unielyi&NC ToldBy Official H. P. Edwards, chairman of the board of the Atlantic and East Carolina railway, indicated Friday (hat sale would not be made of the "Mullet Line" between More head City and Goldsboro to New York interests. Mr. Edwards reported on the dicker for sale at the 94th annual stockholders' meeting of the At lantic and North Carolina Railroad company, lessor of the "Mullet Line," at Atlantic Beach Friday. Charges that the A & EC was allowing railroad property to de teriorate were also denied by Ed wards, who pointed out that only $5,632 has declared in dividends over the past nine years. The re port to A & NC stockholders sub stantiated Edwards' statement that great improvements have been made on the road. Officers and directors of the A & NC were all reelected, and Leo Harvey, Kinston, was elected to the newly-created office of vice president. Other officers of the company are Raymond Maxwell, New Bern, president, Judson H. Blount, Greenville, chairman of the board of directors and F E. Wallace, Kinston, secretary treasurer. The reelected 12-nian board in cludes two Carteret county men, .Tsmes D. Potter of Beaufort, and H. S. Gihbs of Morehead City. The directors passed a motion tc ask the state legislature to ex tend payment' of bonded obliga tion to the state and to reduce the interest rate on the state's bonds from six percent to three. For the past several years, the above procedure has been followed under a "gentleman's agreement" between state officials and com pany officers which stipulates that conrmmy pay oily thup Pr eAUlfte to the state for its six per eentnn T ' bonds. A legislative act would make the "agreement" a formal procedure. Present at the meeting, among other distinguished guests, were Governor R. Gregg Cherry and Col. G. W. Gillette, executive director .of the North Carolina State Ports Authority. Both expressed their interest in the railroad and this section of the state, and Col. Gillette pointed out how the development of ports like Morehead City is vitally important to the growth of the railroad. James D. Potter elaborated on Col. Gillette's remarks, and told the group that federal aid to More head City's Port Terminal would be a great boom to both the toad and Morehead City. Mr. Potter ex plained that Marine traffic to Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point means much to the railroad, and that without expansion of Port Terminal facilities, the govern ment might turn more and more to Norfolk as a point of embarkation. OBITUARIES Mrs. Ampie H. Bateman Funrd services for Mrs. Ampie Hassell Bateman, 74, of Jamesville. N. C, who died Saturday night at the rmme of her half sister, Mrs. T. J. Simpson, Beaufort RFD, were conducted at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1 Mrs. Bateman. who is also a half sister of Mayor L. W. Hassell, "nufort. hod boon ill here about three weeks. Funeral services were held in St. Paul's Episcopal church, Beaufort, the Rev. W., L. Martin officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Charles. Gray. Ray, Ralph, and Julian Hassell, and George Smith. The body lay in state at the church until time of the funeral. Graham Watherington Graham Watherington, 66, Beau fort, died Sundav. Aug. 8 in Saint Luke's hospital, New Bern. , He was buried yesterday after noon at 2 p.m. Services were held in the Oak Grove Methodist church. Graham Watherington, who was unmarried, worked as a sawyer. Mayor's Court Cancelled There was no mayor's court yes terday in Beaufort because of the death Of Mayor L. W. Hassell's sis ter, Mrs. Anple Bateman. Court will be held as usual next Monday. it Service Club to Meel " Members of the 4-H service club will meet at 7:30 tomorrow night jt .Atlantic Beach for picnic sup per and meeting, Mrs. Carrie B. Cillikia, , home j demonstration agent has announced. District Governor K. . . - Jean Patrick Booth, superin tendent of Kinston City schools and district governor of the 188th District Rotary Interna tional will make his annual visit to the Beaufort Rotary club to night, at the regular 6:45 din ner meeting In the Inlet Inn, Beaufort. One hour prior to the meet ing. District Governor Booth will meet with the officers and com mittee chairmen of the Beaufort club and discuss Rotary business, B. J. May, president of Beaufort Rotary club, announced. Chamber Gives 25 Benches To Town Twenty-five sturdy benches, a gift from the Chamber of Com merce to the town, were placed along Morehead City waterfront Thursday. The benches were designed and built for the Chamber of Com merce as part of its program of making the city more attractive for both residents and visitors. Mayor George Dill, on behalf of ett. . mmaasm hlr anrreetM lion for the benches and assured the Chamber that steps will be taken to see that the benches will be available to all and . that no private interests monopolize them. He has asked the cooperation of all citizens in preventing mar ring or destruction of the water front seats. The Chamber of Commerce com mittee in charge of obtaining the benches consisted of John Crump, chairman,- Charles Bennett, and Lou Gore. Rotarians Hear Dr. H. F. Prytherch, marine scientist, Piver's Island, delivered the after-dinner address at More head City Rotary club Thursday night at the Hotel Fort Macon. Although Carteret county is the largest food fish and shellfish pro ducing county in the state, Dr. Prytherch pointed out that the in come from food fish has dropped as the tonnage rose. The scientist explained the use of the new Guthrie shrimp net which permits young fish to escape through the mesh and survive. Ap proximately 75 of these nets are being used now in this section, he reported. In one 'day's trawling with the usual kind of net Dr. Prytherch s.aitl as many young food fish are destroyed as a fisherman would catch in his entire lifetime. He also added that he was pleas ed with the progressive attitude fishermen are showing toward scientific improvements in the fish ing industry. Street Crew Carries Ont Lot-Cleaning Program Beaufort's street crew, under Su perintendent Clyde Peterson, is carrying out the vacant lot clean ing order made by commissioners at this month's regular session. All lots which are not cleaned off by the owners Will be cleaned by the town. The owners will be summoned to. appear before the mayor and fined the amount it cost to have the work done by the town crew.' ' 7-v 'v IV.'--..-- . . . Ditches are also being dug at the cemetery to drain thaj; section of property and the new signal light at Ann and Turner street, put up Thursday, first went into operation Thursday night Demonstration Club to Meat The Mill Creek home demonstra tion club will meet at 7 o'clock to morrow evening at the home of Mrs. A. L. Winberry. Marine Scientist New Phone Exchanges Go To Into Operation At Atlantic, Marshallberg L. A. Daniels, local manager' of the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph . company announced today that new dial operator tele phone exchanges for Atlantic and Marshallberg are scheduled to be placed in operation' to morrow, Aug. 11.. According to Mr. Daniels, the new exchange at Atlantic will serve approximately 85 subscri bers while the exchange at Mar shallberg will serve approximate ly 90 subscribers. Delegation Goes To Washington On Port Mission Town Officials Seek More Export Trade for Port Terminal As part of the city administra tion's program to increase the im portance of Port Terminal in the shipping world, Mayor George W. Dill, Morehead Citv, W. L. Derrick son, commissioner, Robert L. Hicks, manager of Standard Oil's terminal at Morehead, Cecil Moore, representative of the Atlantic and East Carolina railroad, und Sena tor Libby Ward, of New Bern, went on a mission to the nation's capital recently. It was their intention, explained Mayor Dill in an interview follow ing his return, to find out whether products being shipped to Europe under the country's aid-to-Europe program might be shipped from this port as well as Wilmington, or similar ports, along the eastern seaboard. Hours of tramping from one gov- ernment building to another, sce- i -.v. Tng this official rind' that, brought the delegation to the conclusion that the most fruitful means of in creasing the traffic at the local port will be to convince shippers, especially in this state, of the economy of transporting products from the nearest port. The government' agency, Com modity Credit corporation, super vising the flow of goods overseas, has no say as to which port the products shall leave, it was learn ed. European nations purchase goods under the lend-lease program through companies in this country. These companies ship the products, then, through any ports of their own choosing, the delegation was told. Asked during the interview why Morehead City has been by-passed to a large extent in export busi ness, Mayor Dill replied that main railroads serving the eastern sea board have extensive facilities at Wilmington, Norfolk, and Charles ton for handling cargoes and na turally make no effort to interest North Carolina shippers in sending goods through a state port which is not served by their road. Secondly, Port Terminal is com paratively new when considered alongside Wilmington and Charles ton. "Look at it this way," said the mayor. "You've been trading at one store all your life and have always been satisfied. Then a new store opens, has exactly the same thing the older one does, may be even a little beter.yetit's hard to change. Well, that's the problem here." Re-dried tobacco is the best bet for export from Morehead City, Mayor Dill pointed out. This year's shipments have already been al located to ports in Virginia and South Carolina, but the mayor in ferred that steps will be taken to divert some of next year's exports through Port Terminal. It's 40 minutes from Port Ter minal to the ocean, remarked" Mr. Dill, in comparison to the two days required for entering and leaving Wilmington. 1 Operated under a commission ap pointed by the state and by the town of Morehead City, Port Ter minal is maintained by revenue re ceived from the shippers and by a 10 cent levy per hundred dollars paid by Morehead City taxpayers. N More Polio Reproted No more cases of polio in Car teret, county have been reported by theVhealth office since Monday, Aug. 2, a week ago. Thus far, five Carteret children, all reported to be In satisfactory conditions, have become ill with the disease. Morehead Collects $84 ' Parking meter collections in Morehead City for the month of July amounted to $884, John Lash- Icy, city clerk, has announced. Beaufort Begin Membership Drive Tomorrow Concerted Work Undertaken in T6, Crippled Cases Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county health officer, reported yesterday that Mrs. Mildred Spivey, health department nurse, is doing inten sive follow-up work on the tuber culosis and crippled cases in the western pari of the county. With a new case of tuberculosis reported yesterday morning in Stella, the work is assuming larger importance. Mrs. Spivey is making visits to the homes of the various neople listed in health department files as tubercular cases, taking X-rays, making sputum tests, and giving instructions for the protec tion of families. Dr. -Ennett pointed out that when a case of tuberculosis is dis covered, the first thing that the health department tries to do is to protect the family of the pa tient, and this is usually done by breaking contact between the pa tient and his family. That is one of the main reasons for sending tubercular cases to sanitoriums. Upon spotting a new case, the health department always notifies the family physician so that he might be fully informed when deal ing with the family. One of the main centers of tu berculosis is the Nine-Foot road winding out of Newport to the route 24, Dr. Ennett said. There are nine known cases along that road, and they receive immediate atfentiiin from thn ifonnrtmont vt.iai'fc-H m.nS .u'Me-'a w'wwui- .. - j- . l ... 'JrS' ThncU xuhfi uttrnrlori Frid-iv third there. The other health department nurse, Mrs. Leota Hammer, who Is now on vacation, is in charge of the eastern part of the county Houseboat Burns On Waterfront i The houseboat belonging to Dave Davis, Morehead City, is a total loss as a result of a fire on it Saturday afternoon. The house boat in which Mr. Davis was living with another man was drawn up on the beach east of the Jefferson hotel. Morehead City fire department answered an alarm sent in from box 15 at 4th and Arendell Sts. at 1:30 iq the afternoon. After leaving the scene once, they were called back to put out the grass fire surrounding the boat. It is not known how the fire started, but nothing inside the boat was saved. Mr. Davis and his housemate are reported" to have left at 7 o' clock Saturday morning for the western part of the town where, they were building another boat. They were not in the vicinity of the houseboat when the fire broke out. Break In Weather Sends Ont Party Boats' Again After about 22 days of lying at dock because of stiff southwest winds, party boats took off for the deep blue of the Gulf Stream over the weekend and came back with mackerel, blues, and dolphin. Ottis Purifoy'i boats brought in sea bass, dolphin, and trigger fish Saturday and Sunday. The Shear water, Dolphin, Sea Raven, and Beth went out. 1 ) The Lois Nancy, Alfred Pittman, captain, took about 63 blues and mackerel Saturday at Lookout shoals and on Sunday brought in dolphin. Strike Off Shrimp fishermen in the Bogue Sound area called off their strike over the weekend with " higher price of 20 cents per pound offer ed for large shrimp, it was learned today. Fifteen cents is at ill being paid by some dealers for 4748 count . : f Melting Days Aren't Over Because Croatan Frozen Food company .is dispensing . filth its deep freeze storage service, custo mers were notified by mail last week to remove their foodstuffs from the lockers within 3ff days, r Chamber Board of Directors Lays Groundwork At Friday Night Meeting Six members of the hoard of directors of Beaufort's Chamber of Commerce and other interested in dividuals met Friday night at the home of Dr. W. L. Woodard, pre sident, to lay groundwork for the active functioning of the new or ganization. Getting underway tomorrow will be a one week's membership drive, launched with the mailing of 200 letters to businessmen throughout the Beaufort area. Enclosed in this letter will be a form on which businessmen will make suggestions for a program of work. Various fields, including commercial activity, industry, agri culture, marine and civic affairs "ill be considered in this program which will be submitted lor final approval to Chamber of Commerce members. A constitution and by-laws were tentatively approved at Friday night's meeting. Dan L. Walker, manager of the Chamber, made it clear today, however, that all of the plans considered so far are subject to the iipproval of the entire Chamber of Commerce member ship. He also requested Hint anyone having suggestions for the coming vnur'o nrnfirum Kllhmit them tn him. a member of the board of:1-00 P" mile directors, or one of the member ship committee who this week will be accepting memberships. ' The executive committee, con sisting of Dr. Woodard, Paul Jones, vice president, James H. Davis, treasurer, Mr. Walker, G. W. Dun can, and ' Harry I. Saunders, has been' empowered to secure office night's session were Dr. Woodard, Mr. Jones, Mr. Davis, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Saunders, Halsey Paul, direc tor, Mr. Walker, Lockwood Phil lips, and Mrs. W. I. Loftin. Other members of the board of directors are Alonia Willis, R. Hugh Hill, Horace G. Loftin, and Lambert Morris, Mrs. Helen Hat sell is president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Tide Table HIGH LOW Tuesday, August 10 6:10 a.m. 12:26 p.m. 6:56 p.m. Wednesday, August 11 12:43 a.m. 7:03 a.m. 1:22 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Thursday, August 12 1:41 a.m. 8:01 a.m. 2:23 p.m. 0:05 p.m. Friday, August 13 2:43 a.m. 8:59 a.m. 3:27 p.m. 10:13 p.m. County Officials Defeated in fVC. Salisbury : This plctura of former Democra tic county officials is said to have been made Just before the county Republican avalanche In the elec tion of 19lft put them all out of Off ice except T. C. Wade, clerk of the court, whose term of office 0 '- i ' t 1 7 ... . ... of Commerce Will Airline Makes Profit In June Of $12,17113 At a meeting of the board of directors of Piedmont Aviation. Inc., held August 5. at the home offices, Smith Kcvnolds Airport. Winston-Salem, it was announced by T. II. Davis, president, that dur ing the month of June Piedmont had a net operating profit of $12, 171.63. Piedmont flew its first scheduled an line mile on February 20, 1948. Piedmont began service to the Beaufort Morehead Citv airport May 6 this year. Operation to this locality will cease with the close of (he summer season. Mr. Davis staled further that the operating cost per mile for the first month of scheduled operations was $1,116, whereas the operating cost per mile for the month of .Tune was 87 cents a (Iron of almost Revenue passen gers carried hv Piedmont during the month of June totaled 4,046, und 17,23!) pounds of mail, 17,660 pounds of express and 11,068 pounds of freight moved via Pied mont during that month. Since Inauguration of airline service Piedmont has carried a to tal of 0,418 revenue passengers, and has floWa, 465,38!) revenue miles. ' Gi'mj ,tfcr from Febru ary through June totaled $474,470.. 04. ' The Board of Directors of Pied mont Aviation, Inc., is as follows: T. H. Davis, president und trea surer of Piedmont Aviation, R. S. Northlngton, vice president, Pied mont Aviation, M. F. Fare, secre tary, Piedmont Aviation, R. D. Ha ger, assistant to the president, Piedmont Aviation, E. L. Davis, president, Security Life & Trust company, E. L. DaVis, Jr., presi dent, Atlas Supply company, S. Clay. Williams, chairmari of the board of directors, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company, Thurmond Cha tham, chairman of the board of di rectors, Chatham Manufacturing company, Elkin, Charles E. Nor fleet, vice-president, Wuchovia Bank & Trust company, Frank E. Thompson, president, Thompson Lynch 4 company, Raleigh. Medical Society Meets The Carteret County Medical so ciety held its monthly meeting last night at the Carteret County Recreation center. ' Republican Landslide of had two more years to run. Later Mr, Wade resigned his pos ition to become associated with the Bank of Beaufort as cashier. Mr. Wade had served as Clerk qf the Court from 1006 to 1918. In 1922 he was elected Sheriff pf the coun ty in which office he served for several years. Charge Dismissed Against T. Smith Driving while intoxicated, a charge against Thomas L. Smith, of Tarboro, was dismissed yester day in Morehead City mayor's court when Smith testified from the stand that he had not been in liixicated, but had had a mild heart attack. The seizure came upon Smith late Sundav night. July 22, while driving across the Atlantic Beach bridge, and he caused two minor wrecks at 28lh and Arendell streets before- he could come to a hall, according to Officer Hubert Ful cher who investigated. Alvah Hamilton aid George Mc Neill, lawyers for Smith, submitted a number of affidavits vouching for Smith's character and one from Smith's doctor who confirmed his testimony that he has -a heart con dition. Three Negroes were brought into court for being involved in fight. Warren Hester and William Becton were both found guilty of fighting, while the case against Joseph Hes ter was dismissed when he testi fied he was trying to break up the battle. William Hines, also colored, tes tified he was injured although he was not a participant, claiming $10 in hospital bills and $4 50 for broken glasses. Hester and Becton were ordered to pay $27.25 apiece. Of the mo ney, $14.50 will go to Hines and the rest represents fines and pay ment of court costs Other cases tried were as follows- Robert Dudley,- Negro, crea ting a disturbance, $10 and costs; Jesse Finch, trespassing, $25 and costs; Dave Bell, drunk, 15 days in jail. George Gibhs, drunk, 15 days in jail; Charles Wickizer, drunk, $15 and costs; Noah Emery, drunk, $15 and costs. J. H. Reid, drunk, $15 and costs; Charles Webb Willis, drunk and disorderly, $20 and costs; Frank Parker, drunk, $20 and costs. William C. DuBose, charged with driving without s license, did not appear, forfeiting $23 bond. Car Damaged Saturday In Beaufort Collision Approximately $100 damage was caused to the car owned by Mrs. Raymon Paul, Beaufort, when it crashed into the Cole grocery store at Marsh and Pine streets, Beau fort, Saturday night. The building was damaged, but no -one was inlured. With Mrs. Paul at the time was Francis At kins, also of Beaufort. 1916 In the election of 1916, Joe Mor ris, of Atlantic, became register of deeds, T. M. Thomas, Jr., of Beau fort, secured the office of sheriff, being reelected in 1918 and 1920. S. P. Hanqock, who was defeated by Mr. Thomas, had held the of fice of sheriff for 16 year- C. D. Jones, of Beaufort, took over the William Davis, 21, Injured Sunday In Boat Accident Hendricks House Pulls Da vis From Water in Front Of Inlet Inn William Davis, 21, Beaufort ,il recovering today in Morehead City hospital from injuries received shortly after 1 o'clock Sunday aft ernoon when ho fell overboard from a speedboat in front of the Inlet Inn and was cut by the pro pellor cf the boat as it passed over l,iin. Davis, with two companions, Tom Potter and Hendricks House, both of Beaufort, were cruising up iind down the creek yn Potter's boat when a sudden veering of I he craft threw Davis, who had been sitting in the bow, into the water. ) Poller immediately slopped the linM and the two youths waited lor Davis to come up. In a mat ter ol seconds, Davis' body float ed to the top, and House, fully clothed, dove into the water and milled Davis, unconscious and , bloody, to the boat I On shore, the accident was wit nessed by three onlookers, Miss Jane Ilammersley, Steve Itainoff, and John Havas, all of Beaufort. Miss Ilammersley vainly tried to i reach Dr. C. S. Maxwell, who lives I in the vicinity, and Havas. after : unsuccessfully trying to contact Hie Morehead City hospital, called liom the home of Miss Mattie Dun can to W. E. Adair who rushed to the scene with his ambulance. While awaiting ,the ambulance, House and an unidentified passer by succesfully stopped the bleed ing from an artery near Davis' lett car by applying direct pres kurc to the wound with a shirt Davis' ear was Badly mangled inn he had slashes ' over his bodyj hands and face. After being admitted to the hos pital, Davis spent about two hours on the operating tabic where his car was saved by surgery. The youth's condition has been described by the hospital today as "good" and he is expected to be discharged in a week. Davis, Sen of Mrs. L. C. Davis, is a pre mod student at Wake For est, and will be starting his Jun ior year this fall. Three Carteret Counlians Enlist in Army. Air Force Three Carteret countians recent ly enlisted in the army, and U. S, air force. They are Ralph L. Styron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian C. Styron. Davis, Maurice W. Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Peterson, 210 Pollock street, Beaufort, and James Howard Golden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Golden, route IIFD 1, Beaufort. HWII I office of county treasurer, which ii ' now the office of county auditor, from Ben Arrington. -t - Three members of this group of county official are alive today, T. C. Wade, of this city, and D. IL Lewis, and Sam Scott who both re side in Beaufort" . : '.: '; ., : v 't. vit. 1 I 1