Astronomical Dala F3 10c Sun SeU Tonight 5:25 p.m. Moon Rises Today 10:28 p.m. Moon Sets Tonight 11:55 pan. Sun Rises Tomorrow 6:20 son. A Merger ol THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 38th YEAR NO. 46. 12 PAGES MOREHEAD CITY, AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948 12 PAGES PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY! Harkers Island Men Make Plans For JC Building Ond-Siory Concrete Block Structure to Be Built Within Coming Month Tlie youngest Junior Chamber cf Commerre in the county will be the first to have its own building, if present plans of the Markers Island Jaycees materialize. At their meeting Tuesday night the Jayrecs agreed to purchase from Karl Davis a 50 by 125 foot lot on the island's Old Fair road, and within the next month con struct a 28 by 30 foot concrete block one-story building. The proposed structure will con lain n club room and facilities for recreation. At present the men are meeting in the school library. The Harkers Island Junior Chamber received its charter early Ihis year. Assislance in organiza tion was given by the Beaufort Junior Chamber. In addition to routine Jaycce activities, the Harkers Island group has established a speed zone through the residential section of the island and has erected a wel come sign on the main road. Recent new members of the Jay cees arc Cranston Rose Merrill and R. .1. Chadwick, making a member ship of 23. President is Willard Willis. 125 Register In Beaufort County Registration Esti mated ai 500; Books Will Close October 29 One hundred twenty-five new voters have registered in Beaufort, . R. Seeley, chairman of the county board of elections, has an nounced, and the number of reg istrants throughout the county has been estimated at about 500. Tomorrow is the last day of reg istration at polling places. Oct. 30th is challenge day when the voting eligibility of anyone listed on the registrars' books may questioned. Dl" Registrars and their respective precincts are as follows: J. C. Bar ker, Stella: Allen A. Vinson, Pel letier; John A. Weeks, Cedar Point: W. D. Smith, Bogue; Nor man Guthrie, Broad Creek. Mrs. Prudie Potter, Newport; Curtis L. McCabe, Wildwood; George W. Smith, Salter Path James B. Long, Morehead; Frank King, Beaufort; M. M. Eubanks, Wire Grass; George Ball, Harlowc, Hugh B. Salter, Mcrrimon; Cleveland Gillikin, Bettie; Paul Chadwick, Straits; Charles -W. Hancock, Harkers Island; I. F. Moore, Marshallbcrg; George Wal ton Davis, Smyrna. Mrs. Pauline Wade, Williston; Hamlin H. Davis, Davis; William Fulcher, Stacy; Alvah B. Taylor, Sea Level; Clayton Fulcher, At lantic; J. B. Goodwin. Cedar Is land, and John R. Willis, Ports mouth. Total registration, for Carteret county is between 9,700 and 9,800. Six Youngsters Receive Prizes In JC Contest Six lucky boys and girls in More head City received $5 prizes last week for their winning 25-word statements completing the pledge, "I pledge to do my part in fire prevention by. The contest was sponsored during Fire Prevention week by the Jaycecs who offered $5 prizes to primary, grammar and high school divisions of the white and colored schools. Following are the contest win ners in the white schools: Llewel lyn Phillips II, primary; Sue Coi ner, grammar; Jean Barbour, high school. Negro winners were Mott Hester, primary; Grant Ulysses Willoughby, grammar; and Lillian Hodge, high school. Bruce Goodwin, Jaycce presi dent who distributed the prizes, said a major crisis developed in the Negro school when the wrong little girl thought she heard her name mentioned as winner, came to" the front for the $3 and re turned to her seat before the ac tual winner got to the rostrum. The mistake was righted, however. Grand Jury Repairs and improvements to county schools comprised the main body of recommendations which the Carteret county grand jury submitted to Judge J. Paul Friz zelJc at the October term of superi or court Wednesday. The grand iury also recommend ed that the Carteret county board of commissioners take nroper steps to prohibit the sale of wine and beer in all places of business in the county from 11:30 n.m. Sat urday until 7 a.m. each Monday. Ai the Morehead City graded school. th graid jury recommend that additional heating radiation be provided for the first grr.de room, which has 85 pupils, and tha' broken window panes be replaced and glazing done as reciuircd Re placement of six st.ctiors of fire hose found in had condition was recommended. The huilili v w.r declared to be in fair condition except for "inadequate j Miitor service resulting in undesirabl' dirtiness." Further investigation with view toward the correcting of heavy seepage throii'di the wa!l of the Beaufort graded school dur ing heavy rains was rccimmcndcd At the W. S. King colored schoo' it Morehead Citv. the fire escape steps and ceilings were found to be in poor condition. It was re ported that no fire exingiiishcrs arc provided at the school and that the first floor is in bad condition, needing new joists, flooring and other related framing. The boys' toilet floor was declared to be i,i similarly poor condition; the toil ets are leaking, and the drinking fountain is in a state of disrepair. Recommendation was made that a bad floor condition probably due to termites at the Beaufort colored school be repaired soon. It was found that some doors need replacing at the Beaufort (white) gymnasium. Findings and recommendations at other schools in the county were as .follows: Smith River leaking roof; steps and porch, were con demned by county carpenters In 1947. ' Windows need glazing n"d minor patching. The pump supply ing drinking water out of order. Sea Level school: found in fair condition. Stacy school: roof leaks in auditorium. Merrimon school: no heating facilities provided and windows and steps in poor condi tion. Correction and necessary re pairs recommended. Otway school: window glass required, toilets need repairs and drinking facilities in adequate and repairs to pump and said items recommended. North River: installation of See GRAND JURY Page 7 Cold Weather Comes To Coast Near-freezing temperatures hit the Carteret roast during the week, the thermometer registering just six degrees above the freezing mark on Tuesday. Minimum temperature that day was 38 and maximum 52, accord ing to E. Stamey Davis, Morehead City, official weather observer. Thirty-six degrees was recorded in New Bern where there was light frost, but not enough to damage lafc fall flowers or vegetable corps. Temperatures reached a low of 23 in Ashevillc and were freezing or below throughout all of the Piedmont section. The past week here has been virtually without rain. There was a trace of precipitation Sunday night and Monday morning. Temperatures from Saturday through Tuesday arc as follows: Max. Min. Saturday 72 52 Sunday 78 55 Monday 64 41 Tuesday 52 38 Hiram Kerr Accepts Position On Police Force Hiram Kerr began duly on Ihc Beaufort police force Tuesday, suc ceeding James Austin. Austin, who reported to work last week end, secured a job at Cherry Point after working as a policeman Sat urday and Sunday. Police Officer Maxwell Wade. whom Kerr replaces, was admitted to the Marine hospital in Norfolk Saturday. Rake Sale Postponed The bake sale, originally sched uled for tomorrow in Beaufort. and sponsored by the Business and Professional Women's club hat been postponed. The new j a I date will be announced later. . Devotes Report to School Pups iii Boots : ! ' y ' y "N Boon dockers, say the Marines, not boots, but civilians don't know no better. The pup on the left probably didn't give a hoot what they're called, he didn't like then-. The only way the pho tographer (on Id get him lo slay put was to tie him in. Such is a dog's life. Photo by Official CSMC Photographer Staff Sgl. O. L. Dagcnais. Beiiuloii 11 To Entertain Beaufort Parent-Teacher associa tion this week concluded plans for entertaining district 10 of the Parent-Teacher association Wednes day at Beaufort school. This will be the first time Beaufort has been host to the district. Registration will begin at 9:30 and the opening meeting prompt- John I). Messiek ly at 10. Mrs. J. Paul Davenport, Sr., of Pactolus, district director, and other officials of the district will be present, as well as stale PTA officials. Guest speakers will be Dr. John Decatur Messiek, president of East Carolina Teachers college, and Memorial Service Honor Marine Cherry Point Marine Air base will observe Navy Week beginning Sunday with memorial services at the operations tower at 2:30 p.m. and on Wednesday, Navy Day. there will be open house. The memorial services will ho nor Navy and Marine dead buried at sea and will be conducted by Chaplain W. W. Winter. The public is requested to send or bring flowers. Organizations may send wreaths or bouquets of flowers, while individuals arc re quested to give but a single flow er. Following the service, which civilians may ettend, the flowers will be placed in planes and flown over the Atlantic ocean where they will be strewn on the water. This annual custom is being ob served at 26 other air fields in the nation Sunday. If friends or relatives jof war dead do not attend the services, they should send their flowers to Chaplain W. W. Winter, Post Exchange building, Cherry PoinHWarine Air base. On Wednesday there will be conducted tours through the base Overhaul and Repair department. where aircraft is serviced. There ...til i m , " : wil also be an air demonstration " miwuwiu. IxIN .J Dr. Complete Plans District PTA Charles W. Phillips, professor and director of public relations at Woinnn's college, Greensboro. Theme of the meeting will be "United for Youth." Dr. Messiek has served as prin cipal in Wade and Trenton schools, superintendent at Spencer, dean of instruction at Lion college, holds Charles W. Phillips membership id Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi, honorary edu cational fraternities and has writ ten two books, Personality and Character Development and School Boards: Their Powers and Discre tions, not yet published. Dr. Mcs Sce PTA Page 7 Sunday al Air Base Corps, Navy Dead David Jones Conducts Quiz at Rotary Meeting Beaufort Rotarians were enter tained Tuesday night with a quiz program by David Jones. Mimeo graphed blanks were distributed, and members were asked to fill in Ihc blanks of three groups of'j questions. The first group could be answered either by the Words "left" or "right." The second group called for the names of ci ties of the world. The identifica tion of major football teams by their nicknames constituted the third group. James Davis netted the highest score in the contest and was awarded a cigarette lighter. Two guests were introduced. They were F. E. Harper, of West inghouse Electric Supply Co., Ra leigh, and Lionel Pelletier, of Stel la. The Rotarians met at Inlet Inn and were served barbecue. Tanker Docks The. Esso tanker Greenville. eaVrvinff oauilina from Rout AUI1 1 r v wojivwii, Tex., docked yesterday morning at i iron lernunat. Navy Transports Dock At Terminal Marines Go On Laborador Operations; Return From Training In Virginia I Several of the 65 United Stales ! Naval vessels which arc carrying I Marines on maneuvers to Lahra- dor lay offshore Tucsdav morning j while two transports docked to take on Marines from Camp I.e- ieunc. I Th CSS Okanogan and the USS New Kent came into I'orl Terminal Tuesday morning and left Wednes day morning The maneuvers arc part of the Navj's cold weather operations. The 1 1SS Cambria, carrying 1,000 Marines based ,it Camp l.e jeune. arrived veslerday. hrinuing the me ) home from two weeks of intensive training in amphibious warfare at the Naval amphibious base, Little Creek. Va. Marines hoarded the Cambria at the naval base prior to a prae tice assault landing Wednesday morning on the beaches near Camp Pendleton, Va. 17-Year-OId Boy Found Not Guilty On Fraud Charge Harold Comerford, Jr., 17, a New York City high school boy, who vacationed in Morehead City this summer, was exonerated in superior court Wednesday of charges that he deceived Andrew L. Davis, proprietor of the Broad way cafe in Morehead Citv, Into iiving him 40 for a MO Western Union money order the night of Sept. 10. Mr. Davis was previously found guilty in the Sept. 14 session of county recorder's court on charges that he assaulted the boy by slap ping him the night of Sept. 11 when Mr. Davis and Comerford had a dispute over the check cash ing incident in the Broadway cafe. The cafe proprietor alleged thai a $40 check was first presented lo him for cashing by Comerford and a Marine M. P., Joseph Blahut, and that he gave the defendant $40 value in return. He said thai af ter he had examined the check and determined its value lo be $40, the boy and the Marine first had an order of food and that the hoy then presented him the guest ticket for the food and a check, which Mr. Davis assumed, was the same one first shown him. He declared that he accepted the check without further examina tion, took out money for the food and paid Comerford $39 and some cents. It was not until the next morn ing, he alleged, when he was about See COURT Page 8 Parents Expected At Spook Party Parents, too, arc expected to make up a large portion of the crowd at the costume ball and Hallowe'en festival from 7:30 to 11 o'clock tomorrow night at the Carteret Recreational center, Shop ard street, Mrs. II. II. Sampson, Tcen-Agc club adviser, remarked yesterday. Admission to the party will be 25 cents. Without a costume the charge will be DO cents. The various games,, contests, and types of recreation planned for the evening will be sponsored by civic clubs. . Prizes donated by the Lions club for outstanding costumes will be as follows: $10 permanent from the Moderne Beauty shop, shaving soap from Hill's, a minia ture silver basketball from Early Jewelers, a red leather cap from Hardware and Building Supply, a pair of nylon hose from D. B. Webb, stationery from Rose's, a T shirt from Leary's and perfume from S 4 W Drug store. Among the bingo prizes will be an electric iron cord, shoe polish, bubble bath, cologne and bath mitt, handkerchiefs, a glass bowl, after-shave lotion, and numerous other small prizes. Bingo is being sponsored by the Carteret Business and Professional I WaiHah's mviiicii liUU. i UIIIlIULlce 111 charge is Mrs. H. F. Lindsay, Mrs club. Committee in i see SPOOK PARTY Page 7 Morehead Authorize Teen-Age Club Officers in urn. ,ini. r ,11 aS,(1V vV'VTI! Officers of the Morehead tity '"Von-Age club are pictured a hove at the recreational center. They are, left to right, Ruddy Bai ley, vice-president, Jane Ballon, rcrrtary, Lois Webb, president, and Tommy Cordova, treasurer. IV. rs. Harold II. Sampson was recent ly selected by the Teen-Agers as ihcir advisor for this year. Photo by The News Times 11 Couniians to Take Pre-Induction Physical The first II Carteret coun'y men ordered to I'ayettcville for the prcinductioit physical exam ination in the nation's peace time draft left Beaufort yester day at 6:45 a.m. Six of these will be used to fill the first call from this county. At least 21 days will elapse between the date of the preinduction physical and the actual induction in the Army. The following men from Beau fort were in the group: Burni Fulcher Willis, Curtis Mc Kelvin (colored), William S. Davis (colored), Clarence Leslie Davis, Jr. the only Morehead City man was James Emanuel Dudley (co lored). Doz'er Max Henderson and Paul Franklin Kowden, of New port, Edward L. Moore, Marshall bcrg; Ruthcford Haze Gray, At lantic; Dewey Willis, Harkers Island; and Willis L. Mason, Jr., Stacy, also were called. Ralph Wade Heads Symphony Society Ralph Wade, bandmaster and in structor of music al Morehead City school, has been elected pre sident of the North Carolina Sym phony society committee. The or ganizational meeting took place Tuesday night al the home of Mrs. B. F. Royal, Morehead City. Other officers arc Mrs. Virginia Hasscll. Beaufort, vice-president Mrs. Helen Hatscll, Beaufort, sec retary, and Mrs. H. F. Lindsay, Morehead City, treasurer. Sale of tickets for the little sym phony concert which will be given this year in Morehead City, will begin Monday, Nov. 1. Exact date of the concert has not been set, neither has the program been an nounced as yet. The free concert in the after noon will be for children from the fourth to eighth grades. The sym phony committee decided that children in grades one to three were too young to appreciate the numbers which will be played. The afternoon concert will be given in Morehead Cily school. Tickets for children arc available for the evening concert, however. To help school youngsters under stand the music they will hear in the afternoon concert, music teach ers will be requested to explain it in music classes prior to appear ance of the symphony, it is plan ned also to obtain records of the numbers the little symphony will present and have the children lis ten to them. In charge of ticket sales in Beau fort will be Mrs. C. R. Whcatly, Sr., and in Morehead City, Mrs. Royal. All civic organizations of both towns are backing the appear ance of the little symphony. If See RALPH WADE Page 7 Greece Will Purchase Heavy Material Under EBP ATHENS (AP) Greece will buy $31,400,000 worth of industrial and agricultural equipment and supplies under the European Re covery Program. Purchase of $5,200,000 worth of first five months of the program. Industrial equipment, $21,400,000 of industrial materials and $4,800, 000 of agricultural production sup- plies have been authorized for tha City Commissoners Deputy for Hotel JCs To Register Morehead Voters Iniensive Campaign Outlin ed al Monday Night's Meeting If citizens of Morehead. Cily do not go to the polls and cast their ballots Nov. 2, it will not be the fault of the Morehead Jaycees who have gone lo work in earnest in their "Get Qui the Vole" ln paigtl. " Taking a map of the township at their meeting Monday night, they assigned the town's voters, block by block, to a member of the Juni or Chamber to sec that every po tential voter in each block is re gistered to vote. Wherever a citizen is found who has not registered for the city or the national elections, ihc Jay cees will register that citizen. It will then be the responsibility of Ihc citizen to carry out the "Gel Out the Vole" effort by going to Ihc polls on election day. II. S. Gihbs. Jr., is in charge of the campaign. Stanley Wainwright offered a share-lhc-profits plan for Jaycce purchases of gasoline at his Sound service station on Arendcll st., and Jaycecs promptly accepted it. Following a plan which Mr. Wainwright said is in effect in an other town, he will return to the Jaycec organization one and a half cents for every gallon of gasoline which Morehead Jaycees purchase at his service station. Reporting on the activities of Fire Prevention week, October 3-9. President Bruce Goodwin declared, "We got everybody fire conscious." During the period, Jaycecs spon sored a contest on fire prevention among school children, home in spection by school children, the sale of fire extinguishers and a See JAYCEES Page 7 Beaufort School to Sponsor Hallowe 'en Carnival Oct 29 Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, Oct. 22 10:41 a.m. 4:18 a.m. H:02 p.m. 5:18 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23 11:30 a.m. 5:03 a.m. 11:53 p.m. 6:11 D.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 12 midnight 5:59 a.m. 12:25 p.m. 7:10 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25 12:52 a.m. 7:05 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 10:16 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26 2:05 a.m. 8:24 a.m. 2:40 p.m. 9:20 p.m. France Over-rich In Monuments PARIS (AP) France has more historical monuments than she knows what to do with. The Education M 'try has clas sified 12,000 cathedrals, chateaux, etc., 1 as historical monuments. Many erstwhile rich Frenchmen, now fallen upon hard times, have been offering their ancient houses to the government, which hat been turning them down for. lack of funds to keep them up. ' Invitations Ready Soon For Bids On Paving of Evans Street The Morehead Citv town com missioners Wednesday iiiialu okay ed a request of llarkless Wooten that a bouncer be deputized lo help keep order at his Edgrwulrr club, which has been the scene of sev eral disturbance endng up in Morehead City mayor's court re cently. Simon Ward Parker was ccord ingly authorized by the commis sioners to be Iii I v sworn in as a police officer with full power lo arrest offenders while on duty at the Edgewater club The action of Darkless Woolen in requesting a bouncer was prompted by a warning from Mayor (",. W Dill at a recent mayor's court session that he would order the Edgewater club closed, if the Neyio proprietor could not keep older. Parker's police authority will be confined to the area of the Edge water club premises during his working hours, except that he can go beyond that area to apprehend offenders who start trouble on the premises. He was also empowered lo deputize assistants if a ease should be more than he could handle alone. In compliance with a separate request of Woolen concerning his taxes, the town commissioners voted to allow him $1B0 credit on his 194847 property taxes for im provements which he made on the street adjoining the Edgewater club and hotel. The commissioners voted lo lake later action on a request by V. E. Ballou for the extension of a sewer main, pending a conference with . contractor to determine the costs. Mr. Ballou agreed to furnish hair ,of tfie pipe and pt the tapping. ice if the town would provide wc remainder of the pipe and Ihc la bor for the extension of a sewer See BOARD MEETS Page 7 Little Theatre Plans Production Ifoice Of Turtle! The twin-city little theatre group made tentative plans at their meet ing Monday night, in the civic cen ter to obtain "Voice of the Turt le," a comedy in three acts, for their first production. ; Miss Doris Leach was named as director, assisted by Miss Jane Hamcrslcy. Instead of electing a president, the steering commit tee, consisting of Miss Leach, An sil Chapin, and Earl Lewis, will continue to serve. ' Mrs. Jessie Devonchik was elect ed secretary-treasurer. Miss Ha mcrslcy, Frank Hatton, and Charv les Markcy will serve on the pub licity committee. The next meeting will be held at 8 So Monday night on the sec ond floor of the civic center, tflth and Evans streets, Morehead City. Anyone interested in joining the group should attend the meeting. By Betsy Noe " The annual Halloween carnival al Beaufort school will take place Friday night, Oct. 29, in the Beau fort High school gymnasium. , Proceeds will be used for better ment of the school. There wilbbe games, contests, refreshments for sale, and a king and queen, prince and princess will be crowned. ., The following poem on the Car nival was written by Rosemary Bessent, Beaufort high school seni or: ' On October 29th, Friday night, In the Beaufort gym by a witch's light; The king and queen i i Ihcir royal array , - Will be crowned by a dashing man of the day, t-' There'll be apples to hob tot and prizes to win, Just pay at the door and walk right in. ' " Bring lots of confetti and pen nies to throw w And meet all your friends with Halloween glow. ' So remember the time, 7:30 on" the dot, - ' ' And the Beaufort gym islhe per - fectipoU ; -!,,: - ' .: