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( Beaufort: 120 Craven St.
Morehead City: 807 Evans St.
A Merger o! THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936)
39th. YEAR NO. 10.
EIGHT PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY, AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1949
EIGHT PAGES
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYI
County Board Approves Request for Assistant Farm Agent
Education Board Gives Go-Ahead Signal
On Beaufort Athletic Field Proposals
'Madix Corporation
' Will Appeal Case
To Labor Board
Trial Examiner Finds Local
Plant Guilty of Unfair
Labor practices
Madix Asphalt Roofing corpora
tion, Morehead City, will appeal
to the National Labor Relations
4 board the decision handed down
last week by an NLRB trial exami
ner finding the corporation guilty
of unfair labor practices.
George McNeill, Morehead City,
attorney for Madix, declared yes
terday "we're going to carry it
, right on up."
An inquiry by the NLRB in the
fall followed a scries of incidents
at the company's plant hst July
in which an employe was threaten
ed with being tarred and feathered
and run out of town.
Unless the company files objec
f'ns in 20 days, the board will or
der it to:
1. Re-cmploy Grady W. Price, an
employe who was discharged after
4 his brother tried to organize the
plant's workers for the AFL Inter
' ' national Brotherhood of Pulp, Sul
phite, and Paper Mill Workers, and
make up his back pay.
2. Award back pay to Early T.
Taylor, James B. Cuthrell and Ed
ward Earl Willis, who were fired
amid a furor at the plant on July
' 29 but put back to work on August
, ' 2.
3. Refrain from recogniiing as
' a collective bargaining agent and
cease from interfering in or finan
cing the Carteret Roofing and Felt
Employes Association.
4. Cease coercing employes from
v joining the AFL International.
i The case was brought before the
NLRB by the AFL union.
The trial examiner found that
Chancy C. Brewen, president of the
firm, inspired formation of the
Carteret Roofing and Felt Employ
es Association by saying in an ad
dress to his employes on July 29
that he was against an "outside
See Madix Pg. 6
Teen-Age Drive
Gets Under Way
Yesterday was the opening of
the Morehead City Teen-Age club
campaign for memberships for the
coming year. If the goal of $5,000
is attained, many necessary repairs
can be made to the recreation cen
ter and more , equipment can be
purchased to make it, in every
sense, a place for recreation.
During the first year of opera
tion since the building passed from
the hands of the federal govern
ment to the town of Morehead City,
43,813 persons have made use of
the building.
Of these, 24,385 were teen-agers.
Other attendance was as follows:
Boy Scouts 667, Girl Scouts 723,
dances 8,038, parties and meetings
7,723, meals and dinner were at
tended by 2,663, classes 2,336,
guests 1,324, boxing bouts 1,025,
and tennis 1,530.
During this period 431 chaper
ons were on duty and 337 mothers
of tecn-apcrs contributed pics for
dinners which were served by Mrs.
Harold Sampson, director.
The money derived from the
serving of these meals has been
used to meet the cost of operating
the center. Dinners and luncheons
have been served with the assis
tance of teen-age waitresses, to the
following:
Jaycecs, Rotariahs, Lions, Cham
ber of Commerce, Literary and Art
club, Woman's club, Sewing Circle
club, North Carolina Alumni asso
ciation, town commissioners, the
Atlantic Baptist association, Busi
ness and Professional Women's
club, and the Hairdressers' asso
ciation,'; .' ..
Tceh-Age memberships are $1
from February to September and
$1 from September to February, in
other words, $2 per year. Adult
memberships are $5 annually or
Bee ve'en-Ager Pi. $ c -
The county board of education
in regular session yesterday after
noon passed a resolution recom
mending that H. S. Gibbs, Carteret
county's representative in the le
gislature, introduce a bill making
it possible for the board of educa
tion to lease the Beaufort ball park
to the Beaufort athletic associa
tion. The resolution was passed at the
request of Wiley Taylor, Jr., at
torney for the association.
The board also approved the
lease granting Davis community
the use of the Davis school house
as a community center.
A delegation from Davis stated
that their community representa
tives would sign the lease. The
delegation raised the question,
however, as to the clause which
states that the board can terminate
the lease at any time necessary for
the use of the building as a school
or until it is deemed necessary to
sell the building.
The board assured the delegates
that they had no cause for worry
on that score because there would
be no necessity for them to use
the building.
II. L. Joslyn, secretary of the
board, read a letter from Mr.
Gibbs acknowledging his receipt of
the board's request to act in favor
the education commission's recom
mendation to the general assembly.
Mr. Joslyn also read a letter
from the Governor's secretary,
Charles Parker, acknowledging the
letter which called attention to the
County's poor roads and need for
school improvements.
The board gave W. B. Guthrie,
caretaker at Markers Island ceme
tery, permission to run a pipe
from the school water supply to the
cemetery nearby.
Mr. Joslyn reported that a ton
See Educaion Pg. 8
Veteran Housing
Group to Meet
The Cherry Point Veteran's
Housing Cooperative, membership
close to 200, will meet at 7:30 Fri
day night in the Havelock school.
The cooperative, which has afoot
a project to build low-cost homes
for veterans at a saving of approxi
mately 30 per cent, is open for
membership to Carteret county and
Craven county veterans. Its mem
bership is composed now chiefly of
Cherry Point civilian personnel.
The low cost housing project will
be made possible, according to
present plans through a labor pool
of the members who will give a
minimum of 12 man hours of labor
per week and a maximum of 15
man hours of labor.
To join, each member makes an
equity payment of $55 which must
be paid by March 15. This fee can
be paid in installments, a nominal
amount upon' joining and the re
mainder prior to the deadline.
The purpose of the meeting Fri
day will be to select a site for the
housing project.
Officers of the cooperative arc
William A. Vernon, Jr., president,
W. S. Jcics, vice-president. M J.
Bohart, secretary, J. D. Gillikin,
treasurer, ajid the folowing direc
tors: A. L. Francesconi. W. B.
Jones, A. S. Payant, and James I.
Sturtevant.
WHERE TO FIND IT
Beaufort Page
Postmaster Requests 1
Recreation Director 1
Sou'easter, ... 2 ,
Social News 5
Fishery Specialist 7
Glee Club 1
Quartet Picture t
Morehead City Page
Madix Corporation ...v 1
Ports Bill 1
Here and There 2
Rivers and Harbors 1
Social News 4
Dr. Harold Meyer 1
County Page
Education Board ,. 1
Assistant Farm Agent 1
Symphony 1
March of Dimes 1,
Nurses Lend Supplies 6
Veteran Housing ..... 1
Features , ;;. .Page
Movie Newt 8
Comics 6,8 :
; Southerners Speak .... .. 8
:.' Shorts ......;.....:.;...;..'............... t -
$7y2 Million Ports Bill Nears
Assembly Floor at Raleigh
Postmaster Taylor Urges
Placement of Mail Boxes
Wiley Taylor, Beaufort post
master, stated that persons in
Highland Park who arc now en
titled to mail delivery service
have not complied with the re
quest that mail receptacles be
provided in front of their homes.
Those on the city route, each
side of highway 70, should put
receptacles on their front porch
rs. 'Those on the rural route
should put their boxes along the
road.
Mr. Taylor urged immediate
compliance with this request.
Symphony Begins
Two-Month Tour
Musicians Will Appear
Next Monday in More
Head School Auditorium
Undaunted by the ice and sleet
of the past week, the Little Sym
phony of the North Carolina Sym
phony Orchestra began its fourth
annual tour Thursday.
The Little Symphony, under the
direction of Dr. Benjamin Swalin,
is made up of 22 musicians. They
began their concert season with a
children's program in llillsboro
Thursday afternoon. From there
the group traveled to Sanford for a
children's matiiuc and evening con
cert Friday.
Yesterday, after a children's con
cert in St. Pauls, the Little Sym
phony went to Raleigh to play a
special concert before the General
Assembly. This program is a bien
nial "thank you" to the state for
its support of the Orchestra. Misj
Josephine Cunningham, seventeen-year-old
soprano of Ashevillc, was
featured in the legislative concert.
During this week the orchestra
will also play concerts in Luinbcr
ton, today, Elizabcthtow i and
Bladenboro Feb. 9 and 10. and
Southport Feb. 11. From Southport
the Little Symphony will continue
up the coast giving concerts, here
See Symphony Pg. 6
Miss Gertrude Styron, Beaufort,
Comments on Retirement System
Miss Gertrude Styron, teacher of
the seventh grade, Beaufort hiflh
school, in this, the fifth of a scries
of eight articles on education in
North Carolina, comments on the
inadequacy of the North Carolina
Teachers and Siaic Employees' re
tirement system.
Miss Styron holds a master's de
gree in education which she ob
tained at Duke university. She
studied for her bachelor of arts
degree at East Carolina Teachers
college where she majored in Eng
lish and French.
Before graduation from college,
Miss Styron taught in a one-teacher
school seven miles from Beau-
Sort. This school is now consoli
atcd with Beaufort. She taught in
Onslow county one year, and the
remainder of her leaching career
has been spent in this county.
For one year she served as prin:
cipal of the three-teacher school at
Lola,, end taught eight pupils in
the eighth and ninth grades for
five years at Newport. This is her
12th year in the Beaufort school
as a seventh grade teacher.
Miss Styron Has always taken an
active part in the Parent-Teacher
association and the Carteret coun
ty unit of the North Carolina Edu
cation association.
A few facts and inadequacies of
the North Carolina Teachers and
State Employees' Retirement Sys
tem: .: v, ; 4
. The purpose of this article is to
better acquaint the teachers who
are members of the State Retire
ment System with few facts and
Predictions in legislative circles
were for the introduction of the
seven and a hit 11 million dollar
ports bill in the state senate yes
terday, probably by Sen. D. L.
Ward of this district.
The proposed port bill, shown
Friday to members of the senate
in advance of its rormal introduc
tion, does not provide for a bond
issue, but the final appropriation
may come in the form of a bond
issue which would be voted upon"
by the citizens of the state.
The bill already bears the sig
nature of a majority of the mem
bers of the Senate and many resi
dents of western North Carolina.
Governor Kerr Scott, through his
spokesman, George Ross, marketing
specialist of the State Department
of Agriculture, has declared that
the ports program "is a matter
that deserves urgent considera
tion." The governor, in response to a
j welcome address at Camp Lejeune
Wednesday, commented that Fort
Bragg came to North Carolina dur
ing t lie first world war, the Ma
rines established bases here during
the second world war, and that fce
hoped it would not take a third
world war to bring the Navy here.
He said port facilities must be
improved now "for peaceful expan
sion of North Carolina's commerce
tluoughout the world."
R. G. Lowe, secretary of flic
Morehead City Chamber of Coin
mercc, who has been working con
stantly on the ports project, com
mcnted yesterday that lhcro,"is
some misunderstanding in this area
on tho manner in which the $7 1-2
million is being apportioned be
tween the two ports, Morehead
City and Wilmington. '
Col. George W. Gillette, director
of the North Carolina State Ports
authority, has asked $5,068,037 for
Wilmingon and $2,298,807 for More
head City.
This is because Wilmington has
no transit sheds while Morehead
City already has one and paving
and railroad connections here are
much more adequate than in Wil
mington, Mr. Lowe pointed out.
Required for paving and road con
ncctions here is $66,010 in compari
son with $271,400 for Wilmington.
According to Colonel Gillette,
who appeared last week before
joint legislative committees, $190,
Scc Ports Pg. 3 ,
inadequacies of the Retirement
Acts. 1 would also like to enlight
en those parents, who have sons
and daughters who might be inter
ested in the career of teaching, and
might some day become members
of the Retirement System.
This article will concern primar
ily the teacher, however, there are
other State Employees who are
members of this great organization.
The North Carolina Teachers'
and Stale Employees' Retirement
System is administered by a Board
of Trustees which consists of eight
members: State Treasurer; cx-offi-cio,
chairman; State Superinten
dent of Public Instruction, ex-ofi-
cio; six members appointed by thewice thus adding some additiona
governor; the Board of Trustees is
charged with the responsibility of
administration, supervision and the
investment of funds.
There arc 77,000 members in the
Retirement System with $42,000,
000 invested in government, state,
county and municipal bonds. The
teachers' contributions arc guaran
teed -against loss; the funds arc
amply protected, and subject to
withdrawal at any time the teacher
wishes to leave the service These
facts alone prove the greatness' of
the North Carolina Teachers and
State Employees' Retirement Sy
tern- j ',;
However, this information show!
you only the greatness of this or
ganization in number of member's,
number of dollars, and protection
of contributions. There are other!
factora which must be provided fof
in the Retirement Acts in order to
make the North Carolina Tcuchcfs'
Legislators Favor
Controlof Harbors
By Dept. of Army
Morehead Citizens Object
to Recommendation for
Department Consolidation
Congressman Graham A. Harden,
Sen. John Bi oughton, and Senator
John L. McClcllan, head of 1 1 it
SenMo committee on expenditures j
in the executive department, have
assured the Morehead City Cham
her of Commerce and other inter
ested citizens of Morehead that
they favor continuation of civil
works (rivers and harbors) as a
responsibility of the corps of engi
neers, department of the Army.
The Hoover commission, recom
mending the regrouping of fed
oral agencies to obtain a more ef
ficient federal government and lias
suggested that the rivers and har
bor work handled by Army engi
neers should be combined with the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, which
is controlled by the Federal Public
Works department.
To this, the Chamber of Com
merce objected on the basis that
river and harbor work is essential
in the defense of the nation and
would be handled better by the
Army than by an agency open to
control by politicians.
A letter from here was sent also
to Sen. Clyde lloey. objecting to
the Hoover commission recommen
dation. Mr. lloey replied that he
had not fully studied the recom
mendation and had not yet de
cided whether to approve or reject
the proposed change.
The reorganization bill of 1915
in the 79th congress contained a
clause stipulating that the civil
functions of the corps of engineers
should remain under jurisdiction
of the Army.
It is hoped by those who object
to the Hoover recommendation
that this clause will be included
in the bill now under considera
tion. and State Employees' Retirement
System a really great organiza
tion. The Retirement Fund is insuff'
cicnt to take care of the needs A
a teacher when she reaches retire
ment age. In fact, the amount she
will receive will not even buy the
necessities of Iftc.
It is true that the Board of Trus
tees of the State Retirement Sys
tem has published the following
statement:
"It was never intended that re
tirement benefits would meet all
of the needs of a retired member,
but only as a supplement to what
he has saved over his period of ser-
income at a time when he is no
longer employed."
. I would like to ask every tcacli
CV these questions:
How much have you saved dur
ing your years of serving the State?
Has your salary been great
enough during the nine months
which you have taught that you
could live decently twelve months
and set aside an Old Age Fund to
meet yodr needs when you arc no
longer physically able to cope with
the problems which forty to forty
five wide-awake youngsters may de
mand each day?
I am rather positive that each
teacher would answer in the nega
tive. Salaries have been too low
to justify a teacher having a Sav
ings Account. The obligations
which a teacher has had to meet in
answering the calls for financial
help, in attending summer schools,
Sea Retirement Pg.
Centennial Quartet Visits
'
Members of the Centennial quartet, pictured above, will sing
Thursday night at the Scout hut. Pollock street, Beaufort. Ad
mission to the hut will be granted upon presentation of a utensil
with which to eiuip the kitchen. The "kitchen shower" is being
simniimr by the Beaufort Junior Women's club. Left (o right,
front rw, they are Hugh ICrwin, Phoenix, Ariz.., Serge Huff, direc
tor, Springville, Utah, Bernard Tanner, Salt Lake City, Utah; back
row, Itoberl Owens, and Kenneth Noble, Phoenix, Ariz.
Recreation Director
To Address Rotarians
Miss Runic Sheffield, assistant
director of the North Carolina
Recreation commission will speak
at (i:l5 tonight to Beaufort Ro
tarians at their weekly meeting
at the Inlet inn.
Miss Sheffield is here at the re
quest of the recreation commit
tee of the Beaufort Rotary rlub,
hraded by R. M. Williams. She
will assist in drafting a planned
recreation program for Beau
fort. Members of other civic organ
izations arc invited to attend the
meeting tonight. Miss Sheffield
conferred with the recreation
committee yesterday afternoon.
County Reaches
Goal of $7,1
March of Dimes Chairman
Urges paying of All
Pledges," However
Carteret county has reached its
March of Dimes quota of $7,200.
But A. II. James, chairman of the
drive, emphasized in making this
announcement that money which
has been pledged should be paid,
for when bills of the 1948 epidemic
arc met the local chapter will have
in its treasury only $1,200 as work
ing capital for the coming year.
This past summer $5,479 was
paid out and this fall $2,400 was
yet owed. When $3,600 of the $7,
200 is paid to national headquart
ers, $.'1,000 remains here, and after
the $2,400 bill is paid, only $1,200
is left.
One Carteret county polio pa
tient is still hospitalized at James
Walker hosDital. Wilmington, at a
cost of approximately $12 per day.
These are the reasons Mr. James
has requested that money for the
polio fund keep coming in. Some
of the money raised by the radio
station is yet to be collected and
others who intended to contribute
to the March of Dimes should do
so, the chairman urged.
He commended all those who as
sisled in the drive, especially the
Junior Chambers of Commerce, in
both Beaufort and Morehead City,
who sponsored the President's Ball.
Club Queen Chosen
Miss Betty Rasehe. Morehead
City, was selected Blue Ribbon
queen at the Blue Ribbon club Sat
urday night. She was awarded a
bottle of champagne and a corsage.
This was the first in a series of
programs to choose a queen each
Saturday night. Music was furnish
ed by "The Persuading Five," Ne
gro quintet.
Tide Table
HIGH . LOW
. Tuesday, Feb. 8
3:34 AM 10:06 AM
31:55' PM 10:01 PM
Wednesday, Feb. 9
4:30 AM 11:07 AM
4:50 PM 11:04 PM
Thursday, Feb. 10
5:34 AM 12 noon
5:53 PM ' 12 midnight
Friday, Feb. 11
6:30 AM v 12:01 AM
647 PM 12:84 I'M
County
Circle to Sponsor
Concert Feb. 13
Beaufort Glee Club Will
Presenl Program in Ann
Streel Methodisl Church
To raise money for the building
fund of Ann Street Methodist
church, the Alma Potter circle will
sponsor the Beaufort high school
glee club in a program of sacred
music at 4 o'clock Sunday after
noon, Feb. 13, in the church.
The glee club, comprised of 50
voiies. is under the direction of
Mrs. Charles Hasscll, director of
music at the school.
A silver offering will be t iken
during the afternoon. This will be
the first public appearance of the
glee club since the Christmas sea
son when they presented the pro
gram at the December meeting of
the Beaufort Parent Teacher as
sociation. In charge of arrangements for
the program arc Mrs. James
Wheatley and Mrs. James Potter
III.
Potato Growers
To Meet Saturday
B. J. May, production marketing
administrator, today requested
county potato farmers to attend
the potato meeting at little Wash
ington at 10:. "I? Saturday morning
i i the John Small school auditor
ium. The farmers and agriculture of
ficials there will discuss the prob
lems facing potato growers. The
meeting is important, Mr. May said,
from the standpoint of the future
of the potato growing industry.
Experiment station specialists
will talk on the necessity for im
provement in quality to meet com
pclitioi from other areas, varieties
of potatoes, diseases, and improve
ments in harvesting and marketing
methods.
In addition to growers, Congress
men Barden and Bonner will be
present, also members of the PMA
state committee, members of the
Southeast Potato Marketing Agree
ment committee, North Carolina
Produce Growers Cooperative
Dr. Harold Meyer lo Speak
At Recreation Center Thursday
Dr. Harold D. Meyer, director of
the North Carolina Recreation coin
mission und professor at the Un
iversity of North Carolina, will del
iver the main address at the mid
year general meeting of the More
head City Woman's club Thursday
night in the recreation center on
Shcpard street.
Dr. Meyer, who last year was the
national president ' of the recrea
tion commission, will speak on
"Community Recreation" and how
a more adequate adult recreation
program can be planned for the
Morehead City recreation center.
The meeting will begin with a
barbecue dinner at 6:30 p.m. More
head City Rotarians and their wives
have been invited to th meeting
Carteret county commissioners
in regular session yesterday morn
ing at the court house approved the
request by Dan L. Wslkrr, manager
of the Beaufort Chamber of Com
merce, for an assistant county
agent.
Irvin Davis, clerk, was instruct
ed to inform State college sf the
county's desire for a farm agent,
a specialist in poultry and dairy
ing, as of July 1, cost to the county
not to exceed $1,500. The state will
pay the remainder of his salary.
This move was made alter Mr.
Walker pointed out that during
194(1 $143,H24.20 in milk and cream
was imported to this county and
over $150,000 in poultry.
Hiring of an assistant farm agent
is for the purpose, of training 4-H
boys and girls and the rural youth
of the county in raising of poultry
and dairy herds.
The commissioners discussed at
lei'.th the resolution p Jssed in
December wherein they st;:ted that
2 12 per cent of the county's ABC
funds should be set aside to pay
charily hospital bills as those bills
are presented to the county, and
! the remaining 2 12 per cut should
go to the towns.
Dining the meeting Dr K. P. B.
li o n n e r spoke by phone to
II S. Gibbs, (arieret county's re
presentative in the legislature, and
reported that Gibbs staled he
would not introduce a bill to that
effect.
The commissioners discussed the
possibility of having another repre
sentative in the legislature or one
of the seventh district senators in
troduce the bill. But no decisive
action was taken.
The board passed a mot ion to
dispense with the revaluation of
property in the county for at least
another year. A bill must be in
troduced in the legislature to this
effect. The requirement by law is
that there should be a revaluation
every four years. The last was in
l!)4fi.
Upon advice of an engineer with
the Coast and Geodetic survey, the
board approved changes in town
ship boundaries to conform with
natural boundaries. The changes
were not more than 1,000 feet in
any instance the engineer said.
These changes will be recorded
and maps of the county supplied
to the register of deeds by the
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
An offer by Wiley Taylor, Jr..
to purchase five lots, 50 by 100 feet
each, formerly the Hammock pro
perty in Beaufort, for a total of
$:10() was referred to a committee
consisting of Commissioner C. Z.
Chappcll and James Potter audi
tor, and William llatscll, Beaufort
town clerk.
The lots are numbered 10, II,
15, 16, and 17, three cast of the
Hammock house on the north side
of the street and two on the, south
side of the street at the rear of the
Moore and Hcslcp properties.
The county a year ago put a va
luation of $250 each on the lots.
Mr. llatscll claimed each one was
Sec County Board Pg. 3
Cabbage Growers Asked '
To Cut Acreage This Year
The department of agriculture
has requested cabbage growers to
stay within 95 per cent of their
acreage, H. .1. May, production
marketing administrator, announ
ced today. '
North Carolina's 194R yields were
18 per cent higher than the '47
yield, Mr. May reported. Last year
the yields were excellent but the
price was only half of what it was
in '47.
If the production is not kept
down the government may have to
step in, Mr. May commented. It
will be up to the farmers to decide.
Growers have also been advised
to go light on the pointed type Cab
bage because the demand is low
and there is more competition
from other sections in this variety.
as well as representatives of civic
organizations in both Morehead and
Beaufort. y,'
Mrs. Harold Sampson, president
of the Woman's club, stated that
anyone interested in hearing Dr.
Meyer is invited to the meeting.
She requests that reservations pe .
phoned to her aS soon as possible,
8511.
Hie barbecue is being prepared
by Mrs. Russell Willis over an put
door fireplace. v ; ' .-
Special guests will be Mayor and
Mrs. George W. Dill and Morehead .
City commissioners and their wives.
Entertainment will be provided '
by the Centennial Quartet of the
Church of Chris; of Latter Day
Saint