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NEWS-TIMES OFFICES Beaufort 120 Craven St. Morehead City 504 Arendell St. WW 10c WW A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 12) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 38th YEAR NO. 19 EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORM CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS V 1948 Brought Lower In County, The yield of crops throughout Carteret county last year was cvnenlly reduced from the year before, reported R. M. Williams, 1-ouniy farm agent in his annual rport which was presented Mon day to the county board of com missioners. Excessive rains in early spring caused a poor Irish potato crop and cabbage growers ran into a great deal of competition from growers instates south of here, the farm agent explained. There were excessive rains in early spring followed by extreme ly dry weather until July 15. Ap proximately two-thirds of the nor mal crop yield was obtained. Potato growers again contended with competition from California. Shipping opened slowly and later the price of potatoes dropped to the government support price of $2.90 per hundred pounds. In stead of dumping potatoes as was Usually the practice, the govern ment gave them to livestock pro ducers to use as feed. A reduction of 28 per cent in to bacco acreage and inclusion of this Crop in the Marshall plan caused n wide open market with the gold en weed selling for an average of 50 :ents per pound. After the tobacco crop was part ly harvested however, rain came and caused a second growth. This made the tobacco difficult to cure resulting in a higher per ccntage Of green tobacco than usual, the agent reported. Corn yields were low dii to dry weather and lack of plant food while there has been a continued Increase in the demand for pure bred hogs as breeding stock. The county farm labor camp was liquidated last year. There was sufficient labor in the county to take care of harvesting. Many crops suffered from in sects ?nd other infestations. The corn car worm made its severest attack in many years during the growing season, with some fields of corn completely destroyed. The army worm attacked both corn and suyujiin fields. Harlequin cabbage bugs were Cnmbattd wkh sabadilta dust white DDT dust on tomatoes and lead arsenate on tobacco kept the horn worm under control Dry, hot weather came to the aid of the lady bug in helping to kill tobacco aphis while the cut worm and wire worm made it ne cessary in many cases to replant tobacco. The cibbage crop suffered se verely under attack by plant lice and green cabbage worms. Approximately 1.500 acres of to matoes were grown last year. A great many farmers graded and p?cked their tomatoes and trucked them to northern markets where they got double the prices offered by local buyers. Seventy acres of excellent quali ty tomato plants were produced here by the New Hanover Canning company and the Rutger Bean com pany. The demand was high and prices strong on siring beans. Mr. Williams stated that there is an evidence of an increased in terest in dairying in the county, also that farmers arc calling for fire break construction on their See CROPS Page 3 Sgi. Reo Hill lo Serve As Administrative Officer WASHINGTON, D. C. Ser geant Peo V. Hill, U. S. Air Force, recently rcoprted for duty as an administrative technician with Headquarters, Military Air Trans port service (MATS), in the na tions capital. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hill of Stacy. Sergeant Hill attend ed Edwards Military institute prior to entering the service. He enlist ed in the U. S. Air Force in Sept ember 1946 and received his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Following basic train ing he was graduated from the Air Force Administrative School at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado. A veteran of 20 months of over seas service, Sergeant Hill has served with the Air Force in Ja pan and on Okinawa in the Pacific. While stationed in Tokyo he at tended Teletype Operators School. Sergeant Hill has been assigned to the Airways and Air Commu nications Service of MATS. The ACCS provides MATS with a world-wide communications ser vice. Ice Association He-Dects Louis D. Gore, Director Louis D. Gore, president of the Carteret Ice and Coal company, whk re-elected a director of the North Carolina Ice association at the 40th annual convention this week at High Point. Mr. Gore also delivered an ad dresa at the meeting. Hit topu was "Does( the Fisherman Help to King Your Cash Kegmter?" Farm Agent Reports On the X-Ray Yesterday saw the 5,000th per son' In the-eounty gtt .ftwr- X-ray. The health department stated that it is extremely well pleased with the results thus far. Pictured in the top picture are Mrs. Bill Braswell, of Gastonia, left, and Mrs. Sidney Styron, of Beaufort, right, who are clerks in the mobile X-ray unit operating at Beaufort. In the lower picture, Bob Ruiz, junior technician from Asheville, places Joyce Mason, of Bettie. in ' ., ' If if 1 , .i jmii Minim, iw TWi Mmniinltl lli mtiff-r -"rv " . il'i iiw-'m3s)nJ If fTZ , Home Demonstration Clubs To Stage Flower, Dress Revue Members of the county aWrol" of home demonstration clubs set June ! as the tentative date of their annual spring flower show and dress revue at their council meeting Tuesday afternoon in the home agents office, Beaufort. Plans were also made to attend the district and state meetings, The district meeting is in Anril and the state meeting in August. . The following clubs will serve as committees for the flower show: Crab Point, arrangements; North River, publicity; Wire Grass, registration; Camp Glenn, judging; Russell's Creek, exhibits; and Betti club, refreshments. The clothing project leader in each club will make plans for her club s representation in the dress revue. Prizes will be given for the best dress made from feed bags, the best sports outfit, best dressy dress, best re-styled 'dress and child's dress. There will also be a showing of dresses made by 4-li girls. State Senator John I). Larkins will speak at the district meeting April 14 at Trenton. Carteret is going to try to win the gavel again this yflar which is awarded an nually to the county that- "goes the farthest with the mostcst" club See REVUE Page 3 Jaycees, Wives to Bowl Monday Night at Beach Morehead City Junior Chamber of Commerce will entertain thoir wives and eii'l friends at" 7 o'clock Monday night at the bowling al ley, Atlantic Beach, A box lunch will be served. At their weekly meeting Mon day night at Fort Macon hotel it was announced that Bernard Leary, Jaycee, would be sponsor d by his ciub to run for district vice-president of the Junior Chamber. The Miss North Carolina pa geant was discussed and further plans made on attending the state convention at Asheville. William Lloyd showed slides on he - education needs In North 'arolina following the dinner and bubiuees fcebsion. r Crop Yield Circuit Carteret News-Times l'hotos position tor an X-ray. Joyce is the Hnghter of ifr; -tmifitos. AiT Mason. Personnel in the Yray unit now operating in Morehead City are Tony Hinnant, of Wilmington technician in charge, Miss Klsii Lewis, of Fairmont, assistant teo nician; Miss Margaret Kobinson. of Beaufort, and Mrs. Harry Salter, of Morehead Civ, clerks. ' The units will operate in !au fort and Morehead ( ity until Sat urday, March 19. fC' Red-Cross Funds Come In Slowly Money in the Red Cross cam paign is coming in very slowly, Mrs. Harry McGinnis, co-chairman in Beaufort, reported yesterday. Approximately half of the busi ness houses have been covered and more solicitors have yet to report, but the $1,180 goal is not yet in sight. Mrs. McGinnis, home service chairman for the Beaufort chap ter, staled that unless more funds come in. it will not br possible, as it has been in the past, to assist persons in desperate need. A veteran was advanced money from the local chapter to aid in meeting his expenses in traveling to and from a Veterans' hospital, another veteran w;is loaned $50 to go to Baltimore where he had a job awaiting him, and when George Tosto, of South Kiver, died, the Red Cross got word to his son who was in Japan at the time. These are just a few of the many deeds the Red Cross here has done. Anyone who has not contributed as yet to the Red Cross should mail his donation or check to Mrs. K. M. Potter, 107 Marsh street, Beaufort. The check should be made pay able to the American Red Cross. Two Cars Collide At Ann, Turner Streets The cars of Mrs. Louise Noyes and Bohby Hudgins were seriously damaged in an auto accident last Thursday night at Ann and Turner streets, Beaufort. The accident occurred at 10 p. m. s the motorists entered the inter section. Mrs. Noyes was driving a Ford coupe and Mr. Hudgins a Ford convertible. No one was in jured. 'i , - " '" - " Police Officer Carlton Garner investigated. ' i r Chambel Radio - Telephone , A Jaycee Show Plays r Tonighi's-de BIG night! Not a person in Beaufort ji safe, 'cause many a word is goiii to lie said about him in the l!i( .laycee Minstrel, Dixie-Koun which begins tonight at 8 o'cloc Beaufort school auditoium. Jokes galore and a secret mu ciil score so sensational that couldn't even be released for pti hcation. A sneak preview of tl sliow Wednesday night proved th; it's a cross between "Mammy "Diirktown Struttin' " and "Hcl .' I'oppin'." i Pickaninnies Paula Jones an Ann Owens will open the she with a dance number and will til perform between acts. Other sn cialty numbers will highlight tli entertainment. The end men are "Sideswipe. lv;i.... T....I rt.. t.p , i- I !!. i ay i or, ri., cresno, .Jin .... l' H Illl .. ,, .Tl my waiiace, j cisimmiin, t liar les Cheek, "Harry Parker," GeorgJ t ottmgham, .Inn (..hadwick. Kufus Sewell, "Cairo," Od' 1 Men ill, "Creosote," Claud Wheal ly, Jr., anil "Loikjaw," Gei.ili Wooh.id. i Hiring one scene airo ill ig nut a concoction that puts kirka poo joy juice to shame; an. I he tens mo hoys that its mailt- over the following recipe: one l.iishe mule kicks, two bushels of Oscai Salter hot air, and five night mares. The results that follow alter a sampling of this lirew hy his Inn! dies can both he seen ami heard . . a wonder to heboid. "i rectors of the show are Mrs. Claud Wheatly, Jr., Mrs. .loiin Butler, and Harry Mediums. 6. J. May Reports On PMA Session aomi;4rajr for Carteret c inly. terrutrtr.b recent state PM.' con fererlM nt .'Winston-Salem extreme ly interesting and helpful. Z' ending this confercw with Mr May were S. D. Ed wart!--, New port, 1). W. Truckner, Pellctier, and Addison McCabe, Wifdwood. They returned home Friday. Gov, W. Kerr Scott was sche duled to speak but could not at tend because of business in the capital. Major addresses were made by L. V. Ballentine. commissioner of agriculture. Larry M. Warring who spoke en PMA" organization, Dr. J. H. Hilton, dean of agricul ture, State college, Elmer Kruse, of the Commodity Credit associa tion, and A. V. McCormack who spoke on conservation. In addition to reports on the na tional convention at St. Louis, there were discussions on tobacco, peanuts, potatoes, grain, and cot ton. It was announced that there will be no increase in 1049 tobacco acreage allotments. This announce ment brought cheers on the part of tobacco growers, evidence of the fact that they would rather get fair prices for their tobacco than experience a glutted market, Mr. May remarked. Dr. Hilton spoke on "The Ma jor Problems in Agriculture," listing thp npprl fnr holf ni-.h-, l-j i agriculture, and thp fntlnuina dif ficulties in the agricultural sys tem: low per capita cash income, low total capital and operating ca pital; small average farm size; the need for quality of management; the need for efficient marketing and better merchandising, and more efficient use of human and land resources. Mr. McCormack pointed out that United Stales has the best farm orogram in the world because it is administered in each county. Through conservation, yields on some crops have been increased as much as 50 per cent, he said, and conservation must be continued be cause the world population is in creasing at the annual rate of 20 million while the amount of land is limited. , In this country at present 100 million acres must be drained and improved. Importance of cattle-raising, dai rying and poultry was stressed at the session which was held in the main ballroom of the Robert Lec hotel. NEWS BRIEFS Morehead City commissioners will meet at 7:30 Tuesday night in the mayor's office at the muni cipal building. The Coastal Ministerial associa tion will meet at 10 o'clock Mon day morning at the civic center, Morehead City. Dr. J. H. Bunn will speak .on, "The Theology of St. PauL" : s Undertake Project to Establish No Recorder's Court Tuesday; Probably Today Because Judge Lambert Mor ris was out of town there was no session of recorder's court Tues day. At presstime it was planned to hold court this mtrning at 10 o'clock. If Judge Morris has not returned by then, the next ses sion will be Tuesday, March 22. There will be no court Tuesday, March 15, because superior court will he in session. Stewart -Everett Fails to Reply To PTA Letter Tomorrow, three weeks will have passed since the Beaulort Parent Teacher association sent a letter to Worth Stewart of the Stewart 'iverell theatre chain announcing '.o him that tlu-y object to pictures oortraying killing and torture be ing shown on Saturdays when youngsters no to the theatres To d:'te no reply has been received Mrs. Ralnh Kudv. president of the PTA stated thai I wo Inters were sent the same (lav to Ml ' Stewart to guard against lailure of his receiving the one. Since objections to the Saturday minder shows have been voiced by THE NEWS-TIMES, the Beau fort and Camp Glenn I'TAs, More head City Junior Woman's cl jbs snd parents in generul, Leonard Register, manager of thi Beaufort and Morehead City mov.e houses, protested that "only about a third of Saturday audiences are children." - ' One parent upon hearing" this, raised the question: "If children arc not expected to attend the 'shows on Saturday, why do they run Superman serials'.'" A number of parents in Beau fort and Morehead City have not been permitting their youngsters to attend the Saturday shows, find- iing that it is more convenient and ,' satisfactory to take them in the evening, hy auto, to me tneaire west of Morehead City. In regard to the letter not being answered, Mrs. Ei'.dy commented that she believed the theatre man agement would have at least been courteous enough to make some sort of reply. PTA to Present Fashion Show Under the sponsorship of the Beaufort Parent-Teacher associa tion a fashion and variety show will be presented Wednesday night, March 23, in the Beaufort school auditorium. The show is being sponsored by the ways and means committee and is under the direction of Mrs. Emily Clyde Lewis. Every type of women's clothing will be shown, including a wed ding scene. Children's clothes will be modeled and models will be chosen from every grade in school, I through 12. The models will not merely pro menade but will appear in little skits. Clothes are being furnished by Parsons, New Bern. Pamlico County Turns Thumbs Down on ABC Store ORIENTAL (AP) Dry forces have underlined the listing of Pamlico county in the dry col umn. In a special election Saturday, the county turned down a propo sal to establish ABC liquor sales. Unofficial returns from all 17 precincts showed 840 against and 540 for ABC stores, it was re ported by Herbert Smith, chair man of the county board of elec tions. The four incorporated towns in the county, Oriental, Vandemere, Lowlands and Bayboro, voted wet but votes from the rural districts caused the dry forces to carry the county. Attending the recreation insti tute at New Bern this week were the Rev, Winfrey Davis, the Rev. T. R. Jenkins, Charles Hassell, the Rev. W. L. Martin, Mrs. Car- rie Gillikin btanton. and Miss Josephine Station Tonight! Grand Jury WiU Consider 13 Bills Remaining 12 Cases Sched uled Are Appeals from Recorder's Courl Thirteen criminal cases will be placed before the grand jury in the term of superior court which opens Monday at the court house. Twelve others are scheduled for trial, either on appeal from a lower court or cases carried over from previous superior court terms when tliey were not tried. To lie considered by the grand jury are the following: George Ennett (Jillikin and Cecil Guthrie, both chained with arson; Clayton (iillikin, charged with mill sup port; Bradley Mcintosh, driving drunk-. Benny Bell, attempted lar ceny; Leo A. Omicinski, Jr., lar ceny of automobile; Ernest S. Keleman and Francis J. I'orillo, aiding and abetting in larceny of an auto. Tommy Field and Fred Jones, charged with breaking and enter ing, larceny and forgery; Robert Dudley, drunk and disorderly, dis .urbing the peace, resisting ar- rest, and assault; charged with eml Claude Salter, z.leinent; Wil liam Bell, attempting to break and enter; and Ernest Lee Eu banks, charged with assault and robbery. On the following, true bills were returned by 11117 and 11MH grand juries: James Edward Guth rie, Geiald Byde (iillikin, Ray niond II. Wilson, and James Sal ter, all charged with abandon ment and non-support, and Wil nam Thomas Davis, abandonm-, The i)lkwing are appeal f ivtii recorder's court: Lloyd Goodwin, charged with allowing a (log to run at large at night; Washing ton Gray Dudley and Edward Morns, driving drunk; Arnold M. Gibbs, driving drunk and careless and reckless driving; Mclvin Han cock, abandonment and non-sup port. Virgil Woolard Tells of Television Virgil Woolard, native of Beau fort who is a radio-television tech nician at Richmond, Va., spoke Tuesday night at the Inlet inn lo Beaufort Rotarians, telling them of proposed television plans in the United States and of experiences with radar during World War II. Mr. Woolard was a radarman in the Navy. He stated that television is mere ly the taking of a picture, chang ing it to electrical impulses, send ing it through the air and chang ing it back to a picture again at its destination. Television now is perfect, Mr. Woolard said, insofar as present theories arc concerned. However, the technicalities of producing tele vision shows are way behind the scientific end of the business. Ac tors and actresses have to be train ed, as well as lighting technicians and all the other persons required to produce a good television pro gram. At present, a 10.000 watt sta tion will transmit pictures a dis tance of 50 miles and within five years Mr. Woolard said there will be a major television ' hookup throughout the United Stales. He told also how radar during the war made firing on targets almost 100 per cent accurate. Guests at Tuesday's meeting were Harvey Joslvn. G. T. Windcll, and W. C. (Buck) Matthews, More head City, and Elvin Jones, Dunn. B. J. May, president, presided. Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, March 1 1 5:10 AM II :3 I AM 5:29 PM 11:41 PM Saturday, Matm i2 6:08 AM 12 midnight 6:25 PM 12:27 PM Sunday, March 13 7:00 AM 12:40 AM 7:18 PM 1:16 I'M' Monday, March 14 7:50 AM .... .... 1:34 AM 8:08 PM . 2:01 PM Tueidajr, March 15 8:39 AM 2:26 AM I 8:53 PM 2:47 PM on Carteret Coast The Chambers of Commerce of Beaufort and Morehead City have jointly undertaken the project to establish a radiotelephone sta tion in Carteret county, it was announced today. If a radio telephone station is established here, it will he possi ble to talk from shore to ship and from shore to plane. Currently fishing vessels can speak only from sea to shore. At present there is a radio telephone station at Charleston and one at Norfolk. Vessels can hear from there but can't send to those stations. Plans are already In progress to establish an intermeditae sta tion somewhere between here and Charleston, probably north of Wrightsville Beach, but to use this station, toll is charged. A man wishing to talk to his ship off Beaufort bar would have his call routed down to Wrights viilc Iteach and back. Men serving on the committee to look into the possibility of establishing a radio-telephone sta tion here are George Eastman, chairman, Earl Taylor, M. T. (Tom) Mills, W. II. (Piggy) Pot ter, Charles Bennett, George R. Wallace, V. J. (Puck) O'Neal, and David Hcvcridge. They will meet at noon today at the I'oit Macon hotel, More head City. Jaycees Request Pageant Entries Letters from Morehead City Jaycees to every Junior Chamber of Commerce in North Carolina have gone out this week reminding them that entries in the Miss North Carolina Pageant of l'.Mtl are due June 18! The pageant will be held in Morehead City July 7, u 1 a r . . (.., 4lMn -1' li iMefrctUn of Wins North Uroin has always been made, in previous years at beaches south of here, Photographs and vital statistics of each girl muHt be in the hands of the local Jaycee organization by June 18, Walter Morris, chair man of the pageant, said today. Handling publicity for the big event is Robert (Bob) Lowe, exe cutive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and Aycock Brown, publicity man for the Chamber. A press booklet is being sup plied participating Junior Cham bers as an aide in obtaining pub licity through the state's news papers. Morehead City Jaycees artt supplying voting ballots to ei.cn club, and are also working on the obtaining of scholarship awards for the winner and runner-up. As in previous contests, the em phasis will not be on beauty alone. Miss North Carolina must repre sent the present-day woman, one endowed with brains and person ality as well as beauty. The final judging; of Miss North Carolina will take place Saturday night, July 9, at the race track, west of Morehead City. The activities for girls who will vie for the state's beauty and talent title will follow this schedule during their weekend on! the Carteret coast: Thursday, 12 noon, registration, 7 p. m., sup per and get acquainted party; Fri day, 10 a. m., rehearsal for talent show, 2 p. m. parade, 4 p. m. boat ride, 9 p. m. talent contest, 11 p. m. beach party. Saturday, 10:30 a. m. rehearsal for contest, 5 p. m. supper, 7 p. m. contest. Sunday Miss North Carolina Meets tTie Press. Rural Women's Council To Sponsor Floor-Sanding Demonstration Tuesday The county council of home demonstration clubs will sponsor a floor-sanding demonstration at 10 o'clock Tuesday at the homo of Mrs. M. M. Eubanks, Wire Grass. Each home demonstration club is limited to two members in at tendance. Their husbands may al so attend. The women will bring a covered dish and luncheon will be served at noon. Merchants who handle floor finishers and those who rent sanding machines aro also invited, Mrs. Carrie Gillikin, home demonstration agent, an nounced. The floor of one room in Mrs. Eubanks' homo will bo sanded, treated with permanent finisher, and waxed. Mrs. Gillikin stated jthat representatives of the clubs are expected lo return io men communities and put on their own demonstrations. The demonstration Tuesday Is being sponsored by the Clark Kanunig Machine company, Now lluru. Towns llfill Elect Officials May Beaufort Board Appoints Wiley H. Taylor to Fill John Raicliffe's Place Because the current two year term of town officials in Beau fort, Morehead City, and Newport ends this spiing, town elections will be held Tuesday, May 3. Beaufort town hoard appointed Mayor Lawrence Hassell and Wil liam llatsell, town clerk, to serve as a committee to obtain a regis trar and two judges for Beaufort's election. Wiley II. Taylor, Jr., has been appointed, to fill the unexpired term of Commissioner John Rat cliffe who has moved to Washing ton, N. C. The commissioners authorized the submitting of a $.")(() bill to Scarboro S.ifnt company for fight ing the fire (here in January. During Ihe course of this fire three sections of hose hurst, Julius Duncan, member of the fire de partment reported. It was agreed that the town grader could be rented to resi dents of the town at $K per hour, if the grader is operated by Clyde Peterson, superintendent of streets, and does not interfere with his other work. Commissioner D. F. Merrill suggested that in grading the streets north of Broad that the blade he reversed occasionally and some of the crown of the road cut off. Mr. Taylor, who assumes Mr. Raicliffe's position as chairman of the sanitary committee, has been requested to confer with Sanitar ian A. D. Fulford on a rat control campaign throughout the town In ad'..ion to the control campaign at the dump. It was reported that repairs were made to only one of three See OFFICIALS Page 7 Of ficial Checks School Conditions J. E. Miller of the division of instructional service. Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, came'to the county yesterday to I check on the three accredited schools to sec that they are main taining their standards. These schools .re Beaufort, Newport, and Morehead City. He will spend to day here also. Members of the county board of education at their meeting Mon day afternoon signed the papers leasing the Davis school to Davis residents for use as a community building. H. L. Joslyn, superintendent of schools, reported to the board that Wesley Willis, school committee man at Smyrna has resigned and that Smyrna has submitted the quest for a music room. Mr. Joslyn also commented that the following poem which appear ed recently in the National Educa tion association magazine express es perfectly the situation in Car teret county schools: In wild despair I tear my hair ' -A mist befilms my eyes. : My school is bursting at the seams; My budget runneth dry. 1 As more and more the kids ln pour, And registrations soar, ,, I search in vain for some relict Amidst the rush and roar. They are coming through the windows, They arc coming through the door, They arc coming down the chimney, Help, They're coining through the floor! 162 Pounds Rat Poison Distributed to Farmers ! One hundred sixty-two pounds ' of rat poison were distributed to county farmers during the recent rural rat contrdl program, R, M Williams, county agent, reported today. w One of the several reports which have come into Mr. Williams on the results of the campaign was from Harold Simmons, Newport, who found several dead rats in bis smokehouse and found others "staggering around as though they were sick." A two-and-a-half pound package of red squill was delivered for $1 to each farmer who participated in the control program.
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