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f NEWS-TIMES OFFICES Beaufort 120 CrTen St. Morehead City 504 Ar.ndell St. JEw. 10c A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912), and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 38th YEAR NO. 21 EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS ilence Broken! Move Official Replies to PTAs i Long S Letter To The Editor THE SUPERIOR COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA Lulher Hamilton Special Superior Court Judge Morehead City, N. C . To The Editor of The Carteret County News-Times: I wish to congratulate you upon ths splendid fight you are making thru the medium of your good paper to have our local theatres discontinue the practice of exhibiting gangster, murder, and other irime films on Saturdays, the days they are most avail able to the youngsters oi our communities. As a matter of fact, it would 'be much better not to have them exhibited at all. Certainly there is to be found in none of them anything con ducive to good citizenship. You know, oi course, that while presiding over the criminal sessions of the Superior Courts of the State we Judges have to deal with all sorts and classes of humanity, including the young as well a:- the oWI. I! might be of interest to you, and to your readirc public ;.l.-o, to know that, according to Mr. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we are paying annual ly into the coffers of (he gods of crime in this country the stag gering toll of seventeen billion dollars, t sum far in excess of our natural food bill. It represents i pproximatcly $32. 500 a minute, or about $.r!().0() a second, and which is four times more than is spent for all the cause of education in the hind, and re presents a levy of something like $120.00 on each man, woman and child in the country. Moreover, it represents a murder every forty nihu'tcs. a rape or attempted rape every 44 minutes, and a felony of some sort (the kind of offense so serious that the of fender may he sent to his! death or the penitentiary) every 22 seconds in the day. We are told that for every boy and girl in our in::titutior.j e.1 higher learning we have three criminals out side; that for every teacher in the public schools of the land, working on the impressionable and susceptible minds of our children, we have four criminals lying in wait to prey upon society. Aril saddest of all. constituting the most serious indict ment against our present social order, leading this mightly throng, this vast army of crimina::,. ore our boys and girls, still in their teen-age, and in respect of numbers outranking all other classes. For the past twelve yesrs in particular, and in general for some 5 ears prior, I have been a keen observer of (he class and type of people appearing in the criminal courts. At one week's sitting in a certain Western county, out of 66 cases there were forty some-odd of the offenders under twenty-one years of age; and repeatedly, there and elsewhere, I have had the youngsters tell me they "got the idea" from the movies. You are right: the demoralizing effect is devastating, and in the name of a more orderly and decent society it is imperative that the practice of which you complain be discontinued. The operators of their own volition should put on the ban. Luther Hamilton Atlantic Now Boasts Of a Musical Minister t r lis ' t i . - i 1 1 f ! ' n By Ruth Peeling 'The Eev. Robert Charles Good child, putitor of the Atlantic Me thodist charge, is an accomplished musician. Through his music he mn enlisted many in the legionr for Christ, playing- his autoharp, goarina, and even whiskey bottles. Newg-Timea Photo The autoharp is a stringed in strument, the ocarina a woodwind nd thfl whipkey bottles well, the ymiirht be put in the percus sion cluss. These he played by fili ng them with an amber liquid, :ither tea or coffee, hanging them .... See WNI5T5P fe 7 JOeaUJOrt Home Winning Trdphy from Wilson Many Forest Fires Sweep Carteret Eight Occur During Pasl Two Weeks, County Fire Warden Reports Numerous forest fires have been ; sweeping the county during the : dlesex in the first clash, Aberdeen past two weeks. I downed Warsaw 4(1 ,'i8 SaUuday The latest was Sunday afternoon I morning and aavauced to the finals when woods at Lennoxville caught ! Saturday night to meet Beaufort. ' Beaufort defeated Lucama Sat tause of the wire was not deter-' urday morning 43-S2. leading in mined. Beaufort lire department sH quarter scores. At the begin ansuered the alarm at 2 p. m. and i rdng of the third, however, Lucama left the scene at 4:30. Approxi-1 tied the Sea Dogs at 21 -21. mately 5 acres of timberland was i Because the local quint has had severely damaged. little experience this year in hang- Flames were brought under con j inj? on t lie ball, solely to keep the tn l by back-firing and using the opponents irom gaining possession, booster tank on one of the trucks - they practiced in this game and in addition to the water supply at the Sperti plant Two four-yejr old colored lads were responsible for starting a marsh fire last Tuesday at North River, E. M. Foreman, county lire warden renoned The hovs were playing with matches In addition In the min-sh vraas lim-ninn an. mnxim.itelv 10 acres f woodland at the edge of the marsh caught f-rc. The largest fire in dollars and cents damage was lasl Monday when 400 acres of young and mer- chantable timber burned at Gale's ; creek. This lire was quenched by i rain, but damage amounted to $3,- 200. Two highway patrolmen rii- reeled traffic as heavy smoke roll- ' cd across highway 24. ! m,- p.rom, hie nro o,.mnn O. B.' Turner and Ncal Chadwick! I ick i snip o, turA "' vel-L. near Harimveratid a smoke chasw; Preston Willis, of Williston, travel ed 12 miles by boat Sunday, March 13, to fight a marsh fire at Long Pry. On their way home they also fought a fire at the foot of Harkers Island bridge, and another fire at Mill Creek the same day was fortu nately taken care of by a national forest ranger, Mr. Foreman de clared. The boatman which took the fire fighters through Long Bay to the marsh fire was T. K. 'Williams, Scranton, N. C. Assisting in this job also were II. B. Burroughs, North Carolina Pulp ranger, and his helper, Ernest (Pete) Turner, Core Creek. A fire at Back creek Saturday, March 12, was brought under con trol before it damaged more than eight acres. William Brown, Hufus Brown, and E. K. Berger, residents in that vicinity, helped fight the flames. A fire at Gale's creek Monday, March 7, caused about $600 da mage and one recently at Mans field was brought under control before it pained headway. Flames had spread iron) a lime kiln. Rotarians Hear Solicitor Bundy Morehead City Rotarians will meet Thursday at ti:30 p. m. at the Yacht Basin to partake of one of Charlie Bennett's famed oys ter roasts. They met Thursday night at the Morehead City high xchool for an excellent meal prepared by Mrs. Delfido Cordova's home econ omics' girls. Following; the meal, a speech on criminal procedure wan made by Solicitor William J. Bundy of Greenville. Bundy said the basic court of our judicial system is the justice of .the peace court. These courts try cases for which the penalty 13 no more than 30 days impri sonment or $')0 fine. He slated that he approved of the move ment afoot in North Carolina to amend the present JP system. According to Bundy, a justice of the peace's compensation comes from the costs of the court and consequently the JP is interested in the outcome of the case. This practice docs not make for im partial judging, said Bundy, and has led to the talk that JP stands for "judgment' for the plaintiff. , The recorder's court, the next in the judicial system, tries cases that are misdemeanors and above the Jurisdiction oi the JP courts. Bundy stated that a felony was a crime mat was punisned by a penitentiary sentence and it mis demeanor was any crime that See ROrAJtlANS Vi&t 3 tfaSKewall leant Beaufort's fighting auintet went back to Wilson over the weekend and this time came back with the winning trophy in the Atlantic Christian college tournament. They defeited Aberdeen 3837 to take the laurels. Disqualification of the winner and runner-up in class B in the original tournament meant re-playing the contest. At that time Beau fort was awarded the trophy for display of good sportsmanship. Five teams met again on the col- lege court. Lucama defeated Mid- froze the ball for three minutes High scorer was Jimmy Fodrie w:ih 17 points. Jimmy finer scored 1. Stuart 7. Ssmmons 5. and Blan kenship 2. They comprised the st 'itii'g lineup in both games. Sub stitutes in the Lucama contest vvere Alton Willis who points, Jefferson 1 and made 2 HowaH rodnc. quarter scotch wcic iu - r'. -0"15- antl 3rv23- j winner m the instrumental or no Aberdeen scored four points in j velty group over Hi. "Homance" ;1,e lasl 30 seconds of the :imi':ws the selection chosen by the saturday night, failing by just one j Papt'st Voting People's choir and I'"1"' 10 nl" ,nt ll,nuM 111,(1 overtime period, Aberdeen led by two points at ,h( elld th( first i"-rU'r- 1iiu; '''' ,rd h "e. Point at the half an1 j01"' PmnUi at the end of the thud. Pincr scored 11 points, Blanken- sniP 8'tuL.nil,m'1S,5' al,d Sm TROPHY Page 3 Newport Juniors To Present Play . . - r A. x, The junior class of the Newport high school is challenging the pub- he to find out just who or what is responsible for the weird and mys terious happenings in "The High School Mystery," a three-act mystery-comedy melodrama to be .pre sented in the Newport auditorium Friday night at 8 o'clock. When the curtain first rises the public will wonder if it hasn't mistaken the date of presentation, for the boys and girls will be seen rehearsing their parts under the di rection of a new drama coach.' Then it will become interested in the play they are rehearsing which is suddenly stopped by the happen ing of a real mystery. At last it will dawn on the public that they are seein' s new thing a novel mystery play that will continue to hold their interest. The cast for the play is as fol lows: Miss Fielding Camilla Stem bridge, Laura Crowder Iris Can non, Dorothy Russell Betty Jo Hill Mary Lee Isabel Smith, Miss Jeffries Margaret Murdoch, Mrs. Reed Donavce Roberson, Earl Sayles Eddie Gray, Victor Heed Don Koontz. Raul Butler .1 W Hardison. Joe Buck Woolen. Jack Howard Doub Phillios Ja- son Shaw Eugene Haskell. Governor Appoints Gihbs As Delegate to Rivers, Harbors Congress April 8 Carteret county Representative I H. S. Gibbs was among the 22 del egates appointed by Governor Scott Thursday to attend a nat ional convention on rivers and har bors next moniii. The convention, schedaled for April 8 and 9 in Washington, D. C. will be the 39tn conducted by the National Riveid and Harbors con gress "Matters of interest to North Carolina to be considered by this Congress," Scott explained, "in' elude such subjects as President Truman's budget and economic message to Congress relating to the utilization of our national re sources; federal regional or valley bills introduced in the 81st Con gress; ownership of submerged or tide lands; the necessity, if any, for the adoption of a federal power policy; effect of a national water pollution control act; necessity for the adoption of a national agricul ture program: and other watenand and development programs..." Scott advised the delegates they would have to make the trip t their own expense. fldges Select f our Winners t Talent Show ia, Choir, Bobby Hessee, George Washington Will Take Part in Finals p"wo hundred persons turned out Thursday night at the More- hdad City high school to see the gerund Talent Search program idonsored by the Morehead City pns club. The crowd was reward- cl with an array of talent that will give lUc finalists a tough time when the unal program is held in ilie Beaufort high school audiloii uiti April 1. Cjorge Washington was the win- , nar in the vocnl and instrument.! ! naiUcipants under 16 years of age. A gills' trio composed of Lois Webb, Annie Mae Willis and June Jones sang "The Voice In The Old Village Choir" and walked away-with the honors in the vocal coifipetilion lor those over 10 I I5tt Hessee, pianist, was the u proved good enough to win Idem I me award in me cnorus group. io Ewara was made in the novelty classification under !' group.- Other contestants were Ann Dar d6n Webb who sang "Someday My Prince Will Come;" Hose and Fle ming who played an aecordian and duct: Mrs. Lula Howell who v? a nflt-l; Curtis frttthrind j Florence Ann Lewis who sang "My I Happiness" accompanied by Earl j Lewis; the Lions Men's chorus I which sang "How Can I Leave Thee" and "Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye;" Jo Jayne Windell, pia nist, who played "Melody Of Love," William Lloyd who sang "Hocked In The Cradle Of The I Deep:" the Morehead City high j sch00 chorus which s.mt. "Amori. ta the Beautiful" and "Thanks Be To God;" William Norwood who gave .in aecordian selection; Janice Lewis who sang "Cruising Down The River;" and Imogene Norwood, pianist, who played the "Minute Walli." The judges were Mrs. Joseph House. Mrs. James Rumley, and Mrs. Graydcn Paul, all of Beau fort. The next Talent Search program will be held in the Newport high school auditorium tonight at 7:45 and the one following will be held at the Smyrna high school audi torium Thursday night at 7:43. NEWS BRIEFS ('apt. John Guthrie, Morehead City, sustained a hack injury in a fall on the waterfront yesterday morning and will be confined to the Morehead City hospital for several days. Beaufort town boaid held a fpcial meeting last night to ap point a registrar and judges of the May 3 election. They also con-: side red Carolina Telephone and Alice Marriott; The First Horse Telegraph company's veipiest to man by Peril Crowell; The E lginc lay an underground conduit on j That Lost Its Whistle by Cross; 1 urner street. I Beaufort Seniors To Present Elay, 'Ann What's Her Name?' The Senior class of Beaufort High school will present their an nuul senior play, "Ann, W hut's Her Name?" by Walter Ben Hare, Friday night, April 1H, in the school audiloriu n. The play, a three-act comedy -mystery, is well cast and offers the playgoer an evening of worth while entertainment, said Miss Lona Duncan, class adviser and directpr. The cast is as follows: Anthony Wheat, A. C. Blaukeiiship; Burks Clifton Lynch; Marjorie, Gerry Dickinson; Aunt Julia, Margaret Ann Windley; Mooney, .Rosemary Bessent; Willie Pcabody, Milton Laughton, Doran, Alton Willis; Grandma, Betsy Jones; Louise Byers, Nova Bell; Judge Bunby, Dowd Davb; Dr. Aked, Jesse Taylor; Nancy Brown, Rosalie Chadwick- Ebeuezer Whittle, Jimmy Tincr; Mrs. Ebenezer Whittle, Jean Dick .inson; and the two nttle Whittles, ottte Neliou and Ray Willi:.. Brings Look! A Complete Page Of Pictures in This Issue With this it.ue, THE NEWS TIMES presents on page 8 full page of pictures. This feature will continue to appear each Tuesday, upon approval of our readers, and will cover varying subjects of interest from all over the world. This is the only feature of its tyne in the United States and it gives THE NEWS-TIMES great pleasure to bring it to our readers each week. Club Presents Book, New World' To Public Library The Beaufort Public library has just received a valuable addition to its collection of books on North ( Carolimi in the lorm of a gift from I ,c rMli,j ,.u, 0f Beaufort The ... . . . t jsutii iiuu iuis inM-.ni'.i int- ii brai'y wilh a copv of Stephan Lor aid's 'The New World" in memoiy of Mrs. Molly Dickinson, only dc ceasid member of the club. I.oiaut's book is a compilation of early pictures of America. The pic tures were all made before 1800 by ixplo.'is and artists who came to discover the new world. It also includes the text of writings made about America at that early date. Murtrof - the boolf s pictures and text is concerned with this part of coastal Caroli ia. Other new books in the library are: for adults Bird Hiking by Leon Augustus Hausman; The Way To Write by Kudolp Flesch and A. II Lass; Lonely Passage by Loula Grace Erdman; Golden Trek by David Lavender; Justice On Ilal faddy Creek by James B. Ilendrix; Championship Basketball by Adolph Rupp; Spring Is Not Gent le byKirkbride; Pony Wagon Town by Ben Rikcr; The Seven StoR-y Mountain by B. Merton; After Mid night by Martha Albntnd; The Ban dit of the Black Hills; Heaven Faces West by Miriam Young; Sheriff Wanted by Peter Field; An Act of Love by Ira Wolfert; This Is My Son by Clarence B. Holland; The Case of the Dubious Brideg groom by Earle Stanley Gardner; The Curious Wine by Bianca Brad bury; The Happy Home by Agnes E. Benedict and Adelc Franklin; Mary Wakefield Be Not Proud by John Gunthcr; Point of No Return by John P. Marquand; Psychology by Edna Geister; and So This Is Living by McEwen. For teen-agers and juveniles Boys Book of Snakes by Percy A. Morris; Secret of the Bog by Eugenia Stone; Writing by Herbert S. Zim; Country Fireman by Jer rold Beim; Down In Dixie by Wil helmina Harper; Number Eleven Poplar Street Horse, Bill by Reese Fell Alsop; Ab Carmody's Treasure by Cyrus T Fisher: Indians On Horseback bv See LIBRARY Paee 7 Aiming Marines to Return To Porl Terminal Sunday Marines from Cherry Point re turning from maneuvers in the Ca ribbcan will disembark at More head City Port Terminal Sunday through Wednesday. One ship is scheduled to return each day dur ing that period and the final ship will be the Mount Olympus, flag ship of the fleet and the ship on which Major-General Frank Hart, commanding general of the SeconiT Marine Division, will return. The schedule of returning ves sels follows: U. S. S. Okaloosa, Sun day, U. S. S. Fremont,). Monday, U. S. S. Randall, March 29 and the Mount Olymphtis, March 30. Marines from Camp Lcjeune are scheduled to arrive in port shortly after the Cherry Point contingent disembarks but no definite sche dule of disembarkation for the Le jeune group iu been released yet. Worth Stewart Flies Here From Charlotte Saturday Worth Stewart and Perry Rea ves of the Charlotte office. Ever ett Enterprises, and Leonard Reg ister, manager of the Beaufort and Morehead City theatres told Mrs. Ralph Eudy, president of the Beau fort Parent-Teacher association Saturday aiteinoon that "objec tionable Saturday bookings will be corrected as fast as humanly pos sible" and that Mr. Stewart "would do all in his power to cooK'rate wilh the PTA or any other civic organization in the communities in which they operate theatres-." Mr. Stewart and Mr. Reaves flew here from CliHilotle Saturday morning and made a two hour call on Mrs. Eudy in the afternoon. Their discussion with the PTA president was the first recognition given by theatre management to the local campaign, initiated by Til K NEWS TIMES and waged by local PTAs for abolition of murder shows on Saturdays when school children flock to the mov ies. Last week the Beaufort Chain her f Commerce and Morelieiul lily Chamber ot Commerce join ed in voicing protests against the gangster films, with the Morenead City Chamber of Commerce re iUestmg comment instead of coin plete silence from the theat.e of ficials. A statement, drawn u p Sa! or day afternoon in the presence of Mr. Stewart, Mr. Reaves and Mr. Uegislcr, was released vestei day See REPLY Page 7 Harbors Congress Will Consider Channel Proposals V A 12 fool channel from Beau Tort to Lennoxville Point is among the proposed measures slated in conic before the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Wash ington next month. Carteret County Representative II. S. Gibbs is among the delegates to the Congress. Following presentation to the rivers and harbors group the Unit ed States Congress will he asked to act on the proposed channel and other measures perlaining to waterways in eastern Carolina. Col. George W. Gillclt, director of the State Ports Authority, said the rivers and harbors group is scheduled to meet in Washington April H !) at which time these pro jects along with others from throughout the nation-will he plac ed before the Congress for con sideration. Colonel Gillette said endorse ment would be asked for the pro posed Beaufort Lennoxville Point channel since army engineers have already completed studies and recommendations for it. Other projects on which studies have been completed are as follows; dredging and stabilizing Mason boro Inlet to a 12 foot depth; dredging the Cape Fear River Channel from Wilmington to the Atlantic Ocean bar from 32 to U4 feet deep; providing a 'l to 15 foot channel at Oregon Inlet; deepening the Channel thence to Manteo from six to 11! feet; a 112 foot side channel to Wanchese; and deepening of natural than nels from the Pamlico Sound- to Oregon Inlet. A second group of recommen dations will be filed as being wor thy of consideration. This grup is composed of projects, studies, and surveys which have not been com pleted. They are a 34-fuot chan nel for the Morehead City Port; a new Carolina Beach Inlet near Myrtle Sound; 12 foot depth for Wallace channel; 12 foot depth for Lockwoods Folly; and 12 foot channel for the Little River Inlet. Beaufort School Makes Good Showing at Greenville Representatives from Beaufort high school placed well in the district music contests held in Greenville Friday. According to Mrs. C. R. Hasscll, music teacher at the Beaufort school, the compe tition was held for schools in the B class and Beaufort actually should compete in C class contests. Contestants were Guy Smith, ba ritone soloist who was rated ex cellent; the girl's trio composed of Ruth Whltchurst. Mary F. Psul and Marie Smith, excellent; the girl's glee dub, good; the mixed glee club, good; and Neva Bell, soprano iOlOlot, lilt. ... Free Chest X-Ray Campaign Comes To Successful End Units Take 7,641 Pictures; 65 Per Cent of Persons Eligible Received Them Carteret county's l'Jl'.l free chest X ray campaign came to a successful close S. it unlay wilh 7, (i l I X rays taken. Of this num ber, :!,f77 were taken by the unit which covered Beaufort anil the eastern part of the county and 1, lllil were taken by the unit cover ing Morelieiul City and the west cm part of the county. Approxi mately ,i per cent of tm- peisons ! eligible tor A l ays received them, i The unit operating in Morehead ( ily and tile western part of the county was staffed by Tony Hin j nant of Wilmington and Elsie I Lewis of Fairmont. Both of them have been woiking in the unit i since May "f last year. Miss Margaret Kthih-n and , M rs. Vera I.. Smith, both of lleau fort, and Mrs. Many Salter of Morehead City as-isted as clerks in the work done by the unit. The Morehead City laycees also do nated their time, cars, and money toward transput Ling residents of the county into Morehead to re ceive the X rays. The Beaufort unit was .'luffed by Boh Ruiz of Asheville. Clerks who assisted in the work done by ihe unit were Mrs. Bill Riaswrll, of Gastrinii, and "Mrs. Sidney Sty ron, of Beaufort. A letter to George Stovall, lo cal manager of the Tide Water Tower company expressed the ap preciation of the slate TB office for his assistance. It stated: "We would like to express our apple ciafion for the prompt and cour teous service rendered us during the recent Mass X ray Survey. Your co operation has made it possible to meet all scheduled rtops ami with no lack of effi ciency due to power shortage." The letter' was signed Albei t G. Chiswell, Chief X ray Technician, Bureau of TU Control, N. C. State Board of Health. Tar Heels Afloat Plan Spring Cruise Some 60 private yachts with 200 North Carolina boat sportsmen aboard will parade Neuse and Trent rivers from Morehead City to New Bern and Pollocksville Memorial Day week-end, May 28 through 30, in the Annual Tar Heels Afloat Spring Cruise, a re newal of the Labor Day cruise of last year. Boats from all North Carolina ports will rendezvous at the Yacht Basin. Morehead City Saturday May 28, decorated with new pen nants and lines and making forma tion for an early Sunday morning start. The flotilla will single-line through Inland Waterway cut and reform in parade formation off Minnesott Beach in the broad Neuse estuary. Stopover for Sunday (May 29) night will be in the Trent above New Bern at Trent Pines club and Country Club landings. A banquet and business meeting to name the 1949 Commodore and Labor Day cruise directors will be held Sun day evening at 8 o'clock. C. F. Chapman, editor of Motorboating magazine, has been invited as speaker for the occasion with other notables, including Governor Kerr Scott, on the invitation. list. A Memorial Day morning cruise up the Trent to Pollocksville has been planned with brief ceremo nies at the inland town, and the down stream return to Morehead City with dispersemcnt along the route and from the Basin. Information bureaus for the cruise and for the non-profit, non- dues organization have been set up in the offices of the Chambers of Commerce in New Bern and ' Morehead City. Interested boatmen ire invited to participate in the cruise, and to discuss the possibi lities of a mass cruise this summer the entire length of the North Ca-, roluLi cottb -