NEWS-TIMES OFFICES Beaufort 110 Cmn St. ? Phone 4411 Morehead City ?04 Ar?nd.l| St. ? Pbon. Mil 10c A Merger of THE BEAUFORfT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) Full Pate of Comics 38th YEAR, No. 29 EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS It w as the Same ? In the I9th Centurv By Th?mas H. Carrow So the Grand Jury of Carteret County has made a report the ir.sfmtary conditions at the public schools It must have emitted con siderable effluvium since the pre siding judge fllpeatens the county officers with indictment if con ditions are not improved by the nexi term of court. Talk about history repeating it 1 self. One might think he was listening to a recording made fifty years ago. I am quite sure that the situation is not one whit dif ferent today than it was through out the county in the nineteenth century. And believe me, it was unspeakably deplorable then. This writer has a vivid recollection of the whole mess because he was an unwilling witness and victim of die unmitigated barbarism. Even the court house facilities ? tl^ey didn't call them toilets in those days ? were a stench in the , nostrils. There was cne Apartment, if you know what 1 mean, for tne judge and the court house officials and the lawyers that was kept lock ed, and one lor the common ci tizens who attended court, all of which was inclosed with a board fence. ? sometimes whitewashed, ? under the shade of an old oak tree. No sunshine ever reached it. Across from the courthouse cesspool was the place set aside for the boys I who attended Mr. Hill's school, which w'ss set in the center of the ! Square. Then to the north, you could see ( the girls' place 1 never looked i inside it and don't know anything I about its condition. But nothing 1 was left undone by the boys to make their facilities unsuitable, ar.d often impossible, for use. The memory of it horrifies me to this I day. But, strange to say, as ad mirable as cur beloved teacher was, I have no recollection of his admonishing any of us to be de cent. Nor did 1 ever hear a com plaint from a single parent or other citizen. 1 haye observed the conduct of the genus homo and his progeny in this and other l?nds throughout a long lite, and there is no single bit of evidence that makes me doubt his superiority more than . the almost universal disregard of common decency in public toilets and other facilities And this goes lor a lot of people with respect to priv?te facilities. So far as I can see, boys, girls, and grown-ups are little, if any, I more sanitary by nature than they were when Colgosz assassinated Mc Kiiley. They do keep a little clean er because as a rule they don't have to tote the water with which they bathe. But visit any busy railroad or bus station a few hours after ' the day's travel st?rts, and if the 1 See 19TH CENTURY Page 7 Band WiH Play Thursday Night fhc Morehcad City high school bind under the direction of Ralph Wade, music instructor, will pre sent a concert at 8 o'clock Thurs day night in the school auditori um This will be the first formal ap pearance of the band this year, Mr. Wade stated. In comitu years he hopes to present two band con certs annually. Next week, the band will march down and present several numbers on Arendcll street, i, No admission will be charged to the concert and everyone is urged to be present. A guest male quar tette will sing between the band numbers. The program follows: School Song. Lisle; Zenith Overture, Ben nett; Viennese Melody; Aces of the Air. King; Glorious Things of Thee, Towner; Were You There?, Burleigh; Chalma. Bennett; Sweet *nd Low. Barnby: Swing Low. I Sweet Chariot: Wings of the Army, King: Soldier's Farewell, Kinkel; Bells of Saint Mary's Adams; ' Moonlight Melody, King; Indian ? King. Temperatures Average Between 68-71 Degrees I Themperatures have remained i 'on an average between 60 and 10 degrees recently, according to tamey Davis, official county we? ttier observer. PrevWling wirids during the period have come from the couth cast with the exception J of la:>t Saturday and Sunday when it shifted to the north we?t during the short cold spell. ? Temperatures for Thursday through Sunday were as folows: Max. Min. , Thursday, April 14 .1. 71 60 .Friday, April 15 ? -71 60 Saturday, April 16 ... 70 37 Sunday, April 17 62 38 Bed Cross Chairman Dr. N. Thomas Ihnnett, county health officer, has been appoint ed chairman of the Red Cross chapter covering Beaufort and the eastern part of the county. He replaces Miss Lena Duncan of Beaufort who resigned in January. Dr. Ennett's work as chairman will consist of assist ing Mrs. Harry McGinnis, home service chaiman for the Red Crost, in an advisory capacity. He will also take charge of Red Cross drives and appoint cam paign chairmen. Scientist Seeks Cause of Net Deterioration in Albemarle Wanted: Book on How To Spend Lazy Holiday Beaufort town hall was desert ed yesterday during the Easter Monday holiday ? with one ex ception. Town Clerk Bill Hatsell was working on some of the city's parking meters with a lost look on hfc face. Everybody else took the day off.", lie said slowly, "but 1 don't know what to do with a holiday. I never got any time off when I worked on a newspaper and I don't know what to do now. I thought I'd come down and fix these broken meters." With that, he turned back to the mechanical Job." I just don't know what to do with a holiday!" Lions to Sponsor Negro Talent Search Programs Plans for two Negro Talent Search programs to be held In Morehead City and Beaufort to night and Thursday nigbt were completed at the meeting of the Morehead City Lions club Friday night in the Fort Macon Hotel dining room. Lion Victor Wickizer was pjit in charge of arrangements for the program and he said that a large amount of varied entertainment would be seen both nights. The program tonight is to be held in the Morehead City high school auditorium in order to provide ade quate seating. Thursday night's Talent Search will be held at Queen Street school in Beaufort. Curtain time for both shows is 7:45 p. m. The finals will be Friday, April 29, in Morehead City high school auditorium A total of $75 in cash prizes will be offered. A *15 prize will be given to the age group up through grade 7, and $25 each to the age groups 8 through 12 and adults. A *10 bonus will go to the grand winner In ill groups. To enter. * contestant should register with Randolph Johnson, principal of Queen Street High school, or S. R. McLendon, princi pal of the W. S. King school. More head City. The band of each school will play at the finals. Mr. Wickizer urges white patrons to attend the shows. He said there will be plenty of seats available for these entertainments which he pre diets will be better than any tilent show ever staged. Some of the adult contestants on tonight's program are Floyd Horton. Robert Lee Jones, and Bet ty Dudley Tillery, vocal soloists; the Persuading Five, Negro quin tet. will sing; Janice Delores Bell will sing and play the piano. Alien "Jim Weasel" Jones wil dance, and the "Be-Boppcrs" orchestra will ap pear. I As an added attraction, but not See LIONS Page 7 competing, the St. Luke's Baptist Mrs. HrSampsoir Will Make Speech At Convention % * Morehead City Teen-Age Club Adviser to Appear At Woman's Club Session Mrs. Harold Sampson, president of the Morehead City Woman's club, has been invited to speak at the state convention of Federated Women's clubs to be held in Golds boro today through Thursday. Mrs. Sampson whs invited by Mrs. J. M. Highsmith, chairman of be Youth Conservation commit tee, to speak on the work of the Teen-Age club in Morehead City. Mrs. Sampson was organizer and s the present adviser of the club. She also manages the Carteret Recreation Center. I The letter from Mrs. Highsmith r tated that the Morehead City I Teen Age club was one of the few I in the state that was operating rucccRsfully and that it was wel known for its usefulness. "I feel that the letter and re quest, for a speech is a high com nl ment to our local club,'' said j Mrs. Sampson. I Mrs. Milliard Eure, district 12 [ ^resident of the Women's clubs, and Mrs. Sampson are the two delegates attending from More head City. For almost three-quarters of a century A'.'aemarle sound and Cho wan river fishermen have plied their trade with no undue occupa tional hazards or headaches. Pic cure their consternation, then, when pound nets which normally iast seven to ten years fell apart in three to four months ? and gill nets which had held up under a year's hard use fell to pieces in one to three days. Worse yet, the trouble appear* to be spreading, for while pound-netters in Chowan, river have had to cope with rapia let deterioration for several years, ;ill netters in the Columbia river mport their gear worries began ihis year ? to the tune of a $20, 300 loss. Called on to determine the cause, Dr. E. W. Roelofs of the Institute of ? Fisheries Research in Morehead City, first checked tar ring methods ? for tarring, though Vong found effective, seems of little ?ivail in the affected areas. "Present day tar does not stay on tne twine as did the old-time ar," he says, "Even though tar .ing methods have not changed; tar in use today is made from petroleum residues and it may be that the newer methods of pe troleum refining remove certain properties which formerly made the tar residue a good net pre servative." When the protective coating of tar does come off, bacteria and molds go right to work and the nets soon fall apart. "Present suggestions for better protection of nets include more frequent tarring where possible and perhaps using a thinner, or warmer, tar to ensure proper pew See SCIENTIST Page 7 Vacuum Gleans Oysters BIG SUCKER ? A rlose-up of the six-foot nozzle HALF-SHELL HOWE ? Cor. . . ? soti Army FS is oyster boat AP Newsfeatures NEW HAVEN ? A giant vacuum cleaner, capable of harvesting 1,000 bushels of oysters per hour, has been developed by the Connecticut Oyster Co , and B. F. Goodrich engineers. The suction machine not only leads an oyster boat in three to four hours, but aUo catches and destroys thousands of oyster drills, a boring snail that is one of the chief enemies of shellfish. A nozzle is pulled over the oyster beds behind a rubber-tired dolly. A powerful pump inhales 3,600 gallons of water per minute, pulling up oysters, star fish and the boring drills. The oysters are sorted on a wire mesh conveyor and stored. Rehearsals Begin On 'Blithe Spirit' Mrs. Lois Chapin to Dir ect Sophisticated Com edy by Nofel Coward 1 Rehearsals have begun on the ? Uttle Theater's latest, production, j "Blithe Spirit" by Noel Coward, j | Director Lois Chapin says she is t sure the' Little Theater will have! another polished production ready j for the public before long. The play, a sophisticated com edy, has seven characters, and all but one minor role lias been cast. The characters are as follows: Arnold Borden will play the part of ?Charles; Thelma Branch the role of Madame Arcati; Ruth Bailey, Elvira; Billy Borden, Ruth; H. L. Lindsay, I)r. Bradman; and Elsie Griffin, Mis. Bradman. Gus Martin is the business di rector and Giles Willis has charge of the costumes. The date and location of the play's presentation will be an nounced later. The initial production of the Little Theater, which was organ i'zed last winter, was "Joan of Lorraine." This play, by Maxwell Anderson, was given in February. Mrs. Chapin, who is directing "Blithe Spirit" played the part of Joan and Miss Doris Leach, in structor at Morehead City Tech nical institute, was director. County Polio Chapter Elects Mrs. Pauiine 'Mace Chairman The Carteret county chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis met Wednesday night at the Jefferson restaurant in Morehead City and elected Mrs. Pauline Mice of Beaufort chairman for the coming year. Other officers elected to serve with Mrs. Macc arc A. H. James of Beaufort, chairman of the Mar^h of Dimes; Mrs. Mildred Holland of Beaufort, vicc -chair man; Mrs. Martha Loftin of Beaufort, secre tary; Mrs. Graham Duncan of Beau fort. treasurer; and Stanley Wood land of Morehead City, chairman #f the executive committee. Mrs. Duncan made her report on the financial status of the local chapter. Proceeds [or the county from the March of Dimes totalled ?4,008.74, 50 per ccnt of the money collected, the other SO per ccnt going to the national chapter. Since the beginning of the polio epidemic last summer. 17,173 79 has been spent by the local chap ter for actual care At the begin ning of the March of Dimes the chapter owed $2,400 and had bor rowed another $2,900 from .the North Carolina epidemic fund. Most of the money spent has been used to pay for hospitaliza tioh. One case alone hat cost $1. ? 712.75 and another $1,462. Less than $200 of the total on these two cases has' been spent for physician's bills. Dr. S. W. Hatcher thanked the chapter for sending him to New York for a refresher course on treatment of infantile paralysis. Mr. Woodland expressed the thanks of the chapter and the county for the' work Dr. Hatcher has done. Members appointed to the exe cutive committee were Mrs. Cla rence Taylor of Morehead City, the Rev. W. D. Caviness of More head City. Mrs. Helen Hatsell of Beaufort. John R. .(ones of Swans boro, W B. Allen of Newport, Eli fene Guthrie of Broad Creek, Lio nel Pelletier of Stella. Mrs. Karl Davis of Harker's Island. Mi's. Brantley Morris of Atlantic, and Morris Morse of Marshallberg. | The medical advisory committee is composed of Dr. Prank E Ilyde. Dr. Manlcy Mason. Dr. S. W Hat cher and Dr. N. Thomas Ennett. Present at the meeting were Stanley Woodland. ?Mr?. Pauline Mace. Mrs Graham Duncan. Mrs. < Martha Loftin. A. H. James, Dr. N. T. Ennett. the Rev. W. D. Ca viness. Mr*. Clarence Taylor. Dr. Frartk E. Hyde and Dr. S W. Ilatcher. I Chamber oi Commerce Will Banquet Friday The annual bunquet of the Morehead City Chamber of Com merce will be held Friday night at 7 o'clock at the lilue Ribbon Club. New officers for the 1949-50 year will be introduced and Clyde Douglas, well-known Ra leigh attorney, will speak to the groun. even and a half ye,?rs ' on the Martinsville Daily Bulle tin in charge of advertising. M?\ tingle wil live with his wife ami daughter, Pat, in the apartment at' Moore and Ann streets, *Beau fort. Introduced, by request. Friday ; in the Senate was bill 454 which would amend the charter of the j "town ot Atlantic Beach." The ! bill was introdduced by Sen. D. L. j'Libby) Ward, New Bern, one of j the two state senators represent ing the seventh district, of which Cartert county is a part. This bill authorizes the mayor and board of aldermen to levy and collect special assessments on all property for the purpose of providing police and fire protec tion, lifeguard protection, and sa nitary protection including gar bage disposal. According to the text of the bill, hese assessments would be levied innually in proportion to the amount of benefit the property jwncr receives. The bill provides I hat to make these arsessments i five-member bojnl would be ap pointed each year by the board of ildcrmen. 'I his board would be composed I two representatives of the At antic Beach Businessmen's asso iation. two cottage owners, and lie mayor. Then this group, ac 'ording to SB 454, would decide )U the assessment for each pro erty owner, hold a hearing on he assessments, and report to the n tyor and the aldermen who "shall ?enfirm the report and then the assessment shall be due and pay able." Morehead City Woman's Club Enters National Competition ? Two Companies Receive Awards ? ? \ Sperli, Carieret Ice, Coal Recognized for safe Operafion in 1948 Sperti Foods, Inc., Beaufort and the . ty?^t*ret loe a?ul Coal com fim}, . in?*cahead City, have re? ceived safety awarfls for ;i reduc lion in the number of accidents at each respective plant during 19-48. Certificates of Safety Achieve ment, signed by State Labor Com missioner Forrest H. Shuford, were presented to H. S. Leahy, manager of Sperti and Louis I). Gore, manager of Carteret Ice and Coai company, by K. I). Whitley. Jr., safety inspector. Mi'. Whitley represents the North Carolina De partment of I>abor in the eastern district.. Kagh plant achieved a perfect record of no lost time accidents during 11)48. They were the only two companies in Carteret county which made this record and werej recognized by the department, ofj labor. Qualification of industrial plants for the certificate of safety achi evement is one phase of the labor department's manpower conserva tion program, which also includes safety education work and periodic inspection drives, Inspector Whit ley said. ? NEWS BHIEFS The Tidewater Baseball League will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in I the municipal building in More- 1 head City. The S. S. Hat Creek, an ocean- 1 going tanker, docked at the More head City Port Terminal this morn ing with a cargo of gasoline. The vessel's home port is Baytown, Texas. Two schools, Morehead City High school and Smyrna school, were closed yesterday for Easter Mon day. Other schools in the county remaffted open as usual. Workmen are busy chipping j paint from the oil storage tanks at 1 the Morhead City Port Terminal. The tanks will be repainted soon. The summer course for teachers i at Morehead City Technic^ insti- 1 tute. opens June 20. rather than j June 30 as previously announced. The Crab Point Home Demons tration club will meet at 2:30 1 Thursday afternoon ?jth Mrs. Tho- ! maft Ogle^y The demonstration ! will be "Packaging Frozen Foods." The senior class of Smyrna high j school attended the annual high ! gchool day at Fast Carolina Teach ers college Thursday. Twenty- j three seniors and five chapcrons nude the trip*. . ? The United Daughters of the ; ConflMeraey will meet at Fort Ma con May 12. They will make plans | for planting trees on the causeway | to Atlantic Beach and Fort Macon. I The Morehead City Woman's ' has entered a rontest (o build -otter communities throughout the ' -nil' <1 States that has heen launch '?'I by he General Federation of Women's clubs. ! "The purpose of the contest" T . 'VV L lila" Buck, presi dent of the General Federation of Women s clubs, "is to encourage community leaders to develop im provement programs " The Kroger company, which operates retail food stores *in the Middle West ?>iid South, is cooperating with the federation by providing $80,000 In mm* Ho the winning '-hibs. ?-?, announced by Mr* Buck a; a recent luncheon in | Washington at which Vice Presi dent Allen Burkley was the speak I Clubs entering the contest will judged on the basis of their project ? value to the community on thoroughness of organization. ' exPt"d?