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3SE CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES -?l , A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 881V) YEAR, No. 41 " TWENTY PAGES - THREE SECTIONS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS In This Issue: Race Track Supplement It's another photo finish as the dogs complete a thrilling race at the Morehead City dog track. Located just three miles west of Morehead City on highway 70, the track will open for a 14-week season this Friday night, June 3. See the special four-page supplement on the race track in this issue, section 3. George Eastman, Beaufort, Succeeds C. N. Bennett, Cruise Commodore Tomatoes Suffer From Late Blight Potato Fungus ? COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh? The late blight fungus, which has done considerable damage to the commercial potato crop in eastern Carolina, has now spread to toma to plantings in the central and eastern parts of the State, Dr. D. E. Ellis, plant pathologist for the V?rlh Carolina Agricultural Ex periiAent sUCrttt, said today. The disease has been reported such widely scattered areas as Guil ford, Durham, Wake, and Pamlico counties, Ellis said. The pathologist urged home gar deners and commercial tomato growers to protect their tomatoes from late blight by spraying or dusting with fixed eopper fungi cides such as tribasic copper sul fate. copper A compound, or cu procidc. The fungicides, Ellis said, should be applied at weekly intervals. Where dusts are used, applications should be repeated if rains wash the materials off the plants. Recent heavy rains and cool night temperatures have been par ticularly favorable for develop ment of the late blight fungus, El lis stated. Should the weather turn hot and dry the disease would be checked and the use of fungi cides would not be so critical in the central and eastern counties. However, in the mountain areas where relatively cool temperatures prevail, the plants should be pro tected throughout the growing sea son. The late blight disease attacks the leaves, stems, and fruits of the tomato plant, causing black dis coloration and defoliation. In se vere cases plants apffear to have been killed by scalding water. Complete details on control of late blight are given in extension circular No. 331, which may hi obtained from the local county agent or by writing to the Agricul tural Editor, State College Station, Raleigh. Highway Patrol Arrests Six Negroes at Harlowe Six Neeroes. five men and one woman, were apprehended by State Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard and Cpl. V. L. Spruill Saturday afternoon at Harlowe and chargcd with having in their pos session non tax paid whiskey. The Negroes have been placed tjrtdcr bond and will be tried in Recorder's court tomorrow. The '41 Mercury in which the whiskey was found is being held by authorities The highway patrol also confis cated a load of illegal whiskey and a '40 Chevrolet coupe Wednes day morning near Harlowe. Norehead City Stores To Stay Open Wednesday Store hours, other than grocery and drug stores in Morehead City ire from 9 a m. to 0 p.m. six days . a week, the Morehead City mer chants association reminded con sumers today. The announcement stressed that stores will remain open all day Wednesday instead of from # a m: to 1 p.m. as they have previously. George Eastman, of Beaufort, chairman of the county marine ra dio-telephone committee and own er of the Eastman Furniture stores in Beaufort and Morehead City, was elected commodore of Tar Heels Afloat at the banquet and meeting of the group Sunday night at the Trent Pines club in New Bern. Sixty-two boats of all shapes and sizes and their crews, numbering 225 persons, showed up for the second annual Tar Heels Afloat cruise which began in Morehead City Sunday morning. Boats from 1 as far distant as Milwaukee, Wis., were present along with outboard putt-putts. Boit^ arrived at Morehead City Saturday and registered at the Morehead City yacht basin That night *hej> were entertained at a ] cocktail piety and dance at the j Bogue Sound club with the sports minded attending schooling races at the Morehead City race track. Sunday morning the group de parted for their afternoon rendez vous at the Trent Pines club land ing at New Bern. That afternoon they were entertained at the club and then held a cocktail party and banquet at 7 p.m. Billy Arthur, diminutive editor of the Onslow County News and Views was the principal speaker at the banquet over which retiring Commodore Charles N. Bennett. Morehead City, presided. Mr. Ar thur said that with luck coastal Carolina would become the yacht ing center of the world. "Just as the rest of the state has taken the textile industry away from New England and the furniture industry away from Grand Rapids, we ' will take the yachting business away from Flori- ' da and. Bar Harbor," Mr. Arthur said. ' Officers elected at the banquet to servq with Commodore Eastman were Louis Hansen of Wilming ton, vice-commodore; Way land Sermons of Washington, rear-com modore; arid Albert R. Bell of New Bern, fleet captain. This year's Tar Heels Afloat cov ered 48 miles, moved out of the Morehead City Yacht Basin at ap proximately 10 a. m., passed through the Inland Waterway, Core Creek Canal, into Adams Creek, past Minnesott Beach, up Neuse River, into Trent River and finally into the East Carolina Club yacht anchorage at about 4 p.m. Sunday. Biggest vessel in the squadron *as the 8d-foot Coast Guard patrol boat. Second largest was the 75 foot State - owned "Hatteras." Smallest were an assortment ml 17-foot speedboats, which zipped and whipped along the course. The Griffin, converted Navy crash boat, was easily the largest privately-owned vessel in the flotil la. It cost Owner John Hirzfield of Milwaukee a total of $80,000? at least $60,000 of that for conver sion at Morehead City. Commodore Charles Bennett of Morehead City and Robert Morri son of New Bern estimate the re- . sale value of boats in the 1949 cruise at $1,500,000. New they j cost not less than $2,000,000. The cruise this past weekend was the first in the 1949 series, j The second cruise will take the i boatmen to Belhaven on July 4 and the final one of the season will find them using Wilmington as their headquarters for a trip to Wrightsvillc Beach on Labor Day j weekend NEWS-TINES Inasgwates Newscast This Morning Starting today, at 9 a.m. fix day* a week, Monday through Saturday, the Carteret County News-Times will present a fire , minute local newscast over ra dio station WMBL This newscast will be a' con tinuation of the Carteret Coun ty News-Times policy of giving the people of carteret county and surrounding areas the latest news of all communities from Ocracoke to Cherry Point. It will be broadcast directly from the offices of THE NEWS TIMES b f members of the newspaper staff. '39 Lincoln Ztphyr Damaged at Steel Bridge A '39 Lincoln zephyr was da maged to the extent ot *400 in an accident recently at Core Creek bridge. Wayne H. Steadman. a Marine stationed at Cherry Point, who was driving the car received a left cut over the eye. Three passengers in the car were unin jured. * Brister told Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard, who investigated, that headlights of an oncoming truck blinded him and he ran into the side of the bridge. Patrolman J. W. Sykes took Brister to the Morehead City hos pital where he was treated and discharged. Patrolman W. H. Woo lard also investigated. Passengers in the Lincoln were Miss Vera Lou Lofti% Beaufort, and Willie Powers an ^Thurmond Brister. Marines stationed at Cher ry Point I ~ Cash Removed From '65 Club' Thieves entered the "65" Club on Queen street in Beaufort Sunday night. May 22 and stole between $75 and $80 from an electric re cord player, Beaufort police chief Louis Willis reported tpday. Eddie Collins, Negro proprietor discovered the burglary Monday morning when he opened the club and immediately called the police. The investigation disclosed that two window panes had been remov ed sometime during the night allow ing the burglar, or burglars, to gain entrance to the building. In addition to stealing the money, a carton of cigarettes was taken. The thief or thiefs- pried open the door leading into the money box Without doing much damage to the rest of the "piccolo" or the rest of the club, Chief Willis re ported. Investigation is still under way. Tin Home Demonstration Clubs to Mm! This Week Home demonstration club meet ings for the coming week are as follows: Wire Grass Home Demonstra tion club ? 8 p. m. this afternoon with Mrs. Dan Lu banks, the de monstration will be "Modern Aids in Sewing." * Core Creek - Harlowe Demon stration club ? 2 p. m. Thursday afternoon in the Core Creek com munity building. Demonstration will be "Attractive Desserts from Fruits.'' ? in Teacher Dies In Classroom Mrs. Pearl Taylor Olund Suffers Heart Attack Friday Noon Mrs. Pearl Taylor Olund, one of the second grade teachers at Beau fort school, died suddenly Friday noon while conducting class. It is believed she suffered a heart at tack. According to Pritchard Lewis coroner, no inquest was held be cause the death was due to natural causes. Mrs. Taylor was stricken approx imately 10 minutes prior to dismiss al at noon. She collapsed on the floor and nearby teachers were called to the room by her pupils. Dr. L. W. Moore was called and upon arrival pronounced her dead. Pupils from Mrs. Olund's room were taken into Miss Catherine Gaskill's room until dismissal time. No classes were held at the school Friday afternoon. Mrs. Olund, 45 years old, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. K. F. Taylor of North Harlowe. She was graduated from New Bern High school and from East Caro lina Teachers college. She had taught school at Knotts Island in Currituck county. Burlington and Ayden before coming to the Beau fort school in 1941. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Harlowe Methodist church, with the Rev. T. R. Jenkins, pastor of the Ann St Methodist church, conducting the services. Mrs. Charles Hasscll music teach er of the school, was in charge of music during the service and dir ected the Beaufort church choirs. Mrs. Olund is survived by her son, John. 12, eight brothers, Phil lip, with whom she made her home and Frunk. both of North Harlowe, Kenneth Woodrow and Walter R. of Wilmington, Joseph Harold of Springfield, Mass, James Floyd of Middlqbury, N. Y , Morris B., USN, of Waukegan, 111., and Clarence P. USN. stationed, in Japan, and three sisters Mrs. Thomas Scott Gardi ner, of Warrenton, Mrs. W. R. An drews of St. Louis, Mo., and Mrs. J. E. Spelman of Brooklyn, N. Y. 70 Want Marine Radio Station Seventy applications for marine radio-telephone service have been turned in to Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company, according to an announcement from George Eastman, chairman of the com mittee which was organized two months ago to investigate the pos sibility .of constructing a marine radio telephone station on the Carteret coast. Mr. Eastman, with the assist ance of Dan Walker, manager of the Beaufort Chamber of Com merce, distributed forms for the application in every community east of Beaufort. The Morehead City Chamber of Commerce has also cooperated in the work. Mr. Eastman stated that appli | cations from the menhaden boat operators are yet to come in. Members of the marine radio- 1 telephone committee besides Mr. Eastman, are Earl Taylor, W H. Potter, and David Beveridge, Beaufort; M. T. Mills, Charles Bennet, George R. Wallace, and V. J. O'Neall, Morehead City. Insurance Agents Attend Savannah Convention B. L. Goodwin and E. T. Han cock of the ordinary department of the Pilot Life Insurance com pany, Greensboro, have just return ed to the city from Savannah where they attended the company's 31st agency convention which was held May 22, 23 and 24 at the General Oglethorpe hotel- Wilmington Is land. Goodwin and Hancock were awar ded this trip as a result of the out standing volume of business sold by them during the qualifying per iod. Over 200 qualifying agents and guests from the southeastern states and several home office officials attended the convention. Mrs. Goodwin and Miss Carrie Lee Jones accompanied Mr. Good win 'and Mr. Hancock. Tide Table HIGH LOW Taesday, May 31 10:35 a.m. 10:36 p.m 4:37 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 1 11:24 a.m. 5:23 a.m. 5:24 p.m. 11:49 p.m. Thursday. June 2 12 midnight 12:18 p-m 6:12 a.m. 8:26 p.m. Friday, June 3 12:44 ajn. 1:10 p.m. 7:07 a.m. 7:34 pM State Highway Patrol Recovers Three Stolen Automobiles Miss Mary SueTenneyWins rMiss Morehead City ' Title Mayor Sentences Man to 30 Days Drunken Driving io Be Tried by Recorder Eldon Smith was found guilty of being drunk, disorderly, dis turbing tht^ peace and resisting arrest in yesterday's session of Morehead City mayor's court. He was sentenced to 80 days impri sonment in the county jail in j Beaufort. Three Cherry Point Marines, were .tried on charges of drunk -J enness. Officer Hubert Fulcher } ' testified that Saturday afternoon i | he saw the three in an automobile i l that appeared to be driven by an | j intoxicated driver. He said the car was proceeding , w*st on Arendell street and he ordered it to the curb after it had j left the business district. He stated that the driver, Theodore Kec.-kes, | was drunk and the other two oc cupants, Edwin Kirby and Edward i Hrotzel, were also intoxicated. He I added that he found two partially I empty liquor bottles in the car. Mayor George Dill, Jr., explain I ed to Kecskes that mayor's court I had no jurisdiction over his .of fense, driving under the influence of alcohol, and that it would be necessary for recorder's court to try him. He was bound over to I rial in recorder's court in #Beau fort at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn ing under $150 bond. Kirby and Brotzel were both found guilty of public drunken ness and paid a $10 fine and costs each. John Williams, Negro, pleaded guilty to speeding and was as sessed with the costs and a $15 fine. * Defendant With Morehcad City Rolarians Visit Technical Institute Morehead City Rotarians visited j the Morehead City Technical in- i stitute, a division of North Caro lina State College, for a delicious I toast beef dinner and ? trip] through the Institute at their Thursday night meeting. Following the dinner, Director James I. Mason and Instructor Charles Price took the group on a tour of the Institute and out lined the Institute's purpose and accomplishments. The Rotarians were shown the school's facilities which included classrooms, library, shops and laboratories. A delegation headed by II. L. Jbslyi was appointed to visit New port tomorrow night and meet with the district governor and per sons interested in forming a New port Rotfcry club. Miss Mary Sue Tenney, da ugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Tenney and rising sophomore at the Woman's College of the Uni versity of North Carolina, was proclaimed the judges' choice and Miss Morehead City at Friday night's pageant held in the More head City high school. Miss Tenney was judged along with eight other contestants on her talent, bathing suit and eve ning dress appearance, and poise and personality. Her talent con tribution consisted of a comic pantomime, A Teenager at the Movies. Runners-up were Miss Pauline Gillikin and Miss Helen Martin. Miss Gillikin did a rhumba with Bill Kvans and Miss Martin did a ballroom dance with Walter Morris. Upon winning Miss Tenney ex claimed that she was too excited to talk but did say that it was a wonderful honor. She said she would try her best to win the Miss North Carolina contest for More head City. The new queen was crowned by last year's Miss Morehead City, Viola Sty ron. After all nine contestants had displayed their talents, five were chosen to return for final com petition. They were the Misses Tenney, Gillikin, Martin, Janice Lewis and Nancy Howell. Miss Lewis gave a demonstration of Don't on the Dance Floor with her partner Bill Godwin and Miss Ilowell sang "Without A Song." Other contestants were Lucy Willis who sang "Blue Moon," Sadie Davis who gave a humorous monologue, Esther Taylor who danced witH Jimmy Wallace and Grace Oglesby who jittcrbugged with Si Adams. The portion of the pageant that received the largest amount of applause was the Miss Hog Island contest. Five lovely matrons dis played their generous charms be fore the judges who were all but overwhelmed. The buxom maidens were Char les Willis in a lovely polka dotted bathing suit, Luther Lewis, devas tating Ni flaxen pigtails and^gold bathing suit, Floyd Chadwick, Jr.. in a revealing two piece plaid skivvy suit, Coley Hepler in a] hand-me-down Mother Hubbard and the charming winner, shapely Clyde Carr of the fiery red tresses. "Miss" Carr received several prizes, chief among them a free shave. Judges for the two contests were Mrs. P. Lee Smith of High Point, Mrs. Wilma O. Thayer of High Point, Robert Long and Wil bur Becton, both of Raleigh, and Jerry Ball of Charlotte. Pianist for the occasion was A1 Dewey, Morehead City. Mr. Ball also played the piano between acts. The driver's licenses of Walter Joseph Fielek of Cherry Point and Curtis Albert Heran of Camp Lc jeune were revoked recently for drunken driving, according to a report from the State Highway Safety Division. Leatherneck or fatherless? By Pfc. J. W. Canill (Public Informal ion Offirr Ml' AM) If you don't think that Murines are tough, get this. Tuesday afternoon, Pfc. Charles E, Fayle, an ordnance man in VMF-461, was run over by an 8,000 lb. bomb truck and escapcd without injury. Mayle was Kitting on the grass in front of a bomb carrier ser vice truck, shielding himself from propwash and the sun, when the vehicle rolled over both of his legs. Mayle, not hearing the truck engine start because of the roar of the propellors, was in a quan dry as to why his buddies beside him began to get up. Muyle. at tempted to do likewise but, to express it in his own words, "I guess I didn't make it." The truck driver, unaware of Mayle's presence in front of the truck, put it in motion and drove over both of his legs. Mayle was taken to sick bay where X ray were immediately taken but no broken bones were found. He was dismissed and sent back to duty. No report has been made as to whether the truck was dam aged or not. , . MEWS BRIEFS The building which formerly housed THE NEWS-TIMES on Evan< street, Morehead City, has been rented to Freeman Brothers Wholesale grocers as a warehouse. Governor W. Kerr Scott will de liver an address on "Belter Schools and Roads" at 8 o'clock tomorrow night at Kafer park. New Bern, according to an announcement by Hugh Mills. New Bern. The gov ernor's address will be preceded by a hall hour band concert. In addition to Louis D. Gore, who was elected president of the Car teret County Shrine club at a re cent re-organiution meeting. Earl M. Noe, Beaufort, was elected vice president, and 1. Morton Davis, Morehead City, was elected secre tary - treasurer. The meeting was held at Ocean Lodge, Morehead City. Because Solicitor M. Leslie Da vis is out of town, recorder's court will be helA tomorrow instead of today. ? ?? Government Buys 33 Can oi Carteret Potatoes Thirty-three cars of potatoes have been bought by the Produc tion Marketing administration in Carteret county within the past two weeks, PMA Administrator B. J. May reported today- These cars were bought through the PMA price support program for the Commodity Credit corpora tion. Over 95 percent of the coun ty's potato crop has been harvest ed, Mr. May stated, and the price has held up this year better than any previous year. He add- , ed that no farmer received less than $2 75 a bag for his pota toes. The job of measuring tobacco acreage was begun last week and should be completed within the next three weeks. PMA com mitteemen recently were train ed in techniques of doing the job of measuring properly. Morehead City Lions Make $170 On Donkey Ball Morehead City Lions made over $170 from their two donkey bane) hall games at Morehead City and! Atlantic last, week, iL ^aa an frufepceiT at the mce' jj. of thfr Lions Friday nighty,' the Fort Macon hotel dining A third game scheduled h 4i^u^orl Thursday night whs "out. Proceeds from the ?"?.<% s will be used to finance blind clinics with the Lions sponsor. Lester Gould, of Jacksonville, Lions zone chairman and candi date for district governor, the Jacksonville mayor and Jackson ville's Methodist minister, all visit ed the local club. Mr. Gould ex tended an invitation for Morehead City Lions to visit Jacksonville and go on a conducted tour of Camp Lejeune Wednesday after noon. Lions President Dave Battle Webb disclosed that elections for next year's officers will be held at the Friday, June 10, meeting. Two new members, Earl Stocks and Tabor McKnight, were wel corned into the club. Aircraft Workers Needed Al Cherry Point Air Base Civil scrvicc examinations for the positions of aircraft instrument mechanic; aircraft mechanic gen eral; helper, aviation instrument mechanic and helper, aircraft me chanic general in the federal gov ernment are now open at the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C., it was stated today by William E. Ward, Recorder, Board of U. S. Civil Scrvicc Examiners, Cherry Point.' The examinations are being held to fill positions at the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point. Salaries range from $6.24 per diem for helper, aviation instrument me chanic and helper, aircraft mecha nic general to $11.12 per diem for aircraft instrument mechanic and aircraft mechanic general. Appli cations will be accepted by the Recorder, Board of U. S. Civil Ser vice Examiners, Gate No. 1, U. S. Marine Corps Air Station, until the needs of the service have been met. No written test is required in this examination. Applicants will be rated on the basis of their train ing and experience as described in their applications. Complete information and appli cation blanks may be obtained from any local post office where the announcement is posted; the Recorder, Board of U. S. Civil Ser vice Examiners," U. 8. Marine Corps Air Station. Cherry Point, N. C.; and the Director. Fourth U. S. Civil Service Region. Tem porary Building "R." Third it Jef ferson Drive, S. W? Washington. 25, D. C. The State highway patrol recov ered two stolen cars in this area over the weekend, bringing to three the number found in the past two weeks. Three Marines who are reported to have stolen a '48 Buick conver tible at Atlantic Beach Saturday night were apprehended the same night at Jacksonville, N. C. The car belonged to Henry Toler, of Atlan tic Beach and Rocky Mount. Cpl. V. L. Spruill of the Carter et county State Highway Patrol recovered at the beach Sunday a 1933 Chevrolet coupe which was stolen at Goldsboro Saturday. Clif ton At wood James. Goldsboro, who was driving the car is being held in the county jail awaiting trial tomorrow. Ben J. Bell alias James Swindell, Newport, was apprehended with a wrecked 1947 Chevrolet at Bayboro Sunday a week ago. This car was stolen near Morehead City the same day it was found at Bayboro. The three Marines, Sgt. Doyle L Bowman Pfc. Edwin Cocklin, and Pfc. C. T Harvey, who arc stationed at Cherry Point, led Ons low County Patrolmen Jeff Parish on a wild chase from Swansboro to Jacksonville where they were arrested by Patrolmen Cpl. H. C. Johnson and Patrolman A. Z. Davis according to a report from Corpor al Spruill. The Onslow county patrolmen were contacted by radio and Par rish at Swansboro radioed ahead to Jacksonville where the three were taken into custody. Each was placcd under $1 000 bond. Charges facing James include driving drunk, improper use of an operator's license and larceny of a 1933 Chevrolet coupe. The car recovered at Bayboro be longed to T/Sgt. Barksdale of Cher ry Point. Miss Cleo Garner Receives Award CIco Frances Garner, valcdic torian of the graduating class at Newport high school, has been given the annual award of the Reader's Digest association for stu dents, who by their successful school work give promise of attain ing leaderships in the community, it was announced today by R. L. Pruit, principal. Miss Garner will receive an ho norary subscription to The Read er's Digest for one year and an en graved certificate from the editors, "in recognition of past accomplish* ment and in anticipation of unusual achievement to come." The Reader s Digest association has presented these awards yearly in senior high schools thorughout the United States and Canada ta the highest honor student of the graduating class. The awards are part of the educational program sponsored by the association and were an outgrowth of the wide use of the Reader's Digest in school work. With the collaboration of lead ing educators supplements to the magazine, containing guides for reading improvement and aids to effective speech and composition, are made available to schools and colleges. The award to Miss Garner, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Garner of route 2, Newport, was made possible through the cooperation of Mr. Pruit and his teaching staff who selected Miss Garner. Lummie's Place Forcibly ' Enteral Sunday Night Lummie's Place, a drive-in cafe located on the highway to the beach, was foicibily entered Sun dayv night. Although nothing valuable was missing, it was reported that a Charley Krouse investigated, 'sw lot of damage had been done. Constable Charley Krouse inves tigated. Jumping Bun Golf Club To OrgwuM Taught Persons interested in the build ing of a golf course and formation o( the Jumping Run Golf club will meet at 7:30 Tuesday night la the civic center, Morehcad City. In addition to letting up a pro tem organization to carry on holi ness, It la proposed to eoMlder the moat practical means lor fi nancing construction' and m?ln lenance of the Golf Course and to choose the most feasible method of contracting (or the constrwrtlafc .