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~5? CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ,tk A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (E*UblUh*<l 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES fE?Ubluh?d 1936) ? ? . 1 9 . a . ? S8th YEAR. NO. 44 EIGHTEEN PAGES ? 'JHREE SECTIONS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Rep. Graham A . Harden Becomes Center of Attention in Education Commencement to Begin at 8 Tonight 49 Morehead Cily High School Seniors Will Receive Diplomas * The final event in the 12 years of school life for 49 Morehead City high school seniors will oc cur tonight at 8 o'clock when for mal commencement exercises will take place in the school auditor The program will open with ium. Salutatorian Lucille Wright de live ring an address on the Mean ing and Origia of Democracy in America. There will be a speech on the History of Democracy by Jerry Ann Guthrie, one on Democ racy in Latin America by Lois Webb, and another on the Future of Our" Democracy by Valedic torian Wejdon C. Matthews, Jr. Principal G. T. Windell will then present the merit award, Mayor George W. Dill, Jr., will present the Rotary award, Aaron R. Craig the Masonic award, and Rev. John Bunn the Lions Clpb Athletic award, this will go to the high school and the presen athlete in the class. Closing ceremonies will feature Thomas Cordova, class president, presenting the senior class gift to the high schood and the presen* tation of diplomas by County Superintendent of Schools H. L. Joslyn. Charles Macy will be chief mar shal and his assistant marshals will be Betty Jo Midgett, Mary Lee Arthur, Colleen Swinson, Guy Paul Dixon, Jane Howerton, Etta Ruth Jones and Margaret M. Leary. Alternates will be Betsy Thornton and Mary Ruth Mc Knight. At 11 o'clock this morning eighth graders in the Morehead City school will also hold their graduation exercises in the school auditorium. Carolyn Laine will welcome the audience and a song will be sung by the entire class. H. S. Gibbs, Jr., will then present the American Legion award and Principal Win dell will award the certificates. Music director for the program will be Ralph Wade, music teacher at the school, and eighth grade teachers in charge of the program are Mrs. Grace Walence and Mrs. John Nelson. Ann Garner is chief marshal and ,her assistants are Hilliard* Eure, Ann Swanson, Mollie Bar ker, Corine Bell Webb, and Max ine McRohon. Potato Damage RemamsUnknown Damage from recent heavy rains to the potato crop in the county still remain's unknown, ac cording to Production Marketing Administrator B. J. May. Approx imately 200 acres of potatoes re mained to be dug Wdenesday morning and Mr. May gai<f that it would be impossible to say what damage had been done until those were dug. Thirty- six carloads of U. S. number 1, size B and number 2 potatoes have been purchased by the PMA office for the Commod ity Credit Corporation. The local PMA office has received three or ders from livestock feeders in the county for potatos of this type to be used in feeding their Stock. The state office has received 2500 such orders, most of them from North Coralina feeders. The county PMA office received notice June 1 to stop taking orders for these potatoes sinte all of the orders received by the state office could not be filled Farmers may purchase the potatoes, which have been dyed to prevent their use for human consumption, for one cent a bag or $9 a carload. Quldrm ShoaM Hcfista to Join licmlin Banks All boys and girls eight yeari and up who arc interested in icipiting in Beaufort's ncrea progrant this summer should register at the community build ing on Pollock street Monday morning At that time. Rat Autry. director of this sumner's recreation pro tram. win be present to register the children from ? to It o'clock and fully explain the summer's activities Graham A. Burden, representa tive in Congress from the third Congressional district, of which Carteret county is a part, has be come the focal point of attention in national education circles with his federal aid-to-education bill which was introduced in the house i:he 11th of last month. This bill, explained below in an article written by the well-known Benjamin Fine of The New York Times, has been referred to the House sub-committee on education and labor. It is expected to reach the full committee within the next week or two and those on Capitol Hill who make with the predic tions say the committee will pro bably approve, with a minimum of haggling, Representative Barden's bill. Bardcn, incidentally, is chair man of (he House sub-committee on education and labor. A portion of Mr. Fine's article, which appeared in Sunday's New York Times, follows: This week in the House, before a sub-committee of the Education and Labor Committee, a long step was taken toward final action on a Federal-aid-to-education bill. Once again, the outstanding spokesman for Federal aid ? the Man who has suddenly loomed as the most important champion for this measure ? was earlier in his Congressional career an opponent of Federal aid to education. As chairman of the education sub-committee, Representative Gra ham A. Barden, Democrat, of North Carolina, has introduced a bill which impartial educators and lay men agree is one of the best mea sures in the long history of the See BARDEN Page 6 Rising Costs Hit Small Newspapers Salt Lake City, June 8 ? (AP) j ? Newspaper men heard today I that smaU dailies and weekly pa \ jfett that ffre near the brealc-even pofnt in profits are really in a ! "serious condition" with costs ris ing. Joe Terry of Wolf and Com pany, a Chicago auditing firm, said "The future does not look too bright" for such papers. He warned them to be ready to cut outlays sharply. Terry spoke at the final busi ness session of the National Edi torial Association's convention. Urging that retrenchment bud gets as well as programs of ex pansion be set up, Terry said pos sible hikes in postal rates, mini Mum wages and Social Security rates and changes in the wage hour law and wage contracts might ? cut deeper into newspapers' in come. Joe T. Cook pf the Times, Mis sion, Texas, was elected president of NEA. Directors of the associa tion of small dailies and weeklies chose Providence, R. I., for next year's convention. It will be held June 16 to 18 and be followed by a tour of New England states. Commodore Eastman Begins Preparations far Cruise To prepare for the July Fourth Tar Heels Afloat cruise to Belha v?n. Commodore George Eastman and Robert G, Love, general man ager of th? Morehead City Cham her of Commerce, will go to Bel haven today. While there, they will complete arrangements for ac comodations land entertainment. Plana are already underway for large-scale entertainment on the Labor Day cruise to Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. Commo dore Eastman is assisting in mak ing the arrangements. It is hoped that by assembling in Morehead City and going to Wilmington that more vessels than in any of the previous Tar Heels Afloat venture* will join in the cruise. Mayer Stars Dnuikuuuu, Faadly SqaabUa Casts - Two publk drunkenness cases and * family squabble *??* heard m Monday's session of Morehead City mayor's court, Mayor George Dill, Jr.. presiding. Probable cause was found in tHe caae of Harvey Lewis and he was bound over to recorder's court and supehor court. He was bound over to recorder's court on the charge of assault on a female, his wife, and to superior court on the charge of assault on ? minor, his child. Charlie Wlckiier and Julian Wade both peaded guilty to public drunkenness. Hie first defendant waa sentenced to IS days in jail and the second paid a $15 fine and coats. Ntwporl Men Organize Third Connly Botary Club A third poup ni added to Carteret county's Rotary clubs Monday night when the New port Rotary club waa organized and became a provisional mem ber of Rotary International. R. L. Pruitt, principal of New port school and town commiss ioner, was elected president of the new club and C. 8. Long was elected to serve with him as sec retary-treasurer. Regular meeting time was set for Monday night at 7 o'clock in the Newport school lunch room. It Is to be expected that by the time the club receives its char ter from Rotary International there will be IS to IS members.* Seven Countians .. Receive Degrees At Chapel Hill Of the record class of 1.500 gra duates ai the University of North Carolina who received degrees at commencement Monday night, se ven were from this county and two from the outer banks. United States Senator Frank P. Graham, former president of the university, gave the commence ment address, and Governor Kerr Scott presented the diplomas. Ed ward Davenport, presidents, gave the farewell message for seniors. Those who were graduated from this area are the following: Carteret county: Murray D. Mc Cain, Jr., Newport, bachelor of arts; Louis J. Morris, Jr., More head City, bachelor of arts; Nelson W. Taylor, III, Beaufort, bachelor of arts; James F. Morris. Atlantic, bachelor of science in medicine; ! Herbert O. Phillips, II, Morehead City, bachelor of science in com merce; Gene C. Smith, Beaufort, bachelor of law*: Raymond E. Heath, Newport, bachelor of science in pharmacy. The Outer Banks: Troy S. Wil liams. Ocracoke, bachelor of arts in journalism; Sybil A. Skakle. Hat teras, bachelor of science in phar macy. Photographer Association To Sponsor July Contest Arrangements have recently been completed for a photography contest to be held during the Miss North Carolina pageant by the North Carolina Photographers As sociation, Robert G. Lowe, gener al manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce, announced today. Both amateur and professional photographers will be eligible to enter the contest with $200 in cash prizes to be awarded to the winners. Th$ first prize will be $100, the second $50 and there will be two third prizes of $25 each. # x The winning pictures will be selected by Miss North Carolina from among those taken of her during the pageant and published later. Photographers will have an opportunity to photograph her at a "Miss North Carolina Meets the Press" session the day after she is chosen. Trio Assaults Man at Beach Three Defendants Will Be Tried Next Week in Su perior Court A Marine and two other youths are being held under $500 bond (or their appearance in superior court next week on charges of bat tery, assault, attempt to kill and commit robbery. Their cases were bound over from recorder's court Tuesday. The Marine is Floyd E. Harris, 20. of Cherry Point, Jimmy Swin son, 18, of Mansfield, and Edgar Simpson, 18, of Morehead City RFD. According to Constable Charles Krouse who arrested them early Thursday morning, the trio attack ed and beat Ed Harris, of Green ville, Monday night about 11 o'clock at Atlantic Beach. They took Harris several hun dred feet west of the Atlantic Bcach hotel and assaulted him with the intent of robbing him, the con stable said. Someone heard Harris scream ing for help and went to the place where they heard the cries The three attackers had fled but the Marine lost his ID card and when he returned to look for it he was arrested. George Smith, police officer at Atlantic Beach, took Harris to Morehead City hospital where he was discharged the next day. Constable Krouse was notified of the attack at 1 a.m. and he immediately started visiting road houses along highway 70 where he was told that two beys had been there who had blood on their cloth es. He wis told the boys said they had been In a fight. "I soon learned the name of one of them and arrested him at 2:20 a.m. Tuesday and at 2:30 a. m. 1 arrested the other and got a written confession from both. Mr. Krouse continued. "I've never seen anyone beat up as bad as that Harris boy was." All the three attackers got from Harris, whom they evidently thought had a lot of money was about 60 cents and his keys. Mr. Krouse said the Marine and the two boys had been drinking but weren't drunk. The defendant, Simpson. Mi a member of this year's graduating class at 'Morehead City high school. After 'hearing the evidence in the case of Harvey Lewis of More head City, charged with assault on a female with a deadly weapon, being drunk and disorderly and destroying personal property. Jud ge Morris sentenced the defendant to one year on the roads. Notice of appeal of the sentence was given by Mr. Lewis' attorney and the case was referred to next week's term of superior court. A second charge against the defen dant of assault on a ' female was not prosecuted. The evidence in the case of Mrs. Beatrice Lewis, charged with as sault with a deadly weapon, was heard and the charge dismissed. Theodore KcsceK was found guilty of drunken driving and was fined flOO and costs. After hear ing the evidence againet Jack Dannis McGeachy, charged with drunken driving, Judge Morris found him not guilty and dismissed the case. A plea of guilty was entered in the case of Marius Ollie Nelson, charged with hit and run, and he was fined $25 and costs. Both Charles T. Kannmacher and William Douglas McArtair pleaded guilty to speeding. The See COURT Page 6 Trawler Owners 9 Laymen Go Aboard Albatross Tuesday Commercial fishermen and lay men got an insight Tuesday into the wondrous and mysterious workings of a fisheries research vessel when they were guests a board the Albatroes III, The Albatross, operated by the federal government in the dfvia ion of' the Fish and Wildfire ser vice, is making a survey of North Carolina coastal waters in coop eration with the Woods Jlole Oceanographic institute and the lnetitute of Fisheries Research, a branch of the University of North Carolina. The 179- foot grey steel vessel left Port Terminal at 10:30 in the morning and returned at 3:30 in the' afternoon. It then went ahput the aerious business of continuing its survey that night when' it left at 7 p.m. to complete plankton stations and repeat certain hydro graphic stations. It will return to port Sunday, and set sail Tuesday, June 14, to complete trawl stations, repeat several hydrographic stations and then continue to Woods Hole. Mass. The demonstrdRon criAe, ar ranged by W. A. Ellison, Jr., di rector of the Institute of Fisher ies Research, was planned to chow commercial fisherman how science can aid them in their business and to show other fisheries officials of the state government exactly what the Albatross Is accomplish ing. Powered by 800 HP Diesel en (tines, the Albatross cruised rap idly southward and as Fort Macon Coast Guard station faded in the distance, Dr. William F. Royce. chief scientist with the Fish and Wildlife Service gave the passen gers assembled on the deck a brief history of the Albatross and what the purpose- is' in undertaking the North Carolina survey. The Albatross was commissioned in March 1948 in New England after being converted from a Coast Guard boat which saw ser vice daring the recent war on the Hudson river. i The boat is rigged like a Boston trawler, but has a much smaller hold. Crew quartets are larger to accommodate the scientists who are always aboard and a deck laboratory makes ' possible tho rough Investigations while at sea. Dr. Koyce reported that the Al batross investigations will deter-, See FISHERMEN ?e ? Rains Cause Quarter to Half Million Dollars Crop Damage ? - i * Business Leaders To Attend Session At Greenville Business and professional lead ers from 10 cities in this area will meet In Greenville Tuesday in an area conference on national affairs being sponsored by local Cham bers of Commerce and the United States Chamber of Commerce. The meeting will open at 7 p.mf in the Woman's Club building. Several prominent speakers are slated to be present. John Whitt lesey, labor relations expert of the National Chamber, will discuss mi nimum wage law and the Ts" Hartley act; William J. Bird, na tional affairs adviser to the nation al chamber, will present current issues in the legislature mill in the nation's Congress; and a legis lative round table discussion will be presided over by Ed H. Cherry, assistant manager of the south eastern division of the National Chamber. Questions from the floor concern ing legislative matters will be en couraged and an open forum will bring the session to a close. The purpose of the meeting is to stimulate greater interest of lo cal business and professional lead ers in the affairs of the national government and to devise means by whicn they can keep themselves better informed on the problems with which they are faced, accord ing to Dan Walker, manager of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce. One of the features of the meet ing will be a dutch treat dinner. Tickets are $1.50 each and reserva tions should be made through the Beaufort or Morehead City Cham ber of Commerce by tomorrow. Eight Girls Stady In ff C Art Class The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina's an nual art and Beauty contribution to Beaufort has arrived and gone to work in earnest. In other words, the art students from WC are here Eight girls, all of them upper classmen. arrived in Beaufort last week and began classes on Wed nesday. John Courtney, professor on the college art staff, is in charge of the class. Previously, there have been two summer art sessions in Beaufort, one for three weeks and the other for four, but there will be only the three-week session this summer since pro fessor Gregory Ivey, former head of the sossions. is on the west coast this summer. Class hours are from 9 to 12 in the morning with labs in the af ternoon. AR11 the work is done j in water colors and most of the I subjects are landscapes. The labs are spent in making sketches which are fully painted during class sessions held in the old rail road station on Broad street. ' Besides eight regular art stu dents, there is one special student, Mrs. T. M. Bizzle of Beaufort and Goldsboro. It is expected that two or three other students may join the group before it closes. Mr. Courtney studied art in Missouri, Colorado and at Colum bia university in New York. In line with his continued study of the various phases of art, he will take a year's leave this fall for ad vanced study in New York City. Girls attending the sessions are Mary Louise Black of Pinehurst, Jean Floyd of Charlotte, , Lydia Ann Franck of Fayetteville. Elean or Griswold of Durham, Julia Ross Lambert of Asheboro, Florence Morrill of Wilson, Barbara Stoughton of Raleigh, and Wendy Ward of New York City. Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, June 1* 7:35 a.m. 1:43 i.m. 8:01 p.m. 1:33 p.m. Saturday, June 11 8:25 a m. 2:31 a.m. 8:49 p.m. 2:22 p.m. Sunday, June 12 0:13 a.m. 3:18 a.m. 9:35 p.m 3:11 p.m. ^ Monday, June II .*01 a.m. 4:03 a.m. 10:20 p.m. 3:58 p.m. Taeaday, June 14 10:48 ?.m. , 4:47 a.m. 11:05 pji . 4:57 fJB. Council of Stalo Asks For Data on Port Bonds The Council of State called for data yesterday on which to work out it* procedure for lulling $7,500,000 of port development bonds. The council instructed Col. George W. Gillette, director of the State Ports Authority, to give State Treasurer Brandon f. Hodges a brief on recommenda tions for issuance of the bonds. Money from the bonds, author ized by the 1949 legislature, will be used to build port terminal facilities at Wilmington and Morehead City. Colonel Gillette outlined to the Council plans for the faci lities. Library Gets New Store of Books Humorous novels, detective sto ries, successful Broadway plays, novels by world famous authors and statesmen ? all these can be found in new books recently added to the shelves of the Carteret county public library on Broad street in Beaufort. Winston Qhurchill's newest novel in his series on the war years, "The Gathering; Storm," is to be seen next to Sixteen Self Sketchs by Bernard Shaw. The author of Mr. Adam, Pat Frank, has a new novelf "And Affair of State," which has also been added to the library's store of literature. Other novels by better-known authors are: "Kinfolk," by Pearl S. Buck; "The Good Family," by Maclgnlay Kantor; "Pride's ('as tie," by Frank Yerby, "The God Seeker," by Sinclair Lewis; and "Death of a Salesman," the Pulit zer prize-winning play by Arthur Milter. Other new books are: "Beau James," by Gene Fowler; "Be dinner's Guide to Seashore Life," by Leon A. Huusman; "The Toast master's Handbook," by Herbert V. Prochnow, "Thanks God for My Heart Attack," by Charles Yalei Harrison; "Tre Show of Vio lence," by Fredric Wertham; !!In nocent Bystander," by Craig Rice; "The Tenderfoot Kid," by Peter Field; "Jane Withers and the Swamp Wizard," by Kathryn Hei senfelt; and "Pleasure Island," by William Maier. "The Finding of Jasper Holt" by Grace Livingston Hill; "To the Swift," by Anne Hawknis; "The Case of the Cautious Coquette," by Erie Stanley Gardner; "Little Squire Jim," by Robret K. Mar shall, a North Carolina author; "Celeste," by Rosamond Marshall; "The Judas Cat," by Dorothy Sal isbury Davis; "A Woman of Sa maria," by James Wesley Ingles; "Seven Trails," by Max Brand; "Date With Death," by Leslie Ford; and "Lucifer With A Book," I by John Home Burns. The twelfth edition of "Bart lett's Familiar Quotations," edited by Christopher Morley; "House of Storm," by Mignon Eberhart; "A ! Wreath of Roses," by Elizabeth Taylor; "Bar M Boss," by Weston Clay; "Beulah Land," by H. L. Davis; "Tha Doctor Wears Three Faces," by Mary Bard; "Aunt Bel," by Guy McCrone; "A Corpse In Diplomacy," by Miriam Bor genicht; "The Green Roller," by Roark Bradford; "Cape Cod. Sum mer," by Eleanor Early; "The Red Chair Waits," by Alice Mar garet Hugging; and "And One to Grow On," by John Gould. Jijcni Exptd 16 Eatrias In North Carolina Conlosi Walter Morris, c (Airman of the Miss North Carolina pageant, has announced that IS dubs will enter girls in the pageant which will be held in Morehead City early next month. The announcement was made at the meeting of the More head City Jaycees Monday night in the Fort Macon Hotel dining room. The Jaycees Softball team Jour neyed to Farmville Thursday night and handed the home team two lickings. 10-4 and 5-1, Bernard Geary, manager of the team, dis closed. A new member. Rupert Earl Willis, was welcomed to the club at the meeting. Guests were Buck Matthews, Jr. and Charles Free man. Appointment of Nellie Cannon, Newport, as an agent for the Form Bureau insurance companies, has beef enounced today by Bowman Dees, agency vice pr-eident. j ? ? Numerous farmers who have been contacted by the County Agents office regarding crop dam ages in the eastern half of Cart eret County have estimated that the losses would reach between a quarter and a half million dollars. A number of farmers stated that they had never seen so much water on their farms before. Heavy losses covered such crops as tomatoeB, peppers, lime beans, tobacco, early set sweet potatoes, small grain and corn. A greater proportion of the to mato crop has been destroyed by too much water which has been further attacked by a heavy in festation of late blight. This di sease was caused by the same or ganism that made its appearance in many of the Irish potato fields just before harvest. Crops in the western half of the county as a whole are in good condition and making rapid growth where the rain fall was not so heavy. Home gardeners as well as com mercial tomato growers, where the tomatoes have not already been destroyed by blight or rain damages, should dust once each week with a 7 percent copper dust to which 5 percent methoxychlor has been added. This insecticide will control late blight and in ad dition any insect that might at tack the tomato. To young tobacco which has been damaged by excessive rains recently, it is felt advisable to ! apply approximately 300 pounds of fertilizer analyzing 5-5-20 as a side application since quite a few of the lower roots have rotted off. It is also felt advisable to push as much soil up around the plants as possible in order to force the plant to send out as many feeder roots as possible. Plant pathologist, Don Kills, with the Agriculture Experiment station, has found cucumber fields in the state infected with downy mildew and is urging that all home gardeners and commercial cucum ber growers dust with 5 percent copper dust with 50 percent cry olite added to control J>light and pickle worm. This dust should be applied as a preventative every ten days and in adition after each rain that is heavy enough to wash off the dust. The dust should be applied thq roughly. It is a waste of time to shake the dust over the plant through a sack. The proper equip | ment should be used to get com plete "coverage of the plant. The copper dust is also effective in controlling the same disease on cantelopes. Health Office Packages Poison In an effort to bring about ef fectivc rat control in Beaufort and Morehead City and with the cooperation of the governments of the two towns, the Carteret County health department has bought raw materials and put up rat poison in small packages. These packages are at present available at the following stores in Beaufort: Rumley's Feet Store, Broad Street grocery, Stanley's grocery, in Morehead CMty, Ream's grocery, Dixon's grocery, and J. S. Parker grocery. The Health Department will at j tempt to supply any additional stores upon request* the health of ficer, Dr. N. T. Ennett, announced. Instructions for the use of the poison is attached to each package and each package contains 3-4 pound of bait sufficient for one period baiting. The persons re tails at 35 cents per package. LATE BULLETIN: Al ? cost of $5,410 Morehead Ciljr yeaterdajr purchased a Garwood Load-Parker garbage truck. This truck, described In more detail iu the stary on the Beaufort ton board meeting on this page, will be mounted on ? two ton GMC truck chassis. Mob ley Bulck company waa low bidder on the mounting Job. Tide Water Power Company laid 500 feet of cable under water at the Morehead City draw bridge yeatrday morning. In about a week ? cable crew will come here from Wilmington to tie the line in with the one coming from Beau fort. Judge Don Gilliam will preside at federal court Monday morning on the second floor of the munic ipal building, Morehead City. Judge Gilliam will hear further proceedings, in the caie concern UK Madi* Asphalt corporation. ? ' Officer Demands Compliance With Sanitation Law Beaufort Commissioners Agree io Take Immedi ate Action on Issue Beaufort commissioners decid ed at their meeting Monday night in Beaufort town hall that immed iate action should he taken against violators of hte town's sanitary ordinance. Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county health officer, appeared before the commissioners and gave a re sume of the sanitary situation over the past two years. He said that a survey two years ago dis closed that there were U3 outside privies in Beaufort and that 83 of hte 83 unsanitary privies, how also found that 37 residences had no sewage facilities at all, either inside or outside. The health officer said that at tempts were made to correct the situation but that material and labor shortages made enforcement of the law difficult. Thirty-three of the i83 unsanitary privies, haw ever, have been connected with sewer lines since that time, he added. I)r. Ennett stated that he has the authority to enforce the privy law in the courts but he has been reluctant to do so thus far. He said the time had finally arrived, however, to enforce the law rigid ly since there was no longer a shortage of materials or labor. He added that he had no authority to require sewage connections to be See COMMISSIONERS Page 4 Garbage Track Salesman Visits Beaufort Board A representative of the Gar wood Equipment company, man ufacturers of a hydraulic enclosed body garbage truck, appeared be-, fore BeAufort town commissioner^ at their meeting Monday night in Beaufort town hall and extolled the virtues of his truck in an ef fort to have the town purchase one. He said the truck would replace two ordinary trucks, save money in orperation, carry all sorts of garbage and rubbish except large tree lim7>s and be much less annoy ing to citizens of the town since no garbage could blow out of^it.. It is also leak proof. He said there are 260 of the trucks in use in North and South Carolina and Virginia. Commissioner Graham Duncan, Jr., stated that he agreed that the truck was worth, its cost, $6,000 for the garbage unit plus the cost of a truck and installation, but that the town was in no finan cial condition to take on new ob ligations. Commission Taylor said the town owed the bank $7,000 and other debts amounted to $11, 000, not including the large bond ed indebtness. The commissioners agreed to having a free demonstration of the truck but decided to withhold purchase of one until the time when the town is better off finan cially. The town board voted to accept the bid of Auditor William Wall for an audit of the town's book! for $325. A request was received from Gerald Hill for permission to pur chase a large iron grill wheih was removed from one of the jail win dows in order to construct a door way. Commissioner J. O. Bar bour, Jr., was appointed to set ? See TRUCK Page 6 SS Froaluuc Asphalt lo The 8 S Frontenac. * arrived at port terminal Wedn day morning following a trip from Aruba, Nether West Indies. The Frontenac, a No ?hip operated by Norwegian { pen, Inc.. carried a cargo of phalt which waa discharged night. The ahlp left port morning on it* return ?ojr Aruba.