North Carolina Newspapers

? " CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES - J} Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) ~~ i 8 th V KAR, NO. 4 7 EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA^ TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1949 . PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS NEWS-TIMES Articles Bring Awards To Carteret Business Women's Club No Bid Tops $21,500 Offer For Cannery Trustee in Bankruptcy Says Bid Will Probably Be Be jecled A high bid of $21,500 for the en tire property? land, buildings and equipment ? owned oy Beaufort Cannery was received by trustee in bankruptcy, Wiley H. Taylor, Jr., at the auction sale of the cannery at noon yesterday. Thomas S. Esposito of the East ern Pork and Provision corpora tion of New York City made the high bid after he and John S. West cot t of the New Bern Oil and Fer tilizer company had run the price up from $12,000. No other bid - bets bid on the entire property. Mr. Taylor stateti before the auction began that he would have to take any bids under considera tion before he announced confir mation or rejection. No decision Was announced at presstime yes terday but informed legal sources stated that it was definitely under stood that the bid would be reject ed since the property is appraised at a value of $115,000. Bidding opened with bids on the real property owned by the can nery. The- property consists of a warehouse, two combined convert ed barracks buildings, the cannery proper, and the lots on which the buildings are locited. Robert L. Smith, farmer and poultry raiser, opened bidding at Mr. Esposito and Mr. West cott exchanged bids with him un til Mr. Westcott made the high bid of $11,000 on the real proper ty which is appraised at $75,000. Julius F. Duncan, Beaufort at torney who did the auctioneering for Mr. Taylor, then opened bids successively on office erpVpment, ' tfutfi, plant equipment. NO bids were received so the entire prr.|ierty was offered. Mr. Esposito's bid automatical ly cancelled the bid on real pro perty made by Mr. Westcott fudge Hears Divorce Cases Divorce cases comprised the greater part of superior court yes terday. ^Seven divorces and one annulment were granted. During the last part of criminal court last week the three Marines, Edwin J. Coklin, C. T. Harvey, and Sgt. Doyle Bowman, charged with larceny of an automobile, pleaded guilty to driving a car without consent of the owner. Each was given a six month sentence, suspended providing they of $50 fine anu costs, and placed on one year's probation. Floyd E. Harris, Edgar Simp son, and James Swindell, charged with assault and attempt to rob were given a two to three year sentnece. suspended providing they pay costs, $200 each, and remain on good behavior for five years. Eugene A. Hessee, charged with drunken driving, pleaded guilty to careless and reckless driving. He was ordered to serve 12 months on the roads, suspended on pay ment of costs and $200. The judge stated that if he violated any law within the next two years, the year's sentence would have to be served. O. L. Frescott, also charged with drunken driving, pleaded guilty to reckless and careless driving. The stats accepted his plea and ordered him to serve 1,2 months on the roads, suspended on payment of $1&0 and costs. He was also reminds^ obey all ' laws within the next two years or the sentence would be imposed. The following cases were con tinued: James Edward Guthrie, charged with abandonment and non-support; James Howard Davis, abandonment; Millard M. Vandi- , ford, charged with speeding; Shad rack Barrow, charged with as sault. Divorces granted were the fol lowing: Roland C. and Mildred V. Beachem, Virginia Coby and Francis /Edward Atkinson, Julian, Jr., and Hazel Wade Hamilton, Carrie G. and Joe Fulcher, M. R. and Ameda C. Watson, Earl L. and Lucille G. Watson, Estell and Natham Beeman, and an annul ment, Mary Pauline Beachem vs. Dewey Sadler. Substituting as clerk recorder in the absence of Mrs. T. Clark Robinson yesterday was Miss Elix ? jabeth Willis, Beaufort. I A NEWS TIMES editorial and a NEWS-TIMES news story en tered in the North Carolina Fed eration of Business and Profes sional Women's club's news ser vice contcst brought a first place award and honorable mention re spectively to the Carteret County Business and Professional Wo men's club. The awards were made at Sat unlay night's formal banquet at the recreation center following: an address by Judge Sarah Hughes of Texas. The contest is held annually to honor those clubs which obtain the best "publicity on B and PW activities in their local ncwspa pers. In addition to the NEWS TIMES, other newspapers in Bus iness and Professional Women club towns which were cited were the Salisbury Post, th?- Lexington Dispatch, Wniston Salem Journal, Rocky Mount Evening Telegram, Goldsboro News-Argus, and the Gibsonville club which had a pie ture "on their polio project in the Greensboro Daily News. The NEWS-TIMES editorial which won first place for the Cart eret club was on National Busi ness and Professional Women's week which was observed last fall. The newsstory was a report of a meeting which George Mc Neill, Morehead City attorney, spoke on what to expect in the 1949 state legislature. Judges Hughes' address, "The Door is Open," dealt, with the ojv portunities and rights of women in today's world. Her talk, which was followed by a pageant commemorating the slate federation's 30th anniver sary* traced the advances in the opportunities for women, from early America to the present time. The judge pointed out that in the United States constitution there are no rights outlined spv i cifically for women, and* that, I coming down through the years, former slaves were given the right to vote 75 years before that fran chise was granted to women. In 1870, the speaker said, less than two million women were gainfully employed. During the peak of the recent war years, 18 fAillfon were working. Today, 17 million of these are stiH on the job whereas before the war, there were only 12 milliom women gain fully employed. She pointed out that a woman has recently been selected as the head of the Bank of America, a women has been appointed treas urer of the United States, and a woman has been named as assis tant attorney general. Representatives in the -nation's state legislature, who are women, number 217, reported the speak er. In only 11 states are females not permitted to serve on juries, the judge continued, yet when women are elected to positions of political importance, there is much rejoicing and head wagging, be cause it is still considered unus ual. Women must continue to push the door open on opportunity be cause they are constantly held back by prejudice, tradition, and inertia, explained the judge. She reminded the gathering of more than 300 women that they must do well the job they are do ing, realize their responsibilities as citizens, and be more active participants in their community functions. The jurist quoted North Caro lina's beloved journalist, Josephus Daniels, who once wrote that the women " have waited too long to be wooed, when they should be considering every year as leap year.'* In emphasizing accepting of re sponsibility, Mrs. Hughes defined responsibility as "response to the ability God gave us." She was introduced after the dinner by Kay Shipinan, High Point, president of the State Fed eration of Business and Profes sional Women's clubs. The three-day convention ended Sunday morning with breakfast at the Ocean King hotel, convention headquarter. Tide Table HIGH LOW Tuesday, June 21 4:08 a.m. 10:14 a.m. 4:42 p.m. 11:14 p.m. Wednesday, June 22 5:01 a.m. 11:02 a.m. 5:28 p?m. 12 midnight Thursday, June 23 5:51 a.m. 12:02 a.m. 6:14 p.m. 12 noon Friday, June 24 6:38 a.m. 12:48 a.m. 6:58 p.m. 12:31 p.m. A warrant has been filed in the clerk of court's office, Beaufort, chargnig V. E. Ballou with giving a bad check in the amount of $100. The check was made out to John Cates, March 29, 1949. The warrant was sworn out by Harold Smith. Judge Sarah T. Hughes Home Agent Reminds Women i Of Flower Show Dress Revue Will Take Place Also Thursday Night in Morehead Ciiy Mrs. Carrie Cillikin, home deni | onstration agent, reminded pros pective entrant:- in Thursday j night's flower show and dress re- j vuc to have their entries in on | time. The show will take place a' the recreation center. Mo reined City. Flower show entries must be there by 6 p.m. Persons moil eling dresses musk he there by 7 p.m. Judging of flowers will take place f rom 6 to 7 and dresses i from 7 to 8. The show will be , open to the public from S to p.m. In the flower show, firsjt and second place winners will receive ribbons and in the dress revue, first place ribbons will' be award ed. Flowers wiil be entered in fout classifications and garments in three clarifications. Detailed regulation* on these entries ap peared in last Tuesday's NKVVS TIMES. They were also listed in" letters sent out from the home agent's office last week. Mrs. Gillikin has urged all wo men to enter the flower and dress contests in order that this year's show can be the most successful and elaborate evre staged by the county home demonstration club women. 'The Gavel' WiU Tell of Chamber Achievements Annual Reporl Will Be Mailed to Baufort Businessmen This Week ; Members of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce will re ceive this week a report on the I year's Chamber activities. The j report which will be titled "The Gavel," lists in detail -the achieve . ments of the Chamber of Com ; merce during its first year under '? the management of Dan L. Wal- j ker. The chamber's committees worked 895 man hours or 19 48 hour weeks for each member. Those figures do not include the manager's time. Sent but from the chamber of fice were 0,425 individual letters, 2,500 folders on Beaufort, 1,634 bulletins to members, 797 specif ic inquiries were answered, 44 | welcoming letters were written, | 000 souvenirs distributed, and 318 publicity articles were released. Forty-eight hundred miles were traveled on chamber business, and mimeographing service was of fered to civic clubs. Fourteen hundred survey forms were sent out, a housing registry was kept and also a' calendar of civic club meetings. The chamber ; offered assistance t <> various town administrative boards and obtained speakers at no cost who otherwise would have charged a | total of $2,100 for speaking en gagements. The chamber launched 13 major | publicity projects and in addition ! is making material progress on 1 obtaining a reduced fire rate classification for Beaufort. Improved channel and buoy I markings have been obtained, the chamber conducted a survey on Wallace channel and Oregon in let improvements, which were ap ' proved by the National Rivers arul Harbors congress, conducted a survey on the Merrimon road, supported the Better Farming; for Better Living program, and coop erated on the marine -radio tele phone station project. Progress has been made on ob ! taining a poultry processing plant and milk depot in the county. The 1 chamber was instrumental in get ting -an assistant county agent, , planned an elaborate Christmas i parade, assisted in obtaining bet ter telephone equipment, a n d launched a veterans housing pro ject. The membership drive is sche ( duled to begin the early part of next month. Lions Express Dissatisfaction On Share of Gum MachineTake Companies Report On Recent Survey A final decision on the estab lishment of a marine operator telephone station in the Carteret coastal area may be reached in the near future, George Eastman, chairman of the joint radio tele phone committee, stated today. A letter has been received by Mr. Eastman from J. F. Bonner, general sales manager of Southern Bell Telephone Company which states that Southern Bell and Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company have made a survey of the need and possibilities of a marine operator station jn Cart eret county. It further states that representatives from Carolina Telephone and Telegraph will be in the county in the near future to discuss the results of the sur vey with the radio-telephone com mittee. Several days after receiving Mr. Bonner's letter, W. C. Dar row, commercial manager of Car olina Telephone and Telegraph, informed Chambers of Commerce here that field tests have been made on ship to shore reception in this area and that as soon as results are analyzed, a report will be made. Mr. Eastman is chairman of a committee which is under the joint sponsorship of the New Bern, Beaufort and Morehead City Chamber of Commerce. The com mittee has beqn working since late winter to obtain a radio telephone station in this area. All three Chambers of Coitimerce have done consdierable work toward getting the station. The Carteret eounty 4-H service club will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the home of Miss Bernice Tall man, one of ita members, Beau fort KFD. ? A down-to-earth discussion on chewing gum machines took place at the Morehead City Lions club meeting P'riday night in the Fort Macon Hotel dining room. C. W. Brittan of Selma, owner and operator of the 13 jjum ma chines sponsored by the Lions irf the Morehead City Atlantic Beach area, appeared at the meeting by request. Lions have complained recently that they do not feel that they are getting their fair cut from the machines and wrote Mr. Brittan requesting that he appear and explain the situation. A spokesman for the Lions stat ed that they are supposed to re ceive 20 per cent of gross re ceipts. He added that in recent months the average income for the Lions had been between $10 and $11 per month, a heavy de cline from receipts two or three years ago. The machines operator count ered by stating that he was losing money. He said the reason that receipts had declined was that formerly there had been a short age of gum and consequently the machines did a heavy business whereas now not* too many people patronize them. Mr. Brittan told the Lions that they had made him make tlie trip from Selma for what he considered a petty matter. The meeting adjourned with Lions informally discussing the possibility of completely abandon ing sponsorship of the machines if receipts do not increase. Home demonstration club meet ings this week are as follows: 2:30 tomorrow afternoon, Camp Glenn, at the home of Mrs. Julius Lewis; 8 o'clock tomorrow night at the home of Mrs. Pauline Wade, Wlliiston, and 2 o'clock* Thursday afternoon at the home of Mr*. John Mann, Wildwood. Highway Patrolman Recovers Stolen Automobile at Newport New Board Governs Newport i Pictured above it Newport's town board which will serve for the current two-year term. They were officially installed Wednesday night. Reading from left to right, they are S. E. Mann, E. Ormsby Mann, Mis? Edith Lockey, clerk, M. D. McCain, R. L. Pruit, Aaron R. Craig, mayor, and Henry G. Edwards. Soil Conservationists Meet For Three-Day Course in County Rotary Endorses Federal Aid To Education Bill Morchcad City Kotarians gave their unanimous endorsement to Congressman Graham. A. Barden's federal aid to education hill at their Thursday night meeting in i the fecrcation center. Mr. Bar den's lull w:is recently introduced into Congress and has recivod the support of many who previously opposed federal aid. | Frank Kxuni of the ICxtim Net ! company spoke to Kotarians on | net production in Carteret county. Mr. Exum's net company has weaving stahlishments in four Carteret county communities, At lantic, Marker's Island, Marshall berg and Sea Level, with it* main office in Morchcad City. The speaker said that machines have been invented which v\ i II make straight nets such as fish or tennis nets but no machine hns heen invented yet that will weave nets such as used in crab dip nets or basketball hoop nets. He said the man v ho originated such a machine would become a quick millionaire. The speaker stated that before the war it was not profitable to produce such nets because of ex treme Japanese competition He said Japanese crab nets sold at 24 cents a dozen prewar while his crab nets cost $1 20 a dozen to manufacture today. The nets are woven by hand at the weaving houses, the speaker said, and a very small per rentage of the work is done at home. He said more home work would be done if it were not for the fact that the federal government re quires 16 bookkeeping entries {or each home transaction. The Kotarians voted to suspend their June 30 meeting and meet instead with Newport Kotarians for their charter night. Monday, June 27. Beaufort Rotarians will also meet in Newport that night and both groups will present gifts to the recently-organized Newport club. A new member. J. R Sanders, was recognized and welcomed into the club. I Norehcad Cily Besidenls Discus Port al Raleigh Leo Harvey of Morchead City and Robert' Hicks, representing H. S. Gibbs, Sr., met represen tatives of the State Fori* authority at Raleigh recently for the pur pose of working out arrangements for turning part of the Morehead City port over to the state. That must be accomplished before the State Ports authority can begin its program of port development for Morehead City. Attorney Gen< eral Harry McMullan attended the meeting. The Ports authority program calls for the expenditure of some $2,225,000 in providing addition I al docking space, a transient shed I and a storage warehouse at More I head City. There is now dock i ing space for three vessels at the j port. An estimated $5,000,000 I will be spent at W ilmington. Today concludes a throe day j visit to Carteret county by 30 soil, conservationists for 17 central Carolina coast counties. The men | arrived Sunday and began yester | day a course on improving their ability to get soil conservation ; practices across to the people. The men went for a cruise Sun day. visited Morehead City Tech nical institute, and began meetings 1 yesterday. These include lectures, 1 blackboard instruction, and show j ing of colored slides. Their head quarters is the Jefferson hotel. H. P. Moore, district consorva ! tionist, Lower Nousc Soil Conser vation district, made a tour of : Carteret county last week, visiting j the farnr oWBaniyl Oglesby . Crab ' Point, John and Bernjcc Mann, | Newport RFD, and the Farrior | brothers' farm, Newport RFD. Mr. Moore was particularly in terested in a seven acre pasture on the Oglesby farm on which 70 pigs j are grazing. This pasture of alta ! fescue grass and white ladino clo vr was planted Nov. 1 of last year, and pigs started grazing on it the ? 15th of April this year. Mr. Oglesby used 10 pounds fes | cue and two pounds ladino seed i per ;icre plus lime, 600 pounds for- , tilizer. and 600 pounds of 2 12 12 top dressing. Prior to planting the pasture, 1 no use whatever was made of j those seven acres, Roy Beck, county j soil conservationist, reported Mr. Moore commented that farmers have reported they can graze stock 10 1/2 months of the year on a fescue-lndino pasture. Mr Beck' reported three years ago there were two pastures in the county, totaling four acres. Today there are 35 farms with pasture land totaling 200 acres. John Mann estimates that the yield of tobacco on his and his son, Bernice's, fields this year will be approximately 1,000 pounds to the acre, "three-quarters of a crop," because of the heavy rains. Also, on a 1 1/4 acre fcscue ladino pasture 15 purebred Duroc pigs are grazing. Bernicc Mann calls it "the best feed besides pea nuts and potatoes." lie buys no protein supplement, just phos phate and salt. "There's more in livestock rais ing than in tobacco," commented Mr. Mann. "The return is higher! per man hour of labor." At the Farrior farm 30 hogs arc thriving on a pure ladino pas ture. The brilliant green of the clover field, bordering highway 70, can be spotted from afar off. The Farrior brothers plan to seed five more acres in the fall. Although pure ladino would not be recommended for cows because of its high protein concentration, the hogs arc thriving on the clo ver, "They're as wide as they are long," remarked Mr. Beck. The recent heavy rains have con vinced farmers In the Laurel road section that they must build a drainage canal. Their losses were extremely heavy. Many of their crops will have to be replanted? in one cornfield after the rains had stopped, three crappie were found swimming merrily in a pool in the corner of a cornfield. Seven thousand cubic yards of dirt will be moved from the ditch which will be about 6,300 feet long. The state highway de partment will also provide a five foot culvert where the ditch crosses the road. Farmers participating in the ca nal making are S. P. Wilkins, Roy Dickson, Ralph Wilkins, and C. N. Cartmill. Archbishop Asks Flock to Pray For G. A. Barden Francs Cardinal Spellman, arch bishop o' New York, asked 15.0(H) Catholic:, Sunday to pray for Conn ressman (iraliam A. Harden. The archbishop s|M>kc at the 15th an nual eucharistic rally of the Bronx Nocturnal Adoration society on Fordham university campus. The Catholic leader said that Harden and other backers of his federal aid to education bill were "shamefully fostering discrimina tion against parochial school cMrt ren." He called the bill '"un American, anti-Catholic legisla tion," and f ut her stated that Corn; ressman Harden's measure directs that under no circumstances would non public school pupils receive the health benefits and transporta tion services provided for pupils in public schools. (Congressman Harden's measure provides that none of the $300,000, QUO federal aid shall be used for such things as transportation and health services, for either public or private school pupils). Cardinal Spellman accused Bar den of "violating and inciting others to violate the very rights and freedoms upon which our gov ernment was founded." "Therefore," he said, "do I beg your prayers for Congressman Har den and all who lend their names and their efforts to provoke and promote prejudice against child ren of any religious faith." The cardinal said he believed in federal education aid for needy states and "all needy children." "Catholics do not question the rightful place of the public tax : supported school in the American ! democracy," he said. "Hut schools I under religious control also exist | by right and not by privilege or toleration." He added that Catholics save other taxpayers $500,000,000 an nually by their voluntary support of parochial schools. Chamber Heads Study at UNC j General managers of both twin j city Chambers of Commerce are in Chapel Hill this week for an intensive study of chamber meth ods at the annual Southeastern | Institute. Dan Walker of Beau j fort and Robert G. Lowe of More head City are the two executives. : The Institute is a three year study course established under the i joint auspices of th?> University of ; North Carolina Extension Divi sion, the United StAtes Chamber of Commerce, hnd various state Chamber of Commerce in the southeast. The course is set up to provide one week of study each ' summer for three years for those I participating. While in Chapel Hill, students study organizations, committee work, coordination of local cham bers with various state and na tional groups, membership prob lems, industrial development, mer chants' problems and assistance, work. Mr. Lowe is in 'his second year of study at the Institute and Mr. I Walker in his third. Alert work and quick action by State Highway Patrolman R. H. Bvown over the weekend was re sponsible for the recovery, in Rood condition, of an automobile stolen Friday night in Morchead City. Oscar N. Allied reported to po* lice Saturday morning that his ear, a 11M7 four door Dodge se dan, had been stolen from in front of his home at lllOMj Shepard street, Morchead City, sometime between 1 1 :30 Friday night and 0:30 Saturday morning. Mr. All red said the keys were not in the car but that the doors were un locked. Sunday n'giit and early Monday morning Patrolman Brown re ceived reports that the car was in the vicinity of Newport. Upon investigation, he found it about 50 feet off a dirt road in the country about two miles from Roy Garner's old dairy near Newport. The car was found at 8:30 Mon day morning. Informants had told the patrol man that Finest Fubanks of New port, RF1) 1 i, was in possession of the car. After discovering the car, Mr. Brown arrested Eubnaka at hi; home about a mile up the road from where the car was found, Fubanks denied theft of the car but admitted that he had had possession of it. He stated that a man from New Bern had left it with him and that he thought the car belonged to him. He could provide no explanation for the fact that license plates on the car had been changed. Fubanks was taken to the coun ty jail on charges of larceny fo an automobile. He was unable to pay the $ 1 ?r?00 bond and remained in jail yesterday. Mayor Dismisses Casern!^ Among Neighbors Wh:ii Mayor (leorgc W. Dill, Jr., j termed "a inild neighborhood : squabble" was dismissed in yester day's srs&ion of Morchead City mayor's court. Birdie Sailer appeared in court.~^f and chaigcd Jesse Hall with assault on a minor, the minor being Sai ler's son, l.ynwood Karl Salter. The Salter youth told Mayor Dill that he had been shooting ? small bow and arrow without la lending to barm anyone. He said the arrow went into the yard where Hall was working and that Ball ehased him down, scratched him, kieked him. and beat him. The boy's young companion. Al- j hcrt White said the story was true 1 as far as he knew but that he saw j l.ynwood Salter being scratched 1 only and that he did not see hint being beaten or kieked. Jerry Pi-| j ner. who was playing in Hall's yard j at the lime, said the other boys had been fussiug with him and ran him into his house. Mr. Ball slated that he had been ' sawing in his barn when he heard 1 young Jack Lawrence, who was on the roof of the barn, crying that someone was shooting at him. He. said he chased l.ynwood Salter out of his yard and told him not to re turn. Hall said he did not hit the Salter child. The verdict was received calmly I by all in court with the exception I of Mrs. Salter who said the mayor ! had not seen the condition her | ehild was in when he came home i from Ball's. When the mayor said the case was over with as far as | he was concerned she shouted that I it was plain that the "top dogs'* had their way in court and depart I I ed. The bonds of Ray C. White and Malcolm Nicholson were forfeited j when they failed to appear la | court. They were originally charg.*L j ed with failure to pay their bill of 1 ] $7.70 in Davis cafe. When they were taken to jail >, \ White tore his bunk apart, ' a two by four timber to kn the lock off of his cell, and knocked the lock off of Nicholi cell A second charge of to jail property was against him. Bond on this cl| was also forfeited when he did I appear. Herbert Howell paid the when he was charged with j lo obey s police olficer after I ordered to go to the police i | The order was given tftar be I I damaged someone's else's au [ bile Chester Patrick pleaded | public drunkenness and | costs.