NEWS-TIMES OFFICES Beaufort 120 Cram St. ? PboM 44?1 Morehead City 504 Ar.n4.ll St. ? Mil CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (EitablUhed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (EitablUhed 1936) 10c Full Page Comic* 38th YEAR, NO. BO EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS j Carteret County Will Be Scene Of Big Fourth of July Events Chamber ot Commerce Starts Membership Drive in Beaufort "The results of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce's first 1 iyear of work speak for them Mit'-elves. Though the Chamber's fon Program was incomplete because Ut?f insufficient operating funds, ?P?'t proved its worth and the neces **nliity for its continuance," said Dr. WW. L. Woodard, president of the W Beaufort Chamber, in opening to ^ day the Chamber's 1940 member V ship drive. t Dr. Woodard fired the opening R gun in the Chamber's drive which opens today under the leadership of T. T. '"Torn" Potter, general 'I chairman of the membership com mittee. Chamber solicitors head T ed by Mr. Potter will visit every potential member in an effort to sign up the 250 members consid ered necessary to support the Chamber satisfactorily for the coming year. "Nejct year's program will be decided by this year's member ship response," Dr. Woodard stat ed. "We have an $11,800 budget for the 1040 50 year which can be fulfilled only by full member ship." Mr. Potter urged all Beaufort and Carteret county merchants and businessmen to cooperate with solicitors who will call on them. He said that in order to fulfill the budget, it would be necessary for those able and interested to take more than one membership. He added that membership dues I wire payable quarterly, a method which will make payment easier. "A Chamber membership is an investment in vours and your com munity's future," the membership head stated. "From projects | planned and completed, everyone I benefits. | "There are fodr necessary fn f gredients for progress and its > ensuing benefits: planning, time, . effort, and financing. Your cham ber of Commerce furnishes the I planning and its directors and committees the time and effort. I You must furnish the necessary funds which insure all of this. "Shortly several of your fellow citizens will call on you to discuss your Chamber membership for next year," Mr. Potter concluded. "I know that you will receive them courteously so that no more of their time than is necessary will be 'expended." Membership solicitors are Gene C. Smith, Mrs. Martha Loftin, Paul Jones, Lambert Morris, Dr. Woodard, Braxton Adair, Wiley Taylor, Jr., E. W. Downum, Mr. Potter, Calvin Jones, Odell Mer rill, C. Z. Chappell, Halsey Paul, Hugh Hill, Graham Duncan, and I D. F. Merrill. Small Crowd Attends Session At School Tuesday Chamber of Commerce Of ficials Greatly Disappoint ed in Turnout Although the attendance at the area conference on regional af fairs in Beaufort school auditorium Tuesday night was small ? approxi mately 30 were present ? an inter esting open forum followed the talk of William J. Bird, national affairs advisor of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Washing ton, D. C. Mr. Bird declared that it is the duty of the American businessman to save democracy and freedom of enterprise. He urged businessmen to reassume the authority that is theirs ? making government work. He told the group that 2,300 committees of American business men arc working to inform the people on governmental affairs. "The group that takes an inter est in government is the one that is the government," the speaker declared. Following his formal address, Mr. Bird told the audience that he did not care whether they agreed with his statements, but, he did want them to study both\i:de? of governmental issues." The Cham ber of Commerce makes ?n attempt to inform businessmen of both sides, and then, he said, they are willing to let the decision rest with the people. Mr. Dickie, who conducted the open forum, opened the session by quoting statistics showing that the amount of taxes paid to the federal government have increas ed in greater proportion than those paid to the state. He explained that the Cham ber of Commerce publishes pamph lets on legislation and makes an effort to find out where the gov ernment is spending and why. The forum was opened by two questions from Robert G. Lowe, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce and Dan Walker, manager of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Lowe was informed on me See SMALL CROWD Pat. Six Boxer Gives Birth to 12 Pups 4 Gayfree Flip, mother of 12 pe grced Boxer cup* has bad little ice to be Gayfree or flip since jne 5 when she gave birth to the Iter of young 'uns pictured above. The baby Boxers have been tak I care of by their owners, Mr. Id Mrs Carl Garner. 2112 Bridges reet, as well as if they were re discoveries of the animal brld, and, indeed, it is unusual ir a Boxer to have so many off at one time. iir father ia Lummie's King, [(greed Boxer owned by Lummie tie, Morehead City. To assist mother in feeding them, Mrs. er also gave each pup four of cod liver oil a day and 38 ounces of milk. Feeding! were morning, noon and night via ? soda pop bottle equipped with hippie. Seven females and five males comprised. The litter one, how ever, died recently from hook worm, but the remainder were saved. Mr. Cottle villi get one of the females, Mr. and Mrs. Gar ner plan to keep one, but the re mainder will be sold Gayfrec Flip had been bred be fore but the Utter numbered only one. She goes from one extreme to the other. The 12 pupa were born over a period of '2 hours from B a.m. Sunday morning until 9:30] that night I ? 1 L. Vacationists coming to Car teret county for the Fourth of July weekend will not lack en tertainment nor will they have to look for things to do. Scheduled for the weekend are sailboat r aces, pony penning, races at the Carolina race track west of Morehead City, and for yachting enthusiasts, the Tar Heels Afloat cruise to Belhaven. The 92nd annual sailing races along Morehead City waterfront, a traditional Independence Day attraction since 1857, will get underway at 10:30 from the Club House Dock on South 8th street and prizes will be awarded in six classes, according to an announce ment by D. G. Bell, commodore of the Morehead City Sailing club, sponsors of this year's events. 1 The sensational "Sailfish, a new class of sailing craft will be hi the competition this year in addition t o Comets, deadripe skiffs, 18 footers, 16 footers, and the handicap. Registration for those planning to compete will be made on Friday and Saturday at Dee Gee's shop. Boats are ex pected from Beaufort and the east ern part of Carteret county and also from Cherry Point. These craft will be in addition to the large fleet of canvas carrying sntall craft in the Morehead City fleet. The Sunday Summer Sailing series, another annual event for the past several years here in Morehead City will begin on July 3. Races will start each Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the 8th street dock of the Sailing club. They will continue for six weeks. "These Summer Sailing Series craft will be competing for the tive classes," said Commodore perpetual trophies in their respec Bell. The races are open to the See CARTERET COUNTY Page ? Newport Rotary Receives Charter East Carolina Rotary Offi cials Speak ai Dinner Meeting Monday Night Rotarians from throughout east ern North Carolina assembled at Newport Monday night for the presentation of the charter to the Newport Rotary Club, the 7,296th club to be chartered into Rotary International's organization. Harvey L. Joslyn from More head City's sponsoring Rotary Club presided at the meeting which took place in the Newport school lunch room. The program opened with singing under the direction of Ralph Wade of Morehead City which was followed with an invo cation by the Rev. W. Y. Stewart of Beaufort. An address of welcome was de livered by H. A. Marks of Wil mington, governor elect of the 188th district of Rotary Inter national, and response was made by John Ormsby of the New Bern club. John A. Parks of Raleigh, past district governor of district 189, was the principal speaker of the evening. Mr. Parks related events occuring during a trip he made to Germany last year. The charter was presented by Jean P. Booth of Kinston, gover nor of the 188th district, v In presenting the charter Mr. Booth emphasized the continual growth of Rotary International. He said that only recently a club has been reorganized in Germany for the frist time since the beginning of the war and that other reorgani zations are being proposed. The charter was accepted by R. Leland Pruitt, president of the new Rotary club. Gifts to the club were then presented. More head Ciy Rotarians presented each new member with a Rotary lapel button, the Beaufort club gave a gavel and speaker's Rotary bell, and the New Bern club presented a secretary's kit complete with membership files. In closing, President Pruitt in troduced other officers and mem bers of the club. Officers are Albert Walker, vice-president; Charles S. Long, secretary-treasu rer; Aaron R. Craig, sergeant-at- ! arms; and J.* Stancil Bell and; Moses C. Howard, directors. j Members in addition to the of- 1 ficers are William H. Bell, Henry S. Edwards, Charles M. Gamer, D. Ira Garner, Roy T. Garner. W. D. Heath, J. D. Henderson, V. Marty Rhue, Walter D. Ro berta, Leon A. Mann, Lonnie W. Howard, and Edgar Hibbs. Judge Hears 51 Cases Tuesday Offenses Accumulating Over Period of Three Weeks Comprise Docket An extremely large docket of 62 cases faced Judge Lambert Mor ris in Tuesday's session of record er's court. Court was not held the past two weeks because of superior court. Eleven cases were continu ed. Ivey Merrell received sentences totalling two and a half years on the roads for three separate as sault convictions. He pleaded guilty to the first two charges of assault with a deadly weapon on John Johnson and G. C. Austin, respectively, and received a year's sentence on each charge. Sen tence was not to issue on payment ! 'jf a $25 fine and costs and five years good behavior. A plea of guilty was also entered in the charge of assault with his fist doing serious bodily injury to Martin Willis. The defendant received a six months' road sen tence, not issue on payment of costs and five years good behavior. The ccse of Ernest Lee Eubanks, charge with larccny of an automo bile, was bound over to superior court under $1,000 bond. The de fendant pleaded guilty to a second charge nf driving without a license and received a 60-day road sen tence. He was found in contempt for failure to comply with a court order and received an additional 30-day road sentence. Judgment was suspended in the case of T. Y. Barbour on condition that he pay $20 a month for the support of his minor son. He was found guilty of failure to comply with a court order to support his wife and children. Five persons pleaded guilty to i charnes of possession of n small iptanUty of nan'yt-pald skey and paid the costs and $10 each. They were James B. Long, Guion Lewis, A. M. Curtiss, Pete Forbes and Virgil Brinkley. Henry Nelson Ward pleaded guilty to possession and transport ation for purpose of sale of a quan tity of non-tax-paid whiakey. He was sentenced to one year on the roads, not to issue if he remained sober and on good behavior for five years and paid the costs and $50. Bertie Mae George was found not guilty to aiding and abetting him and her case was dismissed. A plea of guilty was entered in the case of Mildred Garvis, charg ed with stabbing William King with a knife, inflicting nerious bo dily injuries. Her sentence of one year in prison was not to issue on condition of three years good behavior, payment of the costs and a $50 fine. A jury trial was requested by John and Horace Jones, charged with larceny of a roll of wire fen cing, and they were bound over to superior court under $300 bond. John Jones waived a second charge of trespass and the case was bound over to superior court under $100 bond. Caroline Jones and Nellie Jones, charged with breaking the peace, also requested a jury trial See JUDGE HEARS Pase Six The United Stales Fisheries Bio logical laboratory, Piver's Island, which has been operated on limited status for over a year, will be reactivated to full status in the very near future and will become the most important fishery an<1 wildlife center in the southeast. This information has not yet come officially from Washington, but it was learned today that these changes would be effected under a co-directorship of Fish and Wild life personnel. An important oificial of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., is expected here Wednesday, July 6, and it is believed that the offic ial announcement and naming of directors will be made soon after his visit. Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch, for many years director of the labor atory and resident of the island, has purchased a home on Front st reet extended, Beaufort, and will move there with his family. Dr. Prytherch has gained inter national attention in the oyster in dustry for his inventions on oyster opening machines. He has also done research in other fields of the commercial fishing industry. When the Fish and Wildlife lab was put on limited status, Vance Fulford, Beaufort, was made super visor of the buildings and grounds. The Beaufort laboratory has al ways been a center of interest to visitors of the Carteret coast. At one time it was an important cen ter for the breeding of diamond back terrapin turtles. Soon after the lab was put on a limited status, most of the breeding stock was sold to the state "?f Maryland. Although ihere were large sea turtles in saltwater pools and an alligator, these were released and pools now stand empty. In addition *o routine fish and wildlife research, it was also learn ed that work will be done there on radio isotopes. Harden Replies To Bitter Attacks Congressman Issues State ment To NEWS-TIMES Defending Bill Carteret county and the third : Congressional district's repicsen-' tative in Congress, Graham A. Bar- : den, made a statement directly to j THE NEWS-TIMES this week, de- 1 fending his stand on federal aid to-education and "answering per sonal accusations made against him by Rep. John Lesinski, Mich., chairman of the House labor com mittee. Congressman's Barden's reply, in part, follows: "I am utterly astounded at the statements made by Congressman Lesinski o f Michigan, present Chairman of the House Commit tee on Labor and Education, es pecially so when I have been wait ing sincc last Wednesday afternoon for him to designate the date for executive session hearing on the bill reported out by the sub-com mittee on Education, of which I See BARDEN REPLIES Page Six Letter to the Editor R.H. Dowdy, Morehead dity Comments on Union Activity (It Hat been reported that Committee for Industrial Or ganisation, commonly known as the CIO, is making efforts to institute a union at the More head City Garment company, Bridget street, Morehead City. In the letter to the editor be low, R. H. Dowdy, prominent citisen of Morehead City, ex presses his view on the situa tion ? The Editor.) The uniorf is liere is Carteret County again. As usual they will not appear in the open. They are working nights ? from door to door. This time they want to or ganise a union in the Morehead City Garment Company. This means that if they are suc cessful in their work of organ ising a union, they will force the shirt factory operators to remove to another community. If this happens it will cost the workers a half a million dollors a year. This money, paid out hi wages to workers is distributed in Carteret County about half and half. H atf to the Eastern section and half to the Western end of the county. If it were not for the employ ment opportunity in the Morehead like ot inform not only the em ployees of the shirt factory; but to inform the citizens of Carteret County of the way we secured this plant to come to our county thirteen years ago. I correspond ed with them quite a number of times. Finally we succeeded in getting them to come to Morehead Citf Garmept Company a very large portion of those so employed would be anable to find other work in the county. The writer of this letter would City to look over the situation. After several days of oelibera tions, plans were completed to bring their plant here un^er sev eral conditions. They gave us the guarantee that they would employ between two and three hundred people. They gave us the guarantee that they would pay as high or higher a wage scale as any paid in the State of North Carolina for the work done in their planfc. They have always done this and are still doing it to day. We gave them the promise of protection against onions. This plant was then located in Lykens, Pennsylvania and the factory had ? 8nR.N. DOWDY Page Si* Welfare Superintendent Will Assume Duties Today Lovely Sample oi Beaufort Miss Elizabeth Willis, 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Willis, Front street extended, Beaufort, poses on the wall of Beau fort's famous historic cemetery. Miss Willis, selected by Beaufort Jaycees as Miss Beaufort of 1949, will compete in the pageant next weekend in Morehead City for the Miss North Carolina title. Photo by The News-Times Boards Postpone Meetings; Stores to Close July 4 Because the Fourth of July fall* on the first Monday of (Kit month, f orr^nioofil board meetings have been postponed until the following Monday, July 11. The county board of com missioners, scheduled to meet the first Monday at 10 o'clock in the morning, will not meet, neither will the board of edu cation or Beaufort town com missioners. Town commissioners will meet Monday night, July 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the town hall. At that time the board and mayor will be sworn in for their com ing two-year term and town ap pointments will be made. The stores in Beaufort will close, one drug store will remain open. Merchants in Morehead City had not decided by press time whether they will bo open or closed. Banks will be closed as well as post offices. The Morehead City post office gen eral delivery window will be o pen for one hour only from 12 to 1. Mail will be put in boxes as usual. Four Men Injured In Anto Collision Four automobile passengers | were injured shortly before mid- j night Wednesday when two cars collided head-on on highway 70 the Pine Tree inn, west of More head City. Injured are James Conrad La nier, Jr., Greenville, Robert H. Daggett, Camp Lejeunc, Jack Far mer, Morehead City and Lexing ton, and Vergil Null, Camp Le jeunc. Null remained unconscious in Morehead City hospital yester day. Lanier was driving a 1947 Buick sedanette cast, toward Morehead City and Badgett was driving a 1040 01dsir>6blle sedan westward. Farmer was in the Buick with Lanier and Null was riding with Baggett who ha* been arrested on charges of careless and reckless driving. According to state highway pat rolmen who Investigated the acci dent. the car operated by Baggett either turned or skidded across the highway toward the Pine Tree inn. colliding with the Buick. Mr. Farmer, who is an employee at the Jefferson hotel and restaur ant. Morehead City, received lace rations of the head and a knee injury. Lanier sustained head in juries, Baggett, released under bond, was scratched and bruised and NuJJ remains In a critical con dition. Investigating patrolmen were Cpl. Vernon L. Spruill and Patrol man W. J. Smith. Wiiliston Church, Club Enter Dispute Over Property Tho Wiiliston Home Demonstra tion club and Wiiliston church arc | locked in a legal battle over the i old Wiiliston school building which was formerly located on the prop erty belonging to Wiiliston Meth odist church. The school building, which dur ing the administration of J. G. Allen, .superintendent of schools, was sold to members of the Wii liston Home Demonstration club for their use and for use a? a community building, has been moved from the church property on to property belonging to Elmo T. Wade, Wiiliston, without the consent* of home demonstration club members. Tho church claims it needs that property to carry out plans for enlarging their edifice. Mr. Wade has issued notice that the former school building, now situated on his property, will be sold at auction in Wiiliston at noon tomorrow to the highest bid | der? with the provision that the building must be moved within seven days following the sale. Legal notice on the sale appears in this issue of THE NEW S I TIMES. When the building was acquired i by the home demonstration club, the road ran between the church and the school. Later the loca- 1 tion of the highway was changed ; to pans south of the school, mak ing the church and school practi cally adjacent to each other. The original owner of the land, j who donated the property to the church and school never had any j deeds signed over, according to , H. L. Joslyn, superintendent of schools. It is believed, however, that the property on which the school stood would be the county's by right of eminent domain. Both factions, the church and the home demonstration club, have retained attorneys to represent them in the matter. HIGH LOW Friday, July 1 12 midnight 12:03 p.m. 5:51 a.m. 6:16 p.m. Saturday, July 2 12:25 a.m. 1:02 p.m. 6:42 a.m. 7:21 p.m. Saaday, July 3 1:24 a.m. 2:04 p.m. 7:37 a.m. 8:30 p.m. Maaday, Jaly 4 2:26 a.m. 8:08 p.m. 8:36 a.m. 9:39 pan. Taasday, Jaly f 3:30 *.m. 4:Q9 p.m. . '9:37 a.m. 10:46 p.m. Thomas C. McGinnis, tho new I superintendent of Carteret County I Public Welfare, will officially a*- I sume his duties today. He sue- I ceeds Mrs. George Henderson, who I for 14 years has served here in I that capacity. Mrs. Henderson has I accepted a position as case worker I with the Onslow County Welfare I department. H Mr. McGinnis, a native of Sails j bury, cames to Carteret count) with the highest of recommenda tions from Catawba .college when he earned his AB degree, from B the University of North Carolina V where he undertook graduate work and from the Wake County ana Kowan county departments of pub lic welfare. He is k graduate of Boydcn High school, Salisbury, attended a sum mer term at Davidson college, en- I rolled :it Catawba where he ma- ! jored in physics, with mathematics and sociology as minors. I For two years following the win- | ning of his AB degree at Catawba, j he served as junior engineer in 1 the Merchant Marine during the J second world war on a shuttle run from Panama to the Philipplnea. After the war he enlisted in the Navy and then left to go to the I University of North Carolina where he enrolled in the graduate school of social work. He holds a com mission now as ensign in the Uni ted States Naval Reserve. Mr. McGinnis will complete hii two-year course at UNC this Aug ust when he finishes his master's j thesis, a six and a half year follow up study on aid to dependent child ren. , 3 The material for his theaia was obtained at the Wake County Wel fare department where he worked , for nine months as part of his so cial stud" graduate course. He was a caseworker with Rowan County | Welfare df^rtment last summer and was with Mecklenburg Wel fare department for nine months in 1947. He his also had experience in recreation work, having served as playground director live summers at Salisbury. Mr. McGinnis says there is ? great need for men administrstors now in welfare work. "It's s fine field," he declared. He attended, as an observer, 'j the meeting of the Carteret Wei- : 1 fare board Wednesday. Mr. McGinnis, who is 25, IVni ? 9m, SUPERINTENDENT Pat* f I Beanfort Jaycees Thank Merchants Beaufort Jaycees, Monday night, extended a vote of apprec iation to Heaufort and Morehea4 City merchants who aided finan cially in the proposed Miss Beau fort contest that was called of t. This action was taken at the Jay cee meeting in the Inlet Inn. Many merchants had taken adr vertising in the program for tha Miss Beaufort contest, which wag called, off because of a lack of participants. The major portion of the meet ing was spent in a discussion of the proper means to continue the summer long Jaycee bowling tournament when not all Jayceee entered in the tournament are present. It was finally decided that if one member of a two-man team bowls, his score will count for his partner. If neither mem* ber of a toam or their substitute is present, their games ere for feited for the night. Jaycee board of directors will meet Wednesday night at 7:30 et the Inlet Inn, President Odell Merrill announced. Tamperatam Bis* to N Wednesday, laia Felkws The temperature during the past week was in the high 80'j with the mercury rising to BO Wednes day. Rainfall started, preceded V thunder and lightning at i I o'clock Wednesday night, breaking , the heat wave under which Car- 1 teret countians have been i ing and crops have bean Up until 7 o'clock morning .61 inchea of rain The temperatum since last I day are as follows: Max. Saturday, June 29 J7 Sunday June 28 88 Monday. June 27 85 Tueaday. June 28 88 Wednesday, June 29 ...40

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