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;r CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES JS. 1 A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (E?Ubluhed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (E*Ubluhed 1936) . Siith YEAR, NO. 55 EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS S Mrs. John Noe Murder Attempt Baffles Police Authorities CIO Makes Charges Against Shirt Factory Management The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, CIO, has filed charges with the National Labor Relations board alleging that management at the Morehead City Garment com pany has unlawfully interfered with the right of employees to bar gain collectively. Investigating these charges this past weekend was R. B. Therien, Winston Salem, fielcf examiner for the NLRB. Mr. Thericn's work, he said, is to investigate such charges to de termine whether the case should be heard by aa NLRB trial exam iner. He added that on the face of things, it looks as though there is sufficient evidence to have the gar ment factory case heard by an ex aminer. The union, Mr. Therien contin ued, bases its charges on a printed ] "Open Letter from R. H. Dowdy" j to garment factory workers, which I was distributed two weeks ago, and 011 the allegation that supervisors in the shirt factory "questioned' employees as to whether or not they were members of the union. The field examiner explained that the union has the right to ask for an investigation when it believes undue pressure is being brought by management against the workers to make them stay out of the union. He commented also that manage ment may file charges with the NL RB alleging that the union is ex ercising undue pressure to make the employees join the union, "but this is seldom done," he added. Union organizing processes have been under way at tne garment factory for the past month. "Fri endly" discussions for and against the union have led to hair-pulling bi'ttles among the women employ- j ees and frequent arguments at the j plant. Two letters to the editor agairtbt t the CIO organization have appeared in the News-Times ,onc from R. H. Dowdy, Morehead City, and the other from N. F. Eure, Beaufort. Automobile Hits Boy on Bicycle i Billy Bradford, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Bradford of Harker's Island, sustained a broken arm and leg Thursday afternoon when he wan struck by an automobile being: driven by Joseph Brian Brooks, 18, of the island. The Bradford boy was travel ing west on Main street on his bicycle at about ,5:15 p.m. when he attempted to turn the bicycle around in the middle of the street. Brooks was traveling east in his 1938 Chevrolet at the time. When Brooks saw the bicycle coming in front of his car he drove off the r6ad in 'order to | avoid a collision. Nevertheless, | the bicycle and Bradford boy were ' struck, knocking the boy about* 4 feet off the road. The Bradford youngster was taken to Morehead City hospital where his injuries were termed not serious. State Highway Pa trolman H. G. Woolard, investi gating officer, stated that no charges were filed against Brooks who was traveling at 30 miles an hour in a 35 mile-an-hour- zone when the accident occurred. Thomas Carrow Addresses Morehead City Botariaas Thomas H. Carrow, superinten dent of safety for the Pennsylvania , Railroad, entertained Morehead City Rotarians with a talk oir the railroad at the Rotary meeting 1 Thursday in the .Recreation center. Mr. Carrow illustrated his talk with maps and charts showing the railroad's personnel, equipment and facilities. The speaker is the first and only superintendent of safety to serve the railroad. He assumed the job in- 1910 and will be retired in a year and a half. Rotary president George W. Dill, Jr., announced that Rotary officers, directors and committee chairman will meet an hour before next week's meeting to map out the cony 1 ing year'a program. 1 The U. S. S. Bexar arrived at i Port Terminal yesterday morning carrying Maine Reservists scbedul I ed lor training at Camp Lejeune. I / Straight A Stndenl Harry R. Chndwick, known as Bob, is pictured above. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Chad wick, Jr.* of Smyrna, and i? studying law at Duke university, lie made the dean's list last term j with a straight A average. For a | year and a half Bob was manager ; of Spence's Feed store, Beau fort, a job he took to earn money to continue his college training, j Marines Rescue Wrecked Plane The F4U-5 Corsair whifch crash; landed last Monday afternoon on the beach near Bogue Sound was' moved eastward on the beach to ' Money Island Friday morning where it wAs pulled up on the ' hard-surface road and taken, back to Cherry Point air base. Piloting the plane at the time of the crash was Lt. Roy E. Oliver of Marine Fighter squadron 114, of which Lieutenant Oliver is also public informations officer. The pilot, who escaped without injury, tells the story in his own words: , We were just getting set for our first "gunnery run" when I had a complete engine failure in my F4U-5. No surge or cutting out; just no power. I commenced a turn to the beach and at the same time no ticed I hid close to 1*000 feet of altitude, 150 knots airspeed, and no fuel pressure. I contacted the flight leader and informed him of the situa tion. An escort joined me im mediately. Captain Clark radi oed the "May Day" message and Lt. Hadcock was checking the beach area off Bogue Sound, and suggested solid sand near the wa ter decre. I tried my emergency fuel pump, but to no avail. At 2500 feet I turned off my ignition switch, opened the hatch and start ed a gentle turn to line up with the beach. At approximately 700 feet I lowered full flaps and set tled my glide at 100 knots. I made contact with the ground in a -nose high attitude and the plane went generally along a straight course down the beach. The plane came to a rest with the left wing just in the water and the fuselage resting on the beach. I got out and signalled to my escort that all was well. I wrote a brief LS/MFT in the sand hop ing I'd get a cigarette but no luck. Approximately 20 minutes e lapsed between making contact with the beach and the arrival of the station heiicopter. At the same instant the coast guard had a jeep at the scene. While the accident was not of a serious nature, it showed clearly that the members of the flight acted quickly and cooly in report ing the accident, in giving helpful suggestions to me, such as the be fore mentioned beach reconnoit ering and giving the latest wind and velocity and finally directing the helicopter to the scene of the ! accident. Thanks again to the Air Seal Rescue Boys. No reply has fceen received as yet by R. Hugh Hill, chairman of the rivers and harbors committee of the Beaufort Chamber of Com merce, on a request ?ent to Wash ington for an emergency approp riation to df*dge Taylor's creek. The telegram recommended that the work should be completed by Oct. 15. Farmers Have Big Stake in Tobacco Export Program Carteret county flue eurred to bacco growers nave a $385,200 stake in the Tobacco associates referendum Saturday for that's the amount they* received for the exported portion of their 1048 crop. J. R. Ball, Newport, county Farm Bureau president, this week point ed out the vital interest local farmers have in the export progam. He urged every grower who will share in the proceeds of the 1940 crpo to "get out and vote" on the 10 cents an acre self assessment to support Tobacco Associates, and on Marketing quotas. The market ing quotas referendum will be held at the same time and in the same polling places. "Every flue-cured grower dep ends upon exports for the sale of about 40 per cent of his crop," the president said. "In our county lapt year, we produced .1,926,252 lbs. of tobacco on about 1,553.5 acre, with an average per acre yield of 1,237 pounds. "Our county's flue-cured corp in 1948 was worth approviniately $96 3,000, but without our foreign market we would have suffered plenty. There would have been no place for that 40 per cent we usu-' ally export, and the resulting dep ressed prices surely would have placed our loss far above the $385, 200 we received for our exported tobacco. "There's no doubt that two-third of the farmers voting in NqitWand South Carolina 10 the Tobacco Ass ociates referendum will approve the continuation of 1947 when more than 125,000 voted for the program and less than 2,000 against it. A big vote will show everyone tobacco farmers are eager to do something to help themselves. Let's get out that big vote Saturday, July 23 for Tobacco Associates and Marketing Quotas, two vital parts of our broad tobacco program. Harry Tyler Joins Welfare Staff Announcement of the addition of Harry W. Tyler, Beaufort, to the staff of the county welfare depart ment, was made today by Superin tendent Thomas C. McGi.inis. Mr. Tyler is serving as a case worker. The other case worker it Mrs. Annie M. Cain. Mr. Tyler served in the Army for four years with extensive duty in the Pacific theatre. In 1949 ho was graduated from Wake Forest college with a BS degree. Mr. Tyler majored in sociology. In September he will enter Tu lane university's School of Social and work toward his master's de gree in that field. Mrs. Cain, whose home is Bir mingham, Ala., was graduated in 1947 from Alabama College for Women at- Montevallo, Ala. She received a BS degree, her majors sociology and psychology. For >ix months of 1948 she was a case worker for Traveler'i Aid society, Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Cain came to Carteret coun ty in October 1946 with her hus band, a Marine pilot stationed at Cherry Point. She has been with the Welfare department since Nov ember 1948. Chairman Tains Basalts Of hira Tnwnraging' "The results of Beaufort's Cham ber of Commerce membership drive are encouraging thus far," T. T. "Toom" Potter, drive chairman, commented today. "As far as we can ascertain," Mr. Potter explained. " alarge percen tage of memberships are new. Al so the majority of old members contacted have renewed their mem berships" "This means," he concluded "that when final returns from the drive are totalled this fall, the Beaufort Chamber of Coommercr should have a much larger mem bershlp than it had three weeks a?o." Lower Mews-Times Price ' Goes inlo EH eel Today Beginning with today's Issue of THE NEWS TIMES, the price by carrier will be only 15 cents per week. In addition to this price re duction of one nickel, which will greatly benefit the reader, s pocketbook, it means that the paper carrier will collect only once a week. He will deliver the Tuesday and Friday papers as usual, but under the new plan, his and his customer's time will be saved with the oncea-week collection system. The price of THE NEWS TIMES at newstands will be the eustomary 10 cents per copy. The price by mail will Ik* the same as usual, less than 5 cents per copy. FirmAgeritWarns Growers About Cotton Insects A considerable reduction i n Carteret county's cotton yield is expected if cotton insects are not controlled, R. M. Williams, county I agent, warned today. He also | reported that more acreage has i pone into cotton this year than in j the past few years. He said tnere may be several j reasons for the increase, farmers may be looking for another source of income er they may be using acreage that would have otherwise been devoted to crops now under control. Carteret county's grade of cot ton is on a par with that grown throughout the state. There have been fields planted at Crab Point, Newport, and other sections of the county that have raised acre age far above the usual 213 30 acres heretofore. There are a a umber of inserts which attack the cotton plant, Mr. fwtdrd: 'the wow dfeport. ant ones are the boll weevil, boll worm, red spider, and plant louse (aphid). Of the above mentioned insects the boll weevil is usually | the most destructive. Under favorable weather con ditions if cotton inserts are not controlled, a considerable reduc tion in cotton yield may be expect ! ed, he continued. In order to determine when to j s t a r t (lusting cotton, growers | should examine at least 100 squares per acrc in a straight line diagonally across the field. If 10 or more squurcs out of every 100 are punctured, the field should be dusted. The following insecticides are recommended as being effective control measures for all cotton insects other than red spider: 3 per cent gamma isomer benzene hexachloride and 5 per cent DDT; 20 per cent Toxaph<ne; or Calcium Arsenate, 20 percent Nicotine. Eight to ten pounds per acre of the above material is recom mended as a dust, and applied every five days Uv til weevils or other cotton insects have been controlled. The first mentioned insecticide should not be used whehi under ground root crops are to be grown witiin 18 months from the time the poison is ap plied. An off flavoi of such crops will usually be the result. Sulphur should Ik added to the BHC or Toxaphene if red spider is present. Newport Commissioners Approve Bodge! for 49-'50 Newport town commissioners ap proved a budget far the current fiscal year at their iperial meeting Wednesday night in the town hall Upon recommendation of Com missioner S. E. Ham, the board ordered that a power mower be purchased. Cost to the town will be $231 less $11 diKount. Hiss Ediih Lockey, clerk, report ed that the statt has allotted $2,096 for expense of improving state roads in and about Newport. The commissioners asked that the clerk write a letter to local highway officials liking them to attend the next regular session for a discussion on road problems. Dredge Works tn Port Channel, Inlet Ship Lane The Army Ertfncer dredge, 'lyde, arrived in port last week for a six-weeks stay in and around Morehead City atd Beaufort in let. While here th? Hyde will lredge the port ctannel and the ?hannel leading alt through the; inlet into the open sea. Leaders oi Newport's Hoiarians Heading the newly-formed Newport Rotary club are the men pic tured above. Reading from left to right they are Moses Howard, director; C. S. Long, secretary-treasurer; A. R. Craig, sergeant al arms; R. L. Pruit, president; Stancil Bell, and Al Walker, directors. The picture was taken on charter night. Photo by Dr. Charles B. Johnson Four Groups to Meet This Week lu Chamber Offices Four night meetings have boon scheduled for this week through j the Beafort Chamber of Commerce, Dan Wrlker, Chamber manager, has announced. Tonight* at 7:30 the executive committee of the Tidewater Vet erans Housing committee will meet in Chamber offices in Beaufort town hall. The group will discuss problems arising since or held over from its last meeting. Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock the Chamber of Commerce board of directors will meet in Chamber offices to formulate next year's j prograu. Representatives of Tide Water Power company have been invited to discuss the proposed electric rate incre?sc for this area. Dr. W. L. Woodard, president of the Chamber, stressed that board meetings arc open to Chamber members. He said he hoped a number ot meml>ers would be pre-, sent in order to join the board of directors in formulating policies representative of the entire mem bership. Thursday night at 8 o'clock mer chants of Beaufort will meet with the Chamber's commercial com mittee, John Ilayncs, chairman, in Beaufort town hail to discuss uni form closing hours, trade pronio ! tions for next year and to hear | Neal Bolton. Tide Water Power j company farm agent, discuss the j company's Better Farming For Better Living program. | Friday night members of the Veterans Mousing group will meet I in Chamber offices at 7:30. At I that time a report from the exccu | tivc committee will be given and I it is expected that a committee will ; be appointed to select a contrac j tor to construct houses in the pro posed housing project. Pic. William Smith Takes Part in Motor March WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY IN NARA, JAPAN: Private First Class William Smith, son of Mrs. Delia Smith, of 408 North 10th street, Morehead City, participat ed in a recent large scale motor march of 210 miles made hy the 159th Field Artillery battalion of the 25th Infantry Division. This march from Nara, Japan to Maizuru and back to Nara, with a halt at the Aebano Artillery range for a practcie shoot, was primarily to train drivers. He is the driver of a quarter ton truck for B Battery. Ex perience was trained in the field of convoy control, difficult trac tion driving and motor nyunte nance in the field. Tide Table (Tides at Beaufort Bar) HIGH LOW Tuesday, July 19 2:20 a.m. 8:27 a.m. 3:01 p.m. 9:34 p.m. Wednesday, July 20 3:18 a.m. 9:21 a.m. 3:54 p.m. 10:33 p.m. Thursday, July 21 I 4:18 a.m. 10:17 a.m. 4:49 p.m. 11:28 p.m. Friday, July 22 5:12 a.m. # 11:10 a.m. 5:41 p.m. 12 midnight The County Tuberculosis assoc iation met yesterday afternoon with Frank W. Webster, executive secretary of the State Tuberculosis association, and Miss Sarah Peat ross, field secretary for the seal sale campaign. The meeting was scheduled to be aboard the state boat, Hatteras, weather permitting. L, M. N, Os Must Take Examination For Driving Cars If your last name begins with the initials L, M, N, or O, now is! the time to begin thinking about , taking your driver's license exam ination. according to word from > M. H. Everett, license examiner for j j Carteret county. I Mr. Everett reminded the public | today that swarms of prospective j license holders mobbed his of lice i the last of June in order to receive i their licenses before the June 30th deadline. After Jane 30th, those j with the initials 11, I, J, and K were subject to a penalty for fail ure to have a proper license. From July 1 until Dec. 31 of | this year, all L, M, N, and O's arc required to take the examination for a driver's license, all that want I to drive a car, that is. On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Sat- 1 urday mornings from 8:30 until 12:30 examinations are given from j i the office in the Municipal build- J , ing, Morehead City. Wednesdays ' and Thursdays examinations arc ? given at Cherry Point. Fridays j i Mr. Everett can be found in his of- j i fice in the court house annex, | Beaufort. In the near future, he . I will be at Beaufori fo/ two days, i Weekday office hours are from . 8:30 a. m. unjil 4:30 p. m. ? Beaufort police remained baffled yesterday as to the identity of the person who bludgeoned Mrs. John T. Noe on the head while she slept in the early hours of the morning Friday. Chief of Police Louis Wil-i lis was called to the Noe home at the corner of Broad and Moore streets at 5 a.m. Friday to find Mrs. Noe un der the treatment of Dr. j Theodore Salter following a I brutal beating about the ' hek 1 several hours earlier, j 1 1)r. Salter reported that Mrs. 1 Noe received multiple lace ] rations and abrasions of the tcalp, concussion of the brain 1 and a fractured skull as a result of the beating. Chief Willis immediately called the sheriff's office and the State Bureau of Investigation to assist in solving the ease. SRI Agent Clyde C. Fentress arrived in Beaufort Friday morning from Bayhoro ami Deputy Sheriff Mui ray Thomas was the investigator sent from the sheriff's office. Investigation disclosed that the unknown assailant probably en tered a window in the rear of the house, propped an outside door open, went outside where he pick ed up a 15 inch long, four by four inch, piece of lumber and returned to the house. After re-entering the house the' intruder passed the bedroom of Mrs. Noe's daughter and son in , law, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Lewal ! len, the bedroom of Mr. Noe, and entered the room near the front of , the house where Mrs. Noe was sleeping on a couch. The assail ant then struck the elderly wo man six or eight times on the head with the piece of timber and made an exit. Some time later. Mrs. Noe par tially revived, picked up a towel, ? and went into her husband's Ijed room across the hall where she placed the towel on a pillow and iaid down in bed with him. Mr. Noe awakened to find his wife badly dazed and bleeding profusely from scalp wounds. He called Dr. Salter and Chief Willis who arrived on the scene in a few moments. Following initial treatment at home, Mrs. Noe was taken to Morehead City hospital where her condition was termed good yester day. She remained in a dazed and semi consciouS condition from Friday morning until yesterday morning. Investigating officers question ed members of the family, took fingerprints and made other in quiries with no result at presstiuic yesterday. Beaufort's streets remained a buzz with rumors and predictions as to who had committed Beau fort's most mysteroius crime in many years. Mrs. Noe is the sister in law of Dean Israel Noe, of the Rpiscopai Sec POLICE Page Thrct 1 Judge Speaks On Americanism Al Legion Dinner Large Crowd Pays RespecU To R. C. Godwin, New Stain Commander Judge Luther Hamilton struck the Americanism keynote in his spceeh at the American Legion banquet in honor of State Com mander It. C. Goodwin at New Bern Friday night. The large banquet room of the Legion hut was filled to overflow ing as state official and Legion officers from all over the state gathered to pay their respects to the new commander. The speaker pounded On the meaning of Americanism and said that to fully abide by the mean ing of this word, one must uphold every one of the articles to the con stitution and the bill of rights and that one must live constantly in defense of his freedom and lib erty. Following the speech. Congress man Graham A. Barden an honored guest, said that Judge Hamilton had delivered the best speech on Americanism he had every heard. Mr. Barden congratulated Mr. Godwin on his campaign and wish ed him success in filling the duties of the office of department com mander. ' Norris C. Keed, Jr., commander of Donerson Hawkins post, wel comed the legionnaires and their guests. John I). Larkins, Jr., state sens tor of Trenton, was master of cere monies. He introduced visitors. Rev. R. L. Jerome rendered the in vocation. Louis Dunn, commander of the Seventh Legion district, in trodduccd Mr. Godwin. Mr. Dunn said that Commander Godwin was a native of Harnett . county, coming to New Bern in early 1919 where he was engaged in the insurance business as dis trict superintendent of the Imperial Life Insurance company. He said Mr. Godwin also served as alder- ' man of the city for two terms. ' Quoting his American Legion rec ord, Mr. Dunn said the commander, was post commander here for one year; post adjutant for two years? district commander for six yearsj department vice commander for one term; chairman of the depart#, mcnt membership committee fop* one year, and for the past 10 years has served the state as Veteran*!1 , Placement officer. Mr. Godwin said it warmed hi* heart to see so many of his friends 4 from both in and out of the Leg ion attending this banquet to hon or him. He renewed his pledge to See JUDGE Pjge Three < American Legion Will Sponsor Fair at Beaufort Oct. 10-15 Plant Pathologist Visits Farmers Farmers in the county received j the benefit of expert advice on i plant disease problems last week when Howard R. Garris, exten sion plant pathologist from State j college made a, tour of several I forms with County Agent R. M. j Williams. Included in the tour were the farms of H. D. Bennett, Old New Bern road, where* an inspection was made of diseased rutabagas, George BroJa, Old New Bern i road, where they studied wilt in j watermelons, Herman Taylor, Pel j letier, and Lionel Pelletier, Stel . la, where they surveyed diseased ; I tobacco plants. The tour also took in Robert! S a f r i t's diseased boysenberry (Hants in Beaufort and a water melon variety demonstration in ih? Bogue Sound community. A stand count was made to see how i well the varieties were holding up in diseased soil. 0 Although the harbor okBuffalo. N.Y., is frozen over four or five months a year, It handles more than 16,OOO,O0D(J* tons of water borne frieght antfually. 1 ? A Beaufort and county event, ! absent from the scene for nine ! years, will be returned in full force this fall when the annual American Legion fair will be re instated, Legion officials stated today. The fair, which was an annual event, was held last in 1940. Due to the advent of the war and lack of a proper site since the war, it was postponed each year. However, this year it will re turn complete with exhibits, a carnival, free acts, fireworks and I all that goes into making a fair ?uccessful. It will be held from Oct. 10-15 on the site krfown as Legion Park off Lennoxville road just outside of Beuafort. A large tent will be put up to house agricultural exhibits. No livestock exhibits have been plan ned for this year. If response to the fair is satisfactory, the I Legion, Carteret Post 99, plans ) to build a permanent exhibit hall. ! Premium books listing rules, | regulations and prizes will be j published and distributed in early ! September. Tom Kelly, chairman of the Legion's fair committee, re minds all housewives to save their best jams and jellies for use in the exhibits. Prizes will be award ed. ? Mayor L. W. Hasscll, Beaufort, announced today that persons will not be ordered not to swim in Tay lor's creek. Signs reading, "Pol luted Water, Bathing Dangerous, Carteret County Health Depart ment" were put along the water*; front July 9. Oak Grove Land to Ba Leased for Crazing Cehrry Point ? The Commander, Marine Corps Air base, Cherry Point, announced this week that approximately 1000 acrea of unim proved laid on the Marine Corp* Auxiliary Air station, Oak Crov*, N. C., arc available for leasing as grazing lands. This property U ap proximately three miles northwest of Pollocksvillc, Jones County. Sealed bids will be accepted for the leasing of this land until 2:30 p.m. on August 12, at the offic* of Public Works Office, Cherry Point, N. C.f and at this time th* bids will be publicly opened. Bid forms with instructions and a facaimilc of the proposed leaM containing the terms under which the property may be occupied will be furnished prospective bidders by the Public Works Office. Marin* Corps Air Base, Marine Corp* Air Station, Cherry Point, .North Caro lina. Arrangements may be made with the public works office for a view of the lands to be leased. A repre sentative of the Navy departmwft 4 will be present to answer aU inquiries. Niagra Falls has become the lahd ing electrochemical and electjo mctallurgical manufacturing center oi the nation.