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52SE CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES V A Mar gar of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (E?ubli?had 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) ipith YEAR, NO. 74 ~ EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, ~ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRiDAYS I ' Morehead Board Opposes Proposed Stop to Railroad . Passenger Service Jtotarians Hear Thomas McGmnis Bishop Howard Rondthaler Also Speaks at Tuesday Night Meeting Thomas C. McGinnis, Carteret jaunty superintendent ol public welfare, described the operations of his department to Beaufort Ro tarians at their meeting Tuesday night in the Inlet Inn dinning room* Rotarians expressed interest in the varied jobs undertaken by the department and stated that they were impressed with the work the welfare department is doing. The Rev. T. R. Jenkins was ap pointed as Beaufort Rotary's- mem ' bcr for inter-city group meetings held among Rotary clubs in this area. It was revealed that Beaufort Rotary attendance for August av eraged 86.4 percent while attend ance during the same period for 40 other clubs in the state was only 82.7 percent. A distinguished visitor for the evening was Bishop Howard Rond thaler of the Moravian church Wyiston - Salrm. For 42 years Dr. Rpndthaler was president of Sa lem college and for the past two he has been a bishop in his church. Bishop Rondthaler made an en tertaining talk concerning his child hood experiences, and also on ev ents while he was head of the col lege. Following the meeting, president Thomas Ennett distributed recent ly printed pamphlets describing some of the highlights of Beaufort's old cemetery. Dr. Ennett stated that he planned to have the pam phlets distributed to other civic clubs in Carteret county. Jaycees Request New Truck Route A req4?.*.t to Morehead City com missioned to re-reute heavy truck traffic from in front of Morehead City school was made by Morehead City Jaycees at their Monday night meeting in the Fort Macon hotel dining room. ( Jaycees stated that trucks carry * ing fuel pil and gasoline passed the school continually and it was not safe, as far as school child ren were concerned. It was also disclosed that a pol iceman was being put on duty at the school during rush hours as previously requested. Bruce Goodwin announced that the PTA had gone on record in ' favor of football on the school sports program and had passed a resolution notifying the school board of their action. He said the PTA has requested that a football coach be employed and he was sure that next year the school would have a team. After a heated discussion, the group voted to pay for the first meal of any prospective member who attended the club's meeting but not any meals after that. ( Those opposed to the motion said the cost for the meals of contin ual guests would be prohibitive. H. S. Gibbs reported the ScotcR-Lite tape ordered recently has been shipped and will be dis tributed next Wednesday.. He said it would be a big step toward preventing bicycle-automobile ac cidents in Morehead Ojty. Secretary Ethan Davis gave a 1 brief report on the latest board of directors meeting in which he ' stated the board had discussed the Jaycees part in the CROP drive but were uncertain what role they would play. The board also passed a resolution urging all members to support the state Jajr cee directory soon to be publish ed. t I In conjunction with the board's t report in the directory, committee ^ chairman Warren Beck said that work had begun on accumulating data for it. He also announced the names of those who would contact firms employing Jaycees concerning advertising. Following the meeting the group went to the schoM where it spent several hours sweeping, mopping, drying, waxipg, and j" polishing the floor of the auditor ium. After the job was completed ) Bob Howard treated the. crowd | to Tee cream. * Granted marriage licenses this week at New Bern, county seat of J Craven county, were Durant Chase to Mary Wallace Hardest y, both of Newport, and Robert Stanley Wa hab of Ocracoke to Myra Edwards Bouse of BdhavML PTA to Sponsor Better School Day Thursday To raise $5,000 to finance repair projects at Morehead City school j the Parent - Teacher association will sponsor a Better School Day next Thursday. The PTA says county funds are not available to make repairs that must be made immediately. To wait until funds are at hand five or ten years from now will be to late, the organization believes. Helping to promote the Better School Day are the children who have made posters and displays for many of the stores in Morehead Cit y. A. -B. Cooper, president of the PTA, said the support of every par ent and citizen is needed to get the necessary funds. Although much re pair work was done immediately prior to the opening of school, a rowed money, and thus additional great deal of it was done with bor funds are needed to finish jobs star ted then. Working on the Better School Day project are Skinner Chalk, Jr., chairman of the ways and means committee, Robert G. Lowe, Mrs. George McNeil Mrs. Eugene Roe loffs, Mr. Cooper and Jimmy Wal lace. ' . ? - : County's Truancy Problem increases The problem of truancy among school students under 16 is becom ing a major one and efforts are be ing made to see that the truancy law is strictly enforced, Thomas C. McGinnis, county superintendent of public welfare and truant offi cer, stated today. Children between the agea of 6 and repaired by Uw.to at lea^ school, he said. When a teach er feels' that a student who has had an excessive number of absences is truant she reports it to the school head. In turn the school reports the truancy to the welfare officer who then investigates the case and de termines if truancy exists. If so, efforts are first made to correct the trouble without instituting court proceedings. In the event that matters cannot be settled they are taken to court. Parents who are convicted of con tributing to truancy are liable for either a fine or imprisonment. Mr. McGinnis stated that the -cor rection of truancy is the joint un der taking of the schools and the welfare department. Nevertheless he said, the fullest cooperation of the community is urged and need ed. Robert Lowe to Serve On Board of Directors . Robert G. Lowe, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Com merce, was elected a director of the North Carolina Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives at the annual meeting of the group held last weekend at Wilson. Approximately 30 men and their wives were entertained at break fast at the Hotel Kinaton Tuesday morning en route to Morehead. Ci ty where they were guests at lunch and in the afternoon went on a boat trip. j Following thi trip, some of the executives were taken on a tour by Dan Walker, manager of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce. Late in the afternoon certain mem bers headed for hdkne while others stayed for Tuesday night's racea. Other members on the associa tion's board of directors are Wal lace Woods, Roxboro; Woodrow McKay, Lexington; Gene Mcintosh, Lincolnton; Wade Hampton, Sylva; and John Thomas, Wilson. The association will meet it Charlotte next year. Tide Table (Tides at Beaif?rt Bar) HIGH LOW Friday, September 23 8:33 a.m. 2:18 a.m. 8:97 p.m. - 2:52 p.m. Satwday, September 24 0:22 a.m. 3:03 a.m. 4:44 p.m. - 3:43 p.m. Snnday, September 25 10:12 a.m. 3:48 a.m. 10:34 |Lm. 4:39 pjn. ???day, September 11:05 ajn^ 4:35 a.m. i 11:24 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Taeaday, September 27 11:58 a.m. 5:29 a.m. 12 midilight 4 6:37 |A Judge Suspends Sentence in Case OfLT. Rowe Lawrence T. Rowe was found guilty on a charge of drunken driving in Tuesday's session of recorder's court and sentenced to six months on the roads. Judge Lambert Morris suspended sen tence on condition that the de fendant pay a $200 fine and the costs of court. Notice of appeal to superior court was Riven and the case was bound over under $200 bond. Guy O'Neil Willis pleaded guilty to possession and transpor tation of non tax-paid whiskey and paid the costs and $100. Both Monroe Gillikin and Mack D. Gill ikin pleaded guilty to possession and aiding and abetting in the transfer of non tax-paid whiskey and each was fined $25 and the costs. Oliver Riggs, originally charged with possession of non tax paid whiskey and allowing an unlicen sed person to drive, was found guilty of illegal possession. He was fined $25 and the costs. Cle veland Riggs, charged with jioss ession and transportation of non tax paid whiskey, was also found guilty of illegal possession and was fined the costs and $10. The prosecuting witness in the case of William H. Taylor, charg ed with assault with a deadly weapon, was required to pay the costs upon a finding of malicious prosecution. A $40 fine and the coats ware assejwed against Gerod P. Laurent when he pleaded guilty to allow ' ing an unlicensed person to use hi* driver's license. Robert H. I Sherman also paid the same pen alty for using another person's driving license and failing to dim his lights. Three persons, Wardell Jones, Bill Porter and James B. Boyd, pleaded guilty to speeding and paid the costs. The charge of, speeding against Richard H. Tay lor was heard and dismissed. The charge of passing another , vehicle and causing an accident, | against T. P. Lowe, was also heard \ and dismissed. Clarence W. Gillikin failed to appear in court and his bond was forfeited. The following pleaded guilty to the charge against them and paid the costs: Emile Pepiton, j driving with insufficient brakes; James G. Moore, driving with im proper brakes; M. M. Salter, driving with no brakes; Braddock Brown*, permitting livestock to run at large; and James Hill, Max C. Jones, and Garland Fulcher, driving without a license. Fred Bryant pleaded guilty to driving without a license and was fined $10 and the costs. The court withheld prpsecution in the case of Raymond H. Hen derson, charged with driving with out a license and speeding. Seven cases were continued. The defendants were George King, Douglas Lawrence, Frank Dunn, Edward J. Easterwood, Theodore J. Lemaire, Harry L. Faircloth, and Herbert Gaskins 4<and/or alias Hubert Gaskins." A resolution urgently requesting the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad to take immediate steps to improve its passenger service by making passenger trains be tween Goldsboro and Morehead City faster and more comfortable was passed by Morehead City com missioners at their meeting Tues day night in the municipal build ing. The commissioners' action fol lowed the reading of a petition from the Atlantic and North Caro lina railroad to the State Utilities commission requesting permission to discontinue passenger service between Goldsboro and Morehead City, the railroad's only line. The petition quoted figures showing money the railroad had lost through passenger service. It also stated that existing bus lines could handle passengers at nil stations. Commissioners agreed that the railroad was losing money on its passenger service but the main rea son, for the loss was that the rail i road failed to maintain its passen ger cars on a proper level or sche dule. They stated that they did not feel passenger traffic was increas ed by carrying people on a train that took five hours to come from Goldsboro, making freight stops along the way. The town board delegated May or George W. Dill, Jr., to decide whether the town should issue Al bert Courman a deed to a piece of property he claims to own. At torney Harvey Hamilton, Jr., ap pearing for Mr. Courman, reported that the property had been fore closed because of back taxes, and that his client later purchased it but does not now have a clear title. * After hearing a request for a taxi permit from Harkness Wooten and another request for taxi fran chise renewal from John Logue the board decided to meet with the Taxi Owners association to straighten out what they said was becoming "an increasingly difficult problem.'' No action was taken on the two requests. A uniform electrical ordinance, as recommended by the North Ca rolina Insurance department and adopted by other towns, was ap proved by the board. The same ordinance was recently adopted by Beaufort and a similar one by the county. More discussion was held on the drainage situation, particularly the area around 24th and Fisher streets and 20th street between Bridges and Fisher. No action was taken since a street grader is now being used in an attempt to solve the problem. Health Department Begins Fall Bat Control Campaign The Carteret county health department, with the assistance of the State Board of Health, is conducting a rodent control pro gram in Beaufort and Morehead City. Dr. Thomas Enrtett, health officer, announced today. Chief item in the program, the health officer said, will be the poisoning of city dumps in both towns. Clifford Jones, district rodent control officer, is here to spread the poison and prevent it being used beyond dump limits. Poison used is highly fatal to animals and humans alike, it was pointed out, and it will be rigidly controlled on the dumps. It is too highly toxic to be uaed around residences. Dr. Ennett said. Money for the poison was ap propriated by Morehead City and Beaufort commissioners. State Body Recommends Extensive Consolidation of County Schools Committee to Ask! Return of Summer Play Director The Beaufort Recreation com mittee will ask Raz Autry, direc tor of this summer's recreation program, to return next summer. Decision to rehire the recrea tion director was reached Tues day night at a meeting of the I committee in the county agent's I office. Those present were en I thusiastic in their praise of the J young man's work and decided to ask him back next year. Civic organizations will be ask ed to help finance the summer pro gram. It was stated that if their contributions are the same as this year, which is anticipated, there still will nbt be enough money to pay the costs and other fund sources will have to be found. Next summer's program will' begin June 19 and continue through Aug. 12, a period of eight weeks. It is hoped that an assistant can be employed to aid Autry, if he accepts the position, but this can be done only if money is available. Those at the meeting were R. M. Williams, Mrs. Ralph Kudy, | Dr. W. L. Woodard, Rev. T. R. | Jenkins, Mrs. Houzell Lewis, and Mrs. Theodore Salter. Newport PTA Meets At School ' Carroll Jolliff, a newly-elected! ^^esidant of the Newport Parent Teacher association presided at the first meeting of th? year Tuesday night at the school. Faculty members were intro duced, there was a room atten dance contest, and musical games. Many of the school classrooms are being repaired, it was report ed. Mrs. Julia McCain and Mrs. Ruby Simmons are receiving help on the project from men and boys in the community. Other offices of the PTA be sides Mr. Jolliff are Lloyd Nel son Garner, first vice-president; Mrs. Allen Trader, second vice president; Mr*. Moses Howard, secretary; and Mrs. Clarence Millis, Treasurer. Following the meeting refresh ments were servfed by Mrs. Trader, Mrs. Walter Daniels i Roberts, Mrs. Simmons, and Mrs. j Margaret Mann. ? Beaufort's Street Lights Went On Strike Wednesday Beaufort was without street lights until 11 o'clock Wednesday night. A wire pulled loose from one of the street light heads on Front street, causing the whole circuit to go out. George Stovall, Tide Water Power company manager, said the wire probably pulled loose because of continual vibration. The trouble wasn't located until 11 p.m. A street light has been installed on Craven street in the middle of the block between Front and Ann. UNC Student Builds Boat, Sails Her To Morehead City Archibald and Elysia came to More tread City Irom Wilmington in 10 days. Archibald was the skipper and Elysia is the boat he built. And you might think that ia all there is to the story, but no siree, not by a captain's whisker. Elysia is tied up at the More head City yacht basin and Archi bald has gone off to Chapel Hill to enter his junior year. Enrolled in the school of education, ht plans to teach English. Tall, sparsely built, blue-eyed with s heavy flowing mass of red dish-gold hair, Archibald Yow of Henderson started to build the Elysia March 12. On Aug. 8 be launched her at Wrightsville Beach and after a few test sailings in the sound decided on the trip to Morehead City for her maiden voyage. The Elyaia's skipper not' only b?|flt the sailing craft,'1 he designed her after taking a correspondence ' course in boat designing, and was her entire crew on the trip here. Much of the boat is hand-hewn. The tiller was a small oak tree, spars, mast, and hnom were ce dars, and the oars (or the dinghy Archibald carved out an ash log. Engine? No ? the Elysia's progress depends alone on wind, canvas and her skipper. From her carved figurehead, the hull aweeps back 24 feet. From keel to top, the mast towers 10 fe?t. To Archibald, the Elyaia meant an exchange of $400 for a boat. Had he purchaaed a similar craft, he estimates the cost would have Men $1,900. His chief difficulty was tacking against northeast winds in the narrow channels. In New river he ran aground on almost every tack and finally got ? tow by a shrimp boat He bought a apecial fog horn to use when approaching draws, but passed through two draw*, at I night, without needing it. The bridge tenders saw him coming and opened wide the gates The dra* at Lejeune, though, wal a jinx. There was a head northeast wind, and the Elysia missed the opening by just enough to cause any ordinary sailor to let loose with all the Invective at his command. To atop the boat, Archibald threw out the anchor, his boom meanwhile scraping across two shrimpers. W>hen he tried to lift the anchor, it just wouldn't come. It was hooked around a submarine cable. A new, perfectly good anchor. With that. Cap'n Yow tied a line to the anchor cable, pulled the anchor cable toward shore slipping the anchor along under the cable, and in shallow water retrieved Ms property. He was then informed that US MC regulation prohibited any craft I 8m STUDENT Page Six Six Naval Craft Deck Al Port This Week Two LSTs, two APDi, and two LMSs at Port Terminal this weak were loaded with eq uipmant and hundreds of Mar ines from Camp Lejeune. Although no information | on the destination of the Mar ines was released by Lejeune authorities, it is believed the men were going on ( training maneuvers. Crash Kills Four From Cherry Point Two Cherry Point Marines, a mother and her child, also of Cherry Point, were killed Wednes day afternoon in an asphalt tank truck and automobile collision near Edgefield, S. C. Cpl. J. A. Martin of the Highway Patrol identified the dead Mar I ines as Pfc. James R. Martin and .Sgt. O. W. Brower, and the mother, Mrs. Judy Shore, and her 4 ye ar old child. The wreck happened 10 miles northwest of Edgefield where the Edgefield - Greenwood road crosses the Saluda McCormick highway. The Highway Patrol listed the injured as Howard Dean Joiner of Texaikana, Tex., and Meade R. [Faulk of? Mobile, Ala. They I were taken to (ireenwood Hospi I tal at Greenwood where atten ' dants described Joiner's condition as critical. Corp. Martin said Hovey Leroy Tucker of Route 3, Landrum, was driver of the empty tanker. Tuck er was detained for investigation hut no charges were filed against j him immediately. Corp. Martin I said Tucker was driving for Davis i Transport Company of Augusta, Morehead Colored School to Be Sold The Morehead City colored school property will be sold for cash to the highest bidder at the municipal building, Morehead City, at noon Monday, Oct. 10 The building, excluding school fixtures and equipment, is be-, ing disposed of because a new building will go up at a different location. The highest bidder will be re quired to pay a deposit at the time of sale amounting to 25 per cent of the pifrchase price. The buyer will be permitted to take possession of the property upon occupancy of the proposed new colored school. The present W. S. King school is located on lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 10, block 148. Approval of the sale of this property was made by the More head City school board of trust ees Sept. 6. Camp Glenn PTA Chooses Throe Projects lor Year A committee was appointed at the Camp Glenn PTA meeting Tuesday night to look into the ad visability of enlarging and mod ernizing the lunch room at the school, to see about painting the class rooms' and beautifying the school grounds, the three propos ed projects of the year. The new officers of the PTA are Charles Price, president, E. Jones, vice president, and Mrs. Barbara Swinson, secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Joseph Smith is in charge of the tunchroom. Chairman appointed to serve during the year are Mrs. M. L. Mansfield, social chairman, Mrs. Leslie Brinson, membership, Mrs. W. L. Fulcher, program, Mrs. Clyde Willis, PTA magazine, and Mrs. N. H. Russell, publicity. The attendance roll call was won by Mrs. Beulah Willis' 5th and 8th grades. Following the meeting the 60 parents present had a social hour with the teachers, at which cokes and cookies were served. Three new elementary grade | teachers have been added to the . staff of schools in the county as a result of increased enrollment dur ing the first two weeks of school, I superintendent of schools, Harvey ; L. Joslyn stated today. The teachers are Mrs. Hester Mason, Atlantic, Mrs. Pattie MKlnley, Morehead ; City, and Mrs. Florida E. Garner, I Newport. 1 Extensive consolidation of schools is the recommendation for Carteret county under the $50 million bond issue to renovate the state school system. The Survey Panel, established under the State School Plant, In- J struction, Improvement, and He I pair Fund administration, has specified five particular points foi^ this county. The date of put ting these recommendations into effect it indefinite, it was stated; however it will be necessary for the county to comply with them. Recommendtions follow: con struction of new consolidated school at Atlantic, ^provided the school obtains a minimum of 10 acres for its grounds and the schools at Cedar Island, Sea Level, and Stacy be consolidated with the Atlantic school. The next recommendation is that the elementary school at Ot way and the high school at Mar ker's Island be consolidated with the school at Smyrna. Third is the consolidation of* the school at Salter Path with the Morehead City school. The panel also recommended the con solidation of South River school with Beaufort as soon as road con ditions permit. The Negro school program for the county, a program that calls for the consolidation of all Negro schools into the schools at Beau fort, Morehead City, and Stella, I was approved also. The Negro school at Merrimon will be con solidated with Beaufort's Queen i Street school s soon as road son ditions permit. Road conditions will determine I some of the changes, while addi 1 tional space will have to be added ! at other schools before consolida tion can take place, officials said. Contract for. the consolidated school at Atlantic was let last week and the school should be completed by next year's opening day. '46 Pick-Up Turns Over on Causeway Several hundred dollars damage was caused to a 46 Ford pickup truck at 7 o'clock yesterday morn ing when it skidded, turned over and landed on the front porch o{ the residence of William Ipock, just west of Beaufort on thecause way. The driver, Ernest Owsen Lewis, 204 S. 13th st., Morehead City, was uninjured. There were no passen gers in the truck. State Highway Patrolman J. W. Syki'S, who investigated, said the driver was making grocery deliver ies. Two slick tires are believed to be the cause of the truck's skidding and going out of control. There was a heavy down poifr of rain at the time. Patrolman Sykes reported that the truck is owned by Robert L. Rose, Havclock. Extensive damage was caused to the Ipock porch which had the sup ports knocked out from under it. The annual Eastern Star district school for tho 12 chapters in dis trict 3 will be held tomorrow at the Carteret Recreation center, Morehead City. Registration is at 9:30 a.m., classes begin at 10. and there will be a luncheon at 1. At 2 p.m. the concluding session will be held. i ? ? 1 ? Highway Patrol To Check Vehicles Commander C. R. Tolar Says Defective Cars, Trucks Musi Leave Roads I Motor vehicles traveling the I highways next Wednesday and Thursday night and the nights of Oct. 5 and 6 are due to get a j mechanical inspection, Highway 1 Patrol Commander C. K. Tolar I promised this week. Colorfel Tolar said that the I Highway Patrol would establish j 100 road blocks on those nights j in a Statewide crackdown on un I safe vehicles. These inspection stations will be located near ser | vice stations so that motorists | whose cars need minor repairs j can get them immediately. Defective vehicles will not be permitted to proceed until the de i fects have been corrected. How I ever, the patrol will call tow cars ; to enable the motorists to take a I car to any garage he chooses, at j the motorist's expense. Drivers of defective cars will : be issued equipment tickets which must be returned to the issuing officer within 48 hours with the j information that the defect has been corrected. ! In addition to examining head 1 lights, tail lights, brakes, wind I shield wipers, horns and other eq i uipment, the inspecting patrol | men also will look at the driver's 1 icons#. | Police in a number of areas | have offered their cooperation in | the series of inspections, Tolar ! said. A compulsory motor vehicle in spection was abolished by the 1040 General Assembly. Since, according to the Highway Patrol chief, "vehicles with faulty lights are increasing ^alarmingly, and with heavy foJtlfcii *traffi? In ^respect this fall something must be done to correct the situation." Lions Begin 2nd Day of Broom Sale Aid the blind? buy a broom from a Lion," will be a slogan t i heard frequently by Morehead City and Beaufort residents today and tomorrow as Liona and Scouts go from door to door selling brooms and door mats made by blind wor kers. The broom sale is being sponsor ed by the Lions in their aid-to-the blind program. It began yesterday and will last through tomorrow. Salesmen will cover every block in the two towns and a truck will be parked downtown for street salea. The mats and brooms, described as top-quality and longer wearing are two of the many products turn ed out by the 32 blind employee* working at the Guilford Industrial for the Blind plant in Greensboro. , The industries are a 15-year-old 1 no-profit inatitution founded to pro j vide employment by and for thoM visually handicapped. Civic clubs in other North Caro lina cities have staged broom salea successfully it is reported. Sales are especially needed because of an ov stock of finished products at the Greensboro institution. Gang hi in th Ad We're going to be perfectly ; frank and admit this is an awful j picture, not' from the viewpoint of what's in it but from a photo grapher't* point of view. We were mainly interested in , a pic-' | ture of the new county commiss ioner, Hugh Salter,* pictured right, l However, at the time our corps of photogrphers showed up at Jeff's Barber ahap, Beaufort, Mr. Salter, who works there, was gi?. in* an unidentified customed, Ray Cummins, a close shave and ' haircut (as any fool can plainly see). Mr. Cummins also was looking at the pictures in THB NEWS TIMES? -a setup like that we - couldn't resist. To really see what a handsome man the new county commissioner is, jut {all at Jeffs Barber shop.