MEWS-TIMES OFFICES Beaufort IS* Criwn St. ? Plwu 4411 Morehead City ?04 Ar.nd.ll SI. ? Pbwi. Mil CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '* A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (E.tabluhed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (E?tabli.hed 1936) Eight Page* Color Comic* 38th YEAR, NO. 76 TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFQRT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRiDAYS Merrimon Paving to Cost $107,443 ?Beaufort Police Arrest 15-Year-Old , Continue Investigation on Burglary District Governor to Visit Newport. Rotarians Monday District Governor H. A. (Ham) Mark, of Wilmington., has inform ed. the Newport Rotary club that he will make his annual official visit with them Monday night. The district Governor expects * to meet all committee, chairmen in addition to the board of dir ectors. Mr. Marks is president of the Marks Machinery company, Wilmington. The Community Service Com mittee of which J. Stancil Bell is chairman had charge of the pro gram at this week's meeting and informed the members as to what Community Service really is and presented many jobs under this heading that might be undertaken by the club. Charles S. Long and Roy T. Garner, in addition to J. Stancil Bell, were on the pro-| gram. Moses Albert Waiker was ap pointed as Newport's Rotary member for inter-city group meetings held among the follow ing Rotary clubs: New Bern, Vanceboro, Trenton, Pollocks ville, Maysville, Newport, More head City, and Beaufort. The Newport club was tops in attendance for the month of July with a percentage of 96.29 while in August they ranked seventh place with a percentage of 89.80. in District 279 there are 39 clubs striving for a top seat in atten dance. The Newport club has jchaiiffd i their hour of meettng froih 7 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. effective Mon day night, Oct. 10, 1949. The next meeting Monday, Oct. 3 will be at 7 o'clock. The Newport club is a new club with a membership of 18 enthu siastic men who are very eager to J carry out ther objectives which are to advance the civic, educat ional, moral and physical welfare j of the entire, community. B & PWs Hear Talk on Vocations Vocational education was the top ic of a talk by Mrs. Delfido Cordova at Tuesday night's meeting of the Carteret Business and Professional Women's club, Ann Street Educa tion building, Beaufort. Mis. Cordova, home economics instructor at Morehead City high school, was introduced by Miss Bet ty Joiner who was in charge of the program. The speaker gave a brief history of the introduction of vocational ed ucation into public schools and trade schotlls, citing the Smith Hughes act of 1917 which was the first federal legislation to provide for the teaching of agriculture and home economics to those over 14 years ft age. This program is ad ministered by the statei and in the 1930s trades and industry vocation al instruction was approved. Mrs. Cordova called attention to the vocational agriculture depart ment at Newport school, the only One in the county, taught by C. S. Long, the home economics depart ment at Beaufort school taught by Mrs. David Beveridge. a similar de partment at Morehead City school a trade and industries course at Morehead City school taught by Delfido Cordova, an undergraduate commercial' course . at Beaufort taught by Miss Madolyn Goodwin, and a "graduate" commercial course taught at Morehead City school by Miss Helen Martin. Salaries to vocational instructors 6 paid as follows: one-third by federal government, one-third by the state government, and one third by the county. Mrs Cordova spoke briefly on distributive education wherein pu pils receive "on-the-job" training, actually working part-time in their chosen field. The speaker empha sized the need for vocational guid ance in order that students may more intelligently select their field of work. ? Her talk was followed by a brief business session during which Mil. Roma. P. Noe was named to suc ceed Miss Mildred Whitehurst as ? first vice-president of the club. Miss , Whitehurst resigned laat month. Vrs Violet Howard was selected ai finance chairman to succeed . Mrs. RiCha II. A. Marks State ACP Office Approves County Practices for 'SO The handbook of approved ATP practices for Carteret ?M>?y 'i4r 1950 haa bet* approved by the state ACP office and ia now being printed by the Carteret News Times Tress, PMA officer B. J. May announced today. The new handbook, which con tains 13 approved practices, will be mailed to farmers within the next two weeks, Mr. May said. A list of the 13 practices follows: Use of superphosphate, potash, or basic slag including mixed fer tilizers for use on cover crops, permanent pastures, or hay crops; use of summer annual legumes such as soybeans, cowpcas, vel vetbeans, crotalaria and lespedeza seeded alone; use of liming ma terial on any farmland. Use of winter covcr crops such as crimson clover, hairy vetch, Austrian winter peas and annual rye grass; use of small grains; use of winter cover and grazing; use pf permanent pastures; use of ter racing; use of contour strip corp ping; use of open ditch drainage; use of tile drainage; use of fire breaks and fire lanes. A new practice added this year at the recommendation of the aoil conservation service and approved by the county ACP committee is the use of permanent field wind breaks. These windbreaks -?re 'designed for the purpose of pre venting wind eroaion and sand i blasting on sandy land. Under the system, loblolly pine and red cedar trees are planted in alternate rows spaced six to seven feet from each other. Each windbreak will have five alterna ting rows of cedar and pine trees in a strip 21 feet wide. Strip* will be repeated at inter vals of 420 feet measured from the center of each windbreak to the ccnter of the next. The trees will be established perpendicular to the direction of the wind and must be protected from fire, graz ing and injury by mechanical farm equipment. L W. Dowbum Addresses Beanlorl Rotary dab Rot&rian E. Wilfred Downum stressed the need for a document try will in a talk to- Beaufort Ro tarians at their Tueaday night meeting in the Inlet Inn dining room. v Mr. Downum outlined North Ca rolina law concerning what dia poaition ia made of an eatate when there ia or ia not a will. He said there waa no more important step in aeeing that one'a family waa properly looked after. Following the meeting Dr. Tho mat Ennett. club president, called a meeting of the board of dirft-tora at which time meana of raiaing money for next summers Beaufort recreation program were discuss ed. Approves A &NC Action OQ Bonds Stale Continues Efforts To Clear Way for More head Port Development The Council of State at Raleigh approved Wednesday a resolution authorizing the state owned At lantic and North Carolina railroad to accept $13,800 from the More head City Port Commission as full payment for $138,000 worth of the commission's bonds now own ed by the railroad. A resolution on this matter was adopted Sept. 8 at Kinston by dir ectors of the road, but consumma tion of the deal is contingent upon acceptance by the Reconstruction Finance corporation of $188,000 from the Morehead City Port commission in payment of both principal and interest on $188,000 worth of the commission's bonds now owned by the railroad. At tyrncy-Gentral Harry McMullan '?Jpjjfcvd ?W4>he Kpe T&rego between " $3 (J;OM) and $4(^ 000 in interest payments if it ac cepts the proposal. These various financial agree ments are necessary to clear title to the port facilities in order that the State Ports authority can go ahead with harbor development. If the transactions go through, the way would be cleared for the Morehead City Port commission to lease its facilities to the State Ports Authority, which is getting ready to spend about $2t500,000 at Morehead. Th? Port commission and Ports Authority are contemplating a 75 year lease. The A&NC's proposal was laid before the Council of State by R. Mayne Albright, attorney for the road. The A&NC acquired the $138, 000 worth of Port Commission bonds during the administration of Governor Clyde R. Hoey in a deal with the RFC. When the port bonds were issued, in the amount of $325,000, the A&NC had guaranteed payment to the RFC. About midway the Hoey administration, the A&NC paid the RFC $138,000 In return for that much in port bonds, and the RFC agreed to release A&NC from its commitment. Beaufort Jaycees Back Zoning Plan Considerable discussion of Beau fort's proposed zoning law took place at the Monday night meeting of Beaufort Jaycees in the Inlet Inn. All Jaycees were urged to attend laat night's zoning hearing in view of previous endorsement given by the club to the proposal. Robert Stephens. Jaycee repre sentative at the hearing explained the plan to the group. It was agreed that any Jaycee attending the zone meeting was to be given one point in' the attendance contest. Wiley Taylor, Jr., reported that solicitations for funds to buy equip ment for the high school football team were progressing satisfactor ily and that the Jaycec-backed pro gram was supported by the entire town. The treasurer waa authorized to pay for whatever football equip-, ment had already arrived. A letter of appreciation to Jim Weaver, director of athletics at Wake Forest college, was also auth orized. thanking the college for its gift of football clothing and equip ment. Frank Jordon was appointed ed itor for the next Issue of the Jay cee Tide Table. Guests were Eric Moore. Jack Sewall and PhU Liver man. Dave HOI was not present when his name was drawn to re ceiv* the attendance prise of *U0. Beaufort police expected to make another arrest last night in connec tion with the burglary early Wed nesday morning at the Huntley a partment hourc, Front st. One colored youth, Charles Bax ter, Jr., 417 Craven st., 15 years of age, Beaufort, was arrested shortly alter 2 a.m. Wednesday. He confes sed at noon that day to entering the apartment of Major and Mrs. F. L. Maerz and taking $11.21. The boy was tried in juvenile court Wednesday and bound over to the October term of superior court on a charge of breaking and entering. Conviction of burglary could mean death or life imprison ment. Police Officer Hiram Kerr and I ABC Officer Marshall Ayscue pick ed up Frank Bunney, North River, yesterday morning in connection with the ca&e *hich is the first break-in in Beaufort since the rash of burglaries suddenly stopped two weeks ago. It was believed that Bunney may have been Baxter's accomplice. Bunney denied any connection with the crime and authorities stated that his family said he was home in bed at the time of the Huntley a partment break-in. The police, gaining leads on a nother individual, expected to ar rest the new suspect last night. Baxter was arrested within an hour ! after the Maerz apartment was en tered. Major Maerz, a Marine, was a wakened about 1:30 a.m. by some one in the room. He shouted and the person made a dash for the window, leaping out and on to the ground. The major telephoned po I lice, and Chief Louis B. Willis, sus pecting that the colored youth later arrested may have had something | to dp witfi the c wq sent CailifOj ! See fage 9 - Fire Guts Fish Tackle Shop I Fire caused by an exploding gasoline lantern gutted the in - 1 | terior of a small building located at the corner of 8th and Shackle ford streets, Morehead City, Wednesday afternoon causing ap proximately $500 damage to the building and approximately $1,500 to $2,000 damage to fishing eq- ! uipment displayed inside. The building was rented by Randolph Willis, Jr., who operat ed a fishing tackle shop. The gaso- j line lantern exploded at about 3:30 p.m. and* firemen from the fire station, one-half block away, arrived immediately. Efforts by the fice department saved the buildmg but all stock inside was destroyed. Heat was so j intense that it melted window panes. Willis received slight burns on his hands. Walter Freeman, owner of the building, stated that it was in sured. It is reported that Willis carried a small amount of insur ance on his stock but pot enough to cover the loss. 1 Patrol Pleased With Car Tests State highway patrolmen were pleased with the success of the road block established Wednesday night to check on automobile mechanical deficiencies, it was re ported today. The road block was set up at 24th and Bridges streets in More head City. Another block was es tablished last night east of Beau fort. Cars were required to have their brakes, lights, windshield wipers and horns tested to see if they were in proper working or der. Minor mechanical deficiencies were corrected on the spot and those having major trouble receiv ed a ticket which had to be re turned in 48 hours with a state ment from a mechanic stating that tha necessary repairs had been made. Patrolmen reported that the public responded satisfactorily to the test and the patrol itself was I satisfied with results. Highway Patrolmen making the check were R. H. Brown, W. J. Smith, and H. i G. Woolard of the local station j G. H. Murray of the New Bern I station. The lowest bid for paving of the road to Merrimon, $107,443.50 was entered by Zeiglcr-Cline company Fayettoville. I The bids on 19 State betterment and Federal aid projects were op ened Wednesday at Raleigh and low bids were confirmed yester day morning by division highway i commissioners. This Carteret county paving job 12.6 miles, comes under the state bond projects involving 190 miles of surfacing. Chief Engineer W. H. Rogers, I Jr., said the contractors' figures | were "highly satisfactory." More j than 230 bids were entered. The official estimate set the possible j cost of the work at $2,510,000. Rogers said that contractors' pri ces ran at approximately the lev- J el set in past lettings, although bids | for steel construction seemed slightly higher. He said a general i increase in construction prices, ! which was expected to follow the passage of Federal legislation rais ing the minimum wage, failed to materialize. "Most contractors tell me," he said, "that they already were pay ing at least the new minimum.' Other bond projects, besides the road to Merrimon, follow: Craven 6 miles near Cove City; Greene-Pitt 10.6 miles near Hookerton; Lenoir ; Wayne -- 8.34 miles in three sec ! tions; Pitt-4.57 miles near Winter ville; Davidson-24.7 miles; Meck lenburg-^ miles in 19 sections; Stanloy?-26.2 miles in six sections; Union-12.1 miles on Lands Fork Road; and Cleveland--7.4 miles in I two sections. Morehead Jaycees Will Sponsor Fire Prevention Week A Full program of lccturcs, cs rSay contests, moving pirturcs, and various phases of jmbltctty is plan ned for Fire Prevention week in Morehead City next month, Ben Al ford, chairman of the Jaycee Fire Prevention committee, announced at Monday night's Morehead City Jaycee meeting in the Fort Macon hotel dining room. Jaycees appropriated $30 to be used as prizes in the essay contest for school children. Other money was appropriated to be used for publicity purposes to bring the aims of fire prevention to the pub lic's attention. H. S. Gibbs, Jr., disclosed that all was in readiness for Wednesday afternoon when Scotch-Lite lum inous tape would be attached to bicycles in Morehead City as a step toward accident prevention. Jay cees were appointed to assist him in the job. The group was requested by Jim my Wallace to do all possible to promote and assist in the Better School Day solicitation held yes terday. He said the Parent-Teach ers association was determined to see that children at the school work and play under better conditions. ! A message of appreciation from principal G. T. Windell and the faculty at Morehead City school was received, thanking the group for work done in cleaning and pol ishing the school auditorium floor last week. Some Jaycees stated that despite , the promises made by the city gov ernment. they were yet to see a policeman on duty at the school duriqg rush hours to direct traffic. An investigation into the matter was promised. NEWS-TIMES to Observe National Newspaper Week Morchead Nay Receive $35,000 from Bace Track It is estimated that Morehead City will receive $35,000 as its share of the 1949 receipts from the Carolina Racing association's dog track. The money coming to the town will be used for civic improve ments such as street repair work, recreational facilities, street gra ding, sanitary equipment and other purposes. Money received last year, used for similar pur poses, amounted to $25,000. It was reported this week that during the 1949 season $1,781, 793 was bet by patrons of the track. The track retained 15 per cent of this total, the remainder going to bettors who had placed money on the winning dogs. Station Wagon Hits School Boy Maxlon Mason, Firsl Gra der, Recovers from In juries Received Tuesday Maxton Mason, first 'grader at Beaufort school, and son of Mrs. Theodore Barnes, continued satis factory improvement today at Morehead City .hospital, following an accident Tuesday morning wJk n he was struck by a car. A The little boy, who was on his way to .school at the time, receiv ed a broken leg And internal in juries. The accident occured at 8:30 a. m. approximately a block rrom tiie scnoo* on 7iigh way 70. Driver of the car, a '40 Ford station wagon, was Mrs. W. C. Flowers, Front st., Beaufort, who was taking children to school. According to police, the Mason child dashed in front of the car. No charges were preferred against Mrs. blowers. Police Office!- Hiram Kerr and Bill Oillikin carried the boy to Morehead City hospital. Taking of X-rays was delayed until Wednes day because of the serious condi tion of the child. This was the first serious ac cident to occur in the vicinity ofi the school for quite some time. Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, S*p4. 30 2:35 a.m. 8:39 a.m. 3:11 p.m 9:52 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 347 a.m. 9:52 a.m. 4:14 P m. 10:50 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2 4:50 a m. J0:58 a.m. 5:10 p.m. 11:05 p.m. Monday, Oct^8 5 43 a m. 11:37 a.m. 5:59 p.m. 11:52 p.m. Tueiday, Oct. 4 6:30 a.m. 12:30 6:41 p.m. 12:40 p.m. Defendant Tells Court He fVill Appeal Illegal Hunting Case A verdict of guilty was delivered in the case of Charlie Simpson, Beaufort RFL), charged with hunt ing deer out of season, and he was fined $25 and costs of court in Tuesday's session of recorder's court. The defendant served no tice of appeal and was bound over to superior court under $50 bond James B. Hughes pleaded guilty to drunken driving and has fined the costs of cpurt and $100. Har ry Leon Faircloth and Roy W. Avery, both originally charged with drunken driving, were found guilty of reckless driving and each paid the costs and $50. John Pengrln'a sentence of si* months on the roads was suspend ed on condition that he pay $100 and coats. He was found guilty of drunken driving. A plea of guilty was entered in the case of Charles Stevens, charg ed with being drunk and disorder ly, uaing loud and boisterous lan guage. breaking the peace, and disturbing the inmates of hia apart ment bouae by his diaorderly coo duct, and he was fined the costs j of court. William L. Orton, originally charged with speeding 80 miles an hour, was found guilty of speed ing 75 and was fined the costs and $25. Ella Hakins Rouse and Al fred Lewia each paid a $10 fine and the costs when they pleaded guilty to speeding. Walter E. Sul livan. Jr.. paid the costs when he pleaded guilty to the same charge John Parmley paid the costs for driving with insufficient brikes. The bonds of Kenneth D. Petrey. G. W. Carpenter, and Adolphus V. Wade were forfeited when they failed to appear in court. The court withheld prosecution In the case of Frank Dunn, Heibert Gas kins "and/or (alias) Hubert Gas kins." Ten cases were continued. The defendants were Edward J. East crwood. Jackie Rowe. Alex Curtis. Charlea Fonville. R. R. Lutermi^ch, Shelton L SchwarU. George I. Wells. Theodore J. Lemaire, George King and Douglas Law rence. Printing Plant Will Be Open j To Visitors October 4, 7, 8 The Carteret County NEWS TIMES will observe National News paper Week, Oct. 1-8, by holding open house on three different oc casions during that week. By popular demand and for the benefit of those living in the large area served by the NEWS-TIMES, we are throwing open the doors for tours of inspection of the NEWS TIMES plant, Morehead City, on Tuesday afternoon, Friday after noon, and Saturday morning. Each person visiting us during those times will receive a four page souvenir edition of THE NEWS-TIMES as well as another special memento of their visit to the newspaper plant. Hours of the open house will by from 1 to 5 Tuesday and Friday af ternoon and 9 to 12 noon Saturday Guests will be conducted through the editorial and advertising de partments, the composing room where they will see the press run the job printing department and the stereotyping room. School children and their teach ers are especially invited. We welcome visitors at all times but especially invite everyone dur ing National Newspaper Week. The NEWS-TIMES building is the new est and most modern newspaper plant in eastern North Carolina. | Ceremony Opens Scbeol Fund Drive A campaign to collect $5,000 to be used tor improving Morehead City school got olf to a head start in downtown Morehead City yester day with public ceremonies open ing the fund-raising drive. A. B. Cooper, president of the Morehead City Parent-Teachers as sociation, Mayor George W. Dill, Jr., Chamber of Commerce Manager Robert G. Lowe, and high school band director, Ralph Wade, all ad dressed the crowd 0.1 the necessity of raising money for school inprovc ment. "This money will be used to im- ; prove recreational facilities, the j home economics room, the manuel i arts shop, and make needed stage ' repairs; all work that has to be I done, but work that the county and the state are not obligated to do { and are not able to do at this time, : "Mr. Cooper stated. The ceremonies were broadcast. To start off the fund-raising drive the PTA president made the first contubution of $200. Immed iately, money began pouring in to swell the fund. The PTA president also announ ced that any contribution* can be mailed to Skinner A. Chalk, Jr., president of the ways and means committee. He added that checks should be made out to the More head City Parenl-Tcachers associ ation. Wilmington Firm Protests Contract George Ross, head of the Board of Conservation and Develop ment, stated Wednesday that a Wilmington radio firm telephoned him on that day protesting the awarding of the stute boat radio contract to the Morehead City Yacht basin. "They said they wanted the bid reconsidered, ** Ross said. "I told them it was too late." He said the equipment adopted by his department had the ap-j proval of Paul Dillion, Conserva- > tion and Development radio en gineer, and a number of other radio experts. ? The total cost is figured at $3,825, slightly under the $3,985 , made available last year by Gov ernor Cherry for boat radios. Contracts for the equipment were let last week and the Depart ment of CAD told the contractor Friday what it wanted in the way of equipment. Indecision about the type of radios to be installed had delayed the project for mors than ? y??r; ' Patrolmen Will Keep on Chasing Speeding Autos Patrol Chief Issues State ment Following Criticism On Newport Tragedy Two speeding automobiles may bo more dangerous than one, but Highway Patrol Chief C. K. Tolar said this week that patrolmen will continue to chase speeding ears. Tolar's statement was made in answer to criticism from various newspapers following the death of Patrolman Richard W. Jackson on September 3 at Newport. Jackson was killed in an auto crash while trying to run down a car. A policy prohibiting such cases, Tolar declared, "would be an in vitation for every speeder to boost his speed to 85 or 90 miles per hour and know thai the patrolmen would not ehase them. "The first assumption a patrol man makes whenever a speeder fails to be stopped by the sound of his siren or flashing of a red light is that he is chasing a crimi nal or potential criminal and that his 4pty to stop thia taf' at all costs." It's "practically impossible" for a patrolman to read the license number of a car speeding 85-90 miles pei hour, the patrol comman der stated. Tolar said he had "only praise" for the two "fearless" patrolman involved in the Carteret county chase ? Jackson and P. M. Her ring, who was riding with Jackson at the time of the crash. Herring, the patrol chief added, is still at Fort Howard Veterans hospital at Baltimore, Md , under going treatment for facial injuries. The patrolman is expected to re main there %for five or six more weeks. 235 Bikes Get Reflector Tape Two hundred thirty-five More- 1 head City bicycle owners had their bicycles Scotch-Lite taped Wed- j ncsday afternoon, the result of a joint project of Morehead City ! Jaycees and* the town, H. S. Gibbs, j Jr., chairman of the Jaycee com- j mittee, announced today. Jaycees did the work and the town furnished money for the I tape. More than two hours was I .spent at Morehead City school \ Wednesday afternoon taping and | registering bicycles. t | However, Gibbs said, a large j number of the bicycles in More- i head City were not taped, there- . fore more work will be done next Wednesday afternoon beginning at 3:30. The luminous tape is applied to 1 make the bicycles more visible at night and thus less likely to have 1 accidents, he added, and there is | no cost to the bike owner for hav- j ing it put on his vehicle. Congress OKs Appropriation For Albatross Visit Hon Both the Senate and the Houm j have approved the appropriation I which will permit the federal {lib eries research vessel. Albatross, to work in North Carolina coastal ) waters this winter. The bill ha* now gone to the President (or hi* signature. The Albatross is scheduled to he here (or two months it a tim# designated by the commercial (ish crmen. according to W. A. Ellison, Jr. director of the Institute of Fisheries Research, Camp Glenn. The Albatross worked (or (MM oral weeks in North Carolina wa ters this past summer. K also j made a demonstration cruiae, car- j rying ommercial (ishermen, Mat* I oHkials, and newspaperman.

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