=gg CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES _?_ A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS ( E*t>bli>h? veir A 1 . Pro*re"'ve club of the -" Ach.even.enl Night exer , Thursday at the Beaufort Willi T ?'enn was r?n"or up. Wildwood club was awarded ihe tan? .f?r, hCOm,ns the '"thest dis ?" c?t0 luhe Profam with the lar fh d of members. The Nor th R.ve. clubs award is a canner which moves from year to year to the winning organization wat"mTChmC? ?f thc aware' Mrs- Abbott Mor ris, Mrs, Gorden Laughton. Miss Alice Laughton, Mrs. R. p. Oglcsby Mrs. Thomas Oglcsby. Mrs. Wrenn Lawrence, Mrs Thurman Pittman. Mrs. Paul Be? h sSi,hMMrs^ia^de^rs? M" W^Cmo^TajiorDUdlCy' I Mrs B- F Copeland, retiring! the T C?Tn Presidpnt '"staJled presidrnl B'lli0 SmiUl president, Mrs. Mike Mason, vice Resident, Mrs. Kenneth McCabc =y.a"d Mr, Leslie Bri^; The Rev. R. t vvilliv ir ? ducted the devotional*, and music! was pro;;jded by (he Nor"(dh ?y aEent?lr ? M Wi,liams' tant rnnii * Stinson, assis Joyner Yonngsler Sets Fin to Living Boom v Fire started by a youngster burn ed ourtains and furnishings in the living room of Walter Joyner, Len noxville road, Beaufort, Friday af ternoon causing several hundred dollars damage. Thi child's mother reported that she was in her yard when she smelled smoke. She thought her child was asleep, she declared, but when she ran into her house she found that instead the youngtser had set fire to curtains in the liv ing room. Firemen were called at 1:45 and by the time they arrived, furni ture in the room was also on fire. They were able to keep the flames from spreading but not before some of the woodwork and furni ture and all of the curtains had burned. Smoke damage was also done to the rest of the house. Salvation Army Fond Drive Nets $733.35 Carteret county's 1940 Salvation Army fund drive ended Saturday with only $733.35 contributed to ward the goal of $1,000. chairman Sam Adler, Morchcad City, report ed today. Mr. Adler stated that even though the drive is officially end ed, contributions still will be ac cepted. Anyone wishing to con tribute should contact Mr. Adler or George Stovall tn Morehead City or W. A. Mace in Beaufort. Three persons, a Harkers Island girl, and two Ma rines, were injured in an accident at 7:45 Sunday night on the Harkers Island road. The injured are Fanny Doris Lewis, 18, of Harkers Island, who remained yesterday in Morehead City hos pital, hut wax much improved, and Philip G. Butcher and John B. Raper, both Marines, -who received emergency ircaimeni ai me nospitai ana were discharged. J. W. Sykes, highway patrolman who investigated, reported that Haper, driving a '47 Mercury se dan. collided with a '47 Chrysler being driven by Manley G. Smith of Route 1, Newport. Raper was going in a westerly direction on the Harkers Island road and passed a Ford on a curve at a high rate of speed, said Mr. Sykes. The driver of the Chrysler, which was proceeding east, saw that a collision would probably occur and stopped, according to the highway patrolman. Raper, however, skidded and struck the Chrysler, causing approximately $350 damage to the Chrysler and $150 damage to his own car, the officer reported. Raper is being charged with speeding and attempting to pass on a curve. He received cuts about the head and Butcher sustained back injuries. Smith was uninjur ed. Airport Operation Will Continue Manteo. N. C., ? Continued oper ation of Roanoke Island airport here, the former U. S. Navy-built auxiliary facility, has been assured by action of stockholders who met following the death of Dave Dris kill. Driskill had operated the local airport for three years before he lost his life several weeks ago In a helicopter disaster in New Jersey while serving as a tent pilot for the Kellett corporation. A. II. Ward, local business man was elected president of the new operating company and Mrs Bessie Driskill. widow of Dave Driskill was elected to the board of di rectors. Other officials include O J. Jones as vice president, W. W. Tar kington, secretary-treasurer, L. D. Hassell and John E. Ferebee, di rctors. 1 *? The local aviation company will continue to operate the airport and conduct a taxi service to points along the Outer Banks. Club to Meet The North River Home Demon stration club will meet at 7:30 Thursday night at the home of Mrs. H. M. Cox. This meeting will be held instead of the usual after noon session. Boy Scouts Will Camp At Core Creek Nov. 18 The Boy Scout camporee for Scouts of the Carteret district will take place Friday and Sat urday, Nov. 18 and 19, at Core Creek on the inland waterway Included on the program will be instruction in campcraft. pioneering, first aid, health, and safety. The troops will participate in competitive events such as knot tying and signaling and the pat rols of each troop will be grad ed on their type of camp site and activities. The camp staff will be Floyd Chadwick, Jr., More head City, C. R. Hassell and Bobby Steph ens, Beaufort, Abram Willis, Salter Path, and W. C. Wall, New Bern, field executive. Governor. Party Will Visit Banks Governor W. Kerr Seott will board the state boat, Hatteras. at Englehard tomorrow morning for the trip to Ocrakoke and Hatteras. Accompanying him will be Attor ney General Harry McMullan, Dr. Henry Jordan, highway chairman, Bill Snyder, highway public rela tion chief, and several newspaper men and photographers. They will arrive at Ocracoke in the afternoon to inform the island ers that road building machinery will arrive at the island in the near future to work on present roads and construct new ones. The Governor and his party will continue to Hatteras for celebra tion Thursday morning after spend ing the night at Ocracoke. It was originally planned cn that day to re-activate old Cape Hatteras light but due to weather, repairs on the light have been held up, and it is reported that actual reactivation may be postponed. However, the American Legion at Avon will give the big fish fry as planned and there will also be the planting of orange trees on Cape Hatteras. Coast Guard officials who will attend the events will arrive by helicopter from Elizabeth City. The helicopter will also be made avail able for use by Governor Scott, if he desires it, to permit him to meet his sceduled engagmcnts upstate on Friday. Dot Moon , Native of Beaufort Raises Cheers at University Hy Carroll E. Ltety University of Alabama A photographer camc up to Dot Moon, University of Alabama cheerleader, at the recent Alabama Tulane football game in Mobile. He asked her to pose for him. "lie said the picture was for a college magazine," she mused. "But I forgot to ask him which one, so I'll probably never see it." Dot enjoys being a cheerleader even though she has to practice several afternoons n week. She takes her duties quite seriously. An education major at the un iversity, Dorothy Moon is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moon of Wedowe, Ala., and grand daughter of Mrs. Lutie Jones, Beau fort. Her father has been connec ted with the State Soil Conserva tion service for the past eight years Her married brother, James, is also a University student, enrolled in journalism. Dot is friendly, spirited, opti mistic, and deeply sincere. The at tractive blond is S feet, 5 1/2 inches tall and welghes 124 pounds. Beaufort's Her Birthplace She was born at Beaufort, N. C.. her mother's home, twenty years ago. But two years later the fam ily moved back to Mr. Moon's na tive Alabama. Dot's most vivid expcricncc as a child was Ihe time she and sev en other people were caught in a storm off the North Carolina Coast "We were sailing over to Cape Lookout when we saw the storm ap proaching," she recalled. "We madr it across before the storm came up. but were stranded there. We had to call the Coast Guard and ask them to rescue us." Enters University Dot was graduated from the Line ville, Ala., high school in 194C- She entered the University of Alabama that fall. A year later the Moons moved to their present home in Wodowce. After spending her second year of college at Jacksonville State Teach ers college. Dot returned to the University in 1948. Dot is fond of college life. And she likes the University better than a small college because she meets more people, there are more ac tivities, and she can choose from a wider variety of courses. Live and Let Live As her attitude toward life she quoted the old axiom: "Live and Let Live." To take up her spare time Dot likes football games, swimming, and dancing. She fs very much in terested in children, small puppies and people generally. "1 like to meet people," she ex claimed. 'They Interest me in all possible ways. I enjoy noticing the strange differences between peop le." Her fondness for children is the chief reason Dot is taking educa tion at the University. After her graduation in 1951 she plans to teach - in some elementary school. "I don't think I could stand high school kids," Dot said, "really." H. C. Morris Elected Horace C. Morris of Stella, jun ior at East Carolina Teachers coll ege, was elected recently vice-presi dent of the Jarvis Forensic club at ?ast Carolina Tachen oollege. The Jarvis Forensic club . began work preparatory to a series of in tercollege debates to be conducted in the spring of 1990 both in North Carolina yd out ol tbtkUte. Work Progresses Oo County Roads County Board Approves Three More Projects, Ad justs Back Taxes Road conditions in Carteret county are improving. Two miles of the Merrimon road, from Mer rimon toward Beaufort, have been hard-surfaced, and John Humph rey. highway engineer in the coun ty, reported to county commission ers yesterday morning that stone was being hauled in at that mom ent on the Broad Creek loop road. Carl Garner, of Newport EFD, requested that the road east of Newport through the Deep Creelr section be widened, graded and drained. He presented a petition signed by all the homeowners af fected. Although the road is a part of the county system, it is not being properly maintained, Mr. Garner told the commissioners. Petitions ('resented Two petitions were also present ed requesting maintenance work from Karl Carapen's home on the old New Bern road up to Core Creek bridge and on the road in Davis from the post office to the boat basin. The commissioners aproved a reduced valuation on the summer home of Alfred Williams at At- - lantic Beach. Valuation is now $4,000. The board accpted $54 in payment of back taxes on the W. M. Ilaye property, Newport RFD. Mrs. Have reported that her husband has been in the state hos pital 10 years, and she had the deed to the property, four acres and a home, registered in her name, Mrs. Lillian Ilaye. C. B. Merrill Appears Cleo B. Merrill appeared before the board and requested- an ad justment in tax valuation. He re ported to the bo?rd that he bought fifteen acres of woods land from his father, S. T. Merrill, and has been assessed for fifteen acres of cultivated land. Upon investigation, it was dis covered that Cleo Merrill had not listed his personal property or paid poll tax and the board decided i that no adjustment could be made at present. Paul Beachem. resident of the North River road, appeared before the board to make certain that he has not been billed for taxes on land he has sold. John Brooks, of the tax office, was appointed to investigate a re quest for lowered valuation on 12 acres of cleared land in the L. B. Willis estate, Bcttie. R. Hugh Hill, Beaufort, was granted a reduced valuation on land on which a warehouse stood until Fed. 14, when it burned. Commissioners present were Tllden Davis, Hugh Salter, Wallace Styron, and Chairman K. P. B. < Bonner. Attorneys Bequest Ll if? Register of Deeds Vanll Alvah Hamilton!, Julius Dun can and Claud Wheatly, attorneys, ' appeared before the county board yesterday morning and requested enlarged quarters (or the register of deeds vault. The board instructed James Pot- , tcr, auditor, to contact an archi tect and have plans drawn for en largement, probably into whit is now the outer register of deeds ; office. Thomas McGinnis, welfare sup- . erintendent. appeared before the board to explain what the auditor termed as extremely high expenses by the welfare department and A. H. James, clerk of court, reported to the board on the grand jury report. The commissioners instructed . the auditor to obtain estimates < placing a partition in the jail i nex, as recommended by the grand ] jury. 2,000 People Attend Opening oi Gftlkric-Jous Free prizes, ice cream, cokes, ci| arettes and candy were passed to the more than 2,000 people i visited Guthrie-Jones drug for its grand opening in Friday. Prizes were given away timea during the day with the | prize of a $39 ball point pen. tain pen. and pencil going to 1 Wanda Owens. Prizes of a l pencil set were won by Wil lor, Jr. Mrs. Lucy Willis m Theodore Salter. Winners fountain pen were Hiss j Mrs. Earl Willis ai is o^ Davis.