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38E CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??? A Mercer of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (EstablUhed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (EaUblithe^ 1936) 38th YEAR, NO. 88 1 EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS BEAUFORT TEAM MEETS BICHLANDS TONIGHT * Armistice Day Parade Will Begin This Morning at 10:30 Morehead City Receives $33i00 From Dog Track Proceeds Used To Buy Molor Grader, Garbage Load Packer Morehead City's share of pro fits from the dog track amounted to $33,500. for the 1949 season, Mayor George W. Dill, Jr., an nounced today. Most of the town's share has al ready been appropriated or spent, the mayor observed. A motor grader has been purchased with some of the money as has a load packer garbage truck. Other sources receiving the money have been the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce and the Carteret Recreational Center. Some of it has also been spent on improving dirt streets. The town has also purchased a plot of land to be used as a recrea tion area in conjunction with the new Negro school to be built in Morehead City. What has not been spent will probably be used to complete improvements on un paved streets, the mayor conclud ed. Here comes the parade! Under the sponsorship of Ame rican Legion Post 46, Morehcad City, today's Armistice Day parade in Morehead City at 10:30 this morning will feature Marines; school bends, and floats entered by the town's civic groups. The day's activities will be climaxed with a dance, free to everyone, at 9 o'clock. Marching units and floats will assemble between 11th and 14th streets on the south side of Aren dell in the following order: state highway patrol, color guard, de tachment of Marines from Cherry Point, Morehead City school band, school children, National Guard, Beaufort colored band, ministers' float, colored Legion post and co lors, Boy Scout float, Red Cross, Morehead City colored band, La dies Auxiliary float, Jaycee float. Girl Scout, Cub Scouts, and Legion float. The parade route will be east on Arendell street to 5th, west on the north side of Arendell to 8th, then south on 8th to the two mo numents in front of the city hall where Chaplain W. D. Caviness will give a brief talk in memory of departed servicemen. Services in front of the monu ments will complete the Armistice Day observance. Business estab lishments have been requested to display flags and bunting in honor of the occasion. Parade chairman ;s Duffy Guthrie. Stores in Morehead City will close from 10:45 a.m. to 11:15. Shades of Columbus! The Santa Maria Makes Port County's Seniors From Six Schools Visit Lejeune Seniors from Atlantic, Smyrna, Harkers Island, Beaufort, More head City, and Newport schools returned from Camp Lejeune Tues- j day night filled with excitement 1 and almost overpowering wonder' at what they had seen that day at j the largest and most complete am phibious training center in the world. , These seniors from Carteret county schools, with seniors from 39 other schools within a 50-mile radius of Camp Lejeune were en; tertained and "educated" by the Marines in observance of National Education Week. Boys and girls from this county made the trip In private cars, leav ing here about 0 o'clock in the morning and returning about 5:30. Parade Begins n?y The day began "with " a parade and review. .Ten thousand Marines, I afoot, in tanks, and in jeeps ma neuvered on the parade grounds to the accompaniment of the Le jeune band. The seniors hungrily stuffed themselves with roast beef, gravy, mashed potatoes, buttered green beans, french fried squash, lettuce fryit-cMese-nlad. ice cream, cake, and coffee at lunch in two large mess halls. Then they were taken to the camp theater at Hadnot Point where they heard Brig-Gen. John T. Sclden, Lejeune's chief of ataff, Lt Co. W. W. Buchanan, base operationa officer utl president of the Lejeune PTA, Maj. Gen. Franklin "A. Hart, commander of the camp and of the Second Ma rine division, ind Rep. Graham A. Barden of the Third Congressional district. Students See Chapel During the gui'ded tour which followed, the students passed through the Protestant chapel to aee the famous stained glass me morial windows, inatalled at a coat of $130,000. Twelve other win dows are in the Catholic chapel ?id ?Xt $120,000. Every centfw these windows was contributed by the Marines themselves in memory of their own who have fallen sine* 1775. Following the visit to the chapel, the Sixth Marines, reinforced, staged a mock attack which the students viewed, -awe-stnick, from the long line of Marine busses. A visit to the camp school and refreshments concluded the big day. ? ?' Mr. and tin. Adolf Klipstein, aboard the Santa Maria, left More head City Tuesday morning, bound for Florida in their vessel, a half size duplicate of the original Santa Maria, one of the three ships which carried Columbus to America. The unusual vessel, sails painted with the Maltese cross, and carved dragon heads adorning the wood Work, attracted a great deal of at tention as it sailed along the More head City waterfront late Monday afternoon and tied up at Capt. Bill Styron's Gulf dock. The Klipsteins said that they seldom have any privacy because curious spectators always want to be shown the ship, or stare wonder ingly at them regardless whether they are eating, working abput the boat, or getting ready for bed. The gross weight oT their Santa Maria is 34 tons. Columbus's ves sel was 60. The replica was built in 1942 by a man by the name of Cuthbertson, a friend of the Klip steins. Cuthbertaon intended to sail her to Spain but the war in terfered. The present owners acquired the boat and on Columbus Day of last year began their experience of living aboard. Their home is in Detroit where one son is in school, their two daughters are now at tending school in Florida. At one port where the Santa Maria docked, school children flocked to see the boat and brought all sorts of donations, canned goods and money. There were so many cans af food that they weighted the boat down and the Klipsteins simplj; had to get rid of it. So they sent the canned goods and cash contributions to help the needy in Europe. $31,1)00 Spent In County by PMA Almost $31,000 was spent In Car teret county this year by the Pro duction Marketing 'administration, PMA administrator B. J- May, di? doeed today in a partial report of his office's work for the year. Government aasistalce consis ted of *16,952 in th^ form of pur chase orders for 11 approved prac tices, $5,000 for 50,000 additional cubic yards of drainage ditchea and 19/100 additional to farmers lor practices carried out on their own, the report stated. Major acheivement this year was the creation of over 900 acres of permanent pastures in the county, Mar declared. "This year has been one of the most successful Carter et county agriculture haa ever wit nessed," he concluded. The report covers ail of 1MB and part of 1950 s program since al most all of the money allotted for 1990 has already been committed Ocracokers Give Governor Royal Welcome to Island State Officials Make Tour Of Inspection. Dine at Hotel Attend Dance By Alice Rondthaler OCRACOKE - Ocracoke Island was honored Wednesday afternoon and evening with a visit from Gov ernor Kerr Scott, Attorney-General Harry McMullan, Highway Commis sioner Henry Jordan, George Ross, head of the Department of Conser vation and Development, Charles Parker, head of the State News Bureau, William B. Snider, H. G. | Shelton and Guy Hargett, division | al highway commissioners, and oth I ers. The officials arrived on the State 1 patrol boat, Hatteras, from Engle , hard, and were met and escorted I from Nine Foot Shoals by the lo cal Coast Gyard vessels. A recep ! tion committee consisting of Theo dore Rondthaler, chairman, Stanley Wahab, Carlton Kelly, Clarence ' Scarborough, and Ben Spencer greeted the party, along with Com manding Officer Henry Peel and the local Coast Guard. A group of school children waved flags and held alolt posters of welcome, and many of the Island citiiens were present on the Navy docks when the Hatteras docked. Governor Scott and his party were taken on a tour of inspec tion of the Island, giving them an opportunity to see road conditions, which was a major reason for the visit. This tour included a brief visit to the U. S. Coast Guard sta tion, to the historic lighthouse, the oldest still in use on the Atlantic coast, and to other points of inter est. At 7 p.m. the State officials were guests of the committee at a dinner at the hotel, after which the Governor addressed citizens of the Island at a meeting in the theatre. Several of the visitors then enjoy ed the old-fashioned square dance at the coffee shop. The official party left yesterday morning for Hatteras, where the j Governor participated in the cere- ' monies at old Hatteras lighthouse. I 40 Jurors Drawn For Civil Court The county board of commission ers drew 40 jurors for December's term of superior court which will hear civil cases. Juron are as follows: Mrs. fHh. Chadwick. I. E. Pittman, Mrs. Sam Adler, Abbott Morris, G. E. San derson. J. W. Whcalton. Andrew English, D. J. Hall, Charles V. Webb, Justin Robinson, and Har vey Hamilton, all of Morehead City. Carl Hatsell, Guy Gillikin RFD 1, Mrs. Mary Tillett, George W. Lewis, George Eastman, Charlie Lewis, C. R. Pate RFD, and Frank L. King, all of Beaufort. Alvin Davis. W. G. Murphy. Wordie Murphy, Davis: William Truckner, Pelletier; James Tosto, Sea Level; Wilbert Goodwin, Con nie Robinson. Atlantic; Stacy W. Davis, Allen Moore, Harkers Is land. J. C. Mundine. C. H. Gamer, L. N. Conner RFD 2, Claude Gar ner, Eugene C. Quinn, B. J. Manit. Newport; Tasman Pigott. L. N. Pi gott, W. R. Stewart. Gloucester; L. A. Murdoch. . T. Murdoch, Wildwood; and Van B. Willis, Mar shall berg. Ckar lis Smith Pays Fiat On Drunkenness Clurf* Charlie Smith pleaded guilty to public drunkenness in Monday's session of Morehead City mayor's court aM4 wis fined $30 and costs. George Brown pleaded guilty to ?Making a U-turn in the middle of the block and' paid the costs of court. A second charge of driving without ? license was transferred to recorder's court. Probable cause was found in the case of L. N. Dupell charged with drunken driving, and his case was sent to recorder's court. Probable st?mng Tine-np Tor Beaufort in to night's game against Richlands, if Beaufort re ceives on the kickoff, will be the players pictured above. They are, left to right, Edgar Cole, right end, Vincent Wright, right tackle, Billy Down um, right guard, Arthur Stafford, center. Ken NEWS-TIMES Photo neth Willis, left guard, Gary Copeland, left tackle, and Clyde Owens, left end. Quarterback directly behind Stafford is Julian Austin. From left to right on the back row are Guy Smith, right half back, Hill Sammons, fullback, and Howard Fod rie, left halfback. Beaufort Adopts Zoning Ordinance Newport Seniors To Present Play, The Adorable Imp Comedy Will Be Given Al School Friday Night, Nov. 18, al 7:30 P. M. The senior class of Newport xchoel will pj-e*"i)t its play Friday night,* Nov 18, at T.30 p. m. in the high school auditorium. Title of the play this year is "The Adorable Imp," a comedy in three acts by Jay Tohias. Mrs. Emma Wade, senior claaa advisor, is di rector of the play, assisted by a student director, Margaret Mur doch. ? In the play a 17 year-old girl has to pose as an 11-year-old because her mother, Pamela, a pretty wi dow, tells a wealthy admirer she is only 29. When Pamela invited an old beau and several of his re latives to her home for the week end, the hilarity begins. Characters arc as follows: Betty Lou Gordon, the imp, Isabel Smith; Hortense Hostetter, Anne Tuttle; Mrs. Abby Simpkins, Iris Cannon; 'Brian Barclay, Eddie Gray; Malvlna Barclay. Anna Ruth Hill; Pamela Gordon, Peggie Anre Thompson. Clint Purdy, Sam Smith; Imo gene Van Ryndon. Betty Jo Hill; Winston Pickrell, Jennings lleilig; Dilworth Pickrell, J. W. Hardinon; and Rosa Waldron, Buck Wooten. Donavee Roberson, clasp report er, invites everyone to "Come see all the women get their men and watch Betty Lou growing wilder by the hour." The zoning ordinance for Beau fort as drawn up and recommend ed by the Beaufort planning board, was officially adopted by Beaufort commissioners at their meeting Monday night in Beaufort town I hall. Prior to Monday night's meet [ ing, Leigh Wilson, zoning expert from the North Carolina League 1 of Municipalities, made a survey of Beaufort and drew up the zon ing plan approved by the town commissioners. Following Wilsons recommenda tions. a public hearing was held in which interested citizens were giv en an opportunity to voice their views. Most of those at the hear ing agreed with what was plan ned; therefore the ordinance was approved by the commissioners. Commissioners also voted a let ter of thanks to the planning board ; and its chairman, Dr. W. L. Wood ard. for the excellent work done in behalf of the town. Commissioner Resigns Commissioner Orville Gaskill, who was appointed recently to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Wiley Taylor, Jr., submitted his resignation by letter to the town board. Gaskill's letter stated that the press of private affairs was too great to allow him to have time for fulfilling the duties of commission er. No other appointment was made. Tire group discussed means of improving Broad street between Turner and Moore. Finally it was decided to grade the street from the gutter up to the railroad track and fill in low places with marl and gravel. The possibility of having the state take some part in improve ment was also brought up. The board contemplated making the street a truck lane from Moore street to Live Oak street, thereby gaining the help of the state in Sec BEAUFORT ADOPTS Page 6 Beaufort Contractor Submits Low Bid on Colored School Raymond Ransom of Beaufort was the lowest bidder on general contracting for the new Morehcad City colored school. His bid was $88,280.00. Bids were opened Mon day afternoon at the regular meet ing of the connty board of educa tion. Low bidder on installation of the heating system was C. L. Russ. Greenville. $9,642; plumbing. L. R. Wensil Co.. Concord. $5,129; electrical installations. Hub Elec tric co., New Bern. $2,000. State Must Act Following approval from the State Board of Education, con tracts will be let to the above, stated H. L. Joalyn, superintendent of the county achool system. The new building, to be con structed between 16th and 17th streets and Fisher and Bay, More head City, will be one story high. Plana call for 10 classrooms, a book room, main office, and lavatories. Many Bids Received Mr. Joslyn said the. board was satisfied that a large number of bids had been received on the building. Eleven came in from general contractors, eight on heat ing, U on ftumbing, and nine oo electrics) work. This will be the se*ond school building on whkb construction has started this yaar. A achool for white children U being built ?t At lantic CHOP Collections WiU Be Made at Church Snnday Churchgoers throughout the county and in the towns will nuke their annual contributions to the Christian Rural Overseas Program Sunday at their church es. Gifts of money and canned goods, preferably canned milk or canned meat, will be collect ed at a central CROP point from which they will then be sent overseas to aid indigent fami lies. 4-H club members have been canvassing homes for donations as have members of home de monstrations clubs and the coun ty Farm Bureau. CROP chair man B. J. Nay declared foday that if each family would donate to the drive he was sure the county goal of one carload of mixed commodities would be reached. Bill Kelly Visits Bill Kelly, forestry extension specialist for 16 eastern North Ca rolina counties, is spending three days in the county giving demon stritions on reforestation to 4-H Cluli members. Motorist Pays $25 Fine. Receives Road Sentence Case Against Young Colored Boy Remanded to Juve nile Court John Berry Kaper. Cherry Point Marine, was found guilty o( speed ing and passing on a curve, re sulting in an accident, and sen tenced to six months on the roads in Tuesday's session of record's court, Beaufort. Sentence in the c?sc was sus pended on condition Raper pay a $25 fine, court costs, and for re pairs to the car 61 Manly Smith, cost of the repairs not to exceed $300. Caused Accident Charges were made in the case as the result of an accident Sun day night on the Marker's Island road. Raper was reported as head ing west and when he attempted to pass another car struck Smith's car \rtiich had stopped to avoid an accidcnt. Raper and a Marine companion received slight injuries and Fan ny Doris Lewis of Harker's Island, riding in the same car, was in jured and hospitalized. KeVmit (Chubby) Long nnd Ma rion D. Smith both pleaded guilty to using loud, boisterous and pro fane language in a public place and refusing to leave when so ordered. Each was fined costs and $10. Pleas Guilty A plea of guilty was entered in the case of David Vann, charged with assaulting a minor, William Jordan, shaking him, shoving him over a seat and tearing his sweat er, and he paid costs. The case against a youflfc colored boy, charg ed with assaulting a minor with a deadly weapon, was remanded to juvenile court. The case against Robert Hill, charged with trespass, removing and destroying property, was dis missed as was the charge against Grace Taylor Gaylette of assaulting the affiant and striking her with her fists. Most of the court's time was taken up with cases involving vio lations of the motor vehicles code. Fined $1M L. N. Dupell pleaded guilty to drunken driving and wap fined $100 and the costs. Jack T. Poag was charged with the same offense but See MOTORIST PAYS P?ge < Book Walk to Bo Oksorvod Noxi Wook al Civic Confer Book Week will be observed next week at the Webb Memorial Civic center, Mofehead City, In the child ren's room. Children and their par ents are invited to visit all week from 9:30 until noon and 2 until 5. sUtes Mrs. E- A. Council, librar ian. There will be special book dis plays and two (octal programs dur ing the week. The room's appear ance has been improved by the re cent addition of four paintings. A record player has also been placed there. Assisting Mrs. Council In next week's open house program la Mrs. George McNeill. VrW Will Sell Poppies In Beaufort, Morehead Ruddy Poppies will go on sale in Beaufort and Morehead City to day and tomorrow, it was derid ed at the meeting of Jones Ailv . tin post of the Veterans of Fo reign Wars Tuesday night in its downtown Beaufort club rooms. The VI'W auxiliary is expected to assist in the sale and it is also hoped that Boy Scouts will be able to help. Money obtained will be used to aid disabled ve terans in Veterans Administra tion hospitals. Slogan for the sale Is "Honor Ui> dead by .h Ip ing the living." Mayor Lawrence W. Hassell of Beaufort, only Spanish-Ame rican war veteran in the Jones Austin post, was presented with a check at the meeting to help pay for his expenses last month when he attended the Spanish American war veterans conven tion in Tampa, Fla. Fire Burns Home, Lone Inhabitant Charles Davis, 24, of Morehead City received painful second de gree burns on his face, arms and legs Tuesday afternoon in a fire that gutted the interior of his mother's home in the 1000 block of Fisher street. Firemen were summoned at 3:30 p.m. to find the interior of Mrs. Pearl Davis's five-room home aflame from stem to stern. Four of the five rooms were on fire with dense smoke filling the house and pouring from its windows. Only one room escaped the fire and when firemen broke its win dows they found Davis stretched out on his bed, suffocated from the smoke. Firemen reported that See FIRE BURNS Page 6 What Will They Leave Him Next? "You never can tell what they're going to leave next!" George Baer at the newsstand on Front street, Beaufort, is now scratching his head over his latest possession - acquired not by any desire on his part. "Some lady left it," he ex plains. A little brown bag contain ing a handkerchief and a jar of ar rid. "A couple of years ago a lady left a dress here. She never came back for it and after a long time I gave it to our colored maid, and it just fit her!" Mr. Baer's stories about forget ful customers are endless. "They forget to take their magazines, their newspapers and other things they have already paid for - but in most cases I catch them before they ? get too far away." "Sometimes 1 get busy with another cutomer snd don't notice that they leave packages. One time a woman left a whole bag of shell ed butter beans. In a couple of days they turned black. Here a winter or so ago, a man left seven or eight pounds of meat. Another time a lady left two skeins of new yarn. There's one thing Mr. Baer's cus tomers don't forget though. And that's to pick up their change. Beaufort high school will make history tonight as it fields a football team for the first time since pre-war j days. At 8 o'clock Richlands high and the local pigskin eleven will lock horns on the gridiron, Wade Brother* Park, Morehead City. The Beaufort team has more than four weeks of hard practice behind it and is in fine shape to meet its first opponent. Operating from a spit-T formation, the Sea Dogs have shown most of their power to be on the ground and use their aerial play sparingly. Austin Calls Plays Julian Austin, offensive quarterback, calls plays on of fense while Bill Sammons calls them on defense. Bud Fodrie's strong toe is expected to provide nlentv of insiir ance to get the team out of tight spots. His booting has been ex ceptional thus far, Coach T. H. Mc Quaid remarked. The Sea Dogs' defense will offer Richlands plenty of difficulty. A complete defensive team, with the exception of Bill Sammons who plays fullback on both offense and defense, stands ready to hold the line. Bert Brooks holds down left end on defense, with Julian Piver, left tackle, Gordon Hardesty, left guard, Robert Thompson, center, Charles Owens, right guard, James Smith, right tackle, and Ivey Ma son. right end. Billy Eudy leads off the defen sive backfield as quarterback. Jim my Fodrie and B. G. O'Neal play left and right half, respectively, and Sammons fills in as defensive | fullback. Dickie Dickinson is also used as substitute center. (See pic I ture page 1 for team on offense). | The team s defensive formation I will be a 5-3-2-1 setup which the coach thinks can best stop Rich lands' type T>f offense. Richlands New Too Richlands' team is also in its first year of play, Coach O'Connor reports. Football practice was not begun until three weeks after school started and consequently the team was eaught short when competition began. Richlands has See BEAUFORT MEETS Pa?e S Jaycees Enter Two Floats In Parade Today Morehead City Jaycecs will en ter two floats in the Armistice pa rade today, it was announced at the Monday night Jaycec meeting In the Fort MacoA-J>oUl dining room ? *? Chairman Warren Beck o I the float committee explained tint the Jaycee-aponsored Boy Scouti would have a float enteir .l and also the Jaycees would enter a float pub licizing the Jaycee theatrical "Then, I^ater and Now" to be put 011 Dec. 2. School Lunches It was disclosed that Elks have taken care of paying for the school lunches of three Morehead City children that Jaycees had previous ly been financing. Rotarians also are paying for another child Jay cees had been sponsoring on a temporary basis the Junior Cham ber is now paying for the luncb of one child. An appeal was made to the group to pay for the lunch of school children at Camp Glenn. It was revealed that 20 youngsters cannot afford to cat at school. The recommendation was taken under advismcnt. Action was withheld until next week. Brace Goodwin observed that little interest had been shown In the proposed community band and disclosed that a band meeting would be held next Wednesday. All those interested were urged to attend. Committee Appointed Warren Beck. Bob Lowe and Jimmy Wallace were appointed to work with merchants on Christ mas decorations. Decision on what part Jaycees should take in decora ting was withheld until the next board of directors meeting. Following the business meeting Or. L. A. Taylor, executive secre tary of the Wilmington Presbytefy of the Presbyterian church, spoke on spiritual revitalization among men and nations. Jaycees will meet Monday at the Morehead City Technical institute ; to Inspect institute facilities. Guests for Monday's meeting wera , Mac McKinney, Charles Lee Pries and Cpl. Bill Clagen of the State 4 Highway Patrol. Jack Styrop'a ! name was drawn for the 15 jackpot but since he was not present the money was retained until the next drawing. Tide Table ?? (Tides St Beaufort Bar) HIGH LOW | 5:04 a.SL I Friday, Nov. 11 11:37 a.m. 12 midnight 6:08 pjE, 1 Saturday, Nov. ?