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?-Sr CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??lj A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (E.Ubli.hed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (EtUblUhed 1936) 88th YEAR. NO. 90 FOUR SECTIONS? 24 PAGES MOREHEAD CITY aND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Jaycee Delegates Report on Meeting Members Meet Monday at Morehead City Technical Institute Morehead City Jayeees spent most of their Monday night meet ing at the Morehead City Techni cal institute discussing results of the North Carolina Jaycee quar terly board meeting held in Wins ton-Salem over the weekend. Delegates reported that the main item of discussion was over whe ther the state organization should , retain ite franchise to stage the Miss North Carolina contest each year. Finally after much argument at the Winston-Salem meeting, it was reported, the state organization agreed to sponsor the contest one more, year and then come to a de cision about sponsoring it perma ntntly. As soon as this decision was ? reached Morehead City delegates entered a bid for the contest to be held here again next year, but it was voted to have the pageant at Wilmington. Delegates to the meeting from Morehead City were H. S. Gibbs, Jr., Walter Morris, Kenneth Wag ner, J. R. Sanders, Bob Lowe and Ethan Davis, Jr. Jimmy Wallace announced that casting had been completed on the j Jaycee show, "Then, Later, and Now ' to be staged Dec. 2, and an nounced dates for rehearsal. Jayeees continued their discus sion of what part they should play in decorating downtown Morefhead City for Christmas. No decision 1 was reached. The men were guests at the In stitute at the invitation of director James I. Mason. Following din , ner they were taken on a tour of tha Institute's shops and class rooms and were told of the work being carried on there. One new member, Cpl. Bill Cla gen of the State Highway patrol, < was welcomed into the club. Hart Orchestra To Play Nev. 24 At Surf (M Konnle Hart and his orchestra will play for the dance Thanks giving night, Nov. 24, at the Surf ; club. Atlantic Beach. 1 Dancing will be 'from 9 until 1 and advance sale of tickets is in process now at Beaufort stores. , The dance is being sponsored by the Beaufort Parent-Teacher asso- , ciation. At intermission there will be a floor show staged and directed by Mrs. Grayden Paul. Tickets pur chased at the door will be slightly , .higher in price than those available now gj Beaufort stores, the dance committee states. Ronnie Hart has been featured with the Bunny Berigan and Del Casiiy) bands. Came the war and he discontinued his musical work temporarily and volunteered for the iijfaqtry. Jn -the first campaign of the Pacific, he was wounded on the island of Buna and was sent to the Army hospital at Tuscaloo sa, Ala. While recuperating, he was asked to appear with the fa , mous <337tt> Service .Forces band, which was composed of the top name musicians of the nation. They played the country's foremost theaters including the Capitol Theater, New York City, and Ra dio City Music fiall. Upon release from the service, Ronnie became front man and fea tured entertainer with the well known Dave Townsend orchestra ' playing top spots in the mid-west. He developed a large following, then formed his own outfit and rontinued to plesee the dancing public, in that territory until bis recent introduction to the South. PMA Committeemen Will Be Elected December 15 County and community Produc tion Marketing administration com mitteemen will be elected Dec. IS, B. J. May, county PMA- adminis trator. announced today. At that time 15 regular and 10 alternate community committee men will be elected and also five delegates to the .county conven tions. The following day these live delegates will elect three regular ) and two alternate county commit teemen None of the delegates will be eligible to become a county \ommittman. Nominating meetings will be i held in each community to select committeemen and delegates. Bal lots will be furnished each com munity. Time and place of the elections and pollholders .will be announ ced later, Hay declared. [Havin' Fun in a Cabaret Beaufort's rival of the French Follies Bergere, "Cabaret de Beaufort," opens tonight in a blaze of glory ? ith the cast of over 50 male chorus girls and celebrities set to deliver a masterful perform ance, sparked by the inimitable piano renditions of A1 Hazel Scott Dewey. Tickets for the show have sold like wildfire, it is reported, but a few | choice seais are still (eft. Tickets will not be sold i beyond auditorium capacity, but the audience has i been urged to arrive early for the show. Pictured above from left to right are four Zieg field girls, Fannie Winifred Heslep, Daniella | Walker, Rufussia Sewell, and Georgia Eastman. I I'hoto by Roy Eubanks Newly-Formed 4-H Club Council Will Meel Tomorrow The first official meeting of the Carteret county 4-H club council ; will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the home agent's of fice, Beaufort court house annex, assistant county agent Al. W. Stin son announced today. At that time discussions of par liamentary procedure, programs for the coming months, ways of i raising money, the 4-H bond sale, ! CHOI' collections, and election of i officers wilt take place. The county council is the official policy-making body for clubs in the county and is of great help to 4-H agents in planning the club % elective officers of each of the nine clubs in the county. Names of officers of each club in order of president, vice-presi dent, secretary and reporter follow. Atlantic junior club: Veda Mae Styron, Carlton Willis, Mildred Ha milton and Christopher Salter. At lantic senior club: Lillian Marie Morris, James Gillikin, Rebecca Salter and Calvin Lupton. Smyrna junior club: Ruth Wade, Tommy Willis, Barbara Hancock and Royce Pake. Smyrna senior club: Ava Lee Alligood, James Arthur, Ruth Ester Wooten and Jimmy Piner. Newport junior club: Etta Mozingo. Ronnie Garner, La vonne Mann and Jerry Smith. New port scniqr club: Ann Mozingo. .Do nald Schoppaul, Jackie Edwards and James Millis. Camp Glenn junior club: Norma Sally Swinson, Jerry Garner, Iona Salter and Eugene Lockhart. More head City: Marlenc Kittrcll, Bob by Oglesby, Judy Perry and Ha rold Deibert. Beaufort: Mary Olive Martin, Clifton Cox. Shirley Tay lor and Cedric Beacham. State College Alumni to Meet W. H. Taylor, executive director of the State College Alumni asso ciation. and Dr. Roy Lovvorn. pas ture research ' specialist, will be guest speakers at a meeting Tues day night at 8 o'clock in the court house. R. M. Williams, secretary of the County Alumni club, invites all Carteret county farmers, busi ness men, and State college alumni to attend this meeting. Dr. Lovvorn will talk on pas tures and show a series of color slides which he made while doing pasture research work in HoUahd during the past summer. Dr. Lov vorn is a capable and interesting speaker in his chosen field of work, declared Mr. Williams. In order to promote a better balanced agricultural program Mre in Car teret county, we are endeavoring to increase the acreage of good quality pastures just as rapidly as possible, he added. Around seven hundred acres of permanent pastures have been seeded in Carteret county this fall. "Before the county livestock program can properly balance it self with that 'of cash crops, we must first produce an ample sup ply of home grown feed. Perma nent paatures and other supple mentary grazing crops will furnish the cheapest source of livestock faad," commented the farm agent. County, Slate Officers Raid Edgewaler Hotel Thirteen countv and state of ficers raided the Edgewater ho tel, Morehead City, Saturday night, acting on the belief, it was reported that the place was a bootlegging headquarters. The search from top to bottom of the hotel, located on If. 11th St., yielded nothing, police said. Lost Items Pile Up With Police Morehead City police found themselves cast in the role of a lost and found department this week with various objects tossed on their doorsteps for the owner to claim. Robert E. Smith, Crab Point youth, nominated himself for the Hall of Fame when he turned over a woman's pocketbook containing j $9.01 to police after finding it in 1 White's Dairy Sunday. Inside the pocketbook was the \ name of Mrs. Paul D. Cooke, Dur ham. Police attempted to contact J her but still had not heard from her yesterday. A Thurston Motor Lines truck passed through town last week, leaving in its wake two boxes lying on the street. Larger of the two boxes contain* ed tricycle which was turned over to its intended owner, Gibbie San derson. The other box contained, cans of french fried potatoes which were later claimed by their owner, Tnaron O. Peacock of Morehead City. Also turned over to police was a ? Merchant Mariner's Registration : document issued by the Coast Guard to Eugene Barber of Apa lachicola, Fla. Serial number of the document is Z-775885. Owners of the lost articles may claim them by identifying them at | the police station, police say. Mayor G. W. Dill Sends Throe Cases to Recorder { Probable cause was found in | three cases before Mayor George W. Dill, Jr., in Morehead City may or's court Monday and all three defendants were bound over to re-' corder's court in Beaufort. Charge against Henry Jones was assault with a deadly weapon, a I bottle, on Willard Bryant. Willie Moore was charged with driving I without a license and driving with I improper brakes. i Lawrence Spock, Cberry Point Marine, was charged with hit and run. The bond of Frank Raymond! charged with public drunkenness, was forfeited when he failed to ap pear. Fin Acres Timber Near Smyrna Run Tuesday Five acres of merchantable tim ber near Smyrna, owned by W. L. Smith burned Tuesday afternoon. E. M. Foreman, county fire ward en said he was notified of the fire at 3 p.m. and estimated that it started at about 2. Cause of tte blaze has not been determined. Mr. Foreman and his crew used fire swatters to extinguish the flam*. Deep Creek Co. Lets Contract For Drain Ditch The Sherrill Construction com pany, Jackson. N. t\, received the j contract for digging of the Peep j Creek drainage canal in the vicini- 1 w; low- 1 e.-t of rtvi-vids opined /^ue*tfay. ac cording to John B. Kelly, president of the Deep Creek Canal company. Construction is expected to start within 10 days. The contractor will use two draglines, a bull dozer and local labor for cutting the right of way. The work is expectcd to be completed within three months. R. E. Dailey. Goldsboro, soil con seravtion drainage engineer, has been placed in charge of the work, Mr. Kelly reported. Members of the Deep Creek Ca nal company, whose land will be drained indirectly benefited by the ditch are the following: J. S. Garner, D. W. Garner, C. L. Lockcy, James Kelly, John B. Kelly, G. L. Lockey, Leo Gardner, W. D. West, Mrs. Sally Garner, W. R. Mann, Mrs. W. B. Garner. C. S. Garner. S. D. Edwards, C. E. Millis. Clarence Millis, F. G. Ogles! y, J. R. Garner, Dan W. Gar ner, Samuel Pollard, D. F. Garner, Ellie Elliott, George Franks, II. E. Mann, R. h Mann. Lyda Garner, Lena Roberts. Mag gie Lee Gar.ief, Annie Mann, C. E. Simmons. I). C. Garner, G. L. Mapn. Harry D. Lockey. C. S. Long. W. E. Roberts. C. 11. Lock cy, Robert Oakley, M. C. Howard, and G. L. McCain. Mr. McCain is secretary -treasur er of the company A&EC President Makes Plea to Town Board to Withdraw Railroad Protest Alleged Liquor Law Violators Put Under Arrest Authorities of both Carteret and Craven counties made arrests early this week churning poisons with violation of the liquor law. Calvin Godette, Jr., colored. North llarlowe was apprehended at 10:30 Monday night in Beaufort and charged with possessing a small quantity of non tax paid li quor. Leslie D. Norrisj, Beaufort route 1, and Mrs. Helen Lane Ful ford, Morehcad City, were appre hended at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon on ruotc 101 near the Core Creek bridge by ABC Officer Marshall Ayscue and Deputy Sheriff Mur ray Thomas. Norris was charged with trans porting non tax-paid liquor and Mrs. Kulford with aiding and abet ting. Visiting the North Harlowe sec tion of Craven county Monday aft ernoon. Craven county officers found 42 1/2 gallons of non-tax paid liquor in the home of two colored residents. Thirty-one gal lons wore found in the home of Carl Brimmage. and 11 1/2 gal Ions in the home of Harry Spar row. The two men were permit ted fo give bond for a hearing in Craven county recorder's court on Dec. 3. Officers taking part in the raid on the two homes were N. B. Lee and .1. K Clay. Craven county al eohol beverage control officers, and E. A. Bennett, federal alcohol tax unit officer. District Governor Visits Rotarians If. A. "Ham" Marks of Wilming ton governor of Rotary district 279, addressed Beaufort Rotarians at their meeting Tuesday night in the Inlet Inn dining room. Marks made a plea that the club live up to the high ethics of Ro tary in the members' business life. He said club members should try to practice the Rotary motto of "Service Above Self1' throughout their daily lives . Following the regular meeting, a club review session was held in which matters of general adminis- j tration including attendance, mem- i bership, classification, community service and finances were discuss ed. Committee chairman also re ported on work being done by their committees. Visitors were Gardner Greer of Wilmington, C. Z. Chappell, Ge rald Hill, Ray Ransom, Rev. and Mrs. W. Y. Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. Grayden Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Paul also furnished music for the meeting. Mr. Marks did not make his sche duled appearance at the Morchead City Rotary club last week. He met with them last night. Medical Society Makes Formal Protest on Nurses Bill 1543 The (Jprtcrst Counly medical so ciety went on record at it* Monday night meeting at the Morehcad Ci ty hospital as opposing United States Senate bill 1543 which the group was told would be the next step toward socialization of medi cine. Mrs. Alton Clapp of Greenville, president of the 8th district, North Carolina Nurses association ap peared before the group and out lined the bill which was recently approved by the Senate. She said the bill, which is design ed to regulate nurse training, was not in the best interest of the pub lic1' or the nursing profession and emphasized that if the federal gov menl got control of the nursing profession its next step would be the socialization of medicine. Mrs. Clapp stated that if this I bill were adopted there would be no more registered nurses as the public knows them today but. two groups of nurses, one supervisory and the other practical nuraes. Supervisory nurses would be re quired to have a college degree [before entering training and would 4e only supervisory work rather inn nursing as it is known today. Practical nurses would do other menial (asks, the speaker declared. Only hospitals with a daily en i leUaent erf over*JOU wines would ? be allowed to train supervisory nurses, Mrs. Clapp explained. All other nursing schools, and in North Carolina only two schools have as many as 200 nurses enroll ed, would be relegated to the job of training practical nurses. After hearing Mi's. Clapp's ex planation the socicty voted to op pose the bill. A resolution of respect in the j death of Dr. Leslie Lee. Kinston, was passed. Dr. F. E. Hyde, pre sident of the local society, presid ed. Tide Table (Tides at Beaufort Bar) HIGH LOW Friday, Nov. . IS 6:11 a.m. 12 noon 6:32 p.m. 12:35 p.m. Saturday, Nov. It 7:03 a.m. 12:37 a.m. 7:24 p.m. ~ 1:28 pjp. Suaday, Nov. 20 7.54 a.m. 1:26 a.m. 8:15 p.m. ' 2:21 p.m. Monday, Not. 21 8:45 a.m. 2:15 a.m. 9:04 p.m. 3:12 p.m. TwAay, Nav. 22 9:34 a.m. * 3:04 a.m. ??4 p.m. 4:01 pJn. A plea to "treat the railroad, one of Morehead City's I best friends, right" was heard by Morehead City com ; missioners at their meeting Tuesday night in the munici i pal building. E. R. Buchan, president of the Atlantic and East Carolina , railroad, appeared to say that he had heard that the town ! board ws protesting the A & EC's request to (he State Uti lities commission that the railroad be allowed to discontinue passen ger service between Goldsboro and Morehead City, the railroad's only line. ?No Profit' Buchan quoted various figures to show that his line was not mak ing money on its passeger service. He concluded by asking the town not to do anything to hurt the rail I road. After Mayor George W. Dill, Jr., and members of the board ques tioned the railroad president he departed. Following his departure, com missioners discussed his talk. He i told them that with one exception, j at La Grange, there had been no ! other objections. The town board j decided to check with authorities in Kinston, New Bern and Golds | horo on their reaction to the line's i discontinuance of passenger ser j vice. General opinion of the group ; seemed to be that once the rail road discontinued any of its ser , vices the town would have a dif ficult lime having them restored, j regardless of the circumstances. An example was cited where it was claimed that the railroad had act ed to the detriment of the town in order to keep trucking business ( out of Morehead City. K. W. Prest Appears K. W. Prest appeared before the I board to request its approval of a street plan drawn up for the , George Huntley property on Crab) Point. This property was recently i annexed to the town. He said he | would like the board to request j ! Tide Water Power company to ip- j i stall a fire hydrant there. Mr. Prest said 98 lots had been j laid out with room left for future , development. Present plans call > j tor btfijjjinK five houses there, he j I revetted. The group agreed to accept the I i plan and request installation of a | hydrant. It suggested that a more ! detailed blueprint be submitted with probable locations of water mains and sidewalk locations. Statutes Investigated Mayor Dill stated that after town attorney George McNeill had in vestigated existing statutes, he had found "ie town's laws governing taxicah operation to be hazy. He said Mr. McNeill was drafting a taxi law which would come up for discussion and possible adoption latcf. Commissioner D. G. Bell explain ed that under state law the town See A&EC. Page 7 PTA Members See Skit Monday Night In observance of National Book Week, in its 31st year, Mrs. J. W. Lollis, librarian, directed a skit, "Give The Book A Chance," at the Morchead City ITA meeting Mon day night. Taking part in the skit were Doris Grantham as Miss Hill, Clif-, ton ?teed as Jack. Billy McClain as Tom, Douglas King as Homer Price. Mary Eaton as Mrs. Price, Suzanne Land as Matitia, Joanne Wickiaer as Ruth. Perry Gorham as Ronald. Elbert Pittman as Gor don. Toby Guthrie as Stacy, and Tommy Wetherington as the radio announcer. Mr*. Delfido Cordova reported that there are still needy children for whom some person or organ ization may provide lunch money. Principal G. T. Windell announ ced that there would be no school Thursday and Friday of next week because of Thanksgiving. School will close Dec. 20 at noon for the Christmas holiday. He also report ed that the giant stride for the playground, and the bicycle rack, ordered early in the school year, were here and being used. Two clatses reported 100 per cent parent membership in the PTA. Mrs. Ethel Holloway's third trade, and Mrs. Charles B. Wade's fourth and fifth grades. Banners for the largest percent age of parents attending the PTA went to Mrs. James I. Mason's first grade. Mrs. C. B. Wade's fourth and fifth grades and Mrs. Lollis' eleventh grade-. Mr*. George McNeill, vice-presi dent. presided in the absence of A. B. Cooper, president. Veteran* Get Bonus New York state voters last week approved the amendment to the state constitution authorizing bonus payments to New Yprk veterans outside New York state. Newport Nan Honored M. G. Mann of Raleigh, a na tivc of Newport, and general inan- ; ager of Farmers Cooperative Ex \ change and the North Carolina Cot- ; ton Growers Cooperative, was hon- ; ored at the recent meeting of the North Carolina Agriculture Foun- j dation Inc., at State college. A professorship, known as the \ "Manly G. Mann Professorship in Agriculture Economics," was es-! tablishcd at the college in honor of! Mann t>y the FCX board of dircc-j tors, and was made possible by a, $25,000 contribution by the FCX to the foundation, and the fellowship j is to be financed by a $30,000 fund j in the foundation which the Grange is now raising. New State Boat Docks Monday The newest unit of the state fleet j arrived at Morehead City at 7 o' clock Monday night. The 110-foot government - built submarine chas er. which will be overhauled and outfitted to replace the Hattcras. 1 was towed to the commercial fish eries dock, Camp Glenn, from New Orleans. The vessel, named the "Ensign ! Ilerstan," was purchased by the state for $17,000 and towed here by the Diesel Corporation at a cost of $2,500. A name for the new possession has not yet been selected, neither has the crew, stated Capt. John Nel son, commercial fisheries commiss ioner. The state fleet now operating consists of the Hattcras, Cape Fear. Croatan, Albemarle, Ocracoke, and Nouse. Captain of the Hattcras is Capt. Louis Ed Willis, Smyrna. Engineer: is Dave Moore. Marshallberg, and George Thomas, Beaufort RED, is cook. Skipper of the Cape Fear is Capt. Roy Brown, Marshallberg. with Stanley Golden, Marsh.illberg, as cook. Both the Hatteras and Cape Fear are baaed at Morehead City. Aboard^ the Croatan are Capt. Tom Basknfght who is assistant fisheries commisioncr and'Bill Eth eridge, cook. The Croatan is sta tioned at Mantco. Both crew mem bers live it Manteo. Skipper of the Albemarle, based at Edenton, is Capt. C. W. Ilaymnn Edenton. and William Shaw, cook, Edenton. Captain of the Ocracoke, berthed at Swanquarter, ia Claud Sawyer of Swanquarter, and Merle Jones, cook, who lives at SwanquarU-r Skipper of the Neusc, at New Bern, I ia Ernest Foston, New Bern. Mia* Carl tret County Mm Niki Trenion Visit Nine Carteret county bankers and agriculturists were guests of Ihe Federal Reserve Bank, Rich mond and the North Carolina Agri culture Bankers committee at Trenton, Wednesday. They were taken on a tour of a farm where they observed good management practices and were entertained at dinner. Men attend ing from this county were Neal C'ampen. R. M. Williams. B. J. May. James Davis, I. E. Pittman, Floyd Garner. Roy Garner. C. S. Long. James Murdoch, and Ennon O. Mann. Counties represented were Cart- i cret. Craven, Duplin, Jones, Len oir. Onslow, Pamlico, Sam^aon, : and Warm- 1 Sailor Drifts Five Days at Sea Three Fishermen Rescue Archibald Yow at Ma son's Inlet Archibald Yow, 23 -year-old Hen derson sailor who drifted five days off the Atlantic coast before being rescued by three fishermen at Ma son's Inlet early Monday, rested at Wilmington this week as he con templated continuing his voyage southward. Yow, staying at the Cape Fear Yacht Basin on Middle Sound, said he suffered no ill effects from his experience in battling high seas in his 24-foot homemade sailboat, The Elysia. Craft Damaged The small craft sustained some damage from the pounding seas and high winds, however. Towed to the yacht basin, preliminary ex amination showed she was leaking badly and the mast may be weak ened from excessive strain. Yow, a student at the Univer sity of North Carolina who is on vacation between terms, said he in tended sailing The Elysia down the Inland Waterway to Southport. There he may take her out of the water, make permanent repairs and continue southward. Yow set out from Morehead City last Wednesday with sufficient food and water aboard for a short s?*il toward Swansboro. (A story on the red-haired sailor and his boat appeared several weeks ago in THE NEWS- TIMES). He had no watch, compass or charts aboard. There was little wind when darkness fell and he went to sleep. Later he was awakened by the sound of a pounding surf and he headed ba^k to sea. When he awoke again, he was out of ?fcht of land. Not knowing what time rt was or where he was, he waited for night to sail by the stars. However, a strong north west wind drove him across the Gulf Stream. Wind Hinders He tried to make the coast again but the wind drove him back. For the next two days he was becalm ed in the Gulf Stream. Once he sighted a freighter but his efforts to attract attention failed. "Sunday morning about 8 o'clock, I saw a faint ripple on the water which, in a few hours, grew into a heavy gale. I knew this was my chance. I set a westerly course and sailed about the fastest I've ever gone in The Elysia. At about 10 p.m. I saw a glow of a city in the west and headed towards it. Waves were washing over the boat and I was afraid she would sink anytime." Sees Fishermen Nearing shore north of Wrights villc Beach early Monday morn* ing, Yow sought to attract the at tention of the three fishermen ? Buddy Benson, Johnny Vollers and A. C. Smith, of Wilmington ? but they did not see him. Taking to a seven-foot dinghy! he rowed in to the surf and capsized near the beach. The fishermen then noticed him in the water, rushed to his aid and brought him to land. Later, a motor boat put out from Wrightsvillc Sound and towed The Elysia to the Cape Fear Yacht Ba sin. The skiff was also recovered. Yow estimates that he drifted and sailed approximately 250 miles during the five days. New Public Health Nona To Take Six-Week Coarse Mrs. Leonard Lewis, public health nurse newly-employed by the Carteret county health depart ment. will leave Monday for a six weeks orientation coursc with the Durham county health department, Durham. Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county health officer, reported to day. Dr. Ennett stated thit the Stat* Board of Health requires all nurs es without public health training to take this six-weeks public health orientation coursc. lie concluded that at least six weeks public health training wai required of any nurse before she could be employed permanently. Schools to Close Nor. 24. Mot. 25 for Thaaksfivat Schools in Carteret county be closed Thanksgiving day the next day. Nov. 24 and 25. coun ty superintendent of school* U. L. Joslyn announced today. School* will open a* usual following Monday, Nov. 30.