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S CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES S A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NE^yS (E.tabli.hed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (EtUbluhed 1936) 88th YEAR, NO. 92 EIGHTEEN PAGES . MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS 4 Churches Observe IMsping Morehead City Congrega tions Combine; Beaufort J Services Scheduled Beaufort and Morehead C/ty churches will conduct special Thanksgiving services. The congregations of Morehead City will unite for a service at 8:30 Thanksgiving morning in the audit orium of the high school. The combined choirs will be under the direction of Ralph Wade and the Rev. Priestly Conyers will preach. Other pastors wiU assist ifl the ser vice. The union service last year was held ip the Franklin Mem orial Methodist church, but be cause of the large crowds was transferred this year to the school auditorium. At 9 a.m. members of Ann Street Methodist church. Beaufort, will gather for Thanksgiving worship and at 10 a.m. there will be a ser ' vice in St. Paul's Episcopal church, Beaufort. A 10-day revival is in progress in the First Baptist church, Beaufort, coiducted by the Rev. J. Clyde Yates of Charlotte. The service Thanksgiving night will begin at 7 p.m. as usual. The revival will end next Wednesday night. > 29 Attend Eye Clinic Tuesday Twenty-nine children attended the eye clinic conducted ,by the health department Tuesday. Glass es were prescribed for 27, five of whom require operations also. [ One child was treated medically but no glasses prescribed, and none were prescribed for another child who was sub-normal mentally. Eye specialist was Or. J. B. Hawes of Washington, N. C. Dr. Hawes commented that he had never held a clinic in which there were * greater percentage of "feaiU ive cases. Dr. N. Thomas En nett," health officer, said that h< hopes to schedule another clinic (or January. Children who attend are request ed to do so by health department personnel. The Clinics are conduc ted in cooperation with the State Blind commission, the welfare de partment, education board, and the health department. Assisting oi Tuesday were Miss Amy Muse and Mrs. H. F. Pry therch, Beaufort. Boat Will Bring Santa Into Beaufort Dec . 7 A nuge crowa is cxpeciea 10 ne on hand Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 7, when Santa Claus will ar rive in Beaufort aboard the good ship Mistletoe to pass out gifts to the children and open Beaufort's Christmas shopping season, i Santa has sent word that ! he will arrive from the North Hole via the Inland Water way that afternoon at 4 o'clock. Upon arrival he will pass out gifts to children who have letters to give him. Following Santa's arrival a big parade with band and floats will pus Down Front street. Last year over 5,000 persons witnessed the Santa Claus parade. Santa also sent word that each Saturday after his Dec. 7 visit he will be on 'Front street to talk to the children and' find out what they want f6r Christmas. He will be downtoWn every day the week before Christmas. Chamber of Commerce Business Takes on Foul Odor m _ .k...) ? Firemen Answer Call to AandP The old adage, "Where there's smoke, there's -fire" fortunately proved erroneous Tuesday night, according to Beaufort firemen. Night policeman Carlton Garner was making his nunds at 10:45 Tuesday night when he noticed a considerable amount of smoke V inside- the A and P store on Front "'?treet. Firemen who were summoned found the interior of the store full of smoke but no evidence of fire. Finally they located the aource of all the trouble, the store's gas heat er. A relief valve on the heater had become stuck and smoke which should have gone out of the flue ' was being blown into the store. All that was needed to solve the ^ situation was to adjust the valve and ventilate the store, accordin| to Edmund Rhuc and Roma Willia, engineers. No damage was done other than by smoke. Firemen returned to the atation in a halt hour. ' Thousands Visit State Parts, helming (facta North Carolina's state parks drew a total of 068.918 visitors from Jan.l to Sept 30, 1949, ac cording to Tom Morse, director of tbe parks division of the depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment. Of this number. 86.413 visited Fort Macon at Beaufort Inlet, 1 where out - of . state visitors pre ' dominated. Scaffolding Damaged The high winds Wednesday night Played havoc with the scaffolding around tbe First Methodist church steeple now being constructed on rE, "JUL Horehead <*y. Tfce. scaffolding had to.be tarn down. Uicrc Wd? a uciiimc oijren ouuui the business Beaufort. Chamber of Commerce Manager Dan Walter was planning -this week, as 'smelly as a skunk, in fact. Recently Charlie Parker, head of the. Slate News Bureau in Kaleigh. had a request from a New Yorker who wanted to .buy. a. skunk or two. Parker sent a distress signal across the ' stale :b an effort to ? locate someone, who might be able to fill the order. Dan Walker to the retcue. It seems that Walker knew of a fel low down Straits way. who has a way with' the Striped animals and could locate them If needed. Troy Jarvis of Straits was the man and he offered to catch them and deoddrize them? if- he receiv ed an order. Paul Beacham, of Beaufort RFD,' was also reported as a good (nan with skunks. So Beaufort's skunk sleuth, pan Walker, delivered fhc word to the Stite NcwS Bureau. "If you want a skunk, let m? know." Now Walker sits in hia- office, waiting with bated breath to find out who it is that wants the skunk ? and whether he wants him with or without his distinctive odor. W. ?. B. Poller Wins Homy Saturday Afternoon W. V. B. Potter of Beaufort was first winner in the Beaufort mer chants' Pirate's Chest of Silver giveaway* program Saturday after noon. He received $15. First name drawn in the give away was Homer Davis but since nc was not present Mr. Potter's name was drawn and he received the money. Davis arrived several minutes after the drawing took place. t Each Saturday from now unKl Christmas a drawing will b? held downtown at 3 p.m. sharp. Money and merchandise will be given each week and on Christmas Eve sev eral hundred dollars is eipectcd to be given away. All that I* necessary to be eligi ble to win to register is any of the Beaufort stores participating in the promotion. It is not oecesaary to purchase any merchandise and persona may register at any store participating. Jaycee Comedy Tickets on Sale Tickets for "Then, Later, and Now," a type of screwball comedy. ' have been placed 011 sale through out Morehead City, it was announ ced today. Tickets for the show may be ob tained from any Morehead City | Jaycee or at Morehead City Drug Ca.,..fiiwy Be. safe, or.. Uwaa, Store for Men. Admission is 25 , cent* for children, 50 cents for ad ults, and 75 cents for reserved seats. The Morehead City Junior Cham ber of Commerce is staging the show which is a comedy covering three periods, Civil War Days, the G?y Nineties, and the present. A large number of characters are fe male, though all parts are played by men. Female lead in the show is played by Cflydc Carr Jr witfi Ansil I Chapin playing opposite "her". Oth- 1 er "girls"'are Bernard Leary (Lil-J lian Russell), Bruce Goodwin ( Eth el, Barrymore), Glenn Rose (Theda Barn), Walter Morris (Mae Mur ray)' Dick Swindell (Mary Pick ford), and the Can-Can Girls: Sam Adler, Clydle Jones, Duffy Rowe, McDonald Willis, Alvin Garner, Johti Mcmakis, Tom Wade and Bill Otton. Opening night of the side-split ting theatrical is set for Friday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. Jaycees to Give Christmas Party For Children Youngsters Will See Show, Eat Dinner, See Santa Wednesday, Dec. 21 Arrangements for a Christinas >arty for children were made by Morehead City Jaycees at their Honflay night meeting in the Fort Macon hotel dining room. Jaycees decided to sponsor an slaboratc par ty for youngsters Dec. 21, the Wednesday before Christmas, complete with a free noving picture show in the morn ng. a free dinner and a Christmas larty that afternoon with Santa 3aus and presents for every child nvited to the affair. Theater To Give Show Luther Lewis, chairman of the laycee Christmas activities com nittee, announced that the City rheatre hut agreed to give a free cartoon show the morning of the ilst, restaurant owners will feed he children and after lunch they will be guests at a Christmas party n the Carteret Recreation center. , On Saturday, Dec. 3, at 9:30 a. m., a Christmas movie will be ihown at the City theatre to collect I toys lo be given to children at the | party on the 21st. Any child bring j ing a new or used toy to the show will be admitted to the cartoon and comedy review. Toys collected that morning will be repaired and saved (or the Christmas party. To Collect Toys and 9 p.m. Jaycees will cover ev ery block of Morehead City col lecting toys from anyone that wishes to donate them. Owners of the toys to be given away have been requested to leave their porch light burning that night in order that Jaycees may know which houses to contact. Bruce Goodwin announced that practice for the community band was moving along with all the In st ruinents for a 50-picce band pur chased. However, he stated, no uni forms have been bought and that will require $3 000. ? Deadline S?* C ndwin laid the ha ul had <et the fall of 1951 as the final date to hjve the $3,000 collected. Jay cees appropriated $25 toward the uniform fund. Bud Dixon proposed that Jay cees suggest to the to-', n that a fee system be set for use of the C tr act Recreational center, which is owned by the town. Dixon said he did not believe groups such as the Boy Scouts should be required to pay but that some businesslike system should be established. The group voted to forward his sug gestion to the town board. Discussion took place over the possibility of having a football team at Morehead City school next year. James Webb explained what would be necessary to initiate the sport and the group voiced its ap proval of taking steps to be sure that football would be in the school sports curriculum by next fall. Visitor for the evening was Jesse Lockhart, Morehead City. 137 Additional Memberships Needed in Farm Bureau Drive vancrci county rurm Durcau President Raymond Ball announ ced today that the county member ship drive will come to a close Wednesday of next week, Nov. 30. 'At a check-up meeting in the county agent'* office Monday night Mr. Ball stated that only 362 mem berships had been turned in. This leaves 137 members yet to be writ ten to meet the minimum goal of 500 members, stated the president Mr. Ball also announced that the final check-up meeting of the membership driv* will be held at the farm agent's office in Beaufort Monday night, Nov. 28, at 7:30 o 'rtock. Between now and the clos ing date of this drive the pres ident is making a sp<*cial appear to all Carteret county formers and business men. who have not already done ao. to loin their Farm Bureau. Membership solicitors in each com munity of the county t*ve been asked to be 03 the alert and write every member possible, until the county quota is met. Prertoua (teals Met Cirteret county has a fine record of past yean in meeting its min imum goal, as set up by the State Farm Bureau office. "Certainly our county cannot afford or expect any thing less than the cooperation of its membership in past years in order to measure up to w*hat is ex pected of us here in the county and the State officc," remarked Mr. Ball. It. M. Williams, county farm agent, stated that the State and National Farm Bureau organiza tion is the most powerful voice that the American farmer has ever kid to promote me dcsi imcrcsi 01 ag riculture. Nationwide Cooperation "The Farm Bureau through our county, state, and national commod ity committees and board of direc tors, as well as the national office in Chicago and Washington, keep in close contact with the legisla tive and administrative branches of our federal government in form ulating a sound farm program that is beneficial to all." he commented. Some members are using as their excuse not to join the Farm Bureau that they don't have the three or five dollar membership fee, Mr. See MEMBERSHIPS, Page ? Mrw Wttltni Diin Office To >? Opra in II Dip Construction haa been going for two weeks and is expected to be completed within the next 10 days on the new office for Western Union in Morehead City, Manager L. J. Norris reported today. The new office for the company is being built at 806 Arendell street on property owned by Mr. and Mrs. Norris. It i? tucked away in a corner of the lot now occupied by the Norris bouse and will be partially sheltered by the house roof. When completed the Western Uoion office will have interior space of 10 and a half by 23 feet, more than the present office and considerably more convenient, Mr. Norris reports. The office must more since the space It now occupiea?j? wanted by the First CitUens Bank, owner of the propel ty. ?** Jacob Miller Dies at Aberdeen As Result of .38 Bullet Wound , Jacob Miller Newspaper Ads Aid Salesman In Winning Cuba Trip Jack Whitley of Greenville, Car teret Craven salesmen (or Swift and Co., meat packers, attributes his sales record which won him and Mrs. Whitley a company prize of an expense - free Cuba sojourn to the efficient retail practices of his Carteret county retail outlets and the pulling power of the NEWS-TIMES advertising. Whitley was one of six of Swift's 78 salesmen in the Charlotte terri tory, which embraces ail of North! Carolina and parts of South Caro- 1 lina and Virginia, to win a covets ? Cuba trip. loc o wi?? -if. bt v.raor Food Center ad wriich nppeircd in THE NEWS TIMES. Oct. 21. waa adjudged the second best food ad in the entire Charlotte territory. For this Whitley wot special com mendation and a fountain pen "with which to write more and even better ads" he explains. With the assistance of Robert Simpson of THE NEWS-TIMES sales staff, Whitley has turned out dozens ot food ads. all of which have created sales. S & I' Grocery and Meat Super Market on Live Oak St., Beaufort, credits a large part of his more than 600 per cent increase in business since August to the superior qualify of Swift meat and meat products, backed up by NEWS TIMES advertising. And all other Swift retailers in Carteret County using NEWS ? TIMES advertising have reported gains almost as phenomenal. Floor Show Will Highlight Dance "Beaufort on Broadway" will be the title of the floor show to be presented at intermision tonight at the Thanksgiving Pancc at the Surf club. The dance is being spon sored by the Beaufort Parent .Teacher association. Featured vocalists will be Miss Betty Lou Merrill. Guy Smith, and John Smith. Helen Paul and Peggy Guthrie will sing, bullet dancers Will be Bitsy Brooks and Ann Ow ens, and Mary Fraiicr, Billy Craw ford, Ward King, and Bert Brooks will present a pantomime. A dance drill will be performed by a chorus while Howard Fodric sings and a special feature will be a Be-Bop chorus of five costumed couples. ? Doors will open at 8:30, dancing will begin at 9 and the floor show will begin at 9:45. Tickets at the door will be $1.25. Ronnie Hart's nine-piece orches tra will play. Grover Munden, More head City, will be master of cere monies. City Cractry Track PiiwH ? Wrack Monday Enoch Petliway, Beaufort, was uninjured Monday noon when the City Grocery truck he was driving was forced off the highway on the Atlantic Beach - More head City catueway. Le?U e Moore, ot City Grocery, said Pettiway was driving toward Morebead City when ? car passed him and forced him off thr road The truck was damaged to the ex tent of MOO and City Grocer* it i now making deliveries ia a bor- [ Fumeral Services Conducted Tuesday at Wilmington Funeral services tor Jacob Mill er, 57, who died from a self-inflict ed bullet wound Monday morning at Aberdeen, were conducted at Yopp's funeral home, Wilmington, at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon Mr. Miller was in the furniture business in Beaufort from 1934 to 1947 when he closed his business and went to Wilmington in October 1948. In April of this year he took a three - month tour of Palestine, Italy and France. He bought a furniture store in Aberdeen the first of September this year and operated it the past two months. Coroner Hugh Kcllv of Moore county, in which Aberdeen is lo cated. told THE NEWS-TIMES by telephone Tuesday that the shoot ing which took place at 10 a.m. Monday, was witnessed by a wo man nearby, who immediately no tified police. The coroner said that Mr. Miller shot himself in the right temple with a .38 calibre pistol while standing on the steps at the rear of his store. On his body, the coroner repor ted, he found a sealed letter ready to mail to Mr. Miller's brother, Meyer, of Wilmington, in which Mr. Miller told his brother how his estate should be administered. The last paragraph of the letter read. "Please forgive me for this act. That was the only way out." Mr. Miller was born in Poland and he and his brother, I. Miller, managed to eicape an invasion of Russian Czarist soldiers during whirh their parents were killed. According to the storv whirh Mr. Miller told Raleigh Gillikin, who worked for him in Beaufort, he and his brother hid in the collar of their home and then came to New Yprk wbere th?y were tak en In hv a Jewish family and renr ?Ar ? i i ,r I They both attended night school and I Hon took a job in a furniture facto. y. They saved money and then dr,cw straws to determine which one should go to college. Jake won and spent several years in school. Then for 10 years, ac cording to Mr. Gilllkin, he worked for a wholesale furniture factory. During the first world war he served in the Navy. His brother went into the clothing business. Mr. Miller retired, but then de cided to go into business again. He opened a small store on Turner St., and then moved to Front st. where the Miller Furniture comp any remained untiil it closed in December 1947 On Nov. 8 Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Gillikin, asking him to go to Aberdeen to work with him. Mr. Miller was a member of the Beaufort chapter. Order of the Eas tern Star, Mo. 128, Franklin Lodge 109 AF & AM. Scottish Rites of New Bern, Sudan Temple, and the Beaufort . Morehead City Elks club. He is survived by his brother, Meyer, and two nieces. Stained Glass Windows Given lo St. Paul's Church Three stained glass windows are being placed over the (root entrance to St. Paul's Episcopal church by Mrs. C. R. Wheatly, Beaufort, in memory of her hus band. One of the windows depicts St. Peter, the other St. Paul, and the third, Jeaus. Work on installation of the stained glass was begun about a week ago and the Kev. W. L. Martin, rector, said it would be completed within several days. The George L. Payne company Patterson, N. J., is putting in the windows. Two Cars Crash Id Morehead City A l'ontiac automobile driven by I Deiphin I) Price, Crisficld. Md.,1 received $175 damages to its left 1 side Monday ufternoon at 5:25 when 1 it was struck at the corner of 6th and Arendcli streets by a Fordj driven by E. H. Potter. Beaufort. 1 Police reported that Price was headed north on Sth street when he saw Potter heading west on j Arendeil street across Price's line i of traffic. Price came to a dead stop across the railroad tracks I to let the other car go by, police stated. When Potter reached the inter section he turned left tn front of I'ricc and then his car. instead of going on across the intersection, made a U turn iota the left aide of the Pontile, according lo police. The Ford was damaged to the ex tent of $00. Neither of the two men were hurt, and no charges were pre ferred. Officers Hubert Fulchcr and Eitnond WilHs investigated. Lejeune Marin* Pays Fine For Speeding in Town Martin A Gatcwood, Camp Le jeune Marine pleaded guilty to spee'ding and was fined $15 and costs in Monday's session of More head City mayor's court. The case of George Murray, charged with driving with impro per brakes, was continued. Police officers stated that charges were brought against Murray when he ran into a fire hydrant at the- cor ner of 11th and Bridges streets LATE BULLETIN Darius Ballou's barn, just west of Morehead City burned at 7:30 Wednesday night. Morehcad City firemen were called but It was reported that the barn was a to tal loss. Unsealed Christmas Cards Must Carry 2 Cents Postage Carter*! County locohroi Four Raw School Bonos Four sew school busses have been allotted to Cartwet county and already hive been assigned to county schools, school officials revealed today Two of the busses were assign ed to Morehead City and are la use on the Broad creek and Gales creek routes. A third is assigned to the Mill creek route Iron New port school aad the fourth on the Stacy route out of Atlantic. One bus, bus No. ( of More head City, has been replaced at the suggestion of the grand jury officials stated. This bus was judged to be in too poor a state of repair to be aaed any longer. Tide Table TIDES AT BEAUFORT BAR HIGH low; Friday, #fov. IS 12 noon 5:40 s.m 12:08 p.m. 6:36 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26 12:39 a.m. 6:39 a.m! 12:59 p.m. 12:31 p m. Sunday, Nor. 27 1:39 a.m. r 7:44 a.m. 1:55 p-m 8:27 p.m. Monday, Nor. 2S 2:41 a m 8:52 a.m. 2:51 p m. 919 p m Tuesday, Nor. ? 3.39 a m 9:54 a.m 3:45 p.m. 10:07 (A Unclc Sam will get a little more (or his Christmas toil this year. The bewhiskered old gent ha? hiked the postage rate hslf-a-ccm un uiscal ed greeting cards. Stamps for greeting cards, usu ally handled as third class matter by the post office department, now ?re priced at two cents. The old postage rate on such cards whs 1 1/2 cents. Beaufort and Morchcad City postmasters point out that "unless two-cents stamps are placed on un healed Christmas cards, your mes sage may not reach the person [or whom it is intended. In the eVent the sender is known, the moil carrier may return the cards stamped "insufficient postage". Otherwise, such matter would be sent to tbe Dead Letter Office be cause they bear no return address. The postmaster recommends the lending of all greeting cards by (irst-class mail, paying three cents postage. In this way, if you should [ail to giv* s complete or proper ?ddress tor the addressee, the mail would receive first-class service and vour cards would be forwarded [rom one address to snother. Cards bearing 3 cents postage may also contain personal messag es and of course, may be scaled Christ mat cards bearing two-cent; stamps are tbird-cUss mail and must not be sealed and must not rontain personal messages fiupertateadeol Resigns Miss Octavia Ffaatr, suprrinten lent of nurses at the Morebead City hospital, 1ms resigned I Prostitution Charges Send Two to Prison David Bell, Thelma Mum ford, Negroes, Found Guilty Tuesday ? David Bell, Morchead City Ne gro, was fou id guilty of operating a house {or the purpose o( pros titution and sentenced to one year on the roads in Tuesday's session of recorder's court in Beaufort court house. Bell was also found guilty ol assault on a female and threaten ed assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to six months on the roads. This sentence was suspend ed on condition he pay a $25 fine and the costs of court. Gets One Year Thclina Mumford, Morehcad City Negro, was found gililty of being a prostitute and sentenced to on* year in the Women's Prison, Ra leigh. A similar sentence of one year passed on May 25, 1948 but suspended on five years good be havior was invoked, the two sen tences to run concurrently. Bcnnie Lewis was found guilty of non-support and sentenced to one year on the roads. Sentence was suspended on condition that he pay the costs of court and contrib ute $5 a week to his wife toward the support of his minor child. Leslie David Norris pleaded guil ty to the transportation of non tax paid whisky and was fined $29 and the costs. McVcrnon Garner pleaded guilty to giving a bad cheek and was fined the costs and requir ed to make payment on Um check. '4 Cam ntsalwed The charge of abandonment and non-support against Leslie Fulford whs heard and dismissed. A judge ment of frivolous and maliciout prosecution was delivered in the case of William Godettc, charged with assaulting a female, his wife, and the prosecuting witness was taxed with costs. The prosecuting witness in the case of Alvin Taylor charged with trespass, was required to pay one half the costs when Judge I.ambcrt Morris ruled mali cious prosecution. Pleads Guilty Charlie E. Cleveland pleaded to speeding and wait fined the cOfU. The bonds ol John Dailey, Ralph D. Robbins and Fred J. Hare, all charged with speeding, were for feited when they failed to appear in court. Charles R. Chapman pleaded guilty to driving without a license and with insufficient brakes and was fined the costs. The costs were levied on Moses Smith, charged with driving without a license, and Daniel J. Kubrak, charged with driving with insufficient braket, each pleaded guilty. Eighteen cases were continued* . The defendants are Theodora J. Le mairc. Harold E. Peterson, Dairltl Mailchok, Jr., Virginia Z. Stiles, Charlie Fonville, Hazel S. Garner, 11. H. Holloman, Frank Fairington. Henry Jones, Leon Pate, Jr., Will iam J. Dcnoyer, Wilbur L. Merrell, Lud Roten Tucker, A. C. "Snookie" Willie Cecil Cornelius Speight, Frank R. St Pierre. R. G. Br*d shaw, and Theodore Lcmarre. Board Withholds Action on Permits Morchcad City commissioners withheld action on issuing live ad ditional town taxi permits at their special meeting Tuesday afternoon since only three of the five board members were present. The meeting was planned to handle the taxi situation only but at least 20 persons appeared to present other grievances and mat ters. Only matter acted on besides the town taxi ordinance, which the group adopted, was an agreement' for the town to assist in merchants Christmas decoration plana. Bob Lowe and George Stovall ap peared at the meeting and request ed assistance Jrom the town Christmas decorations. The boa agreed to erect and decorate large Christmaa tree 01 street and .to . provide other Christmas decorative work. Another board meeting was ? ed for Dec. S. at which f" " - action is expected oa taxi permits, if all boat are present. Those present 1 were D. G. Bell, V Der and Walter Treenail.
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