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NEWS-TltftS OFFICES Beaufort 12* Craven St. ? Pfceae MSI More head City 404 Arendell St ? Pheae Mil CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES A Mercer of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 10c Eight Paget Color Comics 38th YEAR, NO. 94 TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORlVNORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Man Charged with Theft Former Carteret Home Agent Wins National Award Miss Margaret Hark Hon ored ai Meeting In Chi cago This Week Miss Margaret Clark, who wai home agent in Carteret county from 1036 to 1941 was one of four North Carolina home demonstration agcDU among 48 from all parts of the nation, to receive outstanding service awards from the National Demonstration Agents association. The awards were made Wednes day at Chicago to Miss Clark, who is now Johnston county home agent; Miss Katherine MUlsaps, Alamance home agent, Mrs. Volma Beam Moore, Clay county, and Mrs. Grace Pope Blown, Surry. Mrs. Eugenia P. Van Landingham president of the State Home Dem onstration agents association and the four award winners left Ra leigh Friday to attend the National meeting which is one of several, including the National 4-H Club congress, and the National Farmer Agents association meeting. Miss Clark has 13 years of ex tension work to her credit. She be>;an as home agent in Carteret county in 1036. moved to Sampson in 1!)4I and then to Johnston in 1945. Prior to entering extension work she served six years as home economics teacher in Sampson county and one year as home su pervisor of Rural Resettlement in Jonco and Onslow counties. A number of home living im provement campaigns dot the his tory of Miss Clark's extension ac tivities. She conducted a kitchen improvement drive in Johnston county during 1946 and 1947, mat tress and -blanket programs during the war, and the War Emergency Food Conservation program. During her stay in Johnston she has brought enrollment in home demonstration clubs to over 90 wo men During this period three com munity buildings have been built and another is in the process. Miss Stanton To Speak at Church Mist Virginia Stanton, juit re turned from a 33-month stay in the Orient, will speak at 7:30 Sunday night in Ann Street Methodiat church. Beaufort. Miaa Stanton arrived here Fri day after crossing the country from San Frsnci?co by train. She left Yokohama by boat Nov. 3 and stepped on U. S. soil Nov. 19 at San Francisco, atopping at Guam and Honolulu en route. She aerved 22 montha in Seoul, Korea, as a civilian secretary at Army headquarters and 11 months In Japan. She went to Korea by plane in February 1M7. It's good to be back in Beaufort. Miss Stanton declares. "It looks just the same, but goodness, now wc have signal lights. There are lots of new houses too. The people haven't changed, but oh my, how the children have grown op. They have changed so much that I can't, even remember their names," she exclaimcd. Her plans for the future are in definite. She's Just going to spend time visiting friends and relatives for a while. In January she will speak at the Beaufort Book club meeting. First Frm* This Wialer Occurred Twdtf Nor. 22 Carteret county experienced Its first freeze this winter on Nov. 22 when the temperature dropped to 18 degrees. That waa the only time during the month that the mercury registered below S2, according to E. Stamey Davis, official weather observer. The high maximum for the month was 75. low maximum 47, and average maximum 87. High minimum was 58 low minimum 28. Rainfall during the 30 days totaled 2.17 inches. Rain fell only four times, the greatest amount. 1.28 inches was registered on the 10th. Prevailing wind was southwesterly. Train Picture Printed John Trern, Jersey City, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. John Brooke, Rbaufort, took a pho tograph of an Atlantic and East Carolina Diesel engine recently. It was printed in the September - isaue of Trains. Paula Keyser , Ken Johnson Head Cast in Comedy , 6 Claudia 9 Claudia, left, earnestly ex plaint her side In the checkbook matter while David, right, pa tiently tallies cancelled cheeks. Jaycees Mount Stage Tonigfat Morehead Group Will Pre sent Show, 'Then, Later, And Now' "Curtain going up" is the signal that Will set all Carteret county laughing tonight at 8 o'clock in the Morehead City school auditorium when Morehead City Jaycees will give the public a look at their lat est hilarious production, "Then, Later, and Now." - .< ,j Funny-bone tickling jokes %nd scenes promise to Mep the aud itnoe tittering throughout the Eve ning. SutbOMdly ll.'ere' >s,? ul?t to the thMthcal but its' main theme is to give the audience a good tkne. j Then are both male and female rolrs in the show, all of them played by men. Sam Adler, John Memakis, Clyde Jones, -Duffy Howe; McD? ;?ld Willie, Alvin Gar ner, Tom Wade and Bill Orion make up' thfe Can-Can Girls, the Beefiest chorus line seen this side of the Chicago slaughter pens.* Other "female" males include Bernard Leary, Skinner Chalk Jr., Bruce Goodwin, Clyde Carr Jr., Walter Morris and many others well-known throughout the county. Plot of the play is concerned with the love story of a boy and a girl through three periods, (he Civil War. the Gay Nineties, and the preaent: thus "Then, Later, and Now." Besides a chorus of lovely ladies and celebrities from all three pe riods, there will be. a barber shop quartet and 4 parade of bathing suit fashions from 1860 to 1948 with men filling out ' the female costumes. Twenty-one men have been lined up to provide this En tertainment between acts. ! Tickets for the show can be pur chased from any Morehead .City Jaycee, at either of the downtown drug stores, at Leary'a, or at the Busy Bee cafe. Admission is 25 cents for' children. SO cents for adults and 78 cents for reserved Mat?. Curtain for the show goes up at 8 o'clock sharp tonight in the Morehead City school auditorium. County to Elect Soil Supervisor Lawrence W. Garner, Jr., hat an nounced that Carteret county will elect a aupervtaor for the Lower Neuae Soil Conaervation diatrict during the week of Dec. 4. Jason Morrii, Stella, and Carl W. Gamer, Newport, have been nominated by regular petition. All peraons eligible to vote in a general election are eligible to east a ballot for district supervisor. Ballot boxes will be located at the court house, BeaufoH, L. N. Con ner's store, Harlow*, Lee Murdoch's store. Wlldwood. Roy Garner's store Newport, and. the PeHetier post of fice. l(r. Garner advises voters that only signed ballots -will be counted. Bakjr Swallows Pin ?, Betty Lou Seamnn, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seamon, Morehead City, had an open safety pin removed from her throat Toeaday at Kinston. Tile child swallowed the pfo'whil? her another waa dressing her Monday rasjfta asagr" * .i/T f ikj 1 1 . x*. . i Two Beaufort Thespians play the leads in The Little Theatre's win ter ?eason three-act drama to be presented Thursday and Friday nights, Dec. 8 and 9, in the recrea tion center, Morehead City. ; They ire Paula Keyser and Ken neth Johnson. Paula, wife of T/Sgt. Robert Keyser, USMC, plays the part of Claudia., which is also the name of the play, and Kenneth plays the part of her hus band David. Paula is a native of Parkcrsburg, W. Va., and her husband's home is Covington. Va. They came to Beau fort in January 1947 and then were transferred to China where they stayed for a year at Tsingtao. From there. Sgt. Keyser was re turned recently to Cherry Point and again they made their home in Beaufort. ? Kenneth says he calls Beaufort his home although he was born in New Bern. He has lived "all up and down the east coast" and mar ried the former Eileen Campbell of Bayoone. N. J. They have a 4 year-old son. "Claudia" is the first play in which either of the talented young Thespians have appeared. One of the humorous incidents in the drama revolves about a checkbook which Claudia is never able to balance to the satisfaction of her long-suffering but loving | husband. I A snatch of the brilliant dia I logue, typical of work by Hose 1 Franken, playwright and author, I follows: I (Claudia efficiently itirts tear ing up vouchers). David: Hey! Stop that! What | are you doing?! You've got to I See PAULA KEYSER, Page seven 509 Jon G&aiity Farm Bureau Carteret county's 1949 goal of 500 members for the county Farm Bureau was reached this week, Os car Salter, chairman of the Farm Bureau membership drive, an nounced today. Not a|l membership solicitors have been heard from yet, Mr. Salter Mid. and there is a possi bility that the county will exceed its goal by a large percentage. A special meeting of all county Farm Bureau officers, directors and membership solicitors has been called for Monday night at 7:30 in the county agent's office, Beaufort. , Raymond Ball, county Farm Bu reau president, has called the meeting in order that nominations for county officers and directors for the coming year can be made. Plans for the annual Farm Bureau meeting and barbecue will also be made. Highway Patrol Inspects Busses All 26 school busses in Carteret county wore found to be in satis factory condition in an inspection made last week by the State Highway Patrol, county school superintendent H. L. Joslyn re vealed today. . Twenty-four of the busses were judged in food condition, Joelyn stated, and the other two were judged fair. One of these, at Newport vfeeded a windshield wiper and the other, at Atlantic, was in need of a windshield wiper and fuse. The bus at Atlantic had been repaired the day before its inspec tion and the windshield wiper and fuse removed in the intervening 24 hours. The inspection was done under the supervision of Sgt. Vernon L. Spruit I of the State Highway Patrol. CAA Representative Meets Wilk Hew County CAP Dnil Civil Aeronautics Representative Elders met with officers of the re ceotly-organizcd Civil Air patrol unit of Carteret county Monday night. Captain M T. (Tom) Mill* said anvtlier meeting has been tenta tively scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 13. Those attending the session Mon day at Mr. Mills' officc were A. D. Ellsworth, Jack jiav^gc, Bob Bur row*, and John Morrison. Two-County REA Group Will Meet Here Tomorrow Electric Cooperative Com pletes Ninth Year of Car teret-Craven Business Prizes worth hundreds of dol* lars will be given away tomorrow when the Carteret -Craven Elec tric Membership corporation holds its annual meeting in Morehead City at 1 p. m. at the Carteret! Recreational center. Members of the corporation, es timated at between 600 and 1,000 are expected to be present to elect officers, discuss the co-op's bus iness, and hear reports from the officers, and draw for one of the many prizes to be given away. Officials to Speak In addition to the regular bus iness, several personages promi nent in state and national REA circles will speak. They include Gwyn Price, chairman of the North Carolina REA; Kenneth Hardy, head of the applications and loans division of the REA, Washington, D. C. ; Pat Patterson, field representative for the appli cations and leans division; and R. M. Wii iani . . representative from the REA management divis ion in Washington, 1). C. . The local REA unit has com pleted its ninth year of busineas. It was established- in 1911 with .15 miles of line and less than f>0 : members ;*.nd now has more than j :i0G mikt> oJ line w^i 1,448 mem bers and JJfUT cnighnters. "The Cwrtcret-Cravcn Electric | Memberfhip corporation hasl grown from a. small to h large j organisation only by the efforts , of Ui> iacl'fcttf'ifc: ? 4f'?- ?* 1' Phi,', H. Jertiigaiv manager, stated*. "Our aim is to grow and improve even mere in coming year*." j Demonstrations Scheduled During ti;?' meeting Carteret merchants will demonstrate eiec trieal equipment H?ld by them for use in farm homes and in farm work. Merchandise prizes will be given away throughout the after noon. Some of the prizes are an electric water pump, electric iron, electric coffee maker, box of gro ceries, electric cooking range, set of automobile seat covers, electric heaU*-, electric iron, automobile tire, combination battery electric radio, waffle irons and electric toasters. Attendance at the meeting has been urged by local officers. Mrs. Lillian Fownun Wins Money Saturday Mrs. Lillian Foreman of Beau fort was the lucky money winner in the second Pirate's Chest of Silver giveaway sponsored by Beaufort merchants in downtown Beaufort Saturday. Mrs.' Foreman had her name drawn from the registration box and then drew a slip from the Chest of Silver indicating that the waa to receive $27. W. H. Benson of Swans bo ro was the tint name drawn but he waa not preaent. This Saturday"s drawing wilt be held in front of Ann-Lou Florist and the Beauty Bar. Drawing time is 3 o'clock sharp. Directors af BEA Member! of the Caiteret-Crnven Electric Membenhlp corpor ation elect a Ml "boa" their directors who in tarn employ and "bow" the manager. Above are the officers and director* of the corpor ation. They. ait. frest rfw, left to rifht: L. W. Pelletier, prealdent, Stella; G. W. Ball, atcrctnry-trennirer, Newport, RFD; Gordon K. Laugh!**, rke ^-ecMent. C?b Point; and Paul U. Jerntgan. mana ger. Morrhratl City. Bark ro*. >eU to right: Eugene C. Tingle, Meirtmon; G. ft. WWlthnftt, Straits; Clarence E. Mlllia, Newport; Earl C. Day, Lota; John S. Jones, Swtnsboro; and George W. Ball, attorney, Morfbfuwl ril\. (Photo by Dnn W. Wade) Morehead Giveaway Program Begins Tomorrow Afternoon Menhaden Boats finally Come Back With Some Pish Motorists dieted their rails at <lra* bridges from 7:30 to 8:30 Wednesday night but for Ke?d reason? menhaden boats return ed lb r the Hat time this winter with holds full'*! fisk. On' nomas, befaf . rushed to vh. ho trlta I to nave> hjhjh got there just In the Jilek of time be cause the car- wits Mopped lit both draws, delaying it at, least one half hour. Kiddies Will See Free Picture Stow A ' free cartoort; tfnd cumMy movies lecture chilJfep vriU'iN' ?iveYv at thk* Ofty' Theatre' tomorrow hioriiinjj at 9:30 o'clock, Luther Lewis, chairman of the Morehead City JayceeS Christmas activities committee, announced today. Only admission required is. an old or new toy. Toys collected tomorrow will be repaired good as-new and presented to children at a Jaycee Christmas party Wed nesday, December 21. Doors to the theatre will open at 9 o'clock sharp and the show win begin promptly at 9:30. Six cartoons and two comedies will be shown during the two-hour performance. Monday night from 8 to 9 o'clock Jaycees will cover every block inlforehetd City collecting toys to be repaired for the Christ mas party. Persona having play things to give have been request ed to leave ? light burning in or der that Jaycees may know at which houses to stop. Two hundred dollars in cash ,will he given Away tomorrow af ternoon in the first of four cash Award programs sponsored hy Morehead City merchants. | 'Tickets, on tomorrow's prizes, ; Which" consist of a $100 hill, a $50 bill, two $20 hills and one $10 ; hill, have been given to each cus I tomer who bought goods costing one dollar or more in participating M'orcs. i A duplicate of thv. ticket has been deposited in a laifre bo>. At ! 2 :30 tomorrow afternoon in front of ? the Morehead City municipal -Buftdi ng numbers will be drawn from the box. * If. the- person holding the dupli cate is present, he or she will be 'called forVard to draw one of five envelope* from a fish bowl. Each of the envelapes will contain one of the cash prises with the first or last person drawn having just as big an opportunity of receiving the grand prize of $100. ? Tomorrow's program is the f first of four planned for the first four Saturdays in December. The following two Saturdays $200 will he given away and on Christ mas Eve $400 will be given away with the grand prise $200. Streets were decked out in their Christmas costumes this week. Large painted Santa Clauses were I mounted on each of the 20 street light poles in downtown More head City. Also attached was a large six-foot imitation pepper mint atiek. Next week the poles will be dec orated wtih native greenery and Christmas lights strung. All dec orations are a part of the mer chants' prgoram to make More head City more attractive during the holidy season. Stmt Stay Op* a Stores in Beaufort and More head City will remain open all day Wednesday from now until Christ mas. Little Symphony W ill Present Bobby Morris in Concert Here Santa Clans Varifiac Beaufort Arrival Date Beaufort is all let for Hs vWt froa Santa Claus Wednesday if Ifrim with the Coast Guard pitching in to provide a crew and escort for the food ship Mis tletoe when it comes cruising in to Beaufort harbor. 8anta Is due to arrive at 4 p.m. at the poot office dock. ,\f|er the Mistletoe dock*, a parade will wend Its way west on Front St. with bands and other unite par ticipating. Santa will give a gift to each child that brings a let ter to him. Band Drive Continues Thu M-ioml letter requesting contributions to the Morehead City iigii school band was sent out ibis week. According to Bruce1 I* Goodwin, president of the hand araociation, the drive is progress ing "mpiietately well" but more money^s needed. Bobby Morris, pianist, will be the featured artist with tb? North Carolina Little Symphony orches tra when it appeara at Beaufort achool Feb. 14. Bobby, the aoa of Mr. and Mri. Cecil Morris, Atlan tic, will appear with the orcbeitra on its engagements in c'her parts of the state a Lao The young artist, a senior at At lantic school, w?s especially re quested by the Carteret County Symphony committer to appear here. Chairman of the committee this year is Mrs. T T. (Tom) Pot ter, Beaufort. Mrs. Bayard Taylor, Beaufort, chairman of the symphony mem liership committee announced to day that the campaign will begin next week Adult memberships arc $2.40 and student memberships 41.20. Holders of membership xurds will be entitled to attend a symphony concert in any town. The county quota this year la $750. Mrs. Potter commented that a sale o i 156 adult memberships in Beaufort and 156 in Morehead City would meet the quota. Conducting the aaiea campaign in Morehead City will be Mra. B. r. Royal and Hra. R. G. Lowe. The Uttle Symphony laat year appeared in Mortboad City. Nwfciri Airport Curtails Schodnlo oi Operations The Morehead City airport will begin only Saturday and Sunday i operation this weekend. Until fur ther notice all other (lying will be done from the Beaufort airport, according to Earl Taylor, manager of the Morehead City field. However, he aaid. there will be I a mechanic there at all time^who will help in refueling or aiding any plane which may make a landing. Instruction carried oo through the East Carolina Flying ichool will take place from the Beaufort iieVL. operatad.and managed by Mr. Taylor and Bob Burrows. Town PoliceTell Reporter rNo Crime 9 Round Here V Edward Barrett, Morehead City Negro, is being held in the county jail on charges of first degree burglary. Barrett was arrested early ?>un- ' day morning following two burg- j laries and a chase through More head City streets with a blood hound on the trail. Morehead City police offic er, contacted by THE NEWS TIMES this week stated that | no crimes bad occurred or were investigated by their depart- j ment. The information given beJow was obtained through other source*. According to reports, Herman Wetherington, of 50? Fisher St.. Morehead City, called police at 2 a. m. Sunday and reported that someone had entered his house a short time previously. Wether ington did not have an accurate ; description of the burglar but did j state that it was a colored man. Officers Investigate Morehead City police officers Carl Blomberg and Murphy Jen- j kins were dispatched to the Wcth- ! erington house to investigate. ; They found that a window had j been opened for the man to escape and said there were footprints outside where he had leaped to the ground. No other traces were found i and the officers returned to the station. About 45 minutes later another rail was received from the name of Doycie Rice, ncxl door to ? Wetherington, informing police I that a break -in had been attempt : ed there. Officer Jenkins and j Constable Charlie Kron e were | requested to investigate. Footprints Found Again | Footprints wero. again found. | Wetherington requested that bloodhounds be bigiiKtvt track the burglar and a chU w!*s sent to New Bern requesting that Sheriff Berry's dog be sent here. The hound arrived at 4 :|5 a. m., it was reported* and immedi ately picked up tiie scent. He tracked north to Arendell street, over to 8th street, through an al j ley back of the stores, then to j Arendell street at 10th, tip Aren dell to 12th, over to Bridges, then to 13th and on north 13th to the , See THEFT CHARGED, Page seven Noma Eure Speaks On Contracting Numa Eure, Beaufort contractor and Rotarian explained the ins and outs of contracting work to Beau fort Rotarians at their meeting Tuesday night in the Inlet Inn din ing room. Mr. Eure stated that a success ful contractor needed at least two yean of apprenticeship and two years of technical training before engaging in actual contracting. He said the three most essential qual ities for a good contractor were skill, reaponaibility, and integrity. North Carolina licenses three kinds of contractors, he explained. They are building construction, highway construction, and heavy construction such as railroad build ers. An unclassified license is also iasued to those who wish to engage in all three types of work, he stat ed. The contractor's talk was given In line with President Thomas Ennett's policy of having each member tell of his own business. Tuesday, Dec. 20, was set as the evening for the Rotary's annual Christmas night program. Wives of Rotarians will be special guests at the meeting. The Rev. W- Y. Stewart of Ocra coke, former member of the club, was a visitor. He thanked the group for the pen and pencil set presented in recognition of his faithful service to the club and as ? going-away present Tide Table Tides at Beunfort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Dec. 2 5:53 a.m. 11:29 a.m. 6:04 p.m. 11:58 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2 6:38 a.m. 12:14 a.m. 6:51 p.m. 1:05 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4 7:17 a.m. 12:52 a.m. 7:33 p.m. 1:48 p.m Monday, Dec. 5 7:55 a.m. ? 1:30 a.m. 8:02 p.m. 2:23 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8 8:33 *.01. 2:05 aja. 8:51 p.m. 3:03 p.m. I Jaycees Level Sights on U. S. Mooey Spending Group Undertakes National Project, Application of Economy Measures Operation Economy, the pri mary project of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce and its state and local affiliates, was outlined to Beaufort Jaycees at their Monday night meeting in the Inlet Inn dining room. Claud Wheatly, Jr., chairman of the program in district 8 of the North Carolina Jaycees, ex plained the program and ita in tent. He suggested that h chair man and several vice-chairmen be appointed to formulate aif active program for the entire communi ty. Wheatly said that Operation Kconomy was concerned with bringing to the public's attention the findings <?f the lloover com mt - inn which investigated, at the president's requert, functions and duplications in the federal gov ernment. The speaker suggested that ; I t akers be lined up to address and inform county groups of the committee's findings and recom mendations and tell citizens how See JAYCEES LEVEL Page *cv?i Judge Passes Six Months' Sentence H. H. Holloman Shoots Up< House, Destroys Proper ly, Court Finds 11 II Holloman has been! f- ;iii'l guilty of assaulting a fe-- I nuti.' with a deadly weapon, a gun,j ? j with intent to kill, guilty of shoot-; [ ing tlio gun several times throug'nff' a cluor and against a house, tbere-i 1 by destroying: personal property)# and injuring real property, and' i guilty of threatening to. kill ev-i Ij eryhody in the house. Ti.e defendant, in Tuesday's! I sessi.u of recorder's court, was; sentenced to six months on the roads. Sentence was suspended! if he remains sober and on goodi behavior for two years and payl $10 in addition to court costs, to: the clerk of court for the pros-j eeuting witness, Mrs. Horace Cart-j wright, to reimburse her fori losses. Frank Fairington, Morehead City, was found guiity of using loud, boisterous, profane and vul gar language, breaking the peace, threatening Annie Lawrence Wil lis, and causing her fear. Judge Passes Sentence Fairington was sentenced to, three months on the roads, sen-; tence suspended on two years) good behavior and sobriety and i the payment of a $25 fine and, : the costs. Notice of appeal of the sentence was given and the caso was bound over to superior court ] under $200 bond* A second group of charges of being drunk and disorderly, using, loud, boisterous and profane j language, and disturbing the peace, were heard and dismissed. The charges were made a week prior to the ones Fairington wero found giulty of. Prostitution Charged Edward Barrett and Alice Bar- I rett, charged with operating a house for the purpose of proeti*. j tution. and Charlie Holland, The See JUDGE PASSES, Page Five Persons Found Guilty j On Drunkenness Cluufet Five persons were found guilt; of public drunkenness and receiv ed a fine in Monday's session Morehead City mayor's court. The five defendants Frank Fairington, Luther Mrs. Tom Wood, Henry Ad and Cliff Heney. The last foil were fined $20 and costs and first was fined $10 and George Murry w costs for failing to court when cited. Ah was fined the costs drunkenness.