NEWS-TIMES OFFICES Beaufort 1M Craven 8L ? Phome Mil Morehead City CM AkbMI St ? PkM Mil CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES * A Mercer of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 38th YEAR, NO. 99 TWO SECTIONS? TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS NEWS- TIMES to Carry 1950 Babson Forecast Savings Bond Sales in County Total $42,774 Sales of U. S. savings bonds, series E, F and G in Carteret county from Nov. 1 through Nov. 30. amounted to *42,774.50. Of this amount $41,274.50 was in series E bonds; none in series F bonds and $1,500.00 in series G bonds. Total sales of the three series for the 100 counties in North Car olina were as follows: series E $2,960,889.75; series F $106,042.00; series G $554,400.00, with total for the state $3,621,331.75. The/ sales information was an nounced today by County Savings Bonds Chairman Victor Wickizer and was taken from the monthly sales report from Allison James, state director of savings bonds office in Greensboro. The county chairman stated fur ther that all banks and post offic es in the county are offering special Christmas gift holders, free of charge to persons who wish to give U S. savings bonds as Christ mas gifts. The cover of these gift holders bears a reproduction of a beautiful oil painting and is entitled "The Present With a Fu ture." "A savings bond is an ideal-gift," said Mr. Wickizer, "one that in creases in value from year to year and in ten short years pays back $4 for every $3 you put in it." State Suspends Four Beer Permits Two Carteret county establish ments and two at Havelock have had their beer permits suspended by the State Alcoholic Board of Control. The suspensions were ordered last week by the board upon rec ommendation of Director C. A. Up church, Jr., of the board's malt beverage division. The four suspensions and rea sons for suspension were: Eddie Lee Collins, Club 65, Elks Club building. Queen and Pine Streets, Beaufort, 00 days for disorderly conduct. Elbert Gillikin, Cross Way Inn, Beaufort route 1, 30 days for sell ing beer to drunk; Mrs. Stella Mayo Hcmmer, Havelock Drive-in, Havelock, 30 days for permitting drunks on premises. George T. Bailey, -Bailey's Place, Havelock, 30 days for permitting consumption of beer after hours. Air Base Gets Two New Jets CHERRY POINT, Dec. 18.? Two sleek new McDonnell Banshee jet lighters flew in from St. Louis re cently to the Marine Corps Air Station here. The first of a total complement of 23 of the new plane*, they were assigned to Marine Fighter Squadron 122, famed throughout the nation as the unit which pro vides the "Marine Phantoms," a five-man acrobatic team which has thrilled millions of air enthusiasts from coast-to-coast. Maj. Loren (Doc) Everton, com manding officer of VMF-122, lead er of the Phantoms, with Capt. H. L McDaniels checked out the Ban shees at the McDonnell plant in St. Louis and arrived at Cherry Point 1 1-2 hours later. According to Major Everton, a cross wind of 80 miles per hoar prevented a greater speed than the 551-600 mph flown. Carta*! Scallops Briaj Six Mian Par M? Restaurants here in Morahead City were serving native acallops again this week- The season open ing several weeks ago ha* result' ed in fair catches of the valuable bivalve in the Broad Creek and Salter Path sections on Bogue Sound and in certain area* on Core Sound. Men who go into the *ound aftef scallops receive about $8 per gal lon for their catcbe*. Thi* makes the meat Of thi* shellfish the mod valuable and highest priced food commodity of coastal waters. Scal lops an take a almost exclusively in Carteret waters along the North ClreUaa coast. U. M . American business has no more inspiring personality than Roger W. Babson, internationally-known business commentator and invest ment adviser. An outstanding fea ture of his philosophy has been his life-long insistence on the im portance of religion in business. The Carteret County NEWS TIMES will publish Roger W. Bab son's Business and Financial Out look for 1950 during the .week fol lowing Christmas. Readers Deserve Best We bring this article to your at tention because our readers de serve uie Desi. Consequently, be. cause of Mr. Bab son's outstanding record for accur acy in his annual forecasts ? an average of 87 per cent for the past 14 years ? we are publishing ikl. t..l _ 4. ? una icniuic iu M|ir *?. dhin give you a preview of business and finance in 1950. Mr. Babson's 1950 Outlook will contain 50 Forecasts covering such important topics as : general busi ness, commodity prices, taxes, re tail and foreign trade, labor, defi cit financing, farm outlook, stock market, real estate, politics. Born in 1875, reared in an old fashioned atmosphere of hard work and hustle on a farm in Gloucester. Mr. Babson went to the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. Upon graduating in 1898. he turned instinctively to financial and business activities. Health Undermined His exertions, however, under mined his health; he contracted tuberculosis and he was sent West "as good as dead!" It was while he was convalescing from this dread malady that he worked out some of the possibilities and prob lems of business statistics. That was more than forty-five years ago. Today his weekly sta tistical and financial reports are read by thousands of businessmen and his research work is carried on by a large staff of workers. FmhM Institute Mr. Babson founded Bahson In stitute formen; and, in cooper tion with Mrs. Babson, developed Webber College for women, ? bath nationally-known educational in stitutions. Here young men and women may concentrate more in the fundamentals and less on the frills of business. More recently he founded "Uto pia College" for men, located in Eureka, Kansas, the center of Mr. Babson's "Magic Circle." He is also reviving an interest in Sir Thomas More who 400 years ago - outlined his "Utopia" the only so lution to our problems. Only this year he has been active in the es tablishment of still another med ium of service to the public, the Gravity Research Foundation, lo cated at New Boston, New Hamp shire. To millions of newspaper read ers, Mr. Babson is best known by his familiar weekly stories on business which appear in more than 420 papers throughout North America. Of unbounded energy, Roger W. Babson has probably done more than any other man to bring statistics to life, to instill a broader vision in businessmen, and to publicize the ups-and-downs of the business cycle. Fanners Favor Quotas Carteret county fanners voted overwhelmingly in favor of con tinuing cotton quotas for 1950 in an 'election held throughout the county Thursday. Local farmers voted 58-1 in favor of quotas, an average even higher than the na tional record of 9-1 in favor of quotas. First Coast Guard Station Was Built IVearMorehead City By Aycock Brown Co?st Guard aviation which has a role in the 46th anniversary of the birth of flight at Kitty Hewk Saturday, had its beginning at Morehead City. The first Coast Guard Air station ever built, was located here and as a result this Carteret port city is generally credited as being the place where this peacetime flying branch of the Treasury Department "sprout ed its wings." Aviation came to the Coast Guard shortly after the Revenue' Service, the old Life Saving Serv ice and the Light House Service were Aerged. Except for World War I, the air station, which was located at Camp Glenn, may have been built earlier. Congress appropriated monies for 10 air stations for the coast guard back la MM while there was still some question as to whether the United States would become in volved in the war that bad started in Europe in 10M. r. k . . A group of Coast Guard officers were sent to the Naval Air' Sta tion at Pcnsacola to take flight training. Before they finished their course, however, the United States was in the war. They saw combat duty with the Naval avia tors during the war and the au thorization to build air stations for this peacetime service which be comes part of the Navy during time of war was delayed. It wis not until 1B20 that the first Coast Guard Air Station was fnially built. It was located at what was then national guard's Camp Glenn where the University of the Sea, Institute of Fisheries Research and N. C. Fisheries com mission headquarters are located today in buildings that served as a naval MCtion base during World War II For lack of appropriations this first air station, of a service that has become famous for its air-sea rescue activities, was decommis sioned after one year of operation. Jack Britton, Colored Laborer, Dies in Flames 42 Per Cent Of TB Seal Sale Quota Reached Mrs. W. I. Loftin, Secre tary - Treasurer, Reports $1,276.05 on Saturday Forty-two per cent of the coun ty Christmas seal sale quota had been met by Staurday, Mrs. W. I. Loftin, executive secretary-treas urer of the county tuberculosis chapter reported. The goal is $3,000 and by Sat urday $1,276.05 had been receiv ed. Reminders will be sent by mail this week and after Christ mas to persons who have hot yet contributed, Mrs. Loftin said. Con tributions will be accepted, how ever, throughout the year. Design Wins Prize The design of the 1949 Christ mas Seal, featuring a modernistic interpretation of. a dove in flight and traditional Christmas holly, won a $1.00 first prize in a na tionwide contest sponsored by the Society of Illustrators, a national organization of outstanding ar tists, illustrators, and art direc tors, with headquarters in New York City. "The original of the seal was drawn by a youthful Gcrman-bori artist named Herbert Meyers," Stanley Woodland, president of the county chapter, explained. "A recent graduate of Pratt Institute in New York City, Mr. Meyers is using the prize money for addi tional training in his chosen field I of commercial art and for art equipment. "With the consent of the Nation al Tuberculosis association and its 3,000 affiliates, the Society of Il lustrators included the design for a Christmas Seal as a subject for its competition," Mr. Woodland said. "Members of th?* tki'itty pi Illustrators who served as judges chose Jkfr. Meyers' drawing among 50 si&mittefl by students of art schools throughout the country as best in design and ex ecution. Committee Sel?*ts Dove "When the committee which selects the Seal for the tubercu losis association met to choose the 1949 Christmas Seal, it enthusias tically vof?d to use Mr. Meyers' design." The artist, a resident of Lconia, N. J., was born in Wiesbaden, Ger many 27 years ago of an American father and a German mother. In his native country he attended the gymnasium, where art training is compulsory and where, at an early age, he showed talent for drawing and designing. Artist Washed Dishes "When Herbert Meyers came to America nine years ago, his main ambition was to earn an American high school diploma," Mr. Wood land relates. "In order to do this, he took a job? his first in Ameri ca ? as a dishwasher iy the- day time and went to school at night. "Scarcely had he graduated from high school when he entered the U. S. Army and saw three years of action in England, Ger many, France, Belgium, Austria, and Italy." Before the 1949 Seal Sale closes on Dec. 25, officials in charge hope . to realize their quota of $3,000, the minimum needed to,, carry on the tuberculosis preven tion and control work of the Car teret County Tuberculosis associa tion during 1950. Friday NEWS-TINES Will Go to Press Tomorrow The next issue of THE NEWS TIMES will fo to press tomor row night instead of Thursday nighfcas usual. County correspondents should get their news for that issue in the mail immediately and pas tors' deadline for church news is noon today. THE NEWS TIMES, to be dis tributed Thursday morning, will carry Christmas features and Christmas greeting ads from Carteret county merchants. The next issue will appear Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 27. There will be no newscast from THE NEWS-TIMES office from Thursday Dec. 22 until Tuesday, Jan. 3. Businesses Set Up Varied Hours For Closing Beaufort and Mcrchead City stores will be open until 9 o'clock each night this week and will close Monday, Dec. 26. The stores will follow the usual Wednesday procedure, closing at noon, beginning Wednesday, Dec. 28. They will not observe New Year's holiday and therefore will be open Monday, Jan. 2. The courthouse and all county I government offices will be closed , Friday, Saturday and Monday, De cember 23, 24. and 26. Irvin Da vis, register of deeds, says, how ever. that he will be in his office Friday. Dec. 23, in rase anybody wants to get a marriage license. "Wouldn't people be in a ter rible fix if they had to come all the way to Davis (Mr. Davis's home) Friday to get a marriage I liccnsc?" he declared. Agent s Office to Clou* TV co aty farm Mint's, nffice | vul el cm al 5 oldot TWSUiflw I afternoon and remain closed until 8:30 ^Thursday morning, Dec. 29. The Production Marketing ad ministration office will be closed Monday through Wednesday, Dec. 26 to 29. The First Citizens Bank and J Trust company of Beaufort and Morehead City will be closed Mon day and Tuesday, Dec. 26 and 27, and postoffices will close Monday, Dec. 26. To take care of late Christmas mailers, postoffices in Beaufort and Morehead City will remain open until 6 p. m. Saturday. The school holiday extends from today at noon until Tuesday morn ing. Jan. 3. THE NEWS-TIMES offices in Beaufort and Morehead City will close at noon Friday, Dec. 23, and reopen Tuesday morning, Dec. 27. Lions Will Play House of David Morehead City Lions will meet the famed House of David basket ball team January 6, 1950. At their Thursday night meeting in the Fort Macon hotel dining room Lions decided to play the bearded sportsmen. Proceeds from the game will be used to send the Morehead City school band and Beaufort's Queen Street school band to the Lions district convention in Goldsboro January 24. The health and welfare commit tee reported that it had decided not to meet requests from several families who had asked gifts from Lions for Christmas. A commit tee spokesman stated that the club's funds were inadequate to pay out any more cash at the pres ent. Lions cancelled their meeting this Thursday night in view of the Christmas holiday. Their next meeting will be Thursday, Decem ber 29. Hospital Takes Part in Plan To Present Cup 'Blue Cross-Blue Shield Baby of 1950 To Be Selected In Stale Morehead City hospital will par ticipate in the selection of North Carolina's Blue Cross-Blue Shield Baby of 1950, it was announced today by Hoyle L. Green, adminis trator. A beautiful sterling silver cup will be presented by Hospital Sav ing Association, Chapel Hill, to the first baby born in a North Caro lina hospital after midnight, Dec. 31, under a combination Blue Cross-Blue Shield membership of the North Carolina non-profit health-service program. The baby receiving the cup will be the "Blue Cross Blue Shield Baby of 1950." Hospital Saving association had over 7,000 North Carolina babies born under family memberships from January through November of 1949. This is an average of over 600 babies a month. Morhead City hospital has had 428 babies born during the same period of time aitd many were covered by the above mentioned insurance. Jacksonville Man To Supervise 3rd District Census Nere E. Day of Jacksonville will be the district census supervisor, according to an announcement this week from the'Kfjce of ?pTwre s man Graham A. Harden. WllBrep resents the third North Carolina district. This congressional dis trict iacludes Carteret county. As sistant supervisor will be John B. Hooks, Jr., of Fremont. Previous announcement has as sured Goldsboro that the district office would be located there. Bar den, in the announcement, said the plan of rotating selection of the supervisor from a geographical standpoint, was being followed for the forthcoming census. He ex plained that Goldsboro was cen trally located and that the office should remain in Goldsboro. Mayar Former Supervisor Scott B. Berkeley, now mayor, was supervisor of the 1940 cen sus. Day is a landowner in Onslow county. He has served in the North Carolina General Assembly. He was once connected with the federal Department of Justice. Hooks is also a farmer. The Census Bureau is sticking by its decision to questions Ameri cans about their income, although some congressmen have denounced the plan as an unwarranted in vasion of privacy. Can Be Mailed However, anybody who doesn't want to disclose directly to the census enumerator how much money he makes will have the privilege of mailing the informa tion to the Census Bureau on a special form. The income question will be poaed to every fifth household when the census takers make their rounds next year. Those whose incomes are more than $10,000 may simply answer "over $10,000." More specfilc information will be required from those with less than *10,000. Brush Fire Put Out Beaufort firemen were called out at 2:30 Saturday afternoon to ex tinguish a small brush fire at the corner of Mulberry and Marsh streets. The fire was put out im mediately snd firemen returned to the station within 10 minutes. Few Fire Department Members Turn Out to Fight Blaze Fire claimed another life in Car- i teret county early Sunday morn- j ing when Jack Britton, colorcd Beaufort laborer, died in the flames that destroyed his home near Lennox villc road. Instances of this tragedy are almost identical to those in the death of James Bell, 27-year-old Negro, who burned to death Fri day night, Dec. 9 in his home in Morehead City. Britton, 33 years of age, was buried Sunday morning in Ocean View cemetery, Beaufort, follow ing private funeral services. Cor oner Pritchard Lewis termed the death accidental. Department Answers Call Beaufort fire department ans wered an alarm at 2:40 a. m., Sun day, but according to Elmond Rhue, fire truck driver, the one room house in which Britton lived was practically destroyed by the time they arrived. Both the La France and new Dodge truck answered the alarm, Mr. Kiiue driving one and Walter Moore the other. It was reported that the turnout of firemen, how ever, was very slim. The trucks and few firemen who answered the call returned to the station at 4:45 a. m. after the body was sent to the Adair Funeral home. Native of Texas Britton, who came to Beaufort from Texas three years ago, is sur vived by his wife, Rose Lee Brit ton, and two children all of Beau fort. It is reported that the deceased was drunk and ran his family out of the home Saturday night. They went to stay at another house and at 1 a. m. Britto i asked them to come back to their own place which was located behind Beaufort Cannery. They refused to do so and Carl ton Garner, night policeman, or dered him to go home or he would be locked up. Britton evidently went home and later the fire was discovered. It is not known how the flames originated. Liquor Sales Total $50,071 Csrterct county's liquor sales for November totaled $50,071.70. Throughout the state the total for last month was off 11 per cent as compared with the same month last year. State ABC Chairman Robert W. Winston attributes some of the decrease to lower prices. Most of it, he believes, was causcd by the fact that peonJe just aren't buying as much liquor. He has frequently said that liquor sales follow the trend of other business. Morehead City sales for last month amounted to $21,971.65, Beaufort, $17,873.60, and Newport $10,226.45. Paid to the state in sales tax was $4,256.09. Div:dent to the Morehead City hospital was $1,005.20, Beaufort, $817.76. and Newport $467.86. Es timated net profit amounted to $3,625. Paid to the county general fund Nov. 12 was $20,000. Sales in Craven county totaled $65,004.75 and in Onslow $52,980. 60. Morahead Youngsters to Be finest* a! Christmas Party Over-fifty children of Morehead City and vicinity will Ac enter tained tomorrow at a Christina* party sponsored by Morehead City Jaycee*. At 11 o'clock Wednesday morn ing the children will be guests at the City Theatre at a special movie planned by the manage ment. Following the show, the youngsters will be split up into several groups and taken to va rious restaurants where a full fledged Christmas dinner will be served them. Later In the afternoon the group will be taken to the Carteret Rec reational center where games and entertainments will take place! with refreshments an added attrac tion. At 3:30 abirp old Santa himself is due to arrive with a pack full of toys. Each child will receive toys from Santa. Following the distribution of playthings, the youngsters will return to their homes. Flic Station Painted Continuing with the program of improving the municipal building. Morehead City, painters this week were working on the fire station. Jtaside the main building hall walls have been re-plastered and two of fice apacea made into on* at a commtsaioners' board room. Funeral Service Conducted For Thomas C. Wade The funeral service for Thomas Wade, 74, who died Sunday morn ing at his home in Morehead City, were conducted at 2:30 yesterday a/ternoon at the home, 1000 Aren- j dell street. Dr. John H. Bunn, pas tor of the First Baptist church, Morehead City, officiated. Inter ment was in Bay View cemetery. Mr. Wade, who had held promi nent political positions in the county and town of Morehead iCty, had been in poor health for the past several years. He was a former mayor of More head City, had served as clerk of superior court, sheriff, representa tive in the state legislature, and cashier of the Bank of Morehead City and Bank of Beaufort. Until he retired eight years ago, he had been in the insurance busi ness. At the time of his death he was serving as a justice of the peace and a member of the county board of elections. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Adelaide Willis Wade, three sons. Ralph. Norman and Borden, and three sisters. Mrs. Fred Royal and Mrs. C. T. (Ullikin. all of Morehead City, and Mrs. C. S. Wallace, Jr., of Norfolk. Va. Postmaster Issues Final Warning Postmaster Harold W. Webb, Morehead City, mopped his brow last night and issued his final warning to mail Christmas card* promptly. "Mail your holiday greetings at least by the Thursday before Christmas," he stated. "If you delay any longer, your cheerful cards may n?t arrive until after Christmas Day. We're handling the heaviest flood of Yuletide mail on record." He emphasized that his prom ise of pre-Christmas delivery holds good only for cards with local destinations. Cards for out-of Statc delivery should have been mailed last Thursday. If you still have greetings for distant friends, use air mail. A 6 cent stamp will assure delivery within 48 hours to any point within the U. S., the postmaster said. Meanwhile, local mail carriers are massaging their bunions and soaking their feet in cpsom salts. They're preparing for "I.inament Week" the hestic days immedi ately before Christmas, when they deliver sack after sack of heavy mail across endless miles of hard sidewalk. The Postmaster estimates that approximately 200,000 pieces of mail will be cancelled in Morehead during the current holiday season. Colored Woman Escapes Injury in Accident Friday Laura Kulford. colored woman of Beaufort, escaped injury when she walked into the side of a car driven by N. H. Rivenbark shortly after noon Friday on Ann street. Beaufort. The accident occurred at the Ann and Queen street intersection, according to officer Hiram Kerr who investigated. Rivenbark, driv ing a '49 Cadillac, was proceeding toward Morehead City when the woman attempted to cross Ann street going north. Beaufort police took her to the hospital where she was examined and found only to be slightly bruised. Rivenbark, whose borne is upstate, is working on the school house at Atlantic. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Taesday, Dee. H 8:29 a.m. 8:47 p.m. 1:59 a.m. 2:56 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21 9:17 a.m. 9:37 p.m. 2:49 a.m. 3:44 p.m. Thursday, Dee. 22 10:03 a m. 3:38 a n. 4:30 p.m. 4:28 a.m. 10.27 p.m. Friday. Dec. 23 10:49 a.m. 11:16 p.m. 9:19 p.m. Fanners Re-Elect Committeemen Sam D. Edwards, Newport, Will Continue to Serve As PMA Chairman All three members of the 1949 Carteret county Production Marketing Administration commit* \ tee were re-elected to their posts ; for 1950 in PMA elections Thurs* * day, B. J. May, county PMA offic- j er announced today. Sam D. Edwards of Newport, who has been on the county com- 3 mittee since 1934 and has been ! chairman since 1941, was re-elect- .1 ed chairman, Roland Salter of Bettie was re-elected vice-chair- J man and D. W. Truckner of Pel letier was re-e'ected to serve on the committee with the other two. Both Salter and Truckner have been on the county committee for over 10 years. Herman Norris of Pelletier and Hugh T. Carraway of Beaufort, were elected alternate committee men for 1950. B. J. May. secre- ] tary, and Mrs. Ruth Lewis Butler, J treasurer, were re-elected. At a meeting of the county com- 'I mittee immediately following the county convention it was decided ? that the county committee will * meet the first Wednesday night of ] each month to discuss PMA bus- \ iness. , 1 The first committee meeting j will be held Wednesday. Jan. 11, 3 at which time the newly-elected i community committeemen will i; meet with the county committee | and receive instructions and train ing in their duties. Churches Conduct Week of Caroling1 Starting last night members of J churches in Morchcsd City con- a ducted carol singing throughout 1 the town for shut-ins and patients at the hospital. The singing will take place each J night this week through Christmas 1 Eve from 9 to 10 o'clock. Although different churches are 3 in charge of caroling each night, J anyone may join the group, acportt * ing to C. B. Wade who made the * announcement. In charge of the singing 14?t night was Webb Memorial Presby terian church; tonight, St. Luke'* ' Baptist: tomorrow. Franklin Me morial Methodist; Thursday, Free. Will Baptist; Friday, First Bap- i list; Saturday, St. Stephen's AMB Zion, and Sunday, First Methodist; .1 Federal Agent Speaks to Club Nick Avera, field officer o( the Federal Security atency, Wilming ton. addressed Morehcad City Ro tarians on the various facets of social security at the Rotary meet- ; ing Thursday night in the Carteret Recreational center. Avera explained how social se curity benefited those participat ing and said there was no stan- 1 dard case to go by in judging whether a person was eligible for benefits. Instead, he said, eac case was judged on its own I its. The FSA officer said everyone! should inquire into social security | and old age and survivors insure j ance in order to see if (hey would gain by the program. Secretary Dc'fido Cordova dis tributed to each Rotarian desk plaques listing the Rotary four way test, four questions each Ro tarian should ask himself 1b every transaction he undertakes: Is ft the truth? Is it fair to all coo- J better friendship? and Will it be better prie.idship? and will it bk , beneficial to all concerned? JWOPPM*.