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3BS, CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES * A Mercer of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1812) end THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) ^9th YEAR, NO. 8 THREE SECTIONS? EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Capt. Glenn Willis, Beaufort, Shot in Washington Raymond Gams Recovers From Skull Injury Garris Automobile Collides Head-On with Car Driven By Marine Sergeant Raymond Garris, employee at Stroud's Food center, Morehead City, received a fractured skull at 7:45 a. m. Tuesday when the car he was driving collided head-on with another automobile three miles west of Cherry Point on highway 70. Garris is recovering in Tayloe hospital, Washington, where he was taken after being treated at Kafer Memorial hospital in New Bern. Garris, driving a '47 Plym outh was on his way to a Lions convention at Goldsboro. He was alone in the car. Driver of the other car, a '39 Buick was S/Sgt. Jack L. Luckett. who was treated at Cherry Point dispensary for shock and lacera tions. Sgt. Frank Jenkins, a pas senger in the Buick, suffered mul tiple lacerations and contusions and is being treated at the base hospital. Marine investigation officers said that the Buick driven by Luck ett was going east toward More head City and had pulled out tb pass a slower car when the col-! lision occurred. The cars met slightly to the left of center and j the fc-ce of the crack-up, with an estimated impact of 95 miles per hour, destroyed both vehicles. Officers said that no evidence of the use of brakes by either driver could be found. The location of the collision was between Laughinghouse's Garage and Ketner's filling station. Mr. Garris makes his home in Morehead City with John T. Willis. Coumissioners Decide to Enforce Meter Ordinance Morehead City commissioners have about-faced on the parking meter proposition. At a special meeting of the town Board Monday afternoon the po lice department told commission ers that car owners disregarded meters and leave their cars parked for indefinte periods of time with out paying for the privilege. Yellow tickets placed by police men on windshields are disregard ed. the officers said. The town fathers have now in structed the police department to give' citations to all violators. Li cense numbers of the cars will be taken and should the violator not appear at the police station, his name and address will be ob tained at Raleigh and he will be summoned before the iiuyor and given the maximum sentence per missable by law. Mayor George W. Dill requests that all motorists cooperate with the police department and "save themselves embarrassment" BfcPW Clab Members Sm Skit, Kinck of America' Mrs. Kay Kunenetz, member of the Business and Professional Wo men's club presented a skit, "The Miracle of America" at the B k PW meeting Tuesday night in the Lottie Sanders building. Beaufort. The skit followed a roast turkey dinner and no business meeting was held. Taking part in the playlet were John Roberts. Pete Kunenetz, and H. F. Lindsay. Mr. Lindsay also played the piano while club mem bers sang "Carolina Moon" and "America the Beautiful" Tide Table Tide* it Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Jam. 21 2:41 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 2:45 p.m. 9:06 p.m. Saturday, Jam. II 3:36 a.m. 10:06 a.m. 3:37 p.m. 9:36 p.m. Sunday. Jan. 29 4:31 a.m. ' . 11:04 a.m. 4:45 p.m. 10:52 p.m. Maaday. J a a. M 5:24 a.m. 11:55 a.m. 5:39 p.m. 11:43 p.m. Tueaday. Jam. SI 6:14 a.ai. ? 12:41 p.m. 6:28 p.m. Midnight Fire Struck Heart of Moreliead City | By F. C. Salisbury Fire! Fire! Fire! This was the cry that rang out in Morehead City in the night of January 28, 1908. Citizens responding to the alarm discovered the two-story wooden building occupied by the Paragon department store, owned and operated by the late L. L. Leary, was in flames. This structure stood on the lot on which the brick building oc cupied by Hill's now stands, it was two stories high with two store spaces on the ground floor, and a stairway leading to the sec- 1 ond floor. Thf space to the west next to j the alley was occupied by the Far agon which at that time, and for many years later, was rated as the city's largest and best department store. A general store in the east side was operated by Rob Wallace and J. B. Davis. On the second floor over the Paragon store was the barber shop of Fred Royal while the spacf across the Mall housed the printing office of the town paper. Was Fire Set? Th* fire is said to have started i the rear of the Paragon build ing, in the millinery department. Reports at the time were that the. building had been set afire. Efforts on the part of the citizens who constituted the fire department, to bring the blaze under control were of no avail. Fire fighting equipment at that time consisted of a man-operated pumper and the water supply was from wells or cisterns about the town. A strong wind blowing from the northwest caused the fire to spread rapidly to adjoining buildings. To the east of the Paragon building was the home of W. P. Adams and at the corner of 8th street was a one story building in which Mr. Adams conducted a general store. In part of the Adams house was the office of Dr. Mclntyre, the well known physician who was the com pounder of that famous household remedy known as Mclntyre's Mag netic Liniment, good for man or beast. Both the Adams hom^ and store caught fire from ihe Paragon building as well as a dwelling in the rear of the Adams store on 8th street known as the Jim Ar thur place. All were soon a mass of ruins. Flames Jumped Alley Flames jumping the alley to the west of the Paragon building soon enveloped a one-story wooden building known as the Dixon store. Located there was the toWn post office, the postniaster at that time being Alvin S. Willis. The Dixon store as well as the Dixon home next door and the home of Thom as C. Willis to the south on Evans street were totally destroyed be fore the fire's course was changed by a shifting wind, leaving the small office building of Dr. Head en and the brick house of W. W. Chadwick unharmed. When the property owners in the path' of the fire realized that their places could not be saved, the efforts of the firemen and helpers "were turned to the saving of personal property. Contents of the postoffice were saved and fol lowing the fire, Postmaster Willis opened an office in the building now occupied by Dee Gee's shop, later moving into the Baker, build * ing on Are ndqll street thfct was | torn down when the Wade Theatre was built. Postoffice Moved Again Later Mr. Willis moved The of j fice to the Moore building at the | corner of 9th and Arendell streets, now occupied by Pcnders. Mr. Leary purchased the Dixon prop I erty after the fire, erecting the I present Paragon building where he 1 continued his business activities until the time of his death. At the time of the fire other business conccrns in the section from 8th to 9th streets were a millinery shop conducted by Mil dred Dixon in a one-story brick building which was the only brick structure in that block, located on ! what was later the west half of the present bank building and now occupied by the Western Union office. Next came a small wood en building used as a barber shop , by Mart Wade and on the corner was the telegraph, and express of | fice under the management of the ! late Alex Webb. Defendant Gets Suspended Sentence in Property Case Improvements Continue At Fort Macon State Park Recreation facilities at Fort Macon State park will be in i proved during the spring to make read? for capacity crowds this summer, according to Charles C. Stott, assistant state parks superintendent. * Stott was in Morehead City yesterday to survey conditions at the park and make plans for work to be done preparatory to the June opening. Among im provements planned are two ad ditional parking lanes to be ready by June and a large pic nic shelter to be ready by the end of the season. At present there is a bath house, refreshment stand, limit ed parking space, and a 500 ft. boardwalk in the park's recrea tion area, Stott explained. Top soil has been laid in the recrea tion area and brush fences have been built to prevent further wind erosion. Blythe H. Noe Gets Promotion Blythe H. Noe has been pro moted from superintendent of the Beaufort office to district manag er of the Washington district, it was announced at the annual ban quet 'of the Home Security Life Insurance company, which was held in Washington, N. C., Wed nesday evening. .Mr. Noe, who started as an agent With the company ten years ago, was superintendent of the New Bern office for three years, and for the past four years has been su perintendent of the Beaufort of fice. He will replace R. E. King, who is being transferred to Charlotte where he will be district manager. The Washington district will be divided, with a new district. New Bern, under the managesbip of J. W. Hollowell being created. S. J. Keeter will be superintendent of the New Bern office which Kill include Aurora, New Bern, Beau fort gad Morehead City. Frt'd Gore, formerly conected with tile Beaufort staff, will be superin tendent of the Jacksonville office. Mr. Noe has served on the school board. Is a member of the board of stewards of Ann Street Methodist church, a volunteer fireman, building Inspector, and has held office in the Rebekah and I OOF Lodge. He will leave for Wash ington Monday, and his family will follow him as soon a* living ar rangements can be made there. Planing Beard to Meet The Beaufort Planning Board will meet at 7:30 tonight at the; town hall. At their meeting two' weeks afo a monthly meeting night j was set. the last Friday of each ; month. - I A two-year suspended sentence i j was given N. C. Peterson in Tues- 1 : day's session of recorder's court . when he pleaded guilty to dispos ing of property that was mort gaged. ! Peterson's sentence on the roads 'was suSperided by Jifrige Lambert! | Morris on contfiti<fti fh*t he re- 1 main on tgood behavior for two years, pay the costs oJ court and make payment of $500 to the firm | of L. Harvey and Son company in 60 days. Ralph Riggs also received a two year suspended sentence when he was found guilty of non-support. His sentence was suspended on condition he pay $10 a week to Mrs. Anne M. Riggs for the sup port of his minor children and pay ; costs of court. Three Appeal Three verdicts of guilty of drunken driving were appealed and each of the defendants had his case bound over to superior court under $2(f() bond. The de- 1 fendants werd Glenn Wade, Lind sey B. Wells and John A. Bruce. The last defendant was also found 1 guilty of driving without a license. Hazel S. Garner was fined $25 and costs when she pleaded guil- j ty to resisting arrest, assaulting j an officer, usiig loud, boisterous and profane language, and being ; drunk and disorderly. Two addi- i tional warrants charging her with j assault and trespass were with- j drawn and the prosecuting witness was taxed wifh the costs. Hatton Pleads Guilty Louis Hattoi pleaded guilty to two charges of giving a bad check and was required to pay the costs and make the checks good. F. II. Fuleher and James Powell plead bd guilty to identical charges and received the same penalty. The charge of giving a bad check, against Paul Fcrrctti, was not prosecuted. Kennetri R. Hixon pleaded guil ty to possession of nontax-paid whiskey, after being charged with both possession and transporta tion of the liquor. His plea was accepted and he was fined $10 and costs. Robert L. Cooper was charged See DEFENDANT Page Three Temperatures Go Dp To 74 TMsday. Wednesday Carteret county folks perspired in temperatures past 70 Tuesday and Wednesday. The maximum was 74 degrees, according to E.. Stanley Davis, official weather ob server. The minimum tempera ture was also the same on those two days, 52. No rain fell during the five dayi following last Friday, .Ian. 20 Winds were from the north west Friday, the northeast Satur day and were southwesterly since Sunday. Temperatures, maximum and minimum, were aa follows: Fri day, 45 and 45; Saturday. 82 and \ 36. Sunday. 5S and 50; Monday. 64 and Al. Heavy foga blanketed water front sections during the night and early mornings. Police Release Charles Hester Charles Hester, 17, colored boy who was being held by Beaufort police on suspicion of committing the burglary early Sunday morn ing at the O. S. Clawson home, Beaufort, has been released. (Jfoief Louis B. Willis said there was insufficient evidence to war rant charging him with the crime. There is belief that two persons may be involved and investiga tions are continuing. The Clawson home was entered at 12.30 a. m. Sunday and a pair of trousers containing a wallet with $17 was taken. The trousers, keys and a knife in the trousers were found later in the car belong tag to Gilbert Potter. The car was standing about 50<) : yards from the Clawson home, near the Marsh and Ann street in tersection. Mr. Potter, according ' to Chief Willis, found one of the front car doors open. He investi gated and found the trousers tucked under the front seat and on the ground by the car the keys and a knife. A large butcher knife found be neath the window through which the Clawson home was entered, is now in the hands of S. G. (iibbs, of the S. B. I. State Board Will Adopt Shrimp Law Feb. 17 and 18 Preliminary Public Hear ing Will Take Place in Morehead; No Dale Set The State Board of Conserva tion, ending a two day session in Raleigh Tuesday, voted to hold a spec'al meeting in Wilmington reb. 17 and 18 to adopt regula ions governing shrimping. Prior to that meeting a public hearing will take place in Morehead City in order that suggestions and pro posals from commercial fishermen may be received. The board established a new licensing system for commercial fishermen and shrimpers and gave seven small dehydrating plants permission to use scrap fish of ed ible varieties. When the board meets in Wil mington next month, besides tak ing up the shrimp matter it will consider a suggestion that the De partment of Conservation and De velopment employ a publicity man. The suggestion came from Ferd Davis, hoard member from Zeb ulon. who said he didn't know of a comparable State agency which was lacking in someone to handle its publicity. Davis himself asked that a decision on the proposal be postponed until the February meeting. Ticklish Situation The shrimp situation has been a subject of alarm with the new, board since last summer, when numerous complaints were made because of fish being destroyed by shrimp trawlers. Shrimpers them selves expressed alarm about the supply when the season s catch de clined. Regulations applying to the size of mesh which will be permitted or shipping will be taken up at the mertlng For this reason, It was emphasized by Fred I.atham of Belhaven, the board must act quickly. Otherwise, said Latham, a member of the board, many shrimpers already will have pur chased their equipment for next season and may find that it does not meet legal requirements. The board alsp expects to con sider fixing definite opening and closing dates for the shrimp sea son. New System The new licensing system was worked out by tSate Fisheries ( ommissioner John A. Helton and C. D. Kirkpatrick of the Division of Commerce and Industry who was assigned to the task by George ; Ross, C&D director. The system! is designed to make it simpler; for inspecting authorities to dc- , tcrmine whether boats or nets have been properly licensed. The system provides: Fish and shrimp paAers and Shippers must display license cards in their places of business. CiH nets must be tagged near the end of their cork line. Pound nets must be tagged at the offshore end. Fike nets must be tagged near the mouth. see STATE BOARD, Page three Health Officer Releases County Sanitation Grades Dr. N. Thomns Ennett, county ' health officer, has released the hotel, restaurant, meat market, butchery, and dairy sanitation ! grades for the third and four quar- < ters of IMS. Inspections were made by A. D. Fulford, sanitarian. ] Restaurant aid hotel grades ap- 1 pear below. Meat market, abat- ] toir grades, and dairy grades will I appear in a subsequent issue. Percentages of 90 and above are ! A. 80 and above B. and 70 >nd I above C. ' Percentages follow the name of the place of business. 1 1 Beaufort < Guthrie-Jones ' Fountain Ltinch. , ] 92 0; Beaufort School Lunch Room. i 91.5; Beaufort Bus Station Lunch, ! 91.5; Inlet Inn Hotel. 91 0 t Inlet Inn Dining Room. 90.0; Fred's Barbecue. 910; Holdcn's Restaurant, 00.0; The Griddle, BO O; ' Joe House Fountain Lunch, 90.0. 1 Charlie's Place. 85.5; Annie Clyde's Cafe, 85.0; Sraham Lunch, 85.0; Broad St. Lunch, 85.0; Car- I rie's Snack Bar. 85.0. Edward's Groc. Lunch. 83.0; Gordette Lunch. 80.5; Davis Place, I 83 5. Chicken Shack. 75 0. Northead city and Morehead R F D 1 Sanitary Fish Market Restau- , 1 rant, 95.5; Jefferson Hotel. >3.0; 1 Morehead School Ltinch Room. 1 1 91.0; Best GrilL 91.0, Morehead ( City Fountain Lunch, 91.0. ; The Galley. 91.0: Blue Ribbon Club, 90.5; Lummies Drive-Inn, 90.8; Airport Grill, 90.S; Stanley'! Cafe, 90.5. Ft. Macon Hotel, 90.5: Carteret Recreational Snack Bar. 90.0: Capt. Bill's Restaurant. 90.0: He'dy'i Lunch. 90.0: The Hush Puppy, W.0. Pine Tree Inn, 90.0; Curve Inn, W.O; Rex Restaurant, 90.0: Horn's Place, 00.0; Mack's Place. 85.0. Garment Lunch. 84.5; Broad way Cafe, 84.5; Pop Smith's Oys ter Bar. 82.5; Willis Inn. 810. Dudley's Cozy Nook, 80.0; Edge vater Club. M.0; Camp Glenn School Lunch, 80.0: Jenkin's Oys ter Bar It Barbecue. 75.5. Atlantic House Boat Inn, 90.5: Mount Taylor's Oyster Bar. 83.0; Mason's Lunch. 80.0; Atlantic Cafe, 71.0. Harken Island Ben Wilson Cafe. 90.0; R. J. ~badwick's Food Center, 90.0. Smyrna Smyrna School Lunch Room. W.0: Chadpick'i Lunch, 82.5. Newport and RFD Riviera, 93 5; South Seas. 91.5; Vowport School Lunch. 90.0; libbt Fountain Lunch. W.0: Hi- > ?Vay Cafe. M.0; Smitties Drive inn, 83.5; Hubert Smith's Cafe, I 12.0. Skipper of Lindsay Warren Dies In Tayloe Hospital Capt. Glenn B. Willis, Beaufort, was shot and killed Wednesday night on a dock in Little Washington. Ralph Midgette, 43, of Dare county, u member of Captain Willis's j crew, was being held in the Washington jail yesterday I morning without bond. Captain Willis was skipper of the Lindsay Warren, con | verted submarine chaser which made the run several Makes Official Visit Mrs. E. a. Anderson, presi dent of the North Carolina Federation of Woman's clubs, spoke last night at the annual Winter meeting of the Morehead City Woman's club. The meet ing was held in Webb Memor ial Civic center following an ex ecutive board dinner. Senate Committee OKs Proposals On State Waterways Thro? of the eight river and harbor improvements sponsored by the North Carolina Ports authori ty, included in the pending bill reported favorably by the Senate committee on public works, arc of cspecial interest to fishermen of this area. These proposed improvements are Taylor's creek, Beaufort; the channel from Manteo to Oregon inlet, and the waterway from Pam lico Sound to Beaufort harbor. The other five proposes, ap proved also by the United States Corps of Engineers and endorsed by Governor Scott, Include Mason boro inlet to the ocean. Cape Fear river at and below Wilmington. Far creek, Pasquotank river, and Inland Waterway in the vicinity of Fairfield. These are badly needed im provements. sakl George W. Gil lette, SPA executive director, "the i people of North Carolina have worked for them for years and will be glad to kno?v that with final approval of this bill, their ulti mate construction is dependent only upon the appropriation of funds." ? The SPA director said the prin cipal project ia that for a deeper channel in the Cape Fear River. "This provides for a channel 35 feet deep and 400 feet wide across the ocean bar from the 35 foot contour in the Atlantic Ocean, thence 34 feet deep and 400 feet wide to the upper end of the an chorage basin at Wilmington," Gil lette said. The director emphasized that this increased depth, when com pleted. will place Wilmington ap proximately on a par with other South Atlantic ports. ' Uoauiort Honor ms Hoceive Awards Monday Niyhi Wiley Taylor. Jr., Beaufort's man-of-the-year and Odell Merrill key man, were presented their gold keys at the Monday meeting of the Jaycees at tHe Inlet Inn. The' key man received a gold key, iimilar to the man-of-the year award, rather than a plaque as announced at the Saturday night banquet. Presentations were made by Jaycee Gene Smith. The awards did not arrive In time for the banquet. , John Butler won the attendance kitty and it waa agreed to discon tinue this practice. For several montha name* were drawn and the lucky man won the caah contrib uted that night by fellow Jaycees. Plans are being made for pro duction of a .minstrel show in March. A meeting of the end men was held laat . night. Script and ; music have been ordered from a i play publishing house I times a week between little Wash- \ ington and Ocracoke. According lo J. Bonner Paul, 1 coroner of Beaufort eounty, t ap tain Willis was returning to the Warren shortly before, midnight I Wednesday when he was shot, 1 probably with a 12 gauge shotgun, j Captain Willis managed to waik off the dock to the intersection of ; Water and Bonner street where he fell. Died in Hospital An ambulance took him to Tay j loe hospital where he died at about 2 a. m. yesterday mopning without regaining consciousness. 4Ie was injured in the heart, lungs and left shoulder. Midgette fired from aboard the boat, according to the coroner, at a distance of 20 to 30 feet from Captain Willis. It is believed he held a grudge against the skip- ! per, but no definite motive had been ascertained by noon yester day. Admits Shooting Midgette admitted the shooting, j He told the authorities that he had two guns, a rifle and a shotgun. In the shotgun he used either No. 2 or No. 4 shot, but he told the po lice he didn't know which. He threw both weapons overboard af ter the shooting and until they are found, authorities say they will not be able to determine whether a 12, 16, or 20 gauge gun was j used. They believe, however, that it was a 12. Midgette did not fire the rifle. He was reported to be in a daze after he was taken into custody. He did not attempt to escape from the boat, but stayed there af ter his victim fell. Police say he had been drinking but 'was not , drunk. Midgette is quoted as say ing he "had just had enough to make him go through with it," and that he had been waiting several hours for Captain Willis to return to the boat. While waiting, he related, an other crew member came aboard and he took him below and locked him up. Several members of Midgette's family live in Beaufort. No Inquest Coroner Paul said no inquest would be held. The body was taken early yes terday morning to Bell and James funeral home in Morchcad City. ! Surviving Captain Willis arc his wife; two sons, Glenn, jr., and Pierson, both of the home, two daughters, Mrs. Pauline Hill, of the home; Mrs. Thurston Hill, Beaufort; his father, John E. Wil lis, Atlantic, a brother, Ottis Wil lis. Beaufort, a sister, Mrs. Jess" Willi., Morchead City, and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements had not been made late yesterday. Four Farmers Go j To Seed Meeting Four farmers from Carteret county attended a North Carolina Seed Producers association bbn quet in Raleigh yesterday. County Agent R. M. Williams announced today. Those attending were A1 Stin son, assistant county agent. Floyd Garner, field supervisor in. the vet erans farm training program in Newport, and Gilbert Slaughter and Alton Jones, both of Newport RFD Purpose of the banquet was to honor the highest corn producers in 1949 in each county of the state. Jones, a vacational agriculture stu dent at Newport school, raised 132 bushels of corn tp one acre for an unofficial third place in North < Carolina, and Slaughter, a veter- , ans farm trainee, raised 100 bush els to an acre. i This morning Williams, Stinson, Raymond Wells of Lennoxville i and. Jim Young and Jason Morris ? of Stella will attend a blueberry meeting In Burgaw. Purpose of | the meeting Is to discuss phases of blueberry production, process- | es of growing the berries and . means of controlling insects. Each j of the three farmers are raising . ?t least five acres of tbe berries, j Will Attend Conference Dr. C. 9 Paden. veterinarian, is ? (tending the North Carolina Vet Erinarians' conference this week In Raleigh. Robert Morris To Play Mozart Concerto Feb. Little Symphony Program Includes Varied Types Of Numbers Robert (Bobby) Morris, guest pianist to appear in Beaufort with the North Carolina Little Sym phony at 8:30 Tuesday night, Feb. 14. will play Allegro from the Con certo in I) Mi 3 or for Piano and Orchestra by Mozart His appear ance will precede intermission and will be the second number on the program. Young Morris, a student at At lantic high school, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Morris, Atlan tic. The program, in its entirety, fol lows: Symphony in IJ Major by Bizet, all four movements; Allegro from Concerto in I) Minor, by the soloist. Ballet mu.icfrom William Tell, by Rossini; brink to Me Only With Thine Eyes by I'ochon; Sheep and Goat Walkin' to the Pasture by Guion; Turkey in the Straw ar ranged by Guion. The Sunkc \ Cathedral by De bussy, Sleigh Hide by Anderson, and Dances from Henry VIII, Morris Manec, Shepherd's Dance, and Torch Dance, by German. Ushers for the evening concert will be Mrs. Charles Cheek, ,&lfs. Gilbert Potter, Mrs. K W. Prest,' Mrs. James Potter I IF, Mrs. Claud Wheatly, jr., an,! Mrs. ?iarrn?e Paden. Ushers for the afternoon con cert will be Miss .M ry Frazier Paul, Miss Lctitia Ifouse, .and Miss Jean Hopkins. Mattress Bums In Johnson Home Fire caused by ;i short circuited./ ?* electric wire set fire to a mattress in the home of Frank Johrison, Beaufort, Tuesday night causing loss of the mattress, slight damage to an adjoining wall and smoke, damage to the entire home. Firemen received the call at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday and rushed four doors away to the Johnson home next to Manson's grocery in the 500 block of Broad street. They found the house filled with smoke but not much actual fire damage. Fire broke out when an electric light wire leading to a floor Ijmp had been jammed between a bed and a wall. Insulation around the wire was damaged and a short cir cuit resulted. Members of the Johnson family awakened to find the house full of smoke and called firemen. The mattress is beyond repair and a small portion of the adjoining wall was burned but otherwise nothing else caught fire. No one was sleep ing in the bed. Fire department members re turned to the station by 1 a.m. Alarm 12 was sounded because the lire was in the vicinity of the fire station. Lou Gore Speaks Tuesday To Beaufort Bolarians Carteret county is the finest placc to live in the United States, Lou Gore, ex-president of the Morehead City Rotary club, ex rlaimcrt at the Beaufort Rotary meeting Tuesday night in the In let Inn President Thomas Ennett read a letter from District Cover 'or H. A Marks .urging the Beaufort 1 t-lub to put on a special Rotary . anniversary program in February. \ Dr Ennett announced that Hal ?ey Paul would be in charge of next week's program. W. C. Curl- 1 Ion of the Morehead City cltlb was a visitor at the meetijg. Lions Attend Convention A large representation of More- j lead City Lions and their wives ittended the Lions district convene j :ion in Goldsboro Monday and . Tuesday. They were President and J VIrs. Frank Moran. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Wainvmgbt. Mr. and Mrs. i Victor WickiMr. Mr. and Mrs. M Louis Hinson. Barrett Davis, Judy J Perry. Vernon Guthrie, Mr. and j Mrs. Gerald Davis. Ojcar AJlred, n ind Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gutbrie.^