SSE CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES A Mercer of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1911) ?nd THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 89th YeJaR, NO. 11 EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYi The North Carolina Lilt la Symphony Orchestra ... , t ? ' ' ? ? The North Carolina Little Symphony of 23 players, pictured above, will come to Beaufort for concerts next Tuesday. The or chestra is under the direction of Benjamin Swalin. A free concert will be played for school children Tuesday afternoon and a concert for adults at 8:30 Tuesday night in the Beaufort school auditorium. District Eight JCs Will Meet AT Morehead City 150 Jaycees, Wives Will < Stay at Atlantic Beach Hotel April 22 Morehead City has been selected i as the site for the spring quarterly meeting of the eighth district of North Carolina Jaycees, April 22. Selection was made at the winter quarterly meeting in Greenville Thursday nigh*. Over 150 Jayeces and their wives will be present for the week end meeting. The Ocean King ho- 1 tel on Atlantic Beach will be turn ed over to the group that weekend. Four Beaufort Jaycees and elev en Morehead City Jaycees attend ed the meeting in Greenville. At tendance was the largest ever re corded at any Jaycee district meet ing in North Carolina. This high mark is particularly significant be cause district eight is one of the smallest in the state, remarked Bernard Leary, Morehead City, district vice - president. HieblirJMs qf tbe GreenY'Ufi. meeting ,;ere an address by Vk$ president Leary and a talk on Jaycee extension work by state President Micou Brown of Raleigh. Brown said the aim of the state organization is to see the estab lishment of 20 additional clubs to bring the total to 100 clubs in North Carolina. Present at the meeting, in ad dition to representatives from nine towns in district eight, were Jaycee officials and two candi dates for state Jaycee president, Rush Hamrick of Shelby and Buc ky Snider of High Point. Jaycees attending from Beaufort were Joe House, jr., A1 Stinson, Lawrence Rudder and Odell Mer rttl. Those attending from More head City were Walter Ewell; Bill Chalk, Lester Hall, Warren Beck. Kenneth Wagner, Bernard Leary, * Bud Dixon. Bob Lowe, Bob How ard, Jimmy Wallace and Bruce Goodwin. Woman Injured In Bridge Accident Mrs. Lyda Howard, wife of Jessie Howard, Newport route 1. received cuts about the mouth when the car driven by her hus band ran into the railing on the Mill Pond bridge Saturday night, three miles from Newport on the Nine-foot road. R. H. Brown, state highway pa trolman who investigated, said that the lights failed on Howard's car, a '41 Plymiuth, and his brakes didn't work, causing the car to hit tlic railing. The automobile was balanced? half on the bridge and half over the water. Four other passengers in the car and Mr. Howard were not in jured. The accident occurred at 7 p. m. Damage to the Plymouth is estimated at $400 and 20 feet of railing was torn away on the bridge. Mrs. Howard was treated by her family doctor. Norshead City Firemen Called to Two Grass Fires Two grass fires were put out by Morehead City firemen Sun day afternoon, neither caused any damage. The first alargi was turned in at 3 p.m. from the home of Mrs. John Nelson in the 700 block of Sher st. No water was needed extinguish the fire which had io(t died out by the time fire men arrived. At 5:30 p.m. another alarm was Mrned in for a lire in a vacant lot between 2]st and Fisher sts. firemen remained at the scene (or 29 minutes before the (ire was put ?Ut. Juvenile Judge On Recent Tru< A. H. James, judge of juvenile court, announeed today that aetiv ity in juvenile eocrt has greatly increased during the past six months. He estimates that approx imately one hearing has been held each week. The juvenile court is set up for the protection of children under 16. Cases coming before the court may involve delinquency, adoption, separation of children from par ents, truancy, custody, or com mitment to institutions. The court is assisted by the wel fare deparment staff who prepare social histories and make necess ary investigations. Hearings Confidential Although all of the hearings are confidential. Mr. .lames expressed the feeling that more should be given in order that the public may become acquainted with the needs of children. This is espec ially true where children are not attending school regularly. Since the beginning of this school year, teachers and prin cipals, working with the school supervispr, have referred approx imately 75 families to the welfare department for investigation of school attendance. Out of this group, pnly seven had to be sijb poenaed to court Jan. 28. In all the others the children had re turned to school. These confidential hearings were held before the juvenile court judge and the superintendent of public welfare, Thomas McGinnis. The superintendent of public wel fare is the chief probation officer in every county. Some of the factors contribut ing to irregular school attendance were found to be. according to Mr. McGinnis, health, social and emotional difficulties, and econom ic need. In some cases only one factor was outstanding while oth ers included a combination of sev eral. Neglect of parents was cause I in one case. If these parents continue to neg lect their responsibility they will be referred to Recorders Court where they will face a possible j road sentence. The juvenile court hopes that the schools, communities, and families will continue to give their j support toward the solution of 1 problems of children who fail toi attend school. Morehead to Hire I More Firemen Morehead City commissioners at a called meeting Thursday night at the municipal building author ized the employment of two more full-time firemen in order to keep the town's fire insurance rates at the present level. The commissioners also chcckcd fire equipment and reviewed oth er phases of the fire protection system. The fire department at their meeting last night was scheduled to select two men for the additional full-time jobs and present their names to the com missioners for approval. Other matters discuseed, but on which no action was taken, con cerned drainage problems in the western part of the city, and who should be given the contract for the town audit, Albert Gaskill of Morehead City or Williams and Wall of Raleigh. The regular meeting night is the third Tuesday of each month, but a session was called Thursday night because three commission er*, W.L. Derrickson. Walter Free man. and D. G. Bell are planning to be out of town Feb. 21. Mr. Derrickson and Mr. Freeman, how ever, were not at the Thursday night icuion. Commissioners present, in ad dition to Mayor George Dill were M T. Mills. S. C HoUoway and Mr Bell. Unless a special session it called the next meetmj of the esmaaisi f?=ers will be Tuesday tufht, March 21. Makes Report 1 unry Cases $50,000 Soil Filed In Death oi Carl Barfield A S5'i JOO suit in the death of Carl l.oftin Barfield at Swans boro Nov. 13, last year has been filed in Oslow superior court. The suit, brought by Walter K. Kengy, admin. strator of the es tate of the young Swansboro man, is against John Wething ton, jr., diiver of the automo bile which struck and killed Barfield. The suit alleges that Welling ton was driving ?n a reckless and careless manner, swerved across the highway and hit Bar field and failed to stop and ren der assistance after the accident. March of Dimes Campaign Falls Short of Goal Collected to date in liio March ! of Dimes for Carteret county is ' $4,481. A. II. James, director, ati nounoed today. This is $2,719 short of the $7,200 quota. Mr. James appeals to all civic organizations and other organized groups in the eoupty to help this week to make u|f the deficit. "We may sorely need this money in the county this summer," he ex plains. "We must have $7,200." The $7,200 goal in 1949 was met without any trouble. Although there was only one case of infant ile paralysis in the county during the summer of 1049, other cases from previous years continue to require treatment. Should an ep idemic occur here, as it did two years ago. $7,200 and more will be? required' to give the aid nec essary. Numerous Appeals Made During the recent March of Dimes, appeals were made by rad io, a "line of dimes" was spon sored in Morchead City, and Beau fort Fire department in cooper ation with Beaufort Hardware company sold chances on an elec tric percolator. The percolator was won by Bill Kirk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie J Kirk, ^Ann street extended. One | hundred four dollars was received | from this project. i The campaign was climaxed by ! th? President's Ball last Tucs ! day night and approximately $175 was realized. Jimmy Wallace of Morchead City was in charge of | the affair. ! Other organizations, including Pup Tent No. 6. Beaufort, and the ! county Business and Professional j Woman's club gave lump sums to | the drive. Mr. James believes the $7,200 can be obtained if all individuals j j and groups who have not yet con tributed make a concentrated ef- ^ fort to bring the drive to a succes | sful close. Siudebaker Overturns A! Highway Intersection An overturned 1950 Studebakcr and a seemingly "stewed" Marine sergeant was all Patrolman W .1 Smith, jr.. found Sunday night near the intersection of highway 24 and 70. west of Morehead City, when he was cillcd to investigate an accident. Patrolman Smith said the charge j of being drunk on the highway is i being filed against M/Sgt. William Bofrtick of Camp Lejeune. | Sergeant Bostick was found at j the scene of the wreck 300 yards | west of the intersection of high j way 70, but told the patrolman ' that he was not driving the car. I He further stated that six other I persons were with him in the au tomobile. But n? one else could be found. No other ctr wii involved and the StideM'ier wis towed to t Morehead City garage. , Tar Heels Afloat To Visit Island Pleasure Boats Will Meet Saturday to Cruise East To Hog Island A mid winter cruise to Hog Is land in the extreme eastern end of j Carteret county will be made by | Tar Heels Afloat Saturday and Sunday, Commodore George East-j man disclosed today. Craft in the cruise will rendez vous in Morehcad City at 11 a. m. Saturday and proceed down Core Sound to Hog Island where they will make their headquarters at Camp Fishunt on Hog Island bay. That night an. oyster roast will be given at the camp, the only enter tainment planned for the week end. Approximately 12 boats from Morehead City and Beaulort, four or five from New Hern and three or four from Wilmington are ex pected to make the cruise. Persons will sleep aboard their craft while at Hog Island. Tar Heels Ailoat is a unique organization among pleasure boat ng lans. Commodore ICastman commented. There are no dues or obligations imposed upon its num bers. The only purpose of the group Is to provide pleasure for the members. There are three week-end cruis es during the summer and for the first time in the two-year history of the organization a mid-winter cruise will take place this year. Albatross Leaves On Third Cruise This Morning The Albatross, fisheries research vessel, will leave Port Terminal at 11 o'clock this morning on its third scheduled cruise in North Carolina waters. On this trip it will trawl waters in the 20 to 50-fathom depth be tween Cape Lookout and Frying Pan shoals. Work was first done between Hatteras and Lookout and then the Albatross went south to the section around Frying Pan. This trip will "close the gap" between the two areas. During the most recent trip in the Frying Pan area approximate ly 100 miles was covered, trawling in the 20 to 50-fathom depth, with no rollers, and nq. nets were torn up. W. A. Ellison, jr., director of the Institute of Fisheries Re search, said this indicates that wa ters at that depth arc trawlable to a greater extent than thought. Hydrographic data is taken on these trips in addition to trawling work. After the Albatross returns from this trip, she will leave for her home port at Woods Hole, Mass. During the first cruise from Morehead City, 443 croakers were tagged to obtain information on the migration of this food fish. To supply comparable data to show any deviation between the nor thern and southern populations of croaker, the Albatross lagged 338 rroakers from the Wimble Shoals area and 85 croakers just south of Cape Hatteras. C. E Atkinson, Chief, Middle and South Atlantic Fishery inves tigations. states that the Fish and Wildlife service was exceptio lally fortunate in having the opportuni ty to tag these two groups of fish at almost the same time. "This information will be a most valuable contribution to our knowl edge of the croaker, for the data may settle the highly controversial question of the association of the failure in Chesapeake Bay area with the fishing activity off North Carolina," Mr Atkinson remarked. Band To Meet The community bio i of More held City will meet at Mdrehead City school at 7; JO tonight, r Officers Investigate Weekend Safe Robbery at Lee Motor Sales County Board Handles Road, Tax Problems County Conveys Water Frontage Property to Town of Beaufort County commissioners handled road and property problems at yesterday's sessio.i in the court house and drew jurymen for March superior court. They made no definite commit ment on the request for $1,000 to the Cherry Point Zoning com mission and accepted two reports, one from R. M. Williams, county agent, and the other from A. H. James, clerk of court. Mr. Williams presented his an- 1 nuat written report on agricul ture in Carteret county and MP. James gave the clerk of court's financial report for January. At the request of Wiley Taylor, jr.. attorney for Beaufort, the county has conveyed, for public usage, its interest 1,000 feet of property from the bridge on Tur ; ner street extended to the F. R. | Bell tract, to the town of Bcau i fort. Now Dockage Area I Mr. Taylor said that it is the j hope of town authorities to have I the water area dredged so that small fishing boats can tie up there rather than clutter up the present waterfront during the fishing season. Both Mr. Taylor and John , Brooks entered bids on 350 ac res of land in Davis township. The board decided that two parties' be ing interested in the property, war- j ranted public sale. The fand is known as the E. J. Bectoi tract and was forclosed by the county seven years ago. Mr. Taylor offered $250 for the prop erty and Mr. Brooks $200. The former said that the land was wanted for grazing cattle. Jonn Miller, Beaufort, was giv on a petition to be filled out in I regard to the road just east of ' the railroad in Highland Park. This road connect* highway 70 with a street known as "Chestnut street.'' Mr. Miller requested that the state highway department make the road passable. The board told Mr. Miller that no action could be taken until the petition was filled out and presented to them. C. K. Howe, Beaufort, received a similar petition form when he , requested state highway improve ment for 500 feet of road on In I let Island. lain ocuicn One hundred seventy-five dol lars was accepted in payment of '36 and prior taxes on the Billy Guthrie property, Markers Island. Five dollars was accepted in set tlement of back taxes on the prop erty of James Golden, heirs. Sea Level and $60 on the taxes owed | on the land listed under Alton Willis, heirs, Markers Island. One hundred fifty dollars in settlement of taxes on the E. G. Dixon prop erty, Markers Island, was also ac cepted. The board approved payment of $70 to pay expenses of C. L. Beam, county veterans service officer, to attend a training school for four days at Washington. Hugh Salter, county commissioner, is also at tending the school on behalf of the VFW, and was not at the board meeting. Harold Willis Serieulr Cuts Finger With Hatchet Harold Willis, Beaufort, is re covering today from an injury he received Friday while using a hachct He almost cut off part of the index finger of his left hand. Mr. Willis was treated at More head City hotpital and it is hoped the fingv won't have to be am putated The accident occured while Mr. Willis was at work at Lipman's store. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday. Feb. 7 1 11:27 a.m. 5:22 a.m. 11:57 p.m. 5:38 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. > 12:00 Midnight 6 19 *.m. 12:19 p.m. 6:30 p.m. ThwvUy. Feb. 9 12 55 am. 7:23 am 1:18 pm 8:28 p.m. Feb. W 2.31 ?.?. a. 23 *.3L 2:21 pjn. .8.33 p.m. ft Cash amounting to $81.29 was aken from a safe in I^ee Motor Sales, Bridges St., Morehead City, luring the weekend but the thief >r thieves neglected to pick up 5105 78 in cash that was sitting in he safe next to the $81.29. Employees at the automobile igency arrived at work yesterday norning to find that sometime ov- f ;r the weekend the back door to : he garage had been pried open ind the combination pried off a iteel safe in the agency affice. A total of $187.07 had been left n the safe but the larger part of he cash was overlooked. It was sitting in a pasteboard box next o the money that was taken. Police were called immediately yesterday morning. Upon investi gation it was found that a ham ner had been uSed to knock the landle off the safe. When this :ailed to open the safe a long screwdriver was then used to pry he combination out of the door, hus breaking the catch and open ng the strongbox. Police stated late yesterday that investigation of the break - in and heft was continuing. They said it appeared that the thief had been frightened away before he had :ime to completely explore the contents of the safe, and therefore overlooked all the cash. Officers who investigated Acre Chief E. J. Willis and Her bert Griffin. Chamber Officers To Speak Feb. 19 At Fayettevilie Dan Walker, manager of the Beaufort chamber of commcrce, and Robert G. Lowe, manager of the Morehead City chamber of commerec. will take part on the program at the area meeting of the North Carolina Association of Chamber of Commcrce Executives. The meeting will be held at Fay ettevilie Friday, Feb 10. Mr. Walker will talk on "How to Sell Memberships in a Local Chamber of Commerce" and Mr. Lowe will speak on "What My Chamber Is Doing for Tourists." In addition to North Carolina chamber of commcrce executives, members will hear Charles Parker, director of the advertising divis ion of the state department of conservation li)d development. Ed Cherry, assistant manager of the Southeastern division, United States chamber of commerce, Wal ter Carver, head of Agricultural division. United States chamber of commerce, Washington, and Paul Kelly, representative of the industrial division of the state de partment of conservation and de velopment. This will be the first of three area meetings planned for the late winter and early spring. The next area meeting will be held in Ashe ville for the western section and the third will be held at Lexing ton, for the Piedmont area. These meetings will be March 13 and April 7 respectively. Teen-Age Club To Celebrate Second Birthday Morehead ? City Teen-Age clubi will celebrate their second birth day Saturday night at the Carter et Recreation center. The party will be a combination birthday Valentine affair, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The birthday cake will be baked and donated by Mrs. Joseph Morse. Committee to Decorate Chairman of the decorating committee is Ann Garner, assisted by Shirley Willis. Syble Oglesby. Jane Ballou. Mary Lou Norwood, Claudette James, and Enid Row. The executive board of the Car teret Recreation center will meet this afternoon. Mrs. Harold Samp son, director, has announced. Member Writes An article written by Miss Og lesby. member of the senior Teen Age club entitled "We must Have Ilelp" appears on page 8 of to day's NEWS-TIMES. This Is the first in a series of articles written by Teen-Ate club members in the interest of pro moting the club Members of the committer which la ; beaded by Hits Og!e;by, ere Jaae iiUot. ttir'.v JCu U+it, it., uit Harry Piupat/idt. Former Circus Polar Bear Prefers Bars and Leisure By ELLIOTT CIIAZE AP Newsfeatures DENVER ? You hoar a lot of | talk about the importance of so- 1 curity these days. But here's a new definition for it: security is a thing that keeps a polar bear from jumping a four-foot fence. This polar bear's name is Velox and back in her flapper days she ' used to climb ladders and balance her 500 pounds of ivory-furred I charm on red-painted stools. Back there she worked for Ring- 1 ling Brothers, travelling the coun- j try in a crate, her fur all gummed up with soot half the time, and there were always more towns a- 1 head, more ladders and stools, j Now, at 17, she's a quiet white- ; haired old lady with permanent j residence at Denver's City Park zoo. She's almost blind and it takes her an average of two min utes to find a bright yellow jelly- j bean thrown directly beneath her. 1 But she's completely happy, living on the side of her concrete moun tain, chomping up some 20 pounds of horsemeat daily and taking an occasional dip in her private moat. Zoo superintendent Clyde Hill, boss of the City Park animals for almost three decades, considers Velox one of the most remarkable creatures of his experience. "Polar bears can bound around like cats," he says. "But we hem Velox in with iron pickets four feet high and she wouldn't climb them on a bet." The pickets are tilted inward. At one point a stone bridge cross es the moat and comes to a dead end against the fence. A trip over the barrier would probably cost Velox nothing more than an ounce of hide. Hill is certain, however, that she is not a captive to her own cowardice. He puts it this way: "Talk about security: she's got it. And she appreciates it. When she caine to us in 1941 she was getting too slow for her circus act, so they sold her to us. Prom the start I knew she was an educated, polite lady, and J've treated her like one." A few years ago Hill decided that in view of Velox's kindly n;? turc he'd put a sea-lion by name of Commodore in the enclosure with her. For almost a year Com modore bullied the seven foot-tall Velox shamelessly, stealing her food, and as time passed he even began barking at her and biting her on the hind leg. One sunny fcvfWay afternoon Velox tired of it and swatted the Commodore behind the ears, guai* ing her swing by the smell and sound of him. She swatted him conclusively and thereafter ignor ed his body, even when it was be ing removed by attendants. The only mean thing she ever does to the people who come to gawk at her is perhaps the pro duct of her humor. There's a red and- lack striped hose that fills her pool and sometimes her keep ers leave the hose running in the moat. She likes to dive for it. come up with it in her teeth, and squirt it on the people. Says Hill in her defense: "I be lieve she thinks they like it." Hill, a veteran student of polar bears, says they're the most mis understood of all animals: "The idea that they have to sit around in a mess of snow and ice is ridiculous. They can stand more sun and heat than a black bear. I've seen Velox lie all day under a pounding sun. But. of course, she's just as comfortable in ice water." Baptist Churches Divert Funds To Improvement of Buildings By r. C. Salisbury Making a recapitulation of the eight Baptist churches of Carteret county, as taken from the records of the minutes of the 1940 session of the Atlantic Baptist associa tion held with the Trenton church on October 27-28, one finds that these churches established a fine record for the period covered by the several reports submitted at the meeting of the Association. Most noticeable is the generous contributions made by the mem bers for all branches of church work, especially the amounts given for new church structures and im provements. Four churches of the county contributed the sum of $90,644.00 for ne^f buildings and repairing. The First Baptist church of Morehead City heads the list with the sum of $84,630.80. This amount covert the construc tion of the new Sunday school building, completed and put in use the past year Atlantic shows the sum of $7,620.18 spent on its house of worship: Davis $1,861.00 and Smyrna $2,337.00 Contribu tions for all the churches of the county total $113,282.64. of which the sum of $110,946.41 was paid out, covering all expenses of the operation of the churches and building programs. ? Several churches show a cash balance at the close of the Associa tion year. This record far exceeds that of any other (roup of church es 13 the Attociitioo. Lous la Membership Xserea-e is wt ?ot j u large is ia 1944. tea. by death , and transfer cut down tha total membership to a large extent. Baptisms 1948-90, 1949-40; hv let ter and other additions, 1948-43, 1949-27; loss by death and trans fer, 1949 17, 1049-44 Total mem bership for 1941,-1642, 1949-1621. The Sunday schools showed an in crease for the year with a total of 1256 against llf.7 for 1948. At the memorial services of the association tribute was paid to the sacred memory of those who passed away during the year, as follows: Atlantic. Augustine Kob inson; Beaufort. Abram Darling; Davis. Samuel Salter. Clayton Wil lis. David Willis. Mrs. Emma Lee Davis; Marshallberg. Clyde Gil likin; Morehead City. W T Da vis. Miss Ada Davis. W. II. How land, J R Miller. McDonald Wil lis. jr., Frederick Fulford; Smyr na, Mrs. Eather Piner. Woodville, Mrs. Agnes Willis. Mrs. Nettu Golden. Officers Re -Elected M. Leslie Davis of Beaufort, pre sided as moderator at the session for the 35th time since 1909 Dr. John II Bunn. pastor of the First Baptist church of Morehe:d City has served as clerk-treasurer for the past nine yeart. Both these officers were re-elected for 1950. The association this year will meet with the Atlantic church on October 26-27. The annual ser mon will be preached by the Rev. Charles E Parker, pastor ot the First Church of New Bern. The eight Baptist churches in Carteret county ate: Atlantic. Bayview, BeaUicr! Davis. MjrshiUberg. Morehead City, Smynu and Wood ville.