:fe CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Ettmbliihed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (E?tabli?hed 1936) 39th YEAR, NO. 20 THREE SECTIONS? EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYfc Newport to Extend Town Limits Authorities Hold Air Base Marines On Theft Charges Two Young Men Alleged To Have Entered New port Hardware Store Alfred E. Witzen, jr., and Ger ald G. Glover, Cherry Point Mar ines, neither of whom has reached the age of 20, are being held by the federal investigators on char ges of 17 thefts in Carteret, Cr# ven, Lenior, and Pamlico counties, and transporting a stolen car across state lines. The two being charged with breaking and entering the Allen and Bell Hardware store at New port Sunday night, Dec. 18, and stealing merchandise valued at $500. Stancil Bell, partner with Wal ter (Nick) Bell in the hardware firm, was called to Cherry Point Monday to identify some of their goods which have been recovered. The two Marines disposed of loot from Bridgeton to Florida and as far west as Ohio. According to federal authori ties. Witzen and Glover went AWOL in December, committed the thefts and stole a car. When they returned to the base, the policc continue, they knew they would have to serve time in the brig, so they turned the car over to some of their buddies. Visit to Virginia Their buddies, then, the report continues, decided they would "go to Virginia to visit and while there jpolicc spotted the stolen car. The car was traced and when Witzen and Glover were quest ioned. they confessed, the auth orities say, to the thefts. Mr. Bell says that among the items stolen from his store were four rifles, ammunition, three automatic toasters, three radios, electric percolator*, electric pocket knives. TO ting Knives and other miscellaneous articles. Mr. Bell said the thieves bfake in the back door. It was the first time, he commented, that the store had been robbed. Cob Leaders To Meet Tuesday Parents and Cub Scout leaders will meet for another training ses sion at 7:30 Tuesday night in Franklin Memorial M e t h o d is t church. At the organizational meeting of Cub Pack 101 Tuesday night in the church W. C. Wall, Scout executive from New Bern, showed a film on the meaning of Cub work and the part of the home plays in the program. Four dens were formed as fol lows: Den 1 6th to 9th st? Mrs. Paul Mitchell. Den mother; Den 2? 10th to 14th st.. Mrs. William Cottingham. Den mother; Den 3 14th to 19th st? Mrs. C. E. Wqod, Den mother; Den 4- western sec tion of Morehcad City, Mrs. D. G. Swinford, Den mother. Den chiefs are as follows: 1, Ronald Lawrence; 2. Walter Gra ham Fulcher; 3, Tommy Olson; and 4, .lames Willis. The Cubs meet with their Den mother regularly and once a month with the Cub Pack master, Paul Mitchell. His assistant is Theo dore Phillips. The Cub program is for boys 8 to 11. At the age of 11. the boy may become a Boy Scout. Jimnile Judge Tries Two Morehead Colored Boys Two Morehead City Negro boys, aged 8 and 10. were tried before A. U. James, juvenile court judge, Wednesday morning on the charge of stealing money from milk bot tles place outside Morehead City residences. They were also charged with entering private homes. Evidence revealed that the two had on several occasions cut screen doors to private residences and en tered the houses to steal athletic equipment. James released the older one on probation with orders to report to Probation Olficer Thomas C. Mc GinnJs once each mosth. Judg ment in the case of the younger one wu withheld until his mother could be present in court. Within two hours after the boys were released, the 8-year-old waa returned to the juvenile court for stealing money from the Morehead City school. Action still was with held until his mother coull be lo cated. I ' . Oui-oi-Townerc to Discus Fin Protection Tonight Persons living within five miles of Beaufort who are interested in increasing their fire protec tion and determining the cost of protection are invited to meet in the Beaufort courthouse tonight at 7:30, Dr. W. L. Woodard, chairman of the Beaufort plan ning board, has announced. Dr. Woodard said sever?! per sons had contacted the board and expressed a desire to meet with ail those interested in fire protection outside the city lim its. For that reason the meeting has been called and anyone in terested is welcome, the plan ning board chairman said. Boys Scolded For Shooting Gun In City Limits Three Morehead City boys, one of them ten years old and the oth er two 15, were arraigned in Mon day's session of Morehead City mayor's court for discharging a shotgun within the city limits. The two older boys denied shoot ing the gun, stating that they were only accompanying the 10-year-old. The younger of the three admitted shooting the gun but said he did net know he was in the city limits when he shot it. The three were apprehended on the south side of the Crab Point bridge near the town cemetery. Mayor George W. Dill pointed out that not only was the south side of the bridge within the city limits but that a tract of land on the north side had recently been taken into the city limits, making it unlawful to discharge a gun in that area. Two of the three were released with the admonition to be more carefulitr the future or they would W peritafccd .^Tfic dttoer, a old, was turned over to the county welfare officer for failing to attend5 school. Probable cause was found in the case of Alfred I^ewis, Beaufort, charged with attempted assault and driving drunk. His case was bound over to recorder's court. Julius Willis, arrested with Lew is, pleaded guilty to public drunk enness. He was fined $20 and costs. Attorney for George H. William son, charged with drunken and reckless driving, waived a prelim inary hearing and the case was sent to recorder's court. Rotarians Hear Red Cross Appeal An appeal for support of the Red Cross drive was made to Beaufort Rotarians at their Tues day night meeting in the Inlet Inn dining room. Dr. N. Thomas Ennctt, county health office and Rotary presi dent, explained how the Red Cross uses the money donated and made an urgent appeal for funds. He asked each Rotarian to give at much as he could. Next week's program was put in charge of County Agent R. M. Williams. Dr. Ennett asked him to give the group an outlook on farm prospects for the county this year and give a general survey of crop conditions. James Davis was appointed by President Ennett to serve on tire Rotary board of directors. He suc ceeds The Rev. W. Y. Stewart. 1 The group agreed to meet March 21 with the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce in the Scout building on Pollock street to discuss Cham ber policies and conditions. 70,006 Barrels Asphalt Emptiadl From Taakar Unloading of the 70,000 barrels^ of asphalt from the tanker SS P? tella was completed at 3:30 yester day morning. The Patella sailed from Port Terminal at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoo i. This is the first shipload of as phalt to be delivered to the new Trumbull Asphalt plant in More head City. The cargo was pumped from the ship through steam-Jack eted lines to Urge storage tanks on the east side of the Fry Roof ing company plant The four large tanks have a capacity of W, 000 barrels. The SS Patella, tanker owned by the Anglo-Saxon Oil company, docked Tuesday. Its cargo orig inated at Curacao, Netherlands West Indies. Newport commissioners made plans at their monthly meeting Tuesday night to extend town lim its to include the proposed veter an housing project on the Nine Foot road and a portion of proper ty to the west of Newport on the south side of highway 70. Walter Mann appeared before the board in regard to two streets now in use through his property. One will be known as New Bern st., and the other as Garner st. Larger drainage pipes will be installed at three home sites. Small, inadequate pipes will be replaced. Residents who paid the total cost for tile draining their property will be paid two-thirds of the cost by the town when larger tiling is installed. If the town paid half the cost of installation, the property own er will receive a one-third reim bursement, and where the town paid for the complete installation, no refund will be made. Housing Question Arises The clerk, Miss Edith Lockey, was requested to write to the Pub lic Housing authority to ascertain whether Newport has been allot ted 35 homes under the federal slum clearance project. This question arose when May or A. K. Craig read a letter from 11. II. Beckanstin, Atlanta archi tect, who requested the privilige of designing "the 35 homes" for Newport. To the board's know ledge, no homes had been alloted the town under the public hous ing act. The board directed that the Taylor and Pollock service sta tion which opened March 1 in the north section of Newport on high way 70 shall pay a privelige tax covering six months. New Alarm Wanted Commissioner Ormsby Mann re ported on the fire department's request for a new alarm. The board requested that Leon Mann, jr., "shop around'' and get sev eral prices on alarms and submit them to the board. The fire department wants an alarm which rings automatically when the "Fire" number is dialed. This alarm would ring until the phone is picked up at the fire wn gets the ?n switch would start the alarm ring ing again. At present, a fireman has to run to the station and pull a switch to sound the fire signal. Five to Compete In Speech Coolest The county elimination contest in the annual agricultural speaking competition sponsored by the State Bankers association, will tike place at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the' home agent's office, court house annex, Beaufort. The contest will be hold during the 4-11 County council meeting. The following will compete: Rach el Mundine. Newport; Mary Olive Martin, Kay Taylor, Shirley Tay lor, all of Beaufort, and Betty Lou Pittman, Merrimon. All will discuss "The Social As pects of "Soil Wastage". According to the contest requirements, each contestant is supposed to have gone on a supervised tour to ob serve the effects of poor land use. The winner of the county con test will advance to the sub-group contest to be held March 14. "Group" refers to the geographical division under which the state's bank arc classified. Group con tests will be held next Friday and the state c6ntcst March 20 at Ral eigh. State prizes will be $400, $100 and $90. all in savings bonds for the three top winners. First and second group winners will receive >50 and $25 in bonds. Judging will be based half on organization and content of the speech and half on delivery. CraTtn Board Gives $1,000 Ti Zoning Cottfausston The Craven county board of coni mlaa loners at their regular month ly meeting this weak appropriated ?1,000 for the Cherry Point zon ing commission. They have been requeetcd for $4,000 and said they would consider further appropria tion when they set up the budget for tbe next fiscal year. A letter from C. P. Hancock of the Zoning Commission told the commissioners that building now accomplished in the Cherry Point area should net Craven county $3,875 in increased taxes and that there would not be less than 200 new homes to go oa the tax books for 1951. Some 1,500 new homes will be completed by 1833, and will in crease the county's annual tax In come by $65,600. Mr. Hancock said He placed an asaeaaed valuation of $2,500 a* the average* for tbe new homes. Trial Follows 'Racing Game' In Morehead Judge Suspends Year's Sen tence Against Alfred Lewis, Beaufort A year's suspended sentence on the roads was the result of a mid night ride through Morehead City Saturday night for Alfred F. Lew is, Beaufort Lewis was sentenced in Tues days session of recorder's court after he was found guilty of at tempted assault and driving drunk. Charges were brought in the case following a Saturday night auto mobile "racing game" through Morehead City streets. Lewis's case was tried in More head City mayor's court Monday af ternoon, but was bound over to recorder's court bccausc of the se riousness of the charge. Three C?m plain Three persons. Ronald West, Kenneth Rutherford and Norman Ashburn. complained to police that Lewis followed their cars through the streets, driving so close that they could not turn and forcing them to the curb on sever al occasions. In addition, Ashburn complained that Lewis followed him and- his wife to their home, drove his car up on the sidewalk and tried to run them down twice and when this failed got out of the car and tried to strike Ashburn with an automobile jack handle. All three plaintiffs testified that they had not known Lewis prior to Saturday night and all three agreed that he had been drinking some intoxicant. Lewis did not deny any of the witnesses' testimony, with the ex ception of trying to strike Ash burn with the i*ek handle, lie sail) he did W t mean any h;j*m M Nfifr ^be ing game,'' a game with which none of the other ^hree were "con cerned." \ Sentence Suspended Judge Lambert Morris sentenc ed the youth to one year on the roads. Sentence was suspended on three years' sobriety and good be havior, payment of the costs, and a $100 fine. Willie Green, Negro, was sen tenced to six months on the roads for stealing chickens. Green was apprehended last week in Beaufort and was identified by two withess es who chased and caught him. Larceny Charged Jerry Haidwick and John C. Par ker, Negroes, received a two-year suspended sentence each. Hard wick was charged with temporary larceny of a 1949 Oldsmobile auto mobile and a 1949 Chevrolet auto mobile. Parker was charged with aiding and abetting him in tempor ary larceny. Evidence in the case disclosed that Hardwick was an employee of See TRIAL. Page Four . How Bad Cross Helped One Carteret Coonlian When Tom R? a county resident, changed jobs recently, to work for a concern that paid only once a month instead of every week, as he had been paid previously, he was faced with a serious financial problem. The new job offered a better liv ing for himself, his wife and his three children, but bills had to be met and the small amount of cash the family had on hand was being used for everyday emergencies. A veteran of the war. he finally decided ' to go to the Ked Cross and explain his plight, and the Home Service department, of which Mrs. 1. D. Rumley is chair mm. was immediately able to help him by loaning him some funds until his first paycheck on his new job came through. Money given to the Ked Cross drive is used locally to help for mer service people. Tide Table tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW ?? . 7 08 a.m. 7:12 p.m. Friday, March 11 12:37 a.m. 1:00 p m Saturday, March 11 1:45 a.m. 2:09 p.m. 8:20 a.m. 8:24 p.m. Sunday, March 12 2:58 a m. 3:23 p.m. 9:34 a.m. 9:39 p.m. Moaday, March IS 4:10 a.m. 4:33 p.m. 10:43 a.m. 10:48 p m Tuesday, March 14 ?5:15 a.m. 5:33 p.m. 11:49 a.m. 11:48 p.m. Beaufort to Annex School Property; Board Establishes New Dump Area Beaufort commissioners voted unanimously Monday night to an nex the Beaufort school proper ty, bringing it within the town's corporate limits. This move had been discussed recently by the Beaufort Planning board. Town Attorney Wiley H. Taylor, jr.. suggested that the board pub lish a legal advertisement on the annexation but the board said they believed this unnecessary since there are no residents in the sec tion to be annexed. Opposition Continues The board also reiterated their opposition to proposed rate in creases for Tide Water Power com pany. Mr. Taylor told the board that a final hearing on the rate increase would be held in Raleigh next Thursday. The board author ized him to represent the town at the hearing and to state Beaufort's opposition. In discussing the power com pany Mr. Taylor revealed that sev eral letters had been written re questing installation of a fire hy drant at Front and Fulford st. He said the company had not even shown the courtesy of replying to the letter, much less taken any positive action toward installing the hydrant. No Dumping After March 15, next Wednes day, the board decided, no more dumping of Crash or garbage will be permitted at the present town dump in West Beaufort. Instead a new dump will be set up behind Quinn's fish factory and all dump 1 ing will be done there. Gerald Woolard, newly-appoint ed town building inspector, re ported on his work within the past month. Mr. Woolard said he found that I only a small percentage of recent I building was by permit from the town. The main reason for this negligence, he said, was ignorance of the law. The building inspec tor explained that to combat this | ignorance a letter has been sent See ANNEX. Page Four Referee Issues Ruling in Case Of Beaufort Finn Beaufort Cannery, defunct Beau fort canning firm, will be abandon ed to its two largest secured cred itors next Thursday unless an ap peal is made before that date, Jo seph B. Chesirc, jr., referee in bankruptcy, ruled at a hearing in Raleigh Monday. The two largest creditors arc Dr. Romeo A. Luongo, Philadelphia, who holds a $60,000 deed of trust on the property and Food Machinery corporation, Iloopston, 111., which holds a title retaining interest in machinery installed in the canning plant. The machinery will be re leased to them for approval next Thursday unless an appeal is made by that date. It is reported that, however, that strong possibility exists that an ap rSl will be made before then. While the canning company was in receiv ership. the First Citizens Bank and Trust company advanced a loan of $4,000 on receivership certificate to the firm. This money was spent in the cost of administering the receivership. Cheshire ordered the two cred itors to pay $2,400 to the bank in payment of this loan. It is believed that the machinery company will contest this payment and thus hold up abandonment proceedings. Informed sources also stated that there is a further possibility that Dr. l.uongo will find a purchaser for the firm and buy off the in terest held by the machinery com pany. If this is done, the aband onment proceedings will com mence. Coanly Rnnth $3,395.43 Through Courts ia February From operation of the courts last month. Carteret county received $3,395.43. Amounts received from the va rious sources are as follows: re corder's court, $3.188 03; superior court, $14 50; Justice of the peace lines, $35.50; probate and miscel laneous fees. $157.40. Total received was $5,048.77. Moneys paid in to the clerk under .court ruling for support of de pendents. etc., are directed by the clerk to the proper authorities. The monthly report was made by A. H. James, clerk of superior court, to county commissioners Monday morning at the court house. Telephone Company Increases Pace on County Improvements Havelock Jaycees To Aid Red Cross Group Changes Constitution, Endorses School Build ing Plans Constructive work by the Have lock Jaycees got under way at their recent meeting at Hose Mo tor company when the group ap pointed a committee to aid in the Red Cross drive. Bob Rose, Bill Robertson. Ken neth Lealand and Jim Godwin were named to cooperate with Red Cross officials. A motion was made by Bill Ver non that the group's new consti tution be amended to state that meetings be held once each week rather than twice a month as or iginally agreed. The motion was carried and each member will re reive a copy of tfie proposed amendment two weeks before it is put to vote. Thomas Cathay, chairman of the Havelock Civic organization and president of the Parent-Teacher as sociation, appealed to the group to give its support to the proposal before the State Board of Edu cation to add additional classroom facilities to the Havelock school. Cathay said the facilities were urgently needed. He said he in tended to aopear personally before the bo;