.=$?-; CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES _ | A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (E?tabli*hed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (E?tabli?hed 1936) 39th YEAR, NO. 22 THREE SECTIONS? EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Fishermen Continue lo Take 'Pink Gold' Off Florida Keys 1949 PMA Rules Will Continue For Another Year Four Carteret Counlians Re turn from Slate Conven tion at Asheville Current Production Marketing administration Regulations will be continued during the coming year, county delegates to the PMA con vention held in Asheville re ported yesterday. Sam D. Edwards. Roland Sal ter and D. W. Truckner, all mem bers of the county PMA commit te, and B, J. May, PMA secretary represented the county at the con vention. Representatives from ev ery county in the state plus state and national PMA officials were present also. 1950 Program Discussed Purpose of the meeting was to discuss the 1950 program and work out the best ways lor admin istering the program. Various ad dresses and conferences served to enlighten the delegates. Th first address was delivered by G. T. Scott, state PMA direc tor, in which he gave a report on the workings of the program up : to the present and brought to j the attention of the assembly some of the problems facing them, now and in the future. Particular at tention was called to the fact I that crop surpluses have brought back the old problems of pro- j duction and adjustment controls. ; Four different conferences were held with each Carteret county del egate attending one of the con- j ferences. Mr. Edwards sat in on j a discussion of the agriculture j conservation program, conservation i materials and services Nand other quotas and acreage control, Mr. | Salter worked with the confer- 1 enor on price supports, and Mr. j May took part in a discussion of the proper method of administer- j ing the program. Quotas Retained Reports made by representa tives of the four conferences dis closed that marketing quotas would be retained on all surplus crops for 1950. All farmers who stay within their allotments would be protected by the price support] See 1949 PMA, Page Three By Carter Broad University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Research (Editor's Note: Mr. Broad, shrimp specialist, returned to More head City last Thursday, having spent three weeks as a crew iran on the Pennv .. ? scientist getting farts and the fisherman's calluses). "It is the biggest thing sinee the gold rush of *49." said Lewis Har dee. "Is it as big as Morgan City?" I asked. "Well, no," he admitted," "but is is attracting more attention." This was a gold rush too, a "pink gold" rush. The story broke in the papers during February. Shrimp bonanza in Key West That story to South Atlantic fishermen, humil iated by a winter of record low production, was the proverbial lone knock of opportunity. Radios tuned to Tampa's Marine operator fre quency started rumors that grew and spread. The word flashed along the coast, "Fifty boxes a I trip - 50 cents a pound - a 100 box trip -- a 75 box trip!" The "pink gold" rush was on. Rumors go North Then other rumors worked their i way north. "There's no place to tie up - they can only work 40 square miles of bottom ? you can't f get ice - there's coral - one fellow j lost his net - two nets - three nets. But there were shrimp and there was work for boats and men. Men went to Key West and called back for boats. In Southport, Morehead City, Beaufort, Harkers Island, Van demere, Oriental, Belhaven, Da vis, the boats made preparation. They sailed from the Carolinas, from Georgia, St. Augustine and Fernandina, Fla. An armada des cended on Key West, Fort Myers, Sarasota, Cortez, Everglades City, Naples, and Collier City. The buy ers came and those who sell to a fishing fleet. Trucks came loaded with ice and left with shrimp. A new fishery had started. I went to Key West in the Pen ny of Southport. Merrith Moore, her owner and captain, Pete Lof ton and John Carr Davis are *i\ (waiv ? Wfi mil^i fnin jBiyiltinnrJ on Thursday Feb. 16, cleared the bar at Lockwood's Folly as the sun fell and set course for Savannah lightship. Following in our wake was the Royal Flush of Southport. These boats are St. Augustine-built shrimp boats. They are high-sided, shal low draft, wooden vessels built to follow shrimp wherever they may go. They are work boats, rough and rough riding in a sea. Key West lay 700 miles ahead of us. The Penny and the Royal Flush See FISHERMEN, Page Five Chamber Issues Warning Against Fake Listers The Morehead City chamber of commerce today issued a state ment urging families to report to the police any persons claiming to be census takers who fail to show their official credentials as enumerators of the United States Bureau of the Census. Imposters posing as census takers are sub ject to penal action for imper sonating a Federal official, Rob ert Lowe, Morehead City chamber manager said. During the past year the cham ber of commerce participated in a national campaign to curb the activities of those salesmen who pretended to be survey takers in order to gain entry into the homes of potential customers. The campaign was very successful but. with the start of the 17th decen nial census, some salesmen, or bill collectors, may misuse the term "census'* to get into a home or to secure certain information, Mr. Lowe said. He added that instances of such trickery were already being reported to the Nat ional Better Business Bureau of which the Morehead City chamber of commerce is an active mem ber. "The National census, like mar ket research and public opinion polling, performs a useful and nefisary Public service," said Mr. Uofre. "If the person at your door m cmc^raW 01 genuine Yesearch interviewer, he &?el? only information that will ultimately be of benefit to the community at large. Census enu merators and research interview ers have nothing to sell, and do not secure sales leads for anyone." Mr. Lowe urged that anyone who introduced himself as taking a census or survey and who then plunged into a sales talk, be re ported to the police or the cham ber offices in the Municipal building, phone 361-1, for inves tigation. State Utilities Commission Approves Plan to End Rail Passenger Service Family Hopes For New House The Danny Rose family, whose Marker-, Island home was destroyed by fire Saturday. March 4, are liv ing with Mrs. Rose's mother in a home just south of the Rose site. Mr. Rose, a Merchant Marine, who was in Panama wheJi the fire occurred, has returned home. They arc hoping to build a new home, but funds are not immediately available. Mrs. Rose said that she deeply appreciated all the contributions of clothing and furniture given them. The Beaufort fire depart ment and THE NEWS-TIMES co operated in collecting items for the family because all their household possessions and clothing were de stroyed in the fire. Mrs. Rose, who has eight chil dren and is expecting the ninth, said she is reasonably sure the fire started from defective wiring. She discovered the blaze. A trapdoor in the ceiling, when lifted, reveal ed the whole attic aflame. The Beaufort fire department was call ed, but arrived too late to do any thing more than prevent the fire from spreading. Especially needed by the Rose family now is cash or food items. Persons who wish to contribute money or groceries may bring them to either the Beaufort or More kead City office of THE NEWS TIMES. or mail money directly to Mr. and Mrs. Danny Rose, Harkers Island, N. C. Dance Tanight To increase the funds in their treasury the Junior class of New port high school will sponsor a St. Patrick's Day dance tonight in the school gymnasium. Single ad L mission is 60 cants and % per ft couple I The State Public Utilities com mission on Monday said that the Atlantic and East Carolina railroad may discontinue passenger service trom Goldsboro to Morehead City. But the order is not final. The commission said the line mutt con tinue operating its passenger coach es for "a reasonable time" longer in case petitions are filed asking for further review. Two passenger trains come into Morehead City daily and have been in service approximately 60 years. Decision Not Unanimous The decision by the commission was not unanimous. Dissenting opinions have been expressed by Edward McMahan of Brevard and Josh James of Wilmington. At a hearing in December Harry P. Edwards. New Bern, chairman of the A & E C board and general manager, said passenger service has been a losing proposition since the end of the war. He told the Utilities commission that branch line passenger trains have ceased to serve a public need and except for business at Cherry Point Ma rine Air B4sc, the line might have to discontinue all service. The A & E C is a privately-owned company and has a lease with the slate to operate on the State-owned tracks from Goldsboro to Morehead City. The commission said the addi tion of modem Diesel engines and all-steel coaches failed to attract additional passengers and noted the "results of widely advertised low weekend summer excursion rates to Morehead and Atlantic Beach have been disappointing." The commission added the "en tire line Is paralleled with frequent bus schedules," which cany a diily average of more than 400 pasaengera against the average of M who travel by trfcin. McMahan and James held the majority order was baaed on prof it end loss rather than only public service. "I don't believe," McMahan Ste UTILITIES, t Three Morehead School To Stage Stunts Walter Morris announced at the PTA meeting Monday night that April 14 has been set for the Stunt Night at the Morehead City school. I The school banc will take part, and the first through the seventh grades will furnish the program, the proceeds to go to the treasury of the PTA. Mr. Morris is chair man of the Stunt Night and Mrs. D. J. Eure is assisting him. Mrs. O. H. Johnson chairman of the Morehead City Library board was introduced by Mrs. George McNeill, vice president of the PTA. Mrs. Johnson stressed the need of good books in the school, the home and the library. Following her remarks she intro duced Mrs. E. A. Council, librarian who invited everyone to use the library and said they would wel come suggestions for books to be added to the library. Thirteen boys and girls from Mr. Bunn's second ?rade present ed a program of singing, includ ing religious and patriotic num bers. Sara Goodwin and Gall Jor- i gensen gave a dancing and sing ing skit. A nominating committee com poaed of Mrs. Robert Lowe, chair man. James Willis. George Dill and Harold Webb was appointed to report at the April meeting. Banner's for the highest percent attendance went to Mrs. John H. Bunn's in the primary department Mn. C. B. Wade in the grammar grades and Mrs. Delfldo Cordova in the high school. Receives Jail Sentence Noah Emery was sentenced to 10 days in Jail in Monday's ses sion of Morehead City mayor s court lor public drunkenness Planning Board To Meet March 31 Group Expects to Resume Discussion of Fire' Pro tection Programs The Beaufort Planning Board maue tentative plans to resume discussion of fire protection for out-of towners at their meeting Friday night, March 31, in the town hall. During a session last Friday" night they reviewed the statistics on the number of fires answered by the fire department in 1949 and also the cost of maintaining fire fighting equipment. 48 Alarms Answered Of the 48 fire alarms last year 30 were out of town, more than half the total. With the exception of four, all of the out-of-town fires were within five miles of the town limits, the area the planning board is most interested in pro tecting through an equable assess ment plan. Two of the four fires further I than five miles beyond the town limits were at Harkers Island and two at North Harlowe. Value of the fire fighting equip ment is $75,000 and it costs the town of Beaufort $12,000 annually to maintain it. Expenses during the past two years have been as follows: 750-gallon Dodge pumper, i $7,500; factory - rebuilt LaFrance, $6,500; 2,000 feet new hose at $1.50 per foot, $3,000; hose dryer, I $500. The report on last year's fires was presented by Raymon Paul, secretary of the fire department. It was estimated that 35 cents of every $1.80 the town taxpayer pays per hundred goes for fire protection. One of the plans under consid eration is to ask every resident within a five mile radius of Beau fort from Gallants channel east (the causeway remains a question marky to contribute an annual amount based on the type or j nunber of buildings on his pr"?p- ! ert> . '"This would go to a town I funf which woultt be used to pay for ()re; fighting emiipm^ni^ S&jrfMnft arnembe^of' the planning board, suggested that a system be used whereby the more who join the fire protection plan, the less the cost per individ ual becomes. Mr. Stephens said that would be an incentive to get out-of-towners to get their neigh bors to join. Dr. W. L. Woodard, chairman of the planning board, said that the town has to stop servicing out of-town fires or else raige town taxes to meet the expenses. Braxton Adair, member of the board, said the taxes must not be raised lest future businessmen are discouraged from setting up busi ness. A. D. Fulford, now a resident of town who plans to move beyond the town limits in the vicinity of the highway 101 and 70 intersec tion. asked how much out-of-town residents woud be saved, in dol lars and cents on fire insurance, it j they were members of a fire pro tection program. Wiley Taylor, town attorney who attended the meeting, said the saving would be between 23 and 27 cents per hundred. Several board members said they felt it would be better for the built up area on the outskirts to be taken into the town. Larger Pipe Needed In discussing Ann and Front street extended areas, Dr. Wood ard said the town needs a pipe line larger than two inches in that area, also more alarm boxes. Chief Charles Harrell, who at tended the meeting said that trucks can't get within 20 feet to draught water from Taylor's creek should there be a large fire in that area. The protection discussion fol lowed what was intended to be a hearing on the matter, a hearing scheduled for the benefit of out of-town residents, but no one showed up. Kile Strum ^ P*w?r Linn, Cauts '(tallage A kite string [ailing across a power line caused an outtagc from 3:15 to 7:10 Monday night in More head jCity on the south side of Ar endell street from the drawbridge to the west ertd of town. The kite, being flown by a father and his young son. dropped across wires in the vicinity of 1804 Evans street and burned out a branch circuit. Telephone lines were alio damaged George Stovall, Tide Water Pow- ; er company manager in this area said Monday's failure waa the first o-i that line aince the ice storm more than two years ago. The j outtage affected the fire station. | tail, hospital, and town hkll. Elec tricity was restored in less than : an hour after the trouble waa dis covered. State Drops Manslaughter Charges; Raleigh Youth Put on Probation Two Girls Win Crowns ai Atlantic Patsy Robinson Patsy Robinson and Nancy Nel son were crowned queen and prin cess, respectively, at the recent dance at Atlantic school. The af | fair was sponsored by the high school annual staffs. The dance climaxed a week of voting. Runnersup were June Howard, for queen, and Rebecca Ann Lewis, princess. Other contestants were Betty i Taylor, Lura Jean Salter, Varena | Gaskill, Jo Ann Morris, Joan Ma Nancy Nelson son. Myrna Salter. Mary Lee Ma son. Dolores Willis. Francis Ful cher. and Colleen Taylor. Diane Daniels, Burnice Lupton, Beatrice Salter. Sandra Salter, Ad elaide Mason. Carolyn Owens. Joyce Fulchej-. Janice Goodwin, Kara Jo Mason, Faye Gray, and Annis Lee Willis. Miss Robinson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Robin son and Miss Nelson the .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Maybetts. Moving of Tobacco Acreage Must Follow PMA Regulations I Farmers of Carteret county were warned today by the county Pro duction Marketing administration office against requesting removal of tobacco acreage to other farms without first following PMA reg ulations concerning such removal. B. J. May, county PMA officer, listed the regulations which must i bJ^toWSwed. Ally farmer who de sires to move his tobacco acreage because of the presence of Gran viile wilt or nematode disease in the soil must, immediately upon discovery of the disease in his to bacco, notify the county agent and the PMA office of the presence of the disease. The county agent then will visit the farm, examine the tobacco, determine the nature of the trou ble. and make an effort to find a remedy. After this is done, and if no remedy is found, the farm operator should make application before planting time nexV year for permission to lease land from another farmer for the purpose of growing tobacco for a five-year period. If these conditions are met, the c*inty agent will be in a position to give the required statement ne cessary for transferral and # also to work out a five-year rotation plan for the diseased land. Several applications for crop transferral already have been re ceived by the PMA office this year. Due to the fact that the re quirements contained in the PMA regulations have not been met, the applications have been rejec ted. All the agricultural agents in the county are anxious to cooper ate with farmers in any way but they cannot go outside the regu lations involved in each case, it was stated. Farm Agent Tells Rotary of County Agricultural Work Robert M. Williams, county farm agent, painted the farm picture in Carteret county for Rotarians at their weekly meeting at the Inlet inn Tuesday night. Tobacco, he told them, is the county's principal money crop, with Lionel W. Pefletier, of Stella, being the largest grower. His al lotment is 30.7 acres. K. W. Wright, farmer of Beau tort RED, has the largest number of acres under intensive cultiva tion. This acreage amounts to 338. He grows more different crops than any other farmer in the coun ty, Mr. Williams said. Grows Radishes This ycv?r he has 55 acres in rad ishes and expects to start pulling them Wednesday. Mr. Wright is the only radish grower in Carteret. The count} agent remarked that Mr. Wright compared truck farm ing to a slot machine "... you can't win all the time, sometimes you're sure to get clipped." The Ball brothers put out the largest Irish potato acreage, 120, while Miss Georgia Ycatman owns the largest number of acres, 90,000. The M. A. Walker farm, New port, operated by Albert Walker, has. the largest pasture, 150 acres See FARM AGENT, Page Three Or. B. F. Royal Seeks Checks Evidently Lost in a Pigeonhole Dr. B. F. Royal, Morehead City, trustee of the University of North Carolina, yesterday requested help from Carteret County UNC alumni in re-locating misplaced checks! His letter and explanation follows: Morehead City. N. C. March 16, 1950. Dr. 1/Ouie R. Wilson heads a Fac ulty Committee appointed to de vise ways and means of raising some money to supplement the meager retirement fund presently provided by the State for those faculty members who are forced to retire because of age or phy sical disability. Dr. Wilson, in turn, has asked interested alumni in various towns of the State lo contact local Uni versity people and obtain from them any donation that they care to make to this worthy cause. Dr. Wilson -has asked me to contact Alumni in Carteret County and ask their help. This I tried to do by preparing a list of names of all former Carolina men and women known to be living in the County. A list was prepared of thooe living In tbe Atlantic area and a similar list was prepared of those living in Beaulort and In Morehead ? See DR. ROYAL. Fitfe Three County Bond Sale Totals 5OT Victor H. Wickizer savings bonds' chairman for Carteret county an nounced today thjt total V. S. savings bonds 54 a m. 10:12 p.m. 3:">5 a.tn. 3:59 p.m. Dr. C. S. Maxwell Chosen as Doctor Of the Year' Practitioners Elect Beaufort Physician at Meeting Monday Night Dr. C. S. Maxwell, Beaufort practitioner and secretary of the Carteret County Medical Society, was elected "Doctor of the Year" for Carteret county at the Monday night meeting of the society in the Morehead City hospital. A biography of Dr. Maxwell, listing his accomplishments in the medical field and the reasons for his selection as "Doctor of the Year" will be written and sent in to state medical society headquar ters. The merits of Dr. Maxwell's accomplishments then will be weighed against those of 98 oth er doctors in the state. State Competition The winner of this statewide competition will be chosen North Carolina's "Doctor of the Year" and will have his record entered in competition with those of doc tors from the other 47 states. The winner of the national competion will become "Doctor of the Year" for the nation. In 1949 a medical practitioner from South Carolina won thia honor. C. - L. Beam, county veterans service officer, was present at the meeting to explain the rules and regulations for the hospitalizat ion of ax-service men. He also explained the relationship between the private practitioner and the veterans administration. Revision Suggested Members of the society ag reed that VA regulations should be revised to give better and more prompt medical and hospital ser vice to the veteran. Tentative date for the meeting of the second district medical so ciety has been set for May 24, Dr. S. W. Thompson, second diatrict president announced. The speak er for the April meeting of the Carteret county society will be Dr. H. S. Willis, superintendent of North Carolina sanitorium, who will speak on antibiotics and sur gery in the treatment of puliteon ary tuberculosis. Five Cars Crash Id Heavy Rain A five-car collision resulting in damages totalling $1,000 occurred at 6:20 Monday night 200 feet east of the Rex restaurant on highway 70 near Morehead City. J. W. Sykes, investigating state highway patrolman, said the ac cident occurred during a heavy rain and no charges were prefer red against any of the drivers, all of whom were proceeding east in their automobiles. Patrolman Sykes said that Ru dolph Dowdy, 106 N. 6th st, More head City, driving a 1990 Nash, was traveling at approximately 25 miles an hour when a '40 De Soto coupe, driven by Harry Clay ton Hall. 203 s 10th st, Morehead City.. smashed into the rear of the Nash. Hall applied his brakea to prevent hitting the car ahead of him. the patrolman related, but the crash occurred anyhow. Then a third sar, a '40 Dodge sedan, operated by William Ed ward McNeill. AES 42, Cherry Point, plowed into the back of the coupe. Car No. 4, a '47 Fly mouth sedan, driven by Walter Bargamin of Norfolk, slowed up to see what was going on and a ear behind him, '41 Dodge sedan oper ated by Edward Junior Zlttle of Cherry Point, smashed into . his rear. Mrs. Bertha Phillip*, a passen ger in the '46 Dodge received slight injuries about the head, tm did Larry Beeunas. a passenger ? in the '41 Dodge. Both were treat, ed at the Morebead City hospital ' and discharged. Weather Delay* Buikttag Low temperatures and ran have delayed work on the Hera head City colored school, Ray Ran som cottsartor, announced this week.