~?T- CARTERET COWTT NEWS-TIMES __ A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (E*Ubiith*d 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (EtUblUhed 1936) 89th YEAR, NO. 51 TWO SECTIONS? TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Hearing Opens; Counsel Calls for Factory President WillisXSmith Wins Run-Off ; Graham Carries Carteret County Senator-elect Willis Smith may have defeated Senator Frank P. Graham by 30,000 votes throughout North Carolina, hut Carteret coun tians reversed the trend as they gave Graham a majority of 469 votes with 24 of i'tj precincts heard from on Saturday's runoff. Total vote cast in the 24 pre cincts was 3,387, 1,928 for Graham and 1,459 tor Smith. County offi cials speculated that when the oth er three piecincts report Graham a majority would amount to more than 47.-1 In only five uf the 23 precincts reporting did Smith receive a ma jority, his heaviest margin coming at Marker's Island where he re ceived 124 votes to Graham's 36. In Morehead City Smith led, 183 416, and at Merrimon he was a ?head, 21*17 At Bettie the two can didates tied, 17-all Graham Leads Graham led in the other 17 pre- j cincts with margins as high as 420-221 at Beaufort and 69-2 at Straits At Bogue Graham held a 17 16 lead and at Portsmouth the > vote was five for Graham, three for j Smith The only precincts not reporting at pres time yesterday were Stacy and Williston A complete tabulation of votes, precinct by precinct, appears be low. Giahain bmitb Atlantic 143 113 Beaufort 420 221 Bettie W 17 | Bogue 17 16 Eroad Creek 62 25 Hailowe 4b 17 Cedar Island 43 16 Cedar Point 20 11 , Davis 63 SO i liar kef 's Island 36 124 Marshallberg 120 85 Merrimon 17 21 Morehead City 416 483 Newport 100 90 Otwav 32 15 Pelletier 27 5 Portsmouth 5 3 Saltei Path 101 43 Sea Level 68 20 Smyrna 42 10 Stella 17 22 Straits 69 2 Wlldwood 23 35 Wire Grass 25 15 Totals 1928 1459 Scouts Leave For Valley Forge Jimmie Willis and Lonme Hyatt, Morehead City Boy Scouts boarded a train at Rocky Mount at 1 a m. this morning, bound for the nation al Bey Scout jamboree at Valley Forge, near Philadelphia At Rocky Mount the Moiehead City boys joined Scouts from Greenville, Washington, N. C , New Bern, Qierry Point, and Camp Le jeune. These boys from the East Carolina council which is sending three white troops and one colored troop, will camp at Valley Forge, on the site occupied by soldiers from Pennsylvania during the Rev olution. They are carrying out the naut ical theme at their encampment. At one side of the entrance will be a replica of the control tower at Cherry Point and at the other side a replica of Cape Hatteras light house 'Along the remaining 80-foot frontage will be set nets and life preservers, donated by Mbrehead City troops, plus other sea going "props". The light house was made by New Bern Scouts. Fifty thousand boys are expected at the jamboree Engineers have been working tor six months pro viding plumbing facilities for the campers and it is predicted that the number of hot cakes the boys will eat, if they were stacked atop one another, would reach as high as the Empire State building. The Scouts will return home July 7. Bedufet! Engineer Makes Nap ler Zoning Commission Gray Hassell, surveyor and engi neer of Beaufort who has been re tained by the Cherry Point Zoning commission, has been requested to tubmit a land-use map to that group by Saturday. This map will cover the area a bout the air base and along route 70 over which the commission has tfnmg jurisdiction. At the May (netting of the commission a study Iras made of the preliminary land use map and ccrtain areas were tentatively designated as residen tial, business, and industrial sec ?tions ' After receiving the completed map, the commission plans to hold ? public hearing during July to ob tain opinions of land-owners and residents as to the proposed zopinc jyojram. Willis Smith Public Relations Office Says No Alerl Sunday The public relation* office at Cherry Point announced yester day that there was no general alert at the base because of the invasion of South Korea. A spokesman at the public re lations office said, "A lot of false stuff got out on the radio ..." He added thp* further informa tion should be obtained at the Pentagon in Washington. "We can't make any statement on it," he concluded. Other sourccs, including Ma rines themselves, report that they were definitely "on alert." D J* f T Bodies ot Iwo , Marines Found In Wrecked Plane CHERBY POINT? (AP) ? Th? boditt of a Miirine pilot, who sur vived the Jap attack upon Pearl, Harboi . and his passenger were rei moved |hursdav night from the wreckage of their fighter plane. The plane crashed Wednesday night near Hampstead. N. C. Tech. Sgt, John L Sidwa, 23. of Newark, N. J , was the pilot His J passenger was Corp. Thomas E Stms, jr., 20, of Trussville, AU Both were attached to Marine Night Fighter Squadron No. b3 1 . Sidwa enlisted in the Marines in 1339 and witnessed the bombing of Pes{l Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 He re ceived his wings after the war, was I commissioned a lieutenant in 1346 and returned to the enlisted ranks in 1947. The search party, dispatched I frpm liere Thursday afternoon, cut a 500-yard path through wooded , swampland to reach the wreckage. Members of the search party re 1 ported that parts of the plane were scattered over a wide area. The bodies were removed from the ' | plane and have been returned to ' i the base here. i The plane, an F7F Grumman j | Tigercat, was on a training flight j ; from Maxwell Field, Ala., to this I Marine air base at the time of the | crash. The plane, in company with i , another, ran into a thunderstorm : over Hampstead Wednesday night | I The pilot of the other plane re- , ported an explosion beneath him when he last saw Sidwa's plane. A Marine search plane spotted the downed plane about six miles , from Hampstead Thursday after noon Sidwa was married and the i father of two children. The family I live6 here. Three Aifcnd Vegetable Demotuiraiien at Faison R. M. Williams and A1 Stinson, county agents, and Floyd Garner. Newport, attended demonstrations at the vegetable experiment sta tion at Faison yesterday. Particular emphasis was placed on cantaloupe, cucumbers, lima and snap beans. Irish potatoes, , peppers, squash, sweet potatoes, sweet corn, and watermelons. Specialists explained the re search undertaken on the various truck crops and told of efforts be ing made in insect control. Mr. Williams reported that the | potato demonstrations in the coun- : ty last week were successful. A j large number of fanners attended The Sebago variety was highly rec ommended because, the agent said, it ships well and has had a ready market at $2 per hundred pounds all this season. * Fhnne Trouble ? Blue Monday The usual Monrfny phone trou bles occurred again yesterday. Wrong numbers were the rule rath- 1 er than the exception and spas modically yesterday afternoon cer tain lines were dead. Frank l?rahain Duffy Guthrie \ Resigns From Job At Legion Club After July ! a new manager will have to be found f">r th? Morehead City American' Legion club in downtown Morehead City, the pres ent manager, Duffy Guthrie, stated at the Friday night Legion meeting when he turned in his resignation. Guthrie said he vas resigning because of extreme iiiU^m that had been leveled againABrim and the way he ran t lip club He said tha* within the past week, someone, a friend of hi.-, had "snitched" to outside source- on one of the club practices and he thought it was time for him to retire. Along with his resignation. Gutli rie entered a resolution that the club continue to be run indefinitely under new management. Whenv"' iurte* *d ttk* over Hi* ? . an amendment to Guthrie's motion, the amendment stating that all members should be notified by mail that at the ne.:t meeting a vote would be taken to decide whether the Legion should con tinue to operate the club or to abandon it." Both the motion and amendment were passed Adjutant Fred Beaver j Was instructed to notify each mem- j ber by mail that the proposed vote would be taken at the July '/ meet- 1 ing. Twenty five dollars was appro priated to help defray expenses of Legionnaires who attended the state convention in Charlotte over the weekend. Suggestions for rais ing money by bringing a boxing and wrestling show liere were re ferred to the executive committee Barden Works On Yam Problem Congressman Graham A Barden, who was contacted by the county farm agent, R M Williams, in re gard to the possibility ol moving 50 carloads oi sweet potatoes out of the county, informed Mr. Will iams by letter that tberr ^ale seems impossible, but nevertheless he will continue to work on the problem. Mr. Williams explained to the congressman that the farmers placed these sweet potatoes in stor age last fall hoping that thev cculd get a highei price for them this year. The demand for old and npw sweet potatoes now is very light, the congressman informed Mr Williams. He stated that O. A Strouse, sweet potato marketing specialist with the United States Department of Agriculture, sug gested that regular trade channels be tried Mr Strouse informed Congress man Barden that the support pro gram for sweet potatoes closed Ap ril 30 and the government "does not feel justified" in reopening it It is too late to buy up sweet po tatoes for use in the school lunch program. In other words the gov ernment has no means of dtspos ing of them. Mr. Williams idded ihat there are plenty of .,weet pot a toe., in the terminal markets, such as Phil adelphia, New York, and Baltimore, and there is no demand for them. Blinker Installed A caution blinker light has been installed at the intersection of 28th and Evans sts , Morehead City, to replace a traffic light Ihat former ly was there Morchcad City police Mid the stop light caui>cc! Iralfje jam* when the Atlantic Beach drawbridge open while the caution li^bt keep* traUic moving. Two \ outh8 Drown; County Tragedies Occur in Four Days Lions Clob Makes Estimated $1J Profit on Circus Lions Harry Van Horn, Al beit McLlinon Make High est Ticket Sales A pi of it of approximately $1000 ^ as made by Morehead City Lions throng!? then sponsorship of Rog eis Brothers circus in M ore he ad i City last week Announcement of t lie gam was! made at the Ihursdav mght Lions' meeting in the Fort Macon hotel where members delivered *heir fi- 1 nal financial report P**- s were made both from the sa!^ tickets ' and thr sale of advertis*. ? banners which "ere displayed in the tent Winners of Lions merit awards! for selling the highest number oi ti- i-ets were Harry Van Horn who sold over 2b0 tickets and Albert j Mctlmon who sold mure than 100 | ! he awards* will be presented at this neek's meeting After discussing the circus, the c!ub passed a resolution that it would never in the future sponsor any sort of out-of-town ?ntertain tnent or organization that found it necessary to sell advertising of any >ort to raise revenue This decision was reached ?< a result of the cir cub selling ad"er* ear-old youth struggling, he went back to him. Rescue Attempt According to M M. Ayscue, act ing coroner from Carteret county, the drowning boy started to pull the younger one down and the would-be rescuer had to break loose to save his own life. The victim's body was not recov ered until 6:15 p.m. Thursday A fish boat and a Coast Guard boat were making the search. The fish boat pulled in the body on one of its drags with the net. The tragedy occurred in the immediate vicinity of the summer home owned by Dr N T. Ennett, Mr. Ayscue said. Officials Reply / To Fish Dea ers Every Effort Being Made To Enforce July 1 Shrimp Law,' They Say C D Kirkpatrick, of the Com mercial Fisheries office. Camp Glenn on Friday echoed the words ! of Director George R Ross of the j State Board of Conservation and | Development, who told shrimp dealers that "every effort is being ! made to enforce the regulation prohibiting trawling for shrimp on inside waters before July 1" A telegram asking that the shrimp law be enforced or that i the season be opened now to every J one, was sent from New Bern Thursday by h H Holton, Gai land Fulcher, Robert Whorton, j Sam McCotter, Roland Styron. liar |otd Potter. Clayton Fulchei, T. H Smitt, Ottis Purifoy, Charles Davio, Clyde Potter, and Tiinan Tayloi, all fish dealers of this area | Mr Kirkpatrick said that on Fri day a fouith patiol boat, th" Pam lico, was put into action, and re 1 poited that on Thursday morning j 11 shrimpers weie arrested in Long 1 Bay The North Carolina state law pro hibits shrimping in inside wateis before July 1, but many fishermen | have been breaking the law and lor that reason shrimp dealers made their request last week to Director Ross The annual summei meeting of the Board of Con&erfation and De velopment will be held at Camp Glenn, near Morehead City, July 24, 25, and 26, Mr. Kirkpatrick | announced Friday Deadline ! Faces N,0,P,Qs i RALEIGH? Fiiday is the dead ! line {or motorists whose list names I begin with N, O, F, or Q, and op I erators of for-bire vehicles to ob : tain their new driver's licenses, the | North Carolina Department of Mo tor Vehicles reminded persons in this category today. Approximately 35,000 of the 180.000 persons in the N through Q category still must obtain re newais of their licenses A total of 11,710 chauffeur's licenses have been issued to drivers of for hire vehicles for the 195051 fiscal year More than 30,000 chauffeur's li censes still are to be issued The department urges all per sons in the N through Q group and all chauffeurs who have not ob tained their licenses to do so im mediately to avoid the rush. De partment officials pointed out that the situation will grow worse as the deadline nears. Issuance of N-Q licenses began January 1 and of chauffeur's li censes May 1 Persons who sur names begin with R, S or T may ob tain renewals beginning July 1. %/ JCs Cnlerlaui Her ( Miss Jamr-,. ti 4 ligh ter of Mr. ?*nr1 Mrs V II. Jdines, wis guest of Ik.!- tdmlrrts, the More he ad City JaycMs, at their meeting l^sf nigh' The Jaycees j crowned Miss .1 -tines "Miss Mote head City" at t? recent dance at I the Atlantlr Beach casino. i (Another picture of het appears on page 6 this section). Two Cars Upset In Three Weekend Highway Mishaps I Two cais turned over in three ! I of the weekend accidents in Car | teret county but no one was injur j jed The lirst accident happened in a hard rain at 1 30 Friday alter- 1 j neon on U. S. 70, about one -quartet j j mile west of Newport A 1947 Chev rolet, driven by Robert S Wil | hams, ir , of AEN 4?, Cherry Point, jian off the load and turned over : one and a half tunes. Damage to I the car was estimated at $1,000 ; Williams told J. W. Sykes, in I vestigating highway patrolman, ithat he was going about 45 miles Ian houi, but ran on to the soft | shoulder When he applied the I brakes, the car turned over, "crush | ing" him among boxes of straw I berries he was carrying and mak ! mg him look as though he was bleeding to death, Patrolman Sykes remarked At 8:15 Saturday night the 11 Plymouth coach, driven by Leon Edwards of 1810 Fisher st.. More head City, turned evei when it | tried to pass another car on the right. Edwards has been charged with driving drunk, according to Cpl. W. S. Clagen of the state high way patrol who investigated. The accident occurred neai the I' See ACCIDENTS, Page ft i NLRB Lawyer Wauls As surance Thai Mrs. Jack soil Is Available In the National Labor Relations board hearing which opened yester dav, attorneys representing the NLRB general counsel, informed counsel tor the Morehead City Gar ment company that they wanted to put the president of the company. Mi - Edna Jackson, on the stand some time during the course of (hp trial John K Pickens. NLRB counsel, directing his statement to Whit lord Blakeney ^nd Philip Newman, attorneys foi the shirt factory, said, I want some assurance that Mrs. lackson " ill bp available if I v ant to question her " Mr. Blaken^v replied that she wasn't dt the plant at the time and he didn't know where >h" is. Mr suggested that Lonnie Dill. one of t hr? nMiia^?is at the factory, be called Mi tvkens replied. "I'm pretty -'lie \!r Dill doesn't have 'he information 1 want " Mj Blakeney countered with ' How do von know unless you question him " After a few mo inents' consultation with his assis tant, Raymond Cluster, Mi Pickens stated. I'm sure the person I want to question is Mrs, Jackson " When the garment attorney ga1 e no assurance that Mis. Jackson would he available. Mi ( luster ic markeit that he assumed it would b^ agreeable to the hirt factory aM.jrnev- it thev subpoenaed her. Mi Blakeney told thein that he would contact Mi hill and it he couldn't produce her. they could serve * subpoena. Tlo: exchange nf lemarks fol lowed more than an hour's discus ion "t legal technicality, during Which Mr Blakeney asked Thomas f.i. Wilson, the trial e iminei, to dismiss the case and further, that if the ca?e were not dismissed, that the two actions, charging unfair laboi practices and th* other, seek i'lg that the October election at the plant be set aside, be separated The NLRB counsel has consoli dated the two cases and contends that they should be tried together because the evidence in both in many instances is the sime. Motions Denfed The trial examiner denied the first motion and then the second. Mr. Blake ney's motion to dismiss the entire action was based on his contention that provisions of the labor act have not been complied with, in that the CIO, with which the Amalgamated Clothing Work ers is affiliated, has not filed in formation and affidavits required. The Amalgamated Clothing Work eis has met those requirements, but th* lespondent's attorney con tended the CIO had to do likewise. Attractive Mrs. Margaret Rhue was thp first witness called to the stand in the court loom in Beau fort where the tnal is taking place. Lawveis m shirt sleeves presented their arguments to the trial exam iner and a court loom which was empty, except for about eight wo men expecting to be called as wit nesses Mrs Rhue was questioned by NLRB ccun;.e! rihe said she had been employed at the garment com pany several times since 1944 and that she was last employed for a period of about two years until the employment ceased in December 1949 Joined CIO The witness stated that she join ed the Union in June 1949 and ' was signed up" by fc. W. Witt, a CIO organizer. In addition to at tending three or four Union meet ings. Mrs. Rhue said shfc "went a round Morehead City to see the girls" in relation to joining the union and she also went about the See NRLB, Page 6 AUTHOR VISITS BEAUFORT Dr. Frank Slaughter Searches History For Solution to Current Problems Dr. Frank G. Slaughter, writer | of best sellers, paused long enough j on a brief weekend visit to Beau- ] fort to comment at length on books he has written, books that he is i working on at present and his am bitions "to write not only books that sell, but books that are more serious and have something to say." Dr. Slaughter and his family, who live in Jacksonville, Fla., stopped in Beaufort to visit with Mrs. Slaughter's brother and family, the 0 T. Mundy's. The Slaughters were winding up a three-week trip to the author's home at Oxford and his wife's home at Roanoke, Va. Dr Slaughter's latest book, "The Stubborn Heart," has received ex cellent reviews, continuing to keep high the 80 to flit per cent average of nnod reviews critics have ac corded him. The author, who received his i medical dcycc Irom Johns Hop- 1 kins university, and served as a surgeon in the recent war. remarks that the Souths really bitter trial was not the war between the states, but the period ol reconstruction. During that agony it was their stubbornness, and that alone, that carried them through. "And 1 think people ought to be told that. They shouldn't be allow ed to forget," he declared. "The Stubborn Heart" is a se quel to "In a Dark Garden" which is laid in the country around Wil mington. N. C-, and was published in 1946 At present, "Stubborn Heart" is in thirteenth place on the national list of best sellers. By October, 1951, Dr. Slaughter will have had 14 books published. Within the next 15 months two more of his novels will roll off the press as well as two of his non fiction works. Scheduled to appear in March 1951 is "Fort Ever glades," another historical talc. It deal:, with the area of southern Honda which the author terms a., romantic as the Northwest passage. Dr Slaughters non-fiction has dealt with the history of sutgical progress Coming out this fall will ; be the biography of Dr Ignaz beni melweis, "The Conquest of Child bed Fever." Dr. Semmelweis dis covered antisepsis more than wore of years prior to Lister but it was not accepted until Lister a time, the author explains Dr. Slaughter considers "Divine Mistress" among his best fic'ion. "It is different from my other books, it was not written according to formula, it is about ? period in hhtory when acquisition of knowl edge was so important that profile risked thru lives tor "I'm working steadily toward a more solid lyiH* of hook." In cm- | phasized lie (eels that there have been personalities in history that , See SLAL'GHTLB, Pate 4 I Tempsia'uie Hals High Tot 1950 on Sunday The tl^rmomfter hit the high for Carteret county is E. Stanley degrees Winds were from the southeast changing to southwest about noon The low for Sunday wj< 79 degrees. Ram ft!! on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, amounting to a total of .51 of an inch Winds for the must part were from the southweit. Temperatures follow: Max. Mia. Wednesday 88 73 Thursday 90 74 Friday 87 74 Saturday 92 74 Sumlay 99 79 Thi' official weather observer for 19bO on Sunday, rco^tcrlag 90 Davis, Mortbtad City. \