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NEWS-TIMES OFFICES Beaufort 1? Craven St ? Phase t4481 Morehead City M4 Arendell St. ? Phase M17S CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS ( Eatabliahed 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Eatabliahed 1936) 39th YEAR, NO. 57 EIGHT PAGES tMOREHKAD CiTf AND BKAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS When the Rains Descended . . . These photographs were taken early Sunday morning, July 9, after the week of rain subsided and Carteret eountians realized how j Noah felt after the flood. In the upper left picture is shown the | washout on the Swansboro road in which a Buick and two pick-up ! trucks crashed Saturday night, July 8. The size of the washout can | be judged by comparing with the hcighth of the highway patrolman, J. W. Sykes, shown in the photo. At upper right a slab of macadam is shown as it broke off and slid down into the 25-foot deep ditch. Mr. Svkcs is shown again at right. In the lower right photo the highway just east of Newport is shown flooded with water. This highway was impassable for 30 hours. At lower left is a view of one of the flooded farm fields on high way 70 just west of Morehead City, farmers sustained a heavy losi ; from the excessive rains. NEWS-TIMES l?hotos Morehead City Legion Ceases Club Operation Decisive Vole Favors Dis continuance ol Downtown *Atea Social Room Operation of the Morehead City i American Legion club in downtown Morehead City has been discontin- \ ued following action taken by the Legion at its Friday night meeting. A vote on continuing operation of the club was taken following months of discussion concerning what manner the club should be operated. Almost all recent meet ings of the Legion have been taken up partially with comments on club operation. Accordingly, at the meeting | prior to Friday night's meeting a j motion was made that all Legion naires should be notified to be j present at Friday's meeting to vote ! on whether or not to continue club j operation. Before voting took place Friday Commander James Meeks stated that it was common sense to rea ! li/e that no organization could , function properly if a large per centage of its members were not in favor of certain organization ac tivities. He said operation of the club seemed to fall into such a 1 category. The motion to discontinue club j operation passed by more than a three fourths majority. Immediate- i ly following passage of the motion | it u as decided to clear all Legion j property out of the club Saturday ! and use the Legion hut west of j Morehead City for any future gath- 1 erings or social functions. Com mander Meeks announced that the i hut hdd been open every night in | the week for Legionnaires and would remain open in the future. Ethan Davis reported that all j Morehead City Legionnaires who i attended the state convention in j Charlotte were well pleased with I the programs of business and en tertainment arranged for them. ! Those attending were Davis, Duffy Guthrie. Karl Dunn. J. B. Rice, Floyd Chadwick and Floyd Chad wick, jr. Floyd Chadwick. jr.. chairman of the Legion's local 1951 member ship drive, announced that the drive would begin immediately. He disclosed the appointment of Ethan Davis to act as his assistant in in creasing 1950 membership in the organization. Scientist to Speak Dr. Gairdner Moment o| Goucher College, Baltimore. Md., will speak on "The New Theory of Growth Limitation'' at 7:30 tomorrow night In the weekly series of lectures held in the dining hall of the Duke University Marine laboratory on Fiver's Island, Dr. C. G. Book hout, laboratory director, has an nounced. THe public is invited to attend. Commissioners to Meet Tonight Morehead City commissioners will hold their regular monthly Meeting tonight at 7:90 in the municipal building. Fire atHatteras Inlet A Causes $50,000 Damage Current Will Go Oil One Ninuie at 4 A. N. Tomorrow All current at Newport, More head City, on the Atlantic Beach bridge and on the Morehead City draw bridge will be off for 1 minute at 4 a.m. tomorrow. This stoppage is necessary to make changes at the Tide Water Power company sub station in Morehead City. George Stovall, manager, said that this outtage will stop all automatic equip ment. Ports Authority To Open Local Bids Next Month The North Carolina State Ports Authority will open bids on the $2,500,000 port development pro gram for Morehead City on August \ 10, SPA officials said today. In addition, they predicted that, in all likelihood, the work on the I Morehead City project will be com pleted and new facilities in opera tion prior to completion of port construction in Wilmington. That will be in about one year, it was stated. Meanwhile, the SPA has held a meeting at Wilmington to discuss the authority's budget for the bten nium beginning July 1, 1951. This budget must be presented to the State Legislature when it convenes in January, SPA executives said. There are unconfirmed reports of still another meeting of the au thority to be held later*this month. However, no official statement re garding this meeting or its pos sible purpose has been released. It is expected, however, that a plan of operation and a time sched ule for the SPA port development program will be presented and studied by the Ports Authority whenever its next meeting is held. By Mrs. Alice Kondthak'r Fire of unknown origin, bill i thought possibly to bo the result j of defective wiring, destroyed tin boat house of the Mattel as Jn!< ; Lifeboat Station at the north cn.l i of Ocraeoke Island Friday n o'n ing. Damage frouvthc kir<?^ estimated at $50,000. The blaze first was noted at | about 9 a.m by a Coast Guardsman j working about the boat house and , spread so rapidly th-it the nun on watch in the tower above desecend 1 ed to safety through flames and ; smoke. In the boat house was a lifeboat ? and dory, both of which were do stroyed, as was one of the docks; al so a privately owned bo:t, the "Mary Ruth \V owned by Sam j uel E. Jones of Norfolk, was tied at . the dock. Capt. Henry Peele, in command of the Hatter as Inlet and Ocra coke Coast Guard Stations, had 1 no comment to make, but stated | that everything possible w?s done to extinguish the fire and that there would be an investigation t'> try to determine its cause. An Ocracoke resident who visi ted the scene of the fire later Friday morning estimated the loss at $50,000. A considerable amount 1 of remodling and repainting had been done at the boat house to make it suitable for living quar- j ters for the Coast Guard, since the old Coast Guard station was u i dermined yast year by the et> j croaching Atlantic Ocean and was about to be abandoned. A new tower also had been erected et the boat house. Assistance from the Ocracoko station reached the Hatteras Inlet lire promptly when telephone com munication informed Capt. I'eele of the fire. Specialist Visits County Joe B. Gourlay, senior market 1 ing specialist with the North Cara- i olina Department of Agriculture. ; visited in the county yesterday to , discuss routine marketing problems with county agriculture authori ties. Mo rehead ?ity Chamber Plans Three-Day Membership Dri ve Clyde Jones, chairman of the | membership committee of the Morehcad City Chamber of Com merce, announced today that the chamber's drive for increased mem bership has been scheduled for the 25, 26 and 27 of this month. Mr. Jones, aided by D. G. Bell, is in charge of overall planning of the campaign. Dr. John W. Morris and A. B. Cooper, both past presidents of the Morehead City organiiation. have been named by Jones as majors in command of the two battalions which will compete in securing new and renewal memberships. Dr. Morris has named as his com pany commanders George W. Dill, jr., and Dr. Sam W. Hatcher while Alfred Cooper's two group* will be headed up by Frank Moran and * Warren Beck as captains. The com pany* each will bp composed of eight men, divided into four two man teams. Several meetings have been held and plans are now virtually com plete (or a thorough, whirlwind campaign. No individual participat ing will find that his duties will bo a deavy drain on his time and en ergy as long as the team functions as a whole. The purpose of the effort is to provide the Moreliead City Cham ber of Commerce the man-power and financial backing required to forward the growing program of work that must be undertaken to maintain the tempo of Morehead City's progress. Each of the four captains have See MEMBERSHIP, Page ? Newport Youth Struck By Car / On Highway 70 George L. James Suifers Fractured Leg Whei 1111 Oj f'luiOilol George James. 9-year-old New port youngster, suffered a fractur ed left leg and bruises Sunday morning when he was struck by an automobile driven by. Roy T. Ward. Cherry Point Marine, in front of the Blue Kibbon club west of Morehead City. The James boy was taken to Morehead City hospital where he was treated and admitted to the hospital. His physician stated yes terday that he was in a satisfactory condition but would remain in the hospital for at least a week. Following investigation of the accident by State Highway Patrol man J. W. Sykes. Ward was charg ed with careless and reckless driv- 1 ins and will be tried in toda>'s ses- 1 sion of recorder's court. Ward told Patrolman Sykes that ho was headed east on Highway 70 and attempted to pass another j car in front of the Blue Kibbon club. As he did. he stated, he saw \ another car approaching and swung back behind the car he was pass ing. When he did this, his car travel- , ed over to the right side of the i road and struck young James who : was walking east on the shoulder I of the road. Only slight damage was caused to Ward's car. Thursday Night Fire caused by the spontaneous combustion of a cleaning fluid fil ter damaged one corner of John son - Saunders cleaning plant, I Beaufort, Thursday night but heavy ! damage was averted by quick work i of the Beaufort fire department. The filter was placed outside the j plant lo dry at about 8:30 and j a few moments later the outside j corner of the building was discov- j ered in flames. An alarm was sent in immediate- ! ly. Shortly afterward, firemen ar- j rived to find the corner of the I building on fire. Water was played I on the fire without succcss so a I chemical extinguisher was then used that finally put the flames out. Damage to the building was . slight with only the outside corn- ! er scorched and partially burned, j Credit was paid to the fire depart- j ment for its quick work which was j said to have averted a more serious conflagration. Firemen were away from the sta- ; tion until 9 o'clock when they re- 1 turned after the fire was put out j and the situation under control. . Draft Delinquents Urged By Board Chairman To Clear Records at Once Alert Neighbor Prevents Attempted Beaufort Burglary Fish Destruction Relatively Small, Specialist Says Only Small Number De stroyed by Fish Nets, Dr. Roelofs Slates Destruction of small fish by com mercial fishermen is much smaller than reported in many quarters, Dr. Eugene Roelofs, scientist with j the University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Research at ' Camp Glenn, told Morehead City Rotarians at their Thursday night meeting. Dr. Roelofs said it is a popular belief that some fish nets destroy many small fish that otherwise would grow to maturity and be come edible. He added that this ( is a false conception, that the number of fish that would reach a size large enough to be eaten were extremely few and far below the percentage that most people ihought. The fisheries scientist cited cases nd methods of study used by the | nstitute to prove his point. He i said some misled persons would have the public believe that local | waters were gradually being emp- ! | tied of marketable fish because of the use of improper nets, j Dr. Roelofs' speech was concern ed with the development of the in stitute and the nature of its work. I He prai&ed Senator Frank P. Gra I ham. farmer president o i the Uni oi North Cj? for his farsightedness and ingenuity in ob taining Knapp Foundation funds and state-owned buildings for the institute. Work at the institute is concern ed with research and not teaching, j he observed. No students are pres ent but only skilled technicians who do investigative work on var ious forms of marine life. Ex-president L. D. Gore present j ed outgoing president George W. ! Dill with a past president's lapel button as a gift from the club. A new pianist, Joyce Willis, was wel comed to. the clubs meetings and several songs were sung to con | elude the program. Four Vehicles Damaged In / Beaufort Wrecks Two cars received damages total ing approximately $700 late Satur day afternoon in Beaufort when one of the two darted out from a filling station into busy highway traftic. Cecil Fodrie, Beaufort soldier ?home on leave, was parked at the filling station at the foot of the Beaufort draw hridce Saturday af ternoon. He started his car, a 19SO Chevrolet, and. after looking to see if any traffic was coming, pull ed out into the highway, headed east. At the same time, O. J. Morrow of Morehead City was headed west on Ann street in his 1949 Ply mouth. As Fodrie left the station and entered the road his car (Fod rie's) passed directly in the path ol Morrow's oncoming automobile. Morrow swervid his car to the left to avoid striking Fodrie's but his effort was too late. The Ply mouth's right iront struck the Chevrolet straight on, damaging both cars to the extent of approxi mately $350 each. No charges were preferred in the accident though Beaufort police slated that charge* would be made as 90on as investigation of the wreck is completed. Investigating officers were Hiram Kerr and Carl ton Garner. A few minutes later another ac cident took place at the corner of Ann and Pollock sts. Alton Swain was driving enst on Ann when he started to make a right turn off Ann into Pollock. As Swain made his turn the door of his car flew open and he reached to close it When he did he lost temporary control ol his csr and ran into the oncoming truck oi Henderson Godette. Little dsmage was caused by the accident and d 6 charges were prafarrsd. A nocturnal prowler attempted to break into the bus wage at the corner of Ann and yTurner sts., Beaufort, ear# ^Sunday morning but was foiled when an alert neighbor notified police. At 2 a.m. Sunday, Mrs. Julian Austin, who lives on Ann St., next door to the bus garage, heard noises next door. When she looked out to see what was hap pening she discovered that a col ored man was attempting to "jim my" open a window to the ga rage. She watched as his attempt failed and he broke a window in order to gain entrance to the building. Mrs^ Austin then tele phoned Beaufort police of the break-in attempt and police were dispatched to the scene immcdi-J ately. An over-eager dog owned by the Austins prevented police from apprehending the would-be burg lar. however. Before police could arrive the Austin's dog was, awakened by the noises next door and began to bark, frightening ! the burglar, who ran just as police arrived. Police officer Carlton Garner and night watchman Maxwell Wade tried to catch the burg lar but he escaped. Evidence gath ered at the scene of the thwarted break-in led them to suspect two different persons who were arres ted Sunday and held in jail pend ing further investigation into the case. X-Ray Campaign Hampered by Rain Less Than Half Those Planned For Appear, Dr. Ennett Stales, s' Heavy rains during the recent mobile X-ray campaign in the county cut down the expected num ber of patients who took X-rays to only 50 per cent of the number prepared for. Dr. N. Thomas En nett, county health officer, an nounced yesterday. Dr. Ennett commented that ap proximately 250 patients were ex pected while only 120, 44 in Beau fort and 76 in Morchead City, : showed up for the special re takes. Patients referred to the unit were selected only from those who showed symptoms of tuberculosis in other X-ray campaigns, those , who had been in contact with TB j patients and new patients suspcct ed to have the disease Extra-large X-ray plates were used while the mobile unit was in the county. The health officer stated that in- \ tcrpretatioa of the X-rays would be done by the State Sanitorium and that it would be two weeks be- \ fore results arc known. Doctors, patients and the health department ' will be notified, he said. MTss Peggy Hamilton of Beau fort assisted in the brief campaign as volunteer clerk. Dr. Ennett ex pressed the appreciation and thanks of the health department for her assistance. Bids Requested For Werk On Newport River Rridge Bid* on the reconstruction of the tender system (or the Newport river bridge on highway 70 be tween Morehead City and Beaufort will be opened by the State High way Commission July 27. Bids on bridge work were asked for by the commission Thursday, along with bid requests for 23 oth er highway projects totalling 277.7 miles in 21 counties. Of the 23 projects, 14 are part of the $200 million secondary road bond program now in full swing throughout the state'* 100 coun ties. Work on the Newport river bridge will not come under the secondary road program, a com mission spokesman stated. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, July It 10: 15 a.m. 10:30 p.m. 4:10 a.m. 4:19 p.m. Weducaday, July 19 10:98 a.m. 11:14 p.m. 4:48 a.m. 9:08 p.m. Thursday, July 29 11:48 a.m. 12:00 Noon 8:02 p.m. Friday, July 21 12:05 a.m. 13:41 p.m. 8:19 a.m. 7:01 pis. Swansboro Road Reopens As Workmen End Repairs Highway 24 west from >l(ir'' head City t? Swansboro was , opened lo all traffic yesterday I fallowing a nine-day period when I the road was closed to traffic l? ? cause of a washout that caused one death on the ninht ?f July * I C ounty road superintendent .1. | L Humphrey slated yesterday that the Masontown road lead | inn from highway '? to the Nine Foot road would he opened this afternoon and Roberts road, which connects Highway !0 and Nine Foot road also, would be opened the latter part of the week to complete repair work on roads damaged by recent rains, i With the completion <if to?la> work county highway workers expert to get back oil a regular I schedule of maintenance and i? pair. Recent rains played havoc with the county road system and it has taken 10 days to catch up with damage caused by the down pour, Humphrey said. Circus Money Pays For Glasses, lions Announce Firsi Order of 17 Pairs Paid For From Circus Admissions, Lions Slate I circus admission money paid by Carteret county residents last 1 month is already being put to work by Morebead City Lions to Pu[ chase glancs I- - ???' 1*T60n ,j.' was announced al the Thursday night Lions meeting President J C Bennett said the club had ordered ulasscs for 1 persons which would be delivery within a few days, lie addid that money to pay for the gUsscs would come from the profits Lions re ceived from a circus they sponsor ed last month. Not only Morehead titv rtsi dents but visually handicapped res idents of the entire county arc re ceiving glasses in the latest or e . President Bennett explained. H said Lions cooperate with the county welfare department and thi North Carolina Blind Commission in choosing the persons most nc.d ful of Lions assistance. Oscar Allrcd, retiring Lions sec rctary. was presented a lapel but ton and certificate of appreciation by the club president. Membership kev awards for securing at least ssk?s; Lions club. Cancer Work Continues Twenly-two persons, six colored and 16 white, appeared for exam ination at the weekly cancer clinic held in Lenoir County Health De partment offices, Kinston, last Thursday. The clinic is free to those persons needing treatment. Interested persons should contact the Lenoir County Health Depart ment. All, deli quent draft registrant* \ were urged yesterday to clear their V records immediately with the coun- 1 ty draft board 5s reopening plans \ were being completed by the board and an upswing of registrants was felt. Registration last week was more than three times as heavy as the previous week, draft board chair man (irah m W. Duncan, jr., re ported. and an even heavier vol ume of business is expected us sooji as the draft board fj.ds perm i nent quarters. Delinquent dralt registrants, Duncan pointed out, are thon* who fail to return their selective ser vice questional res or who fail to comply wilh an order from the local board. It is believed, he continued, that many arc delin quent due lo negligence or i;:noi ii 'ce of the law. Duncan stressed that under ex isting selective service regulations, the name of a delinquent regis trant is placet! at the top of the lisl of men eligible for induction into the Army. If such delin quents act promptly however, ?Suy nia\ he able to clear their records before the lust call lor men is is sued. North Carolim has been given a ??Id man initial quota under the new draft law, with all the draf tees to be in uniform not later than September .30. The draft board is in the pro cess of procuring office space and personnel preparatory to opening on i half day basis five days a week, the chairman said, lie stahd that it would probably be the first of August before the office is opened . Those persons who wish to regis ler may contact him at his in surance office next to the Bei.u fort theater at anytime, lie said. Until the opening of the dralt of fice. registrations may bo made at Duncan's office. Though it is too early to be absolutely certain, the board chair man expressed the belief that very lew draftees would be obtained from the 23, 24 and 25-year olds. Most young men of that age have seen service or are physically un fit for service, he said. Ther ? fore, he added, the Dm? draftees probably vvi closer to 20 than 25. As soon as directives or other in formation from state headquarters concerning draft rules are received they will be announced in the newspaper, Duncan concluded. Robbery Suspects Jailed by Police Both persons suspected in the robbery of Economy Auto and Ap pliance store, Morchcad City, on July 7 were placed under arrest by Morchcad City police ' Friday after theyahad fled from police ear lier in the week. Friday morning, Pete Fulford, one of the two suspects, walked into the police station and gave himself up. Fulford said he had fled when police went to a lo^al construction project Tuesday morn ing because he thought "Wooten had turned in my bond and you were Koing to put me in jail." A short while later police went to the home of George Brown on Avery st. and arrested him for sus picion in the robbery. Brown's ex cuse for fleeing police was that he believed "you were going to arrest me for slapping ^ girl up. at Har lowe." Both suspects were jailed im mediately under suspicion of rob bery. Investigation of the crime is still continuing, police saiJt Hotel Discussion Promised AtBeauiorl Chamber Meeting A full discussion of requirements necessary to bring a hotel to Beau fort, *yith some hitherto .unrevealed information on the subject, will be one of the features tonight at the annual Beaufort Chamber of Com merce banquet. In addition to the hotel discus sion, a full program of work for the chamber's coming year will be outlined and discussed and new chamber officers, headed by K. Braxton Adair, president, w?ll be installed. Time of the meeting is 7 o'clock in the Scout building on Pollock 1 ?treet. Chamber manager Dan Walker emphasized in his an nouncement of the banquet that "the building will be cooled by plenty of electric fans!" Those present tonight will have full opportunity to assist in devel oping the chamber's program for | the coming yea r. Dr. W. L. Wood- , ard, retiring president and incom- : ing president Adair stated. They pointed out that no program has i been developed yet, pending in1 i expression of opinion from mem bers who will he present tonight. The meeting is open not only to | chamber members but to any mem ; ber of the public who wishes to at tend. Walker emphasized. He said thi/ larger the crowd, the better the discussion. However, he re quested those who have not al ready done so to call the chamber office today to make reservations. New officers of the chamber are President Adair, Ciraham W. Dun can. vice-president, Dan Walker, secretary and manager, James H. Davis, treasurer, and George East man, Dr. Woodard. Halsey D. Paul, Paul S. Jones, David F. Merrill, Gene C. Smith, Alonzo Willis, George C. Cottingham, Mrs. Eric Moore and Mrs. W. L. Woodard, di rectors. Assistant county agent, A1 W. Stinson will attend a 4-H short course on 4-H programs and ac tivitie at N. C. State college in Raleigh next week, the county agents office has announced.
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