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A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936)
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NATIONAL FlRt PdQT I CI ION ASSN H6URIS
This is Fire Prevention Week. The National
Fire Protection association urges every homeown
er and operator of a business establishment to
check his buildings and remove fire hazards. This
graph vividly shows the extent of disastrous fires
in this nation during the course of one day.
Carteret 4-H Boys to Enter
Calves in Wilmington Show
Lions Appropriate $150
To Buy School Lunches
Morehead City Lions appropriat
ed $150 at their Thursday night
meeting in the Fort Maoon hotel
to buy school lunches for needy
children in the county.
The money is to be used to buy
lunches for children in all county
schools having lunch rooms. Lions
stated. Lions Louis Norris, Harry
Van Home and Bobby Bell were
appointed to administer the fund
and select the neediest children.
Present at the meeting were Miss
Imilda Townsend, blind case work
er, and Thomas McGinnis, county
superintendent of public welfare,
to explain blind work carried on
by the welfare department. Lions
help to finance the blind program.
Miss Townsend said her work
was concerned primarily with aid
ing the blind persons to improve
their capabilities. She said
taught them braille and cfl|
forms of instruction and
ation that would enable thenKral
occupy and amuse themselves. %
Superintendent McGinnis said
the work of the welfare department
was slightly different from Miss
Townsend's, in that the welfare
department's job was aimed more
at helping the blind and those with
faulty sight.
His department's ultimate aim is
to make these persons useful cit
izens who can help themselves,
McGinnis stated.
Lions voted to maintain a booth
at the county fair this month. This
booth will be used to demonstrate
the various devices used to aid
blind persons.
Harry Van Horn, chairman of
the Lions White Cane sale com
mittee, stated that a full report
still was not available on results
of the White Cane sale. He did
report, however, that 52 member
ships had been sold to the North
Carolina Association for the Blind.
Sale of the memberships was one
aim of the White Cane campaign.
X-Rays Show No
Evidence of TB
Nine members ot the Harkley
family. Newport RFD, who were
recently X-rayed to determine
whether they have tuberculosis,
have been reported by the health
department to be without the di
sease.
Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county
health officer, in making this re
port yesterday, said he has re
cently received word that Mrs.
Harkely, the mother, will be admit
ted soon to a tuberculosis sani
torium. The father is already in
a sanitorium. Both arc suffering
from pulmonary tuberculosis.
One child, also suffering from
pulmonary TB. is in a sanatorium,
and another child recently died,
suffering from TB and meningi
tis.
After the mother is admitted to
the sanatorium. Dr. Ennett said
the oldest children. 19 and 20
years of age, will take care of the
younger ones.
Many county residents have ans
wered pleas (or cash to help the
family.
White Oak Primitive
Baptists to Meet Saturday
The While Ice Cream and Milk
company will formally open its
new office building on N. 7th St..
Horchcad City, tomorrow after
Moon at 5 o'clock.
Favors will be given to all wo
men who attend the ceremonies
which will last until 9 o'clock and,
t? all children accompanied by
their parents. Ice cream will be
given.
Lack of Cement
Delays Opening
Of A6C Store
| The opening date for the Have
lock ABC (liquor) store, the first
in that community, has been de
! layed due to a shortage of cement,
it was reported yesterday.
Originally, the Alcoholic Bever
l age Control store, which has been
constructed next to Sermons filling
station on highway 70. was sched
uled' to open Oct. 1. Cement for,
the floor could not be obtained,
Jwwevcr. and finishing touches
Tafiitot be made until then.
Th store, of concrete block con
struction, is being built by Oscar
Sermons and will be rented to the
Craven county ABC board.
v Many Havelock citizens are pro
testing against the store's opening.
This is the second time that an
attempt has been made to put an
ABC store at Havelock. The first
attempt was stymied by ministers
and congrgations in the area.
Newport, New Bern, and More
head City are looking upon the
move with glum faces, fearful that
the store's operation will cut sales
at ABC stores in those towns. Each
municipal government receives
monthly a share of the liquor store
profit*.
Two Injured
When Car Skids
William Sewell, Jacksonville,
and Phil M. Jackson, Midway Park,
were injured early Sunday morn
ing when the car in which they
were riding skidded and turned
over on highway 24 about a mile
west of the highway 24 and 70
intersection near Morehead City.
According to Patrolman J. W.
Sykes. who investigated, the car,
a 1948 Kaiser, was proceeding west
on 24 when it ran off the right
shoulder, caroomed to the left of
the highway and shot 105 feet
through the woods, turning over
several times. It was raining when
See TWO INJURED, Page 7
| Eight Carteret county 411 club
| boys will enter calves in the first
annual Southeastern North Caro- j
lina Junior Dairy Cattle show;
Thursday and Friday at Wilming
ton.
The show, which is attracting
exhibitors from 19 Southeastern
North Carolina counties, is being
sponsored by the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce.
100 Head Entered
Already more than 100 head of
cattle have been signed up, accord- j
ing to the committee chairmen. Ex
hibitors are boys and girls under
21 years of age from the counties
of Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret,
Columbus. Craven, Cumberland,
Duplin, Hoke, Harnett, Jones. Le
noir, New Hanover. Onslow. Pamli
co, Pender. Robeson, Sampson,
Scotland, and Wayne.
Chairman R. G. Fitzgerald, in
commenting on the show, reported
that interest in it has "far-exceed
ed our expectations."
"We are looking forward to one
of the best shows of this type ever
held in the state. Anyenc who
comes to Wilmington to exhibit in
this show will find a royal wel
come waiting lot him/' F iuiso'aiti
1 said.
The same Carteret boys entering j
calves in this show won a total of
$74 in prizes at a recent show at
Wilson. They are Darrell Finer,
son of Elwood Finer; Cecil Gilli
k'n. son of Guy Gillikin; Mark Eu
banks, son of Manley Eubanks;
Henry Eubanks, son of Ivey Eu
banks. all of Beaufort RFI); Tom
my Oglesby, son of R. F. Oglesby,
Morehead RFD; Herbert Page, son
i of Willie Page. Newport RFD; Leo
Watson, son of Worth Watson, Pel
letier; and Billy Simmons, son of
Harold Simmons, Newport RFD.
Neil Bolton, secretary of the
Wilmington show steering commit
tee, has issued an appeal to all vo
cational agriculture teachers and
county agents of the southeastern
counties to send him a revised list
of the number of exhibitors each
county will have. The steering com
mittee. he said, would like this list
divided by boys and girls in order
that the housing committee can
make arrangements for housing
for the boys and girls.
Parents Will Attend
Also, Bolton said he would like
an estimate from the county agents
and agricultural teachers as to how
many parents are coming from the
respective counties to attend the
big banquet honoring the exhibi
tors and their parents Thursday
night.
While details of the banquet have
not yet been announced, both H. A.
Marks, chairman of the banquet
program committee, and Jacob Tin
ga, chairman of the banquet ar
rangements committee, have re
ported Ihat those attending this
event can be sure of a wonderful
time.
Score May Have Been 0-0 , But
It Adds Up to Good Football
The 'score was Beaufort 0, More- 1
head 0. but there will be argument
until Thanksgiving as to which was
the "better" team, which played
the "best" brand of football, and
who should have won the Mullet
Bucket.
The crowd at the Thanksgiving
game in Beaufort should top Fri
day night's 3.000 by far.
Officer Herbert Griffin of More
head City was asked Saturday
morning: "Any fights last night?"
The answer came back from an
car-to-ear grin: "Nope, everything
went smooth."
Tommy Willis, 14, of Beaufort,
declared in an after-game confab,
"I didn't think Beaufort would win,
but 1 sure didn't want Morehead
to beat."
Tense Watchers
By 7:30 Friday night the field
was crowded with tense specta
tors. Ever since Thursday evening
when high school kids paraded and
sang through both towns, proclaim
ing their particular team's prowess
ttm . .
and strength to the skies, an air
of expectancy hung over every
football fan . . . the first football
game between Beaufort and More
head City in nine years was in the
offing.
A chilly northeaster swept across
the field, but even the wind held
its breath as green-clad Sea Dogs
and their red-uniformed opponents
lined up for the kick-off.
Red and black and green and
white crepe paper streamers waved
from white goal posts, their fragile
flutterings contrasting with the
confidence, fighting spirit, and ro
bust performance of the two teams.
Ray Frances Hassell, reared in
one of Beaufort's better-known
families of baseball players, could
n't understand why they didn't
keep playing extra quarters until
one or the other of the teams won.
Except in tense moments the air
reverberated with shouts of spec
tators and organized yells of the
student bodies. TMe Morehead City
See FOOTBALL, Page 7
Construction of Building at Airport
Delayed by Shortage of Cement, Steel
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County Fair Exhibits
Due by 2 P. M. Tuesday
County Leaders V
Cite Necessity/j
Of Fire Prevention
Jaycees, Fire Departments,
Farm, Home Agenjs
Issue Statements
Morehead City Jaycees* Fire Pre
vention committee, municipal lire |
departments, the farm and home
extension service agents have made |
a special plea this week to all
county residents to renew their
efforts to prevent fires.
Jaycees have cited the impor
tance of checking electrical wiring
in all types of buildings, getting j
rid of rubbish inside the house and
along the fences, and thoroughly
checking floor furnaces and all
types of heating appliances before j
putting them to use when chill fall '
weather arrives.
In a special statement to Beau- '
fort, Morehead City, and Newport
fire departments this week, Waldo I
C. Cheek, North Carolina commis- j
sioner of insurance, and Sherwood !
Brock well, state fire marshal, re- j
called the first fire prevention bul
letin issued by North Carolina In
surance department in October
1900.
This bulletin contained two sim- j
pie lines: Most fires are due to
carelessness and the ABC of fire j
prevention -
or places of uuniucaa auici nuiiii
fire to call for advice from the |
chief of the fire department or
the town's building inspector.
"Fire is bad enough in the city," |
remarked H. M. Williams, farm}
agent, but it usually spells disas
ter to the farmer. He cited just
one instance, which follows, of how j
fire burned up in a few minutes
the savings of a lifetime.
Ten incubators (with a capacity
of 32,000 each) were destroyed by
fire at a Delaware poultry farm. Or
iginating in th* incubator room,
the fire was started from an over
heated motor. Volunteer firemen
from five ^immunity companies
responded, but.the^nly water avail
able was from a one-foot ditch and
booster tanks. One tractor-trailer
had to make three trips to the
burning farm building hauling two
500-gallon wooden water tanks
each time. The fire cost this
poultry man $70,000.
There are thousands of similar
instances, added Mrs. Carrie Gil
likin, home agent, where rural
families not only lose everything
they own but there is loss of life.
"Needless fire is your ever- pres
ent enemy," the county agents
said, "don't let fire lick you."
ful.
They urge
ested fh ma
Farm Bureau Solicitors
Will Meet at 7:30 Tonight
R. M. Williams, county farm
agent, has requested every Farm
Bureau membership solicitor to
make a special effort to attend the
second check up meeting at 7:30
tonight in his office, Beaufort.
"It is important that each mem
bership solicitor attend this meet
ing because we arc? anxious to
have a report and know just what
progress is taking place with our
membership drive," he said.
"We hope that each of our so
licitors will not wait until the clos
ing date to gfct all the members
in their respective communities,
he concluded.
Norehead Firemen Pol Oul
Downtown Blaze Friday
Quick work by the Morchcad
City fire department averted what
seemed certain to be a serious lire
Friday morning.
Firemen were summoned to the
rear of Freeman Brothers store on
Arendell st. where a trash (ire had
blazed up and threatened the build
ing. By the time members of the
fire crew arrived, flames were cat
ins under the eaves.
Water from the truck's booster
tank was quickly put into use. The
fire was out in a few minutes. Ap
proximately $100 damage was
caused.
Dr. A. F. Chestnut and Dr. E. W.
Roelofs, of the Institute of Fish
eries Research staff, will attend
the dedication this week of the
new Virginia Fisheries laboratory,
Yorktowne, Va.
Mrs. Billie Smith. Beaufort RFD,
will In- in charge of Carteret coun
ay fair exhibits and will be Eit the
exhibition building at the fair
grounds Monday and Tues lay of
next week at 8 a.m. and through
out the day to accept exhibits.
There is no charge to put an
item on display and this year the
premiums are double the amount
paid last year. For example, in
stead of $1 for first prize in certain
classifications. $2 will be awarded.
All exhibits must be entered no
later than 2 p.m. Tuesday. Assist
ing Mrs. Smith in marking and
classifying exhibits will be Mrs.
Will Dail and Mrs. Paul Beachem.
both of North River.
T. K. Kelly, Beaufort, in charge
of the fair for the American Le
gion. sponsors, stated that booths
in the new exhibit hall will be set
up this week. He said all commer
cial exhibit space has been reserv
ed by businessmen and there will
be more school exhibits this year
than last.
Lights in the parking area have
been put up and arrangements
made for both night and day watch
men.
The 30 by 100 foot exhibit hall j
is complete. The metal building is '
finished with a blue shingle roof |
and electrical wiring was complet
ed last week.
All types agricultural exhibits |
will be accepted, floral displays,
canned fruits, meats, and vegetab
les. home cured meat, cakes, cloth
ing, knitting, crocheting, paintings, |
handcraft, and seafood.
15 Examined
Fifteen persons were exam
ined Thursday at the weekly can
cer clinic at Kinston. Among those
attending were persons from More
head City and Oriental.
Jack Kelley Speaks
To Stale College Alumni
Jack Kelly, specialist in charge
of animal husbandry for North
Carolina State College Extension
service, was the principal speak
er at a meeting of the Carteret
County State College club hist
night in Webb Memorial Civic
Center. Morehead City. Mr. Kelley
is pictured above.
Prior to becoming a specialist
with the extension service in 1945,
Kelly served for six years as the
county agent of Jones county. He
came to North Carolina from the
University of Kentucky, where he
received his BS and MS degrees in
animal husbandry.
The new movie entitled, "North
Carolina State College," was shown
during the meeting. The motion
picture is in color and with sound
and depicts the work of State Coll
ege during a 12-month period.
Today Mr. Kelley will visit with
swine growers throughout the
county. He will be accompanied
by K. M. Williams, farm agent.
Coast Guardsmen , Firemen
Search for Missing Doctor
Rent Director
Explains Law
John Perry, jr., area rent direc
tor, New Bern, announced today
that there is no requirement as
to public hearing, legal notice or
other procedural matter if town
hoards wish to take action for con
tinuing federal rent control in any
incorporated place.
He said that all the board of
commissioners need do is to de
clare by resolution that a shortage
of rental housing exists which re
quires the continuance of. rent con
trol.
Such resolution does not require
approval of the governor, but the
Housing Fxpcditcr should be noti
fied promptly of the action, he ex
plained. Without action to con
tinue control, tederal rent control
will end Dec. 31.
He also pointed out the federal
rent law provides that action to
continue rent control after Dec. 31
may come through popular referen
dum, if that method is preferred to
governing body action.
A further local option privilege,
the rent official said, is that the
board of commissioners could, even
after passing a resolution to con
tinue federal control, vote to end
control any time between now and
the end of the present federal rent
law on June 30, 1951.
Accountant Explains
New Income Tax Schedule
The new federal ineome tax
schedule and its complexities were
explained to Morehead City Rotar
ians by Albert Gaskill. accountant,
at the Thursday night Rotary meet
ing.
President James I. Mason gave
a brief report to the club on Nat
ional Employ-The-Physically-Han
dicapped week. He urged all who
could to employ the phsically han
dicapped, or if not able to, refer
them to the local employment of
fice for assistance.
Robert (Bob) Banks was pres
ent as guest of Lou D. Gore.
Studies Sonar
Jay Samuel Williams, chief gun
ner's mate. USN, of 107 11th st.,
Morehead City is undergoing a
course of instruction at the U.S.
Fleet Sonar School, San Diego.
Calif. Williams, who entered the
Naval service May 18. 1B37, form
erly attended Morehead City high
school.
The Coast Guard, Morehcad City
firemen and numerous volunteers
rallied Friday night to search for
a missing fisherman who turned
up on his own, nervous and exhaus- 1
ted, several hours after the search
began.
The fisherman. Dr. Oliver Fritz
of Walkertown, near Winston- Sa
lem. had gone out in the late af
ternoon in a small outboard motor
boat to do some fishing.
Dr. Fritz did not return when
expected and the Coast Guard was
called by Copeland Motor Court,
whore he was staying.
The Coast Guard immediately
began searching for the doctor but
had little success since their boats
were not of shallow enough draft
to venture into waters where the
Fritz boat was thought to be. The
Coast Guard started its search
before 10 p.m.
At 11 p.m. the Morehcad City
fire department was asked to as
sist and a general alarm was rung
Firemen began searcing in their
own private boats.
Both the Coast Guard and fire
men continued their search until
nearly 1 a.m. Saturday when the
all-clear signal was rung. I)r.
Fritz had returned to Copoland's.
The Forsyth doctor was exhaus
ted from nervousness but still able
to give a report on what had hap
pened. He said that after he had
finished fishing, he pulled in his
anchor and prepared to start the
outboard.
The motor would not start,
though, and the boat drifted across
the sound into marshes on the
south side. The doctor became pan
icky, it was reported, and he
was not able to start the outboard
until several hours later.
The motor finally turned over
however, and Dr. Fritz made it
back to the motor court, just west
of Morehcad City under his own
power.
Health Department Reports
Spinal Meningitis Case
David Karl Smith, 3 1/2-year-old
son of Otis Smith, Camp Glenn,
was stricken with cerebral spinal
meningitis Thursday, according to
the county health department. Dr.
N. Thomas Ennctt. health officer
said quarantine laws have been en
forced.
Dr. Ennett also announced that
Robert Wetherington, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Streets Wetherington,
returned home Wednesday from
the Convalescent hospital at
Greensboro. The child was stricken
early in September with a mild
case of polio.
He is recovering satisfactorily
and is suffering no paralytic after
effects, Dr. Eonett said.
Lack of cement and steel is delaying construction of
the new administration building at the Beaufort-Morehead
City airport, M. T. Mills, chairman of the airport commis
sion reported yesterday.
All other materials are on the site and the building
has been staked out. W. Flowers, Beaufort, is in charge
of construction.
Mr. Mills said there were hopes that the building
would be complete within a month,
but with this material shortage he
said no one can say when it will
be finished.
The building, of concrete block
construction, is located just south
of the present one which is being
used as the Piedmont Airlines of
fice and headquarters for the coun
ty Civil Air Patrol.
It will contain a waiting room,
dinette, office, and restrooms. Cost
of construction is estimated at
$12. (MM).
The new road into the adminis
tration building, to go north from
the west Beaufort road, has been
approved. Philip Ball, county sur
veyor. was scheduled to survey the
road yesterday morning but prob
ably didn't do so because of the
rain storm. Mr. Mills stated.
Obtaining of all right-of-ways
from property owners concerned |
was effected Saturday.
Mr. Mills repeated his warning
that any motorists found using the
airport runway as a road, now or in
the future, will be taken to court j
without fail and prosecuted to the j
full extent <>i the law.
Superintendent
Releases Faculty
Arrangements
II. L. Joslyn. county superinten- 1
dent of schools, today released
names of teachers and the classes I
under their instruction, Beaufort ;
and forehead Crty faculty arrange I
merits appear below. The remain
der will appear in Friday's issue I
of THE NEWS-TIMES.
Beaufort, T. G. Leary. principal, j
physical education and science; ,
Mrs. Madolyn Ainsworth, commer
cial; Miss Lena Duncan, history;
Mi ss Gladys Chadwick. math and I
English; Mrs. Olivia P. Floyd.
French. English, history.
Thomas McQuaid. mathematics,
physical education; Miss Velna Col
I ins, English, library; Frank Hawk
ins. physics, biology, general
science; Mrs. Annie Salter, Eng
lish; Mrs. Geraldine Bevcridge,
home economics; Miss Shirley
Johnson and W. II. Skarren, 8th
grade.
Everett S. Stevens, jr.. P. N.
Marstcllcr. 7th; Mrs. Florence
Brooks. 6th and 7th; Mrs. Ormah
Jenkins and Miss Maude Greene.
6th; Mrs. Grace Fodrie and Mrs.
Margaret Hopkins. 5th; Mrs. Pearl
Day and Mrs. Nellie Willis. Hh;
Miss Lessie Arlington. 4th and 5th.
Miss Susan Kumley and Mrs.
Mary Gray Hill. 3rd; Miss Janice
Pake. 2nd and 3rd; Miss Catherine
Gaskill and Mrs. Elvin T. Hancock.
2nd; Mrs. I). M. Fulchcr, Mrs. Bea
trice Martin and Miss Myrtle Pivcr.
1st.
Morehead City. Mrs. Helen Baily,
math, French; Miss Pearl Brinson.
English; Mrs. Rosalie Dowdy. Eng
lish and library; Mrs. ZHma Phil ]
lips, history. Latin, sociology; Gan
non Talbert, jr., math, physical cd
ucation.
J. C. Staton. English, math, phy
sics; Mrs. Florence Cordova, home
economics; Delfido Cordova, indus
trial education; Ruth Self, commer
cial; Ralph T. Wade, music; Mrs.
Grace Walcncc and Mrs. Octavia
Nelson. 8th; Mrs. Mamie Taylor,
7th and 8th.
Mrs. Treasure Malone and Char
les A. Hester, 7th; Miss Katherine
Pope and Miss Flora Davis, 6th;
Mrs. Bessie Wade, 5th and 6th;
Miss Edith Lewis and Miss Bettic
Marker, 5th; Mrs. Evelyn Lewis and
Miss Annie May Gibbs, 4th.
Mrs. Lallah Williams and Mrs.
Ethel Holloway. 3rd; Mrs. G. T.
Windell, Miss Alice Veach, and
Mrs. Rosalie Davis, 2nd; Mrs. Grat
tis Mason, Mrs. Sara Willis and
Mrs. Lucile Smith, 1st.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH I.OW j
Tuesday, Oct. 10
6:47 a.m. .2:36 a.m.
7:09 p.m. 1:07 p.m. |
Wednesday, Oil. II
7:34 a.m. 1:19 a.m.
7:56 p.m. 1:56 p.m. |
Thursday, Oct. 12
8:21 a.m. 2:03 a.m. |
8:43 p.m. 2:45 p.m. [
Friday, Oct. 13
9:10 a.m. 2:47 a.m. I
9:31 p.m. 3:35 p.m. I
114 New Homes
To Go Up Soon
At Swansboro
Total Cost of Proposed
Housing Project Will
Be $976,000
Jacksonville ? Plans for a hous
ing project which will almost dou
ble the number of homes in Swans
boro have been announced by Clyde
L. Sabiston, president of the Sabis
ton Building corporation here. The
cost of the project was set at ap
proximately $!)76.000 by Sabiston.
Plans call for the construction
of 114 new homes in an area on
highway 24, on the west edge of
the present Swansboro city limits.
Work on the first 20 houses is ex
pected to begin sometime between
Oct. 1 and 15, Sabiston said. As
soon as processing on the first
loans is completed by the Federal
Housing administration, he contin
ued, work will be started.
Project Praised
Mayor M. N. Lisk of Swansboro
this week describee? the project as
"a wonderful thing for Swansboro."
The housing, he said, will be a
valuable asset to the town. "There
is a demand here for housing." he
continued, "dozens and dozens of
people are hunting places to live
here every week and would buy
homes if they had the chance."
Swansboro has 151 homes,
liisk said. When the project is com
pleted there will be 266. The mayor
estimated the town's present popu
lation is about 1,000.
Sabiston said the homes will be
of frame and brick veneer con
struction, and will be five and six
rooms. They will be priced at a
range between $7,000 and $11,500.
The homes will be built in lots of
20.
The Swansboro town board has
agreed to extend the city limits to
include the new development.
Severe Storm Hits
Carteret County
A severe electrical storm struck
the Carteret coast yesterday morn
ing with its blinding and destruc
tive charges of lightning and three
inches of rain.
One ot THE NEWS TIMES' two
5 KVA transformers blew out in a
flash of flame, halting operations
in the mechanical depatyinent for
an hour and a half.
In the excitement one of the li
notype operators, Henry Gibat, fell
over backward in his chair, all the
lights went out and one of the tele
phones rang and rang. Upon lift
ing the receiver all that could be
heard was the dial tone.
Lightning struck one of Tide
Water Power company's poles near
the race track and knocked out
three insulators. A 2,300 volt
switch was damaged at the plant
in Morehead City but due to auto
matic equipment there was no out
tage on any of the lines, according
to J. C. Maultsby. acting manager
while George Stovall, regular man
ager. is on vacation.
The Carolina Telephone and Tele
graph cqmpany said there were
minor disturbances. Twenty eight
service difficulties were reported
in Morehead City, most of them
due to wet cables, L. A. Daniels,
manager said.
The rain started at about 9:45
and during the following three
hours. E. Stamey Davis, official
weather observer for the county,
said three inches of rain fell.
Damage at THE NEWS-TIMES
plant was estimated at several hun
dred dollars. According to Lock
wood Phillips, publisher, the only
thing which prevented a serious
tire was fireproof material of
which the plant is constructed.
"Had this happened in the old
Twin City plant," he remarked, "or
the plant in Beaufort, there would
be no neuspaper today and thous
ands of dollars worth of machinery
would have to be replaced."
Reported wounded in the Ko
rean theatre is Second Lt. Har
vey A. Goss. husband of Mrs. Har
vey A Goss, 243 Bee and Lee
drive, Midway Park.