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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St. Morehead City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES * A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 39th YEAH, NO. 8-1 THREE SECTIONS ? EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCT. 20, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Elijah Farley Gets 18 Months On Roads; Court Ends Yesterday / Fair Features Outstanding Exhibits German Officials To Visit Meeting Two Morehead City Offi cials Will Ailend Muni cipaliiies Meeting Raleigh The son of Western f Germany's chancellor and two oth er German municipal officials will observe American democracy in action when they attend sessions of the North Carolina League of Municipalities annual convention in Asheville Sunday through Tues day. Attending the convention from Carteret county will he Mayor and Mrs. George Dill, Morehead City, and Morehead City's town treas urer, Mrs. Blanda McLohon. Three officials, touring this country under auspices of the State Department, are Dr. Max Adenauer, son of West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer; Dr. Walther Hensel. city manager of Dusseldorf, and Franz Schmidt, city manager of Bochuin, in the industrial Ruhr valley. The meeting of North Carolina municipal officials, al which grass roots democratic processes and techniques are on exhibit, was chosen by the State department as a suitable place for the visiting of ficials to observe a democracy's handling of problems on the same level as the units which they serve. Adenauer is a member of the Economic and Traffic commission of the city of Cologne. Chairman C. B. Kobson of the department of political science. University of North Carolina, who arranged plans for their visit to the Asheville convention, said the trio will arrive in Chapel Hill Oct. 19 to talk with consultants in his department ami in the Institute of Government. Kobson. who has worked as a consultant in Germany for the Of* | fice of Political Affairs of Western Germany's High commission, said the visit was arranged as a part of a program designed to allow such officials to see for themselves how democratic government functions in the atmosphere in which it func tions. Sessions of the convention, which will bring the municipal officials talks by Ambassador to Nicaragua Capus Waynick. Major General Lewis A. I'ick. chief of the U. S. Army engineers. Governor Kerr Scott, and others, will also include separate meetings for mayors, city managers and other groups of mu nicipal officials. Legion to Repa r War Memorial / Morehead City American \A gion naires will spend tomor/ov re building and refinishing. the War Memorial billboard honoring \ 'orld War If veterans. The board is on municipal property at 8th an 1 Ev ans st. Legionnaires voted at their Fri day night meeting in the Legion hut, west of Morehead C/ty, to put the billboard in better condit ion. Several Legionnaires offered to donate materials and others offered their labor. The job is expected to be com pleted by sunset tomorrow. The Legion also appropriated funds to pay for the school lunch each day of this year for one underprivileged child at Morcheud City school. Legionnaires have made similar appropriations in past years. The group voted to undertake several improvements at its hut in order to keep it in good con dition. At its next meeting. Friday night. Oct. 27, the post will hold a dutch oyster roast for their wives and families. Roasted oysters with all the trnnnings arc promised. Loon Shooters Pay $25 Fines in Federal Court Carteret county's loon shooters, convicted Monday in federal dis trict court. New Bern, on charges of violating game laws, paid $25 fines each. Thev were tried before Judce Donnell Gilliam on .charges of kill ing. attempting to kill, and possess ing wild loons, non-game birds. The men. 55 of them, were arrested May 6 at Cape Lookout and in July each posted $25 bond for their ap pearance this week at federal court in New Bern. Among the most outstanding dis plays in the fair exhibit hall are those by Home Demonstration clubs and school children. Com mercial exhibits gleam with new ness and have attracted much atten-j tion. Most of the displays were not | complete until late Tuesday. Judging of perishable exhibits, cut ! flowers, took place Tuesday after- j noon. Names of premium winners in that classification appear below. Exhibits Judged All other exhibits were judged ! yolerday morning. Those win ners will be listed in Tuesday's NEWS-TIMES. Judges were A. T. Jackson. Craven county farm agent, and Miss Jessie Trowbridge, Craven county home agent. Flow ers were judged by Mrs. Madie : Finer of Morehead City. The North Carolina Highway | safety division exhibit shows a | school desk under the sign: "This desk is empty because some motor ist was careless.'' Also on display j is high-way safety literature. Impri ssively shown in the eoun -I ty ar.r 'Culture extension service , exhibit are good and poor pas ture lands. This exhibit was ar ranged by K. M Williams. county! agent, and James Allgood, assis- j tant agent. "Good pasture" sod came Iroin the farm of Gibbs Far rior, Newport KF1). Landscaping The North Kiver Home Demon st rat ion club showed model homes in a well landscaped setting and in ;i poorly landscaped setting. A model menhaden factory and other parts of the menhaden it; dustry are shown in the Beaufort school display. The factory actu ally operates. Russell's Creek home demonstra tion club's exhibit shows the evo lution of light, the Camp Glenn club has set up a room displaying the better types of reading matter, j the Crab Point club has equipped an old fashioned kitchen and a modern kitchen, and all demot ft 'ion1 club women in the county h..ve co operated in the United Nations display. An electrical exhibit by Tirlo Water Power company shows wir- ! ing plans for a home, and a'so a . modern, electrically - equipped i laundry, kitchen, living room, bed room,. and utility room. Safety Project Seventh graders of Smyrna school have set up a highway safe- j ty project. North Carolina Forestry service's exhibit shows lush, pros perous, forest land as compared with unproductive burned - over woods. The Beaufort 4 11 club exhibit demonstrates the fact that farm implements can be dangerous un less properly handled and put away, while the Newport 4 11 club has shown in its exhibit the value of 4-1 1 work and its principles. The Lions club of Morehead City is displaying handcraft made by the blind and books in braille. The Carteret County Business and Pro fessional Women's club has plastic refrigerator bags on sale in the ex hibit hall. Sound Appliance co., Morehead City is displaying new and modern See FAIR, Page 4 Rotarian May Addresses Club The evils lurking in the five plagues of modern life were de scribed to Beaufort Rotarians at their Tuesday night meeting in the Inlet Inn. The five plagues listed by Rotar ian B. J. May were disregard for authority, human delinquency, ab normal aversion to work, excessive thirst for pleasure and hatred be tween men and groups. The theme of May's talk was that man today is moving away from the precepts of Christianity and to ward the philosophy of material ism. He cited examples in history when other nations and civiliza tions came to their downfall as a result of this trend. May admonished Rotary mem bers to follow more closely the paths laid down by the church and to avoid the five plagues. The recreation committee chair man, R. M. Williams, reported that toht summer's recreation program for Beaufort youngsters was a suc cess. both from a financial stand point and from the standpoint of benefits derive^ from 1 the pro gram. Next Tuesday night the Rotary club will meet at Harkers Lodge on Harkers Island. Rotary-Anns will be guests at the meeting. The visitor at Tuesday night's meeting was W. C. Carlton of Morehead City. Norehead Town Board Extends Rent Control Rent control in Morehead City will be continued past the fed eral expiration date, Dec. 31, 1950, it was decided Tuesday ! night. In their regular meeting, Morehead City commissioners voted to extend control "past Dec. 31, 1950." This is the priv I ilcge of all town hoards as pro | vided by Congress. Grand Jury Wants Jail Improvements I The grand jury, Ivey Mason, foreman, in its report to Judge Chester Morris Tuesday, recom mended that rooms be made available for the detention of jti venile delinquents, that improve I merits recommended for the jail in October 1949 be carried out. that more fire extinguishers be supplied the j;iil and court house buildings, that the welfare department be pro vided more space, and repairs be made in the home agent's office, j The grand jury said the school i busses and roads they travel are | in good condition, according to the report given them by the state i highway patrolmen. The jail, too, lis in good condition and the in I mates said they were receiving good food and attention, the re port stated. Offices in the eourt house were' . found to be "well kept and effic- 1 lentlv operated," and the grounds | were reported to be in good con dition." The jurors recommended that the state driver's license examiner, I be provided another office and the welfare depruimeiil allowed to [expand t<v Inal oflA-. In th<4 home agent's of i ice they reco mended that tin walls' be repaired an additionaj radiator installed and that lighting facilities be improved. The grand jury acted on bills of indictment and at the close of its report thanked the judge and the solicitor for their assistance in j helping the jury carry out its du- 1 tics. Jaycees to Pay For School Lunch ; | Morehead City .lavcees agreed at 1 ; their Monday night meeting in the Fort Macon hotel dining room to pay for the school lunch each ifay j this year for one underprivileged child at Morehead City school. In making the necessary appro priation, members of the club stat ed that it had been the Jaycec policy in past years to aid in feed ing underprivileged children. Promotional work is continuing on the monthly scrap paper and rags drive being conducted by the Jaycees, the drive chairman, War ren Heck, commented. Beck said Bobby Bell has been put in charge of a construction crew that is to build a large scrap paper bin at the "Jib" property betweent Shep jrd and Evans st. Scrap paper collected during the month will be placed in this bin and saved until the monthly drives on the first Sunday of each month, he explained. By doing this, paper can be collected that otherwise would be thrown away. Beck added. The club agreed to work actively toward having the Miss North Caro lina pageant in Morehead City next summer. Letters arc to be written to every Junior Chamber 6f Com merce throughout the state asking their support of Morehead City in this effort. Jim Bob Sanders was appointed chairman of the Jaycee Disting uished Service committee. Jesse Staton was present as a guest. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar iik;ii LOW Friday, Oct. 20 3:48 a.m. 4:17 p.m. 10:02 a.m. 10:43 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21 4:49 a.m. 5:12 p.m. 11:05 a.m. j 11:31 p.m. | Sunday, Oct. 22 5:42 a.m. 3:50 p.m. 11:59 a.m. 12 Midnight Monday, Oct. 23 6:28 a.m. 6:41 p.m. 12:14 a.m. 12:47 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24 7 08 a.m. 7:20 pjn. 12:53 a.m. 1:29 p.m. J Elijah Farley, colored man of Jacksonville, was given one* and a half years on the roads thi.4 week m superior court. This sentence is to begin at the cxpiratioi^ of a sentence given him also this mouth iu Onslow county superior court. He was charged 111 Onslow with larceny of a truck. Charges against him were dnv I ing drunk, hit and run, and driving I without a driver's license. The state did not press charges of driv ing drunk and reckless driving. | Farley pleaded guilty to hit and run and having no license. lit' was driver of a truck which crashed into a car Sunday morning Oct. 1. at Swansboro. 1'esons 111 the i ii* were injured. Farley and a | companion left the scene ot the j accident and Farley, was later up ' prehended in Jacksonville. In a special hearing yesterday ' morning. Judge Chester Morris | struck out a verdict he had rend trod Wednesday sentencing Mi j Ian Willis to six months for assault j on a female, in stead he fined i Willis $4(K).oO ami put him on : live years probation. One hundred-seventy three At j I antic residents were present in court for the hearing. Willis was fined *400 and costs am! placed oil five years good behavior. He | was ordered to report at each term of Superior Court to show that lie was on good behavior. He was given an 18-nionths suspended I roads sentence il he does not coin [ply with t reins of his sentence. Court adjourned yesterday morn ling lolloping the Special hearing, i Kdwin II. Blance, charged with manslaughter, speeding, reckless j driving and driving drunk, ua^ set lice. The court ordered a verdict til not guilty on the speeding and reckless driving charges, counsel tor the defense's motion tor a hon suit on the manslaughter charge was granted, and the jury found Blance not guilty of drunken dri\ ing. Charges were filed against Blance as the result of an automo bile accident Friday, Sept. 29. just least ot the Craven county line. A I fellow Marine, Walter J. Siedlcr, . .1. was kille ' ?. t'h* d. 'I. I Members of the jury thu* was em paneled were .-.am Meadows, n M. Purifoy, Ch'arlie Mason, Tom! Salter, Fugenc Bell, B. J. Mann. Webster Willis. John Me< abe. M. M. Chadwick, S.tm K. Styron. Luni inic Cottle and Carroll Arthur. Willie Brown Lawrence, jr., Bet- J tie, was placed on five years' pro bation after he pleaded guilty to i the charge of manslaughter., Lawrence was the driver of the ear in which Frank Kdwar.d (ii Mi kin. 18, Otway, was killed Friday inuht. March 17, on the Markers, Island road. Judge Chester Morris handed down a suspended sentence of at least two and not more than three years in the state prison, period of probation to be live years and j f the defendant to appear at each ; session of superior court during the course of those years and pay $.'*00. i .This amount to be used to pay the costs of the funeral tor Gilli kin. The judge also ordered that Law rence pay the costs of court ac- j tion. that he not apply for a motor vehicle operator's license during the next five years and that he not operate a vehicle in this state for five years. R. R. Barbour, who was charged l with recklcss ant; careless driv- j ing, and not drunken driving, as i Sec COURT, Page ti Oyster Cannery To Open In Beaufort Next Month Craven County Board Hoars Cherry Point Zoning Protests J ~ I lie land-use map. completed lor I In* Cherry Point Zoning commis sion. was presented to the board ol Craven county commissioners at their mid-month session Monday afternoon at the court house. New Hern. \ppcaring also were persons op posed to the establishment of the zoning commission. They challeng ed its authority to act. The zoning ordinance has also met with opposition in Carteret county. The area zoned embraces property in both Craven and Car teret counties. Skinner Chalk, Morchead City, and Aaron Craig, Newport, are Carteret county mem bers serving 011 the zoning com mission. \ction Deferred Carteret county commissioners have been requested t <? pay $1 .000 as their share in cost of preparing the land use map. Request for handing <nei this amount was made at the October meeting of the board, but the board deferred ac tion on the basis that the letter re questing the money stated that the board was not duly constituted to handle funds as yet and therefore the money should be paid to the surveyor, J. Hay llasscll of Beau fort . The board objected to making out a cheek to au individual. Com mjssioner Hugh Salter, who has continuallv opposed the Cherry I'oint Zoning commission idea, a ???.a in voiced dissent, "liven though 1 gave in and finally voted in favor of the county's participating in tlx* zoning. I don't think it's right," he declared. "If you want to pay money to zone the whole county, OK. but it's not fair to pay out money just to zone one part of it. If somebody elsewhere in the county wants money to zone some i property, they can come to the j county and a '< lor it. and we'd have to give it to them," he remark Pr. K. P. B. Bonner, chairman oi the board. i> of the opinion that the whole county should be zoned, but does not actually ri commend a. j Upon the advice of Judge H. A. 1 Nunn, Craven county attorney, the board has schedule! a public hear ing on the zoning proposal for 8 p.m. Thursday night. Nov. 2. at the Craven county court house, New I Bern. Authorize Payment Craven county commissioners have also authorized the payment j of $1,480 for use of the zoning com i mission, to be paid to the surveyor, j Mr. llasscll. for making the map ; and surveying. At the Craven county board meeting .Monday C. P. Hancock, housing coordinator in the Cherry Point Marine station area, present ed the map covering a long stretch along highway 70 at Havelock and extending for a considerable depth cach side of the highway. He said the zoning commission had held a hearing at Cherry Point; that one minor change had been asked for at the gathering, and that the request for a slight extension of the industrial area had been complied with by the zoning commission. The map set Sec ZONING, Page 4 Collector of Meter Money Quickly Becomes Coin Expert By Oliver II. Allen Going (o China, or maybe Siam? , II you .ire, let Bcaulort Town Clerk Dan Walker know of your trip in i advance. If given enough time, i he can furnish the coins for al most any place. They'll all come out of Beaufort's parking meters. Walker makes a weekly collec- , tion trip to the meters, collecting all manner of coins deposited there. Judging by some he collects, certain motorists think little of (he parking meter program. All manner and shape of foreign and domestic pieces of money are picked up, including some in a far from original state. Canadian nic kels and pennies, Chinese coins, Indian annas and pice, OPA ra tion points, plastic play money, bus tokens, Newfoundland dimes, and some oddly mutilated Amer ican coins arc a few that have been emptied from the meters' gullets. One ingenious artist combined a nickel and a penny in such a fashion that Abe Lincoln seems to be riding on the buffalo's back. Among some of the American varieties are a Charleston street car token, a Duke Power company token and one stamped "Southern R. K., Spencer" on the front and | "Good For Ail Privileges, YMCA"| on the back. Also coughed up on occasion arc different .styles of slot machine j slugi. Town officials think some of the! mutilated coins are placed in the] meters to deliberately jam them, j h anyone is caught doing this, of ficials warned, they will be prose cuted for destruction of public l property. I.ast year $8.42!) was collected j lrom the meters. The town kept halt of this sum while the other half went to pay the company for the meters. The highest amount j ever collected in one week was the week ending December 23 last year! when $270 was taken in. Low was I the week ending September 21 of this year when only $111.16 was col lected. High monthly total was last December, also, when $919.87 was picked up. Parking meter receipts have been a welcome source of income for small towns throughout the country, just as they are in Beau fort. Jn Beaufort the proceeds arc used for parking improvements, maintenance, and traflic control. Foreign and mutilated coins col lected arc thrown in Taylor's creek. "Ctood" money is deposited in life bank where the town finds ready use for it. Morehead City Pupils Study United Nations Pupils at Morehead City school will obseive United Nations Week next week and several classes are making a special study of the United Nations. Mrs. (Iran- Walence's eighth grade has undertaken a four-week study. The United Nations at Work" and in assembly at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, which is United Na turns Day. Miss Kdith Lewis's filth | oracle will ; present a playlet. "The i United Nations at Work." The public is invited to this pro j uram, announced G. T. Windcll, principal. At 11 a.m. Tuesday the entire school will observe one minute ot . silent prayer. Mis Carrie Cillikin. home dem ! onstration agent* taught Mrs. Wal I e nce's pupils Wednesday morning j how to make a United Nations flag. I This flag \v.il I be presented to the school and flown outdoors. ! The class will also make paper replicas of the flag so that each I home room will have one by Tues clay. In conjunction with their lour week study unit, the eighth | graders study, geography, history, spelling, writing; government, an I I the proper display of flags, i . ? ? Rotary Governor To Visit Newport The Newport Rotary club will be host Monday night to Howard J. ! MHiinnis. governor of the l!7!l dis- 1 trict ??l Hotary International, who j is making his annual official visit to each of the 3!l Ilotary clubs in j this district, southeastern North i Carolina. He will confer with Pres ident Iv F. Carraway. Secretary j Charles S. Long, and other Hotary | officers on club administration and | Rotary service activities. Mr. McGinnis was connected with i Fast Carolina Teachers college for I many years as professor, registrar, acting president and director of' field service, and is a member of the Rotary club of Greenville. He is one of the 210 Rotary district governors who are supervising the activities of some 7.500 Rotary | clubs which have a membership of 350, 000 business and professional executives in 83 countries and geo graphical regions throughout the world. Wherever Rotary clubs arc lo cated, their activities are similar to those of the Rotary club of New port because they are based on the same general objectives develop ing better understanding and fel lowship among business and pro fessional men. promoting commun ity-betterment undertakings, rais ing the standards of business and professions, and fostering the ad vancement of good will, under standing and peace among all the peoples of the world. Kaeh year, this world wide serv ice organization continues to grow in numbers and in strength. Dur ing the last fiscal -year, for ex ample. 233 new Rotary clubs were organized in :tt> countries of North, South and Central America. Kur ope. Asia, Africa, and the islands of the Pacific. Canadian Paper Companies Raise Price of Newsprint Toronto, Oct. 17. (AP) ? ? For the second time in lour days a ma jor Canadian newsprint producer increased prices $10 a ton today and publishing sources believed an industry-wide price boost was in ihe making. Abitibi Power and Paper co. an- i nounced a $10 increase effective ! Nov. 1, today on the heels of sim- j ilar action by Powell River Paper ?o. at Vancouver. Other big Canad- 1 ian producers had no comment. If a $10 price rise becomes gen-! eral in the newsprint mills of Can-; ada. which supply more than 80 per cent of the needs of United States publishers, it would bring the New York basis to $110 a ton. That's very close to newsprint's ] high of $112.60 in 1920 and would compare with an industry low of | $40 a ton during depression years. Announcement of the sec ond new industry to come to Beaufort in the past seven months, an oyster cannery to he operated l>y Carroll Crockett of Kntflehard, was made yesterday by Presi dent K. Braxton Adair of the Beaufort Chamber of Com merce. Fquipmeht for the cannery, which will open next month, is he in^' moved into Uie W. C. Flowers t'isli house at the west end of i Broad st. Crockett has leased the ! Flowers property and is making additions to.it in order to complete labilities needed tor canning. Between fill and 75 women will : he employed when the canncrx nets | into full scale operation in Novem i her. In addition, several score oys | termen will receive nainful employ j inent gathering oysters to he used | ! hy the plant. Fxact amount ol the annual pay [roll to he paid hy the canncr\ is ! uncertain. Adair said, hut it is cer i lain that the total will run into' tens oi thousands of dollars, j Crockett is an oysterman with 1 40 years experience in the husi ! ! ness. He has operated plants 111 i Fnglcha-rd and Morchcad City in I the past. His reason for locating i in Beaufort, he stated, was that there was an ample lahor supply and because research done by the I S Fish and Wildlife Service and I the University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Research had shown the possibilities of oyster ( annum ill the Carteret area. Crockett said that never in his 4(1 years' experience had lie recciv cd such cooperation as shown him hy the Beaufort Chamber of Com merce and its industrial committee. ; Chamber President Adair stated that the addition ol the cantiiu.: plant to Beaufort's industries was a direct result of the mutual as ! sistance program the industrial committee had been working on lor the past months Co chairmen of the committee are Boh Slater and Leonard Safrit. Members are A T. Leary. Cleorge Huntley, jr., Odcll Merrill. H. Brax j ton Adair and (Jene Smith. Par ' ticular praise was given to attor j ney Smith by President Adair for1 his outstanding achievement as lia son man between the chamber and Crockett. It 'was only throuuh Smith's ef j forts and the assistance of the com-: rnittee that Crockett decided to open his cannery in Beaufort, j Adair emphasized. if'.-- ? r ? - Beaufort Initiates Garbage Schedule New refutations concerning the type of containers garbage shall ! he kept in and a new garbage pick up schedule for Beaufort, which g o into effect Monday, were an 1 n ou need yesterday by Beaufort city ' clerk Dan Walker. The new refutations are being! put into effect in order to conserve j the town's equipment and shorten the hours of its stiyct department workers who now work an aver- , age of W) hours a week, Walker i stated. Starting Monday, garbage must I be placed in covered containers ! of not more than 55 gallons capac ity, the containers will not be em ptied unless they are placed be tween the sidewalk and street and the containers must be removed I from the street alter each collec tion. Walker emphasized that gar I bagc would not be picked up in anyone's yard. Business est ihlishmcnts were requested to refrain from dump ing their trash and garbage into metal containers the city has plac ed on Front st. ior use of pedes trians. As before, daily garbage collec tions will be made at all business establishments on Front st. and at aJI restaurants and eating places. Collections will be made Monday. Wednesday and Friday from the area west of Turner st and south of Broad st. Thursday collections only will be made from the area I east of Turner and north of Broad. These new regulations were voted i recently by Beaufort Commission- i ers and are to be put into effect Monday. Name Band Leader. His Orchestra Visit Morehead Tex Beneke and his orchestra, one of the biggest name bands in the country, played at Cherry Point over the weekend and the leader and his men stayed at the Jeff erson hotel, Morehead City. Flowing their appearance Mon day night at the station theatre on the base, the outfit left More head City Tuesday morning by bus. Vernon Guthrie , Returns as Fire Department Head Town Commissioners De mand Apology al Tues day Night Board Meeting .Morchcail ou'.s rccenlly-rcsign <-il I in- chief, Vernon (iuthric. was ? ?'instated . i > ill n-f Tuesday night alter lie appeared al (he town com missioners inccling In request that lie be pul hark into y If iti A eiiiiuniltee from the fire de partment composed of |)r. .lolill Morris. I Niamey Davis and El Nelson appeared at the meeting to request (iuthfie's reinstatement. I lie linn tioard declined to take am action on llieii request unless Hie fin etuet would appear to ask Hi., I Ik- lie |M|| hark into office and .tpolngi/e for slatenients he made al the hoard meeting in September when hi- resigned because of a dis pule over a fire truck the town planned to purchase. Committer leaves When Hie town fathers made known their stand the committee N il lo set- ii (iuthric would make ;i personal appearance. I<"ii minutes later t hey returned Willi him ( iuthrie said lie was in terested liotli in the fire depart ment and the town ami his only de sire was to serve the hest interests i.l both. IN- emphasized that he would do anything in his power to prevenl a squabble between the dcpailmciit and town officials. Wants \piilogy Commissioner Walter I'. Free man rommenled that he appreciat ed lh.' fire chief's stand and was willing lo vote for his reinstate ment, il (iuthrie would apologize for statements he had made at the lasl hoard meeting. (iuthric's reply was that he had not i nine i raw ling on his knees to beg for reinstatement, lie said he 'I'll not feel that he had done any tiling wrong. Commissioner I) (i B,.|| explain '?'I what Freeman referred to was t.iithne s hastiness in making in llammatory statements lo the hoard thai was wrong and not his atti tude Inward the town's purchase ol a certain lire truck. TVIien Bell eoucliid) d, there fol lowed .1 brief silence. Finally Free man said that In- thought the com missioners still were due an apol ogy. tiiithrie then said, "If I've done anything wrong. 1 apologue." Motion Passed Freeman then motioned that the c.\ chiel In- reinstated. Commissmn ' i M I Mills seconded the motion and the hoard unanimously passed i' Commissioner S. C. Ilolloway was the only member of the live man hoard not present. When making its request for (iuthrie s reinstatement the fire department committee also re quesletl the town to withhold any action on purchasing a truck until the lire department could appoint a purchasing committee to work with town officials on selecting the best truck. I hough 110 official action was taken, members of the board were in agreement that at least one com missioner. preferably M. T. Mills, should be on the fire department committee to work for the best interests of the town." The commissioners stated that the Four-Wheel Drive truck the town planned to buy was being bought with the best interests of tin- fire department in mind. Hep lesentativcs ol tin- FW1> company who were present said their truck had every lcaturc available on oth er trucks anil thai if this were not true, they could be added to the truck. Hie FWI) representatives also said that they could not sec how fire Chief (iuthrie could have re versed his stand so completely. Originally, they said, (iuthrie had been wholeheartedly in favor of their apparatus anil had stated that he thought it best fitted the needs ol the department. Fred It. Scclcy, Beaufort, rcpre -'-nting the Fast Carolina Regional llousiiju Authority, requested town permission for the authority to run M-wcr lines into Calico Creek from its proposed 25-unit development between 23rd and 24th st. on Bay. Scclcy said he was acting only as appraiser for the authority but that he had been requested to make 'he request of the town. He added that I)r. N. Thomas Ennctt, county health officer, said the health of fice would have no objection since sewage from the Huntley develop 8m GUTHRIE, Pace 4
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