W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
' ... A M?r|?r of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (E.UblUhod 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (E.Ubluh?d 1936)
39th YEAR, NO. 101 EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, DEC. 19, 1950 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Company Seeks Personnel at MCTI
A. C. Morrison, Duke Power company, Charlotte,
interviews students in the library at the More
head City Technical institute, a branch of North
Carolina State college. The Dulte Power company
has employed several graduates of the Institute
each year since the first graduating class. Left to
right: Frank P. Holleman of Winston-Salem, Mr.
Morrison, and Ivey H. Hooper of Stumpy Point.
(Photo by Wilton Block).
Contractors Renovate Ocracoke
Lighthouse, Keepers' Homes
By Alice K. Rondthaler
Ocracoke? Historic Ocracoke Is
land lighthouse has just undergone
a major operation. The old wood
en stairs which circled the inside
walls to the lens room 80 feet a
bove its base has been torn out and
replaced by a steel spiral stairway.
The wooden stairs had badly rot
ted because of dampness and were
declared unsafe following the hur
ricane of 1944, at which time lad
ders were put in for the use of the
keepers, and the visiting public
was no longer permitted to climb
to the lens room.
Cost of the new installation was
approximately $3,000. The work
of putting in the stairway was done
by a Coast Guara field force. Some
work on the brick interior* w also
bJbiftg done, and 'tlfere is a possi
bility that in the spring the new
"Shotcrete" or "Gunite" process
may be used in recoating the out
side vtalls. This is a process done
tinder air pressure. At any rate,
whether the Gunite process is
used or' simply the ordinary white
washing process which has been
the previous method, the tower
will continue to be kept its charac
teristic white.
Extensive repairs have also been
made to the keepers' dwelling
which is a duplex house. Half of
the residence at this time is occu
pied by the commanding officer of
the Ocracoke Coast Guard station,
Henry Peele and family; the other
half is occupied by one of the two
. light keepers, Clyde Farrow and
family. Ordinarily both apart
ments are used by the light keep
See CONTRACTORS, Page 7
Marshallberg Man
Still Missing I
George E. Robinson. 20, of
Marshallberg, who disappeared
from his home Saturday. Dec. 9, has
not yet been located, his family re
ported yesterday.
A resident of Marshallberg. trav
eling here from Florida, told the I
family that she thought she saw the
boy on the highway at Midway,
Ga.
It is believed that Robinson may
have set out for Melbourne, Fla.
When last seen Saturday after
noon.' Dec. 9, he was walking along
the highway from Marshallberg to
ward Smyrna wearing a blue suit
aad red check shirt. He is report
ad to have a slight impediment in
Jtis speech.
His parents say he left home
?with *15.
Persons who have clues to Rob
inson's whereabouts should phone
Marshallberg 346.
?mm Demonstration Clubs,
YMTW Chfc Will NmI
Jfrive Home Demonstration clubs
.wW meet this week and the Young
Men and Young Women's club will
alio hold its December meeting.
Demonstration club meetings are
* as follows: Cedar Point, 2 p.m. this
afternoon with Mrs. David Redfem:
> JjjsseH's Creek, 7:30 tonight with
nts. N. A. Avery; Camp Glenn, 2:30
tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Les
tBrinson; Wildwood, 2:30 Thurs
afternoon with Mrs. Jack Bell;
b Point, 700 Thursday night
ll Mrs. Cecil Oglesby.
The Young Men and Young Wo
ntn's club will meet at 7:30 to
morrow night In the home agent's
court houM annex, Beau
Beaufort Glee Club , Chorus
Will Present Program Tonight
Fire Stations, Firemen
Symbolize Christmas
Beaufoi I and More head City
fire stations rate top honors for
outdoor Christmas deeorations.
Inside the firemen are working
busily, painting, mending, and
cleaning secondhand toys. Toys
repaired by Morehead City fire
men will be distributed at the
Jaycee Chriitny party for chil
dren on Thanny.
Morehead City firemen will
ride Santa Claus along Arendell
street at 7:30 Friday night and
will distribute oranges to the
youngsters.
Beaufort firemen will distrib
ute their toys throughout town
on Christmas Eve.
House of David
To Play Here
Morehead City Lions will sponsor
the House of David basketball team
in a game at the Morehead City
school gym Friday night, Jan. 12.
President J. G. Bennett announced
at the Lions club meeting Thurs
day night in the Hotel Fort Ma
con that the House of David will
play the school team and some lo
cal men.
The club set aside $30 to be dis
tributed to needy families at
Christmas time. A committee con
sisting of Frank Moran, Louis Hin
son, and E. A. Hessee was named
to carry out the project.
A letter from Carl Nelson, for
mer Morehead City Lion now re
siding in Burlington, was read.
Oscar Allred reported that none of
the .churches had made a decision
on purchase or rental of the drink
stand owned by the Lions.
The club will not meet this
Thursday. The program for last
week* meeting was in charge of
Bobby Bell. 1
Ocean Lodye Will Meet
At 7 CClock Tonight
An "emergent communication" of
Ocean Lodge, No. 405 AF&AM.
Morehead City, has been called for
7 o'clock tonight at the Masonic
Temple, N. 18th street. There will
be work in the third degree and
light refreshments will be served.
All Master Masons are invited.
At a recent meeting of the lodge
the following officers were elected
for 1951: J. M. Davis, master.
James Willis, senior warden; The
odore Phillips, junior warden; G.
E. Sanderson, treasurer and H. L.
Joslyn, secretary.
Morehead laiarians Hear
Talk by Besearch Chemist
Ted Miller, research chemist,
spoke Thursday night U> Morehead
City Rotarians at their meeting in
the First Baptist Sunday school
rooms.
Miller told of the value of stick
water and of attempts being made
to recover important food elements
heretofore considered as waste in
the menhaden industry. Rotarian
Robert Lowe was in charge of the
program.
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The Beaufort Glee club and
school chorus will present their
annual Christmas program at 8 o'
clock tonight in the school audit
orium. Between the first and sec
ond part of the program there will
be a brief Parent - Teacher asso
ciation business session.
Although this program is tak
ing place of the usual December
PTA meeting, the public is in-,
vited.
The program follows: Wioter
Wonderland, Ruth WhiteUurst,
Elizabeth House, Carroll Ann Wil
lis, Mary Lily Haynes, and Eliza
beth Bell; Frosty the Snow Man,
Inez Smith, Hugh Mason, and Bar
bara Harris; Santa Claus is Coming
to Town, Sue Gibbs, Margaret Bry
ant, and Wilina Cummlngs; White
Christmas, Bertha Davis and E. W.
Downum, jr.
The Glee club will sing Joy to
the World, While Shepards Watch
ed Their Flocks, O Holy Night,
and O Little Town of Bethlehem
with Marie Webb singing a solo and
Mary Lily Haynes and Carroll Ann
Willis a'duet in the latter. The
school chorus will sing Angels from
the Realms of Glory, There's a
Song in the Air, Away in a Man
ger, and the Glee club and chorus
will sing Silent Night.
Other numbers by the Glee club
will be It Came Upon a Midnight
Clear with a duet by Elizabeth
House and Elizabeth Bell, and We
Three Kings of Orient Are with
E. W. Downum, jr., Earl Mac Noe,
and B. G. O'Neal.
The musical groups are under
the direction of Miss Velna Col
lins with Nancy Russell as accom
panist.
Railroad Engine
Strikes Auto '
A 1949 Chrysler sedan was struck
by a Beaufort and Morehead rail
road engine at 2 o'clock Saturday
afternoon on the outskirts of Beau
fort but its two occupants escaped
without injury.
The car, driven by George W.
Davis, jr., Smyrna, was proceeding
out of Beaufort on highway 70. Rid
ing with Davis was Robert Willi*
also of Smyrna.
According to Cpl. W. S. Clagen,
state highway patrolman, the driv
er saw the engine but was unable
to stop. He swerved to the left
in hope of avoiding it, but the en
gine struck the car on its right
side.
Damage to the car was estimated
at $450 and slight damage was al
so reported on the engine Which
was traveling along the spur which
leads into the Fish Heal factory.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Dec. 19
4:36 a.m.
4:45 p.m.
11:02 a.m.
10:50 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 29
4:24 a m.
5:34 p.m.
thursday, Dec. 21
11:51 a.m.
11:40 p.m.
6:08 a.m.
6:19 p.m.
12 Midnight
17:37 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 22
6:50 a.m.
12:22 >.111.
7:02 pjs.
1:30 p.m.
Two Accidents
Occur Sanday 1
Pick-Up Truck, Automobile
Demolished; No One
Injured
Two accidents occurred Sunday,
one at 1 a.m. at the Ward Creek
bridge and another at 1 p.m.
on the Merrimon road. Persons
Involved received only minor in
juries but vehicles were demolish
ed.
According to Highway Patrolman
H. G. Woolard, who investigated
both accidents, the vehicle which
.wrecked at the Ward Creek bridge
was a 1950 Ford pick up truck driv
en by Murray Thomas Gillikin,
jr.
Skids on Ice
Gillikin said that he skidded on
ice on the bridge and as he ap
plied brakes the car shot for
ward. hit the shoulder of the road,
snapped off a pole carrying power
lines, and the truck rolled over bot
tom up, in the marsh.
A cut on his skull was closed with
stitches at the Morehead City hos
pital where Gillikin was taken by
a passing motorist. The truck was
owned by Gillikin's father, also
of Beaufort RFD.
The broken pole caused an out
tage on the down east - power line
which was repaired in several
hours.
Dodge Side-Swiped
Alfred Crooms, colored man of
North Harlowe, received minor
bruises at 1 o'clock Sunday after
noon when the 1935 Ford he was
driving side-swiped a 1948 Dodge
being driven by Jarvis Moore Pin
er of Morehead City.
The accident occurred about one
quarter of a mile from highway
70 on the Merrimon road. Accord
ing to Woolard, Crooms lost con
trol of his car when he tried to
pass the Dodge. The Ford swerved
back and forth across the road sev
eral times and ended upside down
in a canal at the side of the high
way.
Damage to the Dodge, owned by
Mrs. Marie Finer, Morehead City,
was sligiit but the Ford was de
molished.
Tonsil dues -
Will Begin Again
Monday, Ja 15
Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, health
officer, announced today that there
will be no more tonsil clinics until
Monday, Jqn. 15. The last one be
fore Christmas was conducted Mon
day.
To date this fall 46 children
have had their tonsils removed and
the program has been a success
from every standpoint. Dr. Ennett
commented. The tonsil clinics
were first begun in November
1949 and during the latter part of
1949 and the early part of 1950 100
operations were completed.
"The parents have been coop
erative." Dr. Ennett said, "and the
surgeons are giving their services
at a reasonable rate."
Under the auspices of the health
department there will be an eye
clinic some time next month, date
to be announced later. The state
blind commission will send a spec
ialist here to conduct the clinic.
During the past several weeks
public health nurses have been ex
amining school children in grades
1, 4 and 6 and also children refer
red to them by teachers of other
grades. This type of work had
been completed in both the white
and colored ichools of Beaufort and
Morehead City by the latter part
of laat week.
Because of Christmas, the health
office will be closed Dec. 23
through Dec. 26.
Farm Bursal, Livestock
Directors Will Meet J
Farm Bureau directors, directors
of the 4-H Livestock Improvement
association, and Carteret county
committeemen for the cooperative
artificial breeding program will
meet at 7:30 Thursday night in the
farm agent's office, Beaufort, to
discuss the proposed artificial
breeding program.
At a recent meeting in New
Bern, the farm agent, R. M. Wil
liams, and dairymen of the county
heard a proposal to make artificial
breeding services available to this
county. Committeemen from Car
teret appointed at that time were
R. P.* Oglesby and John Ogleaby of
Crab Point.
FeiuibiUty of sponsoring the corn
production' contest again next yeft
will be discussed as well as mean
of publicizing the report on tlx
National Farm Bureau conventi(|L
The county's delegate to the con
vention, which took place laat
week, was Milton Truckner of Pal
letier. He returned home Satur
day
Governor Scott Directs State Auditor
To Hold Hamilton'' s December Pay
Raleigh, ? (AP) ? State
Auditor Henry Bridges has been
directed to withhold the December
retirement check of Luther Hamil
ton and to ask the state attorney
general for a ruling on Hamilton's
retired status.
Governor Scott announced this
action at a news conference Fri
day.
Hamilton, former superior court
judge of Morehead City, has been
drawing retirement pay since July,
1949, when he retired on total dis
ability. He receives two-thirds pay
or $555.55 per month less income
tax deductions.
' Governor Scott declined to reap
point Hamilton last year as a spe
cial judge, but later named him an
emergency judge over 12 terms of
court within the past few months.
However Hamilton lost his seat
as an emergency judge when the
state supreme court ruled Wednes
day that he cannot sit on the bench
and still claim to be totally disab
led.
' McMullan has not yet received
ahy request from Bridgers for a rul
ing on how the supreme court de
cision affeCts Hamilton's retirement
pay.
At his news conference, the gov
ernor indicated the possibility that
the pay will be withheld even if
McMullan rules in Hamilton's fav
or.
Hamilton's next monthly check
| was due to be sent out today.
| The governor, when asked if any
attempt might be made to get back
retirement pay already given to
Hamilton, answered, "It would
seem that would be in order."
If McMullan rules that Hamil
tons' retirement pay can be halted.
Scott added, then Hamilton can ap
peal to the courts if he desires.
I
Atlantic School
Will Present
Program Tonight
The Atlantic High School Glee
club will present "A Recital of
Songs" at 7:30 tonight in the school
auditorium and at 9 o'clock there
will be a dance in the school gym
with an orchestra from Cherry
Point supplying the music.
The entire program is being of
fered free of charge as a public
service of the school.
The Glee club program follows:
Sylvia (Speaks); De Blue Tail Fly
(folk song). Smilin' Through, sung
by Ruth Taylor, Lois Rose, Jan
ice Rose and Joyce Taylor; The
Lilac Tree (Gartlan), musical read
ing by Martha Daniels.
There Is Nothing Like a Dame
(Rogers-Hammerstcin), The Boys;
That Wonderful Guy (Roger - Ham
merstein), The Girls; Hats (Cox),
musical reading by Jan Guthrie;
0 Leave Your Sheep (a Christmas
Carol) by Mary Lee Mason and Re
becca Salter; O Holy Night
(Adams), and White Christmas
(Berlin).
AMERICAN PAINTING TODAY
Native Carteret Artist Wins
Place in Metropolitan Exhibit
Farm Agent Urges
Livestock Raising
Improvement of Pastures
Of Prime Importance,
Agent Declares
R. M. Williams, county farm
agent, commented yesterday that
production of livestock promises
more profit and a better - balanced
farm program today than farming
operations dealing solely with pro
duction of row or cash crops.
He stated that there is a grow
ing interest in Carteret county a
lonR this line and more acres of
cultivated land are being convert
ed into permanent pasture.
Examples Cited
As proof of the expansion of the
livestock program in this county,
the farm agent cited the following
examples:
At a beef cattle sale in Rocky
Mount this fall, Roland Barbour
of Morehead City purchased fif
teen high grade beef cattle. At a
recent sale in Kinston, Mr. Bar
hour purchased five registered
Hereford cows and one very fine
Hereford bull. Roland says that
his ultimate goal in beef cattle
production is to gradually work
out all grade cattle and into a herd
of all registered animals. Roland
now has 80 acres of improved per
manent pasture which is more than
enough to take care of the present
number of cattle that he now owns.
Jack Bell and Jim Kelley of New
port recently made a trip to the
^ *c*tern North Caro
lina. While touring the hillsides,
these two young herdsmen purchas
ed fourteen fine Hereford cattle.
Of this number seven of the cattle
were registered and seven were
high grade animals. They also
purchased a fine registered Here
ford bull. These two progressive
livestock enthusiasts now have 14
acres of improved permanent pas
ture and intend to seed more acres
of permanent grazing in addition
to their temporary grazing crops.
Heifers Purchased
D. S. Oglesby of Crab Point pur
chased four beautiful registered
beef type heifers at the Rocky
Mount sale. Jim Young of Stella
purchased a fine Hereford bull and
several grade heifers. Each of
these farmers have their improved
permanent pasture well establish
ed.
Allen Trader and Albert Walker
of Newport have purchased a fine
registered Hereford bull from
See FARM AGENT, Page 7
Welfare Department Certifies
List of Families in Need
With this article THE NEWS
TIMES completes the publication of
the list of 100 welfare caws in
Carteret county certified by the
welfare department to be deserving
of help this Christmas. The first
part of the list, 53 cases, appeared
in Friday's NEWS-TIMES.
White Families Beaufort Route 1
54.*Mother with two. children at
Otway, father deserted family.
55. Mother with three children
at Bettie, father deserted family.
56. Mother with two children at
Otway, father dead.
57. Mother with two young child
ren, highway 101, no means of sup
port from father.
58. Mother with year-old child,
between highway 101 and Merri
mon road, no support from father.
59. Father with child, Otway.
Child is crippled.
White Families - Stella
60. Mother with six children,
father has TB and cancer.
61. Mother with six children,
father sentenced to road.
Colored Families - Stella
62. Mother with one child, fath
er is dead.
63. Mother with one child, no
support from father.
64. Mother with one child, no
support from lather.
65. Mother with two children, no
support from father.
66. Mother with child, step-fath
er unable to support youngster.
White Families Salter Path
67. Mother with two children,
lather is dead.
68. Mother with two ehilden,
father dead.
m. Child Uvea with grandfather,
father dead, mother re married.
See WELT ASK, ra?a 1
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Officers Ann! Three
On Liquor Violations
Three men were arretted on vio
lation of liquor charges Friday
night by Marshall Ayscue, ABC of
ficer, and Deputy Sheriff Murray
Thomas
They were Clifton Smith and
Willie Reeves, both colored, and
Bert Williams, white.
Smith and Reeves were appre
hended at about 8:30 Friday night
on highway 101. The officers start
ed after them in the vicinity of
Bell's store and as Smith and
Reeves neared the Harlowe church
they threw out six gallons of whis
key on the highway, Officer Ays
cue reported.
And when the car was stopped
another gallon and a half was
found inside. Both were charged
with transporting non tax-paid
whiskey.
Williams was apprehended at 10
p.m. Friday near Harlowe. He was
charged with possession of a small
quantity of non tax-paid whiskey.
Botariaas Will Eafertaia
Wives a! Parly Toaighl
Beaufort Rotarians will enter
tain their wives tonight at their
annual Christmas program it the
Inlet inn. In charge of the affair
are Gerald Hill, Dr. W. L. Wood
ard, and Gene Smith. \
At last week'g meeting Mr. and
Mrs. Grayden Paul led the group
in singing of Christmas carols.
There will be no Rotary meeting
Tuesday night, Dec. M.
By Amy Muse
Artist Jack Lewis, exhibitor in
the New York Metropolitan Mu
seum of Fine Arts, comes honestly
by a good old Marshallberg name
? his father, Riley Lewis, was born
there; his interest in the Straits
is understandable too? his mother
was Ethel Pigott of an old pre
Revolutionary Straits family.
When Jack used to come down
from Washington to spend his sum
mers with "Uncle Manton" and
"Aunt Jessie" Pigott at Straits, he
was just a handsome, likeable boy
who liked U> draw. He is still
"Jack" to his friends, and he still
likes to draw, but he is John Chap
man Lewis when the art critics
write of him in the columns of The
New York Times, The New York
Herald-Tribune, The Washington
Post or Star.
Jack gets down here less fre
quently than lie did, but he still
loves and remembers as is evi
denced by his painting "Waterfront
at Straits" recently exhibited in
Atlanta. In a one man show pre
sented a year ago at Contemporary
Arts Gallery, New York, and prais
ed generously by the critics, four
of eighteen pictures were painted
from sketches made in Carteret
(Straits, Beaufort, Harkers Inland)
including "Covered Uoats, "Small
Not," "Island Fishermen," and
"Ruihs Revisited." The two last
named were singled out for spec
ial mention by the Herald-Tribune.
The work of this young artist
has also been included in the Au
dubon Artists Annual, the 1949
Corcoran Biennial, the Washington
Artists Annual 1949. the 1947 N.C.
Artists Annual, The Pennsylvania
Academy, American Painters in
Rome, and this year was represent
ed in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art showing of Pa'ullngs of Young
Artist* His painting "Towers of
Georgetown" passed both the re
gional jury in Richmond and the
national jury in New York, and is
included in the Metropolitan Kx
hibition ot "American Painting To
day? 1950." The juries received
over 6,000 entries and finally se
lected 307 for the show which
See EXHIBIT. Page 3
10 Remit Papent
For Fire Service
Ten out-of-town residents of the
265 who received bills last week
from the town of Beaufort for fire
service during the year 1951 have
made their payments.
This report was made by Town
Clerk Dan Walker yesterday. Charg
ing out-of-town residents for fire
protection service is an innovation
in Beaufort town govenment. The
move was undertaken as an econ
omy measure. The town board stat
ed that answering out-of-town a
larms was not economically feasible
in light of the town's financial con
dition.
The bills were authorized to be
mailed early in the summer but
were not sent out until this month.
Residents are being assessed $10
per year while commercial and in
dustrial establishments are asked
for $50. Should there be a fire
at an industrial establishment an
additional $50 per hour pumping
charge will be made.
If 70 per cent of the persons who
received bills for out-of-town ser
vice during 1951 h&ve not been
paid by Jan. 1, 1952, the Beaufort
fire department will be instruc
ted to answer no fire calls outside
the town after that date.
A record will be kept of those
who have paid and should a fire
occur at the home of a resident who
has failed to cooperate with the
plan, the fire trucks will not ans
wer the call unless the blaze is
endangering the property of an out
of-towner who has paid his fire
bill.
Ckill Vuri Strikes County,
Temper ttnra Drops to 29
A chill northeast wind made Car
teret countians shiver yesterday
morning as the temperature went
down to 29. Ever since Wednesday
the coldest temperatures recorded
every 24 hours by Stamey Davis,
official weather observer, have
been at freezing or below.
The temperature record follows:
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Max. Mia.
46 27
48 30
50 32
51 31
49 28
PMA Delegates
Elect County
Committee Friday
The county Production Market
ing administration committee was
re-elected Friday morning at the
county PMA convention in the
PMA ofiice, Beaufort.
The officers are Sam D. Edwards,
Newport, chairman; Roland Salter,
Bettie, vice-chairman; D. W. Truck
ner, Pelletier, regular member;
Herman K. Norris, Pelletier. first
alternate; and Hugh T. Carraway,
Beaufort, second alternate. They
will serve for one year beginning
Jan 1. 1951
The county committee convened
Friday afternoon in the PMA of
fice and re-elected B. J. May. PMA
secretary, and Mrs. Ruth Butler,
treasurer. Plans were also made
for the coming year.
280 Voted
Delegates to the county conven
tion and community committeemen
were elected throughout the coun
ty Thursday. Two hundred eighty
voted this year as compared with
218 last year. May reported. He was
pleased with the turnout at the
polls.
Election results follow:
White Oak township, Lcland H.
Morris. Stella, chairman; Milton
Truckner, Pelletier; John D.
Young. Stella; Julian I. Weeks,
Bogue; J. Colon Brown, Pelletier,
and Leland Morris, delegate.
Morehead township, John T. Og
lesby. Crab Point, chairman; Rob
ert E. Laughton, Morehead City;
Addison MeCabe, Wildwood; Bon
ner Bell. Wildwood; Cecil Oglesby,
Crab Point; and Addison McCabe,
delegate.
Newport, Y. Z. Simmons, Mason
town, chairman; Cecil H. Pringle,
Mundine section; Artis B. Garner,
Forks of Newport; Carl W. Garner,
Deep Creek; Ennon O. Mann, New
port. and Lonnie W. Howard, dele
gate.
Iteaufort-llarlowe
Beaufort Ilarlowc, William J.
Hardesty, Core Creek, chairman;
Kerney A. Merrill, jr.. New Bern
road; Herman Merrill, North River
church community; Manley M. Eu
banks, Wiregrass; Raymond Dick
inson, Core Creek; and William J.
Hardesty. delegate.
East Merrimon, Brondell Gilli
kin, Bettie; Wrenn E. Lawrence,
Merrimon; Gilbert Whitehurst,
Straits; Roy Keller, Bettie; S. W.
Lawrence. Otway; and William Gil
likin. delegate.
$856 Collected
For Symphony
Mrs. Laurence Vickers, chairman
of the county North Carolina Sym
phony membership drive, announ
ced today _that $856.40 has been
collected. The goal was $750.
The Little Symphony will give its
annual concert in Carteret county
Friday night, Feb. 2 in Morehead
City school. .
Patron memberships recently re
ceived were $100 from Fry Hoofing
co., and $25 from Earle Webb. Sale
of junior memberships to date has
amounted to $18.60, but junior
memberships will be sold again the
week before the concert.
Members of the Beaufort high
school band will attend the concert
Under a $25 patron membership
purchased by Harvey Smith, Beau
fort, and the Morehead City band
will attend under a $25 patron
membership purchased by the
Morehead City Woman's club.
Mrs. Vickers announced that
underprivileged children will be in
vited to the symphony through the
Fry Roofing $100 patron member
ship.
The symphony membership drive
this year was sponsored by the
Morehead City a id Beaufort Junior
Woman's cflibs.
Elks Will Celebrate
Elks and their guests will attend
their annual Christmas party at 8
o'clock tomorrow night at the lodge
on Arendell street, Morehead City.
There will be open house from 1
p.m. until midnight on Christmas
and Netf Year's Day.