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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Areadell St. Morehead City Phone 6-4175 NEWS-TIMES ,.L? A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 40th YEAR, NO. 3. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. JAN. 9. 1951 PUBLISHRD TITRSHAYS AMn ri?ii>avs THE PEOPLE SPEAK Rent Control Enters the Picture When People ' Outnumber' Houses By Kum reeling \J The critical housing shortage in this area makes it unlikely that town governing boards will Ull rent co ltrols. However this action cannot be taken unilaterally A public meeting must be held on the matter and citizens allowed to ex press their views. The Newport town board has | scheduled such a meeting for Tues ' day night. Feb. 6. at the New port town hall. Judging from public meetings in other communities, thfcfe w'll be two vociferous factions, the land lords who want rent controls tak en off and the tenants who want them retained. Wise councilmen. however, do not judge the matter from the standpoint of who out numbered who at the public meet ting, but whether there is a hous ing shortage and whether lifting of controls would cause rents to sky rocket because of the scarcity of living quarters. , Controls Removed Rent controls were removed from Chapel Hill Thursday bccause the local governing body was able to prove to Housing Expediter Tighe Woods that there was no longer a shortage of rental housing. A NEWS-TIMES survey Saturday indicated that persons who are rent ting homes do not want controls lifted, persons who do no renting At all are in favor of retaining con trols. while landlords, with one ex ception. believe the controls should be removed. Two questions were asked in th8 survey; Do you think rent eon trols in this area should be lilted To alleviate the housing shortage are you willing to rent space in your home? To the first queslion. one More head City housewife and business woman. replied. "Definitely not. To the second question, she ans wered that she rented rooms dur ing the war, especially over the weekend to wives of Marines. have only two bedrooms," jhe ad ded, "and it's a handicap, but I'd do it again, if necessary." A Front "street businessman in Beaufort declared that controls should not be lifted. As for rent ing space in his home to alleviate 1 the housing shortage he remarked, "I'd rent the space if I had it." "I definitely believe in rent con trols," a Morehead City housewife stated. Whether she would rent rooms in her home depended, she remarked, on .whether her hus band was called to sei\t in the arm ed forces Only then would there be space "We rented a room dur ing the last war," she added. Opposes Control A Morehead City landlandy was, without reservation, completely op posed to rent control. "I've been run out of my own bouse by the OPA," she declared. \ "The system of rent control ad ministration is not operated effiei^ ently and it serves the interest of the tenants, never the landlord. "I would like to rent rooms, etc., the way I want. If you do any thing different than what you have been doing, you have to ask the OPA and then that starts a fight and ?ix months of filling out forms aod red - tape. It's un-American. "In the last war I wanted to do everything I could to help and in the end I was run out of my ow l house . . Not Uniform She recommended that there be more OPA checkers, so that all landlords would be investigated and everyone treated alike. "Why one third of the people in Morehead City who rent homes or rooms have never been near the OPA and they get along all right," she declared. Another Morehead City landlord declared: "I rent a house and I'm mad because I don't get more rent." But he added, "Yet in the overall picture, 1 don't believe rent controls should be removed." His beef concerned the method of aetting rents. "If you have four rooms and a bath, regardless of the condition the place is in, there's a set price." And he also had anoth er complaint. "Tenants aet some of your furniture out on the lawn and hide the rest, then the OPA man cotncs to value the house. Both the landlord and tenant should be pres ents at a time like that." In regard to renting space in his See RENT CONTROL, Page 5 Fisherman to Be Triad j Om Socks Theft Charge Eddie Webber, jr.. colored fish ermen. will be tried in today's ses sion of recorder's court on a charge of atealing 14 pairs of socks from ItMe'i 5 and 10. Beaufort. Webber, who gave his home ad dress as 1540 17th St.. NW. Wash ington. D. C? was given a prelimi nary hearing before Mayor L. W. Haasell Friday morning. He was arrested at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon on Front street. Stuffed inside his coat were the sock*. Chief L. B. Willis, of the police force, reported. Fire Bomb Coming Up! ? p With the First Marine Division in Korea ? A "present" for the ' commies is shown being packaged by Marine Corporals Elmore K. Snead (left) of 4526 Alabama ave., Lynchburg, Va., and Robert E. Nelson of 110 'a Shepard st., Morehead City. The "gift," when ready, will be delivered by the First Murine Aircraft Wing in the form of jellied napalm fire bombs. Insurance Agent Reports on School Claims to Date 1 A total of 50 claims has been ' paid thus far this year under the j I newly-instituted (insurance piaq for | children, teachers and pfaicipils In I Carteret county schools. According to Graham W. Dun can. jr.. Beaufort insurance agent, 'these claims amount to $6(H?.94 or I an average of $12 per claim. Two Broken Arms Two children with broken arms had claims paid, for example, and ; I one teacher who hurt her hand | jwhei a window fell on it had her j i medical expenses paid. The first j claim filed Sept. 11, 1950 for an eight-year-old colored child at I i Queen Street school, Beaufort, who cut her finger. j Thirty five of the accidents oc | curred on the school grounds or in the school house, and two oc curred while the insured were on j their way to or from school No claims have been filed due to ' bus accidents, Duncan reports. 50 Per Cent Coverage More than 50 per cent of the children in Carteret county schools are covered by the $1 per school year premium and the insurance 1 agent expressed the hope that this I per centage would greatly increase next year. All claims are filed by teachers, through the principal, and then with Duncan. The claims are paid directly to the doctor, hospital, or drug store. Should the parents : have already paid the bill, they I are reimbursed. I Five million students in nine states are covered by this type of insurance, the insurance agent de clared. James Willis Receives Appointment io Annapolis - 1 James Langley Willis, jr.. soil of 1 I Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Willis of Nor i folk and grandson of Mrs. Alex Norris of Turner st., Beaufort, has I heen appointed to the United | i States Naval academy by Reprcscn j tative Porter Hardy, jr., of Church j land. Va. Willis was graduated with honors in June 1949 at Churchland High ! school. During his public school career he was also prominent in basketball and track. After his graduation from high I school, he attended William and Mary extension college in Norfolk last year, and this year has been I working in Norfolk. He expects to enter the Naval Academy with the next class. Today Narks Month's Absence oi Marshallberger George E. Robinson, 20. of Mar shallbcrg today has been musing from his home one month. He dis | appeared Saturday, Dec. 9. Police were alerted when he fail ed to return home that day but ef | forts to locate the young man have I brought no raulta. A. H. James Heads Coun'y March oi Dimes Campaign A. II. James, More head City, has hern named chairman of the March of Dimes in Carteret county. The collection of funds fr.r fighting polio will begin next Monday, Jan. 15, and continue until Jan. .SI. The county's goal for 1951 is S7.20?, the same as last year. Contributions for 1950 totaled $4,500, approximately 92,'JOO short of the quota. This will be James* third year as chairman of the drive. Lillard Willis. 17. of Harkers Is land. was released from the county jail under $1,000 bond Thursday. He will be tried in today's session of recorder's court on a charge of crime against nature. According to the warrant, served on Willis Friday. Dec. 29, he com mitted on Wednesday, Dec. 27, an unnatural sexual act, forcing a 5 year-old Harkers Island boy to com mit the act with him. Expected to be called as witness es for the state today are Walter Daniel Chadwick, Oliver Curtis Lewis, and Roger Rose. Bond for Willis was posted by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Chesson of Har kers Island. County to Borrow $30,000 to Meet Atlantic Debts 1 | Commissioners to Request $15,000 from ABC Board, Tax Settlements Made The county commissioners yes , tcrday morning passe! a resolution requesting that a bill he introdu? ed in the legislature enabling the county to borrow $30,000. the debt to be paid off in live years. This amount, plus $15,000 to be requested from the county ABC ! board, will be used to erase the deficit on the new Atlantic school and to replace money taken from the current school operating fund to meet Atlantic school debts. This action was taken after the superintendent of schools, 11. -? Joslyn. and members of the county board of education appeared and stated that "something had to be lone." Joslyn reported that obtaining of $45,000 from the ABC board, as suggested by county commission ers previously, was an impossibil ity The board of education owes Coble the school contractor. $16. 000 and from the current operat ing fund, money for school busses is owed. But the money isn't there to pay for them because it has al readv been used to meet debts in curred on the new Atlantic build ing, Joslyn explained. I.ot Transferred At the request of the education board, the county also agreed to transfer to them lot 226 northeast of the Queen Street school, Beau fort. for use as a playground. This lot, owned by the county, is locate I between the school and the water. At the request of George Brooks, Beaufort, part owner with Harvey Smith of 2,080 acres of land east ut Atlantic, the county board re duced valuation to $1 .SO per acre. The valuation before had been ap proximately $3 an acre or $6,270, Brooks said. Wiley Taylor. Jr.. attorney rep resenting Monterville Hamilton of Stacy, requested that an adjustment be made in back taxes. Settlement of all taxes, including 1950, was suggested by the board with pay ment ct $130.55 v,lthin 30 days. , Tavlo' attorney for the town ot Beaufort, agreed to offer for sale a lot in Beaufort on which $230 in taxes are due to the county and $230 to the town. Service Officer Appears C L Beam, veterans service of- 1 ficcr, requested a report on an ad justment in taxes for Elvin Salter of Sea Level. The board told him the welfare department had been requested to investigate the situa | tion but no report had been re j ceived. It was stated that a report lor him would he ready at the Feb ruary meeting of the board. The commissioners set $15 as the sum for settlement of taxes owed by Mrs. Carthagenia Davis ol Davis. ' . | Earl Campei), seeking to buy land now owned by the county, ap peared to see what disposition was to be made of the matter. The clerk reported that the last bid made was $451 and the board de cided to wait 30 days before clos ing the deal, in hope that the price See BORROW, I'age 4 | Scott Says State Will Need More Money in New Biennium Raleigh (AP) Governor Scott said in his address to the 1951 legislature that the state would need more money in the next two fiscal years, but he hoped taxes wouldn't be generally increased. Presenting his mid-term legisla tive program to the newly convened general assembly, the outspoken chief executive also kept up his squabble with power companies. Spending must be increased, he said, but " I am hopeful that this can be accomplished in large meas ure by anticipated increase in reve nues; by the removal of certain tax exemptions, and inequities and more uniform collections." Scott reiterated the plea he made two years ago for a state-wide li quor referendum, a minimum wage law and a constitutional amend ment to allow 18-year-olds to vote all of which were rejected by the 1949 legislature." He urged a salary scale of $2,200 to $3,100 for A certificate school teachers, same as they are now re ceiving when a contingent pay boost is included. As expected the governor urged passage of a "workable motor vehic le mechanical inspection law" and for an increase of 105 men in the strength of the state highway pa trol ? which were recommended by a highway safety study commiss ion. Asking the lawmakers to leave the prison department under the highway commission at least for the present, Scott urged them to "encourage sensible (prison) re forms now planned." He carried to the legislature his fight to get government help in developing North Carolina rivers for power and flood control, and he urged the lawmakers to pass a law to curb pollution of streams. Of his fight with power compan ies over river development, Scott said: "I am insisting and shall con tinue to insist first, that 'enough' electric energy is not sufficient for this state we need an abundance of power and secondly, that the protection of these waters, and their development for their full value for the people of North Caro lina, must not be left entirely to the private utility corporations. Pointing out that the legislature is meeting " in a period of national emergency." the governor said "all the plans we make -here must Ije subject to revisions as we fit our selves into the national defense program." He said "an effective civil de fense program is vital to our secur ity," and urged immediate consider ation of defense legislation. He said that although some plans for state development may be af fected temporarily by the national emergency, "I believe that the North Carolina of 1950withmore than 4,000,000 inhabitants will be a state of 8.000,000 or more by 1980, and that we should plan with such probable increase in mind." The welfare program, he stated, "must be such as to insure that See 8C0TT, Page 5 Coroner P. A. Lewis Resigns; Leslie D. Springle Given Job Corn Growers Win Prize Pigs Photo by R. M. Williams Winners cf the 1950 county torn-growing contest were awarded purebred I hi roc pigs by the Farm Bureau, sponsor of the contest. Pictured above from left to right are James Allgood, assistant county farm agent, Koland Salter, Ilettie, second place winner, Troy Sim mons, Newport, first place winner, and John Oglesby, keeper of the pigs until they were given to the new owners. Miss Curo Bayley, Beaufort Visitor , Sets Altitude Record Miss Caro Rayley 'Mobeau' Show j To Feature Hula An authentic Hawaiian hula dance by Elsa Watts of Cherry Point will be one of the outstand ing features of "A Night at the Mobeau," the production to be staged Friday night. Jan. 19. in the Morehead City school auditorium. Mrs. Watts, who learned the dance in Honolulu while her hus band was stationed there, will per form in a Hawaiian costume she obtained on the islands. Music for the dance will be pro vided by Karl Stiles and his guitar and a trio of vocalists. The show, directed by Miss Mari lou Paulsen, is being sponsored by the Garden and Civics club of Morehead City. Tickets are available now from members of the Garden and Civics club. Reserved seat tickets will go on sale Friday. They will be available from club members and at Dee Gee's shop, Morehead City. Club members may obtain tickets from Mrs. G. Bell, 705 Bridges St. Lions io Attend District Meeting at Wilson Jan. 19 Several members of the More head City Lions club will attend the district Lions convention at Wilson. Jan. 17. An invilatioi to the convention was made at the regular meeting Thursday night in the Fort Macon hotel by Lion sec retary, Owens Fredericks. , Victor Wickizer reported on the House ot David basketball game which is being sponsored by the Liois Friday night at the More head City school gym. Group singing and the business meeting followed dinner. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Jan. 9 9:20 a.m. 9:41 p.m. 2:55 a.m. 3:41 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10 10:09 a.m. 10:32 p.m. ' 3:48 a.m. 4:28 p.m. Thursday, Jan. II 10:56 a.m. 11:24 p.m. 4:40 a.m. 5:14 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12 11:43 a.m. Midnight 5:33 a.m. 6:02 p.m. Miss Caro Bayley. Springfield. | O.. who visited in Beaufort in No vember with Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Taylor, sot a new high altitude rec ord for light planes Thursday at j Miami. Fla. Bundled in furlined artic clothing she flew alone for nearly five hours J to break the o ily record for class H aircraft (weighing between 1,102 j and 2.204 pounds) by nearly 6,000 j feet. Miss Bayley is the daughter of I Mr. and Mrs. Fldon Bayley, form- ! erly of Raleigh. Mrs Bayley is a lifelong friend of Mrs. Taylor and for many years the Bayley fam- 1 ily has summered in Beaufort. j ?. heckfnfj Rn^ired The altitude record will not be- 1 come official until the baragraph | instrument in her gray and red- 1 striped Piper Super Cub and those in the tower at the Opa-Locka Navy airfield where she landed arc checked by the Bureau of Stand ards in Washington. "It was cold and lonesome," the 28-year-old aviatrix commented. She was awed by her long trip into space. When she took off from a small palm-lined field on the MacArthur causeway between Mi ami and Miami Beach the tempera ture was about 76 degrees. At 30.000, it was 34 'degrees below zero, she said. The Weather Bur eau had iiieasured it at 35 degrees below zero two hours earlier. She wore fur-lined boots, trous ers. jacket and cap over her green . slacks and blouse. She took off at 1:25 p.m. Thurs day. At 18,000 feet she donned an oxygen mask. By 2:10 p.m. her 125 horsepower plane had topped the old record of 24,504 feet set by Ana Luisa Branger, a Washington, I). C., embassy secretary. "1 was excised then." Caro ad mitted. "but it just gets boring above that." Reaches 30,000 Feet She reached 30.000 feet at 3:50 p.m. and had to fly another 25 minutes to attain the final 380 feet. "It was obvious 1 couldn't push it up any further,' Miss Bayley said. "Although it was very beautiful up there, it was also very cold and lonesome and I thought fd better come down." At 30.000 feet she said she could see Florida's gulf coast on one side and ilii- Florida Keys on the east side. Tha'"s a span of some 150 miles. The wind was blowing be tween 18 aild 30 knots. Perls Officials Seek Imports lor Morehead Cily Wilmington State Ports Au thority officials were in Washing ton Friday negotiating with feder al and railroad officials regarding import shipments for the Morehead City harbor. Executive Director George W. Gillette and N. N. Urrcombc. mari time traffic solicitor, are endeavor ing to bring several shiploads of strategic material through More head City. The shipments will be "large in tonnage.' They will not be stored however, but shipped out by rail immediately. Since it is necessary to obtain certain permits or licenses in order to bring in this material for the federal government, Gillette and Larcombe visited with Coast Guard officials in connection with the shipment permit. Civil Defense Officials Set Up Town Program Maj. Gen. Louis E. Woods of Cherry Poini, Appoints Liaison Officer One of the first major stops in organizing Beaufort's civil defense program was taken Thursday night when civil defense officials met in , the Merrill building. Gene Smith, director of civil de- j fense, has announced that Major ilollowell, USMC, has been ap pointed by Maj. (Jen. Louis Woo. Is as liaison officer between Beaufort and Cherry Point Marine air base to facilitate civil defense opera tions. Major Ilollowell is connect oil with the operations and train md division on the base. Attending Thursday night's meeting were Grayden Paul, dep uty director of civil defense. Mrs. William Ipock who will supervise first aid courses and a blood typ ing program; Charles Harrell, Beaufort fire chief; John Miller, head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars minutemen organization: A. I). Kllswortli. adjutant of the coun tv Civil Air Patrol unit, and Glenn Adair, communications lirector. Public Induration Mrs. Wiley Tavlor, jr.. and Miss Ruth Peeling will handle the civil defense public education program. Smith announced Saturday. Plans are being made to ask per mission for use of the Scout build ing on Pollock street as civil de fense headquarters, the defense di rector stated. Mrs. Ipock will supervise a pro posed nurses' aide program, first aid instruction, and blood typing. Under Chief llarrell's supervision, firemen will be trained in use of asbrstos Ji^e-fightuig suits, it is hop* d It- i tno^J volunteer fire men will be recruited, and it is planned that each fireman shall take a first aid course. Messenger Service In case of a breakdown in the communication system, the possi bility of setting up a Boy Scout messenger service has been consid ered. VFW minutemen will be as signed as wardens in each block.. They will obtain a roster of every person living in their particular block, also the individual's blood type. The deputy defense director has been assigned the task of recruit- f ing trucks and similar vehicles for , use in case of evacuation of the town if necessary. Director Smith said that plans are underway to obtain, through ( Major Ilollowell, a film on methods of protection in case of atomic at tack. Doctors Revise Fees Upward Fees charged by physicians in ; this county went up Jan. 1. Dr. i C. S. Maxwell, president of the ? Carteret County Medical society, announced today. A resolution raising in town fees $1 was approved at the December meeting of the society. Out-of town fees are based on the number of miles traveled. The resolution stated that home day visits shall begin at 8 in the 1 morning and end at 9 at night and night home visits shall begin at 9 p.m. and end at 8 a.m. Cost of a home visit will be $4 (this was formerly $3) and cost of a night visit will be $6 (formerly $5). The physicians set $2 as the minimum for each office call and this cost will be revised upward, they stipulated, according to items of service rendered. Water Troubles Worry Both Towns Friday Morning Both Beaufort and Morehead i , City were beset by water trouble I , Friday morning. |; To repair a waler main and vaU i ves on Turner stieet, Beaufort, be tween Pine aid Cedar, the water was off all over town for an hour i about the middle of the morning i Friday. i In Morehead City water pressure was lowered temporarily to repair the water hydrant at 7th and Aren dell streets. In doing work pre liminary to widening the street. ; the Morehead City motor grader k locked off the fire hydrant which : had just been installed several i weeks ago. I'ritehurd Lew in, Carteret county coroner, has resign ed. His resignation was ac cepted by the county board of commissioners in regular session yesterday morning and Leslie I). Sprirtgle of Beaufort route 1 was named in his place. The clerk of the board. Irvin W. Davis, reported that the former coroner is now employed at Cherry Point and cannot continue with the coroner's duties. Lewis's resignation had been submitted to the clerk of superior court during the summer but the resignation never reached the board. Lewis received the nomi nation for coroner in the May pri mary and was elected in Novem ber. Sprinkle will serve Lewis's unexpired term. The new coroner is a native of Beaufort and has lived here all his life with the exception of seven years when he moved away and was employed by the Gulf Refin ing co. lie has been farming near Beaufort for the past 16 years and several years ago operated a fruit and vegetable stand on Front street, Beaufort. There was one application for the coroner's job, submitted by Mrs. Homer Lewis. Beaufort. Otis Mades. Beaufort, was also consid ered for the position. Assemblyman Ends First Week In Legislature Carteret county's representative in the legislature, George Dill of More head City, returned to Raleigh yesterday after spending the week end at home. Commenting on his first week in the lawmaking halls of the state. Jie termed thf ??>?oceedjngs "much more serious than I had imagined or had been led to believe heretofore. " He said that the intention of most of the legislators is to get their business over with as soon as pos sible and get back home. "Al though we know we're going to be asked for more money when the governor makes his budget ad dress," Dill related in an interview Sunday, "almost everyone I've spoken to is oppose^ to tax increas L'S." Appointments Speaker of the House Frank Tay lor is expected to make house com mittee appointments early this week, "probably Monday or Tues day," Carteret's lawmaker predict ed. In speaking oS the election of the House speaker. Dill stated. "I was committed to Taylor." As fol lowers of legislative activity know, 1'aylor defeated the administra I ion's man, Royster, for the speak er post. "1 spoke to the Governor," Dill continued. "When he was down here before he was elected, I ask ed him if he would be back to see us when the election was over. Well, he never did come, so I ask ed him why he didn't pay us a visit and he said he never imagined there would be so many demands on his time." Freshmen Legislators The legislator, former mayor of Morehead City, returned to the topic of personnel of the House. "The legislators are overwhelming ly freshmen," he remarked, "and they're not as outspoken as vet erans would be. I was talking to a senior senator and he said. You know you can read all the books in the world but you'll never learn to hit a baseball by reading a book.' I gtiess after about two or three weeks we'll begin to know what to do." In Dill's opinion, Scott's mes sage to this legislature was "more moderate" than his first message two years ago. Carteret's new assemblyman was especially impressed with the ar chitecture of the state capitol. "It's 150 years old you know, and it's the oddest thing I've ever seen. I found an old Negro janitor while I hey Here caucusing the other night and he pointed out some of the in teresting parts of it. And Thad Euro (secretary of state) says he never goes in the place, but what he doesn't see something he had never seen before. Strange hinges, unusual supports, arches. This week was the first time 1 had evei been in the hall where the assemb lymen meet." While in Raleigh. Dill is at the Sir Walter hotel when he's not at the capitol. Unless legislative bus iness delays him, he expects to re turn to Morehead City each Fri day night.
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