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W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ? A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 40th YEAR. NO. 6. THREE SECTIONS? EIGHTEEN PAGES MOUEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JAN. *19. 1951 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Representative Dill to Introduce Bill on Beaufort Extension Town Board OKs Resolution On Changing Town Limits Roofing, Felt Employees Will Vote od Union Referendum al Morehead Cily Plant Will Take Place Wednesday Employees of the Loyd Fry Roof ing company and Volney Kelt mill, Morehead City, will vote Wednes I day on whether they will affiliate with the International Brother hood of Pulp. Sulfite, and Paper ipill Workers, American Federation of Labor. An informal preelection meet ing was held at the roofing com pany Tuesday morning. Attending were Walter Edwards. J. T Mott, of the roofing company, George McNeill, attorney representing the company, Lewis Price, represent ing the union, and Sidney Smith, field representative for the Na tional Labor Relations board. Price stated that a request was made for an election at the plant last spring. When company offi cials did not agree, a petition was filed June 12, 1950 with the NLRB, the union representative explain ed. Following a hearing, the board ruled in favor of the AFL on two contentions: that Fry and Volne.v shall be recognized as one bargaining unit and that there was tufffcient interest among the em ployees to warrant holding an elec tion. According to AFL figures. 128 employees work at Fry and Vol ney, 77 in the roofing plant and 51 in the felt mill. This includes all I production and maintenance em ployees, not supervisors, watchmen or clerical workers. ( The Lloyd Fry Roofing company ' has 16 plants throughout the ?oun try and three, according to Price are union-affiliated. Those are lo cated at Fulton, N. Y? Memphis, i Tenn., and Stroud, Okla., he said. iState Seeks OK t Od Bridge Plans The State Highway and Public Works commission has made ap plication for approval of plans to construct a bridge across Bogue Sound between Morehead City and Atlantic Beach, the Corps of En Iftleers. Wilmington, announced t6day. The plans submitted show a double opening swing drawbridge with a horizontal clearance for each opening of 80.0 feet and ver tical clearance of 16.2 feet at mean low water with the draw span in the closed position. The new bridge i? to be located approximately 1,650 feet east of the existing highway bridge. The tie-up dolphins on the east aide of the existing bridge will be removed and reinstalled about 1, 500 feet easf of the new bridge lo eation. where they may be used by tows on the Atlantic Infracostal Waterway, prior to construction of the new bridge. Plans showing the proposed ?ffk may be seen at the engineers' effice and at the post office in Morehead City. Anyone objecting to the propos ed construction are requested to present their objections to Col R C. Brown. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington, no later than Satur <hy. Jan. 27. f Wednesday, Jut 31, b - Tag Purchase Baadlina The deadline on purchase of 1951 MID tags is Jan. 31. 1B51, advises tie North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. All motorists apprehended on the highways on Feb. 1 and thereaf ter without their 1951 license plates will be subject to prosecu tion. ' Although approximately two weeks remain in which motorists may purchase their plates, lew than half have obtained them On Jan. 5, 1950. a total of 392,965 plates hM been sold. 1S51 sales on the Corresponding date, this year, numbered 446.519. Total sales of 1950 plates reached 1,171,206 The delay on the part of motor vehicle owners in purchasing their 1951 plates makes it evident that a rush will occur at the main of ffoe in Raleigh and the 71 branch , Alices in the state aa the deadline approaches, the department stated. The 1951 tags went on sale Dec. & in Morehead City at the Loan ii^artment of the First Citiaena *aok and Trust co , Artndell It. The Beaufort town board passed a resolution Monday, according to | Wiley Taylor, jr., town attorney, i providing for extension of the [ boundaries of the town as specified in the bill which is printed in full i on page 3 of today's NEWS-TIMES. They further requested that the j bill be introduced in the legisla ture. 0 The area to be encompassed by the town boundary will include all of Front street east to the former community center, thence to the Lennox ville road and across the old golf course to a point on the old Gibbs farm road beyond the drive-in theatre, then to the inter- J section of that farm road with ; highway 70, across the rear of : Huntley's to highway 101 and then : westward on the south side of the ' west Beaufort road to its intersec ! tion with Turner street extended, I thence south across the west Beau fort bridge to the town limits. New Truck Dan Walker, town clerk, an nounced yesterday that a new gar bage truck would be added to take | care of the extra territory and that i George Stovall of Tide Water Pow er company informed the town ! that water mains and fire hydrants J See TOWN BOARD, Page 3 Judge Orders Two Fathers to Support Their Children J Two defendants were found neg ligent in support of their children in Tuesday's recorder's court and the major part of the docket was comprised of motor vehicle code violations. Both Dalward Lee Smith and Alexander Simmons did not con test charges of non-support. Judge Lambert Morris imposed a sen tence of two years on the roads on each, not to be carried out provid ing Smith pay $100 to his wife plus $10 a week for support of his chil dren plus court costs. Simmons was ordered to pay $5 a week to support of his child plus court costs. Clyde Gaskins, Lawrence Marvin Swinson, and James P. Pennington were charged with drunken driv ing. Gaskins was found guilty and paid $100 and costs. Swinson was found guilty of reckless driving and given a year on the roads, sen tence not to be executed providing he remain sober and on good be havior three years. He was also ordered to pay $70 to the prose cuting witness plus a $100 fine and costs. Pennington pleaded guilty to See JUDGE, Page 6 Choral Group < To Appear Feb. I The Beaufort Choral club, under the direction of Mrs. Charles Has sell, will present a concert at 8 o'clock Friday night, Feb, 2, at Beaufort school. The club's appearance is being sponsored by the Beaufort Junior Woman's club. This will be the second concert to be given by the group since its organization last fall. The first was a program of sacred music pre sented in Ann Street Methodist church in November and the pro gram was very well-received. The coining program will feature a wider range of choral music, Mrs. Hassell announced, including modern and semi-classical numbers. Tickets for the concert may be purchased from any member of the Junior Woman's club. 151 Firman Pay Does bt Breeding Association ' One hundred fifty farmers own ing dairy cows in this county have joined the Artificial Breeding as sociation, R. M. Williams, county agent, announced yesterday. He added that he was very well pleased with the response. Farm agents and interested farm ers of all four counties involved in setting up the association met yes terday at New Bern to determine whether there are enough members to warrant proceeding with an arti ficial breeding program. The counties participating, in ad dition to Carteret, are Craven, Jones, and Pamlico. Judge Named Judge Henry A. Grady of New Bern haa been named to preside in Carteret county at the apecial superior court term for the week beginning Feb. 12. John Sikes. Norehead v Chamber Manager, Quils John Sikes, manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, has resigned, Dr. Darden J. Eure, president of the cham ber, announced today. I)r. Eure also announced that there will be a meeting of the chamber board of directors at 7:45 next Thursday night at the civic center. Sikes became chamber mana ger in October 1950 and succeed ed Robert G. Lowe, jr. County Takes Part in Bankers' Speaking Contest High School Pupils Will Preseni Talks on Value Of Green Pastures Carteret county schools, in coop eration with agricultural agencies, will sponsor the annual North Car olina Bankers association speaking contest in March. All students in grades 9 to 12 arc eligible to participate. Separ ate contests are being conducted in the white and colored schools, ac cording to rules set up by the bank ers. The subject of the speaking con tests is "Green Pastures, Their Place in the Economy of North Carolina." The banks of Beaufort and More head City are contributing $100 in prizes. The county winner will re ceive a $50 savings bond, runner up will receive a $25 savings bond and winners at each individual I school will be presented with $5. Contest Planned | Meeting Monday in the farm i agent's office to discuss the con test were II. L. Joslyn, superintend ent of schools; James Davis, man ager of the Beaufort, bank; 1. E. Pittman. manager oi the More head City bank; W. C. Carlton, manager of Carteret - Craven RUA; Roy Beck, soil conservationist; B. J. May PMA secretary; K. M. Williams, farm agent; and James Allgood, assistant farm agent. There will be elimination con tests at each school. Judges will be named by the principal. The county superintendent of schools. Carlton and Beck, will select judg es for the county contest. The regional or group contest will be conducted March 30, 1951 at Jack sonville. Serving on the awards commit tee are Davis and Pittman. Beck. May, C. S. Long, agriculture in structor at Newport, will conduct the pasture tour required of each contestant. School Visits The two farm agents will visit each school next week to explain the contest to teachers and pupils. Their schedule is as follows: Thursday, Jan. 25, 9 a.m. Smyrna. 11:30 a.m. Atlantic; 3 p.m., Mark ers Island; Friday. Jan. 26, 10:40 a.m. Beaufort, 12:45 p.m. Morehead City and 2 p.m., Newport. Miss Rachel Mundine of Newport school was the county winner in the speaking contest last year. Seventy-five counties partici pated in the program in 1950. This covered 272 schools. 3.000 contest ants and 47.900 persons comprised audiences. The bankers awarded $4,500 in cash prizes and the same amount will be presented this year. Lions Clear $10# On Sports Event Morehead City Lions clearcd an estimated $100 on their House of David basketball game Friday night, according to a report today from Oscar Allred, secretary of the Lions. The money will be used in Lions' aid to the visually-handicapped At their weekly meeting last Thursday night Lions heard the re port sent by Miss Imilda Town send, blind caseworker, on work with the visually handicapped in Carteret county during the last quarter of 1950. Miss Townsend conducted 36 in terviews and determined whether individuals were eligible for eye examinations with aid of the State Commission for the Blind. Four teen were authorized for eye exams and the Lions were requested to buy glasses for nine. Glasses for one child were purchased through the school health program. The rehabilitation division of the State Commission for the Blind brought (lasses for one adult. Glmes have been provided for See LIONS, P?(? ? This Is The Army , Mr. Jones! The three Beaufort boys pictur ed above wanted to show the home folks what life is like at Fort Bragg so they sent the above pictures to THE NEWS TIMES. Displaying his physique in the top picture is Pvt. Robert W. Wil lis. son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Willis, Beaufort. Getting in some ! sack time in the middle photo is Pvt. Albert L. Hewitt, son of Mrs. j Latin ie Hewitt, Beaufort, and in I the bottom picture, writing that , letter to you know-who, is Pfc. Jos eph Willis, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Willis, Beaufort. All three are with the 441. .hi field artillery observation battal ion. a National Guard unit that was called to active duty laat summer. The three declare that in spite of the chow not being very good I they arc having a good time. The I sergeant in charge of their barracks I is J< sse Long, former warden at I'ort Macon State park, and his as sistant is C'pl. Summcl Hughes, al I so of Morehead. Hewitt and Robert Willis are I working in the motor pool "and I are doing a fine job of it," the boys write, "but they say they will not be 20-year men in the Army. Jos eph Willis is working flash ranger which is for finding field artillery gun fire and where it is coming from so our field artillery can knock them out." The boys receive fan mail with a whoop and a holler. A letter ad dressed to any of them, c/o Pfc. Joseph Willis 14256571, Ktry C, 449th FA Observation battalion. Fort Bragg, N. C., would undoubt ! idly reach its destination. Eastman to Build Morehead Store J George Eastman, owner and ! manager of Eastman Furniture stores in Beaufort and Morehead City, announced today that he has purchased the northeast corner property at 7th and Arcndell street and will build there a $22,000 fur niture store. Eastman will relinquish lease on the building he now occupies in Morehead City on June 1, 1951. The contract for the new build ing was let Jan. 8. 1951 and a build ing permit was issued Saturday. The rooming house now standing on the site of the new furniture store will be dismantled. The house has already been condemned. East man remarked. Although the federal freeze on commercial building temporarily prohibits the beginning of actual work, the Beaufort furniture store owner said he felt confident con struction could begin in the very near future. The new building will be on one floor, of concrete block and brick construction with ultramodern front. The contractor is Raymond Ransom of Beaufort. R. 11. Dowdy, owner of the build ing Eastman now occupies in More head City, says he has no definite plans for use of structure to be vacated. "However," he added, "I've always been in business my self and maybe I'll go back." The corner property, opposite the proposed Belk's department store, was purchased from White Milk and Ice Cream co. Mole-Searching Mulls Dig Up Cemetery Lois Unless persons keep their dogs confined, drastic means will be used to get rid of the animals, John Lashley, clerk for Morehead City, warned yesterday. The dogs are especially destruc tive at the cemetery where they dig constantly in search for moles. Since the moles burrow under the i ground mainly at night, the dogs have a picnic at the cemetery after I darkness falls, digging up anything and everything in attempts to catch the underground eritters. This is highly destructive of town property and dogs on the loose con stitute violation of a town ordin ance. I.ahley continued. Any dog without a license is likely to end Up with a bullet in his head or taken into custody by authorities. Leonard Lnplon Builds Drive-In Lunch, Beauiori A drive-in lunch is under con struction in Beaufort at the junc tion of highway 101 and the west Beaufort road. Buildiim began in November and is expected to be complete by March 1. The new enterprise, cov ering and area 100 by 300 feet, is being built by Leonard Lupton who lives on the west Beaufort road. No Award to be Made Beaufort Jaycees will not pre sent a man-of-the-year award this year, George Cottingham, presi dent. announced yesterday. Win ner of last year's award was Wiley ill. Taylor,* jr. Banks to Close i The banks of Beaufort and More head City will be closed today in observance of the birthday of Kob tert E. Lee. County Splits Into Manpower Mobilization Units TwoBoard Unit Will Go Into Action Should Ail Out Emergency Arise At the request of selective ser vice headquarters, Carteret county has been divided into two manpow er mobilization units. A board has been set up to func tion in each area, should full mo- j bilizatioi be necessary. Appoint ments to the manpower mobiliza tion boards were made by A. II. James, chairman of a committee ap pointed by the governor, F. K. Seel ley, chairman of the county board of elections and II. L. Joslyn, coun ty superintendent of schools. Newport river has been selected as the county's dividing line with Merrimon in the eastern division and Ilarlowe in the western di vision. Population is about even ly divided east of Newport riv er 1 1 ,200, James remarked and west of the river is 11,060. Appointed to the mobilization board for the western section are John Lashley and II. Karle Mob ley. Morehead City, and C. M. Hill. Newport, for the eastern section. Henry Davis, Markers Island, (I. W. Duncan and llalsey Paul, both of Beaufort. James emphasized, however, that this board will not function unless an all-out emergency exists. Un til that time the present draft board | headed by Duncan with Mrs. Ruby Holland as clerk, will continue trt function. Group Discusses , Cotton Potential Farmers and businessmen at- j tended a cotton - production meet ing last night at the court house in Beaufort to discuss the need for increased cotton production in 1951. The meeting was called by the county Production Marketing ad ministration. Sam Kd wards, New port, chairman of the county PMA committee, issued invitations early this week to representatives of farm organizations, agricultural agencies, ginners, cotton buyers bankers, fertilizer dealers, insecti cide vendors, equipment dealers and other interested in cotton pro duct ion lor 1951. Speaker at the session was J.N. Bryan, jr., AAA district field sup ervisor. Also present was C. S. Mintz, eastern district supervisor of the farm extension service. During the coming days, as the result of last night's meeting, ar rangemcnts will be made to put into immediate effect a program, Kd wards said, that will inform farmers as to the need for plant ing the acreage of cotton required to produce a 16 million bale crop, show the outlook for materials and facilities needed in producing the 1951 crop, instruct farmers relative to cotton production problems such as recommended rales and applica tions of fertilizer, proper use Of insecticides, boll weevil control measures and other recommended practices, and obtain acreage to be devoted to cotton in J951 in the county. Farm Management Expert To Visit County Tuesday v W. L. Turner, farm management specialist, will be at the county farm agent's office Tuesday to as sist with farm management prob lems. Turner will meet with farmers interested in an "accounting sys tem" tyr farms with one or more tenants and will also explain meth ods to be used in preparing income tax returns. County farmers who have ten ants on their farmlands are the following: S. D. Edwards, Lonnie Howard, Manly ' E. Mann. W. H. Roberts. Curt Cannon, C. S. Garner, Leon Hughes Quinn, Raymond Simmons, I). W. Truckner, Allen Vinson, l)ai?y Koonce, all of New port; Clarence Taylor, Morehead City: Neal Campen, Beaufort RFD. All farmers interested in farm management are invited to meet with Turner at the farm agent's office Tuesday morning. Three Clubs to Meet The Cedar Island, Atlantic and Russell's Creek home demonstra tion clubs will meet early next week. The Cedar Island club will meet with Mrs. Gloria Emory at 1 p.m. The Atlantic clid> will meet at 3 p.m. Monday with Mrs. Dee Ma son and the Russell's Creek club will meet with Mrs. C. S. Rogers at 7:30 Tuesday night. Legislator Requests Opinions From People Affected j Missing in Action Pfc. Warren C. Day, 19, son of Mrs. Olivia Day, l.ola, has hern reported missing in action in Ko rea since Dee. 12. His mother received a telegram from the De partment of Defense Saturday night. Senate 831 j Would Restore Pay to Judge A bill which would restore to Judge Luther Hamilton his retire ment pay was introduced in the Senate this week by Sen. S. Hunn Frink ol Brunswick county. Senator Frink said the bill is not intended to benefit Judge Ham ilton alone "but Is for all judges." It contains a retroactive feature J which would apply to the More- 1 | head (.]iU jijdge- >>m?c he i* Uie on f ly living superior cohrt judge who has retired on disability. Several others who retired on that basis are dead. Judge Hamilton's monthly $5f>() retirement check was discontinued n December when the state sup reme court dccided he had forfeit ed his retirement status by con tinuing to hold court. The Senate measure doclares that any justice of the Supreme Court or regular or special judge of the Superior Court who "hereto fore has retired or hereafter may retire" under any of the judicial re tirement statutes and where the Governor has approved, "shall be entitled to receive the retirement pay . . . not withstanding the cir cumstance that such retired judge, by reason of the nature and cause for his retirement, or by reason of his physical condition cannot be as signed to hold terms of court or perform other judicial functions." The bill also says that "the State Auditor is authorized to is sue vouchers to such retired judge for the retirement payment." Senator Frink said he introduced the proposal because the recent Supreme Court decision affecting Hamilton had raised a question ! about security of judges on retire ment. "The way I interpret the decis ion," he said, "if a judge retires on disability and later becomes able to hold court, he would lose his retirement pay. He already would have lost his appointment as a judge. There would be no security under the law now. If we're going to have retirement, let's have se curity, too." Signers of the measure were Senators Junius Powell of Colum bus, Hi vers D. Johnson of Duplin. Alton Lennon of New Hanover, Wesley C. Watts of Robeson. II. P. Eller of Wilkes. J. Robert Young of Harnett, Zebulon Weaver jr., of Buncombe and Donald Banks of Yancey. Eller and Banks are the Senate's only Republican mem bers. The proposal was referred to Senate Judiciary I, which is head ed by Johnson. Tide Tabic Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW | Friday, Jan. 19 5:38 a.m. 12:04 p.m. 5:47 p.m. 11:50 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 6:?l a.m. 12 Midnight 6:36 p.m. 12:50 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21 7:04 a.m. 12:35 a.m. I 7:19 p.m. 1:31 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22 7:43 a.m. 1:17 a.m. 7:58 p.m. 2:09 p.m. | Tunday, Jan. 23 8:21 a.m. 1:57 a.m. 8:37 PJD. 2:43 p.m. I Upon request, Assemblyman George W. Dill, jr., representing Carteret county, will introduce a bill in the legislature providing for extension of Beaufort's corporate limits. . Representative Dill stated Wed nesday that he didn't know wficn he would put the bill in the House hopper, but "it won't be right a way." The bill was presented him Wednesday by Dan Walker, town clerk, and Wiley Taylor, jr., town attorney, Beaufort. At the suggestion of Dill, the original bill presented to him Wed nesday was re written by George Franklin, counsel for the League I of Municipalities of which Beaufort is a member. The representative also requested that he be sent a resolution from the Beaufort town board, signed by each commissioner and the mayor, requesting him to introduce the bill. "Enlarging the town is not to their (people on outskirts) detri ment, as I see it," remarked Dill. "It appears to me that the people out want in and I see no reason why it shouldn't be done. A large part of my opinion is based on the survey which appeared in THE NEWS-TIMES. "The town of Beaufort has no funds for conducting a referendum on this matter, but I want it clear ly understood: 1 am not playing favorites. 1 have no ax to grind and everyone who objects to this move has a right to express them selves to me. Will Go to Committee "After this bill is introduced, it will go to a committee where a hearing will be permitted and op ponents can be* heard. "Beaufort is faced with the per plexing problem of having a very large living area out growing the smaller town area. I am not one to sit up here in Halcigh like a dictator and say what bill 1 will introduce and what bill I will not. I'm here to serve the people of Carteret county," he concluded. The legislator said that the^bill, after being put in the hopper, will probably go to the counties, cities, and towns committee, but added that, actually, he could not predict where the house speaker would send it. 21 Volunteer , For Defense Work By Wednesday noon 21 persons had enlisted for civil defense duty in Beaufort and three took appli cations with them to fill out and return to Mrs. Wiley Taylor, jr., registrar, at the Beaufort town hall. A call for workers in the town's civil defense program was issued by Defense Director Gene Smith Tuesday. Anyone wishing to vol unteer should register with Mrs. Taylor at the town hall. Those who have registered thus far are the following: the Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Martin, Connie Dudley, Lutrellc Faye Brooks. Iris Mae Dudley. Ann Elizabeth Hopkins, Mrs. Glenn Adair. Kenneth K. Johnson. Norwood Karl GaskilJ, Mrs. Mary R. Bclla mah. Mrs. Margie Taylor, Mrs. Mil dred Parker. Mrs. Marilyn Barnes, R. C. Slater. Mrs. Delphine John son, L. R. Johnson, Jimmic Owens, Ann M. Owens, Clyde M. Owens, Mrs. Clyde Owens, Mrs. Marian Hill. Night at Mobeau Combines Best Twin City Talent Combining the best talent of Beaufort and Morehead City, A Night at the Mobeau promises to entertain and delight its audience tonight. The curtain will rise at 8 o'clock in the Morehead City school aud itprium. revealing a scene dominat ed by James Q. Winstead Wallace who's having a bit of trouble get ting his "night spot" in top-notch condition to please expected cus tomers. Highlighted by musical numbers and comedy, A Night at the Mo beau is under the direction of Miss Marilou Paulsen. It is being spon sored by the Garden and Civics department of the Morehead City Woman's club. Paul Marstellar Presents Program at Rotary Meeting Paul Marstellar. seventh grade tcachcr at Beaufort school, enter tained Rotarians Tuesday night at the Inlet inn with impersonations. Rotarian R. M. Williams was in charge of the program which fol lowed dinner In the absence of the president, the Rev. T. R. Jenk ins, E. W. Downum, vice-president, presided. There was no business session.
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