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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arradell St. Morehetd City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES * Eight Page* Color Comic* 40th YEAR. NO 36. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1951 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Andrew Bell Killed in Morehead Fire Truck Crash ? Marine Band, School Groups To Present Program May 11 ' State to Consider Opening Shrimp Season Before July 1 i The commercial fisheries com mittee of the State Board of Con servation and Development is ex pected to meet sometime t h i> month to consider opening the shrimp season prior to July 1. Test trawling by the Institute of Fisheries Research indicate that ipotted shrimp are evidently in lo 'cal waters in greater quantity than * year ago at this time, according to Carter Broad, shrimp specialist on the institute staff. Broad further stated that there is the possibility that there will be more shrimp here next month than in June 1950. The Robert E. Coker, institute vessel, has been sampling shrimp population at weekly intervals ever since Sep tember. The spotted shrimp first showed up in the tows about three we&ks ago. This species of shrimp will move offshore and will not be found here by the ertd of July, but the brown shrimp is expected to turn up about the third week in June, Broad continued. The shrimp being caught now, he said, are of small marketable size. They have been taken in ^Core creek and Core sound on sampling tows of about half an hour duration. The commercial shrimping seas on does not open until the first of July. Although shrimpers are permitted to operate now in the o cean, none have been found there or at the Beaufort bar, the shrimp specialist stated. Two Morehead Girls Sustain Injuries in Crash Miss Mary Hancock, daughter of Mrs. Charlotte Hancock, Morehead City, is suffering trom a multiple fractured pelvis, broken right shoul der, fractured left clavicle, several broken ribs and internal injuries sustained at 11:20 Tuesday night In an automobile crash at Wild wood. Catherine Willis Day, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Willis, Morehead City, sustained multi ple lacerations and a fractured ver tebra. Both girls were riding in k' car driven by Lt. O. B. Peatross, jr., USMC, Cherry Point. Anoth er passenger was Capt. L. T. Ran som. USMC, Cherry Point. Both Marines are in the Naval hospital at Camp Lejeune. Peatross is being charged with reckless driving according to Patrolman W. S. Cla gon, who investigated. According to Corporal 'Clagon, (he car, a 1950 sedan was proceed ing west on highway 70 at approx imately 90 miles an hour. It failed to make the curve by the McCabe road at Wildwood and ran off the left shoulder, flipped over four times and stopped 966 feet from the highway. The car was demolished. Miss Hancock was thrown from the car 133 feet The impact caused all passengers to be thrown. Unofficial reports say the car was racing with another, but Cor poral Clagon said that fact has not been established. Assisting in the Investigation were Patrolmen W. t. Pickard and H. G. Woolard. Gearge W. Carter, liasin Bays Sari Clab at Beack The Surf club, Atlahtic Beach, bas been bought by George W. Carter, Kinston. Former owners were E. L. Scott, Ellis Simon, and C. L. Strickland, all of Kinston. Carter, who is in the tile busi ness in Kinston, is also president of the Southeastern Association of Tile Contractors. Tide Table Tide? it Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, May 4 7:07 a.m. 7:26 p.m. 1:10 a.m. 1:08 p.m. Saturday, May S " 7:46 a.m. ?>' 8:04 p.m. 1:51 a.m. 1:44 p.m. ? 8:23 a.m. 8:40 p.m. Suday, May ? 2:30 a.m. 2:21 p.m. I Monday, May 1 8:00 a.m. 9:18 p.m. Tuesday, May 8 i. 3:42 a.m. I. 3:32 P-m. 3:09 a.m. 2:97 p.m. 9:38 a.m. 9:52 p.m. ? -w't Beauiori Candidate For Mayer Withdraws C. Z. Chappell, candidal** for mayor of Beaufort has withdrawn his name from the ballot. Chappell, in a statement tn THE NEWS TIMES ye?U?Ja> sa.d that his wife did not feel that he should run. After con sulting a physician about his w.fe's condition. Chappell was ad vised that it would be better, considering Mrs. Chappell's health, if he withdrew. "I hate to disappoint all those who were supporting me!" he remarked, "Rut under the cir cumstances I could do nothing else." Rent Office Will. Open at 10 Monday Federal Rent Official An nounces Establishment Of Two Boards The newly-established rent of fice in Morehead City will open at 10 o'clock Monday morning. The office is located in the municipal building. Two rent advisory boards have also been appointed in the county. One boaVd will handle cases east of Newport river and the other will deal with cases west of New port river. On the board serving the east ern part of the uunty aro D. F. Merrill, Rdmond T. Nelson, T. H. Potter, Orville Gaskill, and B. P. Copeland, all of Beaufort. Members of the board for the western part of the county are H. S. Gibbs. Mrs. Blanda McLohon, Richard McClain, Walter Morris, and Cleveland P. Willis, all of Morehead City. In charge of the Carteret rent office, with headquarters in More head City, is John Blair Mason. The Beaufort rent office head quarters are located in the town hall. Each rent advisory board will meet at least once a month, ac cording to J. Edwin Porter, re gional field representative from Washington, D. C., who will be in this area throughout the coming week. The rent advisory boards are expected to hold their first meeting next week. The Morehead City office will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each week day. The telephone number is 6-3377. Driver to Go i Before Grand Jury A coroner's jury ordered Mgn day night that Orville Joseph Creel, Marine stationed at Cherry Point, be held for grand jury ac tion in Carteret county next month. Creel was driver of the car in which James Bernard Ewald, Cher ry Point Marine, was killed Sun day night on Harkers Island. The jury impaneled by Coroner Leslie D. Springle found that there was sufficient evidence to support belief that negligence on the part of the driver caused Ewald's death. The inquest was held in the sher iff's office in the court house. On the jury were Elbert Dudley, P. P. Allen, Ben Gibbs, Fred Da vis, Elmo Davis, all of Beaufort, and M. M. Ayscue, Morehcad City. In addition to Ewald and Creel, three other Marines were in tbe automobile which crashed on a curve on the Harkers Island road where two other accidents, one fatal, occurred during the past 14 months. One passenger, James W. Ed ward*, was treated for minor cuts at the Morehead City hospital. Varnel H. Harding and Henry Michael Welski were uninjured. Wias Air Medal Washington. D. C.? Marine First Lt. Bertram H. Pryor, husband of Mrs. Selma F. Pryor. 313 Miller blvd., Havelock Park, N. C., recent ly received the Air Medal for ac tion against the enemy in Korea from Sept. 22, 1950 to Jan. S, 1991 while attached to a Marine aircraft group. r i iuay, may 11, win oe a uay of music at Beaufort high school. Two programs, one by the Sec ond Marine Air Wing band will be presented in the afternoon, and another by the school band, piano department, and glee club will be presented at night. Proceeds will be used to fi nance a school band and pay a public school music teacher and glee club director. The programs are being sponsored by the Par ent - Teacher association. The Marine band, consisting of 60 men under the direction of M/Sgt. Henry L. Gence, will play at 2 p.m. Following the concert, band members will be served re freshments by the PTA in the school cafeteria. Tickets to the evening program will be sold at the afternoon con cert. They are also available now from members of the PTA. Appearing the night of May 11 will be the Beaufort school band under the direction of Fred King. Two-piano numbers will be pre sented by Oliver Yost, Beaufort piano instructor, and Miss Ann Ar thur, pianist of Morehead City. Vo cal numbers vviil be sung by Sgt. Hugh McGourty, tenor, of the U nited States Marine corps, Cherry Point. The Beaufort glee club, under the direction of Miss Velna Collins, will sing 11 numbers. Sponsors of the new music pro gram at Beaufort school have set $2,500 as the amount to be raised the first year of this planned three year project. Three Towns Pool Facts on Defense Area Designation Beaufort, Morehcad City and New Bern are pooling facts pertaining? to obtaining classification of the three municipalities as "defense area." Officials of the three towns arc in the proccss of filing a prospec tus on the needs of each community based on the number of building permits issued over the past four years and valuation of real es tate. Down Payment Reduced Should a locality be classified as a defense area, municipal officials have been informed that under Federal Housing administration regulation X the down payment on a new home, now 35 per cent, is reduced to only 10 per cent. The homes may be sold or rent ed to civil service workers or mil itary personnel. They may also be rented to others but the living quarters must be held for the pre ferred groups "for a reasonable length of time, from 30 to 60 days," explained Dan Walker, manager of the Beaufort chamber of com merce. Officials Confer Town officials conferred recent ly with Theodore C. Veenstra of the Housing and Home Finance ad ministration. The meeting took place in the office of Maj. Gen. L. E. Woods, Cherry Point. Attending the session were Gen eral Woods and his staff. Walker and Gene Smith, both of Beaufort, George W. Dill, D. G. Bell, both of Mofehead City, Mack Lupton. May or George H. Roberts, City Mana ger . Craighead L. Bernhardt, all of New Bern. From the housing standpoint, Walker, who was representing the town of Beaufort as well as the ' chamber of commerce, stated that relaxation of regulation has been approved by the government in the hope that local capital will allevi ate the housing shortage in areas classified as "defense". 9- Year-Old Bellie Boy J Stricken with Paralysis Ray Golden, jr., 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Golden, Bet tie, has been stricken with polio and is confined to the Greensboro Convalescent hospital. He was ad mitted there Tuesday. The boy became ill Saturday and his illness was diagnosed as polio Monday, according to Dr. N. T. Ennett, health officer. Dr. Ennett said the child is not seriously stricken. This is the first polio case this year and al though it is early for a case of infantile paralysis to appear, the health officer said that cases do occur throughout the year, not only in hot weather. All proper quarantine regula tions are being enforced at the Golden b*mt. At the upper left the Morehead City fire truck rests on its left side. Covered with a white blanket is the body of Andrew Bell. At right is another scene of the wrecked truck. In the background at lower left are Craven county highway patrolmen, Nathan Robinson am! J. T. Jenkins. At lower right, Billy Rowe, left, an llth grade pupil at Newport school, looks at the crumpled steering wheel and front seat on which Bell, his brother, Grady, and Eric Lewis were riding. News-Times l'hotos Andrew J. Bell, 54, Morehead City fire tru\ k driver, was killed instantly at 3:30 Tuesday after noon when IVforehead City's new $11,000 fire truek erashed on a curve on the Newport prison camp road. His brother, Grady, was serious ly injured. He is confined to More head City hospital, suffering from a fractured spine, but his physic ian, Dr. John Morris, stated that he is "doing nicely." Bell is al lowed no visitors. A third man riding in the ill fated truck, Eric Lewis, walked away from the wreck# When the track- crashed i hr was thrown up on a sand embankment. Rites Yesterday Funefil services for Bell were conducted at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home. 1413 Evans st., Morehead City. The officiat ing ministers were the Rev. L. A. Tilley, pastor of the First Metho dist church, Morehead City, and the Rev. W. E. Anderson, Free Will Baptist minister, Morehead City. Pallbearers were George Thomas Lawrence, Vincent Lawrence, James Lee Lawrence. Halbert Ball. Austin Ball, and Justin Ball, all cousins # of the deceased. Honor-* ary pallbearers were members of the Morehead City, Cherry Point, and Beaufort fire departments. A Morehead City fire truck and a Beaufort fire truck were used in the funeral procession. Witnesses Crash John Parker, fireman and eye withess to the crash, was riding in a car behind the fire truck when it failed to make the turn on the road leading into Newport. He said that he was positive the truck was not going "over 35 miles an hour if that." Andrew was driving, seated next to. him was Chief Grady Bell, his brother, and then Lewis. According to State Highway Pa trolman R. H. Brown, who investi gated, the truck was going "35 or ?0 miles an hour." He said there were no skid marks on the hard surface. The distance between the spot where the truck left the pav ed part of the road and hit the See FIRE TRUCK, Page 6 The Rev. Priestley Conyers To Deliver Jaycee Address County Cabbage Starts Move v To Retail Market Carteret county farmers started cutting cabbage on a small scale this week. The yield is fair and 50 pound boxes arc bringing $1.10 Most of the produce is leaving the county by truck. The height of the cutting is expected within the next two weeks. R. M. WiHiams, farm agent, terms the price "not too good." The boxes cost the farmer 40 cents apiece, figuring 10 cents for cut ting leaves 60 cents to cover pro duction costs. The farm agent remarked that with a 10-ton per {?ere yield, the cabbage can be produced at 75 cents, thus making a 35 cents per box profit "For that reason." he continued, "if the price should go lower than $1.10 a box, the farm er*^ profit, if any, would be mighty slim." Among those who have started cutting cabbage are Dyon Simpson and Cleve Gillikin at Bettic, Neal Campen, route 101, and some far mers at Crab Point. This year can be classified as one oi average production, he stat ed. Ten tons per acre are pro duced in a good year. About 10 years ago Carteret farmers were getting only seven tons per acre, |>ut this has been upped. The leading Carteret variety is Ferry's Hound Dutch and second leading variety is Copenhagen. The latter can be set late but matures about the same time as the other. Although the cabbage is growing See CABBAGE, Page 6 The Rov. Priestley Conyers III will he the speaker at the More head City Jayeee banquet Monday night at the Blue Ribbon club when the %cy Man award. Rudolph Dowdy award and Board of Direc tors' award will be presented. New Jaycee officers will also be in stalled. J. R. Sa ?tilers, Hairman of the affair ? v .post president of the Jaycees. will present the awards. With the Key Man honor goes a check for $150 which will pay the recipient's expenses at the nation al Jaycees convention at Miami in June. The Rudolph Dowdy award is is sued annually to the chairman of the external committee having done the most outstanding work during the year. Floyd Chadwick was the Dowdy winner last year. He was chairman of the Youth Welfare committee. The directors' award, similar to the Dowdy presentation, goes to the chairman of the outstanding internal committee during the year. James F. Roe, jr., Goldsboro, vice-president of the eighth district Jaycees, will formally install James Wallace as new Jaycee president; Dr. Russell Outlaw, internal vice president; Robert Howard, extern al vice-president; Robert Bell, treasurer; and H. S. Gibbs, jr., Warren Beck, Dick McClain, and Jasper Bell, directors. The secretary for the coming year will be appointed by the pres ident. His name, along with the award winners, will not be reveal ed until the night of installation. Retiring President W. B. Chalk will present his annual report. Invited guests to the affair are Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Dowdy, par ents of the late Rudolph Dowdy in whose honor the Rudolph Dowdy award is made; Mrs. Rosalie Dow dy, widow of Rudolph Dowdy; Mayor and Mrs. W. L. Derrickson, and Mr. and Mrs. George W. Dill. JCs Stage , Beaufort Beauty Pageant Fourteen contestants in the Miss Beaufort beauty pageant of 1951 competed last night at Beaufort high school. Because the winner was not selected prior to press time, her name will (ppear in Tuesday's NEWS-TIMES. Grayden Paul wag master of cer emonies- and piano accompaniment and solos were played by Earl Smith. Vocalists were Mrs. Jac quelin Hancock, Mrs. Jarvii Her ring, both of Beaufort, and S/Sgt. Herbert Pendleton of Morehead City. A dance number was pre sented by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Blenkeiuhlp. Jaycees presented each contest ant with a corsage and identifica tion bracelet. Miss Elizabeth Wil lis, Miss Beaufort 'of 1949 was the reigning queen? There was no contest to select Miss Beaufort of I960. Miss Beaufort of 1951 will be crowned at ceremonies at the Blue Ribbon club Thursday night. May 10. Beaufort merchants have con tributed numerous gifts for the winner. All buuitjr pageant contestants and (heir escorts will be admitted to the coronation and dance Iree of charge. Last night's beauty contest judg es were Mrs. Herbert Pendleton of New York, Lockwood Phillips, Lt. Kandy Smith, and Douglas Guion, all of Beaufort, and Grover Mun den, Morehead City. Contestants were Gladys Cox, Ellen Congletori. Betty Rice, Es telle Giilikin, Ruth Gaskill. Kath erine Golden. Norma Gaskill, Car roll Ann Willis, Peggy Arthur, Rozella Smith, Ora Dean Midgette, J t .in Springle, Sally Poole Thomas, and Margaret Ann Lewis. Dr. L w7 Woodard io Till District Masonic Office Dr. W. L. Woodard, Beaufort, has been re appointed as district deputy grand master for the eighth Masonic district. The appointment was made this week by Hubert M. Foy, Mt. Airy, district grand mas ter. Dr. Woodard will attend a meet ing of district deputy grand mas ten Saturday at Oxford. Power Company Crows " Replace Damaged Insulators George Stovall. manager of Tide Water Power eo., reported today that damaged insulators atop pow er poles west of Morchead City have cost the power company ap proximately $1,000 to replace. The porcelain insulators, used as targets for rifle marksmen, were damaged to such an extent that flow of power was being effected. Each insulator costs approximate ly $12, and though the cost may seem small, the labor involved in locating the damaged insulator and replacing it with a new one runs into hundreds of dollars, he re marked. i Should anyone who uses insulat ors as rifle targets be apprehend ed, the power company will prow cute them to the full extent ot the law, Stovall declared. "Shot insulator!" have been dis covered in several localities throughout the county. Young Mother y Saves 8-Year-OId From Dtwning Mrs. Vance Fulford, jr., rescued an 8-yead-old boy Sunday afternoon as he was being caught in the cur rent along Beaufort waterfront at the west end of Front st. The boy, Bill Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Wood, Fayettcville, suffered no ill effects from the near tragedy. He was visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Kdith Henry, the mother of Mrs. Wood. According to Mrs. Fulford. a young mother, the boy was in a rowboat. When his grandmother called to him to get out of the boat, he started to take it in to the dock and fell overboard. Mrs. Fulford, who was at her home about a hundred feet from the water, heard the little boy's sister crying and rap to the water front. Seing the lad struggling, ' she jumped in, grabbed him, and ! swam to shore. She was wearing shorts. She was barefoot and as a result her feet were cut in nu merous places by oyster rock. Defendant Gives v Notice of Appeal Found guilty of driving while intoxicated, Alton Robert Blanton appealed to superior court Tues day in recorder's court. Blanton, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, is bound to the higher court under $200 bond. Also pleading not guilty to pos sessing non tax paid whiskey, Char les Dcbrix received a two-year sus pended road term providing he re main on good behavior for three years and pays $75 and costs. Another non-tax paid whiskey possessor, Dover P. Lawrence, paid $25 and costs, while reckless driv ing cost Robert Dorman Bern $10 and costs. He pleaded guilty to driving on the wrong side of a road. Pleads Guilty Guy Lewis, bound over from Beaufort mayor's court, pleaded guilty to resisting arrest, and re ceived a suspended three-month road sentence on the condition he remains sober and on good behav ior for twe years and pays -costs. Costs also were levied on speed law violators, Alton James Humph rey, Charles Brantley Davis, Earl Faxon Campbell. Earl Warren Col lins, and Homer Lee Newby; Hen ry Armstrong, driving without a signal light on the rear of his car; Charlea Johnson, improper bicycle lights; Noreen Mayes Thompson, no operator's license; and Odd Howard, passing a bad check. How ard also must make good the check. Sm DEFENDANT, Pag* ? Morehead Jaycees Pass Resolution Against Carnivals Group is Firs! lo Take For mal Action Requesting Ban on Shows Morehead City Jaycees at their meeting Monday night in the Hotel Fort Macon for mally adopted a resolution requesting that the Carteret county hoard of commission ers "establish a ruling pro hibiting traveling carnivals consisting of lewd shows and with unsanitary conditions . . . showing within the coun ty limits.'* The Jaycees arc the first organ ized group to take a concerted stand against carnivals. A show Visiting Morehead City last week was closed by Sheriff C. G. Hol land following demands on the part of the public that the carnival be sent out of the county. A blank which can be signed by persons who want carnivals banned from the county, appears elsewhere in this section. W. B. Chalk, president, also re ported that he had written a letter to the State Board of Conservation and Development requesting that the Newport river be stocked with rock fish. At least seven Morehead mem bers are planning to attend the state convention at Asheville May 18-19. Any other Jaycee wishing to attend are requested to contact Marion Mills. The board of direc tors probably will allow some re imbursement for basic expenses, it - was stated. Two other conventions were al so announced, the International convention on May 27 in. Montreal, and the National convention at Mi ami, June 6-8. r. ti. t?eer, jr., in cnarge 01 me Jaycee district meeting Jast week end reported that the affair was a success. Additional comment? were made by Dick McClain, Ber nard Leary, J. R. Sanders, and Jas per Bell. Luther Lewis was appointed to head the June scrap drive and it was also ngreed that the Jaycees would consider, at a future meet ing, the sending of a student to Boys' State at Chapel Hill in June. The group gave a vote of thanks to outgoing President Chalk for his outstanding leadership during the past year. Guests at the meeting were El vin Frank, Ted Hardy, and Fred Hamilton. Two Candidates Seek Mayorship Two candidates are running for mayor of the town of Newport, Ed Carraway and C. A. Gould, jr., while 10 are seeking seats on the board of town commissioners. They are Ormsby Mann, S. E. Mann, M. D. McCain, Frank War ren, J. W. Smith, V. W. Mann, D. Ira Garner, R. S. Jones, Edgar Hibbs, and B. R. Garner. R. L. Pruit, who was nominated for commissioner at the town meeting April 16 has withdrawn his name from the ballot. Carra way was nominated for mayor at the town meeting and Gould filed later. Serving as registrar has been C. E. Simmons. Judges for the elec tion will be H. D. Garner and Mrs. Margaret Bell. The incumbent board, at the monthly meeting Monday night ex pressed regret that Pruit had with drawn his name from the ballot Commissioner Pruit. who is prin cipal at Newport school, has ac cepted the position as principal of the Chinquapin school in Duplin, county. ScokIs to Attend Explorer Enfnfli|nnftiit at Lojoano The east Carolina council of Boy Scouts will sponsor an Explorer encampment next weekend, May 11, 12 and 13 at Camp Lejeune. All Boy Scouts aged 14 and over are eligible to be Explorers. Registration must be in the Council Office, Box 405. Wilson, before 10 o'clock Monday morning. May 7. Explorers are asked to bring toilet articles, bed clothes, gym clothes, and uniform*. The coat to each individual wlU be $3. R. B. Howard, phone M 287, b director of the encampmeat.