W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES _ 40th YEAR, NO. 60. ? THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1951 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Car-Looting Colored Boy J To Serve Time on Road Gang Morehead City Jaycees to Fete Miss North Carolina of 1951 / Lovely Lulong Ogburn, that gUm-' ?rous gal with the million dollar , Milile who was selected Hiss North Carolina of 1051, will be the guest M Morehead City Jaycees in Fore head City the week of Aug. 6. Jimmy Wallace, Jaycee presi dent, announced the spectacular ?ne-week's fete for the Smithfield beauty, yesterday. In addition to Jaycees, Miss Lois Simpson, Miss Morehead City of 1951, will be of ficial hostess and Mayor George W. Dill will designate by proclamation i' the week of Aug. 6 as Miss North Carolina Week in Morehead City. Not only will Miss Ogburn, but her chaperone also, will be a guest ?f the Jaycees. They will stay at Ocean King hotel at Atlantic Beach and dine in the Ocean King dining i room. The night of Aug. 8 at the Caro lina Racing association track, west of Morehead City, will be studded with a sparkling 10th feature race, the Miss North Carolina handicap. Lulong will pin a blanket of roses ?n the winning greyhound and pre sent a trophy to the racer's owner. During her week's visit Capt. Ot tis Purifoy will entertain the blonde queen with a fishing trip for her and her party, and follow ing the y Jt, the group will be the guests oi Capt. Bill Ballou at his Waterfront restaurant. Host on a yachting trip on the in tend waterway will be the More head City Yacht basin. Luncheon will be served aboard the boat. While here. Whiteway laundry will take care of Miss Ogburn's launder ing and dry cleaning needs. White Ice Cream CO., will feed her all the ice cream she can eat and milk the can drink, and the Morehead See MISS N. CAROLINA, Page 5 Beaufort F&WL SdMtists Staidy Shad Movements James Sykes and Burton Leh man. investigators at the Fish and Wildlife laboratory, Beaufort, left jcsterday for the Delaware river where they will determine the lo cation and extent of shad spawning areas in relation to proposed con atruction of large dams. Their study will help determine what remedial means are necessary (or survival of shad if the dams are built, reports G. B. Talbot who is in charge of the shad investigation. Study Pollution In process is a cooperative pol lution study with the New York State Department of Health on the Hudson river. A F&WLS boat, John Parkins, Beaufort, skipper, will re turn here from the Hudson in Sep tember. The boat and a crew of investigators went north in June. The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of domestic and industrial pollution on survi val of shad. The study was under taken became catches have been low. There waa a peak catch in 1945, about 4,000??, but since that time the catch has been decreasing ? until it is now leas than a million. Working on the juvenile shad I population in the Hudson, to deter- ' mine an indek of the success of spawning, is Charles Walburg, bi- j ologist from the Beaufort station. | Work has beeo completed on ad ult shad population in the Conne cticut and Hudson rivers. Tagged c In the Connecticut river were 1,- , MO shad and in the Hudson 1,700. j By tagging, inveaigators can deter- j mine the total number of fish pre?- j nit, percentage of run taken, the r number left tor spawning and the t route of migration after leaving the rivers. d The latest shad tag recovery off i Provincetown, Maaa.. adda strength to the trend indicated by aeveral t previous recoveries, that shad from , the Connecticut and Hudaon rivers ? See F*WL, Page ( y , to Highway |To Repair NmM BrUf* Sand h? been unloaded on the sat end ol the M or* head City braw bridge in preparation for re pairing the road surface. [ John L. Humphrey, road super intendent, reported yeaterday that tate crews have started grading he Mtindine road near Newport ?d the grade is also being stabll ?od en the Laurel road in prepara tion for pavUtg. According to the highway com iasion, the grading on that road Wd not come up to specifications, fhe grading contract had been let >0 a private contractor. The coo pact for paving the Laurel road ia to be let the latter perU Dal? G. Browder t? Teach r Music al Beanlort School Dale G. Browder, Virginia Beach, Va? will assume the duties as bandmaster and teacher of public school music at Beau fort school this fall. T. G. Levy, principal, in making the an nouncement Wednesday, stated that Mrs. Browder will teach at the school also, probably sev enth (rade. Browder, a recent graduate of Wake Forest college, was as sistant band director there. Mrs. Browder taught last year In Johnson county. The principal also announced two more faculty resignations, Frank Hawkins and Miss Velna Collins. Fort Macon Will Defend Rowing I Championship At the 181st anniversary of the United States Coast Guard Satur day, Aug. 4, at Washington, N. C., Fort Macon surfboat crew will de fend its championship rowing title. The winner of the half-mile straightaway race will receive the Josephus Daniels Memorial trophy, now resting in the Fort Macon Coast Guard station. The Fort Macon crew won the trophy in 1949, the first year it was offered, the second year Vir ginia Beach took the trophy, but the Fort Macon boys rebounded last year and once more gained possession of the sterling silver lov ing cup. The Com! Guard ?al?bratton will take place this year, as it did last year, at Washington, N. C. In ad dition to the race, Coast Guard ?ir power and life-saving tactics will be demonstrated. Five crews, Chincoteague, Vir ginia Beach, Oregon Inlet, Ocra roke and Fort Macon are already sweating over the oars, readying themselves for the big event. The course has been drastically iltered this year. In the past the race has been one mile with cap size. The coming race will be one I half mile straight-away, no capsize. The Fort Macon crew, training i it Atlantic where it can keep its speed and power potential under i ?raps, is composed of the follow ng: Clinton A. Lewis, coxswain, I Beaufort; Clayhorn B. Murphy, I Davis; Richard B. Boehner, Mont- : jomery, O., Zora B. O'Neal, More- 1 lead City; Percy M. Davis, Davis; I Julian D. Lupton, Roe; Earl M. 1 lohnson, Markers Island; Clifton I Sanders, Higginsville, Mo., and < Douglas W. Hurst, Sylvatus, Va. Glenn C. Phillips, Morehead City, 1 s a substitute crewman. The crews ? tat ion s are as follows: Atlantic, I >wis, Murphy, Boehner, Phillips; < fort Macon, O'Neal, Davis; Cape I .ookout, Johnson, Lupton; and iwansboro, Hurst and Sanders. > Board Re-Elects Chamber Officers All officers of the Beaufart hamber of commerce were re jected Tuesday night. They are Iraxton Adair, president, G. W. hincan, vice-president, and James >avis, treasurer. Dan Walker was (?appointed manager and secretary o the board. The resignation of Leslie Moore, [irector, was accepted and Elbert hidley was appointed In his place. The board will meet regularly be second Tuesday night of each nonth. Should any director miss hree consecutive meetings his rea gnatioo will automatically be ac epted by the board and a new di ector appointed. Each member of the board has een made responsible for a field t chamber activity, the manager sported yesterday. Each will act as iaaion between the.board and his espective committee. Attending the meeting, in ad ition to the officers, were Glenn tdair, Gerald Hill, Halaey Paul, *ne Smith, and Dr. W. I. Wood rd. Director* who were abaent 'ere J. O. Barbour, Jr., George Mtman. and D. F. Menili. ?ke Redecorated The city clerk and treasurer's of ce, municipal building. More bead ity, baa been repainted in ivory ?d blue-green. The iron grating ver the counter has also been re ? Pleading guilty to five charge* ranging from looting of cars to the possession of non-tax paid whiakey, 22-year-old Negro Hubert McKin non was aentenced to serve 18 months on the road gang by Judge L. R. Morris in Beaufort recorder's court Tuesday. McKinnon, who has a five-year prison record, would have probably been handed a 30-month stint on the road had the state decided to prosecute all five charges register ed against him. The state figured prosecution on only three counts a fair exchange for McKinnon's promise that he would leave Car teret county upon the completion of his sentence, never to return. McKinnon was given three six month sentences, to be served con secutively. The first six months will be spent repenting the larceny of $7 and fishing tackle from the car of Mrs. Harry Glllikin, Beau fort. McKinnon will then take a deep breath and start working off another half year for the possession of non tax-paid whiskey. The third six-month sentence re sulted from McKinnon's attempt to dismantle the prison doer with his two hands, in a notable but futile attempt to leave Carteret county immediately rather than 18 months hence. McKinnon was a model of de corum as he received the sentence from Judge Morris. The state did not prosecute on the charges of en tering an automobile with intent to loot and the attempted theft of a .38 pistol from the car of Garrett Gillikin, Bettie. McKinnon got an early start in his criminal career, and was but 15 when he received his first sentence ?five years at Newport prison camp for gambling and a crime against nature. McKinnon was re leased from Newport in September, 1949, but he couldn't let well enough, nor automobiles, alone. Glenn Adair to Investigate j Problem on Western Union TovntoConsider Blackout Law J Lonnie Dill, Morehead City, di rector o f civil defense, announced today that the town has under con sideration an ordinance to enforce blackout regulations. He was discouraged with the re sult? of Monday night's blaekout. 'People jusl, won't do what they ire told," he remarked. Business houses were glaringly negligent Dill said the following ' [ailed to douse lights during the 15-minute test froip 9:30 to 9:45: W. P. freeman Wholesale Grocers, > Hardware and Building Supply, Soot Shop, Charles Springle Shoe I Shop. Robert L. Rose Used Car lot, "arteret Glass, and Auto Supply. 1 Most of the homeowners fell in ' ine, he said, but added there will I >ot be 100 per cent compliance un- i esa there is an ordinance giving < ?ivil defense officials authority to I enforce the regulations. I The civil defense director was veil-pleased with the turn-out of 1 vardens .and civil defense person- I tel. Two could not be present but i hey sent substitutes. 1 Tin helmets were distributed at I i meeting at the civic center which ? >receded the blackout and Dill itated that Boy Scouts are painting < nore and they will be distributed n the near future. t TA B071, Mtwpart, Will' ' [pni Watk at While Lain | The Future Farmer? of America, 1 Newport chapter, will meet at 7:30 ' omorrow night in the agriculture laairoom of the school to plan f or their camping trip at White -ske. The boy? will spend a week t camp beginning Aug. S. Eighteen boys have already paid heir 111 week's camping fee. failed this week to the 35 mem en of the chapter was a letter rotn C. S. Long, their adviaor, isting the camp regulations and he essential items each camper bould take with him. Long will ac ompany the boys on the trip. It had been planned origihally to _ ttend the FFA Tom Browne camp 1 the mountains but due to the hort season there, Newport boys 'bo are busy harvesting tobacco srly in the summer, are unable 1 ? attend. tore Wire? Bars Morehead City firemen answered call to the home of Mr?. Gordon rUlia. ?00 Bridges st. at boob uesday. Wire? in the electric store ?tight fire. The electric iwitth a* thrown aad the fire was out y the time fire own arrived. Fixe ma Hid damage was alight Glenn Adair, * member of the baard o f directors of the B?iAjfl(rt chamber of commerce, has bear named liaaion director of utilttte. transportation and service and WU1 investigate efforts to cloae the town's Western Union office. The chamber board has request ed him to file a complaint with the Federal Communications commis sion. The board has urgently suggest ed that persons who send telegrams after the Beaufort office cloaes should request the Morehead City office (which keeps longer. hours), , to charge the call to the Beaufort office and that office will in turn have the cost charged to the send er's phone. Beaufort will then get credit for { ?11 wires originating in Beaufort | ?nd the truer picture of Beaufort , Western Union business will be ob- i ained, Adair said. { According to Braxton Adair, pres ident of the chamber, a district lupervisor for Western Union was 1 in town last week and had almost ?ccomplished the first step toward :losink the present office by hav ing another business house accept | .he job of taking telegrams. Western Union, according to I chamber officials, claim that it is oslng $40 to MO a month. By chan leling calls into the Morehead | "ity office, there is, however, a IS j ter cent cost increase to all per- . ions east of Beaufort aending wipes, rhis is due to the increase in dis- 1 a nee to Morehead City. t The board of directors stated hat every effort will be made to ? ?etain the Western Union office ind Its present facilities. 1 leftists la NmI Iwfcy U 3 al Atlantic Onrch The Fifth Sunday First Baptist Sunday school meeting will take >lace Sunday with Atlantic Bap iit church as boat at 3 o'clock in he afternoon. Atlantic. All churches are aaked to be pre ent with a musical selection from iach respective church. The theme if the meeting ia Community Sing, iueatf will be the famous Master tuartet of Cherry Point Speaker if the afternoon will bt Professor I. D. Bunn, of Murfreeaboro and forehead City, who will apeak on unday School administration TideTiblt Tides I DGH LOW | Friday, My Xt 2:45 a. m. 8.53 a. m. 3:30 p. m. 10:0? p. m Saturday. My U e 3:44 a.m. # 90 a. m h 4 25 P Mo, My ** * n 4:45 aa 10:4* a. m. p 9:18 p. m. 11:34 f, m. C Monday, Jrfy SI *40 a. m. U M a. m. v 6:05 p. m- MMUc^t tl Aviation Fuels Firm Proposes Construction J Of Pier, Turning Basin in Morehead Harbor ? Police Arrest New Bern Boy On Two Charges of Robbery William Ashford Boyd, 16, New* Bern, his been arrested on charges of breaking and entering the home of Halsey D. Paul, Beaufort, and the Pure Oil Service station, More head City. Released under $500 bond, Boyd is charged with taking money from the Paul home Monday afternoon and with breaking and entering the Pure Oil station Friday night where he took cash and a carton of cigarettes. According to Chief of Police Louis B. Willis, Helen Paul, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Paul, was in the boiler room of the home when the boy entered at about 2:15 p. m., and Mrs. Paul was asleep on the couch in the living room. Po lice said Boyd walked into the house, went into the two bedrooms and took a piggy bank with $20 in quarters, between $7 and $8 in an old-coia pasteboard box, and a wal let. When he left the house, the po lice were notified, Miss Paul giv ing a description of the boy and identifying him because she knew the lad. Beaufort police notified More head City police to be on the look out for Boyd and on basis of in formation received. Officer Her bert Gnffin and Officer Guy Springle went to Atlantic Beach. There they informed Officer Mur phy Jenkins to pick up the boy if he saw him and by 3:30 p. m. Mon day afternoon Jenkins had made the arrest and Boyd was in the custody of Morehead police. Making the investigation of the Paul robbery, in addition to Chief Willis, were M. M. Ayscue, ABC officer, and Officer Carlton Garner. Something 'New' Has Boon Added to Today's Paper Your today's NEWS-TIMES I* composed of the usual three \l sectiom, but one of those sec tion? is what, in newspaper ver nacular, is known as a "dinky sheet." This is not an innovation on our part. Rather, an almost last resort measure to give you a complete Friday NEWS TIMES despite a severe short age of newsprint. Dinky sheet newsprint rolls, which are 17V4 inches wide, are used by our commercial printing department to print one-page circulars. Jaycees Play Host To Miss Beaufort i ? I Men Oppose Proposal to < Close Beauiorl Western , Union Office With the agenda devoted almost ' completely to pulchritude and com- ' munication troubles, the Beaufort Jaycees held their bi-weekly meet ing Monday at Holden restaurant. The feature of the meeting was the appearance of Carrol Ann Wil- * lis, Miss Beaufort of 1951. By the | merest of coincidences the attend ance was the largest in many months. Miss Willis, accompanied by Bet ty Lou Merrill, modeled the clothes I she wore at the Miss North Caro- > lina contest at Burlington last week and appeared in a skit. ? , ? She expressed her appreciation | for the opportunity to represent , Beauiort, end uddert the hope that | the Mf* North Carolina coatc* , might eventually bo brought to her i home town. Jaycee President Gene Smith re- ) ported that the civic committee had f come out in violent opposition to | the Western Union intention to cur- t tail operations. Beaufort's West- | em Union office claims to be oper- t ating at a loss, but Jaycee members suggested that a little "self help" a ?nd a realignment of procedure a might alleviate the situation. f The Jaycees wern't too happy about telephone service either, and passed a resolution to submit a j formal complaint to the Carolina t Telephone and Telegraph company. ?? President Smith announced that t two or three apartments had been n lined up for new Beaufort high ichool football coach, John Evans. t Evans is expected to arrive in about a i month. . Truman Kemp Speaks to JCs V Featuring an address by Truman \ n 1 1 The United State* Fiah and Wild ife station, Beaufort, has taken >ver the Atlantic salmon investiga leiv fornertv cnntnrd to Maine, ?her* -a FfcvVLS laboratory has ??n cloned. C. E. Atkinson, in charge of the 3eaufort station and chief of the niddle and south Atlantic fishery nvestigations, reported this week hat the work will be under the su >ervision of James E. Mason, senior >iologist. Other members of the Beaufort taff will be used as necessity arises ind field parties will be sent out rom the Beaufort headquarters. Research Agency "The Fish and Wildlife Service ? th* primary research agency in he projcct," Atkinson explained. The work is jointly financed by he Atlantic Sea Run Salmon com nission and the F&WLS." Floyd G. Bryant, biologist form rly with the station at Orono, Me., nd who has been working on the almon project, has been trans erred here. He will make his ome in Beaufort. His work will lso include shad and striped bass ivestigations. Biometriciana Meet At a recent meeting at the lab ratory, chief biometricians of the 'fcWLS discussed the most modern evelopments in determination and valuation of fish mortalities, nat ral and man-caused and the man er in which the mortality studies re applicable to problems in regu iting fisheries. Beverton Presides The three-day session was in liarge of Raymond Beverton. owestoft. England, who taught uring the first semester of. the uke Marine summer school, Vlv r'a bland. Attending the meet tg in addition to Beaufort investl itors, were Ted Widrig. SUnford. alif., Ralph Hile, Ann Arbor, lich., and Howard Schuck and lyde Taylor, Woods Hole. Mass. Working now at the laboratory re Dr. Charles A. Leone, professor [ zoology, University of Kansas, ho is studying the blood of in ertebratea under a Navy grant issisting Dr. Leone are Frank Dol ik and Irving Johnson, both Uni ?rsity of Kansas students), Dr. arl Bowen. head of the biology de irtment, Gettysburg college. Get ?sburg. Pi, Dr. Ralph Buchsbaum [ the University of Pittsburgh, and Jss Louise Jodrey, a Duke grad ite student. Dr. Bowen is working on sharks, r. Buchsbaum. author of the idely-used text. "Animals Without sckbones." Is studying the cal um deposition in clams by use of idioactive tracers, and Miss Jod y is studying the calcium deposi on in oysters. laker Due Tonorrow The M/V Paludina, Shell Oil itnpany tanker, will arrive totnor 'w at M ore bead City with a cargo aaptialt for Trumbull Asphalt eo. tanker'? port of departure ia ?? .. ? ? ? Beaufort Starts Garbage Dump Town Arranges With Private Properly Owners, Builds Road Mayor L. W. Hassell, Beaufort, announced today that the town has started dumping garbage in a new area located on private property. An agreement has been made be tween the town and the property owners that garbage may be dump ed there by the town only. Should other parties start dump ing garbage in the town's dump, the agreement with the town will be come void, the mayor remarked. At a cost of $500 Beaufort has built a road into the new dumping ground and a gate has been placed across the road which will be op ened only by drivers of town trucks who have a key to the lock. Several years ago, according to town officials, the Civil Aeronau tics administration gave the town permission to dump garbagt? at the extreme west end of the airport property. The town, according to Clerk Dan Walker, dumped in the area designated. However, other persons carried garbage there and dumped indiscriminately all over the airport. CAA Complains When this condition was discov ered several months ago by the CAA, aeronautics authorities said that unlets the place was cleaned up. an additional $1,500 due the air port from the federal government would be stalled indefinitely. The town was ordered to block t'f,? road to 'he di? iphtg ami and clean up Che gaftagp or the airport would be closed. Beaufort is no longer wring that area and clean up operations are in process, May or Haaaell stated. Since the airport has been writ ten off, Tom, Dick and Harry Gar bage-Dumpers are now throwing trash and refuse in Taylor's creek and behind the school, it has been reported. JCs Sponsor Air Show New Bern Jaycees will sponsor their annual air show Sunday, Aug. 5, at Simmons-Nott airport, New 1 Bern. ' ? Thunder Storms, Lightning Hit J Carteret County Morehead Ciiy Baplisl Church Steeple Struck; 4.5 Inches of Rain Fall Several hundreds of dollars dam age was caused Tuesday night dur ing a severe electrical storm which struck Carteret county about mid night and continued intermittently through the early hours of Wednes day morning. Four and a half inches of rain fell. The First Baptist church, More head City, was struck by lightning at 1:40 a. m., peeling off one of the cornices on the steeple and damaging the wiring. Dr. John Bunn, pastor of the church, when contacted Thursday, said an esti mate of the damage had not bee made. This is the second time this year that the church has been a target for lightning. He reported also that the bolt knocked out telephones in the immediate neighborhood of the church. Acting manager of Carolina Tele phone and Telegraph co., Morehead City (who refused to give his name), said that the storm caused "scattered troubles" throughout Morehead City, such as "blowing fuses." When asked about the trouble in the vicinity of the Baptist church he said "we haven't checked it." A Tide Water Power co. trans former at Live Oak and Ann street was a storm casualty. Loss of the transformer caused a power failure. A short time later lightning went in on a circAl breaker at Chelny Point, causing an outtage of abtut an hour, from 2 to 3 a m. in Beau fort. .v The oftycial rating an rainfall, according to T? Stamiey Davis, weather observer, was 4.55 inches. Late Tuesday night .03 inches fell, making -the total dqwnpour throughout the storm 4.58 inches. Temperature readings for the past week were as follows: RainfalHast Friday was .80 inch. Prevailing winds have been south west. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Max. Min. 87 79 85 68 87 70 88 77 80 79 89 79 & 70 Rent Director Explains Ruling On Converting Living Quarters Judge L R. Morris Hears U Cases ' Twenty-two cases, 16 of them dealing with driving violations, were brought before Judge L. R. Morris Tuesday in Beaufort record er's court. The moat colorful case on the docket was that of Marvin Range, charged with drunken driving, Range's attorney, Harvey Hamilton, brought forth a half dozen witnes 5?s, all of whom swore that Range was sober as a judge at the time he was picked up. Range, however, was found guilty and fined $100 and costs. Hamilton notified the court that he would appeal the verdict to superior court. A $200 bond was posted for Range. Two others, John Tumas and Wil lie Bell, were also fined $100 and :osta for drunken driving; and frank Antonovich and Anthony Andrulati* were fined $10 each for ipeeding. Richard Swiatkowski. charged *ith passing at an intersection and causing a wreck, was found not [uilty. S. T. Little, charged with driving vitbout a license, and Daniel Kul >rock, charged with speeding, re reived suspended sentences and vere ordered to pay costs. Leon Styron was found not guilty tt speeding. Eleven cases were continued un il next week: John Farnem, Eaton Phillips. H. M. Clark, Mishew Coop- oi sr. Curtis Brinaon. B Harold Willis, Oliver McDonald, ti :iaud Murdock. Willie Howard, d; Sau Leggatt, aad Lloyd Taylor. v< Area Rent Director John Blair Mason announced today that many andlords have converted or are hinking about converting their louses to provide additional rental inits because of the housing short ige and influx of defense workers. Under the existing rent control aw, rental units created by con ?crslon on or after April 1, 1940 nay be decontrolled. However, the lirector warns that these conver lions must be a "bonifide conver lion" and also it is necessary for i landlord to file a petition for lecontrol. The unit is npt decon rollcd until an order is issued rom the area rent office. Many landlords. Mason said, be ievc that painting or remodeling, >r simply locking a door that scp irates the front part of the house rom the rear is a conversion. This s not so. In order for a conversion o be bonafide and subject to de lontrol, there must be a "substan ial structural change of a perma lent nature, involving substantial Iterations and remodeling result ng in additional self-contained Iwelling units." Also, the landlord is erroneous n believing that a conversion is imply adding a service, like sup lying hot water or a new refriger tor, or locking a door or two, the irector said. Because of the extreme housing nd lack of rental unit?, conver ions are encouragcd -especially in reas where military personnel nd defense workers have strained resent housing conditions. Land >rds contemplating conversions hould contact the local rent of ice first, Mason advised. t Register Eighty persona registered Satur ay to vote in the election Aug. 11 R enlarging tbe town limita o( eaufort. Mrs. Grayden Paul, regis ?ar, will be at the court bouae all ay tomorrow to' list names ?( ?tars.