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w CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES . *_ loth YEAR, NO. 62. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1951 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS County Social >1 Security Payments Total $10,188 N. A. Avera, Manager of Wilmington Office, Issues Report on Monthly Basis In Carteret county 385 persons ?re receiving old-age and survivors' Insurance benefits amounting to (10,188 monthly, N. A. Avera, Manager of the Wilmington field 'office of the federal security agen cy, announced today. The beneficiaries in the 11-coun ty area, including Carteret, have increased 47 per cent in the last 20 months, he stated. Increase in the amounts being paid was even more substantial, umping 17 per cent from $44,328 o $121,394 monthly, according to Avera. Avera said that as of June 30, 1849 it was estimated that 3,094 persons were receiving $44,328 monthly in insurance payments in this area. A tabulation recently pompleted shows that as of Feb. 28, 1951, there were 4,546 men, women, and thildri'n in the 11 counties receiving $121,394 month The manager pointed out that e reason for the proportionately greater rise in amount of payments a Was that the new law. effective last ' Septcmfier, not only made many additional persons eligible for pay ments but also very substantially ihcreased the general level of bene fits. Calling attention to the fact that this federal insurance program provides not only old-age insurance but protection for the family in case of the breadwinner's death, Avera listed the following brcak tfown of monthly payments in the area: 1.755 retired individuals. $60, )95: 510 wives or husbands. $8,975; 1,670 children, $34,500; 364 moth ers of surviving children, $9,909; 218 widows oi widowers, >??*57; and 29 dependent parents, $959. Four thousand five hundred forty six beneficiaries are receiving $1, 456.99G annually. These payments are from the federal program of insurance, sup ported by the worker and his em ployer with payroll taxes, and have no reference to the state-op erated public assistance programs, a which are also sponsored by the ' social security act, Avera ex plained. While no local breakdowns are available as of the end of June, 1951, Avera reported that the Fed eral Security agency estimates that as of June 30 for the first time more than four million persons ? were receiving monthly benefits, , reflecting an increase of more than a million since the amendments went into effect last Sept. 1. June payments amount to $144 million, an increase of 80 million in the 10-month period. Judge Suggests Commitment Of Glenn Atwood to Hospital Jaycees to Collect Scrap Paper Sunday Afternoon Morehead City Jaycee? will make their monthly scrap paper drive at 1:30 Sunday afternoon. Paul R. Branch, chairman, states that the collections will eovcr the Noyes ave. and Homes dr. sections as well as " Mansfield Park. All homeowners should have their contributions on the curb no later than 1:39 p.m. "Help llncle Sam conserve material for the war effort. Save every scrap of paper!" Chairman Branch de clared. Three Groups j File Objections To Fuel Terminal Three protests, one from the sixth Naval district, one from the State Ports Authority, and another from the Morehead City Pilots as sociation have been frted with the Corps of Engineers, Wilmington, objecting to the proposed struc ture of a 702-foot steel pier in Morehead City harbor. Requesting to build the pier with 695-foot tee is Aviation Fuel Terminals, inc., Washington, D. C. The State Ports authority is ob jecting on the basis that the struc ture would hamper present plans for widening and deepening the port channel, and the Navy, which is also vitally interested in those plans, is basing its objection on similar grounds. The Pilots association objects be cause itf member# *?y that vessels lying at Uie proposed pier would be a menace to navigation. < All three groups appeared be fore representatives of the Corps of Engineers in Morehead City last November to request a deepened channel and enlarged turning basin. The original date for filing ob jections to tbe work had been set at Aug. 2, yesterday, but this date has been extended to Aug. 21. The Aviation Fuels Terminal firm's plans call for a steel piling pier approximately 1,230 feet south of the northeast point of the turn ing basis, the pier to be 702 feet long and 19 feet wide with 695 foot tee at the end. It would ex tend to within 90 feet of the east ern edge of the existing turning basin. Plans for the project may be seen at the Morehead City post office. Recreation Commission Hears Two-Month Activities Report J Charles Hester, director of the Morehead City Municipal Recrea * tion program, told members of the recreation commission at their meeting Tuesday night that attend ance at recreation events for the two months of June and July to taled 3.675. In June 1,501 participated and in July the number increased to 2,174. These statistics are figured on a weekly basis and each num ber does not represent an individ ual child, rather it indicates parti cipation. If on one day a child takes part in a ball game, swims, i and goes on a hike, that is indi cated on the director's chart as three participants. Hester expressed the hope that 400 boys and girla will be taking part in the program by the end of next month when the summer recreation schedule is completed. One hundred ninety-one children took advantage of the program in June; this increased to 291 last month, the boys outnumbering the girls. In June there were 149 boys and 46 girls, in July 215 boyi and '76 girla. Sixty-seven colored chil dren, 95 boys and 12 girls are tak r'ing part. ? The busiest time thus far was ?the week of July 9-14 when there -were 680 participants. Heater stated that more ybung jatefs take part in baseball than any other sport, tennis ranks sec ond, swimming third, ping pong, " fourth, and then horseshoes and ''croquet. Mrs. A. B. Roberta, secretary treasurer of the commissionPre . ported a balance in the treasury ' of (r?J9. The program started June with (llOO received iroa ' tke total Salaries have ? luted to $771, transportation $125, equip ment $427.13, making a total of $1,323.15 as expenses to date. Sale of the present recreation center was discussed and the com mission members stated that it will affect the program in no way other than in slight inconvenience be cause all equipment is now stored at the school. The ping pong ta bles in the boilding have been sal vaged for use in the future. Night tennis will be possible as soon as poles and light* are erect ed. Placement of a shuffleboard near the courts was discussed. This would also be used at night. Tile possibility of putting an attach ment on fire hydrants for "street showers" was considered. Streets would be roped off and the kids allowed to play under the water at stated times during the day and at different places throughout the town. The commission directed that a Tetter of appreciation be written to Mra. Bob Williams, chairman of the PTA steering, committee for teen-age entertainment Mrs. Wil liams was in charge of the teen age program at the recreation cen ter. This program will be discon tinued with sale of the building. TUmi Taka VM Tin ? . . ? ? ? fi'n ??iitii. ? ram i iim vravinww A tire and wheel were stolen Tuesday night at 10:30 oft the Cad illac cwvertlble belonging to Ar thur Hutaff. 1603'Shackleford sve. More be ad City. According to police, the thieves Jacked up the front e ad of the car in a garage) and made off trtth tke rubber tad hardware Norehead City , Chamber Will Publish Directory All Morehead City businessmen whose dues to the ohamber of commerce have been paid will have the names of their firms, slogans, addresses, and phone numbers in a business directory to be publish ed in the near future. The dead line for submitting necessary in formation to the chamber, so that the directory can be compiled, is Aug. 15. The directory will list chamber members alphabetically and will also have a classified section. J. A. DuBois, chamber of commerce manager, states that the directories will be distributed throughout the state and nation in answer to in quiries. a copy will go to every new resident, and copies will be available at every chamber of com merce office in the state. A letter explaining the purpose of the directory, with a post card enclosed for submitting informa tion, went to chamber members this week. With it was a pamph let listing the officers and direc tors of the chamber and the com mittee chairmen. The chairmen, who were ap pointed last Thursday night at a board of directors meeting, are as follows: George W. Dill, civic af fairs; Robert B. Howard, industrial development; Walter Morris, hous ing; George H. McNeill, advertis ing and publicity. George Eastman, better business; Qeorge R. Wallace, national affairs; J. Warren Beck, membership; Robert L. Hicks, transportation; Dr. i John Morris, public kealth; Wil liam B. Chalk, safety and fire pre vention and W. C. Carlton, tourists and conventions. The pamphlet also explained the purpose of the chamber of com merce, its organization, and urged the members to make use of cham ber services. . ? Chairmen Name Committeemen Two Morehead City chamber of commerce committee chairmen have appointed their committees. George McNeill, chairman of the advertiaing and publicity commit tee, has H. Earle Mobley and S. A. Chalk, jr., serving with him. W. C. Carlton, chairman of the tourists and convention committee, has appointed Jim Wheatley, Paul Clejand, John Alford, and Dom, Femia as his committee members. The advertising and publicity committee met Wednesday and made preliminary plans for the printing of a new brochure on Morehead City. They also discuss ed the printing of a Morehead City business directory and the phyai cal condition of signs advertising Morehead City. One sign is lo cated south of Jasksonville on high way 17 and is badly in need of re pair. Another sign on highway 70 outside of New Bern has disap peared. "At least nobody can find it," re marked J. A. DuBois, manager of the chamber of commerce. "Both the advertising and pub licity and touriats and conventiona committees have tremendous jobs to do," he declared. "We have to get the tourists here and once they're here we have to take care of them." Finding the late Beaufort-More head City to New Bern but run impractical, Seashore Transporta tion cO. has announced its diacon Unuance. The last run was made ..the night o( July 31, Tueaday. The last bus out Of Beaufort and Mor? be ad City no* ? at 6:50 and 7 p.m.. respectively. The bus company Mid tbat the highest number of passengers dur ing the four-week trial was three. The lata but ww operated at the request of the Morehead City chamber of commerce. Members of the Moreabead City Boatmen'? association re if firmed their decision Wednesday night to limit prises for fish only to anglers fishing from boats operated by as sociation members, the boatmen met at Capt. Bill's Waterfront re* IMW. Glenn Atwood, a 22-year-old auto mechanic from Cherry Point, liter ally shook himself into a six-month term on the road in Beaufort re corder's court Tuesday, but it is doubtful that he will spend any time improving the state's high ways. Atwood was sentenced to six months on the roads by Judge L. R. Morris, not because of drunken driving, resisting arrest, or de stroying public property ? the charges brought against him ? but rather because he suffers from a serious case of nerves and does not have the facilities to care for him self, according to the court. Judge Morris stated that he would have let Atwood go with a suspended sentence had he felt that the youth was able to manage the situation, but after talking to At wood at some length Morris sen tenced him with the proviso that he be committed immediately to a state hospital until cured. Atwood was arrested and charged with drunken driving and resisting arrest, and at first it was believed that he had been under the influ ence of narcotics rather than al cohol. Testimony by Morehead City officers who made the arrest revealed that Atwood was ex tremely docile when arrested, and offered no trouble of any kind un til they refused to give him pills which he said would soothe his nerves. He claimed the pills had been prescribed by a local physi cian. He then threw himself on the ground, according to testimony, and had to be dragged into jail; giving rise to the charge of resist ing arrest. He caused quite a rumpus and police had to be called to quiet him. This was done by telling him that he would be taken to the doctor, officers said. N Young Boyd Bonded Over William Boyd, the 16-year-old blonde accused of larceny of les? than $100 and with brealuw ?ud entering, was bound ovef to su perior court. A bond of $300 was posted lor him. A neat little bit of warped hu man interest popped up in the case of Luke Mason who was charged with assaulting his mother. Re ferred to as the case o( the "Mason Jar," it featured a not overly con trite Mason who had jolted his mother around for no particular reason, according to officers. Court officials state that this was not the first time that Mason had been brought to court on charges of using his mother for a punching bag, but Mrs. Mason did not show up to press charges so Judge Mor ris nol prossed the case. The judge admonished Mason that "your mother is the best friend you have." David Parker, accused of tres passing and using profane language against Lucille Williams, had the last word when Judge Morris ruled malicious prosecution against the plaintiff and charged her with court costs. Esu Leggett, charged with drunk en driving plus recknesslesa, brought in a lawyer from Green ville and gol off with payment of $23 and costs. The case against Curtis Brinson, charged with breaking and enter ing, was continued until next Tues day. Thirteen other cases were also continued. Aato, Taxi Tangle Tusdiy On Arendell St, Nmksad Two cars were damaged to the extent of $25 each in t collision at 2:45 Tuesday afternoon at 9th and Arendell at.. Morehead City. One car, a '41 model driven by Earl Hayward Patzke, 808 Bridges it., was going east on Arendell when it was struck by a taxi driven by Carlton Tootle. 404 N. 13th st? Morehead City. According to Officers Herbert Griffin and Guy Springle who in vestigated, the taxi waa backing away from Pender's store. The cab is owned by Harkless Woo ten of the Edgewater hotel. Morehead City. No chargea were preferred. Tide Table Tidea at Beaufort Bar HIGH U)W Mfcj, Aifnt I 1:31 a. m. 2:12 a. m. Ml p. m 2:27 p. m. Saturday, Aufuat 4 9:06 a. m. 8:03 a. m. ?:1< p. m. 3:04 p. m. Sunday, Aucuat S 8:40 a. m. 3:33 a. m. 9:81 p. m. 3:42 p. m. Moaday, Aufuat ? 10:13 a. m. 4:05 a. m. 10:28 p. m. 4:23 p. m. Tueaday, Aafut 1 10:54 a. a. . 4:3? a. BL' 11:07 p. m. sm p. m. Rotarians Hear David M. Britt, v District Governor David Britt, Fairmont, governor of the 279th Rotary district, spoke Tuesday night to Beaufort Ro tarians on the four principles of Rotary. The club met at the Inlet inn. Britt also reviewed the service Rotary performs throughout the world and its active efforts to pro mote peace. In addition to the activities of Rotary's 7,300 clubs in their own David M. Brltt communities to promote this ob jective, Britt explained, over a six year period Rotary International is spending $1.500,000. principally to create better understanding among the peoples of different na tions. One of the ways in which this money is being spent is on Rotary Foundation Fellowships, which en able outstanding-graduate stu< cuts to study for one ytftr, in countries other than th?ir own, a* embassa dors of good will. Since |his pro gram was established in 1947, 284 fellowships have been awarded to students in 42 countries, with grants totaling more than $700,000. "Devoted to service. Rotary pro vides a common ground for 350,000 business and professional execu tives throughout the world, regard less of nationality or political or religious belief," the Rotary dis trict governor emphasized. As a supplement to the efforts of the international organization to promote better understanding and relations between the peoples of the world. District 279 is current ly providing a year's study at the University of North Carolina for a Japanese post-graduate student. Prior to the meeting the district governor met with chairmen of the committees to plan projects for the coming year. ? A guest at the meeting was Law rence Stroud of Greenville. Jaycees Schedule Five Hone Games Five home games have been scheduled to date (or the More head City high school football team, Bernard Leary, chairman of the Jaycec football committee, an nounced Monday night at the meeting at Capt. Bill's Waterfront restaurant. The Jaycees are also planning a football booster banquet with Leary and Paul Cordova engineer ing the project. Lester Styron reported that the grass recently sown on the athletic field is growing and requested help in watering the field this week. Sixteen Jaycees volunteered their services. Miss Lois Simpsons, Miss More head City of 1951, was a guest at he meeting. She told of her ex periences at Burlington the week end of July 20 when she partici pated in the Miss North Carolina teauty pageant. W. "B. Chalk, chairman of the :ommittee for "Miss Norih Caro lina Week" outlined plana for the fisit of Miss Lulong Ogburn to Uorehead City next week. .Mist Morth Carolina of 1951 will be the guest of Jayceea. President Jimmy Wallace re nmded Jaycees thpt the 8th dis trict Jaycee meeting will take pUce it New Bern Aug. 14 and the first luarterly board meeting Aug. 25 ind 28 at Rocky Mount. Paul Branch, chairman of Sun lay's scrap djjve, requested full co jperation of all members in col Ktuij the paper. Thirty-five thousand dol-" Iars in net supplies and equipment went up in flame at 9:15 Wednesday night at Guthrie Net Works located on the Morehead City water front. Louis Guthrie, who with his son, Charles, operates the net works, said that the loss is only partially covered by insurance. Origin Unknown "We have no way of telling how the fire started," he remarked. "I was in New Bern all day and didn't get home until after the fire was over. They say it could have been spontaneous combustion, but I don't know." Guthrie's daughter, Mrs. Law rence Brown, who lives next door to the net works on Shackleford ave., heard an explosion and dis covered the flames, her father re ported. Mrs. Charles Edwards, who lives across the street from the net works, turned in the alarm. Inside Gutted The walls of the 30 by 70-foot metal building still stand but the inside is gutted. Firemen pumped water on the blaze for 45 minutes. The Guthrie Met Works has suf fered fire loss before. Within the past two years a building adjacent to the present one, but closer to the water, burned. County Agent j Will Distribute Pure Shallot Seed Fish bushels of pure disease free shallot seed has been prom ised the eounty farm agent's office for use by truck growers in this county who are interested in rais ing shallots. A shallot is a multi plying onion. The teed will be sent here by J. M. Jenkins. Jr.. horttevlturist in charge of the vegetable research laboratory at Wilmiagtoo. Jenkins has been cxperiiMMMI with new vegetables to determine whether they are adaptable to commercial production in North Carolina. The purpose is to see if certain crops can supplement or partially replace present vegetable crops that fail to bring the farmer a favorable re turn. The shallot has been grown for many years in southern Louisiana. Production in that state was ap proximately 700 to 1,000 cars an nually up tu 1947. Since 1940, pro duction has fallen off because of two diseases, pink root and yellow dwarf. Jenkins feels that shallots would make a new crop for North Caro lina because production in Louisi ana has dropped and this state is closer to northern markets. R. M. Williams, farm agent, states that shallots have been bringing a very good price on the commercial mar ket. In the Wilmington area the crop has done well on a sandy loam soil, but is sentitive to fertilizer and only 500 pounds of 5-10-5 fer tilizer is recommended at planting time with another 500 pounds be ing applied when the plant? are around 8 inches tall. One hundred fifty pounds of nitrate of soda is used as a side dressing. Shallots are planted in August and harvested in November. A second crop is planted in Novem ber and these are harvested in Hay. A single plant will produce a clus ter of 10 to 15 or more shallots at harvest time, Williams states. In preparing the vegetable* for market they are packed in crates at the rate ot five to eight dozen bunches and then are iced down ao that they will carry well in transit. Because of the pink root and yellow dwarf diseases, farmers are requested not to bring in seed of doubtful sources. Any farmer in terested in planting shallots should contact the county farm agent. Umll Pro party, Baaaiort, Com to Bryan and York The three lots in Beaufort at Front and Turner streets, knowji as the Uzzell property, have been sold for $10,000 to R. A. Bryan and J. W. York, well-known real estate developers in this area. Bryan and York, as the More head Housing corp., developed the Homes Drive section of Morebead City, and as the Beaufort Housing corp. played a major part in de velopment of Front street ex tended. The Front and Turner street property was sold by Mrs. Corinne C. Uzzell. widow of the late T. A. Uzzell. Mrs. Uzzell is the daugh ter of the late Winfield Chadwick. Plans for developmest of the property have sot been announced. Miss North Carolina Will Attend Jaycee Meeting Monday Barkers Island REA Criticizes j Wire Service Dan Walk*?, manager of the Beaufort chamber of commerce, to day released a letter regarding Western Union services on Barkers Island. The letter, written by Maxwell Willis, manager of the Harkers Island Electric Member ship corp.. was sent to the More head City Western Union office and a copy forwarded to the Beau fort chamber of commerce which is fighting an effort on the part of Western Union to close their Beau fort place of business. The letter, dated July 27. fol lows : "Gentlemen: We have had numerous com plaints from the people here at Harkers Island regarding the hand ling of Western Union Money Or ders through the'Morchcad City office. Telegrams arc also delayed at times due to the distance. It is very inconvenient and some times impossible for the people here to go all the way to More head City to get their money or ders. If mailed to them the delay would offset the advantage of even using Western Union. We therefore request that the Island business be transferred to the Beaufort office. This will mean better business fend better service. We trust you will do all you can to make this change. Very truly yours, Maxwell Willis. Manager." Four Injured Io Wreck Monday Four persohs were injured Mon day night several minutes before midnight when their car turned over on Arendcll street just east o f I8th St., Morehead City. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Young of Cherry Point and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lan caster were given emergency treatment at the Morehead City hospital. Young was sent to the Cherry Point dispensary. Their car, a Ford, flopped over on its side when it collided with an Oldsmobilc being driven by Clar ence Fletcher Bell, 900 Fisher St., Morehead City. According to Of ficer Hubert Fulcher who investi gated, Bell was proceeding north on 18th and as he entered Aren dell he struck Young who was driving east. The Bell car went into a skid before striking the other automo bile. Bell has been charged with careless and reckless driving, driv ing while drunk, and causing an accident. Bell was released in the custody of his father. He will be given a hearing in mayor's court Monday afternoon. USES Issues Call For Workers ^ Mrs Julia Tenney, manager of the United States Employment Service office, Morehead City, is sued a plea today for workers. "There'? a scarcity of labor," she said, "and we cannot fill the de mand for workers." Needed locally are carpenters at $1.65 an hour, hotel porters, wait resses, domestic cooks and maids, laundry pressers, room clerks, and stenographers. Needed at Camp Lejeune are SO laborers at 92 ^ cents an hour. Mrs. Tenney said that unemploy ed persons should register at the office which is located at Evans and 7th St., Morehead City. If there is not an opening for a per son at the time he registers, she said there will be an opening even tually and the only way the unem ployed can obtain work is to keep their name on file. MrtMisi Mm 1? Enroll Ourter tfanbm Tuesday All men who attend Tuesday night's meeting at the First Meth odist churcw will be enrolled as charter members in the new organ ization, Methodist M^ The meet ing will begin at t p.m. Forty-Uve have already joined the organization which is beaded by Dr. L- A. Kakin. ? Glamour will be the keynote of the Morehead City Jaycee meeting Monday night at Capt. Bill's Water front restaurant as the % Jaycees formally greet Miss Lulong Og burn, North Carolina's contestant in the coming Miss America pa geant. Miss Ogburn's week's vacation, planned by the Jaycees. begins Monday. When she arrives she will be escorted to downtown More head City where Mayor George W. Dill will welcome the lovely con cert pianist from Smithfield, and her *chaperone. The mayor will also proclaim the week of Aug. as 'Miss North Carolina Week," in Morehead City, "the summer capital of North Carolina." Jimmy Wallace, president of the Jaycees, will be in charge of the welcoming program which will be broadcast. Miss North Carolina then will go to the Ocean King Hotel, Atlantic Beach, her headquarters for the week. The afternoon will be hers and fallowing the Jaycee meeting at night, tentative plans have been made for her to attend a movie. Miss Ogburn will be the guest of Capt. Ottis Purifoy on a fishing trip Tuesday morning. Jaycee P. II. Geer, jr., will be official host for the trip. Beaufort Jaycecs will take the beauty on a sight-seeing tour at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning and she will dine at noon at llolden's restaurant. LuLong will pose for photographers Wednesday after noon and she will be the guest of honor Wednesday night at the race track. A special Miss North Caro lina derby will be run in her honor. From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Thurs day, the Smithlield lovely will be the guest of the Morehead City Yacht basin on a yacht trip. Lunch will be served aboard. Jaycee Ralph Gardner will be official host. He will also be in charge of a guided tour of Cherry Point Marine Air base Friday when Miss Ogburn and party will be guests of the Marines. She will have lunch at the base and return home at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Jaycees, their wives, and friends will attend an open house for Miss North Carolina at 7:45 Saturday night. Refreshments will be served and following the open house a second visit to the track is planned. Miss Ogburn's "Jaycee vacation" in Morehead City will end Sunday and she will return to Smithfield. Accidents Cause , $1,185 Damage Weekend highway accidents caused property damage amounting | to $1,185, highway patrolmen re ported today. At 5 o'clock Sunday morning a 1947 model sedan burned up on the Mill Creek road. The car was owned and driven by George Dewey Rouse, 800 Bay st., More head City. With him was G. B. Gould, 2008 Fisher at., Morehead City. Neither one was hurt but the car, valued at $800, was de stroyed. According to Rouse, he was headed west on the Mill Creek road when smoke started coming from beneath the dash board. He also said hot metal started drop ping on his feet, so he put on the brakes and both men jumped out. RoOsc wanted to go back to the car and try to put the fire out, but Patrolman J. W. Sykes, who in vestigated, stid Gould prevented him from attempting it. Two cars sideswiped at 10 o'clock Saturday night a mile east of New port near the trailer park. A 1948 convertible sedan, driven by Gene Ferrara,' Cherry Point, and a 1940 model car driven by Grayden Knutson. Cherry Point, graied each other on a curve. Each driver claimed he was on his own side of the highway, re ported Patrolman W. E. Pickard. Damage to tlfe convertible was. es timated at $35 and to the other car. $50. A truck turned over on highway 70 at the airport west o f More head City at 2:30 Friday afternoon. Ernest Johnson, New Bern, who was driving, was uninjured. The truck was headed east when John son said his steering gear locked and he ran into the ditch at the left of the road. . Damage to the truck, which li owned by the Craven Grocery co? New Bern, wai estimated at $300. Patrolman Pickard investigated. Vessel Docks The USS Mellette arrive?! in Morehead City fro* Little Creek, Vs., bringing Marin* beck from maneuvers The Maitette saitad Wednesday afternoon.