NEWS-TIMES OFFICE
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Morehead City
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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
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THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTIj CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1951 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Health Officer Says Pupils' J
Health Conditions Exceptional
President Bell j
(Says Tide Water
Won't Cut Rates
(Official Issues Statement
Wednesday Following
Conference at Raleigh
Warren W. Bell, president of
[tide Water Power co., Wilmington,
rfleclared Wednesday that because
decreased earnings, his company
?ip in no position to grant a volun
tary rate reduction at this time.
Bell issued this statement short
ly after a rate conference in Ral
eigh with the North Carolina Utili
ties commission.
An "ultimatum" from the utili
ties commission requesting Tide
^ater Power co. to reduce its rates
\iias issued Aug. 22. The utilities
.commission said that if the power
.company did not voluntarily reduce
xptes, the commission "would take
.ftction."
Bell said: "Tide Water sincerely
wishes it were possible to offer a
voluntary reduction in electric
rates. Unfortunately, in answer to
t|he inquiry made at an informal
conference with the utilities com
mission this morning, we must say
that We cannot see the possibility
of such a reduction at this time.
As a matter of fact, our earnings
jRer share of common stock are less
B^|han when the commission granted
Vs a rate increase a year ago.
"It is true that this section of
the state is on the verge of a
jpighty industrial growth, coupled
With increased residential usage of
Electricity.
Additional revenues from these
Apurces have not yet materialized.
When this happens, provided taxes,
, iterating expenses, etc., can be
likcpt at reasonable levels, we will
happy to pass the resulting
nefits along to our customers.
We genuinely hope to see this come
about.
"We must necessarily disagree
with the evaluation yardsbcljs np
slted by the arcountant for the
Aimmission who did not give
proper weight to the {air value of
Tide Witer'i property as provided
rlaw.
"We would like to reduce rates
posaible. Our whole history
I hows that. However, if we are to
emain in business and give good
ervic-c, we cannot operate without
reasonable incofne. As things
stand today, we are confident that
four rate of return is not out of
line With the figure that the com
mission regards as a proper earn
ing for a utility company.
' "As soon as earnings enable us to
offer a reduction, we shall do so
Voluntarily and promptly," he con
cluded
Relative to rumors that Tide
^Jfater Power co. would be sold to
Hiarolina Light and Power co., Bell
Stated on Sept. 4 that no such move
Jbas contemplated.
? Carteret county public health
nurses, Mrs. Leota Hammer and
Mrs. Beatrice Lewis, have com
pleted examination of 2,713 school
children in the first through sixth
grades. The general hygiene of
the children was found to surpass
by far the health conditions of pu
pils in any previous year, reported
Dr. N. T. Ennett, health officer,
yesterday.
Only three cases of pediculosis
(hair lice) were found among first
graders, and one case in the third
grade. There were no cases of
scabies (itch) or impetigo. "This
is extremely remarkable," stated
the" health officer.
Although the nurses have two
more schools yet to inspect, it is
hoped that similar conditions of
good health and cleanliness will be
found. ,
Mrs. Hammer covers the eastern
section of the county and Mrs.
Beatrice Lewis the western section.
Judge Sentences
Sadie Forbes v
To Year in Jail
Judge Lambert Morris sentenced
Sadie Henry Forbes of Beaufort to
a year in jail when she was found
guilty on two counts Tuesday of be
ing drunk and disorderly and con
stituting a public nuisance.
The judge recommended that she
be examined to determine her men
tal condition and be given any
treatment necessary.
William Francis Lindsay gave
notice of appeal to superior court
when he was found guilty of op
erating a car under the influence
of intoxicants or narcotics. He
was ordered to pay $100 and costs.
His bond for appearance in su
perior court, was set at $150.
Robert Dudley, found guilty of
possessing non tax-paid whiskey for
the purpose of sale, was sentenced
to a year in jail, not to be served
providing he remain on good be
havior three years and pay $100
fine and cost^. The judge also or
dered that a pistol found in Dud*,
ley's place of business be confis
cated as well as the whiskey.
Pleads Guilty
Andrew Bell, charged with aid
ing and abetting in the possession
of non tax-paid whiskey, pleaded
guilty and paid $25 and costs. The
cases of John Tyson, jr., charged
with forcible trespass and being
disorderly, Jesse Wade, charged
with failure to yield right-of-way,
and Clarence Edward Piner,
charged with excessive speed for
the condition of the road, were dis
missed.
The following pleaded guilty to
speeding: Richard J. Russo, paid
costs; Albert Jesse Foe, costs; Ed
ward Woodward and John M. Ben
son, $10 and costs each; L. D. Kel
ly, costs. Found guilty of speeding
was Lawrence W. Smith who paid
$10 and costs.
Jeanne Florence OToole pleaded
See JUDGE, Page 2
Federal Judge
Enjoins Baxter j
Jewelry Store
Mrs. Sara Bradbury, Part
Owner, Denies Allega
tions in Injunction
Because of sales alleged to be
far over the legal ceiling price,
Baxter's Jewelry store of Havelock,
owned and operated by Sarah and
Edward Bradbury of Beaufort, and
Theodore and Benjamin Baxter of
New Bern, was enjoined yesterday
by Federal Judge Don Gilliam from
making any further sales or deliv
eries of any items in the store, and
further ordered to appear in Fed
eral court in Raleigh Sept. 27 to
show cause why such order should
not be made permanent, it was
announced by OPS Enforcement
Director James F. Latham.
Mrs. Bradbury, who contacted
THE NEWS - TIMES yesterday,
claimed allegations in the injunc
tion were not true. She further
demanded that THE NEWS-TIMtlS
not print the story.
An order was also served on the
same firm's store in New Bern re
quiring the owners to appear in
Federal court at the same time and
show cause why it should not also
be enjoined from making any sales
or deliveries until a price chart
is filed and complete compliance
with all OPS regulations is af
fected. '
Exhibits submitted to Judge Gil
liam by OPS purported to show
that in the Havelock store, a wed
ding band for which the legal ceil
ing was $27.06 was selling for
$38.54; a necklace was selling for
$9.00 which should have been
priced at $5.25; and pins which
should have legally sold for 85
cents were selling for $2.00, in ad
dition to many more pricing vio
lations.
According to affidavits sub
mitted by OPS personnel, Benja
min Baxter was verbally cautioned
not to price merchandise in excess
of markups allowed by Ceiling
Price Regulation 7, and in a letter
from OPS on September 10, Bax
ter was again warned of excessive
markups is the Havelock store.
Latham said the store had made
sales as much as 195 per cent over
the legal ceiling price.
"These are but the first in a se
ries of actions which we intend to
present to the United States attor
ney in instances of retail stores
failure to file price charts required
by CPR 7, or where prices exceed
the legal ceiling," Latham said.
"The provisions of the National
Defense Production Act will be en
forced to protect the public and
to stabilize an emergency econ
omy," he added.
The Baxter Jewelry Store, inc.,
of New Bern was founded in 1895,
and r.ecently opened the branch
store in Havelock, near the Cherry
Point Marine Base. Both stores arc
owned and operated by the Brad
burys of Beaufort, and Theodore
and Benjamin Baxter of New
Bern. The firm is being represent
See BAXTER, Page 2
^Beaufort Agrees to Citizens' W ishes
i On Leaving, Entering Corporate Area
forehead to Add
Parking Meters j
Morehead City will install park
ing meters on 7th street between
j Arendell and Bridges. These
meters will be along the side of
Belk s and Eastman's.
Morehead City town commission
ers decided on the additional in
itallation of meters at their meet
t ing Tuesday night in the municipal
building.
Appointed to the board of ad
justment, to replace George Ball
and Robert Lowe, were Sam Adler
and Walter Lewis. The town board
referred to the adjustment board a
zoning regulation suggested by A.
B. Roberts, building inspector, re
quiring lots eight and 16 in every
-block in the town to have a mini
mum side yard of seven feet around
each dwelling, while other lots
.need only a three-foot side yard.
The adjustment board has been
.requested to make a recommend?
H tion in regard to the regulation.
Before adjourning, the town com
missioners decided to write off a
J charge of $9,847.47 in delinquent
J taxes, payable to the former City
Port commission. The members
L decided the bill was no longer valid
1 since the North Carolina Ports au
fthority, which took over the city
| port, should have collected the
I charge prior to July 8, 11)90.
Pfc. Harry H. Deal, son of Orion
Deal, 3022 Lee ave., Midway
?rk, has been reported wounded
J
' The area of Beaufort changed*'
slightly during the course of Mon
day night's town commissioners'
meeting at the town hall. Several
residents asked to be let out of the
town while others asked to be taken
in.
Attorney Harvey Hamilton, jr.,
charged that his clients, Samuel
Jones, W. Roy Willis, Mrs. Burl
Tosto, and Carl Gaskill who live or
have places of business in the vicin
ity of Beaufort school, had been
taken into town illegally in June
1950.
Hamilton pointed out that when
any section containing 25 property
owners or less is annexed to a town,
the action is void without the
unanimous consent of the proper
tied in that section. This is a state
law, he said.
The attorney alleged that these
four owners had not given their ap
:proyal and even though they had .
remained silent at the time Beau- I
fort posted notice of the annexa
tion,- their acquiescence did not
make the town's action legal.
The area annexed in June 1850
included Beaufort graded school
and the ball park. Hamilton em
phasized that the withdrawing of
the property owned by his clients
would not affect the town's juris
diction over the play field.
Jarvis Herring, of Front street
extended, presented a petition for
incorporation with Beaufort a sec
tion running along Front st. from
the present boundary up to and
including the home of Gilbert
Porter.
Commissioner J. O. Barbour
moved acceptance of the petition
and that due notice be publiabed in
the NEWS-TIMES according to
8m BEAUFORT, Page 2 i
J. 0. Barbour, Jr.. -
Resigns from Town Board
The resignation of J. O. Bar
bour, Jr., was read and accepted
at Monday night's Beaufort board
meeting In the town hall. Bar
bour, a Beaufort businessman,
said be resigned in order to give
someone else a chance to serve.
Two yean, he said, was long
enough for one man to serve as
commissioner, whereas he has
already served two terms.
The commissioners decided to
defer appiontinent to Barbour's
post until a new area along Front
st. was annexed. Residents in the
area applied for admiaaion to
Beaufort eailier in the meeting.
IL D. r Blind Attends
Public Health Mooting
A. D. Fulford, county unitarian,
represented Carteret county at the
North Carolina Public Health asso
ciation meeting last week at Win
iton-Salem. . The health ' officer,
Dr. N. T. Ennctt, was unable to at
tend due to illness in hi# family. |
The association adopted a re
vised constitution which will en
title the state association to afflli
ite with the national group. A plea
was also made by a representative
rl the United States Public Health
lerviee for uniformity in aH sam
lation work, such as inspection of
iairiea, restaurants, hotels, etc.
Dr. 1. J. Wright of Chapel Hill,
?as elected president of the aaso
riation. Seven hundred public
M*Hb workers attended the meet
n g.
Morehead City Board Lays Groundwork
For Establishing Town Recorder's Court
Towns Receive
Powell Street J
Aid Allotments
Carteret county municipalities
this week received checks from
the State Highway and Public
Works commission as their pro
portionate share of the Powell
street aid lunds.
Morehead City got the largest
check, $16,493.93, Beaufort receiv
ed $7,823 38, and Newport $1,985.
65. The money was distributed on
the basis of $1.50 for each resident
of the town and $136 for each mile
of public thoroughfare as shown
on maps submitted this summer to
the State Highway and Public
Works commission.
George Franklin, counsel for the
League of Municipalities, who was
in Beaufort this week, commented
that the Powell bill money relieves
the urban taxpayer of the burden
of supporting street maintenance
and construction through ad val
orem tax, this being a tax the
rural homeowner never has to pay.
Powell bill allotments give the
towns, he said, their proportionate
share of gasoline tax revenue
which heretofore went entirely to
the rural areas.
Many persons have the erroneous
idea, he continued, that this money
can be used only for street con
struction. According to information
compiled by Franklin and sent to
members of the League of Munici
palities, the money may be spent
for ditching, dragging, patching,
dust control treatments, purchase,
rental operation, and maintenance
of street equipment, purchase of
street stabilizing materials, pipe,
catch basin gratings, purchase and
maintenance of traffic control de
See TOWNS, Page 2
Two Accidents /
Occur in Beaufort
Mrs. Thurston Hill, 713 Broad
St., Beaufort, and Harvey Hamil
ton. jr.. 3201 Sunset dr.. Morehead
City, were Involved in accidents in
vestigated this week by Beaufort
police.
Damage to a 1948 model sedan,
driven by Mrs. Hill and owned by
her husband, resulted when the
car hit a light pole at 11:45 Sat
urday night. Mrs. Hill told Offi
cers Carlton Garner and Maxwell
Wade that she hit the pole after
turning from Ann street north on
Pollock.
Turns Off Radio
She said the mishap occurred as
she reached down to the dash
board to turn off the radio. Dam
age to the car was estimated at
$200 and to the light pole $14.71.
The driver was not injured.
A 1950 model two-door sedan,
driven by Hamilton, was involved
in an accident with a car driven
by Emit Boscarello at 8:30 Mon
day night on Ann street near the
bridge. Boscarello. whos* home is
in Cleveland, is a Marine stationed
at Camp Lejeune.
Officer Garner and Wade report
ed that both cars were proceeding
west on Ann st. Hamilton said that
Boscarello's car was going about
five miles an hour and when he
attempted to pass him, the Marine
made a left turn.
Applies Brakes
Hamilton put on the brakes to
avoid the collision and skid 75
feet, police said. His car collided
with the left rear fender of Bos
carello's car, which was damaged
to the extent of about $50. Police
said damage to Hamilton's car was
more extensive.
A hearing was scheduled for
Monday night but has been post
poned because Boscarello is going
on maneuvers and will not be back
for 60 days, according to Louis B.
Willis, Beaufort chief of police.
Hamilton was on his way home
from ? Beaufort town board meet
ing.
Court BoImms Curtis Cray
Styron Undtr $200 Bond
Curtis Gray Styron of Cedar
Island has been released on $200
bond following his arrest on a
charge of seducing Ruth Evelyn
Rose of Harkers Island on Sept.
22. 1990.
The warrant, sworn out by the
girl's mother. Mrs. Howard Row,
on Monday, Sept. 10, alleged that
the seduction took place a year ago
under promise of marriage
Styron 's esse, scheduled for trial
in recorder's court Tuesday, was
postponed until a later session of
court.
I Firemen Discover Liquid
Fire; Woman to be Tried |
Coming before Mayor George
Dill in municipal court Monday,
will be Mary Oaskill of N. 11th
st., Morehead City, charged with
possession of non tax-paid liquor.
Two pints of the bootleg whiskey
were discovered in the ceiling of
Miss Gaskill's home by firemen
Tuesday evening. The fire depart
ment was called when flames burst
out around a first story window.
The liquid refreshment came to
light when firemen ripped down
some boarding to put out the fire.
Four Beaufort youths also will
come before the court Monday.
They are Vergil L. White, Hubert
C. Smith. Ralph L. Daniels, and
Robert F. Hucking. They are
charged with unlawful firing of
firecrackers within the limits of
Morehead City.
Deputy Sheriff M. M. Ayscue and
Carl Blomberg made the arrests.
Newport Cafe .
Owner Arrested
Deputy Sheriff M. M. Ayscue re
ported today that Sam Prescott,
Newport, owner and operator of
Sam's cafe. Newport, has been ar
rested on the charge of aiding and
abetting teen-agers of Newport and
vicinity in burglarizing Newport
business houses.
Also arrested were Tommy D.
Culpepper and Levy Lilly, both
teen-agers. Culpepper has been
charged with receiving stolen goods
and Lilly was with other boys when
one of the burglaries took place
and he also received some of the
gopds, the deputy sheriff stated.
Arrested Monday were four teen
age boys, one of them under 16
years of age. The others were Will
Gillikin, Earl Joyner, and J. D.
Arnold. Charges against thorn in
volve breaking and entering places
of bu$ifiess and carrying sway mer
chan' 'xtc, cigMttqs, soft drinl&, air
ri . I V shells and bullets.
The thefts hav? been going on
for the past several weeks but fhe
case was not broken until Monday
morning. Arrests following inves
tigation by R. H. Brown, state high
way patrolman, and Deputy Sheriff
Ayscue.
The cases will be heard Tuesday
in recorder's court.
Solicitors Make
Chamber Report
Solicitors for Beaufort chamber
of ?.jmmercc memberships made
their first report at a meeting it
the town hail last night. Emphasis
on having businessmen make
pledges, to be paid quarterly, semi
annually or annually, is the policy
this year, rather than merely re
questing a minimum membership
fee, according to Braxton Adair,
president of the chamber.
Solicitation began Monday. Those
calling on the business houses are
the following: Adair, Mrs. Bonnie
Davant. Gerald Hill. Gene Smith,
James H. Davis. Halsey Paul, Gra
ham Duncan, Dr. W. L. Woodard.
Elbert Dudley, Glenn Adair, and
Paul Jones.
The chamber president said that
$6,000 is hoped for this year. The
budget has not been drafted, and
it will not be until they know how
much money they will have to worll
with, he said. The printing of
brochures on Beaufort and in
clusion of traveling funds in the
budget is contemplated but will be
based proportionately on the
amount collected.
Grade Mother* to Meet
The primary grade mothers of
Morehead City school will meet at
2:30 this afternoon at the school.
Mrs. Carl Bell, chairman of the
grade mothers, said that a primary
grade mother chairman will be
chosen at that meeting. The
mothers will plan their year's work.
Tide Table
Tide* at Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Sept. 21
5:43 a.m.
12:13 p.m. - 6:40 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 22
12:27 a.m. 6:31 a.m. |
1:04 p.m. 7:36 p.m. [
Saaday, Sept. .23
1:22 a.m. 7:23 a.m.
1:98 p.m. 8:37 p.m. |
Maaday, Sept. 24
2:28 a.m. 8:28 a.m. |
2:98 p.m. 9:38 p.m.
? - Tuesday, Sept. 29
3:32 a.m. 0:33 a.m. |
3:98 p.m. 10*3 pj
Commissioners Set Date
For Public Hearing
Morehead City town commissioners took further steps
Tuesday night to establish a municipal recorder's court in
Morehead City. The commissioners, in session at the
municipal building, with cut and dried formality passed
unanimously a resolution that had been prepared by the
town attorney. The resolution provides for "creating of a
iiiuiuvi|/ai *wvr*\*ci o v-uui i r? iuiuui
holding an election thereon, as pro
vided in G. S. 7-264-1."
The statute referred to became
law in the last session of the legis
lature. The bill was introduced by
Carteret's representative. George
W. Dill, now mayor of Morehead
City. Numbered House Bill No.
837, it gives Beaufort, Morehead
City, and Newport the privilege
to establish municipal recorders'
courts with the same costs allowed
as in county recorder's court.
Hearing Oct 19
The hearing on establishment of
the court will take place at 8 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 19, in the municipal
building, Morehead City. At that
time persons in favor of or against
the proposal will be heard.
At present, cases tried in Beau
fort and Morehead City mayor's
courts, which are beyond the juris
diction of these lower courts, are
sent to the county recorder. Should !
a recorder's court be set up in
Morehead City, all cases originat
ing in Morehead City will go to
Morehead City recorder's court.
Cases originating within a five mile
radius of Morehead City, excluding
incorporated towns, may also be
sent to the town recorder's court.
The present municipal or "police
court" will be eliminated.
When cases are beyond the mu
nicipal recorder's court jurisdic
tion, they will be sent to superior
court.
Should the municipal recorder's
court be established, the town
board will appoint the officers,
judge, clerk, and solicitor. Court
cost will go into the town treas
ury to meet costs of the court's ?p
er%JJ??i, but fines anu forfeitures
v ill be payable to the Munty and
placed in the county fcfaool fund as
required by law.
Mayor Dill stated that town offi
cials feel that a recorder's court in
Morehead City would be advan
tageous from a geographical and
time standpoint. At present, he re
marked, cases are heard in the
mayor's court and could be settled
in a few minutes, but because they
arc beyond the lower court's juris
diction, have to be sent to Beaufort
to the county court.
That requires, he pointed out,
wasting another day for witnesses,
lawyers, police officers, and princi
pals in the case. Morehead City
lawyers have expressed approval of
the measure, terming it a "progres
sive step in a growing community."
Morehead City j
PTA Will Stress
Safety This Year
Safety will be the Morehead City
PTA's major project for the year,
Walter Morris, president, an
nounced at Monday night's meeting
at the school, the first meeting of
the current school year.
He suggested that awards be
given patrol boys and that parents
bringing children to school observe
traffic regulations applying to the
school area. President Morris also
announced that instruction will be
given in bicycle riding.
Mrs. Carl Bell, grade mother
chairman, suggested that grade
mothers work with teachers in vis
iting homes of absent pupils, ascer
tain reasons for their absence, and
make efforts to relieve cause of
absence.
At the next meeting. Oct. 8. the
association will vote on by-laws
which arc being drawn up by
George McNeill. An outstanding
feature of that meeting will be a
talk by Lt. Stanley Osserman on his
experiences in Korea. Lieutenant
Osserman holds the Distinguished
Flying Cross.
New teachers were introduced at
Monday night's meeting. They arc
Mrs. Anne Murphy, first grade;
Mis. Ella Morgan, third grade, both
graduates of East Carolina college;
Mrt Varin* *H"nn, fourth, a grad
uate ?f Womai/s college; Mra. El
len Dickinson, sixth, Mrs. Leland
Day, seventh, both graduates of
ECC; 'Miss Barbara Hendleman,
high school commercial teacher,
a graduate of Catawba.
This is the first year that under
graduate commercial courses have
been offered at the school. Teach
ing the vocational commercial
course for graduate students is
Miss Peggy Doncrson, a graduate
of ECC. The teachers were intro
duced by G. T. Windell, principal.
Parents attending PTA for the
first time were welcomed. Follow
ing the business session, the hos
pitality committee, Mrs. S. A.
Chalk, jr., chairman, served punch
and cake in the library. The table
was centered with gladioli and
asters. i
Town Official," Attorney
Will Study Tux Revision
Dan Walker, town clerk, and*
George Franklin, attorney (or the
League of Municipalise?, were ap
pointed at the Beaufort town meet
ing Monday, to study ways of re
vising the itemized merchant or
privilege tax.
The action came after atore own
ers spoke in opposition to the pres
ent tax schedule. Those who com
mented were Clarence Guthrie of
Guthrie-Jones Drug co., Gilbert
Potter of Potter's Pure Food store,
Charles Hill of Hill's grocery, Vic
tor Bellamah of Vic's Pool Room,
and Lewis Hinson of City Bakery.
The itemized tax, Guthrie told
the commissioners, was too high.
Furthermore, he said, it was un
just, since the tax was not applied
to every store in town. (Chain
stores come under a state regula
tion exempting them from the local
tax).
Hill asked that the tax be based
on a merchant'a gross sales.
J. O. Barbour, commissioner, dis
agreed, saying such would cause
too much book work for the store
keeper. Barbour emphasized that
Beaufort was in the red and could
not lower taxes.
The commission finally voted to
have the town clerk aad Franklin
make a confidential canvasa of the
town's merchants to ascertain their
earning power and thus enable the
town to fix the tax at an equitable
scale baaed on g rosa sales.
Franklin stated Wednesday that
questionnaires will be sent to mer- |
chants and on the baais of their
answers. their privilege tax will be
figured. The questionnaires will i
go out this week and should b* re
turned to the town hall Immedi
ately.
The present privilege tax sched
ule, to which so much objection
ha* been raised, followed the law
B&Pff Club Will
Attend Breakfast'
Mrs. Rebecca Smith, Morehead
City, chairman of the National
Business and Professional Women's
Week observance next week an
nounced today that the Carteret
B&PW club will breakfast at 9:30
Sunday morning at the Jefferson
restaurant, Morehead City.
Following the breakfast. B&PW
members will attend the 11 o'clock
service in Ann street Methodist
church, Beaufort. In charge of the
program at the breakfast will be
Mrs. C. L. Beam.
Mrs. Smith atated that transpor
tation will be provided from More
head City to Beaufort.
The club will attend its regular
meeting Tuesday night at the sum
mer cottage of Miss Lil Morris on
the Atlantic Beach causeway. Each
member will bring an item of food
and dinner will be serveil at 7
p.m. A business session and pro
gram will follow.
During the business period a
report will be made on the "Har
vest of Fashion" which waa pre
sented Tuesday night at Beaufort
school. Proceeds from the fashion i
show will be divided between the
Beaufort and Morehead City school ,
bands.
Tuesday night's program will be
in charge of ^Mn. George Hender
son.
Mayor George W. Dill, Mbrehead I
City, Commissioner D. G. Bell, and i
Mrs. Blanda McLohon, ctty tr'eas- I
urer, will attend the League of i
Municipalities meeting Oct. 24, 28, <
?Dd 28 at Winston-Salem. i
Morehead Again
Postpones Sale ;
Of USO Building
Civic Committee Will Ap
proach County Education
Board with Proposal
Sale of the USO was again post
poned by Morehead City town com
missioners Tuesday night because
the general civic committee, repre
senting several clubs, has raised
$4,780 in cash and pledges for its
repair.
The commission voted not to con
sider selling the USO until after
the county board of education
meeting Oct. 1. At that time the
general civic committee will sug
gest that the county take over op
eration expcnses.of the building in
exchange for use of the building
for two additional graded school
classrooms. The committee also
voiced the hope that the audi
torium might be remodeled some
time in the near future to provide
more adequate school gymnasium
facilities for Morehead City.
A. B. Roberts, Rotary, Joseph Du
Bois, American Legion, Truman
Kemp, Rotary, Oscar Allred, "Lions,
Bill Norwood. Jaycees, and Walter
Freeman. Rotary, appeared on be
half of the civic clubs.
Roberts, spokesman for the
group, told the town commission
that the civic organizations had not
attained their maximum goal of
$7,000, but that they had almost
reached their minimum of $5,000.
The canvass of local business
concerns, made in the past three
weeks, Roberts revealed, has raised
$4,780 in cash and pledges. About
10 per cent of this, he added, is in
cash.
The Rotarian pointed out, hdw
ever, that when the price of do
nated l;t bos*? is inc luded, the com
mittee has gone well over the
$5,000 mark. The labor for re
roofing and plumbing the building
has been donated. Furthermore,
he continued, it is probable that
the roofing material will be sup
plied free as well.
Band Solicitation v
Begins in Beaufort
The Beaufort Band Booster asso
ciation began this week an inten
sive campaign for collection of
funds for the school band.
Sheriff C. Gehrmann Holland,
president of the association, stated
that any contribution will be ap
preciated and persons wishing to
make a donation who have not been
contacted should phone the <
sheriff's office, 2-4501, and some
one will call to pick up their con
tribution.
Soliciting for the association arc
the president, Gerald Hill, treas
urer; Robert Safrit, Mrs. Gehr
mann Holland, Mrs. Claud Wheat
ly. jr., vice-president; and Mrs.
Lockwood Phillips, secretary.
Officers of the organization, Mrs.
Holland, and Safrit met Wednes
day night with Dale Browder, band
director, and discussed plans for
the band for the current school
year.
In addition to the officers,
George Brooks is a memberat
large. He was not present at Wed
nesday's meeting. No limit has
been set for the amount of funds
to be raised. "We're going to try
to collect as much as possible," the
sheriff stated.
Marine Sustains Broken
Leg When Motorcycle Falls
Robert D. Kitzkee, VMS 225, '
Cherry Point, sustained a broken
leg at 9:55 p.m. Tuesday after he
and a fellow motorcyclist were
stopped by highway patrolmen and
warned to cut down their speed. .
Patrolman W. E. Pickard said
the motorcycle slipped and fell on
Fitzkee's leg. He was removed by
ambulance to Cherry Point dispen
sary. Patrolmen Pickard and W.
E. Sykes spotted the speeding mo
torcycles west of Newport and fol
lowed them through Newport
where they stopped them and warn
ed them about gutted mufflers *a
well as speeding.
Addition Not C ompleted
The new addition to the court
house, a register of deed* office
containing a large vault, two of
fices. and rest rooms still requires
numerous finishing touches, but is
expected to be ready for Occupan
cy in about ? month.