NEWS-TIMES OFFICE
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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES * 1
40th YEAR, NO. 86. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1951 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Former Residents of Harkers Island
Describe Communist Tactics in Latvia
Schools to Sponsor Halloween
Hi-Jinks During Spook Season
Morehead City, Beaufort, Newport, agd Camp Glenn
'schools will sponsor Halloween carnivals during the com
ing week. Newport's carnival- will take place tonight,
Camp Glenn's Tuesday, and Beaufort and Morehead City's
on Wednesday, Halloween night.
Camp Glenn school's annual carnival is sponsored by
the PTA. ?
Hot dogs, drinks, ice cream,
home made cakes, candies and pies
will be sold and there will be
fames for everyone.
The doors will open at 7 o'clock.
The public is invited.
Morehead City
The Morehead City school band
will be one ot the feature attrac
tions at the Halloween carnival at
5:30 Wednesday night on the school
grounds. At 8 o'clock there will
be a cake walk, starting in the
ichool auditorium and A1 Cooper,
chairman of the carnival, says lots
of cakes will be given away ? the
cake walk will be for young'uns
and also the young in heart.
- A new attraction at the carnival
this year will be a "Country Store"
where anything and everything
may be bought. There will also
be a Fun House and movies, a pony
ride for little ones and a horse for
bigger folks to ride.
Children will participate in a pro
gram in the school auditorium at
8:30 and the grand climax will be
a dance in the gym sponsored by
-11th graders.
Halloween costumes will be the
accepted type of apparel for the
night. Cooper today urged dads to
help the grade mothers in putting
on the carnival. Grade mothers are
supervising the erection and dec
oration of booths.
All types of sandwiches, soft
drinks, candy, hot dogs, cookies,
and hamburgers will be served.
Proceeds will go to the Parent
Teacher association.
Beaufort Caraival
? The Beaufort school Halloween
carnival, sponsored by the school
(acuity, will be held at the ball
See H4LI,OW??NkPage 1
JCs to Undertake
Hospital Program
Morehead City Jaycees are plan
ning to visit the Morehead City
hospital on Sundays so that they
may bring patients magazines,
newspapers, and fruit, J. C. Har
veil, chairman of the religious ac
tivities committee, announced at
he Monday night meeting at Cap
tain Bill's cafe.
A1 Ward of New Bern urged all
members to attend the eighth dis
trict meeting in Kinston Tuesday
at 7 p.m. t'e also noted that the
second quarterly meeting, sched
uled for Greensboro. Nov. 10-11,
?III be held in Raleigh instead.
- Bernard Leary, chairman of the
football committee, stated there
were three more home games this
season.
Dan Walker, Beaufort Jaycee,
spoke briefly on the "Voice of
Democracy" campaign which Beau
fort and Morehead City Jaycees are
Jointly sponsoring.
Marshall Ayscue, one of the
"guests, spoke on the alcohol tax
laws and his experience in captur
ing stills.
Other guests were Mr. Killinger,
Akron, Ohio, Mr. Graham, Fla.,
Gordon Earl Freeman, a prospec
tive Jaycee. and Ward of New
Bern, president of the eighth dis
trict.
President Announces Dales
Oi Community Concerts J
Mrs. C. R. Hassell, president of
the Carteret-Cherry Point Com
munity Concert association, to
day announced the dates of the
concerts this season.
The Apollo Boychoir will ap
pear at Beaufort high school
Monday, Nov. 26. And the other
two concerts, both in the More
head City school auditorinm, will
take place as follows: The Grau
dans, piano and cello duo, Fri
day, Feb. 15, and Mac Morgan,
baritone, Tuesday, March 11.
The concerts will ? egin at 8:15
p.m.
PTAOfficials J
Discuss Condition
Of Newport School
The physical condition of New
port school was discussed Tuesday
night at an executive board meet
ing following the regular Parent
Teacher association meeting. Re
ports of the county sanitarian and
the recent grand jury were pre
sented and Mrs. Roy Garner, chair
man of the grade mothers, was
given authority to take a delegation
before county school authorities.
Conducting the devotional at
Tuesday night's meeting was the
Rev. Owens, pastor of the Havelock
Baptist chyrch. His theme was
"Using Your Talents ' Musical se
lections, "River Shannon Moon"
and "Autumn Time" were present
ed by Lorraine Higgins and Stancil
Hardison.
After the business meeting, the
grade mothers had a reception for
the faculty. The arrangement com
mittee for the reception was as fol
lows: Mrs. Stancil Bell, Mrs. Inez
Williams, Mrs. J. B. Kelly, Mrs.
Peggy Mitchell and Mrs. R. L. Sim
mons.
Refreshments, punch and cook
ies, were served by Mrs. Zemmie
Miilis, Mrs. Wendell McCabe, Mrs.
Clarence Gray, Mrs. Lloyd N. Gar
ner. and Mrs. Allen Cannon.
Attendance awards were won by
Mrs. lrma Quinn's second grade in
the primary department; Mrs. Iris
Womble's 7th and 8th grade com
bination in the grammar grade de
partment; and Mrs. Fred Hamil
ton's 11th grade in the high school.
Mrs. Peggy Mitchell had charge
of Tuesday night's meeting.
Officers of the PTA are Edward
F. Carraway, president; Mrs. Irene
Youngblood. vice-president; Mrs.
Janie Garner, secretary; and Mrs.
Geraldine Garner, treasurer. Mrs.
Helen Benton is chairman of the
program committee and Mrs. Al
fred Reynolds chairman of the
ways and means committee.
In belief that the 1939 Chevro
let being held by Beaufort police
may be stolen, an investigation is
being made of its registry and li
cense number. The car bears a
New York license and was left in
Beaufort Monday by James Green,
colored.
Old Arendell Street Landmark
'Has Face -Lifting Operation J
By F. C. Salisbury
j An old landmark on Arendell
street in Morehead City is having
'Its "face lifted." The old struc
ture is the one occupied by J. L.
Crump, real eatate and insurance
?office and the Spinning Wheel,
? yard goods shop.
The history back of this one
story frame structure, the laat
wooden building in the business
section, reveals that it was built
over SO years ago by the late A.
H. Webb, serving as an express and
telegraph office, which at that time
and for several years, were under
< the management of Mr. Webb.
? When erected the building stood
j on the corner site where 'the brick
building housing Pender's store
now stands. Following the pur
, cha^e of the corner site by W. J.
LMoore in 1(14, the wooden building
[was moved to its present location
J to make roon) for the erection of
I the three story brick building, the
lower floor of which aerVed as the
postofQce for several years.
At the time Mr. Webb built the
office building the railroad depot.
freight house and loading platform
was located in front of the New
Bern House or Charles Hotel, ex
tending midway of the block froir
9th to 10th streets. Another plat
form for the loading of seafood ir
carload lots was located between
7th and 8th streets.
During the height of the fishing
season bacfc in those days wher
thousands of boxes of seafood wen
being shipped out of this section
each week, it was necessary to start
loading in the early morning hours
Before the railroad was extended
to Beaufort, loading started aboul
3 o'clock in the morning at Piei
No. 1 where boats from Beaufort
and beyond unloaded their ship
meats. Local shipments in large
quantities were loaded from th<
8tb street platform. Helpers re
ceived the sum of 39 cents for tbeii
morning's work. Those were the
"good old days."
In 1806 the railroad company
constructed a new depot an<l
freight house in the center of Arerv
dell street just west of 7th street,
removing the old structure from ii
front of the hotel.
By Ruth Peeling
Carteret county lost two resi
dents this week. Mr. and Mrs.
George Freimanis of Harkers
Island, formerly of Latvia, have
left for Elizabeth, N. J., where
they will make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Freimanis fled
from the Russians during the sec
ond world war, spent five years
in a displaced persons camp in Ger
many and 14 months ago arrived in
the United States. Other Latvians,
Mr. and Mrs. John Mengelis and
family, who lived almost two years
on Harkers Island, assumed respon
sibility for the Freimanis's, but the
Mengelis's came to this country un
der the Baptist World Alliance
program. That family is now liv
ing in Quakertown, Pa., and are
earning a good livelihood, accord
ing to Mrs. Winfrey Davis, wife of
the pastor of the First Baptist
church. Beaufort.
Visit at Pastor's Home
Prior to leaving for New Jersey,
the Freimanis's spent several days
at the Davis home this week. Mr.
Freimanis worked in a bank in
their hometown of Liepaja, Latvia,
which is located on the Baltic sea.
His wife, a high school graduate,
speaks three languages in addition
to Latvian ? Russian, German, and
English.
Mr. Freimanfc, a handsome gen
tleman 66 years of age, has a shock
of white hair, a white mustache,
keen blue eyes, and an erect state
ly bearing. He understands Eng
lish but does not speak the lan
guage. Mrs. Freimanis, a very
friendly person, is 66, but not a
streak of grey shows in her brown
hair.
Their hate for the Communists
is intense. After their home was
partially destroyed by bombs Oct.
8 and 9, 1944, "the Communists
came in," relates Mrs. Freimanis
in her broken but good English,
"and both of us cannot stay in the
same place, either we go, or they
go, but they do not go, so we had
to get out.
"In the first world war. we (the
Latvians) were with the Ameri
cans. so Russia said. 'You are
friends with America, so you go to
Siberia!' " The Freimanis's and
many others of their city, which
had a population of about 04000
prior to the second world war, es
caped only through the kindness of
the ^ermans.
Germans Sent Ships
"They sent ships for us," de
clared Mrs. Freimanis. "They had
experience with the Russians dur
ing the first world war and they
knew what the Russians would do
to us. Each of those who were to
go to Germany was given num
bers, and the earliest notice we had
that we were leaving was several
hours."
The morning of Oct. 15, 1944
they were told that they should be
ready to leave at 3 o'clock that
afternoon. They could take noth
ing but some clothing and a few
linens. "We would pick up one
thing and put it in a box, and then
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6-Year-Old Girl
Struck by Car J
Six-year-old Georgia Gollehon,
Morehead City route 1, was treated
and discharged at Morehead City
hospital Wednesday afternoon after
she was struck by a car at 2:30
p.m.
The child suffered lacerations
and bruises. No charges were pre
ferred against the driver of the
car, Mrs. Helen Fitzpatrick Gilli
kin of Newport.
Mrs. Gillikin was proceeding to
ward Morehead City at approxi
mately 25 miles an hour. Patrol
man J. W. Sykes reported. She ap
proached the eastern end of the
loop road into Camp Glenn school
and said she saw Georgia at the
road. The child looked both ways
and Mrs. Fitzpatrick assumed she
had seen the approaching car.
However, when Mrs. Fitzpatrick
was about 10 feet from the young
ster, she darted out into the high
way. The impact threw the little
girl on to the shoulder of the road
and Mrs. Fitzpatrick picked her up
and took her to the hospital.
There the youngster was treated
and discharged.
Tide Table
Tide* it Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Oct 26
4:37 a.m. 10:48 a.m.
4:53 p.m. 11:09 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 27
5:34 a.m. 11:39 a.m.
5:41 p.m. 11:51 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. ZS
6:09 a.m.
6:26 p.*. 12:27 p.m.
Moaday, Oct. 29
6:52 a.m. 12:32 a.m.
7:10 p.m. 1:13 p.m.
Twaday, Oct. 30
7:35 a.m. 1:12 a.m.
7:M pjn. 1:80 p.m.
Mrs.G.T.Spivey
Will Conduct 1951
Sale of TB Seals
Stanley Woodland, County
Association President,
Reveals Appointment
Mrs. G. T. Spivey of Beaufort
will serve as chairman for the 1951
Christmas seal sale in Carteret
county. Stanley Woodland, presi
dent of the Carteret County Tuber
culosis association, announced to
day.
The sale of Christmas seals will
be conducted in the county by the
tuberculosis association from Nov.
19 to Dec. 25. This year's Christmas
seal sale, sponsored throughout the
nation by the 3,000 associations
affiliated with the National Tuber
culosis association, marks the 45th
anual Christmas seal drive in this
country.
In accepting the chairmanship,
Mrs. Spivey said today that she
was honored by the appointment
Mrs. G. T. Spivey
and she will do all she could to
make this year's Christmas seal
s^le the best the county has ever
had.
"I am proud to serve in any capa
city that helps the Carteret Coun
ty Tuberculosis association, which
is fighting 12 months a >+^r to
protect us against a disease which
is killing at the rate of one p4^*on
every 13 minutes in this country,"
said Mrs. Spivey.
Mrs. Spivey is a registered nurse,
a graduate of the Bullock hospital
in Wilmington. N. C. She was em
ployed by the Travellers Insurance
co. of Charlotte during the war and
did first aid work during construc
tion of Camp Davis and Camp Le
jeune.
She worked as an anesthetist at
Rex hospital in Raleigh for two
years before moving to Beaufort.
Mrs. Spivey was employed by the
Carteret county health department
during 1948-49 as registered nurse
in public health. Mrs. Spivey is
familar with trying to prevent and
cure TB in the county. She has
assisted in our drives for the past
several years.
Mrs. Spivey remarked yesterday.
"I am glad to do anything that 1
am capable of to help stamp out
this disease. I have seen it break
so many lives. It will be a pleasure
for me to feel that I am doing
something that may help the folks
that I know and love here in Car
teret county. While employed by
the health department, it* was my
privilege to find many friends
while doing my TB work. I know
their problems and, believe me,
they are serious.
"The TB association is working
for us the year 'round," Mrs. Spiv
ey pointed out, "yet it appeals just
once a year, with the Christmas
seal sale,, for financial support for
its many services. The forthcoming
Christmas seal sale will finance
the work of the association during
1952."
Mrs. Spivey also said that she
was "counting heavily" on Carteret
county people to volunteer their
services for Christmas seal work.
"I appeal to anyone who would
like to serve to get in touch with
me at Beaufort, my telephone num
ber is 2-5495," Mrs. Spivey added.
"We are going to get started as
soon as possible on Christmas seal
sale preparations and we need all
the help we can get."
Spoilage bom Dredging
To Co on Nearby Wand
Spoilage from the dredging oper
ations at Morehead City harbor
will be pumped northward in the
near future, to the island just east
of the Morehead City Yacht basin
and northwest of the Morehead Ci
ty bridge.
The dredgeboat crew from the
Atkinson Dredging co., Norfolk,
Ibis week laid pipe frost the bar
bor, under the bridge, and across
the marah. The pipe will pass un
der the water to keep clear the
channel from Newport river to the
yacht baiin.
Already pumped full ia the prop
erty between Trumbull Asphalt co.
and the Jefferson hotel, plua a
small area on Eaao property ncal
the bridge.
Woman Charged with Murder
Leaves Jail Under $1,000 Bond
Concessions Net
Jaycees $150 v
At Two Games
Osborne Davis announced at the
Beaufort Jaycee meeting Monday
night at liolden's restaurant that
the concessions at the Morehead
City and Swansboro football games
had netted the club $150.
James Allgood, assistant county
farm agent, spoke on benefits i
farmers will receive from the
Nickels for Know-How program
which farmers will decide upon in
a referendum Nov. 3. The voting
place in Beaufort will be C. G.
Gaskill's feed store on Lennoxville
road.
The Nickels for Know-How, if
passed by a two-thirds majority, he
said, will make it possible for five
cents to be collected on each ton
of feed and fertilizer sold in the
state. The proceeds will be hand
ed over, Allgood added, to the
Agricultural Foundations, inc., to
promote farm research and dissem
ination of acquired data.
Any child of school age, the Jay
cees announced, may enter the
Voice of Democracy contest which
every Junior Chamber of Com
merce club is sponsoring. The pu
pil writing the best essay on the
subject will win a $25 government
saving.s bond. The state winner will
receive a TV set.
Quarterly Meeting Anounced
Members were urged to attend
the quarterly district meeting, Oct.
30, by A. D. Ward of New Bern,
district vice-president.
The club discussed plans for the
completion of the repairs on the
bus the organization presented to
the athletic department of Beau
fort graded school.
The meeting adjourned after
hearing a secret report by Gene
Smith, president, on cfcib finances.
MapofNewTown
Area to be Filed
Among the processes necessary
to add a new section to the town
of Beaufort is the filing of a certi
fied map of the area, Dan Walker,
town clerk, reported today.
This map. when drawn up, will
be filed with the register of deeds,
Irvin Davis, and with the secretary
of state, Thad Eure. Raleigh.
The area which has recently be
come a part of the town extends
from the former town limits on
Front street east to Belle Aire
street. Members of the Tide
Water engineering staff arc now
making preparations to install
street lights and fire hydrants.
Garbage collection has already be
gun.
J. S. McGehee of the Gamewell
Alarm co., Atlanta, will be in town
within the next two weeks to con
fer on installation of the fire alarm
system in the new part of town.
Speed limit signs, 25 miles an
hour, have been ordered and will
be placed along the street, lower
ing the limit from 35 to 25 miles
an hour.
I Jaycees Sponsor,
Speaking Contest
Beaufort and Morehead City
Jaycees are jointly sponsoring in
this county the national Jaycee
competition, "I Speak for Democ
racy." The contest is open to stu
dents in 10th, 11th and 12th grades
and the Student who prepares the
best five minute talk will receive
a $25 savings bond.
Directing the contest are Lesta
Willis of the Morehead City Jay
icces and Dan Walker, Beaufort
Jaycees.
The talks will be based on con
tent. delivery, and originality and
should be "for democracy" talks,
not against other types of govern
ment, Walker commented. All en
tries must be ready for presenta
i lion by Friday, Nov. 9.
The county winner will enter
state competition and the state
winner will receive a television
set. or radio. There will be four
winners in the national contest,
each receiving WOO scholarships.
Those winners will also be given
an expense-paid week's trip to
Washington, Philadelphia, and New
York
?This is the fourth year the Jay
cees have sponsored the Voice of
Democracy contest*. There were
1,500 entrants last year and a total
of 5,800 during Um ttya* years.
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Officers Move Two Marines
To New Bern Prison
Farm Bureau Drive Will j
Close Thursday, Nov. 15
The county Farm Bureau drive
will close Thursday, Nov. 15.
This date was set at a recent
meeting of the Farm Bureau di
rectors.
The annual Farm Bureau bar
becue and meeting has been
scheduled for Wednesday, Nov.
21, with L. Y. Ballentine, com
missioner of agriculture, as
speaker.
To date the number of mem
berships received has been very
disappointing, remarked Ray
mond Ball, president of the Farm
Bureau, and unless a large num
ber of persons join the Farm
Bureau within the next several
weeks the county quota will not
be reached. The goal is 400 mem
bers.
B&PW Club Will
Sponsor 1952 J
March of Dimes
The Carteret Business and Pro
fessional Women's elub will spon
sor the March of Dimes in the
county in January. The request
that the club sponsor the campaign
came from A. H. James. Morehead
City, permanent county chairman.
Appointed to supervise the drive
on behalf of (he B&I'W club is Mrs.
Roma Noe, Beaufort. The cam
paign will open Jan. 2 and close
Jan. 31.
The club met Tuesday night at
the home ot Miss Ruth Peeling and
Miss Catherine Gaskill, 111 Pollock
St., Beaufort following dinner at
IMden'i restaurant. Two new
members, Mr*. Nellie Cannon, New
port, and Mrs. Wiley Tiylor, jr.,
Beaufort, were welcomed.
$5 Contributed
The group approved payment of
$5 to the Morehead City Woman's
club for the Care-for-Korea cam
paign with the stipulation that a
like amount be paid to the Beau
fort Woman's club if they, too,
sponsor a Care-for Korea drive.
Mrs. H. F. Lindsay of Morehead
City was appointed the club's rep
resentative to the civic council.
Morehead City, which will meet to
set up a calendar of events.
Because of the need for blood in
the Korean war. the club request
ed that the corresponding secre
tary, Mrs. Violet Howard, write
Red Cross headquarters in Char
lotte in regard to having a mobile
blood donor unit visit this county.
Vote on Program
The club voted on the national
B&PW program and reports on the
district meeting Sunday at Golds
boro were heard. Mrs. John Al
ford, chairman of the telephone
committee and Mrs. Lindsay, chair
man of the membership committee,
gave reports.
The Christmas meeting will take
place Wednesday. Dec. 19, rather
than the fourth Tuesday, which is
Christmas. The meeting will be in
the form of a progressive dinner,
different courses to be served at
various homes of the members.
Mrs. M. M. Ayscuc, district di
rector, urged members to attend
the mid-year council meeting at
Greensboro next month. Those
planning to go are Miss Betty Joy
ner, Mrs. Walter Laskar, Miss Lil
Morris. Mrs. Blanda McLohon, Mrs.
C. L. Beam, and Mrs. Ayscue. J
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Phone Official Says Ho flas
No Say-So in Moving Pole
L. A. Daniels, maniger of Caro
lina Telephone and Telegraph co..
said Monday that he can do nothing
to get his company to remove the
telephohe pole that stands on the
right-of-way at 33rd at. and Aren
dell, Morehead City.
The pole, forming an obstruction
on 33rd St., prevents the State high
way commission from completing
work on the thoroughfare which
runs from Arendell nortlf to high
way 70.
Daniels stated that all negotia
tions on getting the pole moved
have to be carried on between the
State Highway commission and the
Tarboro office of Carolina Tele
phone.
Residents of Out' vicinity are be
coming increasingly Incensed over
the telephone company's apparent
lack of cooperation or interest in
making it possible to have the road
completed.
The USS Fremont docked at port
terminal, Morehead City, Tuesday
and departed Wednesday alter un
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Mrs. Helen Foster, 21,
charged with second degree
murder of her husband, Har
vey L. Foster, waived exam
ination in recorder's court
Tuesday and was bound over
to superior court under $1,
O00 bond.
Mrs. Foster shot her
spouse with a .22 rifle Sun
day afternoon at their home
west of Morehead City on
the road leading to the
American Legion hut.
Mrs. Foster told policc officers
at the time of her arrest that she
shot Foster because he was beating
their 4-yearold son, Butch.
The case against Robert A.
Wzorek and Robert Swankc, Ma
rines stationed at Cherry Point, is
scheduled for a hearing next Tues
day. They are charged with break
ing and entering and looting busi
ness places in Beaufort and More
head City.
The two Marines were arrested
Sunday night at 10 o'clock near
Morehead City. They are now be
ing held in New Bern.
In the dual cases of Leslie C.
Guthrie against Dessie and Albert
Wade and the Wades against Guth
rie, all were given suspended sen
tences for charges of assault and
breaking the peace.
Mrs. Dessie Wade's sentence of
six months in the woman's prison
was suspended provided that she
stay on good behavior three years
and pay court costs.
Her husband, Albert, received a
similar suspended roads sentence.
He and his wife appealed the ease
to the superior court and were
placed under $100 bond each.
Guthrie's six months' sentence on
the roads was suspended provided
he remain on good behavior for the
next six months.
Family Dispute
The Wades and Guthries live on
Harkers Island where they became
involved in a dispute over Guth
rie's daughter striking Wade's
daughter Oct. 20.
Court testimony brought out that
the Guthrie girl, 12 years old,
struck the smaller Wade girl be
cause the latter taunted her about
See COURT, Page 3
Numerous Exhibits
Attract Crowds J
To County Fair
Premiums Paid Will Exceed
Last Year's; Crochet Con
test Winners Announced
The county fair exhibit building
is overflowing this year with com
mercial displays, farm products,
and fancy work. Mrs. Billie Smith,
in charge of exhibits, stated that
the amount paid in premiums this
year will exceed the more than
$600 awarded last year.
In the National Crochet contest
Mrs. Bryan Longest of Highland
Park won an eight inch gold loving
cup for the "best in fair" crocheted
piece, a tablecloth in mercerized
cotton. Mrs. Loyd Stoy won first
placc in the doily classification and
Mrs. James Skinner first place in
the novelty classification Mrs.
Skinner entered crocheted pot
holders.
These entries will next enter
state competition and state win
ners will then compete on the na
tional level.
Fireworks displays arc featured
at the fair nightly.
Spectators are mystified at the
Machine and Supply co. display
which shows water running in a
full stream from a spigot suspend
ed in mid air, the only attachments
to it being a few wires! There is a
display by the forestry division of
the Board of Conservation and De
velopment. a display by the North
Carolina Department of Motor Ve
hicles, exhibits by Tide Water
Power co., and Sound Appliance.
Clubs Exhibit
Home Demonstration clubs ex
hibiting at the fair are Wire Grass,
Russell's Creek. North River, and
Crab Point. Mrs. John Chaplain,
jr.. using the theme, Food as a
Weapon, has an attractive display
of colorful vegetables and home
canned foods. Also shown are
dresses made by 4-H girls and a
booth showing products from the
Carraway farms.
The 4-H exhibit, contrasting old
fashioned and modern methods of
curing sweet potatoes is the same
See FAIR, Page 2
Former Morehead Citian Tells
Of Experiences in War Zone
Jesse C. Smith, formerly of"
Morehead City, who is a pharma
cist's mate aboard the SS Duke
Victory of the United States mer
chant fleet, recently wrote, from
Japan, to his mother. Mrs. Simeon
Smith, 2300 Bridges st., Morehead
City.
His letter, telling of severe
storms at sea. and commenting on
the Korean war, is printed below.
Smith, who has two married daugh
ters, makes bis home in Fort
Meyers, Fla.
Karihama. Yokosuka. Japan
September 27th, 1951.
We arrived Pusan, Korea, on
August 24th after trying to dodge
a cyclone for three days, we did
manage to misa the worst of it. It
took until September 13th to dis
charge our cargo there, arrived in
Sasebo, Japan, on the 14th where
we discharged Jomc cargo for the
army picked up in Pusan. loaded
some trucks and proceeded to Yo
kahama, arriving there on Septem
ber 17th, discharged the trucks and
began loading a general army car
go for Okinawa, left Yokohama yes
terday the 26th and arrived here
in the afternoon, where we arc fin
ishing our load.
We have been alerted of another
cyclone, in fact there are three
playing around and we may lay
here until they have gone out of
our path, hope so for the one we
hit last trip wai enough for me. We
sustained quite a lot of damage to
the ship in addition to one man
with a broken back, another with
a broken neck and one with a brok
en arm, not so say anything about
the dozens of cuts and bruises. I
stayed in bed until the big sea that
did all the damage hit when they
called me to attend to the injured
men. I managed some how to set
the broken bones in the man's arm
and made the other two as com
fortable as possible under the cir
cumstances. The ship was rolling
aomething terrible. Every time 1
opened the sblp'i medicine chest
everything flew out all over the
deck and. believe me, with that and
the blood and salt water that was
on the main deck it was not a beau
tiful sight. We rushed as last as
pouible toward Yokohama but
were abput 28 hours reaching
there, then had to put them oil
. See SAILOR, rue I
Car Hits Child
In Morebead City
Ray Adams, 6 years old, ran into
the path of an oncoming car Wed
nesday on his way home from
school at noon time.
The accident occurred between
12th and 13th streets on Evans st.,
Morehead City. Driver of the au
tomobile, Myron Davis, stationed
at Fort Macon Coast Guard sta
tion, told Officer Herbert Griffin
that he was traveling west on
Evans when the child suddenly ran
out into the street.
Davis said he was going about
20 miles an hour and although he
slammed on the brakes, he could
not avoid hitting the boy.
Hay. son of Mrs. Marie Guthrie,
1311 Shackleford st., was taken to
the office of Dr. John W. Morris by
Kay Lewis who witnessed the acci
dent.
Dr. Morris said he believed
there were no broken bones, al
though the child was badly skinned
and bruised about the face and
arms. ?
Other witnesses, Mrs. Flora* Wil
lis, 1208 Is Evans, and Grady Davis
of Davis, corroborated Davis' story.
Thursday the Adams boy was
taken to a dentist to have three
teeth pulled. They were knocked
loose in the accident.
His aunt told THE NEWS-TIMES
Thursday that Ray is. getting along
very well, but that he will probably
be out of school for a week.
Beaufort FHA Chapter Will
Sponsor Dane* at 8 Toaigkl
The Beaufort Future Homemak
era of America chapter wilt spon
sor a dance from 8 to 11 p.m. Fri
day night at the Scout building.
Beaufort. Mrs. David Beveridge,
FHA adviser, announced that the
dance will be a costume affair and
prizes will be given for the beet
boy's coatume and the beat girl'a
coatume.
Sandwiches and drinks will be
sold and there will alao be enter
tainment