NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 5Q4 Arcndell St. MorahMd City PhoiM 6-4175 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+^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. l ? ft * ? ? 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 ./ 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 lotdiaj. Marin* 1^^90101 . * . ! ti\'H ?? 1 > 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