W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ,*
YEAR, NQ. 6. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS
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flrhree Defendants to Serve J
Ifrime; Assault Cases Dismissed |
layor George Dill
fill Speak at JC
ianquet Tonight
j|ey Man Award, Distin
guished Service Award
Will be Presented
George W. Dill, mayor of More
ad City, will be the guest speaker
night at the Beaufort Jaycee ban
let. Two Jaycee awards will also
presented, the Key man award
the Jaycee who has done the
lost outstanding work in the or
mi/.ation and a Distinguished
^rvice award to the young man
|ho has rendered the most out
anding service to Beaufort during
past year.
Jaycee Odell Merrill will present
||e Key man award and Jaycee
iley Taylor, winner of the DSA
i 1950. will present the Distin
nished Service award. The re
pients' names will not be reveal
I until tonight's banquet.
Mayor Dill will speak on Youth
leadership in Civic Affairs. Mayor
ill served as Carteret county's
?presentative in the state legisla
te last year and is active in
liamber of commerce work in
forehead City.
Tonight's banquet was originally
hedulcd for tomorrow night but
ie date was changed at the Jaycee
iceting Monday night. Dinner
ill be served at 7 p.m. by the
?caufort Parent-Teacher associa
lon in Beaufort school cafeteria.
Previous winners of the I)SA in
ieaufort are John Butler, John
jlaynes, and Taylor. No award
as presented last year.
Attending tonight's affair will be
uycees, their wives, and as special
uests members of town civic
fobs.
farm Agent Goes
To Two Meetings
At the request of A. V. Thomas,
ormer county agent in Jones coun
y, who is now affiliated with the
New Bern Oil and Fertilizer eo.,
?ounty agents of five counties, in
luding Carteret, met at New Bern
Monday night to discuss promotion
if a better feed and livestock pro
Ijram.
I Also attending the session were
C. S. Mint/, district farm agent, and
C. F. Parrish, extension poultry
specialist.
Thomas presented a proposal
thereby commercial establish
ments will supply farmers with
chicks and feed and when the floclc
matures and is sold, the farmer
will repay to the company the cost
of chicks, etc. R. M. Williams,
farni agent, remarked that this plan
has worked exceedingly well in
other parts of the state.
To increase corn production,
prizes will be given also to the
farmers obtaining the highest
yields.
j Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to Williams, were James All
good, assistant county agent, and
county agents from Onslow, Jones,
Craven, and Pamlico counties.
Williams also attended a state
meeting of the County Agents asso
ciation Saturday at State college,
Raleigh. As chairman of the
eastern district county agents asso
ciation, Williams is a member of
the state board of directors.
The men discussed appointment
of agents throughout the districts
to various committees in the state
association. The meeting was held
in the YMCA on the college cam
pus.
D. S. Weaver, director of the
State college extension service, at
tended.
Dr. Eugene Boelois Speaks
At Beaufort Botary Meeting
Dr. Eugene Roelofs, finfish spe
cialist with the Institute of Fish
eries Research, Morehead City,
spoke Tuesday night to Beaufort
Rotarians on formation of the outer
banks of North Carolina.
During the business session
which followed dinner at the Inlet
inn, the Rotarians voted a contri
bution of $25 to the Beaufort
Cemetery association. .
James Bardesly Faces
Trial en Double Charge
Being held in the county jail
under $200 is Jarties Hardesty who
was arrested in Beaufort Wednes
day on a charge of being drunk and
threatening to kill his wife with an
old-fashioned double-barreled mus
ket.
The arrest was made by Officer
Bertie C. Piner and Chief Carlton
Garner. Hardesty will be tried
Tuesday in recorder's court.
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? Three defendants were handed^
jail sentences in recorder's court
Tuesday in Beaufort. Judge Lam
bert Morris sentenced Walter Chad
wick to six months on the roads for
failure to support his child. John
Ellison and George Copes, each of
whom pleaded guilty to public
drunkenness and being public nui
sances were given 30 days in jail.
The judge dismissed the case of
the state vs. Sam Green, Charles
Hardesty, Dave Henry, Levi and
Nehemiah Williams, and Troy An
derson, all of whom were charged
with assault with a deadly weapon.
Also dismissed was the case against
Sam Morris and James McCray,
charged with assault. ( McCray 's
name appeared as Haywood on the
original warrant).
The prosecuting witness was tax
ed with costs and ordered to pay
$12 in doctor bills in the case of
Ernest Barrett who was charged
with assault with a deadly weapon,
inflicting serious bodily injury.
Barrett's wife alleged he hit her pn
the head with a bottle. The case
was sent to recorder's court from
Beaufort mayor's court.
Violates Fish Law
Clement Willis, charged with
taking scallops on closed days, was
found guilty and paid costs. Charlie
See COURT, Page 4
Morehead Jaycees
Contribute $17.42 ,
To March of Dimes
Morehead City Jaycees have per
sonally contributed $17.42 to the
county March of Dimes.
At their meeting Monday night
Kenneth Wagner, chairman of the
Jaycee scrap metal drive, said the
first collection of scra'fc will take
place Wednesday. March 5.
A proposal that a Jaycee be per
mitted to remain in the organiza
tion until the end of the current
fiscal year (should he reach the
retirement age prior to the end of
that year) was defeated. Presen
tation of an "exhausted rooster"
pin to each member who reaches
Jie age of 36 was approved.
Oscar Ely was elected JC
"sheriff." He will fine each man
who talks out of turn or otherwise
causes a disturbance during busi
ness sessions. The maximum fine
will be 20 cents and proceeds will
be put in the club's good-time
fund.
Bill Godwin reported on the
point system to be set up. Under
this system Jaycees will be given
credits for extent of participation
in club activities.
At the request of Scout officials,
the Jaycees relinquished sponsor
shin of Scout troop No. 130 to en
able the First Methodist church to
act as sponsor.
Sal Palazzo, chairman of next
months scrap paper drive, an
nounced that the paper will be col
lected the first Sunday in Febru
ary.
Polio Chapter
Spent $1,853 .31
During Past Year
Upon Payment for Recently
Ordered Braces, Funds
Will Be Exhausted
The Carteret county chapter of
the National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis spent $1,853.31 to as
sist a total of five polio patients
last year, it was revealed today by
Mrs. Ghermann Holland, chapter
chairman.
On hand at present are enough
funds to pay only for braces re
quired by one of the polio patients.
Making public the 1951 financial
report of Mrs. G. W. Duncan, chap
ter treasurer, Mrs. Holland de
clared that services made possible
I through funds raised in the 1951
March of Dimes underlined the
need for a successful 1952 drive.
"The record of what has been
done makes us all eager to con
tinue and to expand this work as
needed," she said. "Unfortunate
ly, even if we had no cases of ih
fantile paralysis in our county in
1952, there remains much to be
done for patients stricken in 1951
or before. Of the five patients
aided in 1951, two were old cases,
three new ones. The toll of polio
continues on into the next year or
years."
The report showed that $1,843.31
was expended for hospitalization of
polio patients whose families could
not afford full cost of care them
selves. The sum of $10 went for
administrative costs.
The Carteret county March of
Dimes last year raised $4,000, of
which 50 per cent was retained for
local services and 50 per cent sent
to national headquarters for its
scientific research and professional
education programs, as well as
emergency aid to chapters. The
national office supplements local
funds when high incidence wipes
cit local resources. During the
year the chapter sent $700 to na
tional headquarters to help chap
ters that had used up their local
funds.
Farmers Attend Tractor
Maintenance Meetings
Two tractor maintenance meet
ings were held in the county Wed
nesday at Jim Young's store, Stella?
and Cleve Gillikin's store, Bettie.
The meetings were conducted by
J. C. Ferguson, agriculture en
gineering specialist of State col
lege. Farm specialists urge farm
ers to take precautions in operat
ing farm machinery as economical
ly as possible due to the growing
scarcity of materials for manufac
ture of farrii equipment and in
creasing high cost of crop produc
tion.
Last Chance!
This is your last chance to say what you think about the presidential
race. Ballots flooding into the NEWS-TIMES office continue to show
a decided leaning toward a Republican in the White House beginning
with November 1952. '
1. Do you believe the present government, known as the Tru
man administration, is corrupt?
YES Q NO Q
2. Would you vote for Truman if he is a candidate for re
election to the Presidency?
YES Q NO ?
3. If you don't like Truman and want to vote the Democratic
ticket for whom would you like to vote? (At present Sen.
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee is the only Democrat who has
expressed interest in seeking the Presidency, although
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson has been mentioned).
4. If a Democrat, would you vote for a Republican for Presi
dent if you thought the Republican candidate was the man
for the job?
YES
?
NO
?
If offered the following choice of candidates, which one
would get your vote? (If your man is not included on the
following list, write in the name of the man you'd select
as President).
Check one:
TRUMAN
TAFT
EISENHOWER
STASSEN
WARREN
DEWEY
MACARTHUR
KEFAUVER
VINSON
(After answering theae questions, clip qut and mall to THE
NEWS-TIMES, Morehead City, N. C, or bring to the office
in person. Do not sign your name).
Carolina Telephone Company to Build
New $ 45,000 Commercial Office , Beaufort
Housing Authority^ to Provide New Homes
i st
The contract for building 25 low
rental housing units in Morthead
City has been let to the Coggins
Construction co., Raleigh, I. E. Pitt
man, Morehead City, representa
tive for the Kast Carolina Regional
Housing Authority, reported yes
terday.
The units will be laid out in a
"park" plan in an area west of the
eemetery. Pictured above is a
three-bedroom unit. The low
rental housing development for col
ored people, also 25 units, will be
located in the vicinitf of the old
W. S. King school.
The 25 units will be of the fol
lowing size: two one-bedroom
homes, 12 two-bedroom homes,
eight three-bedroom homes, and
three four-bedroom homes. A 25
unit development is designed to
accommodate 107 persons.
Construction is expected to be
gin in the near future.
March of Dimes Treasurer Reports;
30 Countians Stricken ivith Polio
Banked to date in the current*
March of Dimes drive is $1,206.77,
Mrs. C. L. Beam, March of Dimes
treasurer, reported today. The
quota for Carteret county is $7,500.
Only two schools, Beaufort and
Morehead City, have turned in col
lections thus far. A cash prize
will go to the room in each school
in the county that brings in the
most money, Mrs. Roma Noe, cam
paign chairman, reported yester
day.
Cards Lacking
She added, however, that com
munity chairmen who were sup
posed to send in cards giving esti
mates of the amount collected thus
far in their communities have not
done so. These cards were to be
mailed no later than Tuesday.
Chairmen arc urgently requested
to put these cards in the mail as
MARCH OF DIMES SCOREBOARD
Beaufort School $412.95
Morehead City School $341.90
soon as possible so that an esti
mate may be obtained on how far
the campaign has progressed.
Bear to Appear
Smokey, a live bear, will be in
Beaufort tomorrow morning from j
10 a.m. until noon to help promote
the March of Dimes. In conjunc
tion with his appearance, a block
of dimes will be laid on the north
side of Front street from Joe
House's Drug store to Lipman's.
The bear will be in front of the
drug store. If it is raining or
stormy, Smokey will not make his
appearance and the event will be
postponed until a later date, Mrs.
Noe said.
Smokey is doing his part for the
March of Dimes through the co
operation of the North Carolina
Forestry division, R. C. Winkworth,
district forester, and E. M. Fore
man, Carteret county ranger. Be
sides rain, the only other factor
which would prevent showing of
the bear would be a forest fire
where Ranger Foreman's services
would be required.
Get License Tags,
Official Warns
Raleigh. ? A reminder to hurry
and get your new license plate
came from the Department of Mo
tor Vehicles today. Last year's
plates will become invalid at the
end of the 30-day grace period mid
night Jan. 31.
So far. Commissioner L. C. Ros
ser said, there have been only 500,
000 new tags sold, leaving roughly
600,000 to go. With the deadline
nearing, motorists are going to
have to hurry up to avoid the rush
of last minute buyers, he warned.
The 1952 tags have been on sale
throughout the state since Dcc. 1.
Approximately half of Carteret
county's vehicle owners have pur
chased their tags, according to a
report from the Carolina Motor
club office. Morehcad City. Less
than two weeks remain for an esti
mated 2.000 more to make tbeir
purchase.
Sold to date are 2,180 auto tags.
4 for motorcycles. 316 for private
trucks. 61 for farm trucks. 119 for
Z trailers, and 8 for C trailers.
Tags are sold in the loan depart
ment office of the First Citizens
Bank and Trust co., Arendeil St..
Morehead City, where the Carolina
Motor club agency is located.
Only one license plate is being
issued this year and is to be at
tached to the rear of the vehicle.
Clerk Returns
Mrs. Elbert Pittman of Davis re
sumed work in the clerk's 0(ice,
court house, Beaufort, Monday,
after a long absence.
Jury Acquits Driver oi Car
Which Killed L. A. Kellum
A coroner's jury exonerated
Lewis Clark Ilowlett, Havelock,
Monday night. Ilowlett was
driver of the car which struck
and killed L. A. Kellum of Hu
bert Sunday night near Swaiw
boro. Ilowlett was held in jail
from the time of the accident un
til the jury acquitted him of
blame in the accident. He was
unable to post $500 bond under
which he was being held.
The inquest was held in the
sheriff's office at the court house,
llcaufort, by Coroner Leslie I).
Springle.
Hertford Women
Pisfet Proposed
Phone Rate Rise
Ahoskie. ? The farm women of
Hertford county don't want the
State Utilities commission to grant
any rate increases to the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraphl com
pany.
Th$ home demonstration clubs,
with Mrs. Lydia Booth, county
home agent, as spokesman, have
asked the county commissioners to
join them in protest against pro
posed increases, and at a recent
session of the county board, the
commissioners voted unanimously
to ask their clerk, T. D. Northcott,
to write to the commission in Ra
leigh and protest the increases
sought by the company.
At last week's meeting of the
farm women's county council held
in Ahoskie plans for the year's
work, representatives from every
community in the county declared
their opposition to the proposed
upping of telepHone rates.
They asked their agent, Mrs.
Booth, to solicit the support of the
commissioners. The county board's
action followed, with W. H. Bas
night. Ahoskie member and lead
ing wholesaler of this area, making
the motion. E. C. Callis, Harrells
ville member and banker, seconded
the move.
The Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph company serves all of
Hertford county and adjacent areas
including Carteret. Its petition for
increase in rates throughout its sys
tem is now pending with the utili
ties commission, and a public hear
ing is to be held in Raleigh to hear
protests against the raises.
Beaufort Jaycees to Stage
Minstrel Revne in March *
Beaufort Jaycees decided Mon
day night at their meeting in Hol
dcn's restaurant to stage a minstrel
rcvu in March. Odell Merrill was
named chairman of the committee,
and will be assisted by Robert Ste
phens and Thomas H. Potter. Hoi
den Ballou was named by Presi
dent Gene Smith as publicity chair
man.
Jaycees arc now seeking talent
for the show ? end men, chorus
members, and other persons inter
ested should contact Chairman
Merrill.
Office Moved
The sheriff's office in the court
house is now located at the east
end of the main hall in the office
formerly occupied by the tax col
lector. The tax collector has moved
to the office formerly occupied by
the register of deeds. The sheriff's
office, formerly opposite the regis
ter of deeds office, will be used
ai a grand jury room.
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? Thirty persons in Carteret coun
ty have suffered attacks of polio
within the past ten years. Informa
tion on them, released by the coun
ty health department, follows:
their name, address, age at the
time they were stricken.
1942: Marita Guthrie, Harkers
Island, 14 months old; Mrs. Lynn
Farlser, Bogue, 25 years old; Mrs.
Nellie Parker, Newport, 23.
1943: None.
1944: Virginia Hassell, 7, Beau
fort.
1945: Esther Gillikin, 2, route 1
Beaufort; Cecilia Estelle Skarrcn,
2, Beaufort.
1946: Reginald D. Adams, 6,
Bogue; Eric Pake, 6, Bettie; Dallas
Guthrie, 4, Harkers Island; Dennis
Guthrie, 2, Harkers Island; Olivia
Yeomans, 2, Harkers Island.
1947: Nola Dare Rose. 9. Har
kers Island; Herman Wetherington.
4, Morehead City; Dennis Guthrie.
6, Harkers Island.
1940: R9ivGr4cfr.no falter. S H
? W. Path; Doidtfiy Murray, 4, route
1 Beaufor' . Jasper Lawrence, 4.
Morehead City; Barbara Allen
Davis, 10, Harkers Island; Willie
Preston Willis. 2, Williston; Jean
Chad wick, 7, Beaufort; Richard Sal
ter, 7, Sea Level; Barny Alphonso
Sutton, 4, Beaufort; Rosa Lee Brit
ton, 30, route 1 Beaufort; Lee Bry
ant Jenkins, 8, Morehead City,
(lives in Kinston now); Davis Tay
lor, 11, Sea Level.
1949: Marlene Fulford? 18.
Morehead City.
1950: Robert Wetherington, 5.
Beaufort.
1951: Ray Golden, jr., 7, Bettie;
Richard Carraway, 3, South River.
David Harris, Marshallberg. was
stricken with polio but has since
moved from this county.
PTA Hears Glee
Clubs Monday
The Morchead City Parent-Teach
er Association met Monday evening
in the school auditorium and hear^
a program by the glee clubs under
the direction of Ralph Wade.
They sang Come to the Fair, by
the girls' glee club; Over the Sum
mer Sea, chorus: Some Folks Do,
boys' glee elub; The Bull Dog, boys'
glee club; Mighty-Land, Wondrous
Land, chorus; and This Is My Land,
chorus.
The winners of the attendance ban
ners for this month were Mrs. D.
Cordova's ninth grade, high achool:
Mrs. Robert Taylor's 6th and 7th
grades, elementary; and Mrs. Ella
Quinn Morgan's third grade, pri
mary.
Winners in the membership con
test were Mrs. G. T. Windell's sec
ond grade, 35 pupils, 37 members,
and Mrs. S. C. Holloway's third
grade, 37 pupils, 46 members.
Firemen Answer Call
Beaufort firemen answered a
call to put out a grass fire Wed
nesday at 4 p.m. at Live Oak and
Pine st. No damage was caused.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Jan. 18
11:54 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
6:15 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 19
12:30 a.m.
12:41 p.m.
6:51 a.m.
7:02 p.m.
Sunday, Ian. 20
1:23 a.m.
1:36 p.m.
7:51 a.m.
7:56 p.m.
Monday, Jin. 21
2:24 a.m.
2:39 p.m.
8:50 a.m.
8:58 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 22
3:31 a.m.
3:47 p.m.
10:05 a.m.
10:04' p.m.
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph CO., has requested
permission to build a new $45,000 central office in Beau
fort. Clearance for construction was obtained from the
town planning board, Hitting as the board of adjustment,
Tuesday iiit^ht.
The brick building, 10 by -15 feet, will go up on Turner
street north of the American Le ?
gion hut. Telephone officials state I
that they hold on option on lot 92
which will be about 203 Turner
st.. according to Gerald Woolard.
building inspector.
At present the telephone oil ice is
located on the east side ?>i Turner
street near Front.
Construction of the new building 1
will not begin before spring, offi
cials said. Plans have not yet been I
drawn.
Per mission to place the structure j
at the proposed location was re
quired because that section is j
zoned as residential. The adjust
ment board agreed to the proposal
in the belief that the location of
the building close to the down
town area was in the public inter
est and also because the building
will be of resident type architec
ture. This special dispensation,
board members said, in no way
changes the other regulations as to
buildings in that area.
Appearing before the board
were C. K. Jones and J. S. Day.
telephone officials from Tarboro.
and K. W. Olschner, Morchcad City. ,
a retired telephone company offi
cial.
The telephone company men
stated that from November 1945
to November 1950 their assets in
Beaufort have increased by $150,
000. They also stated that in No
vember 1045 there were 430 phones
in Beaufort and five years later
there were 859.
All members of the board of ad
just ment vutc at Tuesday's meet
ing, Dr. VV. L. Woodard, chairman,
Braxton Adair. Ilalse.v Paul. Robert
Stephens, and Mrs. Helen llatsell.
George McNeill ,
To Present DSA
George McNeill, charter presi
l&ntlif the eiiT^fV ?t\ Jaycees, |
will present tr?e annual distinguish
ed service award at the banquet
Monday night at The Steak House.
The recipient's name will not be
revealed until the time oi presen
tation.
Guests at the banquet will be j
introduced by Jaycee President I
Jimmy Wallace and speakers will !
be introduced by Robert Howard, j
Bill Chalk will present special
awards.
The banquet will begin at 7
o'clock with the invocation by J.
K. Sanders and dancing will fol
low the program.
In charge of the DSA banquet is
Walter Morris. Others serving on
the committee are Sanders, Jimmy
Mccks and Wallace.
Recipients of the DSA in pre
vious years are D. G. Bell. A. B.
Cooper. A. B. Roberts. Sanders,
Wallace, and Robert Lowe.
Holland Goes Free
On Theft Count
Drunkenness, Motor Vehicle
Law Violations Crowd
Morehead Court Docket
Tile charge against Charles Hol
land, that of breaking and entering
on Dee. 8 room 13 at the Edgewatcr
hotel, Morehead City, and taking
?18 belonging to Troy Anderson,
didn't stick. Judge George McNeill
found Monday in recorder's court,
Morehead City, no reason for hold
ing the defendant.
Another case against Holland, as
sault with a knife, will go before
the grand jury in March. Holland
and Harkless Wooten of Morehead
City are both alleged to have been
in a knifing and shooting brawl
last month at the Edgewater hotel.
On two charges of public drunk
enness Johnnie Logue was found
guilty on one count and on the
other ordered to pay $10 and costs.
Pern Clark pleaded guilty to public
drunkenness and paid costs. Tom
inie I.. Vinston and J. W. Brown
were charged with fighting on the
streets. Vinston was found not guil
ty but Brown pleaded guilty and
paid court costs.
Giles Littlcjohn pleaded guilty
t?> being drunk and disorderly in
the court room and paid court
costs. Charles Herbert Davis, An
drew Thomas Pachut and Morris
Hay Williams pleaded guilty to fail
in;: to stop at a stop sign and each
paid court costs.
John Senediak paid $10 and costs
for passing a stop sign and driving
without a license.
The stato decided not to prose
cute Henry L. Gilpin on the charge
of (Jriving without a license but
on a charge of allowing an unli
censed person to drive he paid one
half the court costs.
Dennis T. Sullivan pleaded guil
ty to passing another car at an in
tersection and paid court cost*.
Woodard F. A I ford pleaded guilty
to having no clearance lights and
Thomas C. Cole to driving with in
sufficient brakes, resulting in an
accident. Each paid court costs.
E. W. Bender paid half court
costs for parking across the side
walk. Horace Kil patrick pleaded
guilty to driving with an expired
operator's license and paid costs.
Defendants charged with speed
ing and penalties follow: George
W. Huntley, jr., $25 and costs;
Charles Lawson Snyder, $10 and
costs; George K. Witter, $10 and
costs; Eddie W. Collins, Wallace
N. Smith, Harry S. Davis, William
C, Fulcher, Mrs. Opal 1. Arthur,
and Norman William Walker, costs.
Second Slaughter Son Enters y
Korean War; Brother Killed
Serving in Korea is First Sgt. |
Mather H. Slaughter, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Slaughter, Newport,
whose brother was killed in com
bat in Korea in September 1950.
All of the Slaughter boys have
service records. In addition to
Mather, a son. Roger, is serving in
Germany, another son. Bernice,
was recently discharged from the
Navy, and Vernon served in the
second world war.
Mather, who is with the third
armored cavalry division, has been
in the Army six years, stationed
at Fort Knox, Ky. His wife, the
former Essie Border of Kentucky
lives in her home slate.
Roger, a master sergeant, has ;
been in the Army three years in I
Germany. His wife, the former j
Ruth Hutchins of Brunswick, Ga..
lives at Brunswick with their two
sons. Walter, 10, and Tommy. 5.
bernice, a first class electrician's
mate in the Navy, served six years
through the second world war and
1 had ships sunk from under him
three times. As a Naval Reservist,
he was called back to duty a year
ago and was just recently dis
charged. He and his wife, the for- j
mer Lucille Tallman, and three- 1
year-old son, Bruce, live in San '
Francisco. The Slaughters have
never seen Grandsbn Bruce.
Vernon, who lives near Newport,
was a technical sergeant at the
time of his discharge from the i
Army after the second world war. j
His wife is the former Elizabeth
Garner of Newport. They have
three children, Kay, Judy, and
Denny.
A married daughter, Mrs. Pau
line Louliese of Portsmouth, Va.,
who has a son. Jimmy, 3, and two
other daughters, Claudette, 15, and
Inez, 11, round out the Slaughter
family.
Mather was in Japan Jan. 2 and
was scheduled to depart for Korea
the following day.
Morehead City Police
Investigate Oyster Theft
Morehead City police were in
vestigating today a theft of oysters
from Luke Dudleys oyster house,
Morehead*City.
The place was entered Sunday
night by a hasp being pried off the
door on the west side. Taken was
a gallon of opened oysters and two
to three bushels of oysters in the
shell. Chief of Police E. J. Willis
and Capt. Herbert Griffin investi
gated.
The oyster house is located on
the north side of town between
9th and 10 streets.
Two Cars Collide Tuesday
On Evans St., Morehead
A car driven by John Thomas
Conner, jr.. 2716 Avon ave., col
lided at 8:15 Tuesday night on
K vans st.. Morehead City, with an
other car driven by Rufus Sewell,
115 Front st., Beaufort.
Conner was proceeding east on
Kvans and at the time of the acci
dent was being clocked by Lt. Carl
Blomberg of the police force. The
officer reported that Conner ?truck
the Sewell car as Sewell was pull
ing out from the curb.
Conner, who was driving his
father's car. has been charged with
speeding at 30 miles an hour. Dam
age to the Conner automobile
amounted to $67.81 and to tfcv
Sewell car $10.