NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St. Morehead City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c Eight Page* Color Comic* 41st YEAR, NO. 20. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS NewportCommissionerResigns; Charles Hill Fills Vacancy J Board Wants Well Dug; Con-' siders Extension of Town Limits Westward The Newport town board accept ed the resignation Tuesday night of Commissioner Ormsby Mann. In his place they appointed Charles Jiill who was administered the oath ? of office at the meeting by Justice of the Peace A. L. Wilson. Commissioner Mann said that since he started work at Cherry Point it is impossible for him to attend board meetings or devote the time necessary to a comniis sioners job. The board authorized the adver tising of bids for the digging of .1 well in the Cherry Point Veterans Mutual Housing association project. The board said that the well must be six inches and put down to depth of a good flow of water. Town Addition Proposed They also considered extension ,of the town limits westward and Mayor Charles Gould, jr.. was au thorized to contact residents of the area to learn their feeling toward the proposal. The mayor said that many persons have already ap proached hiip saying they want to become a part of the town. The commissioners authorized Mayor Gould and Commissioner Edgar Hibbs to appear before the -county board next month and ask that the Nine foot road be contin ued to join directly with highway 70 instead of turning at right an gles, going eastward and then join ing with 70 at the railroad. L. C. Carroll appeared before the board and asked that a ditch along his property be cleared out. Com missioner Early Mann said that he would contact the county road su perintendent, J. L. Humphrey, and request that the work be done. Chief 111 Mayor Gould reported that the | police chief, Charlie Garner, was j seriously ill and could not carry out his duties until he recovers. The board felt that there was no need to hire a substitute. The board gave approval to a re quest by B. T. Burroughs, sr., for a plot of ground for the Missionary Baptist church. The site will be at tfce western edge of the housing project jicar Hie Curt Capnnon ?property. ? , Commissioner M. D. McCain ex pressed doubt as to the advisability of placing the church there be cause it is in the section desig nated as industrial. Burroughs said, however, that the congrega tion favored that site over any other, so the commissioners com plied with his request. Burroughs also appeared at February's meet ing in regard to the church prop erty. The board turned down an offer of $25 for the building that former lv housed the chlorinator for the housing project water system. They felt that the building may be need tl in the future. Leonard Carroll was given per mission to cut down a dead tree in front of his residence. The board also stated that Carroll should re store his sidewalk to the proper level. The "walk" had been pulled up into the yard to heighten the ground level there. Commends Health Officer The mayor commended the coun ty health department for its prompt action in condemning the Campbell property which burned recently at Newport. He also said that Mrs. Blanche Edwards was concerned about au tomobiles running over her prop erty, damaging shrubs and the side walk. The board decided that the town could no nothing about it and suggested that Mrs. Edwards put up posts to keep automobiles off. It was reported that some New port motorists have not yet bought town tags. Because only 12 remain, 35 additional tags were ordered. The town clerk. Miss Edith Lockey, reported that the balance in the town treasury as of March 1, 1952 was $9,335.75. Town Extension j Formally Enacted Beaufori Board Meets Mon day, Accepts Besignation Of Officer B. C. Piner The portion of Front street ex tended, Beaufort, from the old town limits east to Belle Air street formally became a part of the town of Beaufort Tuesday with the fil ing of a map with the register of deeds of the county and with filing of legally-required papers and map with the secretary of state. At the town board meeting Mon day at the town hall, Dan Walker. Jaycee and town clerk, said that the Jaycee survey to be presented to the board in regard io further extension of limits east on Front ai\l Ann st. had not been com pleted. Officer Resigns The board accepted the resigna tion of Police Officer Bertie C. Piner, the resignation to become effective March 31. Officer Piner said that since the automobile ac cident in which he was injured Dec. 5, he finds it impossible to work the loni? hours required. The town clerk read a letter of application for the position of police officer. The application was submitted by Jack Glover. No action was taken. Commissioner Carl Hatsell ex pressed the opinion that the police i orce should be enlarged. Commissioner Cliff Lewis said the garbage ordinances .should be enforced, and added: "What are we going to do about it, nothing as usual?" The town clerk reported that handbills setting forth the garbage Sro l:x h:\'NIay that Vie W 'Ttffe Jit Kouires people will drive the li.*n I out rather than the porpoise if they persist in their proposal to shoot at or dynamite the playful mam inals which fishermen say are de stroyuig the fish. The Wildlife officials attempted Saturday to herd the porpoise south, under Memorial bridge on highway 158 and out into the ocean. Boats converged on the herd but the mammals outdis tanced the craft which were travel ing at 35 miles an hour and men in the boats said the animals evi dently thought the whole thing was a game ? even when rifles were fircKl in their direction. To support his statement that the Wildlife officials will probably* destroy more fish .aid waterfowl than they will porpoise, I)r. Kritz ler commented that fish aren't very bright "but the porpoise has a lot more sense than people are in clined to suspect." They're smarter than dogs, he declared. Th* porpoise now onusing jmich "nsi Sing at 8 Tonight The Beaufort Choral club con ccrt. lo be given at 8 o'clock to night in Ihe Beaufort school audi torium, will be the first appearance of the Choral club this season. Proceeds from the concert will go to the organ fund of Ann Street Methodist church. Choral, semi classical. and musical comedy num bers will be sung. Members of the choral club are as follows: Thelma Branch, Helen Jones, Mary Post, Marilou Paulsen Jones. Ann Stanley, James Webb, Sal Palazzo, and Joe Reilly, all of Morehead City. Garland Morriss, Atlantic; Sally Herring, Marie Webb, Jacqueline Hancock. Nancy Whitehurst. Nita Jarman, Barbara Harris. Elizabeth House, Julia Kelly. Patsy Miller, Margaret Thompson. Sara Daniels, Bitsy Brooks, Ly dia Paul. Nancy Russell, Peggy Blankenship, Merry Johnson. Mary Sue Lynch, Catherine Noe, Connie Lewis, Peggy Langdale, Lctitia Simpson, Earl Lewis. James Davis. Warren Grant, George Lewis. Alvin Hansen. James Wheatley. George Stafford. Earl Willis, John Lynch and B. G. O'Neal. Director of the chorus is Mrs. Charles Hassell. Real Estate Firm Formed Filed Tuesday in the office of secretary of state, Thad Eure, were incorporation papers for Carteret Services, inc., Beaufort, to deal in real estate. Authorized capital stock 9100,000, subscribed stock $1,900 by William PpUer, Eulalie Potter, both of Beaufort, and George McNeill, Morebud City. Coast Guardsman From Beaufort trf - ? , ?*. Serves on Legare Boatswain Lloyd R. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd 11. Smith, Beaufort RFD, and brother of Mrs. John Lockey, Morehead City, is a member of the erew of the Coast Guard cutter Legare which two weeks ago performed heroic rescue attempts in the raging winter gale off Cape Cod. The Legare searched five days in choppy, icy seas for the New Bed ford, Mass., trawler, Paulina, and her seven-man crew. The only thing the crew found in spite of their untiring search was wreckage from the Paolina. Smith, who is stationed at New Bedford, attended Beaufort school, and will round out 15 years in the Coast Guard this month. The Legare almost went under several times while fighting the same gigantic seas which spelled disaster for two 10,000-ton tankers. The cutter was reported to have suffered the most extensive dam age of any of the Coast Guard ves sels on duty during the gale. She returned to port minus a motor launch, a port bridge ladder, and was pulled apart in so many places the deck leaked. After five days of taking a ter rific beating, the Legare was or dered to home port Monday by the cutter Eastwind, command ship at sea. Authorities Seek i Adolphus Frazier The sheriff's department was looking yesterday for Adolphus Krazier, North Harlowe, whose car is being held by authorities. Found in the automobile Wednesday were parts of a liquor still. /?'raiier had just gotten out of court Tuesday with a six-month sentence, suspended providing he behaved himself. He was also fined $150 and costs after being found guilty of careless and reck less driving and drunken driving. Frazier's car, a 1939 Ford, was stopped Wednesday afternoon on highway 101 nfear the Core Creek bridge by State Highway Patrolmen J. W. Sykes and Robert Brown. Frazier got out and ran but two persons riding witb him, Rosetta Williams and Wilbur Davis, were booked on charges of drunkenness and aiding and abetting in trans portation of parts of a liquor stili. They were put in the county jail and released Wednesday night under |100 bond each. , -Frazier is being charged with transporting parts of a still. f ? V1 " '? ? T Three Marines Hurt Yesterday As Car Crashes Three Marines from Camp Le jeune were seriously injured at 1 :30 a.m. yesterday morning in a collision involving three vehicles near the intersection of highways 24 and 70. west of Morehead City. Grady K. Townsend. driver of the car. James G Schmitz, and L. F. McCarthy were taken to More head City hospital and then trans ferred to hospitals at Cainp Le jeune and Cherry I'oint. Townsend. in a 11149 model car, accompanied by his buddies, side swiped a 1050 model car driven by Itryan Worthington. Worthington, who was uninjured, was on high way 24. enroutc to Beaufort from Fort Jackson. S. C. Instead of stopping. Townsend rushed on to ward the intersection of highway 70. When reaching 70, he was unable to make the turn and went into a skid across the highway and into the path of an oncoming Lloyd Fry Hoofing co. tractor trailer. The truck was traveling west on high way 70 at about 3r> miles per hour and to avoid a head-on collision, the driver, Harvey Meadows, pulled to the right. Townsend struck the trailer's left front. Walter Edwards, assistant man ager of the Fry plant, said the tractor is a total loss and the tan dem will have to be replaced. Meadows escaped uninjured. The truck was enroute to Dunn, N. C. - Patrolman J. W. Sykes investi gated. f Education Board , Meets Monday The county board of education, in session Monday afternoon at the court house annex, Beaufort, heard the legislative program outlined by the North Carolina State school board, considered a request by the state for further consolidation of schools, and heard a PTA school improvement committee from Queen Street school. The legislative program was read by the school superintendent, H. L. Joslyn. The board felt, in regard to consolidation, that at present there is no opportunity for further consolidation in this county. The PTA committee from Queen Street school, the colored school in Beaufort, presented a list of the needs at the school and asked the board's cooperation in meeting those needs as soon as possible. The board told the committee that they recognized their prob lems and that application for fed eral funds under Public Law 015 is in Washington now. As soon as funds are obtained, the board as sured the committee that many of Queen Street's needs will be met. Members of the PTA school im provement committee are Albert Cowan, chairman, Mrs. Henrietta Fulford, co-chairman, William Vann. Joe Pasteur, Mrs. Garfield Ellison, Mrs. Henrietta Hargett, and Mrs. Annie L. Bell. The building formerly used as ' the colored school in the Bogue community will be sold at public auction, as advertised, at noon Sat urday. March 15, at the court house j door, Beaufort. County Gels 1.31 Inches 01 Bain Monday, Tuesday The county was deluged with rain Monday and Tuesday, but according to otficial reports, only 1.31 inches fell. Last week two rainy days brought close to two inches. The saturated ground is making drain age slow up and a few dirt roada in the county became impassable. Temperatures since Saturday, the first of the month, were released yesterday by Stamey Davis, More head City, official weather ob server. Max. Saturday 85 Sunday 52 Monday 62 Tuesday 64 Wednesday 81 Superintendent Speaks Speaking at the Atlantic PTA meeting Wednesday night at the Atlantic school waa H. L. Joslyn, county superintendent of school*.