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41st YEAR, NO. 23. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS
Board of Equalization Acts i
On Property Valuation Issues
M. F. Perry , Curator 9 Begins J
Forfc on Fort Macon Museum
M. F. Perry, historian and ar-<
chaeologist, has begun work at
Fort Macon, carrying out State
.Board of Conservation and Devel
opment plans to transform the
fort into a museum.
Perry, who has been affiliated
with the Williamsburg, Va., restor
Iation project for the past six years,
reported Friday that the interior
museum work at the fort will be in
four parts: fortifications prior to
Fort Macon, construction of the
present fort, the war period, and
Macon since the war between the
states.
Perry is most enthusiastic about
the work and has already turned
-up numerous interesting facts,
maps, photographs, and drawings.
In Raleigh he uncovered a sheaf of
I photographs believed to be the ear
liest known pictures They were
taken in 1866. Three water colors
of the fort and the immediate area,
done by a Yankee soldier in 1863,
| have also been found.
^ There are photostats of the origi
nal maps made in Washington, D.
9 C. and water colors of Fort Hamp
'i * ton, Macon's predecessor. Some of
these items have come to light at
Raleigh in the state museum and
others at the nation's capital.
At the fort the soldiers' living
quarters will be restored and dis
plays will show how soldiers spent
leisure time at the fort, how they
dressed, and what they fought with.
Perry is earnestly hoping to lo
cate the "post cemetery." The
cemetery is referred to frequently
in writings dealing with the fort,
but no one has been able to locate
it. Buried in the cemetery is a
I young soldier, 20 years old, shot
i by a sentry who believed him an
intruder, and also a young girl
whose body was washed ashore.
Another fond hope of Macon's
historian and archaeologist is to
i find some authentic cannon to
mount on the battlements. Perry
> expresses despair on this point,
however; he says locating such
weapons almost a hundred years
\ later and three wars since the
civil war, is practically an impossi
? bility.
Perry believes that residents of
this area can shed lots of light
1 on clouded facts about Macon. He
is also interested in obtaining rel
ics. Persons who have relics with
Fort Macon significance who would
like to loan or give them for dis
play should write M. F. Perry,
Curator. Fort Macon State Park.
The exterior of the fort will not
be completely restored. One por
tion will be left as it is now so
that sightseers will be able to note
the contrast between the restored
and the original.
Supplementing the museum it
self will be a free brochure to be
distributed to sightseers and also
a more formal history booklet of
the fort which will be sold for
about 50 cents. The curator is plan
ning too a catalogue with a card
,for each soldier stationed at the
fort at the time of its surrender
to Northern forces.
Perry, a graduate of William and
Mary college, is a native of Bertie
county, but has lived most of his
life "in Virginia. He did graduate
work at William and Mary and then
became associated with Colonial
Williamsburg as craft shop assist
ant and later archaeological assist
nt in charge if the archaeological
laboratory in the museum.
Guides will conduct sightseers
,on tours through the fort this sum
mer, as in the past. There is no
charge now, nor will there be in
the future, to go through the fam
ous -military installation.
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Two Defendants
Found Guilty J
Harkless Woolen, Charles
Holland Out on Bond;
Woolen Appeals
Harkless Wootcn. Morehead City,
was found guilty in superior eourt
Thursday of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill and
Charles Holland was found guilty
of assault with a deadly weapon.
Wooten. who was given a sen
tence of three to five years on the
roads, gave notice of appeal to the
supreme court and was placed un
der $3,200 bond.
In the Holland case, sentence
will not be issued until the June
term of superior court because Hol
land still has the bullet in him al
legedly fired by Wooten. Both
were involved in a disturbance at
the Edgewater hotel several months
ago wherein Holland alleges that
Wooten shot him and Wooten al
leges that he shot because Holland
was coming at him with a knife.
Holland's bond for appearance
in court in June is $500. Both men
have posted bond.
In the case of Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Williams, the two were found guil
ty on charges of drunken driving,
driving without a license, and Wil
liams of allowing his wife to drive
while she was under the influence
of alcoholic beverages.
Williams was given a one-vear
sentence, suspended providing he
pay $100 and costs. $75 to W. H.
Benson whose car was damaged in
an accident in which the Williams
were involved, remain on good be
havior three years, surrender his
driver's license for one year and
stay sober.
Mrs. Williams was given a six
inorfth sentence, suspended on pay
ment of $100 and costs. She was
ordered to remain on good be
havior two years and refrain from
use of alcoholic drink.
Horace Jones was adjudged a
chronic alcoholic and was ordered
to prison lor three months with di
rection that treatment be given to
aid in his rehabilitation.
Judge Burney ruled that Ply
mouth Taylor has violated a pro
bation judgment and extended the
period of probation orie year. He
also sent back to recorder's court
the case of Albert Wade and Des
sie Wade, charged with assault.
James Sidney Moore, charged
with speeding, forfeited bond for
failure to appear. The judge served
a bench warrant and continued the
case.
Continued were the cases of Wil
liam Bell and Horace Eli Hatley.
Morehead City Police
Recover Stolen Automobile
A 1948 Ford, stolen from the
Wagon Wheel Sunday night at 8:30
and reported to the Morehead City
police at 9 p.m., was picked up on
Arendell street near the Gulf sta
tion at 10:45 p.m. by Captain Buck
Newsome.
He was unable to locate the driv
er of the stolen automobile, who
evidently used it for transportation
into town and then abandoned it,
he said.
The owner of the car was Lem
H. Gibble, Newport.
County Agriculture Leaders
Report on Recent Meetings
Agenl Speaks on Farm
Program io Rotarians
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R. M. Williams, county farm
agent, spoke to Morehead City Ko
tarians Thursday night on the farm
program. The program is in a
state of change, the farmers are
getting modern conveniences and
increasing their standard of living,
' laid Williams. They are able to get
more yield per acre today than
ever before and they are changing
to more profitable crops such as
tobacco, truck crops, and raising
cattle, dairy cows and poultry.
Another visitor was John C. Noe
of Raleigh. Noe is advisor of safe
ty education, state department of
public instruction.
Four to Attend Meeting
Four Carteret educator* will at
tend the state NCEA meeting at
Asheville March 27-29. They are
H. L. Joslyn, county superin
tendent of schools; Fred Lewis,
teacher supervisor: B. E. Tarking
ton. principal of Smyrna school;
and G. T. Windell. principal ot
Morehead City school.
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? .Tames Allgood, Floyd Garner,
and R. M. Williams reviewed their
experiences at the national and
state Farm Bureau conventions at
a meeting of the Carteret county
Farm Bureau at the court house
Friday night.
Distributed by THE NEWS
TIMES were complimentary copies
of Friday's issue containing the
farm supplement.
Allgood and his wife attended
the national convention at Chicago
which opened Dec. 9. One hundred
seventy-four delegates from North
Carolina were at the session.
Of the various sectional meet
ings, Allgood chose "organization"
and heard Rodger Fleming, secrc
tary-treasurer of the American (
Farm Bureau. Many organized
groups try to speak for the farmer
or claim they are speaking for him. ,
but Fleming said they fail and shall
always fail as long as there is a
strong farm Bureau.
John C. Lynn, associate director
of the Washington office, suggested
that Farm Bureau members take
inventory from time to time to de- <
termine what they have accom
plished and where they are going.
Allan B. Kline, American Farm
Sec AGRICULTURE, Page 2 i
The county board of commission
erf, sitting yesterday morning in
annual session as a board of equali
zation, set values on new proper
ties in Morehead City and heard
other matters dealing with valua
Lion.
Values on new properties are as
follows: Eastman Furniture build
ing, $10,000. lot $2,500: Morehead
theatre, $17,500, lot $2,500; Belks,
$30,000. lot $2,500; Irenes Gift
shop, $3,000, lot $2,500. AH these
properties are located in the More
head City business section.
Valuation on 13 acres of C. C.
Dennis land in Whiteoak township
was reduced from $30 per acre to
$10 per acre pending investigation
and verification. Dennis said that
the land is no longer cultivated and
is grown up in woods.
F. R. Seeley, appearing for Mrs.
Daisy Hatsell, Queen St., Beaufort,
said Mrs. Hatsell felt her property
valuation was out of line. Latham
Willis, Walter Yeomans, jr., and
Andrew Guthrie, all of Harkers
Island, asked that their valuation
be changed. The board directed
that all four matters be investigat
ed.
William Way and W. V. B. Pot
ter, Beaufort, appeared to ask that
the valuation of the machinery in
the Beaufort Ice plant be reduced
from $8,000 to $5,000 for 1951 and
years to come. The board agreed
to the reduction but expressed
doubt as to the legality of reducing
it for 1951, a year already past.
They said the matter would be in
vestigated and Way notified of the
decision.
Mrs. Nellie R. Cook appeared be
fore the board and said she re
gretted that taxes for 1939 and
prior, amounting to $183.30, on the
David Richardson property, Ann
st., Beaufort, had not been paid,
and further said she objected to
the 1951 increase in valuation of
10 per cent. (In 1951 all property
valuations in the county were rais
ed 10 per cent).
On the D. J. Hall property, an
abandoned farm in Newport town
ship, a reduction to $10 per acre on
30 acres was granted. Other valua- 1
tions were set as follows: James
W. Taylor property, Beaufort RFD,
$400; Horace Lewis property, Har- 1
kers Island, $1,590; and Earl Jones
property, Harkers Island, $800.
Marine Unit Will
Leave Here Today
More than 600 Marines from
Camp Lejeune will leave Morehead
City today for a month of training
in air and Naval gunfire coordina
tion on the tiny Caribbean island
of Culebra. Arriving this morning
were the personnel transports San
born and Navarro. The personnel
transports Bottineau and Botetourt
sailed yesterday at noon.
Elements of the Second Marine
division air-Naval gunfire liaison
company (ANGLICO) and the Sec
ond ANGLICO, force troops, At
lantic, make up the training task |
force.
Three firing ships of the Atlan
tic fleet and a squadron of Panther
jets from the Marine Corps Air sta
tion, Cherry Point, will provide live
air strikes and Naval bombardment
for the training exercise. The ex
ercise has been named Anglex-52.
Lt. Col. Elmer A. Wrenn, iormer
Greensboro (N.C.) high school and
University of North Carolina ath
lete, is in charge of the training
unit.
Beaufort Seeks
Police Officer
The Beaufort town board is ac
cepting applications for a police
officer to replace Officer Bertie
C. Finer who will leave the force
March 31.
Dan Walker, town clerk, stated
today that the position pays $192.50
a month or $2,310 a year and the
hours amount to 68 a week during
the day.
He added that the board is con
templating enlarging the force in
June in order to permit men on
the force a day off each week. The
board is also interested in some
one who would attend a patrol
man's school and therefore the ap
plicant should have a high school
diploma.
The town is also planning to in
stall radio equipment in the police
car and station next year.
Applications should be submitted
in writing to Mayor L. W. Hassell
or to the town clerk at the town
hall.
Chicken Supper Saturday
The Carteret BLPW club it serv
ing a Chicken salad supper Satur
day. All plates will be delivered.
Persons wishing to purchase a sup
per should phone Mrs. D. F. Mer
rill, 2-5341, or Mrs. Violet Howard,
5-4346.
Chairman Issues
Call for Money .
Pledged to USO
A. B. Roberts, Chairman
Of Build for Youlh Com
mittee, Seeks $2,100
A. B. Roberts, chairman of the
Build for Youth committee, More- 1
head City, today issued a call for
all money pledged for renovation
of the former USO building, Shep
ard st.
"Approximately $2,100 in pledges
is yet to be paid," Roberts dcclar
( ed, "and work remaining to be >
done on the building cannot be !
completed until that money comes
in. Spent thus far is $2,200 and
there are no bills unpaid."
The money should be sent im
mediately to Bill Norwood, Treas
urer, Build for Youth Committee,
Morehead City.
If repairs move along as schedul
ed, the building is expected to
open April 1.
To date, flooring has been re
paired, a new roof put on the front,
doors and windows repaired, and
wallboard replaced on the inside
where necessary. Outside painting
is scheduled to begin next week
and will be done by the Jaycees.
Roberts commented that practi
cally all the labor thus far has
been donated.
With the money yet to come in
from pledges interior work will be
done, including laying of asphalt
tile in the front section, interior
painting, and repair of furniture,
if funds go that far.
Junior Woman's <
Club Plans Spring
Bulb, Flower Sale
The beginning date of the More
head City Junior Woman's club
spring plant and bulb sale will be
no later than April t, Mrs. Eugene,
Roelofs, chairman of the club ways ;
and means committee, stated yes- '
terday. The date of sale may even I
be earlier, she remarked, depend
ing upon information from the
nursery through which the plants
and bulbs are obtained.
The Junior Woman's club ex
presses the hope that anyone plan
| ning for spring flowers will order
their plants and bulbs through the
club. The price, Mrs. Roelofs said,
will be no higher than it would be
if homeowners ordered directly.
The nursery pays the club a com
mission on all sales.
Fall Sale Successful
The fall flower sale was very suc
cessful, the club realizing about
$143 and persons who ordered
plants reported that they were
quite pleased with the condition in
which the plants arrived and the
results after they were placed in
the ground, said Mrs. Roelofs.
The town has been zoned and
each Junior Woman's club member
assigned a section, therefore each
resident should be contacted in the
near future. If they are not called
upon by a Junior Woman's club
member, they should contact Mrs.
Roelofs, 6-3842.
Committee Named
Assisting on the flower sale com
mittee are Mrs. H. C. Barrow, Miss
Elizabeth Lambeth. Mrs. S. W.
Hatcher, Mrs. Frank Pigford, and
Mrs. W. B. Chalk.
The committee reminds home
owners that petunias will definite
ly be among the plants offered.
Car. Track Collide
In Morehead Saturday
An estimated damage of $240
was caused to an automobile Satur
day at 9:50 p.m. in Morehead City
when it was struck in the rear by
a truck. The accident ocurred be
tween 12th and 13th streets on
Bridges street. Damage to the truck
was estimated at $300.
The car, driven by Walter Ed
ward Tootle, is owned by W. C.
Matthews of the Morehead City
drug store and the truck was driv
en by Davis Walker Wray. Wray
was charged with running too close
behind a vehicle. Lt. Carl Bloom
berg and Patrolman Bruce Ed- (
wards investigated.
Freddy Jones Wails in Jail
For Trial ea Two Comb
In the county jail under $100
bond is Freddy Jones who was ar
rested Sunday on a charge of be
ing drunk and disturbing the I
peace.
Police Chief Carlton Garner re
ported that Jones waa ordered out
of the Pine Street Beauty Bar Sat
urday night and then returned and
hurled a rock through the window.
Officers Bertie Clyde Piner ar
rested Jones aboard the Simpson
Brothers, menhaden boat. He it
scheduled (or trial in court today. I
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Three Accidents Occur; Marine's ?
Wife Hurt in Log Truck-Car Wreck
Icy road conditions caused4
a wreck on the Atlantic
Beach bridge early Sunday
morning and two accidents
occurred Thursday on high
way 70. Mrs. James Del
Gaudio, wife of a Cherry
Point Marine, was slightly
injured in a log truck-car
wreck Thursday morning.
In the Sunday morning accident,
a pick-up truck driven by Julius
Woodson Willis, Beaufort, ran into
the rear of a dump truck which
had stopped just north of the At
lantic Beach draw.
The dump truck driver, Alphia
Patrick Wooten, was putting out
flares to indicate that his vehicle
was stalled wnen the pick up crash
ed into the dump truck from the
rear. State Highway Patrolman J.
W. Sykes said Willis applied
brakes and went into a skid. No ?
one was injured.
No damage was caused to the
dump truck which is owned by the
state. Damage to the (&k-up was
estimated at $150.
Two cars collided at 12:01 p.m.
Thursday on highway 70 just east
of the Homes drive section. Cal
Whaley, Morehead City, was head
ed west in a 1951 automobile when
another 1951 model car. driven by
William Clay Croom, Kinston, and
headed east attempted to turn left
into the Pure Oil Bulk plant.
While Croom was making the
turn, he collided with Whaley.
causing $300 damage to Whaley's
automobile and $50 to ('room's.
Charges are pending, said Patrol
man Sykes who investigated.
A pulpwood truck and an auto
mobile collided at 7:30 Thursday
morning on highway 70 one
quarter mile east of Newport. The
truck was driven by Franklin Eu
gene Parker of Beaufort and the
car, a 1951 model, by Carmine
James DelGaudio, Cherry Point.
Both vehicles were proceeding
west when the truck turned left
into a dirt road that leads to NC
route 24. As the truck turned. Del
Gaudio attempted to pass and his
automobile hit the left rear wheel
of the truck, causing the car to flip
eonf^'et*?ly Dapiaire^o Da|?
GauTtos aui. mobile was estimated
I at $2,500. Parker says he gave a
| hand signal, but the car driver said
he didn't see one, according to Pa
trolman Sykes.
Riding with DelGaudio was his
wife who suffered a hand injury,
and another Marine Vincent
Aquina, who escaped unhurt. With
Parker in the truck was his brother.
William. Damage to the truck was
estimated at $75. No charges were
preferred.
Morehead City to Participate
In Carolina Power Contest
34 School Bus
Drivers Attend
Friday Luncheon
Thirty-four Carteret county school
bus drivers were entertained at a
barbecue lunch Friday in the Beau
fort school gym and heard a talk
by John C. Noe, safety education
adviser. State Department of Pub
lic Instruction, Raleigh.
Among the guests, in addition to
the bus drivers, were H. L. Joslyn,
county superintendent of schools.
James Potter, county auditor, and
Mrs. Lucia Hutchinson, New Bern,
field representative for the North
Carolina Department of Motor Ve
hicles' safety division.
Superintendent Joslyn pointed
out that each of Carteret's 33
busses average 31.4 miles of travel
daily, with the total daily mileage
1,040.7. Transported in this eoun
i ty arc 1,370 elementary school chil
dren and 430 high school pupils,
making a total of 1,800 a day.
The longest run for a single bus
is one carrying children to Queen
Street school. 59.4 miles, and the
shortest run is on Harkers Island,
4.4 miles.
All the drivers are students with
the exception of one teacher, Cor
bott Davis, at Smyrna. This same
| bus then is taken on another run
by another pupil, thus accounting
f for more drivers at Friday's lunch
than there are busses.
Each school bus driver, if he has
a driver's license, receives a period
of schooling is preparation for
driving a ??' :i avd iflk*" lum
driving tests. If they past those
road tests, they receive a bus
driver's license.
The drivers usually get up about
5 o'clock in the morning, depend
ing on the length of their run,
and their pay is $20 a month.
Friday's lunch for school bus
drivers was the first get together
of its type in several years. There
are bus drivers' clubs at individual
schools.
Newport Brownie Troops
To Sponsor Play March 29
Red Cross Funds
Total $#1.86 '
Mrs. Duke Howard, chairman of I
the residential district for the Red
Cross drive in Beaufort has an
nounced that $401.86 has been turn
ed in to date.
Braxton Adair, fund chairman,
has extended the drive for another
week in hopes that Beaufort will
meet its quota. He is asking per
sons east of the Newport river who
have not been contacted by a Red
Cross worker to please send their
contributions to the Beaufort chap
ter, care of Mrs. E. H. Potter, chap
ter treasurer.
Aiding Mrs. Howard in the drive
are Mrs. George Huntley, jr., Mrs.
Frank King, Mrs. R. C. Slater, Mrs.
Eugene Seelbinder. Mrs. John Sta
ton, Miss Ethel Whitchurst and
Mrs. Gerald Woolard, captains.
Working under the captains are
Mrs. Oliver Davis, Mrs. Harry Gil
iikin. Mrs. Jack Longest, Mrs. Dick
Parker, Mrs. Burton Daniels, Mrs.
James Whitehurst, Mrs. Harold |
Simpson. Mrs. James Wheatley, i
Mrs. William Willis, Mrs. J. C. i
Keel. Mrs. Glenn Harris.
Mrs. Harry Whitehurst, Mrs.
John Hill, Mrs. Alma Guthrie, Mrs.
H. F. Prytherch, Mrs. Charles Jar
man. Mrs. Williaiti Skarren, Mrs.
R. N. Hudnal, Mrs. Vance Fulford,
jr.
Mrs. Charles Hudgins, Mrs. Hi
ram Springle, Mrs. James H. Pot
ter. Ill, Mrs. Lydia Lee Paul. Mrs.
Roma Noe, Mrs. Clarence White
hurst, Mrs. W. G. Temple.
Miss Weenie Mason, Miss Janet
Davis, Mrs. D. F. Merrill, Mrs. C.
Z. Chappell. Mrs. O. S. Clawson,
Mrs. Tommy Piner, Mrs. Frank
Jordan. Miss Amy Muse and Mrs.
J. H. Davis.
VFW to Organise
There will be a VFW Post or
ganization meeting at the civic
center tonight at 7:30. All veterans
of foreign wars aj* urged to at
tend.
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?? To raise money for their treas
ury, the Brownie troops of New
port will sponsor a play, "Too
Many Relatives" at 8 o'clock Satur
day night, March 29, in the New
port school auditorium. Members
of the cast are parents and adult
friends of the Brownies.
Leaders of the Brownies this
week released the following his
tory of the troops:
Newport Brownie troops have al
most doubled in membership since
they were organized last Septem
ber. Today there are approximate
ly forty girls between the ages of
T and 10 who meet each Saturday
at the Brownie hut, troop No. 1 in
the morning at 9 o'clock and troop
No. 2 at 1 p.m.
The Brownies ? junior Girl
Scouts and future citizens of the
nation and community ? not only
receive training through supervised
play but valuable training in many
other fields ? citizenship, sewing,
art, manners, sportsmanship, house
hold duties and responsibilities.
Nor is their training confined to
the four walls of their attractive
hut, for they are taken on super
vised trips to points of educational
and industrial interest during the
year. In fact, the program as pre
sented and executed by Mrs. Olivia
Davis and Miss Nancy Heider meets
the demands of inquisitive minds
of little girls between the ages of
7 and 10.
Sponsors of the Brownies in
Newport are the Mary C. Millis cir
cle of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service of the Newport
See BROWNIES, Pafe 2
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
.Tuesday, March IS
12:30 a.m.
12:51 p.m.
7:06 a.m.
7:08 p.m.
Wednesday, March 19
1:38 a.m.
2:04 p.m.
8:17 a.m.
7:23 p.m.
Thursday, March 2*
2:52 a.m.
3:20 p.m.
9:29 a.m.
9:40 p.m.
Friday, March 21
4:03 a.m.
4:29 pjn.
10:36 a.m.
10:92 pjn.
> Morehead City will participate
in the Carolina Power and Light
co. municipalities contest with the
Calendar of Events club acting as
steering committee. Members of
the calendar committee set 7 p.m.
tomorrow night to meet and elect
a general chairman for the pro
ject. The meeting will take place
at the Waterfront cafe, Morehead
City. All civic organizations arc ex
pected to be represented.
In addition to electing a general
chairman, the group will select
five civic projects to carry out.
with hopes of completion by Oct.
31, 1952, in accordance with con
test rules. Also, to be appointed
are project chairmen. Ways will be
discussed of coordinating efforts
of all organizations to make More
head City "Carolina's Finest."
Cash prizes being offered in the
contest amount to $8,750.
At a meeting of the Calendar of
Events club Thursday night at the
civic center, the following projects
for civic improvement were sug
gested: more and better schools
and school facilities, city park, a
real city bcautification program,
golf course, recreation center, new
bus terminal.
More paved streets, rest roms
for tourists, more books for library,
mosquito control, better water sup
ply and pressure, more street
lights, better street markings, re
move grand stand at school, build
gymnasium, back a county bond is
sue for schools, rest rooms at ath
letic field, extension of city sew
ers, program to attract farmers to
.shopping district.
Presiding at the meeting was
G. T. Windcll, president. Election
of a secretary was postponed until
the next regular meeting.
The group commented that the
events calendar watj meeting with
Ikprovfll and that it is of value iu
preventing conflict in dates.
The Carolina Power and Light
contest was explained by J. A. I)u
Bois, manager of the Morehead
City chambci of commerce.
Jaycees to Stage
Minstrel March 27
Thursday, March 27. has been sot
as the date for production of Beau
fort Jaycees' Victory Minstrel high
lighted by tuneful hits, among
them My Little Yankee Hose and
Dancin' on the Steamboat Tonight.
Tickets for the show, to start at
8 p.m. in the Beaufort school audi
torium, go on sale today at the
Beaufort Bar, Holden's restaurant,
Jeff's Barber shop, House, Bell and
Guthrie-Jones' drug stores.
Leading members of the cast ire
Grayden Paul, interlocutor, Tom II.
Potter, Warren Grant, Gene Smith.
Robert Davis. Claud Wheatly, and
Hugh Salter, end men.
In addition to the chorus, num
bers will be sung by a quartet com
posed of Earl Lewis, Earl Willis,
James Davis, and Holdcn Ballou.
End men are named for battle
spots of world war II and all are
former GIs. Odell Merrill, pro
ducer, terms the show most out
standing and featuring the best
music of any Jaycee minstrel.
Assisting the men in direction
and production are Mrs. James
Steed and Mrs. Wiley H. Taylor, jr.
Old Man Winter -
Sends Snowflakes
Old Man Winter, in a frivolous
mood, sent giant snowflakes to Car
teret county Saturday afternoon.
He gave an encore again Sunday
morning at 5 a.m.. but the flakes,
like leftovers, were much smaller
in size.
Saturday's snowfall, accompanied
by rain, was driven earthward by
north winds and a 56-degree tem
perature Saturday shivered down
ward to a freezing 30 degrees early
i Sunday morning.
Saturday winds shifted from
northeast to north northwest. Sun
! day brought sunny weather but the
temperatures remained low. a
minimum of 33 degrees being
registered early yesterday morning.
Temperatures since Thursday
were reported yesterday by E.
Stamey Davis, official weather ob
server, as follows:
Max. Min.
Thursday 69 50
Friday 85 50
Saturday t 56 35
Sunday ?.i.: .-. 48 30
Monday .... 33 j
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Graod Jury
Returns Report
Bulk of Findings Deals
With County Schools,
Suggestions for Repair
Following lour days of work,
Mond.y through Thursday of last
week, the grand jury for the March
term of superior court, H. C. Tay
lor. foreman, filed their report late
Thursday.
The bulk of the report dealt with
schools and recommendations for
school building improvements. The
j jury acted on all bills of indict
I ment, and upon investigation filed
i a presentment in the case of Hark
less Wooten, Morehead City,
charged with keeping and main
tinning a house for the purpose of
prostitution or assignation.
| The grand jury recommended
that copies of their report be given
the superintendent of schools, the
j newspaper, and that one be filed
; in the office of the clerk of su
perior court.
The grand jury's findings in re
gard to inspection of county of
| fices and schools, follow:
We have made an examination
of all county offices and find them
all in good condition. We have
visited the jail and find that addi
tional rooms are needed for prison
ers A report has been rendered
us by the State Highway patrol,
who examined all school buses and
found them all O.K. We checked
the records in the clerk of superior
court office and found that all jus
tice of th?* petoc hifh? filed their
reports, according to law. and all
reports of guardians, administra
tors and executors arc up to date.
We make recommendations for
the following schools which we
have visited.
Beaufort school : The roof leaks
which caused the celotex and plas
tering to fall out. A paint job is
needed on the inside. We also
find over the stairway a section of
plaster which is liable to fall at
any time causing injury to some
student. We recommend that this
be repaired immediately.
Beaufort Colored school: We
recommend additional class rooms,
See GRANI) Jl'RY, Page 2
County Council
Sponsors Contest
The Carteret County Council of
Home Demonstration clubs has an
nounced a . contest for writing a
homemaker's creed for North Caro
lina Home Demonstration club
women. This contest is open to
all Home Demonstration club mem
bers of the county, announced Miss
Martha Barnett, home agent. All
members interested in the contest
should write their creed at once
and submit it to the home agent's
office by March 28. A committee
will judge the creeds and the best
one will be read by the author at
the district federation meeting.
The National Home Demonstra
tion creed reads as follows: *i be
lieve in the open country and the
rural life in the country; I believe
that through working together in a
group we can enlarge the oppor*
tunities and enrich the life of rural
people; f believe that the greatest
force that molds character comes
from the home and I pledge myself
to create a home which is morally
wholesome, spiritually satisfying
and physically healthful and con
venient; I believe in my own work
as a homemaker. and accept the re
sponsibili^es it offers to be help
ful to others and to create a more
contented family and community
life, so that in the end farm life
will be most satisfying."
The creeds submitted should be
similar to this creed in thought,
said Miss Barnett.
' The winning county creeds will
! compete for first place in the dis
1 trict. The winning six creeds in
i the state will be combined into a
state creed, presented on State
Federation Day, and included in
the year book.
Pastures Tour Today
Contestants in the "Green Pas
tures" speaking contest will tour
Hugh Swann's farm, six miles east
of Beaufort on highway 70 at 10:40
a.m. today. A tour of pasturelands
is required of the contestants who
| are students is high school.