NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St. Morehead City / Phono 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c Eight Page* Color Comic* 41at YEAR, NO. 38. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS North Winds Whip Forest Fires in Open Grounds j Beaufort Board Adopts Law To Rid Town of Roaming Dogs 4 Three Jaycees j Receive Awards CqI. W. E. Sweelser Delivers Address on Place of Com muniiy in World Order J. C. Harvell, Kenneth Wagner, and Jimmy Wallace were recipients of awards given Monday night at the Morehead City Jaycee officer installation banquet. The affair was climaxed with an address by Col. W. E. Sweetser, commanding officer of Marine Air Group 35, Cherry Point. Harvell received the Rudolph Dowdy Memorial award as doing the most outstanding work as head of an external committee. Harvell was chairman this year of the re ligious activities committee. Wag ner received the award for the most outstanding work as chairman o I an internal committee. He was recognized for his profit-making projects. Wallace, retiring president, was recipient of the Key Man award and was also given $150 toward paying his expenses at the national Jaycee convention at Dallas in June. The Rudolph Dowdy Memo rial award and the Key Man award were presented by W. B. Chalk. Retired Jaycees were presented with "exhausted rooster" buttons. The recipients were Bob Howard, Bernard Leary, Bruce Goodwin, Chalk, Warren Beck, D. G. Bell, and A. B. Cooper. New officers were installed by Leary. They are Walter Morris, president; P. H. Geer, Jr., inter nal vice-|#.%a?kiJnt; > Vmietfi Wlg n*r, external vice-president; Jimmy Neeks, treasurer; and Herbert Phillips, secretary. On the new board of directors are Wallace, re tiring president; Dr. Russell Out law. Frank Safrit, James Webb, and J. C. Harvell. Following installation of the of ficers, the incoming president gave Ms address, and Capt. Oscar Ely, IfSMC, who was in charge of the qaoquet, introduced Colonel Sweet ser. The text of Colonel Sweetser's qddress appears below, i Mimeographed copies of a report to Hawkins' motorcycle was esti mated at $300. I Deputy Clerk Resigns tj. Mrs. Arnecia Warren, deputy < clerk of superior court. Carteret county, has resigned/ She has been replaced by Mrs. Thelma Pittman. Aaaisting in the clerk'i office, i court house, Beaufort, are Miss Jean Springle and Mrs. Blanche Davis " -*? ? Armed Forces day in Carteret county will be observed Thursday with a Naval vessel visiting at the port, display of light weapons at the recreation center in Morehead City, and a parade in Morehead City at 1 p.m., followed by a band concert at the recreation center. Mayor George W. Dill has pro claimed next Thursday as Armed Forces Day in compliance with ar rangements made by the local com mittee and liason officer with Cher ry Point, Capt. Oscar Ely. Armed Forces week continues from May 12 through the 17th with the last day being Armed Forces Day throughout the nation. Cherry Point ' will observe that day with open house. A minesweeper will dock at Morehead City Tuesday, May 14. It will be open for inspection by the niiblic 0n Wednesday. Partici pating in the parade at 1 p.m. Thursday will be Marine infantry men from Camp Lejeune and Cher ry Point, a military band, repre sentatives of the American Legion, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Women Marine Re serves. Also invited to participate are the Morehead City, Beaufort. Queen Street school and W. S. King bands. There will be a fly-over of Air Fore* plane* that day as well as fly-over by a Navy blimp. In the static display at the recreation center there will be cut-away mo dels of a jet, helicopter, and F4U as well as a display of weapons carried by infantrymen. It was hoped to have a display of aircraft in Beaufort, but Marine authoritiei state that it is impossi ble to move cut-away models of aircraft into Beaufort because the bridges pose obstacles. During Armed Forces week members of the Marine corps will speak at civic club meetings and schools in Beaufort and Morehead City. In charge of arrangements for Armed Forces Day observance in the county are Richard McClain, Morehead City, and David Hill, Beaufort. Scientists Will j Attend Meeting Dr. A. F. Chesinul, C. D. Kirkpatrick Select Spots To Plant Oyster Shells Members of the staff of the Insti tute of Fisheries Research, More head City, will attend the meeting of the Atlantic Estuarian society I the weekend of May 17 at the Maryland Fisheries laboratory. Sol omons Island, Md. Dr. A. F. Chestnut will give a paper on the growth rates of clams and Dr. Eugene Roelofs on the hy drography of Pamlico sound. Others from the institute who will attend the meeting are Austin Wil liams and William Fahy. Dr. Chestnut and C. I). Kirk Patrick, commercial fisheries com missioner, this week were staking out beds for planting of oyster shells in North Carolina waters. Due to the big season, from Oct 1, 1951 to Feb. 29. 1952, approxi mately 85,000 tubs of shells will be available for planting this year Last year 56,008 tubs of shells were planted, according to figures re . leased by the commercial fisheries office, Morehead City. The state requires that one half of the shells from oysters taken the previous season be returned t?* the state. Working in the sound Tuesday were Dr. Roelofs and Williams l)r Roelofs was obtaining data on croakers and Williams on shrimp Navy to Lease J Two Warehouses At Morehead Port I Several Months' Negotia tions Close with Decision Monday at Wilmington The State Ports authority in spe- j eial session Monday at Wilmington ! decided to lease a portion of the state's new port facilities at More head City to the Navy. The stat? will lease two ware houses. The rental figure was not disclosed but reliable sources place the annual rental in the neighbor- j 1 hood of a quarter million dollars | a year. It is anticipated that this i i amount will be turned back into <' the port to improve and rebuild I < facilities existing before construc-M tion of the new two and a half mil- j ' lion dollar dock and warehouses, j The Navy originally sought, in j '? addition to the two .warehouses, J < use of a transit shed. I i Under the lease agreement, the ) 1 authority retains the transit shed ! and new docks, plus the facilities j< constructed by the Morehead City port commission in the mid-l930s. 1 Negotiations on leasing the port < to the Navy have been underway 1 for the past few months. Col. George Gillette, executive ] director of the state ports author- ' it y was scheduled to arrive in 1 Morehead City yesterday, but plans were changed and he probably will 1 not be here until the beginning of 5 next week. ( Planting of joint grass in the ( open section between the new dock | and highway 70 was underway this week. The grass will prevent | blinding sand from blowing across | the area. Honorary Members of Fire^ Department Get Certificates School Glee Clubs Will Present Programs Nay 16 The glee Hubs of Beaufort and Morehead City schools will pre- j sent spring concerts in their re spective school auditoriums at 8 p.m. next Friday night. May 16. The Beaufort glee Hub pro gram will be of operetta type and will be directed by Dale Browder. music instructor. Ralph Wade, music director at Morehead City school, has an n&uneed that the mixed chorus of 15 voices will present a program of popular and semi-classical music. Curbs Lifted Ob Time Baying Washington. (AP) ? Controls over installment buying were sus pended Wednesday because the government deciAO inflationary dangers have eased off. For the consumer, the decision means no government require men Is as to down payments or time to pay for automobiles, furniture, radio and television sets, and scores of other items. Many authorities said the result would be a trend toward small down paymenU and more time to pay. Dealers and finance com panies still may impose their own terms, in the absence of govern ment regulations. Industry hoped for an immediate boo6t in sales, which have been lagging in some fields. But some officials said they ^thought the stimulant would be slight, and per hap* only temporary. After 90 Years , C onjedrate ? Battery Flos Returns to Fort At Raleigh Monday a Confed erate flag, captured upon the fall of. Fort Macon in 1862, waa pre sented to Thomas W. Morse, super intendent of state parks, for its re turn to the fort. The fort, located at the state park on Bogue banks, is now being converted into a museum. The flag has been with the State Department of Archives and His tory since its presentation to the North Carolina Historical commia sion Aug. 17, 1910 by the late Mrs. Benjamin J. Bell of Beaufort. Mrs. Bell's huaband was given the flag March 1*. 190S at Raleigh by aur vivors of the Yankee troops which took the flag upon the fall of the fort. ? Bell waa one of the aarviviog de fenders of the fort, fighting with Battery H of the 10th regiment of the North Carolina State troops. The flag of Battery H was taken by men of Company E of the Fifth Rhode Island Volunteers and was returned by survivors of the Rhode Island soldiers to survivors of the Men in Grey in a ceremony at Ral eigh in 1906 Many from Beaufort, including Mr. and Mrs. Bell, went to Raleigh for the ceremony. The flag was made by the women of Beaufort and was presented to "Old Topsail Riflemen" in May 1881. according to information on a certificate presented Mrs. MI when ahe turned the flag over to the state tn 1816. It That certificate is now in the poa See FLAG, Page 7 ? Honorary members of the Beau fort fire department who have given years of service to the town were honored at the fire station last night. They were presented with certificates of appreciation by iC. B Harrell, fire chief. Active members of the de partment were present as well as town officials and other invited guests. A light buffet supper was served. Other honorary members of the department are to be recognized in like manner and certificates will be awarded them i as soon as records reveal who is eligible. Certificates were presented last | night to the following: Jesse Ful cher, Hugh C. Jones, Wiley Tay lor. sr^ David M. Jones, James H. Potter, jr.. Charles Davis Manson. , Hugh Hill, Gilden Glenn Hill, Julian E. Arrington, Sterling Ram sey, Charles Ramsey, Hardy 11. Lewis, sr.. William B. Longest, sr., , T. Murray Thomas. Sam Pickett, \ Louis J. Noe, jr., Theodore Roose velt Whitehurst. John Malcolm Hill, C. G. Hol land, Gilbert Glancey, William D. I Skarren, Hubert Salter. Frank L. ] King, and Richard D. Whitehurst. ' Cabbage Buyer y Faces Charges John E. Mann, a cabbage buyer from Maryland, posted a $2,000 cash bond for his appearance in re corder's court Tuesday in Beaufort on a series of charges filed against him by K. W. Wright of Beaufort. Sworn out by Mann is a warrant against Wright alleging that Wright slapped him. according to a report by Chief of Police Carl ton Garner. Wright alleges that Mann threw 1 a lighted fire cracker at him. re sulting in a severe explosion, that , Mann assaulted him with a pistol, used profane language, discharged fireworks, and carried a pistol con cealed in his car. . Mann was arrested at Wright's Pure Oil service station. Live Oak It., Beaufort, at 4 o'clock Wednes day afternoon by Chief of Police Carlton Garner and Officer W. O. Willis. Firemen Practice A ladder drill was conducted by the Morehead City firemen Wed nesday night at the Morehead school building. The purpose of the drill wat to instruct a new member of the force, David Guth rie. who bccame a member this week. Firemen present were Chief Urady Boll. Leslie Brinion. Vin cent Lawrence. Lindaey Guthrie, Buc* Jones. Harry Burns. Charles : Gutltfie and David Guthrie. ] ? ' Daughters oi Confederacy To Conduct Service Sunday The Emmeline Pigott chapter, tniUd Daughters of the Confed eracy, will conduct annual me morial services at Bay View cem etery, Morehead City, at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mrs. E. A. Council, president, yesterday ex tended an invitation to the pub lic to attend. I Tomorrow Confederate Memo rial day will be observed in this state and South Carolina. Beaufort Board Adopts New Rules od Cemetery The Beaufort town board in ses- ] *ion Monday night at the town hall adopted recommendations by a re cently-appointed committee on op eration of Ocean View cemetery, \nn street. The recommendations as drawn ip by the committee, Glenn Adair, chairman, Dr. N. T. Ennett, and 1). F. Merrill, and adopted by the joard, follow: 1. Continuous care of the ceme ery at a minimum cost. 2. Governing body consisting of ;hree directors (may be members )f the town board), also a clerk [which may be the town clerk). 3. That the town return to the ^emetery (und $1,400 borrowed rom that fund by town adminis , rations prior to the present one. 4. That the west cemetery wall >e torn down and a driveway con structed at the west -side of the cemetery. 5. Lots be divided in half with the center line parallel to the longest measure of the lot. 6. That no lot be reserved un less it be paid in full. If lot is bought on installments, assignment I r>f definite plot cannot be made un- 1 lil last payment is received. 7. To construct walls around a plot, a permit muit be^ obtained j from the cl/wk. be no | charge for this permit. Where joint walls are not used, adjoining walls must abutt. 8. No walls may be constructed above 12 inches of average ground level of lot. !). All wall tops must be level, no protrusions permitted. v 10. All lot corner markers must be low enough to permit mowers to run over them. 11. After masonry construction, all remains of materials must be removed. 12. Twelve disposal baskets, made of wire, shall be purchased and placed in the cemetery as re ceptacles for dead flowers, wreaths, and trash. 13. Fifteen hundred dollars shall be appropriated annually for care and perpetuation of ccmetery. 14. A caretaker shall be em ployed. He shall receive remunera tion from grave-opening fees, pro ceeds from lot sales, and the $1,500 appropriated for annual care. 15. Graves will be opened tor $15 upon obtaining a permit from the clerk. 16. Graves shall be opened only by the caretaker. 17. Lots in the newly-opened section shall be revalued before sale. The cemetery committee recommends $50 and $75. 18. Lots in the northwest quad rant, now available for sale, may be sold upon contacting the clerk. The town board has not yet named the cemetery governing board. Until the appointments are made, the town cleric, Dan Walker, will act as clerk for the cemetery board. Police Chief Arrests Two Colored Women Tuesday Sunie Bell and Georgia Ann Rut ledge, colored residents of Beau tort, were arrested Tuesday and re leased under $50 bond each. They have been chargd with assaulting Elma Jean Henderson with a knife, causing her to flee from a place where she had a right to be The arrest was made at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Bell woman's home by Chief of Police Carlton Gar ner. The woman will be tried in re corder's court Tuesday. Tide Table Tide* at Beaufort Bar 7:34 a.m. < 7:58 p.m. HIGH Friday, May 9 LOW 1:44 a.m. 1:36 p.m. Saturday, May 10 8:17 a.m. 8:40 p.m. 2:28 a.m. 2:20 p.m. Sunday, May U 8:01 a.m. 0:27 p.m. n. ' 3:08 PJ1. Monday, May It n. 4:00 a.m. 3:13 mm. 0:90 i.in. 10: ie ?.m 3:57 p.m. 10:43 a.m. 1141 ? 1' ImfcT, May 11 ?. 4:51 a.Yn. 4:83 pjh Firefighters Work Desperately, Hope for Rain, Wind Shift Five fires were raging yesterday in the open grounds and have kept fire-lighters on the jump ewr since Monday when they first broke out. For the past two months Car teret county has been relatively free of forest fires, due to most of the farmers being careful in burning off fields, forest rangers declare. However, lack of rain during the past 10 days created a perfect set-up for fires. The dryness and high winds from* the north have been whipping the i fires with a frenzy and unless the J winds shift or rain comes, there is little hope of controlling the con flagrations. At the beginning of the week one fire broke out at the head of W.nd shifted to the west late yesterday afternoon. A thunder storm brought heavy rains and first relief to firefighters in four days. Williston Crock, later another at | the head of the creek at Davis, an j other between Stacy and Davis, and two more near Williston. All 1 are burning now in the open , grounds. Long Hours E. M. Foreman, county forest ranger, with his crew of fighters have been on luty night and day. Mrs. Marvin Willis, spotter at the fire tower at Otway was on duty until 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night and until 10:30 Wednesday night. The first fires are believed to have been deliberately set. Al though the scrub timber and marsh ! grass are not valuable in the open , grounds. Hoy Beck, soil conserve tionist of Carteret county, says that the open grounds and one other ' spot in eastern Carolina are the only places in the state where the rich soil, muck, has not been burn ed out. Danger of Soil llurning "If the ground catches fire, it will Ih? too bad." he remarked. In another section of the state, such : occurred and now he says the place j is nothing biit three or four inches of ashes and sand. Muck results when small organ isms decay and through the years ivnlimm to jitter i/.e, making a rfch soil. At present. Miss Geor gina Yeatman, owner of the open grounds, is undertaking an exten sive drainage project to reclaim the land. "The fires there have destroyed many of my stakes, about five days' work," commented Heck who is assisting Miss Yeatman in the drainage 'work. 65-Foot Trawler Moves to Water A mammoth 65-foot trawler started its trip southward on 23rd street in Morehead City Tuesday, bound for the water. Owned by E. C. (Carroll) Ballou, 2302 Bay St., it was built at the rear of his home. Early Tuesday morning a crew of men, headed by Carroll's brother, D. A. (Darius) Ballou. started the slow task of moving it. Half a day was spent in getting it from behind the house to the street, a distance of less than a half block. At noon they started down 23rd and the task was finished at 4:30. The trawler, just a hull now, was launched from the foot of the street Wednesday morning and floated to the foot of Evans street where it will be finished. Started the middle of February, the vessel is expected to be com 'pleted by the first of July. Ballou expects to take the trawler to South Carolina in August. A huge thing, 18 feet wide and 65 feet long, painted white with a coating of copper paint on the bottom, the trawler will be called the Easy Lee. The engine, a Caterpillar diesel, is being ordered from Norfolk. Phil Lockhart was in charge of the construction and working with him were C. R. Mann and William Her bert Oglesby, all of Mill Creek. Directors Meet The board of directors of the Morehead City chamber of com mcrcc met last night at the cham ber office in the recreation center. Officers for the coming year were elected. Defendant Gets v Suspended Term For Speeding Motor Vehicle Violations Predominate in More head City Court Clyde N. Jones, colored, More head City, was given a su.spepjcled two-week sentence in Morehead City recorder's court Monday on a charge of speeding. He was order ed to pay $10 and costs. Vernon P. Garner, charged with speeding, was lined two thirds costs on the same offense. For careless and reckless driving, Thomas T. Kcane was fined $15 and costs. Because the alleged careless driving resulted in an acci dent. the defendant was ordered to make arrangements with the insur ance company to have damages to the car ol Kufus Sewell, Beaufort, taken care of. Elmer B. Cuthrell and Louis N. Legaree were found guilty of care less and reckless driving and paid $10 fine and costs. Freddie Gaston Smith, charged with having im proper brakes on his car and caus ing a wreck, paid costs. Charles ? Williar. g was found not guilty on a public drunkenness charge. The state dropped the case against Eugene P. Lennon, charged with having no operator's license. The warrant was withdrawn against Reginald Conway and the complain ing witness paid costs. He was ac cused of assault on a female by slapping her face. I. ula Martin Norris and Jessie Ray Swinson paid two-thirds costs and costs respectively on a charge of expired license plates. Perry Mc Nair Rowls paid $10 fine and costs for driving on the left side of the road. For running through a stop sign ' the following paid costs: B. J. Marino. Maurice Best and Daniel S Pigott Freddie Surles paid costs for parking his car across the sidewalk with the back end in the street and improperly displaying his license plates. Russell E. Willis, jr., charged with failure to dim his lights, paid costs. Cases were continued against William Clay Croom, Carl E. Taylor. David Freeman Range, Charles James McEntee and F. A. Grantham. Firemen Put Out / Woods, Car Fires The Newport fire department, assisted by Cherry Point firemen, put out a woods and grass fire late Monday afternoon about a quarter of a mile east of the Carteret Craven line. The fire started at 5 p.m. when a car, driven by Frederick E. Schanen of Cherry Point went into a ditch. In trying to get out, the muffler got hot and caufrtit grass and the car afire. The fire spread into the woods and the car burned up. Patrolman R. H. Brown, who in vestigated. said that Schanen and a companion were going toward the base when they decided to turn uround and go back toward More head City. As they made a U turn, the car went into the ditch. Schanen was charged with driv-' ing drunk and was found guilty in recorder's court at Beaufort Tues day. Are You in Favor of Daylight Saving Time? | yes ? NO ? lama resident of I If yw are in favor of or axaiaat going on daylight uvtM time la I Carteret county, aniwrr accordingly; also fill in the mum of the ' town or community in which you live. tli? out thin ballot aad r give to yow NEWS-TIMES carrier boy for return to oar office , or drop It la the mail? The Editor.