NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 604 AtoimMI St. Morchead City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c Eif ht Page* Color Comic* 41st YEAR, NO. 44. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS Polls Will Open Tomorrow Morning^ at 6:30 Morehead City Seniors Accept Graduation Award Thomas Bennett Receives Rotary Award as Best Ail-Around Student Thomas Stephen Bennett, son of llr. and Mrs. J. G. Bennett of More bead City, received the Rotary ?ward for the best all-around stu dent at the graduation exercises Wednesday night at the school. This award has been given by the Rotary club for the past 25 years and the recipients are chosen by the faculty and principal. Judge George McNeill, president of More head City Rotarians, made the presentation. Bennett is president of the senior class, was in the senior play, a member of the Hi-Y, on the de bating team, and has been a mem ber of the student council. The athletic awards given by the Lions club for the past five years, , were given this year to Ann Carl ton and Clifton Steed by Lions' president Oscar Allred. He stress ed the fact that these two were chosen by their classmates in the senior class and not by the faculty. Check Presented A check for $384 was given by Bennett, representing the senior class, as a gift to the school to help pay for the scenery purchased this year for the stage and used in the senior play. G. T. Windell accept ed on behalf of the school. Jane Stroud and James Newman Willis, III, received the valedictory ?nd salutatory awards that are liven each year by the Herf-Jones co. Bobby Matthews and Mickey Woolard were presented the school spirit awards. The commercial award was given to Cleo Guthrie, member of the commercial graduating class. She was selected i by the instructor, Miss Peggy Don erson. The state department of motor vehicles, safctg diyj'iot^ gave cer tificates to bus drivers who had driven 140 days of the school year without an accident and for keep ing the bus clean and in good con dition. This year the awards went U) three seniors, Glenn Diebert, fcr one year of safe driving and to Alfred Eborn and Robert Adams fcr two years. w Sports Award Given iDom Femia, Morehead City busi jssman, gave an award to the out anding girl basketball star of the year, as voted on by her team mates. This went to Annette Guth rie, a junior. Walter Morris, another business *nan, give three awards to out i standing members of .the school safety patrol. First place went to . JU Lonnie Hyatt, second to James Morton and third to Buster Glan ccy. These students were under ' * classmen. The class of 1952 had the dis tinction of having four married graduates and one serviceman. Jhose married during this year were Doris Whealton Bonner. Jes sie Guthrie Chytka, Fern Salter Yiesi and Bedford Brown Toms. Cleveland Paul Willis, jr., finished bis high school education since joining the Air Force and grad uated, in uniform with his class. Police Investigate Two Accidents J Two accidents were investigated by the Morehead City polite this Mfcek. Monday at 6:30 p.m. a Free man Brothers grocery truck, driven fy Curtis Bell Davis, was headed on Bridges and met an ap proaching car. As he slowed down to let the approaching car past, he ' bit the back of a parked car, po lice said. The parked car was fwned by Lonnic Best of Beaufort. Damage to the truck waa 'Cli mated at $80 and to the car, $40. The accident happened at 14th and Bridges streets. Patrolman Carl Bunch investigated. At 9:30 a.m. Tuesday a truck ' driven by Dr. E. P. Spence and owned by the Morehad City Floral Co. was going west German submarine twenty miles north of Diamond Lightship Sta tion buoy in late April 1942. The ship waa carrying high test gasoline from a Texas port to Liv erpool. Cairns waa the fourth en gineer aboard his ship. At the same time other bodin, one identified is that of Maldwyn, gun qrewman, :ame ashore on Core Banks and were buried in Morehead City. The little Britiah graveyard on Ocracoke Island contains four graves, two of which are marked "Unknown." A third bears the name of Lt. Thomas Cunningham; the fourth that of Stanley R. Craig, \B. The words "Royal Navy" and 'Body fouiid May 14, 1942," are inscribed on all four o( the bronze plaques on concrete crosses erect ed at the time of burial. All bodies irere identified aa members of the :rew of HMS Bedfordshire which liaappeared with all aboard en route from Norfolk to Morehead 3ty, ita temporary "home" port A body found at Cape Hatteru it about Um sane tin* was alio iii it i n.r. identified as off the Bedfordshire, though the name of the sailor is unknown. Another body was found on a shoal far up Pamlico sound, and was buried at Swan Quarter. Rites at Ocracoke were held by the late Amasa Kulcher, prominent layman of the local Methodist church. A year later at Mrs. Cunning ham's request a Catholic service was held by the Navy chaplain, then stationed here. Land for the British burials was given by Mrs. Alice Williams near the Williams family graveyard. Markers were made by the T. A. Loving Construc tion co? then building the Navy base nearby. One Ocracoker, by strange coin cidence, had talked with Lt. Cun ningham a night or two before the Bedfordshire left Norfolk. They had met at a crowded tabic in a restaurant ? Wahab Howard had told them something Of Ocracoke Island. He had noticed the watch and signet ring on the hand of one. It was this same watch and the ring, together with a bank book found in his pocket, that identified Cunningham as one of the victims of the submarine disaster. The "Bedfordshire" was due at Morehead City one day later, but it never reached that destination and none of its officers and crew lived to tell the story of its disaster. See GRAVES, Page 2 Tide Table Tides *1 Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, May 3# 12:47 a.m. 8:43 a.m. -j... 7 :00 p.m. Saturday, May 31 12:96 a.m. 7:29 a.m. 1:39p.m. 7:57 p.m. Suaday, June 1 1:49 a.m. 8:17 a.m. 2:33 p.m. 8:56 p.m. Maaday, June 2 2:44 a.m. 9:07 a.m. 3:24 p.m. ? 0:55 p.m. Tuesday, J use 3 3:41 ajn. 9:55 a.m. 4:17 p.m. 10:49 fun. Committee Litts Ban 0 On Daytime Shrimping The stale commercial fisheries committee has lifted the ban on daytime shrimping, effective Monday. Both day and night shrimping will be permitted un til July 1 and then day shrimp ing only will be legal. This announcement was made yesterday by Mrs. Roland Mc Clamroch, chairman of th? com mercial fisheries committee. The committee conducted a hearing Saturday morning at Bayboro on the shrimping regulations. With the coming of dawn Mon day shrimping will be permitted south of the line from Goose island to Ocracoke light. Beaufort Jaycee <1 President Names Committeemen ? Wiley Taylor, president of Beau fort Jaycees, named committees Monday night at the meeting at the Inlet inn. Guests were Milton Ferry, cura tor of Fort Macon museum, and Capt. Brooks Liles, USAF, Nor folk. Ferry spoke on the historical significance of Beaufort and re marked that even though the co lonial architecture is contemporary with that of Williamsburg it is of a different type and of extreme in terest to Williamsburg historians who have visited here. Perry, before accepting the posi tion at Fort Macon, was with Co lonia) Williamsburg for two years. Thanks Expressed The club extended its apprecia tion to Jaycee Dick Parker for pro moting the horse show and all com mitter were thanked for their serv ices. The .Jaycecs voted approval on payment of high school baseball expenses. President Taylor said the exact amount to be paid is not known at present. They wilJ pi so sponsor Natiov4 'Dairy Mo ?th In June. In charge of the month's observance wiil be James Allgood, chairman, Sam Gibbs, and Vic Bellamah. The Jaycecs also voted to dis tribute handbills urging residents to vote tomorrow. 28 Attend Twenty-eight attended the meet ing which was preceded by a steak dinner. Internal committees are as fol lows: membership, personnel and publication, Willard Willis, chair man, Billy Davis; budget and fi nance, Odell Merrill, chairman, Eric Moore, Dick Parker; program and social, James Steed, chairman, A. C. Blankcnship, Charles Davis. External affairs: Americanism, Carl Chadwick, chairman, Leo Has kins; agriculture and fire preven tion, James Allgood, chairman, Sam Gibbs; sports and recreation, Al bert Chappell, chairman. Gene Smith, John Jones, John Evans. Christmas program, safety, pub lic affairs, and international re lations, Ronald Mason, chairman, Charles Jarman, Jack Price; awards, good government, Jarvis Herring, chairman, and Robert Stephens. Building Will Be j Open Saturdays The Morehcad City Rccrcation commission, in session Tuesday night at the recreation center, de cided that the building shall be open Saturday night Br use by the teen-agers. Fred Lewis, recreation director, stated that chaperones would be on duty. New poles to hold tennis nets and a new net will be put up soon. Lights on the tennis court arc al ready operable. The commission, with the cooperation of the town, hopes to have a concrete shuflle board poured at the north end of the building where shuffleboard may be played night or day. The first two planned parties at the rccrcation center on Friday nights were well-attended. Bernard Leary. chairman of the recreation commission, reported. There were" 250 at the first and 200 at the sec ond. Attendance was lower at the second, he said, because junior and senior high school students had gone to Cape Lookout. The next meeting of the recrea tion commission is scheduled for Tuesday, June 24. Three Deaths It was reported that the coroner, Leslie Springle. investigated three deaths in the county Wednesday but the coroner was too busf dig ging potatoes yesterday to give Tl'.E NEWS-TIMES information regarding his investigations. North Carolinians will nominate at the polls tomorrow* candidates for the general election in November. Since the Republican vote in recent years has been about 25 per cent of the total, it is discounted as a threat in November, so tomorrow's primary boils down to the actual election of the Democratic officials who will head the state, beginning in Ja iuary. There are 50 members of the state senate and 120 mem l ..C .U_ I _r ? a wis ui me iiuum' 01 irprneii tives, all of whom must be electcd this year. Seeking election to the house of representatives in Car teret county is H. Earle Mobley of Morehead City. He is running without opposition but claims he is not overconfident of the outcome at the polls. He points to several occasions when nominees have won out with write in-votes. No County Ballot In Carteret there , will be no county ballot because none of the Democratic candidates have opposi tion, neither have any Republicans been nominated. As for the elective state officials, the major race is for the guberna torial chair with the major con tenders Hubert Olive of Lexington and William Umstead of Durham. Manly R. Dunaway of Mecklenburg is also a Democratic contender. Herbert F. (Chub) Seawell of Carthage is the Republican nom inee. Incumbents Thad Eure, secretary of state; Henry Bridges, state audi tor; Brandon Hodges, state treas urer; Clyde Erwin, .superintendent of public instruction; L. Y. Ballen tine, commissioner of agriculture; Forrest Shuford. commissioner of labor, and Harry McMullan, attor ney general, have no opposition to morrow. They all have Republican opponents in November. Waldo Cheek, commissioner of insurance, is the only incumbent with opposition, but political seers predict easy re-nomination for him. Six Seek Nomination Chief Justice William A. Devin of the supreme court and Associ ate Justice Jeff D. Johnson, jr., have no primary opposition. Six men. however, are seeking nomina tion for the other seat on the su preme court and it is predicted that a second primary will be necessary to determine the nom inee. ;rhe ui* i?unni?f? for the thiwf teat on ihft supreme court are It' nions Valcntme Nash county, who was appointed by Governor Scott and hopes to remain in office by vote of the people. He is chal lenged by Oscar Efird of Forsyth, former judge of the county court there, and by four superior court judges, R. Hunt Parker of Halifax, William H. Bobbitt of Mecklen burg. Allen Gwyn of Rockingham, and Don Phillips of Richmond. A second primary is foreseen too in the lieutenant governor race. Four men are seeking the nomina tion. Roy Rowc of Pender, Marshall Kurfees of Forsyth, Luther Hodges of Rockingham, and Ben Mc Donald of New Hanover county. The east-west rotation on the governor angle, which has prevail ed for the past 50 years, has not been a major factor in the current campaign. This is attributed to the fact that all of the candidates for major office, except Parker for the supreme court, Rowe and McDon ald for lieutenant governor, live nearer the center of the state than cither east or west boundaries. Umstead lives slightly cast, Olive slightly west of the so-called divid ing line. All the candidates for governor, two for lieutenant-gov* j ernor, and four for the supreme court live in the "industrial Pied- 1 mont" between Shelby and Dur ham. Bank Open House ! Begins at 2 Today Open house at the new Newport bank today will be from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. THE NEWS-TIMES carried Tues day the hours of 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the request of R. P. Holding. < Smithfield, president of the Fird Citizcns Bank and Trust co., whicn is opening the Newport branch. , President Holden contacted THE NEWS-TIMES by telephone Mon day afternoon to specify the open house hours. I. E. Pittman. vice-president of the Morehead City First-Citizens , Bank and Trust co.. said yesterday the open house hours would be from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. President Holding also stated Monday that H. L. Stephenson, vice-president of the banking con cern. was expected to be present at the open house today. Other bank officials, Newport business men and Rotary club members will also be present. The establishment of a bank branch in Newport was a project of the Newport Rotary club and was supported by Newport busi ness and professional people. The bank will open for business at 9 o'clock Monday morning. Na than Garner will be cashier and Mrs. Carlton Garnw, MUer. ? Court House, Town Halls Banks, Post Offices Close 0 The court house, Beaufort, town halls in Beaufort and More head City, the banks and post of fices will be closed today, Me morial Day. The Morehead City post office window will open one hour, however, from noon until 1 p.m. The court house, Beaufort and Morehad City town halls, and li quor stores will be closed tomor row, election day. Most stores will remain open today. Typhoid Clinics Week, June 2 The Carteret county health de partment will conduct typhoid clinics throughout the county be ginning Tuesday. June 2. Dr. N. T. Ennett. health officer, an nounces that these clinics are espe cially for the benefit of adults and urges all citizens to take the inocu Lit inns In Beaufort persons may reeeive I the immunization treatment at the health department office each i Tuesday from 1 to 4 p.m. and aach Saturday from 1) until noon. In 1 Morchead City the vaccinations are given each Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The schedule throughout the county is as follows: June 2, 9. 16: Harkcrs Island, 9:30 a.m., school house; Marshall berg, 10 a.m., post office; Smyrna. 10:30 a.m., Willis' ston*; Williston. 11 a.m., post of fice. Sta?.y, 11:30 a.m., Pittman's store: Cedar Island, 1 p.m., Styron's store; Atlantic. 2 p.m., Waynes cafe. June 5, 12, 19: Stella, 9:30 a.m.. Pelletier's store; Broad Creek. 10:30 a.m., church yard; Harlowc, 11:30 a.m., Connor's store; New 1 port, 12 noon, Edwards Drug store; 1 Wildwood, 12:30 p.m., Lee Mur doch's store. A series of three inoculations is required for persons who did not i receive shots last year. The health 1 officer states that a nurse can visit a community no' more than three 1 times and also asks that persons wishing the treatment be there on time. The immunization treatment will not be given this year in commun ities other than those listed above because experience over the past few years does not justify their in- ; elusion, the health officer said. Morehead City Takes No Action On Daylight Time Merchants Vote 60 Against, 42 tor Moving Clocks Up; Tehgram, Letter Read The Morehead City town board, in special session Tuesday after noon at the town hall, voted to take no action on the proposal to change from standard time to day light saving time. J. A. DuBois. manager of the chamber of commerce, presented cards returned by members of the chamber. The cards stated wheth er the merchant was in favor of or against daylight saving time. The vote was 60 against and 42 for. The Beaufort town board on Wednesday, May 21. passed a re solution favoring daylight saving time and then reported their ac tion to Morehead City with a view to obtaining unity of action by both major communities Beaufort deferred the effective date, which was set for May 25, pending an investigation of the matter in Morehead City. The Beaufort town board will again riiscuss the matter at the regular board meeting Monday night. The mayor, at Tuesday's session, (|W I he results of the merchants' poll and Commissioner S. C. Hollo way remarked that the 60-40 per centage "seems to prevail." He said that he had yet to hear anyone say daylight saving time would be Advantageous. i no commisioner luriner siaiea I hat unless the stores here remain ed open longer than those at Cher ry Point, the people at the base would be compelled to do their shopping at Cherry Point. He also remarked that because this is a resort area, it is so closely inter locked with people living in other parts of the state who are on stand ard time that d; ylight time would be confusing to I hem. Telegram Read The town clerk, John Lashley, read a telegram signed by Beau fort businesmen, Holdcn Ballou, V. T. Bellamah. 1. N. Moore, David Jones, Tobe Clawson, and Elbert Dudley. The telegram, addressed to the mayor, stated that the sign ers "were opposed to daylight sav ing time on a local basis." Also read was a letter from the Morehead City Garment co. which stated that the managers and su pervisors of the company, as well hs the employees, were against daylight saving time. Among the businesmen who at tended the meeting only Robert Hicks was in fabor of daylight sav ing time. Hicks said he had lived under daylight saving time and really enjoyed it." Tony Seamon remarked that he agreed with Commissioner Hollo See TIME, Page 6 Frieda Lewis , Darrell Sanders Win American Legion Awards v The American Legion awards, ? given each year to the outstanding < boy and girl in the eighth grade class, went this year to Miss Frieda Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis and Darrell Sanders, ? son of Mr. and Mrs. George San ders, Morehcad City, in the exer cises at the school Wednesday ' morning. The winners art chosen by the eighth graders. , Ethan S. Davis, jr., chairman of , the Americanism committee of the American Legion, presented the awards, stCing that the awards are given to scholars with these quali ties: honor, courage, scholarship, leadership and service. He advised the recipients to use these qualities as a foundation upon which to base their lives, and to follow the Golden Rule always. The most significant feature of the honor was the fact that the re cipients were chosen not by the teachers, principal or by the Amer ican Legion, but by their class mates, stated Davis. After the processional, played by Miss Lewis, the award winner, sev eral numbers were presented by a 13-piece band composed of eighth ' tirade students who are members of the high school band. They were Beth Roberts, Sarah gallou. Ronald Howland, Kenneth Putnam. Gordon Day. Corinna Smith. Karl Wade, Dick King, Neal Webb, George Whittle, Pat Conner, Wal ter Willis and James E. Willia. Numbers played were finlandia. I'amptown Races and Farewell to Thee. Mum Lewis gave a piano 10I0. The Little Darky. A playlet was presented by the students and the characters an nounced by Linda Long. They were Jackie. Earl Wade: Buddie. Raymond Willis: Mother. Rote Daniels: Father, James E. Willis: Sm AWARDS, hit 1 Driver Gets 90 Days, Suspended Lawrence Howe, for careless and" tt ?eckless driving, was ordered by ludgc George McNeill in Morehead ;'ity recorder's court Monday to iervc a 90-day senteife on the roads. Sentence was suspended, liowevcr, on condition that the de fendant pay a $50 fine, costs, not iolate any motor vehicle law for 12 months and reimburse the clerk af court $25 for cost of the jury ?hich was summoned and then not used because the defendant decided lc didn't want a jury trial after ill. Charles Gaskill, charged with aa >ault on a female with his fists, i-ausing bodily injury, was given a Ifrday suspended sentence pro vided he pay costs and remain on good behavior for six months and refrain from engaging in any fiat lights. For assault on Charles Gaskill with a bottle, Katherine Kent was found guilty of disturbing the peace and also given a 30-day sus pended sentence. She was ordered :o pay costs and remain on good behavior for six months. Eight men were found guilty of sxcceding the load limit on the Atlantic Beach bridge ?nd were iincd. James Cottle and Robeft T. Willis paid coats; Jack Edward * Seel. John Wheeler Lockey. Wil iam Pappas, Otis M. Talbot. Vance Talmadge Robinson and Melvin J. k'ancey paid half costs. On the same charge, plus the "iatr- i