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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arandall St. MorebMd City Phoa* 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c FULL PAGE COMICS 41st YEAR, NO. 45. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGfeS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 3. 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS Carteret County Goes for Umstead , Future Governor Nancy Russell Gary Copland J. Lynch Honored iBeauforl High School Sen iors Receive Diplomas Thursday Nighi Nancy Russell received five a wards and Gary Copeland and John Lynch each received four awards Thursday night, when the graduat ing class of Beaufort high school received its diplomas. Copeland received the oustand ing award for the year for scholar ship, loyalty and achievement. He Itoas presented with a medal and will have his name inscribed on the plague in the hall of the school. This is the third year this award has been presented. Other winners were Neva Dail and Elizabeth Bell. Copeland also received the salu tatorian medal, a plague donated by Dom Femia of Morehead City for the outsanding basketball play er of the year, which was voted him by his fellow players on the team, and the Babe Ruth founda tion award medal for sportsman ship. This is a new award, and the Babe Ruth plague will remain in the school with names of the win ners engraved on it. The other winner of the Babe Ruth sportsmanship award, Nancy Russell, also was presented with awards for the best all-round girl, .the glee club award, school activi ties award and an award from the Danforth foundation. The Danforth foundation award i which is given for promoting qual i ities of leadership, was also pre sented to John Lynch, who, received the activities award, the student council and the best all-round boy award. Sheila Smith, valedictorian, re ceived the valedictorian award and the Reader's Digest award, a year's subscription to the magazine. Iris Dudley received the high school award for being the outaand mg *emtxy of the school band, ' Bobby Davis a member of the 11th i&ade was presented the glee club I award, and Jimmy Parkin and Jean Dixon were presented the boy and girl athletic awards. Patricia Daniels, a member of the 11th grade, received the schol arship award for the high grade of | the year with an average of 98 14. [ Runncrs-up were Sheila Smith and Evelyn Graham, each with an aver age of 07 1-2. "Wallace Garner, Fay Taylor, Bob by Willis, Wallace Conner and fted Merrill, bus drivers, received highway safety awards from the North Carolina departments of mo tor vehicles for safe driving, for tteing careful, punctual and having dean buses. T. G. Leary, principal of the school, who presented both the di jNomas and the awards, announced See AWARDS. Page 7 J 'Army Engineers Issue Two Notices Col. R. C. Brown, district en gineer of the Army Corps of En gineers, this week wsrned mariners to be cautious in proceeding past the new bridge construction in Bo gue Sound at Morehead City and jive notice of the proposed change in harbor line at the port. The notice on navigation past the bridge follows. "During the period of construc tion of the new bridge between Mori-head City and Atlantic Beach, North Carolina across Bogue Sound and the Atlantic Intracoast al Waterway, beginning about .Mine 1952, all navigation is urged to proceed with extreme caution In passing the construction work. The new bridge is to be located approximately 1,700 feet east of the existiy highway bridge. "Signs will be erected by the contractor constructing the bridge on both the east and west ap proaches to the new bridge, advis Mig navigation of the proper chan nel to use in passing the construc tion work. ? "During darkness th* obstruc tions or structures at the new fridge site will be marked in ac cordance with recommendation o< the U. S. Coast Guard as follows: "Lights placed to mark struc tures or obstructions to be passed hn the right hand side when pro ceeding southward .will be red in color, and those on the left hand Pie will be green in color." The proposed harbor line change trill move the existing line south of the new dock northward along the new dock. Comments or suggested change in regard to the line will be accepted at the engineers' office, ?08 Customhouse, Wilmington, un til June It, 1952. 1 Congressional Tangle Ties J Up Postal Clerks' Paychecks Washington (AP) ? Postal work ers and some other government employees apparently will have to wait a bit longer before Congress unravels a controversy which threatens to hold up their pay checks. About 400,000 postal workers scattered throughout the country arc involved: Yesterday was pay day for most of them, but the de partment has run out of money and has ordered checks held up for work done after May 15. There is no doublt that they will be paid eventually. Stop-gap legislation which would permit emergency payments has been passed by both houses of Con gress, but it is in different forms and cannot go into effect until a compromise is reached. The dispute is over a senate amendment prohibiting use of spe cial appropriations for operation of the seized steel mills or other pri vate property. The house has re fused to accept this provision in the appropriations bill, which has been locked in conference for some time. The senate tacked the same amendment onto a resolution adopted Wednesday allowing the Post Office department to continue pay checks until June 16. The house previously passed a similar resolution without the disputed provision. Now the seizure clause has sent the stop-gap measure back to the House Appropriations committee, which must take action before the pay checks can be issued. Postmasters have been advised to withhold salary checks because department funds are insufficient to meet payrolls. This is due part ly to recent annual pay increases which Congress voted after approv ing the budget last year. The supplemental appropriations bill provides nearly one billion dol lars more to run some government agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30. The senate and house have agreed on evory -provision ex* flppt the seizure clous*. Chamber Board J To Meet Tonight The board of directors of the Beaufort chamber of commerce will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the town hall to hear Marion Shuf fler of the division of commerce and industry of the Department of Conservation and Development. Shuffler will be in Beaufort to day to study the assets it offers new industry. Braxton Adair, pres ident of the chamber, issued yes terday a special invitation to all clumber members, as well as the public to attend. Shuffler will explain the part the Department of Conservation and Development plays in obtaining new industries and the part the local chamber must take. In announcing the meeting by letter last week, the chamber man ager stated that the topic would be "The Love Life of a Smoke Stack." The last paragraph read, "The discussion may not be sexy, but it certainly should be worth while." Housing Situation Begins to Tighten 1. A. DuBois, manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, reported yesterday that "the housing situation is tighten ing up." Although accommodations have been found to date for all tourists inqdiring at the chamber office in the recreation building, there are indications, he added, that things will become more dif ficult as the season progresses. The tourist information booth at the recreation center ii open each Friday and Saturday night from S to 11 p. m. and is manned by Charles Freeman, Jr. Manager DuBois urges persons who have rooms or other accom modations for tourists to register with the chamber of commerce. Registration will be accepted from persons with accommodations any where within reasonable driving distance of Morehead City. There is no charge for this service. The chamber of commerce phone is 6-3404. Break-la Investigated Carteret county police authori ties are investigating a burglary at Newport at the Aaron Craig home. Offiaars said further infor mation could not be released until arrests are made. LL David Bow Bemains Listed is Hissing' w Pint li. David bow, mm of Mrs. Frances Boone of Beau fort, is still listed as officially missing by the government. Lieutenant Boom, who was stationed in Iceland, was flying a rescue plane to a Navy plane that was In trouble on Saturday, May 17. The Navy plane wat able to make a landing, but the rescue plane, with five men aboard, never returned to Ita base. Mrs. Boone was notified that her son is officially missing, and in a telephone conversation with Lieutenant Boone's command ing officer, was informed that the plane had struck a pinnacle of a glacier, and that the wreck age of the plane had been found. Beaufort Police Arrest Naomi j Worthy Again Naomi Worthy, colored, Beau fort, was arrested again Saturday by Beautort police. She was placed under a two-year suspended sen tence in recorder's court last Tues day and ordered to remain on good behavior three years. Arresttd with her Saturday was her husband George. Both were charged wKh being drunk, using loud, profane langu age. and disturbing the peace. The woman was also charged with re sisting arrest. Each was released under (200 bond. They are docket ed for trial this morning in re corder's court. Horace Jones was arrested Sat urday on a charge of public drunk enness. He appeared in recorder's court. Beaufort, last Tuesday in an swer to the same charge and was placed under $50 bond for his ap pearance today. Sixteen others were arrested on charges of public drunkness over the weekend and posted $12 bond each. They were Alice Branch. Harvey Griffin, Willie Dixon, Her bert Peterson, George Mitchell, George Copeland, Jesse Woolard. Willie Wells, Luther Glover, Mack Daniels, Sonny Anderson. Arthur Brown, George Prazier, Pat Wil liams, Augustine Higgins, and James Glevin. The arrests were made by Chief of Police Carlton Garner with as sistance by other members oi the force. Officer W. Otis Willis was admitted to Morrhud City hos pital yesterday morning and sub stituting until his return is Capt. Charlie Thomas who will also be on duty weekends. ? Employees of the Beaufort and Morehead City post offices were in the same boat with all other postal clerks throughout the nation yes terday. Paid every two weeks, the post office employees last received their checks May 16. J. P. Betts, Beau fort postmaster, commented this is the first time in his experience that checks have been delayed. Postmaster Betts was appointed in August 1950. The payroll at the Beaufort post office averages $1,700 bi-weekly. Postmaster Harold Webb at the Morehead City post office remark ed yesterday that checks were held up about five years ago during the war. The delay came at the end of the fiscal year when funds were exhausted and Congress had failed to get appropriations through in time. Postmaster Webb said postmas ters have the checks but have been advised not to distribute them. He i felt confident that Congress would i act on the matter either yesterday or early this week, thus making re lease of the checks possible. The bi-weekly payroll at the Morehead City post office is about , $2,000. I Carteret Post * No J Presents Six LegknAwards Carteret Post No. 99, Amercian Legion, Beaufort has presented American Legion awards to eighth I grade students at three schools, Beaufort, Queen Street, and H&r- 1 kers Island. ? Winners in the Beaufort school are Nina Faye Kirk and James L. Graham The awards were prevent ed by David Hill, adjutant ?*w at No 99 at the eighth grade gradua tion exercises Thursday morning at j the school. Al Thomas, past commander of Post No. 99, presented the awards to the pupils at Queen Street school. The winners were Margaret Nolen and Clyde Crooms. The pre sentation took place at the eighth grade graduation exercises Wed rcsday night. Henry Davis, representing Post No. 99. presented the awards to Nancy Doris Guthrie and Sylvester Guthrie at the Harkers Island eighth grade graduatjpn Wednes day night. The students were selected by their class mates. The boy's medal is awarded on the basis of honor courage, scholarship, leadership, and services, and the girl's medal on the basis of courage, companion ship, character, service, and scholarship. Coroner Invtstifatos J P?ik d Tw fcyiu Coroner Leslie D. Springle on Wednesday Investigated tw* deaths in the county, each with in three heart of the ether. Mn. Nimie Fenderson Joy ?er, 71-year-old colored woman, Beaufort, was found dead in her bed Wedaeaday and the coroner declared her death due to nat ural cauaes at moo Wedaeaday. At 1:3# p.m. oae of the color ed migrant laborers working oat the coroaer's farm, walked from a bean field to the edge of a woods plot and dropped dead. The coroaer said death waa due to a heart attack. The deceased waa named William Bishop No other information about him could be learned, Coroaer Springle re ported. I Newport Teacher Attends Meeting The Stale Agriculture Teachers' conference, to be held this week at Carolina Beach will be attended by C. S. Long, teacher of agricul ture, Newport school. The confer ence will be in aeosion through Fri day. A. L. Teachey, state supervisor of agricultural education, itatea that a good program has been de veloped for the conference. There will be speaker! on agronomy, beef cattle, insect control, landscaping and other subjects. One item on the program of the NCATA Is the conakleration of the adoptloe of a new conatitution and by-lawi. The committee on recreation is making plana for entertainment of the teachers. Smyrna Graduates Senior Classof 28 Twenty-eight seniors were grad uated from Smyrna high school at commencement exerciaaa Thursday night. Greta Lawrence ?u vale dictorian and Clara Fay Lewis salutatorian. Awards were presented as fol lows: citiienship. Henry Allen Brooks; acience. Leton Alligood; glee club. Joyce Willis; language. Greta Lawrence; music, Hilda Gil likin; mathematics. Greta Law rence: perfect attendance, Weston Earl Willis; athletics, Donnie Gray Davia and Annie Brown Gaskill and the basketball trophy for the best girl athlete in the county went to Miss Gaskill. Winners of bus driver awards were Herman Arthur, Leton Alli good, and Henry Allen Brooks. Announcement was made that the 1902 edition of the school an nual. Whispering Pinea, is dedi cated to Miss Josie l'igott, eighth grade teacher. The invocation was ?given by Leton Alligood and the class presi See SMYRNA, Page 7 Tide Takk Tides at Beaufart Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, June 3 3:41 a.m. 9:58 a.m. 4:17 P.m. 10:49 p.m. Wedaeaday, June 4 4:33 a.na 10:44 a.m. 5:08 p.m, 11:43 p.m. Thunday, June t 3:28 a.m. 11:34 a.m. 3:38 p.m. Friday, June ? 6:20 a.m. 12:33 ?.m. 6:47 pjB. 12:21 pjB. William B. ('mstrari. Durham, will occupy Governor's iransion at Rali-ich from 19.W to 1957. Beaufort Choral Club Will Present 'Parade of Stars' ? Three Accidents - Lead to Angsts . Members of the state highway patrol recently investigated three motor vehicle accidents in Carteret county. Norwood Rose, Markers Island, has been charged with driving without an operator's license as the result of an accident on Markers Island at 5:30 p. m. Sunday when his car ran into a light pole and snapped it off. According to Highway Patrol man M. G. Woolard, Rose was pro ceeding east on the island road when a short distance west of M. L. Yeoman's store he put on the | brake and the car veered to the left hitting the pole. He said a woman in a car in front of him stopped suddenly and that's why he had to apply the brakes. Damage to the car was esti- j mated at $100. At 12:45 p. m. Saturday on the I Markers Island road a car driven j by Charles Herbert Davis, Harkers Island and one driven by Fate i Jones, Harkers Island, collided. Davis has been charged with failure to give a hand signal and Jones with following too closely j behind another car. According to j the investigating patrolman, W. E. I Pickard, Davis stopped to pick someone up and Jones crashed into the rear of his car. Damage to | ? Jones' car was estimated at $300 and to Davis's $200. John Inzalaco, Cherry Point, has been charged with careless and ' reckless driving as the result of an accident at 8:45 Wednesday night on highway 70 near the Ocean , Park drive-in theatre J. W. Sykes, investigating high way patrolman, said that Inzalaco was proceeding west on the high way and turned left into the path of a car driven by M. T. Mills of Morehead City who was proceeding east. Damage to the Mills, car was . estimated at $250 and to Inzalaco'* car $50. Five Groups Schedule j Meetings in Carteret Fi'.e conventions' are scheduled to meet at Morehead City and At lantic Beach this summer. The North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control association will meet June 10 and 11; North Carolina Archi tects convention. June 12-15; North Carolina Veterinarians association. June 16 and 17; Board o( Conser vation and Development meeting. July 28-30: Association of County Commissioners, August 11-13. Other coming events for More head and Beaufort are pony pen nings on Core and Shackleford Banks. June 10: schooling races at the Carolina Racing association track. June 4-10. season opens June 11; Duke University Laboratory summer school. June 11-August 29; pony pennings on oftter banks. August 2 and 10. I The Beaufort Choral club, pre-* scnting one of the most lavish mus- : ical shows ever staged in Carteret county, this week enters final re hearsal for "The Parade of Stare' . The musical bhow will play for two nighty. AlHr f??*ncf 13, i> the BcT* fort schovf, Curtain tiro^ 8 p. ml Featuring local talent, the ex- 1 travaganza will present Hollywood | and Broadway stars of yesterday | and today. From the 20's will be Marilyn Miller, A1 Jolson, Kddie j Cantor, and Carteret's counterparts | of the Zeigfield Follies lovelies. Among today's entertainers will be Judy Garland. Gene Kelly, the Rockettes, Perry Como, Laurit/. Melchior, Jane Powell, Betty Hut j ton. Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner. Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, i Dan Dailcy, Betty Giable, Mary Martin, and Ezio Pin/a. There will be breath-taking stage settings plus lavish costuming. Net proceeds from the show will go to ward recreation programs, an nounced James Wheatley, Choral club business manager. The club is a non-profit organiza tion concluding with this coming performance two year* of exist ence. The club is under the direc tion of Mrs. Charles Hasscll. Beau fort. Membership is by invitation of the director or recommendation of members. Membership varies trom 45 to 50 and auditions for new members are held each September. Tickets for 'The Parade of Stars'* are being sold by members of the Choral club and the bcaufort Junior Woman's club. Students Win 1 Faraing Awards Among awards presented to stu dents at Newport school during final exercises last week were vo cational agriculture awards and .he safety school patrol award of $5 which went to Tommy Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Howard, Newport. Agricultural awards were as fol lows: To Gaston Simmons went .he Alton Higgins vacation award of $20 which is given annually by Al ton Higgins, a graduate ol Ncwpoit school who is now in the Navy, stationed at Virginia Beach, Va. This award goes to the best all around senior in vocational ?gri culture. based on the four-year high school record in scholarship, supervised practice program, it titude, initiative, leadership abil ity, trustworthiness, and character. Simmons was president of the Fu ture Farmers of America chapter at the school this year. The shop award went to John Bradley Allen, a senior, for show ing the most initiative, improve ment, and superior workmanship in the farm shop during 1951-52. Howard Garner, a junior, won the agriculture award for the best all-around record in vocational agriculture for the current year. Instructor in vocational agricul ture is C. S. Long. William B. Umstead, at torney, former teacher, su perior court solicitor. Con gressman, anil Senator will be North Carolina's next governor. Defeating his- opponent, Hubert K. Olive of Lexing ton by a margin of more than 25.000 votes Saturday, Umstead. his wife, and 9 .vear-old daughter will move into the Governor's mansion in Raleigh in January. In Carteret county, where the fu ture Governor Umstead spoke at a clambake at Smyrna last month, early returns favored Olive, but as more precincts reported, the for mer senator drew ahead in the race and his Carteret county votes stood at 2,402 with 20 precincts reporting as compared with Olive's 1,542. More to Report By noon yesterday several pre cincts ha I not yet reported re turns. Tallied Saturday night were i the votes only in the gubernatorial i contest. The full and official re turns will appear in THE NEWS TIMES Friday. Out of the 20 precincts report ing, tile fallowing gave Olive a ma jority: Wire Grass, Pelletier, Bogue, Broad Creek, Bettie, Straits, Mar See UMSTEAD. Page 7 Chamber Presents Gift to Treasurer, Albert Gaskill In appreciation for his services as treasurer of the Morehead City j chamber of commerce, Albert Gas kill was presented with a pen and ; pencil set at Thursday night's board ol directors meeting at the ' recreation center. , Gaskill will serve as treasurer of the chamber during the coming ! year. The presentation was made | by D. G. Bell, retiring president. 1 President G rover Munden ap pointed committees and names of ;ill committee tum will be released u it bin the ne? I few days. Three new committers, religious welfare, mili tary services, and education, have been added this year. Chairman of the religious wel fare committee is the Hev. Leon Couch, assisted by the Rev. C. R. Berry, Dr. John Bunn, and the Rev. | Louie Lewis. Head ot Ihc military services committee is George McNeill, com manding officer of the Army Re serve unit in this area. The gen , erals of Camp Lcjeune and Cherry Point have been requested to ap point a personal representative to serve on that committee. On the education committee are George W. Dill, chairman, II. L. Joslyn , G. T. Windcll, and Carl Southcrland.' It was agreed that more tourist information signs should be placed at strategic points throughout the town. J. A. DuBois, chamber man ager, reported on progress of the Finer Carolinas contest. The membership committee of the chamber of commerce will meet for breakfast at 8 o'clock to morrow morning at the Hotel Fort Macon. On the membership com mittee are J. C. Harvell, chairman, Jimmy Wallace, Jasper Bell, W. B. Chalk, and George Eastman. Home Demonstration Clubs to Stage y Dress Revue , Flower Show Thursday The annual flower show and < dress revue of Home Demonstra tion clubs in Carteret county will take place at the court house at 8 p.m. Thursday The flower show will be held in the home agent's office in the court j house annex. All entries must be in place at 7:30 p.m. when judg ing will begin. Crowning of the 4 11 Health king and queen will take place after the flower show. Flowers may be entered in all or any of the following classes: Class A ? best arrangement by Home Demonstration club. Clajs B ? cut flowers 1. Best specimen of rose, lily, pansy, sweet william, petunia, scabiosa, nasturtium, zinnia, snapdragon, gladiola, hydran- J gea, etc. 2. Best arrangement of any of ' the above mentioned flowers. | 3. Best arrangement of wild i flowers or native shrubbery. ! 4. Best arrangement of mixed flowers. Class C ? potted plants 1. Best specimen of begonia, cactus, fern, snake plant, ge raniurp. african violet, and any others. Class D ? individual arrange ment or idea created by club mem- ! btr. Class E ? Most ?riginal arrange llient by club member. Ribbons will be awarded to the first and second place winners in all classes. The following rules must be fol lowed in the flower show. Miss Martha Barnett, home agent, an nounced: 1. All exhibits must be in the homo agent's office by 7:30 p.m. Thursday. 2. All containers must be mark ed on the bottom with own er's name. 3. Each exhibitor must furnish her own containers. 4. Judging will take place from 8 to 9 o'clock, and the de cision of the judges will be final. 9. Show is open to the public from 8:45 to 9:30 p. 19. The dress revue includes Home See CLUBS, Page 2 Firemen Called Beaufort firemen put out burn ing crossties on the railroad at Lcn noxville yesterday* afternoon. The ties caught fire from the engine and the blaze spread to the sur rounding grass, according to El mond Rhuc. engineer. The alarir went in at 2:30 and firemen re turned to the station at 2:55 p.m. The Bev. J. T. Bunn Speaks to Lions Thursday | The Rev. John Thomas Bunn, of Louisville, Ky., was guest speaker at the Morehead City Lions elub meeting Thursday night. He spoke on the advantages of being young. Installation of Lions officers will tcke place June 19 and the install ! ing officer will, be Jesse Jones of ; Kinston, international director. | The party sponsored by the Lions at the recreation center Friday I night was discussed. Two hundred were present and ! music was furnished jy the Mar ? vella Quintet. ? Son Cones Through Sanday To Climax Holiday Weekend Clouds and rain Friday and Sat urday augured no good for a big 1 Memorial Day weekend but the sun | took over on Sunday and spelled a I happy ending. i The state park and Atlantic ? ! Beach were crowded and highway i | patrolmen reported traflice opera tion was smooth with no mishaps. - 1 Fishing camps were busy and i i places 6f entertainment handled - 1 with facility the weekend vacation I er?.