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41st YEAR. NO. 51. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
^Elections Board Official Predicts Light Vote in Saturday Rim -Off
Board Deals with Parking at School ,
Discusses Streets, Accepts Car Bid j
Chamber Members
Elect Board 1
Of Directors
Annual Banquet Will Begin
At 6:45 Tonight at Scout
Building, Beaufort
Eight members of the Beaufort
chamber of commerce have been
elected to the board of directors
fqr the coming year. They are
Glenn Adair, Holden Ballou, E. W.
Downum, G. W. Duncan, sr., Ger
ald Hill, Leslie Moore, Halsqy Paul,
uod Dr. W. L. Woodard. Braxton
Adair, retiring president, will serve
as an ex-officio member of .the
board.
The annual chamber membership
banquet will be held at 6:45 to
night at the Scout building. The
eight directors will elect officers
from among themselves.
In addition to those elected, the
following were nominated for di
rectorships: B. F. Copeland, James
Davis, J. E. Dudley, David Jones,
Paul Jones, Earl Mason, Odell
lferill, Jack Neal, Gene Smith, and
Gerald Woolard.
Persons who have not made re
servations for tonight's banquet
, should phone 2-8241 immediately
and inform the chamber that they
expect to attend.
The speaker will be Charles L.
IfcCullers of Kinston, and a film
on North Carolina, with a major
portion devoted to Carteret county,
will be shown. This will be the
fourth annual chamber of com
merce banqiet.
Police Investigate
Three Accidents j
Morhead City police investigated
three accidents over the weekend.
Victor Homer Wickizer, More
bead City, was headed cast on
Arendell street Friday at 9:20 a.m.
when his car was struck by a truck
in front of Scott's garage. The
truck had backcd out of the garage
and was pulling back onto the
street when the Wickizer car pass
ed.
The truck hit the car on the left
front fender and damage to the
car was estimated at $100. The
truck, driven by Vannic^ Hood
Salter of Newport, collided with
the car with his right running
board. Damage to his truck was
$50. Capt. Herbert Griffin and Pa
jtrolman Bruce Edwards investi
gated.
. At 3:15 p.m. Saturday between
aSnd and 23rd on Evans sL a car,
ahven by Mrs. H. C. Herr of Sa
uannah, Ga., was proceeding west.
.A jeep was in front of her and the
driver, S. A. Horton, gave a left
| hand signal and turned right, po
lice said.
The Herr car struck the rear of
the jeep and Mrs. Herr received a
cut on the arm. Damage to the
two vehicles was not estimated.
Captain Griffin was the investigat
ing officer.
, , Between 7th and 8th streets on?
'Arendell at 3:35 the same day a
car driven by Kenneth Canfield
and owned by Johnson-Saunders
Dry Cleaners was headed east and
stopped for a car backing out from
the curb.
The car behind the Canfield car
hit it on the rear left fender. Dam
age to the Canfield car was $100.
The car behind was owned by
Giles S. Hinkle of Cherry Point. He
4it the Johnson-Saunders car with
jhis right front fender and damage
to his car was estimated at $150.
Captain Griffin and Patrolman Ed
Wards investigated.
Mkm Nab Transporter '
Of Wtiskay Friday Morning
County ABC Officer Marshall
Ayscue, Deputy Sheriff Bill Dugee
' of Newport, and two Alceholic
Tax unit officers of New Bern ap
prehended a transporter of non
fax-paid whiskey at 3 o'clock Fri
day morning on the Nine-Foot road
between Newport and highway 24.
A resident of Pitt County, the
defendant will be tried in federal
court at New Bern.
V The officers seized 68 gallons of
wtyskey and the 1949 Ford conver
tible in which the whiskey was
Mowed.
'Dairyman Accepted
* Battleboro, Vt.? W. J. Blair,
Morehead City, has been accepted
is a member of the Holstein-Frie
tain Association of America by
i of the Board of Directors at
recent meeting in Roenoke,
? A proposal for solving the lack of parking space at
Morehead City school, presented by Street Superintendent
J. V. Waters, was approved by the Morehead City town
board in session Thursday night at the town hall.
Waters stated that angle parking on the east side of
11th street and angle parking on the west side of 12th, with
no parking allowed in the crescent*
drive in front of the school, would
relieve congestion.
The Rev. R. T. Willis, jr., a
member of the Morehead City
school board, appeared before the
commissioners on behalf of the
principal, G. T. Windell, who heads
the Finer Carolina committee for
school improvement.
Among the projects that commit
tee has undertaken was widening
of the crescent drive.
Estimates Cost
The street superintendent told
the board that he had surveyed the
situation and said that widening
the drive 3 or 4 feet would cost
close to $1,000 and even then it
would be a tight squeeze for two
cars.
Commissioner W. L. Derrickson
said that he felt the problem was
one for the county board of edu
cation. Mayor George Dill asked
the town attorney, George McNeill,
if there were a question of legality
in the town's paying for improve
ments on county school property
and the attorney replied, "Defi
nitely. The town has no regula
tory powers or control of school
property at all."
Waters then suggested that the
crescent drive remain as is, be
made one-way with no parking, and
the angle parking arrangement
worked out on 11th and 12th
streets. The board felt that the
teachers, who usually parked in the
crescent drive would have no
farther to walk to the east and
west entrances of the building than
if they parked in the front and
used the front entrance.
They asked the street superin
tendent to work out estimate# on
placing curbing along the east side
of 11th and the vest side of 12th.
JiUlMs also lot'1 the board that
work on hard-surfacing those two
streets will begin within several
days, providing the grade is stabil
ized and the maximum amount of
settling has taken place since the
storm sewers were laid.
The commissioners said that
Waters was due credit and com
mendation for repairing numerous
holes on Arendell streets and
keeping other thoroughfares in
good condition.
The mayor remarked that the
numerous bumps and holes on
Evans street are the result of Caro
lina Power and Light opening the
streets to get at water lines. Street
Commissioner S. C. Holloway said
that he conferred with George
Stovall, C'P&L manager in this
area, and that he had expected
Stovall to be at the meeting that
night to talk about the problem.
The commissioners directed that
the town send a letter to Stovall
and to the CP&L central office and
state that the board realized that
much must be done to bring the
water system "up to par" but the
See BOARD, Page 2 '
Court Approves
$15,000 Award v
In Civil Action
A judgment of $15,000 was
awarded the plaintiff, Dallas W.
Lawrence, administrator of the
estate of Elmo Lawrence, in the
case of Lawrence vs. Allen Gilli
kin Friday in superior court, Beau
fort. Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn
stipulated, however, that only
$0,500 need be paid if payments are
made by June 10, IBM.
Elmo Lawrence was killed in an'
automobile accident Nov. 11, 1951.
In the case of David C. Richard
son vs. Nellie Richardson Cooke,
the judge ordered that the taxes
due on the property on Ann street.
Beaufort, he paid from the share
of the estate due the plaintiff with
Mrs. Cooke not required to pay any
taxes on her interest in the estate.
The court confirmed the recent
sale of the property and directed
that the clerk of court pay Mrs.
Cooke 4/12 of the amount received
from the sale, less 4/12 of the
court costs, the residue of the
amount of sale to be paid to Mrs.
Bertie Caffrey 1/12 and to David C.
Richardson 7/12. Mrs. Cooke ap
pealed the decision of the judge
and her bond was set at $500.
In the case of J. Clyde Carr vs.
Jesse W. Long, the plaintiff recov
ered $511 and the defendant re
ceived nothing in a counter claim.
Long was ordered .to pay coats.
The (MM rated {in the cue of
Grace Elizabeth Chadwick vs.
Robert J. Chadwick that the de
fendant pay the plaintiff $100 on
Friday and $100 to the plaintiff's
attorney, _ Luther Hamilton, not
later than July 1.
According to evidence, the cou
ple was married July 9, 1950 and
have not lived together since Feb.
5, 1952. Because the plaintiff is
pregnant, the court ruled that the
defendant make arrangements for
hospital care and also pay $10 per
month thereafter for the use of
the plaintiff and expected child,
the first payment to be made not
later than Sept. 1, 1952.
In an out-of-term superior court
order signed by Judge J. Paul
Frizzelle. a matter of a cut-off in
tobacco acreage allotment was re
ferred to a review committee, the
review committee to meet in the
community. Pelletier, in which the
petitioner, Robert Rhue, resides.
The case is Robert Rhue vs.
Whitford Hill, Bert Smith, and
Woodrow Taylor who comprise a
review committee under the Agri
culture Adjuatment administration.
Marine Lab Director Releases
Schedule o f Summer Lectures
Dr. C. G. Bookhout, director of
Duke Marine laboratory, today an
nounced the lectures for the re
mainder of the tummer at Duke
Marine laboratory. Participant! in
sponsorship of the lectures which
are open, without charge, to the
public, are the Institute of Fish
eries Research of the University of
North Carolina, the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service, and
Duke University.
The lectures take place each
Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the
Duke laboritory dining hall,
Piver's Island.
Tomorrow night's lecture on fish
eries research in Maine will be
given by Lynn Bond of the Depart
ment of Inland Fisheries and
Game, state of Maine, and will be
supplemented by moving pictures.
The schedule for the remainder
of the summer follows:
July B ? An Experimental Study
of Pigment Cell Pattern in the
Black Axolotl. by Dr. H. E. Leh
man, zoology department, Univer
sity of North Carolina; July 16 ?
Habitat and Territory of the Sea
Side Sparrow, the most typical bird
of the salt marshes, by Dr. Thomas
Quay, zoology department. North
Carolina State College.
July 23? Hydrography of Pam
lico Sound, by Dr. Eugene Roelofa,
University of North Carolina Insti
tute of Fisheries Research; July 90
?Crayfish of the Ozark Region,
Dr. Austin Williams, Univertty of
North Carolina Inatitute of FM>
eries Research.
Aug. t? .Variation of Intensity
of Oyster Setting. Dr. A. F. Cheat
nut. University of North Carolina
I Hugo Blomquist, Botany depart
ment, Duke University.
Aug. 20? Foods and Feeding of
Oysters based on observation of
radioactive plankton, Daniel Floyd,
Shellfish Laboratory, United States
Fish and Wildlife Station, Beau
fort; Aug 27? Serological Techni
ques as a Tool in the Study of
Chemical Embryology, Dr. George
Nace, zoology department. Duke
university.
Clerk of Court v
Releases Report
Operation of Morehead City re
corder's court, on the books, shows
a deficit of *137.87 for March.
April, and May with disbursments
for the quarter totaling $8,214.07
and gross receipts totaling $8,176.
20. However, included in the dis
bursements are three payment to
taling $2.21.106 to the town of
Morehead City.
Disbursements, according to a
report presented the town board
by John Lashley, clerk of court,
Thursday night, are as follows:
lines collected and paid county $3,
104.66, state I & I tat (retirement
fund for court officers) $434, sal
aries, court supplies, feeding pri
soners $1,973.96.
Witness foes, attorney fees, fees
for sheriff, subpoenas, etc. $487.40,
check to town of Morehead March
4, 1962 $663.96, check to town
April 3, 1963 964955, and check
Union Sends Food
To Strikers; Says j
Catches Not Large
Spokesman Says Fisher
men Have Right lo Or
ganize, Bargain
C. A. Simmons, representative of
the International Fur and Leather
Workers union,* announced yester
day that shipments of food are be
ing sent by the union to fishermen
who are on strike in this area and
he added that reports of the
amount of fish being caught are
greatly exaggerated. A full state
ment from Simmons appears below.
He stated yesterday that local
No. 710, International Fur and
Leather Workers union, held two
meetings Saturday, one at noon and
another at night.
W. H. Potter, manager of Beau
fort Fisheries, whose boats are
fishing despite the strike, said that
the International Fur and Leather
Workers union was listed recently
in a national periodical as com
munistic.
He said the tactics of the union
indicates that they have communis
tic leanings and are imbued with
civil rights propaganda.
"Our boys her? are being mil
led, " Potter commented. "I think
that eventually they'll mend their
ways and straighten out. It's un
fortunate that they have gotten
messed up with this type of union,
but 1 think things will work out
all right. Above all, I want to keep
the good will of the iishermen."
Simmons' statement follows:
"The first shipment of food for
the menhaden fishermen in More
head, Beaufort and Southport areas
arrived in Southport Friday and
Beaufort Saturday with food in the
amount of $2,000. This should be
an answer to the question of star
vation.
"Our International union has
pledged to support the fishermen i
in this struggle to Win their just
demands through a uniron of their
own choosing. The fishermen are
not misled or surprised, at propa
ganda about amount of fish being
caught because they see daily the
fishermen in this area which is
proof that they arc united with the
fishermen on the Jersey coast and
See UNION, Page 3
Couple Throws j
Lye at Each Other
Lula Mae Oden and William
Thomas Oden, colored, have filed
counter suits against each other.
Man and wife, they have charged
each other with assault and throw
ing lye.
They were arrested by Police
Chief Carlton Garner of Beaufort
after they were treated at the
Morehead City hospital for burns
as the result of tlie lye.
Oden told the chief that his wife
was angry at him and mixed some
"Ten-Cent-Pistol" lye and threw it
at him while he was taking a bath.
According to the chief, Oden then
struck his wife, breaking her glass
es, giving her a black eye. and took
the remainder of the lye and threw
it in her face.
Each was put in the county jail
Saturday afternoon under $100
bond. They are scheduled to be
tried in recorder's court Beaufort,
today.
Two Accidents
Occur in Beaufort
Beaufort police investigated two
accident! Friday on Ann street.
At 5 p.m. a 1950 model car
driven by Emmett Ray Boone.
Havelock, was struck in the rear
by a truck driven by David Fresh
water. jr. Both were proceeding
east on Ann.
Boone said he stopped when a
car in front of him stopped and he
did not have time to signal Fresh
water who was following. There
was no damage to the truck but
damage to Boone'a car was esti
mated at *400. Police Chief Carl
ton Gamer investigated.
At 3:30 that afternoon a 1950
model aedan driven by Mrs. Marie
Davis Staton, scraped the side of
one of tlie town traah trucks. Mrs.
Staton was headed west in the 500
block of Ann street and both town
traah trucks were parked opposite
each other on the north and iouth
sides of the street, the chief said.
Instead of waiting for an oncom
ing car to paas. Mrs. Staton con
tinued between the trucks. There
was no damage to the truck, but
the Staton car was damaged to an
eatlmated *90. Officer Otis Willis
Farmer Survives Air Attack
Leslie Springle of Beaufort RFD surveys the 30-pound brass air
plane part which flew against his pick up truck recently as he was
driving on highway 101 near his home. The cylindrical piece of metal
dented the hood of th#? truck, as shown in the picture, then glanced
off and rolled in a ditch. It is believed to have fallen from an air
plane which was carrying aircraft parts.
Mrs. Delia Smith Saves J
Two Girls from Drowning
Morehead Board .
Renews Crusade
For Fishing Pier
The Morehead City town board
took up the crusade again Thurs
day niflht for retaining the north
end of the present bridge to At
lantic Beach as a fishing pier.
At the suggestion of I)r. John
Morris, commissioner, the board
authorized the clerk, John Lash
ley, to writ* letters to I>r. Everett
Jorfan, head of Uy* State Highway
Public Womh coinnwHuioiK
George Ross, chairman of the
board of conservation and levclop
ment; and Thomas Morse, head of
the state parks division of the
north portion of the bridge be al
lowed to stand and operated by
the state for sports fishermen.
Or, Morris said that the state
highway officials and others in
volved were in favor of the pro
posal when it was suggested a year
ago after plans for the new high
way bridge at 24th street were ap
proved. He added, however, that
objections were raised by certain
factions who contended that the
pier would damage the party boat
fishing business. The state then
dropped the matter.
The commissioners declared that
the person who likes to fish from
a pier is not the same type of in
dividual who wants to go in a party
boat and felt that any facility
which brings more vacationists to
this area is advantageous to all.
It was pointed out that the sec
tion of the bridge proposed to re
main as a nsning pier would not
be a hindrance to navigation.
On another fishing angle, the
commissioners discussed the fact
the party boatmen have been ask
ed not to dump their excess catches
from party boats right off the Jock,
allowing big. fish like amberjack to
float along the waterfront or slosh
along the shore to rot.
Commissioner D. G. Bell stated
that the party boatmen have agreed
to carry the big fish out to sea
again but they see no reason why
waterfront restaurants should be
allowed to dump all their garbage
and refuse into the water by their
places of business.
The board directed that an ar
rangement be made to pick up, by
truck, all garbage from waterfront
restaurants early in the morning,
thus making it unnecessary to
throw the refuse overboard.
Two Arrested
William Chadwick and William
Blades Parkin have been arreted
in Beaufort on charges of public
drunkenness. Chadwick was arrest
ed at 1:30 Friday afternoon and
also charged with resisting arrest.
He was put in jail under $100 bond.
Parkin was arrested at 1:30 a.m.
Sunday and posted $12 bond for his
release.
Tide Table
Tide* it Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, June 24
9:26 a.m.
3:38 p.m.
3:35 a.m.
3:29 p.m.
Wednesday, June 25
10:05 a.m.
10:15 p.m.
4 11 am.
4.09 p.m.
Thursday, June 26
10:44 a.m.
10:51 p.m.
4:57 a.m.
4:50 p.m.
5:22
Friday, June ?
11:24 a.m.
"30 p*.
5.34 pja.
Mrs. Delia Smith of 408 N. 10th
st., Morchead City, arrived home
Thursday afternoon just in time to
save two little girls from drown
ing. Her home is near Calico
creek. As Mrs. Smith walked in
her front door, just before 5
o'clock, she said she heard children
screaming. She went to her win
dow on the north side of the house,
which overlooks the water, and saw
a crowd of children at the water's
edge in front of Luke Dudley's
oyster house.
Mrs. Smith, who doesn't know
how to swim, rushed out of her
house and down to the' dock. A
child in the group told her that
"Marion was drowned." She went I
out on the dock and saw little
Marion Shepard, 10, floating face
upward on the water. She couldn't
reach her so she took a stick and
pulied her to the dock. Then she
reached down and lifted her out of
the water.
She thought the child was dead j
but she and the girl's grand
mother, Mrs. Mattie Shepard. work
ed on her until she started to cry.
Then Mrs. Smith happened to look
toward the water again and saw
another child, Ernestine Montague,
5, just as she. in deperation,
clutched for the dock and grabbed
a piling.
Ernestine was full of water and
foaming at the mouth.
Mrs. Smith, who had only been
told about the one child and didn't
know the Montague youngster was
in the water, reached down ind got
her. She was taken to the hos
pital by Alonzo Jones and her
mother, Mrs. Nellie Montague.
Both children fully recovered
and Ernestine was taken home
from the hospital Friday afternoon.
It is believed that while playing
the youngsters, who couldn't swim,
got in water over their heads, and
in panic, almost drowned.
' Carteret countians and their fellow North Carolinians
will go to the polls again Saturday to cast votes in the run
off primary between William H. Bohbitt of Mecklenburg
county and R. Hunt Parker of Halifax who are seeking
election as associate justice of the supreme court.
Both are running for the short and long terms. The
associate justice ballot will be the'
only one presented Carteret voters,
although in some North Carolina
districts there will be voting for
congressmen.
F. R. Seeley, chairman of the
county board of elections, predicts
that the vote will be very light,
probably 1,200 and not more than
1,500 as compared with a vote of
4,400 in the recent May '11 primary
when William B. I 'instead defeat
ed Hubert E. Olive for the gubcrna
torial nomination.
The second primary Saturday in
Carteret will cost the county at
least $1,700, ventured Seeley. Cost
to the county of the May 31 pri
mary was between $3,500 and $3.
700. He estimated that the total
cost to the state for the run-off
Saturday will be close to $250,000.
Cost of distributing ballots alone
to all the counties will run about
$75,000, remarked the county elec
tions board chairman.
The contest, incidentally, is over
a $12,000 a year job. Because this
is a race between two Democrats,
there will be no Republican poll
holders on duty Saturday. The
polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 6:30 p.m.
Morehead Lioos
Install Officers
For Coming Year
Fred G. Lewis was installed as
president of the Morehead City
Lions club Thursday night. Other
officers installed were Frederick [
Hardy, first vice-president; Alvah ;
North Willis, second vice-presi
dent; John T. Willis, third vice
president; John D. Willis, sccre
tary.
Dave Battle Webb, treasurer:
Victor Wickizer, tail twister:
Charles Bell, Upn tamer; CUucncc
Bell and Lewis HHisen, direct*!*.
Past officers are Oscar Alfred,
president; E. L. Faucette, secre
tary; James Bell, recording seere
tary; Fred G. Lewis, treasurer.
Jesse Jones. Lion from Kinston.
was in charge of the installation
and gave a brief talk. Jones con
ducted the installation when the
club wa* reactivated in 1945.
Forty were present for the pro
gram which was also ladies' niyht
Eleven of the members were given
perfect attendance buttons for the
past year. They were O. N. Allrcd.
J. G. Bennett, Frank Moran. Fred
G. Lewis, Harry Van Horn. John
D. Willis. John T Willis. Clarence
Bell. Dave B. Webb, Victor Wick
izer and James Bell.
After the installation ceremony.
Zcno Spence, jr., of Goldshoro,
guest of Frank Moran, gave a
demonstration on Fast Painting of
Ocean Scenes. He painted one in
eight minutes and three in less
than a half hour. The club pre
See LIONS, Page 2
Morehead Board Tentatively
Approves $187,065 Budget
iworcncaci i.ity s tola] estimated
budget for 1952-53 is $187,065. The
budget was tentatively approved at
the meeting of the town board
Thursday night over the protest of
one of the commissioners, W. L.
Derrickson.
Because the budget was not final
ly adopted, there will have to be
another meeting this month to take
final action, the mayor. George W.
Dill, jr., said. Absent Thursday
night was Commissioner M. T.
Mills.
The mayor commented Thursday
night. "This is the largest budget
we have ever had. It is large be
cause our anticipated revenues are
expected to be larger. Further
more, we have acted on the premise
that the taxpayer does not benefit
until the town spends the tax in
come on behalf of the taxpayer."
I.ast year's budget was estimated
at $172,000. Receipts for 1951-52
were $183,258.06. The break-down
by departments follows: adminis
trative expenses $27,558. police de
partment $29,060; fire department
$18,101; streets and sewers $5,360;
sanitation $13,530.
Cemetery $8,175, building inspec
tor. Carolina Power and Light, debt
service, recreation, and hospital
$60,833. street department (Powell
bill) $24,446.
Under the new budget, the
mayor's salary, and expenses inci
dental to operation of his office are
set at $2,600: commissioners will
be paid both for attending regular
and special meetings (heretofore
they were paid $5 only for each
regular meeting) and that expense
has been budgeted at $600.
The janitor's salary haa been
raised from 11,719 annually to $1,
876 annually and police salaries as
well as tire department engineer
salaries have been upped.
The mayor said that no uniform
ed man winking for the lown will
receive less than $50 a week.
Police patrolmen lave been
raised from $45 to $50 a week, lieu
tenants from $50 to $55, captains
from $55 to $60, and the chief to |
$65.
Commissioner Derrickson object
ed to certain salary increases, and
said he was voting against the ten
tative budget because he did not
approve of them.
in the tentative budget no pro
vision has been made for the pro
posed county-wide radio setup
which the county. Beaufort, *\nd
Morehead City have been discuss
ing for the past several weeks.
For debt service $43,600 has been
earmarked. $5,450 to the recrea
tion commission. $2,725 to the hos
pital. and $9,000 to Carolina Power
and Light for street lighting,
power, and water.
Anticipated receipts are as fol
lows: taxes $109,000. poll tax $765.
delinquent tax $5,000, franchise
tax $2,500. penalties and costs
$700. intangible tax $2,700, busi
ness licenses $6,000, cemetery rev
enue $800. dog licenses $100.
Rent $600, beer and wine tax
$4,000, parking meters $7,000, city
tags, maps $800. building permits
$250. sewer tap fees $250, street
assessments $300, racing commis
sion $23,000, recorder's court $5,
000, Powell street aid bill $16,500.
Child Hurt
John Kelly, new barber at the
Sanitary Barber shop in Morehead
City, was called to his home near
Charlotte Saturday because his
son waa seriously injured in an
automobile accident.
Commission Seeks
Funds for National <>
Seashore Park
Group Meets Saturday Af
ternoon at Atlantic Beach
Hotel; Avon Man Protests
With approval of the council of
state, expected to be given at Ral
eigh yesterday morning, the Cape
llatteras National Seashore park
comes closer to reality.
At a meeting at the Atlantic
Beach hotel Saturday afternoon
members of the North Carolina
Cape llatteras Seashore commis
sion approved a resolution asking
that $200,000 be turned over to
jthe federal government by July 1
j and another $300,000 prior to Aug.
V This $500,000 plus $118,000 of
I state funds already earmarked for
the Cape llatteras park will match
! $018,000 the federal government
; says it has available.
| The $018,000 is coming from an
unknown benefactor. A. C. Strat
um of the National Park service's
I regional office, Richmond, told the
commission Saturday* that he him
self did not know who the bene
factor is and if he did, he would
not be at liberty to disclose "his
or their identity."
The total $1,236,000 would be
used to acquire the land for the
national seashore park. The fed
eral government hopes to take in
the southern tip of Bodie island,
south through llatteras and Ocra
cokc. Stratton told the commis
sion that the federal government
cannot appropriate money for ac
quisition of land. The land has to
be donated or' financed through
other sources. The federal gov
| urnment does, however, appropriate
I ate funds for develop*** nt of iDt *
See HATTKRAS, Pago 2
Polio Strikes j
Pelletier Child
The first case of infantile paraly
sis this year has occurred in the
county, Dr. N. T. Ennctt, health
officer, reported yesterday. Melba
Alice Lee. 9-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Lee, of Pel
letier, was stricken last Tuesday
and removed yesterday from Jack
sonville to the Greensboro Conva
lescent hospital.
The health office has placed a
quarantine on the Lee family,
which includes besides the parents,
"six or seven children," according
to Dr. Ennett.
The physician attending ihe
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mini was ui. o . r. v,uiuun ui
Swansboro. The Carteret county
health department was notified of
the case through the health repay
ment at Jacksonville in Onslow.
county.
This is the first case in Carteret
county since September 1951. Cases
in the county during the past six
years are as follows: 1946, six;
1947, one; 1948, twelve; 1949 two;
1950, one; 1951, two and this year
to date, the Lee child.
In the years when there were 6
and 12 cases, the health oficer said
that first reports of the illness
came in July and he said that judg
ing from the statistics, it may be
that more cases than in 1949, 1950,
and 1951 can be expected this year.
Saturday Night
Party Changed
Because of the difficulty in ob
taining chaperones at the Saturday
night teen-age parties at the More
head City recreation center, the
Saturday party has been switched
to Wednesday night, Fred Lewis,
recreation director, announced yes
terday.
Beginning tomorrow night, the
recreation center will be open for
the youngsters rather than Satur- .
day as in the past. The Friday
night party will continue as usual.
In charge of this Friday's enter
tainment will be the Morehead'City
Rotary club. The Rotarians also
sponsored last week's Friday party. I
Lewis announced that the new
tennis poles and nets are up and
were used for the first time Sun
day.
The Morehead City high school
band, under the direction of Ralph
Wade, will give an outdoor concert
at the recreation center at 7 p.m.
tomorrow.