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4l?t YEAR, NO. 55. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
County Commissioner Resigns, Board OKs Police Radio Purchase ,
Fak Weather i
Brings Large
Holiday Crowds
Morehead City Colored Boy
Drowns Friday Afternoon
' In Craven County
A golden sun framed by blue
skies brought record-setting crowds
Carteret county beaches for the
kfng Fourth of July weekend.
No fatalities occurred in the
Jaunty but a 17-year-old colored
1 W>y, Charles Graham Bryant,
Morehead City, drowned in Craven
, eeunty while swimming in the
Neuse river at Cliffside beach Fri
' day afternoon.
Numerous highway accidents oc
etirred. In two serious ones Larry
Jones and Paul Bailey were in
jured (see story page 1).
Morehead City police were kept
btisy directing beach-bound and
(fewntown traffic and state high
way patrolmen pulled through the
Weekend with only several hours'
tleep.
The funeral service for Bryant
Was conducted at 2 o'clock in the
AME Zion Methodist church. More
head City, at 2 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. The Rev. W. C. Cooke
Officiated. Burial was in Bay View
cemetery.
Survivors are his mother, Mrs.
Hidie Bryant of Morehead City,
three sisters, Mrs. Shirley Herring,
Marlboro, N. Y., and Abye and El
i lermae, both of the home.
Efforts were made to revive the
bty when he was pulled from the I
Water and he was also given artifi- 1
clal respiration at Cherry Point
Marine base hospital, but to no j
avail.
J. A. DuBois, manager of the
Morehead City chamber of com
merce, said all hotels were full, all
?ecommodations listed at the
efcamber of commerce tourist of
fice were taken (with a turnover
mounting up in the hundreds), and
the office stayed open until 11 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday.
Police Arrest ,
False Alarmist
Troy Anderson, colored, Beau
fort, was arrested at 12:30 a.m. Fri
on a charge of turning in a
false fire alarm. He has been
Aarged also with being drunk and
sisting arrest. Anderson posted
50 bond for his appearance in re
rder's court, Beaufort, this morn
ifTC The arresting officer was Max
Well Wade.
Three other arrests were made
to Beaufort police over the week
end. Walter Chadwick, colored, was
arrested Friday for public drunken
iress. At the time he was out under
(bend on a previous drunkenness
clarge. He was put in the county
jkil but later posted $50 bond for
Ms release.
John Evans, colored, Tampa,
21a., was arrested at 2:30 Saturday
ternoon for failing to stop at the
intersection at Queen and Ann
?jfeets. He was also charged with
living no brakes and causing a
wreck.
Police are holding his car as
t)?nd for Evans' appearance in
Cfurt today. He ran into the car
If Mrs. Gladys Dickinson, Beaufort,
??ported Chief of Police Carlton
garner. No one was hurt. Damage
to her care was $10 and to his car
?one.
The chief arrested both Chad
wick and Evans. Colon Gray Mer
rcll was arrested for speeding on
live Oak and Ann streets Friday.
He will be given a hearing in re
corder's court, Beaufort, today. Of
licer Wade made the arrest.
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Two Cars Collide
At Intersection '
One c*r wis demolished and an
otber damaged to the extent of
$800 when the two collided at the
4 intersection of 28th st. and Evans
ill Morebead City Thursday at 12:40
in.
Joe Ratford Wilkerson of Apex,
tins west on Evans, failed to stop
the stop sif n and blinker at 28th
. and collided- with a car going
>wn 28th it. toward the beach,
ported the More head City police.
H. L. Petty, passenger in the
ilkerson car, received a cut on
left hand. The car received $300
nages.
Dorman Zeno Couch, Morehead
:y, was driver of the other car,
itch waa hit in the left side. The
?ar was demolished. Mrs. Couch
ftbd a cut on the bead and a bruised
*?
Patrolman Bruce Edwards was
i investigating officer.
Charles R. Hassell Heads County's /
Operation Skywatch; Spotters Needed
Charles R. Hassell, Beaufort, has
been appointed by Edward S. Nel
son, Beaufort, county civil defense
chairman, as head of the county's
Operation Skywatch.
This announcement was made by
Nelson yesterday as he issued a
call to countians to volunteer for
the round-the-clock spotter service
which is scheduled to go into ef
fect throughout the nation.
North Carolina needs 20,000 vol
unteers to scan the heavens for pos
sible invading enemy aircraft. The
spotters will man posts eight miles
apart. On the Carteret coast Nel
son said the posts will probably be
six to eight miles from each other.
At the request of the air defense
command, 27 of the nation's border
states will have Ground Observer
corps spotter teams in action by
July 14 on an around-the-clock
basis.
North Carolina is not one of the
27 states slated to begin operations
on a 24-hour basis on the 14th.
However, E. Z. Jones, state civil
defense director, said. North Caro
lina will operate her posts on a
12-hour per day basis, subject to
24-hour emergency duty.
The GOC's prime purpose is to
fill in the blind spots of the na
tion's radar system, and there are
many such spots according to the
air defense command.
Spotting by the GOC is not new.
Since 1950 GOC posts have been
operating on a 24-hour basis in
North Carolina in the Norfolk area.
GOC bservers do not sound a
local a. i. Instead they phone their
observations to s filter center
within seconds. After the filter
center establishes a track, its infor
mation is passed on to the air de
fense control center.
North Carolina will soon have
two filter centers. One is operat
ing at Charlotte on a 24-hour basis
and is manned by 500 volunteers.
The other will be operating on the
same basis at Durham by Aug. 1.
To help set up the GOC in North
Carolina, the Air Force has sent
Lt. Col. John Gresh to help Jones.
Phones Essential
Observation posts not only must
be within eight miles of each other,
they must be within 15 seconds
walking distance of a telephone so
spotters can call the filter centers.
The calls are made over a special
number and the government foots
the bill ? but someone must vol
unteer the phone and post, which
may be used by strangers on a 24
hour basis.
Jones said North Carolina needs
550 observation posts. If each post
has 36 volunteers, a person would
have to stand watch two hours
every three days if the post were
operated on a 12-hour basis. This
is figured with two persons stand
ing watch together.
"All we require of volunteers,"
declared Jones, "is that they be of
reasonable intelligence, be able to
determine in what direction a plane
is flying, how many motors it has,
and use a simple computer we give
them to determine a plane's speed.
A conventional propeller-driven
airplane, he said, will have travel
ed 92 miles between the time it
is spotted and tracked by the filter
center.
No distinction is made as to race,
religion or sex in accepting volun
teers, said Jones.
Carteret residents wishing to
serve as spotters should contact
Hassell, 811 Ann st., 2-3941, or Nel
son, 202 Pollock st., 2-4771. Nel
son may also be reached at his
place of business, 2-8651.
It is hoped that within several
weeks there will be an Operation
Skywatch civilian officer in each
community. Nelson explained. Un
til that time, every volunteer
should register either with him or
Hassell.
Tobacco Farmers Will Vote
On Two Proposals July 19
State REA Board
To Meet at Beach"
The North Carolina Rural Elec
trification Authority will hold its
quarterly board meeting at Atlan
tic Beach Friday, it was announced
Friday by Chairjnan Gwynn B.
JJrice. Board members expected to
attand the meeting are H. S. Hobbs,
jr., o{ Chapel Hill, D. E. Purcell of
Reidsville, Mrs. D. Hubert Bouey
of Teacheys, C. L. Bailance of St.
Paul and Glenn C. Palmer of Clyde.
The State Rural Electrification
Authority was established by the
state legislature in the beginning
of the rural electrification pro
gram and the growth and expansion
of electric service to farm homes
in North Carolina has been achiev
ed under the guidance of the auth
ority.
During recent months the auth
ority has sponsored and promoted
expansion of telephone facilities
to. rural homes in North Carolina
and all signs indicate that this need
will receive increasing attention
from technical staff members of
the authority, according to W. C.
Carlton, manager o{ the Carteret
Craven REA.
Chairman Price has been invited
to Meet Thursday night with the
board of directors of the Carteret
Craven Electric Membership cor
poration in Morehead City.
Tax Collector j
Reports to Board
Taxes collected by the county
thus far lor 1952 amount to $86,
223.32. Eugene O. Moore, county
tax collector, reported to the coun
ty board yesterday morning at the
court house.
Collected to date on the 1952
levy is. $81,560.05, on 1951 and
prior levies $3,647.27, and business
privilege taxes $1,016.
The percentage of the 1951 levy
collected was 91.73 or $320,658.56.
The total levy was $349,534.67. Col
lections (or the 1951-52 fiscal year,
starting July 1. 1951 and continu
ing to July 1, 1952 were as follows:
On 1952 levy $81,560.05, on 1951
levy $260,117.77, 1950 and prior
levies $37,102.19, privilege taxes
$2,207.25, making a toUl of $380,
987.26 collected during the fiscal
year just closed.
Put District Irrmor y
Speaks to Bttoriaiw
Charles Phillipa of Greensboro,
a past district governor, was the
speaker at the meeting of the
Morehead City Rotary club Thurs
day night. He intermingled wit and
humor with a speech on club aer
vice. A new member. Bill Blair,
was welcomed to the club.
Other visiting Rotarians were
Herman Morgan of FarmviUe, also
a past district governor. Jack Sty
ron of Lake Charles, La., Chuck
Milone of Effingham, III., Lebern
S pence of Melbourne, Fla., and W.
L. Ramsey of Fayetteville.
' Flue-cured tobacco growers in !
North and South Carolina {ace a
double-barrelled proposition when
they go to the polls Saturday, July
19.
On that date, flue-cured growers
from the Carolinas will cast ballots
either tor or against continuance
of:
1. A 10-cenl-per-acre assessment
to support Tobacco Associates.
2. Tobacco quotas.
Carteret county tobacco farmers
and others interested will receive
an explaiution of the issues at a
meeting at A o'clock tonight at
the court house in Beaufort.
Here is some background for the
two referendums:
North and South Carolina de
pend heavily on the success of the
Hue-cured tobacco program. Two
vital phases of that program are
Marketing Quotas, which guarantee
stabilized market prices through a
support program, and the export
promotional work carried on by
Tobacco Associates.
Since 1934 growers have enjoyed
the benefits of an acreage control
program, and since 1939 they have
operated successfully under Mar
keting Quotas with acreage allot
ments. Repeatedly tobacco growers
have voted overwhelmingly to con
tinue this program, which has
meant so much not only to growers
but the entire economy of the two
states.
Tobacco Associates was formed
in 1M7 by growers and their allied
interests to protect and develop
foreign markets ? upon which they
depend for the sale of some 40
per cent of their tobacco each year.
In July of that year, growers in the
two Carolinas overwhelmingly ap
proved the present lOcent-per-acre
assessment for 1947-1949 and again
in 1948, they approved the assess
ment for 1990, 1991, and 1992.
The extent of the work done by
this export-promoting organization
is evidenced by the increase it) ex
ports since its formation six years
ago. Exports of United States flue
cured tobacco have increased from
}S9 million pounds in 1047 to 400
million pounds in 1951 and are now
about 30 per ccnt above pre-war
years.
Through the Work of the organ
ization, new markets have been
developed and others expanded un
til now American tobacco growers
are no longer dependent upon any
one country for the sale of their
tobacco. Countries such as Ger
many, the Netherlands, Ireland.
Denmark and the Philippines, are
now taking from two to ten times
more tobacco than before the war.
The law authorizing marketing
quotas also provides for a govern
ment loan to support tobacco
prices. If marketing quotas arc ap
proved in the referendum, loans
will be 'available on the 1953 crop
at prices equal to 90 per cent of
the Parity prices as of July 1, 1952.
Since Tobacco Associates is fin
anced solely by growers and their
allied interests and the Marketing
Quotas administered by the govern
ifient-sponsorcd Production and
Marketing Administration, there
will be two ballot boxes at the polls
Referendum Day. One box will be
for the marketing quota vote which
will show whether the growers
want marketing quotas for another
year, another three years or not
at all.
The other box will collect votes
on the 10-cent-per-acre self-assess
ment for Tobacco Associates.
In both referendum^, a two
thirds majority of the growers vot
ing is needed to approve quotas and
the assessment.
J. Henry Caughn of Elm City,
chairman of Tobacco Associates'
board of directors explained that
a grower "is any person who has
an interest as owner tenant or
sharecropper in the 1952 crop of
flue - cured tobacco." However.
Vaughn stressed, "no producer is
entitled to more than one vote
even though he may have been en
gaged in production of tobacco in
two or more communities, counties,
or states."
With tlw Arm?d Forces
PeUetier Soldier Serves
In Infantry Division , Korea
With the 29th Infantry Div. in
Korea ? Pvt. Henry B. Hamilton,
route 1 Pelletier. is now serving
with the 2Sth Infantry Division in
eastern Korea.
The 25th, approaching its third
year qn the peninsula, held off the
Reds st Pusan in the summer of
1990. Now the acnior unit In Ko
rea. its patrols are harassing enemy
positions northwest of the Punch
bowl.
Private Hamilton, a jeep driver
In Headquarters and Service com
pany of the 89th Tank battalion,
was stationed at Fort Knox, Ky.,
before arriving in Korea on June
2, 1992.
He was engaged in farming be
fore entering the Army in Novem
ber 1991.
Sgt. Manley Lockhart, USA, sta
tioned at Camp Gordon. Ga., is
spending a leave with his sisters,
Mrs. David Bell and Mrs. Charlie
Lewis.
Shepard Sampson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Sampson, formerly of
Morahead City, now of Greensboro,
is stationed at Travis Air Force
base, California, with the 31st Stra
tegic Reconnaissance squadron. He
is a member of the crew of a jet
bomber now testing engines on trial
flights.
Sampson enlisted in the Air
Force in March 1951 and completed
basic training at Lackland Air
Force base, Texas. He completed
B-3S school at Sheppard Air Force
base, Texas, with the rating of air
man second class December 1951
and won the rating of airman first
class in April 1952.
With the 25th Infantry Div. in
Korea ? Pvt. T. C. Jones, route 1
Beaufort, is now serving with the
25th Infantry Division in eastern
Korea.
The 25th, approaching its third
yaar on the peninsula, held off the
Reds at Pusan in the summer of
1960. Now the senior unit in Ko
rea, its patrols are harassing ene
my positions northwest of the
Punchbowl.
Private Jones, a member of Com
pany D, 5th infantry regiment, en
See ASHED FORCES, Page 2
Presbyterian
Minister Will
Speak at Meeting
The Rev. Priestly Conyers
To Deliver Address To
morrow to Methodist Men
The Rev. Priestly Conyers, III,
pastor of Webb Memorial Presby
terian church, will be the speaker
at the meeting of the Methodist
Men at 6:30 tomorrow night in the
educational building of the First
Methodist church. Morehead City.
Mr. Conyers will speak on his re
cent experiences in Europe and the
Near East and give his evaluation
of conditions there. Mr. Conyers
The Rev. Priestly Conyers III
and his family recently returned
from Europe where the minister
undertook a year's course of study.
A graduate of Davidson college
in 1943, the Presbyterian minister
served three years in the Army.
He was company commander of the
193rd tank battalion and was dis
charged with the rating of captain.
Mr. Conyers entered Union Theo
logical seminary, Richmond. Va., in
1946 and was graduated in 1949
with the bachcior of divinity de
gree.
Paul Mitchell, president of the
Methodist Men, will preside tomor
row night. Members of the organ
ization will prepare and serve the
dinner which will precede the pro
gram. Skinner Chalk, jr., is pro
gram chairman.
He announced yesterday that all
Methodist men are invited to the
meeting. The educational building ]
is located between Bridges and j
Arendell on 9th st.
Olaod Bell Home
Burns Saturday
The home of Oland V. Bell, six
and a half miles north of Beaufort
on highway 101 was destroyed by
fire Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs.
Bell and their six children escaped
unharmed.
Smoking pouring from the attic
was noticed and even though all
the family was home at the time,
nothing could be done to save the
10-room house which is located on
the former Eubanks farm. Only
two chimneys remain standing.
Everything else was lost.
Insurance investigators believe
the fire was t)ie result of defective
wiring or a load of current beyond
the amount the place was wired to
handle.
The Bells had installed a new
deep freeze several days before the
fire. Blinking lights and surging of
current was noticed, but nothing
was done in time to prevent the
fire.
ABC Officer Seeks Owner
Of Whiskey-Bearing Car '
ABC Officer Marshall Ayscuc
was looking yesterday for the own
er of a car which had in it six
gallons of non tax-paid whiskey and
was left by the side of highway 101
by K. W. Wright's warehouse at
11:30 Saturday night.
Officer .Ayscue is holding the
car and the keyp. The keys have a
name written on a label attached
to them. The ABC officer said the
car was parked along the side of
the road and when he pulled up to
investigate, the driver jumped out
and ran through a cornfield.
The officer said the owner can
have his car back "by identifying
the car ? and the whiskey!"
Lions Meet
At the meeting of the Lions club
Thursday night, Fred Lewis, presi
dent, handed out mimeographed
forms with the committees listed.
Each member was told to mark his
first, second and third choice of
the committee be would like to
serve on.
> The county board of commissioners, in regular session ^
yesterday morning at the court house, accepted 'he resig
nation of Commissioner Hugh Salter, approved purchase of
a county-wide police radio-telephone, appointed Frank
Lewis constable for White Oak township, and handled
routine matters.
Commissioner Salter resigned to take the position of
deputy sheriff in the sheriff's of-*
fice. He was sworn in at 2:51 yes
terday afternoon. The county board
authorized purchase of the radio
telephone equipment, which is
slated for use by Beaufort, More
head City, and county law officers,
providing adequate servicing of the
equipment will be furnished by the
seller.
Costs of purchase have been ob
tained from three companies, but
final decision as to who will re
ceive the contract has not been
made. Dan Walker, Beaufort town
clerk, presented the board with the
figures and information on the
equipment.
Commissioner Moses C. Howard
was appointed at the June meeting
to confer with Walker and the
mayor of Morehead City on the
proposal.
Lewis, whose home is at Cedar
Point, was nominated for the con
stableship by Sheriff C. G. Holland.
He was recommended by John
Jones and A. D. Ennett. Lewis's
term will continue until the next
general election and his jurisdic
tion extends throughout the county
as well as in White Oak township.
Budget Explained
After a detailed explanation of ,
capital outlay and current expense
items in the board of education
budget by H. L. Joslyn, county su
perintendent of schools, the board
approved the budget as submitted.
There was a delay in approval be
cause several commissioners felt
their communities were not being 1
treated fairly in the distribution of '
funds. i
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, chairman of 1
the board, said it was not the coun- I
ty board's duty to tell the educa- ?
tion board how to spend the money.
"Our sole duty is appropriation," i
declared Dr. Bonner. "It is our <
duty to act in an executive capa
city, not administrative, and I be
lieve we should have enough faith 1
in the county board of education to
know that they will distribute the
funds equitably.
"Public pressure makes a public
official perform his duties in the
best interests of all," the chairman
said. He added that the county
board gets criticised enough with
out placing themselves in a posi
tion where the board of education
can say, "Well, we wanted to spend
the money otherwise, but the coun
ty commissioners said we had to
spend it this way!" the chairman
concluded.
The board of education budget
for the current fiscal year is $65,
500, the same as last year. Final
approval was given the entire
budget.
John.L. Humphrey, county road
superintendent, told the board yes
terday that the Roberts road and
Deep Creek canal will be paved.
Irvin Davis, register of deeds, said
he wouldn't be satisfied with any
road improvement until highway
70 to Atlantic is resurfaced.
"More cars were on that road on
the Fourth of July than on all the
other roads in the county put to
gether," he declared. He said the
ruts are so deep that a driver has
to violate all traffic laws to get
around them and avoid breaking
his neck.
Humphrey explained that bond
money cannot be used to improve
highway 70 down east because it
is not a secondary road. He an
nounced however, that plans for
widening it to 20 feet, and resur
facing, have been approved and the
See COMMISSIONERS, Page 2
r
Game Wardens j
Make Arrests
Two Cedar Island residents and
one Winston-Salem man were ar
rested Saturday for violation of
game laws, Leroy Mcintosh. Beau
fort, wildlife game and fish pro
tector, announced yesterday.
Elmo and Wesley Lupton, Cedar
Island, pleaded guilty Saturday
night before Justice of the Peace
F. R. Seeley, to taking deer out of
season in the open grounds. They
were arrested by Mcintosh and Bill
Kiaiey, wildlife protector of Jack
sonville, at 4:30 Saturday after
noon.
Each was ordered to pay $10 fine
plus $5.50 court costs. Nelson
Gladston, Winston-Salem, pleaded
guilty before Justice of the Peace
Seeley to fishing in fresh water
without a license and paid a $5
fine plus $5.50 costs.
Beaufort Driver
Faces Charges
Thomas P. Noe 215 Fulford st..
Beaufort, has been charged with
careless and reckless driving and '
with possessing a small quantity of '
non tax-paid whiskey as the result
of an accident in front of Mack's 1
place on the Lennoxville road Sun
day.
Patrolman H. G. Woolard who
investigated, also investigated two
other accidents during the past
several days.
At Mack's he said Noe backed
out and into the path of a 1946 au
tomobile owned and operated by
Dorsey E. Marshall of Saxis, Va.
Marshall was proceeding west on
the Lennoxvillo^foed ?|xi prepar
ing to turn into thf iftad which
leads to Ann street when the acci
dent occurred.
Damage to Marshall's car was
estimated at $25 and to Noe's car
none. No one was injured.
At 3:30 on the morning of the
Fourth a 1951 station wagon owned
and operated by Rutherford Gray ,
jf Atlantic ran into the canal on
highway 70 one mile east of Davis.
Gray told the highway patrol
man that the car began to "shim
my" and he lost control of it. It
lay submerged in water until 9 a.m.
when it was towed away. Gray
lad to swim out to get away from
he scene right after the accident
>ccurred, but he was not injured.
Mo charges were preferred.
At 9:10 p.m. Thursday a 1948
nodel automobile owned and op
erated by D. N. Hull of route 1
Mewport struck the rear of an oil
;anker and turned over on high
way 70 eight miles west of More
head City.
According to Patrolman Wool
ird, Hull tried to pass the truck
but had to pull back in the face of
oncoming traffic. When he did so, ,
he struck the rear of the truck and
the car flipped over on its side ;
after going into a ditch.
The driver was not hurt but
damage to the car was estimated <
at $350. The truck, which was pro
ceeding east on highway 70, as was
Hull, did not stop. No charges
were preferred. I
Two Pedestrians
Struck by Cars "
Larry Jones, II, Paul G.
Bailey, 35, Recover In
Morehead City Hospital
Two pedestrians. Larry Jones, 11,
route 1 Morehead City, and Paul
Griffin Bailey. 35, Pine Level, were
injured in the county over the
Fourth of July weekend.
Both are confined to Morehead
City hospital, the Jones lad suffer
ing from bruises, abrasions, and a
mild concussion, and Bailey suffer
ing from a compound fracture of
the left le^ and a gash on the head.
Their conditions were reported yes
terday as satisfactory.
Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Jones, route 1 Morehead City, was
struck near his home at 1:25 p.m.
Sunday at the intersection of high
way 70 and the (Atlantic Beach
road.
Driver of the car was Julius
Caesar Stanley, colored, of 610 Pine
St., Beaufort. According to High
way Patrolman R. H. Brown, Stan
ley was proceeding toward More
head City on highway 70 when the
child ran in front of the car from
the north side of the highway. He
was struck by the right front fen
der and was taken to the hospital
in the George W. Dill ambulance.
Patrolman Brown said the driver
of the car applied brakes, but
skidded on loose gravel on the
hard surface. Damage to the car
was estimated at $25. No charges
were preferred.
Bailey was struck at 9 p.m. Fri
day, July 4. on the Beaufort-More
head City causeway in front of the
C. J. Bowles cabins. Driver of the
car, a 1941 coupe, was Martha
Kloise Davis, 17, of Marshallberg.
Patrolman Brown, who with Pa
trolman J. W. Sykes, investigated
the accident, said that Miss Davis
was going east on 70 when Bailey,
in a drunken condition, staggered
in front of her car.
Bailey was struck with the right
front fender. No charges have
been preferred.
Family Moves "
Into New Home' *
Mrs. Turner Holmes. Pcllctier,
whose home was destroyed by fire
several months ago, this week ex
pressed aprpeeiation to members
)f the community (or building a
new home for her and her children.
Her husband, an invalid, died soon
liter the fire occurred.
Members of the Pelleticr com
munity worked Saturday and at
night for a period of 10 weeks to
suild the house.
The group of citizens in charge
)f building cut timber, took it to a
sawmill and when it was prepared,
carried it to the lot where the
building was taking place. Then
the group, together with some out
siders undertook actual construc
tion.
Thanks was expressed by Mrs.
Holmes through the Rev. J. R.
Webb, pastar of the Pelletier inter
denominational church, especially
lo Woodrow Bright for planning,
laying out the house and supervis
ing the job; Prentis Vinson for
gathering furniture, clothing and
rash for the family, and Frank
Wiggins for soliciting funds.
To all others who assisted in any
way, she extends her sincere ap
preciation. Mr. Webb stated.
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Anybody Can Put in His 2 Cents! A
Carteret residents-anyone in
North Carolina? can have a voice
in the Republican national conven
tion now in progress at Chicago.
A telegram to "North Carolina
Delegation, Republican National
Convention. Chicago, HI.," will
reach the Republican delegates
sent there to nominate the next
Republican candidate (or the presi
dency of the United States.
A deluge of telegrams from the
people was one of the major fac
tors in nominating Wendell Willkie
in the face of stacked political odds
in 1940.
Among the Republican delegates
to the convention are Julian Gas
kill, Goldsboro; Everett Peterson,
Clinton; and Jim Bailey, from the
western part of the state, chairman
of the delegation.
The convention opened yester
day, and judging by past perfor
mances, observers report that the
first roll call for nominations will
come on the third day of conven
tion. which will be tomorrow. Time
magazine reports. "The first roll
call ia usually the ballot ol fav
orite sons, courtesy vote* and
watchful waiting ... if no candi
date gets a majority on the first
ballot, the free-for-all will have be
gun. Then the leading candidate*
make their all-out bids, trying for I
a quick, knock out victory." I
North Carolina has 26 Republi- I
can delegate votes and 32 Demo- |
crat. (The Democrats meet in Chic
ago July 21 in the same arena I
used by the Republicans, Chicago's <
International Amphitheater. There I
also the Internationl Live Stock is <
held each year)! i
Time editors call attention to a I
description of a party convention t
in the Paris newspaper, CeMatin.
The newspaper in 1948 explained i
gravely to its readers that the con- I
vention is "a manifestation typi
cally American, where politics, pa- 1
triotism, and the music hall mingle <
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io create an atmosphere which at
[he same time becomes a county
[air, a religious meeting, and a
public reunion."
The late Will Rogers describes
he conclave thus: "It's the Fourth
)f July celebration of national poli
ces. It's a clam bake of big politi
:ians . . . But as bad as we are, and
is funny as we do things, we are
letter off than the other countries,
io bring on more conventions."
The leading coctenders for the
nomination are Dwightf D. Eisen
lower and Robert Taft.
Morehaad Cily Firamta
Answer Two Wtduad Calls
The Morehead City fire depart
nent answered two calls over the
veekend. Friday afternoon at 2:43
.hey were called to box 43 at 11th
ind Avery sL A fire in a cook stove
lad been put out by the time they
irrived and they returned to the
station.
At 11:30 the same nifht they
vere called to Atlantic Beach to
iut out a brush fire about a quar
er of a mile east of the Fort Ka
ron road. They stayed a half hour.
No damage resulted from either
:ire.