NEWS-TIMES OFFICE B04 ArwMfell St. CHy 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. 41 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. 1 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 < Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tueaday, July S 8:36 a.m. 2:40 a.m. 9:01 p.m. 2:45 p.m. Wedaeaday, July 9 9:28 a.m. 3:29 a.m. 9:52 p.m. 3:40 p.ni. Thursday, July 19 10:21 a.m. 4:18 a.m. 10:43 p.m. 4:35 p.m. Friday, July 11 11:15 a.m. 5:07 ajn. 11:36 p.m. 5:32 pjn. 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.