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41?t YEAR, NO. 56. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
CP&L Manager Warns Homeowners
Against Wiles of Utility ^Racketeer9 J
Five Carteret
Towns Receive
Safety Awards
State Highway Safety Di
vision Gives Certificates
To Towns under 5,000
Ftve Carteret county towns, not
the least of which was Portsmouth,
on Wednesday received certificates
of safety for having no highway
fatalities during the year 1950.
The certificates, issued by the
highway safety division of the State
Department of Motor Vehicles,
were distributed by Mrs. Lucia
Hutchinson, New Bern, field repre
sentative for the highway safety
division. Only towns under 5,000
population are eligible to receive
the awards.
In Carteret they were presented
to Beaufort, Newport, Atlantic
Beach, Atlantic, and Portsmouth.
The certificates were accepted by
the mayors of Beaufort, Newport,
and Atlantic Beath.
Lambert Morris, judge of record
er s court and resident of Atlantic,
accepted the aw*, d f?>r Atlantic,
and Roy Eubanks, Beaufort, offer
ed to deliver the certificate to
Portsmouth where Mrs. Hutchin
son said it would hang in the post
office. (If there were any automo
biles at all on Portsmouth in 1950,
there probably weren't enough to
create a two-car traffic jam).
The certificates bear the gold
seal of the state of North Carolina
and the national safety seal, a
green cross in a circle. The award
cites the towns for "outstanding
achievement in highway safety in
1950" and is signed by H. D. (Tar
via) Jones, director of highway
aafety.
Mrs. Hutchinson said that the
towns are to be commended for
their efforts in providing safe
thoroughfares and drivers are *Jao
due credit t#r driving safely. "I
hopo t hnj ? '. Jrn vr'M.
r?cW& nfoty <*rttf/d4?*v.JtM Mfoi
ahd 1992 also afie added.
Mrs. Hutchinson said the, 1951
certificates would probably be
distributed within the . next few
months.
In her district, Carteret, Craven,
Pamlico, Jones, and Beaufort coun
ties, 27 towns received the awards,
your hundred eighty-one are being
presented throughout the stale.
Rotary President
Names Chairmen
Glenn Adair, new president of
the Beaufort Rotary club, announ
ced club chairmanships at the meet
ing Tuesday night at the Inlet Inn.
Chairman in club service activi
ties are as follows: Halsey Paul,
? -ssifications. Numa Eure, fellow
?hip; Adair, membership; Gerald
Hill, program chairman; Gene
Smith, public information; and
Graham W. Duncan, sergeant-at
Jrma.
Appointment of a traffic safety
chairman is being contemplated
the president added.
During the business session, pro
gram arrangements for the year
i were discussed. Each Rotarian will
have charge of a program in alpha
betical order beginning with the
first name on the roster. The pro
nouncing of the invocation will also
rotate among the members.
Other officers, in addition to
Adair, are Dr. Walter C. Chipman,
1 vice-president; Dr. W. I* Woodard.
aecretary-teasurer; and members of
i the board of directors are John
Steed, Halsey Paul, and E. W.
Downum.
They took office July 1 at a meet
ing at Harkers lodge on Harkers
Jlsland. At that time Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Carlton, Morehead City, who
attended the Rotary International
convention at Mexico City, report
Pon their trip. Rotary-Anns were
esent.
Guests at Tuesday's meeting
were Lonnie Dill and J. W. Thomp
, ton of Morehead City; Sterling
KVooten. Goldsboro: and John Nes
(Vrour, Blackstone, Va.
Pick-Dp Track, Ante
tiHWi Monday Afternoon
l A pick-up truck and automobile
collided at 2:30 Monday afternoon
near Pollock and Front st? Beau
j fort, when the pick-up backed out
<of a parking place on the south
r side of Front street and struck a
, car proc*. iing east.
The true* was driven by Johnny
[Teal and the car by Doris Dunn.
Damage to the automobile was esti
mated at <00 and to the truck $40,
No one was hurt and no charges
were preferred.
Chief Of Police Carlton Garner
? George Stovall, manager oft1
Carolina Power and Light com
pany in this area, tpday issued a
warning to Carteret county resi
dents to beware of a person who
calls at their home, representing
himself as an employee of Caro
lina Power and Light company.
Stovall said the person attempts
to collect a light bill or asks to in
spect the wiring in the house. Us
ually he finds "something wrong"
with the wiring and offers to or
der equipment to make the neces
sary repairs. .
The aim is to collect money
either for the bill or for the equip
ment to be ordered and that's the
last the homeowner ever hears
about it.
Stovall said that residents should
give money for light bills to no
one who calls at the house. Neither
should the person be admitted on
any pretense. If a homeowner be
lieves an individual calling at the
home is a representative of the
power company, he can verify that
fact by calling the CP & L office,
6-4166.
At the W. H. Jackson home on
Bridges street Wednesday, the im
postor inspected wiring and then
j offered to order equipment for re
I pairing it. He said he would be
back at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Meanwhile the Jacksons notified
the power company and CP & L
sent one of their men there to meet
the "repairman" but he never
showed up.
At the Shelton Hall residence,
104 S. 3rd st., he tried to collect
a bill. Mrs. Hall said they owed no
bill and later called the power
company for an explanation. CP &
L informed her that they had no
one soliciting bill payments.
Stovall said his warning to home
owners can't be taken too seriously.
The "racket man" may be going
throughout the county. No one
should be admitted to any home or
given any money unless he can
prove that he is an employee of
Carolina Power and Light com
pany.
Geiald Hill Heads
Beaufort Chamber
Gerald Hill was elected president
of the Beaufort chamber of com
merce at a meeting of the board of
directors Tuesday night at the town
hall. Dan Walker was reappointed
manager and other officers are
Holden Ballou, vice-president, and
Glenn Adair, treasurer.
Hill is part owner of Johnson
Saunders Dry Cleaners and owner
of Felton's store in Beaufort.
The regular chamber board meet
ing nigfct was set for the fourth
Tuesday of every month at 8 o'
clock in the town hall.
A report on progress of the mem
bership campaign is to be pre
sented at this month's regular
meeting, Tuesday, July 22. The so
licitation committee is calling on
prospective members now.
It was reported Tuesday night
that one firm in town has realized
a reduction of $900 in its light bill
as the result of the reduction in
rates following the Carolina Power
and Light company merger. The.
board commented that the merger
was partially the result of the
chamber's protests against Tide
Water service and rates.
Present at the board meeting in
addition to the officers named
above were E. W. Downum, Dr.
W. L. Woodard, Braxton Adair, and
Halsey Paul.
(James Styroa, Jr. See7 I
Level Saves l-Yeu-OU |
James Styron, jr.. Sea Level,
saved from drowning a 9-year-old
boy that fell off a pier in Morehead
City late in the afternoon of the
Fouth of July.
The youngster, whose name could
not be learned by the NEWS
TIMES. was with his mother watch
ing the p^rtyboat: Pal, dock at its
pier at the foot of 4th street. The
boy fell off the dock and the tide
carried him under the boat.
Someone screamed and Styron,
who was aboard the boat with his
father, Capt. Jim Styron. jumped
overboard, fully-clothed. He grab
bed the boy and came up at the
side of the Pal with the child in
bis arm*.
Captain Jim, who operates the
Pal pulled his son and the boy
aboard. The child and his mother
had walked out on the pier to see
the boat unload its catch. It had
Just come in with Robert Nash And
parly, of Kinston. aboard.
CamaisaieaMrs to Visit
The Advisory Budget commission
will start its tour of the state July
14 on its biennial trek preparatory
to drawing up tentative budgets
for the general assembly. It H
scheduled to visit the Morehead
City port and commercial fisheries
offices at Morehead City next
Thursday.
New Ccoaly Law Officer
wsmamm mmmm ,ws axm&m
Carteret county's new deputy
sheriff is Hugh Salter of Highr
land Park, Beaufort. Salter re
signed Monday from the county
board of commissioners after
serving three years. He replaced
Ivey Mason of Beaufort who did
not serve. Mason was appointed
following the resignation of C. Z.
Chappcll.
Morehead City
BeginsNight
Garbage Pick-Up
Beginning at midnight last night
Morehead City went on a night gar
bage collection schedule to handle
the large amount of garbage that
accumulates in the summer and to
remove garbage from waterfront
restaurants So that it won't be
thrown overboard.
Mayor George W. Dill announced
yesterday morning that the night
collections will continue through
July and August in the business
section only. The business firms
and the waterfront restaurant! are
requested to put their garbage out
the dose oT business, In ft*
alleys as usual in the business dis
trict, aid in front of the restaur
ants.
The night collections will not be
gin until midnight. One regular
crewman from the day shift has
been put on at night and two addi
tional men hired. When the day
shift comes on they will collect
garbage in the residential section
as usual.
Arrangements for the nighl col
lections were made yesterday
morning in a conference with Bry
ant Swindell, supervisor of garbage
collection, J. V. (Hooty) Waters,
street superintendent. Commission
er D. fc. Bell, and the mayor, with
the approval of S. C. Holloway,
street commissioner.
Tad' Davis Dies ?
At Winston-Salem
Elvin Leon (Tad) Davi?, 61, of
301 Ann street, Beaufort, died sud
denly of a heart ailment Wednes
lay afternoon in Bowman-Gray
hospital, Winston-Salem, after a
short illness.
Mr. Davis, a building contractor,
was formerly from Davis.
He was a member of the Davis
Baptist church and attended the
First Baptist church in Beaufort, a
member of Franklin Lodge No. 10B,
AF & All, and of Sudan Temple,
AAONMS.
Surviving Mr. Davis are his wife
Lilliam Snyder Davis, three bro
thers, Irvln W., Richard and Alvin,
all of Davia, and one sister, Mrs.
Linwood Styron of Morehead City.
Mrs. Dtvis had not returned
from Winston-Salem by press-time
yesterday and funeral arrange
ments were incomplete. Members
of the family believed, however,
that the funeral probably would be
set for Saturday afternoon.
The family request that no flow
ers be sent.
Car, Bffciwg from Curb,
Strikes Another Wednesday
Thomas J. Masotti of West
Springfield, Mass.. was involved in
an accident Wednesday afternoon
at 2:40 in Morehead City when the
car he was backing from the curb
struck a passing automobile.
The two cars collided in front
of the Rose's 3 and 10 between 8th
and 9th ?t. on Areridell. As Mssotti
was backing, he struck a car driven
by Alonxa V. Underwood, employed
by Hughe* Barber shop, which was
going east on Arendell, police said.
The right fender and doors were
damaged.
No damage was reported to the
Mssotti car but the Underwood car
damage was estimated by police at
$75. Capt. Herbert Griffin and Pa
trolman Bruce Edwards inraU
gaiad.
B. J. May Names
PMA Voting j
Committees
Tobacco Farmers Discuss
July 19 Referendum al
Court House Tuesday
Community committees were ap
pointed Tuesday night at a meeting
of tobacco farmers kt the court
house. Their function if to get put
the vote for the tobacco referen
dum next Saturday.
B. J. May, Production and Mar
keting adminsitrator, said that be
tween 700 and 800 farmers in the
county are eligible to vote. In the
last referendum in 1949 less than
300 voted. Even though they ap
proved marketing quotas and To
bacco Associates, May said tbat
such a small percentage of the far
mers' voting indicates to Congress
that there is lack of interest and
the entire tobacco support program
may be voted out.
Speakers at Tuesday's meeting
were John Bryan, Greenville, dis
trict PMA supervisor; Lacy Weeks,
director of field service, Tobacco
Associates; R. M. Williams, farm
agent, and May. Weeks, Pender
county farm agent, replaces M. A.
Morgan of Tobacco Associates who
has resigned.
Members of the get-out-the-vote
committees arc the following:
White Oak, Leland H. Morris, J. C.
Barker, Woodrow Bright, Alien J.
Vinson, Joe G. Taylor, and Marvin
Taylor.
Morehead City, Albert E. Mur
doch, T. C. Oglesby; Newport, L.
W. Howard, Prentis Garner, R. T.
Mundine, and Alton L. Do Blanc;
Beaufort, Herman W. Merrill. Man
ly Eubanks, and F. J. Worthing
ton.
East part of county, Charles Han
cock; Merrimon, Mitchell Reel, Pe
ter Carraway; Harlowc, Charlie
Bell, A. R. Hardesty, and Pernell
Hardesty.
Polling places will be announced
later. Pollholders named to date
are the following: White Oak town
ship, John D. Young, Stella; Lew
Sawrey, Pelletier; Marvin Taylor,
Bogue; Morehead City township,
John T. Oglesby, Addison McCabe.
Newport township, Y. Z. Sim
aioas, Cccil H. Pringle; Bcaufort
Harlowe, William J. Hardesty,
Kerney A. Merrill, jr.; Merrimon,
Guy M. Carraway. Additional poll
holders arc to be named.
The polls will open at 7 a.m.
next Saturday, July 19, and close
at 8 p.m.
JCs to Sponsor
Dance at Port
Morrhead City Jaycees will spon
sor a dance Thursday night. Aug
14, in celebration of the formal
opening of the Morehcad City port.
Arrangements for the dance were
proposed Monday night at the Jay
cee meeting at the Waterfront
cafe and include the holding of the
dance in one of the large port
warehouses. Walter Morris, presi
dent. said a dance committee will
be appointed at the Jaycee meeting
Monday night.
Jimmy Wallace gave an account
of his experiences at Dallas and
the national Jaycee convention.
The football committee reported
that a new switchbox has been in
stalled at the school athletic field
to handle additional power facili
ties. "
Guests at the meeting were Bob
Rouse, Farmville, vice-president of
the eighth Jaycee district; Wilbur
Holloman, Goldsboro, president of
the Goldsboro club, and Capt. Fred
Whorton, USMC, Cherry Point.
New Commander ?
Heads CG District
Rear Admiral Russell E. Wood.
USCG, . assumed new duties Tues
day as Commander Filth Coast
Guard district with offices in Nor
folk, Va.
The Fifth Coast Guard district
?onsiats of the land andtwater areas
within the boundaries of Maryland.
District of Columbia. Virginia, and
North Carolina and of the adjacent
ocean areas extending as far to
seaward as Coast Guard operations
are feasible.
Admiral Wood replaced Captain
Lee H. Baker, USCG, who departed,
May 24, 1B52, for new duties as
assistant superintendent of the U.
S. Coast Guard academy, New
London, Conn.
Captain Joeeph D. Conway, US
CG, who will now resume his for
mer dutiaa as Chief of Staff of the
Fifth Coast Guard District, has
acted as district commander since
the departure of Captain Baker.
Patrolman Transferred
H. G. Woolard. stste highway pa
trolman in Carteret county, will
be transferred to New Bern ss of
Tuesday, July 19.
Beaufort Classifies New Town
Area, Wants j Federal Housing
The Beaufort town board has classified the annexed
portion of Front street as residential under the town zoning
ordinance and recommended that the town clerk, Dan
Walker, contact the Bast Carolina Regional Housing au
thority in regard to establishment of low-rental housing
units in Beaufort.
The board met Monday night at the town hall.
The classification of the new part of Beaufort as resi
Judge Dismisses
Two Court Cases
Election Law Violation,
Bad Check-Passing Cases
Not Prosecuted
Judge Lambert R. Morris dis
missed two cases in recorder's
court Tuesday in Beaufort. They
were against James Milles Collins,
charged with speeding, and Inez
Godette, charged with assault.
The state decided not to prose
cute at present the cases against
Charles Thomas, charged with vio
lating the election laws, and R. H.
Leigh, who had two charges
against him of passing bad checks.
In Morehead City recorder's court
Monday, Leigh's suspended sen
tence as the result of conviction of
bad check passing in that court,
was invoked. He was sent to jail
for 60 days.
The cases of George II. Roberts.
John R. Ho wells, and Francis D.
Doherty, formerly bound over to
superior court, were heard in re
corder's court Tuesday. Each was
given a year's sentence, suspended
on condition they remain on good
behavior and not go to Atlantic
Beach for two years. Each was
ordered to pay a $50 fine plus costs
in three separate charges against
them.
(It was erroneously reported
previously that these three de
fendants were charged with break
ing and entering a home at New
port, Deputy Sheriff Marshall
Ayscue said that the three expect
ed to be arrested in that case Uavc
not had warrants served on them
yet. They are teen-agers living
with their parents in the Cherry
Point area).
Sentence Suspended
Thomas P. Noc was given a
three-month sentence, suspended
on condition he pay $50 and costs
within 60 days. Noc was found
guilty of careless and reckless driv
ing and possessing a small quantity
of non tax-paid whiskey.
In two cases against Walter
Chadwick, colored, charged with
public drunkenness, he was given
a 30-day suspended sentence and
$10 fine and costs in each. Leon
Currier paid half the costs for
shrimping without a license.
For failing to yield the right-of
way. causing an accident, George
J. Rutnik paid $50 and costs.
Jonas F. Lewis pleaded guilty to
careless and reckless driving and
paid $25 and costs.
Colon Gray Merrill and Robert
William Maher pleaded guilty to
speeding. Merrill paid costs and
Maher $25 and costs. Marie Wat
son pleaded guilty to having no op
erator's license. James Vernon
Blades was found guilty of having
an improper driver's license, and
Michael James Sparks of being
drunk on the highway. ' Each paid
costs.
Bill Carney pleaded guilty to
having a faulty muffler and driv
ing on the wrong side of the road.
He paid $10 and costs. John
Evans, Tampa, Fla., pleaded guilty
to having no brakes and not stop
ping at a stop sign and paid costs.
Cases Continued
Cases against the following were
continued: Janics Williams, Lloyd
M. Pigott. Wayne E. Ziegenhorn,
Lowell Ray Hacker, Theodore
Smith, Primrose Mason, Glenn D.
Anderson, Maynard Newton Mose
ley, Elton L. Smith, George
Worthy.
Leland Bell Garner. James Har
rell Johnson, Lawyer Hardesty.
Troy Andenuyi. Joseph H. John
son, R. D. Albcrson, James Hinson,
Carol Eubanks, Leon II. Lewis, and
Donald Ray Klemmer.
Bonds were forfeited by Ken
neth Rees Johnson, Nyron Carmon
Hundley, William P. Moore, Jr.,
and Charlie James Ipock.
Fou Ships Dock This
Week il Morehead Pari
Docking at the Morehead City
port this week were the tanker,
Esso Parkersburg, the Esso Wal
lace E. Pratt, and two Navy vessels,
the Libra and Mallette.
The Parkersburg arrived Mon
day morning and left Monday after
noon after diacharging gasoline
and kerosene. It came here from
Baytown. Tex., via Wilmington
The Pratt arrivad Wednesday from
Baytown, Tex., with gasoline and
fuel oil. and left Thursday.
The Navy ships cam* in Tuesday
morning and Uft Wednesday.
~raenuai was recommenaeci oy tne
planning board through its chair
m?n, Braxton Adair. The residen
tial section (RA 2) extends from
the old town line east to Belle Aire
street.
Adair also stated that the board
of directors of the chamber of
commerce recommended that ef
forts be made to reopen negotia
tions on having the federal gov
ernment carry through plans to
clear slums in Beaufort and erect
housing projects.
The board said that the north
section of Fulford street is an ideal
place for slum clearance. Harry
Whitehurst, who was attending the
meeting, recalled that when public
.housing surveyors were on proper
ties considered as possible sites,
the homeowners ran them off. "1
would have been willing to give
them 20 feet of my property," he
declared.
Braxton Adair remarked that
public housing projects are now
being constructed in Morehead
City and are completed in Jack
sonville. He said that additional
families in Beaufort mean addi
tional overall income to the town
and that the chamber board felt
the housing project should be
pushed.
Wiley Taylor, jr., town attorney,
said that the public housing units
are "low rental" in name only, add
ing that the rents are $75 and
higher and beyond the ability of
low income groups to pay.
Licensed Plumbers
Whitehurst requested that Beau
fort enforce a law requiring all
plumbers to be state licensed. He
said he'd hate to see a saqitary
inspector or public health inspector
go through the town because nine
tenths of the plumbing would be
declared In violation of all sanita
tion laws.
Trouble with sewers and other
difficulties in plumbing today are
the result of amateur plumbers,
declared Whitehurst. He said a li
censed plumber is required to do
the work correctly or he will lose
his license.
Gerald Woolard, building inspec
tor, remarked that it was impossi
ble for him to check on all plumb
ing work, especially sewer installa
tion because once a pipe is under
ground, no one can tell whether it
has the proper fall.
The town attorney was directed
to check on a law which White
hurst said was passed by the 1937
legislature authorizing Beaufort,
Morehead City, and Atlantic Beach
to operate under the state plumb
ing code. The commissioners said
if the law enabled Beaufort to en
force the code, that enforcement
should be carried through.
W. E. Adair Appears
W. E. Adair appeared before the
board and complained that sewage
was backing up into houses he had
built on Broad street. His son,
Braxton, said that the pipes from
the houses lead out to the street
but at the curbing are lower than
the main sewer line in the street,
See BOARD, Page 6
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Union Representative
Lists Strikers' Demands
Bad Check Passer
Goes to Jail '
R. H. Leigh Fails lo Meet
Terms of Suspended Sen
tence, to Serve 60 Days
R. H. Leigh, charged with issu
ing bad checks, breached the terms
of the suspended sentence given
him June 23, in which he was or
dered to repay the amount of the
bad checks, meet the fine and costs
of court.
The clerk of court in Morehead
City recorder's court Monday is
sued a commitment for him to be
contined to jail to work on the
roads under the supervision of the
state for 60 days. That sentence
went into effect Tuesday.
Harold O. West was ordered by
Judge George McNeill to pay two
fines and was given two suspended
sentences on two charges of driving
without a drivers license.
West was stopped by Highway
Patrolman H. G. Woolard in a
routine license check and ordered
to pull over to the side because he
did not have a driver's license.
While Woolard was inspecting an
other car, West drove away and
was later apprehended again, still
without a license.
He was charged 'twice with hav
ing no operator's license and was
given two suspended sentences of
30 days each, to run consecutiv
ly. He was ordered to pay two
fines of $25 each and half costs
on each charge.
William A. Samuel paid a $10'
fine and costs for speeding and
James Wilson Lohm /*nd tynriua
Askew Willis each paid costs fcn
Ahe same charge. Garland Mack
Dudley was fined $25 and half
costs for not having a driver's
license.
Robert A. Von Nostrand was
chargod with improper passing
and no driver's license. He was
fined half costs on the first charge
and the last charge was dropped.
Carol Page Pipkin paid costs for
parking on the wrong side of the
street and near a fire hydrant.
Hugh Guion Swan, for going
through a stop sign, was fined
costs. The warrant was withdrawn
in the case of Arthur McCarter,
charged with the theft of a wallet
and money belonging to Alice
Gibbs. The prosecuting witness
paid costs.
Joseph John Glessner paid one
third costs for having a broken
muffler. Case was dropped against
Harry Edward Dickinson, who was
charged with having an expired
license.
Clarence Duncan Warren was
given a suspended sentence of 30
days, fined $25 and half costs for
having an expired license. On the
same charge, Nellie Ellis Gunner
son paid $25 and half costs.
Cases continued were against
Robert L. Rose, George Francis
Henderson, Joe Ratford Wilkerson
and Floyd G. Gower.
Fisheries Committee Will ^
Meet at 10 A. M. Tomorrow
Mrs. Roland McClamroch, chair
man of the commercial fisheries
committee, announced yesterday
that the committee will meet at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning at the
commercial fisheries building,
Camp Glenn, but, she said, it will
not be a meeting for consideration
of suggestions or complaints by
fishermen.
The committee is convening to
hear a report by Willis Brown and
Thomas Devine of the Institute
of Government, Chapel Hill. At the
request of Mrs. McClamroch.
Brown and Devinc were authorized
to make a study of the commercial
fishing tax and license structure of
the South Atlantic and Gulf states
Tide Table
Tide* at Beaufart Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, July 11
11:15 a.m. 5:07 a.m.
11:36 p.m. 5:32 p.m.
Saturday, July 12
5:58 a.m.
12:10 p.m. 6:32 p.m.
Sunday, July 12
12:30 a.m. 6:48 a.m.
12:07 p.m. 7:35 p.m.
Monday, July 14
1:25 a.m, 7:42 a.m.
2:07 p.m. 8:40 p.m.
Tuesday, July IS
2:24 a.m. 8:38 a.m.
3:08 pjn. 8:48 pm.
and to draw a comparison with
North Carolina's.
At tomorrow's meeting they will
present their finding" and also
make suggestions for changes. The
commercial fisheries committee
will consider their recommenda
tions, act on them, and then pre
sent the committee's approved tax
and license program to the full
board of Conservation and Develop
ment when it meets in Morehead
City July 28.
If the board approves the com
mittee's proposals, they will be
presented to the fishermen in a
scries of hearings along the coast
in October.
In Mrs. McClamroch's absence,
Charles Jenkins of Aulander, vice
chairman of the commercial fish
eries committee, will place the
committee's proposals before tbe
board this month.
At tomorrow's meeting the bud
get of the commercial fisheries di
vision and other routine matters
will be discussed.
On the commercial fisheries com
mittee, In addition to Mrs. McClam
roch and Jenkins, are Fred La
tham. Belhaven; Charles Allen,
Durham: and Dr. Sylvester Green,
Chapel Hill.
The Morehead City ABC store
has moved from its location on S.
nth street to Arcndell street in the
location formerly occupied by
Sound Appliance company.
? Local 710, International Fur and
Leather Workers union, Beaufort,
has organized several committees
to assist the menhaden fishermen
who are on strike. C. A. Simmons,
union representative with head
quarters in Beaufort, this week re
leased a statement on union activi
ties. The statement follows:
"Local 710 of the International
Fur and Leather Workers union
has set up a committee to contact
scabs (men who are not on strike
and are continuing to fish) and
would-be strike-breakers' commit
tee to find jobs for strikers, com
mittee for public relations, also
strikers' relief committee.
"The relief committee has re
ceived, in addition to food, a check
from the Internationl to supply the
needs of the strikers. The com
mittee also purchased, locally,
meat, lard, and cigarettes.
"Our International is collecting
through its locals and districts ad
ditional money, food and clothes,
lor the fishermen who are deter
mined to sit out until the employ
ers of the menhaden fishing indus
try agrees to recognize their Union
and make some honest effort to
meet their demands. The Union
denies that oilskins, boats, and bed
linens is a part of our demand.
"We contend that our demands
| are just, and are so little that no
practical employer could possibly
deny them.
1. That a substantial wage in
crease be granted to compete with
the high coast of living,
2. That the food bill be equally
| shared by all members of the crew
See UNION, Page 6
Farm Official
Urges Farmers
To Vote July 19
Carteret county farmers have a
$1,411,500 stake in the Tobacco
Associates referendum Saturday,
July 19, for that's the amount they
received for the export portion of
their 1951 crop.
Robert E. Laughton, Morehcad
City, county Farm Bureau presi
dent, this week pointed out the vi
tal interest local farmers have
in the export program. He urged
every grower who will share in the
proceeds of the 1952 crop to "get
out and vote" on the 10-eent an
acre self-assessment to support To
bacco Associates and on Marketing
Quotas. The Marketing Quota refer
endum will be held at the same
time and in the same polling
places.
"Every fluecured grower de
pends upon exports for the sale
of about 40 per cent of his crop,"
the president said. "In our county
last year, we produced 2.693,713
pounds of tobacco on about 2,035
acres, with an average per ace yield
of 1,324 pounds.
"Our county's flue-cured crop in
1951 was worth approximately $1,
411,505.80, but if it had not been
for our foreign market we would
nave suffered plenty. There would
have been no place for that 40 per
cent we usually export, and the re
sulting depressed prices surely
would have placed our loss far
above the $564,602.24 we received
for our exported tobacco.
"There's no doubt that two-thirds
of the farmers voting in North and
South Carolina in the Tobacco As
sociates referendum will aprove the
continuation of the program. How
ever, we must register an over
whelming vote just as we did in
1949 when more than 144,000 voted
for the program and less than 4.000
against it. A big vote will show
everyone that tobacco farmers are
eager to do something to help
themselves. Let s get out that big
vote Saturday. July 19 for Tobacco
Associates and Marketing Quotas -
two vital parts of our broad tobacco
program," Laughton concluded.
Two Can Collide Tuesday
Al Morehead Intersection
Rose Jordan Gant of Burlington
was involved in a wreck Tuesday
morning at 10:20 when the car she
was driving was struck by a car
driven by Maxton Wesley Tosto of
Merrimon, according to Morehead
City police.
The Tosto car, owned by George
Thomas To?to. was traveling west
on Arendell and turned left at 34th.
It struck the Gaht car, which wai
going east on Arendell in the left
side. Tosto stated he didn't *ee the
car until it was too late to prevent
the accident.
Damage to the Tosto car was $30;
to the Gant ear, $100. Capt. Her
bert Grillin investigated.