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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 804 Af ndUll St. Mordwad City Phooa 6-4175 COUNTY NEWS-TIMES - * - 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 X / 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.