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41at YEAR, NO. 62. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MORgHEAD CITY AND BEAUFOjtT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1962 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Marine Sergeant Killed Yesterday When Car Upsets
Conservation
Board Approves
^Fisheries Budget
Fisheries Commissioner Re
ports on Activities for
First Six Months of '52
| The state board of conservation
1 and development gave unqualified
approval this week to the commer
cial fisheries committee's proposal
to enter a complete oyster plant
ing program. The cost has been
estimated at $25,000 the first year,
$15,000 the second year and each
year thereafter, plus $6,000 annual
i ly for a statistician-marketing as
sistant.
1 The board also approved the
budget for operation of the com
mercial fisheries division for the
next biennium. The budget will be
submitted for approval to the gen
eral assembly in January.
Both the budget and the semi
annual report on the fisheries di
vision were presented by C. D.
Kirkpatrick, commercial fisheries
commissioner.
Kirkpatrick's statements on the
oyster planting program follow:
"We were able to get 7,800
bushel tubs of seed oysters planted
this spring in Brunswick county.
The cost was 33 1/3 cents per
.bushel tub for gathering, planting
and supervision. So far this season
we have only gotten 39,185 bushel
tubs of shells planted for the price
specified by law that we can pay
for this work. Due to these condi
tions, it would appear that we will
be forced to get equipment to plant
our shells. After many talks with
Dr. A. F. Chestnut, oyster special
ist concerning the over all produc
tion of oysters in this state, I be
lieve that any money we spent
Vould pay the large dividends in
?yster culture. It would increase
Ihe economy of this whole section
In the shortest period of time, and
the potentialities are very favor
able because of the following con
ditions: * . _
1 1. We h?ve one-half the shelli
furnished by ihe dealers to plant.
2. We %ave thousands of acres
pf good oyster bottoms that are
productive.
3. We have lamps in the mouths
if all rivers that empty into Pam
ico sound that have great quanti
ses of seed oysters that are ideal
or transplanting to good oyster
lottom.
, 4. We could easily increase the
traduction of oysters in this state
Jiree or four times today's produc
ion in three to four years.
\ "To do this we would have to be
^quipped to do this job. The first
tear the over-all cost would be
ironnd $25,000.00 to buy the neces
lary equipment and cost of crew
? do the work; second year there
ifter $15,000.00 annually should do
Be job.
, "We also need a qualified man
o gather statistics on our seafood
iroducts, assist in marketing, and
tublic relations which would cost
it least $6,000.00 annually."
Kirkpatrick reported that over
in eight-month period during the
nut year $20,897 revenue to the
iiheries division was lost through
he oversight in the legislative act
n January 1951 which took the tax
iff shrimp, clams, crabs, and scal
lops.
! He said if that tax is restored
totnething constructive can be done
n conservation and increased ef
iency of operation of the commer
cial fisheries division. If the tax
? not put back on, he suggested in
leased state appropriation.
The department was operated on
Bly $127,589 for 1951-52, approxi
See BUDGET, Page 2
Erosion at Fort Macon Poses
Problem for State Officials -J
? Forf Macon State Park ? Rapid
?nd u yet unexplained erosion of
?w eastern aide of hiatoric Fort
?bcon this week brought experts
Jiere to confer with state officials
to what can be done to halt
Ion.
A. C. Raynor, chief of the
|?rojecU development division of
le U. S. Beach Erosion board,
'aahington, D. C., and N. C. Mag
_ MOD of the U. S. Army Corps of
Engineers' office at Wilmington,
Keorge R. Ross, director. State De
?wrtment of Conaervation and De
velopment, W. H. Riley, head of
C and D'a water resources di
m, and Tom Morae, superin
tendent of the department's parks
division, (inspected the damage al
done by erosion and diacuss
to halt it.
Horse told Raynor and M?fnuson
|hat the erosion on the eastern aide
the fort haa been "particularly
F during the paat two months
that the waters now seriously
i ten the septic tank and the
two outdoor toilets on tbe eastern
side.
"Some work certainly need* to
be done here," said Raynor after
the inspection.
Breakwaters and a wall to bait
erosion were erected on the eastern
side of the fort about TS years ago,
records show, and they are still in
a good state of preservation, but
the point on the eastern side is
taking a bad licking from the
waves.
The C and D officials are hope
ful the Beach Erosioft board trill
order a survey of the erosion ef-<
fects and how to prevent future
crosioa. Cost of such a survey and
the work needed to M done would
be born* Jointly by the federal and
state governments.
Riley accompanied Raynor and
Magnuson to Wilmington, where
yesterday they conferred with
Colonel R. C. Brown of the U. S.
Army Corp* of Engineers as to
what steps can be token to stop
erosion at Fort Macon, one of the
historic showplaces of the (tote.
Morehead City Jaycees to Entertain
Miss North, Carolina Here Next Week
Miss Barbara Anne Harris of
Salisbury will be given a free vaca
tion here next week by Morehead
City Jaycees. Crowned Miss North
Carolina of 1952 at last weekend's
pageant at Winston-Salem, Barbara
Anne, who is a talented singer,
will be accompanied on her visit
by her piano accompanist.
Jimmy Wallaee, Morehead City
Jaycee in charge of Miss North
Carolina week, today announced
her schedule of activities.
She will arrive at 4:30 Sunday
afternoon at the Morehead City
Beaufort airport, Beaufort, and will
stay at the Ocean King hotel, At
lantic Beach. At 11:30 Monday
morning Mayor George W. Dill will
present her with the key to the
city. The mayor has also proclaim
ed next week "Miss North Carolina
Week" in Morehead City.
Miss Harris will have lunch at
the Rex restaurant at 12:30 p.m.
Monday and have the afternoon
free to enjoy the beach. At Q:30
p.m. she will attend the regular
Jaycee meeting at Captain Bill's
Waterfront cafe.
She will rise at 5 o'clock Tuesday
morning to go fishing from Capt.
Ottis Purifoy's boat, Sea Raven.
The balance of the day, after her
return, will be hers to do with as
she wishes.
At 10:30 Wednesday morning she
will be escorted by Beaufort Jay
cees on a tour of Beaufort md will
lunch at 1 o'clock in the afternoon
at Holden's restaurant, Beautort.
Miss Harris will have dinner that
See JAYCEES, Page 2
Clyde Dees Will
Serve 80-Day J
Tern od Roads
Clyde Dees has been sentenced
to ninety days on the roads. The
orison term was handed down
Tuesday morning in recorder's
court, Beaufort, by Judge Lambert
R. Morris who found Dees guilty
of occupying the same room in a
public inn with Mary Louise Watts
for immoral purposes.
The woman was given a one-year
sentence suspended on condition
she remain on good behavior five
years.
On a charge of failing to support
his wife, twisting her arm, and for
bidding her to enter her own home,
Decs was given a one-year sentence,
suspended providing he pay $15
weekly to the support of his minor
children and also pay court costs.
The state chose not to prosecute
the case against Dees in which he
was charged with enticing the
Watts woman into occupying a
room with him for immoral pur
poses.
The state also decided not to
prosecute the case against C. J.
Bowles charged with assault with
deadly weapons, a high powered
cruiser, and ice pick, causing the
plaintiff to leave waters over which
the state of North Carolina has
jurisdiction, and destroying per
sonal property belonging to Claud
Wheatly, jr.
Because no witnesses could be
obtained several weeks ago to car
ry through prosecution of the case
against Charles Thomas, Morehead
City, the state decided not to prose
cute at that time, according to A.
H. James, clerk of court.
The case against Thomas,
See COURT, Page Z
Twenty-two-year-old Barbara Anne Harrii of Salisbury. wko walked off with the Miss North Carolina
of 1952 title Saturday night, will' be the guest of Morehead City Jaycees all next week. The blue-eyed
beauty will compete in the Mias America pageant at Atlantic City in September.
State Conservation Board ?
Concludes Three-Day Session
Police Investigate
Tuesday Wrecks
Morehead City police investi
gated three accidents Tuesday.
Mrs. R. T. Willis, proceeding north
on 18th St.. collided with a car
driven by Mrs. Carl Southerland
who was going west on Arendell
at 1 20 in the afternoon.
Mr*. Willis crossed the railroad
track and collided with the South
erland car, injuring Mrs. A.'W.
Morgan, passenger in the Willis
car. She hurt her right arm and
received a bump on the head. Dam
age to the Willis car was estimated
at $100.
Damage to the Southerland car
was estimated at $30. Capt. Buck
Newsome and Capt. Herbert Grif
fin Investigated.
At 3:30 the same afternoon a
car driven by Mrs. J. G. Wegener
of Morehead City pulled out of a
parking place at 10th and Aren
dell and struck a passing car driven
by Daniel M. Horton. Damage to
the Wegener car was to the left
side of the bumper and fender and
was estimated at $25. The Horton
car was damaged slightly on the
right side. Caption Newsome in
vestigated.
Mrs. Bessie Norris Clayton of
Gokttboro struck a car driven by
Mrs. Cecil Oglesby of Crab Point
at 18tb and Evans st. at 4:45 in
the afternoon, police said. The
Oglesby car was damaged on the
left back fender, door and panel.
Captain Newsome investigated.
Coroner Investigates J ,
Death ei Colored Woman
Coroner Leslie Springle was call
ed yesterday morning to investi
gate the death of Mrs. Carrie Bell
Evans, ?, 308 Queen it. peaufort.
The colored woman was found dead
in her bed at 8 a.m. by her hus
band. The coroner said death was
due to natural causes.
Mrs. Evans had been ill four
weeks. She is survived by . her
husband, John. Funeral services
were conducted at 2 o'clock yester
day afternoon at tht graveside in
Ocean View cemetery, Beaufort
The Rev. Allison Jordan officiated.
? By Wade Lucas ?
The State Board of Conservation
and Development ended its statu
tory three-day midsummer meeting
at Morehead City Wednesday by
disposing of a number of matters
of statewide importance.
Recognizing the spread of dis
eases and insects among the state's
more than 18 million acres of
woodlands, the board on motion of
W. J. Damtoft of Canton, its vice
chairman and head of its forestry
committee, voted to ask the 1953
general assembly for $40,000 to
combat forest pests and diseases.
It also voted to ask the general
assembly to appropriate $233,000
for construction of a new forest
tre^ seedling reserve somewhere in
eastern North Carolina. The state
now owns forest tree nurseries
near Clayton and Hendersonville.
The board affirmed the recom
mendation of its fisheries commit
tee to ask the legislature for neces
sary funds to work out a plan for
scientific research of the state's
seafood industry, now valued at
about $16 million annually, and to
recommend a more profitable mar
keting plan for seafood products
produced in the state. The survey,
which has been requested by com
mercial fishermen, would be made
under the direction of the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
The board refused to budge from
See CONSERVATION, Page 2
Air Force Reports
Death of Officer"
Mrs. Francos Boone, 607 Ann St.,
Beaufort received official word
Monday from the Air Force that
her son. First Lt. David L. Boone,
died May 19, 1952 in Iceland as the
result of an aircraft accidcnt.
The telegram was signed by Maj.
Gen. McCormick. Mrs. Boone then
received a letter which stated that
another search was made for the
men starting July 12 but only more
wreckage of the plane was found
and it is believed that even if the
crew suvived the crash they pro
bably died after three days.
Lieutenant Boone is survived by
his parents his wife and two chil
dren. Donna 4, and Julie 2 '-i of
Rich Square.
He was a reserve Air Force of
ficer and was recalled in January
1951. During the second world war
he served five years as an instruc
tor and" went overseas toward the
end of the war. He flew six mis
sions in the Philippines as pilot of
a B 24.
After his discharge he was em
ployed with Swift and Company,
Wilmington, Del.
Electrical Inspector Lists
County9 s Approved Electricians
N." E. Cannady, state electrical
engineer and inspector, today re
leased the list of qualified electri
cal contractors in the state. Cart
eret county's 17 qualified contrac
tors, according to Cannady's re
cord. are listed below.
"It has been our experience."
Cannady said, 'that even though
we have qualified contractors, it
is < hard job to let adequate wir
ing. In fact, it is hard to get even
the National Electrical Code rules,
which constitute minimum safety
requirements, enforced."
He added, "II a home is not ad
quately wired, in many instances
some incompetent person makes
extensions in ? lamp cord, which Is
not only hazardous, but does not
furnish sufficient current to op
erate appliances efficiently."
Carteret's qualified contractors
follow: Blanchard's Electric Ser
vice, Edward Jones, Horehead
Electric Service. C. W. Styron, Roy
D. Wade, alt of Morehead City;
Charlea L. Piner. Williston
Carraway's Electric Service,
Newport; Tom B. Williams, New
port /route 2; Gerald Davis, liar
shallberg; George D. Cottingham,
jr., Hatsell Electric company. Her
ring Radio Service, Nelson H.
Thomas, J. Raymond Ransom. Wil
liams Electric company, all of
Beaufort.
Leon Murdoch, Wildwood; Le
land G. Yeoman*, Harkets Island
Committee Says
No to Reqoest j
For State Land
Conservation Group Feels
Sale Would Jeopardize
'Future Development'
The committee appointed from
members of the state board of con
servation and development to con
sider requests for sale of state pro
perty at Camp Glenn made its re
port Wednesday at the closing ses
sion of the board. The answer was
no. The committee's complete state
ment appears below.
A request to purchase land at the
east of MCTI buildings on Bogue
sound was made by Webb Memorial
Presbyterian church. Other re
quests for purchase of land came
through Judge Luther Hamilton
representing Victor Wickizer of
Morehead City, and from S. A.
Chalk of Chalk and Gibbs, More
head City realtors.
The committee's statement fol
lows:
"The Board of Conservation and
Development through a special
committee and its Committee on
Commercial Fisheries has carefully
considered the requests of several
interests for the purchase, lease or
use of properties owned -by the
Board at Morehead City.
"The Board of Conservation and
Development reaffirms its stand
ing policy to retain all such pro
perties with the idea that we must
exercise good stewardship of these
properties for total use of the State
in its future services to the people
of the State. There are already sev
eral such State uses under discus
sion any and all of which might
need and use portions of this pro
perty. This policy is basic in the
indenture by which this property
was transferred from the Federal
Government to the State of North
Carolina.
"We recognize that the sale or
lease of any portion of this pro
?jmhi1<L ii it iii iiir nr nl lir iprv
P" *7 ic,r
ptrditc the Start's future develop
ment Our mandate of stewardship
See COMMITTEE, Pafe 2
Demolay Elects
New Officers J
Street Wetherington, Jr., was
elected master counselor of Demo
lay Wednesday night when the
Carteret chapter met at the Ma
sonic lodge, Turner St., Beaufort.
Other officers are Gordon Davis,
senior counselor; Harry Taylor,
junior counselor, and Walker
Moore, scribe-treasurer. AH are
residents of Beaufort with the ex
ception of Taylor who lives in
Morehead City.
Appointive officers will be an
nounced later, according to Wiley
Taylor, jr., adviser.
The chapter will sponsor a scrap
metal drive Sunday afternoon, Aug.
10. Homeowners should put scrap
in front of their homes or phone
one of the Demolay officers and
notify them that they have scrap
to be picked up.
Proceeds from sale of the metal
will go towfcrd furnishing of a De
molay club room in the Masonic
lodge. '
Chairman Speaks
At Rotary Meeting
Rotarian Aaron Craig spoke at
Newport Rotary club meeting Mon
day night on the buyer-seller rela
tions committee of which he is
chairman. He stressed the import
ance of remembering the four-way
Rotary test in both buying and
selling. The test is: Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned? Will it
build good will and friendship?
Will it be beneficial to all con
cerned?
Craig said he felt there was a
need for a merchants association
in Newport. Rotarian Bob Monta
gue spoke on tbe operations of the
Morehead City Merchants associa
tion. Roy T. Garner, vice-president,
suggested that the club contact the
North Carolina Merchant) aasocia
tion for further Information on
starting such an organization.
Reports were made by the follow
ing committee chairmen: Monroe
Garner, international service; M.
C. Howard, traffic safety: V. M.
Rhue, vocational service.
Roy T. Garner, vice-president,
presided in the abaence of C. 8.
Long, president, who was attending
the state Future Farmers of Amer
ica convention at Raleigh. The
meeting wss bald in tbe school
lunchroom.
Sgt. Everett Wadsworth House, USMC, Cherry Point,
was killed instantly at 12:45 a.m. yesterday when his car
turned over one mile east of Newport on highway 70. "
Sergeant House, 26, was headed toward Cherry Point
in his 1949 convertible when he apparently ran off the
road, stated Highway Patrolman*
W. E. Pickard.
The car traveled along the right
shoulder and ditch at the side of
the road for a distance of 250 feet,
flipped over, threw House out, and
righted itself again on its wheels.
Coroner Leslie Springle said
that House sustained a broken neck
and fractured skull. He was taken
to Cherry Point in an air base am
bulance.
John Wright of Newport told
Patrolman Pickard that House had
passed him a few minutes earlier
at a high rate of speed. Wright,
too, was proceeding west.
Damage to the dead man's car
was estimated at $700. It was
towed to a garage at Newport.
Norehead Group
Suggests Banks j
Road Extension
W. L. Derrickson, representing
the town of Morehead City, Clyde
Jones, representing the Morehead
City Merchants association, and J.
A. DuBois, representing the More
head City chamber of commercf,
appeared before the state parks
committee of the board of conser
vation and development this week
at Camp Glenn and requested that
the parks committee consider ex
tending the new road from Hat
teras to Ocracoke and then run an
auto ferry from Ocracoke to Cedar
Island.
If the parks committee favors
the idea, the delegation suggested
that they appeal to the state high
way commission to continue the
road which has provad to be ex
tremely popular thus far.
DuBois said that the auto ferry
could run to Atlantic, it mattered
not to the delegation. Morehead
City, he added, is mainly interest
ed in providing an automobile
route from this section, connecting
with the outer banks section far
ther north.
DuBois remarked that hundreds
of tourists here want to reach Nags
Head and other northern beaches
by auto, without going inland and
then east again to the banks.
The delegation reported after
their conference with the parks
committee that the committee
members commented favorably
upon their requect.
Past President J
Of JCs Visits Here
Harry Stewart, past president of
the North Carolina Jaycee organ
ization, now vice-president of the
national Jaycees, was guest at the
Monday meeting of the Morehead
City Jaycees held at the beach.
The club enioyed a watermelon
cut.
The tentative schedule for the
week of August 4-8, when Miss
North Carolina will visit in More
head City as guest of the Jaycees,
was presented by chairman of the
arrangement committee, Jimmy
Wallace.
Miss Barbara Ann Harris, of
Salisbury, will arrive in Morehead
City Sunday afternoon by plane.
Plans. for the dance to be held
Aug. 14 at the port, in observance
of the port dedication, are progress
ing smoothly, it was reported.
Tickets will be on sale next week.
It was announced that Charles
Hester will continue to coach foot
ball in the high school. His resig
nation was submitted this summer
but he has been returned to the
faculty. The first game will be
Sept. 5, when Greenville plays
here.
Plans for a football booster ban
quet are being made. This banquet
will ralae money for equipping the
football team.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaafart Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Aafut 1
3:16 a.m. 9:28 a.m. I
4:03 p.m. 10:44 p.m. |
Saturday, August 2
4:29 a.m. 10:35 a.m. I
5:08 p.m. 11:45 p.m. |
Sunday, August 3
5 J2 a.m. 11:40 "a.m. |
8:07 p.m. -S?
Nonday, August 4
6:32 a.m. 12:40 a.m. I
7:03 p.m. 12:42 p.m.
Tueaday, Aifut i
7:27 a.m. 1:31 a jb. I
7:54 p.m. p JB. I
Carteret Will
Receive Sbare
Of Intangible Tax
Coming to Carteret county gov
ernments next week will be the
county and town shares in intangi
ble personal property tax collec
tions made in the state during the
fiscal year ending June 30. Return
ed to the county and the three mu
nicipalities will be a total of
$9,893.98.
The state board of assessments
reports that the total to be paid
out all over the state is $3,382,
299.06.
Checks will be put in the mail
next week, according to Board Sec
retary J. C. Bethune. The state
keeps 20 per cent of the total tax
take and returns 80 per cent to the
counties, cities and towns.
Intangible tax collections for fis
cal 1952 amounted to $4,227,873.83
and were the greatest in state his
tory. For fiscal 1951, the total was
$3,995,496.51 and 10 years ago the
figure was $1,570,760.31.
The tax covers bank deposits,
stocks, bonds, notes, charge ac
counts, interest and similar items.
Shares of stocks, taxed to the tune
of $1,751,557.03 yielded the largest
single amount, while bank deposits
produced $1,194,682.61.
Mecklenburg led the 100 coun
ties in intangible collections with
$598,986 65. followed by Guilford
with $456,155.45; Forsyth, $258,
073.63; Wake, $212,325.46; and Bun
combe, $209,813.18. The small
county of Camden had the lowest
income. $457.44.
Carteret county will receive $6,
682.20, Beaufort $957.40, Morehead
City $2,180.73, and Newport $74.01.
2-Year-OId Falls
From Window 1
Cherry Se?y, 2-year-old grand
daughter of Mrs. Z. B. O'Neal of
1307 Shackleford ave., Morehead
City, was seriously injured Satur
day when she fell from an upstain
window at her home in Knoxville,
Tenn. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lacy H. Seay of 3111
Washington Pike.
She is in serious condition at
St. Mary's hospital with a broken
right leg. brain concussion and
possible skull fracture. Mr. Seay
said his wife had placed the young
daughter in her crib near the win
dow and gone into an adjoining
bedroom.
She heard screams and rushed
out and found the child's broken
body lying on the rocky ground.
Cherry landed near where her 5
year-old sister, Sharon Lou was
playing in the yard. Sharon was
the first person to reach her.
The child had climbed out of her
crib and into the window, Mr. Seay
said, and the screen, which was
nailed from the outside, apparently
gave way under her weight.
Persons May Bay
Membership Now
Memberships in the North Caro
lina Little Symphony society may
be obtained now, Glenn Adair,
chairman of the Little Symphony
society in Carteret county, an
nounced yesterday.
Letters to former members went
out this week and persons renew
ing their memberships will be help
ing Carteret county in its campaign
to raise 11,200 for appearance of
the North Carolina Little Sym
phony here next winter.
Adair said that the local society
hopes to sponsor two children's
concerts and one adult concert next
winter.
The letters mailed this week
were sent out from Chapel Hill
where all clerical work on the cam
paign is being done. They bear
Adair's signature.
HtpraralalhrM Imin
BmlitMii m Inl Issm
Congressman Graham A. Barden
and Sen. Willis Smith have been
aent the resolution passed by the
Morehead town board July 17 on
rental bouaing.
The resolution asked that More
head City, classified as a critical
defence area, be given help on ob
taining less stringent federal loon*
for building rental property and
priority In getting materials for
building rental property.