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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 ArwafeU St. Monhnci City Phoo* 6-4175 mm<m m aa?ai ? ^ ? V ? ? ? WMm W W WF ? ? ? V IBiV Eight Pace* Color Comic. 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.