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r " ? , NEWS-TIMES OFFICE B04 Ar.nd.ll St. Manhwd City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c Eight Pa*> Color Comic* 41st YEAR, NO. 64. TWO SECTION8 SIXTEEN PAGES . MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUKORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Port Manager Releases Aug. 14 Dedication Program __ ? ? f Money] for Beaufort Housing Goes to Morehead Project Beaufort's federal fund allotment* for low cost housing has been trans ferred and added to Morehead Citv's allotment because Beaufort ' would not approve a s"itabl* *'te: Dan L. Walker, clerk, reported Monday night at the monthly ses lion of the Beaufort town commis sioners. Walker said that he had received (his information from M. E. Mohn. r of the Eastern Regional Hous ng authority, Goldsboro. Mohn further stated. Walker "ported that the houses built in City on Beaufort money would be available to Beaufort residents. The disgusted commissioners unanimously agreed that no Beau Jort resident would want to live in Morehead City. Mayor Lawrence Hassell averred that it was definitely true that no unanimity could be attained on lo cation of the low cost housing site in Beaufort and Commissioner Clifford Lewis said that he be lieved Beaufort had been lax in the matter. Mohn has been requested to se cure another allotment for Beau fort housing. ? ' The town attorney reported that he had not received a reply from the post office department to his request to lease the Beaufort post office dock in the name of the town of Beaufort Should the post of fice department grant the ?<1UPS' the town will lease the dock to the fleaufort Jaycees who will main . "on the request of Mrs. F. W. Heslip that a marie covering be placed on Hammock street parellel fog the 1100 block of From st the board approved and directed Street Foreman Wardell Fillingame to nroceed with the work. The town tax rate for the cup rent fiscal year was set at ** per The* board authoriied the chijf Of police to designate places ? *? town prohibiting ' ccrUtr. distance of rtiJNtwr- Be lection of the poWV-Ul discretion of the ?nef. Par*mg iTTront of the Inlet inn was au tnoriied with the stipulation that there shall be space in front of the inn entrance to allow 8u*st? Jjark while unloading or loading ^Frmit street businessmen attend ed the meeting in regard to park tag solutions. A-nong them were Jack Neal, Leslie "0??. w>n *r ' rington, William Way T^ T. Pot ter T. H. Potter, and John Garner. Thi mayor suggested that they and ether interested businessmen pre sent their opinions on parking to the town planning board and work ?ut a proposal to be presented to the commissioners. Commissioners attending were R M Chaplain, Carl Hatsell and C. T Lewis. Those not present were ' James Rumley and O. T. Mundy. Hatsell and Police Chief Caritxm Garner were appointed to attend a migrant labor housing discuuion at the court house on Aug. 14. i Mayor Lawrence Hassell pre sided. I Defendant Pays $50 Fine, Costs For permitting a person to drive who had an expired operator's li cense, James Cowell Moore was or dered to pay a line of $50 and costs in Monday's recorder's court, More head City. Alvah Hamilton held court in the absence of Judge Ceorge McNeill. Carson Hammond, charged with public drunkenness and fighting in Morehead City, was found guilty ?n the first charge and not guilty on the second. He was fined $25 and costs. i Also fined for public drunken ness was Israel Rodriquez. He was Judged guilty of drunkenness and pot guilty on a charge of disturb ing the peace. He was ordered to pay $10 and costs. . George Stanley Shnpson paid a line of $25 and costs for careless ' and reckless driving. Paying costs lor public drunkennef were Willie Montague and Harry Brown. T The following paid costs for speeding Paula Whltaker. Frank Jiampton Haskell, Jack John Gar cia, Rathor Sutton Westbrook, and Ponald F. Innman. The court de cided to drop cases against Henry H Scott, jr., charged with having no operator's license and Allie Jlerchison Collier, for having an expired license. Lonnie C. Grail paid costs for 'Running through a red light. For Jailing to stop at a stop sign, James 4>avis, lr., paid costs. Cases were ' continued against Elmer Jot Owens, ?Chesterfield Payton, James Daniel mhichard, Louis AieUo and Hoeey tetaten. 4 NEWS-TIMES Publishes J Record-Breaker . . . THE/ NEWS-TIMES Port-Progress edition will shat ter all North Carolina special edition publishing records in the non-daily field. Publishing date is Tuesday, Aug. 12, but distribu tion of the thousands of copies will start MoTiday afternoon, Aug. 11. Each copy will weigh one pound and fourteen ounces ? two ounces short of two pounds. Copies sold at the newsstands and at THE NEWS TIMES office, 504-506 Arendell st., Morehead City, will cost the usual 10 cents. The only extra charge will be that for papers which customers wish THE NEWS-TIMES to mail for them. Total charge, both for newspaper and the mailing fee, will be 25 cents. All sales are cash in advance. Carrier toys throughout the county will not be able to deliver their routes at their usual speed for this reason: Boys with 60-paper routes will be handling more than 100 pounds of paper and thus they will be Obliged to handle fewer papers at a time. Deadline for display advertising to appear in this edition is noon today. Deadline for classified advertising is 8:30 a.m. Monday. Newport Board Sets Deadline For Water Tank Completion 1/ The Newport town board, in ses-< sion Tuesday night at the town hall, set Sept. ai the deadline (or completion o f the water tank be ir? constructed by Lawr?noe Vick r . , ,1 -A- _ rr.tmj ,,, n| Da I hu ? -iium., ? "uw tow WBicrei nuiiiy cumpdny at the Chetry Point Veterans hous ing project ?n the Nine-foot road. The commissioners commented that the tank should have been completed by now but offered the additional month's time. In the process of construction it has top pled twice. In connection with the survey being made by engineers relative to obtaining federal funds to effect municipal improvements, four copies of the town charter and financial statements were author ized to be forwarded to the firm filling out applications for presen tation to the government. The board took under considera tion a request for a loan of $1,000 to the Cherry Point Veterans Mu tual Housing association. The vet erans stated that they have $10,000, will borrow $4,000 from the bank at Cherry Point, but need an ad ditional $1,000 before letting the contract for paving streets. The chief of police, Ormsby Mann, who also supervises street work, stated that vacant lots not cleaned by the owners are being mowed and cleared by the town and the owner charged for the work. The commissioners requested that pipe, part of the water system being used at the housing project, be moved from the back of the town hall to the housing project site. They also suggested that the property be thoroughly cleaned. The budget for the current year, a total of $7,778.95, was approved. Members of the board attending the meeting were Mayor Charles Gould, jr., Commissioners M. O. McCain, S. E. Mann, Edgar Hibbs, and D. Ira Garner. Miss North Carolina Cms To Jayceo Meeting Monday Miss Barbara Ann Harris of Sal isbury, Miss North Carolina of 1952 who is spending a week's vacation in Morehcad City under the sponsorship of the Jayceei, was guest at their meeting Monday night at Capt. Bill's Waterfront Restaurant. Also a guest was her companion, Miss Doris Huffines of Lenior. Miss Harris sang a solo accom panied on the piano by Miss Huf fines. Several pictures were taken of her also. ? Jerry Rowe, chairman of the port dance committee, conducted a discussion on the port opening dance to be held Aug. 14 at the port. A new "sheriff" L. G. Dunn, was elected to assume the duties of Capt Oscar Ely, formerly sta tioned at Cherry Point, who has bean transferred. Daace Toaight Even though Mr. and Mrs. John Evans. Beaufort recreation direc tors, are out of town, there will be dancing at the Scout building to night Mothers of the children will be cbapacaoaa. Firm Asks Pennit To Dredge in Bay The West India Fruit and Steam ship company, D. E. Taylor, presi dent, has requested permission to dredge in Nelson bay, near Sea Level according to a report from the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, Wilmington. Taylor is a native of Sea Level. He and his three brothers are pro ceeding with plans to build a hos pital at Sea Level. Plans for dredging, according to the engineers' office, show a cut 200 feet wide, approximately 3, 600 feet long, dredged to a depth of 8 feet. The purpose of the dredging, says Col. R. C. Brown, district engineer, is to fill in pro perty along the east shore line and back to the present hard-surfaced road, highway 70. Plans showing the proposed work may be seen at the Sea Level post office or the engineers office at Wilmington. Objections to the propoaed work, if any, will be received at the en gineers office until Sept. 3, 1952. Three Vehicles j TangleWednesday Three vehicles were involved in an accident at the intersection of 20th and Bridges st. in Morebead City Wednesday morning at 8:45 when a ear hit an oncoming truck ' and a parked truck. Mrs. Margaret Styron Wade entered the highway 1 and didn't see the truck proceeding west on Bridges, police said. She hit the truck, driven by Clarence Henry Monroe and owned by the Carteret Ice and Coal com pany. The force knocked her against a parked truck, reported Morehead City police officer Bruce Edwards. The truck, owned by Marvin Willis, was parked by. the stop sign. The Wade car was damaged on the right fender, panel, door and left rear fender. Damages amount ed to MOO. The Carteret Ice and Coal truck was damaged on the left fender, in the amount of ISO. Dam age to the Willia truck, left front ] fender, waa estimated at <25 pa trolman Edwards was investigating ' officer. Appotetmeata Penda Appointment of a commissioner to the county board will probably be made next month, according to A. H. James, clerk of superior court. James makea the appoint ment, subject to approval of the county board. The vacancy occur red when Commissioner Hugh S alt ar, Beaufort, respired last month to accept a position aa deputy sheriff. The Mnrehead City port Itself will be the site of formal dedication ceremonies for the state port Thurs day, Aug. 14. The completion of the port is the first step In a seven and a half million dollar port develop ment program. Photo by Jerry Schumacher Officers Nab Four Men J In Early Morning Raid By J. Gaskill MiDanicl ? ? . New Bern? A well planned early morning raid resulted in thorough destruction of a flour ishing North Harlowe joy-juice plant and the arrest of its four Negro operators. Eight ATU and ABC officers par ticipated. The steam still had a capacity of 300 gallons, and cap tured with it were 21 fermenter boxes with a total mash capacity of 6,300 gallons. In addition, there were 1,500 gal lon* of live mash on hand, and 2, 500 gallons of spent mash. Such a plant, if pushed, could turn out *1,9* forth of illicit hootch in the two runs possible over an eight day span. Apprehended for trail at the Oct tober term of Federal Court here were Freddie Johnson, William Al len Washington, and Adolfus and William Frazier. The quart-making quartet claimed joint ownership of the distillery, and pleaded guilty to the manufacturing charges pre ferred. Participating in the raid were five Craven County officers, Elliott Bennett, C. C. Churchill, J. F. Kel ly, C. D Chambers, and J. K. Clay, assisted by three Lenoir County of ficers, Grover Cox, Robert Gauld ing, and Clarence Bland. Bennett. Churchill, and Kelly are ATU of ficers, while the others are ABC of ficers. The North Harlowe section of Craven County has been a notori ous area for distilling for a half century or more. And there are those who say that a Harlowe hot boy, taken straight, is far more powerful than even the latest atom ic bomb. Mosquitoes hovering over mesh boxes for an occasional swig wouldn't think of singing in the usual manner. They growl vicious ly. And hunters in the vicinity have grown used to the sight of drunken rabbits chasing a pack of hounds through the dense under brush. It's fairly easy for enforcement officers to ascertain when they're in the approximate vicinity of a North Harlowe distillery. Lofty pine trees start staggering instead ttf swaying, and mocking birds cut loose with a tuneful rendition of "Sweet Adeline." This morning's successful raid was staged by moonlight and in that connection it's interesting to note that raids always work better under sueh circumstances. It seems that the man in the moon turns green with envy when he is con fronted with the potency of the earthly moonshine that is being concocted far below. So all a good enforcement officer haa to do is take a squint at the heavens, wait for the green light ind proceed. The four moonshiners :aught this morning were surpris ed on the job, and were apprehend ed after a short run. The still had > abort run, too. Faramllo Motorist Collides with Pirkod Track Claude Joseph Mooring of Farm ride was involved in an accident Tuesday afternoon at 4:19 when the car which he wai driving hit a ruck parked at the curb between llth and 12th on Arendell it. in Morehead City. The truck was lurked by Kater Swinson of More head City. The Mooring car was damaged in the right fender and door and he Swioaon truck on the left ten ter and bumper. Capt Buck New ?ome investigated. Sailing Eihusiasis Schedule Saturday Race The first sailing race of the season will be held Saturday morning at 10:30 from the foot of 19th street, Morehead City. Sailfish boats will race. A prize will be given the win ner, and a party will be held at the end of the race. The race, which is open to all interested participants, is being sponsored by Mrs. Sammy Pou Doughton and Don Robinson. Three Weekend Accidents Occur Three highway accidents, two on Saturday and one Sunday, were investigated by State ..Highway Pa trolman W. P. Smith. Two persons, Capt. John Smith, Morehead City, and Bobbie Jean Herring, Beau fort, were injured. Smith received a cut on his right hand at 9 o'clock Saturday morn ing when he went to sleep and his car turned over. Smith was pro ceeding west on highway 70 and the accident occurred at the inter section of highway 101, Beaufort. Damage to the car was estimated at $250. A passing motorist took Smith to the Morehead City hos pital for treatment. Miss Herring, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Herring, Beaufort, sustained a cut on her right arm, according to Patrolman Smith. She was taken to the hospital by her parents who were called to the scene of the accident. Miss Herring was driving a pick up truck on the Merrimon road at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon when the car driven by Earl Mason of Beaufort ran into the truck, the patrolman said. Mason, who had his wife, mother, and father with him, was reported to have fallen asleep. Damage to the pick-up was esti mated at $700 and to the Mason car $400. Mason was proceeding south when he veered into the left lane of traffic, the patrolman said. Two cars collided on the bridge at Atlantic Beach at 9:30 Saturday afternoon. It was raining at the time, the bridge was wet and one car skidded into the other. The drivers were Reginald Lewis in a 1949 model car and Dave Clark, jr., driving a car owned by Graydon Paul, Beaufort. Damage to the Lewis car was estimated at $100 and to the Paul car $300. No one was hurt. The patrolman stated that no charges were preferred in any of me cases. I Cranes Remove Flag Poles At Beariorl Post Office Due to corrosion at the bases of the two metal flag polea at Beau fort post office, the polea were removed Wednesday by cranes. Postmaster J. P. Betts stated that the post office department has not ordered new poles and probably will not do ao until steel is avail able. The pole which flew the Ameri can flag waa located at the south west corner o t the post office and the pole which flew the customs bouse flag was located at the north west corner. Demolay Will Collect Scrap Metalat2Sunday Street Wctherington, jr., master counselor of Demolay, reminded residents of Beaufort and More head City today that the Demolay will conduct a scrap metal drive Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Persons having scrap metal should place it at the curb. If the metal is too heavy to be moved to the curb, the donor should tele phone 2-3026 and leave hi* name and address. The metal will then be collected by a Demolay member said Wetherington. Proceeds from sale of the scrap will be used to furnish a Demolay club room in the Masonic lodge, Beaufort. Demolay officers were installed at the meeting Wednesday night at the lodge. The installing Officer was Billy Downum, past master counselor. Following the installa tion service, members of the East ern Star served pineapple ice cream and cookies. The officers, in addition to Wetherington, are Gordon Davis, senior counselor; Perry Taylor, junior counselor, and Walker Moore, scribe-treasurer. All are res idents of Beaufort with the excep tion of Taylor who lives in More head City. Wetherington appointed addi tional officers last night. They are Earl Mac Noe, Beaufort, marshal; Herbert Prythcrch, Beaufort, chap- - lain; Bob Davis, Beaufort, senior deacon; A. H. McDonald, jr.. More head City, junior deacon; Larry Moore, Beaufort, senior steward; Henry Safrit, Beaufort, Junior i steward, and Andrew Searle, Beau fort, sentinel. The program for the formal dedication of the new state port at Morehead City next Thursday was released today by J. D. Holt, port manager. The two principal speakers will be Gov. W. Kerr Scott and John Motley Morehead of New York. Six hundred special Invitations to attend the dedication ceremonies have been mailed^ throughout the southeast. The ceremonies, open to the public, will take place at the port with the morning program in the new brick "transit shed" located closest to the water at the east-west dock. The day's program follows: 10:30 a.m. to 11, Marine band concert; invocation by the Rev. Priestley Conyers, III, pastor of Webb Memorial Presbyterian church, Morehead City; introduction of North Carolina State Ports Author ity members by A. G. Myers, chair man. The master of ceremonies will be Dr. B. F. Royal, Morehead City. The address by the Governor will be followed by the address by Morehead, direct descendant of the founder of Morehead City. 4 A luncheon for dignitaries and special guests will take place at 1 p.m., followed by a dockside in spection of ships, tour of the USS Bottineau, Naval transport, and a tour of the harbor and Beaufort inlet with boats leaving the More head City yacht basin at 3 p.m. The afternoon will be climaxed with an air show by the United States Marine Corps, Cherry Point. The final event of the day will be the dance at the terminal ware house at 10 p.m. The dance is be ing sponsored by the Morehead City Jaycees with music furnished by the Carolinians, 11-piece orches tra from Chapel Hill. Tickets for the dance are now on sale through out Morehead City. Published in conjunction with the port dedication is a four-page brochure picturing the port, de scribing its shipping facilities, and predicting port potential. Defendant Found Guilty of Giving Worthless Checks Philip E. Moore pleaded guilty Tuesday in recordar court, Beau fort, to three charges of issuing worthless checks. Judge Lambert Morris directed that he make all the checks good and pay the costs in the three cases. The same de cision was rendered in the case of C. A. Wallin, Jr., charged with pass ing worthless checks. Moore was found guilty, too, of forcible tres pass and was ordered to pay court costs. Allen Dudley was found guilty of allowing livestock to run at large and damage property. He was or dered to pay costs, but appealed the case and posted $100 bond for his appearance in superior court. Donald Catherillo, charged with calling a female "an old ilut," and attempting to strike her, was found guilty of assault and order ed to pay $25 and eosti. Wayne E. Zeigenhorn, charged with dis turbing the peace and using loud, boisterous language, was given a three-month sentence, not to be served providing he remain on good behavior and stay sober two See COURT, Page ? Three Persons See 'Flying ^ Saucers' in Morehead City Although most people don't be- ' lieve it, persons have been seeing ; "objects" in the sky. Whether they i are "(lying saucers" or not has not been proved. But the fact remains. i they are something. In Morehead City Saturday night i three persons saw two objects in 1 the sky. Clyde Willis, his daughter, Mrs. James Kabon and her son, Bill were standing on the sidewalk , across the street Irom the Sound ] Chevrolet building on Arendell st. about 8 o'clock Saturday night. Mrs. Rabon first spotted the "things." She yelled ,o( course and told her father to look. As he turned ] around and saw the objects his lit- , tie grandson started jumping and yelling. He thought they were fun ny looking things. As for describing them, Clyde says he can't exactly do that. He says he would estimate that they were traveling about the rite of an airplane, 100 miles per hour, head ed east on Arendell. He said they watched them for about a minute. They looked like they were not over 100 feet in the air if that high. The sixe compared to that of a steering wheel of a car but they were not completely round. They were from 24 to 30 inches across. Clyde stated they were vibrating so he couldn't tell much about tMem but Mrs. Rabon said they were routing on ? horizontal plane. No light shone from them although they "ware lighted from within." He compared the light to ? light bulb just before it burns out. One edge was imuch darker than the rest and was in the shape of a quarter moon. Migrant Labor loosing To bo Discus ad Aug. 14 The farm labor migrant housing situation will be discussed at a meeting at the court house, Beau fort, at 7:30 Thursday night, Aug. 14. Frank Nance, farm labor super visor with the United States Em ployment office, Morehead City, has invited town and county offi cials. Housing experts from Richmond and Raleigh will be present. Tide Table Tide* it Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, August I 10:02 a.m. 3:54 a.m. 10:23 p.m. 4:12 p.m. Saturday, Auflut 9 10:92 a.m. 4:40 a.m. 11:11 p.m. 5:14 p.m. ? Sunday, August 1* 11:44 a.m. 5:27 a.m. 6:09 p.m. Maaday, Auguat 11 12:01 a.m. 8:16 ajn. 12:37 p.m. 7:08 p.m. Tueaday, Auguat It . 12:53 a.m. 7:07 a.m. 1:35 pji. 8:10 pjn. District Governor Speaks Monday To Newport Club Stanley Woodland, More head, Commends Club For Interest, Activity Stanley Wooland, Morehead City district governor of Rotary district 279, was the guest speaker at Mon day night's meeting of the Newport Rotary club. He spoke on his trip to Lake Placid, N. Y., in May to attend the Rotary International convention. Woodland said that Rotarains at the meeting represented practical ly every nation in the world, except those behind the "iron curtain" but the word, foreigner, was never in evidence at any of the sessions. "It was a wonderful inspiration to mix with these outstanding men of different nationalities and dis cuss their everyday problems and their activity in Rotary," the district governor related. "Interna tional understanding and interna tional goodwill was so in evidence that the words 'Rotary Internation al' became something real," he de clared. The speaker was introduced by C. S. Long, president of the club. Prior to the meeting, the district governor met with the club officers and committee chairman, He re ceived a written report from each chairman explaining the objectives and plans for his particular com mittee for the 1952-53 Rotary year. Referring to the reports, Wood land said that he didn't expect to find at any other elub interest overshadowing that of the Newport group. " If I do/' he remarked, "then it will be a great day for Ro tary." Banker Comments OoFarming Adequate capital is of increasing importance in maintaining high production of vitally needed farm products, according to I. E. Pitt man, vice-president of the Flrat Citizens Bank and Trust company, who' represents the North Carolina Bankers association as Carteret County Key Banker. "Operating a successful farm to day requires a much larger invest ment than it did a few years ago," he said. "The average North Caro lina farm is larger than it was ten years ago. In the face of the short age of farm labor, this means that more of the work must be done by machinery. "High levels of production are necessary not only to provide the basic commodities the world needs, but also to justify the large invest ment in modern agriculture. In recent months, farmers have been faced with rising costs of the things they buy and lower prices of the things they sell. Production is the key to keeping agriculture profit able. "To fill their need for capital, farmers have turned mostly to the banks throughout the state," Pitt man said. Quoting from the eleventh annual national survey of agricultural lending by the Agri cultural Commission of the Amer ican Bankers association, he noted that "the vast majority of farm loans made by banks arc for pro duction and operating require ments. In 1951, the last fpll year of operation, North Carolina banks serving agricultural communities loaned $82,935,000 to 98.423 farm ers for all types of financial needs. "The total of bank-held agricul tural debt outstanding in North Carolina on Jan. 1 of this year waa $42,119,000, excluding CCC loans," Pittman concluded. Saptrinlradml Gels OK J On Newport School Ammx H. L. Joslyn, county superinten dent of schools, stated that at a re cent conference with education of ficials at Raleigh, he was assured that Newport school would be In cluded in allocation of federal funds for improving school facili ties. Architects have been given the go-ahead on drawing up plans for an eight-classroom addition at Newport which will cost |121,W0. The addition will include a lunch room and will be located at tlx rear of the present school. The pre sent lunchroom which is located there will he moved.
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