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.41 at YEAR, NO. 65. FIFTEEN SECTIONS? 116 PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1952 fUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Governor Scott Terms Port 'Milestone of Progress '
Port and Progress
Edition
116 PAGES
North Carolina Publishing Record
Coast Guard Designates Macon
As Base; Port Captain Named J
? Rear Admiral Russell E. Wood, commander, Fifth Coast
Guard district, Norfolk, announced today that Fort Macon
has been designated a "Coast Guard base" with the cutter
Conifer to be stationed there beginning Thursday, and in
addition to three other changes in the Morehead City area,
the commander stated that a captain of the port of More
head City has been appointed. He*
i * Lt. (jg) Lawrence E. Kelley who
^ Will assume his duties Thursday.
Major items of the new Coast
Guard program in Morehead City
follow.
(1) Establishment of lighted
fhannel ranges to improve night
operation in the harbor.
(2) Transfer of CGC Conifer to
Fort Macon to provide better
?ids to navigation services at less
?OSt and to improve offshore
March and rescue coverage by the
Coast Guard in Morehead City
(Urea. The commanding officer is
Lt. A. E. Armstrong.
<3 ) Designation of an officer as
captain of the port of Morehead
City.
,, (4) Establishment of a Coast
tjfciard Reserve port security sub
unit in Morehead City to provide
Coast Guard port security pro
don in Morehead City immedi
ately in ease of disaster.
(5) Establishment of a civilian
Port Security Advisory council to
resist and advise the captain of the
port in matters relating to the se
curity of the port of Morehead
City.
J (8) Change in name of Fort Ma
con Lifeboat station to Coast Guard
hue. Fort Macon, to reflect addi
flonal duties and increased import
ance in connection with servicing
of aids to navigation.
' The construction by the Coast
'Guard of two sets of lighted ranges
to mark Beaufort inlet and More
head City channels will be started
about Oct. 15, 1952, and will re
quire approximately four weeks
III complete. The project is design
ed to facilitate the safe passage of
vessels in and out of the harbor.
V The Beaufort inlet range front,
equipped with a directional drum
Itns and showing a quick flashing"
led light, will be located at the
Horth side of the intersection of
Beaufort inlet channel and More
head City channel. This will be
paired with the Beaufort inlet
channel range rear which will be
located near Taylor creek west
light just south of Beaufort. This
rear range will show a red light
?cculting each six seconds.
The Morehead City channel
range front will be located approx
imately 200 yards east of Beaufort
inlet buoy 10A, and will show a
quick flashing white light. This '
will be paired with rear range lo
cated approximately 500 yards
northwest of Shackleford Point and
will show a white light occulting
every six seconds.
The cutter Conifer which will be '
based at Fort Macon was commis
sioned by the Coast Guard in 1942.
She is designed and equipped to
handle all types of buoys, including
the large lighted buoys, some
weighing as much as 15 tons, that
are used off the North Carolina
coast. The Conifer maintains, ser
vices, and relieves (replaces and
LL A. E. Armstrong
overhauls) approximately 123 large
buoys, most of Which are located
in the Cape Lookout-Cape Fear
area. She has deck hoisting gear
capable of handling 20 tons.
Patrolled Daring War
During world war II, the Conifer
conducted weather patrol duties
for more than two years in the
submarine-infested waters of the
North Atlantic between Newfound
land and Greenland.
In addition to being well equip
See COAST GUARD, Page S
Health Department Grades
County Restaurants, Hotels J
The health department today re
leased ratings for all county res
taurants, hotels, hospitals and
other institutions for the period
ending July 31, 1932.
These ratings were made by X.
P Fulford, county sanitarian. The
fating of 90 to 100 gives a rating
fit A; 80 to SB a B; 70 to 79 a C.
' Atlantic: House Boat inn, 92.9;
.Wayne's restaurant, 90.5.
Atlantic Beach: Beach Comber,
?3; Frontier Village, 98; Hollo
well's Tourist court, 93; Ocean
King hotel, 93; Moore's Motor
Court, 92; B A C cafe, 91.3; Courie's
Villa lunch, 90.5.
" Villa. Queen hotel. 90.3; Villa
\' Tea roam. 90.5; Atlantic
hotel, 90; Atlantic Beach Ho
el dining room, 90; Beach View
a, 90; Ocean Drive hotel, 90;
;an King hotel kitchen, 80;
ith's Oyster Bar. 90.
Teague's cottages, 90; Davis
ndwich shop, 88; Atlantic Beach
ition lunch, 82.5; Clark Brother*
:k bar, 82.3; Idle Hour bunch,
II A; Sombrero, 81; Davis Beacb
80.3; Reggie's Grill, 80.3;
Hurt of the Beach, 80.3;
Duck's tiurger Palace, 80; Surf
Bar. 80.
Beaufort and RFD: Inlet Inn
Dining room, 92; Inlet Inn hotel,
92; Jan's Luncheonette, 92; The
Spot, 92; Bridgeview Inn. 91; Bus
Station lunch. 91; Duke Marine
Lab Dining room, 90.9.
Fred's barbecue, 90.3; Holden's
restaurant. 90.9; Causeway lunch,
90; City Bakery, 90; East Drhre
In Theatre lunch. 90; Guthrte
?lonc" Fountain lunch. 90; Jo*
House Fountain lunch, 90; The
Griddle. 90.
The Hi-Drive. 90; Ruby's Lunch
room. 87 J; Olsen's cabins, 89.3;
Snack grill. 83; Carrie's Snack bar,
84; Bethune's cabins, S3; Broad
Street Grocery lunch. 83; C 4c D
cafe, 83; Smith's cabins, 83; White's
cabins, 81; Bowie's cabins, 12.9;
Sun-Set bar, 82; Bunch's cabins, 81.
Rainbow Inn, SI; Stanley's Grocery
lunch, 793; Quick lunch, 72; The
Davis Place/Vl.
Mo re head City and RFD: Perry
Park motel, 96; White s MUk com
pany Dairy bar. M.5; Sanitary Mar
ket restaurant, 94; Camp More bead.
See EATINGS, Pas* S
LL (]g) Lawrence E. Ketley
Two Motorists ,
Face Charges
Two drivers whose cir? were in
volved in accidents Thursday and
Eriday have been charged with
violations of the motor vehicles
law. John B. Raper, route 1 More
head City, has been charged with
careless and reckless driving as the
result of an accident at the end
of the Crab Point rtfad Thursday
and Odell Plymouth Mason, Glouc
ester, has been charged with fol
lowing too closely, causing an ac
cident Friday.
Riding with Raper was George
W. Kittrell, Morehead City route 1.
According to W. E. Pickard, state
highway patrolman, Raper passed a
car 'going north on the Crab Point
road and when he came to the in
tersection was going too fait to
stop.
The car jumped the ditch and
turned over. Neither Raper nor
Kittrell were hurt. Damage to the
car a 1870 model was estimated at
$500.
Mason was driving a 1836 auto
mobile when he collided with a
1852 automobile driven by Leslie
D. Springle of Beaufort route 1 at
7:45 p.m. Friday. According to Pa
trolman Pickard both cars were
headed east on 70 about a mile east
of Beaufort
As Springle started to make a
left tarn, Mason attempted to pass'
him and the cars collided. Mason
said he did not see Springle's hand
signal. Damage to the 1838 model
automobile was estimated at $75
and damage to the other car was
estimated at $400. No one wai in
jured.
GhM oi Polio Says J
Stop Lifkl Works OK
In reaponse to an editorial in
Friday'! NEWS-TIMES stating that
the atop light at 21st and Evana
street, Horehead City, does not op
erate properly. Chief of Police E.
J. Willis telephoned THE NEWS
TIMES office to state that the light
ia working all right, except that
the sun shining through it late in
the afternoon makes it look as
though both the red and green,
lighta are on simultaneously.
The chief did not offer any solu
tion to the problem a motorist
facea when what appears to be both
the red and green light are staring
at him.
CMUttte* Meets
Bernard Leary, chairman of the
More head City 'recreation commit
tee, announced yesterday that the
recreation committee will meet to
night it T o'clock in the recreation
center.
Dedication Ceremonies Will
Begin at 10:30 A.M. Thursday
Gov. W. Kerr Scott, in a letter to THE NEWS-TIMES,
terms Thursday's dedication of the Morehead City port as
"one of the more important milestones of progress estab
lished by North Carolina in the last quarter of a century."
The governor and John Motley Morehead, descendant
of the founder of Morehead City, will be the principal
A&NC Board j
Meets at Beach
L. W. Hassell, Beaufort,
Named Director; H. L.
Joslyn Given Post
Morehead City, N. C. (AP) -Of
ficers and directors of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad were
re-elected at a meeting of directors
and stockholders Friday at the At
lantic Beach hotel.
Re-elected as officers of the
state-controlled railroad were M. G.
Man, Raleigh, president; J. H.
Blount. Greenville, board chair
man; W. Guy Haigett, Richlands,
secretary-treasurer; W. A. Johnson,
Lillington, attorney; Hilton Smith,
Raleigh, expert; and Carroll L.
Mann, Greensboro, inspector.
The Atlantic and North Carolina
owns the line between Goldsboro
and Beaufort. It is operated under
lease by the Atlantic and East
Carolina railroad.
At the stockholders meeting, the
state's majority stock was voted
by Garland E. Bobbitt of Raleigh.
Elected directors representing
the state's stock' were; Blount,
Mann. L. W. Hassell, Beaufort;
Dempsey Hodges, Kinston; R.
Mayne Albright, Raleigh; Frank A.
Seymour, Goldsboro. W. O. Abbott,
Williamston; Thomas W. Davis,
Pink Hill.
Named to the finance committee
were H. L. Joslyn, Beaufort; Thur
man Williams, Grifton; and Ray
Henderson. New Bern.
Additional directors and a vice
prendmt wave named by private
stockholdera.
Attending the meeting was Jo
seph T. Kingaley, president of the
Norfolk and Southern railway, and
other Norfolk and Southern of
ficials. They came to Morehead
City on private passenger coaches
Thursday night. The coaches, dur
ing the officials' stay here, stood
on state port property.
?speakers at the formal port dedica*
tion ceremonies Thursday morning
in one of the new transit shedi at
the port.
Everyone Invited
The full program of Thursday's
activities appears elsewhere on
this page. J. D. Holt, port man
ager, Morehead City, yesterday
urged everyone to attend the port
ceremonies and participate in the
events scheduled.
The new Morehead City port fa
cilities were built at a cost of
$2,250,000, according to T. A. Lov
ing and company, engineers, who
in two years completed the con
struction.
Although the port formally opens
Thursday, the new east-west dock
has been in use since the early part
of this year. Cirass has been plant- !
ed recently to stabilize shifting
sand and erected during the past
week was a steel fence enclosing
the port property.
Flags Will Wave
Flags will be flown throughout
Morehead City Thursday and bunt
ing will decorate public buildings.
Overnight accommodations for out
of-town guests are being handled
through the Morehead City cham
ber of commerce.
Governor Scott's letter on the
port opening follows:
Mr. Lockwood Phillips, Publisher
Carteret County News-Times
Morehead City, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Phillips:
The dedication of the State Port
at Morehead City marks the realiza
tion of a State Port program which
for over 25 years was only a dream.
In my opinion, the program, pro
viding as it does for the construc
tion of modern State docks ind ter
minals at Morehead City and Wil
mington comparable with any on
the Atlantic coast, is one of the
more important milestones of
progress established by North Caro
lina in the last quarter of a cen
tury.
It has been a source of great
pleasure to me to have had a part
in bringing about the completion
of this project, the benefits of
which will be felt by every inhabi
tant of the State.
Sincerely,
W. Kerr Scott
Port Dedication Program
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 y
Morning Program
10:30-11 a.m. ? Marine band concert
Invocation by the Rev. Priestley Conyers, III
Welcome Address ? Mayor George W. Dill of More
head City
Introduction of State Ports Authority Members ? A.
G. Myers, chairman, of Gastonia
Master of Ceremonies ? Dr. B. F. Royal of Morehead
City
Address ? GoV. W. Kerr Scott of North Carolina
Address ? John Motley Morehead of New York City
Afternoon Program
Dockside inspection of ships
2-6 p.m. ? Open house aboard the USS Bottineau
3 p.m. ? Tour of the harbor and Beaufort inlet
10 p.m. ? Jaycee-sponsored dance at terminal ware
house
(The public ii invited ind exported to attend all events. The
morning program will take place in the new transit shed nearest
the water. Seats will be available. The air show, originally
acheduled (or Thursday afternoon, has been cancelled).
Time Brings Changes 7 .
Because THE NEWS-TIMES port
and progess edition you are now
reading has been three months in
the making, several (acta have
changed between the time aome of
the stories were printed and the
present.
These changes, at least those of
which we are aware, are listed be
low:
Replacing Mai. Gen. Ray Robin
son aa commanding officer of
Camp Lejeune Marine air base is
Maj. Gen. Henry D. Llnacott,
USMC. The change in commands
waa made July 1, 1852.
In the J. C. Penney ad appearing
on page 8 section 13 the price of
the denim dungarees advertised ia
$1.59 and not fl.OB. Since the ad
waa printed the price had been re
duced 10 centa.
Pictured as Beaufort's street
superintendent is Clyde Peteraon.
Under a new set-up in the town's
street department Wardell FUlin
game ia working foreman in charge
at streets.
The story oa C. Dr Jones cam
panv. Beaufort states that Mr. and
Mrs. Christopher Jones have two
children, a daughter, Virginia, and
a son, Kit. Another daughter, Char
lotte. arrived Wednesday, July 30,
too late to be included in the C.
D. Jones story!
State Itkim LiIIhi j
Lewis Undtr $500 Bond
Luther Lewis. Morehead City,
now under $900 bond, haa been
charged with embezzlement at the
result of information supplied the
state insurance office, Raleigh. The
warrant was sworn out by R. 8.
Boone, Clinton, deputy insurance
commissioner.
Although the warrant was drawn
July B by M. Leslie Davis, county
solicitor, it was not served until
July 20 at the request of the state
insurance office, according to A. 11.
James, clerk of superior court.
James said that there will bt ?
preliminary bearing on the case in
recorder's court Tu?aday .
The new Morehead City port, combined with facilities built 11 years ago. features 2,550 lineal feet
of wharfage. Two storage warehouses contain 88,000 feet of storage space, two transit sheds 92,000
feet, with paved open storage totaling 60,000 feet. Photo by Jerry Schumacher
NEWS-TIMES Shatters All
Special Edition Records
County Officials ;
Convene at Beach
For 45th Meeting
The 48th -annual convention ?f
the *Uto- Association of County
Commissioners and Association of
County Accountants of North Caro
lina enters its second day this
morning at Atlantic Beach.
I Four addresses will be heard
j this morning. The speakers are
Dr. Ellen Winston, state commis
sioner of public welfare: A. C. Ed
wards, past president of the State
Farm Bureau and member of the
legislature; Luther Hodges, lieu
tenant governor-elect of North
Carolina, and L. Y. (Stag) Ballen
tine, state commissioner of agricul
ture.
At this afternoon's sessions the
speakers will be Keith L. Seig
miller, executive secretary of the
National Association of County Of
ficials, and Brandon Hodges, trea
surer of North Carolina.
J. E. Stanford, executive secre
tary of the Kentucky Farm Bureau,
will be the speaker at tonight's ban
quet at 8 o'clock at the Ocean King
'.ktel, Atlantic Beach. M. E. Hollo
well, county agent of Nash county
will be the master of ceremonies.
Presiding at this morning's ses
sion will be C. A. Hasty, Roberson
county, first vice-president of the
association. Mrs. Mary Covington,
president of the Association of
County Accountants, will preside
at the luncheon and business meet
ing for accountants at 12:30 p.m.
today.
The association's board of direc
tors will meet at 3 p.m. following
the address by Treasurer Hodges.
Officers will be elected at to
morrow morning's business ses
sion. Reports of committees will be
heard and a site selected for the
next convention. The presiding of
ficer will be Lloyd C. Amos, second
vice-president and chairman of the
board of commissioners of Guilford
county.
The new board of directors will
meet tomorrow morning at 11:30.
The convention opened yester
day afternoon at 2 o'clock with
John F. Long, president, from Ire
dell csunty, presiding. The invoca
tion was given by Dr. John Bunn,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
Morehead City, and the address of
welcome by A. B. Cooper, mayor of
Atlantic Beach.
The response to the welcome was
given by W. E. Webb, commission
er of Iredell county. A round table
See CONVENTION, Page I
Tide Table
TMca it Bcaafort Bar
HIGH * LOW
Tucaday, Auguat It
12:53 a.m. 7:07 a.m.
1:39 p.m. 8:10 p.m. I
Wednesday. August 13
1:90 u rn. 8:03 a.l
2:39 p.m. 11:18 p.m. |
Thurtday, August 14
2:99 a.m. 0-05 a.m.
3J8 p.m. 10:14 p.m. I
Friday, Auguat 15
4:01 a.m. 10:10 a.m. I
4:17 p.m. 11:33 pja. I
THE NEWS-TIMES Port and*
Progress edition shatters all North
Carolina publishing record? in the
non-da(ly field and is five times
bigger than any other newspaper
ever published in Carteret county.
The copy you now have in your
hand weighs nearly two pounds and
contains 116 pages.
A telegram from Clarence Grif
fin, historian for the North Caro
lina Press association states:
"On August 12, 1943, The Forest
City Courier, Forest City, ami The
Spindalc Sun, Spindale, eacl> pub
lished 112 page service men's edi
tions. In October, 1949, The Mc
Dowell News. Marion, published
104 page edition on occasion of
dedication of new home. These ire
records in the non-daily field to
date. Please mail copy of your
Port Progress edition for my his
torical records."
But more important than its
weight and number of pages, this
copy of THE NEWS TIMES con
tains a , complete history, with
analytical interpretations, of the
remarkable growth of Carteret
county during the last ten years
and the complete history of the
new Morehead City port.
You will not be able to read your
copy of THE NEWS-TIMES com
pletely today. The reading will re
quire many days and many hours
and, after you have finished read
ing, you will probably want to put
your copy in a safe place for re
reading and reference during the
months and years to come.
THE NEWS-TIMES staff started
work on this edition last February
and the first of the fifteen sections
was printed on June 18. The first
section printed was numbered
three. Sections one and two were
the last to be printed. .
For the most part, the advertise
ments in this edition tell the ator^
of the progress of the advertising
firms, the story of the part each has
played in building a finer and
greater Carteret county. Not count
ing classified advertisers, there are
334 advertisements in this edition.
Each advertisement ia interesting
and worthy of closc reading be
cause all tie together in making
this edition of THE NEWS-TIMES
an historical document.
The newsprint in each copy <-ost
more than 14 cents and mailing
costs under the second class tran
sient rate total 15 cents.
THE NEWS -TIMES, however,
will mail copies of this edition at
a total cost of 25 cents. Necessari
ly ill such orders are accepted on
a cash in advance basis.
Newsstands throughout the coun
ty will be kept supplied with
copies, for as long as they last,
through Thursday. Whatever copies
may remain after Thursday will be
on sale at THE NEWS-TIMES of
fice. 504-500 Arendell St., Morehead
City.
Extra copies may be secured
through your carrier boy or by
phoning THE AEWS-TIMES 6-4175.
Harrison Willis bfvnd 1/
Sunday ia Aote
Harrison Willis, brother of Jerry
Willis of Morehead City, was ser
iously injured in an automobile ac
cident 20 miles from Jacksonville
Sunday.
The accident happened several
houri before Willis and his car
were discovered. He is now in ser
ious condition in the Jacksonville
hospital.
Public Will Board
USS Bottineau
At Port Thursday
Tfce Untied States Naval trans
port. USS Bottineau, will lend a
festive air to the port dedication
?eremonies Thursday at Morehead
City. The attack transport, named
for a county in North Dakota, was
launched Nov. 22, 1944 and played
an extensive and heroic part in
operations in the Pacific during the
second world war.
The public will be taken on in
spection tours of the transport
from 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday. Her
commanding officer is Capt. F.
Brumby. USN, and her executive
officer Cdr. D. F. Harrington, jr.,
USN.
Captain Brumby took command
May 10, 1952 at Norfolk where Mrs.
Brumby, their son and two daugh
ters now are living. His hometown,
before enlisting in the Navy in
1925 was Winthrop, Mass.
Appointed to Annapolis Naval
academy in 1926 by the secretary
of the Navy, he graduated in 1930.
His service in world war IJ in
cluded destroyer duty in both the
Atlantic and Pacific in escort of
convoys. In the latter theatre he
was present at Midway, Lac, Sala
maua, Guadalcanal, and the Ad
miralties.
Serves in Far East
Captain Brumby recently served
18 months with Naval Forces Far
East as Force Logistics officer and
Naval liaison officer io the com
manding general, eighth Army in
See BOTTINEAU, Page 8
Lions Club Clears e
$330 on Circus
Fred Lewis, president of like
Morehead City Lions club, an
nounced yesterday that the club
cleared $330 on the circus they
sonsored Saturday. Aug. 2.
The building committee. David
B. Webb chairman, was asked to
meet tonight at 7 o'clock at the
recreation center to formulate
plans for the new Lions club house
to be built on a lot located east o(
the Camp Glenn school. They will
report Thursday night at the regu
lar club meeting.
Three members of the club, John
D. Willis. O. N Allred and Fred
erick Hardy, attended the regional
meeting in Kinston Friday, repre
senting Morehead City Lion*.
Brooms have been ordered for
the broom sale the club will stage
the last of August Also discussed
was the "Rabbit Foot Minstrel Teat i - i
Show" which the Lions will spon
sor this fall.
Members of the club were in
formed of plans for buying (laasea
for a needy child. This is a project
that Is financed with money ia the
Lions blind fund. Tbt proceed*
from the circus were added to this
fund.
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