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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 604 Arend.ll St. Mankitd City Phona 6-4175 J CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c Eight P?fM Color Conic* 4 l?t YEAR, NO. 70. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Twister Causes $50,000 Damage at Stacy Wednesday W ashington Man Urges Creation , Of New State Ports Commission Chairman Tell Of Work Done ' By Committees i Chamber of Commerce Board Hears Reports At Recent Meeting I - Five committee reports were pre i Jented at the recent meeting of the Morehead City chamber of ?ommerce board of directors at the fecreation center. The civic affairs committee, Dr. W. Hatcher, chairman, stated that it is working with the town toward "early installation" of a ?ewage disposal plant and is also working with the town government . *n setting up a municipal planning commission through action of the . ftate legislature. * According to the report, the com mute met in July and out of that meeting grew a request to the At lantic and East Carolina railroad to Improve the appearance of its sta tion on Arendell street. The com mittee has suggested that the At ? tic Beach commissioners name ?nd mark the streets at the beach . ?nd that the houses and lots be numbered accordingly. Requested Ferry The group appeared before the board of Conservation and Develop ment at its July meeting and re vested a ferry link between the proposed Cape Hatteras National Seashore park and Carteret county. The advertising committee, W. P. Freeman, chairman, reported that . ? new brochure on Morehead City Is being planned and prices are be ing obtained on * three-color pamphlet. The committee stated ?that an educational film on Car teret county had been rertriflWwf but tbe idea discarded. The coat would have been $7,500. Publicity during recent months has included Tar Heels Afloat, Op^ eration Wheelchair (a fishing trip for Korean veterans), dedication of the port. Brothers of the Brush and HAnorary Tar Heels. , The transportation committee, % Gordon C. Willis, chairman, is ? working on a four-lane highway west from Morehead City and im provement of facilities at the More head City-Beaufort airport in co operation with Beaufort. The committee has also proposed fishing platforms on the new bridge ?panning Bogue sound. The military services committee. George H. McNeill, chairman, met m July with Col. John A. White, representing the commanding gen eral at Camp Lejeune, and Maj. T. C. James, representing the com manding general of the air station it Cherry Point. Means of encouraging closer co operation between civilians and military personnel were discussed ?nd it was agreed that further meetings would be called when either of the parties wished Joint action on a problem or project. B|HBVrCV nrMIWHUH Th? housing committee, S. A. " Chalk, jr., chairman, sponsored the resolution passed by the town board requesting that the proper - federal government agency investi gate the critical housing situation In Morehead City with a view to making Maximum FHA loans avail able for rental-home construction. It was reported that the commit tee is also working on possibility of extending the town limits west ward. J. A. DuBois, manager of the chamber of commerce, said that , membership has not reached the desired quota. It was the hope of ' chamber officials that the budget this year could be increased over last year. A general membership meeting I in October was discussed and di rectors suggested that the town ad ministration be contacted in regard I to having a distinctive design rep resentative of Morehead City ' - placed on 1953 town tags. Nbrister Speaks al Meeting 01 leaaleri Rotary Chb The Rev. T. R. Jenkins of Ann Street Methodist church spoke on the value of the individual at Tuesday Right's meeting of the Beaufort Rotary club. He told of the need for the realization of the value of the individual in the pres ent world. , Guests at the meeting were C. H. t JCirkman, assistant county agent; ?,Jaek Roberta. George R. Wallace, George McNeill, Loonie DDI. Dr. I /John Morris, Buck Matthews and Clyde Jones, all of Morehead City; fK. E. Mitchiner, Henderson; C. V. Star and Ted Hanin*, ' Rocky Mount ? Creation of a state port commission with power to condemn land and to issue reve nue bonds to provide {or further development of North Carolina's inland ports and waterways was urged here Tuesday by James A. Hackney of Washington, N. C. Hackney made his suggestion near the end of a long public hear ing held here Tuesday by Chairman Aubrey L. Cavenaugh of Warsaw and members of the water re sources committee of the state board of Conservation and Devel opment to discuss ways and means of finding wider use for and at the same time conserving the State's vast water resources. "Washington is ready to go now," declared Hackney as he told of the needs for development of small ports and waterways in east Woman is Found / Guilty of Assault Eva Budget! of North River Gets Suspended Sentence For Attack with Ice Pick A North River woman was con victed Tuesday in county court of assault with a deadly weapon. Eva Budgett, colored, was sentenced to six months in jail. The sentence was suspended on condition that she remain on good behavior for three years. The Budgett woman was found guilty of assaulting Marie Johnson Merrill, also colored, with an ice pick. She also was accused of hit ting Mrs. Merrills mother, Mrs. Mary Smith. Mrs. Merrill said that she was stabbed when she told the Budgett woman to leave her mother. alape. She told the court 'that she was stabbed four times. Kaaeke* Bet Don - Mrs. Smith uid that the trouble began when Mrs. Budgett claimed that her husband had gone away with Mrs. Smith's daughter Elean or. She testified that an argument ensued and the defendant knock ed her down. The defendant testified that Mrs. Smith was drunk at the time of the fight. She said that Mrs. Smith entered her home and called her several names. According to her testimony, Mrs. Smith fell when she pushed her out of the house. Mrs. Budgett maintained that she struck Mrs. Merrill in self defense. She said that Mrs. Merrill struck her first with a shoe. She claimed that she "just happened to have the ice pick." She said that she hit Mrs. Merrill without realizing that she had stabbed her. Thessaly Manning was convicted of careless and reckless driving and operating a vericle while un der the influence of intoxicants. He was fined $150 and coats. He gave notice of appeal to the su perior court and was released on *200 bond. Fined *25 George C. Holland and Charlie T. Worthy were each fined *25 and coats for trespassing. Alf Jen sen was fined *50 and costs for careless and reckless driving and driving without a license. Harry Morton Thompson paid *50 and costs for speeding. Marvin Modlin was fined *15 and costs for passing on a curve. Mrs. Erma McCloskey Pittman was fined *10 and costs for failure to stop and causing a wreck. Theodore Smith paid *10 and costs for fail ure to give a hand signal. William Americus Henry and Jack Cheek paid the same fine for careless and reckless driving. Furlow Hill was fined *10 and costs for disturbing the peace. Moses Teel, charged with non-sup port, was ordered to make back payments and pay court costs. ray lku Frank W. Lewis paid half of the costs for driving without a license. Zollie Richards paid costs for al lowing an unlicensed person to operate a motor vehicle. Ulysses Lanier Finer paid half of the coats for operating a car with an im proper muffler. Malicious prosecution was ruled in the caw of Duffy Arnold. The prosecuting witness was ordered to pay the coats of prosecution. The stale declined to prosecute rises against Guy Newsom and Vance Alien Gillikin Cases were continued against Francis Arthur, Lowell Ray Hack er, Primrose Mason, Harriett Thompson, Elton Smith, Odell Ply mouth Mason, Charles T. Hender son. James Stanley McCluakey, L. D. Kelly, Elbert Thomas, and Lil lian Pittman. Bonds eftre forfeited by Harold F. Howell, jr., Horace Blair Ay. cock, Kenneth H. Dryer aad Ernest Brown, em North Carolina. He told of "some big steel mills that will be ready in about two years to come to eastern North Carolina" and that adequate inland ports and water ways will be big factors in their decision to locate in this State. Colonel R. C. Brown, officer-in charge of the U. S. Army Corps al Engineers' district office at Wil mington, and State Treasurer Bran don P. Hodges of Raleigh were principal speakers but numerous others, including George R. Ross, director of the State Department of Conservation and Development, also spoke during the three-hour meeting. Stresses Need Describing water as "an age-old problem," Colonel Brown stressed the need for conservation and de velopment of the State's water re sources and pledged the coopera tion of the Corps of Engineers "as far as we are able" in development of a stronger state water resources system. "Water is ample for all foresee able demands if it is properly con served," the colonel said as he de clared the state has "made excel lent progress" in development of deep water ports at Morehead City and Wilmington. But, he added, the state has done little toward the development of small channels and ports. "Now is the opportunity for the state to do something about this," Col. Brown added as he warned that the Federal Government "will require more cooperation in the future in development of rivers and harbors. Treasurer Praised Treasurer Hodges, who was praised by Walter J. Damtoft of Canton, vice-chairman of the State board of Conservation and Devel opment, for his efforts to induce new industry to locate in the state, stressed the need for greater utili zation of the Mate's water as a whole and also for more and bet ter irrigation methods that could be pnffttafcly Med hi caae of drought such as the state mptri enced during the past several months. "It has been said that North Carolina is a rich state inhabited See PORTS, Page 2 B&Pff Club Will Sponsor March Of Dimes in '53 Group Attaches Proviso to Decision Made at Session Wednesday Night The Carteret Business and Pro fessional Womens club will spon sor the 1953 March o< Dimes in the county. This decision, made Wednesday night at the monthly meeting of the organization at the cottage of Miss Lillian Morris, Atlantic Beach causeway, carried one proviso: that the quota for Carteret county be made more realistic in proportion to the county's ability to meet it (the quota last year was $7,200) or that a portion of the polio fund raised at Cherry Point air base through contributions by Carteret county residents, be channeled back to Carteret county. Mrs. Doris Alford named Mrs. Roma Noe chairman and Mrs. Flo rence Beam treasurer. The club sponsored the March of Dimes in January of this year and raised $5,080. Mrs. Noe was chairman of the drive. Mrs. Beam has served as campaign treasurer for the past several years. Mrs. Beam was also made chair man of the club's social security project. She reported that N. A. Avera, social security manager for the Wilmington area, who visits Carteret county twice a month, stated that numerous responses have come from persons to whom letters were sent by the B&PW club suggesting that they investi gate their eligibility for social se curity benefits. Reports were made on progress in decorating the waiting room at Morehead City hospital and on the club's chaperoning teen-agers at the recreation center recently. Money-making projects were dis eussed and reports by the secre tary, Mrs. MozeHe Clark, and the tin? II U, Mr*. Zelau Talbert, were approved. A contribution of $5 from Mrs. Hilda Peeling. York, Pa., was presented the club and the president appointed four mem See B&PW, Page 2 Six Country Club Bonds Sold six of the a one thousand-aol lar bondi floated by the Morehead City Country club have been pur chased, according to a report lent members of the club this week. ' The bonds are secured by a first mortgage on the Crab Point coun try club property and earn 6 per cent interest. payable annually. Two bonds are to be retired yearly and all bonds are to be retired by 1963, according to Dr. John Mor ris, president. They can be retired earlier if the board of directors wishes. The issuance of $25,000 in bonds Mullet Jump Giddily Wind Shift Sends Temperature Down Town Board y Bans Parking The MoreheadClty board of com missioners at its meeting Monday afternoon voted to prohibit park ing on three streets. The west side of 6tA st between Evans and Bridges, the west side of 9th st. between Shepard and Bridges and the west side of 9th st. between Evans and Arendell will be closed to parking. The ban will go into effect when signs are pur chased and erected. Mayor George W. Dill, Jr., au thorised the erection of a street light In the west alley of block 201 on Evans St. between 29th and 30th. Mayor Dill preaided at the meet ing. Commissioners present were D. G. Bell. S. C. Holloway, M. T. Mills and Dr. John Morris. Uucfcroen Opens Sept 3 The Morehead City school lunch room opens Wednesday, Sept. 3, and not Sept. 23, as stated in Tues day's paper. S HIGH TMw at Beasrfsrt Bar ? LOW Friday, August 29 7:53 ajn. 9:11 p.m. Satarday, August 3? 2:83 a.m. 3:40 p.m. 9:06 a.m. 10:21 p.m. Sanday. August 11 4:08 a.m. 4:48 p.m. 10:22 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 1 9:40 p.m. Tan fay, - jne munei were jumping witn gusto. Come Saturday the wind shifted and before folka knew it, they were in the midst of a mullet blow. Fishermen were caught with their panta ? we mean neti, down. Nobody was expecting a shift un til September anyway. But things have been so crazy this summer, temperatures past 100, wet ai dry spells. ' that maybe folks | shouldn't be surprised at any thing. Last year the middle of Septem ber came and even though mullet were being caught there was no decided windshift and drop In temperature like that experienced this week. Price of mullet the end of laat week were 15 cents a pound to the fishermen but as soon as they started coming in, dealers draped the price to 6 cent* and lota of fishermen, who bad qilickly made their nets ready, shrugged their shoulders and said, what's the use, they couldn't make expenaea at that rate. Temperatures and rainfall for the past week, as reported by E. Stamey Davis, official weather ob server, follow: Max. Mln. Rain Wind! Aug. 21 - 90 74 .10" SW Aug. 22 - 88 79 SW Abg. 23-82 69 .72" NE Aug. 24 - 80 88 NE Aug. 23 - 82 88 NE Aug. 28 - 80 82 NE Aug. 27 - 77 71 2.1" NE OW Office to Close The Raleigh office of price stabil ization will cloae today because of inadequate Congressional appro priations. During the paat year Di rector Alton G. Murchison i office has made reatitutloa to I than 3,000 overcharged in eastern North Carolina < held 700 clinics throughout area. The Charlotte OPS attic* \ the entire state. was authorized by the board of di rectors last month. The first 10 sold would provide funds to com plete payment on the property, di rectors explain. Twelve thousand dollars has already been paicj. The total cost of the property was *22, 000. The board of directors states that the remaining I1S.000 obtain ed through sale of bonds would be adequate to finance clearing the golf course property and building the first nine holes. Available at Bank Country club bonds can be pur chased at the First-Citizens Bank and Trust company, Morehead City. All present club members have been asked to obtain two other members within the coming week. Officers of the club, in addition to the president, are Graver C. Munden, vice-president; J. Warren Beck, secretary; and P. H. Geer, jr., treasurer. Members of the board of direc tors are H. W. Anderson, D. St. Pierre DuBose, Clyde A. Douglass, Henry A. Walker, Munden, Morris, John L. Crump, I. E. Pittman, and C. Gehrmann Holland. Members of the advisory com mitee are W. E. Barnes, E. M. Cameron, A. K. Barrus. James Ficklen, jr., J. W. York, Mrs. J. L. Barnes, B. G. Hines, and Raymond Bryan President Names' Committee Heads Gerald Hill, president of the Beaufort chamber of commerce, ap pointed committee chairmen at the meeting of the board of directors Tuesday night at the town hall. They are Braxton Adair, indus trial chairman: Jack Barnes, mer chants committee chairman; Glenn Adair, hotel; Dr. W. L. Woodard. utilities; J. 0. Barbour, jr., civic affairs; and Odtll Merrill, trans portation. Holden Ballou was appointed to investigate the placement of benches along the waterfront on Front street. ? Attending the meeting were Glenn and Braxton Adair, Dr. Woodard, Ballou. Halaey Paul, Les lie Haora, and Dan Walter, man ager of cfcaafc*. <M? dent conducted tkt mrrtla* jn* board^HI^ *1^ Highway Patrol Urges Caution Over Long Holiday Weekend ANNOUNCEMENT J To provide a deserved Increase In earning! to NEWS-TIMES car rier boys and partially to offaet newsprint roots, home-delivered price of your Carteret county newspaper will be 20 cents a week beginning Sept. 1. Beaufort School Will Open at 9 ' Tuesday Morning Beaufort's school's first session for the 1952-53 term will begin Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. Bruce Tarkington. principal, an nounced today that registration for new students will take place at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning (Satur day) at the school. This means that all students entering school Tuesday who were not registered with the pre-achool children last year, or who have moved here from other school districts, should report tomorrow morning. The school fees for children in grades 1 through 8 will be $4 per pupil including the $1 insurance fee which is optional. The fee for high school students will bt $8.25 including the $1 insurance payment which is also optional for pupils in grades 9 through 12. The school lunch room will open Wednesday noon. Mr? Hazel Chad wick, Smyrna, will be the manager. Mrs. Chadwick was In charge of the lunchroom last year. Tarkington reported that the au ditorium, halls, rest rooms, and lunchroom have been repainted in preparation for school's opening. Outdoor woodwork on the building has also been painted. Charles F. Jones, band director, met with members of the baod Wednesday afternoon in prepara tion for the band's activities for the coming term. The 32 members of the faculty will meet at 9:30 Monday morning with the principal at the school. " State highway patrolmen today warned Labor Day weekend vaca tioners to exercise every caution in traveling the highways. With favorable weather, record crowds are scheduled to head for vacation spots for the last long holiday weekend of the summer. Roads leading to Carteret will be among those jammed, as up-staters seek the shore for the last fling, the last fishing trip, the last taste of lolling 'neath a warm sun by the sea. Carteret county's new ocean fishing pier will open tomorrow. Located east of Atlantic Beach, just off the Fort Macon road, it offers the angler "deep sea" fish ing from the shore. Surf casters will line the beach from Salter Path to Fort Macon, swimmers will frolic in the surf, and the schedule of the day, come Monday, will be picnics and ? for the school agers ? the very last day of freedom before the school bell rings. Party boatmen say the cero, king mackerel, and other fighting game fish are out there to be caught. With the riight kind of break in the weather, party boatmen will be doing a hustling business. In addition to amusements at Atlantic Beach, theatres are show ing especially fine pictures this weekend, the dogs are running in a matinee race at the Carolina track west of Morehead City, and all in all, Carteret guarantees the Labor Day weekend vacationer a happy and fun-filled holiday in deed. Merchants Vote '' On Gosing Days The Morehcad City Merchant* association adopted a calendar of events at the meeting Tuesday morning at Capt. Bill's restaurant. The members voted on eloein| days for the coming year. Some stores will remain open next Monday, and others will close. All stores will close Thanksgiving day, Nov. 27; Christmas day, Dec. 25; and the following day. Dec. 26. Most stores will remain open July 4, a Saturday. It was decided that" Morehcad City stores will stay open nights during the week before Christmas. Members of the association ex pressed the opinion that the $1,000 prize drawing is Inadvisable. They said that much more can be done for much less money by proper street decoration and by sponsor ing a Christmas party for the chil dren of the community. President J. C. Harvell appointed Walter Morris, George Eastman, Jim Wheatley, and Frank Moran to a committee to make plans for the holiday season. Joe DuBois explained the opera tion of the credit bureau and urged merchants to make use of the service. Those present at the meeting were T. C. Hyman, Frank Pigford, Jimmy Wallace, V. Jenkins, Frank Moran, George Eastman. J. C. Hrtvell, Mrs. Joyce Todd, Jim Wheatley. Oscar Allred, W. Willis, Bernard Leary, Dick Parker, Wal ter Morris, L. Styron, Warren Beck, A. James and Joe DuBois. Town to Stop j Refuse Dumping J. V. Waters, street superin tendent and sanitation officer, has announced that the town of More head City will rigidly enforce the ordinance prohibiting the dumping of garbage and oil along the water front ? Waters has asked cafe and fish market owners to place all garbage in cans to be picked up. He said, "We want to put an end to the practice of dumping garbage in tbq harbor." Waters also has contacted boat owners and has asked them to stop pumping oil into the water. The sanitation officer reports that the town already la planning to prosecute several offenders. Mi? PmUbj Arrtyjt Gridialt AnUntikip Lockwood Phillips, publisher of THE NEWS-TIMES, announced to day that Miss Ruth Peeling, editor, has been granted a leave of ab aence to accept the invitation of Professor Laurence Campbell, dean ol Um selaaol of Journalism of Flo rida Stat* university. Tallahaasee, to aasuan * graduate teaching aa "?? j&?tw?llto.v.th.mld Freak Storm Wrecks Home; No One Hurt A vicious miniature tornado struck the community of Stacy in the eastern part of the county Wednesday after noon, causing $50,000 damage. The twister destroyed the house owned by Dennis Pittman, damaged several other dwellings, lifted three garages off the ground and damaged one car. Miraculously, no one was hurt. Telephone service Work on New v Street Lights Will Beginby SepL 15 Work on street lights -in the new section of Beaufort will begin no later than Monday, Sept. 15, accord ing to A. J. Woody, lighting en gineer with the Carolina Power and Light company. Woody thia week informed Dan Walker, town clerk, that five street lights will go up in the east Front street section of town. Their lo cations will be as follows: Hill and Front streets, Gerald and Front, Sea View and Front, Belle Aire and Front, and Belle Aire and Ann. Each light will be 2,500 lumens. After those lights arc installed the following changes will be made in the town's street lighting sys tem: 14 lamps will be Increased from 1,00# to 2,500 lumens; two lamps from 1,000 to 6,000: one from 1,000 to 6.000 (in the 100 block of Turner street); 10 from 2,500 to 6,000 lumens. No light in the business area will be less than 6,000 lumens, explain ed the town clerk, and one new light will be installed in the 100 block of Queen street. Its intensi ty will be 2,500 lumens. Court Orders j Marie Freed Louia E. Aiello. USMC, charged with disturbing the peace In a pub lic place, Capt. Bill's restaurant, and who had requested a jury trial, was tried in Monday's session of Morehead City recorder's court. The jury was directed by Judge George McNeill to return a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Clifton Edwards. Kinston, entered a plea of guilty to four charges of shoplifting. She was charged with taking articles from the Dress Shop. Hill's, Leary's, Irene's, Leonard's and Dec Gee's. The four charges were: taking, stealing and carrying away certain items of personal property from the above named places, valued at less than (100; receiving the prop erty knowing that It was feloniously taken; aiding and abetting in the taking of the property; and con spiracy to take, steal and carry away the property. Mrs. Edwards was given a 30-day suspended sentence, ordered to re main on good behavior for three years and pay a fine of $150 and costs. Doris Joyner, charged with as sault on her husband with a knife, was given a suspended sentence of 90 days and a fine of $10 and coats. She was ordered to remain on good behavior for a period of 12 months and to supervise and provide for her three children. She also was told to remain sober during the period of her suspended sentence. Mrs. Taft A. Courie was found not guilty on a charge of hit and run driving and doing damage in excess of $50. She was found guilty of failing to yield the right of way and failing to report an accident See COURT, Page 2 Elections Board To Mail Ballots Absentee ballots for voters in the aimed forces are now being mailed, F. R. Seeley, chairman of the county board of elections, an nounced today. Applications for civilian abeeatee ballots will not be accepted before Oct. 1. Any absentee voter who wishes to caat a ballot in the November election muat be 21 years of age and consider Carteret county as his permanent residence. Application for an abaentee bal lot should be made by letter. It muat lilt the absentee voter's regu lar voting precinct, his full military address, and If written by some one other than himself, the writer should state his relationship to the absentee voter. The letter should be mailed to the Carteret County Board of Elec tions, Beaufort, N. C. in the area was interrupted for several hours. The tornado struck at about 4 p.m. Witnesses said that it came from the southeast, crossed high way 70 and died in a wooded area northwest of the community. Pittman, owner of the wrecked home, moved to Portland, Me., four years ago. and the house was un occupied. It was moved about a foot off its foundation. The roof and porch were torn off, and windows smashed. The house owned by Norvie Pitt man, Dennis's brother, was slightly damaged. It was located 50 yards from the vacant home. Two porches were wrecked and several windows broken. Although Pittman's wife and two children were in the house, nobody was injured. Ralph Pittman, another brother, said, "I heard the noise as it passed over my store. I looked out the window and saw it raise the back end of the post office. I tried to get across the road to my house, but the wind spun me around and stopped me in my tracks." Pittman reported that the twister went up in the air as it passed over a stand of pines behind his store. When it came down it had passed over the center of the com munity. He said that it came down in the vicinity of his brothers' homes. Residents of the community be lieve that only the pine trees pre vented the damage from being much greater. They surmised that every building would have been destroyed if the twister had not been blocked by the trees. The tornado swept through a path 500 yards wide. Witnesses described it as a mixture of lashing wind, grey clouds, and heavy mist. Th$ freak storm performed its mis sion of wreckage ttf ? brief three mifiutes. Many residents maintain the storm was a "waterspout" rather than a tornado. A garage owned by Monroe Nel son was picked up and moved sev eral yards. His car, which was in the garage, was untouched. Merdie Pittman's garage was torn down and his car was slightly damaged. Other houses in the area lost porches, shingles, chimneys and windows. Utility poles were knock ed down and telephones were out of order in many homes. Alonzo Willis reported that he was walking home when the twister struck. He said that the force of the wind knocked him flat but be escaped unhurt. Residents said that it was the first storm of its kind to strike the section. They declared that the damage was the worst in the com munity since the 1933 hurricane. Many were also of the opinion that Morehcad City was severely dam aged by the storm and asked THE NEWS-TIMES reporter how the town was recovering from the "dis aster." Although the entire county was swept Wednesday by heavy rains and high wind, no damage resulted other than at Stacy. Inspector Lands j Morehead M . T. A. Early, inspector of correc tional institutions (or the State Department of Public Welfare, in a recent letter to E. J. Willis, Morehead City chief of police, commendcd the chief on the ap pearance of the Morehead City jail. Early's letter follows: Mr. E. J. Willis Chief of Police Morehead City, N. C. Dear Chief Willis: On August 13 I Inspected the Morehead City Jail with the Desk Sergeant on duty at the time. I found the Jail to be in good condition with all indications of good supervision and approved housekeeping practices prevailing. I was sorry not to see you on that date but I wish again to thank you and your department for mak ing it possible for this facility to present the splendid apearance that was existing during my pre vious visit and on this date. Very truly yours, T. A. Early, lnapector. Correctional Inatitutiona Meeting Place I ? At a Lions club executive board meeting Monday night at the recre ation center, Morehead CKy, Lions decided to meet each Tburodar night in the recreation < ginning with last
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