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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 ArawUll St. Morahnd City >6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMfS 10c Eight P>|N Color Comic* YEAR, NO. 104. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1952 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS I Police Car Wrecked Chasing Fleeing Bootlegger County Churches Hold Special Holiday Services Although most of the county's eburches held special Christmas ?services. Sunday, many churches l|i|jto held services Christmas Eve ?or on Christmas day Some of the Biiburches which did not have iMrvices had special Christmas pro Eft ms Wednesday night. St, Paul's Episcopal church, ufort, held a midnight service 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night, vices were also held Christmas irning at 10 a.m. ?atholics had an opportunity to ?ttand midnight mass Wednesday flight at St. Egbert's church, More id City. Masses on Christmas were at 7:30, 9, 10 and 11 a.m. brief worship service was held 10:30 a.m. Christmas morning the Webb Memorial Presby Herian church, Morehead City. The rolice Recover tolen Car A car stolen in Beaufort was re vered early Monday night by the i-ehead City police. Tlfe driver the car fled as he was being ought to the Morehead City tlice station. J-t. Carl Blomberg of the More ad City police stopped the car, 1941 Ford coupe, in a routine ck for non-tax paid whiskey, ben the driver of the car, a Ne was unable to produce a driver's license, Blomberg told him i drive to the police station. As the car approached the police iion, the driver stopped, jumped [rem the car and ran down an alley yard the waterfront. Blomberg after him but failed to catch i Shortly after the car was brought ? the police station, Willie Moore kley, Beaufort Negro, appeared rplaim it. Harkley said that the Iir had been stolen from outside is house wftile he was at the bar shop. Harkley reported the ift to Beaufort police who sent to Morehead City. | {Harkley. who has no driver's li ise, left the car at the police sta i until he could find someone to ve it back to Beaufort. tore Closing lys to Vary ptore closing during the holiday riod will vary according to repre ttatives of the Morehead City I Beaufort chambers of com fcrce. | In Morehead City, all places of liness will be closed Christmas r and all will be closed Friday. |n addition many of the stores will lain closed Saturday. The de on to close on those days was de at a merchants association eting in November. [,< In Beaufort, thfere will be some ?res open Friday although most "re closed Christmas day. All aufort business places will be en as usual on Saturday. u One drug store in Beaufort, F. B Bell's, was open on Christmas Sky. The store was open from 9 . to 7:30 p.m. All Beaufort drug es will be open on Friday, wo grocery stores, C. D. Jones Ann Street grocery, will be en Friday. One Morehead City ocery store, Aspenberg's, 2112 ridges street, will also open on ?iday. Deed rasesFire A Beaufort man will think twice {ore he again stops to assist a motorist. An attempted deed cost Robert F. Hudgins .1952 Packard convertible valued 14.300. jHudgins was driving along NC }l Monday night when he saw a ' (topped by the side of the road, stopped and the other driver fid that he was out of gas. Hud offered to get some for him. "'Hudgins obtained the gas and returning with the can of gas on the rear sest of his car. Near the steel bridge on 101, on er csr sppesred and rsn him off road and into the woods. 1 When Hudgins' car ltft the road, can of gasoline overturned and ?ited The car was complftely by the resulting fire, called Highway Patrol W J. Smith who investigated _ accident. Ha told Smith Uiat r"**-" t Sunday school presented a pageant ? at the church Tuesday night. A special candlelight service was held at 7 p.m. Wednesday night at the Wildwood Presbyterian church. A Christmas cantata was presented by the choir. A short prayer service was held Wednesday night at the First Chris tian church, Morehead City. The service was followed by carol sing ing on the streets. The children's department of the Sunday school of the First Meth odist church, Morehead City, pre sented a special Christmas pre 0ram Wednesday night at the church. The program was followed by a party for the children. At the re quest of many of the church mem bers, a special christening service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday. The Sunday school of the Frank lin Memorial Methodist church of Morehead City presented a Christ mas program Wednesday night. A play by the MYF was followed by a party for the children. The primary department of the Sunday school of the First Baptist church of Morehead City presented a program at a Christmas Eve par ty at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Every member of the church and Sunday school received the traditional Christmas sack at the party. Jaycees Aid Needy Children The Beaufort Jaycees announced at their Monday night meeting that clothing had been obtained and would be distributed at about 9 p.m. Christmas Eve to 44 needy children. The committee announced that it would appoint judges for the best decorated home contest. The Jay cees offered cash prizes to the Beau fort homes with the best ?&eriur decorations during the Christmas season. The basketball committee an nounced that goals would be erect ed over the weekend at the high school gymnasium. Barriers will also be placed, around the stoves which have been installed in the gym. Members of the club were assigned to groups which will ro tate duties at the home basketball games. Plans were discussed for a Christmas party New Year's eve at the American Legion hut NEWS TIMES to Print j Baton's 1953 Onllook The NEWS-TIMES will publish Roger \\ Rab?n's Business and Financial Outlook for 1953 in the issue of Tuesday, Dec. 30. Babson's 1953 Outlook will con tain outstanding forecasts on such important topics as general business, commodity prices, taxes, trade, labor, inflation, farm ou'lock, stock market, real estate and politics. We are calling this feature to your attention because we believe that every one of our readers will find it of inestimable value. Jaycees Hear Party Report The Morehead City Jaycecs, at their meeting Monday night, heard a report from Dr. W. M. Brady on the Christmas party sponsored by the Jaycees last Saturday. Dr. Brady reported that 37 chil dren attended the party. Ail toys contributed to the Jaycees were distributed at the party to the colored children. The larger toys were distributed Christmas Eve to the most needy children. Dr. Brady thanked the NCO Toastmasters club of Cherry Point for the toys which were contributed to the party President Walter Morris thanked the community for its support and for its contributions of toys and money to the toy drive. The club pledged to increase its membership 20 per cent by May 1. The pledge is to be a Christmas present to Hunt Henderson, na tional president of the Jaycees. M/Sgt. R. M. Larson, M/Sgt. J. G. Moitoza and HMC R. W. Davis of the NCO Toastmasters club were guests at the meeting. They gave short diacuaeiens ?f * the ? purpose and activities of the Toastmasters clubs. After the talks, the three guests answered questions about the possibility of organizing a Toastmasters club in Morehead City. Attends Christmas Party Approximately 450 children ac cording to Cornelius Simmons, or ganizer for the International Fur and Leather Workers union, at tended a Christmas party in union headquarters, 514 Craven St., Beau fort, Monday afternoon. State Transfers Land v For Cape Hatteras Park The state Monday gave the Na tional Park service the lands form ing the nucleus of the Cape Hat teras National Seashore Recreation area. In a brief ceremony held in Gov ernor Scott's office at noon, the governor and council of state formally transferred North Caro lina's title to 8,000 acres on Ocra coke, Hatteras and Bodie islands to the Federal government. Conrad Wirth, director of the National Park service, accepted the property. Earlier, the N. C. Cape Hatteras Seashore Park commis sion, which in 13 years of work acquired most of the property, had passed a resolution recommending that the property be turned over to the U. S. government. Together with 5,000 acres in the Pea island Wildfowl refuge, whfch will remain a refuge although it will be considered a part of the recreation area, the National Park service now has 13,000 acres of beachlands for the nation's first seashore recreation area. The min imum set for the park was 10,000 acres. Wirth said that eventually more than 33.000 acres of land will be acquired. At present, condemna tion proceedings are pending against much of the beach proper ty in the area from a few miles north of Oregon Inlet all the way southward to the northern side of Ocracoke Inlet. Generous areas have been set aside in the vicinity ot each o< the Outer Banks villages to provide for future growth. The land conveyed to the govern ment included the 1,200-acre Cape Hatteras State park. Some other lands which the state owns along the Outer Banks was not included in any of the three deeds turned over to the park service because description* of the property are too vague. Congress will be asked to pro vide funds with which to staff and adminiater the new recreation area for the fiscal year starting next July 1, according to Wirth, who said the park service hopes to ac quire all of the park lands during the coming year. The park service has $1,236,000 with which to purchase the recrea tion area property. Of this, $618, 000 was contributed by the Old Dominion and Avalon foundations, both established by members of the wealthy Mellon family. The other $618,000 was provided by the state, mainly from the contingency and emergency fund. Sitting in on the transfer of the state property were Governor-elect William B. Umstead of Durham, and Rep. Herbert Bonner of the First district. Bonner and his pre- 1 decessor in congress, present Comptroller General Lindsay War ren. played leading roles in the establishment of the Seashore Recreation area. The park service was represent ed at the ceremony by Wirth, Re gional Director Elbert Cox of Rich mond and Project Manager A. C. Stratton. who now has headquar ter? in Manteo and is in charge of procuring lands for the park. Stratton announced at the meet ing that the first gift of property made directly to the park service has been, received from C. N. Key ser, a landscape architect of Ply mouth Meeting, Pa. Keyser do nated 65 acres in the vicinity of Rodanthe. Several other donations are now in process, Stratton added, but the Keyser land is the onl^such prop erty to which the park service al ready has obtained title. Lands in the area now are being surveyed and appraised, Stratton said, and negotiations will be in full swing by mid-January. He said that the park, when it is in full operation, will employ about 25 persons. In a brief talk preceding the ac tual transfer, Governor Scott re called that Secretary of the In terior Oscar Chapman had wanted to be present for the ceremony but had been unavoidably detained. "He told me," Scott said, "that the recreation area is 'one of the things I am most proud of."* 4 Christmas Town, County Offices Close All town and county offices, with the exception of police and fire stations, have been closed over the Christmas holidays. The offices will reopen Monday morning. County offices and the Beaufort town hall closed at 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Town offices in More head City were open until noon on Wednesday. There were no garbage collec- ; tiong in Beaufort from noon Wed- 1 nesday until noon Friday. In i Morehead City, garbage was col lected At usual. The Morehead City and Beaufon post offices were closed on Christ mas day but wiil reopen Friday morning. City mail deliveries will be made as usual Friday, but there will be no RFD deliveries. The offices will be open for most busi ness Although they will not have full crews. Rotarians See v Films of Trip The Rev. Priestley Conyers of Morehead City showed movies of his trip to the Holy Land at Mon day night's meeting of the Newport Rotary club. Mr. Conyers described his trip and showed scenes of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and other places of Bib lical significance. He also showed pictures of old ruins and of arch eological studies being made in the area. ' Guests at the meeting were George H. McNeill and Frank Ex um of the Morehead City Rotary club. A barbecue supper was served by Fred Norris of Beaufort. Ladies of the community served deuert and coffee. C. S. Long presided at the meet ing, and Roy T. Garner gave the invocation. The meeting was held in the vocational agriculture shop at the school because of the work being done on the lunch room. Beaufort Chamber Manager J Writes Letter to Santa Claus The Christmas card sent out this ; year to its members by the Beau- 1 fort chamber of commerce is in I the form of a letter to Santa Claus. The letter, written by Dan Walker, manager of the chamber, asks ( Santa for the things which are most needed by the town. The letter follows: Dear Santa Claus, Please bring us this year the j things we need the most: another j hotel ... a bulkhead for the south side of the four hundred block of Front street . . . extension of the town limits ? r ? encouragement to Carolina Power and ^ght company State Seeks j Old Furniture Alexander Crane of the state con servation and development board, has written the NEWS-TIMES, to ask if any of its readers owning or knowing of a labelled piece of furniture which was made locally between 1680 and 1830, would send him a copy of the label and a brief description of the piece of furni ture on which it is found. Following is the letter: In the search for antique eastern North Carolina furniture made locally be tween 1680 and 1830, I have dis covered a few pieces that bear the cabinet maker's name stamped, written or on a label inside or on the bottom of a drawer or chair bottom. I am trying to find names of early furniture makers of eastern North Carolina to be included in an illustrated book on furniture. If anyone owning or knowing of a labelled piece of furniture, even if the label is torn or barely legi ble, would get in touch with me, sending me a copy of the label and a brief description of the piece of furniture on which it is found, he will be doing the state a great favor as well as a personal one to me. Alexander Crane, Department of Conservation and Development, Education Building Raleigh, N. C. Army Chaplains World Over Arrange Christmas Services American soldiers all over the world will observe Christmas this year by attending religious services arranged by Army chaplains. Combat men in Korea may kneel before an improvised altar set up on the hood of a jeep or listen to the word of God from a crouched position in a foxhole. Soldiers in Alaska, Europe, and in the United States will observe the birthday of Our Lord by at tending Protestant services or Cath olic Mass in Army chapels, large auditoriums, or in churches near Army posts. Besides church services, chap lains everywhere will encourage the Christmai spirit by sponsoring gift collections for the poor and needy, Christmas concerts, and parties for homeless orphans. Chaplain (Colonel) Herman H. Heuer of the Office Chief of Ckap lains in Washington, D. C., de scribe* in these words the 'rovatf t he-world Army observance expect ed for 'Christmas, 1032: "Whether the soldier is station US* .fc-j ed in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Europe, or above the 38th parallel in Korea, he may be con fident that the chaplain is already busy making plans and arrange ments for the observance of Christmas. The degree to which j this season will be observed will, I of course, depend upon local con- j ditions, but whatever they are, members of our Army may be as sured that the chaplains are going all out to make this Christmas a ! memorable one. "In the zone of interior installa- 1 tions, the Christmas tree, with all the accompanying decorations, will transform the chapels into places of worship filled with a festive at mosphere. Lighted Christmas dis plays depicting the nativity scene at the birth of Christ will add much to giving the installation the Christmas color. Sunday school and youth groups have already begun their rehearsals for Christmas pageants and plays which will tell the stary of Christmas. See CHAPLAINS, Page ? to promptly extend water mains and install fire hydrants ... a small industry that will employ women . . . a seafood processing plant . . . a net manufacturing plant ... a new town hall ... a new school gymnasium and more classrooms . . . a stadium with lockers and showers and a fence for the lighted athletic field ... a bridge from Beaufort to Ilarkcrs Island . . . surfacing for streets and sidewalks . . . doctoring of Beaufort's his toric liveoak trees and replace ments for those beyond repair . . . terry Mrviee from Atlantic to Hat teris '. . . addlMonal party boat* and docking facilities . . . Intelli gent intercft and participation in town affair* by more citizens , . . an active local pride in the beauty of Beaufort that will express itself in a cleaner town (back yards and vacant lots also) ... a vocational arts department for the local school . . . new band uniforms. Frankly \^e realize that we have asked you. a very busy man with many obligations, for a lot. If our requests are too great for your small pack ? and back ? just bring the citizens of Beaufort the realization that they may have all of these wonderful gifts and im provements by all participating in intelligent planning, cooperation, faith in themselves and their town's future, vision and hard work. Sincerely, Dan Walker, Manager Beaufort Chamber of Commerce Highway Patrol < state highway patrol, in an effort to cut down on holiday high way accidents has been issuing warning cards to motorists. The cards have been issued at road blocks set up on principal highways throughout the state. ? The warning card is in the form of a pledge in which the driver promises to help keep the highways free from accidents over the holi days. The cards headed, "Why let an accident spoil your holiday?", read as follows: By accepting this card I pledge to help tto do my part, in coopera tion With the state highway patrol, to keep North Carolina highways free from accidents over the Christ mas holidays by: (1) obeying the legal speed limit. (2) never passing on hills or curves, (3) not driving after drinking. Tide Table Tides at Bcaufwt liar HIGH LOW Friday, Dec. 26 4:03 a.m. 4:21 p.m. 10:37 a.m. 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27 9:03 a.m. 3:19 p.m. 11:38 a.m. 11:31 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2* 5:57 a.m. 0:13 p.m. 12:32 p.m. Moaday, Dae. t? 8:47 a.m. 5:02 p.m. 12:22 a.m. 1:21 p.m. Taeeday, Dec. 30 7:32 a.m. 7:48 p.m. 2:06 pj?. 1:10 a.m. A Moreheud City police car was wrecked Monday night at the end of a 60-mile-per-hour chase through dirt streets in the Negro section of Morehead City. The car was wreck ed as it struck the rear end of a 1946 Ford convertible operated by a fleeing bootlegger. None of the four men in the police car was hurt. The bootlegger, who jumped from his< car just before the crash, escaped on foot. A case of non-tax paid whiskey was found on the front seat of the convertible. The chase started at the More head City port terminal. The po lice car, driven by Patrolman Carl Bunch, was parked at the entrance to the terminal when the converti ble went by. Bunch and Capt. Carl Blomberg deckled to check the car for whiskey and stopped it on Bridge*) street between 7th and 8th. As the two officers started to get out of the police car, the Negro driver of the convertible drove off and the police car took off after him. The Ford turned into the colored district with the police car right behind it. The driver of the convertible turned several corners in an effort to lose the police car. As the two cars careened around corners at high speed, they almost turned over several times. Bunch tried to cut corners in an attempt to catch the fleeing car but was unable to do so. Blomberg finally drew his pistol and fired several shots in the air in an effort to halt the convertible. As the cars turned into Fisher from 13th, the bootlegger suddenly stopped and jumped from the car. Bunch, who was right behind him, was unable to stop and rammed the rear end of the whiskey car. The bootlegger jumped from his car before the crash and ran down an alley in the direction of Bay street. Bunch, a newspaper re porter and a marine military police man pursued him for two blocks but were unable to catch him. While the others were chasing the bootlegger. Blomberg searched the car and found the case of liquor on the front seat. The case con tained 12 half-gallon jars of non tax paid whiskey. A check of the Ford revealed that the driver had stopped because the car's g had beet! completely stripped.. lfie crash dented the lid of the trunk and broke the rear springs. The extent of the damage to the police car is not yet known, but the radiator was broken in the crash and the grill was pushed in. A wrecker was called to take both cars from the scene of the crash. It was neccessary to use the wrecker's winch to separate the cars. The police car was taken to the Sound Chevrolet garage and the whiskey car was removed to the police station. A check of the license number of the convertible revealed that it is owned by R. N. George of North HarloWe. Man Ordered i To Leave County Samuel Edwards was ordered to leave the' county after he was found guilty of public drunkenness Tuesday in Beaufort recorder's court. He was also ordered to pay $20.30 of the costs ofcourt. The warrant against Woodrow Altman was amended to simple as sault. He had originally been charg ed with assault with a deadly weap on. He was given a 30-day sen tence which was suspended on condition that he pay a fine of $10 and costs. The state declined to prpsecute Levi and Nehemiah Williams on a charge of selling non-tax paid whiskey to a minor. The decision not to prosecute was made when it was learned that the prosecuting witness had left town. Curtis James was given a 30-day suspended sentence on a charge of public drunkenness. The sentence was suspended on condition that he pay the costs of court Rodney Kennerson was sentenced to 30 days in jail for public drunk enness. The sentence was suspend ed on condition that he pay court costs. Charles I-ogsn, Archie Payne and Martin W. Keiffer were order ed to pay the costs of court for public drunkenness. Claude Russell was ordered to pay coats for possession of non-tax paid whiskey. Matthew Mitchell paid costs on a charge of operating a motor vehlcla without a license. Floyd Br ate her paid costs for failing to stop at a stop sign. Malicious proaccution was ruled iit the case of Eddie B. Daniels. The prosecuting witness, Woodrow Bryant, was taxed with the court coats. A similar ruling was made in the case of Jimmie Bryant 8win son. The prosecuting witness, Mrs. Edwina Stalling! Penny, was brder 1 ed to pay costs of court Tax Listing For County ToBeginJan.2 Tax listing for the county will begin Friday, Jan. 2. All real estate and personal property must be list ed. All males between the ages of 21 and 50 are required to list for poll taxes. County Auditor James D. Potter reminds property owners that all personal property must be listed whether or not it is paid for. This includes all property being pur chased on a time basis. Tax listing for Beaufort will be done in the county courthouse. List takers for Beaufort township are Fred R. Seeley and John Brooks. List taker for Morehcad City is C. V. Webb and taxes will be listed in his office. In Newport, taxes I will be listed at the town hall. ; Prentice Garner is the list taker for Newport. In the other townships of the county, the tax listing will be done in various places at different iimes. The notices posted in the townships will give the times and places for | listing. ! The other tax listers for the county are Mrs. Dora Day, Cedar Island; Walter Smith, Atlantic Sea Level; Alvin Davis, Stacy Davis; George W. Davis. Williston Smyrna; James Gillikin, Marshall berg; Charles Hancock, Ilarkers Island; William Gillikin, Straits; Peter Carraway, Merrimon Lukens; Haymond Ball, Harlowe; and Sam B. Meadows, White Oak. The tax listers were appointed by the county commissioners at their December meeting. Taxes will be listed between the hours al 9 a.m. and 4J20 p.m. every day. Monday through Saturday. As was done last year, the farm census will be taken with the tax listing. Questionaires have been prepared and will be filled out by farmers when they list their taxes. Maneuver Plans ? Near Completion The Atlantic amphibious force is rapidly completing plans for trans porting elements of the Sixth Ma rine regiment and the Third Marine Air wing to the Caribbean area for large-scale amphibious training. The Marines will begin sailing from Morehead City aboutvJan. 6. The troop movement, one of the largest in history, will involve some 40 ships. The operation will be un der the command of Vice Admiral F. G. Fahrion, commander of the amphibious forces of the Atlantic fleet. Brig. Gen. Robert E. Hogaboom, USMC. will direct the Fleet Marine force training group of more than 6.500 personnel from the Sixth reg iment and Force troops and 1,600 from the air element. Captain C. N. Day, USN. commander Trans port Division 22, heads the training support group of 7,500 Naval per sonnel for the exercise known as LANT TRAEX III. The training ashore in the Roosevelt Roads- Vieques, Puerto Rico, area will last for about a month, starting Jan. 27 At the end of that time, the troops will be come "aggressors" and resist an amphibious assault landing by other marines from Camp Lejeune. The Sixth Marine regiment later will storm the beaches at Onslow Beach. Marine Air Group-31, which pro vides air support during the in struction, will go on board attack transports at Port Everglades, Fla., Jan. 21 for the trip to the Carib bean. The majority of the ships will leave Norfolk between Jan. 21 and 23, but the advance echelon will sail from Norfolk about Jan. 5. Morehead-Beaniort Draw Closed Twice for Repairs Repairs to the MoreheaJ City Beaufort drawbridge necessitated the closing of the bridge to auto mobile traffic Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon. The bridge was closed Monday from S a.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 1. L. Humphrey, county road su perintendent, said that the bridge was closed so that repairs might ba made on the machinery which opens and cloaca tha draw. Ka hoped that the work would be com | pleted Tuesday afternoon.
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