NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St. Morehead City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c Eight Page* Color Comics 42nd YEAR, NO. 3. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS CP&L Manager Explains Delay in Water Service Marines Identified in Court As Assailants of Bogue Man Loot Valued At Thousands In Beach Burglary Thieves Use Truck To Haul Away Stuff From Seven Collages Thousands of dollars worth of property was stolen by thieves who broke into seven Atlantic Beach summer homes some time during the holidays. Sheriff C. G. Hoi land's office said the exact value of the property was . not known, since all the victims could not be reached. The burglary was first discover ed Friday night by David Mans field. of Mansfield, at the home of his brother - in - law, J. B. Askew, of New Bern. The cottage, at the west end of the beach, had been entered by forcing a window, and considerable damage had been done in forcing inside doors, which had all been locked. From the Askew cottage, sheriff's officers went to check on other cottages at the beach, and J discovered that six had been enter- \ ed. They were the property of Romaine Howard, Tarboro; Roma \ Clarence Grice, Wilson; Roger , Gant. of Burlington; S. D. Wood ard, believed to live in Golusboro; Dr. Lee, of Kinston, and another Mr Gant. believed to be the brother of Roger Gant. A heavy rain Friday obliterated any possible tracks, though offi cials said the thieves must have used a car or truck to carry off j their loot. George Canady, of the j state bureau of investigation, went ! over the cottages for fingerprints, ! ? and sheriff's officers expect to clear up the case soon. Working on the case are Marshall Ayscue. ABC officer and special officer; Deputy Hugh Salter, and State De tective George Canady. Loss reported to the sheriff's of fice so far includes: From the Howard cottage: two blankets, set of five carving knives, ' a shower head, a shower curtain, I two dozen bath towels, two out board moters, two fishing tackle boxes, four paint brushes, a fish ism reel, a silver chest containing a service for twelve, a complete tool chest, two life preservers, two beach towels, six bedspreads, 20 sheets, 12 pillow cases, children's clothing, four lamps, two bath mats, a stand and tray, and two gallons of paint. From the Askew cottage: 22 pil low cases, 19 sheets, 52 towels, and 4 radio. From the Grice cottage: two comforters, a heavy quilt and an unknown number of pillows. There was also heavy damage to doors inside the Grice cottage. Sorin to Give Concert Here Samuel Sorin, pianist, will give the second concert of the commun ity concert series Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in the Morehead City school auditorium. Sorin started studying the piano in his home town of Detroit when he was six years oM, and when he was 12 years old he won a grand piano in the Greater Detroit com petition. He went on to win the Michigan state contest, the $1,000 biennial prize of the National Fed eration of Music clubs and finally, the Schubert Memorial award. Scholarships carried him first to Chicago to study and then to New York's Juilliard School of Music. lie has played with the Phila delphia orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, with the Chautauqua Symphony and with the orchestras Of Detroit and Norfolk. After three years of wartime service in the army, the young pi anist decided to undertake a period of re-evaluation and re-education. For two years he devoted himself to intensive study in order to broaden the base of his musician ship. He celebrated his return to the concert stage with a tour of Central America and the Carib bean area, and he has been touring through North America with great auccess ever since. k Tickets for this concert may be rchased at the door for house ests of members who live more than SO miles from the county, and ?lso by members of the armed services, on presentation of an ID Ibrd, or who arc in uniform. ? Three Camp Lejeune marines were arrested on armed robbery charges Monday in Mo>ehead City recorder's court while they were awaiting trial for hit and run driv ing. The marines, Clyde E. Darnell. H. I). Crawley and D. A. Jankaw ski, are being held in the county jail on the robbery charge. While awaiting trial on the driving chafge, they were identified by A. R. Hartsfield of Bogue as the men who beat and robbed him last week. Case Continued The ease against the three in Morehead City court was continued until next week. Darnell is charged with careless and reckless driving and leaving the scene of an acci dent. His bond has been set at $1,000. Crowley and Jankawski are charged with leaving the scene of an accident and aiding and abetting Darnell in leaving the scene of an accident. Their bonds were set at $500. The driving charges grew out of an accident New Year's at 4th and Bridges streets. Darnell's car al Countians See Inaugural Rites Carteret county was represented by several of its most prominent Democrats at the inaugural in Ra leigh yesterday of Governor Wil liam B. Umstead. Among them were Irvin Davis. ; register of deeds and chairman of the county Democratic committee; Capt. John Nelson, former state fisheries commissioner, and his son. Earnest Nelson; Sheriff C. G. Holland and Mrs. Holland, and Al vin Taylor of Sea Level. A day earlier, on Monday, the county's new assemblyman. H. Earle Mobley, was sworn into of fice. Mayor George W. Dill, former assemblyman, was also in Raleigh on Monday, to attend a meeting of the League of Municipalities legislative committee, of which he is chairman. He returned to More head City yesterday. Merchants Body Called 'Flop' | Several members of the More head City Merchants association, at the group's meeting Tuesday, said that the organization is a "flop." They said that steps should be taken to create more interest in the association or it should be disbanded. Most of the 17 members present agreed that something must be done to create greater interest in the group, and encourage more of the merchants to take part in its activities. It was decided to contact all mer chants in Morehead City and ask them to come to the next meeting, Jan. 27. If a larger group does not attend that meeting, the associa tion will probably be disbanded. Joe DuBois, secretary of the as sociation, presented a suggested program for the coming year. He i urged that steps be taken to set up a regular schedule of hours to be observed by all member firms. He also suggested that the mer chants get together and pay for co operative advertising for More head City as a shopping center. DuBois also suggested that the as sociation undertake a publicity campaign. Committees were appointed to discuss methods of carrying out the proposed program. The committee on store hours consists of Bernard Leary, Oscar Allred, Charles Krouse and Sam Adler. The advertising committee is made up of A. H. James, jr., Mrs. Joyce Todd, Jimmy Wallace and J. C. Harvell. Members of the pub licity committee are Warren Beck, Frank Moran and Bob Gately. Merehrad City Band To Play al PTA Meeting The Morehead City high school band, under the direction of Ralph Wade, will present a program of classical and popular music at the PTA meeting at 8 p.m. Monday in the school auditorium. The program will consist of Hear Our Prayer, O Lord, the overture to Eroica, Ave Maria, Perpetual Motion, Cielito Undo. Asleep iq the Deep. Waltzing with Waldteo fel. El Capitan, Come Where My Love, American Folk Fantasy, Old Tyme Dance tunes, Pop Percussion, Americans We, Are You From Dixie and Carolina in the Morning. legedly struck one operated by lifford Lewis of Beaufort. Lewis said that the three men drove off as he went toward their car. The marines were arrested by military iolice as they returned to Camp Lejcune. Malicious prosecution was ruled n the case of Obrey Hester charged with assault on a female. I'he prosecuting witness paid the costs of court. A similar ruling was made in the case of George Murray charged with assaulting his wife. I*ay Costs John Wagoner and Clarence Wil ton Toms paid costs on charges of tailing to .stop at a stop sign. Clyde M. Martin paid one third of the costs on a similar charge. The state declined to prosecute l?fc. Robert K. Croissant on a charge of failing to stop for a red light and causing an accident. The state also declined to prosecute Esso Standard Oil company for parking a tank truck within the city limits. James E. Lupton paid costs for speeding and passing on a bridge. William J. bland paid two-thirds of the costs for speeding. Herman Hankins paid one-half of the costs for failing to yield the right of way and causing an accident. Capias Issued Robert Dudley paid costs for public drunkenness and possession of non-tax paid whiskey. Charles Logan and Carl J. Flynn, jr., paid costs for public drunkenness. A capias was issued for Joseph Hester who failed to appear to answer i charge of public drunkenness. His bond was forfeited. Charles Dissel, jr., was found not guilty on a charge of driving while under the influence of alcohol. Cases were continued against R. B. Butler, Linwood E. Jones, M. P. Marshall, jr.. James R. Hinnant. (Jus Davis. Reliable Transport com pany. Joseph V. Popperwill, Elihuc K. Green and George Wilkinson, Asphalt Truck ' Hits Car, Bus Traffic on U. S. 70 west of More head City was slowed to a crawl Wednesday morning when a tank truck struck a car and a bus and overturned blocking one side of the i road during the morning rush hour. ' The driver of the asphalt tanker, | Marshall Davis C'hinn of Beaufort, told Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard that his brakes locked as the truck came around a curve near the Steak House. The truck hit a car and drove it into the bus which had stopped at the side of the road. The tanker jacknifed after strik- 1 ing the car. The cab went off the road and the tank came to rest on its side across the east-bound traf fic lane. Mrs. Louise Faucette of More head City, driver of the car, was j taken to the Morehead City hos pital where she was treated for minor cuts and bruises. Damage to her car, a 1948 Plymouth, was estimated at $700. The bus. driven by Linwood K. Hall of Newport, received only j minor damage. The bus was bring ing workers to the Morehead City Garment company factory at the time of the accident. None of the j passengers was injured. It required more than an hour i for a wrecker to clear the highway j and allow traffic to procced normal- j ly. Patrolman Pickard and members of the marine military police di- 1 rected traffic at the scene until the road was cleared. Youth Held For Knifing, Robbery A knifing .and robbery brought two charges against an 18-year-old Beaufort youth who will appear in Beaufort recorder's court Tuesday. Abraham Williams, colored, of Pine street, was charged with as sault with a deadly weapon and robbery in a warrant sworn out by Robert Mills, colored of Mississippi, a seaman on the fishing boat Ben son H. Riggins. The assault oc curred last Saturday night in Cedir street and Queen street, but Williams was not located until Wednesday, when police served the warrant. Beaufort Police Chief W C. Gar ner said Williams attacked Mills with a knife, severely wounding him in the head, and then cscaped after taking $3.60 cash, three packs of cigarettes and a knife valued at $2. Mills was treated at the More head City hocpiul. Corn Production Leaders Honored I-.: Leading com producers from five counties were honored recently in New Bern. John Felton of Beaufort RFD, who was the county's leading produ er, was third in the New Bern contest. Ralph Wil kins, second in the county, was sixth at New Bern. Winnt rs and officials of the contest are: front (left to right) Wilkins, Bruce Foy, II. Prince, Felton, Vance Pitkin, and S. Scott; rear, J. R. Frank, Jones county agent; Charles Pugh, assistant Craven county agent; A. V. Thomas, New Bern Oil and Fertilizer company; Murray Fulcher; Ed Parker; James Allguod, Onslow county agent; C. II. Kirkman, former assistant Carteret county agent; and A. T. Jackson, Craven county agent. [ from business college and worked | as a law clcrk and court reporter. Although Stevens was not born in Carteret county, he considers Stevens Named Town Attorney The Beaufort town board at its ! meeting Monday night appointed - Charles W. Stevens town attorney j and solicitor of the recorder's ! (?.iiKPrl hv I Charles W. Stevens this his native county. He camc here at the age of five and has lived in Morehead City, Beaufort and Newport. For four years. Stevens worked for the county and set up the index of records now in use in the office of the register of deeds. Stevens makes his home at 315 Ann street with his wife, Edith, and a daughter. Jocelyn, who is employed at Cherry Point. Another daughter. Mrs. Edith Brittingham, lives in Decatur. Ga. One son, Capt. Charles W. Stevens, jr.. tISAF, is stationed at Mitchell Air Force base. Long Island, N. Y. A second son, John, is a teacher and coach at Nansemond county high school. Suffolk, Va. The new solicitor assumed his duties Tuesday when he took over as prosecutor in the municipal re corder's court. Stevens was recom mended for the post by Mayor L. W. Hassell and was approved by i the unanimous vote of the commis sioners. The vacancy was created when Taylor resigned* to become solicitor of the county recorder's court. Wilmington Minister To Hold Services Hue The Rev. Daniel Allen of Wil ; mington will eonduct services at ' St. Andrew s Episcopal church in , Morehead City this Sunday. Serv j ices are being held in the t?m porary home of the church on | south 9th street. Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship services at 11 a.m. While here Rev. Allen will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. David Murray. ' Newport Commissioners Ask Completion of W ater Tank The New port town commission- , crs at their meeting Tuesday night 1 decided to notify the bonding com pany that Lawrence Vickers has failed to iulfill his contract to erect a water tank for the town. It was decided to ask the bond complete the Uuk | Project Begins Work started Wednesday on a project planned to halt erosion at Fort Macon state park. W. II. Riley, hydrologic engineer, and Thomas W. Morse, superinten dent of state parks, both of the state department of conservation and development, arc at Fort Ma con to supervise the job for which the council of state recently allo cated $25,000 from the contingency ami emergency fund, N. F. Eure of Beaufort has been awarded the contract on a competi tive bid for the repairing of one concrete jetty, the reconstruction of two other jetties, and for the building of a new jetty, Morse said. Riley, who will supervise the en gineering job. said he exects the project to be completed in about 30 days. Some of the jetties were constructed back in the 1850 s. Fort Macon, which was started in 1825 as a part of the nation's coastal defense system, and which was captured by Federal forces in 1862 after an 11 hour siege and bombardment by land and sea forces, became a part of the slate park system in 1924 when it was turned over by congress to the state for public use. Now being restored, the Fort Macon state park is visited annually by thou sands. Erosion recently has caused con siderable damage to the eastern point ol the area on which the unique fort was constructed. So much damage was done to the wa ter and sewage systems by ero sion on the eastern approach, fac ing the Atlantic ocean, that they cannyt be repaired. Morse said. New public comfort stations and water and sewage systems arc to be built near the fort with another allotment from the contingency and emergency fund. Morse said. Balmy Day on Wednesday Break in Bainy Weather The beginning of this week I brought a break in the current | spell of unpleasant weather, al though it was rainy again Thurs day. E. Stamey Davis, county weather observer, reported a snow flurry Monday, with southeast winds, partly cloudy skies Tuesday, with southerly winds, and a cloudy sky Wednesday with winds west io souf west. Wednesday also brought the high temperature of the week, so far, 63 degrees. Max. Min. Monday, Jan. 5 46 28 Tuesday,- Jan. 6 55 33 1 Wednesday, Jan. 7 63 47 uill complete the tank and sue the bonding company for the cost of I he work. The top of the tank has arrived and will be put up as soon as weather permits. The lank itself has been completed by a sub con again advertise for bids for paving the town streets. A previous ad vertisement brought no response. Mayor Charlies A. Gould said that the Han us Construction company failel to bid on the project be cause of a misunderstanding and will submit bids at this time. Commissioner Charles llill rec ommended that the town pass a zoning ordinance. Hill said that there is at present nothing to re- j strict any type of construction within the town limits. Attorney George Hall explained the procedure for setting up a zon ing commission. The board de cided to take no action on tbe zon ing question at the present time. ? Mayor Gould reported that the 1 present fire siren cannot be heard in all sections of the town. He ! See NEWPORT, Page 8 Schumacher Top Cameraman Famous for his studio portrai-j ture, Jerry Schumacher is never- j theless among the nation's most published press photgraphers. In the year just past. 352 of his news photos were published in how many papers he can't deter mine. Some of t"he photos were sent to hundreds of newspapers by As sociated Press. United Press and International News Service. His 352 pictures, nearly one a day in 1952, were seen by literally millions of people. And a news item he developed concerning a wayward English homing pigeon made the columns of the multi-mil lion-circulation Colliers magazine. Without exception his pictures and stories concerned Carteret county to ring up a publicity record surpassing that of the most highly paid, most highly touted publicists. Schumacher did his work for Car teret county and nothing in pay. j Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar IIICII LOW Friday, Jan. 9 2:19 a.m. 2:27 p.m. 8:46 a.m. [ 8:45 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10 3:16 a.m. 3:26 p.m. 9:48 a.m. 9:41 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11 4:13 a.m. 4:27 p.m. 10:48 p.m. 10:39 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12 11 44 a.m. I 5:11 a.m. 5:26 p.m. 11:37 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13 8:06 a.m. 6:24 p.m. 12:37 p.m. i ? George Stovall, local manager for the Carolina Power [ and Light company, assured the Beaufort town board at its meeting Monday night that work will begin within a few | weeks on the installation of water mains and fire hydrants j in the new section of Beawfort. Stovall told the board that the work has been held up pending government approval of-* ; the purchase of the necessary pipe j for the project. He explained ihat ! | pipe is allocated by the war pro- j duction board and cannot be pur- ! ; chased withdut its approval. Approval Granted j | The power company was notified J I Jan. 2 that approval has been j granted, and order has been placed for the pipe. Stovall told the com | missioners that the pipe should ar : rive within four weeks from the date of the order. The company manager said that j if the necessary valves and labor can be obtained the installation should be^in as soon as the pipe arrives. He explained that there might be some difficulty in obtain ing valves. ? Stovall's appearance at the meet ing was the result of a blast it the power company by the town board at last week's public hearing on the further extension of the town limits. At that time, ihe commis sioners charged that the company was taking too much time in put ting in the water mains and hy drants. After Stovall explained the rea sons for the delay, the members of the board expressed their willing ness to wait a little longer for the installation. Receipts Higher Dap Walker, town clerk, report ed to the commissioners that re ceipts for the first six months of the current fiscal year were $f)3.(MM) as compared to $46.(HX) for the same period last year. Walker said that most of the money came from taxes. Glenn Adair was officially ap pointed to the post of police com- j missioner. He was appointed earlier by Mayor L. W. Hassell, but it was necessary to secure the for mal approval of the board. Adair asked the board io make an adjustment in the salary *>f Carlton Gainer, chief of police. He t received pay crease Garner's salary $20 per 1 month retroactive to July 1. The board took under advise- j ment Adair's request that a fourth \ man be added to the police depart- J ment. Adair said that he thought j that there should be two men on < every shift. Tending a final de- 1 cision on the matter. Chief Garner J was instructed to accept applica- j tions for the police department. Adair also asked if some adjust- i ment could be made on the town's j See WATER, Page 8 Jaycees Plan Award Banquet The Morehead City Jaycees at their Monday night meeting made plans for their annual Distinguish ed Service Award banquet. Hobby Bell reported that all votes have been cast for the 1952 award. It was decided to present the award at a banquet Feb. Ifi. during Jaycee Week. All other civic clubs in Morehead City will be invited to attend the banquet. A secret ballot on the club's Key Man award will be held at Mon day night's meeting. The award will be presented at the annual in stallation banquet. Frank Safrit announced that 12 new members of the club will be initiated at Monday night's meet ing. Joe DuBois, secretary of the merchants association, reported on the association's program for the coming year. The program included regular store hours, cooperative advertising and more publicity for Morehead City. In line with the publicity cam paign DuBois said that the asso ciation hopes to have an award for the most courteous store clerk in Morehead City. The association plans to promote courtesy in the stores in an effort to attract more shoppers. DuBois asked the Jay cees to sponsor th?* award. The club voted to pick the most courteous Four Pay Fines In Liquor Cases Pat Wilcox was fined $1(M) an 1 costs Tuesday in Carteret county recorder's court after he pleaded guilty to transporting non tax paid whiskey. The truck which he was driving wa.i released to its rightful owner. Hoy Davis was fined $30 and costs after he was found guilty jf transporting non tax naid whiskey. His truck an I the whiskey were or dered confiscated. William Allen was fined $50 and costs for aiding and abetting Roy Davis in the transportation of non tax paid whiskey. VV. M. "Marsh burn was ordered to pay costs on a charge of conspiring with Hoy Davis to transport non tax paid whiskey. The case was continued against three Camp Lejeune marines, Clyde r. Darnell. 11. I). Crowley and I). A. .lankawski. charged with assault with a deadly u capon and armed robbery. They are accused of robbing and beating A. K. Harts ficfld of Bogue. Hartsfield identi fied the men Monday in Morehead City recorder's court where they were awaiting trial on a' hit and run driving charge. Willard Thorne was fined $15 and costs on a charge of speeding 65 miles per hour. Robert O. L. Frazier paid costs for speeding 65 miles per hour. Floyd I). Mines was fined $10 and costs for care less and reckless driving. The state declined to prosecute Hose K. Farmer on a charge of driving without i license. Bonds were forfeited by Fleet L. Oswalt and Theron Davis Mc Cain. and Rather Sutton West brook. Cases were continued against James Allen Salter, Ernest l^ee Al len. Fred Ivey Hare. Ben Clifton Taylor. Jack Jones. Hazel liibbon Taylor, Dorothy L. Bloom<|uist, Gerald C. Taylor, Charlie Melvin Smith. Elizabeth G. Bordeleau, Samuel Ballou and Mrs. West Tay lor. Driver Appeals In Parking Case Robert Robinson of Beaufort served notiee of an appeal to the superior court Tuesday in Beaufort recorder's court after he was con victed of leaving his car parked and unattended in such a manner that it could move by itself. Robinson was ordered to pay $55.87 damages to Jasper Golden whose car was hit when Robinson's car moved from a parked position 011 Front street. He was also or dered to pay court costs. Bond was set at $100. Malicious prosecution was ruled in the case of William Pulford, charged with forcible entry and as sault. The prosecuting witness was taxed with court costs. The case was dismissed igainst Charles Hester who had been charged with trespassing and tem porary larceny of an automobile. Buck Sladc was given 30 days on the roads on charges of hit and run driving without a license. The sentence was suspended on condi tion that Slade pay the costs of court. Stacy Carlyle Jones paid costs for failing to stop at a stop light. William Osburne paid costs for in terfering with a police officer in the performance of his duty. An drew Grayer and Wade Golden paid costs on a charge of public drunkenness. Cases were continued against George Worthy and William Smith. Bond was forfeited by Alexander Neilson who failed to appear to an swer a charge of public drunken ness. Tanker Smashes Track; Driver Slightly Hart George William Wells, route 1, Beaufort, escaped with minor in juries Monday afternoon from an accident which demolished his pan el truck. The truck was (mashed by a tanker on Arendell street in front of the Trumbull Asphalt company. Capt. Buck Newsomc and Patrol man CarlaBunch, who investigated the mishap, said the tanker broke loose from the Marine truck which was pulling it, heading west, and swung across the street against Wells' track, which was going east. The Marine driver was unidenti fied. According to police records. Wells suffered a slight hand injury and a hurt knee.