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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 804 Arendell St. Morehud City Phone 6-4178 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c FULL PACE COMICS 42nd YEAR, NO! 4. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JANUARY, 13, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Two Prisoners Saw Bars , Escape From County Jail Wreckers Begin Razing Old Business Structures By F. C. Salisbury Tearing down the old building on 8ih street in Morehead City * formerly occupied by the Carteret Supply company, does away with the business location of one of the oldest wholesale firms in contin 1 uous operation in the city for more than 50 years. During the early part of the century, the late W. J. Hales open ed a wholesale grocery business in a building on 7th street between Arendell and Evans streets. A few years later, fire destroyed the building and stock. Mr. Hales re opened in the building on 8th street now occupied by Dee Gee's shop. In October 1913, the Carteret Supply company was formed con sisting of W. J. Hales and James R. Bell. Previous to the formation of the company, Bell was conduct ing a retail hay, grain and feed business in a building on Evans street which was formerly the Dill drug store. This small building ?was next to the building of the Star Fish company on the location now occupicd by the Standard Oil com pany. After the partnership was form Two Arrested After Wrecks A Morehead City woman and a Cherry Point marine were arrested over the weekend after the cars which they were driving were in volved in accidents. Mrs. Grace G. Lawrence was ar rested Friday night by Patrolman Carl Bunch of the Morehead City police. She was to have been tried yesterday in recorder's court on a charge of failing to yield the right of way and causing an accident. Frank J. Carrubba was arrested Saturday night by Highway Patrol man Robert Brown. He will be .tried today in county recorder's court on a charge of driving with out a license. Mrs. Lawrence told Bunch that she started to make a left turn from Bridges to 24th street. She said that she struck the side of a i truck which was proceeding east j on Bridges. Damage to the truck. ^ owned by Freeman Brothers, was estimated at $150. Damage to the LawrCncc car was estimated at 5200 Carrubba told Patrolman Brown that his car overturned when anoth er pulled in front of him and forced him off the road on U. S. 70, one mile west of Morehead City. Conservation Progress Seen L. W. Howard, supervisor of the Lower Neuse soil conservation dis trict has reported a substantial in crease in conservation work car ried out in Carteret county in 1952. The increase covers all phases of the district's program except acre age seeded to permanent meadow and new farm plans. Howard listed among the out standing conservation accomplish ments of the past year: 44.3 miles of op?i ditches excavated, 7,400 feet of farm drain tile installed, *600 acres of cover crops seeded, 1,200 acres of improved pasture seeded, and 2,000 acres of farm woodlands given fire protection with roads and lanes. Howard also reported an im provement in the district's educa tion and publicity program, includ ing tours and demonstrations, group meetings, newspaper cover age and a weekly radio progragi, 'initiated in 1952. Looking forward to 1953, Howard declared his satisfaction with last year's progress, and said he ex pects to see another 100 farmers begin conservation farming in co operation with his office. Morehead City Church** ?To Take Religious Canstu ( A religious census of More head fcity will be taken Sunday after noon beginning at 3:1S by repre sentatives of the town's churches. Each church has been assigned section of town to be covered by its representatives. The assign ments were made by the Rev. H. T. Payne of the Franklin Memorial Methodist church. Census takers will meet in the auditorium of the education build ing of the First Methodist church at 2:30 p.m. for a briefing on pro cedure* to be followed. I Information obtained during the census will be filed with Miss Ruth Hooker at the First Methodist church. It will be available to the ,,varioua churches. I.&.. . . .. .. ed, both small buildings were used until the business outgrew them. With the expansion of the business the building now being torn down was erected by C. S. Wallace where the firm conducted its business for over 25 years. When this building was erected in 1920 it was first occupied bv Charles V. Webb as a garage and sales room for Studebaker cars for which Webb had the agency. Lin wood Wade was chief mechanic and it was from this beginning that he has continued to the present time as a mechanic of ability. Webb occupied the building for the next two years when it was taken over by the Carteret Supply company. Hales acted as manager and pres ident of the company and Bell serv ed as secretary and treasurer. Fol lowing Hales' death a few years ago the business was purchased by D. W. Freshwater who had served as bookkeeper for the firm over a long period of time. Soon after taking over the business he con structed a new warehouse on the highway west of the city limits. A small building on the water front owned by W. P. Freeman which at one time was used for storage by soft drink bottling works, is going the way of the wreckers. Fire partly destroyed this building while it was occupied as a fishing tackle shop. This re moves two old landmarks as well as eyesores from the business sec tion of the city. Field Work Begun InShadSurvey G. B. Talbot, chief of middle At lantic fishing investigations, has announced the beginning of field work in his groups study of men haden, or shad, on the Atlantic coast. Four men from the Fiver's Island fish and wildlife station have gone { to Florida to make studies In the j St. John river. C. R. Walburg is working at the mouth of the river, I assisted by Donald Hill. They are tagging fish in order to estimate i th* total number which enter the stream. Further up the river, at j Welaka, R. A. Fredin and James j Sykes are studying the catch and ( the spawning grounds of men- 1 haden. All four men will remain in the field until some time in April. Three men have already started similar studies at the mouth of the Neuse river. Working" out of the Piver's island station, they are B. A. Lehman, who is directing the operation, Richard Eggleston. and John Parkin, marine engineer. Next month, when the fish move up the river, Floyd Bryant will start work in the upper stream, near Goldsboro. Talbot said Bryant's assistant has not yet been named. Two Wilson Men Held On Bootlegging Charge Two Wilson men were arrested in the Broad Creek section of Car teret county Sunday on charges of possessing 54 gallons of non-taxpaid whiskey. They were Hezekiah Hargrove, 41, and Lonni Henry Robinson, 45. Both men were brought for a hear ing before M. H. Turner, U. S. dis trict commissioner, who set $300 bail for each pending their appear ance before the April term of U. S. district court at New Bern. The pair were arrested by ATU and ABC officers from Kinston. Dairy Expert Talks to Rotary j William Roundtree, sanitation engineer of the White Ice Cream and Milk company, was the speaker at Thursday evening's meeting of the Morehead City Rotary club. The dinner meeting was held in the Morehead City recreation center. Two visiting Rotarians were also present at the meeting. They were Gerald Kemp, of Mercersburg. Pa., brother of Truman Kemp of More- j head City, and Jack Styron, super- , intendent of the Wallace Fisheries company and member of the Cam eron, La . Rotary club. The group voted to make Earle Mobley, Carteret county's new as semblyman, an honorary member during his absence from the city attending sessions of the state legislature. Members of the club put many questions to the evening's speaker after his talk, in which he stressed the progress made in sanitary handling and processing of milk in North Carolina. Roundtree pointed out that although North Carolina was the first state to be declared j free Bangs disease in cattle, there is a perpetual danger of 1 new outbreak of the disease I through contamination from out side the state. To prevent this, he said, all milk cows coming from other states are tested before en try is permitted. Roundtree also described the modern methods now used for handling milk in the Tar Heel state. These include transporting milk in refrigerated trucks, pasteurization, for purifying milk, and homogeniz ing. which mixes the cream through every particle of milk. Lions Will Send BandtoMeeting j Sixty-three members of the More head City high school band will be guests of the city's Lions club next Tuesday, Jan. 20, at the Lions' dis trict convention in Rocky Mount. Plans tor the event were discussed when the Lions met ir\ the recrea tion center Thursday night for thet first time since Christmas. Frederick Hardy, first vice presi dent, is chairman of the committee making arrangements, which in clude participation in the conven tion parade in the afternoon, and a barbecue supper afterwards. The band members will travel to Rocky Mount in two buses, accompanied by their leader and chaperones. j Hardy will also drive to Rocky Mount on Monday for registration and a preliminary meeting before the convention. Lions members are arranging car pools for members to attend the convention, which will include groups from all over east ern North Carolina. The Lions club also discussed plans for a broom and mat sale to be held in Beaufort some time in mid-February. Club members will sell material made at the Guilford Industries for the Blind at Greens boro, for the benefit of the in dustries. The sale, which will be from door-to-door on one evening, will be the first held by the group in Beaufort in recent years. The sale has been an annual affair in Morehead City, and Ethan Davis, jr., is permanent chairman. The board of directors of the club will meet following their regular meeting this Thursday. Tanker Smashes Truck George W. Wells W Beaufort RFD escaped serious injury lact week when this marine tanker demolished his panel track on Aran dell street. Mere head City. The tanker brake looae from the track which waa tawing It, creased the highway and struck the front of Wells1 truck. Wells was treated for minor Injuries. The driver ef the marine track waa anldenttfied. Photo hy Jerry Schumacher 1 Asphalt Tanker Overturns State Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard directs traffic around an asphalt tanker which overturned on US 70 after striking a car and a bus. The truck hit the car when its brakes locked on a curve west of Morehead City. Mrs. Louise Faucette of Morehcad City, driver of the car, received minor injuries in the accident. Traffic was tied up for more than an hour while a wrecker tried to remove the truck from the highway. Photo by Jerry Schumacher Concert-Goers To Hear Pianist Repeated return performances have marked the career of Samuel Sorin, young American pianist who j will appear in the Morehead City school auditorium at 8:15 p.m. to day. The recital will be the second | in the current commund series. After his first perfofl the Carnegie Pops New York during its 1950 Sorin was invited to returl three week* later. Hi* j : 8:15 p.m. to- 1 ::S v i?tsn mHm ? Samuel Sorin with the Fort Wayne Philharmonie in the 1949-50 season brought such enthusiastic response from the cri- 1 tics and the public? that he was I brought back the next season, and following this appearance, he was I invited to return for an unprece- j dented third engagement. A native of Detroit. Sorin started his musical studies at six, and im mediately showed the talent which in the next ten years won him a series of prizes and scholarships. His professional career began with a concert tour including 72 per formances, which was sponsored by ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publish ers. and the American Federation of Music Clubs. Three years' wartime service in terrupted his carter, and when he left the Army he spent another two years of study before returning to the professional scene. In the following years, he toured all over the continent, including Newfound land and Central America. His wife, formerly Edith Wise, of Calgary, Alberta, is also a pia nist, a member of the staff of the Juliard school, where both she and her husband were students. The Sorins have a small daughter. At tonight's recital, tickets will be on sale to members' houseguests who live rriore than ?>0 miles from Carteret county, and to members of the armed forces who are in uniform or present identification, | Nan Appears in Cowl, Lands in Jail Again James Woodword ot Morehead City appeared in recorder's court yesterday morning to' answer a pub lie drunkenness charge and landed in jail again ? on the same charge. Sgt. Bruce Edwards ol the More head City police said that Wood word was drunk when he reached the town hall shortly before court opened. Woodword was original^ arrested Saturday and released on bond Sunday. His case has been continued tor one week. introl board for ( i City fire alarm installed and is 1 ? board replaces a I which was belief Tire department oflicjftl that the new control ho<ir4| exp^dtd to take c;irc of M ber of M arm boxes by a(fl tra panel- The old boaii fcandlfSnly a limited nun boxes. iftans for expanding alarn^UHstcm forced the $ The Addition of three alarm boxes will complete pane ion of the system, i will fce Installed at Crab P? a second at the port tcrmfti location of the third has been mermincd. The bfl be iMttlled as soon as cofl The oev\ board, wh $4!m, wes constructed stalled by the Gamewell To Study Water Plans of a definite nature for | development of North Carolina's in land ports and waterways, actual as well as potential, will be discuss ed at a meeting at city hall in New Bern at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 20. Aubrey L. Cavenaugh of Warsaw has announced. ? r Cavenaugh, who is chairman of tfce water 1 1 ? i ?! m rtft"'im oi , ? ' HPIVnWR I ? ?? ? r Stale Group, M Rotarians Study Traffic Safety The Newport Rotary club at Monday night's meeting discussed traffic problems and means of re ducing highway accidents. A movie dealing with the problems was shown. Members of the safety patrol at , Newport school were special guests at the meeting. Other guests were i Highway Patrolman Robert Brown, j Police Chief E. Ormsby Mann, Dr. ! William Bell and L. A. Garner, jr., j all of Newport. Moses C. and L. W. Howard gave j the club a barbecue supper at the . meeting which was held at How- 1 ard's garage. The food was served | by Moses Howard, Mrs. C. S. Long, I Mrs. L. W. Howard and Mrs. Reta I Cannon. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar lllfill LOW Tuesday, Jan. 13 6:0ff a.m. ...... 6:24 p.m. 12:37 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14 6:59 a.m. 12:32 a.m. 7:17 p.m. 1:28 p.m. Thunday, Jan. IS 7:49 a.m. 1:28 a.m. 8:09 p.m. 2:15 p.m. Friday, Jam. 18 8:39 i.m. 8:59 p.m. 2:19 I.m. 3:01 p.m. arine Council ways Problems the state board of eonservation and development, said his committee and the recently formed North Carolina coastal marine council would meet jointly on that date in New Bern to discuss and take ac tion on a proposal for a full-scale survey of the state's inland ports and waterways as a prelude to a : fuller development and use of such fadUltos. v vrlwpment, (ayanaugh, and W. H. HKey, head ofr the department's water resources division, have had numerous contacts with a national ly known maritime engineering concern with regard to making a survey of the state's inland ports and waterway facilities in order to find out what should be done to provide for greater use of the coas tal country's abundant water re sources, Riley said. Findings and recommendations of the marine council and the con servation board's water resources committee regarding the proposed survey are slated to be placed be fore the board at its winter meet ing in Raleigh on Jan. 26 for further action, it was said. The coastal marine council was Organized last September at a meeting in Belhaven by persons representing 21 coastal communi ties. Officers of the council are . Fames A. Hackney of Washington ' ;iih1 W. Axson Smith of Belhaven, j ' lo-chairmcn, and George P. Arring ?n of New Bern, secretary-treas irer. % ' Communities that were repre icnted at the forming of the marine fpUticil are: Belhaven, Pantego, ?nglehard, Columbia, Elizabeth City. Manteo, Ocracoke, Windsor, Washington, Bayboro, Beaufort, Oriental, Edenton, New Bern, Caro lina Beach, Warsaw, Leechville, Manns Harbor, Wilmington, Vandc- , mere, and Hobucken. Toastmasters Honor Larson The NCO Toastmasters club of Cherry Point presented a past president's pin to M/Sgt. Robert T. Larson. Larson's transfer to an other duty station forced him to re tire as president of the club. T/Sgt. J. V. Woods succccded him as president. Jack H. Clark, formerly an hon onary member of the club, was ac cepted as a full-fledged active member. Clark is employed as a landscape engineer with the firm which is building the new housing projects at the air station. Speakers at the meeting were T/Sgt. R. N. Bourgholtzer. T/Sgt. E. W. Daniels, M/Sgt. J. G. Moi tnia and T/Sgt. J. A. Lancaster. Woods served as chairman and T/Sgt. D. S. Wishall was toast master for the evening. Pastor Resigns The Rev. C. R. Berry has re signed as minister of the First Christian church of liorehead City. Mr Berry resigned in order that he and hii wife might locate nearer their children. He has beeh pastor of the church since Oct. 1, 1950. A successor has not y?t been named. Two Negroes Obtain Hacksaw; Officers Suspect Outside Help Two Negro prisoners used hack-4 saws to saw their way out of Car | teret county jail and escape Sunday night. Sheriff C. G. Holland identi j fied the missing men as John Ty son. Jr.. of Beaufort, and George Snipen. of Georgia, a pulpwood worker here. A visitor apparently brought the hacksaw to the men. the sheriff said, since they were searched when they entered the jail, and had no such weapon then. They were not considered extremely danger ous prisoners, and were therefore allowed the freedom of the jail room rather than locked up in cells. Holland said he thought the two , men. who were alone in the room Sunday* night, were not friends when they met in the jail The escape was discovered at the 5 a.m. lineup yesterday. Tyson, convicted of speeding, reckless driving and assault in ihe ; Morehead City recorder's court, was in county jail pending an ap peal to the superior court. Snipen was also awaiting superior court session, after the Beaufort re corder's court found probable cause on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon and intent to kill. Tyson, who was arrested last De cember after police said he was racing his car with another in Arendell street, was to have ap peared in Morehead City recorder's court yesterday as witness in the trial of Harvey Lawrence, Otway, also charged with racing his car. Finer Carolina Projects Picked The Morehead City calendar of events club, at a meeting Thurs day right, picked the five projects for Morehead City's entry in the 1953 Finer Carolina contest spon sored by the Carolina Power and Light company. The projects will be carried out by the various civic clubs under the i direction of the, calendar ol events club. Each church, civic and fra ternal organization in Morehead City is represented in the calendar of events club. This year's projects arc: 1. to broaden the scope of the activities of the recretaion center; 2, to com plete the waterfront park at 8th and Shcpard streets; 3, to clean up the town and its approaches; 4. to modernize the bus terminal; 5, to tile the rest rooms at the Morehead City school. Postal Receipts Increased in 1952 Gross receipts at the Morehcad City post office increased almost $10,000 in 1952 over the 1951 total, according to Postmaster Harold W. Webb. Webb reported the year's total at $71,171.30, compared to the 1951 figure of $61,307.17. Cancellations showed a similar jump, with the 1952 figure 1,170.352, compared to the 1951 total of 1,051,402. The cancellations does not include mail sent out*by 13 business firms which have mail meters. The month of December alone accounted for more than half of the cancellations in the last quarter, with December showing 172,862 cancellations, and the last three months 330,425. The total for the last quarter of 1951 was 308,642. i Webb noted that the post office receipts have multiplied more than five times since he took office in 1940. In that year, gross receipts were only $14,000. Rainy Weekend Brings Temperature Drop [ Three days of almost constant rain brought more tnan 1 inches of rain down on Carteret county toward the end of last week. Fol lowing slight precipitation on Sun day, the weather turned bright and cold yesterday. E. Stamey Davis, county weather observer said Thursday brought southeast winds and .T7 inches of rain; Friday, southwest winds and .88 inches; Saturday easterly winds and .35; Sunday fresh southwest winds and .23 inches of rain. Tem peratures through Sunday did not vary much. Max. Min. Thursday. Jan. 8 60 50 Friday. Jan. 9 61 55 Saturday. Jan. 10 63 55 Sunday. Jan. 11 56 48 Firemen to Meet The quarterly meeting of the Eastern Carolina Firemen's asso ciation will be held at 7:30 tonight in the gymnasium at Newport high school. Dinner will be served prior to the meeting. Eye Clinic Set For Children Dr. N. T. Fnnctt, county health officer, has announced plans for an eye clinic for under privileged school children in Car teret county. Dr. Knnct said the clinic will be hold at the county health office, at 8:30 a.m. Wednes day. January 21. The state blind commsision will provide an eye specialist for the clinic and the coordinating school health fund will provide glasses when necessary, However. Dr. Kn nitt declared, the child's family is expected to pay as much toward the cost of glasses as it can. The clinic will serve approxi mately 40 children, both white and negro. The exact date will be an nounced later. Dr. Ennett said he hoped to be able to arrange for a second eye clinic to be held a little later in the school year. Mobley Takes Up Assembly Duties Earle Mobley, Carteret county's new assemblyman, began his active career as a legislator last night when the current legislative ses sion began in Kaleigh at 8 o'clock. Mobley. who was sworn in last Wednesday, said he expected the law-makers to remain in session un til shortly before noon Friday. Up to the weekend, the Carteret repre sentative said, he had received no formal requests concerning legisla tion affecting the county. At his swearing in, Mobley, like other assemblymen, received a presentation copy of the Bible, cm bo#!scd with his name, and with the dates of his term recorded inside over the signatures of the governor and the speaker and clerk of the house. Mayor George W. Dill, former assemblyman, also was in Kaleigh, and Mobley said his predecessor kindly introduced him to many of ficials and other persons helpful in his new duties. The new assembly man got a taste of one aspect of those duties when he stood up for more than three hours at the gov ernor's reception on Thursday. With him at the reception were several other Carteret countians, including Capt. John Nelson and his son Ernest Nelson. Sheriff C. G. Holland and Mrs. Holland, and Alvin Taylor. Biologist Joins Research Staff Dr. Walter A. Chipman, chief spccial shell fish investigations, has announced the addition of a fifth member to his scientific staff at the fish and wildlife sta tion at Piver's Island. She is Mrs. Ann O. Cos tow, who has been teach ing the seventh grade at Harkers Island school. Mrs. Costow'.i hus band. John D. Costow, is the resi dent biologist at the Duke Marine Laboratory. Mrs. Costow, also a biologist, with an A.B. degree from Duke university and an M.S. degree from the University of Maryland, will work primarily as a histologist, studying the tissues of animals. Her work is part of a project in which Dr Chipman and his associates are studying the effect of radio-active food on shell fish. Mrs. Costow came lo Carteret county last June to join her hus band, who has been at the marine laboratory since September 1951. Beanlort Negro to Face Disorderly Conduct Charge A Beaufort Negro, Ernest Bar rett, is in the county jail Under a $200 bond on charges of public drunkennes, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He will be tried this afternoon in Beaufort record er's court. Barrett was arrested by Lt. Otis Willis of the Beaufort po lice department. Two colored fishermen were also arrested by Beaufort police over the weekend. Herman Lawson and Jesse Jacoper are both being held in the county jail under $25 bonds for public drunkenness. They also will be tried today in Beau fort recorder's court. They were arrested by Chief Carlton Garner I and Capt. Maxwell Wade.
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