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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St. Morehead City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c FULL PAGE COMICS 42nd YEAR, NO. 10. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Otway Youth Killed Sunday in Car , Bike Collision County Commissioners Hear Report on Health Department The Carteret county board of commissioners heard Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county health offi cer, Monday morning describe the past year as one of "substantial progress" toward the goal of im proved health for local citizens. At the regular monthly meeting of the board, Moses Howard was named vice-chairman to preside in the absence of the chairman, Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, who was ill. I At the request of the county audi tor, the board voted to extend the tax-listing period by 15 days. Dr. Ennett reported that his of fice made a total of 9,308 vaccina tions in 1952. "During the year, we had no cases of Jiphtheria, whooping cough, or small pox, one case of typhoid fever, and 13 cases of measles," he continued. The county had four cases of polio in 1952. Outlining the efforts of the health department to fight tubercu losis, Dr. Ennett revealed that the department X-rayed 177 persons last year and discovered two new active cases. Two other active cases were diagnosed by private physicians, three were discovered in Veterans Administration hos pitals and one was diagnosed at the Goldsboro Hospital for Negroes, he reported. Notes Improvement Dr. Ennett told the board that the personal hygiene of county chil dren has shown marked improve ment. He also noted the import ance of the state supported pro gram for dental services to under privileged children. The health department also maintains school clinics and pre school clinics to protect the health of children. During the board's discussion of the health report, several members praised the efforts of Parent ! Teachers association in improving the health and general appearance of school children. The report was accepted and thfc health department was commended for its work in 1952. Following the report of the health department, the commission ers took up live petitions for im provement of roads in various sec tions of the county. A petition for 500 yards of road in Marshallberg was approved and forwarded to the state highway commission after Eu gene Davis presented the petition. A petition for grading on the road running from the M.E. church to the Jones home on llarkers Island was also approved and for warded to the state commission. Tildon Davis, one of the commis sioners, was asked to investigate with highway engineers the Jarvis road in Straits. It was also report ed that the state will begin work on a residential street in Highland Park as soon as the equipment is available. The board discussed a request for maintenance of a road in the Crab Point section of the county. Members of the board pointed out to petitioners that the county has already exhausted its state al lotment for improving roads for this fiscal year. The county was awarded three miles by the state for the fiscal year. All petitions for state maintenance of roads are forwarded to the state highway commission which makes the final decision. K\ictions Ordered Turning its attention to tax problems in the county, the board passed a motion authorizing the sheriff to dispossess all people liv ing on or having possession of any property owned and held by the county and to secure any legal counsel necessary to affect such re sults. The commissioners decided to postpone decision on several cases in which foreclosure proceedings against property for which taxes have not been paid for the period of 1936 and earlier would work % hardship on property owners who i are physically incapacitated. The board had earlier ordered such pro ceedings to start.# A motion authorizing the county tax collecfbr to advertise delin- ; quent 1952 taxes during the month of April was passed. The commissioners approved two j property sales which were held Monday noon at the court house for back taxes. Ernest J. Davis bid $100 'for the Delaware Golden property on Barkers Island and the j sale was approved; and the Charles j S. Bryan property on Core Banks was sold to Harry T. Davis for $300. In addition to Mr. Howard, those commissioners attending the meet- ( ing were Tildon Davis, E. H. Pot ter and Walter Yeomans. At the end of the meeting, the board drew names for a superior court jury panel. U. S. Approves New School At Camp Glenn The Federal government has ap proved the expenditure of $186,144 lor a new 16-classroom Camp Glenn elementary school, H. L. Joslyn, county superintendent of educa tion. announced Monday. The funds represent part of the $307,000 allotment made to Car teret county under the provisions of the congressional act authoriz ing expenditure of Federal funds for schools in areas affected by the enlarged national military estab lishment. Construction started yesterday on the Newport school addition which is financed under the na tional program. County school officials had first hoped to use the balance of the money for three projects ? addi tions t6 the Camp Glenn school and two schools in Beaufort. Gov ernment officials placed a very low construction priority on the three unit program, and the school offi cials were faced with the prospect of losing all of the money unless some alternative program was de veloped. Joslyn said. In advising the county officials. Dr. William Coleman who, until his death, was in charge of the office of education of the Federal securi ty agency in four Middle Atlantic states, found the Camp Glenn school the most over-crowded and most unsuitable of the three units and urged the board of education to draw up plans for a completely new school in that area. This plan was followed and the government has authorized the ex rnditure of the funds. Plans for e building are now in Raleigh at the state department of education. * The new elementary school will ve 16 classrooms, a kitchen and neral purpose room wliich will terve as a cafeteria, library, admin istrative offices, teachers' room, boiler room, storage and auxiliary rooms. Joslyn reported that tentative approval of the project was re ceived Nov. 28. 1952. and the final approval was made Jan. 27, 1953. , The present Camp Glenn school is basically a four-room building which has six temporary class rooms with 10 teachers. Joslyn ?icprcssed disappointment that the original three unit plan had been found unworkable, but pointed out that the board of education . was anxious to make the best use possi ble of the Federal funds. The Newport school addition which is the other half of the pro gram will have eight classrooms and a general purpose room upon completion. It is set to one side of the existing Newport school. Fire Causes Minor Damage A fire caused minor damage to a house at 1101 Bay street. More head City, yesterday morning. Morehead City firemen received the alarm at 9:13 and extinguished the blaze before It could do serious tlkmage. The fire is believed to have start Id when an oil stove overheated in the second-story apartment occup ied by Delmos Green. Firemen said Uie wall was scorched by flames and will have to be repainted. Dam ace to the building, owned by Cecil Morton, was estimated at $150. The alarm was the second yester day morning. At 7:45, fire caused little damage to an automobile on Arendell street, near the Fry Roof ing company plant. Drive Nets 154C The Mothers March on Polio, ,?hich was held Thursday night in Beaufort and Morehead City, netted <Mfl for the March of Dimes. More head City collected <235 in its house-to-house canvas, and Beau fort collected <311 in the drive which was held from 7 to 8 o'clock Out evening. Building Starts j NewYearSlowly j The new year got off ta a slow start in Morehead City at least as j far as building is concerned, A. B. , Roberts, building inspector, report | ed Monday. Larffest construction item ap I proved by the inspector was the re | placement of the ceiling in the city hall. The Loving company is mak ing the replacement and the cost j is estimated at $2,025. The plaster ? fell Sunday, Jan. 18. i Other permits included two new housing projects, an apartment for J. C. Guthrie estimated at $1,500, I and a house for L. W. Riggs on i Fisher street estimated at $1,500. | A permit was granted to Mannie Lewis to build a garage on his Shepard street property. Hiram Hawkins received a permit for a dwelling to cost $800 and the mov ing of an old house owned by An j drew Davis to cost $650 was ap proved. j The total estimated cost of the i construction covered by the per j mits was $6,965. Construction in I the month of January, 1952, totaled j $8,700. Song Masters to End Series ' The Song Matters quartet who with their accompanist, Nlss Helena Kapriellan, will appear tomorrow night at the Beaufort school audi torium in the final concert of the community concert aeries. The Song Masters, male quartet, will sing in the final concert of the county community concert series, tomorrow evening at the Beaufort school auditorium. The program will be composed of classics, sacred songs and spirif Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Feb. 3 10:46 a.m. 11:14 p.m. 5:49 a.m. 9:04 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4 11:24 a.m. 11:94 p.m. 5 29 a.m. 5:38 p.m. Tbnnday, Feb. 5 12:01 p.m. 8:12 a.m. 8:17 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8 12:38 a.m. 12:49 p.m. 7:02 ajn. 7:03 p.m. ] uals, folk songs and lieder. ballads, sea chanteys, medleys and modern tunes. The quartet is composed of John Pettersson. first tenor, who was born in Winnipeg, Canada, Jack Prigmore, tenor, from Texas, Jos eph Frederic, baritone, native of New York, and Ivar Ivarson, bass, who was born in Norway. Miss Helen Kaprielian is accom panist for the quartet and will give a piano solo group during the con cert. Each member of the Song Mast ers had achieved distinction in his own right before they merged their talents to create the quartet. The concert will be open to mem bers of the community concert ser ies, to houseguests of members who live more than 50 miles from the county, and to members of the armed forccs and their families, on presentation of an ID card, or who are In "nilorm. Two Bootleggers Face Trial Two Washington, D. C., men will be tried today in non-tax paid whiskey. William E. Ilinton and James II. of their truck revealed 432 gallon* >f i?- uor. Ntwport when he .saw the locked truck comin;; front the direction The two men produced invoices for 400 baskets of sweet potatoes truck. Mann called Sheriff Gehrmann Holland, Deputy Hugh Salter and ABC Officer Marshall Ayscue. The county officers broke the lock and found the whiskey. Left to right, Salter, Durkely, Ayscue, Hin ton, Holland and Mann. Fhoto by Jerry Schumacher Beaufort C of C Plans Rural Telephone Survey Plans were made at a meeting Thursday afternoon in the Be^i fort town hall for a county-wide survey to determine how many peo ple in rural areas of the county de sire telephone service. The survey | is being sponsored by the Beaufort chamber of commerce and its utili ties committee. Those attending the meeting 1 were asked to help schedule com munity meetings throughout the county during February and March. At these meetings, representatives of the utilities committee will ac cept applications for telephone service and the $10 leposit which is required with each application. The representatives will also in struct canvassers who will contact those residents not at the meetings. The deposits will be turned over to the Rural Telephone authority as payment on membership fees should it be necessary to form an RTA cooperative in order to secure service. In instances where Caro lina Telephone and Telegraph com pany can and will give service, the money will be refunded. The chamber of commerce is un dertaking the survey at its own ex pense because it believes that tele phone service will increase the standard of living of those who do 1 no! now have phones and will im prove living conditions throughout the eounty. Dan Walker, manager of the ( chamber, said at the meeting, "Our , avowed purpose in making the sur- 1 vey is to determine how many peo ple and the location of these people who earnestly^and sincerely want and would take telephone service if it were available. We will work with both the North Carolina REA and the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company toward this end." Gerald Hill, president of the chamber, and Dr. W. L. Woodard. chairman of its utilities commit tee. expressed their appreciation to the group for its assistance with the survey. They said that the sur vey could not be made without their help. Present at the meeting were Hill, Woe: lard, Walker. Mrs. G. T. Spi vey representing the home demon stration clubs and the home agent, R. M. Williams, county farm agent, A I Newsome, assistant farm agent, L. F. Faust of tjjp Carteret -Craven Electric Membership corporation, B. J. May of the Production Mar keting administration and Roy Beck and David Jones of the soil conservation service. Wood Announces New Frequency All marine information broad 1 casts made by the U. S. Coast Guard in the Fifth Coast Guard district are being broadcast on a newly assigned radio frequency of 2702 kilocycles, according to Rear Adm. Russell E. Wood, USCG. district commander. In the past marine information broadcasts were made on 2698 kilocycles. All three Coast Guard Fifth dis trict radio stations, NMN Norfolk. NMN-7 Baltimore and NMN-37 Fort Macon, have been ^ffected by j the change, but Rear Admiral Wood | pointed out that broadcast times i for the stations remain the same. ! Times of broadcast daily arc 12:20 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. at NMN Norfolk, 11:30 a m. at NMN 7 Bal timore and 12 noon at NMN-37 Fort Macon. Rear Admiral Wood added that as in the past urgent or emergency marine information broadcasts will be made whenever the need arisM. Some Material Arrives For Waler Main Extension George Stovall. local manager for the Carolina Power and Light com pany, has announced that some of the pipe and hydrants for the ex tension of water mains in Beaufort have arrived. Stovall said that work on the project will begin as soon as the rest of the pipe and fittings ar rive. The work was held up by the necessary of obtaining government approval for the purchase of the material. Club Meetings Announced Miss Martha Barnctt, home agent, yesterday announced the following home demonstration club meetings for this week: the Wildwood club meets today at 2 p.m. with Mrs. Henry Brown; Core Creek Harlowe, Thursday at 1:30 p.m.f with Mrs. George Ball; Bet tie, Friday at 7:30 p.m., with Charlie Pake. '1 Lions to Sponsor Spelling Contest I The Morehead City Lions club1 j at its Thursday night meeting voted to join with the county school board in sponsoring a spelling con test for pupils in the county's schools. The contest will be conducted by the schools and Lions club will ! award medals to the winners in each group. Contestants will be di vided into two groups, those in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades and tht>se in the seventh and eighth grades. Fred Lewis, president of the Lions and county school supervisor, has written the following letter to all school principals in regard to the contest. "To encourage better spellers fn our grammar grades, we are to have a county-wide spelling bee this year. "Elimination contests will be ; held in each school during the [ month of February followed by a county-wide contest in the More j head City school auditorium Thurs day, March 19 at 2 p.m. i "The contest held in your school in February will decide the con testants to represent your school in ! Morehead City. Please have one ' representative for grades four, five and six and another for grades i seven and eight." I Four new members were induct I ed into the Lions club at the meet I ing. They were Joe DuBois, Cecil Sewcll. Gordon Laughton and Len j nis Brinson. Frederick Hardy vice-president of the club reported on *he Lions | club convention held recently in Rocky Mount. Fnlcher Seeks Permit For Pier at Cedar bland The Wilmington office of the corps of engineers has announced that Clayton Fulcher, jr., of At lantic has applied for a permit to | construct a pier in Pamlico sound at Cedar island. j The pier will be constructed at the foot of the paved highway at the north end of the island. Plans call for a timber pile structure | eight feet and extending sound. | Accident Near Williston Brings Highway Death Toll to I hree A 15-year-old Otway boy became the county's third traffic fatality of the year when he was killed at i noon Sunday near Williston. ; Laurie Eugene Pake, son of Mr. i and Mrs. Leonard Gillikin. was j killed instantly when the bicycle on which he was riding was struck j by a car on US 70 l'i: miles east of ! Williston. Coroner Leslie D. Sprinkle said that death was caused by a frac ' tured skull and broken neck. Charles Gushing Copenhaver of ! Arlington. Va., driver of the car which struck the boy, said that the youth pulled in front of him as he drove by. Copenhaver said that he was driving west on US 70 at a speed of about 50 miles per hour. He saw | the boy ahead as he met another car. When Copenhaver passed the other car, he blew, his horn to warn the boy and pulled out into the center of the road to avoid him. Copenhaver said that the boy ; looked back over his shoulder and then pulled out in front of the car. j Highway Patrolman W. J. Smith, j [ who investigated the accident, said that his examination of the scene showed that the accident occurred ! near the center of the road. Skid marks indicated that Copt: haver's ear was traveling at about 50 miles ! per hour at the time. The force of the impact dented the right front fender of (.'open haver's ear and broke the right ! windshield The damage to the car has been estimated at about $100. Three passengers in the car were shuKen up in the accident. Mrs. I Janet Copenhaver, Mrs. W. II Sty i ron of Washington. I). C.. and her son, Harvey H. Styron. received , minor bruises when they were thrown forward by the force of the impact. Coroner Sprinkle ruled that the boy's death was an unavoidable ac cident and said that no inquest will be held. Funeral services for the victim will be conducted by the Rev. Chandler at 1 p.m. today at the Smyrna Missionary Baptist church. Burial will be in the churchyard. The boy leaves his parents, his grandmother, Mrs. Nina Pake, two half-sisters and one half-brother Coroner Siwinglc said that he expects that the highway death loll in the county this year will exceed last year's. In 1952. only six people died in highway accidents in Car teret county. In the first 32 days of 1853, there have already been three fatal accidents in the county. The Copenhavers and Styrbns came to Morehead City in connec tion with '.he death of Mrs. Styron's brother Leo W. Roberts. Roberts, a former resident of Morehead City, was drowned Thursday while shrimping off the Florida keys. His family in Morehead City has been awaiting word that his body has been recovered. The Copenhavers and Styrons are staying with Mrs. Styron's sis ter, Mrs. R. P. Oglcsby of Crab Point. Students See Safety Films As part of a campaign to promote safety, two films. Safety on the School Bus and Bicycling Safety ' Today, were shown during Friday's , assembly period at the Morehead ' City school. They were shown to j members of the bicycle club, the bus drivers' club, the school safety ; patrol and the driver education j class. The films were provided by the safety division of the motor ve hicle department. Mrs. Lucia Hutchinson, field rep resentative. of the safety division, 1 spoke to the group. she appealed ? . .J* ' .. . norta oflnvfntf p rrttfer lianrt signals. In connection with the school's safety program, the bicycle club is planning a field day to be held May 1. The field day will include tests of skill and demonstration of a knowledge of bicycle safety rules. Prizes will be bicycle accessories and the grand prize will be a new bicycle. The field day will be preceded by a parade through town. Bicycles will be decorated and prizes will be ] awarded for the most beautiful, ! most original and most comical decorations. All pupils who own bicycles are | eligible to join the club. Before be- 1 ing accepted for membership, they , must pass an examination and their bicycles must be inspected. G. T. Windellt< principal of the school, estimates that the bicycle club has j a potential membership of 250. Miss Anhic Mae Gibbs is the club's spon- : sor. Beaufort Driver Arrested Sunday A Beaufort man will ho tried lo j day in municipal recorder's court | on drunken driving charges. Wil liam Claude Gillikin was arrested Sunday by Chief Carlton Garner and Capt. Maxwell Wade of the Beaufort police department. He is ! free on $150 bond. Leroy Sharpe. colored, of Beau fort. will be tried today for care less and reckless driving. He was arrested Sunday by Garner and Wade and was released on his own recognizance. Theodore Smith, colored. Ut. 1. Beaufort, was arrested Friday by Garner and Wade for operating a motor vehicle with an improper muffler. Clarence Wallace, colored, of Beaufort, was arrested at noon yes terday for public drunkenness and indecent exposure. He was arrest ed by Garner and Lt. Otis Willis and is being held in the county jail under a $50 bond. With the Armed Force* Morehead City Marine Wins Gold Star in Korea Marine Maj. Kenneth E. Nelson, 29, has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of his ninth Air Medal lor meritorious acts while successfully completing 20 combat missions over communist-held North Korea, lie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd C. Nelson, of 3400 Evans street, Morehcad City. Major Nelson, a jet pilot, re ceived the Gold Star while serving with the First Marine Air wing's "Pantherjets" fighter ? bomber squadron of Marine air group 33. During World War II be saw ac tion in the South Pacific. His wife, Dorothy, and two daughters, Georgianne, S, and Don na, 2, live at 220 Dover street, St. Louis, Mo. Korea ? Seven months, ninety one combat missions and seven lives saved is just part of the rec ord of First Lieutenant Thurman Lawerence. jr., of the USAF's Third Air Rescue gorup in Korea. Lieutenant Lawerence recently returned to the United States after completing his tour of combat mis sions in helicopters with the rescue unit. He is returning to the Air Force's helicopter school in San Marcos, Texas, to impart his com bat-gained "know how" to pilots training there. Before taking up his training du ties at San Marcos, Lieutenant we re nee will spend his leave at Beaufort, where his wife and his rts reside. Munich, Germany Pfc. Frank lin Pittman .son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Pittman of Merrimoo, recently graduated from the Sev enth Army's non-commissioned of ficers academy at Munich. Ger many. During the six week course, he was taught techniques of combat leadership, including infantry squad tactics and deployment of men and equipment in the field. Students were carefully selected by their organization commanders be fore atending the school. Pittman, who entered the Army in February 1951, is a section serg eant in the 501st Armored medical company. He arrived overseas in August 1952 and has been award ed the Army of Occupation Medal for duty in Germany. Eta Jima. Japan ? Army Cpl. Harvey Gaskins, son of Mrs. H. D. Gaskins, 105 North 11th street, Morehead City, recently completed a course for supply handlers at the Army's Eta Jima specialist school in Japan. The three-week course included instruction in the loading and un loading of supplies, the operation of handling equipment and admin istrative supply work. Three additional weeks of prac tical training at an Army Quarter master depot climaxed the ' course. Corporal Gaskins entered the Army in March 1951 and has been overseas 15 months.
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