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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St. Morebead City Phone 6-417S CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10c FULL PAGE COMICS EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Wire Grass 9 Beltie Men Build New Labor Camps Two Carteret county farmers Neal Campcn of Wire Grass and Heber Golden of Bettie, have con (tructed new camps to house the migrant workers who will assist them with their harvesting this spring. | The construction of the c?mps was the result of a meeting last j August at which state and Federal employment officials warned farm ers that better housing would be needed to attract the necessary number of workers to the county Health officials have also warned that housing which does not meet sanitary requirements will not be approved. At the present time, only Mr. Campen and Mr. Golden have con structed new camps although sev eral other farmers have announced plans to do so. Mr. Campen and Mr. Golden are ! representative of the two types of I t farmers in Carteret county. Mr. \ Atlantic Beach Studies Budget , A proposed budget and tax rate for the town of Atlantic Beach will be presented to the town's board of commissioners at a meeting in New Bern this afternoon by Alfred Cooper, mayor of the resort com munity. We want to build a progressive ' beach and resort community at At 'antic Beach.'' Mr. Cooper said in ! explaining the preparation of the >? budget. He indicated that a large Part of the proposed budget would go to obtain police protection for the business and cottage area throughout the entire year and other needed services. The budget as prepared by Mr. Cooper's office calls for $14 2(H) ' annually with a tax rate of J1L50 for each $100 of property valua tion. The beach community was incor porated in 1937 and the mayor and i four commissioners arc elected by I mail by the beach property owners Vverv four years. Mr. Cooper said that he felt the town should estab lish a continuous program for im proving and promoting the area. During the meeting, proposals for setting up annual business per mits and closing hour, beer and concession ride restrictions will be considered. Under one proposed ordinance, signs would be posted requiring that all beer be con sumed within the building in which it is purchased. * ^ map has also been prepared lor the board's approval establish ing house numbers for each lot in t(le incorporated area. Cottage owners will be asked to remove tteir present numbers, which were put up for a newspaper route originally, and replace them with the proper number. , Cottage owners will also be ask ed to comply with an existing town ordinance requiring off-the-street I parking in the cottage area. The ordinance requires each cottage owner to make some provision for parking his car and his guests' ve hicles off- the town streets. This is designed to lessen the ever present summer parking congestion in the cottage area. Members of the board in addition to Mr Cooper are Miss Mamie Ruth Tunstall, Greenville; E. L Baker, Greenville; L. T. White! Balcigh; and Burke Taylor New Bern^ The meeting will be held in Mr. Taylor's home. Also attending ? the meeting will be Harvey Hamil ton, jr., town attorney, and H M ?ure, clerk. I Agent Urges Womeo to Attend Miss Martha Barnett, county home agent, has urged all mem bers of the home demonstration clubs to attend the rural .health conference Feb. 27-28 in Roanoke, Va. The conference is sponsored by (he American Medical association's council on rural health in coopera tion with national farm organiza tions. The conference will discuss rural health problems and possible jticans of solving them. The home agent said that this is the first time such a conference has been held in the south and it offers an opportunity for rural peo ple from North Carolina to attend. Miss Barnett said that she will be glad to gfte further information 'to any demonstration club mem tiers interested in attending the Conference. Defense Bond Quota Set , Carteret county has been assign ed a I). S. defense bond quota of r 9,320 for 1953, according to V. Wkkiier, county defense bond Chairman. The quota consists of $548,260 in Series E bonds, $155, 890 in Series H bonds, and $140, ?70 in Series J and K bond*. Campen, who has about 105 acres under cultivation, represents the large farmers, while Mr. Golden, with less than half of that acreage, j represents the smaller operators. The labor needs of both men are quite different and the size of the camps varies accordingly. Mr. Campen normally employs about 60 to 80 workers during the harvest season and has accommo dations for that number. Mr. Golden needs only about 20 har vest hands, and his camp will house about 25. Mr. Campen's new camp and an old one which has been recondi tioned are located about 1 Mi miles from the Beaufort town limits on NC 101. The new camp, a 16-foot by 100-foot wooden structure, con tains ten rooms. The older build ing, 24 by 60 feet, contains six rooms. Mr. Campen says that the two buildings will house about 68 workers. Any overflow will be housed in two dwelling houses near the farm. Both buildings have been wired for electricity and are equipped with running water from a 258-foot well. Several outdoor toilets have also been erected to comply with sanitary regulations. Mr. Campen provides the work ers with beds and mattresses, but they must provide their own sheets and blankets. The workers also pro vide their own cooking equipment. Mr. Campen says that most of them use electric hot plates which op- 1 erate on the current which he sup plies. Mr. Gulden's camp, located south of US 70 in Bettie, is much smaller and less elaborate than that of Mr. Campen. The 14 by 32-foot building is di vided into two rooms. The crew leader will have a private room, while the other workers will share the larger room which can be cur tained off for privacy. The larger room will accommo date about 25 workers, although Mr. Golden plans to install only about 20 bunks. He will furnish the bunks and springs, but the workers must furnish their own mattresses and bedding. When completed, the camp will have electricity, and a pump will be installed to provide fresh water. Mr. Golden plans to erect outdoor toilets near the camp. Working in his free time, Mr. Golcfeta has done most of the work on the camp himself and he hopes to have it completed in a few weeks. He does not plan to install the bunks until just before the workers arrive, and he will use the building for storage until that time. Mr. Golden also plans to use the building as a storage shed after the harvest season. Mr. Golden said that he would be glad to show the camp to any other farmers who are contemplating the construction of similar housing facilities. Missing Oyster Fund Stirs Up Investigation A House subcommittee began in <estigating the d.sap^ar.nceofa S100.000 revolving fund for Oyster ehabilitation last week ^"'e'gh_ Members of the House Comme.r -ial Fisheries committee discover ;d that the fund, which was started iix years ago. has apparently re ,olved itself out of exisjence Ac ording to Russell Swindell, chair nanthe fund has "dwindled down ?The subcommittee will be J]eadcdf jv Representative T. J. Collier of Pamlico Serving with him will be Representatives Carl V''nters f Jnslow, Addison HewleU. jr o view Hanover. Bascom Sawjer 01 Pasquotank and Ashley Murphey "?? to ? ? , tub on oysters with the adminU ration of the fund coming under he Conservation and Development maid. The eight-cent tax has been ?ollected but the fund has Iwindled. Mr. Swindell sa d. The subcommittee will devote AS efforts to finding out what has laDPened to the money. Some mem ters feel that the fund may hav i jeen used for purposes other than At ^he'same'8 meeting the con, | nittee made a ^v-orable repoit on , bill to limit the weight of oystei, 1 red lies to 100 pounds. Last sum inS Conservation and l>eve,0P; ncnt board authorized dredges up l0 160 pounds. Representative Col .?r said that the heavier dredgt s have been very harmful" in work n1aTw?ecftheb Senate passed the Conservation and I'^elopment joard reorganiiaUon measure. E?h er in the session, the bill Pa!>5''" he House without a dissenting rote. Under the provisions, of the iill, Governor U instead m ho nower on June 30, ITOS. >? 1 pmnt a completely new 15-member ooard. Kive of the members of the pres ent board have terms which . expire A its activities including commercia Writer in the legislature session Representative Collier repo ed hat he was preparing legislation o divorce the commercial fisher es from the Conservation and De velopment board and establish a separate fisheries commission, some members of the General As sembly have said that the rcorgam XV is intended to answer the fisheries complaint without setting jp a separate board. All Aboard for Puerto Rico Jeeps from the Second Marine division are shown being loaded onto a Navy transport at the More head City port terminal. The Ma rines are holding maneuvers in the Caribbean. (Marine Corps pboto) All roads lead to Morehead City this week (or thousands of Second Marine division Leathernecks who will be funnelcd through the bustling port on their way to ex tensive Marine maneuvers in the Caribbean area. Constantly handling Navy and Marine corps shipping, the seaside port city this month will process the largest troop maneuver to pass over its dock since the Second Ma rine division last sailed (or the Caribbean nearly a year and a half ago. The current troop movement will climax a year in which the State Ports authority in Morehead City has seen thousands ol Marines sail everywhere, from the cold reaches of Labrador to Scandinavia, to the Mediterranean countries and the Caribbean. With all the trappings of a com bat operation, the Second division will move out of the port with the realism which goes with the prepa rations for an attack on the "ene my." Known as "Lant Phibex II." the current maneuvers will feature a mammoth show of strength seldom seen on the Atlantic seaboard. More than 23,000 sailors and 17.000 Marines will converge on the tiny "enemy-held" island of Vieques. Puerto Rico, in a combined air See MARINES, Page 2 Collier Hard Aground Here The collier, Seaconnet. started back to Newport News, Va., last Thursday night to be repaired after being hard aground on Beaufort bar from Saturday night until early Thursday morning. Shipping of ficials at first thought the vessel was undamaged but later checks revealed some damage. The Seaconnet was refloated by the tug, Cable. Earlier efforts by Coast Guard ships proved unsuccessful. The Staconnet was coming to Morehead City to refuel before sailing for Europe with a load of coal. (Marine Corps photo) County Receives Mi nor Damage As High Winds , Sea Lasli Coast Carteret county received rela tively minor damage in the storm which struck without warning along the southeastern coast of the Unit ed States early Sunday morning. Winds ranging up to 55 miles per hour and high seas pounded the coastal areas of Carteret coun ty beginning shortly after dawn Sunday morning. Heaviest damage in Beaufort was reported by Carl Hatsell, 121 Orange street. Hatsell said that a tree blew down and struck his Street Lights Installed Here A total of 23 new and more powerful street lights are being in stalled this week in Morehead City by the Carolina Power and Light company, George B. Stovall, di vision manager of the utility, an nounced today. The lights are being installed on Bridges, Evans and Shepard streets and on Arendell street near the port terminal. Mr. Stovall reported that the lights have been tested in other areas and found highly suc cessful. On Bridges street the lights run from Thirteenth to Third streets an-d on Evans and Shepard from Tenth to Third. The lights will be placed on that part of Arendell street which runs by the port terminal. The lights are of 6.000 lumen in tensity. replacing 2,500 lumen lights. The street lights in the Arendell street business district are also of 6.000 lumens. The new type light is on a 16-foot boom which juts out into the street in tersection giving even illumination over the entire area of the inter section. Work on the lights for Bridges street was started the first of last week, and Mr. Stovall said that the complete project should be finish ed by the end of this week. The lights arc being put up at the request of the town board. George W. Dill, mayor of More head City, reported that the town asked the utility company for im- 1 proved street lighting and the com pany made its survey. The ligjits may be moved from their present location at the request of the board to meet traffic conditions. The new lights are being put up around the hospital an-d the inter section of Evans and Shepard street in order to improve safety conditions there. The 6,000 lumen light uses 320.9 watts. Mr. Stovall said that the new lights will bring Morehead City's j street lighting up 'to modern standards. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Feb. 17 10:44 a.m. 4:42 a.m. 11:13 p.m. . 4:57 p.m. Wednesday. Feb. 18 11:34 a.m. 5:38 a.m. 5:46 p.m. | Thursday, Feb. IS 12:06 a.m. 6:32 a.m. 12:24 p.m 6:38 p.m. Friday, Feb. t? 1:03 a.m. 7:33 a,m. 1:24 p.m. 7:37 p.m. [ truck which had been parked be side the house. Mr. Hatsell esti mated that damage to the truck would amouift to about $150. He also reported that the wind had | broken several windows in his I home. Other damage in Beaufort and | Morehead City was largely of the ! nuisance variety and estimates are that none of the damage will 1 amount to more than $100. Shingles were torn from roofs in I both Morehead City and Beaufort, , an<^ several tiles were blown from | th?; . oot oi the Morehead City town | hall. Television antennas bore the ! brunt of the high winds and were I blown down in many places. Dr. 1 John Morris of Morehead City had j just installed a new television an tenna on his Evans street home. ! The antenna lasted less than 24 , hours and was blown down early j Sunday morning. The tip of the antenna at the Machine and Supply j company on the Morehead City | Beaufort causeway was twisted by the high wind. Much of the damage was caused j by falling trees and limbs. George ; Stovall. local manager for the j Carolina Power and Light com pany, said that falling branches disrupted electric service in sever al places. He said that the power j failures, however, were largely confined to one or two homes. The Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company reported simi lar damage. L. A. Daniels said that j the company had received a few : reports of wires being torn down ! by falling limbs but that there was no serious damage. Small boats tied up along the BeauTort waterfront were badly beaten by the heavy seas and high I tides which accompanied the wind, and at least one boat sank in the | storm. The Fort Macon Coast Guard station reported that wind velocity reached 55 miles per hour at noon Sunday at the Frying Pan shoal I lightship off Southport and that | the wind had died down to 45 miles I per hour at 7 p.m. Sunday. Winds i of 30 miles per hour were reported from Jacksonville Sunday morning. , The storm kept one ship from entering the Morehead City port. The tanker Esso Heading, due to arrive at the port terminal Sunday afternoon, waited offshore until the storm ended and docked yester day. The storm which struck Carteret county was part of a general dis- j turbance which buffeted the en tire coast and which was at its j worst in the Gulf of Mexico. An ; airliner bound from Tampa. Fla., | to New Orleans crashed off Mobile, Ala., with 46 persons aboard, j Another airliner reported winds up to 100 miles per hour in the Gulf area. Horn* Demonstration Meetings Scheduled Miss Martha Barnett, home dem onst ration agent, has announced the Carteret county home demon stration clubs meeting this week. The Camp Glenn club will meet tomorrow. Feb. 18. at 2 o'clock with Mrs. Leslie Brinson. The Crab Point home demonstra tion club will meet on Thursday, with Mrs. W. J. Blair at 2 o'clock. The Gloucester home demonstra tion club will meet Friday, Feb. 20, at 2 o'clock with Mrs. Monroe WhiUburit. "Ilold Out Arms to Democrats' Says Lincoln Day Speaker Mobley Reports On Legislature The bill changing the rules for becoming a pilot for the Morchead City harbor passed the House of Representatives of the North Caro lina General Assembly last week, H. Earle Mobley, Carteret county's representative, revealed this week. Mr. Mobley introduced the meas ure at the request of the Morchead City Navigation and Pilotage com mission. Under the existing state law passed in 1947, no person can become a pilot without the written approval of two licensed pilots. The legislation which passctUthe House and has now been sent to the Senate would allow the commis sion to examine applicants and is sue licenses without the approval of the other pilots. There was no opposition to the measure in the House. Mr. Mobley reported that he had received many letters favoring the measure from residents of Carteret county. At the present time the port has three pilots, Charlie Piner, sr., Charlie Piner, jr., and Ira Willis. Captain Charlie Piner, sr.. has said that the port will be unable to get "qualified pilots" if the bill be comes law. He describes the local harbor as "one of the trickiest on the east coast." Mr Mobley also announced that he will meet with the Beaufort town board this week to discuss with board members their request for an extension of the town's court and police jurisdiction. The present limit of the court's juris diction is one mile beyond the town limits. The commissioners at their regu lar meeting February 5 drew up a resolution asking Mr. Mobley to introduce legislation extending the court's jurisdiction to five miles from the town's limits. Such an extension would require a special act of the General Assembly. In reporting on the General As sembly's activities, Mr. Mobley re volted iMt'AVH. Poller, Beaufort menhaden boat and processing plant operator, had written the House Commercial Fisheries com mittee asking that the law forbid ding the processing of "scrap" fish be changed. Under existing regulations, the scrap fish which are caught in nets with other fish can be processed only by dehydration. Mr. Potter asked the committee to give con sideration to allowing the fish to be processed in menhaden plants. Such a change would benefit the coastal economy and make it pos sible for fertilizer operators to com pete with foreign feed and fertilizer firms, he said. Mr. Mobley revealed that he had discussed Mr. Potter's suggestion with Representative Russell Swin dell, chairman, and Representative T. J. Collier of the fisheries com mittee. No action has been taken on the suggestion yet. Officers Stress Bike Safety Capt. Herbert Griffin of the Morehead City police department and Highway Patrolman W. J. Smith spoke on bicycle safety at a meeting Friday afternoon in the Morehead City school auditorium. About 450 members of the school bicycle club heard the two officers describe the proper methods of op erating bicycles safely. After the lectures, the officers answered questions from the floor on safety rules. The officers were accompanied by Paul (Sonny) Geer of the More head City Jaycees who sponsored the lecture. The Jaycees voted at i last week's meeting to work with l the club in an effort to promote bicycle safety among the pupils at the school. The Jaycees also voted to donate Scotchlite safety tape to be placed on the pupils' bicycles. Members of the Jaycees will apply the tape to the bicycles tomorrow afternoon at the school. In a special election held after the safety lectures. Francis Swan .son was elected president of the club to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of the former pres ident. Other officers of the club arc Rodney Nelson, vice-president, and Jimmy McElroy, secretary treasurer. Membership in the club, former ly restricted to those pupils who ride bicycles to school, was recent ly opened to all pupils who own bicycles. ,G. T. Win dell, principal of the school estimates that there are about 500 potential members, most of. them in the elementary grades. ? By Bob Galely John G. Wilkinson of Washing ton. speaking at a Lincoln day dinner Thursday night in Newport, urged North Carolina Republicans to take into the party those Demo General Jerome Takes Command Major General Clayton C. Jerome, USMC, just returned from Korea where he commanded the Marine Air Corps, assumed command of the Second Marine Aircraft Wing, Cherry Point, in military cere ! monies yesterday morning. | lie succeeded Major General | Thomas J. Cushman who was trans ; ferred to the Fleet Marine Force, i Pacific, last month where he is deputy commander. In his first press conference : since returning to the United States, General Jerome told re porters following the ceremonies that at least 50 per cent of all Ma I rine officers serving in Korea are reservists and that all of them are performing as well as career offi cers. Very few enlisted reservists, he said, still remain in Korea and the few who are there will be shipped stateside within the next few months. He praised the Army for the chow it serves and said the best of food in quantity reaches the furthest front line man. "Chow is an Army operation," he said. To prove the fine quality of the food, the General told how he had been put at a ' training" table ior two weeks before embarking on his new assignment at Cherry Point. All he got he said, was spam and weinies. When he asked why such sparse fare, he was told it would be the best conditioner for stateside eating. General Jerome said that, while not minimizing the fact that ene my bullets were still lethal objects, men of all services are well cloth ed, well fed and the wounded are given blood plasma as needed. "There is no shortage of blood plasma. (low^er. ' do not wish io indicate iliat efforts to secure more and more blood should ever cease. A day could come when there arc shortages. Blood has saved untold numbers of lives and blood will be required for as long as hostilities continue," General Jerome said. Haw troops are no longer to be seen among the fighting men. The General praised the valor of the fighting American draftee and gave credit for a large part of it to the confidence built up in them during their stateside training. A native of Kansas, General Jerome is a Naval Academy grad uate who has been flying with the Marines since 1925. He was bocn in 1901 and received his commis sion as a second lieutenant in ihe Marine Corps upon graduation from the Naval Academy in 1922. He was designated a Naval aviator three years later. During World War II he was three times awarded the Legion of Merit for meritorious achievement and he won the Distinguished Service medal for his service in Korea. An honor guard of Marines was present at the ceremonies and the General received a 13 gun salute upon assuming command of the Second Wing. Participants in cluded members of the wing staff, group and squadron commanding officers. Pianist Hopes To Visit Here Samuel Sorin, conccrt pianist who played in Morehead City on January 13, has written the Com munity Concerts management that he hopes to be able to bring his family here during the summer. Mrs. George W. Dill, jr.. presi dent of the county Community Con certs series, received the letter from Mrs. Arthur Diehl. represent ative of the national booking agen cy. In the letter, Mr. Sorin thanked Mrs. Diehl for booking his concert here and said he was "delighted with the place, people and piano." He indicated that he might bring his family here this summer. While Mr. Sorin was in this irca, George W. Dill, jr., mayor of More head City, took him through Beau fort and Morehead City. They also went to the beach and had lunch at a local seafood restaurant. License Revoked The state highway patrol has an nounced the revocation of the driver's license of James Taylor of Sea Level. Mr. Taylor was con victed Jan. 20 in county recorder's court of drunken driving, reckless driving and driving without a li cense. crats who crossed the party line in November. He said. "Southern Democrats have no home in the party dedicat ed to the philosophy of Harry Tru man. The Democratic party has nothing to offer them. We must open our arms to them." Mr. Wilkinson was the featured speaker at the dinner, the first of its kind held in Carteret county in many years. About 150 Republi cans and their guests from Car teret. Craven and Onslow counties attended the dinner in the Ameri can Legion hut in Newport. Mr. Wilkinson said that the meet ing was the largest precinct meet ing of its kind that he had ever seen in his many years in politics. He congratulated the guests for their "many years of true and faith ful service to the Republican par ty." The speaker. an unsuccessful candidate for the U. S senate in 1!)48, told his audience that North Carolina Reublicans have not la bored in vain. "Despite the unfair tactics of the opposition." he said, "we have worked to bring about a real two party system in the state." Mr. Wilkinson blasted the ef forts of a "hybrid group of New Dealers" to kidnap Lincoln for the Democratic party. He said that many of th eleaders of the Demo cratic party have tried in recent years to claim that Lincoln was a misty-eyed dreamer and at heart a Democrat. Mr. Wilkinson said that Lincoln was "a hard practical politician and a Republican poli tician at that." The speaker also denounced the efforts of various radical groups to claim Lincoln for their own. He said that Lincoln, if he were alive today, would be in t be front ranks of the fight against communism and socialism. Mr. Wilkinson reminded the group that for 20 years prior to 1932 Republican presidents had re fused to give recognition lo the Russian government. He said that one of Franklin I). Roosevelt s first acts as president had been to grant this recognition. Mr. Wilkinson denounced those in power for the past 20 years for their "treachery in dealing with Russia" and for "geting us into World War HI." The speaker was introduced by Claud Wheatly, jr., of Beaufort, Republican county chairman. Mr. Wheatly hailed Mr. Wilkinson for his "long and valiant struggle on behalf of the Republican party of Norfth Carolina." Walter D. Roberts. Newport pre cinct chairman who presided at the dinner, told the guests. "This is only the beginning. Let's make next year's dinner even bigger and better." Mr. Roberts hailed Booker See REPUBLICANS, Page 2 Company Asked To Stop Burning The Beaufort town commission ers. at a special meeting Thursday night, 'requested the Twin City Parts and Metal company to stop burning tires and jto stop whole sale burning of old automobiles at its junk yard on Broad street. The action was taken at the re quest of the county health depart ment. J. V. Fulford. county sani tarian, said that the health depart ment had received several com plaints about the burning. Representatives of the company told the commissioners that it is often necessary to burn old auto mobiles in order to obtain the metal, but they agreed to hold such burning to a minimum in the fu ture. Dan Walker, town clerk, asked the members of the board to Jraw up individual lists of capital out lay improvements which they be lieve are needed in the town and to indicate the order in which they believed the improvements should be made. Mr. Walker said that such lists will make it easier to draw up next year's budget by showing where more money is needed. Present at the meeting were Mayor L. W. Hassell. Mr. Walker, Charles Stevens, town attorney, Wardell Fillingamc. street fore man, and Commissioners Carl Hat sell, Matthew Chaplain, Clifford Lewis, James D. Rumley and Dr. W. L. Woodard. Survey oi Inland Ports Asked of Legislature Legislator* from 27 tidewater counties have been invited to at tend a meeting tomorrow called by the Conservation and Development board to consider recommendations for economic and engineering sur veys of inland ports and waterway facilities. The Marine council unanimously approved a proposal for a legisla tive appropriation of $47,000 for such a survey and the development later gave its approval. The survey would lay the groundwork for a "master plan" for the development of such ports.
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