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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St More head City Phone 6-41 75 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '?> 42nd YEAR, NO. 31. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAYS Cooper, New Slate Win Beach Town Election Alfred B. Cooper of Morehead* ?ity was named mayor of Atlantic Beach by beach property owners this week by an overwhelming vote. All beach officials are elected by a mailed ballot from the property owners who are qualified voters. Others elected were J. Con Lanier of Greenville, L. T. White I of Raleigh, W. C. Whitehurst of ! Bethel, and H. W. Anderson of Wil ! son. These men were named com I missioners. I The names of the winners will I be sent to the Governor who will give them a four-year appointment I under the provisions of the town's charter. For the first time since its in corporation Atlantic Beach experi enced an election with two differ ent groups seeking office. Oppos ing Mr. Cooper and the slate of commissioners elected were W. L. Derrickson of Morehead City for mayor. Burke Taylor of New Bern, Miss Mamie ftuth Tunstall, E. L. "?Baker and Mr. Lanier, all of I Greenville, for commissioners. In the election Mr. Cooper re ceived 202 votes to Mr. Derrick son's 82. The candidates named to the commissioners' posts were se ? lected on the basis of the four re ceiving the greatest number of bal lots. The count for commissioners was Mr. Lanier. 262; Mr. White Jiurst, 192: Mr. Anderson, 190; Mr. 1 White, 185; Mr. Baker. 95; Miss : Tunstall, 90; and Mr. Taylor, 85. The issue dividing the two fac tions was the method of obtaining j financial support for the town. At the present time, property owners ' pay assessments to the town gov ernment. Since these assessments are not a legal form of taxation they cannot be collected if proper ty owners do not desire to pay them. In the past Miss Tunstall. Mr. .'Baker, and Mr. Taylor, members of the board for the last four years, have favored a continuation of the assessment method. Mr. Cooper, who was mayor, and Mr. White, a member of the board, have favored the institution of an ad valorem tax. At the February ifleeting of the board, Mr. White introduced a mo tion to create a regular budget for the town and institute ad valorem taxes. The motion died without a second. The three members of the board opposing the ad valorem tax insist ed at that time that they felt the majority of property owners on the beach did not want taxation and that most of the problems on the See ATLANTIC BEACH, Page 7 | | Spider Bite Proves Fatal Henry Salter, 67, of Marshall berg died Wednesday night at the I IMorehead City hospital from the | effects of the bite of a Black Wid ow spider. Mr. Salter was, admitted to the ] hospital Tuesday afternoon and ap i prared to be doing well until he | went into a coma at 6:55 that night. ' He remained in the coma until ' his death at 7:05 p.m. Wednesday. 1 Mr. Salter was bitten Tuesday in an outdoor toilet at a garage on the North River road. He had tak en his car to the garage and was I waiting for some repairs to be | completed. Mr. Salter went into the coma at almost the exact minute that his daughter's father-in-law, Wilbert Lewis of Stacy, died at the More head City hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at the First Baptist church of Marshallberg. Burial Will be in the Bettie cemetery. Mr. Salter is survived by his wife, Lillian; three children, Mrs. Delbert Lewis of Plymouth, Mrs. Audrey Long of Marshallberg and Shelton Salter of Norfolk; three brothers, Cecil of Norfolk, Charles of Bettie and Bryant of Tarboro; and eight grandchildren. State Announces Paving Projects The state highway commission ^as asked for bids on 27 highway project including one in Beau fort. one in Mansfield and one on NC 101 near Cherry Point. The first project in Carteret County calls for 4.5 miles of resur facing on the road from US 70 to Lennoxville and from a point on Front street, Beaufort, to a Junc tion with the Lennoxville road. The second project listed for the County calls for paving of a traffic irele between US 70 and Bogue sound, near Mansfield. i The Cherry Point project one of three listed for Craven county, calls for surfacing two miles on NC 101 from the main gate of the air station toward North Harlowe. . Bids wilt be opened April 28 and will be reviewed April 30 at a con Jaycees to Meet , At Atlantic Beach About 200 Jaycees from 14 clubs in eastern North Carolina will meet at Atlantic Beach tomorrow and Sunday in the quarterly board meeting of the eighth district. Clubs to be represented at the two-day session are New Bern, Jacksonville, Kinston, Goldsboro, Mt. Olive, Warsaw, Burgaw, Vance boro, Greenville, Farmville, Wash ington, Havelock and Beaufort. The Morehead City club will play host to the meeting. This weekend's meeting will be the last one for the district as it is presently constituted. A redis ricting adopted at the last state meeting in Durham added an extra district and changed the present eighth district to the ninth. Golds boro, Mt. Olive, Warsaw and Bur gaw have all been transferred to other districts. All state officers and candidates for state office have been invited to attend, and many have indicated that they will be at the meeting. Two national officers, Harry Stew art of Raleigh, national vice-presi dent, and Mike Harper of Sanford, national director, will also attend the meeting. Mr. Harper is a candi date for state president. The meeting will begin at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow with registration at the Ocean King hotel, headquarters for the meeting. A "get acquaint ed" party at 5 p.m. at the hotel will be followed by a dance at the Bogue Sound club. A marine band from Cherry Point will provide the music for the dance. The business session will begin at 9:30 Sunday morning at the ho tel. The Rev. Priestley Conyers, III, pastor of Webb Memorial Presbyterian church, will be the speaker at a devotional period at 10:15. Door prizes will be award ed before the business session, and coffee and doughnuts will be served. Dr. Russell Outlaw is in charge of arrangements for the meeting. Committee chairmen serving under him are Ralph Gardner, registra tion: L. G. Dunn and John Sokolos ky, get acquainted party; Paul Cor dova, refreshments; Paul Geer, ar rangements; Jasper Bell, devotional I period; and Jimmy Meeks, dance. Stevedore Firm Head x Visits Morehead Port Dog Quarantine Ordered in Beaufort Chief Carlton Garner of the Beaufort police department has announced that there will be a two-week quarantine mi ?fogs in Beaafort beginning Monday The chief has asked all do* owners to keep their animals con fined in the house during the quarantine period. Chief Garner says that he has received orders from the court to pick up and shoot all stray dogs found on the streets during the quarantine period. Webb Issues < Drive Report James Webb, chairman of the Morehead City chapter of the American Red Cross, reports that $944.91 has been collected to date in the chapter's fund drive. Mr. Webb says that returns from New port and several local solicitors have not yet been received. S. R. McLcndon, chairman of the drive in the Negro sections of the county, says that his groups have exceeded their quota by about 37 per cent, having collected $136.90. McLcndon says that the largest sum collected, $50. was reported by Mrs. Rachel Dudley whose work ers were Mrs. Mamie Clemmons, Mrs. Ethel Dudley and Mrs. Robert L. Jones. Mrs. Elva H'll's group collected $35.28, Mrs. Elsie Warnett's group collected $14.50 and Mrs. Jefferson Stamps' group reported $16.78. Miss Sarah Perry reported collec tions of $26.63. Mrs. Cecil Walker of Newport reported $13.50, Mrs. Janie Bell of Mansfield reported $5.49 and Mrs. Ethel Tootle of Bogue reported $2.25. Contributions from the W. S. King school amounted to $10.39. J. R. Thompson's group collected $23.70, Miss Geraldine Herring re ported $8.13 and Mrs. Ray Quick reported $10.57. Other contribu tions amounted to $1.29. r Harold D. Stevenson, president of the stevedoring firm of Steven son and Young which is working with the Morehead City state port, was here this week studying and analyzing the stevedoring condi tions at the port. "0*r loss was smaller on the ship discharged this week than on the first ship," he said, "but we are still taking a substantial loss on our operations at Morebead City. Through Tuesday night, local stevedores were averaging 12.7 tons of cargo discharged per gang hour. A gang is composed of ap proximately 13 men and works one particular hatch of the ship being unloaded. "With the equipment which we have here, highly skilled stevedores should be able to take off more than 30 tons per gang hour," Mr. Stevenson continued. "Unless we can increase the ef ficiency of our stevedoring opera tion, the port will not be able to get ships to come here," he said. He emphasized that the operation is showing a steady improvement, but pointed out that the stevedor ing gangs were still short of the standards set by other ports for fast and efficient operations. In addition to being president of Stevenson and Young. Mr. Steven son is president of M. P. Smith and Sons, one of the oldest steve doring firms in the New York port. He became president of that firm in 1937. For the last 20 years he has served as president or chair man of the board of the National Association of Stevedores. During the last war he was in charge of the world-wide stevedoring opera tions of the War Shipping adminis tration. Just prior to coming to More head City this week, Mr. Steven son was in Cleveland where the Case Institute of Technology hon ored him as being one of its 25 leading alumni. The stevedoring firm has invest ed in approximately $70,000 worth of equipment for the port here. Mr. Stevenson said that he has faith in the growth and future of the Morehead City port with the cooperation of everybody con cerned. No Guthrie Political Party!! Everybody Is Independent "We ire not running on a Leroy Guthrie ticket (or Morehead City town commission posts," three candidates frantically chorused in phone calls late Tuesday afternoon to THE NEWS-TIMES publisher. Leroy Guthrie filed and paid fil ing fees last Saturday for V: J. (Puck) O'Neal, R. Doug West and Thomas Wade. Mr. Guthrie filed as a town com missioner candidate on April 7, the first to do so. "I'm an independent candidate," Mr. O'Neal phoned THE NEWS TIMES. "I Just couldn't take the time to (o up to town hall to file and Mr. Guthrie filed for me as a lavor." Ten minutes after Mr. O'Neal's call. Mr. West phoned. "I'm not on any Leroy Guthrie ticket. Just because he filed for me doerat mean I'm tied up with him. I'm an independent candi date. Mr. Guthrie filed for me as a personal favor. I was too busy to be able to go to town hall and file myself." An hour later Mr. Wade pboned. Lock wood Phillips, publisher, beat him to the gun and said: "Tommy, I know what your trou ble is. Ttou were too busy to file for yourfelf and Mr. Guthrie did you the (avor of filing for you " "Yea, yes, that's correct," Mr. Wade said. "You know how it is. 1 was very busy in the drugstore and the boys were sitting around and we decided to run for the town commission. Mr. Guthrie was there, and because we were all busy, he said he'd file for us. Do us the favor. "I'm an independent candidate. We are all independent candi date*," Mr. Wade ended. _____ Anti-Gambling Measure Killed Beaufort Board Names Officials Davis and Willis Will Be Municipal Election Judges this Year The Beaufort town board ap pointed two judges for the coming municipal election at its regular monthly meeting Monday night. The election will be held Tuesday, May 5. Elmore Davis and Daniel Willis were made judges of the election. The board took little action ex cept on routine matters of town business. Present were L. W. Hassell. mayor, R. Math Chaplain, Carl A. Hatsell, Clifford T. Lewis, James D. Rumley, and Dr. W. L. Woodard, commissioners. The board was informed that a bill introduced in the General As sembly to transfer jury trial cases from the Beaufort recorder's court to the superior court has passed the House and been sent to the Senate. Charles W. Stevens, town attorn ey and solicitor of the recorder s court, was suspended without pre judice by the board. Mr. Stevens is awaiting trial before the More head City recorder's court on char ges of driving while under the in fluence of an intoxicating bever age. The town board voted to ask Gray Ilassell, civil engineer, to set a rental fee for the town's ditching machine. A proposed platt of the Glendale subdivision outside the town's limits on highway 70 wa& approved by the board. The sub division will be built by William Lewis. Others attending the meeting were Dan'l Walker, town clerk, W. C. Garner, police chief, War dell Fillingame, street foreman, Gerald Hill, chairman of the town's planning board. Earl Mason, judge of the recorder's court, Gerald Woolard, building superintendent, and W. G. Temple. T" I". HinislersHonor Former Pastor * The Carteret county ministerial association at Monday night's meet ing commended the Rev. C. R. Ber ry, former pastor of the First Christian church of Morehead City. Mr. Berry recently resigned from his Morehead City pastorate to ac cept a new charge in Lumberton. The ministerial association has sent copies of the commendation to Mr. Berry's new church and to the Lumberton ministerial associa tion. The commendation follows: The Carteret county ministerial association commends the Rev. C. R. Berry to the Christian church of Lumberton, and to the Lumber ton ministerial association. Brother Berry has been an out standing Christian leader in the work of the association. During his pastorate in the Christian church of Morehead City greater advancement was made than in any other period of the history of the church. As a man he was a prince among men, a Christian gentleman in ev ery respect; always magnifying the Christian spirit. Ever sincere and deeply interested in reaching in dividuals for higher usefulness in the work of the Master's Kingdom. Brother Berry gave himself un tiringly to inspiring others to dedi cation of self and substance to the cause of Christ throughout the world. The influence of his lead ership in the Christian church here, and his fine fellowship in the Pas tor's Conference will abide in our hearts for all the years to come. He was ably assisted in his work by his fine wife. Mrs. Berry gave great assistance in their home life and in the work of the church. She rendered valuable service in the music of the church and in all the various organizations of the life of the church. Our prayer is that God's richest blessings shall fall on our good brother Berry and his family in their new field of labor. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, April IT 10:45 a.m. 4:53 a.m. I 11:12 p.m. 4:53 p.m. | Saturday, April 18 11:36 a.m. 5:44 a.m. 5:45 p.m. Sunday, April 19 12:02 a.m. 6:39 a.m. 12:31 p.m. 6:43 p.m. Monday, April 2* 12:58 a.m. 7:36 a.m. 1:33 p.m. 7:46 p.m. | Tuesday, April 21 1:58 a.m. 8:36 a.m. I 2:37 p.m. 8:94 p.m. | Construction Starts * On New Colonial Store Work began this week on con struction of a new Colonial store at 11th and Arendell streets, Morehead City. The building, owned by the York Building com pany of Rale; ' will occupy the site of the Arthur home which is bein n down. The new on ory building will have a 50-foot frontage and will be about 50 feet deep. Parking facilities will be provided. The new store is expected to open in July. National Board ChoosesWallace George R. Wallace, president of Wallace Fisheries, Morehead City, has been electcd a member of the by-products division of the exec utive committee of the National Fisheries Institute. The election was held during the eighth annual convention of the institute in Washington. D. C., this week. The institute is made up of representatives of all segments of the fishing industry fleet owners, packers, processors, canners and brokers. Nearly 1,000 persons from the United States, Canada and Mexico registered for the three day con vention which began Monday, April 13. The discussions included the Re ciprocal Trade Act, better mer chandising methods, ways to guar antee better quality, more complete use of by-products, and plans for the coming year. Secretary of the Interior Doug las McKay made the keynote ad dress at the convention. He dis cussed the relations between the fisheries industry and the tidclands oil controversy. Later 'luring the convention, John A. Logan, president of the National Association of Food <3iains, warned the nailing industry tipt their product faces increasing competition from meat anrl other atriiiom prot'vcis V In order to meet com petition as meat prices fall, he said, the fishing industry should study distribution methods and determine what the consumer wants. Reductions in costs of hand ling and transportation, improve ment of quality and better packag *ng will help meet competition, he said. Beaufort Club - Plans Clean-Up The Beaufort Jaycees at their meeting Monday night voted to sponsor a clean up and beautifica tion campaign in the town. The club will urge property owners to clean their yards and plant shrubs and flowers in an effort to beau tify. The Jaycees will also urge mer chants along Front street to clean up the waterfront during the cam paign. The club also voted to erect his torical markers in Beaufort and to try to obtain a closed park which would serve as a playground for children. Other suggested projects which were not adopted included a walk way on the bridge between Beau fort and the causeway, a small boat harbor with facilities for party boats and a golf driving range. A committee was formed to make plans for an intra-clulb .ecre ation program. It was also sug gested that a softball league be or ganized among the various civic clubs. Plans were made for participa tion in the district meeting to be held this weekend at Atlantic Beach. The club voted to urge the Treas ury department to present plaques to local bankers for their efforts in promoting the sale of defense bonds. It was reported that the fence line at the athletic field has been surveyed and the fence will be con structed. After the meeting, the members of the club went to the athletic field to work on the in stallation of lights. Principal Sett Date * For Pre-School Clinic G. T. Windel), principal of the Morehcad City school, hag an nounced that the pre school clinic will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the school. Mr. Windell has reminded par ents that children inust be six years old by Oct. 1 in order to be eligi ble to enter school next fall. The children must bring birth certifi cates with them when they enroll. The principal has urged parents who plan to enter their children in the school in the fall to bring them to the clinic Monday so that all necessary paper work can be done now. Slate Named ' In Newport Edgar Hibbs Nominated To Replace Gould As Newport Mayor Edgar Hibbs, a present member of the town board, was nominated for mayor of Newport Wednesday night at a public nomination meet ing at the town hall. Mr. Hibbs was nominated without an opposi tion. Town board candidates nom inated at the meeting were S. E. Mann, Charles Hill and D. Ira Gar ner, -members of the present board, and Mrs. Leah Bell and Norman Bell. The public nomination meeting is a tradition which is observed be fore every municipal election. The incumbent officers and any inter ested citizens nominate a tentative slate of candidates for town of fices. The purpose of the meeting is to insure that there are candi dates for every office. Anyone else who wishes to run may do so by filing with the town clerk. Mr. Hibbs was nominated for mayor when Mayor Charles A. Gould said that the nature of his job at Cherry Point would not al low him to hold public office. Nominations for commissioner produced ten names and three bal lots were required to reduce the field to five names. Prentice Gar ner nominated the four remaining members of the present board, and Dick Loekey nominated Ed Carra way to fill the vacancy created by Mr Hibbs. Commissioner Garner offered Mrs. Bell's name in place of his own. He said that he was willing to serve but that he felt that there should be a woman on the board. The nomination was seconded by several of those present. Others whose names were placed before the group were Harold Wil ton, Wilbur Garner, Ben Royal Garner and Norman Bell. On the first ballot. Commission ers Mann and Garner won renom ination decisively. Four others, Commissioner Hill, Mrs. Bell, Mj. Bell and Wilbur Garner, tied for the remaining three places on the slate.. Commissioner Murray Mc Cain was eliminated on the first ballot. A second ballot gave the nod to Commissioner Hill and Mrs. Bell. Mr. Bell and Mr. Garner tied for the final opening on the slate. Mr. Bell was chosen on the third ballot. In a business meting before the nominations were opened, the board voted to ask Albert Gaskill to appear at the next meeting to explain the bookkeeping system which he proposes to set up for the town. Commissioner Hibbs said that he had contacted Mr Gaskill and had received information about the cost of setting up a simple system. He said that Mr. Gaskill had offer ed to set it up for $75 and esti mated that the total cost, includ ing books and forms, would be about $200. The board members present agreed that the town needed some type of bookkeeping system and voted to ask Mr. Gaskill to explain the details of his proposal. Two Lose Licenses The state highway patrol has an nounced the revocation of the drivers licenses of Curtis Melvin Williams of Morchead City and Harold Frederick Howell, jr., of Newport. The action was taken after both men were convicted of drunken driving. " Senate Committee Drafts Measure Calling for Track Investigations The Senate Propositions and Grievances committee Wednesday killed a bill which would have outlawed dog tracks in Carteret and Currituck counties. A public hearing for opponents of the bill was held Tuesday after noon. The bill would have made pari-mutuel betting illegal in every county in the state. Only Carteret and Currituck at the present time have pari-mutuel gambling under a system of local adoption created some years ago. At the hearing Mayor George W. Dill, jr., of Morehead City told the committee that the city has used the funds it receives from the track 4tn furnish sprvir<?? In fitivnnc Tho Fisheries Request Night Shrimping Representatives of the commer cial fisheries industry yesterday asked the Conservation and De velopment board to allow night trawling for spotted shrimp again this year. The spotted shrimp which may be caught only at night was dis covered by the Institute of Fish eries Research of the University of North Carolina in 1950. After ex tensile research, investigation and study, the institute recommended to the conservation board in 1951 that the fishermen be allowed to trawl for the spotted shrimp at night. This night shrimp season which runs from the middle of May until July with a shorter run in October has added an estimated $250,000 to the income of the fishermen. The regular shrimp season runs from July 1 through December 31 with the shrimping confined to the daylight hours. Representing the institute at yesterday's meeting of the board was W. A. Ellison, jr., its director. After the institute's recommenda tion in 1951, the board allowed night shrimping from the middle of May until July. A similar poli cy was followed in 1952, but the j commercial fishermen must peti tion the board each year for the privilege of night shrimping for the spotted shrimp. Mt. Ellison reported that the nocturnal activities of the spotted shimp were unknown until the in stitute's discovery in 1950. During the daylight hours, the shrimp evi dently burrows into the mud, he said. Investigating shrimp at the in stitute in 1951 was Carter Broad who is now on the staff of Duke university. At the present time Dr. . Austin Williams is continuing the j work on the spotted shrimp. Dr. Williams is making a life study of the shrimp and has estab- 1 lished a series of 21 stations from | Queens to Cedar Island which he visits once every two weeks check ing on the development of the shrimp. In the fall the adult shrimp spawns at sea and the larvae are carried back into the sounds and rivers and creeks by the action of currents, tides and other unexplain ed factors. By November, Dr. Wil liams has detected the presence of larvae in the estuarine creeks lead ing into nearby rivers. As far as is known the shrimp is confined to Bogue sound, the Neuse waters and the lower part of Pamlico sound. After a dormant period of sev eral months, the shrimp start growing and in the early spring start their migration toward the sea. It is during this migratory period in May and June that the shrimp may be caught in the sounds. Once in the sea, the shrimp never returns to the sounds. The Conservation and Develop ment board held its regular spring meeting in Elizabeth City yester day. Indian Scientist Sees > Many U.S. Laboratories By Clare Cotton "This is a wonderful country," Dr. Santhappan Jones said in giv ing his impressions of the United States. A marine biologist, he has spent this week at the laboratory of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife ser vice on Pivers Island. Dr. Jones rame to the states in March and his itinerary will take him to marine biological labora tories in every section of the coun try. He is scheduled to return to India late in June. One of India's leading research workers in problems of marine bi ology, Dr. Jones is visiting this country under the provisions of the Point Four program. "We are mainly interested in food fish and increasing our sup ply of food in India," he said in describing his work. Pointing out that transportation and distri bution difficulties over the trop ical sub-continent of India create many headaches in making use of one area's food surplus in an area with a shortage. Dr. Jones said that the central government is develop ing a program of regional self suf ficiency. In this program of self suff icien cy in regions, inland freshwater fishing plays an important role. Dr. Jones is particularly interested in the Indian shad which is very sim ilar to the white shad caught along the Atlantic coast. The white shad is being studied intensively by the fisheries laboratory on Pivers Is land. "We have no trouble of over production, if we could solve our distribution problems we could double or treble our fish produc tion without having a surplus," he said. Many of the poor people in In dia are essentially fish eaters. Shrimp are caught in certain area* in abundance, and after drying they are ground into a paste which is used widely throughout the coun try. Fresh shad sometimes sell near the cities for the Indian equiv alent of 45 cents per pound, which according to Dr. Jones is very high indeed in India. "We don't do much about sport fishing," he said. The government has devoted all o f it* effort* to en larging the food lupply for the poor, people. Dr. Jones comment ed that in this country he doubted city gets 10 per cent of the money taken in at the track. Attending the meeting was John Masoni of Cleveland, Ohio, repre senting the principal owners of the two race tracks, lie offered to an swer any questions the committee might have about the operation of the tracks. Others from Carteret county at the opponents' hearing were Grover Munden, Floyd Chadwick, R. H. Dowdy, Delmas Willis, Elvin Franks. M. T. Mills, Dom Femia, Virgil Jenkins. Sheriff C. G. Hol land. and Ray Cummins. At a proponents' hearing the week before, the senators heard a Carteret county minister, the Rev. R. H. Jackson of Davis, say that many Carteret citizens were afraid to express their objections to the dog track for fear of "retalia tions." Other witnesses from ?urri~ tuck county at that hearing ad vanced the same argument. Under the proposed investiga tion bill, a committee of two sen ators and three representatives would be appointed by the lieu tenant governor and speaker of the house to look into the tracks at Moyock and Morehead City. The committee's recommendations would bo made to the 1955 General Assembly. The bill was introduced several weeks ago by nine senators includ ing Senator Adam J. Whitley, chairman of the Propositions and Grievances committee which killed the bill. At that time many charges of racket connections in the tracks were made. Wednesday Senator J. William Copeland of Hertford and Senator Whitley said they would sponsor legislation which would allow the people of Carteret and CHurriUtck counties to vote on whether they want to keep the tracks. Witnesses at the Tuesday op ponents' hearing told the commit tee that funds brought into their counties by the tracks had been very beneficial to general com munity. C of C Board * Orders Survey The board of directors of the Beaufort chamber of commercc voted at a meeting Tuesday night to approve a survey of property which has been offered for indus trial use. The chamber will pay for the survey as part of its cam paign to attract industries to Beau fort. It was reported at the meeting that prospectuses are being drawn up at the request of three indus trialists who have expressed inter est in Beaufort as an industrial site. Holden Ballou reported that work is underway on the project to pi an' concrete benches along the waterfront and at other places in town. He said that nameplates have been made which will bear the names of the merchants spon soring the project. The chamber will pay half of the cost, of the benches, and various merchants will pay the rest of the cost. Dr. W. L. Woodard, chairman of the chamber's utilities committee reported that 151 applications have been completed in conncction with the telephone survey being carried out by the committee. Dr. Woodard said that as soon as the survey is completed, the applications and maps of the areas surveyed will be forwarded to the North Carolina REA and the state utilities commission. Treasurer Glenn Adair reported that $2,883 has been pledged by chamber members this vear. He said that he has collected $2,433.65 including payments on pledges for the bench project. The directors voted to advertise in Collins' Tourist Handbook. Present at the meeting were Gerald Hill, president; Dan Wal ker, manager of the chamber; Mr. Ballou. Mr. Adair. Dr. Woodard and Halaey Paul, directors. Morehead City Church Plans Spring Revival In conjunction with the simul taneous evangelistic crusade, the First Baptist church of Morehead City will begin it* spring revival Sunday. The Rev. Charles E. Parker, pas tor of the First Baptist church of New Bern, will preach the evan gelistic messages at services each night. The Rev. John Bunn, pastor o I the church, has invited the I to attend Um revival services.
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