NEWS-TIMES OFFICE
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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??
4jnd YEAR. NO. 44. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
-.gioners Al'?w
The board of county commission-^
ers at their meeting yesterday
morning voted to authorize James
D. Potter, county auditor, to draw
up a budget on the same basis as
the 1952-53 budget.
The board made two exceptions.
The commissioners voted to allo
cate $10,000 to the board of educa
tion U> make up the total amount
needed for the Camp Glenn school
and to accept the welfare depart
ment budget approved at the last
meeting. Budgets for all other
departments will remain as they
have been during the current fiscal
year.
The action was taken after sev
eral department heads asked the
board for budget increases for next
year.
R. M. Williams, county farm
agent, and Miss Martha Barnett,
home demonstration agent asked
the board to authorize ten per cent
salary increases for some of the
employees in their departments.
They also asked the commission
ers to authorize the employment of
an assistant home demonstration
agent to work with 4-H club girls
throughout the county. They said
that the county's share of the assis
tant's salary would be $1,500.
Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county
health officer, asked for an in
crease of about $3,000 over last
year's health department budget.
He said that about $420 would be
for proposed salary increases for
department employees and the rest
represented the decrease in the
funds received from other sources
and the increase in the depart
ment's operating expenses. He
pointed out that there has been
little increase in the department's
budget in recent years.
E. M. Foreman, county fire war
den, reported that there would be
an increase in the cost of fire pro
tection during the next fiscal year.
He said that an increase in the
valuation of the property in the
county was responsible for an in
crease in the county's share of ex
pense for fire protection. In the
past, the county has paid 30 per
cent of the cost, with the state
providing the rest of the funds.
Next year,, the county will have
to pay 35 per cent.
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, asked the commis
sioners to approve the action of
the board of education in voting to
transfer money if necessary to com
plete the work on the Camp Glenn
school. The commissioners ap
proved the transfer of money from
the current operating expense fund
to the capital outlay fund.
In urging the county to adopt
a budget similar to the present one,
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, chairman of
the board, said that the requests
of the various department heads
are far ahead of tlfe total possible
See COMMISSIONERS, Page 6
Tobacco Demand
Expected Firm
A firm domestic demand for
most tobacco, especially cigarette
types, is expected in the year
ahead, the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond reported this week.
On the assumption that employ
ment and consumer incomes will
continue at a high level, it seems
likely that consumption of ciga
rettes, cigars, smoking tobacco, and
snuff will be as large or larger
than, last year, the report states.
The export demand for the 1933
crop, however, is much more un
certain. There is some likelihood
that leaf exports in 1953 will be
larger than the 1952 total which
was almost a fourth below 1951
and the smallest for any peacetime
year since 1918.
Favorable factors on the export
side are the low stocks of United
States flue-cured abroad in rela
tion to consumption; the continued
preference for American-type ciga
rattes by many foreign smokers;
and the evidence of improvement
in ? the economic positions of sev
eral important importing countriei.
On the reverse side of the picture,
the major problem will continue
to be the availability of dollar ex
change to foreign buyers.
The Department of Agriculture
has announced that the 1953 crops
of flue-cured, burley and Maryland
tobaccos will be supported at 90
per cent of parity. The minimum
support level for flue-cured was
set at 47.9 cents per pound aa
against last year's 50.8*ent aver
age. The burley minimum has
been set at 46.6 cents this year
compared with 49.5 centa last year;
and Maryland tobacco will have a
minimum support rate of 50.4 cents
per pound was announced for the
1953 crops which will be sold next
spring.
The actual level of support will
. not be leaa than these prices and
will be Increased if the level com
puted at the beginning of the mar
keting year is higher than the an
nounced minimum.
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Miss Morehead City
Miss Judy Perry will be hostess to the Miss North Carolina beauty
pageant here in July as Miss Morehead City of 1953. She was named
at a contest sponsored by the Morehead City Jaycees.
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
Choral Club Production
To be Staged Tomorrow
Shrimp Trawler
Runs Aground K
The Beaufort shrimp trawler.
Lively Lady, went aground Satur
day morning near Fort Macon after
its motor refused to start. The
trawler was still aground yesterday
although plans were underway to
refloat it.
William Bates, operator of the
trawler, said that it grounded short
ly after midnight when its battery
went dead. Bates, James Landall
and Robert Modlin, all of Beaufort,
had stopped shrimping for a short
time and were drifting with the
engine cut off.
When they attempted to start
the engine again, they discovered
that the battery was dead and the
engine would not start They an
chored outside the breakers and
notified the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard arrived on the
scepe and attempted to take the
trawler in tow. As the Coast
Guard began to pull on the tow
line, a member of the trawler's
crew cut the anchor line.
The tow line, which apparently
had not been made fast to the traw
ler, came loose, and a strong south
west breeze drove the trawler
ashore. The three crewmen reached
shore safely.
The trawler is in six feet of
water a short distance off shore.
It is being pounded by the surf, and
there is a possibility that it will
break up before it can be refloated.
? The annual summer production
of the Beaufort Choral club will
open at > p.nj. tomorrow in the
Beaufort school auditorium and
will continue through Friday.
Tickets for the song, dance and
piano revue may be obtained at
Merrill's in Beaufort or at Leary's
in Morehead City. They may also
be obtained from members of the
Beaufort or Morehead City Band
Boosters' clubs, which are spon
soring the show.
The revue, staged and directed
by Mrs. Virgina Hassell, will in
clude original interpretations of
all-time song hits by such compos
ers as Victor Herbert Jerome Kern,
George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Puc
cini and Sibelius.
One of the features of the show
will be a three-scene adaption of
Kern's musical comedy hit, Rober
ta. The revue will also include
12 choral numbers, piano duets by
Mrs. Hassell and Merry Palazzo and
four song and dance production
numbers.
Among those taking part in the
revue are Sally Herring, Betty Lou
Merrill, B. G. O'Neal, Jimmy Webb,
Dee Waldrop, Rachel Mundine,
Bobby Bell. Sal Palazzo, George
Stafford and Corinne Webb.
Among the song hits which will
be presented are Strike Up the
Band, Rhapsody in Blue, Smoke
Gets in Your Eyes, The Conti
nental, Lovely to Look At, Sere
nade in Blue and many others.
The cast, which includes a chor
us of 90, and the production crew
has been working since February to
make the revue a success.
The Choral club's production
last summer, Parade of Stars,
played to a packed house for two
nights.
Ocracoke Students Tend
Graves of Englishmen *
Ocracoke school children have
again held a memorial service at
the "Cunningham" cemetery on the
island where {our Englishmen from
the HMS Bedfordshire, torpedoed
in May 1942. are buried.
Last year the story of the Brit
ish graveyard with its four croues
for Lieutenant Tom Cunningham,
Stanley A. Craig, and two unidenti
fied sailors, aroused much interest.
The British Embassy in Washing
ton, D. C., sent small flags in the
name of "Her Majesty's Ambassa
dor" and thanked "the community
and the local Coast Guard unit for
its care of the graveyard."
Four more flags came from a
man in Norfolk with the request
lot the address of Lt. Cunning
ham's son in England; a large Brit
ish flag came from ? lady In York,
Pa.; and letters came from people
bow living in various parts of
North Carolina who had known Lt
Cunningham and CapL Davis, of
ficer-in -charge of the Bedfordshire
during its short stay In More head
City.
8. S. SUvuson of Henctanon,
who had entertained the two of
ficers aboard his yacht in Morehead
City on May 10, four days before
their bodies were found on Ocra
coke beach, sent two pictures of
the officers taken on hit yacht.
Last summer. Hiss Fannie Pearl
Fulcher of Ocracoke and Raleigh,
took these letters and pictures to
Mrs. Cunningham and Mrs. Davis
when she visited them in England
while on a tour of Europe. Both
wives were delighted to receive
the pictures and letters. The body
of Capt. Davis was never identi
fied, but letters from Mrs. Davis
indicate that she likes to think
that he is buried with his friend
on Ocracoke "where people are in
terested."
Another body was found and
buried at Cape Hatteraa; and an
other found on a shoal in Pamlico
sound was buried at Swan Quarter.
AU were identified aa personnel
from the Bedfordshire, a British
patrol craft, which disappeared
with all handa lott en route from
Norfolk to its temporary home port
at Morehead City 11 years ago.
Hail Damage to County Tobacco
Farms Estimated to be $70,000
School Board *
Honors Moore
The county board of education, i
at a meeting last week, adopted a
resolution commending Dr. L. W.
Moore of Beaufort, who recently re
tired after 16 years as chairman of
the board.
The resolution was offered by
Charles V. Webb and seconded by
D. Mason, who served with Dr.
Moore on the old board of educa
tion. It was adopted unanimously.
The resolution follows:
Whereas, Dr. L. W. Moore has
served as chairman of the board
of education of Carteret county for
16 years, and
Whereas, Dr. Moore has given
freely of his time and energy to
the cause of education in Carteret
county, often to the neglect of his
'practice and personal health, and
Whereas, Dr. Moore felt that he
must give up his office as a mem
ber of the board of education of
Carteret county in the interest of
his health, and
Whereas, the 1953 general assem
bly named a successor to Dr. Moore,
Therefore, be it resolved that we
the old members, Charles V. Webb
and D. Mason, and the new mem
bers, R. W. Safrit, jr., W. B. Allen
and Theodore B. Smith and the ex
officio secretary, H. L. Joslyn, take
this means of expressing our deep
and heartfelt appreciation for the
untiring efforts of Dr. Moore in
the cause of education and for his
loyal friendship and leadership in
both public and private life,
That we commend him for his
abiding interest in and concern for
the welfare of the schools, the chil
dren and the teachers of Carteret
county; his untiring and unselfish
devotion in service to them; his
proven loyalty to his convictions,
and his fairness, congeniality and
cooperation with the board in all
its deliberations and activities both
individually and as a body;
Be it resolved further, fltat'in our
opinion, the schools of Carteret
county have, through the severance
of his services, lost a valued coun
sellor and friend, whose high ideals
and patriotic and unselfish services
may well be taken as a guide and
inspiration to succeeding members
of this board;
Be it resolved further that a copy
of this resolution be spread upon
the minutes of this board, a copy
delivered to Dr. L. W. Moore and a
copy given to the press.
Wildwood Crash
Injures Four *
A Newport man and three Cherry
Point marines were injured Satur
day afternoon in a wreck on US 70
near Wildwood. Lem A. Gibblc of
Newport was taken to the More
head City hospital where he is be
ing treated for a chest Injury. Jon
Ray Robson, C. W. Jackson and
L. M. Torcsdahl were taken to the
Cherry Point dispensary. The ex
tent of their injuries is unknown.
Gibblc was a passenger in a
pickup truck being driven by Gar
field Clark of Newport. Clark told
Highway Patrolman J. W. Sykes
that he was driving west on US 70
at the time of the accident He
said that a car approaching from
the opposite direction skidded and
then cut across the road in front of
him. Clark's truck (truck the other
car in the side.
Robson told the patrolman that
he tried to stop when a jeep in
front of him slowed down and sig
nalled for a left turn. He said that
his car skidded more than 100 feet
after he applied his brakes. Rob
son told Sykes that when he saw
that he would be unable to stop
he cut to the left in front of the
other line of traffic.
Robson said that he was faced
with the choice of striking the car
in front of him or taking a chance
on avoiding the oncoming traffic.
He finally decided to take a chance
on turning to the left.
Robaon has been charged with
careless and reckless driving and
will be tried today in county re
corder's court.
Tide Table
Tide* it BeiafM-t Bar
HIGH LOW
Tueaday, June 2
11:36 a.m. 5:36 a.m.
11:80 p.m. 5:50 p.m.
Wedneaday, Juae 3
6:27 a.m.
12:34 p.m. 6:58 p.m.
Thnraday, Juae 4
12:56 a.m. 7:22 an.
1:36 p.m. 6:01 p.m.
Friday, J? I
2:00 a.m. 6:20 a.m.
2:41 pjn. 6:10 pjD.
Miss Beaufort
Miss Mary Frazier Paul was named Miss Beaufort of 1953 at a
contest sponsored by the Beaufort Jaycees recently. She will repre
sent Beaufort in the Miss North Carolina contest.
l*h <to by Jerry Schumacher
Food Handlers School
To Hold First Session *
Carteret county's first food
handlers' school will open at 9:30
this morning in the Morehead City
school cafeteria. .The ?*hool will
continue through Thursday with
both morning and afternoon ses
sions.
The purpose of the school is to
promote health through better san
itation in food handling. It is be
ing sponsored by the county health
department in cooperation with the
state board of health, the local res
taurant industry and the North
Carolina Restaurant association.
Classes will include lectures and
demonstrations by outstanding au
thorities in the fields of sanitation
and food handling and the latest
in educational movies.
The same material will be cover
ed at both sessions on each day.
This will give all employees of eat
ing establishments an opportunity
to attend the school. Classes will
begin at 9:30 a.m. and at 3 p.m.
Today's opening session will be
devoted to bacteriology for food
handlers. W. A. Broadway, district
sanitarian for the state board of
health, will be the main speaker
at the session. His subject will be
Germs We Encounter in Food
Handling. Ray M. Connor and E.
J. Willis of the state board of
health will give a demonstration
of bacteria collection.
Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, Carteret
county health officer, will preside
at today's sessions. Mayor George
W. Dill, jr., of Morehead City will
welcomc the students and lecturers,
and the Rev. Dr. John Bunn, pastor
of the First Baptist church of
Morehead City, will give the invo
cation.
The subject for tomorrow's ses
sions will be Good Methods Assure
Safe Food. T. W. Minah, director
of dining halls at Duke university
will be the speaker. He will dis
cuss recommended food service
methods.
Thursday's classes will cover
proper dishwashing. M. M. Melvin,
executive secretary and vice-presi
dent of the North Carolina Res
taurant association will speak on
proper techniques in the sanita
tion of eating and drinking uten
sife. A. D. Fulford, sanitarian for
the county health department will
j report on the results of the bacteria
i collection.
N. McK. Caldwell of the state
board of health will preside at the
session. Mr. Broadway will give a
summary of the course, and this
will be followed by a brief exam
ination on the subject matter of
the course.
Those who complete the course
will receive certificates, and spe
cial awards will be made to estab
lishments with 100 per cent staff at
tendance at the school. Door prizes,
donated by Morehead City mer
chants, will be awarded to those at
tending the school.
The school is open to all res
taurant managers and employees,
school lunch room employees,
cook* in private homes, home eco
nomics students and all those inter
ested in food handling
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Reparians Hear
TrumanKemp '
Truman Kemp of the Morehcad
City Garment company spoke on
relations between management and
employees at Thursday night's
meeting of the Morehcad City
Rotary club.
Mr. Kemp reviewed an article in
The Kotarian which said that man
agement often does not know what
employees really want. He said
that this was proven by a survey
of various industrial plants which
was taken in 1946.
He said that as a result of the
survey, many plants have begun
holding religious exercises during
working hours, and some have em
ployed full-time ministers to offer
advice and guidance to their em
ployees.
Mr. Kemp said that the garment
company is one of the plants which
holds a weekly religious service.
The service is very popular with
the workers, according to Mr.
Kemp.
The speaker was introduced by
Albert Gaskill, who was program
chairman for the night.
Henry Edwards of the Newport
Rotary club was a guest at the
meeting.
Masontown Suffers Heaviest Fall; x
Bogue, Peletier, Stella Also Hit
Hail damage to tobacco in the Newport, Bogue. Peletier, and Stella
area Sunday night has been estimated at around $70,000.
In the Newport section of the county hail foil in two bursts of
about five minutes each, it was reported. The size of the hail-stones
! ranged from that of marbles to walnuts, with the fall being quite heavy.
In addition to the tobacco damage, corn and gardens were also
hurt by the hail. Tobacco in the Masontown section is almost a com
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Havelock Plans
Town Election
Due to an error in planning, con
fusion has developed in Havelock
I concerning the town's incorpora
tion election next week.
An error in the drawing of the
map and the wording of a bill
passed in the General Assembly in
cludes the Pine Acres section of
Havelock. The interim committee
guiding the town's efforts at in
corporation have stated that they
had no intention of adding Pine
Acres.
The election will take place next
Tuesday. A total of 47 residents
had registered for the election
through the first two registration
days.
The election will be limited to
those qualified voters who register.
A qualified voter does not have to
own property in the proposed area
but must meet the ordinary state
qualifications for voting.
Reports from informed sources
reveal that the residents of the
Pine Acres section are expected to
vote almost unanimously against
the incorporation proposal.
Agitation for Havelock incor
poration started last December
when a public meeting was called
in the auditorium of the Cherry
Point school. At that time a com
mittee to study the proposal and
prepare a possible budget and tax
schedule under the chairmanship
of Robert L. Rose wps established.
Flnce -Aha t time the propoMd
boundaries of the area to be incor
porated have been changed several
times. The bill setting the election
which passed through the General
Assembly was introduced by Sam
Whitehurst, Craven county assem
blyman. Leaders of the town re
port that Mr. Whitehurst intro
duced his bill in exact accord with
the instructions which they gave
him.
In discussing the election, resi
dents of the Pine Acres section
have been urged to register and
vote by J. C. Godwin and W. J.
Wynne, two members of the com
mittee. They point out that the
area was included by mistake but
that nothing can be done about it
now.
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Temperatures Still High
Despite Heavy Rainfall
Temperatures in the county re
mained high in the closing days of
May despite the heavy rains which
fell Sunday night.
The highest temperature re
corded in the last four days of
the month was 85 on Sunday.
Max. Min
Thunday. May 28 80 62
Friday, May 20 82 60
Saturday, May 30 81 60
Sunday, May 31 85 74
School Improvement Tied
To City Limit Extension
"There is no question but that
the Camp Glenn school would be a
better school if it were annexed to
Morehead City," H. L. Joslyn, su
perintendent of Carteret county
schools, said this week in an inter
view.
Pointing out that state law for
bids transportation of children in
buses from one school district to
another if schools are available,
Mr. Joslyn said that for sometime
no effort has been made to keep
children from the areas west of
the present city limits from attend
ing the Morehead City school.
"In the near future we will defi
nitely have to make some new ar
rangement," he said. Both schools
have been greatly over-crowded in
recent years, but some of this
should be alleviated by the new
Camp Glenn school building. Low
bids were awarded on this project
last week.
"Our school planning would be
greatly simplified. If the Camp
Glenn school area were a part of
Morehead City," Mr. Joslyn com
mented.
He pointed out that if the two
schools were in one system, the
system could make use of teaching
personnel such as public school
music and band which would not
be available to the Camp Glenn
school U H ware not in the town.
in allocating leachcrs under the
state system which is baaed on
average daily attendance, both
schools would benefit if they were
in a system and could be consider
ed as a single unit, Mr. Josiyn said.
The Morehead City school will be
entitled to two more teachers next
year on the basis of its average
daily attendance, he reported.
Local fire insurance agents, have
also reported that rates on stand
ard dwellings would be reduced
from 52 cents per $100 value to
23 cents per $100, if the areas were
incorporated. The reduction would
be proportional on business build
ings.
Real estate men also state that
property values will increase be
cause of city services and protec
tion, if the areas are annexed. FHA
loans are also restricted to homes
with access to city utilities service
or homes with water and other util
itiei supplied.
Zoning protection of property
will also act to increase and pro
tect the values of property. The
city promised the areas in ita
statements before the recent an
nexation election that water mains
and zoning protection would be ex
tended to any area added to the
town. Annexation waa defeated at
that time by U votes.
r,m*ic loss wim some farm leaders
estimating the total damage at
$50,000 to $60,000.
The damage in the Boguc sec
tion was estimated at approximate
ly $15,000 to $20,000 No damage
reports were available from Pele
tier and Stella, though it was re
ported that hail fell in those sec
tions.
One farmer said that for the past
four years he had been carrying
hail insurance without ever collect
ing so this year he hadn't taken out
any insurance. Leaders reported
that in general most of the tobacco
had not been insured against hail
damage.
In the Masontown area, windows
were broken in houses, and resi
dents of Newport said that their
yards and grounds were complete
ly covered by stones after each of
the two hail flurries.
C. S. Long, vocational agricul
tural instructor at the Newport
school, reported that the hail "was
very bad on the farms." "The Ma
sontown section was hit harder
than any other section 1 have seen,"
he said.
The county farm agent. R. M.
Williams, said that in addition to
tobacco damage, farmers had re
ported to his office that corn, toma
toes, watermelons and other gar
den crops were damaged heavily
by the hail. "Farmers from the
Bogue section estimate their dam
age at about $15,000 to $20,000,"
he said, "and farmers reporting
from the Masontown area have esti
mated their damage at approxi
mately $50,000 to $60,000.
Looter Arrested
With 'Hot' Eggs '
George Mitchell. Negro, was
caught with the "eggs in his
pockets" early Sunday morning,
after Beaufort police officers were
told that a man was looting the ice
box on the fishing vessel, W. A.
Macc.
Carlton Garner, chief of th?
Beaufort police, reported that
Mitchell came up to him as he
boarded the vessel and said, "the
man who was at the icebox just
went that way." A boy who had
reported the looting to the police,
said. "That's the man right there."
After his arrest. Chief Garner
said that Mitchell's pockets were
full of eggs and that eggs, butter,
and sausage were found on the
stern of the Commander which was
moored beside the W. A. Mace.
The police officers were return
ing to their headquarters after ar
resting Charlie Wilson, Negro, of
Beaufort, route 1, for trespassing
on property near Front street,
when the boy ran out in the street,
stopped them and reported that a
man was ransacking the icebox,
Chief Garner said.
In other action over the week
end, Bernicc B. Fulcher was
charged with failing to give proper
supervision to her minor children
and contributing to their delin
quency. She was cited to appear
in county recorder's court today.
Chief Garner reported that her ?
children had been spotted roaming
the streets late at night and early
in the morning.
Lillian Pittman of Morehead
City was arrested for public drunk
enness and will be tried in re
corder's court this afternoon. Also
arrested for public drunkenneaa
were Harry Simpson. Beaufort,
route 1, John Brown. Negro, Savan
nah, Ga., and Ernest Bright. Negro,
Beaufort. All of these cases will
be tried in municipal recorder'*
court.
James Rogers, Negro, of Bel
grade. Fla., was arrested for allow
ing Jack Cuspert, Negro, of Bel
grade, to drive his car while under
the influence of an intoxicating
beverage. Cuspert was arrested for
driving an automobile drunk.
John W. Thompson, Negro, Beau
fort, and William Murray, Negro,
were cited to appear in recorder*!
court for driving with improper
mufflers. Marvin O. Pasimore, Ne
gro. Homestead, Fla., was charged
with failure to stop at the inter- '
section of Cedar and Queen streets.
Few Place* Left
G. T. Windell. principal of tfM
Morehead City school, says that
there are a few openings left in
the school's post-graduate commer
cial course and haa asked thoae in
terested in the course to contact
him at the school during the i
ten days or at bil home.