NEWS-TIMES OFFICE
504 Armtd.il St.
Morwhaad City
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(ARnRET COUNTY NEWS-IIMES
42nd YEAR, NO. 46. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
New Morehead Annexation Asked
County Farmers May Save Part
Of Storm-Damaged Tobacco
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m. vviiuams, county larnv*
agent, says that he believes to
bacco farmers, whose fields were
damaged by last weekend's hail
storms, may still be able to harvest
some of their tobacco.
Mr. Williams says that with fav
orable weather conditions and prop
er management the farmers have
a chance to harvest about two
thirds of a normal crop.
He explains that tobacco stalks
cut off by hail will send out suck
ers at the axis of the lower leaves.
He says that the most vigorous
sucker should be left to grow and
all other plant parts should be
removed immediately.
The tobacco should be cultivated
to control weeds and grass. Mr.
Williams recommends that about
six inches of the original stalk be
left if possible.
The two hail storms, one Satur
day afternoon and one Sunday af
ternoon, did damage to crops and
buildings in Peletier, Bogue and
Newport. The damage has been
estimated at about $75,000.
On many farms, corn, beans, wa
termelons and home gardens are
a complete loss. Tobacco, which
was about knee-high before the
storms, was beaten and cut down
to stubbs about three or four inch
es high.
The large hailstones knocked out
windows in many homes, particular
ly in the Masontown section of
Newport. Hester Quinn of New-1
port had to replace 30 window
panes in his home. Asphalt roof
ing was removed from many homes
and outbuildings, and metal roof
ing was dented.
Among the farmers who have re
ported heavy damage to crops are
G. C. Garner, Lonnie Howard, Har
old Simmons and Lawrence Gar
ner of Newport, Gatlin Arthur and
Elijah Guthrie of Bogue and Lee
Sawrey of Peletier.
" Etttte* of tht damage is covered
by crop insurance. One farmer
said that he had carried insurance
on his tobacco for ten years but
had never needed it. This year he
failed to obtain the insurance.
Another hailstorm on Monday
caused damage amounting to al
most three million dollars in Hali
fax, Northhampton and Bertie
counties.
Heaviest damage was reported in
Northhampton where M. P. Chest
nut, county agent, says that 25
per cent of the cotton acreage
wis destroyed. About 68,000 acres
q! cotton were "hopelessly dam
igei in the county.
In Halifax, more than 800 acres
of cotton were damaged according
to W. O. Davis, county agent.
C. II. Kirkman, county agent in
Bertie county, says that the hail
' damaged 20,000 acres of cotton,
4,000 acres of corn and 800 acres
of tobacco.
Adair Describes
Mexican Trip
At Tuesday night's meeting o(
the Beaufort Rotary club, Glenn
Adair described his recent trip to
Mexico and gave his observations
on the country's standard of living.
He said that unlike the United
States, Mexico has a much sharper
distinction between the classes of
people. He said that just about
everybody is very rich or very
poor. The lower classes in the ru
ral areas share their adobe huts
with their livestock and have prac
tically no sanitation. In the cities
there arc palatial homes belonging
to the members of the upper
classes.
Mr. Adair said that the school
system is quite different from ours.
The district schools go up to the
sixth grade and offer a very ele
mentary education. Federal schools
in the large cities provide facilities
for those who desire more than
just an elementary education.
He said that hospitals in the
larger cities are very modern and
appear to have been built within
the past few years. Mr. Adair said
that he believes that good medical
care is just developing in Mexico.
He also told his audience that the
idea that one can retire in Mexico
and live like a king is just a myth.
He said that while some items, par
ticularly handcraft items, can be
purchased much more cheaply, the
basic necessities cost almost as
much as they do at home.
Guests at the meeting were Jack
Holt, Walter Edwards and. Floyd
Chadwick of Morehead City, Tom
my Eure of Beaufort, Hallie Mc
Ginnis of New Orleans, Charles
Malone of Effingham, III., Penn
Moore of Golds boro and C. C.
Abcrnathy of Lumberton.
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Town Board Votes
To Hold Tax Sale 4
At a short meeting Monday night,
the Beaufort town board ordered
property on which taxes have not
been paid to be advertised and
sold.
The board vifted to sell all
property on which any taxes are
delinquent for the period between
1940 and 1952. The sale was sched
uled for July 16.
The board gave Dan Walker,
town clerk, permission to close out
the 1952-53 budget as of June 10
when May bills are paid. All
June bills will be paid under next
year's budget.
Mr. Walker explained that since
the June bills are not paid until
mid-July, it will be difficult to work
out next year's budget if those
bills are included on the present
budget. The 1953-54 budget, which
is supposed to be ready July 1, is
based on expenditures during the
current fiscal year.
Mr. Walker also asked all depart
ment heads to confer with him
about the financial needs of their
departments for the coming fiscal
year.
Miss Vita Longest asked the com- j
missioners to take action with
regard to draining the intersection
of Moore and Broad streets. She
said that water which collects at
the intersection is slowly washing
away much of her property and is
damaging her house.
The commissioners asked War
dell Fillingame, street foreman,
and Gray Hassell, civil engineer, to
survey the area and determine what
can be done to improve drainage.
The commissioners voted to
spend $215 for an inside cover
ad in The State magazine's Carter
et county edition which will be
published June 27.
Present at the meeting were
Mayor L. W. Hassell; Commission
ers Clifford T. Lewis, Carl Hat
sell, James Humley and Math Chap
lain; Mr. Walker; Mr. Fillingame;
Glenn Adair, police Commissioner;
J. P. Harris, firc-commissioner;
Gerald Woolard, building inspec
tor; and Carlton Garner, chief of
police. Commissioners-elect Ger
ald Hill and Gordon Hardesty were
also present at the meeting.
K
Joslyn Describes School
Year as 'One of the Best'
Construction
Totals $16,210 K
Building permits for work total
ing $16,200 were issued during the
month of May, according to Gerald
Woolard, Beaufort building inspec
tor.
The major part of the cost was
accounted for by alterations to the
Beaufort theatre. Stewart Everett
Enterprises, owner of the theatre,
reported that the work would cost
$ Kt, 000.
The theatre owners say that the
alterations and rebuilding of the
old theatre does not mean that they
have given up their plan to build
a new theatre in Beaufort. They
say, however, that the property
which they want for a site for the
theatre is not now available.
The Hamilton Furniture com
pany-received a permit to build a
warehouse on Live Oak street at a
cost of $2,500.
Masonic lodge No. 248 obtained
a permit for the construction of a
lodge hall on Pollock street. Coat
of the work will be $2,000.
F. R. Bell was given a permit to
reroof a dwelling on Front street
at a cost of $800. Charles Jarman
is reroofing a dwelling on Broad
street for $400, and Herbert Par
kins is reroofing a dwelling on
Front street at a cost of $500.
r This past year nas been one of
our best," H. L. Joslyn, county su
perintendent at srhutb, said this
week in reporting on the year's
work in the school system.
During the first 10 days on the
1952 53 school year student enroll
ment in the county totalled 4.698,
Mr. Joslyn reortcd. By the end of
the seventh month of the school
year the total enrollment had
grown to 5,032 with an average
daily attendance of 4,622 and an
average daily membership of 4,835.
The average daily attendance in
the previous year was 4,488 and the
initial enrollment this year marked
an immediate increase of 124 over
the previous year. Of this year's
average daily membership. 3,988
were white students and 847 were
Negro students.
"Every year we get further be
hind," Mr. Joslyn said in comment
ing on the county's problems of
housing and teaching its constantly
expanding school population. "We
don't know how to cut the cloth
we've got to fit,"
All of the principals in the sys
tem have been retained except at
the Camp Glenn school where
Manley Fulcher, this year's prin
cipal. will take the class taught by
R. W. Davis this year and Mr. Davis
will be building principal next
year.
The state has increased the coun
ty's teacher allotment by two for
the coming year making a total of
166 teachers plus seven staff mem
See SCHOOL, Page 3
Kinslon Group *
Seeks Highway
The Kinston chamber of com
merce has begun efforts to have NC
12 extended from Pollocksville to
Havelock in an effort to relieve
congestion on US 70 between More
head City and Kinston.
The chamber believes that the
extension of the highway would
eliminate much of the congestion
on US 70 west of Cherry Point. The
new highway would allow motor
ists to travel from Kinston to More
head City without going through
New Bern.
At a meeting Monday, the Lenoii
county commissioners adopted a
resolution calling upon the state
highway commission to take steps
to extend the highway as soon as
possible "for the relief of the trav
eling public between points west
of Morehead City and Morehead
City."
Charles L. McCullers. manager
of the chamber of commerce has
forwarded copies of the resolution
to Joe Dubois of the Morehead City
chamber of commerce and Nicho
las Walker of Beaufort.
In the letter which accompanied
the resolution, Mr. McCullers said
that the chamber is vitally inter
ested in the project and that its
officers are convinced that the pro
ject would be in the public inter
est "from the standpoint of the
health, safety and welfare of the
thousands of citizens who travel
daily from Kinston to Morehead
City."
Mr. Walker submitted the pro
posal for the extension of the high
way to the Carteret county board
of commissioners who took no ac
tion on the matter at tveir *Icmday
metting. The commissioned said
that they felt the matter should
be discussed with Maynard Hicks,
highway commissioner for the sec
ond division.
Beaufort Home <
Destroyed by Fire
A fire of undetermihed origin
Wednesday afternoon almost com
pletely destroyed a house in the
Negro section of Beaufort. Only
a blackened shell remains of the
home of Alfred Anderson in the
700 block of Cedar street.
Beaufort firemen were called to
the secene at 1:30 p.m. and worked
for more than an hour to extinguish
the fire. They were unable to save
more than the shell of the house,
but they prevented the spread of
the fire to other houses in the
vicinity.
The occupant of the house man
aged to save some of their furni
ture, but most of their poesessions
were destroyed in the blaze. None
of the occupants were injured in
the fire.
The fire department is still inves
tigating the cause of the fire but
so far has been unable to deter
mine the cause.
The .building was owned by C.
R. Wheatly, jr., who says that he
has not not yet determined the
amount of the damage.
Carteret Delegates to Boys' and Girls' State
Uttl pasta ef Un Aaeifcaa Leflaa and American Lrxkn Auxiliary have chosen
these high achlil atadeata to repreeeat Morrhead City aad Beaafort at Um 1953 Boya'
State aad Glrta' State. The Boya' State will hegla Jade 14 aad ead June 21; the Gtrb'
State will he (la iaae 2t aad raa for MM week. Ob the left tee the Morehead City
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Walker Naare, alternate, Wayne King, Sadie Harria, Helen Lee, alter
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June Court Term *
To Open Monday
The June term of Carteret coun
ty superior court will open Monday
with a long criminal and civil
docket facing Judge Henry L.
Stevens of Warsaw, who will pre
side over the two-week term.
The superior court judge will
hear a total of 41 civil cases and
40 criminal cases. The first week
of the session will be both criminal
and civil, and the second week will
be civil cases, if all criminal cases
are disposed of in the first week.
The manslaughter trial of Lundy
and Connie Gillikin, who were in
dicted at the March term, will be
held at this court session. The two
youths were bound over to the su
perior court last November after a
coroner's jury ruled that both were
negligent in the accident which
caused the death of Donald L. Law
rence.
On the civil calendar for this
term is a suit against Lundy Gilli
kin and his father, W. L. Gillikin,
by Ruby Lawrence, administratrix
of the dead boy's estate. A motion
by the two defendants has also
made Connie Gillikin a party to the
suit. Mrs. Lawrence seeks $50,000
damages for her son's death.
The superior court will also try
Vernon (Red) Sanders, Morehead
City taxi driver, charged with com
mitting a crime against nature, at
tempting to commit such a crime
and possessing obscene literature
| for purposes of distribution. He
was bound over to the grand jury
last month after a preliminary
hearing in Morehead City record
er's court.
Curtis Bell and Tom Collins will 1
be tried for breaking and entering
and larceny in the theft of two
shotguns from a Morehead City
hardware store. George Murray will
be tried for receiving stolen prop
erty, one of the shotguns.
On the civil calendar is a suit
filed against Marvin Britt of Bettie
by Marshal Johnson of North
River, whose young son, Edward
Earl Johnson, was killed by a car
operated by Britt. Johnson asks
damages totaling $10,640. At the
March term of court, the grand
jury refused to indict Britt on a
manslaughter charge.
Damages amounting to $15,000
are being asked in two suits filed
against the Dr. Pepper Bottling
company of New Bern. Mae Law
rence Smith is seeking $10,000, and
J. E. Matthews is asking for $5,000.
Both plaintiffs allege that they
were injured by glass and other
foreign substances in soft drinks
bottled by the company.
Among the 14 divorce cases on
the calendar is one filed by Mrs.
Esther Mae Gillikin against her
husband, Clayton Gillikin of Otway.
Gillikin is now serving a 26-year
prison sentence for second degree
murder in the shotgun slaying of
his cousin, Bennie Gillikin, who
was shot to death as he and Clay
ton's wife sat in a parked car out
side a cafe on the Harkers Island
road. I
Mayor , Commissioners x
7o/ce Office in Newport
Edgar Hibbs was sworn in as<
mayor of Newport at Tuesday
nights' meeting of the board of
town commissioners. Sworn in
with him were the now commis
sioners, D. Ira Garner, S. Early
Mann, Charles Hill, Murray McCain
arid Wilbur Garner.,*#.
Mr. Hibbs, a former member of
the board of ctabmissioners, re
placed Charles A Gould, jr., who
had declined to seek re-election:
His place on the board was filled
by Wilbur Garner. The other
commissioners were members of
the previous board.
Before turning the town govern
ment over to his successor, Mayor
Gould presided at a short business
session and reported on expendi
tures during the last month of his
term. He then thanked the mem
bers of the board for their cooper
ation during his two-year term.
The first action taken by the new
hoard was the reappointment of
George Ball of Morehead City as
town attorney for the next two
years.
Bill Wright of The State maga
zine asked the board to consider
an ad in the magazine's June 27
issue which will be devoted to CaT
teret county. After a lengthy dis
tubeion, the commissioners voted
to take a quarter-page ad in the
edition. Cost of the ad will be $48.
Mayor Hibbs said that he would
contact Phillip Ball, surveyor, and
have him draw up a new map of
the town streets for the Powell
bill report which must be sub
mitted by July 1.
No action was taken on the ap
pointment of a town cierk or a
chief of police.
Lewis Releases >
Rweatiov Plans
Fred Lewis, recreation director,
han announced that the' Morehead
City recreation center has begun
its summer program for school chil
dren.
The center will be open from 9
a.m. until noon and from 2 p.m. to
4:30 p.m. On Saturdays, the cen
ter will be open from 9 a.m. to
noon.
Mrs. Richard McKcnzic will work
with children between the ages of
five and ten in the morning ses
sion and with girls 11 and older
in the afternoon. Mr. Lewis and
Ralph Wade will work with the
j boys at both sessions. Mr. Lewis
emphasized that the afternoon ses
sion is for older children and re
quested that the small children
i attend only the morning session.
Forms of recreation available are
ping pong, table and floor shuffle
board, badminton, tennis, croquet,
horseshoes, Softball, baseball, vol
leyball and basketball. The snack
bar will be open at all sessions.
The night program will be from
7:30 to 11 on Wednesday and Fri
day nights. The night program is
for children 12 years old and up.
Mr. Wade has announced that
the outdoor band concerts will be
given every other Tuesday begin
ning next week. The concerts will'
begin at 7 p.m. They will be given
at the new bandstand erected on
the grounds.
Public Hearing June 24;
Residents Have Petition
A new attempt will be made to extend the city limits of Morehead
City westward, it was learned this week.
The city has called a public hearing on the proposal for June 24 in
the city hall at 7:30 o'clock. At that time the board of commissioners
will hold a meeting for the purpose of considering the annexation of
the territory and the adoption of an ordinance extending the corporate
limits of the town.
A committee has been formed to obtain signatures on a petition
asKing tor annexation of the area-l
west of the present city limits
bounded on the north by the pres
ent highway 70 and on the south
by the railroad and the sound. The
intention is for the western limit
to be the state property line at
Camp Glenn including the rifle
range.
E. G. McKinley of 2717 Arvon
avenue is chairman of the commit
tee and John T. Conner of 2716
Arvon is vice-chairman. The com
mittee is composed of approximate
ly 10 residents of the Homes drive,
Noyes avenue, and other residen
tial sections in the area.
At a meeting Wednesday night
in the Clyde Jones showroom the
committee discussed the petition.
Under the terms of the state law,,
if 85 per cent of the residents of
the area sign the petition asking to
be annexed the city can annex the
area without a referendum. The
petition asks that a referendum be
called if less than 85 per cent but
more than 50 per cent sign.
A second meeting of the commit
tee has been called for Monday
night at 7:30 in the Clyde Jones
showroom. The committee has
been divided into teams of two-men
who are making a house-to-house
canvas in the area obtaining sig
natures for the petition. They will
make their first report on progress
Monday night.
On May 23 an annexation pro
posal was defeated by 11 votes in
a referendum called by the city. A
total of 145 voted in the election
with 78 casting ballots against the
proposal and 67 in favor of it.
A larger area was to be annexed
by the defeated proposal. It would
have included the area between
25th and 28th streets north to Cali
co creek.
? the new proposal is
that ?rop?tt5 north of the present
highway which is called the rifle
rrange. This property was included
in the petition at the request of
county school officials.
Under the state law at least 12
I months must intervene between an
nexation elections for the same
areas. By changing the bounds ol
the proposed area the committee
has a new proposal. The residents
backing the proposal hope to have
definite action taken within four
weeks.
At the committee meeting Wed
nesday night the leaders stressed
in particular the improved schools,
lower fire insurance rates and
property value protection which
would follow upon the annexation
of the area.
Following the first election
Mayor George W. Dill, jr., of
Morehead City said: "We are dis
appointed in the election results
but the city will always hold open
the door for any reasonable an
nexation proposal."
An exact definition of the area
proposed ofr annexation may be
found in the legal notices column
of this issue of the NEWS-TIMES.
County Receives '
20 Miles of Paving
Highway Commissioner Maynard
Hicks of Snow Hill ha* reported
that Carteret county received 2034
miles of paving during the month
of May.
Arendell street. Morehead City,
was resurfaced with bituminous
concrete pavement for 2.54 miles.
The secondary road bond program
financed the sand asphalt paving
of traffic circles at Lennoxville
Point and Marshallberg with exten
sions for 1.9 miles.
Resurfacing with sand asphalt
on the Lennoxville road and a sec
tion of road near Mansfield ac
counted for 4.5 miles. The remain
ling mileage was sand asphalt re
surfacing on NC 24 and on the
Crab Point road.
The work in Carteret county was
part of a total of 29.965 miles of
road improvements completed in
the second highway division during
the month.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, June 5
2:00 a.m.
2:41 p.m.
8:20 a.m.
9:10 p.m.
Saturday, June <
3:04 a.m.
3:44 p.m.
9:20 a.m.
10:18 p.m.
Sunday, lime 7
4:06 a.m.
4:44 p.m.
10:19 a m.
11:19 p.m.
Monday, June 8
5:07 a.m.
5:41 p.m.
11:18 a.m.
8:04 a.m.
8:35 pjn.
Tuesday, Jane ?
12:18 a.m.
12:08 pjn.
Largest Cargo
Comes to Port
In Greek Ship
The Greek ship Costis Los docked
at the Morehead City port terminal
late Monday afternoon to discharge
the largest individual cargo in the
history of the state port.
A total of nearly 4,200 tons of
ammonium sulphate will be un
loaded by local stevedores before
the ship sails sometime during the
weekend. The Costis Los is a Lib
erty-type ship and is the largest
vesset to come to the port.
In March the Carl Fisser dis
charged 3,300 tons of potash here
and a month later the August Bol
ten discharged 2,700 tons of assort
ed fertilizer products.
The ammonium sulphate aboard
the Costis Los was sent to the port
by the nitrogen division of the
Allied Chemical and I)ye company.
It will be shipped by rail from
Morehead City to fertilizer plants
throughout the Carolinas and the
middle western states.
At the present time the port
is also being used by the Navy and
Marine Corps as an embarkation
port for men and supplies engaged
in various maneuvers.
For many months following the
i dedication of the port last August
it was used almost exclusively as a
military and petroleum port. The
Carl Fisser marked the first com
mercial cargo to come over the
piers.
Work is also tearing ' omplctloii
on the tanks which will be used
by the Dow Chemical company in
its shipment of glycol from the
Kinston plant making dacron for
the DuPont company. The glycol
will come to the port by rail from
Kinston and be shipped in tankers
from here to Texas for purification.
Earlier this month a shipload
of tobacco left the port in the
first export movement of cargo
through the port. This tobacco was
assigned to the largest German
manufacturer of cigarettes by to
bacco exporters in North and South
Carolina.
Ocracoke School
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Graduates Two
Ocracokc, June 1 ? Graduation
exercises for two Ocracoke high
school seniors were held Sunday
night as a part of the regular
service of the Methodist church.
Maxinc Williams and William
Midgett, graduating seniors, and
Alona Farrow, Gaynellc Spencer,
Larry Simpson and Danny Garrish,
marshals, entered the church as
the congregation sang the hymn,
"Lead on, O King Eternal." Ush
ers were Edith Midgett and Clif
ton Austin.
The Rev. W. Y. Stewart, pastor
of the church, delivered the bac
calaureate sermon. He used as his
text a passage from the book of
Proverbs which praises the wisdom
of ants, conies, locusts and spiders
in making the best use of what they
have. Mr. Stewart applied this
passage to the ways and lives of
young people.
Miss Williams read a prayer and
transferred the senior class colors
and flower to Murray Kulchcr of
the eighth grade, who represented
the class of 1957. Mr. Midgett read
the Scripture.
Diplomas were presented to the
seniors by N. W. Shelton, superin
tendent of Hyde county schools;
special perfect attendance awards
were presented by Theodore Rood
thaler, principal, to Berry Helen
Howard, Martha Garrish, Jo Wayne
Gaskill. Stanley Gaskins. Jackie S.
Wilson. James Barrie Gaskill. Wil
liam Garrish. Lindscy Howard, and
Edward Carlson O'Neal.
Potter Offers Lot
T. T. Potter has offered Mora
head City the use of a lot on Evans
street for waterfront parking. The
lot will hold about 23-30 cars and
is between Mr. Potter's warehouse
and the Gulf plant. Mayor 1
W Dill said the city would
the lot for parking as (ooo aa |
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