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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '?
42nd YEAR, NO. 46. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS'
Fishology Institute Enrolls
41 Students from 9 States
Forty-one students, five of them
women, from nine states and the
District of Columbia are attending
the second annual salt water Sports
Fishing institute.
traded down with rods, reels,
lines, hooks and unclassifiable gear
as weird as the depths of the sea,
they registered yesterday morning
in the lobby of the building former
ly occupied by the Morehead Uty
Technical institute.
Each plunked down his $100 for
a week o! the fastest lot of fishing
and fish catching instruction and
the mostest let of eating that can
be crowded into a 24-hour day that
leaves little time for sleeping .
Everyone was given a bed assign
ment however as a gesture toward
the normal amenities of living, the
men to the men s ^rmitory the
women to the women s dorm tory
and the married couples to their
se Besides the' 41 students there"!
was another score or more that was
bedded and checked in- instruc
tors rod and reel salesmen, fishing
champions, Doctor, of Philosophy
and more rods, reels, lines, hooks
'" The first class started at 10 a m
The last class of the day ended at
1UAnd all were up this morning at
3 a.m., to set forth with instructors .
and gear on a Gulf Stream fishing j
expedition in sports fishing boats,
provided by Captain Ottis
Tomorrow the first class starts
at 8 45 a.m. The afternoon will be ,
devoted to Sound fishing.
The Thursday schedule starts
with a 4 a.m. breakfast and winds
uo with a banquet at 1 p.m.
Friday will begin with surf cast
ing instruction on the beach at 5
a.m. and end with a luncheon at 1 1
p For those who find themselves
with time on their hands the More
head City Jaycees have arranged
floundering expeditions lor Tues
riav and Wednesday nights.
While all of this - fishing, eat
ing. learning, learning eating fis
inj? __ is bound to be fun, it is like
wise all serious.
The salt water Sports Fishing in
stitute was originated by b. w.
Rnjiiles director, and M
Staines." assistant director, of the
Division of College Extension of
the North Carolina State college,
'"us purpose is to ""tare the
erowth of interest in North Caro
lina salt water fishing by "aching
the habits of salt water fish b>
developing in the sportsman an ap
preciation of the factors involved
?n salt water fishing and to encour
age his wise use of one of he
state s great natural resources, the
The students will be taught hovj
to hook and boat fish with l'gh
tackle the joy of fishing expertly
,or one fish rather than tons of
f'tn essence, they will be taught
the art of sports' fishing M ?
trasted with "carcass fishing,
which might better be done with
net than with delicate rod and reel.
The teaching staff headed by Mr.
^lR^C Amundson.S chief of the Ed
?cation Division of the North Caro
lina Wildlife
R-neieh- Dr. F. S. EarKaiow,
head of /oology. School of Agncul
See FI8HOLQGY , Page J
Rotarians, Wives *
To Meet Thursday
At its meeting Thursday night,
the Morehead City Rotary club
made plans (or its annual ladies'
night which will be held Thursday
at the recreation center.
Edmund Harding of Washington,
N. C? will be the guest speaker at
the meeting and will pay tribute to
Stanley Woodland, retiring district
governor of the Rotary club.
Mayor George W. Dill, Jr., will
serve as master of ceremonies it
the meeting.
Guests at Thursday night's meet
ing were Charles Milone of Effing
ham. III., Charles Fitzgerald of
Farmville, Bob Montague of New
port and Lawrence Stroud of
Greenville.
Dr. Eugene Roclofs had charge
of the program, and several mem
bers uf the club made extemporan
eous speeches.
Bathers Are Warned
To Stay within Area
The operators of concession
stands renting rafts at Atlantic
Beach reported this week that the
attendants have instructions to
warn every person renting a raft to
slay within the protected portion of
the beach.
Victor Wickizer said that if P(c.
Harold Weiner who drowned at
the beach recently rented his raft
from the stand, he was warned to
stay in the area between the two
beach hotels.
He also pointed out that while
the stands were missing a raft on
the day young Weiner drowned it
has not been proved that his raft
was one of theirs. The stands
lose rafts regularly, he said.
E. W. Kuggles
Jaycees Install ?
Ronald Mason
Ronald Earl Mason was installed
as president of the Beaufort Jay
cees at an installation Saturday
night at the American Legion hut.
He was installed by Wiley II. Tay
lor. jr., outgoing president.
Other new officers are James
Steed, internal vice-president; Jack
Price, external vice president: Vic
Bellaniah, secretary; and Billy
Davis, treasurer.
The new directors, also installed,
are John Jones, Holdcn Ballon.
Tommy Potter, Albert Chappell
and Jack Barnes. The live officers
complete the board of directors.
Mr. Taylor congratuated the new
officers and thanked last year's of
ficers for their cooperation before
turning the meeting over to Presi
dent Mason.
Charles Davis, a charter member
of the Beaufort Jaycees. spoke
briefly on the progress of the club
since its founding in 1939.
Dancing followed the informal
installation.
At a president's dinner Sunday
night at Holden's restaurant, Pres
ident Mason outlined his plans for
thc coming ytar, ^specially with re
gard to gaining new members for
the club.
At the dinner, he also appointed
committee chairmen for the com
ing year and urged them to work
actively to obtain new members for
the club.
Mr. Taylor again thanked the
club members for their cooperation
during the past year.
Dan Walker said that he has
been a Jaycee for seven years and
that, no matter how much work he
has done, he has always received
more from Jaycceism than he has
put into it.
The dinner was attended by all
the new officers and members of
the board of directors and their
wives.
Havelock Decides
On Incorporation *
Question Today
Today is the day that residents
of Havelock will decide whether or
not they want to become an incor
porated community.
The polls opened at 6:30 this
morning and will close tonight at
6:30. The booths are located in the
Cherry Point elementary school
building.
There are two questions to be
decided in the election: Will a cer
tain defined part of the Havelock
area be incorporated; and if it is
incorporated who will be the offi
cials?
If a majority of the voters cast
ballots for incorporation, then the
election judges will count the votes
for town officers; otherwise they
will not.
Eligible voters will find only one
name on the ballot for town offi
cers ? Oscar Sermons for commis
sioner. All other ballots for mayor
and five commissioners will be
write-in votes. The five men re
ceiving the highest number of votes
for commissioner will be elected if
they are qualified by the registrar;
and the same procedure will be
followed in the mayor's race.
At the end of the registration
period. 113 persons had qualified
themselves and registered.
Tide Table
Tide* at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, June 9
6:04 a.m.
8:35 p.m.
12:16 a.m.
12:09 p.m.
Wednesday, June 10
6:57 a.m.
7:24 p.m.
1:08 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 11
7:47 a.m.
8:10 p.m.
1:58 a.m.
1:49 p.m.
Friday, June 12
8:34 a.m.
8:54 p.m.
2:44 a.m.
2:37 p.m.
Greek Ship Sails ?
Monday Morning
The Greek freighter Costis Los
sailed for Norfolk yesterday morn
ing at about U o'clock after dis
charging more than 4,000 tons of
ammonium sulphate at the More
head City port terminal.
The freighter and its cargo were
the largest ever to come to the
state docks.
The cargo of fertilizer material
was consigned to the local port by
the Allied Chemical and Dye com
pany. It will be shipped from ware
houses here to fertilizer plants in
the Carolinas and the Mid-west.
Port officials reported that the
ship would have left early Monday
rooming except for a miscalcula
tion as to the probable completion
hour which caused a stevedoring
mix up.
Since the first of March four
commercial freighters have come to
the port, three to discharge car
goes and one to pick up tobacco.
The three discharged cargoes were
all composed of fertilizer materials
such as potash and ammonium sul
phate.
Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock
only the clean-up in one of the
five holds of the ship remained to
be finished and port officials, union
officers and other skilled stevedores
pitched in at various jobs to
complete the job. By 10:30 the
stevedores were through and at 11
o'clock the ship sailed. The ship
owners were anxious to leave More
head City as quickly as possible in
order to pick up a cargo of coal
in Norfolk lor delivery to Japan.
The local pay-roll on the ship
will total approximately $10,000.
At the port work is nearing com
pletion on the two tanks which will
be used by the Dow Chemical
company in its shipment of glycol
from the Kinston plant making da
cron to the DuPont company. The
glycol will come to the port by rail
from Kinston and be shipped by
tankers from here to Texas for
purification.
State Names *
New Engineers
W. H. Rogers, jr., chief highway
engineer, has announced the ap
pointment of C. Y. Griffin as dis
trict engineer for the second dis
trict of the second highway di
vision.
New Bern will continue to be
the district office for the second
district which includes Craven, Car
teret and Jones counties.
R. Markham of Greenville has
been reappointed to the post Of
division engineer, and Jasper L.
Phillips has been named assistant
division engineer. Division head
quarters will be in Greenville.
The appointments were among
those of 14 division engineers and
30 of the 31 district engineers
under the highway commission's
new 14-division set-up .
H. H. Wesley was named district
engineer for the second division's
first district. Washington will be
the district office for the district
which covers Beaufort and Pamlico
counties.
Heber Gray was appointed en
gineer for the third district which
covers. Green, Pitt and Lenoir
counties. Kinston will be the dis
trict office.
Only one appointment, that of a
district engineer for Davie, Forsyth
and Stokes counties, remains to be
made to bring the new highway set
up to completion.
The new appointments were ne
cessitated by a reshuffling and in
crease in the number of highway
divisions.
Distress Signal >
Change Reissued
By Coast Guard
On May 1 by international
agreement radio frequency 2182
kilocycles became a world-wide dis
tress and calling frequency for all
water craft, the Coast Guard re
minded all maritime interests this
week.
Captain J. D. Conway, acting
commander of the Fifth Coast
Guard district in Norfolk, reported
this week that many boatmen and
ship operators in the Morchcad
City, Beaufort and Wilmington
areas "have been unaware of the
new distress frequency assign
ment."
In an effort to publicize the im
portant change Capt. Conway said
that further information was being
sent through all public informa
tion channels.
The newly assigned frequency
will be used for radiotelephone
distress calls and distress traffic
as well as lor urgency and safety
signals and messages.
It will also be the international
frequency to be used for brief
calls and replies, and for signals
preparatory to talking on other
frequencies within the band 1605
to 2850 kcs.
Beginning on the first of May
the Coast Guard has maintained
a 24-hour radio watch on 2182 kcs
in order to listen for distress calls
from craft in need of assistance,
though it was pointed out that calls
to the Coast Guard on 2182 kcs
are not necessarily limited to dis
tress messages.
The Coast Guard also continuous
ly listens to 2670 kcs lor distress
calls, but it is exclusively a Coast
Guard frequency and only craft
in distress or need of assistance
may use it. All major Coast Guard
operating units arc equipped to
communicate on both 2132 and 2670
kcs.
When in trouble and calling the
Coast Guard boatmen are urged
to state the name of their vessel,
radio call letters, description of
trouble, position, course, speed and
type of assistance desired.
Coast Guard operating units in
the Fifth district including Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Maryland
which began a continuous watch
Ion 2182 kcs in addition to 2670 kcs
on May 1 include all vessels more
than K25 feet in lengt^ when under
way and the Coast Guard's radio
station NMN at Oc. ana, Va., which
is the control station for all Coast
Guard units in the district.
Units which will guard only 2182
kcs include the lifeboat stations at
Fort Macon and Ocean City, Md.
Continuing to guard only 2670
kcs will be the Coast Guard air
station at Elizabeth City; and life
boat station at Oregon Inlet, Oak Is
land, Cape Hatteras, and Assa
teague Beach, Va.
Beaufort Police
Make Four Arrests
Chief Carlton Garner of the
Beaufort police department reports
that his department made four ar
rests over the weekend, most of
them for motor vehicle law viola
tions.
Thomas Goodwin, Rt. 1, Beau
fort, was arrested Friday for care
less and reckless driving after he
drove through a filling station on
Live Oak street. He is free on his
own recognizance.
Albert Lane of Wilson was ar
rested Friday for failing to stop at
a traffic light at Ann and Turner
streets. He is free on $25 bond.
Robert Sharp, Florida Negro,
was arrested Saturday for operat
ing a motor vehicle with an im
proper muffler. He is free on his
own recognizance.
William Chadwick, Beaufort Ne
gro, was arrested Sunday for pub
lic drunkenness. He is being held
in the county jail.
All four men will be tried this
afternoon in municipal recorder's
court.
Superior Court Judge Scores x
Appeals from Recorder s Court
Drainage Ditch Delays
Collection of Garbage
Wardell Fillingame, Iteaufort
street foreman, says that he wish
es to thank citizens of Beaufort
for their patience with the gar
bage collection during the latter
part of last week.
He says that collection of gar
bage was delayed by the digging
of a drainage ditch across the
road leading to the dump, lie
said that the trucks were unable
to get to the dump, and the town
was unable to find another place
in which to dump the garbage.
The foreman said that the crew
has finally caught up with back
collections and is back on the
tegular collection schedule this
week.
Dog Track Set ? j
Tor Opening
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wl,v tomorrow ni^ht w,un J
More head City dog lrack begins it. I
1953 season.
The inaugural handicap will be
,?c feature race on ?o?r?w
ni'ht s 11 -race card Posttlme (o,
the first race will he 7.30.
Schooling races for the 300 dogs
at the track began Thursday nifcht
and will continue throuuh tonight
?lhe schoolinu races, which i are
.men to the public, are held to .ic
custom the Ls to the track sup
face and to allow track ?ttcia^?
obtain an accurate idea of
dog's ability |
A total of !HS performances wil ,
be held between tomorrow night
?ind Sept. 2B when the season will
end Special matinee racing pro
grains will he held on July 4 and
on Labor day, Sept. "?
A bin feature of this years sea
son will be the Miss North Carolina
beautv pageant which wil! be held
at the track July ^.-17.11,^^
will srloC-Nmih Gt-Wl
in lhe Miss- Amer** vont^t On
the three nights of the pageant, mx
races will be held.
Kach Monday and Thursday!
night, beginning June 15. one of
the first eight entr?"V, J trart
ueant will be honored at the track
The first girl to be honored will be
tes Ashevillc, Rosalind Diane
Harris.
l'aul Cleland, executive secretary
of the Carolina Kacing asaocia ion
which owns the track, says that
about 16 kennels will havc d"^
the Morchead City track this sea
These will include the White I
head, Ferrell and Point Bree* ken
nels which were the top money
winners at the track last year.
Others will be Belcher. Brown,
Fromm. Gavan. Pfister, Spencer,
Huston! Marsh. Ko.y Kennels,
S?ThedodgsRwiU be housed in the
new kennels which have been built
cin US 70 about two miles west of
the track. The eight well ventilated
buildings will hold 3W/i""sb
past years, the kennels have been
located on NC 24.
A major improvement at ttu I
track this year is the
,,f an Australian tote machme^Th^
is an electronic machine which is
sues the bettor his ticket records
the bet and tabulates all similar
bets at other machines.
Eight quincla and 12 win. place
and show machines have been in
stalled and will be manned by em
ployees of the track. The machines
and tabulating equipment are own
ed by Automatic Totalisator, limit
ed. of Australia. .
The operators of the track anti |
cipatc their best season since the ,
track opened in 1948.
Sanitarian Terms *
School Successful
A. I). Fulford, sanitarian for the
county health department, says
that Carteret county's first food
handlers' school was a success.
Mr. Fulford says that total at
tendance at the school's six ses
sions was 592, with 278 individuals
attending one or more classes. The
course was completed by 123 per
sons, all of whom will receive cer
tificates.
According to Mr. Fulford, 63 of
the county's 87 restaurants took
part in the school, with 14 estab
lishments having 100 per cent staff
attendance. Twenty six managers
will receive certificates for attend
ing the entire course.
Capt. Bill's Waterfront restau
rant and the Sanitary Fish Market
restaurant tied for the largest num
ber of employees attending the
school. Both had 23 employees in
attendance.
Mr. Fulford estimates that there
are about 488 food handlers in the
county and that about 190 did not
attend the school.
In addition to the 63 restaurants
which took part in the school, all
of the county's school lunch rooms
were represented. -Several home
economics teachers also attended
the course.
Fourteen persons not connected
with any food serving establish- 1
mcnts also attended the school. For '
tin* most part, according to Mr.
Fulford, these were recent high
school graduates who hope to ob
tain jobs in various restaurants.
Several persons from outside the
county attended the school, includ
ing representatives of health, de
partments in other counties.
Among those attending the
school u as a summer visitor from
Albany, N. Y. A delicatessen op
erator, she took advantage of the
opportunity to attend the school
while visiting Morehead City.
Mr. Fulford says that those who
do not receive their certificates
within ten days should contact the
county health office at the court
house annex in Beaufort. He says
that it is possible that some peo
ple will be overlooked when the
certificates are sent out.
The food handlers' school was
the first of its kind ever held in
the county, although similar
schools have been held annually in
other counties in the state.
The sanitarian said that it will
be up to the restaurant managers
and food handlers whether or not
the Carteret county school becomes
an annual affair.
He said that, if those who attend
ed the school feel that it has help
ed them and want another school,
the health department will make
plans for another school next year.
Fishermen Neglect Food
Fish ; All Are Shrimping
Farm, Home *
Week Opetis
' The 1053 Farm and Home week
opened last night in Raleigh with
a speeial program honoring Chan
cellor and Mrs. J. W. Harrelson of
State college.
Ruth Current, state home demon
stration agent, led the tribute to
Chancellor Harrelson, who has
been very helpful to the extension
service during his years at State
college.
The week's program will include
lectures and demonstrations for
both men and women. These will
be based on the results of research
performed by State college exten
sion workers.
The programs for the men will
include lectures on soil condition
ing. tobacco testing, cotton breed
ing. control of plant diseases and
information on various disease re
sistant varieties of plants. Pro
grams for women will include all
phases of homcmaking.
The lectures will begin this
morning and will continue through
tomorrow morning.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
agricultural extension service will
be celebrated tomorrow afternoon
with a special program. Earl J.
Coke, assistant secretary of agri
culture, will be the speaker at to
morrow night's session.
Thursday's session for men will
be devoted to live stock and will
be held at the state fair grounds.
Lectures and demonstrations will
cover feeding, control of diseases,
marketing and breeding.
The North Carolina federation
of home demonstration clubs will
hold its 27th annual meeting Thurs
day morning and the state council
will meet that afternoon.
? Food fish arc not as plentiful
in seafood markets along coastal
j North Carolina as they usually are
and there is a big reason why they
are not in good supply at the pres
ent.
I is not that there are fewer
fish in the waters of the Atlantic
or in the rivers, that dump their
waters into the Atlantie, according
to Garland Fulcher of Oriental,
owner and operator of one of the
largest fish houses along the coast,
and others contacted by this re
porter at various times this week.
Mr. Fulcher and others are con
vinced that the big reason for the
scarcity of fresh ocean food fish is
due to the fact that commercial
fishermen are presently devoting
most of their time and efforts to
trawling for shrimp.
Shrimp are bringing good priccs,
they report. In fact, shrimp
cleaned and with their heads off
have brought up to 83 cents per
pound in coastal markets here and
elsewhere. The priccs fluctuate, of
course, from time to time. The
shrimp average 40 to 45 a pound.
The shrimp fishermen have been
especially busy since the Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment and its division of commer
cial fisheries allowed day and night
shimping to begin last May 11 fol
lowing adoption of a resolution by
the State Board of Conservation
and development at its meeting in
Elizabeth City in April.
This resolution empowered the
department to open the shrimp sea
son a little ahead of the usual time
for the shrimp season opening on
recommendation of the Institute
of Fisheries Research of the Uni
versity of North Carolina at More
head City. The shrimp season was
opened for a period of 90 days or
until the board takes further ac
tion.
A survey at a number of places
along the coast indicates shrimp,
especially the socallcd brown spot
See FOOD FISH, Page 3
Merchants Announce Father of Year' Contesl
A Morehcad City trading area
search for "the Father of the Year"
was launched today by a committee
of distinguished citizens in preps
ration for the local observance of
Father's Day 1953. an event which
will be celebrated all over the coun
try on Sunday, June 21.
All people residing in the More
head City trading area have been
invited to help the committee in its
search for the outstanding dad who
will be showered with a wonderful
array of beautiful and useful gifts.
The Morchcad City trading area
comprises all of Carteret county,
Swansboro and vicinity, the Cherry
Point Marine base and the Have
lock area and the Island of Ocra
coke.
Every father will be eligible for
the unique honor, including those
who ire temporarily absent from
home on duty with the armed
forces, so long as their homes are
permanently within the Morehead
City trading area.
The search is being conducted
under the sponsorship of this news
paper and 10 Morehead City mer
chants who are Leary's, The Boot
Shop, Belk's, Carteret Gas com
pany. Early Jewelers. Eastman's
Furniture company. Freeman Bros.
Grocery & Meat Market, Hardware
and Building Supply company.
Morehead City Drug company and
Parker Motors.
Sunday, June 21, 1953. will maik
the 43rd anniversary of the event
which America has taken to its
bosom since it was first inspired
back in 1910 by Mrs. Bruce Dodd,
as an occasion for families to ex
press their love and admiration for
Dad with gifts and special dinner
celebrations.
Since then the occasion also has
been expanded to impress Dad'with
his responsibilities for helping
rear the nation's children to good
citizenship.
Nominations lor "Father of the
Y<ar" are now in order and may
be submitted on the entry form,
shown on page 6. section 2, by any
relative or friend or by the candi
date himself.
Spare is provided on the entry
form for the name and address of
the candidate and the person mak
ing the nomination, together with
a statement of 25 words or less to
complete the sentence "I nominate
(name of candidate) as 'Father of
the Year' because . .
This statement will serve as the
basis for the judges' study and con
sideration. Their decision will be
final. *
The judges are Mrs. J. W. Jack
son. John L. Crump and George 11.
Stovall.
Entries will not be judged by
the literary style of the nomina
tion but solely on the basis of the
qualifications of the candidate for
the honor.
Multiple nominations are per
missible. That it. a lather may be
[nominated by any number of rela
tives or friends, each submitting
his own statement of qualifications.
Additional ballots may be ob
tained at any of the stores or of
fices of the participating business
concerns.
Entries may be deposited in bal
lot boxes provided for the purpose
in the office or store of any of the
participating business concerns or
may be mailed to THE NEWS
TIMES, care of "Father of the
Year Competition."
All entries must be deposited in
the ballot boxes or be in the office
of this newspaper not later than
noon on Wednesday. June 17.
Announcement of the winning
father will be made in TIIE NEWS
TIMES on Friday. June 19.
The gifts from the participating
merchants will be presented to the
Father of the Year by Mayor
George W. Dill at ceremonies in
the Morehead City town hall at U
a.m. on Saturday, June 20.
The list of gifts follows:
LEARY'S, a suit of clothes.
THE BOOT SHOP, a pair of
American Gentleman shoes and six
pairs of socks.
BELK'S. six fine dress shirts.
CARTERET GAS CO., a ten inch
oscillating fan.
EARLY JEWELERS, a 17 jewel
Wittnauer watch.
EASTMANS FURNITURE CO..
a genuine Ashaway smoking stand.
FREEMAN BROS., a Rath ten
derized ham. I
HARDWARE & BUILDING SUP
PLY CO.. a fine rod and reel.
MOREHEAD CITY DRUG CO.,
a Brownie Hawkeye flash camera
set.
PARKER MOTORS, a set of lour
Kar Rugs.
This contest is not open to the
employees of this newspaper or
participating concerns.
All gilts arc now on display at
the places of business of the con
tributors.
'Stevens Blasts
'Stalling Tactics'
Judge llenry I. Stevens "[ War
saw, opening the June term of Car
teret county superior court, scorea
the tendency ot defendants to ap
peal to the superior court alter
recorder's court convictions
The judge, in his charge to the
prand jury, said that he noticed
that 25 of the ? cases on the crim
inal docket for the couit term were
appeals from the county s three re
cordfer's courts. .
He said that there is no sense In
having recorder s courts if de
fendants are going to appeal in an
effort to delay justice. He said
that he recognized the rlghl p? Ji>
defendant to appeal to higher
courts, but he charged that mott
?f the appeals were taken in older
to delay the course of justice.
Ill his charge to the jury. Judge
Stevens defined the various crim
inal matters which would .cue to
their attention. He also "'sl'uc^
them on the procedures which they
should follow with each bill of in
' 'Vi '"'also instructed the jury to
inspect the county jail and to ex
amine the other physical property
of the county. He also instructed
the jurors to study the perform
ance of the various county offi
cials to determine that thc> are
properly discharging their duties.
The judge spoke at great length
on the various motor vehicle safe
ty laws and said that he felt that
proper observance ol tlusc laws
would reduce motor vehicle acci
dents by at least 1MI per cent.
Judge Stevens also reminded
those with cases pending in the
court that every judge has his lav
cite law He said that his favonte
was the perjury aw aiul warned
everyone coming into couit to tell
the truth. (
Clifford T. Lewis, mayor of
Beaufort, was sworn in as
Of the grand jury which w 'j.tudjr
the 18 cases bound over attei pre
liminary hearings in the recorders
It is also expected that the names
?I those who have failed to list
,Vir propoft) for taxes will be
united over to the grand jury for
its action. .. M-.ri.h
The grand jury at the Mj?.h
term of court recommended that
the several hundred persons who
had failed to list their t?esbe
given until June to list llum. Those
who then failed to list were to be
turned over to the grand jury, and
indictments were to be M,u"ht
The court term will run for two
weeks, with the first week being
devoted to criminal cases, divorce
actions and some civil cases. Civil
cases will take up the second week
?flnhCadd.Uon to the 43 criminal
cases on the court docket, there are
42 civil actions to be heard before
the two-week court term ends.
During the superior court ses
sion the county recorders court
will hold no sessions. The More
head City recorders court will
meet Friday morning rather than
yesterday. The next session of the
court will be held on Monday, June
22 The Beaufort recorder s court
will meet this afternoon as usual.
New Construction *
Hits Low Point
Construction in More head City }
dropped off during May. according I
to the records of A. B. Roberts, jr., J
building inspector.
During the month, Mr. Roberts
issued only four permits for work
costing a total of $5,150. The total
amount spent on construction dur
ing the month was the lowest in
the first five months of this year. . J
George Pennwell received a per- '
mit to construct a two story cement '
block garage apartment on Bridges
street at a cost of $2,000.
A permit was issued to John A. i
Morrison to erect a two-story frame ?
garage apartment on Fisher stref t .!
at a cost of $500.
T. D. Clark obtained a permit to ;
build a frame dwelling on Patter- J
son street. The house will cost i
$1,750.
i Charles Willis received a permit *
to remodel a kitchen on Shepard J
street. The work will cost $900.
County Agent Reports
Tobacco Plant Shortage
R. M. Williams, county farm j
agent, savs that R. R. Bennett, ex- I
tension tobacco specialist, has re- j
ported that there is a serious short- j
age of tobacco plants in some sec- ?
tions of the state. He says that the
shortage has been caused by dry
weather and hail storms.
Mr. Bennett has asked farmera J
in unaffected areas to send extra
plants to the areas affected by th? .
shortage.
Farmers with extra plants hav? J
been requested to contact Mr. Wil- n
liams at his office in Beaufort and A
give their names, addresses and 1
the variety of the extra plants A
I which they have.