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42nd YEAR, NO. 69. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTO CAROUNA FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Big Crowd Tours
Open Grounds
For First Time
Miss Yeatman Welcomes
Visitors to Farm;
Hopes to>- Success
More than 1,500 people from all
over Eastern North Carolina made
a tour of the Open Grounds farm
on the Merrimon road owned by
Miss Georgina Yeatman Wednes
day afternoon
"I never dreamed I'd see all
these cars and people on the Open
Grounds," Miss Yeatman said in
welcoming the crowd. Cars were
parked along both sides of the
dirt road leading to the central area
for more than one mile.
Briefly describing the farming
operation, Miss Yeatman said that
farming consultants had told her
the investment was "hazardous."
"Modern machinery, though, makes
all the difference in the world,"
she commented.
Miss Yeatman also gave credit
to the efforts of previous compan
ies which attempted to farm the
huge expanse of pocosin and to the
scientific information and help
available through state, federal
and private agencies.
"I am absolutely sure that some
one, somewhere, somehow is go
ing to make land like this a suc
cess," she declared. "We just hope
it's going to be us."
Miss Yeatman's tract covers ap
proximately 43,000 acres, and she
has mapped out a long range pro
gram for eventually converting ap
proximately 20.000 acres to cattle
pasture. Her immediate goal is to
have nearly 5,000 acres of perma
nent pasture with a herd of 5,000
head of cattle within the next sev
eral years.
At the present time slightly more
than 1,000 acres of permanent pas
ture support a herd of 1,300 head
of Angus cattle. Many of these
were shipped in this summer from
drought-stricken areas in the
Southwest. There is a considerable
expanse of wooded and timber land
in the tract and this is used to sup
plement the permanent pastures,
Miss Yeatman explained.
L. W. Howard, Newport tobacco
farmer and sup?rviser ot the. Low
er Neuse Soil onservation district,
introduced each of the speakers
during the tour. At each site a
speaker explained one phase of the
farm's operation. Roy Beck, soil
conservationist, began by explain
ing the over all drainage program
for the area. He pointed out that
the pocosin is a plateau with little
natural drainage.
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Shepherd Visits
Cherry Point
General Lemuel C. Shepherd, jr.,
commandant of the Marine Corps,
arrived yesterday at Cherry Point
Air station to inspect air reservists
undergoing two weeks of summer
training duty at the base.
When General Shepherd arrived
he was greeted by Major Clayton
C. Jerome, commanding officer of
the Second Marine air wing, Brig
adier General William G. Manley,
commanding officer of the base and
Brigadier General F. H. Lamson
Scribner, commander of air re
serve training.
General Shepherd received full
military honors from an honor
guard from MAG-24 and the Sec
ond air wing band. The ceremonies
took place on the station athlet
ic field.
After being welcomed to the sta
tion, General Shepherd inspected
the areas of reserve training and
then addressed the reserve officers
at the station theatre. He will
leave this morning to return to
Washington, D. C.
The reserve fliers, from fighter
squadrons east of the Mississippi,
are taking their summer training
at Cherry Point for the first time
since the start of the Korean war.
The reserve pilots are from unit*
stationed at Squatum, Mass.; Jack
sonville, Fla.; Columbus, Ohio; At
lanta, Ga.; Brooklyn. N. Y.; Grosse
He, Mich.; Miami, Fla.; Anacostia,
D. C.; Norfolk, Va.; Birmingham,
Ala.; Akron, Ohio; and Niagara
Falls, N. Y.
New Pupils to Register
Tomorrow in Beaufort
B. E. Tarkington, principal of
the Beaufort school, has announced
that pre-registration (or all children
who have not already registered
and who are entering Beaufort
school for the first time, will be
held tomorrow morning from 10
to 11 at the school.
Included in this registration will
be children transferring from other
schools and also who will be 6 by
Oct. 15.
Under a new state law. children
who will be six by Oct. IS are now
eligible to begin school. Under
the old law. children had to be
six by Oct. 1 in order to start
school.
Dan Walker Quits
Beaufort Chamber
Dan Walker, manager of the
Beaufort chamber of commerce, of
fered his resignation Tuesday night
at a meeting of the chamber's
board of directors. The action came
during a lengthy discussion of what
is wrong with the chamber.
Mr. Walker offered the resig
nation after he was accused of fail
ing to teach the citizens of Beau
fort and the chamber members the
purpose of the chamber of com
merce.
He admitted his failure and cited
instances where it had been attemp
ted. He stated emphatically that
neither he nor anyone else alone
could give Beaufort a chamber of
commerce unless the citizens ac
tively gave it financial and person
al support by working on commit
tees and taking part in the various
activities aimed to better the com
munity.
Mr. Walker said that in order
that the residents of Beaufort
might have an opportunity to de
cide whether or not they want a
chamber of commerce he would
be willing to serve as manager for
one year without pay.
Mr. Walker said that he would
serve without pay provided that
a sufficient budget be raised to
meet necessary chamber expens
es and to complete the program of
work covering all phases of cham
ber work. He also stipulated that
he would do so only if the members
of the chamber would work as hard
as he during the year.
Since all directors were not pres
ent at the meeting no action was
taken on Mr. Walker's resignation
or his offer to work without pay.
Chamber officers said that it is
likelly that no action will be taken
pending the results of a proposed
reorganization of the chamber.
The accusation against Mr. Walk
er came when only a few members
appeared to hear a report on an
inspection tour of various chambers
of commerce throughout the state.
Glenn Adair and Holaen Ballou
had visited chambers in Durham,
Kinston, Greenville and New Bern
in an effort to get ideas which
might be used in revitalizing the
Beaufort chamber.
After the inspection tour. Mr. A
dair and Mr. Ballou had discused
ideas which they obtained with
small groups of chamber members.
It was then decided to present the
ideas to the directors and about
20 invited members at Tuesday
night's meeting. Several of the
directors and all of the invited
members were absent from the
meeting.
Mr. Adair said yesterday morn
ing that the chamber plans an
effort to gain more members and
raise a larger budget for chamber
operations. He said that a series
of letters will be sent to all those
who should be members and are
not. The letters will urge these
people to take an active part in the
chamber and its activities. An ef
fort will also be made to collect
the money which has been pledged
to the chamber.
Mr. Adair said that if a sufficient
budget can be raised it is planned
to hire a full-time manager foi
the chamber and to divorce the
chamber from the town govern
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Tri-State Fish Group
Recommends Research
Union Service
Dr. A. J. Hows, pastor of the
St. Paul Methodfftt church of Golds
boro, will speak at the regular fifth
Sunday union service Sunday night
at the Morehead City high school
auditorium, Jasper Bell announced
today.
Mr. Bell is chairman of the relig
ious activities committee of the
Morehead City Junior Chamber of
Commerce which sponsors the ser
vice in cooperation with the minis
ters of Morehead City.
Presiding over the union service
will be the Rev. Howard T. Payne,
pastor of Franklin Memorial Meth
odist church, Morehead City. The
choir of the Franklin Memorial
church will present special music
[ for the service.
A graduate of Duke, Emory and
Yale universities. Dr. Hobbs has
served as district superintendent
of the Durham and Rocky Mount
districts of his church in North
Carolina. In 1944 High Point col
lege awarded him the honorary
Doctor of Divinity degree.
The public is urged to attend the
I union service which starts at 7:30
in the high school auditorium.
Jaycees Study
Scholarship Plan
The Beaufort Jay es at their
Monday night meeti:. . took under
consideration a plan to provide
higher education for bright stu
dents whose finances would not
enable them to continue their
schooling.
Wiley Taylor suggested that the
club members contribute <1 per
month to send such children to
school. It was dccided that the
board of directors should study the
matter and report to the club at
a future meeting.
it was announced at the meeting
that the contract has been let for
the proposed cement block fence
around the athletic field at the
high school. The fence is to be
completed before Sept. 29. A store
room for the concession stands and
for athletic equipment will also be
erected. It was reported that the
old grandstand at the field is being
torn down.
Final plans were made for a
cruise on the Danco which was held
last night.
The schedule of events for the
state quarterly board meeting this
weekend in Rocky Mount was read
and plans were made for attend
ance at the meeting. Dain Domich.
national Jaycee president, will be
the featured speaker at the meet
ing.
Several members of the club
agreed to assist in the formation
of a Jaycee club in the eastern part <
at the county. Some of the small
communities in the county have ex
pressed interest in forming a dub
jointly.
? A three-state legislative eommit
tee formed to study migratory fish
stocks ill the Chesapeake Bay ant
North Carolina sounds accepted <
report by a scientific sub-commit
tee and proposed that the state:
inaugurate a five-year, $279, 00<
research program Monday in Wil
mingun.
The committee established b;
the legislature)! of North Carolina
Maryland and Virginia met July XI
in Virginia and appointed a scien
tific sub-committee to offer a pro
posed research program.
State Senator James V. WhitfieU
of Burgaw heads the state dele
gation to the committee. He pre
sided over the Wilmington meet
ing. The scientific report was sign
ed by W. A. Ellison, jr.. directoi
of the Institute of Fisheries Re
search in Morehead City; R. E
Tiller. Maryland Department 01
Research; and J. L. McHugh, direc
tor of the Virginia Fisheries Lab
oratory.
Mr. Ellison, chairman of the sci
entific sub-committee, told the leg
isl^tors that any program to de
terinine the causes of finfish flue
tuation would be "long and cost
ly." "There is a long history ol
similar investigations with no def
initive results obtained," he said
"It is commonly believed that fish
ing pressure and destruction arc
minor factors when compared t?
natural factors affecting migrator]
fish populations."
In an interview after returning
from the meeting in Wilmingtor
Ellison commented that he wai
"lukewarm to the idea of spending
state funds for such a project.'
"I am interested in finding the
facts," he continued, "but there
are many things in North Carolina
to be investigated which are of im
mediate importance to state fish
ermen."
North Carolina's share of the
proposed investigation expense
would be $23,100 per year for five
years. Mr. Ellison pointed out thai
this is one-third of the total amounl
now appropriated to the Institute
of Fisheries Research for the car
rying on of investigation directly
affecting fishermen.
In the past eight years total fin
fish catthes in the Chesapeake Bay
and state sounds has declined rad
ically. Many opinions have been ad
vanced as to the causes of the de
cline, and members of the Mary
land delegation have commented
that trawling by North Carolina
fishermen may be a major factor.
The scientific report made it
clear that there is no evidence
for this theory at the present time
and an extensive research would
be needed to test the theory.
Wayne Heydecker of New York,
secretary-treasurer of the Atlantic
states Fisheries commission, made
a brief talk at the meeting. All the
seaboard states from Maine to Flor
ida belong to this commission
which acts as a clearinghouse on
fisheries problems between the
states.
If the states decide to go ahead
with the research program, the
fisheries commission and the feder
al Fish and Wildlife service will co
operate in the project. The scien
tific report emphasized that such
a study must be continuous through
periods of food fishing and bad
ffrfrjng
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New Laboratory
To Be Erected
At Pivers Island
Modern Brick Structure
To Replace Present
50-Year-0!d Building
G. B. Talbot, director of the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife service labora
tory on Pivers Island, has an
nounced that work will begin soon
on the second phase of the remod
eling of the lab.
David E. Booth, engineer from
the regional office in Atlanta, has
been at the laboratory this week
making final plans for the con
struction of a brick laboratory
building which will replace the
present 50-year-old wooden struc
ture.
The new laboratory will be lo
cated a few feet south of the site
of the present lab. Trees have al
ready been removed to make room
for the new building, and the
south porch will soon be removed
1 from the present building.
' The new one-story building, 166
feet long and 36 feet wide, will
contain offices, a library, a dark
room and laboratories for chemi
cal analysis and other work con
nected with fisheries research. The
entire building will be air con
ditioned and will have fluorescent
lighting.
1 Offices opening on the library
will be constructed with folding
: walls which can be opend to make
I a meeting room for conferences
? among the staff and visiting sci
i entists.
It is expected that bids on the
construction of the new building
will be let around Sept. 1 and that
the contract will be awarded early
in October. It is hoped that the
work will be finished in about six
months from the time that the
contract is awarded.
As soon as the new building is
completed, plans call for the de
struction of the old laboratory
building which is badly in need
1 of repairs. The two-story struc
* ture, which houses labs, offices,
' a library and dormitories, was con
' demned several years ago.
' Mr. Talbot said that it had or
* iginally beer hoped that the old
hnfltWng coukf be repaired but en
gineers said that it would cost more
f to repair it and maintain it than
? it would cost to build the new lab
5 oratory.
The first prase of the moderni
" zation of the lab began in June
1952 when work was started on a
' service building which will replace
" three old wooden, temporary build
ings on the island.
The new building, which is al
most complete, contains a pump
r house, heating plant, five garages,
a storage room, machine shop, car
; pentry shop and a storage room
1 for lumber. It will go into use as
soon as electrical equipment is
installed and pumps and other ma
chinery are moved from the old
' buildings.
The new building was construct
? ed by the laboratory's maintenance
" crew under the direction of J.
' Vance Fulford, superintendent of
f buildings and grounds. The work
" cost about $20,000. The building
is 148 feet long and 30 feet wide.
The shellfishery investigation
- lab will remain where it is in
) another building on the island. Mr.
' Talbot said that because of the
radio-active isotopes used in the
' shellfish studies it has been decided
1 to keep the lab under a separate
5 roof.
I Plans for further changes in the
physical setup of the fisheries sta
! tion are indefinite, but Mr. Talbot
! said that it is planned eventually
1 to tear down the house presently
' occupied by the director and his
' family. He said that officials of
the service hope eventually to move
! all buildings away from the edge
! of the island. He also said that
! he hopes that some dormitory space
L will be erected at the laboratory
: in the future.
Farm Agents to Hear
Animal Husbandry Expert
The Five-County Farm Agents
association will hold its regular
monthly meeting today in Beaufort,
according to R. M. Williams. Car
teret county agent. Jack Kelly,
animal husbandry specialist from
1 the State college extension aervicc.
1 will address the group on swine
production.
The association is made up of
county agents from Carteret. Crav
en, Onslow. Jones and Pamlico
counties. C. S. Mitz, district farm
agent, will also attend the meet
ing.
Tide Table
TMw at Bcaafart Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Aug. 28
10:45 a.m. 4:26 a.m.
11:03 p.m. 5:08 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 29
11:37 a.m. 5:14 a.m.
11:54 p.m. 8:04 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 38
...... ...... 6:05 a.m.
12:33 p.m. * 7:04 p.m.
Manday, Aug. 31
12:51 Km. 7:03 a.m. I
1:35 pjs. 8:12 pja. I
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Second Morehead City POW
Is Released by Communists
Schools Get Ready
For Opening Date
"By Wednesday morning, the
schools will be ready to roll," H.
L. Joslyn, superintendent of the
Carteret county schools, announced
today.
The county's willing or reluctant
scholars will start another year's
work Wednesday morning when
registration will be held at each of
the county schools. Beginners
pre-registration has been held at
different times in each of the ele
mentary units.
Mr. Joslyn reported that the
county is still short two teachers,
a . home economics instructor at
Smyrna and a mathematics
instructor at Newport. He expects
at least 4,700 students on the first
day, with the total enrollment for
the year building up to more than
5,200 later.
Last year the county's schools
had an enrollment of more than
5,000 for the first time in history.
On the first day of school in 1952,
4,699 registered.
Discussing other problems the
school will face during the coming
"ear, Mr. Joslyn said that the sys
tem was short approximately 21
classrooms which will continue the
over-crowding which is now an al
most accepted part of schools all
over the nation. A report this
week showed that the nation as a
whole is short 345,000 classrooms.
This year a third temporary room
will be built at the Beaufort school,
Morehead City school has made
arrangements to use two rooms in
the Franklin Memorial Methodist
church, and a permanent addition
is being made to the Queen street
school.
Completion of construction at
Camp Glenn and Newport will
ease the classroom shortage some
what but will not help shortages
spread out over the county, Mr.
Joslyn said.
Last week the principals held
their regular meeting and Mr. Jos
lyn described the session as "very
successful." "The local school or
ganizations are better set up this
year than any I can remember," he
said.
On Tuesday all the school bus
drivers will meet at the Beaufort
school where they will receive their
buses. Mrs. Lucia Hutchinson, safe
ty worker with the motor vehicles
department, will talk to the drivers
on safe driving during the coming
year. The county uses 34 student
drivers.
Teachers will hold their regular
pre-school meetings at the individ
ual schools on Tuesday. A regis
tration schedule will be followed in
every school on Wednesday, and
the regular schedule to be followed
for the remaining nine months of
the school term will begin Thurs
day morning.
Morehead City Jaycees
Net $1,921 on Pageant
Police Probe
$300 Robbery
Beaufort police officers are
questioning one suspect in the theft
Monday night or Tuesday morning
of about $300 from the freight sta
tion of the Beaufort-Morehead City
Railroad.
Chief M. E. Guy said that the
money was taken from two cash
drawers in the office of the sta
tion at the west end of Broad
street. He said that the thief or
thieves entered the building
through a side door which had ap
parently been left open Monday
night.
The theft was discovered Tues
day morning by an employee of
the railroad. He said that, al
though it was his job to close the
doors before leaving for the night,
he did not clo6e that particular
door Monday night.
Chief Guy said that the thief
did not leave any fingerprints or
other clues at the scene of the
robbery. The chief said that there
were no signs of a search and that
the thief apparently knew just
where to locate the cash drawers.
The one suspect in the case, an
cx-convict, was picked up Tuesday
afternoon and has been quesli.tned
by Chief Guy and other members
of the Beaufort police department.
Pelletier to Head
REA Cooperative
Lionel W. Pelletier of Stella has
been named president of the Car
teret-Craven Electric Membership
corporation to fill the unexpired
term of the late George Brockway
of Havelock. Clarence Millis of
Newport will succeed Mr. Pelletier
as vice-president of the coop until
the December meeting of the Mem
bers.
The board of directors has also
elected W. J. Wynne, Jr., of Have
lock to the board to fill the vacan
cy created by Mr. Brockway's
death. A native of Havelock, Mr.
Wynne will also serve until the
annual meeting in December.
Directors of the cooperative are
elected by the membership for a
one-year term. The nine memben
of the board represent the areas
served by the coop. Vacancies ?re
filled by the board for the remain
der of the fiscal year.
Other directors now serving are
George W. Ball. Harlowe. secretary;
Gordon K. Laughton, Crab Point,
treasurer; Johr S. Jones, Cedar (
Point; Roger Vh Jones, Broad j
Creek; Gilbert Whitehurst. Straits;
and Earl Day, Cedar Island.
The Morehead City Jaycees have
announced that the Miss North
Carolina beauty pageant held here
in July netted $1,921.04 for the
club. The gross income from the
pageant was $11,284, and total ex
penses amounted to $9,362.96.
The major source of income from
the pageant was admission fees for
the performances which totaled
$8,044.50. Advertising brought
$1,300 and entry fees for contest
ants amounted to $1,295. Other
income sources were program sales,
$450, and contributions, $194.50.
The biggest expense was $1,674
for advertising, publicity and pro
grams. Federal taxes also consti
tuted a major expense, $1,339.58.
The club which sponsored the win
ning contestant received a per
centage of the admissions which
amounted to $1,210.50. The schol
arship presented to Miss North
Carolina was $1,000.
Other expenses were meals,
$359.52; state Jaycees, $920; judges
and Miss America $880.03; staging,
$671.57; telephone calls, $111.03;
trophies, $54.20; travel and enter
tainment, $56.32; filing fee, $150;
master of ceremonies, $75.
Insurance, $225; organist, $75;
gifts, $75; flowers, $60; prizes
$50; refunds, $40; photo contest,
$200; and miscellaneous, $136.21.
The pageant, held July 15-17 at
the Morehead City race track and
the Morehead City school auditor
ium, was the largest in the history
of the Miss North Carolina pageant.
The crowd of more than 5,000
persons which viewed the final per
formance was the largest ever to
view a state final during the his
tory of the Miss America pageant.
MiAS Barbara Ann Crockett,
sponsored by the Winston-Salem
Jaycees, was the winner of the
beauty title and will represent
North Carolina in the Miss America
pageant next month at Atlantic
City.
Two Newport Men
Injured in Wreck
Jesse Fuleher and Edgar Garner
of Newport were injured Wednes
day morning when the car in which
they were riding was struck by a
pickup truck operated by Guy Bell,
also of Newport, on US 70 in front
of the Newport post office.
Fulcher and Garner were taken
to the Morehead City hospital
where they were treated for se
vere cuts on the head, neck and
arms: They were released after
treatment.
Bell told Ormsby Mann. Newport
police chief, that he was driving
west and started to make a left
turn. He said that he did not see
Fulchcr approaching from the oth
er direction and struck the left
front fender ol the car.
Chief Mann said that no charges
have yet been preferred. Bell
told the Chief that be would take
care of all expenses resulting from
the accident.
Chief Mann said that damage to
both vehicles amounted to about
$500.
Thompson Morse Freed
After 33-Month Captivity
Sgt. Thompson Morse, 24, son of Mrs. Emma K. Simpson of Rt.
1, Morehead City, this week became the second Morehead City soldier
to be released from a communist prison camp.
The first returnee, Cpl. Archie Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pres
ton Edwards, 1810 Fisher street, was released on the first day of the
prisoner of war exchange. He is being returned aboard a hospital
ship and will arrive in the United States next week. Mrs. Edwards
will leave tomorrow for California^
to meet him.
Sergeant Morse, a member of the
Second Infantry division, was re
leased after almost 33 months in
a Korean prison camp. He was
captured Dec. 1, 1950 after having
been in Korea almost since the be
ginning of the fighting.
Mrs. Simpson said yesterday
morning that she had just received
a telegram from her son in which
he said that he is in Tokyo and that
he is in pretty good condition.
The mother said that she is very
happy but that she will be "a
lot happier when 1 see him walk
in that door," She said that she
had not seen her son since April
1949 just before he went to Japan
for occupation duty.
Mrs. Simpson said that her son
was declared missing in action in
December 1950 and that she heard
nothing more about him until De
cember 1951 when his name was
included on the list of prisoners
broadcast by the Chinese commu
nists.
In January 1952, Mrs. Simpson
and her daughter, Mrs. Pearl Aus
tin, received letters from Sergeant
Morse. Since that time they have
received about seven letters from
him. It was not until after com
paring these letters with others
written before his capture that the
government officially listed him as
a prisoner.
Mrs. Simpson said that only Mrs.
Austin's faith that her brother was
alive had kept her going during
the long months since Sergeant
Morse was declared missing. She
said that her daughter n?-ver gave
up her belief that h?r youngur
brother would come home.
Mrs. Simpson said that she first
learned of her son's release when
a sister in Norfolk read his name
in a newspaper there and tele
phoned the good news.
Before joining the Army in No
vember 1947, Sergeant Morse was
a student at Morehead City high
school.
Catholics Plan
mOOO School
The members of St. Egbert's
Catholic church will launch a cam
paign for $50,000 at the church's
annual festival Sept. 5. The funds
will be used to build a parochial
school.
Leaders of the drive reported to
day that the church plans to erect
a grammar school which would
be maintained by the church. The
Rev. Gabriel Stephens, pastor of
the church, said the building will
be one story and L-shaped with
eight classrooms.
It is reported that half of the en
rollment of the school will be open
to non-Catholics.
The church festival will take
place on the location of the^pro
posed school at the intersection
of Evans and 17th streets which is
the location of the present church
building. The festival will be a
combination social and bake sale
with entertainment featuring the
"Harmaniacs," a group of profes
sional musicians from Cherry
Point.
Tickets for the festival are 25
cents and may be purchased at the
Busy Bee restaurant, Morehead
City drug store and Joe House
drug store in Beaufort.
A meeting of the entire congre
gation of the church will be held
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock to
make final plans for the fund drive.
Beaufort Band Group
Seeks Uniform Money
Letters were sent out in the
mail this week tram the Beaufort
Band Boosters association, asking
for funds to help raise money for
the new school band uniforms.
The letters are requesting that
the donations be sent to C. G. Hol
land. Gerald Hill or Robert Safrit.
Solicitors will follow up the letters
if donations arc not mailed into
the officers of the organizations.
Uniforms have been ordered for
the band members, the drum major
and the majorettes, ""he band mem
bers will wear solid kelly green
uniforms with white trimming, a
white Sam-Brown belt and a white
citation cord on the left shoulder.
The majorettes will wear uni
forms with kelly green trim and
the drum major will have a white
uniform with gold trim and a white
shako.
Jaycees to Aid
Quake Victims
The national Jaycees have ini
of i h " p,01?|ri"n of ?"<! for victim!
of he earthquakes which recent
of Cr SCVCI,'al 'Slands off ">e coast
f (,rtece leaving thousands dead
arsr
toA,"JaJ- clubs h'"f been asked
h^ankeK f ,he collection of
IcUcr frnrn'th'1' ^ciims. A
tew h. ?' "al,onal headquar
ers has urged all clubs to collect
needed blankets as soon T?
*5 "orfhcad City Jaycees have
will y , campaign and
N ek r i""i " Mundav "'Shi
?>?k (.alantis and Bill Norwood
the 'drive" "^airmc^
by members of the Jaycees. P
Blankets which arc donated to
, the drive need not be new but
| they should be clean and service
Residents of Beaufort who wish
to contribute blankets to the drive
may briny t)iem to the Eastern Ru
?ne sales on Caven ."tree
et, wdf b;'n" and '"c blank!
Ralph rfanAck is chairman of
the drtvc in Bexuiort, und he is
! V.0"jowfed by ('har,t'? IJ"'" and
| When collected, the blankets will
be shipped to New York where the
Ionian Earthquake Relief Kund
headed by Archbishop Michael of
the Greek Orthodox church will
makear ents f?, shipping
or Thlm^"'1'- ,Th? HeUe"i<: Jun
lor ( hamber of Commerce will
qwte ,Uviec.imsblankCtS,0'hetarlh
tio^ySm^ a
inquiries that blankets are X
Items most needed in the earth
isU20000ew TkC. or?ani/al'?ns Koal
is 20 000 bjailiccts and the deadline
for the drive will be Sept. 15
Dam Doinich, national Jaycee
clubs' "r hV"ld ,he vari?u? S
clubs. Friends of ours in Greece
?re in trouble. We have receive?
word from our brother Jaycees in
the HeUemc Junior Ch.m?r 0,
Commerce ot the real magnitude of
he recent earthquakes and fires
?n the western islands of Greene.
h? i W?mC:n and ch.ldr.n are
. resources or the
tools of their livelihood. Whole
cities have been leveled to the
>nd se''ions of cities have
slipped into the sea. Despair is
rampant. This is a time for Javce"
action! 1 appeal to every U S
fcl0 d" his part for Operation
Warmth without delay."
Funeral Rites Set
For Leland Hucks
Funeral services will be held at
11 a.m. Monday in Mt. Zion Bap
tist church, Beaufort, for Pvt. Le
land C. Hucks, Negro, who was
killed June 15 in Korea. Burial
will be in New Bern National cem
etery.
The body of the young soldier,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Park
er, 309 Marsh street, was returned
to the United States Aug. 10 aboard
the SS Sharon Victory. The body
is scheduled to arrive in Beaufort
today from Brooklyn, N. Y., where
it was shipped from San Francisco*
Private Hucks was killed by shell
fragments during an enemy attack
during the closing weeks of the
Korean fighting, lie had been serv
ing in Korea with the Third In
fantry division for about a month
before his death.
Before entering the Army, Pri
vate Hucks, attended Queen street
high in Beaufort where he starred
on the football, basketball and base
ball teams.
Private Hucks was the third Cm
teret county youth known to hare
been killed in the more than thrte i
years of Korean fighting. Andrew
Slaughter of Newport and DelmM
Gillikin of Otway were the fin*
two countiani killed. Private
Hucks was the lint Negro from
the county to die In the war. J