W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES >?< I 42nd YEAR, NO. 70. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES ? MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, fclORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS , Students End Vacation Joys; Schools Open Up Tomorrow Carteret county's school students^ begin another school year tomor row morning. The students may be ^ "ready or not" but the schools are prepared for a record year, H. L. Joslyn, superintendent of schools, announced. The Beaufort school will open at 8:45 and the Morehead City school | at 8:40 tomorrow morning. Other county schools will open for the students around 8:30. The county school system is ex pecting about 4,700 students to 4 register tomorrow with the total enrollment for the year rising to a probable 5,200 later in the year. Last year the county's school 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. Today teachcrs are holding their regular pre-school meetings at each individual schools. All school bus drivers will pick up their buses to day and hear a talk from Mrs. Lucia Hutchinson, safety worker with the motor vehicles depart i ment, will tallk to the drivers on safe driving during the coming year. The county has 34 buses driven by high school students. All new students at both More head City and Beaufort schools should report to the school auditor ium the first thing tomorrow. New high school students at Morehead City will go directly to their rooms. G. T. Windell principal of the * Morehead City school, reported that fees for the coming year will be $4.60 for high school students. $3 for elementary students, and 51,25 for insurance. All fees are due the first day. Similar fees will be charged to all students in the county varying with the indiv idual school. The schools will have a holiday Monday for Labor Day, but other than that the students will have to shake the dust of vacation out of their shoes Wednesday and be ^ ready to go to work for another year Thursday morning bright and early. Shepherd Visits Reserve Airmen ^ The Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Lemual C. Shep herd. jr., visited the Cherry Point Marine Corps Air station Thursday to observe Marine Air Reserves in the last stages of their summer maneuvers here. The commandant's visit was high lighted by ceremonies, briefings, a parade, and inspection, and an ad dress to officers and men of the Marine Air Reserve in the station i, theatre. General Shepherd flew to Cherry Point torn his headquarters in Washington, accompanied by Major General Merrill B. Twining and his staff. His plane was met at the flight line by Major General Clayton C. Jerome, commanding general of Aircraft Fleet Marine Force Atlan tic and the Second Marine Aircraft Wing; Brigadier General Frank H. . Lamson-Scribner, commander of Marine Air Reserve Training; t Colonel John S. Holmberg, chief of staff of the Marine Corps Air Station; and other high-ranking of ficers of the Second Wing and the Air Station. General Shepherd was rendered full honors during ceremonies on the parade ground, which included a 17-gun salute and" parade and re view by an honor guard of person nel from Marine Aircraft Group 24. As the general's four-star flag was run up. the Second Wing band * played "Ruffles and Flourishes." r Then three cannon boomed out a thundering salute to the twentieth commandant of the Marine Corps. General Shepherd trooped the line to inspect the band and each of the three platoons of men drawn up in his honor, pausing several times to ask questions of individual marines. * The commandant attended a briefing at MARTCOM headquar ters. at which General Lamsorh Scribner and his staff outlined the organization and mission of the Ma rine Air Reserve. It was pointed out that 62 per cent of the actual strength of air reserves voluntarily attended summer training, a figure which the commandant termed "most encouraging." During his speech to the re serves. General Shepherd express S ed hi$ confidence in the efficiency, I economy and dependability of the , corps and outlined objectives that the Marine Corps is striving for in the future. General Shepherd was entertain ed at a dinner party at the home of i General Jerome Thuraday night I and returned to his headquarters in Washington Friday moraine. Red Cross Consolidation Approaches Final Stage Plans for the consolidation of the Mojehcad City and Beaufort chap ters of the American Red Cross moved a step closer to reality this week. The proposal is that a Carteret county chapter be organized cover ing the entire county. Officers for the proposed chapter are Irvin W. Davis of Davis, chairman; Charles Willis of Morehead City, vice-chair man; Mrs. E. H. Potter of Beau fort, treasurer; and Mrs. James D. Rumley of Beaufort, home service secretary. Directors for the chapter will be Mrs. Nellie C. Garner of Newport, Braxton Adair of Beaufort, Henry White of Morehead City, and Mrs. Earl Davis of Harkers Island. Last week petitions seeking the formation of the combined chapter were circulated in Beaufort* and Morehead City. Those signing the petitions were Clifford Lewis, Mrs. Duke Howard, Dr. W. L. Rudder, J. L. Duncan, jr., J. Webster Willis, Mrs. Florence T. Brooks and Dan Walker, all of Beaufort; Mr. and Mrs. George W. Dill, jr., James Webb. J. C. Harvell, H. O. Phillips, III, Edward Dixon, James R. San ders, Frank Moran, Gordon C. Wil lis, E. S. Davis, jr., and D. G. Bell, all of Morehead City; and A. B. Cooper of Atlantic Beach and Mrs. J. I. Mizzelle of Newport. The petition for the organization of the new chapter will be forward ed to the area office in Atlanta, Ga., for approval by the area man ager. When authority is granted by the board of governors for the merger, a charter for the chapter will be issued. At that time the two chapters will officially become one. Leaders in the drive to unite the chapters have reported that a large amount of favorable comment has been heard from many citizens throughout the area served by the two chapters. CG Port Security Cards Available at Fort Macon The Coast Guard has just made port security identification card application forms available at near ly all North Carolina lifeboat sta tions including Fort Macon through out the week, including evenings and Sundays, it was announced to day. Such an arrangement makes it easier than ever before for com mercial fishermen and other water front workers in North Carolina's coastal regions to apply for the port security cards. According to the Coast Guard, holding a port security card should make it easier and faster for off shore fishermen to get fishing per mits in the event of national ^?ner gency, such as an attack on the United States. For the past two years the Coast Guard has Ween issuing the cards to persons whose occupation requires them to visit waterfront properties which might be placed in a re stricted status by the Coast Guard in the interest of safety or national security. Up to now the number of appli cants in North Carolina's coastal areas has been far below hoped-for totals mainly because the workers have been unable to get card ap plications during working hours, and applications were not available evening and Sundays. With the blanks now on hand at nearly all Coast Guard lifeboat sta tions at almost any time, persons eligible for the identification cards, especially offshore commercial fish* ermen, are urged to make initial application for them as soon as possible. North Carolina lifeboat stations equipped to handle port security card applicants are Oak Island, Cape Hatteras, Oregon Inlet, At lantic, Chicamacomico, Little Kin nakeet, Hatteras Inlet, Cape Look out, Fort Macon and Swansboro. Applications can also be had at the Captain of the Port's office at Wil mington. David Murray Opens Insurance Agency David Murray opened an insur ance agency in Morehead City this morning in the Royal building next to the post office on Arendell street. Associated with him will be Miss Jeanine Roberts. The agency will handle insurance of all types. Mr. Murray has been living in More head City since 1944. He also op erates an agency in Hffvelock. Hungry Marine Sergeant Orders Homemade Cakes New York (AP) ? Sgt. Thomas C. Cooper of the First Marine Di vision in Korea was hungry for cookies. Remembering the home economics department of his New York high school he wrote to the superintendent of schools. Now 2.500 cookies are on their way to the sergeant. They were made by the students of Walton high school. Seven cooking classes each baked .10 batches of cookiea, varying the recipes with choco late. nuts, lemon and other good things. School funds paid the $45 postage. Just to make sure the sergeant will not try to eat all 2.500. they put an alternative address to "com pany commander" on each package. Circle to Meet The Jacqueline Eure circle of the First Methodist church of More head City will meet tonight follow ing the regular meeting of the Woman's Society o I Christian aer vice, at the church. McCuilerstoSee Morehead Rotary The Morehead City Iiotary club will be host to Charles L. McCul lers, district governor, Thursday night at the club's regular weekly meeting. Mr. McCullcrs is making his of ficial visit to the club as district governor. He will visit each of t^c 40 Rotary clubs in 22 counties dur ing his term of office. A club assembly of officers, di rectors and committee chairmen Charles L. McCuIlm with Mr. McCullers will be held im mediately preceding the club meet ing at 4:30 in the recreation center. The regular meeting will start at 6:30. Manager of the Kinston chamber of commerce, Mr. McCullers is a past president of the Kinston Ro tary club. He was elected district governor for the 1953-54 fiscal year at the annual Rotary convention in Paris, France, last May. There are approximately 1,600 in dividual Rotariaos in Mr. McCul ler's district. The international mer-?>'?rship of the club is close to 372,000 business and professional men in 86 coontries throughout the world. All Rotary clubs have similar ac tivities based primarily on the de velopment of better understanding and fellowship among business and professional men in communities. Bridge Ceremony Set for Thursday; Barden to Speak A. H, Graham, Chairman Highway Commission Will Cut Ribbon Dedication ceremonies for the new beach bridge will begin at noon Thursday following a 15 minute band concert on the More head City approach to the bridge. The bridge will be closed to traf fic from 11:45 Thursday morning [until 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Congressman Graham A. Barden of this district and highway com mission Chairman A. H. Graham will be the principal speakers at the program. Mr. Graham will cut the ribbon officially opening the bridge. After a series of tests showea the swingspan was up to standards, highway commission engineers opened the bridge to traffic Mon day morning, Aug. 24. The bridge has been under construction since late in 1951. It cost the state more than $1,300,000 to erect. Harvey Hamilton, jr.. Morehead City attorney, will be chairman of the dedication ceremony. He will introduce highway commission of ficials present and Mayor George W. Dill of Morehead City and Mayor Allied B. Cooper of Atlan tic Beach. Following the addresses and the cutting of the ribbon, a luncheon will be held for invited guests at the Heart of the Beach. During the afternoon band concerts will be held at 2:30 and 4:30 on the board walk at the beach. A street dance will begin in the central area of the beach at 8:30. A highlight of the celebration will be an aerial display of fire works at 10 o'clock Thursday night at the beach. Mayor Cooper described the new bridge recently as the "finest thing that's ever happened for the beach. A safe and sound bridge with a higher and faster draw will speed up traffic amj improve the tourist industry for this whole section." Planning cn the bridge started in 1950 and in the late spring of 1951 the low bid for construction was, awarded to the T. A. Lovinj' compwiy of Goldsboro. Delays due to the steel shortage and the scarrity of other equip ment throughout the Korean war period have materially delayed the completion date of the bridge. Electrical machinery needed for the operation of the swingspan was late in arriving and one part had to be flown in by air. J. B. Cutchin of New Bern was resident engineer for the highway commission on the bridge. R. Markham of New Bern is division engineer for this highway division. Morehead Rotarians Hold Fish Quiz The Morehead City Rotary elub had a program built around a "fish quiz" at its regular Thursday night meeting in the recreation center. H. S. Gibbs. sr., was in charge of the program. The panel of experts was composed of A. F. Chestnut, Stamey Davis, Albert Gaskill, Al vah Hamilton, sr., and Eugene Roclofs. The prize, a jumping toy, was won toy Dr. Chestnut. Visitors at the meeting were i Laurence Stroud of Greenville, Gait Braxton of Kinston, Wade Gallant, of Raleigh. Bill Marvin of Oriental, I Gunter Cooke of Emporia, Va? ' F.arl Bowen of Gettysburg, Pa., and I R. K. Montague of Newport. Tide Table TidM at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Sept. 1 1:56 a.m. . 8:08 a.m. 2:41 p.m. 9:24 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2 3:08 a.m. 0:19 a.m. 3:47 p.m. 10:31 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3 4:17 a.m. 10:27 a.m. 4:30 p.m. 11:29 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4 5:19 a.m. 11:28 a.m 5:43 p.m. IF&LW Leader Indicted Ben Gold. Russian-born president of the International Fur and Leather Workers union, was indict ed on three counts of perjury last week in connection with his sworn denial that he was a Communist. Gold's' union made an effort in 1952 to organize fishermen on men hadcn boats in Carteret county. Lo cal 710 of the union was started in February of last year and a kind of half-way strike was started in June. At the time of the organization of the local and the strike last year there were statements from some quarters that the union was com munistic. The union has been ex polled from the CIO on charges of being Communist-dominated. Gold's indictment grows out of an affidavit he signed Aug. 29. 1950. saying that he was not a mem ber of the Communist party. He took this action to meet the re quirements of the Taft-Hartley law. Under that law the services of the National Labor Relations Board may be used only by unions whose officers take non-Communist oaths. The affidavit was the basis of his indictment for perjury. Gold re signed publicly from the Commun ist party in 1990 Just prior to sign ing the affidavit. All three of hit statements in the affidavit war* false, the indictment alleges. At the time the indictment was issued Gold was vacationing in New York. The fur workers union is re ported to have around 100,000 members. C. A. Simmons was sent to Beiu fort to organize the menhaden fish ermen in this area. In June last year, the union sent food to Car teret county to feed men who were striking. If convicted on all three counts, Gold would face a possible maxi ?Mi punishment of 15 years im prtaWment and a $30,000 fine. Eadf count carries a maximum of ;|irf years and $10,000 fine. Morehead Group Has Plans To Raise $800,000 for Port Water Cut-Off Set For Beaufort Area Water will be cut off for some Beaufort residents from midnight Thursday until 6 a.m. Friday morning, George B. stovall, dis trict manager for the Carolina Power and Light company, an nounced today. The streets affected will be ! Turner to Pollock on Ann, Queen to Marsh on Front, Ann to Front on Marsh, Ann to Front on Queen, and Ann to Front on Pol lock. The interruption of service is necessary in order to replace a valve that is leaking, Mr. Stovall said. I DuBois Continues WorkforHighway The Morehead City chamber of commerce this week received word that the Wilmington chamber has joined with it in supporting the proposed coastal highway down the ? Outer Banks. Joe DuBois, manager of the lo- ; cal chamber, said that the Wil-i mington group wrote they would join in requesting the highway com mission to work toward the im provement of highways in eastern North Carolina. "The coast has been left behind . in highway development," the reso lution states. In recent years, high way 17 has become little better than a secondary road, it continued. Mr. DuBois reported that Alvah Hamilton, sr., of the Morehead City chamber has written to A. H. Gra ham, chairman of the state high way commission, asking for an ap pointment at which time represent atives of every coastal county and most coastal cities will appeal for action on the coastal highway. for this highway call lor an ensrt . o' the Outer Ban1** high way onto Ocracoke ?slan< with a It ry connecting Ocracoke to Atlantic where the highway will join highway 70, then pass to state highwav 24 and finally to highway 17 near Swansboro. ' The Morehead City chamber is not forgetting the east west travel picture while conceairating on the generally north-south' coastal high way. At a recent meeting the di rectors voted to bccome members \ of the Highway 70 association. J This association is very active on ! the west coast and is gradually spreading across the nation. A major aim of the group is to have highway 70 a four lane road from Atlantic to the west coastal ter minus. The directors of the Morehead City chamber have also asked the town commissioners to provide leg ible street markers as an aid to strangers in seeking addresses. Senator Alton A. Lennon has been invited to be the principal guest of the chamber at its regu lar October banquet. Mr. DuBois said. The banquet will be held on a Monday night in October but the definite date has not been set yet. Beaufort Police Have Very Quiet Weekend The Beaufort police department reported a very quiet weekend yes terday. No further developments have happened in the express robbery case of last week. A thief or thieves took $300 from the? office of the Beaufort Morehead railroad. An automobile driven by Mrs. F. R. Bell went over the seawall at Live Oak street Thursday when the brakes on the vehicle failed. No damage was done to the car. Firing Exercises Announced The Marine Corps will conduct firing exercises in the area between Browns Inlet and Bogue Inlet be ginning this morning and continu ing through Sept. 4. The exercises will begin at 7 a.m. and continue until 3:30 p.m. Zoning Meet Hears Few City Residents The Morehead City town com missioners held a hearing to hear suggestions on the zoning of the area recently annexed to the city Thursday night. The area is west of the old city limits between the present highway 70 and the railroad and sound. Mayor George W. Dill presided over the hearing. D. J. Hall and Ted Garner were the only commis sioners who attended. Mayor Dill first explained to the small group of 25 at the hearing that the city had no intention of extending its street system plan into*the new area breaking up ex isting street patterns. He said the principal purpose of the meeting was to allow the com missioners to pass a temporary zon ing ordinance holding all property on a status quo basis until a zoning engineer from the N. C. League of Municipalities has had an oppor tunity to survey the area and to make recommendations. H. O. Phillips, III, told the com missioners that many of the resi dents of the city south of the rail road between 30th and 34th streets were anxious to have the property north of the railroad zoned residen tial. Approximately 10 residents of | this area were at the meeting and I supported this statement. W. B. Chalk said that he felt it | would be in the interests of com j munity development to have the j area between 28th and 30th streets zoned for business straight through from Arendell street to Bridges street. Capt. Howard Ferguson, a resi dent of Noves avenue, asked thai that section of the annexed area be protected with residential areas running along Arendell street ex tended from 34th street out to the city limits. During th*1 hearing W. C. Carl ton suggested that the city form ;i beautification committee to make sure that the new entrance to Morehead City down Arendell street was appealing to visitors. "We don't want slums and dirty business buildings at the entrance to town," he said. Mr. Dill told the group that the j area would be zoned status quo un : til a survey had' been made and after that the city commissioners would consider their suggestions and try to make the zoning regula- j tions as fair and equitable as possi > ble. New Colonial Market To Open Thursday Bridge to b? Closed One Hour Thursday The new bridge from More ffy to Atlantic Uracil -will j be to traffic Thurwlay from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. while dedication i ere monies are being j held. Congressman Graham A. Bar den and Chairman A. II. Graham of the highway commission will be the principal speakers at the ceremony. The Beaufort band will play a concert prior to cere mony. During Thursday afternoon and night the celebration mark- j ing the opening of the new j bridge will continue on the beach with band concerts, street dances, and a fireworks display. Morehead Plans To Bury Garbage The Morehead City town board voted Friday afternoon to purchase i special equipment to enable the city to bury all its trash and gar | bage and abandon the present j method of burning. Dr. John Morris, commissioner j for streets and sewers, described 1 the new equipment, a back-fill , tractor, as "much better" than the present method. "It should elimi nate a lot of complaints by doing away with the smoke," he said. Many cities unable to afford modern incinerator equipment have started the back-fill method, it was pointed out. A wide trench is dug < in the ground, then the trash and j garbage is poured into the trench. | The tractor then flattens and com presses the trash and a thin layer of dirt is pushed on top of it. This process is repeated until the trench is filled at which time another | trench is dug. The city has room for the new method in an area near the present city dump. The back fill method also eliminates some of the health hazards of the present method and cuts down the odor at the dump. After two years of decomposition, the city may return to the site tof the original trench and start over again. "Most cities are finding this method more saiisfacorty and less expensive than incineration," Dr. Morris told the commissioners. The machinery was ordered on a rent le purchase agreement from the E. F. Craven company of Greensboro. The old city equipment used at the dump was traded in on the new tractor. It was pointed out at the meet ing that the city has been trying to raise the funds for such a pur chase for several years in order to eliminate the present method of disposing or garbage and trash. i ,Jk ? Colonial Stores will open t heir | new supermarket in Morehead City j Thursday morning at 8:30. Mirny | official* of the chain firm will come to the store for the opening. l Several thousand gifts will be the store and" the *tort from developing a larger export trade. Local leaders point out that the state's original expenditure here was only half its investment in Wil mington. There is also a long his tory of close attachment between Morehead City and the tobacco belt of eastern North Carolina. At the directors meeting, it was also decided to proceed with the or ganization of a Morehead City De velopment corporation. This will be a stock company entirely di vorced from the chamber of com merce but it will serve to help in terest industries and other organ izations in Morehead City and ihe Carteret coast. The corporation will be open to anyone desiring to invest in it. A commitjee composed of George McNeill, Atvati Hamilton, sr., Luther Hamilton, sr., George Ball, and Harvey Hamilton, jr., was named to prepare a plan of organ ization for the corporation. The ports committee of the cham ber is meeting with representatives of the State I'ort Authority today to discuss the tobacco storage sit uation. Hob Hicks, manager of the Esso terminal at the port, is chair man of the chamber's port com mittee. Attending the meeting will be J. D. Holt, manager of the Morehead City port, and other members of Ihe state ports stall. Mr. Holt re cently made a trip through eastern North Carolina making a survey of the tphacco export situation. Bardens Opens Havelock School Keynoting education as the spear head of might in America, Con gressman Graham A. Barden ded icated the Graham A. Barden ele mentary school in Havelock recent ly. Approximately 200 residents of the Havelock area were present to hear the lawmaker and guest speak ers. Brigadier General William G. Manley said the new school is one of the first steps toward improving the educational facilities of the Cherry Point Havejock area* 1$. L. Pugh, Craven county sup perintendent of schools, presided as chairman of the dedication ser vices. The Rev. H. L. Watson of Havelock delivered the invocation. Mr. Pugh introduced Congress man Barden as a man instrumental in the advancement of education in this area. Each generation in American has more of , an opportunity to fur ther its education, the congressman stressed in his talk. "Educated people will never allow America to he ruled by a dictatorship," he I said. I Comparing educational systems in Europe and America. CengTMl ! man Barden said he was convinced that we in America have done more toward proper training and cduca [ tion of our youth to build a strong er and finer democrack than have the Europeans. "The public education school system in America is the founda tion of our government." Con gressman Barden concluded. Delayed Tax Return Denver (AP) The next to-last person to file his state income-tax at State Revenue Department head quarters on the final day was I?ar ry M. Bimbaum, a member of the state auditor's staff He-explained he had been so busy helping others to file their returns he didn't get around to his until just before the deadline.