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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arvndell St. Morebud City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '? 42nd YEAR, NO. 72. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Registration for Bond Vote Opens Saturday at Poll Sites Registration for the Oct. 3, $72< million bond election will open Sat urday morning, Sept. 12, at 0 o' clock, Fred Seeley, chairman of the Carteret county board of elec tions, announced this week. The registration books will be open at the regular polling places throughout the county. They will close at sundown. A second reg istration day will be held Sept. 19. Any person already registered for state or county elections will not need to register again for the bond elections. Persons whose names appear only on city books or who have never registered in Carteret county before must regis ter on one of the two Saturdays in order to vote in the bond election. Saturday, Sept. 26 will be chal lenge day. The election was called to let the state's citizens vote on a pro posed $50 million issue for school construction and a $22 million is sue for mental institutions. The | . 1953 General Assembly voted to call the elections at the suggestion of Governor William B. Umstead who has made improved schools and more adequate mental insti tutions a major part of his program while in office. Part of the money in the school issue will be divided according to need, part according to average daily attendance in the schools, but each county will get a mini mum of $100,000. In Carteret county, each district school committee is working to get out the vote and carry the county in [avor of tne bonds, mis county has already been surveyed by the state board of education as to need but no report on the survey has been made public. Low estimates at the beginning of the school year placed the county as at least 20 classrooms short for this year. At the dedication of the Atlantic Beach bridge last Thursday, Gov. Umstead urged the public to sup port the school and mental insti tution bonds as the earlier road bond issues were supported. Mast opinion from persons close to the Carteret county political scene at present is that the elec tion will be very close in this county. Leaders in the drive over the state have expressed fear that citizens in favor of the issues may not feel strongly enough to go to the polls and vote their opinions. The county school organizations are planning to start in earnest on their campaign next week. A meet ing of the county school board as sociation has been called for next Monday. v Curiosity Causes Automobile Crash Saturday Night "1 wanted to see how fast the car in front of me was going," Lay ton Baldwin told Morehead City police officer Saturday night after he was arrested following an acci dent in which the car he was driv ing struck a parked vehicle. Baldwin was driving west on Evans street at a high rate of speed when his car struck a parked auto mobile belonging to Jasper Phil lips of 2204 Evans street. The Phillips automobile was knocked 18 feet up and over the curb. Baldwin's car traveled 238 feet from ttife point of impact. Both cars were described as demolished. In explaining the accident, Bald win told the officers that a car in front of him was speeding and he was simply trying to find out how fast it was going. A passenger in his car. Harvey Lewis, was taken to the Morehead City hospital and treated for head injuriei and leg cuts. Baldwin was charged with driv ing drunk, and careless and reck less driving. Sea Level Inn Is Opened Saturday by Taylors The famous Taylor brothers of Sea Level opened the new Sea Level Inn, a 14-room motel, to the public Saturday afternoon. The inn is the second unit of a possible Taylor hotel chain, as the former Carteret countians also own the Palm Beach Biltmore hotel in Florida. Among those visiting the new establishment were Governor Wil liam B. Umstead and Carl Goerch, Raleigh newspaperman. Approxi mately 200-300 people visited the inn, which had a full house on its first night. The motel faces Nelson Bay on highway 70 as the road enters Sea Level. It is in the same area as the hospital being constructed by the Taylor foundation. Alfred and William Taylor of Norfolk, D. E. and Leslie Taylor of West Palm Beach, Fla., the four brothers, and their families were present for the opening. Mrs. F. C. Noyes of Morehead City and Mrs. Ellis of Norfolk, sisters, were also present. The Taylor family has long been prominent in Sea Level, but the four brothers left Carteret county's "Down East" to buijd fortunes in Norfolk and West Palm Beach. They operate an import-export agency, the Palm Beach Biltmore hotel, the West Palm Beach-Havana car ferry line, and a steamship line. During the weekend they had vis itors from all over the eastern part of the state and registrations for the lirst night included guests from New York and Maryland. On Sun day 42 people were served dinner in the dining room of the inn. The hospital is being built in or der to serve the health needs of the eastern end of the county. A spokesman for the brothers point ed out that now residents of Sea Level and Atlantic and dependent upon doctors in Beaufort and More head City and the Morehead City hospital for medical attention. This is "too great a distance" for good health care, the spokesman said, and the hospital is being built to satisfy this need. The hospital will be opened and d^Jicatc^ within 60 to 90 days. Around their modern motel the brothers hope to build up an area which will appeal to sportsmen for hunting and fishing and a resort and tourist business. The inn will also serve tourists waiting to take the ferry to Ocracoke. Morehead Port Has Gain In Tonnage, Army Reports Church Terms Festival Success More than 800 people attended the annual fall festival of St. Eg bert's Catholic church opening the church's drive for funds to build a parochial school Saturday night. Leaders of the church are hop ing to raise nearly $50,000 to build a one-story, eight-room elementary school on property the church owns at the intersection of 17th and Evans. They termed the festival a success. The festival featured entertain mcnt by the Harmaniacs of Cherry Point, a group, of three profes sional musicians now in the Marine Corps who are negotiating with RCA Victor for a recording con tract. Local entertainers also par ticipated in the program. Tickets to the festival were 25 cents. No report on the amount of money raised was available ycater day. The school will be open to Cath olics and non-Catholics, and lead ers of the drive estimate that at least 60 per cent of the school'! student body will be non-Catholic. Religious instruction will aot be compulsory for non-Catholic stu dents in the school. Leaders in the campaign said that the decision to build a school before a church sanctuary was taken in the light of community needs for more school facilities. They point out that a school re ceives much more use than a church building, though they also emphasized that the church needs a new building and plans will be made in the future for such a build ing. At the festival, ice cream and cake was served. Parking was on the church grounds, and the enter tainment was presented on the site of the proposed school. Marker Honors Mitchell And Bombing Milestone In this year of the 50th anniver sary of the first flight by the Wright brothers at Kill Devil Hill, the Outer Banks celebrates anoth er air anniversary of peculiar sig nificance. On Sept. 5, 1923, Brigadier Gen eral Billy Mitchell led a flight of Martin bombers from a base on Hatteras island to sink two battle ships. the USS Virginia and the USS New Jersey, which had been anchored off Diamond Shoals. The two battleships had been in cluded in the World War I disarm- 1 ament program. This week the state of North Car- i olina paid its homage to the l^te < controversial figure in the history i of flight by erecting a highway i marker at the site of his 1B23 i landing field where he proved that surface craft were vulnerable to j bombing attack by airplanes. I General Mitchell's advocacy of I the supremacy of air power in the I 1920's eventually led to his court- I martial from the Army. < The state's Viator ical marker | . - t reads: "Billy Mitchell? Brigadier General of the Army Air Service, demonstrated air power by bomb ing battleships off Hatteras, Sept. S, 1923. Landing field was here." The maker is the seventh the state has erected in Dare county. These markers are placed through the joir.i sponsorship of the depart ment of archives and history, the department of conservation and development, and the highway com mission. Tentative plana to hold an un veiling ceremony Saturday at the marker were cancelled. U was the feeling of some that the fa cilities of the Oregon Inlet ferry could not handle the people who were planning to attend the cere monies. An extensive series of activities is now being planned for Decern Mr at Kill Devil hill to mark the 10th anniversary of the first flight >y the Wright brothers there. Carl jMch, Raleigh newspaperman, is ?h airman of the itite committee planning for Ute celebration. ' The total tonnage of cargoes com ing through the Morehcad City port terminal in 1952 was 100,000 tons greater than the figure in 1951, the Army corps of engineers announced this week. The report was prepared by the Wilmington district of the corps and covered the state's two deep water ports. Total tonnage in 1962 mi 448^ 241 tons w^ile 343,850 tons were handled in 1951. Statistics for the first half of 1953 are not available yet. These figures represent all types of carriers including barges and cover imports; exports and coast wile traffic both inbound and out bound. While total tonnages for 1952 and 1951 in Wilmington are much greater than the figures for the Morchead City port, the traffic at Wilmington has been steadily de creasing since 1951 with the decline continuing into the first half of 1953 In 1951 Wilmington handled 4,495,417 tons of cargo, but by 1952 the total had dropped to 4,112,173 tons. The figure for the first half of 1953 is 2,014,667 tons. Water-borne commerce activities in all navigable waters in the state are compiled monthly by the corps of engineers' sub-office at Wash ington and are released as prelim inary figures only, pending actual publication in the annual report of the corps of engineers. In discussing the tonnage decline at. Wilmington. Col. George Gil lette. executive director of the State Ports Authority, said that most of the decline could b% at tributed to a decrease in the amount of petroleum being shipped through the port At both Morehead City and Wil mington, petroleum products ac count for l large part of the ton nage figure. Out of 316,962 tons handled by Wilmington in June, 1963, 211,758 tons were petroleum products. The Morehtad City figures are not bolstered by the heavy move ments of Marine Corps men and equipment in conjunction with Caribbean maneuvers. Last week one such maneuver brought 14 ships to the port terminal for load The local figures will show ? jump (or 1953 on the basis of commercial cargoes for the first time. In the spring of this year, the port handled three fertiliser ship* and one tobacco export ship. Horn* Demonstration Club Meetings Sot Miss Martha Baraett, county home agent, has announced the fol lowing home demonstration club meetings for this week. Tomorrow the Russells Creek club meets at 7:30 with Mrs. D. R. Arnold. Two meetings will be held Thursday. The worth River club meets with Mrs Helen Arthur at 2 p.m. The Core Creek Harlowe club will meet at ? p.m. for a pic nic at the home of Mr) Bessie Ward. The Merrimoo club, scheduled to meet yesterday, was postponed and will meet next Monday at 2:90 at tlM boo* of Mrs. rioata Arthur, i Barden Speaks To Morehead Civic Clubs Praises Area Progress Since 1920*s; Urges Public School Support The progress Morehead City has made since the 1920's is "tremen dous," Congressman Graham A. Barden told a joint meeting of the Lions and Rotary clubs Thursday night at the recreation center. A guest of the Lions club, Con gressman Barden addressed the members of the two clubs at the end of their separate business ses sions. The progress here is greater than anyone believed possible years ago, he told the civic club members, be cause "if you had believed it, you would have bought some of that $4 land back then and you'd all be millionaires now." Mr. Barden was introduced by Fred Hardy, president of the Lions club. Turning in his remarks to educa tional and defense problems, the New Bern congressman pointed out that "the scientific advances which aided us so materially in the last war did not come from dumbheads. They came from boys educated in our public schools." "I would like to see the day re turn," he continued, "when (he teachers, who train the minds and thoughts of our youth, were a se lect and honored group in society." Congressman Barden told the civic leaders that he was a "staunch believer in a strong national de fense and a strong treasury depart ment. God forbid that oolitics and economy should ever eet associated with a war effon. The United States will survive .1 we utilize the forces now available." At the end of his speech, Con gressman Barden referred to the Communist governments through out the world. "The only way to deal with them is to show your teeth and tell them what's what," he declared. "There are only two things you can do with rattlesnakes ? kill them or leave them by them selves." Following the congressmna'a aH dress, m*mb?tt? 01 the cluLs wav intfloduoed to him and discussed various issues with him. Congi ess man Barden was in Morehead City to take part in the dedication of the new bridge to Atlantic Beach. State Treasurer Backs Bond Vote Southern Pines, N. C. ? The pro posed bond issues lor North Caro lina public schools and mental hos pitals is a sound and justified pro posal, State Treasurer Edwin Gill told the Sandhills Kiwanis club here on August 26. "The need is great, the cause is worthy, and the sound financial condition of North Carolina amply justifies such action," the state treasurer said in an address before one of the few county-wide civic clubs in America. Speaking as one familiar with the fiscal history of North Carolina for the past 25>ears, Mr. Gill, who served as North Carolina Commis sioner of Revenue and as North Carolina Collector of Internal Reve nue for the federal government be fore becoming state treasurer, said, "1 do not hestitate to endorse the issuance of these bonds." North Carolina will vote October 3 on the issuance of bonds totalling SO million for public schools and 22 million for menta\ hospitals. "On October 3 North Carolina has j date with destiny," Mr. Gill said. "On this day. we will decide a great issue which involves not only the welfare Of hundreds upon hundreds of the mentally ill, but also the future of many thousands of children in the public schools. "Are we to continue the march of progress which began with Ay cock in 1900? Surely there can be but one answer. We will not turn back the clock. On this important day. North Carolina will tell the world that she is able and willing to take car? of her own. Every hu mane and progressive instinct that has characterized the spirit of North Carolina for the past SO years predicts that we will vote 'yes' on October 3. "There is no question about the need. Those best informed as to the state of our mental hospitals, and those who have given their lives to leadership in education, tell us that these funds are abso lutely essential to the maintenance of minimum standards and require ments. What they say to us is un derscored by those of the mentally ill who are still held in Jails and in other unsuitable places. "In my 'opinion, we are not only faced with the demands of a great cause which lie heavily on our heart and conscience, but we are faced with an opportunity to make a sound investment in our own fu ture. Like physical resources, our human assets require Judicious coo nrvttioA And development." ' I Holiday Celebration Is Quiet In County with Large Crowds Navy Ships Autos Through Port Here Stevedores at the Morehead City state port terminal this morning started unloading a cargo of auto motive vehicles consigned to the Cherry Point air station. J. D Holt, manager of the port, reported that this was the first such movement to come through the port. The SS Sealeader brought a full load of 234 vehicles from Davisville, R. I. The cargo is coming to the local port through provisions in the Navy lease of warehouse space at the ter minal. Mr. Holt pointed out that in ad dition to providing rental income for the port, the state had assur ances from the Navy that the local port and warehouses would be used for incoming cargoes as necessary. The vehicles include all kinds of trucks, jeeps, and ambulances and will go to the Navy in Cherry Point. The stevedores started working this morning and the work will continue for 20 hours without let -up. The port hopes that the cargo will be completely unloaded at the end of that period. On each stevedoring shift, there will be 64 men. Tomorrow the port is scheduled to dock four more Navy transports as a part of the current maneuvers being conductcd in the Caribbean by the Marine Corps and the Navy. These will be the last Navy ships until around Sept. 25 when another large movement of Navy vessels is anticipated. Last week a total of 14 trans ports, LST's and LSD's docked at the port taking on men and equip ment for the maneuvers. The movement proceeded in good order and port officials declared they were happy with the way the ships were handled. As a new procedure LST's were loaded off the short part of the okl dock. In the past these ships which are loaded through a large ramp in the bow have been run onto the shore of Inlet island for loading. A ramp and pontoon float was constructed and the vehicles were driven off the short dock, down the ramp and into the holds of the ship. The marines are headed for the Roosevelt Roads-Vieques area near Puerto Rico for annual maneuv ers staged by the Marine Corps. This year no landing will be staged on Onslow Beach to climax the training exercise. An amphibious attack will be made on a Carib bean island. New Lab Building Bids Will Be Opened Sept. 29 Bids for the new U. S. Fish and-4 Wildlife service laboratory on Piv ers Island will be opened Sept. 29, according to an announcement ?fcy J*. B. Talbot. Construction of Lhc JUK# by 36 foot brick buildihg will be the second phase of the laboratory's remodeling. Mr. Talbot, director of the labor atory, also revealed that he is seek ing new staff members for the fisheries research. Although the government is cutting some funds, appropriations have already been made to staff this work. Work on the new laboratory, to replace the present 50-year-old cen tral building, is to begin as soon as the contract is awarded and it is hoped that it will be finished within six months. Ground has already been cleared for the con struction just south of the present structure. Final plans for the construction were made last week during a visit at Piver's island by David E. Booth, engineer from the Fish and Wild life service's regional office in At lanta. The new laboratory, a one-story building, will house administrative offices, six to eight offices for biol ogists, library, dark room and lab oratories for chemical analysis and other work connected with research at the fisheries. The air con ditioned building will have fluor escent lighting. The first phase in the remodeling of the service's buildings on the island was begun in June 1952 when work was started on a ser vice building. Almost complete, the 148 by 30 foot structure was built at a cost of about $20,000. Social Security Man Schedules Local Visit A representative of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors insur ance will be in Carteret county next week, N. A. Avera, "manager of the Wilmington Social Security of fice, announced today. The representative will be in Beaufort at the courthouse Wednes day. Sept. 16, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. On Thursday, Sept. 17, the repre sentative will be in room 120 of the Morehead City post office from D a.m. to 11 a.m. Any person may see the repre sentative for help in claiming Fed eraMd-age and survivors insur ance benefits, checking a social se curity account, or obtaining Infor mation about old-age and surviv ors insurance. Tide Table Tides Btnlirt Bar HIGH LOW Tnetday, Sept. ? 8:12 a.m. 8:20 p.m. 2:29 p.m. re4aeaday, Sept. t 2:37 a.ra* 2:05 a.m. 8 45 a m. 8:53 p.m. 3:00. p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1? 9:19 a.m. 9:25 p.m. 3:07 a.m. 3:34 pjn. Friday, Sept. 11 9:51 a.m. 3:37 a.m. 9:58 pjn. 4:11 pjn. Marine Planes Collide at Show A mid air collision of two heli copters marred the participation of the Second Air Wing in the Na tional Aircraft show at Dayton, Ohio. September 5-7. More than ISO men and 40 planes from Cher ry Point were present to help com memorate 50 years of progress in aviation. The accident occurred Sunday when the rotor blades of 'copters flown by Major William T. Tebow, jr.. Quantico, and Lieutenant P. M. Gish, Cherry Point, struck. The pilots were the only men aboard their Sikorsky HRS transport heli copters. Major Tebow's 'copter crashed and burned but he was pulled from the wreckage and taken to a hos pital for treatment of light injuries. Lieutenant Gish was uninjured. Fighters, transports and helicop ters from Cherry Point took part in a 40-minute program devoted to marine aviation on each of the three days of the huge air show. Ground displays supplemented the aerial phase of the program to de pict to the public the broad capa bilities of Leatherneck aviation. The Marine Corps' new F9F6? the Marines' only swept-wing jet plane ? was flown in the show, as were Banshees, packet transports, helicopters, and a skyknight all weather jet fighter. Static displays included the Banshee, Skyknight, Packet and AD Skyraider. i.icuienam coionei manon Lan, who recently established an unof ficial world's record by flying to an altitude of 82,000 feet, was project officer for Marine person nel and planes participating in the show. Colonel Carl once held the record for man's fastest flight, and plans to attempt another record soon. Representing the Second Wing in organizational headquarters for the Dayton show was Lieutenant Colonel W J. Sims, commanding officer of Marine Fighter Squad ron-533 Colonel Sims' squadron furnished 24 Banshee jets with pi lots and maintenance crews for the mammoth show. Second Wing personnel taking part in the show were airlifted to Dayton by transport planes, arriv ing at Patterson Air Force Base on Wednesday, and a full-scale rehear sal of the air show was held Fri day. In addition to Second Wing units, personnel from Quantico par ticipated in the show. Beginning at 1:43 p.m. (EST) eacn of the three days, the Marine Corp* portion of the show included flybys of several types of aircraft, simulated strafing and bombing runt, smoke screens, carrier take offs, wire laying, landing of equip ment by helicopter, casualty evacu ation and rescue by the hoist method, carrier break-up, field car rier landing practice, and other tactics. as usuai auring me wee*. i,argt^ numbers of people came to the county to go fishing over the week end, and by Sunday afternoon all hotel, motel and rooming house ac commodations were reported filled. Joe DuBois, manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, reported that every room listed as available in the chamber's directory was passed out to tour ists by Sunday night. The night information and room service which the chamber has con ducted on the weekends this sum mer will now be discontinued. Charles R. Freeman has been man ager of the service. Whenever reg ular tourist accommodations were filled, tourists were referred to the chamber office where a list of avail able rooms in private homes was kept. "We were able to place hundreds of people which has been a big help to the community." Mr. DuBois said. Private rooms in Morehead City and Beaufort were listed. Alfred B. Cooper, mayor of At lantic Beach, reported that prob ably 75 per cent of the cottages on the beach would be closed up for the winter before next weekend. "Some people may come back for a couple of weekends," he said "but the season is over." Sunday's crowd at the beach was yery large, Mr. Cooper said. He estimated that it was almost as great as the largest crowds during the middle part of the summer. The Beaufort police department reported that no accidents happen ed in Beaufort and its activity was limited mostly to arresting a few persons for public drfltikenneKs. Similar quietness was reported in Morehead City, with the exception of an accident Saturday night. Highway patrolmen did not re port any weekend accidents throughout the county. Most local people reported that the summer season came to a quiet close with the traditional Labor Day. Some pointed out that there are not as many people coming to the beach on the holiday now as in the past, though most restaurants were filled to capacity both Satur day and Sunday nights. Man Breaks Jail; Quickly Captured Circumstances have a way of knocking a man when he's down, Rudolph C. Thomas found out this weekend the hard way. Briefly summarized Thomas was arrested Friday for failure to sup port an illegitimate child, placed in the county jail he broke out, he was recaptured, and a wire from Virginia informed county officers he was wanted in that state for grand larceny. Hugh Salter, deputy sheriff, re ported that Thomas was living on a dirt road near the Morehead City golf course when he was arrested on the original non-support charge. Later the sheriff's office got war rants for the arrest of Eva Mac Hardy for co-habitation. She took out the non-support warrant. After he was placed in the coun ty's jail, he managed to get away while some repairs were being made Saturday afternoon. He made his way on foot to the intersection of highways 101 and 70 where he was spotted by Deputy Salter who was returning from Harkers Is land. His break-out emphasizes the sheriff's department's long time contention that the Carteret coun ty jail will not hold a prisoner "who wants to leave." The county is considering calling a vote for a $50,000 bond election to build a new jail. To completr Thomas' plight, when he got back to the jail, a wire had arrived faying he was wanted in Virginia for grand larceny. Thomas was then taken to New Bern for safe keeping where he waived extradiction to Virginia. Otherwise the county had a quiet weekend. Bell G*e? to Convention Jasper Bell of Morehead City has been attending the convention of the Associated Master Barbers Association of North Carolina in AsheviUe. The convention started Sunday and enda today. The prin cipal speaker at the Monday ses sion was Willard Cole, Pulitxer I Prize-winning Whitcville newspaper i editor. ! Tourist Accommodations Filled by Noon. Sunday Traffic deaths and accidents mounted over the nation during the Labor Day weekend but here in Carteret county everything was quiet. Only a few minor accidents were investigated by police officers. The National Safety council has estimated that traffic deaths during the holiday will total at least 440 nationally. By Monday morning the toll had climbed to 335. The beach was very quiet yesterday with most businesses operating Morehead Board Faced Problem With Building The Morehead C ity board of com missioners decided Saturday after noon that it had no power to re quire Morton Davis to get a build ing permit to complete his projec ted filling station on the north side of Arendell street on a lot recently annexed into the town. The question hinged on whether the building had been started be fore the annexation. If it had not been started, then the town would have had the power to grant or refuse a building permit; if it had been started before (he annex ation, the town would have had no control over it. The board heard testimony from three independent contractors to the effect that the building had been started. Mr. Davis told the board the construction Was de layed because of a shortage of materials and the fact that the highway grade has not been fixed yet in that area. Contract for the building was let in advance of the annexation. The problem arose when resi dents of the town on the south side of A rendel' street protested the building and asked that the town stop it. The town board acted earlier to freeze all construction in the recently annexed area until a zoning engineer has made a sur vey and the area has been zoned. It was at this point that the question as to when a building is started arose. Part of the con crete foundation for the building had been poured before the annex ation election. Before its vote Saturday after noon the town board spent a good part of Friday afternoon and night listening to both sides of the ques tion. Herbert O. Phillips III. repre senting the residential property owners, suggested that the town stop the construction by requiring a permit and let the matter be set tled in court. In the spring, Mr. Davis submit ted a platt of the proposed sta tion to the town so that the board could approve it with respect to streets alone. It was emphasized that before the annexation the town's powers over the area were limited purely to platts of streets. Mr. Davis said that he had not consulted the town about starting the building because when he start ed the property was not in town and the town was not concerned. Howland Freed On $1,000 Bond; Hearing Delayed The hearing of James Howland of Morehead City on charges of setting a fire at his wife's beauty shop was continued until next Mon day at yesterday's session of the Moiehead City recorder's court. Howland is charged on three counts in a warrant signed by his wife, who owned and operated thfe Beauty Nook on Shepard street. The charges are attempting to set the building and equipment on fire, disturbing the peace and public drunkenness. The charges grow out of a series of events Tuesday night when How land saturated parts of the build ing in which the shop is located with gasoline. The fire was stopped before much damage was done. Most of the damage was to an air conditioning unit. Howland was arrested Wednes day. He was held in the county jail until Friday morning when he was released on $1,000 bond. He will be given a hearing on the arson charges in the Morehead City re corder's court and if probable cause is found, his case will be trans* ferred to the Carteret county su perior court for trial. Newport Girl Trains Miss Margaret L. Lewis of New port, route 2, has entered the Ca barrus Memorial Hospital School A Nursing. The fall term i Sept. 1.