W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?<> 42nd YEAR, NO. 78. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Highway Commission Plans 'Study' for Coastal Road A delegation of more than 150+ advocates of a coastal highway pre sented a petition to the State High way Commission Thursday morn ing and while they didn't leave Ra leigh with the road built they did get a promise for consideration from the commission. Alvah Hamilton Sr., Morehead City attorney and chairman of the All-Coastal Highway Committee, presented the petition to the com mission. He was backed by repre sentatives from every county and most of the towns along the coast. "We're delighted you came," Chairman A. H. Graham of the commission told the delegation. He didn't say the road would be built but the commissioners did promise to investigate the matter further. Road by 1954 The committee's petition called for an "immediate linking of ex isting coastal highways in a man ner which will permit two-way con tinuous vehicular traffic along the 300 miles of our matchless coast, from Virginia to South Carolina, by the spring of 1954." The first step in the commit tee's proposal is to connect the "highway which runs south as far as Hatteras with US 70 on the main land and connecting the lower Cape Fear with Southport." This would involve 18 miles of highway on Ocracoke, a ferry from Ocracoke to Atlantic, improved fer ry service from Hatteras to Ocra coke and a ferry across the Cape Fear River between Fort Fisher and Southport. Everybody Supports Joe DuBois, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Com merce and one of the leaders of the highway campaign, told the commissioners that everybody in the coastal area was supporting the petition. Dan L. Walker, spokes man for the Beaufort delegation, stated that his delegation endorsed the proposal. In addition to Mr. Hamilton and Mr. DuBois, the Carteret County delegation included Mayor Clifford Lewis, Gerald Hill, Norwood Young, Dick Parker, Luby Bell Jr., E. W. Downum and Odell Merrill, all of Beaufort; and Dr. John Mor ris, Clyde Jones, Ray Garrett, Jerry Schumacher and John James, all of Morehead City. Clayton Fulcher Jr. represented Atlantic. Other Delegations The Wilmington Chamber of Commerce was represented at the hearing and gaVe its support to the 'highway proposal. Aycock Brown ol /he Dare County Tourist Bureau sgoke for his part of the coast; rep resentatives of the small beaches sauth of Morehead City announced (heir support of the highway; and Stanley Wahab spoke for Ocracoke. Mr. Hamilton told the commis sion that the highway would "be to the coastal counties what the Blue Ridge Parkway is to Western North Carolina." "We're not asking you to build 300 miles of highway," he continued, and said that nature had laid the foundation ior the road. "All the Highway Commission will have to do is put a top on it," Mr. Hamilton commented. "This is not going to be an ex pensive proposition in terms of highway building," he told the board, "and that's only part of it: It will make it easier for people inland to get along the coast. They can't get to us like we are. It will make it possible for people to see every single mile of this wonder ful coastline of ours." PMA Community Meetings Start At Newport Production Marketing Adminis tration community meetings start ed last night at Newport and will continue each night this week. B. J. May, county PMA office manager, listed the meetings as follows.' 8 o'clock tonight at the courthouse, Beaufort: 8 p. m. Wed nesday at Lee Murdoch's store, Wildwood: 8 p.m. Thursday in the Pellotier Community Building, Pel leticr: and 8 p.m. Friday in Cleve Gillikin's store, Bettie. The 1954 Agriculture Practices Program will be explained at the meetings. Farmers will also nomi nate community committeemen and delegates to the county PMA con vention. Beginning OcA 8, farmers in the five PMA districts will sign up in their communities for 1954 ACP assistance. They will vote at the same time for their community committeemen and delegate*. The signing-up and voting will continue through Oct. 14. Roy Beck and his assistant, who are with the Soil Conservation Ser vice, will be at the polls. The county PMA committee will be elected at the county conven tion which will take place Oct. 16 in the PMA office in the post of fice building, Beaufort Mayor George Dill Says Town to Change Meters Mayor George W. Dill said yes- , terday that Morehead City will convert to nickel parking meters in the near future. The town already has the con version parts. The mayor said the move will be made to comply with the law. Meters which take pennies have been ruled by the North Carolina Supreme Court to be illegal because they are "dis criminatory" and inconsistent with municipal ordinances allow ing one-hour parking. Ocracoke PTA Has First Meet OCRACOKE, Sept. 24? Ocracoke School P.T.A. held its first meet ing of the year on Monday night. Thirty-two members were present. Three new members were enrolled, Mrs. Linda Midgett, Mrs. Zinie Spencer, and Mrs. Ollie Mutro. In the absence of the president, ' Thurston Gaskill, the vice-presi dent, Mrs. Dicie Wells, presided. Mrs. Doris Ballance, retiring treas urer, reported that during the sum mer months $106.31 had been spent on the purchase and installation of cupboards and shelving for one of the elementary rooms amfefor sci ence cupboards for the high school. She reported a total of $866.38 taken in last year and $814.94 spent, leaving a balance of $48.87. The books were turned over to Mrs. Sidney Mae Styron, new treasurer. Mrs. Virginia Esham, new secre tary, read the list of hostesses for the October meeting. They arc Mrs. Clyde Farrow, Mrs. Elmo Fulcher, Mrs. Doris Garrish, Mrs. Elsie Garrish, Mrs. Iva Garrish. Mrs. Lucille Garrish, and Mrs. Ruby Garrish. Theodore Rondthaler, principal, demonstrated the new Viewlex film strip machine, recently acquired by the school. TheTVT.A. voted to pay for dental health materials for the primary room and for a lino leum rug for the first graders. The September hostesses, Mrs. Virginia Austin, Mrs. Marion Aus tin, Mrs. W. T. Boos, Mrs. Doris Ballance, Mrs. Eph Esham, Miss Kathleen Bragg, and Miss Nora Ed mondson, served cake and punch. James E. Willis ToReceiveAward James E. Willis, son of Mrs. Reba I Willis, 2504 Bay St., Morehead City, will receive the Eagle Scout award at the Court of Honor Sun- ' day in Franklin Memorial Meth odist Church. The service will be gin at 7:30 p.m. James, a member of Troop No. 101, is chief of the Order of the Arrow of the East Carolina Coun James E. Willis cii. The Order of the Arrow is an honorary Scout organization. He was elected at an Order of the Ar row Ordeal Sept. 1 at Camp Croa tan. Holder of 21 merit badges, James says that his favorite Scout activity is camping. He has attend ed three camporees, Kinston in 1950, Wilson in 1951, and New Bern in 1952. His mother will present him with his Eagle pin during the ceremony and he in turn will present her with a miniature Eagle badf*. Other participants in the ceremppy will be Troop 101s Scoutmaster, Gerald Davis, the Rev. Howard Payne, pastor of Franklin Memorial Church, and W. C. Wall, Scout ex ecutive of this district. Other awards to be presented Sunday night are Star Scout, first and second class badges and merit badges. boat MakeS CrUlSe Houseb?a , poWer With Oulb? Trumbull Docks Texaco Tanker The first of a series of large Texaco asphalt tankers will dock at the Morehead City port terminal today. Gene Seelbinder, manager of the Trumbull Asphalt Company, announced. The tanker docking today is the South Carolina. Later this week a Shell tanker will also discharge a cargo of asphalt for the Trumbull Company. Mr. Seelbinder revealed that this was the largest tanker ever to bring asphalt into the port. It is also the first Texaco tanker to dock at the port. The South Carolina is a much larger" vessel than the English Shell tankers which have been bringing asphalt to the local plant. Its cat?o is eoming from one of the Gulf of Mexico ports. The Trumbull Asphalt Company gets in about 12 tankers per year for its local plant. The tankers dis charge their cargoes at the port terminal into a pipeline which pumps the asphalt into the com pany's storage tanks. During the last week a tanker loaded the second cargo of glycol for the Dow Chemical Company from the port's storage tanks. The glycol is shipped to Texas for puri fication following its use in the Dacron proces* at the Kinston Du Pont plant. The chemical is shipped overland by rail to avoid salt con tamination from Texas to Kinston. Tide Table Tlta at BimM Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday. SepL Z9 12:32 a.m. 1:09 p.m. 6:40 a.m. 7:48 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. M 1:38 a.m. 2: IS p.m. T:47 a.m. 8:98 p.m. Thuraday, Oct. 1 2:48 a.m. 3:18 p.m. 8:58 a.m. 9:99 p.m. Friday, Oct t 3:94 a.m. 4:17 pjn. 10:07 ajn. 10:82 pjn. ? Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tabler of Brownsville. Texas, visited More head City briefly last Friday while enroute to New York City. This doesn't sound too unusual until it is noted that they are making the trip in a 26-foot houseboat powered by two outboard motors. The Tablers left Texas June 1 and covered the 3,000 miles to Morehead City without incident ex cept for numerous stops for pic tures, visitors and speeches. The houseboat. Grandma Two, was built in their Texas backyard, and Mr. Tabler is paying for the trip by writing stories for Motor Boating magazine and other publi cations. The boat is equipped with a large galley and dining nook, a sitting room which converts into sleeping quarters and a large sun deck topside from which the Tab lers have spent many hours fishing during their cruise up the Inland Waterway. Practical Sport "I'm proving that outboard cruis ing is practical and safe," Mr. Tab ler (aid. When they get to New York, they will get an outboard cruiser, return to the Gulf of Mex ico, and then go up the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, and then down the Hudson River to New York again. "Before we left everybody thought we were foolish to face 430 miles of open sea in the Gulf in the boat, but almost any iplet on the Atlantic has been rougher than the Gulf cruising," Mr. Tabler com mented. The outboard motors push the craft along at approximate 10 miles per dour. The Tablers said they liked the part of Carteret County so well that when tliey were going down the waterway in December they would stop here for several days for fishing and other outdoor sports. "We are both great fisher men," he said. Farmer Radi* Writer Approximately 2*. 000 people bave visited the boat, the Tablers estimate, during their cruise. Thj trip has been unsponsored, bu. Mr. Tabler is selling boating and fish ing wherever he goes. A radio writer for 10 years in Charlotte, Jacksonville. Fla., and Brownsville, Mr. Tabler haa appeared on tele viaion several times during his trip to talk on cruising. Beaufort Rural Fire Association Receives Funds 35 Men Attend Meeting At Courthouse Thursday Night, Okay Plan More than $500 was paid or pledged to the Beaufort Rural Fire Association by Thursday night when the group met at the court house in Beaufort. Thirty-five men attended the meeting to discuss the proposal to buy a 1500-gallon tanker truck. The group expressed themselves in favor of purchasing the equipment. It will follow town equipment to out->ced. Then he said the ordinance will be strictly en forced, both as to the tag and bikes being equipped with lights. k The Morehead City local of the International Longshoreman's Asso ciation has adopted a "wait and see" attitude on the recent expul sion of the association from the A. FX. on *? tuTgex, * corruptfen, LcRoy Guthrie, president of the local, announced yesterday. He re ported that the local had received no communication from the union. Mr. Guthrie reported that he at tended an executive board meeting of the Southeastern District of the association in Tampa, Fla., last week before the A.F.L. action when the board agreed "to stand pat with the I.L.A. as it was." Mr. Guth rie is a member of the board. The Morehead City local of the union will continue to operate as usual, Mr. Guthrie said. No excite ment is expected to be generated by the expulsion order in More head City. The American Federation of La bor took the action during its an nual convention in St. Louis last week. The A.F.L. also chartered a new union to competc lor the right of represent ing longshoremen. The expulsion vote was taken after the convention heard charges of corruption hurled at the I.L.A.'s leadership. The principal charges of corruption have grown out of investigations of conditions on the New York waterfront. The New Vork Times reported recently: "Feeding on the lucrative port and the strong-arm labor is one of the nation's most corrupt unions ? the International Longshoremen's Asso ciation." At the end of last week organ izers for the new longshoremen's union appeared on the New York piers and labor and industry lead ers were awaiting further develop ments as the unions fought for membership. After the new union was chartered about 10.000 long shoremen on the Great Lakes, the Mississippi and some Atlantic ports switched over to the new union. The vot* for expulsion at the convention was 72,362 to 765 on the basis of one vote for each 100 union members. Only the I.L.A. and one other small union voted in opposition to the expulsion. Following his trip to Tampa, Mr. Guthrie reported that he had checked with many South Atlantic port locals and learned that More head City's longshor- men were "in line with what labor in other ports is doing." He pointed out that the irregularity of work at the local port prevents the U'1 ' '? - de veloping as strongly as be desired for the port's sake. "I think we're right in line with other locals," he declared. Beaufort Police Arrest Three on Drunk Charges Chief of Police M. E. Guy, Beau fort, reported yesterday that John Daugherty. Newport, was arrested Sunday night In Beaufort. He was charged with drunken driving. Of ficer Carlton Garner arrested Daugherty near the school house. Picked up on public drunkenness charges Sunday night were Willie GodetU and Johnny Douglas. Car Upsets, Four Injured Jackie Lee Daniels, 17, Lola, was killed at 8:20 Saturday night in an automobile accident 11 miles north of Beaufort on the Merrimon Road. This was the county's second high way fatality in less than a week and the seventh this year. (Lonnie Hyatt, Morehead City, was killed on the Salter Palli Road Sunday, Sept. 20). Four other teen-agers riding with Daniels were slightly injured. They were Lester Grady Day, 17; Ina Mae Goodwin, 19; Alice Daniels, 15; and Rodney Gaskill, 17. Highway Patrolman J. W. Sykes said that the five young people were riding in a 1950 Chevrolet to ward Beaufort when the car went into a skid. According to the Gas kill boy who owned the car, Daniels was driving. Car Turns Over The car turned over three times and stopped 500 feet from where it went off the road. Patrolman Sykes said the driver evidently lost con trol on the curve 1.500 feet north of Lynch's bridge. The highway was damp at the time but it was not raining. Day had a bruised left arm, Miss Goodwin had cuts and bruises on her legs, Miss Daniels had cuts and bruises on her face, and Gaskill, who was discharged from the Morehead City Hospital yesterday morning, had a back injury. Eugene Hill, Atlantic, took Day and the girls to the hospital after the accident. They were treated and discharged. Patrolman Sykes took Gaskill to the hospital. Coroner Investigates Daniels' skull was fractured. He also had a broken neck and crushed chest, according to Coroner Leslie D. Springle who has impaneled a coroners jury. An inquest will be held as soon as Coroner Springle completes his investigation. On the jury are William Warren, Robert Bart*, and Kenneth Wag ner, all of Morehead City; James Rumley, Sal Palazzo, and Charles Mason, all of Beaufort. The passengers riding with Dan iels said that the car was not "go ing over 50 miles an hour" when the accident happened. The car was demolished. Funeral services for Daniels were held at 2 o'clock yesterday at the Free Will Baptist Church, Cedar Island, with the Rev. W. E. Ander son officiating. Burial was in Gilgo Cemetery, Cedar Island. Members of the senior class of Atlantic High School, classmates of Daniels, act ed as pallbearers. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Daniels, four sisters, Glenda, Nancy, Kathleen and Larna, and his grandmothers, Mrs. E. G. Daniels and Mrs. David Day, all of Cedar Island. The highway fatalities thus far this year, according to Mr. Sprin gle, are as follows: James Edwin Bennett, Jan. 17; Earl Edwin John son, Jan. 22; Laurie Eugene Pake, Feb. 2; Tom Smith, Aug. 7; Rich ard Leffers, Sept. 12; Lonnie Hyatt, and Daniels. County Prepares Fair Exhibit The exhibit to be placed by Car teret County in the State Fair at Raleigh next month is being assem bled in the building formerly occu pied by Pender's store on Front street, Beaufort. The exhibit will show Carteret and eastern North Carolina's part in the "North Carolina Meets the Challenge" program. R. M. Wil liams. county agent, reports that all farm agencies in the county are wprking on the exhibit. Six color transparent photos will be used. They will be mounted in large "windows'" and lighted by lights flashing off and on behind them. To show the progress in rural liv ing pictures will show a church, others will show a school, a tobacco field, an Irish potato field, a dairy herd, a fish catch, sailboats (to rep resent recreation), and the port at Morchcad City (to represent indus try). Mr. Williams explained that coastal farmers engage in other ac tivities, such as industry and fish ing, as well as farming, that's why pictures other than farm scenes ars being used. Carteret was one of five counties in the state to be chosen to place an exhibit in the "North Carolina Meets the Challenge" project at the fair. The fair opens Oct. 20 and continues through the 24th. Specialist to Vl.lt T. C Blalock. extension dairy specialist, will visit dairy farmera in the county tomorrow morning, R. H. Williams, county agent, an nounced today.