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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-<if-town fires to furnish addi
tional water.
L. D. Springle, chairman of the
association, pointed out that the
biggest problem at rural fires is
insufficient water.
Attending the meeting were four
of Beaufort's commissioners. W. G.
Temple, Gordon Hardesty, James
Rumlev, and Carl Hatsell. Mr Hat
sell told the group that the town
is willing to cooperate with the out
of-town folks., -but because of the
town's financial condition there's
nothing more we can do except
send our equipment out."
He told the men that he felt the
tanker truck was a good idea and
said that the town would be willing
to house the truck and provide the
labor to keep it in running order.
Improved Alarm System
J P. Harris, Beaufort fire com
missioner, announced that the town
is reorganizing its alarm system.
Equipment is to he shipped Oct 1
and should be ready for use Oct.
15. he said.
Five new alarm boxes will be in
stalled within the city limits plus
a box for each outlying area, such
as Hancock Park, Highland Park
highway 70, highway 101, Ann
street extended. Front street ex
tended. and West Beaufort.
Mr Harris explained that at
present, any out-of-town ' alarm is
33, and nobody knows where it is.
Phone calls jam the fire station,
men jump in their cars and race all
over town trying to find out where
the fire is and the result is eon
fusion. He said the new rural box
arrangement will let people know
exactly from which area the call
has come.
To increase the water stipply in
rural sections. Mr. Harris said that
cisterns were considered at one
tiilie. It was decided, however, that
they would be too expensive. There
would have to be quite a number
of them and each would have to be
equipped with a gasoline pump to
move the water from the cistern
through the fire truck.
Thanks Town
Chairman Springle expressed
thanks to the Beaufort commission
ers for allowing the fire equipment
to go out-of-town within the 12
mile limit allowed by law and ex
tended thanks also to Poliee Chief
M. E. Guy who offered the help of
the police force in directing traf
fic.
Mr. Springle, who is also county
coroner, said that he was keenly
aware of the necessity of efficient
fire-fighting. He remarked that
there were three deaths by fire in
the county in 1952 and one thus
far this year.
Mr. Harris read a list of the per
sons who had pledged or paid
money. Pledges ranged from $5
to $25. He stated that the associa
tion realized that some families
may not be able to afford more
than a couple dollars, but added
that each dollar will be gratefully
accepted.
Duplicate Records
The secretary of the association,
Grayden Paul, and the treasurer,
John Miller, are keeping duplicate
records of the amount pledged and
the amount paid. Mr. Harris ex
plained that no money will be paid
out without the approval of the ex
ecutive committee and that all
checks will be signed by both the
chairman and the treasurer.
Distributed at the meeting were
printed pledge slips which coukl be
See ASSOCIATION, Page 2
Morehead Firemen Put
Out Two Weekend Blazes
Morehead City firemen put out *
fire at the J. G. Bennett home. 206
N. 6th St., at 6 o'clock Sunday
morning and put out an automobile
fire at 1 o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
The fire at the Bennett home
started in the dining room and
went up the north side of the
house. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett were
wakened by smoke and Mrs. Ben
nett phoned the ffre department.
Mr. Bennett said yesterday that
damage was extensive but he
doesn't know how the fire started.
The car that burned was a com
plete loas. firemen said. It waa
parked at the side o I the bouse at
2806 Arendell St. James Weeks,
the owner, said he was awakened
by the horn blowing. He had no
idea how the fire started, he said.
The car was a late model Ford.
Jackie Lee Daniels , 77, Lola,
Dies in Wreck Saturday Night
County Receives
Timber Money
Carteret County this week re
ceived $9,705.27 from the U. S.
Treasury Department as its share
of receipts from timber cuttings in
the Croatan National Forest.
Don J. Morris, supervisor of the
N. C. National Forests, announced
that the payments were being made
this week to 24 state counties. The
total, representing 25 per cent of
the receipts from forest products
sales and leases, is $142,012.78.
Mr. Morris pointed out that while
these payments are not in lieu of
taxes they do replace local taxes
since the federal land is removed
from assessment lists.
17.3 Cents Per Acre
On an acreage basis, Carteret,
Craven and Jones counties are re
ceiving 17.3 cents per acre as their
share of the Croatan forest earn
ings. Payments in the Nantahala
and Pisgah forest were 10.1 cents
per acre; while the payments on
other forests ranged up to 56.2
cents.
Craven County received $10,
338.53 for its acres and Jones Coun
ty got $6,286.86. Carteret's acreage
in the forest is 56,169 acres; Crav
en's is 59,834 and Jones' is 36,385.
The government has a total of
1.108,319 acres in the state.
Assuming a stable economy, in
come on the forests should continue
to increase for many years, Mr.
Morris said. The fiscal year's total
collections of $568,051.13 were
made on a cut of 34,302,000 board
feet of lumber. During the same |
period 43,255,000 feet were sold
and plans for the current year call
for a sale of 52 million board feet.
Increase Foreseen
Some years in the future when
the land is fully occupied the en
tire annual growth will be cut
every year and income will level
off at a figure substantially higher
than tl\c current one
Of ust year's receipts $56,ti06
was returned to the forests fof con
struction and maintenance of roads
and trails, and $108,914 went Into
a special cooperative account to be
used locally to remove culls and re
lease reproduction on the sale areas
after commercial cutting.
Court Will Hear
HogTheftCase
Four men allegedly involved in
hog thefts in Carteret and Craven
Counties will be given a hearing
in Carteret Recorder's Court this
morning. They are J. D. Arnold
Jr., Ralph Arnold, both of Mill
Creek, Odd Askland, Cherry Point,
and James Thomas Brown, New
port. A warrant for the arrest of
Alton Wardell, Newport, has also
been sworn out.
J. D. Arnold Jr. and Brown have
been charged with stealing hogs
and Ralph Arnold and Askland
with aiding and abetting in the
thefts.
Deputy Sheriff Hugh Salter said
that the men are believed to have
stolen at least six hogs over a
period of two weeks. The hogs
were allegedly sold in New Bern.
According to officers, the men took
the animals from farmers' fields
and transported them in the back
of a car.
Assisting in investigation of the
case were Deputy Sheriff Marshall
Ayscue, Ormsby Mann, chief of po
lice at Newport; and George Cana
dy of the State Bureau of Investi
gation.
Hurricane Brings
County Heavy Rain
Carteret County got 2.66 inches
of rain at the hands of "Florence,"
the hi-jinks hurricane which boiled
up out of the Gulf of Mexico Fri
day. Instead of beginning in the
Caribbean and heading toward the
east coast of Florida as most hur
ricanes do, Florence headed north,
hit Eglin Field near JVnsacola,
Fla . visited Panama City, Fla., and
came up through Alabama.
Rains started here Saturday night
afld continued until late Sunday
afternoon when the sun broke
through. Winds were from the
southeast and southwest. The high
est temperature for Sunday was 76
and the lowest 70.
Tenperatures since Wednesday
were as follows:
Max. Mln.
Wednesday 71 59
Thursday 77 61
Friday 7? 84
MunUy to 69
Winds daring the week were
Final Plans Made
For Vote Saturday
One hundred ninety-six new reg
istrants put their names on Carte
ret County books so that they
could vote on the bond issue Oct. 3.
F. R. Seeley, chairman of the
County Board of Elections, said
that he considered this registratyon
"pretty good." Last year a special
drive was made to get folks to reg
ister and over 800 new names were
put on the books.
The poll books and ballots will
be sent throughout the county to
the registrars on Thursday. The
polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Mr. Seeley said he thought that
most of the resullts would be in
by 8:30 Saturday night. Returns
will be phoned to the sheriff's of
fice in the courthouse.
The issue at stake Saturday is
whether the state should borrow
$72 million, $50 million to be used
to improve the state school system
and $22 to build mental institu
tions.
The $50 million school bond issue
will be divided among the state's
counties in three different ways.
The first $10 million will be split
with each county receiving $100,
000 Of the remaining funds. $15
million will be divided according
to average daily attendance in each
county and $25 million according to
needs.
Irvin W. Davis, register of deeds
for the county, is chairman of the
bond effort in Carteret County. The
proponents of the issue are work
ing through the schools and other
organizations to rouse public inter
est l'n the bond issue. No organized
opposition to the bonds has de
veloped throughout the state.
Many informed political observers
have reported however that some
of the large and wealthy counties
in the Piedmont which have al
ready financed school construction
through bo'nds might vote against
the school bonds while voting for
the mental institution bonds. The
feeling is that such counties might
think their share of $25 million
based on need would be smaller
due to their own construction ef
forts.
For this reason the leaders of the
state bond effort have concentrated
their fire largely on the state's
poorer counties where every effort
is being made to turn out large
majorities for the bond issues.
A report on school needs in Car
teret County declared that a mini
mum of $1 million would be need
ed to put the county on an educa
tional par with other sections of
the state.
Morehead Union Awaits
Developments on Order
Scout Fund Drive
OpGns HertWw*
The East Carolina Council ot the
Boy Scouts of America will open
its annual drive for funds Oct. 8,
it was announced this week.
Heading the drive in the Car
teret District will be N. F. Eure
and Dr. S. W. Hatcher. Dr. J. D.
Messick. president of East Caro
lina College, is chairman of the
council committee.
During the first week in October
adult volunteers will conduct the
drive for funds to finance scout
activities during the coming year.
Earlier this month, meetings were
held throughout the council to ac
quaint local volunteers with the
methods to be used in the drive.
More than 35,000 boys arc al
ready enrolled in the scouts in this
state and plans have been made to
increase their numbers. Additional
funds and adult workers will be
needed to nuke the program avail
able to the increased thousands of
boys now approaching scouting age
as a result of the post-war popula
tion boom.
Dr. Messick urged adults in the
council area to contribute their ef
forts and funds toward making
scouting a success, "Volunteer
workers will determine whether
this drive is a success or not," he
said.
Present plans call for breakfasts,
Oct. 6, to open the campaign in
each of the 500 cities and towns in
the state having scout troops. The
main effort of the drive will be
centered on that day but contribu
tions will be accepted throughout
the first week in October. The
members of the district committee
will work in teams to raise the
funds.
Dr. Messick pointed out that al
ready 12,000 adults in this state
are devoting a part of their time
to the advancement of scouting and
called on residents in the area to
support the council so that it may
continue the program.
Polic* Chief Warns
Owners of Woedy Lots
Persons who do not have vacant
lota cleared of weeds by Thursday,
Oct. IS, will be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law, Beaufort Po
lice Chief M. E. Guy announced
yesterday.
He said there's no need for
weeds growing waist high on emp
ty lots in town. People who don't
have the weeds cut will be taken
Into court and tried for violation
of the town ordinance on keeping
vacant lots cleared.
The chief also added that bicycle
licenses will not be required oil
bikes for several weeks. The date
will be annou>>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.