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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendall St. Morehead City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??< 42nd YEAR, NO. 96. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Workers Get Better Housing; School, Church Aid Needed By MAUREEN DOWNEY Within the past year, Carteret County farmers have done a mag nificent job in providing decent housing for migratory farm lab orers. Formerly, migrant workers in this area were, for the most part, housed in old barns, chicken huts and dilapidated shacks and sheds unfit for human habitation. They were leaky and damp, without elec tricity, running water, or sanitary facilities. In the past year, thanks to vigor ous efforts on the part of farmers and the Farm Placement Office, under supervision of Frank Nance, Beaufort, over $50,000 has been [ spent to provide clean up to-date * * housing, and the workers them selves agree that the housing in Carteret County has improved 100 per cent. But community obligation to mi grant laborers does not stop with housing. To any farming commun ity, these laborers are a financial asset. They do an essential job, a job which netted the farmers of Carteret County over $1,500,000 this year, Mr. Nance said. They're Not Drifters These farm labor folk are hard working people, doing a job that has to be done. They travel from* one place to another harvesting crops. They are not drifters, but organized labor crews, working as a group under crew leadership. When the crops are harvested in one community, the crews move on to another community, directed to the next place by the Farm Placement Bureau. The crew leaders are responsible for the people in their crews. They live with them and work with them and are naturally interested in hav ing suitable working conditions. Suppose Farmer A and Farmer See WORKERS. Page 2 DefendantPleads Guilty to Having Illegal Whiskey Willie Budgett, Merrimon Negro apprehended by Hugh Salter, sher iff of Carteret County, Saturday and charged with transporting a quantity of non-taxpaid whiskey for the purpose of sale, pled guilty to possession in Carteret County , Recorder's Court Tuesday. ? Sheriff Salter, in relating to the court the events that led to Bud gett's arrest, said that he was seek ing Budgett in the Merrimon sec tion Saturday to question him. Sheriff Salter said he stopped at a service station and inquired whether Budgett had passed that way. He was told, he said, that Budgett had just passed, driving ? a truck. Follows Truck Salter said that he caught sight of the truck a short time later and followed it. Budgett, according to the sher iff. turned into a yard. When the sheriff arrived, the truck was stand- ' ing in the yard and he could see on the back of the house where a jar of whiskey had been broken with the contents still dripping off the boards. The sheriff said he located Bud gett in the house and talked to him. The house belonged to Bud gett's grandmother, Budgett told Jiim. v The sheriff then asked Budgett if he could look around and Bud gett told the sheriff that it was al right with him but that he'd better ask his grandmother. The grandmother was not at home, but Salter said that he look ed around. In his inspection Salter lifted the hood of the truck and found a case of whiskey beside the motor. Budgett's attorney, C. R Wheat ly. objected at this point and 4 told the court that by statute a war rant must be had before a search can be made for non-taxpaid whis See COURT, Page 3 . Rotarians Hear Havelock Resident Kenneth Tiffany, Havelock. told members of the Newport Rotary Club Monday that the Havelock Retail Merchants Association was cooperating in the Cherry Point Community Chest drive. Mr. Tiffany explained to the Ro tarians that the Community Chest was a method designed to coor dinate drives for funds of various agencies, Nathan Garner, Rotary publicity chairman said. He said that when one contrib utes to the Community Chest, or , ganizations that are a part of the cheat get a part of the total collec ted. It was announced at the meet ing that next Monday night would be ladies night for Newport Ro tarians. The elub meets in the Newport school cafeteria. Kearney Merrill whose farm is on highway 101 near Beaufort, got a yield of 3..199 bushels of sweet potatoes on eight acres this year. The average yield was 425 bushels an acre. He is shown here with his son, ( olon, who helped him dig the potatoes. Many farmers in the county used migrant labor to harvest their sweet potatoes this fall. Racing Commission Gets $40,300.39 from Dog Track The Morehead City Racing Com mission received from the Caro lina Racing Association for the 1953 season $40,300.39. Received from occupational licenses sold to race track employees was $575. The racing commission controls employ ment at the track and each em ployee, after accepted for employ- ] ment, pays a fee and receives his license. Total income was $40, 875.39 and of that amount $38.500 was paid to the town of Morehead ' City. Expenses of the racing commis sion for the 1953 season were $2, 834.96. This covered pay to judges, auditing and legal fees and other operational items. After Reduction .yj[ ospenses from the tHf balance Is few than that paid to the town, but a j round figure of $38,500 was de cided on by the commission and , made possible by use of a balance remaining in the commission's ac count at the end of the 1952 season. | The racing commission now has a balance of about $400. Chairman of the Morehead City ! | Racing Commission is Dr. B. F. [ Royal. Members of the commission are W. C. Matthews, D. B. Webb i and legal counsel is Harvey Hamil I ton Jr. The town of Morehead City draws up and tentatively adopts a budget for the fiscal year begin i tiing July 1, fixing estimates of ex penses at a minimum figure, pend ing the receipt of the dividend from the race track. [ After the town's share of pro I ceeds for the racing season are de [ termined, the budget is readjusted ' according to the amount received. In the past Mayor George W. Dill has emphasized that the dividend received from the track does not lie idle in a lump sum, available ioi dipping into by citizen* who want the town to lay sewers, pave streets or carry out other pet projects. The town's budget at the begin nine of each fiscal year is drawn in anticipation of race track r eve ! nue and major town projects in ! volving considerable expense can ! ;:ot be entered into once the budget I is set, town officials report. Captain John Receives His Sturdy Fisheries' Rocker Capt. John A. Nelson, Glouces ter. who was assistant fisheries commissioner from 1901 to 1950, was presented Saturday with the old rocking chair he used* in his office for 35 of those 49 years. The presentation was made by Ben E. Douglas, director of the Board of Conservation and Development, and C. Gehrmann Holland, assistant fisheries commissioner. Shortly after assuming the job Captain John had held nearly half a century. Commissioner Holland noticed that Captain John's famil iar old chair was still in the office. Commissioner Holland had it re paired and painted and Saturday it was loaded aboard the state boat. Cape Fear, which carried Director Douglas and himself to the hospit al ceremonies at Sea Level. On the way back from the cere Town Tag Sale Begins Tuesday ' John Lashley. city clerk, More head City, announced yesterday that town automobile taps will go on sale Tuesday, Dec. 1, at the clerks officc in the municipal building. The tags this year, for the first time, carry an advertising slogan, Fishermen's Paradise. The tags are yellow with black letters to match the state auto tags. The slogan was suggested by the advertising committee of the More head City Chamber of Commerce. State automobile tags will 40 on sale Tuesday in the installment loan department of the First-Citi zens Bank and Trust Co., Arendell street, Morehoad City. Rotary Club Hears Talk On Soil Conservation Ellis Diskcr, professor of drain age engineering, at State College, spoke to the Beaufort Rotary Club at the Inlet Inn Tuesday night, R. M. Williams, program chairman, said. Mr. Duker'a address dealt with soil eonnrvation. ; monies they docked the Cape Fear near Captain John's home at Glou cester and carried the chair up to I his house where Director Douglas ! made a speech as big as any speech of presentation he would have made- if there had been an audi ence of 2,000. He complimented Captain John ! on his long years of faithful work for the state and said it was a heartfelt pleasure for Commission er Holland and himself to present him with his old chair in the name of the Board of Conservation and Development. Jimmy Wallace Leaves Saturday For Wilson Radio Station Commercial Manager Takes Position With WGTM Jimmy Wallace, past president of Morehead City Jaycees and past president of the Morehead City Par ent-Teacher Association, will leave Saturday to become commcrcial manager of radio station WGTM. Wilson. Mr. Wallace and their three children left Morehead City for Wilson Wednesday. The Wallaces lived at 3311 Arendell street Mr. Wallace came to Carteret County in the spring of 1948 as commercial manager of WMBL. He and his family lived in Beaufort eight months and then moved to Morehead City. During his six years here he has been outstanding in civic affairs. The Jaycees chose him as Man of the-Year in 1950 and in 1951 he was named Key Man by the Jay cees. He was Jaycee chairman of the 1953 Miss North Carolina Beauty Pageant at Morehead City and is Jimmy Wallace . . . takes new job ?a former chairman of the Carteret County Cancer campaign. He was chairman for one year of the Jayeee high school footha'J program and is a member of Ur-' Beaufort Morehead Lodge No. l'/lO, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Supported by the Moreheari City Jaycees, he was elected a national director of the United States Junior Chamber of Com merce in ;ld52. He received the highest nurtibcr of votes ever polled in a Jaycee election in this state, getting 193 votes out of a possible 218. Mr. Wallace will complete his term as national director in June 1954. The Wallaces came here from Wilson. Prior to his affiliation with WMBL. Mr. Wallace was a sales man. The station to which he is going in Wilson is 5,000 watts and a Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate. Mr. Wallace said yesterday. "The people here in Carteret County have been wonderful. They've meant the most to me and my family. I can't begin to say how appreciative my wife and I are for all their kindnesses and friend ship." The Wallaces have three chil dren, Faye 11, Lynne 10 and Jimmy Jr. 7 months. School Board Association * ? Hears Dean of East Carolina ur. Leo w jenKins. dean ol east Carolina College, spoke to the Car teret County School Board Aaao ciation Monday in the Morehead City School cafeteria. School principals and boards from County schools were present for the bi-monthly meeting. Dr. Jenkins told the group that they ?hould judge their school sys tem by the product it puts out. This product is the student. He also told school board mem bers they should act as a bumper and a backbone for the principals and teachers. Dr. Jenkins said they must have confidence in those who are hired to teach and instruct. The principals and board mem bers were told that they were a part of a growing business. Dr. Jenkins gave figures to back up his statements. In the last five years North Car olina has spent 126 million on school buildings. It has spent funds yielded by one $90 million bond issue and is working on another voted for last month. At present $90 million In federal aid funds are being used. Continuing with figures, Dr. Jenkins said that in 1800 there were 700,000 students in high schools in the state. In 1090 this figure had jumped to six and a half million. Dr Jenkins defined the educa * ted citizen as one who comprehends human relationships, civic and mor al responsibilities, and economic principles. Dr. Jenkins was introduced by Dr. Darden J. Eure, president of the Morehead City school board, and toastmaster for the meeting At the conclusion of Dr. Jenk ins' talk plans were made to hold the next meeting at Newport in Jknuary. At this time a nominat ing committee will be appointed to nominate officers for the coming year. G. T. Windell, principal of More head City High School welcomed visiting principals and board mem bers. Before a barbecue supper, there was group singing. The supper was served in the Morehead City School cafeteria by members of the home economics classes. Anon Lewis Joins Crew Assistant Fisheries Commissioner C. Gehrmann Holland today an nounced that Arvon Lewis o( bar kers Island has been appointed * member of the crew of the Mate boat Cape Fear. Lewis is the father of the first baby bora at Sea Level Community Hospital. Churches, JCs Plan Service The fifth Sunday Union Service, sponsored by Morehcad City churches and Morehcad City Jay cces will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Morehcad City School auditorium. Preceding the service, the Rev. Herman L. Herscy, pastor of the Raleigh Free Will Baptist Church, will present a 20 minute piano meditation beginning at 7:10. Mr. Herscy will present a sacred piano concert at 5 p.m. Sunday in the Morehead City Free Will Bap tist Church. For his concert Mr. Hersey has chosen 1} well-known sacred num bers. He will also play a piano solo during the Union Service. Dr. Floyd Cherry, of Ayden, will deliver the sermon. Dr. Cherry is editor of the paper, The Free Will Baptist. Businnsn Cloae Beaufort merchant! cloaed for one hour Tuesday afternoon to at tend the funeral of Horace Loftin, who died Sunday. I Quartet , Men of Song , Opens Community Concert Series Scallop Season Opens Tuesday Commissioner Says Shell Fish May Be Taken Three Days a Week Assistant Fisheries Commission er C. Gehrmann Holland ioday an nounced that the scallop season will open next week with scallop-taking permitted both on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 1 and 2, but on no other days that week. Thereafter and uniil further no tice, scallop-taking will be per mitted each week on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Scallop taking is prohibited on all other days of the week. The law permits taking scallops on Mondays and Wednesdays but permits the Commissioner to al low taking on Tuesdays Commis sioner Holland said that he is allow ing Tuesday because scallops are plentiful. Scallops may be taken with pea diggers and rakes having no more than six prongs or teeth, or by a round hand shovel no bigger in diameter than 10 inches. All apprehended violators of the , fisheries regulations will be prose cuted in County Recorder's Court, Commissioner Holland said. New Sunday School to Start At 9:45 Sunday The newly-organized Baptist Sunday School in Uie Camp Glenn* Mansfield Paik section wy.t of Mor?head City will begin Sunday at 9:45 a.m. The Sunday School meets in the American Legion Hut on the road that turns left, east of the Rex Restaurant, highway 70. James E. Sykes, Sunday School superintendent, reports that the Sunday School has been meeting at 3 p.m. Sunday but since member ship has increased the time has been moved to 9:45 a.m. The Sunday School has been es tablished through cooperation of the First Baptist Church, More head City, Dr. John H. Bunn, pas tor. Mr. Sykes said, "It is antici pated that in the near future the group will be able to begin nego tiations for a building and thus es tablish a Baptist church to serve residents of the section west of Morehead City." ? The Sunday School started about two months ago. Membership now is between 40 and 60. Mr. Sykes concluded, "A warm invitation is extended to all per sons interested in the organization and growth of this potential church body. Teachers are provided for both for children and adults." members of the quartet are Jo Roger White, baritone, Edmond I ette, pianist-arranger. 1 (in Campbell, Alfred Kun?., tenors, [arlsrud, bass, ami Charles Touch Spreading Good News First Ports Magazine Will Appear This Week The first issue of the magazine.* North Carolina Ports, published by the State Ports Authority, will ap pear today, Frank Adams, port public relations agent, announced yesterday. The magazine, 6 by 9 inches in size, will carry articles on the ports at Morehead City and Wilmington i Four thousand copies will be pub | lished and sent to potential ship- ; pers in this state and the mid-west, to steamship lines here and abroad, to Chambers of Commerce, govern ment officials and other ports au thorities. The first issue will be 24 pages but issues thereafter will average 16, Mr. Adams said. In the first issue articles on the Morehead port will deal with to bacco shipments, start of fertilizer bag*n\" at ,he port nexf month, the SS Stockholm which will dock here next October, growing impor tance of the port as an embarka tion point for Marines, plus an ar tide on both ports written by Gov ernor Umstead. Mr. Adams expressed his appre ciation to the following for their cooperation in publication of the first ports magazine: J. A. DuBois, manager of the Chamber of Com merce, A&EC Railroad, First-Citi zens Bank and Trust Co., T. A. Loving Company and Freeman's Grocery. The business firms have ads in the niagazind. The magazine will be published monthly, appearing during the latter part of the month. Jaycees Plan Yule Activities Two committee chairmen were appointed by Beaufort Jaycees Monday to work out plans to raise funds for the needy at Christmas. Vic Bcllamah, publicity chairman, said yesterday. James Steed was appointed chair man of a committee to plan the Jaycee Bread Sale to raise funds for its Christmas program. Groups of Beaufort Jaycees will cover every block in town during the sale,* Mr. Bellamah said. Jack Barnes was appointed chair man of a committee that will work up plans to give away a shotgun between now and Christmas. Funds from this project will provide groceries and clothing for needy children. The Jaycees heard a report of the quarterly board meeting held in Lumberton last weekend. The shrimp supper given by the More head City and Beaufort Jaycees was reported a huge success. Beaufort Jaycees sold 26 tickets to the Eastern Carolina Jaycee ben efit dance at Kinston Nov. 18. The group voted to sponsor Beaufort High School basketball this year. Air Force Men Meet Tuesday With Committee Two members of the United States Air Force met Tuesday af ternoon with four members of the County Agriculture Mobilization Committee to discuss organization of a civilian ground observer's corps. The Air Force representatives were Lieutenant Jacky and Ser i??anl chauvvi from Durham The Air Force hopes to establish ob servers every 10 miles througout the United State*, the officers said. The purpose would be to observe planes and report enemy aircraft should they fly over United States territory. If such a craft were sighted, it would be reported to the Air Force center at Durham. With reports from other observers, the route of the plane could be plotted and in terceptors sent up. If the plane is not identified as a friend ly aircraft, the interceptors would have orders to shoot it down, the Air Force officers explained. They added that today the Uni ted States is vulnerable at all times. A plane loading bombs in Husia at 3 p.m. in the afternoon could drop them in the United States at 10 o'clock that night. The Air Force hopes to carry out its ground observer corps pro gram through the County Agricul ture Mobilization committee Charles Hassell, Beaufort, is the ground observer chairman in the civil defense program for the coun ty Attending Tuesday's meeting in the ASC office op the second floor of the Beaufort postoffice were R. M. Williams, county agent; Al New some, assistant county agent; David Jones of the Soil Conservation Ser vice; and B. J. May, ASC secre tary. Beaufort Police Arrest Two Tuesday Beaufort police made two arrests Tuesday night. Reynolds Searle, Core Creek, was arrested for failing to stop at a stop sign and Curtis Long, Homestead, Fla., was arrest ed for careless and reckless driv ing. Searle was apprehended by Chief of Police M. E. Guy at 9:30 p.m and Long was arrested by Assistant Chief Carlton Garner and officer Steve Beachem at 10:30 p.m. They will be tried before Judge Earl Mason in Beaufort Recorder's Court Tuesday. An accomplished male quartet. The Men of Song, will appear at 8 p.m. tonight (Friday) in the Beaufort School auditorium. Recent ly the quartet was name:! one of the ten best musical at tractions in America by the National Society of Music. Of the two tenors. John Camp bell is a graduate of the Juilliard Sehool, who has appeared exten sively in oratorio, operetta, recitals, radio and television, lie has sung with the Kansas City Light Opera Company, the Juilliard Opera, the Leon Bar/.in Opera Group, and the National Orchestral Association. Alfred Kunz has had experience with the Paper Mill Playhouse and on radio programs such as The Hit Parade" and "Voice of Fire stone." His Broadway appearances include Winged Victory, Rosalinda, and the Thomson-Stein Opera, Mother of Us All. He was featured ?in the premiere of Otto Luening's Opera, Evangeline. Roger White, baritone, is known both as a soloist and ensemble singer. He was formerly -oloist with the famed Little Church Around the Corner. Later h<- >ang with the Lynn Murray lingers, ind has been heard on the Texaco Star | Theatre, Harvest of Stars, and Car negie HaU. lie holds musical de grees from Columbia Univercity, and was a fellowship student at the Juilliard Graduate School. Fdmond Karlsrud, still in his early twenties, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Juilliard School. He appeared with "hor uses and orchestras of both schools. Outstanding among his orchestral engagements was as so loist with the Erie Philharmonic under Fritz Mahler in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Although he is young, he has appeared countless times on radio and television, and has recorded for Columbia, Voce and Dana. Charles Touchetto has been ar ranger and choral director for all the major recording companies as well as for the National Broadcast ing Company, Columbia Broadcast ing System, and Mutual Broadcast ing Systenv. The Men of Song will make a new series of TV shorts in the near future. Bill Norwood Heads Committee Bill Norwood was appointed Christmas activities chairman for Morehead City Jaycees at their meeting Monday night at the Rec reation Center. Allen Colenda, chairman of the religious activities committee, an nounced that plans were complete for the Fifth Sunday Night Union Service Sunday in the Morehead City School auditorium. Jaycees will act as ushers. Several members of the organi zation sold reflector house numbers throughout town Monday night. Homeowners wishing to purchase the signs should phone 6-4383, an nounced Jasper Bell. Mr. Bell presided at Monday night's meet ing in the absence of President Paul Geer Jr. The Operation Christmas dance at Kinston Nov. 18 was reported very successful. Four thousand persons attended. The television set was won by a woman from Greenville. Attending the dance from the Morehead City Jaycees organization were Joe Nichols, Bill Norwood, Ralph Gardner and Nick Galantis. Jaycees and former Jaycees will attend the football banquet Monday night at the Ocean King Hotel. Each will pay for his own dinner. Attending the quarterly board meeting at Lumberton last week were Mr. Gardner, Mr. Geer, Dr. Russell Outlaw, Mr. Norwood, Her bert Phillips and Jimmy Wallace. They reported that the Beaufort^ Morehead City-sponsored shrimp party was quite a success. It was announced that Dr. S. W. Hatcher and Dr. W. M. Brady will present the program at the Dec. 7 Jaycee meeting. Tide Table TMci at Beanfort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Nw. 27 12:40 a.m. 6:50 a.m. 12:57 p.m. 7:31 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2S 1:37 a.m. 7:50 a.m. 1:48 p.m. 8:21 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29 2:33 a.m. 8:50 a.m. 2:41 p.m. 9:09 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 3:27 a.m. 9:48 a.m. 3:33 p.m. 9:57 p.m. Tacaday, Dec. 1 4:17 a.m. 10:43 a.m. 4:29 p.m. 10:41 pjm. B&PW Club Hears Report On Negro School Projects Reports on projects for the Negro schools of Beaufort and Morehcad City were heard at the monthly meeting of the Carteret Business and Professional Women's Club Tuesday night at Capt. Bill's Waterfront Reataurant, Morehead City. Mrs. Julia Tenney reported that approximately 100 children are in need of lunches at the W. S. King School, in view of the consider able expense involved in undertak ing the feeding of such a larg* number of children, the club re quested Mrs. Tenney, Mrs. Gordon Skein and Miss Georgie Hughes to investigate the matter further. Mrs. Skean is club finance chair man and Miss Hughes is superin tendent of the county welfare de partment. The club has under con sideration also the purchase of equipment for the home economici room at the Queen Street School, Beaufort. Mrs. C. L. Beam appointed Mrs. See I4PW, rue Z
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