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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell Si. Morwhe&d City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??< 42nd YEAR, NO. 96. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS First-Nighter Concert Audience Enjoys Quartet ine lommurmy concerts first Nighter audience Friday night thoroughly enjoyed The Men of Song. The male quartet, with Charles Touchette, p i a n i s t-ar ranger, appeared in the Beaufort School auditorium. Responding to long and enthusiastic applause, the singers generously gave encore after encore. The program opened with Bee thoven's popular and much-loved hymn, The Heavens Are Telling. Their next number was Goethe's poem, Restless I ^ve, set to music by Franz Schubert. Johannes Brahms' stirring March ing Song was followed by Richard Strauss 's Sing! The second series of numbers consisted of Dedication by Robert ? Schumann. Etude, Op. 10 No. 3 by Frederic Chopin and the lively and colorful La Danza (tarantella Na poletana) by Giocchino Rossini. A medley of Rodgers and Ham merstein tunes were combined for the concluding number of the first part of the program ind was titled "Carousel." Following intermission John Campbell, tenor, sang the aria Ce leste Aida from Verdi's opera, Aida. The next set of tunes were American folk songs, The Grey Goose (Kunz-Hardt), Drill Ye Tar riers, The Dying Soldier (Ken tucky Folk Song, and The Blue Tail Fly. The concluding numbers were spirituals, Noah (Schmertz), I am a Poor. Wayfaring Stranger and De Glory Road. Among the encores at the con clusion of the program were Dry nones, my Mousiacne, uiu woman (Missouri folk tune) and the Whif fenpoof Song. The entire performance was ex cellent. The quartet rightfully de serves the honor recently received when the National Society of Music named them one of the 10 best musical attractions in Ameri ca. The quartet was organized by Edmond Karlsrud, bass, who has made solo appearances in radio, television and With the Erie Phil harmonic and Carnegie Pops or chestras. Campbell is a graduate of the Juillard School of Music and Co lumbia University. Alfred Kunz tenor, has appeared at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, on leading radio shows and on Broad way. Roger White, baritone, who gave an excellent performance in spite of a cold, has been featured on leading radio shows, holds de grees from Columbia University and has studied in the Juillard Graduate School. Touchette. pianist and arranger, has toured the world as accompan ist for many great artists. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and a mem ber of the American Society of Music Arrangers. The quartet has recorded for Co lumbia The Men of Song Choral Series. The Carteret Community Concerts board of directors made an excellent choice when they booked, a year in advance, the ap pearance ot the Men of Song. The next Community Concert will be Feb. 18 when Ray Dudley, pianist, appears in Morehead City. ? rl^. Community Theatre Will Give One Foot in Heaven' r ? Clerk Dismisses Three Actions Three cases on Carteret's Su perior Court docket have been dis missed ? also an order for support of children was signed by Superior Court Clerk A. H. James and an attachment has been issued by the sheriff on land owned by Linwood i.nd Louise Hancock, Markers Island. Actions dismissed were the fol t lowing: C?rteret County and the town of Beaufort vs. Robert Humber Jr. and wife, Lucy, and M. Leslie Davis and wife, Ruth. The suit was brought for non-payment of taxes. Taxes were due the county and town for 1946 and prior years on lot 12, northeast corner of Craven and Front streets. The clerk dis missed the action when an adjust ? ment wa?: made, according to the record of Superior Court proceed ings. Dixie Auto Finance vs. Robert Woodrow Modlin. The defendant delivered to the finance company j the automobile involved and the company agreed to accept it for the balance due on the car. The finance company paid the costs of the action. C. L. Scott trading as Scott's Auto Stivice vs. Robert L. Rose, Harold Pitser and Mildred Cooley Saunders trading as Robert L. Rose ? Motors of Morehead City. Accord ing to the record, "all controversy was settled. '' In the case of Ruby Lee Knight vs. David Crockett Knight the court ordered that Knight pay $15 week ly to his wife, beginning Oct. 24, 1953, for the support of his chil dren. An attachment prevents the Han cocks of Harkers Island from dis posing of their land. The order was issued in the case of Mary L. Jones trading as C. D. Jones Com pany, Beaufort, vs. Linwood and Louise Hancock. Town Tags Go on Salo; Boor, Wino Chock Arrives Dan Walker, city clerk, Beaufort, announced that town automobile tags will go on sale today at the clerk ? office in the town hall. Mr. Walker also reported the re bate from state beer and wine tax had been received. The check to taled $3,228 92. lin. Blanda Mc Lohon, Morehead City town treas urer, said Morehead's check bas not been revived as yet. * The Carteret Community Thea tre selected Wednesday night the play, "One Foot in Heaven," a three-act semi-comedy, to be put on sometime in January, Horace Lof tin, publicity chairman, said. The theatre also appointed Wed nesday Mrs. Tressa Royal Vickers, director, and Mrs. Alice Taylor, assistant director for the play. A reading for parts will be held tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Scout Building in Beaufort, Mr. Loftin said. A cast of 17 will be selected. There are parts for all age groups, said Mr. Loftin. Election of officers was again postponed Mr. Loftin said. He also said that there is plenty of room for new members. Anyone wish ing to become a part of the theatre is urged by Mr. koftin to attend tomorrow's meeting. Burglars Enter Store at Bogue A store belonging to Leon Weeks in Bogue was broken into Sunday between 7 p.m. and 12 midnight Hugh Salter, Carteret County sher iff, reported yesterday. Taken from the store were 15 cartons of cigarettes, a radio, pock et knives, men's and ladies' hose, $27 in cash anjl an electric razor, Sheriff Salter said. The booty was worth about $150, the sheriff said. Bobby Bel!, dep uty sheriff and Marshall Ayscue, ABC agent, assisted in the investi gation. No arrests have been made as yet. Eight Leave Today For Army Service Eight young men of this area have been ordered to report Wed nesday to the Carteret County Se lective Service Board. They will leave from there for Raleigh for induction into the Army. Those ardfered to report are Chester L. Birkowski, Beaufort; Eric R. Nelson, Morehead City; Leslie G. Roberts, Morehead City; 'Ira D. Murphy, Marshallberg; Win dell P. Smith, Newport; Fred W. Washington, Morehead City; Les ter H. Tucker, Newport; and Willie B. Lawrence Jr., Bettie. Mr. Tucker and Mr. Washington are volunteers, Mrs. Ruby D. Hol land, clerk of the board, an nounced. _ SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS L'. * <v ' .it .1 Tide Table TMci at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW | Tuesday, Dec. 1 4:17 a.m. 10:43 a.m. I 4.25 p.m. 10:42 p.m. | Wedaeaday, Dec. t 5:05 a.m. 11:33 a.m. | 5:13 p.m. 11:27 p i Thursday, Dec. t 5:49 a.m. 6:01 p.m. 12:20 p.m. I Friday, Dee. 4 8:32 a.m. 12:06 a.m. 6:46 p.m. 1:03 p.m. | Two Carteret Men Hurt Friday In Accident Percy Harker Jr., Robert Russell Hospitalized At Elizabeth City Foul play is suspected in an au tomobile accident in which Percy Gienn Harker Jr., Morehead City, and Robert Russell, Harkers Island, were injured Friday afternoon. The accident occurred Friday af ternoon on the turnpike in Perqui mans County. The car turned over several times. Harker, 30 years of age, and Russell, both in the Coast Guard, were returning to this county at the time. Two other passengers, Braxton O'Neal, 23, Washington, N. C., and Charles Amole, 23, Palm Beach, Fla., received cuts and sprains and were treated at the Weeksville Naval Air Force dis pensary. Harker's father, Percy Sr., 305 N. 8th St., Morehead City, and the injured man's wife, Ellie, of the same address, left Morehead City at 9:45 p.m. Friday after Morehead City police notified them of the accident. The information was sent here by Elizabeth City police. Neighbors of the Harkers said that two sailors riding in the car could not be found after the acci dent. According to reports from Hertford, the sailors who were not identified, were stationed at Nor folk. It is suspected that Harker, who was driving the car, may have been struck on the head, causing him to lose control of the car. Both Harker and Russell are in Albemarle Hospital. Elizabeth City, being treated for head injuries. Harker's brother, George, junt discharged from the Navy, arrived home Friday. He did not accom pany his father or sister-in-law to Elizabeth City. Harker's young daughter is staying with an uncle at Pollocksville. Home Demonstration Clubs to Meet This Week Thfee Home Demonstration club meetings are scheduled for this week it was announced yesterday by Miss Martka Burnett, bone agent. The Core Creek-Harlowe club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Thurs day with Mrs. Gordon Becton. Two meetings are scheduled for Friday. The Newport club meets at 2 p.m. with Mrs. Alfred Reynolds and the Bettie club at 7:30 with Mrs. Cleveland Gillikin. Ronald Smith, 19, Shot, Stays In Critical Condition at Hospital A Officers Raze Still Photo by Jerry Schumacher The sheriff's department left nothing but the pieces of a 150-gal lon still found Thursday, Nov. 19, at Merrimon. Knocking the still apart in the picture above are Marshall Ayscue, ABC officer, left, Ormsby Mann, andi Bobby Bell, deputy sheriffs and directing opera tions, right, is Sheriff Hugh Salter. David H. Parker Faces Charge of Assault Today Chief of Police M. E. Guy and Of> ficer Mack Wade arrested David Henry Parker, Beaufort, yesterday morning on a charge of assault with a knife. The chief and Officer Wade said Parker is alleged to have cut Sam Green Jr., Beaufort, on the chock with a knife last Monday morning The incident occurred in front of the Green house in Beaufort. According to Officer Wade, cutting occurred during an argu ment. Parker was not arreated on Monday because Officer Wade said he took off when he saw the police car coming and could not be found. See PARKER, Page 2 Clerk Releases Docket For Superior Court Term The docket for the December term of Superior Court was re leased this week by A. H. James, clerk. The term opens for one week on Monday, Dec. 7. The Jpcesiding Judge will b* J. Faul Frtnelle. Only civil cases wlll be tried. Docketed for the first day are 11 divorce suits, 33 motions and four trials. Six trials are docket ed for Tuesday and seven for Wednesday. Ronald Smith, 19, son of Mrs. Maggie Smith, Live Oak< street, Beaufort, was shot in the lower part of his right chest with a .22 rifle at 12:15 a.m. Saturday. He remained in a critical condition yesterday in Morehead City Hospital. Police said that Bobby Gen? Mason, 14, Hedrick street, Beaufort, admitted that he fired the rifle. With Mason at the time of the shooting was James' Gillikin. 18. of 205 Fulford St. The accident occurred at the Mason House on Hedrick street. Smith told police he was to blame for the accident. Both Mason and Gillikin were held by police until 11:30 Saturday morning when they were released, said Chief of Police M. E. Guy. No charges were placed against them. Police Get Call Assistant Chief of Police Carlton Garner said that he got a call at a half hour after midnight to go to 913 Cedar St. where a man wa.1 ?hot. He said he and Officer Beachem got in the patrol car and when they arrived there Elmond Rhue. who lives at 913 Cedar St., was holding a man up. He told police, 'This boy's been shot." Assistant Chief Garner said the wounded man was holding his hand over the front of him, slight ly below the middle of his chest. The officers put him in the patrol car and went to the Morehead City Hospital Walks Into UMpital Smith, they said, was able to walk from the car into the hospital. While he was in the emergency room he told the officers that "some boys" shot him. When he was asked who the boys were he said they were Bobby Gene Mason and James Gillikin. In reply to the question, "What happened?" Smith said, according to Assistant Chief Garner, "It was my fault." He told the officer that he knew the two boys were in the Mason house alone and he went there to scare them He said he wen' to the front of the house and then around to the back, making believe that he was trying to get in. Assistant Chief Garner said Smith told him that he was on the back porch when he wai shot from wlth n the bouse. He uid he ran off bf porch and went to the Rhue home which is located back of the Mason house. Rhue then called the police station. Because the Beaufort police were on patrol, the Morehead City sta tion took the call and radioed the Beaufort police to go to the Rhue home which is locatcd at Hedrick and Cedar. After Assistant Chief Garner and Officer Bcachem left the Morehcad City Hospital, they reported the shooting to Smith's mother and then took donors to the hospital to give blood to the victim. Mason is the son of Kathleen and Aulbert Mason and Gillikin is the son of Charlie Gillikin. Signed statements, made by the two boys after they were taken into custody, follow. The first is Mas on's: Nov. 28, 1953 To whom it may concern: We came from the show about 10:30, stayed at his (Gillikin's) house a little while and talked to his sister, Lola Pearl Merrill. We left there approximately 11:30, went to my house, got there about quarter of twelve, fixed a cage. While we working on this, we heard somebody step on the back porch. 1 thought it was my broth er, but then he stepped off He went around the north side of the house and I couldn't tell who it was. 1 then saw him by the window and knew it wasn't my brother. When he stepped back on the porch, 1 said, "You better go on, you're going to get shot." Then 1 pulled the hammer back and the hammer slipped out of my hand. The gun went off. I meant to shoot at the floor. This statement was made of my own accord with no promises from anyone. Bobby Mason Chief Guy said the bullet went through the closed door about 4 feet from the floor. The rifle, owned by Mason, i? in possession of police. Following ia the statement by Gillikin: Nov. 28, 1053 Te whom is may concern: Wft ?M show about 10:30, ? -ent to my house and stayed there and talked to my sister and her husband. We left there and went to Bobby's, got. the cage and took it ita the house and started fixing it. I went in the kitchen for some water, then I heard somebody step on the back porch and I stayed there a little while. He was trying to do something to the hook. When 1 started back I stepped on a loose board and it made a noise, then 1 heard him go off the porch. I walked back and told Bobby somebody was on the back porch. He said he heard him "Then he went around to the northern side of the house and I sat down on the bed. Then Bobby said he saw him go by the window. When he said that, he ran back to the other aide. That's when 1 saw him. When he saw me look at him, he jumped on the back porch again, then Bobby looked for the gun He walked in the kitchen and told him he better leave before he got shot. Then he told him he was go ing to ahoot. When he pulled the hammer out, he meant to shoot at the floor and scare him away and the gun went off. We heard him holler. We got scared and went outside to see if we could see him. We never saw him. Thia statement was made of my own accord with no promises from anyone. James Howard Gillikin Afttr picking up both boys, Gil See SMITH, Page t Republicans Postpone Rally Proposed speaker Con fers at Washington, May Get Federal Position | Roy T. Garner. Newport, chair man of the Republican Executive i Committee, announced yesterday that the clam bake and Republican rally scheduled for Saturday at Wil liston has been postponed. Mr. Garner said that Julian Gas kill, Goldsboro attorney, who was scheduled to speak, could not be present. Mr. Gaskill, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gaskill. Sea Level, has been recomn. ended by North Carolina Republicans for United States attorney for the east ern district of North Carolina. He said if the appointment is made, it will probably be some time in January. He cannot attend the Saturday night clam bake be cause he has been called to Wash ington for conference this week. He will meet with justice de partment officials and Republican party leaders. Mi. Gaskill, who is 50 years of age, has practiced law in Goldsboro for the past 25 years. He attended the dedication of the hospital at Sea Level Nov. 21. Sheriff Arrests Man Charged With Sax Theft Johnnie Thomas, 109 Magnolia St., Wilmington, was arrested Sun day nigU bqr Sheriff Hugh Salter. Thomat lias been charged with theft of a saxophone. The sheriff said that the instru ment belonged to the Queen Street School and was in the Beaufort Bus station. Thomas, with a compan ion, boarded a bus at the station Saturday afternoon and carried the instrument in its case with hiin. Instruments Repaired The saxophone, along with some other instruments, had been sent to Beaufort by bus after being re paired and were at the station wait ing to be picked up by someone from the school. An alert cab driver outside the bus station saw the man board the bus with the instrument and asked Harry Hill, bus manager, if the instrument didn't belong to the Queen Street School. Jacksonville Notified It was found that it did. Num bers of the bus tickets sold the two men were checked. They had bought round-trip tickets. The bus station at Jacksonville was notified to inform the Beaufort station when the return tickets with those numbers showed up so that the bus could be stopped after it got in Carteret County. Sheriff Salter was notified and be stopped the bus at Mansfield Park at 7:10 Sunday night. The two men were aboard and Thomas was arrested. He will be tried to day In Carteret County Recorder's Court Highway Promoters to Organize DO WE NEED A COASTAL HIGHWAY ? NORTH CAROLINA WAS ENOOWEO WITH i / '"lo THE EXISTING HIGHWAYS SHOULD BE CONNECTED BY THE SPRING OF IBS 4 MA?T(R?t.?N mmmm tiitTM* ?oao? mmmmmmm ? WWT itim iiiiiii An association to promote the All Coastal Highway will be organ ized at noon Friday when residents W the North Carolina roast meet at the Midway Cafe in New Bern. The name of the proposed asso ciation will be selected at Friday's meeting. Coastal divisions have already been set up. The first will have Its headquarters at Manteo, the second at More bead City and the third at Wilmington. With those divisions as a basis the new association will proceed with promotion of a highway along the outer banks o( the state. The above map illustrates the highway situation as It exists now and the highway proposed. Alao at Friday's meeting repre aentatives will plan a general met ing for early January. At that meet ing officers of the asaodaUao will be elected and constitution and by laws adopted. Attending Friday's meeting from this area will be Alvah Hamilton, Morehead City, chairman of the present All-Coastal Highway Com mittee; i. A. DuBois, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce; R. Stanley Wahab, Oc racoke; Clayton Fulcher and Cc cii Morris, Atlantic; Dan Walker, nanager of the Beaufort Chamber of Comment.; and Mayor Clifford I.o wis, Beaufort; Clyde Jonei, Morehead City; Elmer Willis. Wil liston; and Edgar Hibb, Newport, all member* of the AU-Coaatal Highway Committee. Mr. DuBoil reported that dele gate* from every county on the coaat will attend the meeting. Wil mington will aend delegate* from each of it* beach communitie*, he added. Capacity Audiences See Two Choral Club Shows Cipacity audiences saw the two Beaufort Choral Club ahows Tues day and Wednesday in the Beau fort School auditorium. Outatanding soloist was David Small, Morehead City, who made hia first appearance with the Choral Club this year. Featured soloists with Mr. Small were Mrs. Herbert Waldrop Jr., Sal Palazzo and Mrs. Jackie Hancock. The first pkrt of the program consisted of choral numbers, L'Amour Toujours; One Kiss, Soft ly, as in a Morning Sunrise by Mr. Small and the male chorus; Love is the Sweetest Thing by Addie Mc Gregor, Peggy Girvin, Noma Davis and Helen Jones and the women's chorus; Wanting You by Mrs. Han cock and Mr. Palano and Sweet hearts by Mrs. Waldrop. The second part was a musical comedy, Tait College, directed by Miss Betty Lou Merrill, Beaufort. Characters were George Stafford, Bobby Bell, Mr. Small, Barbara Al lan Davia. Jimmy Wheatley, Vir ginia Haasell, Wayne King, Bar bara Piner. Paula Jones, Wayne Whltehurat, Charlene Hamll, Sylvia Harrell, Virginia Lep Davis, Frances Craig, Joyce Chadwick, Janice Keller, Patsy Daniels, Andrew Searle, Wayne Whitehurst, Gerald Taylor and Malcolm Sabiston. Between the second and third parts Mrs. Hancock sang The Man i Love. Mr. Palazzo sang Ebb Tide and Mr. Small sang Stout Hearted Men. All received enthusiastic ap plause and responded with encores. Appearing in part III. Dixieland Cabaret, were Merry Palazzo. Jan Davis, Sara Daniels, Connie Webb, James Webb, Garland Morris, Reg inald Styron. Mr. Palazzo. Charles Hassell Jr., Jimmy La Shan, Maxine McLohon, Paul Geer Jr., Earl Willis, Johnny McGregor, Kenneth Willis, Lavinia Mason, Marie Davis, Thelma Branch. Agnes Grant, Corinne Webb, Warren Grant. Morris Peterson, and Bar bara Dennis. As the finale the chorus sang Alabama Jubilee. Ballin' the Jack and Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee. Director of the Choral Club U Mrs. Charles Hassell, Beaufort. Proceeds went to the Parent-Teach er Association for purchase of stage equipment
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