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W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES <* 43rd YEAR. NO. 6. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1954 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Commissioner Extends Scallop-Taking Season N. F. Eure Wins Silver Beaver Scouting Award Two Morehead City Scouf Leaders Honored at Meeting Friday Night N. F. Eure, Beaufort, chairman of the Carteret District, Boy Scouts of America, was presented with the Silver Beaver award, highest honor that the East Carolina Council can bestow, at a meeting at Greenville Friday night. Ethan S. Davis, neighborhood commissioner, and Gordon C. Wil lis, vice chairman of the Carteret district, both of Morehead City, re ceived key awards. The awards were presented at the annual meeting of the East Carolina Council. The session took place at East Carolina College. Those present numbered 375. Bob Howard, Morehead City, Carteret District commissioner, made the presentation address to Mr. Eure. Mrs. Eure received the award and then gave it to her hus band. Mr. Eure has long been active in Scouting in Carteret County. He has been instrumental in raising funds for the financing of Scouts in Beaufort and has held numerous offices in the Carteret District. Other Silver Beaver award win ners were Ralph T. Morris, New Bern, K. P. Lindsley, Williamston, and Leroy Arnold, Kinston. W. C. Chadwick of New Bern, vice president of the council, paid tribute to Scoutmasters, assistant Scoutmasters, Cubmasters, Den Mothers and their assistants, Ex plorer adyisors and members of their families. Mr. Davis and Mr. Willis were recognized for their work with the Boy Scouts of Morehead City. Beaufort Police Arrest 11 Men Eleven men were arrested on charges of public drunkenness Sat urday and Sunday in Beaufort. They are Helary Myatt, Mixie Jones, Clyde Oates. Willie Stevens, William Griggs, Bill Pearce, James Jones, Sherman Douglas, John H. Duberry, Elbert Norman and Guy Van. Bonds on each were set at $25 with the exception of Myatt whose bond was set at $35 and Griggs whose bond was set at $50. Emory Mack Williams was ar rested Saturday on a charge of run ning through a stop sign and Wil liam Johnson was arrested on Sun day on the same charge. All defendants will be tried this afternoon in Beaufort Recorder's Court, town hall, Beaufort. Sheriff Investigates. Sheriff Hugh Salter was called to a beer selling establishment on the Harkers Island Road Saturday night to investigate a fight among several soldiers. Windows of a car were broken out and a radio aerial bent. The sheriff said no ar rests were made. Persons who ciused the damage agreed to pay for it, the sheriff said. * Due to bad fishing weather and the abundance of scallops, C. Gehr mann Holland, assistant fisheries commissioner, reopened scallop fishing on a five-day-a-week basis starting yesterday Scalloping will be permitted Mondays through Fridays, day time only, until further notice, he said. Commissioner Holland also re minded fishermen and fish dealers that the new license and tax laws became effective Jan. 1 of this year. Among them are the follow ing: All power boats engaged in com mercial fishing of any type are re quired to license their boats on ov erall length, boats up to 26 feet paying 50 cents per foot, those over 26 feet paying 75 cents per foot. Nets of any type are taxed at $1 for every 100 yards and under; pound nets for each separate pound, $2; submarine pound nets and trap nets, $2 each; fike nets, $1 each; channel shrimp nets, $2 each. Boat licenses must be prominent ly displayed on each side of the cabin or on the engine box if the boat has no cabin. Beaufort Man Will be Tried On Theft Charge Warren Smith, 23-year-old for mer Marine from Atlanta, Ga., now living in Beaufort, is being held in the Craven County jail pending trial in County Recorder's Court on charges of larceny. Sheriff Charlie Berry of Craven County stated Saturday morning that Smith is charged with the lar ceny of a 12-horsepower Seabee motor from the premises of Mack Sawyer on highway 70 near New Bern. According to Berry's statement, the motor was stolen sometime during December and sold to Os mond Ernul, who ?perates a sport ing goods store in New Bern. At the time the motor was. sold fpr ^ ga* ttaul a luck itory about having to carry his mother to the hospital and needed the money badly. Later hearing of Sawyer's mis fortune Ernul remembered the mo tor and it fitted the description of the one reported stolen. The motor numbers corresponded and Sheriff Berry was immediately notified. Contacting Smith at Beaufort, Er nul identified him as the person who sold the motor. Berry also stated that Smith is under $500 bond in Carteret Coun ty pending trial in that county's court for breaking and entering. He will be tried in the Craven Re corder's Court today. No bond has been set, he stated, because none has been requested. Eight Firemen Attend Meeting at Rocky Mount Eight members of the Morehead City Fire Department attended a meeting of the Eastern North Caro lina Firemen's Association Thurs day at Rocky Mount. Those attending were George Stovall, assistant chief; Ed McLaw horn, Thomas Wade, Harry Burns, Wade Bell. Dan Willis, Hubert Ful cher. and John Baker. At the meeting the Morehead delegates heard the state fire com missioner speak and participated in the vote to hold the association of ficers over for another year. Holden Ballou Becomes Man-of-Year Gordon A. Skean Accepts Position On Army Paper NEWS-TIMES Production Manager to Join Stars And Stripes in Japan Gordon A. Skean Jr., production manager for THE NEWS-TIMES has accepted the position a? pro duction manager of Stars and Stripes, Army newspiper cover ing the Pacific area. Mr. Skean, with his family, will live in Tokyo. Present plans call for his leaving Seattle Feb. 1 and Photo by Jerry Schumacher Gordon A. Skean Jr. . . . heads for Japan flying to Japan. Mrs. Skean and their 3-year-old son, Brent, will join him early this summer. Mr and Mrs. Skean came to Morehead City in September 1949, cxpeeting to stay one month. They have been here ever since and are retaining their home at 103 S. 28th St. during their two-year sUy in Japan. Mr*9kettr Whs bom fnTHrhfr and attended public schools in thai state, Pennsylvania and Massachu setts. He attended the Univer sity of Florida where he worked on the college paper. Prior to entering the printing business he was a reporter for two years on the Mercury, a newspaper at Potts town, Pa. In 1934 he accepted the position as superintendent of a commer cial printing firm in Pottstown and in 1943 entered the Army. He went overseas in 1944. His first combat action was in the Battle of .he Bulge. He was with the com bat engineers attached to Patton's Third Army. He took his discharge overseas to accept the position as production manager of Stars and Stripes, the Army newspaper with plants at Nuremburg and Frankfort. While there he married Anna Maria Ernest of Pilsen, Czcchosla vakia, and they returned to the United States in the fall of 1948. Mr. Skean served as a printing consultant for small newspapers and prior to coming to Morehead City where he became affililated with THE NEWS TIMES, he oper ated the Ephrata Ensign, a semi weekly at Ephrata, Pa. The Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes appears daily and circu lates in Hawaii as well as on the Asiatic mainland. Mrs. Skean and Brent will go to Japan by boat. School Official Comments on Idea Of One High School for Two Towns Scholarship Group Recommends David Small, Morehead G. T. Wlndell, principal of More head City School, announced yes terday that David Small, a senior, haa been recommended by the Morehead Scholarship Committee of Carteret County for a scholar ship from the John Motley Mare bead Foundation. Small la well-known throughout the county for hir singing He haa received a letter from R. A. Fetter, executive secretary of the John M. Morehead Foundation, informing him he will be interviewed by the district scholarship committee prior to Feb. 1. Mr. Fetaer told Small that hia recommendation by the count); committee was an "honor to you,' your community and your school." Hatting Coatinues Because of strafing and bombing exereiaea la the area of Browns Island, that vicinity will be haiar dqus to navigation from 7 a.m. to S p.m Friday, Jan. 22. Army En gineers have announced 1 > As Uie result of several Inquiries relative to establishing one large high school for the boys and girls of Beaufort and Morehead City, a NEWS TIMES reporter spoke Sat urday to H. L. Joslyn. county su perintendent of schools, to ascer tain his attitude on the nutter. Within the past month, residents of both Morehead City and Beau fort, hiVe spoken to representa tives of THE NEWS-TIMES, ex pressing themselves in favor of one large high school. Mr. Joalyn said he highly ap proves of the idea. One high achool would mean that the present buildings in each town would be devoted solely to primary and grammar grades. Thoae schools are now crowded to the bursting point and high schools in both towns ne?d enlarging. Three advantages would be gain ed through one high school for the two towns. They are. according to Mr. Joslyn, reduction in coat of school operation, higher claaa rat ing for the school, and raising of academic standards. Reduced Maintenance Cast Coat of operation would be ? ducsd considers bty if there were only one building to maintain. Than would be one high school principal where now there are two; one industrial education shop for the boys would mean that a larger curriculum could be offered, such as woodworking, metalworking and instruction in engines. One high school would mean that See SCHOOL, Page 3 Congressman Barden Says Dredge Due in Inlet Feb. 1 Congressman Graham A. Barden4 of the Third Congressional District, North Carolina, notified THE NEWS-TIMES by telegram Satur day that the dredge Lyman will be gin work in Beaufort Inlet Feb. 1. The telegram said: "Further ref erence to shoaling in Beaufort In let. Chief U. S. Army Engineers has agreed to send dredge Lyman to Beaufort Inlet. Begin dredging on February First." A telegram was also sent Mayor G W Dill Jr., Morehead City. May or Dill said that he and other inter ests in Morehead City requested that maintenance work be done in the inlet to allow vessels to enter and leave the Morehead City port without danger of running aground. During the Marine embarkation operations last week, Charlie Fin er, chief pilot, informed the mayor ( that one of the transports "scraped | bottom." I D. G Bell, Morehead City town commissioner and mayor pro tem, | said tides have been running un | usually low this fall. There has been no prolonged northeast wind for over six weeks and that has con tributed. too, he added, to the low tides. Winds from the northeast, in this area, build up the water level in the inlets and shoal areas. Cars Collide While Passing Two cars collided at 9:10 yester day morning on Arendell street just east of 14th. Driver of the 1953 Plymouth involved was C. R. Davant. 3312 Evans St.. and driver of the other car was Norwood M. Nelson, Atlantic. Capt. Herbert Griffin of the Morehead City police department said both cars were going east. The %oMs1V>n occurred as Davant at tempted to pass the Nelson car, a 1950 Pontiac. The right rear bumper of the Davant automobile caught the left front fender of the Nelson car. Damage to the Plymouth was esti mated at $40 and to the Pontiac $100. Davant told Captain Griffin that the car ho was passing was too far to the left and Nelson said he didn't know he was being passed because no horn was sounded. No one was hurt and no charges I against cither of the drivers wet e I filed. School Band Will Present Concert The Morehead City High School Band, under the direction of Ralph Wade, will present it* annual win ter concert tonight at 7:30 in the school auditorium. The concert, usually liter in the season, was scheduled early due to two trips the band will make in the next two weeks. Jan. 28 they will go to New Bern to march in the Shrincrs' Convention parade and on Feb. 2 they will appear in Wilmington in the Lions Conven tion parade. The program for tonight follows: Great Gate of Kiev. Mouaaorgsky: Light Cavalry Overture, Von Suppe; Humoresque. Dvorak and Walters; Minute Waltz March, Chopin and Walters: Londonderry Air. Old Irish Melody. Prairie Lament. Cowboy song; Katrellita. Mamuel Ponce; Ameri cans We March, Silmore; The Lone some Road, a Negro Folk Song; When You Wore a Tulip, Popular Song. Gate City, March by Weldon: Dixie Patrol, Meachan Foster; and Men of Ohio. March by Silmore. Capt . Herbert Griffin Speaks to Bicycle Club Six Farmers Win In Soil Contest First Place Winners Will Enter Competition With 47 Other Counties Winners of the Carolina Power & Light Company's Finer Carolina Farm Contest have been announeed by R. Neal Campen, chairman of Carteret County Lower Neuse Soil Conservation District. Winners in the under 50 acres class were M. L. Simmons. RFD Newport, first; and Oscar Salter. Bcttie, second. In the 50 to KM) acres class Leon H. Quinn, RFI) Newport, won first place and R. Neal Campen, RFD Beaufort, took second. In the over 100 acres class Miss Georuina P. Vent. nan. of Beaufort was awarded first place and K. W. Wright. RFD Beaufort, second. Judging of the individual farm entries was conducted by Lower Neuse Soil Conservation District Supervisor* Floyd M. Garner and John D. Young. The three first place winners will compete with leading farms in all other 47 participating counties for prizes totalling $600 in each acreage classification. Judging was done on forms fur nished by CP&L. The forms al lowed weighted values for each r?qgtt ^conservation work carried | on I torn pe ting farmers during I the year, with deductions being made for detrimental management, such as pastures overstocked or wood' burned. Three Cars Damaged Sunday Two cars piled into the rear of a third at 1:20 Sunday afternoon on Bridges street, Morehead City. A car driven by Charles Smith, SaHcr Path, stopped to avoid hit ting a dog, Sgt. Bruce Edwards of the Morehead City police force said. The car behind Smith was in the process of stopping when it I was struck by a car driven by Miss j Anita Fay Nelson, Morehead City, and the two rammed into the Smith automobile. The second car was driven by Sgt. Edward K. Moore of Cherry Point. Sergeant Edwards said damage to the Smith car was estimated at $36. to the Moore car $100 and to the car Miss Nelson was driving $150. Making the investigation in addition to Sergeant Edwards was Chief of Police E. J. Willis. No charges were preferred and no one was hurt. Not even the dog. State Plant Resurfacing Of Part of Highway 70 About five and a quarter miles of highway 70, from the Roberts Road near Newport east to the junction with highway 24 will be resurfaced this spring. The State Highway and Public Works Commission has asked for bids on 11 projects, of which the highway 70 job is one. Bids will be received Tuesday, Jan. 26, and the Highway Commission will meet Jan. 28 to determine the suc cessful bidder. Fisheries Commissioner Reports On Production for Last Half of '53 C. G Holland, assistant fisheries commissioner, reported yesterday at the mid-winter meeting of the Board of Conservation and Devel opment, on the state's fisheries op erations during the latter half of 1033. The meeting was held at Ral eigh. For the firat time a fisheries commissioner's six-month report contained figures on "menhaden solubles." Menhaden solubles la a product manufactured from the water pressed from the menhaden during the oil extraction proems. It la high in proteins, vitamina A and B aad has provad to be a growth stimulant when fad to hogl aad chickens in a soybean meal mixture. Pounds of menhaden noluhlos produced in the state thii year amounted to 2,632,000. For the last half of 1953 pro duction of ahrimp, scallops and menhaden exceeded production for the last half of 1952. Production in other fisheries fell off. Figures for 1853 follow: tuba ovsters 89.443, pounds shrimp (headed) 5,5i4,429, bushels clama 0,021, dozens solt crabs 450, barrela hard crab* 10,557, gallona scal lops, 4,850, pounds of food finfish (all kinde) 8,585.005, number of menhaden 178,T14',000. and pounds of scrap 2,200.800 Disbursements of the commercial fisheriea division during the laat half of 1893 amounted to 806,71589 ?ad receipts were *37,002 31. Commissioner Hollands com menu on the various fisheries fol low: Oysters: The oyster season has been better than expected, al though there has been a fall off of something like 17.000 tubs from the corresponding period of last year. The hurricanes In August killed ? tremendous quantity of oysters, including those oa the state plant ed bottoms We estimate am of our areas that was to be opened this fall had a loaa of 48,000 tubs Price and quality o ( oysters this smwhi were above normal. Shrimp: The harvest of shrimp for this season has been batter ?m ruaouxa, i t ? Capt. Herbert Griffin, of the , Morehead City Police Department, , spoke to members of the More head City School Bicycle Club and , Safety Patrol at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the school auditorium. , Capt. Griffin's talk was on safety. He told members of the groups about measures each person should | take to make his or her trip to and : from school more safely. Following Capt. Griffin's talk, a film, shown through the courtesy , of the State Highway Safety Divis ion. was presented on Safety Pa trolling. Approximately 350 persons were present, G. T. Windcll, school prin- | cipal said. Waller Morris is pres- < ident of the Bicycle Club and Lon- i nic Hyatt heads the Safety Patrol. | The Bicycle Club is under the spon- 1 sorship of Miss Annie May Gibbs, I lourth grade teacher. CP&L Lists Yacht Basin in Report On Industries The Morehead City Yacht Basin Inc. is included in the list of new and expanded industries in areas served by the Carolina Pow er & Light Company in 1953. The yacht basin has expanded to allow for the construction of shrimp trawlers as part of its bus iness of boitding and repairing all T ?**rrrafi . CP4rL has announced that new businesses and expansions repre sented an estimated $26,003,000 in J investments creating 8,133 jobs and $18,359,400 a year in new payroll. ! The power company's board of , directors last week approved a $25,655,000 construction budget for 1954. The sum exceeds any an- j nual construction expenditure in the power company's history. Louis V. Sutton, CP&L president, said the largest share of the '54 budget will go into the new gener- ( ating ^lant being built near Wil- ( mington. One 150.000 horsepower ] | generator is scheduled for opera tion there by mid-summer and a | second is due about a year later. Vic Bellamah, Christmas Committee Recognized Holden Ballou Svas named 1953 Man-of-the-Year in Beaufort last night at a meeting of the Jaycees at the Inlet Inn. Jaycee Vic Bellamah was presented the Key Man award and the Christmas committee was recognized as the most outstanding committee for 1953. Glenn Adair, winner of the Man-of-the-Year award for 1952 presented Mr. BaHou with a* key. The other awards were made by Wiley Taylor Jr., cochairman of the awards committee. Mr. Tay lor replaced Danforth Hill as co chairman of the committee be cause Mr. Hill is out of town. Mr. Bailout manager and part owner of Holden's Restaurant, Tur ner street. Beaufort, was chairman of the 1953 annual beauty pageant to select Miss Beaufort. The pa Keant was acclaimed as one of the best Beaufort beauty contests ever staged. Opens Restaurant The winner of the 1953 Man-of the-Year award opened Holden's Restaurant in 1948. Affiliated with him in the business is his mother in law, Mrs. Ottis Jefferson. The restaurant has become known as one of the best in east ern North Carolina. During the past summer at both lunch and Photo by Roy Eubanks 8?Urn %? Urn . . . wins top honor dinner time there was standing room only. Operation of a good | restaurant in Beaufort has long i headed the list of one of the things j 'Beaufort needed most." Popular opinion and success of the business attests to the fact that ; Beaufort now has what it was long hoping for. All the cooking in the restaurant is done or directly su pervised by Mr. Ballou. The son of Mrs. Iona Ballou and Capt. Bill Ballou of Morehead City, | lie is a graduate of Morehead City j High School, class of 1943. He was the first editor of the ; See BALLOU, Page 3 Soil Supervisors Ask Assistance In County Work $600 Wanted to Carry Program to Carteret Farmers Carteret County supervisors, Lower Neusc Soil Conservation Dis triet, have sent out letters to county businessmen asking for fin ancial help in carrying out their ad ministrative operations. The supervisors say that $600 is needed to carry their program to the landowners of the county. They are asking that each business man contribute $5. The letter says: "Farmers are important men. Their first and foremost job ;?> 10 produce the food and fibre needed for healthy families and a growing population here in America. They also have the primary responsibili ty for keeping the land and water resources of the country perma nently productive. "The land and water resources of the country arc beyond price. They are vital to our health, our strength as a Nation and our continued properity. Erosion and other kinds of land damage have been cutting into these resources for genera tions, ruining hundreds of 'thous ands of acres each year, reducing our productive capacity, damaging our water supplies, increasing flood dangers, and raising production costs. This damage must stop. "Something is being done about it. Farmers have organized, vol untarily, some 2,400 Soil Conserva tion Districts covering more than 80 per cent of the privately owned farm and ranch land. These Dis tricts, voted into being by local people who plan programs fitted to the locality, give America a way to preserve its land and liberty. "Here in Carteret County our District program calls for develop ing and improving our land and water resources. We are making good progress. But we need your help to speed things up. A tre mendous drainage job is yet to be See SOIL, Page 3 Directors, Stockholders OK Extension of A&EC Lease 350 Men Apply For ID Cards Three-hundred fifty wtlcrfronl workers applied for Coast Guard identification cards over the week end. Chief Boatswain R. B. Newell, commander of the Fort Macon Coast Guard Station, said yester day. A special processing team, head ed by Chief Quartermaster Fred Swimmc, chief in charge, was kept busy Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday, filling out application blanks in the More head City post office building. If a sufficient number of addi tional persons want ID cards. Chief Newell stated that it may be possi ble to have the special processing team return to Morehead City in the future. But. he said, persons who did not take advantage of the weekend visit of the team and desire an ID card should go to Norfolk or Wil mington to apply. Tide Table Tides at BcMfart Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Jaa. 11 8:22 a.m. 8:40 p.m. 2:03 a.m. 2:47 p.m. Wednesday, Jaa. 28 8:03 a.m. 8:23 p.m. 2:51 am. 3:28 p.m. Thursday, Jaa. SI 8:41 a.m. 10:01 p.m. 8:84 a.m. 4:03 p.m. FrWajr, Jaa. 22 10: lk a.m. 10:4S PJB. i ne noara ui airvciurs aim muvk holders of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad approved Friday the extension of the Atlantic ind Kast Carolina lease, thus hurtling one of three obstacles reportedly landing in the way of Southern Railway's taking over the "Mullet Line." Action Friday at Raleigh extendi Ihe lease II years. The lease ter mination date now is 1985 rather than 1984. Before the proposed tranaferral of the state-owned rail road ;to Southern, two other condi tions are reported necessary for fulfillment: connections with the railroad the federal government is building between Lejeune and Cherry Point and approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission Disapproval Possible ICC approval could be delayed, if not blocked, if competitive rail roads 4ile protests There are re ports that the Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk and Southern may pro test. Nine of the 12 members of the AfcNC board of directors attended Friday'! meeting, among them Irvin W Davis of Davis. H. S. Gibhs, More head City, a director, did not attend. Under the proposed transfer of the state-owned railroad, the Southern Railway will get two thirds of the A4i EC stock at a cost of 1373,000. Edward Buchan and Harry Edwards, present managers ot the road, and other major A&EC stockholders would retire from the business. Attorney General Harry MeMul lan told railroad officials it has al ways been a dream of the state to have a single trunk line railroad operating from the east coast to the western extremity of the state and that the Southern's operation of the line would mean its realiza tion. In drawing up ? lease extension, ttt itali Introduced ? clause da aigucu in ansuic n win hui nmt because of any possible reduction in the freight revenue accruing to tlje operating company from con necting carriers. McMullan said there would be increased assurance to the state that the railroad will continue to operate in case of a depression and that the trunk line railroad's po tential for influencing industrial ization of the area near its line would be substantial. The state owns 72 per cent or 12.666 shares of A&NC. Norfolk Southern owns 15 per cent or 2,605 shares. Craven County owns 1.203 shares and the remaining 1,436 shares are owned by indi viduals. Dissenting Vote One dissenting vote U) lease ex tension was cast by William R. Dal ton, Reidsville lawyer, who owns four shares. He told fellow stock holders. "We arc selling ourselves down the river." Cecil M. Self. A&NC director and Norfolk Southern Railway president, voted to extend the lease but stressed that his vote "should not be construed as record ing or implying Norfolk Southern's approval" of the proposed trans ferral of the A&NC lease. Morehoad City Rotary Elect* Four Directors Four new membera were selected for the Morehrad City Rotary Club's board of director* Thursday night at their weekly meeting at the Recreation Center They are Truman Kemp. H. S. C.ihbs Jr.. George McNeill, and Graver Munden. They will take office July 1, the beginning of the Rotary year. Thursday nijftit waa the dob's Fun Night. The dub had a quit on birds. Robert II attain, of Newport, wai a visitor from the Newport club.