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43rd YEAR, NO. 9. TWENTY-TWO PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1954 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Shocks Mutt Go
40 New Homes Go Up
In Housing Project
Going up in Morehead City are
40 new homes in Macon Court.
Macon Court is the low-rent fed
eral housing project for white fam
ilies. The new homes, being built
to the east and west of the existing
25 will bring the number of low
rent dwellings for white families
to 65. Houses for Negro families
in the Bayview Homes section
number 25.
The new homes are expected to
be completed in April. The build
ing of additional dwellings, accord
ing to Mrs. Edna Smith, manager
of the housing project, was under
taken due to the number of appli
cants waiting to occupy the present
homes. The new homes will, of
course, make it possible to rid the
town of sub-standard houses.
No new units are being contem
plated immediately for Bayview
Homes, Mrs. Smith added.
The additional 40 units will be
the same style as the existing ones.
They will consist of either one.
two, three or four bedrooms.
Mrs. Smith emphasized that the
rent paid is based entirely on the
income of the family and the num
ber of children in a family. She
said that some folks say they don't
want a four-bedroom unit because
they don't want to pay more. Actu
ally they need four bedrooms, she
said, and with a large family and a
low income, the rent is NOT more
1 or t he * larger unit. The rent
charged is based solely on the size
of the family and their ability to
pay
The homes are furnished with an
electric stove, electric refrigerator
and water heater. Heat is furnish
ed by oil space heaters. The fed
eral government pays for electri
city consumed up to a certain
amount. Over that amount, the
See HOUSING, Page 7
Homes Like These . . .
Mrs. Ottis Joyner and little son Walter are on the porch of their
home in tl?e Bayview Homes section, the housing project for Negroes
in Morehead City. Skating on a sidewalk which replaced a dirt path
are Mary Louise Fenton with Vernette Marbley.
Children play on the concrete drive in Maewa Court, the housing
project for white people. In this picture are Alice Faye Moore, Vicki
Fajre Lewis, Loretta Jane O'Connor and Barbara Ann Brooks.
. . . Replaced Homes Like These
This to I Negro "apartment house" in Beaufort.
Tfceae an koines hi * wMto aectian of Beaafart In ?n area where
a houslnf project like Ike ??* la Morehead City waa once planned.
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Unemployed Wait Hours
To Apply for Funds
Swarms of people were crowd
ing the Employment Security
Commission Office, 4th street,
Morehead City, Wednesday. The
crowd overflowed on to the porch
and into the street.
The office is open only two
days a month as the result of
economy measures dictated from
Washington. Workers from the
Jacksonville and New Bern Se
curity Commission office come
here the second and fourth Mon
days to accept claims for unem
ployment compensation.
The average wait for a person
to file a claim yesterday was two
hours. Most were fishermen who
are now out of work because the
menhaden season has cloaed.
Farm Agent
Issues Reminder
On Meetings
R. M. Williams, farm agent, yes
terday reminded farm folks of
the challenge meetings to be held
throughout the county next week.
The meetings will begin at New
port Monday night. Tuesday's
meeting will be at the courthouse,
Wednesday's at Smyrna High
School, Thursday's at the Pelle
tier Club House and Friday's at
Lionel Conner's store, Harlowe.
Mr. Williams said the challenge
program will also be explained to
groups in the smallest communities
in the county as well as town civic
clubs.
lie said, "Appropriately selected
color slides, many of which were
made of farm scenes here in Car
teret County, will be used in pre
senting this program. A very at
See FARM AGENT, Page 2
March of Dimes
Receipts Total
$2,0116 to Date
Two Restaurants to Give
Today's Coffee Money;
Saturday is Last Day
Receipts in the March of Dimes
campaign totaled $2,086.78 by noon
Wednesday. The total received in
last year's campaign was $6,445
and it is hoped that the total this
year will equal that amount.
Two restaurants in Morehead
City will contribute today's coffee
money to the drive. The restau
rants are the Broadway Cafe and
the Sanitary Fish Market and Res
taurant. Andrew Davis, owner and
manager of the Broadway Cafe,
said that the price of every cup of
coffee sold today, from opening at
* 4:30 a.m. to closing at midnight,
will be given to the March of
Dimes.
Tony Seamon and Ted Garner,
, owners and operators of the Sani
tary Fish Market and Restaurant,
said that each person in the res
taurant who drinks coffee will be
asked to deposit the price of the
coffee in a coin collector by the
cash register.
Mrs. C. L. Beam, treasurer for
the March of Dimes, said that none
of the schools have turned in their
collections as yet. The schools fur
nish one of the largest sources of
funds in the March of Dimes cam
paign.
Turn Money In
Mrs. Beam requests that com
munity chairmen responsible for
picking up coin collectors, take the
collectors from the business places
early next week and turn the
See MARCH OK DIMES, Page 2
Newport Officer Seizes
90 Gallons Illegal Whiskey
Farm Bureau to Honor
County Agent with Trip
R. M Williams, Carteret County
farm agent, will represent the
eounty in Washington, D. C., Feb.
17, at a three-day educational eon
j ference sponsored by the State
Farm Bureau and the American
Farm Bureau Federation to honor
outstanding farm leaders.
Nine North Carolina counties
will send representatives to the
conference.
The time in Washington will be
spent conferring with American
Farm Bureau officials, visiting the
North Carolina Congressional dele
gation, and the Department of j
Agriculture.
This is the second such trip for
the State's organizational leaders
and is part of the five year mem
bership plan of annual awards to
ward the American Farm Bureau's
1956 goal of two million farm fami
lies.
The delegates this year were
chosen by a special committee of
the North Carolina Farm Bureau |
from counties that reached or ex- |
eeeded their 1953 membership
quotas.
Under the plan, counties that
; had representatives last year were '
not eligible to compete this year. I
I since only one representative is al- i
Gordon Patrick, 13, Gets
National Alert Youth Award
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Students Hear
J. R. Sanders
J. R. Sanders, cashicr of the
Morehead City First Citizen's Bank
and Trust Co., spoke at Morehead
City High Sehool yesterday on the
State Banking Association's ora
torical contest.
James Davis, of the Beaufort
First-Citizen's Bank and Nathan
Garner, of the Newport bank will I
speak at Beaufort and Newport
High Schools in the near future.
Titled "The Big Change " the
contest it statewide in scope and
is for high school students. Each
contestant is to deliver a 12-min
ute speech on the progress and
ctevelopment of his own community.
He must also relate this progress
to the overall growth and develop
ment of the state. The winner in
etch county contest will receive
a $25 savings bond.
Counties of the state are placed
in groups and the group winner
will be yarded a $100 savings
bond. From this group of winners
a division and state winner will be
selected.
The eliminations will be held in
March. The state finals will be
held In Raleigh with division elim
inations to be held in Wilson, Chap
el Hill, and Asheville*
Gordon Patrick, 13, son of MH
and Mrs Walter S. Patrick. 2109
Arendell St. received the Nation-^
al Alert Youth Award Wednesday
in the Morehead City High School
auditorium during assembly.
The award, a plaque and a med
al, was presented to Dale by
Charles W. Summerlin. Morehead
City. Boys or girls 16 years
old and under are eligible to re
ceive the award for heroic acts
such as saving lives, or preventing
property damage. i
Dale received the award, be
lieved to be the only one ever giv
en in North Carolina, for saving
the lives of three playmates while
swimming in Bogue Sound.
His first rescue effort was his 3
year-old brother seven years ago
after he fell into the Sound, lie
made two rescues in May 1953.
The first one was in the early
part of May when Dale rescued
Ray Adams, 8, after he had step
ped into a hole that had been
dredged in the Sound.
The second rescue was on May
21 when Dale saved Dick Canfield
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Can
field, while they were swimming in
another part of the sound. Dick
had also stepped into a hole.
Both rescues came after others
in the swimming party thought
the floundering boys were joking
and Dale jumped in and pulled
them out.
After the third rescue. Dale, an
eighth grader, was mentioned for
the Carnegie Life-Saving Medal.
The National Alert Youth Award
is given by the National Associa
tion of Mutual Insurance agents. ]
Yesterday Marked 46th
Anniversary of Big Fire
Police Department
Smashes 97 Jars
White Lightnin'
The More bead City Police De
partment on Monday afternoon de
stroyed half-gallon jars o( non
tax paid whiskey confiscated prior
to the Christmas holidays and to
date.
Along with members of the de
partment, Chief of Police E. J.
Willis, Mayor George Dill. Com
missioner D. G Bell, and Town
Clerk, John Laahley attended the
brief ceremony that consisted of
pouring the whiskey out at the
rear of the town hall and breaking
the Jan.
The whiskey had been aging in
lockers and other places in the
town hall. A literal river of what
looked Hke whiskey, apd smclled
like whiskej ran down the aidewalk
and into the gutter of 3th street
Pictures of the 87 Jars were
taken by Mr. Bell, police com
missioher, before they were de
stroyed.
? By F. C. SALISBURY
Yesterday, the 28th, marked the
46th anniversary of the big tire in
the business section of Morehcad
City, when more than half of the
wooden structures in the block be
tween 8U1 and 0th street on the
south side of Arendell were totally |
destroyed.
Through the years following the
fire substantial structures have re
placed the former buildings. Com
pletion of the new building at the
corner of 8th and Arendell streets,
now occupied by the Roae's store,
replaced a small metal cowered
building built during World War
I as a tea room operated by a
church society The new building
helps make this block the (enter
of business concerns of the city.
The fire of 1908 started In the
rear of the department store op
erated by L "L. Leary. This store
was located on the present site of
the building occupied by Hill's
clothing store. In the path 0 the
fire from the Leary store to 8th
street was a store adjoining laary's
Pupils Move.
Into New School
Pupils of the first throe grades
and pupils in one section of the
fourth at Newport School moved
into their new, modern one-story
school building Monday. Those
making the move numbered about
240. said E. B. Comer, principal.
The cafeteria in the new build
ing located at the rear of the pres
ent school is not ready for use as I
yet. Mr. Comer said some more
equipment has yet to arrive.
Plans are being made for a for
mal dedication of the school in con
junction with a Homecoming Day.
The date for the affair has not
been set. A committee to plan de
tails will be appointed from the
Parent-Teacher Association.
It is hoped that the Homecoming
Day will be the starting point for
establishment of an endowment
fund to help finance the college
education of worthy students who
graduate from Newport High
School.
Julian Gaskill
Represents U. S.
Julian Gaskill. Goldsboro, has I
been appointed United States at
torney for the eastern district, |
North Carolina.
Mr. Gaskill, who has practiced I
law in Goldsboro the past 25 years, |
is a native of Sea LeveJ.
He was scheduled to speak at a
Republican rally in Carteret Coun
ty in December but the rally was
cancelled when Mr. Gaskill was
called to Washington for consulta
tion with justice department offi
cials.
He is the son of the late Mr. and |
Mrs. Norman Gaskill of Sea Level I
and was a visitor at Sea Level when |
the Community Hospital was dedi
cated in November.
Newport Firemen
Put Out Garage Fire
The Newport Fire Department
saved the Newport Tractor and
Equipment Co. garage consider
able damage at 6:30 Friday night.
A smudge pot-type heater had
caught (ire and flames were reach
ing the ceiling when the fire was
discovered by Ira Thumaa Smith,
an employe of Heath's Grocery In
Newport. He turned in the fire
alarm.
Employees of the Tractor and
Equipment company left the heat
er burning after leaving for the
day and it became overheated,
Charles Gould Jr.. captain, said.
R. M. Williams
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lotted per 8,000 farm bureau fami
lies.
North Carolina was among the
rirst of the southern states to reach
its farm bureau membership quota
for this year with 71,000 farm fam
ilies.
County Concerns
Increase by 103
In Two-Year Period
Cartetft County business con
cerns increased by 103 trom No
vember 1951 to November 1953,
Ben E. Dour las, director of the De
partment uf Conservation and Dc
[V lop me?! recently.
The nu> iber of business concerns
n Carteret County in November
1951 was 407. The number of busi
ness concerns in the county, as of
November 1953, are 507, according
o a survey made by the Raleigh
office of Dun & Bradslreet, Inc., a
lationally known credit rating con
?ern.
Established business concerns in
\3 eastern North Carolina counties
ncrcased by 3,000 from November
951 through November 1953, the
:&D Department said.
New Bern Negro Released
Under $300 Bond
Deputy Sheriff Ormsb
Mann, police chief at New
port, made a jrranJ haul of
90 gallons of bootleg whis
key at 7 :3G Tuesday niyrht
on the Mill Creek Road just
outside Newport.
Allen Daniels Spruill, 29-year
old Negro of New Bern, was ar
rested for transporting non-taxpaid
whiskey for the purpose of sale.
Spruill -was driving a truek owned
by the New Bern Provision Co. He
was released under $300 bond Wed
nesday afternoon.
G. C. Honeycutt, owner an<1
manager of the New Bern Pro
vision Co., posted $3,000 bond for
release of the truek which was be
ing held by the sheriff s depart
ment Deputy Sheriff Marshall
Ayscue, county ABC officer, said
he is confident that Mr. llonevcutt
did not know that the truck was
being used to transport liquor.
Deputy Sheriff Mann said he
stopped the truck because he
thought it was unusual that it was
making deliveries at 7:30 at night.
Spruill jumped out and ran and at
11:30 was picked up by Deputy
Sheriff Mann and State Highway
Patrolmen W. J. Smith and R. II.
Brown a mile west of Newport on
highway 70.
The highway patrolmen were
looking for Spruill after being noti
fied that he was somewhere in the
vicinity. As they were driving
along, a colored man tried to flag
them down for a ride, not knowing
they were highway patrolmen. The
patrolmen turned around but by
that time the man believed to be
Spruill had disappeared.
Later with Deputy Sheriff Mann,
they were in the same vicinity and
while the deputy sheriff was walk
ing along the shoulder of the high
yay he Iward someone having a
coughing spell in the woods. He
called to the person to eome out.
He so and he was idcQttftod-by
the deputy sheriff as the man Who
jumped from the truck.
He was taken to the county jail
where he stayed until released Wed
nesday. He has been docketed for
trial Tuesday in County Recorder's
Court.
The whiskey was found in the
back of the truck where there were
a couple quarters of beef. Deputy
Sheriff Mann said. The truck was i
proceeding toward Newport when i
the officer stopped it.
Defendant Pays
$150 Fine, Costs
On Three Counts
Ross Clifton Brown. Newport,
was fined $150 and court costs
Tuesday in County Recorder's
Court. Brown was charged with
speeding, drunk driving and pos
sessing non taxpaid whiskey.
The charges were the outgrowth
of an accident Jan. 15 a mile inside
Newport city limits on the road
leading to the Prison Camp.
Brown ran into a parked car
owned by a Benny Garner of New
port. according to officers. Patrol
man J. W. Sykes said a jar con
taining non taxpaid whiskey was
found in the Brown automobile.
The patrolman said at the time that
Brown told him he had been drink
ing and exceeding the speed limit.
Brown told the court that he had
been blinded by another car's
lights and that he had had only
one drink sometime before driving.
Mr. Garner and his wife, report
ed to have appeared on the scene
immediately after the accident,
told the court that in their opinion
Brown was drunk. Patroluun Sykes
also told the court that he believed
Brown was under the influence.
Brown's lawyer contended that
it was the aftermath of the col
lision that accounted for Brown's
"unsteady appearance" immediate
ly following the crash. /
Sentence Passed
After hearing both sides of the
cast1 Judge L. R. Morris passed
sentence. "
The court dismissal ^tfie caae
against Marforie Taylor Gooding,
charged *ith failing to yield the
l ight of ?ay causing an accident.
The case was dismissed for the
lacl^ of evidence.
The court also dismissed the case
against Dalton Lee, charged with
public drunkenness and possessing
non taxpaid whiskey.
The state amended the warrant
against Crain Merrell Biggs,
charged with improper passing at
See DEFENDANT, Page 7
Rumors About Game Warden
Not True; Hunters Pay Fines
Unfortunately ? for those who
'ould like to see the game warden
one in rumors that Leroy Mc
ntosh, county game warden, have
?een shot or that he was in a
?lane wreck are not true.
Mr. Mcintosh is very much alive
nd very busy apprehending hunt
rs who are violating the hunting
aws.
According to a report from the
?ame warden Wednesday, nine
nen have been arrested since the
atter part of December. Vernon
vloorc, Harkers Island, was
barged with hunting on Sunday,
>ut was found not guilty.
Those convicted are the follow
ing: George Wainwright, Wilson,
for hunting duck on the White
Oak River Jan. 2 with a gun cap
able of holding more than three
shells, $10 fine and $6.50 court
costs.
Donald Schoptaul, Cherry Point,
taking dove during closed season,
$10 and costs (Schoptaul was un
able to pay costs and Justice of the
Peace Lawrence Hassell, Beauiort,
held his gun).
Troy Jarvis and Stacy Chadwick
Jr., both of Straits, hunting to
gether from a power boat in Hark
ers Island channel on a Sunday,
Dec. 27, taking ducks with guns
capable of holding more than three
I shells and hunting with improper
license; each paid $25 and costs,
a total of $63.
Graydon Fulcher, Stacy and his
brother, convicted on charge of
baiting ducks Dec. 30 over bay at
Stacy were found guilty and each
was ordered to pay $15 and court
costs.
Guy Gillikin, J. G. Piner and
Boyd Baker were arrested Jan. 1
and 2 at Williston. Gillikin and
Baker were charged with hunting
squirrels during closed season,
each paid $10 fine and costs and
Piner was charged with hunting
robin. Piner paid $10 and costs.
All were tried before Justice of
the Peace Hassell.
Carteret Community Theatre Elects
Mrs. Wiley Taylor Jr. to New Post
Mrs. Wiley Taylor Jr., Beaufort,*
ins heen circled business manager
if the Carterrt Community Theatre.
Mrs Taylor announced Tuesday
hat ticket* are now on sale for the
hcatrc's first production. "One
root in Heaven." The three-act
?omcdy will be presented In the
leaufnrt school auditorium at 8
).m. Friday and Saturday night,
?'eh 4 and 5.
Playing the leads are Hay Cum
min* and Joyce Willis with a sup
x>rting cast of players who have
lad experience before the foot
ights in other county productions.
Sponsoring the play arc Uie Girl
Scouts of the county. They are
Imping to raise $.100 to finance
iheir entrance in the CoaaUl Caro
lina Girl Scout Council.
Becoming a part of thia council
?fill mean that Carteret Girl Scout
Iroops will be eligible for the bene
fits derived from affiliation with
:he district and state organisation
Each play goer will receive a
louvenir program with pictures of
the cast plus an evening of delight
ful entertainment.
Police Commissioner Meets
i
With Officers Monday
The Mu re heid City Police Dc
partment was told Monday after
Tid? Table
TI4m at Beaafact Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Jaa. 29
3:32 an. 10:0? a m.
3:45 p.m. 10:00 p.m.
Hatarday, Jan. JO
4:28 a.m. 110S a m.
4:46 p.m. 10:57 p m.
Haaday, Jaa. SI
5 24 a.m. 11:03 a.m.
5:40 pm 11:56 p m.
Monday. Feb. 1
6:16 a.m. 11:51 a.m.
6:31 p m. 12:42 p.m.
Twiaday, Feb. I
7:03 a m. 12:42 a.m.
7:1# p m. 127 p.m.
noon that police cars are to be
used (or official business only. D.
G. Brll, police commissioner, is
sued the order at a departmental
meeting in the town hall.
The cars may be used to fake
officers home for lunch, but no( for
carrying officers to and from work,
Mr. Bell said.
The officers were told that no
nut-of town trips were to be made
by police cars unless for official
bluiness.
Term Defined
Official business waa defined by
Commissioner Bell as "that busi
ness which la normally carried on
by the poMce department." If a
situation arises in which the offi
cer is In doubt as to its clasaifiea
tlon. M Bell said the officer U to
See COMMISSIONER, Page 1