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I NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Arendell St. Mortkwd City Pkooa 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?? 43rd YEAR, NO. 12. TEN PAGES i MOBEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1954 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Carteret Community Theatre Shows Above-Average Talent in First Play * jsat i Wayne Kin* ' * ? preacher's model son! The Carteret Community Theatre 1 *)?s f ut -lts bes* foot forward. The Play? One Foot in Heaven of course. Thursday and Friday night audiences were shown that the newly-organiied theatre group has Ulent in both its footlight and be mnd-scenes personnel. Above-average amateur perform ance describes each member of the cast, but top honors go to Ray Cum ? .!?.? P'ayed the part of the iMrt William H sPence, the male J?ad, his son, Hartzell, played bv Wayne King, and Dr. Homer, play, ed by Carter Broad. One Foot in Heaven, by Hartzell 8pence 18 ^"miliar to most Amcri cans, having been shown on the ?reen with Frederic March in the role played by Mr. Cummins uvTh.e?,t02i Is of Mr Spence's '? ?? "y? -ddlHon to father, there wi!Ii\ hi h t' played by J?V * k v5fudaUghter' Eilee". Play ed by Edith Lewis, and a son Hart *ell, played by Mr. King. The setting is a small town in low. ,9io where the Sp2n? family goes when "Father" ac \\' ge ,here Fa,her gets im^th Wa er when he tries to smooth over troubles in the "war department" of the church (the Chr'uLn I6" he trie" t0 prom?te Christian love regardleas of race or creed and when be trie* to keen the piljars of the church happy without compromising his prinS ' * ? hectic, heart . Jfary well portrayed by the ^ . tewt Community Theatre playSs. Some of the puces used in the Wage setting were antiques that in hemselves recalled fond memories to oldsters in the audience. Hat ew ielWl f0r P0"?"- old organ, candelabra and ornate picture lenf"#h "? r""'0" '? th' costumes 1800V ?"pherp ot the ?wiy The director of the CarUret Cortmumty Theatre, Tressa Royal achieved outstanding awfcess in production of other ama tetir performances in the county ? M?' w?,n5?er for the theatre is Mrs. Wiley Taylor Jr. In charge of properties was Walt Hamilton Sherw<SlPlayed Par( ?f B,Sh0p J'?' ^ucas, stage manager. Sammie Daniels was in charge of recorded music and sound *ere P/oduced by Bill Nor ??d- Mrs. Carter Broad super vised make-up. In charge of scen ery was Pete Mundorff. Prompted LafUn " Re*p*" ,Dd Horace Pictures of the cast apnearMl in Ule Pj^ybi"- In addition to those Cihhs l** P'***" were Sue G bbs. Sue Lynch, Patsy Daniels Floyd Stewart (who with Pit Webb wm. outstanding in the supporting cast), Jimmie Wheatley, Mrs Ray Cummins, Sara Daniels, Ed Wal 'f00' ' Lindsay, Barbara Hap ris, and Maureen Downey. ? H**? w" sponsored by the Carteret Girl Scout Councils?rip. County Agent Reports On Challenge Meetings Rural response to last week'a Carteret County Challenge meet ings was "favorable," R. M. Wil liams, county farm agent, reports. During the meetings long range agriculture programs to be under taken in the county were explained to farmers. Persona who attended expressed the opinion thst the pro grams outlined would be profitable, Mr. Williams said. The long-range programs will be explained to civic clubs in the county, also to the Carteret Coun ty Ministers Association Monday, Feb. 18. Cooperative Livestock Association to Convene Tbe Cooperative Livestock and Marketing Aasociation wiB meet at 7:10 p.m. tomorrow at New Berp to discuss plana for their annual meeting. Carteret County la In the five-county area covered by the association. Attending the meeting from Car tent County will be R. M. Wil llama, county agent, Alvin C. New some, assMaat county agent; and Thoaus Oglesby, association direc tor tram Carteret County. .. 1L . i . Ray Cummins . . Preacher S pence I Tessa Koyal Vlckers . . . theatre director Morehead City Band Will Sponsor Third Performance Sheriff Makes Trip to Arrest Alleged Car Thief Sheriff Hugh Salter returned Thursday midnight from Morris town, Tenn., where he picked up Clarence T. Burris. Midway Park, who is charged with stealing an automobile owned by Charles Buck master of Swansboro. Buckmaster, who is manager of the Riviera, a restaurant east of the White Oak River, accompanied the sheriff on the trip. They left by automobile at midnight Tues day. Buckmister's car, a 1951 green convertible Oldsmobile, was stolen from in front of the Riviera the night of Jan. 17. It has not been recovered. According to the information given Sheriff Salter. Burris, an Army veteran, took the car from J he Riviera on a Sunday flight, drove It Mjtew' twf south to Baltimore, Richmond, west to Pittsburgh and Cleveland and in Cleveland "pawned it for $10" to a cafe operator. The cafe operator told law offi cers that since he took it off the hands of the man identified as Burris, some people who were in his cafe ?tole it. All he knew. Sheriff &tfter said, was that the people he claims took it were go ing to Akron. Burris meanwhile, according to the sheriff, started the return trip to North Carolina and came down with flu at Morristown, Tenn. There he allegedly admitted the details of his escapades and the Carteret County sheriff was noti fied. Sheriff Salter said that Burris is docketed for preliminary hear ing in County Recorder's Court to day before Judge Lambert R. Mor ris. Automobile Lands in Canal A IMS four-door Chevrolet took i curve too last on the Mcrrimon Road Saturday night and landed In a canal. Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr. invea tigated and laid that the driver haa been charged with driving drunk and the owner of the car, Sgt Os car EUetta, Cherry Point, has been charged with driving drunk. No one wai hurt but they did get wet, aaid the patrolman. The name of the driver at the time of the accident had not been Mpplled the highway patrolman by preea time yeaterday. Sergeant El letta haa been arrested on a drunk driving charged because, the pa trolman said, Elletts told him that he had been driving prior to the time the other driver took over. Damage to the car, which waa towed to Sound Chevrolet Co., Morehead City, was estimated at MOO Firemen Answer Call The Morehead City fire depart ment pat out a grass fire Friday afternoon about 2i30 north of the new REA building near the weat limita of the town Tide Table HIGH 1-OW Tuesday, Feb. t 13:1* a.m. ?:44 a.m. 11:36 p m ?:52 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13 1:17 am 7:80 a.m. 1:37 p.m. 7:8B p.m. Thursday. Feb. 11 3:14 am. 3:03 am 3:45 pm 9:04 pm Friday, Feb U 3:38 am 10:13 am. 8:97 pm 10-.)* pm ? The Morehead City Band Asso ciation will sponsor the produc ;;?an?of one Foot in Heaven ,n Morehead City Thursday night at the school auditorium. Proceeds trom the repeat performance will ?o to the Morehead City School Band Ralph Wade, director. Tickets went on sale yesterday and may be bought from members The stage setting was moved from Beaufort School Saturday. Plav time will be 8 p.m. Thursday. Mrs Wiley Taylor Jr., business maMnagerWforythe Carteret Commun iiv Theatre, said that the uin Scouts, sponsors of l^e P Beaufort, may realue close to $400 on the production. Maim Sounds During Meeting Of Firemen VBA2S2.2 S^s ssr-s A boat by William Way's fish house. Front street was on hre_ The alarm was turned in at box 17 by Ray Ransom. Beaufort. The fit* was Put 'A slight damage had occurre an the firemen reassembled at th fire station. They voted to enter the "wooden lung" they hope 'o huv as a project in the , Finer Carolina" contest The apparatus^ similar to an iron lung, cm ?* us^ for emergency treatment of polio or heart disease ,??tative The department made tenU plans to raise money bysponsormg a field day or some other type oi 'VyYn*? fire commissioner, explained that the town has author. ited purchase of insurance to cover ?ll fire truck drivers, in accord ance with the state s new Insurance responsibility law. He also report ed on the demonstration of 'henew rural fire truck and said that di rectors of the B^ufortR^aOFln Association were pleaaed wlin '"rinmendrew chance, on a small TV set owned by thc 'ire ep^ ' nt and it was won by Kodwt Thompson. A new antenna ^ uxr SUter and William lpock of .5f S^neand , Supply Oj,^SSSi WUk?T oV^.ded in the ataence May" Clifford Lewi. wa. ? visitor. Alleged Killer Returns Saturday To New Bern ** *!L _ . M ? _ r I Carteret Records Show John F. Tuttle Jr. Bought Land Here John Frank Tuttle Jr., whose skull-crushing blows transformed a Fort Eustis, Va? buddy, Noah Au born Hopkins, into the battered and bloody "Corpse of Croatan" on Dec. 12, revisited New Bern Saturday afternoon. Private Tuttle, enroute to New Bern from Ft. Eustis, Va.. where he waived extradition, stopped at the scene of the bludgeoning with Craven County Sheriff Charlie Berry and H. V. Collins, civilian investigator from Cherry Point. The roadside park, where Hop kins was allegedly slain, is located 15 miles north of New Bern on U. S. Highway 17. Officers said Tuttle did not devi ate from his confession which he made earlier. He maintained that Hopkins hit him first from the back seat of the automobile as they near ed Tuttle's home at Haveloek where they were going for a visit. Tuttle had met Hopkins in Nor folk, Va. Tuttle confessed Thursday that he killed Hopkins, 25, of Paulding County, Ga., during a fight, stripped the body of clothing and hid the corpse in the woods. He admitted driving a car con taining the body of his slain friend through crowds of Christmas shop pers in New Bern the busy Satur day night to dispose of the body in the lonely forest near Cherry Point. The body, badly decom posed, was found Jan. 18 and was identified by fingerprints as that of Hopkins, who had been listed as AWOL from Ft. Eustis. Tuttle told authorities he does not remember what was used to bludgeon Hopkins to death. The death weapon has not been found. ? tuttle, 26, married a Haveloek school teacher at Christmas time, after the murder. Preliminary plans are for a hear ing on charges of murder in Craven Superior Court this week. According to records in the regiato* of deeds office, Beaufort, land in Carteret County on the Freshpond Road north of Newport, was sold to Tuttle and his bride and the deed recorded in the Car teret courthouse the last week of January. Carteret Gets First Snowfall Carteret County bad its first of ficial snow flurry of 1934 between 8:30 and 9.30 a.m. Sunday, rejJbrts Stamey Davis, weather observer in Morehead City. The snowfall lasted about five minutes. The highest point reach ed by the thermometer Sunday was 51. The mercury dropped to 38 during the night, Mr. Davit said. During the past week the ther mometer has been hovering in the 50's during the day and fell to 35 Saturday night Temperature readings follow: Haveleck Man Missing A1 Shrubar, owner and operator of the Hobby Shop, Haveloek, has been reported missing since a week ago Friday. County and state law enforcement officers have been no tified. Friday Saturday Sunday Wednesday Thursday Mai Min. 58 49 56 40 52 37 58 35 51 38 Captain Gives Tips on How To 'Watch', Prevent Fires By C. A. GOULD, CAPTAIN Newport We Dipirtwl Everyone Is fascinated by fire. Young and old will witch a fire for hours. logs burning in the fireplace are relaxing and enjoy able to watch. But out of control, fire is one's most destructive enemy. Fire is the major cause of property loss snd damage in the United States. Fire department members have volunteered to aid in combating this enemy. Tbey sre trained to fight fires, and know how to use fire fighting equipment to best ad vantage. The firemen are not paid to fight fires. Tbey are members of the fire department becsuse they have the welfare of their com munity at heart They [rtace that above all elae. Firemen are your best friends. They answer a all day or night regardless of Ume or weather. In any sasargsntj you will find Ore men on the scene ready to give aid. Everybody can give the Ore men full cooperation by follow ing theae simple rules: How To Act at a Fire 1. You are welcome to attend fires, but park your cars at least 100 feet from the fire or fir* truck. 2. Do not block the street. Park all cars off the street. This will give fire trucks room to reach the fire and leave. 3. Non-firemen should give the firemen the right of way going to a fire by not following too closely behind the fire trucks. 4. When firemen arrive at the scene of a fire give them room to work. Do not interfere by giving advice or last ructions. Such later ference will hamper and delay fire men la extiaguishing blazes. 5. Be ready to help should you be cslled on aad follow iastruc Mont, ?. Know the fire department telephone number aad keep It handy. 1. If you call the fire depart ?m rati ftuues,/aga i Two Morehead City Men Hurt Seriously in Thursday Crash Truck Fights Rural Fires Mayor Clifford Lewis, Beaufort, left, accepts the title to the Beau fort Rural Fire Association tank truck. Handing him the paper is Leslie D. Springle, chairman of the Beaufort Rural Fire Association, and J. P. Harris, fire commissioner. The town of Beaufort will act as trustee of the fire equipment Wioto by Roy Eu bonks An old hwse was set afire Wednesday several miles north of Beaufort on highway 101 to show how the new Rural Fire Association truck is used in fighting out-of-town fires. Here the firemen run with the hoses to play water on the blaze. The demonstration was termed very successful. ... ? ? County Agent Comments On Newport Farm Activity Richard Garner of Newport at tended the purebred Duroc Hog Sjle at Rocky Mount recently. While there he had sold three choice purebred animals He also purchased a purebred gilt hog for nis son, Richard Jr. R. M. Williams, county farm agent, said he highly rccommcnds this type of father-son enterprise on the farm. Experience has prov en that often times the most suc cessful farmers are those who gained experience at an early age, he said. Fathers who give their sons a project help to develop interest and a greater pride in the feeling of ownership. Under a father farmer guidance a boy can be taught thrift and wise investment of the returns of a project, Mr. Williams stated. It is usually this kind of relationship that causes young boys to stay on the farm. Jim Kelly, a successful poultry farmer near Newport, is having great success with a simple, inex pensive homemade watering device for poultry to combat wet litter problems, reports the county agent. Mr. Kelly is using an inverted trough made of angle iron. At one end is a spigot that is constant ly dripping water. At the other end a small metal funnel is insert ed in a rubber hose that extends to the outside of the building. This takes any surplus water away from the metal trough. The watering device is located just above a small platform. The layers In Mr. Kelly's poultry house always have a fresh drink of water and no water is spilled on the floor litter, Mr. Williams ex plained. Mr. Williams said that wet litter is caused by four things poor ventilation, overcrowding, water fountain spillage and moisture giv en off by the birds themselves. Good litter management means more dollars in the pouttryman's pocket, Mr. Williams emphasized. Give poultry adequate ventilation, floor space, keep water spillage to a minimum and remove wet lit ter daily to help control diseaaes and parasites and keep poultry producing better eggs, Mr. Wil liams concluded. n ? V I.I.J irungrr /litis uincw The area III the vicinity between Brown* Inlet and Bogue Inlet wili be hazardous to navigation from 8 a.m. today to 4:30 p.m. Thursday because of firing exercises, Army Engineera have announced. The Beaufort Parent-Teacher As aociation will meet at 8 p.m. to night in the Beaufort School au ditorium. \ f Federal Employees Will Offer Income Tax Help To help folks make out their income tax returns, a represent ative of the internal revenue de partment will be at the court house in Beaufort from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today He will return to Carteret County again Friday, Feb. 26, and have office hours in the Morehead City postoffice from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Burglar Enters Fred's Barbecue Fred's Barbecue, Live Oak street, Beaufort, was entered sometime Friday night and about (3 to $4 in cash was taken from the cash register. Fred Norris, owner and mana ger of the barbecue, said that noth ing else seemed to be missing. Officer Maxwell Wade said that entry was gained by the person reaching through a broken win dow on the north side of the build ing and pulljng out a nail that held the lower part of the win dow down. The window was then released. The burglar evidently left by the same way he entered. He failed to take all the money in the cash reg ister. A few pennies remained in the drawer. Health Department Releases P re-School Clinic Dates Carteret County Health Depart ment preschool clinic schedule! (or February and March, released by I)r. P. E. Hyde, county health officer, are as follows: 12:30 p.m. today. Merrimen; 1:30 p.m. today, North River; 1 p.m. tomorrow, At lantic; 12:30 p.m. Thursday Salter Path. At 12:30 p.m. Feb. 16, Markers Island; 12:30 p.m. Feb. 18. Queen Street; 12:30 p.m. Feb. 23. Smyr na; and 12:30 p.m. Feb. 2S, Camp Glenn. Clinics In March will be 12:30 p. m. March 2, W S. King; 12:30 p.m. March 3, Newport; 12:30 p.m. March 4, Stella; 12:30 p.m. March 10, Beaufort; and 12:30 p.m. March IT. More head City. * Two Morehead City men, John Riggs, 302 N. 24th St., and Kenneth Allen, 312 Bridges St., were seriously injured at 7 o'clock Thursday night when the car in which they were riding turned over several times on highway 70 east of Beaufort. Both are in the Morehead City Hospital. Itiggs has a March of Dimes Campaign Fund Rises to 57,830 March of Dimes collections had mounted to *7,830 by 3 p.m yestcr ,?rC?0'" ^0"ectors have not yet been tH* v m Salter Path, Beau CrL i?, community. Roe. Wire Be?h ?f'?,UhCe"er or Atlantic to Mr. r d C"n 1,01 be '?ke" hou^B^aurortXla^brr/t't Contributions: Special Events Newport Baby Contest 104 00 Beaufort Parking Meters 51.85 Morehead City Meters 91 70 Sanitary Fish Market Cof fee Money 2I .. Broadway Cafe Coffee Money, Morehead 8 4n Persuading Five Concert 13 30 Community Dramatic Club Morehead City 19 nn Taylor's Community Hall, Harlowe and Bachelor 166 35 Block of Dimes, Morehead ^'v 21 "5 2ft Beaufort Road Block 61 13 Morehead City Road Block 93.18 BMufort Block of Dimes. 193.71 Teen-Age Dance ?n ? Morehead City Block of D"nes 217 9jt Radio Program 1 088 45 Mothers' March. WillUton 90 Newport Merrimon , Wire Grass .... , AUtatic _... ?? "" wild wood .j?::z 33AQ Russell's Creek IZ; ? S Pelletier 71 g Gloucester ..... J?? SqKh River ' ? Harlowe ? North River }J5? 2*,N? MM LeVCl J q na *IRural Area) ?* 303 08 Mothers March, Morehead t-'ty jjjj 12 Mothers' March, Beaufort 145^27 e# r i.' Charch G"WP? ? St. Luke s Missionary Bap tist, Morehead City 6 30 CJ'ri*J1,n Sunday School Morehead City 25 nn Edwards Chapel, Merrimon 15.00 rh*!*?! '."ian Church .... 10.00 Christian Church, Russell's Creek - ? Free Will Baptist, Bettie.. 15.00 ree Will Baptist, Merri m?n lsnn Sea Level Methodist church ,0 S"'" p'"> Methodist Sunday School in 1*1 See CONTRIBUTIONS, Page J Two Cars Tangle On Highway 71 Two c*n bumped together at 4:30 Friday afternoon a mile weat of Newport oa highway y70. Aa a result of the accident Ju- : liua P. Setnick, Cherry Point, haa been charged with driving on the wrong aide of the road, cauaing a wreck. State Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard said that Setnick, in a 1939 Plymouth, waa going toward New port when he ran into a 1990 Buick headed toward Cherry Point. The Buick waa driven by Charles Lewta, A mas. Cherry Point. The patrolman said Setnick told him he muat have fallen aaleep. The left front of the Plymouth caught the left rear of the Buick. No one waa hurt. Damage to the Plymouth waa ea ti mated at S190 and damage to the Buick 1100. Mrs. O*org? Hemrick Dim Suddenly Sunday Mrs Margaret Guanica Hemrick, 33, wife of the Rev. George Ray Hemrick. paator of the Pilgrim Hoi ineaa Free Grace Tabernacle of Harkera Island, died auddenly at 1 o'clock Sunday morning at her home. CoroMr Leslie Springle found that Mrs Hemrick. a diabetic, died of natural cauaas. The family left Sunday afternoon for Statesvlile where the funeral will he held Surviving Mrs Hemrick are her huaband and four children, age 3, 3, 6, and 8. : ?? -? ? Y ii ill' T n'P ana ?s"ol'""'r Diane Allen has a compound fracture of the left leg. broken right hip, punc tured lung and fractured ribs "r.uM B their doctor, said their condition yesterday was satisfactory considering the ex tensive injuries. They were also injured internally. Driver Arrested The car in which they were rid ing, a 1950 Buick, was being driv lm H '!n.W."rd NeH Grossnickle, 107 N. 10th St., Morehead City. Grossnickle, who has been charged with driving ' drunk and exceed ing the speed limit, was not in jured. The car, which was demol ished, was owned by Allen State Highway Patrolman J. w. Sykes said the accident occurred four miles east of Beaufort on a slight curve beyond the Gibbs farm. The automobile was pro ceeding east. Car Leaves Road The car went off the road on the right followed the ditch, returned lo the hard surface, turned over two and a half times, went off r ' and camo ,0 ' stHP a field. The distance covered from Ihe time it first left the road was 515 feet. Patrolman Sykes said Allen and Riggs were thrown from the car. They were taken to the hospital n the Dill Funeral Home ambu lance. Grossnickle, Allen and Higgs are civilian workers at Cherry Point. Marine Council OKs Constitution Atj recent meeting of the North OtatMr Marii-e CMDcil, eonslitubon and by-law* Were adopted. The constitution and by laws were presented by Dan Walk er. Beaufort, at the aession held in Washington, N. C. The council was organized by residents of the coast to "plan or derly commercial, industrial and recreational development of the intracoastal and navigable inland waterways of the State of North Carolina." Twent-five counties are repre lented in the organization. They ire divided into districts as fol lows: district 1: Dare. Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans Chowan and Gates; district 2-' Beaufort, Pitt, Martin, Bertie, Hert ford, Washington, Tyrrell and Hyde; district 3. Pamlico , Craven, Carteret, Jones and Onslow; district ?: Pender, New Hanover and Brunswick; district 5. Cumberland and Bladen. Council members may be indiv iduals, firms, civic organizations, lown or county governments. Serving on the temporary board of directors from this section are A- T. Leary, Beaufort; Stanley Woodland, Morehead City; Stan ley Wahab, Ocracoke, and Clayton Fulcher, Atlantic. Temporary of ficers are James Hackney, Wash ington and Axton Smith, Belhaven. co-chairmen; and George Arring ton, New Berii secretary treas urer. Speaker at the meeting of the Marine Council was William B. Rodman, Waahington. who told the group that an explicit, comprehen sive report of the needs of the council must be submitted to the state before more funds could b? expected. He warned that the tax dollar has to be stretched now to cover vital and urgent needs. Col. Lester F. Rhodes of the en gineering firm of Parson. Brincker hoff. Hall and MacDonald. New York, reported on progress on hit firm's survey of coastal harbor* and inland waterways. Colonel Rhodes said a great deal of work haa yet to be done. "W* are keeping in mind that our purpose is to find a better use of the inland waterways of coaatal Carolina and to make efforts that will result in more commercial travel." Attending the meeting from Car teret County, in addition to Mr. Walker, waa J. A. DuBois, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce. Uraaa Catchei Fin A grass fir* In Hancock Park Tuesday at 1:50 pm. required the services o( the Beaufort Tire De partment No damage was cauaed. The fire was extinguished by uaa of the hooater tank. Keep your auto lights in good condition. Last year 1,408 Tar Heel motorists were convicted for oper ating vehicles with Improper IfcJM*.
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