W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?? 43rd YEAR, NO. 18. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFO'ET, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1964 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Former Port Director Will Conduct Honduras Survey B&PW Club Asks For Nominations Civic Groups Receive Ballots to Select Woman-of-the-Year Ballots have been mailed to civic and fraternal organizations in Morehead City and Beaufort for selecting a Woman of the Year for 1953. The award is given by the Carteret Business & Professional Women's Club. Mrs. Wiley Taylor Jr., Beaufort, is chairman of the Woman of the Year committee. The award will be made April 27 at the B&PW birthday party. Mrs. D. F. Merrill, of Beaufort, re ceived the 1952 award at a club Bosses' Night Dinner last April. On the baiiot are spaces for the candidate and her sponsor's names. It must be in the hands of Mrs. Walter Lasker, Box 330, Beaufort, by March 31. Rules governing the selection arc the following: the candidate must have lived in Carteret County the past six months and must have contributed to civic endeavors. Judging is to be done by five outstanding citizens of Beaufort and Morehead City. Ballots were sent in Beaufort to Beaufort Jaycees, B&PW Club, Junior Woman's Club, Rotary Club, Odd Fellows, Masons, Eastern Star. Chamber of Commerce, Beaufort Book Club, American Legion, Choral Club, and Carteret Com munity Theatre. In Morehead City: Jaycees, Junior Woman's Club, Rotary, Lions, Elks, American Legion. Chamber of Commerce, Eastern Star, and Masons. New Postoffice Goes Up at Beach A new postoffice is being built at Atlantic Beach on the beach highway between the Newman Willi* home and the Texaco Service Station. Mrs. Newman Willis, postmis tress, says the postoffice will be a one-story concrete block build ing 20 by 20 feet with a concrete floor. It is expected to be com pleted by April 15 and ready to open May 1. The new postoffice will take the place of the present one located in a wooden building in the Atlan tic Beach business section. It was decided to build a new postoffice. Mrs. Willis said, be cause of the lack of parking space and cramped quarters at the pres ent location. Cost of construction of the new building is being borne 'by Mrs. Willis. Since the Atlantic Beach postoffice is rated fourth class (on basis of sales volume), the Federal government does not furnish funds for construction, Mrs. Willis ex plained. Mrs. Willis became postmistress in 1951 after the death of her hus band, James Newman Willis, who had been postmaster since 1936 when the postoffice was estab lished. Mrs. Willis is helped in the post office by her son, James Newman Willis III, during the summer months. Azalea Sale Brings $138 The Morehead City Lions Club's Azalea Sale netted $138. The sale took place Friday and Saturday in front of Webb'i store on Arendell street. All plants were sold and D. B. Webb, chairman of the Azalea Sale committee, termed the affair a complete success. Proceeds of the sale will go toward purchaalng street marker*, the Blind Fund, and other club and community pro jects. Members of the clab on the sale committee were Fred Hardy, Owens Frederick, WlnfieM Webb, John D. Willis Gordon Laughton, Wesley Branson and Mr. Webb. The Morehesd City Lions Club emphasized again their forthcoming bingo game Friday in the Recrea tion Center at a business meeting Thursday before joining the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce in a joint meeting. The bingo party will start at 7:30 p.m. and proceeds will go to ward getting street markers for the town, the Blind Fund, and oth er community projects. A special game for one dollar will be played for a $100 Spring outfit (or a man or woman. Re ceipts for the (pedal g| aw may l>a had in advance from any member of the club. f Col. Gedrge W. Gillette, former director of the State Ports Author ity, will leave for Honduras this week to conduct an engineering and economic survey of ports there. Colonel Gillette said he will un dertake the mission for the Hon duran Government in cooperation with the U. S. Government under the Foreign Operations Adminis tration of the State Department, formerly the Point Four program. The first phase of the work will require survey to determine wheth er the port city of Amapala, locat ed on the Pacific Coast of the Cen tral American country, can be de veloped into a modern port. Col onel Gillette explained If the sur vey proves the port development feasible, the former state ports di rector said he will organize a staff to prepare plans and specifications for the development. The project also includes bridges and a causeway from Amapala, situated on an island, to the main land to tie into the Pan-American highway. Good ports to the South also will be of great importance to the de velopment of North Carolina's ports, Colonel Gillette said. He reported that he had accepted the mission last June before he gave up the job as Ports Authority director. The Colonel will go to Washing ton for final instructions before leaving with Mrs. Gillette for Hon duras. Chairmen Name Committees For Homecoming Chairmen for Newport School's first homecoming day and dedi cation of the new school Satur day, April 17, have named com mittees. They are as follows: Steering committee, E. B. Comer, chair man; Mrs. Tom Dickinson, Mrs. David Kirk. Mrs. Kuby Simmons, C. S. Long, and Ed Carramy. ? Program committee, Mr. Comer, chairman; Mrs. Ruby Woodruff, Mrs. Janie Garner, Mrs. Margaret Mann, Mrs. Jake Wade. T. Roy Garner, Mrs. T. E. Williams. Mrs. Mark! rev, and Nathan Garner. Reception committee, Moses Howard, chairman; Edgar Hibbs, W. B. Allen, Mrs. Jimmie Kirby. Mrs. Manly Mason, Mrs. Stancil Bell. Dr. Manly Mason, J. I. Mizelle, and W. D. Heath Sr. Entertainment committee. Mrs. Ann Harvell, chairman. Mrs. Erma Quinn. A. H. Casey. Tom Dickin son, Fred Prcscott, Mrs. Floy Gar ner, Mrs. Neal Chadwick, and Har ry Lockey. Supper committee. Mrs. Eleanor Garner, chairman. Mrs. Grace Barnes, Mrs. Dick Lockey. Mrs. J. B. Kelly. Mrs. Margaret Gray, Mrs. Julie Howard, and Mrs. Otto Slaughter. Publicity committee, Mrs. Ida Reynolds, chairman; Mrs. Geraldine Garner. Mrs. Cornell Garner. David McCain. Mrs. David McCain, and Mrs. Robert Montague. Advertisement committee. Charles Hill Jr.. chairman; Roy T. Garner. Aaron Craig. W. D. Heath Jr., J. B. Kelly, St.f Fort Macon State Park, announced Friday that curbing and guttering of the parking lots at the fort and at the swimming area will be done this spring. Parking lot sizes are being in creased and grading is Just about completed. Persons visiting the fort are be ing directed to use the road by the Coast Guard Station rather than the paved road usually used. The lot at the swimming area can also be used, Mr. Jones said, by persons who may want to use the picnic shelter. He added however that the road up to the picnic shelter is a service road only and cannot be used by cars. Even trucks get stuck on it sometimes. Bids for the curbs and gutters are going to be opened at 2 o'clock Monday. March IS, at the office of Thomas Morse, superintendent of state parks. Raleigh. Thirty-nine hundred lineal feet of curbing and gutter are needed. Mr. Jones said local contractors are invited to bid on the Job. The park superintendent said he will be glad to take achool children through the fort at any time but he'd like to be notified in advance. His phone number is 8-3775. Tid? Table Tldei at Beaafert Bar HIGH tOW Tuesday, March 2 5:45 a.m. 12:00 a.m. 8:04 p.m. 12:08 p.m. Wednesday, March I 8:38 a m. 12:41 a.m. 8:54 p.m. 13:54 pte. Thursday, March 4 7:25 am. 1:11 a.m. 1:42 p.m. IM p.m. , Friday. March I 8:13 a? ' 3:03 un. >-ai fjtL ZMpm. Broken Rudder Disables Tug Marian Moran Battling 8688 whipped by 35-knot winds, the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Agassiz saved the ocean-going barge Love land from foundering at sea Friday with a $136,000 load of Maine Irish potatoes. The Loveland was being towed by the 136-foot Marian Moran which was rendered helpless by a broken rudder. Dispatched to the rescue by Norfolk Coast Guard head quarters the Agassiz left its home4 port at Fort Macon at 2:45 a.m. Friday. Navigating with the instinct of a bird dog, Lt. Peter S. Branson, commanding officer, found the tug and barge at 6 a.m. perilously an chored 25 miles south of Beaufort bar sea buoy. Maneuvering gingerly alongside the barge, the Agassiz crew se cured a towing hawser. Then start ed the haul to Beaufort bar. The 498-gross ton Marian Moran, owned by Moran Towing Co. of New York was left behind to swing at anchor. The sun burned down through almost cloudless sky, but the wind strengthened to gusts of over 40 knots. Against a barrier of mountainous waves, enough in themselves to present severe navigational diffi culties, the 125-foot Agassiz strain ed at its towing hawser. The 265-foot barge loaded with 2,281 tons of potatoes, soddenly followed A giant hand could have picked up the Agassiz, buried it among the potatoes on the bargc deck and no eye would have de tected a difference. The spuds ! were loaded at Searsport, Maine and destined for Jacksonville, Fla. Wind, waves and tide made the Beaufort bar uncrossable and the little Coast Guard ship headed for Cape Lookout Bight. Man Hurt Three miles cast of Beaufort bar seabuoy at 1:30 p.m. the hawser line stranded at the barge end. (Stranding is partial breakage). Attempting to take up on the tow line Seaman Leonard Conners, Philadelphia, Pa., a barge crew member was hit by the end of the line atafhe whole thing parted. jMfct i giant '-at-o-nine tails the end of the steel line flicked across his right leg and caused serious injury. The Agassi: crew worked fast I against the imminent possibility that wind and tide would drive the barge on Shackleford Banks. A radio call for help was made to Fort Macon Coast Guard Station Group Commander, Chief Warrant Officer R. B. Newell. Newell dispatched Coast Guard motor life boat No. 36446 to stand by to evacuate the barge crew members. BM1/C Gerald Salter, skipper of the 40-foot motor boat, later re ported that his crossing of the bar is one of the things he'll never for get. His crew were EN/1 Fred De Noble. DC/3 Wallace B. Adams and DC/3 Frank Klug. Not only did they, with their boat, live to cross the bar but to return with stricken Seaman Con ners who was taken to Morehead City Hospital where today he was reported as recovering satisfac torily. Within half an hour, something of a record, the Agsssiz had the barge in tow again and, at 2:30 Friday had made the safety of Cape Lookout Bight where she was met by a Cape Lookout Lighthouse motor boat captained by BM1/C Reginald V. Lewis. Crew members were EN1 Harley Taylor Jr. and SN(bm) Hirvey C. Davis. Both motor boats assisted in anchoring the barge. Agasslz Stands By The Agassiz stood by the barge Loveland, owned by Loveland Bros, of Philadelphia, until the arrival of the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Cherokee from Norfolk at 3:30 Sat urday morning. The Cherokee towed the barge to Port Terminal. Another Moran Towing Co. tug, the Pauline Moran arrived later Saturday and towed It* siater tug, the stricken Marian Moran to Beaufort bar. There,' after a considerable amount of Tug Boat Annie palaver ing, Captain Charlie Piner's Mamie took over. Today the barge and the two tug boats are at Port Terminal waiting new orders from their owners. Seven Countians To Go on Cruise Seven Carteret Countians have booked passage on the S. S. Stock holm Caribbean pleasure cruise itarting at Morebead City Oct. 18, I. D. Holt, port manager, reported today. Miss Georgina Yeatman reserved cabins for a party of five and cabins hare been taken by Mrs. D. O. Bell tad Mr*. C. B. Arthur. Mr. Halt said that reaarvaUons are gateg fast and bookings should be mat* wily to secure choice Two Schools, Two Business Places Entered Four places in the county were broken into the end of last week, Sheriff Hugh Salter reported yes terday. The thievei got only $12 though. The Beaufort School and the Queen Street School, Beaufort, were broken into Thursday night. Newport Millworks was entered Friday night and Leamon Garner's Service Station, Newport, was broken into Saturday night. The $12 was taken from Garner's Service Station, located at highway 70 and the Masontown Road. The theft was discovered Sunday and the sheriff was called by Ormsby Mann. Newport police chief. The money was taken from the cash register. Light metal safes closed with combination locks were broken open in both the Beaufort and Queen Street Schools. Chief of Po lice M. EL Guy said, but the thieves were out of luck. Both principals had taken the money home with them. Drawers were also ran sacked. Randolph Johnson, principal of the Queen Street School, told po lice that something told him to go back to the school at 8 o'clock that night. He did an