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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES -?< 43rd YEAR, NO. 2#. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOKE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 26. 1964 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 804 Ar? d?H St CHy t-4irs Native of Hatteras Captains Sea - Going Dredge Gerig By RUTH PEELING I was told last week that the cap tain of the dredge Gerig, working in the channel into Morehead City, was a midget I had also heard from Bob Hicks, manager of the Esao terminal that the captain "was a very interesting fellow." Saturday morning I decided that the captain should be interviewed. Jerry Schumacher, photographer, gave up a morning of his otherwise fruitful activity to go to the dredge to take pictures. He was rather intrigued with the idea of a midget being captain of a dredge and so was I. But the more I saw of that mammoth thing lying by the dock as we walked toward the gang plank, the more I had a feeling that somewhere along the line something didn't jibe. So I said to Jerry who was weighted down under caonni, bat teries and flashbulbs, "Now .if the captain is not a midget, don't throw your camera overboard and stomp off the boat. It's a story no matter how you look at it.' We clambered up the gangplank and asked for the captain. He came into view in a few minutes, a strap ping big fellow 6 feet tall. We shook hands all around and he in vited us to have coffee. As we sat down to steaming cups of the eye-opener, I said, "Cap tain, I don't even know your name. So let's begin with that." He replied, "J S. Midgette." ? I'm sure Captain Midgette, mas ter of the Gerig, would have en joyed the joke tremendously had we told him for he is indeed a fas cinating, hospitable person ? one of the fabulous seagoing Hidgettes from Hatteras. Goes to Philadelphia The Gerig left Morehead City at midnight Saturday, bound for Phil adelphia. Captain Midgette said there is a bit more work to be done here, but a smaller dredge, the Lyman is due in a couple months to continue the job. The Lyman worked here a few days be fore the Gerig arrived. The channel was in pretty bad shape. When the Gerig first started working she couldn't gorge herself with full loads of sand' beeaaae if she had she weald bm hit bot tom. fwMy loaded with stuff dredged up, the Gerig draws 24.3 feet The channel was so filled in that in some places it wasn't more than 21 feet at low tide. Now after a month of the Gerig's round-the clock work here the channel is at least 25 feet. The Gerig is the first dredge of its sire to wq fk the Beaufort chan nel. A sea-going hopper dredge, operated by the Army Corps of Engineers, she's 352 feet long, 4,888 tons and was commissioned seven years ago. To thow who have the idea that dredges are dirty old tubs, the Gerig would change their mind in a hurry. It's spacious, clean, and in spite of its machinery, includ ing mammoth pipes on each sides, it's every inch ship-shape. A crew of 78 is needed to keep the dredge working round the clock, three watches of four hours See MtEDGE, Page I Photo by Jerry Schumacher Master of Gerig plots course Lions Launch Campaign To Get Street Markers Up The Morehead City Lions Club is sponsoring a special street-mark er campaign and residents of the town have the opportunity to be the first to have a street marker erected on their corner. The street marker project is being supervised by the Lions as a part of the Finer Carolina con test. Oscar Allred, chairman, says the street markers will be four-sided concrete posts extending 5 feat above the ground, ^treit, najnes ?lit to inwt ? mw itrtntitr8 What the Lions want to kittw now is "Who will be the first to have a street marker on their corner?" The Lions are calling for "sealed bids." The group of people in a block raising the most money and submitting it as a "bid" to the Lions will be the first to have a street marker. Or the bid need not be a group offer, but an offer from an individual. It should be sent, check or money order, to Lions Block Booster, P. O Box 124. Morehead City, N. C. With the bid should be a note identifying the block or the name of the individual sending in the money. April S Deadline Bids yriU be accepted until April 8. Names of the three highest bid den will be announced at the Lions bingo party Friday night, April 0. The first street marker will be erected with ceremony. Town of ficials will be present and the marker will be appropriately desig nated as the first to be put up. The same will hold true for the second and third markers to be erected. All bids of $5 and above will as sure a street marker going up this year, Mr. Allred said. Otherwise; folks may have to wait until next year. This contest does not mean, he explains, that only those blocks will get street Turkers that send in money. The Lions hope event ually to put the marker* up at ev *ry intersection. I at ? -a- -a MM; nWMi But they would like to get them up as fast as possible and to da so, money is needed. All money received in bids will go toward the purchase of markers. Residents of all blocks in the city may select a representative or block chairman to head the solici tation and they may raise funds in any way they want. Installation of the markers will take place in April or May. Posts have been ordered from a Greensboro firm because they can not be made locally at a low price. The Lions have bought stenciling equipment and the street names will be lettered on the posts after they arrive here. Lions hope to get local trucks to transport the posts to Morehead City without cost. To date, 200 markers have been ordered. Plans call for putting two post* at each intersection, one at the northwest corner and one at the southeast corner. Morehead City High School Band To Play at Apple Blossom Festival Youth Dies As Result of Injury William T. Collins, 24, died late Monday night in Morehead City Hospital of injuries received in an automobile accident last Thursday afternoon on the Mill Creek Road. Colllna lived at 304 N. 14th St, Morehead City. Funeral services were conducted at 3:30 yMtarday afternoon In St Luke's Baptiat Church,. Mora bead City Burial was in Bay View Cemetery. Collins and another boy. Charles Dunn. Morehead City, were injured when the convertible in which they were riding turned over. Dunn got a broken ankle and Coltina suf fered a broken neck. Surviving are Coltina' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cplllna, three brothers. John Lindsey, George S. and Herbert Hughes, all of Mora head City, and a niece. Etoaufort Plant* 85 Mapta on Ann StrMt As part of the town's Finer Car olina project, 86 maple trees have been planted this week along Ann street, Beaufort The tree-planting is s Chamber of Commerce project supervised by Mail Merrill. Tbe trees were bought at a coat of WOO. In mm caaaa they are kataf planted next) to oM trees wMefc ma ??*? tote mnmail la aavaral j*an - ' Ralph Wade, director of the Morehead City School Band, an nounced today that the band has been invited to play at the Shen andoah Apple Blossom Festival Ap ril 29 and 30 at the Apple Capital, Winchester, Va. An invitation to attend the festi val is considered a high honor. Bands from all over the country will be present and ISO marching units will appear in the parade. The band will leave Morehead City April 28 and return May 1. Mr. Wade said he plans to mike fee trip educational as wall as Mtertaining. Winchester itself is prominent in Civil War hiatory. To Charter Baaees Two chartered busses will trans port the band. A motor court will be rested to accommodate tbe musicians overnight. Sixty will make the trip. Forty-eight will be band member*, nine na)arattes, two color bearers and Mr. Wade. The Morehead City Band ap peared at Rocky Mount last year* and in competition with 14 jMher bands won the trophy for the beat Tbe Beaafert High aeheel Bead wMt appear taiarrsw la the Asalea Festival parade at Wilmington Director of Ike bead Is C, Freak Jeaea. playing and marching band. They played at the Azalea Festival in Wilmington last year and in the Ckristaws parade at Raleigh. Tbe band alao gives two cor carts an nually at Ifca school. in addition to tbe senior band there Is a M-piece Junior bead. la flea BAND, h? t Police Serve Warrant* On Eight Persons Beaufort police have been buajr this week checking up on persons who have tailed to comply with court order*. Bench warranta (capias) were aerved on the following: Logan Whitehurat, Archie W. Kennedy, Frederick Raymond. Eraeat Bar rett, Richard Hardeaty. Walter Copes, Edward Tjnoo it. Lillian McDowell wai arreated Ml< 1/ for going by a (top alga. Beaufort seniors will present their play Friday night, April ft Walter Morris Makes Report On Nominations Morehead City Jaycees Will Elect New Of ficers April 19 Walter S. Morris, chairman of the Morehead City Jaycee nominat ing committee, made hi* report at a meeting of the club Monday night in the Hotel Fort Macon din ing room. Nominations are as follows: for president, Ralph Gardner. Sam Guthrie. Jasper Bell, and Russell Outlaw; for internal vice-president, Paul Cordova, James Macy, and Herbert Phillips. For external vice-president. Bill Norwood and Marion Mills; for treasurer, James Cratch, L. G. Dunn. Candidates for board of di rectors are Gerald Murdoch. Jerry Rowe, Frank Cassiano, and Charlie Summerlin. Mr. Morris also stated that losers in races for the other offices will be eligible for election to the board of directors Four new directors will be elected. The board consists of 11 directors. Election April 19 Election of officers will take place Monday. April IV. Nomina tions from the floor will be accept ed Monday night. Mr. Morris said. The committee of Herbert Phil lips, H. S. Gibbs Jr., and Ralph Gardner, selected by P. H Geer Jr., club president, to look into the feasibility of submitting a bid for the Miss North Carolina Beauty Pageant, recommended that the club not submit a bid. Bids are to be in by April 1. However, the committee stated that if no other bids are submitted, they will reconsider entering a bid. To Entertain Diatrirt Mr. Geer announced that the dis trict meeting will be held April 24 and 25 in Morehead City. He appointed Jasper Bell and Jerry Frizelle as co-chairmen to make plans for entertaining and welcom ing visiting Jaycees. The Morehead City club was ask ed reoentl* by the state organiia tion, by letter, if arrangements could be made to give a "New Jay" winner a weekend la Morehead City as part of his award. A New Jay winner ia a pernH^ ?ho has Joined the Jaycees in Mr 0?- rent fiscal year and, ia the opinion of the state and local club*, has done the moat for the betterment of his community. Mr. MofTia, appointed to look into the matter, reported that ar rangements have been made for a hotel room and meals for the winner. Joe DuBois, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Com merce. was. present and announced his taking over directorship of the new Sea Level Community Cham ber of Commerce. L. G. Dunn asked the club if something could be done to make the corner of 24th and Arendell St. safer for traffic. Mr. Geer ap pointed him to look into the possi bility of organizing a safety com mittee, which was recommended by the Morehead City Police De partment. Bill Norwood led a discussion on re-formirtg a Jaycee blood bank on a voluntary basis. The Jaycees also discussed means whereby they could be notified that blood was needed. James Cratch, in charge of wil ing tickets for the Bubblea Becker Show, sponsored by the Jaycees last week, reported that $1#7 worth of tickets were sold. Mr. Geer and Sam Guthrie said the financial loss to the club was due to the poor attendance. But. they added. It was a good show well worth the price of admission. Moose to Entertain At lodge Tonight The Morehead City Moose Lodge completed plans Monday night (or their Ladies Night to be held it the lodge tonight, starting at 7:30 and continuing until 1 a.m. The evening will start with din ner at 7:30 p.m. Dancing will be gin at 9 Included in entertainment will be a magician, a pianist, and other musical numbers. A door prise will be awarded at the end of the evening. The lodge also dlscusaed the es- 1 tabliahlng of a blood bank and | asked members to pay their dues. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW | Friday, March M 12:00 a.m. ( 41 a.m. 1237 p.m. 0:40 pja. Saturday, March ? 103 a.B. 7:30 ?M 1:30 p.m. 7:43 p.m. Sunday, March M 2 06 a.m. 0:41 a.m. MS p na. 3:12 1? 0:43 aj 3:? p.m. 10:01 Mi. I Itaaday. March 30 <S 3S iS?l Loaded Lumber Truck Piles Into Front of Building Policemen to Sponsor Bicycle Safety Crusade Board Requests Applications For Manager Applications ire being accepted now for the position of manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce, Warren Beck, presi dent, announced Tuesday at a meet ing of the directors and advisory board. Applications may be sent to Mr. Beck or to Xhe Chamber of Com merce office. They will be checked by officers of the chamber, the president, George Stovall, vice-pres ident, and Albert Gaskill, treasur er. The position will be left vacant April 1 when the present manager, J. A. DuBois, becomes manager of the Sea Level Community Chamber of Commerce. Mr. DuBois formally presented his resignation at the Tuesday luncheon meeting in the Sanitary Fish Market and Restau rant. The directors and advisory coun cil unanimously adopted a resolu tion stating that the work Mr. Du Bois did as chamber manager was far in excess of what was expected of him and in appreciation they di rected that a copy of the reaolution be given to Mr. Dubois and a copy sent to his new employer, D. W. Taylor. The president appointed Bill Chalk and H- S. Uibbs Jr.. to a com mittee to name the chamber'* nom inee for woman-of-tbe-year. Attending the meeting were Ifc. k, Kenneth Vrat. George Wal Mr. Beck, George Ball, Geeega Eutmaft, Witter EdwarthwP. H Geer Jr.. Mr Gaskill. Mr. Shwfll, H. S. Gibbs and H. S. Gibbs Jr., and Grover Munden. Dairymen Meet At New Bern Five countians attended the an nual meeting of the Artificial Breeders Association Wednesday night at the courthouse, New Bern. They were R. M. Williams, coun ty agent; A1 Newsome, assistant county agent; John Oglesby, Dr. C. E. Paden and Joe Dupres. Mr. Oglesby is chairman of the board of directors. Dr. Paden is the artificial inseminator for this county and Mr. Dupres is in charge of the Open Grounds Guernsey dairy farm at South River. (A sec ond unit of the Guernsey farm has been opened on the Laurel Road with Rudolph Rogers as manager). Mr. Williams said that R. R. Rich, extension dairy specialist, spoke at the meeting. Mr. Rich was in the county yesterday work ing on the 4-H dairy project and visiting dairy farmers. Counters Record Traffic Flow Electric "counting" cables strung across highway 70 between Beau fort and Morehead City Tuesday were put there by the State High way Department in one of its rou tine checks on traffic flow, J. L. Humphrey, county road superin tendent, said this week. He also said that the "county road" between Beaufort and More head City, for which bids have been asked Is the road oo Radio Island and not highway 70 between Beaufort and Morehead City. Tbe road la to be resurfaced The highway between tbe 24 and 70 intersection and Newport Is being re-surfaced. Work started there about two weeks ago. Mr. Humphrey said tbe final topping will go on sometime within the next two weeks. The asphalt coating is slippery snd even mart treacherous whan wet Several cars spun around on it Tuesday near Newport and kad to be helped by the wrecker from tbe Meee Howard garage, Newport. State crews an atlll doing grade work In tbe Merrlmoo and South River sections. The North Carolina Little Sim phony will preeent ? concert at 8:10 tonight In tbe high aehoot auditorium at Jacksonville. Sywv phony members la this county auy sitfMJjy showing their aia?H 1 The police departments of Beau fort and Morehead City will jointly sponsor in April a Bicycle Safety Crusade. Chief of Police M. E. Guy, Beau fort, says a contest will be a part of the crusade and it is hoped that bi cycles can be obtained as priies for youngsters who win. The chief added that civic organ izations will be asked to lend their support to the campaign. Similar to this program it another project which Capt. Herbert Griffin said he hopes will get underway in Morehead City in May organiza tion of a Junior Police Auxiliary. Assistance in the Bicycle Safety Crusade will be given by T. Gates Matthews, field representative for the safety division of the State Highway Patrol. Safety films will be shown in the schools. Newport Seniors To Present Play At 8 Tonight The Newport High School senior class will preaent "Three Fingers in the Door," a three-act mystery comedy, at 8 tonight in the school auditorium. Miss Louise Woodson, senior sponsor, says the play promises to be one of suspense and of breath taking moments. It is a story of the strange happenings that occur in the dilapidated mansion of Gregory Long. Mr. Long, a wealthy, old man, lives with his two attendants. He is visited by hla grcat-niece, Syl whom he ha* never seen, airvmpMiied by her aunt, ? girl friend, and her fiance. Sylvia's fiance leaves the women with Mr. Long to attend a busi ness convention. The three women discover there is a sinister and ter rifying atmosphere about the place, but they can't find out what it ia all about or who is at the bottom of it. A night of terror follows. The cast: William Heupel, Doug las Reynolds; Sylvia Long. Lavonne Mann; Miaa Tessie Tingle, Jane Mitchell; Betsy Brown. Meredith Smith; Paul Harden, Ronnie Gar ner; Mrs. William Heupel, Bonnie Elliott. Clara Heupel, Florine Gurganua; Anna. Juanita Johnson; Gregory Long, Harry Rivers; and an officer, Hugh Whaley. Ushers for the play are Jackie Doherty. Sybil MacLane. Betty Gray. Jean Mundine, Beulah Rhue. and Dot Garner. Miaa Woodson also said that spe cial entertainment will be provided between acts. Committee to Map Drive For Liquor Referendum To map a program for support ing candidates for the 1938 general assembly who will support a state wide liquor referendum, laymen and pastors will meet in the First Baptist Church, Beaufort, at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Those attending the meeting are members of a steering committee headed by the Rev. W. T. Roberson, temporary chairman of the County Cltlnns Committee for Good Gov ernment. The committee is affil iated with the Allied Church League for the Abolition of Bever age Alcohol. ' Robert Edward Lee, owner of the Wagon Wheel, was interrupted while shaving Wednesday afternoon when a lumber truck plowed through the front of his building. No customers were in the place at the time and no one was hurt. The Wagon Wheel is a restaurant located west of More head City on highway 70. The truck, owned by Mansfield Lumber Co., was driven by Tommy Clark. Deputy Sheriff' Marshall Ayscue said the truck, heavily loaded with lumber, was proceeding toward Newport when it left the highway and crashed in to the front of the building. Extensive Damage It went 12 feet inside the place. Mr. Lee estimates damage at be tween two and three thousand dol. lars. The truck was extensively damaged, its front wheels being knocked off by the impact. It was reported that the truck was carrying 1700 board feet of lumber with a large part of the weight at the back. A bump in the road caused the front of the truck to bounce up and the weight in the rear kept the front wheels off the highway making it impoaaible to steer the truck. Mr. Lee said that double win dows in front of his place were knocked out and a heavy joist was rammed back against one of the stools. Had anyone been sitting there, he said they would have been killed. Waitress at Work In addition to Mr. Lee, a wait ress, Helen Irene Hoell, New Bern, was in the building. She had juat come to work and was getting ready to wipa off tables and chairs. Mr. Lm waa waiting yesterday for insurance adjusters to estimate the damage. Although hia place is open for business, the damaged part is boarded up. Mr. Lee said the young truck driver escaped unscathed. He help ed clear up the debris after the ac cident. State Highway Patrolmen W. J. Smith Jr., and W. E. Pickard in vestigated. JC's to Help With Playground The Beaufort Jaycees will fur nish picnic tables, benches and garbage cans for the new play ground being built at the Beaufort drawbridge. At a meeting of the Jaycees Mon day night Preston Mason, Bill Sut ton. and Jack Barnes were appoint ed to make arrangements for ob taining the equipment. This will be the club's part in the Finer Carolina contest on the project to improve recreational facilities for the town. At the request of Chief of Police M. E. Guy, Sam Gibbs and Bill Sut ton were appointed to work with the police department on a bicycle safety program. The Jaycees announced that they would sponsor the Circle C Hillbil ly show, from WNCT-TV, in Beau fort some time in April. Guest speakers at the meeting were Ray Cummins, of More head City, and Father Paul Byron, of St. Egbert'a Catholic Church, also of Morehead City. Mr. Cummins spoke to the club about his proposed radio station and what it would mean to the community. Father Byron spoke to the club on the responsibilities and duties of children. He said that parents should teach children to take more responsibility in the home. Children are growing up. he said, with the Idea that all life holds in store is a good time. He told the club that children would make bet ter citisena if they were given taaks to perform in the home, instead of having so much leisure time. % State Fleet Gets Four Boats Fisheries Official Makes Report on First Part Of 1954 The State Commercial Fisheries Division this month is taking over four boats from the Army Trans portation Depot. North Charleston Navy Yard. C. Gehrmann Holland, assistant fisheries commissioner, announces. Two of the boats are 62 feet long, one 42 feet and another 28 feet. One of the boats will be used in the shellfish division, planting oysters and shells the year 'round and the other three will be added to the state fleet, "based where they can fit best in our work," Commissioner Holland said. New motors were installed in two of the patrol boats. A new block assembly was put in the Cape Fear and a new crank shaft in the Cape Lookout. Oyster Season Closes In his report for the first three months of this year, the fisheries official said that the oyster season closed March 2. Production this year was "far below normal," but the quality of the oysters was ex cellent. Scallops are still being taken but the report says the market has been unfavorable all season. Pros pects for the coming shrimp season are good, according to the report. The hard crab season started early with production satisfactory. Commissioner Holland's report will be presented to the State Board of Conservation and De velopment meeting now in Wil mington. Planting In Three Counties He says that oyster seed plant ing in Carteret, Pamlico and Hyde counties has been completed. The state fisheries division was aided by Dr. A. F. Chestnut and Dr. Wil liam Fahy of the Institute of Fish eries Research and oystermen. Twenty thousand bushels of seed oysters were planted In the three counties. Planting in the counties south of here will begin in April. Commissioner Holland says, "This extensive planting of seed oysters departs from the general practice in North Carolina where we have in the past planted shells only. The planting of seed oysters, however, is a well established pro cedure in some of the states north of here and is universally employed by large private planters in Vir ginia and Maryland." The fisheries official says that 2,900 boats have been measured during the past three months. He estimates that there are approxi mately 3,000 boats engaged in com mercial fishing in the state. Collections during the past three months by the fisheries division have been better than for the cor responding period last year, ac cording to the report. During 1983 (January through March) collec tions were $18,539 as compared with $27,000 for the first three months of this year. Workmen Installed four new locks in the Beaufort Town Hall and fixed the trap door in the fire atation Tuesday. The locks were ordered changed and installed by Mayor C. T. Lewis. BeaufortChamber Authorizes Printing of 5,000 Brochures Hamilton's Furniture Store Incorporates A certificate of incorporation wh issued Wednesday by the sec retary of state. Thad Eure, to Hamilton's Inc.. Morehead City. The firm will sell furniture, fur nlahinga and fixtures at 1S0S Area doll St.. Morabood City. Author isod capital stock Is $100,000 with subacribod stock o t $300 being held by Mr and Mrs WUliam Roy Haa Uton and Mr. Hamilton's father. M. Roy Hamilton, all oT Parent* of Cob Scouts will meet at 1 JO tonight In the educational bnilding. First Methodiat Church. Cttjr > The board of director* of the* Beaufort Chamber .Of Commerce ap proved reprinting of 5,000 bro chure* on Beaufort at their meeting Monday night at the town hall. They aire approved an expen diture of an additional 1100 for the playground being *et up near the Beaufort bridge by the Junior Woman'* Club. Braxton Adair, chairman of the project, uid *136.73 ha* already been ipent Ray CAmmiiu, Morehead City, who ban applied for a permit for a radio atation In Beaufort, re quested a letter of endowment from the board and letter* from each member individually. The beard agreed to hi* requeat. Dan Walker, manager, waa au t barbed to write to the Ctvffl Aero nautic* Board, pretexting the pro Bee niHin, Pa?* 7 Chairman Receives Receipt for Funds Mm Ruth Peeling, March of Dimei campaign chairman for the county, announced yesterday that a receipt has been received from the National Foundation for Infan tile ParalyiU tar funds raised her* in January. Tbe receipt shows that from tWs county t3.M0.0S was paid to na tional headquarter* and S2.MB.05 for polio prevention Involving inoc ulation of school children with gamma globulin. Remaining here in the county is 93,000.05 for local infantile para lysis treatment The total ratted is the campaign wm *M? Net profit waa W.007 U
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