?=r CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES l0<
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Rofarians Hear
T. C. Nelson
Club to Sponsor 'Attic
Auction,' Givo Profit
To School Band
Thurlow C. Nelson, Rutgers Uni
versity, New Brunswick, N. J.,
spoke to members of the Morehead
City Rotary Club Thursday night at
the recreation center.
He was introduced by Dr. A. F.
Chestnut with whom he was visit
ing. His talk dealt with oysters.
W. C. Carlton was named chair
man of a committee to sponsor an
"Attic Auction." Rotarians are to
collect useable and saleable things
about the house and assemble them
for an auction.
Others who have things they'd
like to get rid of are invited t<f
donate them to the Rotary Club.
They should uke them to Hill's
men's store on Arendell street or
leave them at the high school. The
sale will take place at 11 a.m. Sat
urday at the former site of More
head City Drug store.
The items will be sold and pro
ceeds given to the Morehead City
School Band to help finance the
trip to the Apple Festival at Win- 1
Chester, Va. The articles to be sold
are usually found in attics, that's
k why the name "Attic Auction," Mr.
Carlton explains.
Albert Gaskill was appointed
chairman of the committee to plan
a ladies' night for the last Thurs
day of this month, April 29.
Gerald Hill of the Beaufort club
was a visitor at the meeting.
To Sing Tonight
Miss Jane Hobson, mezzo-soprano, will appear at 8:15 tonight in
the Morehead City School auditorium as the final guest artist of the
year for the Carteret Community Concert series. Members of the
concert series who have guests from more than 50 miles away, mem
bers of the armed services and their families, and new residents in
the county may buy tickets at the door.
H. L Joslyn to Serve as Secretary
Of Southeast School Board Group
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, was elected sec
retary of the Southeastern Division
of the North Carolina School Board
Association at the annual meeting
Friday night at Smyrna School.
More than 400 school board mem
bers and school administrators
from 13 counties attended the ses
sion which was preceded by a
clambake.
Other officers chosen In addi
tion to Mr. Joslyn wjre L. Pate,
president, principal ?f the Jafcper
School, Craven County, and O. P.
Johnson, vice-president, superin
tendent of the Duplin County
Schools. Mr. Pate succeeds Lin
wood C. Turner, Pink Hill, who
presided at the business meeting.
Speakers were Dallas Herring,
chairman of the Duplin County
Board of Education, and Harvey
Hamilton Jr., Morehead City.
Mr. Herring's topic was "The Re
sponsibilities of a School Board
Member."
He told his listeners that a school
board member's first obligation is
toward the child. He recalled that
tfce state recently spent $200 mil
lion on roads and raised the ques
tion as to the fairness of spending
only half that amount on the ed
ucation of children.
SIM Million Needed
During a survey last year, it was
determined that $194 million
would be needed to bring the
state's school up to standard. At
that time, the speaker said, $32
million was available for schools.
As a result of the school bond
referendum last fall, the amount
needed has been reduced to $112
million. He remarked that school
board members must seH the needs
of the schools to the authorities
H. L. Joslvn
. . . elected secretary
who arc able to sec that the needs
are met.
The second responsibility of a
school board member is toward the
teachers, Mr. Herring said. It is
to the shame of school board
members, the speaker continued,
that the teachers have had to wage
their own fight for higher pay.
Reminding his listeners that co
operation is essential on a school
board, he called the board the "bed
rock of democracy" and added that
it's no placc for the "lone wolf."
The school board's third respon
sibility is toward the public. "Just
how public are public schools?"
See ANNUAL MEETING, Page 2
Catholics Will
Build Summer
Chapel at Beach
: The Rev. I'm! l>?uin*ui <*t. tif
bcrt's Catholic Church. Morphpad
City, announced yesterday that a
new church for summer use will be
built at Atlantic Beach.
The structure will go up imme
diately on land donated to the
church by A. B. Cooper, mayor of
Atlantic Beach and owner of prop
erty there. The site is off the Fort
Macon Road, to, the east of the
bridge and on the sound.
Plans for the church have been
drawn by Altobellis Associates,
Wilmington. The church, Father
Byron said, will be similar to the
Catholic chapel at Carolina Beach.
St. Egbert's, he explained, is too
small to accommodate summer
crowds.
Father Byron will conduct mass
at both the new chapel and the
Morehead City church.
He added that St. Egbert's has
recently been painted and redec
orated by men of the parish. St.
Egbert's is located at 17th and
Evans, Morehead City.
Father Byron said the parochial
school planned by the parish will
not be built until 1955. The plans,
however, have been drawn. He said
the building has been deferred be
cause of the problem of getting
sisters to staff it.
County Board Approves New
Budget for Welfare Board
Beaufort Police,
Make Eight Arrests
Eight arrests were nude by
Beaufort police over thf weekend
and one warrant waa served on
J. b Weeks for failure to comply
with a court order.
Willie Hines waa arrested yes
terday on a charge of public drunk
enness. Arrested on the same
charge Saturday were Thomas
Simmes, James Johnson, and Dave
Howard. Quinton C. Harris was
apprehended Saturday and charged
with running by a stop aign.
Richard S. Miller was arrested on
a atop aign charge Friday and
Isaac H. Jordan was charged with
driving without an operator'a li
cense.
Race Track Issue Com
Before Judge Yesterday
Currituck ? Racing officials of
the Cavalier Kennel Club of Moy
ock artre called upon yesterday to
show cauae why the dog track
should not remain cloaed under an
injunction order obtained laat sum
The hearing waa scheduled (or a
special term of Superior Court.
Judge Malcolm C. Paul of Wash
taClpa wae scheduled to prwtdi
? The Board of Co inty Commis
sioners yesterday approved the
budget for the welfare department
for 1954-55, heard three road mat
ter* and discussed valuation of cer
tain Morehead City properties.
Of the total $350,264.77 on which
the welfare department will op
erate during the next fiscal year,
the county will pay $68,090.77. Due
to balances remaining from this
year's funds, actual cost , to the
county will be $48,196.77.
The retnsinder of the budget will
be met by state and federal funds.
The budget was presented to the
board by Miss Georgie Hughes, su
perintendent of the welfare depart
ment. Attending the meeting also
were members of the welfare
bofrd. Stanley Woodland, More
head City. Mrs. T. T. Potter. Beau
fort; and E. R. Willi*. Marshall
berg.
Miss Hughes pointed out that the
total coat to the county will be
less this year than laat. The new
budget includes Increases in sal
aries for welfare department em
ployees as provided under the
merit system.
l Dr. Grady Cooke presented the
board with a petition to have one
third of a mile of road at Bonner
Heights, west of Morehead City,
paved. His petition contained 24
signatures of persons living en the
roid.
T)m road is already on tbe state
system. The board approved the
petition and referred it to the State
Highway Commission.
On behalf of residents of Sea
L^vel, Sheriff Hugh Salter present
ed a petition asking that the drain
age canal along highway 70 be
opened up. This request too was
referred to J. L. Humphrey, coun
ty road superintendent.
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, chairman
of the board, said that the Smyrna
School property floods when it
rains and Mr. Humphrey said the
highway department planned to unr
dertake measures to remedy the
problem.
Resolution Passed
The board passed a resolution to
request list-takers to record the age
of all persons listing taxes. Dr.
Bonner said that N. A. A vera, man
ager of the social security office
for this area, told him that many
workers who have passed the age
of 85 are entitled to social security
funds but fail to apply for them.
If a record can be obtained of
their age, Mr. Avera explained,
they can be notified when they
reach .65, to apply for benefits.
Alvah Hamilton, county attorney,
said he would like to know how
much money is being spent in Car
teret County on roads, compared
with other counties in this district.
The board suggested that Mr.
Hamilton write Sandy Graham
8m COUNTY BOAKD, h? !
Weekend Gun a?- .
?eath of Neg?o ,n/ ntS, Caus*
9 ? '"lury of Child
No Bids Received
For Street Signs
Lions Bicigo Party Will
Take Place Thursday
At 7:30 P. M.
Oscar Allred, chairman of the
Lions Block Booster campaign to
erect street markers in Morehead
City, reported Friday that no bids
had been received for markers.
The Lions are sponsoring a cam
paign to get the markers up. The
eroup of persons or the individual
in a block who makes the highest
bid for a marker will have the
honor of getting the marker in
stalled at their corner first.
The marker will be designated as
'.he first to be erected in town and
it will be put up with a ceremony
in which town officials and Lions
will take part.
The deadline for getting in bids
for markers is Thursday. At least
$5 is needed, Mr. Allred said, to
put up a marker. Bids should be
??cnt to Lions Block Booster, P. O.
Box 124, Morehead City.
The Lions will receive 50 street
markers today from the Greens
boro firm from which they were
>rdered.
The bingo party, scheduled for
Friday, has been changed to Thu re
lay, April 8. The club moved the
oarfy Hate because of the conflict
with the school's senior play,
which will be given Friday.
Bingo will start at 7:30 p.m. at
the Recreation Center. A contribu
ion of one dollar entitles a player
o compete in a special game for a
$100 Easter outfit for a man or a
?voman.
Receipts for the special gam?
may be had in advance from any
member of the club. The outfits
are on display at Leary's and
Claras Proceeds will go to club
project*.
TJr* Moirhosd City High Scl??l
Band will not attend the inter a
tional convention in New York tbis
year, Fred Hardy. Lion president,
informed the club at the Thursday
meeting at the Recreation Ceoter.
Mr. Hardy went lo the Lions
State Council meeting last week in
Wilmington. There he asked that
the council permit bands from the
state to go to the convention.
He was informed that the State
Promotion Committee had ruled
that no bands were to attend. This
action, the council said, could net
be overruled by them. Mr. Haruy
was commended by the council for
his presentation of the matter.
The North Carolina Lions' 1954
State Convention will be held June
13, 14, and 15 in Raleigh. Owens
Frederick, secretary, told the club.
Those who attend, he said, will
hear Monroe L. Knute. of Pennsyl
vania, Lions International vice
president, and Jack Stickley, of
North Carolina, Lions Interna
tional third vice-president.
The schedule for Lionesses, Mr.
Frederick stated, will include a
theatre party, a reception at the
governor's mansion, and a style
show at the Carolina Country Club.
Rites Conducted
For H. C. Jones
Hugh Cole Jones, 83. died Sat
urday at his home at 116 Queen
St., Beaufort.
Funeral services were held at 3
o'clock Sunday afternoon in Ann
Street Methodist Church with the
Rev. J. D. Young, pastor, official
ing. Burial was in Ocean View
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were John
Mason, Clarence Guthrie, David
Jones. Charles Hassell, H. D. Paul
and Leslie Moore, Honorary pall
bearers were Beaufort business
men. *
Mr. Jones, son of the late Ben and
Orphia Neal Jones, had entered the
hardware and ship chandlery busi
ness with his father, and took his
sons into business with him at bis
father's death. He had been re
tired from active business for the
past 23 years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. An
nie L. Jones; two sons. Howard C.,
and Ben F., all of Beaufort; four
daughters. Miss Annie Neal Jones
of Williamsburg, V*., Mrs. Jack
Windlcy of Beaufort, Mrs. J. P.
Bradley of Kipling and Mrs. Carl
ton Dobson of Richmond; seven
grandchildren and thro* gnat
grandchildren.
Li ream Revoked
Mrs. Doris Yal$ Ambrose and
Henry Democ Stilley of Morehead
City had their drivers' licenses "
voked recently in Morehead City
Recorder's Court, according to a
release from the State Highway
Safety Division at RaMgh.
Easter Seal Campaign Begins
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
Karabrth Matiney, Newport, asks county residents to support the
Easter Seal campaign which aids crippled children and adults.
Scvcn-yei^r old Karabeth Mauncy, I
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Zch !
Ma uncar, Newport, has beeivchertcn)
to Symbolize tho need of si.vwtinn'
the Crippled Children's *drive in
this county.
Karabeth, who is a victim of cer
ebral palsy, was recently featured
in THE NEWS-TIMES in a story
written by her mother.
The Easter Seal campaign, staged
by the Society for Crippled Chil
dren. is being sponsored in Carter
et by the Junior Woman's Club of
Morehead City. The chairman of
the campaign committee is Mrs.
I. C. Harvell. Others on the com
mittee are Mrs. Starr King. Mrs.
Mary Dern. Mrs. Michael Brady,
Mrs. R. B. Howard, Mrs. Mary Lee,
Mrs. H. C. Barrow and Mrs. Mar
ion Mills.
Letters containing Easter Seals
were mailed out last week Mrs.
Harvell said. This coming Satur
day the girls' Hi-Y Clubs of Beau
fort and Morehead City Schools
will soil paper lilies in Beaufort
and Morehead City Proceeds will
Jjo ftirak
Prtreeds from previous drives
in this county have been used to
finance speech correction clinics
and the present orthopedic clinic
administered by the Morchead City
Rotary Club, Mrs. Harvell said.
The state goal is $150,000, of
which 55 per cent remains in each
county for direct services of many
types and 91.7 per cent remains in
the state.
"Anyone knowing of a handi
capped child who is not receiving
needed attention is asked to in
form the county volunteer com
mittee," Dr. John D. Messick, presi
dent of the State Society, said. "The
objective of each Easter Seal So
ciety is to meet needs that would
otherwise be un met. Early treat
ment of a crippled child may make
possible a productive and gainful
adult life. Easter Seals have been
associated with crippled children
for 20 years."
Republicans Expect Four
Dignitaries Friday Night
Roy T. Garner, chairman of the<
County Republican Executive Com
mittee, yesterday released the
names of special guests expected at
the barbecue at 7:30 Friday night
at West Beaufort.
They are Everett Peterson, Clin
ton, chairman of the Republican
committee for the Third Congres
sional district; John Wilkerson,
Washington, N. C? member of the
Republican executive committee
for the state; Sheriff Cahoon of
Carroll County and Mrs. W. T.
Odom Jr . Goldsboro, Republican
candidate for Congress from this
district.
The barbecue is being held in
celebration of the hundredth anni
versary of the Republican party.
The party held its first recorded
meeting in 1854 in a one-room
school house at Bipon, Wis.
Tickets for the barbecue may
be had in each of the county's 26
precincts. The supper will be
served in the dining hall of the
Fish Meal Co. .
Tide Table
Tide* at Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, April I
10:13 a.m. 4:18 a.m.
10:40 p.m. 4:21 p.m.
Wednesday, April 7
11:05 a.m. 3:12 a.m.
11:36 p.m. 3:18 p.m.
Tlianday, April ?
6 09 a.m.
12:02 p.m. 6:13 pjn.
Friday. April ?
12:37 a.m. 7:11 a.a.
108 p.ao. I'M p>B.
School Children
See Safety Films
Chief of Police M. E. Guy and T.
Gates Matthews, of the Safety Di
vision of the Department of Motor
Vehicles, showed films on bicycle
safety at Beaufort Schools Friday.
The Bicycle Safety Crusade be
ing conducted by the police de
partments of Beaufort and More
head City will continue through
this month. Safety pamphlets were
given the youngsters.
A Bicycle Club will be organ
ized at both the Queen Street and
Beaufort Schools.
Later bikes will be inspected and
the vehiclei displayed in a parade.
' Two gun accidents over the weekend claimed the life of
a 22-year-old Negro. A second victim, a 5-year-old boy, is
in a serious condition at the Morchead City Hospital.
Arthur Roosevelt Frazier, Harlowe Negro, was killed
Saturday morning by a shotgun blast and the youngster,
Michael Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Lewis, Bettie, was
shot in the hack with a .22 riflet
Sunday afternoon.
The funeral for Frazier will take
plaee at 2 o'eloek Thursday after
noon at Rivers Funeral Home. New
Bern. Aceording to Coroner Leslie
D. Springle, who ruled Frazier's
death accidental, the shotgun went
off as Frazier was attempting to
remove the gun from his father's
pick up truck.
Was Shooting Rats
The family said that Friday night
the boy's father, Raymond Frazier.
was using the gun to shoot rats.
When he was through with it, he
put it in the pick-up. The next
morhing Raymond Jr., Arthur
Roosevelt and their mother were
in the yard. The mother and Ray
mond were together when a loud
report was heard and the boys'
mother said sh', thought she heard
a door slam.
The brother found Roosevelt and
called to his mother that the bo>
had "stabbed" himself. They soon
discovered that he had been shot
trying to get the gun from the
pick-up. #
Coroner Springle said that the
blast of No. 5 shot entered the
boy's body just to the left of the
heart. The victim was rushed in
an automobile to Dr. Luther Ful
cher. Beaufort. As soon as I)r.
Fulcher saw the boy, he ordered
him taken to Morehead City Hos
pital, but he was pronounced dead
on arrival.
The boy's mother said she be
lieved he died just as they were
entering the outskirts of Beaufort.
Surviving besides the parents.
Raymond and Pauline, arc three
j sisters, Sylvia Gould. Lillian Brown
and Mary Elizabeth; and two
brothers, John D. and Raymond
Jh
Playing Cowboys
I Michael was shot at 3:30 Sunday
!^tf4aan<*>n in fci? h#iu u wU4e he and
his rildef*T>rother played cowboys.
Sheriff Hugh Salter said. The boys'
mother had gone next door to her
mother's home and when she came
back the older son. Tony, 8, told
her, "Mike's been shot."
Thinking that the child might
have been playing make-believe,
she didn't become overly upset un
til she asked where Mike was.
Tony replied. "In the closet."
She went to the closet and there
the youngster was lying, "playing
dead." but when she picked him
up she felt blood on his back, the
sheriff said.
The boy was rushed to the hos
pital where he immediately under
went an operation. The sheriff said
the bullet went in the boy's back
about belt high and missed the
spine by about an inch.
Mrs. Lewis told Deputy Sheriff
Bobby Bell who investigated that
she didn't know "there was a bullet
in the house."
Merchants Will
Meet Today
A program for a post Easter sales
campaign will be discussed at noon
today at a meeting of the Morehead
City Merchants Association, R. B.
Howard, director, announced.
The program wai worked out by
the association's board of directors
in a meeting held March 11. It
waa decided then to present the
program for approval at the mem
bership meeting scheduled for to
day.
The association will also discuss
the appointment of a new secretary
to fill the unexpired term of Joe
DuBois, who resigned recently to
become manager of the Sea Level
Chamber of Commerce.
The association will meet at
Capt. Bill's restaurant.
Government Vessel Will
Release More Drift Bottles
Woods Hole, Mass Five hun
dred drift bottles will be set out
in coastal waters south of Cape
Ilatteras during the next few day!
by the research vessell Gill of the
Fi?h and Wildlife Scrvice Station
at Brunswick, Ga.
The bottles, supplied by the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti
tution, will contain a postal card
requesting the finder to fill in the
date and location of a bottle found
on the beach. A reward of 90 centa
is offered for the return of a card.
Fishermen finding one of the bot
tles at sea are requested not to
break the bottle but return It to
sea after noting the number oa
the enclosed card and aend the in
formation where found and where
rotmad to the *u to the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution.
The bottles will be thrown over
board at 40 different locations off
the southeast coast by W. W. An
derson of the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service. Each bottle is partial
ly filled with a carefully weighed
amount of sand so that It will bare
ly float and be carried with the
current! ratber than be blown with
the wind as It would do II It were
not ballasted.
Information obtained from drift
bottle studies la of great value for
the study of coaptal currents which
influence marine lite. In the final
analysis, therefore, apart from the
parely scientific value, the fisher
man and the consuming public will
profit from s?ch studies, scientists
Rural Phone
Committee Will
Meet Tomorrow
A meeting will be held at 2 p.m.
tomorrow in the Beaufort Town
Hall courtroom to plot all applica
tions for rural telephone services
on a master map. Dr. W. L. Wood
ard. chairman of the rural tele
phone committee of the Beaufort
Chamber of Commerce, announces.
Meeting with the committee will
be Walter E. Fuller, administrative
assistant in charge of rural tele
phone service for North Carolina ?
Rural Electrification Authority
and, Dr. Woodard said, at least
one representative from each com
munity should be present to help
locate the homes of applicants on
the map. "It is, important that all
applications be tyrncd in by meet
ing time." he added.
From this map, Dr. Woodard
explained, the committee will de
cide the next step in its efforts to
obtain rural telephones. "Our tel
ephones depend to a great extent
on the outcome of this meeting," he
remarked.
Deluge of Rain
Ends Thursday
Carteret County's midweek de
lug" of tain stopped at 6:30 a.m.
April &, making a total of 1.08
inches of rainfall according to
Stamcy Davis, weaftier observer.
The temperature rose steadily
from Thursday to Saturday when it
hit a high of 72. Lowest the mer
cury fell during the weekend was
43 Friday.
Alter Saturday s warm spell the
wind shifted bringing icy winds
Sunday.
Temperature readings up to Sat
urday follow:
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Max. Min.
60 46
65 43
72 55
499 Attend
School Clinics
Four houndred ninety-nine
county children attended pre
school clinics supervised by the
County Health Department.
A total of 517 immunization shots
were given as follows: 280 small
pox; 67 diptheria-whooping cough
tetanus series: and 170 boosters.
Attending the clinics with the
children were 443 adults.
Teeth headed the list of defects.
Of the 499 children examined, 349
had defective teeth. Tonsils were
next with 106. Glandular trouble
was third with eight, and nutrition,
heart, and eyes were next with five.
Others examined had orthopedic
and heart defects.
Another preschool clinic for
Camp Glenn is scheduled in the
near future, the department an
nounced. f
Woman Hurt.
When Cars Hit
Mrs. Dorothy S. Cask ill, Sea
I .cvH. was slightly injured at 7.10
Friday night when the rar she was
Irlving was struck from the rear by
a car driven by Paul W. Lewis,
Marshallberg.
The accident occurred on high
way 70 at the Smyrna Drive-In
Theatre. State Highway Patrolman
J. W. Sykes said Mrs. Gaskill had
signalled and stopped, preparatory
to turning into the theatre when
Lewis came up from behind and
smashed into her She said her
neck was hurt. With her were aev
?ral children.
_ Lewis told the highway patrol
man that he was looking toward the
theatre and did not see that tbe
car ahead of him had stopped.
Charges against him are pending.
With Lewis waa one passenger.
Neither was hurt.
Damage to Mrs Gasklll'i car, a
1993 Dodge, was estimated at t2fl0
and damage to Mr Lewie1* ear, a
MM Ford, was fSOO.
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