Congressman Graham A. Barden will be the speaker at
the outdoor dedication ceremony at Newport School Satur
day afternoon at 2 p.m. Federal funds totaling (121,000
were used to build the new eight-classroom elementary
wing.
Congressman Barden will be introduced by H. L. Joslyn,
PTA Supervises
Homecoming
Arrangements
Saturday's Homecoming and
School Dedication has been ar
ranged by the Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation in cooperation with all res
idents of the town.
Committees responsible (or the
forthcoming festivities are the fol
lowing:
Steering committee, E. B. Comer,
chairman; Mrs. Tom Dickinson,
Mrs. David Kirk, Mrs. Ruby Sim
mons, C. S. Long, and Ed Carra
way.
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.
Maddrey and Nathan Garner.
Reception committee, Moses
Howard, chairman; Edgar Hibbs,
W. B. Allen, Mrs. Jimmie Kirby,
Mrs. Manley Mason, Mrs. Standi
Bell, Dr. Manly Mason, J. 1. Mizelle,
and W. D. Heath Sr.
Entertainment committee, Mrs.
Ann Harvell, chairman; Mrs. Erma
Quinn, A. H. Casey, Tom Dickin
son, Fred Prescott, Mrs. Floy Gar
ner, Mrs. Neal Chadwick and Har
ry Lockey.
Supper committtee, Mrs. Eleanor
Garner, chairman; Mrs. Grace
Barnes, Mrs. Dick LockeV, Mrs. J.
B. Kelly, Mrs. Margaret Gray, Mrs.
Julie Howard, and Mrs. Otto
Slaughter.
Publicity committee, Mrs. Ida
Reynolds; chairman; Mrs. Geraldfne
Garner, Mrs. Cornell Garner, David
McCain, Mrs. David McCain, and
Mrs. Robert Montague.
Advertisemen committee,
Charles Hill Jr., chairman; Roy T.
Garner, Aaron Craig, W. D. Heath
Jr., J. B. Kelly, Stancil Bell, and
R. D. Garner.
Buillding and grounds commit
tee, Jack Bell, chairman; R. S. Gar
ner. Slim Massey, Wendell McCabe,
Lloyd N. Garner, Clarence Millis,
Carl Garner, W. D. Roberts, Law
rence Garner and Floyd Garner.
Decorating committee, Mrs. C. S.
Long, chairman; Mrs. J. T. Mizelle,
Mrs. Allen Cannon, Mrs. Moses
Howard and Mrs. Edgar Hibbs.
Parking committee, C. S. Long,
chairman; and members of the
safety patrol. Directing traffic will
be Highway Patrolman Robert
Brown and Chief of Police Ormsby
Mann.
Parade management committee,
Mr. Comer, chairman; H. D. Straw,
Leon Mann Jr., Jimmie LaShan,
David Kirk Sr., Allen Cannon, and
Capt. W. H. Livington.
In charge of providing programs
is Mrs. Ed Comer. The steer
ing committee members have been
ex-officio members of all commit
tees.
Committee Would
Administer Fund
The scholarship fund which will
be started with the Homecoming
and Dedication Saturday would be
administered by a scholarship com
mittee, E. B. Comer, principal, ex
plains.
The scholarship committee would
consist of representatives of the
PTA, Rotary and other civic groups
which may be interested, he added.
Mont^r toward the fund may be
placed in collection boxes in the
gym during the dance Saturday
night.
? ounty superintendent of schools,
who has been instrumental in push
ing through federal applications
for school funds in Carteret.
The welcome address by E. B.
Comer, principal of the school, will
follow the invocation and introduc
tion of special guests.
Events Start at 1:30
The events a ill start at 1:30 with
music by the Beaufort School Band
and the Newport High School
Chorus. The band is directed by
C. F. Jones and the chorus by Mrs.
Ruby Woodruff.
Following the formal dedication
ceremony, folks will go to the
school gym where models will dis
play "Basketball Uniforms Through
the Years." There will be a ping
pong exhibition match, a sack race
and a contest between members of
the Newport School Board and one
of the town's civic groups.
Supper at 5
At 5 o'clock the picnic supper
will be served on the grounds.
Everyone will bring their own
food.
The operetta, Mississippi Melody,
will be given at 7 p.m. in the school
auditorium, and dancing will begin
at 8:30 in the gymn. All events
will be free. At the dance, how
ever. donations toward a Newport
School Scholarship Fund will be
accepted.
Purpose of Day
Mr. Comer explains that the
Homecoming has been arranged for
three purposes: to get acquainted
with old friends and schoolmates,
to express appreciation for the new
school, and to start the scholarship
fund so that worthy graduates of
the school may be helped through
college.
Should it be raining Saturday, all
events will take place indoors.
M Pupils Go
To New School
Two hundred sixty-eight children
in grades 1 through 3 and one sec
tion of fourth grade occupy the
new elementary school. They
moved in Jan. 29.
Teachers in the new wing are
Mrs. Elizabeth Straw, Mrs. Janie
Garner, Mrs. Mary Catherine Millis,
all grade 1; Mrs. Florida Garner
and Mrs. Erma Quinn, grade 2;
Mrs. Audrey Edwards, Mrs. Geral
dine Garner, grade 3, and Miss Vel
na Chitty, grade 4.
A multi-purpose room in the new
school is used as a cafeteria. Tables
may be folded up so that the room
can be used for physical education
programs and as an auditorium. In
addition to the eight classrooms,
there is a health room equipped
with first aid supplies and a bed,
and a room for faculty members.
Total cost of the building runs
close to $122,000, reports H. L.
Joslyn, county superintendent of
schools.
State Provides Newport
With Paved Road*
During the past six years the
State Highway Department has
"pulled Newport out of the mud."
Until 1948 Newport was surround
ed by unpaved country roadi. The
only hard-surfaced highway was
U. S. 70 through the center of
town.
The Mill Creek Road, the Mason
town Road, the Nine-Foot Road and
others that "led to Newport" were
strips of shifting sand. Now, with
the exception of side roads that
lead through farms, the people of
Newport can travel a network of
hard-surfaced highways that con
nect them with tlx ? J- arUriM,
highways 24, 70, and 101.
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Seventh Grade Pupils Will
Present Operetta at 7 P.M.
I Mississippi Melody is the name
I of the operetta which children in
the seventh grade will present at
the Homecoming Saturday at 7 p.m.
in the school auditorium.
The operetta, by Charles George,
is being directed by Mrs J. C. Har
vell, seventh grade teacher.
Characters are Harley Garner as
Tom Sawyer; Clyde Mann, Huckle
berry Finn; Jimmy Skinner, Joe
Harper; Jackie Stout, pen Rogers;
Eddie Clark, Sidney.
Ganes Chapman, Pudd'nhead
Wilson; Johnny Mason, Steamboat
Sam; Edward Corbett, Jim; Peggy
Anne Cannon, Aunt Polly; Glen
Graham A. Harden
. . . feature speaker
Homecoming Program
SATURDAY, APRIL 17
1 :30 p.m. ? Music by Beaufort School Band
2 :00 p.m. ? Dedication Ceremony, Address by Con
gressman Graham A. Barden
3 :30 p.m. ? Entertainment in school gymnasium
5:00 p.m. ? Picnic Supper
7 :00 p.m. ? Operetta, Mississippi Melody by seventh
graders
8:30 p.m. ? Dancing in gymnasium
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22 Teachers
Make Up Faculty
Twenty-two teachers comprise
the faculty at Newport Consoli
dated School.
E. B. Comer, besides serving as
principal, teaches history and typ
ing. His home is in Newport.
Other members of the faculty
are Miss Louise Woodson, English
and French; Hubert D. Straw,
mathematics and English; Mrs.
Ruby Simmons, home economic*,
biology and science; Aimcul H. Cas
ey, social studies and typing; and
C. S. Long, vocational agriculture.
Miss Delena Hughes, eighth
grade; Miss Eva Bateman, sixth;
Miss Florence Grimes, sixth; Mrs.
Julia Avery, fifth; Mrs. Mollie
Henderson, fifth; Miss Velna Chit
ty, fourth; Mrs. Alice Gerock,
fourth; Mrs. Geraldine Garner,
third; and Mrs. Audrey Edwards,
third.
Mrs. Erma Quinn, second; Mrs.
Forida Garner, second; Mrs. Mary
Millis, first; Mrs. Janie F. Garner,
first; and Mrs. Elizabeth Straw,
first, all living in Newport.
Two faculty members live in
Morehead City. They are Mrs.
Marie Willis, who teaches eighth
grade, and Mrs. Ann Stroud Har
vell, who teaches seventh.
500 Invitations Go
To Alumni, Friends
By last week more than 500 in
vitations had been mailed to alum
ni of Newport School and former
residents of the town.
The letters were distributed to
local citizens who knew addresses
of alumni and of other persons who
would be interested in attending
the Homecoming and Dedication
Saturday. v
Alumni have been invited to plan
class reunions on that day. New
port folks are looking especially for
attendance by former faculty mem
bers and principals.
Persons who wanted overnight
accommodations were requested to
contact E. B. Comer, principal.
Serve on Board
Five men serve on the Newport
School Board. They are Edward S.
Carraway, chairman, Lawrence A.
Garner, M. Cornell Garner, Roy T.
Dickinson and Lloyd N. Garner.
Town Grows
From 1930 through 1940 the pop
ulation of Newport remained at 480
but in 1950 the census shows that
the town had grown to 676. The
population of Newport township is
2,259.
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PLAN TO BE IN
NEWPORT
ON
SATURDAY
APRIL 17
FOR THE
HOMECOMING
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DEDICATION
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1* Miller, Mary; Judy Slaughter,
Mrs. Sereny Harper.
Peggy Jo Wallace, Suiy Harper;
Signa Roberta, Becky Thatcher;
Patsy Forest, Widow Douglas; Mat
Lie Waddell, Miss Watson; Becky
Sarner, Mrs. Sally Phelps; Glen
la Hulsey, Ella Mae Phelps; and
Huldah Garner, Mammy.
Boys and girls in the chorus are
Rose Simmons, Lurry Kirk, Clar
ence Murdock, Sharron Crider,
Mamie Lou Riggs, Billy Wade, Bon
nie Dale Garner, Avon Davis, Mary
Fulcher, Franklin Oglesby, Leslie
Riggs, Joyce Hill.
Technicians and members of the
property committee are Terry Gar
ner, Thomas Allen, James David
Mann, Dell Miller Jr. and David
Mossor.
The operetta is in two acts, two
scenes in the first and three in
the second.
Assisting Mrs. Harvell are Fred
Prescott, staging; Mrs. Erma Quinn,
costumes; Mrs. Leona Prescott,
make-up; Dick Lockey, scenery; C.
5. Long, carpentry work; Aaron
Craig, lumber; and Mrs. Ruby
Woodruff, music director.
Nine Graduated
In Class of '25
The first graduating class from
the Newport Consolidated School,
)t which there is a record, is the
:lass of 1925. Nine received grad
uation certificates, one boy, David
McCain, and eight girls.
According to the class roster
filled out by the principal, F. F.
rhompson, the girls were Edith
Lockey, Ada Allen, Jessie B. Bell,
Esther Ellliott, Rosalyn Garner,
Etta M. Lewis, Alice V. Mason and
Beatrice Simmons.
At that time the highest grade in
ligh school was the eleventh. The
total enrollment in the school,
grades 8 through 11, was 63.
E. B. Comer, principal, said that
there was a graduating class in
1924 but no official record has
seen found. Ed Carraway, New
port, says he was a member of
the class of '24.
Patrol to Help Direct Traffic
Photo by Leon Mann Jr.
Helping to direct traffic Satur- ]
day will be members of the School i
Safety Patrol. Pictured above are 1
Sgt. Thomas Howard, Clifton Mun- :
dine, Franklin Oglesby, Larry Kirk, I
Joseph Williams, Ganes Chapman,
Bob Reynolds, Larry Wallace, John
ny Mason, Dick Syme, Clayton
Howard, Allen Ray Garner, Billy
Simmons, Terry Garner, Bruce
Hart, Billy Dail, Robert Garner,
Walter Clark, Larry Howard, Kelly
Williams.
Absent when the picture was
taken were Albert Wallace, Thomas
Garner. Louis Kelly and Edward
Corbit. Supervisor of the patrol is
C. S. Long.
Miss Molly , Mr. Penn
Attended Early School
Two persons the Homecoming
committee especially hopes to see
Saturday are Penn Hill who is 90
and Mrs. Molly Haskett who is 87.
They are the oldest residents of
the town to have attended school
in Newport.
"Miss Molly" who lives on "Rail
road Street" several doors from the
old Newport Hotel gets around
pretty well but she only feels good
"off and on."
When she went to the school it
was located where the teacherage
now stands. There was one large
room and at the front there was
a room on either side.
At that time there were no
grades. Miss Molly says. The chil
dren Just went and learned what
they could of reading, writing,
arithmetic and geography. They
used slates and blackboards and if
there was a special composition to
be written they were allowed the
luxury of paper. The teacher at
the time she attended was Michael
Hill who later moved to Beaufort.
At one time he had an assistant,
Miss Jenny Hardesty.
Miss Molly says she remembers
Mr. Penn, but she hastens to ex
plain that he was several years old
er than she. She started to at
tend school In Newport after her
family moved there from Stella.
The children in the country
could get there only by being trans
ported in a "truck."
The school which Miss Molly and
Mr. Penn attended was torn down
when the "new school" which now
houses part of grades four through
12 was built.
Six Principals
Serve at Newport
Since Newport became a consol
idated .school, six principals have
served there.
According to E. B. Comer, who
came to Newport as principal in
the fall of 1952, the principals have
been F. F. Thompson. Mr. Powell,
Charles F. Carroll, R. L. Pruit and
W. H. Bryson.
Mr. Carroll who is now state su
perintendent of public instruction,
will be the speaker at Newport's
commencement June 1. Newport
was his first principalship.
Mr. Pruit holds the record for the
longest term of service, 19 years.
He was followed by Mr. Bryson in
the fall of 1951 and Mr. Comer
succeeded Mr. Bryson.
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3,000 islands if the islets and jut
ting rocks are counted.
THIS IS YOUR
Invitation
TO ATTEND
THE
HOMECOMING
AND
DEDICATION
CELEBRATION
OF
NEWPORT SCHOOL
TO BE HELD
Saturday , April 17
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