Attorney General Rules
On Shrimp Trawl Tqxes
11 Drivers
Lose Licenses
Ten persons of this area have
had their driver's licenses suspend
ed or revoked recently, according
to lists released by the State High
way Safety Division.
Those having licenses suspended
were Purvis Lenon Bryant Jr.,
Newport. Morehead City Recorder's
Court; James Miles Collins, More
head City, no court given: and
William Harley Cormier, Cherry
Point, Greenville Recorder's Court.
James Everette Culpepper, New
port, no court given; George Wil
bert Gray, Morehead City, no court
given; James Joseph Hefferman,
Cherry Point, Morehead City Re
corder's Court; Donald Reed Lip
piatt. Cherry Point, Morehead City
Recorder's Court.
Licenses revoked were James
Dewey Piner, Beaufort, Morehead
City Recorder's Court; William
Blades Sewell, Beaufort, Morehead
City Recorder's Court; and Frank
Marvin Snowden, Cherry Point,
Beaufort Recorder's Court.
Lions to Buy
Glasses for Boy
I
Morehead City Lions at their
Thursday meeting authorized Vic
tor Wickizer, chairman of the Lions
sight conservation committee, to
buy a pair of glasses for a 12-year
old Morehead City boy
The glasses were .ordered pur
chased following a report on a re
cent eye examination.
Newly - elected officers reported
on the zone meeting held recently
in New Bern. Attending were El
mer Watson. Oscar Allred! A. N.
(Naughty) Willis, and president
elec Owens Frederick
Fred Hardy, president, report
ed on the recent charter night
meeting held at Rocky Mount. Oth
ers attending the meeting were
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Colenda and
J. T. Willis j
Jack Morgan of Morehead Cityl
was a visitor Thursday night.
The left ears of taxi drivers, ex
posed to traffic noises are likely
to have poorer hearing than the
right tars.
? Raleigh Attorney General Har
ry McMullan held today that com
mercial fishing taxes must be paid
by owners and operators of all
boats using trtwl nets for the
taking of shrimp in state-controlled
waters.
The opinion was given at the
request of Director Ben E. Doug
las of the State Department of Con
servation and Development, which
has supervision over commercial
fishing in waters under state con
trol.
Mr. Douglas asked Mr. McMullan
for his interpretation of state laws
governing the taxing of owners and
operators of boats and different
appliances used in commercial fish
ing waters.
"We hope," Mr. Douglas said,
"that Mr. McMuHjtn's opinion will
help define what constitutes a com
mercial fisherman under our com- i
mercial fishing laws."
The ruling, Mr. Douglas said, was
requested in view of inquiries from 1
persons who say they desire to use
boats and seines for "pleasure fish
ing and taking of clams, oysters
and shrimp."
The attorney general said Gener
al Statute 113-174.4 levies an an
nual license upon different appli
ances used in the states commercial
fishing waters and includes among
other taxes a tax of $1 per hundred
yards of fraction thereof on seines.
G. S. 113 174.7 Mr. McMullan ad
ded, levies an annual tax on cer
tain boats, including trawl boats
and motor boats, of fifty (50) cents
per foot in overall length if the
i boat does not exceed 26 feet in
length or seventy-five (75) cents
per foot of overall length on boats
exceeding 26 feet in overall length.
Mr McMullan said G. S. 113-174.8
clearly provides that no tax shall
be levied or collected from bona
fide residents or citizens of North
Carolina who take fish, oysters,
clams, scallops, or crabs other than
with dredges for his own personal
or family's use and consumption.
"But if any person," the attorney
general said this section of the law
reads, "shall sell or offer for
sale any such products without hav
ing first procured a license, he
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall be fined not less than
five dollars ($5) or imprisoned J
not exceeding thirty (30) days."
1 Mr. McMullan pointed out that
G. S. 1 13-174-8 does not include
the taking of shrimp and that per
sons apprehended taking them
without having procured a State li
cense to do so face prosecution
under the statute upon which he
ruled at Douglas' request.
Chief
( Continued from Page 5, Section 2)
needed to keep them out of street*
and alleys ? and they should be
fenced in too.
In the State of North Carolina
at the end of 1953, there were 48,
777 accidents reported on the
streets and highways as compared
"Bolts" Prove Valuable
Idabel, Okla. (API? Bill Wake
field, a body repair man at an au
tomobile shop here, uncrated a
fender and opened up the sack
.supposedly containing the bolts.
Instead of the bolts, the sack con
tained $100,000 worth of checks.
Wakefield conjectured the sack fell
into the crate while at the express
dock. He sent them back.
About one U. S. civilian job
holder in nine works for a federal,
state or local government.
to 42 ,#41 for 1952, an increase 4
?even per cent Reported traf
fic accidents reached an all time
high for any year the department
has on reeord
At the close of the year 1953,
the State of North Carolina had
experienced a total of 1,1 16 traf
fic deaths on its streets and high
ways. Personal injuries received
in motor vehicle traffic accidenta
numbered 15,171. During the year
of 1053, there were 1,852 accidents
involving pedestrians, 230 persons
were killed and 1,476 injured in
these accidents.
The largest group experiencing
accidents as pedestrians in 1953
were those crossing the streets and
highways not at intersections,
which accounted for 797 pedestrian
accidents. Coming from behind
parked cars cost the lives of 19
pedestrians. Six children were
killed while playing in the road
way. Pedestrians between the ages
of 5 to 9 years, accounted for 25
per cent of the pedestrians killed
or injured fo. the year.
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VOTE FOR
HUGH SALTER
FOR SHERIFF
OF CARTERET COUNTY
Your vote and any influence on my behalf in
the May 29th Primary will be appreciated
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SENATOR LENNON SAYS: "The eyes of the world are on the United States Senate. The future
peace or devastation of the world will depend in large measure on policies and actions on which
tho Senate must take a stand. I AM DEEPLY CONCERNED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION,
and I pray that we in the Senate will have the wisdom to chart the proper course for our coun
try and all mankind."
(ThU Advertisement Paid for by Carteret County Committee for Lennon)
LUTHER HAMILTON, JR.
IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF
DISTRICT SOLICITOR
It is an office of great trust and responsibility; likewise, an office
of great honor. It has been filled by Pitt County for nearly all of the
past generation. Pitt is the largest of the six counties composing the
district. Our candidate needs, and should have, the united support of
our people.
He is a young man of sterling character with a sense of deep appre
ciation of the duties and responsibilities of the office, is well qualified,
and would make a Solicitor that we home folk of the county would be
mighty proud of. Let's not have it said that we have failed to stand by
and support him (our own county man) in this, his so-important
undertaking.
We sincerely trust that you will go to the polls Saturday and give
Luther Hamilton, Jr., your support and urge your neighbors to do
likewise.
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