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43rd YEAR, NO. 43. FOUR SECTIONS TWENTY-SIX PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1964 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Coroner's J ury Ord ers McCray
Held for Grand Jury Action
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Painter Finds Loaded
Bomb by Skating Rink
The Morehead City police depart-'
ment yesterday issued a warning
to persons to beware of things that
look like bombs ? because they
may be!
A loaded bomb was found Wed
nesday morning about 9 o'clock a
few feet west of the skating riok
on Shepard street. Capt. Herbert
Griffin of the police force, said the
bomb was found by Reginald Lew
is, a painter who was working on a
boat along the shore.
Mr. Lewis brought the bomb to
the police station. Chief of Police
E. J. Willis asked Cherry Point to
send several men here to inspect it.
They said that the bomb was load
ed and all that was needed to make
it explode was to drop iL
They removed the firing pin
and took it to Cherry Point. Cap
tain Griffin said the bomb was
about 4 inches in diameter and
a foot long.
Captain Griffin is of the opinion
that the bomb was placed near the
skating rink and that it couldn't
have gotten there by "accident."
He requested parents to want their
children against playing with any
thing that may look like a "harm
less" shell or bomb.
Four Pastors
To Take Part
In Baccalaureate
Four Morehead City pastors will
participate in the baccalaureate
service at the Morehead City high
school auditorium at 8 p.m. Sunday.
They are the Rev. E. Guthrie
Brown, rector of St. Andrew's Epis
copal Church; the Rev. Noah
Brown, pastor the rtee Will Bap
tist Church; the Rev. Priestley Con
yers III, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church; and the Rev. E.
H. Harden, pastor of the First
Christian Church.
Delivering the sermon will be
Dr. Stewart Newman of Southeas
tern Seminary, Wake Forest.
The congregation will sing Holy,
Holy, Holy, O Worship the King,
and Fairest Lord Jesus. The an
them, Battle Hymn of the Repub
lic, will precede Dr. Newman's
address.
Playing the recessional will be
Miss Thelma Memakis, pianist.
Marshais will be Ann Hardy,
chief; Carolyn Guthrie, James B.
Willis, Louise White, Billy Laugh
ton, Norman Larkee, Geraldine
Hedgecock, Bill Murrill, with Bea
die Lewi* and Lynne Richardson,
alternates. All are juniors.
David Small, son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. A. Small, Morehead City-New
Bern highway, is valedictorian of
the senior class.
Miss Ann Swanson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Swanson, 304 S.
14th St., Morehead City, is saluta
torian. ?
The name; were reversed in Fri
day's NEWS-TIMES. Miss Swan
son was announced as valedictorian
and Mr. Small, aalutatorian.
Escapee StUI at Large
Cecil Guthrie, Morehead City,
who faces three separate charges
of peeping in Superior Court, is
still at large. He walked out of the
county jail Tuesday. May 18. Chief
of Police M. E. Guy, Beaufort, said
that as far as he could determine,
some of his men were the last in
the jail prior to the time Guthrie
left through an unlocked door.
Judge Suspends
Three-Year Term
Thomas Holmes. Migrant
Laborer, Hold for Grand
Jury Action
Thomas Holmes, Negro migrant
worker, charged with possessing a
pistol without a permit, was sen
tenced to three years on the roads
in County Recorder's Court Tues
The sentence will be suspended,
said Judge Lambert R. Morris, on
payment of *50 and costs if Holmes
remains on good behavior for two
years.
Holmes was arrested by Sherilt
Hugh Salter early Friday morning
following the shooting of Alfair
Kelly McCray, 23-year-old Negro
migrant worker.
In investigating the shooting,
Sheriff Salter learned that the pis
tol, a .32 automatic, belonged to
Holmes. Holmes told the sheriff
that McCray had given him $2 as
a partial payment on the pistol
when they were in South Carolina.
Holmes has also been charged
with being an accessory before the
slaying. He U being held in the
county jail, pending a hearing be>
fore the grand jury in June.
Marine Appeals
Victor I. Garcia Padilla, USMC,
charged with assaulting a female,
appealed the 90-day road sentence
handed down by Judge Morris. Ap
pearance bond was set at *200.
Padilla was arrested by George
Smith, chief of police at Atlantic
Beach, Sunday after Padilla alleg
edly struck Nelda Faye Keen* on
the head with his hand, knocking
her unconscious at* the Sand Bar.
The state decided not to press
charges at this time against Frank
O. Morre and Louis Sellers,
charged with damaging personal
property to the extent of *80 and
refusing to pay for it
Pays *5?, Coats
Kenneth Eugene Miller, charged
with reckless driving, was fined
$50 and court costs. Miller was
cited after Miller s car ran off the
highway and struck a pine tree
three miles west of Newport May
22
Miller said his accelerator be
came stuck and while fiddling with
it the car ran off the road and hit
the tree.
Earnest Leroy Fernandei,
chargde with speeding, was fined
*10 and costs. Ned Gray Golden,
charged with failing to yield the
right of way, was taxed *10 and
Four .persons forfeited bonds
when they failed to appear in
court. They were John I Lxmtz, pub
lic drunkenness; Harkless Alex
ander Wooten. Carl Sacco and
James Ogal Hagan, aU charged
with speeding.
Thomas Eugene Jordan and Vio
let M. Jordan were taxed with- one
?-alf court costs. Mr. Jordan was
guilty of allowing Mrs. Jordan to
drive without a license. John Jo
seph Ellis Jr and Roselyn M El
lis were taxed with one-half court
co,r Mr. Ellis was guilty of al
lowing Mrs Ellis to drive without
a license.
One-half costs were imposed on
Luther Allen Puryear, charged
with no license on trailer.
Court coats were impoeed on the
following: Edward Fulmer Dig
ger, John Joseph Vinski. and Har
vey Clark Davis, all charged with
gee COUNTY COW, Page 5
Methodist Pastor Will
Give Baccalaureate Sermon
The Rev. J. D. Young will de
liver the sermon at the bacca
laureate service in Beaufort High
School at 11:15 Sunday morning.
Mr. Young la paator of Ann Street
Methodiat Church.
The invocation will be given by
the Rev. A. L. Benton, Marshall
berg Methodiat minuter, and the
benedldtlon will be pronouoced
by the Rev. J. E. Howard, paator ot
the Free Will Bapttat Church,
Beaufort Mr. Young will alao
read the acripture and offer pray
er.
The Junior High Choir will ting
Hymns by the choir and congre
gation will be All Hall the Power
of Jesus' Name. The Chunk's On*
Foundation, and Lead On O King
Eternal.
The offertory anthem will be
Seek Ye the Lard, with Barbara
Harris, aa aoioiat. C Franklin
Jones Jr. instructor af public
school music will play adagio from
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.
The aeniors will observe class
aight at 8 o'clock tonight and
commencement will be at t:19 p.m.
Tuesday. The eighth grade com
mencement will take place in the
auditorium at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
? A coroner's jury Monday nigbt
ordered that Elijah McCray, Negro
migrant worker, be held without
bond for action by the grand Jury
next month.
McCray haa been charged with
lulling hia wife, Alfair (Mary) Mc
Cray. The woman was shot Thurs
day night. May 30, at the Chicken
Shack, 306 Queen St., Beaufort,
and died Sunday night in the More
head City Hospital.
Six witnesses, including Elijah,
testified at the inqueat conducted
by Leslie Springle, coroner, in the
courtroom at the courthouse. Ap
proximately 30 Negroes and three
white persons attended the inquest,
in addition to law officers.
Sheriff Hugh Salter was the first
witness. He said that he received
a call from the Morehead City po
lice station about 10 o'clock Thurs
day night. A shooting was reported
at the Chicken Shack.
The sheriff said he went there
and met Officer Steve Beachem of
the Beaufort police force. There
Officer Beachem informed him that
a woman had been shot and was
sent to the Morehead City Hos
pital. A man in a "yellow and black
checkered shirt" had done the
shooting, according to Officer
Beachem.
Sheriff Salter said he had been
told the man had left the Shack.
At 11:30 the sheriff said that he
and Chief of Police M. E. Guy,
Beaufort, located Elijah McCray,
wearing a yellow and black check
ered shirt at a camp for migratory
workers on highway 70.
After picking him up, McCray
told the officers that he asked his
wife to go home and look after the
kids and she cursed him. Later he
saw her in the Chicken Shack talk
ing to two men and again, accord
ing to the sheriff, McCray told her
to go home. He said she cursed
him again and he knocked her
down with his hand.
She Pulls Knife
He said that while she was on
the floor she took a knife from her
bosom and that he pushed her off
twice to keep her from cutting
him. He told the sheriff that she
cut him once before he knocked
her down and when she started to
cut him again after she got up, he
shot her. '
The McCray woman was shot in
the left breast near the heart with
a .32 automatic pistol.
Sheriff Salter told the coroner
that the gun was in the hands of
the Beaufort police. He identified
Clarence Waahington as one of the
men talking to the McCray woman
when she was shot. He said Wash
ington took the gun from McCray
and turned it over to the police.
On the stand, Washington said
that he was talking to McCray's
wife at the piccolo when "this
maa" walked over and told her to
see about the children. She told
him they were "all right," Wash
ington said.
Knacks Wife Down*
McCray then went and sat down
but got up shortly and knocked his
wife down. Washington identified
McCray, who was sitting near the
witness stand, as the man who did
the shooting.
Washington said that "Mary," as
the Negroes called McCray's wife,
did not have a knife and he did
not see her cut McCray.
The next witness was Sidney
Garner who said he was in the
Chicken Shack at the time of the
shooting. Garner's testimony was
similar to Washington's. He said
that he did not see Mary with a
knife, nor did she attempt to cut
McCray.
Bernice Tarver, who said she
runs the Chicken Shack, waa the
next to take the stand. She said
she ran after McCray first knocked
Mary down.
MeCray Makes Threat
Mattle Holmes, wife of Thomas
Holmes, from whom McCray al
legedly got the pistol, testified
that on two occasions he heard Mc
Cray threaten to kill her, one time
See INQUEST, Page 4
Now Camp Glonn School
Roceives Federal Okay
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, reported Uut the
new Camp Glenn school pined fed
eral inspection yesterday.
The building was inspected by
C. C. Burritt, field engineer from
Greensboro, in the company Qf
B. H. Stephens, architect, and Mr.
Joslyn.
The eighth grade commencement
exercises Monday night will be
held in the new auditorium.
Tomorrow Will be Cancer Tag Day
To meet the county Cancer Cro
udt quoU a special drive will b?
made id the downtown aectiona of
Beaufort and Morehead City tomor
row.
Mil. George BaJI, cruiade chair
man, announced Tueaday that to
morrow will be 'Tie Day " Each
perion who contribute! to the drive
will receive a little rid iword to
wear, lymbol that Um* have given
to tin cancer drive.
Mrs Rupert Earl Willi*, More
'head City, to is charge of poatlng
solicitors throughout the buaineu
section.
Mrs Ball said the county cancer
funds are extremely low. Only >42
ha* bee* collected thus far. One
thouaand dollar* ha* been (pent in
the county during the past two
year* to aid local cancer patient*.
Just last week 1111 waa need to aid
i cfimt patient, ill nMtd
The American Home Department,
?ponson af the Cruaade, an hop
ing to meet a goal of tM7S.
Coin eolleetora have not yet been
picked up 1%ey are adMduied for
pick-up today, but Mn. Ml aaid
there will not In enough money in
them to meet the (Ml. For that
reaaoo tomorrow haa been art wide
aa tag day.
Braxton Adair
To Emcee Events
Civic Club Representa
tive* Will Speak at Park
Dedication Sunday
Braxton Adair will serve as mas
ter of ceremonies at the Beaufort
"Park by the Sea" dedication at 5
p.m. Sunday.
Music will be provided by the
Beaufort School Band, C. F. /ones
Jr., director.
Representatives of the town civic
clubs will give two-minute talks.
They will be N. F. Eure, chairman
of the Beaufort Finer Carolina con
test; Gene Smith, president of the
Rotary Club; Gerald Hill, president
of the Chamber of Commerce;
John Duncan, representing the Jay
cees; and Mrs. W. I. Loftin, repre
senting the Book Club.
The dedicatory address will be
given by Mrs. Albert Chappell,
representing the Beaufort Junior
Woman's Club. Mayor Clifford
Lewis will accept the playground
on behalf of the community.
The playground is not being
given to the town, but is being
made available for use by children
up to 8 years of age.
Mr. Adair will read the list of
persons and firms who contributed
toward building the play area. One
thousand dollars has been invested
in labor on the playground and on
equipment for it. A benediction by
the Rev. James P. Dees, rector of
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, will
conclude the program.
A community picnic supper will
follow the dedication program
which will open with an invoca
tion by the Rev. J. D. Young, pas
tor of Ann Street Methodist
Church.
The property, south of the Beau
fort draw, has been made available
by Harvey Smith, Beaufort.
There is parking area at the
playground. The Junior Woman's
Club invites families to bring their
youngsters to the playground Sun
day and join in the picnic.
Six Countians
To Joih Army
Six young men o f this ana have
been ordered to reportrto Hf draft
board Tuesday to be foH*t*|?d to
Kkleigh lor inductioo Wo the
Army
They are Edgar W. Downum Jr.,
William McKinley Jordan, and
Matthew L. Godette Jr., Beaufort;
Jonathan James and Billy C. Rowe,
Newport; and James B. Giilikin,
Atlantic.
In addition to these, the local se
lective service board will forward
12 others for pre-induction exam
ination Tuesday.
The board reminds college stu
dents that they are allowed the
month of June in which to submit
their scholastic standings for the
past year. They should request
their college to forward this infor
mation to the Carteret County
draft board before leaving collegc.
Judge Morris Finds Driver
Guiltv of Recklessness
Harold Neil Groesniekle, 107 N.
10th St., Morehead City, waa found
guilty of reckless driving Tuesday
in County Recorder's Court. Judge
Lambert R. Morris fined him $100
and costs.
Groasnickle was charged with
speeding and drunk driving follow
ing an accident Feb. 4 four miles
east of Beaufort on highway 70 in
which two others, John Riggn, 302
N. 24th St., and Kenneth Allen, 312
Bridges St.. Morehead City, were
severely injured.
State Highway Patrolman J. W
Sykes made the arrest after arriv
ing at the scene and obaerWng
Groasnickle. uninjured, staggering
about, he said. The car, he report
ed, was bottom side up in a field
about 900 feet from the road.
Two TfcMW Clear
Riggs and Allan had been thrown
clear of the car. The patrolman
told the court that be took Groas
niekle to the Morehead City Hos
pital far examination, and while
there, Uroaanickle wanted an alco
hol teat made to prove that he was
not drunk. Enroute to the hospital
Patrolman Sykes told Groasnickle
that he waa placing him under ar
rest for drunk driving.
M. M. Ayacue, deputy sheriff,
was called to the scene of the wreck
D. G. Bell, W. H. Potter
Attend Rivers-Harbors Session
Insufficient Housing Limits
Number of Migrant Laborers
Motorist Found
Counts Monday
Jack C. Dietter, USMC, Cherry
Point, was found guilty of follow
ing too closely Monday in More
head City Recorder's Court and
was ordered to pay $25 and court
costs.
Dietter was also charged with
using loud and profane language,
disturbing the peace and assault
ing William T. Davies. He was
found guilty on all three counts.
Judge McNeill sentenced Dietter
to 30 days on the streets. Sen
tence will be suspended however,
if Dietter pays $100 and costs, and
remains on good behavior for a
year.
LaMain A. Shultz, charged with
using loud and profane language
and disturbing the peace, was also
charged with fighting. The court
found him not guilty.
Tommy H. Davis, charged with
using loud and profane language,
disturbing the peace and fighting,
was found not guilty of the second
charge, but guilty of the first. He
was ordered to pay one-half court
costs.
All three were cited Saturday
night after chasing Mr. Davies
down Arendell street in an auto
and forcing him to the side of the
road.
David I. Morrison was given a
10-day suspended sentence after
the court found him guilty of for
cible trespass. The sentence was
suspended on payment of coats.
The court found Morrison not guil
ty of indecent exposure.
Susy Bell Jones, charged with
See MOREHEAD COURT, Page 2
? Frank Nance, Beaufort, . farm*
i labor supervisor, revealed this
week that 300 migrant laborers had
to be turned away from the county
because thfre is insufficient hous
ing for them. Nine hundred work
ers are here now. Most arrived the
weekend of May 15.
Crew leaders transported them
here by truck from Florida and
other southern seaboard states.
Workers are living on farms east
of Beaufort, picking beans and dig
ging potatoes. They are paid 50
cents a hamper for beans. Crew
leaders get 65 cents a hamper.
From the 15 cents difference the
crew leader pays expenses of trans
porting the workers from place to
place and is compensated for man
aging and booking the crew.
While Mr. Nance says there has
been "decided improvement" in
the county's migrant labor hous
ing, much more should be done.
For example, none of the bunks
have mattresses.
North Carolina is known for its
poor migrant labor camps, but Car
teret County, for its size, has bet
ter camps than many farms up
state, he aridtfd.
The total number of migrant la
borers in the county during a year
are about 1,600. The largest num
ber, 1,300, are here for the cab
bage, bean and Irish potato harvest
and about 300 come in during the
fall to dig sweet potatoes.
Labor crew leaders last fall said
they wished there were some way
for the school-age children of the
laborers to get schooling. While the
crews are migrating aouthward, the
children go without school until
they reach Florida. Then the
youngsters are enrolled when
three months of the school year
have already passed.
The schooling is no problem dur
ing the spring because most
schools arc about to close by the
tikne the laborers arrive here.
Assisting Mr. Nance in the farm
labor office at present is P. C.
Brooks, Lumberton.
Community Concerts Group
Elects Officers Tuesday
Mrs. James D. Rumley of Beau
fort has been elected president of
Carteret County Community Con
certs, to serve for the next two
years. Officers were elected Tues
day night when the directors of
and he told the court that in hii
opinion Groasnickle was drunk.
Grossnickle told the court that
Allen had picked him up earlier
in the evening and aaked him to
drive his car. He said the three
of them, after driving about More
head City, stopped at Holt's Rain
bow Inn.
While there, he said they all
drank one beer and ordered an
other. When Grossnickl* left the
bar momentarily, the others drank
his second beer, he said.
Start to Smyrna
It was then that Allen wanted
to go to Smyrna to pick up some
Model A Ford parts, Groasnickle
related.
He said that he was going about
43 miles sn hour when Allen told
him to speed up because he want
ed to get back that night. His
speed, Grossnkkle said, was in
creasing when he hit the curve and
saw an approaching car coming on
his side.
In order to miss the oncoming
car, Grossnickle said he swung to
the outside of the curve, went off
the shoulder, raced along the ditch,
and when the car hit the pavement
See GROSSNICKLE, Put *
the chapter met at the Webb Mem
orial Civic Center.
Miss Elizabeth Lambeth of More
head City was elected first vice
president, Mrs. W. 1. I pock of
Beaufort, secretary, James Rob
ert Sanders of Morehead City,
treasurer, and Mrs. Edward Ar
rington of Beaufort, corresponding
secretary.
Mrs. G. W. Duncan and Mrs.
Claud Wheatly Jr., will serve as
co-chairmen of the drive in Beau
fort, and Mrs. Eugene Roelofi will
assist Misa Lambeth aa co-chairman
in Morehead City.
Mrs. I pock will serve as head
quarters secretary, Mrs. David Bev
eridge of Beaufort will be dinner
chairman, Mrs. George W. Ball of
Morehead City will be appoint
ments chairman, Mrs. Lockwood
Phillips will be publicity chairman,
and Glenn Adair of Beaufort and
Ralph Wade of Morehead City will
be concert presentation chairmen.
The new board of directors will
be Miss Ruth Peeling, Mrs. W. L.
Bell, Oliver Yoat, Horace Loftln
Jr., Mrs. Joseph House, Mrs. W. L.
Woodard, Mrs G M Paul, and C.
F. Jones, all of Beaufort; Graver
Mundfn. Mrs. S. W. Thompson,
Mrs. B. F. Royal, Mrs. O. H. John
son, Mrs. A. B. Roberts and George
W. Dill Jr., all of Morehead City,
and Mrs. Ruby WoMruff, Miss
Edith Lockey and Mrs. W. J. Klrby
all of Newport.
Mrs. Charles Hasaell of Beaufort
and Mrs. George W. Dill Jr. of
Morehead City, past presidents of
the chapter, are also members of
the board of directors.
Tide Table
Tide* ?( Bcaafart Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, May It
4,13 a m. 10:23 a.k
4:47 p.m. 11:19 p.m.
Saturday, May It
8:13 a.m. 11:20 a.m.
5:48 p.m.
Sunday, May 3*
0:11 a.m. ? 12:19 a.m.
6:40 p.m. 13:17 p.m.
Maaday,.May 31
7:06 a.m. 1:14 a.m.
7:34 p.m. 1:11 p.m.
Tacaday, Am 1
7:86 a.m. 2:06 a.m.
|6:26 pjn 3:03 Ml
Nicholas L Walker
Heads Shrine Club
Nicholaa L. Walker of B??utort
wu elected pre?iderjf?
teret Counf-^fcfer-5 ??B5la*t
Thursday wb TMHjppby?t the
Sanitary Sea TiPnieataurant In
Morehead City '
Perry Taylor Jr., of Morehead
City waa elected vice-preaident
and Robert Safrt Jr. of Beaufort
waa elected aecrturvtreaaurer.
The memberi ed to hold
monthly meetlnfa tb* a at Fri
day night of each month. He June
11 meeting will be held at the S?a
Level Inn.
The Newport town board will
meet at 7J0 Tuesday night
Election Tips
1. Pol In open at 6:30 a.m.,
close at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow.
2. Jayeees in Beaufort and
Morehead City are providing cars
to take voters to the polls. Per
sons wanting the transportation
service in Beaufort should phone
2-3711 and in Morehead City
6-4363.
3. Morehead City township
voters will receive three bal
lots, state, county and countable.
Voters in other precincts through
out the county will receive two
ballots, state and county.
4. Vote!
Fred R. Seeley
Names Judges
For Primary
Precinct judges have been named
(or ill comity precincts except
Stella and Bettie. Fred R. Seeley,
chairman of the county board of
elections, said yesterday that those
openings and several others, where
one judge is yet to be appointed,
would be filled by the time the
polls open tomorrow.
Judges are as follows: Mrs. Her
man Taylor and Worth Watson,
Pelletier; John Jones, Cedar Point;
Mrs. Eleanor Arthur and Walter A.
Smith. Bogue; Arendell Golden and
Randolph Smith, Broad Creek; and
Y. Z. Simmons and Gerald Gould,
Newport.
Earl Murdoch and Banner Bell,
Wildwood; Ed Nixon and Joe Za
jac, Salter Path; James B. Willis,
Morehead precinct No. 1; Mrs.
Retha King, Morehead precinct No.
2; John D. Brooks and Ulysses
Lee, Beaufort; and Mrs. Ardie Nor
ris and Mrs. Dollie Dudley, Wire
Grass.
Mrs. Jay Raymond Ball and Mrs.
R. W. Ward. Harlowe; W. L. Can
non and Mrs. Pearl Calhoon, Mer
rimon; Garrett Gillikin and Sarah
Gillikin, Otway; Norman Chadwick
and William D. Chadwick. Straits;
Walter Davis and Mrs. Minnie E.
Taylor, Harkers Island.
Capt. Fred Gillikin and Elvin T.
Hancock. Marshallberg; George W.
Hancock and Mrs. Irene Simpson,
Smyrna; Mrs. Annie Davit and Sey
mour Davis, Williston; and C. H.
Davis tod W. T. Salter, Davis.
Hedrtck Salter and Jerome Ful
cher, Stacy; Gordie Styron and
Miss Elva Salter. Sea Level; Joe
Mason, Atlantic; John W. Goodwin,
Cedar Island; and Dorothy Salter
and Nora Dixon, Portsmouth.
Because tomorrow's primary is
Democratic, there is no need for
a Republican judge. Mr. Seeley ex
plained.
Judges have been requested to
phone the results of the election
to the sheriff's office in the court
house, 3-4S0L, as soon as the ballots
are counted.
> D. G. Bell, Morehead City,
and W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
attended the 41st annual
Rivers and Harbors Congress
this week in Washington as
two of the 14 delegates from
North Carolina. They were
appointed by Governor Urn
stead.
The congress was the first held
since 1950 when the Korean War
brought to a halt dredging, flood
control and reclamation projects.
Sessions took place in the May
flower Hotel. Delegates heard
President Dwight D. Eisenhower at
noon Tuesday and addresses by
congressman, Senators and Army
Engineers during the three-day ses
sion.
The congress has no power to ap
propriate funds for waterways
work, but they endorsed six hun
dred North Carolina projects as
"meriting prompt construction."
These included the deepening of
the channel of Taylor's Creek
(Beaufort Harbor) for seagoing
and fishing boats; deepening and
stabilization of Masonboro Inlet
and connecting channels; deepen
ing and improvement of the chan
nel of Cape Fear River at and be
low Wilmington; and the Manteo
(Shallowbag), Pasquotank River
(flood control); and Far Creek
projects.
Projects listed as "meritorious"
were Morehead City Harbor, Wal
lace Channel, Smith's Creek and
Hatteras breakwater (channel from
Hatteras Inlet to Hatteras and Rol
linson Channel).
Three North Carolina projects
were approved Wednesday by a
House Public Works Subcommit
tee.
They are Wallace Channel, deep
ening for fishing boats, $108,000;
Smith's Creek breakwater, $102,
000; and Pelletier Creek, west of
Morehead City, construction of a
mooring harbor, $43,000.
Members of the North Carolina
delegation, in addition to Mr. Bell
and Mr. Potter, were J. M. Harp
er Jr., Southport; Col. Richard S.
Marr, Wilmington; T. J. Collier,
Bayboro.
James A. Hackney, Washington;
J. H. Conger, Edenton; J. Emmett
Winslow, Hertford; Bascom Saw
yer, Elizabeth City; Bruce Eth
eridge, Manteo; Oscar Breece, Fay
etteville; D. S. Weaver, Raleigh;
Miles J. Smith, Salisbury; and Ax
son Smith, Belhaven.
Four lo Serve
On Committee
Dr. W. L. Woodard has been
named chairman of the nominating
committee for directors of the
Beaufort Chamber of Commerce.
Twelve directors will be elected
next month.
Others on the nominating com
mittee are Glenn Adair, J. O. Bar
bour Jr. and Holden Ballou.
The chamber board met Tues
day night at the town hall. They
hqve offered a $5 prize to the
person submitting the best slogan
for next year's town auto tags.
Dr. Woodard gave a report on ac
tivities of the rural telephone com
mittee.
Attending the meeting were Ger
ald Hill. Halscy Paul, Dr Wood
ard, Glenn Adair, Gene Smith, J.
O. Barbour Jr., Holden Ballou,
Ronald Earl Mason, and Dan Walk
Community Theatre Will
Present Suspense Drama
The Carteret Community Theatre
will pre unt a three-act suspense
thriller. The Nightmare, by Jean
Lee Latham, as its first production
in the (all. TlMKBUy waa chosen
at a meeting oTI#^heatre group
Port Calendar
Beyway ? Left Aviation Fuel
Terminals late Tueaday after
noon after discharging gasoline.
Arrived here Tuesday from Mar
cua Hook, Pa.
Eeso Springfield ? Sailed Sun
day for Baton Rouge, La., after
discharging fuel oil at Esso Ter
minal. It arrived here from Bay
town, Texas, Saturday.
Otco Barge Z3 ? Arrived at
noon Tuesday at Aviation Fuel
Terminals from Paulsboro, N. J.
Discharged jet fuel and sailed at
6:30 p.m. Tuesday The barge is
owned by the Oil Transportation
Co.
APA Rockwell. APA Chilton?
Docked and departed Wednesday
from state pert
AKA Libra - Docked at state
port Wednesday, sailed veater
day. The APA's and Libra are
ships returning from the Medi
terranean.
Wednesday night at the Scout
Building, Beaufort.
The group decided to read plays
and work this summer on drama
techniques. On the committee to
Mlect the plays (or reading and
plan the sessions are Patricia
Webb. Betty I-ou Merrill. M Leslie
Davis. Mrs. Mary Davis and Miss
Edith Lewis.
The decision on giving radio
plays this summer was left to th?
executive committee.
TIM Nightmare has a cast of four
men and three women. Us setting
is a gloomy mansion near Ithaca,
N. Y. where Perry Wallace is
awaiting the death of his father-in
law. Intrigue enters the plot with
Perry's wife trying to keep her
father alive so he will change his
will.
The heiress to the old man's es
tate is lured to the mansion when
she is warned by the dying man tp
get out because her life is in dan
ger. But she can't escape and sus
pense builds i|p t?i thrilling cli
max.
A report on plays read by the '
reading committee was gives by
Tresaa Vickers, chairman Mrs.
Carter Broad presided in the ab
s?nea at the president. Xd Waist on- .?