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Complete , Official May 29 Election Returns in This Issue W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??< 43rd YEAR, NO. 45. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. JUNE 4, 1954 , PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS 12 Girls Will Compete Saturday For Title, Miss Beaufort of 1954 Jaycees to Make Industry Survey Jake West Appoints Local Jaycee as Zone One Director Morehead City Jaycees are plan ning a survey of Morehead City to determine what facilities the town has to offer new industry. The project will be completed in about 10 days, says Jasper Bell, presi dent. When compiled, the material will be available for study by in dustry representatives and others interested in knowing what More head City has to offer in the way of industrial facilities. Working on the project will be the club's civic improvement com mittee headed by Frank Cassiano. The national Jaycees recently proposed that local clubs conduct a survey of their communities. The proposal was brought before the lo cal club at its meeting Monday at the Fort Macon Hotel dining room. Director Appointed P. H. Geer Jr., was appointed zone director by Jake West, vice president of the Jaycee ninth dis trict who was a guest at Monday's meeting. Mr. West explained that the dis trict has been divided into two zones to facilitate cooperation be tween the state and local Jaycees. Six Jaycees will attend the na tional convention at Colorado Springs, Col., this month. They are Marion Mills, L. G. Dunn, Mr. Geer, Dr. Russell Outlaw, James Wallace, a former Morehead City Jaycee, and William Norwood. Walter Morris, Morehead City beauty pageant ehairman, reported that the beauty pageant committee has not yet reached a decision on having a pageant or merely choos ing a Miss Morehead City. The girl who will be named Miss Morehead City of 1954 will repre sent the town at the state pageant at Burlington. Jerry Rowe, chairman of the re ligious activities committee, re ported that he, Bill Smith, and Les ter Willis visited patients in the Morehead City Hospital Sunday. Visitors at the Monday meeting were Mr. West, Ted Davis, More head City chamber manager, and Mr. Wallace, Wilson. Port Calendar LST 1166, L8T 509, L8T 279? loaded Wednesday for Marine Corps and Navy operations at Vieques. Latimer? Navy transport dock ed yesterday. MalleUe and LST 1164? dock ed yesterday. AnacMtta? Navy tanker dock ed at Aviation Fuel Terminals 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and sailed at 9 a.m. yesterday after dis charging jet fuel. The Anacos tia's port of departure was Beau mont, Tex. ? Mrs. E. W. Downum Jr.," director of the Miss Beaufort beauty pageant, announced yesterday that 12 girls will compete for the town's 1954 beauty title. They are Patricia Piner, Mar shallberg; Eva Frances Willis, Har kers Island; Frances Gillikin and Jessie Wilkins. both of Beaufort RFD; Inez Woodard, Bobbie Den nis, Kay Willis, Faye Merrill, Judy Mason, Sue Gibbs, Carol Cole, and Margaret Bryant. Chorus Line to Appear Mrs. Howard Fodrie is supervis ing entertainment which will fea ture a chorus line of high school girls. Music will be provided by an orchestra. The program will begin at 8 o'clock tomorrow night at the post office dock. The pageant will take place on a stage to be erected over the walk fronting the dock opposite the post office. Spectators will sit at tables and on benches on the dock. Fol lowing the pageant, there will be a dance on the dock. Glenn Adair, master of cere monies, will crown Miss Beaufort. There will also be a second and third place winner. Judges will be J. A. DuBois, manager of the Sea Level Chamber of Commerce; Theodore Davis, president of the chamber; D. G. Bell, the county Democratic candi date for the legislature; Moses Howard, Newport, a county com missioner; and Mrs. Thomas Noe, Beaufort, who was Miss Morchead City in 1949. Entrants in the contest will ride through Beaufort in convertibles at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. Tickets Sold Ronald Earl Mason, chairman of the pageant, said yesterday approx imately 150 tickets had been sold by Wednesday. Tickets may be bought at business places down town and from Jaycees. Miss Beaufort of 1954 will com pete at Burlington this summer for the Miss North Carolina title. Jaycees Will have refreshments on sale. Harkers Island Home Entered The sheriff's department this week was investigating the burg lary of the L. D. Nuchols summer home, Harkers Island. Sheriff Salter said he was noti fied Friday afternoon by the care taker, David Chadwick, that the place had been broken into. The tenant house was also entered. Mr. Nuchols, owner of the Amer ican Hardware Co., Charlotte, came here Monday to investigate. He said a 14-foot dinghy on a rack by the house was missing. The house was ransacked, some of the food in the kitchen eaten, and the glasa in the front door shattered. The sheriff placed entry of the main house on Thursday night. May 27, and entry of the tenant house sometime between 3 p.m. Friday and daybreak Saturday morning. How to Vacation riin nam ^ r -mra ifinr.' ?% The fish know when school's over over their heads as they lazily flap up Newport way. These three little Wednesday and went home with a chub. by the number oi hooks dangling their fins in the Newport River fellows set off bright and early stringful of catfish, perch and Photo by Leon A. Mann Jr. Four Win Scholarships To Fine Arts Session Gregory D. Ivy, director of the Woman's College Fine Arts Sum mer Session, Beaufort, announced scholarship winners Wednesday Mr. Ivy said that due to the high calibre of the persons applying, the scholarships have been awarded to four persons. The scholarships, established by the Beaufort Chamber of Com merce in memory of Graham W. Duncan, were $80 for an adult and $30 for persons under 18. These have been split. $40 going to each of the adults. Miss Mary Phyllis Pake, Bettie; Norwood Young. Beaufort; 415 to Brucc Edwards III, Beaufort, and $15 to Miss Edna Frances Young, Beaufort. The scholarships cover tuition. Miss Pake's scholarship was awarded in art, Mr. Young's in writing, Edward's in art and Miss Young's in music composition. The winners were chosen by a Woman's College faculty committee. Per sons interested in the scholarships were requested to apply to the Chamber of Commerce by May 18. Officers of the summer session, in addition to Mr. Ivy, are Katherine Taylor, dean of students; Mereb Mossman, dean of instruction; El vira Prondecki, counselor and treasurer; Elizabeth Holder, librar ian; and Anne Ford, dietitian. Mambers of the faculty are Dr. James B. Hall, writing, Michael Casey, Basil Langton, Richard Byrnes and Martha Irvin, theatre; William DeVeny, Elliott Weisgar ber, music; Virginia Moomaw, Ruth Currier and Louise Solberg, dance; Mr. Ivy, Estelle Obara and John Opper, art. Courses being offered include art education in the elementary school, painting, advanced modern dance, elementary dance, elemen tary dance composition, applied dance. Voice, choral conducting, his tory of the theatre, acting, play production, writing, drawing, sur vey of contemporary dances, chor eography for solo and duet dances, advanced composition in music, ex perimentation and analysis in mus ic and creative process in the arts. Classes in art, dance and music are open to children. Theatre classes are open to high school stu dents and adults only. The session begins June 14 and continues until July 23. Soldier's Body Found Tuesday The body of Pvt. Joe E. Stanley, 22, of Reidsville, who drowned in Bogue Sound Saturday, was found floating Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. ap proximately 300 yards from where he went down. Stanley drowjied when he jump- j ed from a fishing pier into Bogue i Sound to recover a lard can he was using to put fifch in. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Minnie Stanley of Reidsvilj; five brothers, George, Jack, Mack, and Bob, all of the home, and Bill of Camp Gordon, Ga.; one sister, Mrs. O. E. Barrett of Reidsville. The body was taken upstate by military personnel at Cherry Point. Meeting Cancelled The June meeting of the Sea Level Chamber of Commerce board of directors was cancelled. It was originally scheduled Tuesday at Ocracoke. J. A. DuBois, manager of the chamber, said too few di rectors were able to make the over night trip. Date of the next meet ing will be announced soon. Sheriff Hugh Salter Polls Largest Vote in Primary ABC Officer Seizes Car, Jars of Whisky Marshall Ayscue, county ABC of ficer and deputy sheriff, confiscat ed a 1947 Buick convertible and eight jars of non-taxpaid whisky last Thursday night in front of the Beaufort school on Mulberry Street. The driver of the car, Clarence Carter, and a companion, Andrew Norris, took to their heels and haven't been found yet, Officer Ayscue said. Carter's address is 304'4 Pol lock St. and Norris is from Cra ven County. Officer Ayscue said he stopped the car in front of the school. Car ter willingly let the officer search his car until Mr. Ayscue started to raise the hood. Then he. protested that he would have to get a key to unlock the hood. The officer said that no key was needed to raise the hood on that model car. With that, Carter and Norris took off. Officer Ayscue found the eight jars of whiskey on top of the mo tor. Luther Hamilton Jr. Has Doubts About Run-Off Sheriff Hugh Salter was nominated Democratic candi date for sheriff by an overwhelming majority in Saturday's primary. Polling more votes than any other candidate, state or local. Sheriff Salter outdistanced his two opponents with a vote of 4,005. Next highest candidate for sheriff was Ray Highsmith, Sheriff Hugh Salter . . . polls 4,005 votes Yacht Stormy Burns Monday Following Tar Heel Cruise New Bern ? A two-man crew on the 43-foot yacht Stormy, own ed by Dr. M. A. Fittman of Wil son, narrowly escaped death Mon day morning in an explosion and subsequent fire thft destroyed the pleasure craft. The explosion occurred at the East Carolina Yacht Club as the' Stormy was being readied for the return to Morehead City following the Tar Heels Afloat cruise. The captain, R. L. DeLoach, 54. of Morehead City, suffered painful burns on the arms. Willard Alston, 21, NVgro, sustained facial and leg hums. Alston was blown overboard jy the force of the blast. He was quickly picked up in a small boat icarby. "We had just finished refueling Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, June 4 10:33 a.m. 10:54 p.m. 4:36 a.m. 4:42 p.m. Saturday, June 5 11:26 a.m. 11:44 p.m. 5:24 a.m. 5:36 p.m. Sunday, June 6 12:19 a.m. 6:12 a.m. 6:32 p.m. Monday, June 7 12:35 a.m. 1:14 p.m. 7:02 a.m. 7:33 p.m. Tueaday, June I 1:27 a.m. 2:09 p.m. 7:51 a.m. 8:34 p.m. 1 at the dock," DeLoach said. "I attempted to start the port engine and got a backfire. When I tried it again, a second backfire brought the explosion. It must have come from fuel in the bilge." Both men were taken to local hospitals for emergency treatment. Nw Bern firemen, who arrived at the scene minutes after the ex plosion, were unable to halt the fuel-fed flames. Estimates of the yacht's value varied widely and ranged up to $20,000. ? Dr. I'ittman was not on board when the explosion occurred. "I'm sure glad he wasn't," was the cap tain's comment as he surveyed his own injuries. Two Superior Court Actions Settled Two suits in Superior Court were recently settled by the parties in volved and the actions were dis missed. In the case of Thomas J. Sparks vs. Blanche Mason and Elmer P. Mason the defendants agreed to pay the plaintiff $155.80. The claim was the outgrowth of an auto mobile accident Aug. 15, 1953 on the Markers Island Road. The clerk of Superior Court, A. H, James, has recorded that all matters have been "settled ami cably" in the case Dolan Godwin vs. H. Earle Mobley, trading as Mobley Buick Co. Morehead City, with 761 votes and G. T. Spivey, Beaufort, followed with 362. Salter was high man in all 27 preeincts. Highsmith failed to carry his home precincts in Morehead City. In the 1950 primary when Salter was elected to the county hoard of commissioners, he was second high est man in the field with 3445 votes. Highest man was Phillip K. Ball with 3.466 who wa$ running for surveyor against C. K. Howe. Next highest on the ticket Sat urday was Luther Hamilton Jr., Morehead City, running for solici tor of the fifth district. He polled 3,870 votes in the county and 8,841 in the district. Hamilton was nosed out by Robert Rouse, Greenville, who received 9,091 votes (these re turns are a late unofficial count). Hamilton said Wednesday that he was undecided as to whether to enter the second primary. Since contests in a second primary are few and of a minor nature except in Pitt County where there may be a sheriff run-off, Hamilton said there is the likelihood that few voters will go to the polls. Three others running for solici tor polled the following votes: H. H. Roundtree 5,472. J. W. 11. Roberts 4,728 and Cecil W. Bea man 2,209. June 26 Primary Date set for the second primary is Saturday, June 26. Third highest man on the ticket was Irvin W. Davis, register of deeds, who got 3,676 votes as against 1,183 received by his ofv ponent, Vivian Chadwick of Smyr na. Chadwick carried only one pre cinct, his own. by 17 votes. The judgeship was a close race. J. Paul Frizzelle nosed out W. J. Bundy in the district by 463 votes. Bundy carried Carteret by 563 votes but this was insufficient to offset Frizzelle's majority in Greene, Pamlico and Jones Coun ties. Judge Frizzelle and his canvass ers attended the Carteret Board of Elections meeting Tuesday after noon when votes were canvassed. Prior to counting Carteret votes. Frizzelle was leading by 1.026. The Carteret vote narrowed the mar gin. Carries Three Counties Bundy carried Craven, Pitt and Carteret. The Craven vote was Bundy 3,418, Frizzelle 3,074; Greene County, Bundy 995, Friz zelle 2,339; Pamlico, Bundy 703, Frizzelle 906; Pitt, Bundy 6,409. Frizzelle 5,983; Jones, Bundy 971, Frizzelle 1,220. In the United States Senate race W. Kerr Scott, former governor, carried the county, polling a 712 margin over his nearest opponent See PRIMARY, Page 7 Newport Honors School Safety Patrol Tuesday Newport School's 25 member safety patrol was honored at assem bly Tuesday morning at the school by the student body, the Rotary Club, FTA and the patrol super visor, C. S. Long. The Rotary Club gave each boy a knife with his initials on the handle. The PTA gave each boy a silver dollar and Mi'. Long gave each a miniature patrol badge. All presentations were made by Mr. Long. Thanking the students and teachers for their cooperation with the patrol during the school year, Mr. Long remarked. "We have re ceived more cooperation from the student body this year than any time in the past. Some few are still blind to the fact that these boys are only trying to help pre vent accidents and possible fatali ties. "We not only need the goodwill and cooperation of the student body to do a good job. we also need the help and cooperation of the teachers. 1 am positive, juduing from the remarks 1 have heard, the patrons of our school are very grateful to these 25 fine boys for helping to protect their children from traffic hazards at our high way crosswalks." He explained that the silver dol lars from the PTA were not pay for their work but a token of ap preciation for the patrol's loyalty and their interest in the children's safety. Members of the patrol are Larry Howard, captain; Albert Wallace, lieutenant; Tommy Howard, ser geant; Btll&Jjpil, Bruce Hart, Billy Simmons, Louis Kelly. Curtis Jones, Larry Wallace, Clifton Mundine, Joseph Williams, Terry Garner. Edward Corbit. Franklin Oglcsby, Robert Gar ner, Ganes Chapman, Gerald Miller, Dick Syme. Allen Ray Garner. Bob Reynolds, Johnnie Mason. Larry Kirk, Her bert Bell, Harley Garner, Tommy Garner. May Building Totals $60,400 Permits for new construction in Morchcad City during the month of May as issued by A. B. Rob erts, city building inspector, show a total of new construction, alter ations and repairing totaling $60, 400 The largest item in the permits is that for construction of the new A&P supermarket on Arendell Street at the corner of 12th. The two store spaces, one for the mar ket and the other for a drug store are listed as costing $40,000. Tommy Russell is erecting a shop in the rear of his glass shop bus iness on Shepard Street, cost 12, 400. Office buildings by Andrew L. Davis on Evans in the rear of the Broadway Cafe and a similar building by L. M. Stevens on Brid ges Street are listed at *400 and $450. New homes are being built by Stanley Woodland on 15th Street at an estimated co*t of $12,000 and Osborn Heater, Bay Street, costing $2,000. Repair work and alteration amount to $2,950 as follows: W. C. Edwards, porch $150; L. D. Gore, alteration to space in ice plant, $450; David Horton, porch, $700; Eva Bryant, repairs lo house, $400; Fred G. Lewis, porch, $300; O D. Alfred, addition. $450; Mag gie and Orcan Bell, repairs, $500. A garage by Ralph Collins, $200. Construction work for the cur rent year shows a total of $250,584. January. $65,000; February. $9,089; March, $66,650; April, $49,445; May, $60,400. License Revoked Herman Gillikin, Harkers Island, had his driver's license revoked recently in Brunswick, Ga., City Court for drunk driving, according to the State Highway Safety Di vision of Raleigh. Constable Smith Jenkins Morehead No 1 317 348 Morehead No 2 346 257 Salter Pith 150 0 Broad Creek " 124 3 i WiHwood 94 IT 9 *=Twiii ? ih? of J Results of Saturday's Democratic Primary in Carteret County Thii li the aaly
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