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W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?>< 43rd YEAR. NO. 64. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. JULY 6. 1964 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Young Bank Robber Arrested Here Jack Rowles, 33, Dies in Boating Tragedy Three Injured in Wreck Saturday Near County Line Fire Destroys House Saturday E. M. Foreman, County Forest Ranger, Reports Four Fires A house was leported destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon three miles east of Swansboro on High way 24. Morehead CitV police were noti fied by the State Highway Patrol, and turned the alarm in to E. M. Foreman, forest ranger at Core Creek. Mr. Foreman went to the scene of the fire. When he arrived the building was beyond saving, he said. It is not known how the fire started. He did not know own ers' names. Mr. Foreman also reported four recent forest fires. A fire at Open Grounds has been raging since June 19. He said the fire is under control now although there is still some grass burning. A fire swept over 140 to 150 acres on the N. C. Pulp Company property June 30. He estimated the damage to the property at ap proximately $1,700 or $12 per acre. He said it took six hours to get the fire under control. Other fires were reported by Mr. Foreman at Long Bay and Core Creek. Forty acres burned at Long Bay. The fire started June 19 and was under control the next day, he said. The fire at Core Creek was on the property of the U." S. Engin eer Department near the inland waterway. The fire started June 26 and it took the rangers three hours to get the blaze under con trol. The fire burned over six acres of the property, Mr. Fore man said. No buildings were in volved. J. 6. Sewell Loses Left Eye J. B. (Jackic) Sewell, Lennox ville Road. Beaufort, is recovering satisfactorily from an operation at the Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital. His left eye was removed at 5 p.m. (DST) Thursday following an acci dent in the Public Works Depart ment at Cherry Point. The eye was injured when Mr. Sewell attempted to dislodge a large bit from a drill so that he could replace it with a smaller one. He was working at the bit with a screw driver when the screw driver slipped and shot into his eyeball. The accident occurred about 1 :45 p.m. (DST). He was taken to the Cherry Point dispensary and then removed to Lejeune where the op eration was performed. Mrs. Sewell said that her husband is getting along real well and hi? mental at titude is fine. He i> to be sent to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda. Md . sometime this week, probably today. Twenty-nine years of age, Mr. Sewell has been employed in the Public Works Department at Cher ry Point since his discharge from the Navy in 1945. Weatherman Serves Up Hot Weekend Coantians and tourists alike en joyed a hot. sunny holiday week end. The fine weather brought out-of-towners to this area in droves. Most eating establishments were jammed as were the beaches, mov ies, and other places catering to the pleasure-seeking vacationers. Wind blew from the south west. Sundsy was partially cloudy with a slight rain fall around 8 p.m., said Stamey Davis, weather observer. The temperature stood at 80 for nwt of the Fourth cooling to 79 at night. Saturday'! high was 80 as was Thursday's. Fri day's high was 88. Temperature readings from Thursday through Sunday follow: Sunday Thursday Friday Saturday Max. Mia. 80 77 80 77 80 70 80 70 ? Charles Byrd Wade, 70, of 806 Bridges St., Morehead City, and Mr. and Mrs. Leroy C. Hand, Gates ville, were injured in an automo bile accident at 1:45 p.m. Saturday 500 feet east of the Carteret Craven line on highway 70. Mr. Wade, who was riding alone was cut on the forehead and legs and is believed to have suffered in ternal injuries. Mrs. Hand's right arm is broken in two places and she has cuts on her legs and face. Both Mr. Hand's knee-caps were crushed, according to State High way Patrolman R. H. Brown who investigated. The Hands were taken to More head City Hospital in the Bell am bulance. All thrd^pf the injured were still confined to the hospital yesterday. Mr. Wade, proceeding toward Morehead City, was rounding a curve when he ran off the shoulder of the road. The road is under re pair. Patrolman Brown said the shoulder is about a foot lower thari the highway surface. Mr. Wade continued to try to get the car back on the road and when the wheels finally regained the hard surface, the car shot across into the left lane of traffic and hit the Hand automobile head on. The patrolman said Mr. Wade estimated his speed at 45 miles 'an hour when he ran off the road. Mr. See WRECK, Page 7 Electric Co-Ops Will Meet Here The Tar Heel Electric Member ship Association will hold one of its twice-yearly meetings at More head City and Atlantic Beach, Aug. 45. W. C. Carlton, manager of the Carteret-Craven Electric Member ship Corp., has estimated that ap proximately 100 125 members from all over the state of North Carolina will attend the meeting. Headquarters for the conven tion will be the Ocean King Ho ted at Atlantic Beach. Meetings will be held in the Morehead City Recreation Center. Directors and managers of the 32 Rural Electric Cooperatives will attend the meeting. Discussions on management and electrical engin eering problems have been plan ned. Alton P. Wall, Asheboro, is pres ident of the organization. Rotarians Hear Army Engineer Woodland G. Shockley, of the Army Corps of Engineers at the Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg. Miss., spoke to More head City Rotarians Thursday at their meeting at the Recreation Center. He described the work of the station, in controlling inland wa ters. Mr. Shockley is in the soil division of the station. He is a former resident of More head City and graduated from Morchcad City High School in 1928. His mother. Mrs. Mary Shockley, lives at 1612 Shackle ford Ave., Morehcad City. He was introduced to the club by his uncle, Stanley Woodland, Rotary program chairman. During the business session R. B. Howard, club president, made< committee assignments. Follow ing the business meeting the board of directors met to plan the club program for the coming year. Visiting Rotarians were Mac Ed wards, Ayden, N. C : Sterling Woo len. Goldsboro; D. B Bunn, White ville; Jim Mason, Gastonia; and Robert D. Morgan. Islington. Mr. Mason had as his guest Gra ham Tart of Clinton. Color Map of Cartorot County Comti off Prou A color map of Carteret County haa been printed and distributed throughout this area. On the reverse side of the map points of interest and communi ties ire described. Also included are a description of the county as a whole and the recreational fa cilities found here. Copies of the map may be had at the Morehead City, Beaufort and Sea Level Chamber of Commerce offices. ? Jack Rowles, 33, E. Front Street, Beaufort, died at 1 1 :40 p.m. Saturday from over-exertion and exhaustion after the 21 -foot skiff in which he was riding sank in the channel near the Avia tion Fuel Terminals dock on Radio Island. Coroner Leslie Sprinkle said that the man's heart gave out after he had been swimming in the water for more than ai| hour. James Preston Fulcher, 31, Harkers Island, who was with Howies was rescued by the Coast Guardsmen at Fort Macon. An inquest on the Rowles death will be conducted at 8 o'clock to morrow night at the courthouse, Beaufort. Rowles' body was taken to Dunn Sunday and funeral ser vices will be conducted at 3 o'clock this afternoon. A veteran of the second world war, he is survived by his wife, Oleasa, and three children, Janette 9, Kay 4. and Billie 3. He was em ployed as a mechanic at the Loftin Motor Co., Beaufort. Rowles' body was found by F. C. Raymond and Will Dudley, me chanics at Loftin Motor Co., at 4:15 Sunday morning. The two men were walking along the shore of Radio Island looking for their fel low-employee and camc upon the body 300 yards due south of the radio station. The body was a short distance from shore in the water. Guardsmen See Lights Coast Guardsmen in the tower at Fort Macon saw lights carried by Raymond and Dudley flashing on the island and dispatched their 40 foot motor lifeboat with Chief En gineman Hubert Davis of Harkers Island in command. With him were George Wildenradt and Sonny Recek, seamen. The large boat could not go in to get the body, so the men took to a skiff, retrieved the body and took it back to the Coast Guard Station. Coroner Springle said that $1.70, a koiig, tw ? iill wowches and a screw driver were found in his pockets. Fulcher told the coroner that he came over from Harkers Island Saturday and he and Rowles left the old Coast Guard base at Len noxville Point between 7 and 8 p.m. They went through Taylor's Creek, the Beaufort and Morehead City channels to Capt. Bill's Waterfront Restaurant, Morehead City, where they had supper. They left the restaurant about See ROWLES, Page 2 Alford Perry, 10, Dies After Being Hit by Car Saturday Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Hyde To M ake H ome in A rizona Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Hyde will* leave tomorrow to make their home in Tucson, Ariz. Dr. Hyde has practiced in Beaufort for the past 29 years. He was chosen as Car teret County Doctor of the Year Dr. F. E. Hyde . . . leaves county in 1951 and has been serving as county health officer since the death of Dr. N. T. Ennctt last July. He has served as president of Carteret County Medical Society, is a member of the North Carolina Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Sea board Medical Society of Virgin ia and North Carolina. He was selective service ex aminer for Carteret County during the second World War and was head of the Beaufort chapter of the Red Cross for 15 years. The Hydes are going to Arizona in an effort to improve Mrs. Hyde's health. The Hyde homo, 210 Ann St., has been bought by Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Rose, Beaufort. B. J. May Lists Coming Changes In ASC Set-Up B. J. May, m inagcr of the Car teret County Agriculture Soil Con servation office, has announced that four major changes will be made in the election qualifications and duties of county and commun ity agricultural stabilization and conservation committeemen. The first major change will be to creatc county and community election boards which would con duct the annual elections of com mitteemen. Officials of general farm organ Izations would be prohibited from serving as members of county ASC committees. County committeemen will also be prohibited from acting as sales agents or employees of the Feder al Crop Insurance Corporation, marketing quota review commit teemen or as employees of their own county offices. Another major change would lifoit to three the number of coh secutive terms a farmer may serve as a county or community commit teeman. An exception to this rule would be when all three members of the county committee have al ready served three consecutive terms. In this case, one member would be eligible for election to one ad ditional term. These changes will go into effect in the fall. Roy Beck , Soil Conservationist , Leaves Carteret for Haywood County Elbert Gillikin Faces Charges Elbert Gillikin, Otway, has been charged with drunken driving and speeding as the result of a colli sion with a bicycle rider, Walt Da vis, at Marshallberg Saturday. Do ver Lawrence, Otway, who was rid ing with Gillikin in a pick-up truck, is confined to the Morehead City Hospital with a back injury. State Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard said that GiDiMn was headed north on the road through Marshallberg and Davis was riding a bicycle south on the left should er of the road. The accident oc curred at 6 p.m. According to the patrolman, Gil likin struck Davis who was riding on the shoulder of the road. After the collision, the truck turned over twice. Davjs suffered a bruised arm but Gillikin was uninjured. He was taken to the county jail in Beau fort. ^ Two Mon to Appear In Beaufort Court Today Two men were cited for Re corder's Court in Beaufort Friday and Saturday, according to Police Chief M. E. Guy. Clarence Owen Salter, 43, was cited Friday at 3 p.m. for running through a service station driveway. Calvin Stanley, 45-year-old Ne gro, was cited at 1 50 p.m. Friday for public drunkenness. Stanley wa* placed under (50 bond. On the M In the course of IT hours Satur day and Sunday, during the Coast Guard search for the body of Jack Rowles, Coaat Guardsmen at Fort Macon consumed 34 gallons of cof fee. Henry O'Briant, cook at the station, filled the two-gallon cof fee pot 17 time*! ? R. Neal Campcn, Carteret Coun ty's Supervisor for the Lower Neuse Soil Conservation District, has announced that Roy R. Beck, county soil conservationist, has been transferred to Haywood County. Beginning yesterday, David F. Jones Jr. became conservationist for Carteret County. Mr. Beck and his family will live in Waynesville. Haywood County scat Originally from Greensburg, Pa., Mr. Beck grad uated from Pennsylvania State College in 1841 in forestry. He went to West Jefferson, N. C? upon his graduation from college and then into the Navy. After being discharged from the Navy, he went back to West Jefferson. Mr. Beck came to Carteret Coun ty in August of 1947, succeeding Ed Bass. One of his major projects since coming here has been the drain age of the open grounds on Miss Georgina Yeatman's farm. Mr. Beck estimates that he has worked with 3S0 farmers in the past seven years in the planning and applying of good soil con servation methods He also esti mates that he has planned about 100 miles of drainage ditches in the county and about 100,000 feet of farm ditch tile. He has worked on approximately 20.000 soil con serving rotations, he said. Mr and Mrs. Beck have four children. They are Kathy 10, Tom 9, Nancy 9, and Christine 4. Tide Table Tide* at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, July ? 12:33 p.m. 6:16 a.m. 6:92 p.m. Wednesday, inly 7 12:38 a m. 1:22 p.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:46 p.m. Thaftday, My I 1:27 a.m. 2:13 p m. 7:46 a m. 6:49 p.m. Friday, July ? 8:42 p.m. 8:37 am Mr. Beck will leave for Waynes ville today. He will return to take his family to Wisconsin for a vaca tion. Their home at 2100 Bridges St., Morehead City, is being put up for sale. Mr. Jones served as soil conser vationist trainee in Lenoir Coun ty during the summer of 1849. He graduated from North Carolina State College in .lune of 19S2 with a BS degree in agricultural en gineering and has since worked in Carteret County with the soil con servation department. Mr. Campcn announces that he has been advised by E. B. Garrett, state conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service in Raleigh, (hat a full time soil conservation aide will be placed in this county to help Mr. Jones. Soil Conservation Service person nel arc placed in the five counties of the Lower Ncuse Soil Conserva tion District to help district super visors carry their land use and land treatment prowam to all landowners in the district, The daily schedule for Miss North Carolina's week-long vacation in Morehead City July 25 to 31 has been completed, announced Bill Norwood. Morehead City Jaycee in charge of the schedule. The schedule includes a photog raphy session at Atlantic Beach, a tour of Beaufort, port terminal. Fort Macon, and other points of Interest; a trip up the inland water way, a deep sea fishing trip, a trip down e?st. a cruise on the Dan co. and a tour of Cherry Point Marine Air Baae. Plana are under way to have a reception for Miss North Caro line with Norma Swinson, Miss Morehead City, as hostess. Mlsa North Carolina, who will he selected at Burlington July IT, will stay at Um Ocean King Hotel, ' Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. yesterday in the North River Methodist Church for Al ford Perry, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Perry, route 1 Beaufort, who died at 3:30 a.m. Sunday. He was struck by a car at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Burial was in the Ocean View Cemetery, Beaufort. Funeral ser vices were conducted by the Rev. R. M. Poulk, pastor of the Core Creek Church, and the Rev. Louie Lewis, pastor of the Atlantic Meth odist circuit. Alford was hit when he ran into the path of a car driven by Mr. Duffy Guthrie, 1609 Arendell St., Morehead City. He was at tempting to cross highway 70 in front of the Perry home, two and a half miles east of Beaufort. The child is survived by his parents, and six sisters, Mrs. Bill Taylor, Emma, Jean, Martha, Kay, and Nancy Lee Perry, all of Beau fort, four brothers, Pvt. James A. Perry, France; William H., sta tioned at Fort Jackson, S. C.; and David and George Albert, of Beau fort. Mr. Guthrie was returning from Sea Level with William Knowles of Virginia, when the accident hap pened. Alford ran into the road in front of a car driven by Mrs. Rena Salter of Davis, who swerved to avoid hitting the boy. Mr. Guth rie was following and could not swerve aside in time to avoid hit ting the child, he told State High way Patrolman W. J. Smith. After the accident, in which Mr. Guthrie's car was damaged, a passing motorist, Henry Bellamy, route 1 Beaufort, took Alford to the Morehead City Hospital. Alfr?r^ who was .reported to be sub-normal mentally, suffered a fractured skull, brain concussion, broken left leg and back abra sions, Patrolman Smith said. Coroner Leslie Springlc said the child's mother saw the accident and told him there was no way that Guthrie could have avoided hitting the boy. Coroner Springle has scheduled an inquest tomorrow night in the county courthouse. It will follow the Rowles inquest (see story page 1). Coroner Springle also pointed out that Perry's death is the third traffic fatality since Jan. 1. Agent Announces Three Meetings Three tobacco growers' field day meetings have been scheduled dur ing the next two weeks, announces R. M. Williams, county farm agent. Meetings to be conducted are at 9 a.m. today at the Rocky Mount Test Farm. July 9 at the McCullers Experimental Station, and July 13, 14, and 13 at the Oxford Experi mental Station. Tobacco growers of this area who attend, says Mr. Williams, will ob serve the latent research findings on practically all phases of tobacco production. George D. Jones, extension en tomology specialist of State Col lege, recommends that tobacco growers do not use Texophene as a tobacco insecticide. Aldrin, deildrin, endrin. and TDE insecticides can be used and will not cause off-flavor to tobac co, peanuts, or irish potatoes, says Mr. Jones . ' Morehead City Police Captain Assists FBI Lemuel Carr Tyndall Jr., 19-year-old Goldsboro youth, confessed in the Morehead City police station early Friday night to robbing the bank at Fremont Thursday, June 24. Tyndall was arrested by Capt. Buck Newsome of the Morehead City police force and FBI agents at a home in the west part of town where he was visiting. The name of me youin s nosis was not reveaiea< by officers because they said the people were unaware that they were harboring a man wanted by the law. W. A. Murphy, Charlotte, special agent for the FBI in the Carolinas, was lavish in his praise of Captain Newsome and '.he Morehead City police force. "Without Captain Newsome's splendid cooperation, we could have done nothing," Agent Murphy said. The FBI had no conclusive evi ('apt. Buck Newsome . . . helps catch robber dence against Tyndall at the time of his arrest, but a local officer could hold him 72 hours on an open charge. Captain Newsome and the agents accosted Tyndall as he and a com panion stepped from a skiff at about 6 p.m. Friday. The two had been riding in the skiff on Bogue Sound. Turns Pale When the officers told Tyndall. "You'd better come with us," he turned deathly pale but made no re sistance. Officers had been watch . ?k>ff through- field glasses for an ttmir before it came in. In the police station Captain Newsome said Tyndall admitted holding up the bank. The FBI had been following Tyndall for two or three days prior to his arrest. He was in this area most the time since the bank rob bery. The theft netted Tyndall $19,807. Sixty-six $100 bills were found in the glove compartment of the youth's car. FBI agents say they have recovered more than $16,000 of the loot. A 22-year-old Goldsboro man, Edgar Ellis Nelson, has been charged with plotting with Tyn dall to rob the bank and with help ing dispose of the getaway car. Held Under Bond Tyndall was flown from the Beaufort-Morehead City airport to Goldsboro where he was placed un der $25,000 bond. He was taken to a jail in Raleigh Sunday. Tyndall said he first got the idea of robbing a bank while he and several boys were talking about "easy money" several weeks ago. "It was one of those wild ideas that suddenly was a reality," the youth said. "Take it from me, it was the wrong thing to do." Tyndall said he stole a car in Wilson June 23 and went to Fre mont, vbout 10 miles north of Goldsboro, the next day to look the bank over. He parked the car out side the bank. "While sitting there I decided to wait unti^the next day to do it, but I thought I'd go in the bank and look it over while I was there. When I got in ? I had stuck my gun in my belt ? there was only one colored man there. A lady ask ed if she coffld help me," he re called. The youthful bandit, speaking See ARREST. Page 2 Jaycee Bill Norwood Announces Schedule for Miss North Carolina Atlantic Bearh, and restaurants in the area will provide her meals. She and her party will be allowed the uie of the Idle Hour Amuse ment Center it any time. The miniature golf course and rides at Atlantic Beach have also been made available to her. Free movies will be given her snd her party through the cour tesy of O. J. Morrow, manager of the City and Morefcead Theatres, Morfhead City. The complete schedule follows: Sunday? Arrival at the Beaufort Morehead City Airport and wel come by a delegation of Morehead Jaycees, followed by a police es cort to the Ocean King Hotel. Sup per at the San. dry Restaurant. Monday ? Breakfast at Hem logs at ? a n* Photography session on the beach at ? UL Lunch at Captain Bill's on Atlantic Beach. Monday afternoon free. She will be the guest of the Morehead City Jaycees at 7 p.m. at their meeting in the Hotel Fort Macon. Tuesday ? Breakfast at 8 a.m. at the Ocean King. Starting at 9 a.m. a tour of Beaufort, the port terminal. Fort Macon, and other pointa of interest conducted by the Beaufort Jayceea. Lunch will be at Holden's Restaurant, Beaufort. At 1 p.m. the Morehead City Yacht Basin will furniah a yacht trip up the inland waterway, with the afternoon reserved for picnick ing. swimming, etc. Supper will be at ? pm at the Rex. Wednesday ? Breakfast at 4:30 a.m. at the Busy Bee Restaurant. At S p.m. the beauty and her party SM TAC/ITION, Page ? lil County Farms Compete in CP&L Carolina Contest Forty two county farmers have entered the soil and water conser vation phase of the "Finer Caro lina" contest sponsored by the Carolina Tower & Light Co., ac cording to Roy peck, Beaufort, county soil conservationist. Of the 670.422 total acreage en tered in North and South Carolina, Carteret Countians have accounted for 60,594 acres. CP&L is offering $2,800 in cash prizes to the winners. Individual farmers will win first prizes oi $300, second prizes of $200 and third prizes of $100 each in three acreage groups ? 100 or less, 100 400 acres and farms of more than 400 acres. Two of last year's winners from Carteret County have entered thil year's contest, reports Mr. Beck. Major Simmons, RFD Newport, and Miss Gcorgina p. Yeatman, Beaufort, were winners in last year's contest. Mr. Simmons, won first place in the 150-acre class and Miss Yeatman won first place in the over 50Q*Cf* class. In Carteret County there arc 24 farms, representing a total acrcago of 1,052, entered in the contest in the under 100 acre class. Nine Carteret County farms aro entered in the 100-400 acre class. This group has a total acreage oi 1 ,652 acreas. Nine toupty farms are also en tered In th* over 400-acre class. Acreage in this group totals 57,890. District soil conservation super visors will assist in the judging, and winners will be announced early in 1955. 3-Year-Old Girl Eats Ant Poison Nancy Ellen Vietch. 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Klmel M. Vietch Jr., 203 S. 19th St .. Morehead City, was reported feel ing fine yesterday. The little girl was rushed to the Morehead City Hospital at 8 p.m. Thursday after swallowing some ant poison. Her stomach was pumped and Jjhe was discharged. Nancy Ellen swallowed ant poison that was on a piece of cardboard in the home, said Mrs. Vietch. Mrs. Vietch said she discovered her daughter swallowing the pois on and notified the Morehead City Police Department. Captain Buck Newsomc took the little girl to the hospital. Mr. Vietch is a sergeant of the Marine Military Police stationed in Morehead City. United Fund Chairman to Speak John Alexander. United Fund chairman of Raleigh, will speak at a Joint meeting of the Morehead City Liens and Rotarians at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Recreation Center, Morehead City. Other civic organization repre sentatives will also be present Purpose of the meeting is to di? cusa a United Fund chapter for Morehead City. Civio organizations planning to send representatives to the meet ing should contact Ted Davis, Morehead City Chamber of Com merce manager, to make dinner reservations. Port Calendar OT Barge II ? To dock today at Aviation Fuel Terminals. Came from Paulsboro, N. J., with a load of Jet fuel. Esao Manhattan ? Tanker sailed Sunday morning for Bay town, Tex., from Easo Port Ter minal. US8 I .a timer ? Sailed from state port Thursday. Gulf-Atlantic Transport Barge 1 ?Sailed from Easo Terminal, Wilmington Sunday monthly for repairs. LOT MS ? Sailed from (tat* port Thursday.
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