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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??
43rd YEAR, NO. 68. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1954 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Drinking of Beer , Whisky
By Minors Alarms Solicitor
Adults Buy at ABC Stores
For Boys, Official Says
Cecil Pringle
Serves on County
FHA Committee
Cecil H. Pringle, Newport, is
the newly-appointed member of the
Carteret County Farmers Home
Administration committee, I. M.
Robbins, the agency's county su
pervisor, announced this week. The |
apointment became effective July
1, 1954.
Mr. Pringle operates a farm near
Newport.
The two other members of the
three-member committee are Roy
J. Keller, Beaufort, and Leland H.
Morris, Stella. Each member is
named for a three-year term and
one appointment expires each year.
No member completing a three
year term can succeed himself.
Every agricultural county in the
country has such a committee to
help the Farmers Home Adminis
tration county supervisor adapt the
agency's loan policies to local con
ditions including farm credit needs,
Mr. Robbins said.
The Farmers Home Administra
tion makes loans to family-type op
erators to buy, improve, or operate
efficient farms. The agency also
makes emergency loans in counties
or states that have been designated
by the Secretary of Agriculture as
areas where emergency credit is
needed. However, the agency does
not make loans of any type to any
applicant whose needs can be hand
led by other credit sources, said
Mr. Robbins.
Before any money can be bor
rowed through the agency, an ap
plicant must have the approval of
the county committee. In the case
of a farm ownership loan, the farm
to be purchased, enlarged, or im
proved must also be approved by
the committee, the county supervis
or explained.
Chamber Board
Names Chairmen
The Board of Directors of the
Morehead City Chamber of Com
merce selected committee chair
men for the year and formulated
plans for a week-long membership
drive at a special meeting Thursday
night at the chamber office in the
recreation building.
Committee chairmen appointed
were J. D. Holt, Industrial De
velopment; Capt. Bill BallOu. Ad
vertising and Publicity: Dr. Sam
W. Hatcher, Civic Affairs; Shelby
Freeman, Tourists and Conven
tions; Dr. Darden J. Eure. Educa
tion; Skinner A. Chalk, National
Affairs;; Bob Hicks, Transporta
tion and Communication.
W. C. Carlton. Agriculture;
George McNeill, Military Service;
The Rev. Leon Couch, Keligious
Welfare; Stanley Woodland, Port
Development, Carl Southerland,
Retail Merchants and J. R. Sand
ers, Membership.
The chairmen will meet tonight
in the chamber office at 7:30.
Membership chairman J. R. San
ders staled yesterday that the
membership campaign will get un
derway Monday, July 28.
Guy Hamilton Jr., New Bern,
and Wesley Jones, Morehead City,
met with the group to help with
information relative to the pro
posed power boat races for More
head City in August.
Police Apprehend Eight
For Failing to Stop
Eight motorists have been cited
by Beiufort police for failure to
stop at stop signs.
Apprehended Thursday were
Oliva l.awrcnce and Graham Lee
Davis; Saturday, Richard Gillikin,
Isaac Blango. Lillian P. Arring
ton; Sunday. Tindley Leon Welter,
Robert Dennis Jr. and Rufus A.
Harvill.
Kate Hines and Roy Chadwick
were arrested Saturday on charges
of public drunkenness.
Defendant Gillikin h
From Otway, Not Battle
The MacDonald Gillikin appear
ing in the county court news of
the July 0 NEWS-TIMES it from
Otway and la not conaected with
the Gillikin family of Settle.
Gillikin waa charged with being
dnink and poaaesalng non-taxpaid
whiakey.
* Wiley H. Taylor Jr., solici
tor of County Recorder's,
Court, yesterday announced
that drastic action will be!
taken against sellers of beer j
to minors unless the selling ;
stops. He said that two |
places near Beaufort are
known to be selling to boys
under 18 years of age.
Of equal, if not more importance,
he added, is the fact that children
under 18 are obtaining and drink
ing whisky.
"There are eight boys in Beau
fort from 15 to 18 years of age who
are known drinkers. I have posi
tive evidence that they are drink
ing and frequently they have had
to be put in automobiles and taken
home so they wruld not be picked
up by officers for being drunk."
Go-Ketweens Assist
He said that the boys are not go
ing into the ABC stores to get the
whisky but are giving their money
to adult men who make the pur
chases for them.
Girls under 18 are known to be
drinking too, the solicitor added.
But the violations have not reached
the stage they have with the bys.
Mr. Taylor said, "I feel this is
a community problem, not just a
legal or church problem and I
would rather solve the matter with
out taking the teen-agers into
court."
"I've discussed this with law en
forcement officers of the county [
and town." he continued, "and we I
believe that if any of these bys are
picked up for drunkenness and are
presented to their parents in that i
condition, the parents can take the
necessary corrective action," the
solicitor said.
Confers with Judge
He has conferred also with A. H.
James, juvenile court judge, and
Miss Georgie Hughes, superinten
dent of the welfare department.
An effort will be made, he said,
to get Information on the back
ground of the youngsters who are
"getting drunk two and three
nights a week." He added that he
was aware of the fact that some of
the boys may be from families
?where parental influence is of lit
tle value or in some cases the
mother and father may not be liv
ing together.
He emphasized that adults who
buy whisky and give .? to minors
are committing a crime and de
clared that he will file charges
against them if the practice does
not stop.
JC's to Honor
Betty Jo Ring
Betty Jo Ring of Lexington, Uiss
North Carolina of 1954, will be
honored with a fish fry and dance,
sponsored by the Morehead City
Jaycees. at Captain Bill's on the
beach, Wednesday, July 28.
Miss Ring will present a pas
sage from MacBeth as she did be
fore the beauty pageant judges at
Burlington last week. The affair
will start at 6 p.m. and continue
until 8:30.
The public is invited. Ticket!
may be purchased from Jaycees,
and at certain Morehead City bus
i ne;vs concerns.
The affair is part of the week's
vacation being given Miss North
Carolina by the Jaycees.* She and
her party are expected to arrive
Sunday.
Music for the affair will be fur
nished by John Osey and Bill Nor
wood, Morehead City.
Marines Count,
Identify Mosquito
Population at Base
Six Jersey light mosquito traps,
recently purchased for $300, will be
placed at stateglc points on the
Cherry Point Marine Air Baae. O.
F. Barnes, in charge of malaria
control, announced last week.
The traps will be used by malar
ia control this year in its annual
census and Identification of the
mtMquito population.
The trap is cylindrical in shape
with a peaked metal hood on top,
covering an electrical light bulb
designed to attract mosquitoes. An
automatic timing device attached
to the body of the trap keep* the
bulb lit during the hours of dark
ness and shuts it off at dawn.
The device Is to be suspended
from a support in such a way that
the bottom of the trap will be about
< feet from the pound.
Chief Barnes said the trapa will
b? in un for about three month*.
Receive State Chairmanships
P. H. Geer Jr. (left) and William Oglesby, members of the More
head City Jaycees, were recently appointed to state Jaycee offices.
Mr. Geer was named state chairman of membership and personnel.
Mr. Oglesby was named state chairman of agriculture. The appoint
ments were announced last week by Jake West, Kinston, Jaycee vice
president.
38-Foot Tarquin Rides
Out Gale Off Morehead
By RIP WILDER ?
The highly-publicized plight of
two Princeton students and one
Princeton graduate ended Friday
afternoon when the Tarquin was
towed into the Morehead City State
Port by the Coast Guard Cutter
Agassiz.
The 38-foot, ketch-rigged Tar
quin, earlier reported as the "Tar
Queen," fought off a 20-hour gale
HO miles southeast of Morehead
City Monday, while a Norwegian
froighter, the Concordia, stood by
in case of serious trouble.
Spiling the Tarquin were Jerry
Eckfeldt, 22, Dellport, L. I., Fred
Atwood, 23, lslip, L. I., and Roger
At wood, 21, lslip, L. I. Jerry and
Roger are juniors at Princeton and
Fred graduated from Princeton in
1952.
Bound for New York
The three young men were sail
ing the boat from Bermuda to New
York.
When they were 80 miles from
Morehead City, a gale hit early
Sunday morning. July llv They
shortened the sail to one storm jib
and started riding it out.
The gale tore the nameplate off
the stern and the three crcwmen
had to lash themselves to the tiller
to keep from being blown over
board, they said.
Fred said, "The waves were
about 70 or 80 feet high and full
green water was pouring over us.
Not just foam, but full water, we
took in a helluva lot of water."
At 5 a.m. Monday they saw the
Concordia coming through the fog.
Concordia Radios
The Concordia stayed by their
side while they rode out the storm
and it radioed Fort Macon Coast
Guard Station that the Tarquin was
in trouble.
The Coast Guard dispatched the
Agassiz but, before the cutter could
reach the boat, the gale had blown
out.
After the gale was over, there
were two days of flat, calm water,
Fred said.
The Tarquin anchored off Look
out and the Agassiz towed them in
to the state port. They said they
planned to spend a few days in
Morehead City before sailing on to
New York.
Fred added, "I think the whole
thing has been misunderstood. We
were in complete control of the
situation at all times. We knew
where we were going and we knew
what we were doing. We hated to
have to call out the Coast Guard
but we had to, just to be on Uie
safe side."
Restaurant Revises Plan
For Bogue Sound Pier
Fleming'! Restaurant and Tackle
Shop. Atlantic Beach, hat submit
ted revised plans in connection
with the construction of a pier in
Bogue Sound on the east side of
the highway bridge to Atlantic
Beach. Army Engineers announce.
Plans call for a 7 foot wide pier
310 feet long, extending channel
ward 42S feet beyond the low
water mark. A 120-foot tee will
be built at the outer end oi the
pier. The centerllne of the pier
will be located 120 feet east of the
center line of the bridge.
Plans for tbe proposed bridge
and results of a hydrographic sur
vey of the area may be seea
at the district engineers' office
and at the Atlantic Beach Postof
fice.
Car Damages
Morehead Store
An automobile ran into the front
of The Dress Shop, Morehead City,
at 11:10 Friday morning, causing
$150 damage. The car, a 1953 Olds
mobile, was driven by Carrie Davis
Smith, 619 Pine St., Beaufort.
It ran over a parking meter and
smashed into the Dress Shop, dam
aging the base plate on the ex
terior and breaking the display
window.
The driver told officers that she
was getting ready to back out from
a parking place in front of The
Dress Shop when a youngster in
the back seat of the car screamed
that she had hurt her foot.
Mrs. Smith looked back and said
as she did she must have put her
foot on the accelerator and the
car was in low instead of in re
verse.
Damage to the parking meter
was estimated at $90 and damage
to the car was estimated at $25.
In the car in addition to the d'i
ver were Hilda Hester, Newport
News, Va., and two children, Cath
erine and Romaine Hester.
Investigating officers were Chief
of Police E. J. Willis, Capt. Her
bert Griffin and Sgt. Carl Bunch.
Lab Can Now Accommodate
64 Persons, Say s Director
New facilities at Duke Marine"
Laboratory, Fivers Island, have in
creased the total capacity of the
laboratory from 48 to 64 persons.
Dr. C. G. Bookhout, director, re
ports. A new research laboratory
will be dedicated Saturday after
noon at 5 o'clock and will be pre
ceded by an open house for Duke
alumni and other interested per
sons.
Reviewing the lab's past, Dr.
Bookhout said,
"The Duke University Marine
Laboratory was established in 1938
on Piver's Island because Beaufort
was found to be a place especially
well suited for the study of marine
fauna and flora. The area had al
ready become well known through
the work of many famous biologists
at the United States Bureau of
Fisheries station, and even before
this by investigators who came here
from Johns Hopkins University as
early as 1878.
"Originally, (he Duke station
was planned as a place for students
to receive training and do gradu
ate work in marine biology. De
mand soon developed, however, for
facilities for investigators, and a
research building was added. Since
this time, 70 publication! have
emanated from the laboratory,
most of them since the erection of
the first research laboratory in
1940
"This past year 13 papers were
published as a rseult of work done
in part or wholly at the laboratory,
and these appeared in many of the
beat scientific publications.
"Sine* Beaufort is as well known
biologically as any area between
Miami, Fla., and Woods Hole,
Mass., biologists from varioua re
gions of the country would like to
work here, but because of lack of
research space, have been uttrklr
See LAB, Paga ?
Cars Collide
On 12th Street
Two cars collided at 12:05 p.m.
Sunday on N. 12th Street, More
head City.
A 1952 Ford station wagon driv
en by Augustus Hughes Davis, 1003
Faison St., Wilson, collided with a
1953 Buick driven by David W.
Freshwater, Morehead City.
According to C*pt. Herbert Grif
fin of the Morehead City police
force, the Buick pulled out from
the curb and was headed north
when it collided" with the station
wagon headed south. Damage to
the station wagon was estimated at
$200. Its owner is S. H. Anderson,
2503 Evans St., Morehead City.
Damage to the Buick was es
timated at $25. Mr Freshwater was
charged with failure to yield, the
right-of-way.
Power Company to Give
Salesman Vacation Here
G. C. Everette Jr. of the Appala
chian Electric Power Co., Hunting
ton, W. Va , after contacting the
Morehead City Chamber of Com
merce, has arranged to give a
week's vacation at Morehead C^ty
to its salesman winning a cur
rent contest
Morehead City's "Year Round
Vacation Land" bookleta were ruah
cd to Huntington Saturday to lend
incentive to the contest, said Ted
Davis, chamber manager. Daily
lists of catches of fish are also
sent to Mr. Everette who uses them
to spur the salesmen on, he added.
The winner will bring hit family
btrl in lata August
Chief Executive Points Out
Worth of Conservation
Dr. R. D. Wellons
To Visit Rotary
Club Thursday
District Governor Will
Pay Official Visit,
Confer with Officers
The Rotary Club of Morehead
City Thursday will be host to Dr.
Ralph D. Wellons, Governor of
the 279th District of Rotary Inter
national. who is making his an
nual official visit to each of the
43 Rotary Clubs in the southeast
ern part of North Carolina.
He will address the club and con
fer with President Robert B. How
ard. Secretary Delfido Cordova
and committee chairmen on Rotary
administration and service activi
ties, and on plans for the participa
tion by the Rotary Club of More
head City in the world wide ob
servance of Rotary's Golden Anni
versary, Feb. 23. to June 2.
Dr. Wellons is president of Pem
broke State College, in Pembroke,
l)r. R. D. Wellonn
N. C., and is a member of the
Rotary Club of Red Springs. He
was elected district governor of Ro
tary Intel national lor the 1954-55
fiscal year at the annual Rotary
Convention in Seattle in June.
He is one of 220 district gover
nors supervising the activities of
8.300 Rotary Clubs which have a
membership of 389,000 business
and professional executives in 89
countries and geographical regions
throughout the world.
Wherever Rotary Clubs are lo
cated, President Howard asserted
in discussing th Governor's visit,
their activities are similar to those
of the Rotary Club of Morehead
See ROTARY, Page 6
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State Board Hears Reports
Yesterday Morning
Gov. William B. Umstead pointed out that all of North
Carolina is involved in the work of the Board of Conserva
tion and Development as the three-day summer meeting
of the board got underway in the administration building
of the Morehead City Section Base yesterday morning.
Governor Umstead said in addressing the board, "Mem
Beauty Contest
Winner to Get
Florida Vacation
Girls Will Compete at 8
Saturday Night at Sea
Level Inn
The winner of the Down East
Beauty Contest and her companion
will be given a week's vacation
after Dec. 1, at the Palm Beach
Biltmore Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla.
The Taylor Brothers, Sea Level,
owners of the hotel, are giving the
vacation to the winner.
The contest will be held Satur
day night at 8 o'clock at the Sea
Level Inn.
Judges for the contest will be
Miss Ruth Peeling, editor of the
Carteret County NEWS-TIMES,
and Grover Mundcn. president of
the Carteret Broadcasting Co. One
other judge is to be selected
Entrants in the contest are Nan
cy Willis and Betty Gillikin, Willis
ton; Lorraine Styron and Fran
Smith, Davis; Shirley Pittman, Mer
rimon; Caledonia Styron, Cedar
Island; and Hazel Lynch and Va
rena Willis, Smyrna.
Dianne Daniels and Nancy Nel
son, Atlantic; Sabra Noyes, Sea
Level; Myrna Merrill, Gloucester;
Edna Chadwick and Jeannette
IfttitvMkst, Strait*, and Wanda
Brown and Rebecca Hill, Stacy.
There will also be a contest that
night to determine the county's
champion clam shucker.
Chairman of the beauty contest
is Roy Euhanks, Beaufort. Gray
den Paul, Beaufort, will be master
of ceremonies, and Mrs. Clayton
Fulcher, Atlantic, is in charge of
the staging.
Midyette Net and Twine Co.,
Beaufort, is providing the back
drops.
George Shipp Appears
On Shoplifting Charge
Tried in Morehead City Record
er's Court yesterday was George
Shipp, Morehead City, charged
with shoplifting at the Colonial
Store.
Robert Sadler. Morehead City,
apprehended on the same charge,
had his case continued until next
week. The two were picked up
by Capt. Herbert Griffin of the
Morehead Oty police force at noon
last Tuesday.
Captain Griffin was notified by
the Colonial Store manager that
the two men tried' to take some
wine. Sadler was released under
$150 bond.
Club ta Meet
The Carteret Business and Pro
fessional Women's Club will meet
at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, July 27. at
the Sea Level Inn. The speaker
will be Marshall Whisnant. admin
istrator at the Sea Level Hospital.
?bership on this board is not an
honorary position, it is a working
position. I appreciate the work the
board has done. I believe it will
pay dividends provided that each
of us realizes this program cannot
be accomplished in one year or
four years, it is a long-range pro
gram and we can't let up.
"Our natural resources must be
developed so
that we may
interest state
or non - state
capital in in
creasing in
dustry in this
state. It isn't
sufficient to
say that we
have these re
sources. We
Gov. Umstead should do
something about it," he remarked.
Governor Umstead concluded by
saying. "I appeal to each of you
to do all that you can for the de
velopment of the state. If there is
anything that 1 can do within my
power, I will try my utmost to see
that it is done."
Member Sworn In
In business prior to the remarks
by Gov. Umstead, W. Eugene Sim
mons, Tarboro, was sworn in as a
member of the board by A. H.
James, county Superior Court
clerk. Mr. Simmons was assigned
to the committees on Commercial
Fisheries, Advertising, and Parks.
Ben E. Douglas director of the
board, gave his progress report.
Division heads who made reports
were Charles Parker, Advertising,
Dallas T. Daily, Commerce and In
dustry, F. H. Claridge, Forestry,
Jasper Studfey, Mineral Re
sources, Thomas W. Morse, Parks,
Beverly C. Snow. Water Resources.
Inlets and Coastal Waterways, and
C. G. Holland, Commercial Fish
eries.
Mr. Holland, Beaufort, pointed
out in making his report, "We
have a tremendous reduction in the
catch of shrimp, also the price has
fallen off to about one half of what
it was last year ? the price being
15 cents with heads on to the
catcher."
He also said, "The production of
clams has almost doubled since last
year. The demand is better and
some Shrimpers have changed over
to clamming.
"Food fish fell off due to high
winds in January, February, and
March. White perch and herring
catches in the Albemarle section
were tremendous this spring," he
concluded.
In the fisheries public hearing,
several recommendations were
made.
Monroe Gaskill, Cedar Island, re
quested that the area around Cedar
Island be restricted for the fishing
of Cedar Island residents only. He
reminded the board that the peo
ple of Cedar Island had made their
living by fishing that area for a
long time. Governor Umstead re
ferred him to the committee on
Commercial Fisheries and Water
Resources, Inlets, and Coastal
Waterways.
Dr. D. S. Weaver, director of
extensions at North Carolina State
See C&D, Page 4
Fine Arts School
To Close Friday
Director Gregory D. Ivy
Expresses Pleasure
At Session's Success
The Fine Arts Summer School of
the Woman's College of the Univer
sity of North C arolina, will end its
session in Beaufort Friday.
A total of 87 students liave at
tended the session, according to
Gregory D. Ivey, director. There
were 40 children and 47 adults
registered in the various courses.
Twenty nine of the adults were
undergraduates and 18 were gradu
ate students.
Nine states were represented by
the graduate students At the un
dergraduate level. 15 of the 29
students were from this area and
five states were represented by
the other 14 students.
Mr. Ivey said, "This region has
been a happy choice. We have
been pleased with the climate and
the interest which the adults of this
area have shown.
"We have been especially well
pleased with the children's classes
and what they have accomplished.
1 thing it speaks well for the town
that the children have turned out
such fine work," he icmarked.
This summer is the first that
the entire Fine Arts Summer
School of Woman's College has
been held in Beaufort. In recent
summers the sessions were con
ducted at Burnsville in the moun
tains In the past Woman's Col
lege art classes only have met here.
Islanders Give
$85 for Spraying
A total of $85 has been contrib
uted by 57 residents of Cedar Is
land toward the mosquito control
project. The money is being used
to spray mosquito repellant, by
plane, from Beaufort to Cedar Is
land.
Cedar Islanders who contributed
are following:
Monroe Gaskill, Earl Day, Ken
neth Gaskill, Lewis Goodwin, Dor
ris Goodwin, Vernon Daniels, Troy
Goodwin, Linwood Goodwin, Tom
Gaskill, and Swindell Goodwin.
Royce Emory, Rupert Styron,
Harlis Styron, Herbert Styron, Leo
Daniels, W. T. Daniels, Janet Dan
iels, Perry Goodwin, Levi Goodwin,
and Mabel Daniels.
Luther Gaskill, James W. Lup*
ton, Fred Goodwin, Hugh Luptoi\
James G. Lupton, Norwood Lupton,
Julian Lupton, Eldon Smith Jr.,
Elmer Lupton, and Carl Bowen.
Clyde Styron, Clyde Harris, Riley
Daniels, Alton Goodwin, Hazel
Goodwin, John Goodwin, J. B.
Goodwin, Dora Day, Cleveland Dan
iels, and Alvah Goodwin.
Sam Styron, Mr. and Mrs. Wood
row Daniels, Jesse Goodwin, Ron
ald Goodwin, Henry J. Styron, Ma
dora Day, Lucy Daniels, John Lup
ton. J. W. Smith, and James W.
Gaskill.
Raymond Styron. Bugene Styron,
Dallas Goodwin, Dennis Goodwin,
Worth Harris, and Eldon Smith.
Spraying DDT by plane has been
undertaken by the Sea I>evel
Chamber of Commerce, as well as
spraying from cars and trucks.
Beach Residents Approve $50,000
Fire Protection System for Town
After a meeting of Atlantic
Beach property owners Saturday
morning, the Atlantic Beach town
board passed a proposal to go
ahead with a proposed $50,000 fire
fighting program for the town.
Thirty property-owners attended
the meeting at the Heart of the
Beach and gave their approval after
Mayor A. B. Cooper explained the
proposal to them.
Mayor Cooper opened hia ex
planation by saying, "We have an
outrageoua insurance rate on the
beach. And the only way to lower
that rate la to have our own fire
fighting equipment.
"We want to raise taxes IS cent*
on the 1100. With our own fire
fighting equipment, your insurance
rates will be lowered 17 cents on
the $100 and that means saving no
matter how you figure it," he said.
He also said, "You'll be saving
money and youll also be saving
(he beach. With the wind blowing
like It has been the beach would
go up in an Instant if ? fire got
started."
Hi that a bftpfj Istus
would have to be floated. The town*
would have to publicize the issue
for four weeks and if 15 per cent
of the registered voters of Atlantic
Beach did not sign a petition
against It, the isaue would be paaa
ed with no election necessary.
However, If 13 per cent of the
registered voters of Atlantic Beach
sign the petition, an election would
be held with a majority of votes
needed to pas a the propotal.
See BEACH, Page 4
Tide Table
Tides at Beaafart Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, July M
1107 a.m.
11:25 p.m.
4:97 a.m.
5:27 p.m.
Wednesday, Inly 21
12:00 p.m.
5:42 a.m.
6:24 p.m.
Thanday, July 22
12:17 a.m.
12:57 p.m.
ft
Friday, July 21.
8:33 a.m.
7:27 p.m.
1:15 a m.
2:00
7:30 a.m.
8:30 pjB.
Welfare Official
Speaks to Lions
Thursday Night
Miss Georgie Hughes, head of
the county welfare department, ex
plained the organization's setup
and work to Morehead City Lions
Thursday at a meeting at the Rec
reation Center, Morehead City.
Miss Hughes concentrated her
talk on the work of the depart
ment with the blind folks. It Is
this phase that the Lions are most
interested in.
After the meeting Miss Hughes
met with the club's sight conser
vation committee, headed by Vie
tor Wickuer. to aid the committee
in coordinating Its program with
the welfare department's eye ex
amination clinic.
Fred Hardy, club delegate to the
Lions International convention at
New York City, reported conven
tion activities to the Lions.