CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??'
43rd YEAR, NO. <2. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1954 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
NEWS-TIMES OFFICE
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County Board Says No to Request
For Reduction in Delinauent Taxes
The County Board of Commis
sioners veered from a well-trodden
path yesterday morning when they
refused to make an adjustment on
delinquent taxes.
Judge J. F. Duncan, Beaufort at
torney, appeared before the board
and asked that the board grant a
reduction on $3,213.51 owed on
the Cape Lookout property regis
tered in the name of R. E. White
hurst, trustee.
Judge Duncan said that the own
ers have an opportunity to sell the
property for $17,000. He said that
in the past $1,174 has been paid on
the taxes but the $3,213.51 is still
owed for 1935 through 1939 and
IMS through 1954.
Judge Duncan, who receives a
25 per cent commission for collect
ing back taxes for the county,
said he's been involved in Cape
Lookout land dealings since 1907
and this is the first time he's ever
heard of any of the present own
ers being offered "anything for
their property.
Commissioner Tilden Davis said
the Cape Lookout land is becoming
more valuable and he felt that no
reduction should be made in taxes
they owed.
The commissioners also said if
reduction in taxes were made in
this case, all the others who own
property there and do not pay
taxes, will want a like reduction.
The county board approved two
resolutions for forwarding to the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission. They asked the state
to clear out the ditch by the s>iUe
of the road which drains the road
and properties of 1. S. Alligood and
Roland Styron, Davis, and to widen
a two-mile stretcji of road in the
western part of the county.
Mr. Alligood appeared before the
bdard and said the ditch is about
700 feet long and approximately
165 feet of it has been filled with
brush.
Lionel Pelletier, Stella, asked
that the county board ask the state
to widen the road from Kuhns to
Stella since a lot of road equipment
is now in the area widening the
highway from Maysville to Cedar
Point.
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, chairman of
the board, announced that the Sep
tember meeting will take place on
the second Monday of the month
since the first Monday is Labor
Day.
The board drew names of jurors
for the special term of court which
begins Aug. 30 and adjourned.
REA Administrators Will
Attend Meeting Here
Fred H. Strong, deputy adminis- 1
trator of the Rural Electrification
Administration, and Ralph J. Fore
man, director of the Northeast
Area, both of Washington D. C?
will attend the two-day meeting of
the Tar He#l Electric Membership
Association at Atlantic Beach to
morrow and Thursday
Mr. Strong was appointed depu
ty administrator of the Rural Elec
trification Administration Jan. 20,
1954. He is a native of Minneapolis.
Minn., and was in newspaper work
in Minneapolis and St. Paul from
1921 to 1938. For 15 years after
leaving newspaper work, he was a
public relations counselor in Min
nesota, specializing in governmen
tal and political administration.
Mr. Foreman, a native of Homer,
111., was employed by the Central
Illinois Electric and Gas Co. as
an engineer and district manager
from 1927 to 1946. He was mana
ger of the Southeastern Michigan
Rural Electric Cooperative of Adri
an. Mich., from 1946 until 1948 and
came to REA in January of 1949 as
a field representative in the man
agement Division. Mr. Foreman
was appointed director at th?
Northeast Area in September pf
1953.
Directors and attorneys will at
tend discussion groups at the Ocean
King Hotel and the managers will
meet at Captain Bill's on the beach.
In the manager's session, dis
cussion will be centered around
power use and the directors and
attorneys will hear discussions on
the electric cooperative "in social
and economic perspective," say
program directors. The directors
and attorneys will also discuss rate
structure.
Approximately 125-150 delegates
are expected, according to W. C.
Carlton, manager of the Carteret
Craven Electric Membership Corp.
Signs welcoming the association
have been placed in Morehead City
stores by the Morehead City Cham
ber of Commerce.
Thirty-two districts will be rep
resented at the two-day meeting
which will be one of. two meetings
held by the group this year.
Agassiz Moves
Sick Seaman
James H. Smith. New York, N.
Y , was taken off the SS Pan Con
necticut about 40 miles from More
head City. Friday at 3:30 a.m. by
the Coast Guard Cutter Agassiz af
ter he had suffered a heart attack.
The Agassiz arrived at Morehead
City at 11:30 a.m. Friday and Mr.
Smith was rushed to the Morehead
City Hospital in an ambulance
which was waiting at the port.
Mr. Smith's condition was listed
as "fair" at the Morehead City Hos
pital yesterday and Dr. Ben F. Roy
al stated that he was greatly im
proved.
The SS Pan Connecticut, a tank
er, was going from Wilmington,
Del., to Texas City, Tex.
% Mr. Smith's family was expected
to arrive by plane from New York
today.
1 6-Ycar-Old Boy
Accidentally Shot
George Randolph Gooding. 16,
was accidentally shot at about noon
Sunday when he and David Perry,
alao of North River, were hunting
rata around a barn on the Gooding
place. Gooding was recovering in
the Morehead City Hospital yestcr
day.
Deputy Sheriff Bobby Bell Aid
the boys told him that Perry was
holding the gun. Gooding called to
him and aa Perry turned quickly
to bear what he said, the .22 rifle
ha was holding want off and the
bullet wounded Gooding's right
forearm and want into tiis right
to charges were filed againat
Parry.
Fred H. Strong Ralph J. Foreman
. . . REA officials attending session
Police Suspect
Hunted Outlaw
In Auto Theft
New Hanover County Es
capee Believed Seen
At Atlantic Beach
Charles Willard "Yank" Stewart,
who was proclaimed an outlaw
Thursday by a Superior Court
judge, is a suspect in the theft
of S. A. Horton's 1947 Chrysler,
Atlantic Beach Police Chief George
Smith said.
Mr. Horton, owner of the Atlan
tic Beach water syptem, reported
his two-door car stolen Friday
morning at 7 a.m. Stewart was
reportedly seen at Davis's Beach
Head, Atlantic Beach, Thursday af
ternoon.
Mr. Horton said he last saw his
car about 11:30 Thursday night
when he parked it in front of his
business place, Atlantic Beach
Sales and Service. He lives in an
apartment over the place.
An Atlantic Beach woman who
asks that she not be identified
claims to have seen Stewart at the
Beach Head Thursday afternoon.
She said she was working behind
the counter when he came up to
her and, pointing to the juke box,
asked, "Is thai a juke box or a
radio?"
She told him it was a juke box.
He then asked her how for it is
to Elizabeth City. She told him and
then he went and sat down in a
booth. He was wearing a dirty
white sweat shirt and brown pants.
In a few .minutes a woman in a
blue dress came and sat down with
him.
They talked a while, she said,
then he got up and left. In a few
minutes the girl got up and left
too. She was carrying a brief case
with her.
Friday morning she said she was
looking through a newspaper and
saw a picture of the man, identified
as Stewart, and she read the story
See SUSPECT, Page 2
Morehead Will be Departure
Port for Four Fall Cruises
Guard Unit Will
Organize in Fall
Plans to activate a National
Guard Unit in Morchcad City are
being carried out and it is antici
pated that the battery will be or
ganized in the early part of Sep
tember, according to Major Clem
ent M. Ward Jr., executive of the
196th field Artillery Group, Jack
sonville.
The North Carolina Department
of Conservation and Development
has granted the unit use of ma
chine shops located at Camp Glenn
and work is now in progress to con
vert the shop building into an
armory, said Major Ward.
The project is being carried out
by the adjutant general's depart
ment of the State of North Caro
lina.
Major Ward said, "It is felt that
the facilities ifi Morehrad City are
ideal, and the unit will be an asset
to the community and to the state
of North Carolina."
Playground Gets
Improvements
The Junior Woman's Club, Beau
fort. has carried out three more
projects in connection with their
Park By the Sea A sisn has been
placed at the (rant of the park,
a shelter has been built to provide
a shaded area for mothers who
bring their children to the park,
and the area has been cleaned up
in an effort to eliminate mos
qultoes.
Fred King, Beaufort, donated his
services in painting the sign. The
sign is approximately 12 feet long
with two and one-half foot high
letters, Park by the Sea.
The shelter will seat 12 people
and is 6 f*t high.
Mrs David Hill, president of the
Junior Woman'a Club, said the
town of Beaufort has agreed to
keep the graas cut on the prop
erty.
The club met laat night it the
Inlet Ion and discussed possibili
ties of raising more money for the
project. It was also pointed out
at the meeting that services of club
members ire needed for further
work on the project.
The Beiufort Town Board will
meet next Monday night, Aug. 9.
The meeting was postponed from
last night because Mayor Clifford
Lewis la in tkt hospital.
? Four luxury cruises will be eon"
ducted from the Morehcad City
Port Terminal this fall aboard the
Swedish ship "Stockholm," an
nounces J. D. Holt, port manager.
The Stockholm's first cruise is
scheduled for Oct. 16 followed by
others on Oct. 23, Oct. 28, and
Nov. 3.
The first, sponsored hy the State
Academy of General Practice, the
State Medical Society, will take in
Havana, Cuba, and Nassau, capitol
of the Bahamas
Sailing time is 2 p.m. Aboard
ship will be a buffet luncheon and
a "get ? acquainted" cocktail party.
Oct. the liner is scheduled to
arrive in Havana at 1 p.m.
On arriving passengers will have
an opportunity to sightsee in Ha
vana, visit Jai Alai games, and
tour the Cuban capitol's night
spots.
To Leave Oct. 19
The Stockholm will leave for
Nassau at 4 a.m. Oct. 19.* The
day will be spent at sea with the
liner arriving in the Bahamas at
8 o'clock the following morning.
A full day will be spent in Nas
sau, during which there will be a
sight-seeing trip, bathing at Para
dise Beach, plus a golf tournament.
In addition to golf, sports activi
ties include sailing, fishing, cy
cling, tennis and carriage trips
throughout the island.
At 6 p.m. Oct. 20 the Stockholm
will leave for the return trip to
Morehead City. It is scheduled
to arrive in port at 8 p.m. Oct. 22,
rounding out the seven-day cruise.
Passengers for the trip include
the following from Carteret Coun
ty. Miss Jean Bowles, Mrs. Elodie
W. Arthur, Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Phillips, Mr and Mrs Fred D. Poia
son. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Stroud, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Douglas Taylor, and
Mrs. H. W. Thornton, all of More
head City; Misa Georgina P. Yeat
man and party and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Davis of Beaufort.
Additional reservations are avail
able for North Carolinians desiring
to make the cruise, who "aren't
members o( the medical profession,
and who aren't, connected with the
medical society, stated Mr. Holt.
See CKUISE8, Page Z
Tide Table
Tides at Berafert Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Aug. S
11:08 a.m.
11:14 pm.
4:69 a.m.
5:29 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 4
11 49 a.m.
11:51 p.m.
5:32 t.m.
6:0B p.m.
Thursday, Aug. S
12:43 p.m.
0:11 a.m.
6:58 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 6
12:37 a.m.
141 p.m.
0:53 a.m.
7:53 p.m.
Coroner Reopens
Willis Case
Coroner Leslie D. Springle an
nounced yesterday that the case of
Otis Guy Willis, 17-year-old Davis
youth killed June 6 in an automo
bile accident will be reopened be
cause of new evidence.
There will be a second inquest
at 8 p.m. Friday at the courthouse,
Beaufort. At the first inquest
June 8 the coroner's jury request
ed further investigation because it
could not be determined then
whether Willis or his companion,
Roy Dav's Styron, also of Davis,
was drUmg the car.
Willis was killed at 11:45 on the
Sunday morning of June 6 when
the car in which he was riding
skidded and overturned on a
sharp curve east of the Smyrna
Creek Bridge. He was thrown
from the automobile into a water
filled ditch and died from a crush
ed skull, broken neck and internal
injuries.
Styron was treated at the Sea
Level Community Hospital for a
cut scalp and bruises. The car was
owned by his father, Roy M. Sty
ron. Willis was the son of Mr.'and
Mrs. Guy Willis.
League Official
Appeals for Funds
Mra. W. I. Loftin, executive sec
retsry of the Crippled Children's
League, hai appealed for funda to
finance the treatment of Hubert
Gillikln. Otway.
Hubert, who ia almost 17 years
old. I* suffering from a spinal ail
merit which has left him paralyzed
from (he waist down. At present
he ia confined to the Sea Level
Hospital where he underwent an
operation performed st no charge
by Dr. Herbert Webb, resident
physicisn. (In January jof this
yesr Hubert wss discharged from
the state hospitsl, Gaatonia).
Mrs. Loftin said the League for
Crippled Children has contributed
ss much aa its finances will allow
and hopes that generous county
residents will contribute toward
the bill for hospitalisation. To
date 139 has been collected.
"No matter how small the dons
tion la. It will help," Mrs. Loftin
said. Contribution should bo null
ed to Mrs. Loftin, Box 7, Beaufort.
Beard to Meet
The Newport Town Board will
meet at 7:10 tonight at the town
hall tor their August session.
Trustees Authorize Home
For Nurses at Sea Level
Swansboro Town Board
Okays $21,367 Budget
Swansboro's Town Board ap-4
proved a $21,367 budget for 1954
55 at a called meeting Thursday
night in the Swansboro Town
Hall. The budget is $3,888.95 low
er than the expected revenue for
1954-55, according to Mayor M. N.
Lisk
Last year Swansboro had a bud
get surplus of over $1~,000. Mayor
Lisk said the money was then used
to install water meters and effect
other water system Improvements,
also for the paving of roads.
In presenting the 1954-55 bud
get, Mayor Lisk told the board,
"It's your duty to study this budget
and make corrections where you
see fit. If you find any mistakes
please let me know about it."
He also said," I think we've been
extremely fortunate here in our
finances, considering our low rate
of $1 on the $100.
In the 1954-55 budget, the street
department was alloted more than
the other departments because of
the street improvement program,
the mayor said.
The street department was allot
ted $7,000. $1,500 has been ear
marked for repairs, $1,040 for
labor, lights are expected to ac
count for $960 and $3,500 has been
set aside for new paving.
Other major items on the bud
get were $5,022 for administration,
including the salaries of mayor,
commissioners, attorney, police and
clerk, and $3,200 for the garbage
department. Mayor Lisk explained
that the high budget for the gar
bage department was due to the
daily collections.
The community building was al
loted $2,150 and $1,620 will go to
the fire department. The extension
of the water and sewer systen* is
expected to total $1,500 and there
will be a hydrant expense to the
town of $875. .
In preventing the bodg<* for itie
water and sewer systems, Mayor
Lisk pointed out that die annual
operating expense is expected to
be $7,876.08. This department had
a bank balance of $1,916.20 as of
June 30, 1954.
According to the mayor, antici
pated revenue for 1954-55 is ex
pected to total $25,255.95.
Donald Taylor, commissioner,
moved that the budget be adopted.
The motion was approved unani
mously.
Mayor Lisk brought a request be
fore the board that a fence be placed
at the lower end of the sewer dis
posal plant to keep children from
falling in the outdoors portion of
the plant. Commissioner Taylor
suggested that Police Chief A. D.
Allen be instructed to look into
See BUDGET, Page 2
Lions to Entertain
Wives Thursday
Morehead City Liana wilt enter
tain their wives and guests at a
ladies night dinner Thursday.
The affair begins at 6:30 p.m. at
the Recreation Center, Morehead
City.
In charge of entertainment will
be Victor Wickizer, Fred Hardy,
and Oscar Allred.
Last Thursday the Lions had a
business meeting followed by a
board of directors meeting.
Businessmen
Ballot for New
Board Members
Members of the Beaufort Cham
ber of Commerce were asked to
mail in their bal.'ots for chamber
directors no later than Sunday
night. Twelve directors were to
be selected from a list of 19 nom
inations submitted by the nom
inating committee.
Ballots were mailed to members
of the Beaufort Chamber of Com
merce along with the July issue of
"Beaufort Horizons," the bulletin
published by the chamber and edi
ted by Dan Walker, manager of the
chamber.
Officers will be chosen from the
directors elected.
Nominated for the board of di
rectors were R. B. Adair, Billie Ar
rington, James D. Biggs, Billie Da
vis, Lonnie Dill, Billy Downum, C.
G. Gaskill, Clarence Guthrie, Wil
liam Roy Hamilton.
J. P. Harris, Danforth Hill, Ron
ald E. Mason, Gilbert Potter, Tom
my Potter, Harry Saunders, Cliff
Sherrill, G. T. Spivey, W. L. Wood
ard and Norwood Young.
By noon yesterday, few of the
ballots had been returned.
Contributions Will
Finance New Project
The board of trustees of Sea
Level Hospital authorized the
building of a nurses' home when
they met in special session Thurs
day night.
The home will be located near
the hospital and will provide living
quarters for eight nurses, according
to Marshall Whisnant, hospital ad
ministrator. At present there are
four full-time nurses and one part
time nurse on the staff.
Funds for building the home will
be raised by public subscription.
Mr Whisnant said that substantial
pledges have already been received
from the trustees.
In charge of contacting persons
for contributions is the finance
committee: Herbert Styron, Roe;
Harvey Taylor, Sea Level; Gilbert
Whitehurst, Straits; and ex-officio
members, T. A. Taylor and F. C.
Noyes, both of Sea Level.
The trustees discussed the loca
tion of the home and the floor plan
after a special committee, Mr.
Noyes, Mr. Whisnant, and Dr. Her
bert Webb, resident physician, pre
sented suggestions.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to those mentioned, were Al
vah Taylor, Julian Gaskill, both of
Sea Level; Nolie Fulcher, Cecil
Morris, John W. Smith, Winston
Hill, all of Atlantic.
Romain Gaskill, Stacy; T. B.
Smith, Davis; Wesley Willis, Willis
ton; and Roland Salter, Bettie.
The next regular meeting of the
board of trustees is scheduled for
Tuesday, Sept. 14.
Guard Unit Gets
New Equipment
Battery A, 295th Field
Artillery Battalion,
To Train at Bragg
Beaufort's National Guard unit.
Battery A, 295th Field Artillery
Battalion received two three-quar
ter ton trucks, one two-and-one
half ton truck and a one and one
half ton trailer Tuesday
The unit also received 10 rifles
Monday. July 26.
Sfc. Lester L. Hall Jr., unit ad
ministrator, stated that the addi
tional equipment gives the unit five
trucks, two trailers, 36 rifles, one
submachine nun, one 50-calibre
machine gun. one 30-calibre ma
chine gun, a rocket launcher ba
zooka an a 45-calibre pistol.
He said the unit also has one mo
vie projector, fire directional
equipment for artillery, a survey
set, clothes for 40 men and field
equipment for 45 men.
The unit will leave for two weeks
of camp at Fort Bragg Sunday.
They will return Aug. 22.
A four man advance detail will
leave for Fort Bragg Friday. Mem
bers of the detail are Lt. Merritt
E. Bridgeman, Cpl. J. T. Riggs, Cpl.
J. C. Noe, and Sgt. L. D. Hall.
There are 43 men in the unit.
Teachers Learn More About
Marine Science on Coast
While public school students are
enjoying summer vacations, their
teachcrs arc going to school to ob
tain new ideas for the classroom
when school reopens in the tall.
One such group of school teach
ers is currently studying marine
life in the coastal waters at More
head City. Aboard the shrimp
trawler, Edith M, they explore the
curios of the sea in search of spe
cimens to carry to their classrooms.
This expedition aboard the Edith
M climaxes a two-week course that
includes field trips along the beach
and sound, rocky banks, and coastal
marshland in search of marine spe
cimens which will aid them in
teaching natural science to stu
dents from the first grade through
high school.
Netted from the shrimp boat
are such creatures of the sea a*
the horseshoe crab, anchovies, man
tis shrimp, butter fish, sea robins,
and occasionally a sea horse.
From the rocks the school teach
ers get sea cucumbers, sea urchins,
star fish, sea snails, concha, and
clams. All of these go into a pri
vate collection which is taken back
to the classroom for study and
identification.
These unusual courses for natur
al science teachers are made avail
able by the North Carolina State
College Extension Service. Teach
ers from the mountains to the coast
gather at Morehead City to learn
.more about the natural sciences 4
which are so Interesting to tchool
children.
Their interests are partly person
al curiosity as to the habits and
habitats of marine animals, but
their aim is to learn to teach these
natural sciences in a manner which
will make the student want to learn
more about them.
The course currently under way,
running through Aug. 14, is Geolo
gy of the Coastal Plains and Ma
rine Biology and Conservation
Teachers are guided in their
study of natural sciences by Dr.
B. B. Brandt of the zoology depart
ment and Prof. Warren E. Steel of
the geology department of State
College.
Defendant Fined Only
On Recklessness Charge
Henry Merrill, in Beaufort Re
corder's Court last week, was fined
>100 and costs and sentenced to
six months on the roads, suspend
ed, on an amended charged of care
less and reckless driving.
It was erroneously reported that
he had been fined and sentenced
on the original charge of drunken
driving. Through his attorney,
Harvey Hamilton Jr., he pled guil
ty not to the drunk driving charge
but accepted the court's findings
in the lesser careless and reckless
driving charge.
THE NEWS-TIMES retracts the
original statement and apologizes
for the error.
Examining the ratch ?beard Mm ahrtaip trawler Edith M. art, left to right. Jack Stewart, Durham:
Mn. Catherine Hopklna, Inn Mull; Mn. Virginia Devrfaa. Wetdea: Billy Deuglaa, Weldon;'Mra.
Nadalyn Aimworth, New Ben; Prd. B. a Bread t, MM* Ceilefe; He Ira Jarheen. Wiaetea galeae; Annie
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Officers Recover
Norfolk Auto
A 1950 Pontiac. owned by a Nor
folk man, was recovered at 8 p.m.
Friday behind Ncedham Garner's
sawmill. Newport. Deputy Sherill
Marshall Ayscue said the car be
longed to the stepfather of the
youth found in it, Franklin Roose
velt Foster, 17.
Officer Ayscue said that between
the time he. Ormsby Mann, New
port police chief, and Bill Dugee,
constable, called for a wrecker to
move the car, Foster had returned
to it. He was found putting gas in
it when the officers came upon
him.
The car was reported missing
July 28. Officer Ayscue said Fos
ter evidently drove the car here
from Norfolk and called on the
Waddell family at Newport.
The car, reported to be in good
condition, is being held at New
port. With approval of the FBI
agent in this area, Foster was re
leased from custody.
Truck Hits
Store Front
A 1941 Ford truck, owned by
the Canada Dry Beverage Co., and
driven by Dennit Franklin Benton,
Jacksonville, hit the front of the
former Blanchard store. Morehead
City, at 10:10 a.m. Thursday caus
ing a total damage of SSO.
Benton explained that he was
pulling Into a parking space when
his brakes failed and he ran over a
parking meter and hit the front of
the store The store ia located
between the 9th and 10th block on
Arendell Street.
Capt. Herbert Griffin. Morehead
City Police Department, investi
gated the accident.
Newport Pastor Spooks
To Mothodist Men's Club
The Rev. J. Herbert Waldrop,
pastor of the Newport Methodist
Church, spoke on "The Art of Giv
ing" Friday at a meeting of. the
Ann Street Methodist Men's Club
in Beaufort.
Before the Rev Mr Waldrop
apoke, spaghetti and meatballa, sal
ad, poppy seed rolls, Iced tea, and
ice cream ware served the 72
club members.
Cooks were Bill Willis, John
Duncan. Gene Sealblatfar, Ralph
Davis, and Nick Simpson Maola
Milk and Ice Cream Co.. provided
ica cream free of char fa.