NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Ar? d.II St City iMITS CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "" 43rd YEAH, NO. 6?. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. AUGUST 17, 1964 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS T Theatre Group Prepares First Fall Production Ed Walston, president of the-t Carteret Community Theatre, said yesterday that the theatre is now preparing Its first production for the fall and will accept applica tions for sponsorship. Civic groups or churches which are interested in sponsoring the play a suspense drama, ahould con tact the business manager, Mrs. Wiley Taylor Jr., Beaufort, N. C. Mr. Walston said that sponsors of plays last season received a total of $1,100. The profits are shared by the theatre and the sponsor. The play now in rehearsal, sched uled for production late in Septem ber or early October, is 'The Night mare" by Jean Latham A drama in three acts, it tells of a middle aged couple who plot the death of an old man in order to get their hands on his estate. The scene is laid in a high-wall ed, pine-forested estate in central New York. Director of the forth coming production is Mrs. Carter Broad, Beaufort. The cast will be announced next week R.L. Hicks Will Leave Esso Robert L. Hicks, manager of the Esso Port Terminal, Morehead City, has resigned and will be suc ceeded Sept. 1 by C. L. Hoke, Char lotte. Esso officials said yesterday that Mr. Hicks, who has been with the firm since Sept. 21, 1945, ten dered his resignation, effective Aug. 31, "to pursue other lines of work." Mr. Hoke, who will take over as general superintendent here, was formerly terminal foreman on a pipe line at Charlotte. He has been with Standard Oil several years, working in Elizabeth City and Rockingham, as well as Charlotte. Mr. Hoke has been here this week and will bring his wife and two daughters here the weekend of Aug. 27. They will live at 3311 Arendell St., Morehead City. The daughters are Hannah, 7\4 years old, and Kathy, 18 months. It was rumored here that there will kt oth?? irf <4t>n?88 from those attending the birthday picnic. Mrs. Bernice Whltehurst, one uf Mr. Willis's daughters, said, "He really did enjoy the picnic. He atayed until it waa all over. He saw frienda and acquaintances who he had not aeen in years." A picnic lunch of fried chicken, ham. potato salad, cake and pie were served. Ptctan Published A picture of Bernard Leary, Morehead City businessman, fit ting John Tillery, Carteret County "Father of the, Year" with a suit of clothea, appears la a recent is sue of Jet magaslne. The suit was one of the prtsea won by Mr. TU lery in the recant FatlMr'l Day Supreme Court Ruling Hampers Local Law Enforcement Officers i ' Newport FFA To Send Boys To Convention Eugene Edwards and Ernest Wil lis will represent the Newport Chapter Future Farmers of Amer ica as delegates to the State Con vention in Raleigh Wednesday through Friday. Registration will be Wednesday morning from 9 to 12 o'clock. The first general session of the conven tion will be held in Memorial Audi torium at 2 p.m. The boys will stay at N. C. State College in Bagwell Hall. The Newport tool identification team which was winner in the Sea shore Federation contest last spring, will enter the state con test in competition with other fed eration winners from throughout the state. This contest will be held during the convention. The tool identification team from New port School consists of Allen Ray Garner, Thomas Gray and Robert K. Garner. Curtis Jones is alter nate and will make the trip with the team. These boys will have to identify (exact word usage) 100 tools, fix tures and accessories from a pos sible list of 230. Thomas Gray was the high scoring individual in the federation contest, making ' 86 points from a possible 100. The boys say they are expecting to ex ceed that score by quite a few points in the state contest. Ronnie Kelly, rising senior in Newport School will accompany the group to the convention. Ronnie is expecting to receive the State Farmer Degree in the Future Farmer of America Organization on Friday. Ronnie is the only boy qualifying for this degree this year from Newport School. This high degree can be given only at the state convention. The convention will close about wwn-rrHi)? *n?aimalely 1 ,100 boys will attend. C. S. Long, teacher of agriculture at Newport School and FFA advi? er will accompany the Newport delegation. Beaufort Band Director Seeks Girl for Majorette C. F. Jones, director of the Beau fort High School Band, announced yesterday that girls interest'. J in trying out for majorette .shall report to the Beaufort School audi torium at 1:30 p. Ml. tomorrow after noon (Wednesday). The girls must be in their freah man year this coming school term. No girls in grades lower than 9th will be considered. One majorette will be selected to fill the vacancy on the eight girl staff. Tomorrow Mr. Jones will give instructions on trying out. Final try-outs will take place the first week of school. Only those who at tend tomorrow's meeting will be eligible for the try-outs in Septem ber, the band director said. School music credit will be given thoae majorettes who also play ai\ instrument in the band but credit will not be given thoae who are majorettes only, Mr. Jones pointed out. Two Doctors Open Hospital at Havolock Havelock ? A new 25-room hosplUl clinic has been opened here with Dr. Charles Connors and Dr. Jack Gooding in charge. The new clinic has been hailed by civic leaders here. Prior to its construction, loeal residents went to Morehead City, New Bern, Kin ston or Washington for hospital care. Babies will be delivered at the clinic and emergencies taken car*, of. There will be no major sur gery performed. The clinic waa constructed under the supervision of W. T. Whaley of Havelock. Dr. Connors is a member of the staff of the Morehead City Hos pital. Tide Table TMm at Beaafort In HIGH LOW Tamtoy. Ai|. IT 10:01 a.m. 3:49 a.m. 10:19 p.m. 4:21 p.m. WetnexUy, Aa| II 10:49 a.m. 4:33 a.m. 11:07 p.m. 9:14 p.m. ThariJay, Aaj. 19 11:40 a.m. 5:20 a.m. 11:90 p.m. 0:10 p.m. Friday, Auf. 99 ? 9:11 a.m. UJ8 p.m. 7:12 p.a. Morehead Police Given Orders Members of the Morehead City Police Department were told to continue their present methods of arrests, except to get warrants for peaceful drunks, at a special meet ing of the police department, yes terday. The meeting was called by Mayor George Dill to advise officers as to arrest procedure in connection with the Supreme Court ruling on get ting warrants for persons commit ting misdemeanors. Solicitor Explains Herbert Phillips, solicitor of Morehead City Recorder's Court, told the policemen, "You should not make arrests for misdemean ors without warrants unless the act was committed in your presence and unless it means a breach of the peace." D. G. Bell, police commission er, said the Morehead City police men would continue their present method of arrests with the excep tion of persons who are drunk in public. A warrant must be ob tained for them. Policy on T>runks He said, "We haven't been ar resting the peaceful drunk any way. If a man is drunk and not causing any trouble we have tried to get him off the streets and send him home. Sometimes they won't go home, so we arrest them. The only difference now is that the policemen will have to go down to the police department and get a warrant when one of the drunks doesn't want to go home." Mr. Phillips said, "It's just mak ing your job a little harder and you're not going to get paid any more for it. It'll just mean a little more work for you until the legisla ture can meet and change this situ ation." Speed Limit The speed limit on the new sec tion of highway 70 which has just been opened west of Morehead City was also discussed. * Mayor Dill said that the state was to put speed limit signs there but ha m ? done so. He said that ths. speed limit is 35 miles p*r hour just the same as it is on the part of the road leading up to the new section from the business district. He said, "It's still in the town al though it probably seems to people that they're past the city limits." The no-left-turn signs in the bus iness district were also discussed. Commissioner Bell said the signs will be enforced when the stop lights are turned on. Fire Association Schedules Picnic The Beaufort Rural Fire Asso ciation will launch its 19M-55 mem bership campaign with a picnic Wednesday, Sept. 8, on the Bap tist parking lot, Turner Street, Beaufort. The picnic will be in honor of members of the Beaufort Fire De partment, Beaufort town officials and other invited guests. Members of the association will provide the food, toft drinks and ice cream will be served by the as sociation. Supervising the picnic are mem bers of the executive committee, L. D. Springle, chairman; Neal Campen, vicc-chairnun; Mrs. W. J. I pock, secretary'; John Miller, treasurer; George Broda, Fred Gar ner, Albert Chappell, Roy Keller and G. V. Troyer Jn The picnic will begin at S p.m. Coast Guardsmen Honor Lieutenant Members of the U. S. Coast Guard Cutters Conifer and Agaa sii gave a farewell party In honor of Lt. Allen Armstrong Friday night at the Moose Lodge. More head City. Lieutenant Armstrong, presently in charge of the Conifer, la being transferred to the Coaat Guard Cut ter Blackhawk in Charleston, S. C. The Blackhawk will then aall for Honolulu. Lt. Com. James A. VanEtten will relieve LL Armstrong. Seventy crew members of the Conifer and Agaaslx attended the party which featured a cake dec orated with a representation of the Conifer. Back-to-School Edition Will Appear Friday ? THE NEWS-TIMES will pub lish a Back-to-School edition Fri day. Appearing in that edition will be" news of county schools and valuable information for par ents on getting their youngster* ready for the coming school year. Businessmen and merchants of the county are helping parent* prepare for the school opening by stocking supplies and clothes youngsters will need. Messages from these mer chants will also appear Friday. Businessmen who would like their ad to be included in the Back-to-School edition should contact THE NEWS-TIMES of fice no later than noon Wednes day. Two Cousins Will Appear in Court Two cousins, Ernest Brown and J. T. Brown, both of Newport, will be tried in County Recorder's Court today on a charge of possess ing bootleg whisky. The two were arrested Saturday night by ABC Officer Marshall Ayscue, Deputy Sheriff Ormsby Mann and Constable Bill Dugee as they were driving on highway 101 toward Newport. Officer Ayscue said the two had come from the Harlowe section. As the officers drew abreast of them they tossed a jar of whisky from the car window. The jar, a half gallong container still contain ing some moonshine, was later re trieved by the officers. The men said they had bought the whisky at Harlowe and paid $3.50 for it, Officer Ayscue report ed. The cousins were charged with possession of non-taxpaid whisky. They were put in the county jail and released Sunday aftarnoon un der $25 bond each. Beach Police Arrest Seven Atlantic Beach police arrested seven persons during the weekend according to George Smith, chief of the Atlantic Beach Police Depart ment. Pfc. Joseph Kinley and Jake Allish were arrested on charges of larceny and Sgt. William A. Listner was arrested on a charge of care less and reckless driving. Kinley, Allish, and Listner will be tried in County Recorder's Court today. Slated for Atlantic Beach May or's court trial are Sgt. Romulus Ward, Sgt. Elmott Paule, Kenneth Wayne and Albert S. Ruch. Ward, Ruch and Paule were charged with using profane lan guuagc in public and Wayne was charged with disturbing the peace. Defendants not docketed for county court appear before Atlan tic Beach Mayor A. B. Cooper Mon day night in mayor's court. Firemen Drill At Water Tank In another of the summer train ing drill* the Newport Fire Depart ment pump operators met at the town water tank last Monday night. The drill covered hydrant hook-upa with the rural fire truck, pump op eration with multiple linea, and governor operation. ' Earlier the new hook up with the portable water tanks was dem onstrated. The Rural Fire Aaaoct ation recently received some hard suction hoses (or use with the for estry service water tanks. By us ing the new suction hoses, the rur al truck can "tie in" with forestry service water tanka at forest and other rural fires, according to Fire Chief Leon Mann Jr. The new system eliminates the need for car rying the portable pump when wa ter la needed. Firemen attending the demoa stration Included Lt Doug Hender son, Secretary Joe Jones, W. J. Kir by, W. L. Carroll. David Clements, Chief Mann and Wheeler Smith. ? Court Says Drunks Cannot Be Taken Without Warrant Law enforcement officers of the county joined officers throughout the state yesterday in throwing up their hands in despair over the recent Supreme Court ruling which pro hibits arrest of a drunk unless a warrant is sworn out for him. deputy Sheriff Marshall Ayscue said that the Supreme i qurt ruling, handed down July 9,-< makes it impossible for law offi cers to protect the public from drunks or drunken drivers. "If we are called to make an ar rest, we can do nothing until we Set the name of the offending per son, go get a warrant, and then | come back to where he was and if | he's still there, make ?n arrest," the deputy sheriff commented. The Supreme Court decision, which has municipal and county police departments tied in knots, was issued in the case of the State vs. Mobley. It states that a man being quietly drunk in public is not breaking the peace and cannot be arrested without a warrant. Being "quietly drunk" or driv ing while drunk are misdemeanors and cannot, like a felony, be curb ed by arrest without a warrant, according to the Supreme Court decision. In other words, drunks can pass out in the middle of the sidewalk and there's no way to get rid of them until they wake up, give the officer their name and allow them selves to be escorted to jail. W. J. Smith Jr., state highway patrolman in this county, said high way patrolmen may as well go on vacation because there's no way they can arrest a drunken driver on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Marshall Ayscue said that carrying "John Doe" war rants with them will do no good. He said such warrants, in public drunkenness or drunk driving cases, will not stand up in court. A John Doe warrant is used when the officer knows the man he wants, has some means of identi fying him but itt-ks the man's name. Sgt. Carl Bunch of the More head City police department said, "We can get up with a drunk driver, then go to the police sta tion and get a warrant, but in that time he could kill somebody." Harry McMullan, itate attorney general, and the chief justice of the Supreme Court, M. V. Barn hill, agree that "something should be done." Justice Barnhill says the Su preme Court ruling was correct in view of the state law. But he and McMullan think the law ought to be changed to allow an officer to make an arrest, without a warrant, for misdemeanors committed in their presence. Barnhill says the state's judicial council is drafting a bill to be preaented to the next legislature. It has been suggested that a spe cial session of the legislature be called immediately to get the law changed. Chief of Police M. E. Guy. Beau fort, said yeaterday in regard to the Supreme Court ruling, "It looks like our hands are tied." He pre dicted that unlets there is new legislation, crime will increase and "highway fatalities will double." He said, "A drunken driver ran me off the road Sunday but I couldn't arrest him. I later heard that another officer aaw him but he couldn't arrest him either." Col. J. R. Smith, commander of the State Highway Patrol, haa con ferred with the attorney general and hopes that patrolmen can be informed of an acccpted arrest procedure in tiie "not too diatant future." The city of Wlnaton-Salem says that the Supreme Court ruling does not affect it becauae its charter gives officers the right to arrest without a warrant in the caae of miademeanors. Member* of CAP Group Got Membership Card* Membership cards were distrib uted Friday at a meeting of the Beaufort-Morehead City Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol at the administration office, Beaufort Morehead City airport. No word waa received on the of ficial reactivation of the squadron, said Gerald Minor, public rela tions officer. Reactivation waa scheduled for Friday. Rotations Hear Civil Defense Talk Ronald Earl Mason of Beauiort spoke to Beaufort Rotarlana on civil defense at the Rotary meet ing Tuesday night at the Inlet Inn. Mr. Mason pointed out the Im portance of communications and police and lira protection in a civil defenae program for thii ana. Car ter *t'i laolation makes auch de fenae meaaurea aaaential, be re marked. The apeaker waa Introduced to Rota r lam by Horace LeftLa. pro gram chairman. Nina per >001 wan vktton. They war* Dav? Simmon, Wake roral; Boyd Palmer, Puerto Rico; Ted Jenkins, Burlington; BUI Sellers, Norfolk. Vs.; Selbert Worthington. Ayden; Gerald Hardin. Athens, Tens.; Dr. S. W. Thompson, 1. B. Plttman, and Gerald Mitchell, all of ItetbMd City. ?- ? ? . Beaufort Board To Meet Tonight Mayor Calls Session To Hear Protests on Putting up Seine Reel A special meeting of the Beau fort Town Board has been called for 8 o'clock tonight at the town hall to hear protests on the build- t ing of a seine reel next to the dock across from the postoffice. The town board, at its meeting last week, granted permission for the reel to be placed next to the dock during menhaden season for the convenience of boats tying up | there. j Persons living in the block near j the dock object to the proposal and have asked to be heard. The town board last week ap proved the placing of the reel by a vote of 4 to 1. Commissioner Gerald Hill cast the dissenting vote. Mayor Clifford Lewis said any one interested in the matter may attend tonight's meeting. Bank Official Reports on Loans 1 .? _ North Carol in* farmers contin ued to go mostly to the state's banks to obtain loans during 1953, according to 1 E. Pittman. vice president of the First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co., Morehead City. Quoting from the thirteenth an nual farm lending survey of the Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association, Mr. Pittman noted that banks were by far the largest lenders to the state's farmers during the year. On Dec. 31, 1953, North Caro lina banks had loans totaling $56, 399,000 outstanding to farmers; while the Federal Land Banks, the financial agency with the second largest amount of farm loans out standing, held $20,010,000 at that date. In addition to their regular lend ing operations. North Carolina banks also held $11,967,000 in Com mercial Credit Corp. loans under the government's price-support pro gram. That amount is not included in the $56,399,000. Auxiliary Adopts Official Uniform Members of the Woman's Auxil iary of Sea Level Hospital have adopted the official uniform of the National Hospital Auxiliary, a cherry red smock. It will be worn by auxiliary members while on duty at the hospital. Members of the auxiliary met Tuesday night in the Methodist Church at Atlantic. In addition to adopting a uni form, the members donated books for the hospital library, to be main tained by the auxiliary, and also contributed coloring books and crayons which will be given to children who are hospitalised The auxiliary will sponsor a benefit clam bake Sept. 4 at Smyr na School. Committees were named with Mrs. Headen Willis of Smyrna heading the tickets committee. The auxiliary will meet in the Community Building, Davis, for it* September meeting. Hoateaaes at last week's meeting were members of the auxiliary from Atlantic. S?ar? Roebuck Personnel Will Meet at Boach Personnel of the Havclock, New Bern, and Morchead City branches of the Seara, Roebuck and Co., will have a dinner meeting Thursday night at 7 o'clock at Captain Bill's on the beach. R H. Waddell and George Leon ard. supervisors from Greensboro, will present new promotional ideas. The meeting will be one of the periodic seaslons of the group ft this district.