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HEWS-TIMta OFFICE 604 ArwuUll St. Monktad City PkoM 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TiMES ^ 43rd YEAR, NO. 76. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1954 PUBUSHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Borden Mace, Native of Beaufort, Heads New York Movie-Making Firm By RUTH PEELING They called him Bookie when he was in school . . . and they still do in these parts. But the young man with the bookish look put his mental capabilities to work and has sky-rocketed to the top in a career which the layman knows only as glamorous, fascinat ing, stupendous, colossal, magnificent. Borden Mace, son of Mrs. W. A. Mace, 619 Ann St.. Beaufort, finds himself at the age of 34 president 01 me KU Uti cor poration. the firm which made ' U?t Boundaries, Mar tin Luther. Whis tle ?t Eden Falls, ??Walk East on Beacon," and nu merous other movies of shorter length. The RD-HR C?r poration has just completed two new Picture-. ??Cinerama Hon day" and "Animal F?rm " ? "Cinerama Holi diy" sets a new mark in the film company's enter prises. It is their first m the media w h i ch makes members of the wd'ence leel as though ? hey arc partici pating in the ac The film. "Thi? is Cinerama," has played lor three years in ? lor cities in the United States and is still grossing , million dollars each month. u can be shown in theatres equipped only for cinerama. The new film "Cinerama Ho? day" is scheduled for release in No vember. \ two mnii?n dollar oroduction. it is RD-DR's first in technicolor. "Animal Farm" is an animated cartoon. The story was a Book-of-the Month club selection in 1947. A 75-minute feature, it was made expressly for adults. It too is in techni color. What combination loosened the tumblers in the lock and opened the door to success for this relative ly new film production firm? The combination is complicated, but two of its key parts are Louis de Rochement ? and Borden Mace. Mr. deRochement was the originator of the March of Time, the first newsreel which made use of actual on-the-spot film to tell a story. He later rose to suc cess as a Hollywood producer. Under contract to firms on the West Coast, he de cided at the end of the second world war to launch into movie production on his own. Out of the war came many films of actual battle. Most producers did not have the know-how to make use of them, but Borden Mace . . believes in dramatizing truth on film deRochement, experienced at turning day's events into stirring tales for the screen, realized the oppor tunity they presented. Under his skillful handling, actual combat films were used to J>ring to the screen the academy award winner, "The Fighting Lady." When deRochement decided to launch his own enterprise, he remembered a young officer he met on the aircraft carrier USS nconaeroga dur ing the filming of 'The Fighting Lady." That officer was Lt. Borden Mace, who after his Na vy career had ac cepted a position 'with the commun ications center, University of North Carolina. Not having actu ally started hi? new civilian job. Mr. Mace accept ed an invitation from Mr. de Rochementto come to New York to talk about "an exciting new educational project." That was a turn ing point in the former Navy of ficer's career. "De Rochement's plans were so challenging that 1 called UNC and told them that I wouldn't be tak ing the job there," says Mr. Mace. Instead, he be came the first em ployee of the de Rochement cor poration which had as its first project the mak ing of 36 films on human geography. The films were educational. Aim ed at fifth and sixth grade audi ences, each was designed to illustrate a basic concept, for example, the film on the southwest desert area of the United States showed that water is essential to life. The 36 films were shot in all parts of the world. - v ? ? Mr. Mace's four years in economics and commerce at Chapel Hill, his alert interest in ideas, education and philosophy, tempered with the quality of being able to fit these ideas into the practical everyday world, made him a key part of the new enterprise. Add to those qualities the fact that he had experience in photography and picture interpretation in the Navy and you have the reasons for his success in the movie production business. Turns to Features Following the production of the geography films, deRochement turned to full-length features. One night some students from the University of New See BORDEN MACE, Page 2 Newly-Enlarged Morehead Firm Stages Open House 1-H Farmers to See Demonstration Farmers of the county have been invited to a sweet potato harvest ing and field grading demonstra tion at 9:30 Thursday morning on the farm of Roy Keller. Bettie. Mr. Keller's farm is located 8 4 miles east of Beaufort on highway 70. Henry Covington, horticultural extension specialist of State Col lege will assist with the potato har vesting demonstration. Both the Howard and the new Clemson pota to digger will be used. George Ab shier. marketing specialist with the farm management department in Raleigh will demonstrate the cor rect method of field grading and handling potatoes. Mr. Keller has eight acres of the new Gold Rush variety of sweet potatoes that can be compared with the Louisiana strain of the Porto Rica variety, according to R. M. Williams, county agent. This va riety is said to have better eating qualities. It has a very rich look ing orange color and contain* a higher vitamin A content. A sweet potato fertiliier demon stration is also beine conducted on the Keller farm this year, the county agent added. Motorist Thanks Police For R ?covering Auto Wilbur Merrill, Olway, yesterday expressed appreciation to the More head City police foroe for recover ing his car which was stolen Sun day afternoon. Mr. Merrill said h? had parked the car, a 1091 Ford eonvertible, on 7th Street while he went to the movies. It waa stolen sometime be tween 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. The police found It Sunday night in good condition, minus only the tank of gas and a quart of oil, Mr. Merrill said ? Hardware and Building Supply Co., 8th and Arendell Streets, Morehead City, is holding open house this week to display its new sporting goods department and its completely renovated and en larged quarters. Ground floor space as well as second story space has been in creased from 2,700 square feel to 4,500 square feet and stocked with hundreds of items not formerly found In the store. The iporting goods department carries virtually every sporting item used in Carteret County, ac cording to J. Frank Cheek who with P. A. Durham, is principal owner of the store "Mr. Durham and I have under taken the job of providing the county with a sporting goods de partment equal to its needs. The stock is comprised of nationally advertised merchandise We will have no second rate, oft brand stuff in the lot. "We are prepared to serve the sporting goods needs of our schools as well as every individual need," Mr. Cheek said. One of the store's unusual fea tures is a soda fountain. Anoth er is its cosmetic and sundry de partment. Its toy department is the largest in the county, Mr. Cheek believes. All the usual items to be found in a hardware store are in stock as well as several hundred other items not usually stocked. "Mr. Durham and I have spent months in planning the enlarged Hardware and Building Supply Co. .We made trips to principal cities in thia and neighboring states and studied sporting goods "stores and hardware stores," Mr. Cheek said. Mr. Cheek and Mr. Durham bought Hardware and Building Supply Co. in June 1B92. They were formerly in the lumber bus iness in Greensboro. Mr. Cheek was recently appointed to the More head City Recreation Commis sion Both are members of the First Baptist Church. Sailor Held Under $350 Bond Buddy L. Prince, USN, was bound over to Superior Court un der a bond of $350 after probable cause was found in Morehead City Recorder's Court yesterday. Prince was charged with the larceny of a 1952 Ford belonging to Edward L. Faucette, Morehead City. Raymond D. Weaver and Thomas E. Brewinglon were witnesses in the hearing. They hdd been given preliminary hearings in Morehead City court last Monday and were bound over to Superior Court un der $350 bond each on charges of auto theft. Prince was not at the hearing last week because he was being held in Greenville on another charge of auto theft. He was then turned over to military authorities and brought to the Morehead City court yesterday. Weaver stated that he saw the brown 1952 Ford in question Sept. 8 and that Prince was in it. Weaver and Brewington both testified that they jumped ship in Morehead City and were hitchhik ing to Norfolk to turn themselves in when Prince picked them up in the Ford. According to testimony, Prince abandoned the car in Greenville and Weaver and Brewington took ft on to Enfield where thev ran out of gas and were picked up by police officers who recognized the car. Tide Table Tides at (be Beaufort Bar HIGH tOW | Tuesday, Sept. 21 3:09 a.m. 9:24 a.m. I 3:47 p.m. 10:22 p.m. Wedaeaday, Sept. 22 4:19 a m 10:33 a.m. | 4:49 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23 5:19 a.m. 11:19 a.m. | 5:44 p.m. 11:34 p.m. Friday, Sept 24 0:11 a.m. 12:0? a.m. 6:90 p.m. 1X37 p.m. I Coastal Hitfiway President Speaks At Friday Session Alvah Hamilton, More head, Says Cooperation Will Mean Success Alvah Hamilton, Morehead City, president of the All-Seashore High way Association, told representa tives of coastal communities Fri day at Carolina Beach that the cooperation of everyone would help make the outer banks highway a reality. "It's the greatest thing that could happen to this section," the pres ident d e c a r e d. One hundred twenty-five persons attended the di vision three meeting of the associa tion at the Carolina Beach city hall. Among those from this county were James D. Potter, Norwood Young, Dan Walker, all of Beau fort; Monroe Gaskill, Cedar Island; J. A. DuBois, Sea Level; and Dr John Morris and Ted Davis, More head City. Pleased with Response Mr. Hamilton was pleased with the enthusiasm shown at the meet ing. Ben Douglas, director of the Department of Conservation and Development and General Assem blyman F. Ertel Carlyle said that the group was on the "right road" to success. The C&D director reported that the tourist business is the State's fourth largest industry and that it is now worth $350 million a year. He said that an effective promo tion program, including such things as the proposed coastal road and a campaign to make the State known as the "Friendly State," could double the value of the industry. Efforts Praised Both Douglas and Carlyle praised the efforts of the coastal section in trying to improve the tourist trade and they shared the same views on Federal aid for such projects. Douglas said he wished the Federal Government would use some of the money now appropriated for foreign aid to help with public projects. Carlyle sec onded his remark and added that too many U. S. tax dollars are be ing used to build highways in for eign countries. ^ Urging the delegates not to underestimate the potential value of this tourist trade, Douglas said his department was interested in the work of the association because it would help build up the State's tourist trade as a whole. President Hamilton said that there will be another coastal high way association at New Bern in the near future. Toastmaster Clubs Praised High Point ? Dr. Murray Sen kus, Governor of District of the Carolina^ 37 of Toastmasters In ternational heaped praise Sunday upon Area 1 of which Carteret is a part. "This, area," he said, "has con tributed more to the Toastmasters organization in the past year than any other area. It is so large (in number of clubs) that we are now splitting it along White Oak River and making two areas from it. Area 1 with Col. Fenwick Holmes of Camp Lejeune as Gov ernor will be south of the river while former Area 1 with Governor Elbert Waai will have the newly tormed area 8." The Carteret County Club is now in Area 8. The statement was made at the District Council Meeting at the Sheraton Hotel. International Di rector Bob Wood. Raleigh, deliv ered the keynote address. Appearing on the program in ad dition to Governor Senkus of Win ston-Salem were all area governor* and District Education Chairman Ted Davis, Morehead City. Dep uty Governor Jerry Schumacher ol Carteret Club 1834 also took part. Durham was chosen for the Nov. 13 educational meeting while Win ston-Salem was chosen for the dis trict speech contest in the spring. More than 100 toastmasters at tended the meeting. New Rotations Get Rotary Instructions An orientation program for new i members was given at the Thurs day night meeting of the Morehead City Rotary Club at Fleming's Rest aurant. Stanley Woodland, Morehead City, past district governor, gave the program. He told of the his tory and aims of the Rotary Club and what is expected of members of the club. After the program, new members were presented with pins, a foor way test desk plaque, and a book let. "Service la My Business." New members are John Phillips, Theodore Phillips. Tommy Russell, G. E. Sanderson. Clyde Cur, and W. C. Matthews it. Beach Board Plans Session With Irate Land Owners Sailor Put undsr $5,000 Bond for Rap? Attempt Ronald St. Cyr, a sailor from the USS Navarro, a Navy trans port tied up at Morehead City , this weekend, was put under $5,000 bond in Morehead City Recorder s Court yesterday. He was charged with breaking and entering, attempt to rape and was bound over to Superior Court. In a preliminary hearing be fore Judge George McNeill. Mrs. Charles Broadhurst, 1706 Fvans St., Morehead City, testified that St. Cyr entered her home Sunday night and attacked her. After the hearing, the sailor was tranftferrcd to the county jail in Beaufort. Morehead Town Board Discusses Parking Problem The parking problem in More head City was discussed by the Morehead City Town Board at its regular meeting Thursday night at the municipal building. I). G. Bell, mayor pro-tcm, pre sided in the absence of Mayor (ieorge Dill who was in Raleigh. The parking problem on 10th Street between Evans and Aren dell Streets was brought to the ittention of the board by Mr. Bell The board decided to allow park ing only on the west side of the street. It was also decided that a no parking zone is to be established on the west side of 11th Street be tween Bridges and A r e n d e 1 1 Streets. The commissioners discussed the parking problem in front of the postoffice. Mr. Bell said that the double pa-king in front of the posioffoc creates a hazard but double park ing Wouldn't be necessary if the 12 minute parking rule were enforced. He said most of the people who park their cars in the 12-minute zone go to the movies. Parki ig in front of the postoffice couM be handled two ways, he 'suggested. One would be to take the* heads of the meters off and put i?p signs saying that there is only 2 minute parking in that zone rom 8 a m. until 10 p.m. He said th? only way to enforce that would be to have a policeman there, marking tires. The other way would be to en force the present 12-minute reg ulation, he said. He expressed the belief that the last way would be the best. The board decided to leave the meters there and put signs on five of the meters saying that the zone is enforced until 10 p.m. John Lashley, town clerk, read a letter from the Morehead City Lions Club which said that street marker posts have been purchased by the club. The letter asked the town to furnish the labor for put ting up the markers. The board granted the request. See BOARD, Page 4 ? Commissione On Record j Women Taken Into Custody In Wednesday Raid Mrs. David R. Kelly, Galax, Va., and Miss Peggy Canady, Memphis, Tenn., were taken into custody by county officers when their house off the Mill Creek Road was raided Wednesday night. Sheriff Hugh Salter said the wo men are being held in the county jail under $500 bond each. They are charged with running a bawdy house, using profane language, dis turbing the peace, and destroying personal property. The sheriff said the two women "fussed, cussed, cried and holler ed" when he and two deputy sher iffs, Marshall Ayscue and Bobby Bell broke up a party they were having with two Marines. The Marines were not taken into cus tody. The raid took place at 9:30. Sher riff Salter said that neighbors in the area have been complaining about the disturbances at the house which is located on a dirt road off the Mill Creek Road He said the place is not owned by the women, but rented from Leon Graham. The women have been raising a rumpus almost constantly since they have been in jail, the sheriff reported. They will be tried in County Recorder's Court this morn ing. 12 More Men Join Association Twelve new members were added to the Carteret Community Hospit al Association at the recent meet ing at Harkers Island School. They arc A. Braxton Taylor, K. W. Gaskill, both of Sea Level; Al vin Harris, Atlantic; Alton Mason, George M. Rose, Henry Davis, George T. Willis, Walter M. Yeo mans, Stacy Guthrie Jr., John L. Fluhart, Howard Gaskill, and Le land G. Yeomans, all of Harkers Island . H. C. Taylor, president, appoint ed additional committee members as follows: project committee, Mr. Harris of Atlantic; Arthur Mason, Bettie, and George M. Hose, Hark ers Island; membership, Allen Ma son, Harkers Island. The association has established a relief fund and voted that none of the fund should be spent until there was a balance of at least $500. Following a discussion on repayment of loans from the fund, it was decided that those receiving aid should repay the loans "when physically and financially able." The next meeting will take place Saturday, Oct. 9, at Atlantic. rs Go Against Pier " The Atlantic Beach town board, in session Saturday morning. at the Ocean Kin# Hotel, decided to invite the residents of the area between the northern town limits and tiogue Sound to meet with them in an attempt to iron out the "apparent misunder standings" of the two groups. No meeting date was set. Thev also passed a resolution against a proposed ocean fishing pier. The town attempted to annex new territory in August but the residents secured a restraining or der against the annexation. Later several of the residents wrote a letter which was published in THE NEWS-TIMES. The residents who signed the let ter protested the voting system in which property owners are allowed mail-in ballots. They also hinted at mis-use of Powell Bill funds for the paving of roads. Mayor Cooper said, "I'm sorry they have taken this attitude but this matter about our using town funds to pave my streets is abso lutely erroneous." Commissioner J. C. Lanier back ed up Mayor Cooper when he told the board and newspaper reporters present, "I was asked to be on the board. The town needed lights, fire protection, police protection and other benefits which make the beach a better place for my family to come. We've given the town these things and I feel that we have accomplished a lot. And be cause of this feeling I Ipvc 1 will continue to keep on working on the town board at my own ex pense." r He added. "Mayor Cooper has never taken advantage of his posi tion for personal (sin. He's one of ibe ^JiWic jipinted persons The members of the board all agreed with Mr. Lanier's statement. Explains Map Use Mayor Cooper explained that the town used a map approved by ad ministrators of the Powell Bill fund in applying for the next year's appropriation. He said that map includes the area under dispute for annexation. The mayor further commented that the people protesting annexa tion and claiming that they won't pay taxes because they are not in town have dug up an "old map" about which the town board knew nothing. The old map has different northern boundaries than the map the ,town has been "using as the of ficial map. according to the mayor. Commissioner Hob Anderson sug gested that the clerk write the representatives of the Powell Bill fund and explain the two-map sit uation to them and ask their advice on what to do about it. Commissioner L. T. White sug gested that the residents of the area under dispute be invited to a meeting to discuss the matter. His suggestion was accepted unani mously. See BEACH BOARD, Page 5 Ports Association Opposes Scrap Iron Shipment Abroad Family Files Suit Asking $50,008 I)unn A suit for $90,000 dam ages has been filed in Harnett Superior Court againat Mervin Wayne Waldrop of Carteret Coun ty in the accidental death of Cor let Blake Jr., 24 -year-old Hon of Mr and Mrs. Cortex Blake of Dunn. Route 3. The child waa killed at 3:10 |i.m. July 24 when struck by a 1947 Plymouth being operated by Wald rop on the Fort Macon Highway, one-fourth mile eaat of the city limita of Atlantic eBach. It la alleged in the complaint that the child waa playing in clear view of the defendant an0 that by the exercise of reasonable care Waldrop should have been able to aee him and avoid the tragedy. The auit contends that Waldrop waa operating the car at a high rate of speed In ? careleaa and reck Ian manner and that ha (ailed to keep I proper lookout and failed to ? The South Atlantic ana cario bean Port* Association, in tension yesterday at the Ocean King Hotel, went on record oppoaing the ship ment of icrap iron to foreign coun tries. The association said the scrap iron movement, which started within the past few months, is a repetition of what happened prior to Ihe second world war and this country will be getting the acrap hack in several years, probably, in the form of sheila and bulleta. At yesterday morning's aeaaion representatives of ports from More head City southward, including Florida, discuased increaalng port charges and the possibility of put ting charges at South Atlantic porta on a uniform basis. At yesterday afternoon'a session Ihey diacuaaed how their organiza tion can moat effectively promote use of porta In the South Atlantic and Caribbean area. Charlea W Cock*. Thomasville, Ga? representing the National Civil Defense organization, also spoke to the group yesterday after noon. A guest at the meeting waa Paul Amundaen, Washington, D. C.. ex ecutive secretary of the American Association of Porta. Authorittea and editor and publisher of World Port ma gaUoa. te \ I'tesiacni milium wn-uuwan y> sided it both the morning and afternoon sessions. The meeting closed last night with a dinner at the Ocean King Hotel. Twelve members of the associa Hon, including the representative of the port at San Juan, attended, as did J. D. Holt, manager of the Morehead City port, who is a direc tor of the association. They were welcomed in a speech by Mayor George W. Dill. Officers Book Man On Assault Charge Nick Smith. Beaufort RFD, was being held in the county Jail yesterday on charges of assault on a 14-year-old girl. Smith was apprehended at 1 o' clock Saturday morning after the glrl'a mother complained to po lice. The alleged aasault took place in Beaufort. The defendant waa being held on a more serioua charge but Sheriff Hugh Salter said that after fur ther inveatigation and conference with the girl's family yesterday morning, a decision waa made to charge Smith with aaaault He will be given a hearing in court this morning Defendant Gets 60 Days on Roads Policemen Say Prisoner Attacked Them in Jail Sunday Clyde W. Lawson, 20-year old Marine from Roadhouse, 111. was sentenced to 60 days on the roads and officials of Morehead City Re corder's Court are still wondering what he was drinking to give him the strength to fight off three police officers for about an hour while in jail Sunday Morehead City Policemen Bill Condie and Homer I>ewis received a call at 4 a.m. Sunday to come "get a drunk" at Sonny's Galley, More head City. They went to Sonny's Galley, Evans Street, and found Lawson there, leaning on a table, they said. Patrolman Condie told Lawson to come with them and Lawson ask ed if he could drink some coffee first. Then Lawson picked up sev eral partly filled coffee cups on the table and emptied them into one cup. added the remnants of a a co ca-cola and drank it, according to Patrolman Condie. Lawson was told he was being picked up on a charge of using loud and profane language and he went along with the officers without any trouble, they testified. When he got in the patrol car he said to Patrolman Lewis who was behind the wheel, "Cab driver, I haven't been using profane lang uage. have 1?" . The policeman informed him that it was not a cab but a police car. Sgt. Paul Bray, military police officer was called and when he arrived at the police station he ask ed Lawson for his liberty card. Lawson refused to five it to him. He parted La run And Patrolman Condie c?jjCTit?m fed feut Mm in a cell. He started making so much racket that the officers went in to quiet him down. As Sergeant Bray put it, "We stepped in the cell and, brother, that was it." Lawson fought the officers, bit ing Patrolman Lewis on the hand and chest, until they finally got him down and put a handcuff on one wrist, they testified. He got loose again and started using the handcuff like a cluh and hit Ser geant Bray in the head with it, leaving a cut. Policeman Lewis said, "There See COURT, Page 5 4-H'ers Win Prizes in Siiow Carteret 4-H members who show ed calves in the dairy show at New Bern Thursday, came home with prizes. Scotty Lynch, Smyrna, won a blue ribbon on his jersey calf; Ir ma Cannon, Beaufort HFD, copped a blue ribbon on her guernsey calf, and *blue ribbons were won also on guernsey calves entered by Dell Miller Jr., Newport RFD and Harry Parker, Stella. The blue ribbon awards also car ried cash prizes of $10. Red ribbons and $9 prizes were won by Sherrill Garner. Newport RFD, Hubert Murdoch, Wildwood, Patsy Chadwick, Straits; Sam Gar ner. Newport RFD; and Charles Barker Jr.. Stella. Harry Baker also won third place in fitting and received a pen and pencil set. Dell Miller won fourth place in showmanship. The 4-H'irs and some of the par ents attended a dinner at New Bern Wednesday nigfct Parents were Mrs. James Lynch. Smyrna. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Chadwick, Straits; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Garner and Mrs. Hubert Murdoch, Wildwood; Mr. and Mrs. Leland Garner and Dell Miller, Newport; and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barker, Stella. R. M. Williams, county agent, and A1 Newsome, 4-H Club adviser, also attended. Sixty-two calves were entered In the show. Fire Department Answers Call to Sunshine Laundry The Morehead City Fire Depart ment aitswered an alarm Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at Sunahlne Laundry but employees at the laun dry had the fire out before the members of the department ar rived. According to E. L. Nelson. fir* chief, the fire was started by a short in the main switch at the laundry.