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43rd YEAR, NO. 77. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1964 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Authorities Juggle Beach
Street-Paving Controversy
Judge Sends
Woman to Prison
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Husband, Ernest Barrett,
Bound Over to Higher
Court Under $250 Bond
Annette Barrett, charged with as
sault with an ice pick, was sen
tenced to six months in Women's
Prison, Raleigh, by Judge Earl Ma
son in Ui'J Beaufort Recorder's
Court Tuesday afternoon. She
was taken to prison Wednesday.
Her husband, Ernest Barrett, was
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon causing bodily injury.
In that case. Judge Mason found
probable cause and bound the case
over to Superior Court. Barrett
was put under $250 bond.
Richard Barrett, allegedly in
volved in a fight between Annette
and Ernest, was charged with fight
with Annette, but that case was
dismissed.
The state decided not to prose
cute Frank Robinson and James
Langdale but left their cases open.
Robinson was charged with public
drunkenness and Langdale was
charged with drunken driving,
careless and reckless driving,
causing property damage, not hav
ing a driver's license and failing to
report an accident.
Albert Copes, charged with pub
lic drunkenness, was not prosecut
ed.
James O. Harris was taxed costs
of court for disturbing the peace
and public drunkenness and Rol
lin D. Mumford paid costs for cut
ting through a service station drive
way.
Six persons were assessed costs
for failing to stop at stop signs.
They are Robert Lane Davis, Wil
lie Sharpe, Carrie Campbell John
son, Reta Joyner Martin, Paul
Jones and Rodman B. Taylor.
Henderson Davis was taxed
costs for having an improper muf
fler. The case against Robert M.
Harris, who faced the same charge
was dismissed after he showed
proof of having the muffler re
paired.
Cases against Lemmon Marion,
Marshall J. Hucks and Laurie Guth
rie were continued. Marion is
charged with public drunkenness
while Hucks is charged with drunk
en driving and Laurie Guthrie
with failing to stop at a stop sign.
Norwegian
Sailor Recovers
Kirl Grytten, Norwegian sailor
who was hospitalized Sept. 3 with
severe burns he received when a
boiler blew up, is reported to be
showing marked improvement at
the Morehead City Hospital.
Mr. Grytten. 26-year-old native
of Stavanger, Norway, was the ob
ject of a helicopter rescue mission
after a boiler blew up aboard the
SS Normundo, Norwegian steam
er.
The boiler blew up Sept. 2 and
the steamer, 25 miles off this coast,
notified Fort Macon Coast Guard
Station. Fort Macon called Eliz
abeth City and a helicopter was dis
patched to pick up Mr. Grytten.
After admitted to Morehead City
Hospital, Mr. Grytten was ban
daged in gauze from his waist up.
He is now up and walking around
and will probably be discharged
soon.
After he is discharged, Mr. Gryt
ten will go to New York to report
to the company which owns the SS
Normundo.
Four Fry Drivers
Receive Awards
Four of the Fry Roofing Co.
truck drivers received safety
awards at a meeting of transporta
tion personnel Sunday.
Winners were William E. Jar
man, Beaufort, four-year safety
pin and *25 in cash; James H.
Hibba, liorehead City, two-year
safety pin and *15 in cash; Rober
aon N. Lamm, Morehead City, and
Donald C. Midyette. one-year safe
ty pins and *10 in cash each.
To receive an award a driver
must complete 12 months on the
roads without being involved ia an
sccident which results in his being
charged with violation of traffic
laws.
Walter Edwards, plant manager,
commended the drivers and J. T.
Mott. assistant manager, preaeht
ed the ?wards.
Following a discuasion of safe
ty rules ind regulations 16 mem
bers of the transportation depart
ment of the company were guests
of the company at a steak damer
at Uw Re* Restaurant.
' The street-paving issue at Atlan-?
tic Beach is being juggled around
like a hot potato.
The town board claims that it
used an official map in applying
for Powell Bill funds, one approved
by the State Highway and Public
Works Commission.
Residents in an area considered
for annexation claim that the
streets over which a controversy
has risen are not in town but are in
pumped-in property owned by May
or A. B. Cooper.
To get the matter straightened
out, the town board asked Satur
day that its clerk, H. M. Eure,
write James S. Burch, head of sta
tistics and planning with the State
Highway Department.
Mr. Burch said this week in Ra
leigh that he couldn't decide which
map was the correct one, adding
that "a court or some judicial
agency" would have to decide.
He claimed that the map he made
of the town was a "blueprint
sketch" drawn to show streets of
the town that are a part of the
state highway system. He said the
map wasn't intended to show the
town limits and was for his own
use.
Limits Drawn
The map showed the town's
eastern limit at the Money Island
propery line, its western limit at
the Ocean Ridge property line,
its northern boundary at Bogue
Sound, and its southern boundary
at the Atlantic Ocean.
In applying for the street funds,
the town listed streets in an area
east of Morehead Avenue and
north of Fort Macon Boulevard.
On the basis of the town's ap
plication, it was to receive $2,561.38
this year. Powell Bill funds are al
See STREETS, Page 6
Supreme Court
Upholds Lower
Court Decision
The State Supreme Court on
Wednesday refused to reverse a
lower court decision which ordered
the dog track at Currituck pad- .
locked and the equipment sold.
An appeal by the Carolina-Vir
ginias Racing Association, opera
tors of the track at Moyock, was
based on the claim that the asso
ciation had been deprived of its
property without due process of
law, in violation of the 14th
Amendment to the U. S. Consti
tution.
When the high court ruled un
constitutional the 1949 act permit
ting dog racing and pari-mutuel
betting in Currituck, the associa
tion charged, the constitutionality
of the act was not before the court. ,
The court's ruling was such a de
parture from prior decisions as to
"constitute denial of due process,'"
the racing group said.
But the Supreme Court said the
argument was without merit. Be
cause a state court overrules its
previous decision on a question of
state law does not constitute a de
nial of due process, the court held.
Earlier, the association had lost
out in appeals to Federal district
court and the Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals. The only recourse
now lies in an appeal to the U. S.
I Supreme Court.
Woodmen Will
Dedicate New
Lodge Hall Ocl.1
WOW National President,
Farrar Newberry, Oma
ha, Will be Present
The new Woodmen of the World
lodge hall, Camp Glenn, will be
dedicated next Friday during the
fall session of the Bright Belt Log
Rolling Association at Morehead
City.
The dedicatory address will be
given by the national association
president, Farrar Newberry, of
Omaha, Neb.
The meeting will open at 2 p.m.
with the presentation of a flag
and pole to Camp Glenn School.
The state manager, Nick T. New
berry, will make the presentation.
Ted Davis, manager of the More
head City Chamber of Commerce,
will give the welcome address.
The dedication of the new lodge
hall is scheduled for 2 30 p.m.
Woodmen will conduct their bus
iness meeting at 3 at the lodge and
their wives will tour Morehead City
and Atlantic Beach.
Degree work is scheduled for
4:30 with the Erwin degree team
performing the initiatory work.
At the dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the
Camp Glenn School cafeteria, May
or George W. Dill will greet guests
and the national president. Sover
eign Farrar Newberry, will de
liver the main address.
Clifford Faglie, consul command
er of Camp 188, said entertain
ment is being planned for the din
ner hour. The public is invited to
attend and may obtain tickets for
the dinner from Woodmen or by
calling 6-4372, 6-5234, or by con
tacting Willie W. Moore, finan
cial secretary, 3105 Arendell St.
I Saw a Preview of The Nightmare
By ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS
I was invited to a sneak pre
view of the Community Theatre
play, "The Nightmare," Wednesday
night. In spite of the fact that the
usual last-minute hitches had to be
ironed out, it has the earmarks of
a good play, well-produotd.
The story it typical ofl?tnpeiule
dramas.. The laying of the base of
the plot takes place in a rather
lengthy first act. But there the
ability of the players is put to the
acid test. There, mostly through
conversation among the characters,
the audience must grasp the import
of the diabolical plot that comes to
fruition in the more rapidly mov
ing second and third acts.
The scene is laid in central New
York state. In a gloomy old man
sion that overhangs a cliff, Perry
Wallace waits for the death of his
father-in-law. Perry's haughty, bit
ter wife, Edith, fights desperately
to keep the old man alive. Not be
cause she loves him; just because
she hopes she can get him to
change his will.
Perry isn't worried about the
will. He knows it leaves everything
to the old man's one grandchild,
Marilyn Fleming But Perry has
plans. He decides to bring Marilyn,
who has not been in the house for
20 years, to the side of her dying
grandfather.
He plans to trick her into sign
ing a will that leaves everything to
him, then force her to kill herself
in the same mysterious way her
mother died.
So Marilyn comes. She talks with
her grandfather and is horrified
when he warns her that she isn't
safe in the house. He tells her to
escape, but how can she?
When she wakens from a long
drugged sleep, her grandfather has
died, the funeral is over, and the
servants are gone. She's alone with
the two who plot her death.
The man she loves comes, but in
order to save him (Perry toy? with
the idea of getting rid of him too)
Marilyn quarrels with him so that
he leaves in a rage. Her last hope
is gone and there's nothing to face
but the end.
The rising terror of the final
minutes of the play have all the
qualities of a nightmare.
If the characters effectively put
across the first act, in which every
line is important to the audience's
understanding the play, the Com
munity Theatre has a hit on its
hands.
The parts are all definite charac
Judge J. W. Parker
To Preside at Court
Judge Joseph W. Parker. Wind
?or, will preside at the week term
of Superior Court beginning In
Beaufort Monday, Oct. 18.
There ate 100 cases on the crim
inal docket, according to A. H.
James, clerk of Superior Court,
and more than 40 civil cases.
The two-week special term of
Superior Court, to hear civil caaes
held the last week of August and
first woek of September, cleared
28 case* off the civil docket.
Mr. James said a backlog of
criminal caaes Jammed up when
J edge Malcolm Paul became ill and
couid not bold ctwrt bare in March.
Lynn Stoller
... . smile hides evil plans
ters. The opinionated, greedy maid
is played by Ruth Peeling; the
earnest but timid doctor by Sam
my Daniels; the lovely, frightened
Marilyn by Dorothy Freeman; the
haunted, tortured Edith by Pat
Webb; the impetuous, hot headed
lover by Walt Hamilton, and Per
ry, the suave, smiling plotter, by
Lynn Stoller.
The grandfather, who never ap
pears on stage, is played by Horace
Loftin. His voice is heard over an
intercommunication system the
wiley Perry has rigged up between
the grandfather's bedroom and the
living room.
Tressa Vickers is in charge of
the stage setting, Joyce Willis is
propel tv manager, and member's of
the stage crew are Floyd Stewart.
James Lucas, Thomas Respess, and
See PREVIEW, Page 6
Club Entertains
Safety Patrol
The Newport Rotary Club had
25 school safety patrol boys as
guests at their meeting Monday
night.
Charles Hill, president of the
Newport Businessmen's Associa
tion, was the speaker. He spoke to
the group on "Citizenship."
In the business meeting the Ro
tarians decided to invite the fac
ulty of the Newport school to their
Nov. 23 meeting as their guests.
Visitors at the meeting were Les
ter M. Garner Jr., John B. Tom
linson, both of Newport, and the
Rev. Priestley Conyers, Morehead
City.
Nathan Garner, president, pre
sided.
16 Men Drawn
For Federal Jury
Sixteen Carteret citizens have
been summoned for jury duty dur
ing the regular fall term of feder
al district court at New Bern. The
term opens at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.
19.
Chosen to serve from this county
are S. A. Chalk Jr., J. R. Sanders,
Gordon D. Canfield, Jim Mussel
white, Walter Morris, John E. Lash
ley, J. L. Seamon. William White,
Bruce Willis, Bill Ballou, Paul
Cleland, Robert B. Howard, and
E. M. Dewey, all of Morehead City.
Also Lockwood Phillips, Henry
Williams and George W. Huntley
Jr., all of Beaufort.
Ports Group Re-Elects
J. D. Holt as Director
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Weatherman Says
More Heat Due
Despite a cool Thursday, Stain
ey Davia. weather observer, aaid
the county is in (or some more
"shirt tail" weather.
High lor the week waa 89 on Fri
day, Saturday. Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday. Wedneaday the high
dropped to 82. Low lor the week
waa Wenesday's 67.
Sunday waa the only clear day o(
the week with the other days be
ing partly cloudy and rain waa
registered Monday and Tuesday
Monday, .51 inches of rain (ell and
Tuesday it waa .54 inches.
Temperature readings from Fri
day through Wednesday follow:
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Max. Ma.
85 88
85 08
B5
85
85
85
85
83
Wadaaaday
75
78
72
87
' J. D. Holt, manager of the More
head City state port, was re-elected
a director of the South Atlantic
and Caribbean Porta Association
Monday afternoon at their meeting
at the Ocean King Hotel.
Mr Holt aaid members of the as
sociation were moat favorably im
pressed with Morebead City. Some
came Friday and others arrived la
ter last weekend. The meeting
opened Monday morning.
The association includes ports
representatives from North Caro
lina southward includin" Florida,
as well aa porta in the Caribbean.
Officers elected for the coming
year are the following:
J. B Qualey, operations man
ager of the South Carolina State
Ports Authority, prealdent; Salva
dore V. Caro, Puerto Rico Trana
portation Authority, first vice
president, P. L Sullivan. Wilming
ton port manager, second vice
president; George M. Antell. traf
fic manager, port of Palm Beach,
third vice-president; and H. B. He
lander. aaalstant to the manager of
the Charleston, S. C., port, secre
tary . treasurer.
Mr Qualey succeeds W. H. Mc
Cowan of the Savannah, Qa., port
Johnny Ray Waddell Escapes
From Hertford Prison Camp
Judge Gives Defendant
Two-Year Suspended Term
Always an Answer! I
Mayor Pat Dill of Morchcad Cit.>
has done it again.
According to the United Press,
he was called to the phone the
night of Hurricane Carol.
Upon hearing how few people
had gathered in the municipal
building for protection from the
hurricane, the reporter asked why
more refugees weren't taking ad
vantage of the emergency shelter.
Mayor Dill replied: "They're all
at home watching the hurricane on
television."
Three Men Seek
Supervisor Job
Neal Campcn, Beaufort, chair
man of the board of supervisors,
| Lower Neuse Soil Conservation
?District, this week announced three
candidates for the board of super
visors.
They are Floyd Garner, Y. Z.
Simmons, both of Newport, and
Sam Garner, Wildwood.
| Floyd Garner is on the board at
present but is running for re-elec
tion. Others interested in running
should have a petition signed by 25
qualified voters and submit it to
the Soil Conservation office, Ra
leigh, no later than Thursday, Nov.
25.
j Anyone eligible to vote in a gen
eral election is eligible to vote for
a soil supervisor, David Jones,
county soil conservationist, says.
Balloting will take place the week
of Dec. 6.
j Although voters need not be
farmers, only farmers may run for
? .
Emeritus Club
Honors Eight Men
Eight men were elected to hon
orary membership for 1954-55 in
tiie Emeritus Club Monday night
at the Morehead City Recreation
Center.
They are Mayor George Wi Dill,
Morehead City; Mayor Clifford
Lewis, Beaufort: J. Warren Beck,
president of the Morehead City
Chamber of Commerce; Norwood
Young, president of the Beaufort
Chamber of Commerce.
Ted Davis, manager of the More
head City Chamber of Commerce;
J. A. DuBois, manage)- of the Sea
I.evcl Chamber of Commerce; Bill
Sharpe, editor of State magazine;
and Dr. S. W. Hatcher, Morehead
City.
T. Bartlett Sage, secretary of the
club, read the following letter from
Mr. DuBois:
"Let me congratulate you and
the members of your most energet
ic organization upon the realiza
tion of success of the club's first
real project, the extension of N. C.
12 from Pollocksville to Havelock.
"1 have greatly missed being
able to attend your interesting
meetings but I follow your activi
ties with interest in THE NEWS
TIMES and my occasional contact
with some of you.
"Keep up the good work . .
Dr. E. P. Spence reported that
the field trips proposed for the
summer could not be undertaken
and was authorized by the club to
set a date for a visit to the Du
Pont plant at Kinston in October.
The club will hold its next meet
in? Oct. 18 at the Sea Level Inn.
Wives will be entertained and the
group will meet that night at the
Recreation Center at 5:30.
The club members authorized
the president, W. S. Kidd, to aend
a letter to the Board of Conserva
tion and Development^ suggesting
improvements that should be made
at Fort Macon State Park.
Mr. Kidd presided.
Tide Table
Tldea at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW |
Friday, Sept 24
6:11 a.m. 12:04 a.m.
8:30 p.m. 12:27 p.m. I
Saturday, Sept 28
8:56 a.m. 12:4a a.m. |
7:11 p.m. 1:13 p.m.
Sunday, Sept 24
7:30 a m 1:26 a.m.
7:48 p.m. 1:84 p.m. I
Maoday, Sept 17
8:17 a.m. 2:0B a m. |
8:25 pjn. 2:33 pjn.
Taeaday, Sept It
8:41a.m. 2:38 a .m. I
8 58 p m. 3:00 pM. \
? Nick Smith, Beaufort RFD, was
given a suspended sentence of two
years on the roads and was placed
on five years good behavior by
Judge Lambert Morris after he was
found guilty Tuesday of a charge
of assault on a female. He was
tried in County Court.
James Hasting Adams was fined
$100 and co6ts after pleading guilty
to a charge of drunken driving.
Carl Arthur Letsch, charged with
not having a driver's license, was
given a suspended sentence of 60
days on the roads and fined $50 and
costs.
John Paul Sc*tt was charged
with drunken driving and found
guilty of careless and reckless driv
ing. He was ordered to pay $25
and court co$ts.
Mildred Rose Styron was taxed
half costs for not having a driver's
license and Gordon Poling was
fined $15 and costs on a charge
of speeding.
Chester Woods was charged with
assault on a female but Judge Mor
ris ruled malicious prosecution and
the prosecuting witness was taxed
court costs.
Charges Dropped
The state did not prosecute
Thurman Murray Pittman for not
having a driver's license. Kenneth
James Hill paid costs on the same
charge.
The state also did not prosecute ,
Bill Wiggins, charged with disturb- ,
ing the pcace, and Leroy Green, |
speeding.
Ella Harvey was called and did (
not appear and forfeited a bond. (
She was charged with cohabiting.
L. J. Hair, charged with issuing
a bad check, was taxed court costs
and the amount of the check.
Julius Davis Small Jr. forfeited
bond. He was charged with speed
ing. 1
Billy Powell, a resident from up
state, charged with breaking, en
tering and larceny, was not prose
cuted,
S. L. Johnson was taxed court
costs and amount of the chcck
after he was found guilty on a
charge of issuing a bad check.
Elizabeth A. Bonavita was not
prosecuted She had been charged
with not having a driver's license.
Pay Costs
John William Frivance and Fi
delius William Baker were taxed
costs of court on charges of speed
ing.
Charlie Pake was ordered to pay
costs for allowing a mnior to op
erate a motor vehicle and William
Stanley Lockhart paid costs for
failing to stop at a stop sign.
The case against Reva Hagan for
assault on a female was dismissed.
Cases Continued
Thirty-eight cases were eontin
tinued: Herbert Jones, speed- :
ing; Ted Day, bad check; Jack R. 1
BelU no operator's license; Mat
thew Abraham Marshall, driving
drunk; Jack Harlem Harmon, pass
ing at an intersection; Alonza
Thomas Redd Jr., driving drunk, '
no driver's license; Francis '
Strouse, assault; James Branton, 1
bad check.
Theodore Johnson, bad check; 1
Isaac Blango, following too close
See COURT, Page C
Johnny Ray Waddell, Newport, who told Sheriff Hugh
Salter in a letter written Tuesday that he had decided to go
straight, made a break from a Hertford County Prison
gang yesterday morning at 9:15.
Waddell took off with Phil Leroy Twiddy as the two
were with a crew cutting bushes at Merry Hill near Ahos
kie Twiddy was caught by a guard
before he could get to the woods
but Waddell got away.
Waddell waa sentenced to two
years in prison in June on charges
of assault on Deputy Sheriff M. M.
Ayscue, assault on a female, fail
ing to pay court coats and resisting
arrest.
He was sentenced to the two
years one week after his 21st birth
day.
After he first arrived at Hert
ford County Prison Waddell made
a break, in July, but was caught
the same day in Roxboro.
Assistant Superintendent at the
prison, R. R. Williford, said that,
other than the first break, Wad
dell's attitude had been "pretty
good." He said there had been no
recent actions on the part of Wad
dell which would indicate that he
was planning the break.
In his letter to Sheriff Salter,
Waddell asked that his prison sen*
tence be cut.
He said, "I realize you have
given me a break before but I
didn't use it. I promise this time
to go straight and I will because
1 have never before made a
promise.
"I have made up my mind to go
straight and live a clean, decent
life from here on out," he wrote.
At the end of the letter he said
that he realized how it is to be
with his family and others and to
behave himself.
The letter was written and mail
ed Tuesday and Sheriff Salter re
ceived it Wednesday.
Directors Get
Budget Report
A total of ft, 540 has been col
lected by the Sea Level Commun
ity Chamber of Commerce, it was
reported at a recent meeting of
the board of directors. Many
pledges are yet to be paid.
Expenditures to date have
amounted to $1,912.58. DDT coat
ing $565.96, advertising $483.27,
>nd airplane (to spread DDT) cost
ing $480 were the major items on
the budget. There is a balance on
hand of $627.42.
At the meeting the board authoi
ized Joe Dubois, manager, to
purchase an additional 100 gallons
Df DDT from the state for use in
the neighborhood fog trucks.
The need for added fire protec
tion for the communities east of
Beaufort was discussed A com
mittee was appointed by T. C.
Smith, president, to get facts and
figures on fire protection.
Recent fires down east have
pointed up the need for a fire-fight
ing program.
Members of the committee are
1. P. Harris, Beaufort, chairman;
Beaufort Fire Chief Charles Haa
sell; Leslie Springle. Beaufort RFD
ind John Styron, Stacy. Other
members are to be appointed later.
The next meeting of the board
will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct
2, at the Sea Level Inn.
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Sailor Remains
In County Jail
No One Posts $5,000
Bond Set by Judge Mc
Neill in Court Monday
Ronald St. Cyr, 19-year-old sailor
charged with attempted rape and
breaking and entering, remained in
the county jail at Beaufort yester
day. No one has posted $5,000 bond
for his release. ?
Judge George McNeill found
probable cause in Morehcad City
Recorder's Court Monday afternoon
after hearing evidence to the ef
fect that St. Cyr had entered the
Charles T. Broadhurst home, 1706
Eavns St., Morehead City, and at
tempted to rape Mrs. Broadhurst.
According to testimony, Mrs.
Broadhurst was unable tq sleep.
Her husband and son had retired
and she got up, in her night clothes,
listened to the radio a while and
then decided to lie on the couch
and read a book.
Had UwOTd Windows
She testified that she had lower
ed the windows because the wind
was blowing hard and that both
screen doors were hooked. While
she was reading she said she sud
denly smellcd a terribly strong
odor of something like hair tonic
and thought for a moment that a
bottle had tipped over somewhere
in the house.
Then she sensed that someone
was in the room and believed at
first it was her husband. About
that moment the person lunged at
her. grabbed her and she screamed,
rousing her husband and son.
Runs from House
The man in the room ran from
the house and Morehead City po
lice were notified. St. Cyr was pick
ed up a short time later on Aren
dell Street near the downtown sec
tion and booked on the4 breaking
and entering and rape attempt
charges.
Time of the incident in the
Broadhurst house was placed at
about midnight.
St. Cyr's wallet and identifica
tion cards were later found in an
other section of town, in a cross
alley between 4th and 5th Streets.
St. Cyr made no comment dur
ing the hearing other than to reply
"No sir," to the judge when he was
asked if any member of his family
could post $5,000 bond.
Appearing in court on behalf of
St. Cyr was an officer of the ship,
USS Navarro, on which the boy
was serving. The ship stayed in
port until 3 p.n^. awaiting the out
come of the hearing, although it
had been scheduled to sail in the
morning.
St. Cyr was taken from the
Morehead City jail to the county
jail Monday afternoon after court.
His case is scheduled to come be
fore the grand jury in October.
Girls, Charged with Running Bawdy
House, Given Suspended Sentence
Ocracoke PTA
Meets Monday
Ocracoke PTA held Iti tint meet
ing of school year Monday night.
Harvey Wahab, prealdent, presid
ed over the business session.
Mrs. Thurman Styron, retiring
treasurer, gave a summary of sum
mer receipts and expenditure!,
showing a balance on hand of ap
proximately $140. Treasurer for
1954-55 is Klisha Esham; secretary
is Mrs. Edna S. O'Neal.
Theodore Rondthaler, principal,
called attention of those present to
various improvements and repair*
.made to the school building and to
new equipment. The organiution
voted to purchase a number of
small items needed tor the school,
including bulbs for the movie pro
jector, waste baskets, and song
books. It voted to finance the
building of shelves in the 7th and
8th grade claasroom and to spon
sor the annual carnival in October.
H osteoses were Miss Kathleen
Bragg, Mas. Doris Balance, Miss
Nora Edmoadeon, Mrs. Marion Aus
tin. Mrs. Lillian Fulcbwr, and Mrs
Virginia Ma?
Two barefoot girls, clad in slacks*
?nd shirts, heard Judge Lambert
Morris give them a one-year ?us
pended sentence and place them on
good behavior for three year* fol
lowing a bearing In County Re
corder's Court Tuesday. They had
been charged with running a house
of ill repute.
One of the girls, Mrs. David R.
Kelly, Galax. Va., 18-year-old wife
of a Cherry Point Marine, burst in
to tear* while on the stand and
told the judge that she was preg
nant. She claimed that her hus
band was the father of the child.
The state produced 12 witnesses,
five bf whom testified. All five
testified that Marines streamed in
to the girls' house off the Mill
Creek Road at all times of the
day and night and sounds of fight
ing, aa well as loud, vulgar lan
guage were often heard coming
from Inside and around the house.
' One of the witnesses. Miss Mary
Cottle, said the Marines came to
the house on foot, hitch-hiking, In
?utomobiles, on motor cycle*, and
motor scooters
Harvey Hamilton Jr., Morehead
City attorney who was assisting
solicitor Wiley Taylor in the pro
iccution, began referring to the ar
rival of the Marines a* the "Ma
rine landing."
Mrs. KaUy and 19-yMr-old Peggy
?m fiBU. Tim i
Farm Planners
Tour Carteret
Farm planners of the Lower
Cape Fear Soil Conservation Dis
trict are gueati of farm planners.
Lower Neuae Soil Conservation Dis
trict, on a tour through the coun
ty yesterday and today.
The tour began at Richlands yes
terday morning st 9:30 snd con
tinued to Carteret yesterday after
noon. The men will leave here to
day to continue their trip into Pam
lico County.
Yesterday afternoon they ob
served windbreaks at Swansboro,
bahia rfrsss and scricea lespedeza
on the Koonce farm, crotoiaria on
the Elmo Smith farm and coastal
Bermuda grass on the Alton Bland
farm. All the farms are located
along Bogue Sound
Today they will visit Hugh
Swann and Roy Keller's farms as
well as the Open Grounds farm.
C. C. Abernathy, management
agronomist for this area, is in
charge of the tour. Asaisting Mr.
Abernathy in this county la David
Jones, soil conservationist.
Fourteen men art making the
trip?