NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Araadell St. Monktad City Phone 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 43rd YEAR, NO. 78. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1954 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Chamber Pushes Highway 71 Organization Manager DuBois Queries 50 Towns Relative To Promoting 'Mainstreet' The Sea Level Chamber of Com merce is sponsoring organization of a Highway 70 Association, Joe DuBois, manager of the Sea Level Chamber of Commerce, announced yesterday. Mr. DuBois calls U. S. Highway 70 the "Main Street of North Carolina," adding that the highway is well organized in the western states. A non-stock, non-profit corpora tion has been suggested for the association. The purpose of the association would be to work for the improve ment and upkeep of U. S. 70 and to publish a guide of the North Carolina benefits offered along 70, he said. Another purpose would be to raise funds for advertising and promoting traffic from west to east. In a leiter to 50 chambers of commerce and small towns along ? highway 70, Mr. DuBois explained the purpose of the proposed organ ization and enclosed a postcard which was asked to be returned, giving the town's opinion on forma tion of a U. S. 70 Highway Asso ciation. Woodmen Will Present Flags To Boy Scouts Woodmen of the World will pre sent a set of 10 United States His torical flags to the Boy Scouts at their dinner meeting Friday night in the Camp Glenn School cafe teria. The dinner will climax the new lodge hall ttedicatory cere monies. Receiving Uie Itajji will be Pe?n * Watson, Wilson, president of the East Carolina Council; R. B. How ard, Morehead City, district com missioner for Carteret County and a member of the executive board. Hast- Carolina Council; and Ethan Davis, Morehead City, district com missioner - elect of the Carteret council and member of the East Carolina Council camping commit tee. Ten Scouts from throughout the county will also be present for the epremony. Plans are being made to televise the presentation, according to Clifford Faglie, consul comman der of Morehead City Camp 188. The Woodmen lodges throughout the country have as one of their projects the presentation of flags and compasses to newly-organized Scout troops. Dedicatory ceremonies will start Friday at 2 p.m. when the lodge presents a flag and flag pole to the Camp Glenn Schcol. The new lodge, located at Camp Glenn, was put up at a cost of approximately $6,000 with the Woodmen doing most of the construction work. It was first occupied last fall. Attending Friday's ceremonies will be Farrar Newberry, Omaha, national president of Woodmen of the World. The dinner ,to be served at 6:30 p.m., is open to the public. Roast beef, mashed potatoes, chef's sal ad, string beans, rolls and butter, iced tea and apple pie will be served. Persons wishing to attend should phone 6-4372 or 6-3234 for tickets. ' No tickets will be sold at the door. Lions Bread Sale Continues The Morehead City Lions Club will continue its bread sale in Beau fort Thursday and Friday nights of this week. The Lions sold 640 loaves of bread in Morehead City Thursday and Friday nights with the aid of Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts. Persons who wish to buy the bread from the Lions are requested to keep their porch lights burning. The sale will start at 5:30 p.m. Proceeib of the sale go to the Lion*1 sight conservation program. The program furnishes glasses for needy persons in Carteret County and also offers training programs for the blind of the county. It is a part of the Lions' national sight conservation program Beaufort Cub 8couts will assist Lions in tbelr bread sale in Beau fort Sgt. Paul Bray of the military police, said yesterday that the scuf fle with Clyde W. Lawson, Marine who was given <0 days on the roads, took place before Lawson waa put in Jail and toot afterwards as stated in THE N*WS-TME8 Historical Society Organizes By F. C. SALISBURY Much interest was manifested at a meeting held in the court house at Beaufort Saturday morning when a County Historical Society was or ganized. The meeting was called through the interest taken by Mrs. Nat Smith of Gloucester in historical matters pertaining to Carteret County. Meeting with the group, consist ing of 20 persons, was David L. Corbitt of the State Department of Archives and History. He ^ave an account of the various county historical societies organized since 1950. Followhing his talk, he gave instructions covering the forma tion of a historical society. The interest shown resulted in the naming of temporary officers consisting of Mrs. Nat Smith as president and Miss Amy Muse as secretary. Mrs. Smith named com mittee members to perfect a per manent organization. The next meeting will be Saturday, Oct. 9, at 2:30 p.m. The following committees were appointed: constitution and by laws, Miss Lena Duncan, chairman, Miss Josie Pigott, Charles Davis; membership, Mrs. T. T. Potter, chairman. Miss Mary Whitehurst, Mrs. Mary Privette; nominating, Mrs. D. L. Merrilll, chairman, Mar vin Willis, F. C. Salisbury. An invitation was extended to persons in the county interested in becoming charter members to be present at the meeting Oct. 9. Membership will be open at any time to those desiring to join who are unable to attend the next meet ing. As the society grows in num ber and interest it is the hope of the organizers that much historical material can be gathered from which a much-needed history of Carteret County can be compiled. The earnest support of the people of the county is urged. Contracts Let for Beach Toll Road Defendant Gets 30-Day Sentence James Thompson Simp son Found Guilty on Five Counts Last Monday James Thompson Simpson was sentenced to 30 days on the More head City sheets after being found guilty of five charges against him. He was given a hearing in More head City's Recorder's Court Mon day, Sept. 20. Simpson was charged with fight ing on the streets, resisting arrest, using loud and profane language, hitting an MP with a belt and dam aging city property. Donald C h a d w i c k, who was charged with fighting with Simp son, pled not guilty and was found not guilty. Kenneth J. Ingerham, charged with not having a driver's license and running a red light was sen tenced to two weeks on the streets. The sentence was suspended ypon payment of a $35 fine and costs of court. If he shows a license within two weeks $25 of the fine will be remitted. Pays $25, Costs Luke David ,P&rls was found guil ty of Titling to stop at a stop sign and failing to yield the right of way and was fined $25 and assess ed costs. He was found not guilty of careless and reckless driving. Charged with careless and reck less driving and drunken driving, James D. Myers was found guilty of the first charge and fined $100 and I costs. Roy Chapman Carraway was taxed half the costs of court on two charges of failing to stop at stop lights. Robert Matney, charged with is suing a bad check, was taxed costs and ordered to make the check good. Anthony Romano was found not guilty of a charge of following too closely. Clyde Warren Edwards was taxed costs on charges of public drunken ness and using loud and profane language. Case Dropped The state did not prosecute Cur tis Williams for shooting fire arms in the town limits. Richard Milton Johnson was fined $10 and taxed court costs for speeding. Roy Purifoy paid costs for fol lowing too closely and Vernon Ray Skinner, charged with failing to stop at a stop sign, was also taxed costs. Charged with speeding, William A. Vail, was assessed costs. Dr. Milton B Morey was not prosecut ed on a charge of speeding. Laura Mace Wallace, charged with running a stop sign, was taxed half costs of court and Paul Rich ard Schriner was fined $10 and taxed costs on a charge of speeding. Johnny Logue was found guilty of public drunkenness and was sen tenced to 30 days on the streets with the sentence suspended upon payment of a $25 fine and coats and on the condition that he re main on good behavior for a period of 12 months. Betty Powell Sparks was fined $25 and costs for not having i driver's license. The fine will be remitted when she shows a proper driver's license. The cases against Abraham Wil liams, Rosalie Gore Lohr, William T. Gray and Jake Raymond Baker were continued. Williams is charged with following too close ly while Lohr is charged with run ning a red light and Baker is charged with no driver's license and drunken driving. Gray is charged with drunken driving and damage to city property. Man's Club Heart Talk By th? R?v. Robert Poulk The Rev. Robert Poulk, minister of the Beaufort Methodist circuit, ?poke to the Ann Street Methodist Church Men's Club Friday night at a -dinner meeting In the Lottie Sanders building. The Rev. Mr. Poulk's topic was "The Role of the Methodist Men's Club." 8eventy members attended. The BMt BMtiag will to aren't, they're the biggest orarpo I ever saw." The fruit is still green. One whole side of the 200 Mock of Gordon Street is beginning to look like something out of Florida. There's an orange tree in Mrs. George Woolard's yard and a tangerine tree in Mrs. Nora Gil bert's yard. No$ the grapefruit tree in Mrs. Salter's yard just about gives the block a monopoly on the citrus- growing industry in Carteret County. Chairman Takes Rodeo Entries Ronald Earl Mason, chairman of the Beaufort Chamber of Com merce rodeo, scheduled for Sunday afternoon at the Beaufort ball park, said yesterday that persons wanting to enter any of the rodeo contests should file an entry with him no later than tomorrow. There will be bronc busting, chil dren and adults' pony Yaces, and a mule and dump cart race. Follow ing the rodeo events, there will be a public sale of banker ponies. Proceeds from the show will be used to fipance Chamber of Com merce projects. The event will begin at 2 p.m. following a parade through town. Some of the ponies to be used in the rodeo will be rounded up Saturday when pony owners will assemble the herds to determine how many head were lost during | the recent hurricanes. Sheriff Hold* Suspect In Break-In Attempt 1 Sheriff Hugh Salter reported yes terday that he is holding a s?s pect in the attempted break-in of Lummie's Drive-In Sundiy morning. The sheriff said the man picktd up was loitering around Lummie's and was at the place when officers showed up at 1 a.m. Sunday. A screen at the refreshment stand had been ripped and p wia dow pushed open. Unable to gain entry at that window, the wouli be burglar had ripped a screen it another window. I.ummie's is located on Highway 70. west of Morehead City, op pa site the Ocean Park Drive-In Thaa I Community Concerts Drive Will Open Monday , Oct. J J Chamber Manager's Letters Bring Couple Cross Country Having a friendly, alert mana-' ger of the Chamber of Commerce has paid off in two prospective cit izens for Morehead City. And they came all the way from California to get here. Mr. and Mrs. John Ernesi Naf, formerly of Pasadena, Calif., ar rived in Morehead City last we?k and \*&nt directly to the office of Ted Davis, manager of the More head City Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Naf explained that the de sire to come to North Carolina started several years ago when her father gave her a subscription to the State magazine. She said her husband soon became inter ested in North Carolina and be gan writing the managers of cham bers- of commerce to get business information concerning towns in North Carolina. He said all of the managers an swered his inquiries with mime ographed form letters and bro chures. Mr. Davis wrote friendly personal letters. The Nafs said that they felt that a town which had a chamber of commerce manager such as Mr. Davis must be progressive and friendly so they packed up and drove the 4.000 miles separating them from Morehead City. Mr. Naf plans to work here awhi)e and eventually start his own business, according to Chamber Manager Davis. Telephone Men Speak to Rotary Club Thursday Officials of the Carolina Tele phone and Telegraph Co., address ed the Morchead City Rotary ?lub on the services and benefits of the company at the club's meeting Thursday night at Fleming's Rest aurant. The program was planned by W. C. Carlton. W. Carter Darfow, past district Rotary governor, and general com meicial panager, Tarboro. told of recent improvements which have '"cen made by the company. Work at the Morehead City ex hange has given phone customers here better service and savipg in lime on long distance calls, he said. T. P. Williamson, supervisor of special facilities, Tarboro, ex plained operating details of the new "operator toll dailing." Mr Williamson said the new system of making long distance calls has cut the average time from the 15 min utes of 20 years ago to 1.3 minutes spent in completing a long distance call. He said subscriber transfer ser vice may now be had by business people. If a person is expecting a call and leaves the office, all he has to do is flip a switch and the call will be transferred from his business to his home, he said. He stated, that telephone anwer ing and recording services are al so available to subscribers. Mr. Williamson commented that direct long distance service on a nation-wide scale is a long range program but "... maybe in 10 or so years you can lift your receiver and dial not more than 11 numbers and be connected direct with a per son in San Francisco." Guests at the meeting were Ho mer A. Lassiter, Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, and Robert A. Roberts, Gastonia. Visiting Rotarians were C. J. Lo gan, Carolina Telephone official from New Bern. Bill Ramsey. Fay etteville, Lee Nance. Ayden; G. A. Tenuta. Wilmington; and George J. Travis. Cazenovia, N. Y. Bar Association Elects Two County Lawyers to Office Harvcv Hamilton Jr., More head City, was fleeted vice-president and Wiley Taylor Jr.. Beaufort, wan elected a member of the execu tive committee it the annual Dis trict Bar Association meeting at the Blue Ribbon Club, Mprehead City, Saturday. Bernard Hollowell. Bayborn. suc ceed* Jack Edward*. Greenville, aa president Robert Bowera, Bayboro. was elected aecretary-treasurer. The grdup authorized the send ing of flowera to E. Walter Hill, retired Beaufort lawyer, who U III. The bualnes* aesaion. at which Mr. Edwarda presided, preceded ? steak dinner. Thirty-six lawyer* from the six counties of Carteret, Craven, Pamlico, J does, Greene, Woodrow Price Heads Outdoor Writers Group 32 North Carolina Scribes Attend Meeting Here; Go Fishing Yesterday Woodrow Price, Raleigh, was eelctcd president of the North Car olina Out odor Writers Association which organized at Atlantic Beach Sunday. Thirty two writers attended the meeting and went on a deep sea fishing trip yesterday as guests of Ottis Purifoy, Morehead City party boat operator. Officers, in addition to Mr. Price, arc Chester Davis, Winston Salem, vice-president; and Phil El lis. Raleigh, secretary treasurer. Mr. Price appointed a committee to select nominees for the board of directors. Members arc Mrs. Gret cham Thomas, secretary of the Carolina Beach Chamber of Com merce; Ed Fike. Rocky Mount; Rod Amundson, N. C. Wildlife Commis sion. The board of directors, nomi nated and unanimously Approved, consists of Bugs Barringcr. Rocky Mount photographer; Mrs. Thomas; Marvin Francis, Durham; Bill Rob inson, Kure's Beach; and Ted Davis, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce. The president was given permis sion to select a membership com mHtee and a committee on awards lain* The group agreed to meet twice annually, in the spring and fall. A constitution and by-laws will be drawn up later by the officers and directors. The writers were the guests of Captain Bill's Restaurant at a sea food dinner Sunday night and the guests of Tony Seamon and Ted (iarner at the Sanitary Fish Mar ket and Restaurant last night. The organizational meeting took place at the Ocean King Hotel. Hurricane! Cause $45,000 Hatteras Road Damage Raleigh (AP) Hurricanes Carol and Edna did about $45,000 in dam age to the highway on Hatteras Island. Chief Highway Engineer W. H. Rogers Jr. said yesterday the two storms covered about 10 miles of the 48-mile highway with water, washed out 1,000 feet and depos ited 20,000 cubic yards of sand on the road strip. The 1954-55 Community Concerts campaign will open it 7 o'clock Monday night, Oct. 11, wtih a dinner at the Lottie Sanders building, Beaufort. The dinner will launch the one-week Community Con cert membership drive. Officers of the group, the board >f directors and membership salesmen will attend. Concerts to be given here this winter will be selected the night of Oct. 16 by the board of directors and the executive board of the Carteret-Cherry Point Com munity Concerts Association. Type of talent to appear in three con certs here will be governed by the amount raised in the membership drive. Community Concert member ships are $6 for adults and $3 for students. Kinston Concerts Members of Community Concerts in this county are entitled to at tend concerts in other cities. The schedule of concerts for Kinston this season is as follows: Oct. 14, Trapp Family Singers; Dec. 9. Leonard Pennario. pianist; Jan. 14, Theodore Uppman, baritone; April 11. Klena Nikolaidi, contralto. The schedule for Goldsboro: March 8. Longine Symphonettc; March 28, Angelaires, harpists; April 22, Ethel Barrymore Colt, actress. Mrs. Kumley President Officers of the Carteret Commun ity Concerts Association this sea son are Mrs. James Kumley. Beau fort, president; Miss Elizabeth Lambeth, .Morchcad City, vice president; Mrs. W. J. I pock, Beau fort, secretary; J. R. Sanders, Morehead City, treasurer; Mrs. Ed ward Arrington, Beaufort, cor responding secretary. Mrs. G. W. Duncan, general chairman; Mrs. Claud Wheatly Jr., Beaufort, and Miss Lambeth, co chairmen; Glenn Adair, Beaufort, and Ralph Wade. Morehead City, concert chairmen; Mrs. David Bev eridge, dinner chairman, and Mrs. Ruby Woodruff, chairman at New port. Mrs. Duncan said that chairmen in other parts of the county are yet to be appointed. Two Ofway Men Hurt in Wreck Charles L. Gillikin, 22, and Rich ard W. Gillikin, 25, both of Otway, were injured at 12:15 Sunday morning when the car in which they were riding upset on Highway 70 two miles cast of Beaufort. They were taken to the Morehead City Hospital in the Dill ambulance and were still confined there yes terday. State Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard said the car. a 1953 Pon tiac, was being driven by Charles when it ran off the right shoulder of the road on a slight curve, ca romed over to the left of the high way and landed on its top. The car was headed east at the time of the accident. Patrolman Pickard said it was damaged beyond repair. Audience Held Spellbound By Play, The Nightmare' By RUTII PKKMNU The Carteret Community Theatre play, "The Nightmare," produced in Morehead City Thursday and Friday nights for the benefit of the Morehead City School has been called by those who saw it one of the best amateur productions ever staged in the county. But darned few saw it. Total proceeds, including ad vance ticket sales, was $89.75. Roy alty for each night of production was $25. or a total of $50. Subtract from $8975 the cost of printing programs and a double run of tickets (the first batch was stolen after placed in the handa of the sponsor) plus several other minor expenses nnd there is little, if any. left for the school. Talent Plus If ever there was acting talent wrapped up in one play, it's in "The Nightmare'.' Lynn Stoller, who plays the lead, is without qual ification. terrific. Dorothy Free man who plays another major role, is marvelous and Pat Webb, as a woman ?ho commits two murders, lives up to and surpasses all her previous performances in Commun ity Theatre productions. It doesn't bother the Community Theatre people one iota if folks don't want to come to sec their plays. They would like to make ex penses. of courie. But they are in the play-making "business" mainly because they enjoy It. Although they're not professional troupers, they'll put their best into a show whether there la one per son in the audience or a thousand. It gives them little aatidacUon, >n ~ "Sorry, there's nothing left to di vide in the way of proceeds." The Community Theatre could produce plays without a sponsor, do all the ticket-selling and promo tion and put all the money in the theatre treasury. But the organiza tion was revived last year with a view toward producing shows and benefiting communities in the county by sharing profits with a sponsor. This entails the theatre doing the play-producing work and the sponsor selling the tickets and advertising the play. Ticket Selling Essential All plays thus far, have been financial successes when the spon soring group worked a? hard at selling tickets as the theatre mem bers did in staging the production. "The Nightmare" Is being pro duced In Beaufort, at the school, Thursday and Friday (lights, for the benefit of the Beaufort School. It's a play that's better than the average TV drama and superior to the usual run of murder movie*. It's not high-brow "theatah" but neither does it have some of the county's better known male citi zens dressed like girls and making fools of themselves on the stage. It's simply an excellent drama, complete with howls of a wolfish hound and the crack of pistol shots. The member* of the cut will re peat this week, and again at At lantic Oct. 0, "The Nightmare." They're going to give excellent per formance* whether anybody come* to see it or not. It would be gratifying, however, if the Community Theatre could turn omr to the *ponaor* some money at the end of the perform '4 Kemp Bonner Jr. Waives Hearing Defendant Held Under $1 ,000 on Breaking, Entering Charge Kemp Bonner Jr., Morehead City, waived hearing in Morehead City recorder's Court yesterday and was bound over to, Superior Court un der $1,000 bond. Bonner was apprehended by Morehead City police at 11:20 Wed nesday night in the office of Dr. B. F. Royal, 907 Evans St., More head City. He has been charged with breaking and entering the office and having in his possession burglary tools, a claw hammer, a metal bit for a drill and a pair of cotton gloves. Officers also took from him a large pocket knife. Neighbor Sees Light According to police reports, Mrs. Theodore Economon, who lives at 909 Evans St., notified the police department at 11:12 p.m. Wednes day that she saw someone in Dr. Royal s office moving about with a flash light. At 11:18 p.m. the police car ra dioed the station to call Dr. Royal to come down to his office because the back door was found unlocked. Officers Enter Patrolmen Joe Smith and Bill Condie went in the office and found Bonner in a closet, police said. When they opened the door he put his hands in the air. The officers took him to "the town jail where he has been held under $1, 000 bond. According to police reports, Bon ner entered through a window, ev idently unaware that the back door was unlocked. Officers said a safe was located in the room where Bonner was found. Shipbuilding Firm Organizes The Morehead City Shipbuilding Corp., for the building of Hattcras trawlers, has been organized. The firm, with G. K llammes as man ager, was formerly a part of the Morehead City Yacht Basin, Inc. The yacht basin will continue to function as a division of the ship building corporation. It is located east of 4th Street and the ship building yards are located north of Fisher Street. The first board of directors meeting of the new corporation took place Saturday morning. R. C. Kirchofer, head of the firm, explains Ihe change as follows: "Sometimes it took a little explain ing to convince fishermen or op erators of tugboats or workboats that the yacht basin was equipped to build the type of craft they wanted. "After showing them our facili ties, they were usually sold on the proposition ami wanted to know why such a shipbuilding enter prise was called a 'yacht basin.' It was like the tail wagging the dog. For that reason we decided to make the chnag.e" Driver Cited To Town Court Roy B Purifoy. Rocky Mount, was docketed for appearance in Moreheadd City Recorder's Court la?t Monday, charged with follow ing too cloiely. causing an accident State Highway Patrolman R. H. Brown said that Purifoy. driving a 1949 Studebaker pickup truck, ran into the rear of a 1947 Ford coupe driven by Thomaa A. Copeland, Windsor, at 4 p.m. Sunday. Sept. 19. Tbe accident occurred on highway 70 west of Morehead City, 100 feet eaat of the Airport Grill. According to Patrolman Brown, both Copeland and Purifoy were headed east. Copeland had stopped because traffic in front of him had come to a halt, but Purifoy, behind him, failed to stop in time to avoid a collision. Damage to the pickup waa es timated at *2M aad to the coupe I -SJ