CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES >? NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 AtmMI St. HtwUi Cky rhmMin 43rd YEAR, NO. 94. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1964 PTTHi.TSHF.n TiinsnAYS amt> rmruva Judge, in Disgust, Recesses Court til 2 P. M. Yesterday 4 County, Towns Receive Beer-Wine Kick-Backs A total of $17,425 came into the county over the weekend in the form ol beer-wine refunds to the towns and county. The county received $10,303; Morehead City $4,033, Beaufort $2,319, Newport $530 and Atlantic Beach $38. Because beer and wine consump tion was off sharply during the past 12 months, the checks sent out from Raleigh were the smallest in eight years. , The total paid to counties and towns is $1,950,139.38, which is 22 per cent under the amount dis tributed last year. Under an act of the 1947 Gen eral Assembly, portions of the beer and wine tax collected in counties and cities which allow beer-wine sales are refunded to the local units. Last year the Revenue Department's Bevtrage Tax Di vision refunded $2,318, 594.19 to the counties and towns. This year's total was hard hit by declining beer sales which are be ing blamed upon beer price in creases. The biggest check, one for $105, 152. went to Charlotte. Winston Salem got $68,885, Greensboro $58, 356, Durham $55,941, Raleigh $51, 523 and Ashevilie, $41,577. ' Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn recessed Superior Court yesterday until 2 p.m. He wis disgusted ? and rightfully so ? because defendants were not in court. "How can we have court if no body's here to be tried?" he growled. "The county goes to all the expense to have a special term and then this happens!" "Where are these people?" Soli citor W. J. Bundy shouted. "We may as well call the whole thing off!" Tempers were short. A court term Thanksgiving week evidently didn't sit well with anyone. "I know what I'll do," Judge Burgwyn said as the docket calling continued and lawyers rushed fren ziedly around trying to find their clients, "I'll just order all bonds forfeited and issue capiases!" Sheriff Hugh Salter presented one defendant, a Negro lad. "He See COURT, Page 7 Atlantic Coast Line , Wilmington Interests Enter ICC Proceedings ? ? ? _ _ ?_ ffftl l_ ? 1 Dr. R. 0. Barnum Wins Flying Cross For Heroic Action Dr- R O- Barnum, a member of the Marine Corps Reserve, More head City, has been awarded the distinguished flying cross for action in Korea. Dr. Barnum, whose home is at 1807 Bridges St., is also holder of several air medals for heroic action in Korea and in the South Pacific during the second World War. The DFC was awarded for action July 7, 1952. In the citation from the President, forwarded by C S Thomas, secretary of the Navy, tfle action is described as follows Leading a flight of attack air' craft on 4 close air support mis sion against a heavily defended and well-entrenched enemy concentra tion of artillery and automatic weapons . . . Captain Barnum promptly located the carefully camouflaged batteries ... and initiated a daring low-level napalm assault . . . through an- intense barrage of hostile antiaircraft fire. "After personally scoring a di rect napalm hit that engulfed two enemy mortar positions in flames and clearly marked the target for the remainder of his flight, he ltd the division in repeated bombing and strafing assaults . . Dr. Barnum, a native of Glasco K*n., went into the Marine Corps' upon graduation from high school in 1942. He was trained at Pensa cola and was stationed at Cherry Point in 1944. ' After discharge from the s?r vice in 194?, he went to Chiro practic College in Davenport, la and in 1950 was recalled to service. He re-entered as a first lieutenant and was promoted to captain in September 1950. His service in Korea started in rh 'JTli981 ** B>rnum started Ch'ropractic practice in Morehead City in Feburary 1952. The Barn urns have four children, Robert Sue, 9; Howard Otto, 7; Shirley Ann, 3, and Jeanie Marie, 1. Newport Firemen Stage School Drill Firemen conducted the Novem ber fire drill at Newport School recently and the primary building was cleared in less than one minute, CapL Charlie Gould Jr. of the fire department reported. The children filed out of the building in good order. A check of the gas appliances in the kitchen at the new building revealed that practically everything was in good order. Checks were made of some of the extinguishers in the main building, as well as ?ome of the appliances is home economics class room. The inspection team consisted of B. T. Smith Jr., Andrew Jackson and Captain Gould. Firemen to Sponsor Cartoon Show 'to*? men are sponsor- j j?f ? ?*?P-s-Toy cartoon show at ini ?TS? Tb"tre morn thr^wS* 01 ,nm 1 through 100, are invited. The ad ^"1 U 1 used toy in ^it011^ ' * w* toy or a contribution of 50 cent, or more. h. 2L *2? ,?on'y re?ived will to PWkh a Jfcrr^rfatm? for the town's underprivileged youngsters. w,u ** ,n hour nope to diock Southern Plan The first block has been thrown in the path of nego tiations before the Interstate Commerce Commission re garding the transfer of the Atlantic and East Carolina line to the Southern Railway. The Atlantic Coast Line, a South ern competitor which has a ter minal at Wilmington, has asked the ICC to suspend proceedings until it can be shown that a lease and use agreement with the government owned Camp Lejeune road "has been duly executed." The Atlantic Coast Line has also asked permission to intervene in any proceedings. It wants to put witnesses before the ICC, crow-ex amine witnesses and allow its law yers to enter pleas. Wilmington Maps In N(r*rttm hH becti taken on thai request but the ICC has granted in tervention rights to Wilmington's Bureau of Rates, Industry and Com merce. The bureau asked intervention on the basis that any findings may af fect traffic flow to and from the poet of Wilmington. The ACL petition was filed by William EL Miller, acting as attor ney for the line, according to the ICC. The action came after Southern announced its plan to extend its operation from Goldsboro to More head City over facilities currently operated by the state, and to Camp Lejeune over a federally owned line that connects with the state facility. The plan would provide east west rail facilities acrocs the state under one operation with emphasis on the port at Morehead City. AMther Plan Another plan before the ICC which would also place a traffic emphasis on the Morehead City port is the proposal of McLean Trucking Co. of Winston-Salem to provide sea-land freight shipments that would use the port as a ter minal. Under that plan, truck trailers would be transported from the Morehea'd City port to other ports along the Atlantic Coast, where the trailers would be picked up and taken to their destination by land. The ICC has not set up any hear ings as yet on the Southern Rail way proposal. There was no indication at Inter state Commerce Commission today when such a hearing would be held, if it Is. Five Out-of-Stater* Fact Charges in Beaufort Five colored men, all out-of staters, were arrested on public drunkenness charges In Beaufort Saturday and Sunday. The men were George Beans, Mobile. Ala.; Sam Taylor, Reeds ville, Va.; Irvin Nickles, Pascagou la. Miss.; Jathroe Harris. Apalachi col. Fla.; and Robert Norris, Fer nandino, Fla. Beans was arrested Saturday and the others Sunday. Nickles faces an additional charge of disturbing the peace. Tides at the Beaufort Bar IGH LO' Tuesday, Nov. 23 Tide Table 8:37 a.m. 6:47 p.m. 12:15 a.m. 1:06 p.m. Wednesday, Nor. 24 7:16 a.m. 7:27 p.m. 12:54 a.m. 1:45 p.m. Tharsday, Nor. IS 7:52 a.m. 8:06 pjn. 1:32 a.m. 2:24 p.m. Friday, Nn. M 8:20 ajn. 8:42 pja. 2:06 a.m. 1:00 M> C&D Director Tours State's Coastal Area Director Ben Douglas of the Board of Conservation and De velopment reported to Gov. Lu ther Hodges yesterday on his weekend trip throughout the coast al area. Accompanied by Beverly C. Snow, chief engineer of the C&D Division of Water Resources; C. G. Holland, assistant commercial fisheries commissioner; and Eric W. Rodgers. assistant to Mr. Doug las. the C&D director toured the 11 coastal counties \0 survey hur ricane damage. ' The officials were in Carteret Friday. With them on the tour here was W. A. Ellison. Jr., direc tor of the Institute of Fisheries Research. They were joined Sat urday at Topsail Island by Col. R. L. Hill, in charge of the Wilming ton district. Corps of Army En gineers. Commissioner Holland has placed the total loss to the state's fishing industry, as the result of the hur ricane. at $1,506,313. A summary of the damage done, by counties, follows: Beaufort, *55,555; Bertie. $135,020; Bruns wick, $474,232; Carteret, $303,061; Chowan. $163,226; Dare, $53,087; Hyde, $10,197; New Hanover, $71, 170; Onslow, $209,215; Pamlico, $28,400; and Washington, $3,150. Damage to fishing boats was put at $369,058, to nets and stakes at $226,461. to fish houses, docks and plants at $787,924, to homes at $111,428. Commissioner Holland reported 550 commercial fishermen suffered damage from the hurricane, with some of them having their equip ment destroyed and others sus taining partial damage. Director Douglas commended the state's fishermen for their efforts to get their boats back in the water as soon' as possible without wait ing to see if the government were going to help them. Santa Glaus Will Come by Boat To Beaufort Arrival of Jolly Old Elf Will Mark Beginning Of Christmas Season Santa Claui will arrive in Beau fort via the "Good Ship Mistletoe" Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m. and will be .escorted through Beaufort by a parade featuring two high school bands and a Beaufort fire truck. Santa Claus will give away free prizes to all children who present him with a letter. This Saturday, 28 merchants will begin giving away tickets for the Pirate's Chest of Silver. The tickets are given away with each purchase of one dollar or more. The stubs of the tickets will be placed in the Pirate's Chest and there will be four drawings with a total of $100 being given away each time. Persons have to be present at the drawing to win. The first drawing will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, and will be followed with drawings each Sat urday until the last one, Friday, Dec. 24. All drawings will be at 3 p.m. Stores will begin staying open on Wednesday afternoons Dec. 1 with the arrival of Santa Claus. Stores will be open until 8 p.m. each night, starting Dec. 18. In charge of the Christmas pro motion is a Chamber of Commerce committee headed by Lonnie Dill. The town crew and the fire de partment will put up town Christ mas decorations. For the first time a lighted tree will stand this year in the center of the turn table at the west end of Front Street. The tree will be visible at night from the causeway and Beaufort bridge as well as from the main street of town. Norfolk Firm Submits Low Bid Tidewater Construction Corp., Norfolk, was low bidder on a con tract for repateoQf the Be^Mort bridge. Tftre* bfos were received. Tidewater's was $61,300. The contract calls for the re moval and replacement of four bents ? four piles with capi? in the foundation structure of the bridge. The work is to be completed with in 60 days, and a condition of the contract provides that traffic will not Be prevented from using the brigde while the work ia in prog ress. The bridge, which carries US 70 across the Beaufort channel, was partly undermined by storm tides and had to be closed temporarily for emergency repairs. John L. Humphrey, county road superintendent, reported that driv ing of pilings at the North River bridge started last week. With good weather, it is hopet^that two-way traffic will be going acroas the bridge by the first of December. Both ends of the bridge were washed out by the Oct. 19 hurri cane. Court Cancelled Becauae Judge Earl Mason is scheduled to be out of town today, there will be no Recorder's Court in Beaufort this afternoon. County Recorder's Court will not be held because Superior Covrt ia in ses sion. Officers Shatter Hopes Of Holiday Bootleggers Dreams of abundant, illicit holi day grog were fluttered this week end ai the sheriffs department and the county ABC officer, M. M. Ays cue, closed in on two stills. One still, a 100-gallon steam rig, was located in woods off the North River Road and the second, of about 90-gallon capacity was found at Davis between Catbriar Swamp and the cemetery. Mr. Ayscue Mid both stills would be dynamited early this week. He's planning to indict sev eral persons believed connected with the bootleg operation at North River. Officers went into the North River still about 1 a.m. Saturday and waited until 8 a.m., hoping the operators would turn up, but a batch of brew had already been run and disposed of The still at Davis was located a short distance behind the old school house which is now the com munity building. Mr. Ayscue said apparently everybody knew about its location except hint When he got there Sunday after noon it was the object of sight seers and folk* In the community were upeet about the fact that the illegal distillery was so cloae to home. The still la believed to have been found laat weak by Man bays who were hunting in toe locality. Accompanying officers to the iite Sunday waa the aheriffi young ion, Jeffery Salter, who located a bottle of the moomhine which had been hidden near the atill. "They're branching out," Mr. Ayacue aaid. referring to the boot leggers. This is the firat time a atill has been located that Jar east. Operations in the recent past have been confined to juat cut of Beau fort and the highway 101 aection. Sound View FWB Church To Obsorv* Thanksgiving Members of the Sound View FYee Will Baptiat Church will have a special Thanksgiving service Thurs day night, atarting at 7:30 o'clock. The pastor. Rev. Carroll Hara ley, will deliver the mesug? and special music will be furnished by the Holly Springs Quartet and the Sound View choir. ?rtdae WCtaee The highway bridge acroaa the Atlantic lntracoastsl Waterway near Hobncken wiU be cloaed to ve hicular traffic fr?n 8 a.m. to 1> noon and from 1 p.m. to S p.m., Sunday, Nov. 28, for the purpose of making emergency repairs. Morehead City Sewer Fee To Go into Effect Jan. 1 Friday News-Timos Will Go to Press Tomorrow Dae to Thanksgiving Day, THE NEWS-TINES will go to (trees tomorrow night with Fri day's issue. Correspondents, ad vertisers and others submitting Items for publication should send their material to the NEWS TIMES office as soon as possi ble. The deadline for accepting classified ads for Fri