CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 43rd YEAR, NO. 96. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1964 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS NKWS-TIME3 OFFICE ? 804 Ar? dill St City 6-4178 I funeral Rites Conducted For School Pupil Robert Midgett, Who Attondod Swansboro School, Shot Friday Funeral services for * Swans | boro High School junior who was accidentally shot Friday were con . ducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 ? o'clock at the Oak Grove Methodist Church, Bear Creek. Robert Ne?l Midgett. 16, Hubert, had been hunting Friday after noon when he met his cousins, J. B. and Bud Bell, 14 and 11, re specively. One of his cousins was also carrying a gun. The three got on Robert's motor scooter and rode down the roau. When they were getting off the scooter, one of the guns went off and hit Robert in the lower part of the back, spreading the shot ! into his intestines. The load hit the youth from about a one foot range, according to Dr. James Piver. He was taken to the office of Dr. J. P. Corbett, Swansboro, and immediately sent I to the Onslow County Hospital in Jacksonville. f At the hospital he underwent surgery for more than three hours with Dr. Piver and Dr. W. T. Turlington performing the opera tion. He had lost a great deal of blood and emergency calls were sent for I donors of his rare type of blood. Out of 800 persons who answer ed the call, only 55 had blood that matched that of the wounded youth. He was given 30 pints of blood before he succumbcd at 5 o'clock Saturday morning. Coroner Talbert Jones, Onslow County ruled that the shooting was accidental and he will not call for an inquest. Surviving are Robert's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Midgett; two brothers, Harold and Nolan; one sister, Martha; his grandmother. Mrs. Bertha Midgett, Hurbert; his I grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eden Yeomans, Hubert; and his great grandmother, Mrs. Miria Phillips, Wilmington. , Firemen Return Home Check Lists Newport firemen have mailed completed and checked "home fire safety check lists" back to home owners. As part of the Fire Prevention Wfcek campaign, Newport Firemen distributed in the school several hundred fire safety check sheets. The four page questionnaire cover ed all (ire hazards ordinarily found in the average home. The school children carried the list home where parents filled out the forms. These were returned to school. Later firemen checksd over the foAns and circled in red the hazards to be corrected. The biggest hazard noted by firemen was combustible rub bish, leaves, and debris in the yards, commented Joe Jones, sec retary. Another big thing was the fact that few oil burning appli ances were checked and cleaned prior to the heating season, i Many of our rural people are handicapped in that they have no available telephone to call the fire department Yet it was amazing how many people did not know how to contact tin fire department, commented Charlie Gould Jr., Fire Prevention Week chairman. Boy Scouts helped distribute the form* to the teachers. Andrew Jackson, a member of the committee expressed thanks to E. B Corner, principal, for his > help. Children Help Firemen J ill J. c Youngsters flocked to the Beau- , fort Theatre Friday morning to see j a cartoon show sponsored by the j Beaufort Fire Department in co- j operation with the theatre. Price of admission was a new toy, a used toy in good condition or 50 cents. Pictured above is the fire truck with Lt. John C. Parkin, fireman, standing on top of it. At left is Bill Sutton, theatre manager, and children holding toys are Marcus Mason, Ronnie Lake Smith, Danny Toler, Jennifer Rose, Carolyn Daniels, and Jimmy Salter, all of Beaufort. Firemen will repair toys and use them as well as money contributed to carry out their Christmas good will program. Report Suggests Spending Five Million on County Roads Club Contributes Fund to Finance Moving Office The Carteret Business and Pro fessional Woman's Club voted to give $72 toward the moving of na tional federation headquarters when the club met Tuesday night. The moving of the national office was approved at biennial conven tion and each club throughout the nation has been asked to contribute $2 per member. The office is now located in New York City apd will b? mv*d to Washington, D C. Miss Lyda Piner. chairman of the loan closet committal, reported that two sickroom loan closets in the county need hospital beds and wheel chairs. The club agreed to offer to buy, at reasonable pricej such beds or chairs which county residents may wish to dispose of. The club will then contribute them to established sickroom loan closets. Miss Alida Willis, chairman of the 195S March of Dimes, appoint ed Mrs. C. L. Beam, Miss Ruth Peeling, Mrs. Joe Beam, Mrs. Roma Noe and Mrs. John Johnson to as sist her in appointing committees for the polio campaign. Mrs. Marshall Ayscue reported on the State Home project and dis tributed questionnaires for club members to fill out. Mrs. Ayscue, Mrs. C. L. Beam, president, and Miss Peeling also reported on the mid-year council meeting at States ville. A change in the meeting date for the club was discussed and it was decided that a vote shall be taken at the next meeting. Mrs. Don Martin. Beaufort, was admitted as a new member, and Miss Georgie Sughes, chairman of the club's vil defense committee, reported on civil defense work. Mrs. Retha King, finance chair man. announced that Miss Evelyn Westergard, Beaufort - Morehead City cauacway. had received the turkey given away by the club. Profit on the project was t92.21. The president opened the meet ing with a Thanksgiving prayer. The meeting followed dinner at lolden'f Restaurant, Beaufort. 26 Defendants Plead Guilty to Recklessness Twenty ? nix drunken driving cutt were disposed of in Superior Court last week aa the defendant! pled guilty to a charge of careless and reckless driving and were fined 1100 and assessed court coats. They were Alton Ray Lamm, Braxton Bragg, Hall, Randolph H. Kller, William P. Doland, Flossie Rood Henderson, Fernie B. Smith, Nicholas Peter Denuldcr, Bryan W. Carr, Pennuel J esse TBIett. I"*y Ray King. Larry Delmore Smith. Herbert George llohr, Oscar B. Ellett, Ralph Herbert Bell, Charles Kdward Anthony, David Truman Harrla, Ralph Russell Dixon, Vernon Charles Arthur. Clinton A. Johnson. Gordon Herbert Salter. Kenneth Lee Best, Jake Raymond Baker. Ray Tew ?r . Thomas John Prince. Henry Daniel Smith, -and Wlllard Lee Klttrell Wood row Hariesa and Clbert Gllllkin, charged with speeding, pled guilty careless and nek Irs driving and were also fined $100 and taxed cost*. Get M Days Raymond 0. Weaver, Thnmaa E. Brewington and Buddy L. Prince were sentenced to 90 days on the roada on a charge of automobile theft. The caae against Robert Dudley, charged with gambling, waa left open. Neither did the state prone cute Edward ^ee Plner on an em bezzlement charge. * Floaaie Reela waa taxed -oats of court for forgery and Darval Wayne Weat Jr. paid coats and ? fine of $10 for speeding. Phillip A. Sandron had to pay coata for hunting on Sunday. A Jury found Edward Hyde Willis not guilty on a speeding charge. Chargad with forcible traapaaa ing and attempting to staal chick ana, Junior Thompson waa given a suspended aaotaoca of SO days Baa COUBT, Page ? ? After an intensive seven-month survey, Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall and MacDonald, engineers, have is sued a report on North Carolina's highway needs. The report gives recommenda tions for bringing highway, road and bridge systems up to standard during the coming 10 years. To make the necessary improve ments in Carteret, the survey recommends the expenditure of slightly more than five million dol lars. The major expenditure would be $3,137,000 for 71.17 miles of im pTovement to rural roads and 6.9 miles of new construction. Sug gested for improvement of .9 mile of town streets on the major high way system was $18,000. The report recommends the building of three new highway struetures and replacement of 10 at a cost of $$,051,700. bringing the total recommended expenditure tb $5,206,700. (Structure* are bridges of any type or culverts). Needed to bring the state's en tire system up to par is $610,000, 000. To help pay the bill the re port suggests floating a $153,000, 000 bond issue. The financing contemplates bor rowing $39,000,000 during the 1955-57 biennium, $53,000,000 dur ing 1957-59 and $61,000,000 during 1959-61 to augment regular high way revenues. These amounts, the experts re ported, would be sufficient to cover the deficits created by the re modeling program in the first three biennniums. including, inter est costs on the borrowed funds at an assumed average rate of 2.25 per cent per year. The State Highway Commission will meet soon to consider the recommendations and put them in the form of proposals to present to the legislature in January. WOW to Give Flag To Guard Unit The Woodmen of the World, Camp No. 188, Morehead City, will preaent an American flag to the Morehead City National Guard unit Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Camp Glenn Armory. Willie W. Moore, financial sec retary of Camp 188, will aerve as master of ceremonies and Clifford C. Faglie, WOW field repreaenta liyr, will be the main apeaker. The invocation and benediction will be given by the Rev. Noah D. Brown, paator of the Free Will Baptlat Church, Morehead City. The public la' invited. The WOW will elect officers at their meeting at 7:30 Monday night, Dec. 8, at the Woodmen Hall and Newport's WOW will have elections Friday night. Dec. 30. Newport Woodmen will con vene at 7:30 in the hall over Mose Howard's garage. Farm lurtau Solicitors Moot; Membership 365 Fifteen new memberships were announced at a meeting of the Farm Bureau membership solici tors Friday night in the county agent'a office, Beaufort. Total en rollment for 1983 la now 38B. Floyd Carper, Newport, chair man of the committee, has an nounced, that anotheV- meeting of tbe committee for Thursday night. Civil Ter* Scheduled The December term of Superior Court will open at 10 a.m. next Monday with Judje Joseph Parker presiding. Only civil cases will be tried. CHRISTMAS Is Just Around The Cottier! IN THIS ISSUE BUSINESS MEN OF BEAUFORT AND MOREHEAD CITY OFFER YOU SNOW BRIGHT IDEAS FOR THAT GIFT LIST! Police Hold 21 -Year-Old Negro Captured Thursday Hugh Martin Speaks Friday To Spud Growers Farmers Will Vote Friday On Proposed 1 Cent Assessment Hugh Martin, of the Marketing Division of the North Carolina De partment of Agriculture, spoke to a group of irish potato growers of eastern Carteret County Friday night in the courthouse. , Mr. Martin explained the pur pose and procedure of the potato referendum set for Friday. He announced that all potato growers in this county will vote Friday at the usual agriculture polling places in eastern Carteret. The vote is to find out whether Carteret and other potato growers are willing to assess themselves one cent per 100 pounds of pota toes produced. This assessment will be collect ed by the commissioner of agricul ture to provide funds for research in better and more adaptable pota to varieties. Research will also be directed toward better packing, market ing and all phases of potato pro duction and distrebution. Polling places will be Crab Point Grocery Store; Gaskills Seed Store, Beaufort; L. N. Conner's Store, Harlowe; Pake's Grocery, Bettie; and Headen Willis's Store, Smyrna. Dan Taylor Firm to Start New Ferry Service to Cuba The first sailing of the "Sea Level," the New Orleans-Havana Railroad Car Ferry, will take place Tuesday. Dec. Iff 4 I ? Now operated by tic West India Fruit and Steamship Co., Dan E. Taylor, president, the ferry offers direct rail service from New Or leans to Havana. The "Sea Level" will sail each Tuesday from Belle Chase, La. The West India Fruit and Steam ship Co. already operates a car fer ry from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Havana. ? Mr. T aylor, originally from he community of Sea Level in t'lis county, was here 10 days ago to attend the formal opening of the new bank at Sea Level. He and his three brothers, who were also here, and their father, Maltby, establish ed the Taylor Foundation which constructed the half million dollar Sea Level Hospital in 1B53. The West India Fruit and Steam ship Co. points out that their new service is especially adapted for ?handling shipments of petroleum products in bulk in tank cars, chem icals, lumber, raw materials for Cuban factories, liquid freight, chemical products and LP gas. fire brick, heavy machinery and other commodities loaded in box cars, re frigerator cars, gondola, tank and flat cars and special device rail road cars. Northbound from Cuba the ferry will carry raw sugar in bags in box can and other Cuban products. Voters to Elect Soil Supervisor Voters will cast ballot* Dec. fl-11 lor the county's now ioil conserva tion supervisor Running for the office are Floyd Garner and Y. Z. Simmons, both of Newport, and Sam Garner, Wild wood. Mr. Garner's term is the one to be filled. Be Is running for re election. The winning candidate will serve a three-year term. David Jones, county soil super visor. ssys any eligible voter in the county may cast a ballot. On the board of supervisors in this county are Neal Campen. Beaufort RFD. chairman, John D. Young, Stella, vice-chairman, and Mr. Garner, aecretary-treasurer. Aftci vacancies on the board are filled, the members elect their of ficers. Polling places next week will be Jim Young's Store, Stella; L. N. Conner's, Harlowe; Roy T. Gar ner's, Newport; Lee Murdoch. Wildwood; Dewey Hardeaty's Store. North River, and Leon Weeks' Store, Bofue. North Carolina IMS license tags will go on sale tomorYow at the loan department of the Flr?t-C Hi re ns Bank and Trust Ce, More bead Citjr. 1 ? ? ? Jaycees Sponsor Sports Movie "The Bob Mathias Story," a movie on the famous athlete who 'Toke several records in last year's Olympic Games, will be shown Thursday and Friday at the More head Theatre. Sponsoring the show are More head City Jaycees who are cooper ating with all U. S. Jaycees to raise money to send American ath letes to next year's Olympic games. Tickets are now available at cither the City or Morehead The atre or may be obtained from any Jaycee. The showing of the movie will be continuous and the regular price of admission will be charged. The role cf Mathias is played by Bob Mathias himself. Farm Specialists Will Give Farm Outlook for 1955 Rural families of the county will attend an "Outlook" meeting Thursday morning at 8:30 in the courthouse. Attending the meeting will be two agriculture economists and one home economist from North Car olina State College. The outlook for general econ omy, farm products and family living for the coming year will be the topic of discussion. R. M Williams, county agent, said, "We hope to have as many families as possible attend this meeting since the subject will con cern every farm family in the county. I believe everyone will benefit by attending. Drive Opens Sam Adler. chairman of the Sal vation Army drive in the county, announced thia week that this is Salvation Army Month. Contribu tions should be given or mailed to Mr. Adler. Morehead City. Tides at the Beaafart Bar Taeaday, Nov. M .m. 4:41 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1 Tide Table HIGH LOW 11:21 a.m. 11:43 p.m. 5:30 a.m. 0:18 p.m. Tharsday, Dec. f 11:11 a.m. 1:31 p.m. 0:25 a m 7:02 p.m. FrMay, Dae. I 2:00 a.m. 141 p-m. TM pan. 7:27 a m. Five Countians Will Enter Army Thursday Five county men have been ordered to report to the County Selective Service Board Thurs day where they will be forward ed to Raleigh for induction into the Army. The men are Ernest Neal Hill and Osborne II. Owens. Marshall berg; Harry Gaskill Jr., Beaufort; Walter R. Trott, Stella; and I>on nie O. Lewis, Otway. Crowd Estimated At 4,000 See ChristmasParade A crowd estimated at 4,000 saw the Friday night Christmas parade of floats depicting the coming, of Christ. The parade took place in Morehead City. Spectators shiver ed in a Yule season temperature of 40 degrees and participants in the parade, portraying pantomime scenes, were effectively congealed into position. Loud-speaking systems along the parade route, from 15th and Aren dell east to 6th and then west again, were set up to describe the floats as they appeared. The Morehead City High School Band, under the direction of Ralph Wade, played Christmas carols in the businoM section of the town as the parade passed by. The flqflt themes, taken from the scripture, and the churches which portrayed them, were as follows: Christ in Christmas. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church; The Coming of Christ, First Methodist Church, Morehead City. Annunciation to Mary, First Presbyterian Church, Morehead City; Mary's Visit to Elizabeth, Ann Street Wethodist Church, Beaufort; The Journey to Bethle hem, First Baptist Church; No Room in the Inn, Franklin Memo rial Methodist Church. Mary and Joseph Find Shelter, Glad Tidings Tabernacle, More head City; Shepherds Abiding in the Field, Park View Baptist Mis sion, Morehead City; Heavenly Hosts. Free Will Baptist Church, Morehead City. The Manger. Core Creek Meth odist Church; Shepherds Visit the Babe, St. James Methodist Church, Newport; Wise Men Follow the Star, Free Will Baptist Church, Davis; Wise Men Before Christ, Newport Baptist Mission, and The Hope of the World, Sea Level Christian Church. The parade was sponsored by the retail merchants committee of the Morehead City Chaniber of Commerce, Carl Southc rland, chairman, and the County Minis ters Association. Newport PTA to Sponsor Supper, Bazaar Friday The Newport PTA is sponsoring a fried chicken supper, a bake sale and a sale of Christmas gifts Fri day from 5 until 7:30 p.m. in the school lunchroom. "Come and enjoy a good south ern fried chicken supper and buy your Christmas gifts," invites Mrs. Tom Dickinson, Wildwood, PTA president. Meetings Cancelled Civic organizations, such as the Lions and Rotary oi Morehead City, which meet each Thursday, did not meet Thursday, Thanks giving Day. Carlton Fran Five Separat Carlton (Bobby) Frank-" lin, a 21-year-old Negro of T-163 Craven Terrace, New Bern, was being held in the county jail yesterday with out bond. He faces five sep arate charges of entering and attempting to enter Beaufort homes. Franklin was cap tured Thursday night. Chief of Police M. E. Guy said yesterday that Franklin told him and SBI Agent John Edwards Sat urday that he entered the Charles Owens home. Ill Broad Street, Sun day, Oct. 31. At that time, Mrs. Owens, an invalid, awakened at 5:30 and saw a man in her room. When she screamed, he ran. Her husband and sons ran after the in truder but could not catch him. Franklin was taken to the Owens' home after he was appre hended and Mrs. Owens said he "favored" the man she saw in her room. Franklin, who will be given a preliminary hearing before Judge Karl Mason in Beaufort Recorder's Court this afternoon, has been charged with breaking and enter ing the Owens' home with intent to commit rape. The other charges against him are the outgrowth of incidents which occurred Thursday night. He is charged with attempting to break and enter the Sam Darling, Oliver Yost, and Harry Murphy homes with intent to commit robbery and with peeping in the home of Cecil Brooks. 302 Moore St. According to police, someone tried to enter the Sam Darling house on Broad Street about 10 o'clock Thursday night. Then Mrs. Cecil Brooks drove into the drive way by her home shortly afterwards and saw a colored man looking in her side living room window. She asked, "What are you do ing?" He turned toward her and .said, "Wait a minute," ahd with that she screamed Frank Jordan, a neighbor two doors away heard her scream and came rushing out of his house. Mrs. Brooks ran in side and called the chief of police who went to the Brooks' home. By that time the neighborhood was aroused and several men set out on a search for the "peeper." Chief Guy said he learned later that a few minutes after the Brooks episode, a man tried to get in the Oliver Yost house at Cedar and Orange Streets. Mr. Yost went to the door with a flashlight and threw the beam right on the fellow. He ran again and was located at about 11 p.m. at the corner of the Murphy house, 21 1 Cedar St. With the chief at that time was Officer Steve Beachem. Lewis Her bert Rice had joined the posse searching for the ngan and us Franklin ran around the Murphy house on the west side, Mr. Rice fired a shot gun blast over his head. When officers came upon Frank lin a few seconds later, he was standing like a statue with his hands in the air. Sheriff Hugh Salter, George Canady, SBI director for this dis trict, and Deputy Sheriff Marshall Ayscue went to Atlantic Saturday to check with Franklin's employer, the Clayton Fulcher Seafood Co. But while they were on the trip, Franklin confessed to the Owens entry. The chief of police yesterday thanked the men who helped look for Franklin. He said without them. Franklin would not have been apprehended. Santa Claus is Comin' Santa Claw ?M TUB NEWS-TIMES yesterday that he will sake Ms atFMraacc la lleaafert * 4 Ma. Hurriw akonl hla Wat. Um IHsll???. He wilt tie ap at a M la tke lMt Mack af Freat street and ke (acatM Iwlwi la a parade. Be saya ka will kara a (1(1 la Us |K* far aack dUM wfca (hraa kla ? latter. klin Faces e Charges k Concert Member Cards Mailed Out Members in Carteret Cherry Point Area May Attend Nearby Concerts Membership cards to the Com munity Cqpcert Series have been sent to mec.bers for the 1955 sea son. The first concert of the series will be Jan. 19 at the Beaufort school, featuring the Becker En semble. Members of the ensemble are Mary Becker, violinist; Marcia Barbour, cellist; Lili Miki, pianist, and Ramona Dahlberg, flutist. Feb. 22, Mario Braggiotti pianist, will be at the Morehead City School and Edwin Steffe, baritone, will be at the Beaufort school April 14. All concerts start at 8 p.m. Carteret-Cherry Point Commun ity Concert members may attend concerts in nearby towns as fol lows: Kinston: Dec 9 Leonard Pen nario, pianist; Theodore Uppman, baritone, Jan. 14, and Elena Niko laidi, contralto, April 11. Wilson: Mimi Benzelle, soprano, Jan. 1; male quartet. Men of Song, Feb. 22; Herman Godes, pianist, April 21. Goldsboro: The Longines Sym phonette. March 28; Ethel Barry more Colt, actress, April 22. Auto Burns After Smash-Up , Thursday Night A 1939 Plymouth burned up on Highway 70 in front of the South ern Oil Transport Co. building west of Morehead City Thursday night after a collision with ? 1990 Ford. The Ford is considered to be a complete loss, according to J. W. Sykes, state highway patrol man who investigated the accident. Herbert W. Stroud, Morehead City, stated that he was driving the Plymouth west on 70 when the Ford* struck his car. with tremend ous impact, from the rear, sending him 800-900 yards down the high way. The Plymouth, hit in the gas tank, immediately burst into flames. Mr. Stroud's foot was wedged between the brakes and the clutch and the doors were jammed. As the fire blazed, he pulled his foot out of his shoe and climbed out a window. William Benjamin Oswot, Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Md., was driving the Ford. With him were Joseph F. LaCroix, and Raymond S. Baugh, both of Camp Lejeune. LaCroix and Baugh were taken to the Morehead City Hospital by Dill's Ambulance where they were given emergency treatment. A Navy ambulance later took them to Camp Lejeune. Neither Stroud nor Oswak, the drivers, were hurt. Patrolman Sykes charged Oswot with careless and reckless driving, speeding and drunken driving. He also charged LaCroix with using loud and profane language on a highway. A Morehead City fire truck was called to the scene to put out the auto fire but the blaze had already taken its toll before the truck ar rived. Agency Sponsors CARE Program Offleei of Railway Express Agency, which are located In all the principal cities and towns of the country are center* for the collection and forwarding of dona tiona to the CARE Chriatmaa "Food Cruaade" for needy families in 31 countries of Europe, Asia and Latin Ameriac, agent D. H. Rowe, Morehcad City, announced today. The service ia performed at no cost to CARE or to the public, he aaid. A. L Hammell. President of the company statea that "We feel that relief from suffering and despair during the holiday period when every American feels a heightened sense of good will toward his fel low man ia a valuable contribution not only to those in want, but wa also believe that the cruaade la an aid to our foreign policy of staaa ming the spread of Coaununiaaa la the free countries at tl