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44th YEAS, NO. 8. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. JANUARY 28, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Early Morning Fire Guts
Morehead Boarding House
C. G. Holland Presents
Six-Month Fish Report
Morehead City ? Hurricane'
Hazel had leu effect on the North
Carolina oyster crop than was
first believed, C. G. Holland, act
ing state fisheries commissioner,
reported at Raleigh this week.
In a six months report of com
mercial fishing operations along
the coast to Director Ben E. Doug
las of the Department of Con
servation and Development, Mr.
Holland said the period from July
1 to Dec. 31, 1954, "was a hectic
one for commercial fishermen."
Besides generally unsettled weath
er much of the time, there were
three hurricanes.
Despite the hurricanes, Mr. Hol
land said S7.730 tubs of oysters
were harvested during the six
months period against 89,443 tubs
for the similar period in 19S3. Also
off was the shrimp harvest, there
being 4,198,634 pounds of headed
shrimp taken aga'inst 5,514,429
pounds caught during the last six
months of 1953.
Clams also decreased, with 2,
447 bushels being taken against
6,021 in the last half of 1953.
A bright spot on the commer
cial fishing scene was the catch
of soft and hard crabs. Soft crabs
taken totaled 6,571 dozen against
450, while hard crabs caught total
See REPORT, Page 2
Directors Give
$100 for Highway
Members of the board of di
rectors of the Beaufort Chamber
of Commerce voted $100 to the
All-Seashore Highway Association.
The board met Tuesday night at
the chamber office, Front Street.
In adopting the seashore high
way as a major chamber project,
the director? asked that individ
uals, too, contribute toward pro
motion of the coastal thorough
fare. " >'
Geralfl Hill, membership chair
man, told the board that unpaid
membership fees must be collected.*
Pledged for the 1954-55 year was
$2,477.50 and thus far $1,868.50
has been paid.
Norwood Young, president, read
a letter from the Southeastern As
sociation of Chamber of Commerce
Excutives inviting chamber mem
bers to Asheville for the the March
20-22 session. No member of the
Beaufort chamber will be able to
attend, but the directors autho
rized that $5 be sent to maintain
Beaufort's official status in the
organization.
The directors meet the fourth
Tuesday of each month at 8:30 p.m.
in the chamber office. Miss Pat
Springle has been serving as sec
retary to the chamber since the
resignation, of Miss Fay Merrill
Jan. 1.
Aattending the meeting in ad
dition to the president and Mr.
Hill, were Clarence Guthrie, Dr.
W. L. Woodard, G. T. Spivey, Lon
nie Dill, Halsey Paul, Braxton
Adair, C. G. GaskiU and William
Roy Hamilton.
i
Woman Fined
MOO for Selling
White Lighfnin'
Judge Gives Mother Sen
tence for Keeping
Children Out of School
Mary Jane Davis was found guil
ty of possession of non-taxpaid
whisky and selling same Tuesday
in County Recorder's Court. Judge
Lambert R. Morris presided.
She must pay a $100 fine and
costs within 60 days and remain on
good behavior for a period of five
years, or else a six-month jail term
in Woman's Prison at Raleigh will
be invoked.
A Beaufort woman pleaded guil
ty to aiding and abetting in tfie
delinquency of minor children hy
allowing them to remain away from
school. A six-month jail term at
Woman's Prison was suspended as
long as the defendant remains on
Rood behavior and keeps her chil
dren in school as required by law.
Costs were remitted to the de
fendant.
Pays Costs
Doris Gillikin was taxed with
costs for malicious prosecution
charging Calvin Hodges with as
sault with a deadly weapon, a car.
The following persons forfeited
bonds: Gladys English Walker
charged with speeding 65 miles per
hour; Robert J. Reid, charged with
speeding 65 miles per hour: Paul
Wingate Lewis charged with im
proper muffler; Lawrence M. Terry
charged with speeding in excess of
55 miles per hour, and Leslie Gar
land Guthrie charged with park
ing on the highway and having no
operator's license.
Half costs were assessed agalnat
the following: David Evan Baxter
who pleaded guilty to allowing An
unlicensed person to operate a ve
hicle, and Perry Cambridge who
was found guilty of improper pass
ing.
Charles L. West pleaded guilty
to issuing a bad check and a three
month jail sentence was suspended
on payment of costs and check
within 30 days.
Donald F. Goodwin was fined $10
and costs when he pleaded guilty
to driving without an operator's li
cense and was found not guilty of
driving drunk.
Richard E. Bessett was assessed
costs when found guilty of speed
ing 65 miles per hour. Wilmar Tim
Larimore was fined $100 and costs
after being convicted of driving
drunk.
One car. a 1946 Dodge sedan,
was ordered confiscated because
non-taxpaid whisky was found in
It. Officers did not apprehend
driver.
Fred Jones, charged with per
jury, was bound over to Superior
See COURT, Page 2 .
A fire of undetermined origin
gutted the WiUU Inn, 107 N. 10th
St., Mare head city, Wednesday at
?bout 4 a.m.
Damage of approximately <10,000
waa done to the boarding house
owned and operated by Mr*. Myrtle
Simpion. Mrs. Simpaon told a
NEWS-TIMES reporter that she
had a little insurance but that it
would not cover the damage.
According to Mrs. Simpson, the
fire is believed to have started in
the framework- of the wooden
building and was discovered by one
of her roomers, Harold Ketterer.
Firemen Called
Ketterer was awakened by smoke
in his room upstairs and he ran
down the atairs to notify Mrs.
Simpson. Ketterer called the fire
department and Morehead City and
Beaufort fire trucks responded to
the alarm.
Other roomers who lived at the
inn were Boyd Cox, Jimmy Bruce,
Francis Knowles and Teeney Piner.
The roomers, as well as Mrs. Simp
son, are staying in upstairs apart
ments adjoining the home of Mrs.
G. W. Styron at 109 N. 10th St.
Mrs. Simpson bought the Willis
Inn from the late Frank Taylor and
has been a resident of Morehead
City for four years, coming to the
town from Beaufort.
Blaze Confined
She said that the firemen con
fined the fire as well as they did
because of the tin roof at the top
of the building. Mayor George Dill
said firemen were to be highly
commended for preventing the
blaze from spreading to neighbor
ing frame homes.
Mrs. Simpson, with the assistance
of her roomers, has several clothes
lines hanging full of blankets,
clothes, trying to get them dry
before she sends them off to the
cleaners. She plans to refurnish
the rooms that were burned and
try to get the inn back in opera
tion as soon as possible.
The majority of the rooms, she
said, are still in rood shape
though a great deal of water dam
age was done.
Morehead City firemen stood by
for three and, * half hours after
battling the flames and smoke. ?
New Menhaden
Boat Launched
The newest craft in the Beau
fort By-Productg Co. fishing fleet
was launched last Thursday at the
Williston Boat Works, Williston.
The Bogue Sound, a 72-foot ves
sel for inside menhaden fishing,
hit the water at 10 a.m. It's now at
the Beaufort Fisheries for com
plete outfitting. It is expected to
start fishing in May.
Built at a coat of about $40,000,
the craft is powered with a Cater
pillar 170 HP Diesel. She will
carry a crew of 15 with Eugene
Dudley of Lennoxville, captain.
The pogue Sound is the first
boat to leave the Williston Boat
Works since the Oct 15 hurricane.
When the storm struck, the keel
had already been laid. The' boat
shed was leveled by high winds
and water.
Elmer Willis, owner of the boat
works, said work has already start
ed on another boat for a company
in New Jersey.
Army Engineers Will Alter
Channel to Deter Shoaling'
Scout loaders Go
To Greenville
N. F. Eur*, of Beaufort, chair
man of the Carteret District, Boy
Scout* of America, Bob Howard,
Morehead City, chairman of lead
erahip training for Carteret Dis
trict. Joe Reilly, inatitutional rep
reaentative of Troop 296, Atlantic,
and Ethan Da via, of Morehead City,
diatrict commiaaioner, attended the
executive board meeting of the
East Carolina Council Wedneaday
night in Jarvia Memorial Metho
diat Church, Greenville.
Mr. Davia, deputy camporee di
rector, haa announced that the
Council'! Camporee, scheduled for
Waahington, N. C. April 22-24 will
be one of the biggeit ever, and that
plana are being made for troop*
of Carteret diatrict to participate.
Attending the meeting alao waa
Ted Davia, Marabead City, diatrict
relation* officer.
Mea l Club Meet*
J. R. Morrill apoke on hia Octo
ber trip to Bermuda at the meet
ing of SL Andrew* Men'* Club
Tueaday night at the Blue Ribbon
Club, Morehead City. The next
meeting will be Wedneaday night,
Feb. 13.
? Wilmington ? Continued shoal
ing along the northeastern side of
Fort Macon hss resulted in a de
cision to re-route the Morehead
City Harbor 30-foot channel slight
ly from the northern end of the
Beaufort channel to the two-mile
area near the turning basin.
Engineers of the Wihahtgton
District, Corps of Engineer, say
the plan Is to move the southeast
ern end of this stretch of the chan
nel ISO feet northeastward and the
end near the two-mile mark 100
feet sooth westward This change
will move the channel about 125
feet farther away from Fort Macon
and, it ia believed, will tend to re
duce the spilling over of and into
the channel.
Despite the fact that Jetties ex
tend severs! feet into the water at
this point, the current is such on
flood tide that ssnd whips by the
jetties and makes this area a con
tinuing menace to unwary ma-'
rinera.
To facilitate the dredging of this
partially new route, range markers
are being changed between Fort
Macon and Shackleford Points snd
in front of Besufort to correct the
alignment of the proposed route.
Dredging of both this stretch sad
the bar channel is scheduled to get
ur.uerway In March by the hopper
dredge Gerlf. An emergency dredg
ing Job In the bar channel wag ao
compllshed in Hw ember to remove
shoals resulting Iran the Oct 18
hurricane.
The advisability of extending the
main jetty at Fort Macon out into
the ocean some 1,000 feet has been
discussed for a number of yean
but the coat of such a protect poses
a first rate obstruction. For the
pad four years, the Wilmington of
fice pointed out, funds for civil
functions have been limited in
most cases to essential maintenance
needs. Military requirements since
the beginning of the Korean war
account for reduction in river and
harbor appropriations.
Extension of the main Jetty, it is
considered, would act aa a repel
lant io tides rushing eastward and
northwardly past the historic fort.
Sand responsible for recurring
shoals would be caught up by the
Jetty. Not only would this be true,
engineers reason, but protection
would be afforded an additional)
portion of the bar channel between
Fort Macon and 8hackleford Point
and farther outward depending on
the length of such an extension.
Office Moved
Heide * Co.. ship's agents, and
More head Shipa Service have
moved their office from the Royal
Building to the Carteret Ice and
Coal Co. building. Bth and Evans
Streets
Cedar Islander
Recovers After
Being Bombed
Target Bomb, Apparently
A Dud, Sinks Oyster ,
Boat in Sound
Leonard Goodwin, 23. son of
Dennis Goodwin, Cedar Island, was
recovering yesterday after being
rescued Wednesday morning by a
state patrol boat. Goodwin's boat,
the Barracuda, sank in Pamlico
Sound after a bomb from a plane
scored a direct hit on it but ap
parently the bomb did not explode.
Goodwin clung to the pilot house
from noon Tuesday until 9:30 Wed
nesday morning when CapL Wiley
Mason in the Q100, a patrol craft,
spotted him and took him at)oard.
With Captain Mason was Charlie
Edwards, mate.
Fisheries Commissioner C; G.
Holland said they gave him break
fast and took him to the bridge at
the Thoroughfare where members
of his family from Cedar Islnd
picked him up and took him home.
News Radioed
The patrol craft had radioed
other boats about the rescuc and
families on Cedar Island with short
wave sets heard the news and made
arrangements to have someone ,
meet Goodwin.
His family was reportedly not '
concerned when he failed to re
turn Tuelday night because fish
ermen are frequently out over
night and sometimes a whole week.
Goodwin was suffering from ex
posure. He was curled up on top
of the pilothouse, but his feet were
frequently in the icy water.
The bomb, dropped from a Ma
rine plane evidently engaged in
target practice, knocked a big hole
in the bottom of the Barracuda.
The boat sank in about 12 feet of
water. Only the pilot house and
the mast were above the water.
Dredging for Oysters
Goodwin was dredging for oys
ters in public oystering grounds
five miles east of Raccoon Island
and about seven miles from a
target area by Cheery Point planes.
Commissioner Holland said he was
Hi water where he had a right to
be. Bat no other fishermen hap
pened to be in the area at the time.
Goodwin, who waf alone, said
that after the bomb hit his boat
he grabbed a qoHt and waved it
at about seven planes going over.
He aaid the planes dipped their
wings and circled back so he
thought the pilots realiied his
plight The incident apparently was
not reported to Cherry Point
authorities, however, until Good
win's rescue by the state boat.
Goodwin said he couln't be sure
whether the planes were low
enough for the fliers to realize his
boat had been sunk.
Cherry Point authorities were
scheduled to start an investigation
of the sinking yesterday morning.
Rain Falls,
Mercury Drops
High winds from the northeast
brought rain to the county during
the past week. Temperature last ?
night was to go down to 20-22 de- 1
grees. The lowest temperature re
cently registered was 22 degrees 1
last Thursday, according to E. Sta- '
mey Davis, weather observer.
The prediction (or this weekend '
is cold, and perhaps wet weather. 1
Temperatures and wind direc
tions since last Thursday are as
follows: I
Max. Min. Wind !
Thursday 44 22 NW I
Friday 47 28 SE I
Saturday 98 38 N I
Sunday ..._i 48 . 44 N !
Monday 44 38 NE
Tueaday 80 32 W
Wednesday SI 30 SW
Rain fell Saturday, Sunday and
Monday. The total precipitation 1
was 1.48 for the three days.
Judge Fines
Motorist $100 ?
Donald C. Klee was fined $100 j
and costs in Beaufort Recorder's ,
Court Tuesday by Judge Earl Ma- ,
son when he pleaded guilty to fail
ing to atop at a traffic light ami <
was found guilty of operating a mo- ,
tor vehicle whilf under the influ- <
en cp of intoxicants. ,
William Rice was aaaesaed costs ,
when he waa found guilty of fall- (
Ing to atop at a stop light and t
speeding 38 miles per hour in a 29
mile tone.
William Sutton. Negro, waa aa- |
?eased costs when he pleaded gull- .
ty to public drunkenness. Daniel 1
Richarfa, who pleaded guilty to
public drunkenness and being a |
public nulaanc*. waa ordered out of
town by ? p.m. Tuesday night. I
Cues against James Reel and i
John Nelson were continued. ,
Reappraisal of County Land
Holdings to Begin Tuesday
My Old Hometown!
Skarren, both of Beaufort, met by
accident on New Year's day in
Tokyo, Japan. Lieutenant Smith,
who is stationed in Korea, was
spending the holidays in Tokyo.
Mr. Skarren, who is a former
member of the Beaufort School
faculty, is principal of an American
junior high school in Japan. He
said that neither he nor Lieutenant
Smith had seen any "home folks"
since leaving the states, until they
bumped into each other.
They talked a lot about home,
especially the fishing. Mr. Skarren
adds, "No matter where Carteret's
sons go. they always remember the
old place and plan on going back!"
His address is TAS-DIHS, Hq.
Central Command 8002 AU, APO
500, San Francisco, Cal.
Polio Collection
Totals$3r7Se
Carteret's March of Dimes con
tributions stood at $3, 750, Miss
Alida Willis. March of Dimes chair
man, reported yesterday.
In t' e "pump for polio" event
Wednesday at the Shell Service
Station, Beaufort, and the Sound
Esso Station, Morehead City,
$104.36 was taken in for the polio
campaign.
Almost 2.000 gallons were sold
at the stations by town officials
and civic leaders. The gas station
operators turned the net profit on
each gallon over to the March of
Dimes.
Hihbs Shell Service Station,
Morehead City, will "pump for
polio" Monday, Miss Willis said.
A road block is being planned for
this weekend and the following
restaurants will give their coffee
money tomorrow to the polio drive:
Morehead City Drug Co., Sanitary
Restaurant. Sport Shop Coffee
Shop,* Waterfront Restaurant, Busy
Bee Restaurant and the Broadway
Cafe.
The last count on profit from the
radio talent show was $550. At a
square dance in the Morehead City
Recreation Center last night cakes
were auctioned off. Persons were
?dmitted by contributing to the
March of Dimes.
Organizations contributing thus
far are the Morehead City Eastern
Star Chapter $10, Women of the
Moose, |9, Chapter 161, Esther Re
Sekahs >25. and $27 has been con
ributed by the Taylor Community
Sail, Harlowe.
Specialist Confers
With Fruit Growers
T. T. Hatton. horticultural exten
sion specialist, Raleigh, was in the
?ounty yesterday conferring with
Uton Bland and A. D. Ennett who
ive west of Morehead City along
Highway 24.
Mr. Bland recently set out a 13
icre peach orchard and Mr. Ennett
i two-acre peach orchard. They
>lan to purchaae spraying equip
nent and other machinery neces
lary for handling the orchards.
R. M Williams, county agent,
>aid it is his hope thaf peaches
M>uld be produced in sufficient
luantity in thia county to meet lo
?al demands. Few good quality
waches- are ever imported to thia
:ounty from the peach growing sec
ion of the Piedmont, he observed.
Property Owners Hava
Until Monday to U?t
Monday will be the last day to
ist taxes.
Owners of real and personal
>roperty in this county who do
lot list taxes by midnight Monday
will be penalized 10 per cainL
Glenn Tucker,
Carolina Beach,
Heads Group
Group Elect! Officers
At Meeting Tuesday
In Morehead City
Glenn Tucker of the Southeast
ern North Carolina Beach Aisso
ciation succeeded Alvah Hamilton
of Morehead City as president of
the All-Seashore Highway Asso
ciation. Officers were elected at
a meeting Tuesday noon at the
Sanitary Fish Market and Rest
aurant, Morehead City.
Other officers are as follows
Vice-presidents, Mrs Alice Strick
land, Carolina Beach; Gerald Hill
Beaurort; and R Stanley Wahab,'
Ocracoke. Re-elected was Joe
DuBois, manager of the Sea Level
Chamber of Commerce and father
of the All Seashore Highway plan
as secretary-treasurer.
The group plans to redouble
their efforts to promote and sup
port (he construction of an all
seashore highway extending from
the Virginia state line to South
Carolina.
The plan calls for paved roads
across Ocracoke Island, Portsmouth
Island, Core Banks, Shackleford
Banks, Bogue Banks, Hurst and
Onslow Beaches on the Marine
Reservation, Camp Lejeune, con
necting with the beaches of south
eastern Carolina and on to the
South Carolina line.
The group is asking for the im
mediate construction of the first
(ink of such * highway that would
include adequate ferry service at
Oregon and Hatteraa Inlets and
the paring of a road from the
village"# Hatteraa to Hatteraa In
let; 4 he paving and construction of
17 miles of roads across Oracokc
Island; adequate ferry service from
Ocracoke Island to either Cedar
Island or Atlantic to connect with
present Highway 70.
Also included is adequate ferry
service across Cape Fear River con
necting the beach areas of lower
New Hanover and Brunswick
Counties.
The proposed highway is divided
into three districts. District 1 takes
care of Dare and Hyde Counties,
District 2 takes in Carteret and
Onslow Counties, and District 3 in
cludes New Hanover and Bruns
wick Counties.
Among those attending the meet
ing were the following: Mayor
George W. Dill, Alvah Hamilton,
H. L. Joslyn, Ted Davis and Hap
Hanson, all of Morehead City;
Gerald Hill, Gene C. Smith, and
Norwood Young of Beaufort; Le
land Yeomans, Dave Yeomans and
Jim Harkcr of Harkers Island.
John H. Fasrell, executive sec
retary of the Southeastern North
Carolina Beach Association;
Charles McCotter, Bayboao; James
H. Burton, Mrs. Alice Strickland,
and Glenn Tucker of Carolina
Beach; Charles Lewis, Sanford;
Aycock Brown and Wallace Mc
Cowan, Manteo; T. B. Zezely, Nag's
Head, and Mr. and Mrs. R Stanley
Wahab and C. F. Boyette of Ocra
coke Island.
JC's to Hold
Open House
Beaufort Jaycees have invited
townfolks to an open house from
2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Scout
building on Pollock Street. Plana
for the open house wer^ made at
the Jaycee meeting at the Inlet
Inn Monday night.
Jaycees have repaired the build
ing but more repaira, especially
to the roof, are needed. The civic
group would like to show people
what they have done and whit
they hope to do.
The program Monday night fea
tured Ted Davit, manager of the
Morehead City Chamber of Com
merce, who gave impersonations.
Seven new members Joined the
group. They were Hugh Gordon,
Ralph Albares, Joe Long, L. D.
Springle Jr., Bert Brooks, Julian
Austin and Charlea Chappell.
Target Area
From 7 a.m. this morning until
fl p.m. today the area in the vicini
ty of Browns Island, located be
tween Browns Inlet and Bear In
let will be haxardous to veaaela be
cause of strafing and bombing ex
erciaes by Marines of Camp
jeune.
valuation 01 county rem estate uy pruicaoiuiiai >r
p raisers will begin Tuesday. The contract was signed by
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, chairman of the County Board of
Commissioners, Friday.
James D. Potter, county auditor, said the job will cost
about $45,000 and will be completed by Jan. 1, 1956. The
worn win DC done oy t. 1. w using-*
& Associates. o( Lincoln, Neb., and
Cleveland, Ohio.
Valuation of property by outside
appraisers has long been pondered
over by the county board but the
cost of the job always deterred ac
tion. Because the county is losing
money, due to unequal valuations
and some property not being listed
at all, the county board at its Jan
uary meeting listened to two firms'
bids on the job.
Hear Bids
Joseph H. Quigley of the Cole
Layer-Trumble Co.. Dayton, Ohio,
bid 150,500 plus *4 for each im
proved lot at Atlantic Beach and
SI for each vacant lot at the beach.
Mr. Quigley said that his method
also included drawing of maps
which would run close to $20,000.
E. T. Wilkins presented his
$45,000 bid at the same meeting.
Commissioners authorized Dr. Bon
ner to enter into a contract with
Wilkins after the county attorney,
Alvah Hamilton, gave his okay.
Dr. Bonner said that with objec
tive valuation, the small taxpayer
will be the greatest benefactor. The
person who owns only a small
amount of property is now paying
more, proportionately, than the
large holder, he observed.
Reduction Foreseen
Seventy-five per cent of the peo
ple will have their taxes reduced
rather than increased, the county
official predicted.
Reappraisal calls for trained men
to study deed books, comb the
county, and appraise property as
it now stands, filling out records
on each piece of real estate on
forms that can be readily filed.
The appraisal will cover ma
chinery owned by plants, as well
as boats, but will not cover inside
furnishings such as refrigerators
and furniture.
County afficiaU h?tleve that the
reappraisal win enable a reduction
in the $1.80 per hundred tax rata.
Working space for the appraisers
has been provided on the second
floor of the courthouse annex.
Beaufort. It is estimated that six
men will be brought in by the Wil
kins firm to do the job.
Total assessed valuation of pro
perty in the county now is 23 mil
lion dollars. This is expected to
be more than doubled. I
Club Endorses
Coming Changes
In Land Values
The Carteret Business and Pro
fessional Women's Club, at its
meeting Tuesday night, went on
record favoring the reappraisal of
county property and authorized the
sending of $5 to each of the sis
school lunchrooms in the county.
The club requested Miss Georgia
Hughes, corresponding secretary,
to write to the county board in
forming them of the club's en
dorsement of the reappraisal pro
posed at the January county com
missioners' meeting.
The IS to pay for lunches for
underprivileged children will be
sent to the Atlantic, Beaufort,
Morehcad City, Camp Glenn,
Smyrna and Newport schools.
Mrs. Julia Tenney reported that
the club sent cosmetics, costume
jewelry and plastic raincoats to
girls at Samarcand, a school for
girls.
The club authorized the purchase
of a B&PW pin and gavel guard
to be presented as a birthday gift
to the New Bern B&PW Club.
Miss Hughes, chairman of the
club's Civil Defense committee,
announced that as the result of
the club's letter to the county
board of commissioners, James D.
Potter was appointed chairman of
the county civil defense program.
Mrs. Marshall Ayscue reported
that she delivered the basket of
food, packed by the club at Chriat>
mas time, to a' M?rt.er? Mand
family.
Mrs. Roma Noe, membership
chairman, introduced tbe following
visitors: Mrs. Milton Lipman, Mrs.
Mary Ann Fisher, Mrs. Vera Smith,
all of Beaufort; Miss Verne Bow
man, Mrs. Stanley Wainwright,
Miss Helen Jones and Miss Rosa
lind Colley, all of Morehcad City.
Mrs. C. L. Beam, president, an
nounced that the next meeting will
be Tuesday, Feb. 22, at the Jeffer
son Restaurant, Morehead City.
I
Former Morehead Resident
Leads Hunt for Treasure
Heading an expedition of treat-'
lire hunters, Charles Williams, who
spent his early life in Morehead
City but now lives at Manhattan
Beach, Ca!? is on his way to the
island of Cocoa some 400 miles off
the west coast of Costa Rica. Mr.
Williams is the brother of Mrs.
Kathleen Kelly and Paul Williams,
Morehead City.
In company with 14 men, the ex
pedition left Long Beach, Cal., Jan.
8, on a converted subchascr, bound
for the island where they hope a
139,000 gamble will return them
$80,000,000 in gold and jewels, the
legendary lost loot of Lima. The
treasure aeekers, engineers, sailors,
business men, claim to have pooled
$33,000 in money and equipment.
They hope to locate the treasure
with a 130-year-old map which ex
pedition leader Williams says was
willed him by a sea captain.
Mr. William states the treasure
was left on a deserted island in
1821 by mutinous crew members
of a ship taking the glittering load
to Spain. The treasure ? jewels,
gold bars, pieces of eight and
church ornaments ? were ordered
sent to Spain to keep it from ln
vaden.
The boat carries a variety of
equipment to aid the treasure
hunt. Including two bulldozers, a
power dragline and four electronic
metal-locating devices. The treas
ure hunt la expected to take three
or four months.
Tide Table
TMes at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Jan. 28
11:07 a.m.
11:43 p.m.
4:33 a m.
5:1^ p.m.
Saturday, 1 an. ?
11:57 a.m.
4:99 a.m.
9:96 p.m.
Sunday, Ian. M
12:39 a.m.
12:32 p.m.
8:47 a.m.
8:98 p.m.
Meaday, Jan. SI
1:32 a.m.
1:93 p.m.
8:10 a.m.
8:18 p.m.
Tueaday. Feb. 1
2:39 a.m.
9:29 a.m.
3:04 p.m.
9:34 p.m.
Roy T. Garner
Speaks to Club
Roy T. Garner presented the pro
gram at the Newport Rotary Club
meeting Tuesday night at the lunch
room on the Newport achool
grounds.
Mr. Garner spoke on thia being
the Golden Anniversary Year (or
Rotary International and on the
duties of the officers of the New
port club. He used material con
tained in the conatitution and by
laws and also material found in the
Rotarian. the monthly magazine of
the organisation.
Harry D. Lockey was appointed
the new institutional representa
tive for the Newport Bo y Scout
Troop which the Rotary Club ipto
?on.
One guest Rotarian from More
head City, Walter Edwarda, was
present. President Nathan Garner
presided. The Rev. J. Herbert
Waklrop Jr. gave the invocation.
County Fir?m?n
Answer 176 Calls
The three fire department* In
the county. Beaufort, Morehead
City and Newport, answered 176
fire alarms during IBM.
Beaufort anawered ? total of
72 calla, Morehead City 83 and
Newport 22. In 1993 when Beau
fort was not answering out-of-town
alarma and accurate records were
n't kept until March of that year, it
ia eatlmated that the department
answered 4S alarma.
Morebead City answered 84 calls
in 1B8S and Neweprt 17.
Of Beaufort's 72 calls last year,
35 were out of town. Morehead
City answered 11 out-of-town
alarms and Newport 10.
The Methodtat Men of Franklin
Memorial Church will sponsor ?
barbecue dinner Saturday, Jan. ?,
in the basement of the church.
Plates will be delivered. Call
M3U.