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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE . 804 Ar*?<Ull St. Chy i 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '?< 44th YEAR, NO. IS. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1965 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Harkers Island Group Goes Before Board of Education A delegation of citizens from< Harkers Island appeared before the County Board of Education at its recent February meeting and asked the board to see that Harkers Island gets a new school. Spokes man for the group was George Rose. The delegation was told that im provements for Harkers Island have been approved by the state and the money will be forthcoming when the additional twenty-five million dollars in state school bond money is released. The first half of fifty million has already been distributed but the state is holding the second half until further development on school integration. Joe Zajac of Salter Path appear ed before the board and requested that indoor restrooms be installed in the Salter Path School. He said that the labor would be supplied if the board would supply the ma terials. The board agreed. The frame school building at Salter Path houses 32 pupils. Boiler Replaced H. L. Joslyn, county superin tendent of schools, said that the damaged boiler at Smyrna School has been replaced with a boiler that was in the Camp Glenn School. Progress is being made on the installation of the new boiler at the Queen Street School. The boiler there played out about a month ago and since that time the rooms have been heated by oil stoves. The board discusscd the pressing need for more classroom space in Morehead City. The most logical solution at present, it seems, is to move the division line between pu pils attending Morehead City and Camp Glenn Schools from 24th Street to 22nd and add four more rooms to the Camp Glenn School. Since 1949, Mr. Joslyn comment ed, $421,080.79 has been invested in new school construction in the Morehead City district. From the 1949 school appropriation $108, 216.39 was spent on the W. S. King School and additions to the white school, two rooms have been add ed this year to W. S. King. New Annex, School Of the more than four hundred thousand investment, $92,305.61 was used to build the Morehead City School annex and $205,434 wa+ spent for the New Camp Glenn School. '?Morehead City has had the big gest growth, but it has also re ceived the largest school fund ap propriations to take care of that growth," Mr. Joslyn said. Mr. Joslyn announced that he will attend the American Associa tion of School Administrators re gi6nal meeting from Feb. 26 to March 2 at St. Louis, Mo. Legislator D. G. Bell Serves on 12 Committees Recent completion of committee appointments in the legislature shows that D. G. Bell, Carteret's representative, has been named to 12 committees. They are as follows; wildlife, commercial fisheriM, conservation and development, finaace, military affairs, propositions and griev ances, health, manufacturing and labor, elections and election laws, local government, roads and high way safety and agriculture. Mr. Bell spent the weekend at his home in Horehead City, re turning to the capital yesterday. Ronald Earl Mason Wins DSA at Jaycee Banquet Ronald Earl Mason, past presM dent of the Beaufort Jaycees and chairman of the current Beaufort Finer Carolina program, was pre sented the 1954 man-of-the-year award last night at the Inlet Inn. Holden Ballou, last year's man of-the-year award winner, made the presentation pf a key and a certifi cate to Mr. Mason. Jack McManus was given the Key Man award. The winner of the distinguished service award, besides being chair man of the Beaufort Finer Caro lina Program, is also a member of the board of directors of the Jay cees, a member of the board of directors of the chamber of com merce, a state director of the Jay cees and is recogniaid as one of the founders of the Toastmasters Club. Served in Air Corps He served in the Army Air Corps from 1948 to 1950 and was dis charged with the rank of flight chief. Mr. Mason is a native of Beau fort. He attended grammar and Ronald Earl Mason . . . civic leader high school in Beaufort as well as at Oak Ridge Military Academy. He attended State College and left the college when he received an appointment to Annapolis, an ap pointment he was not able to accept because he did not pass the physi cal examination. He is now in partnership with his father in the Earl Mason Insurance Agency in Beaufort. Mr. Mason is married to the for mer Joyce Lewis of1 Davis. They have four children. Another of the highlights of the evening was the presentation by President Tommy Potter of the Key Man award to Jack McManus. Native of New Bern Mr. McManus, a native of New Bern, was also honored with the outstanding committee award. He was chairman of the Christinas committee. He is employed by Paul Motor Co., is an. Army veteran and is married to the former Hilda Mur phy of Davis. They have one daugh ter. The speaker for the evening was J. P. Harris of Beaufort, and the invocation for the meeting was given by John Duncan. ? Burglars Hit Three Business Places Yesterday Burglars left a trail of three break-ins at the beach and the western part of the county early yesterday morning. Entered were the Texaco Service Station at the Fort Macon and beach roads. At lantic Beach, the Airport Grill, west of Morehead City, and Edgar Hibbs Soda Shop at Newport. Sheriff Hugh Salter said the glass in the front door of the service station, operated by Jarvis Piner, was broken and about two to three dollars in cash was taken from the cash register. The register drawer was token too. At the Airport Grill the lock was broken on the front door. The cash i register tray was taken ( there was | nothing in it), a watch beside the i register and six cases of beer were I stolen. Also a cigar box full of j papers was taken. At Hibbs Soda Shop only a small amount of money in a pinball ma chine was missed. The burglaries occurred between midnight Sunday and when the places were opened yesterday morning. Investigating the break-ins, be sides the sheriff, are Deputy Sheriffs Bobby Bell, M. M. Ayscue and Constable Bill Duge?, New port. Band to Present Winter Concert I ? The Morehead City High School Band, under Uie direction of Ralph Wade, will present its winter con cert at 8 p.m. Thursday in the school auditorium. There is no ad mission charge. The program will be as follows: King Size - march; a Weber suite consisting of March of the Peas ants, horn solo, Theme, Andante, Minuet, Huntsmen's Chorus; Colo nel Bogey, March; Gypsy Gaiety, La Siesta, selections from the Merry Widow, American Lefion, march; and Invrecargill, a march. A feature number will be Grand father's Drum, a drum solo by Bill Murrill, accompanied by the band. Mr. Wade and band members cordially invite the public. County School Board Association to Meet The County School Board Asso ciation, comprised of school coip mitteemen, school board members and principals, will meet when the county teachers have their an nual dinner April. 22. That will be the association's first meeting since the session Jan. 24 at Atlantic School. Worker Crushed by Vault Door Improves at Hospital Cabbage Plants Battle Freeze Farmers believe that recent f reeling temperatures have done little damage to cabbage plants. But they add that it's really too early to make any predictions. Farmers east of Beaufort told R. M. Williams, county agent, yester day that the continued unfeasonal cold has prevented any real growth and therefore the plants have be come toughened to the weather. Plant! that were just recently set may be more severely damaged than those that have been out as much aa 23 days. Farmers esti mated that temperatures in the cab bage section have been between 17 and 21 degrees the past several dayi. In 1M7 when there was unusual ly cold weather, some of the cab bage developed hollow stems and heads that matured. were small. The executive committee of the Institute of' Fisheries Ke search will meet next Monday afternoon at the institute. Camp Glean. * Leslie Godwin, 41, who was crushed under a three-ton bank vault door in Beaufort Wednesday, was reported in a satisfactory con dition in Morehead City Hospital yesterday. Mr. Godwin's chest was severely crushed and both wrists were broken when the door fell on him in the First-Citizens Bank and Trust Co. at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Mr. Godwin is an employee of Wil ton and Morton. Newport contrac tors who are doing the remodeling at the bank. Harold Wilton, one of Mr. God win's employers said that Mr. God win and six other men were moving the vault door to a corner inside the bank when the door fell over. It weighs <,210 pounds. The workmen tried to lift the door off Mr. Godwin but could not budge it. Then they constructed a lever and fulcrum rig that enabled them to lift the tremendous weight. It took about 15 minutes to get Mr. Godwin out. He was conscious sll the time and kept pleading "Boys, please get it off me." The men were frantic and did their best to lift the door by human effort, alone but couldn't do it. Afte? he was gotten out, he was ryahed to the hospital by ambu lance. Mr. Godwin was under an oxygon tent (or several days. His physi cian, Dr. John Way. said that more injuries may be discovered later, but at present the patient was too sick .to make a thorough examina tion. Mr. Godwin's home is on the Nine-Foot Road about a mile and a hall from Newport. He has been with Wilton and Morton five years. 'I'll Summon My Rough Riders!' Floyd Stewart, right, playing the part of Teddy Brewster (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt), snarls at his weird elder brother, Jonathan, played by Walton Ham ilton, in a scene from "Arsenic and Old Lace." Looking on are the old maid aunts. , Martha, left, portray Photo by Clifton Guthrie ed by Tressa Vickers, and Abbie, played by Joyce Willis. The play will be presented by the Carteret Community Theatre at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday nights in the Beaufort School auditorium. Net proceeds will go to the Wes leyan Service Guild of Ann Street Methodist Church. During Scout Week Boy Scouts Attend Church, Camp, Give Chapel Program Scout Troops 51 and 201 of Beau fort climaxed Scout Week last week by attending a Court of Honor at the courthouse in Beau fort Firday night. Dr. Henry Krit zler. North River, advancement chairmaty, supervised the presenta tion of merit badges and the awards to first and second class Scouts. Troop 201, Carl Chad wick Scout master, attended the First Baptist I Church !n a group Sunda>, Feb. 6, the opening (Jay of Scout Week. Members of Troop 51, Charles Has sell, Scoutmaster, attended their own churches in* uniform in the company of their parents. Troop 51 is sponsored by the Beaufort Rotary Club. The movie. Scouting Trails to Citizenship, was shown in the chapel program at Beaufort School Wednesday. Charles Hassell Jr., Troop 51. conducted the opening for the program and the closing was by /\llen Autry of Troop 201. Members of Troop 51 also erect ed a model encampment in the vacant lot on Pollock Street. The lot was lent to the boys by its owner, Clifford Lewis. The Scouts erected a signal tower out of the trunks of uuplings, pitched tents and ate ana cooked there ? despite the cold. Sixty-eight Scouts and Cub Scouts were the guests of Bill Sutton, Beaufort Theatre manager, at a movie Friday afternoon. The picture shown was "Suddenly." In Morehead City, last week was proclaimed Boy Scout Week by the mayor, George W. Dill. Morehead Cify Firemen Near Goal of 2,000 Blocks Fire Chief Vernon Guthrie re ported at noon yesterday that 1,250 of the desired 2,000 bloeks needed by firemen for their new sub-sta tion have been donated! The fire men started a campaign Thursday to get building materials for the station which will be located some where in the western section of the fcity. Chief Guthrie said that he phoned Archie Royal Davis in Dur ham and asked him about plans for the building. Mr. Davis, an archi tect, graduated in the same high school class as CMef Guthrie. Sending Plans "He's sending us plans that ordi narily would cost $500," the chief said, " and I'm pretty sure he's go ing to let us have them for noth ing." The plan for the station is a "residential type" like those recent ly designed ior neighborhood ?fire stations in Greensboro. The new station will be fitting for a resi dential area and a credit to the town, the chief commented. He said that they're still* looking for more blocks After they get the blocks, they'll need donations of roofing material and other con struction items. Contest Project The new sub-station is one of the Everybody Gets the Bird Carolina Power and Light and Morehead City customers of theirs have been getting the bird. Only nobody knew it until Fri day. For the past tnree weeks Morehead City power customers have been bothered with split sec ond outtages of power. Lights would go off and before you could say, "Wonder what's happened," the power would go back on again. George Stovall, manager of the CPIiL plant here, said they couldn't locate the trouble. Then Friday. J. V. Waters, street superintendent of Morehead City, phoned Mr. Stovall and asked if a power line could electrocute a seagull. Mr. Stovall said a 30,000- volt line could. Mr. Waters remarked, "Well, we've just found an electro cuted seagull out here at the town dump." Mi Stovall and linemen went to investigate and found six seagulls that had been done to a turn on the 30,0()0- volt line that run* near the town dump. When the gulla hit the wire, the llghta go out. The dump ia located west of Morehead City. The trouble ban never occurred before because the spot where the traih trucks were dumping was quite a distance from the power lines. Now, Mr. Stovall says, the trucks are dumping garbage in thel vicin ity of the lines and the guHs, no doubt delighted with the choice bit of garbage they have Just found, don't look where they're going and fly right into the wires. The power company is rearrang ing lines to solve the problem. town's Finer Carolina projects. Chairman of the project for the contest is Ted Garner. Other projects are a new $100, 000 gym for Morehead City School, Bob Howard, chairman; removal of partially burned buildings and beautification of the waterfront, Frank Cassiano, chairman; Little League, Russ Willian; and erec tion of signs with civic club meet ings listed, the Rev. S. S. Moore. Women Express Interest in AAUW Five women have expressed in terest in organization of a chapter of the American Association of University Women here. They are Mrs. Clarence Guthrie, Beaufort; Mrs. Alvah Mamilton Jr. and Mrs. Edgar L. Smith, More head City, and Mrs. Milton S. Roush, Newport; and Miss Ruth Peeling, Beaufort. Miss Peeling was recently re quested by Mrs. Robert Lee Hum bcr, Greenville, to investigate pos sibilities of establishing a chapter. Ten persons are needed to organ ize a chapter. They must be grad uates of AAUW-approved colleges. A meeting preliminary to actual organization will be called within the next few weeks, Miss Peeling said. Meanwhile persons interested should call her at 6-4173. Tide* at the Beaufort Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Taeeday, Feb. IS 2:10 a m. 2:33 p.m. 8:37 a.m. 0:04 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1? 3:06 a.m. 3:36 p.m. 9:37 a.m. 10:02 p.m. Thiinday, Feb. 17 4:06 a.m. 4:43 p.u. 10:48 a.m. 10:35 p.m. Friday, Feb. IS 3:07 a m. 3:40 p.m. 11>44 jxaL 11.38 am. House on Bogue Sound Burns Sunday Morning Congressional 1 Approval Clears Way for Railroad Southern's Proposal Now Goes Before ICC Whefe Final Approval Expected Washington ? The Senate Arm ed Services Committee approved Friday Southern Railway's plan to extend its operation beyond Golds boro to the North Carolina coastal areas. Senate approval of the lease vir tually assures Southern of permis sion to take over the operation of the Atlantic and East Carolina Railroad. The proposal will now go before the interstate commerce commis sion for a hearing. The issue was placed with the ICC earlfer, but the commission would not act un til congressional approval had been given to the proposal. Approval came without a dissent ing vote in the full committee after it was recommended by a subcom mittee that heard the issue earlier in the week. Under the Southern's program, it vvill operate the state-owned line connecting Goldsboro and More liead City, as well as the federally owned "spur" that connects that line with Camp Lejeune and runs, from Jacksonville to Havelock. To Be Published Committee hearings on the issue will be published in full, but there will be no committee report, a com mittee staff spokesman said Friday. The Senate Armed Services Com mittee dropped the last bar ob structing an ICS hearing. House Armed Services Committee ap proval came earlier without a hear ing. Additional Facta The Senate unit's action was de layed until Friday because the subcommittee which heard the case wanted additional facts placed be fore it. The subcommittee was headed by Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss). The only opposition to the proposal came from the Atlantic Coast Line and the City of Wilmington. If the Southern proposal gains ICC approval, it will mean a rail link that will connect the eastern part of the state with the westerti portion under the operation of one rail line. The project has the general ap proval of the North Carolina dele gation, and state officials, accord ing to the testimony that was pre sented before the subcommittee. Alcoholic Institute Schedule Six sessions are scheduled for the Alcoholic Educational Institute next week The time and places are listed below The institute is co-sponsored by Beaufort and More head City Jaycees Jerry Rowe. chairman, asks that you plan now to attend one or more of the meet ings. Wednesday, Feb. 23 3 p.m. ? Camp Glenn School. Teachers' session Topic. "The Role of the Teacher in the Prevention of Alcoholism." 3 p.m.? Beaufort High School Auditorium. Women's session. The topic, "Women and Alco holism." 7:30 p.m. ? First Methodist Church, Morehead City. Topic, "The Church and Alcoholism." Thursday, Feb. 24 12:30 p.m. ? Hotel Fort Macon. Luncheon meeting of civic clubs. Topic, "Alcoholism in Industry." 2:30 p.m.? Queen Street High School, Beaufort. Topic. "The Role of the Teacher in the Prevention of Alcoholism." 7:30 p.m.? Morehead City High School. Topics, "The Preven tion of Alcoholism," and "Some Causes of Alcoholism." All sessions are open to the pub lic. Cars Collide After Ball Game Two cars collided at the inter section of Mulberry and Marsh Street*. Beaufort, at 10 o'clock Friday night after the basketball game. Driver of one of the care, a 1950 Oldmobile. wai the Rev. James i Howard. Newport, according to Carlton Garner, assistant chief of police. Driving the other car. a 1939 Chevrolet, was Gene Autry Springle, Beaufort. Damage to the Oldsmobile was estimated at $100 and damage to the Chevrolet at $50. The Rev. Mr. Howard told Offi cer Garner that he was proceeding west on Mulberry Street at a slow rate of speed when the other car came out of the road from the school and they met in the inter section. No charges were filed. The driv ers said they would settle the mat ter between themselves. Officer Steve Beachem directed traffic un til the cars were moved. r A fire caused by an oil heater in the bathroom de stroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marinus Snipes south of the dog track on the sound Sunday morning at 4 :30. Mr. and Mrs. Snipes were awak ened by smoke in their bedroom and they escaped the blazing in ferno with very little of their be longings besides the clothes that they put on. Firemen Answer Firemen from the Morehead City fire station responded to the alarm and though they couldn't save the Snipes' house, they sprayed water on the house to the west of the Snipes' to save it from being con sumed by the flames. Fire Chief Vernon Guthrie said the Snipes house was insured. Saturday Night Fire Firemen investigated a fire at the home of Lee Garner across fron\ the race track Saturday nig^it at 10 p.m., but the flames had been extinguished by the time of their arrival. According to Mrs. Garner the ! fire started in a rafter above the living room and she and a neigh bor put it out. She said she didn't know how the rafter started to burn. Truck Body Hits John Eubanks, 74 John R. Eubanks. 74, of Bay Street. Morehead City, was seri ously injured at 6 p.m. Thursday when he was struck by a truck on Highway 101 in Beaufort. Eubanks was reported in a fair condition in the Morebead City Hospital yester ady. His right pelvis and facial bones were broken, he had cuts about the face, and numerous bruises. The accident occurred at the in tersection of Highway 101 and the airport road. The truck, a 1947 Dodge pick up, was being driven by David C. Richardson, 604 Ana St.. Beaufort. State Highway Patrolman R. H. Brown said that Eubanks had park ed his car at the side of the road about 8 inches over on the hard sur face. He had been visiting a rela tive and when he went out in the road to get in his car on the right side, he walked into the side of tha pick-up. Richardson was travelling north on the highway at about IS miles an hour. The protruding body of the truck struck Eubanks. Rich ardson said he never saw the man but stopped when he heard a thump. No charges were filed against Richardson. Government Sends Two Fisheries Statisticians to Carteret County The United States Department of the Interior is planning a pro gram to improve methods of gathering atatistical information on all phasea of the commercial fish eriea industry, it was announced yesterday by Rep. D. G. Bell of Morehead City. In order to carry on thii work, said Mr. Bell, the Fish and Wild life Service of the Department will station two men in the Carteret County area who will devote the next several months to this work. They will have their headquar ters at the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Station at Beaufort and will cooperate in the undertaking with the Commercial Fisheries Di vision of the State Department o( Conservation and Development and the Inatitute of Fisheries Research, both located at Morehead City. Representative Bell said he had been advised of this matter by Ben E. Douglas, Director of the Department of Conservation and Development. To get the survey properly started, a meeting will be held In the commercial fisher ies building at the section bgae Monday, Feb. 21 at 9:30 a.m. C. Edward Petersen, aaaistant chief of the Statistical Diviaon of the U S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with headquarters at Washington, and Charles 8tewart of Beaufort, who has been assigned as one ot the two men to carry on the work, in this area, will be preaent. Representative Bell rfaid that members of the General Aaaembly from the 21 coastal counties have been invited to attend as well aa the fisherrmen from up and down the coast Also preaent will be Mr. Douglas and other repreamtatlves of his department, and the mem bert of the executive committee and staff of the Institute of Fisher ies Research Mr. Bell uld that the federal government would finance the sur vey, which is part of a general pro-4 gram (or the South Atlantic states, with funds voted by Congress at the last session. Several months ago the Department of Conserva tion and Development filed an ap plication for the project and as a result North Carolina 'was In cluded in the overall program. It is the plan to gather statistics on the catch at various places and varloua times, to evaluate this In formation so as to aid the fiaher men in their activttiea, ?n\to pro pose a model statistical aet-up for the fisheries industry. The program would Involve taking of statistics from the time the catch is taken, through the actual proceaaing and retailing of the fish product. "Such a survey," said Mr. Bell, "could prove extremely valuable to the fisheries industry. 1 am de lighted that the work Is being un dertaken, for it may be the means of improving the status of the fishermen generally, by providing them with information from season to season regarding the possibility of this or that area under certain weather and temperature con ditions. "Certainly It will be a means of developing a complete statistical program so that actual knowledge of the potentialities of the fisheries Industry may be made available at all tlmea as a guide to those in terested in further development and In the setting up of processing plants at various localities." Two Apprehended Two motorists were apprehend ed by Assistant Chief of Police Carlton Garner, Beaufort. Saturday. They were William Loftin Jr., Beaufort, charged with speeding snd falling to atop at a traffic light, and Archie Kennedy, Beau fort, charged with exceeding the speed Unit on Front Street. School Officials To Meet March 9 Seven counties of district 2, North Carolina School Board Asso ciation, will be represented at ? meeting and clambake Wednesday night, March 9, at Smyrna School. The association is composed of school committeemen, board of edu cation members and school board personnel. Thirteen counties are in district 2, but representatives from only seven will convene at Smyrna. Those counties are Craven, Pamli co, Jones. Lenoir, Carteret, Greene and Onslow. The other group will meet March 10 at Clinton. Those counties are Wayne. Duplin, Sampson, Pender, New Hanover and Brunswick. The entire district sttended a meeting at Smyrna last year. The clambake, at 6:30, will precede the meeting. Tractor-Traitor Crane Knocks Down Stop Light A tractor-trailer driven by CpL Arlyn Martin Boelter, of Cherry Point Marine Base, knocked down and demollahed the traffic light at the intersection , of 11th and Bridges Streets Sunday morning at 10:30. Investigsting officers Chief He* bert Griffin, C. E. Bunch, and T/Sgt. Paul Bray, aaid that the crane on the trailer was too Ugh, IS4 feet, and that the traffic light only allows 14 feet clearance. The traffic light loss was estimated at one hundred and fifty dollars. According to the officers, the crane could have been SI inches lower If the traitor had been low* | ed correctly.