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44th YEAR, NO. 14. THirag rrptionr TWENTY-FOUR PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FBIDAYB
Agassiz Completes Rescue Mission
Colorful Concert Pianist
To Present Recital Tuesday
Mario Braggiotti, one of
the most colorful personali
ties in the concert field, will
give a piano recital at the
Morehead City auditorium
Tuesday at 8 p.m. His will
be the second in the current
Community Concert series.
The internationally-known pian
ist, once of the two piano team of
Fray and Braggiotti. is winning
new successes across the country
as a solo artist with a fresh and
novel program. In addition to the
traditional classics and art works,
he offers interludes of improvisa
tions and musical caricatures.
Caricatures Tunes
Braggiotti. the keyboard im
provisator, has raised this art to
new levels, and his caricatures
sparkle with subtle humor espe
cially when he takes well known
American folk tunes like Yankee
Doodle ? and gives them new and
humorous life in the style of many
composers.
His recital programs follow a
course of informality and cordial
ity as well as artistic worth. A
typical program might open with
early compositions of little known
composers, often arranged in the
Braggiotti manner. Then comes a
Beethoven sonato. a group ol De
bussy and a group of fiery Spanish
works.
One of the Gershwin numbers
usually follows, for Braggiotti was
a close friend of the American
composer and one of the first to
play the piano part of An Ameri
can in Paris.
Helped by Gershwin
Gershwin helped Braggiotti get
his first job hi London in Gersh
win's musical comedy Funny Face.
There Braggiotti teamed with Fray
and when the pair came to the
.United .states their two-puyui pro
gram took the touhtry by' storm. '
They were radio headliners for
years, and when Fray withdrew
from the field to join radio station
WQXR in New York as musical di
rector. Braggiotti embarked upon a
solo Career.
Ships leaving Morehead City this
week for the Caribbean will reach
their destination around Feb. 25.
Thf asphalt tanker Paludina ar
rived yesterday and the tanker,
Egdna, with oil for Esso, is due
Wednesday. Bob Hicks, Heide and
Ob. agent handling the Nady, said
no arrival date has been received.
The Nady is due here this week to
pick up fish oil.
Mario BraRgiotti
. . . cartoonist of the keyboard
House Committee
To Attend Session
Fisheries Commissioner
Urges Members of In
dustry to Attend
Members of the House commer
cial fisheries committee, including
I). G. Bell of Carteret, will attend
the fisheries meeting at Camp
Glenn Monday morning at 9:30.
C. G. Holland, commercial fish
eries commissioner, requests that
ail commercial fishownen and fish
dealers make a special effort to be
present.
Expanding, of S-hery statistic!
servlcMin fteaufort will be dis
cussed. Secretary of the Interior
McKay has announced that the
Fish and Wildlife Service has
established six new statistical of
fices and will open 11 more soon. |
The expansion at Beaufort is be
ing financed with money made
available under the Saltonstall
Kennedy act, designed to give
special aid to the commercial fish- 1
ing industry.
G. B. Talbot, head of the Fish
and Wildlife Station, Beaufort,
said that unless a statistical pro
gram gets underway very soon, ef
fective recommendations on im
proving the fishing industry will
be delayed for years.
Doctors Seek Cooperation
On Hospital Visiting Rule
Restoration Work
Begins at Beach
Bull Dozers Start at Fort
Macon Point, Work West
To Atlantic Beach
Work has started at Fort Macon
on pushing up sand dunes to re
pair the damage done by the Oct.
15 hurricane.
Gray Hassell, Beaufort, has been
appointed supervising engineer.
Mr. Hassell will designate th6 point
where the dunes shall be placed,
.specify how to do the work and
keep track of the time spent by
contractors.
Mr. Hassell said about six bull ;
dozer operators would be on the
job by the end of this week. He
estimates that it will take about
six weeks to do the work between
the point at Fort Macon and the
east limits of the town of Atlantic
Beach.
The beach has been divided into
half mile sections with a bull dozer
operator assigned to each section.
The engineer estimates that
three months will be required to
push up a dune the length of Bogue
Banks. After the dune is in place,
the fedex#l government has autho
rized spending of 40 cents a foot
to put up a sand fence to hold
The fence would be flexible,
slatted and the most effective as
well as cheaper than a ?rush fence,
Mr. Hassell said.
Civil defense officials conferred
Tuesday with county and town of
ficials who filed applications for
federal aid. Mr. Hassell has had
conferences with Col. R. H. Hill of
the Corps of Engineers on the
government's program for beach
restoration.
The government has earmarked
$52,256.33 for repair of hurricane
damage in Morehead City, $77,250
for repair in Beaufort, and $122,
675 to the county for beatfh restora
tion, making a total of $252,281.33.
Churches Cooperate in Alcoholic
Institute , Cancel Wednesday Services
Jerry Rowe, chairman of the
Alcoholic Education Inatitute, an
nounced yesterday that the major
ity of the churches are cooperating
in the program by cancelling their
Wednesday night prayer services
so that church members may at
tend the session at 7:30 Wednesday
night in the First Methodist
Church, Morehead City.
The topic that night will be "The
Church and Alcoholism." Dr.
Joseph Garrison will be the
speaker.
Dr. Garrison, pastor of the Pres
byterian Church of the Covenant
in Greenaboro, haa long been inter
ested in mental health and alcohol
problema aa they relate to church
and community.
In addition to his pastoral duties,
Dr. Garrlaon has served as p real
dent of the Guilford County Mental
Hygiene Society, and a t board
member of the Greensboro-Guilford
County Mental Hygiene Clinic. He
attended the Yale Summer School
of Alcohol Studies in 1(02.
Davidaon Graduate
Dr. Garrison ia a graduate of
Davidson College and holds the
B. D. degree from Columbia! Theo
logical Seminary in Decatur, Ga.
He waa awarded the Doctor of Di
vinity degree by Daridaon College
in 19 ?.
Two of the other -apeakers will
be Raymond G. McCarthy and Miaa
Roberta E. Lytic.
Mr. McCarthy ia director of
Alcohol lam Research for the New
York State Health Commission, and
aaaoclate director of the Yale
School of Alcohol Studies He ia
widely recocnixad as tire outstand
ing alcohol educator In the country,
having written widely in the field
of alcohol problema.
Teaching aids developed by Mr.
McCarthy are employed extensively
in the nation's claaarooma, and his
booklet. Facta About Aleohol, writ
See INSTITUTE, Fife f
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Riymoad G. McCarthy
. . . noted authority
S. *. Pr?et*r
. . . direct! ttatc program
Indications of Gas War
Start in Morehead Area
A gasoline war that threatened
to break thii week in Morehead
City (ailed to materiaHie, but there
is a possibility that price* at the
downtown aervice stations will take
a drop sometime next week.
The first station in Morehead
City to drop prices waa the Hibbs
Shell Station at the juncture of
old and new Highway 70. Other
stations in his vicinity followed
suit, offering regular gas for M.9
cents a gallon and premium for
384 cents a gallon, but the down
town dealers haven't as yet fol
lowed suit
Gas has been selling for 30-centa
a gallon regular (on the average)
and S3 cents for premium.
One service station operator in
the downtown are* Mid that If the
war materialize!, when prlcea go
back up, they'll be higher than
ever.
Horn* Economic* Student*
Tour Moat Department
Student* in Beaufort home eco
monica claaaea went through the
meat department at the Colonial
Store, Beaufort, Wedneaday after,
noon.
They were ahown different cuta
of meat, where they come from,
how they are pat on Hie and other
detaila connected with meat mar
keting.
The tour waa superviaed by
Roger* Runt
i
? Members of the County Medical
Society took action at their Meet
ing Monday night toward enforce
ment of hospital visiting rules. The
doctors earnestly request the co
operation of the public in visiting
patients.
No more than two visitors per
patient are allowed, but according
to reports from the hospital, that
rule is being consistently violated.
The doctors said that if they
cannot get voluntary cooperation
from visitors, other means will be
taken to enforce it.
The society acted on two matters
before the legislature and on a
resolution requesting state aid in
mosquito control.
The doctors endorsed the pro
posed change in the state's coroner
system and authorized the writing
of a letter to Legislator D. G. Bell
expressing their approval, in gen
eral, of bills which would protect
the buyer of accident and hospitali
zation insurance.
The resolution requesting state
aid on mosquito control, which was
passed by the county board of com
missioners was read The doctors
directed that a similar resolution
be forwarded to Raleigh with an
addition to the effect that malaria
bearing mosquitoes are found along
the coast.
Because men are stationed in
this area who have returned from
malaria-ridden countries, the med
ical soeiety pointed out that there
is a possibility of malaria outbreak
here.
A salesman with (he drug manu
facturing firm. Eli Lilly, showed
a film on antibiotic therapy and
the meeting adjourned. Fourteen
doctors were present. President
Theodore Salter conducted the
meeting.
Stale Extends
Oyster Season
The season for taking oysters
from Pamlico Sound has been ex
tended from the closing date of
Feb. 28 through March 15, Director
Ben E. Douglas of the Department
of Conservation and Development
said today.
The extension was granted, Mr
Douglas said, on recommendation
of the Institute of Fisheries Re
search at Morel.ead City and C
Gehrman Holland, acting commis
sioner of commercial fisheries for
the CAD Department.
Oystermen are forbidden, how
ever, to take oysters from two
small areas in the northeastern
part of Pamlico Sound. The season
for taking oysters in these areas
closed Feb. 15.
Holland recently reported State
taxes were paid on 57,730 tub* ot
oysters taken from public bottom
during the last aix months of 1954
aa compared with (9,443 during
the corresponding period in 1063.
Prices of North Carolina oysters
this season, he added, have had a
good average.
Abe Williams
Sent to Prison
Abraham Williams waa sentenc
ed to six months on the roads by
Judge Earl Mason Tuesday in
^eaufort Recorder's Court . when
part of a suspended sentence of
two years, handed down Sept. 28,
1994, waa invoked. At that time
Williams pleaded guilty to forcible
trespass.
Williams broke his good behavior
order of Sept. 28 when he engaged
in a fight Dec. 31 k with Albert
Tallin who was shot and killed
that night. Williams waa taken Into
court in September on a charge of
attacking a man and robbing him.
Freddie Fulford waa sentenced
to 30 days on the streets when he
pleaded guilty to public drunken
ness.
Guy Vann was sentenced to 10
days on the streets when he did
not contest a charge of haviag no
open tor's license.
Cases againat the foltowtaj were
continued: James Reel, Oftra Earl
Outlaw, Thurston Wade Arnold,
and William Loltin Jr.
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Conifer Breaks Ice
Two weeks ago today the USCG
Cutter Conifer was breaking two
foot thick ice in the Chesapeake
Bay north of Baltimore. Today
she's at her usual chore of servic
ing aids to navigation in the balmy
waters off Carteret County.
The Conifer, under command
of Lt. Cmdr. James Van Etten,
was pressed into service when the
canal between the Chespeake and
Delaware Bay was threatened with
closure by heavy ice formations.
On her way back to her More
head berth on Feb 8, the Conifer
was dispatched to the aid of the
Liberty Ship Artemus wallowing
in heavy seas off Cape Lookout.
The Artemus was being towed to
the ship graveyard at Wilmington
by the tug Sheridan when tne tow
line parted. The Artemus dropped
its anchor. With no motive power
it was unable to pull it hack up.
The Conifer crew cut the anchor,
marked it, and helped the tug get
another tow line aboard. Later the
Conifer retrieved the 30-ton anchor
and chain.
Fisheries Committee
OKs Bill Lifting Net Tax
The House eommercial fisheries^
committee yesterday approved the
bill which would eliminate all net
taxes. The bill, sponsored by D. G.
Bell of Carteret, was okayed with
a few minor amendments and will
now be reported favorably on the
floor of the house.
One of the amendments puts a
flat $2 license fee on all boats 16
feet and under rather than a 25
cent per foot tax as Mr. Bell had
recommended.
The bill takes off all taxes on
nets and repeals a section of the
law which now says that persons
fishing for "home consumption"
shall be exempt from .tax.
The latter is aimed at persons
who go out and fill up their boat*
with fish "for the -home freezer" and
up til now, though they were in
competition with the commercial
fisherman, never had to pay a tax,
Mr. Bell commented.
The scale for taxation on com
mercial boats, if the bill passes
both the house and senate, will now
be as follows: boats 10 feet and
unr'or $2; 16 to 26 feet, 50 cents a
foot; 28 to 44 feet. 75 cents a foot;
14 feet and over $1 a foot.
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Tonight's the Last Night
For Arsenic and Old Lace'
Yielding to popular demand, the4
Carteret Community Theatre is now
presenting the comedy, Arsenic and
Old Lace. The second and last per
formance will be at 8 o'clock to
night in the Beaufort School audi
torium.
The first nighter audience last
night saw two newcomers to com
munity theatre casts, Frank Jones
and Barbara O'Connor. Mr. Jones,
public school music instructor at
Beaufort School, plays the part of
Mortimer Brewster and Barbara
O'Connor plays the part of his
fiancee, Elaine Harper.
The scene is laid in the Brewstei
home in Brooklyn. The time is
the present and the' story revolve*
around two old maids. Abby and
Martha Brewster whose favorite
charity is putting homeless old men
out of their misery by feeding them
poisoned elderberry wine.
Their nephew, Teddy, cooperates
in their "worthy project," but con
centrates mainly on running the
United State* because he thinks
he's Theodore Reosevelt.
The cast I* as follow*: Abby
Brewster, Joyce Willis; Martha
Brewster. Treses Vickers; the Rfv
Dr. Harper. Lynn Stoller; Teddy
Brewster, Floyd Stewart.
Officer Brophy, Tom Respesa;
Mr. Gibbs, Steve Datl; Jonathan
Brewster. Walton Hamilton; Dr.
Einstein, Ed Walaton; Officer
O'Hara. Sammy Daniels; Lt. Roo
ney, James Lucas, and Mr. Wither
?poon. Charles O'Connor.
The Emeritua Club will attend
the play In a group tonight follow
Ing dinner at the Inlet Inn.
PrMbytmy Formally
RecsivM N?w Minister
Three elder* of the Fint Presby
terian Chureh, Morehead City, ac
companied their new pastor, the
Rev. Albert Harris to Wilmington
yesterdsy afternoon where he wss
formally received Into this pres
bytery.
Men msking the trip were H. L.
Joslyn, Cspt. Alex Lewis snd Dr.
A. F. Chestnut.
Mr. Joslyn alio sttended the gen
ersl council meeting of the Men of
the Church. Wilmington Presby
wry ?t Wilmington twxUjr
I
Tax Income Near
Halfway Mark
A little lew than half the current
Beaufort tax levy had been collect
ed at the end of aeven months of
the current flacal year, according
to a report on town finances given
the Beaufort Town Board at its re
cent meeting.
Estimated income for 1954-55 is
153.000. By Jan. 31. (24.886.68 had
been collected. Received during
January waa $8,554.89
Taxes from prior years paid last
month amounted to $396.54. bring
ing the total thia year to $2,126.39.
Collected in buainess license fees
in January was $140. Of the $4,000
in revenue anticipated this year,
$1,070.29 has been collected.
Received In ABC funds last |
month waa $1,685.74. bringing li
quor store revenue thus far to I
$4,613.21.
Parking meter revenue in Jan
uary was $443.04, bringing collec
tions this year to a total of $5,
120.16. Nine thousand dollars ls|
anticipated.
Miscellaneous town income In 1
January was $280.24, upping the
total to $1,866.80
Tick Table
Tides at Ike Beaofort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Feb. 1$
5:07 a.m. 11:86 a.m. I
5:40 p.m. 11:44 p.m. |
Saturday, Feb. 18
5:56 a.m.
6:28 p.m. 12:23 p.m.
Suaday, Feb. 28
6:4$ a m 12:31 a.m.
7:08 p.m. 1:08 p.m. I
, Feb. >1
7:23 a.m. 1:16 a.m. I
7:46 p.m. 1:4> p.m.
TMaday. Feb. *2
8:02 a.m. 2:00 a.n
8:23 pjn. 2J7 p.aa. I
Cutter Due Here Today
From Norfolk
Due to arrive at Morehead City today is the Coast Guard
Cutter Agassiz, having successfully completed a rescue
mission in which the cutter escorted a disabled freighter
to Norfolk.
The ship was the Agioi Victores of Liberian registry,
owned by the Victore Shipping Co., California. It was en
route to Norfolk to load coal when*
it started to crack up.
A distress call to the Coast Guard
Saturday revealed that the ship had
a deck crack 4 inches wide in the
middle of the No. 4 forepart to
the end of port side.
At that time the Agioi said she
needed no assistance unless the
weather got worse. Two hours later
she messaged back that the weather
was becoming worse and she was
battling a strong northwest gale
The Agioi bad also cut her mo
tors and was drifting southward ap
proximately 350 miles east of More
head City and 305 miles southeast
of Norfolk.
The Coast Guard dispatched the
Agassiz, which was patrolling off
Cape Hatteras, and a plane from
Elizabeth City. The Agassiz reach
ed the Agioi Monday at 4 p.m.
The cutter escorted the disabled
ship to Cape Henry, arriving there
Tuesday.
The last message from the
Agioi's master and crew to the
Coast Guard was, "Cordially appre
ciate your prompt relief ordering
CGC Agassiz attend SS Agioi Vic
lores to her destination. Kindly ac
cept our sincerest thanks."
The commanding officer of the
Agassiz is Lt. Peter S. Branson.
While enroute to the Agioi, just
before meeting the disabled ship,
the Agassiz came upon five life
jackets and other debris believed
to be the remains of one of the
downed jets which was lost off this
coast earlier this year.
' The Agioi is a liberty ship 422
feet iong with a crew of 29. Her
Norfolk agent is W. M. Stone & Co.
Hunters Caught
In Legal Net
Fines were levied against eight
persons for hunting violations
when they appeared before the
United States commissioner in New
Bern Monday, announces Leroy
Mcintosh, game warden, Beaufort.
J. R White, Havelock. was fined
$50, when he was found guilty ot
hunting ducks with an unplugged
gun and not having a duck stamp.
Douglas Adsit, Havelock, and
Harry B. Fulcher, Atlantic, were
fined $39 each when they were
found guilty of hunting ducks with
an unplugged gun.
R. M. Pickard and Leon Powell,
both of Durham, were found guilty
of taking ducks over baited areas
and fined $S0 each.
Alvin Willis, Stacy, paid $25
when he waa found guilty of hav
ing an improper hunting license
and haviog no duck stamp
Audrey V. Curtin, Havelock, was
found guilty of hunting ducks with
an unplugged gun and was fined
$50.
Ben Salter, Atlantic, paid $35
when he waa found guilty of hunt
ing ducks with an unplugged gun.
Arresting officers, along with
Mcintosh, were Alvin Noltemeier
and Ralph Halstead, federal game
agents.
Claud Wheatly
Heads Carteret
Bar Association
Lawyers Agree on Five
County Redisricting
Proposal
Claud Wheatly, Beaufort, was
elected president of the Carteret
County Bar Association Wednes
day, succeeding Harvey Hamilton
Jr., More head City. The lawyers
met at the courthouse
Other officers are Luther Hamil
ton Jr., Morehead City, vice-presi
dent, succeeding Mr Wheatly, and
John James, Beaufort.
On the proposal to re-draw the
judicial district lines, the attorneys
voted to send Wiley Taylor Jr. to
Raleigh to go before the judicial
council and present Carteret's pro
posal.
County lawyers prefer the re
districting to include Carteret,
Pamlico. Craven, Onslow and
Jones At present, the fifth judicial
diatrict also includes Pitt and
Greene
The judicial qouncil has recom
mended that legislative action be
taken to put Carteret in a diatrict
with Craven, Pamlico and Pitt.
The new district would be num
bered 3 instead of 5 as at present
according to the judicial council's
plans.
The bar association on Wednes
day also aet the docket for divorces
In the coming term of court. Di
vorce rases will be heard on the
last day of the one-week term
rather than on Monday as In the
past.
This change was made at the
request of the new solicitor, Rob
ert Rouse Jr. of Greenville.
The Superior Court term, sche
duled for the hearing of criminal
cases, will open Monday, March 14.
District Governor
To Speak Monday
Dr. Ralph Wollons, governor o<
Rotary district 270, will be gueit
speaker at a Ladies Night planned
by the Newport Rotary Club for
Monday night, Feb. 21, at the
former school lunch room.
At Monday's meeting thia week
Henry Edwards was the program
chairman and he played several
Rotary records dealing with voca
tional service. He was aaaisted by
Charles Long.
Nathan Garner presided at the
meeting and the invocation was
given by the Rev. J. Herbert Wal
drop Jr.
Guests included Walter Edwardf.
More head City Rotartan, and
Arnold Garner, formerly of New
port and now a resident of Randle
man, N. C.
Part of Oof ?
O cracoke Civic Club
Attends Turkey Dinner
The Ocracpke Civic Club cele
brated Monday night one of its two
annual supper meetings with a
turkey feed served up by a galley
crew of Jim Williams, Kelly
O'Neal, Marvin Howard, Charlie
Ahmon, Kermit Robinson, and i
Frank Teeter.
Dare County Commissioners
Swain and White, accompanied by
atocy-telllng Victor Meekins, pre
sented a recent resolution adopted
by the Dare County Board of Com
missioners expressing fsvor toward
legislation which would make It
possible for Ocracoke to become a
part of Dare County, in the event
the citisens of Ocrscoke should'
wish to do so, Ocracoke at present
la in Hyde County.
After discussion, the club decid
ed to mske no committal at the
present time.
The club decided to support the
growing 21 -county appeal to the
legialature for a large acsie pro
gram of mosquito control, and
made a aubstantial donation. Plsna
have also boen laid far local action
to &ke advantage of a fogging
outfit risen Uy made svailabla to
? n*L at*'. ,J^m , j. .
the Coast Guard for local mosquito
control.
It waa unanimously resolved to
approve and support the continua
tion of the Ocracoke Fourth at
July Parade.
After a movie, the meeting ad
journed.
Symphony Society
To Mm? at 7:30 Tonight
Everyone who holds a member
ship In tl>e North Carolina Sym
phony Society is invited to the
meeting of the Carteret Chapter
at 7:30 tonight at the civic center,
More head City. ?
Skinner Chalk. Morefaead City,
president of the chapter, said now
officers will be elected
Rotary llafe Meeu
Van Potter of Beaufort waa the
speaker at the Beaufort Rotary
Club meeting Tueaday night at the
Inlet Inn. Mr. Potter ipeke on
Present Day Christianity. Jack
Roberta of Morobead City waa the
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