CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '?? NEWS-TIMES OFFICE i St. cut, M17I 44th YEA*, NO. tZ. THBEE SECflOltS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD OTV AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROUNA FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1965 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Jury Says 'Levi Killed Albert Fallin Court Term Due To Close Today Charles Baxter, Negro, Sentenced to 10-15 Years on Roads With the Fallin murder case out of the way, court machinery went into high gear yesterday afternoon to get as many cases cleared up as possible before the Superior Court term ends today. Charles Baxter, Negro youth, charged with breaking and enter ing several Beaufort homes dur ing the past winter, pleaded guilty to second degree burglary and was sentenced to 10 to IS years on two counts. Baxter, an old hand at slipping into homes in the night, earned the name "the phantom" for his stealth when he was on a burglary spree in Beaufort several years ago. He was finally caught and convicted and served time on the roads. He returned to Beaufort last summer Carlton Franklin is also charged with entering Beaufort homes. The grand jury Monday returned a true bill of first degree burglary and the court appointed C. R. Wheatly as Franklin's counsel. Warrants have been issued to bring the following into court for trial in June: Ellis T. Boone, John Wray Martin Jr., Fred Smith, Ed ward J. Simons, all charged with drunken driving; Oscar McLean Kennedy, speeding; Jametf Thomas Simpson and Ford Joseph. Bonds posted by the foregoing have been forfeited. Cases continued are as follows Albert J. Wynne, speeding; Edward. Richard Avant, drunken driving; Theodore Smith, whiiky violation; Grace L. Flowers, abandonment; Jimmy Long, public drunkenness; Sanford Long, fighting; Ted Day, passing worthless check. Members of the Jury who freed Curtis W. Taylor, charged with speeding, were Alvin M. Garner, Charles R. Freeman, Telford Boae, George W. Adams, Walter, M. Home, Joe Guthfie, Allen Moore Sr., William R. Willis, Winfield Webb Jr., Allen V. Lupton, James W. Kellogg and Earl B. Jones. Taylor allegedly was clocked by a whammy at 65 miles an hour. His case was heard Monday morn ing. Two Men Hurt In Auto Crash Percy Deyo, 1606 Shackleford St., and Leslie Day, 2701 Homes Drive, Morehead City, were seri ously injured in an automobile ac cident at 5:15 Wednesday after noon west io( Morehead City. Both 'are confined to Morehead City Hospital. Mr. Deyo has a broken nose, severe cuts on his face, chin and neck, bruises and probably rib fractures. Mr. Day is suffering from a severe back in jury. Archie Williams, Morehead City, was also taken to Morehead City Hospital, but was discharged. The four were in a car driven by Harold Ketterer, Morehead City. They were proceeding to Morehead City from Cherry Point. State Highway Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., who investigated, could not be reached yesterday to fur nish details ?f the accident, but it was reported that a truck pulled out from in front of the Pine Tree Inn and headed west into the en coming lane of traffic. The truck and the Ketterer automobile col lided head-on. The injured passengers were taken to the hospital in the Dill ambulance. Ketterer had a small cut over his left eye and bruises. He was not hospitalized Students to Appear On TV Tomorrow Morehead City High School students will appear on the half- t hour Teen-Age Show over WNCT TV at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. Under the direction of Ralph , Wade, public school music instruc tor and band director at the school, they hive prepared solos, a duet and aotne Specialty numbers. The Harmoneers are girls' sextet, The ' Barberahoppers, a boys' group; and a group called the Troubadours will sing Stouthearted Men. Drum majorettes will also ap pear. Mr Wade said. The students are working hard ed the program and are looking forward to appear lng before the TV cameraa.' County ABC Officer Marshall Ayscue testified before the federal grand fury at New Bern Monday in caaes dealing with liquor law violations Id Carteret Fire Consumes Sea Level, Building Destroyed recently in a Diaze that started along the road, was the Sea Level School building. The school' is shown burning here. When it was abandoned as a school house, it was purchased by the late Alvah B. Taylor, Sea Level, and used as a community building. Photo by Joe DuBois Jr. Racing Firm Stockholder Doubts 'Option' Bill Will be Introduced Live Up to Easter Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, pres ident of the National Council of Churches, has written a series of Easter articles for THE NEWS TIMES. The first of eight ap pears in today's paper. Accompanied by striking pic tures, the brief, simple exposi tions bring the age-old Easter mcasage to you in terms that ap ply to life in a modem world. Don't miss them. They will ap pear each issue through Easter week. Aruba Never DKk?IHe? A Finnish tanker, tfce Aruba, originally destined for Red China carrying 13,000 tons of jet fuel, has never been in Morehead City port, as some local folks believed. Tankers from Aruba. source of petroleum products *off Venezuela, have been in Morehead City, but none have been named "Aruba." The Finnish tanker skyrocketed into the news when Chiang-Kai Shek, head of the Chinese National ist government, said he would never allow the fuel to reach Com munist China. It was reported early this week that the aircraft carrier USS Kear sarge on which two Beaufort men are serving (see armed forces news page 5 section 2) was in Singapore to intercept the Aruba, but the Navy denied that such was the case. The Aruba 's Finnish crew, at last report, had refused to take the ship beyond Singapore. ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? Committee Lists JC Candidates Nominations were presented by the nominating committee of the Morehead City Jaycees at the week ly meeting Monday night at the Hotel Fort Macon. They are a# follows: Herbert Phillips, Dr. Russell Outlaw, Charles Willis, and James Webb, president; Paul Cordova, Jerry Willis, and Frapk Cassiano, internal vice - president; ? Gerald Murdoch and Russ Willait, ex ternal vice-president;. Bob McLean, Dr. Robert Barnum, Charles Sum merlin, treasurer; and Dr. Mike Brady. Jerry Rowe, L. G. Dunn, and Billy Oglesby, directors. Other nominations will be made [rom the floor at next week's meet ing. The election will tak* place in April. The secretary of the organiza tion will be selected by the new president and the state director will be appointed by the new board of directors. Harold Carpenter, Hickory, a lighting engineer spoke to the members about town Christmas lighting the club is goiqg to spoo lor. ' Mr. Carpenter told Jaycees how they could do the moat for More head City this coming Christmas season with their lighting system. Herbert Phillips was appointed chairman of tbe committee which will be in charge of all arrange ments for the fourth quarterly dis trict meeting to be held in More head City the latter part of April. President Jaaper Bell spoke to the members regarding the state convention to be held In Asheville May 5-7. * Weather Affects Power, Phones Weekend rains and an electric storm early Monday morning play ed hob with telephone and power lines at two spots in the county. | Lightning hit- several houses and 1 farms in the rtassells Creek sec tion. According to P. N. Thomas, line superintendent with the Car- ? terct-Craven Electric Memberahip Corp., L. D. Springte's house and 1 the adjoining Hugh Swann farm were struck by lightning between S and 6 Monday morning. Four places in the Russell* C reek section were without power J from 6:10 to 6:39 a.m. At one plane ; the motor on t water pump banted ! out and at another a refrigerator was damaged. ' The telephone trouble on lines downcast disrupted service late < Friday and Monday morning. L. A. < Daniels, manager of the phone com- | pany in this area, said that a trac tor ran over a telephone pole guy | wire Friday. ' The pole located between Stacy j and Sea Level, was put up again I but the rains early Monday morn- i ing lossened the dirt around the guy wire and the pole went down I the second time. ( Reports from Raleigh this week stated that a "local option" race track bill would be introduced dur ing this session of the legislature by Rep. Ed Johnson of Currituck County. But Paul Cleland, Morehead City, a principal stockholder in the Caro lina-Virginia Racing Association which operated tracks in Currituck and Carteret, said yesterday that he doubted if the bill would actual ly hit the hopper. "This is not the lime to do it," he added. Mr. Cleland recently filed a suit against the Carolina-Virginia Rac ing Association for (13,00* bask pay. He said he has now received the $15,000 and has taken a volun tary non-wit in the action. Representative Johnson claims that the bill he expects to intro duce will allow counties to vote on dog tracks and pari- mutuel batting tn the same manner that counties now veto. on whether they win beiwt r Mr Clalad^, >" commenting on the race tratk bill which he be lieves will be buried in committee "H it does get introduced," added that "the liquor question bas to be settled, first." Currituck's representative said his racing bill has not been "per fected" yet but will soon be in shape to be offered. He added that lie expected to be the bill's only signer. > State supreme court action put , :he tracks at Moyock and Morehead | L'ity out of business last year. 7$ Attend WOW Family Night Three Woodmen Receive Awards at Supper Meeting, Camp Glenn Seventy - five * attended Family Night, observed by Woodmen of the World |Ionday night at Camp Glenn School and saw three More head City Woodmen receive awards. They were Sovereign Jesse R. Griffin, Sovereign David F. Jones and Sovereign Lennis O. Brinson. Mr. Griffin received a plaque bear ing the Woodman medallion, Mr. Jones the conservation plaque and Mr. Brinson the Woodmen Honor plaque. The \vife of Mr. Griffin was also honored. She was presented a man icure set. Presentations were made by Nick T. Newberry, state manager of the WOW. Awards were also given the following students who drive the busses which take children to Morehead ,City and Camp Glenn Schools: Jerry Garner, Roy Kit trell. Lonnie Hyatt, Francis Guth rie, Timothy Jones and Jerry Pitt man. Sergeant Speaks Sgt. C. L. Teague of the State Highway Patrol spoke on safety. State Highway Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr. of Morehead City also attended the meeting. Ted Dbvis, manager of the More head City Chamber of Commerce, commented on the Woodmen plaque and citation given Mr. Brin son. Mr. Brinson was one of two winners in the courtesy contest sponsored several months ago by the clumber. The w?kome address was given by R. L. Turnage, Morehead City, and the response by R. E. Simmons, Kinaton, district manager of the WOW. Guests were introduced by E. B. Thompson, forehead City. q iiarttf Slags Mysic was pro\ .'M/ by the Free Will Baptist Quartet, David Jones, A1 and Marie McElmon and Evelyn Sherwood. They sang Victory in Jesus. Kneeling at the Cross and Empty Mansions. Ihe meeting took place in the Camp Glenn School lunch room wher" a barbecue supper was served. The invocation was given by the Rev. Noah Brown, pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church, Morehead City, and the benedic tion by Rev. J. W. Funk, pas tor of the Christian Church, More head City. What Clams Will Do! C&D Board Will Employ Seafood Marketing Expert At the ci*ra dinner in- Kaleigft Wednesday night, the news was re leased that the Board of Conserva tion and Development is going to employ a specialist in seafood mar keting. The joint appropriations committee of the general assem bly on Wednesday afternoon ap proved a transfer of funds to pay the specialist. Governor and Mrs. Hodges, sev eral hundred legislators including D. G. Bell of Carteret, and busi nessmen ate clams in the SAW Capitol Room. The purpose of the meeting, as slated quite clearly By Director Ben Douglas of the Department of Conservation and Development, was "to teach all of you that clams are i good to eat." The lesson was well learned. Thousands of clams quick1 ly disappeared. The clams were served on the half shell, in clam chowder and in < fritters, and along with them came 1 generous helpings of clam juice, J After sampling the clam in tfc* i various forms presented, Governar i Hodges predicted "a very glorious I future" for North Carolina. i The clams were supplied by El- i mer Willis of Williston, who sells i aooiu iu minion ciams ( annually. The Governor noted with some wonder that less than one-tenth of one per cent of these clams wind up in the palate of appreciative North Carolinians. The remainder go outside the state. CfcD and the N. C. Association of Quality Restaurants teamed with Willis in staging the clam bake. M. M. Melvin, executive sec retary of the Restaurant Associa tion, and Wade Lucas, CAD pub licity man, were (^chairmen of the event. C&D Chief Douglas publicly ?mmended Lucas for his role in conceiving and staging the supper. Test Tube Topics Stump Speakers Wednesday USCG Lieutenant To Leave March 27 Lt. (Jg) Robert C. O'Connor of i the Coast Guard Cutter Agasaix will , leave Morehead City March 27, i returning to civilian lite. Lt. and I Mrs. O'Connor live at 1903C | Shackle ford St. Mrs. O'Connor has been teaching tint grade at Camp , Glenn School. I Mr O'Conor came to Morehead | In August 1993 after graduating ( from officer candidate school at tta , Coast Gurad Academy at Nm Loo- | don. Conn. He plans to work for | an industrial concern In Middle- | town, N. Y? as a mrchanioal en- ] glneer Horace Jones was apprahended by Assistant Chief of Police Carl ton Garner Wednesday in Beaufort on a charge of public drunkenness. Ha was put in jail under 125 bond. tv. uiuewi jr., lopicmuier ?t Wednesday noming't Tout muter meeting, stumped "the ex perts" with hb test tube topics. ' Dr. Russell Outlaw's topic wss two mustard seeds which were in t tut tube, in Clifford Lewis's test tube wu a teardrop, in P. H. Gecr Jr 's, tanoke, and in Jasper Bell's test tube a sigh. Wilton Hamilton served aa critic. Prepared speakers and their topics were Ted Davia, Nothing Happens Until Somebody Sells lomething; Gerald Hill. Your Fed eral Incomd Tax; Hsp Hansen gsve liis first speech called- the "Ice breaker," and the topic of Buck Matthews Jr. wat My House, My Hoa* Critic* were Clifford Lewis. Jas per Bell, Dr. Russell Outlaw, J. P. Harris Jr. and Theodore Phillips. Toastmasters will meet at 7 a.m. next Wednesday In the Hotel Fort Macon dining room. 3,(93 Boys Enter Contest A total of 3,603 entaies hive been received in the Morehead City Chamber o I Commerce contest for Joys. The winner, who will re reive a four-week vacation at Camp Morehesd, will be announced Tues lay. The contest, open to boyt 6 to 17, required entrants to complete :he sentence, in 23 words or less. 'I like to live in North Carolina weause . . The winaer, if he lives outside his oaunty, will be flown here free if cfcarge by Piedmont Airlines. :ash value of the vacation is (189. Contest Judges are Hiss Miriam Habb, travel feature writer with he State News Bureau, Raleigh; lames Butler, alumni secretary, East Carolina College, and Lock wood Phillips, publisher o < the "arte ret County News-Times. The contest was under the super vision of the chamber educational rommittee, Or. D. i. Eufe, chair nan. Sugar Cargo Due Monday at Port The biggest sugar cargo to come into Morehead City is due Monday aboard the Aenos of the North Atlantic and Gulf steam ship Line. The Aenos will bring 30,000 bags (about 1.500 tuna) of re fined sugar from Cuba. The im porter is M Golodetz of New York. The sugar wil be shipped to places throughout North Caro lina. Agent for the Aenos is Heide & Co. and the Morehead City Shipping Co. will handle the stevedoring. Dolzer Murder Case Will Be Tried in June Moody Lewis, Salter Path, charged with the murder of Mrs. E. J. Dolzer early Sunday morning, Dec. 19, 1954 at Atlantic Beach, will be tried in the June term of Mrs. E. J. Dolur . . . alain Dec. 19 Superior Court. Because Jhe ilberl Fallin case required four days of the five-day court week this week, there was no time left for the Lewis case. , Lewis was released from the county jail three weeks ago under $12,500 bond. Bond was posted by several parties, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Worthington, Ayden, $7,500; Mr. , and Mrs. S. A. (Red) Horton, More head City, $1,250; Mr. and Mrs. George Dunn, Morehead City, $1,250; and Luther Lewis, his son, and Lewis's former wife executed a deed of trust, $2,500, on their home. The grand jury returned a true bill Wednesday, charging Lewis with first degree murder. Mrs. Dolzer, a Morehead Ciiy waitress, was reported by Coroner Leslie D. Springle to have been 4iain by a shotgun blast. The body was found by the side of the road near the Catholic Chapel at Atlantic Beach. Sheriff Hugh Salter said that Lewis claims the gun went off as the two struggled for it. He said that Mrs. Dolzer had threatened to kill him and herself. The Albert Fallin murder oc curred less than two weeks after Mrs. Dolzer's death. c County Ministers Meet at Lejeune Six county ministers met with Protestant chaplains and the Jack sonville Ministerial Association at ('amp Lejeune Tuesday. The minis ler-chaplain seminar took place in the Protestant Chapel. Attending from this county were Rev. J. D. Young, Beaufort, presi dent of the Carteret Ministers As sociation: the Rev. A. L. Benton, Marshallberg; the Rev. E. W. Downum, Beaufort; the Rev. Psul Parker, Otway; the Bov E. Guthrie Brown and the Rev J. P. Jones, both of Morehead City. The purpose of the seminar was to acquaint ministers and ehaplains and to describe to ministers the duties of , chaplains in counseling men of different faiths. Brief talks by the chaplaina pre ceded and followed lunch at Ui< Paradise Point Officers Club. Between 40 and SO ministers at tended. Attorney Endorsed Seven Carteret attorneys have endorsed farmer Superior Court Judge Luther Hamilton for ap pointment is Jtidge ?f the newly created third Judicial district which Includes Pitt, Craven, Pam lico and Carteret Counties. A. D. Ward of New Bern and W. J. Bundy of Greenville have also suggested tot ibf post* Williams Gets 8-12 Years; 'Candy Baby' Goes Free Levi Williams was sentenced to 8 to 12 years in Superior Court yesterday for the New Year's Eve slaying of Albert Fallin, 19-year-old Beaufort Negro. His sister, Lucille (Candy Baby) Williams, also charged with the murder, was found not guilty. The case went to the jury about 1 1 :30 yesterday morn ing and the jury returned its vcr-< diet in less than three-quarters o{ an hour. Sentence was passed by Judge Walter J. Bone The case has been in progress all week, hav ing started Monday afternoon. Attorney! for the Williams were Harvey Hamilton Jr. and Alvah Hamilton. Robert Rouse Jr., solici tor. pleaded the atate'a case. The first witness for the state was Assistant Police Chief Carlton Garner of Beaufort who reported going to the scene of the murder, where he found the body of Albert Fallin still warm, with blood ooz ing out of the man's mouth and a wound over the left eye. Officer Garner testified that he had the man placed in the back of the patrol car after he felt a faint pulse beat. As he was starting off. he reached back to feel of Fallln's pulse again and discovered the victim had died. The officer then testified that hp removed the body from the car and put it back in the street where it originally lay. He said he then called Morchead City police department for the coroner, and upon information re ceived from the spectators at the scene, he went to Lucille (Candy Baby) Williams's house The defendant told him, he said, that she had been at home, getting ready to go to church. The sheriff of the county, Hugh Salter, was on the scene about 15 minutes after Garner himself had arrived. No Weapon Pound According to his testimony and that of other state witnesses. Sher iff Salter and Coroner Leslie Sprinkle, there Mas no bullet found nor was the Inurdcr weapon ever (ound. Officer Gari.'vt ?mI the went police chief. In. E. Guy, went to house together, with Garner do ing the Interviewing According to the testimony of Officer Garner, Sheriff Salter, and John Edwards of the SBI, Lucille never had admitted that She had a rifle the night of the shooting nor that she had ever fired a shot Bt the victim. Coroner Springle testified that he found four holes in the head of the victim. One was over the left eye, one a little left of the renter of the forehead, one In the back of the head, and one over the left ear. When the body was re moved to the Adair Funeral Home, Coroner Springle said a fifth hole was found above the victim'* heart An X-ray taken at Morehead City hospital showed something that looked like < bullet, above the -ight lung. The coroner said that the site of he holes In the body were equival ent to the size of the eraser end of >rdinary lead pencils. No autopsy vas performed and the body was' urned over to a Negro undertaker n New Bern. Picture! Shown Two pictures taken of the de leased were submitted to the court ;o illustrate the coroner'a testi nony. William Thomas Odom. who had teen working at the Elks Club, eat If led that someone brought ford that there waa a fight going >n across the street He looked out he window and then went down tairs to the front door of the edge to get a better look at the lght. After he got downstairs, be testl led, he "saw both Levi and Candy laby with rifles poised to fire." Then he said that be heard two hots within 10 seconds of each ither. The defendanta' attorneys ried to have the witness impeach ed by citing that Odom had a riminal record. Isaac Jordan, Janitor of the Elks -odge, waa the next witness and le corroborated Odom's story of wo shots, though he watched the Bee MURDER CASE, Page ? Tides at the Beaufort Bar GH LO Friday, March It TicU Table 1:14 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 10:10 a.m. 10:22 p.m. Saturday, March 1? 1:20 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 10:50 a-m. 11:12 p.m. Buday, March *? l: IB a m. >:4B p.m. 11:44 a.m. Moaday, March 21 1:00 a.m. 1:31 p.m. 12:01 a.m. 12:18 p.m. Taeaday, March 22 1:03 a-m. 12:47 a.m. 1:13 p.m. 1:10 pjn. ? * Coroner's Jury Frees Officer In Garner Death At a coroner's inquest at the ?courthouse Tuesday night Lt. Michael Fibich. USMC, 3005 Evans St., Morehead City, was absolved of all guilt in the death of Fred F. Garner, Newport. Garner was struck by Lieutenant Fibich, who was driving a 1954 Chevrolet Sun day night. After hearing the evidence, the jury that ruled that the accident which cost the life of Garner was unavoidable. Garner was struck by the Fibich vehicle about a mile west of New port on Highway 70. It was report ed at the inquest that Garner walk ed in front of the car after the Marine officer had blinked his lights to warn of his approach. When Lieutenant Libich applied the brakes, he was unable to miss hitting Garner. The victim was taken to More head City Hospital where he died in less than an hour. Lieutenant Fibich was put under $1,000 bond for his appearance at the inquest Tuesday night. Bond was posted by Ray F. Garrett, Morehead City. Witnesses included State High way Patrolman R. II. Brown, Lieu tenant Fibich, Sgt, John Broadwell, USMC, and Roy L. Manrj, Nick Allen, and Gor4or. Game , ail of Newport. ' The iriquert w crfiductvd by Cordner Leslie Sprinkle. School Band Will Present Concert The Beaufort High School Band under the direction of C. Franklin Jones Jr. will give its annual spring concert Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium. No ad mission will be charged. Numbers on the program include Victor Herbert melodies, Americin Folk Rhapsody by Grundman (based on American folk tunes). Hall of Fame March by Olividotti, Komm Susser Tod by J. S. Bach, Doxology by Leidzen. Golden Bears March by Yoder and World Events by Zameiknlc. The feature number will be a trumpet trio. Jimmy Murphy, Joe Chipman and Charles Hassell Jr., playing Jim Dandies. N. C. Tax Returns Due April 15 The 1955 State Legislature, meet ing in Raleigh, recently extended the filing date for 1054 individual state income tax returns to April 15. Prior to this change the an nual filing date was March 15. Returns are required of single persons with an income of $1,000 or more, or a married man with an Income of (2,000 or more. A state return must be filed by * To assist people In making Ml state Income tax return*, a repre sentative of the State Reveaoe Department will be at the ceart house, Beaufort, April t and It and at the city hall. Mere heed City, April 7 and M. Hours wfl be > a.m. te 4 p.m. married woman with a separate In come it the income is ai much a? 11.000. Taxpayers who filed last yeer have been mailed either a short Form blank or a long form blank, depending on which type was used last year If conditions have changed and the other blank I* de ilred this year it may be secured by writing the N. C. Department of Revenue in Raleigh or contacting the local representative of the de partment. Failure to automatically receive ? blank does not relieve the tax payer of filing and thoee who tor lome reason have not received a blank but are required to file ihould request one as soon as pawl Mai