NEWS-TIMES OFFICE
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Marehead City
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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
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44th YEAR, NO. 23. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 22. 1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
By HAL 8HAPUO
Three thousand fang and a cavalcade of 500 cars wel
comed Coach Tom McQuaid and the Beaufort Seadogs, un
defeated State Champions on their return home Sunday
afternoon. The team was escorted all the way from Greens
boro by eight other cars.
At the Carolina Race Track west of Morehead City, the
players were welcomed in a special ceremony. Odell Mer
rill, Baaufort, waa master of ceremonies. Mayor Clifford
Lewis, Beaufort, Mayo* George Dill, Morehead City, and
Norwood Young, president of the Beaufort Chamber of
Commerce, congratulated the boys. The crowd ? claimed
by many to b? the biggest ever assembled in the county ?
roared their htppy approval.
Coach McQuaid showed off the Class A State trophy.
He said, "We certainly showed those clubs from the West
ern part of the state what our boys could do." Monk Pitt
man, spokesman for the team, thanked the crowd for their
turnout, and said that the team was thrilled to win the
championship.
The Beaufort High School band played for the boys as
their motor caravan from Greensboro entered the track
parking lot.
Prom the track, the team rode through Morehead City
amid the cheers and the horn-honkings of hundreds of
cars and trucks. The coach and the members of the team
were in beautiful convertibles following a Morehead City
police patrol car which led the parade.
The.v rode through Morehead City and then on to Beau
fort where the caravan proceeded along Ann Street, then
out to the high school where the players and the coach
wer^ mobbed by well-wishers. It took the coach and the
team over an hour before the orowd would -let them get
home.
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If anyone wondered about the cars painted with either
black or white letters proclaiming Beaufort as State Class
A Champs, then we hasten to say that the painting was
done by three of the Beaufort cheerleaders, Pat Hill, Nina
Darling and Jean Chadwick, at Greensboro and Miss Em
ma Perry of Beaufort who was in Greensboro for the semi
final and final games.
Tom Potter wouldn't give permission to have his beau
tiful Oldsmobile painted until the group reached Clinton,
where the crowd stopped off to chow down. At Clinton
the cheerleader* purchased some green an<j white crepe
paper which was used to decorate the nine cars in the orig
inal caravan and they also did a beautiful lettering job on
the car of 8heriff Hugh Salter, using black and white shoe
poliah.
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Yours truly was one happy man at about 8:40 p.m. Fri
day night when the Seadogs pulled out their game against
the Youngsville quintet. The press table at the game was
located just behind the Beaufort bench and when the
players came up to Coach McQuaid during time-outs they
were looking straight at me.
When Monk Pittman took the ball into play with about
30 seconds left in the overtime period, everyone at the
gym could hear him holler, "Here we go now!" His words
were certainly prophetic, since he was the one who sank
the winning two-pointer with just four seconds left to play.
In the dressing room following the game it was sheer
bedlam as the Beaufort players mobbed Monk. He turned
to me and said, "Boy were you ever white when they tied
up that score I" He may or may not have been kidding, but
it was one of those games that could have gone either way.
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Every sports writer at the tournament had the same
comment to make concerning the sparkplug of the Beau
for quintet, Gehrmann Holland. They all thought that he
was by far the outstanding ballplayer in tjie games. We
sportswriters voted for an all-tournament team of 10 men
and I know that Gehrmann was the first choice on all the
ballots.
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A Had man indeed was the coach of the Ahoskie team,
who thought his team had the tournament in the bag. As
a matter of fact he told Coach McQuaid that he didn't
think his team was going to have any competition in the
tourney.
His team was mighty lucky to win from a scrappy King
five in the opener and then lost to Bethel in the semi-finals
and to Youngsville in the playoff for third spot in the tour
ney. His big boys (and they really had the height)
Sf* HAPPY THRONG, Pate J
Three Election
Officials Named
Thursday Night
Voting in May 3 Election
Will Take Place at
Municipal Building
F. C. Salisbury has been appoint
ed registrar and Clayton Guthrie
and James Willis judges for the
town election in May. The appoint
ments were made at the Morehead
City Town Board meeting in the
municipal building Thursday night.
The board said that in municipal
elections there is only one precinct
and all voting will be done at the
municipal building. In county, state
and national elections there are
two town precincts and two polling
places.
The town also decided against
waiving sewage fees in the public
hooting project*. A latter was read
(too the E?sl Carolina Regional
Aif>hnrjfv raQ^P^ing
the government Mot be requtr4w%>'
pat the fees which fcaount ta WI af
month for bdth (he white anuWe
gro projects.
S?wtrs were laid in the projects
by (he federal government but the
town maintains them. While sew
agg lines there are advantageous to
Morehead City, the board felt that
the town had complied with many
fedfral government requests rela
tive to building the homes and that
maintenance of the sewers is now
a town expense. Therefore the
clerk, John Lashley. was requested
to present the town's opinion in a
letter to the East Carolina Regional
Housing Authority.
Few Refusals
The mayor, George Dill, reported
, thai only about four persona have
refused to pay sawage fees. The
board directed the town attorney
to draw a bill to be introduced in
the legislature allowing the Caro
lina Water Co. to cut off the water
at any borne or place ot business
which refuses to pay the 'sewage
service fee.
This method of assuring collec
tion of the fee was decided upon
when the sewage fee was set up.
C. S. Ilardison and K C. McUan
of the Merebea<f City Shipbuilding
Carp, appeared before Um board
and requested permission to put a
fence at the east end of Bridges
Street.
The fence is needed, they said,
to comply with Navy regulations in
connection with the building of 18
MVfoot craft for the Navy. Behind
the fence, government materials
will be stored in buildings and
other work contingent upon fulfill
ing the- contract will be protected
from persona not authorized to in
spect 'the premises
The' board approved the fencing.
Okayed
Phillip Ball, engineer, presented
a newly-drtym map of the town,
which will be app?o?ed by statute
aa the official man of the town.
Abbott Morris. Morehead City,
and W. W. Ballou. contractor, re
quested the beard to lay sewer
lines along UM Morris property
near Bonner AiqKue in the western
part of the tow* Mr. Morris said
. See BOAW. Page 7
Mr*. Marshall Aytcue
Rk?vm Nomination
Mrs. Marahall Ayscue, Morehead
City, was nominated chairman of
the Slate Hothe Project for dis
trict 7 of the Business and Pro
fessional Woman's Club Sunday at
Goldfcboro.
Attending the meeting from the
Carteret B4PW Club were Mrs.
C. L. Beam. Mrs Floyd Chadwkk,
Mrs, Julia Holt. Mrs. Walter Lask
er, Mrs. Joe Beam and Mrs W. I.
Loftta.
Mrs My Blyufc, stole presi
dent. attended the meeting Mich
took place at Uw Goldsboro Hotel
Smiles or Victory
f
Seated In the convertible, one tf the leading ears in the motor
caravan which took the victorious Beaufort Seadogs through More
head City and Beaufort Sunday are Gehrmann Holland, Herb Mason
and Jimmy Davia in the hark seat and Henry Safrit and Monk Pitt
man in the front. The driver Is Street Wttherinfton. The crowd in
the background wax from all over th * county. They turned out at
the Carolina Dog Track to welcome the heroes home.
Two Marines Hurl
In Accident
A car in whirh two Marines were
riding overturned at 9:45 Thurs
day night 300 feet east of the Car
teret-Craven line. Sgt. Robert P.
Tenney, Cherry Point, and Theo
dore T. Burdick. also of Cherry
Point, were injured.
They were taken to the Cherry
Point dispensary. Tenney had head
inturies and Burdick a dislocated
shoulder.
Stat* Highway Patrolman W. E.
Pickard said that he car was go
ing toward Chetry Point when- it
ran off the right shoulder on i
curve an turned over several times.
The car, a 1952 Chevrolet, waa
damaged beyond repair. It was re
portedly owned by Tenney. Charges
are pending. Patrolman Pickard ia
checking on whether Tenney or
Burdick was the driver.
Dune-Pushing
Will End Soon
Gray Hassell. Beaufort engineer
in charge of building the sand dune
along Bogue Banks, said Saturday
that the work should be completed
in about three weeks.
The dune has been push^l up
from Fort Macon Point to the east
ern limit of Atlantic, Beach and
from the western limit of Atlantic
Beach through Salter Path. (The
dune was not built on the unoccu
pied portion of the Hoffman prop
erty).
The remainder of the work lies
on Emerald Isle. Steve Roberta,
Morebead City, who got the con
tract to put up the "snow" fence
on top of the sand bank, was sched
uled to start erecting that yeater
day.
The work is being financed by
federal funds and is designed to
rebuild the beach which was dam
aged by Hazel.
To AIM feeling
R_ M Williams, county farm
(fait,, will attend til* six-county
?arm agents' meeting at Bayboro
Frtdflr. J. t. Stooall. Pamlico
County agent, will IM boat.
It Was Some Day!
pnmo By Jerry senunacMr
Mayor George Dill. Marehead City, left, nogntulalca the vktorioaa Beaufort team Sunday afternoon
at the race track. Looking on la Odell Merrill, Beaufort, master of ceremonies; Coach Tom MetfciaM,
holding the io?rta< championship trophy, and right. Mayor Clifford Lewis, Beaufort.
USCG Applies
For Right to Dredge
The Qommander, Fifth Coaat
Guard District, Norfolk, has ap
plied for permission to dredge a
basin and channel to the Atlantic
Lifeboat Station on the southeast
aide of Core Sound.
Plana allowing the proposed work
may be aeen at the postoffice at
Atlantic or the Corps of Engineers
office, Wilmington.
Plans show a channel 38 feet
wide and 8,700 feet long, dredged
to ? depth of 8.0 feet .at mean
low water. The basin will be dredg
ed to 8.0 feet at mean lew water.
Approxlmteiy 29,00 cubic yank
will be drrdgeri and depoaited on
the southwest side of the channel
Objections If any, on the pro
posed work will be received at the
Array Engineers Office, Wilming
ton, until Thursday.
Greetings 6 Feet High
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palate* on Mwapriat.
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Beaufort Town Board Acts
On Bridge Site, Land Deal
The Beaufort Town Board acted4
on proposed construction of a new
hiidse over Gallant'* Creek and
purchase from the county of the
former Turner Street ABC proper
ty at a call meeting Thursday night
in town hall.
The board passed a four-part
resolution on the bridge, to be pre
sented to the State Highway De
partment
The resolution first asks the de
partment to consider situating the
Beaufort end of the bridge at any
one of three streets. Pine, Cedar
or B(ead: second to build a draw
as wide as highway finances will
permit; third to build the bridge
wide enough to provide a safe
walk-way; fourth ask the state to
confer with the Beaufort town
board before the department makes
final deciiions on location, length
of draw and width o I bridge.
The board also decided to submit
Wda to Hie ?aa o*y on purelpae af
lite Imtl front, 7Q-ioot depth for
mer ABC store property on Turner
Street.
The bids conform with the coun
ty board requests for three sepa
rate bids, one for the entire 47
feet, a second for 32 feet and the
third for 15 feet.
The town is interested in acquir
ing at least 19 feet in order to run
an alley the full length of Front
St. between Turner and Craven
Streets along the back of the stores
fronting on Front Street.
If the town acquired the entire
47 feet it would probably use 17
feet for alley-way and aell the re
maining 30 feet.
Halsey Paul and D..F. Merrill of
the Beaufort Planning Board at
tended the meeting.
9-Y ear-Old Hickory Boy
Wins Vacation Here
Power Company
Plans Cutoffs
For Next Sunday
Power will be cut off for 15
minute intervals in Morehead City
between 3rd and 28th Street.-, Sun
day. March 27. George Stovall,
manager o( Carolina Power and
Light, wid lha outtagn ara neces
sary to nake a regular check on
trana/ormen In the main section.
Time of the outtagea will be as
follows: 4 a.m. to 4:15 a.m.. 7 a.m.
to 7:18 a.m., 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.,
1:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Mr. Stovall Mid the check-ups
are a precaution against break
downa.
On the following Sunday. April
3, the aana type check will be
made in Beaufort. The town of
Beaufort, west Beaufort and High
way 101 will be affected but not
Lennoxville Road residents or cus
tomers on the line to Atlantic.
Outtages April 3 will be as fol
lows: 4 a.m. to 4:15 a.m.; 7 a.m.
to 7:15 a.m., and 10 a.m. to 10:15
a.m.
People May Call tor beals
At Depot' in Morehead
Judge Will Not
Seek Election1
George H. McNeill, judge of
Morehead City Recorder's Court,
has stated that he will not seek
election to the judgeship in May.
Judge McNeill said that he
would devote hia time to his
law practice entirely
It ia expected that Herbert
Phillip* 111, solicitor, will run
for judge.
Three to Appear
In Court Today
Araiatant Police ( Chief Carlton
Garner served a warrant Wednes
day on Hiram Spfingle. Pine St.,
Beaufort, charging him with public
irunkenness, disturbing the peace
and using loud and profane lan
guage
Springle was released under 1100
bond. The warrant was sworn out.
Officer Garner said, by S. N. Made*.
Two motorists were cited on
charge* of motor law violation*.
They were Je*ae Jame* Green,
route 7 Lenoir, who waa charted
with failure to atop at the at
Live Oak and Mulberry Friday, a?f
Earl Taylor. Vanceboro, charged
with cutting through a service sta
tion Sunday and speeding.
All are docketed for appearance
in Beaufort Recorder's Court tkk
afternoon.
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Special!* Dm Mr*
J. K. Butler, ntenaion swine
ipecialtot. Raleigh, will be ia the
county Thursday to confer with
hog producers.
? Pfraflc in Carteret County who
were overlooked in the mailing of
1999 Easter Seals ean get their
seala at a special depot established
by the Junior Woman's Club at
1907 Arendell St.. Mrs. J. C. Har
veil, campaign chairman, an
nounced today.
Mrs. Harvrll urged all county
residents who have not received
their aeala to call at the depot and
thus participate in the 22nd an
nual drive on behalf of crippled
children
"It is inevitable that some per
sona may be missed in such a large
scale mailing as that made this
year," Mrs. Harvell said. "We not
only urge all county reaidents to
call for their seals, but to uae them
on each piece of Eaatertime mail."
The IBM Easter Seal appeal ia
being conducted aimultaneoualy in
the 48 states. District of Columbia,
Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico by
more than 1.900 affiliated chapters
of the National Society for Crip
pled Children and Adults.
The campaign, being sponsored
in tMs county by the Morehead
City J wi lor Woman's Club, contin
ues through Easter Sunday, April
10.
Tide Table
TMes at the Beanfert Bar
UGH
tow
Tuesday, March M
8:93 am.
7:13 pm.
13:47 a m
1:10 p.m.
WMaeaday. March U
7:94 a m.
7:93 pm
1:34 a.m.
1:92 p.m.
Hmrs4ay. March, 34
1:11 a.m. 3:19 a.m.
I:t4 p.m. , ' ,3:33 p.m.
rri*y, March IS
t-M a.m. 1:94 a.m.
?JD Mh tU pm
David Hager, 9. son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cloyd A. Hager, 403 Main
Ave., NE, Hickory, was announced
today as winner of the Morehead
City Chamber of Commerce vaca
tion contest which ended March
IS. David's prize is four weeks at
Camp Morehead, July 23-Aug. 20,
valued at )185, plus round-trip
from his home to Morehead City
via Piedmont Airlines. He won the
trip with his 16-word completion
of the statement "I like to live in
North Carolina because . . ."
Chesley Thomas Austin Jr., 6,
47S7 Mt. Pleasant Drive, Winston
Salem. won a special price for ex
ceptional effort, Chetley's prize
contkts ?f a weekend beach trip,
all expenses paid for his family.
Besides Chesley, there will be hla
sister. Gwendolyn, and mother and
father. The family will be guests
of the Ocean King Hotel, Atlantic
Beach, and will also go deep-sea
fishing and eat the brat of seafoods
as gueats of the Chamber of Com
merce.
Also selected by the judges were
eleven honorable mention entries
submitted by Eddie Morris, 14,
Methodist Orphanage, Raleigh; Joe
Honeycutt, 10, Newton; Johnny
Aldridge, 11, Kinston; Arthur
Koon, 9. Beaufort; Jack Hammond,
13, Rowland; Buddy Lane, 0,
Rutherfordton; Larry Smith, 14,
Burlington; Paul Harris Jr.. 10,
Roanoke Rapids; Hobart Kellam.
10. Greensboro; Jeffrey Bray. 7,
Thomasville; and Gordon Harkers
dale, 14, Marion.
Three thousand, aeven hundred
and ninety-three entries were re
ceived in the contest which ran
for 23 days. Judges were Mrs.
Miriam Rabb, state News Bureau
travel editor, Raleigh; James But
ler, alumni secretary, Eaat Caro
lina College, Greenville; and Lock
wood Phillipa, publisher the Car
teret County News-Times. Pupils
from more than 600 schools enter
ed the competition.
Education Bill
Hits Hopper
Carteret'i legislator. D. G. Bell,
put in the hopper at the capitol laat
night the bill appointing County
Board ol Education members lor
the next two years.
Named in the bill aa members
are R. W. Safrit Jr., Beaufort; D.
Mason, Atlantic; Theodore Smith,
Davis; W. B. Allen, Newport, and
George R. Wallace, Morebead City.
Mr. Wallace replaces A. B.
Cooper who is mayor of Atlantic
Beach. State law prohibits one per
son holding two public offices.
The new member is the son of
Charlea R. Wallace who was active
in achool work in Morebead City.
The Morehead City High School la
named In honor of the lata Charlea
R. Wallace.
The other tour members of the
board are completing a two-year
term.
Mr. Bell returned to Raleigh y Sa
turday noon. He said he had re
reived some billa from Ute Beau
fort Town Board but the bills were
given the board for checking and
now have been sent back to the
League of Municipalities for aoase
changes.
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Ne Oeaaty Cwsrt
There waa no County Recorder's
Court laat Tuesday because Sfr
perior Court waa is aaaa taa.