CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 44th YEAR, NO. 30. FOUR SECTIONS THIRTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA . FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 AradtU St. Mor*h*ad Chy Phone 6-4175 First Polio Shots Will Be Given Here Next Week With the exception of W. Salter Path, the polio vaccirn main as announced last wee censed Tuesday by the Natio By 2 p.m. yesterday the ce received no information from Ninth District Jaycees to Meet Here Tomorrow Meeting Begins at Noon, Ends with Business Session Sunday Morehead City Jaycees will be host at the fourth quarterly meet ing of the ninth district. North Carolina Jaycees, starting at noon tomorrow. Registration of the guests will start at noon at the Recreation Center, Morehead City, with a re ception to be held at the Heart of the Beach, Atlantic Beach, from j 9 to 6:30 p.m. The highlight of the weekend will be a dance at the Heart of the j Beach tomorrow night from 9 p.m. I to 1 a.m. The music will be fur nished by an orchestra from Kin ston and all those who register at the meeting will be invited to the dance. Sunday morning the business | meeting will take place at the | Morehead Theatre starting at 9 a.m. A stand will be set up in the I lobby of the theatre for serving j coffee, doughnuts and tomato j juice. P. H. (Sonny) Geer Jr., More head City, is running for the of- 1 fice of vice-president of the ninth I district. Attending the meeting will be Jaycees and their wives from Jack sonville, New Bern, Washington, Kinston, Greenville. Richlands, Beaufort, Ayden, Havelock and Farmville. ipl >??-? I Ticket* for New Play Go on Sale Tickets. for the forthcoming Com munity Theatre production. The Night of January 16th. were dis tributed at the theatre meeting Wednesday night at the civic cen ter. The play is being sponsored by the theatre and will be given May 11. 12. 13 and 14 in Beaufort. Floyd Stewart, treasurer, gave the financial report on the last play. Arsenic and Old Lace. Ex penses totaled $224 51 and total re ceipts were $185, making a deficit of $29 51. A plan requiring filing of appli cations for membership in the theatre was adopted and three theatre" members, Tressa Vickers, Sammy Daniels and Ed Walston were put in charge of . ticket tales for the coming production. A letter from Horace Loftin. for mer theatre member, was read and Marjorie and Jack Filkina were in troduced as new members. Walton Hamilton, president, pre sided. Minstrel Begins At 8 Tonight At 8 o'clock tonight the curtain will rise- at the Morehead City School auditorium on the Liona Club Dixieland Minstrel Show. The show it produced and staged by members of the New Bern Lions Club and has In recent weeks played to audiences throughout Eastern North Carolina. Morehead Cihr Lions Club Pres ident Owens Frederick said. "I have Just recently seen the show and am most happy to have the opportunity of bringing this grand minstrel to our county." Proceeds from ticket sales will he used for Liona Club activities throughout Carteret County. ' The Motviiead City Club recently completed ita street marker pro ject and the club also has taken over sponsorship of a team in the newly-formed Pony League Among Ha other projects, the Morehead City club ia also going ahead with Ita aight conaervatlon program. Railway Official Dm Mason 'King, Washington, D. C? vice-president of traffic, Southern Railway, was expected in Morehead City last night la one of the rail way's private ears. Dan Taylor and his family, West Palm Beach, Fla., left in their private car yesterday after visiting at Uw.Tylor borne, Sea Level. ^ 7 S. King School, Stella and< i schedule at schools will re k. The new vaccine was li nal Institutes of Health. >unty health department had the state health office as to ?the number of shots to be given this school year. Dr. F. T. Ford of the State Health office, in a telephone con versation with a NEWS-TIMES re porter yesterday afternoon, said that letters from Dr. J. W. R. Nor j ton, state health officer, to county health officers, were leaving Ral eign yesterday afternoon. The letters recommend that cougy health departments give two&hots this year and the third next fall. But. Dr. Ford said, this is only a recommendation. If the local health departments wish to go ahead with the three shots, they may do so. He said the recommendation is based on a suggestion by Dr. Jonas , Salk, developer of the vaccine, who said that a shot seven months after the second would offer good pro- 1 tection. Under the wider-spaced shot plan, the second inoculation could be given anywhere from two to tour weeks after the first. According to Dr. Ford. Dr. Nor ton is making the wider-spaced] shot recommendation so that larger schools in the state can get in at ' least I wo shots before the polio season starts. The three shots this spring present quite a problem to large counties with larger school systems than Carteret's. Vaccine Shipped Dr. Ford said that his office was informed by the National Founda tion Wednesday that the vaccine was being shipped by plane to six distribution points in this state. When the vaccine arrives at these distribution points, Raleigh will be notified and the state of fice will immediately send tele grams to local health officers. Car tcret's vaccine will be picked up at Wilmington. Dr. Ford said that the vaccine will be distribute! in two ship ments. Each county will get in the first shipment enough vaccine for -TSfjjffSlfaHlfc meitt wItt InWtToe cUOuCT Tor Trie* third shot. \ ? He said that even if a county decides to give only two shots this spring, the third shipment of vac cine ordered could not be used, to inoculate any but first and second graders, nor could it be released to private physicians. \ The school clinics and hojirs next week follow. If there iij any change necessary, school prineipels will be notified directly by the county health department. ** Schedule Monday ? Newport 9 a.m., W. S. King School. Morebead City, 1 p.m. Tuesday?Beaufort 9 a.m., Queen Street School, Beaufdrt, 1 p.m. Wednesday ? Merrimon 9 a.m.. North River 10 a.m. Thursday ? Harkers Island 9 a.m., Smyrna 10 a.m., Atlantic' 1 p.m. Friday ? Camp Glenn 9 a.m., Morehead City 1 p.m. Monday, April 25 ? Stella and Salter Path, hours not let. The clinics have been arranged in cooperation with county doctors See SHOTS, Page 2 Two Freighters Collide in Fog Off Oregon Inlet Colombian Crewman Crushed to Death, Another Severely Cut Norfolk- (AP) Two freight ers, the Colombian Ciudad de Bo gota and the Cuban Bahia de Ma tan/as. collided early Wednesday in a dense fog off the North Caro lina coast An unidentified crew man on the Bogota was crushed to death by a buckled steel plate Another of the B4)j&la 's crew- 1 men, Rafael Geraldo, received se vere leg cut*. He .was removed ' from the ship and flown to a Nor folk hospital by a Coast Guard helicopter. The collision, which occurred 15 miles east of Oregon Inlet in a calm sea, tore a large hole in the j Bogota's starboard quarter, flood ed her engine room and left her dead in the water The Matanzas reported only slight damage. The Coast Guard cutter Chero kee arrived in the area Wednesday afternoon The cutter stood by the disabled ship until the arrival yes- j terday of the tug Dauntless Moran | from New V'ork. The tug will tow i the Bogota to Newport News. The Matanzas was expected to proceed to Baltimore later today, i her agents reported. The Bogota and the Matanzas | each normally carries a 35 man i crew. Each ship i$ 323 feet in I length. Electric Firm Receives Safety Award for 7954 The Carteret-C riven B I ? e t r I c Membership Corp. it proud of LU ?ward (or 50,000 tnsnbours without loot time ta IBM. This Is ? safety award which means that none at Jhe employees was off the Job aa the reault of an accidcnt occurring while at work. At left above ia George W. Ball. Harlowe, president of the corpora tion, and at right ia Duke Bidle, Raleigh, state safety engineer for electric cooperatives In eastern North Carolina. Mr. Bidle presented the award at a dinner for amployafca, their directors and families Among the fueitg also were members of the Beaufort baaketball team. The din- , nor took place March 28 at the , Morehead City American Legion Hut , The plaque shown in the picture waa given in 1993 for 30,000 man- ( hours without lost time. The bar , on the bottom was added for a similar record last yeir ? In the background, left to right, ar* Ralph Pake, Beaufort, con struction foreman; Gerry Troyer, ' Beaufort, thaintenance foreman; I Marvin Beacham, Beaufort, Une- I man, and Willie Prttchett, Mare- i head City, Janitor at the RCA I building. '| Carteret Contributes $3,777.85 to Red Cross u*. 4- . 4 immsm Install Officers P#n Geer Jr. was installed as president of the Carteret County Xpastmasters Club at the meeting Wednesday morning at the Hotel Fort Macon. Others installed were Dr. W. L. Woodard. administrative vice-pres ident: Ted Davis, educational vice president: Dr. David Farrior, secre tary-treasurer. and Gerald Hill, sergeant-nt-arms. Jasper Bell spoke on the pro posed convention hotel in More head City and J. P. Harris Jr., spoke on disaster. Impromptu speakers were J. P. Harris Jr., Walton Hamilton, Dr. Farrior, G. D. Hill, and Dr. Wood ard. The invocation for the meeting waa given by Mr Geer. The toast master was Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Bell was topicmaster and Dr. Russell Outlaw master critic. The next meeting will be Wed nesday, April 27, at 7 a.m. For the first time in years, the county has gone over the Red ?*?*?. Beaufort, chairman of the cam paign. happily announced yester day that $3,777.85 has been turned in. The quota was $3,480. Mrs. Merrill expects that a few more dollars from solicitors have not yet reported. "We appreciate the contribu tions. The response has been splendid," Mrs. Merrill comment ed. She said that she believed the Red Cross help in this county after ! the Oct. 15 hurricane did much t-? make people more generous in their contributions this year. The Red Cross roll call started March 1 and officially ended March 31. Mrs. Merrill said the number of Red Cross members in this county would be announced soon. Each one who contributes becomes a member of the organization. Irvin W. Davis, chairman of the County Red Cross Chapter, added his thanks to Mrs. Merrill's to those who supported the campaign. "We are deeply gratified to be able to announce that the 1955 campaign is a success." he declared. Mrs. Merrill. Mrs. James Rumley and N. L. Walker, attended a Red Cross volunteer workers confer ence at Camp Lejeune Naval Ho6 pital Wednesday. One hundred twenty Red Cross workers from this area were present. The meet ing was preceded by luncheon at the officers club. | Civil Defense Tip | In cam of attack, how will we get official information? A system has been worked out whereby all radio stations will go off the air. Then turn your radio dial to 840. That is the frequency over which official information will be broadcast in thia area. If electric power is knocked out and your regular radio is dead, use a portable radio or the radio In your automobile. All radio atationa must go off the air so that their signal does not allow enemy bombers to home in on a target, such as the oil tanks in the vicinity of the Morehead City port Use of only two frequen cies, 840 of 1240 (in other areas the dial setting is 1240) would give the enemy no assistance. This system la known as Conel rad. an abbreviation of "plan for Control of Electromagnetic Radia tion " Being distributed throughout the county by high school girls ire pamphlets on Cone lnd They explain CoMlrad in (Mail. Pleaae read them. Ueeaae Taken The license of Adrian Glenn Wade, Beaufort, has bean revoked < by the North Carolina Highway , Safety Division. He waa found juilty of driving after hia licenae < had been ravokad in Mwefcasd City , Recorder's Court Geodefic Survey Begins Charting Sunken Wrecks off North Carolina Place of Auto Show Changed Place of the automobile show, scheduled for the port, has been changed to 8th Street, Moi ehead City, between Arendell and Kvans Streets. Marion Mills, chairman, said that plans had to be changed at (he last minute. The change cam** too late yesterday to change ads in today's paper. But the place has definitely been changed. The street will be roped off to allcw the car dealers to show the public their 1955 models. Sea Level Chamber Will Meet at 7 Tonight at Atlantic At 7 o'clock tonight the Sea Level Chamber of Commerce mem bership banquet will begin at the Atlantic School cafeteria. The bus iness meeting will take place in the school gymnasium starting at 8 o'clock. Theodore B. Smith, president, will preside at the business meet ing. Clayton Fulcher Jr. will be master of ceremonies. Joe DuBois, chamber manager, will report on the chamber's activities during the past year. Guests expected include D. G. Bell, Carteret general assembly man, John D. Larkins Jr., chair man of the State Democratic Com mittee, and Larry Moore, speaker of the House, North Carolina legis lature. Ghost Ship' Wreck Bears Testimony to Mystery of Sea Newport Student Wins $50 Prize In Land Contest Albert Wallacc, junior voca- \ tional agriculture student at New- i port School won $50 Tuesday as | second high scorer in a land judg ing contest at Dunn. Vocational agriculture pupils numbering 189. from 47 schools throughout the state, participated. Wallace scored 181 points out of a possible 240. His prize was do^ nated by Carolina Power and Light Co. Contestants judged land, its good and bad qualities, and recom mended ways to improve it. Wallace was one of a team of four boys from Newport. They were Larry Howard, Jimmy Kelly, ; Ronnie Kelly and Wallace. The team was not the top team but they won honorable mention by scoring 8th place. They made 482 points. ' The top team scored 525 points. I The top team was from the Mills | River School, Horseshoe, in Hen- : derson County. The Newport boys were accom- J panied on the trip by their vo-as teacher, C. S. Long, and David F. Jones, county, soil conservationist, who trained them. The classroom work was handled by Mr Long and the field work was conducted by Mr. Jones. Mr. Long's entire qtfvaneed class received valuable experience and tr^fiffeT'WWrthe Wetf. T?r VM* In addition to the 188 boys who participated in the contest, there were in attendance 40 vo ag teach ers and about 35 guests and offi cials. C&D Honors 'Captain John' A resolution honoring the late ('apt. John Nelson, state commer cial fisheries commissioner, was passed fcy the State Hoard of Con- 1 servalion and Development at its! meeting at High Point last week, i The resolution reads, in part, "It I is impossible to measure in purely material terms 'Captain John's' contribution to the state. He right iully gained a reputation as the guardisn of the people's rights in the Commercial Fisheries and his name became synonomous with that resource. "Because of his gentle disposi tion, it did not come easy for him to bring the penalty of the law to bear on an offender, but lie did not hesitate to take * such a step when necessary in theMlischargc of I his duty. On at least arty under the direc tum of Xomnaamlcr Marvin T. t* stat*?i^l at Mir ? hall berg. Towers Erected Two aluminum shoran 100-foot towers have been erected in Car teret County and through the use of these towers, position of the ships will be known at all times. One tower has been erected 13 miles from Morehead City on Route 24. The other is located at the east end of Harkers Island. The ships have electronic shoran equipment which will send out con tinuous electronic impulses to the land-based equipment. This survey will mark the first time since 1950 that the three ships have worked together on a survey of this nature. The vessels are converted Navy sub-chasers which were taken over by the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1946. From 1947 1950 the ves sels were doing this type of sur vey work from Sandy Hook in New York Sound to the north of Cape Hatteras. Complement of 16 Each vessel is manned by two officers and 14 men, with the men having the status of special civil service employees and the officers enjoying the same rank as Naval officers. They are one of the seven uniformed government services. Commander Seaborg said that they will investigate Any wrecks or obstructions reported by commer cial fishermen in this area, if the fishermen will give them the loca tion. Most of the wrecks and obstruc tions to be checked in this survey are ships sunk during World War II by submarines and several sub marines ?bb well. Older vessels, the commander said, have either disintegrated or been shoved out of the way by the tides. Coast Guard Lists Dates for Officer Candidate Schools The Coast Guard Reserve (Mi rer Candidate School achedule lor the coming years was announced today hy the United States Coast Guard in Norfolk. Va. Three claases will be scheduled ? to start June 22, 1055, October 12. 1955, and February 29. IBM. The claaaea are open to men who have reached their 21st birthday but not their 26th birthday. All applicanta must hold a bac calaureate decree ( 4 year course) and must paaa a one-hour officer qualification test. A prospective college graduate may make application for the pro tram within 120 daya of hia date of graduation. Further Interaction may be ob tained by writing to the Coram* nd ?r. Fifth Coast Guard District, Bra 940, Norfolk. Va , or by vidt Hf the MMt Coast Guard ft*