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W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '?< 44th YEAH, NO. 32. FOUR SECTIONS TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 22. 1965~" PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS National Guard Units Take Part in Operation Minuteman At 7 p.m. Wednesday National < Guard members of Battery A. Beaufort, and Battery C. Morehead City, received their orders in the nationwide Minuteman test alert. They reported to their stationa and in 45 minutes all strategic spots in the county were under guard. First Lt. Merritt Bridgman. com manding Battery C, said he was well pleased with the results of the test. Members of the Morehead City National Guard unit guarded the port, oil docks, the power plant, water supply, bridges, telephone exchange and the Morehead City ship yard. Members of the Beaufort unit guarded Aviation Fuel Terminals, radio stations, the telephone com pany and the bridge across Gallants Channel. The alert was over by midnight and all the men returned home. At the Morehead City shipyard a guardsman. Pvt. Raymond E. Willis, helped the night watchman put out a small fire. The blare was discovered about 10:45 by the watchman who called Willis. The two of them put the fire out before serious damage was caused. National guardsmen were told that a test alert would occur dur ing April but the actual time was a close-guarded secret. Participating in Operation Min uteman with the county units of the 690th Field Artillery Battalion were more than 5,800 other Army and Air National Guard units in about 2,200 other communities throughout the state, the 47 other states and in the District of Colum bia, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Bank Women Will Meet Here A meeting that was blown off schedule last fall by Hurricane Hazel has been scheduled again for Morehead City. The North Caro lina division of the National A? sociation of Bank W?men will ?met here Saturday .and Sunday, May 21 and 32. "Skv jMi^Mned VWfttMj" Monhead City the weekend of Oet 15. 1054. Mrs. Virginia Sample, Morehead City, i* the local chairman in charge of arrangements. Registration it scheduled' iot 4 to 8 p.m. at tHA Atlantic Beach Hotel with a redption from 8:30 to 7:30 at the Mofphead City Elks Club. A banquet will take place at th? Elk's Club at 7:30 p.m. Breakfast will be served at 8 o'clock Sunday morning at the Rex Restaurant, followed by a business meeting. A tour of Cherry Point Marine Air Base will take place at 11 a.m. and luncheon at 1 on the base will conclude the meet ing. Dr. R. E. Outlaw Heads Jaycees With approximately 38 jaycees present. Dr. Russell Outlaw was elected president of the Morehead City Jaycees (or 1959-M at the weekly meeting of the orgsnisation Monday night He succeeds Jasper Bell. Other officers elected were Jer ry Willis, internal vice-preaident; Billy Oglesby, external vice-presi dent, and Charles Summerlin, treasurer. Director! elected are L. G. Dunn, Luther Lewis, Herbert Phillips. Frank Casaiano, and Ger ald Murdock. Walter Morris, chairman of the committee for the installation ban quet to be held in May, was given the authority to determine, with his committee, where the banquet will b* held The Jaycees decided that tbey would keep a record of planned events so that organisations will know what nights are free. Guests at the meeting included Pvt Ronald Caldwell, Cherry Point; J. B. Sanders, Ken Wagner, and Flo Anderson, all of Morehead City. Anderson la a prospective member. Sh*d, Boat Burns At 1312 Bay St. Morehead City firemen put out i blaae at the rear of the home occu pied by the famillee of Joe FeHor and Mrs. Mabel Horton at 1313 Bay St. Tuesday at 11 a.m. The fire, of undetermined canse waa believed to have started In i small boat shed st the rear at tfM house, in which waa atored a speed boat. Both the boat house and craft were destroyed. The back of the boose waa bad ly srorrhed and the iaatde a t tlM house waa water damaged. The fire It believed to hav? beet started by children playing around the boat Newport's Land Judging Team Boasts a Winner Polaroid One-MiMUe Photo by The News- Times a lano-junging team irom m*w port in its first contest last week at Dunn showed it was a group to be reckoned with. One of its mem bers, Albert Wallace, a junior at Newport School, won $50 when he scored 181 points out. of a possible 240 Albert is pictured above on the right examining a sample of soil. Others in the picture, left to right, are Ronnie Kelly, Larry Howard. I and Jimmy Kelly, all seniors, and their vocational agriculture instruc tor, C. S. Long. Mr. l ong and David Jones, soil conservationist for Carteret, train ed the boys for the contest which was spqnsored by state and federal agriculture agencies and Carolina Power and Light Co. The winning team was a group of boys from Mills River. They won $1,000 cash to pay their way to a laqtfttudgmg contest -at Okla noma l ny apni ?o-ju. i ne New port team placed third. Forty seven teams competed. The teams went into different fields, judged the qualities of the soil and recommended treatments to make the soil productive. In ad dition to the 188 boys who took part in the contest, 40 vocational agriculture teachers. 35 guests and officials were present. Chairman of the day's program at Dunn was R. L. Thompson Jr., Wilmington. CP&L agricultural de velopment^ agent; A. H. Veazey, L. E. Lull and Forrest Steele, all of the Soil Conservation Service; Frank Do get t and W. W. Lee. both of State College; Richard Daley, deputy state conservationist; A. G. Bullard. assistant State .Supervisor of Agriculture Education; J. M. Osteon. T. B. Elliott, N. B Ches nutt end E. N. Meekins, district vo cational agriculture supervisors. > Individual high scorers la the land-judging Met were David Mus tUn of Cary (left) and Alber^ Wallace of Newport. With 200 oat of a possible ?40 points, Mustian won SIM. With 111 points, Wallace won IS*. The awards were made hy Carolina Power It Light Co. Nine to Run for Board, Two for Mayor at Newport JC's to Wash Cars To Raise Money Beaufort Jayrees will give cars that new aparkling spring look Sunday afternoon. They're spon soring a Wadiathon. They'll waah cars, give tie owner a paaa to a movie and put the $1.90 tor the waah job in the Jaycee treasury Owners wko would like a super wash Job should take their car to tfcfc Sinclair Station. Front and Craven Streets, anytime be tween 1-p.m and 6 p.m. Sunday. It the heivens open up and nature prmMes the waah Job, Danforth Hll, Jaycee secreUry. said the WaAathon will be post poned. William C. Miller, route 2 New part, ww apftehended by Assistant Chief Car Mm Garner Tuesday night in Beaufort Miller waa charged witl going 39 milea an hour in a 29tnile zone. ? Name* of four more candidates for commiaaioner and another candidate for mayor were filed at Newport before the deadline Wed nesday. New commissioner candidatea are M. D. McCain and D. Ira Gar ner, who are now serving aa com missioner. W. L. Carroll and James L. Edwards A. L. Wilson has agreed to run for mayor against Leon Mann Jr. Commissioners nominated at the town meeting April 12 are Prentis Garner. Bennie R. Garner, Wilbur Gamer, H. G. Gurganus and J. M. Cox. The names of Commiaaioner Charles Hill and Commiaaioner Early Mann were filed thla week but neither haa consented to let his name be placed on th? ballot. The election will be Tuesday, May 3. ? Shell Oil Company's new tanker, the M.S.. Plalidia, the largest la the World, will dock today at Trumbull Asphalt Co. with 110,000 barrtfls of aaphalt. Driver Appeals Judge's Decision Motor Vehicle Cases Make Up Majority Heard By Judge McNeill h Dederic Morris was found guilty of driving a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants or nar cotics and was fined $100 and costs by Judge George H. McNeill in Morehead City Recorder's Court Monday. Morris has appealed to j Superior Court and was freed un der $200 bond. On another count against him, Morris was fined $25 and costs when he was found guilty of ob : structing a public officer in the discharge of his dilty. % Martin A. Yamell was fined $35 j and costs when he pleaded guilty ! to having expired Texas plates and , speeding. Charles Timothy Bosely was fined $25 and costs after be I ing found guilty of speeding. Pays $100. Costs I Roger A. Martin was fined $100 and costs when he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants or narcotics. Two drivers were fined $25 and costs after pleading guilty to hav ing no operator's license. Both of them, Donald P. Boland and Daniel R. Abbotts, will have the full fine remitted should they present a valid driver's license to the clerk of the court within 30 days. Costs were assessed in the fol lowing cases: Don Adue Clark, speeding; Richard Elmo Gaskins, failing to stop at stop sign; Joseph E. Batten and Ervin McRoy Mas sengill, both charged with speed ing. Robert Dudley was fined $10 and costs when he pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, a pistol. Half Costs Assessed Ililf costs were assessed in the following cases: Clarence Riven bark, improper use of dealer pistes; Ervin Wray Chappell, fail ing to stop at a stop sign; and Mrs. Henry Gibat. issuance of a bad check. Mrs. Gibat must also make restitution of $50 to Mrs. Faye Da vis, the amount of the bad check. Cases against the following were dropped: Bruno Marino. Alfred &, Howard, and Elijah Carter Jr., aO charged with no operator's 1 ieflOv Mrs. Jean R Dewey was found not guilty-^f failing to stop for a school bus while the bus was loading children Cases against the following were continued: Gerald Gregory Ful cher. Helen Christine Willis, Cla rence T. Sanderson, Lloyd Marie Crowe, and Sylvester Bell. Activity Begins At Atlantic Beadi Businesses at Atlantic Beach are opening and some swimmers have already ventured into the water. Mayor A. B. Cooper said that the beach official opening date is Sun day, May IS. Because life lines were destroyed in tlx recent fire at the beach, the town board has invested $1,000 in a new oceanic lifeline. Life guards. however, will not go on duty until the last weekend of this month. Mayor Cooper strongly suggests that bathers swim in pairs be cause the undertow, on occasion, is quite strong. He said that the boardwalk, be ing re-laid as a concrete walk, should be ready by May 15. The part of it which had been laid first was damaged in the fire which destroyed the Clark bath house, the Ocean King Hotel and several other concession buildings. The Clark bath house, destroyed in the fire, is being rebuilt, and ? concession stand is being put up in the area formerly Mrupied by the hotel. On the property north of the miniature golf course, amusement rides are being placed. No Angel Wings Needed Here Cornelius Small couldn't be tried in County Court 'Tuesday because he wasn't around. 1 He was put in the county jail last week for assaulting a young girl but be sawed his way out Friday night. Sheriff Hugh Salter said Small, a Negro, was in s first floor cell. After sawing through the bars, all he had to do was cross the yard, climb a wire fence and be gone. "Maybe the new Jail will put a stop to things like that!" the sheriff declared. Crew t* Party Officers and crewmen of the IT. S. Coast Guard Cutter Agassis will attend a ship's party Wednes day evening. May 11, In the Fish Veal Company's dining room, Beau fort. 1954 Soil Conservation Work Wins $150 Prize for County New Crew Aboard rnqio ny noy p.u d<i mkh These are the new officers cf the Sea I-evel Chamber of Com merce. Seated are Clayton Fulcher Jr., Atlantic, president; Mrs. Stanley Wahah, Ocracoke, vice-president; standing are Jimmy Harker, Markers Island, second vice-president; and lister C.askill, Sea lievel, Ireatver. Arrests in Youth Burglary Ring Remain at Eight No more arrests have been made in the burglary ring broken last weekend when teenage youths were picked up by Morehead City police. SBI agents were expected yesterday to assist in the investi Ration Police Ck?ei Herbert GtiUut timatcs the foot recovered at * couple thousand dollars. A TV set, short wave radios, books, rifles, sealed - beam headlights, field glasses, sterling silver and numer ous other items are locked in the board i f commissioners room at the Morehead City municipal build ing. The eight youths arrested have been released under bond. Five vere 16 and over when they com mitted the thefts and three were under 16. Those under 16 will be trieu before Juvenile Judge A. H. James and the others are sched uled for trial in County Recorder's Court. Discovery of the long record of thefts occurred Saturday when two of the boys were picked up by Kin ston police. They were attempting to sell stolen tires In Kinston. Among the scores of homes the youths reportedly broke into is the old Oaksmith home west of More head City. From there they re moved old books, maps and pic tures. A weapon now in possession of police is a pistol, fashioned from a .22 rifle, which was made by one of the boys now under arrest. Chief Oriffin said the boys gave no reason for the thefts other than the fact that they "started" after the hurricane by looting at the beach. Then they began breaking and entering homes and taking what they wanted. All the items recovered have been labeled with the name of the boy who had the item in his posses sion at the time be was picked up by the police. Moos* to Install Officers At Lodge Monday Night Officers to be totalled it the Moose Lodge, Morehead City, Mon day night are A. D. Avallone, gov ernor; B. F. Morton Jr., junior gov ernor; Roy Evana, prelate; Cecil Raper, treasurer; Marvin Powers, three-year trustee; Earl Freeman, two-year trustee; and Emmett Wil lis, one-year trustee. Gordon Hardeaty is past gover nor. TMea at the Beaufort Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, April 22 7:52 a.m. S:ll p.m. 1:57 a.m. 2:04 p.m. Saturday, April 2] s 40 a.m. 0:00 p.m. 2:44 a.m. 2:51 p.m. fluday, April 24 0:35 a.m. 0:54 p.m. * as. Moaday, April 2S 3 34 a.m. 2:98 p.m. 10:35 a.m. 10:53 p.ni. 4:24 a.m. 4:27 p.m. Taaaday, April M 11:37 a.m. U;94 p.m. 5:16 a.m. AJtt p-m. Whale Beached, Another Pays Visit Karl Nop of Beaufort reported this week that while flying over Shackleford Hanks Sunday Ik* spotted a whale washed up on the point opposite Fort Maeon Coast Guard Station. Mr. Noe said he judged the whale to be about 27 feet long. The whale attracted visitors the rest of the day. Mr. Noe said his two sons went over to Shack Ic ford late Sunday and said the whale still seamed to be alive. Boatswain Kenneth BiUm, - Aomm?nding officer of Fort Ma-. >? con Coast Guard Station, surtd that some of hi* men saw a smfcll ? whale come up into the slip at -'the station last Thursday He added that- presence of whales close inshore at this time of year is not unusual. Boy on Bicycle Runs into Car Joe Tyson, 12-year old Negro lad riding a bike, collided with a car at the intersection of Live Oak and Pine Streets. Beaufort, at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon. The car. a 1953 Ford, was driven by Ira Pelletier, Beaufort. Pelle tier was going south on Live Oak and the boy was going east on Pine, according to Assistant Chief Carl ton Garner, who investigated. According to the officer, Tyson put his brakes on when he got to the corner, but they didn't hold. He struck the car and was tossed ufron its hood. The right wind shield of the car and the radio aerial were broken off. The boy was taken by Officer Garner to Morehead City Hospital where he was examined and re leased. When they got back to the scene of the accident, the bike could -not be found. People near by said somebody had taken it away. Officer Garner said a motorist behind Pelletier said that Pelletier was going about 25 miles an hour when the accident happened. No charges have been filed against him. Na Court May X Because of the municipal elec tion May 3, there will be no More head City Recorder's Court Mon day, May 2. Three Farmers Recognized For Water, Soil-Saving Carteret has won $150 cash in a contest to promote soil and water conservation and three farmers have won cita tions for outstanding water and soil conservation work in 1954. The cash prize will go into the treasury of the Carteret division w ii h it i.s ii pari 01 Low?r Ncusc Soil Conservation ( District. The farmers honored "for eon tribution to the present and future prosperity of the Carolinas through use of soil and water conservation practices,'' are R. Neal Campen, Beaufort RFD, winner in the coun ty's under 100 acre class; L. W I Pelletier. Stella, winner in the 100 to 400 acre class, and W. W. Roberts, Newport RFD. winner in the over 400 acre class. The contest was sponsored by the Carolina Power and Light Co. Cash Winners Winners of the three first prizes ! of $300 each were A. W. Nesbitt of Fairview in Buncombe County, who has an 88-acre dairy farm; J. L. Guy of Camden, S. C., who has 227 acres; and Frank B. Rogers Sr.. of Bennettsville, S. C., operator of a 3.407-acre farm. Winners of second prizes of $200 each were George W. Bullard of route 1 Bennettsville. S. C.; A. P. Breeden of route 4 Bennetsville; and John Singletary of Scranton, S. C Third-place winners of $100 each were Thomas Lawrence Jr.. of route 1 Enfield, in Halifax County; R. B. Smith of route 1 Blanche, N. C ; and George Watson of route 2 Whitakers, in Nash County. The cash prize is a second place for the county having the greatest percentage of total acreage in the contest. David Jones, county soil conservationist, said Carteret had 60,594 acres entered, including the Open Ground Farm. Unini|? yVork Mr. Jones, commenting on.the*in dividual winners in ttie county said that Mr. Campen during 1954 un dertook an extensive rii linage pro gram as well as other conservation measures. (Mr. Campen is chairman of the county's soil conservation district supervisors). Mr. Pelletier put in several acres of contour farming, contour pas ture fences, and seeded proper grasses and legumes. Mr. Roberts installed several thousand feet of farm drain tile and seeded small grain for cover and rotations. 60 Counties Participate Participating in the contest were 60 counties in North and South Carolina. Carteret winners in last year's contest were M. L. Simmons, New port RFD, and Miss Georginia Yeatman, Beaufort. The next contest, with the theme, Rural Community Work on Soil and Water Conservation will run j from July 1, 1955 to June 30, 1956. Pakistan Engineer Visits This State Wilmington ? Hassan Rizvi, 25 year-old civil engineer from Pak istan, has concluded a three-day study of North Carolnia water ways with particular attention di rected to dredging know-how and terminal facilitiea. Riivi'a visit to the Tar Heel State concluded a five-month tour of civil works (rivers and har bors) activities on the Great Lakes. Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast. A specialist in navigstion. he said his objective is to gain additional knowledge about American meth ods in developing harbors and ? channels for application in his own country j His Tar Heel tour included two ; days aboard the hopper dredge , Gcrig at Beaufort Inlet, the North Carolina terminals at Morehead | City and Wilmington and the Idle shipyard at Wilmington. , Is the Caboose Here to Stay? Photo by Roy Eu banks It ml ? railroad convention, but railway officials ware there. Talking awcr railroad developventa la thin ana at the Sao Loral Chamber of Gaammv meeting laat Friday ware W. Maaan King, left, Tice-praaMaat la charge of traffic. Southern Railway, Washing ton, D. C, and Htrry P. Edwards. genera] manager a I *a Atlantic aad Eaat UwHia Bailrnad, Naw Born. Three Hurt When Chemical Blows Up in School Lab Two hundred dollars damage was a used Wednesday afternoon at Beaufort School and three pupils were taken Jo the doctor when a -hemical exploded in the chemistry aboratory J. W. Alligood. 17. a senior, and Richard Lewis, 16, both of Beau ort, were burned about the face, "athy Guy. a second grade pupil who was in Mrs. Virginia Andrews' ?oom. located under the second :Ioor lab, was taken to Morehead "ity Hospital after she was struck )y plaster falling from the ceiling )f the second grade room. She was examined there for for eign matter in her right eye and was discharged. Officer Mack Wade )f the Beaufort police department ook her to the hospital in the po ice car. The explosion broke a soapstone ab table into several pieces, shat ered a jar and caused other dam ige. Mrs. Mildred Lawrence. chem stry teacher, was not in the lab at he time. The two boys who were burned, Mligood and liewis. were reported ly cleaning up after chemistry ?lass. While waiting to be treated for ihe burns on his face, Alligood, who played one of the lead* in the ienter,M*?y hut feifltfiat the ?xplo*h>n occurred water ?ame Into contact with phosphor Mis. a highly flammable chemical. There were conflicting reports yesterday as to the type of chemi cal which blew up. Whatever it was, it caused a lot of black smoke ind Leslie Moore, a Beaufort ather who had been at the school o see a program, was asked by the principal, B. E. Tarkington, to turn n the fire alarm. He did so and all the children vere cleared out of the building, rhe explosion, however, caused no )laze. Beaufort Rotary Admits Four More Curl Hatsell, Ray Cummins, ?'rank Jones and C. T. Lewis were iccepted as new Kotarians at the Seaufort Rotary Club meeting Tuesday night at the Inlet Inn. They were welcomed by Rotarian Numa Eure who gave a history of Rotary and Its objectives. Rotary, celebrating its 50th an niversary (his year, is being honor - ?d by 21 countries which are issu ng Rotary postage stamps in ob lervance of the anniversary. Rotary. Mr. Eure said, was [ounded SO years ago by Paul Har ris in Chicago. From 1905 to 1910 mother club was formed in San Francisco. During the next five rears, 15 more clubs were formed ?nd between 1910 and the first world war the number Increased by 19. The thousandth club was organ ized between 1820 and 1925. the 1,000th was organised in Alaska ?nd the 3,000th in Chile between 1925 and 1990. The 4.000th was formed at Hanover, Pa? between 1935 and 1940 and the 5,000th at Cordelia. Ga? in 1940. The founder died in 1947 and in 1948 the number of club* had climbed to 7,000. Today there are 3,227 Rotary Clubs with a member ship of 402,000 The Rotary Foundation, formed in 1946, now provides a quarter of I million dollars annually to fi nance the study of young people in countries throughout the world. Mr. Eure outlined Rotary's four abjective*, told of the Rotary four way test and emphasised that Ro tary is built on service Guests at the meeting were Mayor George Dill. Grady Rich. W J. Blair, all o< More he sd City, ?nd Frank J. Roe IV-. president of the Rotary Club it Bucyrus, Ohio. John L. Crump, Robert Hick* and H. Earle Mohley, Morehead City Hospital trustee*, filed Wed nesday with Morehead CMjr Town Clerk John K. Laahley aa candi dates for re-election to the hospital board.