CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES >? NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 804 AramUll St. Monbwd City Fkoa* C-417S 44th YEAR. NO. 36. TWO SECTIONS ? TWELVE PAGES ' MOREHEAD Cl?Y AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROUNA TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1955 1 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS as ?S? An experience of Samuel Stevens Hood, Univenity of North Carolina journalism alumnus, Carteret Coun ty native and now a Pittsburgh Press reporter, will be dramatized over a nation-wide television pro gram Friday night. May 6 at 9 p.m. daylight saving time. Hood, winner of a $300 Pall Mall Journalism Award, will be portray ed on the "Big Story" program over an NBC-TV hookup of 89 sta tions including WVEC-TV, Norfolk. Va? and WTVD, Durham. TV actor Mark Richman will portray Mr. Hood. The program will dramatize Hood's coverage of a Pittsburgh murder case, which won the 37 year-old Tar Heel newsman the , $500 award. The murderer turned out to be a college student who was a disci ple of Nietzsche and Hitler. Hood, who shortens his byline to Sam Hood for his newspaper work, is the biographer of the only au thorized biographer of George Ber nard Shaw. Hood's book, "Archi bald Henderson: The New Crich Ion," was published in 1949. As a photographer, he illustrated the late Judge Robert W. Winston's book, "Horace Williams: Gadfly of Chapel Hill," in 1943 Beaafort Editor in 1942 Hood was born in Morehead City in 1917. In 1942 he was editor of the Beaufort News, a predecessor of the Carteret County NEWS TIMES His father is Gurney P. Hood, mayor of Morehead City during the First World War, for 20 years North Carolina's Commissioner of Banks and now president of the Hood System Industrial Bank in Raleigh. Sam Hood left Morehead City when a child and lived in Tarboro and Elizabeth City before the Hood family settled in Raleigh in 1931. After working at the Rocky Mount Evening Telegram as a re porter in 1939, Hood freelanced in Raleigh as a reporter-photographer and from 1940 to 1942 was staff photographer for the Raleigh Times. After his 1942 editorship of the Beaufort News in his native Car-1 teret County, Hood went to Ithaca, N. Y., to work in agricultural ad vertising photography. But he later returned to newspaper work on the Harrisburg. Pa., Patriot, where he was a reporter from 1943 to 1945. Hood has been with the Pitts burgh Press since 1945. His work there includes news coverage, fea tures, occasional editorial page columns and a regular Sunday music page column in which he re views symphony records. After leaving the South, he mar ried the former Elizabeth Wallace, of Newmanstown, Pa., a Republi can committeewoman. The Hoods have a 6-year-old son, Christopher Rhodes Hood, who already is fa miliar by name with many of his parents' one thousand symphony records. Reputation as Investigator Hood's newspaper experiences in Pittsburgh have earned him a repu tation as an investigator. On one occasion two years ago. disguised as a professional pallbearer, he See HOOD, Page 7 Women Will Participate In Flower Show, Dress Revue Newport Fire Chief Expresses Thanks for Aid Fire Chief B T. Smith Jr., New port, thanks everyone for their help during the recent series of fires resulting from the huge Croa tan Forest fire. "We had been on this fire on and off since Thursday, April 21. If we had not had the quick re sponae of the Beaufort and More head City Fire Depart menu, aev era) people would surely have lost a home," Chief Smith said. Seven Fire Departments, Beau fort, Morehead City, Cherry Point, New Bern, Jacksonville, Camp Le jeune and Newport were engaged in protecting homes, churches and other buildings during the height of the fire. In addition, Swans boro sent their portable water pump. The ' ladies of Newport came through with hundreds of sand wiches for the tired firefighters and stores stayed open to that enough coffee (conservatively esti mated at 400 cups), milk, and other food could be supplied. The Morehead City Police, she riffs department, and Highway Patrol did their best, against over whelming odds, to control the huge amount of traffic. The traffic at times prevented the movement of fire trucks back and forth from Newport to get water and gas. The Newport department's equip ment, including the portable pump, returned at 4 a.m. April 20, only to be called out again at 7 a.m. to go to Broad Creek. Another alarm -on Tuesday. April 26, at 4 p.m. was the final alarm resulting from the forest fire. 811 Attend Band Concert Eight hundred people attended the spring concert of the More head City High School Bead Thurs day night at the school auditorium. Ralph T. Wade directed the com bined groups of the Camp Glenn and Morehead City beginners snd junior band classes, and the high school band. ? The juniors played four numbers' including America, Chorale, Sha dowland Waltz, and Easy Steps March The high school band played tin following numbers: Menuetto. Mo zart; Third Movement from Dvo rak's Fi(||| Symphony; Entry of the Gladiators Mhrch; My Song of Songs, Smith. with Billy Rich, so loist, snd James B. Willis Jr., ac rompanist. The Student Prince Overture, Romberg; Autarnn Silhouette, a tone poem. Walters; Glory of the Trumpets, Broke nahire. The Sou thern Four, Palange, with a Dixie land Four coaposed of Eerie Wade, Kenneth Putnam, Jerry Wil lis and FYs net* Swanson; Riff In terlude, Walter*; a rhythmic novel ty for the bant! Rumbalita by Yo der, and for tie finale. Are you From Dixie? Aa a backdrop, large red notea on a white background depicted the tune, "Are You from Dixie?" ?a favorite tone of the school band. ? The highlight of National Home Demonstration Week in this county will be the annual county flower show and dress revue Thursday. The public may attend the flo wer show at the home agent s of fice in the courthouse annex at 3 p.m. Entries must be in by 2 and judging will take place from 2 to 3. The dress revue will take place at 8 in the county courtroom. Mo dels are requested to be there by 7:30. Judging on garment construc tion will take place from 7 to 8. Flowers may be entered in all or any of the following classes: Class A ? Best arrangement created by Home Demonstration Club. Class B? Cut Flower*; (1) best specimen of rose, Itfff pnnsy, sweet willlam, petunia, scabiosa, nastur tium, zinnia, snapdragon, gladiola, hydrangea, or other; (2) best ar rangement of any of these flowers; (3) best arrangement of wild flo Special Articles To Appear Friday In observance of National Home Demonstration Week this week, THE NEWS-TIMES will carry on Friday special articles on Home Demonstration work in the county. The articles have been pre pared by Miss Martha Barneti, home agent. Theme of Home Demonstration Week is "Today's Home Builds Tomorrow's World." USCG Reservists Will Officially Occupy Quarters In a formal ceremony at 7:30 Friday night the old Coast Guard Station at Fort Macon, now eon verted into headquarters lor the Coast Guard Reserve Unit, will be turned over officially to the reser vists. Admiral R. E Wood. Norfolk, commandant of the Fifth Coast Guard District, and Commander Edward Cardwell, district reserve officer, will be present. Commanding officer of the Coast Guard Reserve unit in this area is D. G. Bell, Morehead City. Members of the unit will attend the ceremony. Admiral Wood will also make an official Inspection of the sta tion. Firomon Again Ask Folks To Stop Calling Station The Beaufort Fire Department again asks that people not call the fire (Ution when they hear the siren. I Firemen arc too busy to answer the phone apd in moat instances they can't satisfy the curiosity of the callers because they dont know the exact location of the fire. TMea it the Beaufart Bar Tide Table HIGH U>W Tuesday, May 3 5:49 a.m. 6:15 p.m. 11:54 a.m. Wednesday, May 4 6:35 a.m. 12.29 a m. 12:S7 p.m. 6:56 p.m. Tharsday, May 5 7:17 a.m. 7:35 p.m. 1:20 PA 1:56 l.m. 1:14 a.m. Friday, Hay 6 7:57 a.m. 6:12 p.DL 2:00 PJB. wers or native shrubbery; (4) best arrangement of mixed flowers. Class C Potted Plants: best spe cimen of begonia, cactus, fern, snake plant, geranium, african vio let. and any others. Class D ? Individual arrangement or idea created by club member. Class E Most original arrange ment by club member. Dresses may be entered in the dress revue in the following clas ses: Class A Best individual gar ment by Home Demonstration Club member: (1) best dress; (2) sport dress; (3) house dress; (4) sack dress. Class B Best individual garment by 4-H member. f individual child's dress' fbe9|raress; play outfit). Ac cessories must be worn with a best dress. Ribbons will be given for first place under each division of Clas ses A, B, and C. Lions Club Elects Officers Officers, to be installed July 1, were nominated and elected at the Lions Club meeting Thursday night at the Morehead City Recreation Building. A. M. Willis was elected presi dent: Elmer Watson, first vice president; John Naf, second vice president; D. B. Webb, third vice president; Ed Walston. secretary; C. W. Williams, treasurer; Jack Morgan, tail twister, and Gordon Laughton. lion tamer. Sargent Smith and William H. Willis were elected to serve two year terms as director^ of the club. The nominating committee was J. G. Bennett and Victor Wickizer. The club decided to conduct a light bulb aale sometime within the next three weeks. Membera of the club were in vited to a zone meeting May 16 in New Bern. ? Directors Choose Walter Edwards As President New Officer Succeeds Bernard Leary As Chamber Official Walter Edwards, plant manager of Fry Roofing Co., was elected president of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce Thursday night at a meeting of the board of directors in the chamber office. He succeeds Bernard Leary. Other officers are Truman Kemp, vice-president; Albert G a s k i I I, treasurer; Ted Davis, general man ager; and Sherry Willis, office manager The directors commended the manager and Miss Willis for their work during the past year and also passed a resolution thanking Mr. Leary for his services as president. New directors of the chamber are Jasper Bell. Paul Geer Jr. and W. C. Matthews Jr. They succeed George Ball. George Stovall and Mr. Leary. who will, however, as past president, remain on the board another year. Attending the meeting in addi tion to those mentioned above were W B Chalk. W J. Blair, Al vah Hamilton and H. S. Gibbs Jr. A program of activity for the coming year will be worked out soon under the supervision of the new president. Phone Company Expands Service Construction crews began work this week on projects involving total expenditures of over $55,000 to extend telephone facilities in two different sections of Morehead City where present facilities are limited According to L. A. Daniels, local manager for Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co., the new facili ties are scheduled to be ready for service during the early part of the summer. In one section of town, the tele phone company is to extend ap proximately four miles of large akft cable from the intersection of 28th Street and Arendell \ Street west along U. S. Highway 70 to the intersection of N. C. Highway 24 From this main cable, smaller distribution cables will be placed to provide additional service to the rapidly developing residential and business sections adjacent to Highway 70 and to the Mansfield Park area. In addition to this work, cablc also will be placed from the inter section of 18th and Bridges Street to 20th Street and along 2')th Street to serve the Crab Point area. Further cable extensions will be made from this area and placed along 23rd and Bay Street to serve the Macon Court area. Marines Issue Warning On Firing Exercises From 6:30 a.m. today until 3 p.m. tomorrow the area between Browns Injet and Bogue Inlet, and 7,000 yards seaward will be hazardous to navigation because of Marine field firing exercises. From 7 a m. to 11 p.m. Thurs day, and from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, the area in the vicinity of Browns Island, between Browns Inlet and Bogue Inlet, will be ha zardous to navigation because of Marine strafing and bombing exer cises. Corky Leaves for Happy x Hunting Grounds A friend of many school children left Sunday a week ago for the Happy Hunting Grounds. Corky, the black cocker spaniel belonging to Mr. tnd Mrs. H. L. Joslyn. Evans Street, Morehead City, died Sunday, April 24. Corky, who was 12 years old, was well known at schools throughout the county, because his master is su perintendent of schools. Corky, until a few years ago. ued to do tricks for the school children, "his own 15-mlnute pro gram," as Mr. Joslyn describes It. Corky would sit up at the piano and play, plopping his paws down on the keys, evidently imitating his mistress who is a piano teacher. When he was a young pup, he came to Mr. Joslyn one evening and wanted to be scratched, Mr. Joslyn said. "You might aa well be useful as well |> ornamen tal," and took him to tae bedroom cloeet. He showed him his slipper and said ''retch" and want and sat down. Corky soon came trotting behind carrying the slipper. "Now go get the other one," said Mr. Joslyn. and Corky obliged. Some young'uns don't lcaro aa fast aa that Corky won a case of dog foo Polls opened at 6:30 this morn I ing at the town halls of Beaufort, ! Morehead City and Newport, and I will elose at 6:30 tonight. Municipal officials elected today will serve two-year terms unless specified otherwise on the ballot. Mayor Clifford Lewis of Beau fort and Mayor George W. Dill of Morehead City are running for re election unopposed. Mayor Edgar Hibbs of Newport is not seeking re-election. Running for mayor there are Leon Mann Jr. and A. L. Wilson. In Beaufort and Morehead City where recorder's courts operate, court officials will be elected. None are elected in Newport be cause no recorder's court operates there. The offices of town clerk are filled in each town by appointment. Nine men are seeking the office of commissioner at Newport, seven are running for commissioner in Beaufort, and nine are running for commissioner in Morehead City. Five will be elected in each town. Commissioners not seeking re election are Charles Hill and Early Mann. Newport. Dr. John Morris, Morehead City, and Gor don Hardesty, Beaufort. W. G. Temple, a Beaufort commissioner, died several weeks Jt>efore his term expired. Health Office List* Three Pre-School Clinics Three pre-school clinics have been acheduled during the coming week, health department offlcUla announced yesterday. The clinic at Atlantic School will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow and two clinics have been scheduled for Wednesday. May 11: 1 p.m. at the Harkers Island School and 2 p.m. at Smyrna School Those two will be the last pre school clinics to be held. K Members of. the Beaufort Cham ber of Commerce have been sent ballots so that they may voUj for directors for the coming year. Twelve directors will be elected The incumbents running for re election inclnde Dr. W. I- Wood ard, Gerald Hill, C. G Gaskill. Halsey Paul, Clarence Guthrie, Ronald Earl Mason, Holden Ballou, G. T. vSpivey, Braxton Adair, Lon nie Dill, Tommy Potter, and Wil liam Roy Hamilton. Other candidates are J. P. Har ris, Odell Merrill, Glenn Adair, Dan Walker, Jarvis Herring, Will Downum, Paul Jones. Gene C. Smith, Ray Cummins, Jack Barnes, Danforth Hill, and Vic Bellamah. The officers of the Chamber of Commerce will be elccted from and by the newly-elected directors, and the present president, Norwood Young, will serve as ex-officio board member. He is not seeking re-election to the board of direc tors. During the past year, the Cham ber set a budget of $3,000, of which $2,477.50 was pledged. Of the amount pledged, $2,024 was paid. Included with the ballot was a report on chamber activities 'dur ing the past year. Among activi ties were the following: The chamber sponsored a Banker Pony Rodeo in October which brought several thousand visitors to Beaufort. The chamber made a $1,193.90 profit on the event. The money went into the project fund. The visitors not only spent mon ey for food, lodging, etc., but $1,500 was spent to buy ponies. The Christmas Give-Away pro gram paid its own way, with $75, 000 in tickets given by merchants to Christmas shoppers. The chamber was the first con tributor to the All Seashore High way, donating $100. The Chamber also helped finance the Finer Caro lina Program with a donation of $200. The tourist committee of the chamber compiled a list of places to stay and things to do in Beau fort and east Carteret County and supplied the 11st upon ^request. Ballots should be returned to the ehamber office, either by mail or in person, as soon as possible. ? County health officials said yesterday that none of the children receiving polio vaccine here had any reac tion to the shot. "If they did. we have not been informed of it," said Dr. Luther Ful cher county health officer^ In this county. 1.179 first and second graders received their first polio shot the week of April 18. Concern over the safety of the vaccine was raised during the past several days when it was revealed that 29 children in the western part of the nation contracted paralytic polio after getting their fir*! shot. [>r J W R- Norton, state health officer for North Carolina, said most ol the polio vaccine jn use here was manufactured by Eli Lilly Co.. of Indianapolis and the P?rke Davis Co. and not hy the Cutter laboratory which supplied vaccine used in the west l)r. Norton said the incubation period of the disease is generally fiom seven to 14 days after infec tion A polio case in Georgia re portedly occurred four days after inoculation with vaccine manufac lured by Lilly. , "This should cause no j*1*1?1 whatsoever/' Dr. Norton said. He pointed out that he Is 'l' acTOrd with the U. S. Public Health Ser Vice which recommends that shots proceed as planned. 30 Cases in State There have been 30 cases of polio reported in North Carolina Lo far this year. Dr. Norton ex pressed regret thai the vaccine could not have been received in the state before January and Feb rUNone of the Cutter-manufactured vaccine, which has been recalled after 11 cases occurred m Cali fornia, has been received in east ern North Carolina, according to health officers and local doctors. Second Shot Soon Countv health officers said the second polio shot *>11 be given sometime this morith.hutnodates Will be announced until the health department i? informed that the. ,ewrvd shipment of vaccine is ready to be picked up. rarent Teacher organizations pro vided lollipops and gum for the children and volunteers to assist at the clinics when the first shot was taken Miss Ruth Peeling, chair man of the County sis Chapter, expressed her tha"? to the volunteers who helped at the Cl County doctors gave the shots and were assisted by health depart ment nurses and "'her volu"'ee obtained by the hea th department. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele. chief of the U?Jted SUtes Public Health Service, said that the 29 polio cases are a minute per rentage of the almost four million children vaccinated. ? "It is important to remember. Dr Schcele said, "that the Jield trials of the vaccine indicated that it was from 80 to 90 per cent ef fective. It must be anticipated that additional cases will i inevi!? cur among some ?f th? '?r *h0m the vaccine was not e,t'cllv' According to an Associated Press survev. shots for children who a? not first or second graders may c?t about $12 for the series of three. Supplies of thf V'ct"' through private physicians in this county, were reported yesWrday to be very limited, if available at all. Another Bayiida Holstein Makes Top-Notch Record Lincoln Pouch Diana, a registered Holsteln cow of the herd at Bayside Farm. Morehead City, has been listed as a record producer, ac cording to the Holstein-Friesian Association of America Tests were supervised by North Carolina State College in cooperation with the Holstein-Friesian Association. The cow yielded *29 pounds of butterfat, and 15,506 pounds o( milk, being milked twice daily for 344 days Her average was 21 quarts daily. Baysidi farm is owned and op erated by Mr. and Mrs. W J. Blair. Former County Minister Becomes Superintendent of FWB Orphanage The Rev K. H. Jackson was in stalled ?? superintendent of the Free Will Baptist orphanage Sun day afternoon at Middlesex. The Rev. Mr. Jackaon for the past four rears has served the Free Will Baptist Churches at Davis, Stacy and Bettte. He Is a past president and secretary of the Car teret Ministers* Association. The Rev. Mr Jackaon was in stalled by the orphanafe board of directors in a ceremony in the cha pel The oath was administered by H. II. Mallard, Trenton, vice-chair man of the board, who delivered the formal charge to the new aup erintendent. Other peraont taking part were the Rev. J. O Fort of Ayden, edi tor of the Free Will Baptiat; Dr. M. Hinnant of Micro, chairman of the board; R. L. Spencer of Colum bia. aecretary of the board, and S. A Smith, retiring superintendent who reaigned becaua* of declining health. Muak waa tung by the orphanage choir and Mn J. C. Moye a t Snow Hill, an adviaory member at the board. The orphanage serves the 90,000 member! of the nearly MO churchea oi the denomination acat tered throughout the state While the major part oi the member! art to be found In Eaitern Carolina, many churchea are located In Bun combe County and the mountain*. The Rev. Mr. Jackaon waa born near Newton Grove la 1010 and re ceived hli education at Campbell College. Edward* Military Inatitate and Atlantic Chrlitian College, be 8m mamma. r*? ?