CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
44th YEAR, NO. 48. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOBEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MAY 31. 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
NEWS-TIMES OFFICE
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2,500 Attend Festival ; Two Beauties Crowned
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Seven Carteret
Men Attend
Harbors Session
Seven county residents are at
tending the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress at Washington,
D C.
They are Mayor George Dill,
Morehead City, co-chairman of the
North Carolina delegation; Ber
nard Leary, past president of the
Morehead City Chamber of Com
merce; D. G. Bell, county legisla
tor. Bill White, and Dr. John Mor
ris, all of Morehead City; J. A. Du
Bois, Sea Level, manager of the
Sea Level Chamber of Commerce;
and W. H. Potter, Beaufort, man
ager of Beaufort Fisheries.
Norwood Young, president of the
Beaufort Chamber of Commerce, !
started for Washington Sunday ;
but returned home Sunday night j
because of the illness of his son, !
John. He, too, was a delegate to
the congress.
Mr. White of Morehead City was
appointed by Mayor Dill as a del
egate due to Mr. Whites interest
in construction of warehouses in
this area Dr. Morris is a member 1
of the ports advisory committee
appointed several months ago by
the State Ports Authority chair
man, Edwin Pate.
Serving as co-chairman with Ma
yor Dill is Mayor E. L. White, Wil- !
mington.
Two projects to be presented
before the congress have been
drawn up by Mr. DuBois and Mr.
Potter. Mr. DuBois prepared an
application for stabilization of
Drum Inlet, requesting deepening
of the channel to 24 feet with a
width of 250 feet.
Mr. Potter prepared information
on the deepening and stabilization
of Ocracoke Inlet.
Both applications wijl go before
the projects committee of the Ri
vers and Harbors Congress.
Church Will Sponsor
Parade Friday Afternoon
To interest people in Sunday
School and to announce the open
ing of Daily Vacation Bible School,
members of the Glad Tidings Ta
bernacle will sponsor a parade at
5:30 Friday in downtown More
head City.
Daily Vacation Bible School will
begin Monday, June 6. The Glad
Tidings Tabernacle is located at
19th and Bridges St., Morehead
City.
Edwin L. Becton, Havelock, son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Becton, for
merly of Beaufort, is enrolled in
the radio and TV technology course
at Gastonia Technical Institute.
Becton is a graduate of Beaufort
High School.
Carolyn K. Guthrie, Terry
Dern Win in Pageants
More than 2.500 people attended4
the three-day Morehead City Fes
tival which was climaxed with the
crowning of Miss Carolyn K. Guth
rie as Miss Morehead City, and
Miss Terry Dern as Miss Sweetie
Pie at the Carolina Bace Track
Friday night.
Other events of the Festival in-,
eluded a free pancake supper Wed
nesday night and a square dance
Thursday night. All events took
place at the track.
Miss Guthrie, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Leroy K Guthrie, 909
Shepard St., was crowned by Mrs.
Norma Swinson Midgett, last year's
Miss Morehead City. As Miss More
Miss Carolyn Guthrie
. . . Miss Morehead City
head City of 1955 Miss Guthrie
will appear in ? the Miss North
Carolina pageant at Wilmington.
She was also awarded a com
plete wardrobe for her trip.
Watches Awarded
Second and third place winners,
Ann Thomas Lewis aatf -Hue 4lry
binson, each received Buloviry wrist
watches as their prizes.
Miss Dern. a vivacious youngMer
who threw kisses to the audience,
was rewarded with $25 in mer
chandise.
All of the other Miss Sweetie
Pie contestants were voted second
place in the contest and each re
ceived a gift.
Assisting with supervision of the
two contests were Mrs. Irene
Weeber and Mrs. Judy Perry
Quinn.
Contest judges were Dr. William
Fahy, Institute of Fisheries Re
search; Gene Smith, Havelock, edi
tor of the Havelock Progress;
Robert L. Rose, Beaufort; Joe Du
Bois, Sea Level; Morgan Gassman,
New Bern, and Albert Fransisconi,
Havelock.
Firms Give Prizes
Many exhibits were on display
at the track during the three-day
festival. Firms sponsoring the ex
, See FESTIVAL, Page 3
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Hearing to Start
On Morning of 8th
Time of the ICC hearing on
Southern Railway taking over
the Atlantic and East Carolina
railroad will be "9 or 9:30" at
Goldsboro next Wednesday, June
8.
The place has not yet been
announced, according to J. D.
Holt, manager of the state port.
The port is served by the rail
road.
Delegations from towns along
the 90-mile line from Goldsboro
to Morehead City, are expected
to attend the hearing.
Auxiliaries Give
Poppy Reports
American Legion Auxiliary mem
: bers were pleased with poppy sales
Saturday.
Received from sale of poppies in
Morehead City was $221.25 and in
Newport $119. Figures on sales in
Beaufort were not available yester
day.
Mrs. Walton Fulcher. president
of the Morehead City auxiliary, was
in charge of sales there and Mrs.
Robert Parish was in charge of
sales at Newport. Newport women
sold the poppies from door to door.
The poppies, made of crepe pa
per in replica of the wild poppies
of France and Flanders which
bloomed "between the crosses, row
on row," of the World War I cem
eteries, were made by disabled
veterans.
The custom of wearing poppies
iq Jumoi mt-4he war dead began
I at MHciaae EWorld War 1, wtien
the picture of the little wild pop
pies growing in the bare earth
around the battle grave* was fresh
in the minds of the returning vet
erans.
At its first national convention
in 1921, the American Legion Aux
iliary adopted the poppy as its me
morial flower and ever since has
conducted an annual distribution
of poppies.
Four Carteret Men Will
Enter Army Thursday
Four Carteret men have been or
dered to report for induction into
the Army by the County Draft
Board. They will report to the
draft board Thursday for forward
ing to Raleigh.
They are William A. Williams,
Morehead City; John W. Jones and
James E. Branche, Beaufort, and
Garrison A. Lewis, Harkera Ialand.
Here ire 23 of the 32 contestants
ii> the Miss Sweetie Pie Contest
won by Miss Terry Dern. daughter
of Mrs. Mary Dera, at the Carolina
Race Track Friday.
Left to right, front row: Bonny
Ryan, Lou Morrow, Susan Lynn
Aspenburg, Jodie Free man, win
ner Terry Dern, Jeannie Turnage,
Cecelia Fay* Riper, Cynthia Ann
Stanley. Maria Marina, Lucy Ma
rino, Carol Ann Gibbs and Patty
Lou Dolan
Left to right, back row: Susan
Bell SimiAons, Kathy Warren,
Jeannie Wagner, Ann Hamilton,
Ann Leary, Gwendolyn Garner.
Kathy Howard, Kathy McKenly,
, Photo by itny ScMimacher
Carolyn Jean Johnson, Cecile Par
ker and Phillis C. Potter.
Absent when the picture was
taken were Jan Garner Herrill,
Rebecca Gay Freeman, Mary Jane
Moran, Betsy Ellen Bonner, Dana
Lynn Brown, Carol Willis. Diane
Bailey. Kate Van Horn and Uttle
Miss Bcllone.
Sporttfithing Movi?
Oom on Jun? Schedule
A color (11m on (porta fishing
off Morehead City will get wide
dtatributlon la June.
Ted Davit, manager of the More
head City Chamber of Commerce,
announce! that the film will be
shown June 13 before the Tide
water Anglera Club, near Norfolk,
the following Saturday it will be
shown over Norfolk TV atations
and on June 27 It will be televiaed
over WTOP-TV, Washington. D. C.
The film is being shown through
the cooperation of Capt Ottia Purl
toy, Morehead City, and the Wild
life Resources Commission of
North Carolina.
Soldier from Salter Path
Would Like Some Letters
Pfc. Timmie Willis of Salter
Path, who ii serving in Korea, hia
sent a letter to THE NEWS
TIMES. He'd like to contact old
friends The letter follows:
May 20, IMS
I would like to contact some of
the boys that 1 used to go to school
with. I attended Morehead City
School before I entered the aer
vice.
As yet I haven't aeen anyone
from home since I've been over
here.
My nother who resides In Salter
Pith Mud* me your piper every
week and it is sure nice to know
whit's happening around home.
I left for overieii last Aug. 6,
ind from whit I've reid in the
piper there certainly hive bean
I great many things hippening
and changing around More head and
the beach since I left home. I hand
my copies of the paper around to
the other fellows and they all laid,
that they're coming down to At
8m SOLDIES, Pl#a 3
Survey Vessels
To Move Today
To Hatteras Area
United States Coast and Geode
tic Survey vessels, making a sur
vey of wrecks ilong this coast will
move up to Cape Hatteras today
to search that area.
The survey group, under the lea
dership of Commander John C.
Mathison, has been working since
April 18 in the vicinity of More
head City, and has also made a
hydrographic survey of Cape Look
out Shoals.
Since April 18, the crews of the
three ships which constitute the
survey party, have checked on six
wrecks charted on previous sur
veys and reported by fishermen.
The work has been delayed by
rough weather.
According to Commander Ma
thison, they have not yet discov
ered any uncharted wrecks that
aren't known to local fishermen.
There are a total of 80 wrecks
along this coast that the survey
party will examine while making
their headquarters in Morehead
City.
The three ships that make up
the party are the Parker, with
Commander Mathison in command;
the Bowen commanded by Com
mander H. J. Seaborg, and the
Smirni with Commander Clarence
R. Reed in charge. The survey is
to determine the minimum depths
over wrecks, and other obstruc
tions which may be dangerous to
navigation, or to disprove the exis
tence of wrecks and reported ob
structions based on erroneous in
formation.
Two aluminum shoran 100-foot
towers have been located near
Cape Hatteras, one at Goosewing
CM^fOiftrd SHrtfcm and the other
?t Pet Island.
The ships have electronic shoran
equipment which sends out contin
uous tlectronic impulses to the
land-based equipment, allowing de
termination of exact position at
all times.
Pupils Visit
Newspaper Plant
Mrs. Ella Quinn Morgan's second
and third graders of Morehead
City School visited THE NEWS
TIMES Tuesday afternoon. They
were shown through the editorial,
ad, business and mechanical de
partments.
Accompanying them were grade
mothers. Each received as a sou
venir a "slug" bearing his name.
Making the tour were the fol
lowing:
Gregory Bell
Bob Guthrie
Judith Vernee Johnson
Gloria Jean Willis
Donna Jean Guthrie
Nancy Sue Parker
Marvin Lewis
Priscilla Wade
Alfred Chestnut
Benjamin A. Horton
Sarah Katherine Wade
Joseph M. Fulcher Jr.
Margaret Ann Wade
Diana Tippett
James Freeman Sierokman
Sally Davis
Sidney Horton
Diane Wade Davis
Betty Ruffin Garner
Valerie Jane Ambrose
David Ward Day
Jane Celeste Patrick
Jimmy Piner
John Chestnut
William Lovkk
Bertha Lynette Guthrie
Edward Guthrie
Vicki Diane Dern
Jimmie Newsome
Ginger Fulcher
Bob Chestnut
Terry Dern
Robert Russell Davis
Terry Wade Mizesko
Cecil Nelion
Frances Diana Rice
Rooetta Dare Willis
Tohn Hatcher
Mrs. James Wade
Mrs. Ethan Davis
Mrs. Joseph Fulcher
Mrs. Lawrence B. Ambrose
Mrs. A. F. Chestnut
Mrs Alvin Garner
Mrs. Mary Dern
Mrs. Ella Quinn Morgan
Mrs. Ronald Earl WilUa
Mrs. William E Guthrie
Going through THE NEWS
TIMES this afternoon will be sev
enth graders from Havelock taught
by Mies BoM# fattkb.
How New Hotel Would Look . . .
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
These photographs of drawings
of The Morehead, proposed ocean
front hotel for this area show, top,
how hotel would look from ocean,
and bottom, interior view of the
lobby. Center is the site plan. At
the right ii the Atlantic Ocean and
at the left, Bogue Sound. Fort Ma
con Boulevard biaects the property
on an oblique eaat-west line.
A marina (yacht basin) is
planned on the sound side, com
plete with motel and restaurant.
At the rear of the hotel is a large
parking area and in front is a
fresh water pool, area for games,
and the bathing beach.
Architects for the project are
John J. Rowland and James M.
Simpson of Kinston. At present the
firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster and
Co., New York, is making a study
to determine how extensively the
proposed plans should be carried
out.
Preliminary estimates set cost
of the entire enterprise at (our and
a half million dollars.
Officers of the corporation,
Morehead Hotels, are W. J. Blair,
president; Jasper Bell, vice-presi
dent; Dick Parker, treasurer; Ted
Davis, secretary; Burton T. Peake,
assistant secretary. All officers are
residents of Morehead City except
Mr. Peake, who lives at Aaheville.
Ferd L. Davis, Zebulon, is attor
ney for the firm.
Hearing on Pollution of Waters
In This Area to Take Place June 24
A hearing on pollution of waters'*
in thia area will begin at the court
house, Beaufort, at 10 a.m. Friday,
June 24.
Scheduling of the hearing fol
lows publication of the pollution
survey report on the White Oak
River Basin. The White Oak basin
covers Newport River, North
River. Bogue Sound, Back Sound,
Core Sound and their tributaries
Baaed on information presented
at the hearing, the State Stream
Sanitation Committee will classify
the water* aa to their state of pol
lution.
The report on waters of thia area
was made as required by law, with
a view to safeguarding water re
source*.
According to the report, the
largest source of pollution is from
the towns of Beaufort, Atlantic,
Swanaboro and Morehead City, in
duatrial plants in Morehead City
arid fish factories.
E. C. Hubbard, executive secre
tary of the State Stream Sanitation
Committee, invttea anyone interest
ed In the waterways to attend the
hearings. Thoae wishing to be heard
should give notice In writing, in ad
vance.
A full notice on the hearing ap
pears in today's legal section of the
claaalfied ada.
New Imt< to Meet
Newport's new town board la
scheduled to conduct ita first meet
ing next Tuesday night June 7, at
the town hall. Mayor Leon Mann
Jr. succeeds Mayor Edgar Hibbs.
Car, Pick-Up Truck
Collide Yesterday
A c?r driven by Dr. Russell E.
Outlaw was struck by a Willys
pick up truck driven by Francis
Barrett Davis yesterday morning
at 8.50 a m., Morehead City police
reported.
Dr. Outlaw was travelling east
on Arendell Street when his car
was struck by the truck near 13th
Street.
According to Davis, he didn't
see Outlaw's vehicle. The collision
occurred as Davis, was leaving
Scott's Gwage. Damage to Uie
1093 Pontiac driven by Dr. Outlaw
was estimated at (SO. The right
rear fender and fender skirt were
banged in.
The truck was undamaged
TicU Table
Tides it the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, May 11
4 20 a.m. 10:36 a.m. I
4:M p.m. 11:15 p.m. |
Wednesday, Jose 1
5:16 a m 11:21 a.m. |
5:45 p.m.
Thursday, tae Z
6:06 a.m. 12:02 a.m. I
6:2B p.m. 12:06 p.m. |
Friday, hat >
6:51 a.m. 12:48 a.m. [
7:00 p m. 12:50 p.
Manager Speaks
1. a Bait, manner of the
Ifaltlk City aUte port, (yoke
on port operation. It* praaont
and Mare, to member* of the
Ann Street MethodM Men'* Club
Friday night. Fifty member* at
tended the mpper meeting at the
Lottie Bandera Balldtnf.
Serve* u 8ub*tltute
Mrs. Lucy Da?l*. Morehetd City,
I* working at the police ?witch
board, Morehead City, in the ab
sence of Mia* Marie WUlls who is
ill
Heart Attack
Reported
Cpl. Reuben L. Grinstaff.
a Marine .stationed at Cherry
Point, died while swimming
at Atlantic Beach Saturday
afternoon. According to Cor
oner L. I). Sprinkle, the lad
suffered a heart attack. Life
guards who administered ar
tificial respiration, said there
was very little water in his
lungs.
This was the only fatality report
ed here over the Memorial Day
weekend.
Corporal Grinstaff. reported to
be 19 years old, was pulled out of
the water at 2:30 Saturday. Chief
Lifeguard David Lee and other
lifeguards, Jimmy Willis and Kent
Brown, were called by several Ma
rines who were holding Grinstaff
by his bathing suit.
The Marines were about 15 yards
out in the surf in 7 feet of water,
Lee said. As soon as they got to
Grinstaff. they brought him into
shore and placing him on a blanket,
proceeded to give artificial respira
tion.
Dr. Samuel Hatcher of Morehead
City was called to the beach and
upon examination announced that
the corporal was dead.
The lifeguards didn't give up and
continued to give artificial respira
tion in the Heart of the Beach,
using a resuscitator from Beaufort.
When Grinstaff could not be re
vived, he was taken to Cherry Point
by Naval ambulance. Marine au
thorities ordered an autopsy per
formed. The death was investigated
by Sgt. P. T. Benton of Cherry
Point.
According to l>ce. another Ma
rine had been treated for a cramp
in his leg and told not to go back
into the water. The man did go
back into the water, and for a time
it was rumored that he and Grin
staff were one and the same. This
was not the case, said Lee.
According to I^ee, the face of the
deceased was blue when he was
taken out of th? water. In a case
ffil drowning it usually takes about
half a day for the skin to turn blue,
according to the lifeguard.
The water Saturday afternoon
was about 50 degrees, and was
relatively smooth, with just a few
ground swells.
Rotary Sets Date
For Ladies Night
Morehcad City Rotarianj will en
tertain their ladies Thursday night,
June 30, at the Blue Ribbon Club.
The club's business meeting
Thursday night was short, because
of the Morehead City High School
graduation exercises.
At the graduation exercises
President Bob Howard presented
the Rotary Award for good citizen
ship to James B. Willis Jr.
This award has been made each
year for the past 25 years by the
club to an outstanding high school
student selected on the basis of
scholastic achievement; participa
tion in student activities, and ath
letics. The student's spiritual and
moral character are also criteria
for the award.
Visiting Rotarians at the club
meeting were Lawrence Stroud,
and Jim Fleming, both of Green
ville; Lebem S. Spence, Melbourne,
Fla., and Robert E. Dale. Fairfield,
Iowa.
Fmi for Birth, Death
Certificate Copies Go Up
The North Carolina General Aa
aembly, 1993 session, amended the
General Statutes, whereby the fee
for certified copies of birth and
death certificates was increased
from SO cents to one dollar Thia
increased fee became effective
May 12, 1953
The necessity for Increasing thia
fae was brought about by curtailed
health funds and to enable the
Stat* Board of Health to render
proper service to the general pub
lic, according to Dr. J. W R. Nor
ton, state health officer.
Phone Firm Encounters
Delay in Sending Mils
L. A. Daniels, local manager for
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Co. stated today that delays 1b l?
suance of telephone bills have been
due to the company's recent transi
tion from manual to automatic ma
chine methods of billing.
"We sincerely hope thia delay
has caused none of our subscriber*
any inconvenience," the manager
remarked. He said the telophase
company expects to have its bill
ing back on schedule by the middle
Of JUM.