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NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 Ar?n<UU St. Mor?h??d City 6-4175 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?* 44th YEAR. No. 78. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREKk'AD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTli" CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY8 Today is Circus Day! That precocious youngster who always has his ear to the ground for seething in the way of news, foundn big 4>iece of it this morn ing. The circus is coming, the huge King Brothers' >how, now the sec ond largest in the world since it acquired the famed Cole Brothers Circus last winter and combined them into one mammoth show. It will exhibit here today at the More head City dog track under the auspices of Carteret County Shrine Club. No circus has appeared in this county since 1950 when one was sponsored by the Morehead City Lions Club. The show comes to Morehead City from New Bern, three long cara vans loaded with circus wonders for youngsters of all ages. "Bigger and better than ever before is the motto again this year, with more people, more horses, more ele phants. more of everything includ ing bigger peanuts ? and more of 'cm." said Press Agent Charles Un derwood. Over 700 people comprise the personnel of the big show this year including 250 arenic stars and per formers. many of whom are foreign attractions making their first tour of this country. Among them, the Great Dorchester Troupe of bare back riding champions from Eng land; the Sons of Morocco, 16 in number, whirlwind acrobats from Arabia; the Hungaria Troupe, ris ley and high balancing marvels from Hungary, the Kereff-Manus Duo from Berlin, Germany, high trapeze thrillers, and several others, not forgetting Monsieur Toni Smaha, from Paris, France, with his stable* of super-educated horses. Three great herds of perform ing elephants, a big menagerie fill ed with wild jungle beasts, and a double sideshow with a congress of human oddities and weird people, will be additional attractions for circus patrons. Two performances are scheduled, stalling at 2 and 8 p.m. The menagerie opens at 1 and 7 p.m. Albert Wallace Heads Chapter Albert Wallace, a senior at New port High School, has been elected president of the Newport Chapter Future Farmers of America. Other officers elected are Allen Ray Garner, vice-president; Ger ald Miller, secretary; Billy Sim mons. treasurer; Tommy Garner, reporter; Louis Kelly, assistant re porter; Edward Corbett, sentinel; Curtis Joaes, chaplain; Eugene Ed wards, parliamentarian; and C. S. Long, advisor. The chapter can boast 100 per cent payment of FFA dues and all members have received their mem bership cards from the state of fice. "The membership as a whole seems to be very enthusiastic this year," commented Mr. Long. The chapter program of work will be completed and ready to turn in to the Raleigh office by Nov. 1. The Newport Chapter will be in charge of a TV program over WNTC, Greenville, at 1:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. The topic for discussion is "Stop Farm Acci dents." Albert Wallace, Tommy Garner and Allen Ray Garner wiU appear on the program. The name of the weekly feature is "Farming for Tomorrow." "We hope you will be looking at that time," said President Wallace. Committee chairmen will be ap pointed by the president soon. The chapter flans to hold regular meetings at night and refresh ments will be served at many of the meetings. "We hope to have some splendid programs through out the year," said Mr. Long. ? Tommy Garner, Reporter Pivers Island Bridge Repaired Scheduled for completion yester day win work on the bridge be tween the mainland and Plvers la land. The bridge was weakened by lone, but it had withstood the on slaught of Hazel, Connie, and Diane. The work ia being done by the maintenance crew of the Fish and Wildlife laboratory A bulkhead 21 feet long ii be ing constructed on the north side on each aide of the highway, aprons 24 feet long will be laid. Fill will be placed on the south side of the bridge. It waa cloaed to traffic Monday and automobile* have been lining the road on the approach to the bridge all week, their occupants walking to the offices on the Is land. The Morehead City-Beaufort Elka and their guestf will (ohi boat ride tomorrow night aboard the Carolina Queen starting at 7:30 p.m. Dinner will be served. Ruth Nelson, daring horsewoman from the Blue Grass of Ken tucky, will perform. Class to Start Tuesday For Radio Operators Would you like to learn how to* be a short wave radio operator? Carl Modlin, Morehead City, is starting a class lor "would-be ama teurs," as he phrases it. The first class will be from 7 to 9 Tuesday night at Carteret Electronics, lo cated across from the Jefferson Hotel. He would like to know before Tuesday night, however, bow many are interested and expoet to be there. There will be no charge for the instruction. "I'll take them as high in radio as they want to go," 'Mr. Modlin said. The aim is to obtain general class ratings, at least, for those sufficiently interested. Materials needed for the course may be purchased from Mr. Mod lin wholesale. There's no age specification, boys and girls, men and women, are eligible. Length of the course will depend on How quick the stu dents learn, Mr. Modlin remarked. He emphasized that he would like to know how many are plan ning to take the instruction. Mr. Modlin can be reached by phon ing 6-4683. Mr. Modlin with his business partner. Adam Mayer, have been responsible during hurricanes this season for keeping this county In radio contact with other areas of the state. 190 Applications Received for Aid A total of 190 applications for aid have been received at the Red Cross office, Beaufort, and as of Wednesday afternoon 144 of the applications had been processed. The staff will be available here in the county until all cases are closed, according to Miss Sally Barrett, member of the Red Croas SUff. Applications for hurricane as sistance from the Red Cvuss dis aster office in the courthouse an nex, Beaufort, were accepted until Wednesday afternoon at 5 p.m. Currently working in the Red Cross office are Miss Barrett from Atlanta; Miss Ann Carter, San Francisco; Mr. Lynn Warren, Sou thern Pines; and Miss Sarah Hoyle, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 5^o If s ? Then rains May Come If negotiations with Atlantic Coast Line do not wash out, and if a washout on the USMC rail road from Lejeune to Havelock is repaired, freight trains wilt ? be rolling into Morchead City to morrow, E. R. Buchan. president of the Atlantic and East Caro lina Railroad, announces. At to additional freight charge A&EC- trains will be run over the ACL tracks from New Bern to Jacksonville. There they will be taken by an A&EC diesel, hauled to Lejeune and then from Lejeune to Havelock. Negotiations for getting freight into Morehead City have been underway ever since lone washed out the railroad bridge at New Bern. Camp Glenn PIA Hears Jasper Bell Jasper Bell of Morehead City spoke on Family Life at the meet in( of the Camp Glenn PTA Tues day night at the school. Hr. Bell is a member of the Morehead City Town Board and a past president of the Jaycees as well as a mem ber of the PTA. President Kenneth Wagner and Secretary - Treasurer Mrs. Gerald Murdock were formally installed. Principal Ramie Davis told the 180 attending that he had received a letter from Homer A. Lassiter. associate division of elementary and aecondary education, announc ing that Camp Glenn is now an accredited school. Mr. Davis also announced that the library currently has 1,540 books and the school needs 1,800. Volunteers were requested by Bill Chalk to assist in beautifying the school grounds tomorrow, Oct. 1. A report was given by Clyde Burr on the Halloween Carnival to be held at the school from 5-9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28. The attendance prize was won by Mrs. Swain's fourth grade. Chamber Board ' Given Report On Meter Program Rodeo Planned for Oct. 23, Membership Ban quet Set For Oct. 25 Of a total of 365 courtesy over time-parking envelopes given out in Beaufort since Sept. 13, only 223 have been returned with nic kels in them, according to a report made at the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce Directors meeting Tues day night. That means that the Chamber of Commerce has contributed $18 25 to save people from paying parking fines. Of that amount, the overtime parkers have repaid $11. 15 and the net loss to the chamber has been $7.10. In other words, 142 persons didn't repay the nickel loan. $25 to Start The program started this month after the Beaufort town board gave its approval. The chamber gave police a total of $25. When the officers come upon a car parked where the meter is red, they de posit a nickel in the meter and place on the windshield an enve lope asking the person who parked the car to please put a nickel in the envelope and give it to a mer chant. All visitors to Beaufort who re ceive the courtesy envelopes are requested to return the envelopes as soon as possible, said Miss Pat Springlc, secretary of the cham ber, so that the program may re main in effect. Oct. 23 Rodeo Ronald Earl Mason reported that a rodeo will be held at the Beau fort School athletic field Oct. 23. He said that the ponies for the rodeo were brought over from the Outer Banks before Hurricane j lone. Dr. W. L. Woodard was named as chairman for the membership ^ banquet to be held Oct. 25. Mem bers of his committee include Paul Jones and Halsey Paul. Braxton Adair, chairman of the industrial committee, stated that it was time for the members of the chamber to get together and bring some form of industry to Beaufort. He asked for support from the Members to erect a build ing lor any industry that wants , to come into Beaufort. * Rainfall Totals One-Fourth Inch! For the first week in many, the rainfall in the county has dropped to only a quarter of an inch, ac cording to E. Stamey Davis, wea ther observer. The high for the week was 87 degrees, recorded on Saturday and the low was recorded on Tuesday when the temperature dropped to 67 degrees. The cool weather was welcome. The high and low temperatures and wind directions for the week were as follows: Max. Min. Winds Thursday 85 72 ESE Friday 85 73 NE Saturday 87 71 S Sunday 83 73 NE Monday 78 68 NE Tuesday 85 67 NE Wednesday ..... 81 71 SW Roy T. Garner Speaks to Club Roy T. Garner was in charge of the weekly meeting of the New port Rotary Club Monday night at the Community Building. Mr. Garner ipokc on Rotary in formation and explained the rela tionahip of the Rotary conatltution and by-laws to membership. Among the different typea of memberships he gave ruiea and regulation! on were actives, sen ior honorary, paat service, and ad ditional actives. Guests at the meeting included Rotarians C. L. Teaguc, New Bern, and Walter Edwards and J. D. Murray. Morehead City. The club will have the school safety patrol as its guests Oct. IT. Important Date Coming Up! Months in the making. THE NEWS-TIMES commercial fish ing edition will be publtahed Tuesday, Oct. 11. During the turmoil of Hurri cane lone it appeared doubtful that all of the voluminoua ma terial. article*, stories, picture* could be gathered, edited, aet in type and printed by that dale. But Oct. 11 is aasured. All advertising copy for the edition must be in the hands of THE NEWS-TIMES no later than 8 a.m. Tuesday. Oct 4. This commercial fishing edi tion is a. mammoth uodulaking. No other newspaper in North Carolina haa ever attempted, cov erage of the state's entire coutai fishing industry. Work was started in June. Practically every nook and cran ny of the coast, since then, has been covered by NEWS-TIMES reporters, special writers and photographers. Thousands of copies of the edition will reach registered boat owners, both commercial and private, officers of North Caroliaa womtn'a clubs, state purchasing agents, officers and director! of the larger corpora tions in the state, political fig ures and many others. These copies are being mailed in cooperation with the North Carolina Fisheries Association, which suggested that Carteret's newspaper undertake the all-en compassing fishing publication. All regular NEWSTIMES sub scribers will receive their copy of the edition as usual and at the usual price of 10 cents. The newsstand price will be the same aa usual To save persona the fuss and bother of wrapping the paper and paying additional postage. THE NEWS-TIMES will wrap and mall copies, at 29 cents each, t* persons not regularly getting the paper. SBA to Take Applications In Beaufort Next Week Loretta O'Connor Goes To Duke for Operation Loretta during her stay at Morehead City Hospital. Seven - year - old Loretta Jane O'Connor, of 412 Macon Court, Morehead City, entered Duke Hos pital Thursday for plastic surgery. Loretta was burned severely on March 7, 1954 while rescuing a smaller child from a trash fire, and has never fully recovered although she has been attending school. Though her burns have healed, there has never been a full night's rest for her due to spells of itching caused by the stretching of her burned skin and tendons pulling, Mrs. Mary O'Connor, her mother, | reports. This operation if a success will enable her to grow without pain and may have to be done year after year until she is fully grown. Loretta entered the hospital in high spirits and said she hoped the doctors and nurses there would be as wondeifu! to her as Dr. John Way and the many others on the staff of the Morehead City Hos pital. Also, she believed that the people's prayers helped pull her through before and she knew they would again. Loretta was confined to Morehead City Hospital more than three months. Two blood donors accompanied her to Duke. They were Cpl. Wil liam V. Mullen and Cpl. Louis Tri buoni, both of Cherry Point. Their blood was deposited in the blood bank at Duke for Loretta when she needs it. Loretta's mother, and Loretta's sister, Mrs. Elva Willis Garbade, of 3100 Evans St., also went with Lo retta. Mrs. O'Connor will stay in Durham until Loretta gets well enough to come home. Mrs. Leroy Guthrie Wins Award for Weather Service Mrs. Leroy Guthrie, 909 Shepard St., Horehead City, will be pre MMilc# with a certificate from the United Statei Weather Bureau for outstanding service during hurri cane Connie and Diane. Mrs. Guthrie displayed hurricane warn ings from the flag staff on Shep ard Street. The presentation will be made by R. L. Frost, meteorologist in charge of the Wilmington office, U. S. Weather Bureau. The certificate is signed by F. W. Relchelderfer, who is in charge of the service. A portion of the letter accom panying the certificate commends Mrs. Guthrie for "the outstanding service you performed recently during passage of hurricanes Con nie and Diane through your vicin ity." The letter says, 'With your hus band, the regular displayman, hos pitalized, you to?k over his duties, receiving warnings around-the clock, telephoning them to local residents, and hoisting the dis plays. When your own home be came flooded you made arrange ments to maintain telephone com munication from the residence of a neighbor. This you did despite the threat of rising wind and water which must have given you con siderable concern for your own safety and the security of your home and property. Your conduct "under fire" was most commendable and it is a pri vilege and an honor for me to issue you the accompanying Pub lic Service Award Certificate of the Weather Bureau." Mr. Frost was in Morehead City last week to present the certifi cate to Mrs. Guthrie, but due to the death of her husband, the pre sentation was not made at that time. W. H. Potter Goes To Water Hearing W. H. (Piggy) Potter, Beaufort, attended the water reaources and power hearing at Raleigh Wedncs day and Thuraday. The hearing, conducted by a congressional sub committee, waa conducted to learn what North Carolina thinks of the Hoover commission's recommenda tions on federal power and water programs. Mr. Potter waa authorised to at tend the session by the North Carolina Fisheries Association of which he ia a director. Conducting the hearing were two members of the subcommittee. Rep. Robert E. Jones (D.-Ala.) and Glennard , P. Lipscomb (R. Calif.) Testifying before the committee were Gov. Luther Hodge* and 8en Kerr Scott and Sen. Sam Krvta. t Pupil Enrollment Increases by 213 School enrollment this year ex ceeds last year's at the end of the first 10 days, by 213. Total enroll- i ment is. 3,877, H. L. Joslyn. county superintendent of schools, reported this week. Grammar school enroll ment Is 4,420 and high school, 1, 257. As a result of the increase, two additional teachers have been al lotted the couny, one at Camp Glenn School and the other at Queen Street, Beaufort. This makes a total increase of nine on the county teaching staff this year. Each school showed a gain In pupils except Salter Path where the enrollment is 27, two below last year. Gains at other schools are as follows: Atlantic 15, Beaufort 47. Morehcad City 34, Camp Glenn 50, Newport 8, Smyrna 7, Queen Street 36, W. S. King 8, and Stella 11. Power Will b? Cut Off In Morahaad City Power will be cut oil tor an hour and a half Sunday morning I from Newport River wot througu ' Morchead City and along Highway 1 44, aa well aa at Atlantic Beach. i The outtage will atart at 6 and continue until 7.30 a.m., weather 1 permuting, announced Ueorge Sto vail, Morehead City manager of ' the Carolina Power and Light Co. The cut-oil is necessary to re pair damages cauaed by lone. Most o( the trouble is believed due to | salt deposits. Slack will also be liken up in the 33,000-volt line which was damaged when another line is believed to have swung ? against It. I Tide Table Tldea at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Sept. 30 8:38 a.m. 7:14 p.m. 12:52 a.m. 1:14 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 7:34 a.m. 7:b2 p.m. 1:31 a.m. 1:S8 p.m. 8imday, Oct. t 8:11 am. 8:31 p.m. 2:11 a.m. 2:41 p.m. Moaday, Oct. 1 8:32 a.m. 8:14 p.m. 2:49 a.m. 3:25 p.m. Tneaday, Oct. 4 0:38 a.m. 10:06 p.m. 3:28 a.m. 4 :08 p.m. Office in Courthouse Will Be Open 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. . Anyone, except farmers, who need financial assistance as the result of lone, may apply for a loan at the Small Business Administration office in the courthouse, Beau fort, Monday and Tuesday. A. H. Graham, who is in charge of the SBA office at New Bern, was in the county yesterday to make arrange ments for establishing an office" here for two days next week. Ray Shaw will be in charge The office will be located on the second floor of the courthouse, above the clerk of court's office. It will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Small Business Administra tion grants long-term loans at 3 per cent interest to businessmen, homeowners or fishermen who need help and can't obtain it from other sources. To speed processing requests for loans, a simplified one-page appli cation has been devised for home owners who don't want to borrow more than $2,000. Wendell B. Barnes, SBA adminis trator, said that a large number of disaster loans made by the Small Business Administration arc for small amounts, often a few hun died dollars, to help home owners repair their homes or replace ruin ed household effects. He said: "In order to avoid need less delay and to lighten the bur den imposed on both the applicant and the government, we have de signed the new one-page loan ap plication form to be used in dis aster loans to home owners when the amount requested is less than $2,000. "The procedures for processing this form have also been stream lined. In additional moves design ed to speed up our disaster loan program, we have already granted to our regional offices authority to approve these loans up to $2,000, and our temporary disaster loan offices can approve loans up to $20,000." Mr. Barnes said titiit since most of the agency's disireter loans are for amounts less than $50,000, the' great bulk of the disaster loans can be handled in the field and only the larger loans will be re viewed in Washington. If persons cannot call at the SBA office in the courthouse next week, they may apply at the New Bern office in the Attmore-Oliver House on Broad Street. But that office will not be there much longer. Government Allocates $32,000 For Study of Bass Beaufort Laboratory Will Serve as Headquarters; Dr. W. E. Fahy to Assist The Department of the Interior has allocated $32,000 for the study of striped bass (rockfish) in the Roanoke. Tar and other rivers of eastern North Carolina. Headquar ters for the study will be the Fish and Wildlife lab, Pivers Island, Beaufort. The allocation was made Mon day and will cover expenses for the remainder of this fiscal year. It is anticipated that another $80, 000 will be allocated over the next two years. The study is deemed necessary because the rockfish, a favorite of both sports and commercial fisher men, is dwindling in numbers. Dr. Fred Fish, Atlanta, an out standing biologist who is with the United States Public Health Ser vice, will head the program. He will take a leave of absence from the health service to supervise the work. Dr. William Fahy, a member of the staff of the Institute of Fish eries Research, Morehead City, will conduct the fishery biology phase of the program. It has been announced that a special laboratory will be estab lished at Weldon to carry on the study since the Roanoke River, which passes through the town, is the chief spawning ground for the fish. It is believed that river pollu tion is to blame for the decrease in rockfish population. Mrs. Sterling Robinson Heads Ward Committee $164.96 Received By Red Cross Mrs. James Rumley, Beaufort, tome service chairman of the Red Cross, reported this week that (184.96 in voluntary contributions have been received here since lone. The contributors were Mrs. Em ma T. Webb, Mrs. T. T. Potter, both of Beaufort; Mrs. Walter Las kcr, Morchead City; Mrs. F. J. Mc Knight, Burlington; Fletcher H. Uregory, Halifax; Roberts, Thomas and Freeman Wholesale Grocers, Morchead City, and Nicholson B. \dams, Chapel Hill. "I think this is fine," Mrs. Rum ley said, "in view of the fact that we didn't make any effort to col lect a special fund to help disaster victims." Others who may wish to con tribute should mail checks to Mrs. Kumley, or to the chairman of the County Red Cross Chanter, lrvin W. Davis, Courthouse, Beaufort, N. C. North Harlow* Still Put Out of Commission A liquor atlll was destroyed ruesday afternoon by Craven coun ty ABC officers and representa tives from the Craven County iheriff's department. According to ABC officer Albert Russell, the still was of 190-gallon capacity with seven 300-gallon fcr menters and was found In the North Harlowc section At the Lime of the raid the still was not In operation but looked like it tud been run aeveral days prior. Participating with Russell in the raid were ABC officer J. K. Clay, Sheriff Charles Berry and Con itablc Bill Meekins. Legion Fair Nlil Week Carteret Poet No. 90. American Legion, will sponaor its annual fair on the grounds north of Lennox vllle Road Monday through Satur day. Mrs. Sterling Robinson was ap pointed ward committee chairman, Sea Level Hospital Auxiliary, at the meeting Monday night in the recreation hall of the Williaton Methodist Church. She will serve the remainder of this year. Members of the ward committee were asked to make dried arrange ments for the hospital waiting room and solarium. The nurses' committee has col lected Colonial Store tapes with which to obtain household itema for the nurses' home, and it waa announced that the manager ot the Beaufort Colonial Store, J. S. Steed, would donate a percolator to the home. The chairman of the reception ist committee, Mrs. Monroe Willis, sent s report to the effect that 171 hours have been spent by members of the auxiliary at the desk dur ing visiting houra this year. She also ssked for volunteers for the coming month. The finance chairman, Mrs. John Weston Smith, announced that a variety show will be given at 8 tomorrow night, Oct. 1, in the At lantic School Auditorium for the benefit of the nurses' home. The auxiliary voted to send Christmas cards to all those who have been patients in the hospital the past year. Mrs. Marshall Whla nant was appointed to obtain sam ple cards and present them at the next meeting. A social hour, during which punch and cookies were served by the Willlston hostesses, followed the business meeting. Mrs Her bert F. Webb, chairman of the auxiliary, presided. Morehead City Officers Apprehend Three Men Moreheed City police mad* three arrests during the paat week. On Friday William McKnigkt, Morehead City, was for public drunkenness. Carl Ohio. #aa I
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