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44th YEAR. NO. 81. SECOND SECTION MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1966 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FR1DAY8
Captain Beveridge Knows
His Business - Shrimping
If there's anything David Beve
ridge of Beaufort, N. C., doeant
know about shrimping, fishing and
North Carolina waters, it ian't
worth knowin*.
Cap'n Beveridge has been fish
ing and shrimping for 20 years.
When asked if he'd always wanted
to fish ever since a little boy,
Cap'n Beveridge replied, "I knew
I always wanted to be on the wa
ter. I think I might like tugboat
ing. I've always wanted to hook
on to something and pull?"
Love of the water came natur
ally, for his father before him
handled boats. His father was John
Thomas Beveridge. He had tug
boats and barges which carried
coal to fish factories. He also op
erated a coal and wood yard at
the west edge of Beaufort on Gal
lant's Channel, just south of the
present Beaufort bridge.
Cap'n Dave shrimped a boat for
his father, a 30-footer which the
family called the Slick, "because
it stayed so nasty and greasy all
the time," explains Dave.
About 15 years before Cap'n
Dave started shrimping, just a few
men trawled for the delicacy which
is now in high demand. He recalls
that among them were Ned Lewis,
Bryan Arthur, Charlie Carrow and
Fred Hooper of Beafuort, and in
Morehead City Eli and Tim Mi
zelle, Richard Fodric, Durwood
Daniels and John Smithson.
In those days most shrimp were
taken by haul net. The shrimper
would row out in a skiff and run
an oar through the water, Cap'n
BeVeridge says, and they could
tell where the shrimp were be
cause the little shellfish would
kick up a spray and churn the
water.
Then the net would be put out
and the men would haul the
shrimp ashore.
Cap'n Beveridge says that Ar
thur Newkirk has been given the
credit, in the Beaufort area, for
making the first shrimp trawl ta
Photo oy Jerry Schumacher
Cap'n David Beveridge
. . . catchin' up on his mendin'
percd on the bunt end. Prior to
that time, all the trawls were cut
straight.
After the Slick, Cap'n Dave
worked his father's boat, the Wan
derlust. And two seasons he fished
for menhaden aboard the Wallace
M. Quinn and the Evelyn L. Willis.
He was aboard the Quinn when
she went down in December 1941
at Cape Lookout. The boat was
fishing on the east side of Cape
Lookout shoals when a wind came
up and seas started to run high.
The engineer reported that wa
ter started to eome in the engine
room so the Quinn set out for the
lee of the cape. She was too old
a boat to take much of a beating.
See Cap'n Beveridge, Pg. 7, Sec. 2
State Health Official Credits Salk
Vaccine for Reduction of Polio Cases
Eighth Tobacco
Cargo Leaves
The eighth shipment of export
tobacco this year was loaded
aboard the MV Gloria at Morehead
City state port Friday. The Gloria
dqtked Thursday night.
The ship took on a full cargo of
tobacco, approximately three and a
Half million pounds.
The ship flies the West German
flag and is listed at 4.455 grots
tons, ft is a familiar caller at
Morehead City, where it has put
in for cargo six times since 1953.
Glaessel and Company operates
the ship, and the Morehead City
Shipbuilding Co. is agent.
The cargo was supplied by a
large eastern Carolina tobacco ship
per and will be discharged in Bre
men.
Station Wagon,
Pickup Collide
A pickup truck and a station
wagon collided at 5:49 p.m. Friday
on Highway 101 about a mile aeuth
of Harlowe. No one was injured
and no charges were filed againat
the drivers.
State Highway Patrolman W. J.
Smith Jr. said Joel Davis. Harlowe,
driving a 1955 pickup and Emmott
L. Harris, who is stationed at th?
Coast Guard Station, Eliiabeth
City, were proceeding toward Cher
ry Point.
The collision occurred when
Davis turned left as Harris was at
tempting to pass. The Harris ata
tion wagon was forced over late a
ditch at the left side of the road.
With Harris were his wife and two
sons.
Damage to the station wagon waa
< timatcd at *800 and damage to
tho pickup at S250. Davis waa alone
in the truck.
Morshaad JayvMt Play
Beaufort Thursday Night
The Morehead City Jayvees Will
play host to the Beaufort team
Thursday night at 7:45 p.m.
It will mark the first regular
k season play between the two
teams, who played a scrimmage
contest earlier. <
In seaaon play the Mbrehead City
team has on* victor]' to its credit,
an 18-14 decision over the Jooea
Central team. This will mark Beau
fort's flrat Jayvee game of the aea
too.
? Salk vaccine has been Riven ere
(tit for cutting the number of polio
cases in North Carolina this sum
mer.
The State Board of Health has
reported 35 per cent fewer cases
among those 5 to 9 years who got
the shot than among the same age
gorup not receiving the vaccine
Dr. Fred Foard, chief epidemolo
gist, released the report which he
described as "a very encouraging
record."
No Cues Here
No cases of polio have been re
ported in this county this year.
Two occurred in 1954. First and
second graders in Carteret who re
ceived permission from their par
ents. received two shots of the vac
cine. one in May before school
closed and the second in July.
County health officials were
pleased with the response to ad
ministration of the vaccine here.
Seventy per cent of the children
eligible received the first shot And
70 per cent of those who got the
first shot received the second. Ac
cording to Jack McGee, national
polio foundation representative for
eastern Carolina, that is one of the
best records in this section of the
state.
As for the state. Dr. Foard said
that most of the children had only
?ne shot.
The vaccine for the inoculations,
distributed throughout the country,
was provided free of charge to state
health departments by the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
National figures released Thurs
day indicate that out of seven mil
lion children 3 to 9 years old, re
(taction of polio incidencc varied
from 25 to 50 per cent
Released to Drug Stores
The State Board of Health an
nounced Wednesday that it has re
leased 225.000 doses of commercial
polio vaccine to doctors through
retail drug stores. Carteret drug
stores have the vaccine on hand
now.
The state board suggests that
children who did not get the vac
cine be taken to private physicians
for the shots.
The State Health Department
expects to receive a total of 122,000
doses through federal government
allocation in several days. Those
will be distributed to county health
departments and will be available
as long as they last. Carteret's
Health Department has been allo
cated 540 doses.
Details of the inoculation pro
gram, federal, state and local were
presented by Dr. Luther Fulcher,
county health officer, to doctors
last night at the monthly medical
society meeting in the Morehead
City Hospital.
Dr. Foard estimated that, with
the 122,000 federal shots, the state
will have enough vaccine to im
muniie the 5 to 9 top priority age
group.
State health statisticians have
estimated that there are 1.677.441
persons in the state between infan
cy an8 19 years of age who arc
highly susceptible to polio.
But county health departmcnta
will handle the vaccine in accord
ance with the priority clasaifica
See POLIO, Page 8, Section 2
Darden Eure Becomes Life
Scout at Court of Honor
, Dardcn Euro, son of Dr. and
Mrs D. J. Eure. Morehead City,
was made s Life Scoot at the Boy
Scout Court of Honor Sunday
night in the Fint Methodist
Church, Morehead City. Other ad
vancement awards were presented
to Scouts from Marahallberg, Beau
fort and Morehead City.
Conducting the servicc were the
Rev. Leon Couch, pastor of the
church, assisted by Ethan Davia,
Carteret District commissioner.
Robert Howard, chairman of the
Carteret District Scout committee,
spoke on the objectives of the Boy
Scout movement, and Dr. Henry
Kritsier. chairman of the advance
ment committee, spoke on advance
ment helping to achieve those ob
jectives.
Second claas awards were pre
Morebcsd City firemen bald a
short business meeting last Mon
day night at the fire house and
than loaded the ladder truck with
taoaa.
sentrd by Mr. Davis to Carl Bail
and Gordy Eufe of Morehrad City
Troop 130; to Jackie Gardner and
Steve Bcachcm of Beaufort troop
201, and to Kenneth, Charlea and
Buddy Harris and Bobby Sellera,
of Marshallberg troop 228.
Chairman Howard preaented firat
claaa awarda to George Wallace and
Bud Daniela of troop 130. Robert
Lewis of troop 201, and Leon
Thomas of Troop 228.
Merit badgea were awarded to
Darden Eure and Truman Kemp of
troop 130; the Rev. II. H. Cash.
Bcrnie Davia. Leon Thomas and'
Fcrnic Willis. Scoutmaster, troop
228; Carl Chadwkk Jr., Scoutmas
ter. Swindell Taylor, Jimmy Davia
and Raymond Lewis, troop 201.
Dr. Krltxler, referring to the
adults who received merit badgea.
commented that the men were
learning aa well aa teaching.
Scoutmaater of troop 130 la Ed
MeKlnl?y. ,
The participation and attendance
banner went hi Marahallberg'a
troop 238
Famous Atlantic Beach Pavilion
Destroyed by Blaze Yesterday
County Continues
Plan to Obtain
Surplus Foods
Welfare Official Explains
How Program Will Be
Carried Out
If county residents apply for sur
plus federal food, the commodities
will be ordered and brought to the
county next month.
Miss Georgia Hughes, superin
tendent of the County Welfare De
partment, said that the program
has been initiated by the county to
help families who have suffered
serious losses in the recent storms.
Surplus food available is flour,
cornmeal, rice, dried beans, butter
and cheese.
Miss Hughes said, "Farmers
have lost crops and other losses
have been fell by people through
out the county. If this food, to be
distributed free, will enable them
to use food money to meet other
bills, we believe it will be benefi
cial to the county as a whole. Gro
cers need not carry as much credit
on their books and the whole eco
nomic situation should improve."
She also pointed out that money
that would have been spent on
food staples such as that offered
by the government would be re
leased to buy food that the family
otherwise would not be able to af
ford.
System Set Up
A system has been set up for Ret
ting the food. Distribution details
are still under consideration.
The surplus food has not yet
been ordered, Miss Hughes empha
sized. and it won't be ordered un
less families let the welfare office
know they want it.
The procedure, once launched,
will be like this: The Doe family
wants some of the food. Mr. or
Mrs. Do* goes to the welfare office
where Information on the family'*
financial resources is taken doWn
by welfare workers.
Card Given
Then the Doe applicant is given
an identification .card. The Does'
name is referred to a committee in
the family's community. If the
committee says the family does not
need the food, the welfare depart
ment will investigate further and
has the power of vetoing the com
mittee's decision. If the commil
tee says the family docs need food,
then the application will be ap
proved.
After the welfare department
clears all the applications, the
State Department of Agriculture
Sec FOOD, Page S, Section 2
Fire Destroys
Atlantic Home
Mrs. Florence Hamilton, whose
home in Atlantic burned Friday
morning, ii now living in Wil
mington with her daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Goodwin.
Beaufort firemen were called to
Atlantic at 11:50 and saved some
of Mrs. Hamilton's belongings, but
the house was beyond saving.
Mrs. Hamilton was in the kitch
en of the house when the fire
started, and she wss rushed out
by neighbors who discovered the
fire.
Mr. and Mrs Clyde Mason Jr.,
who lived in the upper part of the
two-story structure, were away at
Mm time. Mr. Mason was at Ports
mouth for the weekend, and didn't
learn of the (ire until his return
yesterday. Mrs. Mason was at
Williaton. The Masons lost all of
their clothing and bedding.
It is believed that the (ire waa
started by de(ective wiring. Men
were working on the TV set when
smoke was seen coming (rom the
roof of the house. Nearby resi
dents formed a bucket brigade
but their efforts were to no avail.
Beaufort firemen saved an ad
jacent home belonging to Gaston
Smith.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
IflBH LOW
Tuesday, Oct. 11
4:28 a.m. 10:44 a.m.
4:S2 p.m. 11:12 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct It
5:26 a.m. 11:M a.m.
5:4B p.m.
Thursday, Oct. It
6:16 a.m. 12:00 a.m.
6:86 p.m. 12:86 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 14
7:01 a.m. 12:48 a.*.
7:21 p-m. 1:14 pM.
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Young Reader
Wanted Big One
In the course of producing
this issue of THE NEWf? TIMES
some of our Tuesday issues re
cently had to be abbreviated.
Rather than two sections, there
would be just one.
One Tuesday, two cute little
youngsters came in THE NEWS
TIMES office. The little girl
plopped her dime down on the
counter and asked for the paper.
It was handed to her and she
and her friend went out the
door. Two seconds later she was
back. She put the paper back on
the counter and announced: "Ah
wants the king-size!"
Norfolk Firm
Finishes Job
Completing the dredging of Bar
den's Inlet is the Steen Contract
ing Corp., Norfolk. The Norfolk
firm was employed by the Carteret
Dredging Co. to finish the job after
the local firm's drodge blew up in
the channel Sept. 3.
A. B. Cooper, Morehead City,
owner of the Carteret Dredging
Co., reported yesterday that the job
was scheduled for completion Sat
urday.
The two crewmen injured when
the Carteret dredge exploded are
recovering satisfactorily. They
| were Robert Whaley, Morehead
City, and James Jones, Markers
Island.
Whaley suffered head and chest
injuries and Jones had a cracked
hip bone.
The Carteret Dredging Co. was
under contract to the U. S. Army
Engineers.
The dredge which sank is being
salvaged by H. L. Tripp Inc., a
marine salvage firm of New York.
Mr. Cooper estimates his loss, par
tially covered by insurance, at
$45,000.
He said the salvage company
raised the dredge and has floated
it on pontoons two miles towards
Hark rs Island. Mr. Cooper said
it's important that the dredge be
pu' back in operation as soon as
pr sfbl** because it is needed for
worV at Atlantic Beach, especially
to replace fill washed away by the
i reccnt storms.
Historical Society Will
Meet Saturday Afternoon
The quarterly meeting of the
Carteret County Historical Society
will take place in the Episcopal
Parish House. Beaufort, Saturday
afternoon at 2:30.
A paper will be presented cov
ering the life and? activities of
Captain Otway Burns, the bold
privateer of the War of 1812. Re
ports covering the work of the so
ciety for the past year will be
given and officers will be elected
for the coming year. Persons in
terested in the work of the so
ciety are cordially invited. Mrs.
Nat Smith, president, announces.
Owners Estimate Total
Loss at $72,000
The Heart of the Beach, Atlantic Beach, a large frame
structure containing a dance floor and seven apartments,
went up in flames early yesterday morning. Capt. Bill
Ballou, Morehead City, who owned and operated it with
his Hon, Ward, said the l^uilding is a total loss.
The Ballous bought the famous beach pavilion in July
iv?n ior ?.-?/ wtiu ii w?f svriouMy
damage ! in Hazel but was repaired.
The three storms which hit this
section of the coast this year also
damaged t'ie building. The last
storm, lore, caused d a m a e. e
amounting to $1,100. Those repairs
were being made during the past
week. The land value was esti
mated at $25,000 and building at
$72,000.
Captain Ballou said the loss is
partially insured. As of yesterday,
the Ballous had made no plans con
cerning rebuilding.
The fire was discovered, accord
in? to the owners, by a man living
in ono of the apartments. The
apartments were located on the sec
ond floor, over the dance hall. The
alarm was sounded at 4:45 a.m.
Started in Grill
The blaze. firemen said, started
in the Surf Grill, adjoining the
Heart of the Beach on the west.
The grill was operated this past
summer by Alton Dixon. It is not
known* what might have caused
flames to break out there.
Fire departments from Morehead
City, Newport, Beaufort and Cher
ry Point answered the alarm.
Men and equipment from the
Fort Macon Coast Guard station,
several miles east on the beach,
were also on the sccne.
During the fire, a commercial
water heater in the pavilion ex
ploded. It crashed through the wall
of the building on the north side,
bounced on the ground and then
flew several hundred feet in the
air, over the heads of firemen and
spectators.
Finally Lands
It landed on the other side of
| the miniature golf course across
I from the pavilion. Had It not blown
into the air, spectators aay some
one surely would have been hurt,
if not killed.
This is the sccond serious fire
to occur at the beach this summer,
.lust on the eve of the 1955 summer
season, the popular Ocean King
Hotel burned.
A. B. Cooper, mayor of Atlantic
Beach, said businessmen there have
started to organize a fire depart
ment. A truck is being converted
to carry a 1,500-gallon tank with
pumper.
In most fires, which have turned
out to be serious losses. Mayor
Cooper said the buildings probably
could have been saved if water
had been available as soon as the
blazes were discovered.
Deputy Sheriffs Marshall Ayscuc
and Bobby Bell are expected home
Thursday from Louisiana where
they went to pick up Eldon Smith,
wanted in this county for allegedly
firing a .22 rifle into the Crab
Point home of Charles Rose the
night of May 27.
J. A. DuBois
To Again Direct
Chamber Activity
J. A. DuBois, Sea Level, has been
named manager of the Morehead
City Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
DuBois, former manager of the
chamber and manager of the Sea
Level Chamber for the past year
and a half, will take over his More
J. A. DuRqK
. . . return to NorehcMl
head City duties on or before
Nov. 1.
Hit appointment was made by
the chamber board of directors last
week but was not confirmed until
this past weekend when Mr. DuBois
presented his resignation to the
Sea Level chamber.
Walter Edwards, president of the
Morehcad City chamber, said yes
terday that the directors reviewed
a dozen applications for the man
agership. but they believed that
Mr. DuBois was the ideal person
for the position.
Mr. DuBois succeeds Ted Davis,
who is now with a radio station at
Raleigh. The Morehcad City cham
ber has been without a manager
since the first of September.
Routine office duties have been
carried out by Miss Sherry Willis,
secretary to the manager.
Barrus Construction Co., under
contract to the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, is put
ting the final Asphalt surface on
the south approach to the Atlantic
Beach bridge.
Red Snapper ? Off North Carolina!
Photo by Reginald Lewis
A M? deep water fishery, din
covered within the put year off
More head City, I* bringing com
mercial fishermen fine ^atchoa of
coveted red snapper.
Pictured here with some of the
snappers, many of which weigh as
Ufb as 39 pound*, art Dava Strict
land, left, skipper of the Carib
bean, and right, Johnny Chivaa.
Both men are reaidenta of More
heat1 City.
Red uapper were not known to
inhabit North Carolina watera in
commercial quaatitiaa, although
they ww owMlwiilly brought
?shore by aporta filhermen.
The fish, which bring 39 to 40
centi a pound are found in 50
fathom wateri on the edge of the
Gulf Stream. The fiah are taken
by hook and line from boata that
atay out in th? deep water two
daya at ? tiau.
Two Towns Ask
For $192,944.50
Applications for Civil
Defense Funds Filed
At Raleigh Yesterday
Presented to the State Civil De
fense office yesterday were ap
plications for hurricane disaster
funds totaling $192,944.50. The ap
plications were filed by the towns
of Beaufort and Morehead City
and were taken to Raleigh by Dan
L. Walker, Beaufort town clerk,
and Gray Hassell, consulting engi
neer for Carteret County.
The applications request fed
eral aid to make emergency re
pairs to public property sustained
in Hurricanes Connie, Diane and
lone.
Applications to help meet losses
at Atlantic Beach and Newport,
the county's other incorporated
towns, and other communities
throughout the county have not
yet been filed.
Beaufort is requesting $110,511,
50 and Morehead City $82,431. To
tal loss in Beaufort was set at
$133,877.75. The town has already
invested $23,364.25 in labor; use
of town equipment, and in ma
terial* to repair damage to town
owned property.
Morehead City's loss is set at
$96,539.75. The town has already
invested $14,108.75 in labor, use
of town equipment and materials
to repair hurricane damage.
Mosquito Control
Tho money spent thus far also
includes funds for mosquito con
trol.
Projects for which Civil Defense
disaster funds are being sought are
the following: removal of trees
and debris, emergency repair to
gutters, temporary seal coat on
street sub-grades where washouts
occurred, street and gutter aub
grade emergency fill, emergency
reinforcement of breakwaters, mos
quito control, and emergency clean
out and repair of sanitary and
storm sewers.
Morehead City is also request
ing funds to make emergency re
pairs to the fire dock on Shepard
Street near 8th.
Barges Requested
The town of Beaufort, in addi
tion to the general projects, is re
questing surplus barges to be sunk
*n Bird Shoal, opposite the town
to reinforce the rip rap which
has settled in many places.
For mosquito control Morehead
City is requesting $3,493 and Beau
fort *8.308.50.
If the requests are approved,
the federal government will pay
directly to contractors the amount
due them and will reimburae the
towns for money spent on pro
jects to re-establish routine to*n
operations following the storm*.
Applications filed by the towns
after Connie and Diane were re
turned and the damage sustained
in lone incorporated in the pre
sent requests.
Atlantic Wins
County Crown
Atlantic's All Stars won the
County Baseball League playoffs
Sunday is they defeated the Salter
Path team, 4-3, at the loser's dia
mond.
Joe Willis and Don Willis shared
the mound work for the All-Stan,
with 0. Willis chalking up the vic
tory.
The All-Stars led throughout the
contest and were given a bad scare
in the laat of the acventh when
Harold Bass doubled to right with
one man away. Purccll Jones hit
a long drive to send Bass scamper
ing homo with the Salter Path
team's third run and Jones wound
up at second.
Willis rose to the occasion as he
itruck out George Lewis and R. E.
Pike to end the game.
Jerry Pittman went the distance
for Salter Path and was the losing
hurler.
(Other sports news appears on
page 1 section 3).
Atlantic Residents Now
Have New Postoffica
Atlantic's poatoffice opened re
cently In a new location, a re
modeled building owned
ing Robinson. The new
is'on the north aide of Hii
It used to be at Cecil Morrfcl
store, near the waterfront
The poatmia tress is Mrs. J aba
Nelson Jr., assisted by Mr*. Lutber
Smith.
foot floor space, lobby and ia
of it la a flag Mia.
The poatoffice baa a SO b
IU( pata
space,