W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 44th YEAR, NO. 85. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Power Company to Put Up Second Morehead Substation Carolina Power and Light Co.-f was given permission to erect an additional substation at a new More head City location by the town commissioner! Thursday night. The town board voted to rezone as "industrial" the entire block be tween 24th and 25th Streets be tween Bay and Avery Streets, next to the town trash dump. George Stovall, manager of CP&L here, said that with the erec tion of the substation his company would be able to offer sufficient power to any new industry which might decide to locate in Morehead City. The recommendation for rezon ing was made in a letter sent the board by Marvin Mills, zoning board chairman. One substation is already located at Sth and Bridges. In reply to another request by Theodore Economon for the rezon ing of his property in block 170 at the spur track north of Arendell Street, the clerk of the board was requested to write the zoning board and find out from them a description of Mr. Economon's property and the zoning board's recommendations in regard to the request. Permit Requested George Ball appeared on behalf of Floyd Kenneth Bratcher to ob tain a permit to operate a taxi. The board requested that Mr. Bralcher submit several character references before they act on the matter. The boa I'd voted to evict the ten ants from the town-owned house on the corner of 23rd and Fisher Streets since the town expects to dispose of the property. It was noted that the tenants of this house have never paid any rent. On the matter of street lights for Yaupon Terrace in the Bruce Good win Development, the clerk was directed to find out exactly what was wanted and the cost of the lights. A light request for west alley on the north side of the 400 block of Fisher Street was approved. College Approved The rommsisiancfi voted to make a resolution and send it to Charles McCuliers in Kinston giving their approval of Kinston as the site (or the proposed new four-year co-ed Presbyterian college. Mayor George Dill gave a report on the water rate increase hearing that he attended in Raleigh, and he stated that he was more con fused after leaving the meeting than when it began. The mayor noted that he would write to the State Highway Depart ment concerning a bill for $4,200 owed by the town. He said that the hurricane* played havoc with the town and that he was certain that he could explain the matter to the highway department. Stanley Woodland was granted permission to build a concrete sea wall on his property at 408 South 15th St. Franchise Corrected The board corrected the taxi franchise of Melissa Monroe, list ing it in her name inatead of James Monroe. "No parking" signs west of 24th Street on the north side of Evans Street were ordered removed by the board. It was voted to set up a "No Parking Here to Corner" sign at the southwest corner of 16th and Bridges Streets. Signs ruling it illegal to park 23 feet from the crosswalk on the west side of Evans Street and 29 feet from the crosswalk southward on 12th Street were ordered put up. In reply to a letter from Clyde Douglass the commissioners stated all trash that frpa Men dumped on the land adjacent tD the city dump will be removed and placed on the dump. The residents of Homes Drive, Park Drive, and Arvon Avenue, re ported through Commtsaioner Jas per Bell that they had the 11,500 for the sewer installation in that area. The commissioners stated that the work will be done. Attending the meeting were Mayor Dill, Commissioners Jasper Bell, D. J. Hall, Ted Gamer, G. E. Sanderson, and Sam Holloway, Town Clerk John Lashley and Town Attorney George McNeill. Smyrna Principal Lists Li)Hch Menus Stanley Dail, principal of Smyr na School haa announced the lunchroom menua for the week at the achool. The menu, atartini with today, la aa follow*: Today: Football aandwich. but tered corn, turnip (reena, straw berry Jello, rolla, butter and milk. Tomorrow: macaroni and cheeae. green beana, deviled food cake with icing, bread, butter and milk. Thuraday: engllah beef loaf, green butter beana, apple, cabbage and ralaln aalad, cookies, bread, butter and milk. Friday: hot dogi. lima beana, cole alaw and onion*, gingerbread, k rolla, butter and milk. 1 \ Directors Make Final Plans For Chamber Dinner Tonight Beach Storming To End Assaults' Major Part of Loading Operation Takes Place At Morehead Port A rehearsal beach storming in Virginia and an assault on Onslow Beach will climax the current mammoth Marine maneuver now underway. Loading of equipment and Ma rines at Morehead City will end Thursday, but was scheduled to be 85 per cent complete by late yesterday. Ships arc also being loaded at Wilmington, Norfolk, aad Charleston. The Atlantic fleet's major fall amphibious cxercis* has been dub bed Lantphibex this ymr. Second Marine division personnel asm berlng between 6,000 and 1,000 are embarking at Morehead City. In port now is the USS Cambria. Vice Adm. F. C. Fahrion, aboard the command ship, USS Peeoao, will direct the amphibious task force. Lt. Gen. A. H. Noble com mands the Second Marine Air Ground Task Force. The Poeono is due in port today. The Marine Division's command ing general, Gen. Reginald H. Ridgley Jr, is scheduled to arrive here Thursday, the last day of loading, aboard the USS Taconic. Gen. Wallace M. Greene, assist ant divisional general, will go aboard the USS Cambria tomor row. The Cambria is directing loading at this port. Use ot defensive and offeoaive atomic weapctiir will be simulated in the ekeretei. School to Offer Typingto Adults A typing class (or adults will be organized Thursday night at Beau fort School. B. E. Tarkington. principal, said the course will be the first step to ward establishing adult education classes. Persons interested in learn ing typing should attend Thurs day's meeting at 7:30 p.m. The instructor will be Irving Harrell. the school's high school commercial teacher. Two classes a week, on Monday and Thursday nights beginning at 7:30, are tentatively scheduled. A total of 24 classes is proposed. The charge will be $2 a week per student and may be paid by the week or in advance. The fee in cludes rental of the school clan room. typewriters, supplies and in structor's fees. NCEA Hears Talk By N. A. Avera N. A. Avera, social security rep resentative for the Wilmington district, was the speaker at the county meeting of the North Car olina Education Association Wed nesday afternoon in the Beaufort School auditorium. Mr. Avera diacussed the social security program, schedule and benefits. A film snd slides were shown and a question and answer period followed the talk. Rami* Davis, principal of Camp Glenn School, and county NCEA presi dent, introduced Mr Avera. Teach ers will vote at their respective schools tomorrow on whether they will participate in tin social secur ity program. Mr. Hunt, Blue Croes represen tative, gave a short talk on hos pitalisation H. X. Joalyn, county superinten M, spoke on the profits derived from NCSA. He eifresaed the hope that teachers would take ad vantage of thoee benefits. The minutes of the previous meeting ware read by Mrs. Janie Garner, Newport, secretary of NCEA. and several committee re ports were presented. Attends Meeting Skinner Chalk, More head City, attended the 24th annual meeting of the National Association of Mu tual Insurance Agents at the Neth erlands Plata Hotel in Cincinnati recently. Mr. Chalk participated in the buainoas meeting as a member of the agency -management commit tee. ? Final arrangements for tonight's Chamber of Commerce member ship banquet, Beaufort, were made at a meeting of the directors yes terday afternoon. The banquet will get underway tonight at 7 p.m. in the Lottie Sanders building. Dr. W. L. Wood ard. chairman, says members and their wives are cordially invited. At least 80 persons are expected. The dinner, to be served by Cir cle No. 9 of the Ann Street Meth odist Church, will consist of tur key, dressing and gravy, candied yams, green peas, cranberries, Waldorf salad, hot rolls, mince meat pie and coffee. Mrs. W Roy Hamilton will be in charge of pre paring and serving the dinner. According to Dr. Woodard, who will act as toastmaster for the ban quet, there will be no featured speaker, but several short talks on chamber work. Superior Court Civil Term Ends Friday Afternoon The clyjl term of Superior Court adjourned Friday afternoon after Judge William J. Bundy or dered the Airway Moviac and Storage Co., Inc., to pay NM 18 plus tntereit from March 20, 1#M, to Elbert G Weelu. In other decision! George W. Ball was awarded $477.85 plus in terest from Aug. 30, 19S4, from James C. Rom and wife, Mary Lee Ted Howard Conwsy was award" ed $100 from Everett Merrill. In the case of John S. Jones vs. W. T. Turlington and wife, Chel lie Turlington. J. Hendrick Aman and wife, Sallie H Aman, Frank A. Smith and wife, Pearl Smith, and Elbert Guthrie, a motion for non-suit was granted and Jones was taxed with costs. Jones noted an appeal to Su preme Court and his bond set at $100. Mary Martin Kirkman was awarded custody of her two chil dren, George W. Ill and Beatrice Karol. Her husband, George Kirk man Jr., was ordered to pay her $85 every two weeks as alimony. Jesse Goodwin was taxed cost5 when his ease against Ned Gray Golden was dismissed. Lcrue Er nest Kelly Jr. and Lcrue Ernest Kelly Sr. were taxed costs when their case against E. D. O'Neal and J. D. Styron, trading and do ing business as O'Neal and Styron Marine Railways, was dismissed. Jurors hearing the above caaes were the following: Louis Hinson, D. B. Sanderson, Theodore Jones, Guyon Lewis, T. C. Willis, Willie Cannon, Thomas C. Oglesby, Er nest Parker, Mrs. Arthur Guthrie, Julius Nelson, John Midgett and Charlie Mason. Theodore Jones, W. L. Ycager, S. E. Saratowski. John Morrison, W. L. Arlington, Clyde V. Burr, Mer ritt E. Bridgman, Charlie Mason, H. T. Rhue and Jimmy Congleton. M. L. Yeager, T. C. Willis, Theo dore Jones. Robert L. Hicks. Louis Hinson, U. E. Swann. Julius Nel son, John Midgett, Ernest Parker, Mr?. Arthur Guthrie and John Morrison. Board Receives Finance Report Submitted to the Morehesd City town board Thursday night was a statement of town expenditures (or the month of September. Salaries for administrative of ficers totaled $1,463, maintenance coats and running expenses amounted to $1,021.07, salaries to police department personnel to taled $24*01 2 and police depart ment operational costs ware $254 ?1. Salaries of the four fire depart ment engineers amounted to $1,440 and fir* department operational costs were $1,135.28. Cemetery esn ployees drew a total pay amount lag to $825 and cost of operating cemetery machinery, including a truck, was $80.84. Total payroll for street depart ment personnel waa $2,700.45. Ps id to Carolina Power and Light C?. last month was $$$741 and paid to Carolina Water Co. was 1,200 See Rarin' Buckin' ?\ ? ; Rodeo at Beaufort Sunday Atlantic's New Church This Is the new Missionary Baptist Church,' Atlantic, which was opened for services Sunday, Oct. 16. The $120,000 church replaces one destroyed by fire. Pastor of the congregation is the Rev. John Privott. Three Seniors Make High Scores in Scholastic Test President Asks Dues to be Paid Clayton Fulcher Jr., president of the Sea Level Chamber of Com merce, in a letter to chamber mem bers this week requested that they pay their dues within the next few days. Dues uncollected, he said, amount to $1,250. Collected to date is $1, 615.78 as compared with a total of $2,865 collected last year. Spent thus far is $850 for mos quito control and $761.11 for ad vertising and operational expense*, leaving a balance of $3.72. President Fulcher said that if dues are not paid up within the next few days there will be insuf ficient funds to meet the chamber'! share of the mosquito control pro gram. Replacing J. A DuBois as chai* ber manager is Joe Mason Jr., act ing manager. In a letter to chamber members Mr. DuBois, who has accepted man agership of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce, said, . . let me urge you to redouble your efforts and Teally get behind your Community Chamber of Com merce. Many vital projects have been started which need your sup port. Keep the balf rolling." Fire Destroys Lawrence barn Fire on Sunday afternoon de stroyed the barn owned by Martin Lawrence at Bettie. The Maae was discovered about 3 o'clock and Beaufort firemen were called but arrived too late to save the build ing. Mr. Lawrence is reported to have had all hi* hay and grain in the barn for the winter. It has not been eatabliahed bow the blaze started but some reports say that children were playing in the barn earlier in the day anil may have lit matches. The barn waa located acroaa a dirt road from the Lawrence home. Tid* Tabl? Tides at Uk Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Oct U 1:01 a.m. 1:10 p.m. 0:30 a.m. 10:01 p.m. 3:37 a.m. 4:11 p.m. Wedaeeday, Oct. M n. 10:21 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 37 4:30 a.m. 5:07 p.m. 11 :? p.m. 11:11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31 3:37 ajn. 11:30 am 3:30 p.m. ? B. E. Tarkington, Beaufort prin cipal, yesterday released the names of .three seniors who had made top scores in exams giv?n recently to choosc candidates for the Na tional Merit Scholarships. The three seniors who made the highest scores among 20 who took the exams at Beaufort School were James C. Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Murphy, Beaufort; James D. Potter, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Potter, Beau fort; and Jean C. Pittman, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar C. Pitt man, Merrimon. Mr. Tarkington said the school was permitted to name three can didates. Because 20 students ap plied, he gave all of them the Iowa content examinations to de termine who would be eligible to aim for the scholarship awards. In addition to the three high scorers, the following seniors ap plied for the scholarships: Wil liam L Cannon, James C. Davis, Ralph N. Eubanks, George T. Mar tin, James W. Owens. Kenneth E. Swain, Edward Wil li*, Geraldina Bodiford, Irma Sue Cannon, Barbara A. Davis, Sylvia Ann Harrell, Judith T. Johnson, Paula Jones, Nina Faye Kirk, An nette J. Merrill. Shirley Kay Piner, and Peggy G. Williams. The scholarship program is con ducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corp., an independent, non-profit educational organisation set up by grants of 120,900,000. Aimed at the discovering and helping the most talented students in the country, the Merit Program permits the winners, known as Merit Scholars, to choose any ac credited college or university and any course of study. Memorial Service Will be Sunday A memorial service for Don Willis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Willis, Atlantic, who was drowned Oct. 10, will be conduct ed at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Willis home. The pastors will be the Rev. Louis Lewis of the Methodist Church and the Rev. John Pri vott, pastor of the Missionary Baptist Church. The deceased was 20 years old and met his death when knocked from a menhaden boat fishing off the New Jersey coast. His body was never recovered. The family requests that no flowers be sent. Harvey Lewis Posts $850 Bond Harvey Lewis was bound over to Superior Court under $850 bond when he requested a jury trial in Morehead City Recorder's Court yesterday. Lewis is charged with commit ting an assault on Miss Gray Haynes by slamming a door on her, and in another case he is charged with being drunk and dis orderly. assault on an officer and resisting arrest. Robert Dudley noted an appeal to Superior Court when he was found guilty of having In his pos session a quantity of non-tax paid whisky. His bond was set (t $500. Judge Herbert Phillips sen tenced him to six months on the roads after noting that it was Dud ley's second offense. With th? Amwd Fore? W-O Albert Heath to Take Part in Army-Air Excercise Fort Bragg ? W/0 Albert Heath, ?on of Mr. and Mrs Albert Heath, Swaniboro, U scheduled to take part In Exercise gage Bruih, the lsrgest Army-Air Force maneuver ftnee World War II. Warrant Officer Heath'a unit, the 2nd Logistical Command at Fort Bragg, will operate a* the Kt Field Army Support Brigade in the Louisiana exercise. The mis sion of the unit will be to provide logistical and administrative sup port. , The two-month exercise, which will start in November, will test the latest concepts of atomic, bac teriological, chemical and electron ic warfare. Heath, a veteran of 16 years' Army service, wears the Bronx* Star Medal. Camp Rucker, Ala. Two New port soldiers. Pvt. Charles N. Tay lor and Pvt. Charles Garner, a re scheduled to participate In Exsr ciae gaga Braah, the largeat joint A Array-Air Force maneuver since World War II. The two-month exerciae will be held In Loulaiana starting in No vember Some 110,000 Army troops will take part, testing the latest concepts of atomic, bacteriological, chemical and electronic warfare. Private Taylor, son of Mr. aad Mrs. George R. Taylor, route 1, Is a truck driver in the 351st Regi mental Combat Team regularly stationed at Camp Rucker, Ala. He entered (he Army last February and completed basic training at Camp Rucker. The 20-year-old aol dier attended Morehead High School. Private Garner, aon of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Garner, Newport, ia an aaaistant gunner in the 391st Regimental Combat Team. He en tered the Army last February and completed baaic training at Camp Rueker. The 20-year-old soldier la a 1993 graduate of Newport High lee ARMED FORCES, Page ? ' All fall down and go boom! That's exactly what was happening to the contestants in the bucking events at the second annual Banks Pony Rodeo at Legion Field in Beaufort Sunday afternoon. Over 1,200 persons attended the colorful show. The sun was bright and the sky the blue that only autumn brings to the coast. Events that had the contestants hitting the turf were the bareback yearling ride, the roped* r,de' bareback pony ride and the bareback steer riding Don Styron, Cedar Island, was the winner of two events in the boys division. He won the potato race for the second straight year and also stayed on the roped year ung for 8 seconds to win that event. Goodwin Hangs On Perry Goodwin, Cedar Island, was the winner of the bareback yearling event when he stayed aboard for 5 seconds. Two of the contestants in this event both hit the dirt in the amazingly quick time of 2 seconds. Maxwell Simpson, Atlantic, won the run off of the big saddle race from Alfred Morris, Atlantic. Each of the men had won their first heats from three other contestants. In Simpson s first heat, he was trailing Royce Goodwin, Cedar Is and, on the fourth lap of the five lap race when Goodwin was un dated and had the wind knocked out of him. Decision Awarded H F. Fairless, Cherry Point and originally from Illinois, was awarded the judges' decision over L. E. Nordman. Cherry Point and Oklahoma, in the bareback pony ride. I Nordman was the winner of the bareback steer riding contest. He stayed aboard the steer for 8 sec onds. One of the contestants in this event stayed on the bucking black animal only 4 seconds. The top winner in each contest re ceived a $25 savings bond. A special event had Linwood Fulchcr s bulldog showing how a dog would catch a steer. The dog kept leaping off the ground and ?t the steer's ear until ne had him cornered. - * The final event on the program was to have been the riding of the bucking saddled ponies, but tne ponies just weren't briefed and they refused to buck. Music between events was of fered by Happy Jack Smith and his Southern Pals, with Hay Cum mins acting as master of cere monies. rr2e,uT Dick P,rker and Grover Munden, Morehead City, |Ej C. T Lewis of Beau fort Timekeeper was Hal Shapiro TIMES ed"0r ?' ?E NEWS" Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce sponsored event, Ronald Earl Mason, said that the rodeo was a huge succesa, and that he wl!Te.h ***""" "tending en iX .n'lu 'hmT very much He 0,fered for "le following the rodeo had buyers Contestants in the rodeo were Don Styron, Perry Goodwin, Sam Wlrren r *,"7* Sn"th- Rich,rd 2 i. Q00dwin' Do" Fos ter Corky Baker L. E. Nordman. ,f r,lr|e?a. Alfred Morris Max *r SluPSB.' Morris. ?erald Fulcher. Ira Paul Day Rocky Morris, Henry Eubank!!' Cher' ^?dWln' ,nd linwood Ful Famed Freighter Beached Here A wreck the Atlantic couldn't hang on to la now rating near the channel north of Arendell Street, Morehead City. The Omar Babun, a freighter which ran aground at Rodanthe in May IBM hai been towed here from Nor folk. She waa raised by E. A. Canlpe of Havelock after veteran* of the coait uid that it waa impossible to talvage the veaael. The freight er, which waa carrying machinery, was taken to Norfolk after it waa raised and waa towed here from Norfolk by Capt. Charlie Finer la his tug, Manie. The cargo aboard the Omar Babun waa aalraged and dlapo?d of some time ago. Mr. Canipe aaid yeaterday that he didn't know what would be done with the hull. He aaid it would atay at iU pre aent spot In Morehead City until a deciaion ia mad*. 170 Now Belong to Farm Bureau, Chairman Says C. N. Stroud, Morehead City, Farm Bureau membership chair man, reported yeaterday that ram Bureau memberahip in the county now numbera 170. He aaid, how ever, that nwra memberships have come in since solicitors made a report early last week. The county's membership goal la 400. ASC Convention Will Take Place At 3 Thursday The County Convention for elec tion of the Agriculture Stabiliu tion and Conservation County Committee will begin at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the ASC of fice in the postoffice building, Beaufort. Attending the meeting will be the recently- elected chairmen of the five administrative districts. They are Jack Garner, Newport; Archie Hardesty, Beaufort - Har lowe; Stanley Gillikin, East-Mer rimon; Clyde Morris. White Oak, and John T. Oglosby, Morehead. Others elected as community ASC committeemen at last Tues day's elections were the follow ing: Newport: Billy Roberts and Clay ton Cannon, with J. A. Kelly and Harry D. Lockey as alternates. Beaufort'Harlowe: Noah Avery and John Pelton Jr.. with Nick Culpepper and Parnell Hardesty as alternates. East-Mcrrimon: Brondell Gillikin and H. D. Carraway Jr.; Bill Pig ott and Heber Golden as alters nates. White Oak: Lee Sawrey and Leon W. Parker; Marion Weeks and Julian 1. Weeks as alternates. Morehead: Joe Barnes and A. Earl Murdoch; George Crecch and K. S Swlnson as alternates. WOVfYd Organize Woodcraft Club Walter M. Lockhart, 2407 Bay St., haa been appointed director of a Boyi of Woodcraft Sports men'! Club for boya 8 to 16 years old being organized in Morehead City. Mr. Lockhart, a salesman at Colonial Stores and officer of Woodmen Camp No. 188, waa a staff sergeant, U. S. Army Medi cal Corps. He will be assisted by Robert A. Andrews of Newport and Lennis O. Brinson, Sr., in di recting the club's activities. Robert E. Simmons of Kinston, Woodmen district manager and Clifford C. Faglie, local field rep reaentative, will enroll members and Rufus L. Turnage will be the club's financial secretary. It will receive its charter when it has a minimum of 20 members. In meetings at the Woodmen Hall the boys will receive instruc tion in the proper, safe use of firearms and rifle marksmanship. Other activities will be fishing, fly and baaabug tying, atudy of wildlife, conservation of natural resourcea, accident prevention and first aid. This is the- sixth BOW Sports men's club to organise in North Carolina. The others are in Asbe boro, Clarkton, Sylva, Tabor City and Wilmington. There are more than 400 clubs throughout the country with some 20,000 boya en rolled. E. E. "Blue" Howell, former AU-American, later football coach at Kanaas Stat* College, Louisiana State and Yale universities, is na tional activities director. Leaf Shippers Told Of Fumigation Plant Proposal Letters from the State Port Au thority have been sent to one hun dred Carotins tobacco shippers tell ing them that a fumigation plant will be built at the Morehead City Pert In the September Issue of the State Ports magazine, which waa distributed this week, plans for the fumigation plant were given. Drawing of specificationa is un derway. A single-chamber struc ture. equipped for hydrocyanic and methyl bromide gases, is proposed. A tranait ahed la alao In process a ( construction at the port. Of pre fabricated ateel. it will have a sin gle row of supports and a canopy will be built to protect cargoes moved between the shed and Um rail spurs. St. Paul's episcopal Church lien's Club will be reactivated at a dinner tomorrow night at MO in the Parish House.