CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
44th YEAR, NO. >1. TWO atcnoNs TEN PAGES MOREHEAP CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. *1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAY8 AND FRIDAYS
NEWS-TIMES OFFICE
804 Ar?uMl St.
Mot?Wm4 City
Phone 6-4175
Finer Carolina
Beaufort Reports Contest
Projects Near Completion
Beaufort has completed its
projects this year for the Finer
Carolina program for the first time
since entering the program, accord
ing to Ronald Earl Mason, chair
man of the program.
Mr. Mason said that in only one
project, house numbering and
street markers, is there still work
to be done. But he expects the
work to be completed soon and a
scrapbook will be sent in on the
Finer Carolina accomplishments in
Beaufort.
The projects are as follows:
1. A wooden lung has been made
by the Beaufort firemen and the
lung is available to anyone who
needs it.
2. Restoration of the playground
area was completed prior to the
three hurricanes, Connie, Diane
and lone, aTJ9 when it was destroy
ed by the hurricanes the Junior
Woman's Club decided to move it
to the school grounds.
3. A catfood plant has been
started and is included in the cate
gory of industrial development of
the town.
4. Under tourist development, a
new fishing pier has been erected
for colored folks. A launching site
has been set up for small craft and
a party boat was operated out of
Beaufort prior to the hurricanes.
For the summer season the
Channel Apartments operated as a
motel for guests and tourists. The
Everett House, formerly the Davis
House, was completely renovated
for tourists.
Boat races and a rodeo were held
in Beaufort to attract the tourists.
5. The street markers and house
numbers are the only project which
hasn't been completed to date.
A map has been made and mem
bers of the fire department will
make the rounds in town and noti
fy houseowners of the numbers
that should be placed on their
homes.
Molds are on hand now for the
concrete street markers.
Three GuatemalansVisit
More head City Sea Port
Three visitors from Guatemala-*
who are inspecting state ports fa
cilities arrived at Morehead City
Thursday to see the port and ob
serve port administrative methods.
The Latin-Americans are Ma
merto Marroquin, Francisco Men
endez, and Miguel Angel Quintana.
The Guatemalan government is
constructing docks and shipping
facilities at Puerto Santo Tomas
on the Atlantic coast, and these
visitors have been selected, be
cause of their experience and back
ground, to administer the new
port.
The most modern techniques
that they master on their visit will
be incorporated in the operation
of the new Guatemalan port, the
Guatemalans explained.
While visiting in North Carolina
they are studying not only the
state installations here and at Wil
mington but also interviewing
stevedoring and shipping company
officials. Ameig the facilities they
hav? seen is included the Sunny
Point Army >?muaition Loading
Terminal as guests of the com
manding officer, Col. William A.
McAleer.
Before arriving in this state,
they inspected a number of Gulf
and South Atlantic ports. Their
itinerary is arranged by the U. S.
Maritime Administration. They are
visitors under the government's
Point Four program.
Ed Walston
To Direct Play
Ed Walston, Beaufort, was elect
ed director of the next Carteret
Community Theatre play at a
meeting of the theatre Wednesday
night at the civic centcr, More
head City.
The group instructed the read
ing committee to select cither a
melodrama or a comedy. Members
of the reading committee, who
were appointed by President Wal
ton Hamilton, are Mr. Walston,
Miss Lillian Frances Giddens,
Thomas Respcss, Mrs. John James,
I and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Stone.
Elected to replace Sammy Dan
iels, vice-president of the theatre,
was Miss Joyce Willis, Morehead
City. Mr. Daniels has moved to
Raleigh.
Miss Willis resigned from chair
manship of the Christmas tableau
and Mrs. Tressa Royal Vlcken
was placed in charge. The tableau,
depicting the manger scene, will
be given the week before Christ
mas at the west side of the More
head City Recreation building.
Floyd Stewart, treasurer, re
ported that cost of producing the
last play, See How They Run,
amounted to $203.33. Receipts
were $302. leaving a balance of
$09.62. The Carteret Business and
Professional Women's Club, he
said, was given a check for $100.
The club sponsored the play.
Publisher Makes
Changes in Staff
Miss Evelyn M. Westergard of
THE NEWS TIMES rcportorial
staff has Joined, part time, the ad
vertising staff to fill the vacancy
created by the resignation of Ralph
W. Albares.
Mrs. Joaeph DuBoii has been
added to the reportoriai staff and
will assist Miss Westergard in cov
erage of Morehead City and west
ern Carteret County social and
women's news. Lockwood Phillips,
publisher, announced yeaterday
Company Dinner
Employee# of the Morehead City
Garment Co. and invited guests will
attend a buffet dinner dance at 7:$0
Friday night at the Mow head City
Fisherman Suffers
Serious Loss . . .
R. T. Seism, Kings Mountain,
came to Morehead City Saturday
to go fishing ? and he went
home with less than he came
with.
Out with Capt. Darcy Willis
aboard Joy II, the waves began
to get a bit rocky and Fisherman
Seism leaned over the side to
whoops his cookies. He whoopsed
'em all right ? false teeth and
all.
So if anybody happens to pull
up a set of falsies on the end of
his line, please return to Mr.
Seism. He'th lotht wif'out 'em.
Scouts to Learn
Review Method
A dramatization of the troop
board of review will take place at
the Scouters' Roundtable Friday
night at the Morehead City Civic
Center.
All Carteret District Boy Scout
troops have been invited and Dr.
Henry Kritzlcr, advancement chair
man, and members of the district
advancement committee, with the
help of several Scouts, will show
how each troop can conduct its own
board of review.
Leaders have been urged to at
tend and qualify as trained in the
proper procedures of the board of
review.
Scoutmaster Gerald Davis and
members of Troop 334 have been
assigned the pre-opening period of
the Roundtable. Scoutmaster Carl
Chadwick and Troop 201 will put
on a first aid instruction and prac
tice period, and Scoutmaster
Charles Hassell and Troop 51 have
been given the opening and clos
ing ceremonies.
The roundtable will begin at
7:30 p.m.
Agriculture Council Demands Decent
Fair, Gives Legion One More Chance
Auto Accidents
Continue to Pile
Up on Weekend
6-Year-Old Negro Girl
Struck by Automobile
At North Harlowe
Auto accidents in the county con
tinued to stack up over the week
end. A 6-year-old Negro girl was
struck at 7 o'clock yesterday morn
ing on Highway 101 at North Har
lowe and was taken to Morehead
City Hospital in an unconscious
condition.
The child was Gale Viola Miller.
State Highway Patrolman W. E.
Pickard said that the child ran into
the right rear fender of a 1948
Ford being driven by Leo Thomas
Gaskins, Core Creek.
The patrolman said a Seashore
bus was stopped at the side of the
highway to pick up passengers and
the girl ran around the bus and
into the car as Gaskins was passing
the bus.
Car Hits Ditch
J. C. Fulcher, Stacy, escaped
without injury at 10:15 p.m. Sun
day when his car ran into a iitch
at Sea Level. Fulcher told Patrol
man Pickard that he swerved to
avoid hitting a skunk crossing the
highway and ran into the ditch
at the side of the road.
Fulcher, in a 1949 Pontiac, was
headed east. Damage to the car
was estimated at $250.
Treated at Hospital
John Wesley Taylor, Otway, was
treated at the Sea Level Hospital
and discharged Friday night after
the car he was driving ran into a
iitch at the intersection of the
Harkcrs Island Road and Highway
70.
Taylor was coming out of the
IVWiciB Road, crossed High
way 70, and hit thc^itrh. Eta?iag?
to the car, a 1946 Ford, was esti
mated at $150.
Taylor has been charged with
driving without an operator's li
cense and driving drunk.
Involved in the accident at 7:30
Wednesday night at the intersec
tion of the Pivers Island Road and
Highway 70, Beaufort, were Ros
coe M. Conway, route 1 Beaufort,
and James G. Ellison. Beaufort.
According to, Highway Patrolman
Pickard, Conway, in a 1953 Ford,
was struck from the rear by Elli
son, who was driving a 1950 Buick.
Both were headed west. The acci
dent occurred as Conway was try
ing to turn left into the Pivers
bland Road.
Both Cited
Damage to the Ford was esti
mated at $75 to $100. There was
no damage to the Buick. Conway
has been charged with failing to
give a hand signal and Ellison with
following too closely.
A 1954 Studebaker pickup truck
turned over at 3:15 p.m. last Mon
day on Highway 24 about 600 feet
west of the Broad Creek Bridge.
State Highway Patrolman R. H.
See ACCIDENTS, Page 6
They Lead the Band!
i Photo by Jerry Schumacher
Majorettes aad color twnn of the MorHKvl CKy Band who ssslated In rntslnf more than ISM b
the band drin Saturday arc aa hllm, front it* left to right: Novella Held, Kale Wlllla, Douxlaa Waal,
Virginia Morris, head nujerette, Jean Ingram, Mildred Whealtan. and Helen Carlton ; back row: Hlldn
Morton, Tarry Umt and Jean Banna. The band members. Direr tor Ralph Wade and members of the
H?hud Uty Bud Amaclalti thank all ifeena whn asnda the drln a success.
We're Mighty Proud!
National Uoaro Oi Fire Unduk wkitbr
cHonorcAward Citation
for
Outstanding Public Service
in Fire Prevention
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Presented this month to THE NEWS-TIMES was the framed citation pictured above. The citation,
self-explanatory, was delivered to the newspaper office by Russell G. Sherrill, chairman of the Stock
Fire Insurance Field Club of North Carolina. He made the presentation on behalf of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters. The contcst was nationwide, THE NEWS-TIMES being the only winning
weekly contestant in North Carolina.
Lions , Nurses to Raise
Money for Iron Lung
To raise money for an iron lung
the Morchead City Lions and the
Carteret County Nurses Associa
tion will sponsor a show featuring
local talent in February.
Members of the Lions Club are
now soliciting ads for the show
program and are appealing to
everyone to support the project,
either by taking an ad, buying a
ticket when tickets go on sale, or
taking part in the program. The
Lions and nurses won't object if <
folks do all three.
Proceeds will be used to pur
chase a lung which will be of aid
in various types of diseases where
artificial methods of respiration
are needed. The mechanism will
be available for use anywhere in
the county and for all persons.
Dates of the show are Thursday,
Feb. 16, in Beaufort and Friday,
Feb. 17, in More head City.
Chairman of the project is A. N.
Willis, Lions Club president. Mem
bers of his committee arc Victor
Wickizcr, James Crowe, J. G. Ben
nett. Mrs. Jack Morgan and Mrs.
W. J. I pock.
Present plans call for keeping
the iron lung at the Morehead City
Hospital. The amount of money
raised will help determine whether
the mechanism to be purchased
will be a stationary Irng or one
which can be used in an ambulance
or car for transporting a patient
from one hospital to another.
The project has been endorsed
by counfy doctors, police and fire
departments, Mr. Willis reported.
Mrs. Tressa Royal Vickers, More
head City, will direct the talent
show.
Attends Institute
W. C. Carlton of the Carteret
Craven Electric Membership Corp.,
Morehead City, participated in a
five-day EMC Management Insti
tute recently at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tid* Table
Ttdea at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuendajr, Nov. IS
8:33 a.m.
8:39 p.m.
2:24 a.m.
3:02 p.m.
WedMaday, Nov. 11
9:11 a.m.
8:41 p.m.
3:01 a.m.
3:41 p.m.
Thuraday, Nov. 11
9:40 a m.
10:2B p.m.
3:M a.m.
4:19 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 1*
10:2* a.m.
4:00 a.m.
11:11 p.m.
4:06 pjB.
r At a meeting 01 county agriculture leaders ana repre
sentatives of the American Legion, agreement was made
Thursday to attempt staging a county fair next year that
is truly educational and agricultural. The Legion, Carteret
Post No. 99, annually sponsors the Carteret County Fair
in Beaufort.
Members of the County Agriculture Council said they.
would cooperate with the Legion ^
one more year, but if the fair was
as indecent as it was this year they
would withdraw their cooperation
indefinitely.
It was agreed that council mem
bers would check on all midway en
tertainment and any shows found
obnoxious would be closed.
This agreement followed heated
discussion on six points proposed
by the council's fair committee.
The committee was composed of
B. J. May, chairman, R. M. Wil
liams, and Mrs. David Beveridge.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to Mr. Williams and Mrs.
Beveridge, were Thomas E. Kelly,
David Hill and C. L. Beam, repre
senting the American Legion; the
Rev W. T. Roberson, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Beaufort; the
Rev. J. D. Young, pastor of Ann
Street Methodist Church, Beau
fort.
Fred Lewis, teacher supervisor;
and the following council mem
bers: Mrs. Floy Garner, Alvin
Newsome, Howard Garner, Joseph
Owens, and Mrs. Margaret Gibson.
The fair committees' stipulations
are the following:
L A voice in selecting judges
for exhibits and making other
judging arrangements
2. Premiums to justify the time
spent in placing exhibits
3. Council members to have a
voice in selecting the carnival
4. Adequate and appropriate dis
play space
5. Enforcement of state and lo
cal laws on the fairgrounds
with officers on the grounds
at all time fulfilling their re
sponsibility of enforcing the
law
6. Entertainment must be accept
able, Otherwise the council
will withdraw its support in
definitely and will take action
to close the fair.
Itefends Premium*
Mr. Kelly maintained that the
prize money offered at the fair was
"in line" with amounts offered at
most other county fairs. He said
he had figures and lists to back his
statement.
Mrs. Garner, home agent, voiccd
approval of livestock premiums but
said the premiums on other exhi
bits are lower than in Beaufort
County. (No premium rates were
mentioned. An exhibitor who won
a blue ribbon at the fair several
years ago told us his premium was
25 cents ? which, incidentally, he
never received. ? Ed.)
Mr. Kelly said that the Legion
did everything possible to encour
See CAJCNIVAL8, Page 6
Storms Didn't Bother Him
? ?w m mum* r I ? ? ~t? ? i
J. F. Wlnberry, Cedar Point, dlaplaya hit, loharro before indlni
it U market. Irritation was responsible, he aaya, for good quality,
fiat growth and high yield.
miles east of Swansboro. reports
that his new irrigation system real
ly paid off when he marketed his
tobacco this fall.
Water that was applied five times
during the growing season pro
duced norms I growth of tobacco
on the Winbcrry farm, and was
all harvested prior to the hurri
canes. Dry weather conditions re
tarded tobacco growth on neigh
boring farms and a great deal of
that tobacco was destroyed during
the storms.
On an eight-acre allotment, Mr.
Winbtrry harvested 1,753% pounds
of good quality tobacco to the acre
and told it for $1,024.18 per acre.
He credit* the high yield (about
300 to 400 pounds mora than on
nimiiar larmsi ana mc gooa qual
ity, to the Irrigating. Money to put
the irrigation system in waa bor
rowed from the Farmer* Home Ad
minatration.
It haa been estimated that an
average of 800 pound* of tobacco
waa harvested per acre in his com
munity at the time the storms
?truck. Mr. Wlnberry figures that
he has more than paid for his irri
gation system this year in obtain
ing normal growth and being able
to harvest all of his tobacco be
fore the storms.
Sheldon Howard, Newport, has
been elected president o( the Stu
dent Government Association at
Mount OUve Collage, where be Is a
trash man
Mrs. W. I. Loftin
Will Supervise
'55 TB Seal Sale
Mrs. William I. Loftin, Beau
fort will serve as chairman of the
1955 Christmas seal sale to raise
funds for control of tuberculosis
in Carteret County.
The seal sale starts tomorrow.
Letters are being mailed through
out the county with sheets of seals
enclosed. Funds received will be
used to finance the visit of the
mobile x-ray unit again in 1956
and will finance health education
and research.
"These services carried on
throughout the United States by
the 3.000 voluntary tuberculosis
associations affiliated with the Na
tional Tuberculosis Association are
meshed with the work of the tax
supported institutions such as our
health department and hospitals.
Together they will bring about the
defeat of this disease. I am proud
to be associated with such an ef
fort," Mrs. Loftin declared.
Mrs. Loftin has issued an ap
peal for workers to help her pre
pare for the seal sale. She can be
contacted by phoning 2-7386.
In addition to her seal sale
chairmanship, Mrs. Loftin is a di
rector of the North Carolina So
ciety for Crippled Children, a dis
trict director of the Girl Scout
Council of Coastal Carolina, a Girl
Scout troop leader, member of the
Beaufort Woman's Club and vice
president of the Carteret B&PW
Club.
Officers Raid
655-Gallon Still
Another grandaddy-size still in
this area was put out of commis
sion between 2 and 3 a.m. Saturday
by Marshall Ayscue, county ABC
officer, and federal men. Two men,
a white man and a Negro, were
caught at the still which was lo
cated at Matthews Point in Craven
County.
Officer Ayscue ran after the
Negro, a man by the name of Fen
ner. and took him in tow and the
other officers caught the white
man who gave his name as Beale.
Several other operators cscaped.
At the OSS-gallon still 6 000 gal
lons of mash and 70 gallon* of
whisky were destroyed.
The operators ran the whisky
out by speedboat. The boat was
seized and taken to New Bern
where the two men were docketed
for trial in federal court.
Last Monday Officer Ayscue and
federal officers blew up a still at
Harlowc. The finished product
from that distillery was also taken
out by water A skiff seized in
that raid is being held by county
authorities.
Adult Farmers
Hear Agronomist
G. D. McCart, agronomist for
the soil testing diviaion of the
State Department of Agriculture,
Raleigh, spoke on Interpretation
of Soil Teats at the meeting of the
Newport Adult Farmer Association
Tuesday night at the Newport
School.
Mr. McCart, introduced by pro
gram chairman C. S. Long, inaiat
ed that Carteret County farmers
use the soil testing division in or
der that "guessing" be eliminated
in selecting fertilizers for the va
rious crops and In the use of lime
for specified fielda and
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