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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 ArMMUU St Mortk*^ City Pkooa 6-4175 S ^ _ r? . 44th YEAR. MO. 92. TWO SECTIONS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AXD BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS T~ Christmas Lights To Go on Dec. 1 In Morehead Cty The Christmas lights in More head City will be on Dec. 1, ac cording to an announcement by Luther Lewis at the weekly meet ing of the Morehead City Jaycees Monday night ' at the Hotel Fort Macon. Mr. Lewis said that the lights would be installed through the assistance of several employees of Carolina Power and Light Co. Llewellyn Phillips, winner of the Voice of Democracy contest at the Morehead City School Friday, was presented with a certificate and a $25 savings bond by president Russell Outlaw, after lie delivered his prize-winning speech. James Webb was appointed chairman of the annual party held by the Jaycees every Christmas for children. L. G. Dunn, Dr. Outlaw, P. H. Geer Jr., and Luther Lewis spoke on the second , quarterly district meeting in Goldsboro last week end. They all said that the ap pearance of Gov. Luther Hodges came as a surprise and that he was highly in favor of the Jaycees project of bringing more small businesses to North Carolina. Jerry Willis reported that the Jaycees assisted in the unloading of the surplus foodstuffs at the curb market in Morehead City and that the group had been thanked by Miss Georgie Hughes, county welfare superintendent. Mr. Dunn reported that Jaycees and Principal Lenwood Lee of the Morehead City School transported bleachers to Swansboro for the Eagles-Wallace game. Russ Willan reported that the Little League signs and equipment will be stored in the shack at the Camp Glenn Field. The Jaycee football banquet of the club will probably be held the first week in December, ac cording to Chairman James Macy. Still at Airport Raided Tuesday This has been a bad month for stills ? the thifrd in this area was blown up Tuesday morning at 9:30 near the Beaufort-Morehead Air port. The 175-gaIlon rig was located right near the end of the runway on the north side of the airport, Marshall Ayscue, county ABC offi cer, reported. As far as can be learned, the hooch wasn't being taken out by plane; this was another water op eration. The two large stills raided earlier this month, moved their fin ished product out by water. Found at the still were 500 gal lons of mash and six gallons of whisky. The still had been run during the night, Officer Ayscue said. It was well-camouflaged, covered with nets and branches of trees. Officers making the raid, in ad dition to the ABC officer, were Sheriff Hugh Salter, Deputy Sheriff Bobby Bell. Chief Guy Springlc of Beaufort and federal, officers. Nov. 30 Has Been Set as Deadline For Applications Until Wednesday, Nov. 30, the county welfare office will accept applications for surplus foods to be sent here in December. Miss Georgie Hughes, superintendent of the welfare department, says that approximately 70 new applications have been received to date. Persons who received the fed eral foods in November need not apply again. Local committees will check on their status and if they are found to be in need of food, the welfare department will send them their eligibility card. The cards were collected Nov. 10 when the first shipment of food was distributed. If the family's financial status has improved, the card will not be issued again. After Nov. 30, the welfare de partment will accept no more ap plications for the federal commo dities to be distributed in Decem ber. Tide Table Tide* at Ike Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Nov. IS 10:28 a.m. 11:11 p.m. 4:00 a.m. 4:39 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1> 11:08 a m. 11:37 p.m. 4:36 a.m. 3:31 p.m. Sunday, Nov. U 11:47 a.m. 9;06 a.m. 1:11 p.m. Monday, Nov. SI 12:40 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 3:44 a.m. 7:06 p.m. Tueaday, Nov. 22 1:24 a.m. 1:16 p.m. 7:01 a.m. 8:10 p.m. i Civil Defense OK's $85,605 for Beaufort Menhaden Boats Pile Up On Taylors Creek Shoals Federal Civil Defense has ap-+ proved a sum of $85,905 for Beau fort's repair of hurricane damage. Notification of approval of funds up to that amount was received by Mayor Clifford Lewis Monday. Beaufort, after lone, revised the request made after Connie and Diane, and the revised request amounted to $102,205. A cut was anticipated, but Beau fort officials are pleased that Civil Defense authorities have seen fit to approve about 80 per cent of their request. Dan Walker, town clerk, said that the approval means that the town can use up to $85,605 for making repairs. He said that after Haiel the total amount approved by Civil Defense was not needed and emphasized that none of the money comes into the town's hands except that used to reim burse the town for expense in cleaning up debris or other work actually done by the town. On all other jobs, which require contracting, the contractor is paid directly by the federal govern ment. None of the money passes through hands of town officials. The town of Morehead City re ceived federal approval Nov. 7 for expenditures of $59,956 to repair municipal property damaged by Hurricanes Connie, Diane and lone. Ocracoke Club Hears State's Report on Road Nov. 14- The Ocracoke Civic Club at its November meeting to night heard letters of assurance from State Highway officials that the Ocracoke road contract is very near to the stage of being adver tised for bids. Final surveys for drainage hav ing been completed week before la?t, it was confirmed that all in formation necessary for drawing up the plana and contract are now in the hands of the highway de partment. Location surveys made in the early summer have been since then revised in the light of sea action observed in connection with the series of hurricanes Connie, Dianne. and lone in August and September, two specific relocations having been determined, each se curing a more favorable route for the highway. J. Emmett Winslow, commis sioner of the First Division, ex pressed his hope that the work "will be done so you can be using it sometime next summer." In the absence but on the au thority of Hazen Brooks, National Park Ranger, the rehabilitation and preservation of the old Navy Docks and building on Silver Lake harbor here have reached the mapping st?ge. Congressman Her bert C. Bonner wrote explaining in detail the careful study of tim ber preservation that has been un dertaken by the Park Service in this connection. ' A report was heard from the Federal Civil Defense Administra tion regarding the recent alloca tion by Hyde County authorities of 30 hours of mosquito spraying on Ocracoke at a total cost of $830 The Federal Civil Defense Admin istration reported this approach to the problem in lieu of machine fogging. It was further reported that this is almost certainly the last mosquito-abatement work that will be approved before the onset of the winter season, when nature renders the pests inactive. The problem of community rec reation waa discussed at length, and various specific suggestions made for further consideration. Members enjoyed beef stew pre pared and served by a galley crew consisting of Monford Garrish, Charlie Ahman, Taft Howard, Lawrence Ballancc, and T. Rond thaler. 556 X-Ray? Taken When Mobil* Trailer Wat H?r? When the mobile x-ray trailer wm in the county last week 556 x-ray* were taken. The county health department sent notices to all residents who were eligibla for the x-rays. They were persona who had an arrested case of TB, who hsd been in con tact with TB patients or were otherwise considered susceptible to the disease. Ilasrr Tomorrow A round and square dance to the music of Happy Jack Smith and the Carolina Ramblers will be held at the American Legion Hut just west of Morehead City tomorrow night starting at 8 o'clock. The dance is being sponsored by the Legion. IMPENDING DOOM Am ouloc bonk* highway would b? th? ?no and BEST way to koop this diko undor tho^\ watchfulnoss of tho public oyo. Cost of construction por milo on tho banks it $17,000 at against from $70,000 to $230,000 par milo in tho mountain*. THI FACT it that such ? highway could bo robuift, in port, annually and tho ovorail cost would bo far lots than tho mountain highways. Our highway onginoors can build tunnols through mountains, bridgo valloys and gorgat, sponding millions, yot thoy will not tocklo a Soashor* High way. Othar states havo, v/hy not North Carolina? Our nation I ponds millions annually for flood control on 1 i M I ? known rivors and obscuro crooks but spends poanuts to hold back * tho invasion at tho MIOHTY ATLANTICI C r > atoftW -KX.tWXXX.SCiP North Carolina Will Profit From New Fishery Projects North Carolina fisheries will benefit from two new programs an nounced this week at a meeting of the Atlantic States Marine Fish eries Commission, Virginia Beach. A new Fish and Wildlife Re search vessel will assist in a shrimp exploration program beginning at Cape Hatteras and extending to Cape Canaveral and a committee has been named to work on a pro posal to study the blue crab. The research vessel will be a new one, named fhe George M. Bowers, 73 feet long and powered with twin diesels. It is expected to go into operation within the next few weeks. Based at Miami, the Bowers will be engaged primarily in gear re search. Use of underwater tele vision during the past year has shown scientists that more effec tive trawls can be designed. Stewart Springer, chief, explora tory fishing and gear development section, F&WLS, said "A critical and narrow range of speed, prob ably varying with different rigs, apparently is necessary for maxi mum efficency." He said observations indicated that shrimp trawls leap-frogged over the bottom when going too fast and failed to open fully when going too slow. New Device A telemetering device has been developed to show depths at which nets operate. It is expected to be important in shrimp trawl, re search, showing when and how long trawls work on the bottom in deep water. Appointed to a committee to spearhead the blue crab study were* directors of fishery laboratories from Maryland through Florida. It was suggested that the committee seek federal funds to finance the study. Stirling Harris, of the Blue Channel Corp., packers of crab meat, said crabbers do not know whether they should stop taking egg bi anng crabs. Hauls Increase Between 1931 and 1953 hauls from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts have Increased 79 per cent. The number remaining, he said, may be diminishing. Crabbing hauls in the winter and spring of 1955 were very poor, he said. Many crabbing establishments had to suspend operation. "We must be able to predict a constant supply of crabs, if the industry is to flourish," he added. New developments in the can ning and freezing of crabs pave the way lor a larger industry. How ever, adequate plans cannot be made without knowledge of the supply fluctuations from year to year and the general trend in crab numbers. Appointed to the crab committee were Dr. A. F. Chestnut, head of the Institute of Fisheries Re search, UNC; Dr. Eugene G. Cronin, Maryland; Dr. J. L. Mcllugh, Vir ginia; Robert Lunz, South Caro lina, and a Florida scientist. Reports Given Reports on the striped bass pro gram were given by Dr. William E. Fahy, Institute of Fisheries Re See FISHERIES, Page 6 News in a Nutshell INTERNATIONAL The meeting of ministers o United States. France, England ant Russia, the "Big Four," ended it failure at Geneva. Switzerland Wednesday. The conference failed to solve the problem of reunitinf Germany or improving relations be tween Communist nations and th< free world. Israel has asked the Unitec States for weapons to defend itsell in the clash with Egypt. Egypt hai been receiving arms from Com munist nations. The United Statei has said it is willing to supply armi for defense but will not support ar arms race. France has conceded to Moroc can demands and returned to th< throne of Morocco this week Sul ton Ben Youssef who was exiled to Madagascar two years ago. Argentina again has a new presi dent. Lonardi, who took over aftei Dictator Peron was overthrown, ha! been replaced by a colleague, Maj Gen. Pedro Aramburu The new president, closely aligned with the military, is reported to be tougher and less "middle-of-the-road" than Lonardi. Brazil Is also having preaidenl troubles. They started when Presi dent Joao Cafe Filho went on alch leave. Carlo* da Lib, a temporary successor, waa ousted last week. NATIONAL Adlai E. Stevenson, former gov ernor of Illinois, wbo was U>? de foatod Democratic candidate for [ President in 19S2, announced Tues | day that he will seek the 1986 Dem , ocratic presidential nomination. [ President Dwight Eisenhower ar . rived at his (arm at Gettysburg, ! Pa.. Monday to begin "active re . cuperation" from his Sept. 24 heart attack. I John G. Graham, 23-year-old Den [ ver restaurant worker, admitted , Monday that he rigged a dynamite . bomb which blew up a United Air , Lines plane Nov. 1. Killed in the , crash were Graham's mother and i 43 others. STATE Gov. and Mrs. Luther Hodges ' sailed from Wilmington yesterday - on the Swedish-American liner, I Stockholm, bound for Bermuda. The Stockholm will leave Wilming ton on a cruise to the Caribbean - Nov. 23. 1 Prices continued to decline on - flue-cured tobacco this week on the ' Middle and Old belts. Losses on ? the Old Belt were mostly $1 to $4 ? and centered on leaf and lugs. North Carolina Baptist*, in ses sion at Asheviile this week, gave 1 their seven colleges throughout the ' state the authority to act as they : see fit ia admitting Negro students. i ___ The resignation of Gordon Gray, president of the University of North Carolina, has been accepted - by the board of trustee*. The act ? ing president is Dr. J. II. Purk*. FFA to Take Part In Contest Today Newport chapter, Future Farm ers of America, will take part in the Federation Parliamentary Pro cedure contest today at 2 p.m. in rs of the team repress ing Newport arc Albert Wallace, president; Allen Ray Garner, vice president; Gerald Miller, secretary; Billy Simmons, treasurer; Clayton Howard, acting reporter; Eugene Edwards, acting sentinel, and C. S. Lcng, adviser. Five other chapters will partici pate in the contest. The following FFA program of work committee chairmen have been appointed: Allen Ray Garner, supervised practice; Gerald Miller, coopera tive activities; Billy Simmons, home and community service; Al bert Wallace, leadership; Clayton Howard, earnings and savings. Eugene Edwards, conduct of I meetings; Curtis Jpnes, scholar ship; Joe Howard, recreation; Tom my Garner, publicity, and Donald Haskett, general. The annual program of work is complete and a copy has been sent to T. B. Elliott, district super-! visoi for District 1. Winds Push Boats Aground inSound Stifl southwest winds pushed several boats up on a shoal in Bogue Sound, west of the Atlantic Beach draw Wednesday night. At 4:43 p.m. the Gink II, head ing south, waa blown on a shoal and had to be rescued by the Coast Guard. The 40-foot utility boat from Fort Macon. BM 1, Lloyd Brown in command, got the Gink off at 5:13 p.m. and towed her to the Morehead City Yacht Basin. The Gink, a 30-foot boat, waa owned by Harry Pardee of Penn sylvania. Another boat, anchored nearby the Gink tried to get her off but lost ita skiff, then the Coast Guard retrieved that. Later the Coast Guard rescue boat pulled off three fishing boats and a tug puahing a barge. All were blown out of the channel. The Coast Guardsmen finally called it a day and turned in about midnight. Girl Scout Leader Course Will Start Monday Girl Scout troop leaders and women interested In starting a troop, as well at mothers of Girl Scouts, are invited to attend the Girl Scout Leader training course Monday and Tuesday at the Scout building, Beaufort. The sessions will last from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Persons attending should bring their lunch. Mrs. W. I. l,oftln, member of the Girl Scout Council of Coastal Carolina said she hopes to organise a Negro Girl Scout troop ana any Negro women interested are welcome to attend the training court*. A News-Times to Go To Press Early Because of Thanksgiving next week. THE NEWS-TIMES of Fri day, Nov. 25, will be delivered Thursday morning, Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day. The paper will go to press late Wednesday. Deadline for classified ads will be 1 p.m. Wednesday. THE NEWS-TIMES office will be closed Thanksgiving Day but will be open as usual Friday, Nov. 25. Jean Pittman Wins $25 Bond Jean Pittman of Merrimon was announced as the winner of the Voice of Democracy contest con ducted by the Beaufort Jaycees at the meeting at the Inlet Inn Monday. Jack McManus, chairman of the contest, announced that Miss Pitt man will receive a $25 savings bond and a certificate. Dick Babcock submitted his res ignation as secretary of the club and L. D. Springle was elected to fill the unexpired term of office. A committee under the direc tion of Ronald Earl Mason, with members Haywood Snell, Frank Langdale and L. D. Springle, will make plans for a minstrel show, with all proceeds to go for fixing the Scout Building. The club also voted to raise the rent on the Scout Building for any group interested in renting the building from $5 to $10 a night. A Christmas committee, with James Steed as chairman, was ap pointed for the sale of light bulbs. Members of the committee are Billy Davis. Haywood Snell and Dick Babcock. A committee was also appointed for the annual Distinguished Ser vice Award and the Key Man se lections. Chairman of the com mittee is Mr. McManus and mem bers arc R. E. Mason and Joe Long. Down East Lions Elect Officers Officers of the Down East Lions Club of Atlantic and Sea Level were elected Monday night at the meeting of the club at Sea Level. The new officers are Jack W. Johnson, president; Joe Mason Jr., first vice-president; Harry Fulcher, second vice-president; Aldridge Daniels, third vice-president; El dred G. Taylor, secretary; Ralph G. Gaskill, Lion tamer; Charles G. Morris, tail twister; Donald Clark, firvin Gary Morris, Clayton Ful cher Jr., and John C. Hamilton, (tvectora. ? v Uso attending were the follow ing Lions dignitaries: Norman Trueblood, state secre tary, Elizabeth City; J. L. Coving ton, deputy district governor, Jacksonville; Owens Frederick, zone chairman, Morchead City. Visiting Lions included K. I). Thompson, president; J. Hugh Rich, George Simpson, Everett Lumpkin and George D. Walton, all of Jacksonville; A. N. Willis,] president; Elmer Watson, James Crowe, J. G. Bennett, Oscar All red and Joe DuBois, all of More head City. Charter night will be held in January at which time the officers will be formally installed and the club's charter presented by state officials. For the installation a dinner meeting is planned to which the ladies and visiting Lions will be invited. President Johnson, with the una nimous consent of the club, an nounced that the group's first money making project will be a square dance. All money raised will go towards equipping the new fire truck which the club hopes to obtain in the near future. Freighter Due The S.S. Tuebingen is due at the state port, Morehead City tomor row or Sunday. It will come here from Norfolk to pick up a load of tobacco for Hamburg, Germany. What's Going to Happen When Spring Really Comes? Fanners arc holding their breath ?with little green apples and pears on fruit trees, what is going to happen in April when spring really cornea? Backyard flower gardens are blooming as they do after the cold winter, the pear and apple trees in blossom several weeks ago have now put forth young fruit. The hurricanes have gotten Nature up set as well as man. ' The atorms stripped the trees of foliage several times. Then an awfully warm fall encouraged growth. So here (he coast sits on the edge of a predicted cold spell with fruit trees producing over time and large butterfliea drift ing on light breezes. S. D. Weeks, Crab Point, who ia also a tender on the Morehead City draw bridge has a pear tree that bloomed four times this year. A aecond blooming took place fol lowing a spring freoe and It haa bloomed twice this fall. R. M Williams, county farm agent, who Is quite interested in this unusual situation, saya the pear tree ia the Keifer variety. Tan years old. It baa burn* pea rs each year for the seven years pre vious to this. Eight and one-half bushels were harvested last fall. Stanley Gilllkln, Bettie, reports small green apples arc on his trees, and other owners of fruit trees report the same. If students of horticulture have observed such unseasonal growth before, maybe they can predict what will happen next growing season. What with the freniied growing this year, orchards and flowers may Just take it easy in 1996. Bob Montagu* Speaks To Rotarians Monday Bob Montague spoke on how to Join the Rotary Club at the week ly meeting of the Newport Rotary Club Monday night at the Com munity. Building. Mr Montague stated that a man can't Just present himself for mem bership but must be admitted through proper channels. Guests at the meeting included More head City Rotarians Gerald Mitchell, W. C Matthews Jr . and Barnard Lea ry. lien uciiuiuuu ui iiv ?* o can be written in Beaufort. "When a menhaden boat jrets throuRh Taylor's Creek, that's news!" One boat, the John 0, went aground Monday night and the next night, six went aground. All boats, fishing for Beaufort Fish eries. were headed east on Taylor't Creek, bound for the factory. Their forward motion slogged sickeningly to a stop on the lumps and humps in the channel about op posite the Beaufort postoffice. The vessels, converted mine sweepers, simply cannot navigate the channel, whether heavily load ed or light. The channel in some spot* is only 5 feet deep. Army engineers informed W. H. Potter, manager of Beaufort Fish eries. that bids on dredging the creek to a depth of 12 feet would be opened yesterday. In about 20 days a dredge is expected to be here. Funds Appropriated Fishing interests have been try ing for years to have the creek deepened but funds were not ap propriated for the project until this past July. On Oct. 6 Mayor Clifford Lewis received a letter from Col. R. L. Hill of the Wilmington District, Corps of Army Engineers, asking the town to designate spoilage areas. The town fathers considered placing some of the spoilage on the north side of the channel but in certain places the edge of the land is so close to the channel that the pumpcd-up material would have sloughed back into the chan nel. Since the shifting of the pipes and pontoons from one side of the channel to the other in order to accomplish the build-up on the north side would cause undue de lay in deepening the channel, the town board decided that all of the spoilage should be placed on Bird Shoal and Carrot Island on the south side. Signatures Needed Beios^ tij# board could notify the Corps of ErtfKieerx of this de cision, the property owners of Bird Shoal and Carrot Island had to sign an agreement releasing the town and the* federal government from any responsibility for dam ages which may arise as the result of depositing the spoilage. By Oct. 20, all names had been obtained and the town board pass ed a formal resolution designating the spoilage areas. The resolution was sent off the next day and was returned because of insufficient postage, but it finally reached Colonel Hill. The dredge, expected early in December, will start at Beaufort Fisheries and work westward to the foot of Queen Street, then it will start from the factory again and proceed east. 650,000 Aboard The John O had 890,000 men haden aboard when jt ran aground at 6:30 p.m. Monday! It didn't get off until 7:30 the next morning. Because of the delay, about 20 per cent of the cargo had spoiled. At 8:30 Tuesday night, the Aleu tian Mail, lightly loaded, ground to a halt, but got off on a rising tide. Then the Lynn Anne John O, Charlotte T, Eleanor M, and Pauline all ran aground. At that point. Mr. Potter called Capt. Charlie Piner of the tug Manic and the tug pulled the John O and Lynn Anne free. Those two boats, plus the Pauline, all lost a day fishing as a result of the grounding. Damage to their engines, wheels, and bottoms haa not yet been determined. Mr. Potter said Wednesday that if anybody wanted to are a "Car teret County scrape" they had only to come to Beaufort Tuesday night and go down to Front Street where the boats were hard aground. Apologliing for his 15-cent words. Mr. Potter said. "And a Carteret County scrape is the epitome of error!" The boats had to stay in Wednes day and Thursday because of a strong southwester. Blown Fum Affecti Power Flow Wodnosday A 33,000-volt fuse blew in the Beaufort power sub-station Wed nesday afternoon and caused a de crease in power flow In the Beau fort area from 9:19 until about 6 p.m. George Stovall. manager of Carolina Power and Light Co., an nounced yesterday that there will be an outtage In Beaufort from 8 to 7:30 a.m. Sunday, weather per mitting Areas to be affected are Tollock from Broad to Front; Ann Street between Pollock and Queen, and Queen Street between Ann and Front. The outtage la HOMiaqr to re pair damage caused by the recent storms. 1
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