W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ""
44th YEAR: NO. 108. BIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1?66 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Babson Says Eisenhower Will
Run; Predicts Good Business
(Edit or 'i Note: Roger W Babson, noted financier and bwineu
forecaster, in the following paragraph!, give* hii prediction* for the
12 month* of ltM).
1. If no unforeaean event hap
pens, President Eisenhower will
be re nominated and re-elected in
1956.
2. The Republican party has an
excellent chance of winning in
IBM with President Eisenhower
making a few key speeches and
promising to be an active part of
the Administration. He is trained
to take responsibility and enjoys
it; but the President fhould be
relieved of speech making, enter
taining, and much of the detail
work which goes with being Presi
dent.
3. Competition will be very se
vere in ISM, and with few excep
tions will cause business profits
to be less in 19M than in 1955
Too many manufacturers, not satis
fied with their present good busi
ness, are starting to make other
products and undercut standard
prices.
4. Higher wages may also be ex
pected in 19M, and these could
reduce profits. These higher
wages, however, will largely be
spent and should increase retail
sales.
5. Increased advertising appro
priations will be Men in 1056 In
fact, advertising appropriations for
newapapers, magazines, televiaion,
radio, and billboard* have helped
our proaperity, or it would not
have lasted through 1955.
6. The recent policy of the
money managers in the direction
of "squeeie" will be shifted to
"ease" sometime in 1956. This re
versal could put a floor under any
busineaa decline that may* start
next year.
7. Liberal credits to the pur
chaaers of houaes, automobiles,
washing machines, televisions, and
various other things have bol
atered prosperity and will continue
to be a strong support to many
industries, through 1956 at least.
8. If the Republicans are re
elected in 1956, great sums will
continue to be spent on research
and new plant expansion. The ef
fect could well be another "turn
up" in the Babaonchart Index of
Business.
9. Despite the decline in family
formations, the baby boom will
roll merrily on through 1956. The
reason: More parents are willing
to have four, five, and even more
youngsters. The result: A tremen
dous, sustained demand for *11
kinds of necessities housing, food,
clothing, new schools, etc.
10. AU told. I look for 1(M to
be the second best business year
in history? just a shade off from
IMS Predicted declines in the
key auto and residential building
industries will largely be offset by
rising expenditures for roads,
sewers, and schools -and by in
creased demand for electricity, na
tural gas, and foods.
REAL ESTATE
11. The main handicap to retail
business in 1956 will be intensi
fication of the parking nuisance,
but this is getting so terrible that
a revolutionary solution may be
in sight. Shopping centers are a
partial remedy and will help su
burban property. But only 15' > of
the people will live in the suburbs
in 1856.
12. Cities will condemn old
buildings and provide thousands of
parking lots in 1956. As this is
done, city property will again come
back Until then we see no price
improvement during 1956 in city
business property.
13. Building costs will average
higher through at least the first
half of 1956. This means that few
er homes may be built next year.
14 With demand falling and
money more expensive, speculative
builders of new homes will have
to watch their step more closely
in 1956 than in any year since the
ending of World War II.
15. Duplex dwellings will prob
ably continue in demand through
the whole of 1956 if they are well
located. The limiting of rents will
probably be totally abolished dur
ing 1956.
16. With the trend of vacancies
showing a tendency to rise, own
ers of the newer and more costly
apartment buildings will find their
profit margins squeezed harder in
1956 than at any time in recent
years.
17. Commercial farms need not
suffer during 1956. Increased ef
ficiency and new machinery should
offset price declines.
18. Owners of small scattered
farms will suffer during 1956.
They have not the volume or cap
ital to cut their costs to offset the
reduced prices for their crops.
19. Farmers within ten or fif
teen miles of a city can "beat the
game" by selling out at the in
creased prices which their land
will bring for subdivisions. Many
more well-located close-in farms
See FORECAST, Page 3
Newport FFA
Wins Recognition
The Newport chapter. Future
Farmers of America, recently re
ceived a national chapter certifi
cate. The certificate wa? presented
to the chapter by T. B. Elliott, dis
trict supervisor vocational agricul
tural education.
This award was based on the de
gree af achievements of the chap
ter in meeting approved standards
and in carrying out a program of
work iA 1965.
The National Chapter Award
gives recognition to local chap
ters of Future Fartneri of Amer
ica for accomplishing outstanding
programs of activities a ad pro
viding valuable education exper
iences for the entire membership,
explains C. S. Long, advisor. The
award is administered by the Na
tional Board of Student Officers
and the National Board of Direc
tors of the Future Farmers of
America.
FiJ* types of awards are pro
vided Jby the National organisation
Newport received the standard
award. The chapter hopes to cam
the superior award in tS36.
C. L. Pake Jr.
Escapes injury
Charles L Pake Jr., student at
Chowan College, who is home for
the holidays, waa involved in a
wreck on the Lennoxville Road at
1:40 p.m. Suaday.
Pake escaped injury when the
1BB3 Chevrolet be was driving
turned over near Hack's beer gar
den. Pake was traveling west. He
has been charged with careless and
reckless driving, causing an acci
dent.
According to Beaufort Police
Officer Mack Wade, Pake lost con
trol of the car, graxed a bumper
of a parked car at Maek'a, swerved
over to the south side of the road,
tore off a guy wire on a power
pole and upset. The car landed on
its top.
Officer Wade said damage to the
pole caused WBXA to be off the
air for a short while. The car waa
demolished. ?
Pake was alone in the ear. Hii
home is at Lennoxville.
In th? Spotlight
Pappy Fulcher, Nearing 80
Believes in Keeping Busy
< Editor's Note: This is another
in the series of articles on Car
teret personalities).
By HAL SHAPIRO
"From the 'tops of the treetops'
to the bed of the ocean," J. H.
(Pappy) Fulcher of Morehead
City has earned a living. He is a
firm believw la isllini out ani
ui a? '
Soon
July 10 to I
working to
old, next
ipy, as he
U known, has
kacn * jack of
all trades most
of his lifetime.
H e,|?ts the
m o st pleasure
now ftom his
garden.
A n a 1 1 v e of
Carteret County,
uvi ii in isavis, lie muveu 10 more
head City with hie family when
he was a year old.
He iaid, "I got me in a little
paid schooling plus a little free
schooling and started working
when I was 12 years old."
Worked la Flak Houses
His first jobs were in the fall
of the year working in the fish
houses hereabout! for S cents an
hour on the day shift and 6 cents
working nights.
That summer he also sold pa
pers at the Atlantic Beach Hotel
handling the Richmond Dispatch.
The Washington (D.C.) Post and
the Kinston Free Press.
At the age of 19 he joined Alf
Dixon on a party boat as handy
boy. He baited hooks for the
sports fishermen.
By the time he was 18 Pappy,
who is a traditional figure on the
Morehead waterfront, had his own
boat and was made a sailboat cap
tain . As a matter of fact he lays
claim to being the oldest licensed
captain on the Atlantic coaat. On
April 11 of next year he will have
been a captain for 90 years.
Hi* boat, which is still used
through tM spring, summer and
fall for parties, is the Lualma and
was built? believe it or not? in
187*. Captain Fulcher stated that
he has "retouched her" on various
occasions and the eng'ne in her
News in a Nutshell
INTERNATIONAL
TEMPORARY ARMISTICE was
called in the Holy Land to allow
pilgrims to vWt the shrines of
Christendom. Arab-Jew feudi hare
been making a mockery of the an
gel chonu, "Peace on oarth good
will U) MOT."
IN THE PAS EAST South Ko
reans and CMaaarCbmmuniat gun
boats traded Are Sunday hi the
Yellow Sea. South Korea says the
CommunMa seised four of their
Coeat Quaril? in.
NATMMLf '
TRAFT1C DEATH!* for the
Christinas weekend aet a new
record. Ml. Deaths predicted were
MO.
prksidcnt EISENHOWER and
his family ipMtCMilaas M the
White House.' 4fce day ?aa high
lighted by hfi three oldest grand
children singing * carol, a tufkey
dinner and the family's flrit for
mal portrait in the President's
Washington residence.
WEST COAST FLOODS made
Christmas dismal for many resi
dents la Oregon and California.
DMMng snow and haavjr raina
caoaed tbouaands to flw Mr
homes ,
WAKE ItMtEST COLLEGE trus
tees hare called off an krveatiga
Hon of Dr. Harold Tribble, college
president and his administration
Opponents of the president say
they're not satisfied with the out
come.
DIXIE CLASSIC basketball tour
nament opens Thursday it William
NmI Reynolds CoUaauar atlUflMi
Photo by Jarry Schumacher
Pappy Fulcher
. . . been puty-boatin' for yean
now is the eighth since he ob
tained her.
From 1>12-1(18 Pappy ran a
wholesale fish business in More
head City. Ha knows all aspccts
of the fishing business.
Jack of All Trades
He is a painter, carpenter, cook,
gardener, as well as an avid col
lector of seaahells In his heme on
N. 6th Street in Morehead City he
has one of the most beautiful col
lections of native seashells in this
area.
lieferring (o his gardening, he
said. "I have the prettiest collards
la the county." He not only has
pretty collards, but his rutabaga
and other crops are beautiful
enough t? be pictured in a seed
catalog.
Pappy, who has worked bard all
his life, and still finds plenty to
keep himself occupied, believes he
has a perfect philosophy, "Drink
plenty of milk and keep a clear
His friends are numbered among
both rich and poor. "If a man
conies to me hungry, you can be
rest assured I'll feed him," ?yi
the venerable sea captaia.
Pappy waa first tnarrM to Min
nie Cox of Oaalow County and
th-v had two children. Hie first
wife and both children have died.
From his marriage to Ujeretia
Nelson, which has laated thus far
41 j "ears, ha has five children
They art sea*, Hubert and Joseph
M., daughters Mrs. Sara Frances
Bowers ted Mrs Mary Louise Rich,
sll of Mil s> sad Ctty, and Mrs
Besaie Roandtree ot Hyde County.
In his seafaring days Pappy
recollected. whUe fishing, that he
fefl overboard and ice was float
lad' all around kim. Us alao re
memben the days when he used to
row boat* from Morehcad City to
Cape Lookout on all-night fish
ing partiea.
It's Not Buy
As he worded It, "Following the
sea isn't always a bed of rosea.
I've been through squalls, storms,
typhoons, (ales and the like, and
there have keen many times when
I went two or three days without
sleep."
Another pastime which he en
joyed waa hunting for redhead
ducks. That's how he made a liv
ing between the ages of 25 and
35. Pappy banted the redheads for
four winters.
At present, besides bis garden
and scashell collecting, he puts in
shrubbery for people around town.
He Just doesn't like to be Idle
Pappy la the only remaining
member of his family, sine* both
his slaters and his brother, a* well
as hia parents, have paaaed away.
Believing that honesty is the
best policy. Pappy has returned
ail sorts sf Items lost by people
ia town. He has sharp ayes for
finding things. As he said, "As
loog sa there's a name la the Item
I return It aa aoon aa I can. I've
returned six walleta that I've
found. My conaeteace sura would
have bothered me If ! hadn't
Commenting on the way thing*
have changed In the years that
ha haa been growing older Pappy
said. "I recollect bvying a dog
Brownie, about 14 years ago far
11, sad of that amount I owed the
man 91. Brownie Is now dead, and
about a year ago I went up to Ra
leigh to buy another pup and he
cost me (M Times sure have
changed!"
Four Prisoners Break Out
Of County Jail Friday
Engineers Will
Ask for Bids
On Two Projects
Barden's Inlet from Back
Sound to Lookout Bight
To be 7 Feet
Wilmington ? The dredging of
two waterways important to fish
ing and aports craft in the Car
teret-Pamllpo Counties area has
been scheduled by the Corps of
Engineers' Wilmington Diatrict.
Invitations for bids will go out
Jan. 10 to deepen and widen Bar
den's Inlet from Back Sound to
Lookout Bight to 7 feet by 100
feet, and a 1,300 foot channel at
Oriental 10 feet deep and vary
ing in width from 170 feet to 300
feet.
The work will begin approxi
mately 30 days after the low bid
der has been determined with 75
days allowed to complete each pro
ject.
The Barden's Inlet job involves
a channel some 12,000 feet long.
This work will bring the inlet to
7 by 100 feet which was authorized
in 1937, but which, because of the
lack of funds, has been maintained
at only 5 feet by about 50 feet.
It is not only a short cut to the
ocean for Core Sound navigators,
but also an escape route home
when storma approach. The 5-foot
channel was completed in 1938 and
to date has coat a total of $24,676.
Work was done recently on that
channel by the Carteret Dredging
Co. That work consisted of remov
ing three shoal areas which cov
ered a total distance of 3,000 feet.
Current plans say bids will be
asked later this month to build a
rubble-mound breakwater at Orien
tal to protect the harbor and part
,o( the entrance channel. The
'ftrtakv^er WUI*}*ijffn oti'thfTmain
land and extend some 800 feet in
a southwesterly direction. The
channel project was authorized in
1910 and was completed shortly
afterwards at a cost of $14,471.
Santa Claus
Visits Swansboro
The eighth annual Christmas
Tree celebration for Swansboro
and surrounding communities took
place in Swansboro Friday night.
Gifts were given to all children
attending. Sponsor of this year's
event was the Hen's Club of
Swansboro.
The program for the party in
cluded numbers by the Swansboro
High School Band under the di
rection of L. W. Edmonds.
They played March by Normal
Bennett; March, The Thunderer
by Sousa; Yuletide, S ketch er, and
Frosty the Snowman.
The Junior High Glee Club and
the audience, under the direction
of Mary Kietiman, sang Christmas
carols.
Santa Claus made his appear
ance in a "40 and 8" locomotive
at 8:30. with gifts for the children,
old folks and shut-ins.
New Housing Unit
To Go Up at Lejeuno
Camp Lejeune ? Approval has
been granted by tka Defense De
partment for construction of a 400
unit bousing project at Marine
Corps Air Facility, New River.
The new homes, which will pro
vide quarters for 100 officers and
300 enlisted men and their fam
ilies, will be built under the pro
visions of the Capehort Housing
Act.
To date, the location or the con
struction time-table of the New
River housing has not been an
nounced.
Cape hart housing units are op
erated aa government quarters and
tenants must surrender quartan
allotment for occupancy.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tido Table
HIGH
LOW
Teeaiay, Dec. 27
6:20 a.m.
8:48 p.m.
11:84 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. IT
7*13 a.m.
7:41 pa.
f i
12:86 a m
1:87 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. tl
8:09 a.m.
8:36 p.m.
1:51 a.m.
2:36 p.m.
Friday, Dec. M
898 a.m.
2:49 a.m.
9M p.m.
*M Mt
4
To Visit Hera
Robert Lee Humber, Greenville,
will report on the world federation
movement at 3 o'clock Thursday
afternoon at the civic center, 9th
and Evans Streets, Morehead City.
Mr. Humber, founder of the
movement, annually returns to this
county to review progress of the
federalist movement and to give
his views on world affairs. The
World Federation movement was
started on Davis Island in this
county 15 years ago.
Mr Humber, who has numerous
relatives here, returns with his
family each Christma# season. He
was recently elected president of
the North Carolina State Art So
ciety and the Roanoke Island His
torical Association.
Smyrna Driver
Gets Citation
Hugh Archie Warren, Smyrna,
was cited for careless and reckless
driving after the car he wai driv
ing. a 1951 Henry J, was involved
In an accident at 3 pm Sunday.
The other car was a IMS Plymouth
driven by Dallas H. Salter of Davis
The accident occurred on Highway
70 fourteen miles cast of Beaufort
in front of Guy Willis's residence
Patrolman J. W Sykes investi
gated at. .2 reported that Warren
crossed the c inter line and that
Salter cut left trying to avoid con
tact. Salter said his car struck the
Warren vehicle in the right front.
Passengers in Salter's vehicle,
Evelyn Salter, his wife, and An
nie Babbitt, also of Davis, were
taken to Sea Level Hospital, for
treatment of cuts and bruises.
Damage to the Salter vehicle
was estimated at $300 on the right
front side and $200 on Uie right
front end of the Warren car.
Lions Make $250
On Dance Friday
Proceeds from the square dance
sponsored Friday night by the
Down East Lions Club amounted
to S250. The money will be used
to equip the club's newly-acquired
tank truck for fighting fire*.
Aldridge Daniels waa In charge
of the dance which waa held In the
Atlantic School gym
Rodney PiUman, Atlantic, won
the door prize, a 12-pound turkey.
The Lions met Menday night at
the Sea Leva) Inn tor their bus
iness meetipg. The next meeting
will be Monday, lin. I, at the inn.
Sheriff Hugh Salter hag four more reasons for wanting
a new jail, but quick. The reasons are four Negroes who
sawed their way out of the jail Friday night. Discovery of
the break was made Saturday morning by Em Chaplain,
jailer.
Gone, with the swiftness of Santa's sleigh, are A. J. WiU
liams, George Butler, Curtis'"
Thomas and Ernest Barrett. Wil
liams is charged with shooting Cur
tis Bell In Morehead City and was
to be tried in the next term of Su
perior Court.
Butler, charged with cutting a
woman, was given a one-year sen
tence in Morehead City Court, and
appealed. Thomas was serving 30
days and waa scheduled to be freed
the day after Christmas, and Bar
rett was evidently in the Jail a
short time before he followed the
footsteps of the other three.
Barrett waa charged with public
drunkenness and fighting. He was
picked up Friday night when a fel
low, whom he waa chasing with a
knife, tiirnefl in a fire alarm to
summon help.
One bar of a back window on the
first floor was sawed out. That
was all that was necessary, the
sheriff said, for the men to crawl
through.
Breaking out of the county jail
is nothing new. Prisoners are fair
ly auccessful at It. That's why
Sheriff Salter is impatient to have
the new Jail, now in the blueprint
stage, built in a hurry.
Christmas Day
Was Warm, Sunny
Santa Claus tucked warm weather
in his pack far fhriatmas Day. The
whole easf c st experienced an
unusually mild holiday.
At Atlantic Beach Sunday a fam
ily waa even wading in the surf.
The high temperature for that day,
Christinas, waa 85, according to E.
Stamey Davis, weather observer.
The low recordad for the week
waa 30 degrees Thursday, and a bit
of rain fell Saturday nigh*.
The high and low tertipferaturei
for the week and the wind direc
tions were as 1 'low^.
Max. Mln. Winds
Thursday ... 47 30 SSW
Friday 56 38 SW
Saturday 60 50 SW
Sunday 65 53 SW
Monday 57 41 NE
Firemen Answer
Five Alarms
Beaufort fireman answered four
alarma and the Morehead City fire
men answered one since Wednea
ursday at 3:30 in the after
noon the Beaufort department an
swered an alarm at the home of
Fire Chief C- ,B Harrell on Len
noxville Road where a sofa caught
fire.
On Friday at 6:05 p.m. they an
swered an alarm at the home of
Carrie Davit, Marsh and Cedar
Streets, where an oil stove did 1900
damage.
At 11:16 that night they were
called out to a woods fire at Saa
Level, and at 11:10 a.m. Saturday
morning a false alarm from box
42, Pine and Queen Streets, was
anewered
The Morehead City flremea an
swered a call to a brush fire in the
2300 block of Fisher Street at 2:S0
p.m. Sunday.
Presbyterians Will Meet
In New' Building Sunday
?Member? i . the First Pnrl<y
tprian Church of Morehead City
will (tart holding services at the
remodeled Leary home, 1812 Aren
dell St., starting Sunday.
The houee and lot next door
were purchased as the sit* for th?
new church. The present property,
at 24th and Arendell Streets, has
been sold.
Services will be hald in the
Leary home until about April 1
when it la hoped that the Fellow
ship Hall, now under construction,
will be ready for use. according to
J. D. Holt, chairman of UM board
of Deacona.
Members of the church have
been hard at work to get the hoae
ready for the first services gun
day. They have cleaned and paint
ed the Interior, scrubbed floors
and waxed them.
Mr. Holt, "eMef scrubber of
floors," said that credit for tat
ting the work done should go to
Kenneth Prest who supervised the
corps of workers.
The three lerfe rooms down
stairs will be used as the chapel
and far Sunday School claaaea.
The five rooms upatairs will be
ueed for Sunday School claates ?
well.
Furnishings and other equip
ment la being moved thin week
fr*n the old location at 2400 Aren
dell St. Mem ben of the charch
are helping to move the pewi, the
organ, booki and other property.
Mr. Holt add that as soon u
the Fellowship Hall la completed,
the house would be used >? the
educational building.
Tlie Fellowship Hall wUl be the
tint building constructed, then an
educational building and finally
the Leary borne will be torn down
and a sanctuary built in tta place,
according to building plans
Pastor of the church I* the Rev.
Albert Harris Jr.
Contest Called Off
No prtoes were given in the
Newport outdoor home decoration
contest over Christmas this year
due to the lack of entries, accord
ing to Roy T. Garner, chairman
of the event. The eaatoat la spo?
laored by Hie Newport Builneas
| men's Aaeodntlosi.
Lawyer Doesn't
Expect Ruling
Until Late March
Dr. Beverly Lain, chief counsel
for the three towns protesting Cut
olina Water Company's rate in
crease, does not expect the utilj.
ties commission to give its ruling
before late March or early April.
The hearing started last Tues
day morning at Raleigh and ended
late Wednesday.
Following presentation of water
company figures and Dr. Lake't
penetrating examination of water
firm witnesses, some opinions were
given to the effect that the increaa*
allowed, if any, wouldn't be mora
than 29 or 30 per cent. The water
company is requesting 100 per
cent.
Dr. Lake, retained by Beaufort,
Morehead City and Snow Hill, ia
the author of two books on utillr
tics law and taught at Wake Forest
law school.
Dan Walker, Beaufort's town
clerk, appeared on the stand Tues
day, but no other townspeople were
called to testily. Wednesday's ac
tion consisted of Dr. Lake's ques
tioning water company auditors.
In addition to Mr. Walker Gens
Smith and George McNeill, town
attorneys, H. L. Joalyn, George
Rowles, both of Morehead City; J.
P. Harris, Beaufort, and Mayor
George Dill, Morehead City, at
tended tl\f hearing.
Defendant-WHI
Serve 30 Day*
John Norman Goode was aen
tcnced Monday to two terma of 30
daya on the roadi by Lutber Hamil
ton Jr., vice-recorder of Morehead
City Recorder'a Court.
Goode pleaded guilty to public
drunkennes and a suspended sen
tence of March 21, 1B99 waa in
voked. The two sentence! are ta
run concurrently. ,
Alton A. Pass was sentenced tl
30 daya on the roads for failing to
comply with a court judgment oi
Nov. 14, 1BSS.
William Moaley was sentenced
to five days in city jail when he
pled guilty to public draokenneaa.
Judge Herbert Phillips was out
of town.
Two Cars Bump
On Highway U
Damage totaling *300 wai cauied
to two can at 9:48 p.m. Sunday
night, Dec. 18, on Highwar 24j
about 200 feet wast of Taylor'a
(tore. Bogue.
John William Brown, Swanaboro,
driver of one of the can, haa been,
charged with improper passing!
Brown, driving a 1080 Studebaker,
waa headed eaat and attempted to
pan a Mercury on the right side
aa the Mercury waa turning right.
Brown aaid he thought Alvlit
M White Jr.. Swanaboro, drivetf
of the Mercury, waa going to makd'
a left turn.
Damage to each car waa esti
mated at 1180.
Automobile Turns Ovor,
Passenger Slightly Hurt
Richard Michael Fallla. Cherry
Point, waa cited for careleea and
reckless driving and apeedlng when
the car he was driving was lwi|
iabed Wednesday st 10 p.m. east
of Newport on Highway 10.
According to the report by Stale
Highway Patrolman J. W. Sykes,
the ISM DeSoto which Failla waa
driving was going at a high rata
apaad. Fa ilia ioat control and
the car turned over aeraral times.
Terry G. Denbeiiy, Cherry
Point, ? paassngac ia the ear was
taken to Cherry Paint dispensary
for treatment of cuts on the head.
Fail la Waa unhurt.
Driver Cited
John Henry Prltchett was appre
hended by Chief Ouy Spring!*.
Beaufort, at IS P-*?. Monday dt