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W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 46th YEAR, NO. 8. three SErmONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY3 April Grand Jury Will Act On Smith Case; Bond Posted Driver Pays $101, Costs on Drunk Driving Charge Leslie Garland Guthrie was fined $100 and costs by Judge Herbert O. Phillips in Morehead City Re corder's Court Monday when he pleaded guilty to driving drunk. Guthrie was given a suspended 90 day roads sentence on condition that he be on good behavior for six months. Alice Abbott was found guilty of assault and battery and slander and fined $25 and costs. She ap pealed and bond was set at $50. Raymond Mikel Garner was found guilty of passing on the wrong side at an intersection, causing an accident on Jan. 16. He appealed and bond was set at $50. Gene W. Bradford was fined $15 and costs for running a stop sign. The judge noted that this was Bradford's second motor vehicle violation. Mrs. Jean Dewey was fined $15 and costs for speeding. A charge of no operator's lecense against Mrs. Dewey was dropped. Pays $10, Costs Tillman Skidmore was fined $10 and costs for running a red light and David Walker Wray was fined $10 and costs for speeding. Roy Gilbert Gillespie was fined $10 and costs for speeding. Fines of $25 and costs, with the full fine to be remitted provided the defendants present valid driv er's licenses within two weeks were levied against Marion Ry bicki, Donald Morris, and Theresa P. Harrington. Cost* Consolidated Costs assessed against Mrs. Ry bicki and Mrs. Harrington were consolidated with costs assessed against Joseph W. Rybicki and Richard Stamhope Harrington for allowing unlicensed persons to dr'V- m . Costs were assessed against George Dudley Jr., malicious pros ecution; Lewis Allen Dodson, fol lowing too close; Ervin Earlie Lup ton, speeding; James Franklin Set tle Jr. and Mary Loomis Willis, failing to stop for stop sign, and Lin wood Aulvin Willis, running red light. Fred Pigford was assessed half costs for exceeding the licensed weight on a highway. A charge of public drunkenness against Lavender Cummings was dropped. Cases against the following were continued: William H. Styron, Ab bott P. Rose, William E. Hall, Thomas G. Davis and Burrett H. Stephens. School Bands March in Parade Beaufort and Morehcad City school bands and majorettes put their best foot forward yesterday noon in the Shrine parade at New Bern. The bands left here at 10 a.m. The parade was one of the big events in the winter ceremonial of Sudan Shrine Temple. The cere monial opened Wednesday night. Clarence Parker, Bclcross, will succecd Leroy Allen of Raleigh as potentate. N. L. Walker, Beaufort, left for the ceremonial Monday. He took with him a check for $500 from the Carteret Shrine Club. The check will be presented to the incoming potentate and will be added to the Shrincrs' Crippled Children's' Fund. C. A. Seifert, recorder of the temple, was honored for 25 years' service at special ceremonies yes terday. The Potentate's Ball at 10 o'clock last night closed the cere monial, one of the largest in the history of Sudan Temple. Morehead Folic* Issue Six Citations This Week Morehead City Police issued six citations during the past week. Donnic Gray Davis, Williston, was apprehended by Lt Carl Bunch, for allegedly having no op erator's license, running a red light and being involved in an ac cident Sunday. On Tuesday Archie Fleming, At lantic Beach, was apprehended for public drunkenness, and Jeffrey | Williams and Catherine Horton, [Morehead City, were booked for limplc assault. Arresting officer Ms Ptl. Bruce Edwards. Patrolman Bill Condie appre Mary Pickett and Annie [idgctl Wednesday. Both were ged with simple assault ? By order of a coroner's jury, the case of Glenn Smith, 26, Beaufort, will go before the grand jury in April. Smith was driver of the 1949 Oldsmobile in which Jamie Norris, 18, Beaufort, was fatally injured Tuesday night, Jan. 17. An inquest was conducted by Coroner Leslie Springle Tuesday night at the courthouse, Beaufort. Instead of the meager gathering usually at an in-? quest, more than 125 persons were present. Smith, clad in a brown suede jacket and grey trousers, sat beside his attorney. Ciaud Wheatly. He listened impassively throughout presentation of testimony and when the inquest was over, got up and joined friends in the courtroom. The coroner announced that the thousand dollars bond under which Smith is being held had been posted. At the opening of the hearing. Coroner Springle reminded the jurors that they were not trying Smith, but were to determine whether there were sufficient rea son to hold him for further court action. Officer Testifies The first witness to take the stand was Patrolman Bruce Ed wards of the Morehcad City police force. He said that he and Lt. Carl Bunch were on patrol in Morehcad City Tuesday night, Jan. 17, when they received a radio message at about 7 o'clock asking them to go to the port terminal to escort an ambulance coming from Beaufort. They did so and when they ar rived at the hospital helped take Norris, the person most seriously hurt, out of the ambulance. There were two persons in the ambulance, he reported. Patrolman Edwards said he rode with the stretcher from the ground floor of the hos pital to the main floor, then re turned to the ground floor. Just as he was leaving the ele vator someone said to him, "He's gone." The officer asked, "Who's gone?" and was told "The other boy in the ambulance." Patrolman Edwards said one or two other persons around the hos pital started looking for the other boy when a "young lady" rushed up to him and said she had just seen a man run "to the other end of the hospital and then behind a building." Hie officer wid he determined the "bollding" to be the rear of Dr. John Morris's office. He went there and "heard Smith acraaibling in the bushes." "Another man and 1 got him up and walked him to the hospital and placed him on the table in the emergency room," the witness said. "The doctor decided he should stay in the hospital for further obser vation. "He got off the table on his own and on to the stretcher and that was the last I saw of him," Patrol man Edwards related. Coroner (tuesuons Coroner Springle asked in what condition Smith was. "I could smell the odor of alcohol around him, and he was probably suffering from shock. When he was wheeled out of the emergency room, there were a couple young ladies in the lobby and he raised up on his el bow and grinned at them." In answer to a question by Mr. Wheatly, the officer said that Smith had apparently fallen in the bushes behind Dr. Morris's office, lie said he was face down and looked as though he were "attempt ing to crawl." Under further ques tioning Officer Edwards reported that Smith did not resist being taken in tow by the officer. "Did he appear to be addled?" the attorney asked. "Yes." Senior Takes Stand The next witness to take the stand was George Martin Jr., a senior at Beaufort High School. He told the coroner that he was with Norris the evening the acci dent happened. He said that he and Jamie were hitch-hiking when Smith stopped for them. They were on Highway 70 opposite the school. Martin said that Jamie got in the car . . and I asked him (Smith) if he were going down east. Smith said he didn't know whether his car would start. I thought he look ed like he'd been drinking so I got out and Jamie stayed in." Coroner Springle: Did you smell alcohol? George: No. Mr. Wheatly asked if Martin See INQUEST, Page ? Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH WW Friday, Jan. 27 7:53 a.m. Wl 8:21 p.m. 2:20 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21 8:43 a.m. 2:33 a.m. 0:13 p.m. 3:08 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29 9:34 a m. 3:23 a.m. 10:04 p.m. 3:53 p.m. Monday, Jan. 3* 10:26 a.m. 4:11 a.m. 12:37 p.m. 4:37 p.m. Tueaday, Jan. 31 11:17 a.m. 4:59 a.m. 11:50 pjn. 3:33 pja. Three Kinston JC's Visit Here Three Jaycees from Kinston spoke at the Monday night meet ing of the Beaufort Jayeees at the Scout Building. They were Warren Perry, Ellis Harrell and George Dean. Mr. Per ry introduced the other two men. ; All three spoke on Jaycee work | throughout the state, nation and world. Tommy Potter, Jaycee president. ! and Ronald Earl Mason reported on progress of repairs to the Scout building. The roof has been repair ed with money given the Jaycees by the town. The interior has been painted and a new oil heating sys tem installed. Electrical work is yet to be done and the Jaycees are considering | putting down new floor tile in the ; entrance lobby. It was announced that the DSA banquet will take place Feb. 13 in the Scout building. Jaycees and their guests are invited. At that time the outstanding young man of Beaufort will be honored and other Jaycee awards made. The next day, Feb. 14, will be Jaycee Radio Day. President Pot ter, Ray Cummins and Mr. Mason will sell time to Beaufort mer chants for sponsorship of a Jaycee radio program. Mr. Potter announced that the 9th District Jaycee meeting will take place Wednesday at Green ville in the Jaycee Building. Jay cees planning to go should meet at Potter's Service Station Wednes day afternoon. Monday night's meeting followed a roast beef dinner. Jaycees Sell Stock in State Business' Firm Stock in the North Carolina Bus iness Development Corp. will go on sale here today, according to an announcement made by L. E. Lewis, chairman, manager of Belk's Department Store and Dr. Russell Outlaw, president of the Morehead City Junior Chamber of Commerce. Funds derived from the sale of stock will help develop new indus try in the state of North Carolina. Adopted by the North Carolina Jaycee executive board last week in High Point, the Jaycees through out the state have agreed to sell some $200,000 of stock in the cor poration. To date, more than $800,000 of the $1,000,000 of stock authorized by the state charter has been sold by Governor Hodges and his staff. Capus Waynick of High Point is head of the plan. According to W. R. Henderson, past state Jaycee president and chairman of the Jaycee section of the drive known as Operation Bootstrap, "This is one of the fin est projects the North Carolina Jaycees have undertaken and we only hope we have full coopera tion of every community in the state." "The million dollars, in combi nation with other funds that can be secured from members of the corporation (up to $10 million) would raise the per capita income of North Carolinians by offering L'ncouragcment, factual and finan cial help to persons wishing to >tart new industries or enlarge aid ones in suitable locations," Mr. Lewis said. Since many towns have no indus try. and little hope of starting one without special help, they will be 'pulling themselves up by their bootstrap" and at the same time creating more jobs and salaries for Tar Heels. For full information on the sale jf stock in the Business Develop ment Corp. persons should contact Mr. Lewis or Dr. Outlaw. Ice Storm Causes Trouble On Power Lines Tuesday Tuesday's ice storm played hob with the power lines down east. The line from Beaufort to Atlan tic went out at five minutes be fore noon, but power was restored from Beaufort to the intersection of the Merrimon Road and High way 70 at 12:23 p.m., according to George Stovall, manager of Carolina Power and Light Co. The rest of the line was back to normal at 3:44 p.m. Mr. Stovall said that there were a lot of other minor troubles, most of them down cast where winds apparently were higher than in other sections of the county. Mr. Stovall explained that the round wires swing free of each other normally, but when water falls and freezes, it freezes on the lines in tear-shape. This makes them bouncc up and down and slap together, thus causing out tages. Mr. Stovall said the wires at North River iced up badly. The high and low temperatures for this week were recorded Wed nesday. The high was 44 degrees and the low 27, according to E. Stamey Davis, weather observer. Rainfall for the week, 1.09 inches, included rain, sleet, ice and snow. The high and low temperatures and the wind directions were as follows: Max. Min. Winds Monday 43 38 NE Tuesday - 41 29 NE Wednesday 44 27 NE Carteret this week wis spared a (ate such as this. Ice In February 1948 pulled over sturdy utility poles. This picture was taken along the Beaufort Morehead City causeway. Symphony Membership Cards Go Out T his Week North Carolina Symphony mem bership card? were received thi? week by persons who joined the symphony society during the mail campaign last year. Included with the membership cards was a schedule of the sym phony's appearances. The Little Symphony will play in the Morchcad City High School auditorium at 2:30 p.m. Friday af ternoon, March 2. and at the Beau fort School auditorium at 8:30 p.m. that day. The point cloaest to this section , where the full symphony will play Is Kinston on May t. Person* who wish to join the symphony society may (till do so by mailing their contributions to Box 221, Morehead City. Further infcfrmation may be had by calling C. R. Davant, 6-3388, or Frank Cassiano, 6-3752. Officers to Show Safety Film at Camp Glonn Chief Herbert Griffin of the Morehead City Police Department, and Sgt. Paul Bray, of the Marine MP detachment, Morehead City, will show the safety filma, On Guard for Safety and Drive Your Bicycle Safely at the Camp Glenn School Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Tax Department Releases Taxpayers Review Schedule + She Battled Polio In sponsoring their polio pal, pretty 14-year-old Lindsey Pickles, Morehead City pupils raised $402 65. Lindsey was recently sent back to the Convalescent Hospital at Greensboro for surgery on her foot. She was stricken with polio seven years ago. The pupils of Mrs. Zula Her ring's fourth grade went all out to make their March of Dimes drive a success. To earn money they cleaned yards and sidewalks, mulched shrubs, cleaned garages, washed dishes, worked as baby sitters, cleaned house, washed combs and brushes and polished shoes. They sold cinnamon rolls, pop corn, cookies, a plane and a mag net. They collected bottles for refunds. They did without basket ball, shows, caps for pistols and allowances. When the final count was made, their gift of self-denial totaled $40.28. The only other school to turn in its funds is Beaufort. Their to tal is $715 73. Tomorrow will be Silver Day in the March of Dimes. Persons re ceiving change in business places throughout the county are asked to put that change in a coin col lector. The annual March of Dimes tal- ' ent show will be sponsored Sun day afternoon over WMBL. The March of Dimes closes Tuesday. Checks should be mailed to Mr&. Clem Johnson, Box 651, Morehcad City. County Will Have New Jail, Schools It's a far cry from schools to a jail?but Carteret will soon have new ones of both. On the architect's drawing board now arc plans for a new school at Harkers Island and cafeterias at W. S. King and Queen Street Schools. Drawings on the new county jail are expected to be sub mitted to the county commissioners at their meeting next month. The school cafeterias will be built with local funds, according to H. L. Joslyn, county superinten dent of schools. The Markers Is land School will be built with state bond money. The bonds have not yet been sold, but Mr. Joslyn said when the money is available, this county wants to be ready with plans to proceed immediately with construc tion. Also to be built with state mon ey is the agriculture shop at Smyrna. The county sold bonds for the new jail during the summer. The present jail on many times has proved incapable of holding its occcupanls. Sheriff Hugh Salter hopes the new jail will correct that problem. Plans for the schools and the jail are being drawn by the firm of B. H. Stephens and Son. U.S. Government Seeks Bids on Qcracoke Marina Supt. Allyn F. Hanks, Cape Hat teras National Seashore Recrea tional Area, announced today in vitations for bids for construction and repair of facilities at Silver Lake Marina, Ocracoke, have been mailed to prospective bidders. Other interested bidders may ob tain plans and specifications at the office of the superintendent, Bodie Island. The bid opening will be on Feb. 15. Fire Seriously Damages Beaufort House Wednesday More than $2,000 damage was caused and a fireman injured when a blaze gutted the home of Carrie Johnson, 514 Craven St., Beaufort, at 3:15 Wednesday af ternoon. Frank Robinson, fireman, had to have several stitches taken in his hand after he was hurt at the scene of the fire. It is believed that the oil stove exploded. No one was in the house at the time. It was reported that the home is partly insured. What wasn't burned was dam aged by water, said Mrs. Johnson, who operates a store around the corner from her home. She said she is living now with her mother, Molly Campbell. The Johnson house was dam aged by fire about four years ago | when a blaze started from an out side meter box. Four Teachers Involved in Wreck n C At Wilson Saturday Mrs. Leon K. Thomaa of Mar- d shallberg, was injured Saturday | morning at Wilson when the car | she was driving was struck by ano- s ther automobile. I In the car with Mrs. Thomas c were Mrs. John Bunn, Mrs. Rachel Fulcher, both of Morehead City, and Mrs. Murray Piggott, Glouces ter. The four women, teachers in g the county schools, were driving t to Atlantic Christian College to a attend an cxtenaion course. i All four were hospitalized for * shock. Mrs. Thomas received chest " and neck injuries also. She was admitted to the Wilson hospital Saturday and brought 1 home Monday. Tuesday she was ad- t milted to the Morehead City Hos- ? pital but expects to be discharged i today. c The County Tax Department yesterday released the schedule by which taxpayers may appear before the ap praisers next month. The schedule will also appear in a letter which will go out to all real estate owners the first of February. In that letter will be the new assessed valuation sriven the real estate owner's property. If' the valuation is deemed too high, the owner is invited to consult with the appraisers at the courthouse from Feb. 15 to Feb. 29. From Feb. 15 to Feb. 21. resi dents of the following places should call at the courthouse if they arc dissatisfied with their val uations: Atlantic township, Beau fort township. Cedar Island, Davis, Harkcrs Island. Harlowe, Marshall berg, Mcrrimon; from Feb. 22 to Feb. 29, Morehcad, Newport, Ports mouth, Sea Level, Smyrna, Stacy, Straits and White Oak. The valuations will be reviewed by L. A. Marshall of the E. T. Wil kins firm which revalued county property during the past year. County officials say they also hope to have some of the commissioners present during the Feb. 15-29 re view period. If in February an adjustment cannot be made to the property owner's satisfaction, he has the privilege of filing a formal com plaint before the Board of Equal ization. lie may fill out a prepared form setting forth his complaint. ; This will be placed before the j county board, sitting as the Board of Equalization, March 19. During the last two weeks in February any property owner may examine any appraisal record in the tax department, if he believes his property valuation to be out Df line as compared with valua tions on neighboring or similar properties. As the result of revaluation, county officials hope to lower the tax rate. If the revaluation docs not increase the county's total val uation as much as anticipated, of ficials say that the size of the tax :ut will have to be reduced ac cordingly. Only personal property need be listed this month. Tuesday is the last day to list. After that, penal ties will be imposed. Sidewalk Bosses Enjoy Heyday Sidewalk superintendents have >een having a rare good time in ?forehead City the past week. The ;iant pile-driver, Annapolis, owned ?y the McLean Construction Co., s working on the Morchead City vaterfront, sinking pilings for .'apt. Bill's new Waterfront Res aurant. The combination pile-driver and Irag line, which has been work ng on the Navy job on Radio Is and, also put down pilings next o Jerry Schumacher's studio and cooped out a channel for docking ?oats. The new wharf will be used by ;amp Sea Gull, Arapahoe. The pil ngs have wooden staves around hem painted red, white and blue. Capt. Bill Ballou said that on lis job the pile-driver put down 00 pilingf* in 10 hours. On those filings will be built his new din ng room, 30 by 140 feet, which trill scat 400 people. Construction of the dining room /ill be supervised by Hugh Styron, forehead City. Work on it was tartcd two weeks ago. County Slashes Fund Request Carteret County has slashed it? request for Civil Defense funds by more than half. The new application for federal funds to repair hurricane damage asks for $277,718.90. The total coat of repair has been set at $304,566. 90 but local contributions are scheduled as making up the dif ference. Carteret's applications for fi nancial aid as the result of Hurri canes Connie, Diane and lone have been returned several times. When the applications came back the last time, Gray Hassell, consulting engineer for the county, contacted regional Civil Defense officials. They told him the appli cations were being rejected be cause they're "just too high." The new application cover* Boguc Banks, Portsmouth Island, Salter Path, Markers Island, At lantic, Sea Level, Davis, North River, Marshallbcrg and a small section at Cedar Point. Fisheries Officer Gets Inquiries C. G. Holland, commercial fish eries commissioner, has been re ceiving letters from persons on in land rivers and creeks asking him why the trout arc dying. Many of the fish have been un able to survive the prolonged cold in this area. They have come to the surface, numb, and are washed ashore. They have also been dip ped out of the water with nets. Some of the letters received by the fisheries commissioner asked if the fish were being killed by polluted water. Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director of the Institute of Fisheries Research, says there is no indication of that. The fish simply need warmer wa ter. Dr. Chestnut said that a report at the institute states that in 1903 in this area two men caught 900 pounds of trout simply by picking them out of the water. 1903 was a cold winter too. A report of 1887, from New River, said that fish had washed ashore there and were piled 2 and 3 feet deep. Residents in the South River area first reported several weeks ago that they were picking up the cold fish. The fish are edible if they arc used soon after washed ashore. Lights Missing The Morehead City Fire Depart ment is searching high and low for five battery search lights lost during the past year. The lights are stamped MCFD. If anyone finds one, he is requested to please re turn it to the fire station. News in a Nutshell INTERNATIONAL WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES pened yesterday at Cortina D'Am icizo. Italy. For the past two weeks here have been little else but rgumcnta over accommodations, iho's to do what at the opening cremonics, and complaints about he weather. Whb knows, the UN nay have to be called in to help aim everybody down. SOVIET AMBASSADOR Zarubin Icllvered a "top secret" letter to 'resident Elsenhower at the White louse Wednesday. It was from Soviet Premier Bulganin and re inrtedly expressed Russia's views in how to promote world pcacc. NATIONAL PRESIDENT EISENHOWER has uggested to Congress that it keep he segregation issue out of school lid legislation. He says nothing hould be written into the law that delays the construction" of fhools. UNDER THE HUDSON River, lew York, water on Wednesday troke through a tunnel under con traction. Two workmen had to wim to safety. A 100-foot section if the tunnel was flooded. When work Is finished the tunnel will be the third tube of the New York New Jersey Lincoln Tunnel. STATE STUDENTS AT I'NC want an election to depose editors of the Daily Tar Heel who call Jim Ta tum's coming the final step to "bis time" athletics. Coach Tatum says he believes in freedom of expres sion and freedom ?f the press and hopes the election will be called off. GOV. LUTHEK HODGES attend ed as an observer a conference of governors of Mississippi, South Carolina. Georgia and Virginia at Richmond this week. The four gov ernors (excluding North Carolina's) agreed to use the legal weapon of interposition in an effort to avoid being bound by the Supreme Court's segregation decision. Warrant Served Officer Maxwell Wade of the Beaufort Police Department served a warrant on David Parker Friday morning. Parker has beea charged with turning in a false alara be fore Christmas. Parker says ha turned in the alarm to summon help because he was la a fight
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