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45th YEAR, NO. 27. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
C. J. Jackson,
Shot by Chief,
Reported Better
Beaufort Negro Recovers
From Bullet Wound
In Neck
C. J Jackson, Beaufort Negro
who was shot by Chief Guy Sprin
gle, Beaufort, at 12:15 Saturday
afternoon, was reported to be up
and around at the Morchead City
Hospital yesterday
Jackson is recovering from a bul
let wound in his necji. Chief
Springle said he fired his .38 Smith
and Wesson revolver at Jackson as
the Negro resisted arrest and me
nacingly approached the chief in
the 500 block of Pollock Street.
Officers Called
At the request of Jackson's wife,
Chief Springle and Officer Max
well Wade had gone to the Jackson
house. Jackson's wife said he was
beating her. When the officers
went in the house they found the
woman and her baby on a bed
and on the floor were smashed
glass jars that had had fish roe
in them.
Chief Springle said the floor
was a shambles of shattered glass,
roc, and water. One window pane
in the kitchen was broken. Jack
son's wife told the officers that
he had broken that.
Two Leave
After seeing the situation, the
chief sent Officer Wade with the
woman to swear out a warrant.
Then, the chief said, Jackson start
ed to leave. The chief told him
that he was under arrest and not
free to go.
They were outside at the time.
Jackson began cursing the officer
and refused to listen to the chief.
Chief Springle said, "He started
toward me and ran his hand in
his pocket and then I shot him."
The officer said a pocket knife
was later fpund in Jackson's poc
ket. The chief called the Adair
ambulance and went to the More
head City Hospital with Jackson.
He stayed there while x-rays
were made.
Chief Springle said the bullet
went in the fleshy part of the right
side of the neck. According to the
chieL the doctor said kjpfQeiipMd
no deeper than half an men and
continued out the right side of the
neck.
Jackson is docketed for appear
ance in county court April 12 on
charges of assaulting his wife, re
sisting arrest and attempted as
sault with a deadly weapon.
Chief Springle said he regrets
having to shoot Jackson, and that
he will consider himself fortunate
if he never has to do anything like
it again.
Red Cross Fund
Contributions to the county Red
Cross totaled $288.33 as of yester
day, according to the chairman,
Mrs. G. T. Spivey, Beaufort. The
county goal, to be met during the
month of March, was $4,480.
Mrs. Spivey said that there arc
still community chairmen to be
heard from, at least 15 of them, and
she hopes that their reports will
help boost the pitifully small
iigurc.
She reminded people that 485
families were helped in this county
by the Red Cross after recent hur
ricanes.
"I wonder if they remembered to
join the Red Cross this year," she
said. "When the Red Cross office
was open in the courthouse annex,
1 saw a steady stream of people
bringing their problems there.
"I have seen the receipts where
the money was paid out to my
neighbors here in Carteret County,
but there has been no beaten path
to my door, nor has my mailbox
held many letters containing con
tributions to the Red Cross fund."
It is not too late to make a con
tribution. Checks may be mailed to
Mrs. Spivey, Beaufort, N. C.
Businessmen
Will Cooperate
In Special 'Week'
To give the summer season a
big kick-off, the Morehead City
Merchants Association is partici
pating in a special week of activi
ties to coincide with Armed Forces
Week, May 14-19.
Merchants association members
will meet a< 9 o'clock tomorrow
morning at the Hotel Fort Macon
to discuss plans.
The week's events, sponsored by
the Chamber of Commerce, includc
a cruiser at Morehead City port
open to public Inspection, electri
cal appliance exhibit at the rec
reation building . May 18-1 J, elec
tric cooking schools, sad boat races
May 16. armed forces parade May
18 and athletics events May If.
The Governor Was Here
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
Captain Bill's Waterfront Res
taurant was filled to capacity
Thursday night when Gov. Luther
H. Hodges spoke at the Chamber
of Commerce dinner.
At the head table, shown above,
are left to right, George W. Dill,
mayor of Morehead City, who in
troduced special guests; D. G. Bell,
county legislator who introduced
the governor; Mrs. Walter Ed
wards, Walter Edwards, president
I of the chamber; Governor Hodges,,
W. P. Saunders, hidden by the 1
flowers, and Col. Harry Brown, !
head of the hurricane protection
program.
Hanging behind the governor is
a photograph of himself, taken by
Jerry Schumacher, Morehead City
; photographer.
The invocation was given by the
Rev. Leon Couch, pastor of the (
First Methodist Church.
Members of the banquet com
mittee were P. H. Geer Jr., chair
man; H. S. Gibbs Jr., Kenneth
Wagner, Jasper Bell, W. B. Chalk,
and J. A. DuBois, chamber man
ager.
Dinner consisted of Carteret
shrimp cocktail, fried chicken,
spring peas, creamed potatoes,
tossed salad, hot rolls, butter, cof
fee and apple pie.
Government Ships Carteret
Third Vaccine Allotment
Scouts to Camp
Next Weekend A
Carteret Boy Scouts are hoping
for weather as nice as this past
weekend's when they go to the
beach for their pre-camporce.
Senior leaders in charge of the
camporee are Gordon Earl Free
man and Clifton Guthrie, both of |
Morchcad City. Junior leaders will
b? Dardcn Eure Jr. and Ethan
AM* ML A
Kenneth Wagner. Scout official :
who planned the coming outing, |
says it is in preparation for the
Eastern Carolina council cimporce
to be held at Jacksonville later this
month.
Boy Scouts will report to the At- 1
i lantic oceanfront, where the former ,
Ocean King Hotel stood, between 9 I
and 10 a.m. Saturday. They will I
bring a box lunch with them.
There their equipment will be in- 1
spccted and they will be assigned j
to camp sites in Fort Macon State
park. They will hike from Atlantic
Beach to the park.
From 10 to 12 noon they will
set up camp. Lunch will be from
noon to 12:45 p.m.
Saturday afternoon's activities
will end with a camp fire program
at 7:30 to which parents are in
vited.
Sunday's program will begin at 7
a.m. and at noon the camporee will j
end.
- Dr. Luther Fulchcr, county
health officer, announced yester
day that the county's third allot
ment of polio vaccine from the
federal government, has been
shipped. The vaccine was expect
ed yesterday.
The allotment is 315 doses and
may be used for first shots only,
according to the health office.
The date for administering the
vaccine is tentatively set for Thurs
day, April 12.
According to latest information
on use of the vaccine, there is no
time limit between taking first and
second shots. Mrs. Beatrice Lewis,
public health nurse, say.s that the
time between the two can be in:'
definite. "The value of the first
shot is never lost," she said. Three
shots are recommended.
The county's first government
allotment to this county was 621
doses last October. The second
shipment was 531 doses in Feb
ruary which fell far short of de
mand. The shipment cxpected now
is little more than half of the first
allotment.
(Vaccine given last spring was
paid for by the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis. Vac
cine given since September 1955
has been provided by the U.S. Pub
lic Health Service).
Since the current allotment is
so small, it is hoped that another
shipment may be announced soon.
The public health service report
ed during the past several days that
manufacturers have caught up with
demand and supplies are at a high
level.
Governor Visifs Catfood
Canning Plant, Beaufort
Gov. Luther H. Hodges visited
Beaufort's catfood canning plant
Friday morning and commended
its operators (or their enterprise.
The governor in the company of
Col. Harry Brown, head of the hur
ricane protection project, and town
and county officials, said the plant
is in line with his interest in mak
ing more use of marine products.
He said he was pleased with the
progress of the plant since its open
ing last fall and expressed the hope
that its product. Purr-Maid catfood.
would soon be distributed state
wide.
At present the catfood is market
ed only in the Beaufort-Morchead.
Camp Lcjcune and Cherry Point
areas.
Governor Hodges was invited to
tour the plant by its owners,
Charles Davis. Beaufort, Capt. Ot
tis Purifoy, Albert Lea, and E. W.
Copeland, all of Morehead City.
The governor and Colonel Brown
left later in the morning for At
lantic where they hoped to catch
the mailboat to Ocracoke. But the
mailboat and the Slue Water, cap
tained by Hubert Fulcher, More
head City, were so heavily loaded
that the governor, Colonel Brown
and some passengers had to be
carried to Ocracoke on the state
boat. Cape Hatteras.
Suspecting a heavy load of pas
sengers and mail, the operator of
the mailboat had engaged Captain
Fulcher to help out. But even with
tha extra boat, the Easter holiday
traffic to Ocracoke made accommo
dation of the governor impoasible.
C. G. Holland, commercial fish
eries commissioner, and Clayton
Fttleher, Atlantic, accompanied Um
officials to Ocracokc. En route they
discussed Drum Inlet and methods
of saving lives on the outer banks
if future storms hit.
"I think it was a most worth
while trip," Commissioner Holland
remarked.
Governor Hodges surveyed the
road building program at Ocracoke,
took the trip to Hattcras Inlet by
mail truck, crossed the inlet on
ferry and then proceeded to Eliza
beth City where he gave ? speech
before the Elizabeth City Chamber
of Commerce Saturday night
Visitors Flock to Beach
Bidding for upstate visitors and
hoping for start of an early season,
Atlantic Beach welcomed hundreds
of visitors over the long holiday
weekend.
Tobacco Ship
Due Thursday
| The Moselstein will dock at the
'state port, Morehcad City, Thurs
day, to load a cargo of tobacco
I for Germany. This will be the fifth
tobacco cargo to leave Morehead
| City this year.
j The MS Breitenstein, new Ger
man Lloyd freighter on its second
left Morehcad City Sat
?wfttiT.no hogshead* of to
to be discharged at Rotter
dam and Hamburg.
J. D. Holt, manager of the state
port, said two more tobacco ship
; ments are scheduled this month.
I Ten tobacco cargoes were shipped
! in 1955 and Mr. Holt says a new
record may be set this year.
| The Moselstein will probably
[ sail Saturday.
Seniors to Give
Play April 13
Beaufort seniors remind folks
that Friday night, April 13, will
be an appropriate night to view
their thriller, Murder with Orchids.
Tickets for the play arc being
sold by seniors. The three-act play
combines murder with laughter
and is being directed by Miss Lena
Duncan. Curtain rises at 8 p.m. in
the Beaufort School Auditorium.
Members of the cast are Jerry
Willis, Peggy Williams, .loycc
Chadwick, Barbara Davis, Jimmy
Owens.
Kenneth Swain, Jimmy Potter,
Sylvia Harrell, Bonnie Brinson,
and Kay Prytherch.
Three Fire Departments
Get Surplus Respirators
Three surplus property artificial
respirators at Cherry Point have
been obtained by the Down East,
Morehcad City and Newport fire
departments through the North
Carolina Division of Purchase and
Contract.
The artificial respirators per
form the same function as the
resuscitator owned by the Beaufort
Tire Department.
The artificial respirators are not
new and will require some work,
such as recharging the cylinders,
according to Newport fire depart
ment personnel.
Energizing New Substation
Will Require Power Cutoff
If it's a dear day Thursday,
power customers east of Beaufort
will be without electricity for a
while. Customers between Beaufort
and North River will be without
power between 1 and 1:08 p.m.
and those caat of North River will
have no power between 1 and 4
p.m.
George Stovall, manager of Caro
lina Power and Light Co., aaid that
the outtage is necessary to work
on the new 33,000 volt line built
from Highway 101 to Smyrna and
alao to put into operation the new
JS,000-volt substation at Smyrna.
The new aubfUtlon wu built
to care (or the "incrcaaing load
building up daily in this arM."
Mr. Stovall aaid.
Construction was done with the
current on so that customera would
be Inconvenienced aa little aa pea
sible, he added, but the work
planned Thursday cannot be done
with the power (lowing.
Mr. Stovall aald he waa gra tided
that the vast Improvementa eject
ed in down eaat power service have
been carried out without accident
or injury to any workman.
The Rev. John Bunn to Write
Articles for The News-Times
R&H Delegates
To Meet Thursday
Group Will Gat Projects
In Line to Present
At Washington in May
At (he Thursday Rivers and Har
bors meeting, Hotel Fort Maeon, j
defecates set this coming Thursday i
morning at Raleigh as the meeting
time to hear recommendations for
new projects, classify projects as to
importance and determine what
projects shall be presented to the
National Rivers and Harbors Con
gress in Washington, D. C. May
10-12.
The meeting will be held at 10
a.m. in the board room of the De
partment of Conservation and De
velopment.
Mayor George W. Dill. Morehead J
City, co-chairman of the North
Carolina delegation, said that the
new projects to be considered |
cover restoration of storm-damaged
land. Applications for those proj
ects have to be filed.
Dinner Planned
Mayor Dill said members of the !
North Carolina Congressional dele- j
gat ion. representatives and sena- !
tors, will be invited to a dinner at '
the Mayflower Hotel May 9. There
I they will be presented with a sum
mary of the projects, both naviga
tion and restoration of storm dam
age. which the Rivers and Harbors 1
delegation has approved.
Mayor Clifford Lewis, Beaufort, |
See RAH. Pane J
The Rev. John T. Runn
. . . leaves for Jordan
Herbert Lewis Heads
County Observer Corps
Herbert Lewis. Beaufort, ac
cepted Saturday the appointment
as chief of the county Ground Ob
server Corps, Civil Defense.
Mr. Lewis, who is a bridge tend
er at the Beaufort draw, is a mem
ber of the Ground Observer Corps,
as arc other bridge tenders
throughout the county. At present
there arc U GOC posts.
Mr. Lewis will be the liaison
officer between Sgt. L. P. Scott,
USAF, Washington, N. C., and
ground observer posts in this
county.
His appointment was announced
by Miss Ruth Peeling, county civil
defense director.
Starting in todays NEWS-TIMES is a series of articles
by the Rev. John T. Bunn, Morchcad City, who left Sunday
for New York on the first leg of his trip to the Holy Land.
Mr. Bunn's columns on his travels and his experiences
as he excavates among ruins of Biblical cities will be sent
to TIIE NEWS-TIMES by air mail and will appear weekly.
unless unforeseen events dictate <
j otherwise. The first of the series
j appears below.
[ Mr. Bunn will receive his doc
torate in archaeology in absentia,
next month from the Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary, Louis
ville, Ky. As an archaeologist in
Jordan this summer, he will be a J
member of the staff of the Ameri
can Schools of Oriental Research. I
Accompanying him will be Dr. I
William II. Morton, head of the De
partment of Archaeology. Southern
Baptist Seminary. Mr. Bunn is the
son of Dr. and Mrs. John Bunn
Morehead City, and husband of the !
former Lois Webb of Morehead
City.
From Raleigh on Easter Sunday
morning he flew to New York and
left there yesterday afternoon at
1:20 by plane for Amsterdam. He
met Dr. Morton in New York.
Prom Amsterdam they are flying
to Frankfurt, Germany, where they
will arrive this morning. Tomor
row at 5:40 p.m. they will embark
by plane for Cairo, to stay in Egypt
four days. While there they will
photograph ancient manuscripts.
Next Monday they will arrive in
Jerusalem.
Mr. Bunn s first column follows:
PREPARATION
To the American seeking to en
ter a foreign country, especially if
trouble is brewing, one of the first
hurdles to get past is obtaining
passports and visas. A passport al
See ARCHAEOLOGIST, Page 3
The Rev. R. Lee King, Beaufort,
Accepts Pastorate at Pelletier
The Pelletier Baptist Church wis completed last fall and dedicated Sept. 4, 1955.
4
Officials Express
Regret at Losing
Fisheries Chairman
William P. Saunders, director of !
the Department of Conservation
and Development, last week ex
pressed his regret that Cecil Mor
ris, chairman of the State Com
mercial fisheries committee, has
resigned.
He was joined in hi> sentiments
by C. G. Holland, state fisheries
commissioner Mr Holland said.
"Mr. Morris's leaving is a loss to
the state fishing industry. We
don't know whether we can find
anyone to replace him who has as
much knowledge of the fishing in
dustry as he."
Mr. Saunders said that as yet
no successor has been decided
upon. Eric Rodgcrs, Scotland Neck,
former administrative assistant to
the director of CAD, has been
suggested as a possibility. Mr.
Rodgers recently resigned from bis
position with the state to return
as publisher of his newspaper in
Scotland Neck.
Tide Table
TMet at the Beaufort Bar
BIGii
LOW
Tuesday, April 3
1:40 a.m.
2:11 p.m.
8:06 a.m.
8:18 p.m.
Wedattday, April 4
2:38 a.m.
3:11 p.m.
8:03 a.m.
8:21 p.m.
Tfcunday, April t
3:37 a m.
4:07 p.m.
8:88 a.m.
10:20 p.m.
Friday, April ?
4:32 a.m.
4:8T p.m.
10:48 a.m.
11:12 p.m.
The Rev. R Lee King, 112 Live
Oak St., Beaufort, has been called
to be the first regular pastor of
the new Pelletier Baptist Church.
Mr. King is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. King, 207 Moore St.,
Beaufort. The new pastor's wife
is the former Naomi Cumbia,
whose home was in Virginia. They
have a daughter, Connie, 3.
Mr King is attending Southeast
ern Theological Seminary at Wake
Forest. He la a graduate of the
University of Richmond at Rich
mond, Va. During the yeara of
194047-48. Mr. King served with
the Armed Forces as a chaplain's
assistant. Later he was commis
sioned as a first lieutenant and waa
a chaplain with the 176th Regi
mental Combat Team, Virginia Na
tional Guard.
Previous pastorates Mr. King has
served arc the Winfrec Memorial
Baptist Church at Midlothian, Va.,
and the Piedmont and Union Bap
tist Churches in Amelia County,
Va. Mr. King's church at Pelletier,
one of the newest churches in the
county, was completed last fall and
dedicated Sept. 4, 1955.
The Rev. Laurie J. Atkinson has
served as the interim pastor at the
church in addition to hia regular
work as pastor of Swanaboro Bap
tist Church.
Mr. Atkinson organized the first
congregation in the Pelletier Com
munity that led to the conatruc
tion of the new sanctuary, and has
had a great interest in shepherd
ing the little pioneer miaaionary
project into what la now its first
call to a regular paator since the
new building was completed.
The members invite all who can
come and worship with them. The
new pastor preached his first ser
mon, since his call, on Easter Sun
day. There waa a barbecue dinner
on the church grounda following
the services.
The Rev. R. Lee King
. . . preached on Easter
Beaufort Band to March
In Wilmington Parade
The Beaufort High School Band
i will march in the Azalea parade
in Wilmington Saturday in the
Azalea Festival.
The band will go on a chartered
bua and spend the day in Wil
mington. Chaperones will be C. F.
Jones, band leader, and Miss Peggy
Hill, Beaufort faculty members.
Band members will carry their,
lunches with them.
Leaves Friday
W. P. Saunders, director of th?
Department of Conservation and
Development, left Morehcad City
Friday. He visited Fort Macon
State Park Thursday and attended
meetings in Morehcad City Thura
day afternoon and night. While
here, he visited with the Edward
| G. McKinlcjs, Morcbcad City.
REA Members
Elect Officers
Annual Meeting Follows
Open House at Harkers
Island Saturday
Directors of the Harkers Island
Electric Membership Corp. elected
officers following the annual meet
ing Saturday night at the school.
John IL Guthrie was re-elected
president; Charles T. Nelson was
elected vice-president; David Yeo
mans, secretary, and Fernie G. Wil
lis, treasurer.
The only new director elected
was Paul Lewis. Other directors
arc Earl C. Davis, Walter Nelson,
Jesse Hamilton, and Carl M. Wil
lis.
Guest speaker was William R.
Shertzer, REA executive from
Washington, D. C. Also appearing
on the program, which was opened
with prayer and a reminder to
folks to go to church Easter Sun
day, was the secretary, Mr. Yeo
mans.
A movie on the REA, its history
and purpose, was shown. Maxwell
Willis, manager of the cooperative,
said members and their families
attended the meeting. Attendance
at the open house during the day
was good, he added, despite the
fact that many folks went in to
town for the day.
The open house was to mark the
opening of the new REA building
on Harkers Island.
Door prizes were awarded at the
meeting Saturday night
Winners were Worth Davis, a
vacuum cleaner; Johnny Willis,
an electric mixer; Leroy Hancock,
automatic toaster; and Paul Lewis,
six-month free service contract
from Shubcrt's TV.
The lucky numbers were drawn
by little Brenda Guthrie.
SuttonWestbrook
Gets Along Well
Mrs. R. T. Wcstbrook. Mansfield,
mother of Sutton Wcstbrook. said
Saturday that her son is getting
along very well, thanks to all the
persons who contributed blood for
him.
Sutton. 21, suffers from hemo
philia. a disease which prevents
coagulation of the blood. Thus a
scratch, or any type opening in
the skin, bleeds profusely.
Sutton, a former Morehead City
High School student, had to have
some teeth pulled and he went to
Duke Hospital for the operation.
The teeth were extracted, but he
hfd to be given a tremendous
amount of blood last week.
Hia mother obtained donors
from Morehead City School. Cher
ry Point. Jones, Wake and Lenoir
Counties. She said that by the lat
ter part of last week, Sutton's
bleeding had stopped.
She expressed her appreciation
to all who helped in the criaia, in
cluding Lenwood Lee, principal of
the Morehead City School, who
permitted 27 pupils to leave school
so that they could go to Duke.
Newport Lays 400
Feet of Water Main
Newport Fire Chief B. T Smith
and Assistant Chief Bennic Gar
ner said today that laying of 400
feet of water main and installation
of one more fire hydrant was com
pleted Wednesday The cxtenaion
ia along Church Street.
The project is part of the fire
departments 1956 Finer Carolina
project. The work was made possi
ble by a sizable donation from
Gerald Merrill, Chief Smith said.
The town furniahed the materials,
and the department aaaumed re
sponsibility for the project.
The department hauled the pipe,
did some of the ditching, and teat
cd the line, while the plumbing
portion waa contracted.
Project Chairman Garner aakt
the fire department plana to con
tinue the line ? little later ao that
the rest of the dwellings on the
street can have more fire protec
tion and get Insurance rate rcduc
tlona.
Morehead City Fire Department
doused an overheated stove In the
Freeman Apartmenta, 1900 Bridges
St., yesterday afternoon. The tire
cauaed no damage.