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46th YEAR, NO 41. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MAY 22. 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Voters Will Decide on County Health Center Saturday
Eager Shrimpers Start
Season Sunday M id night
Lines whipped through the air<
and a roar of chugging motors
chorused into the night as shrimp
boats pulled away from their
moorings to begin the 1936 season
in inland waters Sunday night. The
search for the spotted shrimp
started at midnight.
Irritation at the late season
opening had somewhat subsided,
but it was replaced by another ir
ritation -a nor'easter. The same
kind of weather fishermen have
battled all spring was hogging the
stage again early Monday morn
ing, making trawling in the sounds
well nigh impossible.
Even small boats which could
travel the protected inland creeks
were buffeted b> the nor'easter.
Shrimp fishermen who ventured
out were not very hopeful. Al
though there are indications of
marketable shrimp in certain
places, there are no signs of shrimp
in any quantity.
Cold weather has delayed the
opening of the season and exper
ienced shrimp fishermen declare
there will he little to be done, even
now, in inland waters until the
weather gets warmer.
Some shrimp are being caught
outside and they're bringing a
good price.
State Blocks
Car Auction
A proposal to sell new cars in
storage at the Morehead City port
at public auction here was blocked
Friday.
The cars, which were originally
scheduled for shipment to Brazil,
have been stored at the port by
the exporting companies. The Ad
vorem Trading Co., 25 W. 57th St.,
New York, through its representa
tive, Fred Rosen, contacted THE
NEWS-TIMES Thursday night and
stated that a public auction was
being contemplated.
M. E. Bullard. inspector tor The
N. C. Department of Motor Vehi
cles, said that no cars could be
sold without a license and in order
to qualify for a license, a firm
must have a permanent place of
business in this state.
One hundred eighty-two cars are
still in storage at Morehead City.
Before Brazil clamped down on
American car imports, over 900
were shipped from this port.
Three Committee
Revisions Made
At Convention
Three revisions were made in
state democratic committee mem
berships in this county at the state
convention Thursday at Raleigh.
According to Irvin W. Davis,
chairman of the county democratic
committee, Sheriff Hugh Salter
| will serve with Mrs. C. G. Holland
on the solicitorial executive com
mittee; Mrs. D. F. Merrill. Beau
fort. will serve with C. G. Holland
on the state democratic executive
committee; A. L. Hamilton and
Mrs. Sam Adler, Morehead City,
I have been named to the judicial
executive committee.
IMr. Davis said that Mr. Hamil
ton replaces Judge Luther Hamil
ton on that committee.
Attending the state convention
were Mr. Davis, Mr. Holland,
Sheriff Salter, M. M. Ayscue, and
Eugene Moore.
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Defendant Pays
$100 on Motor
Vehicle Count
Two Defendants Fined
$50 for Speeding by
Judge Lambert Morris
Francis K. Ryon was fined $100
and costs by Judge Lambert R.
Morris in County Recorder's Court
Thursday when he was found guil
ty of careless and reckless driving.
Ryon was found not guilty of
drunken driving.
Ralph Moore was sentenced to
30 days in jail for public drunken
ness.
Paul G. Carson and Ruche J.
Marino were each fined $50 and
costs for speeding 80 miles, per
hour.
Appeals Judgment
Paul Randolph Johnson was as
sessed costs for following too clo*e.
He noted an appeal with bond set
at $50.
Anthony Gerald Willis was fined
$25 and costs for careless and
reckless driving.
Others fined $10 and costs were
Tilman Allen Taylor, no operator's
license and failure to grant the
right of way; Mathew Mitchell,
careless and reckless driving; Le
roy George Vanas, Robert William
MacFarlanc, and Robert Melvin
Dotson, all for speeding.
Randolph Jones, disturbing the
peace while drunk and disorderly.
The fine was instead of 30 days in
jail.
Manuel B. Sadler was assessed
costs for non-support and must pay
$10 each week for the support of
his minor children or serve one
year on the roads.
. ?- mil Forfeited
Bonds were forfeited by Mack
Monroe Brown, William Jackson
Isley, Jack Alan Rickard, Hubert
Ellison Jones, Thomas Basil Joy
ner, Robert Thompson Garner,
Allic Gray Smith, Alton Rendcll
Willis, Lawrence Joseph Bayer,
Roy Cooledge Holton and James
Ernest Crawford, all for speeding.
Jack Richard Slyger, passing in
face of oncoming traffic; William
M. Corrigan, Leonard Herman Col
lins Jr. and Joseph Gioielli, fol
lowing too close; Dollie H. Smith
and Frank M. Ferraccolo, failure
to stop for stop lights.
Louie Elmer Gillikin, no oper
ator's license; John Ellison and
Robert Sweat, public drunkenness,
and Coolidge Glenwood Russell,
speeding in excess of 75 miles per
hour and improper operator's li
cense.
Costs Assessed
Costs were assessed against the
following: Pearson Willis, no
brakes resulting in an accident;
Hilliard Henry Frie, Robert Lcc
Rupar, Earl Avery and William
Julius Eargle, speeding; Samuel
Egbert Piner, careless and reck
less driving.
Robert D. Stallings, Alex Andre.
Mullen and Nina J. Brown, no
operator's license; Russell H. Ol
son, allowing unlicensed person to
drive; Julius Ray Whorton, allow
ing person to use operator's li
cense, and Tommy Merrill, public
drunkenness. Merrill was given a
suspended 30-day jail sentence on
See COURT, Page 2
James Gilliken, Atlantic, Directs
1 Modern Ballet in Choral Club Show
James Gilliken, Atlantic, I dra
1a and modern dance major at the
University of North Carolina, will
irect the third act of the Beau
fort Choral Club production in
"une.
Mr. Gilliken, who was called
nto the service during his senior
ear at Chapel Hill, has recently
urned from overseas duty with
the Army, and plans to re-enter
Pthc university in the fall.
The third act of the show will
be a production number In classic
Greek style. It will have an un
usual setting, Mr Gilliken says,
and will feature three soloiats with
a woman's chorus.
The scene is a moonlit Roman
garden with a marble fouoUin, aur
nded by Doric columns and
ulptured beauties. Singers ap
on an upper balcony to gaie
(in the scene and as they sing their
love songs, a dream fanUsy Is
ted below in the garden.
A male sprite appears and brings
marble maidens to life with
bewitching dance In the Still
of the Night, So in Love. If I
Loved You and Love ia a Many
Splcndored Thing will be sung by
the soloists. Mr. Gilliken did the
choreography and is directing the
dancers. Lillian Morris. Atlantic;
Joyce and Jean Chadwick, Winki
Willis and Catherine Botter, all of
| Beaufort.
The theme. What is This Thing
Called Love, is interpreted by a
modern ballet dance group. Mr.
Gilliken will dance with the group
and also do a solo number.
Vocal soloists in this act will
be Sal' Palazzo. Beaufort, Iris
Fleming, an attractive newcomer
to the choral group from Newport,
and Guy Smith Jr., Morehead City.
Mr. Smith is graduate of Beau
fort High School and in 1949 won
$100 first prize in the Morehead
City Lions Club talent search.
The entire production is under
the direction of Mrs. Charles Hat
sell, Beaufort. It will be presented
Tuesday and Wednesday nights,
June S and t, in the Beaufort
School auditorium.
Jimet D. GUllken
> . . chore? griphcr
Plans for county health tenters must be approved by the North Carolina Medical Care Ccmirission. Itiis is a view of the health center recently built in Stokes County.
Waters Sf ill Hold Sailor s Body
Wilson Woman
Thanks Policeman
Mrs. Joe Bennett, 1014 W.
Gold St., Wilson, sent a thank
you note last week to Patrolman
Bruce Edwards of the Morehead
City police department.
Mrs. Bennett lost her pocket
book in Morehead City. She
didn't know where she had left
it, but Wilson police contacted |
Morehead City police and men
tioned some of the places Mrs.
Bennett had been.
Patrolman Edwards chccked
and found that the purse had
been left in the rest room of the
Gulf Station at 28th Street. Ed
die Caddell, operator, was hold
ing it, pending claim.
Mrs. Bennett said in her letter, J
dated May 16, "I certainly thank j
the police department of More
head City for the prompt service
they gave me in finding the poc
kctbook which I lost in More
head City. It was a most effi
cient job and I sincerely com
pliment them."
District Officer
Speaks to Lions
District Governor Roy Poole,
Kinston, spoke on the growth of
Lionism at the weekly meeting of
the Morehead City Lions Club
Thursday night at the Hotel Fort
Macon.
Mr. Poole commented on the
rapidly increasing numbers of
Lions and invited all members to
attend the state convention at
Carolina Beach June 3-5, and the
nationa' invention at Miami June
28-30.
James E. Crowe announced that
he would attend the state conven
tion and A. N. Willis and J. B.
Eubanks will attend the national
convention.
Owens Frederick urged the
Lions to continue their work on
the street markers project.
Doris Wilson Charged
Saturday with Assault
Doris Wilson, Beaufort, was
charged with assault Saturday after
she struck Mrs. Ruth Sullivan,
Front Street, Beaufort, with her
fist. She was released under $200
bond.
According to Chief Guy Springle,
Mrs. Sullivan was attempting to
collect money owed her when the
incident occurred. Mrs. Sullivan's
glasses were damaged and she suf
fered a bruised face.
? Efforts to locate the body of
William Roger Maxwell, 18, Negro
apprentice seaman who jumped
from the ship. Standard man over
2:30 p.m. Saturday, had not been
successful by 2:30 p.m. yesterday.
The sailor, from Chattanooga,
Tenn., dove from the stern of the
Soley as it was tied up at the More
head City port in connection with
the Armed Forces Day observance.
Walter W. Pikul Jr.. 19. a fireman
from Tiverton, R. I., dived over the
side in an attempt to rescue Max
well. He was sucked under the
ship and had to fight his way to
the surface, unable to bring up
Maxwell.
Visitors Cleared
As soon as the incident occurred,
all visitors aboard were cleared
from the ship. Stanard man over
board procedure was followed. The
ship's boat was put over the side;
Coast Guard boats dragged the har
bor and three helicopters from Le
jeune scanned local waters all
weekend looking for the body.
Officers aboard the Soley said
that Maxwell took off his shoes and
stockings before he dived. It was
also reported that the sailor dived
overboard to retrieve his hat which
had blown off, but ofliciaU said
that could not be verified until
after testimony is given at a board
of inquiry at Norfolk.
F rogmen Summoned
Frogmei from Cherry P?nt ?r
rived and searched both Saturday
and Sunday for the body. Lines
were strung the length of the ship
and the experienced underwater
swimmers had to keep hold of
them all the time because of the
swift current
When they wanted to be brought
to the surface, the lines had to be
hauled.
It was believed that the body
might be located after the Soley
left yesterday morning, sincc it
might have been caught beneath
the ship. However, efforts to find
it then proved fruitless. Kenneth
Baum, commanding officer of Fort
Macon Coast Guard Station, said
his ipen will make routine searches
daily until the body is found.
Approximately 250 persons were
aboard the Soley when Maxwell
jumped. Eleven hundred persons
visited the ship Sunday.
Cmr. C. R. Witten, captain, ex
pressed thanks to all who co
operated during the unfortunate in
cident and also thanked the town
of Morchead City for its hospitality
during the Solcy's visit.
Directors Will
Meet Tonight
Members of the Beaufort Cham
ber of Commerce Board of direc
tors will meet tonight at 8 p.m. at
the chamber office for their month
ly meeting.
The directors have sent out bal
lots to all members of the chamber
to vote for 12 directors to handle
the reins of the organization for
the coming year, announces Miss
Pat Springle, chamber secretary.
All ballots must be returned by
noon, June 1.
Candidates for the director'#
posts are Jarvis Herring. T. E. Kel
iey, Billy Arrington, Holden Bal
lou, Ronald E. Mason, Dr. W. L.
Woodard, Glenn Adair, E. W.
Downum, Calvin Jones, Charles W.
Stamper, William H. Potter. Clif
ford L?wis, William Roy Hamil
ton.
Paul Jones, Gray Hassell, Wiley
Taylor, Harry Gillikin, George D.
Lewis, J. P. Harris, Norwood
Young. Ray Cummins. Charles Da
vis. Gerald Hill, Gene Smith, Ralph
Albares, H. D. Paul, and C. G. Gas
kill.
The Speedboat Regatta, sponsor
ed by the chamber, will be held
Sunday. June 3. All of the money
needed has been raised for the
event, according to Miss Springle.
The first race is slated to get un
derway at 1 p.m.
('?ma.'
Photo by Jerry Schumichrr
CWO Kenneth Itaum, left, commanding officer of Fort Macon
Coast Guard Station watches two Coast Guard boats drag for the body
of William Maxwell. In the background is the USS Solev, from which
Maxwell, an apprentice seaman, jumped. Its flags are gaily flying in
, observance of Armed Forces Day.
Rites Conducted
For 8-Year-0ld
Drowning Victim
The funeral scrvicc for Carol
Isabelle Lowe. 8-ycar-old girl who
drowned in Bogue Sound Wednes
day. was conducted at 2 o'clock
Sunday afternoon in the Parkview
Baptist Church. Mansfield Park.
The Rev. VV. T. Cockman, pastor,
officiated.
The body was discovered at 8:30
Friday morning in the Morchead
City waterfront channel opposite
Parker's Car Harbor.
Coroner Leslie D. Springlc said
the body was spotted by Femie
Pittman and Samuel Willis in the
Alpha Gray as they were returning
from shrimping. The Coast Guard
requested that they pick the body
up. It was taken to Fort Macon
Coast Guard Station and then
brought to Morehcad City.
Coroner Springlc placed the time
of death at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday
and the cause as accidental drown
ing.
According to observers, Carol
was on an inner tube in front of
her home in Mansfield Park and
either got off or fell off anil- was
I drowned.
! In addition to her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest C. Lowe, she is
survived by the following brothers
and sisters: Walter G., Eloise F.,
Rosalind L. and Ernest C. II, all of
the home; her paternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Lowe,
Greensburg, Ind., and her maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
S. Washburn, Brooklyn. N. Y.
Al Dewey , Dr. Charles
Duffy Win Bridge T rophy
A1 Dewey, Morchcad City, and<
Dr. Charles Duffy, New Bern, were
winners of the Bonner trophy at
the fourth annual Atlantic Beach
Bridge Tournament during the
weekend at the Atlantic Beach Ho
tel. This is the first time that a
Carteret bridge player helped win |
the trophy given by Mrs. Bonner
and the late Dr. K. P. B. Bonner,
Morchead City.
Mr. Dewey and Dr. Duffy won
the open pair event. The tourna
ment. attended by 200 players, was |
conducted by the Carteret County
Bridge League, with Mrs. Frank j
Weisbach, Cincinnati, as director.
Mr. and Mrs. Vic Huggins. I
Chapel Hill, successfully defended
their crown in the mixed pair
event.
Other winners wcrq Mrs. Charles ,
Duffy and Mrs. D. Johnson Lewis.
New Bern, women's pair; Felix
Asby, Raleigh, and Ben W. Elliott j
Jr., Durham, men's pair; Charles j
Fulton. Miss Laura White, and Mr !
and Mrs. A. B F^irley, all of
Raleigh, the open team of four.
In the special games, first north- !
south winners were Mrs. George j
Martin and Mrs. L. W. Edwards,
Greenville. First east-west winners
were C. B. White, and Clarkson I
Meredith, Norfolk.
Second north-south winners were
S. K. Hcdgecock, Morchead City, ?
and Jack Windlcy, Beaufort. Sec
ond east west winners were Mr. and
i Mrs. Calvin Jones, Beaufort.
Sunday Showers
Break Dry Spell
Rain on Sunday broke ? two- i
week dry spell. It was welcomed
by gardeners and farmers but
frowned upon by weekend vara- i
tionists. According to E. Stamey
Davis, weather observer, a high of
84 degrees was recorded Saturday
' and the low of 82 degrees was
registered Thursday and Sunday
The high and low temperatures
anJ the wind directions over the
weekend were as follows:
Max. Min Winds
Thursday 78 82 NE
Friday - 83 83 NE
Saturday 84 83 SE :
Suaday (2 62 NE I
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Safety Check Lanes
Go into Operation
Motorists who would like to
have thicr cars checked for me
chanical defects may do so this
week in Beaufort and Morchcad
City ? any may win a prize in
the bargain!
According to plans announced
yesterday, lanes in Beaufort will
open daily at 3 p.m. and in More
head City the downtown lane will
open at 1 p.m and the lane at
the race track at 3 p.m. Refresh
ments will be given to car occu
pants.
Lanes in Beaufort are at the
bridge and at the 101 and 70
intersection. '
The safety check program will
continue through Friday.
Cars Collide
Tuesday Night
Two cars collided at 10:40 p.m.
Tuesday two miles east of Beau
fort on Highway 70. Driving one,
a 1956 Ford, was Durwood N. Bea
chcm, Sea Level, and driving the
other, a 1954 Lincoln, owned by
Allen T. Leary, Morehead City,
was Mrs. Hazel M. Guthrie, 211
Fulford St., Beaufort.
According to State Highway Pa
trolman R. H. Brown, Mrs. Guth
rie was proceeding west when she
was slowed by traffic leaving the
East Drive-In theatre. She said she
was going between 10 and 15 miles
an hour.
Patrolman Brown said that Bea
chem came up behind the Lincoln
and was blinded by oncoming
headlights. He hit the Lincoln in
the rear. Damage to the Lincoln
was estimated at $150 and damage
to the Ford $200. No one was hurt
and no charges were filed.
Purse Boats Use New Rig
To Haul Nets Mechanically
Capt Wiley Lewis, Beaufort, in
command of the Fish Hawk, will
be using a new device for pulling
in purse seines this summer off
the Jersey coast.
The new equipment consists of
hydraulic blocks for purse boat*.
Ordinarily, as many as a dozen
men arc needed in purse boats to
harden up the net. Now the job
can be done by machinery.
Captain Lewis returned last
week from Fernandina, Fla., where
he saw the new gear in use. The
hauls were heavy ones and the
new equipment did the trick.
A hydraulic block is put in each
of the two purse boats. It is re
ported that on one set 824,000
menhaden were taken with only
one or two men in each purse
boat.
In addition to the Fish Hawk,
the J. Howard Smith fleet will
have three other boats equipped
with the new machinery They will
be the boats fished by Capt. Bon
ner Willis Jr., Capt Berkley
Simpson, both of Beaufort, and
Capt. Fred lloney of New Jersey.
The mechanical hauling equip
ment was invented by a went coast
tuna fisherman. Used successfully
in that fishery, the inventor be
lieved It would be equally success
ful in menhaden fishing.
Captains who have seen the hy
draulic machinery in action say,
"We like it fine. We think it's
going to do the work for us!"
Captain Lewis left Sunday for
New Jersey for the summer fish
ing season. .
Tide* it the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Tuesdiy, May 22
6:30 a.m.
8:56 p.m.
12:36 a m.
12:31 p.m.
Wedaesday, May 21
7:15 a.m.
7:87 p.m.
1:21 a.m.
1:14 p.m.
Thursday, May M
7:37 a.m.
8:17 p.m.
2:02 a.m.
1 :Sfl p.m.
Friday, May 25
8:38 a.m.
8:55 p.m.
2:42 a.m.
2:34 p.m.
Carteret voters will decide at the
polls Saturday if they want ?
health center.
Every registered voter, Republi
can or independent, is eligible to
record his opinion on the health
center, even though Saturday is
the Democratic primary.
The new health center would be
'erected next to the present court
, house annex. Beaufort. Tentative
plans call for a one-story build
, ing containing 2,000 square feet of
floor space.
The building would have an as
sembly room, clerk's office, office
for the health officer, three treat
ment rooms, a laboratory, room
for x-ray equipment, an office for
the sanitarian and a nurses' room.
The center would be similar to
the one now in use at Danbury,
Stokes Co.tnty. The building was
designed by William Moore Weber,
Raleigh architect.
Construction of the building
would be financed by federal, state
and county funds. The county is
required to provide the site for
the building, plus a third of the
cost. That third, approximately
$12,000, has to be borrowed aod
for that reason voters must five
their approval.
For further information on the
health center proposal, see the edi
torial on page l section 2, today's
paper.
Indian Baby Dies
From Bums
Sent to Lumberton for kurial
Friday was the body of Valrie
Wanda Hunt, 19-month-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hunt,
Lumbee Indians who are here har
vesting cabbage.
Valrie died at 2:15 p.m. Friday
in the Morchcad City Hospital
from severe burns suffered when
her clothes caught fire in the mi
grant labor camp on the farm of
Cody White, Russells Creek.
According to Coroner Leslie D.
Springlc, Valrie and her 5-yeaf
old sister, Joanne, were in the
camp while their parents were
working in the fields. Joanne evi
dently got hold of a box of match
es, struck them and caught her
little sister's clothes afire.
Joanne ran and told her mother
and father. When they reached the
baby the clothes had been burned
off, Mr. Springlc said. The child
was rushed to Morehead City Hos
pital in Mr. White's car.
The accident happened at about
11:30 a.m. Graveside services were
conducted in the New Bethel
Church cemetery.
Money Needed
For 75 Markers
Money is on hand for 161 of the
236 ?treet markers needed in the
Morchcad City street marker proj
ect of the Finer Carolina program,
according to Owens Frederick,
chairman.
Mr. Frederick made tfae an
nouncement at a meeting of the
street markers committee Friday
night at the Sanitary Restaurant
He said that $375 is still needed
for 75 more markers.
Only one of the five civic club*,
the Woman's Club, had completed
the canvass of its section as of Fri
day night.
The drive will continue through
June 1. All persons who would like
to make a contribution to the
street marker campaign may do no
by sending their checks to the
treasurer. Dr. Russell E. Outlaw.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to Mr. Frederick and Dr. Out
law. were Miss Alida Willis, Bill
Chalk and Mrs. A. B. Roberts.
Driver Faces
Drunk Charges
Millard Taylor, Greenville, will
appear in County Recorder's Court
Thursday. May 31, on a charge of
driving drunk.
lie was arrested by George
Smith. Morehead township consta
ble. at 5 p.m. Saturday after his
ear had lodged in the shoulder of
the road in front of Mr. Smith's
house on the Salter Path Road.
Mr. Smith said that Taylor, driv
ing a Mercury, drove off Durham
Avenue and entered the Salter
Path Road, but instead of turning
left he went straight across the
road and stuck on the shoulder in
front of the Smith residence.
Mr Smith Investigated and
found Taylor in ( drunken condi
tion, he said.
False Alarm
Morchcad City firemen answered
a false alarm Friday at 7:30 p.m.
sent in from the 1800 Mock of
Fisher StrcaL