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TAR HEEL COAST
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
46th YEAR, NO. 45. " TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 6. 1966 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY8
Petitioners Ask
For New Bridge
To Harkers Isle
County Board Asks
State to Male* Survey
From Lennoxville
Petitions, bearing hundreds of
names and asking for a bridge
from Lennoxville Point to the
Straits-Harkers Island section, were
presented to the county board yes
terday morning by Elwood Willis,
Marshallberg.
Mr. Willis said the petitions re
quest that the sUte survey the
possibility of placing a bridge and
fill across the area.
Appearing to support Mr. Wil
lis's recommendation were Glenn
Adair, Beaufort, Capt. Jim Har
kcr. Fernie Willis, David Yeomans,
Ernest Parker, Walter Nelson and
Earl Johnson, all of Harkers Is
land.
Mr. Adair said that since the
state has announced plans to put
another bridge across North River
at about the same place where the
present bridge is, the petitioners
thought it might be well to inves
tigate the possibility of building,
a Lennoxville - Harkers Island
bridge instead, leaving the pres
ent North River bridge as is.
He said it would save money,
save time, and make the down cast
section of the county more acces
sible. Mr. Adair added that it
might cost a bit more than the
three-quarter million dollars ear
marked for a new North River
bridge, but would be of more lalue.
He said that since there is not
much boat traffic through the area,
a draw probably would not be
necessary and several marshes
along the route could be filled. He
said the fill would serve to lessen
the storm tides which now hit the
North River bridge farther up
stream.
Commissioner Harrell Taylor
spoke in favor of the plan and
Captain Harker said such a bridge
would increase the value of Har
kers Island land.
Mr. Adair said that persons in
favor of the proposal would be hap
py to meet with Maynard Hicks,
highway commissioner.
The board accepted the petitions
and passed a motion suggesting
that the SUte Highway and Public
Works Commission make the aur
vey.
0? other road matters, the board
requcaf.-d that persons who appear
ed beffc-c them yesterday relative
to re-routing a road from Highway
70 northward to the Country Club
Road have a petition signed by
property owners, granting a 80-foot
right-of-way.
Mrs. Addic Taylor reported that
John Dcibert, who had formerly re
fused to allow any of his property
to be used for a road, had agreed to
grant a right-of-way elsewhere on
his property.
David Yeomans, Harkers Island,
asked if the state had made any
decision on paving an island road
that leads to the cemetery. The
board authorized the clerk, Irvin
Davis, to write the highway depart
ment to inquire what action had
been taken.
Alton Honeycutt of the North
Carolina Employment Security
Commission appeared . before the
board and explained how the com
mission makes a "position classifi
cation study" on government em
ployees. The study, he said, forms
a basis for compensation and pro
motion.
He said that the study would be
made at no cost to the county other
than for a typist and a place for
her to work The county accepted
his proposal and authorized the
county auditor, James Potter, to as
sist Mr. Honeycutt where necessary.
Cars Crash Head-On on Causeway
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Photo by Jerry Schumacher
These two cars met head-on at 5:20 p.m. Friday on the Reaufort-Morehead City causeway. Mrs. Shir
J ley Smith Ervin, 310 Live Oak St, Beaufort, was driver of the Nash, and a Negro was driver of the De
Soto. State Highway Patrolman W. J. Smith investigated. Mrs. Ervin and her two sons were treated
for head and face injuries. Both cars were demolished. Mrs. Ervin has been charged with improper
passing. The patrolman said she was trying to pass a pickup truck in the face of oncoming traffic.
County Board OKays Budget
Of $730,082 for 1956-57
,
Patrolman
Checks on Five
Weekend Wrecks
j As if shootings, cuttings and
theft* weren't enough, cars con
tinued to pile Into each other all
weekend.
State Highway Patrolman R. H.
Brown investigated no less than
five accidents from Friday at 11
p.m. to Sunday at 11:30 p.m.
Foster Willard Smith, Broad
Creek, suffered a broken leg
when he was struck at 1:43 Sun
day morning on the highway SO
feet from the intersection of High
ways 24 and 70, west of Morehemd
City. Smith said that whatever hit
him did not stop.
The hit and run victim was dis
covered by several Marines and
about 10 minutes later State High
way Patrolmen Brown and W. J.
Smith Jr. arrived. Smith was taken
to Morehead City Hospital in the
Dill ambulance.
He told Patrolman Brown that
he had hitched a ride from At
lantic Beach with a carload of men.
He said they asked him to get
them some liquor and he told them
he couldn't.
Then they put him out on High
way 70 and he walked back to
the intersection and was on High
way 24 when he said something
hit him.
Two Citation*
Joseph H. Minder, Camp Le
jcunc, was charged Sunday night,
after an accident near the Blue
Ribbon Club, with failing to yield
the right of way and going the
wrong way in a one-way lane.
8ee WRECK, rage 6
County Defers Action
On Three Beer Requests
County commissioners deferred
action (or 30 days yesterday on
three requests (or beer permit*.
The requests came from Charles
R Sloan Jr., who operates Char
lie's Bar, Atlantic Beach; Archie
Fleming, who operates Fleming's
Fishing Pier, and Paul Joyce, who
applied (or a permit (or Smilty's
Drive-In, west o( Newport. Joyce
was given little encouragement on
his application.
The board also appointed a
county airport commission. Mem
bers are M. T. Mills, Edgar Swann.
Luther Hamilton Jr., all o ( More
head flty. Dr. John Way, Beau
(ort. and Dr. Herbert Webb, Sea
Level.
The board specified that they
shall serve four years, or the num
ber of years as specUied by the
law creating the airport commis
sion.
Architect ?ifirti 1
Robert Stephens, architect, re
ported to the board that the new
county jail plans had been ap
proved by state agencies concerned
and said that plans were on (ile
ia the sheriff s office where coo
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tractors could refer to them. Bids
will be opened June 14.
Commissioner Odell Merrill, a
member of the health center com
mittee. reported that the architect
employed to build the center must
be approved by the N. C. Medical
Care Commission.
Marion Holland. FHA area sup
ervisor, appeared before the board
and requested space for the FHA
office He said the office is now
located in a customs office in the
postoffice building. The board
said they would investigate and
contact FHA by mail.
Agent Introduced
R. M. Williams, county agent,
appeared before the board and in
troduced Fred Knott, new asaistant
farm agent He also proposed that
his office cloae on Saturday morn
ings and open a half an hour ear
lier during the week, at S a.m. The
board approved with the stipula
tion that the office return to Sat
urday morning hours if the farm
ers felt such necessary
Carroll Ballou. Morehead City,
appeared before the board with a
8m boabd, rage a
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Coast Guardsman
Seriously Hurt
Harvey Taylor Jr., Harkers Is
land, remained in an unconscious
condition in the Morehead City
Hospital yesterday, suffering from
injuries received at 11 o'clock
Thursday night in an automobile
accident on the Merrimon Road.
Taylor, who is stationed aboard
the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Ab
secon, was driving his 1953 Buick
along the road when he lost con
trol on a curve and turned over.
Tht car was demolished.
Taylor suffered a severe brain
concussion and was reported to
be in a serious condition.
State Highway Patrolman W. J.
Smith investigated the wreck.
Earl Taylor, Beaufort,
Buys County Properties
Earl Taylor, Beaufort, was suc
cessful bidder yesterday on two
properties offered for sale by the
county at noon at tlie courthouse
door.
Mr. Taylor bid $300 on a house
on the airport property and $1,500
on the former ABC store on Tur
ner Street, Beaufort.
? The County Board of Commis
sioners approved a 1956-57 budget
of $730,082.32 at its monthly meet
ing yesterday at the courthouse,
Beaufort
This is $51,033.43 in excess of
the $679,048 89 budget for the fis
cal year of 1955-56.
The largest increase is in the
school fund. That is $20,000. The
second largest, $16,752, is in the
health fund and the third largest,
$12,432.06, in the welfare fund.
The general fund increase, $7,
407 is accounted for in part by the
addition of a salary of $2,340 for
a radio operator at Morchead City
police station and an additional
$500 yearly for the county library.
The debt service increase of $5,
648.63 was caused by recent bond
issues.
The 1956-57 budgets for the five
county departments arc: general
fund $276,470; health fund $34,
752; welfare fund $84,208.95;
school fund $95,500; debt service
$239,151.37.
While the 1956 valuation is
$36,000,000 and the tax rate $1.35,
a seven per cent allowance is made
for delinquencies in tax payments.
Thus tax collections are estimated
at $454,068 rather than at 100 per
cent, $486,000.
Other incomc, all estimated on
prior years' collections, brings to
tal estimates 1956-57 county In
come to $730,082.32.
Cash balance as of July 1, 1956,
is estimated at $139,170.49.
Of the $450,583.43 tax levy for
1955, Tax Collector Eugene Moore
reported collections to date of
$408,581.06.
Uncollcctcd in land taxes are
$33,660.34 and in personal taxes
$8,342.03.
Mr. Moore stated that personal
taxes were the most difficult to col
lect but that be was resorting to
garnishceing both salaries and bank
accounts where either or both are
found to exist.
The board declared that Mr.
Moore's 1955 books were in order
1 and that the 1956 books be turned
over to him so that hit office can
begin mailing out 1956 tax notices.
News in a Nutshell
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INTERNATIONAL
SEVERAL MEMBERS of Prime
Minister Nehru's All-India Con
gress Party were injured Sunday
night as mobs, enraged by Nehru's
unyielding stand against determ
ining Bombay's future along lan
guage lines, attacked him and his
party. Nehru escaped harm.
NINE MEMBERS of a wedding!
party, including the bride and
groom, were killed Sunday near
Sheffield, England, when their
station wagon crashed into a bus.
The collision was labeled the worst
road accident In the hlatory of the
area.
NATIONAL
CIGARETTE SMOKING is get
ting back to normal after a two
to three-year slump, with many
Americans switching to king-sized
filter tips. But, according to the
Internal Revenue Service, cigar
and pipe smoking ia In "steady de
cline" while snuff manages to hold
tta own.
REPRESENTATIVE V0RY8 (R
Ohio) reported Sunday that the
Pentagon would go along with a
129-nilIion-dollar cut in overseas
arms aid but feels a proposed bil
lion dollar slash is "politically and
militarily unacceptable."
- STATE
STATE LEGISLATORS are mak
ing plans to attend the special
session of the assembly which will
convene at Raleigh July 23.
TWO PLANES crashed within
an hour and 19 minutes, killed
two and left a third person injured
Sunday as tragedy stalked Selma's
Aviation Show. The crashes took
place in view of the WOO persons
who attended.
MOKE ARRESTS were made in
Greensboro Sunday in the wide
spread narcotics crackdown. The
crackdown started on Friday and
included three arrests at Martins
ville, (our at Greensboro on Sat
urday and an arrest at Raleigh
Ion Sunday.
Negro Held for Shooting
'Sister's Suitor' Sunday
Thief Takes $360
At Owens Home
Chief of Police Reports
Box, Where Money Was |
Kept, Found in Yard
Durwood Owens, 113 '4 Broad
St., Beaufort, reported to police
Sunday morning that he had been
robbed sometime during the night
of $360.
Owens, who had not spent the
night at home, discovered the
theft when he returned home early
Sunday morning. The money, he
said, was kept in a small metal
box in a chest of drawers in his
bedroom.
Chief of Police Guy Springle,
who investigated, said that the
front door to the house was not
securely locked and the burglar
probably entered by merely push
ing it hard. The bedroom was
ransacked. The small metal box
was not locked. Owens said. That
was found in the back yard.
Chief Springle said that finger
prints were taken from the chest
of drawers, and the box.
Owens reported that he spent
the night with his sister, Mrs.
Louis Willis, 306 Cedar St.
Oaksmith Home
Burns Yesterday
The historic Oaksmith home
stead. west of Morehead City, burn
ed to the ground at 11 o'clock yes- 1
terday morning. Morehead City
firemen answered the call but could
not save the dwelling which was in
a deteriorated state.
The home, reported to be built
in 1825, was the center pf many ro
mantic tales of this section. Until
about a year ago it was occupied
by Geraldine Oaksmith. who is now
living in New York City.
The home was seriously damaged j
by recent hurricanes. It has been j
the subject of vandal attack and in
a rash of robberies carried out by
some youths last year, was ran
sacked.
The house was once the center of
a large plantation and was located
off Highway 70 at the rear of the
Asphalt and Petroleum Co. truck
terminal.
Firemen didn't know how the
blaze started.
Father Byron
To Leave Friday
Father Paul Byron, pastor at St.
Egbert's Catholic Church, More
head City, will leave Friday to take
over his duties as administrator
at the Immaculate Conception
Church in Durham.
The interim appointment for
Father Byron at Durham will last
at least one year, he said. Replac
ing Father Byron as spiritual
leader in Morehead City for the
Catholic faith will be Father Wal
ter Higgina, a native of Camden,
N. J., whoae last pastorate was at
Spruce Pines.
Father Byron came to Morehead
City in January IBM after being
pastor at Asheboro. He also served
at Whitevllle, Wayneaville, Wake
Forest and Raleigh.
He is a native of Albany, N. Y.
James E. Stanley Gets
Five-Day Sentence
James Edward Stanley, More
head City, was sentenced to five
days in jail for indecent exposure
by Judge Herbert phlllips In More
bead City Recorder's Court yes
terday Stanley was apprehended
May 25 in front of the Morehead
City Colonial Store.
Judge Phillips told the defen
dant that he should seek psychia-|
trie assistance.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufert Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, June 5
4:45 a.m. 10:47 a.m.
5:14 p.m. ' 11:44 p.m.
WetoMday, Jut ?
5:41 a m 11:40 a m.
6:09 p.m.
Thursday, June 7
8:34 a.m. 12:37 a.m.
7:00 p.m. 12:33 p.m.
Friday, June ?
7:2# ? m. 1 28 a.m.
7.51 p.m. 1.23 pja.
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Mayor Will Testify
In Washington
Mayor George W. Dill, More
head City, will appear tomorrow
in Washington, D. C., before a
sub-committee on appropriations
to present testimony on Moro
head City harbor.
The mayor will point out the
need for deepening the harbor
to 35 feet to permit larger car
goes to move in and out.
Mayor Dill will fly to Wash- i
ington and return by air either i
tomorrow or Thursday. He was
requested to testify ty Congress- |
man Graham A Barden.
Unknown Man
Slashes Woman
Naomi Worthy, 504 Ms Pollock
St., Beaufort, was in Morehead
City Hospital yesterday, recover
ing from cuts she received Sunday
by an unknown intruder who en
tered her home, she told police.
Chief of Police Guy Springle
said that the slashing occurred at
noon Sunday. The victim said the
man came through the window in
front of her house. She asked him
what he wanted and in reply he
gashed her at the left side of her
neck and the left side of her back.
George Worthy, the victim's hus
band. told Chief Springle that
when he got into the room, he
saw a man running south on Pol
lock Street but could not identify
him.
Yesterday Worthy, who had
meanwhile gone to Morehead City
and was pickcd up by police on
a public drunk charge, told the
chief that "the man was real
dark, slender, weighed about 175
pounds and was between 35 and
40 years old."
Naomi Worthy has recently re
tirniei to the county after serv
ing time in prison at Raleigh.
$415 Received
For Recreation
By yesterday only $415 had been
received to finance Beaufort's sum
mer recreation program. James H.
Davis, treasurer reported. This is
half the amount needed to operate
the program from June 18 to Aug.
18.
Director of the program will be
Hugh Gordon, Beaufort football
coach, who will be assisted by
Jimmy Owens in supervising
swimming and baseball games.
The program Is open to children
age 8 and up. The Beaufort Jun
ior Woman's Club this year la
sponsoring raising of funds. The
money is used to pay the direc
tors and to buy baseball equip
ment.
It is obtained through private
donation and through contribu
tions by businessmen.
Norman Willis Held
On Wife-Beating Charge
Norman Willis, Sunset Lane,
Beaufort, has been released under
$750 bond on a charge of beating
up his wife Saturday.
Assistant Chief of Police Carlton
Garner served a warrant on Willis
after Mrs. Willis placed the charge
of assault against her husband. She
was treated at Morehead City Hos
pital and discharged.
Charles Salter, Morehead,
Recovers in Hospital
A Morehead City Negro, Matthew Mitchell, is being held
under $500 bond in Morehead City on charges of shooting
a white man early Sunday morning at Mitchell's home. Ac
cording to Mitchell, the man he shot, Charles Delford Sal
ter, Morehead City, was making advances to Mitchell's
sister, Beatrice. :
Salter was shot through the lower part of his chest, on
inc ngni mot. nia tunuiuun jwci-'
day noon at the Morchcad City
Hospital was reported as good.
Police report that the shooting
occurred at 1:40 a.m. Sunday at
1004 H Avery St., Morchcad City.
Returns Home
Mitchell. 21 years of age. who is
employed as a presser at Newport
Dry Cleaners, told a NEWS-TIMES
reporter yesterday that he was re
turning to his home from Dudley's
about 1 a.m. Sunday. (Dudley's is
a restaurant in the Negro section
of town )
He said from the side of the
house he saw Salter sitting with
his sister, Beatrice, in her bed
room. '
Then he said he went to the front
of the house and knocked on the
front door. When he found the
door unlocked, he walked in. Com
ing tow ai d him were Salter and his
sister.
"Then," he said, "Salter and
Beatrice went into the kitchen and
I went and sat down on her bed,
staying there for about 20 minutes.
"From there I went to my bed
room and laid down. I got up later
and walked into the kitchcn where
Salter was leaning over my sister
as though he were kissing her. I
told him to leave the house and
when he didn't, I shot him." Po
lice said that Mitchcll used a .22
rifle.
Walks Home
The wounded Salter walked from
the house to his home at 1006
Fisher St. and then was taken to
the hospital by a neighbor, Gerry
Minor.
Wl*n Morchcad City police wtere
notified, Wty went to the Mitchell
residence. It was 2:11 a.m. Ac
cording to Lt. Carl Bunch, who
went there with Patrolman Bill
Condie, Mitchell could be seen
holding the rifle.
They knocked at the door sev
eral times, but got no answer. Then
they kicked the door in. They
found Mitchell lying on the bed.
Under the bed they found the rifle,
where Mitchell had apparently put
it when he heard the officers.
In the kitchen the policemen
found the spent shell. Lieutenant
Bunch said Mitchcll denied the
shooting at first, but later told
them what had happened.
He also said that Salter had been
to his house last summer to visit
some Negro boys who were staying
there.
Police said that Mitchell has a
good reputation and had never
been in any trouble before.
Driver Issued Citation
After Saturday Wreck
Derwood Lee Chadwick, Straits,
was charged with driving drunk
and careless and recklesa driving,
when his 1895 Ford collided with
? 1941 Plymouth driven by Mrs.
Norman Goodwin Boyd at 8:09
Saturday night. The accident oc
curred at 8th and Bridges Streets,
Morehead City.
Mrs. Boyd was traveling west
when Chadwick. dri' ing on tl|e
wrong side of the road, (truck
her vehicle in the right front fen
der, police report.
Capt. Buck Newsome investi
gated and issued the citation. He
estimated damage to the Boyd car
at 850.
Two Young Men
Save U-Year-Old
Girl at Beach
Morehead City, c.n thu.k H.roW
Willis, Beaufort, and Andy Den
mark, Baleigh. a pair of
young men, for saving her life i y e*
tcrday. They pulled her ou ot vh
waters at Fort Maeon State Parle
31 The "girl went swimming and
said she got out too tir.
j D. Young, pastor of Ann Stree
Methodist Church, Beaufort, and
Kenneth Swain, Beaufort^ who
were at the bcach, noted her
PlSwain ran down the boardwalk
to call the lif.guards who wer
busy unloading asphalt 'hmgles
since the beach hasn t as *?' ***?
officially opened for ?wmumng_
The boys ran approximately 300
yards across the beach and out
400 yards in the water to pull the
X in She was given artificial
respiration by the lifeguards and
Morehead City firemen r"'?n^1<{
with their respirator on ? call
their rescue iob ^n^
was wearing walking shorts, *??
. considerable sum of money when
he pulled off hia shorts
out to the girl. Anyone fjn^1
the money will receive a liberal
Mis^' Willis at the time
was Katherine Robinson. aUo o
Morehead City. The gitU W
walked toward the park from At
lantic Bcach.
Officer Cites
Seven Saturday
Garner Saturday. All were charged
with public drunkenness and pu
in iail under *25 bond.
C?:y sWndC/ich" X all of
rrfc0' AdWam eK^: ^
tort FU-, Robert Modlin. Beau
fort,' and a Puerto Rican who i?
working on local farms. , ,t
Officer Garner said he couldnt
understand the Puerto WeaaM*
the man couldn t write his name.
are docketed for appearance
in recorder s court ThuS**- _ ,
Served Saturday on Eddle Col
lins, Beaufort, was a iramnt
sworn out by his wife, Ollie May.
charging him with ?oMuPP?rt
Officer Garner said CoUina w,,
released under $350 bond. He us
scheduled to appear in court
Thursday.
Twelve planes, bringing vacation
ists to this area landed at the Beau
fort-Morehead airport over the
weekend.
Choral Club Presents Dazzling
Summer Revue Tonight, Tomorrow
Gay Smith Jr., left. ?d Garlaad NottW will be futarfd aatalata
la the Chard Club *ow. TfcfccU M} to bM|H at Ike ?Mr.
The biggest and most spectacular
show ever presented by the Choral
Club of Beaufort will be given to
night and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at
the Beaufort School auditorium.
Offering appeal for all tastes in
music, the show will be divided
into four acts.
As a special feature, Mrs. Ralph
Hancock, former Choral Club mem
ber and now of Salt Lake City,
Utah, will sing solos between acta.
Mrs. Hancock is a former resident
of Harkers Island and Beaufort.
The first act is a beach scene
and will feature a group of beau
tiful models displaying the new
est beach wear from four leading
stores in Beaufort and More head
City.
A scene from the musical. Porgy
and Bess by George Oershwin,
will be the second aet Singing
the title roles will be Mrs. Her
see saow, np i