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PRIZE- WINNING NEWSPAPER of th? TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '?< 45th YEAR, NO. 60. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY -TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Visit Beautiful More head City One of Morehead City's attractions is this disreputable spot lo cated on the main street leading to the state port. It's an attrac tion, all right. Visitors and a few natives look at It and gasp. "Why do they let such a Junk heap exist?" Not only is this a collection spot for all kinds of Junk which accumulates on land, but for almost Photo by Jerry Schumacher a year it has been the resting spot of the shipwrecked freighter, Omar Babun, which can be seen in the background. The freighter has been declared a hazard to the channel leading to the Morehead City Yacht Basin. Owners of the wrecked buildings have been asked to move them, but haven't done so. Highway Official Writes Letter On Ferry Request H. Maynard Hicks, commission er, sccond highway division, has stated that he hopes "the state will be in a position to build a ferry to connect Highway 24 and Emer ald 4sl? in very near i?Uirc." Mr. Ricks made ttys comment in a letter to Walter Edwards, president of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution requesting the state to provide ferry service to the western end of Bogue Banks. A copy of the resolution was senr to Gov. Luther Hodges, A. H. Gra ham, chairman of the State High way Commission, and Mr. Hicks. Mr. Hicks said that the locating department of the highway com mission has already been asked to make the survey regarding the ferry He said, . . it is my understand ing that this survey will be made right away. In fact, we were hop ing it would be completed by now, but due to the heavy load of work in the state, it has been impossible for them to get to it up until now." Mr. Hicks continued, "1 thor oughly agree with you that in or der to build up the seashorea in North Carolina and for the state to get its share of tourist and summer vacation business, we have got to do everything possible to make our beaches and banks more attractive . . . Thank you and your organiza tion for the fine cooperation I have received from Morehead City and Carteret County..." Three to Judge 4-H Dress Revue Mrs. Delfido Cordova. Mill Alice r I.aughton, both of Morehead City, and Mrs. Roy Eu banks, Beaufort, will be the judges at the 4-H Dreu Revue at 8 o'clock tonight at the American Legion Hut, Beaufort. Kour H Club members modeling dresses will be Donna Bell, a mem ber of the Camp Glenn Juhior Club; Fitly Forrest and Jeanne Mason, members of the Newport Senior Club; Barbara Taylor, mem ber of the Beaufort Senior Club, and Judy Gillikin, member of the Smyrna Senior Club. Mrs. John B. Kelly, county 4-H club leader will crown the health king and queen. There will be a dairy foods and vegetable use demonstration by girls, and electricity and poultry demonstration by boys. The public speaking contest will not taka place tonight because some of the con testants are out of town. Mrs. Kenneth McCkbe. 4-H lead er, Camp Glenn, haa aasiited Mrs. Floy Garner, home agent. In mak ing arrangementa for the revue. Tax Notices Ge Out The majority of Boaufort'1 tax notices have been mailed out Du Walker, town clerk, said all should be in tha hands of town residents by the beginning at uexl week. Second County-Wide Fire School Will Start Monday Jaycees Discuss July Projects Dai/forth Hill, president of the Beau/ort Jaycees, reminded com mittee chairmen of their July pro ject j at the meeting Monday night at (he Scout building. / James Steed and John Jones will f it in charge of the reflector tape Litc-a-Bumper Sale which will take place the first part of July. Also in the early part of next month the Jaycees will sponsor their car wash. Tommy Potter is chairman of the money-raising project. He is also in charge of the Jay cee weinie roast July 18. In charge of the July membership drive is Ronald Earl Mason. The Jaycees discussed the $2, 100 football debt still outstand ing. Bonds fall due in 1958. They decided to aim for raising $700 each year for the next three years to pay the debt off. The football report was presented by Mr. Stead. Ralph A1 bares, chairman, re ported on the beauty pageant. The pageant has been scheduled for next Friday night, June 29. The Jaycees are hoping. to get permis sion to have the show in the Beau fort Theatre. Agossiz Crew, Guests To Attend Party Tuesday Crew members of the Coast Guard cutter Agassis and invited guests will attend a ship's party at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the American Legion hut, Belufort. Eighty per sons are expected. There will be a fried chicken dinner, followed by dancing. As sisting the Coast Gaurdsmen in arrangements for the party were Mayor George Dill, Morehead City, Wilbur Garner, Newport, El Net son, Morehead City, and White Ice Cream and Milk Co. ? The second annual County-Wide' Fire School will get underway Monday night at the Morehead City lire station with registration start ing at 6:30 p.m. All county firemen, members of the Down East Department, Beau fort, Morehead City, Newport and' Atlantic Beach, are eligible to at tend. The school will consist bf night ly sessions next week, ending with a dinner. The night sessions will start at 7:30 and will be held on different nights at Beaufort and Morehead City. Conducting the week's course will be Capt. Otis Dowdy, head of the training department, Charlotte Fire Department. Captain Dowdy conducted the county's first fire school last fall. Men who took last year's course and also complete this year's course will be given cards indi cating that they have attended the second session. All those who take the training will reccivc cards at the dinner. Every fireman in the county is invited to enroll. Marker Making Stops Temporarily Making of concrete street mark ers in Beaufort has bad to be stopped temporarily because the proper kind of cement is not avail able for the markers. Dan Walker, town clerk, said that the master list for numbering of houses has not been prepared as yet and It is not known when the new house numbers will be assigned. The numbering will follow a plan recommended by the League of Municipalities which designates Pollock Street as the dividing line between streets running east and west. Persons living east of Pol lock will live on "East Ann Street," for example, and those liv ing west of Pollock will be on "West Ann Street." Pollock Street is the dividing line between old and new town. News in a Nutshell INTERNATIONAL A CRIPPLED VENEZUELAN airliner, dumping its heavy load of gasoline in a grim struggle for survival, exploded early Wednes day and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean All 74 persons aboard per ished. It was the world's worst diiastcr on a regular airline flight DEFENSE MINUTER Gcorgi Zhukov of Russia assured Yugoslav President Tito Wednesday that the Soviet Union would fight "shoul der to shoulder" with Communist Yugoslavia in any future war. NATIONAL PRESIDENT EISENHOWER is expected to Iscue a new statement on hia second-term intentions af ter he letvea Walter Reed Army Hospital, a White House official has announced. THE U.MMtMM federal school aid bill was approved Wed nesday by the House Rules Com mittee, which had bottled it up for several months because of a brewing fight over public school segregation. STATE TOBACCO GROWERS were warned Wednesday that manufac turing processes for- "synthetic" leaf could displace as' much as 18 to 22 per cent of total fluc-cured production. . MOSQUITOES were given a $100,000 Jolt on Wednesday as I 'resident Eiaenhower authorized the Tederal Civil Defense Direc tor "to make additional specific allottmeiit of funds" to North Caro lina tar areas hit by hurrkancs Uit year. ? ? Six Jaycees To Select Beauty Pageant Entry A committee of six men have been appointed by President Her bert Phillips of the Morehead City Jaycees to select the town's entrant in the Miss North Carolina Pa geant (o be held in Morehead City, July 26-28 Mr. Phillips announced the ap pointment at the weekly meeting of the Jaycees Monday night at the Hotel Foft Macon. The members voted to dispense with having a local pageant since there were too few contestants. The girls will be Judged by the special committee on looks and talent. 'Hal Shapiro reported that the Little League was moving along very well, though bigger crowds would be appreciated. Committee chairmen for the Misa North Carolina Pageant made re ports, Floyd Chadwick, chairman of the program committee, announced that $1,280 worth of advertising for the program had been sold, but the campaign is not complete. Carl Sepmeyer was appointed as chairman in charge of parking. Joe Beam, chairman of entries, announced that between 35 and 90 contestants are expected to take part in the pageant. Paul Cordova reported on hous ing, L. E. Kelly on the trailers, Marion Mllla on the parade and Bob Davii on publicity. David Willia was a guest at the meeting. Harry Lockay to S?rvo As Soil Supervisor Harry Lockey, Newport, has been recommended to replace Floyd Garner. Newport, on the county board of soil supervisors. Mr. Lockey will serve the unex pired term of Mr. Garner who re signed Jan. 18. The unexpired term, according to David Jones, aoil conservationist, is one year. Tide Table TMcs at the Bewfert Bar HIGH LOP Friday, Jum 22 7:34 a.m. 1:41 a.m. 7:54 p.m. 1:3S p.m Saturday, iaae 23 8:17 a.m. 2:20 a.m 6:31 p.m. 2:14 p.m Saaday, June 24 8:M a.m. 2:M a.m 9:(M p.m. 2:93 p.m Monday, Juae U ( 33 a.ai. 341 a.m 6:44 p.m.. 3:30 p.m Tueaday, Jut M 10:11 ajn. 4:09 a m 10: 18 pju. 4:0 1 pJB Plaintiff Wins Eudy-Moore Case ; Court Continues Today Blaze Seriously Damages Smyrna Teacherage Monday Woman Driver Pleads Guilty Defendant Pays $100, Costs, Given 90-Day Suspended Sentence Mrs. Dandy Moore Guthrie pled guilty to driving drunk before Judge Herbert Phillips in More head City Recorder's Court Mon day and was fined $100 and costs. She was given a suspended 90-day jail sentence on condition that she be on good behavior for one year. Philemon Shaw Becton was fined $250 and costs for driving after his license had been revoked. He was given a suspended six-month roads sentence on condition that he be on good behavior for two years. Charges of operation of a motor vehicle after his license had been revoked, against William B. Tedes co, and aiding and abetting in il legal operation of motor vehicle against Frank G. Pearson, were transferred to Superior Court when both defendants requested jury trials. Joseph Smith was fined $25 and costs for no operator's license and following too closely, with the full fine to be remitted provided he obtians corrective eye glasses with in one month. Fines of $25 and costs. with the full fine to be remitted provided the defendants present valid li censes within two weeks, were levied against Lenestcr D. Eu banks. Ernest Robert Butler Jr. and Dora Mann, til charged with ft operator's license* Harrison Horton, charged with being drunk and disorderly, de stroying property and assault on a 17-month-old baby, forfeited bond and a warrant was issued for his apprehension. Cost* were assessed against Don ald L Bell, speeding, and Irvin Walter Whitchurst, public drunk enness. Charges of operating a motor ve hicle after his license had been re voked, operating a truck after his license had been revoked and sell ing produce without a peddler's li cencc against Rollins Douglas Mum ford were left open for future prosecution. Charges of no operator's license against Arthur Ray Robinson and no license plates on vehicle, against Dave Strickland, were dropped. Alexander McKinley Jones was found not guilty of speeding. Cases were continued against Lon Piner, Leamon Wynn, George V Mintzncr, Clarence Medlin, Rich ard W. Adams, and Joe Nathan Gaskins. ? The teacherage at Smyrna, home 4 of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Dail, was seriously damaged by tire Monday nght. In addition to damage to the building, many of the Dails' personal belongings, including wedding gifts, were destroyed. Mr. Dail is principal of Smyrna School and his wife is a member of the faculty. They had been visiting for several days at Buie's Creek and drove into the yard of the teacherage just a few minutes ahead of the fire trucks Monday night. The blaze started on the second floor and was discovered by peo ple in the neighborhood at about 9:30 pm. Men carried out furni ture on the first floor, as well as the electric stove and washing ma chine, but could not get to the second floor where the fire was blazing. Furniture, clothing, as well as china, silver and linens were consumed by the flames. Building Insured The building is owned by the county, and insured. The Dails were reported to have carried some insurance on their belongings. The Beaufort Fire Department was called at 9:50 p.m. and stayed at the scene two and a half hours. The Beaufort town truck pumped water from a nearby ditch and kept the entire teacherage from being destroyed. They also pre vented the blaze from spreading next door to the E. H. Heady resi dence. The Down East fire truck was on the scene too. The furnishings saved from the teacherage were placed in the first floor of the Heady home. Cause Unknown It is not known how the fire started, but the general belief is that it started from the wirt(^!- ft is also conjectured that ligbining may have hit the house, since two houses in Marshallberg were struck by lightning during an early Mon day morning thunderstorm. Whatever the cause, the fire evi dently smoldered a long time be fore breaking out into flames. Mrs. Heady reported that when she first saw the fire, the middle bedroom on the second floor was ablaze. Men in the neighborhood tried to put it out with a garden hose prior to arrival of the Beaufort fire truck. The people of Smyrna expressed their appreciation to the Beaufort firemen for their assistance. This is the second time the teacherage has caught fire. It was damaged by fire about 10 years ago when Thomas Hood was principal at Smyrna. Then the roof had to be replaced. This time the repair will consist of considerably more than that. The Daila are living with neigh bors and friends. County Requests $372,871 To Drain Farmland Streams Carteret is requesting $372,871.00 in federal Civil Defense funds for emergency drainage of agricultural lands. The opportunity to ask for money to finance clearance of streams, clogged by last fall's hurricanes, is now closed. Farmers whose lands were affected by the storms as a result of poor stream drainage con tacted Gray Hassell, consultant en gineer for the county, if they want ed the situation corrected. The money which the county hopes to get for agriculture drain age cannot be used to repair shore lines. build jetties or any other project of that type. Mr. Hassell Herbert Utley Dies Yesterday Herbert Barker Utley, 87, for mer publisher of the Morehead City Twin City Times, died sud denly yesterday morning of a heart attack at the Fort Macon Hotel, Morehead City, where he had been making his home. Mr. lltley had purchased the Herald in 1930 from F. C. Salis bury, and changed the name of the publication to the Twin City Times. He sold the paper in IBM. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Morehead City. Surviving are two nieces. Funeral arrangements were In definite yesterday pending the ar rival of hi* nieces. said he had a difficult time ex plaining to ?ome persons that thii present application la foe correc tion of farmland drainage only. Civil Defense la not even aure that the money will be available. An extra six million dollara has been included in a Congressional bill appropriating Civil Defense funds, but it ia not earmarked for any particular state. It ia merely hoped that the money will come to North Carolina because the extra amount was included at the requeet of the North Carolina delegation. The request for Carteret ia broken down by streams and in cludes Newport River, on which an extensive survey ?u made by the Soil Conaervation department. Killing out of the application* for Carteret's request was under way yesterday. The application will be taken to Thomasville, Ga., by Earl Mader of the FCDA. Thomas ville ia headquarters for Civil De fense region 3 which includes North Carolina. Newport Rotary Club S?% Movi* Monday Walter Robertson, Insurance rep resentative, showed a film on fire prevention at the weekly meeting of the Newport Rotary Club Mon day night at the Community Build ing. Mr. Robertson waa introduced by program chairman Lloyd Garner. C. S. Long, program chairman for the coming year, offered 29 topics to the club member* from which they choec their favorite*. Save a Life! $500! Your contributions can send this thermometer up to ISM, the minimum amount needed to pur chase a resuseitator for Bogue Banks. For more details on this Life-Saving Fund, initiated as the result of the drowning of college student Virginia Capps, see editorial page 1 section t. Police Captain Fjniste&Cojirse Apt. Buck ttewsome of the Morehead City Police Department Das successfully completed a course n typewriting and handwriting inalysis, firearms, fingerprinting, Photography and criminal investi gation. Captain Newsome was notified resterday by T. D. Cooke, director Capt. Bock NewiMt . . . now a graduate >( the Institute of Applied Science. Chicago, III., that he had passed he final examination. Captain Newsome who has been iveraginf 94 in the correspondence courses, said he was a bit worried ibout the final exam. In addition o 20 sets of fingerprints he had 0 classify, there were other ques ions and problems covering all in itruction offered since Captain Mcwsome enrolled in the course in )ctober 1965. The officer undertook the course >n his own and financed It. He has >een a member of the Morehead ?ity police force since Dec. 8, 1945. State Proceeds On Bridge Plans The State Highway and Public Works Commission hopes to let :ontracts for the new Beaufort >ridge and 4111 in August, accord ng to J. G. Glbbs, chief location ;ngineer. Mr. Gibbs conferred with Mayor Clifford Lewis, Gray Haasell, town engineer, and Dan Walker, town :lcrk, Tuesday afternoon at the own hall. The state is drawing up requests or bids now. The new bridge will >e located at Cedar Street. Cedar Itreet will be paved to its inter icction with Live Oak Street Highway 70). The bida for the road paving will lot be let until bridge conatruc ion proceeds far enough ao that >oth the bridge and road will be completed together. Mr. Gibbs estimates It wiU take 1 year to 18 months to build the Midge. The present bridge will rc ttftin in Ufci during ronirtfwtlfflii ? The Jury returned i verdict yes terday afternoon in favor o( Mrs. Lounette Eudy, Beaufort, in the case against Leslie and Eric Moore, trading as The Fashion Shop, Beau fort. The case started in Superior Court Wednesday. By virtue of the verdict, Mrs. Eudy will receive $910 in back salary. The court session over which Judge Malcolm Paul is presiding, will continue today. Mrs. Eudy claims that she had been hired by the Moores as man ager of their shop for a two-year period, with the following condi tions: She was to receive $57.50 per week, she was to have one week vacation with pay, one week sick leave with pay, to have a 20 per cent discount on everything she bought at the store for herself and her daughter, and was to re ceive 1 per cent override on every thing sold over $60,000 gross at the end of the first year. Change Made As to the discount, she testified that this was changed about two months after she started working, so that she paid cost for all outer clothing such as dresses, suits and coats. The Moores claimed in court that she had been hired on a one-year basis, with an adjustment to be made in her salary at the end of the first year, cither up or down depending upon the business done by the store. Cut Announced In her testimony, Mrs. Eudy stated that on the last Friday in October in 1954, less than a year after she had started working at The Fashion Shop, she was told that if she stayed on at the end of the first year she'd have to take a cut to $30 per week. She said that she told Leslie Moore at that time that he wasn't living up to their two-yea* agreement. Acconling to her testimony, and Mr. Moore's, she was told at that time so that she cftuld find other employment if the arrangement wasn't to her lilting. She then obtained employment at Potter's, a Beaufort dress ahop, where ahe was paid $40 per week atf<V "clerl "Her suit against the Moore'a, which was instituted by har attorney Claud Wheatly, Nov. 28, 1954, was to recover the differ* ence in pay between the $57.50 she was supposed to receive from The Fashion Shop for one year and the $40 per week she received from Potter's. Starts Work She started her employment at The Fashion Shop on Dec. 7, 1953, after having two conversationa with Leslie Moore in front of her home,, and one at the shop with Leslie, Eric Moore and Leslie'* wife in attendance, she told the court. She showed in court a piece of paper, upon which Leslie Moore had written the terma of the agree ment and which stated that she waa to receive a week's vacation for the firat year and two weeks thereafter. See COURT, Page 2 Two Marines Hurt As Cars Smash Two Cherry Point Marines were injured in a four-car smash-up at 32nd and Arendell St., Morehead City, at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday. One of the Marines, Nicholas Ralnlkow, was driver of a 1853 Ford convert ible, and the other Marine, un identified, was riding with him. The unidentified passenger was taken to Cherry Point dispensary for treatment of a badly injured right foot and leg which was dragged along the street when the car door opened. The car skid one hundred feet, aocording to Patrol man Waiter Thomas, who investi gated. Ralnikow suffered ? chest In jury. The convertible had four other passengers in it. They were tsken to the Morebead City Hos pital in the Dill ambulance and then to Cherry Point The con vertible was demolished. Driver of a 1851 Buick. which police say Ralnikow tried to paaa on the right, was Clyde D. Ed wards, 1203*4 Shackleford Ave., Morehead City. With him waa hia wife. Damage to tke Buick waa estimated at *75. ? The other two cars Involved were parked on Arendell Street. One, a Pontiac owned by William Lippman, 1022 Hlt)bs St, Greens boro, was damaged to the extent of *1,500. That waa struck first by the convertible awl the intend to be struck was a 1850 Ford poked in front of the Pontiac. The Ford is owned by Beftasrd W. Weeber, 3203 AreaMl. Its damage waa es timated at *200. The parked ears were haadid east Ralnikow wu alao handed east He has been charged with cafelu* and fecUcas driving.
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