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46th YEAR. NO. 51. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGE8 MOREHEAD CfrY AND BEAUFORT, NOBTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 26. 1966 PlJBLJSHED TUESDAYS AND HUPAYB
Negro Held in Connection
With Bodiford House Break
Beta* held ip the county Jail in
connection with breaking and en
tering the S. M. Bodiford house.
Beaufort, early Sunday morning U
II ay ray Henderson, Whitestone,
Va.
He was apprehended by Sheriff
Hugh Salter late Sunday morning
after members of the Bodiford
family told police that he entered
the house and accosted Joan Bodi
ford, 14, In her bedroom on the
?econd floor.
The sheriff said that no formal
charges have been placed against
Henderson, a Negro fisherman,
but he is being held without bond
and is docketed for a preliminary
bearing in county court Thursday.
Father Away
Mr. Bodiford was away at the
time, visiting in South Carolina.
Mrs. Bodiford and her three daugh
ters, Jerri, 18, Barbara, IS, Joan,
14, were in the house, located at
Ann and Turner streets.
According to Joan, Henderson
evidently entered the house some
time after 2 a.m., for she said her
sister, Barbara, was sewing in the
living rooir downstairs until 2 a.m.
She said lhat Barbara was sleep
ing with her in their bedroom
when Joan heard somebody walk
ing around. "The floor was squeak
ing," she related.
She said she got out of bed and
went around to the foot of the bed
and saw a man coming into the
bedroom. She said she thought
perhaps her father bad come home
and had brought one of their cous
ins along.
She said she was talking and
asking questions when the man
told her to keep quiet. Then he
said, "Come here!"
She told him she wouldn't come
and asked him who he was. Again
Joan said he told her to be quiet
and said he had her mother and
sister tied up downstairs and if
she weren't quiet, he'd kill her.
Runs Out Screaming
With that, Joan said that she
told him he'd have to catch her
first and ran out the bedroom door
(there are two doors to the room)
?creaming. She said that the man
followed her down the slept and
(he went out on the front porch
screaming
He went out the back way and
in hi* rush to get away broke
down a washlinc strung on the
back porch and several electric
cords strung there.
Mrs. Mabel Austin, who lives on
Ann Street next to the bus garage,
heard Joan screaming and called
the Beaufort police. Officer Steve
Beichem got the call at 3:20 a.m.
and searched for the intruder but
couldn't find him.
Joan's sister, Barbara, did not
Waken when the man entered the
room. Joan's screaming got the
whole family up though and Ed
Hudson, a neighbor who lives
nearby, and Jerri Bodiford got in
a cab and started searching the
neighborhood.
Wore Shorta
Joan said that the man who en
tered her room had on a shirt and
white shorts. She also said that
evidently he had been looking in
the living room windows while her
sister Barbara was sewing, because
her (-year-old brother, Wayne,
found Henderson's wallet under a
window on the front porch.
There was no money in the wal
let, but Henderson's name waa in
it
The sheriff said that Joan's de
scription fitted Henderson and af
ter he was picked up she identi
fied him as the man who was in
her bedroom.
Henderson, about 30 years old,
evidently entered the Bodiford
house through a window on the
back porch.
Mr. Bodiford was notified of the
incident and returned home Sun
day night.
Agassiz Aids
Shrimp Trawler
Th? Davis Brothers IV, out of
Knglehsrd, wu aided by the Coast
Guard cutt?r Agassis Friday morn
ing when the Davia Brothers, a
shrimp trawler, started shipping
water five miles east of the steel
pier at Emerald Isle.
The Davis Brothers, with Its
owner, Maynard Meeklns, and a
rrew member aboard, was shrimp
ing when an engine pipe burst and
watir flooded the bilges The
trawler radioed tor help and the
message was received by the Agas
sis which was engaged In opera
tional training in the vicinity of
buoy 13.
The Agassis Wot the message at
9:45 a.m. and jot to the (nwler
at 10:13 a.m. Ae Davis Brothers
was about a half alia offshore.
The Coast Guard antler, LI Later
Willis in eommaad, put a rescue
party aboard with a pump and by
11:08 the water was pumped out
The trawler was takes la tow
by the CO 40403. Fort llaeon, Mid
ratoraed to >Hri?ial CMjr.
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To Ward Off Death, No
Cost is Too Great...
4
Save a Life!
$500!
$
I
The life-saving fund started
by THE NEWS TIMES last week
after the drowning of a 21-year
old girl, is still in its infancy.
Twenty-six dollars has been re
ceived. URGENCY is the key
note in this drive to get a rc
suscitator on Boguc Banks as
soon as possible.
Don't put off mailing your
contribution. Death may not wait
"until tomorrow." A safe beach
ia important to everyone in this
area. Just (1 from 500 persons
would make a rcsuscitator a
reality.
Driver Seriously
Hurt in Wreck
Leroy Branton. Beaufort RFD,
is in critical condition at the More
head City Hospital following an
accident on Highway 70. three
miles east of Beaufort, at 11:30
a.m. Sunday.
According to State Highway Pa
trolman W. J. Smith Jr., Branton
wax thrown from a pulpwood
truck he was driving when the
truck collided with a ear driven
by Ira Kirby Pclleticr, route 1
Beaufort.
The car, a 1956 Dodge, was head
ed west and was getting ready to
turn into the yard of Dan Hill
when the truck struck it from the
rear. The truck waa not loaded.
Branton was taken to the More
head City Hospital in the Adair
ambulance. Ue has been charged
with careless driving, no operator's
license and possession of non
la xpaid whisky.
Damage to the Dodge waa es
timated at $500 and damage to the
truck at $25.
? If your child were pulled out of
the surf, near death, what would
you give to have a resuscitator
just a few seconds away?
Anything, you say? Yes, most
people would. At the height of an
emergency no sacrifice is too great
if it meant saving a life. Right
now, if you yourself, or someone
you loved .very dearly were near
death as the result of "getting in
a deep hole" or being "caught in
a current" along the beach, a re
suscitator is three drawbridges
away in Beaufort.
Long Distance
Even by police escort, at least
10 minutes must lapse between Ibe
time of calling for a rcsuscitator
and getting it over to Boguc Banks.
If any one of lie three bridges is
up, no police escort can get the
rcsuscitator across an open draw.
And the precious moments are
the ones when the near-drowned
person has just been pulled from
the water.
Right now there is not one re
suscitator on Boguc Banks. The
Coast Guard has an inhalator but
those who have had experience in
treating the nearly-drowned say
the rcsuscitator is absolutely the
most valuable equipment. An in
halator helps bring a person
around quickly once be is breath
ing, but it does not "make" 'a
person breathe as does a rcsuscita
tor.
THE NEWS-TIMES believes that
nothing is more dircly needed in
the county at this moment than a
rcsuscitator on Bogue Banks. And
the sooner it is there, the better.
Three weeks of the busy summer
season have ^lrcady passed.
Beachrs Crowded
Persons are flocking to the beach
by the thousanda. All along the
strand, from Fort Macon to Emer
protected beach areas, at Fort Ma
con stats Park and at Atlantic
Beach.
There will be persons drowned
there this summer, some of whom
could be saved, IF there is a rc
suscitator on the banks.
Mayor A. B. Cooper, Atlantic
Beach, has offered to make a jeep
available at all times to carry the
resuseitator and an extra supply
of oxygen. He said yesterday that
he had inspected the rcsuscitator
which had been in use a few years
ago but it is in such bad shape
that he doubts if repair is possible.
The mayor added that although
he wishes the beach could afford
to buy a new rcsuscitator, the
money is not in the budget.
"I should think," the mayor
said, "that people would be glad
to give as little as a dollar Just
for the sake of knowing that a
rcsuscitator, cenlrally-located at
Atlantic Beach, could be rushed
anywhere it may be needed along
the oceanfront."
Contributions should be mailed
to THE NEWS-TIMES, Morehcad
City.
13-Year-Old Uses Head,
Saves Father, Son at Beach
To Go to Formosa
W. A. Ellison Jr., Belhavea,
former director of the Institute
of (liberie* Research, Morchead
City, has accepted ? position
with the federal International
Cooperation Administration as
fisheries advisor for Formosa.
Mr. Ellison will live at the
capital, Taipei, and has accepted
the overseas position for one
year. Mrs. Ellison will accom
pany him. At praaent Mr. Elli
son is in Washington, D. C. Be
and his wife will fly to foimasa,
leaving within the next sertval
week*.
? Quick thinking by 13-ycar-oId A1
Lassltcr, 250S Everett Ave., Ral
cigh, is credited witb saving a fa
ther and young son near Atlantic
Beach. They were swimming sev
eral blocks from the protected
bcaqh area, toward Ocean Ridge.
When the Lassiter. lad realized
T. J. Porter, Tarboro. and his 11
year-old son, Jeff, were in trou
ble, he took them an inner tube
and then ran for help. After the
incident was over, Mr. Porter said
that without the inner tube they
probably could not have stayed
above water until help came.
The Portera were visiting at the
T. J. Marshall cottagc, Atlantic
Beach.
According to the Marshalls. Mr.
Porter saw that his Hon was hav
ing a bit of difficulty offshore and
went to his aid. But when he got
t? Jeff, be said the current was
so strong that he couldn't get
back to share.
Al. who was playing with an in
ner tube, noted their trouble and
swam toward them with the tube.
They hung on to that, then Al re
turned to shore where he got
Cedrle Benson, a youth from La
Grange, who helped get Mr. Por
ter and his son back to shore.
Al said after he gava the inner
tube to the father and son he had
? bard time fighting his way to
the beach. Mr. Porter, who waa
quite shaken up ovar the incident,
aid that if he and his son had
not had the inner tube, they
wouldn't have been abia to atajr
afloat aad probably would have
Farmers to Attend Meeting at 8
Tomorrow Night at Courthouse
In th? Spotlight
E. Stamey Davis, Morehead City,
Keeps Sharp Eye on the Weather
E. MaAty Davis
. . . Mr. Weatherman
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
By UAL SHAPIRO
A mctporoloflist's pica in the
News and Observer 10 years ago
?u answered by E. Stamey Davis,
Morehead City, and from that day
to this be has acted as weather
observer for this area.
Stanley's dad had a reputation
as a fair-to-iniddHn' weather prog
nosticator, and he decided that
he'd try and emulate his dad.
The job pays no salary, but Mr.
Davis makes three reports daily
on the high temperature, the low
temperature and the rainfall. Two
of the reports arc sent into Raleigh
and the other is his own record.
Taking the job as a bobby, Sta
mey got his biggest kick In 1SS2
when the thermometer rose to 107
degrees and he had the AP, Up
and the News and Observer ring
ins him on the phone to explain
the sudden heat wave.
Mr. Davis has two rain gauges
back of his home in Morehead
City, as well as two thermometers.
One of the thermometers, the one
with mercury, judges the high for
the day, and the other, using al
cohol, records the present tem
perature and the -low for the day.
He enjoys the work and hopes
that his reports, through THE
NEWS-TIMES, arc of interest to
, the public.
Mr. Davis la a native of More
head City, born on April 24, 1889,
ia the house now occupied by
Mill Fanny Davis and Mrs. Sue
Willis on North 8th Street
He attended school in Morehead
City, both public and private, and
he remembers well that Mrs. D.
G. Bell was one of his teachers.
Where the George Stovall home
is at present, is where he attended
the Teacher's Assembly. This was
a private school.
When he attended public school,
located at the site of the present
school he recollects that he had
to jump ditches over a frog pond
in order to get to class in the
morning.
He also attended the Methodist
School in the old Harry North
building, then
located at 10th
and Bridges
Streets, and the
Atlantic Insti
tute which was
^ located where
Mayor George
Dill now re
sides.
\ Stamcjr
Davis
In his one year in the More
head City School, under S. W. Car
wile as principal, he had three
classmates, who with himself,
were in an advanced preparatory
class for college.
The classmates were G. L. Ar
thur Jr., Cecil Willis and George
Gillikin. Gillikin attended Wake
Forest and the other two attend
ed A&M College, which is now
North Carolina State.
At the age of 17 Mr. Davis gra
duated, and unable to attend col
lege, he went to Raleigh and took
a business course as a railway tele
grapher at King's Business College.
In 1907, a year later, during
President Teddy Roosevelt's panic,
he returned home and started work
at the Carteret Ice and Coal C*.
as a dork- ice pullor. His father
was in charge of the plant at that
tfme.
On Auk. 1. 1914 the Carteret
lie and Coal Co. installed an 18
ton ice plant, for cold storage and
Mr. Davis went to the new com
pany at a salary of $15 a week, ilia
previous salary had been $10.90
per week.
See SPOTLIGHT, rage 6
Hospital Gets
Half of Grant
Charles Caudcll Jr., administra
tor of the Sea Level Hospital, an
nounced Saturday that the hospi
tal has received $5,000. half of iti
grant from the Ford Foundation.
The other five thousand, he said
will be paid March IS, 10S7.
Mr. Caudell said the money will
be used in accordance with the
specifications laid down by the
Ford Foundation. This will. con
sist, he said, of improving and ex
tending the hospital's service* In
the area it serves. ..
One of the projects to be fi
nanced by the grant, he said, i* a
Nurses Loan Fund
The Ford Foundation set up ?
total grant of half a billion doHara
in December 1955. Hospitals which
benefit arc those which are non
profit organizations. Sea Level
Hospital is the only onp eligible
for the grant la thi? county.
Outstanding 4-H Club Members
Appear in Revue at Hut Friday
The healthiest 4 II Club mem
bers were chosen Friday night at
the annual 411 event where, in ad
dition to the crowning of health
klpgs and queens, 4-H girls model
ed drclaes and other 4-H CTub
members gave demonstrations
The event took place it the
American Legion hut, Beaufort.
More than 75 persona attended.
Peggy Cannon, daughter of Mr.
and Mis. ^llen Cannon, Newport,
waa crowned senior health queen;
Gordon Breton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Becton, Harlow*, ^was
crowned senior health king: George
Simpson, son of Mr. asd Mrs. Dyon
Simpson. BetUe, was crowned
junior health king and Evangeline
Mills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl MiUs, Newport, was crowned
junior health queen.
Winner of the dress revue was
P?i*y Forrest, dwgbUr o| tyr. a#d
Mrs. L. C. Forrest, Newport, and
runner-up was Barbara Taylor,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. R.
Taylor, North Harlowe.
Winners In the Junior Dress Re
vue were Donna Bell, Camp Glenn
Intermediate Club, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jasper Bell, and runner
up waa KoaJta Guthrie, member of
the Markers Island Intermediate
Club, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al
len Guthrie.
Fred Knott, assistant farm agent,
conducted the coronation of health
king* and queens and Mrs. John B.
Kelly. Newport, a Home Demon
stration Club 4-H leader, placed
the silver crowns on their heads.
Five demonstrations were given
by club members who will give the
same demonstrations In district
elimination contests at Washing
ton, N. C.
fay. Kali*. daugbui of to. a*
A
Mrs. John B. Kelly, Newport gave
a vegetable use demonstration.
Paul Wade, aon of Mr. and Mn.
John Wade, Wllliston, gave a dem
onstration on a self-feeder for
swine; Cecil Gillikin, son of Mr.
See REVUE, Page ?
Tides at Ike Beaufort Bar
TicU Table
HIGH
LOW
10:11 a.m.
10:18 p.m.
Tnesdajr, Juae 28
4. OS a.m.
4:07 p.m.
Wednesday, June 27
10:47 a.m.
10:39 p.m.
4:39 a.m.
448 p.m.
11:28 a.m. ' 5 14 aja.
11:33 p.m. 5:29 p.m.
Friday, lane 29
Thursday, Juae 28
?*? 9*
5:51 a m.
Every farmer in the county is invited to attend a meet
ing at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the courthouse, Beaufort, where
the new federal Soil Kank program will be explained.
The only farmers affected by the program, at present,
in this county are tobacco, cotton and wheat farmers, but
farm leaders believe all farmers should become acquainted
with the program For that reason,'
they have scheduled tomorrow
night's meeting.
To benefit from the program this
season, tobaeeo farmers must sign
up not later than 5 p.m. Friday in
the office of B. J. May, ASC man
ager, postoffiee building, Beaufort.
That means that tobacco farmers
have only four days to decide
whether they want to participate
in the Soil Bank program.
The entire thing is voluntary.
Farmers need not take part unless
they want to. Farmer leaders say
that tobacco farmers will probably
be more interested than the others.
500 Eligible
Mr. May estimates that about 500
farmers in this county will be eli
gible to partcipatc.
The program to be explained to
morrow night is the "acreage re
serve" phase. There is another
phase, the "conservation reserve,"
but details on that are not expect
ed to be released until fall.
The Soil Bank program was au
thorized by the Congress and
placed in operation this year in
order to accomplish three pur
poses: (1) to reduce surpluses; (2)
to conserve natural resources; and,
(3) to improve the farmer's eco
nomic condition "None of these
objectives will be realized unless
farmers participate in the pro
gram," Mr. May said.
Mr. May, David Jones, soil con
servationist; R. M. Williams, coun
ty agent; C. S. Long, Newport, and
Roy Keller, ASC committee chair
man, Bettie, attended a meeting
at Williamston Thursday to learn
about the program.
Government to Pay
State officials there said that
growers of cotton, wheat and to
bacco who reduce their acreage be
low their farms' established allot
ments ?ay 'earn plymcrils for do
ling *o.
The provisions of the acrcagc re
serve program which will affect
Carteret farmers follow:
The farmer must:
1. Put land in the reserve that
Is representative of the land used
for the crop.
1. Harvest less than the farm al
lotment of the particular crop.
3 Not permit the land to be
grazed, cut for hay, or cropped for
the entire 1956 calendar year.
Any farmer who compiles with
these provisions, may becomc eli
gible for payments if:
1. He has undcrplanted his al
lotment for cotton, tobacco, or
wheat, and he certifies that he un
dcrplanted in anticipation of com
plying with the 19M acreage pro
gram. or becausc of adverse
weather conditions.
2. An acreage of the allotment
crop will not be harvested becausc
of destruction by natural causes.
3. He plows up the crop prior to
June 30, or the final disposition
date, whichever Is later.
The law establishes maximum
and minimum acreages that may
be placed in the reserve. To de
termine both his maximum and
minimum, the firmer must use the
larger of the figures resulting from
the following formulaa:
Tobacco ? not ipore than one
half of the allotment, or five acres;
not leas than 1# per cent of the
allotment, or one acre.
Cotton? not more, than one-half
of the allotment, or 10 acres; not
Icaa than 10 per cent of the allot
ment or two (crcs.
8m MEETING, Page 2
two Negroes Hurt
In Wreck Saturday
Two Negroes were injured in ?
wrerk It the cut end of the Len
noxville Road Saturday it 2 p.m.
They were Clyde Copos and
Charlei E. Glenn, both of Beau
fort.
Copes, drlvirtfl a 11)55 Mercury,
ran into a large oak tree, cauaing
about a thousand dollars damage
to his car. according to State High
way Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr.
Cope* wa< cut and bruiMd about
the face and Glenn had cuta on
hia face.
They were taken to the More
head City Hospital by a motorist.
Glenn was given emergency treat
ment and Copes was discharged
yesterday morning.
Copes has been charged with
reckless driving and having an
Improper license.
Flows to Norfolk ? .
Harvey Taylor Jr., Harkcrs la
land, who was seriously injured
In an automobile accident May 31,
was flown by helicopter to the
veteraas' hospital at Norfolk Sat
urday. Taylor, who has been at the
Morehcad City Hospital, has not
as yet totally regained eooadoua
w*
Civil Term Ends;
Heart of Beach
Suit Settled
The onc wHk term of civil court,
judge Malcolm Paul presiding,
closed at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Two cases involving more 'ha"
a thousand dollars were settled.
Both were compromised. George
W Carter agreed to pay to Joseph
Zajac $1,350 in settlcment of any
interest Zajac had in the Heart of
the Beach, a placc of business
Atlantic Beach.
The case was non suited and Car
ter was ordered to pay costs.
The court approved the offer of
J. G. Hasscll to pay $1.096 65 to
Grover Conway. The suit was in
stituted on behalf of Grover s. on
Chester, who was HlWjJJ
he hitched a ride on Hassells
truck after Hasscll had warned the
child to stay off
in the case of Helen A. Marino
vs Pasquale Marino, the court
ruled that Marino was delinquent
in eight payments $52 each,
his former wife. He waa ordered
to pay the $416 or go to jail.
The court ordered that Marvin
H. Powers and Mary G.
cover $574.90. plus interest from
March 9. 1953. from E. F. Murray,
trading as the Murray Contracting
and Enginering Co.
Ernest Phillips Jr., by Km est
rhillips Sr.. was ?r'^ * "
from Nancy Kellum PhUl
sentcd by her guardian. C. W.
STummie C. Cottle was granted
a divorce from Sybil Cottla Tfce
mother was ^"ted custody of the
two children and Cottle ???r
dered to pay $60 a nwn'h'ofU.elr
support plus an additonal$10a
month during the winter to meet
school lunch expense.
Thert]udge ordered that Bitum
inous Casualty Co. be made , a party
plaintiff in the case G. W. Hunt
ley vs New Bern Ice Co.. Atlantic
Co and Jasper D. Dudley.
A demurrer, alleging that the
complaint fails to atate cause for
action w?s sustained in the case
of Clarence WUlia. administrator
of the estate of Bonney Darrell
Willis vs. Henry
Island T. T. Potter, Morehcad
city, and Sinclair Bcfining Co.,
^The court ordered that the ac
tion be dismiaaed in 30 days
the plaintiff properly amenda the
C7nPlthcnLc.sc of Mrs. StelU Salter
v?. T. A. Taylor and Mrs.
D Taylor, trading as T. A. Taylor
Wholesale Seafood, the ojUrt sU
ed that Mrs. Salter shall iubmK
to a physical examination to de
termine injuries she .llcgedly -uv
taincd in a fall on the property
of the seafood company.
A request by George W ?jr?
man to rcduee the amount .of ?
(ornvcr Judgment in the case ol
Mary Marfln Kirkman va. George
w Kirkman, waa denied.
In the case of Matthew, vs.
Courtney, engineers are to go with
Courtney to the premiae. In < ?uea
tion and make a report by Uke
*? W of Buth C. Chad
wick vs. W?r*en- W . Chadwlek, the
defendant wM permitted to with
draw hia previous request to waive
jury trial, and the caae remains
on (be docket
Police Report
Restaurant Entry
A burglar or burglars entered
Captain Bill's Waterfront Restau
rant, Morehead City, sometime af
ter -the 11 p.m. closing time Sun
day. but they got nothing.
Chief of Police Herbert Griffin
said that entry to the restaurant
was gained through the housing
around the exhaust fan on tb*
roof. A ladder was put up against
the east side of the building ta
get to the roof.
The intruder got into the main
part of the restaurant by crawling
through the fan, then pried Um
front off the two eaah register '
drawers and tampered with tha
cigarette machine.
Chief Griffin said that Ca*ala
Bill discovered the breah-ia yes
terday morning. 8gt Joe Smith
and Patrolman BUI Condte km?
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