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45th YEAR, NO. 64. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Port Fumigation P/ant
To be Ready by August
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Cedar Island Pony Penning,
Fish Fry Attracts Crowds
The Cedar Island pony penning*
on the Fourth was a tremendous
success. It proved that hundreds
and hundreds of folks will go to a
pony penning if they can get there
in their cars.
The crowd was estimated be
tween 2,500 and 3,000. Six hundred
cars were counted. They bore' li
cense plates from almost every
state on the eastern seaboard as
well as Hawaii, and were parked
for a mile and a half on each side
of the highway in the vicinity of
the pen.
Sheriff Hugh Salter and officers
of his department directed traffic.
The sheriff said yesterday, "If
there had been 25 more cars on
that island, it would have sunk."
Approximately 65 ponies were
rounded up and 20 were sold. Buy
ers carried them back home in
horse trailers behind their cars.
The fish fry at Sea Level Hos
pital at noon "was most success
ful," announced Charles Caudcll
Jr., hospital administrator. At
least 1,200 attended.
Proceeds from both the penning
and the fish fry went to the Sea
J.evol Hospital. The Down Cast
Lions Club sponsored the penning.
A photographer from WNCT-TV,
Greenville, covered the penning
and pictures were shown on the
station's newscast Wednesday night
and Thursday morning.
Visiting at Sea Level with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mallby Tay
lor, over the fourth were Ban, Al
fred, Leslie and William Taylor,
trustees of the Taylor Foundation
which built the Sea I.evel Hospital.
Plans are now in the making to
add a new wing to the hospital.
Dr. Ben Royal Kills
17-Rattler Snake
Dr. B. F. Royal, Morehead
City, believes in getting a snake
before he gets you.
Coming back from his camp
at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday he
saw a rattlesnake crossing the
Merrimon Road. He stopped his
ear, got out his snake stick
which he keeps in the car. and
that was the end of the snake.
The deadly fellow was 4'/4
feet long and had 17 rattles and
a button. "I've kilted lots of
snakes in my time," Or. Royal
said, "but I've never had one
with more rattles than that."
Dr. Royal took the snake down
to Fred Royal's barber shop on
8th Street where he tied it up
for passers-by to see.
"I don't like snakes," Dr. Roy
al declared. "I kill every one I
sec."
? The new fumigation plant for to
bacco at the Morehead City port
u expectcd to be ready by August,
according to Edwin Pate, chair
man of the State Ports Authority.
At present a sprinkling system
is being installed in the newly
constructed warehouse, adjacent
to the state port dock along the
channel leading to the Morehead
City waterfront.
Kor the coming biennlum the
State Ports Authority has request
ed a million and fifty thousand
dollais for expansion at Morehead
City.
Chairman Pate said this money
will be used to provide an addi
tional 200,000 square feet of ware
housing. a new water tank and im
provements in railroad and roads
on port property. Requested for
the Wilmington port is $4,035,236.
Announced at the State Ports
Authority meeting at Morehead
City Monday was the fact that a
bill is being pi spared authorizing
the federal Maritime Board to ex
change property it owns, adjacent
to Wilmington port, for land next
to the federal reserve fleet basin.
The land next to the fleet basin
is owned partly by the state and
the state has an option on the re
mainder. Chairman Pate said that
the cost to the state, if the ne
gotiations are successfully con
cluded, would be a "very, very
small percentage" of the $13 mil
lion figure the federal govern
ment has mentioned as the cost
of the transfer.
The exchange would enable ex
pansion of the Wilmington port
which the authority says is neces
sary to take care of increased bus
iness.
Expenditures at the two ports
during the past two years, accord
ing to Col. Richard S. Marr, state
port* director, is as follows: More
head City. *500,000 on docks, $120,
000 for the transit shed now near
ing completion, and $00,000 for
the fumigation plant; Wilmington,
$150,000 for a gantry crane.
Band to Present
Concert Tuesday
The second band concert of the
summer will start Tuesday night
at 7: IS p.m. at the west side of
the recreation building. Morebead
City. The band i> under the direc
tion of Ralph Wade.
The first concert was held this
past Tuesday night. The crowd,
most of them in their cars, was
estimated at 200.
Among the numbers to be played
at the second concert will be Prai
rie Lament, The Lonesome Road,
Come Back to Sorrento, London
derry Air, Dark Eyes and Dixie
Patrol.
Numbers played at this week's
concert included Crusader's Hymn,
Alouctte, El Choclo, and Pacific
Grandeur Ovorturc.
The third and final concert of
the summer will be held Tuesday,
July 24. /
Members of the band arc boys
and girls who are pupils at More
head City High School and those
who are taking part in the town
recreation program.
Welfare Board
Member Retires
Mrs. C. G. Holland Fills
Vacancy; Stanley Wood
land is Chairman
On July 1, Mrs. C. G. Holland,
Beaufart, assumed her duties as a
member of the County Welfare
Board. New chairman of the board
is Sljholey Woodland, Morehead
City, pho sucneds Mrs. T. .T Pot
tar, Beaufort.! The Ofhej board
member is Coifx'tt Davit tf Davis.
Mrs. Potter's second toreeyear
tet-m expired June 30. She has
?enreH as chairman of the board
since March 1991. Mr*. Potter, aa
is Mrs. Holland, was an appointee
of the county commissioners. Mr.
Woodland is an appointee of the
State Welfare Board. The third
member is selected by the county
and state appointees.
Mr. Woodland, who was appoint
ed to the board in May 1951, will
preside at one of the meetings
when North Carolina is host at
Asheville next fall to the district
I meeting of the American Public
Welfare Association. The associa
tion includes states adjacent to
North Carolina and the territory
of Puerto Rico.
Miss Georgie Hughes, superin
tendent of the county welfare de
partment, commended Mrs. Potter
for her excellent service during
her seven years on the board. Mrs.
Potter served part of the unex
pired term of C. Z. Chappell, Beau
fort, as well as two regular terms.
Mrs. Holland Is a past chairman
of the County Chapter for Infan
tile Paralysis, a member of the
Kastcrn Star and a member of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church.
Dare County Group
Publishes Booklet
On Saving &eachesij
Brought 'to the attention of Car
teret residents, as a result of the |
CAD meetinjj here this week, is
a Handbook for Erosion Control
published by the Dace County
Storm Rehabilitation Committee.
The booklet tells what the . in
dividual property owner can do to
protect his beach front from ero
sion The book carries illustrations
showing how to construct fences,
how to transplant grasses and how
to carry out other practices which
will preserve the ocean front.
J. A. DuHois. manager of the
Morehead City Chamber of Com
merce. said the book is a concrete
example of what can be done lo
cally to help private property own
ers protect the beaches.
Operations .Start
l oads of brick have been de
posited in the courthouse yard.
Beaufort, preparatory to building
the new jail.
C&D Sets Size Limit on Shrimp,
Approves Extensive Oyster Program
In a move to prevent catching'
very small shrimp, the State CltD
Board on Tuesday approved a rec
ommendation from the commercial
fisheries committee prohibiting the
taking of shrimp smaller than 70
t* a pound headed.
Another new regulation makes
it unlawful to take shrimp In Long
Bay from Point of Marsh to Swan
Point at night. This regulation ap
plies throughout the year.
The fisheries committee made no
recommendations as to prohibiting
night shrimping after July 10 and
closing certain inland creeks and
bays to shrimping. A hearing on
these matters was conducted in
May.
Beginning Jan. 1. 1957 ad boats
18 feet and under will be required
to display a tag on the right side
of the boat. It will be unlawful not
to have a tag and unlawful to trans
fer tags from one boat to another.
The channel bass (drum) regu
lation requires drum to be 14 to
31 Inches long snd if more than
31 Inches long, only two a day may
be taken by coaunercial fishermen
and sportsmen.
A hearing regarding the type of
regulation to be enacted was con
ducted at Morehead City Saturday.
Aug. 18 was set as the date for
a hearing on fiahing in Albemarle
Sound, the Chowan and Roanoke
Rivera.
Recommendations of the com
mittee were presented to the board
by Cecil Morris, committee chair
Weatherman Sends
Sunny Holiday
Cle?r weather lor the Fourth of
July and the day immediately pre
ceding it meant beautiful days for
the beach enthusiasts The high
for both days was 88 degrees, ac
cording to E. Stanley Davis,
weather observer.
The' low for the beginning of
July Was recorded Sunday when
the mercury dropped to 72 degrees.
The high and low temperatures
and the wind directions for the
firat part of this week were as
follows:
Sunday 85 72 SW
Monday ?.L... 87 75 SW
Tuesday 88 78 SW
Wednesday 88 78 SW
Max. Mln. Winds
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, July ?
8:11 a.m.
8:41 p.m.
' 12:15 am.
12:12 p.m.
Saturday, July 7
7:07 *.m.
7:19 p.m.
1:10 p.m.
1:08 a.m.
Sunday, July ?
8:00 a.m.
8:28 p.m.
2:01 a.m.
2:06 p.m.
Muuday, July ?
8:25 a.m. 2:50 a.m.
0:18 pjB. 3:01 pja.
? A major part of the rccommen- I
dations by the commercial fisheries
committee to the CfcD Board was 1
on oyster rehabilitation.
The board approved an eapendi- 1
lure of $105,000 during the next
year to improve the state's oyster
resources.
The fisheries committee asked
for 129.000 for purchase of equip
ment to plant sheila and oysters
and <80,000 for other expenses at- .
tendant to planting seed oysters
and sheila.
The oyster rehabilitation pro
gram, as drawn up by Dr. A. P. |
Chestnut of the Institute of Fish
eries Research, calls for expendi
ture of another $80,000 in the year
follnwiag the $105,000 outlay. I
To improve the oyster aituation,
the fisheries committee and Dr. 1
Chestnut emphaaized proper man
agement of the oyster beds; thU J
means strict enforcement of the I
cull law, closing of planted area*
until the oysters ar? of desirable
size, harvest regulation to maintain 1
a steady yield and preservation and
maintenance of oyster seed areas.
The committee strongly recom
mended leasing of oyster ground!
to individuals, citing figure* from
other states which show that where
private cultivation Is permitted, the
yield from beds is considerably
higher than from public grounds.
It was pointed out that the oyster
produced on a private bed usually
brings a higher price too. It was
recommended that private lessaas
See FI8HEME8, Page 7
22 Farmers Sign
Up for Soil Bank
Deadline for Becoming
Soil Banker Extended
To July 15
Twenty-two county tobacco far
mers have joined the soil bank pro
gram, B- J- May, ASC manager,
announced yesterday. *
Mr. May also announces that the
deadline for participating in the
soil bank has been extended to
July 15. Since the ASC office does
not open Saturday, and July 15 Is
i Sunday, the last day that farm
ers can sign up here is next Fri
day, July 13.
Mr. May said agriculture offi
cials probably extended the dead
line because of the short time be
tween announcement of the pro
grain and the original deadline
date, June 29.
He says that farmers who did
not plant their tobacco allotments
are eligible to become soil bank
ers. He believes that several more
will sign up during the coming
week. Farmers who have not start
ed to harvest any of their tobacco
are also eligible to participate in
the program.
The Florida tobacco markets
[>pcn July 19 and though some Car
teret farmers sold on those mar
kets in the past, Mr. May doubts
lhat any will do so this year be
rause it hasn't paid them too well.
However, the ASC office will
Mart getting marketing cards out
to the farmers July 16. Eastern
Carolina markets will open late
in August.
Save a Life!
$500!
There's a rcsuscitator at Bogue
Banks ? but it won't be there very
long if the money is not available
!o pay for it.
On the afternoon l>cforc the
h'ourth, a representative of T1IE
NEWS-TIMES and Mayor A. B.
L'-onper conferred with a rcsusci
tator salesman. Faced with the
Forthcoming holiday and the possi
bility of water accident* on the
t>each, the three felt it would be
tragic not to have life-saving equip
ment available if needed.
So an agreement was reached
thereby the salesman left his re
iuscitatnr. with the understanding
that tufficient funds to pay for it
would be forthcoming in a few
lays.
The Moose Lodge, represented by
Karl Dunn, has joined in the cam
paign for the rcsuscitator. Of the
(299.S0 now on hand, Mr. Dunn has
personally collected 181.05.
Contributors follow:
Teagnc's Motor Court, Atlantic
Beach
Sonny's Motel and Grill. Atlantic
Beach
Moore's Motor Court, Atlantic
3?ach
Fleming's Motel. Atlantic Bcach
Atlantic Beach Hotel
Robert Phillips. Kinston
S. A. Horton, Atlantic Bcach
Teague's Seafood Market, Atian
Jc Beach
W ha ley's Trucking Service, More
lead City
A Texas friend
L. I/. Edgcrton, Goldsboro
Walter'! Texaco Service, Atlantic
leach
See FUND, Pace 2
Jaycees to See
Boxing Movies
A film of tbc Rocky Mareiano
Archie Moore heavyweight scrap
will be shown at Monday night's
meeting of tbc Morchcad City Jay
cees at the Hotel Kort Macon.
President Herbert Phillips made
the announcement at the conclu
sion of the meeting Monday night.
Lynn Richardson, selected as
Miss Morehead City for the Miss
North Carolina contest to be held
in Morehead City July 26-28 was
introduced to the club as a special
guest.
She thanked the members for
giving her the chance to represent
the town and gave a brief biogra
phical sketch of her life.
Reports on the pageant were
given by committee chairmen, Bob
Barnum. staging; Joe Beam, en
tries; Paul Cordova, housing; Floyd
Chadwick, program; Marion Mills,
parade, and L. E. Kelly, ticket!
and trailers.
Mr. Chadwick announced that
$1,410 worth of ads had been sold
for the program and Mr. Beam an
nouwed that 36 contestants arc
lined up for the pageant.
L. G. Dunn and P. H. Geer Jr.,
reported on the national conven
tion held last week in Kansas City.
Guests at the meeting were Dick
Hoffman, Jack Thompson. Harden
Carawan and Jimmy Willis.
Everybody Here Survives
Fun-Filled Fourth of July
It was ? miraculously wonderful
rovth of July here in the county.
Even with highways ? warming
vith thouaanda of viaitiag cara,
hen were no aerioua scckJenU
rhe Coaat Guard reacued no ve?
cla in disaster, there were no
Irowninga or near-drowningi at
he beachrs. no shooting a, no fights
- everybody apparently behaved
hemaelvea.
The Coaat Gnardsmcn at Cap*
yookout and fort Macon, however,
warded more than a hundred
raata, checking on boat safety i?
luircmcnU.
The waterwayi were thick with
(inhermen and pleasure ? seekers,
the latter wending their way to the
banks where there was a penning
near Cape Lookout, other* went
to Shackleford with picnic basket!
and charcoal (rills where they ate
ao4 swam and ate some more.
The crowd at Atlantic Beach
and all alone Bogus Banka was
termed the biggest ?vor As extra
precaution against water accidents,
Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen made
day-long patrols along the strand.
Attest lag to the wonderful day
wars the fresh new sunburnt In
avidcnca on all sides yesterday.
Four Survive Wreck That
Kills Two Men Monday
Thi* is the car in which Louie Citllkln and Charts I*wta were killed. Anbther nan in the car,
Donald Knutsen, Is still in the hospital.
frvrrvrxm"** r :.v. ... . 4^. ? amummuu.* ' *?*"? ? -
This is (he left front of the truck that was struck by Hit car. Four people were in the cab. All lived
to tril about it.
ttiofo* bv Jerry Srhuhwhcr
Flying metal sheared off (his piece of lira which was once on
the car.
Four persons survived one of
(he worst accidents in county his
tory Monday night. Two men,
Louie Gillikin, 24, and Charles
Lewis, 23, both of Otway, were
killed.
Survivor! are three Negro mi
grant workers, James E. Grant, 30,
Otha Lee Ferrell, 18, Marlynn
King. IT, all of Brunswick, Ga.,
and Donald Knutscn, Beaufort
RFD Knutscn remained in More
head City Hospital yesterday.
Grant and the King girl, who
was seven months pregnant, were
discharged Tuesday, and the Fer
rell girl was discharged Wednes
day.
State Highway Patrolman J. W.
Sykes, who investigated the tra
gedy, says he doesn't know how
any survived.
Gillikin and Lewis, for whom
funerals were held the Fourth of
July, and Knutscn were riding in
a 1956 two-door Ford which
smashed head on into a three , on
Mack truck. Gillikin was driving
the car. In the truck cab were the
driver. Verncll Sams, who was not
hospitalized, and the three other
injured Negroes.
Parts of the car were rammed
into the truck so tightly they
couldn't be pulled out.
The accident happened shortly
after 8 p.m. on Highway 70 west
of the North River bridge.
Truck Convoy
Three trucks, loaded with pota
toes were headed toward Beaufort.
The car was headed east. Driver
of the first potato truck was Henry
Sams. Driver of the sccond, which
Gillikin hit, was Sam's son, Ver
ncll, and driver of the third truck
was Henry Sams Jr.
Verncll told the patrolman that
he saw the Ford come hurtling
along the highway, seemingly out
of control. He said he thought it
was going to hit the truck ahead
of him driven by his father, llis
father rut to the right and the car
came bearing down on Vcrncll's
truck.
Verncll said he saw it was going
to hit him and he too cut to the
rigl)fc The front of th^car plowed
[Into the truck cab tivcr the whs
[ left front fender. Both Gillikin and
Lewis were killed instantly.
Three ambulances, Adair. Bell,
and Dill, were called to the scene
and took the injured to Morehead
City Hospital, sirens wide open.
Potatoes were spilled all over
the highway and traffic was tied
up for two hours.
Evidence of Drinking
Patrolman Sykes said he was
told that "some white men" went
to the wreckcd Ford and took from
it a bottle of whisky before offi
cers arrived. He said the car
reeked of liquor. Found inside was
a beer ran and a bottle of 7-Up.
Patrolman Sykes said in his
opinion the car was traveling be
tween 80 and 100 miles an hour.
He said the sheriff's department,
Sheriff Hugh Salter, Deputy Sher
iff Marshall Ayscuc, Deputy Sher
iff Bobby Bell and Coroner Leslie
Springle, were most helpful at the
scene of the wreck.
The truck involved was owned
by Mr. Springle. It and the car
were demolished.
The three Negroes suffered cut*
and bruises. Grant was sitting on
the right side of the cab holding
in his lap Otha Ferrcl, and the
King girl was sitting between the
driver and Grant. Knutscn suf
fered a brain concussion.
See WRECK, Page 7
Education Board Hopes to Establish
High School at IV. S. King in Fall
ii i ik* tcacncrs ran be ottuinm.
W. 8. King School will become a
high school thin fall. The school,
located in Morehcad City, now con
sists of grades 1 through 10. Jun
ior! and seniors attend high school
at Queen Street, Beaufort.
The decision to include two ad
ditional grades at W. S. King was
made at the County Board of Edu
cation meeting Monday afternoon
in Beaufort
If. L. Joslyn, superintendent of
schools. Mid that establishment of
a high school in Morehead City has
long been requested by patrons of
the King school. The high school
at Queen Street in Beaufort will
be retained.
That school at present Is crowd
ed. Eatabliahing a full high school
at W. 8. King will help to relieve
the Queen Street situation, Mr.
Joalyn Hid.
The hoard authorised Its aecre
tary, Mr. Joalyn, to see about a
new teacher if* at Smyrna. The
present one was severely damaged
by fire several weeks ago. The
board also requested Mr. Joalyn to
write the firemen, thanking them
for their service at the fire.
The board of education agreed
t< cooperate with Morthead City
School again this year in offering
a partume vocational shop pro
gram (or boys.
| PHot I.tfe Ituturancr Co. wa?
i hown a* the firm to carry acci
dent insurance (or the pupila next
year. The coat per pupil, (or the
voluntary program, ia $123.
Work has been started at tlie
rear o( the Morehcad City School
on the new prefabricated building
which will he put into use this (all.
Robert Sa(rit Jr., chairman o( the
board, presided at the meeting.
Robert Montague
Heads Rotarians
Robert K. Montague was install
ed as president o( the Newport
RoUry Club Monday night at the
weekly meeting it the Commualty
Building.
Mr. Montague was Installed by
the outgoing president Edgar
Hibbx.
At this coming Monday night's
meeting District Governor John
Albert (Jim) itataon, Mt. Olive,
will be tlw speaker.
Visiting Rotarians it the meet
ing w?re Bill Chalk and Walter
Edwards, Morehaad City, and U C.
Couch, Maw Barn.
Driver Cited After
Wreck Tuesday
Janwa Alton Starling waa charged A
with failing to yield the right ul
way by Chief Herbert Uriffin when ti
Starling'! 109A Oldamnhile collided J
with a 19M Chevrolet truck at
16th and Evana Street* at 1 p.m.
Tuesday.
According to the police report.
Starling waa traveling wcat on
Evan* Street and thought that Lon
nie Boyd. Mnrchcad City, driver of
(he truck, waa going to atop, ao be
Marled to pans on the right aide.
Mr. Boyd aaid that hia turn lig
nal waa on indicating a right-hand
turn into an alley when he waa
atruck on thj right aid* by the
Oldamobil?.
Damage waa estimated at $70# to
the Oldsmobilc and 1800 to the
truck.
Returea to Raleigh
Gov. Luther Hodge* flew back to
Raleigh from Morebcad City late
Tuesday afternoon. While
Gov. and Mr*. Hodi
houae gueeta of Mr.
win Pate. Lauriobura, wt
. Uccan