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Hospital Trustees Hear Report Members of the board of trus tees of th? Sea J>evel Hospital met Thursday night at the hospital and heard the report on hospital opera tion for the first six months of this year. Charles Caudell Jr., administra tor, said that the report was the most satisfactory since the hospital opened. More patients were treat ed and services expanded ? "In all ways it was the most satisfactory period for the hospital to date," Mr. Caudell commented. The trustees hive earmarked some of the hospital's Ford Foun dation grant for a nursing scholar ship. The scholarship this year has been awarded to Miss Evelyn Gas kill, daughter of Iredell Gaskill, Sea Level. The scholarship will cover the full three years of nurses training. Miss Gaskill will enter the Wil son School of Nursing Aug. 30. She Is now a nurses' aide at Sea Level Hospital. Board (Continued from Page 1) If it is not removed by then, the town will move it at the expense of the owner of the wall. Chief of Police Murphy Jenkins said that he wished there were some rule to keep persons from wearing bathing suits in public places on the beach after 7:30 p m. He said some of the suits are in decent and complaints have been made relative to people parading around in them after dark. Com missioner Lanier said he was not going to get into any bathing suit squabble. It was suggested that business houses post a sign prohibiting peo ple in bathing suits in their places after 7:30 p.m., but no action was taken. Mayor Cooper said that the 7,30 rule prevails at the Idle Hour Amusement Center. Tax Notices The clerk reported that all tax notices were mailed out in June and that some taxes have already been paid. The, mayor requested that he give a detailed financial re port at the August meeting. Commissioner Shelby Freeman reported that a citizens committee which inquired into the new beach valuations was advised by a lawver that any protests made now would have to be held until the next board of equalization meeting Mayor Cooper commented that some beach residents' were dissatis fied with the raise in valuation. Commissioner White suggested that a deep hole on Durham Street be repaired. The police chief was asked to fix the worst road spots and then proceed with work on the shoulders. The mayor also said that he be lieves conditions at the beach are better this year than they have ever been before, "and we're handling more people," he added. Whereas the crowds used to come only on weekends, he said, they're evident all during the week. He said that bottles are being kept off the beach, that military personnel are being kept under con trol and that military folks are co operating with beach authorities. He commented that one of the problems is use of loud, profane language, but efforts are being made to curb that. The board met at the Ficklen cottage. Morehead Rotary Hears Jim Batson Jim Batson, Mount Olive, district governor of the 27Bth District of the Rotary International, spoke on service and fellowship at the week ly meeting of the Morehead City Rotary Club Thursday night at Fleming's Restaurant. Itr. Batson, former principal at Atlantic School, made his annual Tiait to the -Morehead City elub. Visiting Rotarians were Jaaper Lewis, LaOrange; Warren Keniaw, Ayden: Fred Meacbem, Mount Olive; Bob Hall, Kinaton; Robert Stephens, New Bern, and John Grubb, Toledo, Ohio. AUea Knott, Kinston, was * guest. PROTECTED? v.. LOOK UNDER ??INSURANCE'* IM THf YELLOW PAGES Fellowship Hall Consecrated The Rev. Priestley Conyers, former pastor of the First Presbyterian C hurch, new of blunt, N. C? delivered the sermon at the Sunday morning consecration service of the lew Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, shown above. Dr. L A. Taylor, executive secretary of the Wilmington Presbytery, spoke at the eve ning service. Both services were held in the Fellowship Hall and were very well attended. Th'rt h the former Flmt Presbyterian Church at 24th and Arendell Streets. The house next to it was purchased and used by the church until the neyv building program started. This church has now been torn down and the house moved. ? ? . ?_ in_ Photos bjF.t Sanatory This ii the early Presbyterian Church in More head City M it leaked alter the wing at Ike rear and the vestibule and steeple were added. The original part of the building was bought from the Prim itive BaptMa. Angler Watches Eagles Fight for Large Fish Joncsville, S. C. (AP) ? James Uttlejohn said he was fishing in the Catawba River when he saw an eagle swoop down and scoop up a Urge fish. As the eagle flew off with hi* prey, a much larger eagle appeared and attempted to take the fish from it. Both flew to a tree to settle the matter but Littlejohn didn't say which eagle got the fish. juBWl? m RESERVE *2 00 4 ?'1 . J ' 'it* IbMkrkftMWt HtMIVCKT* tSiSfeHT* 10? BH i. j jfltf |^A| Wfcfctoy ||^ ^||| f iiltiititf <9.. nt. - ??*?*??* ?fc Following Sunday mornings ser vice in the new Fellowship Hall on Arendell Street between 16th and tTth Streets, the congregptior en JUpd a picnic dinner or . the grounds in front of the Leary hime. The Lepry home is now being used as the educational building. The Fellowship Hall was open for public inspection Sunday after noon. The interior is finished in light gray throughout with win dows shuttered on the interior. The main assembly halt is at the south end of the building. The al tar and choir loft is at the south end of the hall. Gray folding chairs blend with the interior finish and with the tiled floor. Also in the hall is a spacious kitchen, rest rooms, two classrooms and a furnace room. The heating system can supply heat in the winter and cool air in the summer. Lighting is of the indirect type. The next phase of the eonstruc-' tion program is the educational building which will be the central portion between the Fellowship Hall and the sanctuary. Pastor of the church is the Rev. A. G. Harris Jr. OJ" c*?!iais uAii PORT CITY GAS CO. Hlgfcwar 70 Nlfhta mi (MMtft 8-4350 Hugh Murdock, Scotsman, Organized Presbyterians By F. C. SALISBURY Credit la given to Hagh Mur doch, one of the early settlers of Morrhead City, for Itartlng a move ment to establish ? Presbyterian Church society in the new town. Being of Scotch birth, he brought with him to America the tenets of the Presbyterian faith. With a group of persona of like faith, a society was formod about ISM. and a start was made lor the erec tion of a house of worship. Records show that the Shepard Point Land Company, which had given suitable locations for the Methodist and Baptist churches, gave to this new church society two lots, one on which to erect their church building, the other as a location for a manse. Under date of April H, 1888, the Shepard Point Land Company deedet) to the trustees of the so ciety (Hugh Murdoek. Solomon Simpson, Thomas Tolson, William Murdoch and Alfred Heath) lots No. 10 and 12 in Square 8. Con sideration: $1.00 and goodwill. Lot No. 10 ia at the corner of 7th and Bridges on which the Bell's Funeral Parlor is located. Lot No. 12 is the site of the Aran dell home. Material was on hand for the erection of the building when dis sension is said to have arisen among members of the society many of whom lived at Wildwood ?against the location of the church building in Morehead City. As the Funds Assured For Inlet Survey Congressman Graham A. Barden reports that funds for a naviga tion survey of Ocracoke Inlet will be made available this fiscal year. Mr Barden, in a telegram, said that he protested after the chief of engineers informed him that the allocation could not be made in 1956-57. As a result of the pro test, the congressman said, the money has been promised. The project was authorized last year through efforts of Congress man Barden. 63 Patients Attend Saturday Clinic Sixty-three patients attended the orthopedic clinic at the Morehead City Hospital annex Saturday morning. Twenty-six of them were new patients. Assisting the orthopedist in charge, Dr. Lenox Baker, was Dr. Richard Dodelin, a fellow iri ''ortho pedic surgery at Duke University. Volunteer assistants were Mrs. Skinner Chalk, Mrs. J. D. Holt and Mrs. Walter Morris, all of More head City. The clinic is now enter ing its fourth year. Polio Vaccine Gone, More Expected Here Very Soon Dr. Luther Fulcher, county health officer, reported yesterday that the county health department has no polio vaccine but is expect ing some any day. When it arrives, first, second and third (hots will be given. Hereto fore, only first and second shots were administered by the health department. A special campaign is being un dertaken state-wide to have more persons take the vaccine, because the percentage in this state who have received it It ?ery low. result of the objection,, by ? ma jority group, the material was, moved to Wild wood and the bond ing erected in that community. Thia society is said to have been the first of the Presbyterian faith to be eatabltalMd in Carteret Coun ty. just 1?0 year* after the Caro lina Synod was organized in 1T88 Forty years elapsed before ano ther effort was made to establish a Presbyterian society in More head City. In 1928 a mission was started under the supervision of the Home Mission department of the Wilmington Presbytery. The former Primitive Baptist Church property at 24th and Arendell streets was purchased by the Home Mission board and remodeled Members of a small group of Presbyterians organized a Sunday School, holding services on Sun day afternoons Later the Rev. J. R. Phlpps conducted quarterly ser vices. By 1929 a permanent organiza tion was formed by 13 charter members. A regular pastor was called and a program of remodel ing the building was started. Ad ditions were later made, including Sunday School rooms; adjoining property was added and a manse purchased. Honoring one of the charter members, the late George Webb, who was most active in or ganizing the society, the church was given the name of the Webb Memorial Presbyterian Church. Recently the name was changed to the First Presbyterian Church. Six pastors have served the church: The Rev. Frank S. John son, Dr. B. Frank Hall, the Rev. Kenneth Sea writ hi, the Rev. J. V. Ax.t-11, the Rev. Priestley Conyers, and the present pastor, the Rev. Albert Harris. Until within the past two years the church at Wild wood was supplied by the pastor of the local church. Nearly everyone in Carteret County r??4. M?y issue of THE NEWS-TIMES SPECIAL PUMP SALE July 15 through 31 UVS - 1SII - CIA Uniflow Water System "M Vert" Systems with HoriionKl Tank These systems arc shipped romplete, with pump and tank assem bied ready to install after assembly at the Jet which is packaged separately. Tanks are horiionul, galvanized, full 15galU>n capa city. Jet can he used far shallow well or deep well installation. Systems include air volume control. Convertible Jet type shallow well and deep well pnops. Finest of their kind. Backed by 36 years of successful experience in pump building. 390 gallons at 10' lift. Carteret Plumbing Co. 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