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PRIZE- WIN KING - NEWSPAPER of tU TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES w 46th YEAR, NO. 69. TWO SECTIONS TEN PA01C3 MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1966 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Favorable Ruling on Ferry Expected Within One Month A form*! ruling by the State Utilities Commission oa the ap plication (or a Cedar Island-Ocra eoke car ferry should be forth coming Within a month, accord ing to Judge Luther Hamilton Morehcad City. Judge Hamilton appeared aa at torney for A W. Daniels Friday morning at the utilities commis sion hearing at the More head City municipal building. Mr. Daniels Is asking for permission to operate the ferry. Sam O. Worthington, utilities commissioner, conducted the hear ing The commission, he said, had received no statement of opposi tion against the ferry. No witness spoke against it Friday morning. Judge Hamilton said that after the utilities commission gives its ruling, which is expected to be fav orable, the ferry operator will sub mit to the commission the time schedule and the toll rate be in tend! to charge. Both must be ap proved by the utilities commission. During his testimony Friday morning, Mr. Daniels said that he hoped to have the ferry in opera tion in 12 months and then added, "as early as possible." Two Ferries Necessary His testimony revealed that he believed two ferries would be re quired and three would be desir able. He has made a tentative bid to purchase a 28-car 200-passenger ferry now in operation. H? told Commissioner Wor thington that he would make a firm bid for the ferry if the com mission grants him a franchise. The ferry is for sale, he explained, because the water it now crosses is being spanned by bridges and tunnels are being put in operation. The ferry, Mr. Daniels said, will be available in 12 months and the Coast Guard has already given in formal approval of its operation in these waters. Dimensions of the vessel were given as about 150 feet long and 40 to 50 feet wide. Mr. Daniels testified that a new ferry would cost between $000,000 and $700,000. Pointing to the price of steel and troubles in that in dustry now, he said he couldnt contract for a new boat for a year and a half at least. In the second place, a sew ferry boat would re quire "toll rates aa high they'd b* out of the question." He estimated that the time re quired for the ferry to run be tween Cedar Island and Ocracoke would be two and a half to three hours one way. "I'm thinking of three round trips a day," Mr. Dan iels said, "but that depends on demand." Mr. Daniels said that a short road would be built from Highway 70 approximately 300 feet to the ferry slip on Cedar Island Cars would cross a ramp on to the ferry. Nothing has been done about a slip at Ocracoke yet, but Mr. Daniels said two sites are . available now. Dredging Underway A native or Cedar Island, Mr. Daniels testified that he was fa miliar with the route the ferry would travel Some shallow spots are being dredged now, he said. The first person to speak at the hearing was Junius Grimes Jr., attorney from Washington, N. C. Mr. Grimes said that his clients, Ansley O'Neal and J. M. Saunders Jr.. who now operate the mailboat between Atlantic and Ocracoke, have nt> objection to a ferry. Mr. Grimes explained that his clients, who had at first objected, fearing invasion of the passenger and mail-carrying rights, have See HEARING, rage ? Lions See Rim On Tennessee Charles Walburg, project leader of the Fish and Wildlife shad in vestigation. Fivers Island, showad a film entitled Tennessee Holiday at the meeting of the More head City Lions Club Thursday night at the Hotel Fort Macon. Owens Frederick reported that Jerry Garner of Morehead City who has been attending the camp for the blind under Lions tponsor ship at Canton will return home Friday. Committee chalrmcn were an nounced by President J. E. Crow*. They are as follows: Victor Wkckiaer, attendance; E. H. Espy, constitution and by-law*; C. W. Williams, finance; J. O. Ben nett, Lions information; Oscar All red, publicity; L. O. Crowe, mem bership; Jack Morgan, program and convention; Frank Moras, sight conservation and blind. John D. Willis, health aad wel fare; Lewis Hlnson, safety; 8. K. Hedgecock, citiaenship and patrio tism; E. C. Wilson, boys and girls; Sargent Smith, chic improvement; J. B. Eubsnks, education; Owens Frederick, UaKad Nations; A. N. Willis, greater and Sidney M. Id wards, agriculture. Visiting Una at the lasstliw was a. E. Sell at Washington. Jaycees Expect 8,000 To See Beauty Pageant Gene Smith Will Speak to Group At Marsliallberg Gene Smith, Beaufort, delegate to tbe National Rivera and Harbors Congress, will be the speaker at the meeting of the Marshallberg Pro gressive Community Club at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, John Valentine, club president, announced yester day. The club will meet at the Har bor Light Motel Restaurant, Mar shallberg, for dinner. Mr. Valentine said that Congress man Graham Barden and Congress man Herbert Bonner were invited but due to the pressure of a Con gressional session coming to a close, will not be present. . Mr. Smith is expected to speak on waterways projects of the down east section. The president of the club said that the organization is devoted to the development of Marshallberg and is working with other commun ities of that area to promote hunt ing and fishing and bring in busi ness. The club, he added, has been vi tally interested in the Marshall berg harbor project for which fed cral funds have now been appro priated. "Dredging of our harbor is sorely needed," Mr. Valentine said, "not only for commercial boats for MarshaMberg's grow ing partyboat business." The Progressive Community Club, organized within the past few months, is looking toward incor porating the town of Marshallberg. Officeri of the (roup, in addition to Mr. Valentine, are Leon Thomas, viot ?iwMwil: Edward Morse, see rettry, and Claude Brown, treas urer. The club meets twicc a month. State Beauties ToAppearonTV Miss North Carotin* Pageant con testants will appear on TV today throughout the state. Bob Davis, publicity director of the pageant, announces that from 1 to 1:30 p.m. this afternoon Miss Charlotte. Miss Wadesboro, Miss Albemarle and Miss Shelby, along with Jerry Ball, one of the pageant judges, will appear on WBTTV, Charlotte. On WNCT-TV in Greenville this afternoon from 4:30 to S Miss Morehead City, Miss Beaufort, Miss Kinatoi* ldiss Greenville, Miss Washington, Miss Williamston, Buss Barringer, pageant judge, and Mr. Davis will appear. In Durham on WTVD-TV from 4 to S p.m. today Misa Raleigh, Miss Durham. Miss Chapel Hill, Misa Wake County, Miss Hender son and Miss Oxford along with Dick Herbert, pageant judge, will appear. Miss Morehead City, Miss Wil mington. Miss Dunn, Misa White ville. Miss Burgaw, Miss Onslow County and Miss Tabor City, with President Herbert Phillip* ?of the Morehead City Jaycccs appeared Saturday afternoon on WMFD-TV in Wilmington. Javcees expert a total of 8,000 people to see the four perform ances of the Miss North Carolina Pageant. The first will be at ? p.m. Thursday at the Carolina race track, west of Morehead City. Fifteen hundred seats arc avail able, according to L. E. Kelly, seat lng chairman. Five hundred of those are reserved The reserved seats include the boxes in the stands and bleachers set up in front of, but at a lower level than the box scats. Other spectators will stand. Tickets may be bought for all four performances at a reduced rate, or tickets may be bought for separate performances. They are available at chamber of commerce officcs in Beaufort and Morehead City and at places of business where the official Miss North Caro lina pageant poster is on display. The stage for the pageant is lo cated between the track and the fence and is 50 x 20 feet. In the center of the stage will be a 16 x 10 performer's stage. Six trailers, serving as dressing rooms, will be located on the track behind the stage. In front of the stage will be seven tables for the judges and just behind them will be tables for the press, radio and TV reporters. The landscaping for the track has been refurbished by Paul Cle land, owner of the track, and every thing is in readiness for the pa geant, Jaycces announce. Barden Pushes Waterway Project Farther Along A subcommittee has approved a resolution introduced by Congress man Barden asking the Corps of Engineers to survey Beaufort har bor to I'tmlico Sound, and nearby channels. Ill a wire to A. W. Daniels of Cedar Island, Mr. Barden said yes terday: "Know you will be glad to learn of my resolution calling for a sur vey of Beaufort Harbor to Pamlico Sound waterway project, including Cedar Island side channel. Barrett's Bay, Nelson's Bay, and increasing the authorized depth and width of all channels in the existing project, has been approved. The resolution was approved in full as introduced. Am pressing efforts to secure funds for carrying out survey.". Beaufort Buys Surplus Truck A 1990 Chevrolet track has been purchased by Beaufort lor use in mosquito control, Dan Walker, town clerk, report*. The vehicle is ? surplus truck purchased at a apecal price given to municipalities. It will be as signed to the street department tor general utility use besides the mosquito control work. Mr. Walker said In June the towu sprayed for 38 hours using HO gallons of Insecticide. Mayor C. T. Lewis requests that psreats not let children ride their bikes behind the mosquito fogging truck. The thick fog makes it im possible for other motorists to see' th? children and an accident is likely to result. Polio Shots Will Be Given Today County Doctors Propose Clinics to bo Conducted Throughout County Polio shots will be given at health department clinics in Beau fort and More head City starting at 1 p.m. today. Mrs. Leota Hammer, public health nurse, said that polio shots only will be given. Persons want ins typhoid or other Inoculation! are requested to wait until later in the week. The next regular clinics will be Thursday morning in Beaufort and Thursday afternoon in Morchead City. Whether polio shots will be given Thursday depends on whe ther there is any vaccine left. The supply on hand now totals 531 doses. First, second and third shots will be given to persons through IB years of age and to pregnant women. Dr. W. M. Brady, Morehead City, president of the County Medical Society, announced yesterday that the society is working now on scheduling polio clinics through out the county. The doctors are cooperating with the state medi cal society in a mass inoculation program. Doctors say they will give the shots, assisted by members of the County Nurses Association. Tho schedule is cxpccted to be released this week. County Historical Society Hears Two Reports Two papers, dealing with the his tory of the western part of the eounty, were read at th? meeting of the County Historical Society Saturday afternoon at the Ennctt lodge on Boguc Sound. The papers, written by F. C. Salisbury, treasurer of the society, were read by Miss Lena Duncan, Beaufort, and Mrs. Floy Garner, NWttarL'lgom I? nir ii> todag> NEWSTIMES. The artlcfe reatfYy Miss Duncan starts on page 3 sec tion 2, and the article read by Mrs. Garner starts on page 2 (ac tion 1). The meeting was opened with prayer by Van Potter, Beaufort. Miss Amy Muse, secretary, report ed that names on stones in Ann Street Cemetery have been com piled. She said the committee do ing the work spent 50 hours on the project in May. The names arc being typed now. Copies of the listings will be placed in libraries. Miss Muse said that family names appearing moat frequently on grave markers were Thomas, Duncan, and Jones? the tap three. Thomas Rcspcss, president, wel comed visitors, and appointed the following committee to nominate officers at the October meeting: Miss Ethel Whitehurst, chairman; Mrs. Mary Privettc, and A. D. En nctt. Mr. Rcspcss read a letter from Allen Taylor, Sea Level, and a letr tcr written by J. W. Saunder June 3. 1892, in praise of Miss Lulu Ste wart, a teacher who had once taught in the Cedar Point section. Following the reading of the papers, Mr. Salisbury commented on a large map he had drawn of the area referred to in the paper*. Shown with the map were photo graphs of various landmarks. Hosts to the group were A. D. Ennett and John S. Jones. Ap proximately 35 persons attended. After the meeting, delicious Bog?e Sound melons were served. Morehead Citys New Fire Truck Scheduled for Delivery in November 36 BMtW Members Of Beaufort Chamber Thirty -?iz flrm? and individual* hive Joined the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce for the coming year, according to Miaa Pat 8 pr ingle, chamber aeereUry. Miaa Springle aaid that ahe ex pect! reports on othera tonight at the monthly meeting of the cham ber director!. The yearly member ahip drive la now in progress. Copt. Dav* Strickland Dim of Heart Attack Capt David Strickland, More head City partyboat capUin. died of ? heart attack at S p.m. y enter day aa he waa docking hit boat, the Caribbean. captain Strickland waa ruahed to the Hoc ahead city Hoopttal af ter an ambulance waa aummoned by phone from Capt BUft s 1-U? rant The Morehead City town commis sioners voted unanimously Thurs day night to purchase a new GMC Xirctruck for the new (ire aub-aU tion. Fire Commiasinner D. J. Hall presented the proposition. Mr. Hall said he had gone to New Bern to Inspect the GMC truck in that city. He said the New Bern firemen had very high praise (or it. The new aub-atation, Mr. Hall told the commissioners, should be completed in about thirty days. The truck ia to be deliveted in No vember. It will cost the city 114.368. leaa federal tu. and will be purchased on a lend-lease plan. Five tilouaand dollars will be paid on delivery with the balance to be paid In five yearly installments. Equipment on the new truck will Include a 730-gallon pumper, a 300 gallqn booster, electric pumps, booater hoae, ladder, axes and crowbars. After the motion to buy the new Struck had been approved, Mr. Hall told the committee the truck man ufacturer would like to take it to the International Fire Convention. Miami. Kla., before delivery here, lie said the company had agreed to paint Morehead City on the truck for the display, and would also take the truck there by train. The company haa also agreed to pay the expenses of a Morehead City fireman for driving the truck here from Miami. When question ed about the extra miles that would be put on the truck by driving it here from Miami. Mr. Hall said the distance the truck would be driven would be no greater than U it were driven directly here from the fac tory. The board agreed to let the truck be displayed at Miami. Oops! Part of the Ficst-CHiiens Bank ad on page 3 section 3 Is upside down. It's aot supposed to bo tkol way really! Red Cross Tightens Policy On Replacing Boats, Nets To Arrivo Tomorrow Miss America. Sharon Kaye Ritchic of Colorado, and Miss North Carolina, Faye Arnold, ? will arrive at the Beaufort-More head Airport at 5:13 tomorrow afternoon. Greeting the reigning beauties of the stati and nation will be Mayor George Dill of Morehead City and Mayor C. T. Lewis of Beaufort as well as a croup of Jaycces headed by Herbert Phil lips, president, Luther Lewis and Dr. Russell Outlaw, co-chairmen of the beauty pageant. Mayor Dill will present the key to Morchead City to Miss Amer ica. Also on the same flight will be pageant contestants from Ra leigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. P. H. Geer Jr., Gannon Talbert to Serve on Board Beach, Picnic Area Close Temporarily Fort Macon State Park's bath house, swimming and picnic areas will be closed today through Friday while the park ing lot is being hard-surfaced, according to an announcement made yesterday by Smith Ray, director of the park. Normal operation will be re sumed Saturday, July 28. Mr. Ray said he regretted that the closing was necessary but the paving could be done no other way. All picnics scheduled for this week are automatically cancel led. This includes the picnic planned for today by the County Agriculture Council. Motorist Cited Following Wreck Norris Boddie Jefferey, Golds boro, was charged with failing to yield the right-of-way when his car struck a 19.13 Studcbaker Saturday morning at 8:10 at the intersection of 6th and 4rcndcll Streets, More head City. The driver of the Studcbaker was Mrs. Viola McDonald, Newport. Her car was knocked into a parked 1950 Ford owned by Ray Murphy rittman, route 1 Beaufort. According to the report given Sgt. Joe Smith, Mrs. McDonald was travelling east on Arendell Street when Jefferey's 1980 Buick, pro ceeding south, struck the Studc hakcr's left rear fender, turning the car completely around and causing it to strike the parked car. Damage was estimated at $100 to the Buick, $100 to the Studc baker and $190 to the Ford. No one was hurt. Fishery Specialist Speaks to Agents Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director of the Institute of Fisheries Research, Morehead City, spoke to the Six County farm agent's group Friday afternoon. The meeting took place at the civie center, Morehead City. John Piland, district farm agent, was present for the meeting. It was the first time he had met with the group. Mr. Piland pledged his full support to the county agents in their work. Dr. Chestnut spoke on the fish ing industry. He outlined ? gen eral picture of the industry, and showed how many of their prob lems an closely allied with prob lems of farmings Counties represented at the meeting were Carteret. Craven, Joaos, Beaufort, Pamlico and On slow. ? Two new members of the More head City Recreation Commission were appointed tr Mm Mmhlid City town board Thursday night. They arc P. H. Geer Jr. and Gan non Talbert. They will replace Mrs. O. H. Johnson and W B. Chalk whose threc-ycar appointments ex pire this month. According to Frank Cheek, pre sent chairman of the recreation commission, a meeting of the group will be called in the near future to install the new member! and to select a new chairman. A new chairman is chosen each year. Besides the two newly-appointed members, there are four other* on the commission.' They are llrs. J. W. Thompson Jr., Mrs. Mamie Tay lor, Ethan S. Davis and Mr. Cheek. Mrs. Thompson and Mr. Davis have two more years to serve, while Mr. Cheek and Mrs. Taylor are sche dulcd to step down next year. Ex-officio members include Dr. Dardcn J. Eure, Morchead City; Miss Gcorgie P. Hughes, county welfare superintendent, and Ralph T. Wade, Morehcad City. The commiiaion governi the city's tax-supported recreation pro gram. Two Unhurt As Car Turns Over John N. Talllon, Cherry Point, and a passenger, miraculously es caped injury at 12:29 a.m. Friday when Tallion tore up his car a half mile cast of Newport on High way 70. Patrolman J. W. Sykea said Tal lion was beaded west, approach ing the bridge at Newport, when he claims he met a car on the right side of the highway. He said he cut to the left. His car skidded 300 feet acrosa to the right, hit a tr"* and knocked it down, went 30 feet fnrther and hit another tree, proceeded IS feet and hit a clump of five trees, then hit a guy wire to a pole. The car turned bottom up. Talllon said he was going 93 miles an hour. He was driving a 1947 Chevrolet. Patrolman Sykes said the '-ees he hit were at least 6 inches in diameter. Talllon has been charged With reckless driving. L R. Davit, CrMntboro, Collapses at Baach L. R. Davis, Greensboro, who was taken to Morehcad City Hos pital by the Dill ambulance Fri day morning waa discharged Iron the hospital Saturday morning. According to Dr. Frank Hyde, attending physician, Mr. Davis collapsed in the surf at Atlantic Beach. Dr. Hyde said that the pa tient waa suffering from okaua Uon. -? Marine Corps Band Will Lead Thursday Parade The precision-drilled crack Ma rine Corps Bind of Cherry Point Air Station will lead the Miss North Carolina parade in More head City Thursday afternoon. Even a brilliant sun will not out dazzle (he 45 convertibles and their cargo, the smiling beauties who will vie for the Miss North Caro lina title. The parade will be six blocks long. It will start at 1 p.m. at the west end of the Morchead City School building. According to Ma rion Mills, Jaycee parade chair man, the line of march will be as follows: From the school south on 12th to Arendell, west on Arendell to 18th Street, then east on Arendell to 4th Street, west to 12th and north to the school building. Everybody s hoping for fair wea ther. Mr. Mills said that unless it rains very hard, the parade will be held as scheduled. According lo present plans, all of the con testants will wear bathing suits for this, their initial public ap pearance In the three-day pageant. Coast Guardsman Struck by Auto Oscar N. Butts, Coast Guards man aboard the Conifer, was moved to Norfolk after being struck by a car at 1:30 a.m. Sun day on the Atlantic Beach causc way. Butts suffered a double fracture of his right leg and head injuries. According to S?ate Highway Pa trolman J. W. Sykes, Butts waa hit by a car driven by Charles William White, 1528 Ann St., Beaufort. No charges have been filed against White. The patrolman said White was headed south in his IMA Chevro let, going about 35 miles an hour, when he saw the Coast Guardsman wandering down the middle of the highway. He couldn't stop In time and hit him, throwing Butt's body up on the hood of the car. The Coast Guardsman was taken to the More head City Hoapital in the. Dill am bulance. From there he was moved to a Norfolk hoapital. Damage to White's car waa es timated at $25. Town Considers Insurance Plan Miyor George W. Dill has ap pointed a committee to study a pro posed change In the city's present liability and casualty inaurance set up. After their meeting at the muni cipal building Thuraday night, the commissioners listened to a report by John L. Crump and Joe Beam, insurors. Mr. Beam presented the commissioner! with * survey his firm had made of the city's present coverage and made suggestions on how the city could be better pro tected from liability suits and dam age to city property. Mr. Beam said the city was not at present adequately covered. Mr. Crump pointed out that he was not interested In his firm get ting all the insurance. He said Other firms cauld give the aame coverage, but he felt the town should have an intelligently-devised insurance program which would give it necessary coverage it a rea sonable cost Those appointed to the commit tee to study the recommendations are Commissioners 8. C. Holloway and Gibble Sanderson, and Attor ney George McNeill. TMea at Ike Beaafart Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Taeaday, Jaiy 34 9:08 am. ?:1S p.m. 3:02 a.m. 3:08 p.m. 0:42 a m. 9:90 p.m. Wa4?ae8ey g jj a.m. 3:44 p.m. Tkaniaj, Jaly M 10:18 a.m. 4:08 aja. 10:34 p.m. 4:21 p.m. The Red Cross, in the future, will not be as liberal as they have been in the past with fishermen who lose their nets and small boats in hurricanes. Hudson Bacon. Red Cross work er, said, "Even if a fisherman is eligible fen Red Cross help, if he doesn't have a very good reason for not hauling his small boats and nets above high water, he's not go ing to get help." "I don't want this to be misun derstood," Mr. Bacon said. "We want to help everybody who needs It, but the Red Cross cannot afford to replace boats and nets every year." Unessential Buys He said that the Red Cross has discovered that in many cases it has bought nets that were not "es sential" to a man's earning a liveli hood. In other cases, the Red Cross replaces one man's net or boat, but a neighbor who got his boat up and saved it as well as his nets, got nothing. "That," Mr. Bacon said, "makes for ill feeling, and it also raises the question, 'If one man in the same area could save his property, why should we help a man who made no effort to help himself?' " He said the Red Cross has noted a growing attitude on the part of fishermen, an attitude of "Let 'er sink. The Red Cross will buy me a new one." Mr. Bacon said that a severe storm hit Dare County several months ago. Sixty-five applicants who sought Red Cross help did not get it bccause they could not show that they made an effort to save their property from high water. Outlines Suggestions In conferring last week with Glenn Adair, county Red Cross dis aster chairman, Mr. Bacon said that every storm shelter in the county should have a staff consisting of a shelter manager (and his wife if possible), a nurse, a person in charge of food, and a registrar to keep a record of the people in the shelter. After the storm, he said, some one U needed to make a survey of the amount of damage in each com munity. This information must be relayed to the Atlanta office of the Red Cross within several hours so that the Red Cross will know how large a staff to send into this area. Mr. Bacon is scheduled to meet next Monday and Tuesday with the Red Cross-Civil Defense personnel throughout the county. 23 Pay Current Chamber Dues Twenty-three firms and indivi duals have paid their current mem bership dues to the Sea Level Chamber of Commerce, according to Clayton Fulcher Jr., president. These payments total $1,064. In ? letter thia week to poten tial members, Mr. Fulcher asked that they pay their dues Just as soon as possible. The money is needed to pay the secretary, Miss Sandra Salter, to pay for mosquito control, and to pay for an ad which appeared in the State magazine. Contributors thua far are the following: W. D. Pake, Monroe Gaskill, Carolina Power k Light Co., Gas ton Smith, Herbert F. <c Mary F. Webb, Harvey Taylor Sr., Henry Styron. H. G. Willis, West India Fruit k Steamship Co., Commercial Na tional Bank, F. C. Noyes, Winston Hill. Machine k Supply, R. N. Pea cock, Georgina P. Yeatman. Clayton Fulcher Seafood Co., A. W. Daniels, Maola MUk 4 Ice Cream Co., City Grocery, Jim Mar ker, Sam Leffers, Cedar Island Beach Fishing Pier, and Bessie Howard. Motorist Cited After Collision Wilfred J. Pedreiva, Cherry Point, haa been charged with fol lowing too cloaely aa the reault of a wreck at 10:29 p.m. Monday west of Morehead City. According to State Highway Pa trolman J. W. Sykes, Pedreiva, in a 1991 Packard, ran into the rear of a 1989 Ford driven by Allen Lee Corbett. route 4 Greensboro. "Hie accident occurred in front of the Perry Park Motel, weat of More head City. Both can were headed west. CorbeU was preparing to turn into the motel. Damage to the Ford waa estimated at 9190; damage to the Packard at *280. No one waa hurt I. R. Wood ley, GreenvlUe. it tak ing the place of Ed Walston aa driving licenae examiner In Car teret County while Mr. Walston la recuperating at hfe ban* at Maury.