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46th YEAR. NO. 64. tHREB 8ECTION8 TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. AUGUST 10. 1966 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Beaufort Board Will Meet
With State Official Monday
W. E. Long Jr., chief of pollu
tion control for the iUte will meet
with Beaufort town commissioners
at 8 p.m. Monday at the town hall.
He will discuss the finding* of
the State Stream Sanitation coro
? mittec and the town's obligations
in corrccting pollution problems.
The conference with Mr. Long
wilt follow the public hearing at
7:30 relative to zoning a small sec
tion of the town on Front and Ann
Streets as residential. The hear
ing will take place at the town
> hall.
? Petition Presented
At the town board meeting Mon
day night commissioners were pre
sented a petition asking that
streets in the northern section of
town be paved. Dan Walker, town
clerk, said that the petition had
101 names.
Cedar Street, which is to be j
paved by the state, was included i
in the petition unnecessarily. Mr.'
Walker commented. The board
, said paving might be considered ;
if property owners would bear
part of the expense.
Commissioner Gerald Hill stated ;
that residents in the 1000 block of j
Broad would like to have their
street paved and were interested 1
in knowing the cost before they
asked the town to undertake the
work. Mr. Walker said he would
get an estimate.
A proposal from W. H. Potter
of Beaufort By-ProduCts Co., to
purchase the former community
center property at Lennoxville
was tabled. Commissioner Hill said
? that if a government agency does
not take over the property, the
Chamber of Commerce wants it
kept in the hands of the town for
possible use as an industrial site.
Mr. Walker reported that the
street paving should be completed
this week. In answer to a question
> by Commissioner W. R. Hamilton.
Mr. Walker said that Clyde Jones
Construction Co., original contrac
tor on the job, posted a $785 bond
with his bid. The town, Mr. Wal
ker said, has that bond.
The paving job is being com
pleted by Norton and Britt.
Poor Drainage
Poor drainage on Live Oak
Street was discussed. The clerk
said the state claims it will cor
rect the Live Oak drainage pntl
lem when if extends Cedar Street
, paving from the new bridge.
Hip poor condition of Live Oak
Street in ' general was discussed.
The commissioners said that holes
jn it should be fixed without delay.
Commissioner Hamilton told the
board that the Chamber of Com
merce is interested in keeping the
courtesy nickel program in opera
tion, adding that it had been re
ported to the chamber thai officers
were putting courtesy nickel en
velopes on cars when people were
sitting in them or standing by the
* car.
Police Chief Guy Springlc said
that officers notify drivers violat
ing the parking meter ordinance
if the driver is in the car or near
by. The chief said that local per
sons violate the courtesy nickel
, plan more than out-of-town peo
ple.
Co*perati?a Assured
"The persons who came up here
and wanted this plan are the ones
that arc violating it the most," the
chief declared. He said that the
police force is doing every thing
in its power to keep the plan op
crating satisfactorily.
He told the board that bread
and milk trucks, which had been
taking undue advantage of the
program, have been complying
k with the ordinance since he noti
fied them.
Mr. Walker reported that $27,
000 in bonds had been paid off.
Each commissioner was handed a
pair of scissors and they helped
mutilate the bonds while Norwood
Young, Beaufort, took their pic
ture.
The clerk said that during the
past seven years slightly more than
$14,000 of the debt has been paid
off, on the average, per year. He
added, however, that the town
ought to be paying off between
$30,000 and $2.1,000 annually.
Attending the meeting besides
those mentioned were Mayor Clif
ford Lewis, who presided, Com
missioners Otis Mades and Math
Chaplain; Gene Smith, town attor
ney, and Wardell FQIingame, street
superintendent
Four Youths Charged
With Property Damage
Four 17-jrcar-old youth* appeared
In county court yesterday morn
ing to anawer to charge* of des
troying property on Highway 24.
They were Richard Roberts, Nel
son Johnson and Arthur Taylor,
all of Morahead City, and. BuaUr
Murdoch of WUdwood The boys
were apprehendad by the sheriff's
department altar a resident report
ed that aba saw them tear up a
Camp Morabaad sign.
Two of the boys are also charged
with destroying a rural mail box.
The Mao kas been continued for
ligation*** llm
Daughter of Former Ann
Street Minister Killed
Morehead City
Holds Defendant
In Town Jail
Richard W. Adams. Raleigh, is
in jail in Morehead City, pending
collection of >174 50 from him. 1
Chief of Police Herbert Griffin
said yesterday. Adams, a defendant
in Morehead City court several
weeks ago, is involved in a series '
of had cheek charges.
He appeared in Morehead City j
court on a driving drunk charge. [
He paid his fine with a $300 check
made out to him hy the Smith
Douglass Exterminating Co., Ra
leigh.
Because the check exceeded his
fine and costs, the court gave him
change in cash. In a few days the
check came back to the clerk of
court, John Lashley. Payment on
it had been stopped.
Another check made out to
Adams for $130.70 by flu; Smith
Douglass firm, which Adams had
given to Attorney Harvey Hamil
ton, also bounced.
Meanwhile Adams had left More
head City to go to Atlanta. Ga.
There he was apprehended by At
lanta police and held in jail. Cost
of sending an officer to Atlanta to
pick him up was $125 and his bill
in the Atlanta jail, for room and
board, amounted to $49.50.
In a special session of Morehead
City Recorder's Court Tuesday af
ternoon, Judge Herbert Phillips
ordered that Adams pay the cost
of bringing him back from Atlanta
and the jail board bill, which to
tals $174.50.
Cases against Smith Douglass Ex
terminating Co. . and Charles B.
Bouflam aa4 W. D. Glover, coun
tcr-algnera On the Smith-Douglass
cheeks were also heard.
A charge against Adams of
fraud was amended to forcible
trespass. The exterminating com
pany pleaded guilty to giving a
worthless check of $130.70 to
Adams and was ordered to reim
burse the town of Morehead City
$300 as well as make the $130 70
check good. The company was also
ordered to pay costs.
Douglass himself also paid costs.
Four suits against the firm and
against Glover and Douglass were
dropped when the situation was
finally straightened out.
Chief Griffin now has in his
hands another warrant from Ra
leigh charging Adams with passing
a worthless check.
Mrs. Samuel Linton Corpening.
K). of Coatesville, Pa., was killed
in.stantly late Sunday afternoon
when an approaching car skidded
on the wet pavement near Fred
ericksburg, Va , and smashed into
the Corpening car.
Mrs. Corpening was the former
Martha Tilghman Smith, daughter
of the late Rev. G. F. and Lena
Nelson Smith. Mr. Smith was at
one time pastor of Ann Street
Methodist Church, Beaufort.
Funeral services were held at 4
o'clock Wednesday afternoon at
the Rockingham Fpiscopa! Church
and burial was in Eastside Ceme
tery. Rockingham, N. C.
Surviving Mrs. Corpening arc
her husband, a son, Sammy Jr., a
daughter, Gcraldine Anne: two sis
ters. Miss Gcraldine Smith, New
York, who will teach English at
Beaufort High School this year;
?Mrs. Mary Wendell of Colorado;
and a brother. Dr. Frank Smith,
Raleigh.
Mrs. Corpening was a cousin of
Miss Lena Duncan and Mrs. N. F.
Eure, of Beaufort.
Mr. Corpening and his two chil
dren received broken legs and
other injuries in the accident and
arc patients in the Medical Hos
pital at Richmond.
Three Autos
Bang Together
Three cars were damaged in a
collision on the Atlantic Beach
Highway at 5:25 p.m. Saturday.
One driver, Douglas Lee Hamby,
Cherry Point, has been charged
with following too closely.
A passenger in one of the cars
was injured and taken la the More
head CHy Hospital, but his iden
tity was 'not known, according to
J* W. Sykcs, investigating paUoJ^.,
man. >
Hamby, driving a 1936 Plymouth,
with a small trailer hitched to it,
ran into the rear Of a 1949 Ply
mouth which in turn hit a 1953
Ford convertible.
Driving the 49 Plymouth was
Walter F. Michel, Jersey City, N.
J., and driving the convertible was
Fred L. Broadhurst, Morchcad
City.
The front end of the '36 Ply
mouth was extensively damaged.
Damage to the '49 Plymouth was
estimated at $400, and the rear
bumper of the convertible was
damaged. The ears were headed
south.
The convertible and the '49 Ply
mouth were stopped in a line of
traffic when they were struck from
the rear.
Official Reports on Plans
Made for School Openings
H. L. Joslyn. county superinten
dent of school*, reported to the
County Board of Education Mon
day afternoon on preparation*
made for opening the schools Sept.
4.
Contractors report that the cafe
terias at W. S. King and Queen
Street Schools will be ready for
use by Sept. 4, but Mr. Joslyn says
he has his doubts. W. S. King
School will have 12 grades this
year.
The two apartments which have
been put on the second floor of
the teacherage at Atlantic will be
ready by the opening date of school
and at Beaufort the multi-purpose
room is being partitioned to make
it into two classrooms.
Construction is progressing satis
factorily on the prefabricated
building *t the rear of the More
head City School. That will be
ready by Sept. 4. Mr. Joslyn said.
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i W ill IIIIUl oniini
Construction on the new Har
kera Island School is well under
way but this school is not sche
duled for occupancy until the fall
of 1937.
A new teacherage will be built
at Smyrna. It will be a one- floor
concrete block home across from
the school north of the ball dia
mond. The old teacherage sits was
declared surplus by the education
board Monday and will be sold.
Floors at Smyrna. Atlantic and
More head City Schools were scrub
bed this summer. Floors are also
scheduled for scrubbing at Camp
Glem and .W. 8. King Schools
Faculty Vacancies
As of Tuesdsy there were two
vacancies on the faculty at New
port School and several vaeaadM
at the W S. King and Quew Street
Two taaehers at Beaufort School
resigMd^hjst week. They warajfr'
and Mrs. Edwin Becton, primary
teacher. . .
Two resignations took place at
Morehead City School last week.
Mrs. Grace Walcnce, who taught
English and science, resigned, as
did Mrs. Irene Pelsang. a teacher
in the primary department.
Otis Willis Joins
Police Force
W. Otis Willis, a former mem
ber of the Beaufort police force,
was appointed by Beaufort town
commissioners Monday night to
fill the vacancy on Hie force
created by the resignation of Of
ficer Steve Beachem.
Mr. Willis started work Wed
nesday. He was appointed on rec
ommendation of Chief of Police
Guy Springle.
Others who applied for the po
sition were Frank B. Kulford. Hac
kers Island i Leo Couture, George
K. Willis, both of Beaufort, and
Bill Dugee, Newport.
Mr. Bcachcm resigned July 6
to accept a position on an oil barge
operating out ?f Marcus Hook, Pa.
Deputy Sheriff Wrecks ?
Still at Crab Point
Deputy Sheriff Bobby Bell de
stroyed a still Tuesday afternoon
at Crab Point.
The officer said he located the
Illegal booto brewer In the woods
off a dirt road. The dirt road
branches off to the west from the
Crab Point Road.
Deputy Sheriff Bell said he
smashed tha still and 13 caaes of
empty fruit Jars with an ax. Also
destroyed wen thru* bones at
about i tlfHwml yi'loos.
County Elections Board Chairman
Resigns ; C. Z. Chappell Appointed
Pretty Girls . . . Lucky Mayor!
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Photo by Jerry Schumtichcr
Joan Mellon, Miss North Carolina, arrived at the Reaufort-Morehcad City airport Sunday after
noon. Mayor George Hill presented her the key to the city. At left is the mayor's daughter, Susan.
Next is Mayor Dill, Miss Melton, Lynne Richardson, Miss Morehead City, and Joyce Chadwick. Miss Beau
fort. More pictures of Miss North Carolina are on page 8.
Registration Books Will
Open at Newport Tomorrow
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Two Women
Hurt in Wreck
Two Morehead City women, Mrs.
Sanford E. Jones and Mrs. Nell
Lynch, wore injured in an automo
bile accident at 10 o'clock Wednes
day morning at Evans and 24th
Streets. They were treated at the
Morehead City Hospital and dis
charged.
The women were riding in a pick
up truck driven by Danny S.
O'Neal. 420 Macon Court. Th<?
truck was owned by l>o?n Fcmia.
Morehead City. The truck collided
with a 1950 Ford driven by Mrs.
Revada L. Confclton, 420 Macon
Court.
Mrs. Conglctou was going east
on Evans when she said she put on
her brakes and her child fell, so
she ran through a stop sign and hit
the truck in the right rear, turning
the truck over on it* side.
Chief of Police Herbert Griffin
has charged Mrs. Congleton with
failing to stop at a stop sign.
Jaycees Sell $18
Worth of Tape
Jsmes Steed, chairman o( the
Beaufort Jsvcee Lite - a Bumper
sale. reported that $18 wax realized
Saturday when the reflector tape
went on sale on Front Street, Beau
fort.
Mr. Steed Mid that the Jaycees
arc considering making a house to
hnuse canvass.
He commented that some per
sons are objecting to buying the
tape because they nay they are
supporting the Jsycecs in the foot
ball program. "The Jaycees don't
make a cent out of sponsoring the
football program." he said. "We're
selling the tape to put a little bit
of money In our own treasury, and
we'd certainly appreciate motor
lata' support"
The tape is placed across the
rear bumper of a car and sells
for $1 a strip.
?
Beaufort Consider*
Biology Supply Bucinrnt
The Beaufort Chamber of Com
merer announced yesterday that it
has started work on eetebiiabing
a biologists' supply home in Beau
fort.
Suggestion for such ? business,
which would supply specimens for
km in teaching biology, came last
week from a college professor. The
professor, I member of the (acuity
at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg.
Pa, wm visiting In Beaufort.
i^LetteTs^^bare bsen written by
formation on the venture.
" Registration books will o|#n at
Newport tomorrow with Miss Ma/
garct Bell as registrar.
At-" the Newport town board
-?? ting Tuesday night at the town
ha! George Ball, town attorney,
said that no "special" registration
is necessary for the referendum on
Hie water system.
Persons already registered may
vote Sept. 4. Those not registered
should contact Miss Bell, who will
l>e at the town hall on the remain
ing Saturdays this month.
In the absence of the mayor,
Leon Mann Jr., who is training
with his Army unit in Virginia,
Wilbur Garner, mayor pro-tcm,
presided.
Three to Go to Raleigh
The commissioners agreed to fi
nance the sending of three fire
men to the convention at Raleigh
Aug. 2022. The board discussed
the drainage troubles on Church
Street and on the street by Hoy
Garner's feed store.
Commissioner Prentis Garner
said that grading of West Railroad
Street was stopped by a resident in
the block. He said that it's a town
street and road gradeer should be
used whether one .resident wants
the work done or not.
Commissioner Bennie Garner,
who's in charge of putting down
the water lines, said that about 500
feet of pipe is left and that he
hopes to get it all in the ground on
Saturday, lie said 37 tap ins have
been made to date.
Some difficulty was cnuscd this
week when lightning hit the water
tank, knocked out the transformer
and switches, and stopped the
pump. After several hours' work,
the system was back in operation.
Policy Renewed
The board decided that their pol
icy with Nationwide Insurance Co.,
on town automotive equipment,
should be renewed. Roy T. Garner
and llarry Abbitt, whs are with
the insurance firm, attended the
meeting. Mr. Garner said that the
adding of another fire truck this
year will increase the insurance
premium about $30.
Th<S commissioners gave Pan
Bell, street superintendent, author
ity to hire extra help on the gar
bage detail Fridays for the rest of
the month.
Mr. Bell also said that the old
Eli Elliott house ought to be lorn
down because it's a safety and fire
menace.
*Mis? Kdith, Lockey, town clerk,
reported the balance in the gen
era! fund. $1,502.99, as of Aug. 1.
After bills wH*e ordered paid
Tuesday night, the Dalancc was
$469.05.
Tide Table
TMe* at Ike Bcaofert Bar
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C. Z. Chappell, Beaufort,"
was elected chairman of the
County Board of Elections at
a meeting of the board Tues
day night. He Succeeds F. R.
Seeley, who ban resigned.
Other members of the l)oard
are Charles Willis, More
bead Citv, and Osborne Da
vis, Beaufort.
Mr. ( h<ipp?ll was named to the
elections ImmhI by the County Dem
ocratic Kxeciitive Committee. He
hys an imposing record in public
office.
Served as Postmaster
Cn Oct. t. 1930 he retired as act
ins postmaster in Beaufort and de
voted his full time to his business.
City Appliance Co. Mr. Chappell
resigned as a eounty commissioner
in May 1049 to take the position at
the postoffice.
Prior to serving as a county com
missioner. Mr. Chappell had served
on the Beaufort town board, the
county welfare board and the Beau
fort school board.
Health Poor
Mr. Seeley, who has been chair
man of the board of elections sincc
1942. resigned because of ill health,
lie is now at a convalescent home
near Raleigh. He is 84 years old.
,Mr. Seeley is a past county legis
lator. a past president of the Beau
fort Chamber of Commerce and a
justice of the peace.
Mr. Chappell announced yester
day that registration books, for the
Sept. 8 vote on constitutional
amendments, will open tomorrow.
Registrars will be at the polling
places in each county precinct on
the remaining Saturdays of this
month. Right of registrants to vote
may be challenged Sept. 1.
Principal Explains New
School Plan to Rotary
Bruce Tarkington. principal of
Beaufort School, explained the
I'earsall plan to the Beaufort Ro
tary L'luh at iti weekly dinner
meeting Tuesday night at the Inlet
Inn. t
Visitors were Kenneth Wagpor
and Alvah HamilwJh of M Off hod
City Rolary Club; Sterling wooten
of Goldsboro Rolary Club; and
Bobby Stephens of New Bern Ro
tary Club.
Teens' Response
To Polio Vaccine
Gets Better
Response of tccn-agrrs to the
free polio vaccine has improved
slightly, Mrs. Lcota Hammer, coun
ty health nurse, reported yester
d.iy .
Of the shots given last week.
742 were give^ to persons 10
through 19 years of age. Since the
Salk vaccine shots started in April
1935, shots given to persons 10
through 19 total 1,384.
Three hundred twenty shots in
all were given at free clinics Mon
lay through Wednesday of this
week. Assisting the county health
department at the clinics are Mrs.
(jiula West and Mrs. Iva Byrl Sal
ter. both of Atlantic. Miss Ann
Spive.v and Mrs. G. T. Spivcy, both
of Beaufort.
Tfcc health department reported
this week that from April 1955
through last Friday it had given
7,576 shots. The number of persons
who received first shots was 5,117;
second shots given totaled 2,069
and third shots 390.
aevcmy-iour expectant momcrs
received the vaccine.
Mrs. Leota Hammer of the
hen It h department expressed ap
preciation to the county March of
Dimes organization for buying the
lollipops given to the children and
for providing other assistance in
conducting the free polio clinics.
She also thanked Randolph
Johnson, principal of the Queen
Street School, for the help he gave
in getting the colored folks to the
clinics.
One hundred eighty-nine Negro
residents of North River have been
inqpilated. Mr. Johnson also .went
L0- Mcrrimon Tuesday to remind
The colored foTks there that the
polio clinic would be held in their
community at 2:30 this afternoon
During the m>ck of July 31. the
first week of the free clinics, 2.126
shots were given. Of those, 1.697
were first shots, 203 second shots
and 226 third shots.
Harry, Clayton Fulcher Jr.
Receive 60-Foot Trawler
Delivery of a new series of Hat
teras trawlers ? 80- foot boats with
an 18-foot beam and a draft of
6*4 feet ? haa been started by
the Morehead City Shipbuilding
Corp.
The flnt of the aeries (and the
first of two 80-footeri they have
ordered) has been delivered to
llarry B. and Clayton Fulcher Jr.,
who operate the Clayton Fulcher
Seafood Co. at Atlantic. They have
named the new boat the Harry
Michael.
The Harry Michael la powered by
an NRT8 ? M Cummins turbo
charged Diesel engine, with a 4 ta
1 reduction gear, rated at 300
horsepower at 2.100 rpm. It turns
a D x S4" P 3 blade, right-hand
Federal propeller wheel.
In the engthe room are two fuel
ttnlu of 1.090 gallons capacity
each. The light plant la a 750-watt
Onan generator. There Is am
Inch gasoline-driven Harlow bilge
pump, a 1 M -Inch Jabaco pump with
a clutch driven from the power
take-off. and t lVk lnch Jabaco
pump driven from the winch shaft
The flah hold, divided into bins
with matching pin boards, has a
carrying capacity of M Una of Ice.
There Is a 300-gailoa twect-watcr
tank in the after bin in the fish
hold.
There are three built-in bunks
In the captain's quarters aft of the
pilot house. Large drawers are
built under the two lower bunks.
Aft A pel co 76B radio-telephone is
lnbUllcd la tbaae quarters.
The galley has a full-size cabinet
with aink and galley pump. It con
taina a Real Hoist 4 burner gas
stove with oven. There are seats
for four at the mess table. Ample
locker space is provided.
On deck is a lUthaway No. 72823
3-drum hoist. It carries two 800
foot spools of 7/18-inch Wickwirc
low cable and one 800-foot (pool
of 3/8-inch Wick wire trt-net table.
The keel of the Harry Michael is
of one piece, of 10 x 12-inch South
ern pine 48 feet Ions, rabbeted our
on each side ao that the larboard
streak fits square to the keel. The
stem ia of one piece of 10 112
Inch oak, bolted to the forefoot
kaee with %-ineb galvaalsad ear
See TftAwuit, rm ?