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m, CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES >? 45th YEAR. NO. 67. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAG** MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Melba Swinson Sustains Broken Leg in Accident 15-Year-Old Girl Struck By Car as She Crosses In Front of Bus Mclba Gray Swinson, IS, daugh ter of Mrs. D. S. Swinson, route 1, Newport, suffered a broken left leg and brush burns at 1:15 yester day afternoon when she was struck by a car in front of her home on Highway 70. The accident hap ? pened about a hundred feet cast of the Highway 24 and 70 inter section. Miss Swinson was hit by a car driven by Luther R. Lawrence, 903 Fisher St., Morehead City. State Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard said that Lawrence was headed east. He struck the girl as she was crossing the highway from in front of a stopped Seashore bus. The bus was headed toward Morehead City. t Miss Swinson had gotten on the bus with a friend, June Hunter, 15, but had forgotten a package she left across the highway at a service station. She got off the bus to get it and was hit by the car. Patrolman Pickard said eye wit nesses told him Lawrence was not speeding. He was driving a 1954 Ford. Miss Swinson was taken to the Morehead City Hospital in the Dill ambulance. She was reported to be getting along all right yesterday afternoon. No chargcs were filed against Lawrence. Salk Shots Set Record Last Week More polio shots were given at free clinics last week than in any week since the program started. The county health department reported that 2,215 shots wer? given, bringing the total since July 30, to 5,079. During the first wttek of the free clinic* trred and the second week, 738. Last week was the third week. The clinics are not being con ducted this week throughout the county, but shots will be given in the health office, Beaufort, today and in the Morehead City Hospital annex Thursday. Mrs. Leota Hammer, health de partment nurse, said not many per sons are getting third shots. Six months should lapse between the second and third. Most of the shots being given arc first and second. Lions Hear Talk On School Plan State Assemblyman D. G. Bell was the speaker at the Lions Club meeting Thursday night at the Hotel Kurt Macon. He led a dis cussion on the state-sponsored "Pearsall Plan for preserving the public school system in North Car olina." "At the present time I am not in favor of integration in North Carolina." said Mr. Bell, "and I believe that most of the Negroes in North Carolina are primarily interested in equality of education rather than in integration." After giving a brief history of the Pearsall plan and ita major provisions, Mr. Bell opened the floor for questions. In answering the question, "How can we improve the schools we al ready have?" he said that no finan cial aid could be expected from the federal government in the near future. The surest way to raise the mon ey for improving the present facil ities, according to Mr. Bell, ia to float a bond issue and refinance the county debt. In his plan, the period for repaying the loan would be extended and taxes would re main the same. Lion E. II. Esply presented Mr. Bell with a pen in appreciation for his cooperation with Hie Lions. Lions' President J. E. Crowe an nounced that George Stovall of the Carolina Power and Light Co. would be guest speaker for the Aug. 30 meeting. 16- Year-Old Driver Cited Following Wreck Leston W GilUkin. 18, route 2 Newport, has been charged with driving on the wrong aide of the road. State Highway Patrolman J. W. Sykes said that Gillikin's 1954 Chevrolet ran into a ditch on High way 70 about (be miles west of Newport at 1:40 a.m. Sunday. The patrolman aaid Gillikin claimed he fell asleep. He waa headed west at the' time. There waa no damage to the at. Funeral for Accident Victim Takes Place at Tabor City Two Morehead City policemen, Patrolmen Bruce the body of Martin Byrd Jr., 30, who was killed in man J. W. Sykes watches the operation. The body Edwards and Bill Condie, remove from the brush an automobile crash early Sunday morning. Patrol is covered with a sheet. -~.au jafHi*' - ? ? ? ? *- ? ?*" "fT*" Photm by Jerry 3?hyattrhor This Is the way the car was found, lying on its side, 300 feet from the Fort Macon ItoaJL District Engineer Travels Local Waterways Saturday Col. H. C. Rowland, Wilming ton, district engineer who recently succeeded Col. R. L. Hill, visited Beaufort and Morehead City Sat urday. Accompanying the colonel were Col. J. H. Jackson, also of the Corps of Engineers; L. C. McDuf fic, civilian aide at the Wilming ton engineers office, and Col. Rich ard Marr, executive director of the North Carolina State Torts Auth ority. The group, came to Morehead City by automobile, then boarded a survey boat here. At Morehead City they were met by Mayor George Dill and J. A. DuBois, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce. At Beaufort they were met at the engineers dock by Mayor Clif ford Lewis and Dan Walker, towa clerk. The party toured the Beaufort waterfront. Mayoi Lewis pointed out that a wider Taylor's Creek channel would be desirable, with the spoilage thrown up on the shoal south of Beaufort to protect the town from storm tides. The boat went through Gallants Channel and in the afternoon took its party up the Inland Waterway to tbe Core Creek Bridge. On behalf of Gene Smith, Beau fort, Mayor Dill presented to Col onel Rowland the Sea Level har Col. B. C. Roland . . . studies projects bor project. The project has been hanging fire since (he early 1820'?. Mayor Dill said that the district engineers' office will request the chicf of engineers for i "letter of report" to restore the project to active status. If this letter of report is re ceived, the district engineers' of fice believes the project may get underway early in the fiscal year 1958. Mayor Dill said. The funeral service for Martin A. Byrd Jr., 30, who was killed in an automobile crash on the Fort Macon Road Sunday, was conduct ed yesterday afternoon at Tabor City, his home. Byrd was driving a 1956 Ford when he lost control of it at 2:45 a.m. about 300 feet east of the entrance to Fort Macon State Park. In the car with him were four other youths, three of whom were injured. The injured were Harold H. Willis Jr., 19, formerly of Beau fort, who had cuts and bruises; Andrew P. Denmark, 18, Raleigh, who was bruised and cut; David W Windlcy, 18, Havclock, who suffered a broken leg and cuts. Kenneth Midgctlc, 19, Oriental, was not hurt. Park Employees All were employed at Fort Ma con State Park. Willis, Denmark and Windley were lifeguards. Byrd was historian at the fort for the summer months. He taught at New port School last year and waa go ing to teach at Norfolk this iall, following marriage to i Raleigh girl in September. According to State Highway Pa trolman J. W. Sykcs, Byrd was See ACCIDENT, Page 3 Gloucester Folks Dedicate Park with Big Barbecue A chicken barbecuc was the big attraction at the Gloucester Com munity park dedication Saturday evening. More than a hundred at tended. The Community Club spon sored the event as a social get together for residents and summer visitors to Gloucester. Slate Poultry Extension Special ist W. G. Andrews was chief rook. He demonstrated the recommended methods for barbecuing chicken. County Agent R. M. Williams, with several community club members, was present for the two-hour prac tical demonstration. E. P. Blair, principal of the Vance boro Farm Life School, was introduced by President Richard Whitehurat. Mr. Blair (poke of the achievements of the club and pro posed new projects which he thought would make Gloucester a larger and finer community. The club has been organized sine* last fall. Officers art Mr. Whitehurst, president; Waller Ste wart, vicc-prcgidcnt; Murray T. Pigott, treasurer; Mrs. Lillian Wil li!, secretary, and Mrs. Nat Smith, corresponding secretary. The secrets of a good barbecue were willingly given by Mr. An drews after the meal. A good saace and getting the chicken done were the two most important things. The sauce recipe suggested by Mr. Andrews Is la follows: (serves five) water or tomato juice, <i cup: vinegar, 1 cup; butter, Vt lb.; salt to taste; red pepper, % or. This recipe csn be increased or cut to make sauce for any number. Commander (retired) J. E. Mur phy was chairman of the barbecue. Miss Josie Pigott was over-til chairman of the slaw, potsto salad, and pic committees. Indivi dual chairmen were Mrs. James Murphy, Mrs. 1. L. Smith, Mrs. Monroe Wilis, and Miss Mary WhitebursL Morehead City Board Tangles With Sewage Disposal Issue Pilot Parachutes to Safety, Rescued by Beveridge Crew A Jet pilot from Cherry Point made a miraculous escape from death Friday afternoon when he parachuted from his plane 20,000 feet in the air. The pilot, M/Sgt. William G. Knapp, Havetock, land ed in the water at the western tip of Town Marsh, Beaufort, and was picked up by Capt. David Bev tridge, Beaulort, in his trawler, Bcveridgc. Sergeant Knapp, dazed and bruised, was rushed to the More head City Hospital by Harry Gilli kin, Beaufort. There he was X-ray ed and reported in good condition, but suffering from shock. A few hours' later he was moved to Cher ry Point. Captain Bevcridge, with his crew, Robert Willis and B. F. Willis, were waiting to unload shrimp at the Beaufort Quick Freeze dock, several hundred yards from where Knapp landed in the water. They had just looted their lines to move in to unload when someone shout ed "Look!" Captain Bcveridgc said the Beau fort drawbridge was open and he looked at the bridge, thinking a car had crashed through the gates, when again the cry came, "No, look up there!" Sees Parachute He said he looked and saw the parachute drifting down. "When I saw it, it was about the size of a nickel," Captain Beveridgc said. He headed the trawler out into the channel. By this time the bridge was going down. "It was too late to blow for the bridge to open again," the skipper said. So lie just kept suing full speed ahead. Before getting underway, sev eral of the men on the doek had jumped aboard and someone yelled, "You'll never make it. It'll lake your mast off." The fellow meant the leaves of the bridge would close down on the boat. Captain Bevcridgc, recognized as one of the best seaman in these parts, kept going. "We got through with just inches to spare," he said. Lands in Water By that time the pilot hBd landed in water about waist deep, across from Duke Marine Laboratory on the shoals that runs in front of Beaufort. "He had just stum Med up on the See PILOT, Page 3 Board Will Set Date for Hearing On Zoning Cases if Requests Made Morchcad City- town commission ers decided Thursday night that they would conduct a public hear ing on two zoning matters if the parties concerned requested a change in the zoning regulations. The commissioners met in regu lar session at the municipal build ing. A letter from M. T. Mills, chair man of the zoning board of adjust ment, was read. One matter before the adjust ment board dealt with location of a funeral home. Upon request of W. D. Munden, director of Bell's Funeral Home, the adjustment board reeommended that section 4 of the zoning ordinance (recently changed to permit doctors' offices in a residential section) be< amended to include funeral homes. The board felt it unwise to go along with this proposal and rec ommended that Mr. Mundcn make application to the board for a spe cific location for a funeral home. Ralph Morris, New Bern, and W. B. Chalk. Morehead City, appeared before tho adjustment board, ac cording to Mr. Mills' letter, and re quested location of Eastern Gas and Oil Co. on the northern 50 feet of lots 14 and 15 in square 199. The adjustment board did not recommend location of the firm there. Commissioner D. J. Hall said he was informed that the pc See BOARD, Page Z Chase Leads to Wreck, Tall Story of Stolen Car There was a wreck on the Beau fort drawbridge at 1:25 a.m. Sun day ? and thereby hangs a tale. According to Patrolman J. W. Sykes, it goes like this: Edward T. Harrell of route 1 La Grange, and three other boys were in a 1953 Dodge going west across the Beaufort drawbridge when a 1949 Chevrolet, driven by Norman E. Williams, 1200 Avery SL, More head City, ran into them. Harrell and his friends are white and Williams and a boy with him, Franklin Earle Tootle, are Negroes. About 2 a.m. Patrolman Sykes got a call laying that Williams had turned up at the Morehead City police station to report that some one had stolen his car. A short time later, after questioning, he confessed to Patrolman Sykes and Patrolman Bruce Edwards of the Morehead City police force, that he was driving it when it ran into the Dodge on the Beaufort bridge. He said he had "hidden" the car in the 1100 block of Fisher Street, Morehead City. In the patrol car on the way to get the "stolen" Wil liams automobile, Williams told Patrolman Sykes that he and Too tle go with two Negro girls in Beaufort, and the girls had told them that llarrell and his friends were trying to pick them up. The girls said that the boys would drive around the block and call to them. Their boyfriends, Williams and Tootle, then hid in back of the home of one of the girls and the boys from LaGrange came by again, Just as the girls said they were doing. So Williams and Tootle jumped in their car, the Chevrolet, and started pursuing Harrcll out of town toward Morehcad City. Wil liams said they were going between 60 and 69 mile* an hour and were trying to pass a slow car on the bridge when the accident happen ed. The Dodge was struck in the rear. Harrcll has been charged with speeding 5S In a 38 tone and pass ing on a hill. Williams has been charged with hit and run, careless and reckless driving, speeding 53 in a 35 zone and passing on a hill. Both will appear in county court Thursday morning. Freighter to Leave Here Today Photo by Reginald Lrwlf The 88 Marma< ialr mad* part at Marthcad CHjr at t:M p.m. Sunday and la achadalad to tall today after taking aa 2,0** tana af aaybraa pcllfta, a pranaatd soybean product. The Morehead City port's first "grain" cargo, d catlned (or over scan, will leave today on the Hoore McCormack freighter, SS Mormac iale. The Mormacisle took on 1,000 tona of aoybean pellets destined tor Scandinavian ports. Next montfe 4.000 tons will leave Morehcad City. Movement of this cargo may amount to 29,000 tona a year, ac cording to the State Ports Author ity. Haide k Co. are itcvadorea and agent, and Cargill, Inc., nationally known grain axpartari, will move the grain from aome SO railway cara to the ahip'a holds The State Porta Authority'a mechanical (rain loader here will be used to trans fer the pellets directly from rail car to ship. Inter -Oceanic Commodity Corp. of New York If shipping the soy hfp pellets. County Board Authorizes Sale Of 'Health' Notes County commissioners, in special session yesterday morning at the courthouse, Beaufort, passed a res olution authorizing issuance of $12,000 in health center notes. Scaled bids on the. notes will be received until U a.m. thia mora, ing at the officc of Uw Local Gov ernment Commission, Raleigh. The notes will be issued in denomina tions of $3,000. They will be de livered to the purchaser the first week of September. Twelve thousand dollars is the county's cash share in building a 133,000 county health center in Beaufort. County official! are hop ing to sell them at no more than 3 per cent interest. 'Good Shape' Board Chairman Moses Howard and County Attorney Alvah Hamil ton commented that the county is "in good financial shape." Chair man Howard, who returned last week from the meeting of the State Association of County Commission ers, said the county is In better shape than lots of other counties in the state. Commissioner Odell Merrill, the attorney, and James Potter, audi tor. were appointed to a committee to prepare an answer to the com plaint filed by the North Carolina Pulp Co. relative to land values. The committee sent a telegram yesterday to the firm which re valued county land, E. T. Wilkins and Associates, asking that a rep resentative of the firm come here next week to study the situation with the committee. Only Appeal The paper company, the only taxpayer which haa appealed its revaluation, filed its complaint with the State Board of Assess ment. The state board has said a hearing will take place in October. The company is basing Its com plaint on the fact that other sur rounding property 1s valued at less than its holdings. Commissioners contend that valuation of property cannot be determined solely on thai basis. The next regular meeting of the commissioners will be Tuesday, Sept. 4, the day after Labor Day. The board decided that in the fu ture when their regular meeting date falls on a holiday, it will meet the day following. Tuesday. In the past, under those condi tions. the board has been meeting the following Monday. Attending the meeting, in addi tion to those mentioned, were Commissioners Skinner Chalk and Harrell Taylor, and the clerk, Ir vln W. Davis. Tide Table Tldet >1 the Beaufort Bar 1IIGII ' LOW Tuesday, Aug 11 8:03 a.m. 1 :M a.m. I 8:14 p.m. 2:08 p.m. | Wcdaaadagr, A? It 8:38 a.m. 2:28 a.m. I 8:40 p.m. 2:44 p.m.| Thuradajf, Aaf. It 8:12 a.m. 3:01 a.m.1 BM pan. 3^20 p-Ok-l ? More head City commis sioners explored a sticky problem Thursday night ? sew aire and sewage disposal. The state would like to see the town Ret rid of sewage other than by dumping it overboard. But a sewage dis posal system would cost $700,000, Commissioner S. C. Holloway estimated. The commissioners listened to W. E. Long, who is with the state stream sanitation department, and R. M. Van Camp, engineer, who in 1940 drew plans for a Morchead City sewage disposal system. Mr. Long distributed copies of the state laws on pollution. Prior to 1951, when the present law was passed, the state had only two laws on the books relative to stream sanitation, he said. He pointed out that the State Stream Sanitation committee has classified waters in the 16 major river basins of the state, specify ing their best usage. 'No Snbstitute' "Gentlemen, there's no substitute for water," Mr. Long declared. "If wc don't do something to prevent pollution of our waters, we will be unable to meet future demands of people and industry in the state of North Carolina." He pointed to the Roanoke Hivcr where this summer hundreds of thousands of striped bass died from "lack of oxygen." He said that the power plants on the Roanoke store water in reservoirs. Storage causes reduction of oxygen content. But when the water is dammed up, paper mills still dump their usual wasteflow into the river. This means that a reduced amount of water is still expected to carry off the same amount of industrial waste, Mr. Long said. The oxygen content is so low that fish can't live. He said that the state has worked out some type of voluntary agreement with the industries conccrned to try to cor rect the situation. Morchead City officials ire well aware U>at a iraifl disposal,* .rr tem is needed. ' We vnu- to 77 nil in Bogue Sojnd." Mayor George Dill said. "But what we want to know is this: due* the State Stream Sanitation Committee have a finan< cing plan for a sewage disposal plant?" Mr. Long said no. He was inform ed that the town has no money to invest in a sewage disposal plant. The stream sanitation official then mentioned federal Public Law See MEETING, Page 3 Firemen Answer Three Alarms The Morrhcid City Fire ii'Jj. ? ment answered three calls i.-ura Saturday through Monday. Two minor fires, a grass (ire and burning railroad ties, were report* ed Saturday. Monday morning firemen ar rived at the Marvin Kornegay res idence on Atlantic Beach just in time to keep a serious fire from spreading. According to Mayor A1 Cooper, evidence showed that a pan of grease was left on tho stove after the occupants had gone fishing. The grease caught fire and the fire soon spread to other parts of the kitchen. Jessie Holland, an Idle Hour em ployee, reported it to the fire de partment, and rushed with a hand extinguisher to the scene. Morehead City firemen were held up by the drawbridge. By the time they got to the fire, most of the kitchen had been destroyed. Mayor Cooper estimated that sev eral hundred dollars damage was caused. Holland managed to keep the fire confined to the kitchen until firemen arrived and put it out. Ports Official Sees Eventual OK Of Port Fund Bill Col. Richard Marr, director of the SUtc Ports Authority, Hid Saturday that he believed the bill appropriating *1.197,000 for deep ening Morehcad City harbor, would be approved early in the next scs aion of Congress. The bill appropriating Ae money was vetoed several week* ago by President Eisenhower. Included in the bill were several projects, in eluding money for eradicating wa in hyacinths In eight southern states. The purple flowers clog streams and hind** navigation. As Mayor George Dill desrrtbea it, "Our port bill got all mixed up with tha hyacinths." Colonel Marr waa visiting Mar? bead City with Army engineer* Saturday.
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