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45th YEAR, NO. 70. THpra ggrTTOMS TWFNTV-FOITR PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Newport to Vote on Water Tuesday
Towns in County
' To Get $36,550
In Street Funds
Powell Bill Provides
Largest Disbursement
Of Money to Dote
The State Highway Commission
announces that $36,530.51 has been
allocated to Atlantic Beach, Beau
fort, Morchead City and Newport
under the Powell Bill act The
money will be used for improve
ments on non-highway system
streets.
Atlantic Beach will rcceive in
1957-57 a total of $2,791.94; Beau
fort $10,303 09. Morehead City $19,
WS0.12, and Newport $3,595.36.
Beaufort's mileage figure, on
which payment was based, is 7.54,
Morehead City's 18.84, Newport's
4 46, and Atlantic Beach 5.42.
Checks will be mailed in mid
September. All are higher this
year than last. In 1955 56 Beaufort
got $9,590 33 and Morehead City
received $18,059.44.
The state allocated a total of
$6,219,338.82 to 400 eligible munici
palities. This is the largest amount
distributed since the Powell bill
"was passed in 1951.
The increasing annual total dis
burseinents are due to the grow
ing volumes of gasoline being used.
The fund comes from a '-i-cent
per gallon of the total 6-ccnt gaso
line tax (less refunds) during ^s
cal 1955-56. The toUdl
* line tax was $74<B90,85
Half of the tfotal all
$3,109,668 41, iij divided .
qualified mupicipaliti
basis of population. The (A
.ale U> $2.04 this year. Las
t wa? $1.88
The other half of tjic total ah*
ration is divided among all tlMj
qualified municipalities on tin
-basit ?f rf-qfcti e mileage of *oj?
state ..ystei oi local streets which
comply with the Act. The milea(C
rate this yearns $496.66. Last year,
it was $472.65.
, As of July 1, 1956, Uw 400 par
ticipating towns had 6,26117 miles
of non-highway system streets.
Their total population, according
to the 1950 census was 1,522,998.
Allocations were figured to the
penny by the Highway Commis
sion's Division of Statistics and
Planning under the direction of
James S. Burch.
' Newport Mayor
Speaks to Club
Newport Mayor Leon A. Mann
Jr. was guest speaker at the New
port Rotary Club meeting Monday
? night. Mr. Mann's topic was "The
Future of Newport."
He discussed the increased pop
ulation of Newport and the rapidly
increasing business activity in the
town, emphasizing expansion of
the Newport water system.
He said that the present system
was inadequate due to a faulty wa
ter tank and lack of pipes for new
lines The old water tank was pur
chased as government surplus
when Bogue Field was closed.
Newport citizens have been
asked to approve borrowing $120,
t *000 for a new 100,000 gallon tank
and new pipes. The issue will be
voted on Tuesday.
Robert Montague presided at the
meeting, and Roy T. Garner was
program chairman. One visitor,
Gerald Mitchell of the Morchead
City club, was present.
Marshal Iberg Launches Educational
'Development Program Tuesday Night
Salk Shots Total
,579 in Three Days
Through Wednesday, S79 polio
shots had been given in the county.
Shots administered Monday to
taled 200, Tuesday 153, and Wed
nesday 217. Today will be the last
day of the clinies which have been
conducted throughout the county
since the laat week in July.
, Mrs. Leota Hammer, county
health nurse, says that there are
several thousand who have had
Just one shot. Three are rec
ommended.
Inoculations may be had each
Tuesday and Thursday In the fu
ture. A clinic is conducted Tues
day la Baufort at the health of
fice and Thursday at th? More
head City Hospital annex.
The community of Marshallberg
laid the cornerstone Tuesday night
Tor in extensive education pro
gram among its adults- and youth.
At the educational development
committee meeting at the home
of John Valentine, chairman,
courses were set up. Members of
the community capable of teach
ing those courses were suggested.
The committee pointed out that
the "study groups" need not es
pecially be courses of instruction,
but will offer an opportunity for
persons with similar interests to
get together.
The courses and those assigned
to conduct them are as follows:
Navigation (celestial reckoning,
pilot and dead reckoning, sema
phore and morse code), Roma Sal
ter, Archie Jones, Capt. Fred Gil
likin and Guy Lewii.
Engineering (Diesel motors),
Robert Sellers, Tbomaa Gillikin,
Roma Sailer and Claude Brown.
Fire-fighling. first aid. rcscuc
and salvage, Robert ScUcr> and
Fred Baxter.
Business administration and gen
eral accounting, Ed Moore and El
vin Hancock.
Chemistry and physics, Harvey
D. Davis.
Architectural engineering (gen
eral plan reading, clectriclty,
plumbing, heating and air condi
tointng). John Valentine and Lu
ther Willis.
Tool and dye design, A1 Wal
lace.
Business law, leader to be ob
tained by Leon Thomas.
Safely engineering, Klmo Fisher.
Civil Defense, leader to be ob
tained by Leon Thomas.
Real estate, general law and gen
eral history, Julian Brown and
Eugene Moore.
See MAKSliALLULRG, Page X
Expert Fire-Fighting Controls Blaze
? . ) Roof inn < "I in and Morehead City firemen kept a potentially-danger
ous fire under control at the Fry Roofing Co., Morehead City, Monday afternoon.
Roth ends blew o?t of a tank filled with asphalt. The tank was mounted on sup
ports like the 09c shown at the lef*. It contained 25,000 gallons of asphalt. Both
m4r were o*. Three ami under the tank at the time ?f the exploiion escaped
m "uxrjmzmm
, f Photo by Jerry Schumaffticr
injury- V\ Edwards, plant manager, said that if the ends of the tank can be
welded fc 4ic damage will be less than if the tank has to be replaced. A com
pany api- im;i is expected here to make an estimate of loss. Asphalt from the tank
formed a black mire all around the scene of the explosion.
Camp Gfenn Set
For School Year
Camp Glenn principal R. W. ;
Davis announced Monday that
school will open at 8:30 Tuesday
morning.
All parents of children who will
begin school for the first time arc
requested to have the youngsters
given physical examinations prior
to the opening of school.
It will be necessary that a valid
birth certificate be presented
(cither a certificate from the coun
ty register of deeds or the state
division of vital statistics) before
a child ean be enrolled. *
There were three faculty changes
made during the summer. Mrs.
Betty Scwcll replaces Miss Sallie
Thigpen in the first grade. Mrs.
Margaret Brown fills the vacancy
left by Miss Bobbie Suggs in the
third grade, and Miss Lucy Flem
ing is taking the position in the
fifth grade left open by Mrs. Ma
rie Willis.
Other teachers and their assign
ments arc Mrs. Sallie Mason and
Mrs. Esta Pigott, first grade; Mrs.
Rosalie Davis, Mrs. Inez Lina, and
Mrs. Vera Freeman, second grade;
Mrs. Cora Russell and Mrs. Ruth
Eurc, third g;rade.
Mrs. Etta Duke and Mrs. Mamie
Swain, fourth grade; Mrs. Hilda
Brown, fifth grade; Mrs. Roma Da
vis and Mfss Helen Collie, sixth
grade; Miss Margaret Hall, scv- j
enth grade; John Duncan, seventh I
and eighth grades; and Thomas
Cordova, eighth grade.
Civic Leaders to Choose
Centennial Manager Sept. 10
Town Board Sets
Public Hearing
The Morehead City Town
Board will conduct a public
hearing at the municipal build
ing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
13.
Considered at the hearing will
be a proposal to re-zone from
"residential" to "business" lots
6 and 7 in square 38 and the
north one half of lots 14 and 15
in square 199.
Both matters were brought be
fore the town board at its
August meeting. Businesses pe
titioning for change arc a gas
and oil company and a funeral
establishment.
Carteret Towing Co.
Receives Navy Contract
Norfolk. Va. ? Carteret Towing
Co., Inc., Morehead City, has been
let a $30,000 tyavy contract for
providing local tug service.
The tugs will aid in moving Na
val vessels at Morehead City. The
contract calls for tugs of 400 or
more horse power.
The contract will be adminis
tered by the Navy Purchasing Of
fice, Naval Supply Center, Norfolk.
? A general manager of More--*
head City's centennial celebration
will be named at a meeting of civic
leaders at 8 pin. Monday, Sept.
10, at the Morehcad City Munici
pal Building.
At an initial meeting this week,
to get plans for the observance
underway, Charles Markey, More
head City presented a day-by-day
program for one week.
Tliirty persons, including county
officials, school officials, minis
ters, and representatives of civic
clubs, were present. The meeting
was held Monday night at the
Morehcad City Municipal Building.
The program proposed by Mr.
! Markey is now being presented to
clubs and churchcs for their en
dorsement.
Mayor George Dill preiidcd at
the meeting. He introduced J. A.
DuBois, manager of the Morehcad
City Chamber of Commerce, who
with Town Commissioner Jasper
Bell served as a committee to start
centennial jubilee plans.
The week-long celebration is ten
tatively scheduled for the first
part of June 1957. Mr. DuBois ex
plained that the town was found
ed in 1857. The town was incor
porated in 1858.
According to a schedule of cen
tennial events there will be a golf
tournament, industrial and fiahing
exhibits, water skiing eventa and
antique car displays throughout
the week of celebration.
Special daily events have been
proposed as follows:
Sanday ? Special jubilee services
in churchcs, oldest members In
congregation being honored; af
ternoon', guided bus touri to his
toric spots; evening, religious pa
rade, Community Vesper Service.
See CENTENNIAL, Page Z
Mayor Presides
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Aug. 11
3:23 a.m.
4:06 p.m.
0:32 a.m.
10:39 p.m.
Satarday, Sept. 1
4:34 a.m.
5:10 p.m.
10:43 a.m.
11:34 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. t
5:37 a.m.
8:09 p.m.
11:48 a.m.
Monday, Sept. >
7:03 p.m. 11
Tuesday, Sept. 4
6:35 a.m.
12:28 a.m.
11:48 p.m.
7:28 a.m.
7:53 p.m.
1:10 a.m.
1:42 fM.
Banks, Postoffices
To Close Monday
Banks, postoffices and most
business offices will closc Mori
day Labor Day.
Atlantic Beach is expecting a
large crowd for the last holiday
of the summer. This means that
highway patrolmen, officers at
the beach and in Morehcad City
will have a heavy traffic flow
on their hands once again.
Most stores arc expcctcd to be
open Monday. The town halls
of Beaufort and Morchead City
and the courthouse will be
j closed. Morehead City Recorder's
Court will be held as usual.
Newport Residents
To Hear Pros, Con
On Pearsall Plan
H. L. Joslyn, county superin
tendent of schools, and D. G. Bell,
county legislator, will speak at 7:30
Wednesday night at the Newport
School.
They will speak on the Pearsall
Plan, a proposal to allow contin
ued operation of the state's public
schools on a segregated basis.
Also on the program will be a
representative of the state Parent
Teacher Association who will speak
against the Pearsall Plan.
A question and answer period
will follow talks by the three
speakers. The program is being
sponsored by the Newport Parent
Teacher Association. Everyone is
invited.
The Mormacmail is due to dock
at state port, Morchcad City, Sept.
15 for a load of grain. The majori
ty of the cargo will be soybean
pellets.
Club Receives Award
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Mrs. James Smith, left, MPW Club officer, and Mln Allda Willis,
March of Dimes chairman, admire an achievement award from the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Miss Alida Willis, Morehead
City, chairman of the 1B58 March
of Dimes, and the Carteret Busi
ness and Professional Women's
Club were presented with a cer
tificate of achievement by the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis Tuesday night.
The presentation was made at
the B4PW Club meetlnf by Miaa
Ruth Peeling, chairman of the Car
teret ' County Chapter for Infan
tile Paralysis. The club met at
llolden'a Restaurant, Beaufort.
Mrs. James Smith, first vice
president, presided in the absence
of the president, Mrs. Rama Noe.
The group voted to sponsor the
March o I Dimes campaign in IM7
and to sponsor a home nursing
and first aid training course.
i
II wa* announced that the dis
trict B4PW Club meeting would
be at the staff NCO Club, Cherry
Point, 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16.
Club members planning to go
should make reservations with
Mrs. Julia Holt.
During the business session the
minutes were read by Mrs. Clem
Johnson, who expressed the club's
appreciation to Mrs. J. R. Morrill,
hostess to the group in July. The
treasurer's report was given by
Mrs. Roy Clark.
As the program. Miss Peeling
explained the meaning of symbols
In the national federation emblem
and Mrs. Johaaon commented on
the Why, What and How of B*PW.
A ham aupper preceded the
meeting.
' Newport will decide Tuesday whether it wants a town
wide water system.
Voters will go to the polls and cast ballots for or against
borrowing slightly more than $100,000 for a new water
storage tank and installation of water mains throughout
the town.
The engineer and architect, euguged to give an estimate
on inc work. set the cast at1
$120,000. but since that time water'
mains have been l?iicl by the fire \
department and thus there will be
some reduction in the total cost, ac
cording to Mayor Leon Mann Jr. I
The new tank would have a ca
pacity of 100.0(H) gallons; water ]
linos would be increased from 1 (??
(KM) to 35.000 feet and 23 more fire
hydrants added.
A simple majority of the number
of persons casting ballots will de
termine whether the money should
be borrowed. The proposal has i
been approved by the Local Gov
e r n m e n t Commission, Kaleigh,
which studies a town's financial j
situation and rejects borrowing
proposals if it feels a town cannot
pay the debt off.
The town board, the town attor
ney. George Ball, and the engineer,
William F. Freeman, believe that,
raising of taxes will not be neces
sary. They point out that during j
the past several years as much as j
20 cents of each tax dollar has been
spent on putt inc the water system
in little by little.
Piecemeal Too Costly
Town officials point out that the
piece-by piece installation of the
water system is no longer feasible ,
from a cost standpoint.
They point out that anticipated]
I reduction in fire insurance rates
will mean a sizable saving to town !
residents.
Mayor Mann estimates that dur- i
ing the recent registration period
approximately 40 persons were
added to the eligible-voters list.
Tomorrow is challenge day. Per
sons doubting the eligibility of
registered persons to vote may pre
sent challenges to the registrar.
A Newport resident, when asked
how people felt on borrowing the
money, said Wednesday, "Well, it
looks as though those who own
property are -against it and thusc
who rent property are for it."
A few property owners feel that
bccausc they have wells and pumps
they don't need a water system.
DctaiTM questions and answers
on the water system proposal ap
peared in THE NEWS-TIMES Fri
day, Aug. 3. page 6 section 2. Some
of these questions and answers
will be reprinted in Tuesday's
paper.
County Ranks 49
In Cabbage Acres
Carteret County ranked 49lh
among the hundred leading cab
bage-producing counties in the na
tion in 1954. Planted in Carteret
in that year were 548 acres, ac
cording lo a report released Wed
nesday hy the Bureau of Census.
Cameron County, Tc^as, was the
leading cahbagc county with 7,897
acres 6-0 per cent of the U. S.
total. Hidalgo County, Texas,
ranked second with 5.314 acres;
St. Johns, Florida, third with 4,048
acres; Pasquotank, North Carolina,
fourth, 3.083 acres; Palm Beach,
Florida, fifth, 2.248 acres; Orleans,
New York, sixth with 2.234 acres.
The top 100 counties in cabbage
acreage were distributed by states
as follows: New York, 12; Florida,
10; North Carolina, 9; Texas, 8;
California. 7; Wisconsin, 6; New
Jeraey and Penniylvania, 5 each;
Colorado, Michigan and Ohio, 4
each; Georgia and Virginia, 3 each;
Alabama, Connecticut, Ixmisiana,
Massachusetts, Minnesota and
Washington. 2 each; Arizona, Illi
nois, Indiana. Mississippi, Missouri,
Oregon, South Carolina and Ten
nessee, 1 each.
Bookmobile Will
Visit Schools
The county library bookmobile
will visit schools on a monthly
basis starting in September. It will
not make its usual runs, however,
on Labor Day or the day following.
Misa Dorothy Avery, librarian,
said yesterday, "We are making a
big effort to have a lot of suitable
books available and hope that
every teacher will borrow a large
supply for her classroom."
Changes in the bookmobile sche
dule have been announced for the
following dates:
Monday. Sept. 10 ? Bookmobile
will be at Smyrna School in the
morning and Markers Island School
in the afternoon.
Tuesday, Sept. 11 Bookmobile
will be at Atlantie School In the
morning and will make community
stops at Atlantic In the afternoon.
Monday, Sept. IT ? Bookmobile
will be at Newport School in the
morning and Camp Glenn School
in the after noun.
Directors Will
Present Views
On Chamber Goal
Each director of the Beaufort
Chamber of Commerce board will
report at the next meeting on
what he thinks the goal of the
chamber should be.
Glenn Adair, president, request
ed that each director give his
opinion, following a talk by Wiley
Taylor, Beaufort attorney, at the
! hoard meeting Tuesday night.
I Mr. Taylor, an invited speaker,
i gave his opinion on chamber ob
jectives. He suggested that the
chamber set a particular goal ?
work toward making Beaufort a
resort haven, a town devoted to
I the fishing industry or a place for
retired people.
9200 Offered
The chamber voted to give $200
toward new bleachers at the Beau
fort ball park if the chamber will
be permitted to use the ball park
jfor the banker pony rodeo Oct. 7.
| Ten dollars was also contributed
toward the Area VII dairy prin
cess contest being sponsored by
a New Bern milk company. Car
teret is one of 17 counties in Area
VII.
Heads Program
Gerald Hill, a director, was
named supervisor of the town's
courtesy nickel program.
Directors attending the board
meeting, in addition to the pres
ident, were Ray Cummins, Wil
liam Hamilton, Ronald Earl Ma
son, Halscy Paul, Gerald Hill, Jar
vis Herring, Dr. W. L. Woodard,
Uolden Bailor Norwood Young,
Mrs. Nancy Davis, Danforth Hill
n?i4 Dr. David Farrior.
'farmers May
Sip Up Sept. 19
' B. J. May. ASC manager, an
nounced yesterday that Carteret
farmers may start Monday, Sept.
10, to sign up for the conserva
tion reserve phase of the soil bank
program.
He also announced that under
the acreage reserve plan, which
went into effect this summer,
wheat farmers still may bank their
wheat acreage if they have not har
vested any grain and arc within
their allotment.
Mr. May said that there is not
much wheat grown in this county
and little wheat acreage, if any, is
expected to be banked.
The conservation reserve phase
was explained to farm officials at
Williamston Wednesday. Attend
ing from Carteret were Mr. May,
Mrs. John Butler. David Jones,
Harry Venters, and Roy Keller.
Grain Ship Sails
For Rotterdam
The SS Benjamin Chew sailed
late Wednesday from Morehead
City where it loaded the second
overseas (rain shipment lo move
through the port.
The vessel is a newly converted
Liberty ship, the first of four be
ing experimentally altered to make
this class capable of meeting the
increased demsnds of modern mil
itary supply.
The csrgo taken on here is com
prised of soybesn pellets snd lin
seed expeller pellets, bound for
Rotterdam. This material is used
as cattle feed.
lntcr-Ocesnic Commodity Corp.
is making the shipment. Til is and
last week's shipment employed
American-flag vessels snd arc the
first such ships to load at More
head City for foreign trade. All
previous ships calling for ship
ments sbroad were foreign-flag
ships.
The Chew is operated by the
U. S. Lines snd is captained by
a North Carolinian. William C.
Hurley, a native of Newton. Cap
tain Hurley said his wife has tak
en his children to Holland to visit
her parents for the summer and
he is looking forward to hia call
at Rotterdam where he can rejoin
his family. The Hurleys now make
their home in New Jersey.
The grain movement through
Morehead City is a new develop
ment snd one which may attract
some 10 or 12 vessels annually to
piak up about 23,000 tons.
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