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PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of th? TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?v 45th YEAR, NO. 72. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS People Will Vote on Four Amendments Board Names Committee, Asks Aid of Water Firm The county commissioners ap pointed a committee to work on l?ir nervation of the outer banks when they met Tuesday at the courthouse. They also authorized a letter to be written to Carolina Water Co , request in*: lowering of water lines on Craven Avenue in Highland Park. The outer banks committee was appointed at the request of J. A. DuBois, Morehead City. Members are A. D. Ennett Sr. and Dr. L. J. Dupree, both of Ce dar Point; W. B. McLean, Emerald Isle; James W. Smith, Salter Path; L. T. White Sr., A. B. Cooper, At lantic Beach. Mayor George Dill, Mr. DuBois, Morehead City; C. G. Holland, G. ? W. Huntley Sr., Gray llassell, Beaufort; T. T. (Tom) Potter, Portsmouth. Halph Neal and E. O. Moore, Marshallberg; Henry Davis and David Yeomans, Harkers Island; Harrell Taylor, Sea Level; Ira Morris and Clayton Fulchcr Jr., Atlantic, and A. W. Daniels, Cedar Island. The committee was designated as the Outer Banks Hurricane Re habilitation Committee. The Highland Park road problem was brought before the board by Commissioner Odell Merrill. Mr. Merrill said that the state agreed i two years ago to maintain the road but has been unable to do so be cause water lines beneath it aro too close to the surface. Repeated requests to Carolina Water Co. to lower the lines have brought no response. J. L. Hum phrey, county road superintendent, said he would be willing to meet! with C. W Williams, water com pany manager, to discuss the mat ter. The road goes by the Roy Lancy residence in Highland Park and enters Highway 70 at the N. F Eure home. . Building Picks Up in August Following a building slump in Mope head City during July, the month of August made a much bet ter showing. Eight permits were issued during August by A. B. Roberts, building inspector, covering the erection of < five new houses, a hot house, and two permits for alterations or re pairs. amounting to a total of $31,345. Two of the new houses arc be ing built on Calico Drive in the Crab Point development, L. F. Waters. $9,500 ?nd Edward Fau cctte, $9,995. Charles Tolson Jr. is erecting a house on Bridges $ Street at the rear of his father's house, costing $8,000. Joe Felton. house on Fisher Street, costing $2,450; Kerwin Smith, Arcndcll Street. $800; Rod lick Willis has been granted a per mit to build a small hot house on his lot on Evans Street; for altera tions or repairs. K. W. Masic, $350 and Ethan Brenon, $150. Estimated cost of construction for August 1955, $90,500; total for the eight months of 1955, 372,910; for the current eight months, $395,900. In July one permit was issued to T. T. Potter for construction of an office and shop building at the Sin ? clair bulk plant, $1,500. Training Course To Start Monday ? Mrs. Herbert Webb, Sea Level, Girl Seout neighborhood commis sioner. announces that the Girl Scout leaders' training course for the down east section will start Monday and continue through next Friday. The course will be given from 10 to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. each day in the Scout building on the Methodist church property. Atlan tic. Cook-out and camp craft skills will highlight the last day of the training. Instructors will be Miss Eliza beth llawley, executive director of the Coastal Carolina Council. Mrs. Dorothy Porter, district di rector of Carteret and Craven Counties and Miss Connie Grant. | district director, Wayne County. The course is free to all adults who wish to take it. Club to Meet The Gloucester Community Club will meet at 7:30 Tuesday night at the home of Mr. and Mr,. Wal ter Stewart, Gloucester. ihimii ? a ' Tomorrow four proposed constitutional amendments wilH be voted on. Tolls will be open from 6:30 a. in. to 6:30 p.m. The most publicized will write the two key provisions of the Pearsall Plan ? tuition grants and local control of schools ? into Article IX of the state constitution. Two will affect the legislature ? by changing the meet ?i Written Plea Tells Hard Luck Story Anonymous letters from teen age girls, the dream of crobners, are all in a day's work for Lt. Carl Blomberg, parking meter checker for the Morehead City Police Department. Here is a note that the lieu tenant found on the windshield of a car the other day. "Dear Mr. Blomberg, "I just went in Eastman's to get change for the meter and | when 1 came back 1 found my i little red ticket. "I don't have a whole $1 to my name, so I'm giving you my last I cent and I sure hope this will square me with you. "Don't be mad and I'm very sorry, and please don't tell my | mother and daddy. Thank you for your nice cour tesy . . She left the officer 56 cents. 1,059 Polio Shots Given Last Week A total of 1,059 polio shots were given at clinics throughout the county last week. Mrs. Lcota Ham mer, health nurse, said there were 227 first shots, 791 second shots, and 40 third shots. Since July 30, 6.728 persons have come to the clinics for im munization. Of thus number, 3,370 were first shots, 2,897 were second shots, and 461 were third shots. The immunization program was first begun in April 1955, and since that time 6,896 first shots, 4,783 second shots, and 620 third shots have been given in county clinics and doctors' offices. Number of shots during the entire period to tal 12,299. ? Ttw>frec polio clinics were spon sored hy the Ofenty Medical So ciety, the county health depart ment and the Carteret March of Dimes. Mrs. Hammer has also been working on plans for the new health center. She has the com pleted plans in her office now. They will be sent to Raleigh for bids. The bids have to be out for a month before a contractor can be selected, so a definite starting date for construction has not been set. The health center will contain 20.000 square feet of floor space and will cost in the neighborhood of $35,000. ?ing date and by letting the mem bers vote themselves expense al lowances. The other will authorize a mar ried woman to exeeute a power of attorney conferred by her husband. Tomorrow's election will be as much a general election from a legal and technical standpoint as the regular general election in No vcmber. The I'carsall Sp^'ial Session School amendment will be set out j on the ballot in these words: FOK j constitutional amendment author j izing education expense grants for J private education and authorizing local vote to suspend schools. AGAINST constitutional amend ment authorizing education ex pense grants for private education and authorizing local vote to sus pend schools. (See editorial on Tcarsall Flan page 1 section 2). The amendment has been so widely discussed and argued that many North Carolinians have over looked the other three. Tl?e attorney general has pre pared a brief explanation of each of the amendments, and his ex planations make clear there is much more involved in the legis lators* pay amendment than the words on the ballot would indi cate. "The effect of this amendment," he wrote, "would be to make possi ble two changes in compensation to be received by members of the General Assembly. 120-Day Maximum "One change effected . . . would be that members might be com pensated for a maximum of 120 days instead of 90. The other changc ... is that a constitutional ly acceptable law could be enacted providing for the payment of sub sistence and t-avel allowance . . ." The language of the proposed amendment appears to leave it to the legislature to say what the rate of the subsistence and travel al lowance would be. They receive none now. The attorney general said in his explanation, however, that the al lowances could not exceed those established for members of state boards and commissions generally. "These amounts," he wrote, "arc set by each legislature hi its ap propriations bill. As an example, the appropriations bill of the 1955 General Assembly provided for state board and commiasibn mem bers, for subsistence, actual amount expended not in excess of $8 per day, and for transportation by per sonally owned automobile, seven cents per mile, and for bus, rail and other public conveyance, the actual fare." The base per day salary of legis See REFERENDUM, Page 2 Countians Invited To Meeting Tonight Residents of all county school districts are invited to a meet ing on the Pearaall Plan at 7:30 tonight at the Beaufort School. County legislator, D. G. Bell will explain provisions of the plan and answer questions from the floor. He will be introduced by Bruce Tarkington, principal. The meeting is being spon sored by the Beaufort PTA. 40 Jurors Will Serve in October Forty jurors have been selected by the eounty board to serve dur ing the one-week eivil term of Su perior Court in October. They are as follows: Morehead City: Edward Gibson MeKinley. Edward Guthrie, Mrs. Stanley Woodland, P. N. Geer, James C. Ross, Clarence T. Bell, Harry G. Ball, C. B. Wade, Luther M Piner, Clyde W. Young, and Kenneth C. Wagner. Beaufort: G. T. Spivcy, W. 1). Stvron, William P. Noe, Mrs. Val eria Lewis, George T. Martin, Charles Eric Moore, Kenneth N. Windley, Richard T. Smith, Lloyd II. Smith, Learnan Eubanks, Mary Gray, and Albert A. Pokrzywa. | Newport: Brady T. Lewis, Dar rell Taylor, Jim S. Small, Leonard , R. Lewis, Mrs. Vcrnicc Goodwin, | Robert Jones, George L. Strings, . Cecil A. Hall, Leslie S. Bercegeay, ! Tom Temple and Lonnie Fulcher. j Markers Island: Berkley D. Wil-; lis and Joe Lane Lewis. Atlantic: Donald B. tjilgo. Wildwood: L A. M-'" *h. Stella: C. F. Overm*Ar Swansboro: Joseph C. Ellington. State Dump Truck, Ford Wagon Bump A Ford station wagon and a, state dump truck collided at the intersection of the Bonham Heights Road and the road past the More head City Legion h^t at 7:40 a.m. Wednesday. State Highway Patrolman J. W. Sykcs said that the 1953 station wagon, driven by Gerald Wade, Morehead City, was headed west and stopped at the stop sign as the dump truck, driven by Carol Millis, Newport, was making the ti*n. The dump truck was coming out of the road by the Legion Hut to turn left on the Bonham Heights Road. The car and the left rear tire of the truck met. Damage to the station wagon was estimated at $400. There was no damage to the truck. No one was hurt and no charges were filed. County Offers West Beaufort ProperfyforSale Committee Decides Tues day In Favor of Property Disposal, Not Lease The county will sell property it owns in West Beaufort to the high est bidder at the courthouse door at noon Monday, Sept. 24. The property adjoins the Sea shore Packing Co. property and runs cast to the extension of Tur ner Street. (A full description ap pears in the legal section of today's ! paper). A committee of county officials, I headed by County Commissioner lOdcll Merrill, decided Tuesday af ternoon to sell rather than lease it J A request for a lease was made at the August county board nicct ! ing by Charles Davis, Beaufort, and K. W. Copcland, Morehcad (City, who have interest in the Sea shore Packing Co. They propose | building a sportsfishing pond. I | Wiley Taylor Jr., attorney for Mr. Davis and Mr. Copeland, read a proposed lease to the county board at its meeting Tuesday morning at the courthousc. Commissioner Skinner Chalk raised a question abou* the annual rental proposed, which was the amount of lax on the land and im provements on it. County Attor ney Alvah Hamilton questioned whether the county had the right to lease offshore waters which would bo involved in building the pond. Members of the committee, in addition to the chairman, who de cided it would be better to offer the property for sale, were Com missioner Chalk, Mr. Hamilton and James D. Potter, county auditor. The parties requesting lease had earlier proposed buying the land if the county would offer it for sale. At AMENDMENTS U> ftoiii (?? thu Sample Ballot ? jNSTK?;erroN.s to \oiek K any arowidttKM , r>sk?: a rr'*? mark in lh?.- .square t>: tJ><' Ac til FOR. (it GAWSf stoi/jmienUnnftiit, uuifce 3'cVu;.> (5^ n..?rk in tW <>j?.;re ..r *t... .* /? iiv!cn ,-f iht: word A'.AlNST. lyu Tour name wtrtfic ft&iik lfiw ;<t the ST ? 4 V. ?r 1" > IAL SESSION SCHOOL AMENDMENT 1 amendment authorizing education expr ose ^rjnit. nl uc*tmi und milhuruiBK local vole to vu.vpend local ?rh<>?l.<. amendment aBlhorizim; (-duration expense private ?d?ratton six} awthoruiBj; local vo(e Lu -uspejxl local * M VV' W>' 'W '" ?" -.r'"5,15^ ^ REGULAR SESSION AMENDMENTS !? <t*>cnd inent a!lnwi?|j limited rum pcn-i t :un of member. ral Assembly. aaten. Intent allowing limited necessary luinpon.-.jlirn of the<.'<nt'fai Assembly. } - 2. 1 amendment ihancint the date for cnnvi-ninir i !-.?r from January to I'tbmarv '> ct>M!tkfutional amendment chan/im.' fix <Jste for con>enir^ lly froin January hi f c&ruiry. " '4. I iein* married w.man to cicreiiw.' powers of nnanu married ? om/>n to exercise ? ? , t ffcMr frnrfw <<,*? ? ? i'fV ? T'% a . * ' ' ! Newport Voters OK New Water System Joan Turns on Charm Photo by Jerry Schumadicr Joan Melton, Miss North Carolina, appears tonight in the evening down division at the Miss America contest, Atlantic City. Here she models what the well dressed Carteret Countian wears. Miss Melton appeared in bathing suit last night and played the piano Wednes day night, presenting the same numbers she played at the Miss North Carolina Pageant In Morehead City. County Board Approves New Highway in Western Carteret I ounly commissioners approved Tuesday morning a new highway through the western part of the county to Maysvillc. The new route is the alternative to the proposed highway from llavclock through the Croatan For est to Pollocksville. The State Highway Commission has advocated the route approved hy the county board because it would serve two purposes: shorten the route to Kinston from this county and improve access to Emerald Isle. (A ferry or bridge has been suggested for joining Emerald Isle to the mainland from the western part of Carteret). The route proposed would leave Highway 24, turn north through the Ennctt property, go through Pellcticr, national forest properly, Norris, Weeks, Taylor, and Watson properties and into Maysvillc. To Save Time The State Highway Commission estimates that bclwcn 35 and 40 minutes will be gained by using the new route to go to Kinston. In some places the route follows the present Stella Road. Allen Carraway, Mcrrimon, ap peared before the board and re quested an adjustment in his prop erty valuation. He said the apprais er listed his home as 90 per cent complete when it was only half finished. The board told Mr. Carraway that it could make no changc in the property valuation until the Board of Equalization meeting in March, but advised Mr. Carraway to pay the tax "under protest." Then if the appraisal is found to be wrong in March, an adjust ment will be made. PftitioB Returned The board sent back to D. E. Lockhart a petition requesting im provement of a road west of More head City. The proper distance and location of the road was required on the petition. The board decided to ask for bids on improving the acoustics in See COUNTY BOARD, Page 2 Carteret Schools Open With 5,620 Students Jasper Bell Attends State Barbers' Meeting Jasper Bell, Morchead City, im mediate past president of the A? socialrd Matter Barbers of North Carolina attended the 28th annual convention of the association this week Mrs. Bell accompanied him to High Point for the convention. The convention opened with a social and get-acquainted hour Sun day night. Business sessions and a hair styling demonatration high lighted Monday's meetings, and Tuesday morning final business was cleared up. Mr. Bell, who presided at the meeting, announces that the next session will be held in Charlotte. Mob Returns Calin C. Coats, Buffalo, N. Y. who requested aid of newspapers in this area In finding his son, Hector, informed THE NEWS TIMES yeatetday that his son, from whom nothing had baen heard sine* Aug. 14, had returned home. No explanation was given of the youth's whereabouts. i ? County schools had ? total at tendance of 9,620 itudcnt* Tues day, opening day, approximately a hundred more than last year. H. L. Joslyn, county superintendent of schools, said that he was very well pleased with the attendance and the manner in which the teach ers and pupila cooperated. Beaufort had a total enrollment of 1,099; Morehcad City, 1,039; C'amp Glenn, 997; Newport, 712; Atlantic, 383; Smyrna. 994; Mar kers Island, 262; Queen Street, 944; W. S. King, 320; Stella, 82; and Salter Pith, 28. Salter Path was not scheduled to have a school this year, but at the last minute arrangcmcnta were made to have the first three grades there again. Mrs. Rachel Kulchcr is the tcachcr. Mr. Joslyn said he expects to sec about 100 to 190 more itudents enroll during the first 10 days of school. Last year 197 newcomers were added during the first 10 days. Mr. Joslyn and his floor crew, aided by the school janitors and volunteers, have refinished the floors la every school in the coun ty except Queen Street where floors will be computed soon. Library Receives Two Gift Books Mrs. G. W. HuuUey Sr. has given (wo books to the Carteret County Public Library in memory of Mrs. Sidny A. Waters, Beaufort. An nounccmcnt of the gift was made this week by Mrs. W. L. Woodard, librarian. Mrs. Waters was the mother of Mrs. Odcll Jefferson. Beaufort. The books and a brief descrip tion of them follows: Daily Life in Bible Times by Albert Edward Bailey. Steeped in his subject through years of study and teaching and conducting of tours in Bible lands. Professor Bailey offers this vivid, well-docu mented book to help the layman visualize daily life in Bible times. Beginning in Mesopotamia in the days of Abraham and following through to the first Christian cen tury, he writes of dress, food, houses, social and religious cus toms. schools, business, marriage and laws of inheritance. In the Steps of the Master by Henry Canova Morton Bible in hand, and further fortified by wide preliminary reading in the history and Iraditions of Palestine, Mr. Morton traveled through the Holy Land, searching out the sites asso ciated with Jesus and his followers, with occasional reference both to earlier and later events. This account of his trip Is writ ten in reverent and earnest fash ion, but it is also entertaining by reason of numerous anecdotes of people he encountered and adven tures he met with by the way." Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Kept 7 0:54 a.m. 3:36 a.m. 10:12 p.m. 4:13 p.m. Saturday, Sept. ? 10:42 a.m. 4:21 a.m. 10:38 p.m. 3:01 p.m. Snaday, Sept. > 11:30 a.m. 5:06 a.m. 11:44 p.m. 3:31 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11 3:32 a.m. 13:10 p.m. 6:43 p.m. TuCMby, Sept 11 12:36 a.m. 6:42 a.m. 1:13 p.m. 7:41 p.m. " Newport has approved, T,y a vote of 126 to 114, the in stallation of a town water system. Newport residents went to the polls Tuesday. There was a record turnout. Of the 311 qualified voters. 77.18 per cent voted. Mayor Leon Mann Jr. said the town is proud of the number who voted. At a meeting of the town commissioners Tues day night he remarked, in refer ence to the water system. "I believe this is the beginning of a new era of progress " The board met again at noon Wednesday to certify election re turns. Serving as officials at the polls were Miss Margaret Bell. Mrs. Ada Allen and Mrs. Lilly Dale Parrish. In a story on the referendum last Friday a citizen was quoted as say ing he thought most of the proper ty owners were opposed to the water system and those who didn't own property were for it. Several of the large property owners in Newport, who were defi nitely in favor of the water system felt this reflected erroneously on their position. Borrowing Permitted The vote allows Newport to bor row up to $120,000 to put water I mains and fire hydrants through out town. The town has been put ting a water system in, piece-meal, during the past couple years. Arrangements were made Tues day night for several town officials to meet at 2 tomorrow to decide whether to hold a lot open in West Newport for a new highway right of-way. The lot is located near the school in the Cherry Point Mutual Vet erans Housing development. Lcs Bercegeay, president of the hous ing association, told the hoard that several persons arc interested in buying the lot. Surveying the situation tomor row, in addition to Mr. Bercegeay, will be Commissioners II. C. Our* ganus, Prentis Garner and Mayor Mann. Insurance Approved The board authorized acceptance of insurance policies totaling $536.71 through Nationwide Insur ance. Roy T. titmer, agent. Mr. Garner wqs present at the meeting. The board discussed the audit ing contracts presented to the town by Josiah Bailey, CPA. Commis sioner Prentis Garner was author ized to check on the proposed agreements. Commissioner Wilbur Garner was authorized to contact Norton and Britt, paving firm, Beaufort, rela tive to paving New Bern Avenue. Mayor Mann said that during the forthcoming year the town hopes to pave New Bern Avenue and make all other streets in town "passable." It was announced that the state will haul clay for W. Railroad Boulevard if the town will show where to get the clay. The man hole by Sergeant Hughes' resi dence will be fixed as soon as some one can be found to do the work, said Commissioner Bennie Garner. The board authorized raising the pay of Dan Bell, police chief, $10 a month with Chief Bell taking his day off, Thursday, to attend coun ty court In Beaufort. Commissioner Wilbur Garner commended Chief Bell for his werk. The mayor announced that Mrs. John B. Tomlinson would like some assistance on handling the Girl Scout troop in Newport. The mayor also commented on More head City's forthcoming centennial and suggested that Newport give Morebcad City full support. Maypr Mann reported that II. P. Edwards, general manager of the Atlantic and East Carolina Rail road, has informed the town that it would cost $1,000 to move track age around the present depot. Elections Officer Urges Voting C. Z. Chappcll, chairman of the County Board of Elections, yester day asked that all registered vot ers make a special effort to go to the polls tomorrow. "Changing the state constitution ia an important matter." Mr. Chap pcll said. "Every citiien in the state should have a voice In it." Voters will cast ballots for or against four amendments If the amendment on changing the open ing date of the general assembly passes, it will affect the opening date for 1007. the amendment would move the opening to Febru ary Votes will be cast at all the usual polling places 1a the county, except in Morehead precinct No. 2, the polling place wijl be at Camp Glean 8chool. It la hoped that by November the acw fire substation In aveat Morehead City will be ready so that the polls may be lo cated there. Mr. CbaftpaU said.