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TAR HEEL COAST
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45th YEAR. NO. 75. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1?56 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Value of Tar Heel Seafood
Shows Increase for 1954-56
Commercial fishermen received'
more for finfish and shellfish dur
ing 1954-50 than they did for the
catches they made in the preced
ing two-year period.
This was shown in a current re
port by the Department of Con
servation and Development. It was
compiled by C. Gehrmann Holland,
stale fisheries commissioner and
head of the C&D Department's
commercial fisheries division at
Morchead City.
Total value of finfish and shell
fish caught from July 1, 1954,
~ through June 30, 1956, jn basis of
reports made by the fishermen to
Commissioner Holland was $13,
296.363. For the period July 1,
1952, through June 30, 1954, it
was $13,067,418.
Hurricanes and other periods of
bad weather during the 1954-56
period tended to handicap com
mercial fishermen in their fishing
operations, the commissioner said.
The hurricanes also damaged oys
ter beds and put a crimp in shrimp
ing and other operations.
A total of 60,326,862 pounds of
food finfish were caught during
the 1954-56 biennium. They had a
value of $3,759,927, according to
the report.
More than 482 million menha
den, valuable for their oils and
such by-products as poultry feed
and other uses, were caught dur
ing the two-year period as com
pared with 406 million during the
preceding two-year period.
* The menhaden, better known
among coastal fishermen as "shad"
or "pogies," had a value of $4,
045.821 for 1954-56 against $2,438,
574 during the preceding biennium.
Shellfish products had a value
of $5,490,615 during 1954-56. The
oyster take amounted to 244,381
five-peck bushels and brought oys
termen more than $672,000.
The shrimp catch totaled 10,
530,881 pounds with heads off and
had a monetary value to shrimpers
of $4,212,352 as compared with
13,457,000 pounds taken during the
preceding two-year period. Shrimp
taken during 1952 54 had a value
of $4,037,101 to the shrimpers.
lions Club Hears
About Fishing
T. T. "Tom" Potter, president
of the Fabulous Fishermen, and
Bob Simpson, secretary, were
guests of the Morchead City Lions
Club Thursday night at Hotel Fort
Macon. Mr. Potter was principal
speaker, .and he told the Lions of
the achievements of the Fabulous
, Fishermen.
One fishing fleet is 42 trips
ahead of last year s record, and
; the owner of a single boat says
he is 14 trips ahead of last year.
In addition to the boat owners,
the businessmen of town arc do
ing more business due to the in
creased number of fishermen in
town. Mr. Potter commented.
* The Fabulous Fishermen have
coverage in 19 newspapers and
arc on 42 radio stations six days
a week, Mr. Potter said. They also
have weekly shows on two tele
vision stations.
Just to show the Lions what
Fabulous Fishermen arc doing, Mr.
Simpson had arranged for a TV
set to be placed in the dining
room. The set was tuned to Carl
Caud ill's program and the Lions
heard and saw the fishing pub
licity Morchead City was rcceiv
* ing on Caudill's Corner.
Oscar Allrcd, publicity chairman
for the Lions, said the Lions com
mended the Fabulous Fishermen
for the fine job they are doing.
Three 4-H'ers
Win Ribbons
* Three 4 -JTtn from Csrterct
County won ribbons at the Junior
District Dairy Cattle Show at New
Bern Thursday. They were Den
nard Harris, Cheryl D. Hammond,
and Qprrion Becton Jr.
Harris, of Bachelor, was the top
winner with two blue ribbons. Hia
3-year-old Jersey cow was placed
in the blue ribbon class and was
given another blue ribbon by the
Jersey Cattle Breeders Association
for being the best animal in her
class. The blue ribbons were worth
?0 to Dennard.
Miss Hammond's Guernsey calf
won $8 and 'a blue ribbon. Miss
Hammond is from Williston.
Gordon Becton Jr. of Harlow*
showed a 3-year-old Guernsey cow
which won a red ribbon. He re
ceived a blue ribbon from the
Guernsey Breeders Association for
having the top animal iQ that class.
He won |8.
Assisting the three 4-H'ers In
preparing the animals for the show
waa Fred Knott, aaaiatkat county
agent and 4-H advisor.
Ji
Half Inch to the Good!
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
It was a happy day Saturday when ( apt. Hubert Fulcher, right,
with George Stovall, left, as mate, returned to Morehead City with
a 7-foot ltt-inch sailfish. The fish was caught aboard the Blue
Water by Julian B. White, High Point. It betters the previous Blue
Water record sail catch by one half inch!
TJhe Rev. D. H: Jolly Heads
Newport Planning Board
The Rev. D. H. Jolly, pastor of<
the Missionary Baptist Church, has
been appointed chairman of the
Newport Planning Commission by
Mayor Leon Mann Jr.
Mr. Jolly succeeds the Rev. J.
H. Waldrop, first chairman of the
commission, who has moved to
High Point.
The commission is now consid
ering two problems, a Negro hous
ing development and location, de
sign and financing of a fire sta
tion and city hall.
The mayor also suggests that
the commission consider the
changes a water system will bring
to the town and a means of better
ing the town as a result of water
system installation, industrially
and otherwise.
The planning commission is au
thorized to work on long-range
plans.
Its members, in addition to Mr.
Jolly, arc the Rev. Ralph Flem
ing, R. L. Pruit, Dal ton B. Rhue,
Mrs. Floy Garner and Leslie Ber
cegeay. The planning commission
was brought into being during
Mayor Mann's administration.
56 Attend Clinic
At Hospital
Fifty-six patients attended the
orthopedic clinic at the Morchcad
City hospital annex Saturday morn
ing. Of that number, 27 were new
patients.
The clinic was supervised by Dr.
Lenox Baker, orthopedist from
Duke. Also present were Dr. G.
L. Ford of Duke Hospital and Dr.
J. R. Dinccn, Camp Lcjeune.
Volunteer workers at the clinic
were Mrs. John Parker, Mrs. Wal
ter Morris, Mrs. George Wallace,
and Mrs. Jasper Phillips.
Mrs. Alma D. Johnson was the
physical therapist and Miss Lily
Fentress, nutritionist On duty also
were Mrs. Leota Hammer and Mrs.
Beatrice Lewis, county health de
partment nurses.
Dr. Baker will not be at the Oc
tober clinic bccausc he will be on
a trip abroad.
Realtors to Hear President
C. W. BrWikiw
C. C. Cameron
John A. Baker, Morehead City,
president of the Morcheafl Bcau
fort Board of Realtors announced
this week that Charles W. Brad
shaw and Charles C. Cameron o(
Raleigh will make an official visit
to the Morehead Beanfort Board
of Realtors Thursday. Mr. Brad
shaw I* president of the North
Carolina Association of Real Estate
Boards.
He will speak at a luncheon
meeting of the board at the Sani
tary Fish Market at 13:30 p.m.
Mr. Cameron is state secretary of
the North Carolina Association of
Real Estate Boards.
Engineers Survey Town
For Water Installation
A tram of surveyors from Wil
liam F. Freeman, engineers. High
Point, ia due at Newport today,
to complete plana on putting In
the town water system.
Remaining pipe and fittinga from
the old Bogue Sound water ayatem
are being checked and all uaable
parts will be retained for uae in
the new ayatem.
C. C. Tilly of the Freeman en
gineering firm did preliminary
survey work in Newport last week.
Homemade Bomb
Severely Injures
Atlantic Youth
Jimmy Dale Willi*, 18,
Reported Slightly
Improved at Duke
Jimmy Dale Willis, 18. son of
Mr and Mrs. Clyde Willis, At
lantic, is in Duke Hospital suffer
ing from severe injuries he suf
fered late Thursday afternoon
when a homemade bomb exploded
in his facc.
Willis was given emergency
treatment at the Sea Level Hos
pital and then rushed by ambu
lance, with police escort, to Duke
Hospital. He was reported to be
in critical condition the next day,
but relatives who visited him over
the weekend said he was slightly
improved Sunday.
The accident happened as Willis
was attempting to set off a "toy
bomb" in the backyard of his
home. A lead plug lodged in his
cheek and a piece of metal in his
forehead.
The force of the explosion
knocked him unconscious. He also
suffered powder burns and cuts.
It was reported that he had
fired the explosive twice before,
but Thursday he put a larger
charge of gunpowder in it. The
gunpowder allegedly came from a
ship that went ashore on the outer
banks several years ago.
Patrolmen Check
On Five Recent
Auto Accidents
Five accidents have been inves
tigated by highway patrolmen with
in the past few days.
Everett Merrill, Beaufort mo
torist, suffered a cut on his head
Sunday afternoon when he was in
volved in a collision on Highway*
101 about two miles from Beau
fort.
Merrill, driving a 1955 Ford con
vcrlihl<CWHi<fc<|-wWi a 1948 Chev
rolet driven by Charles W. White,
Beaufort. Both cars were headed
toward Beaufort when White start
ed to turn left into a driveway.
At the same time Merrill was
trying to pass him and the two
cars rammed together. J. D. Drake
was a passenger in the Chevrolet.
No one was injured except Mer
rill, according to State Highway
Patrolman W. E. Pickard, who in
vestigated.
Driver Cited
Stanley H. Pender, Cherry Point,
was charged with reckless driving
Saturday night, when he lost con
trol of his car, a 1950 Ford, just
cast of the Smyrna Drive-In Thea
tre.
Pender was coming out a side
road to Highway 70 and failed to
make a sharp turn to the right
on the highway. He ran into a
ditch and bent the left front fen
der of the car.
Racing Charged
Elbert Thomas and Jack .Adams,
Beaufort, were charged with rac
ing, in addition to several other
charges, Thursday night. Patrol
man Pickard said that the two
cars ran into each other at the
end of the Lennoxvillc Road.
Both men were driving 1950
Fords. They were going at such a
high rate of speed, the patrolman
said, that they couldn't stop at the
end of the road.
They ran off the dead end, be
tween a large boulder and a tree,
one car piling into tha rear of the
other. Thomas has been charged
with speeding, disregarding a stop
sign, and careless and reckless
driving. Adams faces the same
charges, as well as driving with
out a license.
A 1952 Nash, driven by William
R. Turner, Camp Lcjcunc, turned
over several times at 8:30 p.m.
See WRECK, Page 2
E. H. Swann Named
Chairman Pro-Tern
Of Airport Group
M. T. Mills, Morehead City,
chairman of the Carteret County
Airport Commission, announced
yesterday that Edgar Swann, More
head City, has been named chair
man pro-tcm.
Luther Hamilton Jr., attorney, is
serving as secretary for the com
mission.
Mr. Mills also stated that the
airport commission is protesting
the proposed sale of county prop
erty at West Beaufort, across from
the airport.
He said that the airport com
mission feels the property should
be retained for future use, if neces
sary, by the airport.
The property has been adver
tised for sale at noofi Monday at
the ?ur' door*
Morehead City Town Board
Approves Zoning Requests
Steel Girders Go Up
' rf ? - upr ,7
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
Steel, precious stuff these days, vas making a fascinating picture in Beaufort Thursday. The steel
girders for the Ann Street Methodist Educational building were carefully being coaxed into place.
The building is being put up by O. L. Shackelford, contractor.
Conviction on Seven Counts
Adds Up to Year in Prison
tuidic wcstDcrry was sentenced'
to* ycsr in jail inThurgday's ses
siovol County HbRtacr's Cnwrt ftt
Beaufort. He wm found guilty of
driving without an operator's li
cense. .speeding, careless and reek
less driving, drunken driving, fail
ing to stop for a red light and si
ren, damaging a patrol car, and re
sisting arrest.
Wcstberry, who had just been re
leased from the Newport prison
camp Thursday, Sept. 6, was back
in the clutches of the law again
the next day.
State Highway Patrolman R. H.
Brown was notified Sept. 7 that
Wcstberry was causing a disturb- 1
a nee around his "old home," the
prison camp.
Thfc patrolman went there, fol
lowed the Mill Creek Road and
discovered Wcstberry in a ear on
Highway 101. Wcstberry lit out
for Harlowe. Patrolman Brown ra
dioed for a Craven County Highway
patrolman to set up a road block.
That was done and Westberry
ran into one of the patrol cars.
Thus Judge Lambert Morris de
cided Wcstberry better go back to
jail for a while.
Gets 60 Days
Joe Noc was convicted on two
counts of public drunkenness and
was given 60 days in the county
jail.
John Smith McGee, who was tax
ed costs and put on two years' good
behavior for assault, appealed to
Superior Court and posted $100
bond.
Lewis Pienon Willis was fined
$200 and costs for driving after his
license had been suspended and
driving with no license.
Pays ISO Fine
Robert O. Short paid $50 and
costs for careless and reckless driv
ing and for destroying state prop
erty valued at $40.
Those who paid $25 and costs
were Norman Earl Williams, speed
ing and careless and reckless driv
ing; LaClair Ewell Ncwsome, fail
ing to yield the right-of-way, and
Clifford Joseph Martin, careless
and reckless driving.
Those paying $10 and costs were
Harry Leo Winters, speeding; Louis
J. Doomes, speeding and improper
passing; and James Benson Ellis,
speeding.
Nine defendants were taxed
costs They were Earl Eugene
Trappc, speeding; Richard John
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Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Sept. 1$
6:53 a.m.
7:06 p m
Wednesday* Sept. 1*
12 42 a.m.
1:01 p.m.
7:31 am.
7:44 p.m.
1:19 a.m.
1:40 p.m.
Thursday. Sept. U
8:06 a.m.
8:20 p.m.
1:53 a.m.
2:19 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 21
8:42 ?.m.
2:27 a.m.
3:M p.m.
2:57 pjn.
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> ???t Calendar
SS Thomas Nelson ? Due today
at .state port, Morchead City, for
a cargo of tobacco for Rotter
dam, Holland.
USNS SchuylkUl ? Due tomor
row at Aviation Fuel Terminals
with a load of JT-3 jet fuel from
Yorktown, Va. She will sail for
Texas after unloading.
Mormacmail ? Due Thursday
at state port for a cargo of lin
seed pellets. The cargo is la
belled for foreign shipment.
Plagiola ? Due at Trumbull's
docks Friday with asphalt from
Curacao.
Firemen Change
Hour for Drills
Newport firemen, in session last
week at the fire station, changed
the time for future monthly fire
drills from 7:30 to 6:30. The drills
arc conducted the third Monday
of each month.
Finance Chairman Fred Kelly
announced that during Fire Pre
vention Week the firemen will sell
packages of light bulbs for $1.
The department voted to spon
sor the Carolina Ranch Boys some
time in the near future. Proceeds
would go toward the department's
Christmas project.
Assistant Chief Bennie Garner
and Lionel Garner reported on the
recent annual convention of the
North Carolina State Firemen's
Association.
Firemen Paul Jenkins and W.
J. Kirby said they were hoping to
attend the annual Pump School at
Charlotte which started yesterday
and will close tomorrow.
It was reported that the potato
packing house in town had been
sold. Firemen expressed the?hope
that it might be obtained for use
as a fire station.
Prior to adjournment, the men
were complimented on their pro
ject, water main laying, a part of
the town's Finer Carolina program.
11 Months in CG
Wins Commission
In New Program
Lt. (jg) Bradley Middlebrook,
U. S. Coast Guard, will be at the
Morchead City poatoffice today
from 9 to 5 to discuss a new pro
gram offered by the Coast Guard.
The program is designed to grant
reserve commissions for only 11 j
months' active duty
Five of these months will be
spent in the Officers' Candidate
School, and six months duty as an
ensign will follow. The remainder
of the eight-year military obliga
tion must be spent in an active
reserve unit.
To be eligible for the program a
man must be a college graduate
between the ages of 21 and 26, or
have two years of college and two
years former active duty in the
! Coast Guard or Navy. Age require
ments for the latter group are 21
to 31.
The first officers' candidate class
convenes Oct. 17. New classcs will
begin approximately every other
month thereafter.
After today, interested persons
may contact Lt. Cmdr. D. G. Bell
at Dee Gee's Gift Shop for fur
ther information.
John Crump Takes
Fire to Station
John L. Crump took a fire to
the Morehcad City Kire Depart
ment Saturday afternoon.
An unidentified passerby flipped
a cigarette into Mr. Crump's Buick,
parked back of his office at 829
Arcndcll St.
Another unidentified passerby
raised the hue and cry of fire
when he saw smoke billowing from
the back seat at the auto.
This aroused Mr. Crump wh^
took a look-see out the back door
of his office and saw that the fire
was from hia auto. By the time
he got the car to the fire station,
the back seat was blaiing merrily.
Firemen quickly doused It.
Paving Completed
i. L. Humphrey, county road su
perintendent. reported this week
that paring of roads in Mansfield
Park has been completed.
Gerig 'Mends Its Ways'
I
Capt. Jarvis Midgctt of the
dredge Gcrig, now working in
Morehead City harbor, firmly
believes U?t good fishing waters
.should not be molested
C. G. Holland, state fisheries
commissioner, phoned the Wil
mington Army engineers office
Thursday to report that good
shrimping grounds were being
disturbed by the Gerig's dump
ing spoilage on the east side of
Beaufort Inlet channel.
Ttie engineers immediately ra
dined Captain Midgctt, ? native
of llattcras, and relayed Com
missioner Holland'! message.
Thus the spoilage dumping was
shifted to the west side of the
channel.
Now the engineers are praying
that shrteiping stays good on the
east side of the channel and
poor on the west so that the big
hopper dredge won't have to
make a long run to sea to dump
every time it gets its craw full
ot muck.
r iworeneaa cuy town cummission
ers approved two requests for re
zoning, following a public hear
ing Thursday night at the muni
cipal building.
1 The change was from residential
to business. The first request dealt
with lots 6 and 7 in square 38 (the
northeast corner of Arendell and
22nd Strocts), and the second ap
plication was for the northern half
of lots 14 and 15, square 99 (the
southwest corner of 24th and Aren
dell).
William D Muriden of the Bell
Funeral Home, who was represent
ed by George Ball, attorney, re
quested that the Arendell and 22nd
Street lot be so designated to al
low a funeral home to be built
on it.
Mr. Ball told the board and the
20 persons attended the hearing
that the property had been bought
in 194'? by Will Bell, former own
er of the funeral home. Mr. Bell
had intended to build there. In
1947 the zoning ordinance was
adopted and the lot was included
in a residential area.
'Credit to Town*
.Mr. Ball said that Mr. Mundcn
wanted to erect a modern residen
tial type home with lawn and
parking space. "I think it would
be a credit to the town," he told
the board.
A list of names of persons in
the neighborhood who did not ob
ject to a funeral home was pre
sented to the board.
Mr. Mundcn assured the commis
sioners that there would be plenty
of parking area and said the home
would fall in the same category
as other professional buildings.
Mrs. Gladys Colenda spoke in
favor of re-zoning to allow the
home to be built. She lives in the
same neighborhood where tho
home is located now, at 7th and
Bridges Streets, and said there arc
no objectionable features. "I wish
it could stay right where it is,"
she declared.
Carlton Piner also spoke in favor
of Mr. Mundcn's proposal, saying
he wanted to see Morchead City
"go forward."
Resident Objects
Wood row .Marks, 210B Arendell
St., who lives next door, to the
property in question, said he ob
jected to the amount of traffic
around a funeral home.
He said he had lived near them
in other towns and did net like
the traffic. He told the board that
he had bene assured by John Lash
ley, town clerk, and George Mc
Neill, town attorney, when he
bought the property, that no bus
iness could locate near him.
Attorney Appears
Luther Hamilton Jr., attorney,
representing owners of the prop
erty opposite the old Picrbytcrian
Church site, asked that thn prop
erty be zoned for business.
No objections were offered.
At a session in the board room
following the hearing, the board
rejected amending the zoning law
to allow funeral homes to be
placed anywhere in town and ap
proved unanimously the rezoning
of the northeast corner of Aren
dell and 22nd Streets for business.
Mr. McNeill requested the clerk
(o record that less than 20 per
cent of adjoining property owners
had objected.
The board approved the rczon
ing of the northern half of lota
14 and IS. Commissioner Gibbie
Sanderson said, "I was against rc
zoning the Presbyterian Church
property as business, but since we
did that, the other corner prop
erties are entitled to it too."
Under the zoning law, when
two of the four corners of an in
tersection are zoned for business,
the opposite corners may be zoned
for business upon application.
Commissioners it the hearing,
in addition to Mayor George Dill,
who presided, were Mr. Sanderson,
D. J. Hall, Jasper Bell and Ted
Garner.
County's Two-Week
Dry Spell Continues
The summer's longest dry spell
continued over the weekend as a
southwest wind swept clouds from
the sky and temperatures edged
upwards. The last rainfall record
ed by Stamey Davis, weather ob
server, was less than half an inch
Sept. 5.
Maximum and minimum temp
eratures and wind direction since
last Monday;
Max. Min. Wind
Monday 72 55 NE
Tuesday 80 60 N
Wednesday 83 63 8
Thursday 85 65 SW
Friday 85 72 SW
Saturday 85 74 SW
Sunday 86 76 SW
Tree* Removed
Carolina Power and Light Co.
tree-trimming contractors an co
operating with the town of Beau
fort in cutting down dead and dia
cascd tree* throughout town.
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