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PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER ?f tfe TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES <v 46th YEAR, NO. 97. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1956 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS ASC Honors Men for Years Of Service at Dinner Meeting B. J. May, manager of the coun ty ASC office, was honored for 20 years' service to the ASC at a ban quet at the Sanitary Restaurant, Morehead City, Thursday night. Mr. May was awarded a certificate and lapel pin by J. N. Bryan, dis trict ASC fieldman. Five ASC committeemen were honored with certificates of service at the banquet. D. W. Truckner was awarded a certificate for 12 years' service on the committee. John T. Oglesby, J. C. Barker, Clarence Millis, and Lee Sawrey received certificates for five years' ??ervice. Speaker of the evening was Ed W. Avent, program specialist of the soil bank program. Horace Godfrey, state ASC administrator, who was scheduled to speak, was not present. Mr. Avent works in the state ASC office in Raleigh. He discussed the soil bank pro gram, showing the reasons for the program and its organization. Surpluses, he said, were the pri mary reason for the existence of the soil bank. The government has been trying one program after an , other since the first Roosevelt ad ministration and more particularly since the second world war to curb surpluses, he said. The soil bank is what the gov ernment hopes will be the final re sult of years of planning and ex perimentation, he noted. The plan is composed of two phases, the conservation and acre age reserve. Every farmer should be able to benefit from one or both of these plans, he said. Guests at the banquet included Moses Howard, chairman of the county commissioners, Nathan Gamer, Newport banker, J. P. Harris, representing the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce, C. S. Long, Newport vocational agriculture teacher, and the Rev. J. E. How ard, pastor of the Beaufort Free ' Will Baptist Church, who gave the invocation. Members of the other agricul tural agencies in the county and ASC committeemen were also pres ent. Leon Thomas Jr. Hade Life Scout Scout Sunday night >t??? Court of Honor in the Marshal! Iberg Methodist Church. He was also one of three Marshallbcrg Scouts to win mC^anaD."S. district Scout com miwioncr presided at the court of {Tom ? and district chairman Bob Howard made the awards. Bob Slater and Rev. J. P Hurts, co chairmen of Uie advancement ?mt mittcc for 1957 were recognized at ,hrKeCS?nyH.rris. were' promoted'to first class. JRe* ^eth and Mike also won merit b'rSur Scouts at Newport were pro moted to second class, but their names could not be supplied by ^The MarshaUberg troop won both participation and a t ten dan awards at the court, which took the , ./ tkP regular service. Troop place of tn s rcprcscnt 130, Morehcad City, was rcj? Scnewl^o^ired Explorer Scout of the Marshallbcrg Methodist Church. ' County Board Names Listers In preparation for tax listing in j.nuary the county commission ed, at their meeting ~ rs'ff" "?? sras' ? < .k first 150 listings or fewer, plus 2? cents^ for ?wery listing , !:^;A^rL?l'UMrsbmBUnehe ? Willis. Sea Uivel DcUa cj acv and Davis, ? l?av?s Davis; Williston and Smyr r Mr. Doilie Taylor. Smyrna; Marnhallberg, James Glllikin, Mar ,hS.' Gloucester, Otway ??d BetUe. William GUlttln 1 Beaufort; Merrtmon. George I ^ dy, Merrlmon; Beaufort, V ? Swann and C. I. Ctuppell. Beau ,0Morehead City. John Baker and Jerry Willis, More head Cltjr; Har ; * Mrs Esale Wilkinson, route Cedar Point, Sam B. Meadows, Stella , and Harkers Ialand. Cjj"'1" W. Hancock, Harkers Island. Photo by Bob seymimi B. J. Mav. ccnlcr, receives a certificate of service from Ed W. A vent, left, while J. N. Bryan pins on a 20-year lapel pin. Lawyer Says His Clients Won't Drop Water Issue Claud Wheatly, Beaufort, attor-< ncy for the Newport citizens trying | to stop installation of a town water system, said yesterday that his cli ents will "do something" in regard to the recent decision sustaining the demurrer. The defendants, the officials of Newport, represented by their at torney, George W. Ball, filed a de murrer to a complaint by a group of citizens. The citizens alleged that the referendum approving the water system was not legal. The town authorities filed a de murrer claiming that the allega tions in the complaint did not con stitute cause for action. Judge Chester Morris, in an or der signed Nov. 24, upheld tha town s position. Now the protest ing citizens, may either appeal the decision or amend their complaint. They have 30 days to take action. Wbat his clients will do, Mr. Wheatly said, will depend on whether he determines if Judge Morris was in error. Police Install New Type Radio The Morehead City policc dc partment installed a new low fre quency radio in one of its patrol cars last week. Another new radio has been ordered for the other car. The low frequency radio puts city police cars on the same fre quency as cars in the sheriff's de partment. This will enable direct contact between county and town cars. Before, calls had to go through a Morehead City switch board. The high frequency radios for merly used by the policc depart ment were not powerful enough to reach far beyond the city limits. The new radio has, on occasion, carried as far as South Dakota. Engineers Confer With Officials Mayor Clifford Lewis. Beaufort, and Dan Walker, Beaufort town elerk, conferred yesterday after noon at Morehead City with Col. H. C. Rowland, district engineer, U. S. Army, and Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hoeffer, division engineer, Atlanta General Hoeffer and Colonel Rowland were accompanied by O. B. Stewart and N. C. Magnuson. Mr. Stewart is General Hoeffer's assistant for construction and Mr. Magnuson chief of civil works plan ning. Surveys This Area During the weekend they looked over1 the Beaufort and Morehead City area "where extensive chan nel and basin work is about to get underway," according to informa tion from the Wilmington engineers officc. They also visited Manteo, Hat* teras and Ocracoke. Today they will inspect construction at Golds boro's Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, followed by a tour at Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. First Look This is General Hoeffer's first look at coastal Carolina since as suming the division post last year. After his arrival in Wilmington Friday, the general observed prog ress on the 34 foot project on the Lower Cape Fear River. Firemen Answer Call Newport firemen answered a call to a partially-finished home owned by Durwood Sanderson, route 2 Newport, Wednesday. The home is about two miles northwest of Newport. The house was endan gered by a woods fire which start ed from trash burning. No damage was caused to the house. Board Authorizes Beginning of Tax Foreclosure Suits County CD Director Resigns; E. W. Downum Named to ABC Board The county board, In session yes terday at the courthouse, author ized Alvah Hamilton, county attor ney, to proceed with tax foreclos ure suits. Commissioner Skinner Chalk said that more pressure should be put >n collecting back taxes. Suits will ix? started on taxes owed for 11*55 and prior years. Sheriff Salter also reported that his department has itarted serving executions for de linquent personal property taxes. The board also authorized the employment of Luther Hamilton Sr. to assist the county attorney in rep resenting the county at the hearing before the State Board of Equaliza tion next Tuesday at Raleigh. The North Carolina Pulpwood Co. is protesting valuation of its prop erty in this county. Director Resigns The board accepted the resigna tion of Miss Ruth Peeling, More head City, as county Civil Defense director Miss Peeling's resigna- j tion becomes effective Dee. 31. 1956. She has served since March 1955. The board gave Miss Peeling a rising vote of thanks for her ser vice. E. W. Downum, Beaufort, was appointed to the county Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, lie suc ceeds George Huntley Jr., whose term has expired. Mr. Huntley has been on the board since 1938 when ABC stores were first opened in the county. Mr. Downum will serve a three-year term. Other members of the board are 11. S. Ciibbs, More head City, and D. Ira Garner. New port. Mr. Downum was named by the county board, health board and board of education. The board established a new basis of charges for meals served county prisoners Sheriff Hugh Sal ter said costs could be met on a 50 cents per meal basis. In the pa6t the allotment has been 50 cents a day. According to a statute presented by Attorney Hamilton, the charge permitted is 75 cents a day. Sheriff Salter said that state prison camps require 70 cents a day to feed pris oners and the prison camps raise and can most of the vegetables served and provide much of their own meat. Motion Dies Commissioner Chalk moved that 75 cents a day be set up. Hi? mo tion was not seconded. The board then decided to allow 50 cents per | meal, the motion passing by ap proval of Commissionera Odcll Merrill and llarrell Taylor with a nay from Commissioner Chalk. Commissioner Chalk suggested that the county schedule of fees, such as the charge for recording deeds etc. be revised upward. The board agreed that such should be done and a bill be introduced in the legislature to that, effect. The coroner's report for Novem ber was submitted with a state ment of costs incurred. The board requested that the statement be re turned and the costs itemized. Mrs Lorenzo Lewis, Otway, ap peared before the board io regard See BOARD, Page ? Chimney Guards Death Spot An unidentified Newport fire man cools embers around the bodies of David Glen Jones, 3. and his brother, Luther Jr., six months. The boys were burned to death when their home burned Thursday afternoon while their father was at work and their mo ther was in Morebead City. The houac Is just off US 70 about 150 yard* wot of the junction with NC 24. John Parker, engineer, ?tanda on the Morehead City fire truck, right. The bodies were buried Thurs day night in the Manafield- Park eacticn. There was no funeral. Coroner Leslie Spr ingle Mid yea Miou. by W&; tcrdiy that an inquest will be con ducted at 7 p.m. next Tuesday night, Dec. 11, at the Morehcad City Municipal Building. Serving on the coroner's Jury are R. H. Brown, John Laihley, Bruce Edwards, James Jones, Harold Willis and Ernest A. Guth rie. Four Auto Accidents Occur In County During Weekend Santa Arrives in Beaufort Santa Claus was mobbed by his fans, young and old alike, when he arrived at the postoffice dock, Beaufort, Friday afternoon. Seeing his predicament, the majorettes of the Beaufort High School band formed an aisle for him from the sidewalk to the fire truck. He rode the truck during the parade. The majorettes are left, front to rear, Jean Chadwick, Rita Mason, Virginia Arthur, and Wink! Willis. Right row, front to rear, Cathryn Potter, Jane Safrit, Sheila Willis, and Lynda Fodric. In the middle, as al ways, is Santa. Morehead City Described As A Little Bit of Heaven Mrs. Lloyd Goodwin, 907 Shep ard St., Morehcad City, submitted thr winning slogan in the More head City Centennial Committee's slogan contest. The winning entry wh "A Little Bit of Heaven Sincc 1857." Mrs. Goodwin's slogan was se lected from 55 entries. The contest ended Nov. 15. The winner was drtcrmincd at a meeting of the Centennial steering committee at the rccreation building Thursday night. Other business at the meeting included the adoption of a cap tain's cap rather than the original ly designated straw hat as the em blem of the centennial. Reason for the change, says Joe DuBois, sec retary of the committee, was that the straw hat* were too expensive. He says that captain's caps will cost from $1.50 to $2. The caps will be red and black, the town colors. The ladies will wear berets similar to the caps The committee adopted by-laws to be submitted with an applica tion for incorporation of the com mittee. The committee will be a non-profit corporation. All pro ceeds of th? centennial will go toward the construction of a new gymnasium for the high school. An oyster shucking contest has been scheduled to run Friday night, Aug. 9, the same night at the centennial fish fry. Mr. Du Bois said that the original colored inhabitants of the town came here to work in the oyster industry, and that the committee thought such a contcst would be appro priate. It is the first time I ever won anything in my life/' says Mrs. Lloyd Goodwin, winner of the Morehead Centennial slogan con test. She wrote poems while she m a s in school in Reading, I'a., but they were never for con tests, she says. Mrs. Goodwin, who has lived here since 1942, says that More head City is by far the nicest place she has ever lived. Her husband, Lloyd Mrs. Goodwin (loodwin, was a native of Lcpar Island. He was in the seafood bus iness in Pennsylvania when they were married. Husband I>ead Mr. Goodwin died in 1954 after an illness of four years. "Every one was so niee to me," she says, "I just couldn't leave." Mrs. Goodwin has a stepson, Bruce, who is a senior at Scton HaU . a son, Vernon, who is in the Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and a daughter, Sarah, who is in the ninth grade at Morehcad City High School. Serves as Receptionist She is a registered nurse and is secretary-receptionist for Dr. Dar den Eurc, Morehcad City. Mrs. Goodwin entered two slo gans in the contest. In addition 1 to the winning entry she submit 1 ted, Morehcad City, Best for a I Century, Better for Eternity. Marshallberg Women Will Serve Barbecue Folks are invited to have barbo cuc at the Marahallberg commun ity building from 5 to S p in Sat urday. The supper is being pre pared by church women and is being sponsored by the Marshall bera Community Men's Club to raise money for the new fire truck. Final plans for the supper will be made at a meeting of the club members and the church women at 7:30 tonight at the community building. Supper tickets may he bought now. Ticketa may be bought at the door but advance sales are important so that the women will know how many to prepare for. The community men's club will sponsor a play Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the Marahallberg community building. The play will start at 7 p.m. Proceed! will go to the Boy Career Day Seniors from schools throughout the county went to Beaufort School Friday where they heard persons In varioua vocational fields speak. This was the annual Career Day designed to help seniors choose a vocation. Scout fund (or Marshallbcrg and surrounding communities. At the club meeting Saturday night it was announced that the harbor committee would meet soon to draw up regulations on use of the 600 feet of dock to be built after the harbor is dredged. Approximately $100 has been collcctcd on home assessments for the fire truck in Marshallbcrg, it was reported. The club will meet again Satur day night, Dec. IS. Tides at the Beaufort Bar Tide Table iiiiiii low TncMlay, Dec. 4 9:23 a.m. 9:42 p.m 3:02 a. in. 3:46 p.m. WedoeMlay, Dec. S 10:01 a.m. 10:23 p.m. 3:42 a.m. 4:20 p.m. Tlnnday, Dec. ? 10:39 a.m. 11:06 p.m. 4:22 a.m. 5:04 p.m. Friday, Dec. J 11:17 a.m. U:47 p.iu. 5:04 a.m. i:41 p.m. Newport FFA Wins Contest The Newport Chapter of Future Farmers of America won the Sea shore Federation Parliamentary Procedure contest at Jasper #ehool, Thursday. - Members of the team arc, A. Ray Garner, president; Tommy Garner, vice-president; Tommy Howard, secretary; Gerald Miller, treasurer; Allen R. Gray, re porter; Ronnie Edwards, sentinel; and C. S. Long, chapter advisor. School teams present were Vanccboro, Newport, Jasper, Pam lico, Smyrna, and Dover, however, Newport and Vanceboro were the only teams that entered the con test. The prize was a Federation Ban ner in national blue and gold col ors, inscribed with "Federation Winners ? Ritual and Parliamen tary Procedure Contest" 1956-57. As first place winner, Newport will participate in the district con test to be held in Tarboro some time in April. The winning team in each of the six districts in the state will compete in the state con test to be held in Raleigh during the State FFA Convention in July. Following the contest, the dele gates from each of the six chap ters that arc members of the Sea shore Federation met for the chief purpose fo electing officers. Offi cers elected arc as follows: Allen Ray Garner, president, Newport; Roger Forrest, vicc-pres idcnt, Vanccboro; Richard Cal houn, secretary, Jasper; Jackie Guthrie, treasurer, Smyrna; Ben G. Potter, reporter, Pamlico; Mic kic Kushman, sentinel. Dover; and C. S. Long, advisor. Newport. The next federation contest is the tool identification contest at Newport Thursday, Dcc. 20, 1D56 at 2 p.m. Case Continued In County Court Continued in recorder's court Thursday was the ox1 of Guy l/cwi?, 1004 Broad St., Beaufort, who was involved in an accident on Highway 101 three and a half mile* from Beaufort Wednesday afternoon. Lewi* was charged with driving drunk. According to State Highway Pa trolman R. H. Brown, Ixwis, in a 1949 Dodge, ran into the rear of a 1946 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by James C. Skinner, route 2 Newport. The accident oc curred at 2:50 in the afternoon. Both vehiclca were headed south. Skinner said he was going about 25 miles an hour. Damage to the pickup waa estimated at 1200 and damage to the ear at 1350. Cotton Grower! to Vote Carteret's 34 cotton growers will vote at the ASC office, Beaufort, on whether they want marketing quotas on the 1957 crop. Balloting will begin at ( a.m. and end at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Due. 11. ? Auto accidents piled up over the weekend, starting with a spectacular wreck early Friday morning on the Harkers Island bridge when a pickup truck went over the railing and into the water. One accident occurred Sat urday and two Sunday, with three men injured in the wreck on Highway - 1 ^t ?> minutes before 6 p.m. Sun Although his rinlit an" was broken. Kaymond Alonaa 'laylor, Reaufort. w a * lucky Friday morn ing His 19411 Dodge pickup iruc* skid at 6:20 a in. on the icy Har kers Island bridge, tore down 50 foot of railing and went overboard. Fortunatelv the truck landed on a shoal in only four feet of water. The shoal is between two deep channels spanned by the bridge. Taylor, a former Man ic, and now a civil service worker at Cherry Point, told Highway Patrolman J. W. Sykes that all he IhtHifihl of was getting out. He smashed the window opposite the driver's side anil climbed out. Tavlor said he was going about 10 to 15 miles an hour when he started to skid. There was a heavy frost Friday and the condensation on the bridge had congealed into a thin sheet of ice. ... , 4U_ Taylor was headed toward the island when the truck skid to the left, turned around and hit the rail ing The accident occurred about 1.500 feet from the draw. Timber Pierces Truck A 2 by 8 timber from the rail pierced the front of the grill and rammed through to the middle of the scat of the truck. Patrolman Sykes said it s a wondor the driver was not killed. The crane from Willie Gray's junk yard had to be called to lift the pickup out of the water The truck was demolished. At 6:50 p.m. Saturday two cars collided at the intersection of Tur ner street extended and the West Beaufort Road. Beaufort Bert T Gillikin. who Wks at the Fish Meal Co., was charged with failing to grant the right-of-way. Gillikin was driving a 1950 Ford. The other car was a 1949 Chevrolet driven by Mclvin C. Hunnings, route 1 Beaufort. According to Pa trolman W. J. Smith Jr.. Gillikin turned right on the West Beaufort Road from Turner Street and then turned left to enter the Airport Scrvice Station. Cars Collide As he did, he collided with the Chevrolet which was going west on the West Beaufort Road. No one was injured Damage to the Chev rolet was estimated at $200 and damage to the Ford at SIM Elmer I. Garner, Stanley Dixon and Thcrman Morton, all of Broad Creek, were injured in a wreck on Highway 24 eight and a half miles "e,t of Morehead City early Sun ''"earner' suffered a dislocated right hip and had cuts on the head; Dixon sustained a hroken right arm cut forehead and broken ribs; Morton's right leg was broken, he has body bruises and cuts on the face. All were taken to thc11Mor?h?aJ? City Hospital by the Dill and Bell "According to Patrolman Smith, Garner, in a 1946 Ford pickup truck, turned left in front of a 1954 Ford driven by Dixon. With Dixon was Morton. . Garner had been headed cast and was turning into the drive at the Sound View Church when he col lided with Dixon who was going west. Charges against Garner are pending. Both vehicles were demol ished. Buck Hit A handsome buck was the only fatality of the weekend. It was hit by a car at 11 p.m. Sunday on the Mcrrimon Road. Driving the car, a 1953 Pontiac, was Noley Lee Har veil, Merrimon. The buck was se verely injured and was thrashing around on the road. He was put out of his misery by a passing motorist who slashed his throat. The animal was turned over to a game warden, as the law requires, Patrolman Smith said. Power Goes Off for Eight Minutes Here Saturday Power in the county went off for eight minutes at midnight Satur day. George Stovall. manager of Caro lina Power and Light, said that the outtagc occurred during a switch to the llO.OOO volt line at Cherry Point. The switch was necessary to make repsirs in this county and was arranged, Mr. Stovall said, to make a three-hour 'outtagc in this county unnecessary. The power company manager said that the outtage was only sup posed to last for 10 seconds, but didn't work out that way. He aaid that he was hoping to forestall the repair work because fish plants are working at full tilt now, but the { work could not be delayed.
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