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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ~ 46th YEAR, NO. 6. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. JANUARY 15, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Hospital Board Takes No Action On Nurses Request for Higher Pay County Ministers Continue Plans on Migrant Ministry The County Minister* Associa-4 tion, meeting yesterday morning at the civic center, Morehead City, heard the Kev. Martin Kurtz and made plans to work with migrant lalhjrers in the county this year. Mr. Kurtz, Durham, executive director of the North Carolina Council of Churches, spoke on Min istry to Migrants. The ministers have appointed a committee to work on the pro gram and this committee will be expanded to include representa tives of churches and civic groups throughout the county. . Members of the committee at present are the Rev. H. H. Cash, chairman* the Rev. Samuel Moore, the Rev. Paul Parker, the Rev. L. A. Lewis and the Rev. J. D. Young. Guests at the meeting were Frank Nance, farm labor super visor, Bob Lowe, farm labor rep resentative, both of the Employ ment Security Commission; Mrs. Gertrude Williamson of the County Welfare Department, and Mrs. John Lashley of the First Baptist Church, Morehead City. Miss Kathryn Leaf and Mrs. Monica B. Owen of the division of home missions, visited the coun ty last summer in connection with the start of a migrant ministry here this year. Mr. Kurtz estimates that it cost | approximately $500 to bring ree l reation, teaching, counseling and ! preaching to the workers who f come here to harvest cabbage, beans, tomatoes, plant sweet po tatoes and work in tobacco. Local churches will be invited to help j finance the program. At present, through the North Carolina Council of Churches, seven workers cover 45 camps in six counties. As soon as the larger migrant committee is organized, Mr. Kurtz will meet with them. The Rev. M. P. Garner, Davis, submitted his resignation as pres ident of the ministers association yesterday because he is accept ing a charge at Union, S. C. Minitters were reminded Dr. Frank Crossley Morgan will give Bible lectures in Morehead City next week and Morehead City ministers planned to meet to work out plans for participation in the centennial celebration. It was reported that a number of signatures had been obtained on the petition calling for a liquor referendum. The petition is not being sponsored by the association but persons are invited to sign it if they wish. The Rev. Ralph Fleming Jr., pastor of St. James Methodist Church, Newport, was welcomed as a new member. Twenty -four persons attended. Pilot Killed In Friday Crash Cherry Point ? A pilot stationed at the Marine base at Edenton was killed at 2:37 p.m. Friday when his plane crashed on Brown's Island in Pamtico Sound. He was First Lt. William E Crowther Jr., age 25. Lieutenant Crowther was piloting a propeller-driven AB4 Douglas Sky Raider. He was participating in a close air support training mission when his plane dropped and landed almost directly on a bombing tar get on the island. He joined VMA 225, Edenton, Nov. 28 after completing flight training at Pcnsacola, Fla. He was commissioned at Quantico June 3. His wife. Elaine, lives at 204 E. King St., Edenton, and his parents live at Fall River, Mass. Helicopters from MAG 26 picked up the pilot immediately after the crash and flew him to the Naval hospital at Camp l>ejeune. Lieu* tenant Crowther was flying a plane from Cherry Point. Price of Paper Goes to {138 Ton THE NEWS -TIMES newsprint supplier, Bowatcr Prper Co., yes terday informed the publisher, Lockwood Phillips, that the priee of newsprint will go up $4 to (138 a ton March 1, 1957. August B Meyer, president of Bowater, says the newsprint mills face "a very large increase in man ufacturing costs" this year. "Everything that the mills re quire for the manufacture of news print has gone up in price, and in creased freight rates, in and out of the mills, add further to these costs." Canadian paper mills upped their price to $138 ? ton several weeks ago. Governor Says Facts Must Show Bridge is Needed Gov. Luther Hodges told rcsi- j dents of Carteret and Onslow Coun- j ties Thursday that he was not in- ; terested in construction of a bridge 1 that could be interpreted as pro- 1 moling special real estate inter ests. Meeting with the governor at Ra leigh relatvie to construction of a ! bridge across Bogue Sound to Em erald Isle were Mayor M. N. Lisk, Swansboro; Chief of Police Don I Bell, Swansboro; Mayor George Dill, W. C. Carlton, both of More head City; Dan Walker. James D. Potter, and John Johnson, all of | Beaufort, and Moses Howard, New- 1 port. Also present at the conference ' were A. II. Graham, head of the! State Highway and Public Works Commission, Col. Harry Brown, head of the state hurricane project; and Maynard Hicks, commissioner for this highway district. The governor said that if a traf fic survey indicated that a bridge to Emerald Isle would be justified from a public standpoint, he would be in favor of it and the state might Ik? willing to underwrite bonds for construction. I Mr. Graham spoke in favor of the bridge, pointing to the Sunday jtraffic congestion on the Atlantic Beach bridge. He said the present bridge and approaches arc inade quate. Parkview Church jcfccts luStor . The Rev. W. P. Huff will succeed the Rev. W. T. Coekman as pastor of Parkview Baptist Church Friday, Jan. 25. Mr. Huff will complete his course of study at Southeastern Seminary, Wake Forest, before coming here with his wife and two children. Mr. Coekman, his wife and daughter, left last week to assume the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Elon College. He had served the Parkview Church, west of Morehcad City, two and a half years and prior to that was pastor of the Jupiter Baptist Church near Ashcville. The appointment of Mr. lfuff was announced yesterday by L. O. Crowe, a member of the commit tee to choose a new pastor. ?m ?i /a The Rev. W. T. Cockman . . . accepts new charge '57 Temperatures Higher Than 1956 The mild weather the county is experiencing most of the time this winter was evident again yester day in the weather report by E. Stamcy Davis, weather observer. As an example, he said that the maximum of 65 Thursday com pared with a maximum of 39 the corresponding day in 1954. Other temperatures were much lower too in 1956. The high for the period of Jan. 1013 was 47 last year. The lowest temperature reached during the same period this year was 36. Maximum and minimum tem peratures and wind direction for the weekend follow: Max. Mia. KM Thursday <5 57 SW Friday 60 38 ENE Saturday 51 39 NE Sunday 58 39 Calm The Morehead City Hospital Board of Trustees, in regular ses sion Thursday night at the hos pital, took no action on a request by nurses that salaries be in creased. In the face of reports by two members of the board that certain patients at various times had not received "proper attention" from the nurses, A. B. Roberts, board chairman, authorized David Willis, \ hospital administrator, to call a meeting of the nurses. It was inferred that if the nurses arc not giving patients the care j and attention they should , they . do not deserve a raise in pay. Mrs. J. C. Taylor and John L Crump cited instances that had j come to their attention concern ing nurses' apparent neglect of duty. Defends Nurses H. Earle Mobley, member of the board, wanted to know why the complaints "aH of a sudden?" He said when he was a patient in the hospital he received the best of treatment. Gordon C. Willis, board mem ber, suggested that stories of al- j leged neglect of patients may be ovcrmagnified. The hospital administrator com mented that the starting salary for nurses at Morehead City Hos- i pital is more than the starting pay at hospitals in New Bern and Jacksonville. Mr. Willis also said that if the nurses get a pay raise, the rates charged patients would have to be increased 25 per cent. The request for the pay raise was brought to the board's atten tion by Mr. Willis, who said nurses had presented their demands to him. The nurses arc requesting pay recommended by the North Caro lina Nurses Association. Mr. Rob crts asked how many hospitals comply with the recommended pay scale. Mr. Willis replied, "None." (See comparison tabic on salaries page 2). According to the December fi nancial report presented at the meeting, nursing salaries (includ ing orderlies and aides) for De cember totaled $6,821.69. Number of nurses on the regular staff num bers 20. No Replacement Found Mr. Willis said that he had not found anyone to repl*?? Jlr*. Let tie Sanders, director of nurses, who resigned in December. Mrs. Taylor gave Mr. ' Roberts a letter from a nurse who was in quiring about sick leave. The nurse said she had worked a year and when she wanted to take the two weeks' sick leave to which nurses are entitled, it was not granted. Mr. Willis said that one week of sick leave had to be taken every six months. He referred to a man ual on hospital practices. The manual said that a year of em ployment entitled the employee to two weeks' sick leave. The board took the position that the sick leave was not cumulative and the nurse should have taken a week every six months. The administrator reported that Vance Fulford, Beaufort, has been employed to replace Lcc White See BOARD, Page 2 Fire Severely Damages Rear Part Of Blue Ribbon Club Early Sunday Big Tank at Port Stores Fish Oil A new milestone has been passed in the menhaden industry and exporting business here. A soo.ooo-gallon storage tank at the Morehead City port has been leased by Acme Mercantile Co., exporters of fish oil. The tank has been leased from the Stand | ard Oil Co. The Acme firm, New York, i buys fish oil from local factories ! and stores it in the tank until ships call for it for export to Eu | rope. The tank has been in use for | several weeks. Final papers on j the lease were received here yes I terday, according to Robert L. Hicks of Heide Co , local agent | for Acme. M. B. Taylors Buried Saturday I Funeral services for Marion But jlcr Taylor and his wife, Letha G. | Taylor, were held in the Sound View Church near Gales Creek at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, with the Rev. Lcmmie Taylor, pastor, the Rev. C. D. Hansley, and the Rev. David W. Hansley officiating. Rurial was in Gales Creek Ceme tery. I Surviving arc three daughters, I Mrs. R. G. Garner, route 1 Ncw jport, Mrs. Roy Mann Jr., route 2 j Newport. Miss Lois Taylor of the | home; three sons, Ernest C. Tay- 1 lor, Vernon B. Taylor and William ! P. Taylor, all of route 1 Newport, j ' and six grandchildren. I Mrs. Taylor is survived by her! mother, Mrs. Lina (tamer; three j sisters, Mrs. Lcra Ward, Mrs. Al- 1 lie Russell, Mrs. Minnie Elliott, all of Newport. Mr. Taylor is survived by two sisters, Mrs Nellie Potter of Croatan, Mrs. Betty Sharpc of route 1 Newport and one brother, Alvin Taylor, route 1 Newport. Both Taylors met death Thurs day afternoon when Mr. Taylor, with a double-barrel shotgun, killed his wife and then shot himself. Taylor apparently walked up be hind Mrs. Taylor as she was get ting supper in the kitchen and pull ed the trigger of the gun. Then he went into an adjoining room and literally blew the top of his head off. It was reported that he had been making threats for quite some time to kill his wife and members of his family. The gun he used reported ly belonged to his son, Vernon. Receives Appointment Homer W. Miller, president of Mottc Business College, Wilming ton, has been appointed a mem ber of the Advisory Board for Commercial Education by Charles F. Caroll, state superintendent of public instruction. Marine Corpj Sfill Holds 17 Men in Brig Officers Investigate Visit of Young Girl To Barracks JnV,7,Ug*,!!?n ? ??? mvolv ' n? 17 military policcmen and a' barr/fc f?malc gucst in their j barracks was continuing yester d?y at Cherry Point. inJ h |AiPs are behind bars, he mg held until authorities decido whether any or all will be tried by a military court .,?nUlh,?ri!.ies beRan an investiga tion of the questionable visits of he girl Wednesday, according To Hon ?rry ?'nt Publ"' Inform,. break until p"' i"10 S,?ry d,d no< un"' Friday after a news fromrarMCiVrd ? telephone Up . * arme who did not re veal his identity. Frequent Visitor ?.Capt ? c McCarthy of the Om^ T', Publil' '"formation j Off cc said the girl, identified as , ha,l JJ" dci""tuont, apparently) racks on" i h" i'"'1 ?Ul of ,he bar pcrfod ' ?Vtr a f?ur'day I A resident of this county, the girl was returned to the Samar cand Detention Home for Girls by f?"h authorities last week. She ami nfeL condit'<>nally released and placed in custody of her par ents. Conditional release also re quires that the delinquent check srs&r to her 16th birthday, state wel department policy docs not court kenUty 01 thc person if the n .? s<"s ,0 eontinuc custody until the lgth birthday. The girl involved is still under "if? rt0f C'neM bounty Registered by Marine baT^i 1? reports from the le had been registered by a Marine at the hostess house on ine h SC, Whcn shc ebecked out after !!'? WCek a couP'e hours after midnight, the officer in Thf'iu ,0 inve?tigate. Thc Marine who registered her ,V,J!ITtl00ed and *??" be and IkL k ary Policemen were be nrohivf"'.. A sU,i?n regulation prohibits unauthorized women" I being on the base. Although the giri involved has h^l? r? ncd t0 'be detention home, she may be called for ques ts' 1"rine #utb?ritics. If so the questioning will be done in the presence of a representa tive of thc Carteret County Wel fare Department. y Group Hears Talks on Special Education for Slow Learners Farmworkers Discuss Club The County Agricultural Workers Council discussed the activities and progress of the Gloucester Com munity Club at their meeting at the county agent's office Thursday afternoon. TTicy were interested in determining the advantages of hav ing such an organization in a com munity. Mrs. David Bcveridgc presided at the meeting. Present were R. M. Williams, Mrs. D. Cordova. Da vid Jones, Fred Knott, Harry Ven ters, C. S. Long, and Joe Owens. Mr. Williams announced that W, L. Turner, farm management spe cialist of Raleigh. will be at the Newport School at 7 o'clock to night. Mr. Turner will discuss the agricultural outlook for the year and will demonstrate methods of efficient farm record keeping. Thursday morning Mr. Williams and E. S. Coatcs, agricultural en gineer of Raleigh, will install an electrically heated hotbed at the farm of Joe and Luther Salter, Bet tie. Mr. Williams says that anyone in terested in the project will be wel come to drop by and watch. Meters Yieli SMM.SO Parking meter receipts in More head City for the month of De cember were $1,030.S<), according to Mrs. Blanda McLobon, city treasurer. ? Dr. Francos Henry, associate professor in special education. East Carolina College, told an au dience of SO persons Friday night at the civic center, Morehcad City, that a community could (tart on a special education program by deciding in which area of special education it wanted to work, and advance from there. She suggested that the program might be financed by civic groups if public funds arc not available. Special education deals with training the child who in some way Is handicapped and unable to keep up with the normal children in the public school system. The topic of Dr. Henry's address was appropriately titled, Wait for Me. Psychologist Speaks Her talk was preceded by a brief address by Dr. .Helton McAndrcw, psychologist with the State De partment of Public Welfare. Dr. McAndrcw was introduced by Miss Gcorgic Hughes, county welfare TMea at the Beaufort Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Tuesday, Jan. IS 7:15 a.m. 7:43 p.m. 1:04 a.m. 1 :S0 p.m. Wedaeaday, Jaa. It 8:05 a.m. 8:35 p.m. 1:58 a.m. 2:38 p.m. Tharaday, Jaa. 17 8:57 a.m. 9:29 p.m. 2:49 a.m. 3:28 p.m. Friday, J aa. 11 9:50 a.m. 10:2S p.m. - 1:39 a.m. 4:11 p.m. superintendent, who planned the program. Dr. McAndrcw's talk dealt with factors that make special educa tion necessary. She described a mentally healthy person as an in dividual who is happy, productive and fits well into community life. Education, she continued, is an institution designed to develop more productive and happy indi viduals. Compulsory education, Dr. Mc Andrcw said, tries to force people through the same mold, and the training is designed to suit the majority. However, she added, educators are the first to recog nize that there must be a varied curricula to suit different types of people. The non-normal child who can not fit into the pattern designed for him experiences continual feelings of failure arid soon devel ops unaccepted methods of be havior. A child who can't face fail ure day after day at school for ttample, soon starts to stay away from school. He ia reported to the truant of ficer; he may develop into a juve nile delinquent, and those persons, Dr. McAndrew continued, may turn out to be irresponsible adults. They get into the habit of not doing anything because they sel dom succeed and soon become content to let other people do tilings for tbem. Testa Children Dr. McAndrew said that in Car teret County in the past year and a half she examined 30 children between ? and 16 years of age. See EDUCATION, Page 1 t'hoto* by Jerry Schumacher Fireman Jewel Smith, Morehead City, reseues a nearly-gone cat from the second floor of Ihe Blue Ribbon Club. Eagerly reaching for her prl li Mr?. Al D?wfy. At Ihr left is Newport Fireman Motet Howard. More brad City Fireman Sammy Hughe* *hoot> a stream of water Into the club's kitchen. Worker Steals Pay Check, Cashes It, Goes to Jail James Brown was sentenced to ?ix months in jail in county court Thursday for stealing a pay check from a fellow worker, James Duss. Both men are employed by Stand ard Products Co. of North Caro lina. which operates a fish fac tory on the Lennoxville Road. Brown took the check for $59. 4< and cashed It as his own at Lip man's Department Store, accord ing to evidence in the case. Ht also appeared before the court on chargea of failing to comply with a former court order, but the state did not proescute the case due to lack of evidence. Pays SIM Flae Robert Louis Pletrowicz was fined 1100 and coats for careless and rccklcsa driving, lie waa charged wtlh drunken driving, but the state amended the warrant to read careless and reckless. Joe Baum paid $S0 and costs for possession of non tax paid whisky. William O. McNeal was fined $2S and costs for driving too fast for road conditions and driving on the wrong side of the road. Joseph Lewis was found guilty of failing to comply with a for mer court order. He was ordered to pay $30 a week until the defi ciency if made up. Billie II. Ellis was ordered to pay $25 a week for the support of hia wife and child. He got a two-year suspend ed sentence. Two $10 fines were levied against careleai and reckless drivers. Sea COURT. Page J . The Blue Ribbon Club suf | fered heavy damage early 'Sunday morning when a fire I broke out in the furnace i room and spread to the stor | age room, ladies rest room, land kitchen. I Bill Taylor, route 1 Beaufort, was | driving a Seashore bus by the club about 6:40 a.m. and saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the . rear of the building. He stopped and got Cal Whaley, who lives j nearby, out of bed to eall the firo i department. Mr. Whaley called the policc, who notified the fire department and callcd Mr and Mrs. A1 Dewey, operators of the club, at the Atlan tic Beach Hotel. By the time the Dewey s arrived, Morehead City firemen had the fire nearly under control. A pump truck and tank truck from Morehead City and a tank truck from Newport went to the fire. From the furnace room, the fire spread to the roof at the rear of the building. A cinder block wall separated the boiler room from the storage room, but by the time fire men arrived, both rooms wero burning badly Mr. Dewey said that the probable cause of the fire was the furnace. It was an "old boiler with an oil burner in it." A repairman had been working on the boiler last week. Fire Chief Vernon Guthrie said that he did not make an official estimate of the damage, but he thought that about $5,000 would put the building back in condition. An entire roof will have to be built over the back. The building was only one story in the back, but is a double story structure on the front. A flat, thick tar roof on the single story section was a complete loss. The building was leased by the Deweys from Howard Case of Huntington. W. Va , on a monthly basis. Mr. Dewey said that the club, with makeshift measures, could operate but that Mrs. Dewey, who supervised its operation, had no definite plans. The building was insured. The only loss to the Deweys was the food in the kitchen. The piano, sax, and accordion on the band stand were unharmed, Mr. Dewey re ported. The only casualties were a dog and a cat, which suffocated. A dog and two cats were in the hall and were trapped. One of the cats was revived by firemen, but the dog and other cat were too far gone to save. Three other cats and a dog were in the building, but they man aged to escape the fumes, firemen reported. Wrecks Occur At Same Place Two accidents occurred near the corner of 34th and Arendcll Streets over the weekend. Saturday night Roland Adair Small, route 1 Beau fort, ran his 1948 ?tudebaker into Dr. Theodore Salter's 1957 Ford, which was parked by the curb. Lt. C. E. Bunch, who investi gated the wreck, charged Smith with driving drunk. Police esti mate damage to the Studcbakcr at $250 and to the Ford at $100. Just after midnight Monday morning. Roy David Smith, More head City, and Norman Earl Smith, Salter Path, were involved in another accident near the same place. R. D. Smith was driving his 1950 Buick east when Norman Smith passed him in a 1955 Pon tiac owned by Headen Willis of Salter Path. R. D. Smith said that he did not know that he was being passed and the first thing he knew, his front bumper caught Norman Smith's rear fender. Damage to the Buick was estimated by the police to be $150 and damage to the Pontiac was estimated at $100. Patrolman Homer Lewis charged R. D. Smith with failing to yield the right of way and Norman Smith with improper passing. Lions Continue Light Bulb Solas in Morohoad The Morehead City Lions Club continued their light bulb sales Thursday night as eight members of the club went from door to door in Morehead City. Unsold bulb* are being shipped to the Down East Lions for sale in their area. After the sale, the Lions met at the Rex Restaurant for supper. They had a social meeting from 9:30 untU 11. False Alarm The Morehead City Fire De partment answered a call shortly before noon Saturday to Calico Drive. The alarm rung was No. a. There was no fire.
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