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PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of th? TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES <x 46th YEAR, NO. 12. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS House Goes for Ride Whether it's a boat or house, it doesn't necessarily stay anchored. This house was moved about 15 miles the other day. Its owner, G. W. Wilkins, Morehead City, had it raised, put on a truck and taken west of Newport to the Marine Park real estate section. The house original 1'hoio by jerry Scnuniat-ncr ly stood between 22nd and 23rd Street on Arendell. State Highway Patrolman R. II. Brown stands on Highway 70, at the right, while the house is moved on to its new site. At the time this picture was takrn, the movers were having trouble getting the house across a dilch. Island Bridge Being Repaired New pilings arc being placed under the bridge leading from Highway 70 to Pivers Island, Beau fort. The work started this week. Cars which formerly drove to the is land are being parked on the north side of the bridge while the repairs are being made. G. B. Talbot, head of the Fish and Wildlife laboratory on the is land, says the pilings have not been replaced since the bridge was built in 1930. The bridge and roads on the is land are maintained by the federal government and Duke University. Each agcncy owns the island prop erty. . Newport Driver Hits Parked Car Lcston Wheeler Gillikin, 48, route 2 Newport, rammed his new Chev rolet into a car parked in front of 1011 Arendell St., Monday night, according to police reports. The parked car, a 1952 Chevrolet owned by Rudolph W. Lucas, was knocked 27 feet by the impact. About a year ago Mr. Lucas's parked car was hit and then he got the car he now owns. Gillikin's car travelled 600 feel I before coming to a stop. Patrol man Elnert D. O'Neal Jr. of the Morehead City Police Department investigated the accident. He charged Gillikin with driving drunk and careless and reckless driving. He estimated the damage to the new car's front ^nd at $600. The parked car did not suffer quite as much damage, and Patrolman O'Neal estimated the damage to its left rear fender and trunk at $300. Rotary Elects David E. Jones David E. Jones was elected president uf the Beaufort Kotary Club for 1957-58 at a business meet ing of the club Tuesday night at the Beaufort Scout Building. Dr. W. L. Woodard was re-elect ed secretary-treasurer. Three new members to the board of directors were also named. They arc J. P. Harris. Carl Hatscll, and Clarencc Stamper. Rotarian Glenn Adair, president of the Beaufort Chamber of Com merce, was program chairman. He told the club of the efforts of the chamber to obtain a hotel for| Beaufort. He also asked the club to back a move to keep the West ern Union office open in Beaufort. The company hai said the office may be closed soon Bernard Leary of the Morchcad City Rotary Club was the only vis itor. Tax Collector Reports On Receipts Monday Of the 1958 county tax levy. 73.13 per cent had been collected by the end of January, according to Eu gene Moore, tax collector. Mr. Moore made his monthly report to the county board Mon day. Collected in January on the 1958 levy was $52,838 42. Collected on 1955 and prior levies was $1, 588 32, making a total of 154,228 74. Street Superintendent Reports On Orange Street Storm Sewer Job 4 Chamber Board Elects Member ! Walter Morris was elected to the board of directors of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce Mon day. The chamber board, meeting at the chamber office on Evans Street, elected Mr. Morris to com plete the term of W. C. Matthews Jr., who had resigned. W. C. Carlton, chairman of the tourists and conventions commit tee, reported on activities of his cottfnittec daring the past months. He said that contacts had been made with several groups which in the past have used Morehead City and Atlantic Beach for con ventions. All these organizations have been invited to make Morehead City and Atlantic Beach their conven- 1 tion towns for 1957. Bud Dixon, chairman of the membership committee, reported on the membership committee breakfast Monday morning. Mem bers of the committee were given lists of names of persons to con tact. It is necessary that mem bers sign up by Feb. 20, in order that they be listed in the directory which will be part of the 1957 bro chure. The merchants committee was asked to draw up a solicitations control program for the town. The plan will be outlined at the next meeting of the board. PTA Considers Purchase of Bus Purchase of an activities bus fur Atlantic School was discussed at the PTA meeting Monday night in the school auditorium. Action was deferred to allow further considera tion of the proposal. Use of a new type report card, used on one previous occasion at the school, was mentioned. One ob jection to the card was voiced. Mrs. Lois Smith, president, in troduced Miss Mary Ruth Wilson, power company home economist, who offered to give a course in home management at the school. Women of the community would enroll. Mrs. Edith Morris announced that a second attempt would be made this week to organize a fire department auxiliary for the pur pose of providing recreation for teen-agers. Winner of the door prize was the Rev. Paul Lee of Stacy. Tides at the Beaufort Bar Tide Table mr.li LOW Friday, Feb. 8 1:33 a.m. 1 :50 p.m. 8:29 a.m 8:16 p.m Saturday, Feb. * 2:36 a.m. 3:04 p.m. 9:45 a.m 9.48 p.m Sunday, Feb. 3:S0 a.m. 4:26 p.m 10:47 a.m 10:53 p.m. II Monday, Feb. 5:03 a.m. 5:36 p.m. 11:43 a m 11:52 p.m 12 Tuesday, Feb. 6:04 a.m. 6.35 p.m. 12:36 p.m. ? The storm drain being laid in the 100 block of Orange Street, Beaufort, has proved to be more of a job than anyoiK anticipated. Wardell Filling a inc. Beaufort sup erintendent of streets, gave a re port on the project at the town commissioners' meeting Monday night in the town hall. Mr. Fillingame said that cave ins were holding up the work more than any other single factor. He remarked that every time they were ready to lay a section of pipe, they had to dig away dirt and pavement which had caved in. i The town's crew, working under the direction of the town engineer Gray Hasscll. installed five sec tions of pipe (20 feet) on Monday. The time of completion for the project has already been put on an "indefinite" basis Town Clerk Dan Walker expressed the opinion of most of the commissioners when i he said that he thought the pro- ] ject would have been completed i by now. The state is furnishing the pipe, I and the town is furnishing the : labor. Mr. Hassell is letting the town use his equipment for the standard monthly rental rate, based only on the days it works. The commissioners decided that the project should be continued j on its present basis and made no motion to call in a contractor. | Town Attorney Gene S1..1U1 pre- ? senictl a laxi can orainancc 10 inc commissioners. The ordinance gave the town authority to require taxi cab operators to meet certain qualifications, including $10,000 in surance, electric signs on each cab, and formal application for permits to the commissioners. The town retained the right to set fares if it should become neces sary. Mr. Walker suggested that the commissioners vote to give the town policemen the right to come under social security. A state wide vote of policemen is slated for May 15, at which time they will decide whether or not they want social security. William Roy Ham iHon made a motion, seconded by" Otis Madrv that the po^irerpen be allowed to vote and that the action be made retroactive to Jan 1, 1955. The motion was passed. Math Chaplain then made a mo tion that the town make the hack payments from Jan. 1, 1957 to Jan 1. 1955. The motion was seconded by James Rumley and passed. Mr. Walker estimated the cost of the action at $680 to the town. Police Report Police Commissioner Chaplain submitted the police report for January. There were 12 meter violations and four parking viola tions The arrests follow: Chief Guy Springle, 11; Assistant Chief Carlton Garner, 10; Patrolman See BOARD, Page 2 Shore Melts Away Photo by ftoh Seymour The shore line ol Marahallberg harbor givea way In the ratter head, lower right, of the dredge Marion, ?? work contiaaea on the harbor. The dredge waa maneuvering near the abore and (or a brief Inatant the cutter head, oeldom aeen by onlookera, broke above the ?urface of the water to nek part of the abore into the pipca, which are spewing sand onto low places along what will be the new abore line. The Marion la operated by the Stern Dredging to. of Norfolk. ? 12-Year-Old Girl Critically Hurt When Hit by Automobile Education Board Rejects 53,500 Bid tor School Harkers Island Building To be Offered for Sale Again Feb. 22 Flatly rejected by the County f Board of Education at its meeting j Monday afternoon was the $1,500 high bid for the present Harkers I Island School. The building, which ' will be vacated as soon as the new i building is finished, will again he offered for sale at noon Friday. Feb. 22, at the courthouse. The highest bid at the first sale Jan. 26 was offered by R. J. Chad wick, Harkers Island. H. L. Joslyn, county superinten dent of schools, believes that the new island school will be ready for use by the middle of March. I'airs i nan^rn The board, in monthly session at the board of education oil ice, has changed the closing date for Morehead City and Camp Glenn schools. Instead of school ending there May 29, it will end May 30 and the pupils will get a holiday Fri day, March 22. Faculty members of both schools requested the change so that they could attend the NCEA meeting March 22. The old Camp Glenn School building is being torn down by Z. A. Norris who has been given sal vage rights in return for razing the building, the superintendent reported. Weather Delays Work Mr. Joslyn told the board that bad weather has been delaying work on the roof at Beaufort) School. Waterproofing of the walls j of the school is scheduled to be l done next month. The board directed the superin tendent to check on obtaining new classrooms for the W S.. King 'School Three classes arc now meeting in the school auditorium Mr. Joslyn said that the board realized the school would be over crowded with the addition of high school classes this year, but more classrooms are planned for the school by next fall. A delegation of citizens from the western part of the county met with the board and requested an additional school bus on the run into Swansboro. That bus is now on order and it is hoped that delivery can be made in six weeks. The board of education said the bus can be purchased now because the county is advancing the funds. Mr. Joslyn said that the cost of [the bus, close to $4,000, would be I taken off next year's education | budget. Symphony to Play Here March 12 Mrs. W. J. I pock. Beaufort, chairman of the Carteret North Carolina Symphony Society, an nounced yesterday that the Little Symphony will present its concerts here Tuesday, March 12. Both will be given in Beaufort School. The children's concert will be at 2 p.m. and the concert for adults at 8:30 p.m. Next year both concerts will be in the Morchcad City School. In previous years the children's con cert was given in one .school and the adult concert in the other. The musicians prefer both con certs in one place, however, be cause it means less moving of in struments. Morehead Police Chief Announces Promotions Morchcad City Police Chief Her bert Griffin has announced the pro motion of Carl Bunch from lieuten ant to captain on the police force. Captain Bunch i< filling the vacan cy left by Buck Newsomc, who re signed several months ago. Joe Smith was promoted from sergeant to lieutenant, and liomcr Lewis was promoted to sergeant. A new patrolman. Elbert D. O'Neal .lr.. Morchcad City, has been added to the force. Three Licenses Revoked Three county drivers have been notified by the state highway safety division that their licenses have been revoked. The three men had been convicted of drunken driving In county recorder's court. Beaufort. They are Charles Ross Odell, Morehead City, and Clar ence Duncan Warren aYid Guy Gibbs Lawii, Beaufort. Judy Ann Lewis, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.* Clifton Lewis, Harkers Islaiifl, was seriously injured a few , minutes before 8 o'clock yesterday morning when she was| struck by a car. The accident occurred in front of David Yeomans' house 011 the Harkers Island Road. Driver of the car was Joe Whitley, 70 year old resident of the4 island. He was driving a 1952 Chev-I rolet. Judy Ann is in the Morchead City j Hospital suffering from a brain in ! jury and numerous brush burns. I Dr. Theodore Salter, attending physieian. said she was in a eriti- 1 cal eondition. Three <;irls Walking According to State Highway Pa trolman J. W. Sykes, Whitley was headed south in a 11)52 Chevrolet. Judy Ann was walking on the right hand side of the highway with two other girls, Diane Davis, 10, and Mary Ruth Willis, 12. The driver said that there was a patch of fog ahead of him and when he saw the girls, he swerved to the left but struck Judy Ann. His right front head light was knocked out and the fender dented. Taken to Hospital David Yeomans took Judy Ann to the hospital. According to Whit ley, he was going at a slow rate of speed and the girls, who were on their way to school, were walking on the edge of the hard surface. Patrolman Sykes said the acci dent is still under investigation. 34 Names Drawn For Jury Service The county commissioners drew names of 34 persons for jury duty in the March term of superior court M their meeting in the courthouse Monday. The following were chosen: James Lupton, Bonnie R Willis, Sammie Gray Merrill, and Blon dcll Lawrence, route 1 Beaufort. Asa B. Buck, Novis Herring, Charlie Wickizer, T. G. Willis, Ed mund D. Howard. Billy Guthrie, Ruth Willis, and James B. Willis, Morehe?<l City; Julius Willis and John S. Davis, Davis; I^cc Daniels, Dale Styron, Grover WUlis, and Chaunccy Nelson, Atlantic. Jesse T. Willis. Williston; Clyde , M. Temple, and Frank L. King Jr.. Beaufort; Rudolph Smith, route 1 Morehead City; Walter M. Yco mans Jr and Marvin Lee Guthrie, Markers Island. Junius Haskctt and Cyrus Hun ter. Newport; Alonzo Salter, Eu gene C. Quinn, and Hugh Thomas Garner, route 1 Newport; Cecil Mason, route 2 Newport; F. C. Noycs, Sea Level; J. B. Weeks, Willie S. Trott, Stella; and Gerald Davis, Marshallherg The one-week term of civil court will open Monday, March 11. Police Cases Continued All Beaufort police cases in county recorder s court yesterday were continued for one week. Beau fort police chief, Guy Springlc, has been confincd to his house sincc Monday by a cold. Newport Agrees To Sale of Land To Masonic Lodge [ The Newport town board has I voted to sell the Masonic Lodge i of Newport a half acre of town | property ad joining the Jim Kirby (properly. West Newport, if the Ma sons decide that they want to put I up a building on the site. Early Mann, a member of the committee for getting a lodge site, appeared before the board. Mr. Mann explained that a portion of the property would be used as a parking lot. The town hoard set no pricc for the sale. Trade Proposed To straighten a property line on land across from the fire tower, West Newport, Commissioner Pren tis darner suggested that the town make a trade with the property owner. Dr. William Bell. The town owns a jib piece in front of the Bell property. The jib fronts the Nine-Foot Road. In turn, I)r. Bell would give the town an equal amount of land on th? west side of his property. The board agreed to the proposal following investigation by the town attorney, George Ball. Les Berce geay of the Cherry Point Veterans Mutual Housing Association said FHA stipulates that property facing the housing development (as does the town jib) could not be used for commercial or objectionable pur poses. Commissioner Garner said he didn't know whether Dr. Bell was planning any particular use for the land Mr. Bercegeay said that any restrictiona on the propcrtv should be carrted along with the deed. Purchase Authorized Commissioners approved pur chase of a hundred dollars worth of equipment for the fire depart ment. The equipment includes fog nozzles, spray nozzle and hose. Fire Commissioner Wilbur Garner pre sented the proposal, saying that only half of the fire department budget had been spent to date. The Rural Fire Department will pay for one item costing $22.50, he said. The board approved the cutting of a drainage ditch between the cemetery and J. P. Garner's land. Mr. Bercegeay said that he would place before his association the proposal to pay a portion of the cost of cutting a ditch around the housing project to catch water draining from the fresh pond T^ngth of the ditch was estimated at 3,400 feet. Mr. Bercegeay said he thought Joe Hill would join in paying for the ditch. The town will also pay a share. Erosion Experts To Study Outer Banks Problem County, Town Officials To Meet with Engineers Here Feb. 20 A party of Army engineers, head ed by Maj. Gen. Charles G. liolle, will visit Carteret County Wednes day, Feb 20. Carteret points will be visited in the course of an outer banks tour which will start Feb. 18 at Manteo. General liolle is head of the Bench Erosion Control Board, Corps of Army Engineers. With the engineers will be Col. Harry E. Brown, head of North Carolina's hurricane rehabilitation project. General Holle and his party, numbering seven, will be met in Beaufort at 11:45 a.m. Feb. 20 by Mayor Clifford Lewis and Dan Wal ker, Beaufort; Mayor George W. Dill and Joe DuBois, Morehead City, and Mayor A. B. Cooper, At lantic Beach. From Beaufort they will go to Morehead City for lunch at the San itary Fish Market Restaurant. There they will be joined by mem bers of the Beaufort town board, Morehead City town board and the county commissioners. The tentative schedule for outer banks inspection, as released by Colonel Brown, follows: Feb. 18, arrive at Manteo; Feb. 19, by auto inspect the outer banks between Manteo and Oregon Inlet, visit Ro danthe. Avon, lunch at llatteras, leave llatteras by government boat and arrive at Ocracoke, survey Ocracoke Inlet by jeep and prefer ably by helicopter if one is avail able. Feb. 20, leave Ocracoke by gov ernment boat, arrive at Atlantic, leave Atlantic by car and stop at Sea Level or Marshallberg, arrive at Beaufort, go from here to Wrightsvillc Beach, Carolina and Kurc beaches, then to Wilmington airport where a plane will be boarded for Fayetteville. Newport to Form Cub Scout Pack At 7 Tuesday Night The first of three meetings pre ceding start of a Cub Scout pack at Newport will be held at 7 o'clock Tuesday night in the education building, St. James Methodist Church The pack will be sponsor ed by the Methodist Men's Club. The Cub Scout program will be explained by James E. Crowe, Beaufort. The meeting is open to parents, boys 8, 9 and 10 years of age and other interested persons. The Men Club emphasizes that the Tuesday night meeting is most important. A Cub Scoutmaster will be chosen. Capt. Neafie B. Scarborough Comes Home to Ocracoke By ALICE K. RONDTHALER "Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said: 'This is my own, my native land'." Another Oeraeoker has come hack to his native land. After over 40 years with the Corps of En gineer*, U. S. Army, Capt. Neafie B. Scarborough, Construction and Maintenance Superintendent of Rivers and Harbors, Philadelphia District, has come back home to spend the rest of his days amid the scenes of his childhood. Captain Scarborough was !>orn at Ocracoke in 1899. the son of Thaddcus W. and Mary Jackson Scarborough, both now deceased. He attended the little island school and then enrolled in Washington Collegiate Institute, Washington, N. C. This completed his formal education, but he continued hi* studies in (hp engineering and construction field through corres pondence courses. In fact he never stopped study ing during his career, as his rapid record of advancement indicates. Started as Fisherman Like many of his fellow Ocracok crs he started out as a fisherman. But in March 1*16 he signed up for service with the U. S. Army Corps of Knginccrs as a deckhand on the Dredge Cataract. A year later he was made deckmatc and in two years he was dredge oper ator. Six years later at the age of 22 he was promoted to Master of Hy draulic Dredge Gen. G. L Gilles pie. At that time he was one of the youngest men to become Mas ter in the Government Service. Even then his subordinates affec tionately called him "the ol" man," and that nickname stayed with For You in This Issue . . . ? Beginning in today's paper, on the editorial page, i* a series of articles designed to familiarize folks with what their local gov ernment does The aeries starts with information on the county commissioners., Articles on other county efficcs will follow. THE NEWS -TIMES believes this aeriea, titled Know Your Government, will be of special interest to students studying bis lory and government as well a* to those who wonder "what all those people arc doing there in the courthouse anyway." . . . And on page 4 section 2, Thomas H. Carrow. Philadelphia, writes of menhaden fishing as he knew it over SO years ago in Beaufort. It's a story that will revive faded memories for many and revaal to the younger gen eration a past on which the cur tain has fallen. him through the years (luring which no many younger and older men worked under hit direction. Continuing his climb up the lad der, in 1930 he was made assistant to the superintendent, and in 1936, he was promoted to Superinten dent of Rivers and Harbors in the Philadelphia District. lie served on in this capacity until Dec. 31, 1936. Although his headquarters wai Philadelphia, he was called in as a consultant engineer in many jobs in all parts of the country. One of these was the development of Lake Okeechobee, Florida. Deepens Channel During World War II one of his many important jobs was the deepening of the Delaware River Channel in a very limited time. For many this would have been an impossible task under the time limit, but not for Captain Scar borough. He did it just as he did many other such emergency tasks during the war years. Although he trained many offi cers and crews of port repair ship* for overseas duty in bombed har bors and ports, he himself nevor got the opportunity to servi abroad: he was needed here on the home front. Through his organiiation, the movement of dredges to both the European and Pacific war zones waa accomplished. He Is said to have supervised the moving of i enough tons of the earth's crust See ENGINEER, Page X
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