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PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER at the TAR HEEL COAST COUNTY NEWS-TIMES -< 46th YEAR, NO. 15. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Negro Held for Sunday Ax Murder ICC Rules in Favor of Southern Yesterday; Legislator Comments on State Port Study Army Engineers To Visit County Tomorrow Town dignitaries will greet rank ing Army engineers in Beaufort at 11:45 a m. tomorrow. The mayors of Beaufort, Morchead City and Atlantie Beach will meet Maj. Gen. Charles G. llollc and his party who will visit this county in the course of an outer banks tour. General llollc, head of the Beach Krosion Control Board, U. S. Army Engineers, Col. H. C. Rowland, engineer of the Wilmington dis trict, Col. Harry Brown, in chargc of the state's hurricane rehabili tation program, and their aides will arrive in Beaufort by auto mobile. The tour started yesterday at Manteo and will ciW late tomor row at Wilmington. The survey of the banks is be ing made with a view toward ob taining federal assistance in sta bilizing the sand barriers offshore which protect the mainland. Greeting the engineers, who will arrive in Beaufort from Atlantic, will be Mayor Clifford Lewis, Beaufort; Dan Walker, Beaufort town clerk; Mayor George Dill, Morebead City; J. A DuBois, president of the All-Seashore High way Association, Morebead City; and Mayor A. B. Cooper, Atlantic Beach. At lunch at the Sanitary Fish Market and Restaurant the party will be joined by Beaufort and Moretaead City town commissioners and county commissioners. After lunch Colonel Brown and the Army engineers will leave for the beach areas at Wilmington. Bulletin The Interstate Commerce Com mission Issued a long-awaited de cision at Washington, D. C. yes terday afternoon favoring South em Railway's acquisition of the Atlantic and East Carolina Rail road. The decision was hailed jubi lantly by Morehead City resi dents. Mayor George Dill said, j "This knocks that port study into ! a cocked hat." E. R. Ruchan. president of the A&EC, said that the Atlantic Coast Line or an individual citi- i zen could appeal the ICC decision, "Rut appeals or not," he de clared. "this is a great victory!" He pointed out that the ICC de cision comes at a helpfully stra- 1 tegic time hi the fight against Wilmington's taking over all port funds in the state. "The state," he continued, "should take proper cognizancc of the decision." The good news was relayed late yesterday afternoon by Congress man Graham A. Rarden to Harry Edwards, general manager of the A&EC. Mr. Edwards in turn in formed Morehead City officials. If Ihe decision Is appealed, Mr. Ruchan said, the appeal probably would go to a- lower court, be appealed again and may eventu ally end back with the ICC. He cited one case in Florida where such a railroad fight has been in progress six years. In spite of the legal entangle ments that may come, "this is the biggest news since the port was bdilt." Mayor Dill said. Regarding ports appropriations, 1 Wr. fercfeaa rofcranrtett that the side would !o well to let More head City and Wilmington ports operate as separate entities. He assured Morehead City folks that Kinston and other friends of See ICC RULES, Page 7 State Releases More Funds For Soil Bank Tobaccoland Sand Plagues B&M Railroad The BcaufortMorfhcad City Rail road has been fighting sand for the past two weeks. Sand dumped on the north side of the tracks between Beaufort and Morehead has been blowing south when the wind is to the north and blowing north when the wind is to the south. The tracks catch it every time. Allen Leary Jr., assistant to the railroad manager, A. T. Leary, said Friday that the railroad asked that spoilage from dredging the Morehead City harbor be placed along the railroad right-of-way. It was expected that building up the land would prevent wash of the embankment in future storms. However, the B&M did not antici pate the sand problem. North winds at first blew the sand on the tracks and into railroad cars, causing damage to the cars. Sand also blew on Highway TO which also runs along the tracks. State road machinery had to push the sand off the highway. Then the wind shifted around to the south and blew sand back across the tracks again. The railroad plans to plant be tween five and six thousand pounds of sea oats on the sand but as a temporary measure sand fences have been put along the north side of the tracks. Workmen have been shoveling the sand off the tracks and when this is removed, the B&M hopes it will have the problem licked. ? Carteret tobacco farmers who missed the first "run" on the ASC office for soil bank acreage reserve funds have been given a second chance. B. J. May, manager of the ASC office, has announced that even though the county's allocation of $38,086 was contracted by the first 67 farmers in the office, more funds arc now available. The additional funds became available when the state ASC office put the total North Carolina allo LATE BULLETIN: B. J. May announced yesterday that ASC is now permitted to accept to bacco acreage reserve agree ments np to 100 per cent of the farm allotment. The limit pre viously was three acres or M per cent of the allotment. Rea son: Most of the com tin have far from ased their allocations. cation on a state-wide basil. AU county offices will continue taking applications until the state's funds, $12,685,000, are exhausted. E. W. Avcnt of the state ASC of fice says that if the state allocation is fully used, it would remove about SO, 000 acres from production. This would be between 10 and II per cent of the total state allotment. Cotton farmers in the county have been more reluctant to sign soil bank contracts. Sixteen of the county's 32 cotton growers have placed their allotments into the program in exchange for $2,300. The March 1 deadline for signing up under the program has not changed. Mr. May says that all farmers who filled blanks but were not permitted to sign because funds had run out have been noti fied to come to his office and sign their applications. Former Beaufort Resident Murdered by Wife Jan. 6 Isaac Jones Madden, 31, former Negro resident of Bcafuort, waa shot and killed by hia wife, Bessie Im Madden, at about 2 a.m. Sun day, Jan. 8, at Port Arthur, Te*. According to information releaaed yesterday by C. L. Beam, county veterana scrvice officer, Madden's wife la being held for murder un der $10,000 bond. Madden WII a veteran, having entered the service from Carteret County. Information from Sheriff C. H. Meyer, Jefferson County, Texal. reveals that Madden woke hia neighbor, Willie Mae Law. at 1:1S a.m. Jan. ( by screaming outside the Law house. See SHOOTING, Page I Editorial The Unanswered Call "Suffer the little children to come unto Me . . The little children of North Carolina are crying out but their calls are lost in a clamor born of shortsighted ness and greed. Glaringly absent in this clamor, center ed at Raleigh, are enough men of courage to fight for a decent wage for teachers. The children of North Carolina, year by year, are be ing deprived of good, highly-qualified teachers because the legislature has consistently met and adjourned, wav ing the banner, "Teachers are different. They're not like other people. They can live on bread and water." The recommended 9.1 per cent teacher pay raise is entirely inconsistent with the policy which Governor Hodges claims he adheres to. This is why: the governor has continually pleaded for development of natural re sources and use of those resources to raise the state's per capita income. What natural resource in this state is more important than its people? And where do people come from? They come from children. The people of North Carolina are going to be as resourceful and progressive as their public school education allows them to be. Kvery year the number of North Carolina's trained teachers dwindles because good teachers are leaving their profession or going to states where they get a sal ary that enables them to live on more than the bare necessities of life. Must the state raise taxes to meet the teachers' 20 per cent pay raise? No! All the state needs is men at Raleigh who can brutally tell other demanding factions that they are going to have to wait . . . because the little children of North Carolina are beginning to wither on the braiWh. There is* complaint now that no New York agency' should tell North Carolina how much money should be spent at North Carolina ports. In the face of what is happening to public school education in North Carolina, that is hollow clamor. More and more "outside agen cies" will be running this state unless the people wake up and give its greatest natural resource, its people, a public school education that matches that of New York children, Michigan children and California children. Hundreds of thousands of dollars will be poured by this legislature into colleges and universities, the inside of which most Tar Heel children will never sec. The only education most children get is in grades 1 through 12. And the people responsible for giving them that education arc throwing them a bone ? ill-paid teachers. Men in high places who think the "teachers" arc call ing for higher pay are blind. The children ? the future of North Carolina ? is calling. And too few able to answer that call arc echoing the words of the Master, "Come unto me . . Pedestrian Fatality Judy Ann Lewis, 12, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Lew is, llarkers Island, was the county's first pedestrian fatality this year. Judy Ann was killed by a ear on her way to school Thursday morning, Feb. 7. Sea Gull Docks With Potatoes The freighter, Sea Gull, bring ing in more than 18,000 bags of seed potatoes, will sail from More head City today when unloading operations arc complete. J. I). Holt, port manager, said the ship was sent to Morehcad City instead of Norfolk where Umgshercmen were on strike. It arrived here at 6 p.m. Saturday and unloading began yesterday morning. The potatoes arc bound for points in North Carolina. The Sea Gull's port of departure was Princc Ed ward Island. When the American Miller docks here at noon today it will take on the biggest single consignment of fish oil ever to leave this port, 1 1,050 metric tons.. I Robert L. Hicks of Heide and j Co., ship's agent, says that the American Miller was unable to make a previous dricking schc dudlc at Morehcad Ctiy because she was tied up at a struck port. False Alarm Morehcad City firemen were called out at about 9 o'clock Thurs day night to 29th and Shepard Street. An alarm had been turned in but there was no fire, reported Charles Kdwards, fireman. Want to Strike Gold? Morehead Businessmen Have Arranged It! Morchcad City businessmen will be throwing dollars back at you when you shop at their stores dur ing Dollar Days. The three-day sav ings extravaganza will start Thurs day and continue through Saturday. If you don't believe the mer chants have baked for you a stu pendous "bargain cake" just take a look at the ads in today's paper. Your dollar, spent in Morchcad District Officer Mr*. Jalla Tciaey, maoager of Uk North Carolina Employ ?rat Seearlty off Ire, Morehead CHy, hat hera aaaaod vlce-prea Mrat of Ike eastern district. North Caraliaa Chapter of the loteraatloaal AaaoeUtloa of Per uaiel la Eapioyacat Seearlty. City this coming weekend, will go just as far as the dollars went back in Grandma's day ? and that'i go ing some. You can use the ads to make out your shopping list. Does Aunt Ella have a birthday in April? Now's the time to get ber "a nicer than usual" gift at a budget price. Arc you ever caught abort and need an extra prize (or a party? Put that on your list and stock up during Dollar Days. The wise shopper uses the old noggin, thinks of the things that will be needed in the next few months and buys them when the price is right ? and the price will be RIGHT in Morchcad City this weekend. The items being offered at breath taking prices are worth busting the FJigy bank for. Opportunity, in the form of Morehcad City Dollar Days, is banging on your door. Look at E. W DOWNUM offer ing those comfy moccasins for a dollar a pair; lovely stockings at two pairs for a dollar and prices are slashed on other mehchandisc (see ad page S section 2). Those chill spring winds whip ping through Junior's bono? WEBB'S Is offering leaUier jackets at a third off, as well as snug wear ing apparel (ad page 5 sccton 2). You'll be caught in a shower of unbelievable dollar buys it the TOWN AND SOUND SHOP - haU. bags, skirts, slips. To see what's waiting for you there, look at page ? section 2. Now If you had a savings ac count, you could take a few of thoae dollars and lavs yourself soma more dollars during this three-day sale. But if you don't hav* a savings account, COMMER C1AL NATIONAL BANK reminds you that you can start one for just a dollar (ad page 6 section 2). Have foggy, cloudy days driven the little woman crazy recently? Pop can save himself headaches and make Mother supremely happy by visiting ECONOMY APPLI ANCE STORES this weekend and getting a Kelvinator washer and drier at a saving of $150! If you don't believe that, take a gander at the ad on page 6 section 2. Spring is just around the corner and lots of baseball teams will be looking for equipment. Well at WESTERN AUTO you will be able to get semi-pro baseballs for just a dollar cach. That sandlot tyke of yours would be thrilled to own a baseball like that! Other good buys arc listed in the ad on page ft. section 2. STYRON S DEPARTMENT STORE issues a special invitation to come by. You can read it for yourself on page 6 section 2. And how long have you been put ting off getting a new watch. At See DOLLAR DAYS. Page 7 Tides at the Beaufort Bar Tide Table IllCill LOW Turnday, Feb. 1? 12:12 p.m 5 54 a.m. 6:11 p.m. WedMMtay, Frb. 2# 12:42 a.m. 1:05 p.m. 6:55 a.m. 7:12 p.m. Tharnday, Feb. 21 1:35 a.m. 2:00 p.m. 8:03 a.m. 1:21 p.m. FrMajr, Feb. 22 2:M a.m. 1:00 p.m. >10 a.m. 9:26 p.m. ? Statement by Representative D. G. Bell with regards to the budget reeommendations for eapital im provements of the State Ports Authority as based on a study pre pared by the James C. Buckley Inc. : The North Carolina State Ports Authority requested of the Advis ory Budget Committee approxi mately $5 million for capital im provements of the state ports at Wilmington and Morchcad City. It is my understanding that these requests were studied by the Advisory Budget Committee both at Morehead City and at Wilming ton and later at Raleigh. No ac tion was taken on these requests pending the publishing of a study j of the potential of the two state | ports This study was authorized at the j suggestion of the SPA Director, approved by the SPA. and at the suggestion of Governor Hodges, I the organization to conduct this! study was named by the assistant budget director, Mr. Coltrane. As the budget director is not an ' authority on state ports it can be ; assumed that the people employed j to make this study were referred I to the SPA director, Col. Richard j Marr, as to the type of study de sired by the SPA. The SPA director's ideas and ! policies regarding the development ! of the state ports arc well known I to myself, Mayor George Dill, the See STATEMENT, Page 2 sncrman seipn, bb, native 01 vvnuesione, va., is uemg held in the county jail without bond for the ax murder of James Gregory, Beaufort. Gregory was killed Sunday at 516 Hedrick St. Coroner Leslie Springle said Gregory died at about 6 :45 p.m. Beaufort Police Chief Guy Springle reported yesterday that Charles Smith and David How ard Gibbs, who lived with Selph and Gregory at 516 lledrick St., arc in jail on public drunkenness counts. They and Selph will be given hear ings in court Thursday. Smith is scheduued to testify in the murder case. Coroner Springle said there would be no inquest. He said Gregory was hit right above the ear with the blunt end of the ax head. He died of a fractured skull and brain con cussion. Chief Springle estimated Greg ory's age at 55. Barrow's Funeral Home, Morchcad City, reported yesterday that funeral plans were incomplete. Officer Notified Assistant Chief of Police Carlton Garner was called at his home at about 7 p.m. Sunday by Lt. Joe Smith of the Morehead City Police Department. Officer Garner said that he went down to the police station, having just had his supper, and there was Selph. The policeman said that the left side of Selph's face was swollen, his eye was half closed, blood was all over his face and "he was drunk." Selph said to Officer Garner, "Chief l,iqhtnin\ you can do with we what you want. 1 think I just | killed a man." The officer said he took Selph in , the patrol car and went to the house j and there they found Gregory ly ing on a bed with the side of his head hashed in. When Officer Gar ner asked Selph what he hit Greg ory with, Selph replied, "I hit him with an ax." Coroner Springle later found the ax in the kitchen. See Ml RUHR, Page 7 Lions Endorse Pay Raises For Teachers The Morehcad City Lions Club I unanimously endorsed a 20 per cent j pay raise for teachers at their I meeting Thursday night the Hotel Fort Macon. They sent telegrams to Gov. Luther Hodges, state sen ator Luther Hamilton Sr., and rep resentative D. G. Bell. Lcnwood Lee, principal of the ? Morehcad City School, and Herbert Phillips, president of the Morehcad I City Jaycecs, were principal speak I ers at the meeting. Mr. Lee gave information con [ cerning the quality of teachers re quired by North Carolina law and the salaries paid them. He said | that while the requirements were I very high, the pay was below | standard. I Mr. Phillips discussed the opera | tion of the school's football pro gram. The benefits of the system more than make up for any finan cial loss, he said, but the Jaycces ! are working hard to make it a pay | ing proposition. All the profits are turned back into the school's ath ! letic program. The Lions voted to appropriate $25 to the Franklin Memorial Meth | odist Church chimes fund. The chimes have been installed in the church for a two weeks' trial period. Truck Farmers Plant Cabbage, Get Fields Ready for Irish Potatoes Pupils to Help With Heart Fund Students at Beaufort High School will collcct money for the Heart fund next Sunday. They are. ac cording to Mrs. James Potter, I Beaufort, co-chairman of the drive, las follows: Hi Y, Charles Smith, Allen Wind ley. Horace Swain. Dicky Moore. Hobby Willis, Jackie Chaplain, Danny Willis, Davit! Chipman. Hugh Fulcher. Daniel Ricks, Larry Kirk, Bob by Merrill, Alex Copcland, Jimmy Guthrie, Bobby Russell, Norman Hardcsty, Richard Lewis. FHA, Nancy Atkinson, Becky Monroe, Joyce Leonard, Faye Pil kington, Helen Lupton, Patsy Whitchurst, Norma Garner, San dra Haskins, Joyce Beacham, Bert Fodrie, Pam HasscU. Debating Club, Donna Hudnall, Ann Davis, Butch Hassell, George Huntley, Clifford I<cwis, Paula Hill, Frank Potter, Johnny Owens. Linda Salter, Allen Autry. Beta Club. Shirley Pittman, Ida Rollison, Frances Bell, Jackie Young, Nina Darling, Judy Moore, Linda Fodrie, Cathryn Potter, Nancy Broda, Donna Lewis, Vonda Goodwin. Winki Willis, Rita Mason. Sylvia Dudley, Mary Fac Garner, Alice Pake, Bunny Moore, Glenda Har ris, Ann Swain, ^Pauline Woodard, Rac Hassell, Jean Chadwick. Between nix and seven hundred acres of cabbage have been set in the county this winter, estimates county agent R. M Williams. The truck farmers in the eastern sec tions of the county have been busy for weeks preparing their land for vegetable crops that require early plantings. Cold weather and rain have ham pered operations, but in spite of bad weather conditions the work has progressed at a normal rate. Cold weather had caused cabbage growers to reset many young plants that were killed by frost. The rain, of course, has held up plowing and preparing seed beds. Field-grown plants (such as to mato and pepper) are in demand at northern markets every year. The field grown plants are more hardy and thrive where hot house plants raised farther north fail to produce a stand. Mr. Williams pre dicts that more and more farmers will begin growing plants for ship ment to northern farmers. Fields arc still being prepared for the Irish potato eyes, which most farmers will begin planting this week. Neal Campen, Beaufort RFD, this year will treat all his seed potatoes for control of bac teria. Mr. Campen has asked Howard R. (Jarris, specialist on the exten sion staff from Raleigh, to be at his farm seven miles north of Beaufort on Highway 101 this morn ing for a demonstration. Mr. Campen is sure that the treatments will result in above average potato production this sea son. Other farmer* in the county D. G. Bell Makes Further Statement on Teacher Pay I). G. Bell, county legislator, be fore leaving yesterday for Raleigh, released a statement of his posi tion on teacher pay raises: "There Is possibly nothing of more importance to the people of Carteret County than their public school*. "I should like to repeat that it is my opinion the improvement of the public school system of North Carolina is of the first Importance. A 20 per cent increase to the pub lic school teachers is not only necessary, but imperative If wc arc to maintain even our present low standard. I shall do every thing in my power to see that such a raise i* authorized by this ses sion of the legislature. "The proposed operating budget for the state is over (00 pages long and naturally neither 1, nor any other member of the legisla ture have had time to fully study it. I will say from my brief study and from the attitude observed of other legislators a IS per cent in crease can be authorized without further increase in state taxes. If the full 20 per ccnt cannot be au thorized without some additional taxes I am in favor of levying such taxes aa arc necessary in order to obtain it. "I am delighted to see the tre mendous amount of intercat shown by our citizens regarding school teachers pay increase and sincere ly believe that those of us in Car teret County concerned in the fur ther development of our public schools should take advantage of this enthusiasm. We must not lose sight of the great need in Carteret County at this time for more and better achool facilities. The cost of these must be borne by the county with possible federal aid. "If our citizens will show as much enthusiaam regarding thia necessity aa they have with re gards to the teachers pay raiae I am confident they could convince the County Commiasionera that a bond Issue necessary would be voted in by a tremendous major ity." I arc watching the experiment with I interest, figuring that the increased I yield may be well worth the extra effort, Mr. Williams commented. Representatives Get Assignments Senator Luther Hamilton is serv ing on nine committees and As semblyman D. G. Bell on ten in their respective houses at the cap itol. Mr. Bell has been named vice chairman of two committees, a fact which he termed yesterday as "rather fortunate." The two committees are commercial fish eries and local government. Other committees of which he is a member arc conservation and development, drainage, health, in surance, mental institutions, public utilities, roads and highway safety, and appropriations. Senator Hamilton is serving 011 the following: conservation and development, courts and judicial districts, insurance, interstate and federal relations, judiciary No. 1, propositions and grievances, re tirement and employment security, wildlife, and appropriations. Men's Club Will Meet Saturday The Marshallbcrg Community Men's ( lull will meet at the Har bor Lights Restaurant at 7 o'clock Saturday night. At special meetings during the past two weeks the club discusscd the harbor dredging project and decidcd that the club should bo incorporated. The dredge Marion completed its job Wednesday. A bulkhead the club has been diligently working on financing is expected to be complete in a few weeks. Special dragline work in connection with the dredging is being financed by the club and $1,400 is reported to have been pledged for building of docks. The club has also raised a thou sand cMlars for a fire truck and ii proceeding with plans for the additions to the community build ing where the truck will ba housed. John Valentine, president of the club, said Friday that the club would be willing to offer ita ser vices to Morchead City to get the funds deemed sufficient to develop the Morehead City port. Bank Holiday Banks will be clooed Friday in observance K Oeorge Washing ton's birthday.
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