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46th YEAR, NO. 16. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
New Bern Goes
To Bat for Port
Alderman Ask Stat*
To Revise Port Program
In Light of ICC Ruling
New Bern's board of aldermen,
in session Tuesday night, passed
a resolution asking that the ad
visory budget commission and
other state agencies "revaluate the
proposed six year port program in
the light of the acquisition and
operation of the transit facilities
by Southern."
The action was taken following
announcement that the ICC has
said Southern may take over the
Atlantic and East Carolina line
which serves the port of Morehead
City. The six-year port program
was recommended in the recently -
released Buckley report.
The New Bern resolution also
requests that urgently needed im
provements at Morehead City port
be made in the coming biennium.
It points out that operation of
Bouthern into Morehead City will
provide "through trunkline com
munication to and from Morehead
City from the west."
A guest at the New Bern alder
men's meeting was Mayor George
W. Dill, Morehead City, and Mrs.
Dill.
New Bern officials are of the
opinion that port administration
could be improved by locating the
main office in Raleigh with sep
arate offices at Wilmington and
Morehead City.
Mayor Mack Lupton, New Bern,
pointed out that the "prosperity
of northeastern North Carolina is
tied in with the Morehead City
port."
150 Tar Heel
Marines to Take
Part in Carib-Ex
Camp Lejeunc ? One hundred
and fifty native North Carolina Ma
rines are scheduled soon to get a
first hand look at such historic
spots as San Juan, Puerto Rico; St.
Thomas, Virgin Irland?; the Pana
ma Canal Zone; and the quaint lit
tle town of Isabel Segunda, princi
pal city of Vieques Island, Puerto
Rico, during the next two months.
Marine units will leave Morehcad
City starting Tuesday.
?Hie Tarheel Marines, members
of Amphibious Training Group 1-57,
will depart for Caribbean training
sites at Vieques and the Panama
Canal Zone, where they wili par
ticipate, along with several thou
sand other Marines, in training ex
ercises, and operation CARIB-EX,
which will take place at the Pana
ma Canal Zone during the latter
part of April.
Units of the training group, com
manded by Brigadier General Aus
tin R. Brunelli, are manned by Ma
rines from all four comers of the
state ? Elizabeth City in the north
east, Southport in the southeast.
Murphy in the southwest, and
Piney Creek in the northwest. In
<11, over 80 different villages,
towns and cities are represented.
The city of Gastonia, with seven
Marines in the group, leads in
representation.
Amphibious Training Group 1-57
is composed of units from the 2d
Marine Division. Camp Lejeunc,
N. C.; Marine Air Craft Group 31,
MCAS, (Reinf.) Miami, Fla.; 2d
Marine Air Wing, MCAS, Cherry
Point, N. C.; and Force Troops,
Camp Lejcune. After participating
in operation CARIB-EX. the Ma
rines will return to their Carolina
and Florida bases in early May.
New Officer Joins
Engineers' Staff
Wilmington? Lt. Col. William K.
Shaffer has assumed the poit of
assistant district engineer of the
Corps of Engineers District office
here.
He succeeds Lt. Cot. John H.
Jackson who is attending the Army
Staff College at Norfolk, Va.
Colonel Shaffer arrived here
Monday from - Homestead. Kla.,
where he was area engineer for
the Air Korce Base. He is a na
tive of Pittsburgh, graduate in
engineering of Carnegie Tech, and
a veteran of the second world war
with duty in both the European
and Pacific areas.
Cart Collide at Corner
Of Fisher, 22nd Streets
Six hundred dollars damage was
the estimated damage as result
of a collision at Fisher and 22nd
Streets Monday morning. Robert
Cray Willis, More head City, was
driving his 1M9 Buick east on
Kisher Street, when Mrs. Elizabeth
G. Hardesty, driving a 1996 Mcr
cury. pulled out of 22nd Street and
ran into his left front fender and
bounced back and hit his left rear
fender, police said.
Patrolman Elbert O'Neal and
Murphy Jenkins, who investigated,
estimated the damage at WOO to
eath ear. No chargei were made.
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Girl Scouts Sell Cookies
Photo by Bob Seymour
Mrs. Lewis Smith, 1507 Shepard St., Morehead City, greets a Giri Scout cookie salesman, Mary
Frances Hymah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Hyman Jr. Backing Mary Frances up in the sales talk
is Gale Swann, left, a Brownie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Swann. Girl Scout cookies are being sold
throughout the county. Proceeds will go toward improving camping facilities. Five cents on each box
sold will stay with the local troop.
Successful Heart Operation Endows
Frank Potter with Normal Life
Frank Potter, a sophomore at
Beaufort School, is leading a nor
mal life today because heart re
st a r c h perfected an operation
which was successfully performed
on Frank last year.
Frank's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James H. Potter HI, knew ever
since he was 4V4 that he had a con
stricted aorta. The aorta is the
large' blood vessel which carries
life-giving blood from the heart to
ether parts of the body.
Because the aorta was not nor
mal, Frank's blood pressure was
high in the upper part of his body
and low in the lower part, bis
mother explains.
Although Frank's problem was
known nine years ago, medical sci
ence had not advanced to the point
that a technique for successfully
performing the operation, coarcta
tion of the aorta, had been dis
covered.
Mrs. Potter said that since the
second world war the operation
was perfected and Frank was taken
to Johns Hopkins University Hos
pital, Baltimore, Md. There in June
1956 Dr. Alfred Blalock, one of the
world's outstanding heart special
ists, operated on Frank.
Frank and his mother were in
Baltimore a month. Today Frank,
who is 15, plays in the Beaufort
School band, is a member of the
debating club, and has started play
ing junior varsity basketball.
His sister Virginia, who is 12, is
Frank Potter
. . . living example
not afllictcd with heart or blood
vessel trouble.
Mrs. Potter says that her son is
a living example of what heart re
search has done. Funds collectcd
in the currcnt Heart campaign will
be used for further research. Door
to-door collections will be made in
Beaufort and Morehcad City Sun
day.
Others may mail contributions to
Heart, c/o Mrs. Virginia Sample,
Morehcad City, or to Heart, c/o
Beaufort Postoffice.
Erosion Engineer Says 'No
Easy Solution' to Problem
There is no easy solution of the
outer banks erosion problem, Maj.
Gen. Charles G. Holle told a group
of business men and county and
municipal officials gathered at the
Sanitary Kish Market Restaurant
Wednesday noon to honor him and
his party.
General Holle, head of the Beach
Erosion Control Board. U.S. Army
Engineers, accompanied by Col.
H. C. Rowland, engineer of the
Wilmington district, and Col. Har
ry Brown, a state official, spent
Monday and Tuesday examining
the outer banks. They examined
beach areas on foot, by boat and
from airplanes.
Solution Difficult
He said that while solution of
the problem would be difficult he
was certain that he could assure
both state and local interests also
working on the problems of the
full cooperation of the U.S. Army
engineers.
Colonel Brown said that the en
gineers now had two appropria
tions totalling $7,000 to start sur
veys of Drum Inlet and Cedar
Point channel. He also stated that
maintenance and "anchoring" of
Ocracoke Channel was a must
project.
Cecil Morris, Atlantic, member
of the State Board . of Conaerva
tkm and Development, presided
at the brief session.
From here. General Holle and
his party went to Wilmington
Among those present were Skin
ner Chalk, Moses Howard, Gene
Smith, Glenn Adatr, A. D. Ennett,
John S. Jones, Clayton Fulcher
Jr., Gehrmann Holland, Grovcr
Munden.
Alfred Cooper, Mayor Clifford
Lewis, Lockwood Phillips, Joe Du
Bois, Ted Garner, D. J. Hall, Wil
liam R. Hamilton, Jasper Bell,
George McNeill. Tony Sea Dion.
James Smith, E. O. Moore, and
Ix?on Thomas.
James Webb Helps
In Heart Drive
James Webb. Morchcad City, will
be in charge of the Heart Fund
collections there Sunday afternoon
Members of the high school Tri
Hi-Y Club will go from door to
door. They are to meet with Mr.
Webb at the school at 1:30 p.m.
Jasper Bell, co-chairman of the
Heart Fund drive in the county,
has divided the town into sections
and each solicitor has been as
signed a section.
Captains who had been lined up
by noon yesterday were Paul Cor
dova, Mrs. Jasper Bell, Owens
Frederick, Mrs. Arthur Ackerson,
Mrs. Edward Smithwick and Ar
chie Edwards.
$514 Collected
In Chimes Fund
Mrs. Bernicc Guthrie, in charge
of the chimes fund for Franklin
Memorial Methodist Church, re
ported yesterday that $514 has
been collected and at least a hun
dred dollars more pledged.
Cost of the chimes is $1,800.
They have been installed on a tem
porary basis on the tower of Frank
lin Memorial Church at 11th and
Arendell Streets. Mrs. Guthrie
said that the chimes will be here
one more week. The original two
week trial period would have ex
pired this weekend.
The Rev. S. S. Moore, pastor of
the church, invites everyone to
contribute to the chimes fund, not
just church members. Installation
of the hymn-playing chimes is part
of a sanctuary renovation program,
but at least $1,200 more is needed
to pay for them.
Contributions should be mailed
to Mrs. Bcrnice Guthrie, Shackle
ford Street, Morchead City.
Mercury Climbs
To (2 Four Days
Maximum daily temperatures
during the past week have been
rather constant, with four days hit
ting a high of 62. Sunday was the
chilliest day, when the mercury
climbed to only 52 degrees.
Weather observer E. Stamey Da
vis recorded nearly one-half inch of
rain during the week. On Saturday
he measured .15 inches of rain, and
on Tuesday he reports that .33
inches fell. There were traces of
rain last Thursday, but not enough
to measure.
Max. Min. Wind
Thursday 62 35 SW
Friday 56 30 NK
Saturday 62 39 Variable
Sunday 52 37 W
Monday 59 34 Calm
Tuesday 62 46 SW
Wednesday 62 36 NK
Tide Table
Tides at Uie Beaufort Bar
IIIGII IX)W
Friday, Feb. 22
2:31 a.m. 9:10 a.m.
3:00 p.m. 9:26 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 23
3:31 a.m. 10:09 a m.
4:04 p.m. 10:23 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 24
4:32 a.m. 11 :02 a.m.
5:06 p.m. 11 : 15 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 25
5:29 a.m. 11:50 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. M
6:17 a.m. 12:03 a.m.
?:45 p.m. 12.34 p.m.,
B&M Says It Has No Objection
To ICC Ruling on A&EC Line
Dan Walker Names It:
The Bunkley Report
Dan Walker, Beaufort, has come
up with the name for the six-year
port report : the Bunklcy Report.
Mr. Walker, who attended an i
industrial conference at Raleigh
Wednesday, also offers this sug i
gestion for a cartoon: picture of j
a seagoing Southern locomotive I
pulling a barge out to sea. Aboard I
the barge are the "Bunklcy" re
ports and pictured on top of them j
is a certain colonel who has been i
busted to private. Caption for the!
j cartoon would be "Headed for.
j Davy Jones Locker."
| Mr. Walker was the only reprc
! sentative from this county at the 1
industrial conference. He said no '
one was there from Morehcad ,
City because there was an im
portant meeting in Morehcad City
that day (luncheon with the Army!
[engineers). He said he doubted if
Morchead Crly would object to his
speaking up for it.
What is the procedure. 'Mr. Walk
er wanted to know, when someone
comes in unannounced and makes
an undercover investigation of the
situation ? then comcs up with a
mistaken impression of the condi
tions that exist. How do you gn
about correcting that, he wanted
to tnow.
"We have just had an outstand
ing example of what I am talking
about in the Buckley Report." Mr.
Walker said.
The Buckley Report, an econom
ic study made by a New York firm
of terminal and transportation con
sultants at the instigation of the
North Carolina Forts Authority,
concluded Wilmington's port stood
to receive 95 per cent of the water
traffic of the two ports within a
few years.
Morehead High Band Plans
Trip to Washington, D. C.
The Morchcad City High School
Band has been extended an official
invitation to participate in the
1!)57 National Cherry Blossom Fes
tival Parade to be held in Wash
ington, D. C., April 3.
Flans arc underway now to fi
nance the trip, which will also
include a tour of historical spots
, in the capital city and nearby
Mount Vernon. Fred Lewis and
Mrs. J. W Thompson have been
named co-chairmen of the trip
finance committee by President
Ed Smithwick of the Morchcad
City Band Association.
Tuesday night the Camp Glenn
PTA provided a fitting kick off to
this campaign by voting to con
tribute $100 toward the expenses.
Other groups, or individuals who
arc band boosters will have an
opportunity to contribute as the
| campaign progresses, announces
Lcnwood Lee, principal.
I "It is both an honor and an op
! portunity for our band to partici
1 pate in this festival," Mr. Lee
i said.
The High School Chorus under
the direction of Ralph Wade will
visit the Smyrna and Atlantic
Schools for performances on Fri
day, March 1, as a part of their
spring activities this year. Later
on they will also visit the New
port and Havclock High Schools,
on a program exchange arrange
ment.
CoastGuardsmen
Get Two Calls
Fort Macon Coast Guard station
answered two calls for assistance
Friday. The 40 footer, CG 40403,
relieved the Cape Lookout boat of
a tow, and the smaller CG 36446
went to aid a grounded cabin
cruiser.
BM 1 Gerald Salter, EN 2 Ronald
Quidlcy, and SN Allison Day were
aboard the CG40403, which towed in
the Gulf Stream, a 52-foot trawler
owned by Theodore Smith, Davis.
The Oulf Stream reported that a
clutch bearing had burned out. She
was towed to Beaufort for repairs.
EN-1 Taft Pilcher and EM 2
James Mannette went to the aid of
a 22-foot cabin cruiser that had run
aground one mile west of the At
lantic Beach bridge.
By the time they arrived, the
owner of the boat, Henry Noc of
Morchcad City, had refloated his
craft and was underway.
Windows Broken
At Printing Firm
Two witnesses '..4vc told Morc
hcad City police that they taw
three boys break two plate gla??
windows of the Herald Printing Co.,
Bridges Street, Wednesday night.
Two holes were knocked in one
glass. A piece of an old furnace
grate was found inside the build
ing below one hole in the glass, but
what causcd the second hole has
not been determined. In the sec
ond window there was one hole, evi
dently caused by a cola bottle found
oulsidc the building beneath the
window.
Ben It Alford. owner of the com
pany. said that the S by ? plate
glass windows coat about flOO each.
The building was Insured, acced
ing to Mr. Alford.
This la the latest in a series of
window breakings. A large plate
gists window In Ann's Teen Can
teena. alto on Bridges Street, was
broken last weekend.
Jaycees Draw 21
Names from Hat
The Morehead City Jaycccs drew
21 names from the hat Monday
night when they met at the Hotel
Fort Macon This is the process
through which they are retiring
the sixty-three $100 bonds taken
out for the football program in
1953.
As the Jaycees have sufficient
funds, they draw names from the
hat to sec which bonds will be
retired.
Ten bonds were retired last year,
making a total of 31 bonds retired.
Four public-minded citizens have
voluntarily canceled their bonds
without payment, so the Jaycees
have only 28 bonds left to pay.
Dr. Russell Outlaw and P. H.
C.ecr Jr. were appointed to the
elections committee. They will be
responsible for seeing the proper
procedures arc followed in the
April elections.
The Jaycees agreed to co-spon
sor with the Junior Woman's Club
a dance at the Boguc Sound Club
next month. Proceeds from the
dance will be used to decoratc the
waiting room at the Morehead
City Hospital.
A. D. Peacock, executive secre
tary of Boys Home, showed a film
on activities of the newly organ
ized home for neglected boys. The
home is located near Whiteville,
N. C.
The following Jaycccs plan to
attend the third quarterly board
meeting in Durham this week
end: Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Willis,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Willis, Dr.
and Mrs. Russell Outlaw, Herbert
Phillips, L. G. Dunn, and Bob
Davis.
Correct Address
The correct address of the coun
ty's new Civil Defense director,
Cdr. William Lewis, is 2911 Aren
dell St., Morehead City.
Southern Keeps Mum; Is
Decision What It Wants?
A. T. Leary of the Beau
fort and Morehead Railroad
Co., na id yesterday that his
line has no reason for pro
testing the ICC ruling on
Southern's acquisition of the
Atlantic and East Carolina
under the conditions outlined
in the ruling.
The ICC decision, made in Wash
ington Tuesday, Feb. 12, but not
made public until this past Mon
day, requires that if Southern takes
over the A&EC the line shall re
main "open to all routes and chan
nels of trade via existing junctions
and gateways." Hates are to re
main the same and Southern is to
discriminate in no way against any
other railroads.
Hemic Young, assistant to Harry
A. DcButts, president of Southern
Railway, told THE NEWS TIMES
yesterday that he didn't know
I whether Southern would accept the
' A&EC under conditions outlined by
the ICC. lie said that lawyers
j would have to go over the ruling in
j detail.
Col. William Joyncr, Raleigh,
counsel for Southern in this state,
said yesterday that he has had no
intimation that Southern would not
accept the ICC decision.
Never 'Antagonistic'
Mr. Leary maintauicd that at no
' time has the B&M been antagonis
tic toward Southern, adding that
he can see absolutely no reason for
any of the railroads, Atlantic Coast
Line or Norfolk Southern, filing an
appeal.
"With open gateways." Mr.
Leary said, "the railroad will con
tinue to run just as is. Atlantic
Coast Line can sell against South
ern and it will just depend on who's
the best salesman."
Beaufort and Morehead Railroad
became a party to the action be
fore the ICC to make known, on the
record, its position on open gate
ways.
Other lines, besides the B&M, ex
pressed the fear that Southern's
acquisition of the A&EC may pre
vent them from operating as free
ly in this area as in the past.
The ICC in August denied South
ern the opportunity to operate the
federally-owned railroad between
Lejeune and Cherry Point. Since
that time the B&M and other rail
road interests have applied for the
right to operate the federal line.
Southern maintains that it will con
See RAILROAD, Page 2
Beaufort Chamber
Announces Trip
To Fort Jackson
The Beaufort Chamber of Com
merce has mailed letters to the
ladies clubs in Beaufort inviting
them to send representatives to a
ladies day at Fort Jackson, S. C.,
this summer.
"The ladies day is designed to
show the mothers and sisters of
the nation's youth an intimate pic
ture of the workings of the Army
reserve program." says Mrs. Pat
Russell, chamber secretary.
M/Sgt. T. S. Long, who is in
charge of the Army reserve units
I in this area, informed Mrs. Rus
! sell that the Army will furnish
I transportation, food, and enter
tainment during the trip.
SPA Will Hear
James Buckley
Discuss Report
In regular session at Charlotte
Wednesday. March fi. the State
I Ports Authority will hear discussed
the recently released report on
'port development. Reviewing the
! report will b<* James C. Buckley,
1 president of the New York firm
| of terminal and transportation con
sultants which made the study.
The report caused quite a furor
among backers ol the Morchead
I City pert because it recommend
ed ? \penditure of about $1 i/3, mil
lion dollars at Morchead City but
over $13 million at Wilmington
(over a six-year period.
j The ports authority will also
| hear quarterly reports by Col.
Richard S. Marr, executive direc
tor of state ports.
i Kdwin Pale, ports authority
| chairman, will preside. The meet
ing will begin at 11 a.m. at the
j Charlotte City Club.
SPA members, besides Mr. Pate,
are Raymond A. Bryan. C.oldsboro,
vice-chairman; W Avery Thomp
son, Lake Waccamaw. secretary
treasurer; J. Harry White. Win
ston-Salem; Harvey W Moore,
Charlotte; Harold F. Coffey. Le
noir, and Henry A. Lineberger,
Belmont.
Countians Will
Attend Meeting
Seven representatives from this
county are expected to attend the
meeting of the East Central Caro
lina Development Association at
5 p.m. Tuesday at the Governor
Tryon Hotel. New Bern.
They are Norwood Young, Dan
j Walker, and R. M. Williams, Beau
fort; Joe DuBois, Lou Gore. W. C.
Carlton and Dr. Russell Outlaw,
Morchead City.
Mr. Walker is a member of the
association's public relations com
mittee; Mr. Williams is on the
agriculture committee; Mr. Gore,
industrial development; Mr. Carl
ton, recreation and travel, and Dr.
Outlaw, community development.
The development association's
organization was initiated by the
Commercial National Bank of Kin
ston in Dcccinber. Nine counties
arc members of it.
Newspaper Publicity
Committee Meets
The newspaper publicity com
mittee for the Morchead City Cen
tennial met Tuesday night at the
home of the chairman, Mrs. Thom
as Noe, 104 Yaupon Terrace.
Meeting with the committee were
Bob Davis and Miss Alida Willis,
general publicity chairmen. Stor
ies to be filed and procedures to
be followed were discussed. At
present, releases for newspapers
will be filed weekly.
Crusaders with A Heart
Photo by Roy Eubonks *
Beaufort High School girls will help collect fund* in the Heart campaign Sunday. Thai day I* Heart
Sunday throughout the aatloa. Pictured a hove, front row. Jill Williams, Harriet Hill. Ann Davln. Virginia
McGehee, Berky Monroe. Back row. Fay Pilklngton, Gleada Harria. Patsy YVhitehurst. lilly Lewis and
Joyce Leonard. Nra. Jame* H. Potter III, who la la charge of the drive, lays all pupils making the col
lectiona ahoald meet at Bell'a Drag Store at 1 p.m. Clrla making collection* la the north part <1 towa
should meet at the home ef Mra. Grace Atkinson, ?N Cedar St.. at 1 p.m.
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