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46th YEAR, NO. 18. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
ICC Sets Hearing Date on Leary
Application for Marine Railroad
The Interstate Commerce Com-'
mission has announced a hearing
for March 26 on the application of
A. T. Leary Jr., to lease and op
erate the Marine Corps Railroad
in eastern North Carolina.
The hearing will be held at
Washington, D. C.
The 36-mile line links Camp Le
jeunc's main base and the Cherry
Point Air Base and connects with
the Atlantic & East Carolina Rail
> way at Havelock and with Atlantic
Coast Line near Jacksonville, N.
C. It now is operated as a private
line by government personnel.
Mr. Leary now operates the
Beaufort & Morchead Railroad.
lie applied for the Marine Rail
road operation last October, when
Southern Railway was also seek
ing to lease that line and at the
same time acquire stock control
of the Atlantic & East Carolina.
The ICC recently approved the
Atlantic & East Carolina acquisi
tion, but had previously rejected
Southern's proposal to operate the
government line.
In announcing a hearing date on
the Leary application, ICC author
ized Southern to intervene and
take part in that proceeding noting
that operation of the Marine Rail
road wili< require acquisition of
certain trackage rights over the
Atlantic & East Carolina line
around Havelock.
Jaycees, PTA
Plan Meeting
, A panel composed of Dr. Darden
Eure, chairman of the Morehcad
City school board, H. L. Joslyn,
county school superintendent,
George R. Wallace, owner of Wal
lace Fisheries, Miss Ruth Peeling,
editor of THE NEWS-TIMES, and
Ray Wilkerson, Rocky Mount,
chairman of the North Carolina
Jaycees education committee, will
discuss problems confronting
Morehcad City schols at 7:15 p.m.
March 11, at the high school audi
torium.
? Kenneth Fischler, chairman of
the Morehead City Jaycees educa
tion committee, will act as mod
erator. The Jaycees will attend
the meeting as a group.
A. B. Roberts, president of the
PTA, and Rev. Guthrie Brown,
PTA program chairman, have co
operated on plans for the panel.
Personal invitations will be sent
to each teacher and to leading
citizens in Morehead City and the
county. Each child in school will
? be given a letter, anouncing the
program, to take home to his par
ents.
After the panel has completed
its formal discussion, the mem
bers will answer questions from
the audience. Mr. Wilkerson is
well-informed as to the state edu
cational system and will be pre
pared to answer questions con
, corning problems that arc state
wide.
Variety Show
Time: 8 Tonight
To raise money for their build
ing fund, a variety show, Old
Maids' Convention, will be present
ed at 8 o'clock tonight by the Rc
bekah and Odd Fellow Lodges of
Morehcad City. The show, under
the direction of Mrs. Tressa Vick
ers, will be given at the Morehcad
City school auditorium.
Guest stars will be Miss Lillian
Franccs Giddcns, Mrs. Lee Fran
ces Diefcnbach, Dr. Russell Out
law. Mrs. Sherry Edwards. Mrs.
Shirley Baldrcc. and Miss Fanmc
Marie Brown. Mrs. Billic Joyce
Guthrie and Floyd Stewart.
A male quartet will sing. Earl
Smith, Beaufort will be accompan
ist for the show.
Members of the Rebekahs tak
ing part will be Mrs. Rachel Steed,
Mrs. Lucillc Willis, Mrs. Edna
Piner, Mrs. W. E. Murrill, Mrs.
Tressa Vickers, Mrs. Nettie Mi
zelle. Mrs. Jane Holt, Mrs. Lu
cillc Caulcy. Mrs. Etta Lewis, Mrs.
Madie Henderson. Mrs. Maggie
White and Mrs. Kathleen Eldred.
Odd Fellows participating will
be Eric Lewis, Stanley Salter, Rob
ert McCabc, Jesse Pearson,
George Dill, Julius Nelson, Julius
Nelson Jr. and Lindsey Guthrie.
Admission is 50 and 25 ccnts.
More Than $500 Raised
In Heart Campaign
More than *500 was raised in
Beaufort and Morehead City Sun
day In the Heart campaign.
Although final figures were not
available yesterday, Mrs James
H. Potter II reported thai over
$.100 was received in Beaufort.
Collected in Morehead City wn
(227.77. but some parta of the town
are yet to be canvasaed.
Persons who have not yet mailed
their contributions, may a e n d
checks to Mra. Virginia Purifoy.
c/o Firet-Citizens Bank and Trust
Co., Morehead City.
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A
Development Association
Requests Funds for Port
New Community
Club to Serve
Western Area
Residents of communities west
of Broad Creek have organized a
community club to serve Ocean,
Bogue and Cedar Point. At a re
cent meeting J. O. Weeks was
elected president; F. D. Mezias.
corresponding secretary; Mrs. El
mo Smith, recording secretary;
and Mike McCray, publicity chair
man.
All men and women of the three
communities arc invited to a meet
ing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. March
13. in the Bethlehem Methodist
Church, Bogue. At that time a
site for a community building will l
be discussed.
The initial meeting for organi
zation of the comumnity club was
held Feb. 13 in the Bethlehem
Methodist Church. The first pro
ject chosen was cleaning up the
local cemetery. On Saturday 50
persons turned out for the job,
armed with rakes, hoes, shovels,
axes, pitchforks, three tractors and
other equipment.
The second meeting took place
at the Pelleticr community build
ing. At that meeting officers were
chosen. Special guests were R.
M. Williams, farm agent, Fred
Knott, assistant agent, Harry Ven
ters, assistant to the farm agent;
and Mrs. Floy Garner, home
agent.
Work on the ccmetcry is to be
continued and at that meeting the
community building was mentioned
as a worthy project.
Jaycees Plan
Minstrel Show
The Beaufort Jaycees have set
March 16 as tentative date for a
minstrel show. James Steed and
Ronald Earl Mason, co-chairmen
of the project, have begun re
cruiting "end men" and members
of the chorus from the Jaycees.
The Little League baseball field
has been surveyed by Gray Has
scll, and the Jaycees have volun
teered to build a backstop, fence,
and dug-outs. The work will begin
at 2 p.m. Sunday.
At their meeting at the Scout
Building Monday night, the Jay
cees made plans for these two pro
jects and appointed chairmen. Mr.
Mason was named chairman of a
committee to sell advertising for
the ball park fence.
Ray Cummins, who promoted
Jaycec radio day, was given a
vote of thanks by the club. Pro
ceeds from the project were used
to buy new chairs for the Scout
Building.
Three-Day Tourney
Members of the A1 Dewey Bridge
Club will participate in a weekend
tournament at the Atlantic Beach
Hotel. Day will begin at 8 tonight,
8 tomorrow night and 2 p.m. Sun
day.
? The East Central North Carolina
Development Association has pas
sed a resolution requesting the
state to provide funds for perma
nent improvements at tlje More
head City port, including railroad
sidings on the state-owned Atlan
tic and East Carolina Railroad at
the port.
They also asked the state high
way and public works commission
to widen and modernize all high
ways leading to the port of More
head City.
The association, composed of
Sampson, Wayne, Greene, Lenoir.
Pitt, Pamlico, Jones. Craven, and
Carteret Counties, went on record
Tuesday night as saying that all
future industrial and agricultural
growth and progress in its terri
tory depended on the success of
the port at Morehead City.
The association, in making its
requests for improvements, said
that the Buckley survey concluded
that lack of adequate rail and
highway facilities, both state
owned, were the main handicaps
of the Morehead City port.
The resolution was passed at a
meeting in New Bern and signed
the same day by General Chair
man H. C. Wooten, vice-president
of the Commercial National Bank,
Kinston.
Norwood Young. R. M. Williams,
Dan Walker of Beaufort, Joe Du
bois, Lou Gore, and Jack Ix'wis
of Morehead City, and Joe Mason
of Sea Level represented Carteret
County at the meeting.
Five committees were organized
at the meeting. They were recrea
tion and travel, agriculture, indus
try, community improvement, and
public relations.
Two Inches of Rain
Falls in Four Hours
Tuesday Morning
Two inches of rain fell in four
hours Tuesday morning, reports
wither obscfypr E. Stamey Davis.
?Mr. flaV s said tfiat there was even
thunder and lightning when the
rain began falling around 7 a.m.
Temperatures have remained
warm despite the chilling effect
of the rain. The highest point on
the thermometer was reached Sun
day afternoon, a 72, but a high of
69 was recorded on Monday, Tues
day, and Wednesday.
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures and wind direction for
the past week follow:
Gene Smith Speaks
On Rotary International
Rotary International was the
topic of a talk by Gene Smith at
the Beaufort Rotary Club meeting
Tuesday night at the Scout build
ing.
Visitors were J. R. Saunders,
Dr. Darden Eure, H. Earle Mob
Icy, W. C. Matthew* Jr., all of
the Morehcad City Rotary; Earl
Schultz, Rotarian from Baltimore,
Md., and Elwood Lewis, Newport
Rotarian.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Max. Min. Wind
45 37 NE
58 36 N
69 47 SE
72 50 SE
69 50 SE
69 50 SE
Wednesday
to SW
69 59 SE
J. P. Harris Jr.
Fills Vacancy On
Chamber Board
Chamber Offers Office
As Distribution Center
For Centennial Items
J. P. Harris Jr. was appointed
Tuesday night to fulfill the term
of William H. Potter, who recently
resigned from the Beaufort Cham
ber of Commerce board of direc
tors. The board of directors made
the appointment at its monthly
board meeting in the chamber of
fice.
Letters from Conrad Hilton and
the North Carolina Hotel Asso
ciation were read at the meeting.
Mr. Hilton said that his company
did not operate hotels in small
I towns. He suggested that the
, chamber write the American Ho
tel Association.
The North Carolina Hotel Asso
ciation reported that it knew of
no prospective buyers at present.
Norwood Young was appointed
as Beaufort's representative on
the Morehead City centennial pub
licity committee. Mr. Young was
appointed at the request of the
Morehead City group.
Mrs. Pat Russell, chamber sec
retary, was instructed to offer the!
chamber office as a salesroom for!
centennial hats, berets and other'
promotional material.
Directors attending the meeting
were Glenn Adair, president, lloi
den Ballou, Gerald Hill, Dr. W.
L. Wodard, Dr. David Farrior.l
Ray Cummins, and Mrs. Charles
W. Davis.
Jaycees Attend
Board Meeting
Six members of the Morehead
City Jaycces attended the third
quarterly Jaycec board meeting
in Durham last weekend. Jerry J.
Willis, Dr. Russell Outlaw. Charles
Willis, P. II Gecr Jr., David Wil
lis, and Herbert Phillips were
among some 400 Jaycees who en
dorsed driver training in the
sckols and went on record as sup
porting the teachers' demands for
higher wages.
They gave a report to the More
head City club at their regular
meeting at the Hotel Fort Macon
Monday night. Dr. Outlaw and
Mr. Gcer anounced that the elec
tions committee had completed
plans fort he election of new of
ficers.
The nominating committee will
make its recommendations Mon
day night. Nominations will be
made from the floor the next Mon
day, March 11, and the election
will be conducted April 15. The
new officers will be installed at
the first Jaycee meeting in May.
Floyd Chadwick was appointed
chairman of a committee to sell
advertising for the Little League
ball park fence. Advertising space
can be bought in 6 by 8 foot sec
tions for $15 a year or $25 for two
years.
Dr. Bcrl Lewis was appointed
chairman of the radio day com
mittee. The Jaycees will sell ad
vertising for one day's programs.
Profits from the day will go to
the club treasury.
Gives Address
Dr. James O. Baxter, formerly
of Beaufort, spoke at the educa
tional symposium on aneiseikonia
at Winston-Salem Sunday. Aneisei
konia is a visual ailment.
Fifty Years Ago 'On the Railroad'
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An Iron horne that In fondly remembered I* No. IK, ahove, which made rum Into
this coanty M years ago. The a have picture wat taken In Morehead City hy J. Will
Glan in front of the "Franklin Honte," home of Dr. Ben Royal's mother. In Fchrnary
INT. Standlnn on the engine are John Wallace and John Charlton. In the rah are
Nathan Finer and J. B. Davis. Richard Swindell and Charlie Wallace are an the coal
car Md atandlnx an the fraud arc Will White and Bea Marray, 1. K. William* aad
T. H. White. (My three o? them are llvlaf new: Mr. WMiama, Beaafort. wha awaa
the photograph ahowa abate, Mr. White arha la llvlaf la riarida aad Mr. Wallace,
who Uvea la Narfalk.
Sen. Luther Hamilton Gives
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His Views on Teacher Pay
Teachers Want Endorsement
Of House Bill 82 on Salaries
Jail Holds Eight
Who Will Be
Tried in April
Three admitted killers, two men
eharged with breaking and enter
ing, and three charged with forgery
and fraud are being held in the
county jail awaiting the next crim
inal term of superior court in April,
according to Deputy Sheriff Bruce
Edwards.
Mr. Edwards has custody of Sher
man Sclph, who has admitted to
killing James Gregory Feb. 17.
Selph said he beat Gregory to death
with an ax.
Another confessed killer is Ru
fus Fair Jr., who is charged with
the fatal stabbing of Morris Ful
ford Jan. 20. The two men were
arguing in a menhaden boat galley
when Fair says he picked up a
butcher knife and knifed Fulford.
The third is Arthur Colston, who
is charged with shooting and kill
ing G rover Mills in Morehcad City
last Saturday afternoon.
Frank Perils, New York maga
zine salesman, has been in jail
since Dec. 7, when he was picked
up and charged with taking $31
from the home of John M. McCabc,
Wildwood.
Ralph Arnold was brought back
to the county two weeks ago by
Sheriff Hugh Salter, who says that
Arnold violated parole. Arnold was
paroled after serving part of a sen
tence for breaking and entering
the Snack Grill on Highway 101.
lie has been in jail in Norfolk wait
ing extradition, but he agreed to
come back without waiting for the
final papers last week.
Rudolph Sparrow, Clarence Pette
way, and Garfield Turner arc all
waiting trial on forgery and fraud
charges.
False Alarm
Beaufort firemen answered a
false alarm at 1:30 yesterday
morning. The alarm was turned
in from box 36, Broad and Moore
Streets. Engineer Elmond Rhue re
minds the public that there is a $50
reward for anyone catching a per
son turning in a false alarm.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, March 1
8:14 a.m. 2:13 a.m.
8:35 p.m. 2:35 p.m.
Saturday, March 2
8:48 a.m. 2:50 a.m.
9:07 p.m. 3:09 p.m.
Sunday, March 3
9:19 a.m. 3:25 a.m.
9:38 p.m. 3:38 p.m.
Monday, March 4
9:48 a.m. 3:56 a.m.
10:06 p.m. 4:03 p.m.
Tuesday, March 5
10:16 a.m. 4:25 a.m.
10:38 p.m. 4:25 p.m.
? School teachcrs in the county
this week arc requesting folks to
read the following bill on teacher
salaries and then write represen
tatives at Raleigh, asking them
to support it.
The bill, brief and to the point,
I follows:
A Rill to be Entitled an Act to
Appropriate Sufficient Funds to
Provide for Proper Increases for
the Salaries of Public School
Personnel.
| The General Assembly of North;
Carolina do enact :
Section 1. There is hereby ap-|
propriated from the general fund
a sufficient sum of money to pro
vide for the following salaries and
increases for public school per
sonnel as heretofore requested by
the State Board of Education, for
the school terms 1957-58 and 1958
59.
(a) For Teachers, paid from the
State Nine Months School Fund,
holding "A" certificates, a salary
schedule of $2,900 to $4,100, to be
paid for nine and one-fourth
months; and for those holding "G"
certificates, a salary schedule of
$3,300 to $4,500, to be paid for
nine and one-fourth months.
For teachers holding other types
of certificates than "A" or "G",
the salary schedules requested by
the State Board of Education from
the Advisory Budget Commission,
to be paid for nine and one-fourth
months. This would provide an
average increase for teachers in
their rate of pay of 16.09 per cent
for the regular pine months term,
plus 3.22 per cent for an additional
week's pay. making a total aver
age increase in annual incomc of
19.31 per cent.
(b) For Superintendent, salary
adjustments partially to eliminate
eases where a Principal is receiv
ing a higher monthly salary than
Superintendents; and a 10 per cent
salary increase, after such adjust
ments.
(c) For Principals, a 10 per cent
salary increase.
(d) For Supervisors, salaries for
ten months, based on teachers'
salary schedules.
(e) For school bus drivers, a
monthly salary of $27.00.
(f) For other school personnel,
paid from the State Nine Months
School Fund, a 10 per cent salary
increase.
Section 2. All laws and clauses
of laws in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This act shall be in
full force and effect from and after
.luly 1, 1957.
The above bill is House Bill No.
82 and was introduced by Rep. F.
Wayland Floyd of Robcrson Coun
ty with 14 assemblymen from
counties throughout the state en
dorsing it.
They were Blue, Fowler, Wilson,
Gregg, Shrcve, Satterfield, Vann,
Voglcr, Powc, Hill, Johnson,
Coates, Reynolds and Thomas.
Letters should be addressed to
D. G. Bell, House of Representa
tives, Raleigh, N. C.; Sen. Luther
Hamilton, North Carolina State
Senate, Raleigh, N. C., and Sen.
J. G. Dawson, North Carolina
State Senate, Raleigh, N. C.
Beaufort Harbor
Job to Start April 1
Wilmington ? The 30,000-yard
dredging job in Beaufort Harbor
is scheduled to get underway by
April 1, according to the Corps of
Engineers office here.
At a bid opening Wednesday at
Wilmington, the Neuse Engineer
ing and Dredging Co. of Char
lotte was the apparent low bid
der at $12,600.
The work involves the removal
of several shoals from the 12 feet
by 400 feet harbor, which was
dredged to these dimensions
about a year ago.
Other bidders on the project
were Carteret Dredging Co. of
Atlantic Beach, $13,200; Steen
Contracting Corp. of Norfolk,
$17,700, and Norfolk Dredging
Co., $24,000.
Nickel Program
On Its Last Legs
With the approval of the Bcau
I fort town board, the courtesy
nickel program will come to an
end next week in Beaufort.
The Chamber of Commerce board
of directors voted Tuesday night to
discontinue it. Mrs. Pat Russell,
chamber secretary, reports that in
the past 21 months, it has cost the
merchants $400 to keep the nickels
flowing.
Under the program, a policeman
puts a nickel in the meter where a
car is in violation and then puts an
envelope on the windshield. The
motorist is then expected to put a
nickel in the envelope and return it
to a merchant.
Motorists, however, have not
been returning the nickels, and
businessmen have had to make up
the deficit.
? Iii a special letter to THE
NEWS- TIMES, which is
printed below. Sen. Luther
Hamilton expresses his views
on the teacher pay proposal
in the hope that it will an
swer the many letters flood
ing to him, asking his sup
port for the teacher pay
raise.
The letter follows:
There are coming to my desk so
very many communieations from
residents of our partieular area in
quiring eoneerning my attitude
with respect to the so-called teach
er bill that, with your kind indul
gence, I should like to give public
expression of my views through the
medium of your good paper. Sim
ply stated, my position is this:
I am in full sympathy with the
enlarged program outlined by the
various school associations, and
with particular reference to the
proposed increase of pay up to and
including the full amount requested.
I have no sympathy at all for
the pessimistic view so often ex
pressed that North Carolina is un
able to do fairly by its teachers.
Paradoxical as it may sound,
North Carolina is both poor and
rich: Poor in material things reck
oned in terms of cash deposits in
the banks of the State, but at the
same time rich in her undeveloped
natural resources and their great
potential, and rich also in the his
tory and tradition and faith of her
people.
It is my confident feeling that
North Carolina is well able to do
reasonably and equitably by all of
her public departments and agen
cies. Certainly, the public school
system is the greatest public agen
cy we have and one that unques
tionably is chargrd with a greater
responsibility for the future welfare
of the State than any other.
It deals with a potential the like
of which is dealt with by no other
agency and the importance of
which is not lo be compared with
any other. Whatever the condition
of the cotton, corn, tobacco and
other similar crops, there is one
that is never-failing, and that is
the child crop of the State. If its
interests are not properly safe
guarded and advanced, the State
itself is rendered perilous.
It would be a futile thing,
See LETTER, Page 2
Farmers Must Sign Up by 5
Today for Soil Bank Money
Five p.m. today is the deadline*
(or the county ASC office to accept
applications for tobacco and cotton
Soil Bank agreements. B. J. May,
ASC office manager, says that 141
farmers have taken advantage of
the program to date.
Cotton farmers have the percent
age edge in the program, as 24 of
the county's 31 cotton growers have
put 61.8 acres into the Soil Bank.
That represents 75 per cent of the
cotton grown in the county, Mr.
May said. Payments to cotton
farmers will total $3,210.60.
Only 20 per cent of the county's
tobacco acreage was placed in the
Soil Bank. Of the 427 tobacco farm
ers in the county, 117 placed 271.70
acres in the program. They will
receive $68,385 02, reports Mr. May.
That leaves 1,070.51 acres that will
be planted.
Fifty applications for allotment
prcmeasurement have been taken
to date. The premeasurement was
to have begun today, but the rainy
weather during the past few days
has made this impossible
Four farmers have placed 22
acres under contract for the con
servation reaervc phase of the Soil
Rank. Under this phase of the pro
gram. farmers lease their ground
to the government for a specified
number of years with an agree
ment that only cover crops or trees
will be grown on it.
There were two 10-year contracts
for trees, one three-year contract,
and one five-year contract.
County Fishermen
Land 98 Per Cent
Of December Catch
Carteret County fishermen ac
counted for 98 per cent of all the
commarcially-caught fish in North
Carolina during December. Total
fish landed in the state was 105.1
million pounds. Of this amount,
102.8 million potinds were landed
in the county. Menhaden made up
102 million pounds of the county
total.
The only fish and shellfish other
than menhaden landed in appre
ciable quantities were croaker,
gray trout, and hard crab*. The
county was third In oyster produc
tion with 48.230 pounda of meat.
Hyde county ?aa first with 111.
368 pounds, and Pamlico County
was accond with 90,407 pound*.
Report Given
On Dollar Days
Jack Lewis, chairman of the
merchants committee, Morchcad
City Chamber of Commerce, re
ported yesterday that the town's
Dollar Days last weekend were
"very successful."
Businessmen, generally, said
there was more traffic than on
any weekend since Christmas.
Several stores, including East
man's Town and Sound Shop,
cleared out Dollar Day specials
Thursday and had to find addition
al it-'ir.s to put on sale the re
main .rg two days.
Oth.T businessmen reported that
customers requested that Dollar
Days be scheduled regularly, every
fall and spring.
Plans arc tentatively being made
for another Dollar Days event ill
September.
Mrs. W. J. Ipock
To Head Roll Call
Mrs. W. J. Ipock, Beaufort, has
been named chairman of the coun
ty's 1957 Red Cross roll call. The
membership enrollment in the Red
Cross begins nationwide today.
Mrs. Ipock will appoint Red
Cross workers throughout the
county. She succeeds Mrs. G. T.
Spivey, Beaufort, who was Red
Cross chairman in 1996.
Mrs. Ipock is chairman of the
North Carolina Symphony Society
in this county, secretary of the
Carteret Community Concerts As
sociation, Secretary of the Beau
fort Rural Klre Association. Beau
fort Civil Dafenae director, Car
teret deputy director of Civil De
fense, and past president of Dis
trict 21, 'North Carolina Slate
Nurses Association.
Mrs. 1 pock's appointment was
made at a meeting of the board
of directors of the County Red
Crosa chapter Tucaday afternoon
at the courthouse, Beaufort, lrvlu
W. Davis It chapter chairman.