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46th YEAR, NO. 20. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. MARCH 8. 1967 PUBUSHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Funeral Rites
For Sergeant
To be Held Today
Beaufort Resident Found
Dead After Parachuting
From Jet Plane
The funeral service for T/Sgt.
Robert C. Hampton, USMC, Beau
fort, will be conducted at 9:30 this
morning at the Adair Funeral Cha
pel. Sergeant Hampton was found
dead in the water near Bayboro
early Tuesday after he parachuted
from a jet plane Monday night.
The service, with full military
honors, will be conducted by Chap
lain Getchey, Cherry Point Ma
rine Air Base. Interment will be
in Ocean View Cemetery.
Sergeant Hampton, 28, was a
radar operator on the F3D Doug
las Skyknight jet, which crashed
and burned at 6:45 p.m. Monday
near Bayboro. The pilot, Capt.
Frank G. McLennon, 30, para
chuted to safety.
From a store near Bayboro he
immediately telephoned his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton R. Mc
Lennon, Gibraltar, Mich., and told
them he was safe.
Sergeant Hampton's body was
found by a search and rescue
party. It was floating on the water.
According to the Cherry Point In
formation office, cause of the ser
geant's death had not been deter
mined by Tuesday noon.
He is survived by his wife, Es
tellc May Hampton, 710 Broad
St., Beaufort, and three children,
Robert C. Jr., Paula Ann, and a
stepson, Ernest Bruce Clayton;
and his mother, Mrs. H. M. Flora,
Ottawa, Kan.
Mrs. Flora and her husband,
Dr. Flora, arrived here Wednes
day night. Calvin Guthrie, brother
of Mrs. Hampton, and Mrs. Ras
tritzingcr, sister of Mrs. Hamp
ton, both of Baltimore, Md., have
also arrived for the funeral.
Joint Meeting
Of Jaycees, PTA
Set for Monday
Members of the Morehcad City
Jaycees and PTA will hear a panel
discussion on Morchead City school
problems at a joint meeting of the
organizations at 7:15 p.m. Monday
in the high school auditorium.
Featured speaker on the panel
will be Ray Wilkerson, Rocky
Mount, state Jaycee education
committee chairman. Mr. Wilker
son has traveled extensively in the
state and has a good over-all
knowledge of the problems con
fronting North Carolina, according
to Kenneth Fischler, local JC edu
cation chairman.
Other members of the panel are
Pr. Darden Eurc, chairman of the
Morchead City school board, H. L.
Joslyn, county school superintend
ent, Miss Ruth Peeling, editor of
THE NEWS-TIMES, and George R.
Wallace, owner of Wallacc Fish
cries.
Mr. Fischler will act as mod
erator.
Personal invitations have been
sent to each teacher and to leading
citizens in Morehcad City and the
county. Each child in school has
been given a letter, announcing the
program, to take home to his
parents.
Two Convicted
Of Stealing Gas
Earl Taylor Jr. and Ernest Ed
ward Guthrie, both of Crab Point,
wore convicted yesterday of steal
ing gasoline from county school
buses. In county recorder's court
Judge Lambert Morris sentenced
each to a year on the roads, sus
pended on payment of $10 and court
costs within 60 days. The men are
also to remain on good behavior
three years.
Attempts to take gas Tuesday
night from the school bus driven by
Bobby Merrill, Highway 101, led to
apprehension of the thieves. The
two were frightened away from the
bus and forgot the cap to their gas
tank.
Later they returned to get the
cap and Merrill'i father took off
after them in an automobile. He
got their license number. The
sheriff's department had also ac
quired. earlier, a description of the
car Taylor and Guthrie were using.
These clues led to the apprehen
sion of the pair, according to
Sheriff Hugh Salter.
Oeaa-Up Week
The county board of commission
ers has set the first week in April
as county-wide clean-up week. The
date was set Monday at the request
of Mrs. David Beveridge, head of
the County Agriculture Workers
Council.
To Appear with Symphony
Frederick Sahlmann, pianist, will be the guest artist with the Little
Symphony when it presents its concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Beau
fort School auditorium. Pupils in the grammar grades will hear the
symphony at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon in Beaufort School.
Port Defenders Confident That State
Will Appropriate Warehousing Funds
Beaufort Town Board Seeks
Passage of Six Local Bills
Two Assault Warrants
Are Withdrawn in Court
Two assault warrants were with
drawn in Morehead City recorder's
court Monday, and in each case
the prosecuting witness was taxed
court costs.
Mrs. Florence Chapman charged
her husband, James Oscar Chap
man, with beating her with a bot
tle. When she withdrew the war
rant. Judge Herbert Phillips taxed
her costs for malicious prosecu- i
tion.
Walter Robert Buck withdrew j
a warrant charging Lewis Pierson '
Willis with kicking him ^nd hit- !
ting him with a pool stick. Buck |
was taxed court costs.
Mosc Calhoun Jr. was fined $25 1
and costs for being drunk on the
highway. Leonard Wright West
was sentenced to 30 days, suspend
ed on payment of $10 and costs
and two years' good behavior for
public drunkenness.
Four defendants were in court
Threatened Price War Leads Barbers
To Talk About County Organization
To ward off what could turn into
razor-sharp price war, barbers of
the county met Tuesday night at
the Sanitary Barber Shop, More
head City, to discuss organization
of a county-wide barbers' group.
A commit lee was appointed to
draW up a constitution ifhd by
laws, the by laws to include a
schedule of charges for barber ser
vices. The theory, apparently, is
that all barbers have to belong
to the organization and follow the
by-laws, or if they don't the other
House Near
Newport Bums
A one-story frame home owned
by Durwood Sanders, route 2 New
port, was destroyed by fire at
3:30 Wednesday morning. The
home was unoccupied at the time,
except for some collie pups that
lost their lives.
The Newport firemen answered
the call but the fire was discov
ered too late to save the house.
The blaze was discovered by a
passing Marine who gave the
alarm.
Mr. Sanders had been renting the
house and it was recently vacated.
He and his family lived next door
in a new brick home about a mile
and a half west of Newport on
Highway 70.
It is not known how the fire
started. Mr. Sanders had painted
the kitchen Tuesday and left the
oil heater on during the night in
preparation for laying some tile
the next day.
A hot water tank in the attic
blew up and blew part of the roof
off. Fireman Bennic Garner said
that Mr. Sanders had some insur
ance on the house.
Approximately 25 firemen ans
wered the alarm. Both the water
truck, the rural truck and the res
cue truck were taken to the scene.
Coast Guardsmen
Hurt in Crash
Two crewmen of the Coast Guard
cutter Chilula were discharged
from Hie Morchead City Hospital
Wednesday where they were treat
ed for injuries received in an auto
accident at 11:50 p.m. Monday two
miles west of Newport.
The Coast Guardsmen were Har
old R. Moore and William C.
Gaines, who were riding with
James S. Mannctte Jr. in a 1949
Ford Mannette rammed into the
rear of a 1953 Ford driven by John
W. Minto, Cherry Point, according
to Patrolman R. H. Brown.
Both cars were headed cast. The
accident occurred as Minto decided
to turn left into Smitty'i plaee.
Damage to the 1953 Ford driven
by Minto was $400 and to Man
nette'i car 1500. Charges are pend
ing.
barbers will "put them out of bus
incss."
The sudden activity to organize
a barbers' group is the result of
a Beaufort barber offering hair
cuts for a dollar instead of the
recently -upped price of $1?3. Sev
eral mother barbers say they are
goiag to pool resources, start a
shop and offer haircuts for a dol
lar too.
That there is divided opinion
among barbers toward a county
organization ? and prices ? is indi
cated by the fact that a NEWS
TIMES reporter received an invi
tation by phone Monday to be at
the Tuesday night meeting.
A reporter went to the meeting
but then was asked to leave. As
he did so, the door was slammed
shut and locked!
One barber said that after the
price of haircuts was raised to
$1.25, his pay dropped $25 a week.
(Barbers work on commission).
It has also been reported that
since the $1.25 price went into
effect, local mail orders for clip
pers and home barbering sets have
sky-rocketed.
To Head College
Dr. James E. Danieley, hus
band of the former Verona Dan
iels, Beaufort, will become presi
dent of Elon College July 1. Mrs
Danieley is the daughter of Mr
and Mrs. If. Burton Daniels.
Beaufort Courtesy Nickel
Program to End March 15
As of Friday, March 15, there
will be no courtesy nickel pro
gram in Beaufort.
Town fathers, in session Mon
day night at the town hall, decided
that if the Chamber of Commerce,
which initiated the program, want
ed to drop it, it was agreeable to
the town.
Next Friday was set as the time
the program will cease so that
motorists would have fair warn
ing.
The chamber said that failure
to return nickels on the part of
drivers made the project too cost
ly. Mayor Clifford Lewis said that
he heard that in a 14-day period
businessmen had to pay $28 to
meet the debt incurred by pork
ers' failing to repay the courtesy
nickels.
Commissioner James Rumley
said the "biggest mistake*' was
made when the town changed from
the penny to the nickel meters.
Commissioner Gerald Hill de
clared that in the future there
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, March 8
12:08 a.m. 6:18 a.m.
12:34 p.m. 6:1S p.m.
Saturday, March 1
1:115 a.m. 7:54 a.m.
1:37 p.m. 7:46 p.m.
Sunday, March 10
2:11 a.m. 9:19 a.m.
2:51 p.m. 9:31 p.m.
Moodajr, March 11
3:27 a.m. 10:23 am.
4:09 p.m. 10:39 p.m.
Tuesday, March 12
4:41 a.m. 11:19 a.m.
S:ll p.m. 11:38 p.m.
shall be no "window tapping." He
said that policemen should not
knock on a store window to tell
a parking violator that a red meter
flag is showing.
Chief of Police Guy Springlc said
that he was not in favor of per
sons' putting money on the wind
shield. He said that sometimes
children come along and take the
money and that some motorists
even claimed they had left money
but inferred the officers them
selves took it and put it in their
own pocket! ,
In connection with parking, a
letter from F. R. Bell was read,
asking permission to park his de
livery truck next to Dr John
Way's office behind the Sinclair
delivery truck. The request was
tabled.
A request from William Way to
allow his boats to dock at the
foot of Queen Street was denied.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to the mayor, were Commis
sioners Rumlcy, William Roy llam
ilton. Otis Madcs, Math Chaplain
and Gerald Hill.
Marshallberg Boy Scouts
To See Camping Movie
A movie on Boy Scout camping
will be shown to the Scout troop
at Marshallberg at 7:30 tonight at
the community building. The movie
was shown to the troop at Har
lowe last night and to SO Scouts.
Scoutmasters and parents at the
civic center, Morehead City, Tues
day night.
The movie is on last year's
camporec at Jacksonville Monday
night's meeting was conducted by
Bill Willis, Beaufort, camping and
activities chairman for the Car
teret district, and Rudolph Alex
ander, field executive.
for speeding. Phillip B. Moore was 1
fined $10 and costs and ordered |
to deposit his license with the j
clerk of court for a period of i
three months.
Frank Eldridge Benton. Tommy
Council Jones, and Frederick Lee
Lowery were taxed costs.
Charles Vernon Arthur Jr. was I
found not guilty of careless and i
reckless driving. James Alton]
White was taxed costs for running
I a stop light.
The state did not prosecute
George Webster Kiltrcll or Bobby
Glazier due to lack of evidence.
Kittrell was charged with driving;
without a license, and Glazier with j
stealing a 1955 Chevrolet belong
ing to C. D. Finer of New Bern.
Clyde R. Eubanks, charged with
taking 300 pounds of lead and four
hub caps from C. C. Goodwin, was
told that his case had been con
tinued indefinitely. Should he ever
get in trouble again, this case
could be brought against him, the
judge warned.
Ernest Linwood Guthrie was
charged one-third costs for failure
to display state or city tags. Sev
en defendants were charged a sim
ilar amount for failure to have
city tags. They were Darius Adam
Ballou, Ernest L. Carlson, Mrs.
Konald Earl Willis, Angela Mon
tro Katjc, Frank A. Cassiano,
Carolyn D. Rice, and Alfred A.
Barber.
Nine eases were continued. They
were against Larry Del mar Smith.
Chark* Q. Willi*, Grover C. Mun
den. Philip L. Goodson, George
Murray. Nathaniel McFadden,
Lcsta N. Willis, Pearl C. McClain,
and Ernest L. Eubanks.
Director Sets
Minimum Age
Fred Lewis, director of the
Morehead City Recreation pro
gram, has announced that teen
agers 13 and upward are the only
ones permitted at the Friday night
parties at the recreation building.
Twelve-year-olds, however, who
already hold membership cards
will still be permitted to come,
Mr. Lewis said.
Mrs. J. W. Thompson, chairman
of the Morehead City Rccrcation
Commission said that so many
children under 13 have started
coming to the affairs that the
group is getting too large.
She said that sometime later two
nights may be planned for parties,
one specifically for the smaller
youngsters.
The Friday night events arc from
7:30 to 10:30. In addition to danc
ing, the teen-agers play indoor
games, such as ping-pong.
Mrs. Thompson reported that the
recreation commission also appre
ciates a gift of 10 Venetian blinds
for the front of the rccrcation
building. They were given by the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and Rebekahs who meet at the
rccrcation building. i
? Beaufort town fathers have au- 1
thorizcd the drawing of six bills
to he introduced in the legislature. |
1 The bills would cover the fol
lowing:
1. Give the town authority to I
lease to state or United States !
agencies the ends of streets fac
ing navigable waters, such agen- 1
cies to use the street ends for 1
governmental purposes only
2. Give any town over one thou- j
sand population in Carteret Coun- !
ty the authority to zone within a j
mile of the city limits providing
such zoning does not cross town
ship lines; residents within such
zoned area to be eligible for mem
bership on the town planning
board
3. Annexation of Pivers Island. |
the roads and streets on the island 1
and the bridge to the island to re- 1
main private (maintained by agen
cies owning property on the is
land).
4. Authority to appoint either a
town clerk or a town manager,
the clerk, if so named, to be known
also as town manager.
5. Give the police department
jurisdiction over boats in the har
bor.
6. Allow Beaufort police officers
to receive fees for serving all
papers connectcd with law enforce
ment. (At present such fees go to
the county).
Town attorney Gene Smith was
requested to draft the bills and
turn them over to one of the coun
ty's representatives at Raleigh.
Power to be Cut
Sunday Morning
Power will go off for two hours
Sunday, weather permitting, in the
area cast of North River. The
scheduled cut-off is from 8 to 10
a.m.
George B. Stovall, manager of
Carolina Power and Light Co.,
said that the 33,000-volt substation
at Smyrna has to be taken out of
use because a pole is to be changed
near Claude Martin's corner,
North River.
In addition to moving the pole,
additional protective equipment
will be put on certain installations
in preparation for the summer
lighting season.
Need for permanent repair to
switches damaged in high winds
necessitated an outtagc Tuesday
from noon to 12:31 p.m. in the
western section of Morehcad City,
Mansfield Park and Highways 70
and 24.
Odd Fellows, Rebekohs
To Repeat Show Tonight
By popular request the Rcbckahs
and Odd Fellows will stage again
at 8 tonight their variety show,
Old Maids' Convention. The show
will be given in the Morehcad City
School auditorium.
Proceeds will be divided between
the Morehcad City School band
and the Rcbckahs and Odd Fel
lows.
The same persona who appeared
in the hilarious comcdy last Fri
day night will play again tonight.
Tickets arc SO and 23 cents and
may be obtained from members
of the band or the lodge.
? Defenders of the Morehead City port emerged from two
hearings Wednesday, reasonably confident that Morehead
City will get its needed warehouse space for tobacco dur
ing the next biennium.
State Ports Authority Chairman Edwin Pate himself
asked the joint appropriations committee Wednesday
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$1,460,000 for warehouse facilities
at Morehead City.
In the revenue building at Ral
j eigh Wednesday morning, the SPA !
! heard James C. Buckley defend his ,
1 $15,000 "factual study," the Buckley I
report, which touts Wilmington us
THE state port.
I To present Morehead City's case I
I Rep. D. G. Bell introduced eastern j
J Carolina tobacco men who present
I ed testimony revealing that the lo- 1
cal port is not getting the type of j
promotion, or cooperation needed
from the ports director, Col. Rich
! ard S. Marr.
Criticises Rate Figures
I Clifford Toal, vice-president of
Southern Railway, which is inter- !
[ested in operating the railroad to
the Morehead City port, told the
SPA that the Buckley report made
errors in its study of freight rates,
and since the freight rates study is
faulty, "then the basic premise for
favoring Wilmington as against
Morehead City is false," he de
clared.
James Todd, Kinston, of the Aus
tin-Carolina tobacco firm, told the
SPA that Morehead City needed
"high level tobacco solicitation."
At that point in the hearing,
Colonel Marr whispered to Chair
man Pate and Chairman Pate com
mented that such solicitation was
not the director's job but the job
of the port manager, who at More
head City is J. D. Holt.
Mr. Todd commented that Mr.
Holt is doing a very good job, then
added. "But the ports director of
the state of Virginia visited me
three times last year."
Mr. Todd and T. N. Ryan, Farm
ville tobacconist, both said that
Morehead City was the logical port
for tobacco shipping.
Legislators Listen
The SPA meeting lasted until
close to 2 o'clock and then the
joint appropriations committee con
vened. Impressing the appropria
tions committee with the import
ance of Morehead City's port was
necessary because the state budget
commission recommended that
nothing be spent on Morehead City
during 1957-59.
Representative Bell, a member
of the appropriations committee,
said that every member was alert
ly interested in hearing the port
matter.
It will be another month be
fore the appropriations committee
makes its report, but Mr. Bell said,
"I'm not worried about getting the
money ? unless the whole thing's
lost and we get nothing for capital
improvements. But if Wilmington
gets its docks, we'll get our ware
house!" the legislator declared.
Immediately before the appro
priations committee adjourned Rep
resentative Bell got Mr. Buckley to
admit that warehousing was as im
portant to Morehead City as dock
ing space was to Wilmington, and
the committee hearing ended on
that note.
Attending the hearings from
Morehead City were Mayor George
Dill, Dr. John Morris and Dr. Ben
Royal.
Band Association Gets
$200 in Recent Drive
Gerald Hill, secretary of the
Beaufort Band Association, re
ported yesterday that approximate
ly $200 was collected in the recent
band drive.
He said that $500 is needed and
checks will still be accepted. Con
tributions may be given or mailed
to Gerald D. Hill, Beaufort, N. C.
It Looks Easy
Photo by Bob Seymour
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Fire Department. Hta "victim" la Maartce Peteraoa. Mr. Carter conducted the flrat elaaa of an 12-hour
coarae at the fire atatloa Taevlay nl(ht. Othera la the plctare are, left I* right, Ronald Smith, Tommy
Wlllla, El maud Rhue. Eifete Gamer, Bryan Uftla, Neal Willi., Albert Skarren, fire** Warren. Robert
Radflaa, William Loageat III. VlrgO Woolard, CI are ace Darla Jr., Aaa Back Jr., Bea Merrill, Gerald Wool
aid aad Dub Whttebarat, aaalstaat thief. .
Newport Defers
Action on Deed
For Masonic Land
Town Board Receives
Request from WOW
Tuesday for Lodge Site
Approval of a deed presented by
the Newport Masonie lodge for
town land in West Newport was
deferred at the Newport town
board meeting Tuesday night.
The deed was presented by J. 1\
Garner. Aetion on transferring the
land to the Masons, without cost,
was held up pending receipt of re
strictions from the Federal Hous
ing Administration.
Leslie Bercegeay, of the Cherry
Point Mutual Veterans Housing
Association, which has developed
West Newport, pointed out that
FHA requires the same restric
tions on the south side of the Nine
Foot Road as on the north.
The proposed lodge site is on the
south. The housing area (West
Newport) is on the north. Mr. Ber
cegeay said that homeowners were
concerned lest failure to follow
FHA restrictions as to building
and type of buildings would result
in FHA turning down loans for
homes in that area.
He said that the Newport town
board several years ago agreed
to FHA restrictions on the south
side of the Nine-Foot Road. Miss
Edith Lockey, clerk, located ac
tion to that effect in the minute
book. The action was taken in
May 1953.
AUornty Comments
The attorney, George Ball, in
formed the board that the resolu
tion could be rescinded if the board
wanted to do so, but the board
requested Mr. Bercegeay to write
FHA for a full description of what
the restrictions consist of.
Alfred Henderson, representing
the Newport Woodmen lodge, pre
sented a request for a lodge site,
also in West Newport. The board
said that the Woodmen would be
entitled to land under the same
conditions as the Masons. The
town has agreed, tentatively, to
give the Masons the site.
The town, however, has stipu
lated that if any surveying is to
be done, the lodge shall bear the
cost. The attorney pointed out
that it would be advisable to draw
up a contract with parties to whom
land is given, stating that a build
ing must be put on the land with"
in a certain length of time, prob
ably three years; otherwise the
land would revert to the town.
Philanthropic?
Mr. Bercegeay commented on
the proposed deals, stating that
the town never has any money to
undertake drainage work, yet it
wants to give away land. He said
that if the new highway goes
through West Newport, the land
in question will increase in value
and opportunity the town would
have had to profit by it will have
been thrown away.
Action on the Woodmen's re
quest was tabled for the same rea
son as was action on the Masonic
lodge deed.
A. T. Leary Jr.
Asks Postponement
On ICC Hearing
A T. Leary Jr. of the Beaufurt
?nd Morchcad Railroad Co., re
ported yesterday that he has re
quested the Interstate Commerec
Commission to postpone the hear
ing on his petition (or control of
the Cherry Point-Camp Lcjcunc
Railroad.
The hearing was originally sche
duled for Tuesday, March 2? Mr.
Leary (aid that he has not heard
as yet whether the ICC will grant
the request for postponement.
He said that actually the request
is for "suspension" of the hear
ing until the BAM requests it
again or the ICC derides It want*
to go through with it.
Mr. Leary said that postpone
ment was asked because more in
formation has to be compiled and
further work done on proposed
contract* with the government.
At present the Cherry Palnt-Le
jeune line is operated by the fed
eral government.