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46th YEAR, NO. 22. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTB CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Beaufort Jaycees to Stage
Minstrel at School Tonight
The Beaufort Jayeecs will pre*'
sent a minstrel show at the Beau
fort High School auditorium at 8
tonight The ?how, featuring four
of the funniest end men in Beau
fort and nine lovely young ladies,
is kept on the right track by Ers
kine Blankenship, interlocutor.
Mr. Blankenship has the ques
tions and end men Ronald Earl Ma
son, Guy Smith, John Duncan, and
George M. Thomas have the an- j
litff And the Jaycees promise
that these answers will have the
audience rolling in the aisles.
Duncan Decides Too Late
The high point of the whole show
is a solo by Mr. Duncan. The song.
No Wedding Bells for Me, original
ly had a tune, but Mr. Duncan lost
it somewhere during practice.
Here, the Jaycees claim, is a man
who couldn't carry a tune in a
wash tub.
Miss Bobbie Dennis and Earl idac
Noe will be featured soloists during
some of the production numbers.
Rita Mason, Jean Chadwick, Winki
Willis, Patsy Whitehurst, Becky
Monroe, Dawn Taylor, Virginia
Robinson, and Dorothy Searle
dance and sing in the show and
have been responsible for some of
the Jaycees abandoning hopes of
singing in the chorus in favor of
front row seats.
maie vocai mars
Members of the chorus arc Bobby
Martin, llarry Davis, John Young,
Virgil White, Bill Tickle, James
Steed, Maurice Peterson, Jimmy
Terry, Frank Langdale, Hobart
Kelly, Hubert Everhart, Tommy
Eure, Billy Davis, Raymond Dar
den. Merolan Bullock, and Glenn
Willis.
Mrs. Ellen Piner, who will pre
side at the piano, is musical direc
tor for the show. Mrs. Virginia
Hassell has directed the production
numbers.
Jaycec Tommy Potter is in
charge of ticket sales. Members
of the Beaufort band and seventh
and eighth grades at Camp Glenn
School arc selling advance tickets
fur $1 for adults and 50 cents for
children. They arc getting a 25 per
cent commission for selling the
tickets. Prices at the door will be
the same as advance tickets.
The Jaycees are presenting a skit
frijiu the JnM*r-auU*a-haJ? Mf,OU"iUA,
fluring the Beaufort cnapef period
this afternoon.
Fast Marine
Catches Fire
A Marine enroute from Cherry
Point (o Morehcad City Wednes
day afternoon was in such a hurry
that he did not notice that his car
was on fire.
About midway between the More
head City side and the draw of
the Morehcad bridge, the back
seat of his 1947 Cadillac burst into
flames. The Morchcad Cily Fire
Department and Scott's Complete
Auto Service went to the rescue.
The firemen put out the blaze,
which was centered around the gas
tank. C. L. Scott chcckcd the car,
put the spare wheel on the left
rear, and moved it to his garage.
The Marine asked Mr. Scott to
take him home and he would come
back Saturday (tomorrow) to sec
about his car. In the excitement,
no one found out what his name
was.
At the garage, the car was
checked more closely. Mr. Scott
said that the left rear axle bear
ing gave way, and the car's weight
caught on the brake shoes.
The left rear tire caught on
fire, the blaze worked its way into
the trunk, and from there into the
back scat. The tire kept blazing
up, so it was thrown overboard.
The back seat blazed up a couple
of times after it was brought into
the garage.
Mr. Scott and his family kept
an eye ? and a garden hose ? on
the car. Every time it started to
smoke heavily, they would turn
the water on.
Mr. Scott estimated damage to
the car at $150.
Court Uses New
Speaker System
Used for the first time this week
during superior court was the new
ly-installed amplifying system.
The system consists of a micro
phone at the witness chair and two
speakers, one on either side of the
courtroom. One is aimed toward
the Jury box and the other directed
forward to the front of the court
room.
The amplifying system cost about
tfno and was installed in place of
a more expensive proposal, sound
proofing the courtroom and lower
ing the ceiling.
At the suggestion of the clerk of
court, A. H. James, the jury box
hat been improved. Chairs have
been set wider apart, repaired, and
the Jury box, in general, enlarged.
Boat Goes by Rail
Photos by Bob Seymour
The sccond lap of Us journey
from Marshallbcrg to Eugene,
Ore., begins for this Willis Craft
sport fisherman. The boat came
from Marshallberg to state port,
Morehcad City, Monday under
its own power. Here she is be
ing lifted from the water ? an
anxious moment for the insur
ance company.
operations nau 10 De suspended
for nearly an hour while the j
local insurance company tele* ,
phoned its main office to see that
& policy taken out by the More
head City Yacht Basin to cover
its crane also covered the boat
in a job of this type. This was
another first for the state port,
as well as the insurance com
pany. <
Hodges Clarifies
Remarks on Port
Southern Requests ICC
To Dismiss Application
By A. T. Leary Jr.
Whether Southern Railway takei
over the A&EC or not, the capital
improvements needed for More
head City port will be forthcom
ing.
This was the assurance Rep. D.
G. Bell received from Gov. Luther
Hodges Wednesday after newspa
per reports interpreted remarks
by the governor at a press con
ference to mean that Morehead
City port may not get money for
improvements IF Southern decides
against taking the A&EC.
Talks with Governor
Mr. Bell had a brief confcrcncc
with the governor after remarks
attributed to the governor inferred
that warehousing funds at More
head City and a water tank for a
sprinkler system may hinge on
Southern's action on the recent
ICC ruling.
What the governor intended to
convey, Mr. Bell remarked, was
assurance to Southern that the
state would put necessary funds
into the Morehead City port.
Asks Dismissal
Southern this week asked the
ICC to dismiss an application by
A. T. Leary Jr. to operate the Ma
rine Corps railroad between Lc
jeune and Cherry Point.
Joining in the petition were the
Atlantic & Cast Carolina Railroad
and Southern's subsidiary, Camp
Lejeune Railroad Co., which Sou
thern organized for the purpose
of leasing and operating the 36
mile Marine link.
The ICC recently authorized Sou
thern to acquire stock control of
the East Carolina, but rejected its
proposal to lease the government
railroad.
Leary's rival bid for a similar
leasing arrangement was set for
hearing March 26. He has asked
that this session be postponed.
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Hanging high and dry over the water it state port, the Willis Craft is bring maneuvered into position
for a pass at the flat car ia the foreground. Spectators had to help push the car 10 feet down the tracks
to meet the hoaL Pan! Gillikhi, AAEC Railroad trainmaster from New Bern, was on hand to see that
everything n?4d on schedule.
Finally secured on the flat car, the (port fisherman li ready for the long trip to Ortgoa. The boat,
built by M. W. Willis and Sons Boat Works, received a final coat of paint on the decks Tneaday. She
moved out of Morehead City Wednesday. The boat was bought by Donald M. Bull of Eugene, Ore. He
plans to use her as a party boat. He bought the boat after seeing a Willis advertisement in a national
magazine.
Mayor G. W. Dill Comments
On Support for State Port
Mayor George DDI, Morchcad
City, yesterday expressed his ap
preciation to all individuals and
organizations who. supported More
head City in its plea for state
funds for the 1955 57 biennium.
lie was referring to letters sent
to the governor and to represen
tatives in the General Assembly,
and to the moral support lent by
residents of this area.
Although the joint appropriations
committee has not come to a con
clusion on how funds will be ap
portioned during the next bien
nium, the mayor and other More
head City port backers are confi
dent that the state will provide
money for the necessary ware
housing.
Mayor Dill added that he does
not believe any additional letters
or resolution*, relative to the port,
need to be sent to the governor
or to state legislators at this time.
"As a matter of fact," he con
tinued, "It may be more detrimen
tal than helpful if we worry our
state officials over a problem
which we believe has been settled
to our satisfaction."
He said that if forces need be
recruited on the port iasue in the
future, the cooperation of civic or
ganizations and individual citizens
will certainly be sought.
Postmaster* Will Attend
Meeting at Vanceboro
Harold Webb, Morehcad City
postmaster, and J. P. Belts, Beau
fort postmaster, will attend the
third district postmasters' meet
ins Saturday. Mareh 23, at the
Farm Life School, Vanceboro.
The principal speaker will he
Congressman Graham A. Bardcn.
Also scheduled to speak la Ken
neth Brown, diatrict manager.
Mr. Webb says that there la
room for three other postmasters
in hia car. Any wanting to go with
him and Mr. Bctls should contact
him at the Morehcad City post
office
Wives of county ministeri will at
tend their monthly luncheon meet
ing at 12:30 p.m. Monday at Mr*.
Russell Willis's restaurant.
Flood Insurance Director
Describes Proposed Set-Up
Ministers Set Date of Red Cross
Sunday ; Approve Migrant Program
Man Has No Heirs;
E'tate Goes to UNC
The University of North Caro
lina is $9,760.76 richer as a re
sult of this week's term of civil
court, Beaufort. Llewellyn Phil
lips, attorney, testified that he
had been unable to find legal
heirs to the estate of Frank C.
U. Lawrence, who died in Morc
' head City April 18, 1955.
Mr. Phillips had been appoint
, ed administrator of the estate.
After paying Mr. Lawrence's
debts, he said that $9,760.76 and
some real estate in Florida was
left.
Under the law, all estates in
which there is no will or legal
heir go to the University of
North Carolina
BabuntoGetNew
Resting Place
E. A. Canipc. Ilavclock, owner
of the Omar Babun, the wreeked
freighter which has been parked by
1 the ehannel to the Morehead City
yacht basin, said yesterday that
a slip is being dredged for the
boat north of the new Beaufort
drawbridge.
The Finer Dredging Co., Capt.
Charlie Finer in charge, is doing
the dredging. Captain Finer said
yesterday that he hopes to get the
Babun (known as the Be boon to
people who want to sec it out of
the way) into its new slip by Mon
day.
He said it will have to \>c pumped
out and towed to its new renting
place on high tidr. The present
plaiitlft to pomp *and in around
the Babun to make a fill which
will adjoin property owned by Sam
Morgan, New Bern.
It is estimated that cost of mov
ing the freighter will be between
$2,500 and $3,000. Mr. Canipc said
he plans to junk the wreck by
cutting it up and selling salvage
able portions.
Down East Lions
Sell Brooms
iJown East Lions arc in the
midst of a broom, mop and iron
ing board cover sale. Froceeds
from the sale will go to the club's
fund for the blind.
Most Lions arc going from door
to door with the items, but house
holders who arc not callcd on may
obtain a broom, mop or ironing
board cover by contacting a Lion.
Guest speaker at the Monday
night meeting of the club was J.
A. DuBois, manager of the More
head City Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. DuBois spoke on the Highway
70 Association, the seashore high
way and the Morehead City port.
He was introduced by Ed Willard, '
program chairman.
Jack Johnson, president, prcsid- 1
cd J. G, Mcintosh, Atlantic, was 1
a guest. Fifteen members were
present. i
Police Report
One Accident
Tolicr rcportt show that only one 1
accidcnt occurred in Morehcad
City Monday through yesterday
noon. Tuesday afternoon * 1947 I
Ford coupe driven by Ray Carl
Hargett, Cove City, ran into the 1
i car of a 19M Chevrolet driven by
Lt. Daniel B. Smigay, Cherry
Point. 1
Lieutenant Smigay said that he I
had stopped for traffic on Arendell
Street near the corner of Sixth
Street. He aaid that Hargctt did
not sec him Mopped in the street,
while Hargett said that Smigay
stopped too suddenly for him to
avoid hitting him.
Police Chief Herbert firtffin, who
investigated, charged Hargett with
careless and rccklea* driving. The
chief estimated damage at $75 to
the Chevrolet and 1100 to the Ford.
Stove Overheats
Morehcad City firemen were call
ed to Bell and Mundcn Funeral
Home on Seventh Street late Mon
day afternoon. ? A stove In an up
stairs room had oveifeeated. The
fire department reported no dam
age.
The County Ministers Association
set Sunday, March 17, as county
Red Croat Sunday at their month
ly meeting at the civic center,
Morchcad ' ity, Monday morning.
The ministers will inform their
congregations of the many services
of the Red Cross. They decided,
however, that no offerings for the
organization will be taken during
church services.
The Rev. H. H. Cash, pastor of
the Marshallbcrg Methodist Church,
reported on the findings of the mi
grant labor committee. Mr. Cash,
chairman of the group, said that
workers would offer teaching, rec
reation, preaching, and counseling
to migrant laborers for an esti
mated $500 per season.
Churches to Help
The association adopted the pro
gram and authorized Mr. Cash and
members of his committee to make
requests from each church to help
finance the program. Other mem
bers of the committee are the Rev.
Paul Parker, the Rev. L. A. Lewis,
and the Rev. J. D. Young.
Dr. John Bunn, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Morchcad City, an
nounced that a pre Easter simul
taneous revival has been scheduled
for April 7 14, ending on Palm Sun
day. Many of the churchcs in the
county plan to participate.
The Rev. J. F. Herbert was prin
cipal speaker. The subject of his
talk was his participation in a Cu
ban evangelistic mission last
month.
Mr. Herbert was one of 125 Meth
odist ministers who visited Cuba to
take part in the mission and bring
home reports on work being done
there. He spent 10 days in Fomen
to, a town of 15,000 loeatcd in
soutii-eeutral Cuba.
Open Mission Field
Ik' said the most vivid impres
sion he rcecivcd while there was
that Cuba presented very bright
prospects for protcstant missionary
activity. In the entire town of Fo
mento, he said, there were only
three church buildings. The coun
try could best be termed "un
churchcd", according to Mr. Her
bert.
"The most satisfying experience
of the trip came when my interpre
ter made his decision to become a
minister," Mr. Herbert said.
The St. Paul's Methodist Church
of Fomento sent a parchment
scroll to the First Methodist
Church, Morehead City, of which
Mr. Herbert is pastor. On the
scroll was a testimonial thanking
the church for their kindness in al
lowing their pastor to visit them.
PTA Approves
Motion to Borrow
Funds for Schools
The Morchead City Parent
Teacher Association went on rec
ord Monday night in favor of a
bond issue to supplement teacher
pay and build schools.
The motion came after a some
what confused discussion on whe
ther voting a bond issue were pos
sible, and if it were possible and
passed, could the bonds be sold? |
H. L. Joslyn, superintendent of
schools, and a member of a panel ?
program conducted by the Jaycecsj
said that the bonds would have to
be issued on a county-wide basis.
He said that two years ago the;
Local Government Commission's)
secretary informed him that even
though the taxpayers okayed a
bond issue for schools, it would
be doubtful that a market could
be found for the bonds, since the
county was heavily in debt.
Panel Members
Members of the panel on educa
tion were George Roberts Wallace,
Morehead City, member of the
County Board of Education; Mr.
Joslyn, Ray Wilkinson, state Jay
ccc education chairman; Dr. Har
den Eure, member of the More
head City school board; and Miss
Ruth Peeling, editor of THE
NEWS-TIMES, with Jaycec Ken
neth Fischler as moderator.
1 Mr. Wilkinson, recently appoint
cd to the governor's committee
for better schools, made introduc
tory remarks. He said that so much
is being talked about the schools
today because in this age there
arc more children to teach, they
must be taught more things to
prepare them for the "electronic
age" and thus more teachers are
needed and more space is needed
to teach in.
Suggests Borrowing
The bond issue matter was
brought up by Mr. Wallace. His
words, "We've got to have a bond
issue" were met with applause
from the audience. He said if peo
ple want better education for the
children they've got to make up
their minds that they have to pay
for it.
See PTA, Page 2
Frank J. Meistrell, who
will administer the new fed
eral flood disaster insurance
program, informed Tar Heel
legislators at a recent meet
ing at Washington that the
Hood insurance program will
be ready to go into operation
"by late spring or early sum
mer".
Mr. Meistrell and Albert M. Cole,
administrator of the Housing and
Koine Finance agency, will visit
this county tomorrow on a tour of
eastern Carolina counties which
have suffered in hurricanes. The
flood insurance program comes un
der jurisdiction of Housing and Fi
nance.
Hundred Million Sought
At the Washington conference,
Mr. Meistrell said he expects to
have insurance policies ready for
signature within 30 days after Con
gress approves funds to cover ad
ministrative costs. One hundred
million dollars is being requested
to carry out the program.
Director Meistrell said the rate
structure for policies has not yet
been perfected, but that his office,
in consultation with private insur
ance companies, has attempted to
evaluate exposure with respect to
the types of buildings as well as lo
cation. "Piers, wharves and amuse
ment places right on the beach
would carry a higher rate," he
said.
Congressmen Graham Bardcn
and Alton I*ennon urged that a
"uniform rate" be adopted at first
in order to get the program under
way as soon as possible.
"I don't think we should wait for
a perfect set-up," insisted Con
gressman Barden. "The insurance
program shouid be put into opera
tion as soon as possible."
Congressman Lennon maintained
that to work out a rate pattern
all over the country would "delay
the program about a year". As a
result of severe hurricane damage
in recent years, he said, people in
his district who would like to build
aloiy; the coast are finding it diffi
cult to obtain conventional insur
ance fr?>m private companies and
"can't borrow a cent from lending
agencies!"
Zoning Issue
Mr. Harden expressed grave con
cern about the zoning provision of
the Congressional Act authorizing
the insurance program. In order
for its citizens to participate in the
program, all states are required to
adopt zoning regulations. Barden
said the zoning responsibility
should be left entirely in the hands
of the state and local communities.
Mr. Meistrell agreed that the en
tire zoning problem is one "within
the knowledge of the states and
their political subdivisions."
See INSURANCE, Page 2
Morehead City Students Exhibit
Science Projects at School Today
Port Handles
18,436 Tons
February cargoos handled at the
N. C. Ocean Terminals here
? mounted to 18.436 tons, it was an
nounced today by the North Caro
lina State Ports Authority.
Ten vessels called during the
month. Tonnage was divided into
Ihc following categories: military,
four ships. 3,(13 tons; dry com
mercial, two ships and a barge. 3,
0!)0 tons; and liquid commercial,
three ships. 11,533 tons.
Tobacco moved out on the Effic
Macrsk in the amount of 471 tons;
921 tons of potatoes were received
an the Seagull; and 1,698 tons of
oats were barged out during the
month.
Liquid cargoes comprised 1,172
tons of fish oil exported on SS
American Miller and one shipment
cach of glycol and petroleum.
The military movement was
mainly Marine Corps personnel
and equipment for Caribbean war
games.
Tide Table
Tides it the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, March 15
7:32 a.m. 1:26 a.m.
7:56 p.m. 1:52 p.m.
Katarday, March It
1:21 a.m. 2:lt a.m.
1:45 p.m. 2:38 p.m.
Haaday, March 17
9:11 a.m. 3:0t a.m.
9:35 p.m. 3:24 p.m.
Moaday, March IS
10:02 a.m. 3:53 a.m.
10:27 p.m. 4:01 p.m.
Taeaday, March It
10:55 a.m. 4:40 a.m.
11:20 p.m. 4:53 p.m.
Today is the day of the Scicncc'
Fair at Morchead City School.
The public is invited to view the
projects between 3 and 4:30 today
and 7:30 and 9 tonight. Projects
will be judged between 9 and 10
this morning by Mrs. Walter Chip
man, Beaufort, Dr. A. F. Chest
nut and Dr. T. R. Rice, Morchead
City.
Mrs. Chipman is a former teach
er and member of the American
Association of University Women.
Dr. Chestnut ii director of the In
stitute of Fisheries Research, UNC,
and Dr. Rice is a member of the
staff of the radiobiological labor
atory, Pivcrs Island.
Lcnwood Lee, principal of the
school, explains that the fair will
feature "individual, group and
class projects which will be judged
separately for prizes." He laid the
activity has grown out of a facul
ty study in the teaching of science.
The prize-winning exhibits will
be entered in state competition.
See FAIR, Page 3
Jaycees Nominate
Officers Monday
The Morehcad City Jiyteti
made nominations (or club officers
from the floor in Monday night'a
business meeting at the Hotel Fort
Macon. Aa soon aa the nominations
were completed, the Jayceea at
tended an educational forum at
the Morehcad City High School
auditorium.
Thoae nominated were: Frank
Caaalano and Bob McLean for prea
ident; Joe Beam for internal vice
president; Luther Lewia, Jerry
Willis, and Marion MiUa for ex
ternal vice-president; Bill Single
ton and Billy Ogleaby for treaaur
er; and L. E. Kelly, Floyd Chad
wick, Dr. Berl Lewis, Hugh Por
ter, Bob McLean, and James Webb
for director.
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Funeral Rites
Held for Child
The funeral scrvicc for 3 year-old
Dcnise Tootle, daughter of Mr. and
Mri. Randolph Tootle Jr., 512
Craven St., Beaufort, was conduct
ed at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon in
Purvia Chapel, Beaufort.
The little girl died Wednesday,
March 6. of poisoning. According
to Dr. Theodore Salter, the child
got into some rat poison, Tuesday,
March 5. The poison had been
placed in a desk drawer in the
home.
The child'i mother told Dr. Sal
ter that she did not know when
Ocnise may have found the poison.
Mrs. Tootle said she found some of
the "powder" on the floor and
questioned the youngster as to
whether she had eaten any of it.
The child always said no.
When Denise started vomiting,
she was taken to Dr. Salter's office,
and in Dr. Salter's absence, the
nurae said that the child should be
taken immediately to the hospital.
About two hours later the child
had not arrived at Morehead City
Hospital and when Dr. Salter final
ly saw the youngster, it was too
late.
The doctor said that the poison
was an arsenic type. "Unless you
do something immediately after
taking that type of poison, it'i fa
tal," Dr. Salter said.
The funeral was conducted by the
Rev. N. H. Daniels, pastor of Pur
vis Chapel. Interment was In Ocean
View Cemetery.
The child is survived by her par
ents, a sister, Debra, a brother,
George, both of the home; her ma
ternal grandfather, George Spar
row, and paternal grandparents.
Mr and Mrs. Randolph Tootle. aU
of Beaufort.