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46th YEAR, NO. 32. FOUR SECTIONS TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Newport Store Owner Robbed of $3,000
3CIH1
Henry Williams, store owner at Newport, holds a purse similar to
the one containing $.1,000 which was stolen from his cash register
Monday night. Mr. Williams' store is located on Highway 70, the
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Photo by Bob Seymour
main street through the town of Newport. The sheriff's department
is investigating the theft. II is believed that the thief or thieves en
tered the store through a side door.
Churches Throughout County
Plan Special Easter Services
Federal Court .
Finds Postoffice
Clerk Guilty
Carl B. Chad wick Jr., 29, Beau
fort, was given a 12-month sus
pended sentence, fined $150 and
put on two years' probation in
federal court at New Bern this
week.
Chadwick was convicted of mis
appropriation of funds at the Beau
fort postoffice and false entries
in reports on money and securi
ties.
Postal authorities reported that
the violations occurred between
July 2, 1956 and March 1 of this
year.
Charges were filed against Chad
wick, a former postal clerk, after
an audit of records showed a short
age. He waived hearing before
U. S. Commissioner Matilda 11.
Turner March 8 at New Bern. His
ease went before the federal grand
jury Monday.
Chadwick had been employed by
the postoffice since November
1948. He was tried before Judge |
Don Gilliam, Tarboro.
Rocky Mounter
Offers High Bid
C. Jackson Lupcr, Rocky Mount,
bid $18,500 for Ihc Clark Brothers
drink stand, Atlantic Beach, at
the auction Wednesday afternoon.
High bids for other Clark Bro
thers property at the beach were
$13,500 for the bath house, $3,200
for the vacant lot between the
Ocean King Hotel site and the cor
ner drink stand, and $2,000 for
? three lots on East Boardwalk.
The Clark Brothers, Elizabcth
town, may accept or reject the
high bids. It has l>ecn reported,
however, that the sellers are satis
fied with most of the bids. Names
of high bidders on other than the
drink stand were not available.
The high bid of $52,000 offered
for the ltoland McClamroch tract
at a sale last week has been re
jected. The tract consists of 50
acres adjacent to Fort Macon and
contains three houses. Speight of
New Bern was reportedly the high
bidder.
The Al Dewey winter lease on
* ' tltc Atlantic Beach Hotel has ex
pined and the hotel is now l>eing
prepared by its owner, W. L. Dcr
riCHson, for summer operation.
OffUr to (lose Monday
The auto driver license ex
aminer, Ed Walaton. will not be on
duty Monday in Morehead City.
Hit regular schedule will be re
sumed Tuesday.
? Churches of the county will ob -?<
serve Easter with special services
Sunday. Many will observe the
rcsurrccUwi with sunrise services
and '.ftpccifct music 'at the regular
worship hours.
There will be choral celebration
of lloly Communion at 7:30 a.m.
and 11 a.m. in St. Paul's Episco
pal Church, Beaufort. The chil
dren's Easter festival and decora
tion of the floral cross will take
place at 3:30 Sunday afternoon,
announces the Rev. C. Edward
Sharp, rector.
The St. Paul's Easter egg hunt
will be at 2 p.m. Monday.
The Presbyterian congregations
of Morchead City and Wildwood
will attend a sunrise service at 5
a.m. at the Presbyterian camp on
Boguc Sound. The service is being
sponsored by the Senior High Fel
lowship of the Wildwood church.
In the First Presbyterian
Church, Morchcad City, at 11 a.m.
the pastor, the Rev. A. G. Harris
Jr., will speak on The Power of
Easier.
Special music by the choir will
be presented at the 11 a.m. ser
vice in the Wildwood Presbyterian
Church, the Rev. Alvis Daniel,
pastor.
At 7 30 tonight, Good Friday,
the Women of the Wildwood
Church will be in charge of a ser
vice in the church.
The Rev. Guthrie Colvard, At
lantic Baptist Associational mis
sionary, will be the guest speak
er at Sunday School, 10 a.m., and
the morning worship, 11 a.m., in
the newly-organized Missionary
Baptist Church, Sea Level.
The Otway Christian Church sun
rise service will begin at 6 a.m.
and the Sound View Free Will Bap
tist service will begin at 5:10 a.m.
The Sound View Church is located
See SERVICES, Page 2
Postoffices Will
Reopen Saturday
Postoffices will be open Satur
day.
Congress has appropriated $41
million of the $47 million request
ed by Postmaster General Arthur
Summerfield. whieh allows partial
resumption of full postal service
Shorter hours, however, arc still
in effect. Postoffices will continue
to open at the new time at 8:30
a.m. and close at 5 instead of 6.
First, second, and third class
postoffices, Beaufort, Morchcad
City and Newport, were closed
Saturday by order of Postmaster
Summerfield.
Postmaster .1. P. Belts reminds
patrons that the Beaufort postof
fice will close at noon Saturday as
usual. The half-holiday at the
Morchcad City postofficc is Wed
nesday.
Mr. Betts also reports that a
$2,500 waterproofing job on the out
side walls of the Beaufort postof
fice building has recently been
completed.
Starting Today . . .
I ... On the editorial page is w
column Security for You. This
j column, in simple language, ex
; plains the ins and outs of social
security.
Last year 70 million Americans
were paying social security.
There are thousands who do not
know they are entitled to bene
fits and are missing out on an
income they should be receiving.
This column is sure to be of help
to you.
Security for You will appear
j weekly in THE NEWS-TIMES.
New Churches
Start in County
Two new churches have recently
been organized in the county, the
Free Will Baptist Church of Ot
way and the Missionary Baptist
Chapel of Sea Level.
Pastor of the Otway Church is
the Rev. Clifton Styron of Davis.
Sunday services include Sunday
School at 10 and league at 6:30.
Worship services are at 11 a.m.
and 7:30 p.m. the second and
fourth Sundays.
Dr. J. It. Owens, llavclock, a
retired minister and former pro
fessor at Mars Hill College, is
serving as supply , pastor at the
new Sea Level Church. The Rev.
Guthrie Colvard, Atlantic Baptist
Associational missionary, will at
tend the services at 11 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. Easter Sunday.
Superintendent of the Sunday
School, which begins Sundays at
10, is Clarence Salter. G arris Gas
kill conducted services last Sun
day.
The training union meets each
Sunday at 6:30 p.m. with llarrcll
Taylor, director.
Mrs. Esther Salter was hostess
Tuesday to the Women's Mission
ary Society. The guest speaker was
Mrs. E. L. Davis, Beaufort. John
Lupton led the midweek prayer
service Wednesday night.
The congregation is meeting in
a building on Highway 70 just be
yond the postoffice. The members
hope to put up their own church
in the near future.
Tide Table
Tides at (be Beaufort Bar
high low
Friday, April 19
5:55 a.m.
12:20 p.m. 0:08 p.m.
.Saturday. April 20
12:32 a.m. 6:52 a.m.
1:11 p.m. 7 :(W p.m.
.Sunday, April 21
1:22 a. in. 7:50 a.m.
2:03 p.m. 8:18 p.m.
Moaday, April 22
213 a.m. 8:57 a m.
2:56 p.m. 9:22 p.m.
Tue?day, April 23
3:07 a.m. 9:4u a m.
a:?l p.m. 10:10 p.m.
? rnc sneak thiol who pulled a|
$3,000 robbery in Newport Monday
night is still at large. Newport
poliee and the sheriff's department
arc looking for clues in the well
timed strike.
The thief entered the Henry Wil
liams store at 8:40 p.m. while Mr.
Williams, who is 77. was closing
; the postoffiec across the street.
I The thief opened the cash register
and took a billfold (sec picture)
containing 17 or 18 $1(H) bills, about
$1,100 in $20 bills and about $50
m smaller bills. Three $25 savings
<>onds were also in Ihe billfaW
'Local Job'
Mr. Williams says that he is sure
that it was a local job. "I go
across the street to close the post
office (he owns the building) at
the same time every night," he
said. "Someone was watching for
me to leave and camc in the side '
door just after 1 went out the front
door. He knew just where to look. !
bcacusc I was gone for only a
short time, about five minutes."
On this particular night a light i
cord had been flipped over the I
light fixture in the postoffice lobby. I
Mr. Williams had to come back to
the store to get a stick to knock
the cord down so he could reach
it to turn off the light.
He is sure that the money was
taken during his first trip to the
postofficc. "Whoever took the
money did not know that 1 would
make two trips," he says.
Calls Police
Mr. Williams called Newport Po
lice Chief Dan Bell "as quick as
I could get to the phone." The
nearest telephone is in Mr. Wil
liams' house next door to the store.
Chief Bell called the sheriff's dc
p a r t m c n t immediately. When
i Sheriff Hugh Salter got the call
! he was in his car a few miles |
from Newport. 11c was at the scene
; within 10 minutes after the rob
bery.
A large crowd had gathered
around the store "looking for
clues" as one of them said. If the
thief had left any footprints or
marks near the side door, they
were obliterated by the crowd.
This left the law officers with
even less to work on.
Mr. Williams did not have any
theft insurance. His only hope is
th.it the officers will catch the
Ihief before he has time to spend
all of the money.
Mr. Williams says that he has
always trusted people and has al
ways kept large amounts of money
In his cash register. "I have never
had any trouble and I guess I must
have thought everybody was hon
est," he says. Mr Williams has J
operated the store for the past 20
years.
Man Charged with Attack
On Girl Held without Bond
Woodrow Wilson, 38, Beaufort, was ordered held with-*
out bond yesterday to await superior court trial. Lambert
Morris, judge of county recorder's court, said that Wilson
was a menace to society and he could not set bond for him.
Wilson was charged with assault on a 1 2-year-old girl in
Beaufort April 5.
Judge Morris said he look Wilson's record into eon
Mayor, 0. G. Bell
Attend Harbors
Meeting, Raleigh
Mayor George W Dill. More
head City, and Hep. 1). CI. Bell. !
Carteret County, attended the ;
meeting of the state Rivers and '
Harbors delegation Tuesday night 1
at the Sir Walter Hotel. Governor
Hodges met with the North Caro
lina delegation to map plans for;
the National Rivers and Harbors!
Congress in Washington May Hi 18
Frank W. Reams, Warrcuton,
will serve as ehairman of the
North Carolina delegation this
year. Col. B. C. Snow, division of
water resources. Department of
Conservation a n d Development,
acts as secretary.
Mayor Dill said that the dele
gation has classified as "meri
torious" the dredging of Beaufort
harbor, and the Beaufort Inlet
Morehead City project for the
deepening and widening of the
channel to the state port.
The mayor said that it is hoped
that this project can Ik* moved up
a notch in priority at the Wash
ington meeting.
The deepening of Ocracoke In
let was discussed at length. Be
cause this project is vitally im
portant from a safety as well as
economic standpoint, the delega
tion hopes to move this project a
step higher in status at Washing
ton too.
Members of the state Rivers
and Harbors delegation, in addition
( ) tfiyir Dill and Mr. Bell, are
RA. White, Wilmington; Sen. D.
J. Rose, Cioldsboro; Sen. Adam
Whitley, Smithficld; W. P. Saun
ders, Raleigh.
Garland F. Fulcher, Oriental;
Harry White, Winston-Salem; Rep.
James Bowman, Southport; John
K. Justice, North Wilkesboro; Al
vah Ward Jr., Manteo; Oscar
Breece, Fayettevillc; and Eric
Rodgers, Scotland Neck.
All were present except Mr.
Ward. Mr. White and Mr. Rodgers.
Red Cross Drive
Extended 10 Days
The Red Cross drive has been
extended for 10 days, Mrs. W. J.
Ipock. Beaufort, chairman of the
drive, announced yesterday.
Banked to date is $1,400. Solici
tors have been making calls
throughout the county. Persons
who contribute receive a mem
bership card and lapel pin.
Names of six more solicitors
were released yesterday. They are
Mrs. Jerry Barton. Harkcrs Is
land; Mrs. David Kirk, Newport;
Mrs. W. J. Dail, North River; Mrs.
Pat Smith, Marshallhcrg; Mrs. W.
1. l-oftin, Highland Park, and Joe
Zajac, Atlantic Bcach.
Persons who have not been con
tacted may send their checks to
Mrs. Ipock, Beaufort, N. C.
44,974 Pounds Shrimp
Landed in November
Shrimp landed in North Carolina
in November totaled 44,974 pounds,
acocrding to the recent report
from the branch of commercial
fisheries, Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice.
The catch, broken down, was
in. 821 ixMinds of brown Mhrimp.
24.440 |>otinds of pink shrimp, and
9,713 pounds of white shrimp. Val
tie of the November catch was
$14,436.
? sidcrnlion lieforc making his de
cision. Wilson has served It years
<m a similar charge. Beaufort
Chief of Police Guy Springle said
,Mi? several iieople had complain
ed of Wilson prior to the Apnl 5
incident.
?;irl Testifies
The liltlc girl and her m0*her
were the Male s witnesses in the
ease Tile < Siltl I old the judge that
she a d a friend had been playing
on the sidewalk in front of her
house on Broad Street, Beaufort,
when Wilson came up on a bicycle
ller friend went home and she
went into the house only to be fol
lowed by Wilson. She said that
Wilson caught her by a bed and
threatened her with a knife while
he tried to pull up her skirt with
I his free hand
Child Escapes
! She escaped and ran out of the
house screaming Her mother, who
; had gone to the store for some
fish came home just in tune to
see her daughter run from the
| house. She testified that Wilson
I left the house after her daughter
I had come out. .
Both the mother and the child
I positively identified Wilson, who
was represented by Altorney
I Claud Wheatly Mr. Wholly asked
I the clerk of court. A If. James, to
write the state hospital for 'for
mation on Wilsons record. I
said that Wilson was a ease for a
mental institution rather than
prison.
Police Check
Break-In, Theit
Beaufort police investigated a
break-in and a theft this week.
The Queen Street School was en
tered Tuesday night and the ciga
rette machine in front of Potter *
Sinclair Service Station was stolen
Monday night.
Nothing was missing at the
school but an estimated $24 in cash
and eight cartons of cigarettes
were in the cigarette niachine ac
cording to Chief of 1 dlicc Guy
'Vhc^ jjiass was broken on the
front door of the school, the door
opened and the principal s office
entered. Chief Springle said that
a screen was also cut in the home
economics room and a
entered. Both entries yielded the
burglars nothing^ Fingerprints
have been obtained, however.
Theft of the cigarette machine
was placed sometime between 9
p ,n. Monday and 4 a.m. Tuesday.
The chief later found the machine
in the lake dredged out by Harvey
Smith between Front Street and
the Lcnnoxville Road.
The machine was smashed. Tnt
change box was on the shore and
the machine in the water.
Alton, Bobby Waddell
Fight Return to This State
Alton and Bobby Waddell, Nor
folk, are fighting extradition. They
are wanted in this state for trial
on breaking and entering charges,
Sheriff Hugh Salter said yester
day.
The sheriff attended a hearing
in Norfolk Monday and returned
again Tuesday with witnesses to
prove the necessity of bringing the
two to Carteret for trial.
The sheriff said the judge is
considering the testimony offered
and will make his decision Mon
day.
S<- outers to Meet
The district Boy Scout commit
tee will meet at 7:30 tonight at the
civic center, Morchcad City. The
meeting has been set up a week
because of the camporce at Kin
dlon next weekend.
NCEA Observes 100th Anniversary
With Program at Morehead City
The Carteret County unit of the
North Carolina Kducat ion Associa
tion saw ;i hundred yearn of coun
ty education in review Tuesday
night. The teachers inet at the
Morehead City School.
The program, Our Centennial, A
Forward and Hackward lx>ok, fol
lowed dinner and (he business ses
sion. Ralph T. Wade, president of
the county NCEA, presided.
The program included a brief
history of public education at At
lantic, the first community in the
county to crtabliab an adequate 1
school ny stc m prior to 1884. The
history was compiled by Miss Fan
nie Robinson and Mm. Lois Smith,
and presented by ftlrs. Wayne Par
ker, all of whom arc faculty mem
ber* at Atlantic.
K. W. Davis, principal of Camp
Glenn School, presented the F. C.
Salisbury history on the home of
the N. C. Teachers Assembly,
More head City.
Tribute wss paid to the follow
ing teachers who have died: Man
ley Fulcher and Rudolph Kor
ncgy, Camp Glenn; Miss Ola Long,
Mr*. IlHttic Kdwards. Minn Pearl
llrinNon, Mrs. Addie II. Jones, Gil
bert Arthur. Morchcad City.
Mtn. Prudy Mason Willin and
Mra. Mamie Salter l<ewis, Markers
Island; Melvin Kohinson and Mrs.
Lillian II. Nelson. Smyrna; Mr*.
Pearl Olund, Miss Gladys Willis
and Everett Stevens. Beaufort.
The following retired teachcrs
were honored: Miss Bettie Harker,
Morehead City, and Mrs. W. B.
Murrill, Arlington, Va., both of
Sec NCEA, Page S
General Accepts Invitation
Brig. Gen. E. A. Montgomery,
above, commanding general. Ma
rine Corps Air Station, Cherry
Point, will crown the king and
queen at the Spring Festival,
Beaufort School, next Friday
night at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Wiley Lewis of the Par
ent-Teacher Association which is
sponsoring the festival, said the
general graciously accepted the
PTA's invitation to play the ma
jor role at the coronation.
General Montgomery has vis
ited this county frequently and
has played golf here.
He is former chief of staff of
the First Marine Aircraft Wing
in Korea and a veteran of World
War II action in the South Pa
cific.
A 1930 graduate of the" U. S.
Naval Academy and a Marine
aviator since 1933, General Mont
gomery holds numerous decora
tions for his wartime service.
A native of Augusta, Oa.. he is
married to the former Margaret
M. O'Connor of Augusta. They
have two daughters, Mrs. Mar
garet M. Gibson, and Blair of
Washington. I). C? and a son,
Edward, who is in college.
Harkers Island Men Plead
For Ponies on Outer Banks
Five darken Island residents, 4
owners of ponies on Shackleford
banks, appeared before Ihe House
conservation and development
committee yesterday morning at
Raleigh.
They made a plea for allowing
the ponies to remain on the banks.
Dan W. Ycomaus, 79 years of age,
was the spokesman. With him were
Willie B. Guthrie, Leslie Guthrie,
Clarence Willis and Cecil Moore.
Mr. Yeomans said that he has
owned ponies for 60 years? stock
passed on to him by his forefath
ers. He told the committee, "You
know, we have pennings every
summer and sell lemonade and
our friends from upstate come to
sec us. We have a good time ..."
He said that the ponies on the
banks were not destroying the
vegetation. lie declared that if the
ponies were allowed to remain on
the banks the next two years and
they were found to be doing dam
age, he woyld shoot his ponies
himself.
The committee did not vote on
the bill requiring all livestock to
be taken off the banks. They will
vote next week, acocrding to Hep.
I). G. Bell. Mr. Bell is a member
of the C&D committee.
It was at Mr. Bell's request that
the bill be sent back to committee
to allow the pony owners to be
heard. He said it has not been
definitely proved that the ponies
do the damage. Sheep, goats and
cows do, he continued.
"But protection o i the outer
banks comes first," Mr. Bell de
clared. "If ponies are eating the
vegetation that protects the dunes,
I'll have to support any legisla
tion to remove them. But up until
now it has not been proved to my
satisfaction that ponies are doing
the damage."
Removal of livestock is being
hacked by the hurricane rehabilita
tion committee.
Courtney Willis Improves
Courtney Willis. Morchcad City,
who received a broken neck in a
fight March 29 in Beaufort, is im
proving at the veterans' hospital,
Durham. He has regained his
speech and an operation to remove
a blood clot at the back of hi*
neck is expected to correct a con
dition of body paralysis.
Cabbage Starts
Move to Market
Carteret County cabbage has
started moving to market in small
lots. The current dry spell has de
layed the harvest slightly. Farm
ers who have irrigation and sprink
ling systems have been using them
the past week.
K. W. Wright, east of Beaufort,
started cutting cabbage about two
weeks ago. Other producers have
been marketing it on a small
scale.
The cabbage looks good. H. M.
Williams said a 50-pound box may
average between 21 and 22 heads.
Last year, he said, some of the
heads were so large they were
unsalable.
The Ball brothers and Mr.
Wright are irrigating their fields
by the ditch method. Mr. Williams
said. Overhead sprinklers are be
ing used by John Oglesby, Crab
Point; Roy Keller, Roy Salter,
Hugh Pake, and Doll Lewis, Bet
tie, and Mr. Johnson, Newport.
Irish Potato Growers
Will Meet Tuesday Night
Irish potato growers of the coun
ty will attend a meeting at 7:30
Tuesday night at the courthousc,
Beaufort.
Speakers will be Hugh Martin,
secretary of the North Carolina
Potato Association, and llenry
Covington, horticulture specialist.
Mr. Martin will speak on proper
handling, grading, packing and
marketing. Mr. Covington will
speak on culture and harvesting.
The meeting ha.s been scheduled
by Raymond Ball, the |>otato as
sociation's representative in this
county.
I ah* Licenses
Mona Smith Yates, Morehead
City, has had her driver's license
revoked for one year. She was con
victed of driving drunk. Lewis
Collins, Beaufort, had his license
suspended for speeding over 55
and careless and rccklcsi driving*