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PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of tka TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 46th YEAR, NO. 46. TWO SECTIONS SLXT&KN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAT, JUNE 7. 1967 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS D h ? >4 r r> a ? a ? ^ rnailti a rl l iWlC?SJ?S ViOWllwO Moses Howard, chairman of the county commissioners, crowned the dairy princesses at the June dairy breakfast Wednesday morning. Here he crowns junior princess Gloria Parker of Atlantic. Senior princess is Nancy Broda of Beaufort. The breakfast was at the Hotel Fort Macon dining room. Look at Him Go! Photos by Bob- Seymour Morehead City Mayor George Dill, left, and Beaufort Mayor C. T. Lewis concede defeat to Newport mayor pro-trm Wilbur Garner hi the cow milking contest. The contest was conducted after the dairy breakfast. Newport Mayor Leon Mann was unable to attend, but he picked a sure winner for a sub stitute. Mayor Dill claimed the cow was from Newport and that there was a conspiracy afoot. But the cow really came from Rufus Oglesby's farm at Crab Point Beaufort Board Considers Building New Town Hall Three Marines Hurt in Wreck Three men were injured nt 8:25 p.m. Saturday when the car in which they were riding upeet on Highway 24 four miles east of Swansboro. The driver, Pvt. Ar thur P. Belasky, 18, of Camp Le Jcunc, escaped without a scratch. The injured were Robert J. Ptakc, Paul J. McCarthy and Joe Dussait, all of Camp Lcjetmc. Ptake had severe cuts over the body, McCarthy had a broken col larbone and Dussait suffered a concussion. State Highway Patrolman R. H. Brown said that Belasky was driv ing a 1956 Chevrolet east at a high rate of speed. Belasky told the offiecr that a car at the aide of the road barked off the shoulder and into the highway In. front of him. The Chevrolet went off the right shoulder of the road and turned over several times. The top of the car was ripped off and one of the wheels was torn off and never a lug moved. Patrolman Brown said be never saw anything like it. The ear was loaded with china and silverware and that was strewn all over the plaee. Charges against Belasky are pending. The injured were taken to Camp Le jeunt hospital by an ambulance from Jacksonville. Spraflag in Full Swing The town of Newport started its moaguito spraying program HP" day. May (, and will continue throughout the summer. ' Town engineer Gray Hasscll bas been authorized to draw rough sketches ot a proposed town hall for Beaufort. Mr. Hasscll was ask ed to make the drawings at the town board meeting Monday night. He agreed to present the sketches at a special meeting of the board June 17. Town clerk Dan Walker reported that repairs to the present town hall would cost about $11,000. "That is more than the building would be worth," he commented. "We have to buy some new doors for the fire station. The doors arc an odd size and have to be special made. Right there is $600." Worse Each Month The old building is settling rapid ly. Doors have been re-hung three times in the past year and it is nearly impossible to close the door on the cast side of the clerk's of fice now. "Civic pride, if nothing else, should move public sentiment to ward the construction of a new building," Mr. Walker commented. "High state officials often visit Beaufort and it is embarrassing to show them the town hall." "Actually, the town would save money .in the long run by build ing a new town hall. Fuel bills, repair bills and inefficient office operation cost the town lota of money that would be saved in a new building," Mr. Walker re ported. Under present state regulations the town can borrow as much as two-thirds of the amount of bonds retired during the previous year. Since Beaufort retired $16,500 dur ing the 1955-56 fiscal year they can borrow up to $11,000 on this year's budget (the fiscal your ends June 30). During the current year, 1956-57, Beaufort has retired some $27,090 worth of bonds, giving tbcm the right to borrow *18,000 more any time between July 1 and June 30, 1958. $29,000 Available Mr. Walker pointed out that the $29,000 would be available within 30 days if the commissioners act now. Should they wait past the end of the month, $11,000 would be lost so far as the town's ability to borrow it is concerned, he point ed out. Mr. Hassel! said that $29,000 would not build the type of build ing that the town wants. "It would get one started, though," he said, "and once something like that gets started, it is always finished." Since a definite site for the build ing has not been selected, plans for the structure will be flexible. The fire station has to be 90 feet long to meet insurance require ments. There arc six vehicles in the department, and each one is supposed to be allowed IS running feet. The trucks in the fire station now arc "stacked" two-deep. This would not be permitted in a new building. When asked if this meant raising the town taxes, Mr. Walker said it would definitely not. make the tax rates go up. "It would actually save us money," he said. Tide Table TMfi at tkr Beaufort Bar (Eaatcrn Standard Time) HIGH LOW 3:38 a.m. 10:07 a.m 4:18 p.m. 10:41 p.m Saturday, June 8 4:42 a.m. 10:50 a.m 5:18 p.m. 11:42 p.m Sunday, June t 5:42 a.m. 11:49 a.m 8:10 p.m. Monday, June 10 8:38 a.m. 12:34 a.m ?:5d p.m. 12:30 p.m. Laborers Await Trial in Court Here Next Week Man Cited with Burglary, Holding Gun on Victims While Taking Money Two Negro laborers, Richard Doles Jr., Milliard, Fla., and Charles Earl Cartnena, Brunswick, Ga., are in the county jail awaiting trial in superior court next week. Each has been charged with breaking and entering, assaulting and rubbing W. C. Thomas and Amos West last Wednesday night. May 29 Bond on each has been set at $1,000. Thomas, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said that the two men broke into the place where he and West were sleeping, threatened them with a gun and took $20 from Thomas and $42 from West. Both Thomas and West are white men working here during the harvest season. Doles and Carmcna are harvesters also. Probable cause in Doles and Car mcna's case was found by Judge Lambert Morris in eounty re corder's court last Thursday. The court fared a terrific backlog of cases due to there being no court on the previous Thursday, May 23. IS Forfeit Bond Fifteen defendants forfeited bond, 49 cases were continued, the state decided not to prosecute five cases, and two cases were dls missed. * There was court yesterday but there will be no eounty court for two weeks because of the two terms of superior court, the first of which opens Monday. Those who forfeited bond May 30 and the charges against them are the following: Luke T. Dudley, no operator's license; Bennic II. Uptc grove, cxcocding weight limit on road; William (Lawyer) Hardesly, assault. Willie Stewart, public drunken ness; Pcarlie Mae Duff, speeding; See COl'ItT, Page 2 hi Auto Wreck Mrs. Gertie Gillikin, Beaufort, was treated in the emergency room of the Morehcad City Hospital Wednesday, night after being in jured in an automobile accident. She was cut over the left eye when the ear she was in, a '55 Oldsmo bile, ran into another ear stopped for the traffic light at Seventh and Arcndcll Streets. Mrs. Violet Ray Gillikin, Beau fort, was driving the 1955 Oldsmo bile. It hit the rear of a 1957 Chevrolet driven by James W. Eng lish of Sandersvillc, Ga. Lt. Joe Smith, Morehcad City Police Department, investigated. He estimated damage to the Olds mobile at $105; to the Chevrolet, $300. There were no charges. 1A. Carl Blomberg investigated an accident in the 800 block of Arcndcll Street Monday afternoon. Mrs. Betty Sledge, Morehead City, was driving west on Arcndcll when Mayland Gray Gillikin, Marshall berg, backed out of a parking place and hit the side of her car. Damage was estimated at $00 to Mrs. Sledge's car and $25 to Gilli kin's car. Board Leases School Building The County Board of Education, in session Monday afternoon at the courthouse annex, Beaufort, voted to lease the Salter Path school to the Salter Path Methodist Church. Lease arrangements are to be worked out. The Salter Path School has been closed and all Salter Path children will now attend school in the More head City School distrig. The board accepted recommen dations by II. L. Joslyn, county school superintendent, on care of school supplies and grounds. R. W. Ssfrit Jr., chairman, pre sided. All members of the board. D. Mason, Atlantic; Theodore Smith, Davis; W. B. Allen, New port, and George R. Wallace, Morchead City, were present. 165 Enroll in Motor School, Camp Glonn One hundred sixty-five men en rolled this week in the annual elec tric meter school conducted her* each summer by the extension di vision.ef North Carolina State Cot-, Itge. E. W. Ruggles, director, is in charge of the school, which is in session at Camp Glenn School. The session opened Tuesday morning and will close at noon today. Stu dents and faculty members attend-< ed a dinner last night at the Blue University Releases Economic Report on State Fisheries -A 1 ik? VA to Make Back Payments, Reinstates George Bridgers George Bridgrrs, 32. Beaufort, may be thankful soon that he was dismissed as temporary mail car rier at ^he Beaufort postofficc. As a result of the publicity given the incident, the Veterans Administra tion has reviewed his suspended disability allotment. The allotment was discontinued in April 1952, when he refused to leave Beaufort for medical exam inations. Back payments due Mr. Bridgers. according to his figures, come to $3,075.75. Mr. Bridgers refused to leave Beaufort to testify in the trial of a fellow postal employee in New Bern and was dismissed as a re sult. He has been unable to leave Beaufort because of a phobia he has had since the fall of 1950. Con gressman Graham Harden took an interest in Mr. Bridgers and was instrumental in getting his VA al lotment renewed. The congressman wrote a four page letter to 11. B. Dean, regional direetor of the postofficc depart ment in Atlanta. In the letter he said that the firing of Mr. Bridgers was certainly not just and in his opinion not even decent. Mr. Bridgers says that perhaps Congressman Harden s letter will help get him reinstated as a mail carrier. If he gets his job back, he will be paid for all the time he has missed, according to the con gressman. While waiting for word on his job, Mr. Bridgers has been working in the daily vacation Bible school at the First Baptist Church, Beau fort. Mr. imagers paouu, ne oc licves, goes back to Jan. 9, 1943, ? .when he was. torpedoed < eoast of Dutch Guiana. I the men on the ship, a merchant vessel, managed to get into life hoats. When the ship went under, the suetion pulled some of the life boats under with it. When the boat Mr. Rridgcrs was on went under, 12 men were swept off it and never seen again. The survivors were picked up after 14 hours by a patrol cutter and taken to Dutch Guiana where they spent 20 days. After returning to the United States and taking a leave, he was sent on another merchant vessel to Africa. Mr. Bridgcrs was in the Navy but worked as a member of gun crews aboard armed mer chantmen. When he came back from Africa he was hospitalized in St. Alban's Hospital, New York, for three months, lie was discharged from the hospital in March 1954, with a disability allotment due him. Until the fall of 1950, he was able to travel as he pleased. On a trip to Core Creek he became panicked and had to turn back to his home in Beaufort. He went to New Bern the next Easter to be bap tized, and that was the last time he was able to leave the county. Mr. Bridgcrs says that when he realized what was happening to him he tried to fight it. "I used to drive toward Newport every day until I lost my breath and panick ed. Then I would stop and sit still a while and try to go a little farther. Late In the spring of 1951 I got as far as Newport, but 1 never got sny farther. "When my physical examination for my VA allotment was due in Winston-Salem I wrote and told the VA that I couldn't leave Beaufort. They told me to try to make it to Wilmington, but 1 couldn't go that far. When I didn't show up, they cut off nyr allotment." Now that Mr. Bridgcrs has his allotment restored and seems to be on the way to getting his Job back, the whole episode may be a finan cial windfall for him. t-nuiu u> mil) avymour George Hridsers has been Informed lha( his veteran's disability payments have been reinstated. The payments are retroactive as of April, 1952. lie says the first cheek should be for >1,1)75.75. Here he holds a letter from Congressman Graham Harden, who went to bat for him. Commissioner Emphasizes Importance of Drum Inlet f! llnll.n/l How to Give Your Dado Big Thrill Is your Dad a princr of a guy? Then why not give him the sur prise of his life this month and submit his name as Father of the-Ycar? If he wins, he will re ceive a deluge of Father's Day gifts from leading Morchcad City businessmen. Full details on the contest and an entry blank appear on page 8 section 2 of today's paper. The deadline for putting your dad in the running for Father-of-thc Year is 10 a.m. Wednesday! A. T.Willis Jr. Installs Officers A. T. Willis Jr., New Bern, in stalled Down East Lions Club of ficers at the installation meeting Friday night at the Sea Level Inn. Mr. Willis is first vice-president of the New Bern Lions Club. New officers arc Aldridgc Dan iels, president; Wayne Parker, first vice-president; Worden Gilli kin, second vice-president; Charles E. Morris, third vice-president; Joe Mason, secretary-treasurer; tail twister, Allen Jones, Lion tamer, Ed Wiilard, and Burnis Morris and Elbert Plttman, direc tors. Guest Lions from New Bern, be sides Mr. Willis, were Guy L. Hamilton, president of the New Bern club; Ed Berry UI and Jack Hooks. The Lions will attend their reg ular meeting at the Sea level Inn at 7 Monday night. fisheries commissioner, yesterday termed the Drum Inlet hearing, scheduled for Monday, as the most important ever to be held on the North Carclina coast. "Drum Inlet is at the ecnter of the largest shrimping and fishing area on the coast. Many millions of pounds of fish and shrimp are NOT caught because of the hazards to boats which have to go around Cape Lookout Shoals or to Ocra cokc Inlet to get to the shore land ing points," Commissioner Holland said. The state commercial fisheries division and all members of the Department of Conservation and Development arc greatly interest ed in seeing Drum Inlet opened, the official continued. "Monday is a bad time for fish ermen to get to a hearing, but 1 hope they all make a special ef fort to do so in this ease/' the commissioner remarked. William Saunders, director of the Department of Conservation and Development, will attend. Court Decision Expected Today The Supreme Court decision on the Newport water syatem law auit is expected to be handed down to day at Raleigh. If the juaticca have not as yet acted on the caac. the decision may not be handed down until the latter part of the month. According to the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court, the court has no regular time at pres ent for handing down decisions, but sets dates, periodically, when the decisions will be made public. After today, the next date for giving such decisions may not be until the end of June. The law suit, filed by Jeff J. Gamer and others, against town officials of Newport seeks to block the borrowing of money to install a town-wide water system. Pack Houm, Shod Burn On John Wootan Place John C. Woolen's pack house and shed on the Roberts Road near Newport burned at 3:03 a.m. last Friday. Newport firemen put the blate out, but the Ipsa was estimated at $3,500. Mr. Woolen has $2,000 in surance on the property. A neigh bor rode into Newport to give the alarm when the fire was dis covered. It is not known how the blate originated. The Gloucester Community Club will meet at S p.m. Tuesday with Mr. sod Mrs. Henry Chadwick. uuitu.icu .vcaicruHj' uy uic University of North Carolina was the study. An Economic Analysis of the Commercial Fisheries of North Carolina. The study, by George M. Wood ward of the Bureau of Business Services and Research, was fi nanced through special legislative appropriation and has been in pro cess of preparation for the past four years. The study presents a comprehen sive analysis of the amounts of fish caught on this coast, prices they have brought in past years, de grees of acceptance of the North Carolina product on the market, and processing of seafood, both at present and the potential. More Money Possible? Dr. Rex S. Winslow, director of the Bureau of Business Services and Research, in the foreword to the study, stated that the study sought the answer to this question: "Can North Carolinians do any thing to make more money out of fishing?" The answer to that question is not a cut and dried "Yes" or "No." The study says that there is a possibility of upping fishing in come in certain phases, comment ing that the biggest possibility for growth and development is in shell fish ? shrimp, oysters and crabs. As pointed out ,in the foreword, some of the facts uncovered in the study may run counter to general belief and certain predictions as to the potential of the North Carolina fishing industry, but the study is a factual analysis and should be accepted as such. Appraisal Necessary Asked his opinion of the study Wednesday, Dr. Winslow said, "Unless i* gets a lot of attention and appraisal, it will do no good at all.* Copies of the study are being sent to every fisherman owning an 18-foot boat or larger, to all shore dealers, and to editors of all daily and weekly newspapers in the doastal counties. Further analyses of the report will appear in THE NEWS TIMES. US Navy Boat Runs Aground A 26 foot Navy "whale" boat ran aahore at Shacklcford Point Wed nesday afternoon and was still high and dry when THE NEWS-TIMES went to press yesterday afternoon. The boat is a utility craft used to carry men to and from ships an chored offshore. Crews from the mother ship, USS Campass Island, and Port Ma con Coast Guard station wcro working to get the boat in posi tion to float her at high tide. Sunday night Port Macon got a call from Congressman Graham Bardcn who was boating near Harkers Island. He said that a boat was aground near the island and had been abandoned. A boat from the Cape lookout station towed the boat to Harkers Island. It has been identified as belonging to D. 11. Oats of New Bern. .Tuesday afternoon a utility boat from the Coast Guard station met an Esso tanker, the Gettysburg, and removod Calvin Kentfield, 32, who had injured his knee. He was taken to Morehcad City Hospital for treatment. Beaufort to Get New Police Car The Beaufort town commission era have voted to advertiae for a new police patrol car. In aeaaion at the town hall Monday night, they learned that the old (1955 model) patrol car waa in need of a complete overhaul. Police Chief Guy Springle and town clerk Dan Walker suggested I that the town buy an eight cylinder car with an automatic tranumis aion. Reports from other towns, they said, indicated that patrol cars with automatic tranamisaions had fewer upkeep problcma. partic ularly in the tranamtaaion ays Items. ? Chief Springle alao aaid that the department needed a four-door car. Putting drunks or reluctant prisoners iato the back seat of a two-door car it a big Job, the chief commented. Police commissioner Math Chap lain made the motion that the town advertise for bids on a new car. The motion was passed unanimous Ijy. Commissioner Chaplain gave the foilowiag police report for May: arrests: Chief Springle, ?. Assist ant Chief Carlton Gamar. I. om eer Ottts Willis. S. and Offloer Maxwell Wade. t. Traffic viola tions, 1, motor violations. Ml. Prisoners Enjoy Moonshine Until Jailer Gets Wise Mark Washington, Beaufort, frequent violator of whisky laws, felt sorry Monday for the boys locked in the county jail. So he took them some moonshine. The prisoners ripped up a sheet, used it for a rope and pulled the whis ky up into the jail through the bark windows. The money was thrown out on the ground before Mark made the delivery. Jailer Bruce Edwards discov ered that his charges were drink ing so he and Carlton Garner, IMofort's assistant chief of po lite, set up a watch and discover ed what was goia( Ia*Ma the jail (hey found five plnU of moonshine In short order, Washington was inside the Jail too, docketed on ehsrges of possessing non tax paid whisky for purpose of sale. When Sheriff Hugh Sailer was asked if he charged the recipi ents of the whisky with any vio lation he replied, "1 couldn't lock them, up any more than than thay were!" In county court yesterday Mark was fined ISO and costs, given a year's suspended sen tence and told to behave himself lor three years.
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