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PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of tho TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES >? 46th YEAR, NO. 60. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. JUNE 21, 1967 PUBLI8HED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Methodists Open New Building Photo by Bob Seymour The N. F. Eure educational building is being opened this week for open house and worship services. The building will be open tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. The symbols in the windows have drawn much comment, so the Rev. J. D. Young, pastor of Ann Street Meth odist Church, has explained them. The fish symbolizes the first Christian meetings. The lamp represents "a lamp unto my feet and a light on my path." The two letters, alpha and omega, are the first and last in the Greek alphabet. They represent God, the Be ginning and the End. The building is on Ann Street across from the church. Beaufort C of C Proposes Sales Promotion Plan The merchants committee of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce has proposed a year-round sales promotion program. The program was drawn up at a special meeting of the committee in the chamber office Friday afternoon. The program, if adopted, will feature a summer clearance sale during the third week of July; sum mer dollar days the first three days in the third week of August; Christmas sales Dec. 1-25; Christ mas clearance sales during the third week of January; and spring dollar days March 21-23. Glenn Adair, president of the chamber, and Odcll Merrill,1 Charles Stamper and Tobc Claw son, members of the merchants committee, drew up plans for the program. They instructed chamber secre tary Mrs. Pat Russell to send bal lots to all members of the cham ber. Each member will have the opportunity to express his opinion of each phase of the program. The committee made plans for cooperative advertising to run well in advance of each of the indi vidual sales days. Each merchant has been requested to feature some items during each of the sale days. The merchants were also asked what they thought of closing at 7 p.m. on Fridays and closing at the regular week-day hours on Sat urday. Newport Rotarians Hear President-Elect Monday President-elect C. II. "Dick" Lockcy was program chairman at the Newport Rotary Club meeting Monday night. The Rotarians met at the PTA Center, Newport. Mr. Lockey told the club members his objectives for the year and as signed jobs for various commit tees. W. C. Carlton and the Rev. E. Guthrie Brown were visiting Ro tarians from Morehcad City. Les lie Bcrcrgeay of Newport was the guest of Rotarian Dcrryl Garner. State Fisheries Committee i To Meet in Morehead City Mercury Hits 92 Second Time Monday's temperature matched Sunday's record as it climbed to a blazing 92 degrees in the shade, according to weather observer E. Stamey Davis. The temperature was still a hot 81 at 5 p.m. The coolest part of the day was early in the morning when the mercury dropped to a 74. Temperatures remained g h during the first three days of the week. Tuesday's maximum was 87. Wednesday's high was only one degree cooler. Skies have ranged from clear to overcast. Showers fell yesterday morning in parts of the county. Maximum and minimum tem peratures and wind direction for the week follow: M*x. Min. Wind Monday 92 74 SSE Tuesday 87 73 SW Wednesday 86 72 SW President Sends Birthday Message To Morehead City Dwight D. Eisenhower, Presi dent of the United States, has sent a birthday greeting to Morehead City and its citizens. He wired the message to Charles Markcy, general chairman of the Centen nial committee. It follows: "To the citizens of Morehead City joined in the celebration of their 100th anniversary I send greetings. During the past 100 years there have been many out ward changes in your community, but the basic strength of Morehead City remains the same. "This is the neighborly and en terprising spirit of your people. Congratulations and best wishes. Dwight D. Eisenhower." ? Raleigh?'The commercial fisher-' | ics committee of the State Board of Conservation and Development will hold a special meeting in Morehcad City on Saturday morn ing, June 29, prior to the opening of the summer sessions of the board there July 1 and 2. The committee will consider any recommendations that may be made by the Commercial Fisher ies Advisory Board, whose chair man is A. W. Daniels of Charlotte, and by any other group interested in further development of the state's commercial fisheries. The commercial fisheries com mittee, whose chairman is Cecil Morris of Atlantic* will convene in the board room of the Division of Commercial Fisheries of the C&D Department at the Section Base at 10 a.m., June 29. The regular meeting of the com mercial fisheries committee will be held Monday afternoon. July 1, at 3:30 o'clock in the lobby of the Morchead Biltmore Hotel, where the Board of Conservation and De velopment will convene that morn ing at 9 a.m. for the first of its two-day sessions. Director William P. Saunders of the C&D Department said mem bers of the commercial fisheries advisory board arc expected to be present when the C&D board's commercial fisheries committee meets Monday afternoon, July 1 to consider any matters brought before it. Following the meeting of the ad visory board with the commercial fisheries committee on June 29. members of the board's special liaison committee will meet at the Section Base with a similar group from the Wildlife Resources Com mission regarding the lines of di vision between commercial and inland waters as they relate to fishing. Governor Luther 11. Hodges, chairman, will preside over ses sions of the C&D board at the Morchead Biltmore Hotel. The hotel is being remodeled by its new owners, the Taylor broth ers, formerly of Sea Level. Minister Says Get Ready Now For Next Year "Now is the time to begin mak ing preparations for next year's migrant labor ministry program," advises the Rev. Oree Broomfield. Mr. Broomfield is ministering to the migrants this year through the cooperation of the Carteret County Ministerial Association. Mr. Broomfield says that or ganizations should begin collecting funds to buy health and recreation items for the children and the workers themselves. "The most useful gifts arc things like bad minton and baseball equipment or soap and towels," he says. While results of migrant minis try programs arc seldom concrete due to the short periods of time involved, Mr. Broomfield says that he thinks the program has been a stabilizing influence on the workers. "There are fewer workers in jail over the weekends, some of them have begun attending local churches and at one camp I or ganized a group of singers," he noted. The song group was fea tured over a local radio station last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Floy Garner, county home agent, and Mrs. John Fussell, Morchcad City, have helped Mr. Broomfield on Sunday afternoons. Gilbert Petteway has operated the slide and movie projectors for the visual aids section of work. Mr. Broomfield did not say whe ther he would be back next year. "If I am not here, someone else will come," he promised. Newport Planning Commission Gets Bid for New Term All six members of the Newport planning commission have been asked to serve additional two year terms. Mayor Leon Mann Jr. announced yesterday. In asking the commission mem bers to continue In their present capacity, the mayor told them that the town depended on them to do "the heavy thinking." lie promised them the full support of the town officials. "While we ponder the more Im mediate minor problems we need some of our best citizens to eon ccnlrale on the long-range prob lems," the mayor said. Members of the commission arc Rev. Daniel Jolly, chairman, R. L. Pruilt, Mrs. Floy Garner, Rev. Ralph Fleming, Leslie Bcrccgeay and Dalton B. Rhue. Wad* Family Awarded Damages in Civil Court Damages amounting to 15,400 were awarded to Walter Wade. Martha Jane Wade ami Sharon D. Wade in civil court hearings at the courthouse In Beaufort this week. Dover P. Lawrence agreed to the "settlement. The Wades were injured in an automobile accident Nov. 15, 1955. The court held that Lawrence was responsible for the accident. Mr. Wade will gel WOO; Mrs. Wadn, moo; and Sharon Wade, *3.000. Survey of County Reveals Seven Maior Construction Projects in '56 Ocracoke Road Is in Service The Ocracoke Island highway is now in service. Chief Engineer W. H. Rogers Jr. of the State Highway Commission said that a three-mile stretch at the north end of the laland has been covered with steel landing mats used in airfield construction to a llatlcras Inlet ferry point. A 3-600-foot stretch at the south end of the island has been built through flats flooded at high tide and now runa from the village of Ocracoke to where the hardaur faced road formerly ended. Rogers said that efforts continue to obtain ferry service across Hat teras Inlet. An old state ferry, the Barcelona, was found to be unaca worthy and will be junked. It waa to have been operated by Frailer Peele of Ocracoke, who had leased it for a nominal sum from the state. Another ferry is being sought to replace iL ii Seven major construction pro jects amounting to an estimated one million dollars highlighted con struction in Carteret County last year, a survey by Carolines Branch, the Associated General Contractors of America, Inc., of Charlotte has revealed. The AGC survey docs not include residential building. The aeven major construction projects in Carteret County last year included two church projects, construction of two industrial and commercial buildings, a highway structures project, street improve ments in Morehead City and a fumigation chamber for the State Ports Authority in Morehead City. A contract totaling $S52,16? for construction of the Beaufort Chan nel Bridge and approaches on a relocation of US 70 was the larg est project undertaken in the coun ty last year, the AGC reported. McMeeking t'onatruction Company of Choraw. S. C., was awarded the contract for the alruclures. O. L. Shackelford, Inc. of Kin aton and W. C. Flowers of Beau fort were awarded contracts to taling |1M,MS for the construction of an education building for Ana Street Mcthodiat Church in Beau fort and construction of an addi tion to St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Morchead City. Last year, industrial and com mercial building included the con struction of a new Carteret County Health Center and a County Jail in Beaufort. Contracts totaling ap proximately $74,000 were awarded O. L. Shackelford for construction of the Health Center, and O. C. Lawrence of Beaufort for construc tion of the new jail. Contracts totaling approximately $120,000 were awarded S. T. Wool en Construction Company of Slan tonsburg for Mitchell Village street improvements and Davis and Sa fran of Raleigh for construction of a fumigation chamber for the Stale Ports Authority in Morehead City. These two projects at a cost of approximately $120,000 brought the total amount of major construction in Carteret County last year uver the million dollar mark. Two school projects have high lighted major construction for Car teret County so far this year. A contract totaling $29,$16 has been awarded O. C. Lawrence of Beau fqrt for the trhffgj construction. Beaufort Commissioners Take First Step Toward New Hall Dredging of Sea Level Basin to Begin in July Dredging operations will begin' on the Sea Level Harbor some time nest month, according to a report by Col. 11. C. Rowland Jr., district engineer, Wilmington. The colonel says that invitations (or bids have been issued by the Corps of Engineers. Bids are scheduled to be opened in Wilmington at 2:30 p.m. Tues day with the successful "udder re quired to begin work with.u 30 days after award of contract. The entrance channel will he seven feet deep and 75 feet wide and the basin of the same depth, 160 feet wide and 500 feet long. The yardage approximates 38,000 cubic yards. The contractor will be required to dredge a minimum of 1,000 cubic yards a day. Depending on weather and operating conditions, the job should be completed in about 40 days. Money for the project was allo cated in April. Congressman Gra ham A. Barden and Sen. Kerr Scott announced the availability of funds April 16. The harbor project has been under consideration for about 20 years but no money ever ap propriated prior to April. The $23,000 to be put up by the government will come from the savings made by the engineers this year on their allotment. The government also requires that the property owners at Sea Level contribute $1,000 in cash. Congressman Barden said that the project had been held up be cause no agreement could be reached on the local contribution. He said Sea Level property owners last year agreed to put up the money. Car Sideswipes Parked Auto on ArendeH Street Pvt. Franklin Brothcrton, Charry Point, was charged with careless and reckless driving at 12:10 a.m. yesterday after sideswiping a park ed car on Arcndell Street. The car belonged to Edith Tripp Manning, Morehead City. Brothcrton told Capt. C. E. Bunch of the Morehead City Police Department that a car had passed him and forced him to hit the parked car. lie was driving a 1957 Plymouth. The parked car was a 1951 Ford. Cheese Shipment To Leave State Port Wednesday Nearly three million pounds of cheese will move out of state port, Morchead City, Wednesday aboard the Rock Springs Victory. The cheese, classified as agricultural surplus, is being sent overseas as part of the CARE program, ac cording to port manager J. D. Holt. Walter Friedcrichs, assistant manager, says that the cargo has been consigned to Rijck, Yugosla via. Another shipment of dairy surplus, he said, is due to leave state port July 19. That shipment, aboard the City of Madras, will consist of 70 rail road car-loads of dried milk. Part of the milk will go to Karachi, Pakistan (on the Persian Gulf) with the remainder consigned to Chlttagong, Pakistan (on the Bay of Bengal). Mayor George Dill, Morchead City, and Lou Larkham, a solici tor for the State Ports Authority, consulted with Wilson Gilliam of the Department of Agriculture in Washington in connection with tlic dairy surplus shipments. More surplus dairy products arc expected to go through state port later in the summer. Other activities at the port in clude three tobacco movements and a Naval exercise. The USS Chilton and an LSD arc due at the port today. Their mission has not been disclosed to ports authorities. The Mischofstcin is due today to load 1,0(2 hogsheads of tobacco for Bremen and Hamburg, Germany. The ship will sail as soon as load ing is completed. The Gocttingcn is due Thursday to load tobacco, cotton piece goods and hickory timber. The cargo is consigned to Bremen and Ham burg. The Kindcrdyk is scheduled to arrive next Friday, Saturday or Sunday. She will load tobacco for Hamburg and Amsterdam. Tuttle Grove Whiskey Still Raided by Officers By BOB SEYMOUR An 800-gallon stave (till in the Tuttlc Grove section was dynamit ed by law officers Monday morn ing. Marshall Ayscuc, county ARC officer, and James R. Saunders, New Bern, a federal investigator of alcohol and tobacco tax, did the dirty work. John Johnson, custodian at the county courthouse, and I went along for the ride. Since it was my first experience with the para phcrnslia used by moonshiners, I had plenty of questions to ask. Here is what I found out: First of all they said they were very generous with us. Moat stills arc located so far off the road that officers usually have to walk for an hour or so before getting to it. This still was a bare hun dred yards from a passable road. Every Csavealeace The moonshiners had even laid a plank bridge across a marshy area. 1 still mansged to get mud on my pants but was too busy fighting off mosquitoes to notice. Someone had left some very ef fective insect repellent on the cooker, so we helped ourselves. Free of mosquitoes, officers Ays cue and Saunders went to work taking an inventory! They estimat ed the value of the still and other equipment at between three and Tide Table Ttdee at the Beaafert Bar (Eastern Standard Time) HIGH LOW Friday, Jane 21 2:09 a.m. 9:58 a.m. 2:59 p.m. 9:46 p.m. Satarday, Jane 22 3:01 a.m. 9:49 a.m. 3:51 p.m. 10:37 p.m. Saaday, Jaae 23 4:02 a.m. 10:34 a.m. 4:44 p.m. 11:25 p.m. Maaday, Jaae 24 5:05 a m. 11:21 a.m. 5:35 p.m. Taeaday, Jaae 29 9:09 a.m. 12:15 a.m. 8:34 p.m. 12.03 p.m. four hundred dollars. Most of the stills destroyed down here arc S5 gallon jobs made of barrels, they said. A self-styled mason had built a rough brick fireplace with two <0 gallon boilers built in above a pit full of water. "Artistry doesn't count for much out here in the woods," Mr. Ayscuc said. Two five-gallon "thumper kegs" were nailed to posts beside the boilers. Mr. Saunders explained that these were used to keep the boilers full of water. Leave Mash Behind Six 330-gallon fermenter (mash) boxes were situated conveniently at one side of the still. Each of the boxes was about half full of soured corn meal mash. Previous explorations by Isw officers had scared the operators swsy before they had time to run all the mash off. they supposed. Mr. Ayscue said that according to information given him the still hsd been in operation for about 90 days. Allowing time for the mash to ferment, hi said that the See STILLS, Page 2 Judge Hears ,Or?ly Six Cases Monday In Mofehead Court Only six eases were tried in Morehcad City recorder's court Mondsy morning. Marion II. Dick inson drew the stiffest fine, $10 and costs for careless and reckless driving. The state did not try Bernard A. Devine for driving without a li cense when be showed that he bad one. The other four defendants paid court costs. They were Edmund P. Hall and Genodus Perry King, speeding; and William Henry Adams snd Warren G. llester, pub lic drunkenness. Cases against David Henry Hor ton, Bernard Cooper Willis, Joseph B. Glbbs and George C. Williams Jr. Board Votes to Borrow $11,000 by End of June The Beaufort town commissioners took the first step toward a new town hall and fire station Monday night in a called meeting at the town hall. They voted to borrow $11,000 before the end of the month. That amount repre scnts two-thirds of the amount of bonds retired by the town during the 1955-56 fiscal year. The town will be able to borrow an additional $18,000 any time after the first of July.' That loan would be based on two thirds of the amount of bonds re tired during the current fiscal year that ends June 30. While the $11,000 will probably be used for the construction of a new town hall, it is not definitely ear marked for that purpose. Commis sioner William Roy Hamilton made a motion that the town "borrow $11,000 and place it in the bank on a certificate of deposit to draw in terest until such time as a decision for its use is reached." Passed Unanimously The motion was seconded by Commissioner Math Chaplain and passed unanimously. The commis sioners acted over the protest of Will Arrington who attended the meeting as a citizen. Mr. Arring ton said that if they did borrow any money it should be used to | pave some of the streets in town. "You can't make progress by go ing deeper in debt," he said. Town clerk Dan Walker pointed out that the town had retired $110,000 worth of bonds in the eight years he had been working for the town. I.ast Loan In 1*3* During that time the town has not borrowed a cent, Mr. Walker added. Records show that the town borrowed $7,300 in 1939 to have a fire truck rebuilt. That last loan was 18 years ago. The town is currently $360,000 in debt. The valuation placed on Beaufort is nearly 3.6 million dol lars. The town authorized the Army engineers to dredge the entire Beaufort basin to a depth of It feet. The basin extends 600 feet east of Marsh Street with the width varying. The commissioners voted to ac cept the low bid for a new police car. The bid was $1,374.41 plus a trade-in submitted by Paul Motor Company, Beaufort. Parker Mo tors and Sound Chevrolet Com pany, Morehead City, also sub mitted bids. The new car will be a Plymouth. Police Commissioner Chaplain made the motion that the board ac cept the low bid. It was seconded by Commissioner Otis Madcs and passed unanimously. Town engineer Gray HassCll, who brought preliminary sketches of the proposed town hall, also brought a bill from Coastal En gineering Company. The bill was for equipment rental. Tows Gets Cut Rate Mr. Hassell, who is president of the company, said that he charged the town for the equipment on a monthly rate but only charged for the time the equipment was actu ally in use. He then gave the town a 20 per cent discount at the re quest of Mr. Walker. The final bill was $2,330.40. By using town workers snd rented equipment, Beaufort saved several thousand dollars laying new sewer lines and storm drains. Four Jaycees Leave Morehead For Convention Four Morehead City Jaycees left for Milwaukee and the Jaycee national convention yesterday af ternoon. Herbert Phillips, P. H. Gcer Jr., Marion Mills and L. G. Dunn left by automobile and plan to return Sunday, June 30. Mr. Phillips, voted Key Man in the Jaycee organisation for 1956, received 3150 expense money from the club as part of his award. The club voted Monday night at its meeting at the Hotel Fort Macon to pay the registration fee for all four delegates. The convention will be Monday through Thursday. The Milwaukee Jaycees have erected a huge tent in the municipal park, and all in door convention functions ar? slat ed for the tent. The Morehead City club will be working while their four represen tatives arc in Milwaukee, says president Dr. R. O. Barnum. All the Jaycees pitched in on a work project Monday night. The Centennial Committee had offered them $50 to move tables and chairs to and from the Morehead Bilt more Hotel for the Centennial pep rally and fashion show. Two Sentenced In Morals Case Kemp Guthrie, Morehead City, and Betty Jackson, Rocky Mount, were given six-month sentences in county recorder's court yesterday. They were found guilty of living to gether without being married. Sheriff Hugh Salter testified that Guthrie had a wife and family in Morehead City. The two were picked up by the sheriffs department and Beaufort police at an apartment on Ann Street, Beaufort, Wednesday night. They spent the night in the county jail. Guthrie will spend his six months on the road. Miss Jackson will be at the stale women's prison. Miss Jackson and Ruby E. Eason had been ordered to leave More bead City earlier this month. They were fined $75 for destroying prop erty in a room they had rented. The judge gave them three days to pay the fine and leave town. Police Chief Herbert Griffin said yesterday that the last time he had seen either girl was when the po lice picked them up to collect the $75. Court Continues Case Of Injured Motorist The case of Mr?. Jcannic M. Scott, Havelock, wai continued un til July It yesterday in county re corder's court. Mrs. Scott la charged with speeding over SS, im proper passing and carelcsa and reckless driving. Highway patrol man R. II. Brown said she was responsible (or the wreck Saturday afternoon in which she and three other persona were injured. Officer Brown said that Mrs. Scott, driving west in a 1852 Stude baker, passed a number of cars on the curve of US TO at the Carteret Craven County line. As she was passing the ears she saw a 19S0 Nash Rambler coming toward her and cut into ber lane too quickly, he said. When she cut back, she ran off the right side of the road, skidded and went back across the road right In front of the Nash. It hit her bead-on. Charles flerald Cobbe, Cherry Point, driver of the Nash and two passengers, llarvey C. I-evlne and Sylvester Mosiycke, also of Cherry Point, were cut by flying glass and metal and suffered bruises and sprains. Officer Brown added. Mr*. Scott had a broken right arm. cuts, bruises and sprains. All four were taken to the hospital at fkaoou Dninl LBcrry i ouii. Both the Naah end the Stude baker were total loaaea. Patrolman Brown aaid that a third ear waa damaged when it waa a truck by Dying metal and glaaa. He eati mated the damage to a 1953 Chev rolet driven by Frank G. Hick man, New Bern, at ISO. Patrolman J. W. Sykea investi gated two accidents during the past week. Last Thursday afternoon Mrs. Shclton Weber, Havelock, lost control of her car at the Junction of US TO and NC 24. Patrolman Sykea said the road was wet and when the hit her brakes the car skidded across the road. When it hit the soft shoulder, it turned Patrolman Sykes estimated the damage to the car at ItOO-tlM. He said that Mrs. Weber was not hurt but that two doien eggs In the ear had splattered on her. Patrolman Sykes charged Marian Williams of Wilson with following too close after an accident on Me Atlantic Beach bridge Sunday afternoon. Steve Daniels, Have let for the draw when rammed inte him Williams was driving Chevrolet. Damage (e the at ng a IMS
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