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PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of Rm TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 46th YEAR, NO. 61. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1967 PUBLISHED TUESDAY8 AND FRIDAYS Commissioners Plan Morehead City Park Olan Bell Waives Hearing On Rape Charge Saturday Olan "Shorty" Bell waived pre-' liminary hearing in a special closed session of Morehcad City recorder's court Saturday morn ing. Bell is charged with raping a six-year-old girl in his house at 105 South 15th St. in Morehcad City Sunday before last. He was taken out of the More head City jail and sent to an un disclosed jail to await trial after rumors of a proposed lynching got to the police. Normally, his ease would have been heard last Monday but police authorities agreed that a special session of the court later would be more practical. Sheriff Hugh Salter, who has charge of the prisoner now, brought him into court. Solicitor George McNeill and Judge Luther Hamilton Jr. explained his rights and told him he could request a hearing of evidence or waive such a hearing anil wait trial by jury. Bell,, who has not obtained a lawyer, decided that he would I waive a hearing. He was given back into the custody of the sher iff. who carried him out of town I Judge Hamilton said that a judge of superior court would have to appoint a lawyer for Bell if he docs not get one himself. Patrolmen Find Missing Auto Saturday Night Highway patrolmen J. W. Sykes and R. H. Brown returned a stolen car before its owner realized that it was missing Saturday midnight. The car belonged to Constable George Smith, Salter Path. The patrolmen saw the ear parked at Fleming's on the cause way and noticed that a headlight was burned out. They knew it was Smith's car and yelled over to him that it was out. A person they assumed to be Smith said "Okay " and they drove on to the beach'. On the way back the patrolmen noticed the car driving along the right shoulder of the road. They passed it, turned around and went back. They followed the car across the Atlantic Beach bridge and pulled it over to the curb. They found Charles Harry Tollin, a CIcmson College student, at the wheel of the car. He was charged with taking the car and driving drunk. Tollin told the patrolmen that he was working during the sum mer at a lumber camp in Mays ville, N. C. The patrolmen took the car to the Morehead City police station and called Smith to tell him that they had his car. Constable Smith was at the Idle Hour at Atlantic Beach. He laughed and said that his car was just outside. After looking out the door, he saw that his car was gone and said he would be right over. The car was not damaged when he re covered it at the police station. Chamber Elects New Directors The new board of directors of the Beaufort Chamber of Com merce has been announced by chamber president Glenn Adair. Thirteen directors were elected by ballots sent to members of the chamber. Chamber secretary Mra. Tat Russell sent out 92 ballots. Fifty five were returned by the deadline Friday. The new and old directors will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the chamber office on Front Street. Members of the new board will elect officers for the coming year. Board members arc Jim Wheat ley, C. W. Stamper, E. W Dow num, Victor Bellamah, G. T. Spi vcy, Ray Cummins, William Roy Hamilton. Ronald Earl Mason, Hal sey Paul. Gerald Hill. Norwood Young, Dr. David Farrior and Mr. Adair. Judge Rules Non-Suit, Plaintiff Appeals Case After two days of trial, Judge J. Paul Frizsclle ruled a non-suit in the caaa, Clarence Willis vs. Henry Davis, T. T. Potter and Sinclair Refining Company. The action came after a non-suit motion by the defendants. The plaintiff, Willis, appealed the de Town Fathers Approve First Naval Venture The Morchead City town com missioners gave their stamp of approval Thursday night to the town's first naval venture. Gibbic Sanderson, street commissioner, said that his department would like to build a barge. The barge would serve two pur poses, he pointed out. It would be used as a base of operations for extending sewer lines into Bogue Sound. In order to get the proper grade on the new pipes, he said, sand would have to be pumped as the pipe was laid. The barge would also bo used to j carry mosquito spraying equip mcnt around the waterfront areas of the town. "The low, marshy areas that the trucks can't get to are the very places the mosqui toes breed," he said. Mayor George Dill said that the lightning bugs and mosquitoes would have to get together now that the town will be spraying from land and water. "They will have to copy Paul Revere," the mayor said, "One if by land and two if by sea." The barge will be 11 feet wide I and 18 feet long. Mr. Sanderson | said it would cost about $1,000, in cluding an outboard motor. "Since the town has to get those sewer lines extended and we need a barge to use in mosquito control, it will be cheaper in the long run to go ahead and build the barge,' Mr. Sanderson commented. Navy to Dredge At Cedar Island The public .works officer, Fi?th Naval District, Norfolk, has made application to the Army engineers, Wilmington, for a permit to dredge a slip, construct a pier and to drive two mooring piling on the north side of the Thoroughfare Bay Channel at Cedar Island Bridge near Atlantic. Plans submitted show that ap proximately 75 cubic yards of ma terial will be dredged from the north bank of the channel, a pier is to be constructed 4 feet wide with a 33-foot tee on the outer end, and two mooring piling arc to be driven approximately 16 feet in front of the pier. Plans showing the proposed work may be seen at this office and at the Post Of fice at Atlantic. Col. H. C. Rowland Jr., district engineer says that anyone having objections to the work should con tact him prior to June 30. ilis of fice is in the customhouse, Wil mington. y Plans for a proposed city park highlighted a meeting of the Morehead City town commissioners Thursday night. The town fathers met in the board room of the Mu nicipal Building. Jasper Bell, buildings and grounds tom missioner, said that the best site for a park would be west of South 34th Street. The property is owned by the state Board of Conservation and Development. Mr. Bell said that the state would not deed the land to the city but would consider let ting it use the property indefinite ly John L. ihley, town clerk, was instructed to write a le'ter to the C&D board asking for use of as [ much property in the section as they were willing to give up. The town wants to extend the park as far as the old cement building foundations about 500 feet from | 34th Street. CUy to (let Refund Mr. Lashley announced that the legislation had been passed in the state legislature authorizing towns to get rebates of 6 cents per gal lon on all gasoline and fuel burned by city vehicles. Including the three and a half cent federal re bate, this makes nearly 10 cents per gallon come back to the city, he reported. Police Commissioner Ted dar ner said that the town should in vite bids on a new police car. The board approved his request and he and Mr. Lashley were told to get together to draw up specifications for the car. Fire Commissioner I). J. Hall was authorized to ask Carolina Water Company to run a six-inch water main 500 feet down Bonner Avenue. The town will put a fire hydrant at the end of the main. Wants Financial Statement Commissioner Gibbie Sanderson | said that the street department needed a monthly report from the town treasurer giving the current financial statui of the department. The other commissioners said that it was a good idea and asked that their departments receive similar statements. Mr. Sanderson said that the street department had made about $400 selling clay from the city clay pit at the new cemetery. The clay is sold to any one who asks for it, Mr. Sanderson said. The board approved the appoint ment of the following new mem bers to the recreation commission: Mrs. George McNeill, Mrs. Llcwcl- j lyn Phillips, Dr. S. W. Hatcher and E. L. Smithwick. Old members are Frank Check and Mrs. Mamie Tay lor. Marine Faces Charges Arising From Accident Louis E. Parker Jr., Cherry Point Marine, has been charged with speeding and careless and reckless driving as the result of an aecidcnt on US 70 at Wildwood Thursday night. Highway Patrolman J. W. Sykcs said that Leslie C. Clancy of New port was driving cast in a 1951 Chevrolet when Parker tried to pass him. He said that the right side of Parker's 1955 Ford con vertible hit the left rear fender of the Chevrolet. Coast Guard Gets Two Calls, One False Alarm The Fort Macon Coast Guard* Station had two official assists this weekend, announces station com mander James Runnings. The call that caused the station the most worry, he said, was not "official." A woman called the station at 3 a.m. Sunday and said that two men had left the end of 23rd Street swimming for Atlantic Beach. She said that she was sure both men had drowned. She hung up when she was asked her name. Chief Lum Gaskill went to the scene of the reported drowning and patrolled the area for an hour and a half without finding any signs of swimmers or a drowning. At 10:1$ a.m. Sunday, the sta tion got a call that the Terry II, a 27-foot cabin cruiser was dis abled in Beaufort Inlet. EN/1 Earl Sells and SN Robert Stevens made the assist in the CG 30448, station auxiliary boat. They towed the Terry II to the Morchesd City Yacht Basin. The boat is owned by George T. Barnes of Elm City. Sells and Stevens towed in a 20 foot outboard cruiser Saturday af ternoon. The Lib-Lynn had run aground across from state port, Morchead City. The Guardsmen refloated the boat at 8:12 p.m. and escorted it to Sonny's Basin, At lantic Beach. The Lib-Lynn is owned by Bill Jenkins of Ay den. Superior Court Adjourns Friday The civil term of superior court was adjourned at 12:30 p.m. Fri day. The last case to be heard was M L. Mansfield vs. V. P. Loftis The court ordered Loftis to pay $1,200 to the plaintiff. Mansfield showed that he had done work worth that amount for the defendant. The work, he proved, was done under a definite contract. The Commercial National Bank woa a $2,000 suit against H. Earle and Hattie C. Mobley. The court ordered that the money, plus inter est from April 5, 1957, be paid. Bruce L. Goodwin was ordered to pay a total of $5,233.7$ plus in terest in two eases. In one rase. Smith Builders Sup ply Inc., showed that be had owed the company $4,$03.7$ since Aug. IS. 195$. The amount represented payment for supplies delivered to Mr. Goodwin. The other judgment was in favor of John Robert Jonea. Jones proved that Goodwin had owed him $430 since March 2$, 1854. Woman Says She Killed Man In Self-Defense Sunday Night Finds Mermaid's Teardrop I I I rnoto by Keg maid Lewli Bryant Guthrie, Morchcad City, holds the mermaid's teardrop pearl he found Sunday while clamming in Fort Macon Creek. The pearl was in this clam (notice peculiar shape of shell). Mr. Guthrie started to throw it awav but decided to open it first to see if a normal clam ess in the shell. He found a deep lavender-colored pearl as big around as a dime. Lacosta DeBerry Jailed As Result of Stabbing Court is Asked To Auction Car The Commercial National Bank and Atlantic Discount Corporation agreed on one thing during last week's term of civil tourt. Both parties said that a 1957 Buick Roadmaster?claimed by both?is losing value sitting at Mobley Buick Company. They asked the judge to order that the car be sold and the money kept by the court until such time as the rightful owner of the car is determined. The trouble started when Atlan tic Discount Corporation had the sheriff seize the car from Mobley Buick Company. Before^ the car could be delivered to the corpora tion. the Commercial National Bank intervened and asserted claim to the property. The car will be sold at public auction after it is advertised by the sheriff's department. Architects Meet At Atlantic Beach For Centennial The North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Archi tccla celebrated its centennial with a weekend convention at the At lantic Beach Hotel Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. Friday luncheon was served at Atlantic Beach's first "hurricane proof" cottage. The test house was built by the North Carolina brick manufacturers. It has plastic win dows and reinforced brick walls. The architects and their wives danced to the music of Runs Olscn and his orchestra at the Blue Rib bon Club Friday night. After the final business sessions Saturday, the delegates met for a seafood dinner at the Rex Restau rant. The meal was paid for by Uo.vd A. Fry Roofing Co. Alter the convention most of the ISO delegates and wives stayed over Sunday to enjoy the beach, fish, or tour the county. Grass Fire The Morehead City Fire Depart ment put out a grass fire on Ra dio Island at 10 a.m. Sunday. The fire was out before any damage was caused. Lacosta DcBerry, New Bern Ne gro is being held without bond in the Morchcad City jail. He is charged with attacking Alice Dud ley Barrett, Morehead City, with a knife at 3 p.m. Saturday. She was taken to the Morchcad City hospital with five knife wounds, two in the back, one in the chest, one across the forehead and one near the mouth. Hospital authorities said yester day afternoon that her condition was "satisfactory." Morehead City Police Chief Her bert Griffin said that he was in a patrol car when the call came that there was a fight at 1008 Bay St. Patrolman Buck Ncwsome left the station and arrived just before the chief did. When Chief Griffin got to the house, which belongs to Mary Col lins, patrolman Newsomc had Dc Berry in handcuffs. The chief said that DcBerry was covered with blood. He called the station and got the switchboard operator to call for an ambulance. Dill's ambulance arrived in a matter of minutes and took the victim to the hospital. Questioning of witnesses and the defendant revealed that he and the Barrett woman had been living to gether in New Bern. She had come back to Morehead City Thursday and he had followed her Saturday morning. When the police arrived the wo man was lying in a pool of blood on tbc back porch. One wound barely missed a lung, the chief said. DeBarry was due to be tried in Morehead City recorder's court yesterday but his case was con tinued for a week. County 4-H Health Rulers Crowned Peggy Cannon, Newport, and Gordon Bccton, Beaufort t H er, were crowned as county health king and queen last night. The coronation was In the home agent's office in the courthouse annex, Beaufort. Barbara Hill, Marshall berg, and Joseph Gstncr, Newport were Junior winners. Peggy and Gordon will go to the state health contest In Raleigh July Z2. A state king and queen of health will be named at the Raleigh contest. Four-H elimination day exhibita were shown last night. The exhibita were put out as a last practice session before (he district elimina tion in Washington tomorrow. Police Report Four Accidents Over Weekend Morchcad City policemen investi gated four wrecks over the week end. Two of the accidents occurred Friday and two Saturday. No one was injured in any of the wrecks. Cars driven by Harriet Ann Wil lis, Morehead City, and Sam Bryan, liookcrton, collided at the Atlantic Beach Road. Arcndcll Street intersection at 6:40 p.m. Fri day. No charges were preferred against cither driver. Lt. Joe Smith charged Mclva J. Mizcll of Rocky Mount with driving without proper brakes at 7:25 p.m. Friday. Officer Smith said that the bumper of her 1951 Plymouth hit the left side of a car driven by liildrcd L. Conway, Morehead City. Both cars were trying to turn left from Arcndcll onto Fifth Street. Damage to Conway's car was estimated at 9100. Saturday morning parolman Buck Ncwsome investigated a wreck at 11th and Arcndcll Streets. Clen Weaver, Newport, driving a 1952 Ford ran into a 1952 Chevrolet that stopped in front of him. The Chevrolet was driven by Thomas H. Gardner Jr. of Chapel Hill. The grill, radiator and fender of the Ford hit the bumper of the Chevrolet The bumper was not damaged, but damage to the Ford was estimated at $200. Coy T. Wray was charged with careless and reckless driving and driving without glasses after a wreck at 13th and Bridges Streets at 7:45 p.m. Saturday. Lieutenant Smith, who investigated, said that Thomas L. Noc was driving a 1956 Dodge truck and had pulled over to park when Wray's 1949 Lincoln hit him. The truck belongs to RAN Fur niture Co. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar (Eastern Standard Time) HIGH LOW Tuesday, June 25 6:03 a.m. 12:13 a.m. 6:24 p.m. 12:09 p.m. Wednesday, lane 29 6:31 a m. 1:04 a.m. 7:10 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Thursday, June 17 7:40 a.m. 1:31 a.m. 7:35 p.m. 1:49 p.m. Friday, June 29 9:29 a.m. 2.38 a.m. 1:44 pja. 2:99 p.m. I Mary Packs Being Held In Jail Without Bond Mary Elizabeth Packs, 25, charged with the knife slay ing of her common law husband, Robert Lee Thompson, 25, at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, is being held without bond in the county jail in Beaufort. The killing took place about a quarter mile beyond the ltforchcad City town limits on the Crab Point Road. The two colored migrant laborers were from Lumber ton. Thcv had been working around4 Crab Point for about two weeks. The woman told a NEWS-TIMES reported yesterday that she killed Thompson in self-defense. "He got after me in the bedroom and slapped me. He pushed me in to the kitchen and 1 grabbed a knife off the shelf. As soon as 1 hit him one time he turned me loose and walked out of the house." Coroner Leslie Springle said that Thompson walked 180 feet from the house before he dropped dead by the road. His jugular vein was pierced by the small paring knife with a three-inch blade. Morehead City Police Chief Her bert Griffin was attracted to the scene by the screams of the woman, lie lives on Kmclinc Place, about a quarter of a mile away. Chief Calls Station He called the police station and ordered a car to pick him up. Pa trolman Walter Thomas picked up the chief while Lt. Joe Smith and Patrolman Junior O'Neal went straight down Crab Point Road. They took the woman and Cleve land Howard into custody. Since the killing took place out of the city limits, they called the sheriff's department as well as the coroner. Howard, who was in the house at the time of the killing, is being held under a $500 bond as a ma terial witness. The Packs woman said that the trouble had started earlier in the evening at the colored Elks Club in Morehead City. Trouble Begins "I was at the Elks Club with some girl friends when Robert walked in. He said, 4You are hav ing lots of fun riding around town with another man, aren't you?' I told him I was just with some girl friends and he left." When she got to the house after 11 p.m. the trouble broke out again. After stabbing Thompson, the woman walked up the road to look for him. When she found him she kicked him on the bottom of the foot and called to him. Realizing that he was dead, she began screaming so loudly that her cries carried as far as the chiefs house, at least a quarter-mile away. A coroner's jury will hear the case at 8 o'clock tonight in the courthouse, Beaufort. Members of the jury sworn in by Mr. Springle arc C. L. Beam, Fred Davis and Jack Neal, Beaufort, and Jasper Bell, Buck Ncwsomc and Bill Con die, Morehead City. Mayor Makes Appointments I Mayor George Dill made appoint ments (or the next two years at the Morehcad City town board meeting Thursday night at the Municipal Building. He said that in his years as mayor of Morchead City he had never seen a more active board of commiaaioncrs than he worked with last term. "I don't see how shifting of positions would Improve a thing, ao every one of you will he in charge of the same depart ments," he concluded. Ted Garner is police commis sioner; Glbbic Sanderson, street commissioner; 8. C. Holloway. fi nance commissioner; Jasper Bell, buildings and grounds commis sioner; and D. J. Hall, fire com missioner. Mr. Garner was re-elected mayor pro-tern by the other members of the town board. Lions to Sponsor Donkey Boll Game Plans were made at the More hcad City Lions Club meeting Thursday night at the Hotel Fort Macon fot a donkey baseball game to be held at Camp Glenn August L The program featured Cary Mid dlccoff and Sammy Snead in a film. All Star GoU. Lion Oscar Allred reported that Thursday's meeting will be some thing special. Ladies Night and in stallation of new officers. The Busy Bee Cafe will furnish the steak dinners. Visitors at the meeting were F. L. Edwards of Kinston and War OUr. Morehead Board Hakes Request For Unusual Law Morehead City town attorney George McNeill got a unique re quest from the town board Thurs day night. He was asked to draw up an ordinance "that even the judge ean't understand." The town commissioners made the request after hearing Charles Markey, general chairman of the Morehead City Centennial commit tee. He appeared before the board asking that they pass an ordinance requiring all citizens of Morehead City to buy and wear centennial caps. Mr. Markey said that special provision had been made for per sons who don't like to wear caps. "For $2 you can buy a permit to go bareheaded," he said. The ordinance will permit vio lators to be tried in a "kangaroo court" (so long as they don't ob ject) and sentenced to serve time in a special "prison" constructed at Centennial headquarters. Mr. Markey also asked the com missioners to step up the clean-up program. The mayor told him that full plans for the final "touching up" of town had been made, "We are saving that last haircut until Saturday," the mayor said. "Pride should be sufficient in centive for the individual property owners to keep their lots and yards clean. There is an ordinance whereby the town can clean up lots and yards and add the cost of such work to the tax bill for the next year," Mr. Dill explained. Harlowe Negro Cut in Wreck Howard Carroll, Harlowe Negro, was severely cut when the 1950 Ford he was driving Sunday after noon left the road and turned over. The accident was on Highway 101, 11 miles north of Beaufort, accord ing to patrolman J. W. Sykcs. Carroll, bleeding profusely from facial cuts and abrasions started for the Morehcad City Hospital, only to find the drawbridge across the Newport River was out of or der. lie went back to the Mill Creek Road and came to the hospital that way. Patrolman Sykcs, who was on the Morehcad City side of the bridge, had to take the same route to get to the accident. After investigating the wreck, the patrolman went to the hospital and talked to Carroll. He charged him with careless and reckless driving and driving with insuffi cient brakes. The road where the accident oc curred is s straight stretch, the officer said. He reported that the car went off the left side of the road and turned over twice. A woman passenger was not injured. The patrolman did not take her name. Power Outtage Set For Bogue Banks Weather permitting, there will be a power outtage on Bogue Banks tomorrow morning, an nounces George Stovall, manager of the Morehcad City office of Car olina Power and Light Co. The power will be off 3 a.m. until t:M a.m. The area affected will extend from the west end of Ocean Ridge to Fort Macon. This will Include aU of Atlantic Beach, Money Is land and Fart Macao, Mr. Stovall says. The power wUl be turned off to enable workmen to burned In the Mo May 20. Mr. Stovall i porary wiring was arsoM Mu the fire to keep porary wiring has been
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