CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
46th YEAR, NO. 69. EIGHT PAGES PLUS COMICS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
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53 Firemen Complete Fire School,
Receive Certificates Friday Night
Some of the firemen got together to compare notes after the county-wide fire school banquet at Mrs.
Russell Willis's Restaurant Friday night. Standing are Chief Vernon Guthrie and Charles Edwards,
Morehead City, Capt. Roy Willis, Marshallberg, and Chief Frank J. Schlarp, Camp Lejcune. Seated are
Earl Dunn, Atlantic Beach, and Chief Charles Gould Jr., Newport.
Fifty-three county firemen com
pleted the county-wide fire school
and received certificates at a ban
quet at Mrs. Russell Willis's Res
taurant, Morehcad City, Friday
night.
Guest speakers included Frank
J. Schlarp, chief of the Camp Le
jcunc Fire Department; Miller
Warren, Plymouth, president of the
North Carolina Firemen's Associa
tion; Curtis Flanagan, Farmville,
secretary of the association; Win
Donat, Farmville, secretary of the
Firemen's Pension Fund.
Capt. Otis Dowdy, Charlotte;
fire commissioners Gerald Hill,
Beaufort, Wilbur Garner, New
port, and D. J. Hall, Morehcad
City; Mayor George Dill, More
head City; Moses Howard, chair
man of the county commissioners;
Mike Jowdy, chief of the Cherry
Point Fire Department; and Wil
liam Barnes of Wilson. Morchead
City Fire Chief Vernon Guthrie
was emcee.
Mr. Barnes, who just happened
to be eating at the restaurant with
his wife, broke up the party. He
said that he and his wife owed a
great debt to the Morehead City
Fire Department.
"The firemen," he said, "let my
wife's summer house on Shackle
ford Avenue burn level with the
ground. It wasn't until then," he
noted, "that we realized how much
insurance we had on the place!"
His story met with rousing laugh
ter.
Chief Schlarp, who conducted
the pumping classes, gave nine
special certificates for that course
They went to Elmond Rhue and
Allen Conway, Beaufort, and Rob
ert McCabe, Charles Edwards,
Sammy Hughes, Carl Edwards,
John Ballou, Hubert Fulcher and
Eric Lewis, Morehead City:
Those who got certificates for
j the fire school conducted by Cap
j tain Dowdy, in addition to the
I above were Edward Arendell, Joe
I Fulcher, Duffy Cuthrie, D. J
liall Jr., Vernon Guthrie, John
| Darker, Eldon L. Nelson, Mart
Bell, Lester Hall, Ernest Lewis,
I Morehcad City; Dick Spears, L. N.
Moore and Earl Dunn, Atlantic
I Beach.
I Leon Mann. Fred Kelly, W. D
Heath Jr.. Milton Gould, Carroll
Millis, Paul Jenkins, Allen Elliot,
John F. Lilly, Bill Carroll, Ira
Jones, George Green, Bcnnic Gar
! ner, C. A. Gould Jr. and B. T
Smith, Newport.
Hoy C. Willis, Wesley Wilson and
Alvah Joyner, Marshall berg; Eric
Peterson, Konnie Smith, Ncal
Willis, Ben Merrill, C. B. liarrcll.
Freddie Snooks, George F. WoOl
ard, William Longest III, A1 Phil
lips Eugene Garner, Tommy Wil
lis, Virgil Woolard and Bryan Lof
tin, Beaufort.
Polio Patients
Asked to Attend
Clinic Sept. 14
Thirty-six county residents have
been ill with polio during the past
nine years. These arc the persons
that the county polio chapter is
requesting to come to the ortho
pedic* clinic Saturday, Sept. 14.
The National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis is hoping to lo
cate all former polio patients with
a view to seeing if modern-day
medicine may be able to correct
any vestiges of polio.
The local chapter, according to
its records, has helped the follow
ing persons, and if they are still in
the county, requests that they at
tend the clinic at 8:30 Saturday
morning. Sept. 14, at the Morchcad
City Hospital annex:
Barney Sutton, Jasper Lawrence,
Isettle Lewis, Ray Salter, Willie
Willis, Marlcnc Fulford, Albert
Sparrow, William IIux
James Ross, Robert Wethcring
ton, Ray Golden, Richard Car
raway, Carolyn Smith, Melba Alice
Loo, Sharon Gaskill.
Cecelia Skarren, Alma May Sal
tea*, Virginia Hassell, Eric Pafte,
Parvid Harris. Dallas D. Guthrie,
Olivia Jane Yeomans, Nola Dare
Rose.
Herman Wethcrington Jr., Rich
ard J. Salter, David Taylor, Dor
othy Murray, Rose Britton, Jean
Chadwick. ,
Terry Lawrence, Preston John
son, Kirby Bryan Lawrence, Joyce
Carolyn Davis, Dennis Guthrie,
Marita Guthrie and Ronnie Eu
banks.
Chamber Requests Return
Of Blank on Letter
Chamber of Commerce member,
have received a letter from the
chamber asking their opinion! on
holidays to be observed, fail bus
iness promotion, December holidsy
promotion and Christmas street
lighting.
Members are requested to fill
in the blank supplied sod return
it to the chamber.
In the sama Mtcr, J. A. DuBois,
chamber manager, reporta that 60
businessmen have not yet paid
1S57 dues.
Term Eads
Duke summer school, Pivers Is
land, cloned Saturday. Dr. John
Vemberg, new asaiatant director
for research at the lab, and his
family, will leave this week for
Jamaica. Tbey expect to return by
the first a( July next year,
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NCFA Demands
Fair Listing
On N. C. Shrimp
F&WLS New York Reports
'Downgrade' Shrimp,
President Says
Oriental ? The discriminatory
isting of North Carolina shrimp in
the "green sheet" bulletin compiled
f>y the Bureau of Commercial Fish
eries of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
service on the New York market
tias roused the North Carolina
fisheries Association to protest.
NCFA President Garland F. Ful
rher said that the prejudicial list
ing of North Carolina shrimp at $2
to $15 below the New York market
price began in 1956. He also point
L'd out that the count of North
Carolina shrimp per pound until re
cently was listed as "so-called".
Numerous Graders
"It is the belief and observa
tion of the officers of this associa
tion." said Mr. Fulcher, "that more
shrimp graders are in operation
proportionate to the catch in North
Carolina than in any other shrimp
producing area. Offhand we can
count 14 of them.
"And to downgrade the price of
North Carolina shrimp, even by
mistake," he continued, "is to per
petrate a libel on the finest quality
shrimp produced anywhere We
bow to no other shrimp-producing
area in quality or in quality con
trol.
Appeal Made
"We sincerely hope," Mr. Ful
cher concluded, "for the good of
the whole shrimping industry that
such prejudicial and untrue report
ing can be corrected. We have ap
pealed to the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service for relief from it."
At last report the Market News
Section of the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service was beginning a thor
ough check of its reporting sys
tem. according to official notice
and by informal reports to the
North Carolina Fisheries Associa
tion.
Booklets for Sale
Centennial booklets arc on sale
at the Morehead City Chamber of
Commerce and at the civic center.
SoifVenlr" coins can be bought at
Ihe chamber office. .
County Men Train in Virginia
Pulling ? new diesel injector in one of the two generator* on an George W. Terrell, Haveloek, and 8gt. Frank E. Sprtngie, Beaufort.
LCU are, left to right, SgL James E. Leary, Morebead City, M/8gt.
The public information officer,
Fort Eustis, Vs., reports the fol
lowing on members of the S24th
Transportation Company, an Army
Reserve unit located in Beaufort:
Army Reserve lat LI. Leon A.
Mann Jr., Newport, completed two
weeka of active duty training Aug.
11 at Fort Eustis.
Lieutenant Mann is command
ing officer of the S24th Transpor
tation Company.
He is a graduate of North Caro
lina State College. The lieutenant
is local manager of the Superior
Gas Co. in Havelock.
Two Army Reserve soldiers from
Newport completed two weeks of
active duty summer training Aug.
II at the Transportation Training
Command, Fort Euatis. They are
Cpl. Albert H. Toon, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Toon, route 1, and
Sp/3 Charlie N. Smith, whose mo
ther, Mrs. Vivian Wcathcrington,
lives on route 2.
Army Sp/2 Robert E. Wade,
whose wife, Audrey, and parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ardell Wade, live in
Smyrna, completed two weeks of
active duty summer training Aug.
II at the Transportation Command,
Fort Eustis.
Specialist Wade received train
ing with members of his reserve
unit, the 824th Transportation Com
pany.
Four Beaufort Army Reserve
soldiers completed two weeks of
active duty training Aug. 18 at
Fort Eustis.
M/Sgt. I-co B. Ilaskins, whose
wife, Ullie, liven at 1502 Ann St..
attended Morchead City Technical
Institute.
Sp/3 James S. Holland Jr., whose
parents live at 310 Marsh St., is
a 1955 graduate of Beaufort High
School.
Sp/3 James E. Robinson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Robinson, 120
Gordon St., attended Beaufort High
School. He is an employe* of the
Whitehursl Awning and Blind Co.
of Mrs. Rosa L. Lawrence, Beau
fort. is a well driller.
They received annual summer
training with members of their
local reserve unit, the 824th Trans
portation Company.
Sfc. James E. McBride, whose
wife, Evelyn, lives at 1512 Shackle
ford St., Morehcad City, completed
two weeks of active duty training
Aug. 18 at Fort Eustis.
The sergeant, son of C. B. Mc
Bride, route 2 Rockwell, is a
graduate of Rockwell High School.
Sp/2 William D. Hopkins, whose
See ARMY RESERVE, Fag* 2
Exclusive Private Beach Club
To Go Up in Ocean Ridge Area
Southern Voices Objection
To New Freight Rate Increase
A schedule of new increased
freight rates went into effect
throughout the nation yesterday
over the protest of Southern Rail
way, one of the nation's leading
roads.
Southern felt so strongly against
the increase that at first it re
fused to be a party to the higher
rates plea which was placed be
fore the Interstate Commerce
Commission by the nation's rail
roads.
Southern and other railroads
made a compromise however. The
compromise, now before the ICC, I
covers 44 commodities, 39 of them
subject to "through" or coast-to- j
coast rate schedules.
Six so-called "major" items
including lumber and canned goods
?are marked for increases, a con- j
cession by the Southern to those I
industry segments seeking higher
rates.
Kut 33 other commodities are
marked for no increase Northbound
from any carrier serving the Sou
thern territory, a concession by
the industry to the Southern Rail
way.
The five rem :ning commodi
ties are "solely lntra-territorial"
within the Southern region and do
not affect lines outside the South.
Explaining why Southern feels
the rate increase is not in the
best interests of Southern Rail
way, Harry A. DcButts, president,
says:
"Southern Railway does not in
tend to increase any freight rate
where such action will price us
out of the market and reduce our
net income. Southern didn't ask j
for this increase, and not because
we don't need the money.
"All railroads need more money,
for the rate of return on invest
ment has been discouragingly low
in the railroad industry for years.
But it's our opinion that a gen
eral increase in freight rates
simply means a merry-go-round
ride to nowhere for us in today's
bitterly competitive transportation
business.
"We have seen too much of our
traffic that by its very nature
belongs on the rails go, instead,
to our subsidized competitors. And
we arc convinced that the prin
cipal reason is constantly advanc
ing rail rates. This gives our sub
sidized competitors the chance to
skim off the cream of our most
desirable and profitable traffic
while they ignore traffic they don't
want to carry.
"They happily allow us to have
what's left, knowing we're obli
gated by law as a common carrier
to take what's left. That hurts, be
cause railroads are built to handle
volume. It's our bread and butter.
We want more business, not less.
"Wc believe we can get and hold
the volume of business our mod
ern railroad now is geared to
handle by keeping our rates down,
even lowering them when condi
tions justify. We know that it is
through a large volume of traffic
that Southern can best and most
cheaply 'manufacture' transporta
tion?saving money for our cus
tomers, and making some for our
selves. That's what wc arc de
termined to try.
"As to our position in this rate
case, wc feel that it has been a
sound one, and in the public in
terest. Certainly it has already
caused those interested in the well
being of the transportation indus
try to give serious thought to the
dangerous upward-spiraling freight
rates."
An exclusive new private
club, which may coat aa
much aa a quarter million
dollars, is being planned for
the Ocean Ridge develop
ment, west of Atlantic
Beach.
Papers for incorporation of the
"Coral Bay Club" were filed with
Thad Eure, secretary of state, last
week. President of the board of
directors is H. W. (Hob) Anderson
of Wilson and Morchcad City.
Mr. Anderson said yesterday that
it is hoped the club will be ready
to open next summer.
It will be located on property
owned by former United States
Senator Willis Smith and has an
ocean frontage of 522 feet and
frontage on Boguc Sound of 250
feet.
Yacht Basin, Pool
Tentative plans call for a swim
ming pool, and on the sound side,
a yacht basin.
Members of the building commit
tee are J. W. York, who developed
Cameron Village, Raleigh; A. K.
Barrus, Kinston, and Raymond
Bryan, Goldsboro, all of whom
have summer homes in this area.
The architect has not yet been
selected.
Membership in the club will be
limited to 200. At present the only
private beach club here is the
Dunes Club, located several miles
east of Atlantic Beach at Club
Colony.
Mr. Anderson said yesterday that
a growing community, such as this
is, needs additional facilities and
the proposed club should be "a wel
come addition to the Morehcad City
and Atlantic Beach area."
Cost Estimated
Until plans are actually drawn,
Mr. Anderson said he didn't know
how much the club would cost, but
he estimated about $250,000.
The Ocean Ridge area has fre?
quently been referred to as Car
teret County's "Gold Coast".
In addition to the president and
members of the building commit
tee, others on the board of direc
tors arc Robert M. Hanes, Winston
Salem; W. E. Barnes, Wilson;
James Poyncr, Raleigh; Leo Har
vey, Kinston.
W. G. Clark Jr., Tarboro; Alton
Bland, Pinevillc; Dr. S. D. McPher
son and Mrs. E. M. Cameron. Dur
ham; D. W. Davenport. Rocky
Mount, and J. S. Ficklcn Jr.,
Greenville.
Special Football Section
Will Appear Next Tuesday
This year, for the first time, THE
NEWS-TIMES will publish a spe
cial football section. The section
will be in next Tuesday's issue of
the paper and will feature the
Morehead City, Beaufort, Queen
Street and Swansboro teams.
There will be stories of last
year's games ? how the Morehead
City Eagles racked up a 9-2 record
and how Swansboro's Pirates
breezed through an undefeated reg
ular season. Readers will learn
why the Beaufort Seadogs claimed
they were robbed in their 13-13 tie
with Vanecboro.
There will be pictures of teams,
nast and present. Individual pic
Wcs and biographies of the More
head City and Beaufort players
will tell fans about the boys under
the broad shoulders carrying the
schools' colors this season.
Head the story of the Mullet
Bucket. Find out whose names arc
inscribed on the bottom of the pail!
See pictures of the bucket before
and after last year's game between
the Eagles and Seadogs.
There will be information for the
fans who want to enjoy the game
as well as for those who want to
learn more about the grid sport.
Learn how the coaches figure out
scouting reports and make strategy
for the actual game.
Kind out what the managers,
trainers and water boys do. Head
the story behind the coaches. This
section will be the most compre
hensive study of football ever pub
lished in Carteret County.
Morehead City, Camp Glenn
Schools to Open at 8:30
Morehcad City and (amp Glenn
Schools will begin the 1957-58 term
Tuesday, Sept. 3. at 8:30 a.m.
School will be dismissed at ap
proximately 11:45 the first day
only, announces T. L. l#ec, prin
cipal of Morehead City Schools. ?
Thereafter, a full schedule will
be in effect, from 8:30 until 3:15
each school day, except for first
grade pupils who will bo dismissed
at 1 o'clock during the first month.
Registration for all first grade
students who did not come to the
clinic last spring will be held at
both schools on Friday, Aug. 30.
at 2 p.m. Birth certificates will
be required for these students. All
transfer students from other
schools and communities will reg
ister at the same hour.
Students who live east of 24th
Street will register at the More
head City school. Those living west
of 24th Street will attend the Camp
Cilenn School. All high school stu
dents attend the Morehead City
School, regardless of residence.
Parents of all bus students, in
cluding those who live on the golf
course road arc urged to have their
children ready when the busses
come by the first day. After a
few days, the routes will be es
tablished and the times of arrival
stabilized.
Fees Announced
The fees for grade 1-8 for this
year will be as follows: supple
mentary readers SI.00, supplies
$1.25; library, testing, and audio
visual $1.00; insurance (optional)
$1.50; total. $4.75 per student.
High school fees: book rental
$3.60; library $1.00; activity 00
cents; supply fee 50 cents; insur
ance (optional) $1.50, total gen
eral fees, $7.50. Special fees: typ
ing $13.50 (year) shop and indus
trial arts $6.00; home economics
$2.00; science lab fee $1.00.
Following are the faculty mem
See SCHOOLS, Page 2
Tide Table
Tides st the Beaufort Bar
(Eastern Standard Time)
IIIUH LOW
Tuesday, Aug. 27
9:30 a.m. 3:22 a.m.
9:33 p.m. 3:43 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 2?
10:23 a.m. 4:07 a.m.
10:49 p.m. 4:35 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 29
11:22 a.m. 4 53 a.m.
11:43 p.m. 3:27 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 29
5:43 a.m.
12:17 p.u. 8:2# p.m.
Rotarians Seek
Cheesecake King
; Men, you better look to your
I laurels, 'cause tonight the man
I with the prettiest legs is going
to be chosen at the Beaufort Ro
| tary Club meeting and once the
news gets out, gals may floek
I after him like flics after mo
lasses!
Each Rotarian is to turn up in
bcrmuda shorts. A committee of
three women, whose names have
not been revealed, will choose
the Rotarian with the prettiest
legs.
The winner will receive a bro
ken second-hand pocket knife. A
preview of cheesecake in the Ro
tary Club, previously hidden vir
tuously by long pants, was given
last week when Clarence Stamp
er, Dr. David Farrior, Gene
Smith and Glenn Adair turned
up in bermudas.
The big event tonight gets un
derway at the Scout building on
Pollock Street at 6:45.
John Morehead
Likes Booklet
John M. Morehead III, Rye, N.
Y., grandson of the founder of
Morehead City, haa written a letter
to Mayor George W Dill, thank
ing the mayor for .sending him a
ropy of the Centennial souvenir
booklet.
Mr. Morchcad's letter said: "A
recent mail brought me copy of
your book on the Centennial cele
bration. I have been reading it
with great interest, and thank you
for sending it to me. A little more
and I would be inclined to close
out at Rye and move to Morehead
City.
"With renewed assurances of ap
preciation of your kind thoughtful
ncss, 1 remain.
Moat sincerely yours,
John M. Morehead
Souvenir booklets are still on
sale for t2 each at the civic cen
ter, ?th and Evans Streets, and at
the chamber of commerce office,
Shepard Street. Tbey have bean
suggested as interesting Christmas
gifts for persons who at ooe time
lived la Morehead City.
Walston Funeral
Rites Conducted
Funeral services were conducted
Friday at 4:30 from Brooks Frtzzel
Methodist Church, Maury, for W.
Edward Walston. 39, of Beaufort.
Mr. Walston died of a heart attaclf
Thursday at the home of Mrs. C.
E. Spivey, Maury, with whom h?
made his home for several years.
11c was on vacation at the time.
Mr. Walston was a license ex
aminer for the N. C. Department
of Motor Vehicles and was sta
tioned for several years in the
Morehead City - Bcaufort-llavclock
area. He made his home at 122Va
Ann St., Beaufort.
lie was a past president of the
Carteret Community Theatre and
had appeared in several plays, lie
was a former Morehead City Jay
cce and Lion.
The Rev. A. E. Brown of Maury
and the Rev. E. R. Shulcr of.
Swansboro officiated at the funeral
services. Interment was in Forest
Hills Cemetery, Farmvillc.
He is survived by his stepmother,
Mrs. Louis Taylor of Rocky Mount;
six sisters, Mrs. Marie Johnson of
Wilson; Mrs. Felix Ranes of Man
son; Mrs. J. H. Jones Jr., Mrs. C.
M. Williams, Mrs. Harold Bunn
and Miss Dora Walston, all of
Rocky Mount.
Six brothers, Dalton G. Walston
of Wilmington; Sgt. Ronnie L.;
R. T.; and Guy Walston. all sta
tioned in Germany with the Army;
C. E. Walston of Providence. R.
I.; and D. T. Walston of Rocky
Mount.
Lions See Juvenile
Delinquency Films
P. 11. Goer Jr. was guest speak
er at the Morehead City Lions Club
meeting Thursday night at the
Hotel Fort Macon. Mr. Geer
showed Boy Scout and Cub Scout
film strips and gave a talk on
juvenile delinquency.
Publicity chairman 0. N. Allred
announces that the club'a White
Cane drive will be conducted from
Sept 22 through Oct 5. Last year
the drive netted 2230 for the Uooa
blind fund, he aakl.
Mr. Allred alao noted that Sep
tember has been dedicated as sight
conservation month by the Lions
Cktb.
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