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46th YEAR, NO. 70. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST ao, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Melvin Edwards, Beaufort Band
Director, Played in Army Field Band
Norwood Young
Heads Outdoor
Drama Group
Officers Who Will Plan
Production Chosen
At Meeting Tuesday
Norwood Young, Beaufort, ac j
cepted temporary chairmanship of
the Carteret , County Historical !
Drama Association at a board
meeting Tuesday night at Mr.
Young s home.
Other officers chosen to plan pro
duction of an outdoor drama arc
Mrs. Charles Hassell, vice-chair
man; Mrs. G. W. Duncan, secre
tary, and James Whcatlcy. treas
urer. Thomas D. Eurc, Beaufort,
was elected chairman of the board
of directors.
Mr. Young, who has been serv
ing as chairman of the "prc-organ
i/ationa!" group, said he would ac
cept chairmanship of the board un
til it is determined whether "suf
ficient funds" can be raised to car
ry the project through.
Mrs. Hassell, who pioneered the
outdoor drama idea, declined chair
manship of the board because of
the time it will require. Due to her
teaching duties, she said she could
not assume the top executive posi
tion.
Mr. Young said that reorganiza
tion of committees will begin at
once, and plans, "especially financ
ing", will be given an overhauling.
The group hopes to raise at least
$50,000 and more if possible, to get
the outdoor spectacle under way.
Plans made prior to formal organ
ization of the board Tuesday night,
called for building a theatre in or
near Beaufort to the cast, plus
employment of a playwright to pro
duce a script based on the early
history of the Beaufort area.
To raise funds, a county-wide
membership campaign will begin
in a few weeks, Mr. Young said.
"If staging is to be a reality," he
added, "we need the help of every
citizen in the county, financially
and otherwise."
Attending the meeting were Miss
Gertrude Carraway. New Bern;
Mr. Kure. Mrs. 11. F. Webb, Sea
Level; Moses Howard, Newport;
Gray Hassell and H. D. Paul,
Beaufort. Representatives from
Morchcad City and Atlantic were
absent.
Bill Appropriates
Money for Two
Tar Heel Inlets
Congressman Graham A. Harden
reported yesterday that the public
works appropriation bill for the
fiscal year 1958. just signed by the
president, includes $2,500 for ex
amination and survey of Drum In
let and $25,000 for a survey of
Ocracokc Inlet.
This is not the omnibus bill
which includes $1,197,000 for the
Beaufort Inlct-Morehead City har
bor project. Mayor George Dill,
Morehead City, said yesterday thai
this bill will not conic on the floor
of the House until January. It
passed the rivers anil harbors sub
committee just within recent
weeks.
The Drum Inlet and Ocracokc
Inlet surveys have been backed
and supported by the North Caro
lina Fisheries Association.
Newport School will open at 8:30
Tuesday morning for a half-day
session, announces E. B. Comer,
principal.
? In Mclvin Edwards. Beaufort
school band has this year one of
the best-qualified band instructors
in eastern Carolina. Mr. Edwards,
a native of Beaufort, is a former
member of the United States Army
field band which is recognized as
one of the best bands in the coun
try.
He and his three brothers. Clyde,
El wood and Carl, arc well known
to Beaufort?all arc outstanding
musicians and all started their
music careers in the St. Paul's
school band. Even their sister,
| Dolly May, was in the band. She
played the clarinet.
Mclvin played the trombone
t which he played in the Army
band), and his three brothers
played the baritone.
Today, Elwood is still in the
Army field band and Carl, playing |
the baritone, is in the Annapolis
Naval Academy band. Clyde and
Dolly May did not continue with
professional music careers.
The father of the musicians is
W. C. Edwards, who is now living
in Morehead City. Mrs. Edwards
died in 1943.
While the trombone is "my in
strumcnt', as Mr. Edwards terms
it, he is familiar with all instru
ments and gives lessons to begin
ners in addition to directing the
band. He is also directing the band
at Newport this year.
Although sonic of the Beaufort
band members were lost through
graduation, and only 22 have been
turning out for rehearsals this
month, Mr. Edwards says the
band has "wonderful prospects."
He added, however, that he has
a few words of advice for parents:
"Don't choose the instrument for
your child." It's highly important
that the youngster play the instru
ment he wants to.
"There arc quite a few parents,"
Mr. Edwards continued, "who want
their son or daughter to play a
cornet just because they know
somebody who plays one." He ex
plained that a child may be able
See DIRECTOR, Page 2
Mrs. Hoyt Lee
Hurt in Wreck
Mrs. Hoyt Lee, Morehead City,
was admitted to the Morehead City
Hospital at 11:15 a.m. yesterday.
She had received general bodily
injuries in an auto accident at
Seventh and Arendell Streets. Dr.
M. T. Lewis said yesterday after
noon that Mrs. Lee had no broken
bones but that she was being kept
in the hospital for observation.
Mrs. Lee was riding in a 1956
Eord driven by her husband when
the accident occurred. George F.
(Gerald) Woolard, Beaufort, driver
of the other car, gave the follow
ing account of the wreck:
"I was driving cast on Arendell
when Lee cut in front of me. He
had been driving west on Arendell
and turned south and Seventh
Street. I saw him about 10 feet
before we collided and put on my
brakes. My car (a 1953 Plymouth
station) slid into him."
Morehead City Police Chief Her
bert Griffin charged Lee with fail
ure to yield the right of way. He
estimated damage to the cars at
over $500 each.
Cdr. William Lewis Gives
Up Civil Defense Post
Cdr. William Lewis. USN (ret.),
has resigned as county director of
Civil Defense.
Commander Lewis said that his
letter of resignation was sent to
the county commissioners a couple
months ago. No one has been ap
pointed, however, to lake Com
mander Lewis's place.
Mel Yin Edwards
. . . teaches music
139 Civilians
Dropped from Air
Base Work Force
I-oilers wont out Wednesday to
130 civilian employees at Cherry
Point notifying them that their
jobs at the base would end Sept.
ao
The cutback was necessary, ac
cording to a Public Information
Office release, because of a "$440,
000 reduction in annual funding"
at Cherry Point. The order to re
ducc expenses, by cutting the nuOl
iver of employees, came from the
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics.
In addition to the dropping of
IT.) from the payroll (136 perma
nent employees and three tempo
ral^ ), 80 civilian employees were
downgraded to allow their retcn
lion on the payroll and yet remain
within the funds allotted.
Prior to the cutback, civilian
employees at the base numbered
3,236.
Those given termination notices
were chosen on the basis of the
type of civil service appointment,
length of federal service and whe
ther or not they were veterans.
Beaufort Principal Lists
Faculty for Coming Year
Bruce Tarkington, principal ai
Beaufort School, announced thin
week the faculty members for the
coming school year.
They are as follows:
First grade?Miss Ethel White
hurst, Miss Myrtle Piver, Mrs. Ann
Neal, Mrs. Beatrice Martin. /
Second grade?Miss Ruth tiibbs.
Miss l.aura Cibbs, Mrs. Peggy
Rhodes, Mrs. Evelyn l-cwis.
Third grade?Mrs. Carrie I,ec
Hancock. Miss Susan Rumlcy. Miss
Grace Wilson, Mrs. Ellen Dickin
son.
Fourth grade ? Mrs. Elizabeth
Woodard, Mrs. Isabel Morris. Miss
Annie Morton, Miss Phyllis Plner.
Fifth grade ? Mrs. Pearl Day,
Mrs. Hazel Parker, Mrs. Eileen
Jones, Mrs. Gladys Thomas.
Sixth grade?Mrs Mary Arling
ton. Miss Maude Green, Mrs. Sa
rah Dudley.
Seventh grade ? Miss Gertrude
Styron, Mrs. Florence Brooks,
Hugh Gordon.
Eighth grade?Mrs. Cora Jones,
David lee, Mrs. BeUy Merrill,
Mrs. Shirley Babcock; Maivia Ed
wards, band director.
Ninth grade?William Underscth.
Thomas McQuaid, Mrs. David
Bevcridge.
Tenth grade?Miss Gladys Chad
wick. Mrs. Naomi King.
Eleventh grade ? Mrs. Mildred
Lawrence, Miss Thelma Lancaster
Twelfth grade?Miss Lena Dun
can. Tuckrr Littleton.
School will convene at 9 o'clock
Tuesday morning hut the doors
will open at 11:30. During the open
ing exercises, the hand will give
a brief concert on the school
grounds. School will be dismissed
for the day at 11:30 a.m.
Mr. Tarkington reminds parents
that all first graders must have
their vacenlation for smallpox, and
inoculations fur whooping cough
and diphtheria.
The high school this year is big
ger than ever before, he continued,
but there is one less classroom
being used. This crowding makes
It necessary to limit the curricu
lum, the principal explained. For
example, typing will not be of
fered to tenth graders tola year.
Lejeune, Cherry Point Units Will
Join in International War Games
Willie Henry
Falls from Boat
Coast Guardsmen Drag
For Body Without
Success Wednesday
Willie Henry, 22. Beaufort, was
given up as drowned Wednesday
night after Coast Guardsmen aban
doned hope for retrieving his body
from the waters near Harvey
Smith's fish factory in West Beau
fort.
Henry fell over the stern of the
Sea Dog, a 65-foot menhaden boat
owned by Seashore Packing Co.
of Beaufort at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The boat was tied to a pier at the
packing company.
Gene Springle and Gene Hodges,
both of Beaufort, witnessed the
accident. The men told Beaufort
Police Chief Guy Springle that
they heard a splash and then saw
Henry in the water.
Purse Boats Used
Purse boats were nearby and
they tried to get to Henry but
without success. Chief Springle
was notified and he called the
Coast Guard. EN/1 Earl Soils,
KM/2 James Mannettc and SN Eu
gene Carpenter of the Eort Macon
station dragged the bottom from
the drawbridge.to Smith's factory.
Since no one saw Henry before
he fell over the stern there is no
positive story as to what happened.
Mr. Hodges said that Henry had
suffered from a fit that morning
ami possibly had a recurrence that
made him fall over the side. Chief
Springle said that Henry had been
afflicted for several years.
Swift Current
When the Coast Guard gave up
the searrh Wednesday night, many
observers said-that there was little
chanec uf recovering the body any
lime soon. An eight mile current
flows through the channel wbr?nr*
the tide is falling and it could
possibly carry the body out to sea.
There is a chance. Chief Springle
pointed out, that the body may
be caught in an eddy and not drift
far from where Henry went down.
Labor Day Weekend Will
Bring Last-Holiday Crowds
Coming up is the last big holiday*
weekend of the summer season.
Labor Day is Monday. Atlantic
Beach and other Carteret vacation
spots are ready for the influx of
visitors expected for the last hot
weather fling before school opens.
From present appearances, the
weatherman has perfect days in
store for the vacationers.
Most business places will be
closed. Beaufort Chamber of Com
merce members voted recently to
observe Labor Day as a holiday.
Most of the business places in
Morchcad City are expected to
cl08C.
Banks and postofficcs will be
closed, as well as the county li
brary, courthouse and town hall
in Beaufort, and the town hall and
Employment Security office in
Morehead City.
Morchead City recorder's court,
usually held on Monday, will be
held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2.
Newport Rotary Club will not
meet Monday night.
Cars Damaged
Wednesday Night
A 1956 Chevrolet, driven by Vann
B. Higdon, Cherry Point, rammed
the rear of a 1655 Chevrolet driven
by William E. Garner, of the Coaat
Guard cutler Chilula, at 7:3U Wed
nesday night.
The accident happened in front
of Ix-ltie's Place, four miles west
of Morehead City on Highway 70.
Garnrr was headed west and had
slowed to turn right into Lottie's
when he was hit. reported Patrol
man W. J. Smith Jr. Iligdon has
been charged with following too
elosely and Garner with driving
with improper registration.
No one was injured. Damage to
Garner's ear was estimated at
71(10 and damage to Higdon'a at
$V5. >
Hospital Aid
Duke Endowment funds, accord
ing to the January through Sep
tember 1956 report, paid for 2,545
day a of patient care at the More
head City Hospital during that
period. This was 19.6 per cent of
the total days of care, 12,979.
Dr. W. Chipman
To Go to Europe
Dr. Walter A. Chipman, chief,
fishery Radiobiological lnvestiga
lions of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, will leave Friday, Sept.
6, for Paris, France, and Naples,
Italy.
lie will participate in an inter
national conference in Paris on the
uses of radioactive materials in
scientific research. The two-week
conference is sponsored by the
United Nations Educational, Scien
tific and Cultural Organization.
After the Paris conference, Dr.
Chipman will go to Naples, Italy,
where he is one of the lecturers in
a training course in the use of ra
dioisotopes in marine biology. The
course will include lectures and
laboratory demonstrations given by
both European and American scien
tists.
The training program is designed
for advanced students of Italian
universities and will be held at the
Naples Zoological Station. It is be
ing sponsored by the Italian Na
tional Committee for Nuclear Re
search, the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, and the Italian Na
tional Research Council.
Dr. Chipman plans to visit brief
ly in Rome, Madrid, and Lisbon
before returning lo the United
States in early Oclolicr.
Tide Table
Tides at (he Beaufort Bar
(Eastern Standard Time)
HIGH LOW
Friday, Aug. 30
5:43 a.in.
12:17 p.m. 0:26 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 31
12:11 a.m. 6 41 a.m.
1:12 p.m. 7:35 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 1
1:38 a.m. 7:50 a.m.
2>J p.m. 8:45 p.m.
Mouday, Sept. 2
2:37 a.m. 8:5S a.m.
3:08 p.m. 8:46 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. I
3:40 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
4:0t p.m. 10:41 p.m.
Big Ones Come Inshore
One of the favorite night-time
sports on the Morehead City wa
terfront is catching sharks. Wal
ter G. Fulcher, Morehead City,
caught this 311-pound fellow off
Capt. Ottis Purifoy's dock. At the
right is Carey Lewis, Morehead
City, who has caught his share
of sharks too.
Heavy line is used and the
leader is a chain. Half a dolphin
or a whole mullet is used for
bait. The sharks come close in
t nolo oy Keginaia Lewn
shore on the night-time high tide
to feed.
This gray shark, shown here,
is one of the reasons why the
Coast Guard ordered a boy out
of the channel the night of the
water parade during Centennial
week.
Bill Taylor, Morehead City, re
cently landed a 260-pound shark
on the waterfront with a rod and
reel.
> Marine troops from Cam
will take part in an elaborate
Deepwater, in the Saros tiul
ter part of September.
Participating in the oxerc
where Communism is makini
fairs of nations, will Ik* the United
States. Italy, Greece, Turkey and
?Great Britain.
Materiel from Camp Leieune has
been moving steadily to the More
head City port during the past 10
days. There Navy transports wdl
pick up equipment and men to take
them to the Deepwater rendezvous
area ? through the Mediterranean
into the Aegean Sea between
Greece and Turkey.
Cherry Point air units engaged
in the exercise will operate from
the Tanagara air drome. Greece,
and from the aircraft carrier, USS
Lake Champlain.
Units from the Second Marine Air
Wing. Cherry Point, will support
the 6th Marine regiment from the
second division, Camp Lejeunc
during the amphibious assault on
"aggressor" beaches.
The operation will be similar to
the Marine exercises carried out
on Onslow beach and in the Carib
bean. except that it will bo on a
much larger scale, including the
forces of North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization nations.
Helicopters will land Marines be
hind "aggressor" or "enemy" lines
and aid in close support of ground
troops.
Until all the gear and equipment
from .nearby Lejeunc and Cherry
Point reaches Morebead City |>ort,
the embarkation point, residents of
the port area c:rn expect to hear
the rumble of convoys lor several
days to come.
Officials Tour
Outer Banks Area
Army engineers, state and local
officials started yesterday from At
lantic on a tour, by boat and car, of
the outer banks.
Making the trip are Col. Harry
Brown, head of the state's hurri
cane rehabilitation project; W. H.
Rogers and R. Markham, state
highway engineers; Gehrmann Hol
land, state fisheries commissioner;
Rudolph Savage, Joseph Caldwell
and Simon Krock, of the Army en
gineers' beach erosion division,
Washington, D. C., and J. A. Du
Bois, manager of the Morehead
City Chamber of Commerce.
The party went from Atlantic to
Drum Inlet, by car from Drum In
let to Swash Inlet, then covered the
same area by boat. They landed
at both ends of Portsmouth Island.
They spent last night at Ocra
cokc and will return to the main
land today.
The survey was made in conjunc
tion with the restoration of the
outer banks areas which have been
severely damaged by storms.
p Lejeune and Cherry Point
i four-day exercise. Operation
f-Turkish straits area the lat
ise in the heart of the area
i headway in the internal af
Interest Grows in Re-Showing
Of Pageant Given Centennial Week
Since comments were requested
in Tuesday's paper regarding re
showing in the future of the pa
geant given Centennial week, sev
eral persons have expressed their
interest.
Miss Lillian Frances C.iddcns,
past president of the Carteret Com
munity Theatre, in a letter to the
editor, commented as follows:
"The Blue and the Grey of Car
teret County" should be presented
every year.
Mr. F. C. Salisbury, the author,'
and Mrs. John llorndon, the difec
tor and elaborator, have begun an
historical epic.
The scale of- the pageant as first
presented was minimum in com-;
parison lo what will be done in
the future if this community has
the pride, foresight, energy and
willingness to undertake a project
so great, a drama so grand as to
equal any pageant in North Caro
lina or surrounding territory.
"The Blue and The Grey" as
presented Aug. 8 and 9 during
Centennial week was in practice
only three weeks before its pre
sentation. It required intensive
thought and practice. What was
accomplished in three weeks by a
few people should certainly be
done by the community organiza
tions under the leadership of a
most capable director.
Every club, order, association
in this county should squarely im
plant firm roots and make "The
Blue and The Grey" our own be
fore already professed interested
"out of county" organizations be
come owners of the pageant. This
pageant should not be presented
at any other place but Carteret
County.
1 salute Mr. Salisbury and Mrs.
John licrndon for their wonderful
work.
Sincerely yours,
Lillian Frances Glddens
President Eisenhower has signed
the bill appropriating $0.503,000 for
Cherry Point Marine Air Base and
$428,000 for Camp Lejcunc.
Newport Board
Acts on Water
System Bids
At a special meeting Tuesday
night at the town hall. Newport
commissioners accepted low bids
on the water tank and installation
of water lines for a total cost of
$110,453.95. Actual contract letting
is subject to the sale of bonds, ten
tatively set for Sept. 17 at Raleigh.
Low bidder on the loo.ooo gallon
steel tank was R. I). Cole Manu
facturing Co., which bid $27,955
and promised completion of the
job in 145 days.
The board agreed that the tank
shall be painted in a green aluinin
ized paint with the letters. New
port, N. t\, in black, on opposite
sides.
C. M. Hefelfinger's alternate No.
1 bid, $82,498.95 for installation of
water lines, was accepted. The
lines will be of cast iron with me
chanical joints.
Rids were opened Tuesday night,
Aug. 20, but acceptance was de
ferred pending recommendations
from the engineers, William F.
Freeman, Inc., High Point.
Mayor Leon Mann Jr. presided
at this week's meeting. All com
missioners were present: Wilbur
(iarner, Bennic R. Garner, Doug
llc.iderson, Dick Lockcy, and li.
C. Gurganus.
The commissioners stressed the
fact that everyone should get his
tap put in while the contractor is
at work. The coel at that time will
be $40. After that the price is $75.
To-let the town know whether a
tap is wanted, homeowners or busi
ness owners should call the town
hall, 2081, Saturday mornings and
register with Jonc Jones, water
clerk.
Gerald Hill
Wins Contest
Beaufort Rotarian Gerald Hill
proved Tuesday night that it
doesn't take new or fancy clothes
to win a beauty contest. Mr. lfill
wore a pair of homemade bcrmuda
shorts and a 31-year-old formal
dinner coat to the club meeting at
the Scout Building. The coat was
part of his wedding suit.
At the other extreme was J. P.
Harris, who wore fancy western
bcrmudas complete with riding
boots and spurs and carried a bull
whip. The other Rotarians were
more or less conventionally dressed
?in bcrmudas. of course.
Mrs. Clarence Noe and Mrs.
Street Wetherington were judges.
After making all the Rotarians
march around the table they se
lected Mr. Hill, David Jones and
the Rev. Edward Sharp as final
ists.
These three made another turn
around the table and the judges
announced that Mr. Hill was (he
winner. He was presented a bro
ken, second-hand knife (which
turned out ot be a new one) by
Glenn Adair, promoter of the con
test.
Mrs. Lillian Davis of the Beau
fort Baptist Church was guest
speaker at the meeting. She told
the club of the Baptists plan to
raise money for their new hospital
in New Bern.
Visitors were llob Howard,
Grady Rich and Bud Dixon, More
head City, sod Stanley Potter Sr.,
Saoford.
Leg Art a la Rotary Club
How well do yon know the meafolkiT These are Beaufort Rotariana
? lower eatrenslUes only ? aa they appeared at their meeting Tues
day night at the Scout building. If you can't loll who those legs bo
Photo by Bob aeyhiour
loo* to, torn to put S, clip oat that pictara and Mltk It to tho lop
of till. Fourteen Rotarlani entered ? coo teal la aelect the Kalaqr
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