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46th YEAR, NO. 71. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1967 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
E. F. Gallagher
Killed Sunday
In Auto Wreck
Four Accidents Occur
On County Highways
Over Holiday Weekend
The county experienced one fa
tality and four wrecks on its high
ways during the Labor Day week
end.
Dead is Kdward F. Gallagher, 30,
of MARS 24. Cherry Point, and in
jured in an accident at 12:30 a.m.
Sunday at Otway were Mr. and
Mrs. M. T. Gillikin, Norfolk, Va.,
and Darrell Lawrence. Otway.
No serious injuries occurred in a
Friday night and a Sunday accident
investigated by State Highway Pa
trolman W. J. Smith Jr.
Gallagher was killed at 11 p.m.
Sunday six miles south of Newport
on the Nine-Foot Road. Patrolman
R. H. Brown said that Gallagher,
in a 1956 Mercury hardtop, was
headed toward Newport at a ter
rific rate of speed and failed to
maneuver a curve.
He left the shoulder of the road
on the right, skidded 400 feet, went
across the road, hurtled through
the air and struck a tree at a point
10 feet from the ground. The car
came to a stop across a ditch.
A wrecker had to pull the top
of the car off to get Gallagher, who
was crushed, out. 11c was alone in
the automobile.
The car hit the tree with its top.
The roof wrapped the trunk. The
driver was wearning a neck brace,
a device necessary as the result
of an injury he sustained in an auto
accident five months ago.
Killed on the same curve earlier
this month were two Cherry Point
Marines, Lloyd T. Heath and
Frederick T. Barbour. Barbour
died several hours after the wreck.
The Gillikins and Lawrence, who
were injured early Sunday morning
at Otway were still in Morehcad
City Hospital yesterday.
Patrolman Brown said it was a
freak accident and he's still not
sure exactly what happened.
Lawrence was In a 1954 Ford
headed west and the Gillikins were
in a 1957 Ford pickup headed east.
Patrolman Brown said the car ap
parently skidded to the left and the
pickup that was meeting him
swerved to the left and as a result
each ended up on the wrong side
of the road with their ride sides
crunched together.
Both vehicles were demolished.
The injured were taken to the hos
pital in the Adair ambulance.
The Gillikins were here visiting
relatives over the Labor Day week
end.
Details on the other two acci
dents investigated by Patrolman
Smith were not available by press
time.
Sheriff Reports
On FBI School
Sheriff Hugh Salter, who spent
his first weekend at home since en
rolling Aug. 19 in the FBI academy
at Washington. I). C? termed the
training "an excellent course" in
an interview Saturday.
With 91 law enforcement officers
from the rest of the country,
the sheriff goes to classes daily
from 9 am. to S p.m. in the justice
department building.
In addition to classwork, there is
physical education and workouts in
the gymnasium where the officers
are taught jui-jilau and methods
of disarming characters carrying
knives, rifles, pistols or other wea
pons.
The week of Sept. IS the sheriff
will be at Quantico. Va.. where the
FBI headquarters building is lo
cated. There the men will be train
ed on the rifle and pistol range
which is equipped with all the mod
ern devices designed to train a man
as an expert shot.
The sheriff returned to Washing
ton last night, lie hopes to spend
every other weekend here. The
course is of 12 weeks' duration.
MM Car Jumps Track
Near Beaufort Thursday
A car of the Beaufort and More
head Railroad jumped the track
west of the bridge across Gallants
Channel Tuesday afternoon.
Opposite the Machine and Supply
Co., the car hit a piece o( steel that
was believed to have been left on
the track by bridge workmen. No
one was hurt in the derailment.
A. T. Leary Jr., of the BAM.
said the car was back on the track
within five hours.
Sprayer Barns
One of the county's mosquito
sprayers caught on fire at t p.m.
Thursday. It was spraying in the
Mansfield Park section when an oil
hose came loose. Oil poured into
the burner and caught the entire
rig on (Ire. Firemen said it was a
complete loss.
Coast Guard Tows Cassandra
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i'hoto by Jerry Schumacncr
With only the peak of its bow above water, the Cassandra is taken in tow by the Coast Guard 30
footer. There was an explosion in the Cassandra's engine room Saturday while the boat was out with
nine people aboard. (See stories at right and below). Men pictured above are Coast Guardsmen.
Haywood Snell Gives Eye-Witness
Account of Boat Explosion, Rescue
Haywood Snell, Beaufort, was i
fishing a short distance from the
Cassandra when it exploded. With
him in his 16-foot boat, powered
with a 40-horsc engine, were John
Ballou, and Mr. and Mrs. Seldon
Sherwood of Morehcad City.
Mr. Snell, who rescued most of
the survivors, gives this account
of the tragedy:
"We were about 200 to 300 yards j
off the beach fishing for mackerel
and hail caught about 15. This big
boat (the Cassandra) was out
there and had made about two
runs up and down the beach.
"She was smoking quite a bit
and we were talking about it, won
dering if it was powered with a
diescl. All of a sudden, we heard
an expLosioq.
"One of the fellows with me. said
'Godamighty, looky yonder!' "
"I looked and we saw debris and
this woman flying through the air.
We jerked our lines in as fast as
we could and went toward the boat.
We got to the woman first. She
(Mrs. Sterling Nicholson) looked
as though she was about gone.
"The water was a little choppy
and we circled. The colored boy
(Sam Gill) was standing at the
back of the boat. He called to us,
'White folks, come get nje. I can't
swim nary a lick.'
"By that time we had got back
Carteret Towns Will Receive
$40,570 in Powell Bill Funds
Owner Rewards
Finder of Gems
Cherry Point, N. C. (AP)-? Ma
rine Sgt. Orren Bell last month
found a leather purse on a beach.
His wife, who was swimming
with him. opened the purse to what
looked like inexpensive costume
jewelry.
"Before then," he said, "I
wouldn't have known a diamond
ring in platinum settings if I found
one in an oyster."
The count ran up to $3,000 worth
of diamonds.
There was no identification in the
purse or on it. Not knowing what
to do. Bell decided to see a friend.
Bill Condic of the Morohead City
police. Condic turned them over
to Sheriff Hugh Salter of Carteret
County. He re turned them to Mrs.
Allie Dale Fay in Kinston.
"I prayed that whoever found
them would turn them in," Mrs.
Fay wrote Sergeant Bell. "I thank
the Lord they were found."
Mrs. Fay returned to Morchead
City last week and presented a
sterling silver plate to the Bells.
Tide Table
Tide* at the Beaufort Bar
(Eaatcrn Standard Time)
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Sept. 3
3:40 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
4:08 p.m. 10:41 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept 4
4:43 a.m. 10:54 a.m
5:06 p.m. 11:30 p.m.
Tharaday, Sept. 5
5:3# a m. 11:43 a m
5:57 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 6
6:27 a.m. 12:15 a.m.
?:U pjn. 12:30 p.m.
to the woman and it looked as
though she couldn't stay afloat,
so John went over the side and
held her up.
"We went back and got the col
ored fellow and then picked up
John and the woman. All this
sounds as though it took a long
time, but it all happened in a few
seconds.
"Then we got the others. We
had five in the boat and two hang
ing on the side. There was a big
boat nearby and we hollered to
them to conic help us. Wc liked
to never have got them over.
"There were so many in my
boat, we couldn't make any head
way. Well, this big boat took some
and John and Seldon also swam
to another boat.
"That left me. Mrs. Sherwood,
the colored boy and Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholson in my boat. ! don't know
I whether Mrs. Nicholson was con
scious or not. She didn't say any
thing. She just lay there in her
husband's arms.
"When I got over by the Fort
j Macon Coast Guard station, I met
the Coast Guard coming out and
told them to phone for an ambu
lance to come to the Sanitary fish
market dock where I was headed.
"When we got there, there wasn't
a doctor around hut some man,
who was sitting on the edge of a
I boat came up and said he was a
? More than forty thousand dollars
will come to Carteret County
towns through Powell bill funds for
the fiscal year 1957.
The exact figure is $40,570.94. The
money accrues from the half cent
of the six-cent state gasoline tax
and is used by municipalities in
maintaining and improving non
highway system streets.
Allocations, town by town, are
as follows: Atlantic Beach $2,734.84
for 5.42 miles; Beaufort $10,483.44
for 7.54 miles; Emerald Isle, $3,
533.54 for 7.28 miles; Morchcad
City $20,053.19 for 18.6 miles and
Newport $3,765.93 for 4.8 miles.
In addition to mileage, the
amount allotted is also based on
population. Census figures of 1950
are used. i
More than 400 towns throughout
the state are sharing in a total of
$6,477,032.18 in Powell bill funds.'
Checks arc now in the process of
being mailed.
Pdwell bill funds have shown a
42 per cent increase in seven years,
rising from $4,543.096.20 in 1951 to
the 1957 figure of nearly six and
one-half million dollars. A total of
$38,536,207.29 will have been dis
tributed with the issuance of this
years' checks.
The fund has shown an annual
increase due to the ever-growing
volumes of traffic using highways, i
roads, and streets.
Six municipalities have been
added since last year. They are
Cove City, Danbury, Emerald Isle,
Middlcburg, Speed and Teachey.
Cities and towns become eligible
for Powell bill funds by performing
certain functions necessary to qual
ify under the law including the col
lection of ad valorem taxes, the
election of city governing officials
and the filing of necessary data
with the State Highway Commision
before the limiting date.
Half of the total Po#ell bill al
locations, $3,238,516.00. is to be di
vided among qualified municipali
ties on the basis of population at
a per capita rate of $2.12. The
doctor and could he help. I told
him 'Yes, sir' and he looked at the
woman and then they were taken
off in the Dill ambulance.
"The captain of the Cassandra
(A1 Arnold) deserves a lot of cre
dit. The minute the explosion hap
pened, he grabbed the C02 extin
guishcr and sprayed the engine
room and killed any flames that
might have started.
"He was the last man off his
boat. The boat didn't go to the
bottom because there were two or
three air tanks forward. But she
went down, so that she was just
level with the water, in about four
minutes."
Like the prophetess Cassandra in
the Greek tragedy. Agemmemnon.
the 44-footer's smoking had belched
out a prophecy of doom. The Coast
Guard's 30-footcr took her V ,uw
until the tug from Cannon boat
works took over.
Mr. Snell and Mr. Ballou went
back to the scene after they had
brought the survivors in safely to
see if they could find anything in
the water that could be salvaged,
but only useless debris was float
ing.
The Cassandra was on the ways
at Cannon's yesterday. The owner
carried insurance on it, but it had
not been determined by press time
whether cost of repairing the boat
would exceed the sale price.
population of the 405 eligible mu
nicipalities is 1,524,409.
The remaining half is divided on
Ihe basis of relative mileage of
non-highway system or local ftrcets
of municipalities complying with
the act at a per mile rate of $485.38
The total length of such streets this
year is 6,672.18 miles.
Allocations may be made only to
legally incorporated municipalities
which qualify under the law. Many
legally incorporated towns fail to
qualify while other populous com
munities in the state have never
incorporated and arc thereby in
eligible.
The Powell bill funds for each
municipality are figured to the pen
ny by the Division of Statistics and
Planning headed by James S.
Burch.
Marshallberg Firemen
Save Smyrna Home
Marshallberg firemen saved a
Smyrna home from being destroy
ed by fire Friday night.
The fire was at the home of Miss
la lira Gertrude Smith. S3, who had
died Friday morning. The blare is
believed to have started around the
refrigerator.
Beaufort firemen were called in
case additional help was needed
Water was taken from the Beaufort
rural truck. Elmond Rhuc, Beau
fort engineer, said Marshallberg
firemen did a good job in keeping
the fire under control.
Danger Area
The eommanding general. Camp
Lejeune, reports that today, tomor
row and Friday from 0:30 a.m. to
3 p.m. the area t'^i miles north of
Boguc Inlet to 10 miles south of
New River Inlet 21.000 yards sea
ward will be used for firing exer
cises. Firing will be In progress
Thursday from 7 a.m. to 3 pm. In
land waterway traffic will not be
affected.
44-Foot Boat Explodes; Nine
Saved by Nearby Fishermen
It's Kick-Off Time
Kill); Football will soon be oil the throne again in
Carteret.
The Seashore Conference has before it a season that
could be one of the best ill its history.
THIS NEWS-TIMES is pleased to present, in Ihis is
sue, pictures of some of the players you will see in con
ference action this year. The emphasis, of course, is on
Carteret County teams, including Queen Street's mighty
squad, also Swansboro, a conference neighbor in Onslow.
Readers will do well to note the advertisers in the foot
ball section ?- these are the businessmen who are glad
to let folks know that they're backing the teams a hun
dred per cent. They are the men w ho make it possible
for us to bring football fans, the players and their par
ents the 75 pictures in today's football section plus the
numerous football stories. We hope this section will
provide material for those highly-prized serapbooks
many fans and high school students keep.
There's one thing about it? you can't clip a broad
cast or a tv program and paste it in a book for a keep
sake.
No extra issues of today's paper have been published.
If anyone would like extra copies, he would do well to
pick them up at a newsstand without delay.
THE NEWS-TIMES joins the other businessmen in the
football section in giving a rousing cheer for the teams.
We hope all have a big. Wonderful season.
Judge Fines Phillip Long
$100, Costs Thursday
Judge Lamliert Morris fined i
Phillip Ix>ng $1(K) and costs for I
illegal possession of whiskey in i
Thursday's session of county re
corder's court.
Gary E. Masters got the next
heaviest fine?$15 and costs for
driving without a driver's license
and without a muffler.
Two drivers were fined $10 and
costs each. They were Van B liig
don. following too close, and Rob
crt E Gibson, driving faster tha/\
conditions permitted.
James L. Abercrombie and Claud
Morning Jr., both charged with
passing bad checks, were ordered
to pay the checks and court eosts.
Others who paid costs were Lu
cille Smith, drunk on the highway;
William E. Garner, improper regis
t rat ion; Ernest Barrett, failure to
comply with a former court order;
and Kdmond Milolac/.ak, speeding.
Those who forfeited bonds were
James D. Buffkin, speeding in a
truck; Luther Guthrie, passing im
properly; William F. Adams,
speeding, running a stop sign and
refusing to show his driver's li
cense; Fulford Peclc, llarmond
Willis and Ivey Austin Jr., viola
tion of shrimp laws.
Larry G. Arnold, no brakes or
registration card; Dongalc George,
no chauffeur's license; Eddie Mar
tin Jr. driving a truck with a load
in excess of its licensed weight;
Tommic Lewis and Henry G. Russ,
speeding.
Raymond T. Jones, improper
passing and driving on the wrong
side of the road; Don Gallon,
drunk on the highway; and Her
bert C. Traxlcr, no muffler.
Three defendants were not tried
due to lack of evidence. They were
Rcnec W. Johnson, no driver's li
cense; and Ainmic Harklcy and
Edward Evans, assault.
Enrollment Up
At Queen Street
L. It Johnson, principal of
Queen Street School. Beaufort, ex
pects an enrollment of 632 pupils
Ihis year, an increase of at least
24 over last year's enrollment.
School opens this morning.
Only those may be enrolled in
first grade who will be 6 years
old on or before Oct. 15.
Members of the Queen Street
faculty this year are the follow
ing: high school. John Tillery, Miss
Betty Reeves. Miss Evelyn Pas
teur. Miss Alice Hutchinson. Miss
G. L. Atkinson, Abe Thurman.
Elementary grades: Mrs. S. W.
Windley, Mrs. J. D. Collins, Mrs.
M. O. Willaims. S. H. Barrow,
coach: Mrs. D. P. Smith. Mrs C.
II. Lewis. Mrs. O. B. Davis, Miss
Vernicc Evans. ,
Mrs. M H. Godetlc, Mrs. E. M.
Wilson. Mrs. V. S. Collins, Mrs.
L. R. Johnson, and Mrs. Bculah
II Harris.
The faculty has increased by one
teacher this year, and two subjects
have been added to tbe curriculum,
elementary trigonometry and driv
er education. Mr. Johnson will
teach driver education.
A sailor was hurt at the More
head City port about 11:15 Friday
morning and was rushed by Navy
ambulance to tba hospital.
R. M. McClain
Supervises Six
Loan Offices
W. II. Clayton, Raleigh, rire
president in charge of First-Citi
zens Hank and Trust Co., install
ment loan departments announces
the promotion of Richard M. Mc
Clain. Morehead City, as assistant
vice-president in charge of a group
Richard M. McClain
.. . assistant vice-president
of the chain bank's installment
loan departments extending from
Kinston eastward ? Kinston, New
Bern, Morchead City. Havcolck,
Jacksonville and Beaufort.
Mr. MeClain opened the install
ment loan department of the Morc
head City branch of First-Citizens
in April 1950, and has been its head
since. His place at Morchead City
has been assumed by E. B. Flem
ing.
Mr. McClain will assume the du
ties of Nolan P. Shuler Jr., who
resigned his First-Citizens vice
presidency to take a similar posi
tion with South Carolina National
Bank at Columbia, S. C.
While with First-Citizens, Mr.
Sec PROMOTIONS, Page 4
Car Hits Truck,
J. A. Lloyd Cited
A 1951 Chevrolet truck parked
at 204 N. 13th St. wss hit Saturday
night. Morchead City police arc
now trying to determine who wai
driving the 1936 Ford that hit the
truck. The truck i? owned by Owen
G. Henderson of Morchead City.
Damage totaled about $100, police
say.
James A. Yloyd told police that
the Ford is owned by Bennie C.
Newaoinc of route 1, Morchead
City. He said that he had borrow
ed the car and had left it parked
in front of Ifudley's place. Just
around the eorner from the scene
of the accident.
Someone, he said, took the car
while he was inside and wreckad it.
Capt. C. E. Bunch cited him to
court to stand trial for information
and belief of careless and reckless
driving.
? Nine residents of Durham and Charlotte had a close
brush with death at 11 :40 a.m. Saturday when the 'I t-foot
privately-owned cruiser, Cassandra, from which they were
fishing, exploded three miles east of Beaufort Inlet.
Aboard the boat, owned by J. llaues l.assiter, Charlotte,
were Mr. Lassitcrand his wife; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Nichols
Jr., Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. Stcrl-<
? ng .1. Nicholson of Durham and
Morchcad City; Charles Allen of
Durham. Sam Gill. Charlotte, and
Al Arnold, captain of the boat. Wil
mington.
Mr. and Mrs. Lassiter were not
admitted to the hospital although
Mrs. Lassiter suffered slight shock
I and Mr. Lassiter had minor foot
injuries.
I?cgs Broken
Doth of Mr. Nichols' legs were
broken between the knee and the
ankle when he was thrown against
the top of the cabin. His wife suf
fered a broken heel. Both may In
moved from Morchcad City Hos
pital to Charlotte by ambulance
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson were dis
charged from the Morehead City
Hospital Sunday morning. Mr.
Nicholson suffered burns and Mrs. i
Nicholson, who was thrown 30 feet
from the boat and almost drowned,
was suffering from shock.
The captain was not injured and
Gill. Negro boat boy. suffered cuts |
and bruises.
The explosion occurred in the en
gine room and is believed to have
been due to a spark igniting gaso
line in the bilge. The back end of
the boat was blown out and the
boat sank level with the water.
After the survivors were picked
up by other boats in the area, the
Coast Guard towed the Cassandra
to Cannon boat works, west of
Morchcad City.
Based at Wrightsvillc
The Cassandra is based at
Wrightsvillc Beach and according
to Mr. Nichols, had just been com
pletely overhauled and equipped
with two new engines. The boat
was built in 11)35.
The Lassiters hail been vacation
ing in Morehead City for several
weeks prior to the Saturday acci
dent, and had been joined by the
othef portions in their party for the
Labor Day weekend.
Persons who rescued the sur
vivors were Haywood Snell, Beau
fort, and his party (see eye-witness
account), C. W. Hamilton Sr. and
Jr., 104 Kricson St.. Portsmouth,
Va., and L. H. Smith, 105 Calico
Dr., Morchcad City, who were in
Mr. Smith's 16-foot runabout, the
Lazy M. Identity of a third larger
boat which gave aid could not be
learned.
Mr. Smith said that he and his
party were about "two city blocks"
away from the Cassandra. He
heard the explosion and thought
for a second it was target practice.
"Then we looked and it was just
like you see in the movies,'* Mr.
Smith related, "the back end of
the boat was disintegrating and
debris was flying everywhere."
The Lazy M went to the scene
and Mr. and Mrs. Nichols clung to
the side until they could be pulled
aboard. Mr. Smith took them to
the dock near the emergency en
trance at the Morchcad City Hos
pital and there they were put on
stretchers and taken into the hos
pital.
When interviewed at the hospital
yesterday morning, Mr. Nichols
said, "We re all glad to be alive.
It was wonderful the way those
other fishing boats rallied 'round
and helped us."
Morehead City
Lions Win Awards
Ton members of the Morehead
City Lions Cluh won attendance
pins at the club's Thursday night
meeting at the Hotel Fort Macon.
Winning pins for perfect attend
ance last year were Owens Fred
erick, Jack Morgan, Elmer Wat
son, Victor Wickizcr, John I). Wil
lis. John T. Willis. A. N. Willis.
C. W. Williams, J. G. Bennett and
O. N. Allrcd
Dr. Russell Outlaw was speaker
at the meeting, lie gave a program
on eye care. Since September is
Lions Sight Conservation Month,
Dr. Outlaw mentioned the dcffcr
cnt causes of blindness and showed
how some of them could be avoid
ed.
A. N. Willis won the club at
tendance prize.
It was reported that the club had
bought a suitcase for a blind man
who plans to go to a school for
the blind.
Rescue Truck Rushes
Frank Joyner to Hospital
Frank Joyner, fin* Broad St.,
Beaufort. was rushed to the More
head City Iloapital at 12:20 p.m.
Saturday by the Beaufort reaeue
truck.
Joyner auffcred a heart attack at
Pollock and Broad Streets and
Chief Guy Springlc summoned the
rescue truck to take him to the
hoopttal. lie was still confined to
the hospital yesterday.
Warren Beck
Names Heads
Of Committees
Warren Beck, Morehcad City,
chairman of the Eastern North
Carolina Baptist Hospital fund
drive, has announced his commit
tee heads as follows:
Memorial tributes, Bernard
Leary, chairman, W. C. Carlton,
vice-chairman; special Rifts, Jim
my Wallace, chairman, Frank
Moran, vice-chairman; corpora
tions committee, Jasper Bell,
chairman; Don Shanor, vice-chair
man.
Industrial, E. B. Thompson,
chairman, John ORlcsby, vice
chairman; commercial, W. I). Mun
den, chairman; Frank Cheek, vice
chairman; residential, Mrs. Cecil
Nelson, chairman, Mrs. Carl Ball,
vice-chairman.
Clubs and organizations, Frank
Moran, chairman, Mr. Carlton and
Herbert Phillips III, vice-chair
men; churches, Leslie Brinson,
chiarman and Carl Ball, vice
chairman; publicity, Jerry J. Wil
lis, chairman and Charles C. Willis
and Mrs. Haywood McBride, vice
chairmen.
Mr. Beck points out that contri
butions in the $ti0<),000 hospital fund
drive may be paid over a two year
period at the rate of as little as $2
a month.
Administrator
Lists Needs
Of Hospital
David Willis, administrator of
the Morehead City Hospital, was
guest speaker at the Morehead City
Rotary Club meeting at the Rex
Restaurant Thursday night.
Mr. Willis outlined the present
needs of the hospital to the club.
He said that he was proud of the
hospital as it now exists. "It has
the finest of equipment and an ex
cellent staff," he commented.
"The hospital needs more rooms
and more equipment," he explain
ed, "not to replace what we have,
but to supplement it. The hospital
just wasn't built to take care of
the number of people that arc now
treated there."
Mr. Willis was the guest of Ro
tarian Dr. John Morris. Other
guests were Riifus Butner, More
head City, Allen Knott, Frank
Fitzgerald, Charles Carter and
Halt Braxton, Kinston, Tom Powell,
and Joe Kirchcimer, Raleigh,
Jim Fleming and Frank Preissle,
Greenville, and S. W. Wooten,
Goldsboro.
Kenneth Wagner had three Egyp
tians as his guests. They are stu
dents at the University of North
Carolina. Chapel Hill. William
Tadros, Wadic Michael and Magdi
El Kammcsh gave brief talks to
the club.
Holding Brothers Elected
To Top Banking Positions
Robert P. Holding Jr., was elect
ed chairman of the board of First
Citizens Rank and Trust Co. and
his brother, Lewis R. Holding,
president, at a meeting of the
board of directors Friday at Smith
field following the death of their
father, R. P. Holding Sr. who had
been president and board chair
man since the founding of the
chain bank.
Frank Broadhurst was elected
senior vice-president and comptrol
ler and H. L. Stephenson, senior
vice-president.
First Citizens bank has three
branches in Carteret: Newport,
Morehead City and Beaufort.
J. A. DuBois Reports
On Heavy Mail Volume
J. A. DuBois. manager of the
Morehead City Chamber of Com.
merre, rrporta that 350 inquiries
have come to the chamber in 30
days.
Of that number. 221 were re
directed to the chamber from the
?tale advertising division and the
remainder was general and routine
office correspondence.
Mr. DuBois attributed the heavy
volume of mail to state advertising
and recent advertising on the Coo