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46th YEAR, NO. 73. EIGHT PAGES PLUS COMICS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
County Appeals
For Emergency
Mosquito Funds
The county board of health has
passed a resolution requesting
emergency funds to fight the cur
rent plague of mosquitoes.
The resolution asks that the state
board of health provide extra funds
and if there are not funds avail
able through that department that
an appeal bo made to the gover-1
nor to provide more money.
The county's funds have been!
exhausted. A. I). Fulford, Mos
quito control officer, said Friday.
The total allotted the county and
towns for spraying this summer
was $8,565.69. The county received
$4,865.69 Morchead City $1,950 and
Beaufort $1,750.
The resolution, signed by Dr. |
Luther Fulcher, health officer, and
by M C. Howard, chairman of the
board of health, pointed out that
"there appears to be an emergen
cy, caused by the glut of salt
marsh mosquitoes ... to the extent
that life is almost unbearable . . .
funds originally allocated and set
aside for Carteret County to be
used for mosquito control have
been exhausted.
"There is such suffering on the
part of our people and no local
funds available with which to take
care of such an emergency, there
fore, the board requests that the
State Board of Health request ad
ditional funds to cope with the
present emergency . . .
"If no such funds exist with the
Board of Health at this time, that,
an appeal be made to the governor ,
to provide such emergency funds i
at once,"
Trawler Burns
At Beaufort
Dock Saturday
The 56-foot fishing trawler June '
T caught on fire while it was tied
to the Gulf dock in Beaufort at 2:40
p.m. Saturday. Damage was esti
mated at $5,000 by Coast?.Guards
men who helped extinguish the
blaze. The boat is owned by Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Tcich of Adams
Creek.
Workmen at the Gulf station
smcllcd smoke and went to the
dock to investigate. There they saw
smoke coming out of the hold of
the vessel. They called the Coast
Guard and the Beaufort Fire De
partment.
The firemen had the fire nearly
under control when the Coast
Guard arrived by boat. After the
fire was out, the Coast Guardsmen
stayed and pumped the water out
of the trawler.
Beaufort Fire Chief Herbert
Whitehurst said that the fire was
probably caused by defective wir
ing.
The June T was built last sum
mer and shrimped in North Caro
lina and Florida waters. She has
been shrimping out of Beaufort for
several weeks this summer.
Truck, Car Collide
Saturday Morning
A 11151 Ford and a 1952 Chevro
let truck collided on Arendcll
Street at Camp Glenn at 12:05 a.m.
Saturday. Lt. Joe Smith of the
Morchead City Folice Department
charged Albert K. Johnson Jr.,
Morchead City, driver of the ear,
with driving drunk and driving
without a license. The driver of the
truck, David D. Cuddahy, Cherry
Point, was charged with careless
and reckless driving.
Lt. Smith said that Johnson was
driving cast at about 50 mph when
he ran into the rear of the truck
which had slowed suddenly to turn. I
11c estimated damage to the car at
$500 and to the truck at $50.
Rotarians Show Slides
Of Centennial Parade
Morchead City Rotarian II. S.
Cibbs Jr. and Lcc Nance of Aydcn
took charge of the Rotary Club
meeting at the Rex Restaurant
Thursday night. They showed color
slides that they took during tbc
Centennial parade.
The club presented A. B. Mor
ton with an engraved cigarette
lighter. Mr. Morton drove the truek
that pulled the Rotary Club float
in the parade.
Other guests at the meeting were
Charles Carter and Allen Knott of
Kinston. Ed Willard of Sea Level
and C. W. Stamper of Beaufort.
No Poll Tax
Members of the Beaufort, Down
East, Morchead and Newport Fire
Departments need not pay poll tax
this year. County Commissioner
Odell Merrill said yesterday that
he hat learned through the Insti
tute of Local Government that fire
men are exempt from poll tax.
Those who have already paid it will
bave the tax refunded.
Chief Demonstrates Safety Machine
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Morehead City Police Chief Herbert Griffin demonstrates the city's new safety teaching machine to po
lice commissioner Ted Garner, center, and Mayor George Dill, right.
The Morehcad City Police De
partment bought a safety-teaching
device Thursday afternoon. The
machine is in two parts. One is a
model street intersection, complete
with four miniature cars and traf
fic signals. The other is a panel
with 18 signs commonly seen along
the highway. It cost $600.
Police Chief Herbert Griffin says
the machine will he used in con
junction with safety lectures he
plans to give at schools, youth
meetings and civic club meetings.
The chief raised the money to
pay for the machine himself, lie
got contributions from the Com
mercial National Bank, Morchcad
City Garment Co., Capt. Ottis
Purifoy, Sound Chevrolet Co., I
Mure he a (I City Drug Co. and White
way Laundry.
Three thousand eight - page
pamphlets are included with the
machine. The booklet contains
rules for safe bicycling, safe walk
ing and safe driving.
The machine was invented by I
E. M. llanna, Aiken, S. C., police]
chief.
Water Committee Members
Report to County Board
II. S. Gibbs Jr., chairman of
the newly appointed county water
committee, and W. II. Potter Jr.,
member of the committee, ap
peared before the county board
yesterday morning at the court
house to report that the committee
would undertake the work outlined
for them.
Mr. Gibbs said he would write
to the state water commissioners
for" additional information on the
committee's duties. Moses Howard,
chairman of the board, said that
David Jones, county soil conser
vationist, who is a member of the
committee, could explain some of
the committee's functions.
Mr. Potter told the board that
time and transportation would be
involved and commended the board
for appointing a water committee.
Mr. Gibbs stated that he would
call a meeting of the committee
to get the water study under way.
Luther Hamilton Jr., attorney,
appeared before the board and re
quested that the board declare as
a "neighborhood road" a road in
the Russclls Creek section. He said
that a client who has property at
the end of the road can't get a loan
unless the road is on the county
system.
Since the road does not have
four families on it, as the high
way department requires. John J,.
Humphrey, road superintendent,
said he did not think it could be
put on the system. Chairman How
ard said he would consult highway
officials.
No Action
Julius Willis, Davis, api>carrd
before the board to request an ad
justment in back taxes. The board
took no action.
Turned over to Alvah Hamilton,^
county attorney, was a letter from
Eugene Shaw, state revenue com
missioner, asking the county to
verify a population of 125 on
Emerald Isle in connection with
distribution of beer and wine tax !
revenue.
Sgt. Dennis Goodwin, adminis
trative officer of the Morehcad
City National Guard unit, appeared
before the" "board and requested a
payment to the guard of $30 a
month. The board said such an
item had not been provided in the
budget, but the board would con
sider the matter when the next
budget was drawn up.
Purchase Authorized
The board authorized James 1>.
Potter, county auditor, to proceed
with purchase of a microfilm ma
chine if an easy payment plan can
be worked out with the manufac
turer. The machine is now being
used in the clerk of court's office.
A. H. James, clerk, said that
microfdming will conserve space
and wdl eliminate the necessity
of building an extra building to
store records. Cost of the machine,
he said, is $2,100.
Commissioner Odcll Merrill in
quired whether taxes were pay
able on a firm which had gone
out of business. He said that he
and a partner had the Snow White
Launderette in Beaufort. The laun
dry went out of business in 1953
but in 1954 a lax notice was re
ceived. The bogrd said that if per
sonal property were listed for the
business in 1954, the taxes were
payable.
The board drew jurors for the
one-week term of Civil court, be
ginning Oct. 14.
Two Unhurt As
Car Turns Over
Two persons escaped without in
jury at 9:30 Wednesday night when '
the car in which they were riding
upset 200 feet east of the Carteret
Craven line on Highway 70.
Driving the 1953 Plymouth was
Raymond John White, MABS 27.
Cherry Point. With him was Pvt
Barbara Dubyak, WMD2, Cherry
Point.
Patrolman R. II. Brown said
that the accident occurred during
a heavy rain. White was going
west at 50 miles an hour, when
his car ran off the right on a
curve. It skidded and turned on
its top in a ditch. No charges were
preferred.
Damage to the car was estimated
at $400.
With the Armed Forces
Lcdr. Troy Morris Takes
Part in Training Cruise
Key West, Kli.?Among the Na
vy's "Weekend Warriors" partici
pating with Anti-Submarine Squad
ron Mil in its annual two-week
training cruise at Naval Air Sta
tion, Key West, is I-cdr Troy Mor
ris, Morehcad City. Commander
Morris is the maintenance officer
of VS Mil.
Members of Anti - Submarine
Squadron Mil arc called "Weekend
Warriors" because they go on ac
tive duly one weekend each month
in addition to their annual two
weeks' active duty.
VS Mil condurted Operation
"Contact Thirty-Six" as part of its
two-week training program. This
operation, first for a Reserve
Squadron, called for a continuous
tracking of submarines from the
Key West area. The plane "on
target" had lo remain there until
bis relief arrived to take over.
The success of a mission of this
type calls for close cooperation of
pilots, crew members and support
personnel on the ground
VS Mil uses the S2F "Tracker,"
twin engincd anti-submarine
plane built by Grumman. The
Tracker" is the same plane used
in the regular Navy to find and
sink enemy submarines. This
plane carries all the latest elec
tronic equipment developed by
Navy research.
"Firsts" arc not strangers to
VS 861?in 1955 they were the first
Reserve Squadron to operate sin- j
gle-engined planes outside of the
continental limits of the United
States. This operation was con
ducted at Guantananio Bay, Cuba,
while the squadron was assigned
AF's or "Guardian," a single en
gine anti-submarine plane.
The squadron still has a few
vacancies for both pilots and crew
members. Anyone interested in
joining Reserve Squadron VS 861,
can obtain additional information
by writing I.cdr. Morris, Box 463,
Morchead City.
Swiss Liner to Sail
From Wilmington in 1958
The Swiss liner, MV Arosa Sky,
will sail from Wilmington Jan. 9
and March 17, 1958 on two cruises
to lite West Indies and South Amer
ica.
John E. Smith Jr., president of
the Caribbean Cruise Lines, who
has scheduled the sailings, said
that his firm may schedule a
cruise from Morehead City to the
Caribbean in the fall of 1958. J. D.
Holt, manager of the Morehead
City port, said yesterday there ia
nothing definite on that proposal as
y?t.
County Board Studies School
Needs, Control of Mosquitoes
Lonzy Bell Waives Hearing
In Morehead City Court
Leslie Morton
Waives Shotgun
Assault Hearing
Leslie Morton, charged with as
saulting a police officer with a
shotgun, was bound over to su
perior court yesterday under $1,000
bond.
Morehead City recorder's court
judge Herbert Phillips gave him a
90-day suspended sentence for dis
turbing the peace and forcible tres
pass at the home of Mrs. Joseph
Willis on N. 201 h St.
Mrs. Willis called police at 3 a.m.
Saturday and asked them to come
to her house because Morton was
there causing a disturbance. When
they arrived, Morton had left, so
they asked her to go to the station
and swear out a warrant for him.
Lt. Joe Smith and Patrolmen
Buck Newsome and Junior O'Neal
took the warrant to Morton's house
at Macon Court to pick him up.
Morton met them at the baek door
and told them to leave.
He then closed the back door,
got a shotgun and sneaked around
the front of the house. He caught
all three of the policemen and or
dered them to stand still.
After talking for several minutes,
Lieutenant Smith walked over to
him to show him the warrant
When Morton reached for the war
rant the policeman dropped his
flashlight, grabbed the shotgun and
jerked Morton to the ground.
Morton, who was described as
I being about half drunk, jumped
! off the ground and came after the
' offieer. lieutenant Smith dropped
the shotgun and hit Morton with
i his fist, knocking him to the
i ground.
Morton came baek for more and
I Lieutenant Smith knocked him
j down again and the other policc
I men got him handcuffed before
1 he could get back up.
Lieutenant Smith, by the way.
removed the shell from the shot
gun and is carrying it around in
ja safe place: his pocket.
Theatre to Meet
The Carteret Community Theatre
will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the
recreation building, Morehead City.
Lonzy "Baltimore" Hell waived
preliminary hearing in Morehead |
City recorder's eourt yesterday. He |
is charged with assault with a 1
deadly weapon with intent to kill
Allan George, colored janitor of the i
Morehead City School.
Hell was picked up at 2 a.m. Sat- 1
urday after George was shot in the !
right leg in front of Dudley's
Place, 1313 Fisher St. Lt. Joe
Smith of the Morehead City police
force caught Bell as he was walk
ing across the school ballfield.
He readily admitted shooting
George and said that he had meant
to kill him. according to Lieutenant
Smith, lie told the police officer
that he had only one shot in the
gun and threw it away after shoot
ing George.
Lieutenant Smith says that
George and Bell had been having
trouble all Friday afternoon. Bell
then got the gun and hid in some I
bushes near Dudley's and waited
for George to show up.
When his victim did appear, Bell
cut down on him but shot low be- '
cause the bushes spoiled his aim.
George had three buckshot re
moved from his knee.
Bell is being held without bond
to await trial in superior court.
Police found the shotgun Sunday
when some colored children were
playing with it.
Goldsboro Man
Struck by Car
The funeral service for David
Mozingo. 44. Goldsboro. who was
accidentally killed in an automobile
accident near Goldsboro Friday
night , was conducted Sunday af
ternoon.
Mc* Mozingo was struck by a car
driven by Miss Daisy Brock of
Morehead City. According to the
state highway patrol. Mr. Mozingo
got out of his car and stepped into
the path of Miss Brock's automo
bile. which was proceeding east.
With Miss Brock, who is em
ployed at Raleigh, was Miss Bar
bara Oglesby of Morehead City.
No inquest was held and Mrs. Mo
zingo. who was with her husband j
at the time of the accident, said
her husband opened the door of
his car and got out just as the
Brock car was going past.
Besides his wife, Mr. Mozingo
is survived by six children, six
sisters and two brothers.
The county's school needs over the next 10 years and
the current need for whipping the mosquitoes were dis
cussed by the county board at its session yesterday after
noon.
Members of the County Board of Education presented
county commissioners with a comprehensive report on the
growth of (he number of pupils4
since 1917, the school facilities add- |
ed and the school facilities that will \
Ik* needed by 11161.
The education board specifically
requested a million dollars now and
a second million five years from
now.
The comprehensive report (which '
will be given in detail in Friday's i
paper) was presented by II. L.
Joslyn, county superintendent of!
schools. George Roberts Wallace, I
member of the board of education. |
suggested that a joint committee
from the county board and the edu
cation board be appointed to work
out details of financing.
Such a committee was not ap
pointed yesterday but the county ,
hoard accepted the education |
board's report and said the matter |
would Ik* studied.
A. I). Fulford, sanitarian, in
charge of mosquito control, pre
sented a financial report on the I
mosquito control program covering I
the period from June 13 to Sept. 6.
1957. Mr. Fulford said that at pres-1
ent the county has spent $149 401
more than it has on hand for mos
quito control.
The board authorized him to con
tinue with the spraying program
| in the hope that the state will allot
I emergency funds to Carteret and
I that the county's remaining allot
ment for 1957-58, which is $2,000, |
will be available soon.
Commissioner Skinner Chalk's
question. "What will we do for
! money next summer?" was not
answered.
I Chairman Moses Howard report
ed that Mr. Ussery. entomologist
. with the State Board of Health,
| spent two and a half days in the
county last week studying the mos
quito problem.
Chairman Howard expressed ap
prcciation to Beaufort, Morehead
City and Newport for lending the
county the spraying machines while
the county's machines were out of
commission last week.
Mr. Fulford said that a new I
truck and new, larger spraying ma-1
chine were scheduled to be deliver
ed yesterday afternoon.
Commissioner Harrell T a y 1 o r |
commented that the spraying pro
gram is necessary, but it doesn't
go far enough. "Not until you de
stroy the breeding grounds will you
be able to get rid of the mosqui
toes," he said.
Mr. Fulford estimated that $3,000 |
is needed to carry out spraying un
til the end of the season, which |
will be "the first killing frost".
Appointing of a county Civil De-1
fense director was discussed, but j
no action was taken.
Robert F. Garner, county elec
trical inspector, was appointed to
make monthly electrical inspec
tions of the schools.
Woman Ordered
To Leave Town
j Patricia McMahon, 21, gf Massa
chusetts was given 24 hours to
leave Morehead City yesterday by
Herbert Phillips, judge of More
head City recorder's court.
She was charged with breaking
and entering Aspenberg's Grocery
and cohabitation with Phillip B.
Moore. Moore appealed a one-year
jail term when he was convicted.
Morehead City patrolmen Buck
Ncwsome and Junior O'Neal
spotted the woman walking down
Bridges Street at 1:30 a.m. Satur
day morning with a package. She
tried to hide when she saw the car
and when they stopped to sec what
was wrong she said that some men
had been after her.
The policemen carried her to her
apartment, only to find odt later
that Aspenberg's Grocery had heen
robbed. They started a search for
her (she had disappeared from her
apartment) that ended in her ar
rest by 14. Joe Smith, who got a
tip on where she had gone.
Moore was picked up at the
apartment where the policemen
had dropped the McMahon woman.
Tide Table
Tide* it the Beaufort Bur
(Eastern Standard Time)
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Sept. I*
* 54 a.m. 2:52 a.m.
2:03 p.m. 3:11 p.m.
Wedneaday, Sept. II
9:27 a.m. 3:23 a.m.
9:33 p.m. 3:44 p.m.
Thuraday, Sept. 12
t:5d a.m. 3:50 a.m.
9:59 p.m. 4:14 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 13
10:24 a.m. 4:13 a.m.
10:30 p.m. 4:42 p.m.
Two Accidents
Occur Within
Hour Saturday
Two accidents occurred within
an hour Saturday night in the west
ern part of the county. One was
at the same spot on the Nine-Foot
Road where three persons have
inet death in the past month.
Fortunately, the driver of the
car in that accident was not hurt
He was Lt. Kobert T. Roche, Cher
ry Point, who was along at the
time, according to Patrolman W.
J. Smith Jr.
Roche was headed toward New
port, when his car ran off the
shoulder of the road, skid, hit a
stump on the left and turned
around, heading in the direction
from which he had come.
Damage to Roch's '56 Plymouth
was estimated at $200. No charges
were filed.
Fifty minutes later, three miles
west of Newport on Highway 70,
two cars sideswiped. According to
Patrolman Smith, a 1951 Oldsmo
bile, driven by Robert Allen Ely,
Cherry Point, was sideswiped by
a 1955 Chevrolet driven by James
R. Byrd, Camp Lejeune.
Patrolman Smith said the Olds
mobile was headed west and the
Chevrolet east. The Chevrolet, he
reported, went into the left lane,
struck the Olds and failed to stop.
Byrd has been charged with hit
and run, failing to grant the right
of-way and driving on the wrong
side of the road. No one was hurt.
Damage to the Oldsmobile was
estimated at $300 and damage to
the Chevrolet $400.
Farmer Grows
New Cabbage
Roy Keller, nine miles cast of
Beaufort on highway 70, is con
ducting a cabbage variety demon
stration. At present the plants arc
about 5 inches tall. Mr. Keller has
on his farm five varieties of cab
bage, including some of the newer
varieties. One of fhese. which
shows considerable promise, is
listed by a number and has' not
been given a name by the experi
ment station yet. This variety is
resistant against two diseases,
club root and yellows
Another new variety, called
Orccn Back, is resistant to the
yellows and was grown by a few
cabbage producers in the county
during the past growing season.
i *o other varieties are the
Oakvicw Baldhead and Ferry's
Round Dutch, which is grown quite
extensively here.
The fifth and last of these varie
ties is the Ferry's Hollander,. These
varieties arc being grown to com
pare the growth characteristics,
the disease resistance and the
yielding ability.
"We would be glad for anyone
to observe these varieties, es
pecially near the time of harvest
ing which will be late this fall "
said R. M. Williams, county agent.
News Briefs
Bed Hums
A bod in the home of Raleigh
Tingle, 311 Queen St., caught on
fire at 9:30 a.m. Saturday when no
one was home. A neighbor ran to
the Beaufort fire station and told
firemen of the blaze. Firemen had
the fire out in less than an hour.
Ilit and Run
Beaufort policeman Otis Willis
arrested John T. Slyron of Beau
fort Sunday night. He charged him
with driving drunk and hit and fun.
Styron allegedly hit a parked ear
belonging to Robert Bruce I'incr,
Beaufort.
Raid House
Four federal officers. Beaufort
Police Chief Guy Springlc. ABC of
ficer Marshall Ayscuc and deputy
sheriff Bruce Edwards raided 322
Queen St. Friday afternoon. They
found six half-gallon jars of non
taxpaid whiskey and arrested Joel
Barn. It was Barn's third arrest
since January, according to Chief
Springlc.
The Rev. Robert Suggs, pastor of
the Pentecostal Holiness Church,
Beaufort, is conducting a revival at
the Emanuel Pentecostal Holiness
?hurch, Raleigh. The revival be
gan Sunday and will continue
through Sept. 15.
Poisonous Fish Caught
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
Caught from the Danco Sept. 1 wa* one of the few few poisonous fish In these waters. A scorpion flab,
It la being held here by the man wbo hooked It, Mike Cybrynskl, Grrensboro. It la a brilliant orange and
deep red color. The flah'a top fin ia ribbed with hollow "quills" through which poison is thrown from a
sac along Ha back. The poison la elected when tbe flab cornea in cohtact with an enemy. When man la
hart by the scorpion flab. It's usually because be grabs It from a line before It's dead or In rare In
stances, steps on It. Persons who have been injured by the fish can become seriously 111.