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46th YEAR, NO. 88. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS k
Sea-Going Reynolds Family
Docks at Morehead City
I'hoto by Bob Seymoiv
The world travelers aboard the Phoenix are top row, left to right, Nick Mikami, Mickey Suemitsu,
Moto Kusbima. Seated below them are Jessica with Duchess, the cat, Dr. Earle Reynolds, Mrs. Reynolds
with the smaller cat, Amya, and Ted. Dr. Reynolds is the skipper; Mrs. Reynolds Is cook; Jessica keeps
the journal and helps her mother; Ted is navigator, and the three Japanese students act as crewmen.
The Reynolds family is a sea
going crew. And they all write too.
They docked at 2 a in. Tuesday
at the Gulf dock, Morehead City,
and plan to stay until about the
middle of November when they
will continue southward to the
West Indies.
Head of the family, and skipper
of the Phoenix, a 50-foot ketch, is
Dr. Earle Reynolds, a scientist
(anthropologist, to be specific).
His wife writes books for children;
his son, Ted, 19, has done some
writing, and his daughter, Jessica,
1.1, has written 4n diary form about
the family's travels. That now is
in the process of being published.
Dr. Reynolds is a native of Ohio |
and former university professor.
He left Ohio to go to Japan. Jhere,
at the request of the National
Academy of Sciences he made
study of the growth of children as
affected by atomic radiation.
The Phoenix was built in Japan
and the Reynolds have been sail
ing her about the world since Oc
tober 1954, when they left Hiro
shima.
Three Students
In addition to the family, three
college students from the Univer
sity of Hiroshima arc aboard and
assist in general handling of the
ship.
They arc Moto Fushima, Mickey
Siiemit.su. and Nick Mikaini.
Two other members of the com
plement are Duchess, a large cali
co cat, and Amya, a small cat.
Both arc of a succession of cats
the Phoenix has sheltered because,
Ted explains, cats are supposed
to bring good luck.
The cats tread with lightfooted
sureness the narrow gunwhalc,
with never a thought of the wet,
wet water just a short distance
below.
From the West Indies, the Phoe
nix will traverse the Panama Ca
nal, the Pacific, and make port in
Sec FAMILY, Page 5
State Ports Authority Hears Report
From Director Tuesday at Charlotte
Members Want
Industry Boost
Twenty-five per cent of the 60
persons replying to a recent More
head City chamber of commerce
survey, said they would like to
sec more funds invested in indus
trial development. ?
This project topped a list of pro
jects the chamber plans to pro
mote. according to J. A. DuBois,
chamber manager. Others getting
much support, in order, were a
car ferry from Cedar Island to
Ocracoke, more funds for adver
tising and publicity, a four lane
highway from Ha'clock to More
head City, an armory or gymna
sium with convention hall, an
ocean drawbridge over the New
port River, and completion of a
Morehead City soundsidc munici
pal park.
Five per cent recommended
chamber backing of a school bond
issue.
The survey sheets were distrib
uted at the recent chamber of
commerce dinner. Of those, 50
were returned immediately and
Mr. DuBois later received 10 in
the mail.
Police Cite Stacy Man
After Wednesday Wreck
Wilbert Lewis Jr., Stacy, was
charged with following too close
after his 1950 Chevrolet ran into
the rear of a 1951 llenry J at 6:12
p.m. Wednesday.
Both Lewis and Mrs. Bernicc
Willis, Morehead City, driver of the
llenry J, were going west on
Bridges Street near the Morehead
City town limits.
Damage was estimated at $100
to each vehicle.
A report by Co!. Richard S. ?
Marr, executive direcfor of the
State Ports Authority, consumed a
Urge part of the SPA session Tues
day morning at Charlotte. Pro
posed expansion programs at both
ports were discussed.
Although there were rumors that
a shake-up in administrative poli
cies of the SPA were in the of
fing, nothing in this respect was.
aired at the meeting, according
to information from the Wilming
ton port office.
A summary of Colonel Marr's
report, released by the SPA, fol
lows :
"The report 1 bring you today I
is the finest report that 1 have
ever made to you. I take great
pride in bringing you this report
on the status of the North Caro
lina State Ports Authority, and I
feel that each of you should have
great pride in the accomplishments
of the authority, just as I do.
"Four years ago, shortly after
you people were appointed to the
authority and 1 was named its
executive director, we had two
very badly disorganized state port
facilities with almost no cargo
passing over the docks. The state
Sec PORTS, Page 8
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
IIIGII LOW
Friday, Nov. 1
3:35 a.m. 9:59 a.m.
3:48 p.m. 10:21 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 2
4:28 a.m. 10:48 a in.
4:42 p.m. 11:05 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 3
5:18 a.m. 11:33 a.m.
5:32 p.m. 11:47 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 4 '
6:02 a.m.
6:17 p.m. 12:18 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 5
6 40 a.m. 12:27 a.m.
6:56 p.m. 1:00 pjli.
Port Calendar
V8S Vermillion?Due at state
port tomorrow with Marines re
turning from the Mediterranean.
Karen Maersk?Due at state
port Sunday to pick up a cargo
of tobacco for Bangkok.
USS Thuban?Due at state port
Tuesday with Marines returning
from maneuvers.
Patella ? Due Wednesday at
stale port, with asphalt.
To Head Scouters
James E. Crowe, Beaufort, was
elected chairman of the Carteret
District Committee, Boy Scouts of
America, at a meeting of that
group Tuesday night at the civic
center. Morchcad City. He will
take office in January, replacing
present chairman Bob Howard.
Flu Epidemic Causes
Closing of Two Schoolsj
More-head City and Camp Glenn
Schools will he closed today due
to the flu epidemic.
Twenty-three per cent of the
county student body was absent
yesterday. Not counting Markers
Island and Stella sehools. where a
phone call check was impossible,
1,432 pupils were absent, accord
ing to the county health depart
ment. Total county school enroll
ment is 5.991.
Lcuwood Lee. principal of More
head City School, said that he and
R. W. Davis, principal of the Camp
Glenn School, hoped that closing
the school today would curb the
spread of flu.
"Parents' cooperation will be
Deeded," Mr. Lee said, "to keep
(he children home mid away from
crowded places."
The principals hope the three
day weekend respite will prevent
additional flu cases and that those
ill will recover and he able to come
back to school Monday. There will
be no teen-age party at the recrea
tion building this weekend.
Today's school "holiday" will
have to be made up some other
time during the school year, prob
ably in the spring.
Absences in each school have
been recorded by the health de
partment at follows: Morehead
City 332. Beaufort 237, Camp Glenn
220, Smyrna 203, Newport 170, At
lantic 103, Queen Street 103 and
W. S. King 39.
Southern Officials to Arrive Today
To Greet Civic, Business Leaders
Outboard Motor
Voyager Due
Home Tomorrow
Mel West, Morehcad City's Ad
miral Perry and Charles Lind
bergh. is expected in Morehead
City, sometime tomorrow. Those
who promoted West's spectacular
outboard motorboating feat, yester
day were planning an official wel
come for him.
Mel called his father, Barry
West, yesterday afternoon and told
him that he would leave Bermuda
today. Mel reportedly took the
island by storm.
He spoke at most of the civic
club meetings this week and had
an audience with the royal gover
nor yesterday morning. The Ber
muda outboard motorboat club
gave him a trophy in recognition
for his effort to prove that the
motorboat has "come of age."
lie told his father that he spent
most of the day yesterday getting
his famous boat, the Impossible,
ready for shipment back to the 1JS.
The 15 foot 3-inch craft is now en
route to New York where Mr. West
and Mel plan to pick it up. put it
on a trailer and drive back to
Morehcad City.
Eager for Home
Mel, who said that he thought he
could sail around the world in a
washtub "by the grace of God and
common sense", admitted that he
was pretty anxious to get back to
Morehcad City. His wife and chil
dren, as well as his parents and
other relatives, are just as anxious
to see him.
Mel set out for Bermuda 16 days
ago, hoping to arrive in Bermuda
within 50 hours. Four days later
he was spotted by a tanker, given
water, matches and food and con
tinued on his journey. He was not
heard from again until Sunday
when a Coast Guard plane spotted
him 165 miles from his goal.
Aid from Plane
The plane dropped him a radio '
transmitter, food, dye markers and
flares. Ashore his father and
friends sought unsuccessfully to get
the Coast Guard to give him
enough fuel to continue the voyage.
The plane kept him in sight until
the Coast Guard weather ship
Rockaway picked him up and took
his boat in tow for- the remaining
distance to Hamilton, Bermuda.
The Coast Guard estimates that
the junket cost them $300,000. about
100 times as much as the $3,000 it
cost Mcl.
District VFW
Will Meet Here
Krvin Lupton. Morehead City,
member of Jones-Austin Post, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, will pre
side at the VFW district meeting
this weekend in Beaufort. Mr. Lup
ton is district commander.
The meeting will open at 5 p.m.
tomorrow with a soeial hour in the
VFW post home. Highway 101.
Oaneing will begin at 8 with music
by an orchestra. '
The post home will open at 9
Sunday morning and lunch will be
served at 11:45. There will be a
joint meeting of the post and auxil- i
iarv in the afternoon, as well as in
dividual business sessions.
Vance Fulford, commander of
the Beaufort post, will conduct the I
opening ceremony at the joint ses
sion and will preside at the lunch.
Two hundred persons, represent
ing posts in the fourth distriet, are
expected. This will be the second
time that the Beaufort post has
been host to the district since its
building was completed.
Draft Officials
Win Certificates
The President of the United
States has awarded to Dr. S. W.
Thompson of Morchcad City and
Julius V. Duncan of Beaufort.
Certificates of Appreciation for
15 yeaVs of service to the nation
as medical advisor and govern
ment appeal agent, respectively,
of the Carteret County draft
board.
Dr. Thompson and Mr. Duncan
have served continuously, with
out compensation, with excep
tion of a brief period between
termination of the 1940 act and
the reorganization of the system
under the present act.
They are among the fig original
appointees to the North Carolina
Seleetivc Service System under
the World War II Act who arc
still serving.
Defendant Gets
30-Day Sentence
In Court Monday
Marccllus Jones was sentenced i
to 30 days in jail Monday after he !
was found guilty of driving with '
out a license. Morchcad City rc !
corder's court judge llcr?>crt Phil
lips specified that the time lie ad
ded to a sentence he is currently !
serving in Green County.
Nina Murray was found guilty I
of destroying personal and real i
property She was ordered to pay
court costs and the cost of repair
ing broken windows in the resi
dence of Barbara Jones.
Two defendants, Lon J. Perkins!
and Blanca R. Davis, were fined !
$25 and costs for driving without
licenses. Willard Thorne presented
a license at court but admitted
that he did not have one when he
was cited. He was charged costs.
? John T. Olson psid $10 and costs
lor speeding. Those who paid costs
follow: Leon C. Tolson, Jeptha J
Long. Adrian D. Willis, and Gra
ham Lee Davis, all for speeding.
Eugene P. Bishops was found not
guilty of hit and run and Charles
While was found not guilty of con
tributing to the delinquency of a I
minor. Otis Simmons got a six
month sentence suspended on two
years good behavior. He was
charged with assaulting his wife.
Cases were continued against
Hoyt Ice, George Dudley and Har
rison Long.
Tuesday the Coast Guard buoy
tender Conifer recovered the suc
tion head lost last week by the
Army Engineers' dredge Gerig.
The suction head tore loose from
I he dredge while it was working in
Beaufort Inlet.
At 10:15 this mornintr President Harry A. DcButts, ac
companied by other top officials of Southern Railway, will
arrive in Morehead City on a special train. At noon today.
Southern Railway will be host at a buffet luncheon aboard
its business cars on the train. The cars will be at Morehead
City port.
The special train will leave New Bern this morning, con
tinning ils "get acquainted" trip
over the Atlantic and East Carolina
Railway, recently purchased by
Southern.
William C. Radford, general
manager of the A&KC has invited
50 Mo re he ad City community and
business leaders to meet Mr. De
Butts at the luncheon.
In a special statement yester
day, Mr. DeRutts called Morehead
City "the frosting on the cake of
progress for eastern North Caro
lina."
Explaining this comment, he
said, "I have talked with a great
many people in these last few days
who are enthusiastic and hopeful
about prospects for progress in the
territory the A&KC serves.
Port Important
"All recognize the underlying
importance of Morehead City's
deep water port, especially now
that adequate rail service is to
be available.
Mr. DcButls continued. "With
Southern's action, you have been
assured of the kind of railroad
connections you have long felt
would be of greatest value in de
veloping the port of Morehead City
and attracting industry to the
many excellent sites you have
available all along the line from
Goldsboro to Morehead City.
Support Pledged
"Southern will support you in
your efforts to the extent of its
ability. Working with chambers of
commerce and other interested or
ganizations, Southern has already
done much through its industrial
development department, and in
freight rate matters, to further
your hopes.
"Our success elsewhere in locat
ing industry augers well for your
and our success here."
Southern's president added:
"1 understand there are excel
lent prospects of new grain eleva
tor facilities. Perhaps there is
much more of which I am not yet
aware. But I am aware of the fact
| that greatly increased development
will come if the same enthusiastic
support is given to planning for
growth that was given to encour
aging Southern to complete pur
chase plans for acquiring the
A&EC."
Referring to the way in which
Morehead City citizens and others
supported Southern in its move to
obtain permission from the ICC to
purchase the A&EC, Mr. DcButts
said, "Without such support, we
would have appeared in the light
of being solely an expansion mind
ed railroad. With it. wc could pre
sent our ease for what it really is
?a growth and scrvicc-mindcd in
Sec SOUTHERN, Page 2
Pivers Island
Building Nears
Completion
The new $32,000 addition under
construction at the US Fish and
Wildlife Service, Pivers Island,
should be completed by the middle
of this month, according to Claude
Guthrie, building inspector Con
struct ion l>cgan in the middle of
August.
Mr. Guthrie, in addition to his
other jobs, is keeping tabs on the
contractor. K. T. Burney of Wil
| inington. He says that the work
| is progressing rapidly with as
I many as 10 men on the job at
times.
I Most of the labor being used on
the job is local County carpenters,
helpers and masons are at work,
j A Morehead City firm has the elec-:
trical contract and a Beaufort com
pany will handle the plumbing fori
I the heating and air conditioning
I system.
I The new structure is similar to;
I the present building. It has a yel
low brick exterior, asphalt tile
floors, glazed tile walls and steel
! doors. It is 32 x 73 feet. Twelve
offices will be in the fire proof
| building.
i Among the persons using the of
fices will be I)r. Walter Chipinan,
radiobiological, Fred June, men
haden. investigations and Charles
Stewart, commercial fisheries.
Lions Will Dine
At Oyster Roast
Members of the Down East Lions
Club will have an oyster roast at
their next meeting, 6 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 11, near the Sea Level Hos
pital. Members of the Morehead
City Lions Club have been invited.
Club members are also getting
ready to give their minstrel show,
7:30 Friday, Dec. 20, at the school
in Atlantic. Admission will be 50
cents and a dollar. Proceeds will
go to the club. Directing the show
is Jack Johnson.
James Crowe, president of the
Morehead City Lions Club, spoke
on Lioniam at Monday night's meet
ing at the Sea Level Inn.
The club decided to buy a braille
Bible for a blind girl in Atlantic.
Harry A. DeButts Childhood Dream
Was to Become a Railroad Conductor
Harry A. Do Butts, who became
president of the Southern Railway
System Jan. 1. 1952. was one boy
who didn't want to grow up to be
a locomotive engineer. Instead, he
wanted to be a conductor. But
trainmaster was the closest he
came to realizing that youthful am
bition.
Like many other members of
the Southern, he is the son and
grandson of Southern railroaders.
His father railroaded until hurt in
a freight train derailment, after
which he returned to farming and
raising horses.
His grandfather was for matly
years station agent at Dclaplanc,
Va.. where the future president of
the Southern was born Oct. 13,
1895, and where he first came un
der the spell of railroading.
While visiting his grandfather at
the station, he used to help the
loeal crew unload freight for which
he was rewarded by a free box-car
ride to the next town. He still feels
that the five-mile walk back was
a small price to pay for the ride.
Went to VMI
During public school years the
idea of railroading as a life's work
kept running through his mind,
and when he graduated from high
school he decided to study civil
engineering at Virginia Military
Institute because he thought that
would be good training for a rail
road man. He had already decided
on the railroad. "The Southern was
the only one I knew about,'* he
says. "That was THE railroad,
and it still is."
In 1916, upon graduation from
VMI at 21, he landed a job with
the Southern at Culpcper, Va., as
a student track apprentice. His
Sec PRESIDENT, Page ?
Harry A. DeBntls
. . . Virginian heads Southern
Woodrow Givens
Seriously Hurt
In Bridge Crash
Stella Resident Suffers
Multiple Leg Fracture
Tuesday Morning
Woodrow (Woodie) Givens, Stel
la, suffered a serious leu injury in
an automobile accident at 2:30
a.m. Tuesday when his car hit the
end of the White Oak River bridge
at Stella.
Mr. Givens, who is now in the
hospital at Jacksonville, was em
ployed as a doughnut cutter at Tho
Do-Nut House, Morehead City. His
right leg was broken in several
places and is now in a cast. Ac
cording to Mrs. A. F. Cunningham,
Givens' employer, he will have to
undergo operations.
The accident happened as Mr.
Givens was returning to Stella
after taking his wife to work at
The Do-Nut House. She had been
working in his place because he
was not feeling well. With him at
the time of the wreck was his
brother-in law, Johnny Brown, 17,
Stella.
Fog Blankets Bridge
Mr. Givens was driving his 1952
Chrysler. He told Mrs. Cunning
ham Wednesday night, from his
hospital bed, that there was a
blanket of fog over the bridge. As
he approached the bridge, he
couldn't sec and by the time ho
did see where he was, he said ho
couldn't avoid hitting the bridge
railing.
A 2 x 6 piece of timber crashed
through the left front of the car,
struck his legs and pinned hiin
in the wreck. He said it was cither
hit the railing or go overboard.
Summons Help
When Brown could not get Mr.
Givens out of the car, he walked
to Stella for help. Mr. Givens was
bleeding badly and a resident of
Stella got his car and took him
to the hospital. Brown's arm was
slightly bruised.
The Givens have a little boy and
another child is expected. They
have no hospital insurance. Their
home is a trailer at Stella. Mrs.
Cunningham said that she and her
husband are helping the family all
they can, but the Givens arc hav
ing a hard time meeting expenses.
She added that they arc not the
type of people who expect help
and that when Mr. Givens is back
on his feet, he will do his best to
pay his debts.
Mrs. Cunningham commented
that anything people could do to
help them would be appreciated.
Mr. Givens has been employed at
The Do-Nut House since it opened
in March 1957.
Owner Claims
Tail-Less Dog
The Negro owner of the male
blue tick hound which lost its tail
in the Morehead City postoffice
door, has claimed the dog
Dr. C. E. Paden reported that
the dog was returned to its owner
Wednesday and the owner has
promised to take good care of it.
He said he did not have the own
er's name.
After a notice appeared in The
Pet Corner in Tuesday's paper
stating that the dog was ready to
leave the vet's. Dr. Padcn said he
received at least eight calls from
persons who wanted to give the
dog a home.
The dog lost about 8 inches of
his tail Wednesday, Oct. 23, when
the door of the postoffice closed
on his tail. Dr. Padcn said tho
hound yelped long and loud be
cause as soon as the wound was
caused, flies started to bite it.
A bystander from Raleigh gave
Dr. Padcn $10 to take care of tho
dog. Later the Raleigh man (again
Dr. Paden said he didn't know his
name) came to the office and Dr.
Paden said he returned the money
to him.
Today's Pet Corner appears in
the second section, page 4.
Decision Upheld
The State Supreme Court yester
day upheld a Carteret superior
court decision in favor of the fam
ily of Albert Fallin, a Negro killed
in a New Year'* Eve murder in '
Beaufort in 1955. The court agreed
that the insurance company should
pay $2,000 benefits because the
shooting of Fallin was not "inten
tional" on the part of his assailant,
Levi Williams.