PRIZE. WINNING NEWSPAPER of ft* TAR HEEL COAST CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 46th YEAR, NO. 89. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Olan Bell Will Serve Life for Rape -4- a a mm a Judge Gives Wood row Wilson Four-Year Prison Sentence Woodrow Wilson, Beaufort ed guilty yesterday to unlaw sault 011 a female. Judge Wi week's term of criminal court, on the roads. The judge requested the cl Army to Cut Lax Reserve Units Recent reductions in the active Army's strength make it impera tive that the mobilization readiness of the Army Reserve be improved, according to M/Sgt. Daniel H. West, unit advisor for the Army's local Reserve units. Ineffective units arc to be elim inated, he said. Sergeant West added that the ] need for reductions was caused by numerous factors, including a 300, 000-man limitation upon paid drill spaces and the need to absorb into units the trained personnel being returned from active Army duty. To be eliminated arc those units which aro not at full strength. Sergeant West pointed out that the availability of training centers, such as armories, will be factors in the determination of which units will be inactivated. Court Opens; Jury is Named The one wcck criminal term of superior court opened at 14 a.m. yesterday in the courthouse, Beau fort. After the grand jury was im paneled. Judge Walter Bone gave them Iheir instructions, briefly, ex plaining that he was suffering from throat trouble. lie said that since the jury had an experienced foreman, Kenneth C. Wagner, he would know what to do. The judge asked the jury to in spect the county jail, hear indict ments and determine whether there is reasonable probability that the defendant committed the crime described in the indictment. Members of the grand jury, in addition to Mr. Wagner, arc C. T. Whitehead. Ernest Guthrie, Robert lludnall, George D. Willis, S. A. Perkins, Elwood Willis, John A. West, Paul Branch, Thomas Res pess. Dallas Arthur, Manley Willis, Amasa Murdoch, Clyde G. Willis, Julian Murphy, B. F. Willis, Cla rence D. Adams and Thomas Eurc. C. L. Davis was sworn in as grand jury officer. Cars Collide East of Beaufort A car driven by William Clifton Rose, Markets Island, ran into the rear of a ear driven by Carl Sad ler, Beaufort, Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred at 4:15 p.m. on Highway 70 eight miles cast of Beaufort. Sadler told Highway Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr. that he had slowed to avoid hitting an oncuming car. Sadler was headed west. Mrs. Sad ler was shaken up when the Rose car struck them from the rear, otherwise there were no injuries. Sadler was driving a 1949 Nash and Rose a 1952 Ford. Damage to each car was estimated at $200. Boy Scouts Win Football Tickets Five county Boy Scoot troops reached their goals in the Boy Scout roundup this fall. Each troop that added five or more new mem bers got tickets to a college fool ball game. Troops 334, Morchcad City, and 201. Beaufort, attended the East Carolina - Appalachian game at Greenville Saturday night. Troops 130, Morchcad City, 228, Marshall berg. and 407, Stacy, will attend the UNC-Virginia game at Chapel Hill Nov. 30. Scoutmasters of the winning troops are Gerald Davis, 334, Ethan Davis Jr., 130, Graydon Glover, 201, R. A. Sellers, 228, and J. T. Lewis, 407. , through his attorney plead-' ful entry of a home and as ilter Bone, presiding at this sentenced him to four years erk of court to attach to the prison committal papers a medical report on the defendant's mental state. Wilson was charged with at-: tempted rape. The victim of the I assault, 12-year-old Gloria Jean Matthews, was the first witness on | the stand. Under questioning by Robert Rouse Jr., solicitor, she said that one day last April she, and a girlfriend were playing hop- j scotch in front of her house on Broad Street, Beaufort. She said that the defendant, Wil son, came up to her and her girl friend and asked them their names | and where they lived. Soon, she continued, her girlfriend's mother | came and took her home, and she, Gloria Jean, went into her house. Man Follows She said that Wilson followed herj and asked her where her mother j was. She replied that her mother wasn't there, then went to the phone in the bedroom to call her sister for help. She said she had dialed the num ber, when Wilson took the receiver and put it back on the hook. Then he stuck a knife at her chest and told her to get on the bed. She testified that he pulled her dress above her knees. Gloria Jean said she heard her mother coming and when she told the man her mother was coming, he let go of her and she ran out of the house. While she was telling her mother what had happened, she said Wil son came out of the house, got on his bicycle and rode away. Claud Wheatly, attorney appoint ed to represent the defendant, cross-examined the girl. She said that the incident happened about j 5 p.m. and that she had never seen Wilson before that day. She stated ( that she was in the seventh grade and that the girlfriend playing hopscotch with her was her same j age. Mother Testifies The child's mother, Hattic Bell Stewart (formerly Hattic Bell Mat- ' thews), testified that she had gone to get some fish while the girls i Sec WILSON, Page 2 Mel West Gets Key to City From Mayor George W. Dill Moichcad City Mayor George W city to Mel West Saturday afterno municipal building and cwngratulal Bermuda in an outboard motorboa Mel West was escorted into Morehead City Saturday afternoon in a manner befitting one of the town's most famous sons. Two po lice cars, with sirens going full blast, escorted the new Lincoln he was riding in, to the municipal building. A crowd of about a hundred had gathered to welcome him home. Mayor George Dill headed the greeting delegation and gave Mel a key to the city. T. T. (Tom) Potter, president of the Fabulous Fishermen, thank ed Mel for taking the FabFish flag to Bermuda. Joe DuBois of the chamber of commerce thanked him for all the publicity he had given the area. Master of ceremonies Walt Niemi then introduced Mel's publicity agent, Charles Markey. Mr. Mar key briefly discussed Mel's trip and said his future plans would be disclosed later. Mel said that he was thankful for the number of people who . Dill, left, presented a key to the on. Mr. West was greeted at the led for his good try to make it to t. prayed for him and said that he felt that "God was my mate." He added that if he had known so many people were rooting for him he would have tried even harder to make the trip a success. As soon as the official welcome was completed he was handed a memorandum from the Morehead City Police Department. It said: Dear Mel, Please add these items to your bill: 5 boxes of aspirins @ .25 $ 1.2S 200 cups of coffee (g> .10 20.00 200 hours of no sleep @ 1.50 per hour 300.00 25 new gray hairs (priceless) Extra electricity for tv, radio, lights 5.00 Recharge car battery for radio 1.50 Extra food 15.00 Worry tax 56.25 $400.00 It was signed by Sgt. Bill Condic, a long time friend. Governor Hodges to Replace Ports Authority Members All members of the present State Ports Authority arc to be dis missed. New appointees arc ex pected to be named this week. Gov. Luther Hodges stated Fri day at Raleigh that he had reluc tantly come to the conclusion that a new ports authority should be appointed. These developments followed close on the heels of an SPA meet ing at Charlotte last week, a meet ing described by ports authority public relations personnel as a "routine meeting." Via the grapevine, however, it was learned that the SPA usually has a closed meeting prior to the publicly-announced open meetings. Whether the impending fireworks were discussed then has not been ascertained. It is entirely probable, however, that none of the SPA members, including the ports director. Col. Richard S. Marr, knew the ax was about to fall. It was further conjectured that Colonel Marr may have hoped to slave off the inevitable by present ing a glowing report on port suc cesses and increase in port bus iness during his tenure. Colonel Marr submitted his res ignation to the governor Friday. The resignation becomes effective Dec. 31. Tide Table Tides at (he Beaufort Bar moil low Tuesday, Nov. 5 6:10 a.m. 12:27 a.m. 6:36 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6 7:16 a.m. 1.07 a.m. 7:34 p m. 1:42 p.m. Thursday, Nav. 7 7:48 a.m. 1:43 a.m. 8:08 p.m. 2:22 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8 8:21 a.m. 2:21 a.m. 8:43 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Terms of the present SPA mem bers expired June 30. They are, in addition to Chairman Edwin Pate, Raymond A. Bryan, viec-chairman, a Goldsboro contractor; W. Avery Thompson, Lake Waccamaw lum berman, secretary-treasurer; Har old E. Coffey, Lenoir furniture manufacturer; Harvey W. Moore, Concord industrialist; J. Harry White, Winston-Salem tobacconist; Henry A. Lincbcrgcr, Belmont manufacturer. Not only had the governor be come dissatisfied with administra tive policies of the SPA, but sev eral members of the authority it self have privately objected to ports policies. Because they were in the minority, however, they found it practically impossible to effect changes. Among objections to ports pol icy, in addition to SPA's unwilling ness to locate the ports office at a neutral point, was the frequent meeting of one or two SPA mem bers and the director where deci sions were made without consult ing the entire authority. Colonel Marr became executive director of the state ports Jan. 1, 1954, succeeding Col. G. W. Gil lette. Former SPA Chairman Makes Comment Yesterday Kdwin Palo, former chairman of Ihr Stale Ports Authority, told THE NEWS-TIMES yesterday, "I think both state ports arc showing continued and substantial growth and both arc on the way to bigger tonnage." In relation to the More head City port, he said. "Southern Railway will be helpful to the port and that entire area." Speaking by phone from his bed where he was fighting flu, Mr. Pate said that he and all the mem bers of the authority now have in their hands letters from the gov ernor slating that they would not be reappointed. The term of appointment is four years. Mr. Pate and the other ousted authority members have been serving since June 1993. Un less new appointments are made at the expiration of that term, the former members continue to serve. Mr. Pate took issue with certain newspapers which reported that the State Ports Authority did not request funds for capital improve ment at Morchcad City during the current bicnniuin Mr. Pate point ed out that the SPA requested II, 050,000 but the budget commission cut out the request. Kight hundred thousand dollars was eventually appropriated for Murchcad City. Asked if he knew who the gover nor was going to appoint to the ports authority, Mr. Pate said, "No, I don't, but I'm sure he will find capable men." Dietitian Assumes Work At Morehead Hospital Miss Stella Propst, Gaatonla, joined the Morehead City Hospital staff as dietitian yesterday. Miss Propst replaces Miss Hattic Smith son. who for many years has been in charge of the hospital kitchen. Miss Propst for the past five years was assistant dietitian at Memorial Hospital, Gastonia. Her acceptance of the position here was announced by Mils Vivian May, director of nurses. Miss Propst at present is living in the nurses' home. County Officials to Confer About Schools Next Month School Absences Start Downward Swing Yesterday School absences yesterday went slightly downward. In school were | 505 more pupils than attended Fri day. Many students have been out | of school due to the flu. Although Camp Glenn and More head City Schools were closed Fri day, the county health department estimated the number who would have been absent there. The total absentees Friday, had those schools been open, would have been 2,103, according to the health office. Absentees yesterday totaled 1, 598. Lenwood Ix'e, principal of | Morehead City School, said absen tees were down 130 yesterday at his school, as compared with Thursday. The Morehead City and Camp Glenn Schools were closed in the hope that spread of flu would be curbed. Mr. I^ee commented yes-1 tcrday that he- felt quite encour I aged and commended parents for ! cooperating in keeping their chil dren away from crowded places | during the three - day Friday through Sunday holiday. Beaufort School closed at noon I Friday and the homecoming game scheduled for Friday night was j called off. Number of pupils absent at | schools yesterday follows: Atlan tic 147, Smyrna 113, Barkers Is land 80, Beaufort 353, Queen | Street 315, Morehead City 193, W. S. King 133, Camp Glenn 154, and) Newport 110. Elton Smith? Gets Three Years Elton Smith, Morehead City, pleaded guilty yesterday to assault ing officers with a gun. Smith was given a three-year sentence by Judge Walter Bone, who invoked two years' suspended sentence for Smith's violating probation and another year for assaulting the officers. Smith threatened Sheriff Hugh Salter and Deputy Sheriff Bruce Edwards several months ago in the Crab Point area when the offi cers were summoned to get Smith who had been bothering his former wife. Cases continued yesterday were those of John James Jr. and Eonis Thomas Bass, both charged with drunken driving and H. Earle Mob ley, embezzlement. James now lives in Charlotte. I Statements from two doctors were | presented attesting to James' in ability to be in court due to physi cal incapacity. In the case of Dclbcrt Bay Jones, I charged with breaking, entering | and larceny, bond was forfeited. Vandals Cause Damage At Gloucester Friday Thirty-five dollars damage was caused Friday night to automobiles parked on the R. J. Chadwick property at Gloucester. The Chadwicks report that Fri day night's destruction was con tinuation of acts of vandalism that have been going on for several weeks. Not only have automobiles been damaged, but a large window in the Chadwick home was recently broken. The Chadwicks have of fered a $25 reward for information leading to the arrest of the per sons responsible. Gleca Adilr . wedlky chuck county commissioners, SI iheir mon hly meeting yesterday at the courthouse, Beaufort, agreed to meet with a committee from the ounty board of education to dis cuss ways of obtaining about ?> 1 3 million to build schools The meeting was set for the af. ternoon of Dec. 2. ??IHC,COra?i'sion- discussed the need for school funds, arriving at he conclusion that ?0 matter how the money is borrowed, the Local Commission will have to give its approval. To pay back the money borrowed (if it js, thc tax rate will have to be raised sati r' co?nty auditor, said three things should be deter siioH t the bonds be is have' , Wh?; jnUCh wUI 'axes the ? ^ raiSed' a?d three, do I ml want to borrow the money and pay more taxes? ?ch? iL J.os,y"' superintendent of a shnri' ded the meeting for ' . 'lmc Commissioner Skin cfii.? ? su^KCsted that the edu cation officials draw up a spec fie Plan for obtaining the needed mon cy and present this plan to the commissioners in December. The hoard approved a request bv private individuals anions ?i,? Kripar . anions them and J r nP 0"', ,)avid Mansfield I, .k 5' for building a dock wctSA-r.xs . 1 pnt'tion was presented bv resi dents of the Mill Creek area J questing that the 1,100-fooI 'Nicdt Culpepper" road be put on the How system. Chairman Moses hC "?"? investigate ri11"?anlissioners Chalk, Odell Mcr rd and llarrell Taylor voiced the opinion that thc county board is th^'s'r.* ?hn roa" p"",ions cause the state has already set &VlTnC?7 UnUCr Which d -" and will not paVc roads and the about ?, Can do nothing ?fudge J. F Duncan appeared before the board relative to obtain slandanseh"Tm?nt ?V" "ark