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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
47th YEAR, NO. 9. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Phone Fight Fund
Swelled by $15.65
Mayor John Wilton,
Treasurer, Accepts
Check for $42.65
Thf phone fight fund has climbed
to $15.65 since last Friday when
a check for $42.65 was sent to
Mayor John D. Wilson, Wilson,
treasurer of the East Carolina
Phone Fight Committee.
Mayor Wilson wrote THE NEWS
TIMES a letter acknowledging re
ceipt of the money. He said,
"Thank you very much for the
cheek in the amount of $42 65. This
is a great help in the fight against
higher telephone rates. The phone
committee deeply appreciates your
moral and financial support."
A letter accompanying the check,
from the newspaper office, report
ed that the fund came from read
ers of THE NEWS-TIMES. The
phone fight committee estimates
that 20 cents per telephone in the
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
area will finance fighting the re
quested phone rate raise.
Persons who have joined the
fight, since the report in Tuesday's
paper are the following (some
names have been withheld upon
request.
Morehead City and RED: R.
Willan, C. II. Freeman, Mr.i A.
Daker Morris, Capt. and Mrs. Bill
Styron, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willis,
Mrs. Agnew Guthrie, Mrs. Ervin
Lupton.
Beaufort and FFD: Mr. and Mrs. j
Burl Dennis, Glen Harris, Mrs. i
I>ouglas Arthur, Mrs. William War- j
ren, and 2-3191.
Atlantic: Wesley Goodwin.
Newport: Mrs. Madeline Rivers,
Mrs. Swindell Garner, Mrs. Ele
ner Garner, Mrs. Mary Ann Hibbs.
Mar shall berg: T. C. Davis.
Davis: Sterling Dixon.
Since the hearing before the util
ities commission on the rate raise
will not take place until April,
money to finance the phone fight |
w ill be accepted at THE NEWS- j
TIMES offiee as long as readers j
wish to send it in.
March of Dimes
Stands at $1,863
Wednesday's total in the county
March of Dimes was $1,803.81, ac
cording to Mrs. Clem Johnson,
campaign treasurer.
Recent receipts included $17.75
from Blue Crutch Day in New
port, F1IA girls, Mrs. Ruby Sim
mons. advisor, carried out the pro
? ject there.
Thirty-eight dollars in a single
contribution was received from
/employees at the Carolina Tele
phone and Telegraph office.
Thus far, approximately $392 has
been received from telethon
pledges. The total pledged was
about $600. Two hundred dollars
is yet to come in. Persons who
made pledges through the tv tele
thon arc asked to mail their money
in without delay.
All schools that have not yet
turned in their March of Dimes
money are requested to close their
drive today. If the money is not
called for today, it will be picked
up next week, unless the princi
pals prefer to bring it to the
sheriff's office, Beaufort.
The room in each school which
collects the most money receives
a $5 cash prize.
The March of Dimes was cli
maxed with a Mothers March in
Beaufort and Morehead City last
night Results of the event will be
announced Tuesday.
And Now Where To?
SHOUP boats
Morehead City waterfront soothsayers report that Mel West, who made the famous attempt to reach
Bermuda in an outboard motor boat, left Morehead City sometime early Thursday morning in the boat
pictured bere. Because it was heavily loaded with gasoline, they believe he is out to make another long
cross-ocean trip.
Mel West, Morehcad City, who
in October tried to reach Bermuda
in a 15-foot 3 inch open outboard
motorboat, may be on his way
again today to try to set an out
board motorboat record.
Tied up at the dock by Capt.
Bill's Waterfront Cafe this week
was a 17-foot white boat, broad
in the beam, with mahogany deck
ing across the bow. It was riding
low in the water, indicating it was
heavily loaded.
A Scott Atwater outboard motor
was attached, to the stern. Visible
in the stern were several drums,
believed to contain gasoline. It was
also reported that West had ano
ther motor aboard the boat for
use in case of emergency.
On both sides of it were painted
the yellow and red insignia of the
Shell Oil Co., which supplied West
with the gasoline, and the words
Shoup Boats.
In contrast to the first craft
West took off in last October, this
boat, dubbed the Empress of N. C.
State (15 N.C. 400), has a canvas
sheltered cabin.
It also has an antenna that will
enable radar screens to spot the
craft. The antenna looks like fine
wire mesh strung to metal frames.
Mr. West, who was finally picked
up by the Coast Guard when he
ran out of fuel on the Bermuda
trip, said several weeks ago that
he expected to make another trip.
But he declined to say when or give
his destination.
The daring voyager was in More
head City Wednesday night. The
pictures of the boat, which accom
pany this story, were taken Tues
day afternoon. Yesterday the boat
was not at captain Bill's.
Whether it was merely moved to
another dock or whether West is
in it and on his way somewhere,
was not known at press time.
Waterfront observers insist, how
ever, that West is out again to
prove that outboard motors can
take a craft across the ocean.
Today's the Last
Day to List Taxes
Today is the last day to list
taxes!
Persons who have not listed
their real and personal property
in their respective.townships will
be charged a penalty of 10 per
cent if they wait until tomorrow
?or any time thereafter?to list.
Those who faij to list arc sub
ject to a fine of $50 or 30 days
in jail.
Photo* by Bob Seymour
This is the stem ot the 17-foot craft dubbed the Empress of N. C.
State. Visible here are three gasoline cans. Three additional 55-gal
ion drums are reported stoned away elsewhere in the boat.
Unemployment Claims
Surpass 1957 Figures
Unemployment claims in ine
county were up 66.8 per cent this
month over January 1957. Mrs.
Julia Tenney, manager of the em
ployment security office in More
head City, says that there was a
total of 1.668 claims for unemploy
ment insurance during the month
ending Jan. 25.
During the same period in 1957,
there were 1,000 claims presented
at the office. Initial claims ac
counted for 423 of the total.
There were 560 persons filing
initial claims this year. Mrs. Ten
ney says that many of them are
fishermen who are filing claims
against other states.
A person can file a claim against
anomer siaic mrougn me More
head City office if he has made
more money in that state than he
did in North Carolina. Unemploy
ment payments arc based on a
person's former income.
Ambulance Gets
Emergency Calls
Adair's ambulance made two
emergency trips this week. The
first was at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Tobc
Clawson, Beaufort, had a reaction
from a penicillin shot in a doctor's
office and had to be rushed to the
hospital.
At 10:30 a.m. yesterday the am
bulance was called to the Fish
Meal plant at West Beaufort. It
picked up Alvin Day, who had
been buried under a pile of fish
scrap.
Day had been moving the scrap
with a bulldozer when it caved in
and covered him up. Another bull
dozer freed him before he was
smothered. He was treated for
shock and a cut hand at the More
head City Hospital.
Draft Office to Close
The county draft board office on
the second floor of the courthouse
annex, Beaufort, will be closed
Monday through Saturday next
week. The office will reopen at
8:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 10.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH IX)W
Friday, Jan. 31
4:30 a.m. 11 26 a m
5:09 p.m. 11:27 p.m
Saturday, Feb. 1
5:37 a.m. 12:19 a m
6:05 p.m.
Sunday, F'eb. 2
6.28 a.m. 12:19 a m
6:55 p.m. 1:03 p.m
Monday, Feb. 3
7:16 a.m. 1:10 a.m
7:42 p.m. 1:50 p.m
Tuesday, Feb. 4
1:02 a.m. 2:00 a.m.
8:29 p.m. 2:35 p.m.
Health Board Acts in Favor
Of Mosquito Control Program
The county board of health, meet
ing Wednesday afternoon at the
health center, Beaufort, recom
mended that the county board
"take the proper steps to organize
this county into a mosquito con
trol district."
According to law, however, the
initial move to organize into a mos
quito control district must come
from the people. Ten per cent of
the voters "within the proposed
district" (which in this case would
be Carteret County) must present
a petition to the county board.
Krom that point on, the county
board ran act.
The law was explained to the
health board by Sidney If. Usry,
engineer with the State Board of
Health, and D. F. Ashton, entomol
ogist with the State Board of
Health
The law provides that a tax up
to 35 rents per hundred dollars of
valuation can be levied to finance
a mosquito control program.
Mr. Usry warned that no pro
gram can guarantee "no mosqui
toes". He added that any control
procedure requires continuous work
yesr after year.
In the future, he predicted that
mosquito control districts would
receive priority for stale funds.
Board members asked the vis
itors questions.
George W. Dill: How can you
control mosquitoes in that marsh
between Atlantic and Cedar Is
land?
Mr. llsry: Only about 5 per cent
of that is breeding area. But that
section up against Cedar Island is
almost all breeding area.
Mr. Ashtoo: Places where daily
tides ebb and flow arc not breed
ing areas. Breeding areas are
poekets of brackish water, usually
inland, where storm tides or rain
water arc held in and can't flow
out.
Mayor Clifford Lewis: llow about
the open grounds?
Mr. Usry: That's probably breed
ing area in some places. The
storms bavc saturated the ground
with salt. Then when frosh water
hits the ground it makes the low
places brackish enough so that the
mosquito eggs hatch.
Mr. Ashton: By draining, we
don't mean making dry land, but
connecting pockets of water so
that we can get fluctuation of the
tides to move the water out.
Mayer Lewis: Don't we have
other kinds of mosquitoes besides
the salt marsh mosquito?
Mr; LTsry: Yea, but they don't
move a quarter of a mile from
where they're hatched. When the
wind blows, they stay down.
R. M. Williams (county agent):
Is there a way to sterilize the mos
quito so that it can't reproduce?
Mr. Ashton: That is possible on
some isolated islands. But mos
quito eggs laid in the fall can
hatch this spring or next fall. Not
all will hatch, but some. The eggs
can last indefinitely.
Moses Howard (chairman of the
health board): Well, figuring a tax
of 10 cents per $100 valuation
would give us $38,000 a year. That
won't start much of a program.
Mr. Usry: It's a start ? and you
can't do all this at once. You could
get equipment and start digging
the necessary drainage canals.
You'll have to continue with your
program to spray the adult mos
quito, of course, too.
Mr. Howard: What can we ex
pect from the state this coming
year?
Mr. Usry: With matching funds
and a new allocation basis, 1 be
See HEALTH, Page 2
Coast Guardsman, Charged
With Seduction, Goes Berserk
Beaufort Chamber Opposes
Proposed Telephone Hike
The Beaufort Chamber of Com-<
merce went on record Tuesday
night as opposing the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany's request for higher rates
Directors met at the chamber of
fice on Front Street.
Director Norwood Young made
a motion that the chamber send
a letter to the State Utilities Com
mission stating the chamber's po
sition.
David Jones and Vic Bcllamah
were appointed to see all the mer
I chants and businessmen in town
and ask them to write letters to
the commission.
The chamber also voiced disgust
with the Beaufort water supply. An
official chamber letter will go to
the water company asking for re
lief from bad smelling and dis
colored water.
Chamber president Ronald Earl
Mason proposed a boat show, with
manufacturers paying for space
for exhibits. The public would be
invited on a free basis.
The boat show was proposed to
make up a deficit in the chamber
budget. The organization lost
$338.02 on its Christmas promotion
program. Chairman William Roy
Hamilton reported that $533.50
worth of tickets were sold this
year compared to $850 last year.
Mr. Mason, Dr. David Farrior
and Gerald Hill were appointed to
collect unpaid pledges. Chamber
members owe $866 25 in unpaid
dues. Mr. Hill was appointed chair
man of the committee.
Directors present were David
Jones, Mr. Hill, Mr. Young, Hal
sey Paul, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Ma
son, Mr. Bcllamah, Dr. Farrior,
Jim Wheatley and secretary Mrs.
Pat Russell.
.Committee Lists
Nine Candidates
For Club Offices
The nominations committee of
the Newport Rotary Club disclosed
its selections at the Rotary Club
meeting Monday night at the PTA
Center.
The following candidates were
nominated: Junius T. Creech for
president, Ecigar B. Comer for
vice-president, Robert K. Montague
for secretary, Nathan H. Garner
for treasurer and Walter D. Rob
erts for sergcant-at-arms.
The following were nominated
for the board of directors: Roy T.
Garner, club service, John B. Tom
linson, vocational service, Moses
C. Howard, community service,
and Harry B. Lockey, national ser
vice.
The club will accept nominations
from the floor and vote at a later
meeting. The new officers will be
installed at the first meeting in
July.
Program chairman Montague
had W. W. Thomas, district social
security manager, as his guest
speaker. Mr. Thomas discussed
the benefits of social security.
Visitors and guests included W.
C. Carlton, Kenneth Wagner, Ger
ald Mitchell, H. L. Joslyn, J. David
Murray and Dr. Darden Eure, all
of Morehead City, student visitor
Terry Garner, and Garland Loc
key of Jackson, Miss., brother of
president C. H. Lockey.
Sylvester Bell
Fails to Pay Costs,
Gets Jail Term
: Sylvester Bell got the only jail
j sentence handed down in More
head City recorder's court Monday.
Judge Herbert Phillips gave him
! 30 days for failing to pay costs of
' judgment against him last October.
Bernard Cooper Willis was in
court on three charges. One case
i was dismissed after he show ed
I that he had paid all back fines i
| and court costs.
I He was fined $25 and costs on
; a second charge, driving without
a license. A third case involved
I support payments. His wife in Lee
| County, Ala . had charged that he
I was not making payments for their
i children.
j The matter was heard and Judge
' Phillips ordered Willis to pay $15
a week to the clerk of court for
the benefit of the children.
Couple in Court
Mr. and Mrs. George F. U'wis
were in court and both pled guilty
to charges of fighting. Lewis was
I taxed costs for assaulting his wife.
Mrs. Lewis was found not guilty
of hitting her husband and dis
turbing the peace,
j Another family squabble ended
! up in court. Ruth Long had to pay
! court costs after the judge ruled
I she was maliciously prosecuting
her husband. Harrison Long She
I had charged that he attacked her
I with a knife.
: Charges against Roy David
Smith were dismissed. He had
been accused of assault. >
Fined MO and CosU ^
Klliott Smith was fined $50 and
! costs for careless and reckless
'driving. Milton D. Brinson was
I fined $25 and costs for speeding
! and running a stop sign.
Charles Dunn was taxed court
'costs for public drunkenness. Cases
| were continued against the follow
ing Ira I) Settle, James H. Yan
]cey. Russell E. Willis, Sherry Potts
Smith and Donald J. Carson.
JC Membership
Drive Begins
The Morchcad City Jaycccs have
gone all out to get new members
and get inaetive members baek
on the regular rolls. At their meet
ing Monday night at the Hotel Fort
Macon the Jaycees divided into
red and white teams for a contest
to sec which could get the most
members.
I)r. Russell Outlaw, chairman of
the DSA committee, reported that
he is still looking for a dance hand
lo play for their banquet at the
Morchcad Biltmore Hotel next Sat
urday night.
I'resident Dr. It. O. Barnum an
nounced the third quarterly board
meeting at Kinston which was the
next day. Twelve Jaycccs attend
ed
They were Dr. Barnum, L. G.
Dunn. Cecil Adams, Dr. Outlaw,
Jerry Willis, Charles Willis, Paul
Cordova, Bob McLean, John Davis,
P. H. Geer Jr., Luther Lewis and
Donald Davis.
Farmers Invited to Place
Orders for Farm Workers
Douglas Amcrson of the farm
labor office, Beaufort, reminds
farmers that they can place their
orders with him for farm labor on
the following days:
Tuesdays: 10 a.m..to noon at Roy
T. (Garner's. Newport; 1:30 to 3:30
p.m. at the labor office on High
way 70 across from Beaufort
School.
Wednesday: 10 a.m. to noon at
the Kmployment Security office.
Jacksonville; 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., at
Fred Barbec s Smith-Douglas ware
house. Riehlands.
Mr. Amerson says he has appli
cations from several farm workers
wanting work on a 50-50 or weekly
basis. Farmers who would like to
rent to a farm family should con
tact Mr. Amerson.
Due to extensive rains, many
farmers have been late getting soy
beans harvested and in getting
their cabbage set. But at present,
most farmers are getting their
cabbage set and plan to get the
soybeans later, Mr. Amcrson com
mented.
lie adds Mat 16 laoorers irom
Lumbcrton arc now working in the
county; 11 arrived Monday. Twelve
to 15 more are ready to come as
soon as farmers get their land
ready for setting cabbage.
Farmers who are setting cab
bage now are using both the im
ported labor and workers from the
North River and Harlowe sections.
As for tobacco plant beds, some
have been sowed in Onslow, but
very few in Carteret, Mr. Amer
son concluded.
Eleanor Johnson Given
Year in Prison Yesterday
Klranor Johnson, charged with
cutting her alster, Marie Murrell,
with a butcher knife, waa given a
year in woman's prison In county
court yesterday.
The Johnson woman has an ex
tensive record of law violations
and has served time before. The
victim and Sheriff Hugh Salter
testified for tbc state.
John W. Ford, a Coast Guardsman stationed at Ocra
coke, will be tried in this county on a charge of seduction
after he is released from a hospital where he is receiving
treatment for drinking iodine Monday night.
Ford was arrested by Sheriff Hugh Salter on a charge
of seducing Mrs. Bertha Gaskill, u Morehead City divorcee.
The sheriff said that Ford was i
jailed and later released on bond.
Ford returned to the Ocracoke
station and there, according to re
ports available at press time yes
terday, armed himself Monday
night with weapons and ammuni
tion stored at the station, cut loose |
the Coast Guard craft based there
and drank a bottle of iodine.
Upon being captured, Ford was
flown to the Elizabeth City Coast
Guard Station and was reported
yesterday to be in a hospital at
Portsmouth, Va.
John Tilling of the Coast Guard
public information office, Norfolk,
said yesterday that the Coast
Guard is making an investigation.
Ford's case was continued in J
county court yesterday.
Also continued for two weeks was j
the case against Tommy llutche- j
son, another Coast Guardsman, !
who was charged Jan. 18 with driv- |
ing drunk, careless and reckless j
driving, and numerous other!
counts.
Judge Lambert Morris reduced |
Ilutcheson's bond to $500. Hutche- I
son has been in jail since Jan. 18
under $3,000 bond. The bond was j
reduced at request of the Coast
Guardsman's attorney, Harvey
Hamilton, who also requested that
the trial be deferred for two
weeks.
Hutcbeson, stationed aboard the
Chilula. looks like a small-size edi
tion of the movie star, Robert
Mitchum. Of slight build, with
rounded shoulders, he also sports
a hair-do that most girls would be
pleased to wear.
It is resplendent with waves,
curving from the front to the back
in the style sported by male rock
n rollers.
Outfit Honors
M. C. McKeon
Cherry Point (AP)?The court
martialed leader of the 1956 Ma
rine "death march" at Parris Is
land, S. C., has been named Jan
uary's "Marine of the Month by
the All Weather Fighter Squadron
114 at this Marine air station.
The squadron chose Pfc. Mat
thew C. McKeon for the honor. He
has been a member of the squad
ron since last November.
McKeon, after his general court
martial conviction for negligent
homicide in the drowning of six
recruits, vowed that he would stay
in the Corps and recapture his rec
ord as "a good Marine."
McKeon, a staff sergeant at the
time of the April 8. 1956. "death
march," testified in his celebrated
court martial that he marched Re
cruit Platoon 71 into a tidal stream
"to teach them discipline." The
skylarking platoon panicked and
six drowned.
The incident caused a sweeping
reorganisation of Marine recruit
training methods.
Shriners Plan
Benefit Dance
The county Shriners will spon
sor a valentine dance at the More
head Bilt more Hotel Thursday
night, Feb. 13. Buddy Bair and his
orchestra will play dance music
from 8 to midnight.
Donations of $5 per couple will
be accepted for the crippled chil
dren's hospital sponsored by the
Shrine Club.
Advance tickets can be bought
from Theodore Phillips. Marshall
Ayscue, Capt. Bill Ballou, Capt.
Ottis Purifoy, Tommy Russell,
Cicero Hardison, Gerald Mitchell,
Hugh Salter, Robert Safrit and
Dan Sadler.
Riggs Case Slated
For Trial Yesterday
Docketed for trial in county
court yesterday were Oliver J.
Riggs and Cleveland W. Riggs.
The two were charged with steal
ing tractor rollers, a section of a
harrow and other machinery from
the real estate section being de
veloped by William Mcl-can just
cast of Swansboro on Highway 24.
The Riggs were picked up Friday
night. Jan. 17, on Highway 24 by
Sheriff Hugh Salter and Constable
Ralph Paul. They were driving a
truck loaded with junk. The truck
had no tag.
Value of the McLean property
was estimated at (200- The Riggs
stole the machinery for rc-sale to
a junk dealer, the sheriff said.
Chamber Officer
Pledges Help
On Fall Cruise
J. A. DuBois, manager of the
Morehead City chamber of com
merce, reported yesterday that he
has written W. J. Smith, Chapel
Hill, who is making plans for a
passenger cruise from Morehead
City.
The chamber manager assured
Mr. Smith that hotels, motels and
restaurants in the Morehead City
area will be ready to serve all
persons coming to Morehead City
next fall to go on the Caribbean
cruise aboard the Arosa Sky.
Mr. Smith is affiliated with the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical As
sociation, which is booking its
membership for the cruise.
Mr. DuBois also offered the
chamber's help in contacting the
association's members and inform
ing them of the accommodations
here and the improved facilities
for taking care of cruise members.
The Arosa Sky is sailing this
fall from Wilmington. It is a Swiss
owned and operated luxury liner.
The capacity is a thousand pas
sengers, but the passengers for
the cruise from Morehead City
will be limited to 500.
The cruise will last 11 days. The
Arosa Sky will stop at several
ports in the Caribbean. At present,
Mr. Smith says 112 have indicated
interest in making the trip.
Firemen Make
$44.50 on Pies
The Marshallberg Fire Depart
ment made $44.50 on its recent pic
sale at the community building.
The pies were baked and donated
by women of the Marshallberg
area. They sold for a dollar each
or by the slice.
Barber shop songs were sung
by Walker George, tenor; Ralph
Ncal, second tenor; Norwood Lew
is, baritone; Willard Piner, second
bass, and Odcl Guthrie, low bass.
Roy Willis played the baritone
ukelele.
The party was climaxed at 9
o'clock with a few clog and tap
dances. The final dance was done
Dn "all four" when Odcl Guthrie
lid the rabbit dance.
Ikic Guthrie and Kay Willis,
chairman of the fire department
finance committee, express their
appreciation to all who donated
pies, bought pies, ate pies, and to
the women who supervised the
party and did the serving.
At the Friday night meeting of
the fire department, Lester Mur
phy, assistant chief, presided in
the absence of Chief Ikie Guthrie.
Capt. Cicero (Wurnp) Lewis and
Lt. Fernie Willis reported the fire
truck and equipment in good shape.
Dbtaining new equipment for the
department was discussed.
40 Bus Drivers
Attend Luncheon
Forty school bus drivers were
the guests of the County Board of
Education at a barbecue lunch at
noon Wednesday at the Morehead
City Recreation building.
Following lunch, talks were made
by Carl II. Walker and George
Maddrcy, both of Raleigh. Mr.
Walker accountant with the De
partment of Public Instruction,
Rave facts and figures on school
bus operation.
Mr. Maddrcy, safety specialist
with the State Board of Education,
spoke on safe driving factors. He
commented that statistics show
teen age drivers have better driv
ing records than adults.
Moses Howard, chairman of the
county board of commissioners,
and Robert Safrit, chairman of the
county board of education, ex
pressed their appreciation to the
bus drivers for the fine work they
are doing
In addition to the drivers, 18
guests were present.
Route Number <
Have lock route 6, which covers
the Bachelor and Harlowe areas,
has been changed to Havclock
route 1.