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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?* - - Tomorrow b Last Day to Buy '58 Liconso Tags 47th YEAR, NO. 13. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAb CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Judge Adds Year To Man's Time Richard Tyson Found Guilty of Assault; Motorist Fined $200 Ricard Tyson, already serving a jail term, was given an addi tional year in last Thursday's session of county recorder's court Judge Lambert Morris handed down the sentence after finding him guilty of assault. Bainard E. Sheldon got a $200 and costs judgment for driving drunk, careless and reckless driv ing and speeding 95 mph. Robert J. Browley was fined $100 and costs for driving drunk. Travis W Moore, also found guilty of driving drunk, was fined $100 and costs. Robert O. Oakley | got a similar fine for careless and reckless driving. Appeals Decision David L. Jeter got a fine of $50j and costs for speeding 75 mph and appealed the decision to superior court. His bond was set at $150. Richard H. Page was fined $75 and costs for speeding 75 mph and driving on the wrong side of the road. Francis Roberts was charged $25 and costs for careless and j reckless driving. O. J. and C. W. Riggs were found 1 guilty of larceny and fined $50 and half cost; each. Gene C. Norris | was fineo $lo and costs for speed- | ing, driving on the wrong side of the road and failing to stop for a siren and light. Ralph W. McDon ald got the same fine for running a stop sign. H. II. Daniels was ordered to honor a bad check he had passed and pay court costs. Willie Wilson was charged costs for public drunkenness. rorfeit Bonds Those who forfeited bonds were John McDonald, John Richardson and Charles 1'. Franklin, public! drunkenness; Lionel Scott, impro per registration; George Herman, and Carl T. Sawyer, speeding; Julian T. Saunders, driving on the wrong side of the road; and Tho mas Lee Jones, no muffler. Six defendants were not tried due to lack of evidence. They were Dora Morris, charged with driv ing without a license; Perry M. Taylor III, charged with improper passing; B. L. Jackson, charged with public drunkenness; David O. Dickinson, charged with having no license on a trailer; Herman R. Guthrie, charged with having improper lights; and Derwood Ful cher, charged with non-support. Mayor George Dill Presides at League Committee Session George W. Dill Jr., mayor of Morehead City, and president of the North Carolina League of Mu nicipalities, presided Wednesday at Raleigh at an executive com mittee meeting of the league. The committee selected Winston Salem for the league's annual con vention Oct. 12-14. A schedule of fees for the league's service was adopted and the league's services expanded. The legislative committee was put to work keeping abreast of study commissions appointed at the 1957 legislature. The league is interested primar ily in legislation that would affect towns and cities. High School Pianist Will Play at Children's Concert Miss Betty Bullock, Hamlet, will play a movement from a Mozart concerto at the children's Little Symphony Concert at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Morehead City High School auditorium. Miss Betty Bullock, pianist of Hamlet, N. C\, and winner of the 1957 58 Junior Concert Division | soloist auditions, will appear as guest soloist when the North Caro-, lina Little Symphony plays its an nual children's concert in More head City Tuesday, i A native, of North Carolina. Miss ! Bullock is a student at Hamlet High School where she is active in dramatics, Latin and speech clubs,; I the school newspaper, and is ac ! companist for the high school glee 1 club Except for four months under i the late Hans Barth in Jackson ville, Fla., she has studied piano since the age of 7 under Mrs. Nell H. Jones, Jr., of Rockingham, N. C. Miss Bullock will play one move ment from Mozart's Concerto in A major. Other numbers to be hoard at the 2 p.m. children's con cert at the school auditorium are Kabalevsky's Dance of the Come dians; Grieg's Norwegian Dance No. 2 and Solveig's Song; excerpts from Mozart's Symphony No. 40, in G minor; and Handel's Water ! Music. I The adult concert will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Morehcad City School. ' Memberships entitling the holder ! to attend the Morehcad City con ! I cert and any of the 45 other adultJ evening concerts held throughout the state can still be purchased for as little as $3 for adults, $1 for I students. Memberships may bo ob ? tamed by contacting membership I chairman C. R. Davant, by phon ling 6 3388. A pink receipt slip will be given I purchasers and this will admit I them to Tuesday's concert. Snow Saps Strength Of Telephone Lines It snowed yesterday, so some of the time the phones worked and some of the time they didn't. If you didn't get a dial tone the first two minutes after picking up the receiver, and waited longer, sometimes you got it. Because of such improved ser vice, the telephone company be lieves higher rates are justified and that higher rates will also enable it to make further improve ments. Some of the folks in Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Com pany's area dd not go along with this reasoning and, therefore, have engaged an attorney to fight the rate request before the State Utili ties Commission. Spearheading the battle is the East Carolina Phone Fight Com mittee. This committee estimates that 20 cents per phone user will1 pay legal counsel for the phone subscribers. Carteret County phone users have already contributed $97. an amount that, based on the 20 cents per phone assessment, equals 485 phones. Some contributors, how ever, have given more than 20 cents. Since Tuesday, an additional $1.65 has been paid to the Phones fund of THE NEWS TIMES. Con tributors were Mrs. Carl Hatsell and Mrs. Margaret Rumer, Heau fort; Harold Daniels Jr.. Atlantic, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garner, Morehead City. THE NEWS TIMES will continue to accept funds for the fight against the rate raise as long as I persons wish to send the money ! in. No date has been set as yet | for the hearing before the utilities 'commission. The higher rates, 'however, are already in effect. Group Will Meet Tonight to Plan For Foreign Student to Study Here Marshallberg Firemen Meet I Troy D. Moore was named to re cruit and organize a "day watch" when the Marshallberg Kirc De partment met Friday night at the community building. The day watch is necessary, the firemen point out, because all fire department members work outside the town during the day. Capt. Cicero Lewis and Lt. Fcr nic Willis reported that the fire truck and equipment is being checked regularly and is in good order. Plans were made for building a hose ramp. Members of the fire department will furnish material and labor. ft was reported that Lester Mur phy, assistant chief, answered a call to an automobile fire. With a portable fire extinguisher he put the fire out and the motor was put back in operating condition. James Paul Lewis, Davis, mem ber, of the Down East Fire De partment, attended the meeting. Mr. Lewis joined in discussion of rural fire department problems. Morehead City town board will meet at T:4S p.m. Thursday. Heads of all Morchcad City civic and fraternal organizations, and church groups will meet at 7:30 tonight at the civic crntcr to form subcommittees for handling the high school student exchange pro gram. At a meeting Tuesday night a group representing ten Morchcad City organizations decided that heads of ail organizations, includ ing the chief executive of high school clubs, shall constitute the exchange student committee. The purpose of the organization is to handle matters dealing with a foreign student's attending More head City School during the 1958 59 school year. In addition to other details, the community wanting a foreign student must finance the project with $850 It was the opinion of thoae at tending the Tuesday night meeting that it would not be difficult to raise the necessary funds. The program is bring spear headed hy the Morchcad City Wo man's Cluh. Mrs. Truman Kemp, president Mrs. A. It. Roberts Jr. is in charge of the student ex change project. International Goodwill The purpose of the exchange program is to become acquainted with persons of other countries, which will promote better inter national relations, Mrs. Roberts explained. The exchange program is spon sored by the American Field Scr vice. The AFS was founded in 1915 as a volunteer ambulance ser vice with the French armies. In World War II, the AFS pro vided volunteer ambulance service at the front with French, British, Indian. Folish. Italian, South Afri can and New Zealand troops Daily person to person contacts between people of different nation alities promotes international un derstanding, respect, and friend ship, they found. In this spirit, the AFS in peacetime has sponsored international scholarships ? the AFS Fellowships for French Uni versities from 1919 to 1950, and ?ince 1947, the rapidly growing teen age programs. AFS Requirements Mrs. Roberts explained that sponsorship of an AFS student re quires the following: !. Choosing a good family to take the student in as a member of the family, without pay, during the year 2. Raise $050 3. Have the school accept the student, tuition free 4. Form a local committee to watch over the student and AFS matters during the school year AFS students arc 1. Boys and girls between 16 and 18 years old 2. They come from 30 different countries 3. All arc able to speak English passably well, if not fluently See AFS STUDENT, Page 2 Deadline for '58 License Tags: Noon Tomorrow Noon tomorrow is the deadline for obtaining 1958 license tags in the county. At that time the li cense issuing agency in the loan department, First - Citizens Bank and Trust Co.. Morchead City, will close. Up to 1 p.m. yesterday 5,462 tags had been issued by the agency. The total issued throughout all of 1957 last year was 8,811, which would indicate that there still may fie a thousand or more persons planning to get their tags locally, who have not done so (Tags are also available by inail direct from Kaleigh). Tags for 1958. including town, tags, must be on cars by midnight! tomorrow night. They may not be in the glove compartment or in the desk drawer at home, they must be on the car or the motorist is subject to arrest. Of the 5.462 tags sold thus far. 4,301 were auto tags. 2 were mo torcycle, 727 private trucks. 125 farm trucks. 254 car trailer, and 53 tractor trailer tags. F&WL Vessel Will Explore Deeper Waters llobucken ? The coastal waters j of North Carolina below 50 fathoms : will be probed by the U.S. Fish j and Wildlife Service this month in an exploratory cruise of the M/V Delaware. The new exploration is a part of long-range planning initiated by the North Carolina Fisheries Asso ciation in cooperation with the Fish and Wildlife Service. NCFA President Roy Watson has received word from H. E. Crow ther, chief of the Division of In dustrial Research and Services of the F&WLS, that the Delaware will leave Boston today. It will explore Nortii Carolina's coastal waters for more than a month. The last exploratory cruise in North Caro lina waters was during this past June by the M/V Combat. The primary objective of the work of the Delaware will be to seek information on edible fish by bottom trawling at depths be yond the 50 fathom line. The cruise was set this year during the so-called "off season" to as certain whether fish can be found at greater depths during the cold winter months. At the same time work will be done by the Delaware in other fishery classifications and phases, such as flatfish and shrimp, at the greater depths. A meeting will be arranged be tween representatives of the NCFA and members of the Delaware's crew some time during its cruise for a discussion of the work being done, Mr. Watson said. Theatre Sets Date for Play Members of the Carteret Com munity Theatre set Saturday night, Mareh 8, for production of their forthcoming play, Peck-a-Boo Pen ny. Curtain will go up at 8. Saturday night, Mareh IS, was the date selected for the annual theatre dinner. The time will be 7 p.m. The place will be an nounced. In charge of the dinner and program is Glenn Adair. Awards for the best director, best actor, best actress and an award to the person who has done the most to promote the theatre, will be given. Members of the theatre group will meet at 2 Saturday at the recreation building to work on the stage. Officers were elected for 195859. They arc Miss Ruth Peeling, pres ident; Thomas Respess, vice pres ident; Miss Gunhilde Gunnerscn, secretary; Miss Thelma Memakis, treasurer; and Prank Carlson, business manager. A letter from Miss Elizabeth Lambeth was read. She thanked the theatre for the flowers sent to her while she was in the hos pital at Winston-Salem. Kenneth Fischler. president of the theatre, presided. Two Now Members Join County Toostmasters Two now members were added to the county Toastmasters Club Wednesday night. John P. Baptist and T. J. Price, both sponsored by Dr. Ted Rice, Joined the club. P. II. Geer Jr. was toastmaster (or the meeting at WMBL. Pre pared speakers were Lecil Smith, O. N. Allrcd, and Gerald Hill. Their critics were Dr. Russell Outlaw, Jasper Bell, and C. T. Lewis. Truck Zooms Off Curve, Takes Out Room of House fnoto* oy t???u M-/uiuur A close-up shot of the truck shows one windshield, on the driver's side, completely knocked out. Ker mit Long, driver of the vehicle, escaped with a scrat ch. Ocracoke Storm Study to Start Wilmington?Plans for a com prehcnsive hurricane beach erosion study of Ocracoke Island are sche duled to get under way in the next few weeks, the Corps of Engineers' j District Office hero announced to-1 day. In announcing plans to get start- j ed on the examination, Lt. Col. VV. i K. Shaffer, acting district engi neer, said the federal government j had allocated $30,500 and the state of North Carolina had put up $10. 500 to cover the estimated cost of $41,000 to complete the study. The Ocracoke Island study is a joint venture by the Corps and the state which will require an estimated 18 months to complete. Principal objectives in the un dertaking concern damages result , ing from hurricanes and beach erosion processes, and the most suitable types of protective works to prevent such damages in the future as well as to aid in restor ing the vulnerable island. Dan Ycomans of liarkers Island wak taken from Sea Level Hos pital to the Marine Hospital. Nor folk, Val, yesterday by the Dill ambulance. ? i i Two persons narrowly escaped death at 9 a.m. Tuesday when a j milk truck ran through the bed room of the Francis Bullock home j on the Crab Point Road. Kertnit Long, Beaufort, driver ! of tiie truck, and Mrs. Bullock,, 1 who was in her living room, were I frightened but uninjured when they I talked to a reporter minutes after the accident. i Lor.g lost control of the truck on j the curve 50 yards south of the Charles Freeman grocery store. ; Tracks indicated that the right wheels of the truck left the road on the curve and then the truck ! skidded across the road, knocked | down a pole protecting a telephone pole, broke off the telephone p >le. I went through the Bullock bedroom I and came to rest 100 feet away in a field. With glass and milk flying in all directions. Long stayed behind the wheel and finally brought his truck to a halt. After a close cx j animation, he found a small scratch on the thumb of his right | hand. There was a trickle of milk ion his face. Mrs. Bullock declares that she didn't get a scratch but was near ly scared to death. "I thought it was judgment day," she said. "I have been scared lots of times but never like this. I was sitting in the living room (in a spot about 10 feet from where the truck came through) when I heard this awful noise and the house started falling apart. "I started for the back door but just as I opened it the television antenna fell a few inches in front of my nose. I backed into the house right quick after that and discovered that things had settled down a bit. "By that time neighbors were coming in to see if I was all right. I'm still a little shook up but I think everything will be all right as soon as we get the house fixed," she said. Insurance adjusters, called in by Maola Dairy, were in town the same afternoon and made arrange ments for a contractor to rebuild the room. * Morehead City pltfnt manager John Paul Jones said that this was the first reportable accident a Maola truck had been involved in for over five years. State Highway Patrolman R. II. Brown, who investigated, has charged Long with speeding. Long claimed his wheels locked. Police men clear away rubbish caused when a milk (ruck, right, ran through the bedroom of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bullock on the Crab Point Road. The truck broke the telephone pole still standing and uprooted a second pole, pushing it into the house. 4-H Club Advisors Plan Special Electrical Study Sgt. William J. Coodie of the Morehead City Police Deportment surveys his make shift ceilinii support He pat up ? 11 i plank to support the sagging roof and give persons headroom inside. Four special instruction classes on electricity have been planned for 1 11 Club members. The plans were made Tuesday afternoon at the home agent's of fice. Working on the program are George Stovall and Morris Edge of Carolina Power and Light Co.. W. C. Carlton and Bernard Morton of Carteret-Craven Electric Member ship Corp., Ed Coates, agriculture engineering specialist. State Col lege. Harry Venters, and Mrs. Floy Garner, 4-H advisors. Eighty-nine boys and girls arc enrolled in electrical projects in the county. Because of their in terest. the 4-H advisors decided to undertake a special program with the aid of electrical companies. The four sessions planned include three instruction periods and a lour to Wilmington. The first mreting will be Friday, March 14. at 7:30 p.m. at the Car teret-Craven building. Bridges Street, Morehead City. Instructors will be Mr. Edge and Mr. Morton The boys and girls attending will learn simple electrical terms, see a safety film and bring an electric cord that has to be repaired. At the second meeting March 28, each 4-H'er attending the meeting will work on a small motor. The third meeting April U 'will deal with hot beds and heating with electricity. Four-H'ers who attend all three of these sessions will be eligible to take a tour to Wilmington where they will see hbw Carolina Power and Light generates electricity. The i tour will be under the supervision ' of Mr. Stovall. The 4 II advisors hope that the instruction will help the boys and girls understand, and put to better use, electricity in and around the home. Tide Table Tide* at the Beaufort liar HICK I.OW Friday, Feb. It 5 OS a.m. 11:30 a.m. 5:35 p.m. 11:42 p in. .Saturday, Feb. 15 6:00 a.m. 12 20 a m. 6 28 p.m. .Sunday. Feb. 16 6:48 a.m. 12:32 a m. 7:13 p.m. 1:06 p.m. Monday. Feb. 17 7:31 a.m. 1 16 a.m. 7:55 p.m. 1.50 p.m. Tueaday, Feb. 18 6:10 a.m. 2:03 a.m. 1.34 p.m. 2 30 p.m. Coast Guard Launches Third Search for West [ The Coast Guard launched its i third search for Morchead City ad I venturer Mel West Tuesday at the request of his wife Mrs. West called Lt. Cdr. Roy llutchins, cap tain of the cutter Chilula, at 11:55 a m. Tuesday and asked him to start the search. The Coast Guard conducted two searches for the motorboat enthusi ast on his first attempted ocean crossing in September. A commer cial vessel located him when he was still going strong to end the ?first search. found Near Bermuda The second search was concluded when the Coast Guard cutter Rock away took West and his boat aboard and carried them to Ber muda. He had run out of gas and was drifting, with a sea anchor out, when the Rockaway spotted him. Mrs. West, in asking the Coast Guard to look for her husband, said that he left Wednesday, Jan. 29. He had told her to wait for two weeks before asking anyone to look for Mm but reports of bad weather prompted Mrs. West to make the request a day early. In an interview yesterday, Mrs. West said that she had all of the eonfidenec in the world that her husband could make the trip. "He thought that now was as good a time as any to make the trip," sho said. Weather Important "Mel told me that if he Could get behind a weather front headed to ward Bermuda he would have rela tively calm seas all the way. The weather changed and I understand the ocean has been rough, but I think he ran still make it. "We went out together to check equipment on the boat and I was satisfied when he left that both he and the boat could go all the way this time," she concluded. .Suspends Licenses Maxine F. Strain, Morrbead City, and Marvin Earl Williams, Beaufort, have been notified that their licenses have been suspend ed. The licenses were suspended by the state highway safety divi sion for speeding and Improper use of a driver's license, lively.