CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Tho Heart Fund Helps Your Heart *7th YEAR, NO. 14. EIGHT PAGES AND COMICS MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS SPA Hires Ports Director Port Officials! Review Case D Leon Williams, who has ac cepted the position as executive di rector of North Carolina state ports, has informed John M. Reeves, SPA chairman here, that the investigation of Georgia ports by the Georgia SPA does not in volve Mr. Williams. The investiga tion, he claims, has arisen as the result of a dispute between Gov. Marvin Griffin and his opponents. Chairman Reeves, since the in vestigation has been publicised in this state, says that final agree ment with Mr. Williams, as to his being ports director here, will not be made until further inquiry is made into the Georgia allegations. Georgia State Sen. Bobby Lee Cook heads the senate committee looking into operations of the Geor gia State Ports Authority. Cook says the Georgia ports have been operated "in a very careless man ner". In a newspaper interview he is quoted as saying that the Atlanta offices of the Georgia authority have been used for several years as private offices of a steamship shipping company in which Gov ernor Griffin is said to be interest ed. Mr Williams' offices are in Sa vannah, but Cook claimed the oc cupancy of the Atlanta office was with his knowledge. Chairman Reeves issued the fol lowing statement Friday: "The allegations brought against Mr. II. Leon Williams, director of the Georgia State Ports Authority, | by Georgia State Senator Bobby Lee Cook came as a great shock to i me and to the other members of i the State Ports Authority. "These allegations are in com- j ptelc variance with the exhaustive report furnished the State Porta Authority by the management firm which screened prospects for this position. "1 am asking this firm to make an Immediate investigation of these allegations, and also I am asking Mr. Williams for a full and com plete explanation." The job consulting firm whicH recommended Mr. Williams for the job is liaody Associates of New York City. The firm has been paid $600 of Its $3,500 fee for screening ports director applicants, says Ed Kirk, secretary to the SPA. Mr. Williams said in Savannah Friday that the current investiga tion of the Georgia ports "has nothing to do with my leaving. 1 started negotiating for the new job prior to the ports investigation." Robert E. Frankenfield of Sa vannah, chairman of the Georgia Ports Authority, expressed surprise upon learning that Mr. Williams had accepted the North Carolina port. He said, "The change is a complete shock to me. We will ac cept the resignation with reluct apce." 19Vi Days Elapse Without Word From Mel West At noon yesterday, days bad elapsed without word {rom Morehead City adventurer Mel West. The Coast Guard is still keeping a lookout for West, wbo left Morehead City Jan. 29 on his second try to navigate the 580 miles of open ocean to Bermuda in an outboard motorboat. A NEWS-TIMES reporter called at the West home at 3 p.m. yes terday. Mrs. West had just re ceived a call from Coast Guard district headquarters but she was so upset by the call that she could not relate what she was told. She was in tears. It was assumed that the Coast Guard said they had found no trace of West. West left Morehead City hoping to follow a weather front ioto Ber muda, thereby gaining advantage of relatively calm seas. The wea ther has changed, though, taking a decided turn for the worse. Waves up to 19 feet high have been reported in the area where he is believed to be. There has been no official report concerning the Coast Guard's plana on the search. Persons Invited To Take Vaccine Persons who have not yet been Inoculated with polio vaccine are urged to get the vaccine without delay. The series of three shots should be started now to assure the lar gest measure of immunity by the time summer arrives. Shots are available without cost at the county health department far persons up to 40 years of age. They may be gotten also at the doctor's 'office. After the vaccine available now at the health department goes oat of date, it la not known whether any more will be available. Cold Paralyzes Inside Fishing Offshore Trawlers Do Well When They Can Get Out, Official Says The Intense.cold has paralyzed;* 'inside fishing" (non ocean) of all; kinds. C. 0. Holland, commercial. fisheries commissioner said yea terday. ' This winter has probably been i the worst since 1917 when North J River and many of the sounds 1 froze over, Commissioner Holland 1 said Then a lot of fish were picked up, frozen. ? The cold has played hob with the shad and herring season. Many of the fishermen have not been able to get their stakes out j The trawlers working offshore J make good catches when they can i get out. Last week's hauls of croakers and sea mullets were good. The boats may get two work days a we*'k, but not in succes sion, Commissioner Holland com mented. How will the cold affect the shrimp season? Commissioner Hol land said that the shrimp might have had enough sense to burrow deeper in the mud to escape the cold. Dr. A F. Chestnut, director of Lhe Institute of Fisheries Research, said that on the occasional cold winters prior to this, small frozen shrimp were sometimes washed up on the shore. None have been re ported thus far this year, he said. Mercury Drops To 14 Sunday The temperature plunged to a low of 14 Sunday night, freezing rivers, water pipes and automo biles. Weather observer Stamey Davis says it was the coldest night he has recorded since he began checking the weather in 1947. A low of 16, recorded last De cember, was the previous record for Mr. Davis, who still remem bers the winter of 1917 when Bogue Sound froze over. The mer cury registered seven degrees above zero during that cold snap. Mr. Davis says that he has seen a number of blue birds and robins in the past week and predicts that spring is right around the corner. "We will have more cold weather in March and a little in April, but 1 don't think there will be much more like this," he says. Maximum and minimum tem peratures and wind direction for the weekend follow: Max. Min. Wind Thursday 36 31 WNW Friday 40 24 SW Saturday 50 32 SW Sunday 50 30 W Monday ?14 ? Petitions Sent Out The All-Seashore Highway Asso ciation has mimeographed model petitions on requesting formation of a mosquito control district. The petitions have been mailed to coun ties and towns along the coast. (Editor's Note: The following Is the newsstory on the new state ports director as released by the SPA late Thursday. Feb. IX After the announcement, It was re reeled by a Raleigh newspaper that the new appointee, D. Leon Williams, Is Involved In a Georgia Senate in vestigation which alleges that the Georgia state ports program has not been properly handled under his directorship). Raleigh, Feb. 13 ? The director of the Georgia State port program, D. Leon Williams, 61, of Savannah, has been named as new executive director of the North Carolina State Ports Authority. The appointment of Mr. Williams was announced to lay by John M. Reeves of Pine hurst, chairman of the authority, and becomes effective March 15. Governor Hodges has considered I he recommendation of the author ity, as required by law. and has approved the selection of Mr. Wil jaras. "I am impressed with Mr. Williams' record and believe the North Carolina Ports Authority has employed a man with great experi ence in ports work," he said. "We are looking to him to provide the active supervision and direction which is needed to accelerate our ?itate Ports program in the *co lomic development of our state." Mr. Williams has agreed to a two-year contract at ao annual salary of $18,000; with the state ap propriations paying for $12,000 of this total and the remainder com ing from operating funds of the Ports Authority. This compared with a $12.noo sal ary paid from state appropriations and $1,200 from operating funds to the past executive director, who was a retired Army colonel receiv ing federal retirement pay, it is understood, of approximately $7, 000, providing a total income of more than $20 000 per year In its search for an experienced new ports director, the SPA found that salaries for qualified and ex perienced men In this skilled pro fession ran from $15,000 $30,000 or j more at other comparable port op j erations See SPA, Page 2 Beaufort Scouts Honored Sammy Merrill, left, and Allen Autry were promoted to the rank of Eagle Scout at special services In the First Baptist Church, Beau fort, Sunday morning. The badges were presented by J. E. Crowe, Beaufort, chairman of the Carteret District Scout Committee. Grover Munden Heads Town Student Exchange Project Graver Munden was elected chairman of the Morehead City Student Exchange Project at a steering committee meeting Fri day night at the civic center. Mr. Munden is president of the Rotary Club. Morehead City's application for a foreign student to study in its high school next year was mailed Saturday to the American Field Service, which sponsors study of foreign high school .students here, and abroad. Mr. Munden says he expects to name committees soon to carry out the project. The student ex change program has been spear beaded by the Morehead City Wo man's Club as a phase of the statewide activity, Operation World Friendship. Mrs. A. B. Roberts, Morehead City, is state chairman of Operation World Friendship. Persons attending Friday night's meeting and the organliation each represented were Mr. Munden, Ko tary; Mrs. W. M. Brady, Junior Woman's Club; the Rev. J. F. Her-! bert, County Ministers Associa tion and First Methodist Church. Mrs. John Lashley, First Bap tist Church; Mrs. A F. Chestnut, First Presbyterian Church; Mrs. Paul Branch, St. Andrew's Epis copal Church; Mrs. Ray Brown, American Association of Univer sity Women. Lonwood lee, Morehead City School; Paul Br3v, County Toast masters: C. B. Wade, Emeritus Club; Dr. Robert Barnum, Jay cees; Rufus Butner, Morehead City Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Tru man Kemp. Woman's Club; Mayor George Dill, town of Morehead City, and Mrs. Roberts. Club Plans Easter Seal Sale Junior Woman'* Oak member* who are planning the Eaiter Seal campaign for Ike Society for Crip pled Children and AdnH* are Mr*. Roy llntchins Jr., Mr*. Roma Myron, Mr*. Dick Spear*, Mr*. Wayne Thoihpnoa, Mr*. John Gaiaey, Mrs. Thoma* Noe and Mrs. Jerry NorrK Committee heads (or the IBM Easter Seal campaign met in the home of Mrs. John Gainey Wed nesday morning for an organisa tional meeting. Literature was distributed to committee heads and committees appointed. Working with Mrs. Roy Hutchins on coin containers will be Mrs. Pat Dick. Mrs. Rufus But ner, Mrs. Frank Cassiano. Mrs. Dorothy Freeman will work with Mrs. Richard Spears in prepare tlon for Uly Day and Coffee Day. Serving under the chairmanship of Mrs. Wayne Thompson on the i schools committee will be Mrs. Harry Venters, Mrs. Hildrcd Par ker, Mrs. Zeb Mauney. Mrs. Peg gy Donnelly, and Mrs. W. M. Brady. Chairman of the records com- : mittee ia Mrs. Roma Styron and : her committee is composed of Mrs. Billy Bell, Mrs. Joe Beam, ' Mrs. Seldon Sherwood, and Mrs. i William Plckard. Serving on the accounting com mlttce under Mr>. Jerry Norris I ii Mrs. John Gainey, Mrs. Pat | Lrary, and Mra. Thornaa Noc Miaa Alida Willis. who U mail ing chairman, will select her com mitlec from non-club members Publicity chairman is Mra. Thomas I L. Noe. Campaign treasurer is Mrs D. G. Bell The Easter Seal Campaign, which begins next month, is being I sponsored by the Morebead City| Junior Woman's Club. Candidates in May Primary Get Ready to Wage Battle Coin Cart Gets Test Police commissioner Ted Garner, right, takes a look at the new coin collector cart being used In Morehead City. Police Li. Carl Biomberg unlocks a meter, takes out the coin box, and deposits the j money In the box on the cart. Thank You for My Heart' This is tho month of the Heart Fund Drive. Louis Johnson, Beaufort, if one of the children who has undergone a serious heart operation. It has made him a normal, healthy boy. He tells about the operation, which he underwent last year, in the following article: My name is I/Ouis Johnson and I am 10 years old, am in the 6th grade at Queen Street School, Beaufort. All my life I've had a bad heart. At school I couldn't march in the band or play ball. The whitea of my eyes were always blood-shot and my skin and fingernails were always a sick purple. The worst part of all, though, usually came at night when I couldn't get my breath and Daddy would have to rush me to the hos pital so that I could be given oxy gen. My parents read about the opera tion and I looked at the pictures. They were afraid for me to have this surgery. I didn't believe it could be much worse than fighting to breathe. They knew that if I didn't have this operation that I wouldn't live more than two years. They knew also that I could very easily lose my life if I had it. The decision was difficult for them to make. The last time Daddy carried me to Morchead City Hospital in the night while I struggled to breathe, I said "Daddy, I don't want to die". I think that then he decided to give me my only chance to live. We had an appointment with Dr. Haler, John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on April 25, 1957. On my last day at school April 23. 1957, everyone was swell. I received a lot of presents and everyone said they'd be praying for me while I was in the hospital. A few days before we left iny Mother apd Daddy took me to my church where our pastor met us and prayed for me Do you know that before they operated on me they had to lower my temperature down to 86 de grees? They first put me to sleep, then I whs placed on a mattress of finely crushed ice, and covered with a similar blanket, until my temperature reached 86 degrees. See THANK YOU, Page 6 Tide Table Tides it the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Feb. 18 8:10 a.m. 2:03 a.m. 8:34 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. It 8 48 a.m. 2:44 a.m. 9:12 p.m. 3:08 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20 9:24 a.m. 3:22 a.m. 8:49 p.m. 3:42 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 10:00 a.m. 3:58 a.m. 10:25 p.m. 4:13 p.m. Although the May 31 Democratic* primary U more than three month* away, candidate* are already get ting their forces lined up for a suc cessful campaign. Congressman Graham Barden, Democratic congressman from the third congressional district, which includes Carteret, has announced that be will run again. Robert D. Rouse Jr., solicitor for the fifth district, which includes Carteret, has announced his candidacy. Mr. Rouse and Luther Hamilton Jr., Morehead City, vied for the solicitor's office in the 1054 pri mary. The contest went into a run off which Mr. Rouse won. Congressman Barden faced his most serious opposition in years in 1356 when Jimmy Simpkins of New Bern sought the Democratic nom ination for Congressman, but the old pro, Congressman Barden, won with flying colors. Candidates have until noon Sat urday, April 19. to file for general assembly, county and township of fices. County Kepubileans got in tnc j fight with both feet in 1954. Ap- ; pearing on the November ballot were the names of Grayden Paul. j for general assemblyman; R. K. Montague, clerk of superior court; j G. W. Duncan Jr., sheriff; J. D. , Daniels, register of deeds; Chris t i n e Carroll Garner, coroner; j George J. Brooks, surveyor; A. L. ! Wilson for justice of the peace, ! Newport, and for county commis- i sioner: Delmar towis, WaddeU Pridgen, Elnier D. Willis, Elmo j Wade, and Guy L. McCain. The only offices where Demo- i cratic Incumbents had opposition j in the 1954 May primary were j sheriff, register of deeds, county j commissioner and Morehead City township constable. Punning for sheriff were Hugh | Sailer, the late Ray Higbsmlth and G. T. Spivev; for register of deeds, Inin W Davis. Vivian A. Chad wick, and A. L. (Bull) Brinson. For county commissioner: Moses Howard, Dr K P. R Bonner, Wal ter Yeomans, Edward Potter, Gas ton Smith, Alvah B. Taylor, Walter B. Chadwick, Vernon Guthrie, Julian Brown and Ronald E. Good win. For Morehead township consta ble, George Smith and William Murphy Jenkins. The Democrats without opposi tion in the primary were D. G. Bell, for general assembly; A. H. James, clerk of superior court; Lambert Morris, judge of county recorder's court; Wiley Taylor Jr., solicitor of county recorder's court. L. D Springle, coroner; Phillip K. Ball, surveyor; A. R. Craig, justice of the peace, Newport township; R. E. Chaplain, Beau fort township constable, and Wil liam C. Dugee, Newport township constable. Loaif Johnson . . . sarrd by oprratton Bonner Home Razed rhoto Dy r. u sniuoury This home, until recently a part of the I). B. Willis estate, is be ing torn dorni to make war for a bnslness building. By F. C. SALISBURY To make way for a new store building on Arendctl Street in Morehcad City, the former Bonner house at 10th and Arendell Streets is being razed. This property was recently pur chased by Henry 11. White and Ben R. Alford from the heirs of the late Mrs. Kate Parks. They will erect a one-story brick bus iness building containing two store spaces. A similar building of this size and construction is being built on the adjoinnig lot, formerly owned by Mrs I The town of Atlantic Beach la selling automobile license Ufa to all persona who own property In town. The toga are $1 each.