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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '?< 47th YEAR, NO. 24. THREE SECTIONS U^HTVEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Missionary Baptist Mission Becomes Church at Sea Level Photo by Bob Seymour The Rev. Robert Floyd, left, pastor of the Sea Level Baptist Church, shows some of hl> church of ficers how the new church is profrenlaf. Others hi the pictare, left to right, are Clareaee Salter, Sunday School superintendent, Mrs. Milton Taylor, church clerk, Mrs. Beaumon Taylor, church treas ' urer, Beaumon Taylor, building superintendent, aad Cards Gs skill, Sunday School teacher. The Missionary Baptist Church of Sea Level was organized Sue day afternoon from a mission of the Atlantic Baptist Church, At lantic, into a fully constituted church with 30 charter members, and 66 enrolled in the Sunday School. The Rev. Dr. J. R. Owen, I Havelock, delivered the main ad dress. The Sea Level Mission was es tablished in March 1957, under the leadership of the Rev. John W. Privott, former pastor of the At: lantic Baptist Church. Dr. Owen was called to hold worship ser vices for the mission until a pastor could be called. In July 1857, Robert N. Floyd, former pastor of the First Sou thern Baptist Church, Mountain , Horn*, Idaho, was called to be pas tor of the mission. The Sea Level Baptist Church has been tarrying ot> a full-time church program since its incep tion as, a mission last March, in spite of the fact that the members have Veen meeting in an empty carpenter shop too small and in adequate for their needs. (Jesus Christ also had His beginnings in a carpenter shop, comments the Rev. Mr. Floyd). , The members of the church, however, are anxiously awaiting the completion of their new ce ment-block building on Highway TO, beyond the S<;a Level poqtofGc; toward Atlantic. A Church Council which met to carry out the procedure for or ganising the mission into a church was composed of the Rev. J. D. j Heath, Kinston; the Rev. William W. Rhymes, Maysville; the Rev. ? Dr. W. W. Hamilton, Havelock; Chaplain Daniel E. Honeycutt, Havelock. The Rev. Mr. Privott, Atlantic Baptist Associational Missionary, New Bern; the Rev. Philip Quid ley, Atlantic ; the Rev. Mr. Floyd, Sea Level; Roy Clemmon, Beau fort; S. E. Brown, Maysville. Carlton P. Rose, Beaufort; Reg gie E. Parrish, Newport; Miles Willis, Smyrna; Julian Willis, Lu ther E. Smith, Murry Robinson, Albert Mason, Harry Brickhouse, * Charles Edwards, and Harvey Hamilton, all of Atlantic. Members of the Sea Level Bap tist Church, stated the following - *? ? . I ? ?_ See CHURCH, Page S Spring Oyster Planting Starts Off Cedar Island Thieves Enter Three Newport BusinessPlaces Three Newport businesses were victims of as early Sunday .morn tug robbery. They were Allerffcnd B.I1 jntgftML MS" Soda Shop and tfie Frtendly Diner. Newport police chief Dan Bell waa notified of the robberies Sun day mortting and contacted Sheriff Hugh Salter. Sheriff Salter said the front door of Allen and Bell's was pried open. Tools, a crowbar and $28.80 was taken. At the soda shop the back door was jimmied open. Timex watches, pens, a small amount of cash, all of it totaling about $400 in value, were stolen. At the restaurant the side door was broken open, the juke box till was broken and money taken, the cigarette case was ransaApd and chewing gum was strewnTUl over the floor. The Allen and Bell robbery was discovered first. Sheriff Salter said that several suspects are under in vestigation. Newport has frequently been vic timized by burglars. The biggest theft in recent months was $3,000 taken from Henry Williams, New port store owner, on Monday, April IS, 1957. - Cottages Entered Two cottages were entered at Atlantic Beach near Ocean Ridge Friday night Police Chief Bill Moore report* that there was nothing missing from the cottages so far as he could tell. He said thl owner* had been notified to come and, take an inventory. ' ?y niiUE tenuis Mother Nature is getting further help from the state in the efforts being made to bring the North Carolina oyster industry back to the eminence it once had among the oyitcr-producing states. This help is In the form of some 277,000 bushels of seed oysters to be planted in specially selected waters of Carteret, Pamlico, Hyde, Dare. Onslow, Pender, New Han over and Brunswick Counties by the Department of Conservation and Development's commercial fisheries division. The transplanting of the oysters is being supervised by Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director. Institute of Fisheries Research, University of North Carolina, Horehead City. The planting of the seed oysters, which are taken from natural "lumps" found near the mouths of rivers emptying into sounds, began last week off Cedar Island. Fifty thousand bushels have been planted at Point of March in Car teret County and 20,000 in Shell Bay, Hyde County. Plantings will continue in waters in the southern part of the state. If favorable weather prevails, the transplantings should be completed within three weeks, Dr. Chestnut thinks, provided sufficient seed oysters can be found. The plantings, an annual under taking of the Department of Con servation and Development, are a continuation of the state oyster re habilitation program authorized by the 1(47 General Assembly. The seed oysters are taken from areas where they cannot develop into mature oysters and placed in public oystering beds where they can grow to marketable size. Areas now bein^ planted will be kept closed for at least two years unless investigations reveal the oysters have reached the legal shell length of 3 inches required before they can be marketed. The second phase of the oyster rehabilitation program will come See OYSTERS, Page 2 Meafcan a< Ike m InW Cfeartk at Sea Lcvd were (tree Ike W*U k?J ^ MlwHn At t?l M, .1, .< *? ? MamfM riRm un w iMVWiiip II sprtiw mrnrf mm nr Atiaiuc Npm Ckarck Suday afletnooa. Menken at the eoacreiatfoa are Mm witk Ut paiter* Ike Re*. lekert FbH ud Dr. J. ft. 0?n,hrwr futar. b the fictare are Hn. Itama Tartar, Ganb GaaUU, Km raoto ?jr Boo Seymour DaBu Willis, Fraak Hanrey, Mr*. Frank Hirvey, Mr*. Mlltea Tar I ar, Mr*. Dciiat* Gasklll. Mb* Irt. Fire Salter, Mr*. Ma LfHa, Mta. Ka> RanllUa, the In. Mr. FUji, Dr. OMa, Delmai GaaUII, Mr*. Carallae Willi*, CUreace Salter, Mr*. datcac* Salter, Hairdl Taylar, Ma Laptea aad Itmaiaaa Tartar. ... - - _ Morehead City Sets Tentative $1.75 Tax Rate Town Board Considers Hiring Special Agent To Collect Back Taxes Morehead City commissioners tentatively set the tax rate at $1.75 for 1956-59 when the board met at the municipal building Thursday night. The rate is the same as last year. Commissioners also requested that the finance commissioner, S. C. Holluway, invite E. L. Brinson to the April meeting. Mr. Brinson is collector of delinquent personal property taxes for the county. The board is interested in having him collect delinquent Morehead City taxes. The board authorized the clerk, John Lashley, to hire, on a tem porary basis, a clerk to assist in setting up card index accounts for each taxpayer. Summary Statement Such an arrangement, Mr. Lash ley said, would make it possible to state on each year's tax notice the amount of tax currently due and the amount accumulated from past years. Harold Tippctt and Clyde W. Pat terson appeared before the V>ard relative to back taxes owing on personal property listed in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hill. Also appearing before the board was John Seitter, who re quested permission to put two fuel tanks above the ground at his ser vice station. Mr. Seitter was re ferred to the building inspector. To reduce the amount of traffic going out the south end of the west alley in the 1700 block of ArendeU Street, the board authorized plac ing a "Do Not Enter Sign" mid way on the north-south alley. Mayor George Dill and commis sioner G E. Sanderson said that persona living on cither side of the south end of the alley com plained about the amount of traffic going through the alley, since the Medical Arta building on Aren dell Street has been occupied. Tractor Needed Commissioner Sanderson waa au thorized to look for a new tractor for the town street department. George McNeill, town attorney, reported that he has been informed by the attorney general that a town may use tax money to sup port a public utilities fight before the State Utilities Commission only if the town is a formal party to, or intervenor in, the suit. The board adopted an amend ment to the ordinance on signs regulating the type and size of sign which may be erected. Attending the meeting, in addi tion to the mayor, town attorney, clerk and commissioner Sander son were commissioners Jasper Bell, Ted Garner and D. J. Hall. Republicans Name 11 to Run For County Office This Year Clam Dredge Crew Gives Up; Catches Too Light, They Said The clam dredge, Monte Carlo, < which came to North Carolina watert on an exploratory aearch (or ocean damn, has returned north. Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director of the Institute of Fisheries Research, UNC, said that the Monte Carlo did not stay the expected 20 days. The catches of clams, he added, did not warrant their staying. The crew got discouraged. They claimed that they had to catch 10 bushels an hour to break even. Their best catches were about six or seven bushels an hour. The state and Elmer Willis, Wil liston, were paying $100 a day for the dredge, but the clams caught were the property of the dredge crew. One day the dredge went in Core Creek and the Monte Carlo crew was delighted. In the channel, about 20 feet deep, they caught 13 bushels of clams an hour. But the state decided not to let them work there because it was mainly interested in ocean resources. Capt. John Wegener of the in stitute returned north with the Monte Carlo as far as Virginia. En route the ocean bottom off Drum and Oregon Inlet were sam pled but not a clam was found. The dredge even worked ocean bottom at 80 and 90 feet in this area and found nothing. The big gest catches were off Bogue Banks. Most of the catch between 20 and 70 feet was dead shells, mil lions of them, Dr. Chestnut said, which would Indicate that at one time there probably were thou sands and thousands of ocean clama offshore. Capt Jim Iiarker, Harkers Is land, recalls when an oyster schooner with * clam dredge was bar* **a,? >ear? ago. It caught > twifkload of clams in one day off Bojue Inlet, but the clams were so big they were not taken on the New York market. Dr. Chestnut remarked that the clams as large as ocean clams are best for cbowdcr. Those caught by the Monte Carlo during the past month weighed as much as a pound and a half per clam. Dr. Chestnut said that the bot tom offshore will be sampled from time to time for ocean clams in the hope that the clams now be tween Atlantic Beach and Cape Lookout may populate the area1 as it once must have been. The institute director ventured the opinion that perhaps the hur ricanes of the past two years caused the death of many ocean clams. Judge Sets $1,000 Bonds For Two Merrimon Negroes Fred (Lucky) Jones and Claude Wallace, Negroes of tbe Merrimon section, were bound over to su perior court under $1,000 bonds Thursday. County recorder'! court Judge Lambert Morris heard evi dence that tied the two with the robbery of Mrs. Dula Salter's store at Merrimon. Sheriff Hugh Salter testified that the two men broke into the (tore Sunday night, March (, and stole cigars, cigarettes and canned goods. The sheriff said that Wallace had confessed to the robbery, laying that he and Jones were drunk wtjen they broke into the store. 1225 Fine Levied The Judge gave Robert P. Willis six months in which to pay 1323 and court costs. Willis was found guilty of driving drunk, driving after his license bad been revoked and careless and reckless driving. I. T. Willis was fined $200 and costs for driving after his licenae had been revoked. William Henry Weaver was fined $100 and coats for driving drunk. Robert A. Marroncy forfeited a bond posted after he was picked up and charged with driving drunk and careless and reckless driving. The state decided not to proeccute him for driving on the wrong side of the road. Four defendants were fined $50 and costs each. They were Robert B. Merrill, Roy T. Carraway and Robert P. Scott, speeding, and Mi chael M. Fischctte, speeding and running a stop sign. Resists Arrest Richard T. Hart got a $2S and costs fine for public drunkenness, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. Five defendants paid $10 and costs. They follow: Terry Ward Jr. and Abel Nolan, public drunken ness; Jerry Scharf, speeding; Bob by Gillikin, improper brakes re sulting in an accident; and Arnold W. Salter, careleaa and reckless driving resulting in an. accident. Three defendants were charged with paasing worthless checks James E. Stanley and Theodore Johnson were charged court costs and ordered to honor the checks they had passed. William C. Autry See COUKT, Page ? Stafe Gives Breakdown On Highway Allotment Eight More File For County Office Monday Morning Seven county office holders filed yesterday with C. Z. Chap pell, chairman of the county board of elections. They will seek re nomination in the primary May 31. David Yeomans, llarkers Is land, also filed. Filing fees were accepted yes terday from Hugh Salter, sheriff; Irvin W. Davis, register of deeds; A. H. James, clerk of superior court; Moses Howard, Skinner Chalk. Odcll Merrill and Harrell Taylor, all members of the county board of commissioners. Mr. Yeomana is running for county commissioner. He is the second resident of Harkers Island to file for county commissioner. The first, Tommy Lewis, filed last Thursday. The deadline for accepting filing feea ii noon Saturday, April It. Mr. Howard said that all of the present office holdera are planning to run again, even though some have not yet filed. Another Check Fights Rate Hike Received over the weekend was another contribution to the East Carolina Phone Fight Committee. The check, from H. O. Phillips, Morehead City, has been forward ed by THE NEWS-TIMES to Mayor John Wilson of Wilson, treasurer of the phone fight committee. Anyone interested in contributing to the fight to prevent granting higher telephone rates to Carolina Telephone and Telegraph, may send his contribution to the news paper office. It has been suggested by a More head City businessman that larger donations be asked. The phone fight committee recommends 20 cents per phone. The businessman said, "The business people should be willing to mike donations if dollars, not quarters." Civic Clubs Will Help with Park How inviting Morehead City's municipal park will be, come sum mer, depends on the cooperation of the town's civic groups. Commissioner Jasper Bell, in charge of buildings and grounds, reported to the town board Thurs day night that each civic club is to appoint one person to work with the town. Each club is also requested to undertake one phase of getting the park ready. The park is located on state property at Camp, Glenn and bor ders the sound. The Jayceef and Rotary Club have already named a park "co operator". Representing the Jay cees is Dr. Russell Outlaw. The Jaycees have agreed to furnish 10 picnic tables and possibly a picket fence. The Rotary cooperator is Thomas L. Noe. Club's appointees should get in touch with Commissioner Bell at the Sanitary Barber Shop. The town will seed and fertilize the area. Several parking areas have been laid out. The park will include a small boat launching ramp, two outdoor (rills, picnic tables with a waste can by each and possibly a public phone booth. Car Upsets A 1949 Chevrolet, owned by W. H. Clark, 13 Narcissus Court, Have lock, turned over on the Salter Path Road Saturday night between 9 and 10 o'clock. The accident was investigated by Patrolman J. W. Sykes. The State Highway Commission reports that the $83,900 allotted to Carteret for secondary roads will be paid as follows: $45,000 this year and $38,900 during 1958-59. Of the $45,000, the amount of $5, 353.60 will come from a $2 million surplus made available by the 1957 general assembly and the remain der has been designated as "gen eral allocation". Of the 1968-59 allocation, $14,000 has been earmarked for roads rated for paving (6.45 per cent of total need), and $24,900 for roads not rated for paving (allotted on basis of $331 per mile). No breakdown on the amount to be used for paving in the 1957-58 allocation was given. The State Highway Commission reports that there arc 247.4 miles of secondary roads in Carteret. Of those, 89.6 miles arc unpaved. Rated for paving are 14.6 miles, leaving 75 miles not rated for pav ing. To pave the 14.6 miles approved for paving would cost $217,000, ac cording to state figures. Two Injured In Saturday, Sunday Wrecks Two received minor injuriei in two weekend auto accidents. They were Mary Ellen Bogey, route 2 Kinston, who got a neck injury at 8:50 Saturday night, and Edward P. Sousa, Cherry Point, who suf fered a head injury at 12:30 a.m. Sunday. The Saturday night accident happened on the railroad crossing at Camp Glenn near the elevated water tank on highway 70. Hiss Bogey was going cast in a 1957 Buick convertible, owned by Edward Webster Holmes, route 1 Seven Springs. She slowed to about 25 miles to cross the tracks, according to patrolman R. H. Brown, and was hit in the rear by a 1955 Ford driven by Gerry Scharf, Cherry Point. Scharf baa been charged with driving drunk and careless and reckless driving and Henry H. Robinson, Cherry Point, owner of the car who was in It, has been charged with allowing a drunken person to operate his car. Damage to the Buick was esti mated at $500; damage to the Ford, $350. The other accident happened on highway 70 a mile and a half west of Newport. Sousa, in a 1950 Ford, waa headed west. He made a wide turn around a curve, went to the left of the highway, back to the right and ended up in a plowed field where he turned over. Patrolman Brown was an eye witness to the accident. He went to the wreck and pulled Sousa out. The driver was taken to Cherry Point in the Newport rescue squad ambulance. Sousa has been charged with carelcss and reckless driving. His car was demolished. Air Station Issues Week's Bomb Schedule Officials of the Marine Corps Air Station have Uaued the following bombing schedule in force through March 29, 1354 in the Rattan Bay area. Bombing practice will be held during daylight hours to the 29th of March IMS. Use of this target srea beyond Saturday, March 29, 1991, will be published at a later date. Tick Table Tides at the Beaafort Bar HIGH LOW Taesday, March 25 11:04 a.m. 5:02 a.m. 11:1> p.m. -4:51 p.m. Wednesday, March IS 11:4? a.m. 5:35 a.m. 5:11 p.m. Thursday, March 27 12:07 a.gs. 6:27 a.m. 12:41 p.m. 6:17 p.m. Friday, March 2S 1:03 a.m. S:01 am. 1:41 p.m. _ 7:54 p.m. county republicans have nominated a slate of 11 to run for county offices. The slate was selected at the Re publican convention Satur day noon at the courthouse, Beaufort. Those selected, pending their ac ceptance of the nomination, are Percy T. Davis, Marshailberg, for sheriff; William A. Mace, Beau fort, for clerk of superior court; Miss Josie Pigott, Smyrna, for register of deeds. Grayden Paul, Beaufort, for gen eral assembly; Dr. F. E. Hyde, for coroner; George Brooks, for surveyor, and the following for county commissioner: A. B. Gar ner, Newport; J. E. Lewis, More head City; John Miller, Beaufort; Jesse Piner, Williston, and Luther Smith, Atlantic. No candidates were named for judge of recorder's court or solici tor. Chairman Chosen Ivy D. Gillikin was elected chair man of the county Republican com mittee. Mr. Gillikin, who was born in this county, left at the age of 14. In 1953 he returned to Car teret, retiring from a successful trucking business he operated in Michigan. He now lives on High way 101 near Beaufort. Members of the executive com mittee are A. L. Wilson, Newport; Elmo Wade, Williston; Elmer Wil lis. Davis; Luther Smith, Atlantic; William Mace, Beaufort; J. E. Lewis, Morchead City, and Jimmy Piner, Marshailberg. Osborne Da vis, Beaufort, was re-elected secre tary. Election of a treasurer was deferred. Claud Wheatly, Beaufort, served as temporary chairman of the con vention. He explained that Mr. Gil likin had been acting as chairman of the committee for the past three months, following the resignation of Jesse Piner as chairman. State Commtttee Member It was reported that Mr. Wilson is Carteret's representative on the state Republican committee. Both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gillikin attend ed the recent district and state Re publican conventions. In a brief address to the conven tion, Mr. Wheatly said that the party could be proud of the slate it put up in 1954. The main difficulty was that the rank and file Repub licans did not support the slate, he declared. It's up to the minority party, Mr. Wheatly said, to wage a constant battle and keep issues before the people. He said that the party's platform in 1954 was to "clean up" the jury lists, and revaluate real property. The Democrats carried out both. "We've got the best Jury list I've ever known," Mr. Wheatly said. "I think any county in the state would have been proud of the juries which sat in this courtroom last week during superior court. Prior to re vision, the jury list, as a whole, in this county was a disgrace. We must not let them (the Democrats) slip back into controlled juries," Mr. Wheatly declared. Republican Plank "Revaluation," the speaker con tinued, "wai a Republican idea, but we didn't advocate spending 1100,000 to get it done. That's a disgrace to those in office, but they'll have to answer to the peo ple for that. "A party cannot function without candidates to carry its standards." Mr. Wheatly said. "Regardless who wins, if we wage a good cam paign, our platform will go over." Mr. Gilllkin told the convention that the party has a county organ ization, if members of it will just work. He commented that the largest Item in the county budget is welfare. He said that those who don't deserve welfare funds get them and those who do deserve them get little, if any, of the money. Asks Coot* ration He said that In the last election when he saw the opposition party in front of the courthouse voting everybody who came along, he made up his mind he was going to do something about it, but he told his listeners be couldn't do It all alone. "If I held a Job in this county as long at tome of those Demo crats," he declared, "I'd quit. I just don't want to be in anything as long as they have!" A collection of funds to help wage the campaign waa taken. Collected was 171.73. The officers were pleased with the amdunt col lected at the convention, though they commented that more waa needed. About 35 persons attended. Oeracekc Battles Fin The village of Ocracoke is going through a siege of flu and several caaot of pneumonia. Dr. Garland Wampler, a US public health offi cer; treated patients on the island Sunday. The atate health office or dered drugs flown to Ocracak* by Coast Guard helicopter from Beau fort airport
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