~r CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES TUESDAY, MAY 20. 1968 MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA PAGE ONE? SECTION TWO-A Judge Hamilton Would Like Good Turnout of 'Home Folks' on May 31 Judge Luther Hamilton, candi-< date for the state senate, expressed the hope Wednesday that "the home folks" here in Carteret will turn out and give him a big vote Saturday, May 31. II they don't, it might just be possible that Carteret will find it self sitting high and dry with no one from this county in the state senate. While some may think that Sen ator Hamilton will be re-elected without any trouble, the senator warned that over-confidence often 1 breeds defeat. "It is to our advantage," the senator and former superior court judge declared, "to have someone from this county and this city in the senate. The port situation is always with us, you know." Senator Hamilton was closely connected with legal work on the port in the 1930's and supported port legislation in the 1957 session of the general assembly. t Running for state senator from this district, besides Judge Hamil ton, are Clyde Sabisfon, Jackson i ville, and J. O. Simpkins, New Bern. The senator would not commit himself on his favorite as running mate. "I would be very happy to serve with either of the gentlemen seeking the office," he said. Only two of the three will be elected, of course. For that rea son, the judge, who woyld like a strong vote throughout the district, is also extremely interested in see ing a good vote here in his home county. Elections officials view the com ing primary glumly. They expect very few to go to the polls. One official Wednesday expressed doubt that as many as 1,500 would vote in Carteret. An estimated 8,000 are registered. Ifs Fun to Ride f itotu uy i>oo sk-yxuuur Gunhilde Gunner sen with her horse, Queenie, are members of the Carteret Corral, Horse and Saddle Club. Lots of folks enjoy horse back riding during vacation days here. Morehead City Returns Dart Gun After Demonstration The town of Morehead City has returned the dart gun bought for quieting vicious dogs. At a dem onstration conducted by a factory representative, it took two thaU and 40 minutes before a small dog was knocked out. Police commissioner Ted Gar ner reported on the gun at the town board meeting in the muni cipal building Thursday night. Commissioner Garner said the dog was in pain for the full 40 minutes before it was quiet. "When we ordered the gun we thought it shot a small needle or dart. This gun should be used for large stock. The town did not use the gun except one time and that was on a dog that was to be put to sleep,'' commissioner Garner said. Ronald Lee Jordan, a street de partment employee, works in the learly mornings and late after noons picking up stray dogs. He has a trailer which he pulls be hind a town truck. Jordan uses nets to capture the dogs. Friday afternoon there were 11 dogs in the pound. Firemen Appear Fire Chief Joe Fulcher led a delegation from the fire depart ment at the board meeting. The board has requested secretary Dan Swindell to make out a list of ac tive firemen, taking off the names of people living a certain distance out of town. Firemen said that they could not drop anyone from membership under the present by-laws, drafted in 1934. They suggested new by laws be drafted. Chief Fulcher, Mr. Swindell, Lindsey Guthrie, Duffy Guthrie and George Stovall will represent the fire department and town at - torney George McNeill and fire commissioner D. J. Hall will rep resent the town on a committee .named to draw- up new by-laws. Mayor George Dill read a re quest from the National Guard asking for $10 per month from the town. Finance commissioner S. C. Holloway reported that the amount had been put on a tentative bud get. Win Contract Williams and Wall, certified pub lic accountants, were awarded a contract to audit the town's books for the 1957-58 fiscal year for $750. Jasper Bell, buildings and grounds commissioner, presented a request from the recreation com mission for repairs to the recrea tion building. An estimate for the work ran about $2,000. No action was taken pending investigation of recreation commission funds. Town clerk John Lashley said that the commission was getting 10 cents on each $100 valuation on the tax books if the taxes were paid during the current year. He said that when taxes were paid after the year due, the recreation commission did not get the 10 cents. Mr. McNeill said that the 10 cents had been voted to the rec reation commission by the people and he thought it should go to the commission regardless of when it was collected. The commission gets $7,000 to $8,000 per year now, according to Mr. Lashley. If the commission got the 10 cents on delinquent taxes, too, the revenue would run about $10,000 per year, he said. The mayor instructed Mr. Lash See BOARD MEETING, Page 2 Bridge Tourney Will Open Friday Th> atvfrh onnnal aWUn , The sixth annual sectional bridge tournament will be played at the Atlantic Beach Hotel Fri day through Sunday. Sponsored by the Carteret County Bridge League, the tour nament is open to all, announces C. L. Beam, league president. The director will be Harry Saun ders, Beaufort. Reports Indicate Warm Weather Is Here to Stay Weather reports for the past week indicate that warm weather is here to stay. Maximum temper atures ranged from 70 on Monday to a high of 83 on Friday. Weather observer Stamey Davis says that a cool front is just north of the county and the temperatures may drop a few degrees for a day or so. Maximum and minimum tem peratures and wind direction for the past week follow: Tuesday 73 65 NE Wednesday .73 55 NE Thursday ...... 73 59 SW Friday 83 65 SW Hams Meet Forty -eight amateur radio op erators from all over the state met for a "ham fest" at Fort Macon State Park Sunday. The hams set up a portable station and contacted other ham stations around the world. Local hams sponsored a pic nic for the visitors and their fami lies. About 150 persons attended. Monday Max. Min. Wind 70 65 SE Saturday .... Sunday 79 62 SE 80 62 SW Our Cover Page Our cover page in section 1 pre sents a panoramic view of what you will see in Carteret. Starting at the left, reading down, and then up the page on the right, the pictures show 1. Boys watching a sailboat race on Bogue Sound at Morehead city. (Photo by Jerry Schumacher). 2. A partyboat catch on the More head City waterfront (Photo by Reginald Lewis). 3. A pleasure cruiser built it Williston going for a test run on the wide blue Carteret waters. (Photo by Roy Eubanks). 4. An air view of Fort Macon. Sunk below the land surface, the fort is invisible from the sea or land. A visitor doesn't realize the fort is there until he is right at the lite. (State News Bureau Photo). 5. Golf Pro Mac McCuiston irarms up on the putting green in t of the Morehead City Country :iub golf shop. The swimming is to the left of this picture, the trees. (Photo by Bob ymour). 6. Bow section of the submarine I Argonaut, which was open to the public at the itat* port, Morehead City, Saturday and Sunday In ob aervance of Armed Forces Day Saturday. T. Morehead City Chamber of Commerce sign which shows the Morehead City ? Beaufort - Atlantic Beach location near Cape Lookout, and Highway 70 leading to Car' teret. S. Elaine Herndon. Durham. Miss North Carolina of 1958, pictured in the dunes at Atlantic Beach. (Photo by Jerry Schumacher). t. Center photo at the bottom of the page, a family on the wide, creamy bcach aand. (Photo by Bob Seymour ). The resort-port edition consists of five sections: section 1. section 2, which is a special boating tab loid inaert in aection 1, section 2A, section 3 and section 4. Several thousand issuea of this edition art being mailed to bus iness and social leadera through out North and South Carolina and Virginia. This extra mailing la supported by Pine Knoll Shores, Morehead Biltihore Hotel, A1 Cooper for Atlantic Beach, Sani tary Fish Market and Reataurant and Morehead City Drug Co. Shrimp Season Opens Next Week The shrimp season in inland waters will open at midnight Sun day. C. G. Holland, commercial liihtrlei commissioner, an nounced yesterday that W. P. Saunders, director of the Conser vation and Development Depart ment says shrimpers can go to work any time next Monday. Shrimping will be legal during the season from midnight Sun day until 8 a.m. Saturday. The season is opening late. There are very few shrimp around, Com missioner Holland reports. South Carolina's in the same shape. A lot of the young shrimp were destroyed in the winter freezes. Editor to Give Commencement Talk at Atlantic H. C. Bradshnw, associate editor Of the Durham Morning Herald, will give the commencement ad dress at Atlantic High School at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 28 J- W. Johnson, principal, an nounces other closing exercises as follows 11 a m. Sunday, bacca laureate service in the school audi torium, the Rev. Tom Collins ex ecutive secretary of the Board of Missions, North Carolina Meth odist Conference, speaker; 9am Wednesday, May 28, eighth grade graduation. Dr. Herbert F. Webb speaker; and 8 a.m. Thursday May 29, Closing day exercises, pre sentation of awards and certifi cates, school auditorium. Mr. Bradshaw is a graduate of Hampden Sydney College, Hamp den-Sydney , Va? was first honor man and valedictorian. He served as a high school principal at Dar lington Heights and Emporia, Va and for nine years has been asso-' ciate editor of the Durham Morn ing Herald. He has written a history of Prince Edward County, Va., his home county, is a member of the Huguenot Society of North Caro lina, Sons of the American Revo lution, Durham Lions Club. State Commission for the Blind and a TA?',h- bo,rd <* tm?tec. o I the Durham public library. New Officers Take NCEA Helm Mis. Joyce Taylor, a member ?h^.e " Camp Glenn School, took office as president of the county unit, North Carolina Education Association, at a dinner school"^ y night 11 Newport Other officers are Miss Gertrude Myron, Beaufort faculty, vice president, and Mrs. Bill Sewell tamp Glenn faculty, secretary. Speaking at the dinner was Sen Luther Hamilton, Morehead City .^XTaT1 on The teachers adopted a group insurance plan presented by Fred Lewis, teacher supervisor. Special guests were recognized by J. w Johnson, Atlantic, retiring presi ? J1*. invoc,li?n was given by Mils Taylor. ' A musical selection during the program was a solo, Bells of the ?*'. j H' L' county sup erintendent of schools, accompan lel piano by Mrs. Joslyn. Decorations in the cafeteria ear ned out the theme that young people will meet their challenges if teachers meet theirs. ' The meeting was followed by a square dance in the gym The next th^nf the NCEA wi" ln CommlUee to Meet The Centennial steering commit tee will meet at noon today at the Sanitary Restaurant. T/Sgt. Paul Bray, chairman of the TV give away, will give a report. Mayor, Chamber Officers Tour on Visiting Submarine 1'riwiO by boo St'ymour Morehead City mayor George Dill, second from left, presents Lt. Cdr. Willett White a key to the city in welcoming ceremonies for the submarine USS Argonaut at state port Friday morning, looking on are Joe DuBois, chamber manager, left, and Bud Dixon, chamber president, right. Judge Hears All About Big Fuss Among Women Judge Herbert Phillips had to figure out last Monday who hit who with what in a fracas among seven colored women. Ttie women involved and the charges against them were as fol lows: Barbara Williams Jones, hit ting Rena Pearl Henry with a shoe apd hitting Elizabeth Hill, 30 days suspended on payment of lttlf costs, and rers failed to make a curvc The car traveled Mm feet afler leaving the road, turned over in a thicket and burned. The Atlantic Beach Fire Department put out the blaze. Ayers has been charged with careless and reckless driving. Patrolman Brown investigated two other weekend accidents Don ald Gaskill, oute 1 Beaufort, hit and killed a cow at midnight Sat urday 011 highway 70 west of Smyr na. lie was driving a 1949 Ford owned by Alton T. Gaskill. Mar shallberg. Damage to the car amounted to $100. About the same time Saturday night, James G. Kllison, 804 Pine St., Beaufort, headed east on the Laurel Road, failed to stop at the M e r r i m o n Road intersection, jumped a canal and ended up in a marsh. He was alone and escaped in jury. Damage to his 1954 Olds mobile was estimated at $.100 He was charged with failing to stop at a stop sign. Lions to Give Athletic Awards The Morehead City Lions Club voted Thursday night to continue ita practice of making athletic awarda to Morchead City seniors. Tne outstanding boy and girl ath letes in the senior class will re ceive their awards at graduation exercises. The Lions met at the Hotel Fort Macon dining room. The club voted to donate $30 to the American legion Boys' State program. Zone Chairman J. E. Crowe announced that the state Lions convention will be June 10-12 at Pinehurst. Grayson Bullock reported that the Lions committee appointed to work on the town park had not been called on yet. City authorities predict that it will be late in the summer before the park is fin ished. Jack Morgan gave a report on the boat and auto show. He said that he did not have a complete financial report but that the club would make a considerable profit from the venture. President J. B. Kubanks read a letter from the chamber of com merce thanking the club for at tending the chamber banquet the week before. Sneak Thief Takes $200 From Shipbuilding Office A sneak (hicf look about $200 f from a cardboard box in sn un locked desk drawer at the More head City Shipbuilding Corp. office Friday. The theft was reported to the Morehcad City policc at 3:30 p.m. Chief of Police Herbert Griffin said the money was in billi, clipped together. It was in a box of change kept for the drink ma chine. Mrs. Minnie Pittman, who kept the money in her desk, told the i chief that it was there just before she left for lunch. When a worker asked for change about 2 p.m. she realized that the bills were gone. 1 About $2 in loo^e changc was left in the box. Chief Griffin says the money ' must have been taken while Mrs. Pittman was out to lunch. "The back door to the office was left open during the lunch hour and I people were walking through all the time," the chief said. "The person who took the money must have waited until no pne was ' around, put the money in his '< pocket and walked right out. There I were no witnesses, there is no way < to get fingerprints and tbe person 1 who took it surely isn't going to I tell anybody," the chief declared. Despite the odds against finding 1 the thief, the police are conducting a full-seal* investigation. Vegetable Oil Import Due Soon Bulk Storage Co., Morehead City, will receive its first imported car go of vegetable oil on the Dutch MS Sloterdyk June 13. The Sloter dyk, a Holland- American ship, will be making its regular call at the Morehead City port. The oil is consigned to a North Carolina manufacturer, reported Bob Hicks of Heide and Co., ship's agent. The shipment totals 300 Ions. Brought in on the MS Klosterdyk, also Holland American, this week were 100 tons of imports, including peat moss, cotton nets, manila rope, nails and chain. All the items are consigned to North Carolina. Mr. Hicks commented that thes* imports are a "healuiy sign . Some people have predicted that this port would never be a paint of import, only export, Mr. Hicks commented. Imports, though small now, are growing. The port's major exports are tobacco, lumber and fish oil (For more port news see I).