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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
47th YEAR, NO. 56. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA ' TUESDAY, JULY ,15, 1958 ' PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Phillip Mason,
Williston, Pays
$150 Fine, Costs
? Driver Apprehended
After Wild Chase
Through Morehead
Phillip R Mason, 18, Williston,
was fined $150 and costs and given
a 30-day suspended sentence in
Morehead City recorder's court
yesterday morning. Judge Herbert
Phillips ordered him to stay on
good behavior (or six months.
Mason was apprehended at 11:30
Saturday night by Patrolman R.
H. Brown after speeding through
Morehead City in an attempt to
avoid the officer. Mason halted
only after crashing into a 1955
Ford on the Morehead City bridge.
The Ford was being driven by
Larry Roberta Davis, Marshall
berg.
With him was Sylvia Salter, Sea
Level. With Mason was Carlton
McCoy Lewis, route 1 Beaufort.
Lewis suffered a cut on his nose
when he was thrown against the
windshield. Miss Salter complained
of a neck injury and was examined
?t the Morehead City Hospital.
Patrolman Brown said he was
headed east on Evans Street when
Mason, in a 1957 Buick, sped by
and turned south on 21st Street.
The patrolman took after him. Ma
son would turn his car lights off
from time to time to try to avoid
the patrolman.
Mason sped back and forth al
ternately between Shepard and
Evans Street and went by the
Morehead City town hall at 90
miles an hour. ,
At 4th Street he turned north to
Arendell and headed toward Beau
fort. As he reached the east end
Of the Morehead City drawbridge,
he came up behind the Ford driven
by Davis, but could not pass him,
bec^uae a car was coming in the
opposite direction.
Mill going al a high rate of
?peed, he smashed into Davis's
car, knocking it forward for a dis
tance of more than a thousand
feet. The front of the Buick and
rear of the Ford were demolished.
Mason was charged with driving
drunk, careless and reckless driv
ing, speeding over 75 in a 35-mile
xooe, going through stop signs,
{ailing to stop for a siren, running
* red light and driving without
lights.
The state decided not to prose
cute on the no lights, failing to
stop at signs, light and siren. .Ma
son pleaded guilty to driving
drunk, careless and reckless driv
ing and speeding.
Police Check
Five Wrecks
Over Weekend
Five accidents occurred in More
head City from Thursday through
Sunday.
At 12:15 p.m. Thursday, a 1953
tractor trailer plowed into the rear
of an automobile, glanced off and
mowed down a fire hydrant at
30th and Arendeil Streets.
Driving the truck was Hubert
Earl Rodford, route 2 Goldsboro,
who was charged by Lt. Carl
Blomberg with following too close
ly
The truck was going east on
Arendeil Street and struck the rear
of a\ 1857 Ford driven by Rudolph
Duffy, New Bern. Duffy had
(lowed to make a right turn.
Damage to the hydrant was es
timated at $275, to the truck $50
and to the Ford $175.
A Ford owned by Carolina Tele
phone and Telegraph Co., and dri
ven by Walter E. Eubank, More
head City, ran into the rear of a
Cadillac on Arendeil Street in front
of Roy all's Grocery Friday.
Driver of the Cadillac was Les
ter Little, Farmville, chauffeur for
A. C. Monk. Lieutenant Blomberg
said the Cadillac stopped to let a
passenger out and it was struck
ia the rear. Damage to the Cadil
Jac was estimated at $25; damage
to the Ford at $75.
Parked Car Hit
A parked Ford station wagon,
owned by Betty Ruffin Willis,
Morehead City, was struck Friday
(t 3309 Arendeil St. Patrolman
Buck Newsome said that Russell
Keith Wasson, route 1 Beaufort,
was going east on Arendeil. He
got too close to the station wagon
See WRECKS, Page I ?
Hearing on Pirmh
Will b? at 10 July 29
The bearing relative to revoca
tion or retention of the beer per
mit held by Ann's Drive-In will be
?i 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 2?, at the
courthouse, Beaufort.
The bearing date has been set by
W. S. Hunt, chairman of the state
Board of Alcoholic Control. Ann's
Drive-In ia Wealed on highway 70
west of Morehead City.
Rusty Salutes Alaska
A'fioto by Kegimuu Lewlt
Celebrating the nation's e*?a?slaa to taclwte Alaska, Runty look* northward -M ahe niwi ike Oaf la
fraat at Captain Ottis Purlfny's oa the Marabead City wateriroat. Rusty like* flak and knaws well that
Alaska's biggest industry Is fishing. What better cause for celebrating?
Two Defendants Appeal
County Court Verdicts
Two defendants appealed judg
ments handed down in county re
corder's court Thursday. Each
posted bond to appear in superior
court. They were Percy Green
and Ezekicl Jordan Woolen.
Judge Lambert Morris had
charged Woolen $10 plus cosU af
ter finding him guilty of failing to
give a proper hand signal resulting
in an accident. Wooten's bond was
set at $50.
Green posted a $100 bond after
being found guilty of assault. The
state dropped charges of public
drunkenness and disorderly con
duct. Judge Morris had suspended
i jail sentence on payment of $25
and costs and Green's agreeing
to stay away from Atlantic Beach
for three years.
Cum Accident
E. S. Buskey Jr. was fined $50
and ordered to pay costs for fol
lowing too close resulting in an
accident. Frank D. Beach was
fined $25 plus costs for possession
of non-taxpaid beer.
Eugene Schaub paid $15 and
costs for speeding and passing at
an intersection. Luis ('laudia-I)iaz
paid $25 plus costs for driving
without a license and failure to
yield the right of way.
Carroll 1-ee Cook was fined $25
and coats for fighting and dam
aging personal property. Clinton
and Viola Sinclair paid $10 and
one-half costs each for disturbing
the peace while drunk and disor
derly.
J. B. Akens paid $10 and coats
for public drunkenness. Albert T.
Mantooth paid $10 and costs for
allowing an unlicensed person to
drive. Norman J. Harris paid the
same amount for running a stop
sign.
Pay CosU
Those who paid costs follow: J.
R. Bra ft ton. allowing an unlirensed
person to drive; James Reels Jr.,
no drivers license; Junior Bran
ton, allowing an unlicensed person
to drive; and D. W. Daugherty,
passing a bad check. Daugherty
was also ordered to honor "the
check.
The state elected not to try five
defendants due to lack of evidence.
They follow: Percy Green and
Solomon Barnwell, charged with
asaault (there were two assault
counts against Green); Herman R.
Guthrie and Jerry M. Taylor
charged with driving with an im
rier muffler; and Tommy Lew
charged with driving on the
wrong side <& the road.
? i
Clifton Vaughn Y e o m a n s,
charged with driving without a li
cense, was rent to juvenile court.
Judge Morris found him to be un
der age.
Those who forfeited bonds fol
low: Patrick A. Pcarcc, William
F. Connally III, Coy L. Anderson,
James Hicks, Alan T. Leary, An
thony R. Nye, Annie Lee McLeod,
J. D. Scott and John Nichols,
speeding.
Wilkin Adams, carelcss and
reckless driving; Paul E. Fischer,
speeding, careless and reckless
driving, running a stop sign and
failing to stop for a red light and
siren; Elsie Humphrey, using loud
and profane language and engag
ing in an affray.
Kenneth F. Lowery, failure to
yield the right of way resulting in
an accident; James E. Scott, driv
ing drunk; Hastle E. Baber, driv
ing on the wrong side of the road;
W. W. Gerloff, driving drunk and
speeding.
Robert Clay and Joe Guthrie,
violation of fishing laws; Audrey
Faye Gillikin, no drivers license;
James C. Parneil, allowing an un
licensed person to drive; Carl R.
Nelson, careless and recklcss driv
ing and speeding; Richard W.
Hoagland, driving on the wrong
side of the road.
John Merrill, drunk and throw
ing trash on the highway; Charles
S. Knight, possession of non-tax
paid beer; C. C. Goodwin, no li
cense on a trailer; Benjamin
Tootle, no drivers license; Donald
C. Howard and Max W. Ayers,
following too close; and Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Maroby, fishing in in
land waters without a license.
Forfeit Bonds
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaafort Bar
(Eastern Standard Time)
HIGH
LOW
Taesday, inly 15
7:04 a.m.
7:11 p.m.
1:15 a.m.
1:12 p.m.
Wednesday, inly IB
7:47 a.m.
7:56 p.m.
1:58 a.m.
1:58 p.m.
Tbarsday, July 17
8:30 a.m.
8:41 p.m.
2:40 a.m.
2:42 p.m.
Friday, Jaljr II
9:16 a.m.
>2T p.m.
3:21 a.m.
i.X p.m.
Rotary Club Gets
Financial Report
From Treasurer
Treasurer Albert Gaskill con
ducted a business session at the
Morehead City Rotary Club meet
ing Thursday night. The club met
at the Rex Restaurant.
Mr. Gaskill gave a financial re
port and made suggestions as to
raising club receipts and cutting
expenditures. A general business
discussion followed his report.
Visitors at the meeting were Fred
Hale, Raleigh, and Gus Leggett,
Kinston. Woodland Shockley of the
Corps of Army Engineers was the
guest of his uncle, Rotarian Stan
ley Woodland. John Wagner was
welcomed as a new member to the
club.
James I. Mason,
Gastonia, Takes
New Position
? Former Morehead City
Resident to Move
To Raleigh
James I. Mason, formerly of
Morehead City, has accepted the
position of assistant director of
College Extension at North Caro
lina State College.
Now'director of the Gaston Tech
nical Institute, Gastonia, Mr. Ma
son will assume his new duties at
Raleigh as soon as a replacement
is found for him at the institute.
In his new position, he will help
direct the college's widespread ex
tension service and will be in
charge of engineering extension.
He plans to move his family to
Raleigh Aug. 1 but will remain
at Gastonia until his replacement
arrives.
Started at Morehead
Mr. Mason has been with the in
stitute nine of the 10 years it has
been in existenee. The institute
was established in Morehead City
in 1947. Mr. Mason joined the staff
as an instructor a year later and
in 1949 became director.
He directed moving operations
in 1952 when the institute was
moved to Gastonia and renamed
the Gaston Technical Institute. It
is the only such institute in North
Carolina.
The dormitories, valued at $250,
000, are being remodeled. The
school spent $130,000 for repairs
and remodeling and some $75,000
for new equipment.
Mr. Mason instituted a two-year
college level program for the insti
tute last year. Students must now
attend two years to get a degree.
The first class under the new set
up will graduate next year with
graduates receiving associate in
arts degrees.
The institute opened in Gastonia
with 37 students and five instruc
tors. It now has 12 instructors and
has maintained an enrollment of
around 200. Inadequate quarters
kept it from growing even larger.
The new facilities are expected to
take care of this.
Mr. Mason is a native of Atlan
tic, N. C. He is married to the
former Grattis Truitt of Oriental,
N. C. They have one child, Fran
ces, II, and have resided in Roland
Pirk since moving to G?is*<*ia six
ydsrs ago.
He is a graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina where he
received his A.B. degree in 1934.
James 1. Mi son
. . . receive* promotion
In Tall Tobacco
Clarence MDlii itudi Wllfc the tebacoe be hto grown tMi year
on the Rena- Edward* lira, Newport, ft. M. WUUaai, cent?
?(eat, tab it the beat tobacco he baa ever tee* aa that (arm. WUe
some tobacco ha* already bee* h arretted, moot tl the kirndai
w*? moiW to let Oder wajr thU week- j
Sheriff Holds Youths
For Series of Thefts
?
Peach Trees Produce Well
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Photo by R. M. WtUlanu
A. D. Ennett grows peaches.
The two-and a-half acre peach
orchard owned by A. D Knnett,
Cedar Point, is producing fine
fruit this year, reports R. M.
Williams, farm agent.
The trees, four years old, bore
for the first time last season.
Varieties are the Mayflower,
Dixie Red, Golden Jubilee, Geor
gia Bell and Alberta.
The Mayflower is the earliest
variety. The Dixie Reds are in
production now. The trees arc
from nematode ? resistant root
stock. Mr. Ennett says that to
grow peaches successfully, a
consistent spraying program is
necessary.
Mr. Williams comments that
Mr. Ennett 's peach project
proves that peaches can be
grown successfully here. The
peaches are finding a ready local
market.
Carteret Beauties Make
Good Showing at Charlotte
Firemen Get
Weekend Calls
Marshallbcrg and Beaufort fire
departments answered two calls
over the weekend.
A fire, started from a burning
trash pile, got out of hand Sunday
afternoon at Marshallberg and
threatened to destroy a house
across from the cemetery. But
firemen kept flames under con
trol and saved the house.
A mattress aboard a boat caught
fire late Sunday mornnig in Beau
fort. The boat was tied at the foot
of Craven Street at the Sinclair
dock. The smoldering mattresa
was thrown overboard. Firemen
returned to the station in half an
hour.
At 1 p.m. Friday the Beaufort
rescue ambulance rushed its resus
citator to Money Island where two
persons were pulled, exhausted,
from the surf. By the time the
rescue squad got there, the two
near-drowning victims had been
revived.
Making the trip to the beach
were Elmond Rhue, Joe Long and
Frank Garner.
The Beaufort fire department
answered a call to a car burning
on the causeway Wednesday after
noon. Engineer Allen Conway said
a parked 1955 Pontiac caught fire.
A colored man was trying to fix
the car. He took the carburetor
out of it and took it to a garage.
While he was gone, wires in the
car started to tmolder.
Firemen put water on the fire
and returned to the station in
(bout 15 minutes. Name of the
man who owned the car was not
known.
County Ranks Fourth
In April Fish Landings
County fishermen landed 761,238
pounds of fish during April to rank
fourth in the state In commercial
fish landings for that month.
Chowan County topped the report
sent out by the US Fish and Wild
life Service and NC Department
of Conservation and Development.
That county reported over four
million pounds of fish, predomi
nantly alewives.
Important species of fish landed
in the county were croaker, swell
fish and hard crabs. No menhaden
were reported for the month.
Cited for Dnukeaaesa
Archie Fulford, Beaufort, was
locked up Saturday by Officer Otis
Willis oo ? charge of public drunk
tflpf ff
? Miss Winki Willis, Beaufort, and
Miss Bonnie Fish, Morehead City,
were a credit to their towns as
they appeared last week in the
Miss North Carolina beauty pa
geant at Charlotte.
That was the opinion of persons
who saw them in bathing suit, eve
ning gown and as they presented
their talent numbers.
Both girls said they had a won
derful time.
The winner of the pageant was
Betty Lane Evans of Greenville.
She was crowned Miss North Caro
lina by Miss Elaine Herndon, Dur
ham, who was Miss North Caro
lina for 1937.
Miss Fish wore a black one
piece bathing suit, the fabric shot
through with silver threads. Her
evening gown was full-length, bouf
fant ?tyle, fashioned with nylon
lace ruffles. It was light blue.
As her talent number, Miss Fish
did the sleepwalking scene from
Macbeth. She was coached by Mrs.
Charles Hasscll. Beaufort, and
Mrs. Tressa Vickers, Morehead
City. Two other contestants alio
presented portions of Shakespear
ean plays.
Mlas Willis wore a black one
piece bathing suit, decorated with
one large while button in the front
and one in the back. Her evening
gown was floor-length bouffant
atyle, in white tulle. She drew lota
of applause with her baton-twirl
ing' act which included a number
using two batons.
Accompanying Miss Fish to the
pageant were Mrs. Rusa Willan,
chaperone. Others who attended
were Mrs. Thomas Fish, mother
of Miss Morehead City; Mrs. Lloyd
Crowe, and Miss Elizabeth Aren
dell.
Henry Eubanks was Miss Willis's
official escort. George Murray
Thomas and Jesse Taylor, Beau
fort Jaycees, flew to Charlotte
Friday, saw the Friday night por
tion of th* pageant, and the two
Saturday performances.
Sixty-three girls were in the pre
liminaries, the largest ever to en
ter a Mias North Carolina pageant.
Mias Fish returned home Sun
day afternoon and Miss Willis re
turned to her work in Raleigh.
WAC Procurement Officer
Visits Beaufort, Morehead
Maj. Mildred C. Bailey. WAC
procurement officer for the Third
Army, was in Beaufort and More
bead City Saturday.
Persona who would like to speak
to Major Bailey about service in
the Women's Army Corp* may
write the US Army Recruiting
Station, 1S2 Middle St.. New Bern,
or call C. L. Beam, veteran* ser
vice officer, Beaufort, 2-SUS.
Three teen-agers, William
Benjamin Lewis, 17, Carl
Locklear, 17, and Lester
Knudsen, 18, all of Bettie,
have been arrested by the
sheriff's department on
charges of breaking and en
tering.
Locklear is being held in the
county jail. Lewis and Knudsen
have been released under $100
bond each. All are scheduled to
be given a hearing in county re
corder's court Thursday.
Also involved in thefts ? at O. W.
Lewis's store. Otway, and the
Ward's Creek fishing pier? are
juveniles ranging in ages from 8
to 14.
Edgar Pake's store. Bettie. was
also entered, but Sheriff Hugh
Salter believes others than those
mentioned above were involved in
that theft. The burglaries have oc
curred since the July Fourth week
end.
The loot includes B B guns. B B
shot, gloves, knives, cigarette
lighters and cases, cigarettes and
baloney.
Three dollars in pennies were
taken from Pake's. Kntry was
gained through a back window.
Access to Ward's fishing pier con
cession stand was gained through
a window. That place was robbed
twice, the sheriff said.
On the O. W. Lewis theft, which
occurred July 5, two boys stayed
inside the store and let themselves
be locked in. Then they opened
the store to their accomplices.
Dr. Costlow
To Present Paper
In London
Durham ? Dr. John D. Costlow,
research associate at the Duke Uni
versity Marine Laboratory at Beau
fort, is among a select group ol
scientists invited to participate in
the 15th International Congress of
Zoology at London, England, July
18-23.
A zoologist. Dr. Costlow will pre
sent a paper on "Molting and
Growth in Balanus" during the
Congress, which is celebrating the
Darwin - Wallace Centenary this
year.
Although best known for his evo
lutionary theory, Charles Darwin's
two monographs on barnacles re
main the basic works on the tax
onomy of the barnacles of th?
world. For this reason, the most
noted workers on barnaclcs
throughout the world were invited
to speak on their current research
at the Marine Zoology Section of
the Congress.
During his research, Dr. Cost
low has been concerned with shell
structure and development, meth
ods of rearing crustacean larvae in
the laboratory, physiological and
isotope studies on adult barnacles,
and the relation of food to growth
and molting.
The National Science Foundation
and the Office of Naval Research
are sponsoring Dr. Costlow's re
search project.
The Duke zoologist received his
BS degree in 1950 at Western
Maryland College, and his PhD de
gree in 1955 from Duke University.
He has been associated with the
Duke Marine Laboratory since
1954.
Norma Farrar
Speaks to Club
Mils Norma Farrar and her see
ing eye dog, Patty, were guests
of the Morehead City Lions Club
Thursday night. The club met at
the Hotel Fort Macon.
Misa Farrar told the l.ions she
had been working at the University
of Illinois since she was here last
summer. She is a house mother
ia one of the girls dormitories.
The Lions voted to sponsor a
team in the Morehead City Teen
Age League. Coat of sponsoring a
team ia $12S. The other sponsor
in the league is the Rotary Club.
A request from the Carteret
Community Theatre was discussed
at length and finally denied. Since
Mrs Tretaa Vickers and other
members of the theatre had assist
ed the Lions in raising a large
oprtloa of $1,200 tor an iron lung,
the theatre suggested that some
of the $1,300 mignt be contributed
to the theatre to help it meet ex
penses.
The Uona have appointed a com
mittee to determine how the $1,200
might be spent, since the club doea
not intend to buy an iron luag.
Plana for a Thanksgiving fruit
cake sale were lUacuseod hut do
action was taken.