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93 DAYS ? And Beaufort's N.w W.ll U Still UaUppadl NEWS-TIMES 47th YEAR, NO. 64. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1958 " PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FBIDAY8 Two Marines Hurt Seriously In Collision ? Care Meet flead-On Thursday Night 9 Uninjured Driver of One Car Cited to Court Two Marines were seriously In jured at 10:20 p.m. Thursday in a head-on collision on Highway 70. They were Robert 0. Timmie, Cherry Point, who suffered a frac tured skull, and Vernon C. Islcy, also of Cherry Point, whose legs were broken. The accident happened three quarters of a mile west of the highway 24 and 70 intersection. Both cars were demolished. Two Not Hart Thomas Boykin Sr., Clinton and Mattie Murphy, Clinton, who were in the other car involved in the accident, were not hurt. The Clin ton people were in a 1953 Chevro let driven by Boykin. Timmie was driving a 1955 Chevrolet. According to R. H. Brown, high way patrolman who investigated, Boykin had pulled into a private driveway, then backed out and was attempting to go east in the west-bound lane when he collided with Timmie who was headed to ward Cherry Point. The patrolman said Boykin in tended to pull over into his proper lane, but didn't make it in time. Boykin is janitor at the Clinton High School in the winter months. At present he is employed at Camp Morehead, as is his passenger. He has been charged wtih careless and reckless driving. The injured were taken by Navy ambulance to Cherry Point Hos pital. County Board Member Dies Walter Moore Yeomans, 82, died at his home at Harkers Island Saturday evening. MV. Vmnaiu was a ton of the lat4 Eugene and Sara Brooks Yeomans of Harkers Island. He was a county commissioner, having been elected in 1950. He did not run for re-nomination in May. Mr. Yeomans retired from the Coast Guard as a -warrant of ficer after thirty years of service. He was also a master Mason. Funeral services were conducted in the Free Grace Pilgram Holi ness Church. Harkers Island, at 2 p.m. yesterday by the Rev. C. C. McMasters. Interment was in the Davis Cemetery. He Is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edna Davis Yeomans; three daughters, Mrs. Plymouth Guthrie, Mrs. Louise Fulcher and Mrs. Hor ace Nelson; two sons. Walter M. Yeomans Jr. and Harold W. Yeo mans; three sisters. Mrs. Carrie Guthrie, Mrs. Mattic Davis and Mrs. Lena Willis. Two brothers, Dan Yeomans and Luther Yeomans: one half-sister, Mrs. Johnny Willis; one half-bro ther, David E. Yeomans; all of Harkers Island; seventeen grand children and fourteen great-grand , children. Another Wreck, Same Old Place Another wreck occurred at 24th and Arendell Streets. Morehead -City, at 11 p.m. Thnrsday. A 1958 Buick station wagon driven by Lloyd David Martin, Richmond, Va., collided with a 1958 Chevrolet station wagon driven by Percy Green, Atlantic Beach. According to E. D. O'Neal Jr., in vestigating officer, the Buick was going north from Atlantic Beach, stopped at the stop sign and then continued north and struck the Chevrolet as it was making a left turn from Arendell to go south on 24th Street. The Buick struck the Chevrolet on the left front door causing an estimated $25 damage. Again, it was an instance of a stranger not knowing that you have to stop twice at the 24th and Aren dell Street intersection when going north or south, once at the stop sign and once again where there is I no stop sign after crossing the rail road tracks. Car Sua la Pitch Edwin Lee, John Smith, and Ronald Brect, all ft Camp Lejeune, were Jailed at 1 a.m. Saturday on drunkenness e h a r g e a. Smith, driver of a car, ran the car In a ditch oa Highway TO about six miles west of Morehead City, offi cers said. He had been charged with driving drunk. Investigating officers were deputy sheriff Bobby BaU and constable George Smith. Lieutenant Receives Award i i ? i Lt. Lester W. Willis, USCG, native or Morehead City, in behalf of the Cape May Group, US Coast Guard Moorings, Cape May, N. J., receives a New Jersey Department of Defense Award for outstand ing performance In Civil Defense and Disaster Control, from Air Force Lt. Col. John 8. Dletx, State of New Jersey Ground Observer Corps Coordinator. Looking on, right, is Capt. John L. SteinmeU, USCG, commanding officer of the US Coast Guard Receiving Center, Cape May, N. J. SPA Expected to Report Soon On Grain Loader Agreement State to Inventory Real Estate Which It Owns Director of administration, Paul A. Johnston, and Isaac T. Avery of Statesvillc, chairman of the North Carolina Bar Association's com mittee on state-owned land, have reported to Governor Hodges that a plan of action has been develop ed for earning out the recently announced plan to inventory all real. property owned by tlx state. At the igihe lime the two spokes men announced that, although the study will begin as soon as possi ble in all counties, initial emphasis will be placed on three counties representing different sections of the state. These counties are New Hanover, Orange and Wilkes. The inventory in these counties will be observed closely by the state-level committee for improvements in procedures for the other 97 coun ties. Two-Phase Program In the report to the governor, it was explained that the long-range program will be divided into two phases. The first phase, to which the bar association will devote pri mary emphasis, calls for compila tion of land records where there is a recorded transaction. The sec ond phase will involve a search for lands for which there is no record ed transaction. The plan provides for members of the bar association to undertake the job of aearching register of deeds offices in all counties for all deeds to and from the State of North Carolina and its agencies. Clerks of court offices will also be searched for wills involving state property. The task faced by the committee is complicated by the fact that deeds have been made to and from the state, in the name of the state, in the name of several governors, and in the varying names of many state agencies and institutions. Deeds are indexed in various See CHECK-UP, Page 2 State to Check Timber-Cutting The State Boar4 of J^ducation has requested the attorney gen eral to investigate reports of tim ber-cutting from state-owned land in this county. The request was made at the board of education meeting Thurs day at Raleigh, but no details rela tive to the inquiry were released. The attorney general was also asked to "take whatever action is necessary". A county official, contacted in re gard to the matter yesterday, said he knew of no timberland o^ned by the state in this county. "The state," he continued, "is trying to claim everything nobody has a clear title to. Of course, people run their lines any place they wpnt and claim the land until somebody stops them . . If the state is going to get into the business of claiming it owns timber in this county, it is the general concensus that the state is cutting out for itself a job of many years of court battles. Two Men in Skiff End Up Sunday in County Jail Jesse Evans and Raleigh Evans, both of Goldsboro, were put in the county jail at 9 a.m. Sunday on charges of drunkenness. George Smith, constable, said the men rented a boat and motor at Fleming's fishing pier at 1 a.m. Suftday. The constable was called eight hours later from Fort Macon where the two had beached the boat. He locked the would-be . navigators up. ? The State Ports Authority? bar I ring unforeseen complication!; ? is I expected to announce soon an agreement with the P. R. Markley Grain Corp., Philadelphia, on establishment of a grain loader at Morehead City port. It is anticipated that the firm will start moving grain from More head City by Oct. 1. John H. Frazier Jr., of the Mark ley firm, appeared before the State Ports Authority in Morehead City in March relative to establishing a grain exporting facility at "either Morehead City w Wilmington. At that time he presented plans for a grain elevator, which would be a more elaborate operation the loader. Already at the port is a grain loading device placed there by Cargill Corp., one of the nation's largest grain exporters. Although the Cargill operation was not as successful as hoped, the Markley firm believes that by devoting time to establishing a grain route be tween Morehead City port and nearby elevators in the state, the grain export business can become a major source of revenue at Morehead City port. Raleigh sources said yesterday that the Markley people have ac quired the Cargill lease. When Mr. Frazier appeared be fore the SPA in March, he pointed out that grain moving through Morehead City would mean lower transportation costs than by the present route through Norfolk. Other advantages he cited were more ships calling at the port, in creased longshoremen's payroll, plus indirect revenue (as well as direct! to the state through Sou thern Railway's hauling the grain. Morehead City Chamber of Com m e r c e industrial development funds have been used during the past year in contacting Marldey representatives. Others in More head City interested in develop ment of the port have also been in close contact with persons involved in the proposed grain operation. Morehead City sources yeaterday were reluctant to make any com ment on the Markley proposition, pending the announcement from the SPA. New Father Performs Feats 'Above, Beyond Call of Duty' Mrs. David Lee, the former Myra Guthrie, daughter of Mr. and Mra. Rudolph Guthrie, route 1 Newport, had an agonizing wait recently while her husband waa bringing their 4-day-old adopted daughter from Florida to (he L>ee borne at Norwalk, Calif. Mr. Lee "flew" crosscountry with the baby while Mra. Lee took the train. The full story, aa it appeared in a California newspaper, follows: Dave Lee's introduction to fa therhood was ? rugged one, but he camc through with flying colors. The living proof is little Donna Sue, brought all the way across the country by plane and train only four days after her birth. And by Lee alone, despite his total inexperience in the ways of babies Lee ll foreman at the plant a I Leach Corp. in Compton, where he supervises workmen who as semble ground power support ?qaipmeBt tor aircraft and mis silea. > That's nothing he says, com pared to the job he unwittingly tackled when he picked up his adopted daughter recently in Florida. Lee took on the task singlchand edly because his wife won't fly. They couldn't see the sense of ex posing the infant to a long train trip when a flight takes only 13 hours. His troubles began on the first leg of the return flight, when a storm between Miami and Chicago cauaed him to miss a connecting plane to the coast. Another air line refused to fly the baby with out a doctor's certificate and told him to try the train. Lee took the baby to a hotel room, while arranging train reser vations. Then he ran out of the formula prepared by a Miami hoa pital. He had to make hia own, 10 ounces of canned milk to 4 ounces at hot water. All be could get on the train was ? wmHH Br tl? time be tad the baby and the car carrier and all the necessary paraphernalia were loaded aboard, there was no room to put the bed down. Lee sat up two days and two nights without a wink of sleep pre paring formula, sterilizing nipples and bottles, feeding and changing the baby. Eventually he arrived home at 11933 Front St.. Norwalk, where Mrs. Lee waited anxiously. They took Donna Sue to a pediatrician, who pronounced Lee's homemade formulas and tender, loving care successful. The baby had gained 12 ounces. And Lee had LOST five POUNDS. Croastiea Born Charles Edwards, fire depart ment engineer, reported Friday that old croastiea stacked on Aren dell Street, across from the Uojd Fry roofing company, caught fire at S p.m. Thursday. Firemen put the fire out and returned to sta tion in lull mo hour. . v $20,000 Hurricane Study To be Made on Banks Wilmington?A cooperative shored protection study of the Fort Macon Atlantic Beach area was an nounced here Thursday by Col. H. C. Rowland Jr.. district engineer of the Corps of Engineers' Wil mington District. The study, to be initiated imme diately, will be conducted jointly by the Corps of Engineers and by the State of North Carolina through the Department of Conservation and Development, according to Colonel Rowland. He said the state had already allotted 110,000 as one half of the estimated $20,000 the survey is ex pected to cost. The remaining (10, 000 will be provided by the Federal Government. The area to be included in the study approximates five miles of shoreline beginning on the sound side of Fort Macon and reaching around the point and then west ward. ( Principal objective is to study the erosion problem first and then follow up with a recommendation on the most practical method of preventing further recession of the beach. Normal tides and storms have caused serious damage to the beach and dunes in past years, records show, and continued grad ual loss of valuable sand will be the rule unless protective mea sures are provided. The problem at Fort Macon and westward is not new. Erosion has been in progress there for 100 years and more. Even General Lee. history says, took note of the situation when he was there in the IMO's. Rotarians Hear Town Recreation Head Thursday Fred 1-cwU, director of the town ircr"<?iion program, w a t the fpeafcer Thursdiy night at the Morehead City Rotary Club meet ing. W. C. Carlton, program chair man, introduced Mr. Lewis. The speaker described the facili ties available (or children and teen agers. Inside facilities are ping-pong, shuffleboard. carpet golf, badmin ton, reading materials and various games, as dominoes, chess, etc. Outside facilities: tennis, soft ball. shuffleboard, i w 1 n g s and slides. The summer program cov ers ten weeks, with a speech clinic conducted the first two weeks for children needing help. Trained in structors arc provided for this work. Supervised activities are set up for the small children, apart from the teen-age program, with coun selors for this phase, Mr. Lewis said. During the summer, dances are held Wednesday and Friday nights for the teen-agers, with attendance as high as four hundred a night. The boys at Camp Morehead arc invited to the dances. The dances are supervised and the boys and girls have to check in and check out, with the time re corded when they leave the build ing, the director explained. The program is primarily fi nanced by a portion of town tax revenue voted for this purpose by referendum, providing for recrea tion for both the white and colored children of the town. Presently, there are four part-time instruc tors assisting Mr. Lewis. Aside from the 10-week summer program, teen-age activities are sponsored each Friday night dur ing the rest of the year, the direc tor said. Visiting Rotarians were Brookes reters, Raleigh; Lawrence Stroud, Jim Fleming, both of Greenville; Dr. David Farrior and T. H. Pot ter, both of Beaufort. Other visitors were Jack Styron, New Orleans, son-in-law of I. E. Pittman; Harvey Joslyn Jr., Waah ington, D. C., guest of his father; Edwin Tenney Jr., Columbia, 8. C., brother-in-law of club member Thomas Noe; and George R. Ken nedy. Hamlls, N. C., father-in-law of Dr. Silas Thome. (Eastern Standard Time) Tides at the Beast art Bar Tide Tabl* HIGH LOW Tuesday, Aag. U 5:47 a.m. 1:07 p.m. lysi a m Wedaesday, Aag. 11 6:36 a.m. 6:53 p.m. 12:43 a.m. 12:47 p.m. Thusday, am- u 7:21 a.m. 7:37 p.m. 1:2* a.m. 1:16 p.m. Friday, Aag U 2:11 a.m. Highway Officials Meet With Town Representatives Defendant Sent To Jail Thursday For Six Months | James Carroll, charged with be ing drunk and disorderly, assault and resisting arrest, was sen tenced to six months in jail Thurs day in county recorder's court. Joe Culpepper, found guilty of possessing explosives, was given three months in jail, suspended on payment of $25 and costs in three months. Giii;or* Ray Adams,! charged with careless and reckless driving, resulting in an accident, paid $25 and costs. In the case of Robert E. Billard, i the warrant was amended from aiding and abetting in larceny to j forcible trespass. Billard was found l guilty and ordered to pay $25 and costs. Pay Costs Willie O. Guthrie and Luther Salter, found guilty of violating the fishing laws, were charged j costs. James Earl Reels was found I guilty of driving without a license and paid costs. Costs were assessed the follow ing, found guilty of public drunk enness: Herman J. Hannon, Mar tin P. Moran. Patrick E. Russo, and Laurence J. Hanlon. Bonds Forfeited Bonds were forfeited by the fol lowing: Charles Eric Russell, speeding; Moody Rose and John Pittman, violating fishing laws; Elis Ay cock, failing to stop at a stop sign. Charles E. Kistler, failing to yield the right-of way, and having an expired license; TSlenwood Dav enport Jr., following too colscly, resulting in an accident. George Worthy, public drunken ness; Clyde Everett Jr., assault; James Lee Collins, breaking and entering; Joseph Waldo Howard, driving on the wrong side of the road. Kit G. Adkins, public drunken ness, damaging private property and having beer on the street. The following cases were not prosecuted: Jaines Douglas Gar rett, duplicate of a no operator's license and speeding case; Ethel Mae Jones and Louis Henderson, each charged with assault. Sixty -eight cases were continued. Judge Lambert Morris presided. i ? State highway officials conferred with Atlantic Beach and Morchead City officials Friday afternoon on traffic problems of mutual interest to both towns. Highway officials here were W. F. Babcock, director of highways; E. L. White, highway commission er; R. Markham, division en gineer, W. H. Rodgcrs, chief en gineer, and Mr. Kinlcy, traffic en gineer. Meeting with them were mem bers of a committee appointed at a recent joint meeting of the beach board and town board, G. E. San derson, Ted Garner. Mayor George Dill, all of Morehead City; M. G. Coyie, W. L. Derrickson, and Ma yor A. B. Cooper, all of Atlantic Beach. After lunch at the Sanitary Fish Market Restaurant, the group looked over the two blocks north of the beach bridge where the beach road leads into Arendell Street. Amazed at Pile-Up Highway officials said that the overpass suggested by beach resi dents to cross Evans and Arendell Street, from the beach, would not solve the traffic problem and would be too costly. They sug gested electronic traffic control ] devices. The group went to the beach and were delayed by a wreck on the causeway at Sound Beach Pool. Brakes on a soft drink truck failed and a car was sideswiped. The mayor of Atlantic Beach and the mayor of Morehead City got out and directed traffic around the wreck until officers from the beach arrived. Overpass Dismissed the highway officials were amazed to see how quickly traffic piled up at either side of the acci dent site, Mayor Dill remarked. He said the highway officials even accused them of having planned the wreck! The intersection of the beach and Fort Macon Roads was stud ied, then officials went to the bridge across the Newport River. Mayor Dill told them that More head City's major concern about any new bridge, regardless of lo cation, is that the draw span be sufficiently wide and the span supports deep enough to allow dredging and the resultant passage of ocean-going traffic. The highway officials said that such a request was worthy of con sideration. The meeting of the officials was arranged by Mayor Cooper. Meet Mr. Spud Photo by Bob Seymour Vaaaie Brawn, Morehead City, found two odd-shaped potatoes at El Nelsoa's grocery store and made this fine-looking character pic tured here. Mr. 8fad, he calls him. Mr. Spad consists of two Irish potatoes. The Joining Uae Is at the waist The potato man has ptpe cleaaer arms aad a saacy hat with a feather. The face, tie and hatteas wen pahMed aa, hat the cigar ia hia Math 1* actually a ?proat aa tba potato! ? A. B. Cooper. Atlantic Beach mayor, told board members at their meeting Friday morning that $20,000 has been earmarked for a survey of Bogue Banks from Fort Macon point west through the Coral Bay Club property. The survey, which includes At lantic Beach, will be made rela tive to protecting the area ^ from hurricane damage. Mayor Cooper said he was told of the appropria tion by Col. llarry Brown, head of the state hurricane rehabilita tion program. In this connection, the mayor commented, local governing units will be requested by the federal government to match federal funds, after the protective mea sures are decided upon. Since small municipalities like Atlantic Beach do not have the re sources to match funds in the hun dreds of thousands of dollars, the I mayor said coastal towns should I back legislative action in the next ; general assembly to have the state set aside funds to match federal appropriations. Committee Named The mayor appointed Commis sioners W L Derrickson, A F. Fleming and M. G. Coyle, clerk, to select five beach property own ers who will act as legislative committee. The duly of the com mittee would be to survey needs of the town which must be met by legislative action in 1959. The Friday morning meeting was also set as the time of a pub lic hearing to determine whether there were any objections to the toning ordinance as approved by the zoning board. No one appeared to protest so the board adopted the ordinance. llarry Hill, chairman of (he zoning board, said he would serve on the board of adjustment but did not care to be chairman. Shel by Freeman was named chairman. Other members, in addition to Mr. llill, are Mrs M G. Coyle, Syl vester Fleming, and Mrs. F . W. Thomas. Mayor Cooper commented that adoption of a toning ordinance "?hows great advancement in the growth of our town. This will help develop a town our children will be proud of." He commended the zoning board and the town board for their action. Financial Report Mr. Coyle gave a report on finances. The board approved pay ment of 175 to H. M. Eure, former clerk, for a good-will letter he mailed to beach residents recently at the request of the town board. Mayor Cooper reported on a meeting arranged with highway officials for noon this past Friday. No action was taken on air-con ditioning the town hall. The board approved blowing ol the beach fire alarm at noon each Saturday at a means of seeing that the alarm is always in working order. It was agreed that the town shall purchase town auto tags, 200 at 7 cents each. Firemen will sell them and keep the profit. A meeting to discuss Schedule B licenses was arranged for to morrow morning between the mayor, Commissioner R. A. Bare foot and the clerk. The board gave W. B. Godwin, Bogue Street, 10 days to get a "shed" off his property. The shed is used as a living quarters and according to the town board, it was put up without a building per mit. The lot also has more than one living quarters on it, which, the board says, is in violation of town ordinances. Commissioner* asked that the town attorney. George McNeill, draw up a wiring, plumbing and electrical ordinance. The mayor commented that the Bass-Gant wall problem is still unsolved, but he thought that placement of signs in the area may help. Two Cars Collide West of Newport Two cars collided at 5:05 p.m. Sunday on highway 70 a mile and a half west of Newport. No one was hurt. A IMS Chevrolet station wagon, driven by Dr. James E. Sommcrs, Chapel Hill, ran into the rear of a 1956 Buick, according to Patrol man W. J. Smith Jr. Driving the Buick was William T. Robinson, New Bern. Robinson had stopped to allow a car in front of him to turn left. K pickup truck behind him swerved to the right and went on the shoulder to avoid a collision, but the station wagon went Into the rear of the Buick. Damage to the Buick was esti mated at $450 and damage to the Chevrolet at $250.
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