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"w CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 47th YEAR, NO. 65. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BKAUFOBT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Nelva More , Model and Actress, Visits Kinfolk in Morehead City Photo by Reginald Lewis NelVa More, native daughter at Greensboro, now of New York City, Is vacationing in Morehead City. Nelva More, model and actress who *ill leave New York next month to make a movie in Rome, is spending this week with her sis ter, Mrs. Walter Franklin, Golden Arrow apartments, Morehcad City. Hiss More will play the second female lead in the movie, 0 Rosa MU. She will appear as the sister of the leading character, Gina Lollohrlgida. This will be her first niajor film role. ' The tall beauty is a native of Greensboro, N. C. One of five sis teri (no brothers), she is the only one to enter the dramatic world. Went to Florida She left Greensboro for Florida where she gave swimming lessons and modeled at the pool at the Sans Souci Hotel. Miami Beach. Then she went to New York where she was a member of the original group of June Taylor dancers. In New York she won two beauty contests which had as prizes courses at the Conovcr Modeling School, but she never finished the modeling instruction. She has ap peared on the cover of Collier's, Harper's Bazaar ahd Redbook magazines, on numerous tv shows ?the General Elcctric Motor a tna Show, Jackie Glcason Show, The Web, and has done tv commercials for numerous top-name cosmetics. She used to pose for all the Pepsi-Cola billboards, the artist making the finished sketch for the ad from the photo. Miss More was Ava Gardner's understudy in The Barefoot Con tcssa; she did a solo dance ip Stagcstruck, starring Susan Stras berg and Henry Fonda; had a bit part in A Face in the Crowd, star ring Andy Griffith; appeared in The Ex-King with Mickey Rooney and did a re make of The Blonde Savage, starring Jimmy Stewart. One of her first roles in films was with Frankic Lainc in The Sunny Side of the Street. Miss More is booked for her film and modeling work through Famous Artists, a New York agen cy. Studied at RADA She studied drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Lon don. Her stay in Rome, while O Rosa Mia is being filmed, will be four to six months. Actually, she's a brunette, but orders were to dye her hair blonde for the forthcoming film role be cause as a brunette she too closely resembles the sultry Gina Lollo brigida. ! Miss More stands 5 foot 7 '4. Her I "vital statistics" arc 34-22-35. She blushingly admits that the 35 is shrinking things a bit? she's here in Morehead City hoping to take off a bit of weight. Her nephew, Larry Franklin, 7, is a big help. He keeps her so busy dashing in and out of the water at the beach that she figures she's bound to lose pounds through sheer exertion. Ire of Morehead Citizens Roused By Trash Dump in Residential Area Truck Backs Info Car Monday A truck and a car collided on Highway 70 at 5:10 p.m. Monday it Sea 1/eveI, causing damage to the vehicles amounting to $315. No one was injured. Patrolman J. W. Sykes. who in vestigated, said that a 1954 Dodge ton-and-a-balf truck, driven by Carl H. Bell, Atlantic, backed into a IMS Ford driven by Mervin N. Hancock, Sea Level. The accident happened when Bell was backing his truck to pick up a hitch-hiker. He failed to see the ear behind him and crashed into K. A block of ice in the back of the truck flew out and landed on the car. - Bell has been charged with fail ing to maintain a proper lookout. Both vehicles were faced toward Atlantic. Hancock had just let out a passenger and was getting under way again, when the truck backed into him. Damage to the Ford wai esti mated at |300, damage to the track, fl5. Teoplc in the vicinity of the Camp Glenn. School, Bud Dixon's Motel and the West End fire sta tion, Morehead City, have been angered by garbage being dumped in the swamp area in front of the Camp Gicnn School, alonf Aren dell Street. The following letter was received tbis week by, THE NEWS-TIMES: Attention of Mayor George Dill: Before coming to Morehead City, we lived in innumerable cities and small towns (one of them, a min ing town in New Mexico, where living conditions ? arc supposed to be primitive) BUT never before hare we had a garbage disposal dropped practically in our front yard. Wc Understand that this has been done with- your permission; and with Uiat of A. D. Fulford, the County Sanitarian, and of Dr. A. F. Chestnut, of the Board of Edu cation. The she of Morehead City's new garbage dump is the area between the Camp Glenn School and the Fire House. 1U consequent stenches cover the ana. North, South, East, and West for several blocks around 34th Street It la a residential district, in which, moat of the residents are home-owners, who imagined that they were buy tug ill a decent, bauiUry town This is not just hear-say report ing. We have watched trucka and private cars dashing in ? one after another? to deposit not only trash, but filthy garbage at our front doors . . . With the permission of our so-called HEALTH DEPART MENT. And as they drive in and dump rubbish AND GARBAGE into that sink hole, we are swamped in stench and accompanying flies. We have become innured to the fact that Morehead City has no in tention of doing anything about the drainage in our neighborhood, which, from open ditche? floods filth into our yards with each rain storm ? and in which our neigh bors' children play. They say they are short of funds. Out it is hard to believe that our Mayor, our County Sanitarian, and the Roard of Education can de liberately make our homes unliv able by dumping a pestilential source of disease and contagion I into our homes. This is too re miniscent of the Middle Ages. The above is angrily endorsed ? by all in the neighborhood of that i outrageous stcnch. I C. Arthur Steae Elton* C. Stone 1 Investigation of the situation by ' THE NEWS-TIMES revealed that J 8m gasbags duxt, rift ? , State Civil Defense Men Meet with County Officials Col. W. II. Dawson and Uaj. R. E. Smith, State Civil Defense of ficers, -net Tuesday night with John Valentine, county CD direc tor, Moses Howard, chairman of the county board of commission ers, commisisoners Skinner Chalk and Odeii Merrill, and James Pot ter, auditor. The meeting was held in the courthouse. Colonel Dawson stated that the Federal Civil Defense administra tion has designated seven areas in North Carolina as vital target areas and a total of 14 civilian and military target areas. The three closest to Carteret being Cherry Point Marine Air Station, Camp Lejeune and Wilmington, all prime targets. The colonel stated that nuclear weapons, including those of 20 me gaton yield, arc available to the Soviet Union and would primarily be used in the event of war and would probably be delivered by manned aircraft, supplemented by missiles delivered from subma rines or surface ships. The blast of such a bomb would cover a 20-mile radius which would place Carteret partially in side the Cherry Point perimeter in case of a direct hit and well with in the fallout area. tin initial blast a 10 mile radius of Cherry Point would be in the 100 per cent destruction area. The colonel stated that under the master state plan, Carteret resi dents would be evacuated. Craven County has been designated as a support county to receive some 25,000 evacuecs from the Cherry Point target area. it is proposed that Carteret res idents shall be evacuated by land, with Mr. Howard, chairman of the county board, and Mr. Valentine having the authority to state when evacuation is necessary. Colonel Dawson stated that in case of atomic attack on Camp le jeune and Cherry Point, the area would have only three hours warn ing. Also presented was the master Civil Defense plan for the state and recent and past activities of the state's preparedness activities. It was stated that if counties and cities so desire, there are federal matching funds available for Civil Defense purposes such as purchas ing radio and communication equipment, fire fighting equip ment, auxiliary power generators, etc. Judge Hands Down Two Jail Terms Monday # James White Will Serve Three Months ? E. A. Hessee Appeals To Higher Court Judge Herbert Phillips handed down two jail sentences in More head City Recorder's court Mon day. James White, colored male Morehead City, will serve three months I or (ailing to comply with a suspended sentence. Eugene Hes see, Morehead City, found guilty of public drunkenness and mali cious damage to personal property, was sentenced to 30^1?y> in jail He appealed to superior court and his appeal bond was set at $50. Robert Eugene Gross, Cherry Point, found guilty of driving drunk, driving without an opera tor's license and driving on the wrong si<?~ of the road was given a 90-day ,.?ntence, suspended on payment of $125 and costs. Found Guilty Johnny Carral, Camp l.rjeune, was found guilty of speeding and having an improper muffler. He was given a 60-day sentence, sus pended on payment of $25 and $10, plus court costs. The $10 fine is to be remitted if he gets a proper muffler. He was also ordered to surrender his driver's license for six months. Cecil Earl Smith, Bayboro, was found guilty of speeding, careless and reckless driving and driving on the wrong side of the road. He was fined $50 and costs. Basil Holmes Oates Jr. New Bern, was found guilty of speed ing and ordered to pay costs. He appealed and bond was set at $100. Walter C. Helms Sr., Morehead City, pleaded guilty to carele** 8c* COURT, Page S Police Dismantle 'Bomb' Found at Ammunition Dump A home made time bomb was discovered early Tuesday morning on state property at Camp Glenn, and John Allea Owens, 17, of 113 Broad St., Beaufort, was appre hended several hours later by Of ficer Bill Condic of the Morehead City police department. - Owens was picked up when he went to retrieve his "bomb" at the mouth of what used to be an ammunition storage dump. Owens, who told police chief Herbert Griffin that he is experi menting with rockets, said he thought the Camp Glenn site was the best place to test his home made device. The device made by Owens was Virginia Objects To Port Rates Norfolk, Va. ? A proposal before the Interstate Commerce Commis sion to reduce the rates at the Morehead City port haa brought the protest of the Virginia State Porta commission which elatms that the proposed reduction would be discrimination against Hamp ton Roads. The Southern Rsilroad has pro posed a cut for non-shipside rates on rayon and other synthetic fibre wastes imported at Morrhead City for distribution in western North Carolina. The Virginia commission claims that the proposed reduction would give Morehead City a cheaper rate than Hampton Boads. The Virginia commission points out that Hampton Roads is only 11 miles farther from BUck Mountain than is Morehead City. . Three Marines Picked Up, Charged with AWOL Three Marines were charged at 10 Wednesday night lor being ?way from Camp Lejeune without leave and wearing civilian eiothes. The three, Donald R. Stone, Richard W. Richmond Jr., and John T. Martin, were turaod over to the military police by Um sher iff's department. They were picked up at Mack's Drive-In on highway 101. A mili tary jeep that they allegedly uacd to get to the drive-in was later found abandoned oa a road back * the t ub Maal Co. in t cigar box, and wan discovered at about t:20 a.m. by Frank Swin dell, Negro employee with the State Highway Department. Swindell, with other workmen, is living in the trailer! on state properly at Camp Glenn. They are doing work on the bridge across Newport River. When Swindell heard the ticking, then discovered the bomb, he told other workmen who, be said, paid no attention to him. Then he called the police. Officer Buck Newsome went to the scene at about 7:30 and when he saw the rig, went for Chief Griffin. The officers did not know what time the bomb was set to go off, and fearing that it may detonate any minute, they broke the wiring connections in the box by firing at it with a rifle. The bullet-damage made it im possible to determine what time the bomb had been set to explode. Bomb Ingredients A snuff-box of gunpowder and sand, flashlight batteries, a full sized alarm clock, carefully sol 'do red wires, all paeked tightly in the eigar box with kleonex, com prised the bomb. Chief Griffin said that had the thing blown, it probably would have made a report as loud as a shotgun. Owens has not been charged with any law violation, but was warned his experiments might lead to in jury to himself or someone else. He said he placed the "bomb" at the point where it was discover ed at 8 p.m. Monday. He set it to go off at 9: 45 p.m. Then he went to the beach, lie came hack and the thing had not gone off, so h< set it for 10:15 p.m. and went u, Beaufort. He wont back at a quar ter past midnight and it still hadn't gone off, so when he went back Tuesday morning to pick the con trivancc up. Officer Condie invited him to go down to the police sta tion. The officers knew that the de vice in itself could not have done much damage, but, not knowing who had set the thing, they were fearful of what it might imply. Beaufort Boat Captain Released Under Bond ? ? -A Mrs. Louis Sutton Speaks To Community Theatre Mrs. Louis Sutton, Raleigh, spon sor of the Raleigh Little Theatre, reviewed the 20 years of the Ral eigh theatre Wednesday night at the meeting of the Carteret Com munity Theatre. The theatre met ?it the reereation building on Shepard Street, Morehead City. Mrs. Sutton was affiliated with the little theatre in Jackson, Miss., prior to moving to Raleigh. The group there built a theatre and in 1938 the Raleigh troupers started their own theatre building and am phitheatre. Most of the cost was paid by the federal government through the Federal Theatre and Works Prog ress Administration. The Raleigh Little Theatre start ed with 36 people and is financed largely through memberships as well as sale of season tickets. Pa tron memberships are $25. (Car teret Community Theatre member ships arc $5 each). Goal Grows In 1940, Mrs. Sutton said their membership goal was 200. This year it is 1.800. The Raleigh Thea tre pays its director, technical di rector and secretary. It functions with a board of directors and ad visory board, produces five plays during the winter season and two during the summer. The theatre gave operas in Eng lish prior to building its own thea tre. Mrs. Sutton sang roles in many of the productions. Because of the successful operatic reper toire, the group was featured in an issue of the American Maga zine in 1939. Mrs. Sutton mentioned that a present opera troupe claims to be the first in the state to present operas in English, but she says the Raleigh Little Theatre holds that distinction. Mrs. Sutton has also appeared in other theatre productions besides operas. For the role of Bertie, in See THEATRE, Page 8 Zoologist Comes Back from Visit To British Isles Dr. Melbourne R. Carriker. as sociate professor of zoology, De partment of Zoology. University of North Carolina Institute of Fish eries Research, returned recently from a three-week visit to the British Isles. While there, he attended the 15th International Zoological Congress and visited marine biological sta tions in England, Scotland, and Wales. At the Congress he pre- 1 sented a paper on his current re- j search on oyster drills at the In- 1 stitute of Fisheries Research on- j titled "Comparative Functional Morphology and Evolution of the Drilling Mechanism in Urnsalpinx and Eupleura". He conferred with European and British marine biol ogists on research in the field of marine biology. Some 1,500 scien tists attended the Congress meet ings. Visits Laboratories During his trip Dr. Carriker vis ited the following marine labora tories: Burnham - on - Crouch and Plymouth in England, Mill|>ort in southern Scotland, and Menai Bridge and Conway in Wales. The Burnham on ? Crouch and Conway laboratories arc British government laboratories concerned principally with investigation of nutrition, growth, distribution, i mortality, and enemies of the Eu ropean oyster and other commer cial molfusks. The principal oyster industry in the British Isles is centered in southeast England. During recent years production of these oystera has dropped to a low rate. Marine biologists arc attempting to in crease production in southeast England and to extend commcrcial oyster culture to western Scotland and other parts of the British Isles. To supplement production of the European flat oyster, Portuguese seed oysters arc imported to south eastern England, planted out in intertidal areas, and grown and fattened for the market. The Portuguese oyster repro duces only to a very slight degree in the cold British coastal waters, and thus must be imported an See CARRIKER, Page 8 Tide Table (Eaitern Standard Time) Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Aug. 15 8:05 a m. 2:13 a.m. 8:25 p it. 2:24 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16 8:51 a.m. 2:56 a.m. 9:10 p.m. 3:10 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17 9:41 a.m. 3:37 a.m. 10:01 p.m. 3:56 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18 10:35 a.m. 4:20 a.m. 10:56 p.m. 4:44 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19 11:32 a.m. 5:04 a.m. 11:53 p.m. 5:38 p.m. '? Crewman Killed Aboard Boat * Marion L. Lewis Jailed for Day Capt. Marlon L. (Pinky) Lewis, Beaufort, has been released under bond in Cameron, La., where he allegedly killed a Negro crewman he had fired. The shooting took place Sunday. Authorities at Cameron say the victim of the shooting, Tennyson Mark, 30, Lufkin, Tex., came aboard Lewis's menhaden boat Sunday, apparently to argue with the captain about firing him. Captain Lewis told the fisherman he wasn't going to talk to him and he went to his quarters. But the ex-crewman, a big 200-pounder, followed him. Lewis picked up a shotgun and ordered Mark to leave, but the fisherman jumped him. In the ensuing struggle, Mark was shot. Authorities said that the crew man had been aboard the boat, the Shoal Harbor, several times prior to Sunday, to sec Captain Lewis. Lewis is reported to have told the sheriff of Cameron parish that Mark was fired because he didn't turn up when the boat went out. The Shoal Harbor is owned by the Gulf Menhaden Co., Tort Mon mouth, N. J. After the shooting, I*ewis was booked on manslaughter and held in jail one day, as required by Louisiana law. His employer stood his bond and has retained a law yer for Lewis, according to infor mation given Nelson Lewis, Beau fort. brother of Captain Lewis. Captain Lewis's family lives at Ann and Fulford St. Captain Lewis, who has resumed fishing at Cam eron, has been captain of a men haden boat for the past two years. The Shoal Harbor fished out of Beaufort during the winter. Chest Clinic Will be Monday The chest clinic in the county health department, Beaufort, will start at 9 Monday morning. Kx TB patients, contacts with TB patients and suspects will be ex amined by a chest specialist from Eastern North Carolina sanatar ium, announces Dr. Luther Ful cher, health officer. Private doctors may send pa tients by calling the health de partment, 2-5576. Patients already scheduled for examination havo been notified. X-ray clinics at the health cen ter are from 9 to 11 Tuesdays and Thursadys. X-rays are $3 each if the patient is able to pay. Dr. Ful cher said. Due to limited x-ray facilities and the increased number of posi tive TB tests and TB contacts, the health department requests that anyone wanting an x-ray make an appointment. Spraying to Start Joe Mason, secretary of the Citi zens Control Committee, Sea Level, reported Wednesday that spraying is being resumed. Because of dry weather, mosquitoes have not been numerous, but high tides are now causing more eggs to hatch. Traffic Stalled 'Far as Eye Can See' At about 4:30 Sunday after noon, Aug. 1, a sailboat blew for the Atlantic Beach bridge to open. Baca use the bridge Ik the alow-opening awing type, the bfi4Ket?A4or could sot tiftly close it (or part of the auto traf fic to paaa over, and itili re open it in time to allow passage of a small tug towing two bargei. The bridge i* to few (13 feet verticil clearance) that even a little tug requires its opening, and automobile traffic was held up for 23 minutes Just at the time when homeward ? bound weekender* leave the beach. As Photo by Bob Simpson far as the eye or the camera could ace, traffic was backed up. Bridge planners, unfortunately, had not had the foresight to build ? higher bridge of the faster-op er*Uug batcuie type.
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