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NEWS-TIMES
47th TEAR. NO. 67.
THREE SECTIONS? 24 PAGES
MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1958
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Men Sentenced
For Stealing,
Butchering Pig
Joe Carawan and Herbert Penny
were given six months on the roads
in county court yesterday on a
charge of stealing a pig from Hugh
Carraway, Beaufort RFD.
t Gladys Penny, Herbert's brother,
was given a six-month sentence,
suspended on condition he pay $25
and costs and stay on good be
havior five years. The $25 is to go
to Mr. Carraway. Gladys was
charged with receiving stolen
goods.
Sheriff Hugh Salter said the
three men stole a 75-pound regis
tered Poland China hog from Mr.
Carraway Saturday night, butch
ered it and divided the meat.
Part of the meat was found at
the Penny place, part at Cara
wan's place, but Herbert Penny,
the sheriff said, got scared and
threw his share of the meat away.
Carawan lives on the Carraway
farm, according to Sheriff Salter,
and the Penny brothers were em
ployed at the Taylor Heady Mix
Concrete plant, West Beaufort.
The meat recovered was re
turned to Mr. Carraway. Assisting
the sheriff in the investigation was
Bruce Edwards, deputy sheriff.
Carawan and Herbert Penny
stayed in jail until yesterday's
hearing. Gladys Penny had been
released on bond.
Judge Morris remarked, "I
should have sentenced his mother
for naming him Gladys!"
Harry Lynch Held
For Assault
Harry Lynch, Gordon Street,
Beaufort, was in county recorder's
court yesterday on an assault
charge.
Chief Guy Springle, Beaufort po
lice department, said Lynch is
charged with assaulting his step
daughter, Miss Shirley Mason. The
chief says Miss Mason claims
Lynch hit her in the siumach with
his fist at about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
But in return, she grabbed a
bunch of flowers out of a half
gallon fruit jar and smashed the
jar over his head. Flying glaaa
cut h<jr on the leg. Chief Springle
took Lynch to the Morehead City
Hospital where the wound in his
bead was closed with seven
stitches.
Then he took Lynch back to
Beaufort and put him in jail under
*50 bond. The warrant for Lynch
waa sworn out by his step-daugh
ter.
The trouble started, authorities
said, when Lynch threatened and
abused his wife. Miss Mason call
ed the police and when she did so,
Lynch became infuriated and went
after her. That's when she hit him
with the jar.
Beaufort JC's
Plan Cruise
The Beaufort Jaycees invite all
young men over 21 to go with them
on an outboard cruise and picnic
^Sunday. The Jaycees will have
boata at the Causeway Yacht Ba
sin at 11 a.m. There is no charge
and a special invitation is not
necessary.
Publicity chairman George
Thomas says the club will have
plenty of hot dogs with all the
trimmings, ice and drinks (or
everybody who attends.
The picnic will be on Shackle
ford Banks if the weather is fa
. vorable. If the wind is wrong the
picnic will be inshore at a shel
tered location.
Plans for the cruise and picnic
were made at the Jaycee meeting
Monday night at the Scout build
ing. District vice-president Ellis
Harrell attended the meeting and
discussed plans for increasing club
membership.
Jaycee James Steed gave each
1 member several football season
tickets to sell before the opening
of school. Mr. Steed, Glenn Willis
and Jesse Taylor arc members of
the football committee.
Tide Table
(Eastern Standard Time)
TMca at the Beaafort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Aug. 22
4 1:51' a.m. , 1:11 a.m.
2:20 p.m. S.M p.m.
Satarday, Aug. 21
2:55 a.m. 9:20 a.m.
|:2> p.m. 10:01 p.m.
sodar, Aaf. 24
I 4:01 a.m. 10:21 a.m.
4:32 p.m. 11:04 p.m.
?aaday, An- 25
I 1:05 a.m. 11:1* a.m.
I 1:22 p.m. U:55 p.m.
Tmaday, Aaf. 2?
? ?:? a.m. I2:0i a.m.
I ??
School Opens Sept. 2
News about county schools?
Where to get school clothes
and supplies ? This is the
Back-to-School Issue
Henry Safrit Returns After
Summer Jaunt to Alaska
Burglars Fail
To Break Open
Gaskill Safe
Burglars made in unsuccessful
attempt Tuesday night to rob the
C. C. Gaskill feed ?tore on Lcn
noxville Road.
They really intended to hit the
jackpot ? but the jackpot was
stronger than they " was
a 500-pound safe.
Sheriff Hugh Salter said the
burglars went to work on it with
a bush ax. It was discovered Wed
nesday morning, turned over, with
blade marks on it. The safe handle
was broken off and a desk by the
safe go) hupped in the attempt to
break the safe open Mr. Gaskill
said yesterday that he'U have to
get a new safe.
Entry to the place was through
a small (root door. The lock bad
been pried off.
No money was missing, nor any
thing else, as far as the Gaskilis
and the sheriff's department could
determine. Goorge Canady of the
State Bureau of Investigation has
been asked to assist in investiga
tion of the case.
Gaskill's store has been entered
several times. The most recent
occasion was last Labor Day week
end when between SO and 60 pen
nies were taken.
ABC Store Sales
Total $80,049.45
Sale! at liquor stores in the
county totaled U0.049.4S last
month, with the volume at the new
store at Atlantic Beach climbing to
within a thousand dollars of the
largest - volume store, Morehead
City.
Beaufort sales were $13,814.45;
Morehead City $28,938.90; Atlantic
Beach $27,882.75, and Newport $9,
413.35.
Paid to local governing units waa
$775 to Beaufort; $1,623.50 to More
head City (hotpital), $1,564.24 to
Atlantic Beach, $528.10 to New
port, and $4,160 to the county.
Part payment on a new cash
register for tbe beach liquor store,
$330.84, was taken out of the coun
ty's share of the proceeds.
Campers Help
Salter Path Scouts
As their Helping Hand project
this summer, the boys at Camp
Morehead have given the Boy
Scout troop at Salter Path $100.
Calvin O. Smith. Salter Path
Scoutmaster, said the money will
be used to buy Scouting equip
ment.
Last year the Camp Morehead
boys gave $125 to help repair the
Salter Path church. Director of
the camp is C. R. (Pat) Craw
ford.
Scoutmaster Smith said Tues
day that the Boy Scouts and the
people of Salter Path deeply ap
preciate the gifts and the interest
the campers have taken in their
community.
Twenty boys are members of
the Salter Path Boy Scout troop.
'Meanest Man'
Steals Life Line
Atlantic Beach has ? iiwnilnaHmn
for the meanest man tn the world:
the fellow who stole the 175-foot
life line from one of the four posts
located along the beach.
The line was taken some time
Monday night. Beach police, on
their routine chcck Tuesday morn
ing, discovered it was missing.
Bill Moore, chief of police, ex
plains that four posts, two east
of the protected bathing beach and
two west of the beach, were put
down at the beginning of the sum
mer. Each holds a life preserver
and 175 feet of rope. A sign on
the post reads, "For Emergency
Use Only."
The line and life preservers have
been thus located in residential
sections so that anyone in danger
in any part of the beach area can
be aided if someone throws them
the line.
Now one line and life ring are
missing.
Beach police are interested in
getting it back. If it is returned
to the police station, no questions
will be asked. Meanwhile, the
town has bought another line and
life ring to replace the missing
one.
? New Church Completed
i "T photo by Bob Seymour
The Ml Flr*? Fret WO *tp<M Chareh, Morehes4 CJty, wUI he
effteUlly opeae4 ler the tint tee SaaUr moraimj. The taiMtag U
vaM at MMW. See ifuy aa pace ?. eectto 2.
? Henry Safrit, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Safrit Jr., Beaufort,
returned Monday night from a 10
week trip to Alaska. It was no joy
ride. But Henry says he had a
wonderful time and came back
with some money to put in the
bank.
For five weeks he worked on a
railroad gang, repairing a section
of the Alaskan railroad near Fair
banks, and the other two weeks
he fought forest fires.
Henry, who will be a senior at J
Duke University this fall, and John j
Jordan, son of Sen. and Mrs. Eve
rett Jordan, drove to Alaska in
Henry's 1956 Plymouth. They start
ed June 9 and arrived June 20 at
Fairbanks.
They knew before they started
that they had a railroad job await
ing them. The work plan was ar
ranged through Senator Jordan
and the Alaskan representative in
Washington, D. C.
Did he develop muscles on the
railroad job? Henry ruefully re
plies, "I just about broke my
I back!"
Lived in Car*
The track gangs lived in World
War II troop cars which were di
vided in sections, two men in each
sleeping quarter. Henry's room
-mate was -a 30-year-old Eskimo
from Point Barrow.
"He was just like a boy," Henry
reports, "short. 30 years old, gig
gled a lot. He wasn't married and
said he wasn't going to get mar
ried. He could talk English, but
it was broken."
John Jordan was billeted in a
car elsewhere. There were 20 Es
kimoes and Indians in the crew,
as well as (our college boys from
Kansas State.
Henry was in Alaska, of course,
when Congress decided to admit
it as a state. In Fairbanks, he re
ports, there was quite > bit of
celebrating. Firecrackers were
shot off and there were Iota of
parties in bars.
"But the middle and lower class
people seemed indifferent to being
admitted to the union. A lot op
posed it outright," the Beaufort
traveler remarked. "Quite a few
were not in favor of statehood,
probably because they'd have to
pay more taxes. But I think the
people who opposed it were the
element who would never go to
the polls."
Pleasant Weather
The lowest the temperature
dipped while Henry was at Fair
banks was to 45 at night. For two
days it was as high as (2 and >3.
Blankets were required for com
fort at night. The weather was
pleasant, Henry sums it up, and
very dry.
In the area where he was work
ing, about SO miles from Fair
banka, the terrain was fairly level;
no ntnntains.
To get away from the work rou
tine, the boys went into Fairbanks
weekends, went on picaica, 'dated
some of the girls, and Went to
movies.
The two weeks of fire fighting,
after the railroad job, was not
anticipated. But mid-May to mid
August is the fire season. Henry
says that forest fires arc caused
by lightning snd by csrelesa camp
See ALASKA TRIP, Pig* 2
How Much Does It Cost?
Occasionally we ire asked, "How
much does It cost to 0ut an article
about a birthday party in the
paper?" or "How much does it
coat to put a picture in the paper?"
The anawer ia "Nothing."
If you would like to ace in the
paper an article about a bridge
party, an honor that hia come to
your son or daughter or a picture
taken on your vacation, that'a the
kind of information that makes a
newspaper*? and it coats you noth
ing to "get it in th? papai" ex
cept the small amount o ( effort
required to pick up the phone aod
give us the facta.
If you have a picture, bring or
?40 it to THE Nt WS-TOIM. Hm
picture of course, should be clear
and distinct. A good snapshot is
fine.
At one time it was necessary to
make a charge (or pictures. But
in the interest of bringing you a
better newspaper ? at so added
coat to the subscriber ? THE
NEWS-TIMES for many months
has had its owa "picture-making"
equipment, making possible our
"no charge" policy.
This enables us to bring you up
to-dste news pictures of local hap
penings as well as other pictures
of interest.
You can buy ada and you can
buy the paper from the newsboy
or at the oewsstast? but news if
(twftkt Cditar.
Roma Willis, Beaufort,
Gets Jail Term for Assault
Three Hurt Thursday Morning
In Wreck on Beach Bridge
Three persons, ali in the Marine 4
Corps, were injured in an accident
at 12:15 a.m. yesterday on the At
lantic Beach bridge north of the
drawspan.
Pvt. Richard S. Mollo, Cherry
Point, suffered a back injury; Don
na V. Kittle, Women's Reserve,
Cherry Point, was thrown out of a
car and suffered brush burns on
her back and arms; Nora Ballard,
WR, Cherry Point, was thrown
against a windshield and suffered
a cut lip and skinned knees.
Mollo was in a 1953 Ford driven
by Robert K. Huiskins, Cherry
Point. The two women were in a
1955 Ford convertible driven by
Howard Eugene Talbott, Cherry
Point. Both men were headed to
ward Morehcad City.
Patrolman R. II. Brown said
Huiskins was proceeding across
the bridge at about 35 miles an
hour when Talbott, who was rac
ing with another carload of Ma
rines, came up behind him. Tal
bott pulled out to pass, but then
had to pull back into his own line
of traffic. Thai's when ho collided
with the Huiskins car.
He has been charged with driv
ing drunk, careless and reckless
driving, racing and speeding at 85
miles an hour. Witnesses described
the car he was racing with and
that car was stopped at the main
gate at Cherry Point.
Patrolman Brown said charges
will be filed against the driver of
that car. Damage to the 1953 Ford
was estimated at $150; to the con
vertible, $300.
The injured were taken to the
Morehcad City Hospital in the Bell
and Munden and the Dill ambu
lances. They were treated there
and transferred to the hospital at
Cherry Point.
Six Appear
In Beach Court
Six defendants appeared before
Mayor A. B. Cooper in Atlantic
Beach court Monday night.
Cecil Adolph Davis Jr., Sneads
Ferry, was restricted from the
beach for six months. He was also
fined 15 and costs for aiding and
abetting in buying beer for a
minor.
The following were fined $5 and
costs: Norman D. Kemmer, Cher
ry Point, public drunkenness and
using profane language; James M.
Ransel and Joseph Lee Gresko,
Camp Lejeune, disorderly conduct
and disturbing the peace; James
F. Slcler, public drunkenness and
use of profane language.
Johnny McLawhorn, Vanceboro,
paid costa for public drunkenneas.
Harkers Island
School to Open
At 9 A.M. Sept. 2
Harkers Island School win open
at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning Sept.
2, announces Mrs. Emma Wade,
principal.
All first graders who have not
already registered at a pre school
clinic should bring their birth cer
tificates with them. School will be
in session a half day oo the open
ing day. With the beginning of a
full-day schedule Sept. 3, lunch
will be served In the cafeteria.
Pupils are to report to the rooms
to which they have been promoted.
Mrs. Wade expects that the en
rollment this year may be slightly
more than the 265 enrolled last
year. The same faculty members
will return.
(Information on other schools in
the county appeara in the tabloid
Back-to-School section of today's
paper).
'Gator Washes Inshore
A curious lad wiggles the forefoot of a 15 -foot alligator found In
Uir surf off Club Colony Sunday. (Photo by Jamei C. Bcgg).
Boys swimming at Club Colony
Sunday afternoon about 5:30 saw
something about 500 feet out from
shore. It looked like a body with
its arms sticking up in the air.
They swam out and found a
mammoth alligator. In his prime
he must have been about 15 feet
long, but sharks had had a fine
meal ? his back legs and much of
his tail were gone.
The body was brought in to the
beach by the boys. It Uy ju?t east
of the Dunes Club and attracted
practically all the residents of Club
Colony.
One of the boys extracted the
teeth to give them to youngsters
as souvenirs. Some of the teeth
measured 3 inches long. It was
not known how the alligator met
death.
Walter Yeomans Death
Recalls Heroism in '05
By F. C. SALISBURY
Recalled to memory, by the
passing of wilier M Yeomans,
Harkcrs Island, on Aug. 9, 1958, is
the story of one of the most heroic
acts of life-saving to ever occur
on the Carolina coast. The death
of Mr. Yeomans leaves but one
survivor of this gallant crew of
nine Coast Guard men, James W.
Fulcher of Stacy. The nine men,
for 28 hours battled the breakers
nine miles southeast of Cape Look
out, saving the crew of six from
the schooner, Sarah D. J. Rawson,
Feb. ?, 1905.
For this meritorious service the
government awarded to the mem
bers of this crew, William ii. Gas
kill, keeper;
surfmen Kilby
Guthrie, John A.
Guthrie, Joseph
L. Lewis, Wal
ter M. Yeomans,
James W. Ful
eher, Calput T.
Jarvis, John E.
Kirkman and
Tyre Moore, ela
borate gold me
dals of honor,
the highest giv
cn ior sucn avis ui vuiui vcjwin
the call of duty.
Waller Yeomtni
?.IA.
The Rawson, carrying a crew of
j seven, including the m a s t e r,
stranded on Ix>okout shoals during
foggy weather. She was discovered
by the lookout from the tower of
the station about noon, when the
fog lifted sufficiently to make vis
ible one of the topmasts of the
schooner.
Under oars and sail, the life
boat reached the scene about 4
o'clock, there to battle the heavy
sea until the afternoon of the next
day, when the sea had calmed
enough for a line to reach the
schooner. By this line the six
nearly-drowned sailors were pulled
into the surf boat. One member
of the crew lost his life when
washed overboard.
Norwood Gaskill
Suffers Heat Stroke
Norwood "Sandspur" Gaskill,
Beaufort, had a heat stroke while
working on the railroad between
Morehead City and Beaufort at
2:40 p.m. Tuesday
AUen Conway, Glenn Adair and
Tommy Willis took Mr. Gaskill to
the Morehead City hospital in the
Beaufort Fire Department rescue
truck. He was still in the hospital
yesterday afternoon.
Driver Confesses He Was
Involved in Sunday Wreck
Milton Thomas Pratt, Morehead
City, appeared at the sheriff's of
fice, Beaufort. Tueijiay morning
and said that he was driver of the
car which collided with a 1996
Mercury at 1 a.m. Sunday four
miles west of Sea Level on high
way 70.
Injured in the accident was Ches
ley R. Sabiston, Williston, driver
of the Mercury.
Patrolman J W. Sykes said yes
terday that Pratt read of the acci
dent in Tuesday's NEWS-TIMES
iikI that'* why he went to the
sheriff.
He told Patrolman W. E. Pick
ard, who was on duty Tuesday,
that he stopped his car, a 1952
Mercury, and Sabiston was the one
who didn't stop.
According to the report by Pa
trolman Sykes Immediately after
tb? fitMf'im was
we?t, the other car east. With Sa
biaton waa Royce Fake. When the
two stdeswiped, Sabiston lost con
trol. Pake managed to get hold of
the steering wheel and kept the
car from running into a ditch.
Then Pake turned the car and
took Sabiaton back to the Sea Level
Hospital where he wai treated for
a broken arm.
On the way back to the hospital,
no other car was seen.
Pratt said that he had with him
in his car his wife, Cora Lee, and
Alton Gaskill, Beaufort RFD, own
er of the car.
The left side of the '52 Mercury
was damaged. The only clue offi
cers had as to the car t^at col
lided with the Sabiaton vehicle
were light blue marks on the aide
of Sabiston's car. Pratt'i car la
light blue. IU left aide waa dam
aged.
Charge* are pending.
Judge Lambert R. Morris
yesterday afternoon sen
tenced Roma Willis, Orange
Street, Beaufort, to six
months on the roads for as
saulting an 8-year-old girl.
The sentence was handed
down five minutes after the
judge heard the evidence in
the case.
Willis, who was represented by
Harvey Hamilton Jr., attorney, did
not take the stand. He has 10 days
in which to note an appeal.
The assault took place, accord
ing to the state's evidence, be
tween 11 a.m. and noon Friday,
June 27, at the south end of Turner
Street, Beaufort, next to the Co
lonial Store.
The child assaulted was the first
witness called to the stand (her
name is not used to protect her
from undue attention brought
about by circumstances over which
she and her parents had no control
? namely, the assault).
Man Comes to Car
She said that while she was in
the car waiting for her mother to
come from shopping for groceries,
a man she later identified as Willis,
came up to her and asked her who
she was.
She told the court that he told
her, "You're such a pretty litUe
girl," and put his arms around her
and kissed her. He left the car and
came back the second time and
told her the same thing, told her
where he lived and asked her to
ride her bicycle around to see him.
She testified that he smelled like
he was drinking. When he finaUy
left, he got in his car, which was
parked a short distance away and
drove off. She identified it as a
black and white Ford. She testi
fied that "Uie man" frightened her
when he kissed her.
Mother Return!
The child's mother next took the
stand. She said that her car was
parked diagonally on Turner Street
while she went to the Colonial
Store. When she came back with
her groceries, she said her daugh
ter met her, crying.
She said the was crying so hard
that she couldn't get her to tell her
what had happened at first Final
ly, she told her mother that a man
had gotten in the car and hugged
and kissed her.
She said she did not know the
man but described him as having
"sores" all over his (ace, that he
wore glasses and had gray hair.
She said she didn't know what
to do, but she told her husband
when he came home and they noti
fied the police. The mother testi
fied that her daughter was scared
and frightened by the man (Willis)
but said that he didn't try to hurt
her.
Chief Testifies
Guy Springle, Beaufort police
chief, corroborated the mother's
testimony, adding that the child,
at the sheriffs office that night,
identified Willia as the man who
got in the car with her.
The chief said that Willis ad
mitted being in the Beaufort Bar
that morning about the same time
the assault took place. The bar
ia located on Turner Street, Just
behind the Colonial Store. He de
nied, however, having been near
the girl.
Sheriff Hugh Salter, on the wit
ness stand, said that Willis ad
mitted being in the area, and that
he had had a beer. He admitted
seeing the girl but aald he "never
touched her".
Mr. Hamilton read Supreme
Court decisions which he cited at
having bearing on the case, and
asked for dismissal of the charges
on the grounds that Willis's actions
did not constitute an assault
The attorney told the Judge that
he didn't know whether Willis
hugged and kissed the child or
not. "but if he did." he added, "I
can't condone it"
Willis was in court on a similar
charge several years ago but was
not convicted. Prosecuting the
case for the parents and the state
was C. R. Wheatly, attorney.
Thomas S. Bennett Cited
After Auto Accident
Thomas S. Bennett, 23. Moreheid
City, wis cited for driving too
fast (or existing road conditions at
5:45 p.m. Sunday when the 1956
Chevrolet he was driving skidded
on a curve and went Into a ditch.
According to C. C. Jones, high
way patrolman who investigated,
Bennett was headed east on high
way 70 when the accident occur
red just west of the Carteret-Cra
ven line. There was a heavy drizzle
at the time.
Damage to the ear was esti
mated at $250.
Pays |M, Costs
Doie Henderson, Bogue, . waa
taken off a Seashore bus at the boa
garage Wednesday night la Beau
tort Chief G?y Springle said Hen
derson way drunk and wouldn't
leave the bu?. He was fined *10
and coat* to caul yeaUnUy.