:~r CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
47th YEAR, NO. 75. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Woman Held for Husband's Murder
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Chief deputy sheriff Bobby Bell bolis the 416 gauge shotgun Mrs. Louis Mattingl.v used to kill her
husband after he threatened to kill her and her children Monday night. T/Sgt. Jim SUllarty, left. Cherry
Point, holds shot patterns he ma'de with tie shotgun -at close range. On the right Is CWO Harold Haught,
Cherry Point.
Pictured above it the home occupied hjr Mr. and Mr*. Maltingly prior to the fatal shooting. Mra. Mat
tlngly's relatives came from Havelock Tuesday to bam the bloody bedclothes and close the house.
County Contacts
Bond Attorneys
Bond attorneys in New York
have been notified that Carteret
County commissioners have called
for a referendum on issuing school
bonds.
The attorneys will draw up the
proper form for advertising the
issue. It will stipulate how the
money is proposed to be spent. H.
L. Joslyn. county superintendent
of schools, said that 40 days must
lapse between the first publication
of the legal notice and the day of
the referendum.
Thus, the date of the referendum
will remain indefinite until the
bond attorneys supply the proper
form for the legal notice.
Accompanying Mr. Joslyn and
Moaes Howard, chaitman of the
board of county commissioners, to
Raleigh Monday to confer with
personnel of the Local Government
Commission relative to the bond
issue, were George Wallace, mem
ber of the county board of educa
tion, and J. D. Potter, county ac
countant.
Negro Handy Man Found
Dead at County Fair
James Ernest Mapp, 26. was dis
covered dead at 2:30 p.m. Wed
nesday in a booth at the county
fair. Mapp, from Tasley, Va., was
a handy man with the show.
Sheriff Hugh Salter reports that
Mapp was found lying on a cot and
waa dead of natural causea. B ar
row's funeral home picked up the
body and prepared it for shipment
to Virginia.
Enlist la Nary
Martin Henry Smith and John
Marvin Paeson, both a t route 1
Morehead City, enlisted In the
Navy la* week. Tbey will take
basic training at Great Lakei, m.,
and will return home on leave at
the coaplettoa at traialag.
Cloudy Skies Fail
To Produce Rain
Weather observer Stamey Davis
reports temperatures in the high
80 s during the first part of this
week. While skies were cloudy
early in the week, the predicted
rain never fell.
The mercury dipped to a low of
<7 early Monday morning but since
that time summer temperatures
have prevailed. Maximum and
minimum temperatures and wind
direction follow:
Max. Min. Wind
Monday 87 67 NE
Tuesday 81 75 SW
Wednesday 88 78 "SW
Croestiei Bunl
Old crossties stacked by the rail
road track across from the state
port, Morehead City, caught (it*
at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.. Morehead
City firemen, who said the fire
probably caught from a cigarette
thrown from a passing car, kad the
blaze out in 20 minutes.
Civifan Club Will
Receive Charter
The Morehead City Civitan Club
will receive its charter at charter
night ceremonies tomorrow night
at the Morehead Biltmore. Dinner
will be served at 7 p.m.
Members of the New Bern Club
who organized the Morehead City
Club will attend.
New members who joined at the
Friday noon meeting at Captain
Bill's Restaurant are Bernard Mor
ton, Jim Eubanks, Bill Willis and
Walton Hamilton. Because of char
ter night, the club will not meet
far luncheon today.
Roper Van Horn was named ser
geapt-at-arma at last week's meet
ing. Jimmy Wallace, president,
presided.
Any man who joins the club prior
to charter night will be considered
a charter member. The club meets
at noon Fridays.
Well, Is It or Isn't It?
It has been rumored that the
new well in Beaufort, drilled by
the Carolina Water Cp., has been
connected and water is being
pumped from it.
Dan Walker, town manager of
Beaufort, when contacted by THE
NEWS-TIMES relative to the
well, said that C. W. Williams,
water company manager, took
him and Mayor C. T. Lewis out
to the pump house "some day
last week, I can't remember
when, aad lie said that the well
had been connected (or a couple
weeks."
Mr. Walker said that there was
still some work to be done there
and he didn't know when It would
be done, "Probably next year
some time," he added. (Mr. W?l
ker later recalled that be and
the mayor were taken to Jbe
pump house Ffidayf.
Mr. Williams, after the well
was fint drilled, promised that
he would notify THE MEWS '
TIMES when the new well was
connected. Realizing that Mr.
Williams is a busy man, THE
NEWS-TIMES would occasional
ly call the water company office
throughout the summer to check,
thinking that perhaps the well
bad been connected.
Frequently, Mr. Williams was
not there and messages were
left for him to call the newspa
per. He seldom returned the call.
At one point, after the well was
first drilled. Mr. Williama said
that all he'd have to do was an
nounce that the well was hooked
up, aven though it wasn't, and
the people would vow they never
bad such wonderful water I
Maybe the well ia connected
and naybe it isn't. If it is, we're
rare Mr. Williams is a man of
Integrity aid will live up to his
promise to announce completion
at tfce work.
Mrs. Louis Mattingly
. . . bears Jury report
Marine Posts Bond, Asks
For Superior Court Trial
Thomas A. Beaver, USMC, ap-4
pealed to superior eourt in More
head City recorder's court Mon
day. He was found guilty of oc
cupying a room in the Broadway
Motel, Morehead City, for im
moral purposes, fined $50 and
costs.
Judge Herbert Phillips found
probable cause in another case
charging Beaver with theft of a
tv set. Andrew Davis, proprietor
of the motel, said that a tv set
was missing from the motel room
after it had been occupied by Bea
ver and a woman friend.
Witnesses testifying for the state
were Mr. Davis and Capt. Carl
Bunch of the Morehead City po
lice department. Beaver claimed
that neither he nor his friend took
the tv. Captain Bunch said that
the tv has not been recovered. Mr.
Davis $aid the set was a new one
and had been in the room only a
couple weeks before it was stolen.
Beaver's bond was set at $250
for each case.
Also posting bonds for superior
court trials were I'ierson Willis,
Beaufort, and Carlton Pittman,
Morehead City.
Posts $500 Bond
Willis, convicted for assaulting
Sammy Pollard and George
Saiecd, had been fined $50 and
costs on each case. His bond to
taled $500.
Pittman was convicted of his
fifth and sixth offenses of public
drunkenness within a year. He
posted $250 bond in each case after
hearing the judge sentence hitn to
a year in jail.
Bcrklin M. Snyder paid $100 and
costs for careless and reckless
driving. Three defendants were
taxed court costs. They were Eu
gene R. Roberts, Greenville, fail
ure to wear required glasses while
driving; James E. Milby, Cherry
Point, speeding; and Johti N. Cox,
Goldsboro, running a red light.
Forfeit Bonds
Dan W. Duke, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
and Jan R. Raposa, Camp Lejeune.
forfeited cash bonds. Duke bad
been charged with running a red
light and Raposa had been charged
with running a stop sign.
A final judgment was entered
against a $35 bond put up by At
lantic Bonding Co. for Richard
Lee Manning.
The state elected not to try Ly
dia Bratcher, Morehead City, on
a public ? drunkenness charge due
to lack of evidence.
Judge Phillips arrested judgment
in the case of John "A. Manning
Jr., who was taxed one-haif costs
for allowing another person to use
his driver's license. Manning was
tried in the June 2 court session.
Cases were continual against
Louis G. Casper, Horace Jones,
James Brake and Lydia P. Grady
Tide Table
(Eastern Standard Time)
Tldei at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Sept. It
12:37 a.m. 6:37 a m
1:08 p.m. 7:34 p.m.
Saturday, Sept 28
1:38 a.m. 7:S1 a.m.
2:08 p-m. 8:45 p.m.
Soday, Sept 21
2:40 a.m. 9:08 a.m.
3:08 p.m. 9:47 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 22
3:44 a.m. 10:gg a.m.
4:10 p.m. 10:4J y.*.
Marines Injured
In Auto Wreck
John Howard Gibson and Charles
F. Howe, Camp Lejrune Marines,
were injured when the 1955 Olds
mobile Cfib6on was driving '
smashed into the south end of the
Atlantic Beach bridge. The acci
dent, investigated by highway pa
trolman Robert U. Brown, oc
curred at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday.
Gibson's right leg was broken,
several of his teeth were knocked
out and he was cut by flying glass,
patrolman Brown stated. Howe's
condition was not so serious as
his injuries were limited to lacera
tions of the face and legs. The
car was completely demolished.
Witnesses to the accident told
the patrolman that Gibson
"scratched off" at Dom El's and
headed for Morehead City at a
high rate of speed. Just as he got
to the bridge Gibson spotted ano
ther car only a short distance
ahead.
Gibson swerved to the left to
miss the car, his Oldsmobile
swerved back and forth several
limes, then went across the left
shoulder of the road and hit the
left end of the bridge.
Patrolman Brown says charges
are pending Both men were car
ried to the hospital before he com
pleted the invert: Ration.
Coroner Sets $6,000 Bond
For Mrs. Louis Mattingly
Despite her testimony that her husband threatened to kill her and her two
children if she didn't kill him first, Mrs. Louis Mattingly, route 2 Newport, was
ordered held for grand jury action after a coroner's jury heard evidence in
the fatal shooting of Marine Sgt. Louis Mattingly at an inquest conducted by
Coroner Leslie Springle at the courthouse Tuesday night. The coroner released
the woman under a $6,000 bond until the grand jury meets Nov. 3.
According to testimony presented at the inquest, Mrs. Mattingly shot and killed her
husband about 11:50 p.m. Monday, following a prolonged argument between the cou
ple. Mrs. Mattingly testified that her husband was "drunk enough to act crazy" when
she shot him. She admitted that Mattingly wax still in bed when she picked up the gun
but did not remember a thing after that until she had left the house.
Man Breaks Gun
On Neighbor's
Head in Fight
Edgar Lewis, I.oup Road. Broad
Crock, broke a 12-guagc shotgun
over the hood of his neighbor
Boycc llill Wednesday evening.
Another neighbor, Charles Webb,
camp home from work at 6 p.m. J
and found the two men silting in I
his front yard, lie called chicf
deputy sheriff Bobby Bell.
Deputies Bell and Bruce Ed
wards and constable George Smith i
went to Broad Creek and found the
men still sitting in Webb's front
yard Hill's scalp was laid open J
and he was "a bloody muss" ac
cording to deputy Bell.
Sitting on Ground
"Both men had been drinking
but neither was really drunk," he
continued. "When we drove up
Ihey were sitting on the ground
talking just as friendly as they
eould be.'"
Th? law officers took Hill to the
hospital in Morehead City, where
Dr. Milton Morey sewed up the cut
on his head and had x-rays taken
to check for a possible fracture.
Dr. Morey indicated that Hill
would he let out of the hospital
yesterday afternoon.
Hill was scheduled to join Lewis
in the county jail until deputy Bell
could complete his investigation of
the fray. "All I know now is that
Lewis clobbered Hill on the head
with the barrel of a single shot 12
guagc shotgun in Mr. Webb's yard.
Admits Assanlt
"Lewis readily admits that much.
Maybe after talking to both of
them I can get the full story on
what really went on," deputy Bell
continued. "I carried that shotgun
lo the car in my arms like it was
a stack of kindling," be concluded.
Lewis has a prior court record
while Hill declares that he has
never been in trouble before. Both
men are about 40 years old, accord
ing to deputy Bell.
? S.'Sgt. Donald II. Korsak, the first witness at the inquest,
testified that Mrs. Mattingly woke him and his wife at
11:55 p.m. She was hysterical, wearing nothing but a
night gown and carrying a small child in her arms.
The womun told Korsak that she had shot her husband
and asked him to go see if he could help him. At hearing
that, Korsak went next door and got another neighbor,
T Sgt. Richard YV. Parker, to go with him to help the in
jured man.
The (wo men went Into the house
and found Mattingly crumpled up
on the bed. They cheeked him and
could find no pulse so left every
thing else untouched.
Korsak described the scene for
the jury, saying that Mattingly was
wearing his tec shirt and shorts.
He was doubled up on his left side
with his left hand clutching a
wound a few inches under his
heart. t
When asked if he could smell al
cohol, Korsak testified that all he
cOUld smell was gun powder. The
shooting had occurred in a small
bedroom, about 9x12.
Korsak and Parker went back to
Korsak's house where Mrt-llatting
ly was crying about her boy, Tom
my. He waa still in tb? Mattingly
houae so Korsak went back to get
"isimmy. T, te Mr.. MaMnglj V
son by * previous marriage to the
late Thomas W .Simmons of Have
lock. The infant Mrs. Mattingly
had tn her arms was three-month
oid Ranie Diane.
Gun Is Discovered
Korsak said he and Parker found
the gun leaning against the front
door facing in the living room. It
was a Savage over and under. Law
officers later revealed that the gun
contained one spent shotgun shell
and one live round of .22 calibre
ammunition.
Parker's testimony was basically
the same as Korsak's. He did say
that he had been awake prior to
the shooting and had heard the
shot from his house.
Neither Parker nor Korsak laid
they knew the Mattingly's well
since they had moved into the com
munity only a short while before.
They did say, however, that in the
time they had been living there the
See HUSBAND, Page 2
Dr. F. Crossley Morgan to Lead
Bible Conference in Morehead City
Dr. F. Crossley Morgan of Con
cord, N. C., will arrive tomorrow
afternoon to open a Bible confer
ence at 11 Sunday morning at the
First Presbyterian Church. The
Bible Conference will continue
through next Sunday with services
cach day and night except Satur
day.
All evening services will be held
at the First Methodist Church at
7:30. From Monday through Fri
day services will be held at the
First Presbyterian Church at 10:00
a.m. Both services on Sunday,
September 28th, will be held at
First Methodist Church.
Dr. Morgan, a native of London,
England, ia the son of the late G.
Campbell Morgan, who in his day
was the world's outstanding Bible
conference leader. The gifted son
is following in the footsteps of His
father. He spends all his time con
ducting Bible conferences through
out the United States and Europe.
He is beginning his autumn sche
dule that will carry him into many
states of the nation.
Dr. Morgan led the Bible confer
ence in More head City two year*
ago and the people of the city are
looking forward to his return at
this time. Mrs. Morgan will ac
company her husband to Morehead
City They will stay at Bud Dixon'a
Motel. The public la cordially in
vited to all services ti the con
ference.
Dr. Morgan's topic for the Sun
day morning service at tbe First
Presbyterian Church will be Tbe
Look of Anger ia the Eye* of
See POLE CONPE&ENCE, Fa* I
Dr. r.
County Board,
Engineers Meet
The county board of commission
ers met at the courthousc Wednes
day night to hear proposala from
the Army Corps of Engineers. Col.
W. K. Shaffer, deputy district en
gineer, Corps of Engineers. Wil
mington District, and Cecil W.
Henderson met with the commis
sioners.
Colonel Shaffer explained two
dredging projects in the county. He
said that the engineers were ready
to dredge ? basin at Pelletier
Creek Just west ?( Morehead City
M?W>n as local residents built a
public pier and put a road from
the highway to the piers.
The other project has been com
pleted at Sleepy Creek, Marshall
berg. The trouble there. Colonel
Shaffer explained, is that the dock
ing facilities are too crowded. The
engineers are asking residents of
Marshallberg to enlarge the exiat
ing facilities.
Others present were Moses How
ard, chairman of the board, com
missioners Harrell Taylor, Gaston
Smith and David Yeomans, county
auditor James Potter, county at
torney Alvah Hamilton and Odell
Merrill, clerk to the board.
207 Students
Enroll Late
After 10 dijri of school, enroll
ment In public schools in the coun
ty totals 8,212, id increase of 207
over opening day figures. Beau
fort and Morehead City schools ac
counted for a good percentage of
the increase.
Beaufort grammar grades in
creased from 896 on opening day
to 932 this week. The high school
jumped from 285 to 290. Morehead
City High School students in
creased from 421 to 430 and gram
mar grade students increased from
734 to 749. Camp Glenn enrollment
jumped from M2 to (66.
Other schools in the county, with
their opening day and present en
rollments, follow:
Newport. 753-767; Atlantic, 413
429; Smyrna, 543-546; Harkera
Island. 267-269; Queen Street. 582
626; W. S. King, 383 420; and Stel
la 66-84.
St. Egbert'! Catholic School,
Morehead City, reports an enroll
ment of 101 students.
Development Meeting
To be Held Monday Night
Persona interested In the devel
opment of Beaufort and the Car
teret area will meet at 7:30 Mon
day night at the courthouse, Beau
fort, announces W. H. Potter.
At the first meeting to discuss
development plana, held at the
Scout building Sept 8. Mr Potter
appointed 4 committee which haa
drawn up a proposed plan of or
ganization. This will be discussed
at the coming meeting.
Those who attended the first
meeting have been aaked to bring
Monday night another interested
person.
RwcytlHi HcM
Col. Ray Murray, new chief of
staff at Camp Lejenne, waa guest
of honor at an informal reception
and coffee hour at the Sanitary
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