ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES . . 47th YEAR, NO. 84. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Police Catch Three Men Near Tackle Shop Photo by Reginald Lewto Lt. Joe Smith, Morehead City police department, frisks Thomas J. Casey, Camp Lejeune Marine, after he was arrested in Morehead City Thursday night. Impostor Nabbed Early Yesterday In the county jail yesterday was Tom Parrish. 31, Galax, Va., who is wanted in High Point on charges of passing bad checks. Deputy sheriff Bobby Bell ar rested Parrish at a Morehead City hotel at 2:30 a.m. yesterday. The deputy said he was registered un der the name of Bill Thomas. Parrish was being held yester day for High Point authorities. Ac cording to deputy Bell, Parrish was selling furniture as a factory rep resentative for Bill Thomas of High Point and Wyatt Exum of Galax. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Exam came to Carteret early Sunday morning, carrying two warrants for Parrish. The warrants, charg ing him with passing worthless checks, were turned over to deputy Bell. The officer, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Exum went to the hotel where they woke Parrish. Parrish admitted, deputy Bell said, that he had posed as "Bill Thomas." He calm ly got dressed, went to jail. Newport PTA to Hear Program on Civil Defense A 30-minute movie on Civil De fense will be shown at 7:30 tonight at the Newport Parent-Te?cher meeting at the school. Among the speakers on Civil De fense will be John Valentine, county director; the Rev. John Cline, Beaufort; Dr. John W. Gal ney, Morehead City, and Stewart Daniels, Smyrna. All will speak on a phase of the CD program. Grain Shipment Today? If weather permits, 7,500 tons of corn will be put aboard the Trinity at Morehead City port today. Rain during the past three days has also delayed work on the new grain loaders. Three Camp Lejeune Marines were apprehended by Lt. Joe Smith and Sgt. Bill Condic of the More head City police force Thursday night after they broke a window at Jay's Tackle Shop, Evans Street, Morehead City The three, James M. Ginas, Thomas J. Casey and Bobby R. Murphy, all of Camp Lejeune, were tried in Morehead City recorder's court yesterday. Glnas and Murphy were charged with damage to personal property, disorderly conduct, loud and pro fane language and were fined flO and costs. Casey, who was found guilty on those counts aa well as resisting arrest, paid $25 and costs. Judge Herbert Phillips ordered them also to pay for replacing the window they broke. Lieutenant Smith said J, ,C. Simmons, owner and manager of 'Uo^Xafekl* Shop, was is flfc ihop when he heard the window, oti the 5th Street side, crash at about 10:30 p.m. He ran out and saw the Ma rines, all of them in fatigues. He chased them west on Evans Street toward Captain Bill's. At Capt. Bill's he phoned the po lice. Lieutenant Smith, with Ser geant Condie, who was not official ly on duty, went after the Marines who had hidden behind the produce stand at Arendell and 7th Streets. The officers took them to the po lice station and took from Casey a fire axe that had been used to break the window. They said that all three, who were on temporary duty at the port, had been drinking. Officer Checks Two Accidents State highway patrolmen inves tigated two accidents between 11 p.m. and midnight Saturday. At 11 p.m. 25 feet south of the Jones-Carteret line on the Mays ville-Stella road a 1953 Podge smashed into two asphalt-laying machines. Driving the car, accord ing to patrolman J. W. Sykes, w-as Clarence Leo Melton, USN, sta tioned at Norfolk. Melton was headed south. The patrolman said the machines had Dares around them. The car was demolished and th? driver slightly shall en up H? said ha wm going about 50 miles an hour in ? heavy rain. The accident happened just south of the bridge. Melton has been charged with careless and reckless driving, driv ing too fast for existing conditions and driving without a license. At 11:55 p.m. on highway 24 east of Gales Creek a car driven by Wiley Stallings, Newport, skidded and turned over. Patrolman Sykcs said Stallings was headed east. In the car with Stallings were Avon Millis, Kenneth Brown and Troy Garner, all of Newport. They were treated at the Morehead City Hospital. The car was a total loss. Mayor Proclaims UN Week Mayor C. T. Lewis, Beaufort, has proclaimed this week as United Nations Week. In the proclamation setting aside this period, Mayor Lewis commented on the founding pur pose of the UN, "to save suc ceeding generations from the scourge of war." The UN,. Mayor Lewis contin ued, has been successful in re storing peace to many troubled areas of the world and has done much to relieve suffering among the unfortunate. The mayor remarked that the future effectiveness of the UN "depends in large measure upon the support given it by the Amer ican people." Since an informed public can best serve the desire of all men for peace, freedom, and Justice under law, be re quests that everyone inform him self fully concerning the United Nations. Hundredth Ship Docks Saturday; Erlangen Loads Leaf for Germany The Holland-American Er for the state port, Morel marked the first time that i cial vessels have called at t dar year. Mayor George Dill heac welcoming delegation cor town's leading citizens. Thi gen's master, Capt. A. Jac< Port operations manager W the mayor who introduced th< presented Captain Jacobs wit The key was engraved : Capt 100th Ship, 1958. 4. new racket*? Eugene Espy, Morehead City, is circulating a petition to be sent to the postoffice department. The petition requests that the department have a postal Inspec tor check on the activities of a door to-door book salesman. Mr. Espy says that the man has accepted money tor books to be delivered, then sent a form letter to his customers saying that he is temporarily sold out but will make delivery "as soon as possible". According to Mr. Espy the salesman made a sweep through Morehead City in February and sent the letters out in March. The man's only address ia a New Bern postoffice box number. Anyooe who haa had a similar experience is asked to contact Mr. Eapy at hia home in Mitchell Village and sign the petition. 2-Year-Old Boy Struck by Car William Ray Dingess, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Billio Ray Dingess, Broad Creek, was discharged from the Morehead City Hospital yes terday after being treated for in juriei he received when (truck by a car at 4:35 p.m. Friday. According to patrolman J. W Sykes, the child ran in front of a car in front of the Broad Creek Church of GoA Driving the car, a 1953 Ford, wai Thomas M. Gar ner, route 1 Newport. He took the child to the hoapital. The boy had cuts and a head in jury. In the pedestrian accident last Wednesday, Lathan Sweatt, IS, Beaufort RFD, suffered ? bro ken leg. Sweatt was struck at 3:45. p.m. on highway 70 four miles east of Beaufort. Patrolman Sykes said the car was driven by Benjamin G. Borcn, Sarasota, Fla. Sweatt. he said, had gotten out of ? car ahead of Boren, walked behind it to crou the road and did not see the car Boren was driving. No charges were filed against the driver in either case. langen was skip No. 100 lead City, this year. It as many as 100 commtr he port in any ona ca I en led Saturday morning a nposed of some of the ?y visited with the Irlan >bs of Hamburg. alter Friederichs introduced s other visitors. Mayor Dill ,h a key to Morehead City. . A. Jacobs, MV Erlangen, During refreshments, the group itscuased the progress of the port ind the interest in port develop nent shown by Holland-American Ljnea The Erlangen has called at he Morehead City port 12 timet ilnce she was commissioned two rears and nine months ago. Captain Jacobs, who has been naater of the Erlangen since she vas christened, told a brief history if hit ship. She was built in Ham turg with work beginning in May 9S5. She was completed in Jan lary 1956. The Erlangen was named for a ierman town. Germans have a ;r*at interest in maritime trade, le pointed out, and towns and cities ompete to have their names on hips. Tkf Erlangen, a freighter, his uxurioui pa?sengcr accommoda ion a for 12. She carries passengers >etwoen New York and Hamburg inly. The Erlangen, as usual, stopped n Morehead City to pick up to >acco for Germany. Captain Jacobs omplimented the Morehead City ongahorrmen on the efficient way hey handled his cargo. TW growth M the port is a mat er of personal pride to a great lumber al Morehead1 City rtal tenta, some of whan solicited trade or Hie port at their own expense. Five years ago only 23 commer ial ahlps called at state port. The onnage was 1*2,137 tans. In the 'ear ending June 30, 19S6, 64 cotn nercial ships accounted for 297,397 ons. The report for the year end ng June 30, 1957, ahowed (2 com nercial ships snd 311,331 tons| Continuing the steady increase, he report for the past year is 117 commercial ships and 332,797 tons if cargo. Business at the port has >een so good that a new warehouse arith 100,000 square feet of storage space is being built. There are already two ware louses with M.OOO square feet of irea and three transit sheds with 132,000 square feet of storage area. In addition to the storage facilities, lie port now has grain loaders, a nodcrn tobacco fumigation plant ind a trunkline railroad. Southern Railway. Visiting Captain Jacobs aboard he Erlangen, besides the mayor, vere Dr. B. F. Royal, a veteran >romoter of the port; Lockwood Phillips and Bob Seymour of THE MEWS -TIMES, W. B. chalk, P. H. leer Jr., and J. A. DuBois of the chamber of commerce; Mrs. Wil iam Davis of the Morehead City Shipping Co., and D. G. Bell, coun y legislator. Photos by Bob Seymour This group ot Morehead City business and civic leaders greeted Capt. A. Jacobs, second from left, master ot the Erlangen, lOflth commercial ship to dock at Morehcad City this year. Pictured, left to right, are Mayor George DUI, Capt. Jacobs, Joe DuBois, Dr. B. F. Koyal, Lockwood Phillips, W. B. Chalk, P. H. Geer Jr., and D. G. Bell. T Mayor George Dill, left, gets a good M at the Holland-American Lines flag aboard the Erlangen. Capt. A. Jacobs tells the mayor and other (Mats Ike significance of the flag With the Armed Forces Ronnie S. Ross, Stella, Serves on Columbus Subic Bay, P. I.? Ronnie S. Ross, boilerman third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer R. Ross of Stella, is serving aboard the heavy cruiser USS Columbus which ar rived at Subic Bay in the Philip pines Oct. 3 (or minor repairs, and rest and recreation (or the crew, while on a cruise in the Western Pacific. The Columbus, flagship ot Com mander Cruiser Division Three, is a unit o( the US Seventh Fleet in the Far East. Since mid-July, the heavy cruiser has made brie( stops at Hawaii, Guam, Tawian, and Ja pan. Army Pvt. William L. Sutton, son o( Griselda Cotton o( Morehead City, has recently completed his MP schooling it Fort Gordon, Ga ' He is a 1953 graduate of Smyrna High School. , He entered the Army May 21 c and received his basic training at ^ Fort Jackson, S. C. For his new t assignment he will go to Texas. t Great Lakes, 111? Glenn Phillips, ' ?on of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Phillips of Stella, graduated from rccruit [ training Sept. 20 at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 1U. The graduation exercises, mark- t ing the ends of nine weeks of 1 "boot camp", included a full dress 1 parade and review before military [ officials and civilian dignitaries. In nine weeks of instruction, the ii "raw recruit" is developed into a I Navy Bluejacket, ready for duty i with the fleet. 1 Superior Court Civil Term Ends Friday The week-long session of civil :ourt ended Friday at the court louse, Beaufort. Judge Clifton L. floore, presided. In the case of Barbara Dingeu 'I. Billie Ray Dingcss, the jury, vhich deliberated for hours, found hat the defendant had abandoned lis wife and she was due alimony. The details of the judgment had lot been drawn up by press time resterday. Other cases were disposed of li ollows : Tucker Smith and M. S. Smith irere permanently restrained from ntertng the land of Abram Davis Mtd J. Morton Davia on the Abram Wis farm which borders on Tusk Say in the eastern part of the ounty. The court ruled that A. B. Rob irtf, T. J. Thomas and R. W. Free nan, trading a? W P. Freeman Vholesale Co. shall receive $633 ilua interest from Oct. 1, 1936 rom Joseph F. Johnson. The plaintiff, Clyde R. Cannon, ecovered nothing in the auit oel Edmond King, his wife, Jane 'ause King and Fonvielle Realty ;o.. Inc. The plaintiff was ordered o pay coata. Gerald N. Fulcher agreed to non uit in the case of Gerald M. Ful her Co. va. Leon G. Potter. More lead Block and Tile Inc. is en itled to recover from H. C. Weat irook $681.38 plus interest from iept. 1, 1957. Non-suited waa the action by ?