OFFICIAL COUNTY ELECTION RETURNS IN THIS ISSUE CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 1#' 47th YEAR, NO. 90. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Curtain Rises Tomorrow Night, 8:15, on Papa is All If you think your father ruled your household, you haven't seen anything until you've seen Papa in the Carteret Community Thea tre's presentation, Papa is All, to morrow night at the recreation building. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. Tickets are available now at Robinson's Prescription Shop, Morehead City, and Bell's Drug Store, Beaufort. They will also be on sale at the door. Papa, played by Leonard Lewis of Morehead City, is a Mennonite, as is his wife, played by Joyce Lewis of Marshallberg. While they are "plain people", their children, Emma and Jake, are still "world ly" and eager to live the modern way of life Papa frowns upon. Emma is portrayed by Patsy Holt, Morehead City, and Jake by Jimmy Wheatley of Beaufort. The two other characters are Mrs. Yoder, a neighbor, played by Julia Holt of Radio Island, and a Penn sylvania highway patrolman, played by Glenn Adair, Beaufort. Leonard Lewis, Jimmy Wheatley and Glenn Adair have appeared in other Community Theatre pro ductions. Julia Holt, Patsy Holt, and Joyce Lewis are making their debut in the Carteret theatre. Action in Papa is All takes place in the Aukamp farmhouse just north of Lancaster, Pa. The scene is in the Aukamp kitchen. The name of the play is derived from the Pennsylvania Dutch expression which means something is gone. When a train has passed by and is out of sight, a Pennsylvania Dutchman would say, "The train is all," rather than "The train is gone" or "The train has passed." In the grammatical sense. Papa is All in that his domineering qual ities stifle otherwise normal living in the Aukamp household. Papa is All ran several years on Broadway. A comedy, it enjoyed its popularity in this day when the Mennonite and Amish communities of southeastern Pennsylvania have become a lucrative tourist attrac tion. In those areas today Amish and Mennonite families follow the strict I tenets of their forebears of 200 years ago. Papa is All is not onl&. 44' enter taining but educational play which students as well as adults will en joy. Price of admission is a dollar for adults and 50 cents for students and children. Curtain time is being held to 8:15 to allow persons who arc at tending dinner meetings that night to get to the play, if not for cur tain, a short time later. Lions Organize Beaufort Club A Beaufort Lions Club was or ganized at the Scout building Thursday night. Assisting in the organization were several high ranking state officials including district governor Ben Parrot of Kinston, deputy district governor J. E. Crowe of Beaufort, state secretary Norman Trueblood of Elizabeth City and zone chairman Natt M. Baxter of New Bern. The new club is being sponsored by the Morehead City Lions Club. Temporary officers were elected at the Thursday night meeting. They follow: llobart Kelly, president; H. W. Evans, first vice-president; Walter T. Hewett, second vice-president; George T. Bridgers, third vice president; Leo Haskins, secretary; Jack P. Gonsolin, treasurer; Vir gil White, Lion Tamer; Logan Whitehurst, tail twister; and E. T. Willis, Allen Godbec. Charles Hasfcll, and Fred A. Lane, direc tors. George M. Thomas was appoint ed chairman of the charter pre sentation committee. That com mittee will be in charge of mak ing preparations for charter night which will be conducted Dec. #, Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested Frank J. Locchetta, Cherry Point, was charged Saturday nigbt with drunken driving, hit and run and driving on the wrong aide of the road. According to patrolman J. W. Sykea, Locchetta, in a 1953 Chevro let convertible, sideswiped a 1SS2 Chevrolet at 7:20 p.m. Saturday Just west at the railroad tracks at Newport on highway 70. Driving the 1952 Chevrolet was Charles C. Barnes, route 1 New port. Information on the accident waa radioed to Craven County where patrolmen J. T. Jenkins and Na than Robinaon spotted the Locchet ta car and made the arrest. Damage to each vehicle waa esti mated at (300. i'huios by Bob Seymour Mama Aukamp . . . played by Joyce Lewis Patrolman Brendle Emma Aukamp . . . Glenn Adair . . . patsy Holt County Board Pays Tribute To Commissioner, Clerk By formal resolution the county board of commissioners yesterday expressed appreciation for the val uable services by Walter Yeomans, former board member, and Irvin W. Davis, former clerk to the board and register of deeds of the county. Mr. Yeomans died while in of fice and Mr. Davis has retired. The board expressed in iU reso lution "its most sincere apprecia tion" of the valuable services the two officials rendered the county. Moses Howard, chairman of the board, stated that he had received a letter from Gene 'Smith, Beau fort town attorney, relative to ap pointing members of the Beaufort Morehead Airport Authority. Dan Walker, Beaufort town clerk, appeared before the board, and asked permission for the town to take up a sidewalk on the rast side of courthouse property. The board gave its approval. He also asked that the county cut the grass between the walk and the curb. The county agreed. He also proposed that the old live oak trees on the courthouse square be treated by tree surgeons now work ing in Beaufort. Relative to finding the Army Corps of Engineers a dock in the Morehcad City area, commissioner Skinner Chalk said that he waa in formed that a Morehead City prop erty owner was willing to give a suitable site. Officials attending the meeting, In addition to those mentioned were commissioners Gaston Smith, Da vid Yeomans, Harrcll Taylor, Al vah Hamilton, county attorney, and Odell Merrill, clerk. Tuesday Vote Falls Below Vote of '54, '56 ? National Politics Affect Republican Vote ? James. Barden High Men on Ticket Votes cast in the election last Tuesday in the county numbered 5 013 about a thousand fewer than cast in the last "oft election year" of 1951. When the presidency of the United States was at stake two years ago, the county's total vote was 7,679. A study of election returns shows that the Republican leanings of several of the eastern precincts break to the surface when a strong Republican national figure is run ning. In 1956, when Ike was rc_ elected. Republicans out ? voted Democrats in Marshallbcrg, Ot way, Stacv and Williston. In 1954, however, only Stacy and Williston went Republican. This past Tuesday, only Williston and Davis held the fort for the Repub licans. When the sheriff's office was at stake four years ago, Gordon liar desty who opposed Sheriff Hugh Salter, polled 1,569. A. B. (Tom) Garner, Salter's Republican op ponent this year, did well to get 1,028, sincc the total turnout at the polls was considerably less than in the year when Hardesty ran. Official returns show that the in dividual candidate with the high est number of votes on the local ticket, 4,017, was A. H. James, clerk of superior court, and chair man of the county Democratic committee. Graham Barden, Dem ocratic congreisman was high man on the entire slate with 4,138 votes. On write-in votes, Bobby Bell, in Morehcad prccinct No. 1 received seven write-in votes for register of deeds. (Mr. Bell it deputy sheriff); Gray Hasscll got seven write in votes for surveyor In Beaufort; Graham Duncan, Republican, got nine write-in votes for constable in Beaufort and there were 12 other write-ins for other* but their names weren't listed on the official^ re ' turns. *? On the Morehead Township Oon stable ticket there were four write-ins (names were not given on official returns). George Smith, winning candidate, polled a total of 1,192. , Sincc there was no opposition to judicial candidates on the state ticket, their vote, by precinct, Is not tabulated. Their total county vote follows: Winborne, chief jus tice, 4,044; Denny 4,031 and Higgins 4 027, for associate supreme court justice; and the vote for the su perior court judges: Parker 4,038, Bickett 4,034, Williams 4,042, Clark 4 025, McKinnon 4,024, Armstrong 4 025, Phillips 4,031, Johnson, 4,028, Gambill 4,025, Farthing 4,021, Mc Lean 4,025, Pless 4,020, and Patton 4,026. For constable, George Smith in Morehcad township polled 85 votes at Broad Creek, 417 in Morehcad No 1; 5W in Morehcad No| 2; 102 at Salter Path and 68 at Wildwood. For Beaufort constable, Hubert Salter polled 1,024, Ralph Paul got 16 write-in votes at Bogue for con stable of White Oak township (no official returns were reported from other precincts in the township). D. Walston, for justice of the peace in White Oak township got 15 votes at Bogue. For justice of the peace, A. K. Craig polled 334 votes and A. L. Wilson 184, both at Newport; C. El mer Smith, Morehead township, polled 53 at Broad Creek, 357 in Morehead No. 1; 487 in Morehead No. 2; 97 at Salter Path and 5? at Wildwood for a total ot 1,053. See ELECTION, Page t Leslie bpringle to Retire Dec. 1 from Public Office On the first day of December, David W. Munden will succeed Lea lie Springle aa county coroner. Mr. Springle, who retirea in three weeka from public office, haa writ ten the following open letter: To my many frienda and votan of Carteret County: Seven yeara ago the 1st of De cember our cx-ahcrlff and ABC of ficer M. M. Ayscue went before the county commissioners - and asked them to appoint me aa coroner of the county, aa we had bo coroner at that time. Two daya later I took the oath and became your servant I have done my beat, though I waa handi capped in lots of respects. I eape cially want to thank our ex-aberiff and Mr. Ayscue far their loyal aup port. I wiah to take thil mean* to thank all the enforcement officers of the county for their loyal co operation during these seven years. < The sheriff's department, More bead City police department. Beau tort police deportment, the MP"! at Morehead City and Cherry Point, last but not least, the high way patrol. 1 fed we have as fine a group of me* with the patrol here in Car teret. County as the state can af fortf These men have given me fine cooperation in all the cases we handled together. 1 want to say thanks to the radio operators at Morehcad City for their fine cooperation. I cannot for get Mr. A. H. James and the coun ty commissioners. Without the eo operattonof all the officers of the county, there is very little you can accomplish and I can truly aay I have bad this cooperation. Thanks again, 1* D. Bfitafto 9 i ? ? i Mahogany Lumbor Cargo Duo at Morahoad City Four hundred tans of mshogany lumber from Tumaco. Colombia will come in this weekend at the Morehead City port Bob Hicks of lteide and Co., agent for the MS Casablanca, on which the cargo will arrive, aaya the lumber is destined for upstate North Carolina. The Honduran ship bringing the lumber is of the Grandcotombiana I .ine No mahogany has come in to Morehead City since 1834, Mr. llicks reported. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin W. Davis, Davis, moved Saturday to a home in Hancock Park. Mr. Davis re cently retired as county register of deeds. State Proposes Fund Transfer On Roads in West Carteret why? In a county that has been in the Democratic camp for years there are always a few precincts down-east that carry high the banner for the GOP. Why? Dyed-in-the-wool Democrats say, "Oh, those are the Buffa loes. It goes way back in his tory. Some people from the North settled down there and in the War Between the States, they went up and enlisted in the Union Army. They've always voted Re publican." Webster's unabridged diction ary says that "Buffalo" is a nick name given to any North Caro lina coastal dweller. Maybe there's more to the background of Republican die hards in eastern Carteret than can be explained by present-day politicians. For those interested in county history, this is a ques tion that might be worth explor ing. Criminal Term Of Court Ends Friday Afternoon The criminal term of superior court ended at 3:30 Kriday after noon. Remanded to recorder's court was the case of Milton R. Smith, charged wtih public drunkenness, engaging in a fight and disturbing the peace. Harold Mobley was given a 12 month suspended sentence and put on probation. He was charged with breaking and entering and larceny. Henry Woolen Merrill pleaded guilty to drunk driving, driving with an expired liccnsc and paid 58,075 and for October, $13,700. Construction work listed for com mercial itructures total $67,125. The largest item covered the re modeling of the front of the First Citizen* Bank building at a cost of $40,000. A permit issued to W. Roy Poole, Kinston. is for an of fice building on Evans Street, on a lot recently purchased from Mrs. Jesse Bell, to coat $12,500. W. P. Freeman who recently purchased the Gordon C. Willis property at the foot of 10th Street was iasued three permits covering new construction and alterations totaling $11,100. Alterations were made to the large fish house, a concrete block building erected and a building moved and convert ed for a residence. The Southern Railway is to erect a freight shelter on its property at 6th Street, costing $1,500; the Carolina Water Co. built a pump houae over their new well near Uie town limits costing $1,800. A warehouse built on Bonner Avenue by Donald L. Shanor is listed at $1,500 and the Ocean Oil Co. built a cemcnt retaining wall costing $750. Six of the permits were for new houses: W. C. Martin, Arendell Street, $5(10; Bill llaneock, 23rd Street, $200; Mclvina Monroe, Avery Street, $100; Jerry J. Willia Fisher Street, $1,?00; Roper Van Horn. Rvans Street, $1,200; Gor don C. Willis, Bridges Street, $350. W. F. Patrick, garage, $400. t Total cost of construction for the ten months of 1958, including the $400,000 storage shed at the Port Terminal, $622,830, ten months construction costs for 1*57, $130, 830. Tide Table Tides at the Brats/ ort Bar (Eastern Standard Time) HIGH LOW Taeaday, Not. 11 7:47 a.m. 1:39 a.m. ?:14 p.m. 2:19 p.m. Wedacsday, Nov. 12 8:37 a.m. 2:28 a.m. 9:99 p.m. . 3:09 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11 9:30 a.m. 3:16 a.m. 10:0$ p.m. 3:K p.m. Friday, Nov. 14 10:27 a.m. 4:05 *.01. 11:04 pjn. . 4:41 pm ? BfciuKr a snag has developed in paving the road from Pelletier's Store in Stella to the White Oak River, the state highway commis sion yesterday asked the county board of commissioners to ap prove putting funds for another road on the Stella-to the river road. The road on which the difficulty has developed (due to a right-of way problem) is No. 1 on the county's secondary road paving schedule. No. 2 road, from which the funds would be diverted, runs from the White Oak River north to the Kuhns-Stella road, a dis tance of seven-tenths of a mile. Since both roads are in the same neighborhood and used by the same residents, C. Y. Griffin, high way official from New Bern, said transfer of funds is feasible. Two miles have been paved on the first road, with one mile to go. But a property owner has moved his house on the right-of-way near the water at what would be the terminus of the road. Even though the county board has authorized inquiry into the right-of-way prob lem, the paving cannot proceed. So the highway commission has surveyed a new route through a heavily-wooded swamp area. To use this route would cost con siderably more money which has not been appropriated. That's' why the state has suggested that $12. 700 for the second-priority road be added to the first-priority road. The county board took no action. Commissioners request that any one in the area affected who may have objection to the proposal con tact them at the Dec. 8 board meeting. Mr. Griffin said that diversion of the funds from No. 2 project would not affect any of the other road improvement plans. They would be carried out as scheduled. He added that the No. 2 road, from which funds would be divert ed would have funds appropriated for it in 1959-60, unless a new evaluation of all roads was made in the meantime. Odrll Merrill, clerk to the board, reported that the state has made traffic counts on- thrpe roads with U?c following results: 85 cars on the average every 24 hours on the Gillikin road; 75 on the road at Gloucester and M on the road in the Huntley subdivision. Mr. Griffin said that while this does not guarantee that the roads will be Improved (50 vehicles every 24 hours is the minimum require ment). the roads will be given full consideration in the next survey of roads. At the request of the state, the board placed on the systems a 250 foot road in Mansfield Park, W. Bay Street, which has been main tained by the state, but has not been officially on the county sys tem. Mr. Griffin suggested that the right-of-way proposal made at last month'* meeting by Pine Knoll Shores representatives be brought before the board in writing and then referred to the highway com mission. Mrs. HUda R. Gillikin, Smyrna, appeared before the board and asked that the state improve the road that leada to the Charlie Pake farm. Accompanying her was Mrs. Truman Davis. Two requests for restoring land washed away by storms were made. John Ralph Gibson, Cedar Point, requested that the road near the White Oak bridge that leads northward be restored and Irvin Davis, representing Joe Smith, Cedar Island, asked that certain eroded areas on the east end of the island be built up if federal funds are obtained for work of that sort. Civitans Plan Dinner-Dance Members of the Civitan Club ?nd their wives will attend * din ner dance at the Blue Ribbon Club Wednesday night, Nov. 19. A. B. Cooper, chairman of the Civitan entertainment committee, an nounced plana (or the occasion at the meeting Friday noon at the Mrs. Russell Willis restaurant. Reports were given on the fruit cake sale and the get-out-the-vote campaign. President Jimmy Wal lace announced chvter dates of new clubs and asked club mem bers to attend if possible. Bill W ilk ins, club member, spoke on the operation of his bus iness, Morehead Motor Parts. Wal ter Morris, program chairman, said that the program waa the first in a aeries to be presented by club members about their bus inesses. The board of directors will meet at Mr. Morris's home at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Guests were Shelby Freeman, Charles McNein and R. G.