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:s- CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "* 47th YEAR, NO. 92 TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Woman Sentenced to Six Months in Jail Thursday Carol C. Deal was sentenced to six months in jail by county re corder's court judge Lambert Mor ris Thursday. She was found guilty of driving drunk, driving without a license and carrying a concealed weapon. Two defendants were bound over to superior court under $250 bonds after they waived preliminary hearing. They were William Bon ner Willis and William Bobby Wil lis of Crab Point. They were charged with stealing $250 from Mrs. Mabel Willis. Bobby R. Hardeman got the heaviest fine of the day. He was ordered to pay $125 plus court costs after being found guilty of driving drunk, driving on the wrong side of the road and driving without a license. Thomas R. Supulski was fined $100 and ordered to pay court costs when he was found guilty of al lowing a drunk with no license to operate his vehicle. Three defendants paid $25 fines. They were Frank H. Comer, speed ing and driving on the wrong side of the road; Walton Lawrence, as sault and use of profane language; and Sammy Neal Weeks, speeding. Lillian Chadwick, Viola Dcbrix and Alice Davis were fined $10 each and each was ordered to pay one-third costs. They were found guilty of possessing non-taxpaid whiskey. Others paying $10 and costs were Herbert D. Davis, no insurance on his car; James Langdale, Marvin Daniels and Melvin Gaither, pub lic drunkenness; and D. J. Tel hiard, public drunkenness and dis turbing the peace. Two defendants were found guil ty of passing bad checks. Joseph Suggs and George Dunn were or dered to pay court costs and make the checks good. Those who forfeited bonds fol low: James D. Fentcr, expired dri ver license; Dalton Willis, speed ing and running a stop sign; Tim D. Lawrence, improper turn; Charles C. Roberts, speeding; 36-Foot Cabin Cruiser Runs Aground Thursday A 36-foot cabin cruiscr, Queen Mary III, ran aground near the Morehead Biltmore Hotel at 2:05 p.m. Thursday. The Mmw, William C. Riken, Holmdcl, N. J., called the Coast Guard for assist ance. Coast Guardsmen from Fort Ma con refloated the boat at 3:10 and towed it to the Morehead City Yacht Basin. James W. Leath, bad check; Willie Hill, public drunkenness. Cecil C. Hill Jr., driving on the wrong side of the road; Manley Springle, giving an improper turn signal; Irvin W. White hurst, drunk on the highway; A. D. Desroches, running a stop sign; and L. V. Jones, careless and reckless driv ing and speeding. John McDonald was ordered to pay court costs after being found guilty of larceny and destroying personal property. He was put on five years good behavior. Mollie Murray, also found guilty of assault, was put on two years good behavior. The judge ordered that her payment of court costs be remitted. Andrew Reels and Rosa Lee Hy man, both charged with assault, were found to be the victims of malicious prosecution and turned loose. Charges against Junior Branton and Howard Fallin were dismissed. Branton had been charged with assault and Fallin with non-sup port. The state continued 91 cases. friend dies More he ad City felt as though it had lost a friend when news arrived of Tyrone Power's death. Power, a Marine stationed at Cherry Point during the second world war, lived in Morehead City in the home now occupied by Dr. and Mrs. John Morris. Also living with him at the time were Walter Teich, who was in the Marine Corps (now living at Adams Creek), and two other Marine officers. The movie star was well liked in Morehead City and residents this week were recounting inci dents of his stay there. Mrs. Morris still has in the attic a trunk of bed linens which the movie star asked her to keep for him! Power died Saturday at the age of 45, after being stricken with a heart attack while on a movie set in Madrid, Spain. He was playing the part of Solomon in the film, Solomon and Sheba, co-starring Gina Lollobrigida and George Saunders. Student Parade Pleads for Space Students, numbering 2,?5 from Morehead City, C?mp Glenn nod W. S. King schools marched by a reviewing stand on Arendell Street Friday afternoon. Here students from the high school march as the band plays in front of the improvised stand, the back of a large truck. On ihe reviewing stand were Mayor George Dill, and town and county education officials. Photos toy Bob Seymour Students from Marebetd City's schools paraded through towa Fri day afternoon. Many of them carried placard similar to the oae above. AD entered on Ike them* of overcrowded school conditio*! . Oae, for example, read, This la Space A(e, Bat Where's the Space? Beaufort PTA Show Plays To Full House Friday The Fashion Show and Musical Revue at Beaufort 8chool played to a foil house Friday night. At tendance was somewhat leaa .Satur day night. A report on proceeds waa not available yesterday. >lrs. C. R. llassell, director, said she was well pleased with the suc cess of the show. It was sponsored by the PTA. In addition to the en tertainment, baked goMa and re freshments were on sale. Business firms of town cooperated la the fashion show. Tide Table ( Eastern Standard lime) TMet at the Beaufort Bar HIGH ' LOW Toesday, Not. 11 1:53 a.m. . -109 a.m. 2:06 p.m. 8:43 p.m. Wednesday, Not. It 2:48 a.m. <9:13 a.m. 3:03 p.m. ? J8 p.m. Tharaday, Not. 2* 3:44 a.m. 10:08 a.m. 3:58 p.m. 10:28 p.m. Friday, Not. 11 4:37 a.m. 10:58 a.m. 4:53 p.m. U:ll p.m. Beaufort Negroes Await Trial in Knifing Case Four are Hurt In Auto Wreck Hoy D. Smith, Morehead City Negro, was charged with driving drunk and {ailing to yield the right of way following an accidcnt at 20th and Arendell Streets at 10: IS p.m. Sunday. Four persons were hospitalized. Injured were Ester Holland, Morehead City, with a cut hand, and Cornelious Knight, Hobgood, with an injured right leg, both rid ing in Smith's 19S2 Mcrcury; and Harry D. Price Jr., Southport, driver of the other car, a 1958 Oldamobilr, with chest and shoul der injuries, and Walter Price, Southport, with a bruised leg. Morehead City policeman J. C. Steele reports that Price was driv ing east on Arendell Street when Smtih cut across 20th Street, go ing south, and hit the left side of the Price car. Damage to each car waa esti mated at $500 or more. ? James D. Lee and Elsie Mac James, Beaufort Negroes, are free under $100 bonds awaiting trial in county recorder's court Thursday I.ee is charged with fighting and the woman is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Assistant Chief of Police Carlton Garner gives the following ac count: "I got a call a little after ( Sunday night and went to Queen and Pine Streets where I found Lee with a 5-inch gash on the back of his left arm. "I took him to the Morehcad City hospital and told them to hold him until 1 came back. Dr. M. T. Lewis put seven stitches in his arm while I went home for sup per. "I picked Lee up at the hospital and took him to the county jail. On the way he told me it was the James woman who had cut him. lie said she used a razor blade. "I checked around town and found witnesses who declared he made her cut him. After a while I found her and she admitted cut ting Lee with the razor blade after he had attacked her. I put her In jail, too. both of them arc out un drr bond." Horehead Youth Demolishes Car Jackie Edwards Lancaster, Morrhead City, demolished his father's 1958 Ford Victoria at 4:55 p.m. Sunday, lie was uninjured. The car was valued at $3,000. Morehead City policeman J. C. Steele investigated the accident that occurred at the west end of the Morehead Citly drawbridge. Lancaster, driving east, had to swerve to his left to avoid hitting a car that had stopped in front of him without giving a signal. When he swerved to his left he saw another car headed for him, and turned off the road. The car hit the soft shoulder and flipped over on the railroad tracks. The car which had stopped in front of Lancaster drove off before anyone got its license number. There were no charges against Lancaster. Date Extended Army Engineers, Wilmington have extended to Dec. 14 the date for hearing objections, if any, on construction of an ocean fishing pier between Atlantic Beach and Money island. Baby Girl Dies from Bullet Fired At Merrimon Home Friday Night ? ?*- n i a b o ...... o -i j .... . Chamber Committee Heads To Discuss 59 Program Chairmen of chamber of com merce committees will be mem bers of a panel to discuss the Morehead City chamber program for 1959 Thursday night at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel. The meeting, for chamber mem bers only, will begin at 6:45 p.m. A buffet dinner will be served. Bud Dixon, president, will give a brief report on the chamber activi ties and three new directors will be elected to serve three-year terms. Members of the panel and com mittees which they head are W. B. Chalk, industrial development; Dick Parker, advertising and pub licity; P. H. Geer Jr., transporta tion. J. M. Davis, tourists and conven tions; Rufus Butner, civic affairs and public relations; George Whit tle, merchants committee, and Walter Morris, membership. George H. McNeill will be mod erator. In addition to the speakers on the panel, Fred Webb of Fred Webb Inc., grain firm, will be pres ent. J. A. DuBois. chamber man ager, announces that Mr. Webb will comment on the newly-stared grain export enterprise at the Morehcad City port. Army Engineers Will Conduct Hearing at Davis ? Evidence Will be Given On Deeper Waterway 9 Pre-Hearing Held Friday at Sea Level Army engineers will conduct a hearing at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 15, at the Davis Community Cen ter, Highway 70, just west of Da vis. At that time evidence will be heard on providing a 12-foot chan nel from Pamlico Sound to Beau fort, including side channels to Cedar Island Bay, Atlantic, Oyster Creek, Nelson Bay, Bret Bay, Jar rett Bay and providing for com munity harbor improvements. J. O. Barbour Jr., on behalf of the Beaufort Development Cor poration presented four projects for inclusion at a pre hearing ses sion Friday afternoon at the Sea LevcJ Inn: ? A 12-foot channel through the Straits to connect with the North River channel. ? A 7-foot channel from the Core Sound Channel, to permit access to North River as far as the North River bridge. ? A 7-foot channel from the in tra coastal waterway running west ward in the Newport River to a point near the Golf and Country Club. ? Making a harbor of refuge of Gallant's Creek (or bay) at Beau fort. Col. II. C. Rowland, district en gineer. pointed out that the Straits thannel is already included in the ?Mml nl. Iht ttii >m ii ifcn, nel to North River could probably be added; however, the other two projects were not directly related and would have to be originated by Congressional Resolution. Fred Whitaker of the North Car olina Fisheries Association, read part of the brief which has been prepared and stressed that it is up to boat owners and operators to justify the great cost of this waterway improvements by show ing in dollars and cents how much deeper water will mean, in time saving, safety, and increase in fish catches. Attending the meeting in addi tion to those mentioned were Col. llarry E. Brown, hurricane reha bilitation director; W. H. Magnu son of the district engineers office; Charles Stewart, US Fish and Wild life Service. Clayton Fulcher, Atlantic; A. W. Daniels, Cedar Island; David Yeo mans, Markers Island; Elbert Pitt man. Davis; F. C. Noyes, Sea Level. Harrell Taylor, Sea Level; Gene Smith, Dan Walker and C. T. Lewis, Beaufort; and J. A. DuBois, Morehead City. Hog Growers Will Moot At Courthouse Tomorrow Swine producers wi'.l meet it 7:30 tomorrow night at the court house, Beaufort, to hear expert ad vice on all phases of hog growing and marketing. R. M. Williams, county agent, announces that Jack Kelly, animal husbandry specialist from State College, and Leo Martin, field representative of the Swift Pack ing plant, Wilson, will be the speakers. Mr. Williams cordially invites every swine producer. Dftruart Ann nogvri, c, o iiiuiuun uiu, was uici dentally shot and killed at Merrimon at 6:30 Friday night The accident occurred in the home of her parents, Shelton and Donnie Bell Rogers. A bullet from the home-made .22 rifle of Richard Alex ander Harkley, 17, went through the child's upper right abdomen and lodged in tne lower" part of her body. She was admitted to the More head City Hospital at 7:30 p.m. and died at 9:20 p.m. as prepara tions were being made to operate. According to Sheriff Hugh Sal ter, Harldey had been hunting in a field nearby. He came to the Rogers house to get a cigarette. He asked Rogers for a cigarette. He didn't have one, so he went to ward Donnie Bell, the mother, to ask her for one. He was holding the gun in his hand, the muzzle pointed toward the floor, when Jot Wallace, 11, walked behind him to leave the house. Jot's shirt sleeve caught on the trigger, causing the gun to fire. In the line of fire was Barbara Ann, who was sitting on the floor rating a cookie. Next to her was her little brother. The sheriff said HarkJey thought the Run was not loaded. It had no trigger guard. Graveside services for the little girl were conducted at Merrimon Saturday morning. The sheriff said there would be no inquest. The parents were pres ent when the accident happened and verified information given by Harklcy. The gun has been con fiscated by the sheriff. Besides her parents, the child is survived by five brothers and sisters. Civitans Change Date of Dance The Civitans Club has changed the date of its dinner dance at the Blue Ribbon Restaurant from this Wednesday to Wednesday. Nov. 26. Thurlow Whealton, entertainment chairman, at the Friday noon meeting of the club. The club will not meet this com ing Friday but will meet instead Thursday night with the Morehead City chamber of commerce at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel. A buf fet (upper will be served at 0:45 p.m. Speaker at the club meeting was Jaiper Bell, who described his barbering business. He showed pictures of men's hair styles. The question and answer period which followed was concluded when Al fred Cooper asked Mr. Bell what hair styles were recommended for him and Dom Fcmia. (Mr. Cooper and Mr. Femia have the type head toupee makers love to. see). Charlie Markey reported that he and Mrs. Markey attended the charter night ceremony of the Washington Civitan Club. Secre tary Joe Beam read the proposed constitution and by - laws and changes recommended by the board of directors. The club will vote on the constitution and by laws at the next regular meeting. Robert Atkinson and Shelby Freeman were welcomed as new members. Thirty - two attended. Champ Lewis was a guest of Jim my Wallace, president. The club meets at Mrs. Russell Willis's restaurant. Four Drafted Mrs. Ruby D. Holland, clerk of the local draft board, announces that four county men will report for induction into the Army to morrow. They are Carnelle F. Mid gette, Ocracoke ; Roy T. Carraway, route 1 Beaufort; Anthony L. Daughtery, route 1 Newport, and Archie C. McCain, route 2 New port. < ... State Highway Commission Will Convene Here ? Public Hearing Will Begin at 2 Thursday ? Regular Meeting Will Follow Friday Raleigh? Highlighting the meet' ing of the State Highway Commis sion Thursday and Friday in More head City will be a public hear ing, giving citizens with road re quests an opportunity to present them before the entire Commis sion. Appointments to appear before the group are now being arranged, and any officials or private citizens wishing to make such an appoint ment should write or phone Sain Beard, Public Relations Office, State Highway Commission, Ra leigh. The public hearing will begin at 2 p.m. Thursday and continue throughout the afternoon. It will be held in the fisheries building at Camp Glenn. Each group or indi vidual wishing to present a propo sal before the commission will have a 15-minute time period. It is requested that, where possible, these people bring along a written report of their proposals and maps to leave with the commission for future reference. On Friday morning the regular monthly muling of ike seven member State Highway Commis sion will be held, at which time low bids received in tomorrow's letting will be reviewed. Included in the letting were 25 projects located in 24 counties, in volving 14.925 miles of road work. With the exception of two projects, the remaining work will involve bridge construction. County Enjoys Warm Weekend While the temperature did not rise to record breaking heights as it did upstate, county residents en joyed a warm weekend, reports weather observer Stamey Davis. The high for the weekend was a 77, recorded Friday afternoon. Except (or Sunday, skies were clear. Yesterday morning a heavy fog shrouded the Morehead City Beaufort area. Maximum and min imum temperatures and wind di rection follow: Max. Min. Wind Thursday 99 48 SW Friday 77 56 SSW Saturday 73 58 SW Sunday 71 65 SW Car Hits Man Dr. Alvah Hamilton Jr., More head City, bumped into Frank Knight, Beaufort, when Knight stepped in front of the doctor's car on Fulford Street, Beaufort, Saturday night. Sheriff Hugh Sal ter carried Knight to the .hospital where he was checked and re leased. The sheriff said the acci dent was unavoidable. Order Prohibits Pogy Boats at Moore Dock A restraining order was filed in the courthouse yesterday prohibit ing use of the former postoffice dock in Beaufort as a mooring point for menhaden vessels. The dock is owned by the 1. N. Moore family of Beaufort, who are engaged in the groccry business in town. The restraining order, scheduled to be served on the Moore* yes terday. was signed by Judge Clif ton L. Moore, third judicial district. It demands that the menhaden boats, purse boats and other com mercial operations at the dock cease. , > If the Moores object to removal of the boat*, most o! which are fishing for Standard Products Co., th?y may appear before Judge Moor* 2:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, at New Bern to present evidence which would support their leaving the boats where they are. If Judge Moore maintaina that the bo.rj must be moved, then the Moore family can contest the case and > hearing will be set at the next civil term of superior court. A complaint, declaring the boats are a town fire hazard and general nuisance, has been filed by Ann Duncan Brown, who livei across from the dock on Front Street. De fendants named are "I. N. Moore and his wife, Polly Moore, and Leslie D Moore, individuals, trad ing and doing business is City Gro cery." Reasons for having the boats moved are set forth as allegations In the complaint: ? The vessels (at. least eight and sometimes more) constitute a (ire hatard. Each contains thousands of gallons of diesel fuel oil. This oil is on the boats over the weekends when crew members are drunk, and are carelessly using matches, cigarettes and cooking equipment. The complaint further points out that Beaufort is without fire pro tection in the harbor, nor docs it have tugboats which could pull burning vessels away from docks in the residential area in which the plaintiff, Mrs. Brown, lives. ? The menhaden boats are tied at a dock located in a zoned resi dential area where commercial operations are prohibited. The ton ing ordinance, adopted by the town Nov. 7, IMS specifies that the residential area extenda from Queen Street east on both sides of Front Street and In the area where the Moore dock ia located, boat houses or use of piers for com mercial purpose are prohibited. ? The Moorcs purchased the dock and adjoining land May 3, 1953 from the federal government, the deed making the purchase sub ject to all zoning laws and other ordinances. Because the land waa thus zoned, the complaint alleges, the Moorcs purchased the dock at a "token price" bccauae the zon ing limitations discouraged com petitive bidding. ? Menhaden boats at the dock constitute a nuisance, with the plaintiff subject at all hours of the day and night to whistle-Mowing, shouting, cursing, thus destroying her privacy and rest. | ? The veaaeU are not only smelly, but garbage and sewage from them is dumped overboard and washes up on the waterfront, creating an unsightly and unsani tary condition. Crews are rough, raucous, frequently drunk after payday and use the streets and sidewalks as their recreational area. ? The riparian rights of the plaintiff have been taken over. Wash from the screws of the boats as the boats tie up and leave the dock are causing the plaintiff'* property to wash away. ? The defendants, the complaint alleges, use the dock as part o f their grocery business In that they allow the vessels whom they sup ply,, to have free mooring space J ? "Each of the boat* carries 20 to 2S members, described In the cofpJalnt as seaman of low order ana in general, tne flotsam and Jetsam of Atlantic and Gulf porta. These seamen, it is alleged, inde cently expose themselves, commit murder, assault and larceny in the area of the plaintiff's home. A NEWS-TIMES reporter con tacted Mayor Clifford Lewis yes terday and inquired whether he had heard any complaints about the boats tying at the Moore deck. He uM be had but he hadn't had time to do anything about it. H? waa asked whether a town board meeting was contemplated to dis cus a the situation. The mayor said there may be a board meeting but he doesn't know when. Complaints about the boats la the residential area have bees made in prior years, but the town haa not seen fit to enforce the lott ing ordinance.
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