:bz CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
47th YEAR, NO. 93. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES ' MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
New Order Allows Boats to Stay
Town Board Awaits
Ruling by Court
In special session yesterday morning at the town hall,
Beaufort town commissioners declined approval of a reso
lution that sanctioned tying of menhaden boats at the
Moore dock, Beaufort.
The resolution, presented to the board by the mayor,
C. T. Lewis, stated that the board, on behalf of the I. N.
Moore family, dock owners, would ?
be permitted to use the dock "for
common and ordinary usage of the
menhaden industry for the moving
and docking of boats".
After discussing the resolution,
board members decided that since
the matter has been taken to court,
it shall rest with the court as to
what disposition shall be made of
the issue.
The motion to defer action was
made by commissioner William
Roy Homilton and seconded by
commissioner Math Chaplain.
There was no dissenting vote.
Present at the meeting, in addition
to the mayor and commissioners
Hamilton and Chaplain, were com
missioners Otis Mades, Gerald
Hill, and Gene Smith, town attor
ney.
Commissioner James Rumlcy,
and Dan Walker, town manager,
were absent. Commissioner Rum
ley was at his store on Front
Street. Mr. Walker is in the More
head City hospital.
The area where the Moore dock
is located is zoned as residential.
No business or commercial opera
tion is permitted on the south side
of Front Street from Queen Street
cast.
Attorney Smith told the board
that if they wished, the zoning or
dinance could be changed. He sug
gested that the only legal action
the board could take at the mo
ment would be to advertise for a
hearing on the re-zoning of the
section of Front Street which is
involved in the controversy.
Driver Says Fog
Hampered Vision
Mrs. M?ry C. Tyson, Havclock,
was charged Tuesday with driving
too fast for existing conditions and
failing to stop at a stop sign.
Patrolman W. E. Pickard said
that Mrs. Tyson, driving a 1957
Ford station wagon, failed to stop
at the stop sign on the Nine-Foot
Road at the Highway 24 intersec
tion at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday.
The patrolman said it was foggy
at the time of the wreck and the
driver did not sec the stop sign,
she said, nor the intersection.
The car went across highway 24
*nd turned over in the ditch. Dam
age was estimated between $300
and $400. Mr. Tyson was with his
wife at the time of the accident.
Neither was hurt.
Rotarians See
School Movie
Rotarian E. B. Comer, principal
of Newport School, was program
chairman at the Newport Rotary
Club meeting at the school lunch
room Monday night. Mr. Comer
ahowed a movie. Crowded Out.
The movie dealt with the prob
lems created by crowded school
conditions. Mr. Comer said that
Newport, along with the other
county schools, was in need of
more room.
The Rotarians reported that they
had already sold nearly all of their
fruitcakes. More will be ordered
this week.
Moses Howard, C. S. Long, Roy
T. Garner and Bill Boyd will plaa
a Christmas party for the school
safety patrol. The Rotary Club is
a sponsor of the patrol.
Visitors and guests at the meet
ing were T. D. Lewis and L. A.
Daniels, Morehead City Rotarians,
and the Rev. M. D. Sears, New
port, guest of Rotarian Derryi
Garner. /
Mrs. A. B. Roberts
Speaks to Teachers
Mrs. A. B. Roberts was the guest
speaker at the meeting of Class
room Teachers Wednesday after
noon at Morehead City SchoaL ' .
Mrs. Roberts spoke on the Amer
ican Field Service student ex
change program, the UN and other
phases of international relations.
Mrs. Harry Venters, president
of the group, presided. The teach
ers will not meet next month. The
January meeting will be at the
regular time, the third Wednes
d*y. _
Lions Honor
James Crowe
J. E. Crowe, Beaufort, was hon
ored at ,a meeting pf the cabinet
of Lions Diitrict Jl-H at Smith
field Sunday. Mr. Crowe, who is
deputy district governor, was pre
sented an extension award pin
from Liohi International in recog
nition of his work in organizing
the new Beaufort Lions Club.
District governor Ben Parrott of
Kinston presided at the meeting
and called for reports for the va
rious district officers.
It was announced that the state
Lions convention will be held at
New Bern next June, with sessions
in the Shriners auditorium The
next cabinet meeting will be at
Rocky Mount Jan. 12.
James Z. Crowe
. . . receives pin
Patrol Issues
AccidentWarning
Carteret highway patrolmen
warned motorists this week that
they will make every effort to cut
the highway accident rate in this
county, i
Citing state fatality records, Pa
trolman W. G. Pickard said that
about a month afo 70 fewer people
had bcon killed on North Carolina
highways than had been killed in
1957.
Then in the past six weeks, 175
persons were killed, bringing the
total to within seven of the number
of fatalities in 1957.
The spurt in fatalities is par
tially attributed to there being
two to three deaths in one acci
dent. With the holidays coming on,
the highway patrol believes the
accident rate will tend to increase,
unless drivers, and pedestrians
make special effort to exercise
caution.
Beaufort Businessmen
Welcome Fishermen
In a letter dated yesterday, Nov.
20, person.* doing business on Front
Street stated that they did not
agree with allegations in a com
plaint filed Monday at the court
house, Beaufort.
The complaint set forth the rea
sons why the plaintiff, Ann Dun
can Brown, represented by C. R.
Wheatly Jr., attorney, feels that
the menhaden boats should not be
permitted to dock in a Beaufort
residential area. A newsstory in
Tuesday's NEWS-TIMES set forth
the allegations in the complaint.
It is that newsstory to which the
letter below, with its signatures,
refers :
We, the undersigned merchants
and businessmen of the Town of
Beaufort are very much disturbed
by a news article which carried
the following headline on the front
page of your Nov. 18, edition of
the News-Times: "Order Prohibits
Pogy Boats at Moore Dock".
We arc particularly disturbed j
over ihe following paragraph in i
said article: "Each of the boats
carries 20 to 25 members, de
scribed in the complaint as sea
men of low order and in general,
the flotsam and jetsam of Atlantic
and Gulf ports. These seamen, it
is alleged, indecently expose them
selves, commit murder, assault
and larceny in the area of the
plaintiff's home."
The paragraph, in our opinion,
brands every member of a fish
boat's crew, from the captain on
down, as "seamen of low order
and in general, the flotsam and
jetsam of Atlantic and Gulf ports".
Nothing could be further from
the truth. We have known and
dealt with these people for many
years, and consider many of them
personal friends of ours. Our re
lationship with all of them has
been nothing but the best. And
above all we want them and the
world to know that we neither en
' dorse nor condone such allega
tions as are contained in this news
article.
In view of our feelings in this
matter we deem it only fair that
you allow us to express ourselves
through the medium of your news
paper, and to extend a cordial wel
come to all fishermen, their wives
and families? "Come live with us,
visit with us, as often as you can".
Signed :
Jarvis Herring; Carteret Hard
Friday Pap?r Will Be
Out Early Next Week
Next week's Friday issue of THE
NEWS-TIMES will go to press
Wednesday evening and be distrib
uted Thanksgiving Day morning.
THE NEWS-TIMES office, will
be closed on Thanksgiving Day
but will be open as usual Friday
and Saturday morning.
All deadlines will be advanced
a day earlier than usual. Deadline
for classified ads will be 1 p.m.
Wednesday.
The George Dunn convicted
Thursday, Nov. 13 in county re
corder's court on bad check
charges is George Dunn of Pink
Hill and not George C. Dunn, 2302
Arendell St., Morehead City.
ware Co.; City Appliance, Potter's
Grocery, Potter's Dress Shop, C.
W. Stamper, Wheatley's Men's
Wear, W. W. Downum Co.
C. II. Ballou, Frank Leonard,
City Barber Shop, Lipman's Shoe
Store, Lipman's Department Store,
Milton Lipman, Charles D. Willis,
M. T. Owens, V. T. Bell amah.
J. S. Steed, Rose's 5-10-25 Cents
Store, F. M. Thompson, Joe House,
Guthrie- J ones Drug Co., Beaufort
Hardware, Bob 'n Sue Shop, West
ern Auto Store, C. M. Jones.
W. L. Hewitt, Harry Hill, Ben's
Bicycle and Stove Shop, Beaufort
Theatre, H. W. Evans, B. C: Vic
kcry, R. S. Jewell, Eva Bravaldo,
F. R. Bell, Earl Mason, O. C. Law
rence.
Eastern Rulane Sales Corp.,
Haywood's Barber Shop, Fashion
Shoppc, City Grocery, Esso Retail,
Charles S. Wctherington Jr., Floyd
Johnson.
Gull Service Station, Beauty Bar,
Economy Appliance Store, H. D.
Paul, R. H. Hill, J. O. Barbour
Jr., J. O. Barbour Sr., Barbour
Marine Supply Co., Ann Street
Esso Station.
Hobcrt Kelly, C. G. Gaskill Co.,
Ramsey Grocery Co., James D.
Biggs, Leonell S. Biggs, George
A. Baer, Simon Martinos, David
Hill, Potter's Sinclair Service.
County Delegations Appear Before Commission
Members of the Stele Highway Commission are front row, left to right, Ralph Howl sod, Elhla;
Robert BaaaeDe, Aahevllle; Fletcher Gregory, Weldoa; bach raw, J. Melville Brought**, Raleigh; J. Lee
While, Coacord; James Mssoo, Uariabarg, ia4 E. L. White, WUaiiagtoa. Mr. Howlaad acted aa chair
laaa of the e?ia hstaa meeting ia Morehead CHy yesterday afleraooa, la the ahaeace of the chair
man. Mr. Bundle was aba ahoeat
Four county delegations appear
ed before the state highway com
missioners, meeting at Camp Glenn
yesterday afternoon. Mayor George
W. I>ill. Morehead City, asked the
commissioners if they planned to
discuss a location for the proposed
Morehead City - Beaufort bridge
across the Newport River.
When the commissioners assured
Mayor Dill that the matter would
be subject to a six-month study be
fore any action was taken, he gave
way to J. A. DuBois, chairman of
the chamber of commerce.
Mr. DuBois gave the commis
sioners maps showing the proposed
port development north of the pres
ent bridge and asked them to con
sider that when deciding on the lo
cation and type of a new bridge.
Norwood Youug, representing the
Beaufort Community Development
Corporation, read I prepared state
ment concerning the bridge as
well as three other proposals. The
corporation asked that a new
bridge be built in the immediate
vicinity of the old bridge.
Other proposals put forward by
Mr. Young were the building of a
bridge across North River from
Lennoxville to Straits; the provid
ing of car ferry service from Oera
cokc to Cedar Island; and the pav
ing of a road via the Bcaufort
Morchcad City airport passenger
8m COMMISSION, P aga a
Menhaden Boats Chock-a-Block at Dock
in? | mm iiiiiinmnii mil m
Photo by Bob Seymour
This photo shows at the right the menhaden boats which have cauaed consternation to residents nearby. A complaint requesting removal
of the nuisance (the boats) alleges that the boata are tied at a dock, used for a commercial purpose, in a zoned residential ana. The dock la
located in front of the Beaufort postoffice, left. It runs to Taylor's Creek. Obscured by the postoffice In thla photo la the B. C. Brown
home. The first white house visible at the left is owned by Paul Jones; next to it, the C. R. Wheatly residence, then the F. R. Bell home.
Other residences are situated east along Beaufort'a Front Street. To the left, out of view, is the Inlet Inn.
hello!
The Carteret coast gives a
warm hello and welcome to the
State Highway Commission,
which is meeting here, and to
the State Ports Authority and
Southern Railway folks who will
meet here early next week.
The SPA will confer with rep
resentatives of the highway com
mission at 10 a.m. Monday at
Camp Glenn. Southern Railway
will be host at a dinner at the
Morchead Biltmore Hotel Mon
day night.
Among the guests will be ports
and highway officials. Between
30 and 40 traffic representatives
of Southern Railway, from all
parts of the United States, will
be present, according to J. A.
DuBois, Morehead City chamber
manager. The representatives, in
prior years, have met in Florida,
he said.
Newport PTA Hears Panel
Discuss Proposed Schools
Discussed by five men at the
Newport PTA meeting Tuesday
night was the proposed school
building program. The County
Board of Education has requested
the borrowing of million by
the county to finance new schools,
possibly two large consolidated
schools, one in the eastern section
of the county and one in the west.
The speakers, who answered
questions from PTA members,
were H. L. Joslyn, county superin
tendent of schools; Moses Howard
chairman of the county board of
commissioners; Dr. M. B. Morey,
Gerald Merrill and Milton Warren,
members of the Citizens Commit
tee for Better Schools.
Among the questions asked, and
their answers, were the following:
Q: Will the new school build
ing program mean that ? Car
teret student can enroll in col
lege and not have to take courses
then that he should have had in
high school but were not offered?
A: The new school program em
bodies an expansion of the num
ber ol courscs offered so that a
high srhool student can obtain all
the credits he needs for college
entrance.
Q: What happens if the people
turn down the bond Issue?
A: If Carteret's schools fre to
accommodate their children physi
cally and give them the scholastic
opportunity they should have, there
is no alternative. We must have
the money. On the other hand, if
the people don't want better
schools, there may be some patch
work, half-way program that can
be worked out.
Q: Atlantic Is the smallest
high school In the rounty now.
Yet they want to keep their
school. What about its being too
small for their children If ours
is too small for our children?
Why don't Morehead City, Beau
fort and Newport Join and let At
lantic and Smyrna go together?
A: Atlantic folks, some of them,
want to put the east high school
at Sea Level and let Smyrna and
Harkers Island go into Beaufort.
Then there are some Atlantic folk
who are very anxious to have their
children go to a consolidated
school, if it's near Beaufort, even
though it would be some distance.
See PTA, Page 3
Tide Table
(Eastern Standard Time)
Tldea at the Beaufort Bar
HIUH LOW
Friday, Nov. 21
4:37 a.m. 10:58 a m
4:53 p.m. 11:11 p.m
Saturday, Nov. 22
5:26 a.m. 11:44 a m
5:42 p.m. 11:54 p.m
Snrfay, Nov. 22
6:10 a.m. 12:29 a.m
6:27 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 24
6:50 a.m. 12:35 a.m
7:08 p.m. 1:12 p.m
Taeaday, Nov. 25
7:25 a.m.. 1:17 a.m.
I'M p.m. 1:54 pjn.
Patrolman
Reports Wrecks
State highway patrolman W. J.
Smith investigated three wrecks
during the past week.
At 3:20 p.m. Wcdnc?day, accord
ing to the patrolman, a 1953 Willys,
driven by Wciley Jones, Beaufort,
ran into the rear of a 1955 Ford
panel truck driven by Samuel
Branch, New Bern.
Branch, headed west, had
stopped at the railroad track on
the west side of the Beaufort
bridge to allow a train to pass
when the Willys struck him from
the rear.
Damage to the Willys was es
timated at $100 ahd damage to the
truck at $150.
Two hundred dollars damage
was caused to a 1956 Ford driven
by Cecil I.ynch, Smyrna, at 10:40
p.m. Saturday. According to pa
trolman Smith, a lire on the car
blew out on the curve on highway
70 east of Smyrna. The car went
into a ditch. I.ynch was not hurt.
A 1953 Ford driven by Anthony
C. Styron, Atlantic, turned over
at 10:50 p.m. Saturday on highway
70 by John W. Smith's fish factory.
Styron was headed cast. The car
was demolished, the patrolman
said, but no one was hurt.
ASC Officials Attend
Meeting at Goldsboro
ASC office manager B. J. May
attended a two-day ASC area meet
ing at Goldsboro Monday and
Tueaday. County ASC committee
members Roy Keller, Clarence Mil
Mi and J. C. Barker attended the
first day of the meeting.
The principal topic discussed was
the Dec. IS referendums on cotton
and tobacco quota programs. Poll
ing places will be announced later.
Morehead City Town
Board Postpones Meeting
Because of the chamber of com
merce dinner last night, the More
head City town board meeting was
postponed.
It la tentatively scheduled for
7:45 p.m. Tueaday at tie municipal
Hearing on Controversy
Set for 2:30 Monday
Judge Cilfton L. Moore of the third judicial district
voided Tuesday the restraining order he signed Nov. 14 at
Beaufort. The restraining order prohibited the tying of
menhaden' boats at the Moore dock in front of the post
office, Beaufort.
The order signed by the judge Tuesday stated that the
restraining order had been signed'
before the complaint about the
boats was filed, thus the restrain
ing order was void.
A new date was also set, 2:30
Monday at the courthouse, New
Bern, at which time the defend
ants. I. N. Moore and family, who
do business as City Grocery, may
appear and show why they should
be allowed to let menhaden boats
tic at their dock in front of tne
pos toff ice.
Simply, what has happened is
this:
? Judge Moore said Nov. 14 that
boats can't tie at the Moore dock.
? A complaint, setting forth al
legations as to why the boats
should not tic there (creation of
a nuisance in a residential area)
was filed Monday, Nov. 17.
? On Monday, Nov. 17, the
sheriff's department served papers
on the Moorcs, ordering them to
move the boats. This, legally, is
the first notice that an action has
been instituted. Thus, the order
of Nov. 14, was premature.
? On Tuesday, Nov. 18, upon
presentation of information before
Judge Moore by Luther Hamilton
Sr., attorney for the Moorcs, the
judge signed the second order,
voiding the first he had signed
Nov. 14.
This means that boats can tie
up at the Moore dock until a fur
ther legal ruling is made, which
is expected to be at the hearing
Monday afternoon at New Bern.
Farm Labor
Employment
Hours Listed
Thr schedule for Farm Employ
ment Days in Carteret and Onslow
Counties has been announced by
Krank Nance, supervising farm
placement interviewer.
J. I). Lilfey, farm placement in
terviewer, Employment Security
Commission, wilt be at the follow
ing places, through February, to
take orders from farmers for farm
labor and to accept application!
for farm employment from farm
workers:
? Beaufort Mobile Farm Labor
office, Highway TO, Beaufort, 811
a.m. Tuesdays.
? Wallace llill Store, Newport,
9-11 a.m. Fridays.
? J. W. Young Store, Stelli, 2:30
3:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
? T. J. Sweeting Store, Bear
Creek, 9-11 a m. Wednesdays.
? H. D. Littleton Store, Silver
dale, 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays.
Anyone who is unable to see Mr.
Lilley at the above places can eon
tact him through the ESC office,
Mrs. Julia Tenney, manager, in the
Jefferson Coffee Shop building, 4th
Street, Morehead City.
A farm placement program was
started Monday over WNCT, an
nounces Mr. Nance. He appeared
on the first of the series, The Farm
Today. Time is noon to 12:13.
Mr. Lilley has been sick and un
able recently to meet the schedule
listed above, but is expected to be
well by next week, Mr. Nance re
ported.
Deputy Picks Up
Three Youths
Arretted by deputy sheriff Bniee
Edwards at 8 p.m. Wednesday
were Terry Wilson, 16, Atlantic
Beach; Bryan Bahn and Kenneth
W. Old, each 17, Morehead City,
who are charged with attempting
to enter cottages at Atlantic Beach.
George Smith, constable of More
head township, said the boys took
combs, sweaters and similar itemi
from the Pavilion.
According to the constable. Ward
Ballou, operator of the Pavilion
saw the boys run from The Pa
vilion Wednesday night and noti
fied Bill Moore, beach chief of
police. Chief Moore radioed to po
lice cars the description of the
boys and the car they were in.
The car was spotted and stopped
by deputy Edwards.
The boys yesterday. In the com
pany of constable Smith, chief
Moore and deputy Bobby Bell,
pointed out the cottagcs they either
entered or attempted to enter at
the beach during the past several
days.
Constable Smith said the thre?
are docketed for trial in county
court next Thursday.
AtUc Bans
Beaufort firemen were called to
412 Turner St. at 4:40 a.m. yester
day. Frank Garner had reported
that hit attic was on fire. The fire
was pot out with water and there
was little damage. Causa of the
fir* was not kaova,