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T?r CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES I#' 47th YEAR, NO. 101. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1968 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS School Superintendent Views Two Proposals on Financing (Editor's Note: This U the thii schools by H. L. Joslyn, county in There ire two lines for thought In the county at present. One is that a bond issue be passed in the amount of 2 '4 mil lion dollars to build two new high schools and make additions and renovations to existing buildings as recommended by the Board of Education of Carteret County. The other is that the present in debtedness be paid off and then taxes be raised sufficient to pro duce $350,000 per year for schools. Of this amount to set aside suffi cient funds for operation or Cur rent Expense, and the balance be used for building. Let me call your attention that the cost of operation for the school year (1957-58) just past was $1, 078,069.82 Carteret County paid $95,500 of this amount, or 8.87 per cent. This was $16.11 per child, while the state and federal govern ment paid $165.75. To me that ia a reflection on us, who are citizens of the county, for we arc not doing our share in pay ing the cost of our children's edu cation. Plan I Sale of Bonds ? Mr. W. E. Eas torling, secretary to the Local Gov ernment Commission, Raleigh. N. C , figures tho cost of a 2Vs million rd in a series of three articles on iperintendent of schools). dollar bond issue would require about a 10-cent increase; however, he recommended that a 15-cent in crease be added to the present 65 cents for debt service to retire the bonds. This plan will allow construc tion to start as soon as the bonds are sold and the tax payer will benefit by the lower tax increase. Additional classroom space must be provided. The Board of Educa tion recommends the bond issue. Plan II May we consider the Pay-As You-Go Plan a moment. Suppose we have $200,000 per year for Cap ital Outlay How far will this go toward building a new plant? There are the heating plant, sew age plant, water and cafeteria kitchen. A school plant to house 1000 chil dren would require 30 classrooms plus laboratories, library, audi torium, shop and gymnasium. Es timated cost for high school $1,000, 000. This would require 5 years be fore completed in the five stages in which the money becomes avail able. That is if we could start in 1959 ? if not, then what? At pre sent Atlantic is using one impro vised room, Morehead City town ship twelve, W. S. King one, and Newport five. We are told to get more improvised rooms, but how and where? We can add rooms in a metal building, which is quickly erccted at about $5,000 per room, but what about heat where the boiler is now carrying the peak load? That means stoves in each room. Pupils have to walk to main buildings for toilet facilities and lunchroom, good or bad weather. To us the worst thing is the high cost of temporary quarters. That money spent is lost after the tem porary need has been corrected. Furthermore, what about the effect on the child in such restricted quarters, and what about the teacher? Can children and tcacher do their best work with that learn ing process? Dollars for schools arc too valuable to waste them that way. The need to improve our school facilities is imperative. We are late now in doing anything about the situation. I can't see how a thinking par ent or business man or woman in Carteret County can do otherwise than to vote the needed bond issue now. The cost is small in compari son to producing an educated and dedicated citizenship to carry on after we elders leave this scene of action. some bunny A wild rabbit with a sweet tooth was finally caught Wednes day night. The bunny had been raiding the candy counter at the Phillips 66 station on highway 70 west of Morehead City. Haywood Snell, Beaufort, man ager of the station, said that the candy bars, cigarettes and other items on shelves in his candy counter were being chewed. At first, he thought a rat was at large. 1 Then somebody decided it couldn't be a rat ? must be a rab bit. So a box for trapping rab bits was borrowed from a youngster in the neighborhood. On Tuesday night an apple wa6 put in the box and the trap set. It caught the rabbit all right, but the situation didn't meet with the rabbit's approval. He kicked his way right out of the trap. So the trap was strengthened and set again Wednesday night. Again, the rabbit took the bait. This time the trap held him. Yesterday morning Mr. Snell was still trying to decide what to do with the rabbit and was puzzled as to how the bunny got into his concrete building in the first place. Incidentally, Mr. Snell reports that Mr. Bunny preferred Ches terfields. Flying Marines Pay Tribute To Flying Wright Brothers New Bern Man Gets 91-Day Jail Sentence Philemon Davis, New Bern, got jail scntcnces totaling 90 days iiT Morehead City recorder's court Iftoaay. Judge Herbert Phillips {ound him guilty on two charges of (ailing to comply with court orders. Suspended sentences of 60 and 30 days were invoked. Luther G. Brown, Morehead City, was sentenced to 30 days for pub lic drunkenness. Iris Marie Waters and Sarah Louise Britton, both of Morehead City, were in court for fighting. The Waters woman was fined $25 and ordered to pay court costs and the costs of repairing the other woman's glasses. The Britton woman was fined $23 and ordered to pay court costs and the doctor and hospital bill of her opponent. Another private grudge got into court when Christina Smith decid ed to withdraw two warrants against Charles Holland. Judge Phillips ordered her to pay costs for each warrant. She had charged Holland with assault in one and gambling in the other. Harold R. Blake, Jacksonville, was in court on two charges of passing bad checks. In one he was fined $2S and ordered to pay cSurt coats and make good $65 in bad checks he had passed at the Jef ferson Hotel. In the other he paid court costs and made good a $3 chcck he passed to the Gant Oil Co. Martin Luther Willis, Morehead City, paid $10 and costs for speed ing Charles Ellison Ray paid , coats for gambling. Harold Bass, Morehead City, paid costs for pub lic drunkenness, disorderly con duct and resisting arrest. Champ C. Wilktas did not show up. He was charged with applying for a driver licensc under another name while his licensc waa sus pended. The judge signed a capias to have WHkins picked up and ?> brought to court. The case was continued 1 Warren E. Bryant forfeited a cash bond rather than come from MoUusk, Va., for a trial on running a red light. Cases were continued against the following: Elijah Lewis, Leon H. Haislip, Charles Holland, Isa belle Casey, Janet E. Phillips, Johnnie Ward and William Frank lin Lewis. Morohead City to Givo Mater Holiday Noxt Wook Lt. Carl Blomberg. In charge of Morehead City's parking meters, announces that he will not be checking the meters next week. He requests, however, that busi nessmen and employees in stores not park their cars in front of the stores. If they do, the meter holi day will be of no benefit to Christ mas shoppers. Coins will not b* required, either, Id meters la Beaufort. < By LOCK WOO I) PHILLIPS Ton sparkling Marines, all with the surname Wright, and all from Cherry Point Marine Air base, stood at attention at the base of the national monument glorifying the Wright brothers ? Orville and Wilbur ? at Kill Devil Hills Wed nesday morning while a United States senator, a North Carolina congressman, a Coast Guard ad miral. an author and in Air Force main* flew*!, spokt..?f the achievements of the aviation pio neers on the 53th anniversary of their first flight. The Marines stood as straight and firm as the majestic stone monument that soars skyward from a high dune. When the speech-making was concluded and the time had come for placing the ceremonial wreath, a task of honor usually reserved for someone in a high place, the Marines marched to a helicopter about a 100 yards away. Out of the helicopter stepped an other Cherry Point Marine named Wright, a private first class, a pretty woman Marine, Carrol Wright of Tampa, Fla. With her, they marched back to the base of the monument where Private Wright placed the wreath with all the dignity of a President of the United States. totsi matsr mm ~ m n Her honor guard, no one of them related to Orville or Wilbur Wright, were: Capt. Ira L. Wright Jr., Havelock; T/Sgt. Edward R. Wright. Asheville; S/Sgt. George W. Wright, Petaluma, Calif.; S/Sgt. James D. Wright of Morgantown, Ala. Sgt. Delos Wright Jr., Albany, N. Y.; Sgt. Paul W. Wright Jr., Ar mory, Miss.; Sgt. Joseph T. Wright, Kannapolit; Sgt. Chplber Wright of Middlctown, Ohio; Cpl. James T. Wright of Bristol, Va., and Cpl. Floyd T. Wright of Cin cinnati, Ohio. Following the ceremony at the monument, Sen. A. S. Mike Mon roney (D-Okla.) predicted at the Wright memorial luncheon at the Shrine Club, Nags Head, that man will fly into outer space. "This year," he stated, "we will put a man into outer space, some 100 miles above the earth in a man-piloted aircraft. The X-15 will be flying before the next Wright Day is observed ? flying not con tinent to continent, but venturing beyond the limits of the earth's at mosphere at speeds of 3,600 miles per hour. "That plane, to return to its home base in Nevada, will start its downward glide over Australia.'* Other speakers were congress man Herbert C. Bonner, Rear Ad miral Harry Moore, USCG; Maj. KM ??3 Gen. Daniel W. Jenkins, USAF, and David Stick, author. Wade Marr of Elizabeth City was toast master. Newsmen and photographers were flown to Manteo in a Marine transport plane from where they were taken by Marine helicopter, first to the ceremony at the mon ument, then to the luncheon and then back to Manteo where they boarded the plane for the return trip. The flight, under the direction 14. Col. Gorden E. Gray, informa tional services officer at Cherry Point Marine Base, started at 7 a.m. Wednesday from Cherry Point. Stops to pick up newsmen and photographers were made at Wil mington. Raleigh, Greenville, and Washington, where Congressman Bonner got aboard. That flight, with the many stops took only three hours, but was slow in contrast to the more than 500 milc speed of the eleven Century Series F-100 Air Force Jets that streaked over the monument dur ing the ceremonies there. On the return flight, over the same route, all returned in the transport except myself and Mil ton Rogcrson of the New Bern Sun Journal. We returned straight to Cherry Point in a helicopter along with all the Marine Wrights. ! V' '? *"?*: ? - ??n-m . T Woaii Miriat Pfc. Cam) Wrlgfct of T?mpi, Fit., plant a wreath <m the Wrifht Brother! NaOaaal Mcaarlal at Kitty Hawk, N. C., dariag ceremonies Wedaeaday connuMralkl Ike Uth aaaivenary of pawaiad fll?kt. LnHi( aa are tin member* of the kaaor faard which rtadtitd military Mkate to Or vfla aarf WHkar Wright. Ike kiair guard waa comprised of Marian aimed Wright, ail Irani the Marlae Carve Air State al Chary fetal, N. C. (OfOdal Marine Corp. Phatografh) Additional Rural Postal Route To Operate Out of Beaufort 4 Engineers Get Report PIuho by Bob Seymour District Engineer Col. H. C. Rowland, USA, right, discusses a re* port on Core Sound with Clayton Fulcher Jr. and Cecil Morris, At lantic. The men got together prior to a public hearing on waterway improvements Monday morning at Davis. Marshallberg Firemen Will Soonsor Santa Claus Visit Marshallberg volunteer firemen* announce that they will sponsor Operation Santa Claus again this year. Santa's trip last year, his first under firemen sponsorship, was a big success. On Wednesday afternoon, Santa will sail up Ward's Creek in Thur man Lawrence's sailing schooner. He will get aboard the Marshall berg fire truck at the Ward's Creek bridge. The truck will leave the bridge at jibout 5 p.m., proceed through Otway, Straits, go to Mar kers Island, return through Glou cester, Smyrna, proceed to Willis ton and then back to Marshallberg Santa will have oranges for all the little ones and hopes they will be out to wave to him as he passes. His ?isit was planned by the firemen at their meeting Friday night in the community buildjng. Kirc chief Ikie Guthrie presided. Minutes of the last meeting were read by Troy Moore, secretary, who also gave a financial report. Potter Heirs Plan Rebuilding If an agreement is made between heirs of !he James Potter estate and Carteret Services, of which W. H. (Piggie) Potter is president, a building is expected to be put back on the site of the Potter building destroyed by fire last Thursday night. Mr. Potter said yesterday that a single story three-unit building is contemplated, providing the same space, per unit, as existed before the fire. Potter's Grocery would then move into the building. Herring's Jewelry is tentatively planning to rcoccupy its former space, and the space occupied by House Drug store would be available for some other business. Mr. Potter said if plans pro ceed as contemplated, the new building may be ready for occu pancy by May 1, 1959. Debris from the site of the fire has been moved this week by Julius Dunn, con tractor. Damaged food from the burned out grocery store is being buried and sprinkled with kerosene in compliance with pure food laws. Other debris from the building is being placed by the seawall in front of the Day property, cast of the Way fish house. Home Burns A small house on the 500 block of Pollock Street, Beaufort, burned early Tuesday morning. The alarm was turned in at S a.m. The house, occupied by fishermen, was owned by Herbert Davis, Beaufort. Fire men said the house was a total | loss. Tide Table Tides it the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Dec. 1* 3:01 a.m. 9:32 a.m. 3:12 p.m. 1:47 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2* 3:33 a.m. 10:25 a.m. 4:0* p.m. 10:34 p.m. 8aaday, Dec. 21 4:44 a.m. 11:13 a.m. 3:M p.m. 11:20 p.m. Maaday, Dec. 22 5:34 a.m. 11:59 a.m. 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23 6:M a.m. 12:04 a.m. 6:40 p.m. 12:44 p.m. I Ocracoke Club Thanks Chamber Manager DuBois Members of the Ocracoke Civic Club have written Joe DuBois. manager of the Morehead City chamber of commerce, thanking him for the part he has played in promotion of the All Seashore Highway. Announcement of the proposal to put a ferry between Ocracoke and Cedar Island occasioned the writ ing of the letter. "Your long-time support for the All Seashore Highway idea, and your solid propaganda for the clos ing of the last link have been un doubtedly the principal influences in keeping this before the public," the Civic Club stated. The letter was signed by Elisha K. Esham, president, and Wilbur Robinson, secretary. In reply, Mr. DuBois gave credit for the development of -the high way to "the constant plugging of all the folks along the coast, from Manteo to Southport". Mr. DuBois continues, "Actually, it was the Ocracoke Civic Club, at that meeting in March 1953, which made the project possible, for had your club not voted unanimously for a highway on the Island there never could have been any All Seashore Highway. "Looking forward to riding with you on that first car ferry, I re main Most sincerely, , Joe DuBois ? J. P. Betts, Beaufort postmaster, announces the estab lishment of a new rural route out of Beaufort, beginning Friday, Jan. 2. Mr. Betts said that the area east of Beau fort has grown to such an extent that it no longer can ba handled by one rural postman. Persons who will be on the new route, RKD No. 2, and those on the present route 1 who' will be affected, will receive let ters notifying them of the change. The letters will go out during the coming week. These letters will give the house holder his new box number and in form him whether the box will have to be moved to the other side of the road, postmaster Betts said. The box must be on the right side of the road for the postman as he makes his deliveries. The new rural route 2 will serve approximately 400 families with Leland Peterson as postman. Ru ral route 1 will serve about 325 with Charles Hassell as postman. At present, on route 1, Mr. Has sell is making about 510 deliveries, the postmaster said. In establishing Beaufort RFD No. 2, the Merrimon star route has been eliminated and added to Beaufort route 1. Route 1 begins at the east end of the Morehead City drawbridge, goes through west Beaufort, out highway 101 to Core Creek bridge, then through the Laurel Road to Merrimon. The new route will include part of the present route 1 through Ot way and Bettie. Route 2 begins on Fast Front Street in Beaufort, goes through Lcnnoxville, then Highland Park, on to route 70 to Smyrna. Marshallberg and Gloucester. This route also picks up some new ter ritory. Shell Landing and the Ward Creek Road at Otway, the Crow Hill Road and then back to high way 70. . In making this change, patrons in west Beaufort and on highway 70 from Beaufort to the North River Bridge will receive mail in the morning rather than in the afternoon as they do now, Mr. Betts reports. The poatmaster reminds folks af fected by the change that they will have to notify persons who write them or with witym Mtey do busi ness that thtlr address will be changed as of Jan. 1. (Since Jan. 1 is a holiday, the first delivery on the new route will be Jan. 2). Takes Training Atlantic Beach rescue squad number two is at Cherry Point to day to take training in fire fight ing, rescue methods and first aid. The squad is taking the training under a Civil Defense schooling plan. Holidays Require Schedule Change THE NEWS-TIMES of Tuesday will go to press Monday to per mit early publication of the Christmas issue. The Christmas issue, dated Fri day, Dec. 26, will be out the day before Christmas, Wednesday, Dec. 24. Persons who have any information for newsstories or want to place ads in either of the coming two issues arc urged to contact the newspaper office without delay. County Farmers Prefer Present Crop Controls County tobacco and cotton farm ers went along with farmers from other sections of the state in Mon day's cotton and tobacco referen dums. Tobacco growers, by a 596 18 vote, favored continuing the present quota system with its 90 per cent parity supports over a system under which price supports and quotas would be abolished. Of the tobacco growers who vot ed, 356 voted for an assessment of 10 cents per acre on tobacco acreage planted for the next three years. This assessment would go io Tobacco Associates for promo tion of North Carolina tobacco. Twenty voted against the 10-ccnt assessment. Favoring an assessment of up to $1 per acre were 492 farmers while 58 registered negative ballots on the assessment. (Farmers were asked to vote on both assessment plans. ) All 41 cotton farmers who voted favored marketing quotas with price supports rather than no mar keting quotas and reduced pricc supports. The election, conducted by the county ASC office, brought about 650 farmers to the polls despite the bad weather. B J. May. ASC of fice manager, says it is the largest number of farmers ever to vote in an agricultural referendum in this county. Previous high wai about 500 votcri. Mr. May estimates that about SOO people living on farms in the county were eligible to vote. The election bad added import ance due to the lact that the three year acreage reserve phase of the Soil Bank has run its course. Un der that plan, farmers were paid by the federal government for under-planting their allotments of certain crop?. About a third of the county's to bacco acrcagc was in the Soil Bank last year. Mr. May predicts that all of the county's 1.300 acres of tobacco allotment will be planted this year. Most of the persons who had land in the Soil Bank last year will probably rent their allotments to other farmers who want to grow more than their allotments. Due to the small allotments in the county, few farmers will find tenants willing to spend a season working one or two acres of to bacco. Beaufort Shoppers to Got Free Parking Next Week Beaufort merchants have made arrangements for shoppers to en joy free parking in Beaufort Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. For the further convenience of last-minute shoppers, the stores will remain open until I each night. Morchead City has also declared a meter holiday next week. Official Cites Rules on Getting Wedding License Odell Morrill, register of deeds and dispenser of marriage licenses in the county, reminds folks that there are certain rules and regu lations to be followed in applying for a marriage license. First and foremost, marriage licenses will be issued from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Fri day and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. "Seems to me, if anyone wants to get married, they can manage to get to the register of deeds of fice in the courthouse during those hours," Mr. Merrill said. He adds that he has been asked on several occasions to issue a license after hours and on one oc casion waited at his office and no one showed up. After the register of deeds issues a license, the marriage can take place within 60 days from date of issuance. After the blood tests and physical examinations, the mar riage license must be applied for within 30 days. , , . . Out-of-state residents who intend to get married in this county must apply for a license 48 hours in advancc of the time the license is Issued. If a person was not born in th>* county, he or she must show the register of deeds a birth eertifl cate. Mr. Merrill points out that he cannot accept an affidavit from the mother or father. If a person ia over M, but under 18, a marriage license may be is sued if the mother or father of the person concerned gives his consent in writing. If a register of deeds Issues a license without making "reason able inquiry" to establish age of applicants, he is liable to be pen aliied up to $200 if the parents or guardian involved sue. Mr. Merrill says the laws are not of his making and adds that persons wiU make application for marriage licenses a simple mattel for all concerned if they will co operate as the law requires. Car Hits Two Stalled Vehicles A pickup truck and two cars were damaged at ?:13 p.m. Friday on highway 24 about 800 feet cast of Galea Creek. A 1950 Ford convertible smacked Into the rear o( a stopped 1950 Ford pickup truck and a stopped 1950 Ford automobile. Driving the con vertibel was James Parnell, USCG, of the cutter Mendota, stationed at Wilmington. Cecil Hall, route 1 Newport, owner of the two vehicles that were hit, and George James were standing by stalled cars and tried to flag Parnell down. Because ,the highway was icy, patrolman W. E. Pickard said, Parnell could not avoid hitting the stopped vehicles, one of which was being used to try to get the other going. Damage to the convertible waa estimated at $200 and damage to the other two vehicles at $100 each. Morehead Jaycees To Hear Contest Winner at Meeting Truman Kemp, winner of the Jaycee-aponsored My True Secur ity contest, will be a guest of the club at its meeting Monday night at the Blue Ribbon Club. Kemp will present his winning speech. At this week's u eeting, presi dent Jerry Willis announced that four Morehead City Jayecea had been named chairmen of district committees. They arc Dr. R. O. Barnum, Dr. Russell Outlaw, Her bert O. Phillips and L. G. Dunn. Mr. Willis asked Dr. Barnum and his awards committee to study ? proposal to honor a teen-ager of the year. The committee will make recommendations as to whe ther the award would be practical here. The club agreed to hold the Dis tinguished Service Awards banquet during Jaycee Week, Jan. lt-25. The banquet will ba a Joiat affair with the Beaufort Jaycees. The location ha* Dot be* decided.