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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES NEWS-TIMES 48th YEAR, NO. 1. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGS8 M&REHBADCITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Events of Carteret County Reviewed on Eve of New Year January Week at Ju I: The icy claws of winter have been gripping Carteret for the paat six weeka. ? Coroner Leslie Sprin gle in his report for 1957 shows he ' Investigated 54 deaths. Seven were highway fatalities; five murders, three drownings, two deaths by fire, two suicides and one by suf focation. Construction work in Morehead City reached its lowest point in the past decade, only $130,830 for the year. ? Peter Block gave the, biggest Christmas party in the county, attended by 535 adults and children. ? Morehead City Cham ber of Commerce moved to lobby of the Fort Macon Hotel. Deaths: Mrs. Dula M. Salter, 82, Merrimon. David A. Kirk, Sr., S4, Newport. Mrs. Matilda Adams, 75, Broad Creek. Mra. Corinne N. Har vey, Merrimon. Week of Jaa. II: Mel West considera another ocean trip in outboard boat. ? Simmic Smith kills 22-pound bob cat at Core Creek. ? David F. Jones Jr., county soil conserva tionist accepted position of agricul ture engineer conservationist with Fifth Naval District. ? Clayton Fulcher, Atlantic and Mrs. E. L. Davis, Beaufort, named to the board of trustees of Kafer Me morial Hospital, New Bern. Four new rooms added to the elementary department' of the W. 8. King school in Morehead City. ? Section of a tanker under tow hits the Coast Guard cutter Chi lult doing an estimated damage Of $20,000. Marriages: Miss June Seamon, Morehead City to U. John E. All yettl. Deaths: Mrs. na Safrit, 78, Beaufort. Harvey T. Piner, 70 Williston. Leslie Lewis, 64, Beau fort. Week of Jan. it: Harry Byrd of Harriionburg. Va., committed suicide at the home of Deyo Judy with a shotgun. ? Fire razed the six-room house of James Harvey, early Wednes day morning In Morehe?(f City. ? Ftatniaft awy^Mna *iaht avert the weekend. ? Woodwen of the Warld camp 330, Newport broke ground for their new lodge buttl ing. Marriages: Miss Elizabeth S. Dixon, Beaufort, to Johnny G Simpson. Misa Nadine Garner, Mewport, to Sgt. James H. Bowen. Deaths: Miss Brittie Styron, 77, Sea Level. Daily M. Fulcher, 68, Atlantic. Harold Willia, 56, More head City. Fred N. Davia, 65 Beaufort. Mrs. Olivia W. Gibble, ?7, Morehead City. Week ef Jaa. 26: Mel West, Morehead City, leaves again to try to set outboard motor boat record. ? County Health Board acta in favor of mosquito control program. ? A. C. Blanken ahip named key man of Beaufort Jaycees. ? Outstanding young Farmer award given to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Creech of Harlowe. Dan Walker, Beaufort, given Jaycee Community Service award ? Bill Blair, Morehead City, has been named to the All American D. Leon William*, irihrt of Alabama, wai lamed director o? the North Carolina atate porta fat February, aactttdai CM. Richard Hut. intercollegiate aoceer team.? Miaa Joyce Leonard, Beaufort, crowacd Mia* Seadog at the Morchead Beaulort basketball game. Marriagea: Mias Marjorie P. Brown to David M. Lindsay, More bead City. ? Deaths. Charlie L. Loekey, *0, Newport Mrs. Cecil B. Arthur, (3, Morehead City. Jpha Guthrie, 90, Barkers Ialand. February Wert ef Feb. t: Heavy aoow storm blanketa the county. - Sanitary Fiab Market aad Restaurant celebrates its Mth anniversary with bif party. ? Mr. Md Mrs. Ivey L. Woodcock cele hrate their 30th wedding anniver aary. ? Town of Newport to take i? Lake Park area. ? Coaat Guard niflnU leaves to A. C. Blankenihip, left, ?n named key man of the Beaufort Jaycees at tbelr DSA banquet in Jan nary. Mrs. Blaokenafatp adjusts his award, a tie chain with key. Club president Frank Langdale watches, right. search for Mcl West headed for Bermuda in an open boat. Marriages: Miss Sarah H. Willis of Davis to Charles R. Brown. Deaths: Mrs. W. B. Martin, Mcr rimon. David M. Jones, 76, Beau fort. John R. Willis, 82, Ports mouth. Johnny A. Lewis, 54, Mar kers Island. Week of Feb. 9: The Rev. W. E. Anderson, 85, retired Free Will Baptist minister died in Morehead City. ? Dr. R. 0. Barnum, Morehead City receives the Jaycee Distinguished Service award and Charles Markey was Mel West, Morehead City, dis appeared In February in what evidently was a second attempt to reach Bermuda in an outboard motor boat. given a certificate for his work on the Morehead City Centennial celebration. Haola milk truck leaves road and crashes through home of Fran cis Bullock on Crab Point. ? Elks Lodge gives $100 to polio fund. ? Dr. B. F. Royal, Morehead City, elected head of county medical society. ? Chuck Sledge was crowned king and Barbara Holt queen of Morehead City High School. Deaths: Mrs. Nina S. Robinson, M, Atlantic. Mrs. Mariah Berry, 75, Morehead City. Miss Dclorcs Jones, 14, Morehead City. Week of Feb. 1?: Cold wave hits county with a 12 degree* temperature. Coldest since the freeze of 1917-U. ? Coast Guard cutter Chllula goea to the reacue of Italian freighter and searches for missing bodies. ? Miss Anne Herbert, Morehead City, receives a $25 savings bond from the American Legion in a speak ing contest. ? Llewellyn Phillips, Morehead City wins county bas ketball scaring title. ? Thomas L. Noc elected president Morehead City Rotary Club. ?..y . ? . Marriages: Mrs. Florcncc Nel son, Beaufort to Carlton Robinson. Mist Mary E. Leonard. Morehead City to Lauren B. Richtcr. Miss Barbara A. Hazelwood to James B. Willis Jr., of Morehead City. Deaths: Jesse G. Kirkman, 49, Morehead City. Myron H. Coff man, 76, Morehead City. ' Week of Feb. 23: Morehead City's new cemetery given the name of "Greenwood Park." ? Robert A. Waine and Thomas E. Teague. Marines, killed when their car left the highway and went into White Oak River. ? Beaufort Seadogs defeated the Morehead Eagles in final basket ball game of the county tourna ment at Smyrna. The Smyrna girls team wins championship trophy. ? Miss Gunhilde Gunnersen, More head City, made chairman county Red Cross drive. Deaths: Mrs. Mattie M. Eborn, M. Morehead City. Mrs. Linda P. n, Mutwi Island Safe es, 64, Morehead City. James ?. Bryant, Beaufort. Livous H. Bell, 61, Morehead City. Marriage: Min Margaret Fallin, Beaufort to Thomas Drake. March Week of March 2: Cottage of Ned Grady on Atlantic Beach destroyed by fire. ? Severe freeze during a week in February causes extensive destruction of fish and shrimp. ? D. L. Williams, Savannah, Ga., becomes new ports director. ? Llewellyn Phillips II awarded the Morehead scholarship to attend UNC. ? B. E. Tarkington elected president of Beaufort Ro tary. Deaths: Mrs. Faye P. Simmons, 30, Morehead City. Kenneth C. Waller, two-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Waller, Beaufort. Week of March S: Grady Davit fish house at Davis destroyed by fire Sunday morn ing. ? Atlantic Beach breaks ground for town hall. ? Barroom brawl at Ann'a Place retulti in the ihooting of two Marines. ? Two Coast Guardsmen killed in auto wreck near Broad Creek. ? Gordon Becton elected president Beaufort IT A. Marriages: Miss Carolyn Nel son, Markers Island, to Liston Lawrence. Miss Carol J: Smith to Robert L. Russell Jr., Beaufort. Mia* Christine Dunn of Beaufort to Ernest Hill. Miss Judy Golden of BMtifort to R. L. Buttry. Deaths: Mrs. Edward White hurst, 60, Beaufort. Agnes M. Cur rier, 3 years. Mill Creek. Mrs Mary Dudley, Morehead City. Mrs. Bessie Smith, 6S, Morehead City. Week of Mirth It: R. M. McChin elected chairman of County Citizens Committee for Better Schoo't. ? Community Thei tre gives a -ards to Miss Lillian F. Gidii'.ns, Miss Ruth Peeling and H. L. joslyn for their outstanding roles during the past year. ? Clarence Millis, Newport, Gilbert Whitehurst, Straits, and Gordon K. Laughton, Crab Point honored for years of service with the Elec tric Membership Corp. Miss Vivian May, Morahcad City, named chairman of the County Cancer Society. ? C. A. Stone beads Emeritus club for the year. ? Fred Willis Jr., and Joan Guth rie winner in the Morehead City Llewellyn Phillip* , Morebed City senior, ta March IU named recipient of a Moreh ead Scholar ship to the University at Nwtfe Carolina. contest "Vision and Highway Safe ty." ? Smyrna Nite Raider* won the New Bern recreation league basketball championship. Deaths: Roy C. Willis, M. of Smyrna. Mrs. Julia A. Gamer, <0, Newport. Berkley A. Willis, M. Davis. Charlotte A. Isaac, 16 months, Morehead City. Carl L. Siebenschuh, 38, Broad Creek. Par ker A. Guthrie, 64, Newport. Jerry P. Thomas, 75, North River. Ida M. Raynor, 36, Morehead City. Mrs. Mary C. Shepard, Tl, Beau fort. Week of March tl: The Missionary Baptist Church of Sea Level was organized Sunday from a mission of the Atlantic Baptist Church. ? Timothy SVkes held on a charge of manslaughter following the death of Claytoh B. Hall, shot by Sykes at Ana'* Place. ?St. James Methodist Church' of See UM EVENTS, Pag* X, ?ec. 1 ? ? ? ^ ppppqr term ?M? **** U* cammtj k..ketk?ll rkamplouklp b Febnury fcy deferfnf the MorrkeU at? mmmm - rtsv -fc B-tt. lb* tMOuMst ?u Mi at tajtaa. i Tax Listing Begins, Will Continue Til January 31 County Board to Hear School Bond Matter at 2 Monday ? Defendant Sent To Goldsboro For Theft Trial Jade* Herbert Phillip* in More head City recorder's court Monday ordered Jamei L. Phillips, Golds boro, returned to Goldsboro (or trial on theft of an automobile. Phillips was convicted in More head City court of driving without a license and driving on the wrong side of the road. He was aentenced to 30 days in jail. Accordlmg to police, Phillips stole a 1957 Ford in Goldsboro and drove it to Jacksonville where he swapped it for a 1851 Ford and $20. Then he proceeded to More head City and was picked up for the motor vehicle violations. Leon H. Haislip, Morchead City, was fined $100 for driving without a license, careless and rc.kless driving and going through a red light. He voluntarily surrendered his driver's license for 90 days. He was not tried on charges of driving drunk, failing to heed a siren and running a stop sign. Robert Mills, Morehead City, was given SO days in jail for pos session of non-taxpaid whiskey. Harold Mobley, also of Morchead, was ordered to pay costs and re imburse Cahria Hester *5 to pay for bike< Urea Mobley cut. Panl R. Taylor, Morehead City, paid >60 and coat* far careless and Baa COURT, Page I 1959 Commercial Boat Tags Are Available Now 1950 licenses for commercial fishermen are available now, C. G. Holland, commercial fisheries commissioner, announced t h I a week. All boats using any type of com mercial gear or selling the catch must be licensed. The tax is $2.50 for any boat 1? feet or under; 50 cents per foot for boats up to 26 feet, and 75 centa a foot for boats over 26 feet in length. The tags are good Jan. 1 through Dec. 31. They must be posted on the boat. Al required by law. the county* board of commissioners, at iti meeting Monday In the courthouae will conduct a hearing on the pro posed $2,500,000 school bond issue. The hearing will begin at 2 p.m. It la expected that county board of education members will attend the bearing. Citizena seeking information on the bond issue, persons in favor of it and those against are wel come at the hearing, Moses C. Howard, chairman of the county board, announces. Alvah Hamilton, county attorney, said this week that even though there may be a protest against the bond issue, the county board has the authority to procccd with put ting the matter before the people in a referendum. The referendum, originally expected to be some time this month, will be in Feb ruary, according to stipulations set forth by New York bond at torneys. "I think this hearing is merely to get a cross-section of the feel ing of the people," Mr. Hamilton remarked. If a protest against the bond issue is made, this fact will be forwarded, as required by law, to the Local Government Com mission. The Local Government Commis sion supervises the borrowing ac tivities of town and county gov erning units. The government com mission has no authority, however, to block the county's move to go through with the bond referendum. W. E. Kasterling, secretary to the Local Government Com mis ?ion, has stated that tha matter rests entirely with the county board of commissioners. The coaoty board of education la schools, in a series of three ar ticles which appeared last month explained the need for better schools, the desirability of con solidated school* and the impor tance of obtaining a large amount of money, $2^4 million at one time, in order to build the consolidated schools. Any other measure, the superin tendent stated, would be expensive and piecemeal. Harry Mlielle, Newport, who is in favor of maintaining the pres ent school plants and improving them on a pay-as-you-go plan ra ther than borrowing money to build consolidated schools, made the following statement this week: "It has been a hard road that See COUNTY BOARD, Page 1 Presbyterian Pastor, Family Arrive Here ? The Rev. Charles Kirby Begins Pastorate ? New Minister Studied Year at Edinburgh The Rev. Charles L. Kirby. new pastor of the First Presbyterian ' Church, and his family moved to the manse, 2810 Evans St., More head City, Tuesday. Mr. Kirby will begin his duties at the church at 11 Sunday mora- i ing, with a communion service. The topic of his sermon will be In the Beginning and will be based on the first chapter of John. Mr. Kirby is a native of Ft. Pierce, Fla. He came to North Carolina in 1943, was graduated from Davidson College and re ceived his ministerial training at Union Theological Seminary, Rich mond, Va. From October 1953 to July 1967 he was pastor of four churches. Black River Church at Ivanhoe, Caswell at Atkinson. Harmony at Kerr, and Stafford Memorial Church it Garland. He resigned the four-church pas torate in July 1957 and went to Edinburgh, Scotland, where be at tended the School at Theology, Uni versity of fdinburgh, for one year. from Scotland Sept. 1J, 1958 Since that time, they have beon living with Mr. Kirby'a foater fa ther. Dr. Thomas D. Sparrow of Charlotte. Mr. Kirby aaid yesterday, "We are very happy to be here. More head City is a lovely town. We're excited about the potential of Morehead City and are looking for ward to living here with real anti cipation." Mr. Kirby succeeds the Rev. A. G. Harris Jr. as pastor of First Presbyterian. Court Friday County recorder's court will con vene at 10 this morning, Friday. The past two regular sessions were not held because of the holidays. Fleet Assembled Off Beaufort Prior to Assault on Fort Fisher By F. C. SALISBURY Never before or since his the bight at Cape Lookout and the harbor of Beaufort presented such a scene as it did on Jan. 8. IMS. On that day the federal Naval squadron assembled there under the command of Admiral David D. Porter. It left on that data to make the second Naval assault on Fort Fisher off the mouth of the Cape Fear River. The assault resulted in the reduction of the fort and surrender. Naval history covering the sea battles of the Civil War five litUe Information leading up to the as sembling of the fleet at Cape Look out and Beaufort, as the chief baae of the North Atlantic blockading squadron. It is from personal letters writ ten by Admiral Porter to hla friend. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, G. V. Fox, that some facta are obtained of this locale preced ing the naval and land battle af Fort Flahcr. The aquadron. leaving the shores of Carteret County Jan! I, IMS, consisted of over SO vessels of va rious types, from iron-eUds to sup ply boats. These men, with Ma rines and sailors from the war vessels, were landed to engage In the land operations of the battle. la a letter written on board the Bag ship Malvern, dated Beaufort, Jan. 7, IMS by Porter to his friend Fox there is an expression of opti mism over the coming battle. Por ter says: "It ia the easiest work I ever undertaafc. It cant be beat en ... I will silence their guns is twenty-five minutes ... yon seed not be surprised to hoar that the webfootara have gone Into the fort." _ Baa FLKET. Page 7 Admiral "Black Dave- Porter, the kwM aad tiWiw Navy officer. aa board the flagsUp Malvern wMe In baiter at Beaafort Mora the battle of Part Flaher. After the war, ha became aaferta teadeat W the Naval Academy la Aaaafatfc. He mMihl Admiral Farraiat aa admiral of the Nary hi isn. Luting of taxes will be fin this morning, Friday, throughout the county. After Saturday, Jan. 31, :here will be no more listing. The law states that persons who do not list during Jan jary or who attempt to con :eal property in an attempt to evade taxation shall b? lubject to fine, imprison ment, or both. All persona! property and im provements to real estate must b? listed, list takers, on duty In com munities throughout the county, are the following: Walter Smith, Atlantic township; U. E. Swann and C. Z. Chappcll, Beaufort (courthouse); Mrs. Dora Day, Cedar Island; Mrs. Delia Da via, Davis and Stacy; Charles W. Hancock, Markers Island. Mrs. 8. C. Wilkinson, Harlowe; lames Gillikin, Marshallberg; George Hardy, Merrimon; John Baker and Jerry Willis, Morcbead City (municipal building). Prentiss Garner, Newport; Mrs. Blanche Willis. Sea Level; Mrs. Dolly Taylor, Smyrna; Theodora Willis, Straits; and Sam B. Mea dows, White Oak. Each cltixen subject to tax must sign the blank on which he sets forth the items of property he owns. Therefore, no listing can b? done by phone or at any place ex eept where the list takers have their books. Biologists Hear Dr. G. S. Posner Dr. Gerald S. Posner, oceanogra* pher at the Univeralty of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Re search, spoke to biologists of tho US Fish and Wildlife Service, Duke University, and Oyster Institute of America laboratories, at Pivers l.Iai* itKattty. His sabjcct was physical, chemical, and biological studies conducted in Albemarle, Croatan, Roanoke and northern Pamlico sounds from October IKS to August 1957 The findings of Dr. Posner are of particular significance to biolo gists of the Fish and Wildlife Ser vice because of their current re search on the striped bass fishery in the Albemarle Sound region* of North Carolina, including the Roanoke and Chowan rivers, and to staff members of the UNC Insti tute of Fisheries Research because of their reaearch on nursery grounds of the striped baas and distribution of the general fish fauna o i the area. The work ot Dr. Poaner provide* the basis for ? clearer understand* ing of the many factors which con trol biological production within North Carolina coaatal waters, said Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director of tb* UNC fisheries institute. State Approves Road Program Raleigh ? The State Highway Commission has approved and sat up funds for re-treating eight coun ty road* and the streets in Atlantic. This work Involves re-treating, with standard drag seal, the fal lowing roads: county road at Stacy, county road three-tenths of a mile east of the North River bridge, county road north of Newport be tween US TO and old Nine-Foot road, county road at Broad Creek on NC >4 loop road, county road at Gales Creek on NC 24 (old NC 24), {eoanty road at Bogue loop road, county road (aid Black Swamp Road) between NC 24 and the Jooes County line, community streets in Atlantic, and county road between US 70 and Sea Level. It I* anticipated that work on these roads will be completed on or before June SO, 1969 at an esti mated cost of {37.M7. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW. Friday. Jan. t 1:27 a.m. 7:4? a.m. 1:42 p.m. I:1T p.m. Satnrday, Jan. S 2:28 a.m. ?:(* a.m.