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:hc CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ,0' 48th YEAR, NO. 2. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT,. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JANUARY ?. 1969 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS "1 1 ? ? ' 1 * " ' 1 ? ' County Board Hears Pleas For Planned Development Tie eouly him i iirst meeting of 1959 was marked by pleas for county zoning and future planning. Appearing before the board yes terday morning at the courthouie were D. G. Bell and Joe DuBois, Morehead City, who advocated zoning and planning; N. L. Wal ker and Pat Warren, of the Emeri tus Club, who presented informa tion they had gathered on county zoning, and W. H. Potter, presi d?nt of the Beaufort Community Development Corp. Mr. Potter, who was appointed to a county resources development authority, informed the board that the group had never met. Others on the authority are county com missioner Harrell Taylor and Joe DuBois. Commissioner Taylor called a meeting at noon yesterday to or ganize and suggest two additional members. Mr. Potter requested $800 from the county to make on aerial survey of Beaufort. More head City, and the Newport River basin, part of the money also to be used for printing brochures. The primary pnrpose of the work, he said, would be to help the state decide where to loeate the bridge across Newport River be tween Beaufort and Morehead. The county board said it would be better for the development au thority to organize, before talking money. Mr. Potter, who has also been sppointed to the Beaufort Morehead airport authority said he considered It a waste of time to be on such groups unless the county furnished money for them to work with. Moses Howard, chairman of the board, suggested it might be well for the airport authority to de termine what the needs are at the airport and persent the proposal to the county. Prior to Mr. Potter's statements, the borad approved a resolution requested by D. G. Bell, county legislator, which states that the county is interested only in a bridge location that Is convenient and safe for those using it, a loca tion j that offers the utmost for future development, and one that will allow for expanaioo of the Morehead City port. Copies of (he resoldllon aft to be sent to the State Ports Authority, the State Highway Commission, Ue Department of Conservation ? and Development, and Southern Railway. Mr. Potter said that if the $800 for the aerial survey is not forth coming from the county, private citizens will finance the work. Mr. Bell suggested that the county board pass a resolution op posing the proposal for another ocean fishing pier on Bogue Banks. The commissioners said they had already acted on the matter at the last meeting and they had no au thority to oppose the pier. Mr. DuBois echoed statements by Mr. Bell which cited the im portance of planning for the future and zoning Carteret on a county basis. He said that in 25 years, the population of the county will dou ble. Mr. DuBois was invited to meet with Mr. Bell and county commis sioners relative to introducing leg islation this year which will enable the county to enact a zoning ordi nance. The board accepted information from Joe Beam of the John L. Crump insurance office and agreed to take it under consideration. Mr. Beam presented a quotation on liability insurance for county and board of education properties. Attending the meeting were com missioners Harrell Taylor, Skinner Chalk, Gaston Smith, and Dcvid Yeomans, as well as the chairman. Cold Wave Hits County Sunday A cold wave hit the county Sun day night as the temperature plunged to 23 degreei and strong northwest winds caused small cralt warnings to go up along the coast Weather observed Stamey Davis reports that the mercury dropped to 25 after 11 p.m. Sunday and wr.* still recording 25 at 8 a.m. yes terday. The cold snap put an end to the mild weather enjoyed the first three days of the new year. Warm, rainy weather was re corded the first three days with the temperature climbing as high as 61 on Thursday and Friday. Mr. Davis measured J inch of rain between Thursday and Saturday. Maximum and minimum temper ?tores and wind direction for the new year follow: Max. Mia. Wtad Thursday ?1 38 SE Friday ?1 ? SE Saturday SI 44 NE Sunday 55 41 SW Negro Woman Abandons Children , Sent to Jail Ethan S. Davis III Wins Eagle Scout Award Sunday Ethan 8. Davis 111 . . . Eagle Scout Ethan S. Davis III, IS, was pre sented the Eagle Scout award in special services at the First Meth odist Church. Morehead City, Sun day night. Ethan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Davis Jr., completed the requirements for Eagle Scout In September, lie is now in the Coast Guard. Ethan is a member -at troop 130, ?pon sored by the Methodist Men's Club of First MetMist Church Hit fatter ? ?eoflm**teK , . Dr. Darden Eure, institutional representative of troop 130, was in charge of the opening ceremony. Gordon C. Willis, member of Car teret District Committee, gave the report of the board of review. R. B. Howard, also a member ?f the district committee, gave a talk on lighting the Eagle trail. James E. Crowe, district chair man, made the presentation. The Eagle pin was passed down from Mr. Crowe to assistant scout masters Dr. T. R. Rice and Allen Colenda, to Mr. Davis to Ethan, who handed the pin to his mother. Mrs. Davis pinned the Eagle award on Ethan and he gave her a minia ture Eagle award and a red rose. Meeting Postponed The Beaufort town board did not meet last night. Dan Walker, town manager, announced that a meet ing may be called later this month. ' Jane C. Fair, Beaufort, was sen tenced to six months in women's prison (or abandoning her children. County recorder's court judge Lambert Morris handed down the sentence in court Friday. The Negro womaq was the only defendant to draw a jail term. The heaviest fine was levied against Peter John Scory. He was fined $125 and ordered to pay court costs after being convicted of driving drunk, speeding and careless and reckless driving. Phillip C. LeClair and Eugene Leonard, charged with breaking, entering and larceny, waived pre liminary bearing Judge Morris set bonds at $300 for LeClair and $500 for Leonard to appear in su perior court. James Reels, charged with hit and run, posted a $500 bond and waived preliminary hear ing. Leamon Garner, Newport, was given 60 days in which to pay all fine* and costs due the court. He was fined $10 plus costs for tres passing and taxed costs for break ing and entering. Judge Morris suspended a one-year jail term. Edward Barrett was also given 60 days in which to pay his fine and court costs. He was fined $15 for public drunkenness. He got a six month suspended sentence. Roy Teel paid $10 and costs for drunkenness and assault. Also pay ing $10 and costs was Ronald W. Rolison, found guilty of improper passing and running a stop sign. Those who paid costs follow: Er nest Jones, William Franks and Elra McGee, public drunkenness; Gwendolyn W. Morning, failure to yield the right of way; and Odom W McLellard, following too close. John A. Willis paid one-half costs for driving on the wrong side of the road. The state elected not to try Walter Joyner, charged with damaging property. The etmt* declared two defen dant* lo be the victims of mall cious prwecution. They were Char litJIcCoraaiek and George Dudley. Bo(l had been charged with as sault. Robert I. HU1 forfeited a bond rather than appear for trial. He was charged with driving drunk and causing an accident. Judge Morris ordered the bond forfeiture struck off the record and Hill to be brought in for trial. The state continued 31 cases. Newport Firemen Stop Woods Fire on NC 24 Newport firemen successfully battled a woods fire across NC 24 from the Jump and Run Service Station near Gales Creek yesterday afternoon. Morehead City firemen were alerted and were prepared to join the fight if the fire showed signs of getting out of control. The fire threatened several buildings but damaged none. New Presbyterian Pastor TW lev. aivkf t* Eb*f , aWvt, kc|u ptitaral Mlaa today at the Ural rreafeytariaa CVurcfc, Mwilnl CMj. , ? ? : ;/Vv ? Michael Scott Suffers Serious Head Injuries in Auto-Bicycle Collision Mayor Greets First Ship for '59 / II WW? ? Photo Dy Bob Seymour Mayor George Dill o( Morehead City presents the key to the city to CapL J. A. J. Reedijlt of the Som melsdyk. The Holland-America ship was the first to dock in Morehead City in 1131. Mayor George Dill presents the key to Morehead City to Capt. J. A. J. Hredijk of the Holland-Amer ica Line. Captain Reedijk is the i master of the Sommelsdyk, first ship to dock at Morehead City In 1*99. The Sommelsdyk docked Jan. 1 to discharge a general cargo and take on tobacco and lumber. Others in the picture are as fol lows: seated, left to right, Walter Friederichs, port operations man ager, Robert Hicks, shipping agent f?jr Heide & Co., and Walter II. Zingelmann, lumber exporter. Standing, left to rignt, chief en gineer Fredrik Westhof and chief officer G. Van Vliet. While the Sommelsdyk was still in port, tbe second ship of the year docked. The Jeppesen Maersk came in to pick up a cargo of to bacco for the Far East. In a luncheon aboard the Som melsdyk Friday. Mr. Friederitha pointed to the growth of the More head City port. He said that 127 commercial vessels docked at the port in 1958, compared to H in 1957. The number of tobacco (hips increased from 43 to 70 durinf the same period. Mr. Fricderichs said that ton nage figures and other informa tion would be released later. 1 : Sheriff Issues Stern Warning Sheriff Hugh Salter yesterday warned owners of cattle on the outer baoka that unless the live stock are taken off by Jan. 15, the animals will be shot. According to law, all goats, yigs, sheep and cows on the outer banks were to be removed by July 1. Some were taken off, but quite a few still remain. Not only will the livestock be destroyed, but owners are sub ject to fines up to $100 or im prisonment. Driver Starts New Year in Jail Too it) u c h celebrating New Year's Eve meant jail for S/Sgt. Morris Watkins, a serviceman sta tioned at Cherry Point. Watkins, in his IKS Chevrolet failed to make a curve on the Len noxville Road Wednesday night, about a mile eaat of the highway 70 intersection. The car struck a telephone pole, broke it in three pieces, rolled over aeveral times and burned. Deputy sheriff Bruce Edwards, who investigated, took Watkins and another man in the car with W kins, to the Morehead City h pltal where they were given emi gency treatment. Watkins was put ia jail; charg?u with driving drunk, speeding, earl iest and reckless driving, and dam age to private property, the tele phone pole. Phone service In the area was disrupted because of the crash. Burglars Clean Out Mack's Place Burglars cleaned out almost everything except the' beer at Mack's on the Lennoxville Road sometime between 11:30 p.m. Fri day and daybreak Saturday. Sheriff Hugh Salter said Mack's was entered by breaking a glass in a side door. Cigars, cigarettes, and food, plus about $100 from the Juke box and game machines were stolen. The theft was diacoverad Satur day by Leo Mathis who operates the place. SPA to Meet The State Porta Authority will meet Jan. 11 and 12 at Fayette ville. On the agenda will be letting of a contract for a study of the location ti a bridge to replace the present More head City drawbridge across Newport River. CD Sets Maximum Amounts Available on Storm Repair The federal office of Civil De fense last week set the top amounts to be allowed three communities in Carteret for temporary repair of hurricane Helene damage. Beaufort's ceiling was the high est, $87,266. followed by $49,230 for Morehead City, and $6,547 for Emerald Isle. The figures are merely estimates of what it will (or has) cost the communities to get back to nor mal after September's hurricane. Dan Walker, Beaufort town man ager, said the approval doesn't mean that the communities will, be handed checks for those amounts. The towas first have to do the work and any work that fits into the law as "temporary" will be paid for with federal funds. Both the state and federal gov ernment sent engineers to this area after the storm to help make es timates. Beaufort suffered considerable damage to its sewage system as well as in tree damage and loss. Relative to reqeusts by indivi duals in outlying areas for federal help, engineers who made surveys said they doubted if any of the work requested would qualify as "temporary". Applications for such work were to be made to Gray Hassell, engineering consultant for the county. Deadline for applica tions was Dec. 31. Boy Recovers Charles L. King, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn King, Ral eigh, continues to improve at the Morehead City Hospital. Chariea and his father were accidentally shot at Mcrrimon Dec. 26. Charles, the more seriously wounded, was in a critical condition for several days. A Merry 'Old Christmas' Tonight It Twelfth Night, or Epiphany, and at Rodanthc on the outer banka "Old Chriatmaa" is celebrated with an oyster roast and appearance of Old Buck, the bull of the Hattcraa woods which traditionally makei his appear ance on Twelfth Night. This night designates the end of the 12 days of Christinas. Old Buck ii pictured right above with his masked keeper on Aycock Brown's Christmas card. Mr. Brown, simply re ferred to aa "Aycock" by every body in eastern Carolina, sent his Christmas greetings out this year so that they would arrive in keeping with the Old Christ mas celebration. Aycock and hie family live la lUntao where Ay cock is publicist for the Dire County Tourist Buretu. Twelfth Night commemorates the appearance of the three wise men who paid homage to the infant Jesus. During the Middle Ages the event was commem orated with solemn church plays, but in EUxabethan England, solemnity gave way to masques and revelry. It is this tradition from merry old England that was carried to the New World by the early Eng lish settlers who were the first to put their roots down on the outer banks of North Carolina. Present-day generations still practice the custom at Rodanthe, feasting and making merry, a climax to a joyous holiday sea son. Michael Scott, a, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Scott, More head City, was seriously injured when he collided with the front fender of a 1947 DeSoto driven by Charles Johnson, 48, of 1608 Avery St., Morehead City, about 4:30 p.m. yesterday. Michael, riding a girl's bicycle, came out of the eaBt alley on the north side of the 12004 block of Evans Street. Johnson waa driving west on Evans. Johnaoa toU a NEWS-TIMES re porter that be (aw the little boy coming down the alley and put on his brakes. The DeSoto skidded 4S feet and collided with the bicycle, then skidded for 42 feet mare and plowed into the rear of a 1996 Buick parked on the south side of Evana Street. The Buick, owned by George D. Willis. Morehead City, waa knocked 51 feet and came to rest on the sidewalk between two trees. (Police Capt. C. E. Bunch, who investigated at the seen* of the accident, reported that Johnson had four slick tires. A. P. Adams, a mechanic for Parker Motors, said that the right front wheel did not have a brake). Persons attracted by the noise saw Johnson jump out of his car, run to the child, pick him up and put him in Gray don Willis's station wagon. Willis took the boy to the hospital in his .car. Dr. L. J. Norris examined the still-unconscious boy and said he had a concussion and possible skull fracture. Results of x-rays were not available when the paper went to press yesterday evening. Patrolman 1. C. Steele pointed out that the bicycle struck the side of the front fender. That would in dicate that the bicycle ran into the car, the patrolman said. Charges against Johnson are pending. He said that he knew be had alick tires and bad brakes bat always drove carefully and slowly. Coast Guardsmen Refloat Cruiser Coaai Guardsmen from Fart Ma eon refloated and towed the 42-foot cabin cruiser Kay Bee V to the More head City Yacht Basin yester day morning. The Coast Guardsmen got a call Sunday night that the boat was aground one mile north of the Morehead City bridge. The Coast Guard's 30-footer was unable to get within 200 yards of the cruiser and returned to station for a dory. Coast Guardsmen boarded the cruiser from the dory and found her to be out of gaa as well aa aground. They returned at high tide, 5:15 a.m. yesterday, and refloated the boat and towed it to Morehead City. The boat was owned by Beau fort Buick Co., Hampton, Va. Members of the Coaat Guard crew making the assist were ENC Earl Sells, EN/1 Ronald Quidley, SN Walter Simpson and ET/3 Sam uel Wiersteiner. Harrell Taylor Hoads County Planning Board Harrell Taylor, Sea Level, was elected chairman of the County Reaources Development Authority (sometimes referred to as county planning board) at a luncheon meeting in Beaufort yesterday. 1. A. DuBois, Morehead City, waa elected secretary. Mr. Taylor, Mr. DuBois and W. H. Potter, sug gestcd Leon Mann Jr., Newport, and Cecil Morris, Atlantic, aa the other two members of the author ity. If Mr. Mann and Mr. Morris ac cept the appointments, they will be formally named by the county board of commissioners. | Plana Proceed' Modification Ui design of the pro posed ferry between Ocracoke and Cedar Island la In progress, pre paratory to letting a contract for construction of the ferry early this year. Tido Table Tides at tk* Beanfwt Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Ja m. ? 5:37 a.m. 12:M a.m. ?:0S p.m. - - Wednesday, las. 7 6:33 a.m. 12:15 a.m. 7:00 p.m. ? 12:59 p.m. Tharaday, Ian. I 7:24 a.m. l:?t a.m. 7:51 p.m. 1:10 p.m. Friday, Jan. t 1:13 a.m. l.-M a.m. I;4t p.m. >J> pjn. 35 Attend Bond Hearing Monday At Courthouse t Opinion Seems Evenly Divided on How to Pay ? Wiley Taylor Requests Specific School Plans Thirty-five persons in ad dition to public officials dis cussed schools and the school bond matter yesterday after noon at the courthouse. No one said the county didn't need schools ? debate centered on whether to borrow $2V4 million or whether to try to pay for the cost of new school! out of availablo county funds. Sentiment seemed evenly divided ?for every fellow who stood up and spoke in favor of borrowing $2M million, one wai ready to stand up and say that a way can be found for the county to finance new schools on its own. Women were conspicuous by their absence. Evidently men only are interested in the school prob lem ? only one woman was in the audience. Moses Howard, chairman of the county board of commissioners, presided. H. L. Joslyn, county su perintendent o I schools, gave a brief explanation of the school needs and set forth the recommen dations by the state school plan ning committee. This committee recommended a consolidated high achool between Morebcad City and Newport, be tween North River and Beaufort, a high school at Atlantic (already there) and a new elementary school at White Oak, if needed. Alvah Hamilton, county attorney, termed the school issue "the most importsnt thing thst has been be fore our people in years." Opening the floor, Mr. Howard first recognized Kenneth Fischler of Morehesd City. Mr. Fischler commented that under the pro posed plan, schools still may not be able to accommodate all the pu pils in several years. He proposed a pay-as-yon-go program develop ed over a 20-year period. Wiley Taylor Jr., Beaufort, ssld he was totally in favor of better schools, but he said no one has yet told the people, except in generali ties, what ia going to be done with the money. He said no sites had been announced nor plans given as to what type buildings would be built. "I'm la the dark about this thing, as most people in the county are," Mr. Taylor said, "and until you 8ee HE AUNG, Page 1 Driver Cited Following Wreck Walter N. Cruschiel, USMC, Cherry Point, w aa charged with drunken driving and careless and reckless driving following an ac cident at t p.m. Saturday on the Wert Beaufort Road. Patrolman J. W. Sykes (aid that George Garland Purifoy, More head Cjty, driving a 1K7 Dodge, waa beaded toward Beaufort and waa near the Willis tv place when Cruschiel, driving a 1957 Chevro let, came up behind the Dodge and smacked it In the rear. Then the Chevrolet crossed the road to the left, Jumped a ditch, turned over and landed on its wheels, headed in the opposite di rection from which it had been going. Cruschiel had a slight cut on his face. Purifoy was not hurt. Damage to the Dodge was esti mated at $290 and damage to the Chevrolet at (COO. No Sale There were no bids received last Tuesday at Ike second auction of town-owned land at the east end of the Lennoxville Road, Beaufort. Gene Smith, town attorney, a* kl he had received an offer for the land, but it was less than the *13, 500 minimum set by Um town boat*
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