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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ,#' 4?th YEAR, NO. 5. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 16. 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS ? : 1 i f ? ' Mother Saves Two Children . From Fiery Death ? Maze Destroys Horn* at Newport ? Mrs. David Carganie Risks Life in Rescue Mr*. David P. Cargaale and her two youn( children barely escaped with their live? early yesterday morning when fire destroyed their home about a mile west of Newport on highway 70. Mrs. Carganie's husband, a staff aergeant at Camp Lejeune, was on duty at the time. Fire chief C. A. Gould Jr.. New port, aaid that Mrs. Carganie awoke about 2:30 and the house was full of smoke. She grabbed her baby on the bed beside her, rushed out of the house, and then went back In to get her little girl, ?bout 4 years old. She just got out of the house with the second child when the roof fell in. Her hair was singed and her face slightly burned. The family doe died in the fire. Chief Could aatd the fire is be lieved to have started from the oil Mater In the living room. Don Oarner, Mrs. Carganie's father, who lives across the highway from his daughter, said when he looked out the window, the house was en veloped in flames and he couldn't see his daughter. lie rushad out in his nightclothes and as he did, she was coming out i ?T the bouse with her little girl. Whea firemen gat to the scene, Ihe roof had fallen. They had the fire out in about 45 minutes, but everything was destroyed. Two of the back rooms arc partially stand ing. Firemen stood by until 3:45 a.m. and the if returned to the station. ' Lower Cotton Rates Denied New nil freight rates on cotton imported it Morehead City would have gone into effect Monday, but division II of the Interstate Com me/be Commission said no. Southern. Railway proposed the rates. They were protested by Wilmington, the Atlantic Coast tine and others, according to the ICC. ICC officials said the freight rates on cotton moving through Morehead City to upstate textile centers would have put Morehead City rail rates under those at neighboring ports. Reductions would have applied to long-fiber cotton from Egypt, Peru, Brazil and other overseas areas. It is probable that ICC will ap peal the diviaion II ruling. The ICC last year authorized a general rate reduction on export-Import freight moving through Morehead City to give Morehead City equal freight rates with other Atlantic ports. Clearing Skies Follow Rain After an all-day rain lasL Thurs day, skies cleared and the weather began to "level off' a bit, says weather observer Stamey Davis. Clear skies have been reported ?very day for the past six days. Even though it rained all Thurs day, Mr. Davis says the total rain fall waa only .17 inch. Friday, tb* wind shifted to the northwest, where it stayed until Monday. Pre vailing winds this week have been from the southwest. Maximum and minimum tem peratures and wind directions for the past week follow: Max. Mia. Wind Tkursdsy 4* S? NE Friday 3# 28 NW Saturday 39 20 NW Sunday 47 23 NW Monday 48 26 SW Tuesday 85 38 SW Wedneaday 55 34 E Rotarian Boms Program On Rotary Magazine Derryl Garner was program chairman at the Newport Rotary dub meeting Monday night. The club met at the school lunchroom. Mr. Garner, who I* chairman of the Rotary magazine committee, baaed hia program on the latest . issue of the Rotarian. After a brief discussion of the magazine, Mr. darner conducted a question and Visitors were the Rev. E. Guthrie Brown and Truman Kemp, mam bars of the Morehead CUy dub. L; ? ... . ~ - .? ? ? ; . ? J- < Busy with January Duties Gilbert Gluey has been Httlaft Uies in Beasfort township far many years. Here he signs the tai books after telling list taker U. E. Swam, "I have ?st what I had last year hul It's all a year aider." Odell Merrill buys hi* town Kg from Mrs George CoUhigham in the Beaufort town hall. Mr?. (oMitigham said that aeari^fltt-iags had been sold when Mr. Merrill bought his Wednesday afternoon. 'West' County School Site Chosen; East Site Awaits Full Approval Condemned Negro in Florida Clears Up Unsolved Murder Jaycees Plan Events For Jaycee Week Here Jiycff week begins Sunday and' the Morchead City Jaycees will begin the week by attending the First Presbyterian Church, where they will sit as a group. The club will participate in its anual radio day on Wednesday. William Singleton has begun work on radio day by writing merchants and asking them to cooperate by buying ads from Jaycees. Members o( the dab take over all (unctions at the radio station for one day. Jaycee week will come to a close Saturday night, when the Beau fort and Morehead City clubs will combine for a DSA banquet at the Morehead Biltmorc Hotel. Distinguished Service Awards and other awards will be present ed at the banquet. The Beaufort Jaycees plan to make their Key Man and Spark Plug awards and a Community Service Award. The Morehead City Jaycees plan to honor an outstanding teen-ager. Plans for Jaycee week were dis cussed at the club meeting Mon day night at the Blue Ribbon Club. Mrs. Sammie Williams spoke at the meeting and asked the Jaycees to line up a speaking schedule for a representative ai the North Caro lina Education Association. The Jaycees voted to invite Hugh Gordon to a meeting and ask him to speak on the campaign to help mentally retarded children. Several members of the club will attend the third quarterly meeting In New Bern in February. At that ttnrtr they wttl enter fW -fur The fourth meeting to be held in More bead City. The fourth quarterly meeting is an annual affair, having been held in Morehead City for many years. Photo bjr Bob Seymour Sale* o I nti UK? ire daw Hlo this nootk. Herr Mn. William McDonald, Newport, advertising likl waaiaa hr THE NEWS-TIMES, bays her aau taf> at the Flrst-Citiieaa loan department, Morehead CKjr. Making the aale la Mls? Laura Levi*. .... . Folks Must Take Part In, Not Just ' Support ' Projects, Speaker Savs Participation is the pass word for community growth. That U what Jack Apple yard, who is employed by the Committee of One Hun dred, WiMliigton, told the Beaufort Community D e - vclopmcnt Corp. Monday night at the courthouse, Beaufort. < "Don't jnt 'support' projects Id you* community, PARTICIPATE in them." Mr. Applcyard Mid. The speaker was introdu?ed by Holden Ballou, program chairman. For ifar yem Mr. Appteyird war a newspaperman in North Caro lina. for 16 years he trai with the public relatiocu department o t United States Steel and was with the industrial development division of the Department of Conservation and pevrlopmcnt before .going to Wilnungton. A specific tiling the development corporation can do immediately to ward attracting industry is contact ing jerry Albright and John John son at the industrial development division of the >C*D department, Mr. Appleyard aid.. ? - ? ? "Don't ever lose contact, either," Mr. Applryard warned, "with the industrial development people of Carolina Power and Light and Southern Railway. Frequently In carnal conversation, yoo'll pick up A tip . on an industry looking for a place to go. It nay be that your town if juA the place for it" (??nmaaiUri must progress, the speaker pointed out. If they don't, they stand (till. On the theme of participation, he Mid that eco nomic development ii everybody'! business. A community must develop a productive enterprise, because, the speaker declared, everything we have starts with producing some thing. . jHr. Appleyard gave several pointers on developing new Indus try. It is done through community organisation, participation, mak ing opportunities for young people, evaluating asset* of a community, aqd expanding Ute present Indus try within a community. Women's cluba, Mr. Appleyard flee VIAm, Page t Sheriff Waives Cattle Deadline Yesterday was the deadline for getting cattle off the banks. But sheriff Hugh Salter said that he'd give the baeksliding cattle owners who have not complied with the law "a few more days." They must cither get the cattle off or confine them behind a fence. Harry T. Davis, curator of the state museum, who owns land on Core Banks, reported to J. A. Du Bois, Morehead City chamber man ager, that he planted 500 cedars on his property last month. Then, he added, he learned that there are still cattle on the banks. Mr. Davis predicts that they'll eat his trees. Mr. DuBois and the Morehead City chamber have been actively trying to interest private property owners in taking measures that will prevent further erosion of the banks. Mr. DuBois says, "People don't realize bow serious this situa tion is. Actually, work to keep the beaches from washing away Is flood control." He points out that New Bern, Hyde County areas and areas in this county on the mainland are ex periencing "normal" tkles almost a foot higher than the normal tides MR twftre nsiH and ddHTTiiir | rteanes. Duke Professor to Spook At Joint PTA Mooting Dr. Allen S. Mulrburt, professor of education at Duke University will be the speaker at the meeting of four PTA's next month. Newport, Camp Glenn, Beaufort and Morehead City PTA's will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, F,eb. 9, at Morehead City School. Beaufort School cancelled its PTA meeting for this month. ? "The End" was written to a nine - year ? old unsolved murder case in this county last week. A negro in Florida confessed, be fore be was electrocuted Monday, to killing George Lee Jr., 25, of Most Point, Miss., at Quinn's fish factory, Beaufort, Jan. 27, 1950. Sheriff Hugh Salter said that he received a letter last week from Rcleford McGriff, a Jacksonville, Fla., attorney. McGriff said that Willie Horn Jr., his client, was scheduled to die this past Monday for raping a white woman in Jack sonville, Fla., and Horn, who was at the Florida state penitentiary at Raeford, knew something about the Lee murder. Marshall Ayscue, deputy sheriff of this county, and George Canarly of the State Bureau of Investiga tion, wont to Raeford where they talked Saturday with Horn. Horn told them that he and ano ther fellow, John Jordan alias John Henry Fields, intended to rob Lee early in the morning of Jan. 27, 1950. He said that they had been in a "skin game" the night before and Lee had won a lot of money. They smashed Lee on the head with a brick, took his money and left him lying by a shed. Gehrmann Holland, sheriff at that time, questioned six men and three women in connection with the murder, but could find no clues as to the murderer or murderers. Horn said that the last he knew. Fields was living in Charleston. S. C. On the way back from Flor ida, Mr. Ayscue and Mr. Canady stopped at Charleaton. There they learned, from police records, that Fields had been killed by Pasca goula. Miss., police five years ago. Bo both of Lee's murderers came tt afeaaaeful ends. Horn waa ex ecuted at 8:30 this past Monday morning. A coincidence in the case is that sheriff Salter served on the coro ner's Jury in the Lee case. The jury ruled that Lee met his death at the hands of a person or per sons unknown. Others on the jury were James Rumlcy, Elmore Davis, Roy Eu banks, Charles Russell and Lester Babbitt. The sheriff's office still has on file the empty wallet found on Lee the morning of Jan. 27 nine years ago. Citizens Committees for Better Schools from More head City and Newport have selected a site just east of the Little Nine golf course on highway 70 as the location for the proposed wost Carteret high school. H. L. Joslyn, county superintendent of schools, said that the site (or the school east of Beaufort has been tentative ly selected, but the committee from the Smyrna area has not yet given its approval. The west Carteret site is yet to' be approved by the county board of education. Mr. Josiyn aaid he doubted that the board would con vene prior to its regularly sched uled Feb. 2 meeting. He estimated that the site is about halfway between the More head City and Newport school buildings. Between town limits, he says the site is slightly closer to Morehead City. It li?s south of highway 70 and runs to highway 24. Newport folks who clocked mile age said the site is five miles from Newport and 4.7 from Morehead City. The number of acres in the prop erty are termed by Mr. Josiyn as "all we need and more". The Newport and Morehead City schools committees met last week and were given four sites from which to choose. The board of edu cation office was informed this week of their choice. Mr. Joslyn said he did not know the price of the west Carteret site. It is owned by the Rochelle Realty Co. Persons in Newport who are interested in the site said yester day that the price is between 1400 and $500 an acre. The property east of Beaufort, presently proposed for the east Car teret school, lies between highways 101 and 70. D. R. Arnold, owner of the property, told a NEWS TIMES reporter Wednesday that he would sell 77 acres for $10,000. The land lies about two miles north of Beaufort school and nine miles southwest of Smyrna. If is the opinion of the persons investigating sites that the state would build a mart to the 'school. giving access to the property from highway 70. Robert Safrit Jr., chairman of the board of education, and Theo dore Smith, member of the board, were appointed to find sites. Work ing also on the site problem was ilalsey Paul of the Beaufort school board. Suspends License The state driver license division has suspended the license of Mar vin T. Mills, Morehead City, who had been convicted of speeding over 70 mph. Community Theatre to Stage Historical Drama in June Bonnie Bint Sweetheart, a drama* based on the life of Emeline Pigott, Confederate spy of Carteret Coun ty, will be produced by the Car teret Community. Theatre in June. The theatre, at its meeting Wed nesday night at the Morehead City recreation building, acted on rec ommendation of 'a committee ap pointed to investigate the advis ability of staging the hiatorical drama. The committee, appointed in De cember, unanimously recommend ed that the play be given. It will be produced indoors. Dates suggested by the committee are Friday and Saturday nights, June 12 and 13. Because of the enormity of the undertaking, the theatre plan* to eliminate its usual spring play. Work is beginning im mediately on Bonnie Blue Sweet heart. Patron members who anticipated three plays this season will be permitted to take a guest with them to the historical drama. The theatre's first play this season was Papa is All. Emeline Pigott, on whose life See THEATRE, Page I TIAs at the Beaafort Bar Tide Tabl* HIGH LOW Friday, Jan. 1( 1:32 a,.m. 1:31 p.m. 7:46 a.m. 8:07 p.m. Satartoy, Jul 17 2:11 a.m. 2:27 p.m. 1:31 a.m. 9:03 p.m. Sudsy, Jam. U 1:0* a.m. 3:24 p.m. 3:4# a.m. ?:3? p.m. Msaday, Jan. 13 4:03 a.m. 4:24 p.m. 10:41 a.m. 10:47 p.m. Taesday, Jan. 2* 4:3* a.m. 3:23 p.m. ll:30 a.m. U:33 p.m. I ? Three Teachers Go to Area NCEA Meeting Tuesday Three Carteret teachers attend ed the North Carolina Education Association area conference Tues day at Thompson School, Jackson ville. They were Miss Joyce Taylor, president of the Carteret NCEA, Mrs. Sammie Williams, legislative chairman, and Ralph Wade, mem ber of the state NCEA public rela tions committee. The speaker was Mrs. Phebc Emmons, of the state NCEA office, Raleigh. She spoke on NCEA plans for the remainder of the year and legislative prospects. The Carteret NCEA will meet Feb. 3 at Morehead City school. ' Members of the Carteret Com munity Theatre pUyed * new role Wednesday night. They were the audience. Seniors of Morehead City School preaented excerpta from Shakespearean playa aa the pro gram at the theatre meeting. Taking part In a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream' were Becky Stiles, Judy Cooper, Jerry Garner and Dennis Munden. Scenes from Macbeth were pre sented by Clarence Slyron, Aahley Jarman, Jack Dail, Danny Swin dell, Wendy Lowe, Dixie Parker, Eddie Lancaster, Virginia Whaley, Lloyd McCabc and Dennia Mun den. Walter Morris was the announc er. The students were coached by Mrs. Rudolph F. Dowdy, English Inatructor at Morehead City School Theatre program chairman is Miss llortense Boomer. Three Musicians From County Will Appear on TV # March of Dimes Event To be Staged at WITN ? Program Will Begin At 1 1 Next Saturday Three entertainers from thli county have been booked for ap pearance on the WITN March of Dimes Telethon beginning at U p.m. next Saturday night, Jan. 24. They are Bobbi Dennis, Beau fort, vocalist; Henry Tuck, More head City, guitarist and hillbilly songster, and Alton llardison, New port, vocalist. Persons who would like to see Bobbi. Henry, and Alton on the tv program (or see any entertainer at the station) may dial Beaufort or Morehcad City numbers next Sat urday, all night long, and state how much they will give to the March of Dimes. The requests will be relayed by March of Dimes workers to WITN. The following day the contributions offered in the Bcaufort-Morchcad City area will be picked up by women of the Rebekah lodges la Betufttrf and Morehcad City. The telephone number for Beau fort requests ii PA B-3222. Those calls will be accepted by Bill and Bryan Loftin of Loftin's Shell Ser vice station. The telephone number for More head City requests is PA 6-.T800, Bridgevicw Inn. The calls will be accepted by Mrs. Julia Holt and her co-workers. In Beaufort and Morehead City tomorrow, Blue Crutch pina will be sold by girls in the downtown busi ness sections. Cub Pack 61, New port, will sell the pins at Newport. Coin collectors in the busincsa houses of the county have been dis tributed by members of the Na tional Guard under the supervision of Sgt. Dennis Goodwin, unit ad ministrator. Dimes may also be placed in parking meters In Beaufort and Morehead City. Contributions are also being ac cepted by school children. At each school the room which turns in the largest amount of money will re ceive a $2.50 cash prize. Grayden Paul, chairman of the campaign, is showing a March of Dimes film to civic organizations. Any organization that would like to have Mr. Paul appear may con tact him at PA S-48M, Paul Motor Co. Commissioners of the town of At lantic Beach voted Saturday to give a $1.50 refund on the telephone fight to the March of Dimes. Checks for the March of Dime* may be mailed Jo the treasurer, Mrs. C. L. Beam, Beaufort. TB Seal Bale The latest total on TB seal sal* funds la $2,704. 13, according to R. M. Williams, chairman of the TB campaign. Morehead City PT A Endorses Sale of Bonds for Schools The Morehead City Parent Teacher Association adopted at their meeting Monday night a reso lution endorsing the school bond issue. The entire meeting was devoted to a discussion o( the advantagea and disadvantages of the school bond issue and consolidation. A. B. Cooper, president, snd Mayor George Dill expressed their opinion aa being in favor of a school bond issue and consolidation of schools. Mrs. Jack Roberto asked several questions on the minds of parents and the following advantagea of the issue were brought out: Bettor t aril Mrs tor teacher* and students, ? larger high achool, ? broader curriculum, a larger gym and lunchroom. The question was raised of what would happen if the bond itaue doesn't pass. The group decided that the only other solution would be to erect temporary buildings across the street, as has been done (or the past ten years. The msUm to adapt the resolu tion was made by Dr. A. F. Cheat nut and seconded by Cecil Jewell. The resolution follows: Whereas, a serious and critical situation exists In the Morchead City School and other schools of Carteret County which la rapidly IiKTraaing in gravity bccauao of over-crowded conditions due to in sufficient classroom space and in adequate facilities, and; Whereas, the expediency of the situation demand* immediate ac tion throufh construction of ade quate and suitable facilities with appropriate revisions and additions to the curriculum, Therefore, be it resolved, that the Morehead City Parent-Teacher Association endorses and agree* to support wholeheartedly the forthcoming school bond issue rec ommended by the Carteret County Board 0 i Education. L*n we* 4 Lee, school principal, expressed hi* rapport to the PTA for better and more sound educa tion.
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