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48th YEAR, NO. 6. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
James Reels Jr.
Goes to Roads
For ISO Days
James Earl Reels Jr. got a total
of ISO days on the roads after be
ing convicted in three different
eases in county recorder's court
Thursday. Judge Lambert Morris
ordered that ail sentences be
served consecutively.
Reels got 30 days for driving
without a license, 60 days for driv
ing without a license and speeding
and 60 more days for having no
liability insurance on his car.
Eugene A. Piver was fined $125
and ordered to pay court co?ts
after he was found guilty of dur
ing drunk and driving without a
license.
Robert Lovelle ' was fined $100
plus court costs for driving drunk.
Also paying $100 and costs were
Robert I. Hill and Walter Chrus
ciel, who were convicted of care
less and reckless driving.
Theodore Holmes was ordered to
pay $10 per week for the support
of his family and to pay court
costs. He was found guilty of non
support.
Those paying costs plus $10 fines
follow : Delores Lewis, public
drunkenness; Ward M. Wadsworth,
shooting fireworka; James Carroll,
possession of non-taxpaid whiskey;
and John A. Staley, allowing an
unlicensed person to drive.
Those who paid costs follow:
Luke Dudley, violation of fishing
laws; Earl K. Fisher Jr., allow
ing an unlicensed person to drive;
Willie B. Stocks, failing to yield
the right of way; Dollie Dunn, pub
lic drunkenness; and Charlie Can
non, speeding.
Fleming Fulcher was found guil
ty of passnig a bad check. He was
ordered to pay the check and
court costs.
Earl Wade and Walter Willis
were taxed one-half costs each for
violation of fishing laws.
Two defendants were found to be
the victims of malicious prosecu
tion. They were Edgar Willis,
charged with trespassing and dis
turbing the peace, and Roosevelt
Robinson, charged with assault.
Charges against William C.
Schmidt Jr. and Ronald E. Brabec
were dlsmiased. The two had been
charged with firing fireworks.
Forty-five cases w eve continued.
Rev. Ray West
Receives License
The Rev. Ray West, pastor of
the Straits-Harkers Island Meth
odiat charge, received hia license
as a minister Friday morning at
the New Bern district conference
in Ann Street Methodist Church,
Beaufort. Three hundred fifty per
sons attended the conference, the
first to be held in Ann Street for
many years.
Ten other ministers were li
censed, five of whom were from
Queen Street Church, Kinston.
Committees and district trustees
were elected at the morning ses
sion, and reports heard. Two new
churches, Northwoods at Jackson
ville and Beaulaville, were wel
comed to the conference.
Christian Higher Education? The
Life Line of the Church was the
topic of an address by the Rev.
Allen P. Brantley at noon. Lunch
eon was followed by further re
ports at the afternoon session.
The Rev. John Cline, pastor of
the host church, said be was well
pleased with the number attend
ing the cofnerence. The entire day
was rainy and cold.
Fish House
Owner Injured
Street Wcthcrington, 51, Han
cock Park, Beaufort, suffered a se
vere gash in his bead Saturday
afternoon when he fell in Noe's
fish* douse. Mr. Wetherington re
mained in Morehead City hospital
yesterday and may possibly have
some broken ribs.
Mrs. Wetherington said that the
accident happened because the
floor of the fish house has fallen.
Last Tuesday night the fish house
was up on its pilings as usual.
Wednesday morning the whole
place had dropped about JH feet.
Anyone going in the door has to
Jump down that distance to get
in? the tide now runs in and out
over the floor. Anyhow, Mr. Weth
erington went in the fish house
Saturday afternoon. When he
Jumped down, his foot hit a piece
of half-inch pipe which rolled and
pitched him forward. He received
a severe cut over the left side at
his head that even caused his eye
to bulge.
He was rushed to Morehead City
hospital in a taxi. The Wetheriog
tons own the fish houae. It la op
erated by Oliver Davis who plans
to move into the T. B. Smith fish
ihouae until repairs are mad* to
Un Noe building.
Slaughter Family Takes Good
Care of 32-Year-Old Mare
Photo by Bob Seymour
Blair Slaughter, 12, s?y? that Peggy, this 32-year-old horse, la "Just like a member of the family."
Blair*! father. Otto 9aughter, route 1 Newport, bought Peggy when the was seven. Dr. C. E. Padea,
Morehead City veterinarian, aaya Peggy hai lived to the equivalent of 110 years for a human. Notice
the gray hair around her muxle aid above her eye*.
A graying, 32 - year ? old hone,
named Peggy la one of th? best
known residents Of the western end
of die county. Peggy baa been a
member of the Otto Slaughter fam
ily for the paat 25 years.
For the past five years Peggy
has been little more than a pet for
the family. "I wouldn't sell her to
anybody. She worked hard and
owes nobody anything," says Mr.
Slaughter. "I just couldn't think
of selling her and letting somebody
work her until she dies."
Mr. Slaughter bought Peggy in
1934 from T. A. Grantham in New
Bern. Mr. Grantham, a horse and
mule dealer, aaid Peggy was seven
years old and came from the Da
kota!.
In 1(34, prime mules were sell
ing for $400 to 1500. Mr. Slaughter
paid $250 cash for Peggy and took
her home. Peggy had never been
shod and since none of the roads
around Newport were paved then,
Mr. Slaughter never put shoes on
her.
Since she was used in the field
and didn't get on the highway, Peg
gy hat it 111 never been ihod. Her
hooves are rotigh mii'lfi ejfular but
sound.
Mr. Slaughter says that Peggy
has been an exceptionally healthy
horse. She hasn't been sick in the
past IS years. When she was
younger, she got sick on two oc
casions. Both times she got colic
from eating green peanut hay.
At 32, Peggy still has all her
teeth and has a good appetite. "She
probably never will get good and
fat again, she is just too old," Mr.
Slaughter says. "She still eats
enough to stay healthy, though."
Dr. C. E. Paden, Morehead City
veterinarian, says that 32 years to
a horse is like 110 years to a hu
man. The Encyclopaedia Britan
nica says horses generally live
about 20 years. A 50-year-old horse
was reported in California recently.
The encyclopaedia gives four
points as the most important in the
care of horses: careful regulation
of diet; provision for adequate ex
crcise, thorough grooming and reg
ular shoeing.
While Peggy has doubtless tot
plenty of exercise, shaffias missed
out on the other "neceisary"
points of care.
Dr. Paden says that heredity is
probably the most important single
factor in longivity of animals, so
long as they receive reasonable
care. He cited one instance, how
ever, in which acience haa Attend
ed the life of a dog to the aga, 21.
S. N. Bralaes, a Russian jpien
tist, reports that a 15-year-old dog
was brought to the experimental
sleep laboratory of the psychiatric
institute of the ministry of health.
After three months of treatment
of prolonged sleep, the dog regain
ed coordination, his muscles and
limbs strengthened, down appear
ed where the fur had been lost and
he regained the ability to repro
duce. He lived for six more years.
The dog might still be alive ex
cept for an accident ? he was kill
ed by a chimpanzee.
Beaufort, Morehead City Start Ball
Rolling on Sewage Disposal Plants
Beaufort and Morehead City
town commissioners got them
selves off the hot seat Thursday
night by authorizing an engineer
ing firm to proceed with plans for
sewsge disposal plants.
According to state law, towns
which are polluting waters most
show that they are taking steps
to comply, otherwise town official*
are subject to indictment for fail
ure to carry out their obligations.
The commissioners of the two
towns met at the Morehead City
civic center Thursday night and
heard proposals from two engineer
ing firms, William F. Freeman
Inc., High Point, represented by
C. C. Tilley, and Boney and New
comb, Raleigh, represented by J.
F. Boney and R. T. Newcomb.
The Freeman firm got the green
light from both towns. Each board
voted separately after hearing the
engineers' proposals.
The federal government will aid
towns on sewag* disposal plants,
but the highest one town can get
it 1230,000. The remainder of the
cost mast be met by the town.
Under the agreement with Free
man, the town pays $250 to file an
application with the federal gov
ernment for the funds. The engi
neer then draws the specifications,
estimates cost and notifies the
stream sanitation committee and
date board of health of the pro
posals. The engineers and archi
tects will receive a contract fee
baaed on 4V& per eeat tt the
amount alloted by the federal gov
eminent, and iaepectkw at all
work, this cost to be based on 2
per cent of coat of construction.
Boney ud Newcomb's proposal
was 6 per cent of coit of the pro
ject if the work is carried through
to cdmpletion; $2,000 if nothing
toward actual construction is done
within a year.
Since the present federal funds
available to this state for sewage
disposal amount to just a million
and a quarter dollars, and many
towns are already on a waiting
list, there is little to indicate that
Beaufort or Morchcad City could
get sewage disposal plants in the
near future.
Each town would have to float a
bond issue to finance the project,
even though there would be fed
eral help. The town officials ex
pressed hope that Congress may
take action this session to increase
the amount of federal aid.
Following a report by Gene
Smith, Beaufort town attorney,
Mayor George Dill, Morchcad City,
appointed D. J. Hall and S. C.
Hoiloway, and Mayor Clifford
Lewis, Beaufort, appointed Gerald
Tides at the Beaafort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Taesdayj Jaa. 20
4:58 a.m.
5:23 p.m.
11:30 a.m.
11:35 p.m.
Wedaesday, Jaa. 21
5:45 a.m.
6:14 p.m.
12:17 a.m.
Tharsday, Jaa. 22
t:I3 a.m.
?:5 8 p.m.
12:20 a.m.
1:02 p.m.
Friday, Jaa. 23
7:13 a.m.
1:15 a.m.
7:J? p.m.
1:4# JUD.
Hill and 'Otis Hades to a commit
tee to check on what can be done
in the legislature to help finance
rural fire fighting.
Mr. Smith said that law already
allows rural folks not getting fire
protection to be assessed 10 cents
for each $100 valuation and then
contract with the nearest t?wn for
fire protection. Mr. Smith said
that the 10-cent rate it too low.
Also appointed to a committee
to study legislative needs for the
two towns were Ted Garner and
G. E. Sanderson, Morehead City,
and W R. Hamilton and Gene
Smith, Beaufort. The mayors are
ex-officio members of each com
mittee.
Not present at the meeting were
commissioner Sanderson and at
torney George McNeill, Morehead
City.
Mercury Climbs
After Severe Freeze
After a severe freeze ojer the
weekend, the temperature began
to climb yesterday. Weather ob
server Stanley Davis reports that
the mercury dropped to a low of
17 early Saturday morning.
A half-inch of rain was record
ed between 4:40 a.m. and noon
Friday. The rain that waa left
standing was froien solid by Sat
urday morning.
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures and wind direction for
the weekend follow:
Max. Mia. Wind
Thursday 00 38 SW
Friday M 3S W
Saturday 34 17 NW
Sunday 42 II NW j
W. J. Mishael Seriously Hurt
When Truck Upsets Saturday
W. J. Mishael, 58, Beau
fort. who was in a highway
accident Saturday morning,
remained in critical condi
tion at the Morehead City
Hospital yesterday morning.
He had not regained con
sciousness.
Mr. Mishael was driving a 1951
Dodge pickup truck on highway
101 about four miles north of
Beaufort when, according to Pa
trolman W. J. Smith Jr., the left
rear tire blew out.
The patrolman said the truck
swayed, went over on the right
shoulder of the road and turned
over. The driver was thrown out.
He was rushed to the hospital by
the Adair ambulance.
Mr. Mishael was headed north at
the time of the accident. He was
employed by Beaufort Plumbing
and Supply Co., owner of the pick
up. The patrolman said he was on
his way to a job.
The truck was demolished. Mr.
Mishael suffered severe head in
juries.
His son, W. J. Jr., who was in
the Army, has been called home.
Three other children are Mrs.
Phillip Neal of Merrimon and two
daughters, Charlotte and Sandra.
Mr. Mishael, an active member
of Ann Street Methodist Church,
served several years as church
custodian.
$89 Given Thus
Far for Suits
By yesterday morning, $89 had
been contributed to the Morehead
City firemen's "hot papa" fund.
To get the four suits which will
allow firemen to fight blazes at
close quarters, $580 is needed. The
town had been hoping to raise the
money by lipping town tag fees
to $2, but only $1 is legal.
The su!U had already been or
ftered? and -nam there's no way to
pay for them, unless voluntary
contributions come in. Persons
who paid $2 for the town tags be
fore the fee went back to $1, can
get a refund at the clerk's office,
or notify the office to put the extra
dollar in the "hot papa" fund.
Others who buy their auto tags
aer invited to contribute to the
fund. The firemen will appreciate
it and the townspeople wiU benefit,
says chief Joe Fulcher.
Town Board Acts
On Port Channel
Morehead City commissioners, at
their meeting Thursday night at
the civic center, passed a resolu
tion to request Cong. G. A. Barden
to introduce a resolution asking
Army engineers to determine the
need (or expanding the waterway
into Morehead City port.
Mayor George Dill said that
authorization (or deepening the
channel to 35 feet has been ob
tained, (unds are available and
the work is expected to get under
way in July.
A letter from the State Highway
Commission waa read. It itated
that the highway commission now
has a policy which will permit
erection of stop light* on primary
and secondary road systems
through a town, the cost of the
light to be charged to maintenance
of the thoroughfare.
The board heard a letter from
Walter Friederichs, operational
manager at the Morehead City
port. Mr. Friederichs requested
Permission for their night watch
man to phone in hourly to the po
lice station as a safety precaution
against the watchman's running
into trouble of some sort.
If the call does not come when
it should, town police will investi
gate.
The porta manager also request
ed four more fire alarm boxes at
points in the port area. At present
there is only one.
The commissioners considered
writing a letter to John Reeves,
chairman of the SPA, relative to
location of the proposed bridge
between Morehead City and Beau
fort-Morehead Causeway, but do
action was takes.
1,871 Licmim Tags
Sold by Saturday Noon
Aa of Saturday noon 1,871 license
tags (or 1990 had been sold at the
nstallment loan department of
First-Citizens Bank and Trust Co.,
Morehead City.
Of the total 1,529 were for auto
mobiles, I were for motorcycles,
1M for trucks and 155 for trailers.
Two Injured in Auto Accident
rnotoi Dy uene Dell
Bystanders, assisted by Patrolman J. W. Sykes, lilt Mrs. Robtrt E. Keleber, Swansboro, into the Dill
ambiilanre after she was injured in a wreck Saturday midnight near the Blue Ribbon Restaurant.
. J .U *.
This 1952 Nash, driven by Kenneth W. Gasklll, Sea Level, wai hit la the rear and knocked Into a house
owned by Ted Hall. Mr. Hall wa? asleep in the room where the ear hit.
Donald E. Huff, Camp Lejeune.
was charged Saturday night with
driving drunk and careless and
recklcss driving after the 1953 Pon
tiac he was driving crashed into
the rear of a 1952 Nash.
Injured in the accident were
Kenneth W. Gaskill, Sea Level,
driver of the Nash, and Mrs. Rob
ert Keleher, whose husband is sta
tioned at Camp Lejeune.
Patrolman J. W. Sykes, investi
gating officer, said that Gaskill
was headed cast about midnight
Saturday. At the Amoco station
just west of the Blue Ribbon, he
was hit from the rear.
The Nash traveled 225 feet,
knocking down signs and finally
coming to rest against the Ted
Hall house. Gaskill, suffering from
a leg injury, was taken to the Sea
Level hospital.
In the car with him was his son,
Ralph Gordon. In the car with
Huff were Mrs. Keleher, William
R. Wright, Lloyd Estepp, John 6.
Fulghum and Walter T. Jones, all
of Camp Lejeune.
Damage to the cars was esti
mated at $600 each and damage
to the house at $500. The car Huff
was driving was owned by Mrs.
Keleher's husband.
USCG to Check
Rear Range Light
Mayor George Dill, Morehead
City, and other shipping interests
in this area, received a letter from
the Coast Guard Friday relative
to improving a night range light
for the Morehead City channel.
The letter came from Capt. P. V.
Calma, chief of staff, Fifth Coast
Guard district. The captain said
improvement of the Beaufort chan
nel rear range light will be Inves
tigated.
Robert L. Hicka of Heide and
Co., ship's agents, said that the
light is dim and needs direct feed
by cable rather than by battery.
Mayor Dill said that investiga
tion of the rear range light is not
the only thing needed toward mak
ing Morehead City channel navig
able at night, . . but it's a start,"
be added.
License Reinstated
The driver license of Donnie Gil
likin, route Beaufort, has been
reinstated by the state driver U
ccqm division.
Soil Supervisors Atfend
Convention at Charlotte
By M. H. OWENS
Roil Conservationist
Ralph Creech of Harlowe and
John Young of Stella attended an
enjoyable and informative conven
tion of Soil Conservation District
Supervisors in Charlotte last Tues
day and Wednesday.
The Soil Conservation District
supervisor* are elected by the
people in each county to help or
ganize and cany oat certain soil
conservation practices. The Soil
Conservation Service provides
technical assistance in this work.
Mr. Creech was clected aa a
supervisor last December for a 3
year term. Mr. Harry Lockey, who
is also a supervisor was unable to
attend the convention.
Mrs. Crecch, who obviously had
a false opinion about "convention
er?", was somewhat skeptical
about her husband's being away
from home for three days. How
ever. she finally decided that it
would be safe for him to go.
Mrs. Young, who has been mar
ried longer, readily agreed for her
husband to go.
A boot 200 farmers from all
over the state attended the meet
ing. Several prominent farm
leaders were in attendance.
On Jan. 13, the supervisors heard
interesting talks by agricultural
leaders. Mr. David S. Weaver, Di
rector of the Extension Service,
commented on some of the acute
problems facing the supervisors
and farmers.
The principal item for discusaion
before the supervisors was the
need of certain legislation by the
state legislature so that North
Carolina can take full advantage
of a Federal act providing for
watershed protection and flood
prevention on our farm lands.
By this act, the federal gov
ernment bears the coat of estab
lishing watershed protection and
flood prevention structures. This
act can be ?< great help to Car
teret County, aa well as the rest
of the state.
Mr. Spencer Bell, state senator
from Charlotte, discussed some at '
ths social and legal aspecta si <
this needed legislation.
Gen. J. R. Townsend, city man
ager of Greensboro and chairman
of the NC Board of Water Com
missioners, expressed the support
of the Water Commissioners and
the need for such legislation.
Mr. Charlie Davis, from Pol
locksvUle, was elected president
?f the North Carolina Soil Con
servation District. Mr. Davis Is
also Chairman of the Lower
Neuse Soil Conservation District,
which Is composed of Carteret
County and the four surrounding
counties.
Mr. Young and Mr. Creech were
entertained at a banquet for the
supervisors Tuesday night. On
Wednesday, after hearing various
committee reports, they were
anxious to head for home. They
were kept too busy to get into any
mischief.
Maynard Owens, County Soil
Conservationist, attended the con
vention with the supervisors.
Three Jr. Woman's
Club Members Go
To Planning Session
Three members of the Morehead
City Junior Woman's Club, spon
sors of the Easter Seal campaign,
attended a planning meeting Thurs
day at New Bern.
They were Mrs. Sammie Wil
liams, chairman of the Crippled
Children's Society, which is fi
nanced by Easter Seal funds; Mrs.
Roma Styron, chairman of the
campaign, and Mrs. Coolldge Mer
rill, club president.
Albin Pikutis, Chapel Hill, ex
ecutive director of the North Caro
lina Society for Crippled Children,
presided. Six counties were repre
sented. The campaign will begin
Feb. 27 and continue to Easter
Sunday, March 29.
Cart Collide
A 1956 Ford driven by Ralph L.
Daniels, route 1 Beaufort, and a
1952 Pontiac driven by Antonia
Alareon, Morehead City, collided in
the 1500 block of ArendeU Street
Thursday night There war* no
charge*.