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?=? CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "" 48th YEAR, NO. 13 TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1969 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Governor Seeks Fund to Purchase Outer Banks Area OMove Would Bring Federal Assistance ? Port Budget Cut; Teacher Salaries Up Gov. Luther Hodgei made a strong bid in his budget message Monday night to save a valuable portion of North Carolina ? the Outer Banks and the mainland it protects. The governor has proposed pur chase of the outer banks area from Ocracoke Inlet to Drum Inlet, com monly referred to as Portsmouth Island, as well as some outer banks area farther south of Drum Inlet. If the state owns this land, judged the most badly eroded of the banks which stretch all along the coast, a considerable amount of federal funds would become available to stabilize it, the gover nor said. The funds are not available as long as the bonks stay in private hands. During the last session of the legislature, property owners gave a right-of-way down the middle of the dunes which would have per mitted use of prison labor* on the banks for restoration work. That work was not undertaken, probably because it would not have been on a scale large enough to do the job necessary. The governor has asked for $200, 000 for a survey of the outer banks in question and $400,000 to buy the land. The $400,000 would come from the capital improvements fund, totaling $45,374,149. The gov ernor proposes that the major por tion of that be obtained by sale of bonds. The Department of Conservation and Development would adminis ter the outer banks program. The governor said, "Effects of hurricanes which have hit our coast during recent years, added to our own careless land practice in the area, have brought us ts the point that something, must be done ? and done quickly.'r Other items in the governor's budget message of particular in terest to this area: ? State ports at Morchead City and Wilmington must divide $203, 400 between them. The ports had requested $1.6 million. This means no money available for capital improvement, such as a new office at Morehead City and new warehouses. ? Increases in starting salaries for teachers. Holders of "A" cer tificates would receive a minimum salary of $3,100 as compared with the present $2,799. Also pay for the extra week of work teachers put in at the beginning and close of the school year. ? State welfare budget has been increased 7.7 per cent, with no funds for general assistance. ? State withholding tax plan, es timated to bring in $27Vi million, which, says the governor, would make any new taxes unnecessary. Under this plan, state Income tax would be deducted from an em ployee's regular paycheck. ? Ten million dollars for 1960-61 to be matched by local communi ties for public schools. The money would be available not for build ing schools, but for day-to-day costs in operating the schools. The schools could spend the money for anything they wished in the cur rent expense line, such as supple menting teachers' salaries. Morohoad City Merchants Will Meet Tuesday Noon Morehead City merchants will meet at noon Tuesday at the Hotel Fort Macon. Henry White, com mittee chairman, will preside. To be discussed at the meeting is how to obtain a larger share of the federal $2,900,000 monthly payroll in this area, combined ad vertising for new business and an active credit bureau. Morehead Fire Truck Collides With New Car at Intersection I'ftoto by Donald Edwards The Morehead City fire truck collided with a 1959 Buick yesterday, the fire truck ending up as shown above, at the northwest corner of 13th and Bridges St Note skid marks of Buick in foreground. In photo at left are John Lashley, town clerk and police chief Herbert Griffin; at right, fireman Vincent Lawrence, and mechanic Linwood Wade, in white coveralls. Morehead City Continues War on Ticket Violators Morehead City continued its war on people who fail to pay parking tickets Monday aa five parking cases were called in recorder's court. Four defendants entered pleas of guilty and paid $2 fines and one-third of the court costs. The state elected not to try Rosc man Tipton, Greenville, due to lack of evidence. Those who en tered picas of guilty were S. A. Dewar, Duncan, N. C., Margaret Nichols, Greenville, Alfonza Las siter, Greenville, and Edward Clark, Raleigh. William L. Lewis, Morehead City, entered a plea of guilty to charges that he pasted a bad cheek at Underwood's Grocery Store. He was ordered to pay court costs and honor the $3.16 check. Rodney Turnage, Morehead City, waa given two weeks in which to pay court costs. He was found guilty of public drunkenness. Joseph N. Davis, Harkcrs Island, forfeited a cash bond. He was charged with speeding. Christina Smith failed to show up for the second time and a $50 bond posted by a bonding company was turned over to county schools. The woman waa charged with possession of non-taxpaid whiskey. Carlton Pittman, charged with public drunkenness, failed to ap pear when his case was called. Judge Herbert Phillips issued an order to have him picked up and brought in for the next session. The state elected not to try two defendants. They were Veld a Scbreiner, Havelock, charged with passing a bad check, and Yancey Smith, Newport, charged with driv ing after his license had been sus pended. Cases were continued againat Barbara W. Roberts, Pittman and Grace B. Carlyle. Tide Table Tide* at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Feb. II 12:03 a.m. 5:35 a.m. 12:12 p.m. 6:07 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14 12:43 a.m. 6:45 a.m. 12:53 p.m. 6:55 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15 1:25 a.m. 7:55 a.m. 1:38 p.m. 8:03 p.m. Moaday, Feb. U 2:11 a.m. 0:03 a.m. 2:31 p.m. 1:12 p.m. Taeaday, Feb. 17 3:06 a.m. 10:03 a.m. 3:3* p.m. 10:10 p.m. Three School Committees Meet Smyrna and Atlantic school com mittees met Tuesday night with the Beaufort school committee at Beaufort to discuss the proposed consolidation plan and location of the east Carteret school four miles north of Beaufort on highways 101 and 70. Atlantic, at first satisfied with having its high school in ita own community, now apparently want) to consolidate. (Other communities in the coun ty, which are proposed for consoli dation, have been envying Atlantic because it can retain its own high school!) Smyrna and Atlantic have joined forces to get the proposed east con solidated school moved farther east. Beaufort docs not view that proposal with favor. No decision was reached at the meeting. Only ideas were ex changed. Health Board Commends Unit The county board of health, in session Wednesday at the health center, complimented the county health department, under the direc tion of Dr. Luther Fulcher for the contributions it had made toward health in the county during the past year. A copy of the resolutiaon will be sent to the State Board of Health. The annua] report of the health department and the report of the sanitarian were discussed. The board authorized typhoid shots to be continued by the health depart ment as in the past. Dr. Fulcher announced that a dentist will visit schools soon to carry on an educational program and repair teeth of indigent chil dren. The board ruled that the parking lot by the health center shall be uaed only by personnel employed by the county and by health center patients. Summaries of the work done by the health department in 1958 will appear in Tuesday's paper. If Bond Issue Fails ? Whaf Then? (Editor'! Note: This is the m written by H. L. Joslyn, county m It has been suggested that the County Commissioners appropriate $260,000 per year in capital outlay (or school construction over a period of years to meet the $21* million dollars requested in bonds. Here are a few serious objections that voters should give careful con sideration. 1. An enabling act for Carteret Couqty, would have to be passed by the North Carolina General As sembly, to allow tax funds to ac cumulate from year to year lor building purposes. 2. Such a plan would delay the program of present need approxi mately 10 years. 3. Morehead City has the great est need with U unhoused classes. cond in a ?cries of three ilticlel iperbtteadeat of schools). To secure funds to build a high school to relieve this need would require 4 years before a contract could be signed for a new plant. (Funds would be required to build temporary quarters to care for the need at Morehead and other schools which would have to be taken from the funds each year ? hence the 4 years). 4. It would be 1M4 before the Morehead plant could b? com pleted. In the meantime, what about the effect on the continuing increases of unhoused children? ! Beaufort high school Is now filled to capacity. It would require aoother 4 years to accumulate suf ficient funds to sign contract for the second high school jUdL 8. Other schools of the county would Tind themselves in the condi tion Morehead now faces and would have to wait their turn In order of need. That's a bad situa tion. 7. Over-crowding and temporary housing is not conducive to good learning. In dollars and cents, with bonds or without, the cost is about the same. The GREATER cost ia beyond estimate in the live* of our children as we send them out to meet world competition under this tremendous handicap. I shudder to think of the danger such delays in financing would cause the children of Carteret County. I appeal to every citizen of Car teret County to go to the polls on Feb. 28, IMS, vote for the Bond Is sue and five our children the need ad school facilities NOW. The Morehead City FWD fire truck demolished a new Buick yes terday morning and sent L. C. Sawyer, Morebead City, driver of the car, to the hospital. Mr. Saw yer, rushed to the hospital in Dill's ambulance, had a cracked rib. Charles Edwards, driver of the fire truck, was going north on 13th Street with his red light flashing and his siren wailing. Mr. Sawyer was driving west on Bridges Street, taking his new car to the garage for a checkup. Mr. Sawyer told police lieutenant Carl Blomberg that he did not know the fire truck was coming his way. He did not even see it until it smashed into the laft front side of his car at the intersection of 13th and Bridges. Mr. Edwards saw the car and hit the brakes on the fire truck. The truck slid 35 feet before the right front bumper hit the car. Mr. Edwards, Mart Bell, and. .Stanley Salter, firemen who weft riding with him, escaped injury. The impact sheared the bolts that held the engine to the frame of the fire truck. The fly wheel housing was broken, the radiator ruined and the fender, bumper and grill smashed. The truck was towed to Sound Chevrolet garage and mechanic Lynwood Wade gave a preliminary estimate on the damage at $1,500 to $1,800. While the Buick could be re paired, expenses on the job will probably make it more practical for the insurance company to give Mr. Sawyer a new car and salvage the wreck. Despite the accident, a second fire truck, which left the station right behind the FWD, put out the fire. A trash truck owned by Simon Raynor and parked behind Dud ley's Place was on fire. The blaic was put out with no damage re ported. Lodge to Stage Musical Comedy Proceeds from a musical comedy to be given Wednesday, Feb. 25, in Morebead City will go toward cost of ")iot papa" suits for fire men and the Esther Rebekab lodge building fund. The comedy, Profesaor Louis Al bright and the Girls, was originally scheduled to be given Wednesday. Feb. 18, bat was postponed because of the county basketball tourna ment. People who have tickets dated Feb. 18 may use them Feb. 25. Curtain time ii 8 p.m. at the rec reation building. Playing the part of the professor will be Walter Lewis. Earl Smith will be pianist. Mrs. Jack Steed is featured in a Charleston number and others in the cast are Mrs. Billy Joyce Guthrie. Wesley Wil son, Mrs. Gordon Micelle, Allen Autry, Johnny White, Miss Myrna Willis, and Claude Wade. Members of both the Esther Re bekah lodge and the Miriam Re bekah lodge, Beaufort, will be bathing suit models. Dr. RusmII Outlaw Di?cuss?s School Bonds Dr. Russell Outlaw discussed the school bond issue at the Beaufort Rotary Club meeting Tuesday night. A general discussion of taxes, school needs and the cost of borrowing money followed Dr. Outlaw's talk. Visitors at the meeting, in addi tion to Dr. Outlaw, wen Truman Kemp and Frank Cassiano. All three were from Morebead City. Police Hold Wilson Man For Rape in Morehead City Shrine to Sponsor 'Open' Dance Wednesday Night Arrangements foi the Shrine* da.ice at the Blue Kibbon Restau rant Wednesday night were com pleted at a meeting of the Shrine Club Tuesday. Tommy Martin's orchestra, book ed out of Atlanta, will play for the dance, which is open to the public. Proceeds will go to the Shriners' crippled children's fund. Tickets may be obtained now from Gerald Mitchell, Hugh Salter, Robert Safrit, Theodore Phillips, Brute Goodwin, Cicero Hardison, Dan Sadler, and Marshall Ayscue, Shriners. The orchestra has been obtained by Mr. Mitchell who promises a "fine evening of entertainment". At this week's meeting, Mr. Phillips, secretary-treasurer, re ported a club membership of 25. President Safrit said he would like to see the membership increase to 75 this year. "There are 144 Shriners living in this county and I don't see why we shouldn't make this the biggest and best Shrine Club in Sudan Temple," Mr. Safrit said. The club voted to hold its meet ings the second Tuesday of each month at various restaurants in the area. The place of the March meeting will be announced. ' Attending Tuesday's meeting, in addition to those mentioned, were N. L. Walker, Norwood Young, Charles' Cheek, Bill Ballou, Ottis Purifoy, Earl Norwood, and M. E. Bridgman. Pastors Name Migrant Group The steering committer for Car teret's 1959 migrant ministry pro gram was appointed Monday morn ing at a meeting of the ministers association in the civic centcr, Morchead City. The Rev. William Jeffries, Mar shallberg, is chairman, assisted by the Rev. John Cline, the Rev. A1 Daniel, and the Rev. Ralph Fleming Jr. More ministers of the county are to be included. A planning meet ing will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, in the N. F. Eure educa tional building, Beaufort. Four new ministers joined the association. They are the Rev. Vir gil Moore, Camp Glenn Methodist; the Rev. M. O. Sears, Newport Baptist; the Rev. James Buchanan, Marshallberg and Woodville Bap tist, and the Rev. John F. Casey, Bethlehem Methodist, Boguc. The ministers agreed to coop erate with the Welcome Wagon service by providing ? letter. The proposal for a county-wide revival was tabled indefinitely. Guests were the Rev. Leon Hall, Durham, and the Rev. Bobby Jack son of South Carolina. The Rev. Alec Thompson offered the opening prayer. Alter the meeting, the ministers saw a preview of The Life of Albert Schweitzer at the Morehead theatre. To Attend Conference H. L. Joslyn, county superinten dent of schools, will attend the national convention of the Ameri can Association of School Admin istrators at Atlantic City, N. J. He leaves today and will return Thursday. Town Auto Tag Deadline Nears Police commissioner Ted Gar ner and policc chief Herbert Griffin warn Morebead City mo torists that after midnight Sun day, motorists will be cited to court if they don't have a town tag on their car. The tags are on sale now at the town hall at a dollar each. Every Morehead City motorist is required by ordinance to pur chase and display the tag on his vehicle. Sunday midnight has also been announced as the deadline for displaying 1859 state auto tags. Mercury Hits 60 s This Week Except for a couple of foggy days, Monday and Tuesday, the weather has been very pleasant in the county for the past week. Wea ther observer Stanley Davis says the temperature has gone into the 60'b every day. It quit raining and began to turn warm last Thursday, Mr. Davis reports. A total of 2.22 inches of rain had fallen up to that time. Since then there has been one brief shower ? Monday noon. Maximum and minimum tem peratures and wind direction for the past week follow: Max. Mln. Wind Thursday 57 44 NE Friday 54 43 NE Saturday 53 35 ENE Sunday 68 40 S Monday 65 52 Calm Tuesday 64 53 SW Wednesday 66 55 WNW Smyrna Grade Mothers To Serve Ham Supper The grade mothers of Smyrna School invite everyone to a ham supper in the school lunchroom to morrow from 5 to 8 p.m. Admission will be )1 for adults and 60 cents for children. Tickets may be bought at the door or in advance from grade mothers. Joe Bill Powell Poses As Deaf Mute Beggar Joe Bill Powell, 35, of Wilson is being held in the county jail without bond. He is charged with raping Mrs. Rose mary Green, Buy Street, Morehead City, Wednesday morning. Mrs. Green, nervous and distraught, appeared in the Morehead City police station shortly before 11 a.m. Wed nesday and told chief Herbert Oru-? fin that she had beeir raped a lew minutes before. The woman told the following story: Powell showed up at her house Tuesday and showed her and her husband framed papers stating that he was a student at a deaf mute school in Raleigh. The Green's didn't have any money to give him and he left after a few minutes. The next morning he returned while Mrs. Green was alone. He motioned that he wanted a drink of water. When the woman returned from the kitchen with a glass of water he had a small calibre pistol in his hand. When he motioned for her to lie down on the bed, she began to cry and he grabbed her and threw her across the bed. Still threatening her with the pistol, Powell ripped the woman's clothes off and raped her. As soon as he left, Mrs. Green got dressed and went to the police station. She showed the chief where the man had torn her clothes and where he had struck her on the face. Chief Griffin detailed Lt. Carl Blomberg and Sgt. William Condie to look for the man while he watch ed the bus station. The chief kept an eye on the bus station until the bus left, then called for the officers to follow the bus out of town to see if the fugitive tried to get on at a corner. The policemen followed the bus out of town, then returned to their search in town. They found Powell as he was going into a bouse only a short distance from tlte Green home. Once he was picked up, Powell tried to convince the officers that he could neither talk, hear, read nor write. A check with the school mentioned in the framed papers Powell used in his begging furnish ed an important lead. The school said no such man had been enrolled but checked with other deaf mute schools in the state. A report came in from Wil son that a man answering that See RAPE, Page 2 Theatre Sets Date of Try-Outs For June Drama Carteret Community Theatre members have set dates for try outs for Bonnie Blue Sweetheart and named a director for a radio play. The theatre met Wednesday night at the recreation building, Morchead City. Try-outs for Bonnie Blue Sweet heart, the historical drama based on the life of Emcline Pigott, will be at 7:30 Saturday night, Feb. 21, at the WMBL radio studio and at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Feb. 22. at the Morehead City recreation build ing. The play will be given June 12-13. All persons in the county who are interested in appearing in the play are invited to the try-outs. A schedule will be published next week, showing what roles will be cast Saturday night and the roles to be cast Sunday. Mrs. Trcssa Vickers was named director of the half-hour radio play to be produced next month. The group voted to attend its annual dinner at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, at the Rex Restaurant. Miss iiortense Boomer and Mrs. Elaine Herndon will be in charge of the program. Mrs. Vickers was appointed to have a theatre sign placed at the front of the recreation building. Officers for the coming year were elected. They are Miss Ruth Peeling, president; Jimmy Wheat ley, vice-president; Mrs. Virgil Lewis, business manager; Miss Patsy Holt, secretary; and Mrs. Frank Carlson, treasurer. Mi?s Peeling appointed Miss Boomer, with the vice-president, as program chairmen. Dr. Rolf Siepmann was a visitor. Refreshments were served by Miss Lillian Frances Giddens and Mrs. Larry Barnctt. Duke Professor Discusses Needs in Modern Education Dr. Allen Hurlburt, professor of education, Duke University, ad dressed a joint meeting of the Morehead City, Beaufort, Camp Glenn and Newport Parent-Teacher Associations Monday night in the Morehead City school auditorium. His subject was Changes in Edu cation and the Needs Ahead. Dr. Hnrlbart compared the old theory of education? a mind la a muscle that will grow with exer cise?with modern education where classroom subjects pertain to pres ent problems. Educators today are expected to prepare children to live in a future which no one can foresee, lie cited world wide understanding as the greatest need in today's society. People may cry for more scien tists, but the real need is under standing, he said. Times are changlag so fast that teachers graduated from collcge, ready to take a classroom, are be hind the times right at the start. He gave as an example geogra phy as it was taught in his youth. All a pupil needed to know then, he said, was the capital of a for eign country and its exports. As a result of two world wars, with changed ideas and ideologies, knowledge of the cultures of for eign countries are a necessity in the schools. Dr. Hurlburt expressed amaze ment at the reaction in this coun try when the Russians launched A Look at Swansboro School i ? ? ^?i ? ^^.iiiiipi i miii -www? wwk tmrnsmmam* Photo by Bob Btymbur A (nap af Carteret mideatf recently toared the CMiolldaM MhMl at Swaanboro. Far ? look at what they ia?, (an to page I lectiaa t, today'* paper. The ahove pheto ahows hreaaaways rwarttot Sputnik. Contrary to popular be lief, he declared, math and science courses in American public schools are good. Where Russians excel: they have classes of reasonable size, their teachers arc carefully selected (so are US teachers, but there are not enough); Russians pay their teach ers more, Russian students are taught foreign languages early and extensively, education continues io Russia after school hours and dur ing the summer. Because of the swift changes, graduates of today will have job* not known at present. In future years, the speaker added, 2,700 out of 3,000 will not be working at jobs they prepared for. Commenting on the bond issue to be voted on in the county this month. Dr. llurlburt said that large schools are necessary for a proper curriculum. It is no long er possible to find a teacher, he remarked, who will teach four or five different subjects. In voting on a school bond issue, the question to be answered, the speaker said, is "Will this insure a better future for my son, my daughter, in my town, my county, my state, the United States?" H. L. Joslyn. coanty superinten dent of schools, introduced the speaker. Dr. Hurlburt is a grad uate of Cornell University, where he received his bachelor, master's and doctorate degrees. He studied st Harvard, taught high school in New York where he also served as s principal, and came to East Carolina College in 1M7 as professor of education. His next position was at Duke. Dr. Harlkart at MM time taught an ECC extension course at More head City high school. A. B. Cooper, Morehead City PTA president, presided. He asked all Morehead City school room representatives to meet Monday at the school to dikcuas promotion at the band 1mm.
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