CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ??
48th YEAR, NO. 15 TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FB
Defendant Found
Guilty of Getting
Stolen Items
? Two 1 3-Year-Olds Tell
Of Numerous Thefts
t Youths to Go Today
To Correction School
Henry Let Hill, Otway, was given
a year'i suspended sentence in
county court yesterday by judge
Lambert Morris. Hill was found
guilty of receiving stolen goods.
He was fined $25 and costs.
According to sheriff Hugh Sal
ter, Hill accepted from two 13
year-old boys goods they bad stolen
from various places in the Otway
Smyrna area.
The boys are scheduled to be
sent to training school today.
Sheriff Salter said the youngsters
have enumerated the places they
have entered during recent months
and things they stole. Quite a bit
of the loot has been recovered.
Much of it was buried in the back
yard of one of the boys.
The youngsters went in Headen
Willis's store at Smyrna Saturday
night and took two watches. One
of them was not a waterproof
watch, so the kids went back the
next night, put back the one they
didn't want and got a waterproof
watch instead.
They told the sheriff that they
had been in the store six times.
On 12 different nights they broke
into Smyrna School during Jan
uary and stole March of Dimes
money. They went into Smyrna
Supplies about a dozen times and
into Leoland Gillikin's store about
four times.
On one occasion recently they
entered the Bedford Lawrence
house, took food and a watch. They
said they threw the watch away.
Sheriff Salter said persons who
have been victimized by the petty
thievery never reported it. The
theft at Headen Willis's this past
weekend was reported by Mr.
Willis.
In places of business, the boys
would take a small amount of
change and just one or two Items.
In addition to Hill, who was con
victed for accepting the goods, the
sheriff said two other teen-agers
helped relieve the 13-year-olds of
their stolen articles.
Also in court yesterday R. C.
Brown pleaded guilty to possessing
bootleg whiskey. The judge gave
him a suspended sentence and or
dered him to pay $100 and costs.
Marshall Ayscue, county ABC
officer, testified that he, George
Green and Dan Bell, Newport po
licemen, and Bill Dugee, constable,
found five jars of bootleg whiskey
in the Brown kitchen Sunday night.
The jars, he said, were under a
trap by the chimney. The Brown
house is located on the Mill Creek
road near Newport.
Charles Foreman, John Waters
and Arthur Days were convicted
of possession also. Newport chief
Dan Bell testified that they had
bought the whiskey at Brown's
place. Foreman and Day* were
each given suspended sentences,
told to stay on good behavior two
years and pay $23 and costs.
Waters, who came to this county
from South Carolina, was told to
get out of the county. If he's found
back here within the n?xt two
years, he's to be brought into
court, the judge ordered.
Continued was the case of James
Green, who also goes by the name
of James Humphrey. Humphrey is
charged with attempting to obtain
money under false pretense.
Among other things, he went to
the welfare department last week
for money, saying that his house
had burned down.
March of Dimes
Fund Now $3,796
The total in the March at Dimes
campaign stood yesterday at $3,
798.88.
Contributions are still being re
ceived. Grayden Paul, chairman
of the campaign, said that with
a little more effort the total may
reach $4,000.
He said be was sure the total
would have been $4,000 had the
basketbaU chairman for the cam
paign and the dance chairman
carried through on their assigned
projects.
Mr. Paul expressed his appre
ciation to all those who did com
plete their projects and all those
who contributed.
Persons who would like to con
tribute to the March of Dimes or
have coin collectors that were
missed on the pick-up are asked to
csll Grayden Paul, Beaufort, cam
paign chairman, or Mrs. C. L.
Beam, March at Dimes treasurer.
Of the total collected in the cam
paign, expenses amounting to about
$100, are to be deducted.
3-Year-Old Boy Suffers
From Heart Ailment
Carlyle Lewis
. , . your gift can help him
Not only "old people" suffer
from heart disease. Little Carlyle
Lewis, sod of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Lewis, Morehead City, has a mal
formed heart. His parents tell the
story:
This is a picture of our son. Car
lyle. We call him Sonny Boy. He
was a month old when our doctor
told us he had heart trouble. Only
those who have been told this
know the heartache ? watching the
chtM each and every day, so sick.
That is why our hearts go out to
the many people who give to the
Heart Fund. We hope some day
there will be a cure for heart di
sease. That is why it is so im
portant to give all we can to make
new discoveries possible.
We are also thankful to know
that if our son needs a heart op
eration, we will be able to get it
through the Heart Association.
We think sometimes that things
like this can't happen to us, but
it can. So let's stop and think
what this may mean to us or one
of our laved ones. Please, let's
give all we can to the Heart Fund.
Sonny Boy is 3 years old now and
is doing fine with the help he is
getting. May the good Lord bless
your heart when you give to the
Heart Fund.
Family Fight is Taken
To Morehead City Court
?
James C. Ross
To Become Eagle
The rank of Eagle Scout will be
conferred on James C. Ross, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Ross,
Morehead-New Bern highway, at
7 p.m. Sunday night in Camp Glenn
Methodist Church.
James was recorded as an Eagle
Scout Jan. 26, 1959 after having
obtained .21 merit badges.
He ii a member of troop 334,
Gerald Davis, Scoutmaster. The
Jnti C. Ross
... at troop 334
troop Is sponsored by the Park
view Baptist Church.
James became a Tenderfoot
Scout in February 1958. In addition
to advancing in rank and winning
merit badges, he has served as
den chief, assistant patrol leader,
patrol leader and bugler. He com
pleted the Junior leaders' training
coarse and is now serving oil the
staff of his troop.
He has attended Sunday School
without missing for the past 11
years, take? an active part in the
Methodist Youth Fellowship at
Camp Glenn and is a member of
the Morebead City high school
band.
At present he is working on the
God and Country award which be
expects to receive in April. .
Friends of -Scouting are invited to
the Subday ceremony.
' Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Lewis,
Morehead City, took a family fight
to Morehead City recorder's court
Monday. Judge Herbert Phillips
heard evidence that Mrs. Lewis
had assaulted her husband, hitting
him with a shoe.
After hearing the evidence,
Judge Phillips ordered the case
taken off the docket and continued
indefinitely. Any time the two get
in trouble again the ease can be
re-opened.
Harvey Lewis, Morehead City,
carried his fight to the police de
partment. When officers tried to
pick him up for being drunk in
public he tried to fight his way
free.
He was sentenced to a year in
jail for public drunkenness and
two 30-day sentences were sus
pended on two years good behav
ior. Lewis got another 30-^lay sus
pended sentence on a second
charge of public drunkenness.
Joseph E. Tirrell, Redondo
Beach, Cal., forfeited a cash bond.
He was charged with breaking out
the door of the Western Union
building. The judge ordered a ca
pias issued for his arrest.
Carlton Pittman, Morehead City,
was sentenced to 30 days for pub
lic drunkenness.
Otis N. Fulford, Supply. N. C.,
forfeited a cash bond and the judge
ordered a capias issued for his
arrest. If Fulford is picked up he
will be put under $500 bond. He is
charged with driving drunk.
O. J. Morrow, Morehead City,
withdrew a warrant charging Fred
Guthrie Jr. with fighting in public
and disturbing the peace. Mr. Mor
row waa ordered to r'y court
costs.
James F. Ilardison. Morehead
City, paid costs for falling to yield
the right of way.
8. R. Hearne, Albemarle, and R.
V. Johnson, Kenly, N. C. paid $9.25
each for overtime parking tickets
they had failed to pay.
Two defendants were found not
guilty. They were Harold Trader,
Havelock, and Willie Sharpe, Beau
fort. Trader was charged with
passing at an intersection and
Sharpe wai charged with giving
an improper torn signal.
Case* were continued against
the following: William Gray, Grace
B. Carlyle, John W. Facomier Jr.,
Leonard B. Melton and John R.
Thompson Jr.
Civilians at Base
Will Receive
Minute Man Flag
? US Treasurer Will
Present Award
? Carteret Residents
Help Win Honor
Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, treasurer
of the United States, will visit
Cherry Point Teusday to present
the National Savings Bond Pro
gram "Minute Man Flag" to
civilian employees.
The "Minute Man Flag" is
awarded to military commands
with 500 or more civilian employees
who maintain a 90 per cent par
ticipation in the Payroll Savings
Plan for two consecutive months.
Cherry Point's civilian employees
attained 90.58 per cent participa
tion in the Savings Bond Program
last November and edged forward
to 90.94 per cent in December.
Their January average was 91.28
per cent.
Mrs. Priest is personally present
ing the Minute Man Flag because
this is the first time the award
has been made either to a gov
ernmental or commercial installa
tion in the state of North Caro
lina.
Cherry Point's high record of
Savings Bond participation has
been credited to the efforts of a
Civilian Savings Bond Committee
appointed in May 1956 by Brig.
Gen. E. A. Montgomery, then com
manding general of the station.
The committee still boasts its
original membership: chairman
Mr. Harlcy F. Lindsay of More
head City, Public Works Depart
ment; Mrs. Nora B, Grimes of
Havelock, Supply Department;
John Deibert of Morehcad City,
Supply Department; Hugh Morris
of Swansboro, Overhaul and Re
pair Department; Mrs. Goldie Hall
of Havelock, Industrial Relation
Office, and Edmund Nelson of
Beaufort, Industrial Relation Of
fice. V
Peeping Case
WiH be Heard ?
Scheduled far hearing in Monday
morning's Morehead City record
er's court is John W. Facomicr Jr.,
who is charged with peeping into
a home at 1104 Evans St.
Facomier, who is stationed
aboard the Chilula, was turned
over to Coast Guard authorities
last Thursday morning after spend
ing the night of Feb. 11 in jail.
Donald Ditto of the military po
lice detachment, Morehead City,
said he saw Facomier as be came
off the back porch at 1104 Evans
at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday night,
Feb. 11.
Several minutes earlier, Ditto's
wife, who lives next door to 1104
Evans, called her husband to tell
him a man was looking in the Ditto
window.
Later the MP's spotted Facomier
walking by Sound Chevrolet ?nd
he was picked up by Lt. Joe Smith
of the Morehead City police foree.
Lieutenant Smith says Facomier
denies being on Evans Street at the
time of the peeping incident He
claims he was at" the movies.
Students Will Take Home
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Bulletins on School Plans
Beaufort, Morehead City Plan
To Get Out the Vote Feb. 28
Morehead City grade motbers <
met Monday and Beaufort resi
dents met last night to map plana
for getting out the vote a week
from tomorrow in the school bond
referendum.
Morehead City grade mothers
have been asked by A. B. Cooper,
president of the Parent-Teacher
Association to obtain a list of all
parents, contact them and if they
want to vote Feb. 28, ace that they
get to the polls.
The Morehead City PTA was
among the first organizations to
endorse the proposed school bond
issue.
The Beaufort Citizens Commit
tee for Better Schools called tbe
meeting last night at Beaufort
school to explain details of the
school building program and pro
posed means of financing.
The meeting was open to the
public. It was expected that plans
would be made to see that per
sons get to the polls Feb. 28.
National VP
To Visit Jaycees
Wet Conklin, Jacksonville, Na
tional Jaycee vice-president, will
be a guest at the Morehcad City
Jaycee meeting at 7 Monday night
at the Blue Ribbon Restaurant.
Announcement of the visit wps
made this week at the Jaycee
meeting. Jerry Willis, president,
appointed a nominating commit
tee. Composed of past presidents,
it consists of P. H. Geer Jr., Dr.
Russell Outlaw, Herbert Phillips
III and Dr. R. 0. Barnum.
The committee will make ttp re
port seat month and Uia-flacUom
?will be in AfcrB. \
L. G. Dunn announced that (he
national convention will be in Buf
falo, N. Y., June IS. Jaycees will
buy chances on winning an ex
pense-paid trip to the convention.
Proceeds from the sale will be used
for a state booth at Buffalo.
Mr. Dunn also mentioned that
plans arc under way for the Jay
cees to sponsor a variety show to
raise money.
Committee reports heard includ
ed that of the Little League. Sev
eral Jaycees worked on the field
last week. Twelve Jaycees attend
ed the district meeting at New
Bern Feb. 12 and reported on ac
tion there.
The final report on Jaycee Radio
Day showed a profit of <150.
Capsule Capped
The time capsule buried in De
cember in front of the Morehcad
City municipal building now has
a sidewalk slab over it. In the
center of the slab is a marker
reading "Time Capsule 1958-2008".
Smyrna Future Farmers <
To Observe FFA Week i
The Smyrna FFA Chapter will*
actively participate in the national
FFA week celebration next week
The first activity of the chapter
will be attending church and Sun
day school together on Sunday.
National FFA Week is always
held the week of George Washing
ton's birthday. George Washington,
although this is not commonly
known, was an outstanding farmer
in his day. He used many advanced
practices in his time that were not
accepted by other farmers.
His efforts to advance agricul
ture have been inspirational to
farm boys today who are also seek
ing to learn more of the modern
means of farming, comments W.
J. Owens, Smyrna agriculture
teacher.
On Sunday morning the FFA
boys will attend Sunday school at
Marshallberg and stay over for
church services. Their advisor, Mr.
Owens, will tcach the Sunday
school lesson.
During FFA week the students
plan to work on the school campus
to help make it more attractive.
In addition to cleaning the grounds,
flowers and shrubbery will be
planted. ,
In connection with FFA week,
the boys will make arrangements
for the annual FFA father-son ban
quet which will follow the week
after the national celebration.
The aims, purposes and ideals
of the Future Farmers of America
will be stressed throughout the
week.
52 Attend Club
Dinner Monday
Fifty-two Emeritus Civic Club
members and their guests were
entertained by dance students Mon
day night at their ladies' night
meeting ?t Mrs. Russell Willis's
barbecue restaurant.
The speaker was Mayor George
Dill of Morehead City who spoke
on the future of this area. His talk
included presentation of figures on
the sportsfishing industry.
Dance students who presented
numbers were Sandra Thompson,
tap dance, The Money Tree; Anna
Salter, two toe dances. Perpetual
Motion and Les Sylphides Ballet;
Ginger Fulcher, song and dance,
I Want to Dance, Dance, Dance.
Lynn Wallace, tap dance, Ida,
Sweet as Apple Cider; Sandra
Thompson and Becie Rice, toe
dance, You and You Waltz.
SHC Schedules
Hearing on Bridge
A hearing on the proposed new
North River bridge has been
schoduled by the State Highway
Commission for 11 a.m. Wednes
day. March 4, at the courthouse,
Beaufort.
At that time persons interest
ed in the bridge may voice their
opinions, especially, the highway
commission states, as to "eco
nomic effect" of the location.
A notice of the hearing has
been posted on the courthouse
bulletin board.
JayceestoHelp
Redecorate Hut
The Beaufort Jaycecs agreed
Monday night to help the Beau
fort Junior Woman's Club redec
orate the Scout hut. Mrs. Frank i
Langdalc, president of the Wo
man's Club, attended the Jaycee
meeting and proposed the work.
Jaycee president Guy Smith Jr.
authorized Mack Styron to collect
all the information about the club I
he could find and report at the I
next meeting.
Mr. Smith said he thought the
club records should be brought up
to date, ile suggested that Mr.
Styron talk to ex-secretaries and
other persons who might have in
formation.
The members voted to start all I
meetings, business or dinner, at ?
7 p.m. The previous hours were :
7 p.m. for dinner meetings and I
7:30 p.m. for business meetings. 1
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday. Feb. 20
5:59 a.m. 12:29 a.m.
6:27 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 21
6:46 a.m. 12:38 a.m.
7:10 p.m. 1:14 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 22
7:27 a.m. 1:24 a.m
7:52 p.m. 1:57 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 23
8:09 a.m. 2:10 a.m
8:33 p.m. 2:38 p.m
Tuesday, Feb. 24
8:53 a.m. 2:53 a.m
9:18 p.m. 3:18 p.m
Map Shows Proposed Sites
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Information Dune tins on
he proposed county school
>uilding program were dia
ributed to schools this week
,o be sent home with pupils.
Seaufort and Morehead City
jupils were scheduled to re
:eive them yesterday.
The pamphlets have been pub
ished by the county and diatributed
h rough the county education of
ice.
The six-page bulletin carries a
nap of the proposed sites (or east
ind west consolidated schools and
Igures showing the proposal for fi
tancing the $2^4 million school
wilding and renovation program.
Information in the bulletin read!
is follows:
"Please go to the polls Saturday,
February 28th, and vote for the
Bond Issue to provide the needed
school facilities.
"The Secretary of the Local Gov
ernment Commission has set a
schedule of amortizing the debt
lervice to retire the indebtedness
in 17 years, by adding IS cents to
present debt service of 65c, total
10 cents.
"The Board of Education pro
poses to use the 2V4 million dollars
is follows:
? $1,000,000.00 for an East High
School on the Arnold property
located between highways Nos.
101 and 70, about 3 miles cast of
Beaufort.
? Jl, 000.000. 00 for a West High
School on the Rochelle property
located between highways Nos.
24 and 70, just east of the "Lit
tle Nine" golf course.
The sale of the 2 million dollars
in bonds for high schools will be
allocated dollar for dollar be
tween the two schools,
t $500,000.00 to renovate other
school buildings for efficient use,
and to build a 300-pupil Ele
mentary School for the White
Oak Township, when called for.
"The County Commissioners feel
that to meet county needs on a
minimum basii they will have to
add to the present tax rate of $1.35
an additional 15c for debt service
for school expansion and 10c for
county services, making a total tax
rate of $1.60. This 15c tax for
school expansion would add $4.50
to the estimated county average
tax-payer's taxable valuation of
13,000.00. For example, if last year
you listed property valued at
(6.000.00, you paid taxes on $3,
1)00.00, or a total of $40.50. Under
the proposed increase, you would
pay $45.00."
Three Accidents
Occur in Town
Three can were damaged In a
wreck at the intersection of 9th
and Evans Streets, Morehead City,
at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Morehead
City police also investigated an ac
cidcnt Thursday night and another
Saturday morning.
In the Friday morning wreck,
Sgt. William Condie laid Or. F.
E. Hyde, Beaufort, was going north
on 9th, stopped at the stop sign at
Evans and proceeded, but did not
see a 1950 Oldsmobile approaching
from the east. The Oldsmobile
was driven by James A. Gibson,
route 1 Newport.
Dr. Hyde, la a 1957 Dodge, turn
ed to the left in an attempt to
avoid the colliaion and struck a
parked 19S0 Ford owned by Clifton
A. Lynch, S. 30th St. Damage to
the Oldsmobile was estimated at
1200, to the Dodge $150 and to the
Ford $100.
A 1958 Ford truck, driven by Les
lie M. Webb, Morehead City, and
owned by Franklin Bakery, hit a
parked 1952 Pontiac at 13th and
Fiaber Streets at-9:05 p.m. Thurs
day. The parked car was owned by
George Murray, 1408 Fisher,
Damage to the Pontiac was esti
mated at $200 and to the truck,
$100. Patrolman E. D. O'Neal in
vestigated.
A 1957 Ford driven by Russell
Willan, route 1 Morehead City, hit
a utility pole on Arcndell Street at
10:45 a.m. Saturday.
Serjeant Condie, who investi
gated, said that Willan was pass
ing a 1969 station wagon driven by
F. A. Small, Fernandina, Fla.,
when Small turned to the left to
avoid hitting some children.
Willan turned his car to the left
and hit the pole. There were no
charges.
Sunday Will b? Heart
Sunday in Beaufort
Sunday will be Heart Sunday la
Beaufort.
Assisting the Junior Woman's
Club, Beaufort sponsors of the
Heart Fund drive, will be high
school student*. They will make
house-to-house call*, starting from
Um Scout bvildiag at 1 pjb.