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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "" 48th YEAR, NO. 22. EIGHT PAGES MOBEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Seadogs Again Win State Crown Police Charge Thomas Howard With Store Theft ? Former Drug Store Employee Booked ? Defendant Waives Hearing in Court Thomas C. Howard, 18, former delivery boy for Morehead City Drug store, has been charged with the March 9 theft at the store. Howard, who waived preliminary hearing in Morehead City record er's court yesterday morning, was in the town jail pending posting of $350 bond for his release. He was booked on the theft charge Saturday afternoon by po lice chief Herbert Griffin. Police have recovered $33 How ard had at the home where he was staying, $45.50 he had deposit ed in the Cooperative Savings and Loan, a camera he had taken from the store and several other minor items of merchandise he had picked up. According to chief Griffin, How ard has told police the entire story. He said he went into the drug store at S o'clock March 9, while the store was still open. At about 9, he continued, he slipped upstairs and hid on the third floor in a wire cage where films are kept. After the store closed, he came down, after taking the spring off the door to the third floor so that the door wouldn't slam. He pried open the middle drawer on the desk of W. C. Matthews, owner of the store, because he said he knew Mr. Matthews kept money there. He claimed he didn't find any thing there. Then he got the keys to the filing cabinet and opened that, but found no money there. So he went down to the first floor, turned the lights off by the prescription counter and with a screw driver he found on a desk, tried to pry the combination dial off the safe. Failing in that, he took a bottle of acid and poured it on the hinges of the safe door, be lieving he might be able to "melt" the hinges off. When that failed, he went to the cash register at the prescription counter and took $10 in change out of there. Then he went to the cash register near the fountain and took $25 in change from there. After scooping that op, he tried the cash register near the cos metics counter. He couldn't get that open by ringing it, so he pried the drawers open with the screw driver. He took tM out of one drawer and $10 each out of the other four, making his total cash take $129, according to chief Grif fin. He let himself out of the store by a back door. Mrs. John Ballou, employee at the drug store, dis covered the robbery when she found no change in one of the cash register! last Tuesday morning. When the police checked the (tore, chief Griffin found on the typewriter in the prescription de partment a note that had been typed by the burglar. It read, "We thank you very much?" Howard was picked up Friday and questioned. He said the money he deposited Thursday was what he had saved in a piggy bank he got at the state fair in October. In view of the fact that Howard is a high school pupil and hai not been employed since December when he was discharged by the drug store, officers wondered where be got the money. Chief Griffin and Joe Collins, civilian investigator at Cherry Point, questioned Howard again Saturday afternoon and that was when be told them how he robbed the store. A suitcase containing the cam era and $33 was found at 1205 Bridges Street, where Howard was living with an aunt. His step-fa ther, Alonzo Jones, who is em ployed at the drug store, told the youth to leave home when he found him in his home some weeks ago with another boy and two women. Chief Griffin says Howard has never been in any trouble before other than traffic violations which he had committed while driving the drug (tore delivery car. It was that reason that Howard was fired, the chief said. Patrolman Snmonl Patrolman J. W. Sykcs wai sum moned to duty at Henderson late Sunday night Patrolman W. E. Pickard, who was on duty at the textile strike city last week, re turned bom* Friday. A SOUVENIR PICTORIAL EDITION On the State Champion Seadogs Will b? Published by THE NEWS-TIMES Watch for Itt Airport Commissioners Take Office Yesterday Highway Group Elects Officers ? Carteret Men Named To Executive Posts ? Improvement of Coast Travelways Urged Ma). J. L. Murphy, Kill Devil Hills, was elected president of the Seashore Highway Association Wednesday afternoon at Raleigh. J. A. DuBois, Morehead City, who was recently honored by Morehead City chamber of commerce as Mr. Seashore Highway, was re-elected secretary. Norwood Young, Beau fort, was re-elected treasurer. Vice - presidents are Wayland Sermons, Washington, first divi sion; Gerald Kill, Beaufort, secobd division; and Glenn Tucker, Caro lina Beach, third division. Directors from Carteret are Al vah Hamilton, Morehead City; Da vid Yeomans, Harkers Island; Ster ling Dixon, Davis; W. J. Ipock, Beaufort, and Moses Howard, New port. The association approved a reso lution urging that the state obtain as much outer banks land as pos sible, as gifts. The legislature will be asked to set aside $400,000 for purchase of the land so that con servation measures may be taken. The association also went on rec ord favoring ferry service as soon as possible from lower New Han over County to Brunswick County, advocating that highway IT, the only north-south highway be im proved to prevent channeling of traffic away from it, and the build ing of bridges across the Alligator River on US M and across the Cape Fear River at Wilmington to supplement bridges now there. The next seashore highway meet ing will be held in this area, Mr. DuBois said. The date has not been set. Counties represented at the meet ing at Raleigh, held in the Sir Wal ter Hotel, were Carteret, Wake, Hertford, New Hanover, Currituck, Dare, Onslow, Hyde, Beaufort, Pender and Orange. ? Four members of the Beaufort Morehoad City airport commission were sworn in at 12:S0 p.m. yes terday by Mr*. Mary Austin, dep uty clerk of superior court. They are W. H. Potter and Glenn Adair, Beaufort; Ben Alford and P. H. Geer Jr.. Morehead City. Leon Mann Jr., commissioner from Newport, was absent. Mr. Adair was elected chairman and Mr. Geer secretary. The commission discussed plans for operation of the airport dur ing the coming year. They will request an audit of airport funds to date so that they know where the airport stands financially and can start with a "clean slate", as Mr. Adair termed it. Cited as needs at the airport are road improvement, improvements to the administrative building, and replacement of the wind T, which was blown away in a storm. The airport's history was re viewed. The commission hopes to outline broad policies on airport operation to effect "further and more efficient use of one .of the. best airports ia eafcrcfn Carolina", the chairman said. The secretary was instructed to write Piedmont Airlines, which uses the airport on a summertime basis, and inquire what ita needs are for fueling F-27 prop-jets. Odell Merrill, clerk to the county commissioners who appoint three members of the commission, has been requested to send letters to past commissioners, thanking them for their services. Immediate past commissioners are Edgar Swann, chairman; M. T. Mills, Luther Hamilton Jr., Dr. John Way and Dr. Herbert Webb. The next meeting of the com mission win be at noon Tuesday, March 30, at the Rex restaurant. The commissioners met there yes terday. Dramatic Club to Give Play Thursday Night The Dramatic Club of Queen Street High School will present its annual play at 8 Thursday night in the school auditorium. The play is a three-act comedy entitled This Thing Called Love. It ia being di rected by Miss E. G. Atkinson and Mrs. B. R. Tillery. Admission is students, 25 cents advance tickets, 35 cents at door; adults, 35 cents advance, 50 cents at door. Mistrial Ruled in $40,000 Suit Against Constable Paul Win the Jury couldn't agree, a mistrial was ordered by Judge Henry L. Stevens Thursday night in the Mason-Paul shooting caa*. The jury, after hearing the Judge's instructions, retired at 4:S5 p.m. Approximately an hour later, the judge called them in and asked if they had reached a decision. When told they had not, the judge instructed them to try again. At f:M Judge Stevans asked again if they had reached a de cision and if not, was there any possibility that they would. When told that the 12 men seemed hopelessly deadlocked, the judge ordered a juror, R. M. Mc Claln withdrawn, and ruled a mis trial. What happens bow? The case can be tried in a future term of superior court, or carried to a higher court. Manly Mason, Broad Creek, the plaintiff, was requesting MO, 000 in damages aa a result of a wound received when a gun in Ralph Paul's hand went off. Paul ia con stable of White Oak townahi|>. Ma son said Paul deliberately shot him. Paul said that Massa caused his own wound when bo Mod to grab Paul's gun. i The iacldrnt occurred June I, . 19M on highway 24 three miles 1 east o f Cedar Point In other action, the court ordered i that George D. Morton Sr., de fendant in a suit brought by Com- i mercial National Bank, owes the ( bank W00.60 plus interest from I Feb. t, 1957. The rate of interest i shall be fl per cent annually until paid. Morton was also ordered to ( pay costs of court. Compromise was the action | brought by American Asbesto* I Products Co. against M. L. Mans field and Edna M. Mansfield, trad ing as Mansfield Lumber Co. Roland Styron and wife, Bessie, Havelock, agreed that they are indebted to Ralph Styron and Roma Styron, trading as Styron Plumbing, Heating and Air Con- ] ditiooing Co., in the amount of ] )17f. The parties in the case di vided costs o i the action between ? them. la the case of J. S. Hidden rod Ohio Casualty Insurance Co. vs. ! Swell Newsome and Jesse James 1 Ewefl, the plaintiffs ware award ed SM dollars and the defendant < ordered to costs. The suit was < the outgrowth of an auto accident Aug. 22, 1956 three mile* west of Morehead City. Confirmed was sale of property mi behalf of Patricia Lee Sessions and William Boyd Seaaions, mi nors, by their guardian, Herbert 9. Phillips III. The sale amounted to $5,400 with Mary Lucille Salter ?a purchaser. Becaase of last week'a superior court, there was no county court K one-week criminal term of su perior court, with Judge Stevens presiding, will open March 30. Tides at Ike Beaufort Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Taesday, March 1? 1:14 a.m. 1:46 p.m. t:0# a.m. 8:02 p.m. Wednesday, March It 1:07 a.m. !:4t p.m. ?:ll a.m. 9:29 p.m. Ttanday, March It 1:11 a.m. i:tt p.m. 10:13 a.m. 10:2S p.m. Friday, March M 1:20 a.m. I:5B p.m. 11:10 p.m. 11:05 a.m. News-Time* Photo by McConib Allen Ail try of Beaufort and a St Pauls player are caught In mid air as they fight for possession of a rebound in Saturday's game in the finals of the Class A tournament at Winston-Salem. Looking on is No. 45. Frank Potter of the Seadogs. Beach Commissioners Get Request for Beer Permit Atlantic Beach town commission ers deferred action Saturday morn ing on approving a beer license for David A. Lee to operate The Pavilion. The beer license of the former operator, Ward Ballou, was re voked last year by the ABC board when Ballou was found guilty ot violating beer regulations. The re vocation will contiuue in force un til July 13. Lee told the commlssioaers that he intends to lease The Pavilion and that Ballou will be connected with it in no way. According to the beach's ordi nance on beer, a successor to a beer retailer whose license has been taken, must prove that he has' no connection whatever with the previous operator. If he can offer proof of that and the applicant is morally fit, the board will then con sider favorable recommendation. Lee showed the board a lease signed by him, Ward Ballou and Royal 11. Spencc. The lease, he said, was drawn by Herbert Phil lips III, attorney. The lease, dated Feb. 7, 1958, was read by M. G. Coyle, clerk. Com missioner W. L. Derrickson said that he would not agree to any lease unless it were recorded at the courthouse. Mayor A. B. Cooper also pointed out that Lee needed three letters of recommendation and should com ply with other minor requirements before the board would be in posi tion to act on hit request. The board planned a special meeting this morning to act on the request, but it was postponed since commissioner A. F. Fleming is still in the hospital. The commissioners agreed to wire Lee their decision. Im is now living in West Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Coyle reported that accord ing to his records, George Carter, who owned the Pavilion before it was purchased by the present own ers, had not paid 1954 taxes. Bal lou appeared before the board last month and stated that although he has been receiving a bill for the taxes, it was his understanding that the former owner cleared those be fore the sale was final. Mr. Coyle said Mr. Carter would be notified of the tax status. The mayor and the clerk were authorized to determine, with Jack Taylor, property owner, where town trash shall be dumped in the future. Mayor Cooper asked the commis sioners to give consideration to a law which would permit the town to zone a mile beyond its limits. He said one section of the Salter Path Road It becoming a shanty town right on the edge of the town limits. Chief o I police BUI Moore Mated that the person hired by the town last year to clean streets and 8m BO AID, Pagi 2 McQuaid Says He Has Quit As Basketball Coach T. II. McQuaid, Beaufort's bas ketball coach, announced in cha pel yesterday morning that he has coached his last year of bas ketball. Mr. McQuaid said that he will take, next year, the Job of dis tributing textbooks to schools throughout the county, a Job that pays more than $800 a year. His supplement for coaching is reported to be $350 a year. Mr. McQuaid said that It Is impossi ble to raise a family on his teach er's pay and the coaching supple ment. Last summer be carried mail to supplement his salary as teacher and coach. Mr. McQuaid said he has coached basketball at Beaufort since he first came here in lf3S. lie said he will re main as a member of the facul ty. Mr. McQuaid teaches alge bra and math. Beaufort Downs Favored St. Pauls 62-54 in Finals By LARRY McCOMB "I don't know how I'll ever live through this", said Tom McQuaid seconds after his Beaufort Seadogs had won their second state title in five years by downing St. Pauls 62-54 in the championship game Saturday night at Winston-Salem. "One thing you can be sure of," continued McQuaid "There's going to be a real party tomorrow." But for McQuaid's boys, the party was Saturday night and lasted only 32 minutes ? 32 thrill-packed minutes in which they proved that they were the champions their record indicated they were. After being forced into a sudden death overtime period in the opening round of the tourney, the Seadogs displayed a sharpness and finesse of the well-coached team they are as they dominated play over the classy St. Pauls five. The Saints actually outscored the Seadogs from the floor, getting 21 field goals to 20 by Beaufort but the Sea dogs canned 22 of 31 attempts from the free throw line to hand them the victory by a comfortable margin. St. Pauls collected only 12 points at the charity stripe. The large Beaufort delegation cheered to hoarseness throughout the contest, which saw their team again and again come from behind on the way to their 27th consecu tive win of the year. The Seadogs opened the scoring in the game on a field goal for a quick 20 lead. St. Pauls scored next on a free throw and from here the two evenly matched teams took turns exchanging field goals as one team would post a lead and then the other team would rally momentarily to tie the score and go ahead. The end of the first quarter found the Saints ahead by a slim two-point margin at 13-11. The Beaufort attack warmed up in the second quarter of play as they came up with as IS- point out burst and tb? Seadog defense dom uiaud kieckboard play led by the hungry rebounding of co-captain Sammy Merrill and Allen Autry, who played their best games of season in a fitting tribute to their fine high school careers. The 18 points scored by the Sea dogs in the second quarter knotted the count at 2? all as the two teams left the floor at intermission. The third quarter saw Beaufort able to build up a slight lead of five points as they led at the buzzer by 44-39. Gene Jackson, who was later to be named captain of the all-tourney team, committed his fifth personal foul of the game in this quarter and his loss put the Saints at a definite disadvantage as he had been their top point maker throughout the game and the season. With two and a half minutes re maining between them and the state championship, the Seadogs tied the score at 52-52. Beaufort then shook Butch Hassell loose for a layup and Allen Autry dropped in two free throws. Freshman Ray Hassell, who would have walked off with the favorite player trophy, if such a thing had been awarded, then sank four straight free throws to give the Seadogs an eight-point lead at 60-52 with 22 seconds remaining on the clock. Alien Autry scored on another field goal and James Uaggins tal lied for the Saints to make the final score 62-54. The jubilant Beaufort rooters who had lined the playing floor minutes before the Anal buzzer, swarmed onto the court en mass* to congratulate their team and Coach McQuaid for their thrilling victory. Although it is customary in a newspaper account of a basketball game to list the individual scoring See CHAMPS, Page 7 ? Newport PTA Meets Tonight At the Newport PTA meeting to night at 7:30, those attending will be treated to a fashion show by the first-year home economics girls. On display in the hall and rooms of the first floor will be science exhibits as an extra at traction. The themes of the various ex hibits will be: first grades, Signs of Spring in the Forest, on the Farm, and Plant Life; second grades, Signa of Spring and Mo ther Nature's Cupboard: third grades, Nettings from the Sea shore. Fourth grades, Electricity and Sound; fifth grades, Weather and Our Nearest Star and llow It Af fects Life upon the Earth; sixth grades, Useful Hobbies, Domestic Science, and General Science. Seventh grades, General Science and The Formation, Uses and Drill ing and Mining of Oil and Coal. Eighth grades, Electricity and Science and Progress. Everyone is invited to come and see what is going on in the New port school, E. B. Comer, princi pal, announces. 16 Present Their Tax Problems By 2:30 p.m. yesterday, IS coun ty residents had appeared before the board of equalization to re quest adjustment in taxes or land valuation. After presenting their case, the petitioners were told that they would be notified by mail of the board's decision. Appearing were Mrs. Leslie Gor don Fulcher, Morehead township; Mrs. Mary Lloyd Lewis, E. C. Bal lou, Stanley Lockhart and Dick Parker, all of Morehead City. Mrs. F. L. Bell, route 1 Newport ; Wallace Gamer, Beaufort RFD; John B. Davis, Marsh Street, and Charles Merrill, Hancock Park, Beaufort; Bertie Piner, Williston. Thomas Cannon, representing C. E. Culpepper, Mill Creek; Mrs. Aaron Styron, Mrs. Rebecca R. Bell, Atlantic; Sam Morgan, New Bern; Curt Cannon( Newport, also representing Fred Simmons and A. D. Simmons, Newport; and Mrs. George E. Thompson, Emerald Isle. 'Catch Yer Own Seafood' Bill Gets Heated Attention at Raleigh Hearing Sentiment expressed at the hear ing on catch-your-own-scafood-any time indicates that 1. The ban on Saturday shrimp ing may be lifted 2. A sports fisherman may be appointed to the commercial fish eries committee of the CAD board The hearing on the proposed sea food law was held Wednesday at Raleigh. Introducers of the bill, Sen. Bunn Frtnk and Sen. Cicero Yow, ran head-on at the bearing Into the law enforcement division of state commercial fisheries and the North Carolina Fisheries Association. C. G. Hdlaad, fisheries com missioner, has repeatedly warned that to allow paoplo to catch ?hrimp for home use any time and allow them to take a bushel of oysters daily, Tuesday and Wed nesday during closed season, will be impossible to enforce. The bill also has been attacked from the conservation standpoint as well as by commercial flatter men who see it a threat to their livelihood. D. G. Bell, Carieret legislator, maintains that fisheries should be regulated by tha commercial fish eries committee which can make regulations when the legislature la not in session, not by lawa that can be changed only every two years? when the legislature meets. Dr. A. L. Chestnut, director of tha '-I-*"-'- tt flMn SMMlckt backed up Mr. Bell's contention in that he Kid it would be well it fishing law* are "flexible". Monroe G ask ill, Cedar Island, testified that the Yow-Frink law would hurt the small commercial fisherman. The bill, if it became law, would suit the amateur fisherman and the bome-freezer addict who want to catch their own seafood. Tie commercial fisheries com mittee did not vote on the bill Wed nesday. There were hopes that the house committee could kill it After the stormy session Wednes day, there may be doubt* about that. Hie senate has already approved a* MIL
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