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THIS IS NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK CARTERET COUNTY NEWS -TIMES "" 48th YEAR, NO. 31. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS County Residents Comment On Library's Value to Them Five Tar Heels i Observe Shell Dredges in Texas ! 1 ? Operation Considered , Possible in This State t Elizabeth City Chamber Interested in Project Becaase Uw Elizabeth City cham- ] bcr of commerce is interested in | shell dredging in Albemarle Sound, { five North Carolinians flew to Gal- ( veston, Ten., last week to observe ] the dredging of shells in Galveston . Bay. Making the trip were Dr. A. F. j Chestnut, director of the Institute of Fisheries Research, Morehead . City; C. G. Holland, state fisheries | commissioner; Dr. J. L. Stuckey, ( state geologist, Harry Cornell, , chief of the fisheries division of ' the Wildlife Resources Commis sion, and former state senator N. E. Aydlett of Elizabeth City. The operations they observed arc simply the dredging up of shells from dead marine animals. The shells are imbedded under mud. Dr. Chestnut said an estimated 140,000 cubic yards of shells are taken from the bay annually. They are commercially valuable for their calcium and are used in the following ways: 1. Large chemical plants, Mon santo and Dow, make use of them in a $15 million annual industry 2. Cement plants crush them for use in cement 3. Plants grind them and bag them to furnish grit for poultry 4. Asphalt-making concerns mix the shells with asphalt to provide a long-wearing road surface b 1K3 aa Alabama firm checked the North Caroilaa outline for shell deposit* and found M million cubic yards in Qarrltuck Sound ' Dr. Chestnut said that from flits 1 superficial examination it was es- I timatcd that 100 million cubic < yards were probably available. I The prospect of shell dredging at that time disturbed some of the fishermen and hunters, but other coastal interests, such as the Eliza- . beth City chamber of commerce, I hope that maybe the work can be undertaken on a small scale, . In lS-mile-long Galveston Bay, I four dredges are at work digging up shells. Dr. Chestnut said that the work i appears to benefit shrimping. In 1 the area where the dredging was \ going on, shrimp catches were > larger. The dredging is beneficial t also in that nitrates and phosphates t are released, but the dredging docs t cause more turbid waters, Dr. i Chestnut reported. He said the groap which made i the trip to Galveston will present I its observations in a report to the t Board of Conservation and Devel- j opment t Two Cart Scrape While Passing Intersection Two Beaufort residents, Rita Noe and Marion Noe, (police said they were not kin) were Involved in an accident at 7th and Aren dcll Streets at noon yesterday. Both drivers were headed east on Arendell street and their cars scraped each other while going through the intersection. Each auto received only minor damage, ac cording to Lt Carl Blomberg, who investigated. There were no charges filed. ta observance of National Libra ry Week this week, patrona of the public library have commented on the value of the library to them. Comments of different persons wilt appear both today and in Tues day's paper. Maj. and Mrs. L. P. Bart, More liead City: Our family enjoys your excellent library service. We find it helpful in a wide variety of subjects for study and enjoyment. Our wide range of titles would be too long, but there are three we have enjoyed recently: A Tra veler in Rome, Inside Russia To day, and Nature is Your Guide. Dr. C. F. Keuzenkamp, Emer ald Isle: No matter what town I live in, jne of the first things I do is to look up the library. These last [our years 1 have been extended ill the facilities of the Carteret County Public Library located in Beaufort, and I find in this library ? fine selection of many biographi cal, autobiographical and historical looks. The courtesies and assistance of ill those employed there I appre ciate very much and look forward lo using the facilities for many years to come. Mrs. Mary Privette, Beaufort: There are very few things in life is important to me as reading. I tind time to read in several ways ?three times a day, when I sit lown to my meals, I have a book >pcn. When retiring at night I read awhile. If resting in the af ternoon I read before taking a up. If I cannot find a convenient lime, I take or make time, as it teems to me that reading to de velop and stimulate our minds is ?Imoat as necessary as breathing is for our bodies. I cannot imagine i much greater calamity than not jeing able, or loving, to read. We have in Carteret County a wonderful opportunity to read good Dooks if we visit our county library which ranks among the best small libraries. OdeU Merrill, Beaufort: I have just finished reading While SUB We Live by Helen Mac Innfci Vbout the capitula tion of Poland after the German mslaught and the occupation by the Nazis. This is a tale of a strong See COMMENTS, Page 2 ? Sword Day, C-Day Will be Observed Plastic swords, symbolic of the Cancer Crusade, will be sold In downtown Beaufort and More bead City tomorrow, according to Miss Lyda Piner, chairman of the county cancer campaign. Door to door canvassing has been scheduled for C-Day, Sun day. Literature on cancer will be delivered to homes by volun teer workers. Forty per cent of the funds collected will remain in the county to help cancer patients in need of care, Miss Piner said. Tbe Cancer Crusade is being conducted by the Business and Professional Women's Club. Health Officer Says Start Now With Polio Shots Dr. Lather Fulcher, county health officer, suggests that any child who has not had bis polio shots and who expects to attend school in this state in the fall, start his polio shots now. The inocula tion is given in a scries of three shots. Parents should take their chil dren either to a private physician or to the health center at Turner Street and highway 70, Beaufort. Children will be required to pre sent a certificate showing they have had these shots on the first day of school in September. If the child has already had his shots, the certificate will be provided by him. If shots are given at the health department, a certificate will be provided there. Information re quired will be name of the child, address, and first as well at last nam* of both parents or guardian. The state's compulxty polio vaccination I*w require* that any child bctwaw* alMHj? s? of age shall he vaccinated. No child may attend a public, private or parochial school without first producing evidence that he has been vaccinated against polio. Carteret Legislator Votes For Minimum Wage Law Rep. D. G. Bell of Carteret was* imong the 66 member* of the {ouse voting for the minimum vage law Wednesday. Thirty-nine rotcd against. If the bill passes he senate, with its many exemp ions, North Carolina will become he first southern state with a ninimum wage law. The bill contains exemptions, but nany exemptions proposed were >eat off by the sponsors of the >ill. The legislation is expected to >ass the Senate in much less time han it took in the house. Mr. Bell Mradiced three Car eret bills Tuesday. They are as ollows: HB5M. To provide for extension if the corporate limits of the town 1 1 Newport. Local Government. HBUt. Defining legal residency 'or those eligible to vote In a ref erendum for extension of the cor >orate limits of the town of At antic Beach. Local Government. HBS4*. To authorize the board of ;ommissioncrs of Carteret County o fix fees charged by county of Icials, the number of salaried em ployees and the compensation of :ounty officials and employees. Lo ral Government. George Thomas Heads Jaycees Beaufort Jaycees elected George Thomas president for the coming year at their meeting Monday night in the Scout building. Other officers elected at the din ner meeting were Glenn Willis, vice-president; Manly Mason, sec retary; and Henry Eubanks, treas urer. Past president Guy Smith was automatically elevated to state director. Elected to the board of directors for the club were Bobby Martin, Jesse Taylor, Merlin Bullock, Mack Stein, Gregory Warren and Billy Ipock. In other business, club members discussed plana for the coming football season as well as the Scout building improvement project they are sponsoring in cooperation with the Junior Women's Club. Morehead City High School Seniors Express Opinion on School Situation ueraia jaaes, Morcneaa uty high school senior, and George Jackson, Morehead City faculty member, brought to THE NEWS TIMES office Wednesday afternoon the following comment by More head City seniors on the school situation: No interest in a new school? Isn't that something for * com munity to be branded with when they need a new school aa badly as Morehead City does! Not tag ago, as we all know, a proposal was set before the voters of our county for the im provement of our schools. Well, this went over like a big nothing. But that isn't the important thing; what we want to know is WHY didn't tha parents of this commun ity make tha effort to vote? It see as that you didn't care whether ar not we got a new school. The Important thing about the Dood issue waa the fact that aonsa thing was haiag dooel There are other wajri of getting a new school . . . and that's whit we arc asking for; some suggestions on how to get a new or better school. If the bond issue wasn't the anawer we'll accept that ... but don't let one defeat atop you ... the problem will never get solved. Everyaat la always complaining about nothing being done; but, when someone tries to do some thing about it no one will back them up. You bars good ideas and plans. Evan K jrou aren't sure they are good, you could at least make suggestion* to others. Don't Just ait and wait for someone else to get things started. That's what happened before. The students can do just so much . . . then it's up to the citizens a t our community. We, the students, bad a parade to try to show you the crowded conditions in our school. Daring the parade, you stood there and smiled at each other and pointed out your child to your neighbor. But I don't think that one at you realized what a Mcfew Jffobiea we were trying to tell you about. Yoa pcremU should attend our ichool one day and aec 400 stu dcnta try to pais through our nar row ball. Crowded conditions such as then could cause a serious mis hap. When Mr. Lee, our principal, first accepted his present poaltlbn he was assured that a new high school would be built within a few years. Well, folks, four yean have passed and there isn't even a blue print! Wfcea the Scalar Clans of 'St were only freshmen, Mr. Lee ssid some thing similar to this: "This school issue won't affect the senior class now but perhaps by the time our freshmen become seniors, they will have a brand new high school to graduate from." Not so long ago, we heard the same speech la assembly. And the class that should have been the first ones to graduate from that saw school are now seniors. You faa .STUDENTS, rage I ? 4 -J . ' ? ?" 1 Morehead PTA Endorses Proposal For County Tax Rafe Totaling $1.75 ? Trash, Debris Pile Up NrwiTlme* Photos by McCnmb Fish heads pile up under a building on the Morehead City waterfront. Add to this a warm day and yon don't smell Chanel No. 5, you smell Morehead City channel trash. Frequently the odor Is intensified by ratting potato peelings, orange rinds and almllar garbage. Morehead City town fathers urgently re qoeat that boats awl other walerfroot users not throw garbage and refuse overboard. In the backgrooad are buildings of Standard Net Maaufacturing Company. Wind Wows paper and other refuse from the damp ap against the buildings. The dump is a natural breeding groaad for rata and other disease carrying rodents which are a constant nuisance to the business operation. Trasfe damped by Beaafort eltiieaa In the damp adjaceat to Standard Net, Ittten a wide area along Ltaaoivllle Road, to the right background U Lennoxville raid. At the right of the pktnre la a road that leads toto the aailghtljr damp. Beaidea being aa eye tare to paaalag ?otoriati the damp preaeata a aerl oa? health threat to acarhr resMkata. ' ' ? . \ J prsons using tho dump on Lcn nnville Road contend that the town of Beaufort first darted dumping there and that k the re a aon other people followed ault. They contend the town aUll dumps there. Town official! u; that town trueki use the road through the dump but dump far from the road in an ana that I* behind a locked gate. Tba (lianuilon about who baa ?used the unsightly and unhealth il situation followed an editorial I THE NEWS-TIMES Tueeday. Regardless bow the dump start 1, most agree that it now consli ites ao eyesore and health biurd. Member* of the Morehead City Parent-Teacher Associa tion endorsed Monday night a proposal to raise the county tax rate to $1.75. The proposals, reportedly, are the outgrowth of several meetings of the Morehead City school committee and other Morehead citizens interested in Det tering the school situation in More head City. The suggestions, reasoning and financial figures, as set forth in the PTA-spoosored program, fol low: A RECOMMENDED PROPOSAL TO ALLEVIATE THE CRITICAL SCHOOL NEEDS OF MORE HEAD TOWNSHIP The following recommendations are made after giving considerable time in studying ways and means to alleviate the critical condition of the Morehead Township schools by interested citizens and members of the local school committee. ? We believe the present proper ty consisting of 20 or more acres purchased by the county for the Morehead City High School is where the school should be located. Supporting Basis ? Other loca tions nearer the Newport River present problems of drainage and flooding, added to the high cost. The present property owned is well drained, easily accessible, and has surrounding property available for purchase. ? We believe that beginning at once plans should be developed for the location of the various build ings, athletic facilities, and other long-term utilities so that efforts of all groups will be coordinated to utilize properly the space, and min imize expenditures at facilities now temporarily in use. Supporting Basis ? The athletic facilities at the present football field are inadequate, many of the substandard classrooms now in use will be no longer used after con struction of the new facilities. I xing- term planning should be ini tiated as an economy measure. ? The number one need in the county it a high school building *t Morehead City. Such need was ex pressed It the Board of County Commissioners by the Carteret BWd at Its lu ting on April 6, 1959. supporting Basis ? The present building is 30 years old and is now in good condition, suitable for school purposes but not affording the space or facilities presently re quired in a high school. Morehcad Ctly needs have been recognized for some time but actions post poned pending construction of other school facilities in the county. Al most one-half of the property val uation In the county is in the Morehcad Township. ? The present county indebted ness is about $800,000 in non-regis tcrcd bonds maturing annually un til 1977. There is now an estab lished cash reserve to pay these bonds as they mature and it ap pears best under the plan proposed to pay these bonds only as they mature and utilize the low interest rate which they carry as opposed to refunding or refinancing. Supporting Basis ? The estab lished cash reserve is not sufficient to pay off these bonds, but with a minimum of IS cents and a max imum of 20 cents the county could pay off with these earmarked funds as the bonds mature, and thus re lease ready cash to a reserve for a school building. ? Carteret County schools need $380 ,000 from county tax funds in the coming year. $280,000 of this amount should be set aside on a "pay as you go" plan to provide a high school plant for Morehcad City. 8apportiBg Basis? Carteret Coun ty tax funds arc only one source of many for school operations as additional funds come from the state and federal governments. However, funds for school construc tion must all come from county tax funds. The $380,000 above was requested by the County Board of Education by the submission of its budget to the Board of County Commission ers. Any amount less than the $380,000 will not allow the begin ning of the accumulation of funds in an amount sufficient to catch up the lag in school needs. ? ?The Board of County Commla ?ioncra tentatively raised the tax Tides at the Beaufort Bar See PTA, Page 2 Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, April IT 2:22 a.m. 3:13 p.m. 8:31 a.m. 8:33 p.m. Saturday, April 18 3:30 a.m. 4:18 p.m. 10:23 a.m. 10:30 p.m. Madajr, April ? 4:3# a.m. 11 3:10 p.m. 11 Moaday, April 18 11:14 a.m. 11:42 p.m. 3:38 a.m. 6:08 p.m. 12:03 a.m. Taeaday, April 21 8:31 a.m. MM. 12:21 a.m. 12:30 pjft. + 19 Firms Enroll Their Personnel For Instruction Representatives of 1* Morrhrad City business firms will complete today their course on the training of employees. The course started Monday at the Hotel Fort Macon and is being sponsored by the Morehead City Chamber of Com merce. The instructor is Harvey Rape. Raleigh. Because there was insufficient enrollment, the host school, planned to train persons how to meet the public and promote travel business, will not be held. J. A. DuBols, chamber manager, expressed the hope that there may be enough interest next year to warrant holding of the host school. Date of the special one-day course for instruction of party boatmen has been tentatively act for Monday. April 27. This, too, will give tips on how to greet the travelling public, how to be helpful to them and make their stay more pleasant. There Is no c barge for the courses, which arc sponsored with state assistance. The following firms sent 24 per sons to the host school this week: Chalk and Gibbs, Capt. Bill's Restaurant, Frontier Village Mo tel, Morehead Ocean Pier, Busy Bee Cafe, Hotel Fort Macon. Oceanana Motel, Broadway Cafe, Perry Park Motel, Fleming's Mo tel, Bud Diaon's.'Motd. Dom-EI's, Cooperative Savings and Loan. Early Jewelers, Blanchard'a Electric Scrvicc, Morehead Bllt more Hotel,' Blue Ribbptv Restau rant, Morehead Theatre and Flem ing's Restaurant. Loaded Moving Van Turns Over Damage running into the thous ands of dollara occurred at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when a loaded furniture van turned over on high way 24 about half a mile east of the White Oak bridge. Patrolman W. J. Smith, who in vestigated, aaid observers told him that Vina W. Campbell, Swansboro, made a left turn in her automobile, but did not see the approaching van until ahc was mid-way in her turn. The van was headed toward Swansboro and the car had been headed toward Morchead City. When she saw the van, she stopped and to avoid hitting ber the truck driver, Charles E. Dockwciler, Alexandria, Vi., ran off the side of the road. The van turned over. Five wreckers worked four hours to right it. The patrolman aaid furniture from three households waa loaded In the van. Charges are pending. Shoplifters Hit Early Jewelers Early Jewelers were the victims of shop lifters Monday. Unknown culprits made off with between $35 and $40 worth of merchandise, according to owner Oscar Allrcd. Included In the thinga that were discovered missing Monday after noon were two Columbia Trufit 10-carat wedding ring aizers, seven sterling friendship rings with red and white heart designs and two with green and white heart de signs, two ladies' cultured pearl rings, one birthstone necklace and a Japanese pocket knife. According to Mr. Allred, all the merchandise was on display in a show caae with the exception of the friendship rings which were displayed in a tray on top of the counter. Mr. Allred set the time of the robbery as sometime Monday morning because the rings were in the store when he left Saturday night and also when be opeDed Monday. Cases Ceatinoed Continued in the criminal term at superior court this month were the ease* of Tommy Council Jones, drunken driving, and Eugene A. Heaaee, assault aad destruction o< property.
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