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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?? 48th YEAR, NO. 84. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS George Equils Appeals Roads Term Thursday ? Two Jailed for Failing To Do at Court Orders ? Judge Hears Numerous Traffic' Cases Filling to comply with a court order and charge* of non-aupport brought a one year jail sentence and work on the county roads for George Equils Thursday in county recorder's court. The charges arose after Equils failed to comply with terms of a suspended sentence of Sept. 11, 1958. The defendant gave notice of appeal to the next term of Superior Court. His bond was set at $500. Appearing before the court to answer charges of having no dri ' ver's licenses were James J. Ro und Jr., Vera Day Weires, Donald Juan Phillips and Jack Carlton Gray. Phillips and Gray were or dered to pay court costs while Weires paid one-half costs. The state decided not to prosecute Ro land. The state also decided not to prosecute Floyd Thomas Wright, charged with having an expired op erator's license. Assault charges against John Tyson Jr. and Isaac Lee were dropped when the prosecuting wit nesses decided not to prosecute. In both cases the court ordered the prosecuting witnesses to pay court costs. Woody Hancock and Paul Ches ter Parker paid $10 and court costs after being found guilty of speed ing. Howard B. Greene appeared on speeding charges. The judgment of the court was that he pay court costs. The state decided not to prosecute Esveld Arnold Canipe and James Allen Lewis, also charged with speeding. Lewis A. Carr, charged with speeding, was called and failed to appear, thereby forfeiting bond. Two defendants in non-support "**05 in which the state decided not to prosecute were Rufus Beard and McCreavy Guthrie. Henry Jacobs and Jaaies H. Smith appeared before Judge L. R. Morris to answer charges of public drunkenness. Judgment of the court was that Jacobs pay court costs while Smith was given 30 days in jail, suspended on pay ment of costs. Failing to stop for a stop sign and failing to yield the right of way resulted in a $10 fine and court costs to Marshall Lee Zim ? merman III. The court dismissed the case against Helen Brooks Guthrie, who had been charged with failing to give a proper hand signal. Ivan E. Willis paid court costs for driving on the wrong side of the road and Brian Edward Little paid costs after the court found him guilty of failing to yield the right of way, resulting in an acci dent. The state decided not to prose cute William Willis, Salter Path, charged with failing to report an accident and improper backing. John Rogers Basden, charged with having an improper muffler, was called and failed to appear, thereby forfeiting bond. Hender son Godette Jr., paid half court costs on charges of having no muffler. Ralpk Vincent Church was given three months on the roads, after being found guilty of drunk driv ing. The court suspended sentence on payment of $100 and costs. Joseph Neal Davis was charged with careless and reckles* driving. His judgment was suspended, by the court, on payment of $10 and See COURT, rage S Barbour Slat* Files in Beaufort Filing together u ? slat? for towa offices in Beaufort Friday morning were, left to right, Earl Mason, Billy Davis, Bert Brooks, Dr. David Farrior, Wyoo Lewis, for commissioners, and J. O. Barbour Jr., for mayor. Mrs. George Cottingham, clerk, accepts their filing fees. County NCEA Endorses Teacher Exam Proposal The advisory council of the Car teret County Unit of the North Carolina Education Association met in a special called session at the Beaufort school Thursday. At tending the meeting were building representatives from the county's seven schools, committee chair men, and county superintendent H. L. Joslyn. Miss Joyce Taylor, president, presided. The object of the meeting was to consider the work of the House subcommittee on education. As a member of the state professional services committee, Miss Taylor attended a meeting of this com mittee, the legislative committee, the NCEA board of directors, and the House subcommittee in Ra leigh April 21. The subcommittee is consider ing a program of advanced teacher certification, the chief point of which is the administering of the National Teachers Examination to all teachers in the state. Jhe pro posed program ia to determine the preparatioa of ? teacher fchd will in n? way measure her ?fcrform ance in the classroom. Bliss T?y lor reported. A teacher's score *n the examination would determine her salary increase. NCEA leaders point out that North Carolina presently ranks sixth in the nation in its require ments for teacher certification, yet is 34th in the amount of salary paid its educators. Also, it is be lieved that a program which at taches salary to factual prepara tion it not a fair one, and will greatly affect the morale of teach ers. The Carteret advisory council voted unanimously to endorse the suggestions which were submitted to the subcommittee by the NCEA leaders April 21: 1. We believe that the National Teacher Examinations, along with other pertinent factors, might be a useful instrument in helping to measure qualifications for teacher certification. If used in this con nection, we believe that it ought to be used in the manner suggested by the Educational Testing Ser vice. 2. We do not believe that this or any other single test ought to be used as the sole criterion for de termining salary ratings or incre ments. 3. Since this is a matter of great importance, affecting the morale and well-being of the entire teach ing profession, and consequently, affecting the well-being of the en tire state, we feel that thorough and careful evaluation of any such proposals ought to be made. We See NCEA, Page t Sunday Will Be Migrant Sunday Churches of the county will ob serve Migrant Ministry Sunday this coming Sunday, May 3. Purpose of the special day is to take an offering to finance the Migrant Ministry program in the county and to explain to the con gregations the work Carteret churches are doing to help the migrant farm worker. Ministering to the 1,200 mi grants who will harvest crops in Carteret this summer will be a Negro minister, sent here through the home mission di vision of the North Carolina Council of Churches. The Rev. Alvis Daniel, chair man of the county migrant min istry committee, earnestly re quests everyone's cooperation in the program. Bill Singleton Heads Jaycees Bill Singleton has been elected president of Morehcad City Jay cees. Other officers, elcctcd at last week's meeting at the- Blue Ribbon Restaurant, are Clifton Lynch, in ternal vice-president; L. E. Kelly, external vice-president; and Hor ace Willis, treasurer. New directors are Marion Mills, Tom Ballou, Paul Cordova and Dick Spears. Mr. Singleton will succeed Jerry Willis as president. The group also heard a report on the district Jay cee meeting, at which Morehcad City Jaycees were host the week end of April 18 at the Morehcad Biltmore. Walter Morris Will Head Civitan Club Walter Morris was elected pres ident of the Civitan Club Friday at the luncheon meeting at Mrs. Russell Willis's restaurant. President-elcct is Warren Beck, Ralph Styron, vice-president; Ru fus Butncr, treasurer; and Jo c Beam, secretary. New directors are Frank Cas siano, Bernard Leary and David Munden. Mr. Morris will succeed Jimmy Wallace as president. Legislator D. G. Bell Comments On Bills of interest to Homefolks A law recently introduced in the legislature by D. C. Bell, Carteret repreaentative, givea sheriff Hugh Salter the right to remove, from the outer banks, all cattle, sheep, goats and swine that have not been removed by the owners. Removal o < cattle from the outer banka is part of a program to pre vent further washing away of Ihc great sand barrier which stretctes almost the entire length of tie state coaatline. Owaers ?f cattle had until Juty 1 last "year to get their livestock tit The new bill authorizes the sheriff to remove, in any manner he s4es fit, any battle on the outer banks, including Shackleford, and turn them over to any charitable or educational institution designated by the county commisaioners. | Relative to some folks' over the state's acquiring banks land in its program to pre serve the banks, Mr. sized that the state will ioy imd ob eitlMV Cora ? n to p* 1 empm not My Banks ?r Shicklrford that ia not in need at restoration. "V bill allowing the state to buy banks land "has all kinds . ovisions to protect people who own land there", Mr. Bell empha sized. He said the idea of building groins along the banks cannot be justified where the properly is worth no more than $2 an acre, becauac groins are expensive. Fur thermore, he said, groins will build up a nice flat beach, but a flat beach ia no protection against storm ravages. Mr. Bell also holds out the hope that Drum Inlet and Barden Inlet might be stabilized through rosion - prevention measure, whereas stabilization cannot be Justified now on the amount at traffic going through the inlets. As tar the $200,000 erosion study 0 1 the banks, which some have called a waste at money, Mr. Bell says that similar studies in other aUtM have cost between (30 and $60 million; furthermore, the fed eral government wiH not spend one penny on such a project as erosion prevention unless a study has been made. Mr. Bell pointed out that the state must have federal help. If the overall project will cost $40 million, as it might, $200,000 if peanuts by comparison, the legis lator commented. He adds that state appropriation of the study funds will mean much quicker action. Yeara would be consumed in trying to get approval for federal study funds. On the Smyrna school district petition, wherein district residents are seeking removal of their repre sentative on the county board of education, Mr. Bell said that the term of the representative, T. B. Smith, does not expire until 1ML Each county board member serves a fix -year term. Mr. Bell said that the porta bill, introduced last week, would permit Be* LEGISLATOR, rage I ? The six men pictured above rep resent, at present, the best-organ ized opposition to the present town officials in Beaufort. A statement by them, and a brief biography of each, appears below: Having lived In Beaufort most of his life, Mr. Barbour is a 1928 graduate of Beaufort High School. He is married to the former Maisic Byrd Dail. They have two daugh ters, Dail, 13 and Jo Anne, 10. Mr. Barbour, who is 47 years old, served two terms on the town board, 1947-50. He and his father own Barbour's Marine Supply Co., Beaufort. The oldest and the youngest to file for town commissioner arc rep resented by 54-year-old Earl Ma son and 28-year-old Bert Brooks. Mason, who is a justice of the peace, graduated from Atlantic high school in 1922 and has lived in Beaufort for the past 33 years. He is in the insurance business and is married to the former Geraldine Robinson of Atlantic. The couple have two married children. Mr. Brooks graduated from Beaufort high school with the class of 1950. After graduation, he at tended the American Academy of Embalming in New York City. He served three years In the Coast Guard and it presently part owner of the Brook* and Mason Funeral .Hon*, Beaufort. His wife is the former Geraldine Hedgecock. Ttf couple live at 1109'/4 Front St. Their only child is three-month-old Bert Jr. A graduate of King's Business College in Raleigh, 37-year-old Wyon Lewis has lived in Beaufort for the past 11 years. Previous ts coming to Beaufort, Lewis lived in Marshallberg and graduated from Smyrna high school in 1941. He is married to the former Evelyn Davis and at present is a special agent for the Home Securi ty Life Insurance Co. Dr. David C. Farrior attended North Carolina State College and the Southern College of Optome try in Memphis after having grad uated from Clayton high school in 1939. He is married to the former Jen ny Robcrson. The couple have lived in Beaufort for the past six and one-half years. Farrior served in the United States Navy for fix years from 1940-46. A aother former Navy man run ning for town commissioner is See NEW SLATE, Page 7 34 Candidates Seek Posts In Three Town Elections Cargo Rate Hearings Draw Interest of Ports Officers The State Ports Authority is ac tively interested in the Bonner committee hearings nn ocean cargo rate-making policies. The hearings open today in Raleigh. The House committee. Merchant Marine and Fisheries, headed by Rep. Herbert C. Bonner, Washing ton, N. C., is conducting a three day hearing in the state capital. North Carolinians are particu larly interested in a federal regu lation which gives North Atlantic ports exporting tobacco ? 10 per cent subsidy not enjoyed by South Atlantic ports. North Carolina's major tobacco port, Morehead City, is in the South Atlantic group. Congressman Bonner's subcom mittee concluded several days of hearings recently in both New York and Washington, D. C. Congress ordered it to make a study follow ing enactment into law last August of a bill extending ocean cargo rate-making practices, then in force, to June 30, I960. Congress acted after the Supreme Court on May 19, 1958, outlawed the so-callcd dual rate system in one conference. (A conference is a group of ship lines serving a particular area, under an agree ment among members, to charge identical cargo rates. I Under the dual rate system, a shipper who contracts to use ves sels of lines who make up the con ference is accorded a lower rate than the occasional buyer of cargo space. Dual rates are In effect in 63 con ferences serving US ports. They were instituted several years ago to afford some protection to the lines providing regularly scheduled sailings against the non-conference operators, most of whom are for eign flag lines. The "foreign flag" operators cut rates and reaort to other practices to skim off desirable cargo, ac cording to th? American Steam ship Committee. They are regard ed as fly-by-night operator! who have no real investment ... the trade and appear largely for the purpoae of making a quick killing. The Boiwer subcommittee will hear from shippers in the North Carolina and adjacent areas who use both conference and non -con ference lines. A full-scale airing is cxpected of ocean rate-making practices and the history of ocean rates covering such important sou thern area exports as tobacco, cot ton and other agricultural pro ducts. Port Calendar Morebead City State Port Esso Patterson? Arrived Satur day with petroleum products from Standard OQ. Leda Maersk ? Arrived Satur day to load tobacco and grain for the Far East. Tuebingen? Due Friday to load tobacco for Europe. Martt Maersk ? Due Friday to load tobacco for the Far East. Soestriyk? Due May 16 to load tobacco for Europe. Farmer Accepts Seed W. W. Robert*, Newport, left accepts annual seeding for con servation purposes from C. N. Stroud. Mr. Stroud, working for the state Wildlife Resources Commission, is distributing les pedeia, sericea and other seed which farmers plant to provide food and cover for bird* and other type* of wildlife. Mr. Stroud comment* that he is pleased with the cooperatioa of farmer*. Mare than a hundred ? ? 1 I . II I have agreed to plant the Med thia year (there ia no charge for it) aa compared with only 23 laat year. While birda can find sufficient food during early part of the win ter months, they have a more difficult time In December, Jan nary, and March. For that rea son, the wildlife resources com . mission supplies the aeed free to farmers who agree to plant well! Mrs. Grady Cooke claims the title to "Champion Weed Grower of Carteret County." Mrs Cooke, who livei at Bonham Heights brought to the newspaper office Friday morning a weed that had a single thread like root S feet 4 inches long! "I had to bring it and show you," Mrs. Cooke said, "or you never would have believed it." How she managed to extricate the root without breaking it is still a mystery. She said it just kept coming up and coming up. The freakish root was on a "pepper weed". Somebody in New York is hav ing a lot of fun with local res taurateurs. At least two More head City restaurants have re ceived picture postcards with the message, "I'll be coming to have a meal with you soon." Each is signed, "Castro." Senator Hamilton Views New Law On Sport Fishing Some Carter?! sports fishermen were concerned this week about a law that allows fishing from state highway bridges that have a 4 foot walkway ? they were concerned because the law, as passed Friday, went through with an amendment which said that you can't fish from bridges with 4 foot walkways in Carteret. The amendment was put in the bill by Sen. Luther Hamilton, Morehead City. Senator Hamilton said yesterday that the bill wouldn't have per mitted fishing from Carteret bridges anyway, since none of them has 1 4-foot walkway. He said he put the amendment in to protect Carteret in case such bridges may be built in the future. "I can't imagine any more dan gerous hazard than fishing from a bridge," the senator remarked. He commented that 14,000 cars crossed the Atlantic Beach bridge in a brief span of time last summer. "What sort of i thing would we have it we had people lining that bridge, trying to cast and cars moving back and forth all the time?" the senator asked. He further raised the question, "Where would cars park?" If a fisherman is going to walk on to a bridge to fish, he has to put his car somewhere. At present the state highway commission hasn't seen fit to provide parking lots at the ends of bridges tor use of fisher men. Senator Hamilton predicted that in the next legislative session, after some counties tee what a hazard bridge fishing Is, they, too, will ask to be exempted from the new law. Morehead Pupil Wins Essay Contest On District Level Natalie KlUmon, winner of the Morehead City contcat on Vision and Highway Safety, haa been named the district winner, accord ing to information received by Dr. R. E. Outlaw, Morehead City chairman for the State Optomctric Society. John T. Capps III, Wheat Swamp high school student in Lenoir Coun ty, was the second place winner. Miss Killmon will be awarded a ISO savings bond. This is the sec ond year in a row that a Morehead City high school student has won in district competition. Her essay will now be entered in state com petition. The contest, which was open to all high school students In North Carolina, was sponsored by the State Optometrlc Society in co operation with the safety division of the NC Department of Motor Vehicles. Its purpose was to stress the importance of good vision in preventing traffic accidents and re ducing highway deaths* So Many 8* Early! J. A. DuBois, manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, reported that by 4 p.m. Sun day, traffic counters at Fort Macon state park indicated that 5,000 per sons had visited the park aince morning. The bathing beach won't until Jum. Thirty-four candidates are in the race for municipal of fices in Beaufort, Morehead City and Newport. One vote will return Mayor George Dill in Morehead City and Mayor Leon Mann Jr. in Newport to the top executive post of their towns. They have no opposition. Mayor Clifford T. Lewi* faces three opponents in Beau fort, where 10 men have filed lor ' the five commissioner posts. Nine candidates are seeking the five commissioner jobs in Morehead City, while only five have filed for the five positions in Newport. With four candidates in the run ning for mayor in Beaufort, the town is in for one of its most in teresting election! in many years. Running for mayor are incum bent Clifford T. Lewis, Charles Hudgins, J. O. Barbour Jr. and W. H. (Piggie) Potter. Running for commissioner arc four incumbents, Gerald Hill, Math Chaplain, William Roy Hamilton and Otis Madcs (commissioner James Rumley did not file); others are Earl Mason, Billy Davis, Bert Brooks, Dr. David C. Farrior, Wyon Grey Lewis, the Rev. W. A. Hales, and Clyde M. Owens. Running for commissioner in Morehead City arc S. C. Holloway, G. E. (Gibbie) Sanderson, Ted Garner, and D. J. Hall, who arc on the board at present; also Walter Morris, Warren Beck, Bud Dixon and Dr. Russell Outlaw. John Lashlcy, court clerk, Her bert Phillips, judge of recorder's court, and A. B. Roberts and Gor don C. Willis, Morehead City hos pital trustees, have no opposition. Running for commissioner at Newport are John Kelly, Wilbur Garner, C. H. (Dick) Lockey, Ben nic R. Garner, present commis sioners and Leslie Bcrccgcay. Douglas Henderson, now on the board, is not seeking rc-clection. Saturday was the last day per sons could register to vote in town elections. An attempt was made in Beau fort Saturday by one of the candi dates to file a list o I prospective voters. The registration of voters in this manner, which is illegal, was heard of by one of the oppos ing faction, who protested, and thus the registration was stopped. To be legal, a proapective voter nruat ga in person to the registrar. No one is permitted to i register for him. Polls will be open May 5 from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Band Presents Annual Concert ? Lloyd Crowe Will Head Association Next Year ? Band, Majorettes Receive Letters Morehead City high school band presented its concert to a well filled auditorium Thursday night. Ralph Wade, band instructor, band members and members of the band association extend their thanks to all who support the band and those who attended the con cert. During intermission Mrs. Rich ard Meager played several piano solos and new officers of th^ band association were elected. They are Lloyd Crowe, presi dent; Walter Edwards, vice-presi dent; Mrs. A1 Chestnut, secretary; and the following directors: Clyde Burr, J. R. Sanders, Mrs. Earl llolt, James Ross, Mrs. T. D. Ter rell, Theodore Economon, Mrs. Leonard Lewis, and ex-officio of ficers, Mr. Wade and Lenwood Lee. Clyde Burr, outgoing president, gave a financial report and sum marized the past year's activities. Band letters were awarded to the following: Gordy Eure, Judy Stewart, Frankie Marino, Garth Cooper, George Styron, Linda Phelps, Peggy Holt, Jimmy Ross, Vickie Bradburry and Jimmy Thompson. The following majorettes re ceived letters: Suzanne Beck, Ann Sanderson, Barbara Guthrie, Judie Cooler, Linda Lockhirt, Lorraine I Hatcher, Beth Mayo, Marguerite Edwards and Douglass Ann West. [ Miss Edwards and Miss West arc no longer members, but had earned enough credits to receive a letter. Missing Craft Turns Up; Hermit Found on Old Boat A boat with seven people aboard waa the cause {or an extensive search by the Coast Guard Sunday night and early Monday morning. The Coast Guard station at Fort Macon received a call at 11:15 Sun day night that a boat with James Walker Morgan and six other peo ple aboard had departed Beaufort at 11:30 a.m. Sunday and was long overdue. The M-footer waa dispatched to search for the miaaing vessel but the search was called off at 7: IS Monday morning when Morehcad City police informed the Coast Guard that the boat had engine trouble and had been taken in tow and docked at Harkers Island dur ing the night. The crew aboard the 30-footcr were Earl Sells, EN-1, George Kel ly, CS-2, Curtis Joscy, BM-3 and Johnny Dennis, SA. Other calls over the weekend in cluded a radio call from the Little Sal at 10:43 Sunday morning. The vessel was reported to be having engine trouble. The 30-footcr was dispatched by the station and took th? Little Sal in tow and anchored her at the Morehcad City Yacht Baain. Making the assist were Curtis Josey, BM-3 and Rodney Gaakill, SA. Mr*. Adotya Bennett, 909 Shcp ard St., Morehcad City, called the Coast Guard station at 4:30 Sun day morning with the report that she heard someone crying for help near the waterfront. The 30-footrr was dispatchcd to the scene to investigalc and found an elderly Negro man aboard a wrecked ship on the shoal across from the hospital. The man, who waa drunk, said that he was Just hollering, lie also reported to po lice that he had been living in the wrecked ship the past 22 months. The Jt-foater's crew included TMet at the Beaufort Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Taeaday, April 28 12:20 a.m. 12:59 p.m. 6:38 a.m. <:57 p.m. Wednesday, April 2t 1:17 a.m. 1:57 p.m. 7:45 a.m. 8:11 p.ta. Thursday, April M 2:18 a.m. 2:58 p.m. 8:51 a.m. 8:18 p.m. Friday, May 1 3:18 a.m. 8:48 a.m. i?M 10:18 p-m. Curtis Joscy, BM-3, Guy Jones, EN-1 and Frank Johnson, YN-2. At 7:20 Saturday night the station received a call from the Swans boro lifeboat station that a 42-foot sailing schooner, the Gavia, was in distress in Boguc Sound. The M-footer was dispatched and towed the boat to the Gulf dock in Morehead City. The crew of the 30-footer was Earl Sells, ENC, Sam Wiersteincr, ET-2, and Frank Johnson, YN-2. Bennle J. Kirby, a college stu dent at Wofford College in Spar tanburg, S. C.. went to the base at Fort Macon Saturday morning and reported that he had cut his hand. He requested transportation to the hospital., An ambulance was dispatched by the Coast Guard to take him to the Morehead City Hospital where he was given treatment. Driving the ambulance was Samuel Wiersteincr, ET-2. Saturday night a call was re ceived from the officer in charge at the New Bern Coast Guard sta tion, reporting an overdue boat with B. O. Tynor aboard. The Fort Macon station dispatch ed the 30-footer to assist in the search. The disabled vessel was found out of gas and aground in the vicinity of the Neuse River light No. 22. Tynor was taken back to New Bern by the 56-footer from that station which had joined in the search. Curtis Joscy, BM-3 and Guy Jones, EM-1 were the crew of the 30-footer. Wagon Rams Rear of Automobile The 9th and Arendell St. inter section was the scene of a minor traffic accident Monday morning. A 1959 Ford station wagon, being driven by Paul Cordova, and be longing to Beaufort Fisheries, ran into the rear of a car driven by Dalton Eubanks, Beaufort. The accident happened at ap proximately 12:20 p.m. according to police chief Herbert Griffin, who investigated. Eubanka was traveling west on Arendell Street and had stopped for a red light Cordova ap proached his car from the rear and his foot slipped off the brake causing his car to ram into rear of the Eubanks vehicle. There were no charges filed by police against either driver.