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48th YEAR, NO. 61. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
D. G. Bell Heads
Slate Fisheries
Committee
? Governor Makes
Surprise Appointment
? Carteret Legislator
To Preside in July
In ? surprise move this week,
Gov. Lutber Hodges appointed D.
G. Bell, Carteret's legislator, to
the Board of Conservation and De
velopment, naming him chairman
of the state commercial fisheries
committee.
Mr. Bell will preside at the meet
ing of the committee next month
at Morehead City. He succeeds
Cccil Morris, Atlantic, who has
resigned.
Eric Rodgers, Scotland Neck,
was slated to take over the com
mittee chairmanship. Failure to
gain complete support for this ap
pointment led the governor to re
quest Mr. Bell to assume the post.
Carteret's legislator said he gave
the proposal lengthy consideration
before accepting. His term begins
July 1 and continues until June 30,
1965.
He added that it is imperative
that the commercial fisheries com
mittee recognize sportsmen's in
terests in waters fished by both.
Mr. Bell sponsored in the recently
closed legislature a bill that would
have provided $16,000 for an eco
nomic study of fishes in waters
fished by both commercial fish
ermen and sportsmen.
Although the bill did not pass,
Mr. Bell says he believes the funds
will be provided in some other
manner during the coming year.
The study would have been con
ducted by the UNC Institute of
Fisheries Research, Morehead
City.
Mr. Bell has served three terms
in the legislature. Should he de
cide to run fur re-election to the
1961 legislature, he would have to
resign his post as commercial
fisheries chairman.
D. C. Bell
. . . new chairman
Cary Minister
Assigned Here
Bishop Paul N. Garber Thurs
day at Wilmington appointed the
Rev. B. L. Davidson of Cary, to
replace the Rev. J. Furman Her
bert as pastor of the First Meth
odist Churchv Morcbead City. The
appointment was made at annual
North Carolina Methodist Confer
ence.
Two ministers reappointed to
their pastorates were the Rev.
Samuel Moore of Franklin Me
morial Methodist Church, More
head City, and the Rev. John Clme,
pastor of Ann Street Methodist
Church. Beaufort.
Mr. Davidson comes to More
head City after serving for the
past ten years in Cary. Previous
to his pastorate there, be served
in Fayetteville.
Mr. Davidson, his wife and their
two children will move to More
head City immediately and he will
conduct services at the church
this Sunday, according to Bud
Dixon, chairman of the official
board of First Methodist Church
and a delegate to the conference.
Coast Guardsmen Tow
Cabin Cruiser Wednesday
Coast Guardsmen from Fort Ma
con made one assist this week. A
radio call was received from the
Cape Lookout 36-footer Wednesday
afternoon requesting relief in tow
ing the cabin cruiser Big Three.
The Fort Macon 40-footer depart
ed to assist, took the Big Three in
low and moored it at the Edge
water Lodge dock, Atlantic Beach.
Owned by Fred L. Boyd of Kins ton,
the boat had engine difficulty.
There were five persona aboard.
Crew of the 40-footer was Earl
Sells, ENC, Wesley Musselwhite,
CS1, and Jack Miller, SN.
Two Jailed
Two negro men who were fight
ing Wednesday night on the farm
of Danny Ogleaby, Crab Point,
were put in jail to cool off. The
men were picked up by constable
George Smith and deputy sheriff
Bobby ML
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County Welcomes
Rain Wednesday
At last the rain came!
After almost a month of
drought, the iky grew gray and
welcome drop* of rain began to
fall about 4 p.m. Wednesday. The
hard shower continued for about
an hour in the Morehead City
area, and although more rain
was hoped for, the gray skies
failed to yield any more water.
Things have been so dry that
a good soaking rain of 24 hours
wouldn't be too much.
E. 8 1 a m e y Davis, official
weather observer, has been at
his camp for the past week and
is not available for reports on
temperatures or rainfall.
Trenton Man
Gets Sentences
For Bad Checks
Wilbur Heathe of Trenton was
sentenced in Morehead City court
Monday to 30-day jail sentences
and road work on each of two
charges of issuing worthless
checks.
Heathe was also cited for petty
larceny on a third chargc but the
state decided not to prosecute on
this count.
Dallas Harvell of Merrimon, who
was apprehended by police min
utes after he had robbed Walter
Morris' Jewelry store last week,
waived preliminary hearing in
court Monday. His case will go
before the grand jury. Harvell was
also chargcd with unlawfully and
wilfully breaking into and entering
an apartment house at 906-912
Arcndell St. His bond was con
solidated on the two charges and
set at $500.
In other court action, Charlie
Melvin Smith of Morebead City
was found guilty of having no op
erator's license and failing to yield
the right of way. Judgment of the
court was that his 90-day jail .sen
tence be suspended on payment
of $50 and court costs. He was
also placed on a year's good be
havior.
Hardy H. Lewis of Beaufort was
called and failed to appear to an
swer charges of drunk driving.
Judge Heroert O. Phillips III is
sued a warrant for Lewis to M
brought to court on July 6 and set
his bond at $250.
Also being called and failing to
appear was J e throe King Ezzcll
of Morehead City, charged with
having no operator's license and
careless and recklau driving. An
order was issued for him to be
brought in to face (tie charges on
July 6. His bond w*? set at $250.
James Lee Lawrence of More
head City paid $100 and court costs
after the court suspended his 90
day jail sentence on a drunk driv
ing conviction.
Having no operator's license cost
Ronald A. Thomas of Cherry Point
$25 and court costs. The court
stated that the full amount of the
fine would be returned if the de
fendant produced a valid driver's
license to the court within two
weeks.
Ruby Helper Amos of Morehead
City was found guilty of failing to
stop at the scene of an accident
and furnish information. Judgment
See COURT, Page 2
D. G. Bell Comments
On New Legislation
'Gator Shot in Pond
New*-Tlmes Photos by McComb
This 7-foot alligator met death late Tuesday afternoon when he
was killed by B. O. Ketner, highway 70, after the animal had been
spotted swimming in a pond behind the F. A. Sutherland residence.
Nancy and Charles Sutherland (tare uneasily at the alligator thai
invaded their swimming hole. The two were swimming in the pond
behind their house when the 7 -foot reptile was first seen by the chil
dren's mother.
A chapter from a Clyde Beatty
novel was enactcd in Mitchell vil
lage Tuesday night when B. 0.
Ketner of highway 70 bagged a 7
foot alligator with four blasts from
a 30-06 rifle. The scene of the
shooting was a pond in back of
the Floyd A. Sutherland residence
on highway 24. The pond is fed by
waters from Spooner's Creek,
which is believed to be the origin
of the alligator.
The big reptile was first spotted
a week ago Wednesday by Mrs.
Floyd Sutherland while she was
watching her two children, Nancy
and Charles swim in the water.
The animal returned Tuesday a f
ternon and crawled out of the
water onto the bank of the pond
to sun himself.
Mrs. Sutherland summoned Mr.
Ketncr, a neighbor, to the iccnc.
He arrived with Cone Johnson of
Cherry Point, owner of the gun.
Ketncr said that he fired four
shots at the alligator's head and
believed that three of them hit the
mark.
Milk Helps Tobacco
Milk ftimuUtes growth of to
bacco and helps prevent mosaic
disease. Exactly why, do one
knowi, but It. M. Williams,
county agricultural agent, shows
above a tobacco plant treated
with milk, at the left, and ant
that oot treated, riftt.
The plants are on the farm of
Clayton Cannon on the Nine-Foot
Road near Newport. Dry milk
was mixed with water and spray
ed on the plant bed before the
plant* were pulled. Pullers also
dipped their hands in milk before
UftiW Um plants from the bad
and dipped their banda in milk
frequently while planting.
The milk-treated plant above
ia tall and healthy. The one that
waa not treated with milk ia
atunted and buttoning out too low.
Uosaic disease causes mottled
Imvm and radaou growth.
' D. G. Bell, Carteret legislator,
terms the bill creating a planning
commission (or this county the
most important piece of local legis
lation passed by the recently-closed
legislature.
The bill puts Carteret among the
first to establish the machinery for
zoning the entire county outside
municipal boundaries.
Mr. Bell, in an interview Wed
nesday, also commented on other
legislation.
The ports made out all right, in
his opinion. Both Wilmington and
Morehead City got about half of
what they had requested in capi
tal improvements. Morehead City's
$288,000 will build an additional
75,000 square feet of warehousing.
Money for new warehouses had
originally been cut out by the ad
visory budget commission, which,
however, had allowed funds for re
pairs at both ports.
Mr. Bell, who worked closcly
with D. Leon Williams, port execu
tive director, commended the State
Ports Authority for its assistance
in obtaining the necessary funds.
The Morehead City Chamber of
Commerce is elated that state
funds have been made available
for roopening and maintaining the
Roy Hampton fisheries museum at
Morehead City.
The museum will come under su
pervision of the state museum at
Raleigh, Harry Davis, curator.
Five thousand dollars for each
year of the coming biennium has
been provided for addition of an
other museum staff member who,
Mr. Bell says, will work part time
at the fisheries museum.
The museum has been closed for
the past several years due to lack
of funds to maintain it.
The bill setting up mosquito con
trol commissions was revised. The
revisions allow stating on ballots
in a referendum the amount of tax
that would be levied for mosquito
control and also permits the voters
to vote an and, if they wish, to
mosquito control programs.
A most noteworthy achievement
of the legislature was passage of
a bill allottin| $608,000 for survv
of outer banks land and purchase
of lafl# necessary for restoration
Work,
Under the bill, the state has the
authority to enter into a contract
with any outer banks land owner.
Such a contract can assure the
owner that after the restoration
work is completed, the land would
be returned to him at the same
price it was acquired by the state.
If some land owners refuse to
turn their land over to the state
for a price, the state will have the
power to condemn. In that case,
the owner would receive no assur
ance that he would get the land
back.
Two hundred thousand dollars
has been earmarked for a survey
of the land and $400,000 for acquisi
tion. It is the state's hope to ob
tain Army engineers' approval of
the plan for restoration work and
thereby get federal aid.
If Army engineers give their OK,
Mr. Bell says that the $200,000 sur
vey costs will be refunded to the
state.
He says actual planning on outer
banks restoration will probably
not get under way until Governor
Hodges returns from Russia.
Only two local bills introduced by
See NEW LAWS, Page 2
Jaycees Discuss
Sale of Candy
Beaufort Jaycees met for a din
ner meeting Monday night at the
Scout building and discussed spon
soring a peanut brittle sale. Henry
Eubanks, chairman of the money
making committee, reported that
he had spoken with Cliff Lynch
of Morehcad City about contacting
the candy company to see if the
candy can be purchased on con
signment.
In other business, John Young
reported that letters of invitation
to be mailed to prospective new
members had not yet been fin
ished but they are expected to be
ready for mailing by next week.
The dab gave a special vote of
thanks to Sonny Lane for bis do
nation of food served on the recent
moonlight cruise. Also receiving
thanks was the Dainty Maid Bread
Company which provided the hot
dog buns.
It was announced that one wall
in the Scout hall needs another
coat of paint and member* volun
teered to complete the work this
week. The Junior Woman's Club
and the Jaycees are making the
improvemcnta to the building.
House Catches Fin
The back part o i the horn* of
Herbert Davis, SOT Pollock St.,
Beaufort, caught fire early yester
day morning. Engineer Ronald
Smith said part of a bedroom and
bath burned. Firemen answered
the call at 2 a.m.
Beauty at the Beach
Miss Atlantic Brack was selected to reign for a week during opening day festivities at Oceanana Re
sort. She is Miss Carolyn Williams, of Havelock. Statistics? The picture speaks for itself.
(Photo by Norwood Young)
Migrant Minister Cites Needs
As Program Enters Fourth Week
Morehead City
Man Wins Rodeo
A Morehead City route salesman
won first piacc in his division Sun
day at the annual Scaltcst Foods
Truck Rodeo at Wilmington.
Clyde Fetterolf, ice cream sales
man from the Morehead City
branch, defeated drivers from
other Sealtest plants in the Wil
mington zone to win first place
and a war bond in the medium
sized wholesale truck contcst.
The rodeo course and rules con
formed to the national regulations
for truck rodeos and proved a real
test of skill for the contestants in
the various classes. Judges at Wil
mington included city, county and
state police personnel.
To be eligible to compete, a man
must have driven at least one
year without an accident; Fetterolf
is completing two years without a
blot on his record.
Another Morehead City repre
sentative, John Hayes, placed third
in the retail truck division.
At the conclusion of the rodeo
the annual employees picnic was
held at the company lodge on
Northeast River.
Fire Damages
Tire Service Co.
The Tire Service Co., located at
1300 Arcndcll St., Morehead City,
was the scene of a fire yesterday
morning.
The blaze was discovered at 9:05
by Mrs. Jim Morrill, owner, who
turned in the alarm. The fire was
confined to the east wall of the
building. The minor damage is
fully covered by insurance, ac
cording to a company spokesman.
The Morehead City fire depart
ment answered the alarm and had
the blaze extinguished in approxi
mately 30 minutes. The origin of
the fire was unknown. However,
electrician* making a check of the
wiring in the building said spon
taneous combustion sawnad to b?
? As the county migrant ministry
program starts on its fourth week,
the minister, the Rev. Samuel
Jones, sets forth these needs:
1. Health kits
2. Work pants and shirts for men I
and teen-aged boys, as well as |
work pants for women
3. Scap, toothbrushes, wash |
cloths and toothpaste
4. Prayers and cooperation of |
citizens of the county
Mr. Jones thanks those who re
sponded so generously to his last |
appeal.
Reports on his activities during |
the past two weeks, follow:
Jane 8-14:
Visited camps on the following
farms: Doll Lewis, Ball Brothers,
Campen, Rufus Oglesby, Robert
Oglesby, Taylor and K. W. Wright.
Health kits, clothing, toys, games
and books were distributed.
Children were transported to and I
from vacation Bible school at the |
Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Beaufort,
the Rev. L. L. Garner, pastor.
The migrant minister supervised I
games and recreation, culminating |
with a baseball game June 13 be
tween Van Peterson's crew ( Ball j
Brothers farm, Harlowe) and the |
local team at North River.
Mrs. Jones, who is assisting her
husband, was helped in sorting
supplies at Ann Street Methodist
Church by Mrs. E. L. Davis, Misi
Fannie Best and Mrs. B. J. May,
members of the First Baptiat
Church, Beaufort.
The following assisted in services |
Sunday, June 14:
Newport? The Rev. Ralph Flem
ing and Wilbur V. Garner of St. |
Tide Table
Tide* at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, June 24
12:26 a.m., 6:36 a.m.
1:05 p.m. 7:67 p.m.
Saturday, June 27
1:16 a.m. 7:36 a.m.
1:55 p.m. 8:12 p.m.
Saadajr, Juae 28
2 66 a.m. 6:33 a.m.
2:45 p.m. 9:13 p.m.
Moaday, Juae 21
2:57 a.m. 9:27 a.m.
2:37 p.m. 16:0* p.m.
Taesday, Juae 29
3:52 a.m. 16:16 a.m.
?:*> M- 10:17 j
James Methodist Church.
Crab Point? Mrs. John Lashley,
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Brinson, Don
Shanor, Frank Moran, and J. C.
Ilaney, all members of the Firat
Baptist Church, Morchcad City.
Harlowe aid Ward's Creek? The
Rev. Alec Thompson, Osborne Da
vis, Carlton Rose, U. E. Swann,
George Laughton and Elizabeth
Simpson.
June 15-11:
Transported children from camps
to Vacation Bible school.
Mr. Jones conducted morning
devotions over the radio Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday. He
spoke to the County Ministers As
sociation and accepted $2S checks
from the Rev. Al Daniel, Wildwood
Presbyterian Church and Mrs.
Guthrie Brown, St. Andrew's Epis
copal Church.
The migrant minister spoke to
the WMU and Brotherhood of the
First Baptist Church, Morchcad
City. Assisted by the Rev. Ralph
Fleming and J. L. Peterson, Duke
divinity student, he showed a
movie at the Wayne West farm,
Newport.
Mr. Jones met with the execu
tive committee of the migrant min
istry committee, visited prisoners
and hospital patients, districted
health kits, clothing and books at
the camps and supervised recrea
tion and play.
In addition to those who assisted
him in Sunday services the week
before, the Rev. I. F. Davis of
Purvis Chapel, Beaufort, conducted
Sunday services June 21.
Persons who wish to volunteer
to help in the migrant program
can contact Mr. Jones by phoning
the county welfare department,
PA S-31S1.
Court Officials Conduct
Two Sessions This Waok
In an effort to clear up a weighty
docket, county court officials con
ducted two court sessions this
week, on Tuesday and .Wednesday.
Id the future, county court will
be held each Tuesday instead of
Thursdays. The change was made
because weekend prisoners had to
be kept la jail until Thursday, the
day of court
Sheriff Hugh Salter said dispos
ing of cases on Tuesday will mean
less expense to the county. A re
port on this wwk's court sessions
will a?Mr 1? Tuesday's pqpr.