CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ""
48th YEAR, NO. 66. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
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Beach, Town
Police Chiefs
To Devise Plan
? Traffic Set-Up Needed
For Emergency
? Walter Derrickson
Named Mayor Pro-Tern
Police Chief BiU Moore of the
Atlantic Beach police department
was instructed by the town board
Saturday to meet with chief Her
bert Griffin of the Morehead City
police department and work out a
plan of traffic control to be car
ried out in case of an emergency
on the beach.
The action arose after a recent
accident on the beach in which
the car taking the injured man to
the hospital was held up for 45
minutes by heavy traffic on the
beach road.
Mayor A. B. Cooper said that a
definite plan that would speed a
rescue vehicle to its destination is
a must. "It would be a serious
black mark against our town if an
accident victim should happen to
die enroute to the hospital while
the ambulance had to wait for
traffic on the beach road," added
the mayor.
In other action at the board meet
ing Saturday morning, the motion
was made and accepted that the
town install a telephone in town
clerk Coyle's house to be listed in
the directory as town clerk.
The motion came after a lengthy
discussion on whether Coyle should
be made to spend a certain num
ber of hours each day in the town
hall or should continue operating
his office from his home as he has
been doing.
In moving that the telephone be
installed in Coyle's home commis
sioner Derrickson lauded Coyle for
i the job he has done since taking
office and stated that never before
| iu the history of the town have the
j records of the clerk's office been
in such a detailed order as they
have been since Coyle took the
1 post.
Mayor Cooper joined with Der
rickson in his praise of Coyle and
said that be considered Coyle to
have done more for Atlantic Beach
than, "any one man I can think of."
Ia final action Mr. Derrickson
was appointed mayor pro- tern by
l mayor Cooper.
0. J. Morrow
Takes Club Reins
j District governor J. E. Crowe in
stalled O. J. Morrow as the new
president of the Morehead City
Lions club at a dinner meeting
Thursday night in the Hotel Fort
Macon dining room.
Other officers installed by Mr.
Crowe included Cliff Edwards, sec
retary; S. K. M edge cock, treasur
er; John T. Willis, Lion-tamer;
Owens Frederick, tail twister; C.
W. Williams, first vice-president;
Otis Jones, second vice-president;
and John D. Willis, third vice-pres
ident. Installed as directors for the
coming year were J. B. Eubanks,
Oscar Allred, and A. N. Willis.
Two new members, Berea Rice
and Cliff Edwards, were inducted
into the club by Mr. Crowe and
presented puis and certificates.
For hi* outstanding work in the
fund raisii.; campaign for the State
Association for the Blind, Mr. Ed
wards was presented the White
Cane trophy. The trophy was given
to the club by the state association
for finishing first among clubi with j
less than 30 members. The club
raised nearly $500 with their cam
paign.
Secretary Jones gave a report on
the year's activities for the Lions'
club and J. E. Crowe spoke brief
ly on his recent trip to the nation
al convention in New York City.
It was announced at the meeting
that past district governor, Ben
Parrott 0 f Kinston will attend next
week's meeting and officially turn
over his position to Mr. Crowe.
I March Catches Up
Over Year Ago
Laadiags of fish and skellfish at
. North Carolina porta durfcig March
1959 amounted to 5.1 million pounds
?3 per cent above the amount re
ported during March 1918. accord
ing to federal and state statistics.
Alewives (1.6 million pounds)
made up 31 per cent a f tic manth'a
total catch, while landings at btua
crab* (1.2 million poinds) com
prised 23 per cent
Daring the first quarter of 1KB,
landings of fish and shellfish at
North Carolina ports totaled 19.S
million pounds ? an increase of
53 per cent compared kith the cor
responding period of 1858.
Nearly 45 per cent of the list
three-month total coniiated of men
badeo, IT million poind*.
New Chairman Sworn In
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Photo by Reginald Uwli
D. G. Bell, Morehead City, second from right, takes the oath of office Saturday in Morehead City aa
state commercial fisheries committee chairman. At left is Cecil Morris, Atlantic, who resigned as fish
eries chairman July 1. Next to him is Gene Simmons, vice-chairman of the committee. At the right is A.
H. James, county clerk of superior court, who administered the oath of office to Nr. Bell.
Fisheries Committee Asks
Repeal of 70-Count Ruling
The state fisheries committee ?
yesterday decided that the rule pro
libiting taking of shrimp of 70
:ount (heads off) or smaller should
x repealed. Its recommendation
will go today to the Board of Con
>ervation and Development (or fin
il approval.
D. G. Bell, fisheries committee
:hairmnt said that the rule ta li
ng off the she limit on shrimp,
>robably would not go on the
>ooks for about 40 days. It will
akc that long to get notices out
.0 all shrimp fishermen.
The fisheries committee met yes
erday afternoon at the Morehead
Biltmore. It approved a suggestion
)y chairman Bell that it endorse
mblication of a booklet of North
Carolina seafood recipes collected
>y Henry Belk, editor of the Golds
>oro News-Argus.
Other fisheries regulations con
:erning fishing in the Chowan Riv
:r and Currituck Sound and its
xibutaries were made.
Eugene Simmons read a letter
xom National American Legion
:ommander Preston J. Moore of
rulsa, Okla., advising that Wade
-.ucas, public information officer,
:4cD Department, had been named
/ice chairman national economic
:ommission, American Legion, and
hat Mr. Lucas will attend a meet
ng of this committee at the Le
gion national convention in Min
leapolis, Minn., next month.
Mayor Speaks
Mayor W. H. Potter of Beaufort
was the principal speaker at the
rhursday night meeting of the
Morehead City Rotary Club. He
ipoke to Rotarians on his suggest
?d improvements for local water- i
ways and the position of the pro- |
posed new bridge over the Newport <
liver. i
President Arrives
John I. Anderson, of Brevard,
who is president of the North
Carolina Press Association, ar
rived in Morehead City Monday
morning to make final arrange
ments for the annual convention
of the state press group at the
Morehcad-Biltmore hotel, begin
ning on Thursday.
The staff of the News-Time? is
assisting Mr. Anderson in work
ing out the details for the meet
ing, which will be attended by
some 300 newspapermen and
women from the coast to the
mountains.
Firemen Save Theatre
The Morehead City fire depart
ment answered an alarm to a trash
fire behind the Morehead Theatre
Sunday night at 11:50 p. m. There
araa no property damage.
Lions Install President
O. 4. Marrow, left, ?ew Uw CM prillllrt, Is ImUIM by Jum
B. Cnw, ttuhct pmr.
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Dr. Royal Rocks
C&D Members
'by WADE LUCAS
Dr. Ben F. Royal, who W>
grown a bit gray but not old, in
telling everybody how great a place
Morehead City is, really reaoBed
the oratorical heights Monday 'in
welcoming the State Board of Con
servation and Development for Its
summer session here.
Dr. Royal, who admitted he was
"a one - man Chamber of Com
merce for Morehead City before it
ever had such an organization,"
told how modern transportation had
over taken much of the area's pro
duce and seafood business.
"Tourists now are our big stock
in trade," he said. "We want all
of them we can get."
He extolled Morehead City's
"many, many advantages" for
tourists and especially thoee who
have reached retirement age and
are looking for "a good place to
live before they answer that final
call to outer space."
Looking over the assembled C&D
Board members and pausing some
what dramatically, Dr. Royal said:
"Frankly and honestly, I know
of no better jumping off place to
eternity than right here in More
head City, and 1 assure you the
transition will be such that you will
hardly notice it." The statement
brought prolonged laughter.
Board member Eugene Simmons
responded and said after hearing
Dr. Royal, he (Simmons) was al
most speechless. And Mr. Simmons
has never been accused ot being at
a loss for words.
Mayor George Dill extended an
invitation to board members and
their wives and C&D Department
personnel as well as the State
Ports Authority to use pier fishing
and surf bathing facilities at the
Occanana Resort on Atlantic Beach
during their stay here.
Wreck Disrupts
Phone Service
Telephone service cast of Beau
fort was disrupted Saturday night
when a 1955 Ford, driven by Claude
Johnson of route 1 Beaufort hit a
telephone pole and broke it in two.
Johnson was traveling west on
highway 70 three miles east of
Beaufort and was rounding a curve.
He ran off the right aide of the
road, went back across and off the
left aide, then hit the pole. The
accident happened at 11:30 p. m.
Johnson and Bculah like Davis,
a passenger, were taken to More
head City hospital where they were
treated for lacerations.
Patrolman J. W. Sykes, who in
vestigated, said the car was de
molished. Johnson haa been
charged with speeding ta excess of
55, reckless driving and driving an
the wrong aid* at tte retd.
State Ports Make Profit
In Past Year, SPA Told
C&D Takes Stand
On Submerging
Atomic Waste
Objections to dumping of atomic
waste material off this coast "in
any area that would adversely af
fect commercial or sports fishing"
were made by the Department of
Conservation and Development, in
session yesterday morning at More
head City.
A telegram setting forth the ac
tion was sent to Sen. Sam J. Er
vin, Sen. Everett Jordan, Graham
Bardcn, Herbert Bonner, and Al
ton Lennon, members of North
Carolina's congressional delegation,
and Ross Leffler, assistant secre
tary of the interior, Washington,
D. C.
Concern over the proposed dump
ing grounds for atomic waste has
also been voiced in Virginia.
A booklet put out by the National
Academy of Sciences lists 28
proposed locations for the dumping
of atomic wastes. These locations
arc in the ocean from Massachu
setts to the Gulf of Mexico.
One location, off the North Caro
lina coast, is 22 miles offshore in
a southwesterly direction from the
general western Carteret County
area.
At Beaufort is located the only
Fish and Wildlife laboratory in the
United States which deals with
atomic radiation and study of radi
ation on marine life.
Dr. W. A. Chipman, head of the
laboratory, if a member of the
committee dealing with dumping
of atomic wastes in the oceans. Dr.
Theodore Rice, Morehead City, a
member of the radiobiological lab
oratory staff at the Fish and Wild
life lab, Beaufort, is a consultant
member of the committee.
8cienUata who have studied a
tomic radiation MJ that the man
ner in which the atomic waste ma
terial is recommended to ba dump*
e4 in tie .Bccan is safe, aad will
have no ill effect on marine ani
mals or plants living in the ocean,
nor wfll the dumping cause harm
ful radioactivity in the waters.
The action by C & D on atomic
wastes was proposed by D. G. Bell,
new board member. The emer
gency action waa taken because
hearings on dumping were sched
uled to get underway in Washing
ton yesterday afternoon.
Firemen Honor
Bell, Hamilton
Firemen of Morehead City gave
a dinner Thursday night in honor
of D. G. Bell, Carteret's legislator,
and Sen. Luther Hamilton, who
supported the firemen pension plan
approved in the general assembly.
Also honored, at the steak din
ner at the West End station, was
former chief Vernon Guthrie, who
was presented a plaque in appre
ciation for his efforts in getting
the West End station built.
The plaque was presented by
judge Hamilton.
Both the Judge and Mr. Bell ad
dressed the firemen. Among the
guests of honor were D. J. Hall,
former Morehead City fire com
missioner and Walter Horr'n, pres
ent fire commissioner.
Firemen extended thanks to El.
Nelson and Lindsey Guthrie for
helping to plan the dinner. Eric
Lewis was chef, assisted by Duffy
Guthrie.
Forty firemen attended.
Ann* Maria Lewis Will
Appear in Talent Show
Anne Marie Lewis, of Camp
Glenn 4-H Club, daughter of Lt.
Cdr. and Mrs. William H. Lewis of
Morehead City, will represent Car
teret County in the stale 4-H talent
parade Friday night.
She will do a piano solo, aa one
of 25 participants, in the closing
activities of state 4-H club week.
The 4-H talent parade will be tele
vised in the western part of the
state.
Mm at m? Beaafart Bar
Tid? Tabl?
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LOW
TieUiy, Jely 14
2:04 a.m.
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Wedaesday, July 15
3:10 a.m.
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Tharaday, July It
4:22 a.m.
i:00 p.m.
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Friday, My IT
5:30 a.m.
11:41 a.m.
Board Sets Date
To Talk Extension
The Beaufort town board has
set Friday, Aug. 7, as the date to
consider incorporation of the
areas surrounding Beaufort. A
detailed description of the area
appears in the legal section of
today's paper.
Gray Hassell, town engineer,
says that the boundaries, approx
imately, include Jones Village, !
Glendale Park, Huntley Park,
Circle Drive, Hancock Park, and
Highland Park.
On Lennoxville Road, the line
runs east of Mack's beer place
and on highway 101 it's slightly
north of the Snack Grill. The
proposed line runs along the back
property lines of persons facing
south on the West Beaufort Road
to the extension of Turner Street
and thcnce to the present town
line.
Mayor Sets
Refund Deadline
Mayor George W. Dill, Morehead
City, announced yesterday that any
one who has not been refunded the
extra dollar he paid for a town tag
in January may collect it by call
ing at the clerk's office by 4:30
p. m. Wednesday, July IS (tomor
row).
Recently, the mayor said, Dwight
L. Johnson, Morehead City, attemp
ted to collect the refund and was
refused because the city clerk,
John L. Lashley, said that the
money had already been turned
over to the fire department.
(When the $2 fee per tag was
collected, by error, instead of the
$1 fee, motorists were told that if
they wished, they could donate the
extra dollar to the firemen for
heat-ruistant suits, Most motorists
did that).
Mayor Dili said that Mr. John
sa?a refund will be made to him.
He said that he regretted any mis
understanding relative to the re
fund arrangement and earnestly
requests that anyone who does not
wish the extra dollar to go to the
firemen that he call for it at the
clerk's office by 4:30 tomorrow.
After that time, no more money
will be refunded.
Gerlg Leaves
The hopper dregc Gcrig left
Morehead City Saturday after six
weeks of maintenance dredging in
Beaufort Inlet. The Gerig will work
the next three weeks in the Cape
Fear River bar channel below
Southport.
Both the Morehead City and Wilmington ports made a
profit during the 1968-69 fiscal year, the State Ports Au
thority was told yesterday.
The SPA met in the commercial fisheries building at
Morehead City.
The net profit for both ports was given as approximate
i.. toe nnn u ..it n.. ^
troller lor the SPA, termed the
year "the most successful year
thus far for the porta financially.''
The net profit anticipated for
1959-60 is $37,485. Wilmington op
erations income ia expected to be
(5J6.925 and Morchead City opera
tions income $324,660.
These incomes, plus $182,775 in
state appropriations will mean a
total revenue of $1,044,360. "State
ports arc developing into a million
dollar business," Mr. DcVanc com
mented.
Although revenue at the ports
will increase during the current
liscal year, so will expenses, the
comptroller said, since more busi
ness means more stevedoring costs
and other expenses.
In his report to the SPA, D. Leon
Williams, executive director ol the
ports, reported total appropriations
iroiu the 1959 legislature as $917,
400. Earmarked for Wilmington
was $560,000 and fur Morchead City
$357,400.
The director said that he hoped
t h e congestion at Wilmington
caused by an increase in general
cargo, will be relieved by Novem
ber. The new transit shed there
is cxpccted to be ready by then
and the new warehouses at both
Morehcad City and Wilmington
ready by January 1960.
Shipping activities at Morchead
City have improved, he reported,
and the first IMPORTED tobacco
handled at Morehcad City for P.
Lorillard Co. is expected to come
through late this summer or early
fall.
The director reported that nego
tiations are underway with the
American Export Line to obtain in
bound service to North Carolina
from the Mediterranean.
The SPA gave Henry Von Ocscn,
consulting engineer, Wilmington,
the go-ahead on requesting bids for
new structures at Morchead City
and Wilmington. Two wooden pole
warehouses will be built at Wil
mington and one at Morchead City.
The Wilmington warehouses will
consist of one 96,600 square feet,
built at a cost of $283,813 and one
48,300 square feet, built at a cost
of $142,002. Other improvements
will be made there, including lite
improvement, extension of water
distribution system, power system,
roadways, railroads, etc., at a cost
of $170,950.
The pole warehouse (a new type,
economical but of sturdy construc
tion, according to Von Ocsen)
See SPA, Page 2
Mayor Renders
Decision in Six
Cases at Beach
Mayor A. B. Cooper, Atlantic
Beach rendered judgement in six
cases in mayor's court last week.
Charles Cross, Scotland Neck,
paid $5 and costs for assault. Costs
were assessed the following ^defen
dants: Jay Stanley Newsome,
Scotland Neck, public drunkenness;
Eugene Allen Pivcr, Beaufort, pub
lic drunkenness; Ernest H. Wake
field, Cherry Point, public drunk
enness and resisting arrest.
James Lee Beavers, Vanceboro,
public drunkenness and disturbing
the peace; C. D. Weston, Pink Hill,
public drunkenness; Phillip Rooks
Arthur, Jacksonville, buying beer
for a minor.
Piver was ordered to stay sober
or if he gets drunk within the next
three years, he's to stay away
from the beach.
Bonds were forfeited by the fol
lowing: Louis A. Casey, Kinston;
1'hurman Carlton Smith, New Bern;
Glenn Evans Jr., Wilson; Janics
Rufus Ward, Newport, all charged
with public drunkenness.
Bonds were also forfeited by
Thurman Hardy, Scotland Neck,
charged with public drunkenness
and resisting arrest; and James
Edward Jarvis, New Bern, loud
and profane language.
Ordered to be brought into court
next week were Keith E. Bond,
Cherry Point, no operator's license ;
and Victor D. Panthriant Jr., Cher
ry Point, public drunkenness. Con
tinued until next week was the
case of Ralph Gray Mason, Beau
fort, charged with public drunken
ness, ' resisting arrest and using
profane language.
Not prosecuted was the case
against Percy Allen Green, Swans
boro, charged with disturbing the
peace. Green was also charged
with having improper license
plates. He was told not to drive
his car until be got the proper
tags.
Not prosecuted was a case a
gainst Reuben Ray Lilly and
James Lee Grahari, both of New
port, and Richard E. Mooney,
Cherry Point, charged with molest
ing a woman. The prosecuting wit
ness did not appear to press
charges.
Four Accidents Occur in Morehead
Photo by Reginald Lewi*
Kelly Lewis's Ford is abort to be towed away after it crssbed into a parked pickup track in More
head City Satuday night. No Me was hart In this or three other .wrecks that occurred recently.
Charge* of drunk and careleaa
and reckless driving were filed
against Kelly Lewis, Beaufort, as
the result of a traffic accident at
11:25 Saturday nigbt at 10th and
Arendell Streets, Morchead City.
Lewis was traveling east on
Arendell in his 1957 Ford when he
hit a 1968 Ford pickup parked at
the curb, police said. The force of
the impact knocked the pickup
over the curb and Lewis's car
traveled 325 feet after the collision
and ended up on the other side of
the street on the sidewalk in front
of the Security Loan Corp.
The owner of the parked car was
Lewis Adams of Richmond; Va.
Patrolman Buck Newsomc, Inves
tigating the mishap, estimated
damage to Adams' car to be 1300
while Lewis's vehicle was termed
? total loss.
Two bandied fifty dollars' dan
ige was done Thursday to a 1859
Thundcrbird, driven by Genevieve
Greenfield of Mitchell Village,
when she collided with a car driven
by Jennings McKinncy of Have
lock.
According to police, NJcKinney,
going north on #th Street, had
stopped at the intersection of
Evans. On going through the in
tersection his car was ttruck by
the Thundcrbird traveling west on
Evans. Due to the heavy rain at
the time both drivers failed to see
one another until the collision.
There were no charges filed by
police chief W. H. Griffin, who in
veatigatcd.
Tenth aad Arendell was the
scene of another accident Friday
morning when a car driven by Bar
ry WilUf of Morebead City backed
from the curb and struck a UK
Plymouth driven by Edwin Carra
way
Carriway was driving eaat on
Arendell at the time of the wreck;
according to Sgt. William J. Condie
of the Morehead City police depart
ment. No charges were tiled
againat either driver.
Resturateur Dominic Feala of
2003 Arendell had misfortune strike
a second time early Saturday
morning when his 1(52 Buick park
ed in front of his home was struck
by a passing motorist. This waa
the second time within a 80-day
period that the Femia vehicle had
been hit while It waa parked in
front of his house.
Driving the ear that hit the park
ed vehicle was frederick Ingram
of Camp Lejeune. Ingram was
charged with drunk, careltaa and
reckless driving, according to po
lice reports. Investigating officers
estimated the damage to FemU'i
ear to be *90 and that to Ingram's
vthicU to ba tan.