ALL WHO READ
READ
THE NEWS-TIMES
ERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
48th YEAR, NO. 58. EIGHT PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JULY 21. 1959
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Miss North Carolina Arrives
Sunday for Vacation Here
? i ? i ? ? ? ? ? ?weii :? <w
' i' 1 1 ? *
News-Times Photo* by McComb
Miss North Carolina, center, receives an engraved gold key to Morehead City from Mayor George Dill,
right. The presentation was made at the Beaufort- Morehead airport after Miss North Carolina's arrival
Sunday afternoon. Others in the picture, left to right, are Miss Morehead City, JoAnn Parson; Cliff Lynch,
Morehead City Jaycee in charge o < Miss North Carolina's vacation here, and George M. Thomas, presi
. dent of the Beaufort Jaycees.
' Miss North Carolina of 1960, Miss 1
Judith Lynn Klipfel, arrived in
Morchead City Sunday afternoon to
start a week's stay in Carteret
County as guest of Morchead City
and Beaufort Jaycees.
The brown-haired beauty was
met at the Beaufort airport by an
official delegation that included
Mayor George Dill, Miss More
head City, Jo Ann Parson, and
Jaycee officers. Also on hand was
a crowd of about a hundred peo
ple who came to get a look at the
state's entry in the Miss America
contest.
After hciac pretested with a key
to the cite by Marar Dill, Miss
North Carolina was taken by car
to Atlantic Beach where she regis
tered at the Coral Sands Motel. A
?block-long motor-cade with police
escort accompanied her and her
party to the motel.
During her stay here, Miss Klip
fel and her mother, Mrs. Harold
Klipfel of Asheboro, will deceive a
red carpet tour of the county.
Highlighting yesterday's program
was lunch at the Dunes Club and
dinner at the Blue Ribbon Restau
rant with the Morehead City Jay
' cees.
Miss Klipfel will be the guest to
day of the Beaufort Jaycees. The
day's activities will include a tour
of the town and an airplane trip
to Ocracoke and Hatteras. The
beauty queen and her party will
have lunch as the guests of Ed Wil
lard at the Sea Level Inn and will
dine Tuesday evening at Mrs. Rus
' sell Willis's restaurant in More
head City.
Mias Klipfel will be taken tomor
row on a tour of Cherry Point.
Thursday's schedule calls for a
deep sea fishing trip aboard Capt.
Hubert Fulcher's boat, Blue Water.
Friday Mias North Carolina will
be the guest of the Occanana Re
sort at Atlantic Beach and will
meet for lunch with the Morehead
City Civitan club.
Upon her arrival at the airport
< Sunday, Judith Lynn told Mayor
Dill that she had, "seen some of
your beautiful country from the
air and I can hardly wait to go
fishing."
Driver Cited
After Hitting Car
Milliard Glmcy, Swansboro, wis
charged Saturday night with care
leu and reckless driving following
an accident on highway 70 at the
Ocean Park drive-in theatre, west
? of Morehead City.
Patrolman J. W. Sykcs reported
that Clancy, in a 1857 Ford, struck
a 1952 Ford in the rear. Both cars
were headed west Driving the
1M2 Ford was Kenneth E. Murphy,
Cherry Point. No one was injured.
According to the patrolman. Mur
phy was going at about 30 miles
an hour. The impact of being hit
from the rear caused Murphy in
the 1952 Ford to fly down the high
way, from the east end of the the
atre property to the west. His gas
tank was smashed.
Damage to the Murphy car was
estimated at $200 and damage to
thetilancy car at MOO to $500.
tUtli? Gives
Mose Jackson, Beaufort, was
picked up Saturday by Carlton
Gamer, assistant chief at police,
Beaufort. Jackson was charged
wttb public dnakaonaa*.
Miss Judith Lynn Klipfel, Miss North Carolina, gives her autograph
to two little girls at the airport while Mayor George Dill looks on.
Coast Guard Aids Three
Craft During Weekend
coast buardsmen at tne Fort
Macon station answered three calls
for help over the weekend as high
winds and choppy waters plagued
small craft.
On Thursday the station received
a radio call from the boat Skinner
II that an outboard was in trouble
near the west end of Shackleford
Banks. The 30-footer was dispatch
ed to the scene and found that the
outboard had overturned but bad
been righted by the occupants.
The boat was taken in tow by the
30-footer and moored at the Edge
water Lodge on Atlantic Beach.
The craft was being piloted by
J. R. Montgomery of Greenville
and is owned by R. T. Williams of
Farmville.
The crew aboard the 30-footer in
Mayor to Speak
To Rotary Club
Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort
will be the speaker at the meeting
of the Beaufort Rotary Club to
night. The public is invited at 7:30
p. m. to the Scout building, on
Pollock Street, to hear the mayor
speak on bis program for the com
ing two years.
Rotarians will meet at the usual
time, (:30, for super and their
meeting, which will be followed by
the mayor's talk.
HoMea Ballou, program chair
man, states that the mayor's ad
dress ia in line with this year's
Rotary program emphasizing more
information on local, state and na
tional government and politics.
Mr. Ballou said that the mayor's
address will be centered on "pro
grams pertinent to Beaufort's prog
Ml."
eluded Curtis Josey, BM-2; Linton
Williams, EN 2; Albert GiUikin,
seaman, and Joseph Johnson, sea
man.
On Saturday the station received
a radio call from the cabin cruiser
Pin Tail that the craft was dis
abled a mile south of the Core
Creek bridge.
The station dispatchcd the 40
footcr to make the assist and the
Pin Tail, owned by W. E. Street
of New Bern was taken to Beau
fort.
Making the assist were Cecil
Taylor, BM-1 and Guy Jones, EN-1.
Shackleford Banks was the scene
of another assist Sunday when Fort
Macon received a call from an un
identified vessel that an outboard
was in distress off the banks. The
30-footer was sent to answer the
call for help and took the outboard
in tow and moored it at Beaufort.
The owner of the outboard was
Toby R. Woodlcy of Beaufort.
Crew aboard the 30-footer were
Pete Farmer, BM-3 and Rodney
Gaskill, FA.
1
Agency Takes Pictures
To Promote Sportsfishing
To get pictures for promotion of
the state sports fishing industry,
representatives of Aycr and Gil
lette, Charlotte, have been in the
Morchcad City area the past sev
eral days.
Ayer and Gillette is the ageocy
handling advertising for the state
advertising division, Department of
Conservation and Development.
Making the pictures are Earl
Crawford, Charlotte, and Allen A.
Gould, of Miami and Blowing Rock.
Assisting them here have been the
Morehead City chamber of com
merce and Bob Simp? n of Fabu
Gas Truck Cab,
Motor Destroyed
By Fire Friday
? Beaufort Firemen Put
Out Blaze at Harlowe
? Fuel Line Breaks,
Causing Fire
An Eastern Rulane truck cab
and motor burned at 4:35 p. m.
Friday on highway 101 near Lionel
Conner's store. Beaufort firemen
rushed to the scene and wrapped
the back part of the truck in foam
to guard against further damage.
Driver of the truck was Ted
Phillips of New Bern. L. J. Hill
of the Eastern Rulane store, Beau
fort, said the fire broke out as
Phillips was headed to New Bern
from Beaufort. The fuel line under
the hood parted, causing the blaze.
The truck was a twin-barrel bulk
truck and had only a partial load,
150 gallons of gas. Mr. Hill said
the tanks were equipped with safety
valves which would have operated
had the pressure reached 250
pounds due to excessive heat. The
pressure, he said, went only to
200.
Beaufort trucks which went to
the fire were driven by Eimond
Rhue, engineer, and Jackie Chap
man. Mr. Rhue said, "That's one
fire where 1 had enough room to
work." Because bystanders were
afraid the truck would blow up,
they kept 600 to 700 yards away
Cherry Point fire equipment also
arrived, coming on the scene af
ter the fire had been controlled.
The heat melted a large hole in
the road because the driver didn't
have time to pull it completely off
the highway.
Mr. Rhue complimented Nathan
Robinson, Craven county highway
patrolman, who came to the fire
and offered his assistance.
Research Vessel
Takes Red Crabs
Cruises by the research vessel,
Delaware, turned tip "promising
quantities" of red crabs between
Cape Hatteras and Cape May re
cently.
In an exploration from Norfolk
to Gloucester, Mass., 30 explora
tory trawls were made. Red crabs
were caught at 21 stations, the
most productive being at 20 fath
oms or more.
According to the Fish and Wild
life Service, which is conducting
the explorations, 1,375 crabs were
taken. Estimated weight was 2,073
pounds.
The largest single catch was
made cast of Ocean City, Md.
Several hundred of the crabs
were steam cooked aboard the
Delaware and taste-tested by the
crew. They said the meat was ex
cellent.
The "red crab" is slightly larger
than the blue crab abundant in
Carteret waters. It actually isn't
red, according to the Fish and
Wildlife Servicc personnel at Beau
fort, but is a cream-buff color
with certain points on its body de
scribed as "russet."
Inquiry Made Last Night
Into Hanging of Prisoner
Lockwood Phillips Accepts
Office in Weeklies Group
Lockwood Phillips, Beaufort, pub
lisher of the Carteret County News
Times, was elected vice-chairman
Friday of the associated weekly
newspapers of North Carolina.
Gordon Tomlinson, editor of the
Mocksville Enterprise, was elected
chairman and Miss Grace Laffoon
of the Elkin Tribune was named
secretary-treasurer.
John Anderson, retiring president
of the North Carolina Press Asso
ciation, was elected chairman of
the annual contest for weekly newi
papers.
Thomas Lassiter, editor of the
Smithfield Herald, who is chair
man of the spring editorial writers'
confercncc at Chapel Hill, invited
those at the meeting to attend the
conference. Wade Lucas of the
public relations C&D department,
distributed literature on Civil De
fense.
In the meeting of those affiliated
with dailies of the state, Lyle Ed
wards, Gastonia Gazette, was
elected president; Reed Sarratt,
Winstoa-Salcm Journal and Senti
nel, vice - president, and Jack
Whichard, Greenville Reflector,
secretary-treasurer.
The above officers were elected
at group meetings Friday after
noon.
Officers of the North Carolina
Press Association were elected Sat
urday morning. They are Don
Chipman of the Winston-Salem
Journal-Sentinel, president; Clifton
Blue, Aberdeen, vice - president;
and Miss Beatrice Cobb, Morgan
ton, was re-elected secretary-treas
urer.
Elected to the two vacancies on
the board of directors were Henry
Lee Weathers, Shelby, and Jim
Gray, Sylva.
Mr. Tomlinson, head of the
weeklies association, will also
serve on the board of directors of
the state association.
All business sessions were held
?t the More head B lit more Hotel,
convention headquarters.
At the opening banquet Thursday
night at the hotel, Henry Belk,
Goldsboro, gave the invocation.
The welcome was extended by
Mrs. Lockwood Phillip* of the Car
teret County News-Times, and
Mayor George Dill, Morehead City.
See PRESS SESSION, Page 2
Car Hits Pole Yesterday
At Beaufort Intersection
A 1953 Ford, driven by Mike Dea
mon, 20, 119 Broad St.. Beaufort,
crashed into a light pole at Gordon
and Broad Streets at 12:40 a. m.
yesterday, according to Guy Sprin
gle, Beaufort police chief.
Officer Mack Wade, who Investi
gated, said that no one was In the
car when he arrived at the scene.
The identity of the driver was
learned by police later yesterday.
The front end of the ear was
seriously damaged, chief Springle
said. Persons living in the area
helped push it off the street.
Charges against the driver are
pending.
The Lady's a Scrapper
E. C. Tavatao, fiahlaf
Emerald lale, caaftt UUa
i MjrOah, ?m at Ifca
Lockwood Phillips
. . . elected to office
Migrant Minister
Leaves, Ending
Six-Week Duty
The Rev. Sam Jones and his wife
left Carteret last week for their
home in Atlanta, Ga., after scpnd
ing six weeks here working with
the migrant laborers. Mr. Jones
announced that a list of his recom
mendations for the improvement
of future programs will be released
and published shortly.
Projects completed by the mi
grant minister and his wile during
their six-week stay included distri
buting clothing, health kits, etc.,
recording of three radio devotions,
conducting athletic activities tor
the laborers, visiting hospitals and
prisoners, speaking at churchea
and meeting with the executive
committee of the county migrant
ministry committee.
Mr. Jones and his wile also took
a youth choir from the Mt. Zion
Baptist Church to the labor camp
at Harlowe, where the choir sang.
Members of the choir were Sylvia
Potter, Sylvia Oden, Cecilia Stan
ley, Barbara Brown, Myrtle Turn
er, Harriet Mathcwson, Claudia
Oden, Queenic Teel, Hattie Oden,
Clarita Turner, Pcarlie Oden, Mrs.
Johnnie Haxcl, Theodore Stanley,
Kerry Nolen, Mrs. O. C. Godcttc,
director, and Mrs. S. W. Parker,
organiat.
Before leaving, Mr. Jones stated
that he and his wife wished to ex
press their sincere thanks to those
people who helped make the mi
grant program this year moat suc
cessful.
They expressed special thanks to
the staff of the Morehcad City
hoapital, sheriff Hugh Salter Miss
Georgie Hughes of the Welfare De
partment, Mrs. Lcota Hammer of
the health department, and the
churches of the county.
James L Crowe
Heads District
J. E. OMR, aewly-elected district
governor of diitrict 31-H of the
Lions International, was presented
the official banner of the district
governor by Wyatl Pearsall of
Kinston in ceremoniea at the Lion*
club meeting Thursday night in the
Hotel Fort Macoa dining room.
Mr. Crowe was also presented a
distinguished service award by past
district governor Ben Parrott.
Other officials wha attended the
meeting tor the presentations in
cluded past presidents Harry Sha
dle and Dick Hoogeadam of Have
lock. Marvin Nash of Kinston,
put president of the Kinston club
and rone chairman for this year;
Dave Todd of Havelock and Ben
Parrott, put district governor.
Otis Joaea was appointed chair
man of the White Caae campaign
by president 0. J. Morrow.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Jaly 21
9:09 a.m. 3:02 a.m.
9:2S p.m. 3:14 p.m.
Wedaesday, Jaly 22
10:01 a.m. 3:47 a.m.
10:16 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Thanday, Jaly 23
10:53 a.m. 4:30 a.m.
11:09 p.m. 4:49 p.m.
Friday, Jaly M
11:43 a.m. 8:13 a.a.
11:54 p.m. i:34 p-O.
Conducted at 8 o'clock last night in the Morehead City
municipal building was an inquest on the death of Leonard
Wright West, 28, Newport, who was found dead in th?
Morehead City jail at 9:40 p.m. Saturday.
Morehead City police officers say that West apparently
took his own life by putting his belt around a cross bar on
a cell door and hanging himself.*
West and a companion, James
Roscoe Garner, Newport, had been
picked up at about S:43 p.m. by
highway patrolman J. W. Sykcs.
The patrolman apprehended Gar
ner driving a car oo Evans Street
in the 600 block. With him was
West.
Garner was booked for drunk
driving and West for public drunk
enness.
They were taken to the Morchcad
City municipal building where pa
trolman Sykcs put them in a cell
in the jail sector of the building.
Capt. Carl Bunch, who was on duty
at the desk about 30 feet from the
cell, said that the patrolman re
turned In about 20 minutes and
went to the cell to obtain Garner's
auto registration card.
After the patrolman left, captain
Bunch said he heard the two men
talking loudly to each other, as
drunks usually do, but was unable
to hear everything they said.
He said yesterday that at one
time he heard one of them say,
"If he (the officer, probably) calls
who 1 told him to, I will be out of
here in an hour." Captain Bunch
stated he also heard one of the
prisoners repeatedly tell the other,
"Shut up."
At 9:40 p.m. captain Bunch was
preparing to leave the station to go
out on patrol. On entering the hall
way he hoard one at the prisoners
remark, "If you don't come back
here, you will be sorry." The cap
tain walked back to the cell and
found West hanging by his belt.
Captain Bunch summoned patrol
man Buck Newsome from the of
fice and the two entered the cell to
take West down from the cell door.
They laid him oo a bunk and offi
cer Newsome called Dr. L. J. Nor
ris, who arrived oo the scene in
about five minutes. He pronounced
West dead.
West has a previous police re%,
ord of arrests for public drunken
ness and traffic violations; he also
was arrested for assault in 1937,
according to police records.
Serving as the jury at last night's
inquest, conducted by coroner Da
vid Munden, were A. P. Adams,
Ernest O. Lewis, Stephen R.
Emory, H. W. Tippctt, Charles Ed
wards and James W. Devlin, all
of Morehcad City.
The funeral for West was con
ducted at 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Bell - Munden
funeral chapel by the Rev. Sam
Moore, pastor o ( Franklin Memo
rial Methodist Church, Morchead
City. Burial was in Cedar Grove
Cemetery at Newport.
Surviving are West's wife, the
former Bettic Lewis of Morchcad
City; one daughter, Beverly, and
two sons, David and James, all of
the home; his mother, Mrs. Mary
G. West of Newport; two brothers,
Wayne of Newport and the Rev.
Ray West of Beaufort RFD.
? ?
County fo Gef
WW for Its
Roadj This Year
**?? ** C,rMr* bounty for
??tof?ance and construction of
secondary roads in 1959-so is $175,.
foi)fJ^!i.amOUn'' ,147312 *?? bo
con.tructi^",nThe "uK.f'imou'"
c?rs^^rntofa=:
Highway ami Public Works ^
Makepeace, secondary
roadi officer, said the $18 000 000
allocation wa, distributed ?Tu?
basis of each county, relative
need as determined by a study of
to ffVS/'K 'CCOnd"y
. e aiaie. The survey, whirh
m"th7^C!h? dUring thc first r,v,c
months of this year, carrinri ?c?;
rold6? ?'i C?" " ,t"bilizc every
Mt s'a"dards and the
cost to pave those roads serving
more than SO vchiclea per day
.J , 5 COBt* in c?b county were
Comp,red w'th costs
othcr counties to secure a
OTaES, ?' nccd for cach coun
on thJ werc mi,de strictly
Percentage of need in the
wTyneedmP*rCd '0U1 5ti,tc
With 1 P?r cpnt of
?he state s need was given 1 oer
A '".MO.OOO available.
Ih^iS aTsiu* U",c"u,u" 'rom
^ maintenance appro
oPf mZW?V b"Cd ?" number
H ,u'e maintaincd sec
em "ch coun,y- How"
c^nties w^^1'"^ MM
Xr weather, soil and
lyhieherm^!") brlng lr,ditional
adHii^n ^ maintenance costs, got
e^Lu" J m",nten?nce money to
SSassss??
ui! ? l"c secondary road?
I ??rk'"pUMr MakeAace1"^
istm vch c.?unty ?f ,hc
? ,he
secondary road plans for mpk
"unly and that paving plan, b?
ed 00 priority rating, of each road,
"??t^ ,hortJy ?<> the
considerat?ivn f nari ,or th??
s^ fh. T In *ome c**es, he
are already com
pleted and have been submitted tn
emiILh c.0?m'"ioner' tor any sug
gestion they may have.
Duke Medical Center Will
Give Course at Morehead
Dukr University Medical Center's
annual summer postgraduate
course will be held in a North Car
olina coastal resort town next
month (or the first time.
Scheduled far Aug. 10-14 in More
head City, the course will provide
refresher work in pediatrics and
medicine and will help physicians
keep informed on develop*- nts in
these fields.
Begistraata for the coarse to date
number 40 physicians from North
and South Carolina and Virginia.
They will attend lectures, take
part in discussion sessions and
make ward rounds in hospital! of
the Morehead City area.
The courses hive been held on
the Duke campus during past
years. The move to Morehead City
if designed to give doctors an op
portunity to combine postgraduate
study with summer recreation, ac
cording to Dr. William M. Nichol
son, assistant dean of the Duke
Medical School In charge of pod
graduate cduaction.
Dr. Nlchoisaa raid (hat the
change was made because "over
a period of years, many of those
attending the courses at Duke have
suggested that they preferred a
location that offered more recrea
tional facilities." He added that
"no sacrifice ia the scientific and
medical aspects of the course has
been made, and there ia the added
attraction of a week at the beach."
Eight faculty members from the
Duke Medical Center will teach the
course. They are Dr. W. C. Davi
son, dean of the Medical School
and James B. Dukr professor of
pediatrics; Si. KMm. crate
or of medicine ; Dr. Susan C. Dees,
professor pediatric*; Dr. Doris A.
Howell and Dr. Madison S. Spach,
hot* associate professors of pedi
atrics, Dr. Harry T. McPeraon
and Dr. Malcolm P. Tyor, both as
sociate professors of medicine; and
Dr. John V. Vcrncr, associate in
medicine.
TV pragma la approved for 28
hours of Category I, Postgraduate
Education, required by the Ameri
can Academy of General Practice.
Information about the course may
be obtained by writing to Dr. Nlc
holson at the Duke University Med
ical Center, Durham, N. C.
D. G. Bell Speaks
To Morehead City
Rotary Thursday
Assemblyman D. G. Bell was the
guest apeaker at the Morehead
City Rotary Club Thursday night
at the Rex Restaurant. He spoka
to Rotariana on legialativc matter*
of the paat term.
Topics included la his talk were
the museum appropriation for the
reopening of the Roy Hampton
state fisheries museum in More
head City and legislative action
oo money for the survey and pur
chase of property on the outer
banks.
Visiting RoUrians were Harry
Davis ?f Raleigh, Nathan Garner
o f Newport, Frank Moachem of
Raleigh, Marvin Horner af Morris
town, Tenn., Bob Hamlet of Scars
dale, N. Y. and Nat Hurst at Phila
delphia, who l'l-Hnl the mirtln