rs= CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
48th YEAR, NO. 59. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Rites Conducted Yesterday
For Man Found at Crab Point
The funeral service (or Eugene 4
Bell Jr., 37, Morehead City, who
was found dead Tuesday at Crab
Point, was conducted at 10:30 yes
terday morning.
A jury, impanelled by coroner
David Munden, on Wednesday
afternoon ruled that Bell's death
was caused by a perforated stom
ach ulcer. Jurors found that he
did not meet death by violence or
foul play.
The body, in a decomposed state,
was found on the Tom Mills farm
by Mrs. Norman Avery and her
daughters, who were working in
the tobacco field. The Averys farm
the Mills' land.
Bell was lying beside an aban
doned tobacco bam. Deputy sheriff
Bobby Bell, who was notified of
the body at S a.m. Tuesday by a
phone call from Gordon Laughton,
Crab Point, said that investigation
is still under way to determine
who might have seen Bell alive
last.
Bell is believed to have died Sat
urday or sometime Sunday. He
was identified Tuesday from cards
found in his wallet.
After the phone call from Mr.
Laughton, deputy Bell and sheriff
Hugh Sut'er summoned the coro
ner, went to the tobacco barn, took
1 pictures of the body and then had
it removed to the Dill funeral home
in Morehead City.
Because Bell lived with different
relatives and friends from time to
time, no one missed him. Coroner
Munden said that questioning of
Bell's associates indicates that he
and some of bis friends used the
tobacco barn as headquarters for
parties. :
i Because of the condition of the
body, it was impossible to deter
mine. he said, whether Bell had
met with physical violence, so a
pathologist, Dr. Robert G. Lancas
ter, US Naval Hospital, Camp Le
jeune, was called to Morehead City
to perform an autopsy.
The coroner's jury was present
during the autopsy at the Bell
, Munden funeral home. They were
deputy sheriff Bruce Edwards,
Harvey Gaskins, A. N. Willis, dep
uty sheriff C. H. Davis, deputy
sheriff Bobby Bell and chicf of po
lice Herbert Griffin, Morehead
City.
Dr. Lancaster, In Ms stateiqent,
said thtt there was no evidence of
skull fracture and "no other ex
ternal marks of violence." He at
tributed cause of death to a per
forated ulcer in the pyloric end of
the stomach.
Bell is survived by three sisters,
Mrs. Luther Lawrence, Morehead
City; Mrs. Annie Strickland, New
Bern; Mrs. Charles Gaskins, New
port; and three brothers, Mart,
Harry and William, all of More
head City.
The funeral service yesterday at
tthe Dill funeral chapel was con
ducted by the Rev. John Paul
Jones, pastor of the Pentecostal
Holiness Church, Morehead City.
Home Economic* Agent
Attends 4-H Week
Mrs. Floy Garner, home cconom
* ics agent, wil take a week's vaca
tion next week, following return
from 4-H Club week at Raleigh
this weekend. Climaxing 4-H Club
week will be the Talent Parade
on TV tonight, in which Ann Marie
Lewis, Morehead City, will play a
piano solo.
The show will be telecast in the
western part of the state. Miss
Lewis, member of the Camp Glenn
4-H Club, was a winner in the tal
ent division of tbe district 4-H con
itcsts early thii month.
Mrs. Garner will attend the Rural
Women's Symposium in Raleigh
Aug. 3-6. From Aug. 10 to Aug. 16
Mrs. Garner will attend 4-H camp
at Swannanoa. She wil be back in
the home agent'i office Aug. 17.
Two-Week Civil Court
Term to Begin Aug. 17
Defendant Fined
For Giving Beer
To Young Person
? Percy Green Appeals
To Superior Court
0 B. Joshua Jailed After
Breaking Court Order
Percy Allen Green was sentenced
to six months in jail Tuesday in
county recorder's court after he
was found guilty of aiding and
abetting a minor and giving beer
to a minor. The sentence was sus
pended by judge L. R Morris on
payment of $50 and court costs, on
condition that the defendant re
main away from Atlantic Beach for
three years and that he remain on
good behavior for the same length
of time.
Green appealed to superior court
and his bond was set at $200.
The court decided to dismiss
charges against six defendants
charged with failing to comply with
a court order. The six were Clif
ton Styron, Moye Taylor, Roger L.
Trott , A 1 v c r n Russell Kuehl,
Charles L. Spruill and Gladys Pen
ny.
Speeding convictions brought
payment of court costs to three
defendants, Jesse Fitzhugh Little
ton Jr., Russell W. Wilbberg, and
Kenneth Lawrence.
Reta Martin paid court costs
after being fotwd guilty of having
no operator's license and Zolton
S. Bologh forfeited bond on a traf
fic Charge. Bologh was charged
with improper lights and having
no muffler.
Leslie R. Farrow was sentenced
to 30 days in jail for issuing a
worthless check and Mrs. Milton
Brown was ordered to pay court
costs and make a chcck good on
a similar charge.
The state decided not to prose
cute Nelson Lewis on a charge of
public drunkenness while Mose
Jackson paid $10 and court costs
for being drunk in public.
Carl Thomas Sawyer was found
guilty of throwing trash on the
highway and ordered by the court
to pay costs.
Benjamin Joshua was sentenced
by judge Morris to serve one year
on the roads for failing to comply
with the terms of a suspended sen
tence of July 27, 1957.
Moody Lewis was charged with
non-support but the state decided
not to prosecute.
Timothy Kelly was charged with
careless and reckless driving and
having no operator's license. The
state decided not to prosecute on
the second charge but found Kelly
guilty of careless and reckless driv
ing and ordered him to pay $10
and court costs.
Jerry Wayne Brown was found
guilty of speeding on a bridge. He
paid costs. Brown was also charged
with careless and reckless driv
ing and improper passing on a
bridge but was acquitted on both
counts.
There were 71 cases continued
until next week's term of court.
Driver Draws Suspended
Sentence in City Court
Edward Culpher of Morehead
City was sentenced to 10 daya in
jail Monday in Morehcad City re
corder's court after being convict
{?d of multiple traffic violations.
Culpher waa cited for having no
operator's licenae, having no lia
bility insurance, having improper
regiaUration, fraudulent use at an
other person's licensc plates and
larceny of liccnae plates.
Judge Herbert 0. Phillips sus
pended the jail sentence on a
year's good behovior on the part
of Culpher and payment of $23 and
court costs.
Other traffic violators were Mar
tha Lockey of Goldsboro and Jim
mie Walters of Angler, charged
with speeding. Miss Lockey waa
called and failed to appear thereby
forfeiting bond while Waltera waa
ordered to pay court coats.
Kelly Maxfam Lewis of Beaufort
appeared before the court to an
swer charge* of drank, and care
less and reckless driving. The state
decided aot to proaecutc on the
drunk driving chug* but far eve
less and reckless driving Lewis
paid $100 and court coat*.
Ralph Endy of Miami, Fla., was
ordered to pay court coats after he
was found guilty of speeding and
damaging city property.
Lawrence Kearney of Norfolk,
Vs., forfeited bond when he failed
to appear to answer charges o f be
ing drunk in public.
Htlei Mann and Genora Jones
of Morchcad City appeared to face
chargcs of simple assault. Mann
was given a 3-day jail sentence
which was suspended on payment
of court costs and a year's good
behavior while in Jooes' case
prayer for judgment was continued
six months.
Perry Cambridge was ordered to
pay court costs after he was found
guilty df running a red light
A Merehead City man. Eddie
Martin, appeared in court charged
with allowing Tampa Green to
drive his car, knowing that Green
did not have a valid driver's li
?N COURT, Pag* t
Because a special term of civil
court has been scheduled to clear
a heavy docket, county commis
sioners met Tuesday night at the
courthouse to draw names of 78
prospective jurors.
The court term will open Mon
day, Aug. 17, and run two weeks.
Judge J. B. Craven Jr., Morgan
ton, will preside.
Names of the following were
drawn:
Morehead City: Carl Paxton,
Russell Bunch, Jimmy Wallace,
Frances Scott Davis, William A.
Howland Jr., Charles J. Southard
W. C. Carlton, Gerald V. Phillips.
Clarence A. Bell, Frank Cassi
ano, H. O. Phillips, Joyce M. Col
lins, Stephen Roberts, Abbott Mor
ris, W B. Chalk, Charles Willis,
John W. Alford Jr., W. H. Marks
Jr.
Thomas J. Fish, H. W. McBridc,
Fannie Wade Willis, Edward Earl
Guthrie, Joseph D. Rose Jr., Clar
ence T. Pelletier, Henry Goodwin,
Herman J. Wetherington, A. C.
Hodge, C. R. Davant, Edward C.
Weeks, Elbert G. Weeks, Michael
P. Holowiti, and Lucille Piner.
Beaufort: Orville G. Gaskill,
Wallace W. Garner, Guy L. Brooks,
Robert L. Davis, M. R. Whitley,
Herman Leroy Arthur, Rogers H.
Hunt, Clarence Willis.
Arvis McGehee, Clarence Stam
per, Delance Willis, Joseph B.
Windley, Salvatore Palazzo, Ed
mond T. Nelson, Thomas H. Pot
ter, T. E. Kelly, and Gray Hassell.
Newport: Allen Garner, B. O.
Ketner, Ira J. Culpepper, Andrew
Nance Sr., Joseph L. Morton,
James H. Small, Ralph Creech,
Kenneth B. Lewis, Valverta Gar
ner.
Atlantic: Eugene Willis, Wilbur
S. Goodwin, Iris Fulchcr.
Straits: J. M. Davis, H. C. White
hurst.
Stacy: Romain Gaskill, Connie
Daniels, Lloyd Hill.
Sea Level: William A. Lloyd;
Williaton, Gny Willis; Salter Path.
Abron Willis; Davis, Joe Davis,
Alger G. Willis, Reginald T. Sty
ron; Harkers Island, Matthew L.
Fulchcr Jr.
Merrimon: George T. Tosto Jr.,
Jimmy Pittman; Smyrna, Ronald
P. Styron.
Half of the above-named are
scheduled to serve on the jury the
first week and the remainder the
second week.
Woodmen Announce
Saturday Night Program
Woodmen of the World, Newport,
announce that their lodge hall is
open every Saturday night from 8
until midnight for members and
their guests. Bingo is played from
8 until 10, followed by a dance.
There is a charge for playing
bingo, with proceeds going into the
general funds of WOW Camp 336
and WOW Court 1130. Prizes are
given and refreshments arc on
sale.
Woodmen arc invited to take
part in the camp and court activi
ties.
Beaufort Starts Planning Celebration
Of Towns Founding 250 Years Ago
Beauty Accepts Beaufort Key
New*-Tlme* P!>oto? by McCotnb
Judith Lynn Klipfrl, Miss North Carolina, left, accepts the key to Beaufort Tuesday from Mayor W.
H. Potter. At right is her mother, Mrs. Harold Klipfrl, who accompanied her on her week's vacation to
Carteret this week.
Miss North Carolina of 1960, Ju
dith Lynn Klipfel, will leave More
head City tomorrow afternoon after
a week's vacation in Carteret as
the guest of the Jaycces.
The pretty brunette and her
mother will depart from the Bcau
fort-Morehcad airport at 4:40 p.m.
They will fly to their home in Ashe
boro where they will spend two
days before taking off for Greens
boro.
Miss North Carolina spent all day
yesterday ?deep sea fishing and to
day will be the guest of the Ocean
ana Resort and Motel on Atlantic
Beath. Before leaving tomorrow,
Mil* Kliplel and her mother will
eat lunch at 1 p.m. at Capt. Bill's
restaur sat on the waterfront.
4-H Camp Applications
Due by Friday, July 31
Carteret County Agricultural
Workers remind 4-H Club members
interested in attending Swannanoa
4-H Camp to send in their appli
cations to the county agricultural
agent or home economics agent no
later than Friday, July 31.
The home economics agent is
Mrs. Floy Garner and the agricul
tural agent is R. M. Williams. Mail
should be addressed to them at
Beaufort.
Fire Destroys Merrill
Pump House Yesterday
Beaufort firemen answered an
alarm at 9:45 yesterday morning
at the home of W. J. Merrill on
highway 101. A pump house was
on fire and the blaze was well un
der way when firemen arrived.
The house and all equipment in
side was a total loss, according to
the fire department.
Pefiy Jo Wallace, Mira Brsufort, left, joined Beaufort town offi
cial* la welcoming Miss North Carolina to Beaufort Tuesday. Judith
Lynn Kltpfel holds Uk hey to Beaufort and a bouquet of roses pre
sented her hy mayor Potter la front of the courthouse.
Three Days of Activities
Proposed for June 1960
Preliminary plana were outlined Tuesday night for cele
bration next year of Beaufort's 250th anniversary. A
meeting with representatives of town organizations was
conducted at Holden's Restaurant by William Roy Hamil
ton, town commissioner in charge of trade and civic af
fairs. Twenty-seven persons attended.
As presently proposed, the celebration would last three
days and be staged next June."
Grayden Paul, who conducts guid
ed tour* in Beaufort on special
occasions and is interested in Beau
fort history, presented several sug
gestions for celebration events.
Those include staging of the
landing of the Spaniards in Beau
fort in 1747, establishment of a
museum of sea life and fishing in
a menhaden boat on the water
front, water or shrimp boat pa
rade, boat races, water ski exhi
bitions and the Old Homes Tour.
It has been proposed that the or
ganization be known as the Society
for the Preservation of Beaufort's
Historical Heritage, operating un
der the charter of the Beaufort
chambcr of commerce. Whether
(he organization would become per
manent or be in existence only un
til after the celebration was not
determined.
Beaufort is 250 years old this
year, having been founded in 1709,
but the celebration is proposed for
next year to allow more time for
planning.
A budget of $10,000 has been pro
posed. The group discussed rais
ing the money by soliciting contri
butions from all residents of Beau
fort and the surrounding area. It
is planned to hire a director, a
resident of Beaufort, who will be
paid.
Next Thursday, July ?, was set
as the date for the next meeting
of the group and formal organiza
tion. The time will be S p. m. at
Holdcn's Restaurant.
Each civic organisation, lodge
and church is requested to name
a permanent representative to be
a member of the new organization.
Represented at Tuesday's meet
ing were the Rotary Club, down
town businessmen, Woman's Club,
Business and Professional Women's
Club.
Rebekahs, Odd Fellows, the town
administration, Ann Street Metho
dist Church, First Free Will Bap
tist Church, the VFW and PTA.
Mayor W. H. Potter was present.
Temperature Goes Up
To Wi on Two Days
The hot sticky weather that pre
ceded the rains is back with us,
says weather observer Stamey Da
vis, who reports that temperatures
for the past few days have reached
the 90-dcgrcc mark.
Temperature ranges for ' the
period Monday through Wednes
day were recorded by Mr. Davia,
as follows:
lllgh Low Wind
Monday 88 79 SW
Tuesday 90 79 SW
Wednesday 90 77 SE
Jury Rules Prisoners Death Suicide
After five minutes' deliberation
Monday night, a six-man coroner's
jury ruled that Leonard West, 28,
Newport, "died as a result of hang
ing by his own hands." The jury,
with Ernest O. Lewis of Morchead
City as foreman, found no evidence
on which to hold J. Roscoe Garner,
Newport, who was in the same
cell with West at the time of his
death.
Close to a hundred persons, most
of them from Newport, gathered in
the courtroom of the Morchead
City municipal building to hear
testimony at the inquest conducted
by coroner David Munden.
J. W. Sykes, state highway pa
trolman, was the first witness. He
said he arrested Garner and West
Saturday night.
At 1:30, he testified, he was sit
ting in the Busy Bee cafe in More
head City having a cup of coffee
when Jack Crosswell, Raleigh,
came in and reported that he bad
followed a car into Morebead City
on highway TO from the west.
The patrolman said Crosswell
told him there was "something
wrong with the people operating
the car," because it was weaving
all over the road.
The witness said that Crosswell
told him the car bad made a right
turn from Arendell on to 6th Street
(the street by the ice plant), then
Crosswell offered to go with the
patrolman to locate the car.
Patrriaaa Sykes said that in
several seconds they located the
car on Evan* Street, "sitting cross
wiM m tfc* street," is Um ?00
block. The driver (later identified
as Garner) got out of the car and
started east.
The officer said "I took him by
the arm and he said, 'I'm not
drunk.' " The witness continued,
"He appeared to be in a drunken
condition, unsteady on his feet, so I
put him in the rear in the patrol
car."
He said that he then noticed two
other people in the car Garner had
left (a 1958 two-tone green ford).
One of them, a man later identi
fied as West, stuck his head out
of the window, the patrolman re
ported, and called, "What the it
is going on here?"
The officer said he approached
the car and as he did so, he heard
bottles rattling, lie looked under the
front scat of the car and found a
Tides at (he Bcaafort Bar
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Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Jaly 24
11:43 a.m.
U:54 p.m.
S:13 a,m
5:34 p.m.
Satarday, July U
12:30 a.m.
5:51 a.m.
6:26 p.m.
Saaday, Jaly 26
12:40 a.m.
1:17 p.m.
6:46 a.m.
7:27 p.m.
Monday, Jaly 27
1:25 a.m.
2:04 p.m.
7:45 a.m.
6:32 p. In.
Taesday, Inly ?
2:15 *.111.
2:54 pun.
partially filled bottle of whiikcy.
Then he asked West and a woman
who was in the car to itep out.
He said West had trouble stand
iqg, and leaned back on the car
to steady himself, ao the officer
placed him under arrest.
The woman was the wife of J.
Roscoc Garner. The patrolman
said she wanted to know if she
could take the car home, so Garn
er gave her the keys. The witness
said he took the two men to the
Morehcad City municipal building,
where the Jail is located. When
West got out of the car, the officer
said be fell against it, catching hia
shirt on a chrome strip and ripping
the shirt.
He added that bath he and Cross
well bad to help West into the city
hall where be learned the identity
of the two. He and Capt. Carl
Bunch, who was on duty at the
time, relieved the men of cigar
ettes, matches and knives. Then
the patrolman locked the two up
in a cell in the iail portion of the
building.
The patrolman said that be took
Croaawell back to the Busy Bee.
There the officer finished his cof
fee and went back to the city hall
to writ; out the citations for the
two men be had just locked up.
He realised thea that he did not
have Gamer's auto registration
card, ao be went back to the Jail
cell and got it. The time then, he
testified, was about "?:10 or ?:U."
lie left the city hall and said that
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J. Imcn Career, Newport. who wm b the Jail cell wltk Lmirl
Wert, Newport, Satarday night wbea We?t pat Ma ehia la Ha Mt
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Beaufort Jaycees
Win $10 Prize
At Kinston
Beaufort Jaycees won a $10 prize
Tuesday night for having 75 per
cent of their members at the dis
trict quarterly meeting in Kinston.
Attending the meeting were
George Thomas, president; Guy
Smith Jr., Henry Eubanks, Dick
Dickinson, Billie Ipock, Jesse Tay
lor, Raven Darden, and Manly Ma
son.
At the weekly meeting of the
Beaufort Jaycees Monday it was
decided that the town will be can
vassed in the sale of first aid kits.
A prize will be given the Jaycec
selling the largest number of kits.
Mr. Mason was appointed to
represent the Jaycees at the meet
ing of the Beaufort 250th anniver
sary planning committee next
Thursday night.
Mr. Dickinson, chairman of the
tour planned for Miss North Caro
lina by Beaufort Jaycees, gave a
report on the tour.
The Jaycees will have their din
ner meeting this coming Monday
at Mom and Pop's, Atlantic Beach.
Army to Retain
Beaufort Station
Cecil lltnrienton of the Corp* of
Engineers office, Wilmington, re
ported Tuesday to Odell Merrill,
clerk to the county board, that all
desk work has been completed on
plans for repair to the Corps of
Engineers dock and building on
Front Street, Beaufort.
There was a question at one time
as to whether the engineers would
continue to be able to use their
present station on Taylor's Creek,
Beaufort. Matters have been
straightened out and the engineers
will maintain their Beaufort head
quarters as in years past.
Mr. Hendersoa also said that
paper work on improving Beaufort
harbor has been completed and the
spoilage area has been designated.
It is hoped that the dredging will
be completed by November ..Den
the menhaden fleet arrives.
As for Pclletier Creek, west of
Morehead City (sometimes re
ferred to as Coral Bay), Army en
gineers say they can do no dredg
ing there unless a dock is built for
public use.
The creek dead-ends and la not
a through-way for boats. Until such
a dock is built, Army engineers
say Uiey can do nothing about
dredging requests, Mr. Merrill re
ported.
Mrs. W. A. Mace Jr.
Slightly Injured
In Auto Accident
Mr?. W. A. Mace Jr., formerly
of Beaufort, and her siater, Mrs.
Mollie Strodenburg, Seattle, Wash.,
were slightly Injured Monday, July
13, in an automobile accident near
Pcteraburg, Va. With Mrs. Macc
waa her daughter, Billie, 9, who
was not injured.
According to reports received by
the family here, the car crashed
into a telephone pole during a
heavy rainstorm as Mrs. Macc and
her passengers were coming south
from Waahington, D. C.
The two women were hospital
ized oversight. Mrs. Strodenburg
suffered a broken rib and had
stitches taken in a cut in her arm.
Both women were reported to have
been thrown from the car.
Billie, riding on a stool in the
back o( the car, remained In the
car and escaped Injury.
The Maces make their home in
Soutbport.
Newport Rotary Meets
t. E. Pittman of Morehead City,
Heywood Jones of Zebulon and R.
L. Pruit of Newport were visitors
Monday night at the meeting of the
Newport Rotary Club. In dub
business, W. D. Heath Jr. waa ap
pointed program director for a six