:ez CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES I0'
48th YEAR, NO. 62. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
County Board Asks Attorney
General's Opinion on Cattle
County commislsoaera yesterday ?
authorized sheriff Hugh Salter to
get a written opinion from the at
torney general on whether it will
be permissible for the county to
destroy cattle on Core Banks and
not be liable for damages.
A 1?59 law mack the Core Banks
cattle the property uf Carteret
County after June 1. 19S8, directing
the "sheriff to remove said cat
tle . . . and turn same over to edu
cational or charitable institutions
designated by county commission
ers."
Sheriff Salter said that the only
cattle remaining on Core Banks
belong to Ralph Chadwick, Straits.
There is believed to be 37 head,
but Chadwick claims that be can
not catch them.
The sheriff said that a lawyer
has advised Chadwick that if the
county shoots the cattle, he can
.file a claim for damages. The
sheriff added that the attorney
general has advised him -verbally
that the cattlc can be shot and
Chadwick will have no claim.
He said that all other Core Banks
cattle o.wners have gotten their
cattlc off and Chadwick, who is
now under indictment for failing
to remove the cattle, is the only
one who has not taken his off.
(The state says that the cattle
' cat natural vegetation on the banks,
which directly contributes to devas
tating erosion. Therefore, laws
have been passed ordering their
romoval).
Commissioner David Yeomans
contended that Chadwick has tried
to take the cattle off, but can't
catch them. Commissioner Gaston
Smith said that if Chadwick can't
catch thero, there are people who
can, adding that if Chadwick can't
catch them they're of no value to
him running wild year in and year
out.
The county board got into another
sticky problem on a beer permit.
Harvey Hamilton Jr. appeared
before the board representing Jack
O'Neal, who he said, was denied
a beer permit by the state, "be
cause local citizens and governing
' authorities disapproved."
Mr. Hamilton said that local citi
zens opinions have no bearing on
whether a license can be issued.
Sheriff Salter said that citizens of
Bettie do not want beer sold at
Jack's North River oyster bar. He
presented pages of signatures to
back up his statement.
Mr. Hamilton contended that the
' county board cannot deny anyone
a beer permit unless he has been
convicted of a felony or has a bad
reputation.
The board contended that an ap
plication for a beer permit had
never been placed before them.
Mr. Hamilton said that was be
cause sheriff Hugh Salter had
handled the application, at the di
rection of the board.
The lawyer said the state ABC
board has denied the beer permit
on the basis of the sheriff's recom
mendation against it. The sheriff's
recommendation is based on the
attitude of the people at Bettie and
Mr. Hamilton said such objection
is not valid.
A motion to table the matter was
carried, commissioners Harrell
Taylor, David Yeomans and Gas
i ton Smith voting in favor of tab
ling and commissioner Skinner
Chalk voting against.
Coast Guard
Rescues Cruiser
' Coast Guard activity was rather
fight over the weekend. Coast
Guardsmen made only one assist
and one attempt, according to re
ports from Fort Macon station.
At 7 p.m. SOnday, B. J. Morgan
went to the station and reported
that his boat, a 24-foot cabin
cruiser, was in trouble near Fort
Macon.
The 10-footer was dispatched to
? the scene, took the boat in tow
and moored it at the Morehcad
City Yacht Basin.
Crew aboard the 30-footer was
Aulcie Farmer, BM-3 and Johnny
Dennis, seaman.
On Sunday nonilng the station
received a call from Atlantic Beach
that a bather had drifted from
shore on a rubber raft. The Coast
Guard dispatched the 40-footer to
k make the rescue, but arrived on
the sccnc to find the man safely
ashore.
Fred Alcock, BM-X and Dan
Robinson, SA were the crew aboard
the 40-footer.
Wad* Goldston Will
Preach at Atlantic
The Rev. C. Wade Goldston head
of the Department of Religion of
Louisburg College wil preach in
the Atlantic Methodist Church Aug. ;
? 7, *, and 9, at 7:S0 p. m. and at 1
the 11 o'clock service Sunday morn
tug
Mr. Goldston, spends his time I
working with the rural church of i
the North Carolina Conference of i
the Methodist Church. He baa been i
a delegate to the general confer- '
?oc* ol tba church. I
German Captain Entertains
News- Times Photos by McCotnb
Welcoming guests at a luncheon aboard the Goettingen Friday
were David Owens, second from left, of the Levino Shipping Co., and
Harold Seifert, third from left, of US Navigation, agency for Ham
burg-American Lines. Also seated at the table are Mrs. Bill Davies,
left, of the Morehead City Shipping Co. and Walter Zingelmann,
right, lumber exporter.
Enjoying a German-cooked luncheon aboard the cargo ship Goet
tingen Friday at state port were, left to right, Charles McNeill, Bad
Dlxoa, BUI Baugham and Mayor George Dill. The four were among
a group of 16 that were luncheon guests of the ship's captain,
Johannes Eubel.
Businessmen to Discuss
New Yule Lighting Fund
la the hope of eliminating the
annual dcficit incurred in lighting
Morehead City at Christmas time,
Morehead City businessmen will
discuss establishment of a Christ
mas Lighting Fund at a meeting
at noon today at the Hotel Fort
Macon.
Treasurer for the fund is O. J.
Morrow. It is hoped that by estab
lishing such a fund all the people
who like to see the town gaily light
ed at Christmas will help meet the
expense. Heretofore the same busi
nessmen who support every civic
project also bore the burden of
the lighting, reports the chamber
of commerce.
Funds have not been sufficient
and annually there has been a defi
cit of $400 to $900. Annual cost of
the holiday street lighting is ap
proximately $2,500.
Serving with Mr. Morrow on the
lighting fund committee are Rufus
Butner, Otis Jones and Charles
Willis.
Ia addition to the street lighting
subject, the group will discuss
back-to-school sales days.
Braxton Piner, Davis,
'Gets Rich' on Telecast
Braxton Finer, resident of Dav
is, a tug deck band employed in
New York, decided one very hot
day recently to go see the TV
Contest, The Price Is Right. Alter
the broadcast was over, Bill Cul
len, the emcee invited interested
members of the audience to audi
tion for the show.
Braxton decided to stay and was
picked out of the hundreds of ap
plicants. The next two days he
was on TV winning so much that
he can barely remember it all.
Be wm an array of Wcstinghousc
electrical home appliances, movie
camera and projector, a dinette
set, washer and dryer, a dutch
motorbike for his 16-ycar-old son.
He also won a week's all-expense
paid stay at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel.
Mrs. Finer and son, Braxton Lee,
have just returned from New York
light-seeing, they had a five-room
suite with every modern conveni
ence that any one can imagine.
The Fillers never had time for a
booty sumo far Uxirs wm ? war
time marriage, so they celebrated
their 17th wedding anniversary at I
the Waldorf Astoria.
Braxton doesn't believe in good |
luck charms and that sort of thing,
but he admits he wouldn't like to I
lose the penny he picked up in the
street en route to sec the TV con
test program, The Price Is Right.
Two Cart Damaged
In Morahead City Mishap
Approximately $250 damage was
done to two automobiles Sunday
morning as the result of a minor
traffic accident in front of Hill's
?tore in downtown Morehcad City.
Faye Collins Moore of Beaufort
was traveling east on Arcndell in
a 1956 Dodge when she was hit,
police said, by Ola Lynch of Gra
ham, who was backing from the
curb. Mrs. Lynch was driving ?
1957 Chevrolet, according to police
reports.
Sgt William Condie of the More
head City police department, who|
investigated, filed no charges.
County Board
Forwards Seven
Road Requests
County commissioners consider
ed seven requests for road im
provements at their meeting yes
terday in the courthouse, Beau
fort.
All were forwarded to the State
Highway Commission for consid
eration, but the board held out lit
tle hope that any paving would
happen in the near future. All the
petitions, however, did not involve
paving.
Mrs. Harold Willis and Mrs.
Moye Taylor, Davis, requested that
the Horshshoe Road, Davis, be
hard-surfaced.
,W. J. Smith Jr., Glendale Park,
requested that Sherwood Boule
vard be paved.
Clement Willis and Irvin W. Dav
is asked that the community road
leading from highway 70 at Davis
to Core Sound, be put on the high
way system.
Aigcr wuns, L>avis, asKeu mat
the state maintain a road leading
to a fish dock, cabins and small
shop. J. L. Humphrey county road
superintendent, said that he doubt
ed that the road was impassable,
and if it were at any time, he
would make it passable.
Jim Young, Stella, asked that the
state build up the end of the White
Oak River road ( Wetherington land
ing) so that boats can be launched
from it.
Another road petition requested
correction of drainage problems
and other improvements to E.
Dobbs Street at Money Island.
Glenn Adair, Beaufort, on be
half of residents at Merrimon, pre
sented a petition requesting that
the state maintain tile road to the
Merrimon cemetery.
In the only tax matter to come
before the board, commissioner!
authorized the auditor to refund
Mrs. Mildred Gillikin taxes she
paid in 1957 and 1958 on two
shrimp boats, the Mildred Ann and
Harry E., which were not in the
county in those years.
Isaac Tyndall, Mansfield, appear
ed before the board relative to an
error in a surveyor's map of prop
erty he holds along the A & EC
railroad. The commissioners told
him that they could not correct the
error, that it was a personal mat
ter between him and the surveyor.
Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
appeared before the board yester
day afternoon relative to acquir
ing space on the courthouse square
for a Beaufort town hall. He also
requested proposals on the air
port, the bridge site between Beau
fort and Morchcad City, and funds
for a school site in Beaufort.
The board made no commitment
on any of his proposals. Moses
Howard, chairman of the board
said Mr. Potter had wonderful
ideas, if they would just materi
alize.
E. L. Brinson, deputy collector
of personal property taxes, appear
ed before the board as did Sam
Morgan, New Bern.
Mr. Brinson discussed his pay
for collecting back taxes and Mr.
Morgan discussed property values.
Boy Breaks Leg
In Car Accident
James Hammond, I?, a (arm
laborer in thia county, suffered a
broken leg in an auto accident at
11 p.m. Saturday on highway TO
at the Oyster Creek bridge.
He was admitted to the Sea Level
Hospital and was discharged Sun
day night
Highway patrolman W. E. Pick
ard, who investigated, said Ham
mond was a passenger in a 1950
DeSoto driven by Robert James
Johnson, Cherry Point.
Johnson and a third passenger
in the car were not injured. Ac
cording to the patrolman, Johnaon,
who was headed west, ran off a
curve on the right, went back
across the road, turned over sev
eral times and hit two cars parked
at Salter's Grill.
Bath cars were awaed by Davis
motorists. Damage to onc. * 1K9
Chevrolet, amounted to about MOO,
and damage to the other, a 1954
Oldsmobilc, $200. The DeSoto was
wrecked.
Johnson was charged with driv
ing drunk and speeding and reck
less driving.
Hammond, who Uvea on highway
191, liata Rowland, N. C., at his
permanent residence.
Resuscitator Revives
Near-Drowning Victim
A near-drowning occurred Satur
day about 1 p.m. at Atlantic Beach,
but the victim waa revived by use
if the beach rcsuscitator, followed
by treatment at Morehcad City
Hospital.
Maxton Mason, 1111 Ann St.,
Beaufort, was rescued by life
guards at the main beach and the
resuscitator waa used until the Dill
imbulance -arrived.
Mason, IT, was taken to Msre
lead City Hospital. He was dis
xturgad yesterday.
Two Die in Sunday Crash
On Harkers Island Road
Photo* by J. W. Sykn
The pine tree at left shows the deep gashes caused when a car, in which two young men Were killed, hit
it late Sunday afternoon.
C. Y. Griffin
Gives Report
On County Roads
C. Y. Griffin, district engineer
with the State Highway Commis
sion, conferred yesterday afternoon
with county commissioners. He
stated that the county has avail
able $32,000 for road construction
for J959-60.
He presented the stale's plan for
roads most in need of paving, but
held out little hope that much of
the paving would be done, becausc,
of the small amount oif money
available. He added that ever;
county in the state has taken a cut
in the amount of money allotted
for secondary roads.
Under last year's priority pro
gram, one road, the Stella Road, in
the western part of the county was
paved.
First and second priority roads
under the 1959-60 program arc loop
roads off the Crab Point road,
and the No. 3 road is the Laurel
road. All other roads arc listed
below these.
Relative to roads in private real
estate developments outside city
limits, Mr. Griffin said, "Subdivi
sion or residential streets now on
the state system as well as those
which may be added at a later
date, will be paved by the State
Highway Commission only when
all property owners' have paid in
advance for such paving at the
rate of $1.00 per square yard. This
sum is approximately equivalent
to $1.10 per front foot on both
sides of the street."
Persons who would like to know
the rating of any road in the coun
ty may contact Odell Merrill, at
the courthouse, who is clerk to the
board and has maps and priority
listings.
7-Month-Old Baby
Hurt in Accident
A seven-month -old baby, Bar
bara Ann Farwell, Cherry Point
suffered bruises and brush burns
at 12:05 a. m. Friday on the Crab
Point Road when the car her fa
ther was driving upset 125 feet
north of the city limits.
Another daughter, about 3, who
was also in the car, was not hurt.
Driving the car was Robert V. Far
well, Cherry Point. He was head
ed north, apparently at a high
rate of speed, according to patrol
man R. H. Brown.
The car skidded on a curve, went
into a ditch on the left and turned
over. Farwell has been charged
with speeding.
Two Youths Hurt
When Car Wrecks
Beverly E. Parham, 16, Mans
field Park, and Ronald Jordan, 17,
Morchcad City, were slightly in
jured at 12:30 a. m. Saturday when
the 1954 Ford Parham wai driv
ing turned over on highway 24 in
the vicinity of judge Luther Hamil
ton's residence.
Highway patrolman W. E. Plck
ard, who Investigated, said Par
ham suffered bruises and minor
cut* and Jordan a shoulder in
jury, cuts and bruises.
Parham told the patrolman that
lights from a car coming toward
him blinded him. A motorist re
portedly took the two boyi to the
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The interior of the automobile was a shamble*. The driver, Wil
liam Murdoch, Wildwood, was hospital lied. His two passengers were
killed.
Robersonville Man Lets
Skiff Drift, Leaves Area
I. ester Green, Rnbcrsonville, was
still "missing" yesterday, after
authorities learned from a friend
of his, Janice Warren, Roberson
ville, that she last saw him Sat
urday morning at the Kaleigh bus
station.
A search for Green began Sat
urday morning when his wife no
tified Fort Macon Coast Guard sta
tion that Green had phoned her the
night before that his boat, a 16
foot skiff, was adrift off Fort Ma
con beach and he was going to
wade out and get it.
The trawler l.ynn Ann found the
boat drifting Saturday morning off
Beaufort Inlet, and the sheriff's
department was called in on the
search foe Green.
Sheriff Hugh Salter said yester
day that he learned that Green,
after dark Friday, took the boat,
went around Fort Macon point and
west along the state park beach.
When the boat was almost ashore,
he got out and went ashore.
Ray Pardue, superintendent of
the park, happened to be on the
beach. He saw Green and saw the
boat drifting away. He flashed his
flashlight beam on it and told
Green that the boat was drifting.
Green contended that it wasn't,
that he had it anchored. The boat
continued to drift and Pardue told
Green again that he was going to
lose his boat. He suggested that
Green notify the Coast Guard.
Greeo, the sheriff said, then told
TMei at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Aug. 4
8:07 a.m.
8:15 p.m.
2:11 a.m.
2:14 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. i
8:44 a.m.
8:53 p.m.
2:49 a.m.
2:53 p.m.
Ttarsday, Aug. 8
9:24 a.m.
8:32 p.m.
3:25 a.m.
3:32 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 7
10:07 a.m.
10:U p.m.
4:00 a.m.
4:11 p.m.
the park superintendent that he
had a friend at Atlantic "City"
that would help him go out and get
it, that he didn't want to bother
the Coast Guard. (He probably
meant to say Atlantic Bcach, the
sheriff said).
Then Pardue showed Green how
to get to the Kort Macon Road. At
10 p.m. that night, Pardue phoned
the Coast Guard to ask if they had
been notified about the boat. They
said they had not. Meanwhile, the
sheriff learned later, Green had
gone to a phone and notified his
wife in Robersonville that his boat
was adrift and he was going to go
out to get it.
Further investigation led sheriff
Hugh Salter and constable George
Smith to Robersonville where they
questioned Miss Warren, who was
known to be in the Fort Macon
area Friday night.
She told the sheriff lhat she took
Green to Raleigh Friday night
after he had left Fort Macon park
and that at 11:30 Saturday morn
ing she took him to the bus station
at Raleigh. There, she said, she
saw him buy a ticket for Tampa,
Fla., then she left. She said she
did not sec him board the bus.
101 Community Club
To Moot at 7:30 Tonight
The Highway 101 Community
Club will meet tonight at 7:30 at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. T.
Spivey. All members are invited
to come and bring a covered dish
for a buffet supper.
All residents living on West
Beaufort Road north to Core Creek
bridge arc membcra of the organi
zation.
Immediately following the picnic
supper, a short business meeting
will be held. Plans will be made
for community improvement.
Woman Faints
Mra. Quick of the Morehead City
New Bern highway fainted at 7th
and Arcndeil streets yesterday af
ternoon. She was treated oo the
seen* by Dr. L. J. Norri*.
Bert Murdoch Jr., 20,
Wildxvood, and Clarence D.
Adams, Broad Creek, whose
age was estimated at 20,
were killed at 6 p.m. Sunday
on the Markers Island Road.
The funeral for Murdoch
will be conducted today in
the Wild wood Presbyterian
Church. The Rev. A. M.
Daniel, pastor, will officiate.
Hour of the funeral will be
at 2 o'clock in the after
noon.
The funeral for Adams is expect
ed to be held tomorrow, following
return of his mother, Mrs. Muriel
Adams, and a sister, Mrs. Jerry
Garner, from Nassau They were
to leave Nassau by plane yester
day.
An inquest will be conducted at
8 p. m. Thursday at the munici
pal building, Morehead City.
Patrolman J. W. Sykcs. who in
vestigated, said that Murdoch and
Adams were riding in a 1950 Ford
driven by William A. Murdoch,
Wildwood, cousin of Hubert. The
car was headed east on the Hark
ers Island road and failed to round
the curve just cast of the Albert
Wade residence.
The car went straight and was
stopped by a large pine tree.
Adams died of a fractured skull.
Murdoch died en route to the
Morehead City Hospital in the
George Dill ambulance. Adams
was picked up by the Bell-Munden
ambulance and the Adair ambu
lance took the driver to the hos
pital.
wuiiain Murdoch, l?. told patrol
man Sykes yesterday that he was
going about 40 to 45 miles an hour
and the car ran off the road and
hit a tree.
Thomas Lee Willis, a llarkers
Island youth who saw the accident,
told the patrolman that he was
headed in the same direction as the
death car. It pulled up alongside
him and, according to Willis, one
of the boys on the right side of the
Murdoch car, leaned out the win
dow and yelled, "Let's go!"
Just ahead was the curve, and
instead of rounding it, the car kept
going in i" straight line.
William Murdoch suffered a
chest injury, cuts on his face, right
knee and right arm.
Coroner David Mundcn has im
paneled the following to serve as a
jury at the inquest: Lcnwood Brin
son, Dorscy Rice, E. O. Lewis, W.
E. Cottingham, Jasper Bell and A.
N. Willis.
Surviving Murdoch arc his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Mur
doch; two brothers, Preston and
David, and a sister, Mrs. Cove
Johnson, all of Wildwood.
In addition to his mother and
married sister, Adams is survived
by a sister, Sandra; two brothers,
Jesse and Milton, and his paternal
grandfather, David F. Adams, all
of Broad Creek.
Employers' ESC
Rate Explained
In asking employers to get quart
erly contribution reports and pay
roll tax payments in by the dead
line, Friday. July 31, Henry E.
Kendall, Employment Security
Commission chairman, explained
how an employer's tax rate is
figured.
Mr. Kendall said:
"Advantages to all employers are
evident when we receive their re
ports and contributions prior to
the deadline; however, all that arc
postmarked no later than midnight,
July 31, will be included in de
termining the individual employers'
rates within the schedule.
"All employers should mail their
reports and payments to reach us
before the deadline. These are due
now for the quarter ending Juno
30, and must be received by us
by the deadline to be included in
the Aug. 1 computations establish
ing the state-wide rate schedule
for I960.
"This rate Is obtained by divid
ing the balance actually on deposit
in the unemployment insurance
fund July 31, by the state taxable
payroll for the fiscal year ending
June 30.
"The ESC is presently operating
under schedule E, calling for as
much as 7.5 per cent, but less than
1.5 of the total taxable payroll of
the 30-odd thousand covered em
ployers," concluded Mr. Kendall.
Oscar Allred Named
Lions Program Chairman
Oscar Allred was appointed pro
gram chairman for the next three
months at the Thursday night meet
ing of the Morehead City Lions
club.
In other business at the meet
ing the club announced plana for
sponsoring a booth at the county
fair from which they will sell
blind-made product*.