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zsz CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ,#' 48th YEAR, NO. 65. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Work on Ferry Basin Nears Completion ? Should bo in Operation By Early September ? To Begin Work Soon On Ocracok* Terminal The dredging of a turning basin , and channel at Atlantic for the Sea Level-Atlantic-Ocracoke ferry began Monday *.n<] is expected to be completed within the next two wee lit. Frank C. Noyes of Sea Level, general superintendent, said the turning basin is 200 feet in diame ter. The overall length of the chan nel and basin from the landing site to Atlantic's main channel is approximately 700 feet. Mr. Noyes said 20,000 to 25,000 yards of sand must be moved to complete the project. The spoilage is being dumped along the water front area to fill in washes creat ed by storms of recent years. Entrance to the ferry slip is adjacent to D. Mason's store. Con struction is expected to begin on | the Ocracoke Island terminal with 1 in the next few days. Charlie Finer of Morehcad City is doing the dredging. Tommy Eure, Beaufort, is the general con tractor. George J. Brooks, also of Beaufort, is in charge of the en gineering. Capable of carrying up to 24 cars and 300 passengers, the ferry will be operated by the Sea Level Atlantic-Ocracoke Ferry Co. Inc., of Sea Level. It is an enterprise i of the Taylor Brothers, D. E. and Leslie of West Palm Beach, Fla., and William and Alfred of Norfolk, Va. The brothers are hoping to have the ferry in operation by Labor Day. Forest Rangers To Convene Here LS Forest Senrlce district rangers, members of the forest su pervisor staff of AshevMle and re gional staff members of Atlanta, Ua., will attend the annual ran gers' confcrencc Monday through Friday at the Morchcad Biltmorc Hotel. Owen Jamison, ranger of Croa tan national forest and the Croatan district, will be host. Among those attending will be Hugh S. Redding, supervisor of North Carolina na tional forests. Under his direction arc Nantahala, Pisgah, Croatan and Uwharrie forests. Theodore S. Seeley, ranger of the Pisgah district, will also attend. ' Mr. Scely recently received the su perior service citation from Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson in Washington, D. C. The citation was given for ex ceptional contributions in public relations and administration. Mr. Secly received the only citation given in 1958. He was also pic tured in Time magazine. The conference has been planned so that there will be three days for business, training, and discussion of new procedures and two days for field trips to the outer banks, Croatan national forest and Hoff man forest, near Maysville. Twenty-five rangers and staff members arc expected and many will bring their families, accord ing to Ranger Jamison. Beaufort Firemen Meet New Fire Commissioner Dr. David Farrior, new fire com missioner, was introduced at the recent meeting o t the Beaufort fire department. Fire Chief Clarence Davis Jr., introduced the new com ? missioner. The hurricane season was dis cussed and firemen talked about the role they would play in the event a hurricane struck here. The Christmas collection was made. Twenty - five firemen attended the meeting. L. A. Williamson of Fort Worth, Tex., was a guest Demonstration Women To Attend Craft Workshoo Eleven women from Carteret County will attend the eaitera dis trict Home Demonstration handi craft workshop at Manteo Tuesday through Thursday. Mrs. C. It. Wheatly Sr. of Beau ? fort will teach the class In Italian hemstitching and she will be as sisted by Mrs. Floy Garner, coun ty home agent. Loeal nan win attend clasaea in copper tooling, copper enamel ing. fabric stenciling, Swedish darning, feather hats, tin can crafts, corn shuck crafts and pine com crafts. When they return from the wackabop tfeajr will shun their ?L t knowledge with the local club wo men. This will be the fourth such work shop conducted and will be held at the 4-H camp at Manteo. Mr*. Garner haa served on the planning committee. These attending from Carteret will be Hias Nina Garner and Mrs. Floyd Harness of Newport, Mrs. Ben Jooea and Mrs. C. S. Rogers of Beaufort. Mrs. Clyde Mason of Atlantic, Mrs. Joyce shrake and Mrs. Jtba Ivea of route one Have lock, Mrs. E. C. McLawhorn and Mn. Ralph Creech at route two Newport, Mrs. Emmett Piper aad Mrs. M ttiHxid at tiwewtar. NOTICE To Mail Subscribers Due to iocreiKd postal rates, mail subscriptions to THE NEWS-TIMES, effective September IS, will be as fallows: Mail Rates in Carteret and Adjoining Counties: 12 Months ... $8.00 9 Month* , ...... ?.25 6 Month* 4.50 3 Month* ........ .. 3.00 1 Month ... 1.50 Mail Bates Outside Carteret and Adjoining Counties: 12 Month* ......... $9.50 9 Month* 7.25 6 Month* i 5.25 3 Month* 4.00 1 Month 1.50 In each instance the above rate increases DO NOT EQUAL increased cost to THE NEWS-TIMES of both post age and handling. All present NEWS-TIMES mail subscribers may renew their subscriptions at the current mail rates for one year be yond whatever is the expiration date of their present sub scription. You may note the expiration date of your sub scription on the address label of your NEWS-TIMES. This offer is good only through September 14. Carrier-delivered and newsstand priccs of THE NEWS TIMES will remain the same. Polio Diagnosis Received In Case of Jerri Williams The illness of Jerri Williams, 3 year-old colored girl, has been diagnosed as polio, the county health department announced yes terday. The Williams' case is the first polio ease in the county in two years. The last one was April 14, 19S7 when Manly Smith, Newport, was stricken. The case prior to that, according to health department records, was in October 1954. The patient was Ronnie McLaren, Beaufort. Both patients recovered. Dr. leather Fuicher said yester day that a report from Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, where Jerri Williams was sent by h?r doctor, Dr. L. J. Norris, state* that Jerri is much improved. She haa suffer ed paralysis, however, in her left arm. Dr. Norris said that it cannot be definitely established whether the child had polio shots prior to be coming ill. She was sent to Memorial Hos pital last Thursday, Aug. 6. Al though doctors there said a defi nite diagnosis of her illness would not be available until today, the report came through early. Dr. Fulcher said that the county health department had adminis tered Tuesday all the vaccine it had available. Vaccine for 6-year Polio vaccine was delivered yesterday to all drug stores in the county and is now available at doctors' offices, according to a report yesterday from drug gists and doctors. olds, who must be innoculated be fore they go to school, is expected to be available early next week, according to informatU* from the State Department of HMO). The county March of Dimes chap ter has informed the health de partment that funds arc available for purchase of vaccine if vaccine can be obtained. Dr. Fulcher said yesterday that he would make an effort to get vaccine from Jack sonville where, it is believed there is vaccine in excess, since special efforts were made to get supplies there during the epidemic. Public Works Committee Passes Port Appropriation Back-to-School Issue to Appear The annual NEWS -TIMES back-to-school issue will be pub lished Tuesday. School principals, teachers and businessmen who would like to reach the public with back-to school information or ads should contact THE NEWS-TIMES im mediately. The back-to-school section of Tuesday's paper is go ing to press today. It will contain information o I value to all parents? and young sters, whether the youngsters are entering first grade in public school or the first year of col lege. Don't miss your copy of Tues day's NEWS-TIMES. Port Calendar Marches* CHy Port Capiopa ? Due Aug. 19 to take on cargo at dry milk. ' TaeWagea? Due Aug. 21 for to bacco for Europe. Blrteasteia ? Due Aug. 28 to pick tip cargo of tobacco for Eu rope. A public works conference com mittee this week in Washington cleared the appropriation of $600, 000 for deepening Morehead City harbor. It was doubtful that the item would be okayed since it was in the Senate bill only, not the House appropriations bill. The legislation had passed both bouses, but was sent to a confer ence committee for whittling and compromise. Now it goes back to both houses where passage is ex pected to be routine, then to Presi dent Eisenhower for his signature. The President had asked that no new projects be included in the bill. The Morebead City harbor work is new, as is $1 million for Wilkesboro reservoir. Whether the bill will be vetoed remains to be seen. The President has vetoed twice a bill which included fands for deepening Morehead harbor to 35 feet. The $800,000 for Morehead City is not sufficient to complete the project, but it is hoped that if the project is started, funds for com pletion will be easier to obtain. Bep. Graham Harden, in report ing the action of the conference committee, said he is "very hope ful that the port funds will remain in the bill as it goes to the White House." D. Leon Williams, state ports di rector, who was in Morebead City yesterday, said he was highly pleased with the conference com mittee's report. He said Congreas men Barden, Herbert Bonner and Alton Lennon were most helpful in the matter. Sea. B. Everett Jordan was also instrumental in keeping North Carolina projects in the bill. TMei at Ike Beaufort Bar ' Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, Aug. 14 4:12 a.m. 4:47 p.m. 10:33 a.m. I 11:21 p.m. j Saturday, Aug. IS 5:20 a.m. S:4? p.m. Saadajr, Aug. 1* 11:31 a.m. ?:1? a.m. ?:42 p.m. 12:14 a.m. 12:23 p.m. Monday, Aag. IT 7:11 a.m. 1:03 a.m. litf-a. Coroner's Jury Clears Driver In Fatal Wreck i Three Witnesses Take Stand at Inquest ? Jury Reaches Verdict After 18 Minutes Paul Taylor of Greenville was exonerated by a coroner's jury Monday night in the fatal accident in which he was involved Satur day morning. The accident claimed the life of 34-year-old Eben Lee Harker of Beaufort. Taylor was the driver of a gaso line transport that rammed into the rear of a Hinson moving van in Newport early Saturday morn ing. Harker was the driver of the moving van. Taking the stand as witnesses at the inquest in the Morehcad City town hall were highway patrolman J. W. Sykes, Moses Howard of Newport and Newport policc chief Dan Bell. Coroner David Munden also called Taylor to the stand but Taylor's attorney, Harvey Hamil ton Jr.. stated that he would rath er his client not testify. Patrolman Sykes testified that he was callcd to investigate the acci dent Saturday morning and arriv ed on the sccnc at approximately 7:30 a. m. He added that when he arrived most of the Newport fire depart ment members were already on the scene and that he observed the moving van resting against the old theatre building which is now a warehouse for Hinson Moving and Storage Co. He said that the tanker truck was rammed into the rear of the moving van and that the body of Harker was lying at the right front wheel of the moving van between the van and the building. See INQUEST, Page 5 Roofing Trucks , in Two-Way Operation , Haul Grain Here The Bassano, ship of the E Herman Wilson Lines, which sailed recently from the state port loaded with grain, Is bound for Newcastle, England. She took on 3,040 tons of soybeans, one of the largest grain ship t menu out of Morehead City this year. A Fry Roofing Co. track U tilted on a hydraulic lift tad the grain pours from It into the ship loading facility at the port arm Hainey, federal grain inspector, miffs the (rain a< it poar* from a hopper. This ia one of the ways ?( testing to we that the grain is of good grade. Exploding Gas Heafer Kills Child ; Rites Held in Beaufort Wednesday A |u heater explosion Monday in Pascagoula, Mt??., claimed the life of 2tt-year-oId Leo Scott Wil lis Jr., whose parents forjnerly lived in Beaufort. The child was the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Ivey Willis of Lennoxville. According to Mrs. Julius. Dunn, whose daughter phoned her from Pascagoula and told her of the ac cident, the child was at home with his father while Mrs. Willis went to a doctor. Mr. Willis was cutttag grass and Leo was playing with a dog sear the utility room close to the house. The dog ran into the room and as the boy got to the door the beater exploded. Both dog and boy were killed instantly. The room burst into flame* but action by the fire department pre vented the flames from spreading to other parts of the boOae, accord IDs to Mrs. Dunn. Mr. Willis was slightly burned when bt tried to pick up his no. The family arrived to Baatiort Tuesday night and funeral services* were conducted at the First Free Will Baptist Church, Beaufort, Wed nesday at 4 p. m. by the Rev. W. A. Hales, pastor. Interment was in Oceanview Cemetery. Leo, who would have been three in December, is survived by his parents; one sister, Gail, 11; his paternal grandparents and his ma ternal grandparents, who live in Louisiana. Superior Court Torm To Opon Monday Morning A special term of superior court, for trial of civil caacs, will open at 10 a.m. Monday at the courthouse, Judge J. P. Craven Jr., presiding. Four divorce*, one motion and eight trials are docketed for Moo day, three trials for Tuesday, and five for Wednesday. Docketed for Monday of the fol lowing week is one divorct and five trial* tad so Tuesday, Ova trials. Weatherman Sees Hot Days, No Rain Temperatures have been hot this week and there has been no rain, according to weather observer Stamcy Davis. Mr. Davis said scat tered showers arc predicted but no heavy rain is in store for us. High and low temperatures and wind direction lor this week fol low * High Low Wind Sunday 86 80 SW Monday 91 74 SW Tuesday - ?1 7S NE Wednesday ?7 77 Vsr. Town Beard la Meet The Beaufort town board will meet at 7:10 Monday night at the town hall. The apeclal meeting was planned at the regular August meeting to handle business not dis posed U Monday, Aug. J. Referee Refuses To he Rushed In aplte of a request by a credi tor, that Xirchofcr and Arnold in vestmcnt firm be declared bank rupt, Joseph B. Cheshire Jr., Ra leigh, said Wednesday he would make no decision until a creditors' committee reports to him. The committee is to meet Aug. 12. Hoover Adams, Dunn, haa asked that the firm be liquidated. The creditors' committee has indicated that it wants to continue tbe "debtor - In - possession" arrange ment, with tbe hope that Morehead Shipbuilding Corp., a K&A subsidi ary, may be sold aa a going con cern. Adams, oa behalf of his minor son, Brent, has alleged fraud In the sale of trawler participation notes. (The trawlers were manu factured by Morehead Shipbuilding Corp. at Morehead City). Brent Adams has trust fundi in vested in mortgage notes sold by K*A on IwbaM tf MonbMd Ship In ? two ? way arrange ment that is proving mutual ly advantageous to Fred Webb, Inc., a grain export company, and Fry Roofing Co., Morehead City, Fry tractor trailers are bringing grain into Morehead City port on return runs. The mammoth orange Fry trucks make roofing shingle deliveries to points south,, west and north of here. Instead of coming back emp ty, they return with cither wheat or soybeans, which go into storage at the state port or are loaded im mediately on a ship. The operation is in its third month, according to Osborne Da vis of the Fry Roofing Co. When operations started in June, the trucks brought back grain from the lower part of South Carolina. As the harvest season progressed north, the trucks picked up grain at Henderson, Smithficld - Sclma and Rowland. Next month the trucks on the northern North Caro lina and Virginia runs will be bringing in grain. Before the grain operation start ed, the trucks usually carried paper and rags on the return trip, items used in the manufacture of shingles, but this never required full loading on the runs home to Morehead City. Each truck carries 500 to 550 bushels of wheat or soybeans. The grain is blown into the truck from the granary where the pick-up is made. If a ship is to be loaded when the truck arrives at the port, the whole truck is lifted, tilted and the grain poured out. If no ship is in, the grain is suck ed out of Uie truck and stored until ready to be put aboard the next ship. As a result of the grain opera tion, Fry Is buying five new trac tor-trailers. Mr. Davis said. AEC Issues Permit to Dump Atomic Waste The Atomic Energy Commission has announced it will allow the Military Sea Transportation Ser vice to dump low-level atomic waste products about 80 miles off the North Carolina coast, cast of Nags Head. Dumping will begin in about 12 days unless a formal hearing is requested. AEC said dumping would be limited to water at least 6.000 feet in depth. One of the sites also recommended for dumping by the National Academy of Sciences was about 22 miles Southwest of More hesd City. Under the license which the ener gy commission proposes to issue to the transportation service, dispos al operations would be limited ti the handling of waste materials generated in Federal laboratories and installations, including those operated by commission contract ors authorized to package waste for sea disposal. Types of nuclear waste to be handled generally consist of left over solutions from experiments, contaminated paper, cloth, glass ware, equipment, animal carcas ses, and sealed sources of radio activity reduced to unusable levels by decay. The AEC says that if its dump ing regulations are followed there is no danger involved. Charges Filed Following Wreck James Walte Jr. of Markers Is land was charged with improper passing and having no liability in surance as the result of an acci dent at Harkcra Island Tuesday night at 1:43. Sheriff Hugh Salter, who investi gated, said that Dennis Goodwin of Cedar Island was making a left turn when Waite, driving ? 1950 Hudson, attempted to pass and col lided with Goodwin's 1951 Chevro let. After hitting the Goodwin car, the Hudson careened off the highway and struck an oak tree. The acci dent happened near the Mormon Church. Damage to the Hudson was esti mated at lioo and damage to the Chevrolet at tlSO. Voter Requirements C. Z. Cbappell, chairman af the county board a I elections, said Wednesday that the only require ment for voting in the special referendum in Beaufort Oct. 10 to that the voter have registered dur ing the special registration and luve lived la the araa mOhL
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