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48th YEAR, NO. 68. EIGHT PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
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Jesse Taylor Killed in Plane Crash
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Jurors Drawn, Testimony Begins
In Brown-Moore Menhaden Case
Mrs. Ann Duncan Brown's suit'
against I. N. Moore, hii wife, Polly
Moore, and his son, Leslie Moore,
and the three of them trading as
City Grocery Co., went to trial in
superior court, Beaufort, yester
day morning.
The suit seeks permanently to
restrain the defendants from per
mitting menhaden boats to tic up
at the Moore dock in front of the
Beaufort postoffice.
Lawyers wore down a list of 31
proapective jurors to get 12, delay
ing the actual start of testimony
i until after 3 p.m. yesterday. Larry
Howard of Newport was the 31st
person questioned and the 12th
chosen.
A temporary order to restrain
the menhaden boats from what is
popularly known as the postoffice
dock was issued last fall. In the
order Mrs. Brown alleged that
boats docked there were a source
of dangers ranging from filth,
stench and disease to hazards to
property and persons.
Mrs. Brown's residence adjoins
the postoffice property across the
street from the dock.
Following selection of jurors,
plaintiff's attorney read to them
in full Mrs. Brown's complaint and
defendants' attorney noted accep
tions and denials.
Attorney for the plaintiff is
Claud Wheatly ; attorney for the de
fendants, Luther Hamilton.
Judge J. B. Craven adjourned
court for the day at 4 p.m. and set
9 a.m. today, an hour earlier than
usual, for resumption. This he did
to get the actual trial itself under
way with a fresh start.
Jurors are Joe Rose, Kenneth
Bradley Lewis, Ralph Creech, Ma
thew Fulcher Jr., M. P. Hollowiti,
Dclancc Willis, K. B. WUlis, Ron
* aid P. Styron, George T. Tosto Jr.,
Roy Keller, Reginald Garner and
Larry Howard.
School Children
To Enroll Friday
Registration of school children
who did not attend the pre school
clinic will be held Friday at 2
p.m. at Morehead City and Camp
Glenn schools. This includes both
beginners and transfer students
according to principals Lenwood
Lee and Ramey Davis.
Parents arc reminded that re
quired shots must be given before
Friday. The shots required arc
diphtheria, polio, and smallpox.
Fees for elementary children's
books and supplies will be $3.75.
The optional school insurance is
$1.75.
School will be dismissed at noon
Monday, the first day. Beginning
, Tuesday lunchrooms will be open.
Lunches arc 25 cents.
Robert Rouse Jr. Named
President of Solicitors
Robert D. Rouse, Jr., a familiar
figure in Carteret County Superior
Court as solicitor for the 5th ju
dicial district, was elected presi
dent of the SUte Solicitors Asso
ciation at its annual meeting re
cently at Asheville.
He succeeds Lester V. Chalm
ers Jr., of Raleigh, solicitor for
the 7th district.
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Spectators Line I
Road for View
Of Crash Area
Traffic along the Morehead City
Beaufort highway, especially
around the Newport River bridge,
was brought to a virtual stand- j
still yesterday morning as hun
dreds of motorists flocked to the |
area of the bridge trying to get a
view of the plane crash that took j
the life of Jesse Taylor.
Minutes after the crash the high
way was lined with cars and
spectators who had heard the ex
plosion. Small boats dotted the
Newport River and some tried to
go to the island where the plane
crashed before they were halted
by Coast Guard authorities.
Some witnesses said that at first
they had thought the explosion was
a jet plane crashing through the
sound barrier. None of the wit
nesses questioned were able to say
whether there was actually a col
lision between the two planes.
The first indication of the crash
was the explosion and after this the
witnesses said that they saw three
balls of fire falling to the earth.
As is the case with any disaster
of this type, witness accounts are
numerous and widely varied. Some
said that they definitely saw three
planes crash and others said that
they saw two men parachute to
safety. Both of these rumors were
later proven erroneous.
Receives Award
Eagle Sen-It James C. Ross III,
above, received the God and Coun
try award at a reient Sunday night
service in Camp Glenn Methodist
Church.
Presentation of the award was
made by the Rev. John Mansfield,
pastor, assisted by L. O. Crowe,
Scout official. James, in turn, pre
sented a God and Country pin to
his mother.
James is a member of troop 334,
sponsored by the Parkview Bap
tist Church, Gerald Davis Scout
master.
He is a rising sophomore at
Morehead City school and attends
Camp Glenn church.
County Students Complete
Driver Education Course
Certificates were presented Sat
urday morning to itudeilts who
have completed the summer driver
education course. Brief cere
monies were conducted at the
courthouse, Beaufort.
Mayor W. H. Potter of Beaufort
welcomed the group and spoke
briefly on safety on the highways.
H. L. Joslyn, school superinten
dent, presided.
John Duncan, Stewart Daniels,
Jim Fodrie and L. R. Johnson, in
structors, presented the certificates
to their pupils. The following have
completed the course:
John G. Hassell, Ray Hasscll,
Mahlon Willians, Freda Garner,
Jerry Gillikin, Charles Lee Lewis,
Jeffrey Salter, Jackie Gardner,
Cary Kirk, Barbara Simpson,
Elizabeth Jones, Cheryl Brad
burry, Charlotte Mischael, Virginia
Davis, Lou Dudley, Sandra White
hurst, Robert Metze, Patricia Ho
gan, John Hogan, William Potter,
Nancy Huntley, William Harris.
Dclores Pickett, Bernard Martin,
James Scott, Chonccr Fuller, Aus
tin Everett, Owen White, William
Bryant, Betty Marblcy, Janice Bee
ton, Beulah Montford, Robert
Stocks, Hannah Bryant.
Barbara Nichols, Garth Cooper,
Thomas Fish, Peggy Holt, Gurney
Mizelle, Jerry Mitchell, Larry
Stover, Dawnna Bland, Jerry
Davis, Charles Edwards, Jack
Morgan, Bobbie Willis, Doris Buck.
Shirley Fredericks, Hepsey Pat
rick, James Mitchell, James
Moran, Faye Lovick, Clara Gas
kins, Dot Chalk, Mike Trcst, Edgar
Yates, Dee Smith, Jack Matthews,
Sue Thompson, John Kirkman.
Letha Rosita Guthrie, Margaret
Ann Lewis, Patricia Jane Lewis,
Nancy Topping Valentine, Linda
Sharon Williams, James Alvin Bell
Kenneth Cobb Harris, Robert
Thompson, Michael Willis, Grayer
Keith Willis Jr.
Ray Lewis Daniels, Carolyn
Frances Salter, Eloisc Madison
Marshburn, Charles Michael
Harris, Daphn Lee Thompson,
Emma Jean Lawrence.
Randall llarkey, J. Jones, Alice
Johnson, Charles Lovick, Harriett
Matthewaon, Earl Moore, Kerry
Nolen, Sylvia Oden, Alice Pasteur,
Bettye Sharpc, Myrtle Turner,
Arthur Davis, Charles Weeks.
Students who will complete the
course and receive their certifi
cates tomorrow are Stanley
Mann, Barbara Hodnett, Terry
Chadwick, Marsha Garner, Daniel
Nelson, Cecil Moore, Richard
Lienthal, Alton Hill, Norwood
Roac, Bobbie Taylor, William Lup
ton and Lonnie Boyd.
Did Not Rent
Howard E. Mason, who has filed
suit against the heirs of the late
Harry S. Bell, says that he did rent
a house to Mr. Bell, as stated
in I newsstory in Friday's paper.
Mr. Mason said he only loaned
storage space in a building in the
rear of his home.
Oil Industry Observes Centennial
?Farmer* Reminded of
School-Work Law
Stile labor commissioner Frank
Crane today cautioned Tar Heel
farmers against employing youngs
ter* under 16 yeara of age in farm
work during local icbool hours.
"Such employment te prohibited
by the child labor provisions of the
' federal wage and hour law, except
where the farmer's own children
work on his own farm," Crane
said.
The law applies to all youngsters
under 16, regardless oil whether
they are North Carolina residents
or migrant* from another state, he
added.
Crane laid there is no age re
quirement for employment of
young people in agriculture before
or after local school hours, on
? Saturdays and Sundays, or during
regular school holidays and
vacations.
Firemen Called
Morehead City firemen ex
tinguiahed a Are on a Marine Carps
truck at 3 a.m. yesterday. The
truck caught fire on Arendell St.,
between Mb and 7th. Minor dam
age wit daoa to Ik* truck.
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? The oil industry will observe pe
troleum's one hundredth birthday
Aug. 23-29. In August 1859 the
world's first oil well "came in" at
Titusville, Pa.
That well produced 20 barrels of
oil daily. Now the United States
pumps out 7 million barrels of oil
daily and consumes more than 9
million, reports Fred A. Seaton,
secretary of the Interior.
Oil, Mr. Seaton declares, has
changed America. "First it gave
the American something better
than whale oil ot- cola oil to read
by. Then it gave him something
to grease his wagon wheels than
lard. Then, as a fuel (or the Model
T and its contemporaries, oil con
tributed to the demise of the buggy,
the virtual retirement of the horse
and the abundance of black and
white hard-aurfaced roads across
the face of this land.
OU distributors and filling sta
tion operators of Carteret are join
ing this week in the observance
of the hundredth anniversary of
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, H. 8. M. Barns, president of
Shell Oil Co., describes the vast
ness of the oil industry in these
words: "No one can afford to pro
duce oil unless there is a market
for it, and crude oil serves no pur
pose unless it is refined and de
livered.
"All of these activities are seb
ments of one continuous operation
which starts at the wellhead and
finiahes only when the customer
buys and uses the finished product
. . . Every time the trigger is pull
ed on a gasoline hose in any part
of the United tSates, it seta in mo
tion a movement of liquid that may
reach 1,500 to 2,000 miles back to
an oil field."
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tick Table
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Aug. 25
12:47 a.m.
1:11 p.m.
6:44 a.m.
7:41 p.m.
Wedaeafejr, Aug. M
1:33 a.m.
2:06 p.m.
7:50 a.m.
8:49 p.m.
2:27 i.m. t:S7 a.m.
2:57 p.m. f:4S p.m.
Thursday, Aag. 27
FrMajr, Aag. a
3:27 a.m. t.ss a.m.
*-54 p-flu 10.40 p.m.
Photo by Bob Simpson
The above picture shows Jesse Taylor, Beaufort flyer, and one of his two planes. Taylor, who was
well-known throughout the county , was killed in a possible collision with a Jet yesterday morning.
Newft-TlniM Photo by McComb
This if what remained of the faselage section of a Marine jet yesterday morning after it crashed following an ezpkwion over Morehead City.
Wreckage of the Jet was scattered over a wide area of the island Jut north of the Morehead CUy Yacht Basin.
Well-Known Pilot
Victim of Crash
Jeaae Taylor, Braufort, who was
killed yesterday morning in the
craah of hit light plane, was a well
known figure in Carteret County.
Taylor, 28, ran a plane-ferry ser
vice to the Outer Banks with his
father. Earl Taylor. He was em
ployed as a spotter of fish by Beau
fort Fisheries and helped his father
operate the Airport Servicenter at
the Beaufort-Morehcad airport.
He m active ia civic affairs
and waa current vice-president of
the Beaufort Jaycces. He received
his pilot's license at 16 and logged
hundreds of flying hours.
Taylor was married to the for
mer Ava Lee Alligood of Davis,
in addition to his parents and wife,
he ia survived by one sister, Mrs.
Bonner Willis Jr. of Pascagoula.
Hiss.
MFW to Meet
llie Carteret Business and Pro
fessional Women'i Club win meet
at 7 p.m. tonight it the home of
Mrs. Jta Morrill, 20U Sbcjwrd St..
Coast Guard Completes
Work on Lights in Inlet
The range lights and associated
improvements in the aids to navi
gation in Beaufort Inlet have been
completed, according to the public
information officcr, Fifth Coast
Guard District, Norfolk, Va.
The work was done by the CGC
Conifer and Coast Guardsmen from
the Fort Macon station. The pro
ject was completed about two
weeks ago.
The following lighting system Is
now in being used to guide ships
through the inlet:
? The intensity of the range
lights themselves have been in
creased.
? Lighted buoy 3 has been esta
blished (black) in about 30 feet,
34* 39* 33" N, 76 * 40' 2?" W, show
ing a flashing green light every
four seconds, 30 candlepower, 11
feet above water.
? Channel buoy 3 has been dis
continued.
? Lighted tagrltetM?
located at 34? 40' 4S" N, 78 * 40'
09" W.
? Cahnncl buoy 10 has been dia
continued.
? Lighted buoy 12 haa been esta
blished (red) in about 30 feet on
range line,1 34* 41' 27.3" N, 76 * 40'
02" W, showing a flashing red light
every (our seconds, 20 candle
power, U feet above water.
? Channel buoy 12 has been dis
continued.
? Morehcad City channel buoy
12A has been discontinued.
? Morehcad City channel buoy
14 has been renumbered 16.
? Morehcad City channel buoy
24 has been relocated at 34 * 43'
41.2" N, 76* 41' 30" W.
Education Show
An hour-long education televiaion
show will be aeen on NBC-TV .at S
tonight. Back (0 School? '5# will be
Um subject of David Braklc/f
special news abow.
Officers Arrest
Woman, Two Men
ABC officer Marshall Ayacuc and
agcnti of the treaiury department
arrested three negroes Saturday
afternoon on charges of possessing
non-taxpaid liquor.
Officer Ayscue said the arrest
was made at 1005 Avery St.. More
head City, where It gallons of
moonshine wen found.
Arrested were Beatrice Monroe,
alias Beatrice Collins and Beatrice
Simmons, and Charles Smith. The
third person, ? man, was not
identified.
The three were taken to New
Bern, where bond was arrangsd
at Federal Court.
Meeting Plan Underway
Plans are underway for the next
meeting of the All-Seashore High
way Aaaociation to be held either
at Ocraeoke or aboard the Sea
I^vcl-AUantic-Oeracoke ferry, an
mumm Joe Dutiou, general man
Jet Fighter Explodes;
Pilot Ejected to Safety
By LARRY McCOMB and ELLEN BORDEAUX
The *pectacular mid-air explosion of a jet plane and
possible collision of the jet and a civilian aircraft over
Morehead City yesterday morning claimed the life of
Beaufort flyer Jesse Taylor. The accident occurred at
9:06 a.m. and the jet crashed on an island just north of
the Morehead City yacht basin.
The crash was witnessed by hundreds of people in the
Morenead Lity -Beaufort area, cars#
and people lined the highway near
the yacht basin following the crash
and a number of small boats were
on the scene.
The jet, a Marine A4D Skyhawk,
was flying at a low altitude in for
mation with another jet at the lime
of the explosion. Witnesses to the
crash failed to actually see the two
planes collide, but several who saw
the planes at the instant of the ex
plosion said that three balls of fire
fell from the sky.
This might indicate that the jet
actually exploded in close proxim>
ity of the light aircraft instead of '
actually colliding with it.
It was not known until several
hours after the crash that Taylor
was the pilot of the light plane, a
Piper cub. Taylor's plane crashed !
into the water and definite identi
fication could not be made until
Coast Guard crews had located the
wreckage by dragging operations.
The identification of the wreckage
was made by Jesse's father, Earl
Taylor.
Jesse, who along with his father
flies on fish locating expeditions
for Beaufort Fisheries, was last
heard from early yesterday morn
ing by fishing boats near Cape
Lookout. At that time Jesse radio
ed one of the boats saying that he
was going to fly to Boguc Sound
to try and find some fish.
This was the last contact with
the well known flyer until the iden
tification of the wreckage.
Hope was held out until the very
See CRASH, Page 3
Four Weekend
Accidents Occur
In Carteret
Highway patrolmen investigated
four weekend wrecks in Carteret
County.
Patrolman R. II. Brown investi
gated the collision of two 1953
Oldsmobiles Friday at 7:15 p.m.
four miles east of Beaufort on
highway 70.
One car, driven by Lundy Gil
likin Jr., of route (wo Beaufort was
headed east on highway 70. The
other car was driven by Elton Lee
Mason, also of route two Beaufort,
who backed from his yard onto the
highway as Gillikin pulled out to
pass.
Gillikin braked his car but was
unable to avoid hitting the Mason
vehicle. Both cars were knocked
into the ditch. They were termed
total losses by patrolman Brown.
Orville Gillikin, a passenger in
Lundy Gillikin's car suffered
severe cuts. Mrs. Mary Lou Mason,
Susan Mason, and Gregory Mason,
passengers in the Mason auto,
were admitted to Morehead City
Hospital. Mrs. Mason and Susan
had broken arms and severe cuts
and Gregory suffered abrasions.
Charges are pending
At A: IS p.m. Saturday a minor
collision occurred on the Atlantic
Beach causeway.
A 1957 Ford, driven by Robert L.
Brown of Morehead City, had stop
ped for traffic in the northbound
lane when he was hit from the rear
by a 1947 Cadillac driven by Ger
trude T. Jones of Kinston.
Damage to the Ford was esti
mated at $100 and damage to the
Cadillac at $200 by patrolman
Brown. Charges arc pending.
Highway patrolman J. W. Sykcs
investigated two accidents over the
weekend.
Willie W. Kearney of Goldsboro,
driver of a 1958 Oldsmobile, was
charged with driving on the wrong
side of the road and careless and
reckless driving after he side
swiped a 1957 Cadillac driven by
Margaret Scott Rod well of War
renton.
The accident happened at 1:30
p.m. one mile cast of Newport on
highway 70. Kearney, according
to patrolman Sykcs, reached to the
floor of his car to retrieve a
dropped article and the car
swerved into the left lane.
Kearney tried to get back into
the right lane but was too late to
avoid sideswiping the Cadillac. He
was headed west and Mrs. Rod
well was headed vast.
A 17-year-old Negro, Earl Wil
liam Moore, was the driver of a
1952 Plymouth that turned over on
the Lennox ville Road one mile cast
of Beaufort Saturday morning at
8:50.
Moore was headed west, lost con
trol of his car on a curve, and
turned it over. He was charged
with no operator's license, driving
on the wrong side of the road, care
less and reckless driving, and ex
ceeding the speed limit.
Moore was admitted to Morchcad
City Hoapltal with brush burns on
his face and ihoulders. Eleanor
Moore, a passenger, suffered brush
burns on the scalp and an injured
Jaw and Wallace Tcel, also a pas
senger. suffered a fractured bone
in his shoulder.
Several other passengers were
uninjured.
Little Rain Falls
During This Month
While itTu InmHialfly around
Morehcad City and Beaufort lately
have been receiving abundant
amount! of rain, August still re
main! the driest month of the sum
mer for Morehead City and Beau
fort, according to local weather ob
server Stimcy Davis. Davla has
recorded only .42 inches of rain a*
tar thia month.
Temperature ranges and wind di
rection for the last four days, as
recorded by Mr. Davis, were as
follows:
High Lew KM
Thursday 92 74 SW
Friday _ M 75 SW
Saturday 91 79 SW
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