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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
New Shrimp Bill Would
Provide Import Quota
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State to Begin
Boat Numbering
Plan Next Year
? Coast Guard Gives
up Function
? State Will Provide
Reports, Etc.
All boats having more than ten
horsepower will be required to
have numbers starting Jan. X,
when the Coast Guaftt relinquishes
its boat numbering functions
The N C. Wildlife Commission
has received word that the U S
Coast Guard has okayed the state's
system for numbering power boats
when the Tar Heel boating safety
law goes into effect Jan. 1, 1960.
In getting the numbering system
approved, the Wildlife Commission
agreed to use the letters NC follow
ed by not' more than four Arabic
' numerals and two capital letters.
The Arbic numerals and final
capitals will be in sequence. As
signed boat numbers may range
from NC-l-AA to NC-999-ZZ, with
special sequences set aside for boat
dealers, manufacturers or publicly
owned boats.
The letters I O, and Q will be 0
mittcd since they can be confused
with numerals. Letters and num
' bers forming objectionable words
or combinations will not be used.
The Commission further agreed
to furnish the Coast Guard with re
ports on boat numbering, boating
accidents and other administrative
matters.
Application forms for boat num
bers will be available after Nov. 1,
1939, from the Wildlife Commission
in Raleigh or from hunting and
fishing license dealers.
Washington, D. C.? A series of
identical bills designed to provide
a five-year orderly import quota
on shrimp were dropptd in the leg
islative hopper in the House of Re
presentatives last week.
Representative Alton Lennon In
troduced HR 8870, which will go
over until the 1960 session for
action. Similar measures were in
troduced by congressmen from the
Gulf, Pacific and Atlantic coast
states.
Representative Lennon said that
the domestic shrimp industry in
North Carolina and other sections
is having a difficult time compet
ing with imports of shrimp, parti
cularly from Japan, India and- the
Far Eastern countries. At present
there are no limitations whatever
on the amount of shrimp that may
be imported from any nation in the
world.
He said the "moderate ap
proach" bill has the backing of the
shrimp industry of North Carolina,
the National Shrimp Congress and
other trade groups.
The bill would impose a 25 per
cent duty on shrimp brought into
the United States above the import
quota.
"We now have tables, based on
the import records for many years,
showing where the imported
shrimp originate," said Lennon.
The table shows the amount of
shrimp exported through the years
from Mexico, Japan, India and a
number of other countries. Under
the allocation, each country ex
porting shrimp to this country
would be permitted to increase pro
gressively their export each year
starting in 1960."
Under terms of the bill, each
country that historically exports
five million pounds of shrimp or
more each year would be allowed
to increase exports annually by
five per cent without duty; those
countries exporting from one to
five million pounds a year would be
permitted to increase the amount
by 110 per cent, and those with one
million pounds or less would be
authorized to increase their ex
ports by 25 per cent a year.
'Crusade Child Safety'
Begins in State Today
North Carolina dairymen are
joining with the milk industry
foundation, the national safety
council, and the president's com
mittee for traffic safety in sponsor
ing a month-long campaign to pro
tect children from motor vehicle
accidents.
The safety project, known as
Crusade Child Safety, is being eon
ducted nationwide for the entire
month of September. Participants
in this project in North Carolina,
which emphasizes to the motoring
public the need for alert driving to
help save lives and reduce injuries,
are member companies of the
north Carolina dairy products as
sociation, inc.
During 1058 there were 140 child
ren killed and 3,241 injured in
North Carolina road accidents. Of
this figure, 98 of the children killed
and 1,044 of the children injured
were classified as pedestrians
' when the accident occurred, ac
cording to the North Carolina de
partment of motor vehicles. This
record is of vital importance to the
dairy industry because of the many
trucks making daily deliveries of
dairy products in residential areas
and to schools.
The Crusade Child Safety will be
gin officially Sept. 1 and last for a
month. Each milkman will aim to
protect children at play in
neighborhoods where milk trucks
spend much of their, time, and to
safeguard children on the way to
and from school.
Some of the safety "tools" are
bumper strips for milk trucks to
encourage all motorists to "Drive
Carefully? Join 'Crusade Child
Safety'", safety badges for milk
men's uniforms, and safe driver
pledges which will be signed by the
drivers and distributed to their
customers; also, children signing
safety pledges will receive I Am A
Safety Crusader metal emblem.
There will be increased on safety
training programs in dairy plants,
keeping records of safe driver re
sults, and awards for safe driving
and promotion of safety.
Virgil J. Ashbaugh, Jr., chair- J
man of the Crusade in North Caro
lina, says the theme of the Crusade
is "The world's best food? deliver
ed by the world's safest drivers."
He adds that the primary focus of
the Crusade Child Safety campaign
is protecting our children.
Port Policemen Take Oath
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Mayor George Dill, tar left, Satartay iww hi tear mea wW will acrvc aa part police ttarting to
day. The tow will provide M-hoar proOrttoa to the port tertoiaal and wHI work hi eaajaaettoa with the
Morehead CHy police depart neat. The four sew officer*. with haada raited, an Keanoth Caafleld, WU
liaai C. Oaraer, Charles Neteoa, a ad W. Marphy Jeafclnt. Staadtof ac*? to to majrar la P. Lota Wfl
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September Blues
A youngster's opinion of the nine months of school that lie ahead is evident in the face of Beaufort third
grader Kenneth Windley aa he atta at his desk on the opening day of school looking out the window and
wondering where the much too abort summer vacation went. Kenneth ia the son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil
Windley.
Highway Officials Conduct
Ferry Hearing at Ocracoke
By
MRS. THEODORE RONDTHALER
The knotty problem of ferry ser
service between Hatter as and
Ocracoke was presented for dis
cussion at Ocracoke last Wednes
day by Harold Makepeace, director
of secondary roads, and W. W
Spruill, district engineer for the
highway commission. '
Members of the Ocracoke road:
committee and others were shown
maps indicating the results of a
survey recently undertaken to find
where there are natural channels
between open water in Pamlico
Sound and the western shore of
Ocracoke Island.
Only two such partial channels
exist, one in the vicinity of Quork
Hammock and the other in the
vicinity of Knoll Island at the
southern end of Great Swash.
The channel to Quork Hammock
would require digging directly
across Legged Lump shoal for a
considerable distance, and all pre
! sent agreed that this channel would
quickly (ill up because of the con
' stant tidal flow across it. The same
' difficulty about Legged Lump
shoal applies to a possible channrl
[ into or near Green Island. In view
of the highway, commission, this
leaves only the Knoll Island lo
1 cation as a practical situation for
a permanent ferry landing, reason
i ably free from probable storm and
i hurricane interference.
At this point in the hearing, local
Ocracokcrs objected strongly to the
length of trip (two and one half
1 hours) and the rough water travel
that this route would create. As an
alternative move, Ocracoke citi
zens were practically unanimous
in suggesting dredging of a channel
from open water at the northern
end of the island as far out as
possible to reach a ferry landing
in the Green Island vicinity. They
suggested throwing the spoil from
such dredging back onto Ocracoke
Island in the region of the Tar Hole
Plains and beyond.
It was objected by the highway
representatives that such a channel
would be very likely to fill with
sand every time the ocean washes
across the island in storms; most
of those present agreed that such
a channel would keep filling in
across its mouth because of the
strong cross-flow of tidal currents
at that point.
In spite of the difficulties, most
Ocracoke representatives continu
ed to urge strongly that the chan
nel to the Green Island location be
given serious and fair consider
ation by the highway commission.
It was argued by the Ocracoke
people that the much shorter run
would in the end save its dredging
cost in reduced cost of boat
operation, because two or three
boata on the Green Island run
could easily do as much as would
require four or five boats on the
Great Swash run.
Mr. Makepeace agreed that fair
Tide Table
Tide* at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
* Tuesday, Sept. 1
?:S6 a.m. 12:56 a.m.
7:10 p.m. 1:06 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 2 *
7:35 a.m. 1:38 a.m.
7:49 p.m. 1:50 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 1
1:13 a.m. 2:1S a.m.
S:3S p.m. 2:32 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 4
8:51 a.m. 2:56 a.m.
1:11 p.m. 3:13 p.m.
consideration would be given to all
the arguments presented. He took
as his own position the view that
whatever is done, it is "high time
to stop fooling around and doing
nothing, for lack of agreeing or
knowing for sure what is the best
thing to do, and that the com
mission will do its best to combine
the interests and protection of the
citizens of Ocracoke and the tour
ing public.'
Meanwhile, Ocracoke islanders
watch with enthusiasm the pro
gress being made toward the new
! Sea Level-Atlantic-Ocracokc ferry
into operation. The landing slip at
Atlantic is reported well on the
way to completion and it is ex
pected that work on the Ocracoke
landing will begin within a few
days.
Through the cooperation of the
National Park Service and the NC
| Highway Commission, a landing
| site at Ocracoke will be created
between the Coast Guard station
and the park service docks.
Agent Lists HD
Club Meetings
The following schedule of home
demonstration club meetings has
been announced by Mrs. Floy Gar
ner, home agent:
Today: Wildwood meets at 7:30
p.m. with Mrs. Earl Whitley.
Wednesday: Bogue meets at 1:30
p.m. with Mrs. John Guthrie.
Thursday: North River meets at
1:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. R.
P. Gooding; Broad Creek meets at
7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Lucillc Smith.
Friday: Bettie meets at 7:30 with
Mrs. Hugh Pake.
The Merrimo? meeting, which
was scheduled for Monday, will
meet Sept. 14 at 2 p.m. with Mrs.
Flossie Pittmaa. The meeting was
postponed because of the Labor
Day holiday.
Patrolman Investigates
Car in Ditch near Otway
A 1954 Ford apparently (ailed to
make a curve and ended up in tbe
ditch on the fire tower road near
Otway, highway patrolman W. E.
Pickard reports.
Patrolman Pickard went to the
scene of the accident Sunday morn
ing but no one was in the car.
Ownership of the car had not been
established yesterday, Mr. Pickard
Mid.
School Term Begins; Pupils
Return to Improved Schools
Not a Free Port
Morehead City port is not
among the few United States
free ports. The News-Times
mistakenly identified it as such
in an editorial comment in Fri
day's issuj.
According to Export, Import
Traffic Management and For
warding, written by Alfred Murr,
the first foreign trade zone in
the United States was established
in New York in 1937; followed by
the New Orleans in 1947; San
Francisco in 1948; Los Angeles
and Seattle as the fourth and
fifth, respectively, ui 1949; and
San Antonio (Municipal Airport),
Texas in 1950.
Of these six foreign trade ones,
two failed to justify the expect
ations placed in them. Zone 6 in
San Antonio closed in 1953 and
zone 4, in Los Angeles, closed in
1956.
The above information was
brought to our notice by Robert
L. Hicks of Heide and Company,
steamship agents.
Charles W.White
Arrested Sunday
Charles William White of route
one Newport was arrested Sun
day and charged with larceny of a
150 /ard nylon fish net, belonging
to Howard Fulcher of Beaufort.
The net was stolen Aug. 1 and
was recovered at White's trailer
home, according to Sheriff Hugh
Salter, arresting officer. White, 28,
was released under $200 bond.
With sheriff Salter when he made
the arrest were deputies C. H.
Davis and George Smith.
First Baptists
Name Pastor
The Rev. (or bin L. Cooper of
Whitevillc has accepted the pastor
ate of First Baptist Church, Mare
head City, according to Grady C.
Rich, chairman of the pulpit com
mittee. Mr. Cooper replaces Dr.
John Bunn, now of Durham.
The new pastor comes to More
head City from Whiteville, where
he has been pastor of Trinity
Baptist Church since January,
1955. He served as associate pas
tor of Reavis Memorial Baptist
Rev. Corbin L. Cooper
. . . new pastor
Church of High Point and Front
Street Baptist Church of Whitcville.
Mr. Cooper studied accounting
before entering the ministry, lie ia
a graduate of Mars Hill College,
received a bachelor of arts degree
from Wake Forest College in 1954
and a bachelor of divinity degree
from Southeastern Baptist Semin
ary in 1957. He also studied at the
School of Pastoral Care. Baptist
Hospital, Winston-Salem. He was
ordained at Spray Baptist Church,
Leaksville.
He has served as chairman of
Columbus County Ministers Assoc
iation, past president of Whitcville
Ministerial Association, and is pre
sent chairman of evangelism, Co
lumbus Baptist Association.
A native of Leaksville he ia mar
ried to the former Joann Ashley of
Whiteville. They have no children.
Joe Baum Arrested
On Whisky Charge
Joe Baum, alias Carolina Joe,
was arrested Friday morning at
Eleanor's cafe, Beaufort, on
charges of possession of non-tax
paid whisky.
Baum was arrested by ABC
officer Marshall Ayscue. With
Ayacue on the raid were deputy
sheriffs Bruce Edwards, Bobby
Bell. George Smith and Beaufort
police officer Otis Willis.
The officers found eight pints d
moonshine at the cafe. Baum will
appear in court this morning, ac
cording to Mr. Ayscue.
? Carteret County school students began another school
| year yesterday by registering at their respective schools.
The term officially begins today.
Schools operated only a half day yesterday, but full
schedules will be observed from now on. The first holiday
this year will be Monday, Labor
Day.
Priacipal Jack W. Johnson of At
lantic school reports an approxi
mate registration of 410 students
yesterday, but said the enrollment
I will probably increase during the
remainder of the week.
He said that no beginners were
turned away yesterday. All had
had their polio shots. Things are
much the same as far as the build
ing is concerned, Mr. Johnson said,
and he is looking forward to a
profitable year for students and
tcjchers.
Albert Gaioey, principal of Beau
fort school, said that about 1,300
students registered yesterday and
the enrollment will probably rise.
Two new classrooms have been
added at Beaufort by doing away
with the teachcrs' lounge and the
addition of a new quonset hut.
Principal Stewart Daniels esti
mates 583 students registered at
Smyrna school thus far. He said
they had several new teachcrs and
the building had been extensively
repaired and he was looking for
ward to a good year.
Morehead City school has four
new classrooms in use and two
more under construction, an
nounces principal Lcnwood Lee. He
said the high school still needs a
commcrcial education and social
studies teacher. A high enrollment
is expected when figures are com
piled.
Kamcy Davis, principal at Camp
Cilcnn school, announces the regis
tration of 669 children yesterday,
lie said he expects 10 or IS more.
Two classrooms in the old school
building have been reactivated this
year, says Mr. Davis, to take care
of the large enrollment.
Newport principal K. B. Comer
reports that enrollment at his
school is over last year's enroll
ment. About 815 students have en
tered so far and Mr. Comer ex
perts several more.
A number of improvements have
been made at the school, says the
principal, and he is very pleased
and happy with the plaat. ?
Markers Island school will have
approximately 255 students this
year, announces Mrs. Ella W.
Wade, principal. Mrs. E 1 o i s c
Marshburn and Mrs. David Lewis
have joined the faculty and Mrs.
Hugh Willis of Smyrna is expected
to give piano lessons at the school,
according to Mrs. Wade.
Queen Street principal, L. R.
Johnson, reported yesterday that
at least five students were turned
away because they lacked the polio
shots required for admission this
year. All were first graders.
Queen Street begins this year
with a new gym, much needed and
long awaited, and one new class
room. About 624 students register
ed yesterday. Mr. Johnson said
conditions at his school were very
crowded. He expects' at least 60
more students.
A total of 400 students registered
at W. S. King school yesterday. S.
R. McLendon, principal, reports
that this total is slightly less than
last year. New classrooms arc un
der construction at the school but
arc not yet in use.
All students had their polio shots.
W. J. McNeill joins the faculty as
a combination fifth and sixth grade
teacher, assistant football coach
and basketball coach.
Capt. Tony Seamon
Feeds Wild Squirrel
Capt. Tony Scamon carries
several pcc.in nuts in his pocket at
aH times to feed a wild squirrel.
The squirrel comes out of the
woods almost every time Capt.
Tony returns to his home on the
Crab Point road.
ricttfrcs of Capt. Tony feeding
the squirrel, taken by Clifton
Guthrie, staff photographer for the
Virginian Pilot, appeared in the
Norfolk newspaper last week.
Capt Tony aayi that what is
amusing to him about the proce
dure is that it isn't he who trained
the iquirrel but the squirrel who
trained hiin.
Two Beaufort Fir* Truck*
Answer Call to Davis
Two trucks of the Beaufort fire
department were lent to Davia yes
terday afternoon to cxtinguiah a
tractor fire at Percy Davia'a fil
ing atation.
A fire department spokesman
aaid that workmen were pumping
gas into the tractor when the fire
started. The tractor was a total
loss.
Fifth Victim
Mrs. jean Dunn Scott, New Bern,
became the fifth victim of a two
car wreck when she died at St.
Luke's Hospital, New Bern, Sun
day afternoon. The coll ia ion oc
curred Aug- 21 near Swuaboro.
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Accidents Occur
During Weekend
Highway patrolman R H. Brown
investigated three highway acci
dents over the weekend.
Saturday night at 9:15 a three
ear collision occurred 100 feet south
of the Atlantic Beach bridge. A
1953 Buick driven by Bert Conner
Jr. of route two Beaufort stopped
to make a left turn. He was going
south, towards the beach.
Edward Eugene Nance of More
head City, driving a 1951 Mercury,
stopped behind Conner. Cecil
O'Brian Lewis of route one Beau
fort, driving a 1952 Ford, failed to
stop and hit the Mcrcury, knocking
it into the Buick.
The accident happened during a
1 downpour of rain patrolman Brown
said. Lewis has been charged with
following too close.
Damage to the Buick was esti
mated at $50, to the Mercury at
$150 and to the Ford at $150.
Sunday night at 7:45 a 1952 Ford
and a 1958 Ford station wagon
were involved in an aecident west
of Morehead City near the Rex
Restaurant.
Rose Anna Shurte of the Woman
Marine detachment. Cherry Point,
had left the restaurant parking lot
and was going west on highway 70.
She estimated her speed at 35 mph.
She was struck from the rear by
the station wagon, driven by How
ard Francis Mooney of Morehead
City. After being hit Miss Shurte
continued on to a service station.
Mooney told the officer he did not
know what he had hit until police
were called to the Shurte car.
Mooney suffered a cut mouth and
wai treated at Morehead City Hos
pital. He his been charged witk
careless and reckless driving.
Damage to the Shurte car was esti
mated at 1250 and damage to the
Mooney vehicle at $700.
Another accident was investi
gated at 8:50 yesterday morning
one mile west of Atlantic. The cars
involved were a 1956 Ford, driven
by John K. Taylor of Sea Level,
and a 1953 Plymouth, driven by
Fannie Louise Robinson of Atlan
tic.
Taylor was goiag west on high
way 70 and on rounding a curve
saw the Robinson vehicle on the
left side of the road. He tried to
swerve to his left but a truck was
coming. He hit the Robinson car.
Miss Robinson said she had pulled
over to pick up a rider.
Charges arc pending, according
to patrolman Brown. Damage to
the Ford was estimated at 9400 and
to the Plymouth at $150.
House Damaged
During Storm
Mr>. H. G. Jours, who lives on
Radio laland Road on the cause
way, reported yesterday morning
that her house was struck by light
ning during a thunderstorm early
Monday morning.
The bolt apparently struck a
clothesline post in back of the
house, sending a current of elec
tricity through the clothesline into
the houae.
The pMt wis shredded by the
lightning and the clothesline Itself
was burned to a crisp. The current
entered the house, Where it shred
ded electrical wiring on a fuae box
and blackened insulation tape
around a light fixture.
Mrs. Jones, who lives in the
house with Mrs. Etherlccn Taylor,
said that it felt as if the lightning
was right over her bed.
"It aiade a real loud clash and I
almost Jumped clear out of the bed
when I beard It," she mid.
Fort Macon Personnel
Aid in Soarch for Man
Two Coast Guard vessels and an
airplane aided in a search early
Sunday morning for a Wilson man,
James Jackson, who was reported
overdue in an lt-foot outboard
motor boat.
The Fort Macon station was in
formed of the overdue boat at 3
a.m. Sunday and dispatched the 40
footcr to search in the area of the
Pamlico River. An (3-foot Coast
Guard vessel from Ocracoke and a
plane from Elizabeth City also
joined in the search.
At T a.m. all vessels were called
back when a telephone call from
the Uobucken light attendant ata
tlon reported that Jackson had re
turned.
The crew aboard the Fort Macon
40-footcr waa Cecil Taylor BM1
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