zsz CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
48th YEAR, NO. 84. EIGHT PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Ellis Smith's Body Found;
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Report Filed on Accident
The body of Ellis Smith, 47, of<
King, was found at 12:30 p.m. Fri
day about 100 yards from the spot
wnere Smith disappeared Tuesday
when the skiff from which he was
fishing was struck by a trawler.
Sheriff Hugh Salter said the body
was sighted by Walter R. Bryan,
Winston-Salem, who was in the vi
cinity of the bulkhead buoy in his
boat, Karen E. Bryan called to a
smaller boat which came to the
fpot and then he went to the Coast
Guard station. The Coast Guard
sent a boat to pick up the body.
Coroner David Munden set 7 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 26, as the date of in
quest. It will be conducted at the
Morehead City municipal building.
Impaneled as a jury Friday were
Elmer Davis, L. J. Hill and
Thomas Hewitt, Beaufort; L. A.
Daniels, E. B. Fleming and Clif
ton Lynch, Morehead City.
13-Year-Old Boy
Shoots His Hand
Robert (Bugs) Wetberington, 13,
Beaufort, is in the Morehead City
hospital recovering from a .22 rifle
wound in his right hand. Robert,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Street Wetber
ington, Highland Park, accidental
ly shot himself Saturday about
noon while out "hunting" with two
other boys.
According to Mrs. Wetherington,
the boys were in a patch of woods
near the fairgrounds, Beaufort,
when Robert dropped the rifle. As
ihe tried to catch it, it went off.
i Mrs. Wetberington said that the
rifle belonged to one of the other
boys.
The youngsters walked out of the
woods to the home of Mitchell
Ricks, one of the three boys. Mrs.
Ricks phoned Mr. Wetherington
who took his son to the doctor.
Mrs. Wetherington had gone to
Lenoir for the weekend.
i The wound is in the fleshy part
of Robert's hand, between the
thumb and forefinger. Mrs. Weth
trington said yesterday that her
son is getting along satisfactorily.
Court Grants
Four Divorces
In Civil Term
Four divorces were granted in
the early hours of the current term
of civil court in Beaufort yester
day. The divorce actions were Bob
by J. Lawhead vs. Frances C. Law
head, Norman Willis vs. Adlth Wil
lis, Joyce W. Godwin vs. Donald L.
Godwin, and Irene A. Garner vs.
J. B. Garner.
Eight divorce suits docketed for
trial were continued.
A. H. James, clerk of court, re
ported that motions in the Lock
hart suits against insurance com
panies will not be heard, since the
insurance companies "bad paid
off." The suits were filed to ob
tain payment of insurance on a
building owned by Stanley Lock
hart. The building, located on
highway 70, burned.
Trials continued as of yesterday
were Taylor vs. Carteret-Craven
Electric Corp., Gillikin vs. Gillikin,
Thoet vs. Matthews, Smith vs.
Paul, and Day vs. Godwin.
Judge W. J. Bundy is presiding.
Court is scheduled to end Thurs
day.
Serving as jurors this week are
James C. Willis, Earl P. Becton,
Manley E. Morton, Roy H. Willis,
Lloyd E. Stocks, H. I. Thompson,
William T. Davies.
Hobert Kelly, H. P. Scripture,
Douglas Hufham, Harvey Taylor,
D. E. Oglesby, Mrs. D. B. Webb,
James H. Potter III.
E. T. Arrington, Andrew Guthrie,
Gerald Piner, Ralph M. Nelson, S.
K. Hedgecock, Ivey Mason, Owen
Dail.
L. H. Garner, Ruby T. Becton,
Lucile A. Smith, M. L. Byrd, Ralph
L. Willis and 1. E. Pittman.
A term of criminal court will
open Monday, Nov. 9. Jurors for
that term were named this month.
State Designates Roads It
Will Improve This Year
2.08 Inches Rain
Fall Last Week
The drizzling rain which started
Wednesday morning finally left the
area Saturday after dumping a to
tal of 2.08 inches of water, accord
ing to weather observer Slamey
Davis.
Mr. Davis also reported that the
rains brought the coldest day of
fall to date. The mercury failed to
get above the 63 degree mark Fri
day.
Temperature ranges and wind di
rections for the four-day period,
Thursday through Sunday, were re
forded as follows:
High Low Wind
Thursday 68 57 NE
Friday 63 57 NE
Saturday 70 62 NE
Sunday 70 61 NE
? Raleigh ? The State Highway
Commission has approved and set
up funds for stabilizing seven Car
teret County roads and paving the
Morris road near Stella.
Stabilization is scheduled for 1.2
miles of a road between Kuhns
and a deadend road near Stella;
one mile of the Stella-Pelletier loop
road to a deadend near the White
Oak River; 1.1 miles of a road ex
tending between the cutoff road
from NC 24 to Pelletier and a dead
end north of Whitehouse Forks
One and three-tenths miles of the
Wildwood road, from US 70 to a
deadend; 1.5 miles of a dirt road
bypassing Mill Creek community;
.6 mile of the Lawrence Road, near
Otway; and .5 mile of a dirt road
from Otway to highway 70.
Grading, draining and surfacing
is set for .7 mile of the Morris
Road, near Stella.
Approximate coat of the projects
is $22,890.
+ Coast Guard authorities revealed
yesterday that a report of reckless
and negligent operation of the
trawler Phillip has been submitted
to the Coast Guard office of marine
inspection.
The Phillip, with Eliy Guthrie,
master, collided with a small skiff
in Beaufort Inlet last Tuesday.
Three men were in the skiff. One
of them, EUis Smith, 47, drowned.
As a result of the reckless opera
tion report, the office of marine in
spection has made an investigation
at Morehead City, interviewing per
sons involved in the accident.
This report, according to a Coast
Guard spokesman, will be sent to
the Coast Guard district comman
der for review. If facts warrant it,
the Coast Guard said, Guthrie will
be cited for reckless and negligent
operation of a boat.
Federal statutes call for a fine'
not exceeding $2,000, a year in
prison, or both. In place of that,
the Coast Guard district comman
der can assess a penalty up to $200.
Coast Guard authorities state
that this is the first report of vio
lation in this area of the new fed
eral motorboat act of 1958.
Reckless boat operation covers
anything that would endanger any
one on the water, such as excessive
speed, drinking while operating a
boat, water skiing among bathers
or among anchored fishing boats,
or running without lights at night,
according to the motorboat act.
Dock Goes Up
For Fish Boats
A dock for menhaden boats is be
ing constructed on Front Street,
extending from the Esso dock at
the foot of Turner, eastward to the
Carteret Hardware Co.
The dock, consisting of a 6-foot
walkway with pilings for the tying
of boats, is being put in by Wesley
Willis of Standard Products Co.,
Beaufort. Construction is by
Thomas Eure, Beaufort contractor.
Mr. Willis said he hopes the work
will be completed by the first of
November. Easements were ob
tained from property owners so
that the dock could run approxi
mately half a city block. Cost of
the job has been estimated be
tween $8,000 and $10,000.
Work began the first of October.
The first boats are expected to
start fishing about Nov. 15.
Hub Caps Stolen
Car strippers are still at work.
Parker Motors, Morehead City, re
ported to police yesterday morning
that four hub caps were stolen Sun
day night from a 1955 Buick on the
Parker lot. A valve stem on one
of the tires was also cut off.
Dec. 29 Probable
Date for Higher
Water Rates
? Utilities Commission
Sets Dec. 1 for Hearing |
? Manager Announces
Proposed New Rates
Proposed new rates for water in
Beaufort, Morehead City and Snow
Hill probably will not go into effect
until Dec. 29, C. W. Williams, man
ager of Carolina Water Co., which
services those towns, said Friday.
The State Utilities Commission
has set Tuesday, Dec. 1, as the date
for hearing on the new rates, which
call for a 30 per cent increase. Al
though the water company could j
put the new rates into effect im- 1
mediately by posting bond, Mr.
Williams said that the company has |
chosen to have the hearing first
and up the rates in accordance
with the utility commission's de- 1
cision.
Should the commission not al- 1
low the increase, refunds to cus
tomers would have to be made un- 1
der the bond-posting plan.
The water rates now and the |
proposed rates follow:
Prinwit Propound 1
Per 1.000
First 5,000 gallons $.48 $.62
Next 10,000 gallons 42 .55
Next 15,000 gallons .39 .51
Next 20,000 gallons 33 .43
Next 50,000 gallons .27 .35
Next 100,000 gallons .21 .27
Over 200,000 gallons .20 .26
Rental for fire hydrants will re
main the same, $45 a year, flush
tanks will stay the same, $50 a
year but the minimum charge will
increase from $1.65 to $2.13.
Water in excess of a town's ordi
nary requirements for flushing
sewers, streets and fire protection
will be metered and billed at 26
cents per thousand gallons instead
of the present 20 cents per thou
sand.
The rates on a private sprinkler
system for fire protection remain
the same: $50 per year up to 500
sprinkler heads: 8 cents per sprink
ler head for each additional one
over 500. The $50 is billed once a
year.
Also remaining in effect is the]
regulation that the customer mayv
not share or resell water if one or
more customers is using one meter.
The customer will be billed as
many "minimums" as there are
customers using water.
Mr. Williams said the increase,
to home owners, would amount to
about a cent and a half daily. Mr.
Williams pointed out that the water
company has put down deep wells
recently, as well as made other
improvements in the water sys
tems.
The rates now being paid, Mr.
Williams said, went into effect in
March 1956.
Federal Personnel Asked
To Give School Information
Coast Guard, Marine Corps per
sonnel, and other federally-con
nected people who have children
in Carteret public schools are re
quested by the school administra
tion to sign and return to the school
by Oct. 28 a "Pupil-Parent Infor
Judge Meekihs Preceded Methodist
Bishop in Advocating U. S. Liquor
The late federal judge, Isaac M.
Meekins of Elizabeth City, beat the
President of the Temperance Board
of the Methodist Church by 31
years in advocating nationalization
of the liquor industry.
Bishop John Wesley Lord early
t this month said the Methodist
Church stUI stood four square for
total abstinence. But until the
day comes when alcoholic bev
erages can be outlawed intelli
gently, government control, he
said, is the only remedy for the
alcoholism that grips S, 000, too
Americans and is creeping up on
200,000 more every year.
Bishop Lord told United Presa
Ihternational that he hoped to pre
sent his program for national con
trol of liquor manufacture to the
general conference of the 1,000,000
member Methodist Church in Den
ver next April.
On Aug. 11, 1928, Judgs Meekins
told Lockwood Phillips, now pub
lisher of THE NEWS-TIMES, but
then a reporter for the New York
Evening World that "it would be
far better for the Government to
manufacture and distribute hard
liquor on a cost plus 10 per cent
> , basis."
Jadge Meekins, regularly as
signed to the Eastern District of
North Carolina, was sitting at the
time as a substitute judge in the
Southern District of New York
which mainly embraces the New
I York metropolitan area.
Mr. Phillip*' interview with
Judge Meekins appeared not only
in the Evening World, now a part
of the New York World-Telegram,
but in hundreds of newspapers
across the nation.
While JniUe Meeldns' suggestion
to nationalize the liquor industry
was a brand new one at the time
more important was it that it
was made by a Protestant, South
ern Democrat, a man of palpably
high and sincere ideals.
Had it been made by any of the
Democratic bosses of the gangster
bootlegger ridden areas of Chicago,
Boston, New York, Jersey City or
Memphis, little or no attention
would have been paid it. It would
have been considered merely lip
service to Mammon.
The day before he talked with
Mr. Phillips, Judge Meekins had
received the not guilty pleas of
Texas Guinan, Helen Morgan and
others indicted following raids
on 26 of New York's night clubs.
Judge Meekins attained a place
of prominence in New York be
cause of his intolerance for legal
loopholes for bootlegging, for im
munity for squealers, for "bargain
days," for perjury.
He made three appearances on
the bench in New York and won
both praise and hate for the heavy
sentences he meted out to violators
of the Eighteenth Amendment.
"If ? change must come and the
Government should manufacture
and distribute liquor under rigid
rules oo a cost plus 10 per cent
basis," Judge Meekins told Mr.
Phillips, "the nefarious traffic in
bootleg liquor will disappear im
mediately because the bootlegger
will be unable to compete on such
a small margin."
While Judge Meekins' primary in
terest in Government monopoly
and sale of liquor was to chase
the bootlegger out of business, he
suggested that some of govern
ment's profits be used to teach
people the proper use of alcholic
beverages.
Atlantic Seniors Present
Play, Now You're Talking
The seniors of Atlantic School
presented their annual play, Now
You're Talking, Friday night in the
school auditorium.
The cast included the following:
Evelyn Harris, Kara Jo Mason,
Bruce Mason, Vannoy Mcintosh,
Linda Taylor, David Hammer,
Brenda Salter, Judy Guthrie, Susan
Lewis, Mary Sue Salter, Soger
Harris, and Ruby Taylor.
The play was directed by Mrs.
Elsie Salter.
Hotel Reported Sold
The Wall Street Journal reported
last week that the Palm Beach
Biltmore Hotel, West Palm Beach,
has been sold to the Hotel Corpora
tion of America. The hotel was
owned by Dan, William, Alfred and
Leslie Taylor, owners of the More
bead Biltmore, Morehead City.
mation Card."
H. L. Joslyn, superintendent of
schools, asks that any parent who
does not receive such a card, notify
the child's teachcr and request a
card.
Information sought on the cards
is necessary so that the county
may receive school funds under
public law 874.
Last year 1,211 children in coun
ty schools were federally-connected,
Mr. Joslyn reports, and the assist
ance received enabled the county
to maintain a high educational
standard, even though the money
is not available for building pur
poses. All funds received under
public law 874 must be used for
current expense in operation of the
schools, the superintendent ex
plained.
All parents connected in any way
with the following federal pro
perties are requested to sign a
questionnaire by Oct. 28 and again
at the end of the seventh school
month:
I. U S C G Rescue Station, Sea
Level
2. Cape Lookout Lifeboat Station,
Harkers Island
3. Coast Guard Base, Morehead
City
(a) USCG Station, Fort Macon
(b) USCG Cutter Chilula
(c) USCG Cutter Conifer
4. Fishery Biology Station, Beau
fort
5. Marine Corps Air Station,
Cherry Point
6. Marine Corps Base, Camp
Lejeune
7. Swansboro Lifeboat Station,
Bogue Banks
Woman Stranded
A woman and young child were
left stranded at the beach Saturday
night by the woman'i husband.
Sheriff Hugh Salter was notified
and arranged for transportation of
the two to their home upstate. The
woman said she did not want to
prefer charges against ber bus
band.
Voters to Decide One Week
From Today on State Bonds
Bird Club Will
Meet at Biltmore
The Carolina Bird Club will
meet Friday, Saturday and Sun
day at the Morehead Biltmore
Hotel.
Among the speakers will be
George Ball and Dr. B. F. Royal,
both of Morehead City. There
will be field trips Saturday and
on Sunday the club is invited to
visit Camp Bryqn, the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conderman,
New Bern, and Tryon Palace at
New Bern.
Anne Marie Lewis
. . . her second role 4
Smyrna PTA Will
Serve Supper
Friday, Oct. 30
The Smyrna PTA will sponsor a
ham supper, followed by a movie
Friday, Oct. 30. Proceeds will be
used to clear and grade four acres
of woods behind the school for a
playground. The supper was plan
ned at the recent PTA meeting.
The Rev. Graham Baker of the
Welcome Home Free Will Baptist
Church of Bettie opened the meet
ing with devotions.
Charles Harris, president, presid
ed The treasurer, Mrs. Edward
Moore, reported a balance of
$227.91. Otway membership chair
men turned in $39.50 in dues.
Banners for attendance were won
by Mrs. Nellie Willis's fourth
grade, Norman Chadwick's 9-A and
Mrs. Nancy Piner's 10-B.
Slides on soil testing and analyz
ing were shown and discussed by
Joseph Owens, faculty member.
He told the audience they could
have soil tested free of charge and
explained the correct way to take
a sample.
After the business meetings
everyone went to the lunchroom
and were served pie and coffee
by Bettie community.
Anne Marie Lewis Plays
Maid in Angel Street
Anne Marie Lewis, who made her;
debut in the Carteret Community
Theatre in Bonnie Blue Sweetheart,
plays the part of a flippant maid
in Angel Street, the sinster, chilling
drama to be staged at 8 p. m. Sat
urday in the Morehead City re
creation center.
Miss Lewis is the daughter of
Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. William H.
Lewis, Morehead City, ihe is &
freshman at Morehead City high
school.
Others in the cast are Ruth Dur
ham, John Wagner, Georgie Bea
ver, Wayne King, Bill Davis, and
Thomas Rcspess. Directing the
play, the first of the theatre'e cur
rent season, is Jimmy Wheatley.
Admission is a dollar for adults
and 50 cents for students. Students,
who usually go to the recreation
center Saturday night for dancing,
are invited to attend the play.
Special arrangement has been
made with the recreation commis
sion to allow staging the play this
coming Saturday night.
Building of new stage sets has
been possible through the cooper
ation of Capt. Jim Mitchell and
boys in his vocational training
class at Morehead City school,
reports Tressa Vickers, who with
Lillian F. Giddens, is supervising
the stage settings.
Tickets are on sale now at Wheat
ley's men's store and the Bob 'n
Sue shop, Beaufort, Hill's, D. B.
Webb s and the Dress Shop in
Morehead City.
Members of the Morehead City
Merchants Association will meet at
noon today at the Hotel Fort Ma
con, announces Otis Jones, presi
dent.
C. D. Jones Co.
To Close Soon
t. D. Jones grocery, long a land
inaik on Front Street, Beaufort, will
close next month, on Nov. 10.
The business is being dissolved
by agreement of the Jones family,
but Christopher D. Jones, a part
of C. D. Jones Co., will carry
on the family tradition in a new
store near the intersection of high
ways 101 and 70.
Mr. Jones said that his Red and
White store will be a supermarket
employing, to ^>egin with, about 11
persons. The building, 60 by 100
feet, also has a parking lot.
The new business will probably
be opened about the middle of Nov
ember, Mr. Jones reported.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
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Tuesday, Oct. 20
10:23 a.m.
10:53 p.m.
4:05 a.m.
4:41 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 21
11:01 a.m.
11:38 p.m.
4:31 a.m.
5:17 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 22
11:41 a.m.
4:55 a.m.
5:56 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 23
12:27 a.m.
12:25 p.m.
5:26 a.m.
6:56 p.m.
Farmer Picks Up Boxes
Lee Pollard, left, at Roy T. Garner's feed store, Newport, hands
Clarence MUlls some boiei into which Mr. M Ulls will place samples
of soil from his farm. Mr. Millia is taking the opportunity of having
his soil tested during the last two weeks of this month. Daring this
period, farmers need not pay Uw postage for sending the *?U to
Raleigh far testing.
Money Would be Used
For New Buildings
Carteret voters will join voters'
of the other 99 North Carolina
counties next Tuesday to decide
whether the state should borrow
approximately $34 Mi million.
Saturday was the last day that
persons who are not already regis
tered, could register for the bond
election.
There are nine separate uses to
which the money will be put if ap
proved by the voters. The issues
may be voted oil, for or against,
separately.
They are as follows:
? $18,891,000 ? For constructing
state college and university build
ings
? $12,053,000 ? For building men
tal institutions
? $1,500,000 ? For grants-in-aid
for community college improve
ments
? $500,000 ? For state participa
tion in local hospital construction
? $100,000 ? For building ar
mories
? $466,000 ? For construction at
stale training schools
? $140,000 ? For construction at
the State Blind Rehabilitation cen
ter
? $500,000 ? For port facilities
at Southport
? $250,000 ? For use at histori
cal sites and for restoration of his
torical sites.
J. W. Umstead Jr., chairman of
the Citizens' Bond Election Com
mittee for a Better North Carolina,
in a statement this week, said,
"All of the items in the bond bill
arc worthwhile, but there arc some
items that represent a real crisis.
Although I am supporting all of
them, the one in which I am espe
cially interested is the appropria
tion for mentally retarded chil
dren."
Mr. Umstead said that at present
there arc 13 Carteret children wait
ing to be admitted to institutions
for the mentally retarded. In addi
tion to that, he added that there
are othrn who have not made
application for admission because
they have been told that there is
no room.
Pleading for the mentally retard
ed, Mr. Umstead said, "Some of
these cases are tragic, but there
is nothing we can do for them sim
ply because we do not have a bed."
The polls, in all the precincts of
the county, will be open next Tues
day, Oct. 27, from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30
p.m.
Port Calendar
Esso Tanker ? Due tomorrow
with petroleum products from
Standard Oil.
Temdraire ? Due tomorrow to
load tobacco for Bangkok.
?ally Maersk ? Due Saturday
to load tobacco for Bangkok.
Golden State ? Due Oct. 27 to
pick up cargo of tobacco for Eu
rope.
Kerkedyk ? Due Oct. 28 to load
tobacco for European ports.
t
County Cancer
Society Helps
Conduct Survey
The Carteret County Cancer So
ciety is participating in the nation
wide survey being sponsored by
the American Cancer Society.
Chairman of the survey in this
county is James C. Smith, More
head City.
Fourteen canvassers in 12 com
munities have already started
work, Mr. Smith announced yester
day.
Purpose of the survey is to learn
how and why certain persons de
velop cancer and others do not.
Each canvasser is contacting 10
families in which at least one mem
ber is over 45 years of age.
Everyone in the family over 30 will
be asked to fill out a questionnaire.
Although the canvasser will help
the person fill out the form, that
is not necessary. Each person an
swering may seal his questionnaire
in an evelope which will be trans
mitted to the scientists conducting
the survey.
No one will have access to the
information other than to tabulate
it on cards to headquarters of the
American Cancer Society, Mr.
Smith said.
Families cooperating in the sur
vey will be kept in contact for six
years. Cancer cases that occur will
be studied in relation to infor
mation supplied by the questionn
aires.
Objectives are to uncover clues
to possible causes of cancer, to
learn more about its earliest signs
and symptoms and eventually to
prevent the disease by reducing ex
posure to the causes, Mr. Smith
explained.
He warns that persons should
not fill out the questionnaire for
strangers. Each canvasser will con
tact only families he knows.
The communities and the can
vassers in this county follow: New
port, Mrs. Lucille Garner; More
head City, Mrs. Dorothy Fatrick,
Mrs. L. B. Ambrose, and Miss
Rachel Dudley.
Beaufort, Russell Klemm; Mar
kers Island, Leslie Asdenti; Salter
Path, Mrs. John R. Zabovic; Har
lowe, Mrs. Lila Mae Salter; Davis,
Miss Melba Willis.
Sea Level, Ed Willard; Marshall
berg, Elwood Willis; Atlantic,
Lionel Gilgo; Cedar Island, Earl
Day, and Stacy, Charles F. Brown.
The questionnaire consists of four
pages, white for women and blue
for men. It is hoped that 100 ques
tionnaires will be completed in
Carteret. The forms should be re
turned to the canvasser as soon
as possible, Mr. Smith said.
How Resort Hotel Helps
Put Money in Circulation
The Morehead BUtmore Hotel has
been host to thousands of people
during 1959 and has been able to
provide Carteret County with a
payroll that would equal that of
small industrial plant. During the
first eight months of this year the
hotel's gross payroll amounted to
almost $50,000, according to Mi
chael Taft, manager.
The hotel's policy of purchasing
locally as well as employing local
ly has meant another $22,000 in food
purchases alone. Almost $4,000 was
The Morebead BUtmore Hotel
will close Nov. 1 and reopen
April 1, 19?0. The hotel remained
open during the winter last year.
?pent for laundry, and over $4,500
was spent each for telephone ser
vice and for heat, light, and power.
Other local expenditures included
over $4,500 for repairs and main
tenance, almost $900 for upkeep of
the grounds, $1,700 for accounting
fees, and over $1,000 spent on oper
ation of vehicles in hauling supplies
and other uses. ?
Expenditures that did not go to
local merchants, but which bene
fited this area, included $500 in
postage used in sending out pro
motional material and over $5,000
for advertising and travel pro
motion.
Coverage of conventions at the
Morehead Biltmore, by newspapers
throughout the state, brought add
ed publicity to this area. Groups
that met at the hotel alao indirectly
advertiaed for the Morehead City
area through information on the
convention in Uttir own news bul>
letins and magazines, some of
which arc distributed on a national
scale.
Most statistics on 'convention and
tourist expenditures indicate that
for every 22 cents spent by tourist
for hotel and motel accommo
dations, 20 cents is spent for re
tail purchases, 28 cents is spent for
food (over half of which is spent
outside of the hotel dining room),
and transportation accounts for
another 22 cents.
The hotel's visitors, as those of
other hotels and motels, spent
many thousands of dollars in rest
aurants, stores, filling stations, and
other businesses. Doctors, beauty
shop operators, barbers, laundry
and dry cleaning establishments,
drug stores, and every business in
the greater Morehead City area
benefited from every tourist
entertained here this summer.
"Some of these dollars are still
circulating, and since some sur
veys claim that new money in a
community changes hands twelve
times before going out of circu
lation, we may feel the benefits of
the summer business for a little
while longer. Soon, however, we
will be saying once again to each
other, 'We should do something to
lengthen the season, as have so
many other summer resorts'," Mr.
Taft concluded.
Recreation Night
George Jackson and Alton Tay
lor, directors of adult rtcreation
night at the Morehead City recrea
tion center, Invite all adulta to join
in ping pong, dancing or other
games at the center at 7:30 tomor
row night