CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10< 48th YEAR, NO. 86. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Finance Company T races Missing Pastor to Cuba The Rev. Virgil Moore is report edly living in Havana, Cuba. Mr. Moore, Camp Glenn Metho dist minister, who disappeared from here June 4, has not been heard from since his mysterious disappearance. According to reports reaching former friends of the minister, he was traced to Cuba by an upstate company which had financed his 1957 Chevrolet. Payments were still due on the ,car. Mr. Moore had apparently written a check in payment in Cuba, noted "Paid in Full," on it and mailed it. The check did not complete the payments, according to the finance company's records. They traced Mr. jfoore to Miami and there learned that he took a Taylor Brothers ferry and went with his car to Havana. When Mr. Moore left here, he not only left his congregation, but his wife and a step-daughter. Mrs. Moore and her daughter left this area soon after Mr. Moore's dis appearance. 'Smelly' Case Declared Non-Suit in Civil Court The case, S peril vs. Brunswick Navigation Co., was declared a non suit in civil court, Beaufort, "this week. Sperti complained of the odor from the sUckwater operations at Brunswick Navigation, a plant at Lennoxville, and sought stop page of operation of the stick water plant, unless equipment could be installed to abate the odor. Such equipment has reportedly been installed. The non suit was declared by Judge W. J. Bundy, who is pre siding. Other court action saw the case, Thoct vs. Matthews, dismissed. The case was settled by mutual agreement. The Davis vs. Davis case was removed from the docket when is was learned that the de fendant, Lovett Davis, died Sept. 8, 1959. Salvation Army Drive to Start The campaign for funds for the Salvation Army starts Monday, announces Capt. Sam Adler, More head City, chairman. 1 Mr. Adler says that personal solicitation will be held to a min imum, therefore he would appreci ate persons' sending their con tributions to him or t? Dr. S. W. Hatcher, Morehead City, treasurer. Mr Adler commented that needy persons call on him night and day for help? for clothing, for furniture, and for other needs attendant to distress and emergency. He expressed his appreciation to those who have contributed in the past and urged that contribu tions this year be generous. Per sons may also drop donations in the iron kettle in front of Mr. Adler's store in Morehead City. Town Budget Filed for Year The town of Beaufort budget for 1959-60, now available for inspec tion at the town hall, anticipates a revenue of $117,906 during the current fiscal year. The budget was adopted this month Major sources of revenue arc taxes, $56,340; Powell street funds, $10 915; funds due from Civil De fense, $8,471; ABC dividends, $9,000 and parking meter receipts and fines, $7,000. Earmarked for the debt service fund is $26,800. Amounts budgeted for expenditure in the various de partments follow: administrative, $62,513.13; general (insurance, elec tion expenses, maintenance of town buildings, etc.), $14,950. Police department, $21,831.36; fire department, $11,075, and street department, $27,658.18. Expenses total $115,457.67, show ing a surplus of $2,448.33, which is more or less a mythical surplus since the current fiscal year start ed with debts hanging over from * the year prior. The appeal was dismissed in the cases Edmund Taylor vs. Joel J. Haynes Jr. and Edward Lee Mur dock and Minnie Gray Kirk vs. Joel J. Haynes Jr. and Edward Lee Murdock. Eleven divorces and one annul ment were granted. In addition to those listed in Tuesday's paper the following were divorced: Audrey S. Gioielli vs. Joseph Gioielli, Mary S. Piner vs: Jarvis M. Piner, Lois Patricia Lockhart vs. Donald Earl Lockhart, Harry S. Fulcher vs. Judith Abbate Fulcher. Lorena Gibble vs. James Leo nard Gibble, alias James Robert Lewis, Frederick R. Tillery vs. Betty Tillery, and Mary H. Shei ton vs. Joseph Richard Shelton. In the Piner vs. Piner case, the custody of two minor children was awarded to the mother. In the Shelton ease, the mother was given custody of the three child ren and the father ordered to pay $275 monthly for their support. Iva Fay Hill Proctor was grant ed an annulment of her marriage to Donnie Gray Proctor, who will be tried in November for bigamy. The court also ordered that the plaintiff's expected baby be declar ed legitimate. In the case, Alvin Willis Jr. vs. Juanita M. Willis, wherein Willis sought reduction of payments for support of his son, Alvin Bruce Willis, the court allowed reduction of the payments to $23 a month. After two days of testimony in the Dallas Rose, administrator of the estate of George Rose, vs. Tom mie Lewis and the Southern Oil Transportation Co., the parties came to an agreement and the case, outgrowth of a highway accident, was dismissed. In the suit, Clarence S. Hender son vs. James T. Gillikin, the court ruled that Gillikin owes Henderson $5,000 plus interest on a promissory note signed by Gil likin. Gillikin was also ordered to pay court cost. The case of Clyde O'Neal Gil likin, by his next friend, Lola D. Gillikin, vs. Richard Gillikin, was dismissed. The plaintiff claimed that an earlier settlement of $7,000 in damages arising from an auto accident was not sufficient. The court thought otherwise and order ed Gillikin to pay costs. An order was entered permitting Frazier heirs to intervene in the suit, Linnie Estelle Frazier vs. Northwest Mutual Insurance Co. The insurance company has paid $2,400 on a Frazier home which burned. The plaintiff claims she is entitled to all proceeds. Others in the family claim they should share in the proceeds since the house stood on land in which they all have interest. The $2,400 is being held by the clerk of court. Court was expected to adjourn yesterday afternoon. Work Force Reduced The Navy announced Wednesday a reduction of 102 civilian workers at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air station, in one of the periodic cut backs due to lack of funds. A total of 1,470 workers at eight air sta tions were affected. Bird Club Opens Session Tonight ? Two Morehead Men Appear on Program # Members Will Take Field Trips Tomorrow Dr. Ben Royal and attorney r.eorBe W Ball oi Morehead City wW.peak to the Carolina Bird Club, Uw.. today as the club open, a weekend meeting at the More head Biltmore hotel. . Mr. Ball will give the *el??me at the opening session tonight at 1 45 Dr. Royal will give the ad dress, Dr. Ben Royal as Himself. Also on tonight's program is Dr. A F. Shaftesbury of Grc""*?r?; who will speak on Some Bird* ^ the Morehead-Beaufort Area. Conderman of New Bern wlU brief members on tomorrow s .eld tr^ Field trips and a boat ride are planned The boat will leave the Camp Seagull dock on the More^ head City waterfront at 8 a. m^ for a visit to the egret rookery, New port marshes, Core Creek Beaufort back channel, town marsh Taylors Creek Lennoxville slough, Shackle forrd Banks, Bird Shoal, Beaufor Inlet and Radio Island, (The boat trip will be 50 cents per person). Field trips have also been plan ned for the same hour to Crab Point, Core Creek, and Atlantic B officials attended the 37th district meeting. Most of the schools in th< county were closed Tuesday t< permit teachers to attend. ? 1 Gets License Back Virginia Evans of 105 S. 11th St. in Morehead City, has been noti fied by the North Carolina Depart ment of Motor Vehicles that her driving privileges have been rein stated. Social security monthly benefits, also called federal old-age, sur vivors and disability insurance ben ?fits, were being paid in Carteret bounty at the rate of $1 .032,391 a rear, to a total of 1,799 residents, is of February 1959, according to Woodrow Thomas, manager of the Vew Bern social security office. It was stressed that while the benefits are intended primarily for :he beneficiary's economic security, iic payment of social security bene fits at the rate of over a million > year helps business in Carteret generally, because most of the money is spent immediately on food, clothing and other necessities. The 1.799 beneficiaries include the Eligible severely disabled workers ?nd their dependents, since 193S amendments to the social security ?ct now make it possible for eligi ble dependents ?f a severely dis abled worker to receive monthly benefits. These amendments also provide for benefits to dependent parents of a deceased worker even if other survivors are entitled to payments. For the state of North Carolina, social security payments at the end of February 1959 were being paid to 261.421 beneficiaries at the rate of $12,847,753 per month total ing $154,173,036 per year. Social Security benefits were being paid nationally at the rate of nearly 10 billion dollars annually. Mr. Thomas argrs all persons who desire information about the social security program to visit, write or telephone the district of fice located at 308 New St., New Bern, or see the social security representative when he visits at the county courthouse, Beaufort, Monday mornings. the annual Home Demonstration achievement day program. The program will begin at 6:30 with a covered dish supper. Special music will be provided by the Gloucester chorus with A1 Hubbard singing a solo. Mrs. Corinne J. Grimsley, exten sion specialist in family relations, will be the speaker. Mrs. Dyon Simpson of the Bettie Club, county council president, will preside. County commissioners have been invited. Mrs. Joycc Shrakc of the Har lowe club will give a report of the year's activities of the clubs, the woman of the year will be an nounced. awards will be presented and officers will be installed. The Rev. Ray West, pastor of Straits Methodist Church, will give the in vocation and benediction. The officers will be installed by Mrs. W. G. Simpson of the Russclls Creek club. They are Mrs. Charles Stanley Jr., Crab Point club, presi dent; Mrs. Gordon Laughton, Crab Point club, secretary; Mrs. G. T. Spivey, Bettie club, re-elected trea surer. Outgoing officers are Mrs. Dyon Simpson, Bettie club, president; Mrs. Leon Parker, Broad Creek club, secretary; Mrs. R. L. Searle, Wiregrass club, vice-pretident; Mrs. Spivey, treasurer. Committees to plan the achieve ment day arc as follows: Refreshments, Merrimon club; corsages, Crab Point; program, Harlowe; place and decorations, Russells Creek; music, Gloucester; registration, Wiregrass; clean-up, Broad Creek; hostess, Newport. Woodmen to Meet Woodmen of the World, Camp 188 Morchead City, will have an oyster roast Monday night at 6.30 in the Woodman Lodge Hall. A meeting will follow the oyster roast. All members are invited to bring their own oyster knives. There will be no charge for the supper. 'Tides at the Beaafort Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, Oct. 23 12:27 a.m. 12:25 p.m. 5:26 a.m. 6:56 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 1:14 a.m. 1:13 p.m. 6:17 a.m. 8:14 p.m. Sunday, -Oct. 25 2:07 a.m. 2:10 p.m. 8:24 i.m. 9:17 p.m. Moaday, Oct. 2* 3:02 a.m. 3:13 p.m. 9:36 a.m. 10:08 p.m. W. B. Chalk, Morehead City, was elected president Wednesday night of the Neuse Development Associa tion. Officers were elected at a dinner meeting at the Hotel Gov ernor Tryon, New Bern. The association, now formally or ganized after several preliminary meetings, n a s been formed to advanee the in dustrial and eco nomic growth of the Neuse River basin, which covers the terri tory from Golds boro to More head City. Elected in ad d i t i o n to Mr. W. B. Chalk Chalk was Charles McCullcrs, Kin ston, secretary - treasurer. Lynn Covert, executive vice-president of the Goldsboro Committee of 100, was named editor of a brochure on information on the area. By-laws were adopted, setting forth rules on membership. Annual dues of each representative group in the organization will be a maxi mum of $200, payable when called for by the treasurer. Officers are elected for one-year terms. Three vice-presidents and the directors arc scheduled to be elected at the next meeting in Feb ruary at Kinston. Meetings are scheduled quarterly, in February, May, August and November. Twenty-five persons, represent ing Goldsboro, Kinston, Morehead City and New Bern attended the Wednesday night meeting. The president of the organization is chairman of the Morehead City chamber of commerce industrial development committee. Rotary to Stage Wedding Dec. 4 The date for the Newport Rotary Club's Womanless Wedding will be Friday night, Dec. 4, according to Bob Montague, who reported to the club Monday night on preparations for the show. Mr. Montague also reported that a tentative cast for the production has been chosen. Program chairman for the meet ing, W. D. Heath Jr., presented the Rev. Archie Willis of Graham's Chapel Church, Mill Creek, who said lack of communication on a pcrsonel level is one of the big problems of today. Mr. Willis cited the Rotary Club as an organization thai wa? doing a lot to "create an atmosphere of communication." Attending the meeting as visit ors from Morehead City Rotary Club were Jim Bob Sanders, Bill Carlton, Buck Matthews Jr., George Dill and Bill Chalk. Walter Teich Attends 4-H Meeting at Raleigh Waller Teich, Morehead City, a member of the board of directors of the state 4-H Development Corp., attended a meeting of the board of directors at Raleigh last week. It was revealed at the meeting that Chinqua-Penn Plantation, Rockingham County, had been given to the University of North Carolina. State College, through its extension division, will build a modern 4-H Club camp on the 25 ',i acre lake on the plantation. Accident is Second Boat Tragedy in Eight Days Carteret experienced its second boating accident and drowning in eight days Wednesday when a prominent Goldsboro furniture dealer, David R. Southerland, died in the Morehead City hospital after the boat from which he and two other companions were fishing capsized near Cape Lookout. Southerland, 44, was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. Wed ncsday by Dr. Ben F. Royal, after more than two hours of artificial respiration and other emergency measures failed to restore breath ing. The body was taken to Dill funeral home to await removal to Goldsboro. Despite small craft warnings Wednesday morning, Southerland, Gerald Grant and Charles Webster, all of Goldsboro, left Hill's Motel at Markers Island in an outboard motor boat to go fishing. The boat was a 16 foot runabout with SO hp motor. Later in the morning the trio was spotted from Capt. Jim Marker's boat Eleanor. Captain Marker re ported that the small craft was headed for the open sea. He added that he tried to get the attention of the three fishermen to warn them that the water was too rough for such a light craft and that they should go back. The men failed to hear his shouting and while he was watching, the craft was swamped and capsized. Shoals in the area kept the larger Eleanor from reaching the men, so Captain Marker put in a radio call to his son, Jimmy Jr. who had a fishing party about IS minutes away in the Shell Point, a smaller party boat. The Shell Point ar rived on the scene shortly and pull ed Southerland and Grant out of the water. Benjamin F. Parrish, who was fishing aboard the Shell Point, re ported that when they arrived. Grant was clinging to the overturn ed boat and Southerland was float ing face down in tlie water. In the meantime, Webster had been pick ed up by Captain Marker on the Eleanor. None of the men in the water was wearing a life pre server. Parrish, Lagrand McDonald and Hugh R. Owen, all of Raleigh, who were on the Shell Point, immedi ately began artificial respiration on Southerland and kept it up until the arrival of the 36-foot Coast Guard boat from the Cape Lookout station. Southerland was then transferred to the Coast Guard cut ter and taken to Harkers Island from where he was removed to a Brooks and Mason ambulance and rushed to the Morchcad City hos pital. Artificial respiration was contin ued on the Coast Guard cutter and a rescusitator was applied by the ambulance crew enroute to the hos pital. Doctors, nurses and police offi cer"! worked frantically over the still form of Southerland in the emergency room but every attempt failed to restore breathing. Southerland is survived by his wife, Mrs. Frankie C. Southerland; two daughters, Lynn and Kay of the home; and one brother, John W. Southerland of Goldsboro. Inquest Will be at 8 Monday at Courthouse Place of the Elli< Smith inquest has been changed from the More head City municipal building to the courthousc, Beaufort, coroner David Munden announced yester day. Time of the inquest will be S p. m. Monday. Smith, 47, of King, drowned Tuesday, Oct. 13, when a fishing trawler ran into a skiff from which he was fishing with two other men. Football Parade at 2 Today Precedes Game Dcauiun mgn scnuoi wui pi ay usr homecoming game against Rober sonville at 8 tonight, but will pre cede the big game with a colorful parade at 2 this afternoon. Led by J. P. Harris on his horse, Golden Lady, the parade will leave the high school at 2, go south on Live Oak Street to Ann, west on Ann to Orange, south on Orange to Front Street and cast on Front Street to the postofficc. Both the Beaufort band and ! Queen Street bands will march. The parade will include floats and cars in which contestants for the title. Miss Seadog, will ride. 1 Mrs. Marshall Ayscue, faculty member, has assisted pupils in planning the parade. Chief of police Guy Springlc, in the police patrol car, will head the procession. Gloucester Club Elects Officers Mi? Josic Pigott has been elect ed president of the-Gloucester Com munity Club. Other officers elected at the recent meeting were Mist Mary Whitehurst, vice-preiident; Mrs. Bill Pigott, corresponding lecreUry; Mr?. Monroe Whitehurst, recording secretary, and A1 Hub bard, treasurer. Members will attend a cook-out Saturday, Oct. 24, which will also be a farewell party for Mr. and Mrs. Jamea Murphy who are returning to Florida for the winter. The club will meet at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Smith. 4 Hancock Park Explores Entry Into Beaufort I Four men. representing residents of Hancock Park, met Wednesday I night at the Beaufort town hall j with mayor W. H. Potter and town engineer Gray Hassell, to discuss 1 the possibilities of Hancock Park's petitioning to join the town. The meeting was held at the request of the Hancock Park de legation, George Herbert, Ralph Leister, Charles Bell and Thurman Salter. The Hancock Park residents were interested in learning whether the town would buy their sewer system. They said that 19 families paid $285 each for the system plus a $10 annual service fee. It was also reported that upkeep of the system has not been amounting to as much as expected, that there arc reserve funds in the bank. Inquiries were made as to the service the town would offer Han cock Park if it became a part of the town. Mayor Potter said Carolina Water Co. is prepared to put in hydrants upon request; street lights and other normal town service would be made avail able. The mayor suggested that if 85 per cent of the residents of Han cock Park want to join the town, they put in writing their pro position on the sewer system so that it may be considered by the town board. Jaycees Hear Report on Sale Members of the Moretaead City Jaycees heard a financial report on their recent facial tissue sale at their meeting Monday night at the Blue Ribbon restaurant. Mak ing the report was Tommy Bennett who said the sale proved a tremen dous success. Jaycec president. Bill Singleton, reminded club members of the dis trict workshop to be held in New Bern Oct. 28 and of the second quarterly board meeting to be held in Rocky Mount Nov. 6-8. High school instructor George Jackson, representing the newly organized midget football league, appeared before the club and ask ed that the Jaycees lend financial and moral backing to the program. Accompanying Jackson were three youngsters registered in the pro gram, George Dill, Cecil Sewell and Borden Wallace. Each boy spoke briefly on what the midget football league was about. The club voted to defer any ac tion on the midget football program until their next meeting. Coast Guardsmen Aid in Ail-Night Search for Two Men Coast Guardsmen from the Fort Macon station aided in an all-night search Wednesday after receiving a calf that two New Bern men, Charles Kimball and Eddie Paul, were over-due out of New Bern in an outboard motor boat. The Coast Guard 40-footer was dispatched to search in the Neuse River where the pair were last seen after leaving early Wednesday morning from Sound View fishing camp. The search failed to turn up any trace of the men and was called off Thursday morning when a re port was received that the pair had been picked up by the fishing boat Mary B. Serving as crew aboard the 40 footer were Cecil Taylor, BM-1; Kenyon Gillikin, EN-2 and Douglas Yates, Seaman. Liceur Returned Ronald Tracy Jordan, 2310 Aren deU St.. Morehead City, has had his driving privilege* reinstated by the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. The reinstatement was effective S+L 11