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48th YEAE, NO. 92. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFOBT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Dredge Deepens Taylor's Creek
News-Times Photo by MoComb
The dredge Charleston has arrived in Taylor's Creek, Beaufort, and is deepening the channel to 12
'feet at mean low water. The dredge is moving west and will complete its job upon reaching a point be
tween Orange and Moore Streets, according to Army engineers. Spoils are being placed on Town Marsh
and Bird Shoal bulkhead. Coat of the job is $116,312.
ifth Grade Presents American
lag to Newport School Wednesday
In a formal ceremony, Newport
elementary grades witnessed a
lag presentation Wednesday in ob
ervance of American Education
Week. ?
An American flag was presented
o the school by Mrs. Hester D.
ilason's fifth grade. The pupils
issembled around the flagpole for
he ceremony.
The program opened with a pray
er for the nation by the Rev. Ralph
Fleming, pastor of St. James Meth
idist Church. The' student body
lang Battle Hymn of the Republic
ind Ginger Pollard, class presi
lent, presented the flag to E. B.
Corner, principal.
As Johnnie Thrower and Earl
icily of the school patrol raised
he flag, students stood at attention
rhile the school band, under the
lirectioo of Melvin Edwards, play
d the national anthem.
The student body pledged allegi
ince V> ** foil ?>mt by the
unior chorus's singing I Pledge
kUegiancc. Monty Wheeler, fifth
;rader, gave the reading, I Am
)ld Glory, and Janet Mizelle, fifth
;rade, recited The Flag Goes By.
The fifth grade sang This Land
s Your Land and the ceremony
ilosed with the singing of America.
)river Pays $100
:ine, Court Costs
William D. Toler, Gordon Street,
leaufort, was given a 90-day sen
ence, suspended on payment of
100 and costs in Morehead City
ecorder's court yesterday.
Toler was driver of a 1955 Ply
mouth which hit a parked pickup
ruck and then struck a utility pole
n Arendell Street at 9:50 p.m.
'uesday.
He was found guilty of driving
funk, careless and reckless driv
ng, speeding and driving with an
xpircd license. According to Capt.
E. Bunch, Toler was headed
<lSt on Arendell Street and hit a
952 Ford pickup parked at 2911
Irendcll The truck was owned
>y William H. Lewis.
After hitting the truck, the car
lontinued for a hundred feet and
lit the pole. Damage to Toler's
:ar was estimated at $150, to the
wlc $50 and to the truck $35.
>emonstration Clubs
Bivo Books to Library
Carteret County Home Demon
tration clubs have presented two
topics of the book, Favorite Reci
tes from the United Nations, to
be Carteret County public library.
The book is published by the
United States Committee for the
United Nations. Mrs. Paul Wood
ird, library staff member, an
lounces that one copy will be used
In the library and the other will
travel on the bookmobile.
Ginger Pollard, president oi the fifth grade, presents an American
flag to Newport school. E. B. Comer, principal, accepts it.
Johnny Thrower of the school patrol raises the flag ai the hand
plays the Star Spangled Banner. (Photos hy Batch James)
Beach Commissioners Postpone
Annexation, Hearing on Rezoning
Atlantic B e a c h commissioners
postponed Saturday the annexing of
the area between the northern lim
it* of the town and Atlantic Beach
bridge. They also postponed the
bearing on altering a portion of the
beach zoning code.
Postponement on the latter point
was necessary because absence of
two commissioners, Dr. Edward
Bizzell and W. L. Dcrrickson,
meant lack of a quorum.
The commissioners kin been
considering for more than a year
the annexation to the town of land
to the north. Although they went
oo record a* portponing anninion
"indefinitely," it was the feeling
of the board that annexation may
be effected next year.
Postponement was based on the
theory that the town will be in a
better position, financially, next
year to extend police service and
garbage collection to the new area.
The hearing on re-Aming has
been scheduled tentatively for Sat
urday, Dec. 12. U all the commls
sioncrs cannot be present on that
date, a special meeting will be call
ed.
It it proposed that certain lota
in block M be changed from resi
dential only to residential plus bo
tell and motels. No one appeared
Saturday to express themselves for
or against the proposal.
Harry Hill, owner of a home on
west Boardwalk, appeared before
the board to request correction of
a drainage problem. Mr. Hill has
appeared before the board on sev
eral occasions in recent years to
request thai the town provide a
w*y to get rid of water that lies
in the street, floods garagea and
prevents cottage owners from mak
ing full use of their private prop
erty.
See BOARD, Page S
Plan Coordinates
Fish Spotting,
Military Flights
? New Program Places
Liaison Officer Here
?
? Phone Contact Set Up
With Cherry Point
Cherry Point ? A Marine liaison
officer from the air station here
has been assigned to the Beaufort
Morehead City airport to coordi
nate fish-spotting operations with
in Cherry Point-controlled air
space during the menhaden fishing
season.
The assignment followed a meet
ing at Cherry Point last week at
tended by representatives of the
military services and fishing in
dustry.
For ease in communication, each
fishing company engaging aerial
spotters was asked to appoint a
chief pilot to deal with the Marine
liaison officer. Flight clearance
for fish-spotters will be obtained
by the Marine liaison officer over
a direct "hot-line" telephone cir
cuit to Cherry Point.
Individual fish-spotting pilots also
have been furnished with copies of
flight procedures to be followed
and maps depicting the operating
areas.
Air Station officials and aircraft
operators have agreed on operating
procedures off Cape Lookout and
to the seaward of Bogue Sound
during the latter part of the season
when spotting is conducted in that
area.
In addition, the traffic pattern
for military bombing practice in
the Point of Marsh target area has
been revised to avoid conflict with
fish-spotter aircraft in that area.
Col. F. J. F rater, station assist
ant chief of staff (G-3) for opera
tions and training, stated that writ
ten agreements concerning the op
eration of aircraft within the Cher
ry Point-controlled area are being
mailed to civilian pilots other than
fish spotters.
These pilots will not coordinate
their flights through the Marine
Liaisoil officer, but will follow pro
cedures, as contained ui the agree:
ment, prior to each fl?ht.
This is the first year that there
has been any effort to coordinate
fish spotting flights with aircraft
based at Cherry Point. The urgent
need for such coordination was
dramatized in August when Jesse
Taylor, popular Beaufort pilot, in
his fish spotting plane, collided
with a jet plane between Beaufort
and Morehcad City and was killed.
Science Academy
Meets at Duke
Forty-two college students and
their sponsors, members ol the
Collegiate Academy of the North
Carolina Academy of Science, met
at Duke Marine laboratory, Beau
fort, Saturday and Sunday.
Colleges represented were East
Carolina, Flora MacDonald, Wom
an's College of University of North
Carolina, Atlantic Christian and
Mount Olive Junior College.
The students made field trips
Saturday. Lectures were given by
William Gnewuch and Luckctt Dav
is, Duke graduate student*.
Sponsors of the organization arc
Dr. Charlotte Dawley, Woman's
College, and Dr. Robert R. Hau
brick, East Carolina. Dr. John
Vernberg, assistant director for re
search at the laboratory, acted as
host.
Thomas Hopkins, East Carolina,
ii president of the academy, Miss
Chace Collins, Flora MacDonald, is
vice-president, and Miss Patricia
Rose, Woman's College, is secre
tary
Accident Reported
Morchead City police report that
at 4:50 p.m. Thursday a 1958 Chev
rolet pickup truck driven by John
Seitter, 1810 Shepard St., Morehead
City, collided with a 1953 Ford
driven by Sarah M. Goodwin, 17,
907 Shepard St. Details on the ac
cident were not listed in police rec
ords.
Tide* at the Beaafort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Nov. 17
9:18 a.m.
9:45 p.m.
3.09 a.m.
3:46 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. It
9:51 a.m.
10:27 p.m.
3:41 a.m.
4:20 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 1*
10:22 a.m.
11:12 p.m.
4:08 a.m.
4:52 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 21
10:59 a.m.
11:54 p.m.
4:32 a.m.
S:25 p.m.
Menhaden Boats Make Port
As '59 Fishing Season Opens
Ten Pilots to Spot
Fish This Season
Ten pilots will be shotting fish
for menhaden plants in this area,
according to a check made with
plant operators yesterday.
Spotting for the Fish meal Co.,
Beaufort, are Herman Reid, chief
pilot, flying a twin-engine
Apache, Dallas Willis, Ben Joy
ner and R. A. Tumlinson, flying
Super Cubs.
Spotting for Standard Products
will be Jack Farrow, Dave Lip
pincott and another pilot from
Virginia whose name was not
available.
Piloting Wallace Fisheries
planes will be Larry Wilson and
Andrew Kure. Spotting for Beau
fort Fisheries will be Steve Oak
ley.
Auto Accidents
Cause Injuries
Four persons injured in an auto
mobile accident at Williston at 3:45
p.m. Thursday Were discharged
from the Sea Level Hospital Fri
day. They were Mrs. Rosa Wade,
17, Williston, and her two-month
old baby. Linda Lou, Lola D. Wil
lis, 16, Harkers Island, and Larry
D. Wade, 20. They suffered bruises
and shock. Wade's left arm was
hurt.
The four were in a 1951 Ford
driven by Wade. State highway
patrolman W. E. Pickard said
Wade was headed east, rounded a
curve, had a blowout and lost con
trol of the car. The car turned
over and was demolished.
Highway patrolmen investigated
an accident Friday night and an
other Saturday night.
At 8:50 p.m. Friday two cars
sideswiped on highway 70 two
miles east of Beaufort. Patrolman
Pickard said a 1953 Ford driven
by Wade Locklear, 19, was headed
cast on the wrong side of the road,
ilc said it sideswiped a 1953 Ford
viven by Robert L. Weaver, 19,
route 1 Beaufort.
'Damage to the Ford was esti
mated at $100, to the Chevrolet
$150. The parolman said it was
raining hard at the time. Lock
lear has been charged with driv
ing on the wrong side of the road.
Clem Reels, Merrimon, was seri
ously injured at 9:45 p.m. Saturday
night when the 19S1 Mercury Floyd
Reels was driving stripped a rail
ing from a bridge on the Merrimon
road and went into a canal. The
accident happened 12 miles north
of Beaufort.
In the car, in addition to the
Reels, were Mary Lee McGethy
and another unidentified passenger.
The injured were taken to the
Morehcad City hospital in the
Adair ambulance.
Patrolman J. W. Sykcs said the
car was headed north and as it
rounded a curve, Reels lost con
trol. Mary Lee told patrolman
Sykcs that Reels picked her and
the others up at the Laurel Road.
She suffered abrasions on her legs.
Clem Reels has a serious leg in
jury, according to the investigating
officer.
He said a piece of the bridge
railing penetrated the entire length
of the car.
The driver has been charged with
driving without a license, speeding,
careless and reckless driving and
driving on the wrong side of the
road.
Attends Meeting
Dr. David Farrior, Beaufort, at
tended the fall educational con
gress of the North Carolina State
Optometric Society which opened
Sunday at Raleigh.
5,0(10 Letters
Go Out Asking
For IB Funds
Almost five thousand letters con
taining TB Christmas seals have
been mailed to Carteret residents,
R. M. Williams, chairman of the
Christmas seal drive, announced
yesterday.
Mr. Williams, in announcing the
opening of the drive, made the fol
lowing comment:
"During the past year our coun
ty health department reports that
x-ray and medical treatments were
administered to indigent patients.
There were 22 patients in the sani
torium last year from our county.
There has been one death and
three victims already this year.
"There were thirteen new cases
reported. At present, there are
100 cases under supervision. There
were 532 x-rays made and 1,613
skin tests given.
"Our county health department
is to be congratulated for the fine
work that they are doing, to keep
tuberculosis under control.
"Even though newer and more
effective drugs, better technique,
and methods of recent years are
being used in fighting tuberculosis,
we are still a good distance from
reaching our goal. The attack of
this dreadful disease is no respec
tor of person or families. Who
knows, it may strike my family or
yours next. When? It might not
be ten or twenty years from now.
"We need your contribution now,
whether it be large or small, the
appreciation is the same," Mr. Wil
liams concluded.
Float Committee
Adds Category
The float committer of the Beau
fort Christmas parade has added
another categroy in the float com
petition. It is "civic." The three
other categories are religious, com
mercial and schools. A prize of
$25 will be given to the best float
in each classification.
Judges for the floats will be Dav
id Yeomans, county commissioner
from Markers Island; Charles Cau
dell Jr., administrator of Sea Level
hospital, and Miss Ruth Peeling,
editor of THE NEWS-TIMES. J. O.
Barbour Jr. is chairman of the
float committee.
The parade will form at 6 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 4, at the school
grounds and will begin at 7. The
judges' stand will be in front of the
Sinclair service station at Front
and Craven Streets.
Winners will be announced at the
carol sing which will follow the
parade at the courthouse annex.
Happy hooting of menhaden boats filled the air over the
weekend as the fleet assembled for the 1959 season.
Thirty-four boats were in Beaufort yesterday and the
number fishing out of Morehead is expected to bring the
total to fifty.
Companies operating this season are Standard Products,
Beaufort Fisheries (only firm*
whieh operates the year around),
Fish Meal Co., Acme Fish Co.
(Reedsville, Va.), and in Morehead
City Wallace Fisheries, R. W. Tay
lor and Co. and Carteret Fish and
Oil.
Boats went out Friday but were
kept at dockside yesterday due to
rough weather.
Three Fish Meal Co. boats seined
big menhaden Friday between Ore
gon Inlet and Hatteras. The Prin
cess Bay's catch was reported at
390,000, the Louisiana about 500,000
and the Ammagansette, between
500,000 and 600,000.
The Fish Meal Co. plans to have
14 boats fishing this year as com
pared to 18 last year. Standard
Products will fish 10 and Beaufort
Fisheries 11.
Some of the other companies
have also cut down on the number
of boats. The reason is attributed
to the present slow market for men
haden products.
Menhaden boats have two new
docking places in Beaufort this
year, a new dock north of the
bridge being operated by Harold
Simpson, and a new dock along the
town waterfront built by Wesley
Willis of Standard Products.
The boats hope to get out today
if the weather moderates. It is ex
pected that the big menhaden, rich
in oil, will have moved south of
Hatteras.
Menhaden catches in 1958 were
better than 1957. But last year's
take did not equal the excellent
catches of 1956. General opinion
of factory owners last year was
that the fish were here in large
numbers, but there weren't as
many good fishing days ?6 they
would have liked.
Number of boats fisjrfng out of
Carteret ports last season was 62.
J?
Lions to Attend Special
Club Moating Thursday
Members of the Morehead City
Lions club heard a report Thurs
day night by Oscar Allred on plans
for next week's past president and
ladies' night meeting. The Beau
fort Lions club has been invited to
attend the meeting in the Fort Ma
con dining room Thursday at 6:30.
p.m.
Otis Jones also gave a report to
the club on the recent White Cane
drive which netted more than $300.
Attending the meeting as guests
were Bernard Wecber and Joe Col
lins, both of Morehead City.
Symphony Meeting
Officers and the directors of the
Carteret symphony society will
meet at 7:30 tonight at the civic
center, announces the Rev. C. Ed
ward Sharp, Beaufort, symphony
society president.
Elderly Man Dies
When Bed Blazes
Up Yesterday
Lem M. Mann, 68-year-old Ne
gro, died in a fire at Beaufort at
11:30 a.m. yesterday. Mann, a
veteran of the first world war, was
alone in the house at 409 Polloek
St. Firemen said that he was ap
parently smoking in bed and the
bed caught fire.
Mann lived at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Gordon. Mrs. Gor
don left the house about 11 a m. to
go downtown and it was while she
was away that the fire broke out.
Rob Willis and James Davis
turned in the alarm that brought
fire trucks to the scene. James
Henry and others got some of the
furniture out of the front of the
house, but smoke drove them from
the back bedroom where Mann was
confined because he was sick.
Mrs. Gordon said Mann was born
at Battleboro, N. C. He has no im
mediate survivors. Tentative plans
yesterday were to bury him in
Beaufort.
Cub Scouts Will
Sponsor Carnival
Wildwood Cub Scout Pack 371
will sponsor a Cub Scout carnival
Saturday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
at th* Carolina racc track. Ad
mission price will be 10 cents for
adults and 5 cents for children.
There will be fun games and
skill games for both adults and
children. Hot dogs, coffee, cold
drinks, pop corn, candy and sand
wiches will be on sale at the coun
try store.
The main attraction will be the
official pinewood derby. About 35
boys from Wildwood, Mitchell Vil
lage and Mansfield Park have been
working on this father-son project
for several weeks, according to
Tom Dickinson, Cubmaster.
Each boy has made a miniature
racer from a pine block. The derby
is run in heats with the cars rac
ing unaided down a 31-foot ramp.
This derby is a first in Cub Scout
ing in the county and other deni
in the county are invited to see it.
Den mothers are Mrs. B. B. Bau
gus, Mrs. F. E. Cleveland, Mrs.
L. O. Crowe, Mrs. Ernest Widell,
Mrs. Tom Dickinson.
Carteret 4-H'ers Win Hi-Fi
For Attendance at Area Fair
Carteret 4-H'ers took honors at
the area fair in Wiimington Satur
day. The county won the attend
ance award, a hi-fi set which was
accepted by Linda McDonald, 4-H
County Council president. Doris
Phillips was named dress revue
winner.
Other awards follow:
Blue ribbons: Eddie Turner? 1
qt. jar of honey, Emma Jean Law
rencc? ice box cookies, Gordon
Slaughter ? soil and water conser
vation, Doris Phillips ? 2 pieces un
lined rait, Oleta Kulchcr? plain loaf
cake.
Red ribbons: Ann F u 1 c h e r
chocolate fudge, Linda McDonald
?leather article, Linda McDonald
?lamp, Gail Willis ? coconut layer
cake, Glenn Shivar Jr. ? scashell
exhibit (Jr.), Linda McDonald?
seasheH exhibit (Sr.)
Gordon Slaughter? 1 doz. brown
eggs, Patricia Ketner? 5 hot pep
pers, Allen Kelly? 1 qt. basket lima
beans, Gordon Slaughter ? home
grounds beautification, Allen Kelly
Grand Jury Commends Principal
For Running 'Machine with 'Guts'
Member* of (he grind Jury, in
session last week, had something
to say about schools, commending
T. L. Lee, Morehead City school
principal, (or "running a very well
organized machine . . . with a min
imum of physical plant and a max
imum of effort and guts . .
The grand jury also paid high
tribute to the Negro students. In
its report, it said, . . the Grand
Jury feels that the colored students
exercise a higher regard for their
school buildings and equipment
than other students in the county.
We feel that it would be beneficial
for a delegation of students from
our white schools to visit our color
ed schools, so that they may ob
serve this."
The grand Jury reported that it
had received a letter from John
B. Willis, Morehead City, concern
ing the catching and processing of
trash fish, but which in the opinion
of Mr. Willis arc small food fish.
"This letter has been turned over
to the proper authorities," the
grand jury report stales.
Comments on the schools, quoted
from the grand jury report, follow:
Morehead City School
The overcrowded facilities are in
poor repair, however the principal.
Mr. Lee, is running a very well
organized machine. It seems that
the job is being done with a mini
mum of ph) sical plant and a maxi
mum of effort and guts on the part
of Mr. Lee and his associates. The
ladies of the cafeteria are doing
an excellent job. The gym should
be condemned, wc did not eater it
for fear of our lives.
W. 8. King School
The street directly in front of the
school, which is Fisher, between
the 16(0 and 1700 block is one large
mud puddle, wc would like to see
this street surfaced or filled. W?
wish to compliment the principal
and ladies who run the lunch room
on the good jobs they arc doing.
Newport 8chool
Toilet facilities are in good
shape, windows need replacing in
the school and cafeteria. Stairs
need repairing; boiler room la in
good shape; the gym is in the pro
cess of being repaired and painted.
The school grounds arc in fair
shape but need drainage in back
of the cafeteria.
Smyrna School
The rest rooms are badly in need
of corrective measures. They have
unsanitary conditions such as: no
screens in windows, walls of ab
sorbent material, plumbing that
doesn't work well.
There are do facilities for heat in
the rest rooms. - Other things are
as good ai can be done with the
[ See GRAND JUKY, Fa|i *
?wood collection, Doris Phillips ?
velvet dress.
White ribbons: Ethel Phillips ?
1 pt. jar chow-chow, Susan Willis
?chocolate layer cake, Emma
Jean Lawrence? '?? doz'. biscuits, "4
doz. rolled cookies, Glenn Shivar?
Crafts ? hurricane lamps.
Doris Phillips? school dress and
street dress, Glenn Shivar? ceram
ics, Patricia Ketner? corn muffins.
Adults attending from this coun
ty were David Warrick and Mrs.
Floy Garner, 4-H advisors; Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. Williams, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill McDonald, and Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Shivar.
New Structures Go Up
At Duke Marine Lab
Under construction at the south
west tip of Pivers Island is a new
home for the Duke Marine labora
tory's maintenance engineer, Nor
ria Hill, and his family.
In addition to this new structure,
an addition is being buUt to the
residence of Dr. John Vernberg,
assistant director for research, and
a new laboratory building is under
construction.
The dining hall is being enlarged
to include the entire building, elim
inating the apartment formerly oc
cupied by the maintenance engi
neer and his family.
Break* Hip
Miss Lucy Hamilton, Sea Level,
slipped and fell in front of the
Morehead City drug store late Fri
day afternoon and broke her hip.
She was taken to the Sea Level
Hospital by the Bell-Muuden am
buliiK^.
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