PORTS GREATEST NEED ? LIGHTS TO GUIDE SHIPS AT NIGHT CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 1 48th YEAR, NO. 93. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS lounty Planning )fficials Hear alk by Experts I County Commissioners Moot with Planners > Board to Meet Again In January Three members of the division of om in unity planning, Department f Conservation and Development, ialeigh, spoke Tuesday night to the jpunty planning com mission and ounty commissioners. The offi ials met at the Carteret-Craven Mcctric Membership office. i The guests were Robert D. Bar our, J. G. Scott and John Voor ees. George Huntley, chairman of lc planning commission, presided. Becauc the county does not have le money to invest in a detailed oning and planning program at lis time, the three men from Ra ;igh were invited to return in Jan ary with suggestions as to what larteret can do, now, to stop hap azard construction, building too lose to the roads, and require ade uate sanitation facilities through ut rural areas. Mr. Huntley pointed out that a lap of the county now may be out ated very soon because the State lighway Commission has projects foot that include a new bridge cross the Newport River, new ighway at Newport and possible Iteration of present thoroughfares round the port. Mr. Voorhees warned that it rould be well for the planning ommission to study what the high ray commission intends to do, be See PLANNING, Page 2 Officials Still Awaiting Red Cross Figures Although the county Red Cross und drive officially ended Satur lay, no figures on*total receipts ire available. Red Cross chair ncn are still accepting donations. i $5,000 goal was set. The Rev. W. A. Hales, Beaufort hairman, reported Wednesday hat "more than $500.00 had been (ported so far and that all reports rev not in. Mr. Hales said it nould probably take the rest of the veek to get the final total. He expressed his appreciation to he Beaufort canvassers and con ributors who have responded to he call for funds. Herbert Phillips of Morehcad :ity, county chairman, said he did lot know how much money had teen collected but had beard re >orts that canvassers in the Allan ic and Harkers Island areas were loing well. lames R. Sanders, Morehead lity chairman, had no figures ivailable yesterday but expected O have the overall picture by the veekend. Mr. Sanders said be was fraid the contributions would be ight. Anyone who has not contributed o the Red Cross and would like to io so may mail their donations to Mr. Hales, Mr. Sanders or Mr. Phillips. Motorist Hurt As Car Hits Pole Edward Wide Willis, Harkers Island, was in the Morehead City Hospital yesterday, recovering from injuries he received Tuesday morning when his car cracked in to a power pole in front of Jones' Barbccue on the Beaufort-More hcad causeway Patrolman W. E. Pickard said Willis was headed west at a high rate of speed. He said that he passed a heavy truck driven by Julius Dunn, Beaufort, cut back in ton his lane of traffic too quickly and caught the rear of his car, a 1953 Ford, on the front bumper of the truck. The car flew into the railroad tracks and then across the cause way, into the pole. Willis was on his way to work at Fry Roof lag Co. The accident happened at ?bout 8:S( -a.m. Willis said he fell aalcep. He was alone in the car. He is suffering from a mild con cussion, several cuts and abra sions. The car was demolished. The pole it strutk was being re placed yesterday. Flares Sees Coast Guardsmen from the Fort Macon station were combing waters around Cape Lookout yes terday after flares were reported ?iahted in the area Wednesday night. The search had turned up nothing by press time yesterday. ?Mil Morehead Sets New Parade Date Morebead City's Christmas pa rade has been postponed from Friday, Nov. 27, to Wednesday, Dee. 2. The time will be 4 p.m. Charles Willis, parade chair man, said that families of many children who would have been in the school bands are leaving town over the Nov. 27 weekend (Thanksgiving) and for that rea son, the date has been changed. He also added that Dec. 2 will be the first Wednesday afternoon the stores will be open for the Christmas season. Higher Court To Hear Assault Case; Bond Set ? Judge Lambert Morris Orders Frazier Held ? Annie D. Shepherd Tells Her Experience Lenster (Bear) Frazier, Harlowc, was bound over to superior court Tuesday when judge Lambert R. Morris found sufficient cause for holding him on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. Fraz ier posted $500 bond. According to the warrant for Frazier's arrest, he assaulted and attempted to rape Annie D. Shep herd, Beaufort, Monday night, Nov. 2, on the road by the Core Creek Methodist church. Sheriff Hugh Salter and deputy Bruce Edwards were called to the area at about 3 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, by the Rev. James E. Smith, Methodist pastor, into whose home the woman had run for help. According to the sheriff, Annie had left Harlowe Monday night in her car and had car trouble soon after she started. She got Frazier to help her push the car by using his automobile. ller car started, but the lights went out, so it was decided that Frazier would follow her car iato Beaufort to be sure she got there safely. As they got in the vicinity of Charlie Bell's old store, the sheriff said that Frazier passed the Shep herd car and forced it off the road. Then, according to the sheriff, Frazier asked Annie to get in his car with him. When she refused, Frazier lifted the hood of her car and yanked wires loose so that the car would not go. According to testimony, Annie then locked herself in her car and wrapped herself in her coat, pre pared to spend the night there. Frazier left and came back in an hour and asked her to open a win dow. When she refused, Annie said that Frazier broke open the vent in a front window on the driver's aide, opened the door, pulled Annie out and put her in his car. Then he drove down the road by the Core Creek Methodist Church. As he was driving slowly, Annie jumped out, she said, and rolled into the ditch at the side of the road. Frazier jumped out after her and evidently left the car in gear, because it started to move away. He gave up pursuit of Annie and went after the car and it was then that the woman made her way to the minister's home and aaked far help. Fruicr contends that he had paid the plaintiff for a date that night and was merely trying to comply with his end of the arrange ments. Two Morehead City Women Honored State Puts Up Marker At Meeting House Site By F. C. SALISBURY Commemorating the coming of the Society of Friends (Quakers) to Carteret County in the early part of the 18th century and the organizing of the Core Sound Meet ing in 1733, the State Department of History has erected on the grounds of the Tuttle Grove Meth odist Church on highway 101, a metal marker designating the site of the Meeting House erected after the forming of the organization. The records of the Society show that on Aug. 1, 1733, "Several fam ilies of Friends being settled on Newport River, well concerned vrtto truOu.ttotht it their duty to gather together on the first day of the week and the first day of the eighth month at the home of Wil liam Borden." This gathering formed the first Society of Friends in the county, later embracing societies in adjoin ing counties, for the records state that "Core Sound Meeting was lo cated in Carteret County, N. C., about six miles north of the town of Beaufort. The jurisdiction of Core Sound Monthly Meeting ex tended over a wide area, including Clubfoot Meeting in Craven Coun ty, Mattamuskeet in Hyde County and Upper and Lower Trent in Jones County." The present Methodist Church stands upon the site of the Quaker Meeting House. The graveyard in the rear contains the remains of many of those early Friends and their descendants. This site is said to be the first plat in the county upon which a house of worship was erected. The land for the Meeting House and graveyard was given the So ciety of Friends by Henry Stanton, one of the most prominent early Quaker "settlers. The deed to the site calls for "Two acres of land bounded on the north by land giv en by Nickles Briant, on the east by highway, on the west by a small branch running into Powells creek near the Meeting House." Following the exodus of most of the Quakers from the county in 1833, the ancient Meeting House was allowed to rot down. When the society of the Tuttle Grove .soc-d ?f.riivc IGvakr; eufitr for rvrc ?t.*n WP ?r> ?ff?? 17 V> Migr*lr.? we\t *m*ane c at de< iuv.. Mr? tiiw . 50 yards W. ' dM" Photo by F. C. Salisbury ? This U (be Marker erected recently oa highway Ml aWat tlx mile> ?ortfc M Beufort at the riU a< Uw Care S??a4 Qaakei bkU>| hoaae. Methodist Church was in a position to build a house of worship, the Friends of Guilford College in 1898 ceded the property to the trustees of the church, reserving the right to hold Quaker meetings at any time not conflicting with the regu lar church service. Credit is due Mr. Earl Campen of the Core Creek community for securing this marker for the coun ty. For more than five years he kept the request before the state authorities in Raleigh. The Coun ty Historical Society aided Mr. Campen in his historical effort. This marker was approved by the State Historical Department in May. and was ertcted by the High' way Department about three wee&s ago. The design of the marker is of the same pattern as others throughout the state, it is the sixth historical marker to be placed in Carteret County. Others are Fort Macon in Morehead City, Whaling, Spanish Attack and Salt Works in Beaufort and Ocracoke near Atlan tic. Census to Bring Facts Up to Date The 1939 Census of Agriculture, now under way in Carteret County, will bring up to date Carteret's farm statistics last collected in 1954, when the farm census reveal ed the following facts: The value of products sold in 1954 by county farm operators was $2,377,291. The value of all crops sold was (1,878,923 and included $1,629,442 for field crops, $233,381 for vegeta bles, $9,205 lor fruits and nuts, and $6,900 for horticultural specialties The value of all livestock and livestock products sold was $487,013 and included $130,640 for dairy products, $107,237 for poultry and poultry products, and $248,237 for livestock and livestock products. The value of forest products sold from the county's farms was $11,350. Pilots Spotting Fish In This Area Total 23 In addition to the ten pilots listed in Tuesday's paper, 13 others arc spotting fish in this area. Names of those listed Tuesday were supplied by the factory op erators by whom they are employ ed. Other pilots, some of whom spot only for individual boats, arc the following: Jimmy Worsham, R. G. Kell, Lc roy Moore, Wes Jones, Robert Wa ters, Hall Waters, Charlie Glenn, Norman Stokes, George Edwards, Tommy Tunnelson, Bill Moore, Brooks Keener and George Tough. Tiles at the Beaafwt Bar Friday, Nov. 26 Tide Table 10:59 a.m. 11:54 p.m. 4:32 a.m. 5:25 p.m. Satarday, Nov. 21 11:43 a.m. 5:01 a.m. 6:04 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22 12:40 a.m. 12:32 p.m. 5:46 a.m. 7:04 p.m. Moaday, Nov. 23 1:2S a.m. 1:25 p.m. 7:02 a.m. S:20 p.m. Taeaday, Nov. 24 2:19 a.m. 2:24 p.m. 1:51 a.m. 1:21 p.m. Mrs. D. Cordova, left, and Mrs. A. B. Roberts Jr., center, ex amine the Madie B. Bell bowl presented at the recent district Woman's Club meeting. The bowl honors Mrs. D. G. Bell, Morehead City, right, and was presented by the Morehead City Woman's Club. It will be given each year to the club in district 12 having the best overall pro gram. The silver goblet on the table was presented the district by Mrs. David Cordes of New Bern. It is known as the Roberts Cup, honoring Mrs. A. B. Roberts Jr., and will be given the junior club having the largest percentage of membership increase. Mrs. Cordova is Morehead City Woman's Club president and Mrs. Roberts is district presi dent. Child, Two Cars Hit in Beaufort Carteret added another to its to tal of children struck by cars Wed nesday afternoon when 8-ycar-old Eric W. Finer was struck by an au tomobile on Live Oak Street in front of Johnson - Saunders dry cleaners. Police said that young Finer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Piner, 211 Gordon St., Beaufort, ran into the street in front of a car driven by Judy Piner Fulcher. The lad was taken to Dr. Ful cher's office in Beaufort where an examination failed to show any in jury. There were no charges filed against the driver. Another Beaufort driver was charged with carelcss and reckless driving Monday night after he lost control of his car and collided with two parked vehicles on Front Street. Cited was Thomas W. Burden, 412 Marsh St. Police said that Bur den was going east on Front Street when his car went out of control and rammed parked cars belong ing to Guy Taylor of Kinston and Jimmie Willis of Beaufort. Bur den's car was a total loss. Damage estimated to Taylor's 1953 Ford was $400 and to Willis's 1953 Chevrolet, $150. Target Practice Camp Lejeunc ? Marine Corps authorities announced today that the vicinity of Brown's Island will be used for target practice on Nov. 23-25 inclusive. Plans Drafted to Help * Illiterates Read , Write Under leadership of Mrs.' Floy Garner, supervisor of the County Home Demon stration program, plans were made Wednesday to coop erate in a movement to teach illiterates to read and write. According to the 1950 census, Mrs. Garner said that approximate Iy 3,000 residents of this county are classified as illiterates. Since pop ulation of the county, according to the last census, was 23,059, that means that approximately 12 per cent of the Carteret people cannot read or write. Mrs. Garner met with community leaders who she thought would be interested in cooperating in a "read and write" movement. The meet ing was held in the postoffice build ing, Beaufort. Figures on illiterates in this coun ty may be shocking, Mrs. Garner said, but there are other counties in eastern Carolina that have a higher number of illiterates. It is estimated that there are 425,000 people in the state who have had four or less years of schooling and cannot read or write. Carteret's participation in teach ing persons to read and write would be part of the Southeastern Litera cy Movement, outgrowth of a pilot project in the Charlotte area last winter, which was termed highly successful. me movement is oeing nanniea by the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, N. C., and is directed by Mayes Behrman, Brass town. Home Demonstration Clubs have been requested to spearhead the literacy movement in this area. Teaching of the non-readers and non-writers would center on a tv program which would be presented four mornings a week at 6:30 a.m., starting Jan. 14 over WNCT, Green ville. The course covers 98 lessons. In conjunction with the program, trained instructors would do a half hour of follow-up work with stu dents following the program. Stu dents can take the course in their homes, if there is someone there to help them with follow-up work. Or arrangements may be to have students meet in a "central place, with one teacher. To learn whether there would be anyone in the county interested in taking the course, the group meet ing with Mrs. Garner decided that letters should be sent out through the schools and Sunday Schools, the letters going to children who know of someone in their locality who might like to learn to read and write. If upon being read the letter, the person is interested in the course, a blank, filled out by family mem ber or friend, would be returned. Mrs. Maurice Richardson, former school principal, was appointed to draft the letter. If there is suffi cient interest, further plans will be made for training the volunteer teachers in the literacy program, Mrs. Garner said. Books to be used by a student in the course cost $4. It was (elt that money might be raised to finance book purchase for those persons unable to buy them. E. C. Jernigan, high school su pervisor, who attended the meeting, commented that people who can not read and write usually have had to drop out of school to support the family; others may have dis covered since leaving school that they should have learned more and would like to learn now, but have no opportunity. Attending the meeting in addi tion to those mentioned, were Mrs. Ben Jones, county education leader for Home Demonstration Clubs, Grover Munden, president of the Carteret Broadcasting Co., Mrs. Leota Hammer of the county health department and Miss Ruth Peeling, editor of the Carteret County News Times. Morehead City Stands on Brink Of ' No Lighting' for Christmas Unless more Morehead City busi nessmen take interest in the town's being lighted for Christmas, there may be no lights this year, accord ing to the Morehcad City Mer chants Association. 0. J. Morrow, appointed by the merchants association to contact businessmen, said that only half have responded with contributions. The other 50 per cert say they don't care whether the town is lighted or not, or else say they're not going to pay anything becausc they know others will. The half who have taken part in Uk- program have given <1,143, most of which has gone to pay for LAST YEAR'S Christmas lighting. The debt remaining from last year, according to Mr. Morrow, was $#21 plus $88 for current to Carolina Power and Light. This totals $1,000, leaving a balance of $136. Cart of prttlag up lights this year will be $1^M, which mean that the town is abort *1,400 of having 4 enough to financc 1959 Christmas lighting. If the other half of the businessmen would assume their share of the responsibility for light ing the town, the merchants asso ciation says, this cost probably could be met. Work will start tomorrow on put ting up the lights, but Mr. Morrow says the workmen are proceeding on faith that there will be money collected to pay them. Anyone who has not contributed to the lighting and would like to make the town cheery for Christ mas is asked to send a check to the Merchants Association, carc of the Chamber of Commerce, More head City. Those who have contributed thus far are the following: Hill's, Se curity Loan, THE NEWS-TIMES, City News Stand, Dora Dinette, WMBL, Willis Auto, RfcN, Adlcr s, Sinclair Refining. Sears, Roebuck .and Co., Caro lina*Powcr tod light Co., Walter Morris, Jeweler; Cooperative Sav ings It Loan Association, Early Jewelers. Beasley't Radio and TV Service, Morehead City Floral Co., J. M. Davis ? Texaco, J. W. Herbin, Rose's 5 It 10, Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corp. Continental Timbers, Dr. Russell Outlaw, Atlantic Beach Sales It Service, Chalk It Gibbs, Paul Cle land, Riggs Motor Repair, Mutual Insurance Agency. Morehead Builders Supply Co., Dr. J. W. Gainey, Western Auto Associate Store, Earlena's Shoe Store, E. W Downum Co., Blanch ard's Electric Service. Sanitary Fish Market and Res taurant, Parker Motors, Bclk's, Carolina Water Co., First-Citizens Bank and Truat Co., Sound Appli ance Co., Inc., Ottia Fish Market. Broadway Cafe, Leary's Store for Men, Machine and Supply Co., D. B. Webb, Morehead Theatre, City Theatre, and Buy Bee Caie. Beam Pierces Car Photo by J. W. Sykcs An arrow in th charges. Prayer for judgment was continued for one week. Thomas Hardy Tew of Havelock, charged with drunk driving, re quested a jury trial and his case was bound over to the next term of superior court. The defendant's bond was set at $150. Torrance Norris Glover, Cherry Point, was given a 30-day jail sen tence, suspended on payment of $25 and court costs for having no liability insurance, no registration and improper use of registration plates. The breaking and entering case against Dan Whealton of Morehead City was ruled malicious prosecu tion and the court ordered the prosecuting witness to pay court costs. Carl Duncan Lewis of Morehead City was fined $25 and court costs for speeding and Kathleen Warren was acquitted on charges of sim ple assault. Prayer for judgment was con tinued for one week in the case of Ernest Lee James of Newport. He was charged with using loud and profane language and disturbing the peace. Frank Xavier Green of I'asa goula, Miss., appeared to answer charges of speeding, careless and reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. He was not prosecuted. James F. Keel of Bculaville was ordered to pay court costs and make a check good after he was found guilty of issuing a worthies! check. There were seven cases continu ed until next week's term of court. Lights Flicker Lights in the western part of Morehead City went off for a few minutes it 7:20 p.m. Wednesday when a power line fell in the vicin ity of Morehead Block and Tile Co. Repairs were made unuiedisMy,