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48th YEAR, NO. 97. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Beaufort Hosts Title Game Tonight
Newport Board Provides
Land for New Industry
Town Board Sets
New Fees; Hears
Sewage Report
0 Morehead Sewer Plant
To Cost $1,526,000
? Board to Investigate
Bus Franchise
Morehead City commissioners
Tuesday night set new fees for
opening graves at the town ceme
teries and heard the report that a
proposed sewage disposal plant for
Morehead City will cost $1,526,000.
(The grave-opening fees are in ef
fect now. The fee for a grave for a
child up to 6 years will be opened
at a cost of $9; $5 of that amount
going to the cemetery superin
tendent for his services and $4 di
vided among grave diggers. If a
tent is rented, a $3 rental fee will
go to the town.
For graves for persons over 6
years, the fee will be $22; $12 go
ing to the cemetery superintendent,
$10 to the grave diggers and if a
tent is rented, the $3 rental will
go the town.
Fees have been almost doubled,
but are still much lower than fees
charged by other cemeteries, ac
cording to commissioner Russell
Outlaw, who proposed the new
c
ceived $40 a week, he said, and
because their pay is so low, they
are given the money charged for
opening graves. Commissioner Out
law said they still wouldn't be get
ting much. He estimated the aver
age number of funerals a year at
60.
George Freeman of William F.
Freeman Co., High Point engineer
ing company, presented the board
preliminary plans for a sewage dis
posal system.
He explained that all towns are
required by state law to stop pollut
ing surrounding waters with sew
age. As a result of a meeting with
Morehead City commissioners last
year, the Freeman firm was given
the contract for doing work on the
sewage disposal plant.
< He said the next step is to apply
for a temporary permit to continue
to dump sewage as Morehead City
is doing at present. The board au
thorized the application.
Mr. Freeman explained that the
federal government will pay 30 per
cent of the cost of treating sewage
up to $250,000. Due the Freeman
ty-m when it files an application for
a temporary dumping permit is
$250.
The loan the government makes
a town for planning a sewage plant
is non-interest bearing and is re
payable only when the town starts
building its sewage plant.
Mr. Freemaa said the proposed
site is on property the town now
owns at the north end of 25th Street.
When asked if it would not be
more economical for Beaufort and
l^orchead City to jointly have one
sewage plant, Mr. Freeman said
no.
He gave the following reasons:
1. Sewage would have to be car
ried across water in pipelines, an
expensive proposition.
2. Either one or the other towns
. would have to be responsible for
operation.
3. Strength of sewage is the im
i portant factor, not number of gal
lons and it would be difficult to
See BOARD, Page S
1 Newport low* commissioner*, in
session Tuesday night at the town
hall, deeded property the town
owns to the Newport Industrial
Corp., with the stipulation that a
building must be erected on the
property within one year of the
dale of the deed or the property
will revert to the town.
The Newport Industrial Corp. is
a new concern seeking a plant for
manufacture of a plasti-metal com
pound. The Newport Development
Association has agreed to help
raise money for putting up a build
ing for the firm.
Commissioners ordered that all
garbage must be in containers no
larger than 30 gallons, if the home
owner expects his garbage to be
picked up. The commissioners
further state that the garbage
truck will not remove trash. Trash
is defined as anything burnable
leaves, limbs of trees, boxes, etc.
The board authorized execution
of sale on tax judgments in Jan
uary. This is the sale following
six-month holding of a tax certifi
cate by persons interested in ob
taining property on which taxes
are owed.
Taking into consideration the
fact that the town contract with
the Newport Rural Fire Associa
tion ends Jan. 1, the board re
quested that anyone connected with
the rural association appear at the
January meeting.
The town has agreed to extend
its protection to rural association
members until the date of the
meeting, Jan. S. If no one appears
at the meeting to discuss current
agreements, t h e commissioners
have decided that town responsi
bility to rural property owners will
end on that date.
It was announced tkat firemen
will have their annual event, Santa
Claus at the town Christmas tree,
Thursday, Dec. 24. Proposed work
on Hargctt Street was discussed.
After bills were paid, approxi
mately {2,400 was left ia the gen
eral fund. Commissioner Wilbur
Garner presided in the absence at
the mayor, Leon Mann Jr., who
was sick.
Two Cars Crash
Tuesday at Otway
Two cars met in a near head-on
collision at 6:05 p.m Tuesday in
front of Gillikin Brothers Service
station, Otway.
Donnie Oliver Lewis, route 2
Beaufort, was headed west in a
1956 Mercury, when Staton Moore,
Marshallberg, driving a 1953 Olds
mobile, pulled out of the service
station and headed east. While
Moore was crossing Lewis's lane
of traffic, the two cars collided,
according to patrolman W. J.
Smith.
No one was injured. Damage
to the Mercury was estimated at
$700, to the Oldsmobile $500. '
Firemen Called
An oil heater at Wagner's Esso
station, Morehead City, overheated
Wednesday at 8:40 a.m. Morehead
City firemen were called. There
was no damage.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Dec. 4
11:31 a.m.
5:01 a.m.
5:45 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. S
12:10 a.m.
12.28 p.m.
6:01 a.m.
6:44 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. (
1:06 a.m.
1:24 p.m.
7:09 a.m.
7:48 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 1
2:02 a.m.
2:19 p.m.
8:19 a.m.
8:49 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 8
2:58 a.m.
3:15 p.m.
9:23 a.m.
9:45 p.m.
NewTlmes Photo by McCotnb
The 1959 Beaufort high school Seadogs meet Andrews high school at S tonight in Beaafort for the staM Class A championship. The team
members are, front row, left to right, Johnnie Hassell, Mahlon Williams, Gary Williams, Tommy BrMgen, Loaaie Dill, Eugene Roarty, Eddir
Taylor, Ray Hassell. Second row, left to right, Doug Swain, Robert Metz, William Cole, Chuck Lewis, Butok Hassell. Frank Sides, late Nel
son, David Jones. Third row, left to right, David Nelson, Joe Powell, Robert Jones, Denard Harris, Calvin Jones, Guipn Dudley, GeotdF Noe,
Ernest House, John Moore. Top row, left to right, Fred Hooper, William Potter, Lather Salter, Vic Smith. Howard FalUier, Bill Harris, frosh
coach Tom Hewitt, line coach Jim Fodrie and head coach Cart Lancaster. Nat pieturad is Jerry GilliklB. Those shown who are ao longer on
the team are Guion Dudley, Lonnie Dill, Eugene Roarty, Joe Powell and Dong Hwain.
Board Faces Fact: Morehead Can't
Pay Debt in ' 7 3 Unless Policy Changes
Commissioners Meet With
Auditors Tuesday Afternoon
Some bank words were enchang-4
ed between two auditors Tuesday
afternoon over the 1958-58 audit re
port of the town of Morehead City.
The sjene of the exchange was
the board room of the Morehead
City municipal building.
There Morehead City commis
sioners, in special session, met
with Frank Wall and Luther Aus
bon, of the auditing firm of Wil
liams and Wall, Raleigh, who for
years have been auditing Morehead
City books, and Josiah Bailey, cer
tified public accountant of More
head City.
The meeting was the outgrowth
of a letter to Williams and Wall,
certified public accountants, from
Morehead City town commissioners
in October.
Commissioner Bud Dixon ex
plained at the meeting that the let
ter was written by Mr. Bailey, aft
er Mr. Bailey had been requested
to study the 1958-59 audit by com
missioner Dixon.
The audit was presented by Mr.
Wall and acceptcd by the town
board in October. Commissioners
Russell Outlaw, Walter Morris and
Dixon contended that they didn't
have time to study the audit in the
two hours while Mr. Wall present
ed it, and at the November meet
ing commissioners withdrew, by
resolution, their farmer acceptance
of the audit. Commissioners Dixon,
Outlaw and Morris arc serving
their first term as town officials.
Mayor George Dill opened Tues
day afternoon's session, comment
ing that there was "apparent lack
of understanding" of the audit re
port and perhaps the two auditors
"could enlighten the board."
Commissioner Dixon commented
that there were questions in the
letter Mr. Bailey wrote "that we
want answered."
The first question asked why the
audit report does not contain the
auditor's signed statement custom
ary for inclusion in audit reports.
Mr. Wall said that he put his sig
See DEBT, Page ?, Section 2
The Leon Weeks
Win Turkey
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Weeks, Bogue
Sound Road, won the turkey given
away at the Farm Bureau barbe
cue supper Wednesday night at
Camp Glenn school cafeteria.
R. M. Williams, county farm
agent, introduced the speaker, M.
A. Morgan, Smithfield.
Other speakers were Paul Shack
elford, with the State Farm Bu
reau, and Mrs. Floy Garner, coun
ty home economics agent.
C. N. Stroud, membership chair
man, reported that the county
Farm Bureau is about IS short of
its 250-member quota. Thirty Farm
Bureau members and their wives
attended.
3 Year-Old Boy
Strode by Car
James Barrett, 3-year-old Negro
boy, suffered minor bruises and
scratches when he was hit by a
car Wednesday afternoon.
Beaufort police chief Guy Sprin
gle, who investigated, said Hubert
King of Beaufort was going west
on Ann Street when the boy ran
from behind a parked car into the
path of the King auto. The acci
dent happened at Ann and Queen
streets.
The boy was hit by the right
front bumper of King's 1951 Stude
baker, chief Springle reported.
King estimated his speed at 10
miles per hour.
The boy was taken to Morehead
City Hospital by Dill ambulance
and was examined by Dr. Thomas
Lewis.
Chief Springle said no charges
were filed against King. He was
assisted by sheriff Hugh Salter.
General Will
Present Trophies
Brig. Gen. Frank ?. Tharin, com
mander of the Second Marine Air
craft Wing, Cherry Point, will pre
ient the trophies following the
{ootball game at Beaufort tonight.
A championship and runner-up tro
phy will be given. The tropbitt
were at Beaufort school yesterday.
Members of the Andrews football
squad, numbering 27, spent last
night and will spend tonight at Bud
ixon's Motel, Morehead City. Ad
ults with them will number six, in
cluding two coaches and a minis
ter, reports Mr. Dixon, motel own
er.
Lodging arrangements for the
team here were made by the
North Carolina High School Ath
letic Association from its Chapel
Hill headquarters.
The North Carolina High School
Athletic Association has set the
admission fees for the game. The
! price will be $2 for an adult and
! $l for a child.
| Each team in the game will be
' given its expenses by the NCHSAA,
I with all remaining proceeds going
to the state high school athletic
association, according to T. H. Mc
Quaid, athletic director of Beau
fort school, and Albert Gainey,
I Beaufort school principal.
Beaufort's Festive Christmas
Parade to Begin at 5 Today
Five o'clock this afternoon will
be the starting time of Beaufort'*
big Santa Claus parade. Everyone
in the county is invited to the pa
rade and then the football game,
announces Mrs. Wiley Lewis, pa
rade chairman.
She emphasized that numerous
military policemcn from Cherry
?Point will assist local officers in
? handling traffic and guarantees
that everyone who attends the pa
rade and the program afterwards
at the courthouse will get to the
football field in time for the t p.m.
kickoff.
Beaufort folks participating in
the parade are asked to meet at
the school grounds at 4; those from
out-of-town should be there no la
ter than 4:30. To be eligible for
prizes in the pet competition, pets
must be registered at the school
grounds by 4:30, announces W. R.
Hamilton, pet parade chairman.
Prizes will be given for the most
original pet entry, best decorated,
and best decorated pet in a wagon,
bike or other conveyance.
A total of (IN will be given as
prizes for floats. Twenty-five dol
lars will go to the best float in each
of four categories: religious, civic,
schools, and commercial.
The parade will move from the
school south an Harsh, west oo
Front, and north on Turner to the
courthouse square which will be
floodlighted.
Shrubs and flower beds on the
courthouse square will be roped
off and spectators are asked to
avoid trampling the planted areas.
Bands will play Christmas carols
there. Church choirs and school
glee clubs from throughout the
county will present a program of
Christmas music, under the direc
tion of Hiss Ruth Durham, minister
of music, First Baptist Church,
Beaufort.
At the program, winners of
prizes in the parade will be an
nounced. The entire program will
In broadcast and tela vised.
History will be made tonight in Beaufort when the Sea
dogs take the field against Andrews high school in a game
for the Class A championship of the state. This marks the
first time that a title game has ever been played in Car
teret County.
Andrews, a high-scoring outfit, advanced to the finals
last Friday by downing Allen Jay?
20-0 while the Seadogs were shut
ting out Norlina 7-0.
A record crowd is expected by
school officials for the important
clash and additional bleachers have
been erected at the school. Even
with the extra seats provided, some
fans are expected to have to stand.
Head coach Curt Lancaster of
Beaufort reports that the Seadogs
will be in top physical shape for
the contest with a Charley horse
sported by starting halfback Ray
Hassell being the only squad injury
from last week's game. Lancaster
expects the sore spot on Ray's leg
to be worked out by today.
In tackling practice Tuesday
Robert Jones suffered a cut tongue
but is not expected to be held out
of action.
In Andrews Beaufort will be up
against the defending state cham
pions. The western school won the
state tttfe last year by downing
Southern Pines. In 1954 the school
I lost out in the last game to Green
ville.
This year Andrews has compiled
a record of 10 wins and three
losses. Their losses came at the
hands of AA powerhouses Murphy
and Sylva. Murphy played Andrews
twice this year and won both times
by scores of 7-6 and 13-6. Sylva
downed Andrews 25-19. The 25
points scored by Sylva represents
the largest number of points scored
on Andrews this year. For the sea
son they have scored a total of 375
points while' allowing opponents
only 84.
In the regular season Andrews
went tftidefeated in Smoky Moun
tain conference play and posted
wins over Cherokee, Robinsville,
Franklin, Haysvillc and Swain High
of Bryson City. Since entering the
See SEADOGS, Page 3
I House Bums
AtNorthHarlowe
A one-story frame house at North
Harlowe burned to the ground
early Wednesday morning. Beau
fort fire department received the
fire alarm at 4:15 a.m., but the
house was nearly gone when they
arrived.
The house was owned by Mrs.
Celia Frazier. Mrs. Frazier, an
employee of Morehead City Floral
Co. for 23 years, was in Morehead
City at th? time of the fire.
Mrs. Frazier said yesterday that
nothing was saved from the house.
It is not known how the fire was
started. She said the loss was cov
ered by insurance.
Mrs. Frazier is presently staying
with her daughter at North Har
lowe and is waiting for her son to
arrive from New York before de
ciding whether to rebuild.
Ernest Mattox Jr.
To Serve Two
Years in Prison
For failing to comply with the
terms of a suspended sentence of
Feb. 5, Ernest Mattox Jr. was sen
tenced to serve two years in jail
Tuesday in county recorder's court,
Beaufort. Judge Lambert Morris
presided.
Other cases Tuesday saw Wil
liam Lester Johnson requesting a
jury trial on charges of breaking
and entering and larceny. John
son was placed under $1,000 bond.
Other defendants, their charges
and the findings of the court were
as follows:
Thad Golden ? Disturbing the
peace. Not prosecuted.
James Simpson? Public drunken
ness. Not prosecuted.
William rustle Miller? Speeding.
Defendant requested jury trial,
bond set at $100.
Thurman Smith ? Assault and
disorderly conduct. Paid costs.
Bobby Parker? Assault and dis
orderly conduct. Paid costs.
Junior Hardesty? Violation fish
ing laws. Judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Ardie Nolan Jr.? Having improp
er lights, no insurance and improp
er registration. Judgment suspend
ed on payment of $10 and costs.
Ronald Paul Norman? Improper
passing. Judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Robert Allen Toler? Failing to
give turn signal. Not prosecuted.
Robert Lee Mattocks? Improper
passing. Judgment suspended on
payment of $10 and costs.
Junior Branton ? Having no op
erator's license. Paid costs.
Dallas Eugene Salter ? Driving
drunk. Found guilty of careless
and reckless driving. Judgment
was suspended on payment of $100
and costs.
Abraham R. Morris ? Driving
drunk and carrying a concealed
weapon, a gun. Judgment was sus
pended on payment of $100 and
costs and gun was confiscated
Tim Dayton Lawrence? Driving
on the wrong side of the road, re
sulting in an accident. Not prose
cuted.
Acqulin Dwight Farley? Driving
on the wrong side of the road re
sulting in an accident. Judgment
suspended on payment of costs.
Clyde O'Neal Gillikin, Billy Earl
Gillikin and Sammy Gillikin? En*
gaging in an affray and using loud
and profane language. Not prose
cuted.
Forty esses were continued until
next week's term of court.
Large Crowd Sees Christmas Parade
Shown here on the Morehead City Jaycee float la the Morehead
City Christmas parade are Bill Singleton, seated by the fire place;
Robert McLean, midget football player; lame* Nolan, Morehead City
high school football player, aad Lanra Lewis, runner-up la the 1?5?
Miss Morehead City contest. The float depicted Jaycee projects.
Rotarians took to a 1922 Essex to extend their uasot'l greetings
tn the town. Riding in the antique auto are H. L. Josiya. Stoaley
Woodland, Rotary Oak president W. B. Ckalk and his soa, a Rotariaa
to-be, Jimmy Chalk. Driving the car la the owner, Ralph Home, Rich
laads, who was Invited to bring the car here for the parade by Mr.
rh.ii>
Sgt. Ernest Guthrie Heads
Police Graduating Class
Sgt. Ernest Guthrie, o( the State
Highway Patrol, a native of Hark
ers Island, graduates today tram
a 12-week course at the Southern
Police Institute, University of
Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
Sergeant Cuthrie it president o i
his graduating class.
Hundreds of people lined the
main street of Morehead City Wed
nesday afternoon to see the Christ
mas parade.
Morehcad City, Beaufort, W. S.
King and Queen Street school
bands appeared in the parade, as
well as floats, horseback riders.
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Brownies,
fire station equipment and Santa
ClauS.
Charles Willis, parade chairman,
yesterday extended tail thanks to
ill those who assisted with the pa
rade or participated in it.
Treati thrown to the kiddies by
Santa Claus were donated by Tom's
roasted Peanuts and Rose's 5 and
10. Mr. Willis said that he's sor
ry some children didn't get a treat,
jut they hope to correct that next
Itn.
"This is the first time we have
iver had a parade to launch the
Christmas season," Mr. Willis re
wind, "and wa already see how
we can make improvement! and
have a really bang-up parade next
year."
Bridge to Clow
The State Highway Commission
announces that the bridge between
Morehead and Beaufort on US 70
across Newport river will be clos
ed to all traffic for repairs from
12 midnight Tuesday until 8 a.m.
Wednesday.
R.K. Davis Tug
Burns Monday
A 44-foot tug owned by Raymond
K. Davit of Newport News, former
ly of Marshallbcrg. burned and
sank in Bay River, Pamlico coun
ty, Monday. The captain, Charles
Rose of Marshallberg, and three
crewmen aboard were uninjured.
Kort Macon Coast Guardsmen
received the distress call at 6:30
a.m. Monday. The 40-footcr de
parted immediately and was join
ed at the scene by the 40-footer
from Hobucken and the S3 footer
from Ocracoke.
The tug was sinking when the
Coast Guardsmen arrived, accord
ing to Coast Guard reports. The
men began pumping water on the
fire, cut the anchor line and tow
ed the tug out of the channel.
The fire was extinguished at
10:15 a.m., but the tug sank, leav
ing the bow partly above water.
Rose and the crewmen were put
aboard the Hobucken 40-footcr and
taken to Hobucken.
The Coast Gnard reports that the
fire is believed to have started in
the fuel tank, which was burning
from inside. The tug was flooded
with fuel oil, the report states.
Crewmen aboard the Fort Ma
con 40-footer were Eugene Car
penter, BM3, Wilson Winstead, SN,
and Norvie GUlikin, EN2.
Car Turns Over Saturday
On Curv* at Atlantic
A 1953 Buick driven by Leon Nor
man Salter, Atlantic, turned over
in a heavy rain at 11:15 a.m. Sat
urday in front of Taylor'a store,
Atlantic.
Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., who
investigated, said Salter lost con
trol, struck a millstone I decora
tive item) and a utility pole. Nei
ther Salter nor a passenger was
injured. Damage to the car waa
Inn tut at $300.