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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
48th YEAR, NO. 102. TwO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1969 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
State Income Tax
Withholding Law
Effective Jan. 1
Employer* are reminded that the
new state income withholding tax
goes into effect Jan. 1.
H. W. Dickson, deputy collector
with the state department of rev
enue, who is stationed in this coun
ty, said that all employers who
will be deducting tax from wage
earners' salaries have to be regis
tered by Mr. Dickson.
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He said that some employers
may have been missed; if so, they
are asked to contact him. He has
office hours in the courthouse an
nex Mondays from 8:30 a.m. to
noon and 1 to 5:30 p.m. The phone
number is PA8-3395.
Mr. Dickson advises that anyone
who is now under the federal in
come tax withholding program is
definitely required by the state to
withhold income tax, beginning
? Jan. 1. In some instances, he add
ed, a firm may come under the
state withholding requirements,
but not federal.
Mr. Dickson, who lives with his
family at Atlantic Beach, may be
seen on days other than Monday,
by appointment.
Relative to state income tax re
turns, the deputy collector an
nounces that he will have forms
? at his office. They will be avail
able also at the postoffices in Beau
fort and Morehead City and at the
chamber of commerce office,
Morehead City.
Mr. Dixon's office is on the sec
ond floor of the courthouse annex,
above the home agent's office.
Offices Announce
Yuletide Holidays
Government offices will observe
varied holidays for Christmas.
Beaufort town hall will close
Tuesday afternoon and remain
closed until Monday, Dec. 28.
The Morehead City municipal
, building will be closed beginning
Thursday and reopen the following
Monday. The courthouse in Beau
fort will observe the same holi
days.
Postoffices will be cloud Chriat
mas day.
Policemen and firemen will be
on duty as usual.
Government offices will observe
New Year's day, Jan. 1, as a hoii
' day.
R. Lackey Heads Newport
Rural Fire Association
Mail Volume at Carteret
Postoffices Exceeds '58
Jimmie Guthrie
Saves Pedestrian
A Beaufort woman, Mrs. Etta
Lynch, escaped serious injury and
possibly death Friday, when she
was pushed by Jimmie Guthrie
from the path of an oncoming B&M
railroad engine.
According to police reports, Mrs.
Lynch was crossing Broad Street
from the southwest corner of
Marsh and was headed right in the
path of the train. Jimmie Guthrie,
riding on the front of the engine,
which was pulling two loaded box
cars, pushed her from the tracks.
The train was going slowly and
Guy Smith Sr., engineer, had al
ready applied the brakes, but the
weight of the box cars kept the
train moving.
Mrs. Lynch, 80, was taken to the
Morehead City hospital by Earl
Jones, a B&M employee, where
she was released after examination
and treatment.
Losing Driving Rights
A Morehead City man, Leslie
Warren Morton, 305 Va N. 22nd Si.,
has hid his driver's license sus
pended indefinitely by the North
Carolina Department of Motor Ve
hicles.
? Carteret postoffices are following
the national trend: more Christmas
mail than last year.
J. P. Betts, Beaufort postmaster,
says the increase in Beaufort is
"substantial." Extra helpers are
Mrs. Ellen Willis, clerk in the of
fice, and Douglas Piner, who is
handling all city parcel post pack
ages.
All the other employees are
working extra hours to handle the
volume of mail.
Mr. Betts commented, "This is
my ninth year here and the Christ
mases are getting bigger every
time!"
Harold Webb. Morehead City
postmaster, declared, "We've got
all the mail we can cope with."
Extra clerks in the Morehead j
City postoffice are Miss Anita Faye
Nelson and David Nelson. Auxiliary
carriers are Watson Morris and
David Newberry.
Postmaster Webb warns that in
town Christmas cards posted after
10:30 Thursday morning probably
will not reach their destination by
Christmas day. The postoffice will i
remain open this Wednesday after- ;
noon as it did last Wednesday. Dur
ing the year it closes Wednesday i
afternoons.
The Newport postoffice person
nel are struggling, as usual, with
the Christmas rush in their tiny
quarters. Next year, they expect
a different story, because contracts 1
have already been let for a new
and large postoffice. <
Postmaster at Newport is R. K. j
Montague. 1
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Lions Raise Over $300 in 1
You-Can-See Campaign
Members of the Morehead City 1
Lions Club heard a report at their >
Thursday meeting that their Be i
Thankful You Can Sec campaign
has netted over $300. The club I
voted to donate $20 of this to the i
fire department for baskets for
families who have members visual- <
ly-handicapped.
It was announced that the club 1
will not meet this Thursday. t
What Gifts Would You Give Them?
If (he following were on your
Christmas gift list, what kind of a
gift would you like to give them?
? Nikita Khrushchev
? Governor Hodges
? Charles Van Doren
? Debbie Reynolds
? President Eisenhower
? Eleanor Roosevelt
? Jimmy Hoffa
? Fidel Castro
? Carteret County
The foregoing was a game play
ed at the recent Business and Pro
fessional Women's Club Christmas
, party. The answers could be fun
ny, serious, sacrastic . . . anything
the list-maker would think appro
priate. Some of the answers ap
pear below. They reveal what lots
of people think about those listed
above.
Gifts for Nikita Khrushchev in
cluded a rope, an axe, castor oil,
a new philosophy, a bomb for
home use, a sock in the eye, loaded
cigar, hybrid corn seeds, and many
' generous doses of poison were
recommended!
One answerer suggested that
Khrushchev be given CASTRO oil.
On the gift list for Hodges were
the vice-presidency of the United
States, a trip to the moon, a neck
tie, a fresh carnation, a horn to
' Winter Arrives
Officially Today
Winter arrives officially today at
9:35 a.m.
This is the winter solstice? whea I
the sun seems to stand still, stop
ping its southward movement and
seems to move north again.
In December the North Pole is
tilted 23 degrees 27 minutes away
' from the sun and the nights in this
hemisphere (northern) are longer
than the days, just the reverse of
summer time, when the days are
longer thfn the nights.
I^YkA'-OIcI Seriously
Hurt in Factory Accident
Adolphlis Jones, 19, of 41S Pol
lock St, Beaufort, had his right
leg removed at the Morehead City
hospital Thursday night after it
was mangled in a screw conveyor
in the scrap shed at Standard
Products Co., Beaufort.
Fellow employees said that
Jones, somehow, walked into the
conveyor. He was rushed to the
hospital in the Adair anftiulance.
The accident happened at fcbout 11
p.m. <
blow for North Carolina, a boat
and airplane.
Gifts for Van Doren, the man
who recently confessed before a
Congressional investigating com
mittee that he lied about tv quiz
shows before the New York grand
jury, included a good job, the ABC
network, a muzzle, $64,000, a clear
conscience, common sense, a Bible,
a swift kick, a message of hope, a
Philadelphia lawyer, a crying tow
el, and integrity.
For Debbie Reynolds? Liz Tay
lor's scalp, happiness, a new hus
band, a dozen roses, love, Eddie
Fisher, medal for courage, and
nothing? she's already got every
thing.
Golf equipment led the list in
gifts for Ike: golf balls, golf clubs,
weekend off for golf, a toupee, a
kick out of the White House, quiet
retirement at Gettysburg, a bigger
farm, a cozy evening at home,
peace agreements with Russia, a 1
silver putter, tranquilizers, retire
ment, and 18 holes. i
Eleanor Roosevelt? An old folks' ]
home, beauty treatment, another |
30 years of speech-making, a new
hairstyle, many more years to live,
a hat, knitting needles, a plane of j
her own, integration, and a suit
case.
Jimmy Hoffa, head of the teams
ters' union, rated the following: a
loaded revolver, arsanic and old
lace, a boot out, a new testament,
punch in the nose, a term in jail, 1
slow boat to China, a sense of hon- .
or, and exile to Mexico.
For Fidel Castro, the following i
gifts were recommended: a noose, <
a time bomb set to go off at once, i
a razor, a shave and bath, a ticket
to China, a cruise to the Arctic, i
an island in the Pacific, and re- t
tircment. i
Leading the gift suggestions for 1
Carteret county were new schools, '
a new hospital, and new industries. c
Other suggestions were a high- <<
way, filter for the fish factories, a I
convention hotel and a college. g
Ray Lackey wai elected president of the Newport Rural
Fire Association at a meeting Thursday night at Newport
school.
Residents of rural areas surrounding Newport attended
the meeting and voted to continue the rural fire association
for two more years.
Officers, in addition to Mr. Lackey, are Clarenct Millis,
vice-president; Mrs. Artis B. Gar-*
ner, secretary, and Claude Foy,
treasurer.
Trustees are from sections which
rural fire service will cover: Cleve
land Garner, east side of highway
70 to the Craven County line; Y. Z.
Simmons. Masontown; Cecil Prin
gle, Mundine section; Troy Cannon,
Broad Creek; Bill Pohoresky, WiltJ
wood and Bogue Sound Hoad, and
Lester Haskett, Mill Creek.
Fifty persons attended the meet
ing at which Larry Howard, fire
department lieutenant, presided.
They were informed that rural fire
protection cost the town of Newport
approximately $2,000 a year over
the past ten years, during which
time the rural association had a
contract with the town.
The amount paid by the associa
tion was not, however, sufficient to
cover costs. The rate paid by home
owners under the old contract was
a dollar a year, the $10 payable in
1949.
Under the present two-year ar
rangement, the rate will be $5 a
year, the total $10 payable at once.
Additional fees will be charged for
outbuildings.
Persons may pay Lieutenant
Howard at Howard's Service ga
rage, or he can tell them where
the money should be paid. It is
anticipated that all those covered
by the old plan will renew.
If sufficient funds are not obtain
ed. Lieutenant Howard said, it
may be necessary to limit calls only
to those who belong to the associa
tion, sending others a bill for fire
services, which may amount to as
much as $100.
The plan was set up on a two
year basis, in anticipation of a
fire district plan going into effect
in 1961. Under the fire district plan,
10 cents per hundred dollars valua
tion would be levied to finance
rural fire fighting programs.
Hie plan was explained Thurs
day night by Mayor Leon Mann. *
Officers of the association met
last night. It was suggested there
that the Newport fire equipment
cover territory west of Broad
"reek bridge to Bogue, and that
Newport stop its coverage of rural
area at the intersection of highways
ro and 24, instead of continuing into
Mansfield, which can be serviced
)y Morehead City equipment.
Steering Trouble
Blamed for Wreck
Power steering that failed was
?eportedly the canse of a Friday
ifternoon traffic mishap investi
jated by Morehead City police.
Involved in the wreck were a
959 Oldsmobile. driven by James
Franklin Meadows of 1513 Evans
it. and a 1953 Chevrolet truck,
Iriven by James Louis Forbes,
?oute 1 Morehead City.
Police said that Meadows was
naking a right turn off of Aren
lell onto 14th when his power stecr
ng failed, causing him to run into
?orbes's truck which was stopped
in 14th for a stop sign.
Police estimated the damage
lone to the truck at $25 and that
lone to Meadows' vehicle at $65
'atrolman E. D. O'Neal invesli
;atcd.
Students Get the Spirit
? Newt-Times Photo by McComb
Putting Ike finishing loaches aa the Christm as tree decorated by George Jackson's homeroom Mnta
at Morebead CUy high school arc, left la right, C. T. Mathk, Geri Raid, Sarita Bedaworih a ad Jactta He
Robert L. Humber
Will Give Report
Robert Lee Humber, Greenville,
will give his annual report on prog
ress of the World Federation move
ment at 3 p.m. Sunday in the rec
reation room of the First Baptist
Church, Beaufort.
Accompanying him will be mem
bers oi his family and James Flem
ing, head of the language depart
ment, East Carolina College,
Greenville.
Mr. Humber's report this year
will fall on the exact date of the
founding of the world federation
movement, Dec. 27. The move
ment was organized on Davis Is
land in this county Dec. 27, 1940.
Civitans Raise
$191 on Auto
The Morrhead City Civitan Club
reported Friday a profit of $191.88
on the miniature car that was giv
en away after the recent Christ
mas parade. The money has been
turned over to the Merchants' As
sociation to be used to help pay for
the Christmas street lights.
The club announces that their
fruit cake sale is going along nice
ly. The club has sold out of the
three-pound cakes but there are
plenty of one-pound cakes left.
School safety patrol uniforms,
bought by the club, have arrived
and will be distributed to the
schools the first week in January.
Harold Gregory was the princi
pal speaker at Friday's meeting at
Mrs. Rusaell Willis's restaurant.
He spake on the Carteret County
Rifle and Pistol CUib. tiranory
told the Civitans of the types of
competition that the club enters
and also exhibited various models
of pistols.
There will he no Civitan Clnb
meeting on Dec. 25 or Jan. 1.
Julian Fulcher
Pays $25, Costs
Julian Fulchrr, Morehcad City,
was ordered to pay $2S and court
costs Monday in Morehcad City
recorder's court, after the court
found him guilty of careless and
reckless driving.
Two defendants, Jessie Bryan
Garner of Morehcad City and
Charles Thompson of Virginia, for
feited bond when they failed to
appear before the court. Both de
fendants had been charged with
public drunkenness.
The court ruled malicious prose
cution in the assault and petty lar
ceny case against Isaiah Robbins
of Beaufort when the prosecuting
witness, Dilsey Archie, asked the
court that the charges be dropped.
Archie paid court costs.
Joseph Hester of Morehcad City
appeared, charged with simple as
sault. Prayer for judgment was
continued for six months by judge
Herbert O. Phillip* III.
Five cases were continued until
next week's term of court.
Santa to Treat
Kiddies Tonight
Morehcad City flremeu will spon
sor Santa's appearance on Aren
dell Street at 7:30 tonight in a fire
truck. Santa will have apples,
oranges and tangerines for the
youngsters.
At the same time there will be a
party at the Masonic lodge hall,
1200 block of Fisher Street, for the
Folks in that part of town.
Another part of the fire depart
ment's Christmas program in
cludes providing baskets of food
tar needy families. Firemen re
ported that -funds for this project
have been raised by the colored ,
folks as well as white.
John Tillery is in charge of de
livery of food to needy Negro fam
ilies.
Food Donated
Students at Morchead City school
look items of food, amounting to
?n estimated $100 to school Friday.
The food will be distributed by the
Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs to fam
ilies certified as in' need bjr the
county welfare department
FHA Trims Window
News-Times Photo by McComb
To remind folks of the importance of buying TB Christmas seals, Beaufort Future Homemakers dec
orated the window of the G. W. Duncan Insurance agency. In charge of the exhibit was Jinny Duncan,
with Charlotte Mishael as co-chairman. Assisting were Bobbi and Mary West and three boys also lent
a hand. They were Wiley Lewis Jr., Lester Small and Ray Bowlin.
Man with Knife Threatens
Bettie Woman, Takes $5
Five dollars was stolen yesterday
morning from the Konald Gillikin
home on highway 70 at Bettie, ac
cording to sheriff Hugh Salter.
The sheriff said Mrs. Gillikin
told him a man with a switch-blade
knife stood over her while she lay
in bed, and threatened to kill her
and her children if she made an
outcry. Then he left, apparently
with an accomplice who was wait
Mf to- another room.
The robbery occurred at about
5:15 a.m. Mr. Gillikin, who is em
ployed in Virginia, was not home
at the time. In the house was
Mrs. Gillikin's brother, about 16,
the sheriff said, who was asleep
on the second floor, and the Gilli
kin children, a little girl, 3 months,
who was in the bed with Mrs. Gil
likin, and a girl, 2, in a crib in the
same room.
Mrs. Gillikin told the sheriff that
she heard some noise around the
house but assumed she was dream
ing. A light was on in the bed
room, and when she became fully
conscious, she saw the man with
the knife. He turned the light out
and the older child started to cry.
After threatening her by holding
the knife at her throat, he asked 1
tier to make no fuss unless she
wanted to see her children dead.
Mrs. Gillikin told him that her bro- 1
ther was upstairs. He retorted that
le had someone else with him too
and called into another room where
Mrs. Gillikin said someone then ]
:leared his throat in response. ]
On the stove in the kitchen was 4
Mrs. Gillikin's pockctbook as well
as her brother's. Mrs. Gillikin's
had $25 in it and the boy's $5. Both
were found at the pried open win
dow on the front porch, by which
the intruders entered and left.
Only $5, however, was missing.
The sheriff surmiaes that either
the two men put the money by the
window and forgot it, that it fell
down, or each one assumed the
other had it.
They left behind tho knife, with
its blade bent, possibly when the
window was pried open.
Mrs. Gillikin said she saw their
car parked in front of the house
and then went next door to Ray
Goldcn's store to call the sheriff.
The sheriff said he got the call
about 5 minutes of 6.
Roadblocks were set up immedi
ately on highways leading out of
the county, , but the sheriff esti
mates at least 45 minutes elapsed
between the time the men left the
Gillikin house and Mrs. Gillikin
could rouse Mr. Golden so that the
sheriff could be phoned.
Mrs. Gillikin said the man in her
room was white, he was unmask
ed, and did not speak in the same
manner as local folks do. She
said she could recognize him again
if she saw him.
WUI Arrive Thursday
Santa Claus will arrive at New
port at 2 p.m. Thursday, accom- |
panied by the school band.
Police Report
School Break-In
Thieves or pranksters broke into
the Beaufort graded school over
the weekend, but apparently took
nothing, as school officials were
unable to find anything missing.
Drawers were ransacked in both
the outer office and the principal's
office, according to secretary Vir
ginia Hill. Miss Hill reported that
there was some jewelry and
change in one of the drawers to
an outer office desk, but it was un
touched by the intruders.
The break-in was discovered
Monday morning by Mrs. Grace
Fodrie, faculty member, who ar
rived at the school at approximate
ly 9:15 a.m. (School closed Fri
day noon for the Christmas holi
days).
Entrance was apparently made
by prying loose one of the side
doors to the auditorium. The door
to the office of Albert Gainey,
principal, also had to be pried
open.
Police chief Guy Springle is con
ducting ar? investigation.
This was the third break-in re
ported in the county over the week
end.
Alfonzo Finally Rests in Beaufort
Moved into place Friday in Beau
ton was the Museum of the Sea
to-be, the hull of the old Alfonzo.
The old-time fishing boat, given
to Beaufort by Capt. Ottis Purifoy,
was towed from Morchead City to
Beaufort Tuesday. The complete
tale of the moving is an epoch.
ray (ten Paul, as he tells it, can
bold you spellbound and split your
sides, too.
Mr. Paul, former operator of a
marine railways in Beaufort, is di
recting operations for Beaufort's
!50th anniversary celebration next
year. One of the prime features
>f the observance will be the Mu
seum of the Sea, located aboard
the 60-foot Alfonzo.
The Alfonzo had been beached
[or years on the shoal across from
Morchead and had been serving
?s living quarters for Lee Aycock,
i one-legged colored man known
is "Pop." When the boat was
made ready for the journey to
Hardy Ray Reads
Christmas Carol
Hardy Ray, Atlantic Beach, read
? portion of Dickens' Christmas
-arol Friday night in St. Andrew's
Episcopal Church, Morchead City.
The reading was preceded by a
15-minute concert of Christmas
-arols by the St. Andrew's choir,
rhc church was darkened, with
.he exception of the choir and altar
irea.
Mr. Ray, in black robe, read at
the lecturn by candlelight. Hia
reading, interspersed at the prop
er points by the organ chiming the
lours when the spirits appear to
Scrooge, was very effective.
Beaufort, Pop went back to New
Bern, Captain Ottia reports.
Mr. Paul said yesterday that on
high tide Tuesday morning. Carl
Goodwin of the Marine Salvage
Co., Morchcad City, towed the Al
fonzo to Beaufort. The Alfonzo
was loaded with empty oil drums
to keep her afloat, "and that's the
only thing that saved us," Mr. Paul
vows. Also aboard was a 4-inch
pump, but the hull leaked faster
than the pump worked.
The Coast Guard escorted the
procession, just in case help was
needed. Mr. Goodwin did the tow
ing free, in return for salvageable
stuff aboard 'the Alfonzo.
By the time the Alfonro got to
Beaufort (running time about an
hour!) the tide had run out and
the only thing to do was beach her.
Then Friday. Mr. Paul enlisted the
aid of the Norfolk Dredging Co.,
which generously came through
with a tug and lifting barge, pull
ed the Alfonzo off the beach and
put her on the rails at the south
end ?f Pollock Street.
There Julius Dunn, a Beaufort
contractor waa ready. He hooked
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Dec. 22
12:90 a.m.
12:52 p.m.
6:25 a.m.
7:13 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 23
1:40 a.m.
1:44 p.m.
8:02 a.m.
8:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dee. 24
2:37 a.m.
2:51 p.m.
9:22 a.m.
9:38 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 2S
3:41 a.m.
10:26 a.m.
4:03 p.m.
10:2S p.m.
his dragline to her and pulled her
up on the rails. It still has to be
moved ahead about one length,
then Denard Davis of Davis Shore
will put it up on blocks about the
first of January.
Mr. Paal reports that the Nor
folk Dredging Co.. now deepening
Taylor's Creek, and Mr. Dunn pro
vided their services free. A crew
of IS to 20 men helped get the Al
fonzo on the rails and the only
cost connected with the moving
thus far, Mr. Paul said, is some
pay given hired laborers.
Mr. Paul says moving the Al
fonzo was nothing compared to
moving the SO-foot sperm whale he
brought to Beaufort about 20 years
ago.
The M-foot whale washed up at
Cape Lookout Coast Guardsmen
finished the fellow off with rifle
bullets. So Mr. Paul went over to
the cape, put lines around the mon
?ter and hauled it up on his marine
railways in Beaufort, next to the
present Pat)l Motor Co.
Up went a board fence and he
charged admission to see the
whale. "If the wind hadn't swung
to the southwest I'd have made a
fortune," Mr. Paul says. "People
came here to sec it from as far
away as Murphy. But when she
got to smelling I had to take her
out.
"She barely floated when I .
brought her over from Lookout.
But she floated, I'll tell you, when
I took her out to sea." The whale
was on display four days, then it
was towed seaward about three
miles and turned loose.
With experience like that behind
him, anyone who doubted that Mr.
Paul could move the Alfonio should
hava hii head tiimi? d,