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MOREHEAD RESCUE SQUAD ALARM NOW IS NO. 33 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '<* 49th YEAR. NO. 6. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY8 Beaufort Board Expands Town Area Newport Group Provides Site For $100,000 Garment Plant ? Chaplain Talks < To Ministers At Civic Center Roy Barham, chaplain at Camp Butner and chairman of the com mittee on alcoholism, North Caro lina Council of Churches, told members of the County Ministers Association Monday morning that five out of six people are affected by every alcoholic. In this state, the speaker said, there are 60,000 alcoholics. Chaplain Barham was introduced by program chairman Ralph Flem ing, Newport. The chaplain said that more re search on alcoholism is needed and j campaigns to raise funds for that ; work should be undertaken. He ; spoke on attitudes of people to-; ward the alcoholic and methods i that should be undertaken by those who counsel the alcoholic. Chaplain Barham listed the dam aging effects of alcohol, adding that in case of death of an alco holic, the real cause is almost nev er revealed. During the business session, the Rev. Charles Kirby was asked to report on a better hospital visita tion program. A letter from the Morehead City Jaycees asked the ministers to se lect the town's outstanding young man and teen-ager. The ministers voted to pay ex penses of their members attending the ministers conference in Char lotte Jan. 26-27. The conference will be at Covenant Presbyterian Church and is sponsored by the World Council of Churches. The Rev. W. A. Hales, president, presided at Monday's meeting, at the civic center, Morehead City. The Rev. Carroll Hansley led the devotions. Pastor to Play Peter Marshall; The Rev. Jack Mansfield. pastor of Camp Glenn Methodist Church, will play the role of Peter Marshall in the Carteret Community Theatre production, A Man Called Peter. The cast was announced by the director. Miss Hortensc Boomer, Wednesday night at the monthly theatre meeting. The play will be given March 1. Mrs. Carl Beaver, who played the role of the housekeeper in Angel Street this fall, will portray Cath erine Marshall, Peter's wife. John Fussell will play the role of their young son, Peter John. Wayne King will portray Allan Talbot; Lillian Frances Giddens, Judith Bickle; Ruth Durham, Jisse Bickle; Gail Strickland, Susan Grant; Ruth Peeling, Marian Grant; Don Avallone, Steven Grant. Michael Lewis, George Yost; Jimmy Wheatley, Joe Keating; Thomas Respcss, Sen. James K. Polk; Peggy Holt, Nancy Everetts; Doris Phillips, Barbara Logan; Jean Holt, Hulda. The story deals with Dr. Peter Marshall, who became chaplain in the United States Senate. The scenes are laid in the manse; the Marsh alls' pastoral residence in Washington, D. C. The play was written by John Mc Greevey, from the book by Cath erine Marshall. Stella Propat will be properties manager; Tressa Vickers will be in charge of make-up; Jimmy Wheatley, stage manager; and Pat ay Holt, prompter. During the business meeting, a nominating committee was named; Joyce Lewis, chairman; Frances Bass and Thelma Barnette. Portions wishing to become pa tron members of the theatre should contact Miss Patsy Holt, PA 6-4658 A patron membership is $5 annual ly. Beaufort Men Write Articles for Magazine Appearing in the current issue of the Employment Security Com mission quarterly are articles by John D. Lilley of the Beaufort Mo bile Farm Labor office, and Frank Nance, Beaufort, farm labor su pervisor. Editor of the quarterly is Ted Davia, former manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce. Newport Induitrial Corp. announced Wednesday that* Carteret Industries, Inc., will locate on a five-acre tract on the Nine-Foot Road, across from the West Newport sub division. Carteret Industries, through Truman Kemp, Morehead City, announced last month that it would manufacture + Earns Gratitude A mother tells how Dr. S. W. Hatcher, Morehead City, above, helped her in a time of crisis. The article appears on page 8 section 2 of today's paper. Trawlers Work Offshore Clams Working the offshore clam beds this week are two boats, the Theo dore, 12 ieet long, and the Leon Walter, 78 feet long, irom Poin' Pleasant, N. J. Their catches are being bought by Elmer Willis, calm processor at Williston. The Leon Walter, Capt. Dick Prodd, skipper, was getting a thou sand pounds an hour Wednesday, working northeast of Beaufort In let. Capt. Julius Harper, skipper of the Theodore, said the boats will stay here permanently if their success continues. He estimates that ten thousand pounds a trip are necessary to make a profit. There is a possi bility that the boats will work 24 hours a day. The dredge the New Jersey boats are using weighs a ton. Seventeen jets shoot water in front of a tooth ed dredge to loosen the sand and muck, hten the teeth pick up the clams. A blade, instead of teeth, was used at first, but this was not successful, Captain Harper said. The trawlers are owned by Sof fron Brothers, Point Pleasant, N. J., who freeze clams. They are tying up at Ottis Purifoy's docks, Morehead City. Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director of the Institute of Fisheries Research, said that local clam trawlers have not been very successful with the Fall River clam dredge, the type used by the Silver Bay in its re cent exploratory work offshore. Planning Board To Obtain Map Meeting Monday night, the coun ty planning commission authoriz ed drafting of a county map in preparation for drawing up sub division regulations. It was requested that personnel from the division of community planning, Department of Conserva tion and Development, attend fu ture meetings of the commission. Commission members observed that they have a large task and it will require the financial assist ance of both the county and fed eral government. Attending the meeting was Rob ert D. Barbour, Raleigh, admin istrator of the division of commun ity planning. Commissioners present were Dr. L. J. Dupree, Milton Coyle, Dr. W. L. Woodard, C. H. Lockey, Cecil Morris, W. C. Carlton, secretary, and A. D. Fulford, county sanitar ian. CitD to Meet D. G. Bell, chairman of the state commercial fisheries committee, and C. G. Holland, commercial fisheries commissioner, will attend the state CJcD meeting at Raleigh Monday. sportswear and locate its uuu.uuu plant somewhere in the Beaufort, Morehead City or Newport area. The site, within Newport town limits, was selected Wednesday morning. Construction will start in two weeks. It is expected that the plant will open May 1. * Newport citizens have pledged $30,000 to help meet construction cost. The organizational committee of the Newport Industrial Corp. met Wednesday night to plan Ihe meth od of obtaining the funds. Money will be raised by sale of stock in the Newport Industrial Corp. Stock will be sold at $25 a share. Pledge cards arc to be signed by Feb. 15, the money to be payable by March 15. Upon receipt of pledged funds, a general meeting will be held by shareholders to elect officer and directors of the industrial corpora tion. Persons interested in obtaining information or shares of stock may contact Nick Allen, Stancil Bell, Leslie Bercegeay, Bill Boyd, Ben nie Garner, Nathan Garner, Roy T. Garner, Larry Howard. Lonnie Howard, M. C. Howard, John B. Kelly. Paul Kelly, Albert Mann or Bob Turpin. Mr. Kemp, Henry White of More head City, and George Ball, New port town attorney, met Monday night at the school lunchroom with the Newport Development Associa tion. It is this association which fostered the Newport Industrial Corp. One hundred Newport residents attended the meeting. Plant were mad\to select a site, and five sites were viewed Wednesday before a final choice was made. Part of the land for the plant will be donated by the town. Carteret Industries Inc. is expect ed to employ 100 persons and pro vide a quarter of a million dollar payroll annually. The plant will contain 15,000 square feet. The latest garment-making machinery will be installed at a cost of $75,000. The building will be air-conditioned and heated by fuel pumps. Mr. Kemp reports that the fac tory's first year's production has already been sold. Newport Industrial Corp. also provided recently a site for a plasti metal manufacturing concern now located at New Bern. Schedule Set Up To Meet Town's Bond Payments Presented to Beaufort town com missioners Monday night was a proposed schedule whereby the town hopes to meet its bonded debt by 1974. The debt now stands at $354,000. Budgeted this year to pay off prin cipal and interest is $26,800. Scheduled to be paid annually from 1961 through 1971 is $35,733, with $34,564.79 to be paid in 1972. Nothing is scheduled for payment in 1973, by which year the total debt is expected to be retired. The bonds come due in 1974. Ronald Earl Mason, clerk, point ed out that interest to be paid be tween now and 1974 amounts to $100,427.19. The schedule for bond retirement is based on the current valuation of $3,570,536, and a tax return of $65,751.35 annually. In July 1954, the town deposited $11,238.11 with New Hanover Bank and Trust Co. to retire the remain ing series of bonds that came due in 1954. C. T. Lewis, mayor at that time, announced that from 1950-54 Beaufort's indebtedness was reduced $51,643.26, a considerable achievement, in that prior to 1950 little of the principal could be paid off. After paying the 1954 series of bonds, the town's debt stood at $405,000. From July I, 1954 to the present, the debt has been reduced $91,000. Mayor W. H. Potter commented that many citizens have expressed satisfaction ifith the present ad ministration'flhefforts to keep hands off funds levied for debt service, rather than borrow from them to meet general expenses. Relativfcto the schedule of meet ing bona interest and principal, mayor Potter said that * future boards may find it of value. The board authorized the clerk to buy up to seven bonds, at the best price possible, within limit of the funds available. Mr. Mason said he had received several of fers from bond holders interested in selling. Through 1964 the town bonds bear V/* per cent interett and in crease gradually to 4V4 per cent in 1970 through 1972. Court Sentences Two To 30-Day Jail Terms Two defendants, Pete Jefferson Davis and Sam Green Jr., were handed 30-day jail sentences in county court Tuesday for failure to comply with terms of former suspended sentences. Davis, convicted Sept. 29 of hav ing insufficient brakes and failing to stop for a stop sign, was origi nally given a 30-day jail sentence suspended on payment of $10 and court costs within 30 days. The oourt, finding that the defendant had violated this sentence, ordered the original jail term invoked. Green was also ordered to serve 30 days in jail for failing to com ply with the terms of a suspended sentence of Oct. 27 when he was convicted of public drunkenness. Other court action saw Allen An derson appealing a one-year jail sentence that he was given for fail ing to comply with a court order on non-support. Bond for Anderson's appearance in superior court was set at $500. Other defendants, their charges and the findings of the court were as follows: Floyd Earl Lewis ? Having an ex pired operator's licensc. Costs paid. Isaac Parmley? Having improp er registration, no insurance and no driver's license. Not prosecut ed on the license charge. Other wise guilty, $10 and court costs paid. Troy Anderson? Public drunken ness, 30 days in jail suspended on payment of court costs. Jack Wallace ? Speeding. Costs paid. 41enry Hicks ? Public drunken ness. Costs paid. Julius Warren Hayes ? Larceny. Three years good behavior and pay court costs. See COURT, Page 2 Annals of the Fleeting Years Starting today, in this issue, is a series of articles on the history of Swansboro and some of the area sur rounding it. ' The articles, Annalsx>f the Fleeting: Years, are writ ten by Tucker R. Littleton, Swansboro. Mr. Littleton is a former member of the Beaufort school faculty, where he taught English. He is author of the book of poetry, Shore Songs. Mr. Littleton is at present devoting his time to re search and writing, serving also as a minister in the Baptist church. His first article, appearing in section 2 of this issue, deals with the Cedar Point Fishery in Carteret County. Beaufort town fathers voted unanimously Monday night to pro ceed with town expansion. The boundaries, as originally proposed, were slightly revised to cut out some farm land, but other wise they include areas on Front, east to include Sunshine Court, then north of Lennox ville Road, west to Highland Park, Glendale Park, Jones Village, Circle Drive. Hunt ley Park, Hancock Park and West Beaufort, excluding the airport and the Pish Meal Co. The annexation will become ef fective March 1, 1960. It is not without opposition. Forces which appeared at the hear ing in November to protest an nexation by resolution, indicated this week that they will petition the superior court i'or review of the town's proceedings relative to an nexation. This petition must be filed with in 30 days from Monday night. Jan. 11. Petitioners may also request a restraining order which would block incorporation of the above areas until the courts decide the matter. Mayor W. H. Potter, who presided at Monday night's meeting, ob served that the new areas will con stitute an expense to the town for the next five years. The area to be annexed will in crease the size of the town by about three-fourths and place the official town population at approxi mately 4,000. Beaufort is using a power placed Morehead City Board Starts Search for City Manager To Travel Abroad New?-Tl?nes Photo by McComb Three Morehead City school students selected to go to Europe to attend an International Youth Conference next August are Doris Phil lips, left, Dottie Chalk and John Crowe. The conference is being sponsored at Amsterdam by the YMCA. Marines Leave State Port For Duty In Mediterranean W. E. Thompson Hurt in Wreck Wayne E. Thompson, 17, Em erald Isle, was injured al 8: 10 p.m. Tuesday when the 1956 Chevrolet he was driving was smashed on the Salter Path road a mile west of At lantic Beach. Highway patrolman R. H. Brown said that Thompson was headed west. The car skidded on a curve, crossed the left lane, hit the shoul der of the road and turned over several times. It landed on its top in bushes. Thompson was thrown out. He suffered a concussion, broken col lar bone and numerous cuts. He was found sitting by the side of the road by Joe Zajac, Salter Path, who took him to Morchead City hospital. Bogus Club Discusses Proje v?a of Souvenirs The Bogue Home Demonstration Club opened its January meeting last week at the home of Mrs. Inez Guthrie, with a devotion by Mrs. Lola Grey Guthrie, club president. Part of the business session was spent discussing making and sell ing souvenirs typical of Carteret County. After the home agent, Mrs. Floy Garner, gave a talk on Credit, A Friend in Need, mem bers drew names for secret pals. A new member, Mrs. Julia Tay lor, was welcomed into the club. The hostess served canapcs and russian tea. Tide Table LOW HIGH Friday, Jan. IS 3:05 a.m. 9:04 a.m. 3:39 p.m. 9:35 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 1? 3:38 a.m. 9:38 a.m. 4:11 p.m. 10:12 p.m. Sunday, Jan. IT 4:10 a.m. 10:12 a.m. 4:42 p.m. 10:50 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18 4:42 a.m. 10:52 a.m. 5:13 p.m. 11:33 p.m. ? Camp Lejeune? The Sccond Di vision's First Battalion (Rcinf), 6th i Marines, under the command of! Lt. Col. George E. Codrea, depart ed from Morehead City Wednesday for duty in the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet. Battalion Landing Team 1/6 re inforced by 15 tri-command units, is slated to relieve the 3d Battalion, 8th Marines, commanded by Lt. Col. John F. Paul, who have been in the Mediterranean since last August. The Third Battalion, 8th Marines, is expected back at Camp Lejeune in February. Troops of the outgoing NELM Battalion will be berthed aboard ships of Amphibious Squadron Eight. The squadron is under the overall command of Capt. R. B. Derickson, USN, aboard the USS Pocono, which will serve as flag ship during the PHIBRON-8 Med iterranean deployment. Other ships in the squadron are the USS Cambria, USS Oglethorpe, USS Donner, USS San Marcos, USS Terrebonne Parish, and the USS Suffolk County. The squad ron is a unit of the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, headed by Vice Admiral George C. Towner, USN. Upon Joining the Sixth Fleet, as its amphibious arm, the landing team is expected to train exten sively in amphibious tactics. Be side probable practice landings at Sardinia and Crete, it is expected that the NELM Marines will visit porU in Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Morehead City is looking for a city manager. Town commissioners, in special session Tuesday night at the mu nicipal building, voted to seek a city manager, to negotiate with Josiah Bailey, Morehead City ac countant, as to auditing the books and decided that cither economy measures must be effected or taxes raised. After discussion on the present state of finances, commissioner liud Dixon suggested that the town , hire a city manager as of July 1, 1960. He said that the town "wouldn't be in this shape" if there had been a city manager. His motion included the recom mendation that the mayor appoint a committee to interview prospec tive city managers and report to the board. Commissioner Walter Morris seconded the motion. Commissioner S. C. Holloway in quired where the money would come from to pay a city manager. Commissioner Dixon said he thought one could be hired for j $6,000 or $7,000 Mayor George Dill, who presided, predicted that a city manager will tell the commissioners that the town tax rate isn't high enough. Commissioner Dixon said he didn't feel qualified to spend $60,000 a year on the streets in town and he doubted if the other commmii sioners were qualified to handle their departments, since none of them had the necessary training. He expressed the opinion that a man trained in city government could better administer the town's business affairs. Under the plan, the commissioners envision the mayor holding his present position of authority, the commissioners being elected as usual and meet ing as usual, with the exception that the city manager or "business manager" would guide and advise them. Commissioner Ted Garner and Holloway dissented in the vote to acquire a city manager. Voting for the proposal were Commission ers Dixon, Morris and Russell Out law. Mayor Dill appointed Mr. Holloway and Mr. Dixon to inter view city manager prospects. Bids on auditing the town's books for 1959-60 were received from Josiah Bailey, Frank Sproul, and Williams and Wall. Williams and Wall, who have audited the books in the past, bid $750; Sproul and Bailey submitted bids based on a day rate, total cost depending on how many days it took to do the audit. The board voted to talk further with Mr. BaiJey in the hope of get ting a more concrete figure. He quoted rates at $45 or $35 a day, depending on whether junior or senior auditors did the work. John Lashlev, clerk, was request See MOREHEAD CITY, Page 2 John H. Phillips Gets Scholarship Nomination John Humphrey Phillips, a sen ior at Morehead City high school, has been nominated for a John Motley Morehead scholarship to the University of North Carolina. He is Carteret's nomination. Finalists from diitrlcta will be selected. They will number six and will go to Chapel Hill for in terviews with the central commit tee the latter part of February. Phillips is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips Jr., 3012 Aren deU St. tow" hands by the 1959 general assembly, in annexing an area bv resolution. The new law p7rmiu such annexation provided the town wMin'th "" SerViCes within the present limits enjoy "r<,s?" administration contends that it can do this. Citizens in the areas to be an October.U'ed againSl annc"""" "> The motion to annex by resolu Bert n" J" by commissioner Bert Brooks and seconded by Dr. I avid Farrior. It was expected that the resolution would be passed last notnre.dy' necessar>' ">"P was The resolution and the map showing the new boundaries in red may be seen at the town hall. Commissioners Discuss Lights At Intersections Beaufort commissioners, at the town hall Monday night, dis cussed the need of blinker lights at Ann and Turner Streets and Ann and Live Oak, also a stop lighl at Cedar and Live Oak Mayor Potter said that Carl Hat sell has been contacted relative to getting the lights up The mnyor will write the State Highway Com mission to put a stop light at lave Oak and Cedar. Cedar is highway , The mayor reported that he had 'contacted the county relative to its paying its share of paving Crav en Street from Broad to Cedar He said the county had agreed to pay its portion. Claud Wheatly town attorney, advised that the i"h.",reMP"2',b'e by the ch"rch in that block, should be apportioned among the others to be assessed for the paving. Ronald Earl Mason, clerk, was authorized to get a bid on the pav ing from Barrus Construction Co. I Commissioner William Roy Ham ilton reported that he and commis sioner Bert Brooks were looking for a town hall site, but had no recommendations aa yet. He also |,'por'fd that P'ana are proceeding for observance of the town's 250th anniversary celebration this sum ?nWhJ" t^SUb,Jcot of board? ?me . J 5' Neatly declared, "Don't start that! They didn't wear beards ?S0 years ago. You never saw Oeorge Washington with a beard " te. orT"""' "" Parki?* me ter ordinance was discussed. Al though the ordinance was not at hand, Mr. Wheatly said he thought one was passed in 1848 49 because judge J. F. Duncan was town at torney at the time and Mr. Wheat the'i'rt he 'h0llKht had helped Comigie >W UP thc ?rd'nance. m. ?T^ i"0ne.r B r 0 0 k ? "com mended that thc cemetery be bet m.'"nta'ned He suggested that in order to provide funds for the ZTZ'T thfl the l?wn rent tents for funerals and charge $25 for opening and closing a grave Mr. Wbeatljr said that be didn't think the town could do that due to the manner in which the ceme tery ia owned and operated. Street commissioner William Davis reported that dredge work on Taylor's Creek had damaged sewer outfalls. Possible ways of correcting the situation were dis cussed. Town engineer Gray lias sell was asked to establish the north line of the harbor to deter mine whether the dredge had op erated in unauthorized areas. Frank Lewis of the rescue squad asked if a hydraulic jack could be purchased for use in extricating people from wrecks. Coat would be $175, he said. Dr. David Far rior, fire commissioner, said there was no money budgeted for a jack. Gerald Woolard was asked to see if a jack could be obtained through Civil Defense. The mayor reported that some radio equipment is now available through Civil Defense. The board authorised deposit of t2.182.84 in the debt service funds. A sink at the Pollock and Ann intersection was discussed as well as a sanitary sewer leak in front See BOARD, Page 2 Symphony Drive Ends Tomorrow The North Carolina Symphony society'! annual drive (or mem bers in Carteret ends tomorrow. Membersbio chairmen report that the drive it progressing well, but urges all those who have not al ready done so to join in the effort to finance the North Carolina Sym phony's appearance Feb. 9 in More head City. The North Carolina Symphony signifies many things to many peo ple. After last season's public service concert at the State School for the Blind in Raleigh, the sym phony received a warm letter of thanks which stated that the con cert "was the greatest day our children have ever experienced." Similar experiences occur cach season as letters from grateful school children and adults flood the Symphony office at the end of the tour. Recently, symphony director Benjamin Swalin received a letter from a young ainger now in Bos ton who said: "I was introduced to symphonic music by your group. This introduction led to a great love for mubic and a dedication to the art of ainging." Because of the efforts of the North Carolina Symphony, thia young woman ia now launched in a successful ca reer aa a concert ainger. But perhaps the existence of the North Carolina Symphony meana the most to people living in area* in which they would norm illy nev er have a contact with "live" mu sic, says the Rev. C. Edward Sharp, president of the county sym phony society. To such people, the North Carolina Symphony is an immediate inspiration and the con cert night is the high point of the year. But the symphony hat a person al meaning to everyone, he adds. Those who have never attended a concert have the opportunity to add a new dimension to their live* by joining the North Carolina Sym phony Society during its current membership drive, and by attend ing this year's concerts by Um symphony.