: CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
49th YEAR, NO. 11. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PACTS MOREHEAP CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
State to Put Bridge Where
It Said It Would Put It
Morehead Gives
Auditing Job
To Josiah Bailey
Josiah Bailey, CPA of Morehead
City, was awarded the contract for
auditing town books for 1959-60 at
the meeting of the town board
Tuesday night at the municipal
building.
Commissioners Russell Outlaw,
Walter Morris and Bud Dixon vot
ed in favor of the move. Commis
sioner S. C. Holloway voted
against. Commissioner Ted Gar
ner did not vote.
Commissioner Holloway said that
his vote was not a vote against
Mr. Bailey, but he was of the opin
ion that the town's usual auditor,
Williams and Wall, could give the
same service as Mr. Bailey and at
a lower price. Mr. Hollo^; said
cost is something to consider when
a town has no more money than
Morehead City has.
Mr. Bailey, who attended the
meeting, said that he was interest
ed only in doing an "opinion aud
it." This means that he would
comment on the town's financial
affairs and make recommenda
tions. He said he was not interest
ed in doing any other type of audit.
Leigh Wilson, counsel for the
League of Municipalities, who was
attending the meeting, suggested
that Williams and Wall be asked j
to give an "opinion audit." He |
said that auditors usually do only j
as requested and if Williams and
Wall had not, in the past, been ask
ed for such an audit, they didn't
give it.
Mayor George Dill mentioned
that an auditor who bid on the job
gave an estimate of $45 a day for
senior auditors and $35 a day for
junior. None of the auditors esti
mated how many days it would
take to do the job.
mr. nauey u>iu coramissroners
his pricc would be about $50 a day.
He said, after commissioners
pleaded far sofne estimate how
long it might take, that he thought
he might be able to do it in 30
days.
He added that if the cost of the
work began to get beyond what
he though its value would be to
the town, he would call it to the
board's attention and they could
call off the "opinion audit."
Mr. Wilson commented that an
opinion audit is only as good as
the board's willingness to put the
recommendations of the auditor
into effect. He asked if Mr. Bailey
would help to effect any changes
he might recommend.
The CPA said that he would have
to renegotiate with the town on
anything of that type.
When finance commissioner Hol
loway commented on the extra ex
See AUDIT, Page 3
$39,635 Bid on Bridge
Across Calico Creek
Low bid on a new bridge across
Calico Creek on N. 20th Street is
$39,635.38.
The bid was opened by the State
Highway Commission Tuesday at
Raleigh. The job includes building
of a temporary bridge while the
other is being constructed.
Low bidder was Kitcbin Con
struction Co., FayetteviUe.
Republicans Meet Tonight
County Republicans will hold
their convention at 7:30 p.m. to
night at the courthousc, Beaufort.
I. D. GilTikin, county Republican
chairman, will preside. A county
committee and convention dele
gates will be elected.
Chairmen Named
Ronald Earl Mason, Beaufort,
heads the county Heart fund
drive, which started Monday.
Luther Earl Lewis, Morehead
City, has accepted chairmanship
of the Cancer Crusade which will
be conducted county-wide in
April.
Merchants Hear
Plans for Boat,
Horse Show
Members of the Morehead City
! Merchants association heard about
plans for a horse show and an out
board regatta when they met Tues
day noon at the Hotel Fort Macon.
Working on the horse show are
George Phillips, Ed McLawhorn,
Charles Willis and Warren Beck.
The show is planned for April or
early May.
Reporting on the regatta, for
May, were Garland Scruggs, presi
dent, and J. A. DuBois, manager
of the Morehead City chamber of
commerce. The regatta would last
three days.
Mr. DuBois also announced the
decision of chamber directors to
make Morehead City's first "per
sonal appearance in the west" at
the sportsmen's and vacation show
in the Charlotte coliseum March
1-6.
O. J. Morrow, treasurer, report
ed $210 on deposit and bills total
ing $937. The major portion of the
amount payable is due on the
street lighting bill incurred over
Christmas.
Walter Morris asked that the as
sociation consider decorating the
northwest corner of Arendell and
8th Street next Christmas when it
is believed that the home now be
ing razed there, will be gone.
The association decided to meet
at 11:30 a.m. on the first and third
Tuesdays at the Hotel Fort Macon.
Nick Galantis, who serves lunch,
was complimented on the good
meal and prompt service.
i^oreneaa tny s new vriage
across Newport river will parallel
the present one on the north.
There will be no major change
in location? so the State Highway
commission decreed at it* meet
ing at Raleigh Wednesday.
The commission's action flies in
the face of testimony offered at a
hearing on bridge location, which
was held last month in Beaufort.
At that hearing, residents of this
area and chambers of commerce
of eastern Carolina requested that
the bridge be moved farther up
stream to permit expansion of the
Morehead City state port.
THE NEWS-TIMES predicted
editorially Jan. 5 that the highway
commission would not change its
announced plans to locate the
bridge a short distance north of
the present span.
Ralph Morris, New Bern, high
way commissioner, is reported as
having quoted on Wednesday may
or W. H. Potter, Beaufort, tt the
effect that he favors the bridge in
the present location as long as its
height above the water prevents
continual opening for small vessels.
Mayor Potter testified verbally
at the January hearing that he was
not in favor of the highway com
mission's plans to closely parallel
the present highway bridge. He
also added that it was unwise to
put an ocean span in a bridge of
the type proposed across Newport
river.
The highway commission con
tends that an ocean span can be
put in the bridge, if commerce at
the port warrants it.
W. F. Babcock, highways direc
tor, said that a bypass around
Morehead City would be needed in
the future. That and the bridge
that would go with it would cost
$6 million. He added that the US
Bureau of Public Roads "could not
justify* the bypass" at present.
Mr. Babcock added that the con
tract on the bridge, to cost about
$2 million, would be let this spring
or in early summer.
The Army Corps of Engineers
will hold a public hearing relative
to details of the bridge's center
span.
Three Beaufort
Boys Guilty
Of Break-Ins
t
? Court Puts Youths
On Probation
? Other Youngsters to
Go to Juvenile Court
Three 17 year-old Beaufort boys
were convicted in county court
Tuesday for breaking and entering
Jones Barbecue on the Beaufort -
Morehead causeway Wednesday
night, Jan. 27. They are Preston
H. Johnson, Thomas H. Sewell and
Leroy T. Jones.
The three were sentenced to a
year on the roads and put on pro
bation three years. One of the
conditions of probation is that none
of them may drive a car for a
year.
This limitation may be reduccd,
however, at the discretion of the
probation officer.
Sheriff Hugh Salter said that Se
well and Jones admitted also going
into Oliver Davis's fish house, at
the Beaufort bridge, and taking
three crates of soft drinks recent
ly
The Jones Barbecue break-in was
solved by deputy sheriff Brucc Ed
wards.
Taken from the barbecue place
was food, ISO in cash, cigars and
cigarettes.
Sheriff Salter also reported that
three Beaufort boys, all under 16,
who stole a bike from Julius Tay
lor's son in September, have been
been apprehended. They will be
given a hearing next week before
juvenile judge A. H. James.
The bike was recovered soon aft
er the theft.
Also in juvenile court will be sev
eral Salter Path children, 9 to 13
years old, who stole cigarettes,
chewing gum and candy Saturday
night from Edwin Guthrie's filling
station, Salter Path.
The youngsters were apprehend
ed by deputy sheriff George Smith.
Education Board Takes No
Action on Property Offer
Judge Suspends
90-Day Term
A Fort Macon Coast Guardsman,
Hastle Baber, was given 90 days
in jail Monday in Morehead City
recorder's court after the court
found him guilty of careless and
reckless driving.
The sentence was suspended by
judge Herbert O. Phillips on pay
ment of $100 and costs and the con
dition that Baber not operate a mo
tor vehicle for 90 days. The de
fendant was originally charged
with drunk driving but the court
amended the warrant to the charge
of careless and reckless driving.
In other court action, Carl F.
Knox of Morehead City was fined
$2S and court costs for issuing a
worthless check and James R.
Donahue of Camp Lejeune paid $10
and costs for failing to yield the
right of way.
A Morehead City man, Carlton
Pittman, received a 30-day jail sen
tence for public drunkenness and
Cecil Edward Ballou, also of More
head City, forfeited bond when he
was called and failed to appear to
answer charges of going the wrong
way on a one-way street.
The case against Edwin Dndlcy
and Joseph Smith were continued
until next Monday's term of court.
Chamber to Present Carteret Fun,
Sun Exhibit at Charlotte Coliseum
Morrhead City will be represent
ed with a display at the Sports
men's Show in the Coliseum at
Charlotte March 1-4.
The board of directors of the
Morehcad City chamber of com
merce has authorized expenditure
of $150 for rental of an exhibit
booth.
The Sportsmen's Motor Boat and
Vacation Show is returning to the
Coliseum for the third year. H. F.
Van Horn, director, says, "During
the first two years of its operation,
the Charlotte show established it
self as a higtly successful mer
chandising medium for firms and
organizations engaged in selling
sporting equipment ... if you are
in the marine field, certainly we
can introduce you to many of the
finest prospects in the two Caro
Unas."
J. A. DuBois, manager of the
chamber, told directors that this
reaort area must be sold to the
WMtorn part of "our own state)'
1/ Jack lUac aid, Atlantic Beach,
now in Charlotte and will handle
planning there. Capt. Ottis Puri
: foy has offered items for the ex
hibit as well as transportation in
! getting the items therfj.
Members of the cha/abcr of com
1 merce are invited supply their
individual postcards 'or folders for
distribution to the t)iousapd> who
will view Morehead City's coastal
i exhibit during its six-day stand.
In other business discussed, Ed
; gar Swann, director, inquired about
, progress in the collection of dues
and special advertising funds. The
manager said dues collections are
I ahead of 1951. Those who bave
; contributed to the extra budget for
i advertising have given generoua
i ly, but not enough members un
i derstand the importance of adver
tising NOW.
Dr. S. W. Hatcher, direotor, said
? that the Boy Scouts are consider
i ing establishing a camp in Car
i teret. Mr. DuBois was asked to
' write O. B. Roberts, Wilson, Scout
> executive, offering assistance la
getting the project under way.
The board agreed to drop the
idea of the chamber office at the
western end of town bccauae of the
excessive cost involved. Garland
Scruggs, director, reported on the
meeting of the National Associa
tion of Real Estate Boards, which
be attended in Washington.
Mr. DuBois stated that more of
the town's businessmen should at
tend state and national meetings
to become acquainted with state
and national leaders. He recom
mended that the chamber be rep
resented at the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress and the annual
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States.
Mr. DuBeis suggested that the
chamber, for $25, become a mem
ber of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress
Rufus Butner, president, presid
ed at the meeting. Preseat, in
addition to those mentioned, were
Shelby Freeman, Ooorge McNeill,
and S. A. Chalk.
' Members of the board of educa
tion, at their meeting Monday at
the education office, Beaufort, con
sidered offer from a property own
er to sell land near the Queen
Street school, Beaufort.
The land, known as the Pickett
property, includes a house and part
of it adjoins the present school
property. The board took no ac
tion. Sale price of $7,000 was con
sidered too high.
The board was informed that the
Industrial Commission will conduct
a hearing in Beaufort Feb. 2S on
an accident involving a Carteret
school bus. The minor accident
occurred in Craven county last
October.
Carteret education authorities
are of the opinion that the school
bus driver was not to blame and
therefore have requested that the
Industrial Commission hear the
case before damages to the other
driver are paid.
The damages, if paid, would
come from state funds and for that
reason the Industrial Commission
has authority to review the caae,
H. L. Joalyn, school superinten
dent, commented.
The board approved Mrs. Grace
Small Gamer as school treasurer
at Morehead City.
Mr. Joalyn announced that be
would attend the American Asso
ciation of School Administrators'
convention at Atlantic City Feb.
13-17. R. W. Davis, principal of
Camp Glenn school, is expected to
accompany him.
Present at the board meeting
were k. w. satrit jr., chairman,
Theodore Smith, W. B. Allen and
George Wallace.
Symphony Society Lacks
$40 of Mooting Quota
County symphony society officers
announced yesterday that only $40
more is needed to meet the $965
cost of having the North Carolina
Little Symphony here Tuesday.
The orchestra will present a con
cert at 2 p.m. for school children
and one at 8 p.m. for adults in the
Morehead City school auditorium.
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Feb. S
2:33 a.m.
2:S1 p.m.
9:11 a.m.
9:25 p.m.
Satarday, Fab. (
3:27 a.m.
3:50 p.m.
10:07 a.m.
10:18 p.m.
Sanday, Feb. 7
4:24 a.m.
4:51 p.m.
10:58 a.m.
11:07 p.m.
Moaday, Feb. 8
5:1* a.m.
5:47 p.m.
M.46 a.m.
11 :54 p.m.
Taeaday, Feb. ?
8:09 a.m.
8:34 p.m.
12:32 a.m.
Town Fathers Hear City
Manager Plan Explained
Morf head City commissioners
heard Leigh Wilson, counsel for the
League of Municipalities, explain
city manager types of government
Tuesday night at the board meet
ing at the municipal building.
Such a type of government can
be instituted either by the town
passing an ordinance or by having
the legislature paks a law putting
the eity manager plan into effeet
for the town.
"Statutory plan I)" is the basis
of all eity manager governments
in the state, Mr. Wilson comment
ed. It specifies methods to be fol
lowed and calls for a referendum
after the bill has been passed by
the legislature. In the referendum,
townspeople can accept or reject 1
the plan. i
Mr. Wilson said that most towns i
with city manager government op- I
erate on variations of the "D" plan, <
with the legislature passing a law i
that defines the plan desired by the
town I
Under a city manager type of ?
government, Mr. Wilson explained, '
the town board is the governing
md policy making body. The mayor
is recognized as the chief officer of
the city, but actual functions of the
city are in the hands of the man
ager.
Instituting a city manager plan
by ordinance means that the town
can hire a "business manager,"
'town supervisor," or "town man
ager," whatever the board wants
to call him. The board can specify
liis duties but those duties must not
conflict with the town chartcr.
Id reply to questions by the com
missioners, Mr Wilson said that
jf the 24 towns in the state of 5,000
to 10,000 population, 13 have city
managers. ( Morehead City would
t)e in that population category).
lie said that North Carolina is
tnown as a "city manager" state.
It ranks eighth in the nation in
lumber of city manager govern
ments.
Asked what he would consider a
qualified city manager, Mr. Wilson
>aid he would be a person who has
tiad engineering or public adminis
iration training, holds a bachelor's
iegree and has probably had some
graduate work, and second, he
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A. B. Cooper Takes Reins in All-Out i
Drive to Raise $30,000 for Chamber ?
Ronnie Finds Fossils
, ^ - ? ? ? ? ? ? w?~w
Rot Wf Gaboon appiaiaei hU geologic lind. a fo?Killi*d mastodon
tooth. Lrlii In front of hlm if part of a petrified crab and another
tooth, which be found at Merrimon.
Morehead Citizens
Would Like School
Planning to Start
Morehead City parents interested
| in seeing work progress on their
proposed new school have express- (
ed the hope that the funds being !
I accumulated by the county could
1 be put to use at once, either in
planning or building of a unit.
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, said this week that
the Morehead City school board has
been asked to make its plans ?
what it wants in the way of a
school, what subjects will be
taught, etc., so that a school can
be built to fit the program.
"When they do that, we can get
an architect and start getting some
plans drawn," Mr. Joslyn com
mented.
He expressed doubt that building
the school, unit by unit, would be
advisable. Because of location of
the school site, he said that it may
be subject to vandalism. The first
unit, he added, would have to in
clude a furn c room and lunch
room.
Harry Davis, curator of the state
museum, Raleigh, would be inter
ested in the finds of Ronnie Ca
hoon, 13-year-old seventh grader at
Beaufort school.
Ronnie, who lives at Merrimon,
has found a fossilized tooth, be
lieved at one time to have belong
ed to a mastodon, one of those
elephant-like creatures that roam
ed America in early geologic time.
Ronnie, a pupil in Mrs. Donnie
Dudley s room, said he found the
tooth in some newly-dredged land
near his home.
Also among his finds are part
of a petrified crab and another
tooth fossil.
County Court Receipts
Total $4,777 in January
County court receipts for Jan
uary amounted to $4,777.32, A. H.
James, clerk of superior court, re
ported Monday at the county board
meeting, Beaufort.
Received through county record
er's court was $2,850; superior
court $159.92; Morehead City re
corder's court (quarterly report),
$1,638.50. Probate and clerk's fees
amounted to $128.90.
A. B. Cooper has been named
chairman of the Morehead City
chamber of commerce finance
committee and on Wednesday night
launched a concentrated campaign
to raise a total of $30,000 for 1960.
The campaign will get under way
at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at the
Morehead City school auditorium.
Every member of the chamber
board of directors is a member of
the finance committee, Mr. Cooper
announced at an organizational
meeting Wednesday night at the
Hotel Fort Macon. Mr. Cooper re
quested that any one who was not
going to work on the campaign,
quit immediately.
"Our object is to raise enough
money so that the chamber can
operate as it should," Mr. Cooper
declared.
"We're putting $10,000 into the
chamber to generate business for
this area when we should be in
vesting $30,000," the chairman
said
"We're going up a hill. At the
top is prosperity, but we go just
a third of the way and quit."
Mr. Cooper said that he's actual
ly too busy to take on a fund rais 1
ing campaign. "But why am 1 1
this busy?" he asked. "Because 1
the chamber of commerce has pro- 1
moted this town and promoted the j 1
beach so that there are more mo
tels, more fishing piers, more busi
ness, new buildings and things you
never saw in this area 14 years
He conliuUc^ "We're at the point
now where a lot of us are juit ! <
breaking even. Now we've got to
get people here to spend money so
we can see some profit."
Named publicity chairman for
the campaign Wa.i Bob Simpson.
Attending Wednesday night's meet
ing were Rufus Butner, president
of the chamber of commerce; J.
A. DuBois, manager; Walter Mor
ris, Mr. Simpson, Ken Newsome,
Garland Scruggs, O. J. Morrow,
Jimmy Wallace and Shelby Free
man.
Weather Man Says
Ground Hog Saw
Shadow Tuesday
The ground hog saw his shadow
in Carteret Tuesday as the sun
came out on Ground Hog Day after
four days of rain and dark skies.
Even though the shadow sighting
is supposed to mean that we are
in for six more weeks of winter
weather, weather observer Stamey
Davis reports that temperature
readings continue to be the fall
like type enjoyed all winter.
High Low Wind
Monday 47 44 NNW
Tuesday 52 36 ENE
Wednesday 46 32 NW
Minister, Two Sons-in-Law
I
Serve FWB Churches Here
Free Will Baptists in the county
arc being served by three members
of the W. A. Hales family. Mr.
Hales and his sons-in-law, the Rev.
Henry J. Van Kluyve and the Rev.
Gordon Sebastian, arc all Free Will
Baptist ministers.
Mr. Hales is pastor of the First
Free Will Baptist church, Beaufort,
Mr. Van Kluyve is at Davis and
Mr. Sebastian is pastor of St.
John's Chapel, Stacy. This is the
seventh pastorate for Mr. Hales,
who has served at Florence, S. C.,
St.. Louis, Mo.. Norfolk, Va., Nash
ville, Tenn., Elizabeth City and Co
lumbia. His sons-in-law are filling
their first pastorates, although both
held student pastorates in Tennes
see.
Mr. Hales, a native of Kenly, was
educated at Johnson and Wilson
County schools. Mrs. Hales is a
native of Wilson. They have four
sons, James A. of Norfolk, Va.,
Thomas R. of Fort Story, Va., Wil
liam L. of Charlotte, and Charles
A. of Portsmouth, Va., as well as
four daughters. The daughters are
Virginia, now Mrs. Van Kluyve;
Hilda, now Mts. Sebastian; Betty,
now Mrs. Dewey Phelps of Norfolk,
Sec FAMILY, Page a
It's * family matter ... the lev. W. A. Halm, right, and his two '
sons-in-law, the Rev. Henry Vaa Kluyve, left, and (fee Rev. Gordoa
Sebastian arc Free WUl Baptlat minis (era, all serving charge* la thia
county.
Town Trades
Land to Provide
Site for Plant
Newport town commissioners
were informed Tuesday night that
Ihe land for location of Carteret
Industries, Inc., on the Nine-Foot
road has been cleared, prepara
tory to construction of the plant.
George Ball, town attorney, was
requested to draw a deed whic..
would provide for an exchange of
land between the town and W. H.
Bell Jr., an exchange made to pro
vide a site for the plant.
Mi. ' ill was aUo asked to io
resli. .u#* the town's authority for
9ra*wig an ordinance which would
prevent the building and use of
outside toilets.
Street commissioner John Kelly
was asked to contact Southern rail
way regarding the opening of W.
Railroad Street and ditching, also
the improvement of the intersec
tion of W. Railroad and Johnson
streets.
The board asked that the state
be requested to raise highway
signs. They are so low, the board
said, that motorists at intersec
tions can't see traffic because the
signs arc in the way.
Commissioner B. R. Garner was
appointed police supervisor for
February. He was also requested
to contact Lonnie Howard, con
tractor, relative to placing dirt in
driveways in West Newport.
Miss Edith Lockey, clerk, report
ed that the balance in the general
Fund, after payment of January
bills, would be $2,616.19.
Present at the meeting, in addi
tion to those mentioned, were May
ur Leon Mann Jr., commissioners
Leslie Bercegcay, C. H. Lockey,
and Wilbur Garner.
Another Wreck
At Ann-Turner
Mrs. Leoldcn Glllikin. Otway,
was admitted to the Morchead City
hospital yesterday morning with
injuries suffered in a two-car col
lision at the intersection of Ann
and Turner Street*, Beaufort, at
10:10 a.m. Thursday.
According to police chief Guy
Springle, the car in which Mrs.
Gillikin was riding, a 1953 Desoto,
being driven by Letha Gillikin, was
struck at the intersection by a one
ton Dodge pickup being driven by
Dewey Hardesty. The Gillikin car.
going north on Turner, was turned
on its side by the collision.
Police quoted Hardesty as say
ing he was going west on Ann
Street. He stopped at Turner to
?ec if there were any cars ap
proaching the intersection on Tur
ner After lookihg to his right to
check south-bound traffic, Hardes
ty said that he looked to his left
tnd saw the Gillikin car upon him.
The front bumper of Hardesty'*
pickup caught the right rear fen
der of the Gillikin vehicle.
Damage to both cars was rela
tively minor, according to police
reports. That to Hardesty's pickup
was estimated at less than $25
while that to the Gillikin auto was
>et at $1S0.
Mrs. GUllkin's mother, Gladys
Knudsen, was also in the car with
the two Gillikin women. All three
were riding in the front scat. Mrs.
Knudsen and Letha Gillikin e*cap
pd uninjured. Hardesty, who was
not injured, was alone In his truck.
No charges were filed against
either driver. Numerous accident*
have occurred at Uw intersftiop.
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