CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ,#' 49th YEAR, NO. 22. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY8 Heavy Snow Fall Blankets Carteret ai'. "2k ?? iJJLL.'^LjsiL x ; and 1958? II, 155,730. Items of surplus property donat ed to the state include hand tools, hardware, vehicles and parts, con struction equipment, metal and wood-working machinery, electric al and electronics equipment! and miicellaneous material such ai of fice and medical supplies and anninmont M|iaa|>aB?aM All of Carteret ? and Carolina ? woke up to a Winter Wonderland Saturday. A light snow that started at 10:30 Friday night piled up to 6 powdery inches by 7 o'clock Saturday morning. The snowfall was the third in ten days and the heaviest in this area in years. Two inches of snow fell Wednesday, March 2; 4 inches fell last Wednesday, March 9, followed by the 6 inches Saturday. The total snowfall has been 12 inches. Stamey Davis, who holds weather records for this area back to 1947, says that in the past 13 years this has been nit- iirsi mari-ii wuii riiuw. ii b cii- ? ? ??-*- IU..I kkla ? ?- ; .. I tirely possible that this year's is Carteret's first March snowfall in a quarter of a century or more. The entire state was blanketed and the western part of North Car olina, around West Jefferson, has been in headlines nationwide. Fam ilies 'in the mountain area around the little town arc snowbound, in need of food and mcdical supplies. State highway forces did a tre mendous job in Carteret, clearing the highways early Saturday with road graders. Road crews were also out, clearing the snow from bridges. The snow continued falling until about 10 a.m. Saturday. Then the sun broke through and melting be gan. Bui not before the youngsters were able to erect monuments ? snow men and snow ladies ? to the snow that happily came on Satur day. The dry snow was not conducive, at first, to rolling snowballs, but as it became wetter the snow sculpting became easier. The snow figures were embellished with all sorts of items to represent eyes, nose, and mouth, such as light bulbs (different colored), buttons, oyster shells, coal, carrots, and pyracantha berries. Some snow men had evergreen or weeds stuffed under their hats for hair. A popular headgear was the Bali straw hat. Mama snow ladies were draped with calico aprons, scarves, bandannas, and one even held a sprig of evergreen in her hand. Coast Guardsmen on the Chilula put up a 10-foot snow man. Step ladders, wagons, all sorts of de vice! were used by builders to lift parts of giant snow figures to tow ering heights. Weather observer Davis reports night temperatures this month the coldest thus far this winter. Mercury has plunged into the twenties. Twenty degrees Sunday night a week ago, March 6, was the coldest thus far this winter. Temperature ranges and wind directions since March 3 were as follows : Mr. Davis reports that the two snowfalls last week totaled only about three-quarters of an inch in real moisture. In other words, had the snow been rain, it would have totaled .78 inches. Although camellias have been damaged by the cold, it is believ ed that the azaleas will survive without damace. March 3 March 4 March 5 March 6 March 7 March 8 March 9 March 10 March 11 March 12 March 13 High Low Wind 59 32 WNW 42 27 WNW 37 22 WNW 38 20 NW 40 22 W 37 28 NW 38 26 NE 39 29 WNW 39 28 NE 38 31 NW 42 24 W Smyrna Seniors Sponsor Play Smyrna seniors have invited the Carteret Community theatre to pre sent A Man Called Peter at the Smyrna school auditorium Thurs day night. Curtain will be at S p.m. A Man Called Peter is a play based on the life of Dr. Peter Mar shall, Scottish immigrant, who was pastor of one of the leading church es in Washington, D. C., and event ually becamc chaplain of the Unit ed States Senate. Playing the role of Peter Mar shall is the Rev. J. P. Mansfield, pastor of Camp Glenn Methodist church. Mrs. Marshall is played by Georgette Beaver, Morehcad City. Others in the cast arc Lillian Frances Giddens, Jimmy Wheat ley, Thomas ' Rcspess, Michael Lewis, Glenn Adair, Barbara Nich ols, Doris Phillips, Wayne King, Jean Holt, Johnny Fusscll, Peggy Holt, Ruth Peeling, and Hortense Boomer, who also directed the pro duction. February Court Receipts Total $1,765, Clerk Say? County court receipt* for Febru ary totaled $1,765.04, according to A- H. James, clerk of lupcrior court. Received through county court was $1,519.51, from superior court *124.M. Probate and clerk'i fees a tO $12ft ft Three Hurt When Two Cars Crash at Corner Throe people received minor in juries as the result of a traffic ac cident at 5:38 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of 20th and Bridges Street. All three were taken to the Morehead City hospital where they were released after treatment. According to police reports, Francis Douglas Arthur. 19, 1538 Ann St., Beaufort was going north on 20th Street in a 1960 Thunder bird. He had stopped at the inter section of Bridges Street but was unable to see oncoming traffic be cause of parked cars obstructing his view. As he pulled out into Bridges, his car was struck by a car being driven by Frederick Ray Tillery, 32, of Morehead City. Police estimated damage to Ar thur's car at $500 and set that to Tillery's 1954 Chevrolet at $350. Arthur was issued a citation for failing to yield the right of way while Tillery was cited for speed ing. Injured in the mishap, besides Arthur who received a cut nose and bruised ribs, was Rupert Dan iels of Cedar Island who received a cut lip and Carolyn Rice of Crab Point who escaped with cuts on her head. Both Daniels and Rice were pas sengers in Arthur's car. Science Fair Will be Friday . Alton Taylor, science teacher at Morehead City school who is in charge of the science fair, announc ed yesterday that the fair will be conducted only one day, Friday. The fair was originally schedul ed for two days this week, Thurs day and Friday. Judges for the fair will be Dr. Gerald Posner, Dr. Austin Wil liams, both of the Institute of Fish eries Research, UNC, and Mrs. John Vernberg, holder of a doc torate degree in science, from Beaufort. Exhibits, entered by school pu pils, will be judged at 10 a.m. Fri day. The fair will be open to the public from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday. Civil Court Begins Monday A one-week term of civil court Cot under way yesterday morning in the courthouse, Beaufort. Judge Malcolm C. Paul is presiding. Sixteen divorce cases were dock eted yesterday. Three were con tinued. Among the divorces grant ed yesterday morning were Earlie B. Rowe vs. Arline Rowe, Ben jamin Williams vs. Muriel Wil liams, Mabel Coe vs. John Samuel Coe and Esther E. Lawrence vs. Grover Lawrence. Jurors hearing the above actions were Theodore Phillips, G. E. San derson, S. C. Holloway, A. F. Bry an, James D. Terrell, I*eamon Eu banks, Charles H. Barker, Bert C. Mears, Earl W. Pincr, Mrs. Irene W. Midgett, E. T. Miller and John T. Hardesty. Water at Crab Point Will be Off Six Hours Water at Crab Point will be off six hours today, beginning at 9 a.m. according to C. W. Williams, manager of Carolina Water Co. Mr. Williams said the cutoff is necessary to move the water line that spans Calico Creek bridge where the new bridge is being put in. There is a possibility, he added, that the water will not be off as long as six hours. Effort will be made, he said, to make the cutoff as short as possible. Why It Waaa't Then Due to breakdown of a linotype machine Thursday, some at the news scheduled for Friday's paper did not appear. The newsstoriea and other material that had to be excluded from Friday'a paper ap pear in today'* paper.