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
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It looks like a New England snow scene, but it's not. It's Craven Street, Beaufort, looking north to Ann.
News-Times Photo* by McComb
Summer doesn't seem just a few weeks away. The Atlantic Beach hotel wears a mantle of white.
The beach is full of snow, except where the tide has sipped the white stuff off into the sea.
Building this monster arc Noven Mason ami Jimmy Terrell, More
head Cltjr. The third contractor on the job, ion Vickroy, was busy
getting more mow when the picture was taken.
Tom Hewitt, Bcaafort, tries to clean snow off a Front Street aide
walk with a long-handled brush. Very few folks around here own a
?now shovel.
Meredith Willis, 24-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Wil
lis, 3209 Arendell St., Morehead City, wanted a snow man. So Daddy
made her one, only it turned out to be a bosomy snow lady.
W. C. Carlton, Morrhrad City, left, elaims the profile on this one
looks like George Washington. At right is Judy Carlton. "George"
has red berries for a month and eyelashes.
True sculptors are Borden Wallace, Eugene Canfield, Steve Wick
Iter, Phil Munden and Sid Horton, who made this buffalo in front
of the Wallace home, 1910 Evans St., Morehead City.
In the Malcolm Collins' yard, Morehead City, were Mr. and Mrs.
Frosty. Mrs. Frosty demonstrates bow out of step the seasons are
by wearing a spring hat of real yellow daffodils and a conch shell.
Shrine Party
The Carteret County Shrine club
will entertain* members and wives
at a dinner dance at 7:30 Saturday
night at the Rex restaurant, More
head City. Dinner will be dutch.
Admission will be by dues card.
Cards will be available at the door.
Tida Table
Tides it the Beiafart Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, March IS
9:36 a.m.
9:56 p.m.
3:40 a.m.
3:54 p.m.
Wednesday, March It
10:23 a.m.
10:45 p.m.
4:20 a.m.
4:30 p.m:
Thursday, March 1}
11:16 a.m.
11:41 p.m.
5:04 a.m.
5:12 p.m.
Friday, March 18
12:14 a.m.
5:56 a.m.
6:04 p.m.
Payroll at Cherry Point Air Base
Last Year Totaled $35 Million
Cherry Point pat $33 million in
circulation in this area through
payrolls last year.
Of that amount, $19 million went
to military personnel working at
the base and S16 million to federal
civilian employees working there.
The tit millloa payroll was dis
bursed locally at Cherry Point, ac
cording to the Informational Serv
ices Office. The amount does not
include pay to military personnel
under Cherry Point command who
are based at New River (Camp
Lejeune) nor does it include allot
ments, to military dependents, dis
bursed by Headquarters Marine
Corp*.
Another eighteen million dollars
was spent in construction at the 1
air base and 80 per cent of that
went to North Carolina firms and
contractors, thus bolstering the
economy of this area.
Of the $18 million, $10 million
was spent for Capehart homes for .
officers and enlisted personnel, $2
million for new hangars, $3 mil
lion for paving and utilities for
hangars and runways.
During 1959, Cherry Point's sup
ply department purchased $730,000
in items from North Carolina busi
ness firms. Small businesses re
ceived approximately 70 per cent i
a f that.
Donation of surplus prbperty to
Ihc North Carolina Kcdkral Sur
plus Property division during 1959
totaled $831,560. That figure rep
resents the acquisition cost of
items donated. Surplus property
donated to the state in other years
totaled: 1955?1341,154; 1956 -T25,
236; 1957 ? $812,504>; 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
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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
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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.