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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "" 49th YEAR, NO. 29. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. APRIL 8, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Grand Jury Blasts County Airport Lenster Frazier to Serve Two Years for Assaulting Woman Lenster (Bear) Frailer was sent 4 to the roads for two years in su perior court this week. He pleaded guilty to assault on a female. He had bc.?i charged with attempt to commit rape. The prosecuting witness was An nie D. Shepherd, Beaufort, who testified that Frazier assaulted her on the road by the Core Creek Methodist Church Nov. 2, 1959. She said that Frazier forced her car off the road, broke into her car which was locked, made her get in his car and then drove down the road by the Core Creek church. That was where she jumped out and ran into a nearby house for help. Sent to the roads for six months was Willie Knight, who pleaded guilty to transporting non-taxpaid whiskey. Sentenced to a year in prison was Charles Henry Dunn, charged with failing to comply with a court or der specifying that he support his family. William Lester Johnson, charged with eight counts of breaking, en tering and theft, was put on proba tion five years. His two-year sen tence was suspended on condition that he pay $100 to Pine Knoll Shores as reimbursement for loss. Charles Lessene, charged with assault and resisting arrest, plead ed guilty to resisting arrest. The state accepted the plea and he was given 60 days, suspended on pay ment of costs and 12 months good behavior. William Odom pleaded guilty to stealing a check. His six-month sentence was suspended on pay ment of costs and on condition that Odom stay on good behavior two years. Shirley Maiine Miim was found guilty of careless and reckleu driv ing. resitting arrest and speeding, lodgment was deferred pending payment of $50 fine and costs. Sarah Reaves Smith was found guilty of drunken driving and paid $100 and costs. Elijah Lewis plead ed guilty to public drunkenness, but ois 90-day sentence need not be served if he receives treatment front a Veterans' hospital prior to June 1. If he's arrested for pub lic drunkenness prior to that date, the sentence is to be served. The state did not prosecute An nie Mac Hinson on a charge of hav ing bootleg whiskey for sale. In another case in which she faced the same charge she did not con test the charges and paid costs. Otis N. Fulford got 90 days for carelcis and reckless driving, sen tence suspended on payment of $100 and costs. The seduction charge against David Ellis Willis was dropped, since Willis has married the plaintiff. Eddie Lee Collins pleaded guilty to non-support. His six-month sen tence was suspended on payment of costs and $15 weekly for his family's support. Allen Anderson's judgment was deferred providing he pay $8 a week for the support of Daniel Le roy Anderson. The case against Ernest Mattocks Jr., non-support, was dropped because the warrant did not state a crime, according to the court. Remanded to recorder's court was the case against Curtis Davis Jr., charged with non-support. Granted a divorce were Mary J. Gurley and George A. Gurley, the mother to have custody of a 6-year old daughter. The state decided not to prose See COURT, Page Z Jaycees to Select Miss Carteret Beaufort Jaycees voted Mon day night at the Scout building to co-sponsor with the Morehead City Jaycees a Miss Carteret County in the state beauty pag eant this year. The club does not ordinarily meet the first Monday of the month, but a special meeting was called to see whether mem bers would rather sponsor a Miss Beaufort or co-sponsor a Miss Carteret County. The girl representing the coun ty will enter the Miss North Car olina contest this summer. Should she win, she would be eligible for the Miss America title. FHA Girls Will Do Odd Jobs As part of their FHA week ac tivities, members of the Morehead City chapter, Future Homemakers of America, will be available to do odd jobs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to morrow. Folks having odd jobs they can't or haven't time to do are invited to call Miss Ann Couch, home eco nomics teacher, at PA6-5067 and an FHA girl will be sent to their home. The girls will wash a car for $1, wash windows for 5 cents or 10 cents per window, depending on the size, mow and rake lawns for 50 cents or $1 and babysit for 50 cents per hour. Prices for other jobs can be obtained from any FHA'er or by calling the above number. Newport Board Discusses 'High Bill with Auditor Josiah Bailey, auditor, was pres-. ent at the Newport commissioners meeting Tuesday night at the town hail to give reasons for the amount of his bill and to make recommen dations for changes in the book keeping system. He appeared at the request of the commissioners after they received a bill for near ly $800 for last year's audit. Mr. Bailey told the commission ers that the smaller the business or municipality, the higher the fee for auditing usually runs. He said this was because of the amount of annual bookkeeping the audi tor must do himself. Newport has two part-time book keeping employees, Miss Edith Lockey for the administrative de partment and Junius Creech for the water department. The auditor stated that although he considered his bill a fair one, his office had absorbed a part of the cost be cause he did not feel that Newport could afford to spend such a large portion of its tax levy on an audit. Commissioner Bennie Garner said that when the audit was start ed several years ago, he was un der the impression that the audit cost would decrease over the years. Instead, he said, it seems to have gotten higher. He inquir ed if it would continue to get high er every year until the town was broke. He also asked if the law required a town to have an audit. Included in the audit were rec ommendations made by Mr. Bailey to improve the bookkeeping sys tem and thus, he said, lower the audit cost. One of these was the employment of a full-time book keeper by the town. Commissioner Leslie Bercegcay asked Mr. Bailey if the addition of such a person would cut his fee in half. The auditor replied that it would be at least half, possibly more. The board then discussed which would be cheaper in the long run, hiring a full time bookkeeper and paying Mr. Bailey half as much as his present bill, or continue the present set up. They agreed to pay Mr. Bailey for the past year's audit and expressed their thanks to him for his efforts to help the town. In other business, Lionel Gar ner asked the board s help in get ting rid of stray dogs in his neigh borhood, which he says are a men ace to residents. After discussion, the board ap proved a motion to erect a wire house for stray dogs. Any such dog caught will be kept in con finement, fed and watered for 48 hours, after which it will be dis posed of. Mr. Garner also requested that the town install a catch basin in the ditch in front of his home, to prevent undermining of his drive way. The commissioners told him that tht road was on the state sys tem and referred him to highway officials. A sample application for a build ing permit was approved and the fee for such application was set at $2, effective April 15, 1960. Commissioner Bercegeay re quested permission to erect speed limit signs in the residential area in which he lives. He said there are a considerable number of chil dren in the area and the residents would like to erect conspicuous See NEWPORT, Page 2 Morehead City Adopts Tentative Budget, Tax Rate Tuesday Night Seven Appear In Beach Court Seven defendants appeared in Atlantic Bcach mayor's court Tues day night at the town hall. Fined $5, ordered to pay court costs and stay away from the bcach six months were Marvin E. Thomas and Elmer G. Waddcll, both of Havelock. Thomas was charged with using loud and pro fane language and disturbing the peace. Waddcll was charged with public drunkenness, resisting ar rest and using loud and profane language. The following paid costs: Elvis E. Bruner, Morehcad City, fight ing and disturbing the peace; Bruce R. Williams, Wildwooct, fighting and disturbing the peace. John Mahan Aldrich and Lonnie J. Ketter, both of Cherry Point, public drunkenness. C. D. Baker, Cherry Point, charged with public drunkenness, was turned over to his command ing officer at the Marine base. moreneaa Liiy commissioners i adopted what they call a "realistic budget" at their meeting Tuesday night at the municipal building. The budget totals $268,713.51. While the board set a tentative lax rate of $1 95 per hundred dol lars of valuation, no conclusive ac tion will be taken until an account ant with the Local Government commission reviews the budget. W. E. Easterling, secretary of the Local Government commission, contacted mayor George Dill by phone Wednesday morning and said that the accountant, Gordon Bell, would visit Morchcad City Monday. If the $1.95 rale becomes final, it would be broken down as follows: $1.30 general operating expenses; 50 cents for paying off bonds; 10 cents to the rccrcation commission and 5 cents to the Morchcad City hospital. The amount of money needed for cach department's operation during 1 $60-61, as submitted by the com missioner heading the department, follows: public works (street, gar bage collection and sewers), $66, 566.51; fire, $34,845; buildings and grounds, $12,165; police depart ment, $41,679, and general town ad ministration, $113,458. See BUDGET, Page 2 Spring Chamber Session Will Be April 28, Board Decides Director* of the M ?rehe ad City chamber of commerce, meeting Monday night, aet Thursday, April 78, as the date of the spring mem bership meeting. Garland Scruggs, Ed Swann and Jimmy Wallace were named as a committee to se lect the Citizen of the Year for 1959 and the recipients of merit awards for travel promotion. With the cooperation of Vernon Paul, manager of the Hotel Fort Macon, the directors authorized J. A. DuBois, manager, to proceed with enlargement and partitioning of the chamber office in the lobby of the hotel. Mr. Paul will be paid a rental of $25 monthly for the space. Directors voted that the follow ing amounts be made available immediately to sub-committees of the advertising committee to get promotion projects started: Fab ulous Fishermen, $1,000; signs, $1,508 to be used as needed for signs considered most important. Literature: $300 (or preparation of lay outs, obtaining photos, etc. for brochures on Carteret county; newspaper and magazine, *825 to cover ads in resort sections of state papers and magazines; public re lations: $300 as a stand-by fund to transport and display the Carteret county exhibit when necessary. An amount will be voted to the radio-tv committee, the directors said, when the committee submits an estimate on need. The board voted a salary for 30 months to Bob Simpson as pub licist. Mr. 8crnffs reported on the in dustrial development conference at Goldsboro and emphasised the need of close community coopera tion and private investment cap ital if industry is to be attracted I to this county. Mr. DuBois reported on the llat tcras Yacht launching, the Sports men* Show at Charlotte and the NC Travel Council meeting at Dur ham. To encourage attendance at the US Chamber of Commerce meet ing, the board authorized partial payment of expense! incurred by those attending from the chamber. Mr. DuBois was asked to write a letter to the Beaufort basketball team commending them as state champions, also a letter of thanks to the Morchcad City high school band for its fine performance at the yacht launching. The treasurer reported a bal ance of $4,280.18. Pledged to date for 1980 Is $23,456. President Rofus Butner presided. Present were Mr. Scruggs, Edgar Swann, Shelby Freeman, Jimmy Wallace, Russell Outlaw, Mr. Simpson and Mr. DuBois. School Traffic Laws Clarified Mayor W. II. Potter, Beaufort, reminds motorists that parking at Beaufort school is permitted on the south side of Mulberry street only. Between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on school days traffic shall proceed only from west to cast. The mayor explains that the above rules were made in the in terest of safety of school children in compliance with requests by school officials and "interested parents." Chief of police Guy Springle re ports that cars have been stopping in front of the school to pick up children. That is not objectionable as long as the parents pull up in front of the school for a few min utes, pick up the children and move on. Some parents, however, park in front of the school for a much longer period, waiting for school to let out atid thus create the same traffic hazard that the no parking ordinance was intended to elim inate. Clerk to Check Road Program County commissioners on Mon day authorized the clerk, Odell Merrill, to investigate thoroughly the county's status in the state's secondary road paving program. Mr. Merrill plans to check on the appropriations made (or road work in Uie county in the past sev eral years and the actual work done. "All we're getting are 'priorities' on road paving, no work, and the people are getting upset," Mr. Mer rill observed. The county advertised in the March 1(60 issue of Bond Buyer that it was in a position to pur chase outstanding bonds. The ad brought response ot a bondholder who is willing to sell $13,000 in bonds. The commissioners author ized tha auditor to buy them. The board set the tax rate, ten tatively, for 1960-61 at tl.6S, same as last year. Marine Killed In Afternoon Crash Monday John II. Forbes, 26, Camp Lc jeune, was killed at 4:45 p.m. Mon day on highway 24, eight miles west of Morehead City. Forbes was driving a 1955 Mer cury which failed to make a curve. Injured in the accident was John ! Wallace Owens, also of Camp Le jeune. He suffered a broken back. According to highway patrolman W. E. Pickard, the car was head ed east. It skidded on the curve and went down an embankment. The occupants were thrown out and the car landed on top of them. The highway was wet and the rear tires were slick, the patrol man said. The car was demolish ed. Forbes' death is the second high way fatality in the county this year. The first occurred just five weeks prior to the second, when Willie Willis, Sea Level, died in an auto accident Monday, Feb. 29. Coroner David Munden attribut ed Forbes' death to internal in juries. Airport Chairman Says Need Of Funds Blocks Action The (rand jury dive-bombed the Beaufort-Mofehead4 airport this week, citing condition*! there that needed cor rection. The jurors, in their report, stated that the runways and taxi strips are littered with fragment* of glass, clam shells, as well as beer cans and other debris. This was termed a Mrs. G. T. Spivey ... to head district District Demonstration Clubs to Install Chairman Board Names Committeemen With one exception, school com mitteemen whose terms expire, were reappointed by the county board of education Monday at its meeting in the courthouse annex. Replacing Lawrence Garner at ?fotafeort will be Lester E. Haskett. Reappointed to the Newport com mittee is Nathan Garner. Reappointed to the Beaufort school committee are David Hill and George Huntley Jr.; Camp Glenn, Roger Jones and Kenneth Wagner; Morehead City, Mrs. George Dill and W. C. Carlton. All will serve three-year terms. School committeemen serve stag gered terms so that insofar as possible, committeemen with pre vious experience remain in office. George Wallace, member of the board, presented the Morehead City school committee's report on needs the committee feels should be met in its proposed new school. The board requested the clerk and county school superintendent, H. L. Joslyn, to write a letter of congratulations to the Beaufort bas ketball team for winning the state championship. Appointed treasurer at Smyrna school, to succeed Mrs. Peggy Steele was Mrs. Delores Gillikin. Board members at the meeting, in addition to Mr. Wallace, were T. B. Smith and Robert Safrit Jr., chairman. ? Mrs. G. T. Spivey. Beaufort, will be installed as chairman of the 20th district, Home Demonstration clubs, at the district meeting Wed nesday in Trinity Methodist church, Jacksonville. Mrs. Spivey will succeed Mrs. John Gillette, Onslow county. Mrs. Gillette will preside at Wednes day's meeting. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the meeting at 10. Coun Ue? included in the 20th district are Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow and Pamlico. Among the speakers will be Mrs. Samuel Levering, Ararat, Va., who will speak on Our Responsibility in Our Community. Mrs. Levering is director and guide on Home Dem onstration United Nations tours. The district achievement report will be given by Mrs. Spivey. The Rev. T. R. Jenkins, pastor of the church and former pastor of Ann Street Methodist church, Beaufort, will extend greetings. Music in the afternoon will be furnished by the Marine Corps band from Camp Lcjeune. Carteret women serving on com mittees for the meeting are Mrs. Charles Stanley, chairman of the time and place committee; Mrs. E. C. McLawhorn, nominating com mittee; Mrs. Tom Carraway, reso lutions; Mrs. Joe Barnes, registra tion, and Mrs. R. P. Shrakc, cour tesy. Mrs. Floy Garner, county home agent, invites all county Home Demonstration club members to at tend. -nazaraous conaiuon uiai couia cause injury to people and damage to planes. The jurors said that the entrance road to the airport is in a poor i state; that the taxi strips and run ways are used by many types of vehicles. Sections of fence are missing, thus permitting easy ac cess to the airport. It was pointed out that the wind direction T is not operating and this could cause a plane accident; boundary lights are in need of re pair and some are out of position. The entrance doors to the adminis tration building have deteriorated and the sign. Beaufort Morehead City Airport, is in need of repair. The report also stated that the jurors saw a 1958 Ford with license tax VX373, occupied by two white women, being driven on the taxi strips and runways, and at one time it stopped at the northwest end of runway 32, which was the one on which planes were to land and take off at the time. The grand jury recommended that all these conditions be correct ed. especially the wind indicator, prior to May, the time Piedmont airlines starts operation. The report also recommended that the sheriff s department patrol the airport and block illegal entry ways. It said the county should bear the cost of all improvements, if the money is not available other wise. Glenn Adair, chairman of the air port commission, said yesterday that he would be glad to join with the grand jury in requesting AGAIN, as he did last May, that the county commissioners provide funds for maintenance. Mr. Adair said that he presented a budget and went over it in detail with the county commissioners but they did not sec fit to appropriate any money for maintenance. The present airport commission, he explained, is encumbered by leases to private individuals for certain portions of the airport property and the income from that rental is not sufficient to meet maintenance costs. z The airport commission chair man said that the road is a county road and every method has been tried to get it improved. He said that in his budget request last year he asked for $2,000 to pave the road. He suggested then that when the approaches to the North River bridge were paved this spring, the road could be paved at nominal co*t. "But the county commissioners did not give us any funds," Mr. Adair repeated. The wind T that is on the airport was put up by Ben Alford, a mem ber of the commission, with the co operation of a local metal shop. He said that this wind indicator is now See AIRPORT BLAST, Page 2 Groups Ask Vote on Bond Of $1 Million for Hospital Newport Rotary To Sell Tissues Newport Rotarians discussed plans for financing the dedication of the new postofficc at their meet ing Monday night. The discussion was led by Derryl Garner and Har old Chartley, program co-chair men. It is hoped that the club can have the dedication in June. Since there will be some expense involv ed, it was dccidcd to have a door -to-door facial tissue sale to raise money. The sale will begin early next week. Visiting Rotarians at the meeting were Gannon Talbcrt and Tom D. Lewis from the Morehead City club. The Rev. M. O. Sears, pas tor of Newport Missionary Baptist church, and the Rev. Charles Staf ford of Bunnlevel, who is conduct ing a revival here this week, were guests of Rotarian Drrryl Garner. E. B. Comer, Rotary president, presided. Ueeue Reinstated Alex John Willis, route 1 New port, baa had his driving privi leges reinstated by the Motor Ve ? Terming the Morf head City hos pital "obsolete," doctors of the county and members of the More head City hospital board of trus tees appeared before county com missioners Wednesday night at the courthouse, Beaufort, and asked the commissioners to call for a ref erendum on borrowing approxi mately a million dollars for a Car teret General Hospital. The commissioners said they would make a decision at their May meeting. Dr. John Morris, spokesman for the group, said, "The trustees face constant frustration in trying to operate the present Morchcad City hospital plant because of costly re pairs ... All expenditures on the building mean only patchwork and after expensive outlays they still have an old hospital buUding." He added, "In view of the fact that it takes from 18 months to three years to build a new modern hospital even after funds arc avail able, it is urgent that something be done at once . . It is proposed that the hospital be built with federal funds meet ing 55 per cent of the cost and lo cal funds, 45 prr cent. Federal funds are available on projects ap proved by the State Medical Care commission. The commission must have applications for the funds by June 30, Dr. Morris said. Application by this county can be filed if the county authorize* a vote on the bond issue in the No vember general election, he added. Because the Medical Care com mission is aware of the pressing need for a new hospital in this area. Dr. Morris said Carteret's application would be given high priority. The Medical Care commission has recommended a 75 bed hos pital that would cost $1,350,000. On a 45 per cent basis, the county would have to pay $607,500. Dr. Morris suggested that the county seriously consider building a 100-bcd hospital plant, even though the Mcdical Care cominis See HOSPITAL, Page 2 Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, April 8 5:37 a.m. 12:02 a.m. | 6:06 p.m. Saturday, April 9 6:24 a.m. 12:25 a.m. I 6:47 p.m. 12:45 p.m. Sunday, April 1* 7:06 a.m. 1:10 a.m.! 7:27 p.m. 1:2S p.m. Monday, April 11 7:48 a.m. 1:56 a.m. 8:06 p.m. 2:09 p.m. Taesday, April 12 8:31 j.m. 2:39 a.m. 8:48 p.m. 2:50 p.m. Hancock Park Residents Ask Morehead'sAid Three residents of Hancock Park, Beaufort, appeared before the Morchead City town board Tuesday night at the town hall to request the town's assistance in opening a clogged sewer in the Hancock Park area. George Herbert, spokesman, said that the town of Beaufort would not allow its men and equipment to go into the area, which is out side of town. He explained that heretofore, when theic was trouble with the sewage line, the Hancock Park residents on the line paid the town to make the necessary re pairs. (Beaufort town authorities state that a court order, arising out of an annexation fight, prohibits their equipment from going into the out of-town section). Mr. Herbert said that W. H. Pot ter, mayor of Beaufort, has told him that any equipment from an other town that comes through Beaufort will be confiscated. Mr. Herbert said he didn't want Morehead City's help if it would cause hard feeling between the two towns. Mayor Dill commented, "I think we'd be sticking out heads in a family fight. In view of what the mayor has told >ou, there would be hard feeling." Mr. Herbert said that he had tried to get help from every con tractor, plumber, as well is from the towns of Newport, Havelock, Swansboro, as well as Cherry Point. He said he would be willing to buy equipment, but such pur i chase would not help in the present emergency situation. Commissioner S. C. Holloway suggested that Mr. Herbert con tact the county health department. "If the county requested our equipment, we would be obligated to let the county have it to alleviate a menace to health," Mr. Holloway observed. Accompanying Mr. Herbert were Thurman Salter and Charles Bell. Board Discusses Parking Meters Town commissioners discusscd briefly the town's policy on park ing meters Tuesday night at the meeting in the municipal building. Dr. Russell Outlaw, a town com missioner, said people from out of town had been complaining about getting parking tickets. He said that he had been asked by the Chamber of Commerce to request that the parking meter ordinance be enforced impartially. Mayor George Dill said that it is. Dr. Outlaw contended that local people never get into court. George McNeill, town attorney, and court solicitor, said few local people get into court because they pay their fines. The out-of-town people think they can "beat the rap," and thus be come indignant when a warrant is served on them in their home town. The overparklng fine is $1. After 24 hours, the fine is $2. After that, notice is sent and if no response is forthcoming, a warrant is served. When the defendant comes into court, the penalty is usually the $2 fine, plus a third of the court costs and any other charges attendant to serving the warrant. To show that overparking fines arc being paid by most, clerk John Lashlcy reported that two weeks' collection in overtime parking fines totaled $87. The town attorney said, "Either you enforce your parking meter ordinance or forget it entirely" Dr. Outlaw also said that there arc a lot of cars of "prominent citizens" that don't have town tags on them. He said he wished the police would walk around and tag some of them while they're parked in front of people's homes. Walter Morris, commissioner, re ported that the rescue squad had submitted its list of members and by-laws. He said he hadn't read the by-laws thoroughly so the board tabled action on accepting them until the May meeting. Lkemse Returned James Hibbs Carroll of Newport has had his driver's license rein stated by the North Carolina De partment of Motor Vehicles, effec tive Feb. 24.
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