CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
49th YEAR, NO. 60. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Governor Will Address Convention
Miss Carteret Says Thank You
Miss Norma Jean Ingram, who
has been chosen as Miss Carteret
County and will represent the coun
ty in the state beauty pageant at
Charlotte next month, has express
ed her appreciation for the honor
in a letter to THE NEWS-TIMES.
Miss Ingram, a resident of Pel
letier, says, "I would like to ex
? press my thanks to all of those
kind and generous people who
made it possible for me to have 1
a chance to become Miss Carteret.
"I am grateful to the sponsors,
to the Jaycees, Mrs. Floy Garner,
Mr Kay Cummins, and the kind
judges who placed their confidence
in me to represent Carteret county
at Charlotte in July.
"... this is such an unexpected
honor and given so suddenly that
1 haven't recovered from the sur
prise and wonder of it all.
"My being chosen for first place
has a Cinderella quality about it,
since I am an unknown girl from
a little-known place; besides, all
the things that I wore in the pag
eant were borrowed at the last
minute from friends.
"I hope that other girls will re
alize that if a Cinderella charac
ter like me could win, then they
too would have an equal opportun
ity with other contestants.
, "The experience of being in the
contest, meeting other girls and
doing something on my own has
been a worthwhile experience in
itself.''
Miss Ingram expressed appre
ciation for newspaper coverage of
the beauty contest and thanks for
"well wishes stated editorially in
the June 13 issue of the Carteret
County News-Times."
Officer Checks
Two Accidents
Highway patrolman W. J. Smith
Jr. investigated two auto accidents
over the weekend.
Still under investigation is an
accident which happened Friday
i at 3:50 a.m. one-half mile we*T of
Newport. According to the patrol
man, a 1957 Chevrolet station wag
on ran off the shoulder of the road,
the driver apparently lost control,
and the auto hit a fence belonging
to Needham Garner.
Ellwin McFalle of Cherry Point,
who was riding in the wagon, suf
fered a cut hand. McFalle was the
only person in the car whea the
patrolman arrived, but insists that
another man was driving. The
car is owned by Richard Plcchta
' of Havelock.
Damage to the wagon was e*?
mated at $800 and to the fence at
$50. -
A charge of following too
was filed against Julian Howara
Fulcher Jr. of Beaufort as a result
of an accident on the beach cause
way Saturday at 9:30 p.m.
Fulcher, driving a 1951 Chevro
* let, struck the rear of a 1959 Mer
cury driven by Ernest R. Stewart
of Princeton. The ^tercury, head
ed towards the bcacf^^d stopped
in a line of traffic wnfflTOt by Ful
cher.
Damage to the Mercury was esti
mated at $100 and to the Chevro
let at $200. ^ ^
Motorist Charged
After Accident
Charges of failing to yield the
right of way causing an accidcnt
were filed against a Morchcad City
motorist, Arnold Sanderson, as the
result of an accidcnt that occurred
at 23rd and Bridges Friday morn
ing.
Police said that Sanderson, going
north on 23rd. had stopped for the
stop sign at Bridges and then pull
?ed onto Bridges where his car was
struck by an east-bound 1950 Chev
rolet being driven by Morris Hoov
er of Dillsburg. Pa. Sanderson
said that he failed to see the Hoov
er car.
Jacqueline Myers, a passenger
in Hoover's car. suffered minor in
juries to her left arm and right
knee and was taken to the More
head City hospital for treatment.
Police estimated damage to both
cars at $125. Sanderson was driv
ing a 1950 Chevrolet.
1 Sgt. William J. Condic of the
MoWicad City police department
investigated the mishap.
30 Students Enroll
In Summer Course*
Thirty student* have enrolled in
the summer school which opened
yesterday at Mocehead City school.
Courses are being taughfcin Eng
lish by Mrs. Rosalie Dowdjc In
math by Charles Pavis, an<T in
I French by Mrs. Hattic Lec Phil
lips. 4 .
Each course iff consist of 75
hours, according to Lenwood Lee,
principal. According to the pres
ent schedule, the school will con
tinue until mid-August.
Norma Jean Ingram
. . . holds beauty title
Morehead Principal Lists
Faculty for Coming Year
Lenwood Lee, principal of More*
head City *chool, has announced
the faculty for 1960-81. One teach
er, of English and social studies
in the high school, to replace Floyd
V. Spcnce, is yet to be found.
The others are as follows:
High school? Mrs. Helen Baily,
French and math; Mrs. Zelma M.
Phillips, history and Latin; Mrs.
Rosalie R. Dowdy, English; Mrs.
Hattie L. Phillips, English.
Miss Helen Jernigan, commer
cial subjects; George Jackson, psy
chology, social studies, journalism;
Alton Taylor, science; Jacob W.
Godwin, social studies.
Mrs. Ruby T. Parker, civics,
math; Gannon Talbcrt Jr., math;
Norman L. Clark, physical educa
tion and civics; Miss Hortense
Boomer, librarian.
David A. Lee, general science,
biology and physics; Charles R.
Davis, mechanical drawing and
math; Miss Ann B. Couch, voca
tional home economics; James J.
Mitchell, marine vocational work;
Ralph T. Wade, music.
Junior high ? Mrs. Mamie F.
Taylor. Mrs. Octavia Nelson and
Mrs. Doris Scott, eighth grades;
R. L. Fritz Jr. and James F.
Shine Jr., seventh grades.
Elementary school? Miss Flora
Davis, Henry D. Richardson, Mrs.
Lois Smith, sixth grades; Mrs.
Evelyn C. Morton, Mrs. Rachel
Fulcher, fifth grades; Miss Edith
C. Lewis, Mrs. Norma R. Mason
and Mrs. Margaret W. Day, fourth
grades.
Mrs. Sudic S. Hill, Mrs. Ella Q.
Morgan. Miss Mary J. Fleming,
third grades, and possibly Mrs.
Mcllic B. Hall, third grade. (Mr.
Lee reports that Mrs. Hall may be
shifted to another grade). Mrs.
Ruth Fulcher, a third grade teach
er last year, will not be returning.
Miss Annie Finer, second, and
Mrs. Sara Willis. Mrs. Julia llern
don and Miss Jacqueline J. Tay
lor, first grades.
On the basis of attendance, the
school has lost two elementary
teachers for the coming year, Mr.
reports.
Tide Table
Ttdea at the Beaufort Bar
II1UII LOW
Tuesday, June 21
6:26 a.m. 12:25 a.m.
6:48 p.m. 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 22
7:11 a.m. 1:11 a.m.
7:28 p.m. 1:14 p.m.
Thursday, June 23
7:53 a.m. 1:55 a.m.
8:04 p.m. 1:56 p.m.
Friday, June 24
8:34 a.m. 2:37 a.m.
8:42 p.m. 2:37 pjn.
Three Shrimping
Areas are Closed
The Department of Commercial
Fisheries, C. Gehrmann Holland,
commissioner, announced today it i
is closing areas where shrimp of
unmarketable, small size arc be
ing caught.
One such area being closcd today
is Pamlico Sound and its tribu
taries. Other areas already closcd
are Cedar Island Bay and Back
Bay.
Commissioner Holland today also
asked the cooperation of all
shrimpers and shrimp dealers in
reporting and requesting closing of
any other areas where only baby
shrimp arc found.
"Give the baby shrimp another
20 days of growth," Commissioner
Holland said, "and we will have
plenty of large, marketable
shrimp."
Marketable shrimp arc being
caught in channel nets and in the
ocean, Commissioner Holland said.
Tickets for Unknown Seas
Placed on Sale Yesterday
Tickets for the historical drams,
Unknown Seas, which will be pre
sented Thursday and Friday
nights, July 7 and 8. in Beaufort
school auditorium, went on sale
yesterday.
Tickets in section A are $2, in
section B $1.50 and in section C $1.
Mrs. Robert Russell and Mrs. Her
bert Whilehurst, tickct chairmen,
say that no more tickets than there
aro seats wilK4? sold.
Tickets for Jaly 1 are green and
those for July 8 salmon-colored.
They may be bought at the Duch
ess Beauty shop, Beaufort, or
Eastman's Town and Sound shop,
Morchcad City.
Singing (he lead in the drama
arc Mrs. Herbert Waidrop Jr. and
Otis Lambert Jr.
Mrs. Waidrop is the wife of the
Rev. J. Herbert Waidrop, pastor
of Grace Methodist church, Clin
ton. A native of Greensboro, she
studied music with Franklin Riker,
HigH Point college, and Lornc
Grant, Greensboro.
She attended Greensboro college
and is a graduate of High Point.
Mrs. Waidrop teaches piano at
Clinton. She was member of the
Methodist Youth Caravan in 19S1
and sang in Army chapels in
France, Italy, Germany and Eng
land. She was a soloist with the
Beaufort Choral club while her
husband was pastor at St. James
Methodist church, Newport, from
1955 to 1957.
Mr. Lambert Is a native of Mor
ganton. He is director of music.
Highland Presbyterian church.
Favctteville.'-Hc studied music in
Los Angeles, New York, Chapel
Hill, 'and Spartanburg, S. C. He
received his bachelor of music de
gree at Converse collcge, Spartan
burg.
Mr. Lambert will give a recital
in New York in January. He has
also presented recitals on the ca?t
and west coasts. He has appear
ed as soloist with the Spartanburg
?ymphony, Charlotte symphony
and North Carolina symphony.
Mr. Lambert is a member of the
George Bernard Shaw Society of
London, appeared in the New York
recital of that group and in Shaw'i
Candida.
Director of music for Unknown
Seas is Mrs. Charles Hasscll. The
play is being directed by Mri.
Graydcn Paul, wbo wrote it.
Woman Cat
forty-five stitches were required
to close knife wounds on the left
arm of Dorothy Simmons o < Beau
fort, a Negro woman who was in
volved in a fracas with another
Negro woman Friday night, ac
cording to Beaufort police.
CARTERET COUNTY
WELCOMES
NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OFFICIALS
Governor Luther Hodges
Gerig Arrives to Deepen Channel
To 35 Feet ; Dredge Peru Begins Work
Coast Guard
Assists Two
Boats Saturday
Two assists were made by Coast
Guardsmen from the Fort Macon
station Saturday. The first was
made early Saturday morning
when a call was received at 3:15
from the 40-foot yacht Sally Dale
stating that the craft was aground
in Core Creek near light number
20.
The Coast Guard 40-footer was j
dispatched to the scene and found ,
the Sally Dale aground in two and
one-half feet of water. After being
refloated by the 40-footer the Sally
Dale was able to continue under
its own power The craft was own
ed by J. E. White. Wilson.
Saturday's second assist was
made at 1:40 p.m. The station re
ceived a call from the cabin cruis
er May Jo that it was disabled, due
to engine trouble, at Shackleford
banks channel.
The 40-footer was sent to the
scene and took the May Jo in tow
and moored it at the Beaufort Ma
chine and Supply docks for repairs.
The owner of the May Jo was W.
J. lpock of Morehead City.
Rare Turtle
Caught, Dies
The tropical leatherback turtle
caught Thursday and displayed at
Beaufort's Museum of the Sea over
the weekend, died sometime Sat
urday night, according to Grayden
Paul, founder of the museum.
The turtle was caught in a
shrimp trawl by Elmer Guthrie
aboard a trawler owned by Gerald
Austin. The turtle, weighing about
800 pounds, is extremely rare in
these waters, Mr. Paul said. It
was estimated that the turtle was
as old as the town of Beaufort,
which celebrates its 251st anni
versary next month.
Mr. Paul said the turtle shell was
saved and will be displayed at the
museum. It is overboard now, but
can be viewed from the water's
edge.
? The sea-going hopper d r e d g e4
Gerig arrived at Morehead City
yesterday and began work on deep
ening the ehannel into Morehead
City harbor to 35 feet.
The Gerig is arriving earlier
than had been planned, according
to the Corps of Engineers office,
Wilmington. It was originally
scheduled to be here in July.
The work is expected to take
five months and involves moving ?
a million and a half yards of ma
terial. Capt. Jarvis S Midgett,
Hatteras, is captain of the Gerig.
The hopper dredge camc here
from Charleston.
The 30-inch dredge Peru will be
gin working in the harbor tomor
row afternoon, deepening the har
bor and turning basin to 35
feet. The Peru arrived several
weeks ago from Venezuela. Doing
the inside harbor work is Gahagen
Dredging co., of New York.
Six to Attend
FFA Convention
The annual stale FFA conven
tion will be held in Raleigh me
morial auditorium June 29 July 1.
Lewis Forrest and Johnny Bell
will serve as delegates from the
Newport chapter. Allen Kelly,
Mitchell Smith. Jimmy Mills and
Donnie Aycock will participate in
the state tool identification contcst
(shop contcst) to he held in Tomp
kins Hall at State College.
The Newport tool identification
team won the right to participate
in the State Contest by winning
the Seashore Federation contest.
Registration will be in memorial
auditorium Wednesday morning.
Reservists Train Here
Members of the Morehead City Coast Guard Reserve Unit
(ORTUPS 05-758) Saturday completed their two weeks' summer
training program at Fort Macon. This marked the first time that a
reserve unit of the Coast Guard had ever taken their summer train
inn in the same location where they were based. Shown here over
hauling a diesel engine In the machine shop are, left to right, reserv
ists Bruce A. Conway, EN-3, Beaufort; Joseph D. Rose, MACII,
Morehead City; William A. Davis, EN-3, Gloucester and Bert Conner
Jr., MM-2, Harlowc.
Coast Guardsmen Promoted
?" -
Pictured abovr are KBtm of Ike Morekead City Coast Guard
Reserve nail who have recently received promotions. Ob Ike left la
unit coasmaader D. G. Bed who waa promoted I* the rank of com
mander. The atheri, left to rifht, are Etkertdge C. Darts. E8GC;
Grady Flicker, ENC; Charles K. Broadhurat, DCC; iota L Lewis,
KSCC; Jaaepb ft Braoka, DCC and Aaktoa U Will*, aaaita.
County Commissioners,
Accountants Meet Here
Gov. Luther H. Hodge* will lunch today with North
Carolina county officials at the Morehead City hotel where
county commissioners, accountants and assessing officers
are attending their 53rd annual convention.
Luncheon will be followed by an address by the gov
ernor. Other guests, in addition to Governor Hodges, will
be Marine Corps generals from*
Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point
and D. Leon Williams, executive
director of the North Carolina State
Ports Authority.
L. C. Bruce, public relations di
rector with the SPA, announces a
tour of the port for convention
goers and their guests from 3:30
to 5:30 today.
Registration for the convention
opened Sunday afternoon and was
followed by a get-acquainted hour
Sunday night. Registration conlin
j ued yesterday morning and this
morning. A tour of Cherry Point
Marine base yesterday afternoon
and luncheon there was followed by
a clambake on the lawn in front of
the hotel.
Women attending the convention
will tour Fort Macon and Beaufort
this morning and will lunch at the
Dunes club at Atlantic Beach.
The annual banquet tonight will
be served outdoors providing the
weather is favorable.
Moses C. Howard, chairman of
the Carteret county board of coun
ty commissioners and convention
chairman, delivered the address of
welcome yesterday morning. The
invocation was given by the Rev.
Ralph Fleming Jr., pastor of St.
lames Methodist church, Newport.
Greetings were extended from
W. E. Dennison, president of the
National Association of County Of
ficials.
Participating in a panel discus
sion, County Commissioners and
the Public, were Ben W. Haigh,
first vice president of the associa
tion, as moderator; Herbert
O'Kecf, editor of the Raleigh
Times; John Harden, public rela
tions consultant; and Henry Mil
grom, Nash county commissioner.
Skinner A. Chalk. Carteret com
missioner, was chairman of the
tour of the Marine base.
II. K. Gray, president or tne
North Carolina Association of
County Accountants, and S. M. Gat
tis, president of the Association of
Assessing Officers were chairmcn
of last night's clambake and group
sing.
Mrs. Moses Howard, Newport, is
in charge of this morning's tour
for the ladies.
Participating in a panel discus
sion at 9:30 this morning on County
Planning and Zoning are R B. Jor
dan Jr., second vice-president, as
moderator; J. Ben Rouzie Jr., city
county planning director, Forsyth
county; mayor Mclvi'n G. Cording,
Wallace; George M. Stephens Jr.,
regional planner. State Highway
commission; and Robert D. Bar
bour, director of community plan
ning, North Carolina Department
of Conservation and Development.
The annual business meetings of
the commissioners and accountants
are scheduled for 11:30 today.
Officers will be elected at both.
Mr. Howard of Carteret is chair
man of the nominating committee
for the association of county com
missioners.
Following the governor's address,
county officials will confer infor
mally with state officials attending
the convention. This session will
be followed by the port tour.
The outstanding county official
award will be presented at the ban
quet tonight, Carson Bain, presi
dent, presiding. New officers of
the association of commissioners
and the association of county ac
countants will be introduced. En
tertainment will be followed by
dancing.
The board of directors of the
commissioners' association will
meet tomorrow morning. The con
vention will adjourn officially at
10:30 a.m.
CP&L, Hotpoint to Stage
Demonstration Thursday
Carolina Power and Light Co., in
cooperation with Hotp~.;., will
stage a demonstration of new cook
ing equipment for food handlers
Thursday. The demonstration will
be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at
the CP&L office. Morchead City.
George Stovall. manager of the
CP&L office, says that among the
equipment on display will be
Roclcrl line griddle, Rocket (1 fry
er, Harvic pizza oven and Chark-El
broiler.
Stovall invitea all food handlers
to sec the demonstration, for which
there is no charge.
Arrested Friday
Nelson Ray Bryant, Negro, was
arrested Friday night by Beaufort
police officer Carlton Garner on a
charge of disturbing the peace. He
was placed under $2S bond.
Two Morehead
Men Appointed
Bank Officers
James K. Sanders arid E B.
Fleming of the Morehead City
branch of First-Citizens Bank and
Trust Co. have been named assist-,
ant vice-presidents, according to
an announcement by Lewis K.
Holding, president of the banking
firm.
A native of Smithfield, Sanders
joined First-Citizens in Beaufort in
1941. He was promoted to assist
ant cashier in the bank's More
head City office in 1950 and to
cashier in 1952.
Sanders is a graduate of Smith
field high school and Duke Univcr
James R. Sanders
. . . appointed officer
sity with an AB degree in business
administration. He served with
the US Army from 1942 to 1946.
A Methodist and active in civic
affairs, Sanders is treasurer of the
Greater Morchcad City Chamber
of Commerce, treasurer of the
Morehead City band association,
the firemen's relief association and
the all-seashore highway associa
tion.
He is a Rotarian, a former presi
dent of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, secretary of the More
head City Elks lodge, a member
of the Boy Scouts' county council,
and the American Legion. Sanders
is also a past president of the
Morehead City PTA, and a past
chairman and member of the ex
ecutive committee of the N. C.
Bankers' association, Group II.
Sanders Is married to the former
Miss Rebecca Willis of Morehead
City. The couple has two children,
Alice, 14, and James R., Jr., 10.
Fleming joined the installment
loan department of the Morehead
E. B. Fleming
. . . holds new office
City branch four yeart ago. Prior
to that he had been in the financ
ing business for nine years.
He was graduated from the Spcn
ccr, N. C. high school. Mrs. Flem
ing is the former Miss Marie Clark
of Lenoir. They have two children,
Michael, 3, and Susan. 8 months.
They make their home in Mans
field Park.
Attend Conference
Mr. and Mrs. Lenwood Lee,
Morchcad City, attended the NCEA
leadership conference of the Blue
Ridge Assembly at Black Moun
tain Monday through Wednesday.
Mr. Lee is president of the Car
teret unit of the North Carolina
Education association and princi
pal s < Uorchoad City fcchooi.