:h= CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
49th YEAR, NO. 60. KIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROUNA TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Jets Threaten Private Plane;
Earl Taylor to Leave Airport
Unless Jet aircraft from Cherry*
Point stay above 1,500 feet over the
Beaufort-Morehead City airport,
local flyers predict another jet
civilian crash such as that which
took the life of Jesse Taylor, young
Beaufort pilot, last August.
Yesterday at 12:38 p.m. a Piper
PA 12 coming in for a landing at
Beaufort-Morehead airport at 500 1
feet was passed at the same alti
tude by four jets apparently head- 1
ed out to sea.
The pi|ot, who was carrying two
. passengers on a charter trip from
New Bern to Ocracoke, was thor
oughly shaken and as soon as he
landed reported the incident to j
Cherry Point control tower.
The pilot, who asked that his
name not be used, said that prior
to making the trip he had received
clearance from New Bern radio
through Cherry Point control tower
to fly at 1,000 feet and under.
He proceeded from New Bern to
Maysville to Bogue and was flying
eastward along the beach at 700
'feet. When the weather got bad,
he decided to land at Beaufort
Morehead airport and was going
into the airport at 500 feet when
the jets passed him. He was lined
up to make his dcsccnt on the run
way.
Witnesses on the ground also
verified the incident. Earl Tay
lor, manager of the Airport Serv
ice station, says jets are not to
fly below 1,500 feet. Present re
strictions in this area prohibit ci
vilian planes from flying above
'1,000.
Mr. Taylor said that yesterday's
incident is not a rare occurrence.
On July 15 at 4:35 p.m. a jet went
under a Cessna 195 on its third ap
proach from set-down at 800 feet.
The jet went under the Cessna
from a 45 degree angle from the
rear.
The civilian pilot who reported
j yesterday's incident said the jets
that passed him later appeared to
be going into a slow climb. "They
had no business being at that alti
tude, especially when I had clear
ance for this area under 1,000
feet," he remarked.
In the jet-civilian crash which
claimed the life of Jesse Taylor
Aug. 24, 1959, it was contended
that the jet was approaching Cher
ry Point at 1,500 feet. Local pilots
claim that it is extremely doubt
ful that Taylor's craft was as high
as that.
The findings, as the result of an
investigation of that crash, have
not yet been issued.
Two Men Jailed
Following Fight
* George McHone, Asheville, and
Robert Alliston, Fayetteville, were
in the county jail yesterday, charg
ed with fighting in front of Lum
mic's Drive-In, west of Morehead
City.
Deputies George Smith and C. H.
Davis were called to the drive-in
at noon Saturday. Deputy Smith
said McHone hit Alliston on thd
head with a pipe. Alliston was con
fined to the Morehead City hos
pital until yesterday morning.
McHone, in addition to being
' charged with fighting, is also
charged with using a deadly wea
pon, and public drunkenness.
Four Injured
In Causeway
Crash Sunday
Four persons were admitted to
the Morehead City hospital after
a crash at 9:45 p.m. Sunday on the
Beaufort-Morehcad City causeway.
A car driven by Stell Stephens,
Newport Negro, went out of con
trol, hit three approaching cars,
snapped off a utility pole and
crashed into the side of a garage.
Injured were Mrs. Patricia T.
Polly, 114 Orange St., Beaufort;
Stephens, Rose Ann Stephens and
Mary Murphy, all of Newport.
Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., who
investigated, said Victoria and
Clinton Sinclair, who were in the
Stephens car, were charged with
public drunkenness. According to
the patrolman. Stephens was driv
ing a 1953 Dodge toward Morehead
City.
He swerved over to the left side
of the highway and hit three cars
headed toward Beaufort. Driving
one of them, a 1958 Dodge, was
Reuben George, Marshallberg.
Damage to this car was estimated
at $50.
Driving the second car hit, a
I960 Chevrolet, was Kenneth F.
Frady, Spartanburg, S. C. Dam
age to that car was estimated at
$600. Mrs. Polly was driving the
third car, a 1960 Rambler. Dam
age to that car was estimated at
$800.
Charges against Stephens arc
pending.
Station Entered,
Truck Stolen
Morehead City police were on the
lookout yesterday for a yellow 1959
International pickup truck stolen
Saturday night from the Jefferson
hotel parking lot. Theft of the truck
is believed linked with a robbery
at Gant's service station at 4th and
Arendell streets.
Chief Herbert Griffin said ciga
rettes and cigars were taken from
the station. Entry was gained by
breaking a window in the ladies'
rest room.
The burglar then attempted to
start a car parked next door, own
ed by Earl Holt. An attempt was
made to turn the switch with a
knife.
Failing in that, the burglar, or
burglars, apparently went to the
hotel parking lot nearby and took
the pickup. There were no keys
in the switch. The chief said the
truck was probably started by rig
ging the wiring system.
The truck was owned by the
Cummins Diesel firm whose em
ployee, Grady Lowe, is staying at
the Jefferson while doing work at
Atlantic. He missed the truck Sun
day morning.
Investigating the thefts are pa
trolmen E. D. O'Neal Jr. and J. V.
Giaimo.
? Etrl Taylor, manager of the Air
port Service center at the Beau
fort Morehead City airport, an
nounced yesterday that he is going
| to give up as of Aug. 1 everything
connected with the airport.
At present Mr. Taylor is servic
ing planes with gas and has an ar
rangement with the airport com
mission to look after the field. Mr.
Taylor said he will continue to op
erate the store at the airport if he
can't rent or sell it.
lie has been advised by his doc
tor to give up some of his business
i interests. "I've been hanging on,
hoping the airport commission
i could get someone to handle it," he
said yesterday, "but I can't do it
any longer."
Mr. Taylor has been at the air
port since June 26, 1944. Since May
; 1954 when he opened the Airport
I Service center, the center has been
| open 15 hours a day, seven days
a week, even on Christmas.
At one time there was a GI
school at the airport with six in
structors and 22 planes. Mr. Tay
lor estimates that 500 persons have
! learned to fly there.
"This area needs this airport,"
I Mr. Taylor said. "It's as important
as the waterfront, and I want to
see it go, but I just can't do it."
lie commented that planes come
in and may not spend a cent at the
airport, but the people in them
j spend money in the county. He
I feels that the towns in Carteret and
the county itself should hire some
1 one to provide the service at the
airport that pilots need.
I He added that unless different
arrangements are made on the fly
ing restrictions now in effect, due
to the proximity of Cherry Point,
the airport may as well be chopped
up and sold off in building lots.
He said the restrictions on civil
ian planes are not practical and
added that military aircraft fre
quently are not observing the re
strictions placed on them, making
cviilian flying in this area extreme
ly hazardous.
Morehead Youth Wins
L
Tide Table
Tidei it Ike Beaufort Bar
1I1GH LOW |
Tuesday, July 26
10:04 a.m. 4:00 a.m.
9:58 p.m. 4:01p.m. I
Wednesday, July 27
10:41a.m. 4:29 a.m. I
10:32 p.m. 4:31p.m. |
Thursday, July 28
11:19 a.m. 4:57 a.m.
11:13 p.m. 5:04 p.m. |
Friday, July 21
11:59 a.m. 5:27 a.m. I
5:46 p.m. I
' Bobby Barts, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert I. Barts, Bogue
Sound road, Morehcad City, won
first place in the state in the
junior division of the 1960 Fisher
Body Craftsman's Guild contest
in car design.
Bobby, 14, won $150 in cash,
llis model is shown in the lower
part of the above picture. The
upper part shows the model de
signed by William Wisely, Laur
inburg, senior winner of the
South Carolina-North Carolina
Georgia region.
In addition to the cash priie,
Bobby will receive a trophy
which will be placed in hi*
school. Camp Glenn.
Boys Arrested
For Petty Thefts
In Beaufort
Two boys, one 12 and one 14,
have been apprehended by the
sheriff's department for breaking
into G. T. Spivey's store, Beaufort,
Friday night. They have also con
fessed to numerous other petty
thefts in and around Beaufort dur
ing the past three months.
The older boy, now living in
Beaufort, originally lived in More
head City, according to sheriff
Hugh Salter, and the other young
ster is originally from Ocracoke.
The sheriff said that several other
boys are being questioned in con
nection with the thefts.
Taken from the Spivey cash reg
ister was $1.50 in pennies.
The boys arc the ones who broke
into the Museum of the Sea prior
to its opening, the sheriff said.
Other break-ins to which they con
fessed :
j Mack's beer place, American Le
gion building and the tin building
nearby (took keys out of cars in
the tin building and later returned
them), Carl Gaskill warehouses,
drinks from Dora Dinette, candy
and peanuts from Guthrie-Jones,
cakes from fishing boats.
i Sling shots from the dime store,
drinks from the Inlet Inn, Carteret
Quick Freeze, Shell station, Math
Owens, Toot 'n Tell It (entered
twice), $2.85 from Lewis Motors,
money out of Beaufort's dime me
ters.
Stapler from Bell's drug store,
and money from the whale pot in
front of Museum of the Sea. The
boys also entered Russell Man
son's store and The Spot.
The sheriff said arrest of the
older boy came as the result of
I playing hunch. When confronted
| with evidence that he had entered
i Spivey's, he readily listed the oth
I er break-ins.
The Jcppesen Maersk, Danish
vessel, will arrive at Morehead
Friday. After loading tobacco, she
will leave for the Far East.
County Ranks 53 rd in Per
Capita Personal Income
j Carteret county ranks 53rd"<
among North Carolina's 100 coun
ties in per capita personal income,
according to figures released this
month by the Department of Tax
i Research, Raleigh.
Per capita income in Carteret is
$1,106. This is based on 1958 fig
ures and an estimated population
in that year of 26,547. H. C. Stans
bury. director of the tax research
department, said 1958 is the latest
year for which sufficient data was
available to reach valid conclu
sions.
Total personal income for the
county is $29,359,000 annually. The
ten top counties of the state, in
per capita income, are the follow
ing (in order): Mecklenburg, For
syth, Guilford, New Hanover, Dur
ham, Wake, Onslow, Cumberland,
Alamance and Catawba.
Of neighboring counties. Craven
ranks 19th, Jones 74th, and Pam
lico 94th.
The five counties lowest in per
capita income arc Brunswick, Tyr
rell, Clay, Hyde and Avery. Clay
and Avery are in the extreme
western part of the state and the
other three in eastern Carolina.
Two Cars Collide Friday
At Beaufort Intersection
A Ford driven by William C.
Spruill, route 1 New Bern, ran into
the rear of a Renault driven by
Donnie Dudley, Beaufort, at 12:15
p.m. Friday. The accident hap
pened at Cedar and Live Oak
streets, Beaufort.
Patrolman Otis Willis investigat
ed. He said that Dudley had stop
ped at the stop sign on Cedar
street. Damage to the Renault. was
estimated at $35. There was no
damage to the Ford.
Spruill was charged with follow
ing too close, causing an accident.
Beach Firemen
Get Three Calls
Atlantic Beach fire department
answered three calls in less than
10 hours Monday. At 12:30 a.m.
the firemen put out a brush fire
between Club Colony and the
Dunes club. The fire is believed
to have started from a cigarette
tossed from a car.
At 3 a.m. Monday, Atlantic
Beach and Morchcad City firemen
answered a call to the Emerald
Isle motel where a bed had caught
afire. The room where the fire
occurred was badly damaged.
Beach fire chief William Barts
said the blaze probably started as
the result of someone smoking in
bed. Damage was estimated at a
thousand dollars.
Morehcad firemen also assisted
beach firemen at 8 o'clock yester
day morning at Money Island
where the cottage of Fitzgerald
Wallace, Kinston, caught fire.
The occupant had left the house
about 35 minutes before the fire
broke out, bound for Kinston. Fire
men said the oven had been left
on. The kitchen was termed a
total loss and the rest of the cot
tage was damaged by smoke.
Driver Dies
Virgil L. Bailey, USCG, Jackson
ville, Fla., who was seriously in
jured last Tuesday morning when
his convertible turned over on high
way 24, died seven hours later in
the hospital at Camp Lejcune. Pa
trolman J. W. Sykes. who investi
gated the accident, said he verified
late Thursday afternoon rumors
to the effect that Bailey's injuries
were fatal.
Eric Rodgers Succeeds D. G. Bell
As Fisheries Committee Chairman
D. G. Bell, Morehead City, who
has been succeeded by Eric Rodg
ers, Scotland Neck, as chairman
of the state commercial fisheries
committee, terms Mr. Rodgcrs
"the best qualified man in the
state for the job."
Mr. Bell, who asked Governor
Hodges to name his successor as
soon as possible
after the May 28
primary. ? a i d
Mr. Rogers is
familiar with
fishing prob
lems the entire
length of the
North Carolina
coast.
Mr. Rodgers,
publisher of the
Eric Rodger*
i Scotland Neck Commonwealth, Ju?
served six and a naif years on tnr'
Board of Conservation and De
velopment, was one time assistant
director of the C&D department
and has served as chairman of the
commercial fisheries a d v i ? o r y
board.
He was instrumental in com
pletely recodifying the commercial
fisheries regulations several years
ago.
While chairman of the commer
cial fisheries commiUcc, Mr. Bell
effected a compromise in a rock
and herring controversy in the
Chowan river. Prior to accepting
the chairmanship of the commit
tee, he served three terms aa Car
teret's representative in the legis
lature.
Mr. Radgera' tern of office will
expire ia IMS.
Chamber of Commerce
News Letter Goes Out
Received this week by Morchcad
City chambcr of commcrcc mem
bers was the July new? letter.
The news letter congratulated
Beaufort on its 251st anniversary
celebration and covered develop
ment reports on chambcr projects:
tourists and conventions, indus
trial development, All-Seashore
highway, improved waterways and
the question of location of the new
Morchcad City bridge.
Schools in Carteret county will
open. Tuesday, Aug. 30. Onflow
Mbool* art U> open earlier.
1
State Fisheries Museum
Will Reopen at 10 Today
NeWi-TImn Photo* by McComb
Harry T. Davis, curator of the state museum, Raleigh, arranges models on the wall.
Ernest Barrett, Beaufort,
To Serve 90 Days in Jail
Crazy Cat
W. J. Mishael, Beaufort, owns
this cabbit, a cross between a cat
and rabbit. Note its hind leg ?
formed exactly like a rabbit's.
Merchants Plan
Clearance Sale
Retail merchants of Beaufort
and Morehead City agreed Friday
night on plans for a Twin City
Summer Clearance sale. Mem
bers of the Beaufort Merchants as
sociation and the Morehead City
chamber of commerce arc eligible
to participate.
Attending the meeting were Os
car Allred, Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis
Herring, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Willis,
Gilbert Potter, E. W. Downum.
James Potter, Garland Scruggs,
Grayden Paul, Earl Lewis, L. E.
Lewis, Jim Whcatley, Clarcncc
Stamper.
John Steed, V. D. Bcasley, Roy
Thompson, Leslie Moore, Mrs.
Glen Harris. Mrs. Ben Gibbs, Mr.
and Mrs. Bill McDonald and J. A.
DuBois.
The group met at Captain Bill's
restaurant, Morehead City.
* Ernest Barrett, Beaufort, has1
been sent to prison for 90 days for
failure to comply with a court or
der.
Two defendants, Shelton Rogers
and Jessie Hughes, each were sen- j
tenecd to six months in jail in |
county court last week for failure
to comply with former court or
ders. Judge Lambert Morris sus
pended the jail term for each on
payment of all fines and costs
Bill Hart, charged with aiding
and abetting in an affray was also
sentenced to six months in jail
and roadwork. His sentence was
suspended on payment of $25 and
court costs.
i Other defendants, their charges
and the findings of the court:
Wade Golden? Possession of non
, taxpaid whiskey, 60 days in jail
suspended on payment of $10 and
costs.
Annette and Ernest Barrett
Possession of non taxpaid whiskey.
The state did not prosecute Annette
and for Ernest, judgment was sus- j
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3i=v jmtii
In the rrptiles exhibit is this
life - like eastern diamond ? back
rattler which at one time lived in
the vicinity of llavelock.
Ilitrh lliker Identified
The hitch hiker who was struck
by a hit-and-run car July 16, in
front of El's Drive-In, Morehead
City, was identified yesterday as
Edgar Lee Stanfield. Cherry Point.
Deputy George Smith, who investi
gated, said Stanfield was confined
to the hospital for a day with a
back injury. Officers are still look
ing for the car, a red and white
Chevrolet, about a 1955 model.
Opening today at 10 a.m. is the
Hampton fisheries museum. More
head City. Located in the com
mercial fisheries building at Camp
Glenn, the museum displays mod
els of marine animals, amphibians,
reptiles, birds, collections of sea
shells and other exhibits having to
do with marine life.
Although the museum was dedi
cated and opened July 15, 1951, il
closed after about a year due to
lack of funds to maintain it and
to pay someone to keep it open.
Through efforts of the Morehead
City chamber of commerce and
general assemblyman D. G. Bell,
the legislature of 1959 appropriat
ed funds to reopen it and keep a
curator at the museum on a part
time basis.
Harry T. Davis, curator of the
state museum, Raleigh, says pres
ent plans call for keeping the mu
seum open from March 1 through
October Hours are 10 to 3 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday and 2
to 6 p.m. Sundays. The museum
will be closed Monday.
Mr. Davis has been working on
plans for reopening the museum
since last July. Rest rooms are
being installed and even though
the museum will not be complete
by today, it's going to open, Mr.
Davis says.
He remarked that any museum
that is complete is dead, inferring
that a useful museum is one that
is constantly being improved and
added to.
William Palmer, affiliated with
the state museum at Raleigh, will
act as curator. Designing exhibits
is Jay Johnson, who is with the
state museum, as well as Roger
Rageot, exhibits designer with the
i Norfolk museum, who is helping
out here while on vacation.
The museum is located on the
first floor of the commercial fish
eries building and is entered from
the main west entrance. After
entering, the visitor turns to the
left where lettering introduces him
to "The Sea Around Us ? Cradle of
Life."
A chart shows how life has evolv
ed from the sea. Fish models arc
mounted on the walls or suspended
from the ceiling. Most have been
given to North Carolina by the
federal government. They were
made on Fivers Island during the
1930's under a Works Progress Ad
ministration program.
The project was fostered by Dr.
H. F. Prytherch and the models
were on display there for many
years.
When the Fish and Wildlife peo
ple needed exhibit space for offices
and other research work, the fish
models were put away and later
turned over to the state of North
Carolina, with the proviso that the
state display them properly and
take care of them.
When the Hampton museum
didn't work out as hoped, the fed
See MUSEUM, Page 2
County Awaits Information on Pupils
Who Will Leave Schools in Onslow
H. L. Joslyn. county superin
tendent of schools, said yesterday
that Swansboro school principal,
Paul Tyndall, estimated it would
take about a week to compile for
Carteret information on what chil
dren from Carteret are attending
Onslow schools and what grades
they will be in when school opens
in about a month.
Carteret school officials have
agreed to school Carteret children
t now attending Onslow schools. The
| decision followed protests from
| Onslow officials who said that they
wanted to be paid for educating the
children.
A total of 325 children who live
in the western part of Carteret now
attend Onslow schools, 19 go to
White Oak school and 307 to Swans
boro school.
Citizens in the western part of
the county have organized a com
mittee to handle their problem.
Head of the committee is Ben M.
Licko. Committee members are
Woodrow Bright, the Rev. D. E.
Hill, Leland Crumplcr and J. O.
Weeks.
Tale of Woe
Photo by Reginald LewU
"Wkat da they take me for, a ichnook? That *aa no catnip lea la
THAT bottle!"
The committee has announced
plans to retain Jesse Jones, Kin
ston attorney to represent them. A
meeting was scheduled for Friday
at Swansboro school. The commit
tee asked Carteret school officials
to attend, but none was present.
Mr. Joslyn said the Licko com
mittee also conferred with him
Wednesday. He added that there
was no information Carteret offi
cials could have given at a Fri
day meeting.
The schooling of children from
one county in schools across the
county line is not unusual. Car
teret accommodates in its school
system approximately 250 children
from Craven and Jones county. By
the same token that Onslow is ask
ing remuneration from Carteret,
Carteret could demand that Craven
and Jones counties pay for chil
dren in Carteret.
Such a practice would lead to
many complications throughout the
state. Mr. Joslyn said that par
ents who want their children to
attend school in a district other
than their home district assume
the financial burden themselves by
paying tuition.
The situation with the Onslow
folks stacks up like this:
1. Onslow wants Carteret coun
ty to pay for Carteret children at
tending school there.
2. Carteret cannot afford to pay
the amount requested, so it has
agreed to accommodate the chil
dren in Carteret schools.
3. Folks in west Carteret whose
children attend Onslow schools
don't want to send their children
to Carteret schools, but neither,
apparently, do they want to pay
tuition for sending them to Onslow
schools.
Mr. Joslyn lays that Onslow
county has benefited from Car
teret's pupils attending school
there, since federal payments for
those children have gone to On
slow, sot CarUrat.