CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 43th YEAR. NO. 64. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Governor Attends A&NC Meeting Friday at Beach School Official Reports On Teachers' Bonus ? Plans Announced For School Opening ? Principals to Return To Work Aug. 17 II. L. Joslyn, county superin tendent of schools, announced Fri day the plans for the opening of school, and commented on the 5 per cent supplement teachers will receive on last year's salaries. He said the bonus has been as sured, but no schedule of payment lias been received as yet from the state office in Raleigh. Therefore, Mr. Joslyn said, it is not known when the checks can be made out. Personnel in the education office in Beaufort have been so busy that they have not yet had their vaca tions. Mrs. Emory Ennis will be on vacation this week and the next week Miss Theresa Hill and Miss Lucille Rice will be on vacation. Should the necessary information be received during that time for Writing the bonus checks, it will have to be delayed until all person nel are back in the office, Mr. Jos lyn said. Figuring the amount due each teacher, since some did not have 100 per cent attendance during last school year, will take some time, the superintendent explained. "Teachers may rest assured that the checks will reach them as soon as possible," he added. ?Details on the opening of school: Principals and supervisors return to work Aug. 17, 1960, and teachers will report Aug. 29 for orientation. Pupils report Aug. 30 for class assignments, securing textbooks, schedules, etc. On Aug. 31 *11 classes start for the full day. Schools will not be closed for La bor Day. Smyrna and Morebead City had teacher resignations the latter part of July in their science depart ments and these are still unfilled, but as a whole, all faculty vacan cies have been filled. The maintenance crews have made good progress and most ma jor school repairs are completed. School buses are ready and the bus drivers should check their buses out on Aug. 29. ' It would be wise for parents who have moved into the county since school closed, to contact their prin cipal and enroll their children be fore school opens. Principals will be at the county officc for a meeting Aug. 24, there fore they will not be at their office that day. Southern Railway Taxes ? Total $2 Million Plus Southern Railway System re ports that it has this week pre sented to the tax collector of the State of North Carolina checks (mounting to $491,729.04, repre senting payments of 1960 state franchise taxes for Southern Rail way and affiliated companies. Total of all direct taxes, state and local, paid or to be paid in 1960 by Southern Railway System in North Carolina is estimated to be more than {2,390,000.* ' Gov. Lather Hodges accompanied officials of Southern Railway in a private car to the annual meeting of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Friday morning at the At lantic Beach hotel. The governor went by plane, after the meeting, to Duplin county, where he spoke at the dedication of a poultry plant at Rose Hill. At the A&NC meeting, stockhold ers received one of the most en couraging reports in years. A cash dividend of $2 per share was paid June 1, the first dividend paid to stockholders since 1931. Board members believe that it will be possible to declare a cash dividend each year in the future. There has also been a substan tial reduction in the road's indebt edness. Payments of $30,000 to the state have reduced the road's ob ligations to North Carolina to $23, 363.80. This amount is expected to be retired during the current year Included in income for the past fiscal year is $20,000 received as a compromise settlement with the US government in litigation for a refund of a tax assessment paid in 1951. Net profit for the six months ended June 30, 1960, was listed in the annual report, as $22,065.93. To tal income for the same period was $69,904.38. Total income for the year end ing June 30, 1960 was $187,217.63 Cash balance on that date was $14,332.80. Albert R. Bell, inspector - en gineer of the road, said, "The road way and roadbed is now by far in the best condition it has been in a quarter of a century." He reported that a major im provement now under construction is a canal running east from South east creek toward Newport through a semi-pocosin. The canal Is providing drainage that permits a drier roadbed. Ma terial dug from the canal is being used to build a road beside the track to allow easy access to the area by maintenance vehicles. Es timated cost of the work is $20,000. Installed during the past fiscal year were 2,852 creosoted cross ties. The main line now has 76 per cent of all its cross ties treated. (A creosoted tie lasts 20 years as compared to a 5-year life expect ancy of a non-treated tie). Completed daring the year was rebuilding of the trestles across the Neuse, Trent and Newport rivers. In the new-industry line, NC Products Co. has built a pre stress concrete plant at New Bern which is served exclusively by the railroad. Activities at the Superior Stone quarry. New Bern, have in creased, according to Mr. Bell, and this quarry is also served exclu sively by the A&EC. The Atlantic and East Carolina railroad is owned by the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Co., and is leased to Southern Railway. Officers and directors of the A&NC, elected Friday, are the fol lowing: George A. Moore Jr., president; Paul LaRoque, secre tary-treasurer; Albert R. Bell, in spector, R. M. Kermon, attorney. Members of the executive com mittee are Mr. Moore, W. G. Craw ford and H. S. Gibbs of Morehead City. Directors, in addition to these three, are George R. Wallace, Morehead City; Dan Taylor, Sea Level; Harold Maxwell, Robert L. Stallings Jr., Hugh Swan, all of New Bern; J. F. Oglesby, W. E. Gladding, Kinston; George W. (pock, Ernul; and Henry Oetjcn, Norfolk, Va. Seven directors represent the state's interest in the firm and four represent private stockhold ers. Mr. Gibbs of Morehead City is a representative of the latter. Cape Lookout Coast G uardsmen Look For Body Sighted Sunday Off Cape Reports of a body floating in garden's inlet off Cape Lookout kept the Cape Lookout 30-footer on a search all day yesterday. The body was sighted at 5 p.m. Sunday by Harold Askew, Cherry Point, and Mrs. Rita Simpson, SOS Broad St., Beaufort. They were in an outboard motorboat. They said the body was that of a man, floating face up. He had red (lair and was wearing a white T shirt, They turned but the current had evidently sucked the body un der and they couldn't find it. Aboard the 30-footer on the search were William K. Moore, SN. and Gary Cagle, SN. Inquiries in this area brought no informa tion of anyone missing. At 7:M Sunday night, the Cape Lookout Coast Guard truck left to go to Earl Davit's camp, nine I miles north of tie station, where they picked up W. S. Rowland, <3, >/lebane, N. C., who was suffering severe chest pains, t, Mr. Rowland was taken to the ^Coast Guard station, put aboard the 30-footer and taken to Stacy )X>avis'( dock, Harkers Island, -where Earl Davis took him to Sea Level hospital by car. Coast Guard assistance was re < quested by Mrs. Rowland, who had gone to Cape Lookout station from the camp in a beach buggy. Crew aboard the 30-footcr were Cagle, Moore, and James L. Piver, EN3. New Bern Man Revived After Nearly Drowning Louis Eldon, New Bern, was pulled from the surf at Pine Knoll Shores Sunday at about 3 o'clock, revived by artificial respiration and treated in the emergency room of the Morchcad City hos pital. W. G. Mitchell, policeman at At lantic Beach, and David Hunt, lifeguard, took the Atlantic Beach rcsuscitator to the scene, but Mr. Mitchell said Eldon had already been revived. He said he didn't know who rescued Eldon or who administered artificial respiration. EMoa had apparently gotten out too far from shore. Bell-Munden ambulance took him to the 1 hos pital. He wai discharged after treatment. Director Gives Museum Report Harry T. Davis, director of the state museum, Raleigh, who is su pervising the reactivation of the Hampton Marine Museum, More head City, reported Saturday that a total o I 2, 550 persons visited the museum during the first 11-day period of its reopening. That pe riod included only one Sunday. Attendance has been averaging about 250 a day. The museum opened Tuesday, July 26. Attend ance the first two days was be tween 400 and 500, Mr. Davis said. The museum Is closed Mondays, open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday. It is located in the commercial fisheries building at Camp Glenn, west of Morehead City. The More head City chamber of commerce has placed signs on highway 70 directing motorists to the museum. Governor Hodges . . . visits Carteret Firemen Race To Churches Due to wrong information, the Morchead City fire truck never got to a fire Sunday morning. For tunately, the incident that caused the alarm did not turn out to be a fire. Chief Lindsey Guthrie said a me ter exploded at the First Baptist church, Morehead City. Firemen were told, he said, that the fire was at the Free Will Baptist church several blocks away. They went there. There was no fire, so they went to the Faith Free Will Baptist church, about 19 bloclw from the First Baptist church. There was no fire there, so they went back to the station. Chief Guthrie said that after the meter at the church shot sparks, it subsided. The Rev. Corbin Cooper, pastor of the church, said electricians believe that a short might have caused the trouble. The meter had been broken prior to Sunday's trouble. As a result of the incident, the church was without air-condition ing and lights. -Cooper L. Sparks Cited After Accident Friday Cooper L. Sparks, Cherry Point, was charged with driving on the wrong side of the road at 1:10 p.m. Friday after he lost control of his 1954 Chevrolet on highway 70 three hundred feet east of the Carteret Craven line. Sparks' car went into the ditch. His head was cut when it went through the windshield. Damage to the car was estimated at $150. Patrolman W. J. Smith investi gated. Alvah L. Hamilton , 72, Dies ; Burial Yesterday The funeral service for Alvah L. Hamilton, 72, Morchead City at torney, was conducted at 3:30 p.m. yesterday in the First Baptist church, Morchcad City. Mr. Hamilton died Saturday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. E. Nobles Jr., Bonham Heights, Morehead City. He had been ill for several weeks. Mr. Hamilton was Carteret coun ty attorney and senior member of the law firm of Hamilton and Mc Neill. Born at Atlantic, he was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1913 and receiv ed his law degree from Wake For- j est eollege in 1921. Mr. Hamilton taught high school j at A8heville for five years and was head of the Latin department in the school. He was a member of | the First Baptist church, a deacon i and Sunday school teacher. A former state legislator, he served for many years on the Morehead City school board, was a Rotarian and a Mason. Officiating at the funeral was the Rev. Corbin Cooper, pastor of the First Baptist church, and Dr. John Bunn, Durham, former pastor. Burial was in Bay view cemetery. Pallbearers were Harvey Hamil ton Jr., Luther Hamilton Jr., Jul ian Hamilton Jr., Bruce Goodwin, Bernard Leary and Clarence Mc Williams. County officials were honorary pallbearers. The coun ty courthouse was closed for sev eral hours yesterday afternoon out of respect to Mr. Hamilton. His survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eliza McWilliams Hamilton, Dr. Alvah L. Hamilton Jr., More head City; his daughter, Mrs. No bles, of Greenville and Morehead City, and six grandchildren. Alvafc L. Hamilton > . . ?Uf?ejr Met New Ferry Plans Brighten Prospect Of Easier Accessibility to Outer Banks Durham Mayor Talks to Rotary The Morehead Cily Rotary club met Thursday night at the Rex restaurant and heard an address by Durham mayor E. J. (Mutt) Evans. Mayor Evans, who recently re turned from a trip through 10 Eu ropean countries with the United States Conference of Mayors, told Rotarians how he was impressed with the people's interest in the US and the feeling of friendliness towards this country. The trip, arranged by the Inter national Cooperation Committee, was designed to exchange ideas and information on mumcipal gov ernment with European mayors Countries visited by Evans and other mayors included England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Aus tria, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Is rael and the USSR. The mayor said that he was in Israel right after the capture of Adolph Eich mann, in Turkey during a military coup, and in Russia immediately following the U-2 incident and the break-up of the summit conference. Visiting Rotarians at the meet ing were Gerald Hill, Beaufort; Jim Fleming, Greenville and York Barr and Dale Holdcrness, Tar boro. Other visitors included George Leigh Dill, Morehead City, Gregg Gibbs, Dayton, Ohio; W. Allan Knott, Kinston; and Hassan El Abd of Cairo, Egypt. Walter Morris Speaks to Lions Walter Morris, past president of the Morehead City Civitan club, was the gue?t speaker Thursday night at the Lions club meeting, Mopehead City. Mr. Morris spoke on the goals of the Civitan club and outlined some of their past and present projects. It was announced that the formal installation of Carmi Winters, new district governor of district 31-H, will *be held Aug. 29 at New Bern. The ceremony will will be held at 7 p.m. in the Governor Tryon ho tel. A visiting Lion at the meeting Thursday was A. P. Barefoot of Raleigh. Next week the club will meet at the home of Jim McLean for a cook out. First Tarpon This Season Photo by Bob Simpson Outdoing himself a* ? tarpon flake rm an Is David MrAlislrr. Bis co?. Flaking from Thompson's pier on Bo?ue Banks, McAlister land rd this MVpounder, topped his last yrar's record hy 3 pounds. The tarpon measured 5 feet 11 'i inches, Is the first of the season from this immediate area. State C&D Board to Meet At Nag s Head This Month Gov. Luther H. Hodges will pre side at the summer meeting of the State Board of Conservation and Development at the Carolinian ho tel, Nags Head, Aug. 21-23. The first business session will be in the Cypress Room of the hotel Monday morning, Aug. 22, starting at 9 o'clock. The invocation will be given by the Rev. Joseph Burroughs, pas tor, St. Andrew's by the Sea, Nags Head Victor Meckins, chairman of the Dare county board of commission ers, will officially welcome the Governor and board members to Dare county. The response will be given by board member H. C. Ken nett of Durham. Director William P. Saunders of the Department of Conservation and Development and assistant di rector J. Edgar Kirk will make reports to the board as will the following divisional heads: Advertising ? Charles Parker; commerce and industry? William R. Henderson; commercial fish cries? C. G. Holland; community planning? Robert D. Barbour; for estry? F. H. Claridge; mineral re sources? Dr. Jasper L. Stuckey; state parks ? Thomas W. Morse. Time has been allotted at 10 a.m. for anyone wishing to be heard on public matters. The following committees of the board will meet Monday: com merce and industry, community planning, commercial fisheries, ad vertising, and mineral resources. The committees on state parks and forestry will meet Tuesday prior to the board's final business ses sion starting at 11 a.m. The board's commercial fisheries committee, with its new chairman, Eric W. Rodgers of Scotland Neck Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW | Tuesday, Aug. 9 10:00 a.m. 3:48 a.m. 10:19 p.m. 4:0$ p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1* 10:54 a m. 4:33 a m 11:12 p.m. 4:54 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11 11:46 a.m. 5:19 a.m. 5:45 p.m. | Friday, Aug. 12 12:03 a.m. 6:07 a.m. 12 :M p.m. 6:42 p.m.1 presiding, will meet at Morehead City at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, to hear a group asking that crab pots be allowed to remain in the waters of Hyde county within the area between West Bluff Shoals and Long Shoal river the year round provided they are kept with in two miles of the shore line, and to hear a delegation from South port in regard to establishing an artificial reef off Bald Head Island. Board members will arrive at Nags Head Sunday, Aug. 21, and will be entertained at a social hour by manager Julian Oncto of the Carolinian hotel that evening. Other social events and arrange ments for the meeting are spon sored jointly by the Dare county board of commissioners and the following: the Nags Head cham ber of commerce, the town of Man teo, the Roanoke Island Garden club, The Times Printing Co., Fearings Inc., and Daniels Oil Co. The National Park Service has arranged a tour for wives of board members at 10 o'clock Monday morning, Aug. 22. Entertainment that night has been arranged by management of The Lost Colony. * The State Highway commission,^ in session Thursday afternoon at New Bern, decided to operate fer ries between Emerald Isle and Cedar Point next summer. High way officials will also meet this week with Dan Taylor, of Sea Level and West Palm Beach, to discuss the state's assuming op eration of the ferry between Atlan tic and Ocracoke. The ferry which started opera tion this year is owned by Mr. Tay lor and his three brothers. When the ferry was still in the planning stage, it was proposed by the own ers that the state eventually as sume operation. The state expects to start op erating the Emerald Isle ferries on "a limited basis'' in the summer of 1961. The ferries would make it unnecessary for cars coming to Emerald Island, from the west, to go into Morehead City and then west again to Emerald Isle. The State Highway commission has not defined what it means by "limited basis." A ferry, which formerly operated at Jamestown, Va., is now in possession of W. B. McLean and other developers of Emerald Isle. Test runs have been made on it this summer. It sails from the west end of Emerald Isle to a point near the intersection fo highways 58 and 24, four miles east of Swansboro. It carries seven cars. The state expects to replace that ferry with ferries now crossing the Alligator river. The river is now bring spanned by a bridge. The bridge, one of the largest ever built in North Carolina, will give direct access to the outer banks, and replace three ferries now op erating across the river. Cars Damaged While Parked A pair of parked cars were dam aged in two traffic accidents in vestigated recently by the More head City police department. In an accident Wednesday night, a parked car at 20th and Shcpard Streets was hit by a 1955 Oldsmo bile driven by John Bruce Edwards of Fairshore, Mass. The owner of the parked ear, a 1955 Chevrolet, was Franklin Selvcster Reams of 2006 Shcpard. Damage to both cars was esti mated by poliee at $200. Lt. Joe Smith investigated. No charges were filed. In a similar accident Saturday night at 1201 Avery St., Eddie Mar tin Jr. of Morehead City was charged with careless and reck less driving. Police said that Martin was the driver of a 1955 Buick that hit a parked 1956 Chevrolet belonging to James Warnctte of Southport. Mar tin was going east on Avery street. Damage to both of the cars was set at $150 by Lieutenant Smith, who investigated. Coast Guard Tows Yacht Into Morehead Saturday The 45-foot yacht, Roma Rie, owned by R. P. Watson Jr. of Wil son developed engine trouble Sat urday evening near Beaufort In let and had to be towed by Coast Guardsmen from Fort Macon. The Roma Rie radioed the sta tion, stating that it was disabled. The Coast Guard dispatched the 40-footer, which took the Roma Rie in tow to Morehead City. The yacht was operated by Harrison Guthrie of Morehead City. The crew on the 40-footcr was Reginald Lewis, BMC and R. C. Gaskill, FN. > Buyers of Beer For Minors Risk Exile from Beach Persons who buy beer for a mi nor at Atlantic Beach, if convicted, are denied access to the town un til tho minor for whom they bought the beer, reaches the age of 18. That's why Donald Ray Brinkley, Kinston, has been banned from At lantic Beach until May 17, 1961. He was convicted in the recent session of Atlantic Beach mayor's court and ordered to pay costs. Roderick Moore, Markers Island, was given 30 days in jail, suspend ed on payment of $5 and costs, and on the condition that he not drink anything at Atlantic Beach for the next two years. He was found guilty of public drunkenness, loud and profane language, and resist ing arrest. On June 9, 1958, as the result of conviction in the beach court, Moore was banned from the beach for two years. Gerry Levi Rarfield, LaGrangc, was given a 30-day suspended sen tence and ordered to stay away from the beach for six months. He was found guilty of being drunk at the Beach July 24, 25 and 26. He was fined $10 and costs.. Costs were levied against the following: Floyd J. Riggs, route 1 Newport, Louis H. Gorhain, route 2 Newport, both charged with pub lic drunkenness; and Jack C. Whit ley, Camp Lejeune, charged with assault on Alvin C. York. Bonds were forfeited by Henry P. Tutt, Jacksonville; Bobby Sut ton, Kinston, and Joseph J. Ka neer, High. Point. Continued was the case of George H. Styron, Atlantic. Businessmen Appraise Sale Beaufort and Morehead City re tail businessmen were generally pleased with the history making Twin City Summer Clearance sale promoted by the merchants asso ciations of both towns Thursday through Saturday. James Potter, president of the Beaufort Merchants association, said Thursday was one of Beau fort's biggest sale days. Friday and Saturday were good days, he added. A lot of people were in town. With U?e exception of two or three stores, he felt all had had a good three days' business. Mr. Potter said it is regrettable that four or five Morehead City stores, not members of the mer chants' association there or mem bers of the chamber of commerce, started clearance sales prior to Thursday. "If we could get every one to cooperate, it would be a good thing," he said. J. A. DuBois, manager of -the chamber of commerce, said that everyone in Morehead City seemed satisfied with the sale. One store manager said that his sales Thurs day were exceeded only by sales on one Thursday immediately prior to Christmas. Bombing This Week Camp Lejcune warns navigation to steer clear this week of tho ocean area between Bogue Inlet and New River inlet because of firing exercises. Inland waterway traffic will not be interfered with. Social Security Payments in County Total Over Million Dollars Annually At the end of 1959, as Federal social security was starting its 25th year, old-age, survivors, and dis ability insurance monthly benefits were being paid in Carteret coun ty to 1,975 persons at the rate of $1,146,012 a year, according to W. W. Thomas, manager of the New Bern social security district office. "This is an increase in number of bcncficiarics of about 9 7 per cent since February 1959, the last previous date for which county fig ures are aviilable," he said Nationally, about li% million persona were receiving old-age, survivors, and disability insurance monthly benefits at the end of 1959 at an annual rate of more than tin billion. At the cloac of 1940? the first year in which monthly bene fits were payable ? beneficiaries throughout the nation totaled 200, 000. Almost half a million disabled worker beneficiaries and their de pendents receiving benefits at a yearly ,rate of over >400 million are included in the figure* lot 1859. The number of wives, husbands, and children of disabled-worker bcncficiaries receiving monthly benefits increased sharply in 1959. Such benefits were first payable for September 1958 Nationally, from February to December 1959, the number of these beneficiaries more than doubled? from 60,000 to 128,000. Payments to a retired worker with no dependents receiving bene fits averaged $69 a month nation ally at the end of last Dccejnbcr ; to a retired couple, both of whom were receiving benefits, the aver age payment was $121. The aver age for a widow with two young children was $169. By contrast, Mr. Thomas recall ed that when benefits first became payable in 1940, the average monthly payment to a retired worker with no dependents receiv ing benefits was $22, and to ( re tired couple the average payment was $36. Aj uncial ?ccurily cclcbratci lis Silver Anniversary (the original Act was signed into law on Aug. 14, 1955) about 74 million working people arc in covered employment or self-employment in the course of a year. They arc building old age. survivors, and disability pro tection for themselves, their de pendents, and their survivors un der the social security law. In the New Bern social security district, including the counties of Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico, Tyrrell, and Washington, old-age, survivors, and disability insuTancc payments at the end of December 1959 were being paid lo 15.303 bene ficiaries at the rale of $706,390 per month and at the rate of $8,476,767 annually. For the entire State of North Carolina, old-age, survivors, and disability insurance payments at the end of December 1959 were be ing paid to 290,230 beneficiaries at the rate of fl4,4M,509 per month and at the rate of $173,838,106 an nually.

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