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.
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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.