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49th YEAR, NO. 72.
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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1960
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
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ASC Committeemen Will
Be Elected Here Thursday
By B. 1. MAY
ASC Manager
On Thursday you and your neigh
bors will be electing the ASC farm
er committeemen who in 196irwill
be responsible for the local admin
istration of national farm pro
grams such as the soil bank pro
gram, the agricultural conserva
tion program, price supports, acre
age allotments, marketing quotas,
storage facility loans, and others.
It is these men who will see to
it that such national programs are
properly adapted to conditions in
Carteret county and to your farm.
It is the background and experi
ence of these same men that will
be mingled with that of the 135
thousand ASC farmer-committee
men in the United States in the
formation of any new program that
developments in the coming year
Aay require.
This double-barrelled function of
your farmer committee system has
kept it vigorous through the years
and has been largely responsible
for the truly democratic develop
ment and operation of farm pro
grams.
You participate by helping to
elect your committeemen, by keep
ing them informed of the prob
lems facing you and your com
(munity and by giving them your
Adult Recreation Program
To Reopen Tomorrow Night
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Bankrupt Firms
May Liquidate
Raleigh (AP)—Kirchofer and Ar
nold Inc. of Raleigh and the af
filiated Morehead City Shipbuild
ing Corp. both appeared headed
for outright liquidation rather
'than sale following a hearing here
Thursday before federal district
judge Algernon Butler on proposals
by would-be buyers.
Offers for the assets of both
firms, tendered by InterAmerican
Trust Co. of Columbia, S. C., drew
the disapproval both of W. H. Hof
ler, federal trustee in bankruptcy,
and the securities and exchange
commission.
Meanwhile, judge Butler direct
ed Hofler, a Durham attorney, to
prepare plans for "orderly liquida
tion” of both bankrupt firms for
submission by letter to creditors
by Nov. 1.
Louisiana Crab
Wins Derby
North Carolina blue crabs may
taste the best, but they aren’t very
expert at running.
A crab wearing the Louisiana
colors won the crab derby at Cris
field, Md., Saturday.
Dr. Austin Williams, Institute of
Fisheries Research, UNC, took the
Tar Heel crabs to Crisfield Friday
with Wade Lucas, public informa
tion officer with the Department
of Conservation and Development.
He told Mrs. Williams by tele
phone Sunday that the heat was so
terrific the crabs didn’t want to
move. He said the Louisiana crab
had been kept on ice.
Further details on the running
were net available yesterday. Gov.
Millard Tawes, Maryland, present
ed a trophy to the handler of the
Louisiana crab. Other states sched
uled to enter the derby, Resides
'North Carolina, were Washington,
"Oregon, Maryland and Delaware.
North Carolina’s entry was
dubbed Tar Boy I. He evidently
got stuck at the starting line.
Two Cars Collide Friday
At Beaufort Intersection
A Volkswagen driven by J. B.
Windlcy, highway 101, and a 1958
Lafayette, driven by Glenn R. Wil
liams of Virginia, collided at 8:15
p.m. Friday in a hard rain at the
intersection of Live Oak and Front
streets.
Police chief Guy Springle said
that Williams tried to pass Windley
as Windley was making a left turn
north on Live Oak. Both cars were
headed east on Front.
4 Assisting the chief in the investi
gation was Carlton Gamer, assist
ant police chief. No charges were
preferred.
Merchants to Meet
The Morehead City Merchants
association will meet at 11:39 this
mroning at the Hotel Fort Macon.
full support and cooperation in
their job.
The county convention at which
elected delegates will elect county
committeemen will be held Sept.
23 1960
You will be eligible to vote for
your community committeemen,
alternates, and delegates if you
have an interest as owner, opera
tor, tenant, or sharecropper, in a
farm that is participating or is
eligible to participate in any pro
gram administered during the cur
rent calendar year through your
ASC county office.
There are some mighty impor
tant decision to be made in 1961.
Many of them will affect you.
Someone has to make them. Will
your voice be heard?
Farmers of Carteret county may
vote at one of the following places:
Jim Young’s Store, Stella;-com
munity building, Pelletier; Joe
Taylor’s Store, Bogue; Rock Cor
bett’s Store, Highway 70; Ray &
Cecil’s Service station, Mundinc
community; Newport Tractor &
Equipment Co., Newport; Gaskill’s
Peed Store, Beaufort; Wallace Con
ner’s Store, Harlowe; Mrs. Minnie
Gillikin's Store in B<ttie; and Guy
Garraway’s Home, Merrimon.
The polls will open at 6 in the
morning and stay open until 7 in
the evening.
► The adult recreation program at
the Morehcad City recreation cen
ter will reopen at 7:30 p.m. tomor
row, Sept. 7, announces George E.
Jackson, supervisor.
New officers will be installed.
They are Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Faglie, secretary and treasurer,
and Mrs. Mary Hughes, reporter,
The group meets each Wednes
day night during the winter
months. The program was eon
ducted for the first time last win
ter. The evening of dancing,
games and serving of refreshments
ends at 11 p.m.
Each couple attending is invited
to make a weekly donation of 25
cents.
The recreation commission, in a
letter to the adult recreation group
last May, said, “We appreciate
and thank you for the excellent
work which you have done to pro
mote the adult recreational pro
gram in Morehead City ... the
commission feels there is a defi
nite need for this type activity in
our overall program.”
In a recent letter to the recrea
tion commission, Mr. Jackson com
mended Fred Lewis, former rec
reation director, for his coopera
tion.
The adult recreation program is
open to any who may be interest
ed. Members of the steering com
mittee are Mrs. Christine Stocks,
Mrs. Annette Lawrence and Mrs.
Verona Hall.
Lions Hear Talk
About Jaycees
Bill Singleton, former president
of the Morehead City Jaycees,
spoke to Morehead City Lions re
cently on the history and purpose
of the Jaycees.
The program was one in a series
arranged by program chairman
Oscar Allred to acquaint Lions
with other civic organizations.
The national Jaycees trace their
beginning to the Herculaneum
Dancing club, organized in St.
Louis in 1910. Five years later if
became the Voung Men’s Progres
sive Civic association, in 1918 Jun
ior Citizens and in 1920 the United
States Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
Jaycees in North Carolina were
founded in 1937 with Morehead
City as one of the eight charter
clubs. Clubs now number 126, and
3,700 nationwide.
Jaycee objectives, Mr. Singleton
said, arc
1. To improve the community
2. To develop talents and abili
ties of members
3. Offer educational, recreation
al and social activities to young
men
4. To give young men a voice in
shaping the community
5. To further ideals and prin
ciples of democracy and free en
terprise.
During the Lions’ business ses
sion, they appropriated $50 for an
operation on a child’s eyes. James
Crowe was presented by the presi
dent, Cliff Edwards, with his 17th
year perfect attendance pin.
It was reported that the club
paid a portion of $158.05 spent by
the welfare department for aid to
the blind.
USCGC Jonquil Arrives Here
Roy Morgan 4
Addresses Club
Greensboro attorney Roy Morgan
was the guest speaker Thursday
night at the Morehead City Rotary
club. He' spoke on the circum
stances behind the strong Com
munist demonstrations that recent
ly caused president Eisenhower to
cancel plans for a goodwill trip to
Japan.
Mr. Morgan, who was a member
of the team of attorneys that pre
pared and prosecuted trials of
Japanese premier Tojo and other
war criminals, has spent a num
ber of years on various commis
sions in the Orient.
According to Mr. Morgan, the
government and the majority of
the people of Japan are strongly
in the Western camp. The approxi
mate 50,000 Communists in the
country are centered mainly in
Tokyo, and, using themselves as a
nucleus and leftist student groups,
were able to stage a “demonstra
tion” which attracted tremendous
crowds that got out of hand.
Mr. Morgan also answered ques
tions during a question grid answer
period about other sitifStions in
the Orient. He commented that
the worsening relations between
Russia and Red China were, ac
cording to his beliefs, the result
of Russia’s failure to make avail
able to Red China the know-how
for atomic bomb manufacture.
In club business, Dr. Warden
Woodard of Beaufort was named
the club’s official choice for dis
trict governor by a majority vote
of members. The club's two votes
for Woodard have been forwarded
to the district governor’s office.
Attending the meeting as a vis
itor was A1 Archer of Ridgewood,
N. J., and his two children. Mr.
Archer is the son-in-law of Paul
H. Geer.
Havelock Detour
Expected to End
In Several Days
J. H. Burruss, resident engineer
with the State Highway commis
sion in this area, said last week
that paving at Havelock was ex
pected to begin yesterday.
The bridge, located just east of
Parker Motors on highway 70 at
Havelock has been finished, and
the short detour around it will
probably be lifted some time this
week, Mr. Burruss said.
He added that he had no infor
mation on proposals to pave ap
proaches to the new bridge to Cali
co creek on the Crab Point road,
Morehead City.
It had been anticipated soon
after the bridge completion that
the approaches would be paved
early this month.
Conifer Moves, Jonquil
Comes to Fort Macon
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Drive at Your Own Risk!
Numerous blind comers (shrubbery obscures oncoming traffic)
make driving hazardous in Morehcad City. This is the comer at 20th
and Bay streets, looking south on 20th street. A car headed east on
Bay cannot see northbound traffic on 20th street because of the shrub
bery clumped around the white street marker.
Thick yucca on 4tb street at Bridges prevent a motorist headed
north on 4tb from seeing eastbound traffic on Bridges. The shrubbery
is on town property and, according to nolice, who are responsible for
traffic safety, should be removed by the town.
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This is 17th and Evans, looking west on Evans street. A person
headed north on 17th is unable to see westbound traffic on Evans.
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► Portsmouth — Two Coast Guard
cutters swapped homeports at
ceremonies at the Coast Guard
base here today.
The Conifer, formerly stationed
at Morehead City, is now at Ports
mouth and the buoy tender Jonquil
will work out of Morehead City.
The Jonquil arrived at Fort Macon,
where it is based, Friday.
Reason for the swap was to put
another vessel with icebreaking
capabilities in the Tidcwatcr-Chcs
apeakc Bay area. The Conifer has
a special ice-breaker bow, while
the Jonquil is of normal construc
tion. The move had been contem
plated for some time, but was
speeded up when the Conifer came
to Portsmouth recently for engine
overhaul.
Because of the difference in pro
pelling machinery (the Jonquil has
steam-turbine engines, and the
Conifer is diesel powered), the en
listed engineering force of both cut
ters remained assigned. The re
maining crewmen, including the
commanding officers, and officer
personnel switched ships. This was
done to prevent upheaval of homes
established at either Morehead
City or Portsmouth.
Commanding officer of the Coni
fer is Lt. Arnold H. Peterson, while
Lt. Gabriel E. Pehaim now com
mands the Jonquil.
Officers aboard the Jonquil, in
addition to lieutenant Pehaim, are
Lt. Walter B. Alvcy, executive of
ficer; Ens. David E. Zwerner,
ChBos’n Robert W. Conway, ship’s
officers, and ChMach. James D.
Toler, engineering officer.
Carteret men in the crew are
Niles B. Johnson, Julius C. Dunn,
John C. Gaskill, James A. Lewis,
all of Beaufort; Floyd F. Law
rence, James D. Willis, Morehead
City.
Luther A. Styron, Rodney B.
Taylor, both of Atlantic; John F.
Taylor, Sea LtVel; Claude D.
Brooks, Donnie Davis, both of
Harkers Island; and Joseph Wil
liams, Harlowc.
Tide Table
Tidas at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Sept. 6
8:44 a.m. 2:38 a.m.
9:04 p.m. . 2:58 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 7
9:32 a,m. • ,. 3:22 a.m.
9:53 p.m. 3:44 p.m.
- * Thursday, Sept. 8
10:21 a.m. 4:04 a.m.
10:41 p.m. 4:29 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 9
11:11 a.m.
11:31 p.m.
4:45 a.m.
5:14 p.m,
Labor Day Weekend Brings
Numerous Accidents
A 38-year-old Sanford woman, Essie Pinkham Mills,
was killed instantly at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in a two-car col
lision 14 miles west of Morehead City on highway 24. She
was the daughter of H. H. Pinkham, Beaufort. Her death
is the fifth highway fatality in the county this year.
Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., who investigated, said Mrs.
Mills was a passenger in a 1PG0'
Volkswagen driven by her hus
band, Roy Franklin Mills. Also
riding in the car were the Mills
children, Phyllis Rae, 11, Roy
Franklin Jr., 9, and Cindy Sue, 2.
The patrolman reported that the
Volkswagen struck the rear of a
1954 Chevrolet which had stopped
prior to making a left turn into a
private driveway. Both cars were
headed west.
Charles Wesley Speight, of route
1 Maysvillc, driver of the Chevro
let, told the patrolman that a car
was coming out of the driveway
and he had to stop before turning
in. His wife was a passenger in
the car.
Mills told patrolman Smith that
he took his eyes off the road lor
a second and when he looked up
again he was right on the Chevro
let. He applied his brakes and
skidded into the Chevrolet.
Mrs. Mills was thrown to the
floor of the car, her head hitting
the dash. Mr. Mills suffered a
broken right ankle and cuts on his
knee and arm. He and his daugh
ter, Phyllis, who received a broken
right arm, broken left wrist and
broken collarbone, were reported
to be in fairly good condition yes
terday at the Morchead City hos
pital.
The other two Mills children and
the Speights were not injured. Both
cars were demolished.
Nancy Raye Chappell, 11-ycar
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.
W. Chappell, highway 24, was
struck by a car at 8 o’clock Friday
morning five miles from the inter
section of highways 70 and 24.
She was still confined to the
Morchead City hospital yesterday,
suffering from bruises, brush burns
and internal injuries. According
to patrolman R. H. Brown, who
investigated, the child was struck
by a 1958 Chverolet coupe driven
by John Lora Midgett, 203 S. 21st
St., Morehead City.
He was headed toward Swans
boro, when Nancy ran out of the
house and started to cross the
highway to join her sister who was
on the opposite side waiting for the
approaching school bus.
She ran in front of Midgctt’s car.
The driver and the child’s mother
took her to the hospital. No
charges were filed.
See ACCIDENTS, Page 2
►
Cape Lookout
Reports Six
Recent Rescues
Labor Day brought many boats
to the Cape Lookout area. One
Coast Guardsman reported that he
had counted eighty outboards from
dawn to 10 a m. yesterday.
Two assists were made by per
sonnel from the station Monday,
Aug. 29. At 6:05 p.m. the tower
lookout spotted a 19-foot inboard
near Barden's inlet day beacon 8
with someone aboard waving a
white flag.
William K. Moore, BM3, and Da
vid Carr, SN, went to aid the dis
abled vessel in the Coast Guard 30
footer. Milton Scott of Harkers
Island, owner of the boat, and two
other persons were aboard. They
requested a tow to Harkers Island.
At 7 p.m., while being towed,
Scott made repairs to his engine
and was released from tow.
At 11:10 p.m. a telephone call
from Fort Macon Coast Guard sta
tion reported that a 53-foot cabin
cruiser, Linda, had lost its propel
ler northeast of the Harkers Island
drawbridge.
William K. Moore and James
Piver, EN3, towed the cruiser to
Marshallberg, mooring her at 2
a.m. She was owned by Oron Beals
of Smyrna and was being operated
by Eddie Prichard of Harlowe.
Saturday and Sunday saw the
Coast Guardsmen rescuing four
more boats.
At 11:30 a.m. Saturday, while on
inlet patrol, the 30-footer sighted a
14-foot outboard near Barden’s in
let buoy 5, apparently having en
gine trouble. Thomas C. Boyd of
Tarboro and one other person were
aboard.
William K. Moore and Wiley
Lewis, SA, towed the outboard to
Harkers marina at Harkers Island,
mooring her at 12:40 p.m.
At 2:20 Saturday afternoon Coast
Guardsmen on the station dock
saw a 14-foot outboard near the
See ASSISTS, Page 2
Lightning Lights the Night
Photo by Reginald bowl*
Lighting a still waterfront scene is a bolt of summer lightning in