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I 49th YEAR, NO. 78.
TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1960
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
f B&PW Club to Honor
Retired School Teacher
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Judge Hears 50
Cases, 28 Deal
With Speeding
Judge Lambert R. Morris heard
50 cases in county court last week
and of those, 28 involved speeding.
Ten defendants were convicted of
' speeding and were ordered to pay
court costs.
They were Garrett Gillikin, John
Moore Staton Jr., George Preston
Whittle Jr., Thelma Laney Styron,
Lewis Ingles Ziegler, Willard Lee
Kittrell Jr., Dallas Darrel Dan
iels, Charles Thomas Gillikin,
George Roy Jones, Michael Oscar
Noe, and William Gaskins Harris.
Five others, James Rogers Ham
ilton, Charles Edward Carraway,
George Dewey McCarty Jr., Henry
» Michael Lawson, and Carl Marion
Bell Jr., paid $5 and court costs
and Richard Douglas Bradshaw,
Benjamin Allen Guthrie, Stanley
Gwinn Trainer Jr., William Earl
Small, Levy Benjamin Ingram Jr.,
and Raymond Joseph Kayam were
taxed $10 and costs.
Robert E. Lee Willis Jr. and Mel
vin Lester Mansfield Jr. each were
fined $25 and costs for speeding.
The fine against Harry E. Frey,
convicted of speeding, was $35 and
costs.
Exceeding the speed limit cost
Jerry Keith Tucker $4.50 and costs
and John David Midgette $2 and
costs. David Russell Holcomb, an
other speeder, was ordered to pay
one-half court costs.
Other defendants, their charges
and the findings of the court fol
, low:
John Anthony Salley — Larceny,
six months in jail, suspended on
payment of $150 and costs and
three years’ good behavior.
Rayford Ray Locklear — Having
no operator's license and drunk
driving, three months in jail .and
roadwork, suspended on payment
of $100 and costs.
Martin Dayis—Assault, costs.
Andrew Jackson Hooten—No op
erator’s license, driving drunk and
having no insurance. Second count
amended by the court to read care
less and reckless driving. De
fendant fined $125 and costs.
Walter Lee Oglesby — Engaging
in an affray, costs.
Marion Fitzpatrick Warren—Pub
lic drunkenness and resisting ar
rest, dismissed.
Bobby Gray Stroud—Having an
expired operator’s license and an
improper muffler, not prosecuted.
1 , Theodore Hubbard Baker—Care
less and reckless driving, $25 and
court costs.
Perry Lawrence—Having no op
erator’s License and speeding, $25
and court costs.
John L. Fuller—Issuing a worth
less check. Defendant ordered to
pay court costs and to honor the
check.
Evans Howard Styron — Driving
,drunk. Warrant amended by the
court to read careless and reckless
driving for which the defendant
was fined $100 and costs.
Henry Shelton Lecgins—Follow
ing too close, costs.
Ora Alice Moberly—Having no
insurance and no registration card,
$10 and costs.
J. Raymond Ransom—Issuing a
worthless check. Defendant order
ed to pay costs and to honor the
check.
Bertie Guthrie Lewis—Having no
operator’s license and improper
passing, $10 and costs.
John Edgar Seaton — Improper
lights, bond forfeited.
Elsworth Lee Swinton — Driving
on the wrong side of the road,
costs.
Tommy Vinson Jr. — Assault,
prosecuting witness paid court
, costs for malicious prosecution.
Ollie James Owens Jr —Careless
and reckless driving, $25 and costs..
Thomas Clemmon Oglesby HI—
Following too close, costs.
Betty Taylor—Leaving a motel
without paying room and board
bill. Defendant ordered by the
court to pay costs and the motel
bill.
Continued were 173 cases until
, later terms of court.
Red Cross Directors
To Meet at 7:30 Tonight
The board of directors of the
county Red Cross chapter will
meet at 7:30 tonight on the second
floor of the courthouse, Beaufort,
announces Odell Merrill, chairman.
A county-wide communications
system will be discussed and any
one interested is invited to come,
Mr. Merrill said. *
The chapter is now accepting do
nations, according to the chairman.
He said that losses caused by the
hurricane have created quite a
drain on Red Cross funds and it
will take a lot more money to r»eet
the needs of everyone. Contribu
tions may be made to Mr. Merrill
in Beaufort. i
• Mrs. Daily M. Fulcher, Atlantic,
will be honored by the Carteret
Business and Professional Wom
en’s club tonight as an outstanding
contributor to the culture and econ
omy of the county.
Mrs. Fulcher, a retired teacher,
is a former B&PW club member
and is at present conducting a kin
dergarten at Atlantic. The recog
nition of Mrs. Fulcher is in con
junction with National Business
Women’s Week, which, begins Oct.
2 and continues through Oct. 8.
Mrs. Fulcher retired in 1956 aft
er 39 years as a public school
teacher. A native of Atlantic, she
Mrs. Daily M. Fulcher
. . . teaches kindergarten
taught school in New Bern, Choco
winity, Morehead City, Beaufort
and Atlantic. While at Chocowin
ity, she was director for three
years of the nearby Tulip Festival
in Washington, N. C.
Mrs. Fulcher is particularly
proud of her two grandchildren,
Becky and Steven Jackson, chil
dren of her daughter, Mrs. P. R.
Jackson, and Mr. Jackson of Pitts
boro.
Becky is a junior at Woman's
College, Greensboro, and has held
several beauty titles since win
ning the Miss Pittsboro crown a
few years ago. Her brother is a
senior at State College, majoring
in mathematics atW pWysieS, has
been honored for high scholastic
achievement and is winner of the
Bendix Aviation scholarship.
Mrs. Fulcher, whose hobby is
painting, will show several of her
paintings tonight. She will be pre
sented a certificate by the presi
dent of the club, Mrs. W. 1. Lof
tin.
Recipient of the certificate last
year was the late Miss Maybelle
Neal of Beaufort.
Tobacco Auction — Noisy, Exciting;
Selling Moves at Lightning Pace
By ELLEN B. MASON
“Sold, American!” The famous
phrase, familiar as the kitchen
sink, is occasionally the climax to
the staccato chant of the tobacco
auctioneer as he goes about his
business of selling North Carolina’s
golden leaf to the highest bidder.
Of course, companies other than
American Tobacco purchase the
leaf grown by North Carolina
farmers. Millions of pounds are
sold daily in warehouses across
the state. The warehouse I visited
Wednesday was in Kinston.
It took some doing to get to Kins
ton in time for the first sale at
8:30 Wednesday morning. We had
to get up about 4 a.m. and drive
to Kinston in plenty of time to un
load and get “on the floor” before
the sale.
Although the auction itself was
nothing new to me, the hustle and
bustle before and after the sale
we^e something I had never seen.
Arriving at the warehouse a lit
tle after 6, I was surprised at the
number of farmers there before us.
By “us” I mean my husband, Au
brey, and his dad, Mr. C. M. Ma
son of Newport.
The warehouse was a noisy
place. If you stood still and lis
tened, you could pick out the roar
of truck motors, tobacco sticks
clattering on the concrete floor as
the trucks were unloaded, tele
phones ringing and the jovial talk
of farmers.
Among the men there was much
friendly teasing about the size,
color and grade of the tobacco and
its predicted price. The place was
clean swept, but the air was full
of dust and over it all was the
overpowering smell of the tobacco.
The unloading of the trucks and
trailers involved the operation of
hand carts with tilted bodies and
large trays that looked like a bas
ket someone started to make but
forgot to finish.. A man would
hand a stick of tobacco from the
truck to another man near the
hand cart. He takes half the stick
and lays it stems-out on the bas
ket. Then the other end of the
stick is turned to him and he re
peats the motion, laying the stems
outward in another direction.
When the job js completed the
tobacco ia neatly piled squarely
Witchweed Strangles Cornstalk
When witchweed hit North Car
olina’s corn crop, scientists need
ed immediate information on
how to bring it under control.
Thanks to Nickels for Know-How
funds contributed by Tar Heel
farmers a scientist could be as
signed to the job.
Witchweed hasn't been com
pletely controlled. But federal
and state scientists feel they are
making progress. Money con
tributed to State College through
the Nickels for Know-How pro
gram has permitted scientists to
Four Visitors Go
To Rotary Meeting
Four visitors attended the More
head City Rotary meeting Thurs
day night at the Rex restaurant.
They were Walter Churchill,, re
tired Marine general from Toledo,
0.; Jack Sharpe, Blowing Rock;
Bob Bennett, Columbia, S. C.; and
John A. Reynolds, Morehead City,
who was a guest of W. B. Chalk.
The speakers were introduced by
Mr. Chalk. They were Frank
Reeves of the American Red
Cross, and W. W. Simpson, insur
ance adjuster. Speaking on Civil
Defense in the place of Jack Sav
age, Atlantic Beach, was George
W. Dill, mayor of Morehead City.
on the baskets. The carts are then
rolled to the weighing station
where metered weight cards are
put on the pile and the weight is
entered oh the owner’s bill of sale.
Later, the price each pile brings
will also be added to the bill of
sale.
After the piles have been placed
in rows on the warehouse floor,
graders from the Flue-Cured To
b a c c o Cooperative Stabilization
Corp. look over the piles. They
mark a price on the weight card
and if the buyers don’t top that
price, the farmer may sell to the
stabilization corporation.
The tobacco and its growers
await the sale. The auctioneer and
buyers, about a dozen of them, ap
pear on the scene and the excite
ment begins.
The auctioneer, in this case Li
onel Garner, a Carteret native,
asks for a bid and the sale is on.
The pace quickens as the buyers
take up the challenge.
The buyers are a breed of men
unto themselves. They have been
entrusted by their companies to
spend money and they must do it
wisely. By shaking, twisting, smell
ing, looking and sometimes even
tasting they can tell which tobacco
is the most valuable.
As fast as they can walk be
tween the rows, the piles are sold.
The auctioneer keeps up a frantic
pace, never missing a beat. He
begs, urges, cajoles and demands
the bids. The words pour out of
his mouth in a constant flow with
out his mouth ever seeming to
move. He is the leader of the
show, a sort of hypnotist-pied piper
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Sept. 27
12:37 a.m. 6:28 a.m.
1:07 p.m. 7:47 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 28
1:42 a.m. 8:01 a.m.
2:11 p.m. 9:02 p.m.
Thursday, Sept 29
2:50 a.m. 9:19 a.m:
3:20 p.m. 10:05 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 30
3:59 a.m. 10:24 a.m.
«:» p.m. 21:90 p.m.
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work on many problems in addi
tion to witchweed.
Farmers contribute the money
by assessing themselves a nickel
for each ton of feed and fertiliz
er purchased.
Farmers Will
Vote This Friday
Farmers will vote Friday on
whether to continue the Nickels-for
Know-llow program.
C. N. Stroud, county chairman,
lists the following polling places:
Freeman’s grocery, Crab Point;
Walter Whitley’s store, Wildwood;
Roy Garner's Feed and Seed store,
Newport; Ray and Cecil’s store,
Mundinc community.
Joe Taylor’s store, Bogue; W. T •
Piner store, Pelletier; Jim Young's
store, Stella; Pigott’s store, Glou
cester; Headen Willis’s store,
Smyrna.
Mrs. Minnie Glilikin’s store, Bet
tie; Oscar Pittman store, Merri
mon; Gaskill’s Feed and Seed
store, Beaufort, and Wallace Con
ner’s store, Harlowe.
The Nlckels-for-Know-How refer
endum takes place every three
years.
who leads a strange procession of
men along the piles of tobacco.
As suddenly as it began, it is all
over. The last pile has been sold.
The buyers heave a sigh of relief
and reach for, of all things, a cig
arette. The auctioneer moves on
to his car and takes off for anoth
er warehouse, another sale.
And what of the farmer, who has
spent valuable time and money in
raising this crop so easily disposed
of? Whether or not he is satisfied
with his price, he collects his check
and bill of sale and heads home,
soon to begin the whole routine
again.
Good Neighbor
Days Postponed
The Beaufort Merchants associa
tion Good Neighbor Days, schedul
ed for Oct. 6-8, have been post
poned.
The event, planned in honor of
residents of down easi communi
ties and residents of highway 101
communities, has been shunted
aside by Donna.
Businessmen who had planned
to offer windows for displays from
the various communities are busy
right now trying to get things back
to normal.
The Sept. -13 meeting, to plan
for the East Carteret Good Neigh
bor Days, was not held. The clean
up chores after Donna caused its
cancellation.
The association expects to re
schedule the event, according to
James Potter, president.
Toastmasters Will Meet
At 7:30 Tomorrow
Carteret County Toastmasters
will meet Wednesday night in the
civic center. Morehead City.
Toastmaster will be William
Motes. Harold Chartley, Dr. Rus
sell Outlaw, and M. L. Davis will
be the prepared speakers. Clif
ford Faglie will be the topic mas
ter.
Critics will be T. R. Rice and
J. H. McLain. Maynard Owens
will act as master critic. Time of
the meeting is 7:90.
Rare Sperm
Whales Wash
Ashore at Beach
Three house repairmen at the
beach last Tuesday morning came
upon some whales washed ashore.
Several were still alive, so the men,
David Merrill, Carl Edwards, and
James G. Howland, Morehead City,
rolled them back in the water.
A cow was dead but its calf, still
alive, was carried to Atlantic
Beach. It was put in the sea life
exhibit pool owned by A. B. Cooper,
but later died.
Harry Davis, director of the state
museum, Raleigh, said Dr. William
Fahy of the Institute of Fisheries
Research, UNC, Morehead City,
identified the whales as pygmy
sperm whales, which are rare.
The adult whale was taken to the
Hampton Marine museum where
Mr. Davis and his helpers were
busy Friday morning making plas
ter of paris casts so that the whale
could be reproduced and a model
put on display. The big whale was'
about 10 feet long.
The calf, 4 feet long, was put in
cold storage in Morehead City and
was taken back to Raleigh, where
casts will be made of it.
Mr. Davis said he couidn t ex
plain why the whales washed
ashore, but assumed that those
helped back into deep water sur
vived.
The whales were found at Ocean
Ridge about a mile and a half west
of Atlantic Beach. The pygmy
sperm whale, Mr. Davis said,
ranges the whole Atlantic and
probably the polar seas. Its small
size is due, probably, he explained,
to the whale's small mouth, which
limits the amount of food it can
take in.
Until the find here, the state
museum had neither a reproduc
tion af a pygmy sperm whale nor
a complete skeleton, according to
the museum director.
Girl Cools Off
In County Jail
f Onita Brinkley, New Bern, was
in the county jail under $100 bond
yesterday. She was charged Sun
day night with drunk and disorder
ly conduct, destroying personal
property, and assault.
The woman was arrested by dep
uties Bruce Edwards and Marshall
Ayscue at Newport after she had
yanked wires off the sparkplugs
of her boyfriend’s car, smashed
glassware in a beer joint and run
people out of an apartment house.
A wreck was the result of her
disabling the car. According to
patrolman R. H. Brown, Thomas
M. Murray, Cherry Point, was
driving his 1960 Falcon out of Smit
ty’s 2'At miles west of Newport
shortly after midnight. Miss Brink
ley, who objected to his departure,
whipped up the hood, yanked the
wires loose, and left the car strand
ed cross-wise on highway 70.
Murray got out and flagged traf
fic around the car, but Herbert C.
Doolittle, headed east in a 1957
Ford, hit it on the right side. Doo
little was charged with driving
drunk.
Damage to the Falcon was esti
mated at $100 and damage to the
Ford at $150.
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To Attend Rally
School committeemen of Carteret
will attend this afternoon at East
Carolina college, Greenville, a ral
ly sponsored by the North Carolina
Citizens Committee for Better
Schools. Others interested in going
should phone H. L. Joslyn, 8-3210.
State Asks Army's OK
On New Bridge Plan
Red Cross Aids Fisherman
Fisherman Ivey Gaskill discusses with Red Cross disaster worker
Janice Ann Thomas financial help he will need to replace his 40-foot
craft (part can be seen at right) demolished by Hurricane Donna.
Helping stricken families with occupational needs such as Gaskill’s
is part of the Red Cross family rehabilitation program now under
way.
Fight Against Time
State to Put Up Sand
Fences on Portsmouth
To save what little is left of
Portsmouth island, from Drum in
let to a point just north of Swash
inlet, prison labor will start con
struction of sand fences on the 14
mile stretch next Monday, Oct. 3.
Thirty Negro prisoners will spend
four months on the job. Cost to
the state is estimated at $110,000.
Half of the prisoners will stay at
the airfield at Atlantic and build
the fencing, the other half will go
to Portsmouth daily to put the
fences up, according to the State
Department of Water Resources.
Where the island is wide enough,
the fencing will be placed 500 feet
from, and parallel to, the ocean.
If this work proves successful and
the sand builds up around the fence
into a dune, another section of
fence would be added later, closer
to the ocean.
The project was recommended
by the Beach Erosion Board of the
Corps of Army Engineers. It is
believed that if the state continues
the fencing for 10 years, without a
serious hurricane, a dune 40 feet
high could be built.
Harry Brown, director of water
resources, points out that the real
solution for restoration of the outer
banks lies in a study now being
made by Army engineers of the
Ocracoke to Cape Lookout section.
Cost of the study is $130,000.
Fall Housecleaning Job
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News-Time* Photo by McComb
Fall housecleaning job* like thii one face lota of people since Donna passed through. It’s clean up and
mild, a Job that will taka several essatbs. This is part at the boardwalk at Fort Macs* state park.
• Bridge Will be 60
Feet Farther North
• Beaufort Fender
Damaged by Donna
Army engineers, Wilmington, re
leased three notices Friday regard
ing waterways in Carteret.
One notice dealt with the pro
posed bridge across Newport river
at Morehead City; the other with
an overhead wire near the Core
creek bridge, and the third with
the damaged fender on the new
bridge across Gallants channel at
Beaufort.
Plans for the bridge across New
port river can be seen at the Army
engineers' office, Wilmington. The
Army says that it will hear any
objections to construction of the
bridge insofar as public rights of
navigation arc concerned.
Aware of the controversy swirl
ing about the bridge construction,
Col. R. P. Davidson, district engi
neer, emphasizes that no consider
ation will be given to protests
which do not affect public naviga
tion.
Those that do should be in the
office of the Corps of Engineers,
PO Box 1890, Wilmington, no later
than Oct. 21.
Bridge plans, as submitted by
the State Highway commission, to
Army engineers, show that the
bridge will be placed 60 feet north
of the present railroad bridge.
The present highway bridge, 30
feet south of the railroad bridge,
will be removed after the new one
is built. Horizontal clearance for
vessels will be 80 feet, the same
as in the existing railroad bridge.
This can be widened to 100 feet,
the state says, if the railroad
bridge should be rebuilt to pro
vide 100 feet clearance also.
The plans indicate tentative lo
cation for a vertical lift span to
allow passage of ocean vessels to
the north, if development of the
harbor in that direction warrants
Its construction. The engineers’
office announces "Data furnished
on this item is included for infor
mation only and is not a part of”
the application for approval.
The bridge approach span on the
west is 980 feet and on the east
1,750 feet.
The Carteret - Craven Electric
Membership Corp. has requested
permission to place an overhead
wire across the inland waterway
at a height of 85 feet above high
water, a drop in vertical naviga
tion clearance of 18 feet from the
existing overhead wire.
Supporting poles will be placed
on shore 250 feet north of highway
101 (Core Creek bridge). Objec
tions to the proposed project, from
the standpoint of navigation, will
be received by Army engineers
until Oct. 11.
The west fender system of the
Beaufort bridge was damaged by
Donna. Army engineers advise
vessels that the horizonal clear
ance, due to undermining of the
fender, is now 48 feet instead of
60. The state expects to make
repairs in the near future.
Red Cross Will
Close Tomorrow
The Red Cross office, Beaufort,
will accept no more applications
for storm aid after 5 p.m. Wednes
day.
Frank Reeves, chairman of Red
Cross work in this county, said the
office will continue to be open for
processing applications already in
hand.
As of yesterday, $6,500 had been
paid out in emergency aid to Car
teret victims of Donna. Mr. Reeves
estimates that the total paid in
this county will run as high as $25,
000 or $30,000.
. That will include funds for re
building homes, replacing house
hold furnishings, medical care,
food, clothing, and maintenance —
in other words the rehabilitation
phase which has not been entered
as yet.
By noon Saturday, 239 applica
tions for help had been processed.
The Red Cross office is located on
the second floor of the courthouse
annex, Beaufort.
World War I Veterans
Install New Officers
Barracks 1228, Veterans of World
War I, installed new officers at
the Blue Ribbon club recently.
Louis Dunn of New Bern, fifth dis
trict commander, was the install
ing officer.
New officers are Charles T.
Jones, commander; Lemuel Z.
Mann, senior vice • commander;
Robert G. Atkinson, junior vice
commander; Paul R. Dietzel, ad