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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROUNA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS 49th YEAR, NO. 82. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES Leading Candidates Will Speak Saturday Night at Democratic Rally Speaking at the Democratic rally* at 7:30 p.m. Saturday night at the courthouse in Beaufort will be Terry Sanford, candidate fojr^v ernor; Everett B. Jordan, candi date for United States senator; David N. Henderson, candidate for Congress from this district, and Mrs. Henry Cromartie, vice-chair man of the state Democratic par ty Place of the rally was changed yesterday from the school when it was learned that there was a football game at the school Satur day night and parking space would be limited. Arrangements are being made to have the rally outdoors, weather permitting; indoors, in case of rain. The meeting will be opened with an invocation by the Rev. Ralph Fleming, pastor of St. James Meth odist church, Newport. Mayor W. H. Potter,, Beaufort, will present A H. James, chairman of the county Democratic party. Mr. James will recognize former county chairmen of the party. Mayor Potter, who is arranging the program, said that John Lar kin has been requested to intro ' ducc the dignitaries but he had not heard by yesterday whether Mr. Larkin would be able to do so. If Mr. Larkin cannot be present, his place will be taken by other leading Democrats of the county, Mr. Potter said. Closing the rally will be the Rev. C. Edward Sharp, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Beaufort. Mrs. Sanford, Mrs. Jordan and Mrs. Henderson are expected to t attend. They will be introduced to those attending the rally at a receiving line outside the school after the rally, weather permitting. Mayor Potter said the rally is scheduled to last one hour. Firm Announces Dialing Change After Oct. 10 residents of More head City, Atlantic, Beaufort, Mar shallberg and Icracoke who sub scribe to telephone service for the first time, or whose number is' changed as the result of change of address, will be assigned a tele* , phone number containing all nu merals. The announcement was made to day by L. A. Daniels, Morehead City manager for Carolina Tele phone, who said that this marks the beginning of a long-range pro gram which will gradually erase the letters from the telephone dial. The new system is known as all number calling (ANC). Instead of the 2 letters and 5 numbers in use today, a 7-digit number will be substituted. In con verting to ANC, the prefix letters of the exchange name becomes numbers. For example, PA6-9000 will become 726-9000. Since the letters P and A appear in the same position on the dial as 7 and 2, there will be no change in operat ing the telephone dial. The conversion to all number calling in Morehead City, Atlantic, Beaufort, Marshallberg and Ocra coke will be accomplished grad ually and may take several years. Subscribers will receive ample ad vance notice, however, before their numbers are changed. Mr. Daniels said the conversion to ANC is part of a nationwide plan which will result in easier, more accurate, and faster dialing. Chamber President Voices Protests to SHC Chairman Rufus Butner Jr., president of the Greater Morehead City chanj bcr of Commerce, in 9 letter to J. Melville Broughton Jr., chair man of the state highway commis * sion, has voiced the chamber’s ob jection to the commission’s steam roller efforts to place the bridge across Newport river at approxi mately the present location. Mr. Butner, in the letter dated Thursday, said, “. . . is time for the citizens of North Carolina to find out why the highway commis sion has ignored all constructive .. criticism and stuck to a plan which everyone can see is ridiculous, im practical and disastrous.” A copy of the letter was sent to Gov. Luther Hodges. The complete letter follows: Dear Mr. Broughton: In all statements made by the' •State Highway Commission regard ing the Newport River Bridge am) even in reported records of bear ings there have been many dis y crcpaitcics. Since all of these dis crepancies have been aimed at dis crediting and belittling the people and organizations insisting upon a bridge which will not obstruct the development of the State Port and the natural water resources of Car teret County, it is time for the Citi zens of North Carolina to find out why the Highway Commission has SHC Okays Thoroughfare Plan for Morehead City The State Highway commission, meeting in Raleigh, Thursday, ap proved a “thoroughfare plan” for Morehead City. C. Y. Griffin, district engineer, New Bern, when contacted by THE NEWS-TIMES yesterday, said a thoroughfare plan is an overall plan on present and anticipated traffic over a long-range period and involves routing traffic through or around a City. He said the “thoroughfare plan” may or may not involve a by-pass. He added that he had not seen the proposed thoroughfare plan for Morehead City. Three Accidents Occur in County Over Weekend Three highway accidents in the county over the weekend resulted in citations against two motorists. No one was hurt. A 1959 Plymouth and a Fry Roof ing company tractor-trailer collid ed at 4:20 p.m. Friday on highway 70 three miles west of Newport. Driving the car was Albert Wal lace, Newport, and driving the heavy truck was Rudolph Guthrie, Morehead City. Patrolman R. H. Brown said Wallace was headed east. Behind him was another car and behind that car was the truck. Wallace said he signaled left to turn into a private drive. Meanwhile, the truck started to pass the two cars ahead of it. Guthrie told the patrolman that yie car behind Wallace prevented his seeing the left turn signal Wal lace gave.' When he saw Wallace turn, he tried to go to the left to avoid the collision. The truck jack-knifed, smashing the left side of the Ply mouth. Damage to the car was estimated at $500 and to the truck $200. Charges are pending. Two cars collided at 8:10 p.m. Friday just east of the Blue Rib bon club on highway 70. One was a 1939 Chevrolet station wagon driven by Garfield France, Collins ville, Va., and the other was a 1955 Ford driven by Floyd Kenneth Bratcher, route 2 Beaufort. Patrolman Brown said the sta tion wagon cut from highway 70 on to the cross-over between 70 and 70-A, went out on 70-A and collided with Bratcher’s car, which was headed east on 70-A. Damage to the station wagon was estimated at $200, to the Ford $100. France was charged with failing to grant the right-of-way. At 11:15 p.m. Sunday a 1952 Ply mouth driven by Marvin R. Wil kins, 411 Macon Court, turned over on the Crab Point road a quarter of a mile from the town limits. Patrolman Brown said Wilkins has been charged with speeding and having no insurance. He ran the car off on the right, skidded 300 feet to the left, hit a ditch bank and turned over. Damage to the car was estimated at $100. He was alone at the time. ignored all constructive criticism i and stuck to a plan which every one can see is ridiculous, imprac tical, and disastrous. The problem started when in July 1957 the Board of Conserva tion and Development recommend ed that the Highway Commission and the State Ports Authority get together on the Newport River Bridge Plans which would be fav orable to long range development plans for the Morehead City Port. At the first hearing in Beaufort last January with the County well represented, there was not one sup porter of the Highway Commis sion’s plan to block development of the State Port at Morehead City, hi fact, the enclosed report of the hearing shows 100% opposition. The Port Director, Mr. Leon Wil liams, submitted a first, second and third choice of locations, all of which provided for a span which would admit ocean shipping to the vast Newport River area. Mr. Potter, Mayor of Beaufort, was quoted as saying that the Bridge should go even further north than recommended in the Port Director's first location choice. He also said that the State should buy the B&M Railroad and move the railroad bridge, too. Since the first hearing was un See CHAMBER, Page 5 J. A. DuBois, manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, said he believes a thorough fare plan for Morehead City might involve removal of all parking privileges on Arendell street (high way 70 through town) and other restrictions as to turns. In the recently-published report by the highway commission on highway needs of the state over the next 15 years, comments on thoroughfare plans infer that they are put into effect where both the city and the state agree on the plan. At one point, this is commented on in the report as follows: “In cooperation with scores of North Carolina municipalities, the State Highway Commission has recently developed procedures whereby the improvement of . . . urban street systems shall be in accordance with long-range, mutually adopted thoroughfare plans.” Three Pastors Join Association Three new members were re ceived into the Carteret County Ministers association yesterday at the association’s monthly meeting at the civic center, Morehead City. They were the Rev. Albert J. Keech Jr., pastor of the Sea Level Free Will Baptist church; the Rev. J. B. Starnes of the Faith Free Will Baptist church, Morehead City and and the Rev. E. Ray Kirk, Church of God pastor. Broad Creek. After discussion of the forthcom ing hospital bond referendum the association released the following statement endorsing the issue: “When men’s lives and the health and welfare of our community are involved in public discussion and debate, it is the place of the church to emphatically endorse the pro gram which carries out the teach ings of our Master. “Therefore, we the members of the Carteret County Ministers’ as sociation, both individually and corporatively, endorse the propos ed hospital bond issue and urge all of the citizens of this county to cast their affirmative vote for this proposal." Phone Company Allows Credit For Donna Trouble As a result of loss of telephone service during Donna, Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co., is allowing a credit for one day of lost service to certain customers, and a larger credit to those whose telephones were out of service h longer period of time. The telephone company made a similar adjustment after Hazel in 1954. In notices accompanying current bills, the phone company says, “We sincerely regret any inconvenience you may have suffered as a result of loss of telephone service during the storm." Gardener Picks Five Cucumbers Daniel Ray Brown, 401 Vir ginia Ave., Mansfield Park, pick ed five full-grown cucumbers from his garden Saturday. Mr. Brown said, “This proves you can grow garden vegetables here almost all year around.” He planted the cucumbers just before Donna. He said that the salt spray from the storm almost killed them, but he washed the plants well with fresh water and sprayed them with liquid fertiliz er. Result: garden cucumbers in October! State Reports on Road Work in This County The State Highway commission reports that during September it put a bituminous surface on .73 miles of streets in Newport and retreatment was carried out on !.7 miles of the Lake road, from the Slaughter road to the Craven county line. The report on highway work in the second division, which includes Carteret, was made by C. W. Snell Ir., division engineer. Motorcade to Greet Republicans; Gavin to Speak at 8 Tomorrow Coast Guard Aids Outboards, Takes Seaman from Dredge Elks Salute News-Times This Week Exalted ruler, Jerry J. Willis, announced today that the More hcad-Beaufort Elks Lodge voted to thank the Carteret County News Times during National Newspaper Week, Oct. 15-21, “for their patriot ic service to the community and the nation in upholding freedom of the press—one of our most pre cious rights.” Mr. Willis said that Morehead Beaufort Lodge would be among 1,940 Lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks honoring America’s free press during the 21st annual National Newspaper Week observance. The theme for the event is “Your Newspaper Freedom’s Guardian.” “In recent months we have seen, right in our own _ „ . ■e -a- * National ■* * * NEWSPAPER WEEK P . back yard, how vital a free press is to the survival of a free people.” Mr. Willis de clared. “When the Communists moved in on Cuba, their very first step was to seize the press, there by cutting off the people from ac cess to the truth.” The Elks’ leader urged every Carteret county resident who values his heritage of freedom to “join with us during the week of Oct. 15-21 in a u ibute to one of its itaunchest defenders — the Ameri can free Dress.” Mr. Willis said that participation in the annual salute to the nation’s press has been one of the Elks’ major patriotic activities since 1949. SBAOffice Closes Here Friday was the last day of the branch SBA (Small Business Ad ministration) office was open at the courthouse, Beaufort. C. H. Shaw, manager of the main disaster office of the SBA, New Bern, said that SBA personnel will be in close contact with the Red Cross in this county and if anyone would like to contact SBA, they should inquire through the Red Cross. Mr. Shaw estimates that approx imately 30 applications for loans have been received in eastern Car olina and po more than 10 in this county. The SBA office in New Bern re mains open at the chamber of com merce office, 608 Broad St., phone MElrose 7-5009. Occupant Slashed By Glass in Escape From Smoky Home Robert W. Modlin, Beaufort, re ceived treatment at the Morehead City hospital emergency room early Sunday morning for cuts he received when crawling through a broken window to escape a fire at the house where he was staying on highway 70, Morehead City. According to fire chief Lindsey Guthrie, the fire started in a mat tress at a house owned by Stanley Lockhart. No damage other than that to the mattress was caused by the fire. The blaze was ex tinguished in 30 minutes. The alarm was sounded at 1:05 a.m. Modlin smashed several windows when he awoke, was stifled by smoke, and attempted to escape. He was released from the hos pital after treatment. Highway Commission Announces Hearing Persons in this county who have road matters they would like to take up with the highway commis sion may present them at a hear ing at 2 p in. Thursday, Oct. 20, in the Pitt County courthouse, Greenville. Anyone in the eight-county sec ond highway division is welcome, according to W. C. Snell, division engineer. The division includes Carteret, Pitt, Beaufort, Pamlico, Craven, Jones, Lenoir and Greene counties. ' Personnel from the Fort Macon'1 Coast Guard station assisted two disabled vessels, searched for a missing man, and removed an ill man from a dredge since Thurs day. The tower lookout spotted a dis abled vessel one mile south south west of the station Thursday after noon at 2:15. Someone aboard was waving a white flag. The 25-footer went to assist the boat, a 16-foot outboard, and tow ed it to Beaufort. Its batteries were dead. Aboard the Coast Guard vessel ■were Bill Hancock, BM1; and I. D. Lewis, EN2. The dredge, Gerig, operated by the Corps of Army Engineers, call ed the station at 9:07 Friday night and reported that one of their crewmen had apparently suffered a heart attack aboard the dredge, which was near buoy 11 in Beau fort inlet. The 30-footer went to the dredge and removed Thomas Mclnvale to the state port, where he was trans ferred to an ambulance and taken to Morehead City hospital. Aboard the 30-footer were How ard Jones, BM1; and Jackie Moore, DC3. The CGC Jonquil, based at the state port, called the station Sat urday night at 7:25 and reported that a red flare had been sighted in Beaufort Inlet. Curtis Josey, BM2; and Robert Wise, EN2, aboard the 40-footer searched the area and found a 16 foot outboard with engine failure. The boat was towed to Beaufort. A search was carried out Satur day night for James Nobles of Morehead City, who left Morehead City at 5:15 p.m. en route to Em erald Isle by boat. His wife called the Coast Guard at 45 M*. and reported* that her husband still had not reached his destination. The Coast Guard sent out its truck and 40-footer to search the sound and beach. Mrs. Nobles called back at 1:05 a.m. and report ed that her husband had reached Emerald Isle. Conducting the search were Jones, Wise and Jack Miller, YN2. Coast Guardsmen participated in a search for wreckage of a Marine jet which crashed Tuesday after noon, but were called back to the station when the wreckage was found near Cherry Point. Searching the sound and beach were Hancock, Harold Snipes, EN1; Jones, Spencer Gunn, SA; and Adolph Mercer, BMC. Dredge Leaves The dredge Peru left Morehead City Saturday for Albany, N, Y. Her work, dredging the harbor and turning basin to 35 feet, was com pleted Saturday, Sept. 10, accord ing to Charles McNeill, assistant operations manager of the port. Mirrors Stolen Mrs. Swindell Taylor, 309 Turner St., Beaufort, reports that mirrors were stolen off the Taylor’s 1955 Ford, parked Saturday night at Beaufort school. Police are in vestigating. Dog Wounded Snuffy, the pet dog of Miss Lil lian Frances Giddens, Morehead Bluffs, was shot twice recently. The second time, Sept. 29, he was taken to the veterinarian’s where his leg was put in a Thom as splint, shown above. 4 State May Buy Ferry Operated From Atlantic A two ■ man committee was named by the State Highway com mission Thursday to investigate feasibility of the state's buying the Sea Level, ferry which operated between Atlantic and Ocracoke last summer. Members of the committee are highway commissioners Ralph Morris of New Bern and Stanley Betts of Henderson. They will also look into a proposal to put more ferries at Hatteras and Oregon in lets. The Sea Level started operation last spring. Tolls were charged and the state will determine whether tolls should be charged if the state operates the ferry. Other outer banks ferries are free. The Sea Level is owned by a fer ry company established by Dan, Alfred, William and Leslie Taylor. It had to stop running this fall after Donna filled in the channel in Pamlico sound. The ferry enjoyed a bustling bus iness this summer and provided another link in the All-Seashore highway. It permitted travelers to drive from Carteret county north ward to Dare county and gave south-bound travelers access to the mainland without retracing their route after visiting Dare county. Congressman Makes Inquiries At the request of THE NEWS TIMES, Rep. Graham A. Barden has inquired into the possibility of the Coast Guard station at Cape Lookout flying weather flags, and also issuing weather bulletins when requested. Mr. Barden contacted F. W| Rcichelderfer, chief of the weather bureau, Washington, D. C., who has discussed the matter with the Coast Guard. Mr. Rcichelderfer has informed Mr. Barden that the Coast Guard authorities are checking into the matter, and he will contact the con gressman upon hearing from the Coast Guard. THE NEWS-TIMES suggested ed itorially last month that all-day sports fishermen in the Cape Look out area who are in boats not equipped with radio would he help ed materially if weather flags were flown from Cape Lookout to warn them of approaching blows. Snuffy came home from the hospital Friday, but his leg was still in the splint and may or may not get back to normal. Miss Giddens voiced the opinion of many in saying that if a person willfully shoots a dog, he should shoot to kill, not just to maim. Turkey Farmer Shoots Youth • Four Youths Involved In Turkey Thefts • Shooting Occurs Friday at Newport Ray Garner, 17, Newport, was confined to Morehead City hospital yesterday with multiple shotgun wounds in his right leg. Deputy sheriff Bobby Bell said that Garner was wounded at about 9 o’clock Friday night. He and two other youths have been charged with attempting to steal two turkeys from the farm of Oscar Hill, Roberts road, New port. They are Roger Wilkins, Newport, and Everett Ingram, Morehead City. Charged with aiding and abet i ting in the theft is Jimmy Regis I ter, Newport. Deputy C. li. Davis said that Hill caught the boys leaving one of the fields in which he keeps turkeys. Register, driving a car belonging to Ingram, had left the three boys i out. They went in the field and clubbed two turkeys and were carrying them out when Hill came upon them. Hill flashed on the light attached to his gun and shot. Garner drop ped one of the turkeys he was car rying and another boy dropped the one he was carrying. The two who were able, ran. Garner was taken to the Morehead City hos pital in an ambulance. He later told officers that they wanted the turkeys for a barbecue Saturday night. Hill said that his turkey flocks have been seriously depleted by thieves during the past month. Garner's physician said yester day that the boy seems to be get ting along satisfactorily. Rotary Karnes Club Bulletin The Morehead City Rotary club announced Thursday night that the winning name for their club bulle tin is Rota-Note. Dr. A. F. Chest nut received a $5 gift certificate for submitting the name. ( Dr. Silas O. Thorne spoke to the ] club on the need for a modern, en larged hospital in the county. A question and answer period follow- j ed Dr. Thorne’s talk. David Willis, , hospital administrator, and Herbert | O. Phillips, attorney, answered , questions as well as Dr. Thorne. Mr. Meredith Smaw, New Bern, attended the meeting, and an nounced that a hearing is to be held in New Bern in the near fu ture pertaining to the removal of the New Bern airport. In urging members to attend the hearing and protest the removal of the airport, he said that it would leave the coastal area without the services of a modern airport. Other visiting Rotarians included Fred Beane, Fayetteville; Jack Sharpe, Blowing Rock and Bob Bennett, Columbia, S. C. W. Allen Knott Jr., Kinston, and Dr. Ben F. Royal, Morehead City, were guests. Stop Light Master Switch Sent Off Now the master switch for the Morehead City stop lights has been sent off to be reconditioned. John Lashley, city clerk, says this may take several weeks. The master switch synchronizes the lights so that traffic can move through the business section at low speed—usually without having to stop at each of the four lights. Mr. Lashley said that no major repairs have been made to the lights since they were erected in 1953. Jim Bowen, Apex, light re pairer with the street department, worked on the lights Thursday and will return, Mr. Lashley said, when the master switch arrives. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Oct. 11 12:37 a.m. 12:54 p.m. 6:21 a.m. 7:23 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12 1:28 a.m. 1:41 p.m. 7:33 a.m. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13 2:21 a.m. 2:34 p.m. 8:47 a.m. 8:20 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14 8:47 a.m. 10:20 Grayden Paul, Beaufort, who is in charge of the mo torcade which will welcome gubernatorial candidate Robert Gavin, announces that all who would like to join the motorcade should be at the race track, west of Morehead City, by 10 a.m. tomorrow. Morehead City police will escort Mr. Gavin and other Republican candidates through Morehead City. Beaufort police will pick up the motorcade at Radio Island and escort it on a tour • around Beau fort, ending up at the courthouse. There Mr. Gavin and the candi dates will be introduced at the front of the courthouse. After the brief program there, the Republican hopefuls will con tinue their tour of east Carolina towns, going to Jacksonville, Clin ton, Warsaw and Mount Olive. Mr. Gavin will return to Beaufort by plane later tomorrow and will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Morehead City high school audi torium. Greeting him at the airport will be Osborne Davis, James Piner, Claud Whcatly, Clifford Tilghmann, Elmer Dewey Willis, Grayden Paul and others. He will be at Republican head quarters in Beaufort from 4 to 5 p.m. when refreshments will be served at an open house. Intro ducing him at the Morehead City school will be John A. Wilkinson, attorney of Washington, N. C. The Rev. Robert Wood, pastor of Franklin Memorial Methodist church, will open the rally with an invocation. Thirty persons attended a Repub lican meeting at headquarters in Newport Friday night. Roy T Garner was elected chairman of the Newport Republican commit tee. Republicans will meet there every Friday night at 7:30 in the former ABC store. Junior Wins State 4*H Honor Miss Emma Jean Lawrence, a junior at Smyrna high school, has been named state 4-H winner in food preparation. Lyman B. Dixon, district 4-H leader, informed the county home agent of the honor yesterday morning. Miss Lawrence’s "long time record” which covers six years in 4-H wort will be sent to Chicago to compete for national honors. At 4-H week this year in Raleigh, Miss Lawrence won second place in the dairy foods demonstration contest and was in the blue ribbon group in the state health pageant during 4-H week. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Blondell Lawrence, Otway. Havelock Lions Visif totted Morehead City. Lions lost their Jungle Prowlers award Thursday night to Lion growlers from Have lock. President Cliff Edwards of the Morehead club presented the trophy to president A1 Stoddard, president of the Havelock club. Accompanying president Stod dard were the following Havelock Lions: Darrell Morse and Harry Shadle, district Lions office-hold ers; Ben Jeans, Mac McClennon and Dave Todd, golf pro at Cherry Point air station. Jim McLain, secretary, reported that the club had collected $597.40 in the recent White Cane drive. Speaking at the club meeting was Miss Ruth Peeling, a repre sentative of the Carteret Business and Professional Women’s club, who described club functions. The club was promoting National Busi ness Business Women's Week last week and provided speakers for civic organization who requested them. Lion Owens Frederick, tail twist er, auctioned off a prize, which was bought by Mr. Todd for $3. The attendance prize was won by Mr. McLain. Visitors were the Rev. Joseph Jones, Morehead Bluffs, a retired Presbyterian minister who moved here from Fountain Inn, S. C., and Herbert Kelly, former Lion. Speak ing at this week’s meeting will be David Willis, Morehead City hos pital administrator. A steak dinner was served. The Lions meet weekly at the Hotel Fort Macon. The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles has reinstated the driving privileges of David Nel son Webb, 810 Arendell St., Mora bead City.