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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ■<* 49th YEAR, NO. 97 TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Santa to Visit Here This Weekend St. Nick Due Tomorrow At 10 in Morehead City Morehead City will welcome that jolly Christmas man, Santa Claus, at 10 o’clock Saturday morning. The Christmas parade, sponsored by the Morehead City Merchants association, will start, at 12th and Arendell streets. In the parade will be a fruit cake float, Yellow Rose 1 Chairmen Thank Ail for Help At City Park Morehead City Woman’s club of ficers and City Park Day chair men report that Wednesday’s event was “most successful.” Mrs. Gus Davis, president of the Woman’s club, Mrs. M. T. Mills and Mrs. M. J. Loutit, park day chairmen, thank everyone who par ticipated in the project and who • donated shrubs, topsoil or any oth er item. Morehead City Jaycees and Wom an’s club members planted the contributions as they arrived. The park is being beautified, Mrs. Dav , is said, according to a plan. The Girl Scouts have been given a plot in the park which is theirs to care for and plant. “We won’t see the results of Wednesday’s work until spring,” Mrs. Davis said. One of the beds is planted in dutch iris, another in tiger lilies and others in tulips. , Five loads of topsoil, with prom ise of more was donated, as well as 200 feet of garden hose and cash. “The spirit of cooperation was marvelous,” Mrs. Davis remarked. “One little boy came up to me and said, ‘Mrs. Davis, I have two tulip bulbs I’d like ta ■ have - in this park.’ ’’ Free refreshments were served from 11 a.m. to 5 and music was , provided late in the afternoon by , the Morehead City school band un der the direction of Ralph Wade. Lab Aids in Oil Pollution Survey At the request of a sub-agency of the United Nations, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries has co operated in a nationwide survey on oil pollution. In charge of the survey in this area was the Bureau of Commer cial Fisheries lab, Pivers Island. Lou Vogele, a member of the staff there, interviewed persons in this area relative to the extent of pol lution of waters by oil. - He consulted Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director of the Institute of Fish eries Research, Morehead City chamber of commerce, Fort Ma con Coast Guard officials, Army engineers and newspaper person nel. The survey sought to determine whether oil pollution is serious in this section, its cause, effect, fre quency of occurrence since 1955, and whether any studies on oil pollution, by public or private agencies, have been made or are under way. We Can't Afford to Ignore Wealth We Have in Water By BOB SIMPSON It’s hard to put in dollars and cents the value to North Carolina, and Carteret county in particular, of fishing, both sports and commer cial. U there be any doubt, think of Morehead Cify in January: Why is it that our seafood restaurants close in the winter? About the only » thing that is going on is oystering and clamming. The beaches are closed; so is our park, Fort Macon. The museum has closed. A few yachts will • straggle through after the Christmas holi days, but they don’t pay the light bill. But come spring the fishermen begin to run: during the past year there were over 6,000 boat trips in the county, made at regular char tor rates of $85 to $100. Hundreds of thousands visited fishing piers. Thousands of outboard trips were made in the sounds and along the beaches. Two beadboats sailed nearly every day for 26 weeks with an average of about 25 persons per boat per trip. Figures have proved tbal nearly lour »Hiinii dollars axe iffif i" :<.?•" ►float, children and their pets, floats sponsored by Western Auto and Co operative Savings and Loan, riders on horseback, the Morehead City, W. S. King, Beaufort and Queen Street school bands, decorated cars and Santa riding a fire truck. The town’s Christmas lights, strings of red lights spanning the ' jsiness section, were turned on Wednesday night. Star pendants, in white lights, hang from the red decorations. Chairman of the Christmas pa rade is Otis Jones. Co-Op Returns Funds to 1949, 1950 Customers Money over and above the amount needed to keep the firm on a substantial basis is being re funded to members of the Carteret Craven Electric Membership corp. All 1949 and 1950 customers have received checks, even though one was as small as 3 cents. The largest, to a commercial firm, amounted to $125, according to W. C. Carlton, Carteret-Craven man ager. The checks, mailed in Novem ber, totaled more than $26,000 and are “patronage capital checks” on credits earned during 1949 and 1950. Of the total, $13,669.50 was paid to living REA customers. The remainder went to estates of cus tomers, This is the first time such checks have ever been sent out, Mr. Carl ton said, but it. is expected to be an annual occurrence from now on. (The checks to estates, how ever, have been going out for the past three years. They cover credits from 1949 to the time the customer died). Refunding of any of the capital investment of the firm was not possible, he explained, until suf ficient equity was built to warrant such refunding. Every time ah REA customer pays a bill, he pays a certain amount toward capital investment. The amount of cap ital furnished by each customer is reflected in his individual account. REA customers of 1949 and 1950 got refunds in proportion to the amount they paid for electric serv ice during those years. If customers who are due re funds cannot be located, after a certain number of years the money escheats to the University of North Carolina. State Has Pine Seedlings At $4.50 Per Thousand J. A. DuBois, manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, reminds landowners that the state has loblolly, longleaf and slash pine seedlings available at $4.50 per thousand. To obtain an application blank for ordering the seedlings, write State Forester, Raleigh, or contact R. M. Williams, Beaufort. circulated in this county through sportsfishing, beaches, hotels, mo tels, restaurants and other tourist aids. If we then remember that com mercial fishing was valued to the state at about eight million dollars in 1958, with Carteret county lead ing the state, we can guess that about half came from this county. That makes fish, clean beaches and clean waters, that so many take for granted, mighty valuable. Some will deny this, but people don’t come here, to purchase auto mobiles, clothing or plumbing fix tures; they come for recreation. The money that circulates through our recreational facilities reaches all levels and makes it possible for the local people to buy more auto mobiles, clothing and plumbing fix tures. Why try to compete with other towns in their specialties when few can compete with this county’s natural advantages in beaches, fishing and port facilities? One of the pier operators pointed OUt finnan ninra arp AHA Qf OUT * *** w WWW Potato Growers To Vote Tomorrow — Potato growers will vote is morrow either for or against con tinuation of the Potato Growers association for the next three years, 1961-1962-1963. This vote will be either for or against as sessing themselves one cent per 100 pounds of potatoes to spon sor all phases of the potato pro motional program. The polling places in Carteret will be at Carl Gaskill’s Feed . and Seed store in Beaufort and Freeman’s Grocery Store at Crab Point, near Morehead City. “I would like to urge all po tato growers to vote either for or against this program tomor row between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.,” says R. M. Williams, county ag ricultural agent. George Huntley WinsHodgesCup George Huntley III, Beaufort, has been named winner of the Hodges cup, given every two years by the North Carolina Society of County and Local Historians. The award will be presented to morrow morning at Raleigh dur ing the meeting of the state his torians. George, now a freshman at Duke university, did a history of St. Paul’s school while a student at Beaufort school. It was this paper which was sub mitted by F. C. Salisbury, More head City, in the historians’ con test. The Hodges cup is given every other year to the high school student who presents the best paper on some phase of North Carolina history. St. Paul’s school, operated in conjunction with the Episcopal church, closed in 1938. Mr. and Mrs. George Huntley Jr. will leave this afternoon for Raleigh and will attend the session tomorrow at which their son will be honored. Mr. SaUslMHpy> first winner of the Smithwick cup for historical writ ing, will be given a 7-inch replica of the large cup which he was awarded in 1958. Fire Cripples Trawler Tuesday A Swansboro shrimper, the Miss Vickie, manned by a Harkers Is land crew, caught fire off St. Aug ustine, Fla., Tuesday. No one was hurt, but the 55-foot trawler had to be towed in. City firemen put the blaze out. Grey Willis, 53, captain of the damaged trawler, his son, Billy, and Louie Dixon, were taken aboard the Dolphin, captained by Eldon Willis, Grey’s brother. El don Willis radioed for help. Two Coast Guard vessels were dispatch ed from Mayport and two copters from Jacksonville Naval air sta tion went out to the crippled ves sel. Captain Grey said he believes the fire started from a short cir cuit when the vessel was about three miles offshore. Heat in the engine caused sounding of the alarm system. Fire extinguishers failed to put the blaze out, so the hatches were closed to prevent spread of the fire. The Miss Vickie is owned by Clifton Meadows, Swansboro. The captain made no estimate of dam age. greatest assets. I asked him how he figured it, and he answered, ‘The novice fisherman comes down with his fresh water reel, goes to the end of the pier and makes his first fishing effort. Soon he pur chases a spinning reel and gets a taste of plugging. Before long he graduates to the surf and has be come a full-fledged member of the sport. Next stop is a boat, and who with a boat doesn't start dreaming of. marlin?” There will be a hearing Dec. 10 at the commercial fisheries build ing to decide the fate of several aspects of our fishing future. It is most important to remember that both commercial and sports fish ing interests be fairly heard and represented. But it has been pre dicted that those who complain the most about the decisions will be those who do not attend. I have visited fishing centers along the east coast from .New Jer sey to the Everglades and have yet to see a section of the coast that can offer so much in variety and quantity as this area. It would be IfiwiMl not to pworvo it. Alert Sheriff Solves Country Club Break-In An alert sheriff, reading a Ra leigh newspaper Monday, so)'ed the Morehead City Country club break-in which occurred Thanks giving night. Sheriff Hugh Salter of this coun ty saw in the newspaper that three youths had been picked up in Ra leigh. In their car were burglary tools. The three, all of Beaufort county, have confessed to the More head City break-in. Sheriff Salter said yesterday, “We were pretty sure that the job at the country club wasn’t pulled by local boys. It was probably done by fly-by-nights.” He said that the Williamston Country club had also been entered very recent ly and the same kind of merchan dise taken as at Morehead City. The three youths, Robert L. Smith, 18, and Dwayne Horton, 16, both of Washington, N. C., and Asa Garfield Swanner, 19, route 2 Chocowinity, are being held in Ra leigh under $3,000 bond for pos sessing burglary tools. After trial in superior court there, they will be returned to this county for trial on the burglary count. Raleigh police stopped the car in which the three youths were travel ing Sunday. It was a “suspicious looking car,V they said, in the vi cinity of the Raleigh Country club. Detective Sgt. W. F. Crocker, Ra leigh, said that in addition to the burglary tools, there was a wide assortment of new clothes in the car and lots of loose change. The boys were in a 1952 Oldsmo bile registered in Swanner’s name. All have previously been involved in breaking and entering charges, according to sergeant Crocker. After reading ^n the Monday pa per about their apprehension, sher iff Salter called Raleigh and check e<r on 1tww fountrtn the etfrfnim sergeant Crocker mentioned “can ned grasshoppers, the kind that you eat,” the sheriff declared, “They’re our boys!” Taken from the Morehead City clubhouse were canned quail eggs, canned grasshoppers and canned octopus. The items had been sent as a joke-gift to C. C. McCuiston, club pro, by one of his daughters. They were sitting on a shelf in the clubhouse. Sheriff Salter went to Raleigh Tuesday and questioned Smith, Horton and Swanner. One of the boys said he ate the quail eggs and they almost made him sick. He said he opened the can of octopus, but couldn’t go it. After the Morehead City burglary, the youths deposited some of the loot at their homes. Sheriff Salter and deputy Bruce Edwards recovered it in Washing ton at Horton’s home and in Choco winity at Swanner’s home. Taken from the Morehead City Country club were golf socks, a sports coat, cigarettes, table model radio, and cash from,the cigarette machine. Coast Guard Aids Two Craft Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen assisted two disabled vessels this week. Several boats ran aground during the heavy fog Monday, but were able to refloat without Coast Guard help. Among those running into trouble in the fog was the dredge Gerig. The partyboat Rockalong, cap tained by A. R. Hardison Jr. of Morehead City, reported engine failure near the Beaufort inlet sea buoy Monday night at 7:35. The 40-footer from Fort Macon towed the boat to Morehead City, mooring her at 9 p.m. Aboard the 40-footer were Robert Hancock, BM2; Fred Hurst, EN2; Robert Crome, SA; and James Guthrie, SN. The Machipunga, belonging to the University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Research, fouled a net in her screw near the sea buoy at 9:30 yesterday morn ing. Use 40-footer towed the Machi punga to Asa Cannon’s boatworks. Aboard the Coast Guard vessel were William Granger, BM3; Clay ton Russell, BM3; and Fred Hurst, EN2. Memberships Needed Carteret Symphony society offic ers met Tuesday night and report that a few more memberships are needed to meet the $1,000 quota set for this county. Those who have not yet joined the symphony society are requested to do so with out delay. They should contact John Wager in Morehead City or MiftS Nanrv HllAflfllL BsiuttfL To Address Chamber Archie K. Davis, chairman of the hoard of directors of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., will be the speaker at the annual greater More Tea.* City chamber of commerce meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, at the Bine Ribbon restaurant. Renovated FWB Church, Stacy, Announces Revival Free Will Baptists of Stacy will mark the formal opening of their newly-renovated church, St. John’s chapel, with a revival starting Monday and continuing through Wednesday, Dec. 14. Pastor of the church is the Rev. Gordon Sebas tian. The evangelist will be the Rev. Bobby Jackson, popular minister who has appeared at many revivals in this county. Services begin nightly at 7:30. The congregation approved plans for renovating the church Dec. 20, 1959. The sanctuary had been bad ly damaged Oct. 31, 1959 by the fire that is believed to have orig inated with the heater. Cost of the Public Invited to Carol Service at 5 P.M. Sunday The public is invited to the ves per service of Christmas carols to be presented this Sunday at 5 o’ clock in the First Methodist church, Morehead City. Both new and fa miliar carols will be sung by the senior choir under the direction of Mrs. Austin Williams. A highlight of the program will be Behold a Star from Jacob Shin ing, an advent number from Chris tus by Felix Mendelssohn. The majority of the carols are not the work of one composer but are folk tunes representative of the coun try in which they originated, Mrs. Williams explains. Mrs. Marion Mills, organist, has Shriners to Meet Carteret County Shrine club will meet at Mrs. Russell Willis’s res taurant, Morehead City, Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., announces Theodore Phillips, secretary-treasurer. Mem bers are asked to wear their fez. 1 ! Tide Table " Tides at the Beaofort Bar high low Friday, Dec. 2 '7:36 a.m. 1:22 a.m. 7.*56 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3 8:16 a.m. 2:05 a.m. 8:38 p.m. 2:41 p.m. 6unday, Dec. 4 8:54 a.m. 2:45 a.m. 9:21 p.m. 3:22 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5 9:32 a.m. 3:23 a.m. 10:64 p>m. 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6 10:10 a.m. 3:58 a.m. .0:49 p-m. . 4:36 p.«. renovation was estimated at $21, 000, of which $15,000 had already been raised or pledged in Decem ber of last year. The church, formerly frame, has been brick-veneered. Once stand ing at the edge of highway 70, it has been moved back, raised and underpinned. The building was ex tended and two classrooms added, a porch added and other interior improvements made. Members of the building com mittee named when the project was launched were Romaine Gaskill, chairman, Monnie Willis, W. L. Mason Jr., Ralph Pittman and Doity Gaskill. (See pictures of the church page 2 section 2). chosen selections from Karg-Elert and J. S. Bach to play during the service. Solo parts will be sung by Mrs. Clifton Lynch, Bobby Bell, Ethan Davis Jr. and Mrs. Josiah Bailey Jr. The Rev. Barney Davidson, pastor, will preside. The service will be broadcast. Students, AAUW Hear Dr. Lyle Rogers Monday A talk on college entrance ex aminations, their function and im portance was given by Dr. Lyle Rogers at the American Associa tion of University Women’s meet ing Monday night at the civic cen ter, Morehcad City. A number of high school students attended as guests. Mrs. John Vernberg, Beaufort, club president, introduced the speaker. Dr. Rogers attended Da kota Wesleyan College and the University of Idaho and received his doctorate from Teachers Col lege, Columbia University, New York City. He is a native of Iowa and taught high school in western states and Alaska before going into college personnel work. He is now direc tor of the counseling service at North Carolina State college, Ra leigh. Dr. Rogers said that because of the high number of students seek ing enrollment in college, the ex aminations board finds close co operation with high schools neces sary. In addition to entrance exam*, the board also gives in Arrival in Beaufort Set For 5 P.M. Today Guess who’s coming to town . . . Santa Claus! A 5 p.m. this afternoon, the patron saint of Christmas will be escorted into Beaufort by the Batonettes of Have lock, four bands, cheerleaders and Scouts. Thousands are expected to be on hand to greet him. As a part of the town’s Christmas Festival, there will be an auto show, a bazaar, and a pro gram at the Inlet inn. Mrs. W. R. Hamilton and Mrs. Wiley Lewis are chairmen of the event, which is being sponsored by the Beaufort Merchants association. Booths at the bazaar will be housed in tents which were donated and erected by Cherry Point Ma rines. Both lunch and supper will be available today at one of the booths. Three o’clock is the of ficial opening time of the bazaar, but booths may open before that if the operators arc ready, Mrs. Lewis said. Organizations or communities manning the booths are Mcrrimon, St. James Church of Newport, St. Paul's of Beaufort, Straits Meth odist church, Otway Christian church. Davis, Beaufort PTA, Miriam Rcbekahs, Sea and Sand Garden club, Russclls Creek circle, Beau fort FHA, Ann Neal circle of Beau fort. Thelma Cash circle of Mar shallberg and the Free Will Bap tist league of Beaufort. Recorded organ music by Earl Smith of Beaufort will be played prior to the arrival of Santa. The auto show, on the same lot with the br-aar, will be staged by five dealers of Beaufort and More head City. Ten girls, dressed in outfits appropriate to the car they’re showing—sports car, fam ily car, or luxurious model—will be dn hand to assist dealers. As Santa arrives, the street lights, erected by firemen, will be turned on. Firemen also put up the tree in Santa Claus lane. El mond Rhue, fire department engi neer, said the 32-foot cedar was donated by Mrs. William S. Mc Clenithan, the former Margaret Pake of Russclls Creek. It was in the yard of the old Dickinson homestead and was an offshoot of a former cedar which stood there. Mrs. C. S. Rogers, mother of Mrs. McClenithan, esti mates that the tree is well over 50 years old. Earl Taylor donated his truck for hauling the tree to town. While children, aided by a fairy queen and elves, greet Santa in Santa Claus lane, Beaufort and Morehead City cheerleaders, in their “Christmas color” outfits (Beaufort’s school colors arc green and white and Morehead City’s red and white) will do some spe cialty routines. Bands in the Santa Claus escort will be Beaufort, Morehead City, Queen Street and W. S. King. Mayor W. H. Potter will preside at the program which begins at 6 p.m. at the Inlet inn. The invo cation will be given by the Rev. Don Morris of Davis. Miss Ruth Durham, minister of music of the First Baptist church, Beaufort, will direct a 135-voice choir. Mrs. Bob by Piner, Marshallberg, the for mer minister of music at the First Baptist church will play the organ. The organ, lent by Nelson’s Mu sic House, will be on the porch of the inn. The choir will be on the steps. Scripture narration will be by Joe King, a student at Beaufort school. The nativity scene on the inn yard has been erected by the Ann Street, St. Paul’s, First Baptist and First Free Will Baptist church es of Beaufort. formation on candidates for schol arships. College entrance exams consist mainly of the scholastic aptitude test and the achievement test. The aptitude test is divided into two parts, verbal and mathematical. Cramming docs not help, the speaker said, but medium and larg er high schels have a definite ad vantage. The tests are scored by ma chines, with the ones taken in this area being scored in New Jersey. Scores are returned to the schools, not to the student. State university standards are lower for North Carolina pupils than for pupils of other states, Dr. Rogers said, in order to give our state's students first opportunity. He said that there are about three million college students, but that number is only about one-third of the young people of college age. The increase in applications is rapid, however, Dr. Rogers con cluded. Following the program, a ques tion and answer period was con dufitftdi ►.. 1 ■■ -■ 1 ■ — ■ ■ I Sanitation Engineer Checks On Pollution A. C. Turnage, engineer with the State Stream Sanitation commit tee, visited here Monday and Tuesday, calling on . menhaden plant operators and others interest ed in water pollution problems. Mr. Turnage said that the State Stream Sanitation committee, while concerned with pollution of all types, is primarily concerned with stopping the pollution of waters by municipal sewage. He said that he believed by next year the State Stream Sanitation committee would have regulations that would solve the recent pollu tion of waters by fish factory op erations. Last week both the north and south shores of Bogue Sound were lined with fish scrap refuse, creat ing a highly undesirable odor. Complains came from Pine Knoll Shores, a real estate development on the south of tho sound, as well as Spooner’s Creek Harbor, a de velopment on the north. Mr. Turnage , said menhaden plant operators said the refuse from the plant on Tuesday, Nov. 22, was particularly offensive be cause water was calm, wave ac tion didn’t break up the trash and allow it to settle to the bottom. Mr. Turnage came to this area as a result of complaints made to the State Stream Sanitation com mittee about the pollution. JC s Will Raise Christmas Fund Jaycees have divided the town in to five districts to facilitate col lection of a community Christmas fund. Plans for the fund-raising were made Monday night at the Jaycec meeting at the Blue Ribbon restaurant. Chairmen were named to super vise the collecting. They are Bill Oglesby, Tom Ballou, Horace Wil lis, L. G. Dunn, Clifton Lynch and Bill Singleton. Mr. Singleton will be in charge of individual dona tions. The fund-raising will be conduct ed over the next two weeks. The money will be turned over to the Morehead City Fire department, which will use it to purchase food for needy families at Christmas time. Firemen said that they usually raise about $2,000. Jaycees, who agreed to cooperate with the fire men this year, say they hope to raise considerably more than that. Mr. Lynch, Jaycee president, said it would be desirable next year, if each civic organization raised a Christmas fund and then contributed it to a community-wide Christmas charity program. The Jaycees hope to promote this idea in 1961. The Jaycees voted support of the football banquet and will serve as waiters Monday night. They also discussed the city park project in which they participated Wednes day. Patrol Hopes To Curb Deaths State highway patrolmen started yesterday a concerted drive to pre vent traffic deaths this month. The campaign is the result of an extremely high accident and death rate on the highways last Decem ber. Deaths in traffic accidents, in North Carolina that month total ed 124, the largest number in any month since IMS. On Christmas day alone 13 were killed. From Dec. 24 through Dec. 28, highway deaths totaled 39. Carteret highway patrolmen ask everyone's cooperation in driving carefully this month. No vacation periods are being permitted in the patrol between now and Christmas. To Build Store Construction started this week on a new Freeman’s Grocery store on the Crab Point road, across from the present store.