ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES •«' 49th YEAR, NO. 99. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS ■Board Makes Plans For New Registration A County Board Endorses Super Highway Plan County commissioners endorsed a superhighway proposal submitted by the Fayetteville chamber of commerce Monday at the court house. The chamber proposed a ^highway going from Morehead City, through Fayetteville, to Old Fort in western North Carolina and suggested that the highway have the same number all the way across the state. The map was presented by com missioner S. A. Chalk Jr. of More head City. The board appointed Mrs. E. H. Piper of Gloucester to the county (planning commission, replacing Milton Roush who has moved away. It was agreed that repairs on the old washing machine in the jail were amounting to more than it was worth, and the board ap proved trading it in on a new washer. The clerk, Odell Merrill, was in structed to write John Valentine, county Civil Defense director, in forming him that Harry Williams Ijad been named assistant director. The action was taken to make sure that there would be a director ' available if needed, since Mr. Val entine is frequently away on busi ness. The commissioners decided that tounty employees will have Mon day and Tuesday after Christmas as holidays. The courthouse will be open. The group referred to the county •board of education a decision on building a new school at White Oak. The commissioners recently agreed to put an elementary school in that community at a cost of $125,000,. Chairman Moses Howard said persons from west Carteret had told him they representoAMt tO'Jfr per cent of the peopTe at White Oak and they did not want a school. (The children now go to 4 Onslow county). The commissioners agreed to let the board of education handle the matter. The board agreed to sell to Fay Gillikin of Harkers Island land listed in the name of John J. • Lewis for $250. Taxes owing on the land amount to $219.54. Tax listers who served last year were reappointed for this year. Frank Wall of the auditing firm of Williams and Wall reported the . county finances in very good shape and said the picture should look excellent to prospective bond-buy • ers. He commended the board for their excellent work during the past year. The board will meet Jan. 3, 1961, because their regular meeting date falls on a holiday. Accident Investigated Beaufort police investigated at ' noon Monday an accident in the 500 block of Front street. It in volved Bobby Gene Mason, Beau fort, and Allen Murray, route 1 Beaufort. Damage to cars exceed ed $300. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar . HIGH LOW Friday, Dec. • 12:17 a.m. 5:33 a.m. 12:07 p.m. 6:34 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 12:58 a.m. 6:24 a.m. 12:48 p.m. 7:33 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11 1:42 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 1:35 p.m. 8:37 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12 2:28 a.m. 9:12 a.m. f 2:29 p.m. 9:31 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13 3:23 a.m. 10:01 a.m. 3:32 p.m. 10:21 p.m. Highway Group Rejects Ferry Purchase 4 The State Highway commission voted Wednesday at Fayetteville to operate a ferry between Emerald Isle and the Carteret mainland at Cedar Point, but rejected a recom mendation that the state buy and operate the ferry that runs between Atlantic and Ocracoke. Rejection of the Atlantic-Ocra coke proposal came as somewhat of a surprise to coastal residents who assumed that recommendation ' for purchase by a two-man high-i way commission committee would assure approval. Ralph Morris, New Bern, and Stanley Betts, Henderson, highway commissioners who recommended purchase of the Atlantic-Ocracoke ferry, fought hard but went down > Morehead City commissioners* made final plans Tuesday night for a completely new registration in the town of Morehead City in January. This affects TOWN residents only. The registration will Be used in TOWN ELECTIONS ONLY. All persons eligible to vote, who live in town, MUST register during January. It doesn’t matter if they are already registered. Those books will be destroyed. Commissioners emphasize that this is a NEW registration. E. W. Olschner was appointed as registrar. The registration will take place at the Morehead City municipal building ONLY. There will be no registration any other place. The books will be open the first three Saturdays in January, Jan. 7, 14, and 21 and will be open the entire week of Jan. 23. George W. McNeill, town attor ney, said he was under the impres sion that the above is the proce dure to be followed, but would check to make sure. 'The board requested the clerk, John Lashley, to notify the Civitan club that the registration would take place and that the club's of fer to help would be accepted dur ing January. The board said the Civitans can help by publicizing the registration and, if "necessary, take people to the town hall to reg ister. The board set the fee for the registrar at $10 a day. Auditor Will Meet with Town Board Again Following a report by a commit tee to investigate office procedures in the city clerk’s office, More head City, the town board Tuesday night requested that Josiah Bailey, auditor, attend a special meeting ip -T°**i***T aMjcju .detail go .over office procedure with thfe beard. The board ordered Tuesday night that the debt service fund, amount ing to $22,346, be placed immediate ly in a savings account. This has been recommended by commission ers Walter Morris, Bud Dixon and Russell Outlaw for the past year, but no action had been taken. They contend that the money could be earning interest. Finance commissioner S. C. Holloway says the money has to remain immed iately available so that bonds may be retired when they can be pur chased at less than par value. The opponents to his policy say that the money is as immediately available in a savings account as it is in a checking account and sometimes it lies there for six or more months without a bond pur chased. Mr. Holloway said that 35 bonds ($35,000 worth) have been retired during the past two years. After the committee to. investi gate office procedure, consisting of commissioners Holloway, Rus sell Outlaw and Bud Dixon, report ed, commissioner Dixon said that there were other recommendations made by the auditor that were not included in the committee’s re port. The report recommended that a bond book be used during the next fiscal year to keep track of bonds retired. The report also stated that delinquent real estate taxes have been turned over to attorney George Ball for collection. Commissioner Walter Morris read, from the audit, recommen dations made by the auditor. One states that bonds should be adver tised before they are sold. Mr. Hol loway said that in his opinion this would enhance the value of the bonds. If public notice Were given that money is available to buy bonds, everybody would be more anxious to hang on to them and it would be impossible to save the See REPORT, Pg. 2 in defeat under a 5 to 2 vote by the highway commission. J. A. DuBois, manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, said, “This is a slap in the face to the entire coast. This one highway commission is killing the two ports and all of coastal North Carolina. How it can do this when this is the area that supports it strongest politically, I don’t know.” Eastern Carolina is traditionally Democratic and went Democratic -in recent elections as opposed to Piedmont North Carolina which is strongly gppublkan, yet coastal Carolinians point out that highway commission funds are consistently channeled into the Piedmont sec tion of the state. Gerig to Leave; Harbor Depth Now 35 Feet The dredge Gerig is expected to finish its work in Morehead City channel tomorrow, completing the 35-foot harbor project, according to the Army Engineers’ office, Wilmington. Dredging of the inside harbor, which was done by the Gahagan Dredging company’s Peru and the channel dredging, done by the Gerig, have cost close to a mil lion dollars. The Gahagan contract totaled $353,080 and the Gerig’s work cost $600,000. Approximately four mil lion cubic yards of material was removed to obtain the 35-foot depth. The Peru started work June 20 and finished Sept. 10, the day be fore Donna hit. Some of its pipe line was strewn by the storm along the Morehead City water front as far west as the Atlantic Beach bridge. The Gerig will go from here to Cape Fear where it will work for bout 10 days on the bar channel. Then she will go to Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 23, to take up work there after a brief Christmas holi day. How Morehead City harbor depth compares with other Atlantic coast harbor depths: Norfolk 40 feet, Savannah 36 feet, Charleston and Morehead City 35 feet, Jackson ville and Wilmington 34 feet. Army Engineers have approved a proposal to deppen Wilmington harbor to 40 feet. Elks Lodge Pays Tribute io Dead The Rev. E. Guthrie Brown, rec tor of St. Andrew’s Episcopal church, was the guest speaker Sun day night at memorial services at the Elks lodge, Morehead City. Mr. Brown spoke on the three lives of man and his immortality. Memor ial services are held the first Sun day of each December in memory of departed Elks. Special tribute was paid Elijah Willis and Abbott Morris, Elks who died since the memorial service in 1959. Fifty members and their guests attended the service. The Rev. Edward Sharp, St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Beaufort, delivered the invocation. Following the service, members were served a buffet supper. 'Til April 1 Morehead Court Operates in Period of Grace' Morehead City commissioner Bud Dixon, chairman of a committee of commissioners to investigate op eration of Morehead City recorder’s court, reported at a meeting of the town board Tuesday night that the committee is in favor of the court’s continuing so long as it does so at no expense to the town. The court will continue opera tion until April and after a second check, if the court expenses exceed income, Mr. Dixon said the com mittee is of the opinion that a recommendation should be made to eliminate it. Commissioner Dixon said that conclusions were reached after a meeting of the committee consist ing of commissioners Walter Mor ris and Ted Garner, court clerk John Lashley, assistant court clerk Mary Hughes and himself. The group studied financial re ports on the court presented by Mr. DuBois termed another “slap in the face” the highway conimis sion’s decision to route highway 13 farther west. He said this will channel Yankee traffic farther away from the coast. The Atlantic-Ocracoke ferry was operated during the past summer by the owners, Dan, William, Al fred and Leslie Taylor, principals in a ferry company organized to buy and operate the ferry “Sea Level.” Donna filled in parts of the channel used by the Sea Level and since the storm, the ferry has been tied at its slip at Atlantic. The Taylor brothers plan to take the ferry to Florida and-sell it. The ferry’s operation opened a vital link in the All-Seashore highway. Chairman Expresses View On Controversy • Fisheries Hearing Set For 10 Tomorrow € Sports Fishermen Seek Trawling Restrictions A. W. Daniels, of Cedar Island and Charlotte, chairman of the state fisheries advisory committee, commented this week on the hear ing tomorrow at Morehead City. Mr. Daniels said that contrary to newspaper reports, he did not propose at the Conservation and Development meeting at Hickory, that trawling be banned. He said the decision to have a hearing on the matter was the result of peti tions requesting trawling restric tions. The petitions were signed by sports fishermen. THE NEWS-TIMES wrote Mr. Daniels last month, asking him to comment, if he desired, on the matter. Mr. Daniels’ reply follows: “In reply to your letter concern ing shrimp trawling, I did not pro pose any ban on shrimp trawling to the fisheries committee at the Hickory meeting. “It would be completely out of order for a member of the advisory board to make such a proposal, prior to a public hearing. “The meeting at Hickory was held entirely to determine what action should be taken on petitions signed by 1,311 North Carolina sports fishermen, requesting that restrictions be placed on fish and shrimp trawling in areas of Pam lico Sound and waters along the North Carolina coast. “The fisheries committee decid ed that a public hearing should be held. The advisory board agreed with the committee. Sincerely yours, A. W. Daniels” The hearing will begin at 10 a m. tomorrow in the fisheries building, Morehead City. Eric Rodgers, state fisheries commissioner, will pre side. It is expected that another mat tsr, t—■ u«Mng 14m taking of dams, with tosga and rakes only in a certain section of Core Sound, will be discussed first. Firemen Answer Two Calls Wednesday Beaufort firemen prevented a barn on the Gene Perry place, three miles east of Beaufort on highway 70, from burning at 1:10 p.m. Wednesday. Fire had spread from a ditch bank being burned off and flames started to lick at the foundation of the barn. At 2:20 p.m. firemen put out a grass fire at Lee Garner’s, high way 101. There was no damage at either fire and the fire was out in both instances in 20 minutes. Mrs. Hughes. The reports show a steady decline in funds received by the court since its beginning Dec. 3, 1951. From that date until the end of June 1960, the court has turned over to the town $20,584.78, most of this accruing to the town from 1951 through 1956. Fines and forfeitures turned over to the county for use of the county board of education, as required by law, have totaled $89,542.85, ac cording to the assistant clerk’s report. Commissioner Dixon said that he doesn’t expect the court to make money, but neither should it cost the town money. An analysis of the number of cases handled by the court, according to the assistant clerk’s records, shows that the number of cases has steadily de clined. For example, in the fiscal year 1953-54 the court heard 1,004 cases making it possible for north-south traffic' to reach the mainland (or outer banks) without backtracking. Commissioners Morris and Betts recommended that the state pay $225,000 for the ferry and $50,000 for docking facilities, also that the ferry operate from Cedar Island rather than Atlantic as at present. It appears that the major hope now of keeping the ferry operating lies with a special appropriation of funds by the legislature or the altering of present highway com mission policy after the new gov ernor assumes office next year. The fight against the ferry's ac quisition by the state was led by James Mason of Laurinburg. The commission agreed to take Officials, Talk of Ways To Operate New Hospital Angler Honored Harry Browning, Plymouth, received first prize from Rep. Herbert Bonner, left, at Washington, N. C., Friday for the 45ti-pound king mackerel he caught in Carteret waters this summer. The prize was won in the North Carolina Salt Water Sports Fisherman contest. Fishing out of Hill’s marina, Harkers Island, made Browning eligible for the trophy. Photo by Bob Simpson County Pickup Upsets, Hits Car A county board of education pick up truck turned over and a passen ger in it, Joe B. Murphy, 205 N. 10th St., Morehead City, was in jured at 1:15 p.m. Monday on high way 70 at the intersection of the Country Club road. Murphy, who was taken to the Moreheajd City hospital by, junbu lafkV, suffered cuts on his left hand. According to patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., the pickup, driven by Clifton A. Lewis, 105 Belle Air St., Beaufort, was smacked in the rear by a beer truck driven by George \V. DeBruhl Jr., route 2 New Bern. The pickup was waiting for a pickup ahead of it to turn left into the Country Club road. All vehicles were headed east. The impact caus ed the county pickup to turn over and hit a 1959 Chevrolet going west on 70. Driving the Chevrolet was Ruby Gray Barker, 1908 Bridges St., Morehead City. Damage to the Chevrolet was minor. The county truck was extensively damaged. Patrolman Smith said DeBruhl told him his brakes failed. and in the past fiscal year 602. Commissioner Dixon said that the court’s deficit the past fiscal year was $2,400. He said that the number of cases brought into the court by the state highway patrol has dropped con siderably. As a result of a con ference with Sgt. Ernest Guthrie of the State Highway Patrol, he said that the sergeant has agreed to talk to patrolmen relative to channeling cases into the More head City court. Commissioner Dixon said the ser geant told him that patrolmen sometimes felt that the judgments in the Morehead City court were too lenient and that there were not “consistent.” The report showed a drop in the number of cases originating within the town of Morehead City itself. See RECORDER’S COURT, Pg. 2 over the Emerald Isle ferry after the equipment now there is inspect ed and repaired to state specifi cations. It will be a toll ferry. The commission said there was not enough need at present for a Fort Fishcr-Southport ferry serv ice. Resolutions from eastern Caro lina cities and the All Seashore Highway association bad been placed before the commission re questing state operation of the Sea Level. A delegation of citizens from Ocracoke appeared to' add their pleas for the ferry. They were Stanley Wahab, Jack Willis, Monford Garrish, C. T. Boy ette, Alec Eley and Kermit Robin son. Port Calendar Morehead City State Port Cleveland—Due today to load tobacco for France. Honolulu Maru—Due tomorrow to pick up tobacco for Japan. Kerkedyk — Due tomorrow to unload import cargo of Dutch bulbs and to pick up tobacco and frozen chickens for Germany. Partula—Due Sunday with as phalt cargo for Thmbull’s. Jaladurga—Due Dec. 13 to load tobacco for Egypt. ... Black Eagle—Dec. “18 for cargo of tobacco for Europe. Charles McNeill, assistant op erations manager at the port, re ports that the Cleveland, due to dock at the port today is the first French ship ever to call at More head City. Indian Ship Will Call at Port The Scindia Navigation Co. steam ship Jaladurga, which recently completed its maiden voyage to this country from India, is sched uled to arrive at Morehead City state port Tuesday to pick up to bacco for Alexandria, Egypt. The Jaladurga, flying the Indian flag, will arrive here from Gal veston, Texas. She will call at Bal timore and Philadelphia after leav ing Morehead City and will sail from New York Dec. 21. Agent for the Jaladurga here is the Morehead City Shipping Co. The vessel is equipped to carry, along with other cargo, eight lo comotives in her specially strength ened hull. The 505-foot vessel made its init ial run from Cochin to Boston in only 22 days. The 17-knot motor ship has deep tanks for bulk com modities, refrigerated space and special lockers for valuable car goes. Mercury Dips To 29 Dec. 2 Sub-freezing temperatures ac companied the coming of Decem ber to the county but readings of the last few days have- been any thing but typical of the Christmas month.. On Dec. 2 the night-time low dip ped to a cold 29 degrees for the coldest reading of the winter to date, according to weather observ er Stanley Davis. Wednesday brought some of the winter’s mildest readings with a high of 70 and a low of only 47. Clear skies and moderate winds have accompanied the balmy wea ther of the past few days. Temperature ranges and wind directions for the six-day period Dec. 2-7 were recorded as follows: lligh Low Wind Dec. 2 .42 29 NW Dec. 3 . 53 33 N Dec. 4 . 63 31 N Dec. 5 ...a..65 35 S Dec. 6 .68 43 N Dec. 7 . -.70 47 NW H. L. Joslyn, county superinten dent of schools, returned yesterday from a three-day superintendents’ conference in Durham. School Officials Confer Monday About Buildings Members of the county board of education, Morehead City school board and architects conferred Monday in the board of education offices during the county board of education meeting. The architects were Robert Stephens and Aldo Cardelli of New Bern, who have been contacted by the Morehead City school board relative to drawing plans for the proposed Morehead City high school. Architect's fees and possibility of proceeding with construction by fall were discussed. H. L. Joslyn, county superintendent of schools, said that if state and federal aid is approved for School construction, the board may defer construction plans until they see what’s going to happen. Mr. Joslyn said that there have been expressions in the western part of the county against con struction oi a White Oak elemen tary school. He said that persons against the building say that it will be a sub-standard school. Mr. Joslyn commented that an eight-room school that will prob ably cost a total of $150,000 will certainly not be a sub-standard school. He added that construction plans for the school v/ill probably be delayed, pending the outcome of proposals for state and federal matching funds. Board members present were D. Mason, W. B. Allen and George Wallace. Fire Damages Dave HrflHome Extensive damage was caused to the David Hill two-story home on Front Street, Beaufort, at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday when fire broke out in a storage room on the second floor. Beaufort firemen, summoned by Mr. Hill and Billy Arrington, had the flames under control in 15 minutes, but everything in the storage room, winter clothes, lamps, rugs and other belongings were destroyed if not damaged, and smoke and water damage throughout the house was exten sive. It is not known how the blaze started. Mrs. Hill said there is no chimney by the room. Firemen be lieve the blaze may have been caused by spontaneous combus tion. Flames were beginning to cat through the outer walls of the room and into the rest of the house when the fire was discovered. “The only reason we discovered it in time,” Mrs. Hill says, “is because it was about time for us to get up.” She expressed her thanks to fire men, neighbors and others who helped them during and after the fire. Director Lists Numbers For Christmas Program Firemen Answer Two Alarms The Newport fire department an swered two calls Sunday and Mon day. At 1 o’clock Sunday they were called to the Larry Lancaster home to extinguish a grass fire. There was no damage. \ At 12:50 p.m. Monday two trucks went to the home of Mrs. L. H. Johnson, eight miles from New port on the Mill Creek road, where an outbuilding was burning. The fire started when a smoldering gar bage fire flared up and ignited the grass. The building was saved with only about $200 damage. None of the items stored in the building was lost. Firemen said that had the fire not been extinguished, the wind would have carried it to Mrs. Johnson’s house about 20 feet away. PTA to Hear Music A musical program has been planned for the Beaufort PTA meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 at the school. Taking part will be stu dents from all grades in the pub lic school music program. Mrs. Dora Clontz is the music teacher. • Harry Williams Made Assistant CD Director • White Oak Says They Don't Want School County commissioners tackled several of the problems involved in building a county hospital at their afternoon session in the court house Monday. One of the problems is the selec tion of a board of hospital trus tees, who will supervise the opera tion of the hospital. The board discussed how many trustees there should be and how the board should be set up. Luther Hamilton Jr., county at torney, told the board that three plans are outlined in the law. He explained them briefly: 1. The board can appoint seven trustees to hold office until the next general election. The trustees would be elected thereafter. This plan states that not more than three can be women and not more than four from the township in which the hospital is located. 2. Under the county hospital act, the commissioners can appoint one trustee from each township and three from the township in which the hospital is located. The trus tees cannot succeed themselves un der this act. 3. A corporation, in which the stock is owned by the county, can be formed and the county can lease the hospital building to the officers of the corporation. The possibility of forming a county hospital authority was dis cussed bpt the board agreed that the hospital planned for Carteret was not large enough to warrant forming an authority. The merits of each plan were considered but none, exactly fitted what the board felt was Carteret’s need. The board seemed to favor most the introduction of a bill in the legislature authorizing .the county copimissioners to appoiAt a 12-man board, of trustees, to serve stagger ed terms. The group would consist of two trustees from east Carteret, three from Beaufort, three from More head City, and two from west Car teret. The county auditor and the chairman of the county commis sioners would serve as ex-officio members. The attorney offered to draw up a set of tentative by-laws for the trustees, to be considered at the next meeting. Prospective trustees were discussed and arrangements made to contact several to see if they would serve, if appointed. On the subject of sites for the hospital, county auditor James Potter said that it was his impres sion that the commissioners should choose five sites and refer them to the Medical Care Commission. This group chooses the three it thinks most desirable and from the three the county board may make its final selection. Prospective sites for a hospital have been donated by M. T. Mills of Morehead City and Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Merrill of Beaufort. Other landowners have offered to give some land and sell some. See BOARD, Pg. 2 Ralph Wade, director of the Morehead City high school chorus, which will sing at the union Christ mas service Sunday night at 7:30 in Morehead City high school, has announced the program. The processional will be Beau tiful Saviour, sung by the chorus with organ accompaniment. Other numbers: O Worship the King and Two Christmas Carols, boys’ glee club; O Come AU Ye Faithful, congregation, high school chorus and fourth grade chorus. The Shepherd’s Christmas Song and Let Our Gladness Know No End, girls’ glee club; O Little Town of Bethlehem, congregation and chorus; O Holy Night, organ; Si lent Night, congregation and chor us. Choral numbers, from The Mes siah: Comfort Ye, Every Valley Shall Be Exalted, How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them, Glory to God and Glory in Excelsis. Soprano soloist will be Miss Georgia Mizesko; organists, Mrs. Theodore Phillips and Miss Betsy Shanor; pianists. Miss Jonibel Wil lis, Miss Glenda Morton, Miss Anne Marie Lewis, Miss Donna Bell, and Miss Shanor. The invocation will be given by the Rev. John Biddle, pastor of Parkview Baptist church; the med itation by the Rev. Robert Wood, pastor of Franklin Memorial Meth odist church, and benediction by |the Rev. J. B. Starnes, pastor of I the Faith Free Will Baptist church.

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