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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES •«' 49th YEAR, NO. 100. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Fire Levels Beaufort Menhaden Plant .jm News-Times Photos by MeComb Firemen aim streams of saltwater, front Taylor’s creek, on the Standard Products Co. fish factory at Beaufort. The fire broke out at 9:45 p.m. Friday. ■Mv»Mm Desolation the morning after. What was once ma chinery in a menhaden processing plant is twisted, charred metal. _ Group to Discuss Ferry Operation Beads of civic clubs, leaders in communities down east, represen tatives of the Neuse Development association, the greater Morehead City chamber of commerce, and others will meet at 10 a.m. today in the Morehead City municipal building to draft a plan for opera tion next season of the ferry be tween Ocracoke and Atlantic. The plan for the meeting was proposed by mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort, in cooperation with may or George Dill, Morehead City. Mayor Potter said that a delega tion from this county has an ap pointment at 10:30 a m. Wednesday with Mel Broughton Jr., chairman, of the State Highway commission, to put before him their proposal. The State Highway commission last week rejected a recommenda tion by two highway commission ers that the state buy and operate the ferry that operated this past season. Mayor Potter said it is hoped that the state may be interested in a lease-purchase agreement. He said Army engineers would also be contacted relative to restoring channels filled in during Donna. The mayor is of the opinion that ferry toll charges could „be con tinued. • Among those invited to the meet ing today are Norwood Young, Ru fus Butner Jr., Rep. D. G. Bell, Sen. Luther Hamilton, Moses How ard, W. B. Chalk, D. Mason, Clay ton Fulcher, Garland Scruggs, J. O. Barbour Jr., James H. Potter, all ut this county, and Ralph Mor ris, New Bern, state highway com missioner. Persons who may have sugges tions on resumption of ferry serv ice, or others interested, are in vited. j And the sun shall be obscured at noon-day . . . Smoke from the smouldering heaps of fish scrap makes the sun a dull yellow disc in sky Saturday morning. Firemen Set Santa Claus Treat for Dec. 22 'Morehead City firemen announce that Santa Claus will ride one the fire trucks and toss fruit the children Thursday night, Dec. 22. The truck will leave the section base at 6 p.m., go east on Arendell to 4th street and then west again on Arendell to the section base. ■ •3 2 Farmers Vote Today Cotton farmers will vote today at Gaskill’s feed store, Beaufort, on whether to continue cotton mar keting quotas. Voting will start at 8 a.m. and end at 6 p.m. B. J. May, county ASC manager, reports that there are only several farm ers in the county who are eligible to vote. Acreage allotments for the 1961 cotton crop have already been mailed to farmers. —mmmm A blaze that firemen re port started in the scrap drier destroyed the Standard Products Co. plant at Len noxville, Beaufort, Friday nijrht. Fire trucks from Morehead City and Atlantic Beach answered a call for assistance. Two Coast Guard boats from Fort Macon pumped water on the flames from Taylor’s creek, and a fire party frtnri ttfe Cohst Gtiard cutter Chi lula was also on the scene. The fire was reportedly discov ered by Colon Bowser, employee who operates the drier. He and others tried to put the fire out with fire extinguishers, but were unsuc cessful. Meanwhile, Beaufort fire men had teen summoned. Elmond Rhue, fire department engineer, said flames were break ing through the roof as he neared the factory with the truck. Fire men said that piles of scrap pre vented their getting to the source of the flames. Firemen were on the scene un til after midnight and were called back twice Saturday morning when flames from the still smouldering wreckage started going toward machinery that had been saved and placed on the dock by Taylor’s creek. The office building and dining hall for employees did not burn. H. R. Humphreys Jr., owner, said that much of the scrap processed this season was in the plant. Eight boats, fishing for Standard Prod ucts last week, have stopped op erations. Mr. Humphreys would not esti mate his loss. The factory was located on the same site as the Lambert Morris menhaden factory which burned some years ago. The Standard Products plant was built in 1956. Driver Cited After Accident Raymond H. Guthrie, a Salter Path driver who demolished his own car and did considerable dam age to another Sunday afternoon, has been charged with careless and reckless driving. Police said that Guthrie was go ing east on Bridges Street near the Curve Inn when his car, a 1955 Chevrolet, hit the shoulder, skid ded and turned over, rolling into a parked auto. The owner of the parked car was Julius A. Nelson Sr. of Morehead City. Damage to Nelson’s car, a 1959 Plymouth, was estimated at $150. Patrolman E. D. O’Neal of the Morehead City police department investigated. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Dec. 13 3:23 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 3:32 p.m. 10:21 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14 4:21 a.pi.. 11:02 a.m. 4:37 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15 5:16 a.m. 11:53 a.m. 5:38 p.m. jll:38 p.m. Friday, Dec. li 6:09 a.m. 12:43 a.m. 6:32 p.m. ___ From a distance, the burning plant was a red inferno. Spectators and their cars hampered fire trucks. Some firemen had to walk more than a block to get to the fire. Two firemen, silhouetted against the scaring flames, direct water on corrugated tin, which was col lapsing under the heat. Some tin, propelled by explosions, would sail—red hot—through the air. Final Figure Sets County Population Figure at 30,940 During the 10 years from 1950 to : 1960 Carteret county’s population I increased slightly more than 34 ' per cent, from 23,059 to 30,940, ac cording to final reports from the 1960 Census of Population receiv ed yesterday by THE NEWS TIMES. The figures supercede the earlier-published preliminary fig ures. Of the county’s incorporated towns only Beaufort lost popula tion during the 10-year period while Morehead City, Newport and Atlantic Beach gained. An indication of the increasing population of the county is that the 1960 census breaks the county’s "count areas” into 25 divisions; the 1950 census, only 16 divisions. Official 1950 and 1960 breakdown of census figures for Carteret; 1950 I960 Atlantic Twp. 902 Atlantic Town. 844 - Beaufort Twp.5,374 6,246 Beaufort Town.3,212 2,922 Cedar Isle Twp. 290 255 Davis Twp. 446 Hunting Qtr. Twp. 1,519 - Harkers Island 1,244 1,362 Harlowe Twp.. 629 Marshallberg Twp. - 416 Mcrrimon Twp. 374 344 Morchead Twp. 8,299 13,556 Atlantic Beach . 49 76 Morehead City 5,144 5,583 Newport Twp.2,259 2,644 Newport Town . 676 861 Portsmouth Twp. 33 8 Sea Level Twp. .. 389 Smyrna Twp.1,387 597 Stacy Twp.:..... 291 Straits Twp.2,251 1,070 White Oak Twp.. 1,273 1,785 Bayshore Park ........- 21 Cape Carteret... 52 Emerald Isle.. 14 It will be noted above that the designation Hunting Quarters town ship (the area around Atlantic) was not used in the 1960 census. In stead, separate population figures have been given for communities in that area, Sea Level, Stacy and Atlantic. _ Incorporated towns in the county are Beaufort, Atlantic Beach, Morehead City, Newport, Bayshore Park, Cape Carteret and Emerald Isle. (Note: The newspaper office fre quently gets calls requesting cen sus information. If you think you may be interested in these figures any time in the future, please clip this newsstory and keep it for reference). Court Order Dissolves Picket Line at Port # Longshoremen Load Ship Saturday A.M. # Hearing Set Dec. 23 At Greenville A court order removed a picket line at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the state port, Morehead City. It also orders Leroy Guthrie, president of the Morehead City longshoremen’s union to appear before resident judge W. J. Bundy <at noon Friday, Dec. 23, at the courthouse, Green ville, The order was obtained by the North Carolina Slate Ports Author ity when longshoremen refused to cross the picket line, consisting of two men, and load tobacco Friday morning on the French ship, SS Cleveland. ftuthrie and the International Longshoremen’s association are re quired to show at Greenville Dec. 23 why the injunction, ending the picketing, shouldn't be continued until a final hearing on the matter. Morehead City longshoremen, Leroy and Vernon Guthrie, bro thers, insisted that longshoremen were not on strike and they didn’t know what the picketing was for. However, they were honoring the picket line and longshoremen would not cross it. The SPA complaint against the longshoremen states that general statute 95-98, State of North Caro lina, makes it illegal for contracts to be made between any state agency and labor union, trade union or labor organization. Signs being carried by the pickets claim ed that the state docks were un fair to labor. Strikes were also in progress at Wilmington, Charleston, S. C\, and Savannah, Ga., ports. The complaint filed by the SPA stated that the SPA could nott de termine what caused longshoremen to start picketing the Morehead City port. The injunction was signed by judge Chester Morris, sitting at New Bern, and the papers were served by sheriff Hugh Salter on Leroy Guthrie. The SS Cleveland was delayed 24 hours because of the strike. Loading started at 8 a.in. Satur day. It sailed at 2 p.m. the same day. William Davies, of Morehead City Shipping co., agent for the Cleve land, said it costs a modern car go ship between $2,500 and $4,000 a day to sit idle. This does not include the cost for occupying a space at a dock. Furthermore, ocean vessels have schedules to maintain that are set up months in advance. If they are delayed at one port, they lose their berthing space at the next, money must be paid to men who stand by to load or unload when the ship finally makes port, and the entire foul-up can cost a tremendous amount of money. The Cleveland made port at Morehead City at 6:30 p.m. Thurs day. Men Picket State Docks Larry Arnold, left, and Nolan Schrader paced back and forth in front of the east entrance to the Morehead City state port Friday. They told a reporter that “longshoremen” were on strike. Vernon Guthrie, officer in the Morehead City unit of International Longshoremen, claimed longshoremen were i not on strike and he didn’t know who was doing the picketing.
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