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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ■<* 49th YEAR, NO. 101. TWO SECTIONS sixteen Pages MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Wreck Severs Head from Body Of 7-Year-Old # Accident Happens Thursday at Harlowe '• Driver Charged With Manslaughter A 7-year-old Negro boy, Edward Ray Gaskiil, was decapitated at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Harlowe when a car, out of control, left highway 101 and shot into a yard ' where the youngster was playing. Patrolman Nathan Robinson, who investigated, said the car, driven by Cpl. Cebren F. Pack, Cherry Point, knocked the boy 39 feet, hit a three-quarter ton pickup truck and shoved it a distance .of 30 feet. He said he could not state defi nitely what caused the child’s head to be completely severed from the body. The driver was charged with driving drunk, careless and reck less driving and manslaughter. The patrolman quoted Pack as saying that he had had two beers, was going toward Beaufort at be tween 50 and 55 miles an hour and was lighting a cigarette when ashes fell down his shirt. As he was try ing to get the lighted ashes out of his shirt, he lost control of the car, he told the officer. Pack, who lives on route 1 Have lock, was driving a 1954 Mercury. It left the highway on the right side on a straight stretch of road, traveled some distance, moved sideways and forward across to the left of the highway almost a hundred feet, left the highway on the left, hurtled ahead 123 feet more and struck the child who was playing with his cousin in the drive way of Walter Harkley’s house. See WRECK, Page 7 Moose Announce Yule 1 Dinner, 7:30 Tonight Members of the Morehead City Moose lodge will celebrate their seventh anniversary with a dinner at the Moose home, Atlantic Beach, at 7:30 tonight. All members and their ladies are cordially Invited. The lodge promises an outstand ing program and dinner. The event will welcome new members and their wives, as well as honor mem bers who have obtained the higher ‘degrees of the order. Mrs. Philip K. Ball Heads County Heart Fund Council Mrs. Philip K. Ball of Morehead Cits' has been named chairman of the Carteret County Heart council by Eric Korosy, field director for the North Carolina Heart associa < tlon. Mrs. Ball, a native of Morehead City, is active in civic and religious work. She is secretary of the Gar den and Civics Department of the , Woman’s club, has served as presi dent of the department and of the American Legion auxiliary. She serves on the bishop’s com mittee of St. Andrew’s Episcopal t church, where she is a member. She is a past president of the Episcopal Churchwomen and was the first organist and choir direc tor. Mrs. Ball and her husband, who is the county surveyor, have lived in Morehead City since 1944. Prior to that they made their home in Washington. The new chairman has three i children, Mrs. Graham Elliott of Washington, Mrs. Alec Bonner of Irving, Tex., and Bill Baugham of Morehead City. She also has five grandchildren. Donations to the heart fun<j, checks for memorials and other Agriculture Leaders Continue Try To Improve * Legion s 'County Fair October minutes of the County Agricultural Workers council, which pertain to the annual Ameri can Legion fair, Beaufort, were ordered sent to C. L. Beam of the American Legion when the council met last Thursday afternoon at the postoffice building, Beaufort. A letter was to be sent accom panying the minutes. The minutes specified that a meeting be held with Legion representatives to dis cuss the type of program the fair puts on. Mrs. David Beveridge, member of the council and vocational home economics teacher at Beaufort school, read a letter giving the amount of prize money paid on winning booths and exhibits at the fair in Beaufort county. According to -the counci), the prizes are considerably higher than those paid at the Carteret fair. She stated that in the case of one booth at the Carteret fair this year, the premium paid by the fair was not enough to cover the cost at 1 Traffic Island Built y-.-yam News-Time* Photo by McComb The traffic island above, erected during the past week, is located on Cedar street, Beaufort, at Live Oak. A reminder of where motorists might land, if they don’t heed the traffic signs, appears in the background. Town Considers Resumption Of Court Headed by Mayor Choral Club To Give Program The Choral club of Queen Street high school, Beaufort, under the direction of Miss E. E. Vines, will present a Christmas vesper service Sunday at 4 p.m. in the school auditorium. The vesper service will be di vided into two sections. The first part, entitled The Coming of the King, will include the following selections: The Lord’s Prayer, Marlotte; Christmas Lullaby, Mozart; Sheep May Graze, Bach; Silent Night, Seymour; Angels We Have Heard, French carol; Go Tell it on the Mountain, spiritual. The second part of the music, Adventures in Caroling, will in clude: Echo Carol, German; Ukrainian Bell Carol, Leonvitch; The Bells of St. Mary’s, Adams; Hark to Hie Angels, Hungarian; The First Noel, Englttb; Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desir ing, Bach; 0 Holy Night, Adams. The public is cordially invited to hear the Christmas music, an nounces Miss Vines. Mrs. Philip BalB ... accep* position gifts may be mailed to jjlrs. Ball. There will not be a heart fund drive, according to present plans. Collection of funds for the heart association will be a yeaiSfround process. crepe paper used at the booth. ' Mrs. Beveridge stated (hat if the premiums were not raised by the next fair (assuming there will be one), her home economics depart ment would not participate. The council asked Rs secretary to request a reply to its letter from Mr. Beam, who the council says is head of the Legion. It was' suggested that several Legionnaires meet with the council in January to work out reorganisation of the fair program. R. M. Williams, coasctf member and agricultural- agent, reported on the Dec. S meeting of county commissioners and Mr. Beam. Mr. Williams attended the wanting and stated then that therg- ahould be a new and better fair program and "better timing.” AgricuJtMral lead ers said they were not notified un til a week before this year’s fair that there was going to be a fair and that they would be expected to put on their usual exhibits and get farm people to exhibit. ' " Mr Williams told tbo ’ Beaufort town commissioners dc-4 cidcd Monday night to look into the possibility of resuming mayor’s court. Mayor's court is not the same as the recorder’s court, which the town operated several years and then discontinued. Claud Wheatly, town attorney, described it as somewhat like a justice of the peace court, with the mayor as presiding officer. The town did away with mayor’s court when it entered on the re corder's court plan. When that proved too expensive, the town sent its cases to county recorder’s court where it received, by agree ment with the county, a portion of the court costs levied. The court subject arose when mayor W. H. Potter read a letter from Odell Merrill, clerk to the county board of commissioners, which stated that the county decid ed that after July 1, 1960 it would no longer split court costs with the town. The attorney said statute permits the county to withdraw from the arrangement just as it likewise permits the town to withdraw it it wishes. The board requested the clerk, Ronald Earl Mason, to look up rec ords on mayor’s court and report to the board at a later meeting. The board approved purchase of two citizen band radios for the fire department. The cost, $275, is to come from the fire department budget. Dr. David Farrior,. fire commissioner, said the radios could be used by the street depart ment too. Fireman Frank Lewis, who at tended the meeting, said the towns of Bridgeton and King use citizen band radios in their fire depart ment. The board authorized purchase of a six-cylinder four-door police car from Parker Motors. The clerk presented informal quotations from three dealers. Mayor Potter, disgusted because the county has declined his invita tion to “restore and maintain” the dump on Lennoxville road as it should be, asked the board to or der that the gate across the road be moved back from the Lennox ville road to the point where town trucks dump trash and open the area now closed. After concluding that the town dumps trash in the area by consent only of private property owners, commissioners made no move to comply with the mayor’s sugges tion. The clefk reported that residents on Pollock between Broad and Ce dar have expressed interest in hav ing the street pavedr The petition, See BOARD, rage 1 the county board made no decision as to the fair, but that Luther Ham ilton Jr., county attorney, was to bring county regulations regarding the fair and licensing of carnivals to the next meeting. The conned elected officers. B. J. May was elected president, to succeed Howard Garner: Mrs. Bev eridge was- elected secretary, suc ceeding David Warrick; Mr. War rick was elected vice-president, succeeding Mrs. Joe Chytka. A review of this year’s work was compared with the goals that had been set. Suggestions were made on-improving the council program for lMt. Mrs. Rosemary Lockard, home economics teacher at Morehead City, replacing Mrs. Chytka, was welcomed to the council. I. M. Bobbins was welcomed back to the council meetings after being absent due to illness. Present, in addition to those mentioned, were Maynard Owens, Miss Evelyn Henderson, Mrs. Floy Garner, and Mrs. Ruth Tutterow. Hunt Continues For Missing Man Still missing at press time yes terday was L. Hugh Marshburn Jr., 42, of Carolina Beach, brother of Mrs. John Bordeaux of More head City. Since early Friday, planes, boats and skin divers have been searching Snow’s Cut, on the inland waterway near Carolina Beach, and the surrounding area for the missing man. Mr. Marshburn was last seen about 11 p.m. Thursday as he drove away from his office in Wilmington in the direction of his home. Of ficers believe his car left the high way and plunged into the water at Snow’s Cut. They have confined their search mainly to that area. A woman resident reported bear ing a splash shortly before mid night Thursday and, coupling that with other evidence at the scene, officials have concluded that a car definitely went into the water. The missing man is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 165 pounds and has close-cropped grey hair. He wears dark-rimmed glasses. When last seen he was wearing a white shirt, bow tie, gray trousers and a red corduroy jacket. His car is a 1955 Chevrolet sta tion wagon with blue bottom and cream top. The car carries a Caro lina Beach firemen’s license, num ber 4, on the front and 1960 North Carolina license, UA-552, on the rear. Ted Hall House Burns Monday Both the Beaufort and Morehead City fire departments have been kept busy this week with a rash of fire alarms. The alarms started Monday night when the Morehead City West End station was called out in the snow storm to extinguish a house fire at the residence of Ted Hall on Highway 70 next to the Blue Rib bon restaurant. The cause of the fire is unknown although it apparently started in the living room and by the time the alarm was turned in, had spread upstairs and into the roof. Firemen were on the scene near ly two hours, battling the blaze which pretty well gutted the house. Smoke apd water damage was al so high, according to fire chief Lindsey Guthrie. Morehead firemen were called out again Wednesday morning when fire broke out at the Ocean Oil Co., west of town on Highway 70A. The fire apparently started in the insulation of a wall Of the office building. Firemen were on the scene and bad the blaze ex tinguished in 30 minutes. Only mi nor damage was reported. On Tuesday night the Beaufort fire department answered an alarm at the apartment house at Front and Fiilford streets. An electrical short had started a minor blaze in one of the apartments. The fire was extinguished in less than 15 minutes. Damage was slight. Woodmen to Celebrate Christmas at 7 Monday Woodmen of the World, Camp 188, Morehead City, will have its Christmas 'party at 7 p.m. Mon day at the lodge hall. Members and their families arc invited. . There will be gifts for the chil dren, refreshments and carols. Santa, will pay a visit at 8 o’clock. A 12-gauge automatic shotgun will also be given away. Money raised from the shotgun project will be used to pay cost of repairing toys for needy chil dren and to pay for Christmas par ties at 19 orphanages throughout the state. I Judge Upholds Order That Stopped Removal of Cattle Jurors Named For Civil Court Next Month Names of the following county residents were drawn Tuesday for jury duty in the Jan. 16 term of civil court: Morehead City—Carl Gunnerson, Eugene Edwards, Ethan Davis Jr., J. A. Durham, John Tillery, Joe Earl Roberts, Eugene D. Lampley, Ronal Earl Willis, Edward L. Mc Lawhorn, Shirley Meadows Scott, Lucy K. Wade, Robert I. Barts, Plymouth Willis, James B. Macey Jr., William L. Yeager, J. C. Haney, S. D. Weeks. Beaufort—Clinton T. Lewis, Mar vin G. Taylor, Henry Kirk, Regi nald Gillikin, Adrian L. Gillikin, Joseph L. Goodwin, Peter C. Beam, Charlie S. Smith, Roy Keller, Mar garet S. Davis, Ralph L. Phillips, Ralph Kittrell, Jack O. Chadwick, Robert M. Lewis Jr., Dan Smith, Ethel Davis, James Stewart, Mar garet S. Simpson, H. I. Carraway, John S. Johnson, Guy Edwards, Roland F. Salter, Alton Cole, Theo dore Willis. Newport: Robert Thomas Adams, Edward C. Nelson Jr., Luther Ed ward Turner, W. J. Hardesty, Asa Mann, Albert Cannady, C. L. Mc Cabe, Andrew J. Hunter. Harkers Island—Charles W. Han cock, Waiter Yeomans Jr., John nie A. Willis, Garrison Gray Lewis, Charlie Nelson, George Perry Wil lis, Allen Moore, Dallas Guthrie. Atlantic—Mrs. Katherine C. Da vis, E. V. Morris, Ben B. Salter, John Stewart MacCormack, Jordan Mason, Lloyd H. Mason, Ira S. Mor ris Jr. WUliamston—T. C. Willis, Gray den Paul Fulcher. Marshallberg—Earl D. Johnson, Elwood R. Willis. Davis—Charlie Willis, Edna Bell Piner, Violet Lane Styron. Salter Path—Joseph Zajac; Mcr imon—William R. Wallace, J. H. Wallace, Virgil M. Tosto. Gloucester — Lela R. Lcffers; Straits—Ben T. Watson; Sea Level —James Styron; Stacy—Ross Har ris; Lola—Woodrow Daniels. County commissioners met in special session Tuesday at the courthouse to draw the jury. Theatre to Give Play Again Members of the Carteret Com munity theatre agreed at their meeting Wednesday night to pro duce The Little Minister again un der sponsorship of the Carteret County Shrine club. Proceeds, after expenses, will be split 50-50. The Shrine club plans to give its share to the Shrine crippled children’s hospital. The Little Minister was given last month. The theatre lost $5.02 on the production, according to Mrs. Earl Holt, treasurer. Tbe play will be given next month, the date to be announced when the leading lady, Mrs. Mer ritt Bridgman, recovers from a broken foot. The Little Minister will be con sidered the theatre’s second pro duction this season. Portrait in Black is scheduled for the third, to be given in March. Mrs. Tressa Vickers, president, presided at the meeting in the Morehead City recreation building. The Rev. Robert Wood and Donald Jackson, Morehead City, were wel comed as new members. Beach Mayor Hears Four Cases Tuesday Night Four cases were heard in Atlan tic Beach mayor’s court Tuesday night at the town hall. Four defendants, all from Camp Lejeune, were found guilty of dis turbing the peace. The mayor or dered them to pay costs. They are Eugene L. Knutson, William Evans, Arthur C. Smith Jr., and Robert J. Leaper. Tide Table Tides at the Beaafort Bar HIGH ' LOW Friday, Dec. it 6:09 a.m. 12:43 a.m. 6:32 p.m. - Saturday, Dec. 17 6:57 a.m. 12:48 a.m. 7:24 p.m. 1:35 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18 7:46 a.m. 1:40 a.m. 8:16 p.m. 2:25 p.m. Monday, Dec. IS 8:37 a.m. 2:31 a.m. 9:10 p.m. 3:14 p.m. Tuesday, Dee. 29 9:32 a.m. 3:21 a.m. 10:09 p.m. 4:03 pjo. Mayor Believes He'll Run in May While there’s many a day be tween now and May, W. H. Pot ter, mayor of Beaufort, said yes terday that he is considering running for re-election. •'ll' it seems required to assist and help keep in motion the co operative spirit in this area, I will; if I feel that I can’t be of any help, I won't,” the mayor remarked. Mayor Potter succeeded mayor C. T. Lewis in 1959. Town elec tions occur every two years in May. Driver Appeals Penalty Given For Speeding Tim Dayton Lawrence, convict ed of speeding in county court Tuesday, entered a notice of ap peal. His sentence was a $10 fine and court costs. Lawrence's case was transferred to the next term of superior court. Judge Lambert R. Morris set bond for the defen dant at $100. Six defendants, charged with speeding, were ordered to pay court costs. They are Richard Robert Ridenhour, Brake Jackson Taylor, Albert Clayton Sharpe, Arthur Dav idson Carr, and Richard Carroll Morris. Four other defendants, Paul Ed ward Kilfeathcr, Richard Gordon Batdorff, James Revel Ping, and Gerald Arthur. Focht, were fined $5 and costs for speeding. Other defendants, their charges and the findings of the court were as follows: Thomas Noe, Beaufort, public drunkenness, costs. Hooker Morris, engaging in a fight, $3 and costs. L. C. Mason, violation fishing laws, bond forfeited. James Riley Johnson, speeding, $10 and costs. Darrell Lawrence, driving on the wrong side of the road and im proper registration, $10 and costs. Paul Wingate Lewis, failing to stop for a stop sign, costs. Bobby Gene Mason, failing to keep, a proper lookout, resulting in an accident, costs. Gene Corbitt Norris, speeding, $15 and costs. Bert Copeland, larceny, one year in jail and roadwork, suspended on Sec COURT, Page 8 Car Backs into Car On Highway 70 A car-backing out from the Red Rooster, a drive-in east of Smyrna, collided with a car headed east on Highway 70 at 11:40 p.m. Satur day. Driving the 1958 Ford backing on to the highway was Willard S. Sanders, Williston. Driving the oth er car, a 1957 Chevrolet, was Leon Tony Fulcher, Stacy. According to patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., Ful cher was taking John Taylor, Ot way, to the Sea Level hospital at the time. The Fulcher car hit the Sanders car in the side. Damage to the Sanders car was estimated at $150, to the other car $350. Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., who investigated, said charges are pending. Attorneys Argue Case In Courthouse Tuesday Judge W. J. Bundy upheld Tuesday the temporary court order restraining sheriff Hugh Salter and the state attor ney general from removing or shooting cattle on Shackle ford banks. The judge presided at a hearing in the county commis sioners’ room of the courthouse, Beaufort. Ralph Chad wick and Mrs. Olive Willis, peti tioners in the suit against the sheriff and the attorney general, were represented by attorneys Harvey Hamilton Jr. and Charles W. Stevens. Mr. Chadwick, a resident of Straits, and Mrs. Willis, a resident of Harkers Island, jointly own, they say, about 30 head of cattle on Shackleford. Mr. Chadwick attend ed the hearing. Sheriff Salter and the attorney general, Wade Bruton, were rep resented by Luther Hamilton Jr., county attorney. After hearing arguments from both sides, the judge said he would take the matter under advisement, and recessed the hearing. He said he expected to make a decision “within the next few days.” Mean while the restraining order would stand. The judge agreed to hear the case on its merits rather than con sider the restraining order alone. Attorneys for both parties agreed that the big question to be answer ed is, "Is the 1959 statute, making cattle on Shackleford the property of Carteret county, unconstitution al?” Luther Hamilton denied the com plaints set forth by attorney Har vey Hamilton, who read the recent laws on cattle. Statute 1057 of the session laws of 1957 states that after July 1, 1958 it shall be unlawful to let livestock run at large on the outer hanks; exempted arc ponies on Shackleford and Ocracoke. The l»w gives the director of the department of conservation and de velopment authority to move or confine the ponies behind fences when he believes such is necessary to prevent erosion of the outer banks. Although the laws do not spell out the reason for passage, Luther Hamilton contended that it is gen eral knowledge that they were passed to prevent destruction of vegetation on the banks by live stock and thus preserve the banks as dikes that keep the sea back from the mainland. The law further states that any one who violates it by not getting livestock off, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, liable to $100 fine and 30 days in jail. Harvey Hamilton read chapter 782 of the session laws of 1959. This law states that all animals on the banks after July 1, 1959 shall shall become the property of Car teret county. It further directs the sheriff of the county to remove, by any method he deems neces sary, any animals remaining after that date and turn them over to charitable institutions of the coun ty, as the county commissioners direct. Harvey Hamilton emphasiz ed that the law says the sheriff should remove, not shoot the cat tle. The sheriff, by direction of the governor and county commis sioners, promised several weeks ago, that he would shoot the cattle, since that seemed to be the only way to get rid of them. Attorney Hamilton and Stevens contended that cattle owners were See CATTLE, Page S Officials at Hearing Among the officials at the commercial fisheries hearing Saturday morning at Morehead City were Eric Rodgers, left, chairman of the state commercial fisheries committee; Lorimer Midgett, Elisabeth City, member of the committee, and John Rodman, Washington, N. C., attorney for the North Carolina Fisheries association. ►-. Mayor Pleased With Reception Of Ferry Request Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort, who headed a committee that con ferred Wednesday with J. Melville Broughton, chairman of the state highway commission, was well pleased with the reception given the committee at Raleigh. Re sumption of ferry service between Atlantic and Ocracoke was sought. He said Mr. Broughton was most gracious, as were W. F. Babcock, director qf secondary highways, and Sam .Beard, public relations officer with the State Highway commission. Ralph Morris, high way commissioner from New Bern, also attended the conference. Mr. Broughton said he would in form the other highway commis sioners of the committee’s proposal that the state acquire the ferry under long-term purchase agree ment or operate it under long term lease, with tolls continuing. The highway commission could act on the proposal at its Jan. 31 meeting, or in special session prior to that, the chairman said. Whether the committee’s proposal See FERRY, Page 7 State Purchases Island Property The Council of State approved funds Monday at Raleigh for hur ricane repair to Fort Macon and for acquisition of 914 acres of land on Portsmouth island owned by Ro land McClamroch, F. M. Simms, and W. J. Long. The state paid $18,280 for the is land property. It hopes to acquire more than 20,000 acres on the outer banks between Ocracoke and Cape Lookout. Four hundred thousand dollars to finance the buying was appropriated in the 1959 general assembly. A state sand-fencing project for a 14-mile stretch on Portsmouth is nearing completion. The state and federal government are cooperating on a plan to pre vent further erosion of the outer banks, which have been seriously damaged by storms in recent years. The council appropriated $35,000 for repairs of state parks damaged in hurricane Donna. The paints are Fort Macon, Jones Lake, Petti grew and Singletary. Since damage at Fort Macon, in this county, far exceeded that at the other parks, it is assumed that the major portion of the funds will come to Fort Macon. Ray Purdue, superintendent of [ Fort Macon, said yesterday he has not been told the exact amount to be used here. Officers Plead For Safe Yule “Tile Yuletide season is a friend ly, joyous time of year, so let’s keep it that way!” That was the plea from Carteret state highway patrolmen who said this week North Carolina motor ists must take extra safety mea sures to keep themselves from be coming the victim of some sense less -traffic mishap. In Carteret alone, there were 10 auto acci dents this past weekend. “Hundreds of motorists each Christmas season die violently and needlessly on our highways,” pa trolman W. E. Pickard warned. “The tragic hour-by-hour account ing of fatalities tend to take away much of the joy of major holiday weekends, particularly for those of us working to prevent holiday accidents,” patrolman Pickard said. “Unless we use extra care this year, the funeral wreath will re place the holly wreath in many North Carolina homes,” he warned. He called attention to the fact that December traffic mishaps over the past ten years have claim ed 1,107 victims.
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