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49th YEAR, NO. 103.
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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1960
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
G. Barden Announces New
Weather Service at Lookout
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Beaufort Lifts
Fire Truck Ban
S Beaufort town commissioners on
' Wednesday lifted the ban that pro
. hibits use of town fire equipment
’ in the areas proposed for annexa
tion.
For 90 days, beginning Dec. 21,
town fire trucks will be permitted
in the areas immediately adjoin
. ing the town.
Mayor W. H. Potter said that
the move was made due to cold
weather and the resultant increase
from fire due to furnaces and
stoves, also the overloads on elec
tric circuits due to the additional
Christmas lighting.
Fire trucks have been confined
only to the town and to far rural
areas for the past year. Providing
fire protection to the heavily pop
ulated areas immediately outside
the town was a burden on town
taxpayers, the board said.
The area involved in the fire
equipment ban has been taken into
town by resolution but the annexa
tions has not been effected due to
protest, through the courts, by the
persons living in those areas.
• Patrolman Investigating
Fire in Abandoned Car
Highway patrolman R. H. Brown
is continuing his investigation of
a fire in a car abandoned at Har
desty’s corner on highway 70 east
of Beaufort.
The patrolman said-the car, a
1954 Ford, had been sitting by the
road several days. At 2:30 a.m.
Monday the inside caught fire and
the patrolman was called. Beau
fort firemen extinguished the blaze.
To Publish Forecast
THE NEWS-TIMES will publish
next week Babson’s Business and
Financial Forecast for 1961.
► Rep. Graham A. Barden, who in'*
a few days will end his career as
congressman for the third district
of North Carolina, has announced
that weather flags will be flown
from Cape Lookout in the near
future.
F. W. Reichelderfer, chief of the
US weather bureau, has reported
to congressman Barden that the
commandant, US Coast Guard, will
cooperate with the weather bureau
in establishing flag and pennant
displays at the lifeboat station,
Cape Lookout.
Mr. Reichelderfer says the serv
ice “will commence shortly.”
The need for such displays at
the cape was mentioned editorial
ly by THE NEWS-TIMES Aug. 30.
A copy of the editorial and letter
was sent to congressman Barden,
who immediately started to make
the proper contacts to make wea
ther flag warnings a reality.
Boatmen have stated that dis
play of flags would be advantage
ous to sportsmen in small craft,
without radios, who sometimes go
off for 9 full day’s fishing. They
would also be helpful to larger
craft whose radios might fail.
The only weather station for dis
play of flags in this county is at
Morehead City, on the waterfront,
a good distance from the ocean.
It is believed that weather flags
at Cape Lookout, to be flown by
Coast Guardsmen at the station
there, will be another step toward
greater safety on the sea.
Air Rifle Vandals
Bring Complaints
Morehead City police chief Her
bert Griffin reports that several
complaints have been received re
cently of vandals firing air rifles
through windows.
Chief Griffin said that a town
ordinance prohibits firing air rifles
in the city limits and added that
the police dpeartment has been
alerted to be on a special lookout
for such offenders. The police de
partment will confiscate air rifles
of anyone caught firing them with
ing them within the city limits.
The Christmas Picture
At Christmas a young lady’s
fancy turns to mistletoe . . .
where, they say, a young man’s
thoughts have been all the time.
Every house should have a sprig
of mistletoe at Yuletide. Six
year-old Wade Faircloth Jr. isn’t
taking any chances in our Christ
mas picture on this page today.
He .heard that Elaine Leary,
also 6, was going to be around
and he brought his own mistle
toe. Wade is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wade Faircloth, 103 Yaupon
Terrace, Morehead City. Elaine
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Leary Jr., 117 Emeline PL,
Morehead City.
Thieves Enter Building
On Beach Tuesday Night
Thieves entered the Dainty Maid
bread warehouse on the Atlantic
Beach causeway sometime Tues
day night, according to deputy
sheriff Bobby Bell.
The deputy said the thieves en
tered by breaking a lock on the
door. Nothing had been reported
missing Wednesday morning. Bell
is continuing his investigation.
Tide Table
Tide* at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Dec. 23
12:08 a m. 6:03 a.m.
12:27 p.m. 6:45 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 24
1:05 a.m. 7:12 a.m.
1:22 p.m. 7:49 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25
2:01 a.m. 8:23 a.m.
2:19 p.m. 9 8:51 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 26
2:57 a.m. 9:28 a.m.
3:18 p.m. 9:48 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 27
3:56 a.m. 10:26 a.m.
4:18 p.m. 10:39 p.m.
Mayor Praises
Board for Fiscal
Achievements
• Audit Presented
At Recent Meeting
• Beaufort Town Debt
Totals $353,000
Mayor W. II. Potter, at the re
cent Beaufort town board meeting,
commended commissioners and
Ronald E. Mason, town clerk, for
their handling of financial affairs
during the 1959-60 fiscal year. The
mayor's comment followed presen
tation of the audit by Frank Wall
of the Williams and Wall auditing
firm. ,
The town during the past year
operated within the budget. The
total budget was $88,657.67. Spent
was $84,651.60. However, the town’s
income for the year was slightly
over-estimated when the budget
was set up. Therefore, expendi
tures actually exceeded income by
$4,909.06.
The only two departments which
spent more than was set up in the
budget were the administrative de
partment whose budget was over
spent by $961.82 and the po.iec de
partment whose budget was over
spent by $356.02. (The mayor re
turns his $600 annual salary to the
town).
General expenses and expenses
of the fire, and street department
were less than anticipated.
The town’s total bonded debt as
of June 30, 1960 was $353,000. Dur
ing the year two $500 bonds were
retired. The bonds which would
have matured July 1, 1974 were
paid off at $933.46, at a saving on
the principal of $66.54. Also saved,
of course, was interest that would
have been due on the bonds until
1974 had they not been retired.
The auditor pointed out that the
75 cents levied for paying the debt
was less than stipulated in the
bondholders’ agreement, yet it
yielded $8,532.86 more than needed
to meet interest on the bonds.
It also states that during the
1959-60 fiscal year, $28,033.02 was
collected for debt service, of which
only $13,195.91 was deposited to
.tba^aFcoioit for retiring bonds.
The tax rate that year was $1.75.
It was raised for the 1960-61 fiscal
year, which started last June, to
$2, and $1 was levied for debt serv
ice.
The town’s tax levy is based on
$3,294,186 valuation. Total proper
ty tax levy for the 1959-60 fiscal
year was $64,029.90. The auditor
pointed out that taxes received
were $24.21 less than in the pre
vious year.
Percentage of the 1959 levy col
lected was 91.18.
The audit showed cash receipts
for the year as $123,868.99. Dis
bursed was $110,541.42, leaving a
balance of $13,327.57. Mr. Wall
pointed out that this balance was
due to a cash overdraft of $3,884.20
as of June 30, 1959 plus a cash
balance of $9,443.37 as of June 30,
1960.
Divers Find Car;
Driver Drowned
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday at 2 p.m. for L. Hugh
Marshburn Jr., 42, of Carolina
Beach, whose body was recovered
Monday from Snow’s Cut on the
inland waterway near Carolina
Beach.
A brother of Mrs. John Bordeaux
of Morehead City, Mr. Marshburn
had been missing since Dec. 8,
when he failed to return home
from a business meeting.
An autopsy was to be performed
in an attempt to learn whether the
driver suffered a heart attack at
the wheel.
His car, a 1955 Chevrolet station
wagon, apparently plunged off the
highway and into the water. It
was located under the bridge by
Navy divers from the explosive
ordnance disposal team, Charles
ton, S. C., as they made their final
dive before calling off the search.
The funeral was conducted at
First Baptist church, Carolina
Beach, by the Rev. Guilford Daugh
try. Interment was in Hopewell
Presbyterian cemetery, Burgaw.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. An
nie Mae Marshburn; one son,
James Hugh; three daughters,
Laurie Ann, Paula Jean and Susan
Carol, all of the home; his mother,
Mrs. Hugh Marshburn Sr.; three
sisters, Mrs. W. L. Eason and Mrs.
D. V. Jacobs, Wilmington, and
Mrs. Bordeaux; and one brother,
Edwin Ray Marshburn of Carolina
Beach.
Menhaden Season Closes; New
Horizons Seen in Industry
John W. Reintjes, menhaden investigator with the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries, Beaufort, gets ready to view marine organisms
under the microscope.
This is an experimental model of an electronic device that de
tects menhaden marked with fluorescent dyes as they pass through
the large hose into the factory from jtoat.
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New Sources of Oil-Bearing
Fish Found by Scientist
The Carteret menhaden season closed last week. The
fish that are caught here have moved away in their annual
migration. But in years hence this doesn’t mean that the
industry need close down.
Investigations by John W. Reintjes, biologist at the Bu
reau of Commercial Fisheries, Fivers Island, show that
types of fish used for meal and oil<
exist in more areas and in greater
abundance than previously known.
In years when American fish oil
and scrap producers could sell all
they produced, this would be sen
sational news. But right now,
North Carolina producers, like
others in this country, are fighting
stiff competition from imported
fish products. Their margin of
profit is less, and they’re not in
terested in catching more fish.
They'd like to get rid, at a decent
profit, of their 1960 output. But cir
cumstances are always changing
and knowledge of fishery resources
is essential.
Whereabouts of the large, oily
menhaden, at all times, is un
known.
"Following a hunch,” Mr. Rcint
jes says, “substantiated by rumors
from fishermen in the tropical
waters of the United States, we
found that several different kinds
of menhaden occurred in Florida,
Texas, and Mexico.
“The results of trips to those
states showed that menhaden oc
curred just about every place we
looked and in greater abundance
than had ever been reported. In
some areas of the Gulf, thread
herring or ‘hairy backs' and an
choveta outnumbered the menha
den as raw material for the fish
meal and oil industry.”
Mr. Reintjes, who is with the
federal menhaden investigations
project headed by Fred June, has
made another notable contribution
to the menhaden story. In addi
tion to discovering that the Atlan
tic and Gulf menhaden inhabit
waters continuously around the
Florida peninsula and in large
numbers, he has reared menhaden
from eggs.
Until last February, when Mr.
Reintjes accomplished this in Flor
ida, it had never been done before.
What does this mean?
It means that menhaden eggs
can now be positively identified.
When eggs of the menhaden or tiny
offspring were picked up in tows
offshore, no one knew if they really
were menhaden eggs or menhaden
“fry” as the baby ones are called.
Mr. Reintjes obtained eggs from
the yellowfin menhaden in the In
dian River area near Cape Ca
naveral. He covered them with
fine mesh and put them in crab
floats. Under these natural condi
tions, the eggs hatched and de
veloped.
Examples of the developing eggs
and fish were taken and preserved
every few hours. It took the eggs
48 hours to hatch; 48 hours more
for the tiny fish to absorb the egg
yolk, its first “food.” Then when
eyes and mouth develop, the fish is
on its own.
Menhaden or “mammy shad” arc
full of spawn when off the North
Carolina coast in the fall. They
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Rites Conducted
At 2 Wednesday
For W.F. Willis
Funeral services for William
Finley Willis, 41, of Otway were •
conducted at Otway Christian
church Wednesday at 2 p.m. by
the Rev. J. W. Funk, pastor. Wil
lis died at 1 a.m. Sunday of shot
gun wounds allegedly inflicted by
his stepson, Elmo Lawrence.
The shooting took place at the
Willis home at Otway. Lawrence
has been charged with murder and
is being held without bond in the
county jail.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. An
nie L. Willis; one stepdaughter,
Mrs. Dallas W. Lawrence; one
stepson, Elmo Lawrence; all of Ot
way, seven sisters, Mrs. Alger
Shopshirc, Mrs. Rudolph Guthrie
and Mrs. Beulah White of More
head City, Mrs. V. J. O’Neal of
Key West, Fla., Mrs. Ralph Fow
ler of Norfolk, Va., Mrs. James
Diemer of Falls Church, Va., and
Mrs. Skee Oscheskie of California.
Two half sisters, Mrs. James
Macy of Morchead City and Mrs.
Alice Fitzpatrick of Virginia;
three brothers, Alvin Willis and
Charles M. Willis, both of Cam
eron, La., and James E. Willis of
Morchead City t and two halfbro
thers, Earl T. Willis and J. Dewey ^
Willis, both of Morchead City. '
Interment was in the church
cemetery.
Ft. Macon Aids
Trawler, Yacht
The 56-foot trawler, Miss Vicky
that recently burned off Fort Lau
derdale, Fla., ran into more trou
ble here Sunday when a steering
gedr went out near the Atlantic
Beach bridge.
Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen
were called to assist the Miss
Vicky and the 40-footer took the
vessel in tow to Beaufort. The
trawler is owned by Clifton Mea
dows, Swansboro and was being
piloted by Gray Willis, Barkers
Island. The crew aboard the 40
footer included Clayton Russell,
BM-3; Chester Arthur, EN-3 and
James Dudley, SA.
Another assist was made Satur
day by the Coast Guard's 40-footcr
when a call was received at the
station from a 61-foot pleasure
yacht, Kirkwood II, that had run
aground in Gallants channel.
The yacht was refloated and
taken in tow to the Gulf docks in
Morehead City. M. A. Frank, To
ronto, Canada, was the owner of
the boat.
Making the assist to the Kirk
wood II were Coast Guardsmen
Howard Jones, BM-1; Chester Ar
thur, EN-3 and Fred Gallup, SN.
Mild Weather
Follows Cold Spell
Relative mild weather moved
back into the area following last
week’s brief cold snap, according
to local weather observer Stanley
Davis.
Following a low Wednesday night
of 18 degrees, the mercury climb
ed to a mild 51 Thursday after
noon with Thursday night’s min
imum being only 39 degrees.
Temperature ranges, and wind
directions for the eight-day period
of Dec. 13-20 were recorded as fol
lows by Mr. Davis:
High Low Wind
Dec. 13 .28 19 WNW
Dec. 14 .46 18 WSW
Dec. 15 . 51 39 SW
Dec. 16.51 40 W
Dec. 17. 49 25 E
Dec. 18 .51 30 E
Dec. 19 ..55 30 SW
Dec. 20 .. 51 35 NE
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