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60th YEAR, NO. 4
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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Eight-ManGroup
To Study Trawl
Ban Proposal
^fisheries Committee
To Name Members
• Four Groups Will
Be Represented
An right-man mediation group,
yet to be named, is supposed to
come up with a solution to the
dispute between sports and com
mercial fishermen over use of
trawls in offshore waters.
The Board of Conservation and
Development, in session Monday
at Raleigh, asked each of the fol
lowing groups to submit names of
three persons to serve on the me
diation committee: the North Car
olina Fisheries association, com
mercial fishermen who are not
members of the association, mem
bers of the North Carolina Wildlife
Federation, and operators of sports
fishing piers.
The commercial fisheries com
mittee will select two from the
three suggested persons from each
group. This committee will choose
its own chairman.
How soon the committee will be
named depends on how soon the
nominations are placed before the
commercial fisheries committee.
After the committee meets, its
recommendations will go to the
commercial fisheries committee
and the fisheries advisory commit
tee. If both groups concur with
the mediation committee, the find
ings will be placed before the C&D
board.
Eric Rodgers, chairman of the
state commercial fisheries commit
tee, said last month that such a
committee would be appointed. His
statement followed a hearing at
Morchead' City which dealt with a
request by sports fishermen that
trawls be banned from Cape Hat
teras to Cape Fear, from the shore
line three miles out.
The board also took the follow
ing action:
• Authorized the chairman of the
commercial fisheries committee to
confer with the attorney general
to devise a workable regulation
“that will eliminate the practice
of direct selling of undersized ed
ible fish, scrap fish and trash fish
to any and all plants engaged in
cooking activities.”
• Requested the Institute of Fish
eries Research to choose several
areas in Core Sound and lower
Pamlico Sound for conducting clam
experiments. The committee
wants to learn if dredging is dan
gerous to the “continued existence
of the clam industry.”
The latter recommendation was
the outgrowth of a request that
clam dredging be prohibited on the
banks side of the channel in Core
Sound. The contention was that
mechanical means of taking clams
was depleting the clam supply.
State Withdraws
Morehead Bridge
From Bid List
The State Highway comntjssion
has dropped the Morehead City
bridge from its Jan. 24 contract
letting. The commission said this
was done at the request of con
tractors.
It had previously announced that
bids would be received, but not
opened Jan. 24 if the Army Engi
neers had not given an OK on
bridge plans by that time.
The announced withdrawal met
with approval by Morehead City
interests who have claimed they
would rather see the present bridge
stay as is, but with necessary re
pairs, until the state realizes how
necessary it is to build a new
bridge farther north so that port
expansion can take place.
The new bridge is expected to
cost about $2 million and take at
least 18 months to build.
Carteret Doubles Lodging
Facilities in 10-Year Span
The number of rooms available
in the county for lodging doubled
in the 10 years from 1950 to I960,
according to a recent survey made
qy the greater Morehead City
chamber of commerce.
Rooms available in motels, inns,
notels, fishing camps totaled 414
in 1950 and 827 in 1960. The sur
vey does not include tourist homes
where overnight accommodations
are also available.
The number of out-of-state vis
itors in the county in 1951 was esti
mated at 16,600; in 1960, 67,500.
Based' on hotel-motel rooms
available and 60 per cent occupan
cy for 200 days, the travel indus
try income for 1851 amounted to
Port Area B usy as Marines
Go on Annual Maneuvers
Morehead City Begins New
Drive Against Unlawful Dogs
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How to Do It
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William Jenkins, N. 7th Street,
is one of a few Morehead City
dog owners who know what a
leash and harness are for.
Here Mr. Jenkins is on ime, of
his regular strolls with Ms dog,
Troubles. Troubles doesn’t cause
nearly as much trouble as dogs
who are turned out of the house
by their owners to roam at will
over town, forage in garbage
cans, dig up flowers, hold up
Beaufort Board Proposes
Town Expansion Eastward
Beaufort commissioners, at their
meeting Monday night at the town
hall, proposed expansion of the
town limits eastward from the pres
ent eastern town limits to the east
ern boundary of Beaufort Fisheries.
The board authorized the holding
of a public hearing on the proposal.
If 15 per cent of the qualified vot
ers resident in the area express
opposition, the law requires that
a referendum be held.
In proposing annexation of the
area to the east, the board is pro
ceeding under a law that was in
effect prior to the “annexation by
ordinance” law.
The board has attempted to an
nex outlying areas “by ordinance”
but was thwarted by court action.
The area proposed Monday night
has as its northern boundary the
northern edge of the Lennoxville
road and as its southern boundary
the high water mark of Taylor’s
creek. (See description in legal
ad section of today’s paper). .
Commissioner David Farrior said
that he was told that two of the
leading opponents of annexation
said they would cease opposition
if the area to be annexed included
Beaufort Fisheries. (The town’s
mayor, W. H. Potter, manages
Beaufort Fisheries and is part
owner. The town attorney, C. R.
Wheatly, is part owner, and its
legal counsel).
$1,791,164 as compared with $3,
783,219 in 1960.
J. A .DuBois, manager of the
chamber says, “The estimates do
not include rooming houses, cot
tage and apartment rentals or the
sleeping accommodations for hun
dreds of fishermen provided by our
charter fleet six months of each
year ... our estimate of a $4Vi
million tourist industry in 1960 was
entirely too cupaervative.’’
How the total tourist income
was apportioned: food and bev
erages, 28 per emit of the travel
dollar, $1,070,916; hotel-motel, 22
per cent, $803,200; gas and oil, 19
per cent, $688,446; retail purchases,
14 per cent, $535,458.
Kecreatton aid fishing, 8 per
traffic or force pedestrians off
the sidewalks.
It is illegal to have a dog with
in the town limits of Morehead
City unless he is licensed, inocu
lated, kept on his own premises,
oMWpt in cheek by a leash. The
leash is supposed to have the
dog on one end and a responsible
person holding it on the other.
Leashes, dog collars and dog
harnesses are available at a nom
inal cost at local stores.
Mayor Potter has been keenly
interested in expanding the town
limits since he took office in May
1959. His efforts have been back
ed by the town attorney and the
board.
Holden Ballou, 1540 Ann St., pre
sented a petition of approximately
68 signatures of Ann and Front
street residents. The petition stat
ed that signs were in favor of the
town’s expansion to include their
property.
Fire commissioner Farrior re
ported that the citizen’s band ra
dios for the fire department were
tested Thursday night and proved
satisfactory. One radio is on the
No. 5 truck, one set is at the fire
station and the third is a portable
set thgt can be moved from one
piece of mobile equipment to an
other.
In answer to a question by the
mayor, building inspector Gerald
Woolard said that where a sewer
line is available, a property owner
is required to tap in.
Commissioners discussed the al
ley between Craven and Turner,
north of Front street, as a parking
area. Organizing the area for
parking is awaiting a report from
E. W. Cownum of the merchants
association.
Routine reports were given and
the meeting recessed at 8:30.
[cent, $305,976; tires and service,
5 per cent, $191,235; and miscel
laneous services, 4 per cent, $182,
988.
The percentages of the travel
dollar and where it is spent are
based on a formula used by the
American Automobile association.
Travelers spent $390 million in
the state in 1959. If Carteret’s
travel income that year was about
$5 million, this county received
slightly more than 1 per cent of
the state’s total travel income.
Mr. DuBois notes that the coun
ty now needs 200 more rooms to
accommodate the large conven
tions the Biltmore Motor hotel will
be able to handle, beginning this
year.
• V. J. (Ted) Gamer, police com
missioner, Morehead City, an
nounces a new campaign to get
rid of the dog menace in Morehead
City.
Rigid enforcement of the dog or
dinance is under supervision of J.
V. Waters, street superintendent,
who has been charged with this
responsibility by the police com
missioner.
According to the dog ordinance,
dogs are NOT allowed to run loose
in Morehead City, whether licensed
or not.
Any dog running at large is eli
gible for pick-up by the dog catch
er.
If identity of the dog owner can
be learned, the owner will be no
tified and given five days to get
his dog back. To do this, he must
pay any license fees due on the
dog, plus a $3 pick-up fee and $1
a day for each day the dog is
boarded by the town.
If the dog has not been inocu
lated for rabies, the owner is re
quired to have such inoculation
made. If the dog is not claimed
at the end of five days, it will be
destroyed.
Dog owners who persist in let
ting their dogs run at large will
be summoned to court.
Excerpts of the dog ordinance ap
pear on page 7 section 1 of today’s
paper.
1960 Construction Near
Decade Low S&t in 1957
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Ernest C. Lowe
To Spend Nine
Months in Jail
A Morehead City man, Ernest
Clyde Lowe, drew jail sentences
totaling nine months Monday in
Morehead City recorder’s court.
Lowe was trie.d in three cases and
convicted of failing to comply with
a former court order, driving with
a suspended license and failing to
secure transfer of registration and
new certificate of title.
The first conviction brought a
six-month jail term. In the other
cases Lowe was given sentences
of three and one months, to run
concurrently.
One other defendant received a
jail sentence. William F. Brock
of Morehead City was convicted of
his second public drunkenness of
fense within a 12-month period and
was given 60 days by judge Her
bert O. Phillips.
George F. Lewis, Morehead City,
convicted of simple assault on his
wife, Mary Lewis, .was given a
six-month jail sentence suspended
on payment of $50 and costs. Lewis
faced an additional assault charge
but the court continued a prayer
for judgment for six months.
Two Coast Guardsmen, stationed
aboard the Chilula, were charged
with trespassing on the premises
of George F. Lewis. They were
Hipolito L. Gutierrez and Simforoso
B. Mendoza. Mendoza was found
guilty and ordered to pay court
costs. Gutierrez was acquitted.
Two defendants, Johnnie Kirk
Dennis, Beaufort, and Roland Ray
Barbour Jr., Morehead City, for
feited bond when they failed to
appear. Both were charged with
speeding.
Tommy W. Wilkes, Cherry Point,
drew a 30-day jail sentence, sus
pended on payment, of $125 and
costs for speeding and drunk driv
ing. Samuel H. Bussy Jr., Cherry
Point, was given 30 days, suspend
See COURT, Page 2
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Jan. 13
4:42 a.m. 11:28 a.m.
5:10 p.m. 11:32 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 14
5:43 a.m. 12:23 a.m.
6:12 p.m. _
Sunday, Jan. 15
6:39 a.m. 12:27 a.m.
7:08 p.m. > 1:17 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 18
7:32 a.m. 1:22 a.m.
8:01 p.m. 2:06 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 17
8:24 a.m. 2:15 a.m.
8:55 p.m. t 2:50 p.m.
A sky filled with planes,
and Marine trucks pounding
the highways told county
residents of preparation this
week for the annual spring
maneuvers by the Navy and
Marine Corps in the Carib
bean.
Because of the trouble in Cuba,
added significance is attached to
the maneuvers this year. The am
phibious war games will last eight
weeks in the vicinity of Vieques,
off Puerto Rico.
Two LSTs, the Lorain County and
Waldo County, and one LSD, Ply
mouth Rock, which arc Puerto
Rico bound, left Morehead City
port Wednesday after taking on
men and equipment.
Scheduled for arrival at More
head City today is the attack cargo
ship, Rankin. The attack cargo
ship Oglethorpe is due Monday and
the attack cargo transport Vermil
lion is due Tuesday.
The Rankin will join other ships
for the expedition in the Caribbean.
The Oglethorpe is one of the ships
in squadron 8, now in the Carib
bean, which is being relieved by
squadron 10.
Flagship of squadron 10 is (he
converted aircraft carrier Boxer,
carrying 1,200 men of the 3rd bat
talion, 2nd Marines. The Boxer lay
off the North Carolina coast four
hours Wednesday afternoon while
helicopters from nearby Marine
bases loaded cargo aboard.
Twenty-four light ’copters from
New River, Camp Lejeune, also
went aboard the Boxer.
A total of 2,000 Marines will be
involved in the war games. The
first practice amphibious assault
is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 19.
4 Cost of construction work, cover
ing all buildings erected in More
Sad City during the year I960; was
s lowest for the past decatWfWith
the exception of 1957. Total cost
of all buildings for 1960, $184,840,
for 1957, $130,830.
During the last quarter of 1960,
eleven permits totaling $38,400,
were issued by A. B. Roberts,
building inspector of Morehead
City. Six permits were issued
covering the erection of new
houses: to Hazel Williamson,
$1,800; H. V. Collins, $13,500; L. T.
Horton, $3,000; Jerry Willis, $750;
Richard Mills, $2,800.
The Church of God was issued
a permit for the erection of a
house of worship on Bridges street
between 19th and 20th streets at a
cost of $8,000. The Sinclair Oil
Co. erected a new office building
at their plant on Evans street at
a cost of $3,000. A wooden struc
ture attached to the tent of the Rol
lcrhaven skating rink cost $950.
Two permits for alterations totaled
$600.
Construction of new houses dur
ing 1960 numbered 30, at a cost of
$142,400. Of this number, 22 were
built at a cost uf $4,000 or less,
three houses cost between $5,000
and $8,000 and four between $10,000
and $19,000.
Garages, additions and altera
tions total $21,040. Commercial
and other structures, $20,900. In
cluded in this item is the Sinclair
office building, $3,000; Church of
God, $8,000 and a service station
at 24th and Arendell streets, $7,500.
Construction costs for the past
decade: 1951, $473,716; 1952, $329,
640; 1953, $443,300; 1954, $427,059;
1955, $450,555; 1956, $440,410; 1957,
$130,830; 1958, $651,530; 1959, $422,
039; 1960, $184,840.
Ground Broken for Convention Hall
Head of Beaufort Merchants
Outlines Program for 1961
News-Times Photo by McComb
Maltby Taylor, Sea Level, father of the owners of the Biltmore Motor hotel, Morehead City, turns the
first shovel of earth for the new conventional hall to be added to the hotel. Dignitaries present for the
groundbreaking Tuesday morning are S. A. Chalk Jr., left, president of the greater Morehead City cham
ber of commerce; A. B. Cooper, mayor of Atlantic Beach; H. J. Williamson, manager of the hotel; Mr.
Taylor, George Dill, mayor of Morehead City; Elmer Willis, seafood dealer of Williston, and W.
II. Potter, mayor of Beaufort.
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Fort Macon Park
Remains Tops
In Popularity
Fort nfacon state park in Car
teret maintained its top rank in
popularity in 1960 with a total at
tendance of 443,624.
Second in popularity among the
state parks was Mount Mitchell
in Yancey county with a total of
379,547. Third was Morrow Moun
tain, Stanly county, with 243,998.
Fort Macon’s 1960 attendance ex
ceeded that of 1959, which was
440,178. The record was achieved
despite a week’s closing of the
park after hurricane Donna.
December attendance at the park
was 15,935, according to superin
tendent Ray Pardue. Of that num
ber, 555 were fishermen and 9,274
visited the fort.
Total number of fort visitors
during 1960 was 263,366.
Attendance at all parks in the
state set a new record last year,
according to Thomas W. Morse,
state parks superintendent.
Mr. Pardue said that funds have
been appropriated for repair of
hurricane damage at Fort Macon
park'and actual work is awaiting
the arrival of materials.
Fire Association Dues At
Newport Payable Now
Members of the Newport Rural
Fire Protection association, who
are not in the fire district covered
by tax levy, arc requested to pay
their 1961 dues now.
Ray Lackey, president of the
fire association, said those who
paid dues for two years in 1960 are
still eligible for protection.
Those who paid for only one
year are now without fire protec
tion, he warned. Dues may be paid
to Mr. Lackey or any one of the
directors of the association.
Tags Go on Sale
' A busy place dace the lint of the year has been the iastaUmeat
loan office at Flrst-Citlzens bank, where 1961 auto license tags are
beipg sold. Here Bob Merritt of Morehead City parcbasea Us tags
boas dark Lava VaiL
► J. O. Barbour Jr., president oP
the Beaufort Merchants association,
outlined a program for 1961 Tues
day night when the association met
at the town hall.
Points of the program:
• To improve parking conditions.
Also cut 2 to 3 feet off the side
walks on Front street, between
Craven and Turner, to provide a
wider street for passage of cars.
• Open the north end of Moore
street to vehicular traffic and
establish a harbor of refuge in Gal
lants channel.
• Enlarge launching facilities for
boats; promote Bird Shoal as a
recreation area.
• Start planning for the summer
months and cooperate with the his
torical association in reopening the
Museum of the Sea.
• Undertake a concerted mem
bership drive.
• Start working on sponsorship
of East Carteret Good Neighbor
Days and plan to make them an
annual event.
• Expand the town boundaries
and work to build a better Beau
fort.
The following committees were
appointed:
Liaison (to work with town, state
and federal governments) — John
Jones, Jim Wheatley, Billy Sprin
gle.
Legislative and civic — Holden
Ballou, chairman; Halsey Paul and
Harry Whitehurst.
Traffic and parking — Jack
Barnes, chairman, and Gerald Hill.
Trade promotion—Leslie Moore,
chairman, E. W. Downum.
Membership and finance—James
Potter, chairman, Carl Hatsell,
Clarence Stamper.
Advertising—William Roy Ham
ilton, Ralph Eudy and Johnny Wil
lis.
Tourist and sportsfismng — Gil
bert Potter, Earl Madcs and Wes
ley Willis.
Mr. Barbour expressed his ap
preciation to all who participated
in the Christmas program. It was
reported that the town contributed
$60 in cash toward the event and
the R. H. Hill company donated
candy, given to the children.
Membership insignia for 1961
were given to the membership
committee for distribution, and the
plan for cooperation with More
head City in sponsorship of Armed
Forces Day was announced.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to the president, were Mr.
Downum, vice-president; Jarvis
Herring, secretary; Mr. Stamper,
Mr. Hamilton, James Potter, Earl
Mades.
Mr. Eudy, Johnny Willis, Gilbert
Potter, Jim Wheatley, James Steed,
Roy Eubanks, Mr. Jones, and Clar
ence Guthrie.
The next meeting will be the
second Tuesday in February.
Dr. Woodard Speaks
To Beaufort Rotarians
Dr. W. L. Woodard was the
speaker at the Tuesday night meet
ing of the Beaufort Rotary club.
He spoke to members on the need
for a promotional organization in
Beaufort similar to the chamber of
commerce, or the reorganization of
the chamber itself which was in ex
istence several years ago.
Dr. Woodard said that inquiries
about tourist facilities in Beaufort
are still being received and added
that a working organization could
do much to improve the town’s
tourist reputation.
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SPA Considers
Grain Elevator
For Morehead
Construction of an elevator for
storing a half million to a million
bushels of grain is being proposed
for Morehead City.
Reports from Raleigh state that
the ports authority plans to float
revenue bonds and repay the bonds
by leasing the elevator on a long
term basis.
It is predicted that the grain
elevator will be one of the first
steps in a multi-million dollar port
expansion program. Other im
provements, such as docks and
warehouses at both Wilmington and
Morehead City, must await court
approval of a method for financing.
The ports authority began plan
ning the grain elevator last sum
mer after a professional engineer
ing study showed a large elevator
could be kept busy handling grain
grown within 125 miles of the port.
The authority has rated grain
as one of its top priority programs
because it works in Well with the
state’s agriculture economy. Grain
trade is limited at present, how
ever, because Morehead City has
storage capacity for only 250,000
bushels*
The cost of constructing an ele
vator for 500,000 bushels is esti
mated at $1,250,000. An even larg
er elevator is being considered be
cause of the possibility of handling
grain from upstate North Carolina
as tycll as the Midwest.
Bridge Repairs
Now Under Way
The Beaufort bridge closed at
9:30 a.m. yesterday and will be
closed again from '9:30> a.m. to
4:30 p.m. today.
J. H. Burruss, resident engineer
in this area, said yesterday that
the bridge will be open to highway
traffic Saturday and Sunday. Tide
water Construction Co., Norfolk,
which is making repairs to the
bridge fender system, said its men
will not work Saturday unless ab
solutely necessary.
Mr. Burruss said that if the
weather is favorable and no com
plications arise, work on the bridge
should be completed by the end of
next week.
Water traffic has been notified
that repairs are under way and to
avoid delay, a detour route through
the Morehead City draw is sug
gested.
Mr. Burruss advises motorists to
watch the yellow highway signs on
roads leading to the bfidge. When
ever the bridge is open to highway
traffic, the signs will be turned so
that they cannot be read by mo
torists.
He expressed doubt that there
would be many such openings be
tween 9:30 and 4:30, unless equip
ment breaks down or some other
unforeseen incident occurs.
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Board Meets Today
The Atlantic Beach town board
will meet at 10 o’clock this morning
at the town halL
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