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THE NEWS-TIMES
50th YEAR, NO. 6.
TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Slated for US Marshal
mmam
Sheriff Hugh Sailer, headed for a job in Raleigh, dusts an object
for fingerprints.
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Confirmation of Salter's Appointment
As US Marshal Expected to be Routine
A
Cattle Owners
Appeal Case
Ralph Chadwick, Straits, and
Mrs. Olive Willis, Markers Island,
have appealed to the state supreme
court a decision upholding laws or
dering cattle off Shackleford.
The state’s highest court will
hear arguments in the case Tues
day, Feb. 14.
Charles Stevens, Beaufort, one of
the attorneys for Chadwick and
Mrs. Willis, said yesterday the case
is merely to test the validity of the
two laws passed by the state in
recent years to get animals off the
fast-eroding outer banks.
Chadwick and Mrs. Willis have
defied the law by keeping a herd
of about 30 cattle bn Shackleford.
Half of the herd was reported to
have been taken off in the past
few weeks by its owners.
Prior to that time, they got a re
straining order which prevented
sheriff Hugh Salter from using
drastic means to get rid of the cat
tle.
Judge W. J. Bundy, following a
hearing in Beaufort last month,
ruled that the state laws are con
stitutional and dissolved the re
straining order.
The cattle owners claim the law
deprives them of property without
due process of law and without
proper compensation.
Try-Outs for Play
Set for 8 Tonight
Persons interested in appearing
in the next Carteret Community
theatre play, Portrait in Black, are
invited to try-outs at 8 tonight in
the civic center, 9th and Evans
streets, Morehead City.
Directing the murder drama will
be Miss Hortense Boomer and Miss
Ruth Peeling.
The play was recently filmed
with Lana Turner and Anthony
Quinn playing the title roles. Pro
duction is tentatively scheduled
for mid-March.
Anyone interested in helping
backstage should contact the di
rectors or come to try-outs tonight.
Will Legislature Loosen
Purse Strings for Fisheries?
By RUTH PEELING
How many answers may be found
to fisheries problems in the next
two years depends largely on how
much money the 1961 legislature
is going to earmark for fisheries.
Money alone can’t solve prob
lems confronting sports and com
♦ mercial fishermen. But money
teamed with brains can. Most will
agree that the state has the brains
—scientists at the Institute of Fish
eries Research, University of North
Carolina. But scientists have to
eat and feed their families, like
everyone else.
In addition to their salary, paid
by UNC, they need funds to work
on the specific projects hounding
the state fisheries committee, prob
lems dealing with trawling, catch
ing of scrap fish, oyster supply and
numerous others.
At the recent C&D board meet
The confirmation of Hugh Sal-'
ter’s nomination as US marshal,
eastern district, is expected in the
near future.
Mr. Salter, Carteret county’s
sheriff, was nominated for the
marshal’s job Monday by Sen. Sam
Ervin Jr. and Sen. B. Everett Jor
dan.
His nomination must be approv
ed by the Senate Judiciary com
mittee before it goes to President
Kennedy for final approval.
Sheriff Salter said Tuesday that
he was highly honored by the nom
ination. C. G. Holland, who pre
ceded Mr. Salter as sheriff, said
yesterday, “I’m certainly proud we
got the job in Carteret county.”
Sheriff Salter will be the second
native of Sea Level 'to advance to
a federal district court position in
recent years. Julian Gaskill, ap
pointed in March 1954 by Presi
dent Eisenhower, is now serving
as US attorney in the eastern dis
trict. Both he and Sheriff Salter
were born at Sea Level, a com
munity in the eastern part of the
county.
Mr. Salter will succeed B. Ray
Cohoon, Republican, who served as
sheriff of Tyrrell county, before
getting the marshal’s job in 1954.
The term of office usually con
tinues until a change of adminis
tration in Washington. In other
words, it’s an office that goes to
an appointee of the winning party
after a national election.
Whether Carteret’s sheriff starts
his work in Raleigh as soon as his
appointment is confirmed, or
whether he won’t take over until
Feb. 15, 1962 remains to be seen.
Cohoon must retire, under fed
eral regulations, at the age of 70.
He will be 70 in February 1962.
Apparently it is up to the new at
torney general to decide whether
Cohoon may serve another year or
step down this year and let the
new appointee of the Democrats
take over.
Those in inner political circles
of the county say that deputy sher
iff Bobby Bell will be named as
sheriff Salter’s successor. The
sheriff’s present term of office does
not expire until 1962.
Sheriff Salter said Tuesday that
he intends to retain his home in
Beaufort and come back here on
weekends. He is expected to be
See US MARSHAL, Page 2
ling, the institute scientists were
asked to set up a project in Core
and Pamlico sounds to determine
whether dredging clams was caus
ing the supply to dwindle.
The state said, “Do it,” but
didn’t give the institute money to
do it with. A couple men will have
to use a boat, which requires gas
oline and oil, to run to the waters
where the experiments will be
made. Tests will have to be run;
the men involved will haye to be
paid ....
If past legislative sessions are
any indication, there is little hope
that sufficient funds will be pro
vided to finance the pressing prob
lems in the sports and commercial
fishing world.
There is, however, a glimmer of
hope. Sports fishermen, who live
in all parts of the state, have be
come sufficiently interested in salt
Chamber Will Launch
Big Campaign Jan. 26
Thursday night, Jan. 26, has
been set as the date for the 1961
greater Morehead City chamber of
commerce kickoff meeting. The
meeting, to begin at 7:30 in More
head City high school, will have a
program geared to last one hour
and those attending should be out
soon thereafter, promised A. B.
Cooper, chairman of the finance
drive.
Preliminary plans for the cham
ber’s all-important fund-raising ac
tivity were made Tuesday morn
ing at a meeting at the Hotel Fort
Macon. Attending were directors
and membership solicitors.
“We want to make this an all
out year for Carteret county,” Mr.
Cooper declared, in setting $40,000
as the goal.
“The chamber is the controlling
factor as to prosperity of this coun
ty,” Mr. Cooper remarked. Re
viewing the chamber’s situation
this year as compared with last
year at this time, the finance
chairman noted, “We’re still not
rid of a lot of freeloaders and do
littlers, but many improvements
have been made.”
He commented that a lot of mon
ey is wasted by individuals trying
Date: Jan. 31
Carol Willis Portrays
Little Girl in Drama
One of the most charming char
acters in the play, The Little Min
ister, is Effie, daughter of * the
town drunkard, Rob Dow. The
role is played by Carol Willis,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
J. Willis, 3302 Evans St., More
head City.
The Little Minister will 'be pre
sented again, by popular demand,
Tuesday night, Jan. 31, at the
Morehead City recreation building.
In one of the scenes, Gavin Dis
hart, the minister, played by the
Rev. Robert Wood, pastor of Frank
lin Memorial Methodist church,
just finishes telling Effie a story:
Effie: Mr. Dishart, why are you
so fearful nice?
Gavin (laughing): Who’s been
telling you I’m “fearful nice”?
Effie: Everyone says you are—
except maybe old Thomas Wham
ond—and he doesn’t like anyone.
Will you go to heaven when you
die?
Gavin: I hope so.
Effie: Will Nanny Webster go to
heaven?
Gavin: Yes—shc”s a good wom
an.
Effie: But won’t it take her a
long time to get there?
Gavin: No more than usual, why?
Effie: Because she doesn’t be
long to YOUR church. And Jean
says that you can go to heaven
even though you’re not a member
of your congregation—but it takes
longer!
How the minister wins Effie’s
father to the church and also wins
himself a wife are told in the
three-act drama based on the fam
ous story by James M. Barrie,
author of Peter Pan.
Tickets for the play are avail
able now from members of the
Carteret County Shrine club, with
whom the Carteret Community
theatre, producer of The Little
Minister, is sharing profits.
Money made by the Shrine club
will go to the Shrine Crippled Chil
dren’s hospital.
water fishing to exert, perhaps,
some pressure on their represen
tatives in Raleigh.
Whereas in past years, the com
mercial fishing counties had to
bear the burden of getting funds
for saltwater research, there is a
possibility that their strength may
be increased with these new re
cruits to the “good fishing” cause.
Eric Rodgers, chairman of the
state fisheries committee, is going
to ask the legislature for $30,000
to. finance a study of commercial
and sports fishing. It is antici
pated that this study would answer,
among other things, the question,
“How much is both sports and
commercial fishing worth to the
state?”
No answer, based on verifiable
fact, has ever been given.
There have been biased reports.
See FISHERIES, Page 2
to advertise outside the county, on
their own, when pooling their re
sources in a chamber-centralized
advertising program would bring
them higher returns
The finance chairman said that
funds would be spent in promoting
port business, resort areas, com
mercial fishing, sports fishing, in
dustry and farming.
Skinner Chalk, chamber presi
dent, said the money to do the job
must be had now. “We can’t wait
to see if we’ve had a good tourist
season,” he remarked.
Rufus Butner, past president,
said that one of the greatest diffi
culties last year was getting in,
before the year’s end, money pledg
ed.
Mr. ButneT suggested that cham
ber members be given the oppor
tunity to authorize drafting of pay
ments from their bank account.
Head of Wachovia bank in More
head City, he said that the bank
will lend funds to anyone who is
borrowing the money for payment
of chamber of commerce dues.
Norwood Young was named pub
licity chairman for the campaign.
W. B. Chalk was placed in charge
of a panel which will answer ques
Effie Dow
. . . likes minister
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Gavin Dishart
. . . young minister
Coast Guard
Aids Novelda
Coast Guardsmen from Fort Ma
oon and Cape Lookout assisted the
30-foot trawler Novelda Wednesday
morning. The trawler experienced
engine failure, caused by water in
the bilges. The failure occurred at
the Cape Lookout Coast Guard dock
at 7:30 a.m.
After notifying Fort Macon that
the Novelda had requested a tow
to Beaufort, Cape Lookout person
nel began pumping water from the
vessel. When the Fort Macon 40
footer arrived at 8:15 the water
was out and the trawler was taken
in tow.
Crew aboard the Fort Macon
vessel was W. J. Morgan, BM1; W.
S. Vinson, EN2; Fred Hurst, EN2;
R. Caroom, SN; and G. G. Dudley,
SN.
Clayton Fulcher Jr. of Atlantic
owns the Novelda. She was cap
tained by Shelby Fulcher of At
lantic.
Hearing Yesterday
The State Highway hearing was
conducted yesterday afternoon in
the town hall, Beaufort. A report
on it will appear Tuesday.
tions from the audience at the Jan.
26 meeting.
“I think this will be an instruc
tive meeting. People will bring
out great ideas for the directors,’*
Mr. Cooper predicted.
There will be brief talks by Mr.
Butner, Mr. Chalk and Mr. Cooper.
A one-week campaign for members
will follow the meeting. Plans call
for closing the membership drive
by early February.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to those mentioned, were Bill
Baugham, Bill Davies, W. H. Pot
ter, Moses Howard, Joe DuBois,
Elmer Willis, Jerry Willis.
George Vickroy, Ken Newsom,
Frank Cassiano, Vernon Beasley,
and Sylvester Fleming.
Fire Seriously
Damages Auto
Firm Yesterday
Fire, which apparently started in
a heating unit at Hardesty Motors,
Morehead City, early yesterday
morning, caused considerable dam
age to the garage and showroom.
Firemen said the call was re
ceived at 12:20 a.m. Thursday from
Miss Lil Morris, who lives across
the street from the firm. She said
she and Mrs. Ala Rose were awak
ened when a large plate glass win
dow in the Hardesty showroom
blew out. They looked across the
street and saw flames back of a
car in the display room, then
phoned the fire department.
Two trucks from the Morehead
City fire department answered the
call and battled the blaze for near
ly two hours before bringing it un
der control. Holes had to be
chopped in the roof to fight the
blaze in overhead framework.
Dense smoke kept firemen from
entering the building.
The major portion ot the dam
age was to the garage; however,
the showroom and parts depart
ment also suffered. A new car in
the showroom was damaged by
surfikd as Was a customer car in
the shop, according to the firm’s
owner, Gordon Hardesty.
He reported that insurance
should cover most of his loss.
First Aid Course
To End Tonight
The Red Cross instructor’s
course, being taught in Beaufort,
ends tonight.
The following are expected to
complete the course; Jim Hux,
Ray Kennedy, Don Forster, Cal
Dgzern, Oscar Joslyn, Gordon Day,
A. N. Willis, all of Morehead City,
and Joseph Senneck, Jacksonville.
The instructors are Bill McDon
ald of the Red Cross and John E.
Loranger, chief hospital corpsman,
Camp Lejeune.
The course opened Monday night.
At the initial session Odell Merrill,
Beaufort, chairman of the county
Red Cross chapter, and John L.
Humphrey, Morehead City, first
aid chairman for the county, were
present.
An instructor’s course will be
taught next week at Cherry Point.
Further information may be had
by contacting Mr. McDonald at the
courthouse annex, Beaufort, to
night.
Clyde Ramsey to Play
At Inaugural Ball
Clyde Ramsey, a native of Beau
fort, will play for his sixth inaugu
ral ball tonight when he appears
with the Meyer Davis orchestra at
the Washington Armory ball honor
ing president John F. Kennedy.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sterling Ramsey of Beaufort, the
brother of Mrs. James Patterson of
Beaufort and Mrs. Rupert Earl Wil
lis of Morehead City.
Ramsey began his musical edu
cation at St. Paul's school in Beau
fort and joined Kay Kayser’s band,
which was then forming, during
his first year in college. He has
played with Les Brown and has
been a member of the Meyer Dav
is staff for some time. He plays
first trumpet.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaafort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Jaa. 20
11:44 p.m.
11:08 a.m.
4:47 a.m.
5:22 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 21
42:04 a.m.
5:41 a.m.
6:14 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 22
12:38 a.m.
12:57 p.m.
6:42 a.m.
7:13 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 23
1:31 a.m.
1:50 p.m.
Repairs Continue at Beaufort Bridge
News-Times Photo by McComb
New pilings are being pounded into place under the Beaufort draw bridge which spans Gallants chan
nel. Part of the cost of the repair is being borne by the federal government. The work necessitates
closing the bridge to highway traffic. Water traffic using the channel is likely to be delayed. An alter
nate route through the Morehead City bridge is recommended.
Beaufort JC's
Set Dinner Date
Monday, Jan. 30, has been set
as the date for the Beaufort Jaycec
Awards Night dinner, according to
George Murray Thomas. The ban
quet will be held in the Scout build
ing and will start at 7:30.
Several club awards will be pre
sented as well as the community
service award which goes to a
Beaufort citizen who has done out
standing civic and community work
during the past year. Grayden
Paul, director of Beaufort’s anni
versary celebration last summer,
was the 1960 winner.
Jaycce awards to be presented
include a key man award, an out
standing committeeman award and
a sparkplug award. Members on
the awards committee are George
Murray Thomas, Kay Willis, Bruce
Caton and Billy Hardy.
Arrangements for a speaker for
the event are not completed as yet.
Mr. Thomas said that the club
wished to thank the Morehead City
Jaycees for their invitation to hold
a joint awards banquet as was done
last year but the time element
made it impossible this year.
Morehead City Jaycees are having
their banquet tonight at 8 at the
Blue Ribbon restaurant.
Two Cases Heard
In Morehead Court
Only two cases were heard Mon
day in Morehead City recorder’s
court. Law enforcement officers
attended superior court opening in
Beaufort.
A Morehead City man, James
Oscar Chatman, was charged with
failing to comply with a court or
der. The case was dismissed.
Richard H. Dixon, Beaufort, for
feited bond on a speeding charge.
Judge Herbert O. Phillips pre
sided. Continued were five cases
until next Monday's term of court.
Delegate to White House Conference
On Aging Makes Report Tuesday
Miss Grace Wilson, Beaufort,
delegate to the White House Con
ference on Aging, reported Tues
day afternoon to the county com
mittee on aging at the welfare de
partment in Beaufort.
She told of last week’s conference
and reports that evolved from it.
The conference was by invitation
only. No facilities were available
for handling observers. Miss Wil
son emphasized that it was a
“working conference.” Delegates
were given assignments before ar
riving in Washington and when
there, they worked in assigned
groups.
There was no flitting from one
meeting to the
other or dele
gates’ , deciding
once they got
there that they
“would rather
go to this meet
ing” than the
one assigned.
Miss Wilson
was in the workgroup on educa
tion. Her specific field of interest
The State Highway commission
office in Beaufort reported yester
day that repairs at the Beaufort
bridge are not expected to be com
plete for at least 10 more working
days, which would probably mean
things won't be back to normal un
til the first of February, if then.
Although the Raleigh office of the
highway commission originally an
nounced that the job would take
five weeks, it was hoped that it
could be completed in less time
man that.
The bridge is closed to highway
traffic Monday through Friday
from 9:30 a.m. ^o 4:30 p.m. Re
pairs are being made to the fender
system which was damaged in
Donna.
Newport Board
Would Appreciate
Reply to Letter
Mayor Leon Mann, Newport, has
written Odell Merrill, clerk to the
board of county commissioners,
relative to a letter from Newport
town commissioners written sev
eral months ago.
The town commissioners request
ed that the county board bar all
carnivals from the county. The
action came following the "county
fair” in October, sponsored by
American Legion Post No. 99, Beau
fort.
To date, the Newport town board
has received no reply from county
commissioners. Mayor Mann said
town commissioners would appre
ciate a reply "when the county
board reaches a definite conclu
sion one way or the other.”
Two Jailed in Beaufort
For Public Drunkenness
Two men were jailed on public
drunkenness charges over the
weekend in Beaufort.
They Were Guy Lewis, Beaufort,
who was picked up Sunday by of
ficer Otis Willis, and Charles Pew,
Negro, who was jailed Monday
night, by assistant chief Carlton
Garner.
was education and community ser
vice by older people.
Other groups were health and
medical care, social services, hous
ing, role and training of profes
sional personnel, free time activi
ties for senior citizens, religion,
medical and biological research in
gerontology, and local community
organization.
These major areas were sub-di
vided into almost a hundred topics
dealing with the aging.
The purpose of the conference is
summed up well by President
Eisenhower:
“In striving to achieve a better
life for all our people, we must
give proper regard to the needs and
abilities of our older citizens. The
opportunity to live in a dignified,
productive and satisfying life in old
age is the aspiration of every citi
zen and an important goal of our
American society.
“The first White House Confer
ence on Aging is a significant ef
fort to find better ways to enlarge
opportunities for our older people.
In recognition of the broadly
Historical Group
To Elect Two
New Officers
Directors of the Beaufort His
torical association will meet Tues
day night, Jan, 24, to select a new
chairman and a treasurer. The
chairman will replace Odell Mer
rill and the treasurer will replace
Mrs. J. J*. Harris Jr.
Fodr neW directors were named
at a meeting of the board Tuesday
night. They are Mrs. Vance Ful
ford Jr., James Potter III, Mrs.
Dick Babcock and Mrs. W. R.
Hamilton.
Present members of the board,
besides Mr. Merrill and Mrs. Har
ris, are Grayden Paul, W. R. Ham
ilton, Mrs. Charles Hassell, Mrs.
G. W. Duncan, secretary; and Mrs.
J. F. Duncan Jr.
Three of the new directors re
place Dick Dickinson, Paul Jones
and the late Charles Davis.
It was decided that the money
remaining in the treasury from
last year’s celebration, $438.38
would be used to replace topsoil
washed from around the Museum
of the Sea, to collect displays for
the museum and refurbish it for
opening this summer.
Mr. Paul has agreed to operate
the museum at no salary other
than funds collected in admission.
Mr. Merrill said that revenue from
the museum last summer did not
meet the cost of keeping it open.
Attending Tuesday night’s meet
ing will be mayor W. H. Potter,
who will present a proposal on
restoration of the old Hammock
house.
Firemen Called
Newport firemen answered a call
Saturday night, Jan. 7, to the home
of Walter Edwards, Bogue Sound
road. A fire in the garage was
put out. Damage was reported to
be minor.
shared experience and responsibil
ity for meeting the challenges in
this field, representatives of pri
vate organizations and from all
levels of government, as well as
many individuals, have been called
to meet in Washington after exten
sive preparatory local and state
conferences.
“This nationwide conference will
enable them to pool their knowl
edge and wisdom on how to meet
the needs and to use the abilities
of older people with the ultimate
objectives of satisfying basic hu
man rights and serving the good of
the nation.”
Miss Wilson said, “It was a great
privilege and honor to go to the
conference. It broadened my out
look on the whole program and I
met outstanding people.”
Miss Wilson is noted for her in
terest in geronthology, is in steady
demand as a speaker on that sub
ject, and served as chairman of
the county committee on aging.
A conference in Raleigh in July
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