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THE NEWS-TIMES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
50th YEAR, NO. 7,
EIGHT PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Class Finishes First Aid Course
■
Bill McDonald, kneeling left, demonstrates how to apply a traction splint to members of a first aid
instructor’s class, Beaufort. Seven men completed the course last week. Left to right they are A. N.
Willis, Jim Hux, Don Forster, Cal Deiern, Joe Sennec, Oscar Joslyn, and Gordon Day, kneeling
right. Patient for the demonstration is Mr. Forster.
Dr. Russell Outlaw
Wins Top JC Award
Wildlife Club
Seeks Grain
For Wildfowl
To continue supplying corn for
refuge areas, members of the
county Wildlife club asked Friday
night for contributions of corn
from farmers. Each club mem
ber was also asked to donate a
dollar to buy grain.
Club members from the Salter
Path and Harkers Island areas,
where the refuges are located, re
ported on shortage of feed. Ro
maioe Willis said a third of ap
proximately 2,000 ducks left the
Salter Path refuge because there
was no more food.
Bob Simpson suggested that
funds now in the treasury be used
to meet emergency needs of the
feed program. He was named
chairman of a committee to raise
money for feeding wildfowl in
refuge areas.
Eleven persons attending the
meeting paid a dollar each toward
the program. Nine renewed mem
bership. Before these funds were
paid, $118.50 was reported in the
treasury.
It was suggested that club mem
bers, who could, raise several extra
acres of corn’ this summer as a
special project to feed duck and
> geese.
The club is of the opinion that
the number of ducks and geese
in the county has been larger this
year than in previous years, be
cause of the feeding program.
Walter Teich, president, said a
bill is now being prepared for in
troduction in Congress. The bill
would broaden provisions of the
law that now allows distribution
of feed under restrictive conditions.
Sam Poole, wildlife biologist for
this area, commended C. N. Stroud
for his work in contacting farmers
and encouraging them to plant
See WILDLIFE CLUB, Page 2
A. B. Cooper Names Panel
For Thursday's Meeting
Coast Guard
Helps Narina
Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen
spent almost 24 hours assisting a
39-foot fishing vessel, Narina,
which was disabled in Pamlico
Sound Thursday afternoon. Fort
Macon received a call at 4:10 p.m.
Thursday from the vessel, Cape
Hatteras, stating that a disabled
vessel had been sighted near West
Bay day beacon No. 1 in Pamlico
Sound.
The 40-footer went to aid the
Narina, arriving on the scene at
7 p.m. The Narina captain, Clem
GaskUl, of Sea Level, reported that
the owner, Mrs. Elmo GaskiH, had
been notified and that the vessel
was safe for the night. He asked
that the Coast Guardsmen return
at daylight.
See COAST GUARD, Page 2
• Dp. Russell Outlaw, 35, Morehcad
City optometrist, became Friday
night the first two-time winner of
the Jaycee Distinguished Service
Award.
Presentation of the award was
made by Bill Singleton, past Jaycee
president. He told of Dr. Outlaw’s
accomplishments in development
of the city park, his activity in
Jaycees, Toastmasters and fra
ternal organizations, his assistance
with Little League and football pro
grams and church work.
The DSA winner is selected on
the basis of nominations by civic
clubs. Dr. Outlaw’s choice was al
most unanimous, Mr. Singleton
said. Dr. Outlaw won the DSA last
year. '•* >'
The presentation was made at a
banquet at the Blue Ribbon restau
rant. Present were Jaycees, their
wives, and past DSA winners.
Jasper Bill explained the mean
ing of the DSA and qualifications
necessary to win it.
Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
gave the banquet address, speak
ing on the theme, “What Have You
Done to be Called an American?”
His talk was based on President
Kennedy’s inaugural address.
Mayor Potter was introduced by
Jaycee Paul Cordova.
The invocation was given by the
Rev. Corbin Cooper, pastor of the
First Baptist church, Morehead
City.
Past winners of the DSA: D. G.
Bell, A. B. Roberts Jr., Robert G.
Loew Jr., A. B. Cooper, James R.
Sanders, James Wallace, Bernard
Leary.
Walter S. Morris, H. S. Gibbs Jr.,
Jasper Bell, P. H. Geer Jr., Her
bert O. Phillips III, Dr. Robert
Barnum and Floyd Chadwick Jr.
Due for Award
Jimmie Ray Williams of More
head City will become eligible this
month for a service emblem repre
senting five years of telephone
company service. The award is
in the form of a gold pin. Williams
is employed by Carolina Telephone
and Telegraph Co. as an installer
repairman in the plant department,
Morehead City.
► A. B. Cooper, chairman of the<
current greater Morehead City
chamber of commerce member
ship campaign, announced yester
day names of panel members on
Thursday night’s program.
They are W. C. Chalk, modera
tor; Moses Howard, Newport, a
new chamber director; William,
Davies, Morehead City, chairman’
of the finance committee; Morton
Davis and Rufus Butner, past
chamber presidents; George Hunt
ley Jr., Beaufort, a new director;
Elmer Willis, Williston, a new. di
rector; and Shelby Freeman, At
lantic Beach, a past director. The
panel will answer questions from
the audience.
The meeting will begin at 7:30
p.m. Thursday in the Morehead
City school auditorium.
Ten-minute talks will be made
by Mr. Butner, immediate past
president; Skinner A. Chalk, presi
dent, and the panel will'be follow
ed by a talk by Mr. Cooper.
Everyone interested in the de
velopment of the county and its
continuing bid for prosperity is in
vited, Mr. Cooper said.
Dr. Russell Outlaw
. . . wins DSA pin
Two Drivers
Cited Saturday
Morehead City police filed
charges against two drivers involv
ed in a collision Sunday afternoon
at the intersection of 20th and
Bridges streets.
The drivers were Ruth Marie
Marshal, 2105 Bay St., Morehead
City, and Randolph Thomas Willis
Sr., 1600 Arendell.
Police said that Marshal was go
ing east on Bridges and Willis
north on 20th at the time of the
accident. The brakes on the Wil
lis auto failed as he tried to stop
upon approaching the intersection.
His car entered the intersection
and collided with the Marshal ve
hicle.
The Marshal car, a 1951 Ford,
was termed a total loss and dam
age to Willis’s car, a 1956 Dodge,
was estimated at $50.
Police charged Willis with failing
to yield the right-of-way and Ruth
Marshal with speeding. Neither
driver was injured.
Negro Farm Bureau
Members Meet Tonight
The County Negro Farm Bureau
will meet at 7 tonight tor a bar
becue supper at the Queen Street
school cafeteria.
R. E. Jones, state agricultural
agent, and1 A. W. Solomon, field
representative with the Farm Bu
reau, will speak.
Members in the county organi
zation number about 25.
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Jan. 24
2:25 a.m.
2:46 p.m.
8:56 a.m.
9:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25
3:22 a.m.
3:46 p.m.
9:56 a.m.
10:09 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 26
4:20 a.m.
4:46 p.m.
10:?0 a.m.
11:00 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 27
5:16 a.m.
6:42 p.m.
11:40 a.m.
11:46 p.m.
South Carolina
Escapees Taken
Here Saturday
• Two 19-Year-Olds
Found in Morehead
• Youths Admit Car
Stealing, Thefts
Morehead City police Saturday
night arrested two youthful escap
ees from a South Carolina chain
gang. Captured here hnd turned
over to the FBI Sunday were Rob
ert Andrew Prewitt and Kenneth
Wayne Simpson, both 19, of Ander
son, S. C.
The Morehead City police depart
ment received a call Saturday aft
ernoon from the Jacksonville po
lice department to be on the look
out for two boys in a 1959 Chevro
let with a South Carolina license
plate. The pair had aroused su
spicion in Jacksonville when they
tried to trade a carton of cigar
ettes for some gas at a filling sta
tion there.
Capt. C. E. Bunch and patrol
man Buck Newsome of the More
head City police department, in
making a routine patrol Saturday
evening spotted the car at the in
tersection of highways 24 and 70.
They followed the car into town to
the intersection of 28th and Aren
dell where they stopped it and ar
rested the two youths.
The boys, who offered no resist
ance, were taken to the police de
partment where they admitted, aft
er four hours of questioning, that
they had escaped from a chain
gang in South Carolina. They ad
mitted burning down an abandon
ed house there, to escape blood
hounds, stealing a car and break
ing into several places before com
ing to North Carolina.
Prewitt told officers here that he
was serving time for breaking and
entering and safe cracking and
Simpson said that he had been
placed on the chain gang for vio
lation of parole. Both will now
stand trial now for transporting a
stolen vehicle across a state line,
a federal offense.
They were returned to Jackson
ville Sunday by the FBI.
Supreme Court
Upholds Laws
The state supreme court has up
held laws allowing a town to annex
suburban areas by ordinance, as
long as the town can provide in new
areas the same services being of
fered town residents before expan
sion.
The ruling was made Friday in
a case appealed to the state's high
est court by citizens recently an
nexed by Raleigh.
Under this law, Beaufort annex
ed more than a year ago territory
on its eastern and northern boun
daries but was refrained from
carrying out the annexation by a
court order.
Although no official announce
ment has been made, it is assumed
that the town has dropped this ef
fort to annex. Town expansion is
being planned on the basis of laws
in effect prior to the “annexation
by ordinance” law passed in 1959;
Newport Burglar Draws
40-Year Term at New Bern
Larry K. (Buck) Smith, 23, New
port, was sentenced to 40 years in
prison Thursday at New Bern for
a series of armed robberies at
Havelock and New Bern last year.
Marvin E .Thomas, 18, Have
lock, an accomplice, was given 10
years for one robbery and five for
another, but the sentences wiil run
concurrently, so if he serves his
full sentence, it will be 10 years.
Two other youths, Ira Alfred and
Freddie Russell, both of Havelock,
were also involved in the crimes.
Alfred is to be tried at a later
term of court, but Russell has dis
appeared.
All efforts to find him have fail
ed. He disappeared Monday, Nov.
7, when he reportedly left home to
go on a hunting trip. Officers
learned that he had been threaten
ed by the other three when he said
that he was going to tell about the
crimes.
They believe that Russell was
killed to keep him from talking.
Solicitor Robert Rouse, in court
Thursday, called Smith 'a “prime
suspect” in the mysterious disap
pearance of Russell.
Woods around the Havelock area
have been combed by. officers and
hundreds of Marines in an effort
to locate his body or sonte trace of
him. Carteret law enforcement of
ficers as well as Marine investi
gators were active in the search
prior to Christmas.
Robbed by Smith and Russell
were King Wholesale Co., New
R. M. Williams, county agricul
tural agent, and David Warrick,
assistant agent, will attend the Six
County Agents’ meeting tomorrow
at New Born.
County Shi vers asMercu ry
Drops to 1961 Low of 18
Highway Officials Hear
Road Requests Thursday
mayor n. h. rower, ueautort,
asked state highway officials
Thursday at a hearing in the Beau
fort town hall to
1. Connect the south side of high
way 70 with Moore street
2. Pave the road from highway
101 to the Beaufort-Morehoad air
port
3. Install -oillways under the
Beaufort-Morehead causeway to
keep storm tides from Hooding the
causeway and the railroad bed
Relative to the airport road,. C.
W. Snell, division engineer, said
the road is on the system and it
will be considered for paving. The
causeway proposal would be turn
ed over to the commission’s hydro
graphic engineer, Mr. Snell said.
Raymond Bail, llarlowe, also
commented on the causeway’s be
ing flooded.
Odell Merrill, Beaufort, clerk to
the county board, told highway of
ficials that Carteret’s secondary
roads are being ignored. He said
appropriations for this county are
small, there is little being done,
and “all we’re getting are priori
ties.”
He said roads are given priority
for paving, but these priorities are
revalued every two years, there
fore if the people are told that their
road is going to be paved, two
years later the priority on it may
change and it's taken off the list
for paving.
Mr. Snell said that Carteret has
the highest percentage of paved
roads in proportion to population
than any county in the second dis
trict and more is spent on main
tenance in Carteret than in any
county in his district.
Clarence Guthrie, Marion Noe,
Bill Smith and John Willis, Glen
dale Park, appeared to inquire as
to paving of the road on which
they live.
C. Y. Griffin, district engineer,
said, the Toad should be added to
the county system. He added that
an effort would be made to improve
the drainage.
Mr. Snell pointed out that it is
much more costly to maintain a
paved road than an unpaved road.
Ralph Morris, New Bern, state
highway commissioner, was pres
ent. He was thanked for his ef
forts in getting the state to oper
ate the ferry between Ocracoke
and Atlantic.
Present, in addition to those men
tioned, were Harold Mallard, Hor
ace Haddock and Nelson Banks,
commissioners of Jones county;
Thelma Exum, secretary to Mr.
Snell; Mr. Patrick, district engi
neer for Pitt and Beaufort coun
ties; Hebcr Gray, district engi
neer for Lenoir, Jobes and Greene
counties.
Ray Franks, assistant to Mr.
Snell; Carl Dixon, from the New
Bern highway office; John L.
Humphrey, county road superin
tendent, and Harrell Taylor, Car
teret county commissioner.
Bern, and Havelock elementary
school. Smith pleaded guilty to
two break-ins at Pollard's drug
store; Sears, Roebuck, A&EC rail
way and Railway Express offices,
all at Havelock.
Thomas testified that Smith en
gineered the robbery at King
Wholesale in January when they
held up two of the employees. De
spite the handkerchief mask worn
by the boys, one of the employees
was able to identify Smith, which
led to the solving of the crime.
Mayor Dill
Tells of 'Fun'
In Washington
George W. Dill, Morehead City
mayor, one of the recent returnees
from Washington’s Big Weekend,
said nobody talked about anything
but the weather.
“The snow snafued everything!”
the mayor reported.
“I have seen banquets slightly
awry, but nothing as offbase and
timing as bad or as disconcerting
as the inaugural. It was too big.
Nothing worked right,” he declar
ed.
It had snowed the night before
the inauguration and parade Fri
day. Pennsylvania Avenue, route
of the parade, was the only thing
cleared. Traffic was one inde
scribable snarl. Yellow Cab
wouldn't even answer its phone
Friday morning, the mayor report
ed.
The temperature was about 20.
The mayor said if it hadn’t been
; so cold, he wouldn’t have seen any
of the ceremony because the crowd
would have been considerably larg
er than it was.
“1 was prepared for the wea
ther, but a lot of people weren’t,”
mayor Dill said. He took his hunt
ing underwear, overcoat he bought
in New York years ago and over
shoes.
He flew to Washington Thurs
day and attended the reception
given by the North Carolina Dem
ocratic Club of Washington that
night in the new House office build
ing. Secretary of commerce Lu
ther Hodge^ was present, as well
'governor of North Carolina,
Terry Sanford, and the following
from this county:
Sheriff and Mrs. Hugh Salter,
Mr. and Mrs. George Huntley Jr.,
of Beaufort; Mr. and Mrs. Garland
Scruggs, Morehead City; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Harris Jr., Marshall
berg; and Mr. and Mrs. David Yeo
mans, Barkers Island.
The mayor said his main interest
was to attend the inaugural break
fast Friday morning at the Shore
ham hotel, which he did. His plane
for the return home left at 6:10
p.m. Friday—on time—despite the
snow.
Reminded that he won’t have to
go to another inaugural for four
years, he declared, “This is it. I’ve
been.”
Reader Expresses Opinion of TV
Broadcast Liberally Dosed with Soap
Almost everybody, except those
who have to work for a living and
maybe a few Republicans, were in
front of the tv Friday to view the
inauguration ceremony and parade.
A reader, Mrs. Arthur Stone,
Morehead City, watched, too, and
was moved to make the following
comment:
Over tv I watched—and listened
—to the inauguration ceremonies
for our new President, and to part
of the parade which followed.
The installation of any President
of our United States is a historic
event; and should be a dignified
and even sacred event. Within cer
tain limits, part of the tv presen
tation made it seem so. The team
>of announcers made it factual and
• Carteret shivered over the weekend under the first con
tinuous cold spell of the new year. Furnaces and heaters
were going full blast and firemen throughout the county
issued words of caution, “Be careful of fire!”
The temperature got down as low as 18 Saturday, ac
cording to E. Stamey Davis, Morehead City, official
weatner observer, me early morn-'
ing Sunday temperature may have
been even lower, but that 24-hour
reading is not taken until 5 p.m.
Monday.
This was the second cold spell of
the winter. The mercury went
down to 18 on Dec. 14. A 19-de
gree temperature followed a four
hour snowfall in the county Mon
day night, Dec. 12.
The first sub-freezing tempera
ture this winter was 29, recorded
Dec. 2.
A real cold snap arrived about
this same time in January last
year. On Saturday, Jan. 23, 1960
the temperature dropped to 21. For
five days, from Jan. 20 through
Jan. 24, the night-time readings
were below freezing. Snow flurries
i were seen Jan. 24 and Jan. 25.
R. M. Williams, county agricul
tural agent, said yesterday that he
doubted if the weather would seri
ously affect any crops. Cabbage is
the only thing in the field and al
though tobacco plant beds are seed
ed, seeds have not begun to ger
minate.
Temperature readings and wind
directions from Jan. 10 through
Saturday, Jan. 21, follow:
Max.
Jan. 10 46
Jan. 11 57
Jan. 12 58
Jan. 13 67
Jan. 14 63
Jan. 15 58
Jan. 16 55
Jan. 17 53
Jan. 18 58
Jan. 19. 57
Jan. 20 . 57
Jan. 21. 48
Min. Wind
27 Calm
31 SW
38 ENE
40 E
56 Calm
49 WSW
49 SW
39 SW
39 SW
38 Cloudy
32 WNW
18 WNW
Rain and high winds hit here
Thursday night. Slightly more than
a quarter of an inch of rain fell.
Farther north, the precipitation
was snow.
Almost half an inch of rain fell
Saturday, Jan. 14, between 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m.
Six Newport Residents
Attend Kinston Banquet
Six Newport residents attended
the annual East Carolina Council
Boy Scout banquet Friday night
at Kinston.
They were Mr. and Mrs. Ashton
Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Can
non and Mayor and Mrs. Leon
Mann. Mr. Willis is chairman of
the post committee of the Holly
Springs Baptist church. Mr. Can
non is advisor of Explorer Post
No. 61.
Elected president of the East
Carolina council for the coming
year was Ralph Morris, New Bern.
most interesting, but not over sen
sational-even in the case of the
fire under the lectern, which must,
for a brief time have had the FBI
in jitters.
But when after the ceremony,
during the stirring march of our
National troops and colors, the
broadcast was interrupted, time
without end, by the appearance on
the screen of an attractive and vi
vacious young lady, ecstatic over
the marvels of several varieties of
SOAP, I left the tv, and turned to
washing my luncheon dishes . . .
with troubling thoughts about the
value of some parts.of that inpug
ural broadcast.
I have no quarrel with the young
lady. She was just doing—rather
Pupils Watch Inauguration
*. S'
Almost every place where space could be found, school children were fathered Friday In front of tv’s
» »ch the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy. This is a fourth grade of Camp Glenn school in the lobby
Butt Dixon’s motel. In the background is their teacher, Mrs. Mamie Swain, Beaufort
r
PTA Council
Asks Committee
To Draft Bill
The legislative committee of the
County PTA council, meeting at
Smyrna school Thursday night,
was requested to draft a proposed
bill which would provide for elec
tion of members to the county
board of education.
The county board administers
school affairs on the county level.
It is responsible for appointing
members to the “school commit
tees” or local school boards that
direct operation of the separate
schools.
At present, positions on the coun
ty board are filled by appointment.
According to law these appoint
ments are supposed to originate
in convention of the political party
in power, then passed for verifica
tion to the legislature for approval.
This procedure has not been fol
lowed in Carteret in recent years.
As the legislature is about to con
vene, somebody suddenly remem
bers that some appointments have
to be made to the county board of
education and a couple of the par
ty leaders get together and decide
who they shall be. County board
of education members' terms are
staggered, therefore the entire
b^>ard is not replaced every two
years.
A nominating committee was
named by the acting president,
Mrs. L. J. Klein. Members are
Maj. Adam Metz, Beaufort, chair
man; Leslie Bercegeay, Newport,
I and J. C. Davis, Smyrna.
1 -Officers will be elected at the
February meeting.
By-laws were discussed and
adopted. The third Thursday of
each month in the school year was
set as the meeting date. All meet
ings will be at Smyrna, since it is
equi-distant, Mrs. Klein said, be
tween schools in the west and east
ern extreme of the county.
Meeting time will be 8 p.m.
Banks Merge
Raleigh — The State Banking
commission Wednesday unanimous
ly approved the proposed merger
plans of the American Bank,
Goldsboro, with First-Citizens Bank
and Trust Co.
charmingly—a job she was paid
to do. We have all come to accept
incessant advertising as a perqui
site of those firms which sponsor
most of our tv entertainment: soap,
razors, cigarettes—and what not?
Even those which are excruciat
ingly repetitious.
But since this occasion was a na
tional event, which would be re
ported world-wide, it seemed to me
that, for once, the sponsors might
have moderated their commercial
transports within more dignified
limits.
However, except for the prelim
inary swearing in of the President
and vice-president—and for Presi
dent Kennedy’s inspiring speech—
the broadcast left the United States
of America wide open to the jeers
of our enemies—and even of some
of our supposed friends—as a peo
ple obsessed with commercialism
rather than honestly concerned
with national dignity, integrity,
and responsibilty.
I found myself wondering if some
others of the tv audience might not
react as I did.
The President of the United
States rates in prestige at least as
high as any old-world ruler. And
does any one recall the coronation
of Elizabeth the Second of Great
Britain as having been interrupt
ed by commercials?
Bridge Repair Goes On;
Span Opens Sometimes
The story on the Beaufort bridge
is still the same.
Repairs are under way — and
sometimes the bridge is open dur
ing the day and sometimes it’s not.
The word from the highway com
mission office is “Look for the
signs on approaches to the bridge.”
If they’re turned so that they can’t
be read by motorists, the bridge
is open.
E
. Ma