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THE NEWS-TIMES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
50th YEAR, NO. 10.
TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
The Month of Hearts
These Sweethearts are usually on parade — in front of the Morehead City high school band. But
this month, in their red and white winter uniforms, they make an attractive Valentine. Starting with
Lorraine Hatcher, head majorette, top, and reading clockwise, around the heart, are Mattie Phillips,
Judy Carlton, Peggy Willis, Beth Mayo, Linda Mitchell, Diane Willis, Kay Canipe, Nancy Nelson.
Legislator Previews Coming
Session Which Opens Feb. 8
4
John Wilkinson
Will Address
Republicans
John A. Wilkinson, Republican
attorney from Washington, N. C.,
will be the speaker at the Lincoln
Day dinner at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Feb. 11, at the Biltmore hotel,
Morehead City.
Mr. Wilkinson, noted speaker in
eastern Carolina, . was an active
campaigner on tv in the fall and
was the guest speaker at the Re
publican rally in the Morehead City
school auditorium in October.
E. D. Willis, president of Car
teret county’s newly-organized Re
publican club, said tickets for the
affair are going fast and the num
ber is limited. Price is $2.50 per
person. Tickets will not be avail
able at the door.
Tickets are available from the
following: James Howland, A. B.
(Tom) Garner, Howard Cagle, Neal
Cagle, A. W. Murdoch, Gerald Mur
doch.
James Piner, I. D. Gillikin, Clin
ton Piner, Manly Murphy, Wesley
Willis, Gordon Day, Jessie Piner,
M. E. Richardson.
Kenneth Wagner, Elbert Lee
Davis, Osborne Davis, Cliff Tilgh
man and E. D. Willis.
New Marine
Class to Start
The Marine Vocational depart
ment of the Morehead City high
school announces the beginning of
a new evening class Friday, Feb,
10. This class will consist of two
, parts:
• Design and Construction of
Small Boats will be taught by Capt.
Jim Mitchell of the Morehead City
faculty.
• The Fundamentals of Basic
Mathematics will be taught by
Charles Davis of the Morehead City
faculty.
Approximately one-half of the
time will be spent in each division
of the work at each class meeting.
The course will include instruction
in blueprint reading, mechanical
drawing, actual construction of
small craft, and the study of math
ematics fundamentals up to and
including plane geometry.
This course, like the one already
under way at the Morehead City
Evening school is designed for
adults who wish to upgrade their
trade skills. Any person 16 or over
may enroll. There is no tuition
charged, the only cost being for
materials which the student will
use himself.
The first meeting of the class
will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 in the
high school building. Any one in
terested in taking the course may
enroll at that time, or before, then
by contacting Captain Mitchell at
PA6-4692 after school hours or by
calling the school office, PA6-3220,
* during the day.
► The legislature opens Wednesday,
Feb. 8.
In spite of predictions that this
session may see reapportionment
of the ffouse and redistricting of
the Senate, representative D. G.
Bell, of Carteret, has his doubts.
The state constitution requires
that House and Senate seats be re
allocated after each federal census,
but the last reallocation was in
1941.
The counties with big population
want it. The little counties don’t.
Why? If the rearrangement were
made, balance of power would be
in the hands of the large Piedmont
counties. Sen. Lindsey Warren of
Beaufort county, who has ■ spoken
against reallocation of general as
sembly seats, declares: “North
Carolina will never tolerate urban
domination.”
The state’s legislative set-up is
not like the federal. In Washing
ton, the number of senators re
mains the same, two from each
state, and representation in the
House is readjusted according to
population. But not in North Car
olina. The constitution calls for
reapportionment in BOTH houses
on the basis Of population.
Mr. Bell said if there is realloca
tion this session, some plan, other
than those proposed in the past,
will have to be devised. “I’m in
favor of it,” he remarked, “as long
as representation is based on pop
ulation in one house, but not both.”
The Piedmont people say, “A
pine tree in eastern North Carolina
has more representation in the
legislature than a citizen in the
Piedmont.”
But North Carolina is not alone
in this situation. In New Yortc
City, according to the National In
stitute of Law Officers, eight mil
lion elect 90 members to the state
assembly while seven million up
staters elect 118.
What’s the outlook on taxes? Mr.
Bell believes there will again be
attempts to - levy taxes on cigar
ettes, soft drinks, beer and whis.
key. “But I feel they are rpecial
taxes and unfair. Why single out
one thing and tax that?” he asked.
He believes that there may have
to be a tax increase somewhere,
but adds that in his opinion taxes
are high enough now.
Mosquito control funds are ex
pected to be made available on the
same basis as in the past. It also
looks as though two bond issues
will be put before the people, for
schools and ports.
Although the motorboat safety
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Feb. 3
9:47 a.m. 3:48 a.m.
10:19 p.m. 4:17 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 4
10:17 a.m. 4;17 a.m.
10:51 p.m. 4:42 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 5
10:50 a.m. 4:44 a.m.
11:26 p.m. 5:06 p.m.
Monday, Feb. •
11:32 a.m. 5:17 a.m.
_ 5:36 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 7
12:08 a.m. 6:01 a.m.
12:20 p.m. 6:18 p.m.
act is not yielding as much revenue
as had been anticipated, Mr. Bell
sees no concerted effort to make
any change. In his opinion, how
ever, it’s being handled by the
wrong agency, the Wildlife Re
sources commission.
He believes that some day it will
be handled by an agency exclusive
ly created to do just that.
Mr. Bell returns to the legisla
ture this year to serve his fourth
consecutive term.
Jenny Gamer
Among Top Ten
Miss Jenny Lynn Garner, a New
port senior, has been notified that
she is one of the top ten contes
tants in North Carolina in the Bet
ty Crocker Search for the Ameri
can Homemaker of Tomorrow.
In December, Miss Garner took
the 7th annual Betty Crocker ex
amination, along with 402,786 sen
ior girls throughout the United
States.
In each state, the girl ranking
highest will be awarded a $1,500
scholarship and an educational
tour in April 1961, to New York,
Washington, D. C., and Williams
burg, Va., and will be eligible for
Jenny Lynn Garner
. . . contends for award
selection to one of the top four na
tional awards, scholarships of
$5,000, $4,000, $3,000, and $2,000.
The girl ranking second in each
state will be awarded a $500 schol
arship.
Announcement of the state win
ner will be made in March.
Miss Garner, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas R. Garner, is
tentatively planning to attend High
Point college next year. Her home
economics teacher at Newport
school is Mrs. Harry Mizelie. Her
mother is county home economics
agent.
License Returned
Franklin Pittman, Beaufort, has
received notification of the rein
statement of his driving privileges
by the North Carolina Department
i of Motor Vehicles.
Ferry Decision Flashes Go-Ahead
For High-Gear Promotion Coast
Jaycees Give Service
Award to Dr. Woodard
Dr. Warden L. Woodard, Beau
fort dentist, was honored at the
Jaycee awards banquet Monday
night as the recipient of the club’s
1960 community service award.
Grayden Paul, winner of the award
last year, made the presentation
to Dr. Woodard.
Dr. Woodard was cited for his
long record of active civic club
work and his efforts towards the
betterment of the community. An
advocate of reforming a chamber
of commerce in Beaufort, Dr.
Woodard has served as a one-man
chamber since the closing several
years ago of the Beaufort chamber
of commerce.
Other awards presented at the
banquet, held in the Scout building,
included four club awards to out
standing members. George Mur
ray Thomas, past president of the
club, received the key man award
for the second consecutive year.
Mr. Thomas was instrumental in
building the membership strength
of the Jaycees back to its present
15 after the club had dwindled to
four members last fall. William
Craft, state vice-president, present
ed the award to Mr. Thomas.
National director John Kennedy
presented the awards for the out
standing committee chairman and
the outstanding new member to
Billy Ipock and Billy Hardy re
spectively.
Guy Smith Jr. was voted winner
of the sparkplug award this year.
He received his certificate frqm
Mr. Craft.
The Carteret County News-Times
and radio stations WMBL and
WBMA received certificates of
meritorious service from Jaycee
president Clyde Owens.
Guest speakers included Beau
fort mayor Vi. ft. (Piggie) Potter,
and Dr. Woodard. Mayor Potter
urged Jaycees to “ignite the spark
of desire and determination” with
in themselves and their neighbors
and work diligently toward making
Beaufort a better place. He listed
a 20-point program of community
improvements for members to con
sider.
Dr. Woodard spoke on his plans
for re-forming a Beaufort chamber
of commerce and told amusing
stories of how past community
projects were accomplished despite
major obstacles.
Barges Block
Island Channel
The entrance channel to Silver
Lake harbor at Ocracoke will be
closed today through Sunday dur
ing the following hours: 8 a.m. to
4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 4 a.m.
.During those hours, barges will
be working in the entrance channel,
raising the sunken dredge, Friend
ship.
The channel will be OPEN from
4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 4 a.m. to 8
a.m. The announcement comes
from the Army engineers’ office,
Wilmington.
The dredge is owned by the
Hodges Dredging Co., New Bern.
She sank for some unknown rea
son Jan. 2 while moored at Ocra
coke for repairs. Its owner tried
to raise it without success. The
job has been turned over to Bar
bour Boat Works, New Bern.
The Friendship had completed
maintenance dredging in the chan
nel, has more to do opposite Ocra
coke inlet and then will move to
Hatteras for maintenance dredging
there, according to Army engi
neers.
Cedar Point Club to Meet; Plans
Started for Community Building
White Oak township civic leaders,
united under the Cedar Point Com
munity club, will meet Monday
night at 7:30 at the Pelletier com
munity building.
The project for 1961 is the con
struction of a community building
to serve the people of White Oak
township as a place for social ac
tivities such as meetings, adult and
juvenile recreation, and entertain
ment.
Newly-elected officers of the
club are Elmo Smith and Milton
Truckner, vice-presidents. Re-elect
ed were Douglas Ingram, presi
dent; Ben Licko, treasurer and
Mrs. Ruby Sutton, secretary.
At the January meeting, Hugh
Morris, representing the eastern
most community in White Oak
township, pledged support of that
group to township-wide con solids
Grayden Paul, left, presents community service award to Dr.
W. L. Woodard.
87 Enroll Monday Night
For Course in Boating
Instructors in the small boatt
course, which started Monday
night at Morehead City, were over
whelmed by the number that show
ed up to enroll. Eighty-seven reg
istered.
Student booklets were distributed
and .a, .hrief h^toejs »«f US Power
Sqtkdrons, sponsor of the course,
was given. A preview of the 12
week course was given.
Because of the tremendous turn
out, Henry Phillips, instructor,
says the coming Monday night
class will probably be held in the
school cafeteria.
Each student is expected to hand
in a homework assignment weekly.
The course will end with a test.
The first lecture will be this com
ing Monday night. Persons who
did not enroll this week may do so
at Monday’s session.
The Cape Lookout Power Squad
ron, a unit of US Power Squadrons,
is conducting the course. The
squadron is commanded by Maj.
Donald I. McKamy, Cherry Point.
Instructors assisting Mr. Phillips
will be W. J. I pock Jr., Bill Mc
Donald, Chuck Ackerley, James C.
Lombard, and Robert E. Harris.
The following have registered for
the course:
Clarence E. Styron, Charles An
derson Bell, Gunhildc Gunncrsen,
Viola C. McDonald, Frederick E.
Smith, Clyde Burkett Simmons,
Attrice Clarine Lewis.
Elizabeth Lambeth, Vicky Mc
Cuiston, Gerald Vernon Troyer Jr.,
Samuel Hodges, Charles W. Mer
rill, Richard Warren, Edward Stan
ley Lewis.
Ralph W. Leister, John Maxwell
Cline, Hubert Evans King, George
Stovall, Howard Meshin, Raymond
C. Ball, Dorman Z. Couch.
Michael Wieczeryak, William C.
Thomas, Edwin T. Culbreth,-Ger
ald N. Wade, Harry C. Hall, Jo
seph Hall, Paul E. Killfeather.
C. Edward Paden, Edwin H.
Green, Elizabeth C. Arendcli,
Francis M. Jones, Duffy Guthrie,
Carl A. Hatsell, C. Delamer Jones.
Ethel A. Guthrie, Thomas A.
Talarinowicz, Harry Shadle, Harry
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tion of civic endeavor that the Ce-<
dar Point club is promoting.
Response to Dr. L. J. DuPree's
motion to build a community build
ing was enthusiastic. Donations
have been promised for its con
struction.
Envisioned by its planners is a
structure adequate in size and com
plete with facilities that will make
it a credit to west Carteret.
Funds for erection of the build
ing will be raised by donations.
“All interested persons who can
see what benefits can be had by
giving the young people of our com
munity a wholesome place for rec
reation, and the adults a suitable
place for social gatherings, are
asked to support the construction
of this building by their contribu
tions of money, materials and ef
fort," Mr. Ingram says.
Groundhog Says
Winter's End Soon
The groundhog didn’t see his
shadow in this county yesterday
and he didn't see it in many oth
er places along the eastern sea
board either.
Yesterday dawned gray, with a
biting cold wind blowing briskly
from the northeast.
If the groundhog had seen his
shadow, the superstitious would
have said “six more weeks of
winter.’’ Mr. Groundhog saw
his shadow last year and we had
six weeks of real winter after
wards. March was a snowy
month, with the storms preceded
by cold days, rains and high
wind.
Beaufort Rotary Hears
Program on Migrants
Members of the Beaufort Rotary
club were shown color slides Tues
day night on the migrant farm la
bor program by county farm agent
R. M. Williams. Mr. Williams ex
plained what the migrant program
meant to the economy of the coun
ty and expressed a need for help
on the local level for the migrant
laborers.
Visiting Rotarians at the meet
ing were Bud Dixon, Fred Lewis,
Jack Roberts, Frank Cassiano and
Albert Gaskill, Morehead City.
Waterways Committee
Meets Yesterday Noon
The waterways committee of the
chamber of commerce met yester
day noon at the Sanitary restau
rant, Morehead City, to plan a
meeting in Morehead City Monday,
Feb. 13.
Attending that meeting will be
officials of the state water re
sources commission and Army en
gineers. Chairman of the cham
ber waterways committee is W. H.
Potter, Beaufort.
Police Check Robbery,
Arrest Beaufort Woman
Beaufort police are continuing
their investigation of a robbery at
Hodie Bailey’s grocery store Thurs
day night. The store, located in the
600 block of Pine St., was entered
sometime between midnight and
12:30 a.m., according to Guy Sprin
gle, police chief.
Missing from the store are cig
arettes, chewing gum, a cigarette
lighter, a .38 pistol and a .22 pistol.
Bernice Anderson was arrested
Monday and charged with aiding
and abetting and receiving stolen
goods, the chief reports, but her
arrest was not connected with the
Bailey robbery. The Anderson wo
man was released on $100 bond.
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Since the State Highway commission decided Tuesday
to buy the ferry, Sea Level, the All Seashore Highway
association is proceeding with plans to publish a brochure.
The brochure will advertise places to see, where to stay
and where to dine along the Carolina coast.
J. A. DuBois, secretary of the association, said plans for
the brochure will be made at a"
meeting of the highway association
Feb. 17 at Wrightsvillc Beach.
The highway commission will
purchase the Ocracoke-Atlantic fer
ry and docking facilities for $287,
500, which is $37,500 less than the
price considered at the Dec. 7 high
way commission meeting. At that
meeting the commission1 turned
down the deal.
The state hopes to get the ferry
in operation May 1 from its present
dock at Atlantic. But by July 1 it
hopes to have the new docking
point ready at Cedar Island beach.
Tolls will be charged.
Mr. DuBois says that the run
from Atlantic to Ocracoke is slight
ly more than 30 miles away, while
| it is only 18 miles one way from
Cedar Island. This change will cut
I the travel time one-way from four
j to two-and-a-half hours and make it
j possible for the ferry to make two
I runs a day instead of one, accord
j ing to W. F. Babcock, state high
way director.
At its new landing point, Ihe fer
ry will be at the very eastern
terminus of what local residents
consider highway 70. Highway 70
officially ends at Atlantic, but the
paved road continues to Cedar
Island and ends a short distance
from the proposed landing.
The water depth at the Cedar
Island landing is 17 feet from a
point about 1,200 feet from land to
Wallace channel. It is anticipated
that there will be much less of a
shoaling problem when the new
route is used.
An alternative route from Cedar
Island, suggested by Monroe Gas
kill, an island resident, would put
the landing point at “Daniel’s
basin” which Mr. DuBois describes
as being in Cedar Island bay. The
distance from that point to Ocra
coke is 24 miles and would also
create a channel problem similar
to that now enaptmtered at Atlan
tic, Mr. DuBois commented.
The state estimates that con
struction of harbor facilities at Ce
dar Island beach will cost as much
as $215,000. Mr. Babcock suggests
that the state purchase scrapped
liberty ships to use as a break
water, thus creating a harbor for
the Sea Level.
Mr. DuBois commented that if
and when the ferry operates from
Cedar Island, the amount of tour
ist traffic generated through this
area will be doubled. The Sea Level
can carry 22 cars in one trip and
sometimes more if there arc com
pact cars in the lot.
Before leaving office, Governor
Hodges allocated $375,000 from the
highway surplus fund for acquisi
tion of the ferry. Owners of the
ferry, who put it in operation last
April, are Dan, Alfred, Leslie and
William Taylor, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Maltby Taylor, Sea Level.
Mr. Dan Taylor agreed to the
$287,500 purchase price prior to the
commission's formal action Tues
day. The original asking price was
$325,000.
Toll charges .on the ferry are as
follows: $6.75 for cars, including
the driver, $2.75 for each adult
passenger and $1.25 for each child
under 12. Rates for cars with
trailers start at $10.75.
Little Minister Surpasses
Most Amateur Productions
By ELINORE STONE
Tuesday evening I attended the
performance of Roland Ferrand’s
play, The Little Minister, produc
ed by the Carteret Community
theater and sponsored by the Coun
ty Shrine club.
I was almost reluctant to go; be
cause—some fifty-odd years ago—
I had seen on a Boston stage the
Frohman production of The Little
Joyce Lewis
. . . director
f ——■
Dwane L. Wight
Awaits Trial
In County Jail
A Cherry Point man, Dwane L.
Wight, Monday waived preliminary
hearing in Morehead City's record
er’s court on a larceny charge and
was bound over to superior court
to stand trial.
The defendant was charged with
larceny of an outboard motor be
longing to Rupert Earl Willis of
Morehead City and pawning the
motor to the Boston Loan Co. of
Baltimore for $40. The motor was
valued at $828. Wight failed to
post bond of $1,000 and was trans
ferred to the county jail.
Willie Moses Langley, Green
ville, appealed a one-year jail sen
tence he received following his
conviction on a charge of assault
with a deadly weapon. Langley
was accused of cutting Robert Mills
Jr., Morehead City, with a knife.
Bond for his appearance in super
ior court was set at $1,000.
Julian Wade, Morehead City, con
victed of his third public drunken
ness offense within a 12-month pe
riod, also appealed a one-year jail
sentence. Wade’s bond was set at
$250.
Nine defendants appeared in
court to answer overtime parking
charges. Each was fined $2 and
one-third court costs. The nine
were L. T. White Jr., Raleigh; S.
N. Taylor, New Bern; W. H. Ervin,
Durham; P. J. Messer, Nashville;
M. T. Edgerton, Durham; P. F.
Cable, Raleigh.
1 P. J. BurkeyAshdlipro; J. S. Har
ris, Kinston; ana‘'Obie Moore,
Greensboro. A tenth defendant, M.
L. Odom Jr., Fayetteville, was
fined $9.25 and one-third costs.
George Lee Folsom, Morehead
City, requested jury trials on two
charges. The charges included
drunk driving and being drunk and
disorderly. Judge Herbert O. Phil
lips transferred the two cases to
the next term of superior court and
set bond for the defendant at $150.
Seven speeding cases were heard.
Two of the defendants, William
David Ballou and Louis David
Smith, both of Morehead City, were
not prosecuted. Herbert Jeffry
Sschwartz, Asheboro, failed to ap
pear and forfeited bond.
Ronald Tracy Jordon and John
Alexander Jones, Morehead City,
were ordered to pay $5 and court
costs and John Colin Adam< was
fined $10 and costs. Ruth Marie
Marshall was taxed with costs.
Joseph Hester, Morehead City,
was acquitted on an assault charge
and the court found Charlie An
derson, Morehead City, not guilty
of breaking and entering the home
of Annie Mae Hinson.
Edward Stewart Gibbs, Morehead
City, was charged with assaulting
his wife, Earleane Shepard Gibbs.
She appeared in court, withdrew
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Minister with that unforgettable
Maude Adams as star. I feared
that nostalgic memories might in
terfere with my enjoyment of our
amateur play. But 1 did go; and
was happy that I did.
For 1 was proud to find that the
performance was one of the best
our home players have put on. The
stage settings, the costuming, and
the acting were much above the
level of most amateur productions.
Under the direction of Mrs. Joyce
Lewis,'the stage business was ex
cellent. The action moved surely
—and with exceptional naturalness.
And the acting had a quality of
honesty and sympathetic response
to the years-old text. Even the
love scenes were so genuinely
touching that even the small boys
in the audience did not snicker.
The cast was as fallows: Jean
McFadden, a new servant girl,
Peggy Holt; Mora McLaren, a
neighbor woman, Jean Holt; Lord
Rintoul, a wealthy landowner,
Thomas Respfess; Rob Dow, a way
ward chap, Donald Jackson; Gavin
Dishart, the Little Minister, Rev.
Robert Wood.
Margaret Dishart, his mother,
Ruth Peeling; Babbie, the gypsy
girl, Susan Bridgman; Dr. Mc
Queen, a physician. Dr. M. T. Lew
is; Sergeant Halliwell, an officer,
Leonard Lewis; Effie, Rob Dow’s
daughter, Carol Willis; and Nanny
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