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50th YEAR, NO. 15.
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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY* 21, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Final Plans
Made for Heart
Fund Campaign
Activities for the final week of
heart month have been announced
by_J4rs>_S^ JL-Jforton^-Community
chairman for Morehead City.
Events planned are a coffee day,
Heart Sunday, a tag day and a
roadblock.
Restaurants will donate to the
heart fund money received from
coffee sales Friday. Those taking
part are Carteret drug store, Jef
f'i’son restaurant, Sanitary rcstu
rant, Mrs. Russell Willis’s restau
rant, Broadway cafe and the Sport
Shop. The Busy Bee restaurant
will give a donation although it
will be closed Friday.
Volunteer workers will make a
house-to-house canvass in More
head City Sunday afternoon seek
ing donations. Persons are asked
to give generously to the following
volunteers:
Mrs. Ray Highsmith, Mrs. Vic
tor Wickizer, Miss Ruth Styron,
Mrs. James Wade, Mrs. Leslie
Long, Mrs. Robert Freeman, Mrs.
Frankie Rice, Mrs. Bill Baugham,
Mrs. Ted Garner, Mrs. Sadie How
land, Miss Joyce Taylor, Mrs. Lela
Chadwick.
Mrs. J. Dewey Willis, Mrs. Clyde
Burr, Mrs. James Macy, Mrs. A.
N. Willis, Mrs. G. C. Cooke, Mrs.
Ed McLawhorn, Mrs. George Phil
lips, Mrs. Mary Boyd, Mrs. Otis
Jones, Mrs. Carl Ball, Mrs. W. C.
Carlton, Mrs. Jewell Smith, Mrs.
I. E. Pittman, Mrs. Leroy K. Guth
rie.
Mrs. Kelly Guthrie, Mrs. Harry
Van Horn, Mrs. E. A. Swann, Mrs.
E. Guthrie Brown, Mrs. James
Piatt, Mrs. Anthony Foley, Mrs.
Betty Merion, Mrs. W. B. Chalk,
Mrs. Carl Gunnersen, Mrs. Charles
Sledge, and Mrs. Travis Credlc.
Conducting the tag day Saturday
will be the Misses Sandra Willis,
Jennifer Guthrie, Peggy Willis,
Linda Brinson, Sara Wade and
Priscilla Wade.
Members of the Moose lodge will
conduct the road block. Time and
place will be announced.
Students Play
In Music Event
Eight Carteret piano students
participated Saturday in the fes
tival at East Carolina college,
Greenville, sponsored by the Na
tional Federation of Music Clubs.
Three of them, Edward Millis,
Newport; Judy Gillikin, Beaufort,
and Anne Marie Lewis, Morchead
City, competed for a $125 scholar
ship which was won by a Wilming
ton entrant.
Edward, who received a superior
rating and came in two points be
hind the winner, played Toccata
by Khachturin and Pageant by La
Montaine.
Both Judy and Edward arc stu
dents of Mrs. J. L. Abernethey Jr.,
New Bern.
Students of Mrs. Marion Mills,
Morchead City, who played in the
festival were Anne Marie Lewis,
Jemma Seitter, Greg Bell, Jackie
Willis, Cecile Patrick and Jean
Davenport. Four of them received
superior ratings (the highest), one
received excellent (next to su
perior) and one very good (next
to excellent).
The students do not compete
against each other, but strive to
attain the highest rating, in judges’
estimation, on their personal per
formance.
City Commissioner
Speaks to Civitans
Bud Dixon, Morehead City town
commissioner, spoke to members
of the Civitan club on the functions
of the street department at their
meeting Friday noon. Mr. Dixon
also discussed the city manager
form of government that has been
suggested for adoption in More
head City.
In club business, two forthcom
ing zone meetings were discussed.
The first will be held March 4 in
Durham and the second will be
March 27 in New Bern.
Attending Friday’s meeting as a
guest was the Rev. Corbin Cooper,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
Morehead City. .
Weekend Rains
Total Over 3 Inches
Rain, which fell Friday and Sat
urday brought the county’s rain
fall total to more than three inches
thus far this month, according to
weather observer Stamey Davis.
A total of .54 inches was record
ed over the weekend by Mr. Dav
is, which makes the monthly total
3.14 inches. On Feb. 3, 1.94 inches
' fell and on Feb. 8, .66 inches.
Temperature ranges and wind
directions for the four-day period
Thursday through Sunday, were as
follows:
High Low Wind
Thursday ..51 43 NE
Friday - 69 40 E
Saturday . 68 56 SW
Sunday __...._...66 56 SW
Bogue Boy Scouts Perform Good Deed
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Boy Scouts at work on mailbox posts along highway 24. (Photos by Frank Langdale).
Tom Sawyer used his whitewash
on a fence, but these Boy Scouts
of Troop No. 446, Bogue, used
theirs on the mail box posts from
Broad Creek bridge along highway
24 to the intersection of highway
58.
Each year the Scouts plan at
least one community cleanup proj
ect. Since the troop was organized
in December 1958, they have had
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Members of troop 446, Bogue, are front row, left to right, Walter D. Trigleth, William Trigleth, Michael
LaCroix, Ricky Stewart. Wade Mann and Ken Dawson; back row, Outdoorsman D. W. Stewart, assistant
Scoutmaster foe Trigleth, Danny Russell, assistant Scoutmaster B. I,. Dawson, Donald Hick ox, |,ipi
Trigieth, senior patrol leader; David Dunn, and Walter Trigleth, route 1 Swansboro, Scoutmaster. Scouts
absent when the picture was taken were Bob Ainsworth and Charles Adams.
Seashore Highway
Elects New Officers
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Feb. 21
12:58 a.m. 7:14 a.m.
1:21p.m. 7:35 p.m.
and Mrs. Wayne Parker of
tic^ Riley is observing the growth
of the 500 slash pine tree seedlings
he transplanted last fall as part
of his 4-H forestry project.
Because of Riley’s interest in
trees and plant life and because
of bis work in the 4-H club, he was
selected to attend 4-H Forestry
camp at Millstone 4-H camp last
August.
Four-H club boys arc encourag
ed to plant pine tree seedlings on
land that is currently growing up
in weeds and unproductive bushes.
Tree seedlings may be set from
now until late March of this year.
Trees planted after March will
have less chance of survival.
David Warrick, assistant agricul
tural agent, asks clttb members
who have received application
forms for free pine seedlings to
please fill them out and return
Ujem to the farm agent's office,
Beaufort, immediately.
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Tides at the Beaufort Bar
three community projects. Five
hundred cedar seedlings were
planted the first year. More than
100 of them were planted in and
around the community cemetery
at Bogue.
The remaining seedlings were
planted along highway 24. In 1959
they completed a six-mile cleanup
along the highway. This consisted
of picking up any type of trash that
did not belong along the highway.
► Three Morehcad City residents
were elected to office in the Sea
shore Highway association Friday
at Wilmington. J. A. DuBois was
re-elected secretary and J. R. San
ders was re-elected treasurer.
George W. Dill, was elected a
vice-president, representing t h e
second division.
Mrs. Alice Strickland, Carolina
Beach, was elected president, suc
ceeding Norwood Young, Beaufort.
Vice-president, first division, is
Mrs. Theodore Rondthaler, Ocra
coke. Vice-president, third division
is Dan Walker, Long Beach, for
merly of Beaufort.
Approval was given plans for
publication of a brochure listing
places to stay, things to see and
where to eat along the coast.
The association went on record
approving a request that highway
17 be four-laned to connect with
the proposed tunnel under the
Chesapeake Bay. Mrs. Strickland,
Mr. Young and Mr. DuBois repre
sented the association at a high
way 17 meeting Friday afternoon.
Mr. DuBois was also named a
member of a committee to confer
with Gov. Terry Sanford relative
to a ferry across the lower Cape
Fear river.
He was also asked to write for
mer governor Ilodges, governor
Sanford, and the State Highway
Newport Chapter Observes FFA Week
By EVERETTE CLARK
, This is the week that Future
Farmers of America throughout
the nation, 378,000, have designat
ed as National FFA Week, a week
when we rededicate ourselves to
the purposes of our organization,
and do our best to let our friends
and neighbors know what FFA is,
and what it does.
The Newport FFA Chapter has
an enrollment of 52 members. The
officers are Lewis Forrest, presi
dent; Allen Kelly, vi|ce-president;
Joe Parks, secretary; Donnie Ay
cock, treasurer; Gordon Slaugh
ter, sentinel; Everette Clark, re
porter and C. S. Long, advisor. .
Students of vocational agricul
ture are eligible to membership
in the Future Farmers of America
club. Newport’s Chapter has a
100 per cent membership. By par
ticipating in the FFA, they learn
the ways of effective leadership,
and are encouraged to assume
Actually the mailbox post paint
ing was their 1960 project but it
was not completed until Jan. 2,
1961.
Three adults accompanied the
Scouts on this project. They were
Scoutmasters W„ L. Trigirth; as
sistant Scoutmaster B. L. Dawson;
and Ouldoorsman I) L. Stewart.
Troop No. 446 is sponsored by
the Bethlehem Methodist church,
Bogue.
commission a letter of thanks for
reinstating the ferry between Ocra
coke and Carteret and for estab
lishing a new landing site which
will shorten the ferry’s run.
A delegation from the associa
tion plans to appear before the
water resources committees in the
legislature’ to request state funds
sufficient to match federal funds
on the outer banks restoration
projects.
The association also recommend
ed that local mosquito control as
sociations be organized in all coast
al counties.
Attending the meeting from this
area, in addition to those mention
ed, were Mrs. Clayton Fulcher Jr.,
Atlantic; Monroe Gaskill, Cedar
Island, and Ur. John Morris, More
head City.
Port Calendar
Morehead City State Port
Fernbank — Docked yesterday
to load cargo of tobacco for the
Far East.
Niedersachsen — Due Wednes
day to load tobacco for Europe.
Teubingcn — Due Thursday to
pick up tobacco and lumber for
Europe.
Sommelsdyk — Due Feb. 26 to
load tobacco for Europe.
their responsibility as good citizens
in the further development of the
communities in which they live.
The program of vocational agri
culture and FFA is designed to
increase the student’s proficiency
in farming, and thereby his future
success. While not all students
actually become full-time farmers,
most of them find careers in some
phase of agriculture.
Many continue their studies
through agricultural college. Their
experiences in vocational agricul
ture and the FFA serve well to
help them to success. Our agri
cultural colleges each year are
graduating only 7,000 boys for 15,
000 available jobs.
The Newport chapter participates
in federation, district and state con
tests and has won many banners
and plaques. A public speaking
banner was won in December 1960.
The chapter officers will partici
pate in the Federation Parliamcn
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Clerk Probates, Files
Wills of Eight Persons
A. II. James, clerk of court, has
probated eight wills of Carteret
citizens since mid-January. The
wills are those of Abbott Morris,
William Penn Willis, Jennjs By
numt and Matt Nelson, all of Morc
hcad City, David Walker Gwynnc
of Gloucester, William Olsen of
Beaufort, Mamie D. Wade of
Smyrna and E. L. Tolson of New
port.
The Morris will was dated Dec.
21, 1959. In a brief statement Mr.
Morris bequeathed everything he
owned to his wife, Mrs. Frances
Morris. He appointed her admin
istratrix of the estate and said she
is to administer to his children as
she sees fit.
Mrs. lx>ona Gilgo and Bessie
Styron witnessed the Gwynnc will,
dated Oct. 10, I960 It was filed
Jan. 30, 1961. To his wife, Allie
C. Gwynnc, he left one-half of all
his personal property and real
estate and to his daughter, Gen
evieve Gwynnc Styron, was left the
remaining half. A daughter, Anna
Stewart Gwynne, was willed $100.
Mrs. Empie W. Olsen was the j
sole beneficiary of the will of her
husband. William Olsen. George i
T. Bridgcrs and Nell McLaren wit
nessed the will, drawn Aug. 7, [
1957. It was iiled Feb. 4, 1961.
Mrs. Olsen was appointed execu
trix.
Willis drew his will May 18, 1956
and it was filed Feb. 7, 1961. lkie
K. Guthrie and Kenneth E. John
son were witnesses.
The will directed that a grand
son, William C. Miller, be given
the house he occupied at the time
the will was written and gave in
structions for payment of indebted
ness against the house. Miller also
received the Honncrs tract of land,
the homeplace with one acre of
land and all farming implements.
A granddaughter, Carolyn Kay
Mansfield, received a house and
lots nine and ten in Morchcad
Bluffs. Doran P. Kilpatrick, an
other grandson, was willed the
land known as the Old Place and
land known as the Bryant Green
tract, as well as one acre of land
Cubs Display
Handcraft Items
Den mothers of Cub Scouts pack
367 met recently at E. W. Down
um’s store and arranged a window
display of items made by the Cubs
in recent months. There were
Christmas corsages, pin cushions,
wastebaskets, wooden knife, stamp
book, scats and stools and various
types of space equipment.
The den mothers extended their
appreciation to Webbs’, Morchcad
City, for the use of Cub Scout uni
form and to Downum’s for the use
of their windows during the Anni
versary of Scouting.
Cubs of pack 367 and their lead
ers attended services at St. Paul’s
Episcopal church recently. The
Rev. C. Edward Sharp, rector, wel
comed the boys and paid tribute
to the Scouting program.
Accompanying the Cubs were
their den mothers, Cubmaster Ed
Nelson and pack committee chair
man Gerald Talbot.
Car Damaged
Morchead City police report that
considerable damage was done to
an automobile owned by Ed Ogles
by either Saturday night or Sunday
morning when it was struck by a
hit and run driver at 14th and
Evans street. Oglesby’s car was
parked in the street at the time of
the collision.
tary Procedure contest in New
Bern Thursday and also the live
stock judging contest in Dover in
April.
The Newport chapter meets ev
ery first Monday night in each
month. A good program is plan
ned for each meeting, followed by
refreshments. The chapter is
planning to bold their annual Fa
ther and Son Banquet on Tuesday
night, April 11, Chapter Farmer
degrees (2nd degrees) will be
awarded during the banquet and
other yarned awards will also be
issued at that time.
The chapter is striving to meet
all the requirements for a superior
chapter rating this year. The or
ganization has earned this distinc
tion for the past four years.
The Newport FFA members are
planning to have several show
window displays this week in New
port business places. Our organi
zation is by the boys, of the boys,
and for the boys.
west of the house, bounded on the
north by Harrison Willis and on
the south by the railroad.
Melvin Mansfield Jr., another
grandson, received the E. W. Wil
lis farm and dwellings. Mrs. Edna
M. Mansfield, daughter of Mr. Wil
lis, was appointed administratrix
of the estate. She received all cash
remaining after debts against the
Miller house were paid.
'Jennis Bynum willed his estate
to his daughter, Julia Bynum
Spaight of Bethel, and appointed
George 11. McNeill as executor.
Buck Newsome and Mary V. God
win witnessed the will, which was
drawn Dec. 21, 1954. The will was
filed Jan. 20.
The Matt Nelson will, witnessed
by Llewellyn Phillips and Luther
Hamilton Jr., was dated Feb. 29,
1960. All property and cash, ex
cepting the household and kitchen
furniture, was given in trust to
a nephew, J. M. Davis, also nam
ed executor.
Davis, as trustee, was instructed
to make adequate and suitable ar
rangement for care and mainte
nance of Mr. Nelson's wife, Ra
ehel. It was suggested in the will
that this duty might be turned
over to Nelson's sister, Mrs. Abram
Davis, or niece, Mrs. Sara Bow
crs. 11 they be unwilling or unable
See WILLS, Page 2
Mayor Believes State Park
Best Place for Battleship
Concert Draws
Large Crowd
A crowd of nearly 500 heard the
Morehcad City school band Satur
day night in the school auditorium.
Jimmy Terrell, with his cornet
solo, Come Back to Sorrento, drew
the largest applause of the evening.
Also outstanding was the trom
bone solo, The lloly City, by Joe
Bailey. The band, which included
17 pupils from the junior high
school band, furnished accompani
ment for both numbers.
The musicians played welj the
difficult classical numbers in the
first part of the program, but- it
was evident they enjoyed much
more the semi-classical and more
popular tunes that followed.
Ralph Wade, director, comment
ed, “They want to play just the
things they enjoy, but this is also
music education and we can’t by
pass the classical numbers.”
The school majorettes perform
ed during a medley of three num
bers and the program concluded
with Man of the Hour march.
Clyde Burr of the Morehcad City
band association announced that
the band would go to Washington,
D. C., in April to participate in
the Cherry Blossom Festival if
$1,400 can be raised. Donations
toward the trip arc being accepted
now.
Driver Cited
After Accident
William C. Kcllum, Swansboro,
was charged with drunken driving
following an accident at 6:15 p.m.
Friday on highway 24 a half mile
east of Swansboro.
According to J. W. Sykes, investi
gating highway patrolman, a 1954
Ford driven by Kellum pulled from
the right shoulder of the road into
the path of a 1959 Ford station
wagon driven by Gaston L. Par
nell, Stella.
Parnell’s wife, riding with him,
suffered a severe ankle injury.
She was treated at a doctor’s of
fice in Swansboro.
Damage to the station wagon
was estimated at $800 and to Hel
ium’s car about $400.
No Report Yet ,
Deputy sheriff Bobby Bell re
ported yesterday that no report has
been received as yet from-the FfJI
on the cause of the death of Mrs.
Agatha Ballou. Edgar Willis,
Straits, who slashed his throat
when officers came last Monday
to the barn where he and Mrs. Bal
lou were living, was still confided
yesterday to the Morebead City
hospital.
Ground Broken Last Wee*
For $100,000 Motel
Spooner’* Creek Harbor, Inc., which is developing a
multi-million dollar marina and residential area on Bogue
Sound, west of Morehead City, announced today purchase
of 1,442 more feet of adjoining Hogue Sound shore front
age.
According to the corporation officers, Sherman Rock,
chairman of the board, and George Vickroy, president,
Newport Youths
Held for Assault
Scheduled to appear in county
recorder’s court today arc Billy
Hill, Roy Dennis Jr., and Joe How
ard, all of Newport, who arc charg
ed with assaulting George Pea
cock, faculty member and basket
ball coach at Newport school.
According to the sheriff's depart
ment, a fight occurred shortly aft
er midnight Friday when Mr. Pea
cock investigated a disturbance at
the school.
Mr. and Mrs. Peacock live at the
tcacherage across from the school
When Mr. Peacock heard the
school bell being rung, he went
across the street and discovered
the youths. They are in. their
twenties.
After assaulting Mr. Peacock,
the men allegedly tried to run over
him with their automobile.
► Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
returned from Wilmington Friday
of the opinion that Fort Macon
state park is the only ‘‘feasi
ble site” for location of the battle
ship North Carolina.
Mayor Potter and George W. Dill,
mayor of Morehcad City, appeared
before a committee that is investi
gating sites for location of the bat
tleship. The committee has with
held its decision, pending further
study.
The ship is proposed for location
along the coast as a tourist attrac
tion.
Mayor Potter said it “would be
impracticable to locate the vessel
at any other site suggested.” He
proposes that the ship be placed
on the south side of Boguc sound
just west of Fort Macon Coast
Guard station, on Fort Macon state
park property.
Other sites suggested arc Wil
mington, Southport and Carolina
Beach. Wilmington proposed five
sites, Carolina Beach two, and
Southport two.
Battleships arc now obsolete. The
Navy has agreed to give the ship
PTA Makes $379 Thursday
On Womanless Wedding
Profit made on the Womaniess
Wedding at Morehead City school
Thursday night was $379. The
wedding was sponsored by the PTA
and directed by Mrs. Earl Holt.
In spite of many handicaps, in
cluding falling fronts and sprung
garters, the stars struggled through
a portrayal of a shotgun wedding.
Taking part were the following:
Jimmy Wallace, Walter Edwards,
Bobby Bell, Bill Chalk, Lcnwood
Lee, John Edwards, Carl Malpass,
Bud Dixon.
Grover Munden, David Murrill,
the Rev. Charles Kirby, the Rev.
Robert Wood, Robert Freeman,
Tom Cordova, Earl Lewis.
Jack Morgan, Gannon Talbert,
David Willis, Dorn Fcmia, Warren
Beck, Floyd Chadwick, Roma Sty
ron, Shelby Freeman.
Frank Cassiano, Thomas Wade,
Perry Taylor, David Lee, Jasper
Bell, Clyde Burr, Gerald Mitehell,
Bob McLean.
James Ross, Cicero Hardison,
Warren Styron, Troy Morris,
Charles Southard, Clarence Styron,
Berea Rice.
- Ray Cummins, Alfred Cooper,
Dr. Sila Thorne, J. W. Sykes, Dr.
A. F. Chestnut, Thomas Russell,
Dr. William Fahy, George Phil
lips
Lecil Smith, James Eubanks,
Jack Roberts, Bernard Leary, Bill
Munden, Dr. Russell Outlaw, and
Dr. Bert Lewis.
The principal, the director, the
PTA president, Clyde Burr, and
Mrs. Bill Lewis, who assisted in
the production, express their ap
preciation to all who participated.
The script was written by Mrs.
Timm Vickers* Mrs. Holt a swim
kthe Roosevelt heirs of the late Mrs.
Alice Hoffman, were paid $128,000
for the shore front and an 82-acre
area which extends the Spooner’s
Creek property west to the Earle
W. Webb estate.
All of the Spooner’s Creek prop
erty lies between the sound and
highway 24.
Coincidentally, they announced
that 30 boat slips will be ready for
leasing and use on April 1 and I hat
construction of a sound-side motel
was begun last week.
The ground floor of the motel will
contain a restaurant, lounge, nauti
cal, sundry and souvenir store. The
upper story will contain 12 living
quarter units. Cost of the motel
will be approximately $100,000.
The corporation has expended
more than $300,000 in the last 18
months in dredging, bulkheading
land clearing, and road building
Within the next six months the
corporation will expend another
$500,000.
Total construction costs of the
development, not expected to be
completed until 1904, will be ap
proximately $4,500,000.
to North Carolina if the state pays
the quarter million dollars esti
mated as the cost of towing it here
and berthing it. It is now in moth
balls at Bayonne, N. J.
Mayor Hotter said (hat a state
wide plea for funds will probably
be made to bring the battleship to
North Carolina. He suggested that
the ship might lie at a dock at
Boguc Banks until land could bo
built up around it. In his estima
tion, cost of a permanent landlock
ed berth would be at least $50,000.
If the locale selected for the site
is requested to raise funds, he said
he didn’t know how much might be
raised here.
In addition the trip to Wilming
ton, mayor Potter visited in Ral
eigh Thursday where he discussed
state and national fisheries prob
lems with governor Sanford. He
also took to the governor seafood
products from Carteret seafood
dealers.
He said he reassured governor
Sanford of Carteret’s support of
the Democratic party in Carteret
county. The mayor also conferred
with leaders of the Democratic par
ty while in Raleigh.
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Davidia Willis as “she” ap
peared in the womanlcss wed
ding. In real life, “Davidia” is
administrator of the Morehead
City hospital.
ed directorship when Mrs. Vickers
became ill.
Following the wedding, the brid
al party, guests and others attend
ed a cake-cutting at Dorn’s Lunch.
A tiered wedding cake, complete
with bride and groom on the top
most tier, was served. “Hostess”
for the cake-cutting was Dom
Femia, who portrayed the bride.
Grass Fires
A pair of grass fires that did lit
tle or no damage were extinguish
ed Thursday by the Morehead City
fire department. The fires were at
24th and Fisher streets and in a lot
behind the Sanitary Barber shop.