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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Beaufort Offers Sites for Hospital
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The State Highway commission
plans to conduct another hearing
on location of the bridge across
Newport river at Morehead City.
Reliable sources said yesterday
that the State Highway commis
sion would make announcement of
the hearing in the near future. The
decision on a hearing was made
after Army Engineers in Washing
ton, D. C., said that unless there
were intervention from the gov
ernor’s office in Raleigh by this
past weekend, the highway com
mission's plans for the bridge
could be considered approved.
Gov. Terry Sanford did not inter
vene, choosing instead to start
from scratch with another hearing.
At present, the highway commis
sion hopes to put the bridge 60 feet
north of the present railroad
bridge.
Opposition to this plan is express
ed by those who say that the state
port at Morehead City cannot ex
pand if a bridge blocks use of wa
ter areas to the north by ocean-go
ing vessels.
Others oppose the bridge because
it would be a fixed span of only
65-foot clearance.
Merrill Evans, head of the state
highway commission, was on a
tour of the outer banks yesterday
and could not be reached for com
ment on the proposed hearing.
Before a bridge can be built
across a federal waterway (the
Morehead bridge spans the inland
waterway), Army engineers' ap
proval must be given. When op
ponents of the bridge plan failed
to sway the state highway com
mission, they had hoped the Army
engineers’ would disapprove the
plan.
Court Invokes
Suspended Term
In Gray Case
George Wilbert Gray was sen
tenced to one year on the roads
Tuesday in county recorder’s court
for failing to comply with the
terms of a suspended sentence. On
July 12, 1960 Gray was convicted
of careless and reckless driving
and given a year in jail, suspend
ed on payment of $200 and costs
and three years’ good and sober
behavior.
Other court action Tuesday saw
three cases against James Carroll
dismissed. Carroll had been charg
ed on separate warrants with pub
lic drunkenness, being drunk and
disorderly and using profane and
obscene language in public.
Marshall Lewis, charged with
driving drunk and having an ex
pired operator’s license, was sen
tenced to six months in jail sus
, pended on payment of $100 and
costs.
Other defendants, charges and
the findings of the court follow:
Clinton and Viola Sinclair, fail
ing to comply with a former court
order, dismissed.
Henry Fair, using loud and pro
fane language in public, one-half
costs.
Bernice Anderson, aiding and
abetting in receiving stolen goods,
not prosecuted.
Emil Paul Trachuk, having ex
pired license plates, costs.
Lee Wesley Sparks, having no
operator’s license, costs.
Stell Stephens, assault, costs;
public drunkenness, costs.
James Henry Wilson, having no
brakes, costs.
Carlton McCay Lewis, having no
license plates and no liability in
surance, costs.
James Lee Piver, driving on the
wrong side of the road and having
an improper muffler, costs.
Donald Glenn Baldwin, speeding,
$5 and costs.
Willie M. Harkley, issuing a
worthless check, dismissed.
Samuel Lee Johnson, failing to
dim lights, costs.
Clyde Douglas Edwards, speed
ing, costs.
Richard Dennis Hetrick, speed
ing, costs.
Leonard Leo Wheeler, having ex
pired license plates, costs.
Matthew Arlington Nolan, hav
ing expired license plates, costs.
Raymond John Delacqua, having
expired license plates, costs.
Henry Terry Vinson, having im
proper registration and expired li
cense plates, costs.
Paul Herman Gabriel, having ex
pired license plates, one-half costs.
Roy Dalton Russell, speeding,
bond forfeited.
Wayne Eugene Sowers, having
expired license plates, costs.
George W. Gray, issuing a worth
less check, dismissed.
Lillard Willis, manslaughter, ac
quitted.
Roland Lewis—permitting hogs to
root cemetery, dismissed.
Roy Dennis, assault, dismissed.
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Symphony Will
Play in Beaufort
Friday, March 10
The North Carolina Little Sym
phony will give two concerts at the
Beaufort high school Friday, March
10. A children's matinee will' be
at 2 p.m. and an adult concert at
8 p.m.
Guest soloist will be Kenji Ko
bayashi, violinist, who was sched
uled to appear last year but was
unable to do so because of illness.
Under the direction of Benjamin
F. Swalin, the symphony is on its
16th annual tour season, traveling
around the Tar Heel state. It ex
pects to give a total of 80 concerts
this season.
School children will prepare for
the concert for several weeks by
listening to records in the class
room, creative dance expressing
the music they will hear, and mak
ing hand percussion instruments to
be played with the orchestra in the
Percussion Surprise.
Two songs will be learned by the
children to be sung with the sym
phony: Old Joe Clark and All Night,
All Day. Featured work by the
Symphony will be Mozart's Sym
phony In E Flat, No. 39.
Additional selections will be
Dance of the Princesses and other
excerpts from the ballet The Fire
bird by Stravinsky; March of the
Toys by Herbert; Schubert’s The
Bee, Peanut Polka by Farnon; and
Clear Track by Strauss.
Symphony Society membership
cards will be honored at both eve
ning concerts and all other mem
bership concerts this 1961 season.
Pier Operators Plan State
Association Sunday at Beach
Plans were laid Sunday after
noon at Atlantic Beach town hall
to organize an Association of North
Carolina Fishing Pier Operators.
Operators from every county
having piers attended, with the ex
ception of Dare county. Two op
erators there indicated they would
attend but failed to show up.
On the committee to complete
Report Gives Information
On County Rabies Control
One hundred four dogs were
picked up by Woodrow Chadwick,
county humane officer under the
rabies control program undertaken
by the health department during
the latter part of 1960.
According to the 1960 health de
partment report, five examinations
for rabies were made by the state
laboratory at the request of health
authorities in this county. Seven
dogs were quarantined to deter
mine whether they had rabies, and
12 persons were reported bitten
by dogs.
Rabies control is handled under
the division of sanitation, which
also handles the mosquito and rat
control programs.
Covered with space spray to con
trol mosquitoes last year were
204,770 acres, according to the re
port. The inspections made to de
termine adult mosquito count be
fore and after spraying were 2,500.
Premises treated totaled 25,000.
In the program to kill mosquito
larvae, 1,525 samples were collect
ed and classified and 1,215 acres
of pond surface were sprayed with
oil.
Ia the rat control program, 85
Battleship Site Committee
Visits Fort Macon State Park
News-Times Photo by McComb
Making an inspection of the proposed Fort Macon site for the battleship North Carolina yesterday were
mayor George W. Dill, C. S. Adams, engineer; mayor W. II. Potter, Hugh Morton, and Thomas W. Morse.
In the background is the plane in which Mr. Adams, Mr. Morse and Mr. Morton traveled.
A committee to investigate sites
for the battleship North Carolina,
■which the state hopes to obtain for
a permanent shrine, visited Car
teret yesterday.
The committee, composed of
state parks commissioner Thomas
W. Morse; battleship committee
man Hugh Morton and engineer C.
S. Adams, who headed an engi
neering team that placed the bat
tleship Texas in Houston several
years ago, were shown around the
area just west of Fort Macon state
park by Beaufort mayor W. H.
(Piggie) Potter and Morehead City
mayor George W. Dill.
The committee is studying five
different sites that have been pro
posed as permanent locations for
the gigantic 40,000-ton naval vessel.
Besides Carteret, the committee
will investigate two Wilmington
sites on the Cape Fear river and
two sites at Southport.
The committee flew in from Wil
mington yesterday morning in a
organization plans are Raymond
Duke, Atlantic Beach; Bill Robin
son, Kure Beach; Lonnie D. Small,
Holden’s Beach; Odell Williamson,
Ocean Isle; G. V. Barbee Jr., You
pon Beach; C. W. Sneed, Carolina
Beach; Robert L. Church, Surf
City; Earl Thompson, Emerald
Isle; and Charles S. Walters, At
lantic Beach.
pounds of rat bait were used on
garbage dumps.
Water and sewage division: 81
drinking water specimens were ex
amined; 404 new wells approved;
17 new outdoor toilets were con
structed ; 377 new septic tanks were
approved; 775 visits were made to
inspect water suppjy; 664 visits
made to inspect sewage disposal
facilities; 20 swimming pool in
spections were made; 76 com
plaints investigated, and correction
of illegal sanitation practices num
bered 71.
In the sanitary plumbing control
program 407 plumbing permits
were issued; 357 plumbing installa
tions approved, 678 plumbing in
spections made, and 285 water con
nections were made to public wa
ter systems in rural areas.
Inspected by the sanitation offi
cer during the year were retail
raw dairies, restaurants,' cafes,
beer gardens and lunch counters,
meat markets and butcher shops,
school lunch rooms, school budd
ings, hospital kitchens, summer
cpmps, hotels, motels, migrant la
bor camps, boarding homes, trail
ers and trailer parks.
private plane and then were driven
to Fort Macon where they were
shown the proposed site just west
of the state park on the sound side
of Bogue Banks.
“Extreme tide conditions that
might float the battleship, is the
first consideration in selecting a
site,” said Mr. Adams who added
that the battleship Texas has been
afloat twice since it was docked
at Houston. “If you can combat
tides and extreme wind conditions,
you won't have any trouble,” he
said.
Since the North Carolina would
be brought in under high-tide con
ditions and then berthed, Mr. Ad
ams said that it would take a tide
of no more than three or four feet
to float the ship. High winds,
against the battleship’s huge super
structure, could also cause much
concern, he said.
The committee commented favor
ably on accessibility to the loca
tion, adding that the 34-foot chan
At the request of Eric Rodgers,
chairman of the state commercial
fisheries committee, the operators
nominated three to serve on a com
mittee to discuss a three-mile limit
on trawlers operating offshore.
Those three are Mr. Duke of At
lantic Beach, Mr. Robinson of Kure
Beach and Mr. Small of Holden’s
Beach. From those three the fish
eries committee will select two.
They will meet with commercial
fishermen and sports fishermen to
discuss the trawl ban proposal.
The pier operators said Sunday
that banning of trawlers within
three miles of shore was not a
recommendation of sports fisher
men who last year presented a pe
tition to the C&D department.
They said the three-mile limit
“had been injected by an advisory
group” in an effort to kill public
sentiment and support for the help
sports fishermen need. The pier
operators said three miles is “an
unreasonable limit.” They are in
terested, among other things, in
keeping commercial vessels away
from their piers.
Shelby Freeman, Atlantic Beach,
commented on the need for a
strong pier operators’ organization.
The Carteret pier owners were
host to visiting pier operators and
their wives at the Blue Marlin for
a buffet supper.
Present, in addition to those men
tioned, were G. D. Bigford and
Bryan E. Watson, Long Beach
pier, (also Dan Walker from Long
Beach); Marinus Snipes, Triple-S;
Dave Mansfield, Oceanana.
Sylvester Fleming and Charles
Walters, Morehead,pier; Mr. Free
man, Iron Steamer pier; W. B.
McLean, Emerald Isle; J. C. Bane,
Frank Collier, C. W. Snead, all of
Carolina Beach; and E. P. Bartz,
New Topsail pier.
nel leading into the Morehead City
port, the scenic beauty of the site,
and its proximity to historic Fort
Macon park were all in the coun
ty’s favor.
Mr. Adams also told the group
that since being brought to Hous
ton, the Texas had been self-sus
taining. Money made from ad
missions to the battleship arc used
to meet maintenance costs. He
said that more than two million
people, mostly out-of-state visitors,
have gone aboard the Texas in the
last seven years.
The committee left by private
plane from Beaufort-Morehead air
port at 10 yesterday morning after
spending an hour and a half look
ing over the Fort Macon site. No
definite date has been set for se
lecting the site. Legislative action
on obtaining the battleship has
been tabled pending the commit
tee’s recommendations.
Library Has
Report on Aging
Recently received at the county
library is a copy of North Caro
lina’s Older Population: Opportun
ities and Challenges. This report
on aging, prepared by the North
Carolina Governor’s Coordinating
committee, was made to the White
House Conference on Aging, Jan.
9-12, 1961.
It includes the summaries and
recommendations made by state
wide study committees, county
conferences, and the statewide con
ference on aging.
Also available at the library are
three booklets about children with
special needs. They are: The Emo
tionally Disturbed Child, Rehabili
tation of The Physically Disabled,
and The Academically Talented,
These are all edited by Dr. Wil
liam P. Richardson of the UNC
School of Medicine, and are pro
vided through the courtesy of the
North Carolina Health Council.
They are the proceedings of the
fourth, fifth and sixth Annual Con
ferences on Handicapped Children.
Perhaps Tomorrow
Sheriff Hugh Salter continues to
recover from the back operation
he underwent Thursday at Watts
hospital, Durham, and it is expect
ed that he will be able to come
home tomorrow.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Feb. 28
7:03 a.m. 12:55 a.m.
7:29 p.m. 1:26 p.m.
Wednesday, March 1
7:41 a.m. 1:37 a.m.
8:05 p.m. 2:06 p.m.
Thursday, March 2
8:17 a.m. 2:17 a.m.
8:39 p.m. 2:44 p.m.
Friday, March 3
8:49 a.m. 2:53 a.m.
9:11 p.m. 3:18 p.m.
Hinh Wind Inin;
Heavy Rainfall
As Week Ends
Winds of gale force and driving
rain made Saturday a miserable
day. Stamey Davis, weather ob
server, reports that 1.14 inches of
rain have fallen since last Mon
day. Heavy fog enveloped the
county Friday and the terrific
winds of Saturday diminished Sun
day.
Wind blew from the northeast
Monday through Wednesday, but
changed to the southwest on Thurs
day, where it remained through
Sunday.
The Atlantic Beach weather sta
lion recorded wind gusls at 60
miles an hour between 11 and 11:110
Saturday night. Many signs were
blown down throughout the coun
ty, a roof was damaged east of the
beach, and the large tent housing
the Rollerhaven roller skating rink.
Bridges Street, Morehcad City,
went down.
High and low temperatures and
rainfall, in hundredths of inches,
follow:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
High l,ow Hain
60 50 —
50 44 .43
55 46 .14
60 54 .38
59 54 —
67 55 .19
67 41 —
Driver Cited
Following Crash
Charged with careless and reck
less driving and going 45 in a 35
mile zone Saturday night, Feb. 18,
was Dean Chatlos Sr., 410 Evans
St., Morehead City.
Patrolman E. D. O’Neal Jr., who
investigated, said Chatlos, in a
1952 Buick, was headed east, ran
into the rear of a 1955 Chevrolet
wrecker, owned by Ray Kennedy,
3211 Arendell St., and knocked it
into a 1954 Pontiac, parked ahead
of it.
Chatlos told police he had drop
ped a cigarette and was looking for
it when the accident happened.
His car was termed a total
wreck; damage to the wrecker was
estimated at $250 and to the Pon
tiac $200. The Pontiac was owned
by Sound Chevrolet Co. and had
been parked by Charles Earl Ken
nedy, route 1 Morehead City. The
accident happened at 8:45 p.m.
Items for Travel Show
Must be in by 5 Today
Any items to go to the Ohio Val
ley Travel show must be in the
Morehead City chamber of com
merce office by 5 p.m. today, an
nounces J. A. DuBois, manager of
the chamber.
Needed are things to give away
at the show. He said the county’s
exhibit at the sportsmen’s show in
Charlotte last week was a huge
success. Those who manned the
exhibit said they could have sold
real estate if they’d had the neces
sary information!
Light go Out
Some of the street lights in More
head City and Beaufort were not
burning Sunday night because high
winds caused them to short out.
Repairs were being mqde yester
day and it was expected to have
the lights back in working order
last night.
County Commissioners
Will Meet Tomorrow
Six hospital sites in the vicinity of Beaufori will he of
fered for consideration of the county commissioners at
9:30 Wednesday morning at the courthouse, Beaufort.
The meeting has been called at the request of a special
committee of the Beaufort Merchants association, headed
by William Roy Hamilton.
At 10 o’clock the county board will meet with William
F. Henderson, executive secretary
of the Medical Care commission;
George Watts Carr, hospital archi
tect, and an engineer, Mr. Brown,
who will accompany Mr. Hender
son.
The county board and the offi
cials from Raleigh plan to discuss
the sites with a view to making a
decision as to the location of the
county hospital. Voters in Novem
ber approved a bond issue which
I.ulher Hamilton Jr., county at
torney, said anyone who has any
sites to offer for the hospital
should get in touch with him in
Murehead City immediately.
they would build a $1,700,000 hos
pital, Osins' state, federal and coun
ty funds.
As of yesterday, hospital sites be
ing proposed numbered 18, includ
ing the six in the Beaufort area,
which are the following:
• Gibbs Brothers farm, highway
70 east of Beaufort
• II. T. Carraway farm, highway
101 north of Beaufort
• Mrs. Leo Mathis Sr. farm,
highway 70 east of Beaufort
• Mr. and Mrs. I). F. Merrill
tract, highway 101, North of Beau
fort
• Fred McDaniels farm, highway
101 north of Beaufort
• D. R. Arnold farm, highway
101 north of Beaufort
Mr. Hamilton said that all of the
sites meet the acreage require
ments specified by the Medical
Care commission. The Merrill site
has been offered free of charge.
Four additional sites have been
I added to those in the vicinity of
Morehead City:
• K. S. Swinson, 43.6 acres on
the south side of the Country Club
road
• Thelma Laughton property,
25.64 acres on the west side of the
Crab Point road.
• Henry White, 45 acres across
from Oaksmith acres on the Coun
try Club road; 15 of these acres
will be given free of cost
• Blair farm, about 88 acres,
Crab Point
Other sites in the Morehead area:
M. T. Mills, 42.99 acres; T. C.
Oglesby, 81.4 acres; John Oglesby
and Robert Smith, 56.66 acres; Ro
land Barbour, up to 50 acres;
Blaine Baugus and Walter Teich,
37 acres; Dennis Turner 220; Earle
Webb tract at Wildwood, 160 acres;
Earle Webb tract, Bogue Sound,
82.7 acres.
Luther Hamilton Jr., county at
torney, said yesterday that any or
all of the tracts are available. Op
tion arrangements vary.
He also said that the section base
property, owned by the state, at
Camp Glenn is not available. The
property had been mentioned as a
possible hospital site. At least
seven different agencies have
leases on the property.
It is doubtful whether a decision
on location can be made this week.
Mr. Henderson told county offi
cials that he is prepared to stay
here two days, if necessary, to look
over locations.
According to the Medical Care
commission, their approval of a
site is necessary before the state
See SITES, Page 2
Champs Accept Trophy
Pud Hassell of the Beaufort Seadogs accepts the big one from Mr.
Joslyn, the county championship trophy. The Seadogs earned the tro
phy and a trip to the district playoffs Saturday night by downing
Smyrna 47-27. (Son more tournament picture# page 2).
Newport FFA
Team Wins First
Place Thursday
The Newport school vocational
agriculture Ritual and Parliamen
tary Procedure team won first
place in the Seashore FFA Fed
eration contest at New Bern, Thurs
day. The contest was in the Scot
tish Rite temple.
Newport earned the title of fed
eration champions in Parliamen
tary Procedure and a blue and gold
banner appropriately lettered.
Smyrna’s team was second. Other
schools with membership in the
federation are Pamlico, Vanceboro,
Jasper, and Dover, all in Craven
county.
The Newport team consisted of
the following boys: Lewis Forrest,
president, who was also elected
president of the federation Thurs
day; Allen Kelly, vice-president;
Joe Parks, secretary; Donnie Ay
cock, treasurer; Everotte Clark,
reporter; Gordon Slaughter, sen
tinel, and Leon Youngblood Jr.,
acting for the advisor.
The Newport team will compete
in the district contest to be held
in May at a place and date to be
announced. Eight teams will par
ticipate at that time to determine
who will represent District I in the
statewide contest to be held in Ra
leigh during the State FFA Conven
tion in late June.
Judges were agricultural teach
ers from other counties. They were
John R. Pollock, Trenton; F. G.
Lewis, Aurora, and P. E. Shoulars,
Southwood School, Kinston. V. B.
Hairr, district supervisor of voca
tional agriculture, Raleigh, also at
tended and reviewed the contest.
Forrest’s term of office as head
of the Seashore federation will be
for one year, lie is a member of
the Newport vocational agriculture
class and plans to enter State col
lege next fall to major in agricul
tural engineering.
Two Cars Crash
Sunday at Otway
A 1960 Thunderbird and a 1957
Ford collided in front of the Otway
grocery at 2:15 p.m. Sunday nine
miles east of Beaufort on highway
70.
Jasper Golden, route 2 Beaufort,
driving the Ford, was charged
with driving on the wrong side of
the road.
According to patrolman J. W.
Sykes, Lytle Smith, Rocky Mount,
formerly of Beaufort, was headed
west in the Thunderbird when
Golden, who was headed east,
made a left turn in front of him.
Suffering from shock was Miss
Patricia A. Tyson, Raleigh, a pas
senger in the Thunderbird. The
Ford was termed beyond repair.
Damage to the other car was esti
mated at $400.
Former Pastor
To Address Men
The Men’s Club of St. James
Methodist church, Newport, will
observe its seventh anniversary re
union at the meeting Thursday
night at 6:30.
The Kev. J. H. Waldrop Jr. of
Fremont will be guest speaker.
Mr. Waldrop was pastor of St.
James church for four years and
was instrumental in the organiza
tion of the Men’s Club in 1954.
Since leaving Newport in 1956, he
served churches in High Point and
Clinton before moving to Fremont
this year.
Other special guests will include
Cecil Hodges, New Bern District
Men’s Club president, and all char
ter members of the club.
The dinner will be served by the
WSCS in the church educational
building.
Stove Overheats
Morehead City firemen answered
a call to 1111 Evans St. at 12:40
p.m. Sunday where a stove bad
overheated. Chief Lindsey Guthrie
gild there wee oo Hamagp.
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