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50th YEAR, NO. 18.
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TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Just a Little Bit of Ireland?
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News-Times Photo by McComb
Shur, and it’s the Irish ye’il be hearin’ from this month — and the 4-H’ers, too. Not only is Friday,
March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, but Beaufort cheerleaders, holding the shamrock-likc 4-H symbol remind
you that tomorrow through Saturday, March 11, is National 4-11 Week. The cheerleaders are Mary June
Merrill and Fran Potter, kneeling; standing, left to right, are Eleanor Patterson, Claudia Taylor, Joyce
Herbert, Sapbia Dickinson, Nancy Huntley and Jennifer Rose.
Highway Commission Head Confirms
Report of New Hearing on Bridge
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Willie Harkley
To Serve 60
4 Morehead City man, Willie
Moore Harkley, was given jail sen
tences totaling 60 days Monday in
judgments growing out of a pair
of old cases. Morehead City re
corder’s court judge Herbert 0.
Phillips handed down the sentence.
Harkley had been tried and con
victed of simple assault in record
er’s court on Feb. 20. He was given
30 days in jail suspended on a
year’s good behavior and payment
of court costs, which he appealed
to Superior Court. His appeal was
abandoned and the matter remand
ed to recorder’s court where the
original sentence is now invoked.
On the same day, Harkley had
also been tried for issuing a worth
less check and given 30 days, sus
pended on payment of court costs
and the check. It was shown in
court Monday that Harkley has
failed to comply with these terms
• so he was ordered to serve this 30
days also. '
Billy Daniels, Cherry Point, was
found guilty of driving with a re
voked license and sentenced to six
months in jail, suspended on pay
ment of $200 and court costs.
Another Cherry Point defendant,
Frank Welch, appeared to answer
charges of having no operator’s
license and running a red light.
He was fined $25 for having no li
cense and $10 for running the red
light, as well as being taxed with
court costs.
Malicious prosecution was ruled
in the assault case against John
Clemmons, Morehead City. Mamie
Clemmons, the defendant’s wife,
was ordered to pay court costs.
Fenner Feritando Mayo Jr.,
Morehead City, and D. L. Chatlos
Sr., Beaufort, were both fined $10
and costs for speeding. Chatlos
was also charged with careless and
reckless driving but the court did
not prosecute on this count.
The court continued prayer for
judgment for 90 days in the case
against Thomas Guiton, charging
him with allowing a vicious dog
to run at large after being warned
to confine the animal.
Five out-of-town residents ap
peared to answer overtime park
ing charges. Three of the defend
ants were taxed with one-third
court costs and the ticket. They
were J. H. Gill, Greenville; Ruth
E. Matthis, Wilson and N. B. Par
rish, Clayton.
H. B. Spruill, New Bern, was or
dered to pay the ticket and a $2.50
service charge and D. C. Fillmore,
New Bern, paid one-third costs
and two tickets.
Continued were 11 cases until
next week’s term of court.
Returns to Office
Sheriff Hugh Salter returned
home from Watts hospital, Dur
ham, late Tuesday afternoon and
is now spending several hours a
day in his.office. He underwent a
back operation for a ruptured disc
► Merrill Evans, head of the State*
Highway commission, has verified
information in Tuesday's NEWS
TIMES that a new hearing will be
conducted on location of the bridge
across Morchead City at Newport
river.
Mr. Evans bald the highway com
mission, in session yesterday,
would probably set the date.
He said the hearing date would
be' “some days hence” and due no
tice will be given. When asked
where the hearing might be, he
said he didn’t know but unless un
foreseen circumstances warranted
change, he hoped the hearing would
be in Raleigh.
In the phone conversation with a
NEWS-TIMES reporter, Mr. Evans
also verified reports that the high
way commission hopes to have the
Ocracoke-Cedar Island ferry in op
eration by May 1.
Tolls on the ferry will be the
same as when it was privately op
erated, but sailing from a new
dock in this county at Cedar Is
land, is expected to cut time of a
one-way trip by about half.
Beaufort JC's Name
Pageant Committee
In preparation for the 1961 Miss
Carteret County beauty pageant,
Beaufort Jaycees appointed a pa
geant committee at their Monday
night meeting at the Scout build
ing. Ernest Courtney was named
chairman. He will be aided by
Charles Smith and George Murray
Thomas.
The club heard a report on the
new heating system that the Jay
cees have purchased for the Scout
building. President Clyde Owens
said that the complete unit has
been installed at a cost of $450.
Rotarians Hear About VOA
Transmitter at Greenville
David Scncindiver, administra
tive officer of Voice of America,
was the guest speaker Thursday
night at the Morchead City Rotary
club meeting.
Mr. Sencindiver, of Greenville,
said that a new transmitter to be
situated on a 6,000-acre tract near
Greenville, will be the greatest
concentration of broadcasting pow
er anywhere in the world.
The transmitter is being built by
Voice of America and will utilize
three 500,000 watt transmitters,
three 250,000 watt transmitters and
several smaller transmitters.
The site at Greenville was se
lected for its location, soil condi
tions, and remote accessibility, ac
cording to Sencindiver. When the
facility is in operation, which is
expected to be December 1962, it
will employ approximately HO peo
ple with an annual payroll of $1
million. Power consumption from
two suppliers will cost the broad
casters over $1 million a month.
He related that the Voice of
America came into being in 1942
as a propaganda arm of the US
War Information office in an ef
fort to counteract radio of Axis
Two Youths Will
Appear Before
Havelock JP
Two 16-year-old Beaufort boys
are scheduled to appear at 10 a.m.
tomorrow before justice of the
peace Burns at Havelock. Mahlon
Williams and Harry Gillikin arc
charged with theft of hub caps
from a Pontiac automobile, ac
cording to officer Ernest Connor
of the Havelock police department.
Officer Connor said yesterday
that Williams and Gillikin were
caught in the act of taking the hub
caps by the owner of the car, Mr.
Hutto, who operates Vince’s Cafe,
Havelock.
He hollered at them to stop, and
when they did not do so, he shot
at the back of the car with a load
of No. 6 buckshot.
He identified the car as a light
green 1960 Ford. Morehead City
police were alerted to be on the
lookout for it.
Owner of Jie damaged car was
identified by police as Mrs. Mil
dred Gillikin, Beaufort.
Officer Connor said the boys ad
mitted to Morehead police Monday
morning that they had taken the
hubcaps, then thrown them in a
creek in this county.
Officer Connor related that Mrs.
Hutto noticed the boys taking the
hubcaps and called to her husband
who got his shotgun. The incident
happened at about 8 p.m. Sunday.
Investigating the case, in addi
tion to officer Connor, was deputy
sheriff Ray Boyd of Craven coun
ty.
powers. After the war, it came
under supervision of the State De
partment until 1953 when it was
made an independent agency.
The speaker said that there is
no connection between VOA and
Radio Free Europe.
Mr. Sencindiver, who came to
Greenville from a series of assign
ments with Voice of America, said
that the VOA maintains 76 stations
over the world, broadcasting news,
drama, music and sports programs
to all parts of the world, including
Iron Curtain countries. News
broadcasts consume 50 per cent of
broadcasting time.
The program was arranged by
Frank Cassiano’s international af
fairs committee.
Guests attending the meeting
were Dave Van Sant and Bill Tra
lease of Madison, N. J.
Tissues Sold
Morehead City Jaycces report
that their facial tissue sale Monday
night was a success. Clifton Lynch,
Jaycee president, expresses thanks
to everyone who bought boxes of
tissues. Proceeds from the sale will
go into the Jaycee project, fund, .ac
cording to Dr. Russell Outlaw.
County Officials Visit Hospital
Sites, Hear Medical Care Secretary
“You’ve lost too much time
now,” William F. Henderson, Med
ical Care commission secretary,
warned county officials Wednesday.
The officials were in special ses
sion to consider proposed hospital
sites.
Mr. Henderson said that the Med
ical Care commission is under no
obligation to supply hospital funds
unless the hospital is under con
tract by May 1, 1962. (Acquisition
of site, drawing plans, getting
them approved and getting bids
are expected to consume the bet
ter part of a year).
He said the MCC will participate
in cost up to $16,000 per bed, not
to exceed 100 beds. Funds are
available for a laundry in the hos
pital, if one is wanted. He advised
the board not to plan to consume
all of the funds available, but to
leave a cushion in case bids ex
ceed expectations.
Getting water and sewage to the
hospital site is the county's respon
sibility. No slate or federal funds
are available for that. George
Watts Carr, who has been named
to draft plans for the hospital, esti
mated that cost of water and sew
age would be between $40,0(10 and
$50,000.
Mr. Henderson said it is probable
that 100 beds may not be needed
immediately, but he said it has
been the MCC’s experience that a
75-bed hospital is costly to operate.
It’s an “in-between,” not 100-bed
and not 50. He said it’s also ex
pensive to build.
“If you have a 100-bed hospital
averaging 75 patients a day and
it's not breaking even, you’d bet
ter get a new manager,” Mr. Hen
derson said.
He emphasized that a hospital
can rise or fall on the responsibility
of management. He said the hos
pital should be run by good busi
nessmen who know how to pur
chase, who don’t throw money
away.
lie stressed the fact that local
responsibility must be taken in
planning and building the hospital.
The MCC should not be expected
to do the >york. He lays MCC
tries to stay out of it as much as
possible. *
He advised the board not to ig
nore the doctors in planning. While
some may be plugging for space
or equipment for their own special
field of interest, he said their
wishes should be considered and
plans discussed with them.
As soon as a site is selected, Mr.
Henderson said the MCC wanted
to know the name of one person
with whom it can deal directly.
Both Mr. Henderson and Mr. Carr
suggested that a “core building
committee” consist of no more
than three persons and from that
group one be given authority to
deal with the MCC.
He said most counties give its
building committee authority to
employ a consultant, specifying a
limit on the amount of money that
can be spent for such service. The
county board should approve con
tracts as well as the building com
mittee, he added.
In answer to a question, he said
the hospital can be incorporated
and operate as a non-profit cor
poration.
Relative to building a nursing
home, Mr. Henderson said the
trend is away from that. Mr. Carr
said some hospitals have built
nursing homes and have yet to
have a nurse live in them.
He said operating costs of a hos
pital are based on occupancy but
cost of operating a 75-bed hospital
is between $18 and $20 daily per
patient. The board asked that Mr.
Carr pay particular attention to so
designing the hospital that the
area for 25 beds, which may not
be needed at first, would not have
to be heated or air-conditioned;
also that the hospital be construct
See HOSPITAL, Page 4
Subcommittee Discusses
Subdivision Regulations
A sub-committee of the County
Planning commission met Tuesday
night to discuss subdivision regu
lations with Jerry Turner, Raleigh,
advisor on land development.
Members of the committee arc
Philip Ball and W. B. Chalk, More
head City, and Charles King, Beau
fort.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, March 3
8:49 a.m. 2:53 a.m.
9:11 p.m. 3:18 p.m.
Saturday, March 4
9:21 a.m. 3:28 a.m.
9:40 p.m. 3:47 p.m.
Sunday, March 5
9:51 a.m. 3:59 a.m.
10:11 p.m. 4:14 p.m.
Monday, March C
10:26 a.m. 4:30 a.m.
10:50 p.m. 4:39 p.m.
Tuesday, March 7
11:10 a.m. 5:04 a.m.
11:30 p.m. _ 5:09 pan.
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Beaufort Theatre to Ciose
One Week for Renovation
Airline Hopes
To Continue Its
Service Here
Piedmont Airlines has requested
permission to continue to serve
Bcaufort-Morehcad City airport,
according to Glenn Adair,^ chair
man of the Bcaufort-Morehcad City
Airport commission.
Information to that effect was
sent Mr. Adair recently by Alan
L. Boyd, chairman of the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
Not only does Piedihont have be
fore the CAB a request to continue
service into Bcaufort-Morehcad but
asks permission to add Jackson
ville-Lejcune to its present route.
The CAB has not yet acted on
Piedmont’s request to continue
service, but it will notify Mr. Adair,
the letter said, as soon as the
board’s decision is reached.
Although Piedmont had not in
dicated it wants to discontinue
service into Bcaufort-Morehcad,
local authorities feared that the
CAB may deny the airline that
privilege.
Therefore, letters from Mr.
Adair, mayor W. H. Potter, Beau
fort, and mayor George W. Bill,
Morehead City, were sent to the
CAB, asking that it not deny Pied
mont the right to serve this area.
Piedmont operates here in the
summer only.
Theatre to Give
Play Two Nights
Portrait in Black, the final play
to be presented this season by the
Carteret Community theatre, will
be given Friday and Saturday
nights, March 24 and 25, in the
Morehcad City school auditorium.
Sponsor of the production will be
the Esther Kcbckah lodge of More
head City.
The place the play will be given
has been changed to the high school
because the recreation center is not
available Friday or Saturday
nights.
Miss Hortensc Boomer, director,
has announced the stage crew. The
Rev. Robert Wood will be stage
manager. Miss Lillian Frances
Giddens will be in charge of light
ing; sound, Don Jackson; make
up, Mrs. Bill Lockard and Mrs.
Tressa Vickers; properties, Mrs.
Earl Holt and Mrs. Vickers.
Tickets will be available in the
near future from the Esther Re
bekahs.
Attends Meeting
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, attended a meet
ing of school superintendents yes
terday at the Lenoir County In
dustrial center, Kinston.
Duffy Guthrie, Mailman, Retires
After 35 Years with Postoffice
Duffy Guthrie, a plump, jovial,
cigar-smoking letter carrier of
Morehcad City, will retire today
after 35 years’ service with the
Morchead City postoffice.
Mr. Guthrie’s span of service ex
tends from 1926 when there was
only one regular carrier in town
to today when there are four. He
became a regular substitute car
rier Feb. 1, 1926 under postmaster
Cleveland Willis.
In his first days with the postal
service, the postoffice was located
on the southeast corner of 9th and
Arendell where Beasley’s Radio
and TV service is located now.
His job was to meet “the Shoo
Fly,” at 7:45 each night when it
came in with the mail. The SJioo
Fly was the name given the train,
which moved as fast as a darky
shooin’ flies. Of course, this means
that it never cared much about
schedule, and sometimes didn’t ar
rive until 9 p.m., but Mr. Guthrie
had to wait for it to pick up the
mail that was aboard.
In those days the railroad sta
tion was in the middle of the un
paved street, in fient of the Hotel
Fort Macon.
Come morning, it was Mr. Guth
rie’s job to get to the postoffice,
light the potbelly stove so the place
See POSTMAN* Page 2
► Beaufort theatre will undergo a
major renovation job next week,
announces Harry Evans, manager.
The theatre will close at midnight
Sunday and plans to reopen Friday
night, March 10. Carpenters and
painters will be working night and
day, Mr. Evans said, to get the
major job completed.
Full-length glass entrance doors
will be put on the theatre, the two
small lobbies made into one lobby,
doors placed between the audi
torium and lobby to keep noise j
confined to the refreshment area,
the stage will be changed, new
screen curtains added, and the in
terior redecorated. “A complete
face-lifting job,” Mr. Evans de
clared.
The work won't be totally finish
ed by March 10, but it will be far
enough along for reopening, he pre
dicts.
lie said no estimate is available
on cost of the renovation, but he
said it will be “a considerable
amount.” The work is being dond
by the theatre operator, Stewart
Everett.
Mr. Evans, who has managed the
theatre the past six years, says this
is the first major renovation to take
place while has been there.
The theatre opened 25 years ago.
The Beaufort Merchants associa
tion has been actively interested
in seeing improvements made to
the theatre.
Charles Farmer
Held in Shooting
Charles Farmer, Negro resident
of the Creech farm between More
head City and Wildwood, has been
charged with shooting James Wil
lis Stanley, who also lives on the
farm..
Deputy sheriff Bobby Bell said
the shooting occurred Monday
night. Stanley was seriously hurt.
Farmer is scheduled to appear in
county court Tuesday to answer
to a charge of assault with a dead
ly weapon. He was in the county
jail yesterday. His bond was set
at $200.
According to deputy Bell, the two
had an argument, Farmer,got his
shotgun and fired toward Stanley
as Stanley went out the door. The
victim of the shooting got several
of the shot in his head.
He stayed at the hospital over
night and was discharged the next
day, the officer said.
Car Topples Parking
Meter When Brakes Fail
A Morchead City housewife, Mil
dred Kuykendall, 449 Macon Ct.,
was the driver of an automobile
that knocked down a parking me
ter at 810 Arendell Monday after
noon, according to Morchead City
police.
Police say that brakes on Mrs.
Kuykendall’s car failed as she was
parking and she rammed the me
ter. Patrolman Seldon Sherwood
investigated. Damages to the Kuy
kendall auto were minor and no
charges were filed.
* County commiuioners, w
courthouse, hope ton arrow
sites preferred for a hospitt
William F. Henderson,
Care commission, toured 2\
with county officials. He pi
county board chairman, in writing
by Monday of the sites he believes
would be best.
It will be front among those
recommendations that the county
! board expects to make its selec
tions Monday. After they make
their choice, borings will be taken
on the property to determine if sub
soil conditions will have any bear
ing on where the hospital should be
'■ built.
County officials visiting sites
were Mr. Howard, commissioners
I Gaston Smith, Harrell Taylor and
David Yeomans, and county attor
ney Luther Hamilton. Accompany
ing them to look at Beaufort sites
were J. O. Barbour Jr., William
Roy Hamilton and Gilbert Potter.
Gordon C. Willis, realtor, accom
panied the county officials on visits
to Morehead City sites. Mr. Hen
derson and George Watts Carr,
who has been selected to design
the hospital, also visited the prop
erties.
Site-seeing began after a morn
ing session at the courthouse where
representatives of the Beaufort
Merchants association presented
arguments in favor of a Beaufort
location for the hospital. After the
delegation was heard, Mr. Hender
son described the role the Medical
Care commission plays in hospital
construction projects.
Mr. Barbour, president of the
in e r c h a n t s’ association, was
spokesman for the Beaufort resi
dents. He presented the commis
sioners maps of the county, stating
that the hospital, if located in the
vicinity of Beaufort, would be
closer to the geographic center of
the county, closer to county admin
istrative offices and would be at
the county seat.
He showed a ballot used in the
hospital referendum and said that
the people voted for a hospital, not
a site, lie said equal accessibility
to the hospital should be the
board’s foremost consideration In
selecting a site.
Mr. Barbour mentioned four re
quirements for sites set up by the
Medical Care commission: mini
mum of 20 acres of well drained
land, easy accessibility of site, lo
cation at a place remote from in
dustry, cemeteries, undue noise;
close to approved water and sew
age systems.
In addition to the six sites listed
in Tuesday’s paper, Mr. Barbour
said K. W. Wright land, as much
as the county would want to buy, is
also available.
He suggested that 500 acres as a
site for the hospital is too much.
He said the county shouldn’t go
into “the real estate business.”
Mr. Barbour said the Beaufort
sites are well-drained, a few arc
accessible from both highway 70
and 101; two sites are within a few
hundred feet of a 6-inch water main
and 8-inch sewer lines are avail
able, he continued, at three of the
hpcf cifpK
Mr. Barbour spoke strongly
against situating a hospital on the
water (the present Morehead City
hospital is on the water and has
had repeated difficulty during
storms). He said that putting a
hospital where the full effects of
See SITES, Page 2
io will meet Monday at the
to about three the number of
.1.
executive secretary, Medical
sites Wednesday afternoon
ms to inform Moses Howard,
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Red Cross Films
Shown Tuesday
• Officials Plan
Annual Campaign
# Chairmen, Assistants
To Start Work
Red Cross officials, at their
meeting Tuesday night at the court
house, Beaufort,. saw two films,
one on disaster work and one on
fund-raising.
The county Bed Cross roll call
will open Monday and continue
through Monday, March 20. The
county quota is $4,500.
District chairmen and sub-chair
men follow: Joe Mason Jr., Atlan
tic, assisted by Mrs. Lambert Mor
ris, Atlantic; Herbert Way, Cedar
Island; Mrs. Theo Finney, Sea
Level, and Clarence Lewis, Stacy.
Elmer Dewey Willis, Williston,
Smyrna district chairman, assisted
by Mrs. Elbert Pittman, Davis;
Mrs. Charles Piner, Williston; Mrs.
Dolly Taylor, Smyrna; Mrs. Ver
non B. Lewis, Marshallbgrg; Mrs.
Emma L. Hansen, Straits and Glou
cester; Mrs. Vera Golden, Bettie.
Tommy Lewis, Harkers Island
chairman; the Rev. Jack Mans
field, Morehead City; mayor Leon
Mann, Newport, and G. T. Spivey,
Beaufort. Sub-chairmen for Hark
ers Island, Morehead City, New
port and Beaufort are yet to be
named, according to Ronald Earl
Mason, publicity chairman.
Mrs. Lester Hall, highway 24;
Mrs. Maurice E. Richardson, Wild
Wdod, and Mrs. C. S, Rogers, high
way 101.
Attending Tuesday night’s meet
ing were the following: Garland
Scruggs, head of the county Red
Cross chapter; Blakely Pond, drive
chairman; J. L. Humphrey, Gas
ton Smith; Jim IIux, Mrs. James
Rumley, Roger Jones, Joe Mason
Jr., Leon Davis, and Ronald Earl
Mason.
Easter Seals
Placed in Mail
Today, March 3, you will get a
little bit of spring in your mail box
—1961 Easter Seals. Mrs. L. E.
Kelly Jr., letter chairman, yester
day mailed Easter Seals to resi
dents of the county. The mail ap
peal is the first step in the month
long campaign.
“I hope you will make this a
happy Easter for someone who is
crippled. Send your contribution
to Mrs. D. G. Bell, treasurer for
the Carteret County Society for
Crippled Children and Adults,”
Mrs. Kelly said.
Mrs. J. C. Harveil is president
of the Carteret Chapter. Part of
the donations will help send a child
to summer camp where skilled per
sonnel can begin rehabilitation
training. It will offer help to par
ents and families of the physical
ly handicapped.
"Your gift will help support a
national research program on
causes of crippling and improved
methods of treatment. The Easter
Seal Society aids persons crippled
at birth, by accident or disease,
and those with strokes or speech
disorders. It awards scholarships
for undergraduate and advanced
training,” Mrs. Harveil said.
“I think you have a three-fold
reason for buying and using Easter
Seals—they brighten envelopes, tell
a story of aid to the crippled, and
most important, finance an all-out
fight on crippling,” she concluded.
Manager Gives
Report on Progress
Of Chamber Drive
Close to $16,000 in cash ard
pledges has been totaled by the
greater Morehead City chamber of
commerce in the current member
ship drive.
Cash received by Wednesday
night was $6,815 and in pledges
was $9,000, according to J. A. Du
Bois, manager of the chamber.
He said the drive will continue
until the total is as near the $40,000
goal as possible.
Mr. DuBois reported many new
members this year. "Things look
very good,” he remarked, “better
than at this time last year.”