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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ■<*
60th YEAR, NO. 19. EIGHT PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Board Selects Three Hospital Sites
. Monday Meeting
Brings Ferry
Hours' Change
By ALICE K. RONDTHALER
Ocracoke—Several Ocracoke citi
zens attended a meeting Monday
afternoon at Cape Hatteras high
school, Buxton, joining three hun
dred or more Hatteras Island peo
ple, whose spokesman, W. W. Ed
wards, chairman of the Hatteras
Businessmen’s Betterment associa
tion, protested the inadequate ferry
service at Oregon Inlet.
Merrill Evans, new chairman of
the North Carolina Highway com
mission, and W. N. Spruill, first
division engineer, of Ahoskic, were
present to hear complaints and
both spoke to the group assembled
about plans for improving the serv
ice at Oregon Inlet.
Present from Ocracoke were
Jack Willis, president of the Ocra
*coke Civic club, Mrs. Theodore
Rondthaler, vice-president, first di
vision, All Seashore Highway, R.
S. Wahab, Charles McWilliams,
Thurston Gaskill, and Doward
Brugh.
Charles McWilliams spoke brief
ly on the good service given at
Hatteras Inlet, expressing the hope
that the Oregon Inlet service might
be improved; R. S. Wahab cited
the adage, “A Chain is no strong
’ er than its weakest link,” pointing
• out that the ultimate success of the
All Seashore Highway depends
upon good ferry service at Oregon
Inlet, Hatteras Inlet, and from
Ocracoke to the mainland on the
south.
Chairman Evans agreed to pre
sent the various complaints and
suggestions to the highway com
mission at its March 2 meeting.
Indications of cooperation were
evident the following day when the
Oregon Inlet ferries were put on
a definite “on the hour schedule”
1 from 5 a m. to 6 p.m.
The Hatteras Inlet schedule was
changed to include an earlier
morning (6 a.m. from Hatteras
side-1 and later evening (5 p.m.
from Ocracoke side) trip, making
six each day. This will serve also
io expedite the construction of the
3-mile stretch of highway at the
norjhcrn end of Ocracoke Island,
Since workers and materials are
brought in by ferry.
The marl for the road arrived
at' Ocracoke by barge from New
Bern on Wednesday and is being
■ transported to the road bed. These
4 three miles, when completed, will
give a paved highway the whole
length of Ocracoke Island from
Hatteras Inlet to the village of
Ocracoke.
Rotarians Hear
. Battleship Talk
The Morehead City Rotary club
had mayor George 'Dill as the guest
speaker at their weekly meeting
Thursday night. In his talk, mayor
Dill described a trip he and Beau
fort mayor W. H. (Piggie) Potter
made to Wilmington to promote
Fort Macon as a permanent site
for the battleship North Carolina,
which the state plans to enshrine
somewhere along the North Caro
4 lina coast.
Wilmington and Southport are the
two other sites in competition with
Fort Macon to obtain the battleship
but engineers seemed to feel that
it would be impracticable to move
the 40,000-ton vessel up the Cape
Fear river to Wilmington, accord
ing to mayor Dill.
The mayor said that the ship
could be berthed at Fort Macon
with a minimum amount of dredg
ing and added that a parking area
to accommodate 400 cars could be
provided by the spoils from the
dredging. He urged all members
i interested in bringing the ship to
the Morehead City area to contact
Ed Rankin, Raleigh, co-chairman
of the battleship committee.
The motion was made and car
ried that the Rotary club endorse
plans to bring the North Carolina
here. Making the motion was D. J.
Eure. ...
Curious Folks Asked Not
To Call Police Station
“Please don’t call the Morehead
City police station every time you
hear a siren.”
That plea was made yesterday
by police chief Herbert Griffin. In
an emergency, the switchboard
operator is busy doing necessary
things in connection with the emer
gency and cannot serve as an in
formation dispenser, too.
1 Persons are asked not to call
“just to find out what’s going on.”
If they have a legitimate reason,
such as reporting that they’re
about to be held up, murdered, or
County Hoard Adopts Building Code
County commissioners adopted a
hurricane building code Monday
‘ morning. It goes into effect im
mediately. None of the commis
sioners voted against it.
Gaston Smith, commissioner,
was assured that the code could
be revised if necessary.
M. G. Coyle, chairman of the
county planning commission sub
committee, which drafted the code,
said that the whole county is in a
precarious position, insurance-wise.
A beach resident, he said that he
was notified Saturday by an insur
ance firm that all the insurance
on his place is cancelled as of
March 15.
The county planning commission
drafted the code to protect prop
erty and with the hope that insur
ance companies that now refuse to
insure property in this area will
start doing so again.
Accompanying Mr. Coyle were
W. C. Carlton, secretary ol the
county planning commission, H. S.
Gibbs Jr., W. B. Chalk, and Gar
land Scruggs.
Mr. Scruggs arrived after the
others had left, but added that as
Success of Speech Clinics
Brings Teacher to County
David Canfield, 14, as he prepared to depart for camp at Camp
Sycamore in Umstead Park last summer. Camp Sycamore is the
camp sponsored each summer, by the Easter Seal society.
The North Carolina Society for
Crippled Children and Adults open
ed a month-long drive for funds
Thursday. The drive will close
Easter Sunday.
Mrs. J. C. Harvell, president of
the Carteret chapter of the society,
reports that 60 per cent of funds
raised here remain in the county
and she hopes everyone will con
tribute generously.
Part of the funds have been used
to support speech clinics each sum
mer for about eight years. Fred
G. Lewis, county teacher super
visor, has operated the clinic with
out pay each year and through his
tireless efforts a speech therapist
has been employed to work in the
county schools beginning this fall,
Mrs. Harvell said.
Mrs. Margaret Arrington of
Beaufort, a qualified and experi
enced teacher, has been acquired
as the speech therapist. She will
work closely with children who
have a speech or hearing defect.
Future Home Builders to Get Tips
On 'How To' at Three Building Forums
Carolina Power and Light Co.
and Cooperative Savings and Loan
will sponsor a Building Forum in
Morehead City. Purpose of the
forum will be to inform prospec
tive home builders of the free serv
ices available to them in planning
through the power coippany and
the loan agency.
In conjunction with the project
THE NEWS-TIMES will publish
Tuesday, March 21, a tabloid sec
tion, Your Home, 1961.
The Building Forum will consist
of three nigHtly programs, March
14, March 21, and March 28, at
7:30 p.m. at the civic center, More
head City. The center is located
at 9th and Evans streets.
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chairman of the county Red Cross,'
he was in favor of the county’s
providing funds for an emergency
radio set-up. The board assured
him that they were all in favor of
the radio project, the problem
would be finding the money.
Albert Chappell, Beaufort, was
named to the hospital committee,
replacing Leonard Safrit, who said
he could not serve.
Commissioner Skinner Chalk ask
ed that the clerk record as an of
ficial part of the minutes a resolu
tion on location of the county hos
pital, as the resolution was report
ed in THE NEWS-TIMES of Oct.
21, 1960.
Odell Merrill, clerk, said he
“didn't know what happened” to
the minutes on the board meeting
the night of Oct. 18, 1960 when the
resolution was passed.
Commissioner Chalk's request as
to making the resolution an official
part of the record was unanimously
endorsed by other board members.
Present, in addition to those
mentioned, were commissioner
Harrell Taylor and David Yeo
mans. Moses Howard, chairman,
presided.
The county society will pay Mrs.
Arrington $300 each school term
as a travel allowance, according
to Mrs. Harvell.
Mrs. Harvell said the importance
of and need for such a teacher was
realized by the successful operation
of the summer clinics and she ex
pressed her appreciation to Mr.
Lewis for his splendid work.
Other work done by the county
society during the past year has
included the purchase of braces
for Vicki Quinn of Newport, a trip
to camp at Raleigh for David Can
field of Morehead City, transporta
tion of a colored Child to Duke hos
pital, and the providing of medi
cines for several children at the
request of doctors and welfare
workers when other funds had been
exhausted.
Members of the Morehead City
Junior Woman’s club are sponsor
ing the campaign. Mrs. Joe Beam
and Mrs. C. R. Freeman are co
chairmen.
Chalk, Morehead City realtor, wiU
speak on Choosing a Building Site;
Theodore Peters, Jacksonville
architect, will speak on Pick a
Plan and Select a Contractor; and
Mrs. Bill Cherry, Morehead City,
home economist with CP&L, will
speak on Decorating Your Home
with Light.
On March 21, Robert Carr, More
head City, retired furniture manu
facturer, will speak on Planning
the Inside of the House, and Mor
ley Williams, New Bern, will speak
on Outside Decoration (landscap
ing).
Theme of the meeting March 28
will be What Makes the House Go.
Mrs. Cherry will speak on Kitchen
Planning. E. V. Breeden Jr., Wil
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Cypress Trees Planted
tmaiOani
Workers set out six acres of
Arizona cypress trees at New
port. Driving the tractor in the
above picture is C. T. Garner
who with O. H. Kirsch plan to
grow the trees for sale as Christ
mas trees.
The seedlings are about a year
old. According to tree special
Welfare Superintendent Comments
On Food Distribution to Needy
Talk on Social
Security Heard
Miss Betty Perk ins "ii, New ; ern.
spoke to the Carteret Business and
Professional Women’s club Tues
day night at the Jefferson restau
rant, Morehead City.
Miss Perkinson, field represen
tative of the New Bern office, So
cial Security administration, spoke
on the social security laws and re
cent changes in the law.
During the business session, the
following were elected to the nomi
nating committee; Miss Mary
Carlton, Mrs. Retha King, and Mrs.
Eva Johnson.
Mrs. Johnson, treasurer, report
ed that profit on a recent pecan
sale was $57.43. The president,
Mrs. Martha Loftin, thanked Miss
Stella Propst, club member, for
initiating the project. Miss Carl
ton, secretary, read the minutes
of the last meeting.
The club voted to co-sponsor in
May, with the Carteret Commun
ity theatre, a play for children,
Cinderella, to be given by the Thea
tre of Woman’s College, Greens
boro. The play will be on tour
May 3-7.
Expenditure of funds, to send
two girls to Girls State, was ap
proved. Action on requesting civ
ic clubs’ to cooperate in a request
for a new registration throughout
the county was deferred.
Miss Shawnee Spears suggested
that the club study communism.
Miss Spears and Miss Ruby Park
er were appointed to investigate
the possibilities of such a program.
The white elephant gift, a cake
box, was won by Mrs. Loftin.
Guests were Miss Pauline Wood
ard, W. I. Loftin, and Mrs. John
Price.
Club yearbooks were distributed
by the president. Hostesses for
the meeting were Miss Alida Wil
lis and Miss Carlton.
Nine Register
Ronald Earl Mason, Beaufort
town clerk, reported that nine per
sons registered Saturday for the
annexation vote April 1.
Insulation and Wiring, and Fred
erick Willetts, Wilmington, presi
dent of Cooperative Savings and
Loan, will speak on borrowing
money for borne construction.
Time allotted to. each speaker
will be limited so that there will
be a period for questions, Mrs.
Cherry announces. The above pro
gram is tentative and slight
changes may be made, she added.
There is no fee connected with
the forum. Mrs. Cherry comment
ed that so many folks decide to
build a house and haven’t the faint
est motion of how to go about it.
The forum is designed to give some
basic instructions so that future
homeowners may know how they
can get the most in quality and
ists, they should be ready to cut
in three years, if managed prop
erly.
R. M. Williams, cojjnty agri
culture agent, said the Arizona
cypress is more disease-resistant
than red cedar, which has been
formerly recommended for grow
ing as Christmas trees in this
► Miss Georgie Hughes, superin
tendent of the county welfare de
partment, said Friday that it is
not known whether surplus food
being made available to certain
areas of the country will be dis
tributed here.
Federal food supplies will come
into North Carolina and be distrib
uted from three centers, Butner,
Salisbury and Asheville, but this
food will not be available until
April 30 at the earliest, Miss
Hughes remarked.
She emphasized that the food
distribution program is being op
erated through the Department of
Agriculture and not welfare depart
ments. The only job the welfare
department has in connection with
it is to certify that persons getting
the food are eligible for it.
She said it would be the job of
the county to finance the project.
She termed it “a tremendous job.”
There has to be an approved ware
house from which the food is dis
tributed, a person to supervise it,
cold storage facilities and a truck
to go to Butner to bring the food
here.
She said the county welfare
board believes there is a need for
the food, but whether the facilities
and money can be found to handle
the program is the major question.
Miss Hughes said it would take
at least' two people of her welfare
staff to interview applicants for the
food, an interview with each ap
plicant consuming half to three
Board Offers Cooperation
On Registration of Voters
Easter Seal Society
Gets $384 Sunday
Three hundred and eighty dol
lars was collected' Sunday after
noon for the Society for Crippled
Children and Adults by members
of the Morehead City Junior Wom
an’s club, who conducted road
blocks. The roadblocks were lo
cated at Mansfield park and on
the Beaufort-Morehead City cause
way.
Mrs. Fred Bartholomew was
chairman. Assisting her were
Mrs. Robert McLean, Mrs. Mack
Pittman, Mrs. Charles Freeman,
Mrs. Lily Wilson, Mrs. Champ
Lewis. Mrs. Rock Hardison, Mrs.
Roy Denkins, Mrs. Joe Beam and
Mrs. Fred Peterson.
Four majorettes from Morehead
City high school also helped. They
were Lorraine Hatcher, Mattie
Phillips, Linda Mitchell and Peggy
Willis. Posters displayed at the
roadblocks were made by Quncan
Lewis.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, March 7
11:10 a.m. 5:04 a.m.
11:37 p.m. 5:09 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8
12:01 a.m. 5:47 a.m.
.. 5:51 p.m.
Thursday, March 9
12:32 a.m. 6:55 fe.m.
^ 6:83
| area. The Arizona cypress re
I sembles the cedar in appearance,
he said.
State nurseries this year sold
out of Arizona cypress. Mr. Gar
ner and Mr. Kirsch had to buy
their trees from nurseries in an
other slate.
Photo by R. M. William*
quarters of an hour. Those found
eligible must also be re-certified
every three months.
At present, she continued, her
department has been trying to fig
ure out how many families in the
county may be eligible. She said
a conservative estimate is 900 to
a thousand families.
“We’ve been spending beyond
our budget /In this fiscal year to
meet requests for assistance,” she
said. “Our requests this year are
more than in recent years.”
In her opinion this is probably
due to the cutback in operation of
the menhaden industry in the win
ter. There were fewer boats op
erating and therefore fewer fisher
men employed.
When asked if she thought con
ditions might change with the com
ing of summer. Miss Hughes said
such was probable.
Mayor Seeks Battleship
Resolution from Board
Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort, at
Wednesday’s meeting of the coun
ty board of commissioners, asked
that the board pass a resolution
inviting the battleship North Caro
lina to be located in Carteret coun
ty.
Mayor Potter also reported that
he intended to confer Thursday
with David Henderson, congress
man of this district, relative to a
flood control project on North Riv
er.
K County compiissioncrs yesterday
assured E. D. Willis, president of
the County Republican club, that
they would “go along with” any
recommendations made to them
by C. Z. Chappell, relative to a
new county voter registration.
Mr. Willis presented to the
board a resolution passed by the
Republican club at its February
meeting.
The resolution suggests that the
county undertake a new registra
tion, install if possible, the loose
leaf. system of voter registration,
and furnish maps in each precinct
of precinct boundaries.
County attorney Luther Hamil
ton said he thought the county
board of elections should initiate
the project and request the coun
ty board of commissioners for the
funds to do so.
He said that confusion exists as
to precinct boundaries. Commis
sioner David Yeomans asked if
the problems cited in the resolu
tion actually exists. Mr. Willis
said that he could back up any
thing alleged in the resolution.
He told the board that the re
quest for getting things straighten
ed out in regard to registration and
Srecinct lines is a citizens* ap
roach, and not political.
I. D. Gillikin, chairman of the
county Republican committee, re
affirmed Mr. Willis’s remarks,
stating that people in va
rious precincts have no idea where
they should vote and that the board
of elections itself does not know
where precinct boundaries are.
He added that people are listed
as voters who have been dead for
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i Subsoil Tests to Precede
Final Site Location
Subsoil tests are scheduled to be made this week on
three sites selected by county commissioners for the pro
posed county hospital.
The sites selected yesterday, in order of preference, ac
cording to a motion by commissioner David Yeomans:
1. Webb site No. 2 (this will be referred to as the Webb
waterfront site in paragraphs that
follow)
2. Webb site No. 1 (this will be
referred to as the Webb Wildwood
site
3. Gibbs site
The Webb sites are located west
of Morehead City and the Gibbs
site east of Beaufort
According to county attorney
Luthor Hamilton, the Webb water
front site with a portion of the tract
on the sound is available for $75,000
for 82 acres (less may be pur
chased if the county desires) or
$914 an acre.
The Webb Wildwood site is 160
acres, wooded, available for $45,000
or approximately $281 per acre.
Mr. Hamilton said that he did not
handle the option on the Gibbs site,
but he was told that it consisted
of 34 acres at a price of $1,000 an
acre.
Approximately 40 persons, in ad
dition to the county commissioners,
attended the county board meeting
yesterday at the courthouse, Beau
fort.
Odell Merrill, clerk to the board,
read a letter from William F. Hen
derson, executive secretary of the
Medical Care commission. The let
ter listed sites Mr. Henderson visit
ed Wednesday. These arc listed at
the end of this newsstory, along
with other comments made by Mr.
Henderson.
Argument and comment followed
an invitation to spectators by
Moses Howard, chairman of the
board.
J. O. Barbour Jr., president of
the Beaufort Merchants associa
tion, pointed out that Beaufort is
the geographic center of the coun
ty. Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
said that action of the hoard, prior
to the bond referendum for the
hospital (board said the hospital
should be located west of Morehead
City) "was not official.”
Mr. Howard said that in his opin
ion the specification on location
of the hospital was official. Com
missioner Gaston Smith confirmed
Mr. Howard’s statement. “We
made that resolution,” he said.
Commissioner David Yeomans
said, "There may be no record of
it, but we agreed on it unanimous
ly. We discussed it three or four
hours before we made a decision."
Commissioner Skinner Chalk said
that he made the motion to place
the hospital west of Morehead City.
Mr. Barbour contended that the
hoard “reopened the site question”
when it agreed to listen to Beau
fort’s presentation of sites last
Wednesday. Commissioner 'Chalk
said the reopening of the matter
was against his wishes.
He added, “It’s a mistake to
build this hospital, but if it’s going
to be built, it should be west of
Morehead City. We said that no
sites would be considered unless
they were filed with the county at
torney.”
Plugging for the Gibbs' site,
mayor Potter said that a hospital
there “would be within a stone’s
throw” of Beaufort’s sewage dis
posal plant planned to be built by
1965. (A stone’s throw has been
estimated at as much as 250 feet).
Mayor George Dill, Morehead
City, later said he didn’t think it
would be a good idea to put a coun
ty hospital and a sewage disposal
plant on the same site. Mayor Pot
ter then said that he said the sew
age disposal plant would be “near”
the hospital.
Commissioner Chalk said that it
was generally known, before the
referendum, that the hospital would
be west of Morehead City. He
moved that the board consider no
site east of Newport river, but the
motion died for lack of a second.
See SITES, Page 2
Violinist to Appear As
Soloist with Symphony
Kenji KObayashi will appear as
guest soloist with the North Caro
lina Little Symphony in concert
here Friday at the Beaufort high
school at 8 p.m.
Returning for his third season
with the symphony in guest ap
pearances, Mr. Kobayashi is a
brilliant young violinist from Ja
pan. Making his debut in Tokyo
at the age of 16, he came to the
United States later to study at the
Juilliard School of Music in New
York.
He played at a reception for
Crown Prince Akihito of Japan,
gave a recital at Mandel hall in
Chk^j^w^ba^ppear^with
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! Cars Crash;
Driver Cited
A 196! Renault was smashed be
yond repair and an estimated thou
sand dollars damage caused to a
I960 Opel station wagon at (5:02
p.m. Saturday on Arendell street,
Morehead City.
Ronald Bouck, Cherry Point,
driver of the Renault, suffered la
cerations about the head and was
charged with driving drunk, ac
cording to patrolman J. C. Steele,
Morehead City officer who investi
gated.
Driver of the station wagon was
Dwight L. Johnson, who was re
turning the wagon to the owner,
Mrs. Marie Cunningham, after it
had been to the service station. The
Cunninghams operate the Do-Nut
House, west of Morehead City.
Patrolman Steele said the acci
dent happened between 27th and
28th streets. Both cars were head
ed west. He said it appeared that
the Renault cut in on the Opel, the
impact causing the Renault to flip
over.
Bouck was taken to Morehead
City hospital and later removed by
ambulance to the Cherry Point hos
pital. The Renault was owned by
Karl Fretcher, Cherry Point.
Stale TB Unit
Will Heel Here
m
The North Carolina Tuberculosis
association will meet Thursday
and Friday, April 27 and 28, at the
Biltmore hotel, Morehcad City.
Scott Venable, executive direc
tor of the association, and Bob
Smith, his assistant, were in More
head City Thursday arranging for
the meeting.
Among the speakers will be Her
bert C. Dc Young, Chicago, presi
dent of the National Tuberculosis
association, and Dr. Julie Wilson,
New York, medical director of the
national association.
Mr. Venable invites everyone in
this area. He said there is no
registration fee. While here, Mr.
Venable and Mr. Smith conferred
with Grover Munden, Morehead
City, chairman of the county TB
society.
Two Marines Hurt
In Sunday Crash
Two Camp Lejeunc Marines were
injured at 6:15 p.m. Sunday when
their 1956 Chevrolet upset on a
curve west of Broad Creek on high
way 24.
The injured arc Donald E. Blees,
passenger, and Robert C. Soulsby,
who was driving. Patrolman W.
E. Pickard, who investigated, said
the car was headed cast. Soulsby
lost control on a curve.
The car was termed a total loss.
Patrolman Pickard said he doesn’t
know what might have caused the
accident. The Marines were tak
en to Morehead City hospital and
later moved by ambulance to Le
jeune.
Remains in Hospital
Edgar Willis, Straits, is still in
the Morehead City hospital. He
has been under 24-hour guard since
he tried to commit suicidd Feb. 13
when officers' found the body of
Mrs. Aggie Ballou in the barn
where she and Willis were living.
the Juilliard orchestra here and
abroad.
' Mr. Kobayashi will play Concerto
for Violin and String Orchestra No.
II in E major by Baeh and Intro
duction and Rondo Capriccioso by
Saint-Saens Friday night.
Moiart’s Symphony No. 29 in A
major will be the featured work
by the symphony. This symphony
was written when the composer
was only 18 years old.
Symphony Society membership
cards will be honored at the con
cert and all other membership con
certs this season. The Little Sym
phony will appear in New Bern
Thursday at the Eleanor Marshall