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IN THIS ISSUE: ACTION SHOTS TAKEN AT TOURNAMENT 60th YEAR, NO. 24. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS 15 Speed Law Violators Pay Costs in Court Fifteen speed law violators paid costs in county court Tuesday for exceeding speed limits. They were Mary Kwasnick, Lloyd Bolt, Wal ter Guthrie, Cleveland Barnes, Ar chie Willis, Jerry Brown, Paul Nor man. Aston Willis Jr., Norman Lcimgruebler, Heber Golden Jr., Dennis Piner, Charles Springle, Stanley Burns, Robert Griffin, Mar vin Millis. Three defendants, Julian Fulch er, Jack Booz and David Gaylord, paid $5 and costs for speeding while Clark Ross and David Paul Warrick paid $10 and costs for the same violation. Other defendants, their charges and the findings of the court were as follows: Nelson Ray Bryant, using loud and profane language in public, 30 days in jail suspended on payment of $00 and costs. Nelson R. Bryant, issuing a worthless check, dismissed. Cicero Willis, using laud, boister ous and profane language, costs. Avon Barrett, public drunken ness and resisting arrest, 30 days in jail .Suspended on payment of $10 and costs; Vanda Alligood, passing a stopped school bus, costs. Everett Ingram, careless and reckless driving, $10 and costs. J. T. Brown, trespassing, 30 days in jail suspended on payment of $10 and costs. George Ray Jones, drunk driv ing, three months on the roads sus pended on payment of $100 and costs. Thomas Cockcroft, speeding and having an improper muffler, costs. Walter Lewandowski, hit and run. The warrant was amended to read misdemeanor for which the defendant was fined $25 and costs. James E. Newsom, having im proper registration, costs. Kenny Mabuary, careless and reckless driving, $100 and costs. Charles Culpepper, larceny. War rant was amended to forcible tres pas, costs. Stanley Gerron, driving on the wrong side of the road, costs. Melvin Ftoming Jr., careless and reckless driving, costs. Tommie Lee Culpepper, speeding and having an expired operator’s license, $10 and costs. James Simpson, public drunken ness, $4 and costs. . R. L. Kellum, issuing a worthless cheek. Defendant was made to honor the check and pay one-half court costs. William Axt, throwing trash on the highway, one-half costs. Roland Simmons, improper paiik ing, bond forfeited. Continued were 170 cases until later terms of court. Bridge Hearing Set for 3 P.M. The bridge hearing scheduled for Thursday, March 30, by the State Highway commission will begin at 3 p.m. in the highway building, Raleigh. It has been scheduled during the regular business session of the commission. Two public hearings have previ ously been held concerning the lo cation and specifications for the bridge on US 70 connecting the two. port cities. The highway commis sion applied for and received a per mit from the US Corps of Army Engineers to construct a fixed span across the Newport river, providing for a 65-foot vertical clearance sufficient for intracoastal waterway traffic. The new bridge would be built just north of the existing outmoded structure. The proposed design would permit installation of an ocean draw span to accommodate deep draft vessels should future development warrant. Several Carteret citizens have asked that the bridge be construct ed farther upstream, commented Merrill Evans, chairman. Demonstration Club Members Will Hear Congressman Here April 13 4 Two-County Camporee Will Take Place Here More than 400 Boy Scouts are expected at an Onslow-Carteret district camporee Friday through Sunday at the race track west of Morehead City. Saturday will feature contests between patrols. The public is in vited to the campfire program that night at 7:30 and the camporee will end with a church service Sun day morning. The minister will be the Rev. Barney Davidson, pas tor of the First Methodist church, Morehead City. (.earnin' by Bullin' • ■ mmmuMuunmm^vr -- **2<m Newport firemen continued their house burning training Sat urday. The E. T. Chadwick house at Gales Creek was burn ed during the afternoon. The dwelling was seriously damaged by fire in January and the own Carteret Beauty Pageant Set for Saturday, June 3 Mayor Hears Five Cases f Five defendants were given hear ings in Atlantic Beach mayor’s court Tuesday night at the town hall. They were David I,. Butcher, Cherry Point, convicted of public drunkenness and disturbing the peace; Vannie E. Willis, Williston, charged with public drunkenness, disturbing the peace, and resisting arrest; David Miller, Havelock, public drunkenness; and Marvin H. Chandler, Vanccboro, i public drunkenness. Miller and Chandler paid costs. Willis paid $5 and costs and was restricted from the beach for a year; Butcher paid costs and was restricted from the beach for a year. The case • against Richard A. Rumagc Jr., Cherry Point, charged with having an improper muffler, was not prosecuted. Rumage ap peared and informed the mayor the muffler had been fixed. Also docketed for appearance, but did not show, according to po lice chief Bill Moore, were Melvin G. Willis, Marshallbcrg, using loud and profane language; Scottie V. Lynch, Smyrna, public drunken ness and interfering with an offi cer; Willard S. Sanders, US Naval base, Little Creek, Va., public drunkenness and disturbing the peace. Livestock Market Session Scheduled for Tomorrow The Five County Co-operative Livestock market, which includes Carteret, has scheduled its annual meeting at the Craven County courthouse, New Bern, Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Jack Kelly, in charge of animal husbandy extension, will be guest speaker. A feature of the pro gram will be a 4-H Club demon stration presented by Woody John son, Craven county. ' Rep. David Henderson, third Congressional district of North Carolina, will be the speaker at the district meeting of Home Demon stration clubs Thursday, April 13, at the Biltmore Motor hotel, More head City. Mr. Henderson will speak on The Role of Today’s Homemaker. His address, at the morning session, will precede luncheon. Registra tion will begin at 9:30 a.iq. Two hundred are expected. Mrs. G. T. Spivey, Beaufort, chairman of the district, will pre side at the business session, which opens at -10 a.m. Following a buffet luncheon, the ers wanted the structure burned to make room for a new building. Fire chief Charlie Gould Jr., and Newport firemen B. T. Smith Jr. and Larry Howard, above, prepare to $1 vance an lMs-inch fog line to slow down the rate of ► Saturday, June 3, has been set as' the date for this year's Miss Car teret County beauty pageant, ac cording to information received from the Morehead City-Beaufort. Jaycees, eo-sponsoes of the event. This year’s pageant will be at the Morehead City raqe track, high way 70. This marks the second year that the Jaycees have held a Miss Car teret County contest instead of sep arate Miss Beaufort and Miss Morehead City pageants. The win ner of the contest advances to the state pageant where a Miss North Carolina is selected to compete in the Miss America contest. Contest rules state that contest ants must be at least 18 years old or less than 28 years old on Sept. 1, 1961. Contestants must also be a resident of Carteret county. (This does not-eliminate Carteret girls away at college). They must also be single, never married, divorced or had a marriage annulled. The selection of judges for the pageant will be announced later by the Jaycees. Entrants will be judged on beauty, personality, poise and talent. Although arrangements are in complete, the Jaycees hope to ob tain the services of a name band from Atlanta, Ga., to play for the pageant. Pageant contestants who would like further information should con tact Guy Smith, PA8-3717, Beau fort, or Bill Munden, PA6-3322. Beverly C. Rice Joins Morehead City Lions Beverly C. Rice, Morehead City, became a member of the More head City Lions club Thursday night at the club’s weekly meeting at the Hotel Fort Macon dining room. The program consisted of a club betterment discussion. Each mem ber presented ideas that he felt would make the club’s meeting more interesting. The club also approved the pur chase of a pair of glasses for a person recommended by the Wel fare Department. following officers Will be installed: Mrs. R. A. Watson, Craven coun ty, chairman; Mrs. Nelson Banks, Jones county, first vice-chairman; Mrs. J. E. Piland, Pamlico, second vice-chairman. Mrs. Earl Dunn, Carteret, treas urer; Mrs. L. G. Aman, Onslow, secretary; and Mrs. Spivey, Car teret, historian. During the day, women will model hats they have made. The meeting is expected to adjourn by 3 p.m. Carteret was host to the district five years ago. Counties in the district, in addi tion to this one, are Jones, Onslow, Craven and Pamlico. burning. No attempt was made to extinguish the main blaze, only to control it. The fire chief said the house burned in about 35 minutes. Twelve ■ firemen participated in the training, including the stand by crew back in Newport. ► Two Beaufort Women Injured Two Beaufort women were hos pitalized and their car demolished in a head-on collision at 14th and Evans streets, Morehead City, Tuesday afternoon. The women, Mrs. Lucy Mason Dickinson and Mrs. Carrie Styron, were still confined to the hospital at press time yesterday. Mrs. Dickinson suffered cuts and abra sions on the forehead, chest in juries and abraisons of the left knee. Mrs. Styron received cuts on the forehead and abrasions of the right knee. According to police, the 1942 Chevrolet, driven by Mrs. Dickin son, was going east on Evans street when it was hit by a 1957 Chevrolet being driven by Wilson Hayes Winstead Jr., Morehead City Coast Guardsman. Winstead’s car was going west on Evans. Mrs. Dickinson was the driver of the car carrying the two women and was passing a. car parked at the curb at the time of the acci dent. Winstead told police that he failed to see Mrs. Dickinson un til the collision. He was charged by the investi gating officer, Capt. C. E. Bunch, with speeding and careless and reckless driving. A passenger in Winstead’s car, Richard L. Crane, was also injur ed and was taken to the Morehead City hospital but was released aft er emergency treatment. Damage to Winstead’s car was estimated by police at $500. Mrs. Dickinson’s car was termed a total loss. General Asks Officials To Visit Marine Air Base Appearing before the state legis lature at Raleigh yesterday was Brig. Gen. F. C. Tharin, command ing general of MCAS, Cherry Point, who invited Tar ,Heel law makers to visit the air station. After addressing the State Sen ate and House of Representatives, general Tharin visited governor Sanford and personally invited the governor, lieutenant governor, their staff, the council of state, and members of the State supreme court to visit Cherry Point Wed nesday, May 10. gg gg Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, March 24 a.m. 8:47 a.m. p.m. 9:05 p.m. Saturday, March 25 a.m. 9:46 a.m. p.m. 10:02 p.m. Sunday, March 26 3:59 a.m. 10:37 a.m. 4:38 p.m. 10:54 p.m. . Monday, March 27 4:56 a.m. 11:25 a.m. 5:32 p.m. 11:42 p.m. County Board Hears Doctors Views on Site for Hospital And it Wasn't April Fool's Day, Either A fire that wasn't a fire caused some excitement at the Pete Hy man home in Beaufort Wednes day morning. The roof of the house was wet from rain. When the sun began to shine on it, steam started to rise. A passerby, seeing the white cloud above the house, thought the roof was on fire and turned in the alarm. The fire truck went screaming to the house, scaring the occu pants and everyone in the neigh borhood. Firemen put ladders up against the house before they found out there wasn’t any fire after all. Legislator Appraises C&D Board Change “With the proper appointments, increase of the number of mem bers on the Conservation and De velopment board can be a great improvement.” This is the appraisal of legislator D. G. Bell concerning governor Sanford’s measure to up C&D board membership from 18 to 28. Mr. Bell is chairman of the C&D committee of the House. Under the bill, which has been introduced in both the House and Senate, all present board mem ber^' terms will end June 30. Ap pointments will then be made with terms of office staggered. The change in the board was deemed necessary by the governor because so many fields have to be dealt with by the board that one member was serving on three or $ur committees. “Having served on the board,” Mr. Bell said, “I kndw' some the problems. When f was chair* man of the commercial fisheries committee (a subdivision of C&D), it took all my time on that com mittee, but I was on other com mittees, too.” Revamping of the C&D board is an outgrowth, according to Mr. Bell, of a proposal by Sanford that commerce and industry, a unit of C&D, should be a separate depart ment. The governor’s thinking has changed regarding separation, and he feels that putting more people on the board-will allow their de voting more time to fewer commit tees, the legislator commented. Relative to Mr. Bell’s statement regarding appointments, the legis lator explained that appointment to the board is controlled solely by the governor. C&D is the only board of which the governor is the official chairman. Gasoline Truck, Auto Collide A car and tractor trailer loaded with gasoline collided at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Bogue on highway 24. Alex W. Lewis, Beaufort, driver of the truck, suffered cuts and bruises. Walter E. Moeller, Swans boro, driver of the car, a 1956 Chrysler, got a bruised knee. State highway patrolman W. E. Pickard, who investigated, said Moeller was headed east and Lewis west when Moeller made a left turn in front of the gasoline truck. The truck hit the car and knock ed it into an Oldsmobile parked in front of Our Place, a retail beer outlet at Bogue. The Olds was owned by Samuel Pierce, Swans boro. The impact turned the gasoline truck over. Patrolman Pickard said it's amazing that the truck didn’t catch fire. Two fire trucks from Newport stood by while gas in the tractor-trailer was pumped to other trucks. Damage to the Olds, a 1959 mod el, was estimated at $400; the Chrysler was judged unrepairable, and damage to the tractor trailer was estimated at several thousands of dollars. The patrolman said the accident occurred in the rain. Charges are pending. Preliminary Hearings Set for Court Tuesday Preliminary hearings will be given Edgar Willis, Straits, and Elmo Lawrenee Jr., Otway, Tues day in county recorder’s court. Willis has been charged with at tempted suicide and Lawrence with murder of his stepfather, William F. Willis, Sunday, Dec. 18. Car Swindle Leads Ayden Man to Prison An Ayden, N. C., man, Thurman Alton Stocks, was sentenced to four j years in jail Tuesday in county recorder's court on charges that grew out of his swindling a new ear from a Morehead City car dealer. Stocks purchased a 1961 Comet from Hardesty Motors recently and paid for the car with a worthless > check for $2,200 drawn on an Ayden bank. According to deputy sheriff Bruce Edwards, Stocks then went to Raleigh with ,1. A. Kloars of Goldsboro to obtain a title for the vehicle. Title was denied when it was learned that Stocks didn't have lia bility insurance so he turned the car over to Floors and Floars ob tained the title and license on his liability coverage. Floars is a used car dealer in Goldsboro. Floars testified in court Tuesday that he paid Stocks $1,900 for the car. -.The car was then taken to Darlington, S. C. and sold on an auto market. Stocks was found guilty on two counts of issuing worthless checks and given two years in jail on each conviction. On two other charges of cheating and defrauding and false pretense, the court found probable cause and bound the de fendant over to the next term of superior court. On each of the charges Floars was named as co-defendant but all charges against him were dismiss ed. Stocks appealed his jail sen tences. He presently is being held without bond in the county jail. White. Elephant Items Needed Today f or Sale L. O. Crowe, Morchcad City, who* is in charge of collecting items for the White Elephant sale and auc tion tomorrow, reminds owners of white elephants that today is the last day to have the elephants pick ed up. The sale is being sponsored to raise funds to send the Morehead City school band to the Cherry Blossom festival, Washington, D. C. A "while elephant” is something that is as useful to a person as a white elephant. But what may be a white elephant to one person may be useful to someone else. Persons with white elephants are invited to donate them for sale to morrow. Items will be auctioned at 10 a m., 2 p.m. and 4 p in. at 908 Arendcll, across from Scars store. But the sale will go on all day. Persons who have items to con tribute should phone Mr. Crowe, PA6-3319 and the contributions will be picked up. Mr. Crowe said col lection of merchandise has been slow; cash contributions are better. Sheriff Hugh Salter spent the early part of this week in Wash ington, D. C., and yesterday in Raleigh. Beaufort Says Its Hat Is Still in the Ring In a Nutshell... Here’s what happened: • Doctors of Beaufort and Morehead City asked the county commissioners to consider relo cating the proposed county hos pital at Crab Point. • The county commissioners said if they consider Crab Point, they must consider other sites, including the Gibbs site, Bcau lorf. and reconsideration could mean months of delay in hospital construction. • Commissioners a s k e d the Beaufort Merchants association delegation what their stand would be if the county board considered Crab Point. J. O. Barbour Jr., president, said that if sites were reconsidered, Beaufort's site would have to be considered, too. • Dr. John Gainey, head of the Morehead City hospital staff, said that their request did not mean that any other site was to be con sidered, that if the hospital weren’t built at Crab Point, they wanted it to be at the Webb site. • Mayor W. II. Potter said, “Let the doctors decide where the hospital is to be built.” Mr. Barbour said let “a committee of responsible citizens decide.” The county commissioners decided March 9 on a waterfront (Webb) site on Bogue Sound. • When the Beaufort Mer chants association, after a con ference in the hall, couldn’t agree to any action but to keep plug ging for their site if the oppor tunity arose, the meeting ended. (A more detailed stofy appears in the column to the right). Lawyer Defines Hospital Site Luther Hamilton Jr., county at torney, was asked Wednesday to locate, approximately, the proposed site of the hospital, since people seem to have varying ideas as to its location. The proposed hospital property starts at a line about 650 feet east of the large Webb home on Bogue Sound. It runs eastward about 900 feet along the shore, and approxi mately 1,150 feet to highway 24 where the road frontage is 1,100 feet. • This consists of about 26 acres, on which, in one portion, a house and barn are situated. The house is occupied by Andrew Nance, who is employed by the owner of the property, Earle Webb. Fifty-six acres of the tract are north of highway 24. The county board has not officially specified as yet whether it will buy just the 26 acres or all 82. Love in Bloom News-Times Photo by McComb Gayle Strickland, Morehead City, and Glenn Adair, Beaufort, play opposite each other in the romantic murder thriller, Portrait In Mack, at 8 tonight and tomorrow night in the Morehead City school audi ► When the Beaufort Merchants as sociation delegation felt it could not decide Monday afternoon to compromise on a Crab Point site, the county commissioners recess ed. It was 5 minutes before 6 p.m. The meeting before the commis sioners, in the courtroom ot the courthouse, started at 3:30 p.m. It was scheduled to receive a pe tition from mayor George Dill, Morehcad City, who was asked by 14 doctors to present the petition. The doctors asked that the coun ty board reconsider its decision to put the hospital on Bogue Sound, west of Morehead City. They sug gested that the hospital be located at Crab Point. In addition to the doctors' signa tures, the petition bore the signa tures of mayor Dill and mayor W. II. Potter, Beaufort. Present at the meeting were 10 doctors from Beaufort an<l More head City and approximately 20 members of the Beaufort Mer chants association. Moses Howard, chairman of the county board, in opening the meet ing, stated that the hearing was granted, not to reopen the hospital site question, but to hear new evi dence in the matter, if any. Mayor Dill did not read the fol lowing, dated March 14, 1961, but told the board what it said: “The undersigned 'doctors, who represent most of the doctors who will practice in the new county hospital, respectfully request that the county board of commissioners reconsider a hospital site in the Crab Point area. “Recognizing that a decision has already been made, we do not wish to jeopardize in any way the con struction of the new county hos pital at the earliest possible date. However, all of us realize that a hospital much closer to the popu lation center, namely, the Crab Point area, would mean much less driving time for the attending phy sicians who will have to eare for the patients in the new hospital. “If this mileage were reduced materially, it would mean better care for the patients, less waiting at the hospital and in the doctors’ offices for patients and by reduc ing the travel time would enable the doctors to do a better job in their care of the health of the pop ulation of the county. “We are in one accord that ex cept for the distance from most of the doctors in the county, the Webb site is quite satisfactory. It is only on the distance factor that we wish that a reconsideration of a Crab Point site be made and we earnest ly request your cooperation to this end.” Doctors signing the petition were John Gainey, S. W. Hatcher, John Morris, Louis J. Norris, Theodore Salter, Frank Hyde, M. T. Lewis, Ben Royal, John Way, C. S. Max well, Luther Fulcher, L. W. Moore, Silas Thorne, and S. W. Thomp son Jr. The mayor also placed before the board a copy of a letter mayor Potter said he had sent to Mr. How ard last week. Mayor Dill did not read the letter, but said later that the letter recommended that the board, in a single motion, rescind its action on location of the hos pital and relocate it at a Crab Point site. After hearing mayor Dill’s pres entation, Mr. Howard said that he couldn’t see why the small differ ence in distance between the two sites (Crab Point and Bogue Sound) “has created all this disturbance.” “I think that you’re overlooking the fact that there are people in the western part of the county. We said the hospital would be at least three miles west of Morehead City and the Webb site is lVa miles over that three miles. We have already spent a considerable amount of money on that site,” Mr. Howard said. Mayor Potter said that if the doctors want the site changed, that is sufficient reason for changing it. Stating that he was represent ing the people of Beaufort, the mayor said, “I’ll go along with the doctors. Rescind all action and locate the hospital where the doc tors want it.” See DOCTORS’ VIEWS, Page 7 Vehicles Department's View on Roadblocks The flurry of roadblocks in the county for recent charity drives has prompted some motorists to inquire if the roadblocks were le gally permissible. According to Bill Crowell, direc tor of the public relations division, Department of Motor Vehicles, “the department is of the opinion that impeding the flow of traffic by road blocks or otherwise for the purpose of making solicitations of the drivers is an undesirable and possibly dangerous mistake.”
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