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IF YOU LIVE IN MOREHEAD CITY REGISTER TO VOTE CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 50th YEAR, NO. 32. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Essay Contest Winners Honored by Civitans Robert Seamon, left, presents essay plaque to Stewart Daniels, i -m principal of Smyrna school. The plaque was won for the school by Wayne Willis, right, winner of the recent Civitan essay contest. Individual school winners are Betty Gould, Newport, and Susan Dill, Morehead City. They hold plaques awarded them. A similar plaque was also given Willis. The plaques were engraved with their names. Winners in the Civitan essay con i test, How to Prepare Youth for a More Effective Citizenship, were honored gt a dinner meeting of the Civitan club Wednesday night at the Blue Ribbon restaurant. Three schools participated. The county winner was Wayne Willis, Smyrna senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elrtier Dcwis Willis. Winners at individual schools were Susan Dill, Morehead City senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Dill Jr., and Betty Gould. Newport senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Gould, Newport. { Each of the winners received a plaque. A large plaque, engraved with the county winner’s name, was presented to Stewart Daniels, principal of Smyrna school. The plpquc will remain at Smyrna and will go next year to the school which produces the county winner. Following presentation of plaques, the county winner read .his essay. Judges for the contest were Dr. A. F. Chestnut, Joseph \ Highatn and Miss Ruth Peeling. Contest chairman was Robert Sca mon. Mr. Seamon thanked the princi pals and English teachers of the participating schools for their co operation in the contest. He said the plaques given the winners were only material symbols of a much greater reward they received in preparing and writing their essays. In addition to the plaque, the contest winner will go to the camp, i Farmers to Get Pay When They Sign Up for Program Up to half of the payment to be earned on a farm under the 1961 feed grain program will be avail able as soon as the producer signs up, Clarence Millis, chairman, county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee, said today. f He pointed out that this payment should be'of substantial benefit to growers who can use some extra cash during the spring planting season. » The feed grain program offers payments to corn and grain sor ghum producers who divert acre age from the 1961 production of those crops to a soil-conserving use. , While the program is voluntary, farmers who grow corn and grain sorghum must cooperate by divert ing at least a minimum acreage in order to be eligible for price support on the normal production of their 1961-crop corn and grain sorghum acreage, and also on any of the other feed grains—barley, oats, and rye. The chairman explained that payments under the feed grain program will be in the form of 1 negotiable certificates, which may be redeemed either in grain or the cash equivalent. In the event that there are no Commodity Credit grain stocks available In this area, Wildacrcs, at Little Switzerland, this summer, to attend the Civitan 'Youth Conference on Hum ah Rela tions. The program there was de scribed by Walter Morris. Warren Beck presided at the meeting, which followed dinner. He gave a brief history of the Civitan organization. Now in its 41st year, the Civitan club was or ganized in Birmingham, Ala. Its motto is “Builders of Good Citizenship.” The first club in this state was organized at Asheville in 192E North Carolina, Mr. Beck said, is now the largest district in Civitan, with 114 clubs adn 4,700 members. Civitan, he continued, supports the boys’ home' at Lake Wacca maw, a program for mentally-re tarded children, sponsors essay contests and has numerous com mittees to carry out club functions. Mr. Beck concluded his talk by reading a letter, commending Civi tan, from J. Edgar Hoover, direc tor of the FBI. Mr. Willis, father of the county winner, and E. B. Comer, princi pal of Newport school, thanked the club for sponsoring the contest. Door prizes were given and fruit cakes distributed as favors to each one attending. The meeting was opened with a brief talk on char acter by Lewis Williams. In charge o.f the dinner was Robert Freeman and Mr. Seamon. The club will not meet for luncheon today. the entire payment will be made in cash. Each county will have two coun ty-average-rates of payment per acre for corn and two for grain sorghum. One rate will be based on 50 per cent, and the other on 60 per cent of the county normal yield per acre times the county support rate. Farm payment rates will vary according to the farm’s productiv ity in relation to the county aver age productivity and the number of acres diverted, Mr. Millis said. The minimum acreage for diver sion from either corn or grain sorghum or both will be figured from the “farm base”—determined from the total acerage on the farm used in producing these two crops in 1959 and 1960. The minimum reduction is 20 per cent of the base, and the max imum depends upon the size of the farm base. Farmers who are interested in participating in the 1961 feed grain program are urged to get in touch with the county ASC office imme diately for further information. The office is located on the second floor of the courthouse annex, Beaufort. The feed grain sign-up several weeks ago was the first part of the program. The information above deals with the second part, Mr. Millis points out. Crabbers Urged To Leave Sponge Crabs in Wafer • Lots of Small Shrimp Around, Official Says • C&D Board to Meet Sunday at Sanford State commercial fisheries com missioner Gehrmann Holland pleaded with crab fishermen this week not to take the “sponge crabs.” Sponge crabs are the female blue crabs heavy with eggk. “If we take these crabs when they're ready to spawn, we’re going to damage our future crop of hard crabs,” the commissioner said. He said the spawning season is earlier this year than usual. The sponge crabs were discovered about three weeks ago. As a result of the crack-down on taking of sponge crabs, some crab plants have closed. Mr. Holland said that some fishermen insist on taking the crabs (several arrests have been made) because the price for them now is good. The price has been off until recently. In the soft-shell crab fishery, peelers are being taken, mostly at Markers Island and Davis. The commissioner also said that there arc lots of small shrimp, which may indicate a good season ahead. There have been claims of fresh shrimp being taken in the ocean, but there is basis for belief that some shrimpers may be tak ing the shrimp, in violation of law, in inland waters now. The shrimp season in inland 'waters doesn’t open until May, usually about the middle of the month. Ocean trawls are dredging for clams when they can. The com missioner said the weather has been so bad that clam dredging has been at a minimum. Boats from Atlantic to Shallottc are work ing clam beds. In this county they are operating on both sides of Beaufort bar. More than 968,000 pounds of North Carolina clams have been processed at the Willis factory, Williston, this winter. Clams brought in from other states amounted to 203,817 pounds. Mr. Holland announced that the Conservation and Development board will meet Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in Sanford. The com mercial fisheries^ committee of C&D will convene at 2 p.m. Mon day in the Wilriek hotel. Some Carteret fishermen arc ex pected to appear before the com mittee to request that the restric tion on taking sponge crabs be lifted. Mrs. Holland will accompany her husband to the meeting. Dr. A. F. Chestnut, Morchead City, director of the Institute of Fisheries Re search, UNC, is also expected to at tend. 24 Join Friends Of the Library Twenty-two have joined Friends of the Library and two have paid patron memberships, announces Thomas Respess, publicity chair man for the library group. Patron members are Guthrie Jones drug store and Mrs. Myrtle Duncan, both of Beaufort. Other members are Mrs. Juhn Costlow, Mrs. W. N. Gilchrist, Mrs. John R. Reintjes, Mrs. Gaston Simpson, Mr. Respess, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harvcll. Miss Lena Duncan, Mrs. Grace Fodrie, Mrs. L. J. Klein, Mrs. Ed ward Arrington, Mrs. C. G. Hol land, Mrs. E. H. Potter, Mrs. Flor ence Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. Iiolden Ballou, Mrs. Donald Hoss, Mrs. W. H. Taylor Sr., Mrs. William Nicholson, Mrs. Jack Ward, Mrs. Grayden Paul and Miss Rubyc Respess. Memberships arc $1 annually for regular or associate memberships and $5 or more for patron and civ ic group memberships. People may join Friends of the Library at the library, by paying membership fees to any member of the American Association of Uni versity Women, or any of the per sons listed above. Tides at the Beaufort Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, April 21 12:35 a.m. 1:14 p.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:11 p.m. Saturday, April 22 1:22 a.m. 2:05 p.m. 8:04 a.m. 8:21 p.m. Sunday, April 23 2:12 a.m. 3:01 p.m. 9:05 a.m. 9:27 p.m. Monday, April 24 3:07 a.m. 3:57 p.m. 9:58 a.m. 10:21 p.m. Edward Dixon Named Tuesday Night As Chairman of Hospital Trustees Town Candidates to Speak At Jaycee-Sponsored Forum The Mnrehead City junior cham ber of commerce will sponsor a public forum at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Morehcad City high school auditorium. Purpose of the forum is to give each candidate for pub lic office in the coming city elec tion an opporlunity to express his views and explain his platform. The moderator, P. H. Geer Jr., will allow each candidate for com missioner 5 minutes and each can didate for mayor 10 minutes to ex press his views. The talks will be followed by a Mayor Issues Statement Concerning Past, Future Two Appeal Verdicts Given In City Court Two defendants appealed in Morehead City recorder’s court Monday. They were Curtis Tildcn Guthrie, Newport, and James T. Brown, Morehead City. Guthrie was convicted of having no operator’s license and making an improper left turn and was fin ed $25 and costs. Brown was found guilty on charges of having no operator’s license and drunk driving. He was fined $250 and costs. Judge Herbert O. Phillips set bond for Guthrie at $50 and for Brown, $500. Both of the cases were transferred to the next term of superior court. Eleanore Carol Gillikin, Cedar Island, was convicted on two charges of issuing worthless checks. Judgment of the court was that she pay costs and honor the two checks. Wilson Hayes Winstead Jr., Fort Macon, appeared to answer charges of speeding and careless and reckless driving. The defend ant was acquitted on the careless and reckless driving count, but for speeding was fined $50 and court costs. Linwood E. Swinson, Morehead City, was convicted of having no operator’s license and failing to yield the right of way. lie was fined $25 on the first count and $10 on the second, besides being taxed with court costs. A defendant awarded an acquit tal was Edmund G. Phillips, Morc hcad City, chared with installa tion of plumbing in a house at 15th and Avery streets without a permit. Roger Allen Conner, Morehead City, appeared before judge Phil lips, charged with having no op erator’s license, careless and reck less driving and driving drunk. Conner's warrant was amended to include a charge of public drunk enness. The defendant was not prosecuted on the first three charges but for public drunkenness was ordered to pay court costs. Cases against Theodore Dudley, Abbott P. Rose and Thomas West were continued until next week’s term of court. question and answer period and the audience will be encouraged to participate. Everyone interested in Morehead City government , is encouraged to attend. There will be no admission charged. Jaycce president, Clifton Lynch, said the candidates he has contact ed have expressed interest and en thusiasm and he hopes all candi dates will take advantage of this opportunity. At the present ’ time there arc two candidates for mayor and elev en candidates for city commission er. ► Mayor W. II. Potter, Beaufort, who is unopposed in the coming town election, recently made a statement regarding his adminis tration, past and future. Mayor Potter said: "It seems appropriate at this time to express my thanks for the support the citizens of the Town of Beaufort have given me and the board of commissioners, during the current term of office and to also present a statement of the propos ed program for the coming two years. "Since only two of the present commissioners have filed for re election there will be at least three new commissioners following the town election in May. Too, I am not able to speak for other than myself "in matters of the policy to be followed. "My efforts will be directed to the betterment of all phases of the administrative affairs of Beaufort with emphasis on: 1. Strong effort toward more ade quate utilization of recreational and commercial use of our harbor and waterway facilities. 2. Extension of the services of our town to the suburban areas— annexation. 3. Better educational facilities. 4. Improved business conditions. 5. Safety of the citizens from all hazards. 6. Industrialization where suit able to aid in the increase of our standard of living. 7. 'Recognition of the commun ity of Beaufort as a GOOD place to work and live. "This policy can only be effec tive through full cooperation of all concerned.” Ten Candidates Run for Newport Town Board Posts Ten men arc running for the five town commissioner posts in Now port. Mayor Leon Mann, who filed for re-election, is unopposed. All of the present commissioners, with the exception of Wilbur Gar ner, arc running for re-election. They are John Bell Kelly, Bennie R. Garner, Leslie Bcrcegeay and C. II. (Dick) Lockey. Other candidates are Gilbert Slaughter, Raymond Edwards, George Green, James S. Smith, Johnny Thrower and Brantley Mears. Tuesday was the last day candi dates could file for office. The election will be Tuesday, May 2. Mayor Visits Air Staton Morehead City mayor George W. Dill is briefed oa the operation of a radar unit by GySgt. Raymond P. Moreau, supervisor of the in strument flight room at the Station Radar Air Traffic Control center. Mayor Dill visited the Air Station oa Wednesday, April 12, and tawed the tower radio Tickets Ready For Chamber Clambake May 3 Tickets arc now available for (he chamber of commerce clambake Wednesday, May 3, at Willis Bro thers clam house, Williston. .1. A. DuBois, manager of the chamber, announces that Elmer Willis, member of the chamber board of directors, is providing the clambake at cost, $2 per person. Supper will be served at 7:30 p.m. Chamber members, prospective members, their families and guests are invited. The Distinguished C i t i z e n's Award lor 1060 will be presented as well as several travel promo tion awards. The speaker will be Hargrove Bowles Jr., director of the Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment. A roommate of Gov. Terry San ford at the University of North Carolina, and his ardent supporter in his successful campaign for the State’s No. 1 office, Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles interrupted his business career to enter public service. Al 42, he is the youngest man to head the far-flung Department of Conservation and Development— eight divisions and over 700 em ployees. Director Bowles is a native of Monroe, and now a legal resident of Greensboro, where he has ex tensive business interests. These include vice presidency of North side Development Corp., now build ing a million-dollar shopping cen ter. He is a director of the First Union National Bank of Charlotte, and associated with several other financial and insurance enterprises. In college he organized an or chestra that became widely known as “Skipper Bowles’ Band.” He played the trumpet. He served as an enlisted man in the Army 1943 to 1945. Entering business, he be came a member of the staff of the large wholesale grocery firm of Thomas and Howard, and rose to the presidency which he held until the sale of the firm in 1956. lie is a pilot with a multi-engine rating. In 1941 he married Jessamine Boyce of Gastonia. They have two boys and two girls. Dunes Club Plans Summer Bud Dixon, president of the Dunes club, a private beach club on Boguc Banks, reported this week that the club has rented two cot tages east of Club Colony for the coming summer. The cottages arc owned by Roland McClamroch. (The McClamrochs recently pur chased the Alton Bland occanfront home next to the Coral Bay club). The club will provide the same services, on a limited basis, as be fore Donna. Hurricane Donna de stroyed the clubhouse, which was located next to the Occanana. One of the cottages will be used for the dining room and the other for a lounge and other activities. Plans for the coming season were made Sunday at a meeting at Mr. Dixon’s motel, Morehead City. The board of directors will meet again this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the motel. The club has retained the firm of Wallace and Wallace, Kinston, to bring suit against insurance companies which have denied pay ment of claims on the loss the club suffered in Donna. Total insur ance held was $54,500. Mr. Dixon said the club was will ing to settle for a portion of that, but the insurance companies re fused any payment. Coast Guard Refloats 45-Foot Boat Wednesday Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen re floated a 45-foot yacht, the Yawc Margarce, Wednesday. It ran aground in the Morehead City west channel. The boat is owned by G. W. Thompson of Baltimore and was being operated by W. Cottie, Cocoanut Grove, Fla. The Coast Guard 30-footer was dispatched to make the assist and was operated by crewmen W. F. Alston, BM-1; W. J. Morgan, BM-1; and H. D. Paul Jr., SN. Decision Awaited By noon yesterday, judge Albert Cowper had not yet informed court officials of his decision regarding the hospital suit, filed by J. O. Barbour Jr., and others against county commiaaionera. Board Elects Building Committee, Sees Plans Edward (Bud) ftixon . . . heads board District Jaycees Will Convene This Weekend Morchead City Jaycees will be host to 12th district Jaycees this weekend at the Biltmore motor ho tel, according to Jaycce president Clifton Lynch. Nine clubs, which represent Dis trict 12, have indicated they will send delegates to the meeting, which opens with registration at 1 p.in. tomorrow. The two candidates for state Jaycee president, Fred Swartzhcrg of High Point and John Kennedy of Fayetteville, will attend Mr. Lynch said Wednesday that an in vitation has been sent It slate president AI Sharpe. Following Saturday's regiatr: tion, a happy hour will lie held from 5 to 6 and a dance for Jay cccs and their wives will start at 9. The business meeting will gel under way at 9 Sunday morning. Highlighting the business session will be the election of a district vice-president. As of Wednesday, only one man, Bill Singleton of Morehead City, had filed for the office. Presiding over the two-day event will be Mr. Lynch, president of the host club and district vice president William Craft of Ken ansvillc. 18 Candidates File in Morehead Vernon Paul, Morehead City, has filed for the office of clerk of court, Morehead City. He is opposing the incumbent, John Lashley. By 1:30 p.m. yesterday, three hours prior to the filing deadline, the following had announced their candidacy: for mayor, George W. Dill Jr., who is running for re election, and Josiah W. Bailey; for judge of recorder’s court, Herbert Phillips III, seeking re-election. For commissioner, S. C. Hollo way, Walter Morris, D. J. Hall, Bud Dixon, Dr. Russell Outlaw, Ray Kennedy, Bill Wilkins, Dom Femia, O. J. Morrow, James No bles and Joe Collins. For hospital trustees: John L. Crump and Mrs. J. C. Taylor. Operation Alert Will Begin At 4 P.M. Friday, April 28 By HARRY WILLIAMS County Civil Defense Director Operation Alert, to test the com munications and preparedness of the United States in case of an at tack, will begin Friday, April 28, at 4 p.m. and end Saturday, April 29, at 12 noun. On April 28 at 4 p.m. by order of the Federal Communications commission, all United States ra dio and tv stations will go off the air for 30 minutes. The only broad casting will be over the Conelrad frequencies of 640 and 1240 Kc on your radio. During an attack Con clrad would be your most direct means of receiving official infor mation and instructions.. At exactly 4 p.m. April 28 there will be a simulated air raid ALERT in Morehead City, Beaufort, At lantic Beach, and Newport, also in the outlying areas of Carteret county. This will be a steady alarm of from 3 to 5 minutes by siren and air raid warning sys tem. When you bear this signal, tune Edward S. (Bud) Dixon, More head City, was elected chairman of the county hospital board of trustees Tuesday night at the courthouse, Beaufort. He was also elected spokesman for the hospital building committee, which consists of Charles King and Albert Chap pell, both of Beaufort, and Charles Harris, Marshallberg. The building committee was elected following hospital board organization. Also on the building committee is Moses Howard, chair man of the county board of com missioners. By action Tuesday night the chairman of the board (Mr. Dixon) was also made a mem ber of the committee. Mr. Dixon was named temporary chairman of the board last week. All board members except James Potter 111, Beaufort, and John L. Crump, Morehead City, attended the meeting. In addition to those on the building committee, they are Gerald Hill, Beaufort; Mrs. Clayton Fulcher Jr., Atlantic; W. L. Dcrrickson and William Davies, Morehead City; Mrs. Nellie C. Gar ner, Newport; and H»ger Jones, Broad Creek. Mr. Howard announced that Beaufort interests requested that a Beaufort resident be named to the board for a five-year term (named last week for a five-year term were Mr. Davies, Mr. Dixon, Mrs. Fulcher and Mr. Harris). Mr. Dixon agreed, Mr. Howard said, to accept a four-year term. The board then chose Mr. Hill to serve five years. Mr. Hill had been appointed to a four-year term. It was explained that after ex piration of current terms, all terms on the board arc five years. The staggered terms arc merely set up at the beginning so that ap pointments in the future would not occur at the same lime. Mr. Davies also made sugges tions regarding changing the set op on fiscal matter . The lerm of offir< for the chair man and other off it rs was set at years. Electee vice-chairman was ^r Derrick.so and secretary, Mrs. t.- • • Tbe resolution establishing the board of trustees was amended to state that any member of the board failing to attend four con secutive meetings shall automatic ally be expelled from office. Appointed to a committee to make recommendations regarding an administrator, when he should be hired, when interviewing should begin, etc., were Mr. Hill, Mrs. Fulcher and Mr. Jones. Mr. Dixon said that he and Dr. John Morris visited the new hos pital at Raleigh recently. Mr. Dix on said he was told that an ad ministrator's salary for a 100-bed hospital would be between $7,500 and $10,000. George Watts Carr, arthitcct, who attended the meeting, pre sented preliminary drawings for a three-story hospital. He esti mated that construction time would require 18 months. He said that after preliminary plans are ap proved, final plans would be forth coming in six or eight months. He said that if the administra tor went to work within six months of completion of the hospital, that would be “plenty of time.” In the funds set up for the hos pital, $160,000 is allotted for buy ing equipment. Mr. Carr remark ed that the administrator would be responsible for buying that equip ment. He said if the hospital ad ministrator is not available to do See HOSPITAL, Page 2 your radio to 640 or 1240 Kc for further instructions. If there is to be an actual simulated ATTACK the alarm system will sound short bursts for 3 minutes. This alarm will mean take cover immediately in the best available shelter. It is the responsibility of each citizen to obey the signals and any Civil Defense personnel. Each family should have, at all times, food and water for 14 days, port able radio, first aid supplies and any other items essential in an emergency. 'Try to keep your auto mobile's gas tank full, as you may need it for evacuation. The Carteret County Civil De fense Communication network will be in operation during this alert. The base station will be in the communication center in the court house, Beaufort, and the Atlantic Beach municipal building. These stations will be in direct contact with State Civil Defense headquar ters, Raleigh. For further information call mo at PA6-4M8.
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