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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET NEWS-TIMES 60th YEAR, NO. 33. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Hospital Suit Dismissed; Case Goes to Supreme Court Judge Albert W. Cowper has dismissed the county hospital suit and J. O. Bar bour Jr., and others, who started the action against county commissioners, have appealed to the state su preme court. Thus ends round 3 in the county ' hospital project. Ilound 1 ended in passing of the referendum. Round 2 ended with selection of a hospital site. Round 3 opened when Beaufort residents filed a suit in which they alleged that the county was not liv ing up to a 1937 agreement with bondholders and shouldn't borrow money to build a hospital, that the property selected for the hospital site (Webb property on Bogue ' sound), has a defective title, that the amount being paid ($75,000) is excessive, and that more property was being purchased than is neces sary for hospital use. In superior court in Beaufort Fri day, April 7, judge Cowper ruled that the bondholder argument and the defective title allegation were not sufficient to block hospital con struction. He then accepted written testi , mony on the other points and made his decision late Thursday. The plaintiffs, J. O. Barbour and others, were ordered to pay costs of court. Bond was set at $100. Luther Hamilton Jr., county at torney, said that he believed a de cision from the supreme court may be forthcoming in two or three weeks. Mr. Barbour, commenting on the , hospital situation, said yesterday that it is not the intent of the com plainants in the suit to "destroy the hospital” as has been charged by some. “We opposed the method of se lecting a site and we still oppose it,” Mr. Barbour added. He said that he believes the entire hospital program may jeopardize a pro gram for better schools, which, he contends, should be the primary concern. Town Efforts Blocked Again ibdge W. J. Bundy signed an in junction at Greenville Thursday restraining the town of Beaufort from proceeding with any further annexation plans while a prior an nexation suit is still hanging fire. The injunction was requested by George W. Huntley Jr. and others, who filed suit last year against , the town. At that time the town was attempting to annex Handock and Highland Park and other areas adjacent to Beaufort. The order blocking that action was signed Feb. 26, 1960. Ronald Earl Mason, Beaufort town clerk, said yesterday that the town expects to proceed with a hearing at 7:30 Saturday night re * garding annexation, by vote, of an area between Taylor’s creek and the northern boundary of homes on Ann Street extended. Bill Singleton Elected To Head JC District Bill Singleton, past president of the Morehead City Jaycees, was elected Jaycee district vice-presi dent Sunday at the 12th quarterly district meeting at the Biltmore hotel, Morehead City. Mr. Singleton, who ran unop posed for the office, will be install ed with other state officers at the * state convention in Asheville, May 19-21. As chief officer in the dis trict, he is automatically a vice president in the state organization. Three Groups Tackle School Issues Improved schools occupied the f attention of three groups during , the past week. The Newport Rotary club en dorsed last Monday night the New port PTA’s western Carteret school district proposal. At Beaufort Thursday night, 35 residents met at the town hall and proposed two consolidated high schools, one in the eastern part of the county and one in the west. The same night , the county PTA council met at Smyrna and discussed its main project^ the molding of a plan for better, schools. Harold Chartley, secretary of the Newport Rotary club, presented the club’s action as follows: “The Newport PTA’s proposal (which has already been presented to the county board of education) stresses a real need for a system of school centers serving the peo ple of Western Carteret. It was also pointed out that this proposal was primarily prepared for the people of Western Carteret. How ever, if the people of Central and Bettie Displays Its Products Bettie’s exhibit in Beaufort’s recent Good Neighbor Days event promotes Bettie as the county’s truck crop center. The exhibit appears in Stamper’s window. J. O. Barbour Jr., president of the Beaufort Merchants associa tion, said yesterday that the ex hibits will remain in windows through tomorrow. The associa tion promoted Good i Neighbor Tuberculosis Societies Will Convene Thursday at Hotel Mayor Speaks To Rotary Club Mayor George Dill was the guest speaker at the Thursday night • meeting of the Morehead City Ro tary club. Mayor Dill gave a talk on the different types of city government in use today through out the state. He explained that Morehead City has a mayor-city council type of government where the mayor is responsible for seeing that all func tions of the city government are taken care of by the commission ers, within the budget. Mayor Dill also explained that local financing is a problem be cause of the differing laws which are passed by the state legislature where one law states that certain mcasijres will be followed and oth er laws make it difficult or impos sible to follow them. Emile Olschner, registrar for the town, reported that approximately 900 persons had registered to date for the city elections. Saturday, April 22, was the last day for reg istration. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort BSr HIGH LOW Tuesday, April 25 4:06 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 4:50 p.m. 11:09 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 5:02 a.m. 11:29 a.m. 5:38 p.m. 11:54 p.m. Thursday, April 27 5:50 a.m. 12:12 a.m. 6:19 p.m. . Eastern Carteret so desired, they could have school districts for their areas. “This, however, docs not mean that the Western Carteret school proposal is dependent in any way upon the acceptance of school dis tricts in Central or Eastern areas. It was further pointed out that the Western Carteret school proposal meets federal and state require ments for consolidation, since there are four school districts serving the Western Carteret area. “After a period of discussion, the proposal was unanimously approv ed and endorsed as a sensible and practical means of meeting school needs resulting from population changes—now—and in the future.” The Beaufort group expects to place a resolution before the coun ty board of education proposing a West Carteret school and East Car teret school. The group is opposed to a suggestion by the Beaufort and Morehead City school boards that the two districts unite. Thu boards made that proposal Days Friday and Saturday. “I think the displays are mar velous,” Mr. Barbour said, “and the merchants association ex presses its appreciation to all the communities. We hope that this event will become an annual af fair and become bigger with each year.” A description of the exhibits will appear in Friday's paper. ♦ Special to The News-Times The North Carolina Trudeau so ciety, an organization of doctors interested in tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases, will hold its 14th annual meeting at the Bilt more Thursday, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the North Carolina Tuberculosis association. Two sessions open to all interest ed doctors are scheduled, accord ing to Dr. Stuart Willis, chairman of the program planning commit tee. They will be held at the hotel, located west of Morehead City. Dr. Willis is president of the state tuberculosis association. He is superintendent and director of the North Carolina sanatprium system and president-elect of the National TB association. He is known throughout the coun try as an outstanding authority on tuberculosis research and is past president of the American Thoracic society. The meeting will get under way with a noon luncheon Thursday, at which Dr. A. L. Ormond of Hick ory, president, will preside. The opening address, Prevention of TB by Medical Means, will be present ed by Dr. Julius L. Wilson, direc tor of medical education, Ameri can Thoracic society, New York City. The doctors will hear four scien tific papers and view a film at the afternoon session to begin at 2:30 p.m. The titles of the papers and speakers: Pulmonary Infection with Nocar dia Astcroides Successfully Treat ed with Sulfonamides by Dr. John W. Freese, Durham; Allergic Re sponse to Purified Tuberculo-Pro teins by Dr. Javad Vakilzadeh, DVM, Chapel Hill; Study of Pul monary Nodules Found in 100 Con secutive Autopsies by Dr. Roger at the April county education board meeting. The county board of edu cation took no action, but said it would be willing to consider such a move if a suitable site could be found. Albert Gainey, principal of Beau fort school, who appeared with Raymond Ball, chairman of the Beaufort school board, at the April meeting of the county education board, said Friday that if a site could not be found that would suit both Beaufort and Morehead City, he and Mr. Ball suggested that a site be bought for building a new Beaufort high school as soon as possible. An East Carteret and West Car teret school was proposed in 1959 when citizens voted down a $2'/i million bond issue, if that had passed, it was proposed that $1 million would be used to build a West Carteret school on highway 101 in the vicinity of the Little Nine golf course and an East Car teret school be built on the D. R. Arnold property three miles east of Beaufort. Rescue Squad Obtains New Station Wagon The newly ■ organized Beaufort rescue squad has ordered a rescue truck and expects delivery of the new vehicle within the next two weeks. A Corvair Grcenbriar sta tion wagon is the type of vehicle that will be used. It will be equip ped with rescue equipment pur chased by the squad. The organization has also leased a building which will serve as a permanent meeting place and storehouse for rescue squad equip ment. The building is located on the Y property, Gordon street, Beaufort. The squad is in the pro cess of renovating the building. Building materials have been do nated by Safi it’s lumber company and Huntley's building and supply company. At present, the rescue squad is comprised of 11 active members plus three associate members. Of ficers of the organization are Vir gil Woolard, chief; Melton Law rencc, assistant chief; Harvey Gas kill Jr., captain; Tommy Avery, secretary; and Tom Hewitt, treas urer. Other members are Bryan Lof tin, Gerald GaskilJ, Norwood Gas kill, Atlon Gaskill, Warren Thom as Willis, and Frank Lewis. J. I*. Harris, Wiley Taylor Jr. and Glenn Adair arc associate members. Mr. Lawrence, assistant chief, said Sunday that the organization needs more active members. Mem bership fee in the rescue squad is $5 and monthly dues are $1, ac cording to Lawrence. The organi zation also hopes to have a train ing program set up in the near fu ture. Dr. Stuart Willis . . . beads TB association D. Baker, Durham; and Follow-Up Study of Medically Treated Lung Abscess by Dr. Charles L. Herring, Chapel Hill. The film to be seen is entitled Bronchitis and Bronchiectasis: Differentiation for Treatment with comments by Dr. John T. Joyner, Oteen. All physicians in Carteret and surrounding areas arc cordially in vited. Meetings are open and no registration fee will be charged. Frost Kills Tomato Plants, Nips Potatoes Last week’s chilly weather, which brought frost, killed many tomato plants in fields and home gardens. Also affected were the irish po tatoes. The vines turned brown where they were frost-nipped. Re-setting of tomato plants is under way this week. The remaining half million would have been used to make repairs to present school buildings. While residents of the eastern part of the county seemed to agree to this, a week before the bond referendum Atlantic and Smyrna school patrons appeared before the county board of education and said they objected to the Arnold site and were in favor of the bond issue only if the school were located in the vicinity of Smyrna. Beaufort residents objected to this and two days after the pres entation of the Atlantic-Smyrna views, both Beaufort and More head City residents who had been pushing for approval of the refer endum, withdrew their support. Residents of the White Oak area were also against the school bond referendum and its attendant two consolidated schools for the county. According to opinions expressed Thursday night by the Beauforl group, each of the site! for the two consolidated schools should be selected on the basis of ‘‘pupil mileage." They proposed to cir 2,000Acres Burned When Arsonist Sets Fire at Davis New Registrants Number 1,526 Morehcad City’s total registra tion is 1,526. E. W. Olschner, registrar, re ported that 458 registered Satur day, the last day registration books were open. The list of registrants is the list that will be used in the forthcoming election. Anyone who has not registered during the recent registration period will not be permitted to vote. Saturday will be challenge day. BidsWiHBe Opened Today Raleigh — The State Highway commission will open bids today on dredging work across Oregon Inlet, to re-establish normal ferry service between Nags Head and Hatteras on the Outer Banks. Also to be opened will be bids on the dual lane highway from highways 24 and 70 into Morehcad City. The Oregon Inlet ferry has been operating on longer than usual runs since the short channel shoaled up this spring. Dredging will cut trip time, which is now 50 minutes, in half. Highway department dydrograph ic engineers have been rushing the plans for dredging the inlet, in an effort to provide normal ferry service as the tourist season ap proaches. The channel will be dredged to a width of 100 feet, and an eleva tion of 7 feet below mean low wa ter. Other work includes improve ments to the ferry slip on Pea Is land, providing better protection lor the ferries.. A total of 30 cal endar days will be allowed to com plete the dredging operation. The highway commission will re view the low bids when it meets Thursday in Raleigh. I Four Forfeit Bond at Beach Four mayor’s court defendants forfeited bond at Atlantic Beach last week. They were Arthur D. Carr, Cher ry Point, charged with having an improper muffler; Gene A. Ben ton, Supply, charged with public drunkenness, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest; Wesley Brown, Morehead City, public drunkenness, and Carl Benton, Shallottc, public drunkenness. Alfred L. Taylor, Newport, paid costs for disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. Mayor A. B. Cooper presided. Red Cross Extends Drive to May 15 Bed Cross officials, meeting Mon day night at the Morehead City town hall, extended the Red Cross drive until May 15, in the hopes of coming closer to their goal of $4,000. Ronald Earl Mason, Beaufort, publicity chairman, said $700 has been raised to date. Collections in Beaufort, Morehead City and Newport have been very poor, he commented. Attending the meeting were Gar land Scruggs, chairman of the Red Cross, Jim Hux, Tommy Lewis, John Humphrey, Don Forster, Blakely Pond and Mr. Mason. culate petitions in the eastern part of the county asking that residents there support the East Carteret and West Carteret high school pro posal. Gilbert Potter served as chair man at Thursday’s meeting which was held in the town hall. At Smyrna the PTA council heard progress reports on school improvement plans. When the council comes to a conclusion, its suggestions will be presented to the county board of education. Attending the meeting were Stewart Daniels, Vannie Willis, Charles Harris, J. C. Davis, all of Smyrna school district; R. W. Dav is, Robert Bittner, Camp Glenn; Clyde Burr, Lecil Smith, Lenwood Lee, Morebead City. Leslie Bercegeay, Harry Mizelle, E. B. Comer, Newport; Lena Tay lor, Atlantic; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wade, Harkers Island, and Mrs. L. J. Klein, Beaufort. The council’s next meeting will be Thursday, May 18, at Smyrna schools Three Pastors Will Assist With Migrants Three Negro ministers, the Rev. C. C. Walker, Newport, the Rev. W. I,. Griffin, Morehead City, and the Rev. E. Everett Lewis, Beau fort, have been named coordinat ing chairmen for Negro churches in the migrant ministry program. The three were named at the re cent meeting of the migant minis try committee in the Eure build ing, Beaufort. It was proposed that the farmers who use migrant labor be invited to a meeting of the migrant min istry committee. The Rev. lohn | Cline, chairman of commodities, i said that supplies are coming in ! such as health kits, and similar j items the migrants need, lie said j there is a .good supply of clothes on hand. 1 he Rev. Ralph Fleming Jr. re ported that the State Legislative council is hoping to improve the lot of the migrant in two fields, trans portation and sanitation. The Rev. B. L. Davidson suggest ed that a church be made ‘'spon sor" for each camp. The church would be responsible for providing religious services and recreational activities at the camp. Mr. Lewis said that most mi grants do not want Sunday morn ing church services. If they have them, he said they don't want a ‘‘dry speaker.” They want sing ing and music, lie recommended that services if conducted Sunday, be conducted Sunday night. Methods of financing the migrant ministry program were discussed. R. M. Williams, a member of the audio-visual committee, agreed to take color slides this summer. Miss Gcorgie Hughes, county welfare superintendent, reported ijjat the director of child welfare plans to visit the camps. She said that there is a possibility of em ploying two homemakers in con junction with care of migrant chil dren. Attending the meeting, in addi tion to those mentioned, were Mrs. Jethro Quidley, Mrs. Dan Sadler, L. R. Johnson, Wilbur Garner, S. R. McLendon and Miss Ruth Reel ing. Car Hits Rear of Auto In Sunday Accident A 1954 Mercury driven by Lloyd II. Brooks, Beaufort, hit a 1956 Oldsmobile in the rear at 4:25 p.m. Sunday three miles east of Newport on highway 70. Brooks has been charged with following too closoly, according to patrolman J. W. Sykes, who investigated. Driving the Oldsmobile was Lloyd Needham, USMC, Cherry Point. No ono was hurt. Damage to the Olds was estimated at $150. There was no damage to the Mer cury. The cars were headed west when the accident occurred. Business Entered Machine and Supply Co., Beau fort, was broken into over the weekend. Sheriff Hugh Salter said entry was gained by prying open an air vent. Owners could not de termine immediately if anything was missing. ♦' A 2,000-acre forest fire near Davis was finally brought under control Saturday when -planes of the forestry ser vice, stationed at Jacksonville, doused it with “water bombs.” E. M. Foreman, county forest ranger, said the fire was set by an arsonist Thursday night. It was spotted from the Otway fire control towci early rri-' day morning by Mrs. Patricia Law rence, who mans the lower. The fire burned through to the Open (irounds, consuming, for the most part, merchantable timber. Mr. Foreman, who went without sleep for more than 24 hours in battling the blaze, said yesterday lhat he hadn't had time to check on who owned the burned over area. High winds fanned the blaze. Be cause of marshy areas, it was im possible to plow fire lanes. The water bombers were called to knock down the blaze until fire j fighters in the swamp rat (a ve | hide that can travel through marshes) could carry nit mop up operations. The two water-bomb hi planes were guided by Piper Cubs. Wet J waler was used. The planes took j on water at the Beanfort-Morehead airport. The water was treated with a chemical that removed oxy gen content, thus giving it higher capacity to smother flames.’ Kaeh plane carries a 200-gallon tank. When the lank door is open ed, the water falls and covers an area of about 200 feet, Mr. Fore man said. Undergrowth in the area was so thick that the water did not pene trate to the ground and men had to go in to put out flames in the underbrush. At 4:50 p.ni. Sunday another fire was set on the International Paper Co. plantation. Between 20 and 25 acres of young pines, about 4 inches in diameter, were destroy ed. The plantation is located in the Bettie-North River area. The flames were brought under control by plowing fire lanes. Ferry Grounded In Bogue Sound The Sea Level, state-owned At lantie-Oeracoke ferry, ran aground in Bogue Sound opposite Sanitary Fish Market early Sunday morning and required assistance from the Coast Guard and two Carteret Tow ing Co. tugs to be refloated. The Sea Level ran aground in four feet of waler around 1 a.m. Sunday and wasn't refloated until early Sunday afternoon, according to Coast Guard reports. Capt. Marvin Howard of Ocra coke was in charge of the ferry which was on its way to Mann’s Harbor for a paint job after under going hull changes in Wilmington. The A. T. Piner and the Manic, Carteret Towing Co. lugs and the Coast Guard 40-footor nudged the Sea Level off. The crew aboard the 40-footer was W. J. Morgan, BM-1; H. Snipes, EN-1; C. Arthur, EN-2 and It. L. Johnson, SN. The ferry suffered no damage. The Coast Guard is still looking for the Calisto III, ketch missing with four persons aboard. A Beau fort drawbridge tender reportedly saw the vessel Friday, but air search of the Beaufort area leads the Coast Guard to believe that the vessel sighted was not the Calisto. Duke to Sponsor Medical Course Here in July Durham — The Duke University I Medical center’s annual summer 1 postgraduate courses will be held i July 17 22 in Morehead City. Dr. William M Nicholson, assist ant dean of the Duke Medical school, in charge of postgraduate i education, announced plans for the | course, which will provide refresh l er work for physicians and help them keep abreast of new develop ments m medicine. 1’his year's course will he the third held in Morehead City. Be fore 1959, the summer work was divert on the Duke university cam pus. ur. in icmiison sain mai me change was made to enable physi cians to combine postgraduate study with vacations for them selves and their families in a re sort area. Commenting on the curriculum, he said the program ‘‘has been designed primarily for the general ist, but ample information will be presented to make it instructive for the specialist also.” Enroll ment will be limited to UK) physi cians. Lectures and panel discussions by Duke Medical center faculty members will cover a wide range of topics in medicine, pediatrics and surgery. On the faculty will be l)rs. Wal ter L. Floyd, llenry D. McIntosh, John V. Vcrnor and Dr. Nicholson, all of the Medical center’s depart ment of medicine; Drs. William J. A. DeMaria, Madison S. Spach and Robert S. Stempfel, all of the pediatrics department; Dr. W. Glenn Young Jr., surgery depart ment; and Dr. Joseph K. Isley, radiology department. The course is approved for 30 hours of postgraduate education, Category 1, required by the Ameri can Academy of General Practice. Information concerning t h c course can be obtained by writing to the Director of Postgraduate Education, Duke University Med ical Center, Durham, N. C. Car Wrecks on Approach To Smyrna Creek Bridge Johnny Jones, 21, Ilarkers Is land, who suffered extensive bruises in an auto accident at 9 p.m. Sunday at the Smyrna creek bridge, was admitted to the Sea Level hospital. Earl Rose, 26, Ilarkers Island, who was driving the car Jones was in, was not hurt, according to patrolman W. E. Pickard, who investigated. Patrolman Pickard said that Rose was headed west and as he got to the curve at the bridge, the hood on his 1957 Mercury flew up, he lost control, left the road and turned over. The car was smash ed beyond repair. Smyrna Creek bridge is located between Williston and Davis. Patrol Leaders Display Ribbons m Ws Patrol leaders Lewis Maggiolo (Fox), David Muffelman (Beaver) and Larry Drake (Eagle) of New port troop Cl proudly display blue ribbons their patrol won at the East Carolina camporee, New Bern, this past weekend. To win bine ribbons, patrols must earn 3,M0 points out of a possible 3,350. Patrols are rated on their performance at the camporee plus their performance daring the past year at home. Good tana, conservation, advancement and camporee training an among the vuditfee rated. _ _
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