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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES 50th YEAR, NO. 39. TWO SECTIONSTEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Mother-of-Year Honored News-Times Photo by McComb Mrs. A. N. Bell, Harlowe, had eight of her 10 children present Saturday morning when she was of ficially recognized as Carteret county’s Mother of the Year. Her children, left to right, are David, Roger, Carl, Clyde, Mrs. Blanche Williams, Edsel, Mrs. Lina Bell Bowlin and Mrs. Eloise Turner. Major George Dill is presenting Mrs. Bell certificates for prizes that were awarded in the Mother-of-the Year contest. , __ Rotary Hears Miss Carraway Miss Gertrude Carraway, direc tor of Tryon palace, New Bern, spoke to members of the More head City Rotary club and their wives at the club’s meeting Thurs day night at the Rex restaurant. Miss Carraway, who was na tional president of the DAR from 1953-56, told Rotarians th^t east ern North Carolina Tfadly needs industry but reminded them that, “factories and smokestacks are not the only kind of industry.” She cited the Marine Corps in stallations at Camp LejeunC and Cherry Point and the tourist trade to our area as our best industries. She said that the tourist industry today ranks third in North Caro lina, trailing only tobacco and tex tiles. In 1959 tourists spent $723 million in North Carolina. Miss Carraway also said that North Carolina was unique in the fact that it offers the tourists a variety of attractions ranging from colorful history on the coast to the mountains. She urged those present not to regard historical restorations as "old fashioned,” because they have proven to be the most popular form of tourist attraction. Other guests at the meeting in cluded Mr. and Mrs. James Hutch ins of Uxbridge, England who aTe here visiting friends at Gloucester. Mr. Hutchins, a Rotarign, present ed president Edgar Swann with a Rotary banner from his club in Uxbridge. New Motorboat Bill Would Make State Law Same as Coast Guard's The motorboat bill introduced by Carteret assemblyman D. G. Bell in the legislature Friday is meet ing with good response, Mr. Bell commented yesterday before re turning to Raleigh. The bill would put all motor boats, regardless of horsepower, under the state’s motorboat safety act. In essence, it makes North Carolina’s motorboat safety act conform* with the federal Coast Guard regulations. In 1959, the public was concern ed and annoyed with high-powered motorboats and their operators’ violation of courtesies extended by boat owners to fishermen and bathers. Therefore, supporters of the mo torboat’ safety act say, the North Carolina Motorboat act, and simi lar acts in other states, were pass ed to regulate the use of boats of more than 10 horsepower. President Welcomes Residents to Meeting Anyone interested in the indus trial and economic growth of this area is invited to the Neuse De velopment meeting at 7:2P tomor . row night at the Biltmore hotel, announces W. B. Chalk, Morchead City, president. The dinner is dutch and is $2. This is the annual spring meeting of the association, which includes Goldsboro, Kinston, New Bern and Morebead City. Mr. Chalk will be copduding two years of service as its first president ► Mrs. A. N. Bell of Harlowe was< given Saturday the highest honor a Carteret mother can win, when she was named Mother of the Year. Mrs. Bell, who has ten children, was presented gift certificates from ten Morehead City merchants by mayor George W. Dill in ceremon ies at the town hall. Three judges chose the mother of the year from a field of 48 nomi nations. Persons submitting en tries were asked to tell briefly why their nominee should win. The winner was nominated by two of her children and didn’t know a thing about it until the newspaper photographer went to take her picture. He told her she was one of three finalists, so she still didn’t suspect anything! “My children pulled something over on me. I’ll have to take them down a notch or two,” Mrs. Bell said. She said she was surprised at being nominated and even more surprised at being the winner. All but two of Mrs. Bell’s chil dren were with her for the cere monies. Two of her sons, Royall and Carl, live in Washington, D. C.J and were unable to attend. Her children and 12 grandchildren cele brated Mother’s Day Sunday with a family dinner at the Bell home. Merchants honoring Mrs. Bell with gifts were Belk’s, Sanitary market and restaurant, Morehead City Drug Co., Bogue Furniture Co., Cooperative Savings and Loan, Hamilton Furniture center, Gar ner’s Gulf, Beasley’s, Blanchard’s and Rose’s. The contest was sponsored by these businesses and T11E NEWS TIMES. On two previous occasions when the mothcr-of-the-year contest was sponsored, the winners were Mrs. L. C. Davis, Beaufort, and the late Mrs. C. D. Jones Sr., Beaufort. In the past two years, the seri ous accidents and deaths by drown ing, involving small boats of less than 10 horsepower, have made apparent to the public that which the Coast Guard has known for many years, Mr. Bell said. “All motorboats are dangerous when not handled properly and all motorboats should be registered and .the owners educated to the piisity of safety equipment and !ety regulations,” Coast Guard spokesmen point out. Mr. Bell, explains that the bill exempting commercial fishing boats from renewal of the motor boat tax will also exempt commer cial fishing boats under 10 horse power. A commercial fisherman who puts into operation for the first time any undocumented boat must pay the motorboat tax and get a number for the boat. Thereafter, however, he will not have to pay that tax annually, but persons who operate their boats for pleasure will have to do. so. All will have to comply at all times with safety regulations. The motorboat bill now before the legislature will do the follow ing: • Will require all motor boats, other than documented vessels, re gardless of horsepower to register under the North Carolina Motor boat Act. • It will require that all motor boats meet the minimum require ments of federal safety acts as now enforced by the United States Coast Guard. Sunny Sunday Follows Rain Showers which moved in Wed nesday and Thursday, dissipated Saturday night, bringing clear skies and warm temperatures Sunday and one of the prettiest days of the year. Following .05 inches of rain in a brief shower Saturday, the tem perature climbed to a comfortable 81 degrees Sunday afternoon, ac cording to local weather observer Stamey Davis. Temperature ranges and wind directions Thursday through Sun day were recorded as follows by Mr. Davis: High Low Wind Thursday .79 65 SE Friday . 80 68 SSE Saturday . 82 66 SE Sunday ..81 62 NE Wilmington Tug Goes Aground at Beaufort A Wilmington, N. C., tug, Damn Yankee, ran aground in the west end of Taylor’s Creek, Beaufort, Sunday evening and required Coast Guard assistance to be refloated. The tug was sighted in distress from the Fort Macon lookout tower. Fort Macon dispatched the 40-foot - cr which pulled the tug off the bot tom. Captain of the tug was Jack Potter and the owners are the Lynch brothers, Wilmington. The crew aboard the 40-footcr was Grady Fulcher, EMC; R. E. Brannon, FN and M. Cash, SN. • It establishes a new class of motorboats under the North Caro lina Motorboat Act. Boats less than 16 feet in length with motors of 10 horsepower or less would be known as Class B. They will be required to register and comply with the safety provisions of the North Carolina Motorboat Act un der this classification. Safety equipment for this class must comply with the minimum requirements of now existing fed eral acts which are one Coast Guard approved life jacket, belt, etc., for each person aboard the motorboat. • Boats of Class A and B (16 feet and under), regardless of horse power, when used on navigable waters of North Carolina between the hours of sunset and sunrise will be required to show the all around white light and a red and See MOTORBOATING, Page 2 USMC Announces Armed Forces Day Plans Leathernecks of the Second Ma rine Aircraft Wing, Cherry Point air station, Second Marine Divi sion and Force Troops, Atlantic, Camp Lejeune, and a marching unit of the Fort Jiragg-based 82nd Airborne Divisioffr will mark Arm ed Forces Day with parades and weapons displays in Beaufort, Morehead City and New Bern, an Tragedy Strikes Godette Family, Adams Creek, Twice in Four Days State Starts Microfilming County Records • Work Will End Latter Part of June # Microfilms Will Be Stored in Raleigh A representative of the State De partment of Archives and History is engaged in microfilming perma nently valuable records in the county courthouse. Records being microfilmed in clude deeds and other real estate records, marriage records, court minutes and judgment dockets, estate records, minutes of the county commissioners, and other county bodies. The microfilm will then be stored in air-conditioned vaults of the de partment of archives and history, Raleigh, and if an original record is destroyed or lost, a copy, either page print or microfilm, may be obtained from the department. Simultaneously, two operators arc working in New Hanover coun ty. Thirteen other counties have been completed since the program was initiated late in 1959. Counties are being scheduled approximate ly by age and as a result Carteret is one of the early counties to be scheduled, according to W. R. Moss, who is doing the work. “The department of archives and history and county officials throughout tlje state have for years been greatly concerned with the security of our invaluable public records,” Mr. Moss said- “One third of our counties have had seri ous fires in which many, ,if not aH of their records were destroyed. Carteret has been most fortunate in never having suffered losses,” he commented. Enthusiastically supported by the statewide organizations of county officials, the department supported bills in the 1959 general assembly to provide funds for a program of inventorying, repairing, and mi crofilming, at state expense, coun ty records throughout the state. The bills were passed without op position and the program in its present form was made possible. In Carteret, as in other counties, the first step taken was to conduct an inventory of the public records in all county offices. The purpose of the inventory was threefold: to catalog the records of each office; to determine which records should be repaired and which should be microfilmed; and to provide cus todians with schedules of retention and disposal which, if carried out, will result in the preservation, either in the state archives or in the county, of all permanently val uable records, and in the timely disposal of those records of no further administrative or historic value. Copies of the inventory will be furnished to all interested county officials. The work in Carteret is under t.he general supervision of rear ad miral A. M. Patterson, USN (Ret ), assistant state archivist. Mr. Moss anticipates that the work will be completed by the end of June. The department is also interest ed in preserving historically val uable records of municipalities, Sec FILM, Page 2 Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, May 16 9:31 a.m. 3:28 a m. 9:44 p.m. 3:33 p m. Wednesday, May 17 10:19 a.m. 4:09 a m. 10:28 p.m. 4:11 p.m. Thursday, May 18 11:08 a.m. 4:50 a.m. 11:13 p.m. 4:49 p.m. Friday, May 19 11:57 a.m. 5:31 a.m. 11:57 p.m. 5:29 p.m. nounces the Marine Corps informa tion office, Cherry Point. Beaufort’s parade will begin at 3:30 p.m., Friday. The New Bern parade will begin at 10 a.m., Sat urday, May 20. No parade is scheduled for Morehead City. How ever, a display of weapons and equipment will be open in More head City municipal park from 10 i Street Re-Opened tt** . •••• •'.. . . . ..•".-V. This is a view north on Moore street at Cedar, Beaufort. The street has recently been re-opened, and permits traffic to turn south on the street, after crossing the bridge into Beaufort. Navy Vessels Return Marines Eight Navy vessels involved in returning 1,900 Camp Lejeune Ma rines will dock at Morehead City through Thursday, according to Walter Friedcrichs, operations manager at the port. The first ship docked yesterday. Among the returning Leather necks are 300 Marines of the sec ond battalion, 6th Marine division, who have been on a goodwill tour. The other 1,600 are coming back after five months’ regular duty with the 6th fleet in the Mediter ranean. The Marines on the "People to People’’ good will tour left Nov. 30, made stops in South America and along the coasts of Africa and the Mediterranean. The group was commanded by Maj. II. Richard Kurth Jr. The Marines returning from the Mediterranean, first battalion 2nd Marine division, were commanded by Lt. Col. S. N. McLeod. They arc expected to dock today. County NCEA Will Meet At Biltmore Saturday The county unit of the North Carolina Education association will have its annual banquet Saturday, May 20. The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. at the Biltmore hotel, Morehcad City. Lenwood Lee, principal of Morehcad City school, will preside. Final PTA Meeting The Newport PTA will have its final meeting of the year tonight at 7:30 in the school auditorium. T. A. Guiton, district Scout execu tive, will speak and officers for next year will be installed. Atlantic Beach Town Board Analyzes Traffic Difficulties Parking and traffic difficulties were discussed by the Atlantic Beach commissioners Friday morn ing at the town hall. The board met after A. II. James, clerk of court, administered the oath of of fice to mayor A. B. Cooper and commissioners Mack G. Smith of Greenville, Charles Walters and R. A. Barefoot. Commissioner W. L. Derrickson was not present. He will be sworn in later by the mayor. Traffic congestion at the inter section of the highway and the Fort Macon-Salter Path road was discussed. The board recommend ed that traffic approaching the beach in the right hand lane be allowed to turn onto the Salter Path a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. Frank Cassiano, chairman of the greater Morehead City chamber of commerce military affairs com mittee, said yesterday that this is the first time airborne troops have marched in a county armed forces day parade. Marching units for the parades will include the Second Wing Band, a combined honor guard of Wing Chamber Chooses Winning Slogan Carefree Coastal Carteret is the slogan which won Mrs. F. 11. McCutcheon, Beaufort, a prize of $25 and which will be used to advertise this area. Mrs. Mc Cutcheon was the winner of a slogan contest sponsored by the Greater Morehead City chamber of Commerce. Joe DuBois, chamber manager, announced the winner Saturday. 11c said there were about 50 en tries and all of them were good. “I’m just sorry we couldn't use them all,” he commented. Judges for the contest were Mrs. Clayton Fulcher Jr., of At lantic, Bobby Matthews and Ken Newsom of Morehead City, mem bers of the chamber’s advertis ing committee. Motorist Cited Saturday Night Rupert Earl Willis, 3003 Evans St., Morchead City, was charged with drunk driving, going the wrong way on a one-way street and leaving the scene of an accident Saturday, according to Morchead City police. According to Capt. Carl Bunch, who investigated, Willis, driving a 1961 Volkswagen, was headed west on the east-bound side of Arcndell street between 4th and 5th streets. lie collided with a 1953 Ford driven by Troy Willis, liarkers Island, knocking the Willis car into a parked vehicle. The parked car was a 1959 Plymouth owned by Bobby Wren of Raleigh. The acci dent happened at 11:45 p.m. Police estimated damages to the two Willis cars at $200 each and that to Wren’s car at $150. No one was injured. road on a red light, yielding the right-of-way. Mayor Cooper suggested a piece of property that the town might buy to use as a parking lot. Com missioner Smith and the mayor will investigate and present their findings at the next meeting. The question of installing park ing meters in part of the amuse ment area was brought up, but action was deferred for another season. The clerk was directed to write the district highway patrol office asking their help in con trolling summer traffic again this year. The Rev. David Nelson, pastor of St. Timotliy Lutheran church in Havelock, appeared before the board and asked permission to use and Station Leathernecks, a detach ment of Women Marines, infantry men of the Second Marine Division, the Force Troops Drum and Bugle Corps, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, US Coast Guard, Morehead City National Guard unit, Beaufort, Morehead City, Queen Street and W. S. King school bands. Static displays will include aerial j One bon rignts Lociqaw, Other Son Killed by Car Tragedy struck twice at the" home of Mr. and Mrs. William Hen ry (!odette, Adams Creek, within four days last week. Thursday 9 year-old Therman was admitted to Morchead City hospital with an illness later diagnosed as lockjaw and on Sunday 5-ycitr-old Daniel was killed instantly when struck by a ear. Therman fell of a fence last week and complained of his back and head hurting. He was taken to the hospital emergency room, where an infected cut was found on his hand. It is believed tetanus germs entered his body through the cut. The youngster remains on the critical list, despite constant treat ment and care hv the hospital staff and I)r. I,. W. Moore and Dr. John Way. His jaws locked Friday and he was still being fed through his veins yesterday. His mother had been with him day and night until Sunday, when she learned of the accident which claimed her young er son's life. Daniel ran from behind an ice cream truck into the path of a car driven by George Worthington, 37, of Adams Creek. He was killed in stantly, according to Craven coun ty coroner R. Clyde Smith. An in quest has been scheduled. The ac cident occurred two miles east of llarlowe on the Adams Creek road. Highway patrolman P. M. Her ring, who investigated, said the boy’s body was hurled 127 feet by the impact. Skid marks on the highway measured 185 feet, he said. The boys are part of a family of ten children. Mr. Godette and two sons arc employed on a construction job in Washington and until Therman en tered the hospital, Mrs. Godette and several other children had been cutting cabbage. Dr. Moore said yesterday that Therman .should have private duty nurses around the clock. The nurses earn $14 for an eight-hour shift. But all those available were on other cases when Therman be came ill. Anyone who would like to con tribute to a fund to pay nurses, when they become available, and to meet other expenses incurred by Therman’s hospitalization and Daniel’s death are invited to mail their contribution to THE NEWS TIMES. The newspaper will see that the money reaches the Go dettes, who said they will be grate ful for any help received. Girls in the office at the hos pital contributed to a fund to buy meals for the mother while she sat with Therman. Persons who wish to make out checks for the family may make them payable to THE NEWS TIMES and indicate on the check that the money is for The Godette Family. Funeral services for Daniel have tentatively been set for tomorrow at Craven Corner Baptist church. Other children in the family arc Levi Ennis, William Thomas, Den nis, Walter, John, Hazel, Chris tina and Esther. Levi, 18, is the oldest and John 4, is the youngest. the town hall for summer worship services. Mr. Nelson said his church would like to hold services each Sunday at 9 a.m., beginning June 4. Mayor Cooper commented that the Methodists and Baptists held services at the beach last summer, the Methodists at the Dunes club and the Baptists in the Moose lodge. He said the Methodists have already secured a place for this summer’s services, but felt the Baptists should have first re fusal of the town hall. Town attorney George McNeill, who is missions chairman for First Baptist church of Morchead City, said the church had decided not to hold beach services this year, but Sec BOARD, Page 2 photographic equipment of the Sec ond Wing’s VMCJ-2, survival and parachute equipment of MWSG-27, a combined aerial ordnance ex hibit by the Second Wing and Cher ry Point Air Station, and infantry and ground weapons display by the Second Marine Division. Beaufort and Morehead City share Armed Forces Day activities each year. This year Beaufort ► GOP Discusses Its Candidates Saturday Night Candidate!: for coming elections were discussed at the meeting of the County Republican club Satur day night at the Biltmore hotel, Morehead City. The meeting was conducted by Elmer Dewey Willis, president, and held in the new Vanity room of the hotel. New members were appointed to the publicity committee to adver tise the issues of the upcoming county campaign. This committee will also function during registra tion of voters as authorized by the county board of elections. All precincts are being organized to register voters properly in or der to win the next county elec tions, Mr. Willis commented. Each precinct will have individual meet ings to instruct workers on elec tion law and procedures. The next meeting of the Repub lican club will be held in the New port area. The exact location will be announced a week prior to the meeting date which will be June 10 at 8 p.m. The July meeting will be a “Red, White and Blue Banquet” to be held at the Biltmore hotel. Officers Report Four Break-Ins Four break-ins were reported throughout the county over the weekend, according to officers. Four youngsters ranging in age from 9 to 12 were apprehended Monday morning after they had broken into the basement of the First-Citizens bank and the Sound Chevrolet company used car lot. According to Sgt. Bill Condie, the boys entered the bank by way of a former coal chute and each took a can of insecticide from the jan itors’ supplies in the basement. In the used car lot they beat up three cars. A lead to the bank break-in was turned up when Capt. Carl Bunch saw the kids carrying the cans of insecticide. They broke into the bank Satur day night and caused damage in the car lot Sunday night. The youngsters arc scheduled to appear bc.orc juvenile judge A. H. James Saturday morning. Deputy sheriff Bobby Bell is in vestigating a break-in at the con cession stand at Morehead pier. The place was entered through a window Saturday night. Cheese crackers, -peanuts, gum and sim ilar items were taken. Deputy Bell also reported theft of *25 from the Hooten home, New port RFD, Sunday afternoon. The money was missing when the llootcns returned home. The officer said it was in a box by a bedside table. The place was thoroughly ransacked. He said it appeared as though the person or persons who broke in were pri marily intent on upsetting every thing in the house. Charlotte Motorist Hits Parked Car in Morehead Morehcad City police investi gated a traffic accident at the in tersection of 10th and Arendell streets Sunday afternoon. The lone driver involved was An drew Basinger of Charlotte. Bas inger, driving a 1959 Chevrolet, hit a parked car belonging to Leslie Earl Davis, 1009 Arendell St., Morehead City. Basinger was travelling east on Arendell. Patrolman E. D. O’Neal esti mated damages to Basinger’s car at $90 and set that to Davis’s auto, a 1952 Plymouth, at $100. No charges were filed. hosts the parade, Morehead City the static display. Next year the schedule will be reversed. Ia the interests of economy, no Armed Forces Day open house is planned at the Cherry Point Ma rine Corps Air station since a mas sive display and open house was held there May 10, commemorat ing the 50Ut Anniversary of Naval Aviation. _ j
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