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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES ? » 50th YEAR, NO. 54. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS ■ County Authorizes Attorney To Continue Hospital Suit State Sheriffs To Meet Tuesday At Morehead The North Carolina Sheriffs as sociation will meet Tuesday through Thursday at the Biltmorc hotel, Morehead City. The three-day convention gets underway with registration from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday. Supper will be at the Sanitary Fish Market. Wednesday begins with a 10 a m. meeting in the Sea Level room of the hotel where Moses Howard, chairman of Carteret county com missioners, will give the welcome address. Guests and friends will be introduced. The afternoon begins at 2 p.m. with a business session. Discus sions will be led by Walter F. An derson, director of the SBI; Don ald E. Roney, agent in charge of the Charlotte FBI office; Edward Scheldt, commissioner, Department of North Carolina Motor Vehicles and Allicrl Coates, director of the UNC Institute of Government. A buffet supper will begin the evening. Carteret county sheriff Hugh Salter, in charge of enter tainment, announces that a dance, with music by the Carolinians, will follow supper. Thursday will start with a busi ness meeting at 10:30 which Will include election of officers, com mittee reports and the selection of the next convention city. A banquet Thursday evening will feature John D. Larkins, Trenton, as the master of ceremonies. Offi cers will be installed at that time. Also scheduled is an address by j Hector MacLean, Lumberton, of the North Carolina Senate. Morehead Hires Town Supervisor R. II. Hall, Kinston, will begin work Monday as town supervisor in Morehead City. The board of town commission ers sifted through 63 applications for the position and "-.elected three for personal interview. Mr. Hall was one of two interviewed by the board Monday. The commissioners were sched uled to interview the third on Wed nesday but according to mayor George Dill, were so satisfied with Mr. Hall that the interview sched uled for Wednesday was cancelled. The town supervisor, a position recommended by the League of Municipalities in a recent survey, is a new one substituted for the former town clerk position held by John Lashley. Mr. Lashley re signed in June to accept a position with W. P. Freeman Wholesale. Mr. Hall operates a bookkeeping service in Kinston and at one time was employed by Tide Water Power Co., predecessor to Carolina Power and Light in this area. Mr. Hall is married to the for mer Elizabeth Watson of Straits. They have a son, Robert, age 10. Governor Names Six Highwaymen Gov. Terry Sanford on Wednes day named six men to the State Highway commission. Expected to be among the 10 appointees yet to be named is D. G. Bell, Morehead City. It is reported unofficially that Mr. Bell, Carteret’s legislator, has accepted the appointment. Had he declined, the appointment would have gone to Jones county. Among those named to state po sitions by the governor Wednesday was John Reeves, reappointed as head of the State Ports Authority. D. Leon Williams is expected to continue as state ports director. C. G. Holland, Beaufort, com mercial fisheries commissioner, will retain his position. Named to the State Highway commission were John (Clint) Newton, Shelby; Walton Brame, North Wilkesboro; Jack Kirksey, Morganton; Graham Elliot, Wash ington; James Glenn, Winston Salem; and William E. (Bill) Hor ner, Sanford. June Court Receipts Amount to $4,236.60 Court receipts for June amount ed to $4,236.60, according to the report given county commissioners Monday by A. H. James, clerk of superior court. Received from recorder’s court was $2,518, from superior court $1,557.90, and through probate and clerk’s fees $160.75. 4 Curious Cat Meets Maker at Beach A curious cat paid with all its nine lives at 6 p.m. Sunday at Atlantic Beach when it got' caught in the fan of a car. Police chief Bill Moore, Atlan tic Beach, said an unidentified woman stopped in front of the police station and went running in to announce that her “engine was torn up.” Chief Moore and James Laugh ter, a special beach officer, lifted the hood of the woman’s ’59 Mer cury and found the cat, cut and bleeding, wedged head-down tail up. The cat could not be gotten out, so the car was jacked up and it was finally removed, from the bottom. Then there was a funeral by the town hall. This is another instance where Curiosity Killed the Cat. Rental Fees Set For Recreation Building Use The Morehcad City recreation has announced the schedule of rental-fees at the recreation cen ter. They went into effect Satur day. Groups using the main ball room will be charged $10 and will fur nish their own heat by feeding a meter—$1 per hour, or 25 cents for 15 minutes. Groups using the main lounge will be charged $7.50, and heat will be furnished without charge. Groups using the small rooms to the east and west will be charg ed $5 for the use of each room, lleat will be furnished without charge. Groups making use of the entire building will be charged $25. They will pay for the heal in the main ball room as gauged by the meter. The board has also announced that all school activities tyill be free to the Morehead Cit^ high school, the Catholic and Camp Glenn school, if the request comes from the principal. Regular meetings of fraternal groups, Scouts and other similar groups will not be charged if gmall rooms are used. If the ball room is used, however, metered heat will be charged. Any group, whether “free” or “charged” is required to leave the building and premises as they found it. Any damage and break age to the building or its furnish ing will be charged against the group responsible. Persons seeking other informa tion and scheduling of rentals should call Mrs. Mamie Taylor, director. Board to Meet The board of directors of the Greater Morehead City chamber of commerce will meet at 7:45 p.m. Monday in the chamber of fice, Hotel Fort Macon. The board met this past Monday but re-set the date because a quorum was not present. Raise the Flag! “I get a lot of promises but not much cash,” Grayden Paul, fi nance chairman of the Beaufort Historical association, reported yesterday. Fifty persons have now joined the association for the current year, bringing the asso ciation one-fourth of the way to ward its goal of 200 members, and $1,000. The membership fee is $5. The funds will be used, in part, to finance re-enactment of the Span ish pirate invasion of Beaufort I Aug. 5. 1 County attorney Luther Hamilton Jr. was authorized by the county commissioners Monday to file an answer to the supreme court deci sion regarding the proposed county hospital. Board chairman Moses Howard broke a deadlocked vote on the matter. The motion stipulated that no further hospital expenditures are to be made, other than for litiga tion, until after the law suit is cleared up. Voting in favor of carrying through on the hospital project were commissioners Gaston Smith of Atlantic and Harrell Taylor of Sea Level. Voting against were commissioners David Yeomans of Harkers Island and Skinner Chalk of Morehead City. Mr. Yeomans said that he un derstood the motion was to pro ceed with building the hospital and that was why he voted no. Com missioner Chalk remarked that he didn’t believe the hospital could be under contract by April 30, 1963, even if the county wins the law suit and is free to build the hospital. The Medical Care commission, which supervises construction of hospitals with state and federal funds, has stated that the county will lose its hospital money if the contract is not let prior to April 30, 1962. Attorney Hamilton said that Wil liam Henderson, executive secre tary of the commission, told him and county auditor James Potter ! that if the. county needed more time after the deadline, he could I give Carteret's appropriation to j another county and put Carteret i in next year's appropriation. Mr. Chalk said that was not what the commissioners were told when Mr. Henderson conferred with the board, and asked the attorney why j Henderson did not make that state i merit to the board. Mr. Chalk said it was not pos sible to construct the hospital in line with "official statements” to Sec BOARD, Page 2 Virginia Youth Stops Here On 'Solo' Trip to Florida John Penn, Colonial Beach, Va., in his boat, the Splish Splash, on his stop-over at Morehead City en route to Florida. Seventeen-year-old John Penn, en route to Miami from Dutch Gap, Va., left Morchead City Saturday on his trip along the inland water way in a 14-foot outboard motor boat. . He arrived Thursday night after running into his first bit of trouble in the inland waterway north of Morchead City. He almost got hard aground on a mud flat. He reported that it rained every day after he left Dutch Gap at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 25, but he aver aged 60 miles a day. The trip is a high school gradua tion present to him from his mother, Mrs. Ruth M. Penn. His boat, the Splish Splash, is his sec ond and the motor is the fourth he has ownod since he became inter ested in boating in 1955. John said he felt the worst part of his trip is behind him — Albe marle and Pamlico sounds. He re lied solely on compass to get across Albemarle Sound and ended up only about a quarter of a mile off course. He has a makeshift, bunk in the canopy-covered boat. But most of the time he is invited to put his bedroll in boathouses or marinas as he stops along the way. At Fort Eustis, Va., he was invited aboard a 65-foot Army transport boat where he had supper and bunked down for the ni^ht. The young motorboat man says he doesn’t do much cooking. He intends to buy his meals as long as his money bolds out. The only stipulation his mother made was that he stop every day and get a good meal. John recently comploted a boat Newport to Decide Tuesday Whether \ To Borrow Town Hall, Water Funds \ 44 Children Attend Summer Science School .■ . Forty-four children are attend ing the summer science school be ing conducted at Beaufort school. Students in the class of future third and fourth graders total 23. Taught by Mrs. Mary Pinschmidt, they are Michael Austin, David, Diane and Harold Booth, Chris Chappell, Bob Chestnut, Lisa Da vis, Danny Hanes, Guy% Hinton, Randy Ives, Jennifer Mason, Chuck McNeill. Richard Parker, Christine Ucint jes, Helen Slater, Kathy Smith, Judy Stiles. Phyllis Thorne, Brie Vernberg, Eddie Wheatly. David Williams, Kathy Willis and Susan ! Willis. | Students in the class of future [fifth and sixth graders total 21. | Taught by Mrs. Harriet Beach, j they are Annette Chappell, Silas I Thorne, Stephen Ballou, Claud Davidson, Gervasc Motes, Marcie Vernberg, Jule Wheatly, Robert and Glenn Austin, Sharon Mease. Ginny and Gerald Troyer, Anne Reintjes, Lynn Talbot, Thomas Klein, Gregory Rice, Sarah Rice, Sarah Neal, T. V. Woolard, Billy and Bobby Chambers and John Hardesty. The school will end Friday, July 14. It opened in June for a period of four weeks. Classes are run for an liotir and a half in the morning Monday, Wednesday and Friday, with a field trip to ndarby marshes or shores weekly. The school is patterned afler the Children’s School of Science, Woods Hole, Mass. ing course offered by the Coast Guard auxiliary. When he gets to Florida he plans to visit friends at Ft. Lauderdale and perhaps get a job there. Some day he hopes to earn a pilot's license. He was graduated from Douglas Freeman high school, Richmond, Va., Thursday, June 8. He invited several friends to make the trip with him, but they declined. “It’s really better,” says John, who seemed to enjoy talk ing about his trip. “If 1 had some one with me, I wouldn't make an effort to make friends. And that boat's rather small for two peo ple!” To Sponsor Movie The Morehead City rescue squad will sponsor a movie at the drive in theatre west of Morehead City tomorrow night. A. N. Willis, squad member, announces that new officers will be elected Wed nesday, July 19. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, July 7 3:44 a m. 10:08 a m. 4:23 p.m. 10:51 p.m. Saturday, July 8 4:45 a.m. 10:59 a m. 5:18 p.m. 11:42 p.m. Sunday, July 8 5:42 a m. 11:49 a.m. 6:08 p.m. . Monday, July 10 6:33 a.m. 12:32 a.m. 6:54 p.m. „ 12:36 p.m. T See This Funny Crab? ■ ■MliiL’'' H far mf Ww Chris ChappeH, second from left, shows a king crab at the summer science school. They learn the names of marine life and can inform adults who wonderingl.v ask, “What's that?” With Chris, left to right, are Mike Austin, Jennifer Mason and Itichard I’arker. Harrell Taylor to Serve As Building Inspector Harrell Taylor, Sea Level, was< appointed county building inspec tor Monday by the county board of commissioners. Mr. Taylor, who resigned" as , county commissioner to assume the new position, will be respon sible for enforcing the newly adopted county building code and windstorm code. Persons who plan to build any structure in the county outside a town must now apply for a build ing permit at the tax collector's office in the courthouse, Beaufort. The applicant will then take the application, which he fills out, to the building inspector, who will have office hours in the court house. The building inspector will issue a permit for the building. Fees for the permit will be charg ed in proportion to the cost of the structure to be erected. Persons erecting buildings with out a permit will be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to $50 fine or 30 days in jail. The county board has undertaken enforcement of a building code in hope of preventing widespread damage during hurricanes due to ill-constructed buildings being blown down or blown into other structures. Eastern North Carolina Traffic Club to Meet Eastern North Carolina Traffic club members and their wives will meet for a social hour and dinner tonight at the Biltmore hotel, More head City. The club is comprised of all men engaged in the movement of freight (railroad and truck) and ship car goes. E. E. (Jack) Lee Jr., Wil mington. director of commerce and traffic, State Ports Authority, will be master of ceremonies. The social hour will begin at 6:30 and the dinner at 7:30. * '. _ County Survives Fourth Without Fatalities; Cars Hit Two Children Carteret pulled through the Fourth of July weekend without any highway fatalities, but two children were struck by cars on Markers Island. The highway pa trol also investigated three other accidents. Reported in good condition at the Morehead City hospital Wed nesday were William Paul Willis, 6, who was struck by a car at 5:40 p.m. Monday, and Robert Ryan Willis, 6, who was struck by a car at 5 p.m. on the Fourth, Tuesday. William Paul is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Freddy Willis. According to patrolman J. W. Sykes, the youngster was hit on a curve locally known as ‘Teaners’ curve,” east of the center of the island. The patrolman said that the boy went around the back of a car and ran into the path of a car headed west. The car was driven by Mrs. Violetta Fulcher, Harkers Board Selects School Architect Archie Royal Davis, Durham, was selected as architect for the new Morehead City high school Monday by the county board of education. Mr. Davis appeared be fore the board. The board revised its budget, eliminating the building program that it had hoped to undertake if sufficient money were provided. Pay-day for school personnel was set as the 20th of each month with the exception of the first and last months of the coming school year. The driver education budget for 1361-62 was approved. H. L. Jos lyn, county superintendent of schools was authorized to apply to the State Department of Public Instruction for permission to in stitute an industrial education pro gram for adults. The program would be started at Morehead school, the only school equipped for that type of train ing. R. W. Safrit Jr., chairman of the board presided. Board members present were D. Mason, Atlantic; Theodore Smith, Davis; W. B. Al len, Newport, and George R. Wal lace, Morehead City. Quiet Fourth Chief of Atlantic Beach police. Bill Moore, said that this past Fourth of July weekend was the quietest one he has ever experienc ed in his seven years at the beach. This past holiday weekend goes on record with no drownings and no car accidents within the city lim its. Robert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Willis. According to pa trolman W. J. Smith Jr., who in vestigated, Robert had just been to ah ice cream vendor truck and bought a cone. He started back to his yard, waited for one car headed east, then darted ahead and into the path of a car going West. The car was driven by Miss Janie Lou Nelson, 16. The car was owned by Alvah Fulcher, Markers Island, whose daughter, Linda Sue, was a passenger in the car. No charges were preferred against the driver in cither in stance. Phillip Ray Fulcher, Atlantic, escaped without injury at 2 a.in. Monday when the 1956 Ford he was driving turned over on a loop road at the end of highway 70, Atlantic. The car was demolished and Fulcher charged with exceed ing a safe speed, according to pa trolman Smith, who investigated. Commissioners to Canvass ' Votes Tuesday Night Citizens of Newport will decide'* Tuesday whether the town shall borrow $20,000 Lo build a town hall and $15,000 to extend water lines to an outlying section proposed for annexation. Special registration for the elec tion dosed Saturday. Challenge day will be tomorrow. The board will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the town hall to canvass the votes and announce ihe outcome of the ref erendum. The board authorized police com missioner Raymond Edwards to order 10 citation books of the new | type recommended by the State Highway patrol. The hooks arc 63 cents each. The board deferred ! action on a request by policemen i for summer uniforms. The police commissioner was au thorized to carry out orders that an ice cream vendor truck may not slop in the streets, but must > pull off the street or into drive | ways. The hoard authorized the marl j mg and surface treatment of Bell j street to include that portion of Hill street from Bell to the rail road presently uupaved, also the marling and surface treatment from Church street to the ceme tery, widening and marling of Walker street (458 feet) and the marling and stabilizing of the bal ance of Ilill street. It was reported that the Cherry Point Mutual Veterans Housing as sociation is willing that the end of one of its streets be connected with a street in the Joe Hill sub . division. The board changed the nartie of the street by the AME Zion church from Bell to Walker, because there already is a Bell street in town. Mrs. Gordon Cutler gave the water department report for her husband who is water department administrator. She reported that 275 persons tapped to the system. 223 are using water. The average bill in June was $3.30. Deposited for the month was $756.16. Ex penses were $615.26. Cash on hand at the end of the month was $149.32. The board reaffirmed the deci Sec NEWPORT, Page 2 Boaters, Pulling Skiers, Charged with Violations Four boat operators have been apprehended for violation of the water skiing regulation, according to Reuben Crumpton, Morehead City, of the Wildlife Resources commission. (The commission per sonnel are charged with enforce ment of the motorboating safety act.) Apprehended Sunday were Wil liam Earl Fany, Morehead City, in Rogue Sound; David Ballou, Morehead City, operating at Atlan tic Beach; and George Robinson, Beaufort, operating in Beaufort waters. Jackie Neal, Beaufort, op erating in Taylor's creek, was ap prehended Tuesday. Mr. Crumpton explains that any one towing a skier, must have one of three things; lifebelt on skier, rear view mirrors, or another per son in the boat watching the skier. The four apprehended allegedly had none of these. Robinson ap peared before justice of the peace Elmer Smith, Morehead City, and paid costs of $8.50. The others were docketed for appearance be fore the jaypee. Faying costs for not complying with the regulation on life pre A 1961 motorcycle collided with a 1959 Ford station wagon at 3:50 ■ p.iu. Tuesday on the Atlantic 1 Beach bridge. Driving the station I wagon was B. L. Green, New Bern. ; Driving the motorcycle was Ken • ncth Edwards, Havelock. I Patrolman Sykes said both ve ; hides were headed toward More head City. The motorcyclist pulled . out to pass the station wagon, had ! to pull back because of oncoming ! traffic, and in doing so struck the ’ rear of the station wagon. Ed ’ wards was treated at Morehead City hospital. I The five persons injured in a ■ head-on collision Friday west of Morehead City arc reported to be , recovering satisfactorily. The in . jured were Mr. and Mrs. William * Gorges and son, David; Mrs. Reg > inald Lewis, and Mrs. Katherine , Jackson, all of route 1 Morehead I City. Minor accidents occurred in - towns throughout the county over the holiday weekend. * Monroe Gaskill : Put on County ; Welfare Board Miss Gcorgic Hughes, county welfare superintendent, announces that Monroe Gaskill, Cedar Island, has been appointed to the county welfare board. His term of office ' started Saturday. He replaces Corbett Davis of | Davis, who served the maximum time -allowed on the board, six ' years. I Recent additions to the welfare : staff, according to Miss Hughes, i include two public welfare workers [ and two child welfare workers. Public welfare workers are Mrs. Ituln Adams of Morehead City and I I Miss Jane Harrow, daughter of a | former Free Will Baptist minister in Beaufort. Child welfare workers are Miss | Bbuise Moore of Kinston,'who-.will, be working for six weeks this supi | mer between her first and second years of graduate training, and | Miss Carolce llatsell from Hubert | In Onslow county. She will arrive July lti. Resigned from the county wel fare department is Mrs. Gertrude Williamson, senior ease worker for the past six years. She resigned to accept a position on the state wel fare board as supervisor of adult boarding homes in 33 counties, in cluding Carteret. Also resigned due to their hus bands’ military transfer are Mrs. j Amy Brock, child welfare worker, [ and Mrs. Cathrine Wilson, public welfare worker. { Mrs. Brock has accepted a po I sition in the welfare department jin Honolulu, Hawaii, where her I husband is stationed. Mrs. Wilson has accepted a po sition with the welfare department in Onslow county, where her hus band is stationed. servers were David Mosier, Green villc, apprehended Sunday in Tay lor’s creek; Quentin Salter, New port, apprehended Sunday; Robert O’Neal, Greenville, operating a boat at Atlantic Beach Sunday without proper registration; Har vey Ross, Kinston, operating a boat Sunday in Newport river and not displaying proper numbers, $1(1 and costs. Jarvis Guthrie, Salter Path, was apprehended Tuesday and charged with failing to display numbers, violating the life-saving regulation, and no sound device such as a horn or bell. Ashley Edwards, Wilson, charged Tuesday with improper display of boat numbers, paid costs. K. A. Jefferson Jr., Wilson, charged Tuesday with violating skiing regu lations in Bogue Sound, paid $10 and costs. Otway Resident Wins Certificate Mrs. Berkley Gillikin of Otway has received a certificate of merit from Art Instruction Inc., of Min neapolis, Minn., for an entry in their national amateur art contest. The certificate states that Mrs. Gillikin’s entry, a pencil sketch of fashion designs, indicates "talent which, in the opinion of the judges, should be developed.” The certifi cate is signed by J. C. Buckbee, president. Mrs. Gillikin, who is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gillikin of Otway, said she hopes to enroll in a correspondence course in fash ion designing this fall. Mr. and Mrs. Gillikin and their two children, Johnny and Etta, will leave this week for Virginia to make their home. Funds Approved When a recent Congressional re port on funds appropriated for armories was released, the More head City armory was not included. Maj. Gen. Claude T. Bowers, ad jutant general of the North Caro lina National Guard, informed gen eral assemblyman D. G. Bell, Morehead City, by telegram yes terday, that the funds have been approved by Congress.
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