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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES COUNTY NEWS-TIMES lo^r 50th YEAR, NO. 59. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA I TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Miss Asheville Will Be Guest of Local Jaycees Maria Beale Fletcher, Asheville,' who was crowned Miss North Caro lina Saturday night at Greensboro, will arrive here Sunday afternoon 'to begin a week’s vacation in Morehead City and Beaufort. The vacation is part of the many prizes awarded to the talented and lovely brunette who won out over 74 other contestants for the title of Miss North Carolina. The Car teret vacation is being sponsored by Beaufort and Morehead City Jaycees. Miss Fletcher and her compan ion are scheduled to arrive via Piedmont airlines Sunday after noon at 3:20. Activities arranged for her while she is here include a deep sea fishing trip Tuesday aboard Capt. Hubert Fulcher's party boat, Blue Water, and a tour of the Marine Air Station, Cherry Point, on Wednesday. Thursday, Miss Fletcher will be the guest of the Beaufort Jaycees. A full day of sightseeing events are planned. Present plans call for her to leave sometime Friday afternoon. While she is here, Miss Fletcher will be the guest of the Buccaneer Motor lodge. Two Accidents Happen in Hour Two accidents in almost the same place happened in an hour’^ time Saturday night on the Atlan tic beach causeway. The first was at 8:30 p.m. in front of the George Smith fish house, and according to patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., who investigated, the other was about 60 feet south of that point at 9:25 p.m. In the first accident, a 1960 Hill man driven by Charles M. Stein, Cherry Point, ran into the rear of a 1960 Ford station wagon driven by Mrs. Owen Dail, Atlantic Beach. Damage to the station wagon was estimated at $100. Damage to the Hillman was estimated at, $25. Stein was charged with fol lowing too closely. The same charge was levied against Jack S. Russell, route 1 Beaufort, in the other accident. According to the patrolman, Rus sell, in a 1959 Ford, hit the rear of a 1959 Chevrolet driven by Rich ard Bcrgvin, Cherry Point, and Bergvin’s car went into the rear of another 1959 Chevrolet driven by Rudolph Mills, Greenville. All three cars were headed to the beach. Damage to Mills’ car was estimated at $75, to Bergvin’s car $350, and to Russell’s $350. Patrolman Smith also reported that at about 7 p.m. Saturday on the beach bridge, two cars ran out of gas at the same time! Beach police chief Bill Moore said that crowds at the beach over the weekend were very large. June Savings Bond Sales Total $62,554 Savings bond sales in the county during June totaled $62,554, accord ing to J. R. Sanders, Morehead City, savings bond chairman. Bond sales for the first six months of this year amount to $409,869, or 53.6 per cent of the $763,680 quota for the county this year. Statewide sales of bonds for June were 14 per cent higher than in June 1960. Club to Meet The Carteret Business and Pro fessional. Women’s club will meet at 7 o’clock tonight at the Rex res taurant, Morehead City. Prelim inary plans for the November can cer crusade, to be sponsored by the club, will be made. Army Reserve Unit Completes Two-Week Training at Fort Eustis Recently returned from two weeks of active duty training at Fort Eustis, Va., is the 824th Transportation Company (Heavy Boat), Morehead City, Lt. Paul Cordova, commanding officer. The unit supervised training in two basic schools while at Fort Eustis, deck school and basic en gine school. Three Reserve units there ran the schools and furnish ed instructors, according to lieu tenant Cordova. Two crews of the Morehead City went on four-day training missions, each aboard an LCU. One went to Baltimore and the other to Cris field, Md. Executive officer of the unit is Warrant officer Donald Koontz, Havelock; training officer is Lt. William H. Scott, Morehead City; first sergeant, George Veach, Havelock; and field sergeant, Lom us Jones, Harkers Island. Lieutenant Cordova announces tfegt there are vacancies iu the unit 1 Raise the Flag! ^ $1,000 $400 “It looks as though that’s all we’re going to get,” Grayden Paul, finance chairman for the Beaufort Historical association, said yesterday in announcing a total of $400. The money is being used to finance re-enactment of the invasion of Spanish pirates in Beaufort Saturday, Aug. 5. “People say they can’t under stand why we need money to put on this show,” Mr. Paul said. He explained that free, volunteer la bor is hard to find. Everybody wants pay for what they do. A fort has to be built on one end of Bird shoal. A team of mules has to be hired. If blank ammu nition can be located. Army can non are going to be fired as the Pirates approach. The things that have to be done —that cost money — arc innum erable, Mr. Paul said. “A show like this cannot be put on with out spending some money,” he declared. Persons have been invited to pay $5 in membership in the Beaufort Historical association. In addition to financing the Span ish invasion show, remaining funds would be used for the his torical association’s long-range projects. Roy T. Kellers Purchase Motel Mr. and Mrs. Roy T. Keller of Bettie took over Wednesday as new owners of Perry Park motel west of Morehead City. The Kellers re turned to the county this month from St. Augustine, Fla., where they were assistant managers of the Monterey motel for about six months. Mrs. J. L. Perry said Friday that she and her husband planned to “rest for a while.” Although they haven’t decided what they’re going to do, she said they weren’t going back into the motel business. Mrs. Keller said they plan to re tain the present motel name and will try to follow in the footsteps of the Perrys, providing as near ly as they can the same services. “Our experience in Florida was very pleasant and we hope this one will be too,” she said. The Perrys have moved to 3305 Arcndell St., while the Kellers plan to make their home at the motel. Killed in Accident Jack Attenisia was killed in an automobile accident in Arizona Sunday. Mrs. Attenisia is the niece of Mrs. Joe Roberts, Morehead City. for August and September. Those who enlist rather than being draft ed, serve six months’ active duty and then remain in the Army Re Serve for seven and a half years. Men interested in this program should contact any of the officers of the unit. Lieutenant Cordova may be reached at PA8-3144 dur ing the day or PA6-4503 other times. Members of the Morehead City Army Reserve unit, in addition to those named above, are the fol lowing: Jim H. Aswell, Leo B. Haskins, Hallis W. Lawrence, James E. Leary. - Jeame E. McBride, Wallace S. Rhodes, James C. Robertson, Bob bie B. Robinson, Horace Willis. Thomas D. Cordova, William D. Hopkins, Shellie S. Padrick, Hed rick H. Salter, Thomas C. Bass, Edgar E. Cole. Charles M. Garner, Alton L. Gar Shallow Dive Seriously Hurts Jerry Willis, 23 Jerry Willis, <23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Willis, highway 70 west of Morehcad City, is in a serious condition at Morchead City hospital, suffering from a crushed spinal cord in his neck. Willis was injured about 4 o' clock Sunday afternoon on Boguc banks when he dived from a dock into shallow water. He is almost totally paralyzed. Willis, a girlfriend, and another couple, were swimming at the Wil lis camp on the south side of Bogue Sound, across from Coral Bay. When Willis went into the water and failed to come up, his friends brought him to the surface. He was rushed to the hospital in the Bell-Munden ambulance. Members of the family say Wil lis was familiar with the depth of water at the dock. It is about waist deep and the dock is several feet from the water level. They say they cannot understand why he dived into water he knew was shallow. Because of his seriqus condition, he had not been questioned, by noon yesterday, about the accident. State Seeks 400 Prison Guards The Morehcad City office of the Employment Security commission announces that a state-wide drive is under way to recruit 400 new prison guards during the next sev eral months. According to the manager, Mrs. Julia P. Tenney, the ESC is co operating with the North Carolina Prison department in interviewing and screening applicants. Three hundred men will be recruited to supplement the present 1,200-mem ber guard force, and 100 applicants will be accepted to fill existing vacancies. Beginning salary for prison guards, Mrs. Tenney said, ip $3,132. Maximum salary is $4,200. The additional guards will enable the Prison Department to lower work ing hours of its custodial person nel at the 90 prison units about the state from 60 to 48 hours a week, she explains. Age requirements for applicants arc 21 to 45. Applicants who are accepted will receive ten days training at the Prison Custodial Officer’s training schools at Raleigh, Asheville, and at the Caledonia prison near Hali fax. Training will consist of in struction in defensive tactics, physical conditioning, firearms, custodial procedure and prison rules and regulations. Mrs. Tenney urges interested persons to apply at the employ ment security office here at 809 Evans St., Morehead City. Heavy Truck Hits Car at Wildwood Elwood Hunnings, Savannah, Ga., driving a tractor trailer with the trailer unattached, was charged with careless and reckless driving at 8:30 Sunday night near Wild wood. According to patrolman W. E. Pickard, who investigated, Hun nings came up behind a 1961 Ford which was stopped while a car ahead made a left turn. The patrolman said Hunnings couldn’t stop, so he tried to pass the Ford on the right and struck it. Damage to the car was esti mated at $150. Driving it was Mrs. Annie H. Hicks, New Bern. Dam age to the tractor was estimated at $10. All vehicles were headed west. No one was hurt. McManus, Robert M. Bass, Arthur T. Baugh Jr. Leslie P. Garner, Thomas E. Gentry, Ronnie D. Garner, James A. Heath Jr., Paul Jackson, James D. Lamm, Burlson Lawrence. Robert B. Merrill, Albert H. Toon, Marion V. West, Roger R. Bell, Roy T. Carraway, Edward R. Chadwick. Gordon Davis, Edward E. Dunn, Osborne Holland, James S. Holland Jr., James A. Ipock, Clinton L. Iverson, Gene L. Kuykendall. William H. Robinson, Allen Mur ray Jr., Homer K. Russell, Clyde D. Salter, Shelton D. Salter, Gene R. Small.) Ralph Sraaite, Donald R. Taylor, W. E. Taylor, William.C. Davis, Floyd S. Hardesty, Caszell Martin. Royce B. Pake, Donald E. Hoss, Alton W. Paul, Robert J. Potter, Herbert F. Prytherch. Harold E. Rawls, Larry Rose, Garland E. Smith, Gary W. Coop er, John B. Hpwacd, Robert V. Morehead City Board Hears Protest On Town Hospital Levy Thursday NC Engineers To Meet Here This Weekend The North Carolina Society of Engineers has obtained several prominent speakers for its annual summer meeting at the Biltmore hotel, Morehead City, Thursday through Saturday, according to J. Devereaux Joslin of Charlotte, chairman of the technical sessions. Among the speakers will be Col. R. P. Davidson, Wilmington, of the Corps of Army Engineers; and D. H. Sencindiver and Theodore Hamel of the Voice of America station being established at Green ville. “We expect engineers from ev ery section of the state to attend the Morehead City meeting,” Ev erett D. Stevens, president of the society said. He continued, “This meeting af fords a marvelous opportunity for engineers from every segment of the engineering profession to come together in a joint session which promotes their technical interest.” “Such meetings are a tremen dous aid in improving our engi neering ethics which are also of great interest and benefit to the general public,” Mr. Stevens con cluded. Registration for the three day event will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday. The technical session will be conducted Friday morning. Business sessi6ns will be on the program for Friday, also. The Saturday session will include the local engineers club president's breakfast. Also attending the breakfast will be the North Caro lina advisory committee on phys ics in secondary schools. The breakfast is sponsored by the di rectors of the Society of Engineers. “Although the NC Society of En gineers is in its 43rd year of ex istence, this marks the first time that Morehead City or our East Carolina Engineers club has been our host,” president Stevens said. George W. Dill Jr., mayor of Morehead City, will welcome the Society of Engineers. OwensFrederfck Dies at Lejeune Owens Frederick, 48, Morehead City, died Saturday at the Naval hospital, Camp Lejeune, after a long illness. He was a veteran of World War II. Mr. Frederick had been retired from the Navy for 10 years and at the time of his death was employed in civil serv ice at Cherry Point as a super visor. He was a member of the Mis sionary Baptist church of Butler, Ga., the Morehead City Lions club and the Investors Twenty club. Funeral services were conduct ed yesterday at the Bell-Munden funeral chapel, Morehead City, at 2 p.m. with Dr. John T. Bunn of Durham officiating, assisted by the Rev. Corbin Cooper, pastor of the First Baptist church and the Rev. B. L. Davidson, pastor of the First Methodist church. Interment was in Bayview cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Emma Davis of Morehead City; two daughters, Shirley and Rosemary, both of the home; one brother, Lt. Col. Floyd Frederick of the US Army in Vietnam. Pallbearers were the following: James Webb, Clyde Burr, Lecil Smith, Skinner Chalk, Bill Chalk, and Walter Morris. Members of the Morehead City Lions club were honorary pallbearers. Sgt. Ernest Guthrie Receives Promotion Sgt. Ernest Guthrie of the state highway patrol, and a native of Harkers Island, has been promoted to lieutenant and is now executive office of troop A, division 6, Green ville. Lieutenant Guthrie, 49, had been stationed at New Bern. He is a frequent visitor to his home county of Carteret. Replacing lieutenant Guthrie at New Bern is Sgt. R. H. Nutt, who has been transferred to this dis trict from SaUsbury. He was at one time stationed at Richlands. To Plan Convention Officers and directors of the Morehead City Ci'vitan club will meet at the home of George Vick roy tonight at 7 to plan for the state Civitan convention in More head City Aug. 1&-1&, ‘ L»~ viijp flPnr | Visits Fort LCpl. William E. Hannaford pauses with his guide, Miss Bar bara Guthrie, during a tour of historic Fort Macon recently. The 21-year-old Marine is at tached to Headquarters, Marine Air Reserve Training Command, from the Naval Air Station, Glen V-S i .n ■ . ■ ■ ■■■ ' — SPA Says It Would Like Highway Group to Re-Open Bridge Question The campaign to move the pro posed new Morehead City bridge slightly farther north of its present location got another boost Friday when the State Ports Authority passed a resolution asking the State Highway commission to re open the question on bridge loca tion. The present highway commission has indicated that it would con sider locating the bridge farther north to take highway traffic away from railroad lines running into the port and also give the port op portunity to expand northward. The former commission had de cided to rebuild the bridge in the same spot, but that commission went out of office June 30. The ports authority would pre fer the bridge to span Newport river a short distance north of the present site. It has been proposed that the present Beaufort-More head causeway would remain as is, Historical Societies Meet At Swansboro, Eat Melons A joint meeting of the Carteret and Onslow Historical societies, as guests of the Swansboro Historical association, was held in the com munity center at Swansboro Sat urday afternoon. Tucker R. Littleton, president of the Swansboro society, presided. A short business session of the Carteret society was held. A nom inating committee was named: Mrs. John R. Gibson, John S. Jones and Mr. Littleton. Officers will be elected in October. Miss Hathaway Price, president of the Onslow society, introduced J. Parsons Brown who gave a talk on the activities and projects of the society. The present project is the beautification of the spring near which the early courthouse of Onslow county was located. A law existed in early days of the county that all public build Tido Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar Tuesday, July 25 HIGH 5:42 a.m. 6:10 p.m. LOW 11:58 a.m. Wednesday, July 26 6:40 a.m. 7:04 p.m. 12:50 a.m. 12:54 p.m. Thursday, July 27 7:34 a.m. 7:55 p.m. 1:42 a.m. 1:48 p.m. Friday, July 28 8:27 a.m. 2:31 a.m. view, 111. He is deployed with his unit to the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, for the two-week summer training of Marine Air Reserves. Miss Guth rie is an employee of the Greater Morehead City chamber of com mfcrce. with the Morehcad City end of the bridge entering the town in the vi cinity of Fisher street, about two blocks north of Arendell (highway 70). Gov. Terry Sanford attended Friday’s SPA meeting and spoke in favor of a ports bond issue which will be put before the voters in the fall. If approved, $5Vi mil lion of the money borrowed for ports would go to Morehcad City and $8 million to Wilmington. On the new highway commission, which is expected to push the bridge relocation matter, is D. G. Bell, Morehcad City. The high way commission will meet Thurs day, Aug. 3, in Raleigh. Mr. Bell has been appointed to the commission’s committee on personnel and public relations, lie said highway commission mem bers from eastern Carolina may meet for a day in Morehead City late next month or early in Sep ings had to be located near a spring, there being no water sys tems in those days. Thomas Res pess, Beaufort, presented a paper on the parly days of the state leg islature. Following adjournment, water melon was served to the 75 mem bers and guests. The melons were grown and given by John S. Jones, who with the late A. D. Ennett, organized the affair in 1955. Due to the death of Mr. Ennett last July, the gathering was not observed. As a tribute to his life long friend, Mr. Jones made a special planting of melons this year. They were served at the meeting, thus resuming the tradi tional watermelon cutting. Solicitor Will Attend School at Northwestern Robert D. Rouse Jr., solicitor of the Fifth District who prosecutes for the state in Carteret superior court, will attend a short course for prosecuting attorneys, under a scholarship, at the Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, July 31-Aug. 4, 1961. Fred E. Inbau of the Northwest ern University School of Law, one of the country’s leading criminolo gists, directs the course. The course includes a study of recent developments in criminal procedure, scientific crime detec tion techniques, and trial tech No Action Taken to Fill Vacancy on Board Morchead City town commission-^ ers, in session Thursday night at the town hall, deferred for another week the setting of the town's budget for the fiscal year 1961-62. Citizens appearing before the board took up Thursday night's business session. Skinner Chalk, county commis sioner, and resident of Morchead City, protested the fivc-cent levy on the townspeople of Morchead City which goes to the Morehead City hospital. Mr. Chalk stated that the hos pital has a budget almost as large as that of the town, adding that the hospital doesn’t owe a cent while the town is almost insolvent. Because of this, Mr. Chalk argued that it is unfair to tax the people of Morchead City to subsidize out of town residents who use the hos pital. He stated that the five-cent levy amounts to around $5,70(1 a year paid the hospital by the town. Mr. Chalk was told by town at torney George McNeill and com missioner Sam Holloway that the nickel levy had been voted in by the people and it was the respon sibility of the town to continue the levy as prescribed in the referen dum. (Passed by the 1961 legislature were two bills which permit the Morchead City town board, when it wishes, to discontinue operation of the hospital and transfer the hos pital levy to the general fund, as well as transfer ABC funds going to the hospital, to the general fund. The legislation was enacted to per mit the town to go out of the hos pital business, should a county hos pital be built). Touching on two other matters, Mr. Chalk protested the use of the town’s debt service funds for any thing other than debt service and asked the board to urge police of See BOARD, Page 7 tember to study the bridge situa tion and ferry problems along the coast. He said he doubted if another hearing would be called on More head City bridge location. Sev eral hearings have already been held. Special Session? Probably Not... Carteret’s former legislator, D. G. Bell, said yesterday that he doubted that there would be a spe cial session of the legislature. Gov. Terry Sanford inferred, prior to the collapse of proposed federal legislation on schools, that if the federal government didn’t build schools, he would suggest a special session of the legislature to call for a bond vote for building schools. The recently-closed legislature put through a sales tax measure to meet teacher salaries and other education needs in the state. Gov ernor Sanford assumed the federal aid-to-education bill would build the schools. Mr. Bell said that he felt the governor would not follow through on his proposal for a special legis lative session. North Carolina citizens are al ready scheduled to vote on a $13V£ million bond issue for state ports and other statewide permanent im provement — when they go to the polls in November. Country Club Schedules Dance Saturday Evening Members of the Morehead City country club are invited to attend the mid-summer dance scheduled for Saturday night at the club. Dancing will be from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Music will be furnished by P. R. Jones and his orchestra. Admis sion is $5 per couple. Light refresh ments will be served. Those plan ning to attend should call the club house for reservations. Cur Hits Ditch A 1956 Pontiac owned by William Howard Gaskill, Harkers Island, landed on its side in a ditch at 2:30 a.m. Sunday at Hardesty’s corner on highway 70 east of Beaufort. Deputy C. H. Davis said several persons in the car were unhurt. He didn’t know the identity of the driver. County to Get 11 More Faculty Members in Fall The state has allotted Carteret 11 additional teachers for the 1961 62 school year, H. L. Joslyn, coun ty superintendent of schools an nounced yesterday. “Of f increased allotment, eight teachers come as a direct result of the action of the 1961 Gen eral Assembly to provide the Unit ed Forces for Education improved school program,” Mr. Joslyn stat ed. He added, "The additional teach ers will improve the instructional services for every child in our county system. “These additional teachers will be used to improve library serv ices, and the guidance program. Some will relieve the principal of teaching duties to free him for bet ter supervision. There could be some release of over-size primary classes or if a special teacher were available, assistance could be giv en the slow learner or the gifted child.” Eight teachers will be allotted, one each to the larger schools, where details as to his or her serv ice will be worked out to the ad vantage of the individual school, Mr. Joslyn said. The additional teachers will mean an added annual payroll of approximately $52,800. There were 216 teachers in the Carteret school system during the past school year. Coast Guard Aids Two Boats Two assists were made recently by Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen. Thursday afternoon the station dispatched the 40-footcr to aid a 24-foot inboard that bad experi enced engine failure near More head City channel buoy No. 15. The inboard, owned by Charles Wil liams Jr., Raleigh, was towed to a boat yard for repairs. The 40-footer’s crew was James Silvers, BM-1; Harold Snipes, EN-1 and H. D. Paul Jr., SN. On Sunday afternoon, another boat, a 30-foot cabin cruiser, de veloped engine failure and requir ed Coast Guard assistance. The boat, Lois Sue, owned by John An drews, Greensboro, was taken in tow near the Atlantic Beaeh bridge and docked at the Morehead City yacht basin. Aboard the 40-footer were James Pittman, BM-1; Sam Salter, SN; I. D. Lewis, EN-2; and George Bickle, SN. ESC Manager Speaks to Club Mrs. Julia P. Tenney, manager of the employment security office in Morehead City, was the guest speaker Thursday night at the Morehead City Rotary club meet ing. Mrs. Tenney, speaking on the ser vices offered by the Employment Security commission, stated that the stress at the office is on em ployment rather than unemploy ment. Among the services offered individuals by the office arc place ment service, aptitude testing, test ing for specific jobs and counsel ing. Industrial and community ser vices offered are the making of la bor surveys for possible industries that may locate in the area and testing and referral of labor supply. The business session of the meet ing consisted of the announcing of program and committee assign ments for the coming year. George Lohr was named director-chairman of club service and Dr. Jerry Nor ris was named to head vocational service. Director-chairman of com munity service will be Dr. John Gainey and the international ser vice director will be Dave Lindsay. Visiting Rotarians were Lee Rog ers, Smithfield; Don Calloway, Greenville; Meredith Smaw, New Bern; Reed Holmes, Winston Salem; Jaie Lockey, Odessa, Tex.; Bob Hamlet, Scarsdale, N. Y.; and Dave Van Sant, Madison, N. J.
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