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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 50th YEAR, NO. 70. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS September Morn! There’s one in every family — an early riser who slips out of the house in her birthday suit while the rest of the family slumbers. Tammy is the subject of our calendar picture on this first day in September. She got in a bit of bike riding. News-Times Photos by McComb Deciding that Mommy and Daddy should be awake by now, she returns to the bouse, where she soon will be denied the freedom of “no clothes.” One little girl who escaped on one occasion from tier pajamas announced to her mother next morning, “It’s so nice to sleep in your skin!” First Training School for Men In Fisheries Unit to Start Sunday Cub Executive Will Visit Here Bad Bennett, national director of Cub Scouts, New Brunswick, N, J,, will be in Morehead City Monday, Sept. 18, to meet with all adults who are connected in any wdy with Cub Scouting. Mr. Bennett will be at the First Presbyterian church, Morehead City, at 10 a.m. on that day. The Rev. Charles Kirby, Morehead City, publicity chairman for Scout ing, urges all interested in the Cub program to take advantage of the opportunity to meet with Mr. Ben nett. T. A. Guiton, Morehead City, Scout executive for Carteret, re turned from a training conference at Jekyll Island, Ga., last week. Four hundred Scout leaders from North and South Carolina, Florida. Georgia and the Canal Zone at tended. Mr. Guiton reported that the East Carolina council staff, which serves Carteret, was highly com mended and encouraged in its camping program. A nationally known engineer and camp archi tect is scheduled to visit the coun ty this month to look at the pro posed Boy Scout camp at Gales Creek. Dale Carnegie Course Will Start Thursday, 7:27 P.M. I The free Introductory lesson to the Dale Carnegie , course to be taught in Morehead City will begin at 7:27 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, in the followsiip building of the First Methodist church. The course is being sponsored by Morehead City Jaycees. It con sists of 14 lessons, taught weekjy Civil Defense Films Shown last Night At Town Hall Civil Defense leaders of Beau fort saw three films last night at the town hall. Gerald Woolard, civil defense director, said that the meeting was in conjunction with an order from Raleigh to have working plans on the town’s de fense program in Raleigh by Oct. 15. Whipping civil defense into shape la part of the preparedness to meet eventualitities, should there be war over Berlin. Harry Williams, county civil de fense director, informed THE NEWS-TIMES yesterday that Camp Lejeune, as well as Cherry Point, is a target area. He said he had been misinformed. An edi torial on the subject appeared in THE NEWS-TIMES recently. ■ The first training school for law enforcement officers of the divi sion ortOWlttercial fishdMes yr'H begin Sunday at the commercial fisheries building, Morehead City. Twenty-two will attend the first week of training. Recruits for law enforcement work will attend the second week of classes, as well as veterans not be included in the first week. The second week be gins Sunday, Sept. 17. Recruits obtained from through out the state are now being screen ed for jobs as inspectors with the fisheries division. The recruiting program began last month through cooperation of the state department of personnel, the Employment Security commis sion, and Wildlife Resources. Like the training school, recruiting was something new in commercial fish eries. The institute of government will conduct the schools. Assisting will be personnel from the attorney general’s office. Coast Guard, highway patrol, Institute of Fish eries Research, Wildlife Resources commission and the Board of Con servation and Development. Sessions will start at 8 a.m. and continue to 5:30 p.m. with some night classes. Subjects to be taught include laws and regulations governing commercial fishing, courtroom procedure, nautical rules and sea manship-, fisheries conservation, search and seizure, law of arrest, and law of evidence. by an authorized Dale Carnegie instructor. There are no educational require ments for enrollment, Jaycees point out. Each student receives three textbooks, eight booklets and other class supplies. The class is limited to 40 persons. Used as a text in the course is Carnegie’s famous book, How to Win Friends and Influence People. The course is designed to de velop poise, confidence, teach one how to make a public address, how to conquer fear and worry, make new friends and develop oth er leadership skills. Jaycees urge people to take ad vantage of the opportunity to take the Dale Carnegie course. Already more than 700,000 persons in 1,100 cities have done so. At the meeting next Thursday if a sufficient number attends, a meeting date most convenient to those taking the course, will be set. Auxiliary Meets The VFW Ladies Auxiliary met Thursday night at the post home. Members were urged to buy tick ets on the movie camera and pro jector to be given away Nov. 4. Mrs. Julia Basden served refresh ments. She also won the door prize. ► -.- ■— • ■ —— Asa Maim Jiurft ~~> In Crash Monday Near Mill Creek Asa Mann, Newport, suffered a head injury at 7:15 p.m. Mr day when the 1950 Chevrolet he was driving went off the Mill creek bridge and turned over on its top in in the creek. Mann was taken to the More head City hospital in the Bell and Munden ambulance. According to patrolman J. W. Skyes, who in vestigated, Mann was headed to ward Mill Creek. He said the lights of an oncoming car blinded him. He pulled to . the right, stripped the railing off the bridge and went overboard. Mann was alone in the car. No charges were filed. The car was considered damaged beyond repair. * Court Grants Four Divorces Four divorces were granted in civil court, Beaufort, this week. In the suit, Margaret Godette Dav is vs. Wilbert Davis, the plaintiff was taxed with court costs. Paying costs in the divorce action, Julius Louis Lane Jr. vs. Mary Neal Lane, was Mr. Lane. Clarence P., Oglesby was grant ed custody of the children in the suit, Clarence Oglesby vs. Gladys Oglesby. The children are Tresa Ann and Clarence Jr. Alva Bell McCann was granted custody of the children in the ac tion, Alva McCann vs. John J. Mc Cann. She paid court costs and Mr. McCann was ordered to pay $100 a month to his former wife and minor children, Constance Marie and Nancy Lindsay McCapn. The court ordered tha joining of Earl Mason and Ronald Earl Ma son as defendants with Illinois Fire Insurance Co. in a suit filed by John L. Gaskill. The defendants were allowed 30 days to file, an amended pleading. In another action, Atlantic Dis count Carp, joined Allen Walter Lawrence as plaintiff in a proceed ing against American Bankers In surance Co. of Florida. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Sept. 1 1:00 a.m. 7:06 a.m. 1:31 p.m. 7:57 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2 1:54 a.m. 8:13 a.m.. 2:26 p.m. 9:03 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 3 2:52 a.m. 9:16 a.m. 3:23 p.m. 10:01 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4 3:54 a.m. 10:12 a.m. 4;23jm* IMIfflfc -— Two Rear-End Crashes Occur Over Weekend Highway patrolman R. H. Brown investigated two auto accidenls over the weekend. Charges were filed against one driver and charges against another are pend i ing. Five hundred dollars damage was done to a 1961 Volkswagen at 3 p.m. Saturday 50 feet west of the Beaufort channel bridge. Driv ing the Volkswagen was William Ernest Farrant of Toronto, Can ada. Patrolman Brown said Farrant had 'stopped behind a line of traf fic when he was hit in the rear by a 1956 Ford driven by Ronald Au gustus Walton of Beaufort. Both cars were headed east. Damage to the Ford was estimated at $50. Walton was charged with follow ing too close. Another rear-end collision occur red Sunday at 1:50 p.m. at the intersection of highways 70 and 70-A. It was raining at the time, according to the officer. John Milton Toole of Raleigh, driving a 1960 Comet, stopped for the stop sign at the intersection, pulled out a few feet and stopped again when a car shot up in the lane at his right. The car on the right also distracted the attention of Kermit W. Long of Beaufort, who, in a 1953 Willys jeep, was following the Comet. When Toole stopped the second time, Long failed to stop and bumped the rear of the Comet. Damage to the Comet was estimat ed at $50. Charges against Long are pending. The Carteret county public li brary, Beaufort, will be closed all day Monday in observance of La bor Day, announces Mrs. Gaston Simpson, librarian. Their First Day at School By LARRY McCOMB Remember your first day in school? That’s an impression that never seems to fade. It’s easy to remember how big and important we felt ast we left the house tor our venture into the first grade. Now at last we would be “one of the kids.” It’s easy to remember too how most of our big and important feeling seemed to fade as we neared the school house. Then there were the stairs and corridors which seemed more end less than a first grader’s mind could fathom. And there were the bells, the teachers, the coat rooms and the water fountains, all new objects in the world of a mar velling 6-year-old. Remember? As exclusive as this memory may seem to most people, it’s one shared with just about everyone. It’s something that happens every year at this time to thousands of 6-year-olds. Take, for example, the four first graders who walked 3 Cedar Point Renews Pleas For More Law Enforcement Wildlife Club Head Thanks Two Officials # Law Makes Grain Available for Birds • Feed Would Add To Wildfowl Diet Letters of thanks from Walter Teich, president of the County Wildlife club, have been sent to congressman David Henderson and j Turner Battle, executive director of the North Carolina Wildlife Fed eration. The letters express appreciation for efforts in getting into law a bill which would make surplus grain available as feed for migra tory wildfowl (ducks and geese) The law, according to Mr. Teich, allows states to request the grain for emergency feeding. The county wildlife club backed this proposal on behalf of this area where natural food for the birds has been depicted by repeated storms. Another bill before congress, backed by the Department of In terior, would be of benefit to Car teret, Mr. Teich comments. The bill, which reportedly has a good chance of passage, would provide money for purchase of wildfowl wintering grounds at Cedar Island. The bill provides for a loan of $150 million to the department of interior for the purchase of thou sands of acres of “wetlands.” The loan would be repaid from pro ceeds received from sale of hunt ing stamps. . Also proposed for purcAase In this coastal area is land o» Mack ey's island in Curntuck coun'F. Planning Expert To Visit Town l)u r wood S. Curling, Kinston, chief of area planning, Department of Conservation and Development, will meet with Beaufort civic lead ers at 7:30 Thursday night in the town hall. Mayor -W. H. Potter has invited Mr. Curling to inform the town of the ways it can take advantage of planning funds and planning ex perts made available to municipali ties by the. state and federal gov ernments. Town officials, the chairman of the zoning commission, chairman of the school committee, city at torney, city engineer, president of the merchants’ association, Jay cees and Rotary club, will be invit ed. Mayor Potter said anyone else interested is welcome. Offices, Banks Will Observe Labor Holiday In observance of Labor Dag, the courthouse, Beaufort, town halls in Beaufort and Morehead City, banks, postoffices and ABC stores will be closed Monday. The newspaper office will be open Monday as usual and Tues day’s NEWS-TIMES will be pub lished in accordance with the usual schedule. There will be no superior court Monday. The court term will be resumed Tuesday. the doors to the Morehead City graded school Tuesday: Barbara Thorp, Bonnie Jo Byrode, Michael Janies Willis, and Clyde Harvell. Although it’s probably unfair to ask a bewildered first grader bis impression of school on the first day of classes, Barbara, Bonnie, Mike and Clyde were ready to tell what they thought of it. Barbara said simply that she thinks she’s going to like school, as did Bonnie Jo, because she likes to color and they let you color at school. Mike, who claims that he isn’t as bashful as the other kids said he likes school because he "likes making stuff.’’ To these observa tions, Clyde added that he likes school, even though it meatuf get ting up early and getting himself ready for the day. All four are pupils in Miss Jackie Taylor’s first grade room. During the next 12 years, schol will prob ably become anything to them but the new and big wonderland that it is now, but still they'll remem ber .that first day. The Cedar Point commun-' ity club Tuesday night de cided to petition county com missioners next week for "more law enforcement in the White Oak and Broad Creek area.” A meeting at the fire house end ed with people signing a petition to that effect. Close to a hundred attended the meeting at which M. D. Ingram, president of the club, presided. Mr. Ingram said that the meet ing was called tw learn what resi dents could do "about the concen tration of places that sell beer in our end of the Cedar Point area.” Mr. Ingram said that beer sales and absence of officers to enforce regulations led to problems that are alarming residents. Attending the meeting were sher iff Robert (Bobby) Bell, deputy sheriffs C. H. Davis and Billy Wayne Smith; county solicitor Wiley Taylor; Marshall Ayscue, county ABC officer. W. F. Jeffries, New Bern, ABC inspector for Carteret and Craven counties; Jim Wagoner, (iates ville, supervisor of district 1, state ABC system; and Carl Milstead, mayor of Swansboro. Mr. Ingrain reported that the club had passed a resolution di recting a letter to Ed Scheidt, di rector of the State Highway patrol. The letter requested that a high way patrolman be stationed in the Cedar Point area. It also asked that the speca limit be reduced from 55 to 45 miles an hour on highway 24. The president said that Lt. Ern est Guthrie, SHP, New Bern, is expected in the area soon to inves tigate violations of motor vehicle regulations. When the meeting opened for discussion, Mrs. David Strohl, Cape Carteret, said she is fearful for her two teen-agers because of drunks on the highway. She said when the teen-agers start to drive, they will not be experienced and Will riot be able to avoid the drunk drivers in the area. Solicitor Taylor asked: “Is the accident rate here high?” Pat Burt, Cedar Point, said that it was. He added that beer cans fly at mail boxes and people’s front yards all the time. Mayor Milstead said that in four hours recently, deputies of On slow county made numerous ar rests at Swansboro, most involv ing defendants from the Carteret side of White Oak river (boundary between Carteret and Onslow). He said recent accidents near the Swansboro drive-in have each been related to alcoholic consumption. Allen Vinson, Stella, told of a wreck in which his son was in volved near a drive-in. Mr. Vin son said the accident could not have been averted because of the irresponsible driver pulling out of the drive-in. Solicitor Taylor told of a con versation he had Tuesday morning with the Rev. J. P. Mansfield, pas tor of the Broad Creek Methodist church. He said that Mr. Mansfield told him of lawless conditions at Broad Creek. He quoted Mr, Mansfield as saying that “people • don’t like to go to court.” Mr. Taylor said that to success fully prosecute a case, the officers and he, the solicitor, must have witnesses. “We must depend on you to testify,” the solicitor said. “We can’t issue warrants and try people without witnesses. When witnesses won’t go into court and testify against the lawbreakers, the case is either dismissed or simply not prosecuted,” he said. “I want to help you,” Mr. Tay lor continued. He added that it would be impossible for the county to keep an officer on duty in the See CEDAR POINT, Page 2 Millions of Dead Menhaden Clutter New York City Bay By RUTH PEELING The New York Times, in a Sun day newsstory, reported that mil lions of dead menhaden were float ing Saturday in New York’s Up per Bay, attracting attention of ferryboat riders. Since menhaden are important to the economy of Carteret county, dead menhaden in the New York area are of more than passing in terest here. The menhaden mi grate along the Atlantic coast. Boats fish for them all along the seaboard, following the fish as they migrate. Xhe Times’ newsstory attributed the large number of dead fish to a natural cause, “death after spawn ing.” Fred June, head of the menha deu program, US Bureau of Com Fire Seriously Damages Apartment Wednesday Dr. H. J. Humm Sails for France • Duke Scientist Will Present Paper # Symposium Will Take Place at Biarritz Durham—A Duke university bot anist, who this summer was in charge of a research team which went to the Alacran Kcef, in the southern Gulf of Mexico to study marine algae, leaves for France tomorrow to take part in an inter national conference. He is Dr. Harold J. Humm, as sociate professor of botany. Dr. Humm will report on the Distribu tion of Marine Algae in the South ern Gulf of Mexico to the fourth International Symposium on Ma rine Algae Sept. 1&-25 at Biarritz, France. A major interest of the research team which he headed this sum mer was the role of marine algae in the formation of tropical reefs. Dr. Humm, a former secretary of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, two years ago was awarded a Rockefeller Institute fellowship known as the Jacques I,oeb Associate in marine biology. The fellowship goes annually to an outstanding scientist who the institute feels will use it most pro ductively. Last year he received a $14,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support his Mexicali research over a two-year period. Dr. Humm was a member of the faculty at Duke marine lab, Beau fort, during the second term this summer, following his return from Alacran Reef. A former resident investigator at the lab, he is a past president of the Beaufort Rotary club. Dr. Humm and his family are frequent visitors in Beaufort. Dr. Harold J. Humm . . leave* for France National Notice Life magazine, in its last week’s issue, carried a notice of More head City’s crab derby on its page listing summer events. mercial Fisheries, Beaufort, said that this could not possibly account for the millions of floating dead fish. Mr. June commented that the ex tensive menhaden kill is an annual occurrence in the New York area. It has not been established what the exact cause is, but scientists believe the kill is a result of pol lution. Mr. June said that the New York area is the only place where this happens. Why that locality, when menhaden are known to swim in all eastern coastal waters, has not been determined. Ross Nigrelli, scientist now in the Bahamas, made a study of the situation in 196T-58, but was unable to come up with an answer, Mr. June said. Ybe Times newsstory described the 0*b as 0 to 7 inches long. Mr. ► Fire Rutted an apartment of a duplex house on highway 70-A near Mrs. Russell Willis’s restaurant Wednesday night. In addition to severely damaging the building, most of the furniture of a couple just moving in the apartment was destroyed. The building is owned by A. P. McKnight of Morehcad City. Fire chief Lindsey Guthrie, Morehead City, said the fire start ed about 6:45 p.m. As far as can be determined, it started from a gas hot water heater, the chief said. He said that Mr. and Mrs. John C. Noe had moved their furniture in only that day and had gone to Beaufort to spend the night. What furniture wasn’t burned was dam aged by smoke and water, the chief remarked, but he thought some could be salvaged. The chief said the couple in the adjoining apartment noticed smoke seeping into their side and went to the other apartment, where they discovered the blaze Fire men had the fire out in about an hour. Mr. Noe told the chief he did not have insurance on his furni ture. Mr. Guthrie said he had been unable to contact Mr. Mc Knight about his insurance. Jaycees Paint Building, Will Sponsor Movie Beaufort Jaycees met at the Scout building Monday night and spent most of the time painting the interior of the building. During a short business meeting it was announced that the club would co-sponsor, with the Beau fort theater, the showing of the movie On the Double Sept. 12 and 13. Advance tickets for the movie are on sale now and can be pur chased from individual Jaycee 'members or at a booth that will be set up on Front street Saturday afternoons. Jaycees will also sell tickets house to house in Beaufort. Pro ceeds from the movie will be used toward reducing part of the debt incurred in improving the Scout Building.. Members from whom tickets can be bought are Ernest Courtney, Guy Smith Jr., Tommy Bullock, Bobby Merrill, Tommy Willis, Bert Brooks, Manley Mason, Ivey Mason Jr. and Herbert Green. Due to Monday being a holiday, the membership drive cookout that had been planned for that night, has been postponed until Monday, Sept, 11. All prospective Jaycee members arc invited to attend the cookout which will be held at the Scout building. Also discussed at the meeting was a fund-raising project of spon soring monthly dances, with pro ceeds to be used for the proposed city park. President Courtney announced that the Jaycees are cooperating in the Labor Day weekend Save a-Life campaign in which motor ists are urged to drive with the headlights on during the day to re mind other drivers that they are aware of holiday driving hazards and are pledged to cut down Labor Day highway deaths. June said this is the size of “young of the year” fish as they move out of rivers and bays on migration. When this size, a menhaden is too young to spawn, therefore the New York newsstory attributing the kill to “death after spawning,” was somewhat misleading. A menhaden reaches maturity in its second year and a female can spawn regularly until her life span ends. If she spawned once and died, it is not likely that the menhaden fishery would be one of the largest in the United States. The kill of menhaden due to pol luted waters—the only logical ex planation at present for the mass death in the New York area should make all fishermen aware that pollution, anywhere, can af fect their future earning power.
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