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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES 50th YEAR, NO. 82. TWO pe IC S SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Menhaden Scrap Shed/ Under Construction, Crashes Down Governor to Send Message To Highway 70 Meeting Nine Workmen Injured Rushed to Hospital Two Honey Thefls Occur At Restaurant Morelx ad C'iy police .: • . fiiv ■ ,U-3tmi: the: 'm-y sif'i.iou' <li ippeat' a::ce of S ton liin:'n a -• ■ ■ i I)oni’« i aim An t u f e i I mi yet Mbr-elieati City Taken iruto tin' of:• airfav. Oct. 2, was $ 125 ill ill.. -Veil from the office Sum -p fit 2-1 \ysls $365.58. < apt ( url Bunt li. u! tin. i- • fu nd ( i" pi li< ■ force. say is no in.ij.caH.vu of a fun ml try from tf- iiit'i'!' i I hi lutil-mi Include :: "j.- Pot then « 111 checks riic 1 ioncy ' ,i paper ba in ■. - Inrict draw m the office It- < I-' lioc.il S' ha ■ e Vn i ii taken koi • ■ belie i 7 .so pm Sepi lit the <>il ' ' Pi lie. ill til h;iv» ■- n ft ■ tm - !- 'ivi-i-ir !0 .1 HL .Hill ! p 01 I,. 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T. Leary, who leases tic railroad, said that crossings would tx* paved but he eloes not intend to pave1 the length of the road inside tin- town limits Mayor W. II. Potter said some of the business people had ap proached him about the proposed distribution of federal food in downtown Beaufort, lie remarked that the state a. iirulture -officials who are hero t help in set tun up the food give away program said that they don’t object to a down town distribution renter it the busi ness people don • object. i Tie agricultup officials said at the October count > board meeting that a downtown (hstnhution een-1 ter creates trait and congestion problems ) Dr. l)a\id I arrior and Ronald I Earl Mason, town clerk, were ap pointed to supervise obtaining dl a furnace for the county library with the funds appropriate! by the town Mavor Potter read proclamations declaring Oct. 22-28 as I N k He requested that a Ifitt- r ol thunks tm written aui mending firemen for .luginti a horse show See BOARD, Page 4 > Suicide Charge Still Stands Against E. Willis Attempted suicide is a crime—a misdemeanor. %> ruled the state supreme court Wednesday. That leaves Edgar Willis, Straits, still answerable tf the charge filed against him in this county this year. He ms charged with attempted suicide, slashing his throat and ati tempting to hang himself, after the body of Aggie Ballou was found in his living quarters in a barn at Straits Feb. 13. In Carteret superior court in] April, judge Albert Cowper threw out a charge of attempted suicide against Willis, stating, in essence, Nine workmen feu mil .' i.--. i yeslcrdu' MloulUrili 11 i.t.ji (it ' i "i : i '.lit n, ’Afic 'ii-itrii ti ‘I- hi. ;■ ■ Ul.'" auiimljim . • ..ml a m .h ,• -ot Vhn ji 11 i! to th<- tins) i ’ . ■ . -11 hi U s dot I'.I ■ I-.I luH.i i \ : it from lln ■ Kerin I ■■■ j;t»#s ; J(!M (lit I . ill a: \h Knit - 1 tic 1 fit I I It ... ' , .lOSSC 1 1 . . -i.r S> A i si' r ''t.ii i ts fruitful am) discharged w.t. rj tiis: . liage fl.diowe., Tin: tnictui c wax located'at I Or itti\ull.' ' M standard Product.- X\>. prOpcrt.: f:lif biulditn: Was •l.’iKi . i fi\ l:.r' uct '.uni '.’J j.et Ingit I itnna'i -in: con str'i' ' u.a.s Vltiik on building. . f:. - ,>,•() i: Siund.-.nl H 111. lit, W IIS si... 'ti ago It n.. of: \ t i .. new buildings ms id mt ti fac tory back in oj" .mu after a (Its asfr .us lift' last I." coinbct Ain ;io\ ln.|t!1 t.i'ii 1 he ■:■ aid is a uVfsti |ifii:|f|]ii.L I it H. -1' -non I- ’mi i nrm i ssin. .ich-tin 1 ■ addition to I hi- ••! or! I. feSt'h li'l’oli'tl Vi i O'' - ipph - I■ ."sc - mo , ■ t-.iill • The injured work (tied wefc in and at"ttnli tin mammoth builrimg at the time ot its collapse. Bert Godot to of llartovve. who was hot injured. , said some men were in the southeast corner fin ishing the job of putUru ihc rafters ■ip He said he was m he e.round working a pulley to mow timbers up to the roof when In heard a •-racking so'umt in tin stile waff. “I heard it crack and saw it *tart to give way. so l run," he aid ' I .had to run about 200 feet to get outside i'rte building ami all the way timbers wore falling be hind me. When they'd got too close, Id. riur faster. 1 made it outside just the whole thing tell m." lb said tii.it as lar a.- ite knew he was the only man who escaped uninjured, I was so .scared that's all I saw," lie said.unable t(i give, at . more details about the eatas-. trophe Five or six Negro men and one white matt- from Salter 'Path were tp .di d m tin- emergeh t room at Mi,i'.head t ify hospit :d. .ilfh-ott • h none appeared to hi in serious condition Promoted Maj Charles E Hamilton, -on of Mr. and Airs. Hoy Hamilton, 109 Gordon St Beaufort, has beer) promoted to lieutenant col onel and named commanding of ficer of the opoth En.Lineer Bat talion (armored division ' Geor gia National Guard i ne h. „uuud has units in Co lumuus, Reynolds and LaGrange. Colonel Hamilton, promoted from executive officer of the battalion, was a captain when the unit was organized in 1948. [ that it was not a crime. Robert Rouse, solicitor, appealed. It was on this appeal that the supreme court ruled Wednesday. In the April 11 session of Car teret recorder’s court, Willis was sent to the roads for a year for violating a sentence of Dec. 29, 1959. This judgment was also ap pealed. For committing a misdemeanor, a defendant can draw as much as a two-year jail sentence in this state. Members of Willis’s family say they don’t know where be is. F reports state that he has the Merchant Marine. A tremi day inornii throe stork uus all >d building, intended to be a storage place for menhaden scrap, collapsed yester Products Co., east of Beaufort at Lennoxville. The building was approximately Firms Take Part In Pori Project Twelve business firms have bad their mailing envelope imp!. '■ d with a picture and slogan promot ing a "tor” vote on tin Further, ixtg port bond issue The imprint looks hk- this ' ]—XPAr'ls < oti . or vm/it \|ii /STATE FORTS jmi TY N^V j This was designed bv artist i’hati. • McNeill, who is assi t operations manager at ioiehe.ol City state port Firms and agencies cooperative in vote for < .vpaii.Mon of the ports are Southern Railway I I (Tom» Potter. Mnrehcud City Shipping Co., town of Moivhead City, First Citizens Bank and Trust < a . Wa chovia Hank and Trust. M mein vd Ships' Service J. I, Crump. Frank t'assiano. ami the greater Morehead City eh.itn b'-r of commerce The imprinting i ben:, done free by the Morehead CiK .Man time association Persons who would like to ha\ v their, hu.siiic.vs envelopi impii call Herald Pnntii • o., or R. L. IF'ks ^icury-treasurer of the .aiiurne association, PA6-5080. Seven Building Permits Represent $42,190 Investment Seven building permits were is sued by A. |i. Roberts, building inspector for Morehead City, dur ing the third quarter of the year. Co6t of all structures amounted to $42,190. A perqiit granted the Elks Club for the erection of a club house on Arendell street, west of the Buccaneer motel, at a cost of $32,000 is the largest cost listed on the seven permits issued. The Gulf Oil Co. has under con struction an addition to their fill ing station at the corner of 7th and Arendell streets at a cost of $7,000. Permits covering other additions or alterations were issued to A. P. Me Knight, $1,250; Cecil Piner, $$50; Shep Willis, $490. To M. S. Smith, garage, $450 and to Mary Collins for a small house, $350. Total construction costs for the nine months period: $432,205; for the same period of I960, $146,440. “ The Beaufort town board, at its* meeting Monday night at the town | hall, entered the urban renewal j i program. An application for federal funds was approved and will be forward ed to the Kinston office, commun ity planning division of the De partment of Conservation and De ! velopment. To obtain federal assistance un der the urban renewal program, a own it required to have a plan or kable program,” as it is call ed by the urban renewal officials. I e cost of this plan for Beau will be $6,000. Of that amount, .lUlort will pay $1,500 or $750 miully this year and next. Ilie objectives of a “workable ram” under urban renewal are is t, .lows: • Adequate local housing, health i safety codes and ordinances, ively enforced \ comprehensive plan for com iv development ilysis of blighted neighbor - i determine treatment need ed • 'feetive administrative or to carry out the im pi rogram io meet financial re qum i. ids • he dies displaced i nd other gov • p.i tion and sup •i i. i lea I wal objectives Bee.iusc Hi m(i>r!'s share for the osi limn:, not budgeted III lllc uni \V. H. Pot i. i'i , d I" give bis $600 ml (he *150 due. Several oners said Monday night mey would give as much of their salary as needed to make up the difference. Mayor Potter said if the town, under the program, were classified 5-A, rather than 5-B, it would get 75 per cent in federal matching funds. The mayor read a letter from Mrs. Lina Carter, 413 Pol lock St., Beaufort, who wrote to President Kennedy giving her views on the needs in Beaufort. The mayor said that to get out of debt the town must acquire pub lic utilities or else get urban re newal funds to “raise the level of See URBAN RENEWAL, Page 8 500Go to Fish Fry Wednesday Five hundred persons were served at the fish fry Wednesday night, announcing the opening of the county Cancer Crusade Nov. 1. Miss Stella Propst, chairman of the fry, considers it most successful and extends her appreciation to the following who made it possible: Capt. Sam Adler, Thomas Ballou. Bert Brooks, Henry White. F/Sgt. Dennis Goodwin and the National Guard; Capt. Ottis Puri foy, Albert Lea, Charles Davis, w Symphony Drive To Begin Monday The North Carolina Symphony drive in the county will begin Monday and continue through Friday. Morehead City membership workers will meet at 4 p.m. Sun day at Bud Dixon’s motel, More head City, and Beaufort workers will meet at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the home of Miss Nancy Rus sell, membership co-chairman, 111 Marsh St., Beaufort. Mrs. Robert K. Meadows, route 1 Morehead City, membership co-chairman in Morehead City, reminds music lovers that the Little Symphony will appear in Morehead City in the spring, a free concert will be given for school children, and symphony members may attend a concert by the full symphony when it appears at New Bern. N. Campen Serves On Elections Board On recommendation of the coun ty Democratic committee, Neal Campen, route 101, Beaufort, has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the county elections board. The vacancy was created when C. Z. Chappell, chairman, was ap pointed to the county board of com missioners. Charles Willis, vice chairman, is now chairman. The other member of the. board is Os borne Davis, Beaufort. Mr. Davis, a Republican, and Mr- Willis, a Democrat, are fulfilling terms which'expire in March 1982. A. H. James, chairman of the county Democratic committee, says Mr. Campen’s term of office will expire the first Monday in De cember 1962. Patrolman on Scene Highway patrolman W. J. Smith of Beaufort and J. W. Sykes of Morehead City were called to Cha pel Hill Wednesday to assist in traffic control during President Kennedy’s visit. They were expect ed to return last night. Oliver Davis, Gerald Austin, Bur nett Willis, Theodore Guthrie, and Jones Fish Co. Herald Printing Co., Sanitary Fish Market and Restaurant, Free man’s Wholesale, Frown Foods of Kinston, Dorn’s Luneh, Captain Bill’s, £1 Nelson. The Rex restaurant, Colonial Stores, John Sexton Co., Rose’s 9 and 10, Seaboard Coffee Co., More head City Masonic lodge, RAN Fur niture, John Wagner of WMBL. Convention Will Open Sunday at Oceana na Resort Chamber Will ! Meet for Annual Session Oct. 26 # William Henderson, C&D, Will Speak • Manager Reports on Chamber Activities '■ William Henderson, head of the < division of commerce and industry,. Department of Conservation and Development, will speak at the an nual membership meeting of the Greater Morehead City chamber of commerce. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Biltmore hotel, Morehead City. Mr. Hen derson will speak on the Industrial Potential of Carteret. S. A. Chalk Jr., chamber presi dent, will report on the 1961 cham ber of commerce activities. Three chamber board members will be elected, Retiring board members are Mr. Chalk who will, however, remain on the board as a past president, George II. McNeill, and E. H. Swann. Other members of the board are Dr. S. W. Hatcher, Garland Scrugg6, Jimmy Wallace, whose terms end in 1962; Moses Howard, Dorn Fcmia, W. L. Dcrrickson, W. E. Baugham, George Huntley Jr., and Elmer D. Willis, whose terms eras in 1963. Wives of chamber members are invited to the meeting. In a letter to chamber members announcing the annual meeting, J. A. DuBois, chamber manager, reported that since 1846, when it was organized, the chamber has spent $193,000 for the promotion of the county. The curreht year, the letter said, has seen all previous records in building, land purchase, tourist at tendance, conventions, tourist in quiries, broken. In 1951 inquiries about this area numbered 264. This year the num ber exceeds 18,000. The letter pointed out that many community - betterment projects originate with the chamber and pleaded for more chamber mem bers working on committees. William Henderson . .. chamber speaker Tide Table Tides at the Beanfort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Oct. 13 10:00 a.m. 3:56 a.m. 10:26 p.m. 4:37 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14 10:48 a.m. 4:26 a.m. 11:22 p.m. 5:18 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15 11:46 a.m. 5:05 a.m. ... 6:13 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16 12:26 a.m. 5:59 a.m. 12:50 p.m. 7:37 p.m. Merrimon, Boguc, Broad Creek, Crab Point, .Haflowe, Russells Creek and Core Creek Home Dem onstration chibs, Carteret Icc and Coal. Miss Propst also thanks the many persons who sold tickets through out the county and any others who in any way helped with the fish fry. All proceeds will go to the county cancer society including profit on 34 seafood cookbooks sold. She asks that persona who hove ►* Lynn Nisbct, newspaper column | ist and president of the North Car olina Travel council, will deliver a message from Gov. Terry San ford at the meeting of the National US Highway 70 association Sun j day and Monday at the Oceanana | ' motel, Atlantic Beach, i Carteret residents in the travel j business—operators of motels, ho-! | tels, restaurants, lodges, marinas j —are cordially invited to attend ■ all events, according to J. A. Du- j Bois, Morehead City, a vice-presi- j j dent of the association. be climaxed j The meeting will | Tuesday morning with departure ! of a caravan whose destination : will be Los Angeles. In the cara van will be the mayor (burgomeis tcr) of Wurtemburg, Germany, who will help publicize the new name for highway 70: Lost Dutch man Gold Route. 1 Wurtemburg is the hometown of j | a man, Jacob Vom Waiver, who allegedly knew the location of a fabulously rich gold mine. But no one has been able to find Waiver’s mine. He died with his secret. (Dutch is commonly used to re fer to the Germanic or Teutonic peoples, but it is also used in ref- j j erence to the Holland or Nether-1 ! lands Dutch. In the case of the I “Lost Dutchman Gold Route,” Dutchman refers to the German, Votn Waiver.) The schedule for the convention i follows: Sunday—8 a.m. to noon, registra tion; noon to 1 p.m., committee meetings; 1 p.m., welcome by mayor A. B. Cooper, Atlantic Beach, and mayor George Dill, Moreheac) City. 1:20 p.m., comments by John R. Williams, Glendale, Ariz., vice president of the association; 1:30 p.m., report by the president, J. J. DiPaola, Ruidoso, N. M., president of the association. 2-4 p.m., pier fighiag coplcst; 6 p.m., social hour in cruise' room; 7 p.m., dinner at Captain Bill’s; 8:30 p.m., moonlight cruise. Monday—8 a.m., breakfast at Fleming’s; 9 to noon, business ses sion, including talks by Fred Pat ton, Santa Fc, N. M., and Gene Baca, representative of the public relations firm, of Fred Patton ahd Associates. Noon-1:30 p.m., lunch at the San itary restaurant; 2:30 p.m., dis cussion; 3 to 5 p.m., presentation of program and plans by John Ma loney, chairman of the Lost Dutch man Gold Route committee; 5:30 p.m., social hour in the Cruise room; 7 p.m., Down East clam bake. Tuesday—8 a.m., start of cara van for Los Angeles. Bicycle Rider, Car Collide Albert Ingerman, 59, Beaufort, was injured slightly last week when the bicycle he was riding collided with a car being driven by Tommy Merrill. The accident occurred at Front and Fulford streets, Beau fort. According to police reports, In german was riding south on Fui ford street and Merrill was driv ing east on Front street. Inger man started to turn west on Front itrect and his bicycle struck Mer •ill’s car in the left door as Mer rill was making a left turn onto Fulford. Merrill was driving a 1949 Ford. Ingerman received a bruised left arm and was taken to Dr. L. W. Moore’s office for first aid treat ment. No charges were filed. Po lice chief Guy Springle investi gated. Hazards Removed Morehead City street department started yesterday to remove bushes and trees from properties in town. The shrubs taken down prevented motorists from seeing oncoming traffic. • It- was announced in Au gust that owners of shrubs creating hazards should move them; if they didn’t, the town would. ticket money turn it and unsold tickets in no later than tomorrow, to either Mrs. C. L. Beam, sheriffs office, Beaufort, or Mrs. Frank Sample,, First-Citizens Bank, More head City. The amount of money made on the fish fry cannot be determined until the money is in. The caneer crusade is being sponsored by the Carteret Business and Professional Women’s club. Earle W. Webb Withdraws Offer To Sell Land • Vote on Hospital Sites Cancelled • County Board Will Consider Next Step Earle W. Webb, owner of the property the county has selected as a hospital site, has informed Moses Howard, chairman of the county board of commissioners, that he is withdrawing his offer to sell the land. The letter, dated Tuesday, Oct. 10, was received Wednesday. Mr. Webb set forth in his letter the reasons for withdrawing his offer. Length of the latter prohibits its publication in today’s paper. Luther Hamilton Jr., county at torney, said this turn of events makes it unnecessary to proceed with a referendum on the Webb and Oglesby hospital sites, as had been proposed for Nov. 7. County commissioners are ex pected to meet in special session as soon as possible to consider the next step to be taken. The county invested $3,110 in the Webb site, prior to start of the lawsuit aiming to prevent building of a hospital there. The expense was for surveys and borings. Le gal fees in conjunction wjth the law suit have been $1,000, making a total of $4,100 invested to date in attempting to clear the way for the county to build a hospital on Boguc sound, west of Morehead City. ' Registration Books to Open Registration books for the Nov. 7 state bond referendum will open tomorrow. People who have voted before in a county-wide election need not register. Carteret residents who have become 21 since the last gen eral election or persons who will have lived in this county 12 months prior to Nov. 7, 1961 may register now, according to Charles Willis, chairman of the county board of elections. Registration books will be open at polling places all the remaining Saturdays in this month from 9 a.jn. to 6 p.nj. Any now regis trants may be challenged on chal lenge day, Nov. 4, the Saturday before the referendum. Mr. Willis says that polling places and registrars in some com munities have changed since the last registration. All polling places and the registrars will be listed in Tuesday’s paper. Trawler Sinks, Two Men Drown Wreckage of the trawler Thomas J, out of Belhaven, was found in Pamlico sound Monday. Bodies of the two men aboard, Ted Guth rie and Vernon Guthrie, cousins, were found severhl miles from the wreckage by the father of Ted, who is Lonnie Guthrie. The elder Mr. Guthrie also op erates a shrimp trawler. Vernon was the son of Fred Guthrie, bro ther of Lonnie. All are residents of Belhaven. A Coast Guard aircraft spotted the wreckage. The Thomas J had been missing for more than a week. Fort Macon Coast Guards meq said yesterday they did not know what may have caused the boat to fdunder and sink. The Thomas J, was owned by Clyde Potter, Belhaven Fish and Oyster Co. Corvoir Turn* Over Wednesday, Route 24 A 1961 Corvair turned over on highway 24 sometime before 6 a.m. Wednesday but highway patrolman W. E. Pfekard has been unable to locate the owner. The patrolman said the car fail ed to make a curve, turned over and landed on its wheels in a field. He was called by residents of the area who noticed the car Wednes day morning. Damage to the, Corvair was esti | mated at between $600 and $700.