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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 ■
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firs! ifii t 1 in 1 . . ami
ip. disappeared
< a plain Bum Ii -.ml In di t1
tests 'have fx-en ipu"i i'; an at
tempt.to locate the thiei The tests
Have been mark through the co
Pin ration oj .’.«■• Collin- Morcht ni
tit’.. invest.i.e.ii urns offices. at tin r
r\ Toint air ape.e-i)
Street Official
Reports on Plans
For Railroad
John Join’s, trod commissioner,
reported to .the Kcaufoi: town
board Moi.eiay night rJ.,■ t it *• Beau
fort ii-ni't \loti.hi .ul ivuilroad is
plan mm m start the fit ! oi the
month tm fixjM.it the' railroad bed j
th re me It town
What..month andwfi.it year was
not specified
Mi Jones saiel that the railroad
people’, have told htiu a eontriicteiV
is coining to lay. a spur along the
track oi Ihc causeway a.tiei that ilia .
tecta I • are hen fen redoing the
track in town
llit treet comm er aid
that lii' railroad is concerned
aim 111 drainage alone roadbed
through town The commissioner
said the’ : doubted this would
p,i.( p’t.'iilem Mr. Jones said A.
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,
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buildings ms id mt ti fac
tory back in oj" .mu after a (Its
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a uVfsti |ifii:|f|]ii.L I it H. -1' -non
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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
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\|ii /STATE FORTS
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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.