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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES 1 NEWS-TIMES r 50th YEAR, NO. 85. TWELVE PAGES TWO SECTIONS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1961 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Chamber Members to Attend Dinner; Manager Resigns Members of the greater More* head City chamber of commerce will attend the annual membership meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Biltmorc hotel, Morehead City. Wives of members are invited. The speaker will be William Hen derson, head of the division of com merce and industry, Department of Conservation and Development. Three members of the chamber board of directors will be elected and S. A. Chalk Jr„ retiring presi dent, will give a report on Hie past year’s activities. Chamber members who have not yet returned post cards nominat ing members for the director va cancies are asked to return them at once. Retiring directors are George McNeill, E. H. Swann and Mr. Chalk, who, however, will remain on the board as a past president. Roast prime ribs of beef will be served. The dinner is $2.50 per person and members are urged to get their tickets immediately. Board Exempts Morehead City From Blue Law Morehead City commissioners have exer/pted the town from the state blue law. The board met Thursday night and repeated ac tion it had taken last month, be cause last month’s action was pre mature. It was reported that the phone booth authorized for 9th street at Arendell cannot be placed there, as proposed, because it would vio late the. zoning ordinance. Read to the board was a letter from Josiah Bailey commending the town on its new fiscal policy and suggesting that funds former ly given the hospital be used for streets. Bead also was a letter from po lice commissioner Dom Femia to state highway commissioner D. O. Bell making the following requests: that a sign be posted at 24th and Arendell designating which lane should be used for a turn, that the * south side of the 7th and Arendell intersection should be changed so that traffic funneling from the business section be freed of a “squeeze play,” and that the haz ard to westbound traffic in front ef the Jefferson hotel be eliminat ed. (Arendell street is maintain ed by the state.) Commissioner D. J. Hall asked that the town write all fire depart ments which helped during the Po tomac tanker fire. Mayor George Dill said he had written a letter to the Coast Guard commandant, thanking him for Coast Guard help during the emergency. The board ordered (hat all per sons employed by the town have a physical examination before being hired. Also ordered removed were dead trees and dead limbs of trees in the downtown area. The hoard added a regulation to the new rules far paid fire depart ment personnel. The deputy chief now has the authority to appoint someone.to handle his duties in his absence. A resolution from the North Car olina Moose was read. dmaUng Morehead City for its hospitality during the recent state Moose con vention. Raymond Mall, town supervisor, reported that a part has been or dered for the blinker light at 20th and Bridges. Attending the meeting, in addi tion to those mentioned, were com missioners Russell Outlaw, S. C. Holloway, Jerry J. Willis and Town attorney George McNeill. K Flare Kit Sale Under Way Beaufort Jaycees, in cooperation with the State Highway Patrol have adopted a new project which is expected to save many lives on our highways. The project, sale of flares, will encourage motorists to carry flares for use in case of vehicle breakdown or accident on the highway. Guy Smith and Herbert Green, Jaycees, said today, “There were over 60,497,000 breakdowns on the nation’s highways last year, breakdowns that were the direct cause of some 140,400 deaths or injuries. “Use of devices to warn ap proaching traffic could have alle viated a large percentage of this tragedy. For this reason, com plete cooperation by our residents is essential in order to lessen the toll.” The kit will include two flares which can be seen for 1,000 feet and will burn for approximately one hour. It will fit easily into a vehicle’s glove compartment. L UN Parade Will Start 3:30 Today In Beaufort • Mayor Will Plant Tree as UN Symbol • Schools Participate In UN Week The United Nations parade at 3:30 today in Beaufort will pause in its line of march while a tree is planted at Ann and Craven streets, across from Ann Street Methodist church. The public is invited to witness the ceremony. Approximate time will be 3:50 p.m. The Rev. Edward Sharp, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, will offer prayer. The tree will be presented to mayor W. H. Potter, who will plant it, and the cere mony will end with a prayer by the Rev. Henry ' Parker, pastor of the Holiness church. The tree has been donated by the Seaspray Garden club. It will symbolize a living hope for world peace through the United Nations. Officers of the garden club will be present for the ceremony. The parade will start from the school. It will move south on Live Oak to Front, west on Front to Moore, north on Moore to Ann, east on Ann to Marsh and north on Marsh to the school. The Beau fort and Queen Street bands will participate, as well as Scouts and pupils carrying flags of different nations. Beaufort schools have been ask ed to plan special events in con nection with United Nations week, which opened Sunday. Today is UN Pay. Luncheon served in Beau fort school wflf be planned with an international theme as keynote. Mrs. C. ft. Wheatly Jr. is chair man of UN events in Beaufort. — How to Get Rescued Norwood Gaskill of the Beaufort Rescue squad announces that per sons wanting services of the squad should phone the Beaufort fire de partment. He said the alarm num i ber, 212, is for rescue squad mem bers only. Firemen should ignore •it. Coast Guard Aids Five Craft During Weekend Fort Macon and Swansboro Coast Guardsmen were kept busy over the weekend with a total of five distress calls. The Swansboro station sent out a boat Saturday afternoon to rescue three fishermen whose 16-foot out board had capsized in Bogue Inlet in a heavy surf. The three men were in the water about 30 minutes but all appeared in good condition when taken to Swansboro. They were M/Sgt. D. R. Womack, Midway Park; S/Sgt. T. C. Jackson, New River; and Walter O. Watson, Fort Worth, Texas. Coast Guardsmen were able to recover the outboard and its mo tor but fishing equipment was lost. Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen were called out Saturday to refloat Car Hits Two Poles, Burns Friday Night A 1956 Chevrolet, driven by John D. Edwards, Morehead City, burn ed at 11:45 p.m. Friday on high way 70 three mile- east of Beau fort, after it broke off two tele phone poles. Beaufort firemen were called to put out the fire. Edwards spentVtjdsy night in the Morehead C\ capital A passenger, Kemp B. Wickizer Jr., Morehead City, was treated for scratches and bruises. According to W. E. Pickard, who investigated, Edwards was headed west and ran off a curve. Charges are pending. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Taesday, Oct. 4 8:17 *.m. 2:06 a.m. 8:4} p.m. 2:41 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2S 9:04 a.m. 2:52 a.m. 9:29 p.m. 2:28 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 9:51 a.m. 3:36 a.m. 10:30 p.m. 4:13 p.m. * J. A. DuBols, manager of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, has submitted his resigna tion, subject to the approval of the incoming board of directors. The letter of resignation has been mailed to S. A. Chalk Jr., presi dent of the chamber. It follows: October 23, 1961 Dear Mr. Chalk: As I near the completion of my eleventh year as a Chamber of Commerce Executive in Carteret County, I find it most gratifying to look back over the years at the vast progress which has been made through the unselfish co operation of Chamber members from all parts of our County, prog ress of which we never dreamed in the year 1951. This progress did not “just come to us.” No! Our members forced it. They have reached and passed goal after goal. Year after year they have stuck to their ideals accomplishing the things which, many said, could not be done. 1 am deeply grateful to the mul titude of folks, throughout Carteret County, who have given me their full-hearted suport in the past, however 1 feel that my continuance in office may not be desired by some firms and individuals and since nothing means more to me than the future of our Chamber of Commerce, I hereby tender my resignation as general manager, to become effective upon acceptance by the new Board of Directors. Very sincerely yours, Joseph A. DuBois General Manager Response Slow In Campaign “Parents, whose children will benefit- by hearing the Little Sym-i phony, are not responding as they should in the symphony member ship drive,” Miss Nancy Russell, Beaufort membership chairman, reported yesterday. Miss Russell says • memberships are not being bought and it Will take many more to reach the coun ty’s $1,000 quota. The majority of those buying tickets do not have children in school, she remarked. Persons who would like member ships and have not been contacted may get in touch with any of the following: Miss Russell, Mrs. Graham Dun can, Miss Lena Duncan, Mrs. M. T. Lewis, Mrs. R. L. Fritz, Mrs. John Mease, Mrs. William Nichol son, Mrs. Joseph House or the Rev. C. Edward Sharp. a 34-foot yacht and on Sunday made two assists. The grounded yacht, Endigo, was pulled off the bottom near the Morehead City west channel light and was able to continue under its own power. The craft was owned by S. K. WeUman, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. At 8:25 Sunday morning, the 30 footer was called out to assist a 14 foot outboard disabled at the mouth of the Fort Macon slip. The boat, owned by Earl M. Davis, Golford, N. C., was taken in tow to Atlantic Beach. Later Sunday morning a 26-foot cabin cruiser, Dee W. Jay, was assisted by the Fort Macon 30 footer. The cabin cruiser, stalled by engine failure, was towed to safe waters and continued on its way. Reynolds Inc., Rocky Mount, was the boat’s owner. The op erator was J. D. Whitehead, En field. Fort Macon crew members on the three assists were Quinn Sty ron, BM-1; Clifford Russell, BM-3 and Harold Snipes, EN-1. S. A. Chalk Wants Hospital to Stay Skinner Chalk, a resident of Morebead City and a member of the county board of commission ers, appeared before the Morehead City town board Thursday night at the town hall and made several requests: • That the board not close the Morebead City hospital when and if the county hospital is built • That the Morehead City hos pital then be operated by a non profit corporation « That the Medical Care Com mission be asked if the Morehead City hospital could be rehabilitat ed economically (this would pre cede the above two actions). • That the town board re-investi gate to see if the Morebead City hospital >ould be operated at a profit. (He says that it could.) (Before the county commission Shopping Center Planned on Site Of Former Morehead Race Track -< Captain Makes Last Trip Friends in Morehead City sad ly bid farewell Friday to Capt. Hermann Jacobs. Captain Ja cobs, above, who is 69, is cap tain of the Hamburg-America ship, Erlangen, which has been a frequent visitor at Morehead City- . He is on his last voyage, prior to retiring. The Erlangen on Friday was the hundredth tobacco ship to Three Highway Accidents Occur Saturday; One Hurt Highway patrolmen investigated! three accidents Saturday. Two ears collided on the Satyr Path road at the turn-in to M(Jre head ocean pier at 4:50 p.m. James A. Pierce, Goldsboro, driving a 1957 Ford station wagon, was charged with failing to grant the right-of-way. According to patrolman J. W. Sykes, who investigated. Pierce was headed west, started to turn into the pier, and collided with a 1955 Buick driven by Capt. Robert L. Schultz, Cherry Point. Schultz was headed east on the Salter Path road. No one was in jured. Damage to the Buick was estimated at $400 and to the Ford $175. A Dodge pickup truck, driven by Rocco Godette, Beaufort, ran into a boat trailer east of Wards creek bridge on highway 70 at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, according to patrolman Sykes. The patrolman said that Donald F. Swindell, New Bern, was back ing his trailer across the road, when the pickup, headed west, struck it. Damage to the trailer was estimated at $150 and to the pickup, owned by Hamilton Furni ture Co., $100. Charges arc pending. No one was hurt. A 1953 Plymouth station wagon was demolished at 8:25 p.m. Sat urday when it turned over seven miles west of Morchead City on highway 24. The driver, Robert F. Ashburner, USN, Camp Lejeune, was taken to the Morehead City hospital in the Bell and Munden ambulance. He has been charged with care less and . reckless driving and speeding. Patrolman Sykes said Ashburner was headed west and he clocked him at 70 miles an hour. The patrolman said that he no ticed the driver was having diffi culty controlling the car and he dropped back. In a short time, the car went off the right of the road, swerved back and turned over. ers look the first step last year toward borrowing funds to build a county hospital, Morchead City town officials, who felt a county hospital would relieve the town of its hospital burden, assured the county commissioners that they would close the Morehead City hos pital upon the opening of the coun ty hospital. A bill was passed in the 1961 legislature giving the town board authority to do this.) Mr. Chalk, who is not enthusias tic about construction of a county hospital, said that he understands the Medical Care commission will not build a hospital where other facilities are adequate. (MCC funds would be used to build the proposed county hospital.) Mr. Chalk said, “There are more hospital beds in Carteret now than in 90 other counties.’’ 4 call at Morehead City port this year. It was the hundredth com mercial ship at the port in 1958. Mayor George Dill, Morehead City, and William Davies, of Morehead City Shipping Co., agent for the Erlangen, paid tribute to Captain Jacobs Friday and expressed the hope that he return to Morehead City some day as “a tourist.” Four Hurt As Car, Truck Meet Four persons were injured in an auto-pickup truck collision at 5 a.m. Saturday on highway 24 two miles east of Swansboro. Highway patrolman R. H. Brown said the driver of the pickup, E. MacArthur Taylor, Broad Creek, apparently fell asleep. Charges are pending. Injured were Taylor, who was treated at Morehcad City hospital, Paul Richard Smith, 19, Broad Creek, driver of the car, who suf fered cuts; his father, Richard A. Smith, who has cuts and a broken left leg, and Walter Robert Buck, a passenger in the Smith car, who has internal injuries. The patrolman said that Smith was headed west in a 1953 Ford and Taylor east in a 1955 Chevro let pickup. The pickup hit the car head-on in the car’s lane of traf fic. The vehidles were demolish ed. The injured were taken to More head City in a Jacksonville am bulance. Morehead City Hospital Sets New Room Rates New rates have been set at Morehead City hospital. The rates, which became effective Oct. 1, fol low; Ward, $10 per day; semi-private room, $12 per day; private room, $14 per day; private room with bath, $20 per day. If a semi-private room is held private at the patient’s request, the rate is twice that of the semi private room, or $24. If a doctor orders a semi-private room held private, the rate is $20. The county commissioner said that Morehead City taxpayers pay 40 to 50 per cent of county taxes and that they would be paying just as much, if not more, after a county hospital is built as they, are now to support the Morehead City hospital. Mr. Chalk talked with the board for more than an hour and one of his concluding remarks was, “If Morehead City hospital operates as a private hospital, you could put the county hospital out of buso ness." The board listened to Mr. Chalk but made no commitments. Mr. Chalk, in his opening re marks, told the board that over the years the Morehead City hospital has cost taxpayers $100,000. He said that the value of the hospital is listed at (450,000. He said the Research Study Reveals Excellent Potential Negotiations are in progress for the establishment of a shopping center on the former race track property west of Morehead City. Paul Cleland, Morehead City, owner of the property, says a recent market study by W. B. Leverton, Winston Salem management and research specialist, indicates that the enterprise has better-than-aver ago chances for success. The property consists of 21.47 acres and is located on dual high way 70 now being constructed into Morehead City. It is at the junc tion of highways 70 and 24 and the Country club road. Mr. Cleland says several parties have expressed interest in buying the property, which he will release only under condition that it be de veloped as a shopping center. The I-everton research study summarized its four months of re search as follows: "The . . site.meets the physical and locational requirements of an effective retail district. The future growth of Morehead City, sur rounded on three sides by water, will have to be predominately west ward. “The ‘close-in’ area, with a . . . 1950-60 growth rate of better than 63 per cent, is expected to house better than 22,000 people by 1970. Based upon 1960 population and in come data, a representative shop ping center of 70,000 to 80,000 square feet — with a chain junior department store — variety com bination and major supermarket as the principal^ tenants — can pro duce an annual business volume of around $5,000,000. "By 1970, provided that the cen ter is enlarged consistent with the area’s expanded growth, the loca tion will have an annual business volume potential upwards of $10, 000,000.” Se shopping center would be 4.3 s west of Morehead City. Its frontage Is 1,520 feet on highway 70 and 560 feet along Mansfield Parkway. Development of one-half of the tract is contemplated at present, with the balance reserved for new store additions as required to meet trade demands, according to Mr. Cleland. The Leverton report notes that Morehead City’s growth rate was short of 9 per cent in 1950-60 ( 5,144 to 5,583) while the township popu lation increased by better than 63 per cent (8,300 to 13,556). “Some 80 per cent of this growth took place within a two-mile radius of the racing association property . . . in the Mansfield Park, Mit chell Village and Oaksmith Acres. The new Spooner’s Creek develop ment, immediately west of the site, is expected to house better than 2,000 residents by 1965 ... “Provided that present growth rates are sustained, the ‘close in’ See CENTER, Page 8 Southern Continues Fight for Lower Rates on Large Shipments of Grain Southern Railway has again ask ed the Interstate Commerce com mission to lift the suspension it has imposed on new and lower grain rates proposed by the railway. The rates proposed by Southern, made possible by multiple-car shipments in new high-capacity equipment which greatly reduces the railroad’s costs, would have the effect of reducing transporta tion costs on volume grain move ments from Mississippi and Ohio river crossings into the Southeast, offering reductions up to 60 per cent below present rates. Identical rates are proposed be tween points within the South on argument has been that the hos pital is losing money, costing tax payers money and therefore the town should get rid of it. He said that if the hospital were closed, the town probably could not get out of it what it has in it and the building would be useful for no other purpose. He reviewed statements advanc ed by doctors in 1960 that the hos pital was to be condemned. He asked the town board to inquire of the MCC if such condemnation was contemplated. “I don’t think it was,” he remarked. (Mayor George Dill investigated this Friday, the day following the board meeting. He said that the hospital was issued, by the MCC, a conditional operating permit Dec. 31, 1956. The MCC said 50 feet should be cut off the wood annex Cdr. M. S. Snowden To Lead Squadron Cdr. Macon St. Clair Snowden, USN, son of Mrs. M. S. Snow den, Beaufort, will assume com mand Monday of Fighter Squad ron 91 at Yokosuka, Japan. The change of command cere mony will take place at 2 p.m. aboard the USS Ranger CVA-61. Commander Snowden will relieve Cdr. Clarence E. Rich, USN. Cancer Society Will Benefit From Card Party A card benefit, highlighted by a Queen of Hearts fashion show, will be held at the American Le gion building, Beaufort, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2. The benefit will be sponsored by the Carteret Busi ness and Professional Women’s club. Proceeds will go to the coun ty cancer society. During intermission, when the fashion show will be staged, Miss Helen Longest, Beaufort major ette, will also give a baton twirl ing demonstration. Tickets for the card party arc available from B4PW club mem bers, or may be reserved by phon ing Mrs. C. L. Beam, Beaufort, PA8-3772. Bridge, canasta, set-back or any kind of card game may be played. Refreshments will be served and prizes awarded. Participating in the fashion show will be B&PW club members who will model their own clothes. Mrs. Beam and Mrs. Odell Jef ferson, chairman of the benefit, ask B&PW club members to bring any tickets they haven’t sold to the club meeting at 7 tonight at the Rex restaurant. The chairmen remind club mem bers also that they arc responsible for furnishing a card table for ev ery four players to whom they sell tickets. Firemen from the West End sta tion, Morchead City, were called Saturday morning to extinguish a hot stove fire at 440 Macon Ct. Minor damage to the stove was re ported. grain grown in the South. The rates were scheduled to go into effect Aug. 10 and were suspended by the ICC Aug. 7. On Aug. 31, similar rates be came effective intrastate in Geor gia and have been a “complete success,” the railway said. In trastate rates in other states are being published at the request of state authorities. Rep. Harold D. Cooley, D-N.C., announced Friday that the Agri culture department will support Southern’s proposal to lower grain rates. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture committee, said acting north of the hospital and stairwells closed in. This was done. The MCC now recommends that the old Wing of the hospital be rewired, but the hospital is not operating now under a permit to which con ditions are attached, the mayor reports.) Mr. Chalk quoted Duke Endow ment reports as indicating that private hospitals are not in any better physical condition than the Morehead City hospital. (Duke Endowment is a trust fund which makes grants to hospitals and or phanages in the Carolinas.) Mr. Chalk claimed that the hos pital can be improved, that it could return to the town “not less than $15,000 a year” if a non-prof it organization operated the hos See HOSPITAL, Page 5, Section 1 ---- I Jury Awards | $7,500 in Auto ; Accident Suit The jury awarded Susan H. Ma : son and her mother, Mary Lou : Mason, $7,500 damages in an auto | accident suit in superior court last , week. At presstime Thursday, it i was thought the case would go to jury that day, but the jury didn’t begin deliberations until Friday. | The defendants, Lundy Gillikin Jr. and James Everett Lawrence, both of Otway, appealed. Bond was set at $200. The plaintiffs contended that Miss Mason was injured when the car she was in was struck by Cil likin's car, which they allege was in a race with Lawrence. The Ma son car was backing out of a drive way on to highway 70, east of Beaufort, when the accident oc curred. Parties in the suit, Susan D. Whitley and husband, M. R. Whit ley vs. L, C. Dickinson and B. B. Baugus, agreed to settle their dis pute over land ownership. The disputed area lay east of the Stan ton road. Beaufort township. It was agreed that Whitley owns the land south of a certain divid ing line and Baugus and Dickinson the land north. The defendants also agreed to pay the plaintiffs $73.92 for Umber cut on the plain tiff’s property. They paid costs. George F. Lewis was held in contempt of court for failing to meet support payments to his wife, Mary M. Lewis. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, not to be served if he pays $250 due through Oct. 10, and $15 weekly thereafter. The ease of W. J. Blair and wife, Helen, vs. Z. L: Morrill and others, was set by the court for the March 12 term of superior court, or if a special term is held prior to that time, it is to be the first jury case in that term. ' Judge Walter Bone presided at the one-week term of court, which opened Monday, Oct. 16. Driver Cited After Thursday Accident Alton Gillikin. Otway, was charged with driving on the wrong side of the road at 8:05 p.m. Thurs day at Smyrna. Brady Gillikin, Otway, who was riding with Gilli kin, was treated for cuts. His head broke the windshield. Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr. said that Gillikin was headed east in a 1961 Ford and made a right turn to a barber shop. He collided with a 1953 Oldsmobile, headed toward him, driven by Vivian A. Chad wick, Smyrna. Damage to the Ford was esti mated at $500 and to the Olds $400. agriculture secretary Charles Mur phy notified him that the depart ment wiD back the stand of South ern before the Interstate Com merce commission (ICC). Murphy wrote Cooley, “We be lieve substantial benefits will ac crue if ♦!»<« proposal is adopted and therefore it is our intention to support the proposition.’’ Eight Boys Go Before Judge Eight beys, ranging from 9 to 14 years of age who have committed a series of break-ins and thefts in Beaufort, appeared before juvenile judge A. H. James yesterday morning. Three will be committed either to training school or put in board ing homes, three were put on pro bation and in the case of two, studies will be made to determine the boys’ home conditions, Mr. James reported. He said that the boys entered six or seven business places, and a home. At the business places they got candy, small amounts of cash, soft drinks and similar items. They stole $14 from the Queen Street gym and took a record play er. Two stolen school rings, in the possession of one of the boys, were recovered. Randolph Johnson, Queen Street school principal, is credited with turning up evidence that led to ap prehension of the youngsters.
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