OFFICIAL RETURNS
ON TUESDAY’S VOTE
IN THIS ISSUE
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '<*
50th YEAR, NO. 91.
EIGHT PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Plotting Highways in the Sky
Pilot Jack Morrison, Morehead City, goes over an aerial map with Mrs. Dallas Willis, left, and Mrs.
Gene Smith before taking the women up for their flying lessons. Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Smith are among
five county women taking flying lessons from Morrison and Bob Burrows.
By LARRY McCOMB
As if women drivers on the
highways weren’t enough, flyers
in and around Beaufort will now
have to be on the lookout for the
female Barney Olefields in the
sky. Soon five of them will be
licensed pilots.
The five, Mrs. Dallas Willis,
Mrs. Gene Smith, Mrs. Tom Lew
Proceeds from Scramble Sale
Will Go to Cancer Crusade
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Postoffices
Seek Applicants
The postoffice department an
nounces that applications are be
ing accepted now for the position
of clerk-carrier at Beaufort, More
head City and Newport.
Applications are also being ac
cepted for substitute postal clerk
at Atlantic, Atlantic Beach, Bark
ers Island, Marshallberg, Sea Lev
el and Swansboro.
There is no vacancy now at those
places, according to postoffice of
ficials, but the department is in
terested in building up a backlog
of available persons. Persons who
are already registered as eligible
for those positions need not apply
again.
Anyone interested should apply
to the postoffice where he wishes
to be employed. He will be given
card form 5000-AB to fill out. This
card should be mailed to the Ex
ecutive Secretary, Board of US
Civil Service Examiners, US Post
office, Greensboro.
The application is for the privi
lege of taking a civil service ex
amination. Applications will be
accepted until further notice.
Further information may be ob
tained from your local postmaster.
Club Hears Talk
On Church Schools
Parochial schools, on a local and
national level, was the subject of
a talk Tuesday night to members
of the Beaufort Rotary club by
Frank Cassiano. Speaking of St.
Egbert’s school in Morehead City,
Mr. Cassiano said that 82 families
in the parish finance the operation
of the school, which has 78 Cath
olic and 12 non-Catholic students
enrolled in its eight grades. *
The school meets all state and
national educational requirements,
according to Mr. Cassiano and sup
plements its required curriculum
with a selection of elective sub
jects. Glenn Adair was program
chairman.
Guests at the meeting included
Harry E. Keller, Albemarle; Rob
ert Lentz, Greensboro; and Ramey
Davis, Jack Roberts, Walter Zin
glemann, and Bob Mader, all of
Morehead City.
Jeep Upsets Saturday,
Night, No One Injured
No one was injured at 8:30 Sat
urday night when a 1948 Willys
jeep turned over on highway 70
two miles east of Newport.
Driving the jeep was Leslie D.
Sasser, Goldsboro, who told high
way patrolman W. E. Pickard that
he ran off the road to avoid hit
ting another car. Damage to the
jeep was estimated at $150.
No charges were filed. Sasser
had two passengers with him.
Woods Catch Fire
The WCst End fire station, More
head City, put out a woods fire
back of Mitchell’s carpenter shop
Sunday at 10:45 a.m. The flames
were threatening a house.
is, all of Beaufort; Miss Nancy
Valentine, Marshallberg; and Mrs.
Amanda Chadwick, North River,
are currently studying for their
“wings” under two veteran pilots.
Bob Burrows and John Morrison.
Three of the five, Mrs. Willis,
Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Chadwick
have already completed their solo
tests which come after 12-16 hours
,of duo instruction.
► To raise money for the cancer'
| crusade, the Business and Profes
sional Women’s club will sponsor
a Scramble Sale Saturday in the
store building next to D. B. Webb's
on Arendell street, Morehead City.
The store space is being donated
by Mr. and Mrs. Marion Webb,
who own the building. ’
Persons who.havw usable items
thlil’wbuld like to get rid of, but
that may be useful to someone
else, are invited to bring them to
the building between 2 and 5 p.m.
Friday. The sale will be from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Clean second-hand clothing,
shoes, hats, candlesticks, kitchen
ware, old drapes, throw-rugs—any
thing that is in good condition will
be accepted Friday afternoon and
put on sale Saturday.
“The items will have low price
tags, but every penny will help
in the fight against cancer,” says
Mrs. Retha King, chairman of the
Scramble Sale committee.
The club will also have on sale
at the store C&D seafood cookbooks
and shelled pecans. The cook
books are 25 cents each and the
pecans $1.75 a pound for broken
kernels and $1.85 a pound for
halves.
Each customer will be given
literature on cancer detection and
reminded to have a physical exami
nation once a year.
Police Chief Griffin
Cites Swansboro Driver
Morehead City police chief Her
bert Griffin charged Homer
Brooks, Swansboro, with failing to
maintain a proper lookout and hav
ing an improper driver’s license
Sunday afternoon following a traf
fic accident in downtown More
head City
Brooks was the driver of a 1956
Chevrolet that ran into the rear of
a 1957 Oldsmobilc being driven by
Thomas Merlin Bullock, 1532 Ann
St., Beaufort, according to chief
Griffin. Bullock, going west on
Arendell had stopped for a traffic
light at 8th street when the col
lision occurred.
Police estimated damages to Bul
lock’s car at $50 and that to
Brook’s auto at $300.
Mrs. Clayton Fulcher Jr.
Presides at '70' Meeting
North Carolina's US Highway 70
association met Friday at Golds
boro to plan reorganization of the
association. Mrs. Clayton Fulcher
Jr., Atlantic, acting president,
presided.
J. A. DuBois, manager of the
Morehead City chamber of com
merce, was named chairman of
a constitution and by-laws com
mittee.
Feb. Id and 17 were the dates
set for a statewide meeting. The
place will be Durham. Doug Guth
rie, manager of the Goldsboro
chamber of commerce, was named
convention chairman. Vice-presi
dents of the statewide association
are Richard Degenhardt, Ashe
ville, representing the western part
of the state; Jack Rogers, Dur
ham, central, and Olin Wright,
What makes a woman want to
take flying lessons? For most of
them it was a reason similar to
the one given by Mrs. Willis who
has been flying since 1958. “1
first started so I would be able
to understand my husband’s flyin’
talk."
Mr. Willis learned to fly in 1958
and later took a job fish-spotting.
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Port Calendar
Morehead City State Port
Toreador—Due today to load
tobacco for the Far East.
Le-Moyne D’ibberville— Due to
day to load tobacco for France.
Salty Maersk—Due Friday to
load cargo of tobacco for the Far
East.
Santa Inez—Due Friday to load
milk for South America.
Breitenstein — Due Friday to
load tobacco for Europe.
Mandeville—Due Nov. 20 with
import tapioca cargo.
Beaufort Squad
Seeks Donations
Thomas C. Avery, treasurer,
Beaufort Rescue Squad Inc., an
nounces that the organization is
seeking contributions from the peo
ple of Beaufort.
The squad was organized for the
purpose of rendering first aid and
allied services to all citizens and
its personnel and equipment are
available to go to any person in
need without regard to municipal
boundaries, he reports.
The organization has a new sta
tion wagon-type vehicle that is
used as an ambulance-rescue truck
and since the resale squad is not
connected with the town of Beau
fort, contributions from private
sources are necessary for the
squad’s operation.
Headquarters for the rescue
squad is 310 Gordon St. Residents
are invited to stop by and inspect
the equipment. Donations and con
tributions may be mailed to Mr.
Avery at the Gordon street address.
Shrimp Landed
Landings of shrimp at North
Carolina ports in June of this year
totaled 161,771 pounds, valued at
$59,993, as compared with landings
of 240,372 pounds in June 1960,
valued at $98,268. The figures have
been released by state and federal
‘fisheries bureaus.
New Bern, east.
A report was made on the US 70
national convention in October at
Morehead City.
The North Carolina US 70 as
sociation was organized in 1954,
but after five years ceased to
function as an organization.
Its objectives are defined as fol
lows :
1. To promote travel on US 70
in North Carolina from the moun
tains to the sea.
2. To organize local committees
to promote membership.
X To organize on the state level
to administer state funds and to
prepare brochures, maps, bill
boards and other promotional ma
terial.
4. To elect state officers and
maintain a permanent organization.
Beach Board
To Help Buy
Fire Equipment
Atlantic Beach town commission
ers, meeting Friday morning at
the town hall, agreed to help pur
chase 400 feet of l'/i-inch hose with
fittings and several smoke masks
for the fire department. The
equipment is expected to cost
about $450.
M. G. Goyle, clerk to the board,
reported that the fire department
had received a $200 check from
Earle Webb as a token of his ap
preciation for the department’s
aid during the recent fire at his
eslate on Bogue Sound.
Mr. Coyle said the firemen will
use the $200 towards purchase of
the badly-needed equipment if the
town can pay the remainder. The
board expressed appreciation to
Mr. Webb for his gift and agreed
to the transaction.
The clerk remarked that the
town has been prohibited from buy
ing anything through the state sur
plus bureau because the county
failed to file a survival plan with
civil defense officials before Oct. X.
He said that the town can file
its own survival plan and thus be
reinstated. This is being done, he
| said, by the civil defense director,
Jack Savage, and Mrs. Savage.
The plan has required much
thought and work, Mr. Coyle re
marked, but the Savages hope to
have it completed soon. He recom
mended that the board compen
sate Mrs. Savage for her typing
of the plan.
Police chief Bill Moore reported
that a traific sign had been re
erected, weeds had been cut around
other signs and a barricade had
been put across an empty board
walk lot to keep cars off the board
walk.
Commissioner K. A. Barefoot
commented that Shelby Freeman
had removed his hurricane-dam
aged building on the boardwalk
and cleaned off the lot.
The clerk read a letter from
Norman D. Agee, who was em
ployed as a lifeguard during the
summer. Agee enclosed in his
letter medical bills totaling $75
which he said were for treatment
of boils he suffered and which were
infected by over exposure to salt
water. *
Agee said an insurance company
had rejected his claim and he ask
ed that the town pay the bills. The
board agreed that neither the town
nor the insurance company was
responsible and instructed the
clerk to write Agee to that effect,
returning the bills.
Commissioner Charles S. Wal
ters said he had noted several
places that need repairing on the
streets and that the work would
be taken care of in the spring. He
said street marking also needs at
tention.
The group discussed methods of
keeping the beach clean. Com
missioner Mack Smith said the
ocean is Atlantic Beach’s greatest
asset and not enough is being done
to protect and maintain its beauty.
He suggested putting up warning
signs, and trash cans at numerous
places.
Sec BEACH BOARD, Page 5
Rock-a-long Gets Aid
From USCG Saturday
The party *boai Rock-a-long de
veloped engine failure Saturday
morning 19 miles from Beaufort
Inlet and needed Coast Guard as
sistance to get back to port.
The 46-foot craft was towed to
the Texaco docks, Morehead City,
by crewmen aboard the Fort Ma
con 40-footer. Alton (Rock) Har
dison, Morehead City, is the cap
tain and owner of the Rock-a-long.
Crewmen aboard the 40-footer
were Vance Woodard, BM-2; Reth
el Brannon, EN-3; and Newman
Cantrell, SN.
Number of Passenger Cruises
To Bermuda Now Up to Three
Library Has Books for Her
By MINNIE SIMPSON, Librarian
Trade Rees is the youngest pa
tron of the county library. She is
the 21-month-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Rees of Shell
Landing. - Trade has been coming
to the library since she was nine
months old.
Her mother began reading to her
when she was about a year old.
Now when Tracie comes to the li
brary, she knows on which shelves
“her” books are found.
Home reading, beginning the
earlier the better, is the way to
help children acquire the gift of
WORDS.
Educators have discovered that
those who do best in school, busi
ness and the professions have one
thing in common. They know far
more WORDS than the average.
Children's Book Week, Nov. 12
18, is a traditional event to high
light the many and varied pleas
ures children find in books.
The county library offers a wide
selection of books to read to young
children, and for beginning read
ers.
For older children the following
new titles are available: Grades
2-4, Paola and Panetto, Little Old
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Nov. 14
12:27 a.m.
12:24 p.m.
6:04 a.m.
7:20 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 15
1:27 a.m.
1:46 p.m.
7:37 a.m.
8:32 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 16
2:30 a.m.
2:51 p.m.
8:58 a.m.
9:34 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 17
3:34 a.m.
3:57 p.m.
10:03 a.m.
10:29 p.m.
Mrs. Pepperpot, The Forgotten
Rainbow, The Secret Language,
The Quarterback’s Aim.
Grades 4-6, The Mailbox Trick,
The Talking Dog and the Barking
Man, Mrs. Coverlet’s Magician,
Becky and Her Brave Cat, Blue
grass, The Rightful Owner, White
Harvest.
Grades G-8, Sea Captain from
Salem, The Choctaw Code, Pirate
Island, Dangerous Flight, Man
Alive in Outer Space, The Rise and
Fall of Adolph Hitler, The First
Northwest Passage.
Teen-age, Backfield Twins, The
Football Rebels, Boy Gets Car, Wil
derness Island, The Morning Side
of the Hill, Wiser Than Winter,
Natoto, Knight’s Fee, Promises in
ihc Attic.
Salvation Army
Drive UnderWay
Funds are being collected now
in the Salvation Army drive. Con
tributions may be mailed to Sam
Adler, Morehcad City, drive chair
man.
Head of the county committee
is Charles Willis, Morehead City,
who replaces Mr. Adler in that
position. Funds are used to buy
food and clothing and to send un
wed mothers to the Salvation Army
Home-Hospital.
Letters requesting contributions
have been mailed out. Mr. Adler
says, “We need your help.”
Members of the Salvation Army
committee, in addition to Mr. Wil
lis and Mr. Adler, are Dr. S. W.
Hatchet', treasurer; Mrs. Ethel
Van Horn, secretary; Mrs. Grace
Taylor, Mrs. Mary Brooks, Mrs.
Earl Holt and Mrs. Sam Adler.
♦ Caribbean Cruise Lines, Wash-'
ington, D. C., in a letter received
here Friday, announces three
cruises from Morehead CSh in
1 May.
Two, for the mutual insurance
agents of the Carolinas and for the
bakers of the Carolinas, have al
ready been announced. Although
the third also consists of a busi
ness group, the group is not iden
tified.
Frederick N. Metcalf, passenger
manager for Caribbean lines, in
his letter to J. A. DuBois, man
j ager of the greater Morehead City
chamber of commerce, says, “The
i three cruises in May will consist
largely of group business with
room for only a very limited num
ber of public passengers."
The cruise dates, subject to
change, are the SS Ariadne, sailing
May 4 from Morehead City to Ber
muda. five-day cruise of $125 up;
SS Ariadne sailing May 9 from
Morehead City to Bermuda, five
day cruise at $125 up; and the MS
Victoria, sailing May 23 from
Morehead City, on a five-day cruise
to Bermuda, $145 up.
There is the possibility of a
fourth cruise from Morehead City
next year, but nothing is definite
on that as yet, according to Mr.
DuBois
Superior Court
Ends Thursday
Superior court ended Thursday,
after a four-day session for trial
of criminal cases.
A mistrial was declared in the
case of George Lee Folsom, charg
ed with driving drunk. The jury
could not reach a decision. Re
manded to recorder’s court for
judgment was the case of Herman
Montford, charged with speeding.
Continued were the following
cases: Thomas Adolph Jones, Wil
lard D. Knott, John Carlton Gas
kill, James Leon Graham, all
charged with driving drunk; James
Carroll, drunk and disorderly.
Joe Davis, Milton Mitchum and
Elvin Davis, charged with taking
shrimp with a trawl in a closed
area; Calvin T. Leonard, violation
of the motor vehicle law; Everett
Merrill, kidnap and assault.
Willie Robinson, public drunken
ness; Walter E. Moelcr, careless
and reckless driving; Eloise Mc
Carty and Billy Gillikin, passing
worthless checks; and Carrie
Glenn, assault.
Judge Walter J. Bone presided.
Driver Cited Saturday
After Automobile Crash
Dissa Alice Wilson, route 1 Rich
lands, was charged with failing
to stop at a stop sign at 2:15 a.m.
Saturday when her car crashed
at the intersection of the Lake
road and the Nine-Foot road, five
miles south of Newport.
State highway patrolman J. W.
Sykes said Miss Wilson was head
ed toward highway 24, ran through
the sign, into a ditch and turned
over. The car, a 1961 Tempest,
needed up on its side.
The driver was alone and unhurt.
Damage to the car was estimated
at $200.
Truck Hits Ditch
A heavy truck owned by Lonnie
Howard, Newport, went in the ditch
on highway 70, west of Morehead
City, early Saturday morning. The
accident reportedly occurred when
a front tire blew.
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Patrol Carries
Out Program
To Cut Accidents
To cut down the number of high
way accidents and fatalities, the
state highway patrol has begun an
intensive “on-the-road” program,
according to Sgt. R. H. Nutt of the
highway patrol office in New Bern.
Sergeant Nutt said the program
went into effect throughout the
state Oct. 1. Strict, fair and im
partial enforcement Of the motor
vehicle laws by members of the
patrol will be followed in carrying
out the program, he said.
One phase Is Operation Satura
tion. This phase calls for thorough
policing of selected trouble spots
in this district, which includes Car
teret, Craven and Pamlico coun
ties.
Unmarked patrol cars, all-elec
trical timing devices and flood
lights arc being used. As a result
of saturating highway 70, between
Morchcad City and Havelock re
cently, thirteen citations were is
sued. These included no opera
tor’s license, reckless driving, im
proper lights, failure to dim lights,
driving without lights, improper
parking on the highway and speed
ing
The sergeant remarked that last
year 136 persons were killed in
the state during October, 103 dur
ing November and 133 during De
cember. Eight persons have been
killed to date this year in Carteret
alone.
Chief Reports
Two Accidents
I Betty Rose Stevens, 16, Beaufort,
was charged with following too
closely in one of two traffic acci
dents investigated recently by
Beaufort police chief Guy Springle.
Miss Stevens was the driver of
a car that struck the rear of a
1959 Plymouth driven by Fulton
Stanley, Beaufort, as Stanley was
pulling into a parking space, the
officer said. The accident occur
red in the 500 block of Front street
Thursday.
Little or no damage was done
to the Stanley car. Police esti
mated damage to Miss Steven’s
vehicle at $50.
Drivers of cars involved in an
accident Friday were John Bell
and Coletus Taylor, both of Beau
fort.
According to police, the Taylor
car, a 1956 Mercury, was parked
in front of the Queen Street high
school gym on Mulberry street and
was hit by Bell’s car, a 1957 Ford.
Police said that Bell was attempt
ing to park in front of the gym
at the time of the accident.
Damage to each car was less
than $50. No charges were filed.
J. C. Wells to Speak
At Farm Bureau Dinner
J. C. Wells, assistant director of
the extension service, State col
lege, Raleigh, will be the speaker
at the Farm Bureau membership
meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in
the Camp Glenn school cafeteria.
A barbecue supper will be serv
ed. A turkey and silver dollars
will be given as door prizes, an
nounces R. M. Williams, county
agricultural agent.
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