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- - * 50th YEAR, NO. 98.
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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
State Hospital Money
No Longer Available
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Montauk Point
Finally Leaves
Dock Friday
• Suit Seeks $75,000
Damages
• Coast Guard Helps
Ship into Channel
The Montauk Point, tanker that
for three days blocked the Aviation
Fuel Terminals dock, Radio Island,
moved out at 10:20 a.m. Friday.
Its departure followed by 18
hours the filing of a suit seeking
$75,000 damages. The suit was filed
by Aviation Fuel Terminals against
Bull Lines, Inc., owner of the Mon
tauk Point, the Seafarers Interna
tional union (AFL-CIO), William
G. Jauntz, master of the ship, and
crew members.
The ship refused to allow More
head City pilots, affiliated with
Carteret Towing Co., and the tow
ing company tugs take it out. The
SIU was picketing the towing com
pany Wednesday, claiming that the
company owner, Charles Piner,
refused to talk with the union re
garding drawing up of a contract.
Six towing company employees
in July voted to join the SIU. They,
however, were not on strike last
week.
The Montauk Point sailed Fri
day morning without pilot or tugs.
The Coast Guard from Fort Ma
con supplied its 40-footer, 30-footer
and 36-foot lifeboat to shove the
bow around.
The Capt. Nicholas Sitinas, a
Bull Lines ship, standing offshore
waiting to deliver aviation fuel to
the terminals, waa diverted to an
other port. ,
As sow as the Montauk Point
cleared out, Capt. A. T. Piner of
the Carteret Towing Co. and the
Carteret Towing Co. tugs brough
in the Mission San Rafael, which
delivered fuel to Aviation Fuel
Terminals.
The San Rafael is a Navy tank
er operated by the Military Sea
Transport Service.
The Montauk Point made port at
6 p.m. last Monday, Nov. 13, dis
charged its cargo by noon the next
day and was scheduled to sail at
4 p.m.
The suit against the ship owner
and crew alleges that crewmen
falsely claimed they were sick.
See SHIP, Page t
No Trace Found
Of Larrie Stokes,
16, of Beaufort
Morehead City police report that
no trace has been found yet of 16
year old Larrie Stokes who has
been missing from the home of his
grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Peter
son, 134 Turner St., Beaufort, since
last week.
Stokes, the spn of Mrs. Cora
Stokes, New Bern, was supposed
to have last been seen in a 1953
white Mercury, being driven by
Chester Locklear, 18. The pair
was reportedly beaded for Lum
berton. No address for Locklear
was available.
Since bis disappearance, More
hea'd City police officers have
alerted police in eastern North
Carolina communities but so far
no trace of Stokes has been un
covered.
How Cancer .Funds are Put,
To Work in This County
society treasurer.
The patients helped lived in
Morehead Oity, Sea Level, Beau
fort and Salter Path.
The cancer society places the
funds on deposit at a drug store
where they are used to finance
medicine and drugs for the cancer
patient.
Funds in the society’s treasury
have been used to finance trans
portation for one person to the can
cer clinic at Wilmington and to
finance 30 trips of a patient to
Kinston for treatment.
Two of the county’s cured can
cer patients were sent to the Cured
Cancer Congress in Raleigh in
March 1900.
The funds^are^also^used .to put
In the past 15 months, 15 grants
of $25 have been made for the
benefit of cancer patients through
the County Cancer society, accord
ing to Mrs. Clem Johnson, cancer
Lawyer Says Its Too Late
To Meet April 30 Deadline
A nut-very-bright picture of coun t
ty hospital prospects was painted
Thursday night by county attorney
Luther Hamilton Jr., who appear
ed before Morehead City town com
missioners at the town hall. The
state’s $104,000 is no longer avail
able.
He was seeking commissioners
assurance that the Morehead City
hospital would be closed when and
if the proposed county hospital
opens. The commissioners assur
ed him, individually, that such was
their intent.
Mayor George Dill said the board
would not have had enabling legis
lation enacted by the 1961 legisla
ture, if it had not been its intent
to close the present hospital when
a new one is constructed.
Mr. Hamilton stated that Wil
liam Henderson, executive secre
tary of the Medical Care commis
sion, has re-emphasized his state
ment that the MCC cannot commit
funds after April 30, 1962.
“Anyone knows that we can’t
get this hospital under contract by
then,” Mr. Hamilton remarked.
This means that the county can
not have the $104,000 it had been
expecting from the state. The
county attorney said the money is
needed for other purposes. If and
when the county decides it wants
to build a hospital, Mr. Henderson
said it would have to re-apply to
the MCC for funds and the MCC
would make a decision at that
time.
Neither will the MCC “guarantee
allotment" until Morehead City
agrees to close Morehead City hos
pital.
He recalled that one of the bond
issues defeated Nov. 7 was bor
rowing of $500,000 which would
have gone to the Medical Care
commission for financing local hos
pital construction. Mr. Hamilton
said that failure of that bond issue
to pass has put the MCC In a tight
situation.
In addition, the county had a
suit filed against it, which was
eventually non-suited, but the bond
attorneys want “a lower court to
find some facts in that case," Mr.
Hamilton said. (Bond attorneys
review all angles of a proposal for
borrowing money and borrowing
can’t proceed until they are satis
fied that the bonds are marketable
as a sound investment.)
Commissioner Dorn Femia ask
ed why the county couldn’t buy the
Morehead City hospital.
Mr. Hamilton said this would
probably require a vote by both
the townspeople and the county.
Relative to the MCC’s interest
in the present hospital being clos
ed, should a new one be built, town
attorney George McNeill asked if
this meant that the town could
not sell the hospital to private in
dividuals.
Mr. Hamilton said, “That’s prob
ably true.”
a added that no federal funds
d be available to the county
to buy an already-existing hos
pital. (The federal government
was scheduled to put up 55 per
cent of the county hospital cost)
The commissioners did not take
official action because they said
their action is not binding on fu
ture boards, but each, individually
assured Mr. Hamilton that if they
were to vote now on closing the
Morehead City hospital, all would
do so.
Mayor George Dill said “We’d
like to get out of the hospital busi
ness.” Mr. Hamilton said he would
return when it was time for the
board to make an official commit
ment.
schools, buy films and educational
material for general distribution.
Foods to assist families where
there is a cancer patient are avail
able upon certification by the fam
ily doctor that the ill person is
suffering from cancer.
Names of those helped are not
revealed, Mrs. Johnson said. “This
is different than polio or other
serious illnesses. Some of the pa
tients don’t know they have can
cer. Others may know but don’t
want anyone else to know.”
She explained that cancer pa
tients helped need not be destitute.
Funds are available to help any
family that is trying to keep up
with the ever-mounting bills incur
red when a member in the family
is suffering from cancer.
The amount available to each
patient is dependent on how much
is raised in the cancer crusade.
The crusade in the county is in
progress now. It will end Thurs
day, Nov. 30.
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I
Court Operates
At Loss During
Past Fiscal Year
• Operation Believed
Improving Since July
• Attorney Gen'l Gives
Opinion on Hospital
Morehead City recorder’s court
operated at a deficit of $3,972.03
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1961, according to the audit pre
sented town commissioners Thurs
day night.
Ray Hall, town supervisor, said
that since July 1, the court ap
pears to be doing slightly better
than breaking even. He said a
more complete report on the past
four months’ operation will be
available this week.
Court costs collected during the
year totaled $7,759.80. Expendi
tures exceeded income by $2,802.42.
This, plus a $1,169.61 deficit car
ried over from 1960, shows a loss
of $3,972.03.
Also to be paid is more than
$3,000 in fines and forfeitures due
the county from prior years.
Mayor Dill observed that the
"court couldn’t pay its way so it
used fines and forfeitures to meet
costs.” He said that this was done
without the town board’s knowl
edge.
Commissioner Sam Heftoway said
that the court was set up with the
provision that it be abolished if U
does not pay its own way. “That,”
he said, "has not been done.”
D. C. Fillmore of A. M. Pullen
& Co., auditors, told the board that
the court deficit will have to be
made up out of the general fund.
Mr. Holloway expressed the hope
that with improved court opera
tion, the court may be able to
make up the deficit.
Commissioner D. J. Hall request
See TOWN BOARD, Page 2
USC6 Assists
Three Vessels
Two boats aground and one with
engine failure were given Coast
Guard assistance over the week
end by Coast Guardsmen from
Fort Macon.
On Friday the Fort Macon 40
footer was sent out twice to aid
vessels that bad run aground. The
first assist was made to the 86
foot Haiti. The Haiti was on the
bottom 200 yards east of the At
lantic Beach bridge. After being
refloated, it was taken in tow to
Russell’s Marine railway. More
head City.
Later Friday the 40-footer went
to the aid of a 35-foot ketch, Moby
Dick, that ran aground in More
head City west channel near mark
er number two. The ketch, owned
by Eldon Meeker of Lebanon, Ore.*
was able to continue under its own
power after being refloated.
A 55-foot schooner, Baghcera.
owhed by Downtown Motors Hotel
Corp. of Grand Rapids, Mich, de
veloped engine failure Sunday aft
ernoon in Morchead City west
phannel and was towed to the San
itary restaurant docks by the Fort
Macon 40-footer.
Coast Guard crewmen on the
three assists included Howard
Jones, BM-1; Frederick Hurst,
EN-2; John Coty, SN; Warren Aus
tin, BM-1; and William O. Granger,
BM-3.
Two Cedar Point
Places Entered
Two places of business in the
Cedar Point area were entered
after midnight Friday and a pistol
and cash register stolen. Cash loss
was about a dollar, according to
deputy sheriff Billy Smith.
A 22 calibre pistol, in a cigar
box in the RAH Oyster Bar and
Grill, was stolen, also a hundred
pennies. Entry to the place was
gained by breaking a window in the
back door.
Also entered was the Waterway
Bar and Grill. The cash register
was carried away, but there was
nothing in it, the deputy said. The
burglar got in through a back win
dow in the bathroom.
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Nichols Family Has Parrot Formerly
Owned by St. Paul's School Founder
By ELLEN MASON
At the Henry Nichols home,
Mansfield, you are likely to be
greeted by a raucous voice scream
ing, “Hello, Pop!” But it won’t
be a member of the Nichols fam
ily, it will be Polly Bell, their par
rot.
Polly Bell, who is at least 50
years old, formerly belonged to
Mrs. Nannie Geoffroy, founder of
St. Paul's school, Beaufort. .Mrs.
Nichols says “Aunt Nannie” had
owned the bird about 25 years.
Mrs. II. B. Avery of Beaufort
took Polly when Mrs. Geoffroy
died and kept the bird 16 years
before passing him on to the Nich
ols family nine years ago. The
Nichols formerly lived in Beaufort
and Mrs. Nichols occasionally kept
the bird for Mrs. Avery.
The parrot, a male, measures
about 14 inches from beak to tail
tip and lives in a large wire cage.
Its plummage is brilliant green,
with deep red and blue on the
wings dnd pale yellow on the head.
Polly Bell has a wide vocabulary
which, to the dismay of the Nich
ols, includes a number of “Satur
day night” words.
Occasionally, when his cage
hangs on the front porch, Polly
Bell greets passersby with a loud
and clear “Go to h..... go to h ,
go to h !” Polly isn’t content
with giving the direction just once.
In addition to his favorite greet
ing, Polly can say words like moth
er, Polly Bell, boy, and calls two
members of the family, Ralph and
Barbara.
He says other words, too. If he
doesn't know how to ask for what
he wants, he screams until he gets
it Mrs. Nichols says she has
heard him say “Aunt Nannie” only
once since they have had him.
Polly Bell says one word that
could easily be translated at
“Ilorehead.” To tease Mr. Nich
ols, who has a receding hairline,
Mrs. Nichols and their young son,
Glenn, maintain that the parrot is
saying “baldhead.” Mr. Nichols
just grins and says he USED to
have hair.
In addition to Glenn, the Nich
ols have three other children, Bar
bara, a student at Pfeiffer college,
William, Atlanta, Ga., and Ralph.
Sunflower seeds are the main
stay of Polly Bell’s diet although
he eats vegetables and other things
from the kitchen. He definitely
doesn’t like crackers!
If he wants bacon and eggs for
breakfast, he doesn’t mind calling
“Mother” and telling her “bacon
and eggs.” When he does this,
Mrs. Nichols usually comes across
with bits of bacon and pieces of
egg
The parrot is jealous of any
thing new that comes into the
house and doesn’t mind putting on
a show to get attention. He spreads
his wings, ruffles bis feathers, nods
his head around and prances along
bis perch.
If the competition is really tough,
he will resort to tricks, such as
hanging upside down from the top
of his cage. He even shakes hands,
clutching at a finger poked in the
cage with one of his claws.
New»-Tlme» Photo by Larry McComb
Mrs. Henry Nichols offers Polly Bell a raw potato, Polly Bell’s
favorite food.
Patrol to Crack
Down on Drunks
Sgt. R. H. Nutt of the state high
way patrol has announced an en
forcement program aimed at pre
vention of accidents resulting from
drunkenness. It will be conducted
during the Thanksgiving holidays.
Carteret’s highway patrolmen
will concentrate on enforcement of
laws pertaining to drunken driving
and drunken pedestrians from
Wednesday through Sunday, the
sergeant said. Enforcement will be
directed specifically at persons
leaving alcoholic beverage outlets,
he remarked.
The patrolman said drunkenness
and intoxication continue to be ma
jor problems in the traffic safety
field. The number of drunken
drivers and pedestrians is higher
during the holiday periods.
He said 60 per cent of the drivers
killed in the United States in car
crashes had been drinking and 50
per cent of the dead drivers had
blood alcohol levels in the impair
ment range.
Dec. 6 Will Be
'Madie Bell Day'
Wednesday, Dec. 6, will be
Madie Bell Day in Morehead
City.
Morehead City town commis
sioners authorized mayor George
W. Dill Thursday night to pro
claim the day.
Request for the proclamation
was made by the Morehead City
Woman’s club, which will spon
sor a reception that afternoon in
honor of Mrs. Bell.
Mrs. Bell is the mother of D.
G. Bell, former county legislator
and present state highway com
missioner. She founded the More
head City Woman’s club and has
been a lifelong civic and church
leader.
Civitans to Buy Piece
Of Equipment for Park
Members of the Morehead City
Civitan club voted to purchase a
piece of playground equipment for
the city park at Friday’s meeting.
The club met at Mrs. Russell Wil
lis’s restaurant.
Sale of fruit cakes, the club’s
fund-raising project, was discuss
ed.
Thanksgiving's Forgotten Hero
Squanto Helped Pilgrims Stay Alive
By FRANKIE SHARP
He was the Indian saint of Ply
mouth and Governor Bradford call
ed him “a special instrument sent
by God for their good beyond ex
pectation”—but few people would
recognize his name today.
Historians gay that without him.
there would have been no first
Thanksgiving Day — for the Pil
grims would have had no crops to
give thanks for.
But there are no towns named
for him, no highways or bridges—
only a lonely point on the Massa
chusetts coast and a dreary little
side street in Plymouth.
He is the forgotten man of
Thanksgiving.
He was Tisquantum, a Patuxet
Indian whom the Pilgrims called
Squanto.
Squanto was captured in 1605 by
an English exploring party led by
Capt. George Weymouth who want
ed a souvenir of his trip to the
New World.
The young Indian was taken
back to England for exhibition as
a curiosity. He was apparently
well treated—although there is very
little information on these years—
and he was sent back to America
in 1614 with Capt. John Smith.
Freedom was short.
One of Smith’s ships was in
structed to tarry in what is now
See SQUANTO, Page >
I
Two Third-Period Tallies
Bring Clarkmen 13-7 Win
By GEORGIA MIZESKO
A fired-up .squad of red-shirted Morehead City Eagles,
trailing 7-0 at halftime, came roaring back to score two
touchdowns in less than four minutes in the third quarter
and power their way to a 13-7 win over the previously un
beaten Elizabethtown Yellow Jackets in a crucial regional
playoff game Friday night at Wil-*~——
nungton.
The Yellow Jackets scored early
in the first quarter on a spectacu
lar 56-yard touchdown run by quar
terback Eddie Smith but their tout
ed defense, which hadn't been
scored on in 10 games, couldn't con
tain the inspired Eagles in the last
hair.
On a third down and eleven sit
uation in the first quarter, Smith
stunned the large crowd in Legion
stadium when he got a way from
three tacklers behind the line of
scrimmage, eluded others While
picking up some key blocks and
then threaded his way down the
sideline for 56 yards. Pat Jessup,
Yellow Jacket offensive guard,
booted the ball through the uprights
on the conversion attempt and gave
the Waccamaw conference champs
a 7-0 lead.
The inability of Morehead's
ground attack to roll plus two in
complete passes and one intercept
ed pass held the Eagles at bay un
til shortly before the end of the
first half when Ernest Lewis re
turned an Elizabethtown punt 41
Lenwood Lee, Morehead City
principal, announced yesterday
that the Eagles will meet Ahos
kie high school this Friday night
at Kinston. The game, for the
regional 2-A championship, will
be played on the Kinston athletic
field. Admission will be $1.50 for
both students and adults. More
head city high school students
may purchase tickets for 75 cents
if they buy them in advance from
Mr. Lde.
yards to put the Eagles in scoring
position on the Yellow Jacket 30
yard line. The hard-running half
back then picked up another 12j
yards on two carries to give More
head City a first down on the 17
The next play saw quarterback Da
vid O'Neal hitting his safety valve
Bernard Leary on a pass play and
Leary carried over for what ap
peared to be the equalizing touch
down.
The play was called back and
nullified, though, when officials
spotted a Morchead player violat
ing a rule.
After being penalized back to the
32, O’Neal stuck to the aerial at
tack, attempting to score with timf
running out. One pass, intended
for end Bernard Leary, fell incom
plete and then Elizabethtown half
back Sammy Puglia intercepted an
O’Neal pass to halt the threat.
Elisabethtown kicked off to More
head City to open the last half and
the Eagles returned the kickoff to
the YeUow Jacket 48-yard line from
where it took them exactly sever
plays to score. Passes of seven,
three and 12 yards to halfback
Ernest Lewis, sandwiched around
two runs of five and six yards by
Lewis, moved the Big Red to Eliz
abethtown’s 17-yard line. Morehead
then shook Bernard Leary loose on
a wide sweep and the fleet-footed
gridder scampered into the end
zone standing up to make the score
7-6. David O’Neal’s kick for the ex
tra point was blocked.
The Eagles kicked off to Eliza
bethtown and then threw the Yel
low Jackets for losses on three
straight plays to bring on a punt
ing situation. James Nolan return
ed the punt to the Elizabethtown
34-yard line.
With still less than four minutes
lapsed in the period, Nolan got be
hind the Yellow Jacket defenders
on the next play and hauled in a
touchdown pass from O’Neal to put
the Eagles in the driver’s seat. A
fake kick and a pass from O’Neal
to Bernard Leary netted the 13th
point of the night for the Coastal
Plains champs.
Fired-up by the play of the Eagle
offense, the Big Red defense tight
ened and stopped everything Eliza
See UPSET, Page 3
Tide Table
Tides it the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Nov. 2i
712 a m.
7:35 p.m.
12:58 a.m.
1:35 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 22
7:57 a.m.
8:21 p.m.
1:44 a.m.
2:23 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 23
8:42 a.m.
9:08 p.m.
2:30 a.m.
3:08 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 24
9:26 a.m.
9:57 p.m.
3:12 a.m.
3:52 p.m.
Thanksgiving
To be Observed
By Churches
Churches will observe Thanksgiv
ing with services tonight and to
morrow.
A Thanksgiving Eve service will
begin at 8 Wednesday night in St.
Timothy Lutheran church, Have
lock, the Rev. David Nelson, pas
tor. The community service in
Beaufort will begin at 10 Thurs
day morning in the First Baptist
church, Beaufort.
The Rev. C. Edward Sharp, rec
tor of St. Paul's Episcopal church,
Beaufort, will give the Thanks
giving message.
The senior and children’s choir
will take part in the Thanksgiving
service at 9 a.m. Thursday in the
First Methodist church. Morehead
City. The children will sing an
anthem. This, the Land We Love.
Parkview Baptist church, More
head City, will have its Thanks
giving service Wednesday at 7:30
p.m. The Rev. John Biddle, pas
tor, invites the public.
The First Presbyterian church,
Morehead City, and the Wildwood
Presbyterian church will have a
joint service Thursday morning at
I at Wildwood. The Rev. Charles
Kirby, pastor qf First church, will
preach, taking his text from Psalm
103.
The Rev. John Viser, Wildwood
pastor, announced that a special
offering for the Presbyterian home
for children at Barium Springs will
be taken. Coffee and doughnuts
will be served by the host church
after the service.
The Rev. Virgil H. Day, pastor,
will conduct a service at the Crab
Point Free Will Baptist church at
II a.m. Thursday, announces Mrs.
Cleta Buck, church clerk.
Heavy Tobacco
Cargo MovesOut
Under way now is the biggest
tobacco movement since the open
ing of Morehead City state port in
1952.
More than a hundred trucks,
loaded with hogsheads of tobacco,
rolled into the port from upstate
yesterday.
The Shituoka Mam will take an
a total of 4,760 hogsheads. Load
ed aboard this week will be 3,922
hogsheads and the ship will return
about the first of December to
take on the balance, 781.
This is the largest tobacco cargo
to be loaded out of Morehead City
on a single ship. After loading
part of the cargo this week, the
3hip will make port in the north,
then return to Morehead City to
pick up the balance of the load on
its return to Japan.
It will make port at Kobe and
Yokohama.
Trooper Checks
Two Accidents
State trooper R. H. Brown in
vestigated two automobile -acci
dents recently.
At 3:15 Wednesday morning a
1955 DeSoto, driven by Walter
Harkley, route 6 Havelock, turned
over on highway 101 three miles
from Beaufort.
The patrolman said Harkley was
headed north on 101, ran off the
right side of the road into a ditch
and turned completely over, land
ing on the wheels. Damage to the
car was estimated at $300. Hark
ley was charged with speeding.
Patrolman Brown said charges
arc pending against Frank Boy
ette, route 1 Newport, who was
driving a 1950 DeSoto that turned
over at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. §
The accident happened on high
way 24 about a mile from the junc
tion of highways 70 and 24. The
patrolman said Boyette’s car skid
ded to the left shoulder and turned
over. It was raining at the time.
Damage was estimated at $50.