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50th YEAR, NO. 95.
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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
State Court
Rules Against
Beaufort Plan
• Court Throws Whole
Thing Back to Board
• Decision Handed
Down Wednesday
The town of Becrjfort has lost
another round in its efforts to ex
pand.
The state supreme court on Wed
nesday ruled that Beaufort amend
its annexation ordinance to com
ply with state annexation laws. It
specifically cited sewage, boun
daries and requested “specific find
ings that the area to be annexed
is developed for urban purposes.”
The case was argued before the
supreme court at Raleigh Sept. 5.
Annexation proceedings have been
in progress for almost two years.
The Beaufort town board adopted
an ordinance Jan. 11, 1960, annex
ing to the town areas to the north
and east.
The following month, G. W.
Huntley Jr. and others obtained
an order restraining the town from
carrying out its annexation plans.
The town deferred, but judge
William J. Bundy, resident judge
of the third judicial district, up
held the restraining order Feb. 26,
1960.
The town then proceeded to an
nex certain small areas on its per
imeter already connected to town
sewer lines, but located beyond
the town limits.
Superior court judge Albert Cow
per upheld the town in this action,
but the petitioners appealed to the
state supreme court. Gene Smith,
attorney for those fighting annexa
' tion, said the town’s entire pro
ceedings in annexation were re
viewed by the supreme court and
the court’s decision refers to all
the town’s efforts to annex by or
dinance.
Efforts to expand the town by
vote of people in the to-be-annexed
areas have consistently failed.
Funeral Rites
Held Sunday
For Hugh Hill
The funeral service for Hugh Hill
Sr., 70, Beaufort, who died at
Morebead City hospital Friday,
was conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday
in the Ann Street Methodist church.
The son of Mrs. Sarah W. Hill of
Beaufort and the late Michael A.
Hill Sr., he was born June 9, 1891.
He graduated from Beaufort grad
ed school and completed his studies
at North Carolina State college in
1916.
He worked for The Western
Electric Co. and Wcstinghouac
Corp. in Pittsburgh and Chicago
until 1918, when he entered the
Army. He was in officer candi
date school at Fort Gordon, Ga.,
when World War I ended.
Mr. Hill was in the banking
business in Washington, D. C., for
five years, leaving there to return
to Beaufort to enter business. He
operated R. H. Hill Co. for 45
years.
Active in the American Legion
and the 40&8, he served as post
commander three times during his
30 years in the Legion. He was
a member of the Beaufort school
board 18 years and the Carteret
county draft board from 1941 to
1947.
Mr. Hill was a charter member
of the Odd Fellows lodge, a former
member of the Beaufort fire de
partment, served as a town com
missioner for two years and for
50 years was a member of Ann
Street Methodist church.
He married Lillye Belle Williams
of Beaufort, who survives, on June
21, 1919. Their children, who also
survive, are Robert H. Hill Jr.,
Atlanta, Ga., David A. Hill and D.
Stewart Hill, Beaufort, and Lind
say W. Hill, Greensboro.
He is also survived by three
brothers, Gerald D. Hill and Hilton
G. Hill, Beaufort, and M. A. Hill
Jr., Chapel Hill; one sister, Mrs.
Vera «. Stubbs, Beaufort, and five
grandchildren.
The Rev. D. L. Fonts, pastor of
Ann Street church, conducted the
funeral. Burial, with military
rites, was in Oceanview cemetery.
Newport Youth Elected
To Student Council Post
David Muffleman, Newport, has
been elected as student council
representative of the freshman
class at Concordia Preparatory
school, Bronxville, N. Y. The an
nouncement was made by Elmer
Dobberstein, principal.
Concordia school is owned and
operated by the Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod for the purpose of
preparing students for church serv
ice vocations and general college
preparatory studies.
Mayor Proclaims Park Day
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Members of various civic clubs gathered in Morehcad City municipal park last week to hear a procla ]
■nation read by mayor George Dill declaring Wednesday, Nov. 29. as City « ark Day. Reading clockwise, |
those in the picture are Mrs. M. J. Loutit, Woman's club; George Vickroy, Civitan club; Tommy Ballou,
Joe Beam, Dr. Russell Outlaw, Dick Spears, Jaycees; and Mrs. Gus Davis, Woman’s club. The organiza
tions invite all residents to visit the park on City Park Day. Mayor Dill stands between Jaycees Beam
and Outlaw.
Chamber's 1962 1
Member Drive
To Start Soon I
The greater Morehead City cham
ber of commerce 1962 membership
drive is scheduled to start in De
cember, according to S. A. Chalk
Jr., president, who will retire Dec.
31.
In a recent letter to members,
Mr. Chalk said, “Dues collections
for 1961, to Nov. 1, have been
$20,002.50 and since $3,560 of this
amount was spent to pay obliga- i
tians incurred in 1960, the cham
ber if not in bad financial shape,
even though it owes about the
same amount in current obliga
tions.”
The board of directors plans to
trim its budget for next year so
that there will be no deficit at the
end of 1962.
Mr. Chalk points out that it will
be of help to the chamber if mem
bers, planning to invest in it in
1962, mail their check now.
The chamber hopes to increase
its membership of more than 400
to at least 500 next year.
The letter from Mr. Chalk in
cluded a suggested program for
the chamber in 1962, a report on
expenditure of money in 1961, and
a blank for the member’s com
ments on the 1961 budget as well
as suggestions for 1962.
The chamber is now preparing
a business directory of chamber
members, according to J. A. Du
Bois, manager.
Earlier Mail
Service Added
An additional outgoing mail serv
ice will be added at Morehead City
postoffice, beginning Saturday,
Dec. 2, according to Harold Webb,
postmaster. This will bring the
number of outgoing mails, on reg
ular business days, to four.
The new service sends mail out
of Morehead City (to the west,
south and north early in the after
noon. Mail for this dispatch must
be in the postoffice by 1 p.m.
Postmaster Webb said this will per
mit next-day delivery in cities as
far north as New York.
This service will be available
daily except Sunday and holidays.
The postmaster said that many
postoffice patrons were not satis
fied with mails leaving no earlier
than 4:20 p.m. daily.
Mail will now leave at 1:32 p.m.
(must be in the postoffice by 1),
at 4:20 p.m. (highway postoffice),
5 p.m. (star route) and 6:40 p.m.
(metro plan; mail must be in the
postoffice by 6:15 p.m.)
Mail that is in the Beaufort post
office by 12:30 p.m. will go out on
the newly-added dispatch. This
new service does not affect mail
going east.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Nov. 28
12:28 a.m. 6:05 a.m.
12:33 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 29
1:15 a.m. 7:11 a.m.
1:18 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 30
2:03 a.m. 8:23 a.m.
2:05 p.m. 8:57 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 1
2:53 a.m.
2157 p.m.
9:24 a.m.
9:57 p.m.
Tomorrow is City Park Day in
Morehead City and members of
the Woman’s club will be at the
park to show visitors around from
1 to 5 p.m. Departments of the
club on duty at the park will be
the Home Life department, from
1 to 3; the Garden and Civic de
partment, from 2 to 4; and the
Literary and Art department, from
3 to 5.
Members of the Woman’s club
have carried out a beautification
program at the park over the past
year. Trees, shrubbery and flow
ers have been planted, according
to Mrs. Gus Davis and the club
is still in need of donations of this
type to complete the program.
Erected Saturday was an attrac
tive brick-base sign along highway
70 that designates the area jpst
across from the Camp Glenn school
as Morehead City Municipal park.
Harrell Realty Co. donated the
sign and Carteret Concrete Co. con
tributed the brick base as well as
provided paving for the restrooms.
Fertilizer for the entire park
lawn is being donated by Wallace
Fisheries and the Morehead Block
and Tile Co. has donated cement
blocks.
The park features a free boat
launching ramp, ample picnic
space and tables, restrooms and
outdoor fireplaces.
During tomorrow's open house,
refreshments will be served by
Maola Milk Co.
Cdr. Macon Snowden Takes Over
Cdr. Macon St. Clair Snowden, VSN, (right) is shown as he relieved Cdr. C. E. Rich, USN, (left) as
commanding officer of Fighter Squadron Ninety-One, the “Legendary Red Lightnings.” The squadron is
currently flying the supersonic F8U-2 Crusader, the fastest Navy jet fighter deployed with the fleet.
Aboard the giant attack carrier
USS Ranger Oct. 30 at Yokosuka,
Japan, Cdr. Macon St. Clair Snow
den, USN, relieved Cdr. C. E. Rich
as commanding officer of Fighter
Squadron Ninety-one, the celebrat
ed Battle Efficiency Award win
ning squadron of the US Pacific
Fleet.
The squadron utilizes the super
sonic F8U-2 Crusader, the fastest
carrier based fighter plane present
ly deployed with the fleet.
Commander Snowden is the son
of Mrs. M. S. Snowden, 131 Craven
St., Beaufort. After graduating
from Beaufort high school, the new
“Red Lightning” skipper attended
Band Will Conduct
Tag Day Saturday
Marehead City High school
band members will have their
annual fund-raising Tag Day
Saturday.
Majorettes will collect money
downtown Saturday morning and
the band will give a concert in
the business section at 1 p.m.
Band members will make door
to-door collections Saturday
night.
The president of the Moreheud
City Band association is John
Seittcr. The band is directed by
Ralph Wade.
Havelock Driver
Cited After Wreck
A Havelock driver, Moses Moore,
was charged with failing to stop
for a stop sign Friday afternoon
by Beaufort police.
According to police, Moore was
going west on Ann street and fail
ed to stop for a stop sign at Ann
and Turner. His car, a 1961 Ford,
collided with a 1949 Plymouth be
ing driven by Mrs. Minnie Simp
son, West Beaufort. Mrs. Simp
son was driving south on Turner
street.
Slight damage was done to
Moore’s Ford. Police estimated
Mrs. Simpson’s damages at $50.
the University of North Carolina
prior to entering the US Naval
Academy at Annapolis in 1942.
Subsequent to graduation from
the academy in 1945, he served in
the destroyers Caperton and
Knight. After completing flight
training in July 1948, he received
his wings and served in fighter
squadrons in the Atlantic fleet.
During this period he was com
mended by Commander Naval Air
Force, US Atlantic Fleet, _ for
achieving the highest individual
air-to-air fighter gunnery record
in the Atlantic Fleet.
A graduate of the US Naval Test
Pilot School and the Armed Forces
Staff college, from which he was
40-Foot Dreamo Lu Burns
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Monday in Beach Channel
The $32,000 partyboat*
Dreamo Lu, Atlantic Beach,
was swept yesterday morn
ing by fire that almost de
stroyed the boat. J. E. Tal
ton, owner, who was aboard
at the time of the blaze, esti
mated that damage runs as
high as 85 or 90 per cent.
The inside of the 40-foot
craft is gutted.
Mr. Talton said thal the fire
probably originated in tne ignition
system wiring. He was in the chan
nel near the Blue Marlin motel,
headed for the Moreheat. City yacht
basin at about 7:30 a m., when the
fire broke out.
Mr. Talton. alone aboard the
boat, said one of the Dreamo Lu’s
twin diesels quit and the other ran
away, but he was able to get the
boat ashore. People nearby called
the Atlantic Beach fiit uepartment
and the blaze was finally extin
guished.
Mr. Talton says his loss is par
tially insured. The Dreamo Lu has
operated here as a party boat for
the past two seasons.
Its owner also owns and operates
Talton's motel, Atlantic Beach,
where the Dreamo Lu is now tied
up. Mr. Talton plans to rebuild the j
Dreamo Lu.
He recently bought the Lois Nan
cy, partyboat formerly owned by
Alfred Pittman, Moreneau City,
and is remodeling it as living
quarters.
USCG Refloats
Two Vessels
Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen
aided two grounded vessels over
the weekend. The first, a 2ft-loot
pleasure boat. Harpoon, ran
aground in Morehead City west
chann^Sno iuite ifccSt of "hi' At
lantic Beach bridge.
The boat was refloated by the
40-footer and was able to continue
under its own power. William .C.
Hoadley, Cocoanut Grove, Fla.,
was the boat’s owner.
The 40-footer was also sent into
Core creek Saturday to refloat a
60-foot ketch, Carolina, which had
run aground. The ketch was own
ed by Andrew Pcrsson, College
Point, N. Y.
Coast Guard crewmen on the two
assists were Ernest Styron, BM-1;
Rethel Brannon, EN-3; Warren
Austin, BM-1; and Robert Wood
ard, SN.
graduated with distinction, Com
mander Snowden has served as
Atomic Weapons Officer for ships
on the staff of Commander Naval
Air Force, Atlantic Fleet; as as
sistant professor of Naval Science
at the University of Illinois, and
as a test pilot at the Weapons Sys
tem Test division of the Naval Air
Test center, Patuxent River, Md.
Prior to rising to command, he
served as executive officer of
Fighter Squadron Ninety-one.
Commander Snowden is married
to the former Miss Velvia Evelyn
Grass of Huntington, W. Va. The
Snowdens have two children, Ern
est and Beverly, and live in San
Diego, Calif.
Spritsail Skiff Model Built
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Miss Linda Mason, Beaufort, poses with the Alma, model of a spritsail skiff which will be donated to
the Smithsonian Institution, museum at Washington, D. C. The model will he shown in a display of water
craft used in North Carolina in bygone days. Miss Mason holds one of the model’s oars.
To be donated to the Smithsonian
Institution, national museum at
Washington, D. C., is a 33-inch
model of a spritsail skiff. The
model, made by Capt. Elmo Wade,
Williston, is now on display in the
Morehcad City drug store.
The craft measures 35 inches
from keel to the tip of the top
mast. The model was built in re
sponse to a request from Howard
I. ChapeSHkcurator of the division
of transportation at the Smith
sonian. He- write to Josiah W.
Bailey of Morehead City in Sep
tember.
Three-Month-Old Baby Dies
Following Auto Accident
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Reception Will
Highlight Day
A reception at 2:30 p in. Wed
nesday, Dec. 6, at the Morchead
City Country dub, will highlight
Madie Bell Day in Morehehd City.
The reception is being given by
the Morchead City Woman’s club
in honor of Mrs. Bell, who found
ed the club in 1921. Mrs. Cus
Davis, president of the club, says
no invitations are being mailed,
but all of Mrs. Bell’s friends arc
invited.
Each department of the woman’s
club will have a part in the affair.
Decorations, following a Christmas
theme, will be by the Garden and
Civic department, cookies and cake
will be served by the Home Life
department, and punch by the Lit
terary and Art department.
Madie Bell Day has been pro
claimed by the town fathers.
Atlantic Juniors Plan
Class Play for Friday
The junior class of Atlantic high
school will present their class play
Friday night at 7 in the school
auditorium. The play is a comedy
entitled Out of This World.
Admission will be 35 cents for
school children and 65 cents for
adults. Mrs. Jessie Parker, class
sponsor, invites the public.
Judge to Hear Case Against Bull
Lines, Union, Crew at 10 Saturday
Ip the Pitt county courthouse,
Greenville, at 10 a.m. Saturday,
judge William J. Bundy will hear
testimony in the suit against the
Bull Lines, the Seafarers’ Interna
tional union and personnel of the
ship, Montauk Point.
The suit was filed Nov. 10 by
Aviation Fuel Terminals, Morehead
City. It seeks $75,000 in damages.
The action was brought when the
tanker Montauk Point, owned by
the Bull Lines, failed to clear the
Aviation Fuel Terminals dock, Ra
dio island, after discharging cargo
Tuesday, Nov. 14.
Mr. Bailey prevailed upon “Cap
tain Elmo” to build the model.
Captain Elmo will be reimbursed
for his efforts by W. C. Matthews
of the Morchead City Drug Co.
The skiff has been named Alma,
in honor of the boat, Alma, one
time sailing champion of the More
head City waterfront. The Alma
was owned by Capt. Gib Willis who
sailed her in mady a raco and won
practically all of them.
Before the model goes off to
Washington, Mrs. Gib Willis and
'her grandson, Jimmy Howland,
» The funeral service for Mark'
Wayne Andrews, thrcc-month-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold M. An
drews, 306 S. 15th St., Morchcad
City, who died Sunday, .will be
conducted in the Pentecostal Holi
ness church, Morehead City.
The day and time have not been
set pending arrival of the mater
nal grandparents. The child died
Sunday afternoon at St. Luke’s
hospital. New Bern, about an hour
after he was injured in a wreck
on highway 7Q, six miles east of
New Bern.
According to highway patrolman
Thad Jernigan, who investigated,
the baby was in a car driven by
his grandfather, Jasper Andrews,
which left the highway and over
turned.
The patrolman said occupants of
the car reported the car went out
of control when the driver’s at
tention was diverted by cries from
the infant in the back seat.
The driver suffered severe head
injuries, a fractured pelvis, hand
lacerations and possible internal
injuries. His wife received abra
sions of the face. Other children
in the car were also injured.
They were Richard Andrews, who
suffered a fractured pelvis and
ankle and possible internal in
juries; Jean Andrews, who had
abrasions on both arms; and
Cheryl Andrews, who suffered a
cut mouth and lost several teeth.
Surviving the baby, in addition
to his parents and paternal grand
parents, arc the maternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Judy
of Montgomery, Ala.
The crew aboard the vessel
claimed illness. Failure of the ship
to move prevented normal ’opera
tion of the fuel terminals, delayed
unloading of the tanker Mission
San Rafael and caused diversion of
the Capt. Nicholas Sitinas, a third
tanker, to another port.
The Montank Point finally sailed
Friday, Nov. 17, but refused assist
ance from Morehead City harbor
tugs operated by Carteret Towing
Co. The towing company was be
ing picketed that week by the Sea
farers’ union for failure to negoti
ate a contract regarding towing
will knit a small net to go ui it,
and Mack Edwards, also of More
head City, plans to carve some lit
tle wooden mullets about an inch
long. These, too, will go in the
boat.
The model also has little bags of
sand as ballast. The sails were
made by Mr. Bailey. All parts of
the craft that move in a real sprit
sail work in the model.
Captain Gib, pleased as punch
that the model has been named
Alma, says, “I reckon the Alma
1 will never die now.”
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Car Runs Off,
Strikes House
A 1958 Ford went out of control
on the Beaufort-Morehead cause
way Friday afternoon when its
driver, Mrs. Cora Joyce Dixon,
Markers Island, blacked out, ac
cording to state trooper R. H.
Brown.
Mrs. Dixon was headed toward
Beaufort at about 4:15 p.m. Ac
cording to the officer, she was go
ing between 40 and 45 miles an
hour. East of Lane's furniture
store, the car ran off the shoulder
on the right, across a yard, knock
ed down concrete blocks on a va
cant lot, then hit a brick fence
and the corner of a house belong
ing to Charles O. Weaver, Greens
boro.
Mrs. Dixon was taken to More
head City hospital in the Bell-Mun
den ambulance. She was still in
the hospital yesterday.
Damage to the fence was esti
mated at $25, to the house $100 and
to the car $300. No charges were
filed.
Alarm Rings
Beaufort fire department sound
ed its alarm three times Sunday
morning to summon firemen to
the firehouse. The firemen work
ed in the downtown section putting
up Christmas lights after gathering
at the station.
company employees who are union
members.
Gordon Spencer, a representative
of the Seafarers’, maintained that
there Was no connection between
the Montauk Point’s refusing to sail
and the grievance against the tow
ing company.
Montauk Point crewmen who
said they were sick and unable to
take the ship out are members of
the Seafarers’ union, an AFL-CIO
organization. Crewmen were ex
amined by a Morehead City doctor
who said they were physically cap
able of manning the ship. - -
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