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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES IT I 1 |ft In 13 m ■ . i r lm 1 i Vm i kllh 1 « i •"' r~ <*%>> • * -$0%■ 5 . 51st YEAR, NO. 3. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1962 PUBLISHED 1960-61 Audit Gives View Of County Financial Status • 1962 Will See Bond Debt Paid A county investment of almost $100,000 yielded state and federal welfare funds totaling approximate ly $375,000 during the 1960-61 fiscal year, according to the county audit recently presented to county com missioners. For example, in the old age as sistance program, total county taxes to this phase of the welfare program yielded $17,731.96. State and federal matching funds totaled $121,756.04. Welfare fund administrative costs totaled $40,000.27 for the past fiscal year and operating expenses were $26,251.23. Part of both of these expenses were paid by the state and federal governments. County library revenue amount ed to $8,810.96. Received through the federal government was $1,050, the county appropriation was $2,380, town of Beaufort $1,000, state funds $4,134.16 and fines for overdue books amounted to $246.80. Library expenditures for the year were $501.59 less than income. According to the analysis of clerk of court funds, trust fund invest ments total $111,005.33 and miscel laneous funds invested, $11,538.32. Superior and recorder’s court costs “apparently uncollected,” the audi tor reports, are $16,853.58. Advance court costs on deposit totaled $3,791.76 as of June 30 and court costs due others, $9,987.78. By June 30 of 1961, the county had retired, of its $3,818,979.19 total bonded debt, $3,316,121.59. Bonds called, but not turned in by the bondholders as of that date, total ed $7,312.81. Bonds outstanding at the end of the 1959-60 fiscal year totaled $677, 412.81; at the end of this past fiscal year, $466,312.81 and due on a state loan was $117,455. The state loan was for schools. It dates from 1922 through 1930 and was refi nanced in 1937. The loap is pay able no later than July 1, 1977. Special school bonds of 1947 and the loan for building the health center were paid off during the past fiscal year. Cost of general operation of the county was slightly more than $1V4 million. Revenue exceeded ex penses by $226,473.21, but $190,000 of that figure has been set aside for construction of the Morehead City school. Board of edncation expenses to taled $489,839.25 or $39,010.85 less than the amount budgeted. In the school building sinking fund June 30, 1961 was $345,000. Taxes collected for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960 totaled $672,118.21 and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, $730,069.21, an increase of $57,951. Ninety-four per cent of the levy for both those years was collected, according to the audit. The county’s total assets (fixed properties) are valued at $8,730, 458.76. School buildings are valued at $3,949,257 and other county prop erties at $3,736,919.69. The total county valuation (which is 50 per cent of the real value) as of June 30, was $44,143,500, and the total levy for the past fiscal year was $739,044.60. The auditor notes that the 1960 levy for debt retirement was 32 cents per hundred dollars j>f valu ation or 58 cents below that requir ed by the 1937 agreement with the bondholders, but the levy exceed ed by $51,658.55 the $90,000 annual tax required to be levied for the refunding of bonds. The 1961 tax rate for debt retire ment was increased to 90 cents per hundred dollars of valuation. This levy will enable the pay ment of all the county outstanding bonds by June 30, 1962, according to a report to the taxpayers issued with the 1961 tax notices in June. This will leave a county debt of $117,455 (school note). It is anticipated that with this debt paid, a large share of the tax dollar can then: be set aside for schools, and funds accumulated for the school construction program. Should the current problem over construction of a county hospital be cleared, money for the county’s share of the cost, ($660,000 for the building) would be obtained, ac cording to present plpns, by bor rowing. Fire Destroys Wickizer Car Parked at Range Destroyed by fire Sunday, Dec. 31, at the Carteret pistol range on the Country club road was a 1957 Pontiac convertible owned by Frank Wickizer, Morehead City. According to the sheriff’s de partment, Wickizer and » friend, John Braswell, Morehead City,, left the pistol range to go to New Bern at about 12:30 p.m. They went |n Braswell’s car. returned to pick up three hot Squadron Conies Home ■ He’s glad to see his daddy, and he’s doubly fascinated by the contraptipns Daddy’s wearing. First lieutenant Ray Hanle Jr., right, Marine flyer, is welcomed at Cherry Point by his little son, Greg, and Mrs. Hanle. Lieutenant Hanle, with Marine attack squadron VMA-533, return Winds of Gale Force, Hard Rains Hit County Saturday Trooper Cites Two Motorists Two drivers were cited by state trooper R. H. Brown at 11 a.m. Sunday, following an auto accident on highway 101 two and a half miles north of Beaufort. The trooper said Mrs. Mary God win Culpepper, route 1 Beaufort, was headed north and slowed her 1959 Rambler to make a left turn. Emmit Simmons, Beaufort, driv ing a 1958 Ford, came up behind Mrs. Culpepper and cut sharply to the right to avoid hitting her, the officer said. His car ran off the road on the right, skidded on the shoulder, jumped a ditch and ran through a yard. About $100 damage was done to the steering mechanism of the Ford. The Rambler was not dam aged. Mrs. Culpepper was charged with failure to give a proper signal before making a left turn. Sim mons was charged with reckless driving. Confederate Forts at Hatteras Fell Under Naval Bombardment in 1861 By F. C. SALISBURY Sea power, which played such a decisive role in the Civil War, had its first tryout along the coast of North Carolina when the Federal naval flotilla under the command of flag officer Stringham. made the attack from the sea upon ports Hatteras and Clark Aug. 28, 1861. Under protective bombardment f ed from Puerto Rico just prior to New Year’s day. The squad-. ron had been in Puerto Rico since Nov. 27, 1961. Maj. Gen. Richard C. Man grum, commanding general Sec ond Marine Air Wing, headed a group of friends and relatives who officially welcomed the squadron back to Cherry Point. H High' winds and heavy rain pelt ed the county Saturday in a small sized “hurricane” that blew over small trees, signs and tossed ed winds up fo 45 miles an hour, gale force. E. Stamey Davis, Morehead City weather observer, said rainfall to taled 2.49 inches. Atlantic Beach weather station recorded an all time high for the station of 3.05 inches in the 24-hour period from midnight Friday to midnight Sat urday. Beaufort had an electrical storm' at 8 p.m. Saturday. The heavy downpour of rain was accompanied by thunder and lightning. The winds were out of the southeast. High temperature for the day was 67 and the low 53. The stormy day followed a calm, almost-sum mer day Friday when the temper ature went up to 68. Temperatures and wind direc tions as reported by Mr. Davis, follow: High Low Wind Thursday . 56 44 SW Friday .68 41 Calm Saturday .67 53 SE Sunday .63 45 SW of the Union war ships, Marines and troops were landed from surf boats. The ship’s heavy cannonade forced the Confederates to evacu ate Fort Clark. With the unconditional surrender of the two forts, Hatteras Inlet was secured. The Union triumph seal ed off commerce-raiding and block ade-punning from Pamlico Sound. Negotiations Final on Sale Of Jefferson Negotiations have been complet ed for the sale of the Jefferson hotel in Morehead City. A reliable source said yesterday that complete details on the trans action are expected to be available the first of February. The hotel was built in 1947 by j Jefferson D. Gibson and John F. Lyon, contractor, who at that time was president of tie Southern Housing Corp. Mr. L, on-was also secretary-treasurer of the Jeffer son Hotel Corp., Durham, which j was formed prior to the construe- j tion of the hotel. Mr. Gibson, now | deceased, was president. The Jefferson Hotel corporation I has been dissolved, in preparation j for sale of the property. Date of dissolution was Nov. 10, 1961, with Drusilla W. Gibson, widow of Jef ferson Gibson, Irma Williams Mc Means, and Charles Wells, present hotel manager, as trustees in liqui dation. The hotel, located at 4th and Arendell streets, on the site of the famous old Atlantic hotel, opened the weekend of June 28, 1947. it’s a three-story brick structure of colonial design with a separate res taurant on 4th street. Cost of the 64-room hotel, and furnishings, was reported by its owners at $150,000 when it was built. Ed Wallnau, former assistant manager of the Hotel Piccadilly, New York, was the hotel’s first manager. Manager for nine years, from 1947 until May 1956 was E. M. (Al) Dewey, now manager of the Inlet inn, Beaufort. Unconfirmed reports state that one of the new owners is a resi dent of Greensboro, and one a resi dent of Morehead City. Officer Seeks Control of Dogs A. Ik. Fulford, county sanitarian, requests the assistance of the pub lic in control of rabies. “Control of the stray dog is one of the best assurances that rabies will not become a public health program,” Mr. Fulford observes. He asks county residents to do the following: • Report strays to the county rabies inspector (phone PA8-4557 or PA8-3121). • Be sure that your dog is inocu lated’ for rabies and is properly tagged. • List your dog for county taxes. These tax funds are used for the control of stray dogs. Mr. Fulford reports that during the several months the part time rabies inspector has been employ ed, 238 stray dogs have been ex terminated, 16 dogs have been quarantined and three specimens sent to the state laboratory of hy giene for rabies analysis. “Controlling the stray dog will protect our health, livestock and wildlife,” Mr. Fulford remarked. Hatteras Inlet became a coal and supply depot for Union blockading. This was the first navy victory as well as the first Union victory of any kind up to that time. Com ing shortly after the defeat at Bull Run, it electrified and greatly raised morale for the Union cause was then in a depressed condition, See BATTLE, Page 7 7 5 Attend Dedication of New Elks Home in Morehead City Port Calendar Morehead City State Port Rita Maersk — Due Jan. 14 to load tobacco for the Far East. President Van Buren—Due Jan. 16 with cargo of import tapioca and to load milk for the Middle East. Soustdyk — Due Jan. 16 to load tobacco and general cargo for Europe and to deposit general import cargo. Express—Due Jan. 16 to load cargo of milk for the Middle East. Three Pastors Participate In Dedication Three ministers participated Sun day afternoon in the dedication of The Chapel of the Big Fisherman, at Spooner’s Creek Harbor, west of Morehead City. The Rev. Charles L. Kirby, pas tor of the First Presbyterian church, Morehead City, presided. Scripture readings were by the Rev. Corbin Cooper, pastor of the First Baptist church, Morehead City, and prayer of thanksgiving by the Rev. B. L. Davidson, pastor of the First Methodist church, Morehead City. The chapel is located to the left of the entrance to the Spooner’s Creek clubhouse Mr. Kirby an nounced that it would be open 24 hours a day, to be used by persons who visit Spooner’s Creek by land or by water. Fifty persons attended the dedi cation. The chapel was designed by George Vickroy, who with Sher man Rock, has dnjrelopod Spaujto 't-ir's Creek harbor, a marina <Jn ♦he inland waterway. , This is the altar in the Chapel of the Big Fisherman. The arm rest above the kneeling bench is seen in front of the altar in this photo. For the dedication Sunday, an open Bible was in front of the cross and flowers were on the altar. G. W. Collins Wins Honor George W. Collins, native of Wildwood, and a former student at Nejvport school, has been chosen Sailor of the Week at the Harbor Defense unit, tittle Creek Amphi bious base, Norfolk. Mr. Collins is a commissaryman chief, (senior), is married to the former Kathryn Dankel of New Jersey, and has three children: Irene 11, Russell 8, and Jack 7. Chief Collins enlisted in the Navy at Raleigh Jan. 10, 1941. He holds the good conduct medal, the Amer ican defense medal, the Asiatic Pacific campaign medal, European occupation medal. Korean service medal, China ser vice medal, Japanese occupation medal. United Nations medal and World War II victory medal. Chief Collins recalls that among his many Navy experiences, a view of Hiroshima at the end of the second world war was the most impressive. “I was aboard the USS Cape Glouster (CVE-109) at the end of the war with Japan," he recalls. “I had the opportunity to see Hiroshima immediately after the atomic bombing. We were ferry rs of war hi Pearl ---1 Small Boating Course to Be Offered Again Instruction covering small boat handling, seamanship and naviga tion will be offered to the public in classes to be conducted at Camp Glenn School, Morehead City, by members of the Cape Lookout Pow er squadron. Enrollment will begin at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15, and classes will be held each following Mon day night until final examination night, April 9, 1962. The course, and the examination given at its conclusion, are both free. Instructional material to be used is prepared by the United States Power Squadrons, an educational organization dedicated, through its local units, to teaching how to be better and safer boatmen. Billy R. Corey, Morehead City, chairman of the course, says the course is given to over 50,000 men and women annually. You need not own a boat to take the course. It is designed to be of equal value to all boatmen, from the fisherman who rents an out board for the day to the operator of a powerful cruiser or large sail ing craft, Mr. Corey said. More than 60 men and women successfully completed in April 1961 the course given last w nter at Morehead City. Instructors this year will be graduates of the 1961 class. Tags Sold Beaufort town clerk Ronald Earl Mason reported 86 town auto tags farjl963 had been sold by 10 a.m. able; at the town hall. George W. Collins ... sailor of the week Harbor at the time, and I don’t think I will ever forget the devas tation of that city.” Chief Collins plans to retire at the expiration of his present enlist ment. Dec. 16, 1962, and oph^al£_a. service station. Democratic Women Meet By-laws were accepted and pre cihct captains named when the county Young Women’s Democrat S' ib met at the courthouse Thurs y niubt. Mrs. Vance Fulford Seventy-five persons attended dedication ceremonies Sunday at the new home of the Morehead City-Beaufort lodge No. 1710 at 2904 Arendell St, Morehead City. Presiding at the ceremony was L. D. Gore, past exalted ruler of the lodge during 1963, and other past exalted rulers. Arrangements for the event* were made by past exalted ruler A. H. James. Representing the Grand Lodge of the order was H. L. McPherson, district deputy, from Wilmington, who complimented the lodge “for the dedication of the building to the civic, patriotic, and fraternal prin ciples for which it stands.” Acknowledgement of the benefit to community life was noted by mayor George W. Dill Jr., More head City and mayor A. B. Cooper, Atlantic Beach, both members of the order. Following the official program, the building was opened to the pub lic, wtih a tea and coffee hour. Guests were served and shown the facilities of the building which in clude the lodge room, kitchen, large lounge, entertainment rooms, and office space. Assisting Mrs. L. G. Dunn at the buffet were Mrs. G C. Dunn and Mrs. Odell Merrill. Prior to the dedication cere monies, exalted ruler L. G. Dunn presided at the ceremony of the cornerstone laying. He noted that the four cardinal principles of the order — Charity, Justice, Brother ly Love and Fidelity were “nobly represented in the building and that the broadest expression of Elkdom would be found in the practice of these virtues, by its members, through the building.” Other past exalted rulers of the lodge, in addition to Mr. James and Mr. Gore, are H. P. Scripture, E. L. Nelson, Warren Grant, James O. Baxter Jr., H. S. Gibbs Jr. C. G. Holland, Paul S. Jones, George J. Brooks, Harvey Hamil ton Jr., W. H. Forbes Jr., John A .Baker, James D. Potter, and Jerry J. Willis. Prfetthi officers are L. G. Dunn, leading knight, Odell Merrill, royal knight, Thomas S. Bennett, lectur ing knight, George B. Stovall, treasurer. J. R. Sanders, secretary, L. E. Kelly, esquire, Clifton A. Lynch, chaplain, Clarence E. Styron, in ner guard, Carl M. Blomberg, tiler, and trustees A. H. James, Paul S. Jones, and J. A. DuBois. Sunday’s activities climaxed a week of activity in the new build ing. Thursday night the lodge ini .tiated 39 new members and recog nized 11 old members who were reinstated- Visiting Elks, from Juneau, Alaska to New Jersey, at tended the meeting to witness the members of New Bern lodge 764 initiate the new members, under the direction of Troy C. Tucker, exalted ruler. Also initiated was Lt. William N. Talbot, Havelock, who was ini tiated for Point Pleasant, N. J., Lodge No. 1698. Attending the meeting to witness the initiation were Clemens W. Bremer, and Walter B. Meseroll, from that lodge. Troopers Check Two Accidents State highway troopers investi gated two accidents in the county Saturday. At 1:20 p.m. an automobile col lided with a pickup truck in the vicinity of Huntley’s corner, Beau fort. According to trooper W. J. Smith Jr., Mrs. Linda E. Cannon, Merrimon, in a 1952 Ford, backed on to highway 70 and collided with a pickup driven by Luther R. Sal ter, route 2 Beaufort. According to, the officer, Salter was headed east in a 1953 Chevro let pickup. Mrs. Cannon was driv ing a 1952 Ford. She was charged with failing to see that her ma neuver could be made in safety. Damage to the car was estimated at $200 and to the pickup $100. A 1957 Ford driven by Willie Johnson of the Merrimon road went into a ditch on the Merrimon road at 11:30 p.m. State trooper W .E. Pickard said that Johnson was headed west in a 1957 Ford. The car had a blowout on a curve. Johnson ’was not hurt. Dam age to the car was estimated at $300. No.charges were filed. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Jan. 9 10:24 a.m. 11:03 p.m. 4:05 a.m. 4:48 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15 11:22 a.m. 4:57 a.m. 5:37 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11 12:01 a.m. 12:19 p.m. 5:53 a.m. 6:34 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12 ►--—( Conventions Booked at Hotel For '62 listed Conventions booked for the Bill* more Motor hotel, Morehead City, thus far this year are the following (the convention is named, followed by the number of delegates and the dates): US Fisheries institute, 100, April 11-13; North Carolina Garden clubs, 500, April 24-27; North Caro lina Automotive Wholesalers, 300, May 2-3; Camp Farthest Out, May 4-10. North Carolina Toastmasters, 200, May 25-27; Southern Pulpwood association, 110, May 28-31; Nation al Association of Bankers and Ac countants, 150, June 1-3. North Carolina LP Gas associa tion, 150, June 4-6; North Carolina Letter Carriers association, 300, June 7-10; Production Credit Corp., 200, June 11-13; North Carolina Architects, 200, June 14-17. North Carolina County Commis sioners association, 575, June 17-19; Veterans of World War I, 500, June 22-24; North Carolina Wine Con trol association, 100, June 29-July 1. Superior Court Clerks associa tion, 200, July 4-7; North Carolina Press association, 350, July 12-14; Duke Medical Post Graduate course, 100, July 15-21; Daughters of America and United American Mechanics, 300, Aug. 9-11. North Carolina Department of Public instruction, 150, Aug. 12-17; North Carolina Hairdresser’s as sociation, 300, Aug. 18-21; North Carolina Trade and Industrial as sociation, 200, Aug.. 22-25; North Carolina Elks association, 300, Nov. 1-3; North Carolina Pollution Con* trpl association, 300, Nov. 11-14. More conventions are expected to be booked at the Biltmore and beach hotels. J. A. DuBois, man ager of the greater Morehead City chamber of commerce, predicts that this year will see more con ventions in the county than, ever before.. , and develop Annual Farm Employment days for Carteret and Onslow counties were announced yesterday by Mrs. Julia Tenney, manager of the Em ployment Security Commission of fice, Morehead City. Carteret’s day will be Thursday, Jan. 18, at the farm labor office, the trailer on Live Oak street across from the school in Beau fort. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 4. At that time all farmers wanting tenants or day laborers may make their wants known, as well as farm workers seeking jobs. The office phone number is PA8-4941. Farm Employment day in Onslow county will be Tuesday, Jan. 16, at the employment office in Jack sonville. Starting yesterday, the scallop season was opened to five days a week, upon order of Hargrove Bowles Jr., director of the **n»rt ment of conservation ment. C. G. Holland, com me. eries commissioner, in making um announcement yesterday, said that up to now the season has been Monday, Wednesday and Friday only. Commissioner Holland said the change has been made because winter weather is so variable that frequently scallopers can’t wort: on the three legal days. The scallop season will cjose May 1, but scal loping ustially ends prior to that time, the commissioner noted. Scallopers are getting a fair price, $3.50 to $4 per scallop meats. Friday i day in Core sound. The was warm and the day mitting scallopers to see 1 Scallops are taken
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