51»t YEAR, NO. 8. TWO SECTIONS—16 PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1962
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDA Ytt
Is She Cuba-Bound?
This is the vessel that stopped in Morehead City for repairs with a Cuban captain and crew aboard.
The captain, who spoke some English, was secretive about the boat’s destination.
School Official to Speak
At VFW District Meeting
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Methodist
District Will
Convene Here
The New Bern District confer
ence will meet Monday at 9:30 a.m.
at the First Methodist church in
Morehead City. This will be the
first time in 30 years that the con
ference has met in Morehead City.
Pastors and delegates from 53
Methodist charges will be present
for the annual meeting. It is an
ticipated that 250 delegates will
attend. The New Bern district in
cludes Methodist churches in afi
area that reaches from Atlantic to
Jacksonville, Kinston, and Green
ville.
Dr. A. J. Hobbs, district super
intendent, will preside. Reports of
this conference year will be heard.
Emphasis will be placed on Evan
gelism and the establishing of Out
post church schools, according to
the Rev. B. L. Davidson, pastor of
(he host church.
Special guests will be the Rev.
S. J. Starnes, editor of the North
Carolina Christian Advocate; Dr.
Allen P. Brantley, executive direc
tor of Christian Higher Education;
the Rev. 0. L. Hathaway, execu
tive director of church extension;
Dr. C. P. Morris, executive secre
tary of the Conference Board of
Education; and the Rev. C. Free
man Heath, conference director of
evangelism.
The conference will adjourn with
lunch, served in the Fellowship
hall at 1 o’clock.
Mr. Davidson, who is district
secretary of evangelism, will give
a report and the welcome. Other
Carteret ministers, past and pres
ent, who are on the program are
L. A. Tilley, R. L. Fleming Jr.,
Levis A. Dillman, W. D. Caviness,
D. M. Tyson, J. P. Mansfield and
Dwight L. Fouts.
March of Dimes Telethon
Will Start Tomorrow Night
Therapist Talks
To Rotarians
Mrs. Margaret Arrington, speech
therapist for county schools, was
the speaker at Tuesday night’s
meeting of the Beaufort Rotary
club at Dora Dinette.
Mrs. Arrington tokl Rotarians of
the difficulty in getting qualified
individuals with proper' training in
speech therapy, and logoplegics, to
work with the school children. She
stated that there are no unemploy
ed speech therapists in North Caro
lina. She also mentioned briefly
some of the speech defects en
countered in her work.
The club decided to change its
meeting place from Dora Dinette
to the Surfside restaurant, begin
ning with the first meeting in Feb
ruary.
Visiting Rotarians were H. L.
Joslyn, Thomas Noe and Frank
Cassiano, all of Morebead City,
ffeb LaSalle, Tulsa, Okie., attend
ed as the guest of T. H, Potter.
Guy Springle, Beaufort police
chief, has requested all property
owners to dean their lots, in com
► H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, will be the speak
er at the district Veterans of For
eign Wars meeting Sunday at the
Jones-Austin post home, Beaufort.
The post, No. 2401, will be host
to the district. One hundred dele
gates are expected. Mr. Joslyn’s
address will follow a seafood
luncheon at 1 p.m., served by the
VFW ladies’ auxiliary.
A special guest at the meeting
will be Hugh Salter, post member,
and US marshal. Marsha! Salter
is a past commander of the post.
Registration will begin at 3 p.m.
Saturday. From 9 p.m. until 1
a.m. there will be a dance, to the
music of the Downbeats, at the
post home. Members and guests
will attend.
Registration will be resumed at
10 a.Qa. Sundayv Presiding at the
luncheon meeting will W. L.
Laughinghouse, post commander.
Presiding at the post session at 2
will be Murray Pugh, district com
mander. Mrs. Bobby Lee, aux
iliary president, will preside at the
auxiliary meeting.
U. L. Joslyn
. . . guest speaker
■ Carteret talent will appear on
the March of Dimes telethon Sun
day. The big money-raising tv
event will begin at 11:15 p.m. Sat
urday, announces Clifton Lynch,
Carteret MOD chairman.
According to Mr. Lynch, county
performers will be on WITN be
tween 6:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., with
the exception of two, the Mt. Pleas
ant Free Will Baptist choir and
Billy Joyce Guthrie, who will ap
pear Sunday afternoon.
Latest additions to the telethon
talent numbers from Carteret are
Miss Guthrie, who will sing, ac
companied by Earl Smith on the
piano; Becky and Sandra Davis,
Harkers Island, who will sing;
Tide Table
HIGH
Tides at Beaufort Bar
Friday, Jan. 26
LOW
11:45 a.m.
5:22 a.m.
5:48 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 27
12:28 a.m.
12:20 p.m.
5:55 a.m.
6:19 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 28
1:01 p.m.
1:03 a.m.
6:53 a.m.
7:09 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 29
1:46 a.m.
1:50 p.m.
8:35 a.m.
8:38 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan.
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2:39 a.m.
2:53 p.m.
9:44 a.m.
9:46 p.m.
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Docked in Morehead City for sev
eral days last week was a “mys
terious” converted Coast Guard
cutter manned by a crew of Cuban
seamen. It left Sunday, after un
dergoing repairs at Russell’s ma
rine railway.
The boat, an 83-footer, flew no
flags while in port even though its
captain said that the craft was an
“American merchant vessel.” The
captain, the only one of the ship’s
crew who spoke English, was a lit
tle hesitant about answering other
questions about the boat.
When,asked by a reporter where
the ship was headed and what was
its mission, the captain said that
he didn’t think it would be wise to
answer these questions in view of
the fact that relatives of some of
the crewmen were still in Cuba,
the country now controlled by pro
fessed Communist Fidel Castro.
“Our mission is one of great im
portance and disclosing informa-'
tion could spoil the whole thing,”
said the captain. Interviewed
aboard the vessel, the captain said
that it was his personal opinion
that Castro is fsffit losing favor
with the people of his country.
“When Castro overthrew the dic
tatorial government of Batista, he
had nearly 100 per cent of the Cu
ban people behind him,” said the
skipper. “Now I would estimate
that only about 10 per cent of the
Cubans are pro-Castro.”
Castro’s organization and mili
tary power of his guerillas arc the
reason he is able to maintain his
standing as the Cuban strongman,
the captain maintained.
After repairs were made to the
boat, it continued on its journey to
Port Everglades, Florida.
The captain said he and mem
bers of the crew had been received
rather coldly in port stops made
since the boat departed Norfolk.
He told of spending $6,000 in Nor
folk for repairs to the boat, all of
which had to be done over at their
first stop away from Norfolk.
When the reporter went aboard
the boat, one of the crewmen
whipped out a switch-blade knife
and stood with it poised “at the
ready” until the reporter and the
marine railway operator left.
While here, most of the crew
men stayed pretty close to the boat
except to leave to purchase gro
ceries and supplies.
Wolfgang Justcn, Morchead City,
wbo will play classical music on
the guitar, and Kay Canipc, More
head City, wh'o will do a modern
dance.
Phone calls from MOD contribu
tors will be taken by Miriam Re
bekah Lodge members in Beau
fort, PA8-3351; in Morehead City
by Esther Rebekah Lodge mem
bers, PA6-3140, and in Newport by
folks at 208-1.
Collections will be made Sunday
during the telethon or they may
be mailed to Mrs. Robert L. Rus
sell, route 2, Box 39-B, Beaufort,
or Mrs. Eric Lewis, 1412 Shackle
ford, Morehead City.
Those who would like to hear
name announced early on the pro
gram should phone before the
telethon starts, Mr. Lynch says.
He will be at the tv station this
year during the program.
East Carolina Alumni
To Meet Monday Night
Alumni of East Carolina college
will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the
rc restaurant, announces Mrs.
N. Stroud, Morehead City, sec
retary of the alumni group.
Supper will be dutch. The sec
retary states that an interesting
.program has been planned and all
alumni of East Carolina are cor
dially invited,
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Jaycees Plan
DSA Banquet
For Monday
• H. S. Gibbs Jr.
Will Be Guest Speaker
# Dinner to Start 7:30
At Blue Ribbon
The Morehead City Jaycees met
at the Blue Ribbon restaurant Mon
day night and discussed plans for
the annual DSA banquet to be held
Monday night. Tickets for the
banquet will be $2.50 per person
which includes dinner and dancing.
The guest speaker will be H. S.
Gibbs Jr., former Morehead City
Jaycee president, and winner of
the DSA in 1953. The banquet will
be at 7:30 p.m. at the Blue Ribbon
restaurant.
State vice-president Bill Single
ton reported that the Jacksonville
Jaycees are sponsoring and char
tering a Jaycee club at Swansboro
that will have 26 members. The
charter meeting of the club was
held Tuesday night.
Mr. Singleton also reported on
the New Bern DSA banquet and
the 25th Jaycee anniversary meet
ing in Gastonia which he attended.
Judge Luther Hamilton, Morehead
City, was the speaker at the New
Bern banquet.
Indicating that they would at
tend a district meeting Wednesday
night in Snow Hill were Joe Beam,
Clifton Lynch, Barry Willis. Gor
don Willis, Walter Fulcher, Ed
Hudson, Louis Russell, Jerry Gar
ner, Don Davis, Bill Singleton,
Tommy Ballou, Walter Willis, and
Richard Roberts.
Attending last week’s meeting at
Bruce Goodwin’s camp were 18
members and 10 guests.
Census Reveals
Data on County
Housing Units *
. Of the 9,866 bousing units tallied
by the 1960 census takers in Car
teret, only 7,634 were occupied
occupied by the 30,940 county resi
dents. That's an average of al
most exactly four persons to a
unit.
Why 2,232 housing units were
empty, secretary Luther H. Hodges’
Commerce Department does not
reveal, nor why there are more
tv sets than radio sets—6,075 tv
sets, 5,914 radio sets.
Only 6,008 dwellings were listed
as being in sound condition, with
plumbing. ' Owners occupied 5,822
of the dwellings, renters 1,812 of
them.
The median rent paid was $67 a
month, which means that about
906 of them paid less and about
906 of them paid more.
Other dwelling statistics: 7,614
had hot and cold running water,
8,187 had a flush toilet, 7,778 had
either or both a bathtub and
shower, 329 had a basement, and
211 were trailer homes.
Air conditioning was installed in
543 households, washing machines
in 5,684, clothes dryers in 362,
home freezers in 1,624.
One-automobile households num
bered 4,570; two automobile, 891;
and three or more automobile
households, 167.
Big Still, Near
Inland Waterway,
Axed Wednesday
A 400-gallon still in the Merrimon
section got the ax Wednesday
morning. Fifty-four hundred gal
lons of mash were destroyed.
One of the biggest stills raided
in recent months, it was put out
of commission by Marshall Ayscue,
county ABC officer, and deputy
sheriffs C. H. Davis, Billy Smith
and C. E. Bunch, who were accom
panied by two Morebead City po
lice officers, Lt. Bill Condic and
patrolman Jack Miller.
Officer Ayscue estimates that the
still was fairly new, probably run
only once. It was located near the
inland waterway, but was reached
by land.
Government to Seek Shelters
Harry G. William, Civil Defense
director for the county, announced
today that the firm of Leif Va
land Associates, architects and en
gineers of Raleigh, has advised
him that they plan to begin a sur
vey to locate and mark public shel
ter space in this county.
Similar surveys are being con
ducted throughout the country to
locate and mark existing facilities
which will provide adequate pro
tection against radioactive fallout.
Preliminary estimate* indicate tyat
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Direct Distance Dialing Due
Here in Early Part of 1963
Local Telephone Operators
Will be Eliminated
Direct distance dialing for tele
phone users in this county will go
into effect early next year, L. A.
Daniels, local manager of Carolina
Telephone Co., announced today.
This- will end both toll operations
and the jobs of toll operators at
the Morehcad City office but will{
increase mectarical and electronic
facilities and jobs, he said.
Employees displaced by the;
change to DDD operations will be
offered employment in offices of
the phone company in New Bern
and elsewhere.
Several factors governed the dc
cision to plan for DDD in this area, j
Mr. Daniels said.
First, mechanization and con-1
solidation in the telephone industry
is the only way to avoid rising costs
of providing long distance service,;
otherwise, increased toll rates
would result.
, Second, the cost of the necessary
DDD equipment required at More
head City and New Bern would be
considerably more than consoli
dated equipment at New Bern.
Further, such equipment for More
head City would necessitate the
enlargement of the building, which j
is not the case at New Bern.
Third, Mr. Daniels continued,,
sufficient switchboard capacity ex-1
ists at New Bern to handle long.
distance service from the More
head City area. Thus, a building
addition here would be an unneces
sary expenditure until other needs
justify it in the future.
“From this,” Mr. Daniels said,
“it is clear that consolidation and
mechanization is the proper course
to be followed by Carolina Tele
phone. Because of this, plans must
be accomplished at the proper time
to avoid any unnecessary costs
which would be detrimental to the
interest of Carolina Telephone cus
tomers.”
Specific dates for DDD _*£?vjce
will be announced later.
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Carteret Scouts
Win Top Award
The highest award a Scout di
vision can receive was won by Car
teret division Wednesday night at
a meeting at Williamston. Simon
Raynor, Morehead City, accepted
the plaque, according to T. A.
Guiton, Carteret Boy Scout field
executive.
Mr. Guiton said boys in the Ne
gro troops in the county total 61
and he expects this figure to dou
ble in a year. The President’s
award goes to the division which
has the largest growth in boys,
adults, units, percentage of unit
leaders trained, camping record
and advancement of the boys in
rating.
Mr. Guiton said much of the cre
dit for the award goes to L. R.
Johnson, Beaufort, principal of
Queen Street school, and George
Bridgers, Morehead City, who is
the commissioner serving the Ne
gro units.
The plaque, awarded annually,
will be presented in the near fu
ture to the Rev. E. Everett Lewis,
Beaufort, division chairman.
Blue Crutch Day Income
Amounts to $87.37
Proceeds from Blue Crutch Day,
conducted Saturday by the Beta
clubs in Beaufort and Morehead
City, totaled $87.37, according to
Clifton Lynch, March of Dimes
chairman.
Beta clubs are comprised of hon
or students at Beaufort and More
head City high schools.
The Moose-sponsored roadblocks,
scheduled for Saturday, has been
changed to tomorrow, from 2 to
5 p.m.
To Sponsor Supper
The Atlantic PTA will sponsor
a barbecue supper in the lunch
room tomorrow, beginning at 5
p.m. Plates are $1 for adults and
75 cents for children. Persons de
siring delivery may call CA5-4516.
suitable shelter will be found for
approximately one-fourth of our
population, or 50 million people.
The National Fallout Shelter Sur
vey Program is under the direction
of the assistant secretary of de
fense for Civil Defense, Stcuart L.
Pittman, with the responsibility for
direct supervision of the surveys
resting with the US Army Corps of
Engineers and the Navy Bureau of
Yards and Docks.
Leif Valand Associates are un
der contract to the US Army Corps
Midnight Feb. 1
Is Deadline
For Boat Tags
• C&D Relaxes Rules
On Scrap Fish Sales
# Sports, Commercial
Fishing Studies Set
Ail commercial fishermen must
have their 1962 license tags dis
played after midnight Friday, Feb.
1, announces C. G. Holland, com
mercial fisheries commissioner.
Fisheries officers will start mak
ing arrests at 12:01 a.m. Saturday,
Feb. 2, of any who have not com
plied with the law.
At this week’s conservation and
development meeting at High
Point, the board of directors re
laxed restrictions on taking of
scrap fish and approved funds for
two studies.
Appearing to request more len
iency on the scrap fish regulations
were Charles Davis, David Bev
eridge, Beaufort; Ottis Purifoy,
Morehead City, and William Jones,
Atlantic Beach.
Fishermen arc now allowed to
sell 25 per cent of their catch, or
25 boxes, whichever is larger.
They may continue to do this until
July 1. From now until that time
Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director of the
Institute of Fisheries Research,
will -supervise a survey on the ac
tivity, to determine its effect.
Regulations permit the scrapfish
to be processed into products not
intended for human consumption.
The cost of the study, $4,200, will
come from $30,000 appropriated by
the 1961 legislature for fisheries
research.
Also assigned to the institute was
$10,000 to survey sports and com
mercial fishing operations in the
salt water areas.
The commercial fisheries com
mittee requested Hargrove Bowles,
C&D director, to find out whether
$90,000 given the State Wildlife Re
sources commission for research,
might be shared for research on
commercial fishing. The money
came from the federal government.
The board approved dredging of
oyster shells in Albemarle sound
on an experimental basis. Although
the dredging is opposed by some
factions, proponents say that lime
from the shell deposits could be
used in fertilizers and feed.
The fisheries liaison committee
was briefed on the shad and her
ring season situation by Commis
sioner Holland in preparation for
a meeting with the similar com
mittee from the North Carolina
Wildlife Resources commission.
Chairman Parker of the liaison
committee announced that he would
seek the joint meeting for the first
week in March and would notify
all members.
The April meeting of the board
will be at New Bern.
Temperatures Go
Higher This Week
Temperatures were considerably
warmer this week than last, ac
cording to records at the Atlantic
Beach weather station. The high
recorded since last Thursday was
68, while the lowest reading was
34. Temperatures and wind direc
tions for the past week, as record
ed at the beach, follow:
High Low
Jan. 18.40
Jan. 19. 42
Jan. 20.41
Jan. 21. 62
Jan. 22 68
Jan. 23. 52
Jan. 24. 52
34
40
35
35
41
48
40
Wind
NE
NE
Vari.
NNE
Vari.
W
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of Engineers, Atlanta, Ga., to do
the field work of the fallout shel
ter, survey in Carteret and fifteen
surrounding counties. Before ob
taining this government contract
several members of the firm re
ceived intensive specialized train
ing in structural analysis of fallout
shelters at a school sponsored by
the Department of Defense.
The initial job of the architect
firm will be to fill out a form which
will describe the structural com
ponents of each building which ap
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Yellow Disc? It's Important
Janies F. Guthrie, of the US fisheries staff, Fivers Island, ex*
amines a “sea bed drifter” found on the beach.
The US Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries Biological laboratory at
Beaufort, in cooperation with the
Woods’’! Hole Oceanographic insti
tution, Woods Hole, Mass., and
the US Coast Guard Cutter Chilula,
stationed at Morehead City, an
nounce the release last week of
several hundred “sea bed drifters”
in the area lying between Cape
Hatteras and Cape Fear, North
Carolina.
Recoveries of the drifters will
provide scientists with information
on the ocean current pattern along
the North Carolina coast, especial
ly bottom currents. This informa
tion will be particularly valuable
in studies of the distribution of
menhaden eggs and larvae being
conducted by the menhaden pro
gram at the Pivers Island labora
tory, according to G. B. Talbot,
director of the lab.
' Waters along the North Carolina
Scouter Comments on Use
Of Building by BSA Units
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Red Cross First Aid
Course to Begin Monday
A standard Red Cross first aid
course will be taught, beginning
Monday, at the Beaufort fire sta
tion, announces Charles Spears of
the Beaufort Rescue squad. It will
be open to the public.
Mr. Spears, a qualified Red
Cross instructor, will be the teach
er. The course consists of five two
hour sessions and is open to the
public. The sessions will start at
7 p.m.
The only charge will be 75 cents
for the textbook.
Carteret led all other coastal
counties in pounds of fish landed
in November, 63,764,765. Landings
at all counties, were 16 per cent
below November 1960.
pears to offer 4 substantial degree
of protection from radioactive fall
out for at least 50 people.
The completed forms, will be pro
cessed through the district en
gineer office and sent to the data
processing center of the Bureau of
Census.
Here a film optical sensing de
vice for input to computers will
read the forms and transfer the
data to magnetic tape and in lan
guage understood by a high-speed
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coast arc known to be an impor
tant spawning ground for this fish,
but the means by which the larvae
move, or are carried, from the
ocean spawning grounds to the
estuarine nursery grounds are not
clearly understood.
Information obtained from re
coveries of the drifters will enable
the scientists to follow the dispers
al pattern of the young fish in re
lation to the current pattern.
All persons are urged to be on
the lookout for sea bed drifters
along the shore. The drifter con
sists of a 7-inch bright yellow,
plastic disc attached to a pink
plastic stem. A 50-cent reward
is being offered by the Woods Hole
Oceanographic institution for the
return of each drifter.
A mailing tag attached lo the
top of the disc should be filled in,
placed in an envelope, and mailed
to the address shown on the tag.
* T. A. Guiton, district Scout ex
ecutive, said Wednesday that he
feels that the Boy Scouts and Cubs
who use the Scout building in Beau
fort “have met their share of re
sponsibility” in keeping the build
ing in good shape.
Mr. Guiton said that one Boy
Scout troop (51), and two Cub
packs meet there. The troop, he
reported, cleaned out a storage
room, use that as their meeting
place, and furnish their own heat.
The packs, he said, meet once
a month, and have agreed to pay
for heat or any other cost that
might be incurred in using the
building, but they can’t pay rent
or put up a deposit.
“Responsible adults meet with
the Cubs and they make an effort
to clean up, after the pack meet
ings, with any equipment avail
able, sometimes at personal ex
pense,” Mr. Guiton said.
He felt that as a resuit of his
investigation and the above report,
people should realize that the
Scouts are not responsible for the
run-down condition of the building.
Sick Crewman Taken
From SS Robin Hood
Coast Guardsmen from Fort Ma
con removed a sick crewman from
the ship, SS Robin Hood, Wednes
day at Jt a:m. at the sea buoy. The
crewman, John Sorenson, 62, Sam
erville City, Mass., wate taken
Morehead City hospital
footer.
After being treated
transferred to a Norfolk
pnat. It was believed
suffered a.stroke.