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51st YEAR, NO. 11. EIGHT PAGES
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1962
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY*;
I County Area Redevelopment Group
Will Meet in Morehead City Feb. 12
(The county committee for area1
redevelopment will meet Monday
night, Feb. 12, with the county
planning commission to explore
possibilities of the two agencies’
coordinating their operations.
The newly-created area develop
ment committee, organised to stu
dy possibility of getting govern
ment help on development in this
I area, met recently to discuss
greatest needs in Carteret.
J. R. Sanders, temporary chair
man, presided at the meeting,
which was held at the Carteret
Craven building, Morehead City.
The committee decided the most
pressing needs are
1. Sewage disposal facilities for
, Beaufort and Morehead City
2. Seafood processing plants, or
derly sale of seafood products be
yond Carteret borders with a view
to a more stable market, thus bal
ancing throughout the year the
fisherman’s income
3. Improvement of the White Oak
and Newport rivers to provide
more adequate drainage for farm
land, first, and secondly, to en
hance possibilities of navigation in
% the rivers
4. improved recreation facilities,
camp sites for tourists, for young
campers and better beach facili
ties.
At next week’s meeting, the
county area development commit
tee hopes to determine whether the
county planning board has the au
thority to act under the area re
development program. The rede
velopment committee would func
tion, but the county planning board
would assume the legal responsi
bility to carry out the program.
Marion Holland,, district super
visor, Farmers Home Administra
tion, who attended the meeting,
took a copy of the legislative act
creating the planning commission,
to his Raleigh office and will noti
» fy Mr. Sanders by mail as to
whether his office believes the
planning commission has authority
to handle the area redevelopment
program.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to Mr. Sanders and Mr. Hol
land, were George Ball, Harlowe;
Gaston Smith, Atlantic; Mrs. Earl
Dunn, Atlantic Beach; Clarence
Millis, New Bern; J. W. Young,
Stella, and W. C. Carlton ,secre
i tary of the county planning com
mission.
Legion Speech Contest
Slated for Friday, MCHS
Five contestants have entered
the American Legion oratorical
contest to be held Friday at More
head City school. The contestants
are Ann Marie 1 »wis, Bill Fahy,
jpL Ben Webb, Borden Wallace and
John Lee.
Lenwood Lee, principal, said the
contest will take place at 10 a.m.
during an assembly program. The
subject is Americanism, with each
, J participant choosing his own topic.
The winner will receive a prize
of $25. The second place winner
will receive $10. Medals will be
given to each of the five speakers.
Takes Short Course
Fenner Morris, young farmer
of the Stella community, is rep
resenting the county at the farm
ers’ short course on the State
college campus, Raleigh.
R. M. Williams, county agri
cultural agent, expresses his ap
preciation to the local banks for
their financial support in mak
ing it possible for Carteret to
be represented at the two-week
short course.
Windsor Jaycees
Honor D! Bowen
Windsor—Dan W. Bowen, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bowen of
Windsor, has been named by the
Windsor junior chamber of com
merce as the distinguished service
award winner of 1962.
Mr. Bowen’s mother is a native
of Morehead City and two of his
aunts, Mrs. James Willis and Mrs.
George Purifoy, live in Morehead
City. He is married to the former
Lucille Wright, daughter of Mrs.
Masy B. Wright and the late K. W.
Wright of BeSufort routfe 1.
Mr. Bowen was a charter mem
ber of the Windsor Jaycees and
he has served in almost every of
ficial position in the club. Last
year he attended the national con
vention in Atlanta with his wife.
In addition to his Jaycee activi
ties he is now serving for the sec
ond year as president of the com
munity council. He is an active
worker in the Red Cross, March
of Dimes, Parent-Teacher associa
tion, and Committee for Better
Schools.
He is a regalar blood donor and
is an eye bank donor. At Cashie
Baptist church he teaches a Sunday
school class.
Mr. Bowen is a partner in the
A. E. Bowen Wholesale firm. He
is the father of five children, Mary
Joyce, Dianne, Beverly, Danny and
Dorothy.
The Newport town board will
meet at 7:30 tonight.
SHC Meets; Still
No Decision
On Bridge Site
# D. G. Bell Predicts
Decision Soon
• Commissioners Told
Of Bridge Condition
The State Highway commission
met and adjourned last week with
out making a decision on location
of the bridge between Beaufort
and Morehead City.
W. S. Winslow, assistant chief
engineer for bridges, warned the
commission, however, that the
present bridge should be replaced
without delay.
No other bridge in the state car
rying as much traffic or forming
D. G. Bell, Morehead City, a
member of the State Highway
commission, said yesterday that
he believed the commission would
make a decision on location of
the bridge within the next 30 to
00 days.
as important a connecting link “is
in as poor condition as this one,”
Mr. Winslow said.
A new bridge, once started,
would require one-and-a-half to two
years to complete, during which
time the present bridge would
have to be kept in repair.
Load limits on the present bridge
are expected to be reduced.
Mr. Winslow gravely noted: At
any time, it may be necessary to
close the bridge completely.”
That would mean that people
traveling between Beaufort and
Morehead City would either have
lo go by boat or travel by land
by way of Mill' Creek.
Mr. Winslow said that during
the past year more than 7,000 ve
hicles crossed the bridge daily. The
understructure has been weaken
ed, he told the commission, by
dredging near the bridge, weather
conditions and the recent Potomac
fire.
The highway commission in Aug
ust 1960 decided to put the new
bridge 60 feet north of the present
railroad bridge across the New
port river, but there is objection
to this from certain quarters, on
the basis that the bridge would
block expansion of the state port
at Morehead City.
Elected to Office
J. A. DuBois, Morehead City, has
been elected a vice-president of the
North Carolina Travel council. The
recent meeting at Charlotte was
attended by W .L. Derrickson and
Tony Seamon, Morehead City.
Friendly Hospital Suit
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Board Rejects Camp Glenn Site
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'Plant to Help Small Game...
Sam Poole, district wildlife
biologist, presents information on
this year’s “Small Game Plant
Material Distribution Program”
to C. N. Stroud, Morehead City,
right. ' '
These plant materials, avail
able free of charge to anyone
who wishes them, arc shrub les
pedeza seedlings, serecia seed,
annual seed mixture and multi
flora rose plants.
The state board of health has
sent a letter to ail persons known
to house migrant farm laborers,
enclosing with the letter the stand
ards for migrant housing as ap
proved by the Governor’s commit
tee on agricultural migrants.
The Employment Security com
mission (office in this county is
located at 809 Evans St., Morehead
City) is required by federal regu
lations to certify that the housing,
water supply, sewage and waste
disposal at the camps meet state
standards.
Applications for permits to op
erate a migrant labor camp are
available at the county health de
partment, Beaufort, the ESC farm
labor office on Live Oak street,
Beaufort, or the sanitary engineer
ing division, state board of health,
Raleigh.
Employment security officials
will not assign migrant workers
to any camps which have not re
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Got. Terry Sanford visited the Carteret Vacationland booth. Ob daty at the tbne
Photo by R. M. Williams
Applications for them should
be turned in to Mr. Stroud, coun
ty agricultural or soil conserva
tion offices, or sent in directly
to Sim F. Poole, 507 Darby Ave.,
Kinston, N. C.
Mr. Stroud reports that he is
well pleased with participation
in this program during the past
several years and is asking the
cooperation of county residents
again this year.
ceivcY a permit from the i;Wnly i
health department, according to
A. D. Fulford, county sanitarian.
Under the new program, a grow
er who contacts the ESC farm
placement office for migrant work
ers will be asked to obtain a per
mit to operate a migrant labor
camp. Upon receiving the appli
cation, Mr. Fulford will inspect
the grower’s camp.
If he finds that the camp meets
minimum sanitation requirements,
the grower will be issued the per
mit, which he then shows to the
ESC farm labor office, and thus
certifies himself to receive migrant
workers and house them.
Application for a permit must be
made no less than 15 days prior
to the time the camp is to be
placed in operation.
In addition to requiring the grow
er to meet sanitation standards,
the new state regulations require
that every camp occupant use the
sanitary facilities and comply with
all camp regulations, as well as
keep sanitary the camp premises
he occupies.
Further information on the mi
grant labor housing regulations
may be obtained from Mr. Ful
ford, or from Frank Nance, Beau
fort, farm labor placement super
visor with the ESC.
Fire Destroys
Capehart House
Cherry Point—An early morning
fire at 5 Currituck Circle, MEMQ
Capehart, destroyed the residence
of SSgt. and Mrs. Robert H. Zim
merman here Friday. The fire,
which broke out behind a couch
in the living room, was discovered
between 5:15 and 5:30 a.m. by
Leslie Zimmerman, 14 - year - old
daughter of the Zimmerman’s.
Public Works officials estimate
the damage to the structure at ap
proximately $5,000. Cause of the
fire is under investigation.
On discovering the fire, Leslie
woke her mother who tried to beat
out the flames. Unable to extin
guish the fire, Mrs. Zimmerman
grabbed her 3-year-old daughter
Roberta, and with Leslie, rushed
to a neighbor’s house and called
the fire department.
The fast-moving fire gutted the
living room, dining room, kitchen,
back porch, and the carport. The
three bedrooms were damaged by
smoke and water. An automobile
parked in the carport was also de
stroyed. ■
Sergeant Zimmerman is current
ly on temporary additional duty at
MCRD, San Diego, Calif., where
he is attending eight weeks of
schooling. He is an aviation air
control technician serving with
MASS-1.
The Zimmerman family has been ;
moved into another Capehart unit
this afternoon. Moat of their cloth
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County Says Hospital Has
To Go West of Morehead
A friendly lawsuit, to clear up legal technicalities block
ing construction of a county hospital, has l>een started.
Papers were served on the commissioners at their board
meeting yesterday morning at the courthouse, Beaufort,
by deputy sheriff C. H. Davis.
Filing the complaint is Dr. S. O. Thorne, Morehead City.
Heart Fund
Leaders Named
Council R. Kenfrow, fund chair
man fjr the heart campaign, has
announced community leaders who
will assist him. Today is kick-off
day in the drive and Mr. Renfrew
appealed to everyone to support,
the effort to wipe out the nation’s |
number one killer, heart disease.
Community leaders are Mrs.
Claude Brown, Marshallberg; Mrs.
Garland Scruggs, Morehead City;
Mrs. J. C. Davis, Davis; Mrs.
Irene Youngblood, Newport; Mrs.
J. T. Lewis, Stacy.
Mrs. Heber Golden, Bettie; Mrs. j
Charles Piner, Williston; Mrs. j
Hugh Salter, Beaufort; Mrs. L. E.
Kelly, Atlantic Beach; Mrs. Clif
ton Yeomans, Smyrna; Mrs. Rich
ard Whitehurst, Gloucester; Mr.
Fate Jones, Harkers Island; Mrs. j
Mabel Smith, Salter Path.
Special events, planned in sev
eral communities, will be staged
during February.
I
George Brooks
Rifes Conducted
The funeral service for George J.
Brooks, 74, Beaufort, a former
Army captain, was conducted at 11
a.m. yesterday in St. Paul’s Epis
copal church. Mr. Brooks died
Saturday morning, at Morehead
City hospital after a short illness.
The funeral was conducted by
the Rev. C. Edward Sharp, rector,
and burial was in St. Paul’s ceme
tery.
Mr. Brooks was for many years
county surveyor. A civil engineer,
he attended Boston college in
Massachusetts, North Carolina
State college, Georgia Tech and
studied road building at the Uni
versity of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mr. Brooks entered the Army as
a private and was a commissioned
officer when discharged in 1919.
He saw action in three major of
fensives during the first world war,
the battles of St. Mihiel, Meuse
Argonne and Campagne-Aislc. He
was awarded the silver star.
Mr. Brooks was a past exalted
ruler of the Morehead City-Beau
fort Elks lodge, was a Shriner and
a member of the Carteret Ameri
can Legion Post, No. 99.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Sarah P. Brooks; two daughters,
Mrs. Richard K. Williams, Carlisle,
Pa., and Mrs. Donnie Dudley,
Beaufort; one son, George J.
Brooks Jr., USA, Fort Jackson,
S. C.; one brother, Cecil Brooks;
three sisters, Mrs. Maggie Lang
dale, Mrs. George Norcum and
Mrs. Maude Ramsey, all of Beau
fort, and six grandchildren.
Biggs Shoe Shop
Changes Hands
James I). Biggs, who formerly
owned and operated Biggs Shoe
shop, 519 Front St., Beaufort, left
yesterday for Raleigh where he
has taken over Caudle’s Shoe shop.
Mrs. Biggs will remain here for
several weeks and then join her
husband.
The Biggs shop has been sold to
C. L. Springle, former employee
of Mr. Biggs, and brother of Guy
Springle, Beaufort’s police chief.
Mr. Springle operates three shops
in the Lejeune area and also had
the Raleigh shop before it was
taken over by Mr. Biggs.
The Biggs family has been in
Beaufort 33'At years. Mr. Biggs
said, "I’m not leaving because
Fm dissatisfied. We love it here.
It’s a case of hoping to better
ourselves financially.”
The Biggs have a home at 1601
Front St., which they plan to re
The suit is necessary, according to
Luther Hamilton Jr., county attor
ney, to satisfy bond attorneys. The
bond attorneys refuse to go ahead
with sale of bonds until a superior
court judge makes a decision as
to a refinancing question raised in
the original lawsuit.
The original suit, filed by Beau
fort residents, was non-snited.
The new suit, brought by Dr.
Thorne, is titled a "complaint for
declaratory judgment.” After the
county files an answer, Mr. Ham
ilton says there will be a hearing
before judge W. J. Bundy.
In addition to discussing the
suit, the board officially turned
down a proposal that a site at
Camp Glenn be considered for the
hospital and authorized the coun
ty attorney to get options on land
in the vicinity of three miles west
of Morehead City.
He was authorized to get options
on small tracts with the view to
ward combining several tracts, if
necessary, to get the desirable
acreage. Commissioners said they
felt that they must stick to the
proposal to put the hospital west
of Morehead City but believed it
may not be necessary to get a
hundred acres. (The Webb site
originally selected, but now out of
the picture, contained slightly more
than 80 acres.)
In response to a comment by
commissioner Skinner Chalk, the
chairman of the board, Moses
Howard, said that the county board
did not authorize Mr. Howar&Jo
! make a recent trip to ’RaTeigh rela
tive to the county’s acquiring The
Camp Glenn site.
The chairman said that the Camp
Glenn site was among the original
locations proposed for a hospital,
but the Medical Care commission
was not enthusiastic about it be
cause it was so close to a fish
factory, the railroad and the high
way.
Mr. Howard added, however,
that William Henderson, executive
secretary of the MCC, said recent
ly that if the Camp Glenn site is
available and agreement could be
reached on putting the hospital
there, he would not disapprove.
The chairman said that George
R. Wallace, owner and operator of
Wallace Fisheries, informed him
that location of the hospital at
Camp Glenn would mean that his
factory would have to close up.
Mr. Howard quoted Mr. Wallace
as saying that he is opposed to
the hospital’s-being at Camp Glenn.
Mr. Wallace said that he was
not in favor of the hospital in the
fifst place, but he voted for it,
assuming that it would be three
miles west of Morchead City and
he “could see no way the commis
sioners could gel around that.”
Mr. Howard said that Wallace
fisheries hopes to expand, but those
plans will be delayed, as long as
ihere were a possibility that a
hospital would go in the vicinity.
Commissioner Chalk said that
public protest keeps Mr. Wallace’s
factory closed up now when he
could be operating.
Relative to the threc-miles-west
of-Morehead City hospital location,
Mr. Chalk said the people voted
for the hospital on the basis of
what the board said it would do
“and if the board does not do it,
the people have every right to
have no more confidence in the
board.”
Mr. Howard reported that Hugh
Styron, owner of former Rochelle
land west of Morehcad City, is
still willing to donate 19 acres for
a hospital, with the offer to sell
more if it is needed. He said the
Styron land is three miles west of
Morehead between highways 24 and
70.
“I’m opposed to building a hos
pital,” Mr. Chalk said, “but if we
can get that land, let’s go ahead.”
He said the board should go as
far as it can in getting the hospital
built, and he’s not in favor of con
See BOARD, Page 7
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Feb. 6
9:15 a.m. 3:05 a.m.
9:47 p.m. 3:41 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. I
10:18 a.m. 3:54 am.
10:42 p.m. 4:27 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 8
11:04 a.m. 4:44 a.m.
11:38 p.m. 5:14 p.m.
Friday, Feb. »
12:01 a.m. 5:37 a.m.
Historical Group
Asks for Use
Of Old Lock-Up
• County Board Hears
Road Requests
• Two Tax Matters
Handled Yesterday
County commissioners offered
yesterday to let the Beaufort His
torical association use the first
floor of the old couuty jail for
rental at a dollar a year, provid
ing the association will vacate the
jail, upon 30 days’ notice, if the
county so requests,
Mrs. W. R. Hamilton, president
of the association, who appeared
before the board, said the associa
tion would act on the proposal
this month, and she would return
in March to convey the associa
tion’s decision.
The association plans to use the
jail “as an historical attraction,”
Mrs. Hamilton said and would like
to have it operating by May.
Owen Fulford, Harkers Island,
appeared before the board to get
permission to move two graves
that are now being run over by
cars because of their closeness to
a road.
The re-burial of Owen B. Fulford,
grandfather of the petitioner, and
Earl Davis is to be made in the
Virgie Mae cemetery,' Harkers Is
land, no later than March 13, 1962.
Mr. Fulford also complained that
the eounty electrical inspector was
j discriminatory ifi carrying out
• county 'regulations relative fo bu0d
ing permits, power and plumbing
work. Mr. Fulford said he didn’t
object to the regulations but he
wanted everyone to be treated
alike.
The board asked Mr. Fulford to
furnish them with the name of a
neighbor whom he felt got special
treatment and the board would
confer with the county electrical
inspector.
Homer Lewis, Harmon Bennett
and Chester Dunkle asked the
board to recommend that the state
improve a three-mile loop road
that leads off highway 101 in the
vicinity of the K. W. Wright farm.
They said the bridge across Rus
sels creek floods at high tide and
makes a portion of the road un
usable.
J. L. Humphrey, county road
superintendent, checked the road
late yesterday meriting, phoned to
the board and said that road was
in good condition.
J. M. Styron, Sea Level, asked
the hoard to see that all the ditches
at'Sea Level arc given a thorough
cleaning. The board said it would
refer the matter to the State High
way commission.
Odell Merrill, clerk to the board,
reported that the highway com
mission has added Live Oak drive,
the Campen road and Jones street
to the highway system. These addi- j
tions were recommended by the
county several weeks ago.
The board authorized the clerk
to write a letter to W. H. Garner,
heirs, Newport, and the Morehead
City Shipbuilding trustees, stating
that unless taxes owed are paid J
by April 1, the property will be
sold. E. O. Moore, county tax
collector said that $500 had been
paid on the Garner tax bill.
A letter from Robert Darden,
freight traffic manager, Southern
Railway, informed the board that
the railroad would look into reports
that the train occasionally keeps
the Country club railroad crossing
blocked for as long as an hour.
Sam Morgan, New Bern, appear
ed before the board to complain
about land valuation on Radio is
land. He was invited to return to
the board of equalization meeting
in March.
A report on farm activities in
the county during 1961 was pre
sented by R. M. Williams, county
agricultural agent. £
Beaufort Mothers' March
Brings in $68 for MOD
A total of $68.33 was raised for
the March of Dimes in the Beau
fort Mothers' March Wednesday.
Mrs. Robert L. Russell was chair
man.
Those assisting Mrs.
were Mrs. C. A. Brooks, 1
ard Smith, Mrs. Ralph Jo
Ben Robinson, Mrs. Annie
and Mrs. B. E. Windley.
Mrs. Russell expressed h e i
thanks to those who contribute
money- and to those who took
in the drive for
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