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ALL WHO BEAD ) READ THE NEWSOMES 51st YEAR, NO. IS. HfWO SECTIONS—lO PAGES " ' MOREHEAD CITY ANT? BEAUFORT,' NORTH CAKOUNA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1962 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Morehead City ja Laboratory Adult Scout Leaders Attend Banquet Here One hundred twenty Boy Scout leaders met Thursday night at Mrs. Russell Willis’s restaurant, More head City, for the Carteret Dis trict Recognition banquet. They celebrated the 52nd birthday of the Boy Scouts of America. At 7:30 p.m. the Rev. T. A. Gui ton Sr. of Rockingham, father of the Carteret Scout executive, gave the invocation. Dr. S. W. Hatcher, district chairman in ’61, introduced Nelson Banks of New Bern, who was the speaker. Ed Nelson recog nized the unit leaders in the dis trict, which number 27. At 8:30 a minute of silence was observed and the Scout oath was pledged anew. Appreciation awards were presented to Harry Salter, John Moore, and John Mag giolo. The compass award was present ed by Bob Howard to Mr. Nelson. The scouter’s key went to Bob Parker. O. B. Roberts, Scouter’s executive for the Eastern Carolina council was presented a recogni tion award. Men in the county who are hold ers of the silver beaver awards are Jim Crowe, Ethan Davis, Dr. Darden Eure, Charles Hassell, Dr. Hatcher and Bob Howard. 1962 district officers were install ed by Mr. Roberts. They are Charles McNeill, district chairman, Harry Salter, district vice-chair man, Ed Nelson, district commis sioner. Executive board members are Ethan Davis, Ed Nelson, Council Renfrow, Cecil Sewell and Gordon Willis. Dr. Hatcher formally accepts tiie President's plaque,ai»*u*tf award. This is the first time that Carteret county has been present ed this award which represents a 10 per cent increase in boy scouts, leaders and units. Historic Sites Officer Speaks At Swansboro r. w. Iobst spoke at the recent meeting of the Swansboro Historic al association in the Swansboro community building. Mr. Iobst, formerly staff historian for the North Carolina Confederate Cen tennial commission and now his toric sites specialist in charge of historical markers throughout the state, gave a brief description of the Confederate Centennial pro gram and its efforts to mark Civil o’-r sites. ' He explained his new duties with t > historic sites division and pledged his efforts to mark historic spots in the White Oak River area. The major portion of Mr. lobst’s address dealt with the events that led to the Federal occupation of eastern North Carolina and with action along the White Oak River, which served as part of the mili tary frontier from 1862 until almost the close of the war. In a question and answer period, he answered specific questions about the local area and the Confederate fort on Russell’s Island. Following adjournment, a num ber of charred pieces of wood and a few spikes from the fort’s maga zine were exhibited. Mr. Iobst promised to return to the associa tion an official detailed report on the excavations in about a week. The president of the association, Tucker Littleton, gave a member . ship report in which he announced a total membership of 257 persons scattered through 12 states of the union and in 29 towns in North Carolina. Seventy-five members and guests were present. It was announced that the asso ciation had lost its first member by death, and a silqnt periau me observed as a memorial aa*0‘^. tion in tribute to Richard Waitf Freeman, who died Feb. 5. The association expressed its ap preciation to 12 teen-agers who donated their labor on some e^the association’s projects recently. Re ceiving gift memberships in the society as a token of the associa tion’s thanks were the following: Richard Allan Moore, Larry 4 Lisk, Jerry McDonald Lisk, Sam uel McCullough, Stephen Shelley Prye, Bruce Schwartz, Willard Maxwell Whitley, Robert Henz, Le roy Dennis, Leonard Wayne Holts ford^ Rcoaid^Bay Holtsford, and __ ' G. B. Talbot, director of the US Biological laboratory, Beaufort, announces that James E. Sykes of the laboratory staff is transfer ring to St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., and will be in charge of the US Biological laboratory there. The transfer will become effective about March 1. The laboratory which Mr. Sykes will head will be engaged in the field of oceanography and in de termining the environmental role which estuaries play in furnishing nutrients for the production of ma rine organisms. “Deposition rates and circulatory patterns in estuaries are continual ly being altered by engineering projects such as dredging and fill ing operations,” Mr. Talbot ex plains. The laboratory will be respon sible for developing methods for measuring the effects c.f these changes in environment upon the production of marine plankton, and subsequently upon abundance and distribution of important species of fish. Initial phases of the laboratory research program will be centered in Tampa Bay. Mr. Sykes has served on the staff of the Beaufort Laboratory for more than 12 years. He was a research biologist with the shad in vestigation? until 1955 when he was promoted to the position of chief, Atlantic Coast Striped Bass Investi gations. He and his family have resided in Mansfield Park since 1951 and have been members of the Parkview Baptist Church since its establishment. Mr. Talbot also stated that an other of his program chiefs, Charles H. Walburg, recently transferred tq Yankton, S. D., to head a por tion of the studies now being con ducted on reservoir fisheries there. Mr. Walburg and his family had resided in Morehead City since 195(1. After serving with the shad in vestigations for five years, he was promoted to the position of chief, Shad and Blue Crab Programs. Mr. Talbot stat*! that he is un happy with the loss of these two key men, but realises it is a credit to the. Bfaqfod laboratory an are chosen to fill important posts in other fishery fields. Replacements for the two vacant positions have not yet been ob tained. H. W. Hibbs Honored Fort Hamilton, N. Y.—Sfc. (E6) Hawkins W. Hibbs, right, is con gratulated by Col. John K. Daly, post commander at Fort Hamil ton, Brooklyn, N. Y., after the colonel presented him with a cer tificate of achievement. The son of Mrs. Mattie Hibbs Guthrie, Newport, sergeant Hibbs was $ited for outstanding per formance as platoon sergeant, operations branch, in the Post Motor Pool here. In his citation it wag noted that “Sergeant Hibbs distiaguhC; y'j. mself by accom plishes hit d. ;s in an efficient manner. Htv.fVrked long and arduous hour—./,lervising and day mas the tug, Esso Maryland, which came in to Morehead City at 11:30 p.m. Sunday after experi encing rough seas off Hatteras. The tug was on its maiden voy age, bound for Orange, Texas, where she is to take on a tow of two 250-foot barges. Between Dia mond shoals and the lightship, the tug battled winds of 45 miles an hour and high seas. It expected to leave yesterday afternoon. James E. Sykes ■* —s . . . wins promotion Dr. M. T. Lewis Heads Group Dr. M. T. Lewis was elected chairman of the citizens advisory committee, Beaufort, Thursday night at the town hall. The com mittee was appointed recently by the town board to comply with re quirements under the federally-ad ministered urban renewal program. Other members of the commit tee arc Dr. John Costlow and Otis Mades. Members of the sub-com mittee are Randolph Johnson, Jul ius Davis and Joe Pasteur. * Meeting with the committee were members of the town board and two planning engineers from the state conservation and development department, Durwood Curling and Donald Gordon. Mr. Gordon is now working in Beaufort surveying uses to Which land is put throughout town. The committee is hoping to provide low rental housing units as its first ^ It* viiir* m ect * again'^SWlurclXyT March 3. The Morehead City town board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the municipal building. executing his assignments in the operations branch of the Post Motor Pool . . Entering the Army July 1940 Hibbs served in the European Theater during world war II, was discharged September 1945, and reenlisted February 1948. He had a previous tour in Korea during the conflict. He has ^lso been stationed in Okinawa, Ja pan and Germany. A graduate of Newport high school, Newport, sergeant Hibbs is a member of the Masons, Menora Lodge No. 903, AF&AM. He has departed lor a new as signment in 9:59 I y.m. 10:14 Wednesday, Feb. 14 a.m. p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5:25 a.m. 5:56 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16 6:16 a.m. 12:35 a m. 6:45 p-m. --- Mayor's Vote Breaks Tie At Newport The vote of mayor Leon Mann Jr. was necessary Tuesday night to break a deadlock and force a decision as to whether the town of Newport would adopt the en forcement provision of the town building and windstorm codes. The mayor voted favorably. The deadlock came when town commissioners C. H. Lockey and Raymond Edwards voted in favor of and commissioners Johnny Thrower and Steve Smith against. Commissioner John B. Kelly ab stained. The enforcement provision sets up the sequence in which permits, such as electrical, building and plumbing, must be obtained. This prevents construction or occupancy of any building before the builder has complied with existing codes. The board agreed to ask town attorney George W. Ball to revamp the town's ordinance covering ice cream trucks. A similar ordi nance of the city of Raleigh was recently declared unconstitutional because it lacked safety features. Miss Edith Lockey, town clerk, was asked to write W. C. Radford of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad asking permission for the town to put a water line from the depot west about 3,000 feet beside the tracks. * The board instructed police chief Dan Bell to issue Citations to those motorists who live within the town limits and who do not display a town license tag after Feb. 15. Gordon Cutler, water department clerk, reported that the average water bill last month amounted to $3.05. A balance of $599.08 re mains in the department treasury. Two citizens appeared before the board. One asked the commis sioners to take action on dogs that were annoying him, but the board felt that the owner will take care of the problem. The board promised to investigate the re quest of another citizen that a ditch in west Newport be cleaned out. Uuumissionei Raymond Edwards was authorized to d*t whatever he *gfrn>"W va'i V 'fftly dogfr- in •town. Chamber Raises Cost Question The More he ad City chamber of commerce has raised a question about the amount of money, $2 million, the State Highway com mission says is the maximum that may be spent on the proposed bridge at Morehead City. The chamber says that $2.8 mil lion has been spent on the recent ly-opened Alligator river bridge between Dare and Tyrrell counties, $4 million has been approved for the bridge across Oregon inlet, and $6 million for a bridge at Wilming ton “with an adequate draw.” During the operation of ferries that have been-eliminated by the Alligator river bridge, the cham ber says, 756 cars were transported daily and, at present, 576 cross Oregon inlet daily as compared with 7,000 daily across the present Morehead City bridge. The chamber comments further that Wilmington is now served by a bridge with a draw span for ocean shipping, exclusive of the $6 million,bridge proposed. A. N. Willis Heads City Rescue Unit Morehead City rescue squad elected officers at their meeting Wednesday night. A. N. (Naughty) Willis was elected chief, John Braswell, lieutenant, and John Eaton, secretary-treasurer. The squad expressed its thanks to Warren Beck of Sound Appli ance Co., for the stove he-donated. New members are being sought now. Members must have passed a standard course in first aid, but if anyone is interested and has not had the course, the squad has qualified instructors who will give it. Those interested in joining are asked to call Mr. Willis at PA6 5580 or attend a .Wednesday night meeting at 406 Bridges St. Three Cars Damaged In Accident at Atlantic Three cars were damaged in an accident Saturday night at Atlan tic, according to state tre-ver W. J. Smith Jr., who investigated. According to the ofttcer, Billy Smith, Atlantic, in a 1956 Oldsmo bile, had stopped on the highway to pick someone up. Mrs. Mary Frances Owens, Atlantic, in a 1953 Chevrolet station wagon, stopped behind, then Wayne Parker, in a 1956 Cadillac came up and struck the Chevrolet in the rear. Damage to the Cadillac was esti mated at $500; to the Chevrolet $150 and damage to the Olds was negligible. t Former Speaks at X 1 4-H'ers Present Talent Show Photo by R. M. Williams Harlowe 4-II’ers staged a talent show recently at the community building. Dennis Shrake, left, gives out on the guitar with Big John, and Blair Tolson, right, makes like Benny Goodman on the clarinet. Proceeds went to the 4-H Development fund. Two Days Remain to Get 1962 Town, State Tags Only two days remain to get* town and state auto tags and get! them on your cars, trucks trailers, | and motorcycles! They MUST be on the vehicle by i midnight Wednesday. Stuck at the back window or lying beside you on the front seat of the car won't do, officers warn. Town officials of Beaufort, New port and Morehead City state that immediately after midnight Wf1 •nesdajfffifimw ay*tilWKS amrstTCgr checks will'be made to see that motorists have complied with the law. State troopers will accept no ex cuses after midnight Wednesday. People have had close to six weeks to get their tags. “Judg ment Day,” say law enforcement officers, “is just around the cor ner.” In Beaufort and Morehead City town lags are available at the town hall. ALL town residents must have them. In Newport, they are available at Hibbs and Edwards’ soda shops and at Pollard’s service station. Beaufort Firemen Called; Woman Suffers Attack Beaufort firemen answered a call to a grass fire at Highland Park at 12:05 p.m. Sunday. During the course of the fire, which was at George Piver’s, fire men said Mrs. George Piver suf fered a heart attack. She was taken to the Morehead City hos pital in the Beaufort Rescue ambu lance. The fire caused no damage. Concert Chairman Lists Committee Members Eight persons arc members of' the Carteret Choral club concert committee, announces Mrs. W. R. Hamilton, concert chairman. They are Mrs. Wiley Lewis, Mrs. Gilbert Potter, Mrs. Sammy G. Merrill, Mrs. Earl Lewis, Mrs. Rupert Bon ner, Mrs. Edward C. Sharp, all of Beaufort; Mrs. Russell Outlaw and Mrs. James Webb, both of More head City. Mrs. Hamilton says the commit tee will be enlarged in the future. The committee handles business arrangements for the choral club. The club will present its first con cert at 8 p.m. Monday in the Beau fort school auditorium. Tickets are now on sale. Choral club members are the following; Ruth Bailey, Ethel Buck, Ann Clemmons, Stella Glifton, Barbara Davis, Corinqe Geer, Billy Joyce Guthrie. Lorraine Hatcher, Sara Jones, Paula King, Lila Kirk, Maxine Lynch, Margaret Mann, Barbara McKay. Doris McNeill, Mary June Mer: rill, Elaine Overman, Lois Owens, Becky Stewart, Marie Webb, Annie L. White. Berta F. Willis, Barbara D. Wil lis, Blanche Williams, Alice Wheat ley, Patsy Willis, Jane Yopp. Jean Nance, Zara Pake, Glenda Roberts, Gwen Morning, Frank Carlson, Clyde Congleton, E. W. Downum. Al Hubbard, Jimmy Jarman, i Clerk Reveals Hydrant Sites Future locatiuU of fire hydrants in, the new portions of Beaufort wpie announced yesterday bv £on farl Mason, town cleftC. . aliFE; they will be as folloWl: Front stteet at the Lawrence Rudder home, two on Ann street at the Francis Kirk and William. Longest homes (hydrants will be placed on property lines which will actual ly put them between two houses) Highland and Hancock Park highway 70 and Chestnut Drive Chestnut Drive and North Avenue Second Street and Craven Avenue and First Street and Carteret Avc nue. The order for fire hydrants has been placed with Carolina Water Co., with whom the responsibility now rests for getting the hydrants in. A later calculation on the town’s population increase puts it at 606, instead of 500, Mr. Mason remark ed. This is based on figures used by the US Bureau of Census, 3.5 persons per household. One hundred fifty tons of rock have been ordered by the town for paving Craven Avenue in High land Park. Letters have been mailed to new citizens, welcoming them to the town and informing them of garbage collection proce dure, Mr. Mason said. » Robert McHardy, Ralph Lowri morc, Sal Palazzo, Maurice Peter son, Hugh Porter. Ed Swann, Reginald Styron, Carl Tilghman, Cliff Tilghman, Edward Willis, Earl Willis, Tommy Willis, Joe King. Light Snow Falls Early Yesterday Old Man Winter scattered a hom iny snow lightly over parts of the county early yesterday morning. The snow didn’t last long. But the beach bridge was icy and highway crews scattered sand on it. Other bridges were not iced over, accord irig to J. L. Humphrey, county road superintendent. The temperature dropped to 23 degrees Saturday night, causing some water pumps to freeze. . Very. light rainfall, was recorded by E. Stamey Davis, weather ob server, Thursday and Friday. Temperature and wind directions from Thursday through Sunday fol low: High Low Wind Thursday .47 34 N Friday .. 54 35 SW Saturday .#1 36 NE Sunday —..40 23 NW .—. More Republicans Needed In East, Speaker Says Julian Gaskill, Goldsboro, a former US district attorney, told more than a hundred listeners at the Republican con vention Tuesday night at the courthouse that the Repub lican party’s stumbling block is eastern North Carolina. Mr. Gaskill, a native of Sea Level, was introduced by. C. R. Wheatly Jr. . Following election of executive committee members and officers, the convention recessed^ until Saturday night, April 7,, when it will reconvene at the courthouse to nominate candidates for the May primary; The speaker said that North Car olina is on the verge of becoming a Republican state. He cited the Republican vote in the Piedmont and western part of the state and remarked, “If we could have add ed a hundred votes on the average in each of 44 eastern counties we would have a governor at Raleigh and a President at Washington.” Mr. Gaskill said he did not in tend to lambast the Democrats but felt that Republicans ought to con centrate on correcting their defi ciencies. This means for ope thing, he said, getting Republicans to regis ter as Republicans, because if they aren’t registered as Republican they cannot be a candidate. The Republicans need good candidates and have to “get up and at the Democrats” in the cast, he de clared. Mr. Gaskill said it would be “awful” to live in eastern Carolina if a Republican had done what the present administration has done ... a President appointing Little Brother as attorney general, then sending Him off on a world tour ... the President deciding to create a new cabinet post then stating who he was going to put in as head of the new department. “Why the News and Observer would be noth ing but headlines!” the speaker [declared. I (The News and Observer is d Raleigh newspaper espousing the cause of Democrats and liberals.) Mr. Gaskill observed that there has been air amazing change in pre-campaign and post campaign statements by the Democrats. “During the campaign 1 was ‘amazed’ to learn that this country didn't even have a pop-gun to de fend itself, no planes, nothing — and in less than a year we had gotten in wonderful shape,” Mr. Gaskill said. He remarked that the change was as sudden as the tale about a dog that Frank Fulcher, a Car teret seaman, used to tell. He was on a barkentine rounding Cape Horn and the weather was beauti ful until they rounded the Horn, and in less time than it takes to tell a little dog aboard ship dropped dead. He had died of sun stroke of the head and frostbite of the tail! Mr. Wheatly, in introducing Mr. Gaskill, remarked that the Repub licans are launching a campaign that will feature good candidates and one that will bring to light “the things necessary in good gov ernment.” The convention observed a mo ment of silence in honor of the late A. L. Wilson, prominent Republi can, who had attended every Re publican national convention since 1912. 1. D. Gillikin, who declared that there should be a change in every See CONVENTION, Page 4 Queen, King Will Be Crowned at Bridge Benefit Carteret county’s King and Queen*1 of Hearts will be chosen in a con test now going on. They will be crowned at a benefit bridge party Wednesday, Feb. 21 at the More head City country club, announces Mrs. Rufus Butner, special events chairman for Heart month. Children between the ages of 3 and 5 are eligible for the title. Vot ing will be done at containers to be placed in downtown Morehead City. Ballots wHl be counted Feb. 20. The ones with the most votes win. Ballots arc 5 cents each. The bridge benefit will begin at 8 p.m. and dessert will be served. Tickets arc $1 each and may be purchased from Mrs. Roma Styron, PA6-4223. Mrs. Butner, PA6-5779, or Mrs. E. L. Faucette, PA8-4017. They will be on sale at various places in the county also. Mrs Butner announces that there will be many prizes, donated by mer chants. Meeting Postponed Because of flu, the Atlantic Beach town hoard meeting, scheduled for Friday morning, was postponed. Cars Smashed, Marines Hurt In Bridge Crash Two cars were smashed beyond repair at 11:30 p.m. Friday on the Atlantic Beach bridge. Injured were a group of Marines, four of whom were taken to Morehead City hospital by Bell-Munden ambu lance and then transferred to Cher ry Point. injured were David Bulger, Frank Falby, James P. Shannon, Peter Brown and Lamar Beres, all of Cherry Point. State trooper W. J. Smith, who investigated, said traffic was halted on the bridge for an hour while the mess was straightened out. He said the trouble started when Victor Wickizer Jr., Morehead City, had two flat tires about two hun dred yards north of the draw span. A friend in a car stopped behind him to help, then another friend pulled alongside the Wickizer car in the wrong lane, to offer help also. Meanwhile, Bulger and his friends in a 1953 Chevrolet came from the beach, saw the conges tion and tried to stop. The car spun around,, hjl thg„ left fide of ^ the bridge anabfew a tire. Bulger then went back toward the bridge and stopped on the drawspan to fix his tire. A 1956 Ford, driven by Falby, coming from the beach, then struck the Chevrolet. Falby was charged with driving drunk and speeding. Neither the Wickizer car nor the two cars that stopped to help Wickizer, were damaged. Farm Meeting Set for Today j Carteret citizens with an interest in agriculture will meet with of ficials from North Carolina State college in New Bern this afternoon. Agricultural agent R. M. Wil liams says the meeting will be part of a series of similar meetings across North Carolina in the next two months. Invited to the meeting are farm, business and legislative leaders, members of extension advisory boards, representatives of agricul tural agencies, vocational agricul tural teachers and their students, and other people interested in agri culture or State College. It will be' for people in Onslow, Jones, Craven, Carteret and Pamli co counties, starting at 2 p.m. in the opera room, Maola Milk & Ice Cream Co. off Co Novella, Coast Guardsmen from con met a United Stater marine, Trumpet Fish, buoy Saturday morning moved a crewman, John EM2. The 40-footer * " con at 6:50 Hahn’s gia and the submarine stoppei the sea buoy to let him “ emergency ‘ leave. The Guardsmen took him to City and put him on a bus. Aboard the Quinn, EN3; Snipes. SN.