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MOREHEAD CltY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1962
pMjsBED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Red Cross Says Best Way to Help
Dare is Give to Local Red Cross
Persons who would like to help
their neighbors on northern beach
es who are still slogging through
after-effects of last week’s storm,
can best dp so by contributing to
the Carteret Red Cross chapter,
Lem Davis, Red Cross field repre
sentative, told THE NEWS-TIMES
Wednesday.
Mr. Davis stopped in Morehead
City on his way back from a six
day tour of the disaster area.
The section hardest hit, Mr.
Davis said, is between Nags Head
and South Shores, a point slightly
south of Duck in Dare county.
By the middle of this week,
Colington, a village that sits out
on a peninsula west of Kill Devil
Hills, was still getting food and
supplied by amphibious Army
trucks.
Mr. Davis said people who may
be planning to visit Dare county
this weekend to view the damage
will not be permitted in the disas
ter area, even though they may
have relatives there.
“No lives have been lost and no
one is injured,” Mr. Davis said.
“Everyone is being cared for. If
people want to know about rela
Becau.se of damage to connect
ing ferry links north of Ocracoke,
the ferry Sea Level, during the
present emergency, will leave
Ocracoke at 8 a.m. and Atlantic
at 2 p.m. This is the reverse
of the former schedule. The an
nouncement was made yesterday
by Ira Blackwell, state ferry
supervisor.
lives or friends, they are invited
to make inquiry through the Red
Craps by contacting Garland
Scruggs, Morehead City, local
chapter chairman.”
Rwjd blocks are being, manned'
by .the National Guard and high
way patrol. Only property owners
are permitted in the devastated
area and they go in under police
supervision, Mr. Davis reported.
Water continues to be a tremen
dous problem. At Red Cross re
quest, Maola Milk Co. bottled wa
ter in 2,000 half-gallon containers
for shipment into the Kill Devil
Hills area, Mr. Davis reported.
The Red Cross has set up a quar
ter of a million dollar budget to
help the Dare county people.
“Some lost their homes, cars,
everything,” Mr. Davis said.
“Many escaped only with the
clothes on their backs. Some had
to be taken out by helicopter.”
Fishermen lost nets and suffer
ed boat damage.
The Red Cross estimates that
200 buildings—homes, motels, and
other major structures—were total
ly destroyed. Cottage owners suf
fered terrific loss. The Carolinian
hotel at Nags Head suffered sand
and water damage.
The storm washed out the ferry
landings at Oregon inlet and a
ferry is operating on an emergency
basis between Engelhard and Hat
teras. (Further information on the
ferries appears in a story from
Ocracoke in the second section of
today’s paper.)
The Red Cross has set up head
quarters at Manteo and has 16
national staff workers there. One
hundred fifty local volunteers are
also at work.
Four hundred sixty-four people
are being served daily by Red
Cross canteens. Two mobile can
teens are travelling the disaster
area and a permanent canteen has
been set up at the Shrine club
building at Whalebone.
Marine, Coast Guard and Navy
helicopters are still on the job,
dropping food and fuel to isolated
inhabitants. Two Army ducks sank
while trying to maneuver washed
out areas and one turned over, but
people aboard were rescued.
Damage along the southern outer
banks from Hatteras south was
minor. It is estimated by the
National Park Service that a mil
lion and a quarter dollars will be
needed to repair the Hatteras Na
tional geashore park damage.
Hie northeast storm hit on
March 1, Ash Wednesday, and built
to fever pitch the morning of
Thursday, March 8. It moved in
without warning and has caused
more damage along the New Jer
sey, Virginia and North Carolina
beaches than any hurricane in re
cent years.
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Huntley’s Hardware, Beaufort,
has purchased the building on
Front street, Beaufort, formerly
occupied by Carteret Hardware,
and William Barts, Atlantic Beach,
has purchased from Jack Kincaid,
Charlotte, the Kincaid motel, At
lantic Beach. George Huntley Jr.
said his firm hfts no immediate
plans for use of the former hard
ware store building.
Highway Commission Will
Go for Ocean Draw Span
Ralph Thomas to Seek
Nomination for Sheriff
Ralph Thomas, Beaufort, former
county veterans administration of
ficer, will run for nomination as
sheriff on the Democratic ticket
in the May primary. Mr. Thomas
filed yesterday.
He is 46 years of age and mar
ried to the former Louise Guthrie
of Beaufort. They have two chil
dren, Judy 14, and Ralph Jr., 12.
Mr. Thomas opened the county
office for veterans affairs in the
fall of 1945, after approval by the
county board of commissioners and
after completing a course in vet
erans administration affairs at the
University of North Carolina.
He served in that capacity until
June 1946, when he resigned and
went to Ontario, Canada, where
he was engaged in the tobacco
business for 12 years. He return
ed to Beaufort and in 1957 started
a beef cattle project in which he
is now engaged in the North River
area.
Mr. Thomas served with the 8th
Infantry Regiipent, 4th Infantry
Division in the second, world war,
In the European theater of operas
tions. He left the service at the
end of the war with the rank of
major. He holds the silver star,
bronze star, purple heart, combat
infantryman's badge, presidential
unit citation, bronze arrow head
and four campaign stars.
The candidate for sheriff attend
ed Oak Ridge Military institute for
four years where he received his
.commission in the officer’s reserve
corps, and he attended the Univer
sity of Tennessee for one year.
He is a member of Ann Street
Methodist church, Beaufort, and a
Sunday School teacher, a member
of the VFW post, American Legion
post and a former member of the
Beaufort Rotary club. He is the
son of the late Charles Thomas,
state highway employee for many
years. *
Mr. Thomas wishes to thank and
to express his appreciation to the
many people throughout the county
who are interested in his candi
dacy for the sheriff’s office and
who have offered him their sup
port.
Teacher Plays Female Lead
In New Theatre Comedy
Lillian F. Giddens, right, who (lays the “lingery (lingerie) lady”
in the comedy, The Egg and I, displays some of her merchandise to
cast members. They are Jackie Joyner, Leroy Lewis, Kay Canipe,
and trying on the slip is Jnlia Herndon, who plays opposite Robert
Julia Herndon, primary teacher
at Morehead City school, plays the
lead in the two-act comedy, The
Egg and I, which will be produced
by the Carteret Community theatre
Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Curtain time is 8 p.m. in the
recreation building on Shepard
street, between 15th and 16th,
Morehead City.
Ralph Thomas
... flies for office
Drivers Cited
After Accident
Two drivers were cited after an
accident in Morehead City at 10:30
p.m. Wednesday. They were James
F. Settle Jr. and Gerald A. Jones,
both of Morehead City.
Settle was cited with failing to
yield the right-of-way and Jones
with failure to keep a proper look
out.
Lt. Bill Condie, investigating of
ficer, said Settle, driving a 1954
Pontiac, was pulling off the un
paved portion of Arendell street
next to the railroad tracks when
he was hit on the right rear fen
der by Jones, who was driving a
1956 Dodge. Both cars were going
east on Arendell.
Damage to the Settle car was
about $150 and to the other car’s
left front fender, about $250.
Income taxes will be due in four
weeks.
Playing opposite Miss Herndon,
who plays the role portrayed by
Claudette Colbert, in the movie, is
Robert Wood, Morehead City. The
plait revolves about The MacDonald
couple and their hilarious experi
ences on a chicken ranch in the
state of Washinj^on.
See PLAY, Page 2
SPA to Locate Channel,
Recommend Type of Span
An ocean draw span, workable as
soon as it is completed, is the plan
the State Highway commission pre
fers for a bridge across Newport
river at Morehead City, rather
than moving the bridge north.
To do this would cost a million
dollars above cost of the bridge it
self, according to state highway
commissioner D. G. Bell, More
head City. The highway commis
sion considered the bridge prob
lem at Raleigh yesterday.
To put in an ocean span would
require determination of where the
channel for ocean-going ships,
north of the bridge, would be lo
cated.
The highway commission has
asked the State Ports Authority to
determine where this channel
would be and recommend to the
commission the location for the
draw span and what type of span
it should be.
Commissioner Bell proposed that
if the State Ports Authority finds
that a draw span is noj feasible,
the bridge question would be re
opened. This motion, following the
approval Of the draw* span pro
posal, was defeated by an eight to
seven vote.
Mr, Bell said that each of the
commissioners who voted against
the motion assured him after the
meeting that if the draw span plan
doesn’t work, they will vote to re
open the bridge question.
Commissioner Bell commented,
“I'm not satisfied this is the best
solution, but Southern Railway,
during early hearings on this
bridge situation is on record as
saying that if an ocean span is in
the' bridge, that would be satisfac
tory to them.
“Morehead City interests are also
on record as stating that if port de
velopment is not hindered, a draw
span would suit them. Therefore,
if an ocean draw meets the require
ments of the State Ports Author
ity, 1 feel that this is a workable
solution.”
Asked if this meant that the span
would have machinery for opera
tion in it when the bridge is com
pleted, Mr. Bell said, “Yes — span,
guts, feathers and all.” (A former
plan proposed draw span but ma
chinery later.)
Morehead City interests and Mr.
Bell have been plugging for a
bridge at least 1,200 feet farther
north of the present bridge, which
would utilize Marsh island and
make available more land and
berthing space for ships.
The State Ports Authority has al
ready stated that land north of the
bridge is most desirable and neces
sary for Morehead City state port
expansion.
Mr. Bell said his motion, that
failed by one vote, was made for
the sole purpose of protecting fu
ture port interests, should the draw
span plan not be found feasible by
the SPA. “I think its defeat," he
added, “was due to a misunder
standing.”
He added, “The highway com
mission doesn’t want to bottle up
the port. But we are bucking a
few who do not want to back down
on their decision as to bridge lo
cation.”
A motion by state highway com
missioner James G. W. MacLam
roc, Greensboro, proposing that a
study be made on northerly loca
tion of the bridge as well as on the
feasibility of a tunnel, failed.
Wildlife Protector
Receives Promotion
Reuben Crumpton, state wildlife
protector in this area, has been
promoted to wildlife patrolman.
Mr. Crumpton will now serve in
a supervisory capacity qver several
eastern... counties, including Car
teret. He will continue to make his
home in Morehead City.
The Jaycee talent-variety .show
which was scheduled for Friday
March 2, in Morehead City, and
was postponed, has been postponed
indefinitely, announces Richard
Spears, Jaycee vice-president.
Billy Graham Will
Speak at Lejeune
Billy Graham, North Carolina
evangelist who has gained world
wide fame, will speak at 3 p.m.
Sunday in the football stadium
at Camp Lejeune* He is expect- j
ed to attract a large crowd.
Buses are being chartered in
Beaufort and anyone who doesn’t
have transportation is invited to
phone Mrs. E. L. Davis, PA8
4282.
Grady Wilson, associate evan
gelist, will be present. Song di
rector will be Cliff Barrow and |
soloist, Beverly Shea.
Mr. Graham spoke Tuesday
night in Reynolds coliseum, Ra
leigh, at the University of North
Carolina Thursday, and will be
at Wake Forest college Wednes
day through Friday of next week.
Hew Yorker
Presents Gifts
Mrs. E. A. Council, librarian of
the Earle W. Webb Memorial li
brary, Morehead City, announces
that Guillermo de la Guardia of
New York has presented to the li
brary a set of Encyclopaedia Bri
tannica consisting of twenty-four
volumes, sixteen issues of Daeda
lus and ten issues of Yeshiva Uni
versity’s Journal “Scripta Mathc
matica.”
Also presented by Mr. de la
Guardia arc a number of beauti
ful prints for framing. They con
sist of Currier and Ives’ Four Sea
sons of an American Homestead,
eighteen prints of the best loved
birds by Audubon and six large
prints Birds of the World by Ar
thur Singer.
The entire collection will be fram
ed, adding to the attractiveness of
the library’s walls.
The generous gift of Mr. de la
Guardia and interest in the library
is through his friendship with
Earle W. Webb, founder of the
Webb Memorial which embraces
the civic center and the Earle W.
Webb Jr. Memorial Library.
Robert Lee Humber Says Continuous
Peace Record Will Discourage War
“II we can remain in a state of
peace for a reasonable length of
time, there is a chance that there
will be no World War III,” Robert
Lee Humber, head of the World
Federation movement, stated at
the federation’s annual meeting
Tuesday night.
The World Federation, founded
in Carteret in December 1940 on
Davis Island, marked its 21st an
niversary Tuesday of the state’s
endorsement of federation goals.
Speaking in the First Baptist
church fellowship hall, Beaufort,
to several original members of the
group and others, Mr. Humber re
called that John D. Larkin, Tren
ton, introduced the resolution in
the Senate and H. S. Gibbs, More
head City, introduced it in the
House in 1941. The resolution was
the first endorsement of the fed
eration’s goal of world law, citizen
ship and peace by any govern
mental body, Mr. Humber said.
Mr. Humber told the meeting
that the world had been revolution
ized since 1940, and that the fed
eration sought not a rupture with
the past, but a transition into the
future. He recalled that the Unit
ed States and Russia were the
only two nations at the UN to balk
at the time of the formation of
the UN. '
One principle has been the mak
ing of the United States, Mr. Hum
Court Reaffirms
\%\ Judgment
• Insurance Firm
Ordered to Pay $500
• Civil Term Will
Continue Next Week
A judgment of April 24, 1961 was
i reaffirmed in civil court, Beaufort,
♦his week in the suit, Mallory Sales
vs. R. Jack Shafer, trading as
Shafer Sign Co.
Counsel for the sign company
moved to set aside the 1961 judg
ment. That was denied. There
I upon, notice of appeal to the su
preme court was given and bond
for the defendant set at $200.
Odell L. Morton, complainant
against the Blue Ridge Insurance
Co., was awarded $500 and the in
surance company was ordered to
pay court costs.
Ordered struck from the record
was further answer in the suit,
J. B. and Virginia T. Elkins vs.
Laurence Vickers and Morehead
Biltmorc Hotel Co. Motion to
strike was made by counsel for
the Elkins.
A total of $1,000 damages was
awarded in the case, H. T. Carra
way vs. Jack T. Taylor Jr. The
jury found that Taylor had assault
ed Carraway and assessed Taylor
with $500 compensatory damages
and $500 punitive damages.
Divorces granted since Monday
noon were to Nina Grace and
James F. Wooten, and Elmer Je
| rome Garner vs. Minnie Smith
1 Garner. In the Smith suit, Garner
i agreed to pay $10 weekly for the
support of his wife.
In the suit Elmer Gillikin vs.
Thelbert Gillikin, the jury found
that Thelbert had agreed to sell
Elmer land for $500 and Elmer re
mitted $500 to Thelbert in payment,
but Thelbert then failed to convey
the land. The jury ruled that El
mer was entitled to recover his
$500.
Iri a judgment by A. II. James,
clerk of court, action in suits, Tim
othy M. Brite and Ida R. Brite vs.
James Walter Young, was dismiss
ed Differences were compromised
atid settlements made. Costs Were
paid by Young. The suit arose
from an auto accident May 23,
1960.
The second week of civil court
will begin Monday with judge Jo
seph Parker presiding.
Serving this week on juries were
the following: Vernon G. Fulcher,
Allen Howard Garner, Charles
Norwood Fulcher, Hubert Clifton
Arthur, Harry Lane Willis.
Lloyd N. Pigott, J. Dewey Wil
lis, Fred Morris, W. B. Smith, Jo
seph Higham Jr., Chester Dunkle,
Emill Taylor, Ivey Gaskill.
N. W. Day, Arlie Robert Nelson,
Junius T. Creech Jr., J. C. Har
desty, Clarence Lewis, Elmer B.
Dudley, Gordon C. Willis Jr.
C. W. Taylor, Aulbert Mason,
B. F. Copeland, Guion Chadwick,
Thomas C. Avery, William Loftin,
Alton B. Wade.
Miss Melba W. Willis, Walter
Crushchiel, E. P. Gooding, John
S. Bell, Peter C. Beam, Mrs. Guion
Chadwick, George Howard, Ply
mouth Willis, Earl Daniels, Charles
H. Russell, and L. H. Hardy Sr.
ber declared, the creation of new
states, not the extension of the old.
“The fact that the original states
never sought dominance or a veto,”
Mr. Humber stated, “shows the
principle of faith and confidence
in fellow man.”
The struggle today is for a mas
tery of minds, not conquest, and
in these turbulent times, the wisest
method of raising the standard of
living and aiding a nation to com
bat communism is the main prob
lem, Mr. Humber told the group.
“The test of leadership is not pow
er but responsibility.”
“Communism is plain unadulter
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, March 16
4:56 a.m.
5:32 p.m.
11:20 a.m.
11:36 p.m.
Saturday, March 17
5:49 a.m.
6:21 p.m.
12:07 a.m.
Sunday, March 18
6:35 a.m.
7:03 p.m.
12:23 a.m.
12:51 p.m.
. Monday, March 19
7:16 a.m.
7:24 p.m.
1:07 a.m.
1:32 p.m.
Tuesday, March 20
7:54 a.m.
8:17 p.m.
1:49 a.m.
2:11 p.m.
Morehead City Resident
Will Oppose Henderson
S. A. Chalk Jr., Morehead City, will oppose congress
man David N. Henderson in the Democratic primary for
nomination as congressman from the third congressional
district of North Carolina.
Mr. Chalk announced his
line for filing for the office <
S. A. Chalk Jr.
files for office
Planning Board
Backs County
Building Code
The County Planning commission
voted a unanimous request that the
building codes be more rigidly en
forced at its Monday night meet
ing. Kern Church of the North
Carolina Insurance cotomi6ston met
with the planners and offered con
structive suggestions which will
make enforcement more effective.
His principal recommendation
was that prospective builders bring
their plans,\ Specifications, Oth
er available information when seek
ing a building permit from Har
rell Taylor, county building in*
spcctor.
This will give Mr. Taylor the
opportunity to review the plans
and make suggestions which would
assure compliance, he said.
The planning group urged that
the tying together of the poured
foundation with the roof by means
of reinforcing rods be strictly en
forced as the windstorm resistance
code requires. This strengthening
of the outer perimeter of a build
ing or residence was stressed as
being of great importance.
The planning commission signed
a petition presented by J. W. Young
of Stella requesting the Army Corps
of Engineers to clean and dredge
White Oak river and certain of its
tributaries.
Present at the meeting were the
following members of the planning
commission: Dr. L. J. Dupree,
Mrs. E. H. Piper, Milton Coyle,
C. H. Lockey, Dr. W. L. Woodard
and W. C.' Carlton, also Philip Ball,
A. D. Fulford, R, M. Williams,
Maynard Owens, B. J. May, Mr.
Taylor, and David Warrick.
D. S. Gordon and Jerry Turner
of the Division of Community Plan
ning attended.
ated anarchy,” Mr. Humber said,
“we are living in the most crucial
hours of history, the potential of
war is very close.”
Mr. Humber cited the European
Common Market as a leading ex
ample of the possibility of a future
United States of Europe. Winston
Churchill said that “Europe must
unite or die,” Mr. Humber declar
ed, and told how Europe had form
ed an international group to utilize
atomic power for peaceful uses.
Europe is forming a parliament,
with delegates elected by the na
tions on a basis of political, not
national identity. The common
market group is nearly the size of
the United States in population
now, Mr. Humber said, and it is
highly likely to surpass that mark
in the near future. The parliament
could be a bulwark against com
munism.
“Something is seriously at
stake,” Dr. Humber remarked in
closing, “It is.our heritage of Free
dom.” ,
Twenty-five persons were pres
ent. Coffee was served at the Con
clusion of Mr. Humber’s talk.
Typhoid shots will be given pu
pils at Atlantic school today. Given
at. Queert Street school Tuesday
were 656 shots. The clinics are
conducted by the county health de
partment. "* ' '
candidacy yesterday. Dead
>f congressman is noon today.
(This deadline differs from the fil
ing for local candidates, which is
April 13.)
Mr. Chalk said, in announcing his
candidacy, “We are losing our free
doms by following the present
I trend of government. The incum
i bent (Mr. Henderson) is voting for
some policies that are bound to
cause even further trouble. .
'“He claims he’s conservative, but
his voting records do not bear this
i out; I hope that all persons with
the same convictions as mine will
support me in the coming pri
mary.’’
The third congressional district
embraces ten counties.. Since the
vote in 1960, Harnett has been add
ed to the district. The other coun
ties are Carteret, Craven, Duplin,
Jones, OnsloW) Pamlico, Pender,
Sampson and Wayne.
Running for Congress in 1960,
after Graham Barden stepped
down, were Robert L. Stallings Jr.,
David Henderson, James O. Simp
I ;ins, David J. Rose and Mr. Chalk,
j Mr. Chalk polled 1,177 votes but
j did not conduct a campaign.
He intends to be more active in
campaigning this year. As of yes
terday, Mr. Henderson was the
only candidate who had filed for
the office.
Mr. Chalk is 47 years old, a na
tive of Morehead City’ and a grad
uate of Duke university, class of
1935. He was appointed to the coun
; ty board of commissioners in 1955
| and was re-elected for a four-year
I term in 1958.
i His running for Congress pre
i vents his seeking re-election to the
county board of commissioners.
Mr. Chalk is a past president of
the North Carolina Association of
Mutual Insurance Agents, past
president of the greater Morehead
City chamber of commerce; past
president of the Morehead City
Parent-Teacher association, past
chairman of the board of stewards
of the First Methodist church,
Morehead City, and past president
of Morehead City Jaycees.
A veteran of world war II, Mr.
Chalk owns and manages the Mu
tual Insurance agency in Morehead
City. •
He is married to the former
Katherine Heffner, Spartanburg, S.
C. They have three children,
Kathy, a sophomore at Salem col
lege; Skinner III, who is 16, and
John, 13.
Mr. Chalk is serving this week
on the federal jury at New Bern.
W. H. Singleton
fits SHU Cash
A More head City resident was
singled out in presentation of spe
cial awards to civilian and mili
tary personnel at the Marine Air
station at Cherry Point.
Receiving a cash award of $200
for superior achievement was Wil
liam H. Singleton, Morehead City.
Mr. Singleton is employed by the
comptroller department at the sta
tion.
A number of other county resi
dents received awards, all for 20
years of service, except Theodore
R. Willis, Davis, who got an award
for 30 years of service.
Receiving 20-year awards were
Harold V. Collins, Kemp B. Arthur,
Haywood W. McBride .and Lesta
N. Willis, all of Morehead City;
Edmond T. Nelson. Lloyd Midgett,
John F. Longest, Albert A. Pokrzy
wa and Raymond A. Taylor, all of
Beaufort; John C. Mann, Marvin
E. Spencer Jr., Newport; and Levy
B. Ingram, Harkers Island.
Brig. Gen. Frank C. Tharin, sta
tion commander, presented the
awards Thursday, March 8 in an
informal ceremony at the station.
Sheriff's Men
Locate Tractor
A Nello Teer tractor, reported
stolen yesterday morning to the
sheriffs department, was recover
ed in half an hour.
Sheriff Robert Bell said the trac
tor was left Wednesday night at
the entrance to Mansfield Park
way, Morehead City. When its op
erator turned up Thursday morn
ing, it was gone.
The disappearance was reported
to the sheriff at 7 a.m. The sheriffs
department got to work and located
the tractor at the Biltmore hotel,
deFiord, operator, was Dtct in poa*
session by 7:30.