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■ ALL WHO READ - READ THE NEWS-TIMES 61st YEAR, NO. 25. EIGHT PAGBS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1962 Morehead City Revises Plan On Vote for Armory Funds Seashore Road Group Will Meet April 9 • Erosion of Coastal Area to be Discussed • State Officials Will Attend Session Immediate action on restoration of the Outer Banks is the goal of a meeting to be held here April 9 by the All Seashore Highway as sociation. Representatives of the Army Corps of Engineers, the state department of conservation and development, department of water resources, state highway de partment, state ports authority, wildlife resources department and the governor have been invited to attend. The meeting will be held at the Rex restaurant, Morehead City, at 12:30 p.m. “The effect of hurricanes over the past several years and gradual erosion has breached the Outer Banks and reduced their effective ness as a barrier. The banks keep ocean tides from reaching the coastal mainland, and greatly re duce tides in the sounds along the coast. If the banks were removed, a Very large portion of the coast would be subject to salt water flooding with normal tides and more with higher seasonal tides,” Joe DuBois, secretary of the as sociation, says. The area that could be affected is roughly one fourth of the state, holding over a half million people, according to the secretary. Four Injured In Three Wrecks During Weekend State trooper W. J. Smith in vestigated three automobile acci dents over the weekend. Four per sons were injured. Two drivers were issued citations and the third accident is still being investigated. At 9:50 p.m. Saturday trooper Smith went to an accident on high way 70 between Sea Level and Stacy. Charlie Thomas Gillikin, Atlantic, was driving his 1962 Mer cury station wagon west when he lost control on a curve and turned over, the officer said. Gillikin suffered cuts and bruises and was taken to Sea Level hos pital by passing motorists. His car was a total loss. He was charg ed with driving on the wrong side of the road. A 1956 Chevrolet owned by Carlie Locklear was wrecked about mid night Saturday night on the Mer rimon road just south of Oscar Pittman’s store. Trooper Smith said the driver apparently lost control of the car and turned over. Damage was estimated at $300. Investigation is continuing. At 2 a.m. yesterday a 1955 Buick was demolished on highway 101 at the Harlowe Methodist church. The trooper said Ruben Mason, route 1 Morehead City, was going south on highway 101 in a heavy rain, attempted to pass a car, skid ded and hit the ditch on the right side of the road, tearing up a re taining wall around the church cetnetery. Six persona were in the car. Ed ward Earl Pickett suffered a cut over his eye and a shoulder injury, Macel Reaves suffered cuts on the head and James L. Stocks suffered a shoulder injury and cuts. All are from Morehehd City. Thd oth er passengers were not injured. Ilason was charged with driving too fast for existing conditions. The county and the state will join in the observance of National Library Week April 8-14, announces Mrs. J. O. Barbour Jr., Beaufort, chairman of the county library board. Tide Table ■USB at the Beaufort Bar LOW Tuesday, March 27 12:02 a.m. 5:42 a.m. _:___ 5:39 p.m. Wednesday, March 2$ 12:24 a.m. «:« a.m. 12:59 p.m. 6:37 p.m. Thursday, March 29 1:24 a.m. . 8:30 a.m. 2:06 p.m. 8:35 p.m. Friday, March 39 a.m. 9:43 a.m. .fm m* 1 After conferences with the Local-* Government commission, it ap pears that the referendum on bor rowing armory funds cannot be held until Saturday, May 19, ac cording to George McNeill, town attorney for Morehead City. The Morehead City town board last week had set Saturday, April 28, as the date when people would go to the polls to decide whether they wanted to borrow money for an armory. The board met in special session yesterday morning to revamp its armory program. A formal statement on the need for revision was issued by mayor George Dill and Mr. McNeill. It follows: “It was thought, originally, that the offer of bonds, assuming a fav orable vote of the people, could be made through local channels, banks, savings and loan associa tions and private purcnasers, with out the necessity of a formal bond opinion by bond counsel as to the validity of the bonds, the election, and the variotis steps required in legally providing for the issuance of bonds. “After full conference with the officials of the Local Government Commission on Thursday, March 22, 1962, and upon being advised that the marketability of the bonds might be affected without such bond opinion, the City of More head immediately secured the ser vices of Mitchell, Pershing, Shet terly and Mitchell, New York City bond attorneys and recognized au thorities on such matters (whose opinion is accepted by all bond buyers), who will supervise the various steps incident to the bond election and issuance of bonds. The first of such steps, prepared by the bond attorneys, appears in this issue of the Carteret County News Times, in the legal section. “With the change herein noted, it is considered that the date for the bond election will be advanced to May 19, 1962, but other and further announcements will appear in subsequent issues of this paper, so that the electors will be accord ed every opportunity W register and vote.” Dates of registration for new voters, announced Friday, are no longer in effect. New registration dates will be set. Mayor Dill said that there is a possibility that the board of conser vation and development may sell some of its property at Camp Glenn. The area available, he said, is about six acres north of Aren dell street and south of Bridges, between the house that now stands on the property and the road that connects Arendell and Bridges. Part of the site is now used by Lit tle League ball players. Mayor Dill said that Maj. Gen. Claude T. Bowers, adjutant gen See ARMORY, Page 2 Club Conducts Roadblock Mrs. Wade Pelletier, left, chairman of the Junior Woman’s chib roadblock committee, receives 'a donation from a motorist in Sun day’s effort to raise funds for the Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Members of the Morehead City ' Junior Woman’s club, sponsors of this year’s Easter Seal cam paign, conducted two roadblocks between 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday. They were assisted by members of the Morehead City chapter, Future Homemakers of America, and their advisor, Mrs. L. G. Dunn. Over $300 was collected, according to Mrs. Wade Pelletier. Mrs. Pelletier was chairman of the roadblock committee. Cars were stopped on the Morehead City-Beaufort causeway and on highway 70 west of Morehead City. Other events planned by the club include friendship bridge parties, a door-to-door campaign, and lily day. Letters have been mailed and coin containers placed throughout the county. Mail contributions so far total ||53.73, . -3 Dr. J. W. Morris Speaks Friday To Surgeons Dr. John W. Morris, Morehead City, spoke Friday to the North Carolina chapter of the American College of Surgeons at Raleigh. Dr. Morris is chairman of a com mittee engaged in a program of improving conditions for transpor tation of the injured from scenes of wrecks. The program has included a se ries of four demonstrations over the State for ambulance attendants and operators, highway patrolmen, police, members of rescue squads and others; a school for ambulance attendants at the Institute of Gov ernment in Chapel Hill, and prep arations of an illustrated brochure for distribution to ambulance at ■ \ . ... . Jkdk 1 . . Dr. John W. Morris . . . committee chairman tendants, officers and others con cerned with transportation of the injured. Dr. Morris pointed to the report of a recent nationwide survey which said ambulances should be regulated by the same traffic laws as other vehicles. He added “speed is seldom, if ever, a factor in the preservation of life” and “the excessive speed of ambulances has been shown to result in more traffic deaths than lives saved.” Dr. Morris said that “emergency medical care should be carried out at the scene of the accident suf ficient to permit the safe transpor tation of the injured to the medical facilities by the personnel of the casualty-carrying vehicles, assist ed as necessary by police or fire men.” He pointed out that for this prop erly equipped ambulances and ade quately trained personnel are need ed. The surgeons met at the Sir Wal ter hotel. ►---— ESC Office Tests High School Pupils General aptitude testing is now under way in county high schools, conducted by the Employment Se curity commission, according to Mrs. 4ulia Tenney, manager of the Morehead City office of the com mission. The test batteries are designed for students who do not plan to go to college. They test for aptitude in over 500 jobs in 23 fields. After testing, counseling in work choice is carried on by the commission. Morehead City and Beaufort high schools have completed testing along with Smyrna and Atlantic, which began testing Wednesday. Testing will begin at Newport high school shortly, Mrs. Tenney Cruise Line Representatives Make Plans for May Sailings from Here WW Mi1* Examining a map in preparation for the arrival of cruise ships at Morehead City are, left to right, Victor Ogley, Charles R. McNeill, Miss Ruth Pivirotto, Joe DuBois, and Walter Friederichs. Mr. Ogiey and Miss Pivirotto are representatives of the Caribbean Cruise Lines. Relatives of Accident Victims Live in Carteret A Two Sailboaters Take Dunking \ Two sailing enthusiasts were dunked Sunday, shortly before the Coast Guard from Fort Macon picked them up from the waters of Beaufort harbor. They were Norman Wells, Morehead City, and Roger Van Buren, Atlantic Beach. | The sailboat capsized near the No. 1 buoy at the harbor entrance, and was towed back to the station at Fort Macon, bailed out and tow ed to a private anchorage. Both of the boat’s occupants were unhurt. Manning the 40-footer were Rob ert Conway, BM1, Kenneth John son, EN1 and Lenton Lewis, SN. The boat from the Swansboro light attendant station answered a distress call Saturday from the Kathy Lee, a party boat that ran aground to prevent its sinking after the boat sprung a severe leak. Aboard the boat was Allen Al ridge, Durham, and one other per son. The boat went aground near Swansboro in Bogue Sound, and is to be salvaged. Weekend Brought Sun, Mild Weather Sunshine and mild weather last ed almost the entire weekend, with a drizzling rain making its ap()ear ance late Sunday afternoon. Tem peratures for the past few days ranged from a high of 67 on Satur day to a low of 42 the same day, with only partly cloudy skies at times. Temperatures and wind for pe riod were as follows, according to E. Stamey Davis, weather observ er at Morehead City. Max. Mia. Wind Thursday 59 47 NE Friday .62 44 NE Saturday ....67 42 SE Sunday .,..65 44 SE The Newport town board will meet at 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday at the town hall. County to Celebrate Air Base Birthday _ - 1 1__ _ L i. M f < A , * £ nVi'ifdo nr Initial plans were developed Fri day morning for Carteret to honor Cherry Point Marine Corps Air base and its personnel daring the 20th anniversary week of Cherry Point Marine Corps air' station May 13-19. Chairman of Carteret County’s Cherry Point Apprecia tion Week is A- B. Cooper, mayor of Atlantic Beach. Mayor Cooper presided at a meeting at Oceanana Resort Fri day. Attending were municipal of ficials of Beaufort and More bead City, civic and church leaders, owners of hotels, motels, restau rants, fishing piers and entertain ment businesses. -> V<v r All offered their Cooperation in sponsoring special events tf'lMPor , Marinas that weak. g . . Ai-ijm&ifc- iriiasi m' Three persons who died as a re sult of a school bus-automobile col lision near Havelock Friday after noon are survived by relatives in this county. The dead are Mrs. Louise Hardy Keel, 42, of Oriental and her two sons, Joseph W. Sad ler, 7, and Kenneth Wayne Keel, 5*T month*. Mrs. Keel has a daughter, Mrs. Jerry Gaskill of Cedar Island, and a sister, Mrs. Leona Rogers of Beaufort. Mrs. Gaskill is the sis ter of Joseph Sadler and half sis ter of Kenneth Keel. The accident occurred when a school bus driven by Odell Stal lings, 18, of James City came out of a dirt road, crossed two lanes of highway 70, and struck the Keel automobile, which was headed to ward Morehead City. The acci dent happened two miles west qf Havelock. The 7-year-old boy was killed in the crash when he went through the windshield and his jugular vein was severed. Mrs. Keel died short ly before midnight Friday at St. Luke’s hospital in New Bern of internal injuries. The infant did not respond to treatment at St. Luke’s and was transferred to Duke hospital, Durham, Saturday morning for brain surgery. He died there Saturday night. Also injured in the crash was Roland Earl Keel Jr., 2, who suf fered facial lacerations. The in jured were treated at the Cherry Point dispensary before being tak en to New Bern. The school bus driver, a student at J. T. Barber Negro high school in New Bern, has been charged with careless and reckless driving and involuntary manslaughter, ac cording to state trooper Nathan H. Robinson, who investigated. A combined funeral service for the mother and her two children was held at 2 p.m. yesterday in Pollock chapel, New Bern, by the Rev. S. C. Fortescue. Burial fol lowed in the New Bern national cemetery. Other survivors include Mrs. Keel’s two other sons, Darrel Ray Sadler and Roland Keel Jr., her mother, Mrs. Sallie Hardy of Ori ental, another sister, Mrs. Mary Hinzman of Oriental, and five bro thers, Joe Hardy, Portsmouth, Va., J. A., Norfolk, Va., W. D., W. P., and James Hardy, all of Oriental. Churches were asked to attune religious services Sunday, May 13, toward appreciation of the Marine and the corps; civic clubs will en tertain Marines at their meetings during the week; leading motels will have as guests several Marine couples and families one or two nights; fishing piers will offer free fishing for one day; headboats will take a specified number of Marines on free trips; movies to Marines will be free one day, and cars with Marine corps license tags will be permitted to park free in Beaufort and Morehead City that week. Forty families in Beaufort will be asked to have stogie Marines, in pairs, as guests' for dinner one Wglrt ttaVweek; .ton families will be host to a couple with one child, Thieves Steal Bottled Drinks Thirsty burglars broke in the Morehead City Country club club house sometime between 9 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday, ac cording to deputy sheriff Carl Bunch. According to Jim McCaw, clubhouse manager, bottled drinks were the only thing taken. Missing are two cases of 7-Up, case of coke, two cases of beer, seven large bottles of club soda, 19 large bottles of ginger ale, a six-pack of 7-Up and nine cokes. Deputy Bunch said that entry to the clubhouse was gained through the south door. He said it looked as though it had been kicked in. Mr. McCaw discovered the theft when he opened the clubhouse Sun day morning. Henderson Will Speak At VFW Banquet Friday David N. Henderson, congress man of the third Congressional dis trict, North Carolina, will be the guest speaker at a Veterans of Foreign Wars banquet Friday at Beaufort. The banquet will begin at the post home at 7 p.m. and honor the county winners of a VFW David N. Henderson . . . guest speaker and ten will be host to a Marine couple. Mayor W. H. Potter and Ray Cummins were named to supervise that phase of the program. Sixty Mdrebead City families will be asked to have two single Marines as dinner guests, 15 will be asked to have couples, and 15 to invite married couples with one child. Mayor George Dill and Grover Munden will supervise that pro gram. The mayors and Lockwood Phil lips were named to a committee to plan a luncheon in honor of Ma rine Corps officers. Planning an Atlantic Beach Day are J. C. Sherrill Jr., Shelby Free man and Dom Femia. Liners Ariadne, Victoria To Sail to Caribbean Final plans for the sailing of cruise ships from More head City were made Friday when two representatives of the Caribbean Cruise Lines visited the state port. Meeting with port and other officials were Victor Ogley, vice president of the lines and Miss Ruth Pivirotto, execu tive assistant. Discussing arrangements with the cruise officials were Walter H. Friederichs, port opera-< tions manager, and Charles R. Mc Neill, assistant operations man ager; Joseph A. DuBois, manager of the greater Morehead City chamber of commerce, William T. Davies, manager of the Morehead City Shipping Co., and Mrs. Davies. Among matters discussed were port facilities and means of hand ling baggage, parking and other services for passengers. A bus will shuttle passengers to the ship from parking areas, and the Morehead City and Beaufort bands will be on hand to give concerts at sailing times. Mr. Ogley stated that the cruise lines were pleased with plans of the chamber of commerce to greet passengers and paid that Morehead City and the Port Authority had provided the “warmest reception yet’’ aniong ports where cruises were scheduled. The Caribbean Cruise Lines plans 57 sailings of cruise ships from twelve ports on the eastern sea board, of which two are now set at Morehead City for May 4 and May 23. The Ariadne will sail on May 4 and the Victoria on May 23. Nas sau and Bermuda are the vacation ports involved. Bookings for the cruises to orig inate at Morehead City have drawn passengers from as far away as Charleston, S. C., and Connecticut. The Caribbean Cruise Lines is a pioneer in the “package vacation" and in sailings from ports other than the traditional ones, such as New York. Expansion in the cruise firm’s activities is planned, Mr. Ogley said, due to the success of placing cruise ports near centers of population along the seaboard. Among other arrangements for passengers are the placing of pamphlets about Morehead City and the surrounding area in state rooms and welcome banners and placards along the route to the port. Topic of the contest was America the Beautiful—How Long without Clean Water? Winners of first and second place will be honored, as will their prin cipals, their advisors, and contest judges. Judging the entries were H. L. Joslyn, county superintendent of schools; R. M. Williams, county agricultural agent, and Miss Ruth Peeling, editor of THE NEWS TIMES. Congressman Henderson will be introduced by Bill Laughinghouse, commander of Jones-Austin post No. 2401, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Also present will be Mrs. Bobby Lee, Wallace; VFW district presi dent; Mrs. Dovie Tenney, Wallace, VFW department representative, and Murray Pugh, New IJern, dis trict commander. Capt. Martha Cox Commands Unit at Base Cherry Point—A former enlisted woman Marine took command this month of the Woman Marine de tachment here. She is Capt. Mar tha A. Cox, who arrived March 17 from Camp Pendleton, Calif. Captain Cox replaces Maj. Anne Ritter, who is resigning. Frank Cassiano was appointed to order lapel buttons which will wish Cherry Point air base a happy birthday. Merchants will post wel come placards in their windows, according to Ken Wagner, chair man of the Morehead City Mar chants association. Because the week occurs in the same week as Armed Forces day, it was decided that there will be no Carteret observance of Armed Forces Day this year. Armed Forces Day at Cherry Point, with open hotise, will end the week on Saturday, May 19. On that day, the Marine Corps will play host to Carteret residents and all others in the Cherry Point area. Engineers Seek Bids on Harbor Work in County Wilmington — Col. R. P. David son, district engineer, has an nounced that bids will be opened in his office at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, for maintenance dredging in the Morehead City harbor and Beaufort harbor. The work to be done consists of the removal and disposal o; 11 ma terir! lying above t e plar • of 35 feet below mean low water in Morehead City harbor and above the plane of 12 feet below mean low water in Beaufort harbor, within the limits of the channels as shown on the dredging drawings issued with the invitation for bids. The quantity of material to be removed is estimated to be approx imately 380,000 cubic yards in Morehead City harbor and 80,000 cubic yards in Beaufort harbor. The site of the work at More head City is in the turning basin and channel leading to the North Carolina State Ports Authority ter minal and the small boat basin in [front of Morehead-City, while the | work in Beaufort harbor is in Bulk head, Gallants, and Taylor creek channels. Colonel Davidson said that bids under this procurement are solicit ed from small business concerns only and that this procurement is to be awarded to one or more small business concerns. The approxi mate value of the work is $250,000. Morehead Port Faces Big Month April promises to be a big month at the state port, Morehead City. A total of approximately 30 ships are due to arrive at the docks dur ing the month. The majority of the merchant ships are bound for the Far East, with one going to Japan. Two are slated to visit Mediterranean ports and six will go to ports on the northern coast of Europe. Two of the ships arc from na tions that are relatively unusual visitors to the Morehead port. The Ohshima Maru, of the lino Lines of Japan is one and the other is the Kupres, of the Yugooceanija Lines of Yugoslavia. One Ship, the Trein Maersk, of the Moller Steamship Co., Den mark, will visit here on her maiden voyage Sunday, April 29. The ship’s route will include visits to Manila, Bangkok, Saigon, Hong Kong and other Far Eastern ports after her stop here. The total of 30 ships includes both merchant and military ships, according to Charles R. McNeill, assistant operations manager. The increase in traffic is attributed to the normal spring pickup in mili tary traffic and the flow of tobacco by big export purchasers. County commissioners will meet at 10 a.m. Monday. Each person put m charge of one of the events for the week ias been asked to inform Mr. Cooper, in writing, by Friday, April 6, of the arrangements made. Although Newport was not rep resented at the meeting, mayor Cooper said mayor Leon Mann Jr. has offered Newport’s full coopera tion. Attending the meeting, in addi tion to those mentioned, were M. G. Coyle, Sylvester Fleming’ l*roy Guthrie, George Vickroy, Gordon K. (Red) Willis. T. H. Potter, George Thomas, J. A. DuBois, Charles Tolson, O. J. Morrow, George Hall, the Rev. B. L. 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