■ 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