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51st YEAR, NO. 26.
TWO SECTIONS—14 PAGES
MOREHBAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1962
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Sea Level Hospital to Have
New 38-Bed Childrens Wing
Governor Lauds Legislators
Who Backed School Program
Gov. Terry Sanford, speaking to
the county NCEA unit and at Beau
fojt school Wednesday night, prais
ed members of the legislature for
backing his education program.
He said Sen. Luther Hamilton,
Rep. D. G. Bell, both of this coun
ty, and Sen. Thomas White, Kins
ton, ran the risk of putting their
“political necks on the chopping
block" to push through legislation
for better schools.
Governor Sanford never once
mentioned the food sales tax, which
is financing the state's new school
program. The tax, which has been
termed unpopular, was levied by
the 1961 legislature.
The governor expressed his ap
preciation to Sen. Luther Hamil
ton, “who supported our program
all the way.”
'Of representative Bell, the gov
ernor observed that Mr. Bell is
now a member of the highway
commission, but added, “I don’t
know what his plans are, but I
hope he’ll be up in Raleigh repre
senting you again.”
Mr. Bell said yesterday that he
bad made no decision as to his
future political plans. He added
that he may have an announce
ment next week.
The governor commended sen
ator WWte, chairman of the senate
committee, for making the
education program possible.
During tiie NCEA business ses-^
sum, Joseph Owens, Smyrna, pres
ident, appointed a nominating com
mittee, E. C. Jernigan, chairman;
Mrs. Leon Thomas and Miss Josie
Pigott.
He announced that Mrs. Mamie
Swain, Beaufort, a teacher at Camp
Glenn school, will represent the
state NCEA at the national con
vention at Denver, Colo., in June.
The next meeting of the NCEA
will be May 10. Officers will be
installed. Giving the invocation
at Wednesday night’s meeting was
the Rev.‘Lamar Moore, member
of the Atlantic faculty.
Dignitaries who accompanied the
governor during his speech-making
tour Wednesday night were, in ad
dition to those mentioned, mayor
George W. Dill, Morehead City;
mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort;
mayor Leon Mann, Newport;
Moses Howard, chairman of the
county board of commissioners.
Robert Safrit, chairman of the
county board of education; W. B.
Allen and Dr. A. F. Chestnut,
county board of education mem
bers; H. L. Joslyn, county super
intendent of schools, who introduc
ed the governor at the Biltmore.
Dr. Raymond Stone, executive
secretary of the state citizens’ com
mittee for better schools; W. R.
Hamilton, Beaufort, chairman of
the county committee for better
schools.
The invocation at W. S. King
school was given by the Rev. E.
E. Lewis, Beaufort, and the gov
ernor was introduced by mayor
Dill. Platform guests were Ran
dolph Johnson, principal of Queen
Street school, Beaufort; S. R. Mc
Lendon, principal of W. S. King
See LEGISLATORS, Page 2
Mayor George Dill, Morehead City, accompanies Gov. Terry San*
ford from the dining room at the Biltmore Motor hotel.
Duke Students Stop Here
Oh Boat Trip to Georgetown
By ELLEN MASON
“It was a challenge and seemed
like a not-too-expensive way to
spend spring vacation.” That's
the reason Gene Atkinson and
Chuck Colver give for their trip
along the inland waterway in a
14-foot outboard boat. They stayed
Tuesday night at Queen’s Galley,
Atlantic Beach.
Chuck and Gene, both from Dur
ham, are sophomores at Duke uni
versity. They left Norfolk, Va., at
1 p.m. Sunday bound for George
town, S. C. They hoped to reach
their destination by Thursday so
they’d have a couple days to "fool
around” before hitting the books
again on Monday.
The two adventurers started out
with 16 gallons of gas, food from
home, a pup tent, sleeping bags,
life preservers, a fire extinguisher,
a rifle and lots of sweatshirts.
They got as far as Sandy Point,
on the Little Alligator river across
Albemarle sound from Elizabeth
City, Sunday and camped on the
shore Sunday night.
A storm came up and only when
it was raining buckets did Chuck
and Gene discover something aw
ful—their tent leaked! They rent
ed a cabin Monday morning and
were forced to lay over there Mon
day night because of the weather.
They occupied themselves with
trying to dry out their gear.
Weather had cleared Tuesday
morning so the two left Sandy
Point about 6 a.m. They crossed
Pamlico sound, where they found
the going very rough, and reached
Morehead City about 4 p.m. Wa
ter in the boat was bailed out with
the thermos bottle cap, which has
a one-cup capacity!
During the Sandy Point-Morehcad
City stretch they went Vh hours
without getting out of the boat!
The next stop after Morehead
City, according to Gene, is to be
Wilmington. Gene said his mother,
Mrs. Sid L. Atkinson, is a school
teacher and she got three tickets
to board the USS North Carolina
at Wilmington. He declared the
main objective of the trip was to
make use of those tickets!
The travelers have complete
charts, a compass and a few other
navigational aids and had man
aged not to get lost between Nor
folk and here. They hoped they’d
be able to navigate the Cape Fear
without any trouble and from then
on were sure they’d have smooth
sailing.
Chuck and Gene startethto make
the trip during their Thalksgiving
holidays with a third perlfen along
but stopped when they got to Eliz
abeth City. They decided the holi
day was too short to go the entire
distance.
They are traveling in a plywood
boat with a fibreglass bottom. The
boat has no cabin for protection,
only a windshield. Their motor is
a 35 horsepower Evinrude. The
rig belongs to Gene’s parents. The
Atkinsons took the boat to Norfolk
on a trailer and will go to George
town this weekend to pick up boat
and sailors to ferry them back
home to Durham.
Both boys were enthusiastic
about their reception all along the
way and said folks had been very
helpful.
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Gene Atkinson, left, ud Check Colver, both of Durban, are shown in the 14-foot outboard boat
which carried then from Norfolk, Va., to Georgetown, S. C., this week. The inland waterway adven
turers stewed overnight at Atlantic Beach Tuesday.
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> The Sea Level Community hos
pital will add a 38-bed children’s
wing this year, according to Bill
Heath, manager of the Sea Level
inn.
Mr. Heath stated that construc
tion will begin on the wing in late
June, according to present plans.
Mr. Heath is in charge of the con
struction of the wing and two oth
er building projects for the Sea
Level Development Co.
The wing will be built by the
Taylor Foundation, and will be on
the side of the hospital toward the
Sea Level Inn. The wing will be
285 feet long, and will house in
fants’ and isolation wards, with
spaces for examination, records
and doctors’ offices.
Other projects at Sea Level in
clude a ten-unit addition to the
Sea Level inn, now under way, and
construction of a number of homes
in the area of the hospital and the
inn.
The new hospital wing will use
present hospital facilities, but will
care for children exclusively.
Wards will hold two and four beds,
with two rooms designated for iso
lation cases.
The new addition will provide a
needed service in the specialized
care of children, and will augment
the excellent hospital service fea
Level now provides-residents of the
eastern part of the county, Mr.
Heath said.
Elijah Nelson
Receives Grant
Elijah Nelson, associate profes
sor of natural science at Campbell
college, Buies Creek, has been
awarded a National Science Foun
dation grant to attend the academic
year institute at the University of
Colorado.
Nelson is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Nelson of Morehcad City
Elijah Nelson
. . . receives grant
and is married to the former Pat
sy Miller of Beaufort. They have
a daughter, Debra.
The grant, which amounts to
about $5,000 in stipends and tuition,
will enable Nelson to spend full
time in academic studies in sci
ence. He is one of only ten college
instructors selected from through
out the United States for this grant.
The Nelson family will leave in
August for Boulder, Colo. The pro
fessor has been granted a leave
of absence from Campbell.
Coast Guard Tows Boat
Into Marshallberg
A fishing boat, the Gloria D.,
broke a shaft Tuesday near Shell
Point off Barkers Island and was
towed to Marshallberg by the Coast
Guard 3<r-footer from Fort Maeon.
The boat is the property of Carl
ton Wade. Manning the Coast
Guard boat were Howard Jones,
BM1, Peter Bruok, BM2, and Jim
Goff, FA.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, March 30
2:33 a.m.
3:23 p.m.
9:43 a.m.
9:58 p.m.
Saturday, March 31
3:51 a.m.
4:37 p.m.
10:42 a.m.
11:01 p.m.
Sunday, April 1
5:03 a.m.
5:39 p.m.
11:36 a.m.
11:58 p.m.
Monday, April 2
6:02 a.m.
6:34 p.m.
12:27 a.m
Tuesday, April 3
6:57 a.m.
7:25 p.m.
Gov. Terry Sanford addresses the county NCEA unit at the BiM more Motor hotel Wednesday night.
Sanford Makes Three Talks
In County Wednesday Night
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Potomac
Disaster Leads
To Court Action
The inevitable suits, as the result
of the burning of the tanker Po
tomac, have led to filing of a peti
tion in federal court, Italeigh, by
the US government and Marine
Transport Lines, who seek to be
cleared of all responsibility in con
nection with the tanker’s destruc
tion. The petition seeks to place
the blame for the fire on Aviation
Fuel Terminals Inc.
The* tanker, carrying jet fuel, was
owned by the Navy and was op
erated by Marine Transport. Jft
burned at the Aviation Fuel Ter
minal dock, Radio island (between
Beaufort and Morehead City), the
night of Sept. 26, 1961.
Members of the Potomac crew’s
family have filed suits for dam
ages totaling $875,000. More are ex
pected. An order has been signed
requiring all claims to be put in
one proceeding. Claimants must
file by May 28.
Mary Esther Leonard, widow of
Clyde V. Leonard, whose body was
retrieved from the water during
the course of the fire, seeks
$200,000.
The government and Marine
Transport, in the petition, state
that the “fire was not caused or
contributed to in any manner by
any fault or irregularity on the part
of the ship.” The petition asks “ex
emption and exoneration for lia
bility’’ from any damage claims re
sulting from the fire
The petitioners seek to limit their
liability, if they are found liable at
all, to the value of the ship as she
lies now, a charred steel hulk in
Morehead City harbor.
To Sponsor Dance
The Swansboro recreation com
mission will sponsor a dance Satur
day night in the community build
ing at 7:30. The dance is for high
school students only. Admission is
25 cents per person. Refreshments
will be served.
- Gov. Terry Sanford, in a “whistle-stop tour" of the coun
ty Wednesday night, appealed to students, teachers and
citizens to make public school education in North Caro
lina “second to none.”
The governor dined at the Biltmore Motor hotel, More
head City, with the county North Carolina Education
association, inade brief remarks
there, and followed them up with
two talks, one at W. S. King school,
Morehead City, and one at Beau
fort school.
He was followed by a retinue of
county governmental dignitaries
and education ofiicials.
The governor told teachers at the
Biltmore that public education “is
the most important single task of
the state administration.” The
most important people in that ef
fort, he continued, are the teach
ers. “What you do in the class
room," he said, “is what pays off
in the future.”
1 He said he didrt know how many
years it would take to “lift our
schools to the best in the nation,”
but his aim, he declared, “is to put
North Carolina in the position of
national leadership in schools.”
In his talks at W. S. King and
Beaufort, the governor explained
"why all the sudden emphasis on
education.”
“A steady pace in education is
not enough in this electronic age,”
governor Sanford said. “In the last
20 years, there has been as much
advance in civilization and prog
ress as in all the centuries preced
ing those 20 years,” he declared.
"There is so much ‘new’ to know,”
he observed.
But progress, while solving prob
lems, also creates them, he noted.
“We live so much closer,” he told
listeners at W. S. King school,
“that we have new problems in
human understanding.” Anything
of consequence happening any
where in the world has immediate
impact on each American.
“You must work hard to develop
your minds,” he told students, “so
that you will have the ability to
avoid dangers that will come if you
do not have human understanding.
Scientific advancement must not
he used to blow men apart, but to
bring them together,” the governor
advised.
Goals for a better world, he con
tinued, are not achieved by legis
lature's or by making speeches
See GOVERNOR, Page 3
Mayor Proclaims FHA Week
News-Times Photo by Tom Sloan
Mayor W. H. Potter signs the proclamation that officially insti
tutes Future Homemakers Week in Beaufort April 1-7. Mrs. DayjUi
Beveridge, left, teacher-sponsor at Beaufort Ugh school and Julia
Piner, Future Homemaker, observe the signing.
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Dom Femia Files
For County Seat
Dom Femia, Morehead City, has
tiled for the office of county com
missioner on the Democratic ticket.
Mr. Femia, a native of Meriden,
Conn., is a member of the More
head City town board. He was
elected in May 1961 and is serving
as police commissioner.
A Marine Corps v*t$ran, Mr.
Femia served two years Overseas
and durtrtg the second world wap
was stationed at Lejeune and Cher
ry Point. He was discharged from
Do in Femia
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the Marine Corps in November
1945 and came to Morehead- City,
where he worked for E. C. Willis
& Sons, took over the News and
Observer dealership and later open
ed Dorn’s Lunch.
He now owns and operates Dorn's
Lunch in Morehead City and
Dom-L’s at Atlantic Beach.
Mr. Femia is a director of the
Mprehead City chamber of com
merce, past director of the More
head City Football Boosters club,
and a member of the Morehead
City-Beaulort Elks lodge.
He is a member of St. Egbert’s
church, Morehead City, and the
church men’s club.
Mr. Femia’s wife is the former
Edith G. Worthington of Newport.
They have five children, Joyce 15,
Ann 13, John 10, Dolores 6, and
Mike 2.
Mr. Femia said he is seeking of
fice because he is very much in
terested in schools and in the bet
terment of the county.
Ten to Go to Democrats'
Dinner at State Capital
At least ten Democrats will rep
resent the county at the annual
Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in
Raleigh tomorrow night, according
to county Democratic chairman A.
H. James. The county quota of
$500 has been sent to headquarters
for the $50 per plate fund-raising
dinner. ■ - j
Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New
York City will make the principal
address. Those who will attend
from this county include Mr. and
Mrs. Garland Scruggs, Mr. and
Mrs. S. A. Chalk Jr.,Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Smith and Mr. and Mrs. A.
T. Piner- ,
Announcement Tonight
Winners of a VFW Auxiliary es
say contest will be announced at a
meeting at 7 tonight at the VFW
home, Beaufort.
Two Crusader
Jets Collide
Near Oriental
# Both Pilots Alive; One
Ejected from Plane
• One Aircraft Lands;
Jet Wreckage Sought
Pilots of two Crusader jet planes,
Cherry Point, miraculously escap
ed with their lives at 9:10 p.m.
Wednesday when their planes col
lided in mid-air two miles south
of Oriental over the Neuse river.
Capt. Robert W. Tucker Jr., 36,
ejected safely and was picked up
in a 15-foot skiff by Hugh Midyette,
Ed Thompson and Thompson’s
daughter, ChCryll, 13, all of Orien
tal. Maj. Walter E. Domina, 41,
was able to land his plane safely
at Cherry Point.
The wreckage of Tucker’s plane
had not been found by npon yes
terday.
E. M. Foreman, Carteret forest
ranger, and members of the sher
iff’s department were notified of
the crash Wednesday night. Mr.
Foreman said a search Wednesday
night revealed nothing. Authori
ties at Cherry Point say they don’t
know whether the plane crashed
in the water or on land.
After being rescued, captain
Tucker was taken to Cherry Point
by helicopter and was treated for
minor injuries at the Cherry Point
dispensary. Major Domina was
not injured.
Captain Tucker is a native of
Helena, Ala., and major Domina
of Keene, N. H.
The men were on a routine train
ing flight and are attached to Ma
rine Photograph Reconnaissance
squadron 2, Second Mario* Air
Wing. • - .
Two Coast Guard rescue craft
were sent from Fort Macon in
search of captain Tucker. Manning
the 30-footer were Howard Jones,
BM1; Joseph Hester, RM2; Robert
Willis, FN. Manning the 40-footer
were Peter Brunk, BM2; Reece
Johnson, EN1, and Neuman Can
trell, SN.
In a mid-air night-time collision
Nov. 29, 1961, at Crab Point in this
county, a pilot, Lt. C. -A. Brunt,
was killed. The other pilot was
rescued.
Newport Junior
Speaks to Club
Miss Becky Robinson, winner of
a county public speaking contest,
gave the program at the Newport
Rotary club meeting Monday
night.
Miss Robinson, a junior at the
Newport school, spoke on Why I
Want to Go to College. This par
ticular talk was the winning talk
at Newport school and in the coun
ty finals at Morehead City.
The contest was sponsored by the
Carteret County PTA. Miss Rob
inson’s prize was a $50 savings
bond.
Guests at the meeting were Dav
id Murray and Earl Lewis of the
Morehead City Rotary club and
Sgt. Ernest Robinson, father of
Miss Robinson. Sergeant Robin
son was the guest of Bob Montague,
Rotary program chairman for the
evening.
The members were served a
charcoal steak supper by the New
port Eastern Star.
Beaufort Mail
Changes Listed
To get mail to people earlier,
changes have been made in mail
dispatch schedules at the Beaufort
postoffice, announces postmaster
j. P. Betts. They become effective
Saturday, March 31 (tomorrow).
Mail going east that used to leave
the postoffice at 9 a.m. will leave
at 7:30 a.m. Mail going out on that
dispatch will have to be in the post
office by 7 a.m., Mr. Betts reports.
That is the only mail going east
daily.
Mail from the north, west and
south, which used to come in at
8:10 a.m. will arrive at 7:25 a.m.
This consists of first, second and
fourth class mail. J 1 %
Mail coming into Beaufort
the east arrives about 8:20, in t
to make the 6:30 dispatch
Beaufort postoffice for points
west and south. Mail also
the postoffice for thoa
4:20 p.m. and 5 p.m.