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ALL WHO READ THE NEWS-TIMES w ttlst YEAR, NO. 28. TWO SECTIONS—-SIXTEEN PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1962 PUBLISHED TUE&DA HI Edgar Willis Pleads Guilty To Suicide Try • Six-Month Suspended Sentence Pronounced # Case First of Its Type fn Stole Edgar Willis, charged with at tempting to commit suicide, plead ed guilty Monday in the criminal term of superior court and was given six months on the roads, sus pended. Willis is the first person to be tried in the state on the charge, recently found by the state su preme court to be a crime. The suicide attempt came on Feb. 13, when officers went to the barn on the Crow Hill road where Willis lived. Willis was found with self-inflict ed wounds on his throat, and at tempted to hang himself with a chain from the barn’s rafters be fore officers. TThe body of a woman was found in the barn, apparently dead of natural causes. Willis’s suspension calls for his good behavior for -two years and the payment of court costs. Other cases Monday included those of Eloise McCarty, charged with four counts of worthless checks and Norma Jean McGee, charged with forgery. Both cases were not prosecuted. George Fuller Bryan, charged with druhken driving kas found not guilty. Darrell VaVern Feurstock, charged with the same offense, was foifnd guilty by a jury, and given a suspended six months’ term on the roads provided he pay $100 and the deals and. obtain a valid drivt er’a license beforfc chiving dgain. Rudolph Sparrow, charged with cheat and defraud, was placed on two years good behavior after mak ing restitution with prayer for judgment continued. Iheaday, Will Owens pled guilty to charges of larceny and aiding and abetting to cheat and defraud. He received a suspended two-year term upon payment to the court of $125 for Mrs. M. L. Mansfield, and court costs, before the November term of court. Jim Johnson, charged with as sault with a deadly weapon, plead ed no contest and got a directed verdict of not guilty. Teddy Wen dell Self, charged with driving drunk, waived the finding and en tered an indictment of reckless (hiving upon advice of counsel. He got 60 days, suspended upon pay ment of $50 and the costs. John Carlton Gaskill was fourth guilty by a jury on charges of driv ing drunk and given 60 days, sus pended upon payment of $100 and costs. He was ordered to get a valid driver’s license before driving again. A number of cases were not prosecuted Wednesday. The cases were those of Mrs. Freda Currier, trespass; Billy Gillikin, worthless check; Walter Edward Moeller, reckless driving; James Carroll, disturbing the peaee and drunk and disorderly; Ore# Jones Taylor, driving drunk. The ease against Carrie Glenn, charged with assault, was dismissed.' ' Boli, charged with non was found not guilty. Thomas Kennon was told by the court to go to church regu larly and deliver his paycheck to his wife, as conditions of his five year probation after he was tried for breaking and entering and lar ceny. Kennon got a suspended two to three-year term, dependent upon the probation. David John Sanders got a 90-day sentence, suspended upon payment of $100 and costs On a charge of driving drunk. Willard D. Knott, facing dual charges of driving after hia license'was revoked and drunk en driving, got a prayer for judg ment continued on the charge of driving after license revocation, and a two-year term, suspended for three years on the driving drunk charge. He was also told by the court to get a valid driver’s li cense before driving again. Joseph W. Parker- is the presid ing judge. March Inquiries Double Inquiries to the greater Morehead City chamber Of commerce office in March totaled 465t announcesJ. A. DuBois, general manager. The figure is almost double last month’s total. . » By category, they are as follows: vacation' 33, fishing 88, hotel ac commodations 24, retirement 1, cottage rental 38, real estate 1, Ocracoke 10, industrial 1, office 29, general 250. \ $935,000 for Hospital Now Officially Gone, Board Told The State Medical Care commis-M sion has formally ordered that the $835,000 in federal funds, originally allocated for the proposed Carteret hospital, be diverted to other proj ects. This information was relayed by letter to the county board of com missioners. The letter was read at the board meeting Monday aft ernoon. The Medical Care commission has decided to hold, until its Sep tember 1962 meeting, $105,000 in state funds earmarked for the Car teret hospital. If, however, at that time it appears that the Carteret project will be further, delayed, the MCC says it will reassign those funds, in whole or in part “to other needed projects.” The letter, signed by William F. Henderson, executive secretary of the MCC, advised the board that it may resubmit an application for federal funds when it is sure the hospital project “can proceed without delay.” After being informed of the MCC action, the board revised a motion made in the morning, relative to a decision on a hospital petition. (A petition calling for a re-vote was presented at the morning ses sion. The board said it would make a decision on whether to comply with the petitioners’ requests at its June meeting.) The revised motion enables a de cision by the board at any time after the county attorney deter mines whether the petition is legal ly correct in form, whether signa tures are valid and whether a ref erendum, if held, would be approv ed by bond attorneys and be prop er in the eyes of the state attorney general. Luther Hamilton Jr., county at torney, explained that the jioapitM, has been approved by the people and that the law does not provide for a re-vote. Opposition to the petition calling for a re-vote on the hospital and on sites was voiced by judge Lu ther Hamilton Sr. and mayor George W. Dill, both of Morehead City. Judge Hamilton said the petition was designed to cause more hard feeling and confusion on the hos pital issue. The petition, judge Hamilton said, shows “no respect to the board or to the honest, in telligent people in the county” and that the “original vote on the hos pital was for it to be in the western part of the county, and no rational or honest man would contend that it should be east of Beaufort.” Judge Hamilton also stated that there was a good possibility that not all the signatures on the peti tion were valid. the judge urged the board to reject the petition. Mayor Dill stated that the hos pital issue would cause bad feel ings regardless how it is solved and urged the board to act prompt ly and settle the problem. “Our reputation for disagreeing is not helping the county,” he added. Little Boy, Car Collide Tuesday A 3-year-old child escaped seri ous injury Tuesday afternoon when he was hit by an automobile at Marshallberg. The boy, Timothy Paid Lewis, suffered abrasions on his head and back but was releas ed after treatment at Sea Level hospital. Driving the car which struck the child was Mrs. Janice Hill Con way, Marshallberg, according to state trooper R. H. Brown. He said Mrs. Conway was driving her 1957 Plymouth south on the Mar shallberg road at a slow rate of speed. The child ran out of a yard on her left and darted across the road in the path of the car. She saw him coming and when the car hit him it bad almost stopped, the trooper related. The boy was knocked to the pavement. The ac cident happened at 3:30 p.m. Mrs. Conway’s car was not dam aged. No charges were filed. Firemen Extinguish Blaze A fire in dry marsh grass near th'e city dump at the foot of 24th Street called out Morehead City firemen Monday afternoon. Caiise of the'fire was not known, and the blaze was quickly extinguished. The driver license examiner’s of fice, Havelock, will be closed Mon day, April 16, and Monday, April 23, the day after Easter, announces David Morris, license examiner. Top Officials Visit Lab Visiting the US Biological laboratory at Pivers Island this week were officials of the US Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Atomic Energy commission. Left to right are John B. Glude, Dr. Paul S. Henshaw, Seton H. Thompson, Dr. I. E. Wallen, Dr. M. K. Berkut, and Dr. William F. Marlow. Also here but not shown was H. E. Crowther, assistant director of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Three officials of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and four of ficials of the Atomic Energy commission made their annual in spection at the US Biological lab oratory, Pivers Island, Tuesday and Wednesday. Purpose of the visit was to re view and evaluate the radiobio logical program, which is joint ly sponsored by the two agen cies. The radiobiological pro Fisheries Committee Lifts County crab fishermen got what they wanted when they went be fore the commercial fisheries com mittee of the conservation and de velopment department at New Bern this week. The committee said it would be all right to take sponge crabs. The restriction was lifted and ap Board Wants Dumping Halted The state highway patrol and the county sheriff’s department should make a special effort to arrest per sons dumping trash along the high ways, the county board ordered Monday morning at the courthouse, Beaufort. Commissioner Gaston Smith raised the question of providing dumps for residents in rural areas. John L. Humphrey, county road superintendent, said he has had crews clean up roadside trash dumps and people came back and dumped trash just the same. Commissioner Smith said the only way to break up the trash dumping is to have the places po liced. Mr. Humphrey said, “Get some body arrested and fined. That will break it up. Mr. Humphrey said that in Beaufort and Morchead City out-of-town residents pay someone to pick up their garbage. He said he didn’t see why people in other communities in the county couldn’t do the same. It would be a good business for someone, he remark ed. Commissioner Smith said that some of the communities down east were considering such a plan. Firemen Answer Call Beaufort firemen put out a grass fire Tuesday behind the old Bap tist parsonage on Ann street. The fire, thought to have been started by children, was reported shortly before 4:30 in the afternoon. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, April 6 9:28 a.m. 3:22 a m. 9:52 p.m. ,3:38 p.m. Saturday, April 7 . 10:21 a.m. . 4:09 a.m. 10:45 p.m. 4:23 p.m. j. Sunday, April 8 11:17 a.m. 4:58 a.m. 11:38 p.m. 5:09 p.m. Monday, April 9 12:12 a.m. 5:49 a.m. .. , 6:01 p.m. Tuesday, April 19 12:32 a.m. 6:50 a.m. [ 1:06 p.m. 7:05 p.m. I gram is one of five carried on by the laboratory. Present were H. E. Crowther, assistant director of the US Bu reau of Commercial Fisheries; Seton B. Thompson, regional di rector of the bureau; John B. Glude, chief of the shellfish branch; and AEC scientists Dr. William F. Marlow, Dr. M. K. Berkut, Dr. Paul S. Henshaw, and Dr. I. E. Wallen. All of the above officials are from Wash plies to all state waters, but for this season only. Crabbers wanting the restriction raised said that they have been hit by adverse weather conditions and need supplimental revenue. Some spoke, however, in opposition to the proposal, stating that this might lower the quality of crab meat produced in North Carolina. A sponge crab is a female hard crab carrying eggs. The North Carolina Wildlife Re sources commissiorr and Craven county interests request that the wildlife agency be given control over both the Neuse and Trent rivers above the two highway bridges at New Bern. Since many commercial fisher men would be affected by such a change, the ocmmercial fisheries committee ordered that there be a public hearing on the matter in July at Morehead City. Dr. A- F. Chestnut, who is con ducting an investigation of trash fishing, said he would make a pre liminary report to the board in July. The board also agreed to ex tend the time of the study from six months to one year, at no ad ditional cost, in order to cover the full cycle of a fishing year. Dr. Chestnut is director of the Institute of Fisheries Research, UNC. A controversy on trash fishing The Destroyers Are at It Again Malicious destroyers went into the municipal park at Morehcad City sometime between Sunday night and Tuesday morning and cut off to the ground a bed of blooming tulips. Malicious destroyers sometime between Sunday afternoon and Tuesday threw bricks through win dows of the Beaufort rescue squad building, breaking out all the win dow lights. The bricks went in side the building of course, but fortunately didn’t hit the ambu lance. County Proposes $1.60 Tax Rate The county tax rate for 1962, which will be levied as of July 1, has been set tentatively at $1.60 per hundred dollars valuation, a reduction of 15 cents from 1961. County commissioners proposed the $1.60 rate at their meeting Monday afternoon in the court house. Of that amount, half, or 80 cents, would go to schools, la I960, 65 cents of the tax rate went to schools and in 1961, 25 cents. (The drastic reduction for schools last year was due to the filing of | ington* D. C., with the exception of Mr. Thompson, whose head quarters are in St. Petersburg, Fla. The review included a tour of the facilities at Pivers Island and meetings with laboratory of ficials. Donald McKernan, director of the US Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, could not make the visit as planned. He sent in his stead Mr. Crowther. is always raging, some saying it destroys the small fish and others saying that trawling for “trash” fish docs not affect the fisheries. Dr. Chestnut’s study is supposed to shed some light on the subject. The shad season was extended to May 5 and the regulations requir ing closed seasons on rock fish and herring were stricken. The vessel, Cape Hatteras, was ordered returned to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, since fish eries commissioner C. G. Holland said his department no longer needs it. Boundary lines between wildlife and commercial fisheries waters were changed in Beaufort, Onslow, Bertie, Brunswick, Dare and Hert ford counties. Rejected was a re quest by the wildlife agency for a change in lines in Craven and Mar tin counties. The fisheries commissioner was authorized to grant oyster bottom leases to the following, subject to further compliance with the law: D. A. Ballou, Morehead City; Gray don Paul Fulcher, Williston; James Arthur Greer and David Eugene Oglesby, Newport; Frank A. Har vey, Atlantic. Fred Harvey, Duncan Warren, Beaufort; Phillip Burton Smith, Davis; Charlie Taylor, Sea Level; Monroe G. Willis, Marshallberg, and James A. Blake, Hollyridge. Heavy rocks or bricks were also thrown up against the door of the building. Mrs. Gus Davis, president of the Morehead City Woman’s club, which has been beautifying the municipal park, said the tulips were planted by a Girl Scout troop, Mrs. Amanda Gillikin, leader. The girls and their leader are extremely upset about the vandal ism, as is Mrs. Davis. She pleads with people to PLEASE show some civic pride and not destroy prop a suit relative to hospital construc tion, which necessitated putting 90 cents into debt service.) Under the county’s program for schools, $300,000 would be accumu lated during the coming year to go into the school construction fund. Added to the $405,000 now on hand, this will be a total of $705,000 at the end of June 1963. The board of education had hop ed that the county would be able to add $500,000 in the coming year Candidate to Talk At Lejeune April 26 S. A. Chalk Jr., Morehead City, candidate for Congress, has been invited to speak to the American Federation of Government Em ployees, Camp Lejeune, Thurs day, April 26. The invitation was issued from the 935-member group this week by Hugh C. Sandlin, president. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the Midway community build ing. Topic of Mr. Chalk's address will be The Preservation of Free ! dom. The candidate will also appear at 7:30 a.m. next Friday morn j ing on the tv program, Carolina ; Today, WNCT. Chamber Calls For Clean-Up Chamber of commerce directors have called for a clean-up and spruce-up program to ready the Morehead City area for passengers who will arrive in May for the Caribbean cruises. The directors met at Oceanana Resort Monday night. Dr. Russell Outlaw, town com missioner, pointed out that the j town board, has already made plans j to take care of city clean-up re sponsibilities. The directors requested that lit ter laws be enforced and that vio lators be given fines if convicted. Ben Alford agreed to print litter bags free of charge, the bags then | to be put on sale. Dr. Outlaw reported that 7,000 convention-goers are scheduled for this summer at the Biltmore. W. L. Derrickson reported that ten | groups of 30 each will convene at i the Atlantic Beach hotel. Charles McNeill reported on ar ; rangements being made in prepa ration for the May cruise. Mr. Alford, advertising chair man, reported tb&t fidftp color book lefti are off the press and will be used until a new brochure can be printed. The committee plans to place signs in every locality east of Morehead City, advertising the communities, resorts and points of interest along highway 70. Plans are being made to send speakers with films of this resort area to civic clubs throughout the state. Durham and Burlington Rotary clubs have already asked for the service. Another group of speak ers is being lined up to tell about the Morehead City port. See CHAMBER, Page 2 Audience Will be Invited to Ask Questions at Conference Tonight Persons attending the education conference at Camp Glenn school at 7:30 tonight will have the oppor tunity to ask questions of the fol lowing: Robert Salrit, chairman of the county board of education; Moses Howard, chairman of the county board of commissioners; H. L. Jos lyn, county superintendent of schools. Luther Hamilton, state senator; D. G. Bell, former general assem blyman; Nathan Garner, chairman of the Newport school board; Ken neth Wagner, chairman of the crty simply because they think it belongs to somebody else. The Beaufort rescue squad mem* bers remind people that they are only hurting themselves when they let their children destroy things that cost money. EVERYONE is responsible for seeing that proper ty of all types is protected. Peo ple who stand by and watch prop erty being destroyed are just as guilty as those doing the destroy ing, rescue squad members de clare. to the school building fund. Under the budget presented to the county commissioners by the education board Monday, Carteret citizens would be putting into schools this coming year $425,000 (that includes tax levy and court fines and bond forfeitures which go to schools). The county tax levy for schools during the past year amounted to only $99,000. The education budget sets up Jerry W. Brown, 19, Stops Bullet from .32 Jerry Wayne Brown, 19,‘ Beaufort - Morehead cause way, was in the Morehead City hospital yesterday with a bullet from a .32 calibre pistol in his upper chest. MrJt. L e t h a Forrest, Mill Creek, his mother-in-law, who allegedly shot Brawn, was under $600 bond for her appearance in county re corder’s court Tuesday. Deputy sheriff Bruce Edwards said Mrs. Forrest has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, causing sprious bodily injury. The officer said the shooting took place at 7:20 p.tp. Wednesday in the living room of the Forrest home, while Brown and his wife, Mrs. Forrest’s daughter, were vis iting. Deputy Edwards said that there have been hard feelings between Mrs. Forest and her son-in-law ever since the marriage, which oc curred when Brown’s wife was 15. Brown was taken to the More head City hospital by his wife’s brother. Mrs. Forrest was not taken into custody after the shooting, but she and her husband appeared at the sheriff’s office yesterday morning and posted bond. Board Considers Channel Matters County commissioners acted Monday on two matters involving the Army Corps of Engineers. They endorsed a request by Cedar Island residents for a deep water channel to Cedar Island bay. I Odell Merrill, clerk to the board, [ was asked tc nut$p .Japes and On slow counties that udrteret has ap ! proved a petition to clean out I White Oak river and ask those county boards to endorse Carteret’s request that the Army Engineers investigate the matter. The White Oak runs through Jones and Onslow as well as Car teret counties. John Garner requested permis sion to move a grave in Ocean View cemetery. The request was granted. (State law provides that graves may not be moved without permission from the county board.) The report on investigations, fol lowing the board of equalization meeting in March, was accepted. Camp Glenn school board. M H. S. Gibbs Jr., chairman of the Morehead City school board; G. B. Talbot, chairman of the Beaufort school board; Roland Salter, Smyr na school; Tilton Davis, Harkers Island, and Clayton Fulcher Jr., At lantic. Also ready to answer questions will be Dr. Raymond Stone, execu tive secretary of the state Citizens Committee for Better Schools, and Dr. I. E. Ready, who has been working in the school improvement program. William Roy Hamilton, Beaufort, chairman of the county Citizens Committee for Better Schools, will preside. He invites everyone attending to bring a pencil and paper in case they would like to take notes. To open the meeting, the Rev. Charles Kirby, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will give an invocation. Dr. Stone will state the purpose of the meeting and Mr. Joslyn will distribute background information on the schools. Dr. Stone will describe the pro cedure to be followed in directing questions to the 14 who will be the “panel of experts.” The meeting will end with a sum mation. $247,854 for current expense (main tenance, lights, water, etc. ) during the coming year. This is about the same as this year, according to H. L. Joslyn, county superinten dent of schools. Total earmarked for investment in new sites, buildings, furniture, etc. is $799,010, which includes the $405,000 held in reserve now for school construction. Revenue from other sources for schools (state and federal funds) is estimated at $216,884. The total }-— County to Get Classmobile # Education Board Presents Budget • School Board Appointees Named A “classmobile” was ordered by the county board of education Mon day and appointments made to school boards throughout the cour. ty. A classmobile is a fully-equipped classroom on wheels. It is placed at a school, on a foundation, then when its need as a supplemental classroom has passed, it can be put on wheels and moved to an other school. I H. L. Joslyn, county superinten dent of schools said the classmo biles have proved most satisfactory in Wake county and in Wilmington. The unit will have a resale value of 50 per cent, it is estimated. The classmobile’s cost is $5,643.50. To provide a foundation for it will cost about $100, Mr. Joslyn said. The unit will be put to use first at Beaufort school. It comes ready to be connected to a power source, has heating, air conditioning, blackboards and Venetian blinds. The only thing it lacks are bathroom facilities. Those of the school where it is parked will be used. The board approved a school budget for 1962-63 and presented it to the county board Monday aft ernoon. The budget totals $1,046, 864- • t A- .. Appointments to school boards were as follows: Beaufort, G. B. Talbot, for a three-year term to succeed himself; H. G. Simpson, to fill the unexpired term of George Huntley Jr., who resigned. Camp Glenn, Leslie Brinson and Fred Willis, for three-year terms; Harkers Island, Clem Gaskill, to fill the unexpired term of James Gillikin. Morehead City, Mrs. A. B. Rob erts and Dr. L. J. Norris, for three year terms; Newport, Roy T. Dick inson, for three-year term; and Smyrna, Lester Gillikin, Otway, to fill the unexpired term of Lloyd Pigott, who resigned. Morehead Port C. S. Halfbill, of J. M. Pease & Co., Charlotte, the firm which has been retained by the State Ports Authority to »ake suggestions as to the proposed bridge at More head City, visited the port area yesterday. A. T. Finer, port pilot, had Mr. HalfhHt as his guest on a pilot boat and on return into Morehead City port on a ship. Mr. Haifhill expects to make a recommendation t4 the SPA next week. The State Highway commis sion has asked the SPA to deter mine where the channel would be for ocean-going ships and the type of draw to be installed, should a draw be decided on. Meeting with Mr. Halfhill were highway commissioner D. G. Bell, Robert Darden, New Bern, freight traffic manager. Southern Rail way; and mayor George Dill, Morehead City. school budget is $1,046,864. A. D. Fulford presented a $38,995 budget request for the sanitation department. Budgeted for sal aries is $19,980; transportation $1,800; materials $13,282, other ex penses $2,520. Beveaue anticipated is $11,500 from the county, $1,500 from the dog license fees, and $25,915 in state funds. The county board accepted both budget requests for consideration. J
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