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61st YEAR, NO. 37. EIGHT PAGES
r.AttTimiBT COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1962
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Two Booked
On Bootlegging
Count, Beaufort
• Car Hits Utility
Pole, Moore Street
• Police Report Other
Weekend Accidents
Two Beaufort residents face
charges of possession of non-tax
paid whiskey after a raid on a
house in Beaufort Sunday.
Charged were Johnny and Rosa
lee Sharp, 318 Queen St. The ar
rests were made by chief of police
Guy Springle. deputy sheriff Bruce
Edwards, and Beaufort police of
ficer Howard Hill. A small quan
tity of the illicit liquor was found
in the house.
|A number of auto accidents also
occurred in Beaufort over the
weekend, the first happening at 4
p.m. Friday, when a car driven
by Jennifer Leigh Rose, Beaufort,
hit a telephone pole on Moore
street. The impact cut off the
pole, which fell on the roof of the
car. Total damages were about
$250. No charges were filed, of
ficer Otis Willis stated.
Other accidents investigated by
officer Willis were on Saturday
morning at 9:15 a.m. when Rose
mary Springle Fasulo, Beaufort,
backed 116^1957 Ford out of a
driveway and collided with a 1959
Renault parked on the other side
of the street.
The Renault belonged to Ulys
Lee, Beaufort, and was damaged
to the extent of $60. The accident
happened on Turner street. No
charges Were filed.
Anptftei accident Friday involv
ed two cars parked on Front street
in the 400 block. William Louis
Ellison, Beaufort, driving a 1955
Forif owned by James Henry Wil
son, route 2 Beaufort, backed the
Ford out of a parking space and
collided with a 1956 Cadillac park
ed next to him.
Cadillac was the property
of Carrie Glover Nelson, Beaufort,
and was damaged about $160. No
damage resulted to the Wilson car,
and ho eharges were filed.
Sunday, a Beaufort Police De
partment patrol car driven by of
ficer Howard Hill, collided with a
1962 Buick driven by Leroy Mc
Intosh, Beaufort. Officer Hill was
coming out of Yaupon street onto
Ann street when the cars met.
McIntosh Was going west on Ann
Street at the time.
Damage to the police car was
about $150, with minor damage to
the McIntosh car. No charges
were filed.
Another minor accident was re
ported Monday, when two cars
lost bumpers on Front street.
James Muford Newcome, route 2
Beaufort, was backing his 1962
pickup truck into a parking space
when a 1958 Chevrolet driven by
Louis Randolph Johnson hooked
bumpers with his vehicle and the
bumpers pulled loose. The acci
dent occurred at about 10 a.m.
Town Completes
Line Extension
John B. Kelly, Newport water
commissioner, reports completion
of the water line extensions in the
newly-annexed areas at Newport.
Four brand new fire hydrants ar
rived Tuesday and were placed
Thursday. The hydrants are “Mat
thews” hydrants and have three
standard fire hose thread outlets
as do all the other Newport hy
drants, Mr. Kelly said. The design
is a little different, but the other
type is no longer made.
However, the “insides” are iden
tical, which will simplify the parts
problem in the future, he remark
ed. All of the Newport hydrants
installed since 1957 are of the
“breakable" type—in other words
if a car hits one the hydrant
“snaps” into and only the flange,
flange bolts, and inside coupling
nut need normally be replaced.
Using this type of hydrant elimi
nates the need of a separate hy
drant valve and about $85 in costs
on each hydrant, the commissioner
said. '
The hydraulic jack for pushing
lines under roads has also arrived
and the balance of the “tap-ins”
should be installed by next week,
he added. About 75 per cent of the
new residents are having their taps
put in.
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News-Times Photo by Tom Sloan
Nothing but blackened rubble and white ashes remain of the.Rex restaurant, popular eating place on highway 70, west of Morehead City.
The restaurant caught fire about 4:15 Sunday morning. Neither firemen nor the restaurant owners know who discovered the fire or
gave the alarm. Stairs shown in the foreground, escaped the flames.
Fire raced through the Rex res
taurant west of Morehead City in
the pre dawn hours Sunday morn
ing and in two hours the 14-year
old restaurant was leveled. Frank
Marino, owner, 'estimates the loss
at $75,000 and said it is only part
ially covered by insurance.
Mr. Marino said he received a
telephone call about 4:20 a m. that
the restaurant kitchen was on fire.
When he arrived, he said, the fire
Requests for Higher Taxes
County commissioners yesterday!
heard two requests for higher
taxes and one for lower taxes.
Seeking higher taxes for the
benefit of schools are citizens who
signed petitions that were present
ed by H. S. Gibbs Jr., Morehead
City. The petitions ask that taxes
be $1.75 per hundred dollars of
valuation, with 90 cents for schools.
The county library board and
Friends of the Library asked that
the tax rate be increased 2 cents,
with the 2 cents earmarked for the
county library.
Sam Morgan, New Bern, appear
ed before the board and said that
taxes, even at the proposed $1.60
County commissioners yester
day afternoon decided to let the
tax rate remain at last year’s
$1.75, putting 90 cents of the total
rate in the budget for schools.
This is in accord with the peti
tions presented to the board yes
terday morning.
tax rate for the 1962-63, are al
ready too high and should be low
ered.
The board took no action on the
tax questions at the morning ses
sion.
Budgets were presented by vari
ous department heads—all budget
requests exceeded the amount re
quested by the same departments
last year. .
W. D. A man Sr. and Elbert C.
Guthrie, Cedar Point, appeared be
fore the board to request passage
of a regulation limiting speed of
boats through the inland waterway
at Cedar Point.
Mr. Aman said the continual
wash from the wake of boats is
taking away their land. The mat
ter was referred to Luther Hamil
ton Jr., county attorney, and Odell
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Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, May 8
11:50 a.m. 5:27 a.m.
- 5:32 p.m.
Wednesday, May 9
12:03 a m. 6:20 a.m.
12:43 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 10
12:54 a.m. 7:21 a.m.
1:35 p.m. 7:41 p.m.
Friday, May 11
1:43 a.m
2:29 p.m.
8:24 a.m.
8:50 p.m.
truck was already there but noth
ing could be done to check the
blaze.
The truck carried 150 gallons of
water, according to fire chief El
Nelson, and this was used to put
out fires on utility poles and the
grass. No water was put on the
restaurant fire itself.
Mr. Marino said that nothing was
saved from the building, which
housed the restaurant and two
BOm VOYAGE
to the
$$ ARIADNE
Two Identify Wreck as
John I. Snow, Schooner
By BOB SIMPSON
The vessel that was shown on the
front page of THE NEWS-TIMES
May 4 stirred up a great deal of
interest in Carteret county’s his
tory. It has been identified by two
persons formerly of Portsmouth as
the wreck of John I. Snow, a large
three-masted trading schooner that
went ashore on Jan. 14, 1907.
From information gathered
through the courtesy of Steve Rob
erts of Morehead City and Jesse
McWilliams of Norfolk, the vessel,
gray-hulled with a white waist, it
is described, was bound from New
York to Charleston. She went
ashore on a quiet day in a very
heavy fog under full canvas.
When she came ashore she pass
ed over the outer reef and put her
bow full ashore. With the drifting
of sand it was said that the ladies
could board her from the starboard
bow without wetting their feet.
Charles S. McWilliams of Ports
mouth, keeper of the station, is
reported the first to find her. Al
bert Lewis of BcaufOrt was beach
master or wreckmaster, holding a
vendue pn the beach.
It was here that the first auto
mobile on Portsmouth Island ap
peared. It was a 1906 or ’07 Ford.
During die vendue a bulldog be
longing to the captain of the wreck
ed schooner seized firmly the seat
apartments over it. The apartments i
were unoccupied. The fire is the |
first to ever strike the Rex, the |
owner stated.
Marino commented that he felt,
if the business had been located
a little closer to Morehead City
it could have been saved. There
are no hydrants and no means of
getting water at the site, except
by pumping it from Bogue sound,
of the trousers of one Harris Ful
cher as he attempted to remove
some object that he had purchased
from the sale.
The cargo was listed as general,
described as ranging from peanuts
to bikes and everything in between,
including Edmund Clapp shoes, silk
shirts, rarebit and lime juice.
The story stirred memories of
some of the other wrecks in the
area and during the same period,
such as the Schoolcraft, Melrose
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Beaufort Precinct Elects New Leaders
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C. G. Holland, for 35 years a key
figure fn Beaufort in the Demo
cratic party, was voted out by an
overwhelming vote in the precinct
meeting at the courthouse Satur
day morning.
Mr. Holland, who was chairman
of the precinct committee, a for
mer sheriff of the county, and is
presently state fisheries commis
sioner, presided at the meeting.
He said prior to the meeting that
he knew there would be «n effort
to oust him, but he didn’t realize
it would be as well organised as
it was.
some distance behind the restau
rant.
Although the Marinos have been
planning for some time to build a
new Rex, Frank Marino said yes
terday that a family conference
will have to be held before any
decisions are made.
It was reported by one person
who viewed the ruins that quarters
in the cigarette machine had melt
ed into a solid chunk of silver.
Library Friends
Launch Drive
Miss Gladys Chadwick, president
of Friends of the Library, has an
nounced the opening of the 1962
membership drive. A member
contribution is $1 and patron con
tribution $5 or more, she said.
During the 1961 drive, 105 as
sociate members and 13 patrons
contributed to establish the Friends
of the Library. The group hopes,
to include many others who use
and support the library this year.
Completion of heating, lighting
and window improvements in the
building by the town of Beaufort
have paved the way for the library
group to paint the interior, Miss
Chadwick says. A story hour for
children will be presented again
this summer.
Membership contributions may
be mailed or taken to the county
library, Broad and Pollock streets
in Beaufort, or left at the book
mobile.
Democrats Elect
Atlantic Committee
By a vote of 31 to 27, a new pre
cinct committee was named at At
lantic Saturday morning by the
Democrats.
Members are Harry Fulcher,
chairman; Mrs. Clayton Fulcher,
vice-chairman; Cecil Morris, Ma
tilda Smith and Eugene Willis.
The south side of the court room
(The room is divided into three
seating sections), was loaded with
those who voted for a complete
turnover in the precinct commit
tee. Among those corralled for the
ousting were town trash truck driv
ers, delivery boys, taxi cab drivers
and numerous others — most of
whom probably had only a vague
idea of why they were there.
The new precinct committee,
nominated by Ronald Earl Mason,
past president of the Young Dem
ocratic club of the county, is com
prised of Leslie Springle, Mrs.
Famous Scientist
Visits County
During Weekend
Dr. and Mrs. Wernher Von Braun
flew here Saturday from Hunts
ville, Ala., where Dr. Von Braun,
the world famous missile and space
flight scientist, directs the activi
ties of the National Aeronautics
and Space administration.
With the pilot and co-pilot of
their private plane, they stayed
Saturday night at the Buccaneer
motel and spent Sunday looking at
cottages on the beach with the pur
pose of renting one for a three
months’ stay in July with their
two small children. The children
were not with them over the week
end.
The Von Brauns did not find a
suitable cottage Sunday but hope
that one, in a secluded part of the
beach will be available in July.
Anyone having such a cottage may
write to them at their home, 1516
Big Cove Road, Huntsville, Ala.
They looked over Spooner’s
Creek Harbor. Dr. Von Braun was
all in favor of staying there but
Mrs. Von Braun wants a cottage
on the water, a home where she
can do her own cooking.
In passing Dr. Von Braun told
Sherman Rock, president of the
Spooner’s Creek corporation, of an
incident last week when he attend
ed a reception for Russian space
man Gherman Titov and US space
man Col. John Glenn.
Spaceman Titov asked Dr. Von
Braun if he had any children and
Dr. Von Braun whipped out his
wallet to extract pictures of them.
Dr. Von Braum fumbled and all
of his credit cards, a whole, big
string of them, tumbled to the
floor.
Spaceman Titov asked what they
were and Dr. Von Braun said:
“these represent a capitalistic
conspiracy. When you Wtvc these
you flon’t need any money at all.”
County Has Clear
Weekend Weather
Clear weather with few clouds
prevailed during the last part of
the week. The weekend was sun
ny
The delightful weather led to fill
ed hotels and motels and crowded
the beaches.
Temperatures, according to E.
Stamey Davis, area weather ob
server, were ideal. High was Sun
day with 80, and the low for the
period was Friday with a night
time temperature of 54.
Thursday 66 64
Friday 77 54
Saturday 78 56
Sunday .80 56
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Chairman Announces Plans
For May Cherry Point Week
A. B. Cooper, Morehead City,
who is mayor of Atlantic Beach
and chairman of Carteret’s Cherry
Point Appreciation Week, has an
nounced the schedule of events.
The week will open Sunday, May
13. Churches throughout hte coun
ty are asked to gear their services
on that day toward the significance
of the armed forces, military per
sonnel and, particularly, Marines.
The Rev. B. L. Davidson, More
head City, chairman of the re
ligious aspect of the week, asks
that churches make a special ef
fort to invite Marines, their fam
ilies and Cherry Point civilian em
ployees to their churches that day.
Marines will be special guests
at the meetings of the Beaufort and
Morehead City Rotary clubs, More
head Jaycees and Civitan club
during the week.
The following motels and hotels
will entertain, free, the following
Theodore Salter, Howard Fulcher,
Mrs. Charles A. McCarthy and
Wiley Taylor Jr.
The committee later elected Mr.
Taylor chairman, Mrs. McCarthy,
vice-chairman, and Mrs. Salter,
secretary-treasurer. Precinct com
mitteemen serve for two years.
Mr. Taylor is solicitor of county
recorder’s court; Mrs. McCarthy
is secretary to Mr. Mason, Beau
Jort town clerk; and Mrs. Salter
is the wife of Dr. Theodore Salter.
The Beaufort town haU was clos
ed (at least no' phone calls were
answered) from 10 o’clock on Sat
Ariadne to Make Round
Trip to Bermuda
The first passenger liner to sail from Morehead City
in almost eight years will weigh anchor tomorrow. The
SS Ariadne of Caribbean cruise lines will arrive at More
head City Wednesday morning, according to the pres
ent schedule. •
Passengers will start going aboard at 1 p.m. and she
will sail at 3 p.m. on a five-day trip, Morehead City to
Bermuda and return. *♦
J. A. DuBois, manager of the
greater Morehead City chamber
of commerce, says that all accom
modations on the Ariadne are book
ed for the cruise. The liner carries
300 passengers. All go first class.
The ship’s facilities include swim
ming pools, sports and sun decks,
lounges, theatres and night clubs.
The chamber of commerce and
port personnel have worked out
detailed plans for the comfort and
pleasure of the passengers who
come to Morehead City to board
the Ariadne tomorrow and the Vic
toria. which will sail May 23.
School bands will play as the ship
sails and Morehead City’s party
boat fleet will escort her to the
ocean lane.
Mr. DuBois says, “All passeng
ers will get literature about our
county and they will never forget
the royal send-off they had at our
port, nor will they soon forget the
snappy sportsfishing fleet which
turned out for their departure.
Insurance agents will have their
convention aboard the 20,000-ton
luxury liner M/S Victoria. The Vic
toria will make the same five-day
Morehead City to Bermuda trip
as the Ariadne.
Fred Metcalf, passenger agent
for the Caribbean Cruise lines,
says, “North Carolina’s deep sea
cruise industry is shaping up as
an unqualified success.”
Persons interested in booking
passage aboard the Victoria should
contact the chamber of commerce,
PA6-3404 or the state port office,
PA6-3t58.
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Precinct No. 2
fleets Committee
The meeting of the executive
committee of Morehead City’s sec
ond precinct was held at 12:30 p.m.
Saturday in the office of the chair
man, Harvey Hamilton Jr.
Mr. Hamilton was re-elected to
the post he has held since the for
mation of the second precinct.
Other officers elected: Mrs.
Bruce Goodwin, vice-chairman;
Mrs. Paul D. King, secretary
treasurer; and Dr. John W. Mor
ris and Frank A. Cassiano.
No formal endorsement was
made of any candidates and all
major decisions were held in abey
ance until the county Democratic
convention.
Marine guests:
Oceanana motel and resort—two
couples with one child for one
night; two couples with two chil
dren for two nights; four pairs of
single Marines for two nights.
Bud Dixon motel—three pairs of
single Marines Monday night, May
14, with breakfast; two couples
with or without one child, Monday
night. May 14, with breakfast;
three pairs of single Marines and
two couples, with or without a
child Thursday night, May 17, with
breakfast.
Buccaneer motor lodge — three
pairs of single Marines Sunday
and Monday nights; two couples
with or without one child Sunday
and Monday nights.
Fleming’s motel — a family of
three Monday night, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Jefferson hotel — five pairs of
single Marines Sunday night and'
urday morning, in observance, ap
parently, of the victory across the
way at the courthouse.
Under new precinct regulations
set up by Sanford Democrats, it
is stipulated that either the chair
man or vice-chairman of the pjre
cinct committee must be a woman
—part of a sweeping program to
get more' women interested in the
“right” side of the Democratic
party.
Placed in nomination for the pre
cinct committee by J. D. Potter
were Mr. Holland, Mfs. C. L.
Beam, Otis Mades, Mrs. George
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Candidate Says
Benefit Program
Discriminates
S. A. Chalk Jr., candidate for
the Third Congressional district
seat charged today his opponent
had voted to tax all the citi2ens
of his district for unemployment
compensation benefits when a ma
jority of his constituents—the small
farmer, fisherman, laborer, paint
er, carpenter, clerk and others—
are ineligible to receive the bene
fits. Commenting on this Mr.
Chalk said,
‘‘Wealthy fish boat owners, hotel
operators, steel workers, and many
others with annual incomes of $20,
S. A. Chalk, candidate for Con
gress, will speak at the Kiwanis
club and Rotary club at Dunn to
day. The topic of his address will
be the Preservation of Freedom.
000 or more receive the benefits
when they don’t need them, and
large numbers of poorer people re
ceive nothing.
“It is a fact the unemployed
steel worker in Pittsburgh receives
more for not working than many
of our own people in tins district
make for working long hours and
risking their lives at sea. These
same people are in effect paying
the steel worker to loaf while they
try to scratch out a living.
“If elected to the Congress,” Mr.
Chalk said further, “I shall intro
duce legislation to change the un
employment compensation law so
it will not be unfairly discrimina
tory and provide equal treatment
for every citizen.
“My opponent is interested in
taxing his own people to give mon
ey to those in other districts who
are better off than they, as shown
by the per capita income figures.
"My election will insure that
something will be done to try to
correct the gross injustice done
to the worker who has no one to
represent his interest to get him
equal treatment,” said Mr. Chalk.
[Monday night with breakfast to be
served by the Jefferson restaurant.
Biltmore Motor hotel—three pairs
of Marines or three couples for two
nights, May 14 and 15th with break
fast served on those mornings.
The following motels at Atlantic
Beach, in connection with Atlantic
Beach Day will entertain Wednes
day night, May 16, two pairs of
single Marines or two couples:
Anchorage Marina and Lodge;
Beachcomber motel, Blue Marlin
motel, Coral Sands motel, Frontier
[Village, Hollowell’s motel.
Kincaid motel, Little Hurricane
motel, Seashore motel, Square
Deal motel and Teague’s motel.
Those to be entertained at the
motels and hotels will be selected
at Cherry Point, according to Mr.
Cooper.
The following piers are offering
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Huntley and Randolph Johnson.
Mrs. Beam is secretary in the
sheriff’s office; Mr. Mades is a
former Beaufort town commission
er; Mrs. George Huntley is wife
of a former member of the Beau
fort high school board, and Mr.
Johnson is principal of the Queen
Street ichool.
The vote for the slate presented
by Mr. Mason was 95 and for the
slate presented by Mr. Potter, «,
according to the vote talliers, Glen
HarriTw. H. Potter (mayor of
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