51at YEAR, NO. 88. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1962 *“
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Bridge Tourney.
Opens Today
# Play Will Continue
For Three Days
• Local Pair Among
Defending Champions
Bridge players “will open with a
bid for trophies” today as the 10th
annual Coastal Carolina Bridge
tournament gets underway at the
Biltmore hotel, Morehead City.
The tournament, sponsored by the
Carteret County Bridge Club, will
have from 60 to 140 players.
The duplicate bridge playing will
end Sunday night, when trophies
’ will be awarded to winners and
rupners-up. Refreshments will be
served during the tournament to
a0 playing guests.
Among the defending champions
wffl be Mrs. W. A. Mace Jr.,
Southport, and Mrs. George R.
Wallace, Morehead City, who won
the women’s pair trophy last year.
Silver prizes will be awarded
winners in each event, and other
prizes to runner-ups in the mixed
pair, open pair, team of four and
winners of the special game.
For the ninth year the Bonner
trophy, donated by the late Dr.
K. P. B. Bonner and by Mrs. Bon
ner, will be awarded winners of
the open pair game.
The American Contract Bridge
league will award master points
in each event.
Tournament committee chair
men are the following: Mrs. AI
Dewey, entertainment; Mrs. Floyd
Chgdwipk, hospitality; C. L. Beam,
publicity; Mm George Eastman,,
program.
'Mrs. C. R. Wheatly, women’s
pair; Jack Windley, men’s pair;
Mrs, Julia Tenney, open pair; Al
Dewey, team of four; Harry Saund
c£, mixed pair.
/Rules committee, Mrs. D. J.
Lewis, chairman; Mr. Dewey, Mr.
Sfetinders, Harold Hamrick, S. B.
< (l road foot, Miss Laeke Lentz; tour
nament director, Jerome S. Mach
Iltf.
I Eugene Hessee
Appeals Case
Eugene Hessee, Morehead City,
found guilty of public drunkenness
Tuesday in mayor’s court at At
lantic Beach, appealed to county
court. His case is docketed for
Tuesday, according to the beach
Chief of police, Bill Moore.
The mayor, A. B. Cooper, order
ed warrants issued for three who
failed to appear: Lenwood Turn
age, New Bern, charged with pub
lic drunkenness; Theodore H.
Everington, New Bern, loud and
profane language and disturbing
the peace; Harvey B. Avery, Have
lock, speeding in a 35-mile-an-hour
zone.
Turned o\er to military authori
ties were James R. Antill, Cherry
Point, charged with engaging in
a fight and disturbing the peace;
George T. Trentini, Cherry Point,
public drunkenness; and Thomas
J. Rakus, Cherry Point, engaging
i in a fight.
The mayor ordered the follow
ing to pay costs: Bobby Dean Dose,
Cherry Point, improper muffler
and disturbing the peace (Dose
was told to get his muffler fixed);
James A. Abraham, Cherry Point,
disturbing the peace, costs.
Marvin Clifton Davis, Kinston,
speeding in a 20-mile zone; Gerald
Lewis, Morehead City, fighting in
public and resisting arrest; Seth
J. Littleton, Swansboro, using loud
, and profane language and dis
turbing the peace; and Ronald
Jordan. 2310 Arendel) St., More
head City, failure to yield the
right-of-way.
The following forfeited bonds:
Chartes; T. MacSweeney, Camp Le
jeune, possessing non-taxpaid beer
and stolen property (the property,
a miniature golfing dub, was re
covered); Charles M, Glover, Camp
Lejeuhe, and Terry Willis, More
head City, interfering with police.
Douglas G. Bother, Bogue Field,
fighting in public and disturbing
the peace; Bobby Jones, Kinston,
exceeding the speed limit in a 35
mile-an-hour zone; Peter W. Her
bert, Norfolk, public drunkenness
and using loud and profane lang
uage.
Ronald Fonti Jr., Covington, La.,
interfering with an officer; James
Edward Hall, Dunn, and Robert
Cox, Selma, public drunkenness.
i Lloyd Lawrence, Bonham-1
Heights, Morehead City, was in
the county jail yesterday, charged
with breaking and entering and
assault with a dfcadly weapon.
Bond on Lawrence has been set at
$1,000, according to sheriff Robert
L. Bell. _
Mrs. Nellie Guthrie, Salter Path"
told officers that Lawrence broke
in her home at Salter Path early
Tuesday morning and held a shot
gun on her. Mrs. Guthrie’s sis
ter was in the house and they
managed to escape Lawrence, the
sheriff said.
Mrs. Guthrie then swore out the
warrant for his arrest. He was
picked up later Tuesday morning
by deputy sheriffs Billy Smith and
Carl Bunch. Lawrence is stationed
aboard the Coast Guard cutter Jon
quil, according to the sheriff's de
partment.
Sheriff Bell said there are indi
cations that Lawrence had been
drinking on the morning he enter
ed the Salter Path home.
Admitted to Morehead City hos
pital Wednesday was Mrs. Lloyd
Lawrence, Bonham Heights, who
had become ill from a dose of
sleeping pills. Mrs. Lawrence,
who was still in the hospital yes
terday, was taken there by am
bulance.
Newport Mayor
Inquires About
Mail/Cables
Mayor Leon Mann Jr., Newport,
has written postmaster R. K. Mon
tague, requesting that the post
master “take such steps as neces
sary” to procure door-to-door mail
delivery service for residents of
Newport and nearby areas.
Mayor Marih pointed out that a
ptgn is now under wilt to number
hmisfek' frt Newport. Population is
1,250 and the mayor said that with
the adjacent areas, probably 2,500
to 3,000 could be served by a post
man with a means of transporta
tion.
Mayor Mann also wrote Carolina
Power and Light Co. relative to an
underground cable system, which
would enable Newport to “re
forest” its streets without inter
fering with electric lines.
J. C. Richert Jr., CP&L vice
president, Raleigh, told mayor
Mann in reply that there were dis
advantages to the underground
system, but that George StovalL
CP&L manager, Morehead City,
would confer with the mayor about
the proposal.
The mayor pointed out that New
port was once very beautiful with
its tree-lined streets but “hurri
canes, disease, the tree experts,
plus the highway commission”
have taken their toll.
The mayor expressed the opinion
that an underground cable system
would simplify the problem the
town might face when it decides
to replant trees in a town beautifi
cation program.
Atlantic Seeks
Classmobiles
Board of education members
Monday heard a request for two
“classmobiles,” mobile classrooms,
at Atlantic. At present, Atlantic
has a partition in the library to
provide needed classroom space.
A delegation from Newport ap
peared before the board. Headed
by R. K. Montague, the group ask
ed that E. B. Comer, principal, be
reinstated for the coming year.
Mrs. Betty Tillery was named
treasurer at Queen Street school,
succeeding Mrs. Anp B. Williams,
who had resigned.
Extra sick leave was granted
Mrs. Barbara Hill, teacher at Stella
school. Mrs. Hill will return Mon
day. *
The board acted on two applica
tions for pupil reassignment, from
one school district to another. In
one, the pupil will remain at the
school where he is already enroll
ed and in the other, a pupil now
in Carteret will attend a Havelock
school, if the school accepts the
transfer.
Board members present were R.
W. Safrit Jr., chairman, D. Mason,
Theodore Smith, W. B. Allen, and
Dr. A. F. Chestnut.
Schools Discussed
Representatives from Beaufort,
Smyrna and Atlantic conferred
about schools Friday night at
Smyrna, according to W. R. Ham
ilton, chairman of the county Citi
xens for Better Schools committee.
Ariadne Sails 'Midst Gaiety
''i * News-Times Photos by Tom Sloan
Passengers go up the gangplank of the Ariadne, liner that departed from the state port in More
head City Wednesday afternoon for Bermuda. The Ariadne will return Monday.
The Morehead high school band and drum majorettes perform prior to the ship’s departure. Add
ing to the music for the occasion was a genuine calypso band aboard the Ariadne.
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Spectators wave goodbye as the cruise ship, with the aid of tugs, gets underway for Bermuda. The
bon voyage celebration was complete with bands, ticker tape, a large crowd of visitors and friends of
the passengers.
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Rule Sets Fishing
Pier Boundaries
A recently-adopted regulation
prohibits commercial or sportfish
ing of any type within 300 feet of
either side of a pier or within 500
feet in front of a pier in commer
cial fishing waters.
The division of commercial fish
eries points out that some sports
and commercial fishermen do not
know that such a regulation ex
ist*. Unless the regulation is ob
served, those who violate it arc
subject to prosecution, state au
thorities emphasize.
The regulation was sought for
a long time, prior to its adoption,
by sports fishermen and pier own
er* who objected to people who
fished or trawled close to piers.
Beaufort Firemen Put
Out Fire in Sawdust
Beaufort firemen made a call to
the site of the old Temple saw mill
Wednesday afternoon to put out
a fire in brush and a sawdust pile.
Later, more water was applied
when the sawdust pile caught fire
again,
1 Representatives of-the Caribbean
Cruise Lines told Morehead City
port personnel Wednesday that the
Ariadne send-off was one of the
nicest their liners have received
anywhere.
The Ariadne sailed at 3:30 p in
with all passenger accommodations
occupied. “Everyone who booked
passage showed up and on time,’’
said Charles McNeill, assistant op
erations manager, Morehead City
port.
He expressed thanks to the fol
lowing hostesses, who greeted pas
sengers at the gate, and at the
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW j
Friday, May 11
1:43 a.m.
2:29 p.m.
8:24 a.m. |
8^50 p.m. |
Saturday, May 12
2:36 a.m.
3:24 p.m.
9:20 a.m.
9:48 p.m.
Sunday, May 13
3:31 a.m.
4:19 p.m.
10:09 a.m.
10:38 p.m.
Monday, May. 14
4:27 a.m.
.5:09 p.m.
10:55 a.m.
11:25 p.m.
5:19 a.m.
5:54 p.m.
Tuesday, May 15
11:38 a.m.
entrance to the warehouse where
the voyagers went through cus
toms: Mrs. T. H. Potter, Mrs. C.
Edward Sharp, Mrs. Gilbert Pot
ter, Mrs. Albert Chappell, Mrs.
Bonzcll Lewis, Mrs. Bert Brooks,
and Mrs. Bob Slater, all of Beau
fort.
Mrs. Bill Maull, Mrs. Ben Al
ford, Mrs. Charles McNeill, Mrs.
Kenneth Wagner, Mrs. Thomas
Noe, Mrs. Austin Williams, and
Mrs. Jackie Lewis, all of More
head City.
The hostesses were entertained
at a luncheon at the Jefferson res
taurant at noon Wednesday. The
restaurant was host.
Mr. McNeill expressed thanks to
others: the Morehead City Floral
Co., which provided corsages for
hostesses; the Coca-Cola bottlers
who provided free cokes; the More
head City high school band and
director Ralph Wade; partyboats
and private yachts which accom
panied the Ariadne to the bar; and
the greater Morehead City cham
ber of commerce which provided
flags and sign materials.
Signs were painted by Mr. Mc
Neill.
The Caribbean cruise ship, Vic
toria, will .sail from Morehead City
Wednesday, May 23, on a five-day
cruise to Bermuda.
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County Asks Hospital Board
To Approve Building Plan
The county board of commissioners voted unanimous
ly Monday to ask the county hospital board of trustees
“proceed with dispatch to approve preliminary plans for
a new hospital and to seek restoration of federal funds.”
The state diverted federal funds to another project
when the county became involved in a hospital site con
troversy.
The board asked the county at-^
torney and county auditor to pro
ceed with the necessary legal
steps to “effect financing of the
project.”
This action followed reading of
a letter from the state attorney
general which said that a second
referendum on the hospital would
not be legally possible or binding.
At the April meeting of the coun
ty board, J. O. Barbour Jr., and
others, Beaufort, presented peti
tions asking for another referen
dum on the hospital and on hos
pital sites,
The letter from Wade Bruton,
North Carolina attorney general,
said in part, ”1 have considered
the matter and consulted the stat
utes and, in my opinion, there is
no statutory authority for reviewing
at a second referendum the results
of the first referendum. In my
opinion such second referendum
would be a nullity with respect to
the previously settled question as
to the bond issue and the tax levy.
“With respect to submitting the
question as to the site of the hos
pital, there is not only no statutory
authority for submitting such a
question to a vote of the people,
but an expenditure of county funds
for such a purpose would be un
lawful.
The letter came in answer to a
request by county attorney Luther
Hamilton Jp. for an opinion on. the
tSStyWTiS
Tbs board received a petition
tbi* month from the majority of
the medical profession in the coun
ty urging the building of the hos
pital at the earliest opportunity.
Jaycees Install
Officers Monday
Morehead City Jaycees installed
new officers Monday night, with
Joe Beam as the new president.
Other officers are first vice-presi
dent, Walter Willis; second vice
president, Billy Oglesby; treasur
er, Ed Hudson; secretary, Gus
Davis Jr.; directors, William H.
Smith, Gordon Willis Jr., L. E.
Kelly, John Wagner and Dick
Spears. Installed with the group
was Bill Singleton, new state di
rector.
Installing the officers was Dan
Rand, incoming state vice-presi
dent.
The annual installation banquet
was held at the Blue Ribbon res
taurant, with the installation cere
mony following a steak dinner.
The Jaycee “Key Man” award
went to club president Tommy
Ballou, and Ed Hudson was pre
sented with the “Outstanding Jay
cee” award. Awards were given
to the Carteret County News-Times
and radio stations for cooperation
with the club.
Getting the Jaycee “Exhausted
Rooster” de ugnations were Paul
Cordova, Charles Willis and Dr.
Russell Outlaw. Presentation of
the award was made by P. H.
Geer Jr.
After the invocation by Billy
Oglesby, president Ballou cited
the club’s 35 projects of the past
year, and reported the addition of
18 new members. A dance was
held at the close of the meeting.
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Joe Beam was installed as
president of the Morehead City
Jaycees at a banquet at the Blue
Ribbon restaurant Monday night.
Shrimp Season
To Open Monday
The shrimp season in waters
under the jurisdiction of the di
vision of commercial fisheries
will open at 12:01 a.m. Monday,
according to Hargrove Bowles,
director of the department of con
servation and development.
■Shrimping will be permitted
in inshore waters except where
! prohibited by regulation or where
the oyster shell planting program
is in progress.
Shrimping is not permitted on
Sunday. Announcement of the
opening of the season was made
yesterday by C. G. Holland, com
mercial fisheries commissioner,
following a discussion on shrimp
size and population with Dr. A.
F. Chestnut, director of the In
stitute of Fisheries Research.
Candidate Talks
To Veterans
K. A. Chalk Jr., Morehead City,
candidate for Congress, spoke to
a joint meeting of veterans groups
representing several counties last
night at the Veterans of Foreign
Wars post, New Bern.
Mr. Chalk this week l»ad&' a'
300-mile swing through the wester*
section of the third congressional
district, speaking Tuesday to the
Kiwanis and Rotary clubs of Dunn.
He was honored at a reception
at the home of James W. Snipes,
prominent businessman of Dunn,
Tuesday night. He also visited in
Sampson and Jones counties.
Dunn is in Harnett county, which
will become a part of the third
congressional district in January,
but people there will vote in the
coming primary for their repre
sentative in Congress.
Mr. Chalk said he talked with
hundreds of individuals who ex
pressed their disgust with the con
tinual voting of US funds to Com
munist countries and who were
shocked when they learned of the
voting record, in Congress, on is
sues of that type, by Mr. Chalk’s
opponent who is seeking re-elec
tion.
The Morehead City candidate
said he was most gratified at the
reception he received in counties
of the third district this week.
(Persons interested in promoting
Mr. Chalk’s candidacy for congress
are invited to contribute to THE
NEWS-TIMES Chalk for Congress
fund. Checks should be made out
to THE NEWS-TIMES and indica
tion should be made that they are
for the Chalk for Congress fund.
A detailed report on how the funds
were spent will be published fol
lowing the primary May 26.)
Theatre Presents Six
Awards Friday Night
Six awards were presented by
the Carteret Community theatre at
Fleming's restaurant.
Two awards went to Mrs. Tressa
Vickers, the service awards and
best director award.
The best actor award went to
the Rev. Robert Wood; best ac
tress, Mrs. Julia Herndon; best
supporting actor, Jimmy Thomp
son, and best supporting actress,
Peggy Holt.
Winners of all awards except tho
service award were chosen by a
group of judges who saw the thea
tre’s two productions this past sea
son. The first, in the fall, was
three one-act plays written and
directed by theatre members; and
the second was the Egg and 1.
Mrs. Vickers directed both pro
ductions. Mr. Wood played the
male lead in The Egg and I and
Mrs. Herndon the female lead.
Mr. Wood also appeared in One of
the one-act play£ and played the
lead in last season’s Little Minister.
Both Jimmy Thompson, son of
Mr. and 'Mrs. J. W. Thompson Jr.,
and Peggy Holt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. IJarl Holt, appeared in
The Egg and 1. Both are More
head City high school students.
School Official
Pleased With
Board's Action
• County Re-Sets Os
Proposed Tax Rate
• Budget Requests
To be Considered
"I’m glad to see they did it."
That was the reaction of H. S
Gibbs Jr., Morehead City, to the
county commissioners’ decision
Monday to keep the tax rate at
$1.75 and put 90 cents of the rate
in schools.
Mr. Gibbs, who is chairman of
the Morehead City school board, .
presented petitions to the commis
sioners Monday morning. The pe
titions sought the action the coun
ty board took. Mr. Gibbs acted
in place of Clyde Burr, chairman
of the county PTA council, who
could not attend.
When the matter was being dis
cussed, Moses Howard, chairman
of the county board, said he could
go along with the proposal, “until
such time as the money is needed
for the hospital.”
' Commissioner Gaston Smith said,
"It’s one for Ripley, but I’m will
ing to go along with it.”
The rate is still tentative until
formal adoption of the budget for
1962-63.
Commissioner Skinner Chalk ob
served,' “This is an election year
and there’s a lot of frustration.
Schools have been on a diet and
now- when we’re about to got odt
of debt, it looks as though we want
■to ban* a banquet,
"The board is supposed to have
given this tax rate considered
thought. If it is changed to $1.75,
I think the public should be made
aware of why. I wanted the rate
set at $1.85 four years ago when
they were talking school bonds.
"At that time the county board
and the board of education wouldn’t
go along with that. People will
ask why I voted for $1.85 then and
$1.60 this year. We must take
valuation into consideration. We’re
not in the position to do in one
year what everybody wants done.
“I think next year (with the
$1.60 tax rate) we’ll be doing
more for schools, proportionately,
than any other county in the state.
What we’ve levied is not enough
to do everything.
“You can’t start a hospital with
out working capital. There was
a lot of propaganda about the 10
cent levy for the hospital not need
ing to be levied. It must be.
“Some people are more concern
ed about the hospital than schools.
No county in the state has done
a better job with what they had
than has Carteret.”
He continued, “Carteret leads 21
eastern North Carolina counties in
development. We must make our
tax rate competitive with those in
Florida if we’re going to get the
retired people and others here to
continue that development.
“I understand the Taylor bro
See BOARD Page 8, Section 1
Entertainment at the dinner fea
tured three dancers, Greg Bell,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Bell,
Kay Canipe, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Arnold Canipe, and Carol
Willis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward J. Willis, all of Morehead
City.
Greg tap. danced to a jazz num
ber and My Blue Heaven; Miss
Canipe did two interpretive dances
to the Breeze and I and Bali Hai.
Little Miss Willis did the twist.
Group singing was led by Miss
Lorraine Carter and Miss Frances
Bass.
During a brief business session,
Mrs. Vergil Lewis told of the next
play, to be staged in June, The
Mistress of Mellyn. The play is
now In rehearsal and is directed
-by Mr*. Earl Holt.
The theatre decided to name
three judges of forthcoming plays
to serve as judges for awards at
the end of the season. The judges
will be given complimentary sea
son tickets. Six names were plac
ed in nomination.
A roast beef dinner was served.
The invocation wap given by Miss
Bass. Dinner arrangements were
supervised by Miss Stella Propst.