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51«t YEAR, NO. 45 EIGHT PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1962
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND
Fisheries Vessel Silver Bay
Rescues Jet Survivor at Sea
The federal government’s fish
eries exploratory vessel, Silver
Bay, made a dramatic rescue at
sea Tuesday of a radar observer
who had bailed out of a two-engine
F4H Phantom jet off the Carolina
coast.
The Silver Bay, berthed at More*
head City state port Sunday, was
presented a plaque by the rescued
man’s squadron, Cherry Point.
Rescued was first Lt. Howard E.
Albright. The lieutenant, his wife
and two children, Greg and Sherry,
were present for the presentation.
Robert Cummins, field party
chief on the Silver Bay, which is
doing exploratory work offshore,
said that Albright’s is the only suc
cessful water survival in bail-out
from a rear seat of a jet, accord
ing to Navy records. Albright suf
fered muscular aches, but other
wise was not hurt.
He bailed out at 30,000 feet at an
air speed of more than 400 knots.
The Silver Bay picked him up
shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday. It
was conducting routine work in
North Carolina waters north of
HatTeras and south of the Virginia
line about 60 miles offshore in 50
fathom waters.
At 7 p.m., Mr. Cummins said a
Navy fighter plane buzzed the Sil
ver Bay and made urgent wing
signals, attempting to point a di
rection. The Silver Bay crew saw
a red smoke flare in the distance
which had drifted with the wind,
but didn’t realize what the Navy
plane was trying to say.
The fighter returned and again
pointed a direction. Then, through
the binoculars, Silver Bay person
nel saw a man in a life raft with
in a mile’s distance.
The ship went to him, took him
aboard at 7:05 p.m. and by 7:35
p.m. was under way to rendezvous
with the 85-foot Coast Guard cutter
dispatched from Cape Henry. Lieu
tenant Albright was transferred
from the Silver Bay to the cutter
at sea at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
When the vessel reached the lieu
tenant in the life raft the first thing
he wanted to know, Mr. Cummins
said, was whether they had picked
up the pilot from the F4H from
which Albright had ejected.
The pilot, whose name was not
available yesterday, told Albright
to eject when the fire warning light
on his instrument panel flashed on.
The plane had a full load of fuel.
After Albright ejected, the light
went off and the pilot landed the
plane. It is assumed that there
was some fault in the wiring, which
caused the light to burn.
As soon as Albright had ejected,
Air-Sea Rescue was alerted and
two air-sea rescue craft and a heli
copter were dispatched to the vi
cinity of the Silver Bay. At the
time’, the Silver Bay was the only
water craft in the immediate vi
cinity of the life raft. The raft and
flares were all part of the lieuten
ant’s survival gear.
The plaque presented the Silver
Bay Sunday in ceremonies at port
side was for the “Phantom Pher
ret Plunders.” Lieutenant Albright
is a Marine assigned to Oceana,
Va., and stationed at Cherry Point,
according to Mr. Cummins.
Bullets Almost
Hit People
Reports of near misses by bul
lets have brought a warning from
the sheriff’s department that peo
ple firing weapons should do so
away from populated areas.
A bullet narorwly missed Mrs.
Luther Norris Jr. in her home on
the loop road west of Newport Sun
day A bullet also whizzed by the
head of a couple on highway 70
who were in their yard in the vi
cinity of the Village Beauty shop.
Deputy sheriff Carl Bunch said
that a 22 calibre bullet went
through a screen door and hit a
kitchen cabinet in the Norris home.
The incident occurred at about 6
p.m.
At approximately the same time,
a person in a car with a 45 calibre
pistol fired at a highway sign. The
bullet hit the sign but narrowly
missed a man, who with his wife,
was nearby. _■.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, June 5
10:32 a.m.
10:44 p.m.
4:18 a.m.
4:21 p.m.
Wednesday, June 8
11:26 a.m.
11:33 p.m.
5:02 a.m.
5:04 p.m.
Thursday, June 7
12:16 a.m.
5:48 a.m.
5:55 p.m.
Friday, June 8
12:20 a.m.
1:04 p.m.
6:38 a.m.
6:56 p.m.
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Hostesses Serve at Sailing
News-Times Photo by Tom Sloan
Hostesses at the sailing of the Victoria, bound for Bermuda May 23 were left to right, facing
camera, Mrs. Bonzell Lewis, Mrs. Austin Williams, Mrs. S. W. Hatcher, Mrs. Charles McNeill, Mrs.
Ben Alford, Mrs. Bill Maul!, Mrs. Ken Wagner, Mrs. Albert Chappell, Mrs. Thomas Noe, Mrs. Bob
Slater, Mrs. T. F. Potter, Mrs. Bert Brooks, Mrs. Ed Sharp, and, behind Mrs. Sharp, Mrs. Gilbert Pot
ter. The Victoria returned to M°rehead City last Monday morning.
Ray Lewis Relates His Reaction
i To Plea of Kidnaped Hitchhiker
“Nothing like that ever happened
around here before,” said Ray
Lewis, manager of the Sound Esso
Service, and one of the persons "in
volved in the capture of James
Floyd Sprinkle Wednesday.
' SpriniTle was captured in More
j head City after shooting his former
I employer in Winston-Salem and
holding a hitchhiker at gunpoint for
hours. Sprinkle and the hitchhiker,
Edgar Phifer Tallent, Newton, ar
rived in Morehead City Wednesday
afternoon and Tallent managed to
inform Mr. Lewis of his peril and
ask for.help.
“I didn’t take him seriously at
first,” Mr. Lewis said, saying that
Walter M. Dear, Publisher,
Dies, Funeral Rites Today
Walter M. Dear, 85, Jersey City,
N. J., father of Mrs. Lockwood
Phillips, Beaufort, and former pres
ident of the American Newspaper
Publishers association, died Satur
day morning at his home at 34
Bentley Ave.
The funeral service for Mr. Dear,
who had been closely associated
with THE NEWS-TIMES, Beaufort
and Morehead City, will be con
ducted at 11:30 a.m. today in the
First Presbyterian church, Jersey
City. Burial will be in Greenwood
cemetery, Brooklyn.
Surviving are his wife, Maud
Fuller Dear; three daughters,
Katharine A., Adelaide, all of Jer
sey City; Mrs. Phillips, Beaufort;
and two grandsons, Walter Dear
Phillips, Chapel Hill, and Lockwood
B. Phillips, Beaufort.
Mr. Dear spent 54 years in jour
nalism, becoming an outstanding
figure in newspaper publishing.
His father Joseph A. Dear, acquir
ed control in the early nineteen
hundreds of the Jersey Journal, of
which Walter M. Dear later be
came business manager, then gen
eral manager, and publisher.
In 1911 and 1912 he was presi
dent of the New Jersey Press as
sociation. and later he was honored
with lifetime membership in its
board of directors.
In 1928 and 1929 he and his bro
ther, judge Joseph A: Dear, led
the fight in Hudson county against
the Democratic leadership of may
or Frank Hague.
Later, when they no longer op
posed Mr. Hague, Mr. Dear testi
fied that during the fight the Hague
administration had brought pres
sure on theatre owners to cancel
advertising valued at more than
$50,000 a year and had sent uni
formed policemen and firemen to
discourage residents from buying
the paper. -
In 1931 Mr. Dear became -treas
urer of the American Newspaper
Publishers association. He was re
elected annually until 1939, when
he was elevated to vice-president.
He served as president from 1941
to 1943.
In 1943 he was named chairman
of the newspaper pulpwood com
mittee, which led a drive in twen
ty-seven states to overcome the
wartime shortage of pulpwood. For
he though at first glance that Tal
lent had been drinking. “When he
came back and spoke to me again,
I saw that his nerves were shot to
pieces, and I called the police.”
Tallent, on the pretext of using
the rest room, spoke to Mr. Lewis
when he entered the station, and
said that he had been held at gun
point in his moving pickup truck
for hours. Upon leaving, he told
Lewis that the man with him had
shot a man and was going to kill
him as soon as it got dark.
Tallent also said that he had been
driving Sprinkle around, waiting
for night.
“When he stopped and spoke to
Walter M. Dear
. . . noted publisher
his work, the publishers association
gave him its Distinguished Service
Award in 1944.
He also served on a committee
to study the wartime problems of
newspapers. He received the Dis
tinguished Service Award of Rut
gers university in 1941 and the gold
Achievement Medal of the Poor
Richard Club of Philadelphia in
1942.
In 1945 Mr. Dear sold what he
called “a considerable part” of his
holdings in the newspaper to Sam
uel I. Newhouse, reportedly for
$450,000. The publisher retired in
1948.
In 1951 Mr. Newhouse outbid J.
Albert Dear, Walter Dear’s neph
ew, and acquired complete owner
ship of the paper, reportedly for
$2,310,000. Walter Dear came out
of retirement in October 1951, to
be publisher while the paper ab
sorbed The Jersey Observer. He
served until April 1.
fhen, 75 years old, he retired for.
good. In 1959 Mr. Dear was elect
ed chairman of the Trust Company
of New Jersey, of which he had
been a director since 1913. He serv
ed until last year.
Mr. Dear was a frequent visitor
to the Beaufort-Morehead City
area. He had been in ill health
the past two years. Death came
I in his sleep Saturday morning.
Ray Lewis
. . I thought he was drunk”
me, I saw the other than reach
down in the floor of the truck,”
Lewis said, "I didn’t know if there
was going to be a shooting or not.”
Sprinkle and his captive were on
their way west, from Lewis’s sta
tion at 14th, on Arendell street,
when Lt. Bill Condie of the More
head City police department drove
up in back of the pickup truck
near 24th street. Tallent, who was
driving, stopped the truck and lieu
tenant Condie approached the truck
to capture Sprinkle at gunpoint.
Sprinkle has been returned to
Winston-Salem to await trial for
the shooting of Huntley Spencer,
33, manager of the Winston Steam
Laundry, where Sprinkle formerly
worked. Spencer was wounded in
the chest and arms by two blasts
from a sawed-off shotgun.
Officers of Two Posts
Installed Friday Night
Post No. 46 of the American Le
gion installed officers Friday night
in Morehead City, with Robert F.
Reed taking over as commander
for Post No. 46, and Curtis Modlin
as commander of the Beaufort post.
The installation, at the Legion
hut in Morehead City, was pre
ceded by a banquet. After the in
stallation, Capt. Charles L. Kessler,
USN, spoke.
Captain Kessler cited the Legion
for trying to keep the nation safe
by “peace through strength.”
Rehabilitation of the veteran and
his dependents is another Legion
objective, he stated, saying that
the Legion’s battle for the veterans’
rights helped the economy and also
provided many of the engineers,
doctors and other personnel so bad
ly needed in the 1950’s.
Captain Kessler also cited the
Legion’s work with youth, and urg
ed the display, of the American flag
and “old fashioned patriotism.”
Present for the installation were
department commander B. B. Hal
terman, Wilmington, and 6th dis
trict commander Leslie C. Watson,
New Bern.
Morehead City officers installed,
besides commander Reed, were
Democrats Wiii Go to Polls
Again Satu rday, June 2 3
Sheriff, County Board
Candidates in Question
Registered Democrats of the county will be going to
the polls again Saturday, June 23.
Ralph Thomas, candidate for sheriff, Gaston Smith
and Tommie Lewis, candidates for county commissioner,
yesterday presented formal requests for a run-off to the
county board of elections.
Sanford to Launch
Accident Attack
In statewide tv addresses this
week Gov. Terry Sanford will
launch a continuing program to
cut the number of traffic deaths
in the state.
According to R. H. Brown of
the state highway patrol in this
county, the governor and the pa- ,
trol are joining hands in a “hard
hitting attack” on highway acci
dents.
All are invited to listen to the
governor from 9:30 to 10 p.m.
Wednesday over WITN, or at the
following times and stations: Sat- j
urday, June 9, 5:30 p.m. WECT,
Wilmington, or 5:30 p.m. WITN,
Wilmington.
9-Year-Old Boy
Drowns Sunday
While Swimming
The body of 9-year-old David
Earl Jones, Charleston, S. C., was
found about 9:30 a.m. Sunday 500
yards west of Sportsman’s 'pier,
where he got into trouble while
swimming and drowned. The body
was found washed up on the beach
by Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen.
The boy and his family had re
portedly stopped here for a couple
days of fishing before going on to
Wake county to spend their vaca
tion with relatives. His parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy V. Jones, were
reportedly on the fishing pier at
the time and David and a brother
were in the water. They were in
an area where there are no life
guards.
The Coast Guardsmen gave him
mouth to mouth respiration until
the Dill ambulance arrived to take
him to Morehead City hospital.
He was dead on arrival at the hos
pital.
The drowning is the second in
the county in a week. Curtis Tuck
er, 27, Rocky Mount, drowned Sat
urday, May 26, at Fleming’s pier.
The funeral service will be con
ducted at 4 p.m. today at Six Forks
Baptist church in Wake county by
the Rev. B. M. Spence. Burial
will be in the church cemetery.
He is survived by his parents,
two brothers, John and Vernon of
the home, and two sisters, Mrs.
B. M. Hobbs of Garner and Mrs.
Edna Morris, Raleigh.
Father of Year Contest
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Entries Being Accepted
first vice-commander Joseph A.
DuBois, second vice-commandcr
William E. Wade, finance officer
and adjutant Walton Fulcher, chap
lain George W. Ball, service of
ficer Luther Hamilton Jr., his
torian Josiah W. Bailey Jr., and
sergeant-at-arms Lester Hall.
Beaufort Post officers are com
mander Curtis Modlin, first vice
commander-Rasper Gurganis, sec
ond vice-commandcr Ben Merrcll,
finance officer C. L. Beam, chap
lain David Modlin, sergeant-at
arms Evan Jarman, historian Wil
liam Norris, service officer Ivey
Mason Jr., and adjutant David Hill.
A pin and citation was presented
in absentia to William Wade, past
post commander, now in the vet
erans* hospital in Fayetteville.
The,group also presented a check
to Miss Lorainc Carter, sponsor of
the Ftiture Business Leaders of
America, toward the club’s drive
to raise funds to go to the nation
al FBLA convention in Cincinnati,
Ohio, this month.
Ben Webb, a member of the club
at the Morehead City high school
and state vice-president, is a can
didate for the presidency on the
national level.
« Mr. Thomas, Beaufort, appeared
before the board at 11:45 a.m. with
a written request for a second pri
mary. Mr. Smith, Atlantic, pre
sented his written request about
five minutes later, and Mr. Lewis,
Markers Island, appeared a few
minutes before noon with his re
quest.
The elections board, meeting in
the elections office on the first
floor of the courthouse annex, said
it would proceed to make plans for
the second primary.
Denied was a request by Warren
T. Willis, Beaufort, for a run-off
in Beaufort township for constable.
The board ruled that Mr. Willis
was not eligible to request a run
off. Ronald Smith, candidate for
constable polled 673 votes May 26,
which was 33 more than the com
bined vote of the two other can
didates, Janies Laughter, who poll
ed 138. and Willis, who polled 502.
In the June 23 primary, voters
| will vote for one of two candidates
[ for sheriff, Robert Bell, now sher
! iff of the county, or Mr. Thomas.
! Sheriff Bell polled 2,911 votes
; May 26; Mr. Thomas polled 2,273,
; and Edgar L. Hibbs 676. The sher
iff’s opponents together polled 38
more votes than sheriff Bell.
On the county commissioner
slate, voters will vote for two of
the following four: Dom Femia,
Rudolph Mason, both of Morehead
City, Mr. Smith and Mr. Lewis.
Mr. Femia ran fourth in the May
26 balloting with 2.603 votes, Mr.
Mason fifth with 2,304, Mr. Smith
The total number of votes for
sheriff Robert Bell, in the election
return table published Friday
should have read 2,911, the total
for C. Z. Chappell, 2,765. Persons
who clipped the table for future
reference arc requested to make
these corrections.
sixth with 2.259, and Mr. Lewis
seventh with 2,159.
All Democrats eligible to vote
in the May 26 primary will be able
to vote June 23. Anyone who has
become eligible to vote since May
12 will also be able to vote, accord
ing to the board of elections, but
the registration books will not be
opened for a formal registration
period
The procedure for registration
by persons who become eligible
between May 12 and June 23 will
be announced.
Miss Betty Jo Gray, daughter of
Mr.and Mrs. Willie Gray, and Miss
Mary Alice Morris, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. John Morris, will repre
sent Morehead City school at Girls
State this year. Girls State will be
held at Woman’s college, Greens
boro, June 18-23.
Entries are now being accepted
for the 1962 Father of the Year
contest, sponsored by businessmen
in Morchcad City. Deadline for en
tering is 10 a.m. Wednesday, June
13.
The contest is open to any father
in the county including those tem
porarily away from home or in
the Armed Services. Employees of
THE NEWS-TIMES and participat
ing stores are not eligible.
Any relative or friend may sub
mit entries and there is no limit
to the number sent for any fath
er. On each entry blank must be
written in 25 words or less the
reason for the entry.
Entry blanks are available at
the following participating stores in
Morehead City:
Adams Furniture Co., Hill's,
Leary’s, Morehead City Drug Co.,
Capt. Bill’s restaurant, Belk’s and
Sound Chevrolet Co.
Each of these businesses will of
fer valuable prizes to the winner,
who will be determined by a pan
el of judges. The winning father
will be presented the prizes at the
Morehead City municipal building
Saturday, June 16. Complete de
tails arc available on page 2 of
today’s paper.
A carburetor fire caused about
$25 damage to a 1961 Comet owned
by Dalmon Lawrence, Morehead
City, last week. Morehead City
firemen were called to the A&P
parking lot, where the car caught
Reigns as Marlin Queen
Miss Kay Canipe, Morehead City, chosen marlin queen for the
marlin tournament festivities, rides her float in the marlin parade
Saturday in Morehead City.
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Fabulous
Fishing..
By Bob Simpson
“The Young Man and the Sea”,
is the “prize-winner” here this sea
son: Dr. LcRoy Allen, Raleigh,
out again this year in his 23-foot
outboard boat, in an approximate
ly four-hour battle, finally whipped
his 487-pound blue nrjarlin. He
brought Ihe fish into the Anchor
age late Sunday, first lashed along
side and finally towing it astern.
It was strictly a solo event, from
start to finish, and Dr. Alien re
fused all offers of assistance, al
though Arthur Lewis’ Bunny Too
acted as escort vessel for a while.
Last year Dr. Allen fished the
whole tournament, boated a white
marlin the day after the contest
ended.
As we said last week, it’s going
to be a great marlin year. Bill
Olsen, who brought in Morehead
City’s first, that was in ’59, is back
in harness again, skippering El
Toro, a private boat. On the first
two days of the tournament H. H.
Williamson, Fayetteville, brought
in two firsts with Capt. Bill—he
was the first angler in on opening
day with a 312-pound blue marlin,
and landed the season’s first sail,
at 7 feet 2 inches.
The opener was Emmett Cody,
Hickory, who caught his marlin,
at 239 pounds, from Jack Lewis’
Tom ’n’ Jerry. The rest of the
first-day score of six: Tony Rom
anowsky, Winston-Salem, a 311
pounder aboard D. B. Willis’ Willy
Wica (a private boat); A. T. Glenn,
Burlington, a 209-pounder aboard
George Bedsworth’s Dolphin One;
W. J. McCall, Winston-Salem, who
caught his 338-pounder from Hubert
Fulcher’s Blue Water; and Joe
Hodges, Wilson, who landed the
largest that day, at 401L pounds,
from Bolo Jr., an Ocean City, Md.,
Chamber Manager Views
Past, Sees Future Needs
I. A. DuBois, manager of the
greater Morchcad City chamber
of commerce, who has resigned,
makes the following statement re
lative to chamber activities in the
past and chamber potential:
Members of the Chamber of Com
merce and hundreds of others who
have worked unselfishly with me,
the Chamber of Commerce and
communities throughout the county
to secure the completion of the
many projects which have made
Carteret the Boom County which
it is today, may be proud of your
accomplishments.
Some of the most important pro
jects completed in the last 12 years,
have been better highways and
bridges, mosquito control, a truly
All Seashore Highway, a vastly
expanded state port, improved
waterways, a Department of Water
Resources, a trunk-line railway,
hurricane rehabilitation and beach
preservation, a county planning
commission, and ,an industrial
development corporation. To men
tion all of the advertising and
promotion would take many extra
pages.
What have these projects, which
we now take forgranted, meant to
you and all of Carteret in the short
period of 12 years?
boat here for the tournament.
Another out-of-state boa*t, Jomar
II, brought in a 278-pounder Sun
day; it was caught by the owner,
Joseph A. Teti, Philadelphia. Per
cy Simmons, Fayetteville, caught
a 233-pound blue from Ray Coats'
boat, Blue Mgrlirt. That brought
the two-day total to nine, with
countless knockdowns, and marlin
hooked but lost.
None in the tournament yet for
Pyramus, still basking in the glory
of that 600-odd pound North Caro
lina record from last week. Anoth
er Wrightsville Beach boat is ex
pected: Manana is coming to fish
the rest of the tournament.
The opening parade was a small,
but lively, success, with the mayor
at one end of the procession, queen
at the other, and that fast-stepping -
Williston High band in the middle.
The townspeople are enthusiastic
in support of this festival, helping
out with the bed and board of vis
iting observers.
A large part of the observer
corps is made up of the movie
crews: a 3-man crew is spread out
for the film that is being financed
in part by charterboatmen and
businessmen, and two men arn
filming the tournament for the Na
tional Wildlife Federation.
Both of these films will be dis
tributed for millions of viewers.
Other observers to date have in
cluded State Wildlife commissioner
Phil Ellis, Lynn Stephenson of
WRAL Radio, veteran sporlsfish- ‘
ermen J. D. Rivers and Bill Hen
ry, and our friend Bill Chalk,
Morchead City.
The center of Interest at present
is marlin, but as soon as the tour
nament is over there’ll be plans
afoot for a pier tournament.
• A population increase of 34
per cent, the fourth highest per
centage among the state’s 100
Counties.
• An increase in retail sales of
over 300 per cent which is reflect
ed in every phase of our economy.
• A comfortable, though not
large enough, increase in per
capita income.
• An increase in every area of
our economy from day-to-day and
year-to-year, and we don’t want
it to stop now!
I wish to thank each and every
one of you for having made my
job one of great pleasure and
satisfaction. Although 1 am retir
ing, I hardly think that I shall
become resigned to the “Old Rock
ing Chair,” for there is still much
to be done and 1 can be counted
upon to do everything possible for
growth and progress in Carteret
conty.
The job of progress is never com
pleted and certainly no one person
can do it, so ask that you
crease your support and backin^aC
the only organization which
done and can do the job impartially
and unselfishly . . your Greater
Morehead City Chamber of Com
merce. The greater the
the more it can do.
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