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61st YEAR, NO. 46
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. N. C.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1962
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS
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First Week of Workshop
Plans Listed by Director
Letters went out today to regis
tcred students announcing plans
for the first week of Beaufort’s
summer workshop. The workshop
will be located at 211 Ann St., in
the old Baptist parsonage. The
director, Mrs. Charles Hassell, an
nounces the following orientation
events for students and the public:
Sunday, June 17: Open house at
the workshop from 2 to 4 p.m. The
public is invited.
Wednesday, June 20: Art students
will meet with the teachers for
general orientation.
Friday, June 22: Free demonstra
tion of arts, crafts. Tin and cop
per tooling and aluminum etching
will be demonstrated from 2 to 5
p.m.
Students will be accepted,
through the first week, in music,
piano ensemble and speech courses.
Arts and crafts classes are open
to new students throughout the
six-week period.
Troopers Report
Five Accidents;
Three Injured
State troopers reported five ac
cidents during the week, some oc
curring during Wednesday after
noon’s heavy downpour of rain.
A 1956 Ford, driven by Donzie
Lee Wilson, North River, turned
over Monday noon on the Merri
mon road. Wilson was unhurt, but
was charged with driving without
insurance, nd registration and ex
ceeding a safe speed.
The accident happened during a
rain, according to trooper W. J.
Smith, who investigated.
At 9 p.m. Tuesday two cars col
lided on. the Salter Path road ett
the curve at the 'Coral Bay club.
One was a 1959 Chevrolet driven
by Dewey W. Wilson, Harkers Is
land, and the other a 1962 Ford
driven by Arnold H. Brantley, Dur
ham.
Brantley was headed toward Sal
ter Path and Wilson toward the
Beach. The two sideswiped. Mr.
and Mrs. Brantley and their 6
year-old son were all hospitalized
with injuries. The cars were de
molished.
State trooper J. W. Sykes said
Charles Guthrie, Harkers Island,
was a passenger in the Wilson, car.
Wilson was charged with careless
and reckless driving.
A 1959 Plymouth, driven by Ver
non Thomas, Camp Lejeune, turn
ed over on highway 24 near Ho-Ho
Village at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday.
State trooper W. E. Pickard, said
that Thomas, headed west, ran into
rain. He was not hurt but was
See ACCIDENTS, Page 7
In the Red!
Unless the county raises more
than the current $600, the Red
Cross chapter here will cease to
exist as of next Friday, a week
from today.
The Red Cross campaign of
about a month ago yielded only
a couple hundred dollars.
Through special effort of Mrs.
Garland Scruggs, Morehead City,
the rest of the amount now in
hand was raised this week.
It is hoped that $5,000 can be
raised. Persons who have neglect
ed to contribute, or who have
• promised to mail checks and
have not done so, are asked to
mail their donations, immediate
ly, to Garland Scruggs, chapter
chairman, Morehead City.
.Won’t you help send the ther
mometer up?
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Commissioner
Given Plaque
• Presentation Made
Tuesday at Newport
• Steve Smith Honored
By Fellow Officials
Mayor * son Mann, Newport, pre
sented to street commissioner
Steve Smith Tuesday night at the
Newport town board meeting an
engraved plaque designating com
missioner Smith as the outstand
ing commissioner of 1961-62.
Commissioner Smith was select
ed for the honor by secret ballot
of his fellow commissioners.
Mayor Mann read a letter of
commendation and said, “If we
had more citizens who took as
much interest in the town as you,
tt\ere'd be a big difference in New
port in a hurry. You’ve been a big
help to me.”
The board approved the employ
ment of George Peacock as sum
mer recreation director from July
Steve Smith
. . . ‘best commissioner’
1 to Sept. 1, and approved the bud
get for the 1962-63 fiscal year,
which totals $25,130.13.
Gordon Cutler, water department
administrator, reported cash on
hand May 31 at $7,130.62.
Larry Howard, one of the op5»*a
tors of the Newport drag strip,
appeared before the board relative
to complaints about a sign direct
ing people to the drag strip from
highway 70 through West Newport.
The West Newport residents, ac
cording to commissioner Dick Loc
key, feared that increased traffic
would create an additional hazard
to children m the area.
Because the sign is on private
property, the town board said it
had nothing to do with it, but the
commissioners agreed with Mr.
Howard that “if the sign creates a
problem,” another conference on
the matter will be held.
Charles Gould, fire chief, ap
peared to request funds for fire
men’s insurance.
Ed Warren was present to com
plain about debris left by the
builder, Carl Johnson, on lots in
West Newport subdivision. Miss
Edith Lockey, clerk, was directed
to write Mr. Johnson and, ask him
to clean the lots in question, or the
town would clean them and the
cost would constitute a lien against
the property until it was paid,
i W. H. Hedgepeth, Havelock, was
granted ah option on several ceme
tery lots, for possible construction
of a mausoleum, provided there
are no legal restrictions against
the proposal.
Business license fees were dis
cussed. It was reported that Jos
eph Minatel, civil defense' chief,
bad attended a civil defense meet
ing at Jacksonville Florida. Ex
penses totaling $83 were paid by
the town.
General town operation bills
were reported to total $1,084 and
building fund bills (town hall),
$1,000. The mayor said 196$ tax
bills would be sent out this week.
Elks Will Observe Flag
Day at 5 P.M. Thursday
Morehead City-Beaufort Elks
will sponsor the annual Flag Day
ceremony at the lodge in More
head City at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Flags which have flown over this
country will be shown and an out
door flag and flag staff dedicated.
The ceremonies will be fallowed
by an open house and refresh
ments. The public is invited.
Youth Pronounced Dead at Hospital;
Robert McLean Taken in Custody
BUI Sample
. . . victim of shooting
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Board Hears
Opposite Views
On School Issue
The county board of education
on Monday heard requests that a
school be built for elementary chil
dren at White Oak and that a school
not be built.
The board took no action,- pend
ing completion of a survey of the
situation and consultation with the
State Department of Public In
struction.
John Bell spoke in favor of a
school, and M. P.- Mincey and J.
B. Dickens against.
Read was a letter from the PTA
at Atlantic, which was sent to Clay
ton Fulcher Jr., chairman of the
Atlantic school committee. The
letter stated that the PTA was in
favor of a consolidated school, the
site to be established on the basis
of pupil mileage.
Read was a resolution from
county commissioners commending
the board of education for its ex
cellent work.
The board passed a resolution
of respect for Earl H. Willis, who
died as the result of auto accident
injuries. Mr. Willis was a board
of education employee. George
Gooding, Beaufort RFD, has been
employed in Mr. WUlis’s place.
The board adopted a policy rel
ative to pregnant high school stu
dents continuing in school. De
tails'wUl be published next week.
Three applications for change of
pupils from one school district to
another were denied.
Robert Safrit Jr., board chair
man, presided. i
Admiral Visits Fort Macon
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Looking at plans for the proposed dock for the cutter Chilula at Fort Macon Coast Gaard sta
tion are Cdr. David Permar, chief of the civil engineering division, United States Coast Guard; may
or George Dill, Morehcad City; Radm. H. 1. Wuensch, USCG; mayor W. H. Potter, Beaafort; and
LL John Riddell, commanding officer of Fort Macon group.
Kadm. H. i. Wuenseh, command
er of the Fifth Coast Guard dis
trict, outlined the Coast Guard's
plans for improvements in this
area when he met with port and
civic officials Wednesday after
noon at Fort Macon.
Admiral Wuenseh said that the
Coast Guard recognizes the im
portance of Fort Macon station,
commenting that Morehead City is
the first deep water port south of
Norfolk. The admiral observed
that Fort Macon, site of the future
$315,000 dock and dockside facili
ties for the cutter Chi'"i f is get
ting a major slice of Guard
funds for the coming \ year.
Following constfoctio. :: f the
Cfailula facilities, the ad. - ll said
A Morehead City teen-ager was fatally wounded by
a shotgun blast when he attempted to wake a friend early
Thursday morning. Billy Sample, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Sample, 903 Evans St., was shot while he was try
ing to wake up Robert McLean, 1605 Shepard St.
The blast was tired by Hubert c."
McLean, father of the younger
McLean, who thought Sample was
trying to break into his home. Ac
cording to Lt. Bill Condie of the
Morehead City Police department,
both youths had planned to leave
home in the early hours and go to
Atlantic Beach. i
The McLean boy had taken off
the screen from one of his bed
room windows and had gone to bed
close by the window. Sample arriv
ed at the McLean home about 3:30
a.m., and attempted to wake Mc
Lean.
Mrs. McLean, mother of the
youth, was awakened by dogs
barking and wakened her husband
who got up, loaded a shotgun and
went to another portion of the
house where he could observe the
area where they had heard noises.
Upon arriving at a window that
overlooked young McLean’s bed
room window, Mr. McLean saw
someone leaning into the window,
and thrust his gun through the
closed window glass and screen
facing him. Mr. McLean told po
lice that the gun went off, and
Sample fell with a wound under
his shoulder on the back.
Lieutenant Condie, who arrived
a short time later, said that Sam
ple was lying beside the window,
seriously hurt. After being taken
to the Morehead City hospital by
the Bell-Munden ambulance, Sam
ple was pronounced dead at 3:55
a.m. by Dr. L. J. Norris Jr.
Lieutenant Condie said that the
younger McLean was trying to re
vive Sample by artificial (mouth
to mouth) respiration when he ar
rived. The McLean house is in tjic
form of an “L”, with both windows
involved in the shooting on the
inside of the “L”.
, Mr. McLean was taken by sher
iff Robert Bell to a jail outside the
county yesterday afternoon, accord
ing to Morehead City police chief
Herbert Griffin, who said feeling
toward Mr. McLean was “running
high.” The prisoner is an em
ployee at Cherry Point.
The father of the Sample youth
is also employed at Cherry Point.
The boy’s mother is assistant cash
ier at the First-Citizens Bank and
Trust Co., Morehead City, and
president of the Carteret Business
and Professional Women’s club.
Coroner David Munden said yes
terday afternoon that he would
confer with solicitor Robert L.
Rouse Monday in Beaufort relative
to the case. Whether an inquest
would be held or the case sent to
the grand jury immediately would
be determined then, the coroner
said.
approximately $l4o,000 will be
spent in other improvements at
Fort Macon base.
The Coast Guard is planning to
replace the Frying Pan Shoals
lightship with a permanent, man
ned light structure, with the light
ship at Diamond Shoals to be re
placed at a later date.
The $1,300,000 contract for the
structures is expected within the
new 1962-63 fiscal year.
Lightships are expensive to op
erate and maintain, admiral
Wuensch stated. The new light
structures, four, legs .anchored on
the ocean floor, have a much longer
life spar..
Also in the future for navigation
al aids in this area are a new
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County Board
Sets Allocation
Of Tax Rate
County commissioners approved
allocation of the county’s $1.75 tax
rate Monday afternoon, and took
the proposed budget under study
in respect to budgets for individual
departments.
Share of the various departments
in the $1.75 rate are as follows:
general fund, 20 cents; special
services, 10 cents, building main
tenance, 3 cents; welfare, 10 cents;
health, 10 cents; public schools,
95 cents; old age assistance, three
cents; aid to dependent children,
3 cents; aid to totally and perma
nently disabled, 3 cents; aid to
blind, 1 cent; debt service, 17 cents.
The 17-cent levy is to pay off
school notes amounting to $117,455.
These are expected to be paid by
December 1962.
The county’s bonded debt will be
cleared off the books the end of
this month. The bonded debt, in
1936, totaled $4l/2 million.
The board also moved to defer
action on the county’s Civil De
fense department. The board has
been informed that $2,094 would be
needed to operate the department
for the coming year. A. total of
$1,500 was budgeted last year for
the department.
Discussion showed that the coun
ty’s survival plhn, now incomplete
would enable the eottnty to get gov
ernment surplus property when
completed. The board voted to
delay action for 30 days, and in
vestigate the situation and see if
money is available to meet the
Civil Defense costs.
The board endorsed two requests,
one of the town of Atlantic Beach
to the Corps of Engineers for work
on the causeway channel, and one
at the request of commissioner
Gaston Smith for a ferry between
Cherry Point and Minnesott Beach
A petition for inquiry into dredg
ing and flood control for the White
Oak river bit the dust after in
formation from the Corps of Engi
neers showed that the county, or a
drainage district formed in the
affected area, would have to pay
one half of the cost, and maintain
the system thereafter.
The dredging project would cost
See BOARD, Page 7
transistorized lighted buoy, that
has proved more reliable than the
present types. The buoys are due
to be installed within two years,
and will afford increased candle
power in some cases.
A nuclear-operated buoy is also
in the process of being developed.
Admiral Wnensch praised Coast
Guard 'Reservists and said he ex
pected to return at an early date to
inspect the Fort Macon Coast
Guard Reserve unit commanded
by Cdr. D. G. Bell, Mqrehead City.
Walter Friederichs, operations
manager, Morehead City state port,
and mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
commended the Coast Guard for
its excellent work in this area.
See ADMIRAL, Yage 1 __
The fatal shooting of Billy Sample, 15, Thursday morning took place at this home on Shepard street.
The window where Sample was shot is on the side of the house, behind the small wing to the left in
the above picture.
Silver Bay Continues Study
Of New Scallop Beds Offshore
Directors Plan
Monday Night
Dinner Meeting
Directors of the greater More
ihead City chamber of commerce
set 8:30 p.m. Monday for a dinner
meeting at the Hotel Fort Macon
dining room, when they met Mon
day night at the chamber office.
At a special coffee meeting last
week, directors were asked to col
lect dues. The treasury had $350
in it Monday night and it was re
ported that dues were coming in
more slowly than expected.
Membership and method of col
lecting dues was discussed.
Frank Cassiano stated that the
chamber needed to sell its pro
gram to all the people of Carteret.
William Davies said he could not
understand why every business in
the county was not a member,
since they are all profiting from
the chamber funds raised by their
neighbors.
S. A. Chalk told of the lasting
impression made upon the pas
sengers of the SS Victoria by the
splendid send-off given them May
23. He said that many from other
stales saw this coastal area for
the first time.
Motels and hotels reported over
80 rooms occupied by these pas
sengers, some for three days be
fore the cruise, as well as after
the ship returned from Bermuda.
The manager’s report on in
quiries answered during the month
of May was: vacation—907, fishing
—238, hotcl-motel-cottages—118, re
tirement—196 and general inquir
ies, 91 for a total of 1,550 breaking
the April record jf 1,150, and all
past records.
There was a suggestion that a
collector of dues be employed, but
the matter was tabled.
Episcopal Rector, Beaufort, Accepts
Call to Christ Church, New Bern
The vestry of St. Paul’s Episco
pal church, Beaufort, accepted
with regret at its meeting Tues
day night the resignation of the
rector, the Rev. C. Edward Sharp.
Mr. Sharp has accepted a call to
The Rev. C. Edward Sharp
... to leave Beaufort
► The fisheries exploratory vessel
Silver Bay has found sea scallops
in commercial quantities off the
North Carolina coast. The Silver
Bay, working now in offshore
waters, sailed from Morehead City
Monday afternoon to the scallop
beds and is hoping to define the
boundaries of the beds.
The beds wero’actually found.;In
November and December, but com
plete'tMxplorations could not be
completed then.
The Silver Bay discovered, sev
eral years ago, calico scallop beds
off Core banks, but after these were
■Jtshed t^tmtrcially for a couple
seasons, the scallops could not be
located any more
Unlike oysters, scallops (a shell
: fish) can move themselves around.
The Silver Bay is using Gorges
bank type scallop dredges in its
present exploration work. It was
while working offshore last week
that the Silver Bay rescued a radar
interceptor observer who had bail
ed out of an F4H-1 Phantom II.
After finishing the scallop ex
plorations, the Silver Bay plans
to check on the type of fish off
North Carolina between 50 and a
thousand fathoms, according to
Robert Cummins, field party chief
aboard the vessel.
The Silver Bay left its home
base, Brunswick. Ga., for North
Carolina waters on Thursday, May
24, and plans to return home Wed
nesday.
Silver Bay personnel showed
film of underwater trawling opera
tions to Carteret fishermen Sunday
afternoon at the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries building, Pivers
Island.
To Give Prizes
Newport fire department, to
finance fire equipment purchase,
will give away a garden tiller and
a steam iron July 4. Tickets are
50 cents each and arc available
from any .fireman. The firemen
report that you do not have to be
present to win.
Christ Church parish, New Bern.
The vestry, in accepting the rec
tor’s resignation, said his new
work “calls for new responsibili
ties and more opportunities.”
The resignation becomes effec
tive Sept. 1. At the recent con
vention of the Episcopal diocese of
East Carolina, Mr. Sharp was
elected to the executive council of
the diocese and a delegate to the
Provincial Synod meeting at Pen
sacola. Fla., in October.
Mr. Sharp, a native of Harrells
ville in Hertford county, came to
St. Paul’s parish in June 1955, from
Greenville where he was chaplain
to East Carolina college students.
He attended the University of
North Carolina for two years and
was graduated from Wake Forest
college. He received his bachelor
o1 divinity degree at Yale Univer
sity Divinity school and had a
yedr of special study at Virginia
Theological seminary, Alexandria,
Va.
Mr. Sharp served in the Army
with the infantry in Italy during
world war II. He received the
purple heart.
A. member of the Carteret Min
Road Requests
Put Before
Board Monday
Several road problems were pre
sented to county commissioners,
Greg Fulcher, requested
that a drainage diten be cleaned
out by the highway commission.
The ditch runs northward begin
ning fit Ervin Fulcher’s.
J. L. Humphrey, county road
superintendent, said that the ditch
could be cleaned out if property
owners will give permission to have
the dirt put on the side of the ditch
away from the road.
Commissioner S. A. Chalk called
Mr. Humphrey’s attention to miss
ing macadam at 24th and Arendell
streets, the sinking condition of
the Morchead City bridge and the
necessity for marking more defi
nitely that Evans, at 24th street,
Morehead City, is a stop street.
Mr. Humphrey said he thought
the last request was the town's
obligation.
Lambert Morris, Atlantic, asked
that six-tenths of a mile of the
old shell road, at the east end,
Atlantic, be added to the state sys
tem. Mr. Morris said there are
no houses on the road but it gives
access to the water and an area
where boats could take refuge in
storms.
The board forwarded the request
to the highway commission for
action.
Three men who appeared before
the board relative to construction
of a school at Bogue, were refer
red to the board of education. They
were John Bell, M. P. Mincey and
J. B. Dickens.
isterial association, he is presi
dent-elect of the Beaufort Rotary
club and a member of the North
Carolina Symphony Society board
of trustees. He served as presi
dent of the Carteret chapter of the
Symphony society, played a lead
ing role in the Carteret Community
Theatre production of The Bishop’s
Mantle and- appeared in the Beau
fort historical pageant.
Mrs. Sharp is the former Vir
ginia Perkins of Greenville. They
have one son, Ed Jr., Vh.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, June 8
12:20 a.m.
1:04 p.m.
6:39 a.m.
6:56 p.m.
1:04 a.m. 7:37
1:52 p.m. 8:05 p.%
Sunday, June 10
1:49 a.m. 8:33 a.M.
2:40 p.m. 9:07 p.m.
Monday* June 11
2:38 a.m. 9:25 a.m.
3:» pjn. Hr 10:61 p.nt.
Saturday, June 9