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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1962
PUBLISHED TUE8DAT8 AND FRIDAYS
Dig That Crazy Corn!
The Hugh Horrells, route 1
Morehead City, at the intersec
tion of highways 24 and 70 have
the craziest corn in their garden!
Most of the corn has ears growing
right out of the top, where the
tassel is, without a sign of a
shuck around it! In the above
picture Mrs. Horrell holds one of
the odd ears (arrow points to it).
Her children are Peggy, left,
and Michael.
Mrs. Horrell said the corn is
Truckers Favorite variety. The
family has about four rows in
their small garden and, although
there are some ears growing on
Handcraft Dates
Set by Workshop
Dates of handcraft workshops in
tin and pine needle were announced
yesterday by Mrs. Charles Hassell,
director.
Tincraft will be taught by Mrs.
A1 Hubbard at 9:30 a.m. Friday.
There will be a break for lunch and
the class continued in the after
noon.
The pine needle craft workshops
will begin at 9:30 a.m. Friday,
July 6 and 13, Mrs. Ben Jones, in
structor.
Three more students can be ac
cepted in tin and pine needle craft
workshops. The sessions are $3
each. Persons wishing to enroll
should phone PA 8-3313 or drop by
the workshop, 308 Ann St., Beau
fort. Summer visitors will be most
welcome.
Materials needed for the tincraft
class are a tin shears, needle-point
pliers, hammer, one nail, large
Gulf oil can, beer cans (one king
size and one regular), 3-pound size
Crisco can, any lids cut from tops
of cans, No. 2 or 2\k can with gold
lining. Bottoms must not be cut
out of cans. The cans should be
thoroughly washed.
Each worker should also bring
a pair of gloves that are not too
bulky. \
Needed for pine needle craft are
a pair of scissors, thimble, and
large-eyed needle.
Copper and aluminium, craft will
be taught at sessions later in the
summer.
Two Accidents
Occur in Town
Backing up a car for almost a
block with poor aim brought a
series, of charges against a Beau- !
fort resident Saturday. John Henry \
Madden was charged with backing j
in the face of traffic, careless and ‘
reckless driving, damage to person-!
al property and having no brakes j
after he backed up on Pine street.
In the rearwards travel, Madden
hit a tree and damaged a porch
at the home of James Ed Turner.
Madden was driving a 1955 Ford
al the time, and was cited by offi- ■
cer Otis Willis.
Smoke from a short circuit caus
ed Rita Oglesby Simpson, Beaufort,
to lose control of her 1952 Chevro
let Saturday, police report. She hit
a power pole. Minor damage was
caused to the pole and the auto.
No charges were made by in
vestigating officer Howard Hill.
The accident occurred at about 1:05
p.m.
Morchcad City firemen answered
a call Sunday at 12:30 a.m. to a
fire at 13th and Shackleford streets.
A pile of railroad crossties were
ablaze. The fire was quickly ex
tinguished.
the stalk in a normal manner, a
large number of the stalks have
the ears shooting out of the top.
Here’s something else interest
ing about the Horrell family
garden. Last year their white
potatoes grew in little clusters
on the vine where the blossoms
were. There wasn’t a single
potato under the ground!
This strange behavior might
interest scientists studying un
sual behavior- of cells, in animal
and plant tissue. An article on
such research, in connection
with cancer, appears in the cur
rent issue of Life magazine.
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Gilly Exits
Gilly, weird character ih the
Mistress of Mellyn, wanders out
a doorway. Name of the person
portraying Gilly will not be re
vealed until the night Of the play,
Saturday, at 8 at the Morehead
City recreation center. The play
will also be given at 8 p.m. Mon
day at the recreation center.
Reading Program
To Start Friday
At Webb Library
The annual summer readiiig pro
gram for children at the Webb
Memorial library, Morehead City,
has been announced by Mrs. E. A.
Council, librarian. It will start
Friday at 10 a.m.
At the end of the program a
“Bookworm Certificate” will be
awarded each one who has read
ten books. To aid in the summer
reading program many new books
have been added to the library.
Mrs. Virginia Bradburry will be
in charge of the children’s depart
ment to aid the reader in selecting
books suitable to his age. Parents
are invited to have their children
take advantage of this reading pro
gram, Mrs. Council says.
Leaves Jail
Joe Gillikin, Otway, who said he
shot Edgar Willis, Straits, when
Willis threatened him Sunday a
week ago, was released from jail
last week. No formal charge has
been placed against him. Willis is
still in the Morehead City hospital.
He was shot in his lower right arm.
Officers Report
Four Accidents
# Bus Backs into Small
Imported Car
# Two Accidents Occur
Yesterday
A 1961 Volkswagen tangled with
a 1945 Beck bus Friday night on
Mansfield Parkway and came out
with about $200 in damages. State
trooper W. E. Pickard, who inves
tigated, said the accident happened
about 7 p.m. at the intersection of
the parkway ana highway 70.
The bus had pulled up to the in
tersection and stopped for the stop
sign. The VW, driven by Charlie
B. Noble, Kinston, came up behind
the bus and also stopped. The bus
driver decided to back up a little,
didn’t see the little car, and backed
up on the front of it.
No one was injured and no
charges were filed.
Two Fords, one a truck, collided
on highway 70 three miles west of
Morehead City at 1:40 p.m. Satur
day and the truck driver, Robert
C. Lewis, route 1 Beaufort, was
charged with following too closely.
Trooper Pickard said Roger L.
Poling, Cherry Point, was driving
a 1956 Ford east on highway 70 and
was being followed by Lewis in a
1961 Ford truck. Poling began to
stop in fhe traffic and Lewis, in
an effort to avoid hitting him,
started to pull out on the right and
sideswiped the auto.
Damage to the auto was estimat
ed at $100 and to the truck at $50.
Two accidents yesterday were
investigated by trooper Pickard.
In the first, at 11:15 a.m., a 1957
Volkswagen driven by Morgan B.
Wilt, Cherry Point, turned over on
highway 70 near the county line
west of Newport. Trooper Pickard
said Wilt was going east and had
started to pass, when he Igst con
trol of his car and it turned over.
Wilt was not injured, but damage
to his Volkswagen was estimated
at $500.
At 12:50 p.m. yesterday two cars
collided at the intersection of high
ways 70 and 101 east of Beaufort.
The trooper said Leslie L. Lee,
Havelock, was going east on 70 in
a 1956 Mercury. He started to make
a left turn onto highway 101, saw
another car coming and stopped
across the center line.
The oncoming car, a 1954 Dodge
driven by James W. Willis, Beau
fort, struck the right front of the
Mercury. Willis was headed west.
Damage was estimated at $200 to
each car. Lee was charged with
failing to yield the right of way.
Tower Erected
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SI lif i lii
This tower* constructed' next to the Atlantic Beach police sta
tion, is one of several put up by the Coast and Geodetic Survey,
which is recharting the coast after late winter storms this year
drastically altered the coastline. John Boddie, Chevy Chase, Md.,
is the tiny' figure at the top of the 77-foot tower, where light beains
are used to establish bearings from the Cape Lookout lighthouse.
The March storms along the At
lantic seaboard roughed-up the
ocean bottom as much, if not more
than it 'altered the beaches, ac
cording to the latest report by the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, US
Department, of Commerce.
Working- from C&GS launches
and ships, the hydro-parties have
come up with a number of sur
prising discoveries. Major changes,
for example, were noted around
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1,632 Vote in Beaufort
News-Times Photos by Tom Sloan
Heavy voting in the second Democratic primary Saturday is shown in this scene taken in the coun
ty courthouse at about 10 a.m. Saturday. Voters lined up to get ballots and cast votes for the candi
dates of their choice. Voting booths are to the right of the corridor and ballot boxes on the opposite
side.
Recreation Chairman Takes
Money Problem to Board
Ponies Will Be
[ Penned July 4th
Ponies will be penned on Shack
leford Banks Wednesday, July 4.
Boats will leave Barkers Island
for the banks between 7 and 8
in the morning. They will carry
persons from the mainland inter
ested in seeing the pony round
up.
Some of the horses will be of
fered for sale. “Banker ponies”
are a small type of horse usually
desired by youngsters for pets.
After corraled and branded, the
horses not sold will be released
by their owners (residents of
mainland Carteret) to roam the j
banks for another year.
The July 4 penning is expected i
to be the only one at Shackleford
this year.
Cape Henlopen, Delaware, where
40-fool depths were found to have
shoaled to less than 3 feet!
Cape Henlopen, itself, has built
out several hundred feet to the
northwest, partially blocking the
old channel. Another survey party,
working Sinepuxent channel be
tween Assateague Island and the
mainland near Ocean City, Md.,
reportedly found a depth of 19 feet
See TOWER, Page X
*■ E. L. Smithwick, chairman of the
i Morehead City Recreation com
| mission, told Morehead City town
1 commissioners Thursday night
that the recreation commission will
not be able to pay back to the
town a thousand dollars it bor
rowed last year.
Mr. Smithwick said this is be
cause the town tax notices have
not gone out and the money an
ticipated by .the recreation com
mission -from payment of 1962
taxes has not been forthcoming.
He made three propositions to
the town board, which the board
is taking under consideration:
• That the town consider the
thousand dollars as part payment
of $14,122 the town owes the rec
reation commission from taxes due
the recreation commission for
years.prior to 1958.
• That the town give the rec
reation commission 90 days to re
pay the $1,000.
• That beginning with the com
ing fiscal year the town set up in
its budget amounts to pay off, year
by year, what is owed the recrea
tion commission until the $14,122
is paid.
The $14,(MM) debt was incurred
when the 10-cent levy, instead of
automatically being given the rec
reation commission, was put in the
general fund. Currently-paid 10
cent recreation commission levies
were given the recreation,commis
sion, but when past due taxes were
paid, this amount was not given
the recreation commission.
Various reasons were given for
this, but the upshot is that the
recreation commission never got
all the money due it.
When this was recognized, the
town board got an agreement from
the recreation board several years
ago that it would not ask that this
money be repaid. The Local Gov
ernment commission, in analyzing
town finances about two years ago,
said that the debt could not be for
given—that legally, the town will
owe that money to the recreation
commission until the debt is paid.
The debt was originally $14,922,
but $800 worth of street and sewer
wqrk was done by the town street
department around the recreation
building and this was formally
credited Thursday night by the
board as partial payment on the
$14,922, reducing it to $14,122.
The recreation commission bor
rowed $2,000 from the town last
year and has repaid $1,000.
Mr. Smithwick pointed out that
laying a $1,200 tile floor in the
lounge of the recreation building
was an unanticipated expenditure
during the past year. He said un
less the recreation commission gets
at least $1,800 by July 3, the sujn
See BOARD Page 2
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, June 26
2:53 a.m.
3:27 p.nt.
9:29 a.m.
10:11 p.in.
Wednesday, June 27
3:58 a.m.
4:38 p.m.
10:23 a.m.
11:06 p.m.
Thursday, June 28
5:02 a.m.
5:35 p.m.
11:16 a.m.
Friday, June 29
6:00 a.m.
6:38 p.m.
12:01 ajn.
12:06 p.m.
How They Ran
CANDIDATE VOTE
Sheriff
Robert Bell . 3,472
Ralph Thomas.... J: 3,252
Commissioner
Dom Eewia . 3,390
Rudolph Mason . 3,200
Gaston Smith .2,995
Tommie Lewis .2,861
These are unofficial returns. The
returns as determined by the board
of elections, precinct by precinct,
will appear in Friday’s paper.
Of tbe above slate, Bell, Femia
and Smith were backed by the
Democrats now in office; Thomas,
who ran “with no political ties”
was adopted by the March for De
mocracy faction in the second pri
mary, as was Lewis, who in the
first primary was with the incum
bents.
Mason is a “March for Democ
racy” Democratic candidate. That
faction of the Democratic party put
one man, William Roy Hamilton,
on the November ballot in the May
26 primary.
Tackle, Outboard
Motor Disappear
Fishing tackle valued at $300, and
an outboard motor were stolen over
the weekend, according to the
sheriff’s department.
Deputy sheriff Billy Smith said
the fishing tackle, owned by M. E.
Thomas, was outside a trailer at
Thompson’s steel pier on Bogue
banks when it was apparently taken
early Sunday morning.
The outboard motor, owned by
T. D. Lewis. Morehead City, was
of 45 horsepower, and was taken
from a boat at the rear of the
Lewis sports marina oh Radio Is
land.
Deputy sheriff C. E. Bunch is
investigating.
Second Primary Saturday
Was Very Tight Race
Winning the Democratic nomination for sheriff Sat
urday was the present sheriff, Robert L. Bell. Chosen as
Democratic nominees for the county board of commis
sioners were Dom Femia and Rudolph Mason, Morehead
‘City. It was a tight race.
Nobody knew until after the last ballot was counted
Saturday night ho i the election'
came out.
The tenseness and doubt was lik
ened to a Beaufort-Morehcad bas
ketball game — and to the old
timey Perils of Pauline in the silent
films. No one knew whether the
hero would untie Pauline from the
railroad track until the last few
seconds of the last reel.
With more than half the precincts
reporting, Ralph Thomas, Beau
fort, who was running against Bell,
had a healthy lead. In the commis
sioners’ contest, Femia was trail
ing;- Lewis and Mason were front
runners.
Then the returns from the large
precincts, Beaufort, Newport and
Morehead No. 1 and 2, came in.
The ivforehead ballots tipped the
scales in favor of Bell, Mason and
Femia.
It was a big-time national elec
tion in miniature. The rural votes
came in first but it’s the "big city”
vote — the vote that takes the long
est to tally — that can undermine
vote of the areas outside the cities.
As things stand now, for five
months the county will be governed
in “lame duck” session by a ma
jority of county commissioners who
wiH not continue on the board:
Skinner A. Chalk Jr., Morehead
City, who did not run for re-elec
tion; Gaston Smith, Atlantic, and
Tommie Lewis, Harkers Island.
The other two commissioners,
who were re-nominated in the May
primary arc Moses Howard, New
port, present chairman . the.
board, and C. Z. Chappell, Beau
fort.
On the Democratic ballot for
commissioner in the fall wall be
Howard, of Newport ; Chappell, Wil
liam Roy Hamilton, both of Beau
fort; Dom Femia and Rudolph
Mason, both of Morehead City.
Smith, defeated candidate for
commissioner, said Saturday after
the election, “Moses can sit there
and be referee.”
This is the first time in many
years that the area east of Beau
fort has been without a Democrat
on the county board of commission
ers. The fact that Beaufort, in May,
placed two commissioners on the
November ballot, was probably a
decisive factor in Morehead City
voters’ turning out to see that the
board was not “top heavy” with
Beaufort representatives.
The last chance for down east to
get a representative on the board
of commissioners is November ,j6.
To do that, Democrats will have
to vote for a Republican. Will they
be able to overcome an alleged
abhorrence for voting Republican
and put an X in that Column? That
remains to be seen. If so, it will
knock one of the present Demo
cratic nominees off the board.
The Republican down cast candi
date is Headen Willis, Smyrna. The
other Republican nominees are
Kenneth Wagner, Gerald Murdoch,
James Hux, of the Morehead City
area; and Gordon Hardesty, Beau
fort.
According to reports from the
polls, 1,632 voted in Beaufort and
1,986 at the Morehead City polls.
The democratic faction in power
See PRIMARY Page 2 I
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Town Board
Will Convene
Thursday, July 5
Thursday, July 5, was set as a
special meeting night for Morehead
City commissioners to take action
on the budget for 1962-63.
The date was set at the regular
meeting of the board Thursday
night at the municipal building.
Commissioners also voted to use
the committee system in adminis
tration of town affairs, as recom
mended by the League of Munici
palities. ■
Under this system, a committee
of board members will handle var
ious departments, such as police,
fire, street, etc. Under the present
system, one commissioner is re
sponsible for each department.
Mayor George Dill said that he
had already made the appoint
ments and the commissioners
would be notified in the near fu
ture as to their committee assign
ments.
Members of the First Presbyter
ian church, Morehead City, appear
ed before the board to request help
in solving i sewer problem where
Urey will put up a sanctuary. The
"board approved relocation of a
manhole, the cost of relocating to
be paid by the church.
Making the request were George
Vickory, H. L. Joslyn and Dr. John
Gainey.
They were told that if the sewer
should sand in, cost of repair would
be the responsibility of the church.
On other matters, Mr. Joslyn
told the board that garbage cans
lining Evans street, on the water
side, are an eyesore. He suggested
that the town pass an ordinance
requiring people to keep garbage
cans off the street except on the
days the garbage is collected.
He also requested that the town
repair the east alley in the block
between 23rd and 24th streets be
tween Arendell and Evans.
Ted Garner appeared and asked
the board to post two-hour parking
limit signs on Evans street between
4th and 6th streets.
Rezoning of Arendell street be
tween 28th and 2£th streets, on the
north, was discussed. The board
authorized that a bearing be
scheduled to hear the public’s
views on rezoning the area from
residential to business.
A 10-day vacation of the clerk
of court, Mrs. Mary Hughes, was
approved, with a substitute, Mrs.
Ben Green, to be named deputy
clerk and assume the clerk’s
duties while she is gone.
Ray Hall, town supervisor, re
quested a ruling on the town’s
keeping up school grounds and
football fields. No action was tak
en.
Commissioners present were
S. C. Holloway, Jerry Willis, Dora
Femia, D. J. Hall and Dr. Russell
Outlaw.
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Ferry Moves Out of Slip
The Emmett Winslow, ferry at the west end of Bogue Banks, leaves the Banks side far its
inal at Cape Carteret, across Bogue Sound near Swans boro. The ferry operates an an hourly
ule, making a round trip every hour, leaving the hanks side on the half hear and the minis*
on the hour. _ . _____1 —
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