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61»t YEAR, NO. 52 TWO SECTIONS—SIXTEEN PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MORE HE AO CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1962
, PUBLISHED TUESDATB AND FRIDAYS
Pierson Willis Booked Thursday
On First Degree Burglary Charge
A charge of first degree burglary
was placed against Pierson Willis,
Beaufort, after Willis broke into
the home of his father-in-law,
Dan H. Merrill, in Morehead City
shortly after midnight Wednesday.
Willis, armed with a .25 calibre
automatic pistol, broke through
the front storm door at about
12:30 a.m. to gain entry to the
Merrill home at 305 N. 7th St., ac
cording to police chief Herbert
Griffin.
Members of the Merrill family
were sleeping, police said, but Mr.
Merrill heard dogs barking when
Willis tried to get in the back door.
Realizing that Willis intended to
gain entry, Mr. Merrill got his
shotgun and was looking for shells
for it, but couldn’t find them.
By that time Willis was in the
house and accosted his father-in
law, who hit him in the head with
the butt of the shotgun. Mean
while, one of the women of the
family went to a neighbor’s and
called the police.
After Mr. Merrill struck Willis,
Willis hit him with his fist and the
two were grappling when police
arrived.
Willis, now in the Morehead City
hospital under police guard, had
reportedly visited the home earlier
and a quarrel took place with his
wife and other members of the
Merrill family. Willis’s wife had
recently left home with her three
children, and moved in with her
parents.
Willis was to undergo x-rays yes
terday rporning to determine ex
tent of injuries to his head.
Patrolmen Buck Newsome and
Jack Miller of the Morehead City
police department, accompanied
by deputy sheriff Carl Bunch of
the sheriff’s department, investi
gated.
Bond for Willis was set at $5,000.
Truck, Car Crash
Wednesday
A 10-wheel Marine Corps truck
and an automobile collided at 10:30
a.m. Wednesday seven miles west
of Morchcad City on highway 24
at the McCabe road.
State trooper J. W. Sykes, who
investigated, said that the car,
driven by Hevia Noe, 201 Broad St.,
Beaufort, attempted to pass the
truck as it was making a left turn
into the McCabe road. Both ve
hicles were headed east.
Driving the truck was C. S.
Micssc, Cherry Point. With Noe
were his wife,' Rita; a daughter,
Mrs. Gertrude Hurst, and her son,
Kenneth, age 1. All except the driv
er were taken to Morehead City
hospital for examination and dis
charged.
Noe was charged with attempt
ing to pass at an intersection. He
was driving a 1962 Mercury. Dam
age was estimated at $600. Dam
age to the 1953 Reo truck was es
timated at $200.
Coast Guard
Makes Two Runs
Coast Guard activity at Fort
Macon took a comparative vaca
tion last weekend. Only two as
sists were made. Previous week
ends bad kept boats from the
station on the go.
The 30-footcr from Fort Macor
Vowed in Sunday a 25-foot cabin
cruiser, the Mohawk, from Adams
creek light No. 9, after the boat
had lost its propeller. Owner oi
the boat was Hunter V. Steward
Durham.
Manning the 30-footer for the
assist were Vance R. Woodard.
BMI, Darryl Sadler, BM3, and
James Dyson, FN.
Another assist Monday, was at
tempted after a telephone call sent
the 30-footer again to Adams creek
where a 15-foot outboard was re
ported to be disabled.
When the Coast Guard boat ar
rived, the disabled boat had ap
parently obtained a tow and coulc
not be located.
Wind Shifts North;
Rain Finally Como:
A shift in the' prevailing wine
brought cooler temperatures ant
much-needed rain this week. /
total of .71 inches was reeordet
Wednesday at the Atlantic Bead
police station.
With the cooler weather, cloudi
broke up the steady sunshine.
Max. Min. Wind
Monday 91 74 Variable
Tuesday so 78 N
Wednesday 78 75 N-NE
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Crafts Demonstrated
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Mrs. William Hubbard uses ordinary tin cans to construct deco
rations and other ortiaments in the tincraft exhibit at the Beaufort
crafts workshop Friday. The tincraft work is especially suited to
Christmas decorations. Several more persons can be accepted in
the class, which meets this morning at 9:30 a.m. at 308 Ann St.,
Beaufort.
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Mrs. Ben Jones, instructor, begins a basket in pine needle craft.
Examples of her work are shown in the foreground. This craft will
be taught Friday, July 6 and July 13. Several more pupils can
still be enrolled. Phone PA8-3313.
Principals Plan
Return in Fall
Principals of all schools in the
county, with the exception of New
port, have signed contracts to re
turn next fall.
Most of the faculty members are
returning also, according to the
county board of education. The
county has gained teachers for
the coming school year. The gain
has been estimated by H. L. Jos
lyn, county superintendent of
schools, at “not over 10 per cent.”
Number of teachers provided by
the state is based on average daily
school attendance.
Obtaining teachers has not been
the frustrating task it used to be,,
the superintendent said, since the
state has increased teacher salar
; ies. "Getting teachers has been a
(See PRINCIPALS Page 2)
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Agent Takes Refresher .
Course at State College
R. M. Williams, Beaufort county
1 agricultural agent, is attending a
one-week refresher course at State
1 college this week. The course is
required of extension service em
ployees once every five years.
Courses being studied by the
agent this week are Effective Use
of Information Media and Family
Economics.
Firemen Put Out Blaze
In Sawdust Back of Store
Beaufort firemen put out a trash
fire ,in back of the Red and White
Supermarket, highway 70, Tuesday
morning. The fire was in sawdust
removed from the meat market in
the store.
It was put out shortly after the
alarm was turned in, which was
about 12:30 a.m., firemen said.
Primary
Ronald Earl Mason, Beaufort,
speaking for the March for Demo
cracy party Wednesday, termed
Saturday’s Democratic primary “a
fair election.”
Mr. Mason said the party is ’‘well
pleased with the turnout,” adding,
“This is the first time in thirty
years or more that anyone nomi
nated by the incumbents didn’t get
elected.” He interpreted this as a
sign “that the people are not con
tent with the status quo.”
Analysing the returns, Mr. Mason
said that Ralph Thomas, candidate
seeking to unseat sheriff Robert
Bell, carried 15 precincts east of
Beaufort with 982 votes to Bell’s
878. High commissioner candidates
in those same precincts, he said,
were MFD candidates Ruidolph
Mason and Tommie Lewis.
In nine precincts west of More
head City, Mr. Mason said that
Thomas again received more votes
Hospital Administrator
More Years for Morehead
Sanford Writes
I. D. Gillikin
• Motel Owner Claims
Business Halved
• Engineer to Study
Situation Today
I. D. Gillikin, owner and mana- <
ger of the Edgewater motel, west j
of Morehead City, has received a i
letter from Gov. Terry Sanford!
relative to problems created by
the new dual highway west of More
head City.
The governor said that he was
sending Mr. Gillikin’s letter ol
complaint to Merrill Evans, chair
man of the State Highway com
mission, who “will have someone
look into it.”
Mr. Gillikin said that the condi
tions have cut his business in half.
“No one going west turns into my
motel any more, unless they have
been there before and know it’s
there. If they’re going west they’re
not going to run an additional mile
and turn back.”
He said if the speed limit is
raised from 45, even fewer will
stop.
Mr. Gillikin added that there are
more signs on the short stretch of
new highway than he has ever
seen anywhere. “There arc 127
in just a short distance. . . I count
ed them and that’s not counting
the speed limit signs!”
Businessmen along the highway
object to the faet that no U turns
are allowed. This, among other
things, reduces the accessibility
of their £u#incss places to the
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Raleigh—D. G. Bell, Morehead
City, highway commissioner who
was in Raleigh yesterday to attend
the meeting of the State Highway
commission, said that Charles W.
Snell, division engineer, will be in
Morehead City today to study the
dual highway problems.
Mr. Snell, he said, will have the
authority to make changes.
Commissioner Bell added, “I
wasn’t on the highway commission
when the dual lane work now caus
ing problems was designed, but I
have to take the responsibility.”
Car, Tank Truck
Meet Head-On
Richard Powers, 2207 Fisher St.,
Morehead City, was discharged
from the Morehead City hospital
Saturday. He was hospitalized last
Thursday after his car was involv*
ed in a collision with an Asphalt
Petroleum tank truck at Trumbull
Asphalt Co., Morehead City.
According to deputy sheriff Bruce
Edwards, who investigated, the
accident happened on private pro
perty as Powers, an employee at
Trumbull was leaving the plant at
12:15 p.m.
The deputy said that Powers, in
a 1955 Ford rounded a curve and
ran head-on into the heavy truck
which was entering the plant pro
perty. Powers suffered a cut on
the arm and a nose injury. The car
was almost a total wreck.
Driving the truck was Earl Tay
lor Jr., route 1 Morehead City. He
was not hurt. The collision blew
out a tire on the truck and caused
other damage to the front. No
charges were filed.
The truck is owned by the As
phalt Petroleum Co., Wilmington.
than Bell, 648 to Bell’s 633, but the
high commissioner candidates in
those precincts were Dom Femia
and Gaston Smith.
Coupling Beaufort’s vote with the
15 down east precincts, Thomas
polled 2,228 votes to Bell’s 1,260,
and Mason and Lewis were high.
Coupling Morehead City’s vote with
that of the nine precincts west of
Morehead, the vote for Thomas
was 1,025 and for Bell 2,210. Com
missioner candidates polling the
most votes were Femia and Smith.
Precincts Mr. Mason counted as
east of Beaufort were Atlantic,
Bettie, Cedar Island, Davis, Mar
kers Island, Marshallberg, Merri
raon, Otway, Portsmouth, Sea
Level, Smyrna, Stacy, Straits, Wil
liston and Wire Grass; west of
Morehead: Bogue, Broad Creek,
Cedar Point, Harlowe, Newport,
Pelletier, Salter Path, SteKa and
Wildwood.
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Pirates Hold Off
Attack 'til Aug. 4
Date of the Spanish invasion
in Beaufort has been changed
from July 4 to Saturday, Aug.
4, announces Graydcn Paul,
director.
Mr. Paul said that some of
the persons expected to take part
will be out of town on the Fourth,
there was difficulty getting the
mules to work on that date (the
mules pull the carts that take
the pirates off to jail) and the
cannon fired to repel the in
vaders is not available July 4.
He said that some other events,
to supplement the invasion, are
also being proposed for Aug. 4.
Plans will be announced later,
if they materialize.
Wins Honor
W. H. Singleton, 2007 Evans St.,
Morehead City, was honored Wed
nesday, June 20, by the United
■ States Junior Chamber of Com
i merce with presentation of a Keith
Upson Memorial award as one of
tfv> organisation's ten outstanding
m *te vice-presidents.
The honor for Mr. Singleton
came at the Jaycees’ anrtual
awards luncheon at the 42nd na
tional convention of the USJCC,
Las Vegas, Nev. Mr. Singleton,
however, was unable to attend.
Commenting upon Mr. Singleton’s
award, national president Bob
Conger stated:
“State vice-presidents hold key
positions in the Jaycee movement.
They are the men who make pos
sible the successful promotion of
Jaycee programs in their regions.
As a Keith Upson winner Mr.
Singleton has made a great con
tribution to the Jaycees.”
The Keith Upson award which
Mr. Singleton received was initiat
ed three years ago in honor of
Keith Upson, a national vice-presi
dent who died during his term in
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School Official
Views Court Ruling
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, expressed disgust
this week with the ruling of the
j United States supreme court re
! garding use of prayers in schools.
Mr. Joslyn said he thought every
justice believing prayers had no
place in the school “should be im
peached.”
“We ought not to regiment our
religion,” Mr. Joslyn said. “Our
children have to learn reverence,
but I don’t believe in teaching
religion in the schools.”
He said that prayers piay be
mere formalities, “but when the
chips arc down, we really turn to
prayer.”
Board to Meet
County commissioners will meet
at 10 a.m. Monday at the court
house, Beaufort.
The board of elections canvassed
the vote Tuesday at 11 a.m. In
checking the written returns, the
board noted that there were only
18 votes in Stacy for Bell, rather
than 20, making Bell’s total vote
3,470.
Thomas got 69 instead of 68 votes
in Merrimon, making his total
3,253. The difference between the
Bell and Thomas votes is 217.
The biggest change between the
unofficial returns of Saturday night
and the official returns is in the
vote for £aston Smith. He polled
3,063 instead of 2,995 as reported
Saturday night. .
The total number going to die
polls Saturday was 6,723. lforehead
City was able to muster at the polls
326 more votes than Beaufort, a
little better than enough to put
Bell, a Morehead City candidate,
in the win column.
The elections board received no
.
County Hospital Still
Remains Big Question
David Willis, administrator oH
Morehead City hospital, said Wed
nesday that he estimates the
municipal hospital will have to
remain in use at least three more
years, assuming that the county
proceeds - with plans to construct
a hospital.
County hospital construction was
an issue in the recent primaries.
Two of the Democrats nominated
to the county board of commis
sioners are members of the March
for Democracy party. They ad
vocate construction of the hospital
“west of Morehead City on an
adequate site that can be obtained
at as little cost as possible to Car
teret county."
One of those nominated, William
i Roy Hamilton, was a petitioner in
j the suit which sought to block
construction of the proposed hos
pital on the Webb site, west of j
Morehead City.
Mr. Willis said that if the county j
re-applies for federal funds to build
J the hospital, approval — if forth-!
coming at ail — will not be obtain
ed until November and December.
If construction starts the latter
part of 1963, Mr. Willis says
another two years will lapse be
fore the new hospital is ready to
admit its first patient. He believes
this may be the late summer of
1965.
The Medical Care commission,
state agency which handles ap
plications. for state and federal!
funds for hospital construction, has
approved construction of a county j
hospital only on condition that!
when the county hospital opens,
the Morehead City hospital will
close.
Mr. Willis says that the hospital |
is in need of major repair now and 1
continuing repairs during’The com- j
ing'threq years. He estimates that!
cost of immediate.repair will he
"In excess of $30,000.”
| The Medical Care commission
! has informed the hospital that such
repairs arc a must. Mr. Willis said
that the hospital is still under I
“temporary conditional license” as
it has been in recent years.
He said that the hospital plans
to make the repairs and can pos
sibly finance up to $20,000 worth, i
but where the rest of the money
will come from is a problem.
The old wing must be rewired,
a sinking second floor must be
raised and changes are needed in
the kitchen. Contractors who have
looked at the situation have said
the only way they would consider
going into the structural problems
is on a cost-plus basis.
Mr. Willis said that the hospital
is presently meeting operating
expenses out of income. The in
come includes payment from pat
ients, revenue from the Morehead
City ABC store, Duke Endowment
and welfare funds.
He said the average daily num
ber of patients for January through
May this year is six more per day
than for the same period last year.
On some days the hospital has
handled as high as 63 patients.
The board of trustees of the hos
pital plans to meet this afternoon.
It is anticipated that a person wUl
be named then to fill the vacancy
on the board created by the resig
nation of John L. Crump during the
winter.
Lions Plan Broom Sale
In Beaufort Saturday
The Morehead City Lions club,
which includes Beaufort members,
will sell brooms in Beaufort Satur
day. The brooms are made by blind
people and proceeds from their
sale goes to help blind persons.
Jim Crowe and J. G. Womble
will be in charge of the sale.
compiainis lUU5U«y Cl» iw iuv man
tier in which the primary was
conducted. Charles C. Willis, chair
man, remarked, “We’ve had noth
ing but compliments.”
Candidates nominated in the May
and June primaries will be woted
on at the election in November.
Successful county candidates will
take office in December.
Saturday’s primary showed that
Beaufort and cast can outvote
Morehead and west in a Democratic
primary in a “good turnout at the
polls.” Morehead City precincts and
the nine precincts listed above as
“west of Morehead” cast a total
of of 3,235 votes for the sheriff
candidates. Beaufort and east cast
a total of 3,488 votes for the sheriff
candidates, a difference of 253.
According to 1960 census figures,
population of Beaufort and east is
12,326 and Morehead City and west
18,690.
Holiday Changes
Paper Deadlines
Because THE TIMES-NEWS
will observe Wednesday, July 4,
as a holiday, all ads for the Fri
day, July 6 issue, must be in the
newspaper office by noon Tues
day. This is a day earlier than
usual.
Persons wishing to have news
items in the Friday issue should
also get them to the office, either
by phone, mail or in person,
early next week. Classified ad
and legal ad deadlines on Thurs
day, July 7, will be the same as
usual.
Persons desii^ng further in
formation should phone THE
NEWS-TIMES, PA 6-4X75.
Vote Will Be
Taken Tomorrow
On Annexation
Eighty-one persons have register
ed to vote in the Beaufort annexa
tion election tomorrow.
Voting will take place at the
town hall between 6:30 a.m. and
6:30 p.m.
Judges at the polls will be Fred
Smith and Arvis McGehee. Regis
trar is Ronald Earl Mason, town
clerk.
Tomorrow is the last day, under
state law, that.residents of an out
of-town area may join or reject
joining a municipality by balloting.
The law prevailing henceforth is
annexation by ordinance, upon
compliance of the town with re
quirements for town services in
the new area.
The segment being'voted on to
morrow is a small area adjoining
a portion of Circle Drive.
Office to C|ose
David Morris, driver license
examiner, will close his Morehead
City office Wednesday, the Fourth
of July. Regular office hours will
be resumed on Thursday, when
the examiner will be in Beaufort.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, June 29
6:00 a.m.
6:28 p.m.
12:01 a.m.
12:06 p.m.
Saturday, June 30
6:53 a.m.
7:16 p.m.
12:52 a.m.
12:57 p.m.
Sunday, July 1
.7:43 a.m.
8:02 p.m.
1:42 a.m.
1:46 p.m.
Monday, July 2
8:30 a.m.
8:46 p.m.
2:29 a.m.
2:33 p.m.
Tuesday, July 3
9:19 a.m.
9:31 p.m.
3:13 a.m.
3:17 p.m.
Unions Push
Organization
• Trumbull Employees
Affiliate with AFL-CIO
• NUB Holds Hearing
On Fry Roofing
Employees of Trnmbull Asphalt
Co., Morehead City, voted last week
to affiliate with the Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Workers union, AFL
CIO. Robert Gaskill, Trumbull
superintendent said the vote was
15-1.
A hearing was conducted Wed
nesday at the Morehead City muni
cipal building by the National La
bor Relations Board to determine
whether an election should be held
at the Fry Roofing plant, More
head City. A date for the election
is expected to be set within the
next month.
The NLRB directed this week
that a union election shall be held
among the traffic department em
ployees of Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph. The traffic department
includes telephone operators who
handle long distance and informa
tion services.
The NLRB ruled that service as
sistants and instructors are also
eligible to vote in the election.
The date is yet to be set.
On May 4 Carolina Telephone’s
plant department employees re
jected affiliation with the union,
Communications Workers of Amer
ica, by a vote of ^581-164.
I Iwo Pewiings
Set for July 4
The next meeting of the board
of education will be at 10 a.m.
Monday in the courthouse annex.
The ponies will be rounded dp
and driven into the corral, where
they may be seen by spectators,
between 10 and 11 a.m. Some will
be offered for sale.
The last penning on Cedar Is
land was Labor Day, 1961. Cedar
Island is reached by followttig
highway 70 through Atlantic. There
is a hard-surface road to the pony
pen.
Boats will take spectators to
Shackleford, leaving Harkers Is
land between 7 and 8 a.m. July 4.
Cedar Island pony penners say
the penning Will be over in time
for specators to go to the fish fry,
beginning at noon, at Sea Level
hospital. Congressman David Hen
derson has accepted an invitation
to attend the fish fry.
Town Honored
Morebead City is one of 12 North
Carolina towns in the 5,000 to 10,000
population bracket which will be
presented a safety certificate for
a fatality-free record during 1961,
according to the North Carolina
State Motor club.
Broad Creek
Cedar Island
Cedar Point
Davis
Markers Island
Harlowc .
Beaufort
Bettie
Marshall berg
Merrimon
Morehead I
Smyrna
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Stella ..'
Official Returns
Atlantic
Otway
Salter Path
Newport
Pelletier
Portsmouth