280 DAYS AND
THE POTOMAC STILL
RUSTS IN THE HARBOR
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
51st YEAR, NO. 53
TWO SECTIONSTEN PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1962.
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Pistol Shot, Cars Kill Three Sunday
13-Year-Old Negro Girl
Shot in Beaufort
i
Boston Firm
: Designs Hew
Duke Vessel
Durham—Preliminary plans for
Duke university’s large biological
oceanographic vessel are under
way. They are being drawn by
Dwight S. Simpson and Associates,
architectural firm of Boston, Mass.
The announcement was made by
Dr. C. G. Bookhout, director of the
Duke Marine laboratory, Beaufort
and professor of zoology. He said j
the architects’ work is expected to i
be completed by Nov. I of this:
year.
Actual construction of the ship j
- is expected to begin around Jan. i
1, 1963, and to be completed with-;
in 10 months to a year.
Capable of traveling safely any-:
where in the Atlantic or other
oceans, the ship will enable Duke j
to establish a cooperative research !
and training program in biological j
oceanography, according to Dr. j
Bookhout. A number of other col-;
leges and universities will par- j
ticipatc.
The preliminary plan on which'
the architects arc working were
arrived at by the University’s •
Oceanographic c o m mitt c e, of!
which Dr. Bookhout is chairman
Once the initial plans have been
completed by the architects, they
will be reviewed by the US Coast
Guard.
Within two months, models of
the ship arc expected to be ready.
These will be used in tests at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology to determine how the ves
sel would perform under sea con
ditions.
Funds made available by the Na
tional Science Foundation arc ex
pected to cover the cost of the
ship and its scientific gear, con
struction of a pier to dock the
crift at the Duke laboratory, an
oceanographic laboratory at Beau
fort, a storehouse for the ship’s
equipment, and other facilities.
Dr. Robert J. Menzies, biological
oceanographer at the University of
Southern California, recently was
named to head Duke’s new pro
gram in oceanography.
Rained-Out Barbecue
Now Set for Saturday
The Gloucester Community
club’s chicken barbecue, postponed
Saturday because of rain, will be
held Saturday of this week, an
nounces Mrs. Bill Pigott. The bar
becue will be held at the commun
ity park from 5 to 7 p.m.
Mrs. Pigott said tickets purchas
ed for last Saturday will be hon
ored this Saturday. Those who
have made other plans for this
weekend will be granted refunds
if they turn the tickets in to club
numbers by Wednesday. Tickets
may also be turned in at Pigott’s
store, Gloucester.
Wine Control Group Convenes
Members of the North Cardins Association for Wine Control met at the Biltmorc Motor hotel
Friday and Satnrday. Members of the association executive board are, left to right, Allen M. Fur
man, Charlotte; E. T. Linn, Asheville; D. M. Chesson, chairman, Raleigh; Joe W. Simons, Raleigh;
and M. E. Sands, Richmond, Va. J. Watson Smoot, Tarboro, another member of the board, was not
present when the picture was taken.
The North Carolina Association
for Wine Control met Friday and
Saturday at the Biltniore hotel,
beginning with a social hoyjr for
wives of members Friday night.
At the opening meeting Satur
day morning, mayor George W.
Dill, Morehead City, welcomed the
members. Victor Alridge, chair
man of the state ABC board;
Henry T. Gage, director of state
relations for the Wine Institute;
Robert Lowery, executive secre
tary of the NC Association of Qual
► A 13-year-old Beaufort
girl was fatally wounded in
a shooting Sunday. Her cous
in, Leamon Sharpe, 22, is be
ing held on a manslaughter
charge. His-bond is set at
$500.
The victim. Ora Lee Johnson.13,
was at the home of John and Rosa
lie Sharpe, 218 Queen St., when the
shooting occurred at 3:15 p.m. Ac
cording to Beaufort police chief
Guy Springle. and coroner David
Munden, witnesses said that the
girl and Sharpe were standing in
a bedroom doorway, scuffling and
playing, when a shot was fired and
the girl fell across a bed, shot
through the head.
She was taken to the .Morehead
City hospital by the Beaufort Res
cue Squad, and was pronounced
dead upon arrival.
Leamon Sharpe told a different
story to the police. He said his
niece, 3, "had gotten the pistol and
was going “Bang, bang!” with it.
He took it from her and as he did
so, it went off, the bullet hitting
Ora L^e. The pistol was a .25 cali
bre Italian automatic.
Witnesses to the shooting were
Edith Sharpe, 17; Annie Spell, 14,
and Effic Sharpe, 18.
Operating the rescue ambulance
were Mel Lawrence and William
Longest.
Some Stores
To Stay Open
Some of Morehead City’s stores
will remain open <6n July 4 with
tourist and holiday vacationer's
trade being the general criterion
.lor remaining open. Filling sta
tions, drug stores, tackle shops and
food retailers will be among those
who remain open.
The majority of Beaufort's stores
will close for the day, with the
possible exception of chain food
outlets.
Atlantic Beach, naturally, will be
open to receive an expected crowd
of visitors.
All city, county and federal of
fices, banks and post offices in the
area will be closed. The office of
the driver license examiner in
Morehead City will not be open.
Holiday celebrants will be able
to get most of the supplies neces
sary for the Fourth with the ex
ception of liquor. The state ABC
stores in the county will be closed
on the Fourth, in accordance with
state law.
THE NEWS-TIMES office will be
closed all day Wednesday. Dead
line for display ads is noon today.
Classified ad deadlines will be the
same Thursday as usual.
No Board Meeting
The Morehead City hospital
board oi trustees did not meet Fri
day afternoon as planned because
a quorum could not be obtained.
David Willis, hospital administra
tor, expressed the hope that the
trustees, could be gotten together
for a meeting this week.
ity Restaurants; Walter Lubsvn,
wine advisory board representa
tive; and James A. Stutts, of the
US Brewers Association, gave
talks.
The group held election of of
ficers prior to a lunch ! at which
Clifton Beckwith, exc< ■ *ve secre
tary of the NC State Employees’
association, spoke, as did Ed H.
(Duck) Lewis Jr., executive vice
president of the NC Motel Associa
tion.
The meeting ended Saturday
News-Times I'hoto by Turn Sloan
Tomorrow, the United States will celebrate its 18Gth year of independence. She doesn’t know much
about rebelling against England, this nation’s mother country, but little Joan Hail, left, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hall, Morehead City, knows how to rebel against having her picture taken! The
happy soldiers are Jerry Starnes, center, and his brother, Steven, sons of the Rev. and Mrs. J. B.
Starnes, Morehead City.
Education Board Requests Funds
For Elementary School at Bogue
Submarine Wilt
Visit Morehead
The submarine USS Harder,
commanded by Cdr. Jay Ky
Beam, USN, native of Beaufort,
will visit Morehead City and be
open for inspection by the public
Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25
and 26.
The announcement was made
yesterday by the greater More
head City chamber of commerce.
The chamber wrote Radm. W. F„
Peterson, USN, in June, request
ing that a Naval vessel be made
available, for visiting purposes
in Morehead City, either this
month or next.
The letter requested a visit by
the Harder, if possible. The Har
der is attached, to Submarine
Squadron Four, based at the US
Naval station, Charleston, S. C.
Commander Beam is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Beam,
Beaufort.
night with a banquet, begun with
an invocation by the Rev. Guthrie
Brown, rector of St. Andrews
Episcopal church. A dance and
floor show followed.
Highlight of the floor show was
Doraine and Ellis, a-couple who
in striking costume, presented vo
cal numbers from the Chocolate
Soldier, Showboat, Rio Rita, Sweet
hearts, New Moon, Oklahoma, My
Fair Lady, and other popular mu
sical shows.
» R. W. Safrit, chairman of the
county board of education, yes
terday morning presented to coun
ty commissioners a request for
$160,000 to build “a complete ele
mentary school” at Bogue, which
would be ready for occupancy in
the fall of 1963.
The board said it would consider
the request when it took final ac
tion on the budget yesterday aft
ernoon.
In response to a request by Leon
Mann Jr., Newport mayor, rela
tive to county cooperation on estab
lishing of a fire district in More
head township. Luther Hamilton
Jr., county attorney, was asked
to meet with the Newport town
board tonight.
Commissioners commented that
the sheriff has failed to present
them a monthly report, as request
ed,. on fees collected monthly by
the sheriff and his deputies, and
mileage traveled. The board said
such reports must be had before
they can consider supplying auto
mobiles for the sheriff’s depart
ment.
The board voted to refund to
Mrs. Joe S. Woods, Durham, taxes
collected on four lots, which she
paid after the county took posses
sion of the land as part of the
Beaufort-Morehead airport.
Moses Howard, chairman of the
board, reported that the recent
state association of county com
missioners’ meeting in Morehead
City was a success.
Commissioner Gaston Smith sug
gested that the building code bo
Changed to require a permit only
if the cost of construction is $1,000
or more. At present it is $500 or
more.
Commissioner Skinner Chalk said
that he thought such a recommen
dation should come from‘the plan
ning commission.
The Carteret Outboard Runabout
association will meet at 7:30 p.ni.
Thursday at the National Guard
armory, Morehead City.
10 Inches Rain Falls in Four Days
A whopping amount of rain from
Wednesday through Saturday caus
ed flooding throughout the county.
In the period Wednesday until Sun
day, a total of 10.28 inches of rain
fell, according to weather records
at the Atlantic Beach police Sta
tion.
A number of streets in both
Morehead City and Beaufort were
under - water, especially in low
areas, drowning out car motors
and causing hazardous driving
What's Going On
Tomorrow...
Special events in this area to
morrow:
7 a m.- 8 a m.—Boats leave
Harkers Island for pony penning
at Shackleford Banks
10 a m.-11 a.m.—Ponies will be
driven into pen on Cedar Island,
some will be offered for sale.
Cedar Island and the pen can
be reached by hard-surface road,
follow US highway 70 east.
Noon—Fish fry — Grounds of
Sea Level Community hospital
2 p.m.—Sailboat races start at
Captain Bill’s restaurant, More
head City
Other activities include those
available here every day of the
week, fishing, boating, swim
ming, movies, dancing, picnick
ing at the Morehcad City mu
nicipal park, Fort Macon state
park, and sight-seeing.
Drive carefully — whether in
your boat or car!
Three Cars Figure
In Chain Collision
Three cars were involved in a
chain collision on the Atlantic
Beach causeway about 3:45 p.m.
Sunday, according to Cpl. Arthur
Fields, state trooper who investi
gated.
A 1954 Buick, driven by James
Francis Daugherty, Havelock, had
stopped in a line of traffic. Stop
ped behind the Buick was a 1959
Ford driven by Ted Douglas Pitt- j
man, Morehcad City. A 1956 Chev-j
rolet, driven by Jimmy Wilson
Parker, Newport, came up behind
the Ford and hit it in the rear,
knocking it into the Buick, the of
ficer said.
Parker was charged with follow- j
ing too closely. Damage to the;
Buick was estimated at $25, to the
Ford $100 and to the Chevrolet $75. |
conditions. Homes in both towns in
low-lying areas had water up over
floors. This was a condition that
prevailed in many communities.
Two roads were washed out near
Newport and there was a washout
on highway 70 between Sea Level
and Atlantic.
Telephone lings along Evans
street in Morehead City succumbed
to a combination of tree branches
and high winds. Yards over the
area were littered with leaves.
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State Designates
Two More Places
For U Turns
.
# Points on Dual-Lane
Highway Named
• Change Followed
Complaints
U turns arc permissible now at
two points in the dual lane high- ’
way west Of Morehead City where
they were not allowed up 'til Fri
day.
Charles W. Snell, division engi
neer, State Highway department, I
and I). G. Bell, Morehead City,
highway commissioner, announced;
Friday that U turns will he per
mitted at breaks in the. median
strip at the following two places: ;
• In front of Blanchard’s, and
Bogue Furniture
• Opposite the Perry Park motel
C turns will be permitted there
for traffic going both east and
west. This provides six locations,
Mr. Snell said, where people can
j make a U turn, three going cast
and three going west.
Mr Snell, who was invited here
by highway commissioner Bell to
investigate complaints about the
highway, said people will have to
i be very careful in using the two
new places for U turns. He said
it would be a lot safer if U turns
were not permitted.
But business people along the
highway have complained that
prohibition of U turns has not been
! good for their business.
The speed limit on the highway
will regain at 45 miles an hour,
Mr.. Sitcll said, because the area
is otillt up and will become moreso.
Causeway S tore, Marine
Truck Damaged in Fires
An early morning fire Monday*
caused extensive damage to a re
pair shop in the Lane Furniture
Co. on the Morehead-Bcaufort
causeway.
The call for the firetrucks was
received about 4:15 a.m. and was
answered by both the Morehead
City and Beaufort Fire depart
ments. Smoke damage was done to
the furniture portion of the store.
The fire was confined to the repair
shop in the rear of the building.
Morehead City firemen made a
trip to the Boguc field area at
about 10 a m. Sunday, where a
Marine Corps truck had caught
fire. The truck, on highway 24, was
loaded with sea bags and other
personal effects. The fire was
blamed on the truck contents’ be
ing too close to an exhaust pipe.
Crash trucks from Bogue field
had put out the fire before More
ihcad City firemen arrived. More'
; head firemen assisted in dispersing
j the baggage to prevent a reoccur
irence of the fire.
Coast Guard Lets
Contract Totaling
$303,605 for Dock
Contracts totaling $303,605 have
been let by the Coast Guard for
the construction of a dock and oth
er facilities at Fort Macon station.
| The dock will be used by the Chi
i lula, now berthed at the slate port,
j Morehead City.
Lt. John Riddell, commanding
officer at Fort Macon, who will
assume the position of executive
officer at the Coast Guard base at
Charleston, S. C., July 18, said that
the Meekins construction firm,'
South Carolina, was low bidder.
Low bidder on improvements at
Southport Coast Guard station was
a Miller firm, Wilmington, N. C.
Branches were torn loose from
trees by wind that accompanied
the heavy rains.
The Morehead City hospital was
forced to remove patients from
the ground floor of the hospital
due to rising water from the ex
cessive rains. Hospital personnel
worked around the clock to move
water to sump pumps.
No damage was reported by hos
pital administrator David P. Wil
TwoT een-Aged Virginia
Girls Killed in Crash
Carteret’s highway fatal-*
ity record soared to six Sun
day when two teen-age girls
from Radford, Va., were kill
ed in a three-car collision on
the Salter Path road, four
and a half miles west of At
lantic Beach.
injured in the accident were Mr.
and Mrs. Lonnie M. Boyd, route 1
Morehead City ; John D. Waters, I
Plymouth, N. C.; and Billy Rober- j
son, who was taken by Dill ambu- j
lance to Rex hospital, Raleigh, in |
a critical condition.
The dead are Ernestine J. Bain, !
18, and Diane Lyles, i6. They were ;
in the car driven by Waters. Wat
ers and the Boyds were taken to
Morehead City hospital by ambu
lance, where they remained yes- j
lerday.
According to state trooper W. J.
Smith, who investigated, Waters,
in a 1962 Chevrolet, struck two
ears, a parked 1955 Chevrolet and
the 1955 Plymouth driven by Boyd.
The officer said Waters was head
ed toward Salter Path, lost control
when the car hit the shoulder of
the road, swerved back on the road
and into the oncoming Boyd car.
The trooper said evidence indi
cates: that after hitting the moving
ear, the Waters car then hit the
parked car.
The accident happened about half
a mile east of the Iron Steamer
pier.
Coroner David Munden impanel
ed the following jurors for an in
quest, which will be held after in
jured accident victims recover:
Robert Hill, Sonny Cunningham, S.
E. Doshicr, all of Morehead City;
Norwood Young and Glenn Willis
Jr., Beaufort; John Zubovic, Salter
Path.
Trooper Smith said Waters and
Roberson had met the two girls at
Atlantic Beach prior to the acei
'dent. The crash occurred at 5 p.m.
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Accepts Position
J. A. DuBois, above, former
manager of the greater More
head City chamber of commerce,
has accepted the position as su
pervisor of Pine Knoll Shores
and other properties owned by
the Roosevelt family, in this
county.
The Roosevelt family has de
veloped Pine Knoll Shores. Lewis
Forrest will continue as sales
representative of the Pine Knoll
Shores development, which is lo
cated on Boguc Banks, west of
Atlantic Beach.
The Newport town board will
meet at 7:30 tonight. Hope was
expressed at the June meeting
that the board would be able to
meet tonight in the new town hall.
lis, who said that the hospital has
to be prepared tor sueh occasions.
Supplies and equipment arc kept
above any expected water level.
Weather observer Stamey Davis,
Morehcad City, stated that the
rain was ‘‘most unusual,” and to
his knowledge, -the only rain for
a similar period, to match the
downfall, was during a hurricane
several years age.
Crop damage in the county is yet
I to be estimated, but considerable
>--.
Board Requests
Survey of Oyster
Beds in County
County commissioners, in ses
sion yesterday at the courthouse,
sympathized with South River pe
titioners and passed a resolution
asking that the state fisheries com
mission determine location of na
tural oyster beds in the county and
prevent further moves to lake
such beds from public use.
Lem Hardy, spokesman for the
South River delegation, said that
persons arc coming into South
River from other areas, leasing
natural oyster beds and thus pre
venting South River oystermen
from working places they have
been Working all their lives.
County commissioners further
asked that the state alter any
present leases in South River to
permit setting of crab lines oyer
the leased oyster bottom and other
fishing activities.
The board also agreed to write
the commercial fisheries chair
man, Eric Rodgers, and ask the
committee not to consider the
South River problem at Boone
this month, but defer it until the
committee meets at Morehcad City
in August.
Appearing with Mr. llardy were
L. H. Hardy, G. M. Wester, Ed
ward H. Lupton, W. R. Wallace
Jr. and J. V. Creech.
Rumlcy Gillikin and W. B. Gil
likin, Otway, appeared to request
an improvement on road 1327, and
correction of a drainage problem.
E. M. Foreman, Core Creek, re
quested that something be done
to abate the dust on road 1161,
which goes by Jeff Sabiston's
house.
Commissioner Tommie Lewis re
ported that Fulford Willis, Stacy,
would like a road inspected in his
neighborhood. Elwood Willis, Mar
shallbcrg, asked that the Smyrna
Marshallberg road be widened and
asphalt-topped.
All requests were referred to the
State Highway commission for in
vestigation.
Referred to J. L. Humphrey,
county road superintendent, was
a request by Monroe Gaskill, Ce
dar Island, that a ditch be cleaned
out. He said heavy rains caused
flooding at Cedar Island. Com
missioner Lewis said Harkers Is
land roads wire also flooded.
Commissioner C. Z. Chappell
said he received a complaint from
Mrs. Irene Smith, highway 101,
asking that a culvert be lowered
to help carry off water in the vi
cinity of her home.
CoL David Spivey, state Civil De
fense official, appeared before the
board to request that a successor
to Harry Williams, former CD di
rector for the county, be named.
Wins Auto
Jimmy Ross, Morehcad City, won
the 1950 automobile given as a door
prize at the dance Saturday night
in the Morehead City recreation
building. The dance was sponsored
by the band association to raise
funds for new uniforms. A planned
concert was rained out, but will be
given at a future date. About $250
was cleared on the dance. 1
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tid« Table
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, July 3
9:19 a.m.
9:31 p.m.
3:13 a.m.
3:17 p.m.
Wednesday, July 4
10:07 a.m.
10:15 p.m.
3:56 a.m.
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 5
10:57 a.m.
10:59 p.m.
4:35 a.m.
4:40 p.m.
Friday, July 6
11:44 a.m.
11:41 p.m.
damage was expected in tobacco.
Wind damage to corn and other
standing crops was extensive.
Temperatures for the period
were as follows, according to Mr.
Davis:
High
Thursday ..’..75
Friday ...73
Saturday ..-..68
Sunday ..._.87
Prevailing winds were from
north and north northwest*