284 DAYS AND
THE POTOMAC STILL
RUSTS IN THE HARBOR
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
51st YEAR, NO. 54 TWO SECTIONS—FOURTEEN PAGES
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1962
12 Newport FFA
Boys Attend
State Meeting
# Three Get State
Farmer Degree
• Lewis Forrest Named
State FFA Officer
Twelve members of the Newport
chapter, Future Farmers of Amer
ica, and their advisor, Robert S.
Grady, represented the chapter at
the 34th annual FFA state conven
tion at State college,, Raleigh,
Thursday through Friday.
Earl Kelly, Joe Parks and Bob
by Quinn were among the 330
members in the state to receive
the state farmer degree. They
were each awarded certificates
and gold charms.
Joe Parks received the award
for Farm Home Electrification and
Earl Kelly won in Soil and Water
Management. Newport chapter
had members participating in the
state dairy judging and tool con
tests. Four members played in
the state band.
A former member of Newport
chapter, Lewis Forrest, was elect
ed to serve as one of the FFA
state officers during the coming
year. He is state reporter.
Lewis was enrolled in vocational
agriculture for four years and did
outstanding work in scholarship
and leadership. His teacher was
C. S. Long, who until March 1,
1962 taught in the Newport school.
During the four years Lewis was
enrolled in vo-ag he displayed his
, ability as a leader, holding many
offices in the school and ' in the
local FFA organization, according
to.Mr. Long. He terminated his
enrollment in the local FFA by
serving as president his senior
yegr.
Lewis is now enrolled at State
college, majoring in agricultural
engineering.
Lewis along with the other five
state officers, will make many
expense paid trips during the next
twelve months. They will attend
a leadership training school at
Carolina Beach in August, a trip
to Washington, D. C. in December,
they will attend the National FFA
Convention in Kansas City, Mo.
in October, the Tom Browne FFA
camp 26 miles northwest of Ashe
ville in June 1963, just prior to
the next state convention at which
the new officers will preside.
In addition to these trips, they
will speak at Father and Son Ban
quets throughout the state and pos
sibly attend a few FFA conven
tions outside the state.
Boys that reach this high plateau
are screened very rigidly, Mr.
Long explains. The nominating
committee interviews the appli
cants from three to five times in
dividually during the three-day
convention held at State College.
The dates this year were June 27,
28, and 29.
Boys fortunate enough to survive
the many questions are classed as
the top nine, and from this nine,
six are selected to head the state
association.
Mr. Long, .his teacher and ad
viser is very proud that Lewis was
selected. He is quite sure that
Lewis will make an excellent state
leader. This experience cannot be
measured in words—it will be a
good boost to Lewis in his chosen
career, agricultural engineering,
Mr. Long observed.
Slim Audience Indicates People
Aren't Keen About Summer Plays
The very small numbers that at*
tended the Carteret Community
Theatre’s play, Mistress of Mellyn,
indicates to the theatre that peo
ple arc NOT interested in summer
plays, according to Thomas Res
pcss, president of the theatre.
This is the first time that a play
has been given as late as July,
Mr. Rcspess said. The first pres
entation was Friday night, June
30, and the second this past Mon
day.
Friday night’s production was at
the tail-end of a northeaster hut
Monday’s was on a nrght that wea
ther would have had little if any
effect on the number present.
Mrs. Tressa Vickers, past presi
dent, observed that neither price
of admission nor night a play is
given seems to have any telling
effect on the number who attend.
Whether adult admission is $1 per
person or 75 cents seems to be a
Chamber Board Names New
Manager, Phillip W. Bullock
Phillip W. Bullock, Sound View
Park, was named manager of the
greater Morchcad City chamber of
commerce Monday night at a joint
meeting of the chamber board of
directors and the Newport Rotary
club in Newport.
Mr. Bullock will succeed Joe Du
Bois as manager and began his
duties Thursday morning. Other
candidates for the office of man
ager were C. D. Chambers, Robert
F. Reed, and Jim Williams.
Mr. Bullock is a native of Colo
rado and a graduate of the Uni
versity of Colorado. He has lived
in Carteret since Jan. 1, 1962. A
summer resident of the county for
the past four years, he came here
to live after selling a canteen coin
machine business he had owned
and operated in Greensboro, N. C.
Prior to coming to Greensboro,
Mr. Bullock worked as a sales
representative and as an assistant
sales manager for the Dr. Pepper
Co. His firm in Greensboro serv
iced coin dispenser machines in
eight counties. It was sold to a
national firm.
Mr. Bullock worked for a year
as manager of his firm after it
was sold, and is employed as a
consultant to the firm until Sept.
1 of this year.
He and his wife own a Manpow
er Inc. franchise and business in
Greensboro, which was begun by
his wife as a business service firm
and later placed under a Manpower
franchise.
Mr. Bullock is the founder and
president of the N. C. Vending
Machine Association, having serv
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See CHAMBER, Page 3
County HospitalTotteredon Edge
Of Disaster Monday Afternoon
Things Remain
Now as They Were
Lack of a second killed a motion
Monday afternoon that would have
withdrawn the county commission
ers’ order to borrow money to
bijild a county hospital. The mo
tion, in effect, would have shelved
the hospital project.
Commissioner C. Z. Chappell sec
onded the motion, which was made
by commissioner Gaston Smith.
Mr. Chappell, however, later with
drew his second.
Mr. Smith’s motion also included
the calling of a second referendum
to let people vote on whether they
wanted a hospital, and where it
should be built.
When Mr. Chappell withdrew his
second, he offered a proposal to let
the hospital trustees pick the site
for the hospital. (This suggestion
was also made several months
ago.)
Mr. Smith expressed the opinion
that to build the hospital on the
chosen Webb site would cause a
number of lawsuits and in effect,
prevent the hospital from ever be
ing built. His opinion was echoed
by Mr. Chappell, who said that to
build the hospital even near the
Webb site would definitely bring a
lawsuit. “I feel that a majority
(See HOSPITAL Page 3)
minor factor. The same is true
whether a play is given any one
night.
The $45 royalty for Mistress of
Mellyn on two nights, plus cos
tume expenses and other staging
costs, has put the theatre in the
red.
Veteran theatre members report
that people constantly ask, “Why
don’t you have plays in the sum
mer time?” This recent experi
ence plus the small number which
attended Bonnie Blue Sweetheart
the second summer it was present
ed, which was in mid-June, seems
to be sufficient proof, theatre mem
bers observe, that people who
keep talking about summer thea
tre iust like to bear themselves
talk.
Sidewalk superintendents then
say, “But if you had a ‘name,* a
star, it would be different. Lots
of people would come." The Car
Phillip W. Bullock
. . . successor to J. A. DuBois
July 4 Rains Wash Out
Most Outdoor Activities
State Will Mal<e
Repairs to Bridge
At Morehead City
State highway commissioner D.
G. Bell today announced that the
highway commission’s bridge main
tenance forces will make badly
needed repairs to the Morehead
City-Bfeaufort bridge, starting with
ing the next thirty days.
Mr. Bell stated that the engineers
would drive piles on the outside of
the Span and place steel beams
under the ends of the spans where
settlement has been occurring.
This will provide additional sup
port. He further stated that traf
fic would be maintained during the
repair work, except for short pe
riods.
The repairs planned for the
bridge do not preclude the con
struction of a new bridge, plans
For which are still being made,
Mr. Bell added.
teret Community Theatre has
looked into the possibility of hav
ing “name stars” come here for
just a week’s run of a play in the
summer time. The cost runs ex
tremely high, and in the face of
little community support for thea
tre productions, it would be finan
cial suicide to attempt such a
thing, according to Miss Ruth
Peeling, theatre business manager.
Mistress of Mellyn is a superb
story by Victorian Holt excellently
rewritten in drama form by Mil
dred C. Kuncr. It is reported that
it has been bought by a film studio
for making into a movie. The play
was well-publicized- Admission was
75 cents for adults and 35 cents
for children of public school age.
Net proceeds were about $60.
The outcome of Mistress of Mel
lyn indicates to the Carteret thea
(See THEATRE Page 3)
■» The Fourth of July was a wash
out.
On top of the northeaster of last
week came a sou’easter that start
ed late Tuesday afternoon and con
tinued until late Wednesday night,
July 4.
The fish fry at Sea Level hos
pital has been postponed until 1
p.m. Saturday, to be followed by
boat races.
The sailboat races, scheduled
for the Fourth in Morehead City,,
have been postponed until 2 p.m.
Sunday, according to Thurlow
Whcalton. The starting point will
be at Captain Bill’s restaurant.
The pony penning took place at
Cedar Island on the Fourth, but
not on Shackleford. The penning
has been rescheduled for Saturday.
Boats will leave Harkers Island
for Shackleford up to 9 a.m.
Auto Runs Over
Man1 on Highway
Hospitalized shortly after mid
night Sunday was Pfc. John .W.
Dudley, USMC, Cherry Point. Dud
ley was run over by a car on high
way 24 at 12:05 a.m. Sunday, ac
cording to state trooper W. E.
Pickard.
According to the officer, Dudley
was lying in the highway near
Swansboro in the eastbound lane.
A motorist headed west saw
him, stopped and was going to
take him out of the road, but mean
The injured Marine died Wed
nesday morning. He was 19 and
attached to MAG 27. He is the
seventh highway fatality in the
county this year.
while a car going east ran over
him and kept going. A descrip
tion of the car was not available.
Dudley was taken to the hos
pital at Camp Lejeunc. Trooper
Pickard said that he suffered brok
en bones and bruises.
Boat Assisted
Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen in
the 30-footer towed the Linda Bell
to Morehead City yacht basin Wed
nesday. The Linda BeD experi
enced engine failure in Newport
marshes near marker No. 36.
Education Board
Asks for Use
Of Old Armory
The State Board of Conservation
and Development will he asked by
the county board of education for
permission to use the quarters now i
being used as a National Guard
armory, after the new armory is
built.
The board of education on Mon
day requested its secretary, H. L. j
Joslyn, to write Eric Rodgers, ]
chairman of the commercial fish-'
cries committee. The present
armory is located across from the
state commercial fisheries build
ing. (The fisheries department is i
a division of the C&D department.)
The board of education proposes
to use the building for adult edu
cation classes.
Approved was a pupil assign
ment agreement with Onslow coun
ty. .The •agreement continues the
arrangement of long standing,
whereby Carteret pupils attend
Swansboro school in Onslow. This
was the first year, however, that
such an agreement was signed,
according to Mr. Joslyn.
The 20th of each month was set
as the pay day for teachers. This
will prevail except during the first
and last months of the school
year. Those months will expire
before the checks are distributed.
. The Walker agency was desig
nated as the firm to carry pupil
insurance. The fee will be $1.75
per child for parents who wish to
carry it.
The board passed a resolution
requesting $160,000 for construction
of an elementary school at Bogue.
No action was taken on approval
of the Newport school committee’s
recommendation that E. B. Comer,
principal, be retained for the com
ing school year.
Mrs. Peggy Steel was named
secretary-treasurer for Smyrna
school.
More Than 92 Per Cent
Of 1961 Tax Collected
The county collected S2.20 per
cent of the 1961 tax levy through
June, according to E. O. Moore,
county tax collector.
Received during the month in
pre-paid taxes for 1962 was $11,
180.22, according to a tax report
given county commissioners at
their June meeting. Received on
the 1961 levy was $9,936.68, on
1960 and prior levies $6,111.76, and
received in business license fees
was $2,297.25.
Collected by E. L. Brinson, dep
uty collector of delinquent person
al property taxes, was $381.52.
Charlie Lewis Wreck Makes
Use of Sluice Dangerous
Fish boats accustomed to using
Cape Lookout sluice can now do
so only at great hazard, because
of the Charlie Lewis wreck, ac
cording to boat owners.
Lt. John Riddell, commanding
officer of Fort Macon Coast Guard
station says the Coast Guard is
willing to establish buoys or mark
ers if boat operators will meet
with him to state where they want
them.
Lieutenant Riddell said yesterday
that T. B. Smith, Davis, who op
erates a fish house at Beaufort,
has indicated that be will get some
of the boat owners together for a
meeting. Lieutenant Riddell said
he is available to confer with them
at any time they may set.
The Coast Guard removed the
sluice buoy recently, lieutenant
Riddell said, because it felt the
buoy’s being in the sluice was
leading mariners into “bad wa
ter.” This has greatly reduced
use of the sluice at night and
brought several calls to lieutenant
Riddell, requesting that the buoy
be replaced.
Lieutenant Riddell said that a
lighted buoy in the sluice lures
“bigger boats” in. The depth of
water may be about 10 feet, the
Coast Guard officer said, but depth
at the shoals is always changing.'
Request Made That Carteret
Be Declared Disaster Area
County agriculture experts, meeting yesterday morn-1*
ing, placed the county’s total crop loss from wind and
rain at $1,189,182. Congressman David Henderson, in _
a telegram to THE NEWS-TIMES yesterday, reported
that he has requested O. L. Freeman, secretary of agri
culture, to declare Carteret. Pamlico, Craven, Jones, Ons
County Adopts
$1,091,481.60
Budget Monday
County commissioners adopted a
budget of $1,091,481.60 for the 1962-!
63 fiscal year at their board meet
ing Monday afternoon in the court- j
house, Beaufort.
The budget docs not include |
$160,000 for an elementary school!
at Bogue. The commissioners said
that the request for $160,000 was
not in the board of education budg
et which was presented more than
a month ago and it would be im
possible to include it in this year's
budget.
The board said the request would
be considered during next year’s 1
budget-making. The request for
the $160,000 came Monday morn
ing, in the form of a resolution
from the board of education.
The overall budget includes an
increase in the welfare department
of $40,000. Nine thousand of the
increase will be met with county
funds.
The increase was principally in
the department’s general fund to
meet an increase in hospital care
costs, according to Miss Gcorgie
Ufcghes, Welfare superintendent. A
portion of the increase, $2,500, is
to pay for travel expenses of two
new employees, an added “home
maker” to work in child neglect
cases and a child welfare worker.
The salaries of the new employees
will be paid by the state and fed
eral governments, Miss Hughes
said.
An additional $500 was earmark
ed for an increase in cost of board
ing juveniles, under welfare su
pervision, in proper homes.
The board commended Mrs. C.
G. Holland for her work on the
welfare board for the past six
years. Mrs. Holland is retiring
from the board.
A 5 per cent increase in county
employees’ Salaries was granted.
But the increase does not apply
to department heads or those in
elective offices. The surplus food
program was also continued for
the coming year.
Discharged from Hospital
Johnny D. Waters, Plymouth,
driver of the car in which two
girls were killed on the Salter Path
road Sunday, has been moved to
a hospital at Plymouth. Discharg
ed from the hospital Monday was
Pierson Willis, Beaufort, charged
with first degree burglary.
Boats using the waters arc trawl-'
ers and smaller food fish boats.
It shortens their runs to and from
the fishing grounds.
Water depth is not sufficient for
larger boats, such as menhaden
boats. “Actually, the Charlie
Lewis shouldn’t have been in
there,” the Coast Guard officer
says. The boat went aground Dee.
29, 1961 and sank. All hands were
rescued by the Coast Guard.
It was thought at first that Stand
ard Products -Co., owner of the
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, July «
11:44 a.m.
11:41 p.m.
5:15 a.m.
5:21 p.m.
Saturday, July 7
12:28 a.m.
5:56 a.m.
6:07 p.m.
Sunday, July 8
12:23 a.m.
1:10 p.m.
6:41 a.m.
7:07 p.m.
Monday, July 9
1:03 a.m.
1:52 p.m.
7:34 a.m.
8:16 p.m.
Tuesday, July 10
2:35 pan.
1:43 a.iQ
8:30 a.m.
9:18 pan.
•low, Wayne, uupnn ana renaer
counties disaster areas.
The telegram noted that “exten
sive rainfall and high winds have
caused severe crop damage through
these areas." The agriculture sec
retary is to be notified by Friday
of the damage in each county.
Mr. Henderson said that federal
crops insurance director Julian
Mann has been in the eastern
Carolina counties and is prepared j
to handle claims of insured farm- j
ers. ]
Mr. Henderson added, ^‘All emet-j,
geney relief available is being j
urged."
I. M. Robbins,. FHA administra
tor in this county, conducted yes-1
terday’s meeting. Estimates by,
Mr. Robbins, B. J. May, ASC man- j
ager; David Warrick, assistant'
farm agent, and Maynard Owens, j
soil conservationist, will be for
warded to FHA administrator Mel
vin Hearn.
Mr. Warrick, acting in the ab
sence of R. M. Williams, farm j
agent who is attending a course1
at State college, said that most of
the crops will come back, but the
yield has been seriously cut.
Since Wednesday, June 27,1
through this past Wednesday, rain-:
fall totaled more than 13 inches.
No building or livestock loss has
been reported in Carteret.
Breakdown on the crop loss is
as follows: all vegetable crops
$100,500 (this includes damage toj
irish potatoes, watermelons, to
matoes, etc.), tobacco $917,182,
cotton $1,100, corn $37,800, soy
beans $77,000, hay $18,000, sweet
potatoes $9,000 and garden crops
$28,600.
The wind and rain have caused
the leaves on tobacco stalks to |
flop. There will'be a loss in qual-!
ity; the tobacco will ripen faster j
than farmers can harvest it and j
there will be a loss in poundage, j
Mr. Warrick said.
The agriculturists reached their j
estimates after a trip throughout i
the county over the past several
days.
Atlantic Beach CD
Will Issue Decals
From tomorrow through July 13,
1962, Civil Defense decals will
again be issued to the Bogue banks
property owners for identification
purposes during the hurricane sea
son. Decals will be available and
will be placed on vehicles at the
Atlantic Beach Police department.
Property owners are urged not
to wait until a hurricane is im
minent before getting a decal.
Previously issued decals are still
acceptable. To cover the cost of
expenses incurred, a charge of 25
cents each will be made for the
decals, according to Jack Savage,
civil defense director, Atlantic
Beach.
vessel, was going to salvage, but
the remains of the boat have been
abandoned, according to lieutenant
Riddell and Standard Products now
has no further responsibility.
Notices have been issued to mar
iners, warning them of the wreck.
The Coast Guard says that the
mast of the Lewis is above water,
but the water is not deep enough
to allow a “big buoy to ride
right,” lieutenant Riddell com
mented.
“Actually,” he added, “the best
water through the shoals is about i
two miles south of the sluice where :
the Lewis is. Boatmcnt have said i
they want markers in the old
sluice as a reference point so they
can get through where it’s safe. >
If that’s the case,” the lieutenant <
said, “it would be better to put 1
buoys there and forget about the* I
old sluice. 1
"We’re not trying to take any- 1
thing away that the people want.
We just want to do the best thing,” ‘
lieutenant Riddell concluded. ]
Forum Tonight
The forum on communism will
continue tonight at 7:30 at the
Morehead City American Legion
hut, announces Robert Reed, com
mander.
Army Engineers
UnderfakeStudy
Of Channel
• Shoaling Lessens Use
Of Wallace Channel
• Dredging Does Little
Good, Army Says
Wallace channel, leading into
Dcracokc from Pamlico sound,
will probably remain in a hazard
ous condition until a study is com
pleted by Army engineers as to
Ihe best way to keep it open. The
study is expected to take six to
nine months, according to Col.
J. S. Grygiel, district engineer,
Wilmington.
At present the ferry between At
lantic and Ocracokc has to ap
proach Ocracoke by going west
and north and then into the harbor,
because Wallace channel is haz
ardous in its present condition.
J. A. DuBois, secretary of the
All Seashore Highway association,
says the detour route in the sound
lengthens the trip and on occasion
can be extremely rough.
Colonel Grygiel, in a letter to
Sen. Everett Jordan, who inquired
as to the channel’s status, gave
the following report (the letter is
dated June 26, 1962):
"The maintenance of this project
has become increasingly difficult
for the past several years due to
a change in the natural channels
just inside Ocracoke Inlet. Prior
to Hurricane Hazel (October 1954),
practically all shoaling in Wallace
Channel occurred in a two-mile
section at the westward end.
"Since that time, shoaling at the
eastern end near the inlet has
been getting progressively worse.
We have dredged this section sev
eral times, but reshoaling occurs
so rapidly that within a few weeks
the controlling depth is about the
same as it was prior to dredging.
“We have now reached the con
clusion that it is impracticable to
attempt to maintain this section
of Wallace Channel by dredging
alone. However, there is a pos
sibility that training walls could
be constructed to alter tidal cur
rents in such a way that shoaling
at the eastern end would be elim
inated or drastically reduced.
“With this in mind, we have re
quested authority to make a study
of the problem area with a view
to determining just what can be
done to remedy this situation. Au
thority and funds for this study
have been received, and we are
planning to set up our study pro
gram in the near future.
“In making this study we will
have the advice and assistance of
the Beach Erosion Board, and I
feel confident we will find a way
to insure the future maintenance
of Wallace Channel. However, un
til the study is completed, which
will probably take six to nine
months, there is nothing I can do
to improve its condition.”
More Rain
Total Now 13.13
An additional 2.85 inches of rain
was dumped on the county Tues
iay and Wednesday, adding to the
woes of farmer and vacationer
alike.
According to the Atlantic Beach
weather records, .10 inches of rain
'ell Tuesday and 2.75 inches Wed*
lesday. Temperatures for the pc*
•iod were mild, with a high of 84
tnd a low of 70.
Rain curtailed Fourth of July
vacation business at the beach and
caused additional damage to bad*
y hit crops. Excess water caused
looding in I6w areas that still had
water standing from rain last
week.
Rainfall from Wednesday, June
7, to Thursday, July 5 now totals
3.13 inches. A shift in the wind
Vednesday, carrying the rain out
if the area, promised residents a
hance to dry out.
Max. Mia. Wind
Monday .84 72 NE
Tuesday m...„;-...74 72 SW
Wednesday ~~73 M 8W-SE