297 DAYS AND
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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1962
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Fort Exhibits Expanded
Museum exhibits in Fort Ma
con, at Fort Macon State park
near Morehead City and Beau
fort on the North Carolina coast,
have been renewed and expand
ed to present a more graphic
story of Fort Macon's role in the
civil war. Above, tourists ex
Graham Duncan Jr. Seriously
Burned in BedTuesday Night
Air Base Invites People
To List Rental Property
Th> Marine Corps air station, <
Chcrr\ Point, at the request of the
Department of Defense, is con
ducting a survey of housing avail
able to military personnel in this
f area.
The air station, through its public
information officer, requests that
anyone in the Cherry Point, New
Bern, Beaufort-Morehead City area
who has rental housing, list it with
the housing officer at Cherry Point
by Wednesday, July 25.
The information should be ad
dressed to the Commanding Gen
eral, Attention G-l, Marine Corps
- Air Station, Cherry Point.
Following are the conditions the
housing should meet:
1. Location — distance to Cherry
Point must be 45 minutes or less.
2. It must be a complete dwell
ing unit with private entrance, a
bath and kitchen available for the
sole use of the occupants. Kitchen
and bath must be reached without
having to pass through bedrooms.
& Unit must be well constructed
and in good state of repair.
4. Heating plant and kitchen
equipment provided.
Rental units that meet these con
ditions — as well as those that may
- not — will be posted on the bulle
tin board in the air station housing
office for the benefit of military
personnel, according to the Cherry
Point information office.
The reason for listing housing
that may NOT meet the above re
quirements is that a dwelling may
be acceptable in every respect
except that it doesn’t have a re
frigerator. In that case, it would
« be the prospective renter’s privi
lege of either occupying the dwell
ing or rejecting it.
Patrol Requests
State Property
The commercial fisheries com
mittee, at its meeting at Morehead
City Sept. 7-8, will consider a re
quest from the state highway pa
trol to make available to the pa
trol part of the fisheries property
west of Morehead City.
The patrol has requested a strip
200 feet wide, extending from high
way 70 to Bogue sound.
The request was made at Boone,
when the committee met there re
cently, but action on it was de
ferred until the committee could
inspect the area in September.
At Boone, the commercial fish
eries committee recommended that
the general assembly be asked, for
j the next biennium, for $30,000 for
continuation of marine fisheries re
search and $20,000 for research in
the field of seafood processing.
Profit Reported
Two hundred dollars was made
on the fish fry at Newport Satur
day night to raise money for the
4-H camp, announces L. £. Lewis,
chairman of the 4-H development
program.
amine the exhibits in a cool arch
ed-roof room of the fort.
The beautiful old fort, a brick
pentagon begun in 1826 and first
garrisoned in 1834, was seized by
the Confederates in 1861 and fell
to federal forces a year later in
the battle of Fort Macon. Fre
Library Levy
Requires Vote
To levy a tax for support of a
county library will require ap
proval by the people in referendum,
according to county attorney Lu
ther Hamilton Jr.
Representatives of the county
library board and the Friends of
the Library appeared before the
county commissioners two months
ago and requested that the board
include a levy for the library in
this fiscal year’s tax rate.
Mr. Hamilton checked the sta
tutes and found that the county is
empowered only to support the
library from non tax revenues. The
county has appropriated for the
library this year $2,895. State sup
port will amount to $4,672, ac
cording to vlic county budget.
The town of Beaufort also con
tributes to the library. Received
from the town this year will be
$600. The library is located in Beau
fort at Broad and Pollock streets.
The county attorney has inform
ed the county library board, in a
letter to Mrs. Edward T. Arring
ton, Beaufort, of the statutes con
cerning levies for libraries. Mrs.
Arrington was a member of the
delegation which appeared before
the board to request the levy.
Barbecue Tomorrow
An outdoor chicken barbecue at
Camp Glenn schooi from 5 to 7:30
p.m. Saturday will raise funds for
the county 4-H camp.
served as a historical attraction,
the fort is open free from 9 a.m.
until 5 p.m. weekdays and Sun
days, year around.
The bathing beach in Fort Ma
con State park is open through
Labor Day. There' is also a pic
nic area at the beach.
Graham Duncan Jr., Beaul'ort, is
in a serious condition in the More
head City hospital, suffering from
burns received Tuesday about mid
night when he fell asleep in bed
while smoking.
Seriousness of the burns cannot
be fully determined until bandages
are removed, but the burns cover
most of his body.
Mr. Duncan has been uncon
scious the greater part of the time
since the incident. He spoke a few
minutes Wednesday afternoon.
According to members of his
family, Mr. Duncan, in his pajam
as, was smoking a cigarette while
reading in bed. He apparently doz
ed off and a cigarette caught the
bed clothes afire.
lie and his two children, Ginny
and Speck, seemed to have roused
at the same time. The children
called their mother who is em
ployed as a nurse at the Will Pot
ter residence nearby, and Dr. M.
T. Lewis was summoned.
The fire, was smoldering under
the covers. When Mr. Duncan rea
lized what was happening he lifted
the covers to jump out of bed and
the flames blazed up. Surprising
ly, the bed was burned only slight
iy
Dr. Lewis used his automobile to
rush Mr. Duncan to the Morehead
City hospital. The fire accident
victim is employed as a city car
rier at the Beaufort postofficc.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, July 20
10:35 a.m.
10:49 p.m.
4:22 a.m.
4:32 p.m.
Saturday, July 21
11:32 a.m.
11:46 p.m.
5:08 a.m
5:25 p.m
Sunday, July 22
12:27 a.m.
5:59 a.m
6:27 p.m.
Monday, July 23
12:41 a.m.
1:21 p.m.
6:57 a.m.
7:40 p.m.
Not Guilty Plea
Given Monday
By L. P. Willis
• Hearing Continued
Until Monday
• Randolph Jones Gets
Terms on Roads
Preliminary hearing was given'
Louis Pierson Willis in Morehcad
City recorder’s court Monday. The
court heard a not guilty plea en
tered by Willis's attorney, Claud
R. Wheatly.
Evidence was presented and the
hearing continued until Monday,
July 23. Willis is charged with
breaking and entering the home of
his father-in-law, Dan Merrill.
Morehcad City, in the night and
with intent to do bodily harm and
whih armed.
Merrill reportedly struck Willis
j with a shotgun.
i The court sentenced Randolph
1 Jones, Morehcad City, on charges
of driving drunk and not having
a driver's license. Jones got four
months on the roads.
Herbert Paschal Wood, Raleigh,
charged with disturbing the peace,
| loud and profane language, public
j drunkenness and resisting arrest,
i was given a six-month term on the
roads, suspended upon payment of
$123 and costs and remaining on
good behavior for two years.
W'ood was also charged with as
sault by Eva A. Wood, but the
prosecution was found to be mali
cious and frivolous. Mrs. Wood
paid the costs.
Charges were found to be mali
cious and frivolous in two other
eases, where a man and his wife
leach charged each other with as
: sault. Carlyle D. Chambers and
Elsie Chambers, Morehcad City,
each paid costs.
Jim Hubert Frady, Weysville,
charged with drunken driving,
speeding, reckless driving and
passing on the right was found not
guilty"’ on the -drunken driving
. charge and fined $50 and the costs.
I Jerry Lewis, Newport, charged
with failing to stop at a stop sign,
reckless driving and insufficient
brakes, was also fined $50 and the
costs.
Billy Edward Morton, Hubert,
was fined $5 and the costs on a
charge of speeding.
Paying the costs of court were
Robert Earl Jones, Morehcad City,
public drunkenness; Laird Dale
Masters, Havelock, failure to keep
proper lookout.
Elton Smith, Morehead City, pub
lic drunkenness; Horace Thurston
Rackley, Morehcad City, passing
in a no-passing zone; Laughton E.
Marshburn, Jacksonville, failing to
stop at a stop signal, two counts;
Phillip N. Gerbig, Havelock, and
Mrs. W. A. Hill, Marshallberg, both
for worthless checks. Each was
told to make the checks good.
Wayne Eugene Sowers, Beaufort,
paid two-thirds of the costs on a
charge of driving on the wrong side
of the road. Paying one-half of
I the costs were Landon Earl Shuff.
Rocky Mount, driving without
lights; George Rodney Nelson,
Morehead City, no reflectors on
trailer; and Willard Lee Kittrcll
Jr., Morehead City, improper muf
fler.
The case of Ray Vance Hopper,
Morehcad City, charged with im
proper license plates, judgment
was deferred until the July 23 term
of court. James Everett Rattley,
Morehead City, charged with
speeding and no driver’s license,
failed to appear in court. A war
rant was issued for him and new
bond of $200 set.
Art Students at Work
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At work In art classes at the Beaufort summe r workshop are Mrs. Elmer Griese, Mrs. George
T. Martin, Mrs. Ben Jones, Mr. Griese and Barbara Ann Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Griese, Bichlands,
are instructors.
SPA Releases Accurate Report
On Tonnages at State Ports
Morehead City state port handled 466,544 tons of ship-(
ping in the fiscal year ended June .‘50, 1962 and Wilming
ton state port 317,782, according to the State Ports Au
thority.
Total tonnages for the two ports were 784,326, with 398
ships calling at the Wilmington terminal and 304 at More
head City.
According to Morehead City {tort figures, tobacco ton
State Marks
Site of Teacher
Assembly Home
By F. C. SALISBURY
Morehead City boasts of but few
old landmarks after its one hundred
years of settlement, (tone are the
old Aferrdell and PigOtt houses,
reminder of two families whose
name and aehievcmcnts have come
down through the years.
The former Teachers Assembly
budding was not among the early
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Photo by F. C. Salisbury
buildings of the town’s settlement.
Because the structure was erected
and maintained, however, as a
source of educational assistance to
the teachers of the state, the de
partment of Archives and History
has seen fit to memorialize the
structure by placing a marker at
its site, on Arcndell street between
4th and 5th streets. The marker
(See MARKER Page 3)
Rev. Guthrie Colvard
Recovers from illness
The Rev. Guthrie Colvard, who
was associational missionary for
the Atlantic Baptist association
and served this area for several
years, is in serious condition at
Craven county hospital, New Bern,
after undergoing surgery last Sun
day.
Mr. Colvard and his wife, who
now live in Florida, were visiting
friends in New Bern and the sur
rounding area when he became
ill. He is expeted to recover but
will be hospitalized for a while.
Mrs. Colvard remains in New
Bern with her husband.
Three Navy Men Donate Rare
Blood to Woman at Sea Level
Three crew members aboard the
USS Mulliphcn, AKA 61, which
docked at Morehead City state port
Tuesday, gave blood at Sea Level
hospital Tuesday afternoon to Mrs.
Naomi Gaskill of Sea Level, who
underwent surgery. *
Mrs. GaskiU's blood is type O
negative, a comparatively rare
type. When it was discovered that
she would need three pints, a call
was made to F/Sgt. Dennis Good
win, administrative officer of the
National Guard unit in Morehead
City. None of the unit’s men had
the needed type,' so sergeant Good
win contacted Maj. James H. Lan
ders, USMC, port control officer,
Morehead City.
nage in the titbit calendar year win
show a 20 per cent increase over
tobacco tonnage in 1961.
A recent story in daily new,spa
pers presented a considerably dis
torted picture as to activity at the
state ports, according to state ports
officials. The story originated in
Wilmington.
Figures used to indicate the
amount of activity at l>oth ports
during the past fiscal year were
based on, customs collections.
Charles McNeill, assistant opera
tions manager at Morehead City,
points out that customs collections
are on imports only and even then,
everything imported is not subject
to duty.
The report on Wilmington port
activity, which was given state
wide circulation, also included all
ships calling at Wilmington, wheth
er at the state port or private ter
minals, and their tonnage, Mr. Mc
Neill noted.
Morehead City port business con
tinues to break records, with new
warehouse space making it pos
sible to handle larger tobacco ex
port cargoes. A 95,000 square-foot
warehouse was just completed this
su miner,
Morehead City port tonnages
generated a payroll of half a mil
lion dollars here in April alone,
according to port figures.
In May, two Caribbean passen
ger cruises originated at Morehead
City port.
“All kinds of figures can be quot
ed as to port business,” Mr. Mc
Neill observed, “but the taxpayer
is being done an injustice when he
is presented information that total
ly distorts the picture as to port
operations.”
For example, the Army Corps ol
Engineers periodically issues a re
port of tonnage through Beaufort
inlet. Those figures include the
amount of fish carried by men
haden boats. o include those
figures as part of the Morehead
City port tonnage would be false
and misleading,” Mr. McNeill not
ed. “Yet, a person not willing to
present a clear picture, or ignor
ant of how to handle a story on
statistics, may choose to use those
figures, and thus the public would
get a distorted view.”
The tonnages at the Morehead
City and Wilmington slate ports,
quoted in the first paragraph
above, were released by the State
Ports Authority this week in an
effort to present a true picture of
the amount of business handled by
both state-supported facilities dur
ing the 1961-62 fiscal year.
Judge Appoints
Douglas J. Odom
By special appointment, Douglas
J. Odom, Morehcad City, is now
serving as a justice of the peace.
Mr. Odom filed for the office in
the spring and automatically be
came a justice under the statute
permitting Morehead township to
have three magistrates, with one
additional for each 1,000 population.
Mr. Odom would have been sworn
in the first of December, lie was
appointed justice of the peace
Tuesday by W. J. Bundy, resident
judge, superior court, third judi
cial district.
The appointment runs until July
17, 1964. C. Elmer Smith, a justice
of the peace in Morehead City, is
now hospitalized and Charlie
Krousc, another jaypec, is on vaca
tion. For that reason, Mr. Odom
said, the judge felt it necessary to
authorize Mr. Odom to begin serv
ing as a magistrate.
Major Landers found that noneH
of his men had the type either so
he contacted the Mulliphcn, which
had arrived in port at 7:30 a.m.
Iler erew included five men with
O negative blood: Ens. B. R. Bock;
man, Ens. J. A. Echrs, commissary
service chief G. E. Herring, boat
swain's mate third class L. H.
Chapman and seaman J. S. Pertec.
The five were taken to Sea Level
by automobile and Bockman, Fehrs
and Herring donated blood. They
were returned to the port before
the Mulliphen sailed at 4:30 p.m.
Captain of the Mulliphen is W. B.
Rodman IV, a native of Washing
ton, N. C.
CD Emergency Network
Needs Three More Stations
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FHA Offers Loans
To County Farmers
The secretary of agriculture
has designated Carteret a county
in which the Farmers Home Ad
ministration is authorized to
make emergency loans to farm
ers.
Farmers interested in applying
for emergency- loans should con
tact the Carteret office of the
Farmers Home administration,
on the second floor in the court
house annex, Beaufort. The of
fice is open each Thursday from
!) a.in. to 4 p.iii. The office is
closed from 12 noon to 1 p m.
Vernon Woodard has been de
tailed as acting county super
visor for the Farmers Home ad
ministration office in Beaufort,
according to 1. M. Robbins, su
pervisor.
Two Former
Countians Killed
In Accident
Two former Carteret residents,
Mr. and Mrs. Alphonso (Phonnie)
Garner, St. Petersburg, Fla., were
killed early Sunday morning in an
automobile accident near Charles
ton. S. C.
The Garners, with their daugh
ter, Mrs. C. F. Armstrong, Mrs.
Mabel Oglesby, sister of .Mrs. Gar
ner, and Herbert Taylor, were en
route to St. Petersburg after a
iwo-week vacation on Bogue sound
near Morehead City. Mrs. Arm
strong ifc in a serious condition at
a Charleston hospital. She is the
former Nancy Garner.
Also hospitalized were the other
two passengers, Mrs. Oglesby and
Mr. Taylor, both with extensive
injuries.
A funeral service for Mr. and
Mrs. Garner will be conducted this
afternoon at St. Petersburg, where
the couple will be buried.
Mr. Garner is survived by three
sisters, Mrs. Howard Lewis, Mrs.
Mollie Ilall and Mrs. lzora Bell,
Newport; a half sister, Mrs. War
ren Alligood, Beaufort; two bro
thers, Elmer Garner and Dcnard
B. Garner, both of Newport; four
half brothers, Marion and Allen,
Newport; Claude Garner, Hamp
ton, Va., and Blake, United States
Navy.
Mrs. Garner is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Armstrong and
Mrs. Henrietta Goodrich, both of
St. Petersburg; two sisters, Mrs.
Blanche Edwards, Newport, and
Mrs. Mabel Oglesby, St. Peters
burg.
It is believed that Mr. Garner,
who was driving, had a heart at
tack. The Garners spent their
Morehead City vacation at a camp
on the sound owned by Mrs. Roy
Garner, Newport.
Thieves Take Property
From Boatyard Here
The sheriff’s department is con
tinuing investigation of theft of
property from boats at Cannon’s
boatyard, west of Morehead City.
Deputy sheriff Carl Bunch said
that some of the boat owners have
not yet inspected the boats to re
port what is missing.
The boats were ransacked last
Thursday night, deputy Bunch said.
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v Newport Rotarians
Discuss Proposed School
The proposed consolidated school
for Newport and Morohead City
was discussed at the Newport Ro
tary club meeting Monday night.
Leading the discussion was Ed
gar llibbs, program chairman.
Among those speaking on the
school were Moses Howard, chair
man of the county board of com
missioners, and George McNeill,
Bill Chalk and Dr. J. W. Morris,
Morehead City Rotarians who
were visitors at the meeting.
By DOROTHY J. IPOCK
Civil Defense Information
Every Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock the Carteret County Civil
Defense ctwork meets for the
purpose of training in communica
tions.
The chief operator is Tom Kin
caid in Newport, call letters are
K4JLW, operating on a frequency
of 145.38 megacycles assigned by
the Federal Communications com
mission.
The stations operating at this
frequency run from K4JLW-1 to
K4JLW-13. The county is covered
with a workable communications
net. but other call stations need
to be established, particularly at
Cedar Island, Atlantic or Sea Level,
and Markers Island.
The existing net serves a very
vital purpose. It strives only to
serve each and every citizen in Jhe
county. Persons interested in
emergency communications should
contact Harry Williams, CD direc
tor, or Tom Kincaid, communica
tions officer. •••
In any emergency, each station
is monitored, messages can be
sent or delivered.
The net stations arc located at
the following sites:
K4JLW — Tom Kincaid, Box
105, Newport.
K4JLW-1 — Net control station,
Old Jail, Beaufort.
K4.JLW 3 — Mrs. Harry Williams,
Presbyterian Camp, Highway 24,
RFD, Newport.
K4JLW-4 — K. C. Salter, 1511
Front St., Beaufort.
K4JLW-5 — Machine and Supply
Co., Dave Rink, Monitor, Cause
way, just west of Gallant’s channel,
Beaufort.
K4JLW-6 — Mrs. Mildred Mul
ford. Laurel Farm, Laurel road,
RFD Beaufort.
K4JLW-7 — Miss Georgina Yeat
man. Open Grounds Farm, Mer
rimon.
K4JLW-8 — Dr. David Farrior,
1406 Front St., Beaufort.
K4JLW-9 — Mr. and Mrs. W. J..
Ipock, Causeway (fourth house
west of Fivers Island road.)
K4JLW-10 — John Longest, High
way 70 RFD, Beaufort.
K4JLW-13 — Les Turnagc, Mans
field Park, Morehead City.
JC's to Sponsor
Donkey Softball
Morchead City Jaycees will
sponsor a donkey softball game
at the Beaufort high school field,
Thursday. John Mayberry Jr.,
chairman of the project, reported
Wednesday that all preparations
are under way for the event.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Among the players will be such
personalities as Dr. Russell Out
law, Odell Merrill, Dalmon Law
rence, Bernard Leary, Gordon Har
desty, Thurlow Whealton, Kenneth
Wagner and Rudolph Mason.
Advance tickets will be 75 cents
for adults and 35 cents for children.
Gate tickets will be $1.00 and 50
cents. Tickets may be purchased
from Jaycees, at Hill’s, THE
NEWS-TIMES, and Jim Wheat
ley’s.
At the Jaycee meeting Monday
Jaycees learned that their invita
tion to Miss North Carolina to spend
a week’s vacation here was declin
ed with regrets. The beauty queen
bad been offered three vacations,
all of which were turned down in
favor of preparations for the Miss
America Beauty pageant in Sep
tember.
Mrs. Louise Morris, president
of the Jacksonville Jaycettes, gave
a talk on the organization and role
of the Jaycettes.
The meeting closed with a dance
for the members and wives. The
group met at the Blue Ribbon res
taurant.
Coast Guard Aids
Two Craft Tuesday
Coast Guardsmen made two as
sists Tuesday, one to a disabled
sports fishing boat and one to a
cabin cruiser aground in Boguc
sound.
The sports fishing boat, the Rock
along, had engine failure two miles
southeast of the No. 4 buoy in
Beaufort inlet. The boat was tow
ed back to Morehead City for re
pairs.
The other craft, the 30-foot Ad
venturer, was aground near the
No. 5 buoy in Bogue sound. The
boat was refloated and proceeded
under its own power.