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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 51 at YEAR, NO. 67 EIGHT PAGES CARTEKET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOKEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS US Warden Rescues Woman At Pivers Island Yesterday \ Leaf Markets Open Today • ASC Rules on Two Farms at Newport • Discount Variety There, Agency Says Tobacco markets in the eastern belt open today, with untied tobac co going on the floors for the first time in an experimental sale to last for the first five sale days. The untied tobacco sales will be confined to lugs, primings and non descript grades. The untied tobacco is supported at $6 a hundred under the regular support price for the grade. The loose, leaf sales held on the border belt averaged $50.18 per hundred. The sales opening means half the • normal support price for a number of farmers decreed to have dis eounty variety tobacco, including two from Carteret county, Sam Garner and John 1. Smith, both of the Newport area. The state Agricultural Stabiliza tion an*1 Conservation committee ruled Friday that 14 farmers in Eastern North Carolina had the discount tobacco, which is sold on a "blue card,'’ and allowed only one half of the support price for the grade. The so-called discount variety to bacco was found on farms in Co lumbus, Wake, Johnston and Car teret counties. The farms in Car teret involved approximately eight acres of tobacco. Farmers with the disputed tobac co assert that the tobacco was grown from seed of itn accepted variety, and that unusual weather conditions caused the characteris tics of the'discount w**ietieu:v* • The state ASC committee has an nounced its intentions of classify ing all tobacco that has discount variety characteristics as discount tobacco, regardless of the seed origin. Appeals are pending before the state committee for 18 more farms in the state. The 14 growers whose appeals have already been turned down by the committee have reach ed the limit in attempting to save their tobacco w’ithout going to the courts. Home Economics Teachers Meet In Beaufort The five-county group of voca tional home economics teachers met with their supervisor, Mrs. Mabel Ilall, Wednesday in the Eure building,*Beaufort. The teachers, from Carteret, Craven, Beaufort, Pamlico and Hyde counties, elect ed Mrs. Harry Mizellc, Newport, chairman for the 1962-63 school year. In addition to electing officers, they planned the coming year’s work. Mrs. Louise Cook, Washington, was elected vice-chairman; Mrs. Charlotte Whitford, Pamlico Cen tral, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Lo uise Burrlesoe, West high, Swan quarter, district 1 advisor; and Mrs. Hannah Beasley, Smyrna, dis trict II advisor. ( Committee members: publicity, Mrs. Birchie Johnston, Belhqycn; Mrs. Pauline McIntosh, Atlantic; Mrs. Blanche Dudley, Englehard; Mrs. Nell Hill, Vanceboro. Community development repre sentatives: Mrs. Dudley, Mrs. Mi zellc, Mrs. Nell Hill, Mrs. Eunice Dixon, Mrs. Pauline Robbins. Evaluation committee: Mrs. Car olyn Ballard, Washington; Mrs. Rachel Swindell, Bath; and Mrs. Nancy Paul, Aurora. Program committee: Mrs. Mar garet Fischcll, New Bern; Mrs. Robbins, Mrs. David Beveridge, Beaufort; Mrs. Louise Cook, Wash ington. During the morning of the all day meeting, refreshments were served by Mrs. Beveridge. The teachers had lunch at the Sanitary restaurant, Morehead City. Following luncheon, program sug gestions were given the program committee. Future meetings will be Sept. 22, Nov. 17, and March 9. The places will be announced. Bates Announced Registration for students plan ning to enroll in St. Egbert’s school, Morehead City, is Friday, Aug. 31. School will open Tuesday, Sept. 4, the day after Labor Day. His Children Help 9-Year-Old Boy Without quick action by US game management agent Malvern Cecil, Beaufort, Mrs. Joseph Parker, wife of a professor of biology at North Carolina college, Durham, might Jie dead today. Mr. Cecil and Charles Lewis, Marshaliberg, pulled Mrs. Parker from the water at the west side of Pivers Island at 9 a m. yesterday. She was floating face -downward. Mr. Cecil administered artificial respiration on the shore and Mrs. Parker started breathing in about three minutes, the game manage ment agent said. She was rushed to the Morehead City hospital in the Beaufort res cue ambulance. According to Mr. Cecil, Mrs. Par ker was in swimming With her son. Joseph Jr., age 9, when he got into water over his head. An other younger son was reportedly on the shore. Mrs; Parker went after the 9-year-old and she got into trouble. It. was then that' Mr. Cecil’s two children, Debby Lou, 14, and Joe, 10, got the boy back to shore, then ran to their father’s office nearby to get their father to help Mrs. .Parker. Lewis was passing by in his car at the time, Mr. Cecil said, and they both went into the water to get the woman. At the time, she was in water slightly more than waist deep. The incident happened in the area where Pivers Island residents and students swim, but Mr. Cecil said the Parkers were beyond the roped off area. Mr. Parker is a student at the institute for college teachers now being eonducted at Duke marine lab. While he is enrolled in the course, the Parkers are living at 1410 Bav St , Morehead City. Hunter Found Guilty of Injuring Federal G a me AgentwithA utomobi I e Lloyd II. Mason, 35, Atlantic, was found guilty in federal court at New Bern Thursday of assaulting Malvern Cecil, Beaufort, with an automobile. Mr. Cecil is a United States game management agent. Mason was fined $500 and placed on probation for a year. He waiv ed jury trial and was sentenced by judge John D. Larkins. The assault took place at 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 18, on the road between Cedar Island and Atlantic. According to Mr. Cecil and state wildlife protector Reuben Crump ton, Mason attempted to run down Cecil as Mason, and Clyde Mason Jr., also of Atlantic, tried to escape arrest for taking duck in closed season and for firelighting. When Cecil was struck by the car, he was flipped on the hood Atlantic Air Field Serves Well, Even Though Strip Obsolete By SSgt. II. C ALDWELL and SSgt. H. DUKE Cherry Point—Forty miles south east of the Marine Corps Air sta tion, Cherry Point, lies Atlantic fieicl, an “ancient” World War II airfield now abandoned except for a lone Marine caretaker. Yet today, this obsolete landing strip serves in a vital dual capaci ty as an emergency landing field— and more important, as the site of Rocket Range Two, a rocket bomb ing range for squadrons of the Sec ond Marine Aircraft Wing. While the landing field is manned by a single Marine, the rocket bombing range area is manned by five Cherry Point Marines of the Station G-3 section. Overseers ol the five-man range crew arc Capt. Billy M. Owen, head of the gun nery range section, and GySgt. Jerry E. Ramsey, NCOIC, who act as a liaison between the wing Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Aug. 21 12:24 a.ni. 12:59 p.m. 6:28 a.m. 7:17 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22 1:20 a.m. 1:54 p.m. 7:34 a.m. 8:28 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 2:18 a.m. 2:55 p.m. 8:43 a.m. 9:34 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24 3:22 a.m. 3:57 p.m. 9:45 a.m. 10:32 p.m. Submarine, Destroyer Will Arrive Friday Carteret residents will be treated to a visit by both a submarine and destroyer of the Navy this week end. The commanding officer of the sub. Harder, is Lt. Cdr. Jay Ky Beam, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Beam, Beaufort. Commanding officer of the destroyer is Cdr J. L. Rice. The submarine and destroyer are scheduled to arrive at the More head City port Friday and will re main through Sunday. Visiting hours aboard both will be from 1 to 5 p.ni. both Saturday and Sun day. Ship’s personnel will escort \ is itors on guided tours. Local lolks who may wish to entertain any of the members of the submarine or destroyer’s complements are in vited to do so. They should con tact the state port office. More bead City, and leave messages for the commanding officer of either the submarine or the destroyer, according to Phillip Bullock, man ager of the greater Morchead City chamber of commerce. The visit of the vessels is the culmination of a request for such a visit made many months ago by the chamber. It was particularly requested that the Navy arrange for eoinmcndcr Beam’s submarine to visit his "hometown” port The American Legion, Carteret Post No. 99, is planning a seafood dinner for officers sometime dur ing the visit. Commander Beam’s father is a past commander of the post. and the car stopped only when Cecil fired through the windshield. The game management agent suf fered a broken bone in his ankle and a neck injury. He was discharged from Sea Level hospital in March and was on crutches until the latter part of May. Although back on duty, he has not yet retained normal use of his leg. (Mr. Cecil saved a woman swimmer at Pivers Island yesterday. See story this page.) The maximum penalty for as saulting a federal agent is $10,000 fine and 10 years in prison. Immediately after Mason and his companion were arrested in Feb ruary, they pleaded guilty before US commissioner Eleanor G. How-, ard, New Bern, on charges of hunt ing duck out of season and taking • squadrons and the range personnel in scheduling rocket-bombing prac tice. A scheduled practice bombing mission means many hours of tedi ous work to the five-man range crew who rise before dawn to make the 40-milc trip to the bombing range. The gunnery mission is a full day of activities beginning at !) a m. and ending at 9 p.m. But, before the gunnery activities begin, the range crew must be on hand hours before the first bomb falls to check and service the generator that sup plies power for the radio and lights in the control houses, and to make sure that all equipment is in top working condition. This is an abso lute must on all gunnery missions. Other important details must also be taken care of before the squad ron arrives for the day of firing. Prior to the arrival of the planes, a range officer and assistant range officer, furnished by the squadron utilizing the range, get together with Sgt. John E. McCarthy, range chief, to discuss the number of flights to be made artd the types of ordnance which will be usetf. This information is then relayed by sergeant McCarthy to his spot ters, LCpl. Samuel G. Rudcn and Pvt. Walter T. Volante, positioned at the two rake or spotting houses, each 1,000 yards from the target. Now, preparations arc followed by action. The bombing mission is about to begin. As the squadron’s planes ap proach the rocket area, the leader of the first flight calls in, verify Shrimp Trawler Picks Up Three Capsize Victims • Outboard Flips Over In Squall Friday # Attempts to Save Boat Fail The shrimp trawler Beveridge, captained by David Beveridge, Beaufort, rescued three people who were thrown from an outboard motorboat Friday afternoon at 1:30, when the outboard capsized. The rescue was made in the ocean at the entrance to Morehoad City channel in the vicinity ol buoy No. 4, according to LI. A. K. Mare thous, Commanding officer of Fort Macon group. The Coast Guard sent its 30-iooter from Fort Macon to the scene. Taken aboard trie Beveridge was the owner of the outboard, Ray Barbee Jr , Kms.t6t.ii and two per sons who were with him. Their identity was not known. Barbee was later removed from the Bev eridge to the 30-footer. The information on the capsizing was radioed to the Coast Guard station try the trawler. Miss Beau fort. The Beveridge, which was in the vicinity, was in position to make the rescue. Lieutenant Manthous said a freak squall came up. The barometer dropped suddenly. It started to rain and the water became quite rough, causing the small outboard to flip over. The rough water made it ex- i tremely difficult to get a line I around the capsized boat. The 30 | footer, commanded by third class (See RESCUE Page 2) them by means of artificial light Their fines were $500 each* ami a year’s probation on those counts. i)uring testimony Thursday, Ce cil said he was carried 100 feet on the hood of the car. When he fired through the windshield, the car stopped, he fell to the ground and fired again. Mason claimed he did not know the men were federal agents when they approached him and Clyde Mason as they were preparing to return home from hunting, lie said he climbed in the car and started to drive off. lie could not sec through the iced windshield, he asserted, and did not know he was being pursued, lie said he stopped the car when glass from the windshield hit him in the face. LC’pl. James S. Grieves of the rocket range crew plots the exact position of a bomb hit from the information received over his head* phones from two spotters located in rake houses 1000 yards from the target. ing his position and his bomb load. A visual check is then made by the range crew to determine that no stray aircraft or personnel are in the danger area. If all is clear, the “commence firing” command is given by the duty range officer. High angle bombing comes first, using small practice bombs con Luther Hamilton Jr. Will Be Candidate for Solicitor Owners Asked To Trim Bushes At Intersections T w e n t y • o n e intersections in Morehead City arc overgrown with shrubbery at the. corners, creating hazards for motorists, according to chief Herbert Griffin of the city police force. Chief Griffin said that property owners are asked to prune the shrubbery within 10 days (by Thursday. Aug. 30) so that, traffic will be visible or the town will re move it. The “blind corners" affected by this request are the following: 14th and Arendell, south side; 14th and Shepard, southwest side; 15th and Shepard, southwest side; 16th and Arendell, southwest side; 16th and Evans, northeast side. Sixteenth and Shackleford, north east side; 17th and Evans, north west side; 20th ard Arendell, northwest side; 20th and Evans, southwest side; 20th arid Shepard, northeast side; 21st and Shepard, northeast side. • Thirty-second and Arendell, ,26th and Evan . 23rd and Arendell, 23rd and Bridges, 22nd and Bay, 21st and Bay, 16th and Arendell, 10th and Bridges, 7th and Fisher, and 7th and Bridges. Cooks Invited To Enter Dishes In conjunction with the crab der by at Look Beach Saturday, there will be a contest among the ladies to determine who can make the bgst crab cakes and deviled crab. Dan Walker, town manager of Long Beach, says he's anxious to know “which ladies, Brunswick or Carteret, arc the best crab cooks.” He assures the Carteret entrants ‘‘unprejudiced judges.” A community kitchen will be available at the Lorraine motel so that the cooks can prepare their dishes there, Mr. Walker says. He says they should be sure to have enough so that the judges will have an sufficient amount to taste! Elmer Willis, Williston, is taking Lord Calvert, the Fabulous Fisher men entry in the Crab Derby, to Long Beach for the race. Taken to Hospital Harold Banks, Havelock, was taken to Memorial hospital, Chapel Hill, Saturday night in a Bell-Mun den ambulance suffering with con vulsions. Mr. Banks, a victim of hemophelia, was transferred from the Cherry Point dispensary. taining a small shotgun charge that explodes on impact, giving off a puff of smoke. This smoke is used to aid in spotting the hits. Meanwhile, a member of the range crew, Pfc. James L. Wess, is in his position by the window of the control tower. On the window (Sec AIRFIELD Page 2) Committee Acts Yesterday At Snow Hill Luther Hamilton Jr., Morehead City attorney, was unanimously selected yesterday as the Democratic candi date for solicitor of the fifth district. Mr. Hamilton faces no opposition in the November election. lie was selected as the candidate yesterday morning at Snow Hill during a meeting olH the Democratic solicitorial execu tive committee. The former can didate, Cecil May, Ne\? Bern, with drew last week after he was con victed on four counts of income tax evasion in Wake county superior court. The only other person mentioned as a possible candidate was Char les Whedbce, Pitt county, judge of Greenville’s recorder's court. On the first ballot the vote was 10 to 2 for Mr. Hamilton and on the second ballot, 12 to 0. H is pre sumed that the two representa tives on the committee from Pitt county, as a courtesy gesture, vot ed the first time for their candi date, judge Whedbee. (Pitt has at present a Greenville resident on the superior court bench, W. J. Bundy.) Attending the meeting was Har vey Hamilton Jr., Morehead City, and Mrs. Vance Fulford Jr., Beau fort. both members of the solicitor ial committee. Joe Horton, Snow Hill, was named chairman of the committee by state Democratic party chairman B e r t Bennett , Thursday. i The decision as to May s sucees ! sor had to lie made yesterday morning because yesterday after noon was the deadline for getting candidates' names to the state board of elections for printing of absentee ballots. Mr Hamilton said yesterday, ••|’m proud to have received the appointment ami if elected will try to. sene the office with dignity, ahd to the best of my ability,” Mr. Hamilton, who will succeed Robert Rouse Jr., Farmville, will begin his duties in January. His term of office is four years, not two as reported Friday. At present he is serving as county attorney in this county. Prank Langdale Speaks to Club At the regular meeting of the South River Junior 4-H club Tues day night, Frank Langdale of the Carteret-Craven REA gave an in teresting talk on electricity. Mr. Langdale hopes to meet with us again Sept. 14 to show a film and also to begin our workshop. Wc were glad to have three vis itors with us and will welcome them as future members. On Sunday afternoon a gfoup of the junior and senior members, assisted by their leaders, Mrs. Marsha Tosto and Mrs. Mary Wil lis, made a door to door campaign to get funds for a needy family. Wc collected $73. The club mem bers thank the community for their gifts. The president, George Willis, called the meeting to order. .We said the pledge of allegiance to the flag and to the 4-H flag. Devo tional leader Gloria Pittman read the devotion. Kathy Pitman, sec retary, read the minutes and took up the offering. The meeting was adjourned and Mrs. Clarence Mason served re freshments. It is estimated that $130 profit was made Saturday night at the pie party at Carl Edwards’ store. Proceeds will go to the 4-H camp. —Gene Mason, Reporter Governor Names Five County Residents to Commission Five Carteret residents were ap pointed Friday by Gov. Terry San ford to the Outer Banks Seashore Park commission. Ship Pumped Out; Tugs Move Her to New Spot The remains of the tanker, Po tomac, have been pumped out and yesterday she was shoved by lugs to a more convenient point for cutting her up. At 1:30 p.m. yesterday, the tank er was lying almost due south of Radio island, several thousand feet from her former resting place at the edge of Morehead City harbor. T.J. Price Presents Paper Thomas J. Price and Frank T Carlson, fishery biologists at the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological laboratory, Pivers Is land, Beaufort, attended the third seminar on biological problems in water pollution last week at Cincin nati, Ohio, according to G, B. Tal bot, director of the laboratory. Mr. Price, who is associated with the radiobiological program under the direction of I)r. T. R. Rice, presented a paper entitled “Accu Thomas J. Price . . . fishery biologist mutation of Radionuclides and the Effects of Radiation on Molluscs.” Mr. Carlson, a staff member of the menhaden program under the direction of Fred C. June, attended as a participating scientist. The seminar is conducted annual ly at the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering center, a US Public Health Service laboratory. Partici pants include the country's lead ing authorities on water pollution and scientists concerned with re lated problems. Power Will be Off East of North River 1-3 Thursday Power will be off everywhere cast of North River for two hours Thursday, from 1 to 3 p.m., an nounces George Stovall, Morehead City, manager of Carolina Power and Light Co. The outage will include the two REA systems, liarkers Island and Cedar Island. It is necessary, Mr. Stovall explains, to armor rod con ductors on the 33,000-volt line. New poles have been set but the work scheduled for Thursday after noon cannot be done without cut ting the power. Power was off for an hour Sat urday night in the Morehead Bluffs section when lightning hit a fuse on a tap line during a thunder storm. The lights went out shortly after 10 p.m. The North Carolina Trade and Industrial association will meet at the Biltmore hotel tomorrow. They are Leslie Moore, Cape Lookout marina operator; Tony Seamon, Morehead City restaura teur; Miss Alida Willis, Morehead City, medical secretary, Harvey Smith, Beaufort, menhaden plant owner and operator, and Monroe Gaskill, Cedar Island businessman. Mr. Moore formerly operated a motel at Atlantic Beach. Mr. Sca mon is one of the owners and op erators.of the Sanitary Fish Mar ket and Restaurant, is a former member of the Atlantic States Ma rine Fisheries commission and has been honored on several occasions with state and national restaurant awards. Miss Willis is secretary to Dr. John Morris, who was recently ap Board Rejects Resignation Of Marion Mills Morehcad City’s board of com missioners met Thursday, and ad journed less than an hour later in a meeting that probably set a rec ord for brevity. Fast handling of the matters at hand and a relatively small amount of new business was the reason for the short meeting. The hoard voted not to accept the resignation of Marion Mills from the Morehcad City board of adjustment, and requested Mr. Mills to stay on the board for one more year. The board, in discussion Of the resignation, felt that at the present time it is in the town’s interest to retain as many of the old board as possible. Commissioner I). J. Hall report ed that the city fire alarm system had been shifted from battery op eration to standard electric cur rent, with new batteries to be used on a standby basis for emergen cies. Mr. Hall also stated that the fire department was planning to begin work on the fire alarm boxes in the future, rewiring them and do ing a general overhaul. Approxi mately $1,500 would be needed for the work, which included trimming Of tree branches away from wires. The board also granted requests for street lights at the entrance of Park Drive and on East Alley be tween Shepard anil Evans streets. The board also heard that new directional signs had been put up at the approaches to the cemetery. After adjournment, commission ers made a brief visit to the fire department fo inspect the new alarm system and the department in general. Eircmcn have been overhauling fire equipment and the department quarters, and had is sued an invitation to the board for a visit. Presiding at the meeting was mayor George W. Dill, 65 Readers Get Certificates The summer reading club con ducted at the Webb Memorial li brary, Morehead City, was brought to a close Friday morning. Sixty five participants of the club were awarded certificates of merit for having read the required number of books during the session of the club. Presentation of the awards was made by Mrs. Virginia Bradburry, librarian of the juvenile depart ment. She complimented the win ners for their faithful interest in the club as well as their prompt return of all books. Robert Cummins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cummins, Morehead City, received a special book prize for reading the largest number of books, forty-two. Ice cream and cake was served in the social room with a take-home lollipop. This is the fourth year that the library has conducted a reading club. Mrs. E. A. Council, librarian, announced that the club would be conducted again next year. Trash Fire A trash fire back of Sound Ap pliance Co. got prompt treatment from Morehead City firemen Fri day night. The alarm went in at 8:37 p.m., and the fire was out shortly after the firemen arrived. pointed medical director of the North Carolina Industrial commis sion. She is a member of the Car teret Business and Professional Women’s club and recently pro moted sale of seafood cookbooks published by the State Department of Conservation and Development. Mr. Smith has menhaden inter ests throughout the world and is past grand master of the North Carolina Masonic lodge. Mr. Gaskill is an experienced . commercial fisherman and is a member of the state commercial fisheries advisory committee. The Outer Banks Seashore Park commission has been established to work for the preservation ol North Carolina’s unique shore line.