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THE NEWS-TIMES
51st YEAR, NO. 69
EIGHT PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOKEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1962
Submarine Attracts Crowds
Photos by Bob Simpson
More than 2.0(H) persons went
aboard the submarine Harder over
the weekend. The Harder came into
port after all, when repairs were
quickly made at Charleston, C.,
Thursday.
A message was received at More
head City Thursday afternoon that
the HardeT would not be able to
keep its appointment here.
Lt. Cdr. Jay Ky Beam, com
manding officer of the Harder, said
that the Harder experienced a
“lube oil casualty” when off Char
leston about a hundred miles
Thursday. Without the proper lub
rication, the engine can't operate
and it was deemed advisable to
put into Charleston where there
were, facilities for correcting the
trouble.
Commander Beam said lie and
his men were terribly disappointed
when they thought they wouldn’t
be able to get to Morehcad City.
"The men said to me, ‘Don't
worry, captain, we’ll get her fix
ed,’ ” commander Beam recalled,
“and that really meant a lot . to
me.”
Commander Beam was coming
“home.” His parents are Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Beam of Beaufort and
his brother, Joe Beam, is a i-esi-.
dent of Morehead City and presi-1
dent of the Morehead City Jaycees. |
Many of the skipper’s high school j
classmates from out of town camej
to Beaufort over the weekend to
greet him.
Their disappointment, upon hear- i
ing that-the Harder’s visit was |
cancelled, turned to joy when it j
was found the sub would make it
after all. The Harder docked at,
Morehead City shortly before noon j
Saturday.
Commander Beam said 986 visi- j
tors went aboard Saturday and!
1,200 Sunday. “We couldn’t handle!
them fast enough,” he said; “We
had no idea we'd have this many
people. '
He expressed appreciation to the
State Forts Authority, Carteret
Post No. 99,. of the American Le
gion for entertainment of the Har
der's officers at a dinner at the
Sanitary restaurant Saturday night,
to the Jones-Austin VFW post, I
which entertained the men at a
dance Saturday flight, to the greater
Morehead City chamber of com
merce, “and to everyone who was
so nice to us while we were here,”
he remarked. -t
Phillip Bullock, manager of the
chamber, made arrangements with
Cherry Point Marine Corps air
station to provide hourly bus ser
vice to Atlantic Beach for men
aboard the Weeks (destroyerwhich
was in port) and the Harder.
Commander Beam said this was
especially thoughtful and enabled
the men to enjoy the beach and
recreation facilities there while
they were on liberty.
The Harder put in at Charles
ton at 6 p.m. Thursday and was cn
route to Morehead City eight hours
later. It left Morehead City port
at 9:02 a.in. yesterday in a down
pour of blowing rain. It is now en
gaged in two weeks of operations
off the Virginia Capes.
The first hurricane of the season,
Alma, was reported 195 miles off
Jacksonville, Fla., yesterday after
noon. headed toward the Morehead
City area. It's moving at j0 to 1,2
miles an hour, with winds at 45 to
50 miles an hour and gradually in
tensifying. Ith maintains direction
and speed, its estimated time of
arrival here would be late Wednes
day or early Thursday.
Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort, left, and mayor George Dili, Morehead City, right, congratulate each
other upon receiving plaques from the Harder’s skipper, center. Lt. Cdr. J. K. Beam, captain of the
Harder, made the presentations Sunday afternoon.
in
it Cdr. J. K. Beam greets his father, C. L. Beam, Beaufort, upon
arrival of the submarine USS Harder at Morehead City Saturday.
Commander Beam is the captain of the Harder, which opened its
elms to a record crowd of visitors.
County Schools
Open Tomorrow
Everything's in readiness for
the opening of school tomorrow,
according to the county board
of education office.
H. L. Joslyn, county superin
tendent of schools, said Newport
was lacking a fifth grade teacher
yesterday and a last-minute re
signation of a teacher at -W. S.
King school was expected to be
filled by the end of the day.
Other than that, he knew of
no major problems to mar the
opening of the 1962-63 school
year.
Crewman Lost
From Menhaden |
Boat Monday
# Finley C. Hargett,
Beaufort, Missing
• Coast Guard Drags
For Body
The ( oast Guard was dragging
yesterday afternoon at the Straits
for the body of Finley C. Har
gett, about 26 years of age, who
disappeared at 10:10 a.m. yester
day when he tried to swim for a
small boat that had broken loose
from the menhaden boat, Bogue
Sound, operated by Beaufort Fish
eries,
llargett, a graduate of North
Carolina college, Durham, was the
son of Mrs. Henrietta (’. Hargett,
with whom he made his home at
212 Queen St., Beaufort.
Searching for the body yester
day morning was the 30 footer
if ini Fort Macon Coast Guard sta
tion. Dragging operations m the
afternoon were undertaken by the
40-footer.
The search was in the vicinity
of light buoy 47, east of the Bark
ers Island drawbridge.
Hargett was a graduate of Queen
Street high school where he played
football. He is survived by
brothers, Henry and Harold, and
a sister, Marlene.
Captain of the Bogue Sound is
Walter Goodwin, Beaufort. The
crew numbers about 15.
Friends of Hargett reported that
he was considering entering the
Air Force officers’ candidate
school.
Fish Are Where
You Find Them!
John Young, 14-ycar-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Young of
Beaufort, discovered Sunday that
sometimes “crime” does pay.
For a misdeed at home, John
was told that he could not ac
company his father on a planned
fishing trip. He could not, in,
fact, go anywhere out of the yard
except to the dock across the
street.
Much disappointed, John took
himself down to the dock to try
his luck at fishing there. A short
time later he strode triumphant
ly home—carrying a 5'i-pound
sheepshead and a 7ti-pound
sheepshead he had caught!
In truth, John knew the big
ones were there. Dr. Harold
llumm of Duke marine labora
tory was skin diving around the
dock looking for a pair of glasses
lost by a little girl and he told
John he had seen the big sheep
heads. Dr. llumm found the
girl's glasses. He also found a
pair lost by John a year ago!
■ Morehead City mayor George H. Dill presents Lt. Cdr. J. K.
Beam with a key to the city upon the arrival of the submarine USS
Harder at the port Saturday. In the background, between mayor
Dill and commander Beam is Beaufort mayor Piggk Potter.
County Total Population,
1960, is Actually 27,438
♦
Captain Welcomed
£L»;
News-Times Photo by T<»m Sloan
George W. Dill, left, mayor of iVIorehead City, presents an en
graved key to the city to ( dr. J. L. Rice, commanding officer of the
destroyer, Weeks. The captain, in turn, presented the mayor a plaque
from the ship.
Navy Destroyer Weeks
Has Distinguished Past
. The U§S John W. Weeks, (DU
7(il), a Navy destroyer that visited
Morchcad City over the weekend,
has a number of distinctions that
make the ship unique.
Named after a former secretary
of war who served from 1922 to
1924, the Weeks was commissioned
July 21, 1944, and took part in the
campaigns against Iwo Jima,
Okinawa and Japan in world war
III. '
| After two periods in the mothball
I fleet after the war, the Weeks was
! used as a reserve training ship
I and then returned to fleet service.
Argument Ends
In Axe Cutting
A Beaufort resident is under $100
bond today after an argument Sat
urday night in which he allegedly
cut another man with an axe.
E. T. Thomas, Beaufort, turned
himself in to law enforcement of
ficers after the incident occurred.
The injured man was Rufus Far
row Jr., Beaufort.
According to police chief Guy R.
Spririgle, the affray resulted after
an argument over the loan of some
money, and began with the throw
ing of pop bottles by Farrow at
Thomas.
When Farrovy advanced, Thomas
took the axe, which was on the bed
of a truck, and hit Farrow in the
j abdomen. Farrow was not seri
ously hurt.
Farrow is under charges of as
sault for the bottle throwing, and
Thomas is charged with assault
with a deadly weapon.
The incident look place near the
! intersection of Broad and Queen
; streets.
Chief Springle said that Farrow
is at present on parole as the re
sult of stabbing and killing a man
in Beaufort about six years ago.
Farrow served five years and eight
months of his sentence and has
[ been out of prison about six
months.
Court Opens
The first week of a two-week
term of civil court opened yester
day with judge J. William Cope
land presiding.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Aug. 28
7:08 a. m.
7:24 p. m.
1:00 a. in.
1:10 p. in.
Wednesday, Aug. 29
7:50 a. m.
8:03 p. m
1:43 a. m.
1:54 p. m.
Thursday, Aug. 30
8:29 a. m.
8:40 p. m
2:23 a. m.
2:36 p. m.
Friday, Aug. 31 . ”
9:07 a. m.
19:16 p. m.
3:01 a. m.
3:14 p. m.
The Weeks was pne of thc_.ships
that aided the SS Flying Enter
prise, a freighter that made the
j news off the coast of England when
! its captain, Capt. Kurt Carlson,
J refused to abandon his ship after
i the crew had been taken off the J
j storm stricken vessel.
The Weeks began the tow of the ,
! Flying Enterprise to safety, later
turning the freighter over to a ,
i tug.
The Weeks was also the first
destroyer to enter each of the Great
Lakes by the St. Lawrence Seaway,
and escorted the flMY Brittania,
. Great Britain's royal yacht, with
| Queen Elizabeth aboard, while in
| the Great Lakes.
The Weeks and another destroyer
were the first American warships
to enter the Black Sea since 1945,
making the trip through the Bos
porus in 1960. Also in 1960, the
Weeks greeted the USS Triton at'
the end of the submarine’s round
the-world submerged voyage.
The Weeks participated in res
cuing the American cable repair
ship “Western Union” from har
rassment and capture by Castro
led forces off Baracoa, Cuba in
March 1961. The Weeks escorted
the cable ship to safety in Ameri
can waters.
In her travels, the Weeks has
visited Japan and surrounding
waters, England, Cuba, Singapore, i
Hong Kong, Aden, Malaya, Greece,
Italy, Gibraltar, ,France, Spain, j
The Isle of Rhodes, Germatiy, Tur
key, the Suez Canal, Scotland, Ber
muda, Candada, Eritrea, Pakistan,
Sicily and Portugal, among other
nations and ports.
The Weeks is commanded by
Com. James L. Rice Jr., a native j
of Texas who makes his home in!
Norfolk, Va. Commander Rice
claims California as his homej
state, and is the father of three;
sons.
Upstate Papers Comment
On Litter at Atlantic Beach
Articles in two upstate newspa
pers recently criticised the appear
ance of Atlantic Beach.
The following item appeared in
a column by Georgia Tanner in the
Goldsboro News-Argus July 20,
1962 and was forwarded this past
week to THE NEWS-TIMES by a
Goldsboro summer resident at At
lantic Beach:
“Atlantic Beach is a disgrace to
North Carolina. The beach is lit
tered with soft drink bottles, beer i
cans, paper cups and all sorts of
debris. It seems the only way the
beach is ever cleaned is when a
storm comes and sweeps the
beaches clean.
“I heard many people this sum
mer say that they intend to go to
Myrtle or some other beach be
Census Figure, 30,940,
Includes Men on Ships
Carteret county’s official 1960 population count is 27,
4.18 and not 30,940 as reported in all the census publica
tions.
“This is not an “error” in a sense, but it gives a distorted
picture, according to Josef H. Perry, research planner
i with the division of community planning. Department of
i Conservation and Development, Raleigh.
Added to the county’s solid population of 27,438 on
April 1, I960 were J,503 i\avy per-*
sonnel who were on ships lying off
' Morehead City.
Thus, all the census figures on
Carteret' include these “phantom
1 residents.”
As a result of adding these Navy
men to Carteret, census publica
tions show that there is a prepon
derance of males (2,192) between
. ages 20 and 24 in the county as
compared with only 866 females
in the same age bracket; also that
| 55 per cent of males in the labor
force are, between 18 and 34 years
lot age. (The state percentage of
males in the labor force in that age
bracket is 34.)
This weird situation was discov
ered by Mr. Perry while doing a
population projection study with
i Dr. Horace Hamilton of North Car
olina State college.
He said military population al
i ways presents a difficulty in this
type of study and he could find no
reason for so many people, close
to 4,000, in "group quarters” in this
county.
So he wrote to the Bureau of the
Census. Washington, I). C., and re
ceived the following answer Aug.
7 from Dr. Henry S. Shryock Jr.,
acting chief" of the population di
‘ vision:
“Our records check showed that
there were approximately 11 Naval
craft in the vicinity of Morehead
City port ... at the time the ccn
Ttns was taken. These ships had
a military population of 3.502 which
was processed as part of the pop
ulation of Morehead township in
Carteret county . .
| Mr. Perry comments, “Therc
j fore, over 10 pc’* cent of the county
! population had never set foot in the
county and were unaware that
they were residents.”
Local Carteret county enumera
tors had‘nothing to do with count
ing the Navy personnel. They were
counted by Navy enumerators and
then dumped in with the Carteret
population figures.
Mr. Perry told THE NEWS
TIMES yesterday in a telephone in
terview that he has encountered in
no other county in the state a pop
ulation distortion of the magnitude
of Carteret’s.
The census publications list “pop
ulation in group quarters” in this
county ns 3,637. Subtracting the
Navy phantom residents from that
number leaves 135, which includes
persons in boarding homes, the
prison camp at Newport, and Coast
Guard personnel.
Mr. Perry observes, “When the
Naval fleet had steamed past on
April 2, 1960, the unusual popula
tion distortions were gone, but in
census records, which will be cited
hereafter for local data, Carteret
county will stand out with its 1960
surplus of 3,502 young adult male
residents.”
(Editorial comment appears on
page 8).
Lord Carteret, the county’s en
try in the second annual North Car
olina Crab derby at Long Beach
Saturday, placed second, behind the ]
Pamlico county entry. Bouncing
Bob. The Pamlico crab won by a
scant two lengths. Elmer Willis,
Williston, handled the county con
testant.
cause Atlantic has gotten so dirty.
Many beaches have huge rakes to
clean and if this resort expects to
continue to grow and prosper they
must do something.
“Dr. Eddie Bizzell, who was on
the board for several years, agrees
wholeheartedly—but as He says, ‘1
hope someone can do something
about it. 1 tried but ran against a
stone wall.’ ”
M. G. Coyle, town clerk at Atlan
tic Beach, was asked Friday to
comment on the situation. His
statement follows:
“In response to your call about
a news item in the Goldsboro
News-Argus I would like to make
this comment, not a reply to the
editorial or one that was published
in tiie Wilson Daily Times several
USA Engineers
Give Notices
• North Channel Will
■
Be Closed Two Days
t. . ’ ; . 7"_' 7. \ • '; ”7
• Bridge to be Built
At Money Island
Army engineers, Wilmington, re
port that the north channel at the
; Atlantic Beach draw will be closed
J two days this week and R. A.
Bryan, Goldsboro, has asked per
mission to build a bridge across
i Money Island slough just east of
! Atlantic Beach.
j According to, the State Highway
! commission, vessels will have to
j use the south channel at the At
I lantic Beach .draw from noon today
I until 6 p.m. Thursday, because re
pairs arc being made to the fender
system.
The bridge spans the intracoastal
waterway. Highway traffic will not
be affected.
The bridge at Money Island will
span a small creek. It will connect
Boguc banks with a island in the
real estate being developed by Mr.
Bryan, Charles Piner and Dr. B. F.
Royal, Morehead City.
The bridge will be 120 feet long,
have a horizontal navigation clear
ance of 28 feet and a verticle clear
ance of 7 feet 8 inches at low water.
Objections to the proposed bridge,
if any, will be accepted by the
Army engineers at Wilmington
until Sept. 24, 1962.
Future Bright,
Rotary Told
The economic picture for Car
teret for the next two years is
bright. Garland Scruggs told the
Morehead City Rotary club Thurs
day night.
Guest speaker Scruggs cited the
construction of a new consolidated
high school, a new bridge and new
home and business construction as
a factor in raising employment
levels.
Direct distance dialing and port
expansion will also aid in progress,
he said.
The county heeds to keep a close
watch on the long range economic
picture, Mr. Scruggs added. He
is manager of Morehead City's Co
operative Savings and Loan asso
ciation.
Gnests at the meeting were Ev
erett Bugg, Durham; Bob Deale,
High Point; Eli J. Perry, Kinston;
James Castrow and Nathan Hon
nickcr, Hinton, W. Va.; Bill Boyd,
Newport; W. D. McRoy, Goldsboro;
John D. Holden, Norfolk; Milton
Warner, Rocky Mount, and Clar
ence Stamper, Beaufort.
weeks ago, for I have learned
many years ago never to argue
with the editor for usually their
basis of thinking is correct but
sometimes they are wrong in mak
ing the complete analysis of a sit
uation.
“The Town Board of Atlantic
Beach is constantly trying to get
property owners to clean up their
premises, and in front of ^ their
premises, and this includes ocean
front property. We feel that they
have done a fairly good job but it
could be better, so in some respects
we will have to agree with the edi
torial. Where people have rental
property and not too much personal
interest in looks it does create
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