ALL WHO READ READ 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 (See UTTEK Page X)

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