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THE NEWS-TIMES
51st YEAR. NO. 70 TWO SECTIONS—SIXTEEN PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. N. C.
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1962
Finley C. Hargett s Body
Recovered; Funeral Tocfcy
j
First Day of School
News-Times Photo bv Tom Sloan
It’s a big new experience, the first day of your first year in
school. That’s why Mother usually goes along, in case the 6-year
olders need last-minute reassurance. Here, mothers and first grad
ers enter Morehead City school. School opened Wednesday.
Judge Imposes
Jail Sentence
In City Court
A jail term was put into effect
for a Cherry Point man Monday
in Morehead City recorder’s court
when it was learned that an ap
peal had been withdrawn and the
defendant was unable to pay the
fine imposed by the court.
Raymond P. Koncitik was tried
- Aug. 20 for drunken driving 'hnd
no driver’s license, fined $125 and
the costs and given a suspended
90-day road term. The sentence
was appealed at the time of trial.
Jud£e Herbert O. Phillips order
ed that the term be served, re
ducing it to 60 days, in view of the
time Koncitik had spent in jail
awarting trial and bond.
TWo other defendants each paid
* $100 and the costs on charges of
drijnken driving. They were Thom
as Elwood Butt, Aurora, and John
Arthur Cornwell, Cherry Point.
Carlton Pittman, Moreheafl City,
appearing on two charges of pub
lic drunkenness, asked for jury
trial in each case and was ordered
to post bonds of $100 in each case
for his appearance in superior
court.
The case of John J. Hallow,
Cherry Point, charged with the lar
ceny of four auto hubcaps from
-Linda Cheek, was continued indefi
nitely when it was learned that Hal
low was AWOL from the Marine
Air station at Cherry Point.
Paying the costs were William
Gerald Gay, Walstonburg, failing
to slop at a red light; Dan Wheal
ton, Morehead City, public drunk
enness, and Ernest Martin, Ashe*
boro, worthless check. Martin was
told to make the check good.
A total of 13 cases was continued
Festival Entertainment
Swansboro’s Mullet Festival Sat
urday, Oct. 13, will include a par
ede, boat trips, exhibit by the
Swansboro Historical association,
entertainment by the Jacksonville
Cloggcrs, water and ski show, fish
and shrimp supper, fireworks and
a sock dance. Tickets will go on
pale tomorrow.
Chamber Manager Writes
Governor Regarding Ferry
P. W. Bullock, manager of the
greater Morehead City chamber
i, of commerce, has written Gov.
Terry Sanford relative to the need
| for improved ferry service between
Ocracokc and Atlantic.
Mr. Bullock referred to an ed
itorial in' THE NEWS-TIMES of
Aufe. 14, which commented on the
number of cars left behind, at both
Atlantic and Ocracoke every time
the ferry sails.
„ The ferry leaves Atlantic once a
day and Ocracoke once a day.
Copies of Mr. Bullock’s letter
were Sent to D. G. Bell, Morehead
City, state highway commissioner;
D, E. Taylor, through whose efforts
the ferry service was started, and
Dr. S. W. Hatcher, president of
the chamber of commerce.
The letter follows;
August 27, 1962
Hon. Terry Sanford
A Few Will Labor
On Labor Day
Monday, Labor Day, will be
observed as a' holiday by banks,
postoffices and government of
fices. Most stores will remain
open for the last big holiday of
the summer season.
THE NEWS-TIMES office will
be open and Tuesday’s paper
will go to press as usual.
The county board of commis
sioners and the county board of
education will not meet Monday,
but will meet the following day,
at 10 a.m.
Thieves Enter
Two Businesses
Two break-ins in Beaufort Tues
day night are under investigation,
and officers are seeking the cul
prits, who included a German
man .22 pistol in their loot.
Victims of the thieves were the
Beaufort Hardware Co. and the
Top Hat Barber shop. Taken from
the hardware store were two five
inch hunting knives, the pistol and
about $20 in cash. Missing from
the barber shop were a number of
comic books.
The break-ins were reported aft
er store opening hours Wednesday
morning and were thought to have
[taken place between the hours of
4:30 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. Wed
nesday.
According to investigating offi
| cers Otis Willis and deputy sheriff
! Carl Bunch, the thefts were thought
! to be the work of juveniles. En
: trance was gained to both places
by breaking out glass in rear win
dows and doors.
Several fingerprints were taken
j in the hardware store.
I Relief Ship Leaves
The relief lightship, which was
in Morehead City port from last
Friday until yesterday, came in
for repairs and maintenance work.
The bright red ship, with big white
letters, Relief, painted on its side,
.takes over for Frying Pan and
Diamond Shoals lightships when
those ships go into port for servic
ing.
Governor of North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Governor Sanford:
At the office of the Chamber of
Commerce for Carteret County at
Morehead City, I have experienced
a steady flow of criticism and
disappointment from Nprth Caro
lina citizens who wish to visit the
Outer Banks and fail to do so be
cause of the inadequate Ferry Ser
vice from Atlantic to Ocracoke.
It is evident that one Ferry each
day each way is able to serve less
than half of the people desiring to
make this trip, at least during the
summer months. The attached local
Newspaper Editorial is evidence in
point.
There are two obvious solutions,
either shorten the water distance
by leaving Cedar Island and double
the trips or add at least one more
Ferry. Without more information
The body of Finley C. Hargett,
23-year-old Beaufort Negro, was re
covered Wednesday afternoon from
the Straits, where he drowned Mon
day morning. Coroner W. D. Mun
den ruled the death an accidental
drowning.
Hargett was a crewman on the
menhaden boat Bogue Sound, op
erated by Beaufort Fisheries. He
was swimming to retrieve a small
boat that had broken loose from
the menhaden boat when he went
down. The coroner said he appar
ently misjudged the distance and
became tired or was seized with
cramps.
Gerald Honeycutt and Sammy
Guthrie discovered the body about
2:45 p.m., Mr. Munden said. He
reported that the body was float
ing face down about half way be
tween the mainland and the draw
of the Harkers Island bridge, just
east of the bridge, only a short dis
tance from where Hargett was last
seen. The Coast Guard was noti
fied and brought the body to shore.
Hargett graduated from Queen
Street high school, Beaufort, as
valedictorian of his class. During
high school he was a drummer in
the school band, an outstanding
football player and upon his grad
uation was awarded a scholarship
to North Carolina college at Dur
ham.
He received his bachelor’s de
gree and remained at the college
to study for his master’s degree.
He completed the requirements
only three weeks ago.
At college he was on the dean’s
list, played in the college band and
was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi
fraternity. He had reportedly ap
plied for the Air Force officer can
didate school and was waiting to
be notified of his acceptance.
Harold Hargett, father of the
dead youth, drowned in South Car
olina about 12 years ago, also
while fishing.
The funeral service will be con
ducted at 2 p.m. today in the
Mount Zion Baptist church by the
Rev. M. C. Carter, former pastor.
Burial will be in Oceanview ceme
tery, Hargett’s Kappa Alpha Psi
fraternity brothers will attend the
funeral.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Henrietta C. Hargett; one sister,
Marlene, New York City, and three
brothers, Cecil, New York City,
Henry, Philadelphia, Pa., and Har
old, Beaufort.
Federal Court
Sets Trial Date
Monday, Oct. 15, has been set as
the starting date for the trial of
Robert Kirchofer, Raleigh, and
Janies W. Thompson, Morehead
City, at New Bern.
The pair, officials of the bank
rupt investment firm of Kirchofer
and Arnold, face identical charges
of fraud in the sale of securities,
use of the mail to defraud, selling
unregistered securities, failing to
register as brokers or dealers, and
conspiracy. Thompson has plead
ed guilty; Kirchofer, not guilty.
Kirchofer was president of the
firm and Thompson general man
ager. Kirchofer and Arnold estab
lished and operated the Morehead
City Shipbuilding Corp., which re
cently was sold under court order.
Judge J. B. Craven Jr., US west
ern district court, is expected to
preside at the trial, which will
probably run for several weeks.
Scholarship Awarded
The first Davis Fund college
scholarship, established by Harry
T. Davis, director of the state
museum, Raleigh, has been award
ed to Aubrey M. Banks, a student
at Knapp high school, Currituck
county.
we do not know which solution is
more practical or desired but we
are urgently anxious that with the
dose of the' summer season the
problem should not be cast aside.
At the moment there is no one
thing that would do more to bring
people to Carteret County and con
sequently aid all of the business
interests of the County than to
make sure that this situation docs
not exist Rt the beginning of the
1963 Tourist season.
We therefore respectfully ask
that you endorse our purpose and
refer the problem to the State
Highway Commission with your
recommendation that they careful
ly study the problem and develop
a proper apd early solution.
Yours respectfully,
P. W. Bullock
Manager
Miss Morehead City of 1963 Will
Be Chosen in Pageant at 8 Tonight
♦
Three Bound
Over to Higher
Court Tuesday
#Trio Faces Years
In Prison
• Sentenced in Other
Counties for Break-Ins
A trio of Goldsboro men were
bound over to superior court for
trial, on charges of breaking and
entering, in county recorder’s court
Tuesday,
Appearing before judge L. R,
Morris were Jesse Earl Mitchell.
Lloyd' Leroy Manning and John
Robert Potter. A fourth person in
the case, Billy Ray Mitchell, was
not prosecuted on charges of break
! ing and entering.
The three are accused of break
;ing into the King’s County Fair
! grocery May 20, 1962.
j Mitchell, 22 years old, was sen
; tenced Aug. 15 at Goldsboro to a
lyear in prison for breaking and
| entering in Wayne’county.
Manning, 18, was ‘sentenced in
Nash county to 12 to 18 months for
breaking and entering, a year for
breaking and entering and larceny
in Lenoir and two years- on the
j same count in Wayne. The Lenoir
I and Wayne county sentences are to
! run concurrently.
Potter, 22, was given four 10 sev
i en years on eight charges of break
I ing and entering in Wayne county,
! three years for breaking and en
tering in Nash, and a year on the
same count in Lenoir. The Lenoir
and Wayne sentences are to rim
concurrently. ~ ^
.Mitchell was sentenced to four
to seven years in Wayne on nine
charges of breaking and entering;
two to three years in Nash, and a
year in Lenoir, the Lenoir and
Wayne sentences to run concurrent
ly.
i Manning, Mitchell and Potter
, were sentenced Aug. 24 at Kinston
and all four were brought here over
i the weekend for the hearing in
this county, according to deputy
sheriff Carl Bunch.
Norway Morris, charged with
non-support, was told by the court
to pay $15 a week towards the sup
port of his family and the costs or
go to the roads for one year. Mor
ris was given 60 days to pay the
costs and begin payments.
Horace Jones was given a six
months’ term on the roads for pub
lic drunkenness, and was recom
mended by the court to have a
medical examination prior to scrv
ing his term.
Two speeders paid fines, William
Clifton Neal was fined $5 and the
costs and George Allen Ellyson was
fined $10 and costs. Paying costs
of court were Gorrell Wilson Mc
Millan, failure to dim lights, and
B. E. Hammond, public drunken
ness.
Paying one-half of the costs were
William Nelson Thomas; no band
brake; Otis Lee Hawley, no signal
lights on truck; and Edward Joyce
Hill, no rear view rnirror, no hand
brake and no brake lights.
Forfeiting bonds for nonappear
ance were James Levons Clark,<
Alton Gene Newby, and Jim AUcn
Torry, all for improper hand
brake; David Grant Morris, im
proper muffler; and Walter El
wood Golden, no hand brake.
A charge of no driver’s license
against Milton P. Goodwin was not
prosecuted.
New Maersk Ship
Due Here Sunday
Due at Morehcad City port Sun
day is the Maersk Line’s new 11,000
deadweight ton motorship, Thomas
Maersk.
The Maersk will take on 318 hogs
heads of tobacco, for delivery to
Bangkok, Thailand.
It arrived in New York over the
weekend on its maiden voyage,
preliminary to entering; Maersk's
Far East service. The 525-foot ves
sel, built in the yards of Burmeistcr
& Wain, Copenhagen, has six holds,
derricks capable of lifts up to 60
tons, and facilities * for special
cargo such as strong rooms, silk
rooms, and refrigerated chambers.
Members of the Morebead Mari
time association,. Dr. John W.
Morris, president, will attend a
reception aboard the Thomas
Maersk Sunday and present the
captain, M. H. Ryge, with a key to
the city. Making the presentation
will be mayor George W. Dill.
Carolyn Ballance
# __ Wife ■ .:i* ■ ••• •*'
Virginia Potter
Port Calendar
Marine DowChem — Arriving
Saturday to load glycol for ex
port.
Thomas Maersk—Due Sunday
to load tobacco for Far East. *
MwrManPeO*—Arriving Sunday
* to load milk Tof South America. .
LSD—Arriving Sunday to un
load military personnel and
equipment.
Coast Guard
Reports Assists
Coast Guard boats aided Monday
and Tuesday in the search for
Finley C. Hargett, who drowned
Monday after being lost from the
fishing vessel, Bogue Sound near
No. 47 light in Core Sound.
The 30-footer, manned by Can
trell, SNBM, Godley, SNBM, and
Goff, FA, dragged for the body
Monday afternoon and the 40-foot
er, manned by Sadler, BM3, Goff,
FA, and Guthrie, SN, dragged
Tuesday afternoon.
The Coast Guard also searched
for an overdue 20-foot sailboat
Monday. Curtis McCabe and David
Graves, Morehead City, were re
ported overdue from a camping
trip on Cape Lookout.
The search was made by the 40
footer from Fort Macon, manned
by Garrett, BM2, Brannon EN2,
Smith, EN1, and Medlin, SN.
The sailboat and its occupants
were located on Cape Lookout by
the 30-footcr from the Cape Lookout
Coast Guard station. The craft
locating the missing boat was
manned by chief Reginald V. Lewis
and Rowe, EN2.
Two Cars Damaged
In Crash at Corner
Rains Monday were blamed for
an auto accident at 4th and Aren
dcll streets, Morehead City, when
a Chevrolet driven by James David
Fender, Beaufort, was struck in
the rear, police said, by a Plymouth
driven by Samuel Jarvis Herring
Jr., Beaufort.
According to a report by the
Morehead City police department,
the Fender auto was damaged
about $200 and the Herring car
about $250. The accident took place
at about 7:35 p.m. Monday.
Tide Tdble
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Aug. 31
9:07 a. m. 3:01 a. m.
9:16 p. m. 3:14 p. m.
Saturday, Sept. 1
9:44 a. m. 3:35 a. m.
9:50 p. m. 3:50 p. m.
Sunday, Sept. 2
10:19 a. m. 4:06 a. m.
10:21 p. m. 4:22 p. m.
Monday, Sept. 3
10:55 a. m. 4:32 a. m.
10:51 p. m. .. 4:51 p. m.
Tuesday, Sept. 4
11:27 a. m. 4:53 a. m.
11:23 p. m. 5:19 P- m*
Mary June Merrill
Lynda Beck
Kay Canipe
Medals Received
This is one side of the bronze
Carnegie ryiedal received in the
mail recently bv Joseph A. Hu
ber, Morchead City.
This is the other side. In raised
letters on the surface are these
words: “Joseph A. Huber who
helped to save Arthur W. Hun
ter and six others from burning
and an explosion, Morehead City,
N. C., September 26, 1961.”
Three other Morehead City men
also received medals, as well as
cash awards. They arc Delmas
Willis, Arthur Lewis, and Joe
Morris.
The inscription around the edge
of this side of the medal reads,
“Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.”
Medals were officially awarded
at a ceremony at Pittsburgh,
Pa. A total of 25 were presented.
Two of them were silver medals,
one awarded to an Ohio man and
the other to an Alabaman.
Matti Phillips
Maxine Jones
MM*
Beth Mayo
!
Two Drivers
Get Citations
Drivers involved in two weekend
accidents were issued citations by
the investigating officer.
Azor .1. Rhea, driving a 19t>2
Chevrolet, was charged with im
properly entering a highway at
7:30 p in. Saturday, after he col
lided with a 1953 Chevrolet driven
by Paul D. Cahoon. The accident
happened 14 miles north of Beau
fort on the Merrimon road.
According to state trooper W. J.
Smith Jr., Rhea was backing out
of the Isaac creek road on to the
Merrimon road and collided with
Gaboon’s car. Damage to each of
the cars was estimated at $250.
Cahoon was headed north at the
time.
Clem B. Gaskill, Sea Level, was
charged with exceeding a safe
speed, when the 1956 Ford he was
driving went into a ditch on the"
Merrimon road, a quarter of a mile
north of the highway 70 intersec
tion, Sunday. Damage to the car
was estimated at $500. Gaskill was
not hurt.
7-Year-Old Rides
Bicycle into Car
David Harrison Guthrie, 7, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Guthrie,
Crab Point, suffered minor injuries
last Thursday when he rode his
bicycle into the side of a 1960 Chev
rolet station wagon driven by
George A. Cagle, route 1 Morehead
City.
According to state trooper W. J.
Smith Jr., who investigated, the
accident happened on the Country
club road, near KittrcH’s store at
1 p.m.
The officer said the boy came !
out a side road, into the right'
front of the station wagon. He was j
taken to Morehead City hospital
but was later discharged. No char
ges were filed against the driver.
Accepts Parish
Frank Hatton, former advertising
employee of THE NEWS-TIMES,
now a Catholic priest, has moved
to Albuquerque, N. M. He is the
priest of SL Therese parish there.
From eijrht lovely girls,
Miss Morehead City of 1963
will be chosen at a pageant
at 8 tonight in the Morehead
City school auditorium. The
winner will be crowned by
the city’s mayor, George W.
Dill.
Contestants and their sponsors
are Matti Phillips, Sunshine Laun
dry; Virginia Potter, Hardesty Mo
tors; Mary June Merrill, Sound
Chevrolet; Beth Mayo, Morehead
City Drug Co.; Carolyn Ballance,
Sanitary restaurant; Lynda Beck.
Lewis-Price Buick Co.; Kay Ca
nipe, Parker Motors, and Maxine
Jones. Lucky 7 Fishing fleet.
Miss Morehead City will receive
as prizes a $200 scholarship, a
wardrobe valued at $150, and a
trip to compete in the Miss North
Carolina pageant in the western
part of the state next summer.
All of the contestants will appear
in a parade at 11 o’clock this morn
ing. They will ride in convertibles
from 12th and Arendell,. through
the business section, then turn at
7th and Arendell and return to the
starting point.
At noon they will be guests at a
luncheon at the Jefferson restau
rant, where judges will have the
opportunity to speak with each con
testant. Bill Munden and Frank
Robinson, co-chairmen of the pag
eant, state that Kenneth Bradley,
manager of the restaurant, has
been most cooperative in making
•arrangements.
Kmceeing the pageant, being
sponsored by the Morehead .City
Jaycees, will be Jerry Bowers.
The girls will first appear in eve
ning gowns, then bathing suits. Be
tween the two appearances, Sharon
Sykes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Sykes, Mansfield Park, will
do the Mexican hat dance.
The girls will present talent num
bers following intermission. Miss
Jones will dance, and sing Wouldn't
It be Loverly from My Fair Lady.
Miss Phillips will do a baton fire
twirling routine. Miss Beck will
sing. Miss Mayo will do a scene
from Romeo and Juliet, Miss Pot
ter, a modern jazz routine, Miss
Merrill a piano number, Rustic of
Spring, Miss Ballance will present
dramatic speaking and Miss Canipe
will dance to the number, Bali Hai,
from the musical South Pacific.
The judges are Dan Rand, Rich
lands; Roy Cashion, Sanford; Don
Hudson, Jacksonville, and two
Jacksonville Jaycettes.
Miss America ballots will be
used by the judges in keeping
^scores. At the conclusion of the
talent numbers, the judges’ ballots
will be collected and their scores
totaled by the Jaycee tallying com
mittee. None of the judges know,
at that time, which girl will
emerge with the highest score.
The three finalists are then call
ed to the stage, individually, and
each is asked three questions. The
same questions are asked each girl
and are not revealed prior to the
contest. The questions are design
ed to test the girl’s mental ability
and her capacity to "think on her
feet.”
New ballots are distributed to
the judges for this phase of the
contest. After the questions have
been answered by the three final
ists, the judges vote again. Their
votes are tallied and the winner,
first and second runner-up are de
termined.
While judges’ votes are being tal
lied after the talent competition,
Miss Sykes will entertain with the
dance, the Charleston.
Tickets for tbe pageant arc now
on sale or they may be purchased
at the door tonight.
Sun Returns
As Alma Passes
Rain the first of the week grad
ually disappeared, and warm
weather and sunny skies returned.
Daytime temperatures ranged
from 76 to 86.
Alma, spotted off Jacksonville,
Fla., Monday afternoon, picked up
speed and passed the North Caro
lina coast early Tuesday morning.
The county got some gusty winds
and high tides, but no major part
of the storm.
Night temperatures this week
were in the low 70’s, and winds
were shifty as Alma passed by.
Rain recorded at the Atlantic
Beach police station was 2.75 inches
Monday, and .30 inches Tuesday.
Max. Min.- Wind
Monday 76 72 E-ENE
Tuesday 82 70 Var.
Wednesday 86 70 Var.
Second Term Scheduled
The second week of a special
term of civil court will open Tues
day morning in the courthouse,
Beaufort.
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