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s 51st YEAR, NO. 72 TWO SECTIONS—SIXTEEN PAGES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOKEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. N. C.
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1962
Fisheries Committee Will
Meet Today at Morehead City
County to Borrow Money
To Build School at Bogue
South River Oyster Bed
Issue Will be Heard
Tar Sprayer
Hit; Driver
Of Car Injured
Ellis B. Salter, route 4 New
., Bern, suffered a serious leg injury,
cuts and bruises at 11:40 a.m.
Tuesday when the 1956 DeSoto he
was driving ran into the side of a
tar-spraying machine on highway
101.
According to state trooper W. E.
Pickard, who investigated, Salter
was going toward Beaufort when
, the road machine came out of the
Laurel road. The entire front of
Salter’s car, up to the windshield,
went under the machine, between
the rear and front wheels.
The car was demolished. Salter
was taken to Morehcad City hos
pital in the Adair ambulance. John
ny Rich, Magnolia, who was rid
ing the rear of the road machine,
got a cut on his eye. The machine
was being driven by Dempsey Ains
worth, New Bern, and was owned
by Nello Teer, contractor. Its dam
age was estimated at $250.
Trooper Pickard said there are
y conflicting reports as to whether
a flagman was on highway 101,
flagging down traffic. Charges arc
pending.
Development
In Fisheries
Proposed Here
County commissioners have ap
proved Carteret’s participation in
federal technical assistance pro
ject centering on fisheries. Appro
val vyas given on the basis of an
explanation of the program, made
by state fisheries commissioner
4 C. G. Holland, at the board meeting
Tuesday morning.
‘ Commissioner Skinner Chalk cast
a dissenting vote.
Mr. Holland said that the pro
gram is part of the Area Rede
volopment administration’s ‘ over
all economic development pro
gram” to help counties in ‘‘de
pressed areas” or where there is
chronic unemployment. He added
that the county planning commis
sion’s cooperation in the program
will be requested.
The commissioner said that in
addition to assistance in develop
ment of fisheries products, the
program would include work by a
fisheries research vessel. He said
the cost is estimated at $116,000,
with this area putting up 10 per
cent as a token of interest in the
project.
When asked where the local mon
ey would come from, Mr. Holland
, isaid that the fishing industry it
*sclf would probably put up the
money. He said several of the Car
teret fishing industry leaders are
quite interested in the program.
G. B. Talbot, director of the com
mercial fisheries laboratory, Piv
ers Island, said Wednesday that
the bureau has been asked to sub
mit a plan on how this county
.could be benefited by economic
development in fisheries.
A meeting to discuss the pro
gram further has been set for 11
a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the
state commercial fisheries office,
Morehcad City.
When Mr. Holland was finished
with his explanation, Mr. Chalk
moved that the proposal be “ac
cepted for further study.”
Mr. Holland said that he didn’t
expect any cooperation from Mr.
Chalk. The commissioner remark
ed that he couldn’t vote on any
plan that he hadn’t seen. Mr. Hol
land handed him a mimeographed
outline and commented that he
didn’t expect him to vote in favor
of it even after he’d read it.
Mr- Chalk didn’t.
< Luther Hamilton Plans
To Attend Conference
Luther Hamilton, Morehead City,
candidate for re-election to the
state senate, plans to attend today
at Raleigh a Democratic cam
paign conference for candidates.
The conference will be held in
the Hall of the Hduse from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Luncheon will be served
at the executive mansion.
” The commercial fisheries
committee of the department
of conservation and develop
ment will meet at Camp
Glenn today and tomorrow
to consider the private oys
ter bed situation in this coun
ty and proposed changes in
regulations affecting com
mercial fishing activities in
various waters of the state.
The problem facing the commit
tee is whether to permit private
oyster beds in South river. Tra
ditionally, private oyster beds have
never been permitted in South
river because local interest contend
the waters should remain open to
any who want to work them.
However, law gives the state
authority to grant private oyster
beds under certain conditions, ac
cording to Eric Rodgers, chairman
of the fisheries committee. A
number of petitions requesting
private oyster beds in South ri
ver have been received, Mr. Ro
Eric Rodgers
. . . will preside
dgers says, and a number of pro
tests have been registered.
Both sides will be represented at
the opening meeting this morning
at 10 o’clock at the commercial
fisheries office. Attorneys will pre
sent the cases.
The hearing will continue until
the afternoon and if necessary,
members of the committee will go
to the South river area for a per
sonal inspection, the chairman re
ports. The committee will also stu
dy a number of changes in regula
tions which have been proposed
for various commercial fishing wa
ters. The meeting will continue
through Saturday in order to dis
pose of all the proposed regula
tions in question, Mr. Rodgers says.
The fisheries committee will pre
sent a report on its sessions to the
C&D board when it meets near
Waynesvillc, in Maggie Valley, the
latter part of October.
The committee will devote a por
tion of this afternoon to a session
with MIC Stale Highway Patrol,
which has asked for permanent use
of a portion of the commercial
fisheries property at Morehead
City.
The patrol wants to build a per
manent district office and is ask
ing for a strip of land about 200
feet in width, extending from high
way 70 to Boguc sound, a distance
of about 250 yards.
Fisheries committee members
who will be present arc Dr. John
Dees, Burgaw; Luther W. Gurkin,
Jr., Plymouth; Lorimer Midgett,
Elizabeth City, and Ernest E. Par
ker Jr., Southport. The commer
cial fisheries advisory board has
been requested to be present also.
It is composed of the following:
A. W. Daniels, Cedar Island; Ralph
Meckins, Wanchese; Percy Grant,
Holly Ridge; Garland Fulcher,
Oriental; Clyde Potter, Bclhaven;
Lewis Hardee, Southport; and Mon
roe Gaskill, Cedar Island.
Also present will be Robert L.
Stallings Jr., New Bern, new di
rector of the Department of Con
servation and Development; Har
grove Bowles Jr., chairman of the
C&D Board; Roy Wilder Jr., as
sistant director; Johp Allen Jr.,
assistant to the director; C. Gehr
mann Holland, fisheries commis
sioner, apd Dr. A. F. Chestnut,
director Of the Institute of Fish
eries Research.
License Suspended
The license of a Newport resi
dent, William Dent Oxley Jr., has
been suspended for 30 days, ac
cording to the North Carolina De
partment of Motor Vehicles. Ox
ley, according to the department,
was convicted for speeding.
Board Hears
Two Requests
• Resolution Seeks
Better Ferry Service
• Outer Banks, School
Policy Discussed
Two citizens appeared before the
county board of commissioners
Tuesday morning. Leslie Moore,
Cape Lookout, asked the eounty
to take interest in preserving the
outer banks, and Wayne West,
Newport, asked that the eounty
commissioners exercise greater
control Over money appropriated
to the county board of education.
Mr. Moore, who operates a mar
ina at the cape, said that the eoun
ty has done nothing to preserve
the outer banks. He asked that the
County apply for federal funds..
Upon the advice of Moses Howard,
chairman of the board, the board
deferred action pending a con
ference with Col. Harry Brown,
head of the state water resources
commission.
In reply lo the charge that the
county has done nothing to pre
serve the banks, commissioner
Skinner Chalk said that the state
has assumed responsibility and
has acquired much of the outer
banks for the purpose of prevent
ing erosion.
Mr. Moore estimates that the
state now owns 70 per cent of outer
banks property in Carteret. He add
ed that construction of a large
dune is proposed, with the state
purchasing a dredge to pump up
the dune.
He said that this dredging, on
the sound side, would also provide
*‘an alternate inland waterway”
along the outer banks.
Commissioner Gaston Smith said
it would do no good to build up a
dune without stablizing Drum in
let. Mr. Moore praised the federal
park service, stating that it has
done “a wonderful job” in pre
serving the banks in the seashore
park area.
Mr. Moore also commented on
the inadequacy of the ferry ser
vice between Atlantic and Ocra
coke. He said the number of cars
left at Atlantic is nothing compar
ed to the number at Ocracoke who
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Model of Baby Pigmy Sperm Whale
Put on Display at Hampton Museum
News-Timos Photo by Tom Sloan
David Murrill holds a life-size model of the baby pigmy sperm whale that he and two others found
at Atlantic Beach in September 1960 after a storm. Mrs. Doris Bell, Morehead City, is at right. The
model is on dispfay at the Hampton Marine museum.
History repeating itself is noth
ing new, but an unusual chain of
coincidence surrounds the Hamp
ton Marine museum’s latest addi
tion to its exhibits.
The new exhibit, a model of a
rare pigmy sperm whale, is un
usual in the fact that its three find
ers are ail the descendants of for
mec whaling crew members in the
county, and all three of the men
are grandsons of whalers who sup
plied the whale for another of the
exhibits in the Museum of Natural
History in Raleigh.
The model in the Hampton Ma
rine museum at Camp Glenn is of
one of the two pigmy sperm whales
washed up at Atlantic Beach Sept.
20, 1960. Two whales were ground
ed, a mother and her newborn
calf. The Hampton museum model
is of the infant.
Models of both whales are on
exhibit in Raleigh, as is the “May
flower” whale skeleton, which was
Higher Than the Moon
Photo by Reginald Lewis
The new micro-wave tower erected by Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Co., Morehead City, appears to be higher than the moon
in this photo taken in the morning as the August , moon was setting
in the west. Even one of the painters sways on his scaffold “above
the moon.” e
caught by the grandfathers of the |
three men who found the two
whales in 1960, Jimmy Howland,
David Murrill and Carl Mack Ed
wards,
All three of the men wete work
ing on a house in the Ocean Ridge
section of Atlantic Beach when
the pigmy whales were spotted by
David Murrill, who was working
on the roof of the cottage at the
time.
Murrill said he thought the little
whale was a porpoise caught in
the surf, and called the others.
After capturing the baby whale,
it was taken to the Sea life exhibit
on the Atlantic Beach causeway
and placed in the tide pool. The
UNC Institute of Fisheries Re
search identified the whale as a
pigmy sperm whale.
The mother of the baby whale
was found dead, washed up further
cast along the beach. The baby
whale died sometime during the
following night, when ebbing tides
left it stranded.
Murrill stated that he was told
by fishery experts that the baby
could have been kept alive and
fed by bottle if it had survived the
first night, provided it could have
been placed in a suitable tank or
marine "zoo.”
Only two other pigmy sperm
whales have been found in the
state. The new models are the
first to he placed in the museums
in Raleigh and at Camp Glenn.
The pigmy sperm whale is a rare
edition in miniature of its larger
relative, the sperm whale. The
sperm whale was once the object
of the extensive whaling expedi
tions of the past century, including
the North Carolina whaling in
dustry at Shackleford Banks in
years past.
The pigmy sperm whale reaches
a maximum length of 13 feet, and
is never seen on the high seas.
The cast made from the actual
baby whale is on display at the
Hampton Marine museum. The
model of the mother whale on dis
play, along with another model of
the baby whale in Raleigh, was
made from both casts and measure
ments of the whales.
Third Tax Installment
Due Monday, Sept. 17
Taxpayers paying estimated in
come tax are, according to J. E.
Wall of the internal revenue office
in Greensboro, required to pay
their third installment of tax due
on 1962 estimated income by Mon
day., Sept. 17, 1962.
If the income expected to be
earned during 1962 has changed,
taxpayers should file an amended
declaration of estimated tax. A
blank form for use as an amended
return is printed on the back of
the bill which taxpayers receive
for an installment of estimated
tax, Mr. Wall pointed out.
If you have any questions on
estimated tax, contact the internal
revenue office at the New Bern
posloffice', phone MElrosc 7-5361.
Republicans tip Meet
The county Republican club will
meet at 8 p.m. Saturday at Repub
lican headquarters on Front street,
Beaufort. Candidates will be pre
seht and plans for the coming two
months will be made.
School Groups
Study Thomas Site
School committees ami princi
pals of Beaufort, Smyrna and
Atlantic met at Smyrna Tuesday
night and decided to present the
“Thomas corner" property at the
junctioh of the Merrimon road
and highway 70 to their respec
tive school patrons as the pro
posed new high school site.
Reaction of the respective PTA
groups, interested organizations
and others-will be reported at
another meeting of the same
group Wednesday night at
Smyrna school.
At this week’s meeting, wives
of the Smyrna school committee
members served refreshments.
L. McComb Jailed
On Check Counts
Jailed under $500 bond Sunday
night was Larry E. McComb, Beau
fort, on charges of passing three
worthless checks totaling $133.40.
The warrant for McComb was
sworn out Friday, by Leonard
Gaskins, King Wholesale Co., New
Bern. Gaskins alleges that he re
ceived from McComb three checks,
Aug. 16, 17 and 20, 1962, in the
amounts of $41.15, $23.25 and
$46.50, all of which w'ere worthless.
The case has been set for county
recorder s court Tuesday. McComb
was manager of Larry’s Playboy
Patio, Atlantic Beach. lie was tak
en into custody at the beach Sun
day night by deputy sheriff Billy
Smith.
The patio has been closed since
Sunday.
Served on McComb Tursday in
jail was a warrant sworn out by
H. W. Dickson, agent of the State
Department of Revenue, charging
that checks received from McComb
last month, totaling $221.49 were
worthless.
Vacancy on Newport Town
Board Filled by Tom Temple
Tom Temple, who Lives in the
area annexed by Newport Jan. 1,
was named to the board of town
commissioners Tuesday night when
the board met at the new town
hall. Mr. Temple will fill the un
expired term of Steve Smith, who
died in July.
Appearing before the board for
the third time was Virgil Kincaid,
a resident of West Newport who is
seeking the town’s help in digging
a ditch tt> drain his property and
the street.
Commissioner Dick Lockey ex
plained to the board the findings
of an engineer who surveyed the
area. Mr. Lockey told the board
that there were two ways the ditch
could go and gave the recommen
dations of the engineer.
Mr. Kincaid, who has offered to
bear the expense of .’digging the
ditch in order to get his property
drained, told the commissioners
that if the engineer’s recommenda
School to Open fbr Grades
1-8 in Fall of 1963
County commissioners asked
Tuesday that the county attorney
and the auditor proceed with steps
to borrow $160,000 for construction
of a school in White Oak town-hip
The school would be located at
Bogue on the same site as the
school which burned in 1048 and
would accommodate cildhrcn in
grades 1 through 8. It is estimat
ed that 230 to 250 children will at
tend. The youngsters arc now go
ing to school in Onslow county.
Motion to borrow money for the
school was made by commissioner
Gaston Smith and seconded by
Tommie Lewis. Commissioner
Skinner Chalk voted against the
proposal, stating that the item
was not budgeted and that the
board was not proceeding properly.
The action was taken after pre
sentation to tile board of a letter
from the county board of education,
asking for $160,000 and stating that
the school was scheduled for open
ing ill the fall of 1963.
Mr. Potter said that two-thirds
of the county debt retired last year
could be borrowed.
The board of education in recent
months has received petitions both
for and against construction of a
school. Long-time residents of the
area want the school. Sonic of the
newcomers to the area are satis
fied to have their children continue
going to Onslow.
Feeling has run high frequently
over the Carteret children going
to school in Onslow. Last year,
Onslow school authorities demand
ed that Carteret pay Onslow for
schooling Carteret children. This
demand eventually dissolved, but
this year, for the first time, Ons
low wanted an agreement, which
it signed.
The state school planning divi
Sion has advised that a sc/lopl be
built at Bogue when people there
requested it. John Bell and Mrs.
Essie Smith, Bogue, have been in
strumental in putting the recent
request for the school before the
county commissioners.
In addition to the petitions for
and against, E. C. Jcrnigan, super
visor with the Carteret school sys
tem. made a survey in the area. On
the basis of the survey, which in
cluded a count of the number of
children eligible to attend the pro
posed school, the county board of
education decided in July that the
school should be built.
Mr. Bell told county commission
ers Monday that unless the school
was started now, “any kind of
building” might be thrown up next
summer, just so it could be opened
by the fall. When Mr. Chalk voiced
iisapproval of voting money for
Lhc school, Mr. Bell said it would
be nice if the folks in that area
were made to feel once more that
ihey’rc a part of Carteret county.
Pastor Joins Rotary
Club Tuesday Night
Beaufort Rotary club welcomed
Ihe Rev. Dwight Fouts, pastor of
Ihe Ann Street Methodist church,
as a new member Tuesday night.
Speaker was. the Rev. Billy Mob
Icy, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Beaufort, who gave a brief
religious talk.
Guests at the meeting were visit
ng Rotarians Fred Lewis and Jack
Roberts, Morehead City. The club
net at the Surfsidc restaurant.
tion was followed he didn’t see how
he would benefit, therefore he
would not pay for putting the ditch
in.
Roy Dennis, forester, informed
the board that if they followed the
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Sept. 7
12:55 a.m.
1:33 p.m.
6:37 a.m.
8:46 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 8
1:5(4 a m.
2:35 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 9
3:08 a.m.
3:47 p.m.
9:49 a.m.
10:48 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 10
4:27 a.m.
4:56 p.m.
10:50 a.m.
11:39 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. II
5:31 U.m.
5:55 p.m.
11:46 a.m.
Committee Asks
For New School
• Industrial Education
Center Sought
• Overall, Simultaneous
Financing Requested
The Beaufort citizens’ committee
for Better Schools presented a res
olution to the county board of ed
ucation Tuesday requesting that
• a new school be built on'high
way 70 between Beaufort and the
highway's junction with the Mcr
rimon road
• a county industrial education
center be built in the exact geo
graphical center of the county for
use of all citizens.
• that action be taken to pro
vide funds for these proposals
The committee also recommend
ed that “the total building program
for the county be instituted simul
taneously and under one coordinat
ed plan for financing.”
The hoard of education interpret
ed the latter to mean that a bond
issue for schools should be floated.
Presenting the resolution w'erc
Clifford Tilghman, chairman of the
citizens’ committee; Gilbert* Pot
ter, 'Mrs. C. R. Whcatly Jr., and
Mrs. Charles Hassell.
The general location sugge-ted
for the school seems to meet, at
present, with approval Beaufort
and Smyrna school district offi
cials.
The resolution further asks that
the school site consist of fifty acres
and provide facilities for at least
a thousand pupils.
Relative to the simultaneous and
“one coordinated plan for financ
ing,” the resolution says, “This
suggestion is made with the reali
zation of extreme need in all areas
of the county school system and
with the sincere desire that all
children in the county may have
equal and uniform educational op
portunities at the earliest possible
time.”
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, said that the state
will not approve, at present, an
education center in this county.
Such a center is located in Lenoir
county and a new building for the
school there is under construction
now.
R. W. Safrit, chairman of the
hoard, read a letter from W. H.
Potter, Beaufort, suggesting a site
on highway 70 for a new high
school.
A committee was appointed for
the adult farmer education pro
gram at Newport school. Members
arc Harry Lockcy, Y. Z. Simmons,
Ernest Quinn, Sam Garner, Nathan
Garner and Pernel Hardesty.
A mobile classroom was ordered
for Beaufort school. One is already
there. There arc also two at At
lantic.
Board members present were l).
Mason, Atlantic; Theodore Smith,
Davis; W. B. Allen, Newport, and
Dr. A. F. Chestnut, Morchcad City.
engineer’s alternate plan they
would have to get written permis
sion from the forestry service for
an casement across forestry land.
He explained the conditions upon
which such permission would be
granted.
A motion to write the forestry
service for the easement and to
proceed with the alternate plan
was carried, with commissioner
Lockcy casting a negative vote.
The board passed a motion that
i letter be written to Dewey Phipps
isking him to move his fence off
i five-foot easement at the back of
lis lot. The fence is in the path
if the ditch.
The board approved the cleaning
>ut of another ditch in West New
port.
Several other West Newport resi
ients were present to ask the
ward what it intends to do about
weeds and debris on. lots owned
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