ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 10/ 61st YEAR, NO. 73 EIGHT PAGES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1962 Second Suit Blocks County Hospital Chamber Will Issue Crab Derby Invitation Morehcad City may be the site , pf the next state crab derby, if plans of the Greater Morehcad City Chamber of Commerce mater ialize. The chamber board of directors Tuesday acted to see if the derby could be held in Carteret county in 1963. The derby includes para des, crab races and crab cooking contests. Morehead City was the ^ t*ite of the derby in 1961. The board also invited the North Carolina Dental Association to hold its 1963 convention in Morehead City, and heard a favorable report on the efforts of the chamber to ; increase membership. The board and chamber mana ger P. W. Bullock discussed plans /or a chamber membership meet ing in October. An outstanding speaker is to be obtained. Thei«. will also be other entertainment. The board commended Elmer Willis for his work in representing Carteret county at the crab derby in Crisfield, Md. and heard Ben Alford report on the success of the color slide presentation on cham ber membership now being shown to civic clubs. Auto Accident Suits Settled A settlement totaling $3,750 was made in the civil term of superior court last week in the suits, Arctta Carter vs. James Morgan Miracle and Franklin Dee Shupe, and Thel ma Edwards vs. Miracle and Shupe. The suits followed an auto accident on highway 24 in the vi*. cinity of Swansboro about two years ago. The Jury ruled that both plain tiffs were injured as the result of negligence on the part of Miracle, and that Miracle was an agent of Shupe. In the case with Aretta Carter as plaintiff, $4,000 was awarded but payment of $3,000 plus costs agreed to. The costs included pro fessional witness fees of $25 each to Dr. S. W. Hatcher, Dr. Robert Barnum and Dr. Harry Sherrill. Ip the case with Thelma Ed wards as plaintiff, $1,000 was awarded, but a settlement of $750 made with the defendant to pay costs. Granted a divorce were Jane Ro binson Yopp and Lonnie Adrian Yopp. Mrs. Yopp is to pay costs of the action and was granted cus tody of two children. In a suit concerning the custody i 'of Sandra Lynn Amos, 4, the mother Edna L. Amos was granted temporary custody and the father | ordered to pay $80 a month for sup I port of the child. The presiding judge is J. William Copeland. Brunswick Tops In June Catches Brunswick and Carteret counties ran neck-in-ncck in fish production in June. Brunswick nosed out Car teret by landing 8,586,840 pounds of fish. Carteret’s landings totaled 8,261,317. Hardly in the running, .but third highest of the coastal counties, was Pamlico with 810,658 pounds. Menhaden made up the bulk of the Brunswick and Carteret catches. Landings at all ports in June amounted to 18.9 million pounds, according to the Federal bureau of commercial fisheries and the state division of commercial fisheries. This was a decrease of 2 per cent as compared with last year. A drop in the catch of blue crabs (down '.781,000 pounds) was largely re sponsible. Chamber Film Shown To Democratic Women Slides showing the growth and development in Carteret, through efforts of the Greater Morehead City Chamber of Commerce, were ’ ^ shown Thursday night at the De mocratic Women’s club meeting at the courthouse, Beaufort. Presenting the film and sound commentary was Ben Alford, a di rector of the chamber. •t Pfans for the forthcoming Novem ber election were discussed. Mrs. • C. G. Holland, president, presided. The date of the October meeting will be announced. Game Wardens Cite Prominent East Carolinians, House Minority Leader .___. •- _____:-— Countians View Parade Mrs. Elmer Willis, Williston, indicated by arrow by window and Mrs. Walter Teich, second arrow, watch the parade at the Cris. field, M.d., crab derby over the weekend. A New Jersey crab won. Attracting attention of those on the reviewing (stand shown above) was this Jaycee float in the crab derby parade. (Photos by Dan Walker.) Washington Agency Says Loan Announcement Wrong Beaufort has not been approved for a loan of $225,000 nor a grant of $25,000 for sewage facilities. A newsstory datelined Washing ton, D. C., and published in the News and Observer, Raleigh, on or about Aug. 23, stated that both Beaufort and Beulaville,' N. C., had been approved for the loans and grants. Beaufort town officials said, how ever, that they had not been in formed of the approval, nor were they awat*e that an application for a loan of that size had been made. Sidney H. Woolner, commissioner with the Community Facilities Ad ministration, Washington, D. C., in a reply to an inquiry from THE NEWS-TIMES, said Saturday, “We have looked in vain for any an nouncement. of a Public Facility Loan to Beaufort, North Carolina. We suspect that you have refer ence, actually, to a loan of $225,000 to Beulaville for that amount, which is to be supplemented by a South River Oyster Lease Fight Heard by Committee Conflicting testimony marked a hearing before the commercial fisheries advisory board and the fisheries committee of the North Carolina Department of Conserva tion and Development at Morehead City Friday. The issue concerned the advis ability of granting oyster leases in South river. Several applications have been filed for leases in South river and Broad creek. The hearing, with both sides re presented by attorneys, was held at the commercial fisheries build ing at Camp Glenn. Proponents of the leases testified that no oysters were found in com mercial quantities in the lease areas, with one proponent, George Eubanks, South River, saying that water pollution control grant pt $25,000. This loan was approved in August and was lor a sewer sys tem. “This perhaps will explain,” Mr. Woolner continued in his letter, “why the officials of Beaufort know nothing of any loan or grant. We don’t know how Bculavillc was transformed into Beaufort in the course of transmission.” The Raleigh news item, headed “Towns Get Sewer Funds,” was published as follows: Washington, D. C. — Approval of federal loans and grants of one half million dollars for construc tion of sewer systems in Beaufort and Beulaville was announced Tues day by the Community Facilities Administration. Each town will receive loans of $225,000 if private financing on reasonable terms is not available. Each will receive a $25,000 grant from the Federal Water Pollution Control program. he had operated an oyster house at South river until a lack of oysters had forced him to close down. Opponents of the leases testified that oysters of the “shoal oyster” variety were found in the area, and that there were enough oysters in the lease areas last winter to pro vide a normal day’s work and pro fit to the commercial fisherman. Under questioning by attorneys Claud Wheatly and Harvey Hamil ton Jr., appearing for the lease applicants, opponents of the leases denied ever wanting oyster leases, and said they opposed the leases on the grounds that the leases would hamper fishing for other seafood and tha( the cases meant that the river would soon be al most completely covered by leases. ■ Six Eastern Carolina citizens amt the minority leaders of the US House of Representatives were among a number of those arrest ed at the start of the dove hunting season, announces Malvern H. Cecil, US Game agent in Beaufort. Charles A. Halleck, Indiana Re publican representative and House minority leader, was among a party of seven arrested at an ex clusive hunting club in Craven county Saturday, Mr. Cecil said. Mr. Halleck and the others in the party were charged with hunting over a baited field for doves at Camp Bryan, a privately-owned hunting camp near Cherry Point. Two fields where the party was hunting were baited with wheat and cracked corn, according to officers. The party had 52 doves in their possession. Cited with Halleck were C. Thom as Whittington, Havelock, James S. Lewis Jr., Goldsboro, Dr. David J. Rose, Goldsboro, D. H. Oates, New Bern, R. E. Pugh, New Bern, and E. Wayne Weant, Greensboro. Mr. Weant told officers that he was an assistant to secretary of com merce Luther Hodges. A hearing on the charge is scheduled- for to morrow at Jacksonville. Issuing the citations were Mal vern H. Cecil, US Game manage ment agent. North Carolina wild life protector Reuben Crumpton, and United States deputy game warden Bob Butler. Other arrests reported by Mr. Cecil were those of Rufus P. Ogles by, Crab Point, cited and tried Fri day for hunting doves out of sea son, and William C. Lupton, Rob ert N. Stevens, Ray C. Courtney, and Mack E. Ricks, all of Beau fort, who were hunting dove on highway 101 Saturday morning. The season didn't open until noon. Mr. Oglesby was fined $25 before United States commissioner Elea nor Howard at New Bern, and four doves in his possession were con fiscated and given to the Morehead City hospital. The four other defendents, 18 years and under, were given sus pended judgments due to their youth and warned to violate no laws for one year. They appeared before the commissioner at New Bern Saturday. Lions Help Supply Glasses! Mrs. J. A. Barbour, welfare de partment case worker with the blind, was the guest speaker at the Lions club Thursday night. She explained use of the blind fund to provide glasses for special cases. The Lions, who donate to the fund for glasses, were told of the screening process for applicants. Records are kept of each case, Mrs. Barbour said, and certain eligibili ty requirements must be met. After the talk, a question and answer period was held, after which the club members voted to continue donation of $25 a month for the glasses fund, and an addi tional $25 for Mrs. Barbour to use as she sees fit for the visually handicapped. Preliminary plans were also made for the club’s White Cane Drive in late September and early October, and for the "Be Thank ful You Can Sec’ seal drive. The Lions will meet weekly dur ing the winter and speakers have been scheduled until Jan. 1. Lions meet at the Hotel Fort Macon. Presiding at Thursday night’s meeting was C. W. Williams, presi dent. When asked if they would be in terested in an oyster lease, the op ponents stated that they could not afford one. Bennie Hardy, South River, said that oysters in South river grow too slowly for him to ever get any benefit from an oys ter garden. In discussion of the proposed lease to George T. Tosto, Jr., fish eries commissioner Gehrmann Hol land and Dr. A. F. Chestnut, of the Institute of Fisheries Research, testified an inspection of the lease area had shown only about one half a bucket full of oysters on the lease area obtained by dredging, with Bennie Hardy, a lease oppo nent, steering the boat. A previous inspection had brought up about two-thirds of a (See HEARING Pg. Z) Three Suffer Serious Injury In Aufo Crash • Collision Occurs Near Newport • Car Passes on Curve, Trooper Says Thrcg persons were critically in jured in a head-on c ollision at 9 p.m. Sunday on highway 70 west Of Newport. The injured are Thomas Stas Jr . Cherry Point, driver of a 1956 Oldsmobilc, Donald L. Paul, New Bern, driver of a 1959 Rambler, and Mrs. Doris Fry, Mantco, who was a passenger in the Rambler. All were given first am at Cherry Point. Stas was transferred to Camp Lejeune hospital and the Other two to Craven county hospi tab New Bern. Mrs. Fry stiffcicc a 1 raptured leg. possible fracture of the other, a broken arm, cuts- and bruises. Details of injuries to the others were not known, but they were ex tensive, according to state trooper W. J. Smith, who investigated. According to the trooper, Stas was headed west and Paul east. The officer said Stas passed another car on a curve, crossing a solid yellow line and struck the Rambler head-on. Both cars were demolished. Charges will be filed, the officer said, but have not been determined, pending a talk with Stas. ESC Reports Drop in Claims Unemployment insurance claimt are down from August one year ago, according to Mrs. Julia Ten ney, manager of the Morchcad City Employment Security com mission office. A total of 96 new claims were filed up to Aug. 25, the final re porting date for the month, and 875 claims were continued on the office lists. In August 1961, 174 new claims were filed, and 1,066 were on the continued list. A total of 200 persons were plac ed in jobs in August, with two of the total being placed outside this area. Of the total placed, 73 were women and 49 were veterans. New applications totalled 110, with 48 women and 18 veterans be ing included in the total. The active file of applicants stood at 321-149 women, 65 veterans and the re mainder men. The Employment Security com mission office will begin aptitude testing in the county’s high schools in early October. Testing will be finished by Jan. 1. Hospital Note tor $150,000 Will Not be Sold Today Thu second soil to prevent the county from building a" hospital on the Earle Webb site, three miles west of More head City, was filed at noon Saturday. Plaintiffs are the same 1!), with one exception, as those who blocked hospital construction with legal action March 27, 1961. Named as a plaintiff, in the place of W. R. Ham Names of 45 Drawn for Jury 'Names of 45 citizens were drawn by the county board Monday for jury duty in the October Civil term of superior court. Jurors drawn are listed below by locality. Morehead City — Clarence Mon roe, Guy Sabiston Jr.. Borden I'\ Wade, Gordon McGee Brinson, Noah II. Bouse, Kemp B Wickizer Jr., Gordon Stewart Turnage, Wil liam C. Becton. Route 1 Morehead City — John B. Davis. Wildwood — Clinton Murdoch. Beaufort — John S. Johnson, Verna G. Hatsell, Russell Richard Kleirim. Carl Gerald Smith, Sal vatore Palazzo, Guy T. Daniels. Route 1 Beaufort — Bernard A Phelps, Kenneth Lee Dickinson, W. A. Kittrell, B. B. Arrington, Frank Edward Springle, Harriet K. Klein, Clyde W. Temple, Ed ward Pest a, Eugene C. Clark. Route 2 Beaufort — George IV: Snooks, Raymond A. Taylor, James Dominic Roarty, Louis John Hill. Newport — Victor L. Mannino. Route 1 Newport — Mrs. Julius M. Russell, Pender N. Smith, How ard C. Cagle, Marvin G Dixoit, Lei and L. Saunders, L. O. Weeks. Beaufort RED — Henry Thomp son, George R. Laughton, Cleve< land Bfondell Gillikin. Route 2 Newport — C. T; Gar ner, Thomas 0. Brookins. Stacy — Daniel W. Fulcher. Smyrna — Guion B. Simpson. Atlantic — Mitchell Taylor. Williston — James Gordon Wade. W. B. Longest Honored By Beaufort Firemen Honored by Beaufort firemen Friday night, upon his retirement after 38 years with the Beaufort Fire department was William B. Longest Jr. Mr. Longest was given a letter of appreciation by the mayor, W.H. Potter, and Dr. David Farrior, fire commissioner. Firemen presented him with a desk set designed with firemen insignia. Mr. Longest is the first in the department to re tire under the recently established firemen’s pension plan, according to fire chief Gerald Woolard. His father, William Longest Sr. iltoii. Beaufort, Democratic nomi nee lor county commissioner, is C. Holden Ballou, Beaufort, The other plaintiffs are J. ). Bar hour dr.. Ralph Eudy, Karl Mades, 1,. I). Spririgle, Charles Davis, E VV. Downum, Julian Fulcher Sr., James II. Potter III, II. D. Paul, Clifford Lewis, Albert Chappell, Leslie G. Moore, W, L. Arrington, Jarvis Herring, Mrs. G. W. Duncan (now a resident of Mount Olive), Ivey Gaskill, C. Wesley Willis and W 11. Potter, mayor of Beaufort. The $150,000 hospital bond anti cipation note, scheduled to be sold by the Local Government commis sion today, on behalf of the coun ty, will not be sold. Luther Hamil ton Jr , county attorney, said funds cannot lie borrowed when becloud ed by legal action. J. 1). Potter, county auditor, ex pressed the opinion that the suit kills the possibility of obtaining $105,000 in state funds for hospital construction. Without the state money, the federal money that was to be forthcoming, under the Hill Burton act, will not be available. The complaint asks that the coun ty and the county commissioners, named as defendants, be restrain ed from issuing the $150,000 note, that they be restrained from using public funds for hospital construe turn and that'the county pay costs connected with the suit. Signing the complaint was Mr. Ballou, one of the plaintiffs. The complaint alleges that • The location of the proposed hospital is not on a site in the cen tral part of the county where it would serve a majority of the pco pie • That there is no use for 56.62 acres of the site located on the north side of highway 24 (it is pro posed by the county that the hos pital be built on 24.36 acres on the south side of the highway) (Sec SUIT Pg. 2) was a charter member of Beau fort's first fire company, the Robert E. Lee volunteer fire lighters. His son, William Bryan III, is a mem ber of the fire department. Firemen saw a training film shown by Frank Langdale and color slides of the pirate’s invasion shown by commercial photograph er, Charles Smith. The firemen portrayed the pirates in the show which took place in August. Plans were also made for the horse show to he sponsored Sun day, Oct. 14, by* the firemen at the Legion field. Dredge Makes Mud Fly li: W ■■■' • i .•.•••••• ■ t Kids frolic in the muck when a dredge is at work. Once in a while a flopping fish is hurled out at the end of the hig pipe and the youngsters pounce on it. The dredge pumped up sand in front of the Morehead City hospital recently. Dredging is now under way in Beaufort harbor. Town Board Opens Bids On Water Line Newport town commissioners met in special session Saturday morning at the town hall to open bids for materials needed to in stall a water line within the town limits." The line will provide suf ficient water lor a proposed sprink ler system Ml the Newport Manu facturing Co. Mayor Leon Mann Jr. said two bids were received on cement asbestos pipe. John Mansvillc Co. bid $1.75 per loot on 2,500 feel of pipe delivered to Newport. The bid stated that delivery could be made within ten days by truck from Marrero, La., and that the com pany would provide an instructor to supervise the initial laying of the pipe. Grennell Co., Charlotte, hid $1.80 on 2,50f) feet, delivered to Newport. Grenncll said it could also deliver in ten days from Amber. Fa., and would also provide a supervisor. Mayor Mann said supervision will be necessary since the town has never laid this particular type of pipe before, Grennell Co. was low bidder for the cast iron fittings, bidding on all but two items. Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Co., Lynchburg, Va., bid on all but three' of the cast iron fitting items. The mayor said the hoard accept ed the two bids (Johns Mansvillc on the pipe and Grenncll on fit tings) anil will hold them until funds to install the water line be come available. Guy Lane, Ram scur, represented Johns Mansville and D E. Kirkman represented Grennell at the meeting. Rotary Learns About lower The latest addition to the skyline of Morehead City was the subject of Thursday night’s talk at the Morehead City Rotary club at the Jefferson restaurant. Kenneth Lamb, district super visor for Carolina Telephone and Telqgraph Co., told club members about the new microwave tower just completed near the telephone company building. The microwave system has prov ed much cheaper than the use of cable,.and the new tower is expect ed to be in use in two weeks. The tower will connect Morehead City to main line service through Kuhns, Pelletier and New Bern. Mr. Lamb, who is from Wilson, said that Carolina T&T now serves 200.000 customers in 41 eastern North Carolina counties, and has doubled in size in the last ten years. Present investment in plant faci lities totals $100 million, a far cry from the company's investment when it started in 1901. A total of f 24.000 persons are employed by the company. Number of telephones in More head City has increased greatly, Mr. Lamb stated, from 1,803 in 1951 to 3,711 in the Morehead City exchange. Mr. 'Lamb demonstrated the microwave system with a model apparatus. Guest at the meeting was O. Meredith Smaw, New Bern. August Tax Income Amounts to $139,356 Collections at the county tax of fice in August amounted to $139, 256.86, according to a report given county commissioners Tuesday by E. O. Moore, tax collector. Collected on the 1962 levy was $130,356.39 'and on 1961 and prior levies $8,900.47. Percentage of the 1962 levy collected by Aug. 31 was $42.14. E. L. Brinson, collector of de linquent personal property taxes, collected $446.40. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar men LOW Tuesday, Sept. 11 5:31 a.m. 5:55 p.m. 11:46 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 6:26 a.m. 6:47 p.m. 12:28 a.m. 12:40 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 7:15 a.m. 7:38 p.m. l:lt> a.m. 1:33 pjn. t

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