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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
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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
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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.
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