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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1962 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
\ 51st YEAR, NO. 74 THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES. MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C.
Analyst Gives Commissioners
Economic View of Beaufort
Josef II. Perry, research plan
ner with the division of community
planning, presented figures on
Beaufort’s growth potential at the
Beaufort town board meeting Mon
day night.
Mr. Perry, who was introduced
by mayor W. II. Potter, is compil
ing the statistics as part of a town
contract with the stale, and the
federal urban renewal program.
The report will be furnished the
9 town in printed form in the near
future, Mr. Perry said.
The speaker presented statistics
and charts, which among many
factors, pointed up the following:
Employment of persons in agri
culture and fishing is down; oppor
tunities for employment of worn ci
lia ve increased faster than employ
ment opportunities for men, and
the unemployment figures in Bcau
, fort arc above the national aver
age.
His population figures, based on
the town’s condition prior to recent
annexation, indicated a further
population decline in future years,
and a growing number of elderly
citizens.
' Gunman Captured in Morehead City
Draws Jail Term in Forsyth County
Summer Court
Sessions End
At Beach
Atlantic Beach mayor’s court
ended summer sessions Tuesday,
with one case still pending, a Camp
Lejeunc Marine who is at present
being sought by military authori
ties for being AWOL.
Among defendants tried by mayor
Alfred Cooper were Vance L. Paf
nin, Cherry Point, public display
of whiskey, costs; Dewey H. John
son, Walstonburg, public drunken
ness; costs; Percy Green, Swans
boro, disturbing the peace, $5 and
costs.
T. M. Howard, Newport, disturb
ing the peace, $5 and cpsls, re
stricted from bed*ch until Jan. 1,
1963; Michael R. Bartz, Cherry
Point, public drunkenness, costs.
A charge of temporary larency
of an auto against Elizabeth Mc
Lean Bradley, Kinston, was drop
ped when mayor Cooper found no
probable cause.
Getting mayor’s warnings were
Leonardo L. Zamora Jr., Cherry
Point, creating a public disturb
ance, disturbing the peace and
fighting; Stanley Dixon, route 1
Newport, interfering with a police
officer.
James Taylor, route 1 Newport,
loud and profane language.
Earl T. Bradley, Kinston, dis-.
* turbing the peace, resisting arrest;
Patrick M. Doyle, Cherry Point,
public drunkenness; and Gary E.
Fry, Cherry Point, public drunken
ness.
Forfeiting bonds were Gary War
ren Hulin, Asheboro, disturbing the
peace, $10 bond, and Larry E. Mc
Comb, Beaufort, interfering with a
police officer, $15 bond.
/ Louis Johnson Returns
Home from Hospital
Louis Johnson, 15, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Randolph Johnson, Beaufort,
returned by ambulance Monday
from Johns Hopkins hospital, Bal
timore, where he has been under
going treatment for a heart con
dition this summer.
Mrs. Johnson and her daughter,
Amy, who had been staying in
Baltimore, relumed with him.
Louis will be confined to bed at
his home two more weeks, ac
cording to his father, and will re
quire two to three months for com
plete convalescence.
Purvis Chapel, Beaufort, Hosts
East Carolina District Conference
The Rev. Billy T. Mobley, pastor
of the First Baptist church, Beau
fort, was the guest speaker last
night at the fifth district confer
ence of African Methodist Episco
pal Zionist churches of Eastern
Carolina.
Host to the conference is Purvis
Chapel AMl! Zion church; Beau
fort, file Rev. E. Everette Lewis,
pastor. The conference, which
opened Wednesday, will continue
through today.
Several hundred delegates from
23 churches are attending. Among
the distinguished guests is Bishop
Medford, Washington, D. C., and
the Rev. W. A. Stewart, bishop of
In view of the discouraging out
look for the future, Mr. Perr/ said
there is a need for new economic
activity. He said, “Beaufort can be
drab or it can be quaint and at
tractive,” in suggesting that the
greatest opportunity for new eco
nomic activity lies in appeal ,to
tourists.
He suggested that more attention
be paid, in addition to tourism,
to providing services for the elder
ly. He said there is a possibility of
obtaining federal funds for con
struction of clinics for senior citi
zens.
“Any” industry, he remarked,
should not be welcomed, but he
said there are industrial possibili
ties that would fit in with the town's
resources. He suggested that the
need exists to upgrade the skills
of people in the town.
He termed Beaufort’s working
force without-skills “an unneces
sary luxury.”
Mr. Perry was asked what would
be needed to get an education cen
ter for industrial training here.
I lie said this would come within
the province of the state depart
• A gunman who fled lo Morehead*
City after shooting his former em
ployer in Winston-Salem May 30
was sentenced to serve 7 to 10 years
for felonious assault in Forsyth
county superior court this week.
Judge Robert M. Gambill told
the defendant, James Lloyd Sprink
le, that it appeared only the small
size of the shot in the shells pre
vented his being tried on a murder
charge instead of assault with in
tent lo kill.
Sprinkle reportedly became en
raged when fired from his job at
Winston-steam Laundry by C. Hunt
ley Spencer, its secretary-treas
urer. Sprinkle retrieved his shotgun
from a pawn shop, sawed off the
barrel and stock, then drove to the
laundry, where he fired twice at
Spencer. One blast hit Spencer,
who was standing on the loading
platform, in the left arm, body and
right arm. The other blast missed.
Sprinkle drove toward Morehead
City in his pickup truck. En route
he picked up a hitchhiker, Edgar
Phifer Tallent of route 1 Newton,
who was Coining to Morehead City
to look for a job. Sprinkle forced
Tallent to drive, even though Tal
lent had no license, and threatened
his life several times, Tallent said.
Alter they arrived in Morehead
City, Tallent persuaded Sprinkle to
let him stop at a service station.
Tallent managed to tell the sta
tion manager, Ray Lewis, the situa
tion and asked him to call police.
Police officer Bill Condic arrested
Sprinkle near 24th and Arendell
street.
JC's to Sponsor
Circus Sept. 28
Morehead City Jaycees will spon
sor a circus at Morehead City
Friday, Sept. 28, according to
Joe Beam, Jaycec president.,
Mr. Beam said the circus played
last week in Asheville and Jaycees
checked with sponsors there before
booking the circus for Morehead
City.
The Asheville sponsors told the
Jaycees it is a good circus and the
owners lived up to their contract,
Mr. Beam reports. It is the Sells
and Gray circus, owned by Beatty
Cole Brothers.
The circus will play on the J. T.
Oglesby field, Crab Point, at the
same place where the rescue
squad-sponsored circus played last
year.
Tickets will be sold in advance
was well as on the day of admis
sion, Mr. Beam announced.
the fifth Episcopal district.
Appearing on the welcoming
program Wednesday night were
mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort; the
Rpv. Henry Parker, pastor of the
Holiness church, Beaufort; S. R.
McLendon, principal of W. S. King
high school,' Morehead City, and
J. W. Tillery of St. Stephen’s AME
Zion church, Morehead City.
Randolph Johnson, principal of
Queen Street high school, Beaufort,
presided.
The annual sermon was preached
by the Rev. O. L. Glover, pastor
of St. Stephen’s church.
Speaking today will be T. A. Gui
ton, Morehead City; the Rev. Ha
mcnt of public instruction.
Mayor W. H. Potter observed that
the county board of education “says
we can’t have one here because
they’re building one at Kinston.”
Mr. I'erry said there usually
must be an indication that there
is opportunity for the people who
attend the trade center, to get
jobs after they finish their train
ing. (The MorcheadCity Technical
institute, which for several years
trained young .men in industrial
skills was eventually moved to
Gastonia, an industrialized area of
the state, because there was little
opportunity here, the state said,
for employment of the graduates.
-The Ed.)
Mr. Perry said that there are
good transporation facilities, cli
mate, recreational opportunities
and enough labor in this area. He
expressed the opinion that is is
“not easy to make processed sea
foods pay off. he entrepreneurs,
he added, are the boat owners, peo
ple who are not particularly inter
ested in the type of research and
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Major Presents
Space Program
Newport Rotarians got an insight
on the space program Monday
night when Maj. Jack Edwards,
Cherry Point, spoke at the club
meeting.
Major Edwards is attached to
air group 24 at the air station.
A film, The Widest Horizon, was
shown by Major Edwards. He also
displayed a space suit similar to
the one used by Col. John Glenn on
his flight.
The suit, which incorporated
many devices to regulate and mea
sure factors involved in space
flight, was the same as the one
used by Colonel Glenn, with the
exception of the fabric.
The suits originally cost approxi
mately $4,00 each, Major Edwards
said, but production has lowered
the cost to about $2,500.
Party Honors
Mrs. D. F. Merrill
Mrs. D. F. Merrill, Beaufort, has
been named Carteret county’s
Democratic woman of the year.
She received a letter recently from
Mrs. J. Henry Cromarlie, state
vice-chairman of the Democratic
executive committee, notifying her
of the honor and advising Mrs.
Merrill that she will receive an
award soon.
Mrs. Merrill said she was com
pletely surprised, but deeply ap
preciative.
Mrs. Merrill has served six years
on the state executive committee,
is an elections judge and was re
cently re-elected vice-chairman of
the county Democratic committee.
She was named Carteret County
Woman of the Year in 1952 and was
presented a silver goblet by the
Carteret Business and Professional
Women’s club. Her son, Odell Mer
rill, is county register of deeds.
Cars Looted
Two cars involved in a head-on
crash Sunday night near Newport
were looted by thieves as they sat
that night across from Moses How
ard’s garage, Newport. Car seats
and other accessories were taken.
The theft is under investigation
by the sheriff’s department.
vid McPherson, and the Rev. G.
I. Moore. The closing address will
be by the Rev. Solon P. League,
Piney Grove, who also gave the
response to the welcome addresses.
Presiding elder for the confer
ence is E. W. Faulkner, Green
ville.
Purvis chapel is said to be one
of the oldest Negro Methodist
churches in America. When first
erected in the late 18th century,
it was a place of worship for white
families and their slaves.
Since 1859 it has been used as
a place of worship for the Negro
congregation.
Three School Districts Move Further
Ahead on Proposal to Use Thomas Site
Governor, Senator Meet
mm r—
Gov. Terry Sanford, left, greets state senator Luther Hamilton,
Morchead City, at a Democratic campaign conference Friday at
ltaleigh.
Port Calendar
Sally Maersk — arriving Sun
day to load tobacco for the Far
East.
Blaek Tern — Due Sunday to
load tobacco lor Northern
Europe.
Military vessels — Three arriv
ing Tuesday. Sept. 18, to trans
fer personnel and equipment
Pallium — Arriving Thursday,
Sept. 20, to unload asphalt.
American Suiveye. — Due
Thursday, Sept. 20. to load to
bacco and lumber for Northern
Europe.
Police Report
Three Crashes
An accident last Thursday
brought charges of drunken driving
against Ilallie B. West, Morehead
City, after her 1954 Chevrolet col
lided with a 1959 Chevrolet driven
by Dr. Silas O. Thorne.
The accident occurred at the in
tersection of Shepard and 18th
streets! The West car had turned
off 18th Street onto Shepard, run
ning into the side of the Thorne
car which was going east, police
said.
Damage was about $150 to the
West car and about $300 to the
Thorne car. The investigating of
ficer was patrolman Buck New
some.
Two minor accidents Saturday
caused little damage to cars in
volved. At 3:35 p.m., Mrs. Will
Howland backed out of her drive
way and struck a 1961 Ford parked
at the opposite side of the street,
police reported.
The Ford, which was damaged
about $35, belongs to Ruth Garner
McCabe, route 1 Newport. Mrs.
Howland’s Falcon was undamaged.
At 11:44 Saturday, a 1962 Buick
driven by Betty Salisbury Sewell,
Beaufort, collided with the rear of
a 1956 Ford belonging to Thomas
Charles Allen, Morehead City.
The collision occurred at the in
tersection of 10th and Arendell
streets. Damage to the Sewell car
was about $30 and about $25 to the
Allen car. Investigating officer Ed
Gaskill did not file charges.
Town Board to Hear Ideas
On Parking Meters Tuesday
After an appeal by Front street
businessmen, Beaufort town com
missioners have agreed to hold up
for one week an order for new
parking meters. A meeting Tues
day night, 7:30, at the town hall
was set to hear from any business
man who wishes to speak on the
subject.
The merchants appeared before
the Beaufort town board Monday
night. In their first appearance
they requested that diagonal park
ing be permitted on the north side
of Front, parrallel on the south.
That is opposite the arrangement
that existed prior to the street
widening, which is now under way.
In favor of the new arrangement
were James H. Potter, Leslie
Moore, Jarvis Herring, E. W. Dow
num, who was spokesman; Gil
Beaufort JC's
Plan Comeback
A group of Beaufort men met
Monday night at the Surfside res
taurant to reorganize the inactive
Beaufort Jaycces. North Carolina
slate president John Kennedy was
guest speaker. Other Jaycee state
officials attending were Dan Hand,
regional vice-president, and Stacy
Weaver, district vice-president.
Joe Beam, president of the More
head City Jaycees, was also pre
sent. '
Considerable interest was ex
pressed at both state and local
levels in a revitalized Beaufort
Jaycee organization. Among local
men pledging their support were
Guy Smith, George M. Thomas,
A. C. Blankenship, Frank Lang
dale, Ronald Earl Mason, Billy
llardy, Howard Jones, Johnny
Willis, Curtis Modlin, Donnie Dud
ley, Ray Willis, Manly Mason,
Bryan Loftin, Johnny Dennis, Ivey
Mason Jr., and Bert Brooks.
The next meeting is scheduled
for Monday at 7 p.m. at the Surf
side restaurant, when election of
officers will be held. All interested
men between the ages of 21 and 35
are invited.
Bids Opened
For Dredging
Eastern Channels
Wilmington — Bids for mainte
nance dredging in the waterway
connecting Pamlico sound and
Beaufort harbor, were opened in
the office of the Wilmington dis
trict, Corps of Engineers Tuesday.
Of the six bids submitted, the
Neuse Engineering and Dredging
Co., Charlotte, was the apparent
low bidder. The bid was for $78,236.
The dredging will remove shoal
material in the channels leading
to Atlantic and Sea Level and east
of Barkers Island; the channel
leading to Marshallberg, and the
channel from Back sound to Look
out light.
Bids were accepted from small
business concerns only.
bert Potter, Herbert Whitehurst,
Jesse Hairr, Herbert Haynes,
Clarenee Guthrie and Clarerice
Stamper.
Objecting to the proposal were
Billy Davis and Raleigh Gillikin.
With a truck backed up to the
Davis fish house, Ronald Earl Ma
son, town clerk, said traffic could
not pass on Front street if there
were diagonal parking on the
north.
The businessmen left, then re
turned a short time later to request
that parking meters not be put
back. The present meters, old and
some not workable, have been tak
en up, with a view to trading them
in on new ones.
Mr. Moore requested that meters
be done away with until Jan. 1.
Th*s was later revised to Feb. 1,
Atlantic Reluctant; Bond
Referendum Proposed
Official representatives of Beaufort, Smyrna and Atlan
tic schools decided Wednesday night at a meeting at Smy
na school to proceed with plans to hack the Thomas site,
at North River, as the preferred site for a consolidated
school.
G. B. Talbot, chairman of the Beaufort school commit
Commanders
Change at Air
Base Wednesday
Cherry Point — In ;i formal
change of command ceremony
Wednesday afternoon, Maj. Gen
Frank C. Tharin turned command
of the air station here over to Brig.
Gen. Paul J. Fontana.
Eleven platoons of Marines, plus
the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Band,
i
Brig. Gen. Paul Fontana
. . . commands station
passed in review before the incom
ing and outgoing commanding gen
erals during the ceremony.
General Fontana assumed the
dual responsibilities of command
ing general, MCAS, Cherry Point,
and commanding general. Marine
Corps Air Bases, Eastern Area. In
the latter capacity, General Fon
tana supervises control of MCAS,
Beaufort, S. C., and MCAF, New
River, N. C.
Gen. Tharin has been the station
commanding general since October
1960. Prior to that he was the com
manding general of the 2nd Mar
ine Aircraft Wing. With his pro
motion to the two-star rank of ma
jor general last month, came his
assignment to MCAS, El Toro,
Calif., to assume new duties as
commanding general of the 3rd
Marine Aircraft Wing.
General Fontana came to Cherry
Point from Washington where he
was serving as deputy director
for operations, J-3 Directorate, the
Joint Staff, Office of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. He spent two years
here as commanding officer of
overhaul and repair squadron from
June 1955 until August 1957.
General Fontana was promoted
to his present rank in July 1960
while serving as chief of staff of
the 1st Marine Brigade in Hawaii.
He is married to the former Beth
Gillette of Evanston, 111. They have
four children: Susan Anne, 20;
Ann Paola, 18; Frances, 14; and
Paul John Jr., 12.
Three Attend Meeting
Sheriff Robert Bell and deputies
C. H. Davis and Billy Smith attend
ed Wednesday a semi-annual peace
officers’ meeting at Carolina Beach.
by Mr. Herring. Mayor W. H. Pot
ter reminded the delegation that
the budget for the current year
has been adopted. It includes re
venue from the meters and there
would be a problem of finding
money to make up the deficit, were
meters eliminated, he said.
Mr. Herring said without the
meters, businessmen would do more
business, have to increase their
inventories and thereby owe the
town more privilege license fee.
The merchants were reminded
that at their request, the town had
reduced business license fees.
Commissioner William Roy Ham
ilton asked if the merchants would
be willing to pay double their pre
sent privilege license if the no
parking-meter experiment doesn’t
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Ill, wits U IU dl I d
meeting with the county board of
education to ask for a school bond
referendum Tuesday, Nov. 6. to
finance construction of the school
and to provide funds to complete
the proposed Newport Morchead
City school.
The chairman of each of the
three school committees was ask
ed to serve on a committee to ex
plore fully the possibilities of the
Thomas site, whether it can be ac
quired and where the land is of
sufficient elevation for a building.
The action followed meetings of
all three Parent-Teacher associa
tions this week.
Atlantic PTA voted Monday night
in favor of school consolidation.
The Atlantic district favors three
high schools for the county, ac
cording to .1. W. Johnson, princi
pal. but if this is not possible, will
go along with the Thomas site.
The state school planning divi
sion has recommended that a high
school serve students in the wes
tern part of the county (Ncwport
Morehf’ad City), that another serve
the Bcauforl-Smyrna area and that
Atlantic retain its present high
school with improvement in curri
culum. -
Atlantic feels, however, that its
high school would not lie of suffi
cient size to provide the same op
portunities as a larger school and
for that reason prefers to consoli
date.
The distance to the proposed con
solidated school at North IUvcr is
considered too far by most of the
Atlantic residents. They would pre
fer consolidation with Smyrna and
the school located in the Smyrna
vicinity.
Mr. Johnson expressed the opin
ion yesterday that he didn’t think
<1 bond issue for schools would be
approved.
One hundred seventy-five per
sons attended the Atlantic PTA
meeting, at which Mr. Johnson
presided.
An Atlantic representative was
present at the Smyrna PTA meet
ing Monday night where the PTA
voted to consider the Thomas site.
Beaufort PTA unanimously en
dorsed Tuesday night the Thomas
site. Speaking in favor of it were
W. R. Hamilton, chairman of the
county better schools committee;
Clifford Tilghman, chairman of the
Beaufort betters schools commit
tee, and mayor W. H. Potter.
Mr. Talbot presented the propo
sal. The only question, following
the presentation, came from Mrs.
David Beveridge, a faculty mem
ber, who suggested that Beaufort
consolidate with Morchead City and
Newport.
There was a shaking of heads
and Mr. Talhot remarked that the
state planning division feels that
two high schools, one east and one
west, is more satisfactory.
The principals and school com
mittees which m e t Wednesday
night at Smyrna plan to meet again
as soon as the site committee has
a report.
Attending the meeting also were
Mr. Hamilton, Dr. J. L. Dcwalt
and Robert Thompson of the At
lantic better schools committee.
Luther Hamilton Jr„ county at.
torney, said yesterday that he be
lieves there is sufficient time, be
tween now and Nov. 6, to execute
the necessary legal steps for a
school bond referendum.
The school bond referendum com
mittee, named Wednesday, night,
did not specify the amount of bond
issue it deems necessary. Two and
a half million for two consolidated
schools has been mentioned in the
past.
Funds have been accumulating
for construction of the Newport
Morehcad City school and stand
now at close to $750,000.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Sept. 14
8:03 a.m.- 2:03 a.m.
8:27 p.m. 2:24 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 15
8:54 a.m. 2:50 a.m.
9:17 p.m. 3:14 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 16
9:46 a.m. 3:35 a.m.
10:10 p.m. 4:03 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 17
10:41 a.m. 4:20 a.m.
11:07 p.m. 4:53 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 18
11:38 a.m. 5:07 a.m.
■ 5:47 p.m.
Planners Seek
OK on Areas
For Zoning
# Proposed are Bogue
Banks; Western Sector
• Hearing Required
Prior to Designation
County commissioners will re
ceive a request from the county
planning commission that two
areas of the county be designated
for zoning.
The planning commission met
Monday night at the courthouse,
Beaufort.
Before the areas may be designa
ted for zoning, the county board
is required by law to have a public
hearing on the proposal. One area
proposed is generally located from
a mile west of Morehead City to
Spooner's Creek, and the other in
cludes Bogue Banks from the wes
tern boundary of Fort Macon park
to the eastern boundary of Em
erald Isle, excluding the town of
Atlantic Beach.
If it appears to the county board
that zoning these areas is desir
able, the commissioners will then
appoint a three-man advisory com
mittee for each area, the commit
tee to consist of residents of the
area.
These advisors will make recom
mendations to the planning board
concerning zoning regulations.
The planning commission feels
that the approach to zoning should
be by areas, rather than by zoning
of the entire county.
The commission accepted a zon
ing map presented by D. S. Gordon
of the division of community plan
ning, who has been working with
the commission. Legal steps toward
zoning are to be recommended to
the county, if the designation of
zoned areas is approved.
Appearing with Mr. Gordon was
Dexter Smith, also of the division
of community planning.
The planning commission endors
ed the area redevelopment pro
gram's fisheries research program.
Members will meet Oct. 3 with the
state commercial fisheries com
missioner and other officials to dis
cuss the program.
The commission fccis that it will
offer oportunity for new jobs and
badly-needed economic growth.
Philip Ball presented plans for
a subdivision, Tar Heel Village, on
Portsmouth Island. The commis
sion has requested some more in
formation on the plan.
The commission discussed the
county attorney’s recent ruling on
compliance of trailer parks with
subdivision regulations. No action
was taken. The attorney said that
trailer parks should be controlled
by zoning and do not come within
subdivision regulations.
Appointments to the planning
commission were made by county
commissioners last week, but ap
pointments are to be made also by
towns. Due to misunderstanding
as to who is to appoint whom, the
appointments are not yet official.
Planning commission members
agreed that they would continue
to serve, even though some of their
terms may have expired, through
the October meeting.
Attending this month’s meeting
were Dr. L. J. Dupree, chairman;
Mrs. E. H. Piper, M. G. Coyle, Dr.
W. L. Woodard, C. H. Lot-key, Cecil
Morris, and W. C. Carlton, secre
tary.
County Official
Comments on Suit
Against Hospital
No formal statement has been
made by county commissioners re
lative to the second suit filed to
block construction of a county hos
pital.
S. A. Chalk, commissioner, said,
however, that he felt the county
should no longer pursue the hos- ^
pital project.
He remarked that since construc
tion of a county hospital has been
in the works, announcement of a
40-bcd addition at Sea Level has
been made. He said the Medical
Care commission has advocated a
75-bed hospital for the county.
In view of the added facilities
at Sea Level, Mr. Chalk said he
would be interested in the Medical
Care commission’s appraisal of
hospital needs is Carteret now.