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COMING NEXT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ISSUE, SEPT. 28 1 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 51st YEAR, NO. 77 EIGHT PAGES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREUEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1962 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS New Skipper Takes Over Lcdr. L. O. Hamilton, right, takes over as commanding officer of the Jonquil, Coast Guard buoy tender stationed at Fort .Macon. Lt. Gabriel E. Pehaim, former skipper, is now commanding officer of Fort Macon group. The change of command ceremony took place Wednesday afternoon at Fort Macon. New Mail Service Will Start West of Morehead Clerk Probates, Files Two Wills Two wills were filed in the office of A. 1L James, clerk of court, dur ing September. They were the wills of Miss Amie H Klein, Morehead City, and C. A. Roach, Dunn. Miss Klein's will directed that all money left after payment of debts be used to purchase stones for the graves of her and her broth er, John. Should this alrea«tjf be done at her death, she asked that the money be used to care for the cemetery lot. Miss Klein left her share in the home at 1510 Evans St. to Frances Maie Henderson and Alfred F. Hen derson. To Freddie Henderson she left the silver cup which belonged to her father and its matching nap kin ring. Garth Cooper Jr. was bequeath ed a silver goblet, Connie Willis a silver cup and Klein Cooper a piece of silver. Items of personal property, including jewelry, china, glassware, furniture, linens and clothing, were divided among Miss Klein’s nieces, Frances Maie Hen derson, Howerton Klein Cooper and Elizabeth Klein Willis. Miss Klein asked that pieces of jewelry which had belonged to her mother never go outside the family. Mrs. Henderson was named ad ministratrix of the estate, with Mrs. Cooper as her assistant. The ‘ will, drawn May 30, 1956, was wit nessed by George W. Dill Jr. and Mary Leigh S. Dill. It was filed Sept. 5, 1962. The will of C. A. Roach, Dunn, was filed in this county Sept. 10 because Mr. Roach owned property here. His wife, Vira B. Roach, was the sole beneficiary and was named executrix. County Tobacco Farmers Express Mixed Feelings on Untied Sales ' By TOM SLOAN Reaction of county tobacco farm ers, to selling loose tobacco, is mixed. Sales of loose leaf closed after a five-day experiment on North Carolina flue-cured markets last month. Much of the tobacco sold on an untied basis was low quality, large ly due to poor weather during the growing season and also due to farmers’ preferring to tie up the better grades, Lugs, primings and nondescript grades were allowed to be untied for the first five days after the markets opened. Georgia markets have been selling untied leaf for years. B. J. May, Beaufort, office mana ger for the Agriculture Stabiliza tion and Conservation Service, stat ed that farmers he had been in contact with were divided about 50-50 on the subject of whether or not the sales were worth the troub le. Tobacco sold loose is supported at 6 cents per pound under the nor mal support price for tied tobacco. R. M. Williams, county agricul tural agent, says many of the coun ty’s tobacco farmers chose not to sell leaf untied, but a few went along with the experiment. Joe Barnes, Wildwood, says he > Beginning Saturday, there will be house-to-house mail delivery in Mansfield Park and Mitchell Vil lage, Harold Webb, Morehead City postmaster announces. Mail will be placed in boxes at the curb and will be delivered by a carrier in truck. Postmaster Webb asks that homeowners in the areas have their mail boxes at the curb by Saturday morning. The boxes to be used are the regular rural box and should bear the name of the homeowner and street address. House-to-house delivery, the post master said, has become necessary because the area has become so buiU up it can no longer be g*ui sidered rural. Patrons in those sections will re ceive one mail delivery a day, .Monday through Saturday. This ap plies only to the Mansfield Park and Mitchell Village sections, Mr. Webb emphasizes. In connection with the change over, Mr. Webb said that the post office at Spooner’s Creek harbor, instead of being a rural station, will be a contract station. The dif ference is mainly in terminology, Mr. Webb explained. All postal services are available at Spooner’s Creek, he added. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Sept. 25 6:00 a.m. ' 12:03 a m. 6:16 p.m. - Wednesday, Sept. 26 6:44 a.m. 12:32 a. 6:58 p.m. 12:48 p. Thursday, Sept. 27 7:24 a.m. 1:13 a.m. 7:37 p.m. 1:31 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28 8:00 a.m. 1:53 a.m. 8:12 p.m. 2:12 p.m. £ £ would rather tie his tobacco. He feels he gets a better price that way. Mr. Barnes also expressed doubt that the loose-leaf system will work. R. P. Ogelsby, Crab Point, has the feeling that the warehouse op erators are not keen about the system. He also observes that a farmer can't put as much loose leaf in a basket as he can tied leaf. John Oglesby, Crab Point, quot ed his son John Oglesby Jr., Grif ton, who is pleased with the untied system and said he got a good price. Lonnie Howard, Newport, said he was in favor of the untied sales, but that the sale of loose tobacco (five days) was not long enough for a fair chance at appraisal by farm ers. A lot of farmers didn’t market loose leaf. They wanted to wait to see how the sale would go, Mr. Howard said. Clarence Millis, Newport, stated that the loose leaf marketing wouldn’t work, that tobacco com panies and the warehousemen don’t seem to be in favor of untied sales. Aubrey Mason, Newport, who sold 656 pounds of untied tobacco at Kinston said he was “very much satisfied” with the price he receiv ed. Chilula Rescues 80-Foof Yacht Off Hatferas The Chilula, Coast Guard cutter stationed at Morehead City, was called to the assistance of a yacht off Cape Hatteras Sunday, after the yacht reported a fire and a flooded engine compartment. The yacht, the 80-foot Prudence B., had a series of fires, cutting off electrical power and affecting steering in rough seas. The yacht was located by a Coast Guard aircraft, with the Chilula and the East Wind, another cut ter, called to the rescue. The crew aboard the yacht did not know its location, according to Lcdr. John F. Mundy Jr. of the Chilula. The Prudence B. is owned by Dexter Lewis, Brunswick, Ga. The yacht was enroute from New port, R. I., to Brunswick when the fires began. The yacht’s engine compartment was flooding when the Chilula arrived. The cutter pumped out the compartment and escorted the vessel and its seven passengers to Morehead City. Saturday, the 2(J-foot outboard inboard Riithie Sea, owned by H. S. Crain, Durham, was towed into Morehead City by a boat from the Fort Macon station. The stricken boat had engine failure near No. 9 buoy,' Beaufort Inlet. Manning the Coast Guard boat for the assist wer Darrell Sadler, BM3, and Rethel Brannon, EN2. The Fort Macon station look time off Saturday night for a station party at the Beaufort American Legion hut. The party included a buffet dinner and a band for danc ing. T. A. Guiton Speaks to Club Morehcad City Rotarians accept ed a new member Thursday night at the Jefferson restaurant and heard a talk on Scouting by Thomas A. (Tag) Guiton, county Scout executive, Joining the Rotary was the Rev. Charles Kirby, pastor vf the First Presbyterian church, Morehcad City. Mr. Guiton noted the progress of Scouting in the county, saying that the program had increased 25 per cent in numbers in the past year. Reason for this increase and the increase over the past five years was the added interest of the Scout sponsoring organizations and the presence of a full time Scout ex ecutive, he said. Mr. Guiton remarked that the importance of Scouting to youth has also increased, being one of the more important activities for boys across the nation. Scouting affords great satisfaction for adult supervisors, he added. Lieutenant Governor Meets with Civitans Lt. Gov. George Douglas of Civi tan Zone 14 met with the Morehead City Civitans Thursday night to discuss plans for the district meet ing Oct. 15. The meeting will be held in More head City. Also discussed were plans for the Civitans’ annual fruit cake sale, to take place this fall. The club meets weekly at the Blue Ribbon restaurant. He considers untied sales a good plan for the first pullings, and if there are not untied sales next year on the North Carolina markets, he intends to sell his untied tobacco in Georgia. North Carolina congressman Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House agriculture committee, call ed the experimental selling of un tied leaf in eastern Carolina this year "a tragic mistake.” He pre dicted Aug. 21, after viewing the opening sales days at Rocky Mount, that, the sales will’ “certainly not be repeated” next year. Cooley observed that some of the loose tobacco was scattered over the floor and said he did not see how buyers could find the leaf they had purchased. It’s an awful mess,” he declared. “Farmers in this area are used to tying their tobacco.” Sale of untied tobacco during the first five days of sales on South Carolina, North Carolina and Vir ginia tobacco belts, was ordered this year by the US Department of Agriculture as an experiment. Tobacco has been sold loose on the Georgia-Fiorida Markets for years, but it has always been sold tied in small bundles or “hands” on the northern belts of the flue cured area. Morehead City Hopes to Launch Major Town Improvement Program Heavy Hangs the Bough T. 1). Lewis, who lives on Bogue sound, west of Morehead City, shows a heavily laden bough of Kiefer pears. The bough was cut from his tree, which is bearing so much fruit that one of the limbs on the tree broke under the weight. Mullet Queen Will Be Chosen Saturday Night Clarence Millis Heads Com mittee Clarence Millis, Newport, was elected chairman of the Carteret County ASC committee at the ASC office Thursday night. Vice chairman is J. C. Barker, Stella, and member of the committee is William J. Hardesty, Newport. Alternates on the committee are Guy C. Gillikin, Bettie, and L. A. Murdoch, Wildwood. The committee members will serve during the 1963 year, rep resenting the farmers of the county and ASC community com mitteemen. Northeaster Brings Rain A northeaster brought a wet, cool and cloudy weekend to the Morehead City area, with a total of 1:73 inches of rain falling from Thursday through Sunday. Rain totals for individual days were .16 for Thursday, 1.5ft for Saturday and .07 for Sunday. Temperatures ranged from a cool 66 on Saturday to 71 Thursday for the daytime. Low for the period was recorded Friday night at 56. Sunday night was somewhat warm er with a 65, according to the At lantic Reach weather station. Max. Min. Wind Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 71 57 67 56 66 58 70 65 NNE NNE-NE N-NE N-NE Newport GOP Meets Friday Four Republican candidates spoke at a Republican precinct meeting at Newport Friday night at Republican headquarters on Cha tham 'street. They were Elmer Dewey Willis, candidate for sheriff; Shelby Free man, candidate for clerk of court; Gordon Hardesty, county commis sioner candidate, and Mrs. Ruth Richardson, candidate for regis ter of deeds. A. B. (Tom) Garner, precinct chairman, said that from now un til election there will be a candidate at the headquarters each Friday to meet voters. Walter Roberts explained cam paign plans which will be in full swing by Oct. 3, he said. Precinct officers, in addition to the chairman, are Roy T. Garner, vice-chairman; W. H. Pridgen, treasurer, and Connie Garner, sec retary. ► This year’s winner and runner up of ihe Miss Swansboro's Mullet Queen Pagentwill he awarded a $25 war bond and 10 silver dol lars, respectively. v The Mullet Queen Beauty pageant will be held Saturday night, Sept. 29 al 7:30 in the high school gym. Admission will be 50 cents and en tertainment will include dancing by the Jacksonville Tarheel dog gers. Shelton Kellum will act as master of ceremonies. The Swans boro Seaspray Garden club will be responsible, for decorations for the pageant and also the flowers of the contestants. The schedule of events the day of the Mullet Festival, Oct. 13, will be gin at 1 p.m. with a parade. Among those invited to participate in this event are high school bands from Jacksonville, Richlands, Morehead City, Beaufort, Camp Lejeune, Camp Lejeune’s Second Marine Division Drum and Bugle Corps; the Shriners Drum and Bugle Corps, Wilmington; and the Shrin ers Bugle Corps from Washington, N. C. The Fabulous Fishermen of More head City arc one of the organiza tions asked to be represented by a float. The Mullet Queen and her court will assemble on one float this year. Local scouts and various church groups will march with the parade also. Following the parade there will be a water show featuring the Camp Lejeune Ski team along with local talent. Free boat rides will be available again this year. The Force Troops Sports Para chute team from Camp Lejeune will begin performing at 4:45 in the afternoon. Supper will be served beginning at 5 p.m. consisting of fried fish, slaw, candied yams and hush pup pies.- Entertainment throughout mealtime will include a concert by the Camp Lejeune Second Marine Division Drum and Bugle corps, a performance by the Jacksonville Tarheel Cloggers, and a display Of fireworks. A sock dance with live music in the high school gym will end the day's events. Tickets are now on sale throughout the county or may be obtained from Jaycee members or by writing to the Swansboro Recreation, commission. The price is $1.25 lor adults and 75 cents for children. Ticket holders are entitl ed to all events of the day including supper and the sock dance. C. B. Wade Jr. Speaks At Williamsburg, Va. Charles B. Wade Jr., Winston Salem, a native of Morehead Oily appeared as a speaker at the re cent 14th annual Virginia Public Relations conference at Williams burg, Va. Mr. Wade, vice-president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and a mem ber of the board of directors, was “industry’s representative” and spoke on the general program theme, Positive Public Relations for the South. Public Works Bill Spurs Plan for Sewage, Paving Morehead City commissioners en-i dorscd Thursday night a proposal by mayor George Dill to borrow sufficient funds to build a sewage disposal plant, buy the town wa ter system and gave the town's unpaved streets. The town board met at the municipal building. Mayor Dill explained that a re cent public works Ijill passed by Congress provides 50 per cent out right grant for general public works and the remaining 50 per cent under long-term loan. The mayor said that upon advice of the William F. Freeman Inc. enginering firm which has drawn the town's sewage disposal plan, the town had written Washington, D. ( Wednesday io apply for an application form tor the funds. It is proposed that the present j town debt of about $500,000 be! refinanced and the people vote on ! the whole project—sew age, water I and streets—a general improve ment bond issue. The mayor was enthused with the idea, stating that it has been his hope for years to get all the town's streets paved. As soon as the application lor funds is received, it will be filled out and returned to Washington The mayor said it is his under standing that applications will be considered in the order they're re ceived. It is estimated that cost of buy ing the water system and building a sewage disposal plant will be at least $2 million. Refinancing of the present debt would mean a bond issue of at least $2*2 million, ex clusive of the cost of paving streets. Finance commissioner S. C. Hol loway observed that the town has paid off half a million dollars' debt in the past 30 years. “The government’s going to spend this money on ‘make work' Somewhere,” the mayor said, “it may as well be here as Oklahoma.” The board passed a resolution on armory bonds. The bonds will be sold Nov. 1. Forty thousand dol lars worth of bonds will be put on the market. Beginning Nov. 1, 1962, interest on them will be paid semi-annually, in November and May. Five thousand dollars in bonds will be retired annually for eight years. George McNeill, town at torney said that the town had re ceived the deed for land on which the armory is being built and the land has been conveyed to the state with the stipulation that should the land not be used for an armory at any time in the future, the land will revert to the town. The town paid $19,500 for the land and as its share of .armory construction $18,262.17. These amounts were paid with proceeds from a $40,000 bond anticipation note sold in August. The note ma tures Nov. 15 and will be paid with funds from the sale of bonds. The board authorized advertise ment of bids for a fire truck. Bids will be accepted until 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17. Commissioners took action against persons using the town dump without permission. All dumping permits were voided and any person wishing to use the dump must re-apply for a permit, the board ordered. John B. Willis, 2312 Fisher St., was spokesmen for a group of peo ple in that neighborhood who want their streets paved. Mr. Willis also stated that fish being carried away (See BOARD Page 2) Voters to Decide Nov. 6 on West Wildwood Fire Protection District Certain residents in Morehead township, in the Wildwood area, will vote Nov. 6 on whether they want to be in a fire protection dis trict and pay taxes for fire service provided by the town of Newport. The district would be known as the West Wildwood Fire Protection district. Separate ballots for this vote will be provided qualified residents of the area at the Wildwood precinct Nov. 6. Registration will take place at the same time as registration for the general election. The district extends about four miles east of Newport on highway 70, into the Wildwood community, along most of the McCabe road and most of the Hibbs road. Newport has been furnishing free fire pro tection to the area since last Dec ember. The towH of Newport hoped that an election on the fire district would take place in the spring, but Dinner Speaker Thomas S. Bennett, Morehead City, above, Republican candi date tor the general assembly, was the speaker at a fund- rais ing dinner Thursday night at Cap tain Bill's restaurant, Morehead ( ity. Close (o one hundred persons attended Mrs. Ruth Richardson, candidate for register of deeds, reported on activities of the Re publican Women’s club. Grayden Raid,’ Beaufort, master of cere monies, introGuccd the speaker. The invocation was given by Clifford Tiighman, Beaufort. Bullet Injures Russell Wasson Transferred by Marine Cwrps helicopter Sunday afternoon from Morehead City hospital to Ports mouth Naval hospital was Russell Wasson. Lennoxville, who was suf fering front a bullet wound in the head. Sheriff Robert Bell said that Wasson was alone in the bedroom of his home when the wound was inflicted at It p.nt. Saturday. A bullet from a .32 calibre automatic pistol enterpd Wasson's left temple and went through the top of his head, the sheriff said. Mrs. Wasson told the sheriff that she was in the living room and Wasson, a short time before the pistol went off, had gone into the bedroom and said he was going to bed. Wasson was owner of the pis tol. He was taken to the Morehead City hospital in the Brooks and Mason ambulance, which also took him to the Beaufort-Morehcad air port Sunday for the trip by air to Portsmouth. Scoutmaster Speaks To Beaufort Rotary Club Charles Smith, Scoutmaster of the Rotary-sponsored Boy Scout troop in Beaufort, spoke to the Rotary Tuesday night on the acti vities of the troop. In addition to the talk. Mr. Smith showed a film made on the troop’s trip to the camporce at Wilson last year. He also showed the blue rib bon that the troop won for camp ing excellence. Guests at the meeting were Jack Roberts and George Lore, More head City Rotarians. it was deferred until now. If the referendum is approved, the area will become a taxpaying fire district in 1963. If it does not carry, the town of Newport will not send its fire trucks east of the New port river bridge on highway 70 mto Morehead township. That will not have effect, accord ing to mayor Leon Mann Jr., New port, on the present town contract with Newport township residents or upon the mutual aid agreement with other fire departments. A detailed description of the area included in the West Wildwood Fire Protection district appears in the legal notices in today’s paper. HD Club to Meet The Gloucester Home Demon stration club will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Woodrow Chadwick. Four Crashes Occur Saturday During Rain Four of five highway accidents, which were investigated over the weekend by trooper J, W. Sykes, occurred Saturday during the all day rain. None involved in the ac cidents was injured. James V, McIntosh, Atlantic, was charged with driving too fast for existing conditions after his car left highway 70 at Smyrna at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Trooper Sykes said McIntosh was headed cast and was rounding the long curve after mak ing the right angle turn at Smyrna. The officer said McIntosh’s 1960 Ford skidded to the right, hit a highway sign, then to the left into a church yard and knocked down several more signs. Damage to the car was estimated at $200 and to the signs $25. At 10:30 a.m. a 1951 Plymouth station wagon driven by Fred W. Hill, Beaufort-Morehead causeway, raked the side of a 1959 Plymouth owned by M. H. Lupton, route 1 Beaufort, according to officer Sykes. ' Lupton had parked in front of the Rainbow inn on the causeway. He was headed to Beaufort. Hill later parked nearby, headed west. The trooper said when Hill left, he backed up and scraped the length of the Lupton car with his rear bumper, then drove off. Lupton’s teen-age daughter, who was in the Lupton car got Hill’s license number. When Hill was ap prehended, he was charged with (lit and run. Damage to the Lupton car was estimated at $150. There was no damage to Hill’s station wagon. Lloyd N. Rose and Manley Bon zell Rose, cousins of Harkers Is land, were involved in a wreck in front of the Markers Island post office at 11:50 a.m. Saturday. According to the investigating of ficer, Lloyd in a 1957 Ford had pulled to the right (he was headed west) to let a passenger out, when Manley, driving a 1955 Chevrolet, struck him in the rear. Manley was charged with driv ing too fast for conditions and in sufficient brakes Damage to the Ford was estimated at $350 and to the Chevrolet $300. Charles R. Tomlinson, Newport, was charged with driving too fast for conditions after his 1960 Ford left the Nine-Foot road three miles south of Newport at 12:15 p.m. Saturday. Trooper Sykes said Tomlinson was headed south, skidded on a curve, jumped the ditch, went into woods and hit a tree. Damage to the car was estimated at $500.. The officer said the car had slick tires and it was raining at the time. In fair weather Friday at 11:35 a.m., a pickup truck and car col lided on highway 101 at the Inter national Paper Co. office. Both cars were headed toward Beaufort. Driving the car, a 1957 Ford, was Clarence Wallace, route 1 Have lock. Driving the 1956 International pickup was John C. Mease, route 2 Beaufort. According to trooper Sykes, as Mease was turning left into the paper company drive, Wal lace attempted to pass. Damage to the truck was estimated at $75 and to the car $150. Wallace was charged with pass ing before seeing that his move could be made safely and Mease was charged with not giving a pro per signal before turning. Explorer Post 283 Meets Wednesday Night Explorer Post 283 held its kick off meeting Wednesday night at the home of Charles Dutch. Joe Noe, advisor, announced thb inten tion of the group to become a res cue post. A. N. Willis, chief of the More head City rescue squad, spoke to the boys on the subject of rescues. It was announced that future meet ings will be held on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at the Leary build ing, First Presbyterian church. The Rev. Charles Kirby, pastor of the church, which is sponsoring the post, attended the meeting. Others attending were Chester Pitt man, Gary Baptist. Ken Bradley. Lee Day, Mickey Brown and Charles Dutch.