IN THIS ISSUE:
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SECTION
51st YEAR, NO. 78 THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES,
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1962 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
6-Year-Old Girl Thanks Marine
Lt. Col. George II. Linnemeier, husband of Mrs. Margie Linnenieier, Beaufort, accepts at Okinawa
a framed inscription from 6-year-old Noriko Nakamura. Colonel Linnemeier is acting executive offi
cer of Marine Air Group 16. Through the unit’s efforts, the little girl was able to undergo needed eye
surgery.
(From the Pacific Stars
and Stripes)
Futcnma MCAF, Okinawa — A
6-year-old Ryukyuan girl from the
village of Sosu in northern Oki
nawa today has many people to
thank for her eyesight.
The Marines of MAG-16 airlifted
Noriko Nakamura by helicopter
from her home to the Camp Kuc
Army hospital at Sukiran many
CAP, Rescue Squads Will
Drill at Airport Sunday
Three Accidents
Occur This Week
\ driver was injured, a car wont
overboard and another hit a bridge
in three accidents early this week.
Injured at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday
14 miles from Beaufort on the
Merrimon road was Howard E.
Murray, route 2 Beaufort. He was
taken to the Morehead City hospi
tal, suffering minor injuries, and
\yas charged with careless and
reckless driving by state trooper
Jf. W. Sykes', investigating officer.
' The trooper said Murray failed
t6 make a curve, went off the right
shoulder and skidded along a ditch
270 feet before turning over. The
car, a 1957 Ford, was demolished.
A 1958 Ford went into Pettiford
creek on NC highway 58 at 6:30
p.m. Monday. Its driver, Paul E.
Mynk, stationed at Bogue field,
escaped by rolling down a window
and swimming out. Mynk told of
ficer Sykes that a car’s headlights
blinded him as he approached the
Pettiford creek bridge.
He put on brakes, skidded off the
road, went down an embankment
to a former road went.through a
barricade built of cross ties and
out of sight into the water. He was
charged with speeding but was
found not guilty in county court
Tuesday.
Robert Lee Godette, route 1
Havelock,; was. charged with driv
ing on the wrong side of the high
way aftef his car hit the steel
bridge,' north of Core creek bridge,
on 'highway 101 at 7 p.m. Monday.
Trooper'. Sykes said Godette was
headed toward Havelock. Damage
to the bridge was estimated at
$40 and <jamage to Godette’s car
$400.
—I
Attends Meeting
State highway commissioner
D. G. Bell, Morehead City, attend
ed the State Highway commission
meeting al Raleigh yesterday. Mr.
Beij has recuperated from a heart
condition, for which he was hos
pitalized. Uus summer.
times since May so she could re
ceive surgery for a deformity in
her eyes.
Noriko made her last trip to the
hospital recently and is now able
to see and play like the rest of
the children her age.
Following the return trip to her
home on her last visit to the hos
pital, Noriko presented a plaque
to Lt. Col. George H. Linnemeier,
By DOROTHY ll. IPOCK
CD Publicity Chairman
If you hear a lot of sirens Sunday
afternoon in the vicinity of Beau
fort, the wailing sound will be
coming from the Beaufort-More
head City airport where rescue
units will be taking part in an air
sea rescue drill.
Cooperating in the drill will be
the county civil defense unit, Har
ry Williams, chairman, and Civil
Air patrols from New Bern and
Kinston. The CAP will bring in
their men, equipment and planes.
The public is cordially invited
to the airport to see the planes and
other items used in air-sea rescue.
Rescue squads of Atlantic Beach,
Beaufort and Morehead City ■ will
take part in the drill.
Seven men met Tuesday night at
the home of Mr. Williams to plan
six problems to be presented the
CAP for solving. The CAP units
will receive the problems, “as
sealed orders” Sunday morning.
Working out the problems were
George King, deputy county CD
director; Ray Hall, CD director,
Morehead City; Gerald Woolard,
Registration for Adult
Courses Set for Tuesday
Dr. W. B. Paper Will
Speak at 11 A.M. Sunday
Dr. W. Burkette Raper, presi
dent of Mount Olive college, will
deliver the sermon at 11 a.m. to
morrow when the Carteret County
union meeting of Original Ffee
Will Baptists is held at Sound View
church. The.iiost church is located
on highway 24.
The Rev. R. H. Jackson, Pine
Level, will speak on the state mis
sion program during the morning
session, according to Reginald Sty
ron, secretary.
The Carteret county union is af
filiated with the North Carolina
State Convention of Original Free
Will Baptists, according to Mr. Sty
rw
acting executive officer of MAG
16, who, accepted it in behalf of
the men of the unit.
On the plaque is inscribed, “To
Friendly and Helpful Marine Air
craft Group 16, for Bringing Me
Many times to the Hospital and
Back Home. Thankful, Noriko.”
The plaque was presented to Col
onc Linnemcier in a village cere
mony on the school grounds.
CD director, Beaufort; Joe Mina
tel, CD director, Newport; Bob
Willis, rescue squad, Atlantic
Beach; Charles Spears and Tho
mas Avery, rescue squad, Beau
fort.
In times of emergency the Civil
Air Patrol is vqry important to
civil defense. The planes are used
for surveying damage, in addition
to rescue in isolated areas, and
dropping food, clothing, water, and
medical supplies to marooned per
sons, to be used until they can
be reached by a more convention
al method.
Every citizen in the county
should avail himself of the oppor
tunity for viewing the important
wbrk ddne by Civil Air Patrol, and
viewing the progress being made
In training persons in the county
in matters of civil defense.
Commander of the CAP, New
Bern, is Capt. Jack Williams. Com
mander of the Kinston CAP is
Col. Dan Lilly.
The board of county commission
ers will meet at 10 a.m. Monday
at the courthouse, Beaufort.
► Persons interested in taking the
trade and industrial courses at
Morehead City high school this fall
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in
the school auditorium.
At that time, registration will be
accepted and nights when classes
will meet will be established.
Courses to be offered, and the in
structors, are applied mathema
tics, Charles R. Davis; boatbuild
‘kig and blueprint reading, James
J. Mitchell; navigation, Chuck Ac
kerly; diesel mechanics, Jbhn R.
Williams.
Outboard motor maintenance,
Lance Smith; marine electrical
service and installation,.Carl Ball;
«nd welding, John Bordeaux.
The courses are offered free of
charge. Capt. J. J.. Mitchell, coordi
nator of the program, invites all
out-of-school youths and adults to
enroll.
■ TrrriT*ff v
State Promises
Daily bY «•*
Two Ferry Trips
Tourist Season
Superintendent
Reports State
Park Figures
Attendance at Fort Macon state
park, from Jan. 1 through Labor
Day totaled 371,978, according to
Ray Pardue, superintendent.
Attendance at all state parks
was down this summer, due to
extensive rains, but Fort Macon
still was the most popular.
Visitors to the fort itself showed
an increase of 3.258 over last sum
mer. Going through the fort were
211,293 persons. Picnickers total
ed 371.978, according to Ray PPar
due, superintendent.
Attendance at all state parks
was down this summer, due to ex
tensive rains, but Fort Macon still
was the most popular.
Visitors to the fort itself showed
an increase Of 2,258 over last sum
mer. Going through the fort were
211,293 persons. Picnickers total
ed 26,530; swimmers 97,183, hikers
3,509 and fishermen 17,415.
The refreshment stand and bath
house showed a 10 per cent in
crease in business over last year,
Mr. Pardue reports. Using the
bathhouse this year were 1,205
more than last year. (Swimmers
may arrive at the beach ready to
swim, or if they wish, they may
change clothes in the bathhouse
for a small fee.)
Mr. Pardue termed the past
summer "a very successful sea
son.” lie said there were no ac
cidents and attendance was good,
in spite of a rainy June and Fourth
of July.
This was Mr. Pardue’s fifth sum
mer at the park.
Mount Mitchell is the second
most popular state park. Its at
tendance from Jan. 1 through La
bor Day was 225,246.
Wind Direction Change
Leads to Warmer Days
A wind shift Wednesday warmed
up the Morehead City area, with
a north wind moving around to al
low warmer air to come from the
south.
Coolest temperature was a 56
recorded at midnight Monday and
warmest was an 80 at noon Wed
nesday.
MAX. MIN. WIND
Monday 73 56 N
Tuesday 74 60 N-NE
Wednesday 80 62 NE-SE
Judge Finds Probable Cause Tuesday
In Case Against Everett Ingram Jr.
A young Morehead City man was
bound over to superior court un
der $500 bond Tuesday. Judge L.
R. Morris found probable cause in
a charge of larceny against Ever
ett Ingram Jr. in county recorder’s
court.
Ingram was accused of stripping
a stolen car of wheels, tires, ra
dio, other parts and several items
of personal property. The car, the
property bf Ra'ymofid Smfth,
Greenville, was stolen from Atlan
tic Beach last May and;found on
Bogue banks a week later, stripped
of removable parts and severely
damaged by vandalism.
Testimony showed that Ingram
admitted taking the items from the
car, but claimed that he did not
steal it. A skin diving outfit and
other items missing from the auto
were found in Ingram’s car.
Ingram’s arrest came about in
the process of a call paid by sher
iff’s deputies on a filling station
operated by Ingram’s father, where
other stolen property was found.
Two other youths, David Wool
ridge and Michael Wade Trest,
were also charged with larceny
in a series of theft's at Newport
and Morehead City, after the loot
was located at the filling station.
Both were given suspended two
year road terms, placed under a
probation officer for three years
and fined the costs of court.
- Other terms handed out by the
court went to Clarence Wallace,
reckless driving, 60 days , on the
roads suspended upon payment of
$25 and costs< Paul Gordon Smith,
public drunkenness and disturbing
the peace, 30 days on roads sus
pend upon good and sober behav
ior for three years, payment df $10
and costs, and David Michael Gar
ner; charged with fishing from a'
restricted bridge. ■ .
Garner received a lecture from'
judge Morris on the yalue of an
education compared to fishing, and
was given a 15-day jail term, sus
A special section on the Great
er Morchead City Chamber of
Commerce appears in this issue,
section 3.
Fish Fry Will
Launch Cancer
Crusade Oct. 31
To raise funds in the Cancer Cru
sade, the Carteret Business and
Professional Women's club, will
sponsor a fish fry from 5 to 8
o'clock Wednesday night, Oct. 31,
at the National Guard armory,
Morehead City.
The big event will launch the
Cancer Crusade, which will con
tinue through the month of Novem
ber. Mrs. James C. Smith, More
head City, is chairman
Co-chairmen of the fish fry are
Miss Stella Propst and Miss Lyda
Piner.
Tickets for the fish fry are a
dollar each and are available from
B&PW Club members in the First
Citizens bank, Morehead City, or
at the sheriff’s office, Beaufort.
At the B&PW club meeting Tues
day night at the home of Mrs. Clem
Johnson, plans for the fish fry and
for National Business Women’s
Week were made. Business WO
men’s Week is Oct. 7-13, with Miss
Ruby Parker chairman.
Banners, posters, window dis
plays, radio dcvotionals and news
paper publicity will dramatize the
theme of Business Women's Week,
‘‘Career women are leaders in the
home, church, community, pro
fessions.”
Members were named to carry
out the different projects. Giving
dcvotionals at the radio stations
throughout the week will be Mrs.
Johnson, Mrs. Marshall Asycue,
Mrs. Clem Johnson, Mrs. Julia
Holt, Miss Ruth Peeling, Mrs. J. C.
Sherrill, Mrs. Walter Lasker, Mrs.
Frank Sample, Mrs. Smith and
Mrs. J. R. Morrill.
Mrs. Odell Jefferson, Miss Piner
(Sec B&PW, Page 3)
regularly for three years and pay
the costs.
An appeal was made in the case
of Herman Sylvester Montford,
charged with driving after his li
cense was revoked and operating
a vehicle with no lights. Montford
was found guilty «r a state statute
that terms steering or guiding a
towed vehicle as driving. Montford
was in a moving towed car prior
to his arrest, but denied using the
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Govener Writes Letter
To Chamber Manager
Two trips :i clay by the Ocraeokc ferrv, beginning
with the 1')(>:> tourist season lias been promised by the
state, according to P. W. Bullock, manager of the Greater
Morehead City Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Bullock, in reply to a request for improved ferry
service between the Carteret mainland and Ocracoke,
Park Officials
Will Meet Here
Super pendents of nil North
Carolina s state parks will have
their annual meeting at Fort Ma
con Oct. 10-12, announces Ray
Pardue, Fort Macon park super
intendent.
Attending also will bo park
personnel from the state ollice at
Raleigh. The superintendents will
visit the newly-established slate
park at Bear Island, near Swans
boro. while, hero
The park superintendents' an
nual meeting was scheduled for
.Fort Macon two years ago but
liad to be cancelled when hur
ricane Donna arrived.
Two Accidents
Occur Thursday
Stale trooper W. J. Pickard in
vestigated two automobile acci
(’■'nts yesterday morning. Both hap
pened on highway 70 west of New
. -n't
At 125 a m. a 1957 Ford driven
by Paul Martin of Cherry Point
left the highway and ended up in
Ray Lackey’s front yard. Trooper
Pickard said Martin was headed
east. Martin said a car pulled out
of Masontown road in front of him,
he swerved to avoid it and lost
control.
Martin, who was alone, was not
injured. Damage to his car was
estimated at $200. Charges are
pending.
At 10:20 a m. a 1%1 Falcon went
into the ditch near the county line
after its driver swerved to avoid
hitting a dog and the car skidded
off the left shoulder.
The car was driven by Samuel
Johnson, Middlesex. Johnson was
not injured. Damage was estima
ted at $100. No charges were filed.
steering wheel.
Montford appealed his sentence
of three months on the roads sus
pended upon the payment of $200
and the costs, the minimum fine
under the statutes. Bond was set
at $250 for trial in superior court.
Others fined were Thomas Ha
rold McKinion, reckless driving,
$100 and costs; Benjamin Ray
Turner, reckless driving, $100 and
- (See COURT, Page 3)
i ' ■ ----
has received the following letter
from Gov. Terry Sanford:
Dear Mr. Bullock:
I talked with officials of the
highway department concerning
your request for the increase of
ferry service from Carteret Coun
ty to Oeracoke and I have been
assured that the present plans are
to move the ferry, Sea Level, from
Atlantic to Cedar Island, which
will enable it to make two trips
per day’ This service is to begin
next spring when the tourist sea
son starts.
1 know of: your interest in de
veloping the tourist trade in Car
teret Comity ' j»nd 1 want to as
sure you that 1 will do everything
1 can to assist you along this line.
With best wishes always,
Sincerely,
Terry Sanford
Oeracoke is the southern en
trance to the Cape llatteras Na
tional Seashore park. Tourists
travelling the Dare county beaches
southward have to stop at Ocra
eoke unless the\ can get aboard
the ferry. Sea Level, which carries
them to Carteret county where con
nections can be made with all main
highways.
During the past summer, many
(See FERRY, Page 2)
PTA Council
Endorses Bonds
The county PTA council, meeting
Thursday night at Morchead City
school voted unanimously to sup
port the county board of educa
tion. should it decide to proceed
with selling bonds to build high
schools in cast Carteret and west
Carteret.
Leslie Bcrccgcay, Newport, coun
cil president, conducted the meet
ing. He announced a PTA district
meeting for Oct. 3, a state meet
ing to study school drop-outs Oct.
11, and the state convention April
23-25, 1963.
E. C. Jernigan, high school su
pervisor, announced that a com
mittee had already studied the
Southern high school in Durham
to gain ideas for construction of
two high schools in this county.
Members were urged to buy the
PTA magazine for their schools.
The council will meet again Thurs
day, Oct. 18, at 7:30 at Beaufort
school.
Present were Dr. John Costlow
and A. T. Bowen, Beaufort school;
George Phillips, Reginald McNa
mara and Clyde Burr, Camp Glenn
school; Grover Munden, William'
Yeager and Mrs. William Chalk,
Morchead City school; Walter J.
Thompson, Smyrna school; Mrs.
Margaret Bell and Leslie Bcrcc
geay, Newport school.
Postoffice Extends Service
TostmlTlHrfvey Glsklnd Hid W$ truck Will be a t^raiQIar sight to residents of Mitche^ V“'a**’ “““j
field Park and the Spooner’s Creek and US 70 west area with the inauguration of door-to-dopr *stel
*jl).en i,. %s« «nk m «g “ * “d" ““ "" f be“T .,.. .
Official Finds
Probable Cause
In Dove Case
• House Leader, Others
Bound to High Court
• Malvern Cecil Gives
Testimony at Hearing
House of Representatives minor
ity leader Charles Hallcck. Indi
ana, and five other men will i'ac’c
trial in federal court in New Bern
next spring on charges of hunting
doves over a baited field.
Defendants will be Halleck, E.
Wayne Weant. Greensboro, a de
puty secretary of the U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce; James S. Lew
is Jr. and Dr. David J. Rose, both
of Goldsboro; and D II. Oates and
R. E. Pugh, both of New Bern.
Halleck and the others were
bound over to the federal court
after US Commissioner Charles
Summerlin, Jacksonville, found
probable cause in the cases Wed
nesday
The men were cited Sept. 8 at
Camp Bryan, an exclusive hunting
club near Cherry Point, after fed
eral game agents and a state wild
life protector found the group
hunting over fields baited with
corn and wheat.
Making the arrests were federal
game agents Malvern H. Cecil,
Beaufort, who testified at the hear
ing, Robert F. Butler, Morehead
City, and state wildlife protector
Reuben M. Crumpton. Cecil told of
events leading up to the arrests
and produced samples of the bait
he said was used.
The six were represented at (he
hearing by Albert Ellis, Jackson
ville attorney. Ellis attempted to
gel the warrants dropped because
they were signed by Robert Hal
stead, a federal game agent at
Washington, who was not present
when the citations were issued.
Ellis also asked for dismissal on
the grounds that the men did not
know the fields were baited. Both
motions were denied.
The federal regulations state that
hunting over baited fields is a vio
lation whether or not the hunter
knows of the violation. Summerlin
said he had no other recourse ex
cept to find probable cause in all
six cases.
Two other defendants in th«
same case, C. Thomas Whittington,
Greensboro, and Paul Barrow,
Havelock, caretaker at Camp Bry
an, had action postponed on their
cases.
Whittington’s lawyer is sending
papers pleading guilty to the
charge, and Barrow’s attorney was
unable to attend the hearing in
Jacksonville.
Tanker's Stem
Will be Used
The stem section of the former
USNS Potomac was towed out of
Morchead City harbor Wednesday
morning, one year to the day after
the super tanker burned as she
lay at dock in Morcfiead harbor.
According to the Sept. 15 issue
of Maritime Reporter and Engine
ering News, the stern will be ex
changed by the Military Sea Trans
portation Service in partial pay
ment on a new tanker incorporat
ing such a stern section.
This,, according to the Maritime
Reporter, could save an estimated
$3*2 million in construction costs.
Walter Friederichs, operations
manager at the Morehead City
port, said that the Potomac was
undamaged below the water line.
Replacement of fire-damaged steel
plates in the hull above the water
line would be a minor matter.
(See TANKER, Page 2)
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Sept. 28
8:00 a m. 1:53 a m.
8:12 p.m. 2:12 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 29
8:34 a.m. . 2:^ a.m.
8:46 p.m. ' 2:51 p.m.
• * Sunday, Sept. 39
9:0$ a.m. , 3:03 a.m.
9:17 p.m. 3:26 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 1
9:37 a.m. 3:33 a.m.
9:44 pdn. •* * LB P-®*
„ r Tuesday, Oct. 2
10:02 a.m. 3:58 *
10:10 p-.m. i *:27 p.m.