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51st YEAR, NO. 84 TWO SECTIONS—FOURTEEN PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAI) CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1962
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
(Hurricane Ella Heads for Hatteras
I Medical Center Receives Property;
Fund-Raising Begins at Newport
I Rites for Hunting Accident
Victim Held Wednesday
Couple Signs Up
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Registrar E. Stanley Davis registers Mr. and Mrs. Alvin V. Willis,
at tie Morehcad City town hall Wednesday. Re-registration hasn’t
been what it should be to date, according to Mr. Davis. Voters must
register again to be able to vote in the'November election.
Two County 4-H Leaders
Win District, State Honor
District and state 4-H winners
announced by the State college ex
tension service include two from
Carteret county, according to the
county home agerit7T*Trs. Floy Gar
ner. The winners are Lida Mae
Pigott of Gloucester and Emma
Jean Lawrence of Otway.
Lida Mae’s records won first
place in the district junior canning
^division. For this she will receive
as a prize a pressure canner.
Miss Pigott, who was county
cornmeal enrichment winner, also
won in district competition. As
county winner she received a tran
sistor radio. For her district
achievement she will receive a me
dal and a certificate. She will take
part in a state bake-off Nov. 15 in
Raleigh, which will determine the
state cornmeal champion.
• Should she win the state com
petition she would receive a $200
scholarship, which would remain
on deposit until she reaches the
age of 17 or is ready to enter col
lege.
Lida Mae is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Pigott and is an
eighth grade student at Smyrna
school.
- Miss Emma Jean Lawrence won
first place in the state for her
> achievement record and as her
prize will be given an expense
paid trip to the National 4-H con
gress in Chicago, 111., next month.
She has completed 88 projects,
given 44 demonstrations, is a mem
ber of the state 4-H honor club,
district vice-president and was
valedictorian of her graduating
class at Smyrna high school last
year.
''Emma Jean was also named
'district winner in leadership com
petition and will receive a certifi
cate. for this honor. She has also
been named North Carolina’s can
didate for the Clovia scholarship,
which is given to deserving 4-H
club girls who are furthering their
education in the field of home
economics. She is now a WC Col
legiate 4-H club member.
Mis6 Lawrence, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Blondell Lawrence, is a
freshman at Woman’s college in
Greensboro. She is majoring in
home economics and plans to spe
cialize in nutrition.
Mrs. Garner said thpt she, the
4-H officials and Smyrna school
feel very proud that Carteret has
these oustanding 4-H winners
among its club members.
Emma Jean Lawrence
... off to Chicago
Lida Mae Pigott
. . . wins canner
Longshoremen at Work
Since invocation of the Taft
Hartiey law, longshoremen have
been loading and unloading ships
as usual at east coast ports. The
longshoremen’s strike was called
Oct. 1. The Taft-Hartley law was
invoked and they went back to
work Oct. 6. It is hoped that an
agreement between longshoremen
and shippers will be reached in
the 80-day “cooling off" period.
The funeral service for Roy
Thomas Garner, 46-ycar-old New
port businessman who was killed
in a* hunting accident Monday af
ternoon, was conducted at 2:30
Wednesday afternoon in the llolly
Springs Free Will Baptist church
by the Rev. Carroll Hansley,
Vanceboro, former pastor, and the
Rev. Jerry Rowe, pastor.
Mr. Garner and two other New
port men, Fred Simmons and Car
roll Jones, went to Granville coun
ty Saturday and were to be guests
of Victor Miller while hunting
there. Monday
was the opening \
day of hunting
season.
The accident
occur red near
Durham about
12:15 p.m. Coro-1
ner W. D. Mun
den reported that
the G r a n v i lie
county coroner'
said Mr. Garner Roy T. Garner
was sitting in a tree when his gun
fell and discharged. A load of buck
shot went up through his thigh in
to his abdomen. He was on a deer
stand at the time.
Another member of the party, on
a stand about 200 yards away,
heard the gun fire and Mr. Garner
yell. Thinking Mr. Garner had kill
ed a deer, he ran to the scene and
found Mr. Garner dead on the
ground.
The dead man’s companions said
he was about 7 or 8 feet off the
ground on a stand from which a
deer had been killed earlier.
The gun was a 12-gauge automa
tic which belonged to Mr. Miller.
Although it was reported that Mr.
Garner’s neck was broken in the
fall, coroner David Munden of this
county, who conducted the funeral,
said that the death certificate lists
the gunshot wound as the cause of
death. He said Mr. Garner lost
a tremendous amount of blood.
The accident victim was a mer
chant in Newport, having operated
Garner’s Feed store and Newport
Tractor and Equipment Co. for a
number of years. He was also a
representative for Nationwide In
surance Co.
He was a member of Newport
Masonic lodge No. 706, the Sudan
Temple in New Bern, the Newport
Rotary club, was a Carteret Coun
ty Farm Bureau official for many
years, served as chairman of the
Carteret County Republican execu
tive committee for several years
and was a past patron of Order
of Eastern Star chapter 311, New
port.
He was one of the group who
succeeded in selection of this coun
ty as site of a 4-H camp and serv
ed as Newport area chairman in a
'drive to raise funds for the camp.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nel
lie Cannon Garner; one daughter,
Sheila of the home; three sisters,
Mrs. Charlie Millis, Newport, Mrs.
Jabez Rhue, Swansboro, and Mrs.
Louis L. Edwards, Falls Church,
Va., and one brother, Clinton S.
Garner, Newport.
Burial, with full Masonic rites.
Was in the Gethsemane Memorial
cemetery, highway 24. Members of
the Masonic lodge acted as pall
bearers.
Equipment Stolen
Rods and reels were stolen from
an auto at Soprtsman’s pier Mon
day at 9:45 p.m., according to de
puty sheriff Billy Smith. The
equipment belonged to T. T. Moore,
route 1 Salem.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Oct. 19
12:43 a.m. 6:36 a.m.
1:04 p.m. 7:35 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 20
1:41 a.m. 7:49 a.m.
2:01 p.m. 8:42 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 21
2:40 a.m. 8:59 a.m.
3:00 p.m. 9:40 psm.
Monday, Oct. 22
3:40 a.m. 9:59 a.m.
3:59 p.m. 10:31 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct 23
4:39 a.m. 10:51 a.m.
4:55 p.m. 11:17 p.m.
Dunes Club Case
Consumes Most
Of Court Term
Superior court continued this
week, with a suit involving hurri
cane damage to the old Dunes Club
taking up the majority of the time'.
The suit is to determine whether
nine insurance companies should
pay claims involved in the destruc
tion of the club in hurricane Donna
in I960.
Objections were flying thick and
fast as testimony was given by a
number of witnesses from the At
lantic Beach and Morchead City
area. As one observer noted, “By
Wednesday, about all they had es
tablished was that there had been
a hurricane.”
Divorces granted were Betty Mae
M. Ritchie vs. Howard E. Ritchie,
William G. Lewis vs. Harris W.
Lewis; Jaqueline D. Gillikin vs,
Leston W. Gillikin Jr., Gerald W.
Snipes vs. Judy Elizabeth Ireland
Snipes and Linda Styron Goodwin
vs. Perry Jones Goodwin.
A non-suit was the ruling in John
L. Gaskill and First-Citizens Bank
and Trust Co. vs. Illinois Fire In
surance Co. and Ronald Earl Ma
son. Gaskill is at present a resi
dent of Montana and not available
for testimony.
Awards of damages were enter
ed as final judgments in two cases
arising out of the same accident
after the state supreme court
heard appeals by the plaintiffs, and
affirmed the original awards. The
awards were $1,000 in Lillian E.
Robinson vs. Frederick Taylor, and
$1,100 in Justin Robinson vs. Frede
rick Taylor.
Two compromise settlements
were also made, $3,625 in Elvin
Thomas Gillikin by his next friend,
Vida Hill Gillikin vs. Andy Ipock,
and $5,000 in North Carolina Pulp
Co. and Weycrhauser Co. vs. B. B.
Baugus and Walter Teich.
The first of the two compromise
settlements was an accident case
and the second involved the cut
ting of timber on the plaintiff’s
land.
Countian Drafted
William L. Collins, route 2 Beau
fort, was sent by the county se
lective service board to Raleigh
yesterday for induction into the
Army.
St. Peter's Methodist Church -- 1970
This is the architect’s conception of St. Peter’s Methodist church, Mitchell Village, as it will appear when completed, about 1970.
The education building, now completed and to be consecrated Sunday, is the building at the right in this picture.
St. Peters Church to Consecrate
Education Building Sunday Morning
Consecration services for St. Pe
ter’s Methodist church, Morehead
City, will be held at 11 a.m. Sun
day by the pastor, the Rev. Jack
P. Mansfield.
Located on Hodges street in the
Mitchell Village section, west of
the highway 70 and 24 intersection,
the recently completed educational
building is the first unit of a pro
posed $225,000 church plant.
An open house and coffee hour
will be held Sunday afternoon from
2 to 4 to which the public is cor
dially invited.
The name of the new church was
chosen by Bishop Paul Neff Gat
her, bishop of the Richmond area.
Being « relocation of the Camp
Conveyed from the town
of Newport to the Newport
Medical Center this week
was property for the propos
ed $40,000 medical center at
Newport. The property, next
to the Woodmen of the
World hall on the Nine Foot
road, has been donated to
the Newport Medical Cen
ter. a non-profit corporation
organized to put up a build
ing that would house an of
fice for a doctor and a clinic.
Wallace 1$. Hill, president of the
corporation, says of the gift of
land, “Certainly the town fathers
deserve the appreciation of the en
tire community for this act of ge
nerosity. It will enable the execu
tive committee to devote its entire
resources to the erection of a me
dical building which the commu
nity so long has needed.
“The land will provide an area
for parking as well as the medical
building itself,” he added.
The corporation plans to raise
$40,000, construction on the build
ing to start as soon as $25,000 is
obtained.
In addition to Mr. Hill, other of
ficers are Leon Mann, vice-presi
dent, and R. K. Montague, secre
tary-treasurer. They will serve un
til the fund-raising goal has been
reached.
Money collected will be in the
form of a loan, the minimum
amount of a “loan certificate” be
ing $25. Lenders will later elect
permanent officers.
Named to committees are the
following:
Building, G. D. llill, chairman;
Richard S. Garner, L. M. Garner
Jr.; doctor procurement, Mr. Mon
tague, chairman; Mrs. Harold
Chartley, Mrs. Montague.
Publicity, Mrs. Seymour P. Ru
bin, chairman; Mrs. Gordon Cut
ler, Mr. Rubin; fund-raising', J. S.
Bell, chairman; John Holcombe,
and Nathan Garner.
Members of the executive com
mittee, which functioned prior to
the first meeting of the Newport
Medical center last month, were
Mr. Hill, Mr. Mann, Mr. Monta
gue, Mr. Rubin and Clayton Can
not*. The committee decided to
undertake the building of a medi
cal facility following a survey of
the community’s medical needs by
The Scars-Rocbuek Foundation.
The survey showed that New
port, with a population of 2,644,
could adequately support a doctor.
Newport citizens now travel 13
miles to Morchead City, the near
est city where medical care is
available.
Glenn Methodist church, the new
church has been built by a con
gregation of 147 members at a
cost of $76,000.
The groundbreaking service,
which marked the beginning of con
struction, was held on Dec. 17,
1961.
Designed by Stephens and Car
delli, architects, the ultra modern
building contains eight classrooms,
a fellowship hall, three rest rooms,
an equipment room, and kitchen.
It is constructed of brick over con
crete block, is air-conditioned, and
fireproof.
The.site for the new church was
purchased from I. F. Rochelle, and
consists of 2% acres a block long
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Elections Board
Rescinds Ruling
Made Monday
The elections board has had to
back up on the changes it announc
ed for Atlantic and Sea Lcvci.
Charles Willis, chairman of the
board of elections, said that law
requires that a 20-day notice be
given prior to the opening of regis
tration books, on any change in
precinct lines or polling place.
That’s why it would be illegal at
this time to re-draw the boundary
line between Sea Level and Atlan
tic precincts or change the polling
place at Atlantic, he explains.
The chairman announced Mon
day that the elections board had
changed the precinct line and the
polling place at Atlantic. The board
members decided to make the
change over the weekend.
The board met again early this
week and realizing that the change
could not be made in “mid
stream,” decided that people in
both precincts will vote in the same
place as they did in the spring
primaries, and “a complete change
will be made after this election,”
Mr. Willis announced Wednesday.
The voting place will be next to
the Fulcher Seafood house, as
usual. The registrar will be there
tomorrow.
Mr. Willis also announces that
Waller Chadwick has replaced
Leon Chadwick as registrar at
Straits, due to the illness of Leon.
Beach Plans
Storm Set-Up
Establishment of roadblocks in
the event of a hurricane was the
main topic of discussion at a meet
ing of the Atlantic Beach civil de
fense auxiliary police Tuesday
night.
Operation of the ferry at Cape
Carteret may necessitate a road
block at the western edge of Atlan
tic Beach. Roadblocks arc stan
dard procedure for the town to pro
tect property after a hurricane,
with only residents and property
owners allowed through the road
block.
Windshield stickers have been
and are available at the Atlantic
Beach police station for cars of
property owners and residents on
Bogue Banks. The stickers arc re
quired on any car that passes
through the roadblocks.
Also planned were personnel and
hours for manning roadblocks and
communications in the event of a
hurricane.
The police auxiliary has inducted
three new members, Henry L.
Smith, Tom Sloan and David Bry
an. . I
and 210 feet deep. In the future,
a sanctuary and an office and con
ference rooms will be added near
the present structure.
Members of the building commit
tee are William McCabe, chair
man; Mrs. J. L. Baldwin, M. J.
Lockhart, C. L. McCabe, William
Yeager, Mrs. Edgar Simpson, and
Mrs. M. L. Mansfield.
The Camp Glenn church build
ing was consecrated in 1921. An
old school house was moved to the
church lot, and from its frame
work grew the church structure.
When plans for a new church build
ing were formulated, the congrega
tion decided to relocate the church
(See C1IUKC1I Page 2)
Fury of Storm Expected
To be Felt in Co unty
Carteret residents were battening
down for Ella yesterday, a hurri
cane that at noon was heading for
Cape Hattcras.
Loaded with winds up to 90 miles
an hour, the tropical storm was
moving north slowly, at about sev
en miles an hour. Her course was
erratic.
From a north northwest direc
tion early this week, Ella swung
north, and it appeared as though
she might pass out to sea, but the
11 o’clock advisory yesterday morn
ing indicated that she had swung
to the north northwest again, which
would put the storm in a direct
line for Hattcras.
The US Coast Guard called in
lightships that were in the path of
the storm. Both of them, from
Diamond shoals and Frying Pan
shoals, were in port at Morchead
City yesterday. Navy vessels schcd
tiled to load at Morchead City were
cancelled.
Port officials said they either
went into port farther north or the
movement was called off temp
orarily. Several small Navy vessels
took refuge at Morchead City. The
Patella, due to unload asphalt to
day. remained in Savannah due to
the storm.
Partyboats and other craft Were
taking refuge in creeks and snug
harbors.
Homeowners were advised to
have on hand fresh flashlight bat
teries, food that could be eaten
without cooking, and to draw water
for use in case the power went off
for any length of time.
Owners of buildings with large
plate glass windows were advised
to tape them with masking tape to
provide extra support against buf
feting wind.
Winds at Atlantic Beach late yes
terday morning were gusting at 30
miles an hour. Blue patches of sky
in the morning were later obscur
ed by heavy gray clouds. PUa is.rc
ported as a dangerous hurricane
and all precautions should be tak
cn.
Temperature reports from the
beach weather station for the first
part of this week follow:
Max. Min. Wind
Monday 80 70 NE
Tuesday 79 68 NE
Wednesday 78 68 NE-E
Fresh Produce Group
To Meet at Biltmore
The North Carolina Branch of
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
association will have its annual
meeting at the Morehead Biltmore
hotel, Morehead City, today
through Sunday.
There will be a business session
to discuss interstate problems and
other regulations of the fruit and
vegetable indu try.
The featured banquet speaker
will be Edmund H. Harding.
4-i
Cash, Cigarettes
Stolen from Inn
One hundred fifteen dollars and
ten cartons of cigarettes were stol
en over the weekend from the
Loverdee inn, highway 24, Bogue.
According to deputy sheriff Carl
Bunch, the inn was entered through
a second story window, which was
broken.
The money was taken from the
juke box. The cash was due to be
picked up by an agent of the juke
box company Monday. The theft
occurred sometime between closing
time Sunday and opening time,
about 4 p.m. Monday.
The break-in was discovered by
the owner and manager of the inn,
Milton Chadwick.
The Morehead City town board
met last night at the municipal
building.
Symphony Drive
To be Conducted
Next Week
The membership drive of the
county chapter of the North Car
olina Symphony society will be held
next week. Memberships are $5
for two adults. $3 for one adult,
and student, $1. These member
ships entitle owners to the right to
attend both the full as well as the
little symphony concerts.
“Because the Little Symphony is
usually the only outside cultural
interest which we in Carteret Coun
ty can take advantage of. it is
hoped that old members as well
as new county residents Will pur
chase memberships this year,” ac
cording to Mrs. Robert Meadows,
Morehead City membership chair
man.
The Little Symphony, under the
direction of Dr. Benjamin Swalin,
will appear during February in
the Beaufort high school auditori
um. One of the main features of
the symphony is in providing a
free afternoon children’s concert.
"This concert acts as a stimula
tion toward better listening and
recreational music as well as pro
viding a new understanding of the
instruments of the orchestra. It is
therefore urged that parents of this
county make a special -dfort in
pure basing memberships this
year,” Mrs. Meadows said.
Letters with enclosed return en
velopes have been mailed to for
mer members, requesting that
their checks be returned now.
Checks should be made payable
to the North Carolina Symphony
.society and mailed to Miss Nancy
Russell, Beaufort, president of the
Cafterct County chapter, Mrs.
Meadows, and Mrs. Herbert Webb,
Sea Level, downcast chairman.
Registrars Give
Latest Report
By 5 p.m. Wednesday, 1,065 per
sons had registered to vote in
Beaufort, reports U. E. Swann, re
gistrar.
According to the 1960 census,
there arc 1,789 persons in town
who are 20 years of age or older.
That eensus figure does not take
into account the enlargement of
the town which occurred after the
census was made. (The census
breakdown for towns does not have
a classification for 21 and over, 21
being the earliest age at which
one may vote.)
By Wednesday afternoon, 548
persons had registered in precinct
No. 1, Morehead City, and 862 in
precinct No. 2, or a total of 1,410.
According to the 1960 census of
Morehead City, the number of re
sidents 20 years or older is 3,388.
The census, by age, for county
populations gives a breakdown for
“21 and over.” According to those
figures, the number of persons 21
and over in this county in 1960 was
14,460. That figure does NOT in
clude the 3,502 Navy men which
happened to be in waters near Car
teret county when the census was
taken and were lumped in with the
permanent poulation figure for Car
teret.
Registrar for Morehead precinct
No. 1 is E. Stamey Davis and for
precinct 2 Mrs. Bruce Goodwin.
Armory Bonds
Sold Tuesday
Forty thousand dollars worth of
Morehead City armory bonds were
sold Tuesday by the Local Govern
ment commission, Raleigh, for an
average interest rate of 3.60 per
cent. Successful bidder was Rey
nolds & Co., New York City.
The bonds will mature in eight
years and bear interest from 6
per cent for bonds maturing in
1963 to 3.5 per cent for bonds ma
turing in 1969-70.
George McNeill, town attorney
for Morehead City, said the town
is pleased with the interest rate
obtained. A rate of 4 per cent had
been expected.
Six bids were received for the
bond issue. Five thousand dollars
worth of the bonds will mature
next year at 6 per cent interest,
$15,000 in 1964-66 at 4 per cent in
terest; $5,000 in 1967 at 3Vt per
cent; $5,000 in 1968 at 3.4 per cent;
and $10,000 id 1969-70 at 3:5 per
cent.