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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
I 61st YEAR, NO. 88 THREE SECTIONS, 22 PAGES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1962
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Trial Dates Set for McLean,
SharponManslaughterCounts
Manslaughter cases involving*
two county residents have been
scheduled for the November term
of criminal court which opens Mon
day in Beaufort.
Docketed for trial Wednesday
is Robert C. McLean, Morehead
City, charged with the shooting of
Bill Sample, 15, at the McLean
home in Morehead City in June.
Sample was fatally wounded. Mc
Lean told police that he thought
the boy was a prowler. The youth
was attempting waken his friend,
Bobby McLean, at a bedroom win
dow when the shooting occurred.
To go before the j and jury is
the case of Leamon Sharp, charged
with the shooting of his 13-year
niece in a home at Beaufort. Sharp
said a pistol was discharged dur
, ing a “friendly scuffle,” when a
preliminary hearing was conduct
I ed in county court.
' The grand jury will consider also
a breaking and entering case in
volving Pierson Willis, Beaufort.
Willis allegedly broke into the
home of his father-in-law in More
head City after a family dispute.
Other cases to go before the
grand jury: Woodrow Wilson, re
i». sisting arrest; John Logue, John
ny Pinkham, Dave Anderson,
breaking, entering and larceny;
Frank Guff Morgan, Frank Gran
tham. assaiilt.
Harvey Lewis, false pretense,
Carlto'n Pittman, public drunk
eness; Wilton M. Sutton, speeding;
Dennis A. Robinson, Sanford Long,
driving drunk; Thomas Wood, hit
and run.
Floyd Wayne, larceny, David and
Rhodonna Lane, receiving stolen
,, property; Louis A. Hinson, L. W.
Gillikjn, worthless check; Sadie
and Jesse Finch, public nuisance;
John Dallas Waters, manslaugh
ter.
Waters, Plymouth, N. C., was
driver of a car in which two teen
age gilds from Virginia were killed
on the Salter Path road July 1.
If the grand jury finds sufficient
evidence to take the Sharp case
to trial, it will be tried Monday.
Also docketed for Monday is1 the
• Pierson Willis case. Twelve^ other
cases are also on the docket for
that day.
There will be no court Tuesday
because Tuesday is election day.
In addition to the McLean case,
there are ten cases docketed for
Wednesday, ten for Thursday and
nine for Friday.
In county recorder’s court Sept.
25, probable cause was found in a
theft case against Everett Ingram
Jr., Morehead City, and the case
« was bound over to superior court.
In recorder’s court of Oct. 9, the
Sept. 25 judgment was stricken.
Ingram was given two years on
the roads, suspended, told to pay
costs and remain on good behavior
for five years.
Czech Scientist Visits
1 At Duke Lab This Week
Visiting at Duke Marine labora
tory, Pivers Island, this week was
Dr. Pavel (Paul) Blazka from
Prague, Czechoslovakia. Dr. Blazka
arrived Saturday by air from Ur
bana, 111., where he lectured at
the University of Illinois.
Invited here by the American
Institute of Biological Sciences, he
is the first Czech scientist to come
^ to this country under the AIBS
program to familiarize American
scientists with the work of scien
tists in other countries.
Prior to his visit at the Univer
sity of Illinois, Dr. Blazka lectured
at the University of Wisconsin.
From Pivers Island, he went to
Duke University, Durham, and
from there he goes to the Univer
4 sity of Massachusetts, University
; of Toronto, University of British
Columbia at Vancouver, the Univer
sity of Washington, and the Univer
sity of California. He will be in
this country six weeks.
Handsome, voluble and energetic,
Dr. Blazka speaks English well.
He learned English in the public
schools in Czechoslovakia where
pupils have the opportunity to
study German, French, Russian,
I as well as English—and sometimes
Spanish.
Dr. Blazka, who is a research
scientist with the hydrobiological
laboratory of the Czechoslovakian
Academy of Sciences at Prague
is a graduate of Charles university,
which was founded in Prague in
1348 by Charles IV. The university
has operated continuously since
then, except for six years during
the second world war.
Dr. Blazka has found the United
States as he imagined it would be.
Two things which have made a big
impression, he says, are the ex
tensive use of aluminum in con
struction of buildings and the im
portance of churches in American
life.
At a seminar at Duke lab Tues
day afternoon he spoke on protein
metabolism of swimming fish and
New Registration Total Stands
At 10,562; Officials Pleased
Wildwood Will
Vote Tuesday
On Fire Service
Voters in the Wildwood precinct
will receive a ballot that no other
voters will be given Tuesday. The
ballot is to determine whether
they want to be taxed for fire pro
tection.
If they do, they will get fire pro
tection under the Newport Rural
Fire association plan. Participants
will pay a tax when they pay their
county taxes and this revenue will
be turned over to the town of New
port with whom a contract for fire
service will be signed.
Newport township is now under a
rural fire protection plan. Resi
dents outside the town limits of
Newport pay 10 cents tax per hun
dred dollars of valuation for the
service, which in turn gains for
them a reduction in fire insurance
rates.
The' town of Newport under its
rural plan is now servicing the
Wildwood section, but will discon
tinue the service if the people do
not approve the fire protection
plan Tuesday, according to New
port mayor Leon Mann Jr.
If Wildwood residents approve
the proposal, the area in which
they live will be known as the
West Wildwood Fire Protection
district.
Further information may be ob
tained by contacting Prentiss Gar
ner, - tax supervisor,»-courthouse,
Beaufort; Mayor Mann or fire chief
Charles Gould Jr., Newport.
Morehead City Firemen
Answer Two Alarms
Wind-whipped wires led to a fire
alarm Wednesday night, when
Morehead City firemen were called
to 11th and Avery street at about
G:45 p.m. Electrical wires were
shorting out due to high winds,
causing fireballs and bright flashes.
Monday afternoon at about 3
p.m., firemen answered an out-of
town call to the Wildwood area,
where a woods fire was threaten
ing three or four homes. The fire
was soon brought under control.
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Dr. Pavel Blazka
. . . lectures here
at Duke university Wednesday he
spoke on adaptation to anoxia, or
the ability of fresh water fish to
become accustomed to water where
the oxygen content diminishes or
disappears.
Papers he has written, as a result
of his research, have been publish
ed by the journal, Physiological
Zoology, Chicago. He is noted for
his studies in anoxia and research
on the relation between metabolic
rate and temperature in small
fresh water animals—very small
animals, almost microsopic.
Dr. Blazfca’s visit to Duke lab
and a trip Monday to the outer
banks was his first visit to an
ocean. His scientific interest in
water life did not evolve from fam
iliarity with lakes or streams as a
child. He says he merely saw in
teresting scientific problems in
fresh water animals.
At the conclusion of his visit
here, Dr. Blazka will return to
Prague to his wife and two sons,
Marek, 4, and Petr, 2Vfc.
The number of persons who re -*
gistered during the recent registra
tion period totals 10,562, or 73 per
cent of the persons in the county
estimated as eligible to vote.
Charles Willis, chairman of the
elections board, said, “We are well
pleased with this registration.”
The completely new registration
squeezed the air out of the old
registration figures, which were
15,784. The number grew to that
size by new names being added
and names of the dead or those no
longer living here seldom being
taken off the books.
Of the new registrants, 8,178 are
Democrats, 2,189 Republicans, 107
independents, and 88 registered
who made no commitment.
Only those registered as Dem
ocrats or Republicans may vote
in primaries. All who registered
may vote in Tuesday's election and
may vote for whomever they wish,
regardless how they may be regis
tered.
A Republican may vote for a
Democratic candidate and a Dem
ocrat may vote for a Republican.
Here are the registration figures,
by precinct, with the name of the
precinct first, followed, by number
of Democrats, number of Repub
licans and the total (figures on
independents and no-party-stated
are not given because persons in
those categories are so few):
Atlantic 393—50—478; Beaufort
1,780—235—2,100; Bettie 93—13—
106; Bogue 132—19—161; Broad
Creek 175—54—229; Cedar Island
106—11—117.
Cedar Point 143—42—186; Davis
129—145—277; Barkers Island 402—
164—567; Harlowe 161—65—230;
Marshallberg 470-44*-326; Mer
rimon 94—6—101.
Morehead No. 1—1,092—142—1,
280; Morehead No. 2—1,363—257—
1.637; Newport 719-216-961; Ot
way 171—89—260; Pelletier 55—6—
61; Portsmouth 4—0—4.
Salter Path 168—10—180; Sea
Level 193—44—237; Smyrna 47—36
—84; Stacy 59—84—146; Stella 40—
24—65.
Straits 101—18—119; Wildwood
244—92—339; Williston 56—127—
183; Wire Grass 88—40—128.
Three Women
Will Visit UN
Mrs. Hugh Pakc, Bettic, Mrs.
W. E. Guthrie, Bogue, and Mrs.
G. T. Spivey, Russells Creek, will
leave Raleigh Monday morning
for a six-day trip to New York
City and Washington, D. C. They
will represent the county on the
annual Home Demonstration club
United Nations study tour.
Three chartered busses will take
North Carolina’s clubwomen to
New York, where they will stay
at the Hotel Taft. En route they
will be briefed about situations
they will study at the UN by Mrs.
Samuel Levering and Mrs. Hugh
Holcomb.
' The clubwomen will have two
days at the United Nations. There
will be a trip to Hyde Park to visit
the Roosevelt home and library and
a stop at the United States Mili
tary academy, West Point. Even
ing hours will be left free so that
the visitors may choose their own
entertainment.
En route home they will stop
overnight in Washington, D. C.,
staying at the National 4-H Foun
dation. They will be taken on a
tour of Washington and a special
tour of the White house.
The travelers are expected to
return to Raleigh about 4 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 10.
Beaufort Rotary Hears
Talk on Court Reform
Beaufort Rotarians heard a talk
by Dr. Russell Outlaw on court
reform Tuesday night. The pro
posed constitutional amendment,
to be voted on Nqv. 6 along with
five Other amendments, will change
the structure of the slate’s lower
courts.
The amendment will abolish the
justice of the peace system, Dr.
Outlaw said, and substitute a
system of magistrates. Also, dis
trict courts will be set up.
Guests at the meeting were Jack
Roberts, Fred Lewis, Grover Mun
den, Frank Cassiano and Thomas
Noe, all of the Morehead City
i Rotary club. The club meets week
ly at the Surfside restaurant.
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Report on Drum
Inlet Will Be
Ready This Year
# Congressman Gives
Report on Projects
# Wallace Channel
Shoaling Under Study
Army engineers will submit a
report on Drum inlet to the divi
sion engineer at Atlanta the latter
part of this year, according to Col.
Joseph Grygiel, district engineer,
Wilmington.
In a report to congressman Da
vid Henderson, the colonel com
mented on this and other water
ways projects in this area. Action
on the Drum inlet project “will
have considerable effect,” Mr.
Henderson said, on the future of
the larger project. Waterway Con
necting Pamlico Sound and Beau
fort Harbor.
That project is to be reviewed
to determine the feasibility of pro
viding a 12-foot channel, boat re
fuge harbors and side channels
in the down east area.
Revision and resubmission of
the Boguc inlet and Swansboro
harbor project is being considered,
colonel Grygiel states. A report is
icing prepared that will determine
'hetlwr further study is justified
On a request for a side channel to
Atlantic Beach.
A detailed report on a side chan
nel from the Pamlico sound-Bcau
fort harbor waterway to Cedar
Island bay will be completed by
January.
A study of the shoaling in Wal
lace channel is under way. The
Coast and Geodetic Survey is
cooperating in measurement of
tides and currents. Colonel Gry
giel says, “The study, through
which we hope to find a way to
prevent or retard the rapid rate
of shoaling will be complete in
nine months.”
A report, to determine whether
further study is justified, is being
prepared relative to a request that
the channel in Beaufort harbor
be increased from 12 to 15 feet.
Army engineers report that cur
rent dredging in Morehead City
harbor will be complete in Dec
ember 1962. Dredging of Beaufort
harbor was completed in Septem
ber.
The latest survey of Ocracoke
inlet, the engineers say, revealed
a depth of about 12 feet at low
water. “With this depth available,
dredging to the newly-authorized
18 feet will be delayed until next
spring or fall, depending on the
results of the study being made
of Wallace channel,” the colonel
reports.
More Than 500
Go to Fish Fry
A crowd estimated at more than
500 were served fish dinners at the
Business and Professional Women’s
club fish fry Wednesday night at
the National Guard armory, More
head City. Proceeds went to the
county cancer society.
The fish fry launched the cancer
crusade which will continue
through this month.
Six hundred pounds of fish were
cooked by Sam Adler and Tom
Ballou, Morehead City, antf Ray
mond Edwards, Newport. The po
tato salad was prepared by Home
Demonstration club women. Res
taurants and fish houses donated
slaw, hush puppies and french
fries.
Miss Stella Propst, chairman,
expresses her appreciation to all
who donated to the event. Assisting
her was Miss Lyda Piner. Other
members of the B&PW club serv
ed at the supper.
Chairman of the crusade is Mrs.
James C. Smith.
Leaf Growers to Meet
R. M. Williams, county agricul
tural agent, invites tobacco farm
ers to a meeting at 2 p.m. Wednes
day in the armory at Tarboro. The
meeting is being sponsored by the
State Flue-Cured Tobacco advi
sory committee.
SPA Seeks Federal Funds
To Expand Morehead Port
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News-Times 1’lioto
by Tom Sloan
This is the month the thoughts of all hungry folks turn to turkey. Mrs. Weldon Fulcher, Crab Point,
with her 2'2-year-old granddaughter, Susan, look over the flock of handsome turkeys on the R. P.
Oglesby farm, Crab Point. Susan, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Fulcher Jr., Camp Glenn, thinks
turkeys are fine as long as they stay on the other s ide of the fence or are roasted golden brown on a
Thanksgiving platter.
AAorehead City Stores Will
Stage Pre-Holidays Jubilee
JC's to Start
Building Repair
Beaufort Jaycees will begin work
on the old Beaufort Scout building
Sunday afternoon. Donnie Dudley
has been placed in charge of solicit
ing donations and aid from other
civic clubs and individuals.
Approximately $1,500 is needed
to put the building back into shape,
including a new roof. Mr. Dudley
may be contacted at PA8-3147 by
parties interested in helping with
the building which is now known
as the community civic center.’
Jaycees say donations will be
greatly appreciated.
The Jaycees, meeting Monday
night at the Duke Marine lab, ex
pressed their thanks to the Beau
fort Rescue squad and registrar
U. E. Swann for participating in
the voter registration. A total of
22- voters were registered by the
Jaycees, Mr. Swann and the Res
cue Squad.
A membership social is planned
for Saturday night, Nov. 10 at the
American Legion building. A
Christmas dance is planned for
Dec. 22, with live music and re
freshments. Proceeds will go to
the needy family fund. Admission
will be $5 per couple.
Firemen Put Out Oil
Heater Blaze Tuesday
Beaufort firemen answered a call
Tuesday to the home of Flossie
Martin on Marsh street, where an
oil heater had caught fire.
The call went in at about 7:05
a m., and the fire was quickly
extinguished. No damage occurred,
firemen said.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Nov. 2
10:43 a m.
11:25 p.m.
4:19 a.m.
5:18 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 3
11:38 a.m.
4:57 p.m.
6:09 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 4
12:26 a.m.
12:39 p.m.
5:47 a.m.
7:33 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 5
1:29 a.m.
1:44 p.m.
7:21 a.m.
8:50 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 6
2:35 a.m.
2:54 p.m.
9:07 a.m.
9:50 p.m.
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► More than $250 in prizes will be
given away by Morehead City bus
iness firms during a city-wide jubi
lee Nov. fl. 9 and 10.
Twenty-one businesses are donat
ing gifts to attract shoppers to the
business section during the three
day sales spree—Morehead City
Pre-Holidays Jubilee.
Shoppers can register in any of
the stores taking part in the sale,
without obligation to buy, and
names of winners of the free prizes
will be chosen Saturday, Nov. 10, at
4 p.m. on the sidewalk in front of
the merchants’ free parking lot on
Arendell street.
The pre-holiday jubilee is being
arranged by the advertising de
partment of the Carteret County
News-Times with the prize-giving
event handled by Morehead City
radio station WMBL.
Firms donating prizes are Dorn’s
Lunch, Hardware and Building
Supply Co., Beasley’s Inc., Hill's,
Morehead City Drug Co., Pyrofax
Gas Corp., Robinson’s Prescrip
tion shop.
Morehead City Western Auto
store, Rose’s, Adams Furniture,
Belks, Parker Motor Co., Leary’s,
Early Jewelers, Sound Chevrolet,
Hardesty Motors, Piggly Wiggly,
R & N Furniture Co., Dick's Tire
Service, Morehead City Floral Co.
and Webb’s.
All downtown Morehead City
business firms are invited to take
part in the three-day sales extra
vaganza especially designed to
give shoppers an opportunity to do
Christmas shopping early and re
alize dollar-savings at the same
time.
A complete list of the prizes will
appear in Tuesday’s paper, as well
as a list of the stores that are of
fering shoppers this unprecedented
buying opportunity.
Library Friends Told of Regional
Set-Up, Plan Winter Cleaning Work
Attending the Friends of the Lib- j
rary meeting Saturday afternoon
at the eounty public library, Beau
fort, were Mrs. John Guion, chair
man of the Craven-Pamlico-Car
terct divisional library board, and
Mrs. Elizabeth llawkins, librarian,
both of New Bern.
The visitors described the new
regional library board arrange
ment under which Carteret was
forced to come due to lack of pro
fessional librarian service here.
Mrs. Hawkins will spend two days
a month at the Carteret library.
During the business session,
Friends of the Library voted to buy
Board Reviews
Bridge Plans
Morehead City (own commission
ers attended a special meeting yes
terday afternoon at the town hall
to confer with representatives of
the State Highway commission re
lative to plans for the proposed
Morehead City bridge.
Merrill Evans, state highway
commission chairman, said bids
will be requested this month and
reviewed at the highway commis
sion meeting Nov. 29 at Raleigh.
Estimated cost of the bridge is
$1.9 million and will require a year
and a half for construction. While
construction is under way, traffic
will continue to use the present
bridge.
Although the bridge will be si
tuated just a short distance north
of the present one, plans are be
ing drawn to allow certain expan
sion of the port area overland. The
state hopes to have the bridge
ready by the opening of the 1964
tourist season.
Fifth of an Inch Rain
Falls Here Wednesday
Rain, .21 inches of it, fell Wed
nesday, according to records of the
Atlantic Beach weather-station.
The weather remained cool, with
temperatures slightly above those
of last week.
Max. Min. Wind
Monday . 69 60 SW
Tuesday 72 56 NE-SW
Wednesday 68 60 W-N
a vacuum cleaner lo assist in clean
ing chores at the library. Mrs.
Gaston Simpson, librarian, also
serves as janitor. The .Friends de
cided that they would undertake
as a winter project a thorough
cleaning of the library, using their
own members and. hiring help to do
the heavier work.
Mrs. William Nicholson present
ed a proposal for buying insurance
on paintings which the Friends
plan to display in the library from
time to time. On display in the
library were paintings by Mrs. M.'
L. Davis, Beaufort.
Mrs. Jack Ward reported on the
children’s story hour conducted at
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■ Project Eligible,
Director Says
The State Ports Authority
announced yesterday a ma
jor expansion program at
Morehead City port. Costing
an estimated $2,150,000, it is
anticipated that half the cost
will lie financed under the
federal accelerated works
program. Remaining funds
will come from SPA sources,
according to E. N. Richards,
acting ports director.
Mr. Richards, who was in More
head City yesterday, said that the
SPA has received preliminary ap
proval as to eligibility for the fed
eral funds Formal application is
expected to be made within the
next H) days.
Because of chronic unemploy
ment problems, Carteret has been
classified by federal agencies as a
'depressed area.” thereby making
it eligible for dollar aid from Wash
ington.
No prediction was made as to
when actual work on port expan
sion would begin, if the applica
tion for funds is approved. The gov
ernment is, however, interested in
getting money into the depressed
areas quickly. Projects that can be
started at once are given priority.
The work proposed at Morehead
City has been on the drawing board
(or months. It would have been in
process of construction now if vo
ters had approved last year a $13Mj
million bond issue for state ports.
The expansion consists of 1.075
linear feet of dock space to the
west of the present docks on More
head City waterfront, a new 100,000
square foot transit shed and aJtO,
000 square foot warehouse as well
as several other small buildings
needed for the efficiency of work
ers and convenience of customers.
Obtaining the adequate1 space for
these improvements depends par
tially on getting permission from
Fry Roofing Co. to fill in a water
front area. Fry Roofing Co. ad
joins the state ports property on
the west. “We are confident this
permission will be granted,” Mr.
Richards said. “The Fry firm has
been most cooperative.”
“It is anticipated the additional
facilities will give the port of More
head a substantial increase in traf
fic and consequently provide con
siderably more employment after
completion as well as during con
struction,” Mr. Richards added.
Relative to construction of a new
highway bridge near the port, Mr.
Richards said that SPA has been
working closely with the highway
department on bridge plans and if
the highway people live up to their
promises, bridge construction will
not interfere with port expansion
to the north, over land.
Newport PTA
Plans Carnival
Newport’s annual PTA carnival
will be held on the school grounds
Saturday, beginning at 2 p.tn,, an
nounces Mrs. Mary M. Scheeler,
PTA publicity chairman.
At the carnival will be games,
rides and prizes. A bake sale will
be held in the school cafeteria,
featuring homemade cakes, pies,
candies, etc. A barbecue supper
will be served at $1 per plate.
At 7:30 a variety hour will be pre
sented in the school auditorium
featuring talented members of the
PTA. Admission will be 35 cents
for adults and 20 cents for children.
Everyone is invited to come to
the school for an afternoon of fun,
a delicious supper, and an evening
of entertainment.
the library this summer. Mrs. Flo
rence Brooks, in the absence of
Mrs. Grace Fodrie, Beaufort school
librarian, reported on efforts to
stock the library with books not
available at the school, which ap
pear on the students* summer read
ing lists.
John Iteintjes, chairman of the
committee on refurbishing the
library, reported on installation of
furnaces by the town of Beaufort,
painting and cleaning. Miss Gladys
Chadwick, president, presided.
Mrs. Holden Ballon and Mrs.
Ward served refreshments. The
Friends’ next meeting will be at
the library in April.
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