THANKSGIVING DAY WILL BE OBSERVED THURSDAY t 10/ 51»t Year fao. 93 Two Sections — Ten Pages MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1962 Published Tuesdays and Fridays Medical Center Fund Drive Starts Republicans to Petition Elections Board; Bell Wins by 11 in Recount Elmer Dewey Willis, defeated Republican candidate fof sheriff according to a recount of the Nov. 6 votes—will petition the county board of elections this week to cer tify him “as the winning candidate ... on the results of the initial abstracts submitted to the board of elections from each of the pre cincts of Carteret county.” The petition will be presented to the board of elections whenever it meets this week to canvass the vote. That, at least, was the plan yesterday. The recounting of the sheriff bal lots in all 27 precincts started 10:30 Thursday morning and ended at about 8 p.m. Friday. When the recounting ended, sheriff Robert BeH came out with 11 votes more than Mr. Willis. Mr. Willis was 44 votes ahead at the end of ballot-counting early Nov. 7, then discovery of six ab sentee ballots in Morehead No. 2 precinct later on Nov. 7 cut his margin to 40. Present at the recount, which took place in the law library of the courthouse were representa tives of Mr. Willis, who was out of town, sheriff Bell and his represen tatives, also members of the elec tions board, Charles Willis, chair man; Osborne Davis and Neal Campen. Mr. Campen was not ablei to be at the Thursday morning ses sion but attended the others. Assisting Mr. Bell at the recount were Frank Cassiano, who was re lieved by James Webb, and Har vey Hamilton Jr. Representing Mr. Willis were Thomas Bennett, Ray Gordon Lewis, Jimmy Finer and .Jimmy Howland. Each candidate had three men of his party in the recount room at all times. Charles Willis said that the re count procedure went like -this: any. ballots that .WJLCtl questioned were put in a “disputed” pile. When the count of a precinct was completed, the “disputed” ballots were gone through and it was de cided then which were to be con sidered as valid or invalid. Both parties agreed, prior to start of the recount, to the registrar for each precinct calling the bal ' lots for his precinct. The proce dure then went like this: • Registrar will hand ballot to opposite party representative • Party representative will hand to other party representative. • Second party representative will hand to candidate for whom the ballot was cast. • Candidate will place ballot on his pile. • Party representatives will count ballots after separation is * completed or at intervals and de liver to board of elections. • If desired by candidates, they may check count under supervision of board of elections. All persons who handled ballots took an oath to count them honest ly and fairly. The final vote was 4,487 for Bell and 4,476 for Willis. Commenting on the recount and the subsequent results, the elec tions board chairman said yester - day, “I feel that justice has been done.” The defeated candidate said that feeling has been running high and some of his supporters wanted to take things into their own hands. “I urge them not to do that,” Mr. (See ELECTION Pg. 2) * Firemen Put Out Grass F,ire Back of Metal Shop A grass fire brought out the Monphead City Fire department Sunday- Firemen went to an area back of Leonard’s Metal shop on Bridges street. The fire was soon put out. There was no damage to nearby build ings. i Education Board Opens Bids Bids on the West Carteret high school were opened Thursday night by the county board of education, but no decisitoi was made on let-, ting of contracts. *' H. L. Joslynl county superinten , dent of schoolaAsaid the bids were higher than expected. The county has $800,000 available to put into the new school.'. Itbe lowest general contract bid was \j|863,200, submit ted by G. M. Tpompson, Raleigh. “I wish we "dpuld take that low bid. Not to be aple to do so means we’re losing mlneyX’ Mr. Joslyn remarked. I \ i The next hignest general con tract bid was about (114,000 over the low bid. “We won’t get that Charles Willis, right, chairman of the county board of elections, congratulates sheriff Robert (Bob by) Bell, whose re-election was announced Friday after completion of a recount. Morehead Board to Meet Again Soon to Confer About Hospital ---4 Th$ Sheriff Vote Precinct Atlantic Beaufort Bcttic Bogue Broad Creek Cedar Island Cedar Point Davis . Barkers Island Harlowe Marshallberg Merrimon Morehead No. 1 Morehead No. 2 Newport Otway ... Pelletier Portsmouth Salter Path Sea Level Smyrna Stacy . Stella .. Straits Wildwood Williston . Wire Grass . Sheriff Bell Willis 214 191 747 1071 47 46 67 63 81 95 . 70 31 52 91 78 173 196 260 . 57 138 73 209 . 29 56 809 255 903 552 366 418 84 127 29 11 4 112 28 108 84 .22 58 . 26 98 20 39 56 47 153 147 . 30 141 54 47 4487 4476 Totals Weather Turns Cool; 38 Recorded Thursday Night The weather took a turn for the cool side the early part of last week. The high temperature in the daytime was 54, the low 47 at night. Slightly warmer weather arrived after Wednesday, but a chilly 38 degrees was recorded Thursday night. Max. Min. Wind Monday 63 48 Variable Tuesday 54 47 NE Wednesday 42 54 N Thursday 56 38 W-SW Friday 63 54 W Saturday 65 58 W-SW Sunday 65 59 SW-N low bid if wo call for bids again,” Mr. Joslyn observed. Other general contract bidders and their bids: G. L. Wilson,' Statesville, $997,000; Eastern Con struction, Greenville, $962,160; King-Hunter, Greensboro, $982,197. C. P. Street Construction, Char lotte, $977,600; Hardy-Harvey, Kin ston, $1,031,900; Fred C. Gardner, Kinston, $1,039,745; T. A. Loving, Goldsboro, $1,014;375. Rogers Construction, Smithfield, $977,633; Crowder Construction, Charlotte, $1,025,746; Barger Con struction, Mooresville, $979,200, and Coastal Construction, Rose Hill, $978,000. The lowest bid received, which - Morehead City town comniis-" sioners decided Thursday night to |iave.a special, meeting to consider Morehead City hospital problems. The meeting will be called as soon as Ray Hall, town supervisor, gets information on grants available to hospitals and other facts deemed necessary to make a decision on where to move next on repair of the Morehead City hospital. The board has received copies of letters from the Medical Care com mission and the State Insurance department relative to the need for making extensive repairs to the hospital. A letter from A. B. Roberts, chairman of the board of hospital trustees, stated that eith er the hospital has to be repaired or closed.* The letter detailing the repairs necessary appears on page 2 sec tion 2 of today’s paper. The major problem is that neith er the hospital board nor the town of Morehead City has sufficient money to make the repairs, which are estimated to cost at least $40, 000. A further complication is the question as to whether the county is going to build a hospital. If the county does, the Medical Care commission, which supervises hospital operation in the slate, says that the Morehead City hospital will be required to close when the county hospital opens. Voters several years ago decided that a hospital should be built by (See BOARD Pg. 2) Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar IIIGII LOW Tuesday, Nov. 20 3:03 a.m. 9:27 a.m. 3:16 p.in. 9:54 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21 4:00 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 4:12 p.m. 10:40 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 22 4:52 a.m. 11:08 a.m. 5:04 p.m. 11:23 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23 5:38 a.m. 11:53 a.m. 5:52 p.m. ——— covers general contracting, plumb ing,' heating and electricity, was $1,196,970.17. Alternate bids were also asked. Eliminated in the al ternate were shop buildings. The low bid, without shop buildings, was slightly over $1 million. The architect was asked to draw plans that would build the first phase of a West Carteret high school for $800,000. “Maybe we asked for too much,” Mr. Joslyn observed. He expressed doubt about “scaling off” anything that they had hoped to include in the first building phase. To pat up a building for only $800,000 would mean we would have something there but it would be New Port Director Visits Here Today James W. Davis, newly-ap pointed director of North Car olina State ports will visit More head City port this morning. Ac cording to the State Ports Au thority, Mr. Davis is touring both ports, Morehead City and Wil mington. He will begin his duties as ports director Dec. 10. Since the death last spring of D. Leon Wil liams, the former ports director, E. N. Richards, a member of the SPA, has been serving as direc tor. Newport School Observes AEW Newport school observed Ameri can Education Week last week with special events at the school. Theme of the observance was the Chal lenge of Change in Education. Parents attending the chapel pro gram given by Mrs. Irma Quinn’s second grade received blue and white badges bearing the words, “I have visited my school.” Pupils in the elementary grades made badges which were worn by teachers and students throughout the week. Written on the badges were the words, American Educa tion Week. Winners of a poster contest were Anna Murdoch and Janet Mizclle, eighth graders; Susan Jones, ninth grade, won second place; Donald Long, eighth grade, third place; Mrs. Cardellc Redman’s sixth grade won fourth place, and Belin da White, eighth grade, placed fifth. Winners of an essay contest, Edu cation Makes a Better American, were Diane Garner and Anna Mur doch. nothing we could put children in, Mr. Joslyn said. He added, “If we were sure the county board would give us next year the same amount as this year $500,000 for school con struction and maintenance), we could go head with our plans.’’ He said there is doubt as to what the new county board of commis sioners will want to do—go for a bond issue and build two schools, East and West, or continue on a pay-as-you-go program. Mr. Joslyn says the board of ed ucation has 30 days in which to either accept or reject the bids. The board opened bids in the education office, courthouse annex, Beaufort. The petition drafted by C. R. Wheatly Jr., attorney for Repub lican sheriff candidate Elmer D. Willis, lists 15 reasons why the elections board should declare Mr. Willis winner of the election and not sheriff Robert Bell. The reasons: 1. By virtue of the vote Nov. 6 he is entitled to be sheriff. 2. Demand for a recount was made in an improper manner and the ballot box of Beaufort precinct was left in an office of the court house on the early morning of Nov. 7 for some hours and it was not known by the registrar who had a key to the office. 3. No evidence of allegations of foul play were presented by sher iff Bell’s counsel during last Tues day's hearing on whether there should be a recount. 4. Ballot box at Otway precinct was not under safekeeping of the registrar after the election. 5. Williston precinct box was left in a vacant store building where anyone could get to it. 8. Marshallberg box was left in the community building and not under safekeeping of the registrar. 7. Only four boxes were impound ed by the board of elections Nov. 7. 8. At the recount, the attorney for .sheriff Bell removed ballots from the box, then handed them to the registrar of that precinct “and in general, had general charge of the recount procedure.” 9. The Beaufort precinct box pro duced a change of 36 votes in fa vor of Democratic candidate Bell and ... is the result of an un guarded box in an office controll ed by workers and supporters for the Democratic candidate Bell. 10. Poll book shows 1,083 people voted in Morchead precinct No. yet 1,093 ballots were in the be* This “constitutes evidence of tam pering with the box and justifies a complete disqualification of the precinct vote.” 11. As the result of the recount in Beaufort precinct, Willis lost 24 votes, Bell gained 12, which indi cates a removal of at least 12 bal lots from the time the box was counted and closed until the re count took place. 12. Six absentee ballots were counted in Morchead No. 2 precinct 24 hours after the close of the polls and increased Bell’s vote by 5. 13. Ballot boxes are secured with lock that almost any key could open and slots were not sealed in a manner prescribed by law. 14. Ballot boxes collected in the eastern part of the county, for a recount, were not picked up by an elections board member who had been appointed to do the job. 15. The more accurate count of votes took place immediately upon the closing of the polls Nov. 6. The recount “fails to disclose the will of the people.” Chief Officer Named William H. Potter, Beaufort, has been elected to the office of presi dent and chairman of the board of Beaufort Fisheries, Inc., suc ceeding his father, the late W. V. B. Potter. Philippine Bishop Welcomed The Rt. Rev. Horatio Santa Maria, left, bishop of the Church of the Philippines, with the Rev. John Broome, rector of the St. Paul’s Episcopal church in Beaufort. The bishop was guest at the church over the weekend. Young Churchmen of the Dio cese of East Carolina met at St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Beau fort Saturday, with the Rt. Rev. Horatio Santa Maria, bishop of the Church of the Philippines, as honor guest. Milton Truckner Elected Again To Head Bureau # Farm Bureau Meets At Camp Glenn Friday • Convention Delegate, Officers Named Milton Truckner, Stella, was re elected president of the County Farm Bureau at the annual meet ing Thursday night at Camp Glenn school. Other officers elected were Ice land Morris, Stella, vice-president; Mrs. Kay Taylor, Beaufort' secre tary; James 11. Davis, Beaufort, treasurer; C. N. Stroud. Morehead City, membership committee chair man Y. Z. Simmons, Newport, membership committee vice-chair man. Directors elected were Y. Z. Sim mons, Newport; Kerney Merrill Jr., Beaufort; ,1. T. Oglesby, Crab Point; Omcr Potter, Newport; C. T. Garner, Newport; L. L. Hall, Newport; and John Felton, Beau fort. Chief door prize, a turkey, went to Mrs. Milton Truckncr. and sil ver dollars went to the holders of the other lucky tickets. Mrs. Kay Taylor was selected to be the county’s delegate to the Farm Bureau national .onvention in Atlanta, Ga., this December. Speaker for the evening was Paul Shackleford, district field represen tative of the Farm Bureau. Mr. Shackleford spoke on the Farm Bureau, saying that the bureau is tlie organized voice of American agriculture. It is,the strongest and 'argest farm group in the world, representing 1,600,000 farm fanii , lies. Over 75 per cent of farm group members belong to the Farm Bureart, Mr. Shackleford stated, making the bureau the most in fluential national group on farm legislation. The county Farm Bureau was commended for reaching and going over its membership quota of 200. Mr. Shackleford said that the coun ty was among the first in the dis trict to reach its goal. Fire Quenched Beaufort firemen went out on the Lennoxville road Sunday shortly be fore 1 p in. and extinguished a grass fire. Dr. John W. Morris Releases Letter Written to Elections Board Member Or. John W. Morris, Morchcad City, has made public the letter which he sent to Neal Cainpen, Democratic member of the county board of elections, prior to the hearing on whether to recount the sheriff’s vote. Dr. Morris said quotations in Fri day’s paper were not correct and people have been left with a false impression as to what the letter said. The Young Churchmen and their adult advisors met to or ganize plans for their annual summer convention and other events. Delegates to the meeting came from communities along the coast , Newport Hopes to Raise $40,000 by January Beginning tomorrow, N gear its campaign to collect center. To date, $2,Gf>0 has Mrs. Seymour Rubin, publici Thermometers will be pit them will be registered progi peeled to close in January. -1 Chairman of the fund-raising committee is J. Stancil Bell. Com mittee members are Nathan Gar ner and Capt. John Holcomb. Fund raising captains are Mrs. Lucille K. Garner, Allen Elliott, Wayne West, Clarence Millis, Mrs. Margaret H. Garner, Mrs. Vera Bailey. Mrs. Alice Garner, Mrs. Ailene Garner, Mrs. Lucy Roberts, Pres ton Mann, Carlton Taylor, Bonner Bell, Addison McCabe, Mrs. AI stine Skinner, Mrs. Dora Carter, Mrs. Cicero Taylor, Leon Weeks. Approximately 30 persons have agreed to act as co-captains, ac cording to Mrs. Rubin. Newport citizens decided to pro ceed with construction of a medi cal center and a search for a doc tor following a survey by the Sears Roebuck Foundation. Purpose of the survey was to evaluate the community and its trade area as to medical habits, economic potential and ability to support a doctor. The foundation states that in its work it has yet to overestimate the economic po tential of a community. The survey shows that almost 50 per cent of Newport’s population is under 21 years of age. about 25 per Cent are 21 to 39, slightly less lhan 25 per cent are 40 to 59 and slightly more than 6 per cent arc over 60. In a recent 12 months, 21.8 per cent of the people in Newport and vicinity were hospitalized. They went" to hospitals in Morehead City, Sea Level and New Bern. In the same 12 months, there was an estimated 10,325 separate ill nesses which necessitated 10,325 visi'1 'i a lactor. This amounted to an average of 34 patients a day visiting doctors in Beaufort, More head City, Newport, Sea Level and New Bern, the report says. To visit out-of-town doctors, New port patients travel a total of 245, 984 miles annually. The foundation estimates that over a 12-month period expenditures for inocula tions and office calls total $56,907; medical expenditures $27,675, ex penditures for gas and oil for driv ing to and from doctor offices, $4, 537, or a total of $69,119. When visiting doctors in those (Sec CENTER Pg. 2) | The letter, which was delivered to Mr. Campen in the courthouse immediately prior to the Tuesday hearing, follows: November 11, 1962 Mr. Neal Campen, Member Carteret County Board of Elections Beaufort, North Carolina Dear Neal: There has been a great deal, of talk for the past couple of days in Morehcad regarding the recount on from Elizabeth City to Wilming ton. They comprised officers of the organization and the group’s planning body. Clergymen from each of the three districts-in the diocese accompanied the dele gates. ewport is putting into high $40,000 to build a medical been pledged, according to ty chairman. iced throughout Newport. On ess of the drive, which is ex Federal Crop Insurance Now Available Here By R. M. WILLIAMS Agricultural Agent Actual work and other legal re quirements are just about complete for you to begin to make applica tions for your federal crop insur ance for 1963. County growers are now being contacted. Tobacco producers in this county will be served from the first floor of the postoffice building in New Bern. Reid Smith is the supervisor. R. L. Pipkin will also assist with the work here in this county. It is suggested that tobacco grow ers not wait to be contacted about the tobacco insurance program, but that you go to the New Bern Of fice and make application. Mrs. Ce lia Holton holds office hours from 8:30-12 Noon and from 1-4:30 p.m. The insurance protection was greatly increased in the eastern area of the state last year. After spending long hard hours of labor to produce a crop of tobacco, it can be lost by excessive rains in a short period of time. Already tobacco producers are seeking an assignment of their all risk plan for credit that they are obtaining from banks, production credit associations, Fanners Home administration -and other lending agencies. All policies essentially cover the investment in the crop, including the farmer’s labor and hired labor necessary for the production of a crop. This type of federal crop insur ance also covers cotton and pea nuts and there has been some talk of including vegetable growers. This is the first year that federal crop insurance is being offered to our tobacco growers. Growers re quested this type of crop insurance following the extensive damage to their tobacco after excessive rains last June. the sheriff’s race. In order to clear any doubt in the minds of both the members of the Democratic and Republican parties it is my feel ing that there certainly should be a recount of the four precincts where the votes were impounded, namely Morehead No. 1 and No. 2, Newport and Beaufort. A close vote such as occurred in this race always leaves doubts which spawn rumors and for the sake of all concerned it would ap pear that the people in charge of the precincts would have no ob jections whatsoever to having the votes recounted. In all probability it will still come out practically the same, but. because of the large number of tickets which were split, because of the large number of candidates, and because of the ref erendums which were being voted on at the same time, it certainly appears that some errors could have occurred even without any intent. Speaking as a member of the Democratic Party and one who is concerned solely with good govern ment in our County, I urge you to please vote with Charles Willis to have a recount in the four precincts mentioned above. Your coopera tion will be greatly appreciated by every fair-minded citizen in the County. Sincerely yours, John W. Morris, M.D. Dr. Morris, in a statement to THE NEWS-TIMES Sunday, said he couldn’t sec why there was ob jection to a recount, but after the results of the recount were an nounced, he could understand why there had been objection. Letters to the editor pertaining to recent developments in the coun ty were received by THE NEWS TIMES over the weekend. Because today’s editorial page went to press Friday, the letters will appear in this coming Friday’s paper. The paper will go to press Wednesday night, doe to the Thanksgiving holi day.

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