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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES «v
Three Section. — Twenty-Two Page. MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C. Friday, December 21, 1962_Published Tue»day» and Friday.
This House is Ready for Santa
Santa, candy cancs, and the traditional wreath and Christmas tree highlight Christmas
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Earl Lewis, Mitchell Village.
decorations
Longshoremen Strike Will Hit Port
Defendant Gets
Year on Roads
In County Court
A large number of defendants
were tried Tuesday in the county
recorder’s court. A number were
given road terms by judge Lam
bert Morris.
Thad Golden, charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon, was
given one year on the roads. Gold
en appealed the sentence. He al
legedly stabbed Wade Golden in
the back on Dec. 8.
According to testimony, the two
Golden brothers were at their
home in Betlie. Wade was lying in
bed. Thad said he went in the
room and a tussle ensued. In the
course, they rolled on the floor
and Thad allegedly stuck a Bar
low pocket knife in Wade’s back
twice, below the kidneys.
A neighbor took Wade to More
head City hospital, where he was
discharged Tuesday, Dec. 11.
A trio of young men charged with
breaking into a boat, the Echo III,
owned by Sam Smith, were tried
and two received sentences, to run
concurrently with previous senten
ces for probation violation and
a suspended sentence.
James Calvin Jones was given
six months on the roads for lar
ceny, to run concurrently with a
suspended 60-day road term order
ed into effect by the court. Ches
ter Locklear was given 18 months
on the roads for larceny and for
cible trespass, to run concurrently
with an 18-month term for proba
tion violation.
The third member of the trio,
Richard Hunt Jr., was given a six
months’ suspended road term for
breaking and entering and larceny,
and placed on probation for three
years.
(See COURT Pg. 2)
Businesses, Offices List
Different Closing Days
Mayor Hears
Three Cases
Three cases were heard Tuesday
night in Atlantic Beach mayor’s
court.
Richard E. Connelly, Cherry
Point, was told by mayor Alfred
B. Cooper to have a driver’s li
cense within 30 days or face prose
cution for no driver’s license.
Harry R. Odell, from the Coast
Guard cutter. Chilula, was found
not guilty of public drunkenness
and resisting arrest. Larry R.
Medlin, Fort Macon Coast Guard
station, paid the costs for two stop
sign violations.
An additional charge of no driv
er’s license was not prosecuted
alter Medlin produced a valid li
cense.
Because of the holidays, no may
or’s court is scheduled for the
coming two Tuesday nights.
Office to Close
The office of driver license ex
aminer David Morris will be closed
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week, announces Mr. Mor
ris. The office will also be closed
Tuesday, Jan. L
h Morehead City port, with other"
Atlantic and Gulf state ports, is
prepared to go into “deep freeze"
this weekend when longshoremen
walk out.
Sunday ends the 80-day cooling
off period invoked in October when
longshoremen and shippers
couldn’t get together on a labor
contract.
Walter Friederichs, port opera
tions manager, says the last ship
scheduled to make port here before
the strike is the Hasselburg, due
today. She will take on tobacco and
sail for northern Europe Saturday.
All ports have been rushed dur
ing the past several weeks, trying
to get cargoes out. Mr. Frederichs
said Morehead City was offered
cargoes that the ships couldn’t take
because of lack of space.
“Our transit sheds are complete
ly empty,” he reports. Some in
bound eargo is expected in Jan
uary. Otherwise, the port faces “no
business” in coming weeks, unless
the strike is settled.
The walkout affects only dry car
go ships, not tankers whose cargo
is loaded or unloaded by pipeline.
Longshoremen are the dock work
ers who put cargoes aboard ship
and unload them.
Employers have offered a wage
increase but have asked in return
that the size of the gangs gradual
ly be reduced, a point bitterly op
posed by the dockers.
“The industry is properly con
cerned about how to permit the
employers to introduce improved
cargo handling methods and
equipment and to improve effici
ency through better utilization of
manpower,” says W. W. Wirtz, US
secretary of labor.
“The union is properly concern
ed about how to protect job oppor
tunities and individual security for
longshoremen, increase their earn
ing capacity, and insure their par
ticipation in the benefits of any
improved operation.”
He said these problems have de
veloped over many years and
“they are not susceptible to short
answers.”
► There’s no consistency about
Christmas holiday closing—it’s as
crazy as a patchwork quilt.
The only ones who can get to
gether are the banks. They will be
closed Christmas Day and the day
after.
The Beaufort town hall will be
closed Monday arid Tuesday. The
Morehead City town will close at
noon tomorrow and remain closed
until Thursday morning.
The courthouse, Beaufort, will
close at 4:30 p.m. today and re
open at 9 a.m. Thursday.
The Morehead City postoffice
will be closed Christmas day, an
nounces Harold Webb, postmaster.
The Beaufort postoffice will be
closed Christmas day only, but will
deliver special delivery packages
and perishables on that day.
The farm agent and home agent’s
offices will be closed Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Most stores will be closed Christ
mas Day only, although some bu
siness places may remain closed
the day after.
THE NEWS-TIMES will be pub
lished as usual Tuesday, Christ
mas Day. The newspaper office
will close, however, at noon Mon
day and will reopen at 8 a.m. Wed
nesday, the day after Christmas.
Public schools will close this
afternoon and reopen Wednesday
; morning, Jan. 2.
Uncle Rescues 3-Year-Old
Boy from Well at Harlowe
Evacuation Drill
At NHS Termed
Successful
Joe Minatel, Newport civil de
fense director, reports that the re
cent evacuation drill at Newport
school was a success.
In accordance with tfivil 'defense
recommendations—to get all child
ren to they1 homes as soon as pos
sible in case of nuclear attack—
Newport school ran a-lest drill
Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 12.
It took eight minutes to get the
children out of their classrooms.
In four minutes all the children
who rode buses were in the busps.
Because the buses make two trips,
the children who are on the sec
ond relay were stationed in the
basement of the school until the
buses returned.
In 30 minutes they were on the
buses and on the way home.
Assisting Mr. Minatel was John
Thrower III, a student, who is in
charge of civil defense activities
at the school. Mr. Minatel express
ed thanks to him and other boys
who served as monitors on buses
and traffic directors.
E. B. Comer, principal, thanked
the fire and police departments,
the faculty, children and civil de
fense personnel wno made the
practice evacuation a success.
Civil defense officials state that
it is better for the school to get
the children to the parents rather
than have parents converge on the
school in a case of emergency and
create a panic.
Harry Williams, county civil de
fense director, observed the eva
cuation drill and expressed satis
fication with it. It is proposed that
such a drill be held by each in
dividual school. A countywide si
multaneous drill is anticipated
early in 1963.
Beach Civil Defense
Police Meet Tuesday
The Atlantic Beach civil defense
auxiliary police held a brief busi
ness meeting Tuesday night, fol
lowed by a holiday supper of sea
food.
Present at the meeting were At
lantic- Beach police chief William
Moore, officer William Earl Wil
son, David Bryan, Eugene McNa
mara, Tom Sloan and Shirley Over
man.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Dec. 21
.10:33 a.m.
10:45 p.m.
4:03 a.m.
4:15 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 22
4:56 a.m.
5:10 p.m.
11:20 a.m.
11:27 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 23
5:42 a.m.
6:01 p.m.
12:06 a m.
Monday, Dec. 24
6:24 a.m.
6:44 p.m.
12:09 a.m.
12:52 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 25
7:02 a.m.
?*BS p.m.
12:52 a.m.
1:35 p.m.
Hospital License to Expire, But
Doors Are Expected to Stay Open
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GOP Decides on Armistice
In Fight on Sheriff Vote
Elmer I>. Willis, Williston, who
lost the sheriff’s race in a recount,
announced this week that he and
the Republican party would not
carry further their charges contest
ing the outcome of the recount.
Mr. Willis, a Republican, who
was defeated by 11 votes by Dem
ocrat Robert (Bobby) Bell, said,
“There's no hope of any change
being brought about. The people
would finance the ease and to ask
them to finance it would mean
that we had hope that there would
be a change.
“To say that there is hope is
deceitful and I’ll have no part of
a deceitful program.”
He said that he has conferred
with attorneys and the most he
and the Republicans could get,
f A tragedy was averted late Mon <
day afternoon when a little Negro
boy, 3-ycar-old Gary Nolen, Har
lowe, was rescued from a well at
his home. The child was pulled
from the water by his uncle,
James Nolen.
Mrs. Laura Nolen, mother of the
child, said Gary was playing in
the back yard with Mrs. Nolen’s
8-ycar-old brother, Donald Nolen.
About 4 p.m. Donald came run
ning into the house and told her
that Gary had fallen into the well.
The well is located behind Mrs.
Nolen’s wash house, out of sight
of the house. She said it is several
feet wide and is “pretty deep.”
There is no fence or bench around
the well; it's just an “open hole”
from which she draws wash water.
The mother said she rushed to
the well but could not sec Gary.
He was under water At that mo
ment another brother of Mrs. No
len, James, happened to drive up
in his car. He jumped into the well
fully clothed and brought Gary
to the surface.
They took the child, who was un
conscious,'into the house. They re
moved his wet clothing, rolled him
over and pulled his arms up and
down in an attempt to revive him.
Realizing that their efforts were
getting them nowhere, they got in
to James’s car and drove to More
head City hospital.
Mrs. Nolen said her son roused
and began making some noise
en route to the hospital. He was
given oxygen in the emergency
room, which brought him to full
consciousness.
The child was admitted to the
hospital and was expected to be
discharged yesterday.
Mrs. Nolen said she had never
had any trouble with Gary going
near the well before.
R. S. Grady
Heads Council
R. S. Grady, Newport, was elect
ed president of the County Agricul
tural Workers council at its recent
meeting in the postoffice building.
Mr. Grady is vocational agricul
ture teacher at Newport school and
succeeds Mrs. Harry Mizelle.
Other officers are R. M. Wil
liams, vice-president; and Miss
Evelyn Henderson, secretary.
Mr. Williams, county agricultu
ral-agent, explained the program
that aims for $1.6 billion goal in
agricultural income by 1966.
A progress report of the agricul
tural committee, Neu6c Area De
velopment association, and a tour
of Duplin county to observe and
hear reports on two community
clubs were given by the agricul
tural and home economics agents,
Mr. Williams and Mrs. Floy Gar
ner.
Evaluation of las,t year’s pro
gram was made. It was felt that
each council member should pro
mote better public relations in
their daily activities.
Council members present were
B. J. May, I. M. Robbins, Glenn
Taylor, Miss Henderson, Mrs. Nan
cy Dunn, Maynard Owens, Mrs.
David Beveridge, Mrs. Garner,
Mrs. Mizelle, and Mr. Williams.
Morehead City town commission
ers met last night.
were the battle taken to court,
would be an “opinion.”
“And we’ve already got that!"
the dynamic Mr. Willis declared.
Mr. Willis won the sheriffs race
by 44 votes, according to the count
of ballots right after the election
Nov. 6. The defeated candidate,
sheriff Bell, requested a recount of
Beaufort precinct.
Mr. Willis's attorney, C. It.
Wheally, at a hearing held by the
elections board to determine
whether there would be a recount,
then requested that sheriff ballots
in all precincts be counted.
The recount took two days and
returned sheriff Bell to office,
The Republicans appealed to the
state board of elections, but the
state board upheld the county
board of elections.
Judge Orders
Bonds Called
In City Court
Three bonds were ordered for
feited by judge Herbert O. Phil
lips III in Morehead City record
er’s court Monday.
The three defendants failed to
appear, and the bonding company
was ordered to pay the bonds. The
missing defendants, their charges
and their bonds were Ray Lee Hill,
Stella, affray, $35; William Earl
Hamm, Morehead City, affray, $35;
»nd Joseph Thomas Martin, More
head City, no driver’s license, no
liability insurance and expired li
cense plates, $100.
Harold Marbley, Morehead City,
was given six months on the roads
for allegedly assaulting John Par
ker Bryant in the face with a
knife. lie appealed the case to su
perior court. Bond was set for
Marbley at $500, and the defendant
placed in jail until the bond could
be posted.
Bryant, who swore out a warrant
for Marbley (known as June Pea),
said that he told Marbley to leave
the Bryant house. Marbley did so,
then returned and the cutting oc
curred. Capt. Joe Smith, Morehead
City police force, said Marbley
used a pocket knife.
Paying the costs of court were
Simon Dobins, Lottsburg, Va., pub
lic drunkenness and disturbing the
peace; and Thelma Mintz Branch,
Morehead City, speeding.
Victor Eugene Mannino, New
port, paid one half of the costs for
not having an operating brake
light on a truck.
Two cases were not prosecuted,
those of Mayo Gooding, New Bern,
worthless check, and Ronald Wal
ton, Morehead City, larceny.
County Officials Confer Yesterday
With Medical Care Secretary
John Jones Jr.
Named Clerk
In Beaufort
John Jones Jr., town commis
sioner, was named town clerk by j
the Beaufort board of commission
ers Monday night at the town hall.
He succeeds Ronald Earl Mason,
who resigned to accept the ap
pointment as county auditor.
Osborne Davis was named to the
board, succeeding Mr. Jones. The
board also selected a new patrol
. . . leaves board
■ m for the police force, John
Chaplain III. A vacancy occurred
when Carlton Garner, assistant
police chief, resigned Monday.
Members of the force are Guy
Springle, chief; Mr. Chaplain, Otis
Willis and Howard Hill.
The board met in special session
to make the appointments. Mayor
VV. H. Potter presided. Commis
sioners present were Holden Bal
lou, Dr. David Farrior, Glenn Wil
lis, Earl Madcs and Mr. Jones.
Photos to Run
In SBI Bulletin
Pictures of the two missing Beau
fort girls, Tanya Eubanks, 13, and
.Shelba Jean Hardison, 22, will ap
pear in a bulletin to be distributed
throughout the southeast bv the
State Bureau of Investigation.
The search for the two girls,
missing from Beaufort since Dec.
S. is being carried on by the SBI,
in cooperation with the county
sheriff's department.
Jennie Eubanks, 11, who disap
peared with the older girls Dec.
8, is now back with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Eubanks,
highway 101, Beaufort. She was
located in Charleston, S. C., Dec
11.
She said the other two girls had
put her on a bus bound for Char
leston, at Savannah, Ga. They said
they were going to Memphis, Tenn.
Notices sent to police departments
to be on the lookout for the two
girls had brought no results by
yesterday morning, according to
sheriff Robert Bell.
► The temporary conditional 1M
cense under which the Morehead
City hospital operates expires a
week from this Monday, on Dec.
31.
Blit David Willis, hospital admin
istrator, says he has received no
notice from the Medical Care com
mission that the hospital will be
closed. Operation of hospitals is
supervised by the commission.
Mr. Willis said yesterday that
the hospital board of trustees has
requested Archie Royal Davis, ar
chitect, to draw plans for repair
ing the hospital. Repairs, estima
ted to cost at least $40.(MM), are
needed to take the hospital off the
"conditional" list.
The repairs have been recom
mended by the state department
of insurance and were forwarded
to the hospital trustees by the Me
dical Care commission ill Novem
ber.
Mr. Willis said that he does not
know whether the architect has
provided the trustees with any
plans.
lie added, however, that the hos
pital has supplies on hand to keep
operating. No measures have been
taken to dose down Dec. 31.
A. It. (Jack) Roberts, chairman
of the. hospital board, conferred
last week with William Roy Ham
ilton. chairman of the county
board of commissioners, relative
to the county's plans for building
I .. i_: t ■
a hospital.
Mr. Roberts reported after the
conference that Mr. Hamilton said
a special meeting of the board
would probably be called to con
sider the matter. Mr. Hamilton
said Wednesday that he doubted
that any such meeting would be
held before Christmas.
The next regular meeting of the
county board is Monday, Jan. 7.
Voters authorized the county in
a I960 bond referendum to con
struct a hospital, but proposals for
construction have been delayed by
legal action.
C'ouuty officials went to Raleigh
yesterday to confer with William
F. Henderson, executive secretary
of the Medical Care commission,
relative to the county hospital pro
gram.
Making the trip were county
commissioners C. Z. Chappell, Ru
dolph Mason; Ronald E. Mason,
county auditor; Wdey Taylor, coun
ty attorney, and Charles Harris,
member of the county hospital
board of trustees.
After the conference, Mr. Hen
derson was asked by a NEWS
TIMES reporter whether he told
county officials that the Morehead
City hospital would be closed Dec.
31 and that therefore county hos
pital construction was necessary.
(Sec HOSPITAL Pg. 2)
Father, Sons Owned
Stock in Drug Firm
The disposition of the property
of the late W. C. Matthews, as set
forth in his will, gave his stock
in Morehead City Drug Co., Inc., to
his two sons W. C. Jr. and William
A. (Bobby) Matthews.
A newsstory on the will appear
ed in Tuesday’s paper. Although
the will reads that “all taxes and
insurance” should be “paid out of
and from operation of Morehead
City Drug Co.,” the heirs point out
that the firm is a corporation.
The drug company corporation
stock was jointly owned in equal
proportions by the late Mr. Mat
thews and his sons.
Church Depicts Birth of Christ
One of the many nativity scenes on display is this one at St. Janies Methodist church, Newport,
erected in observance of Christmas.
Governor Will
Hear About
Banks Erosion
• Meeting Set Jan. 2
At 10 in Raleigh
• Legislature to Be
Presented Program
In response lo pleas for quick
action on saving the outer banks,
a coin mi (tee from the Outer Banks
Seashore Park commission will
meet with Gov. Terry Sanford at
10 a.m. Tuesday. Jan. 2, at Ra
leigh. (An editorial on the serious
ness of the problem appeared in
TI1K NEWS TIMES Dec. 14.)
Coastal residents and others in
terested in the outer hanks erosion
problem will be welcome.
Frederic L. Cox, Grifton, is
chairman of the committee on pro
tecting what remains of the banks.
Mr. Cox said that as a conse
quence of the serious erosion to
the coastline during the sustained
November storm, his committee
would be asked to develop a pro
gram for consideration by the 1963
general assembly. The program
will be comprehensive, embracing
all sections of ,the coast, he said.
It will be based on studies made
by his committee on recommenda
tions by the Army Engineers, coas
tal residents and the State Board
of Water Resources.
Mr. Cox said his committee prob
ably will reach some tentative con
clusions Jan. 2, after its meeting
witti (he governor, and then will
fix a time and place for a public
hearing later in January.
Members of Mr. Cox's committee
are Alden Baker, Elizabeth City;
P. M. Camak, Wilmington; Mon
roe Gaskill, Cedar Island; Gen.
Edward F. Griffin, Raleigh, Tho
mas B. Hold Jr., Lawndale, Har
vey Smith, Beaufort and Gen. J.
R. Townsend. Durham.
General Griffin is state civil de
fense director and General Town
send is chairman of the State
Board of Water Resources.
Also attending the meeting will
be officers of the Outer Banks
Seashore Park commission: Wood
row Price, Raleigh, chairman;
Earl N. Phillips, High Point, vice
chairman; and Roy Wilder, Ra
leigh, secretary.
After conferring with the gov
ernor, the committee will meet in
the board room of the state depart
ment of agriculture.
Board Gets
Finance Report
Taxes on the current levy, col
lected by the town of Beaufort in
November, amounted to $4,575.78,
according to the financial report
given town commissioners at their
December meeting. Collected on
prior levies was $91.88.
The town’s share of beer and
wine tax, paid by the state in Nov
ember, was $3,437.22. Income from
the ABC store was $478.10 and mis
cellaneous income amounted to
$1,811.47.
Expenses of the various depart
ments (administrative, general, po
lice, fire, street and trade) amount
ed to $8,721.02 in November. Town
expenses to Nov. 30 (since July 1)
amount to $46,538.22.
Twelve thousand dollars of a
budgeted $45,000 for paying off
the bonded debt has been deposit
ed, leaving $33,000 yet to be de
posited. All bills had been paid by
the end of November and the bal
ance in the bank account was $13,
749.23.
The town's income from July 1
to 'Nov. 30 was $77,865.58, leaving
$74,234.74 of the anticipated in
come for 1962-63 yet to be realized.
There was no parking meter in
come in November because new
meters were in the process of be
ing installed
Christmas Program
Presented at Newport
The Newport Choral club sang
Christmas carols, and piano solos
were presented by Mrs. Debra
Kirk at the Newport PTA meeting
Tuesday night.
Bob Montague was program
chairman. Refreshments were
served at the close of the program,
which also included group singing.