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52nd Year — No. 2
MOREHEAD CITY
BEAUFORT, N. C.
Friday, January 4, 1963
Two Sections — Fourteen Pages
Pabliikd Tamdfafcy* ww Friday
Danforth Hill Family Distributes
Clothing from Beaufort in Korea
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this is a portion of the refugee camp, occupied by North Koreans who received clothing sent by
the First Baptist church, Beaufort.
By LOUISE SPIVEY
1 believe there is only one force
great enough to; save our world
from a third World War. That
great force is love for our fellow
man. We must love and care about
th|e safety of the children of Rus
sia, Cuba, Red China and Africa,
if we hope to keep peace. These
nations are not going to care about
protecting our children, when we
ignore their most urgent needs.
In America-we have just celebra
ted Christmas Vnd probably reach
ed an all-time high for spending.
Most of our children were shower
ed with more .gifts than they even
care about.^Yet, in Africa, Asia,
the Eagt loqfes and Latin America
the illtlerMef .3/5 of the human
race are slaves, penniless, hun
gry, sick and driven to grinding
toil from daylight to darkness.
In ourehaecn (the ‘First Baptist
CfturcMw'Setiufort), as in all other
Baptist ehurches, the Lottie Moon
Christmas offering has increased
each year. Our government gives
more and more to foreign aid.
Something is wrong . . . some
where.
What a wonderful opportunity for
our service men and their families,
stationed in these far away places,
to see and know first-hand, the
existing conditions of today.
Last August . . . Capt. Danforth
Hill (son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Hill) and his family left Beaufort
to be stationed in Korea.
Immediately upon arrival they
saw the desperate needs of the
people there. In their first letter
home they requested that the Wom
an's Missionary Society of their
church be given the opportunity to
help these needy people.
The call was put out through the
different circles of the society and
seven large boxes of clothes and
(See REFUGEES Pg. 2)
Firemen Ask
For Cooperation
The Morehead City Fire depart
ment wishes to remind folks that
business or personal calls to both
fire stations should be made only
on business telephones.
Firemen in the past have had
business calls tying up the emer
gency telephone, which should be
used for fire calls exclusively.
The fire number for both station--*
is 6-4141, and should be used only
in reporting fires.
Business numbers are 6-5060 for
the “headquarters station,” down
town, and 6-3001 for the West End
station. A,
Use of the fife emergency tele
phone for other than fire calls may
result in valuable time being lost
in arriving at a fire, firemen point
out.
Port Tries to Keep Warehouse Crew
Busy Despite Dock Workers' Strike
Although some warehouse work
ers at the state port, Morehead
City, had been laid off due to the
longshoremen’s strike, all of the
crew was back at work Wednes
day. ..
The men were preparing ship
ments for export against the day
when the strike may be settled and
cargo.moved again.
Hope was expressed yesterday
that shippers and longshoremen
were closer to an agreement in the
Charles McNeill, assistant port
operations manager, said that ef
forts was being made to keep all
the men on. In addition to work
End of Old Year, Start
Of New Arrives with Boys,
Four Accidents
Usher New Year
In for Carteret
• 1962 Death Toll
Stands at. 11
• Trooper H-. H. Brown
Returns to County
Carteret started the New Year
with three accidents in less than
an hour, preceded by one accident
New Year’s Eve.
George B. Maddox Jr., Swans
boro, was injured at 5:45 p.m. Mon
day when his 1961 Ford Falcon col
lided with a 1961 Chevrolet Corvair
driven by James A. Guthrie,
Swansboro
State trooper J. W. Sykes said
that Maddox was pulling out of a
drive-in on the south side of high
way 24 and met Guthrie, who was
on the highway, coming off the
Swansboro bridge, headed toward
Morehead City.
Damage to the Corvair was esti
mated at $300 and to the Falcon
approximately $Y00. Maddox was
taken to Onslow hospital by the
Swansboro Rescue squad. Charges
are pending.
At 2:20 a.m. Tuesday Thomas H.
Hester Jr., Morehead City, station
ed with the Army in Alabama, was
involved in an auto accident on the
Beaufort-Morehead causeway. Hes
ter was charged with reckless driv
ing and hit and run, according to
the investigating officer, trooper
Sykes.
The officer said that Albert D.
Phillips, Beaufort, was headed west
in a 1959 Ford, when Hester in a
1959 Ford passed him, sideswiped
Phillips and kept going. Phillips
followed the car to the port termi
nal where the car had to stop be
cause all the water had run out
of its damaged radiator. Phillips
summoned port police who notified
the highway patrol.
Damage to the cars was estimat
ed at $250 each. Hester is docketed
for hearing in Morehead City re
corder’s court Monday, Jan.. 14.
Thomas Henry Campbell, Cherry
Point, suffered cuts about the face
in an accident at 2:45 a.m. Tues
day seven miles west of Morehead
(See ACCIDENTS Pg. 2)
in the warehouses in connection
with shipments, maintenance work
was also being done.
3. W. Davis, state ports director,
reported earlier this week that 20
men had been laid off at both More
head City and Wilmington. Of that
number, approximately six were
employed at Morehead City.
Shoold the strike continue much
longer, Mr. Davis predicted that
more port workers would be idled.
He estimates a minimum of
$12,000 a day is being lost in wages,
fees and generated business as a
result of the strike. The estimate
is based on an accepted formula
of $12 income created by every ton
► It will be boys all the way for
1963, if the start of the New Year
is any indication of things to come.
Carteret welcomed two babies Jan.
1, both boys, and both were born
to families named Guthrie. Two
babies were born on Dec. 25, Christ
mas Day, and both of these were
also boys!
The county’s ‘first baby for 1963
arrived at 1:37 a m. at Morehead
City hospital, lie is Myran Wayne
Guthrie, 7 pound 1 ounce son of
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Guthrie, Salter
Path.
The baby’s 20-ycar-old mother is
the former Portia Hunter of Broad
Creek., My, and Hrs Guttyie -have
a daugfrtw; ‘Penny Dean, who is
2Vz years old.
At 7:35 p.m. the second baby of
1963 arrived at Sea Level hospital.
He is Dean Carlos Guthrie, 8 pound
V> ounce son of Mr. and Mrs. Doug
las L. Guthrie, Barkers Island.
Dean Carols is the first child of
Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie. His mother,
the former Leota Bell Salter, is 17.
The Christmas babies were Rich
ard Christopher Mathis,, born at
Morehead City hospital to Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Mathis of Salter Path,
and Edward Carl Pcsta, born at
Sea Level hospital to Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Pesta of Newport.
Hospital Waits
For Architect
No work will be done on repair
ing the emergency room ceiling at
the Morehead City hospital until
after the architect, Archie R. Da
vis, surveys the situation, accord
ing to A. B. (Jack) Roberts, chair
man of the Morehead City hospital
board of trustees.
The ceiling began to sag above
the emergency room Friday. All of
fice equipment on the floor above
was moved out and the emergency
room relocated.
Mr. Roberts said that Mr. Davis
was supposed to be in Morehead
City Wednesday but didn’t show
up. The board hopes that he can
state the minimum requirements
for putting the hospital into ac
ceptable shape. The main problem
is the old, or west, wing.
“We’re also waiting for the coun
ty to decide on what it’s going to
do about a hospital,’’ Mr. Roberts
said. Morehead City is reluctant to
invest a large amount of motley
in its building if it is- going to have
to close when a county hospital
opens.
of cargo handled.
Two ships were lying in Wil
mington harbor, waiting to tie tip
at state docks, early this week. No
ships are stalled at Morehead1
City, nor are there longshoremen
picket lines at either port.
A lot of money could be going
into the pockets of people at More
head City and Wilmington if there
were no strike, Mr. Davis said.
The Wilmington docks handle an
average of 9,500 tons a day, Mr.
Davis says. The Morehead City
terminal handles around 14,000
tons a day. The SPA receives 40
cents a ton for cargo moving over
its docks, plus storage fees.
Mayor to Confer
With Highway
Agency Soon
• Newport Officials
Meet Tuesday Night
t Board Thinks By-Pass
Route Okay
Mayor Leon Mann, Newport, told
town commissioners Tuesday night
that he plans to go to Raleigh prior
to the 15th of this month to confer
with personnel in the advance plan
ning division of the highway de
partment relative to the proposed
by-pass around Newport.
The four lane by-pass, which as
been talked of by the highway de
partment ever since 1953, would
cost $2,900,000, according to a re
cent announcement. Construction is
to start “in the next several
months.”
Mayor Mann asked commission
ers to express their opinions as to
the proposed by pass route. As
planned it would skirt the town on
the north and west.
Commissioners John Thrower.
Dick Lockey, John B. Kelly and
Torn Temple said they had no
major objections. Commissioner
Raymond Edwards was not there.
commissioner LocKey suggested,
however, that he thought the route
could eliminate some of the dan*
gerous curves on highway 70 near
the Craven county line.
Commissioner Kelly said he
thought the route—as the commis
sioners now understand it—would
be all right. Commissioner Throw
er inferred that he liked the pro
posed route and Mr. Temple said
he really hadn’t thought much
about it.
Mayor Mann said that the high
way commission may hold a public
hearing on it, but he had been in
formed that holding a hearing
would be merely going through the
motions, that the highway depart
ment had decided where they were
going to put the by-pass and that’s
where it was going to go.
Mr. Kelly said that he felt the
by-pass out of town would.leave
the town with a lot more property
for development The by-pass re
tjfttfes a 280-fdot right-of-way. That,
Ire said, Is enough for a street and
nouses on either side.
The mayor also remarked that
with the by-pass out of town, the
town doesn’t have to help pay for
the right of way.
Mr. Lockey said he would like
to see an overpass over the Nine-1
Foot road. The mayor felt that
would go into a project that would
cost more than the state intends
to invest.
The opinion was expressed that
the by-pass may open up a lot of
new land around Newport. Some
of the area through which it will
pass is national forest, however,
and is under control of the federal
government.
The mayor expressed disgust
that the auditor is still delaying
the town in filing its application
for federal funds for a sewage dis
posal system. He said that he
would like some of the commis
sioners to go with him to Raleigh
to meet with W. E. Easterling of
the Local Government commission
and C. C. Tilley, of the engineer
ing firm at High Point, when the
application is to be filed.
Commissioner Lockey reported
that he contacted Lonnie Howard,
contractor, relative to ditching
around the Kincaid property. How
ard Garner, the commissioner
said, is to get elevations and it is
hoped that the actual work will
get under way as soon as weath
er permits.
Commissioner Kelly presented
the report on the water department
prepared by Mrs. Dan Bell, water
clerk. Two hundred sixty-nine per
sons are using town water. The
average bill in December was $3.55
and cash on hand -Jan. 1 was
$730.51.
Commissioner Thrower said a
little bit of drainage work is need
ed and he would look after it.
December bills were ordered
paid. Town attorney George Ball
acted as clerk in the absence of
Miss Edith Lockey, who is recover
ing from a broken hip.
Morehead Firemen
Answer Monday Calls
Morebead City firemen answer
ed two calls Monday. The first
was at 2:45 p.m., to a woods fire
on the Country Club road.
Firemen say a trash fire got out
of hand.
The second fire was at the Ro
ger Manning home, 807 St., where
faulty wiring had caused a fire
within a wall. Damage was esti
mated at $100. The call was made
at about 5 p.m.
Goes wife CifD
Ted Davis, former Morebead City
chamber of commerce manager,
has accepted a job with the State
Department of Conservation and
Development. He will handle con
ferences and special events in the
division of community and indus
try, Tom Broughton, supervisor.
Three Charged with Theft
At Loverdee Inn at Bogue
Do You Own a Refrigerator?
Walter Goodwin, Beaufort, lists his property for taxes with Mrs. Eva Johnson at the courthouse,
Beaufort, on the first day of tax listing, Wednesday. Tax listing books will close at the end of Jan
uary.
Views on Outer Banks Will
Be Aired at Hearing Jan. 19
Cash in Beaufort
Thieves busily began the new
year in Beaufort. The Beaufort
police department yesterday re
ported three break-ins and pne at
tempted break-in.
On Tuesday, Jan. 1, the Chicken
Shack on Queen street was enter
ed by breaking in the front door.
An estimated $35 in dimes and
quarters was taken from the juke
box.
Another juke box at the Pollock
Street Bar was also robbed the
same night. An estimated $75 in
ilimes and quarters was taken. En
try was made by breaking off a
padlock on the front door.
The Beaufort and Morehcad Rail
road freight station was the scene
of an attempt to pry open a door
the same night. The thief or thieves
failed to get the door open.
On Wednesday, the K. W. Wright
Texaco station was entered by
breaking out a window. About $5
in pennies was taken.
All of the break-ins are under
investigation by officers of the
Beaufort police department.
Weather Takes
Toll of Fishing
C. G. Holland, commercial fish
eries commissioner, echoed this
week the complaint of fishermen.
“If we’d get some decent weather,
things would be a lot better,’’ the
commissioner said.
The only thing that saved a lot
of fishermen were a few catches
of oysters before Christmas, Mr.
Holland reported. Everything was
frozen over most of this week as
temperatures at night went below
freezing.
Dredging for scallops is still per
mitted on Mondays and Wednes
days. A few scallops are being
caught.
The state commercial fisheries
committee will meet this month
when the quarterly board meeting
of the board of conservation and
development is held Jan. 27, 28
and 29 at Durham.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Jan. 4
3:01a.m. 9:39 a.m.
3:23 p.m. 9:56 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. %
4:05 a m. 10:39 a.m.
4:31 p.m. M:»l p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 6
5:07 a.m. 11:35 am.
5:34 p.m. 11:43 p.m.
• Monday, Jan. 7
6:03 a.m. 12:28 a.m.
6:31 p.m. --
Tuesday, Jan. 8
6:55 a.m. 12:36 a.m.
7:22 p.m. 1:22 p.m.
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► A hearing on preservation of the
outer banks wtli be conducted Sat
■nrdafft M** l**m. Place
and time of the hearing has not
been announced, but eastern Caro
lina town and county officials, as
well as interested citizens arc ex
pected.
A meeting preliminary to the
hearing took place Wednesday
morning at Raleigh. Present were
three residents of this county, Mon
roe Gaskill, Cedar Island, member
of the Outer Banks Seashore Park
commission; Bijl McLean, mayor
of Emerald Isle, and II. S. Gibbs
Jr., Morehead City, representing a
committee of the Stale Association
of Insurance Agents.
It is anticipated that the 1963
legislature will be asked for at
least %2'h million to acquire unde
veloped land on the outer banks,
build Up artifical dunes and sta
bilize them with vegetation. Pro
posed for land-buying is $l’i mil
lion.
The state civil defense agency
estimates that storm damage along
the outer banks since 1954 has ex
ceeded $366 million. The biggest
loss is land that has washed away.
Inlets have cut through the banks,
permitting sea tides to pile up on
the eastern North Carolina main
land.
A committee on banks preserva
tion (sub-unit of the Outer Banks
Seashore Park commission) has
• Endorsed a request by the
state board of water resources for
$1 million in state funds to aid in
dune construction at Wrightsvnle
and Carolina beaches
• Said (50,000 should be ear
marked for grass-planting on flat
tened areas of the banks.
• Endorsed a request by the
state insurance department for
more personnel to help coastal
communities set up building codes
that would require wind-resistant
structures
Indefinite at present is sow much
Postage Rates Will Go Up
Monday; Letter to Cost 5?
Postal rates will increase Mon
day for average citizens and users
of second, third and fourth class
mail.
The new stamps and stamped
envelopes won’t be available until
that day, according to Harold
Webb, Morehead City postmaster.
People left with old 4-cent stamps
will have to buy one-centers to
meet the amount of postage need
ed on the average letter.
The higher rates were approved
during the last session of Congress.
The rates on first class letters
will go up from four cents an ounce
to five cents, and air mail from
seven to eight cents per ounce.
Postcards will also go up one
penny, from three to four cents
each.
The postoffice department will
put a new eight-cent air mail
Ipeal governing units woald be re
quired to put up to match state
and federal funds in banks restora
tion work.
The town of Atlantic Beach, on
Bogue Banks, has had to forego a
project to protect its beach front
because it is unable to meet the
tremendous cost, even though the
federal government would share
in the cost.
The Beach Erosion board of the
Corps of Army Engineers esti
mates that at least $5 million is
needed for dune construction on
state-owned land from Ocracokc
inlet to Cape Lookout, plus $100,
000 a year to promote growth of
vegetation on the dune.
Some consideration is being
given to the state’s acquiring its
own dredging equipment.
The session continued through
out the day. Governor Sanford met
briefly with the group in the morn
ing.
Two Women
Hurt in Crash
Two women were injured at 1:30
a.m. Tuesday when a 1962 Valiant
carrying three persons upset on the
Salter Path road.
The driver, Cecilia Ann Fitz
gerald. Cherry Point, was charged
with careless and reekless driving
by deputy sheriff Billy Smith, who
investigated.
The driver sustained cuts on her
forehead and a passenger, Betsy
J. Boyette, New Bern, suffered
face cuts, a broken nose and rib.
Elizabeth McGuire, • another pas
senger, was not hurt.
The injured were taken by Navy
ambulance to Morehead City hos
pital where they were given emer
gency treatment, then moved to
Cherry Point hospital.
stamp and a new five-cent pictur
ing George Washington, on sale
Monday. The air mail stamp de
picts an airliner going over the
Capitol in Washington.
Air mail parcel post charges will
increase by eight cents a package.
Mailers of newspapers and maga
zines and third and fourth class
mail also will find mailing more
expensive.
A new postal regulation that
went into effect Tuesday prohibits
the mailing of letters smaller than
3 inches wide and 414 inch long.
The letters must be rectangular
in shape.
The regulation is designed to
speed mail by eliminating odd
sized and odd-shaped pieces of mail
that must be hand stamped. The
off-size mail occurs most frequent
ly at Christmas, when mails are
heavily loaded, postal clerks say.
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y Apprehended New Year'*
Day in the Bogue area were
three youths charged with
breaking, entering and theft
at the Loverdee inn. The inn
is owned and operated at
Bogue by Milton Chadwick.
Jailed under $ZM hood cacti were
Zob Morrison. Rogers Arnold and
Sterling Carroll Deputy sheriff
Carl Bunch said two are from Jack
sonville and one of the youths from
Bogue.
Taken from a shuffleboard and
rifle machine at the inn was MO
in change. A juke box was broken
open, but it had just been emptied
and there was no money in it.
Deputy Bunch said the three were
seen fooling around the inn eady
New Year’s morning. Chadwick
had closed it at about midnight
New Year s Eve.
Carroll was released under bond
New Year’s day. Arnold posted
tiond Wednesday but Morrison was
still in jail yesterday.
They are scheduled for a hear
ing in county court Tuesday, Jan.
15.
Stolen from the Loverdee inn in
October was $U5 from the juke
box and ten cartoons of cigarettes.
No one was arrested in connection
with that theft.
Assignments
Given Members
Of Chamber
The Greater MtrektMi City
Chamber of Commerce has an*
nounced committee assignments
for 1963, executive committee
members and the chamber advi
sory council.
As of yesterday, P. W, Bullock, „
chamber manager, said all the ap
pointments had not been confirm
ed. If there are changes, they will
be announced fbltowlngthc cham
ber directors’ meeting Monday
night.
Members of the advisory council
arc mayor W. H. Potter, mayor
A. B. Cooper, mayor George H.
Dill, Matthew T. Millis, T. T. Pot
ter. Dick Parker, G. R. Wallace,
J. L. Crump, and J. M. Davis.
Committee heads who comprise
the executive committee and sub
committee chairmen are listed be
low. The membership committee
is divided into three groups.
Membership: Bill Strickland
heads the following: J. C. SheriU,
amusements; Marion Mills, autos;
Grady Rich, contractors; E. B.
Fleming, finance; George Phillips,
groceries; Bill Strickland, ware
houses and miscellaneous.
Dave Lindsay heads the follow
ing: L. E. Lewis, retail; Dave Mun
den, special services; W. C. Carl
ton, utilities and transportation;
Ken Newsom, sports fishing; Adam
Mayer, marine; Dave Lindsay,
building materials.
Tom Noe heads the following:
Sylvester Fleming, motels; W. B.
Chalk, insurance and real estate;
Bill Baugham, manufacturing; Al
bert Gaskill, professional and ra
dio; Tony Seamon Jr., restaurants;
Tom Noe, miscellaneous industry.
Industrial: Charles McNeill;
chairman; S. A. Chalk, Central
Coastal Carolina Development
board; W. C. Carlton, North Caro
lina department of Conservation
and Development; Charles Mc
Neill, ports and waterways.
Advertising: Shelby Freeman,
chairman; Ben Alford, Mosea How
ard, printing and publicity; Ray
Cummins, Grover Munden, radio;
Jack Barnes III, George Vickroy,
retirement.
MiUtanr—Frank Cassiano.
Finance—W. T. Davies, chair
man; Garland Scruggs, G. E. San
derson, new building; J. R. San
ders, E. B. Fleming, auto tags.
Civic Affairs—W. C. Matthews
Jr.; John Haynes, Merchants As
sociation; Earl Lewis, Better Busi
ness Bureau; Dr. Russell Outlaw,
schools.
Trade Promatl— — Ben Alford.
Chamber directors wMl meet
Monday night at the chamber of
fice.
New Year Brings
Clear, Cold Week
Clear and cold was the typical
weather for the first part of this
week. Sunshine and nippy tem
peratures predominated.
Highest daytime temperature
was 45 degrees on Wednesday, and
the lowest daytime reading was on
Monday, 37. At night, temperatures
were In the low twenties. Tuesday
night it was 20.
E. Stanley Davis, MorehewTCity
tion was predominantly north.
Monday _
Tuesday
Wednesday
37 24 NW
-« 20 WNW
.45 23 NE
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