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52nd Year — No. 8
Two Sections — Sixteen Pages
MOREHEAD CITY and • BEAUFORT, N. C.
Friday, January 25, 1963
Published Tuesdays
and Fridays
Minister Honored by Jaycees
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The Rev. J. P. Mansfield,*pastor of St. Peter's Methodist church,
Morehead City, who is prominent in local, state and national work
with migrant laborers, was presented the distinguished service award
by Morehead City Jaycees Monday night. (See newsstory page 4
section 2.)
Hope Held that Ships Will
Start Moving This Weekend
There was hope in all east coast
and1 Gulf port cities that the 32
day-old longshoremen’s strike
would end this weekend.
Robert L. Hicks, Heide & Co.
ship’s agent, Morehead City, said
yesterday that he has 10 ships rea
dy to move into Morehead City
as soon as the quarter billion dol
lar work stoppage comes to an end.
& mediation board appointed by
President Kennedy has worked out
a settlement that appears to be
agreeable to both shippers and
longshoremen.
The formula calls for 24 cents
in increased wages over a two-year
span and 13 cents in fringe bene
fits.
The longshoremen had sought a
Rental Bids
For PO Defined
The builder of the Harkers Is
land postoffice will bid on rental
to the postoffice department for a
basic period of five years with
three five-year renewal options,
according to David Yeomans, post
master.
J. Edward Day, postmaster gen
eral of the United States, in an
nouncing that hids are being
sought, commented that Harkers
Island is located in Carteret coun
ty, an area eligible for area re
covery act funds.
He said the project will be of
“particular value” because it will
provide more employment and con
tribute to Harkers Island moderni
zation efforts.
Bidders interested in constructing
the postoffice, which will have a
thousand feet of interior floor
space, loading platform of 104
square feet and a paved area of
3,500 feet, may contact postmaster
Yeomans or Marvin W. Clem, PO
Box 89, Greensboro, N. C.
High Winds Cause
Loss at Drive-In
High winds Wednesday night did
considerable damage to the A&W
Drive-In on US 70 west of More
head City. Winds toppled a mason
ry tower on the top of the build
ing. .
The tower supported a sign. Both
tower and sign fell onto the roof
at the front of the building. The
force of the falling objects caved
in the roof, shattering plate glass
in the front of the building and
buckling aluminum partitions hold
ing the glass.
No estimate of the damage was
available prior to adjustment by
insurance representatives, but it
is thought to amount to several
50-cent package, with 26 cent* in
wages, since negotiations opened
last June. The shipping industry
offered a 22-cent package over two
years. Dock wages had been av
eraging from $2.98 to $3.02 an hour.
The International Longshoremen
association originally struck last
Oct. 1. Kennedy halted the walk
out four days later by means of the
Taft-Hartley act. When the law’s
80-day cooling-off period expired
two days before Christmas, the
strike was renewed.
Legislator Proposes BHIs, Hears
REA Members Present Case
Thomas S. Bennett, county legis -
lator, told 28 listeners Wednesday
afternoon at the courthouse, Beau
fort, that he plans to introduce
bills, as follows, in the coming
legislature:
• A bill providing for election
of a non-partisan county board of
education ✓
• A bill calling for complete re
organization of the commercial
fisheries.division, establishing it as
a separate agency similar to the
department of agriculture where
emphasis would be directed to de
velopment and research as well as
law enforcement
• A bill to provide funds for lo
cal education purposes which would
reallocate to counties 1 out of every
4 cents collected through the food
sales tax.
“When the food sales tax was
passed, people believed that the
money was to be used for educa
tion and that has not happened,”
Mr. Bennett remarked.
• A bill to provide for a “gen
eral county hospital and health
fund” which would be obtained by
imposing an additional tax on beer,
wine and whiskey, state-wide, the
money to be reallocated to the
counties on a proportionate basis.
(Dry counties would not receive
any of the tum&fyar
t'ollowing the meeting, Mr. Ben
nett said that he step hopes to in
vestigate the possibility of intro
ducing a bill which .would set up
a merit system for hiring county
employees.
Mr. Bennett said that it doesn’t
matter to him whether bills are
introduced in the hoipe or senate
“Just so something is done for the
benefit of the county.”
He emphasised that he is going
to Raleigh as a representative of
the people and not the representa
tive at m party. Mr. Bennett ex
Wednesday’s
he invited every
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and public officials
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Owner Plans to Reopen
As Soon as Possible
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A $95,000 blaze swept through Styron’s department
store, Morehead City, in 20 minutes Wednesday, gutting
the interior and damaging the one-story brick building to
an estimated $20,000.
Clarence E. Styron, owner of the store, said yesterday
that he plans to be back in business as soon as posible.
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GATR Tower Will
Be Ready Soon
An Air Force ground to air ra
dio center near Newport is ex
pected to be completed in April,
according to the Army Corps of
Engineers.
The building, which will house
a transmitter-receiver unit in air
craft communications, is located
south of Newport and to the west
of US 70. The building is expect
ed to cost $94,839.60 and is being
built under the Savannah, Ga.,
Corps of Engineers district by a
private contractor.
The installation is known as
a “GATR tower,” from its name,
"ground-air transmitter, receiv
er.”
Clerk of Court
Files Three
Wills Recently
Willis of three persons have been
filed recently in the office of the
clerk of superior court.
Mrs. Mary Shockley, 1612 Shack
leford Ave., Morchead City, named
her son, Woodland G. Shockley, as
executor of her estate, to scrv<^
without bond.
Her son also inherited all hog
property. The will specified thdt
if he preceded her in death, the
property should be divided equal
ly between her grandchildren, Wil
liam Gray and Rebecca Ann
Shockley.
The will was drawn July 23, 1957
and witnessed by Stanley and Ju
lia Woodland and Mavis H. Wil
kins, all of Morchead City. Esti-i
mated value of the estate is $7,-:
000.
Mrs. Blanche Fulcher Pitface,
formerly of Beaufort, named her
sons-in-law, H. L. Brown and F.
S. Stroupe as executors of her es
tate, to serve without bond.
(See WILLS Page 8)
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County Keeps
Up Good Record
Carteret has made its US savings
bond quota for the eighth year in a
row, announces J. R. Sanders,
Morehead City, savings bond chair
man for the county.
The county actually exceeded its
1962 quota of $789,490. Total sales
amounted to $944,009, Mr. Sanders
reports.
Total sales in North Carolina
were $48,505,835. This is less than
$65,000 or 1/10 of 1 per cent behind
the 1961 sales. This amounts to 94
per cent of the state’s annual quo
ta of $51,600,000.
“In the face of a very competi
tive market for the savings dollar,
we feel that the savings bonds pro
gram had a very successful year in
1962,’’ said W. H. Andrews, Jr.,
state volunteer savings bond chair
man.
nationally, sales were 5.7 per
ceht lower than 1961. This was due
primarily to a fall-off in the sales
of the larger size savings bonds.
Last year sales of small-sized
bonds ($25-$200 bonds) accounted
for 61 pet cent of the E and H
Bond sales. Purchases of $50 bonds
were at a peacetime high. Pur
chases of $25 %onds were at a 5
year high.
► Fire chief Eldon Nelson says the
fire started at the front of the
building about noon. It was caused
either by the hot rays of the sun
shining through the windows or
defective wiring, according to the
chief.
Mr. Styron had his plate glass
windows shaded on the inside by
yellow “filters” which lie believes
were made of plastic or a type of
"cellophane” material.
He estimates damage to merch
andise and fixtures at $75,000. A
large amount of spring merchan
dise had just arrived this week, in
cluding $1,000 in blouses and $500
in lingerie.
The loss is partially covered by
insurance.
The blaze was reported at 12:05
p.m. Wednesday by a Marine mili
tary policeman. The MP said he
saw smoke coming from the front
of the store and at that instant
there was an explosion which blew
out a plate glass window. THE
NEWS-TIMES photographer hap
pened to be on the spot at the same
instant.
The air, which rushed in, then
fed smoldering flames which burst
into intense fire, reducing every
thing to charred shambles.
No one was in the store at the
lime. Victor Salter, manager had
locked up a few minutes before 12
because Wednesday afternoon is a
holiday for most merchants in
(See FIRE Page 8)
Mercury Nose
Dives Down to 19
The mercury fell all the way
’down*to 19 degrees early Thursday
in a cold spell that affected the
eastern half of the nation.
According to E. Stanley Davis,
Morchead City weather observer,
Wednesday had a high of 59 and
a low of 36, showing a drastic
drop in temperature in a short
period.
A total of .70 inahes of rain was
recorded Sunday night and Mon
day morning.
Max. Min. Wind
Monday .61 40 N
Tuesday .50 30 SW
Wednesday 59 36 SW
by the general statutes commission.
The commission was appointed
in the 1981 legislature to review
the state’s public utilities law and
draft suggestions for change. The
REA’s contend the proposed chan
ges are unfair insofar as they af
fect the rural electrification pro
gram.
George W. Ball, Harlowe, presi
dent of the Carteret-Craven co-op
rfead a three-page brief, pointing
opt the manner in which adoption
of the statutes commission’s recom
mendations as to public utilities
would “hill” North Carolina’s ru
ral electric cooperatives.
Monroe Gaskill, Cedar Island, in
an area served by REA, recalled
the days when Cedar Island resi
dents had. to live by kerosene lamp
at night. Today, he said, people
there can enjoy electric lights and
aP the latest electrical appliances.
Mr. Bennett said that he had
read the proposed utilities act and
noted that it specifies that there
are conditions under which pri
vate power companies can buy co
ops, even if the co-ops don’t want
to sell, but there’s no provision for
co-op; to buy private power com
panies.
He said it would seem more fair
if each wore given opportunity,
by law, to purchase' (he other.
George W. Ball, Morehead City,
attorney for Carteret-Craven, ask
ed Mr. Bennett to take particular
note of the area coverage speci
► The only petitioners before Tho
mas S. Bennett, legislator, at a
public meeting Wednesday after
noon were representatives of Car
teret-Craven and Harkers Island
rural electrification cooperatives.
Mr. Bennett assured the REA
representatives that he would not
vote for the proposed North Caro
lina Utilities act as recommended
.News-Times Photo* by Tom Sloan
Flames lick at the interior of Sty ion’s Department Store Wednesday at the beginning of a fire that gutted the building. This picture,
taken lust after the blaze was discovered and before firemen arrived, shows a smoking show window mannequin at the right hand corner
of the building. The dummy and some of the clothing in the store window was spewed out on the sidewalk as heat and pressure from the
fire blew out store window glass.
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fire Wednesday. This picture,
ginning of the battle with the fire.
the interior of Styron’s Department Store, almost destroyed in a
firemen arrived, shows the blaze at its peak and the be
Morefaead City firemen pour water into the front windows of Styron’s Department store in an effort
to quench the fire that gutted the building Wednesday. The fire was discovered several minutes after 12
Luke Mason Goes to Roads;
Bill Godette Found Guilty
$8,000 to Date
The Newport Medical Center has
received $9,000 in loans to date,
according to J. Stancil Bell, fund
raising chairman. The loans may
be made in denominations of $29.
Checks should be made out to New
port Medical Center, Inc.
Tides at Beanfort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, Jan. 28
8:02 a.ai.
8:30 p.m.
1:36 a.m.
2:41 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 28
8:45 a.m.
9:15 p.m.
2:41 a.m.
3:23 p.m.
8unday, Jan. 27
9:31 a.m.
10:04 p.m. .
Monday, Jan. 28
10:21 a.m.
11:25 pm. '
4:10 a.m.
4.48 p.m.
■ Only one active prison term was-4
assigned Tuesday in county court,
though other defendants received
suspended terms from judge Lam
bert R. Morris.
Luke Mason, charged with two
counts of public drunkenness, re
ceived two concurrent terms of six
months on the roads. William Go
dette received a three-month term
on the roads suspended upon the
provision that he not operate an
auto until obtaining a valid license
and pay $10 and the costs.
GodeUe was charged with no
driver’s license, no registration and
no liability insurance. In another
case against William Godette, for
non-support, be was given a year
on the roads, commitment not to
be carried out as long as be pays
$15 per week for the support of his
family.
James Langdale and B. F. Willis,
both charged with public drunken
" (See COOT Page 2)
Jc's Hear About
Feb. 5 Meeting
Jaycees heard plans
Monday night for the fifth district
annual meeting to be held Tues
day. Feb. 5, at the Governor Try
on hotel. New Bern.
William Fedrie and Ed Forrest,
New'Bern Jaycees, meet with the
club, explaining matters to be taken
up at the meeting.
Bennfart Jayeee president Ivey
Mason urged all Beaufort Jaycees
to attend. If participation warrants,
a bus may be hired to take mem
bers to the meeting.
The Beaufort Jaycees are now
the first, third and fifth
of each month at the
civic center.
Name-Change
Ballots Go Out
Put in the mail yesterday were
ballots for all members of the
Greater Morehead City Chamber
of Commerce.
Members will vote on changing
the name of the organization to the
Carteret County Chamber of Com
merce. Members of the board of
directors have unanimously en
dorsed the proposal.
Although the greater chamber
has always promoted the county, |t
is believed that a name-change wtH
go farther toward interesting more
Individuals in the chamber’* pro
gram. according to Ben Alford,
president.
Ballots arc going to all 1962
chamber members. They are to be
returned by Thursday, Jan. 31.
They will be opened and tallied by
the board of directors at a meet
ing at the chamber office Tuesday
night, Feb. 5.
Firemen Answer
Three Alarms
The Morehead City Fire depart
ment reported three calls Wednes
day and Thursday, the Thursday
call being the fire at Styron’a De
partment store that gutted the
building.
The call to Styron’s came at
12:05 p.m. Firemen put out the
destructive blaze in approximate
ly 30 minutes.
Wednesday at l«:M a.m., a fire
came to the firemen. Jerry Pitt
man, Salter Path, drove up in front
of the station in his 1962 Ford to
have a minor fire put out.
A passenger in the car had
placed a lighted cigarette in an ash
(ray, and the cigarette had fallen
inside the upholstery.
At 12:29 p.m. Wednesday, a trash
fire in a yard at 18th and Aren
dell streets sent smoke carting
around the eaves of a house, re
sulting in a call for aid that proved
to be a justifiable false alarm.
Chairman Says
'No Telethon'
Them will be no March of Dimes
telethon this year, Mrs. Robert
Russell, MOD chairman, announc
ed yesterday..
Therefore, persons who have been
waiting to contribute to the March
of Dimes through the telethon are
urged to send their checks to Mrs.
Russell, route 2, Box 39B, Beaufort.
There will he a rummage sale
for the next two Saturdays to down
town Beaufort next to (hr. Luther
Fulcher’s office.xPersone who have
items to put on sale are invited
to take them there Saturday morn
ing. Proceeds will go to the March
of Dimes.- J.
The Moose lodge will collect
funds from motorists Sunday. Feb.
3, on highway TO at Mansfield and
on the Beaufart-Morebead causa*
way between 1 and S p.m.
The sheriff's department
sterday a theft at a
at Cadar Point. A tv
set, rods and reels and tools were
reportedly taken from Urn house.
This is the second burglary re
ported in that area this week.