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MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C.
Tuesday, January 29, 1963
Published Tuesdays aad Friday*
At home in the brick bungalow they recently built at Lake Small in Buies Creek are the John
Bunn family. Appointment of Dr. Bunn, right, as assistant t» the president was announced Friday by
the board of trustees of Campbell college. Children, left to right, are David, George, and Stephen. Dr.
Bunn, former pastor of Braggtown Baptist church in Durham, has been head of the Campbell college
department of religion since September 1961. Mrs. Bunn, left, is the former Lois Webb, daughter of
the late David Battle Webb and Mrs. Webb, More head City.
Little Symphony
Will Present
Concerts Friday
Now completing two weeks of its
18th annual tour of the state, the
North Carolina Little Symphony
under the direction of Dr. Benja
min Swalin will appear in the
Morehead City-Beaufort area Fri
day for two concerts.
With programs for both adult and
children’s audiences, the orchestra
will play for the school children at
2 o’clock and for the adults at 8
p.m. in the Beaufort school audi
torium.
Not only will the orchestra make
> its annual concert appearances
here, but the area will host the
players over the entire Feb. 1 week
end. The musicians will rehearse
at a special session at 10:30 Satur
day morning at the high school
and spend Sunday here too.
On Monday they move from the
Perry Park motel to Kinston for a
series of three concerts in that
cny.
The symphony society is pro
gramming 124 concerts this season
for its little symphony and 65-mem
ber full symphony. The full sym
phony will appear in New Bern on
May 22, prior to winding up the
season in Wilmington May 27.
On the tour, the orchestra will
present programs in 61 cities, in
cluding some 80 concerts for school
Children which are made possible
by the sale of symphony society
memberships in chapters of the va
rious cities and towns where the
orchestras appear.
Baritone Bert Adams, Young
Artists Auditions winner ' of the
symphony competitions for soloists
last fall, will be the featured soloist
at the evening concert here.
Graduate of William Jewell col
lege with an AB degree, a BD and
master of theology degree from
Southern Baptist seminary in
Louisville, and now working tow
ard a Ph D in sociology at UNC,
Mr. Adams majored in voice at
William Jewell and studied at Ca
rolina with Wilton Mason. He also
studied with Ladislao Vaida in St.
Louis.
Mr. Adams will be heard in a
group of oratorio and operatic
arias by Handel, Gounod, Mendels
sohn, and Verdi.
Hie orchestra will round out the
program by playing the overture
frotn The Silken Ladder by Rossi
ni, Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmu
sik, the William Boyce Symphony
No.; 1, the Largo from The New
World Symphony by Dvorak, and
a group of smaller numbers from
the pens of composers Albert
Coates, Debussy, Rameau, Tho
mas, and others.
The wind-up number is a medley
from ^roadway hit shows Kiss Me
Kate. Sweethearts and Carousel/
Hie appearances in the More
head-Beaufort community are
sponsored by the Morehead City
Beaufort chapter of the North Caro
lina symphony whose president is
Miss Nancy Russell of Beaufort.
Firemen Called Back
When Blaze Subsides
* Beaufort firemen reported
call for assistance over the week
end. The call came at about 6:30
p.m. Saturday, but firemen were
called back before they had got
the scene of the fire.
of the Raymond Tay
highway 101, where the
located, put the fire out
Dr. Johh T. Bunn, head of the
department of religion, was made
assistant to the president of Camp
bell college at the quarterly meet
ing of the college trustees on the
campus Friday.
The action of the board was pur
suant to a request for administra
tive assistance made by president
L. H. Campbell last year as the
school expanded to senior status.
Dr. Bunn, who resigned as pas
tor of the Braggtown Baptist
church in Durham in September
1961, to join the Campbell faculty,
is a graduate of Wake Forest col
lege and of Southern Baptist semi
nary, from which he has the doc
tor of Theology degree.
A native of Mt. Gilead, he is mar
ried to the former Lois Webb of
Morehead City. They have three
children. Dr. Bunn lived in More
head City many years while his
lathe^ Dr. John H. Bunn, was pas
tor of the First Baptist church.
While on an archaeological trip
to the Holy Land several summers
ago, Dr. Bunn reported on his ex
piences in THE NEWS-TIMES.
Meeting on Founder’s Day, the
trustees joined Friday afternoon in
ceremonies dedicating the new col
lege chapel and naming it for J.
Clyde Turner, retired minister of
Raleigh.
Getting Warmer?
Collections in the drive for the
Newport Medical Center are ap
proaching the $10,000 mark.
Funds received in denominations
of $25 will be loans, repayable
to the lender. Checks should be
made out to Newport Medical
Center, Inc., and mailed to J.
Stancil Bell, Chairman, New
port, N. C.
Bridge Plans
Shown to Club
J. L. Norris, hydrographic engi
neer with the State Highway de
partment, gave Morehead City Ro
tarians a peek at the new More
head-Beaufort bridge Th u r s d a y
night. Mr. Norris, who is from Ra
leigh, showed a sketch of the
bridge and gave a general descrip
tion of the proposed structure.
The bridge will cost approximate
ly one and one half million, and
will be 3,247 feet long, Mr. Norris
said- The bridge will be 28 feet
wide, and offer a 65-foot vertical
clearance for marine traffic at
mean high water. Boats and other
.veskela ‘will have an 80-foot 'hori
zontal clearance.
The bridge is expected to be rea
dy for traffic in July of 1964, Mr.
Norris stated. The approaches to
the bridge are not definitely plot
ted as yet, he reported.
Mr. Norris added that North
Carolina has over 18,000 bridges
over 20 feet long, and that a hy
drographic engineer manages to
“keep busy” with the highway de
partment.
Ports Director, Export Official
Speak to Maritime Association
J. W. Davis, stale ports director,
and William Edwards, vice-presi
dent of Wachovia Bank and Trust
Co., spoke to members of the
Morehead City Maritime associa
tion at a dinner meeting at Spoon
er’s Creek Harbor Thursday night.
Hosts were* First-Citizens Bank
and Trust Co. and Wachovia.
Mr. Davis commented, “We have
one port in North Carolina, with
a space between it of 85 to 90
miles.” He was referring to the
two state ports, one at Morehead
City and one at Wilmington. Each,
he pointed out, can offer certain
advantages to different types of
shippers.
The director, who started his
work here in December, stated
that he is pleased with the ports
personnel. “We couldn’t have a bet
ter staff in the world than we
have in North Carolina,” Mr. Da
vis observed. Before accepting the
North Carolina ports director job
and leaving his position with the
Maryland ports, the director said
he made inquiries as to what he
An automobile crashed into a
home on the Merrimen road at 2
p. m. Saturday afternoon, causing
damage estimated at $800 to the
house. The house was occupied by
the family of the late Rogers Mur
ry. No one was injured.
According to state trooper W. E.
Pickard, who investigated, the car
which hit the house was a 1958
Ford driven by James C. Spicer,
Sneads Ferry. The car was demo
lished.
Spicer and passengers with him
were not injured. According to the
officer, the car was headed south.
It was raining at the time. Spicer
said that he swerved the car to
avoid hitting a dog. the car went
off the road to the left, knocked
Auto Smashes
Into House
Work Begins at Morehead City Port
Yesterday as 34-Day Strike Settled
Buildings Costing $380,000
To Go Up at Fisheries Lab
Two Protest
Water Rate
Raise at Beach
Two persons appeared before the
State Utilities commission in Ra
leigh Friday to protest the increase
in water rates proposed by Atlan
tic Beach Sales and Service, the
firm which supplies water to At
lantic Beach residents and busi
ness.
Protesting were John Goodson
and Mrs. C. B. Whitcomb, owners
of summer homes at the beach.
Mr. Goodson is a winter-time
Greenville resident and Mrs.
Whitcomb's permanent home is
New Bern.
The utilities commission is ex
pected to make its decision on the
rates in two to three weeks, ac
cording to George McNeill, attor
ney for Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Hor
ton, Morehead City, who operate
the beach water firm.
The firm requested permission
to do away with its $15 "per per
son” rate and charge a flat $25
a year. M. G. Coyle, Atlantic Beach
town commissioner, said yesterday
that about 98 per cent of the beach
residents have been paying the
$25 rate because they use their
homes on weekends all during the
year.
Whereas duplex apartment rental
units now pay $15 a year, under
the new rate they would be billed
at $25 per unit annually.
Motels would be $10 per room
per year, and $15 where cooking
facilities are available; trailer
courts would pay $25 a year for the
first trailer and $10 annually for
each additional trailer; fishing
piers will pay $100 annually, or $75
a year if they do not have show
ers or ice machines.
The hearing started at 10 a.m.
in the state library building and
ended at 12:45 p.m. In adddition
to those who appeared in person,
the commission received four mail
inquiries on the rate proposal, Mr.
McNeill reported.
might be getting into in Norm
Carolina.
"The news I received of the staff
here was flattering to this state,”
the director remarked.
He stated that meetings will be
held with the staff every two
weeks, the conferences to be alter
nated between Morehcad City and
Wilmington. He noted that state
ports services do not end at the
fence line of state port property”
and requested that people “give
us some time to prove” that there
is no partiality shown toward one
port over another.
Although a native of Glassport,
Pa., Mr. Davis attended college
in this state and married a North
Carolinian. He said that in coming
here “I feel that I am coming
home.”
The new director, who has a dy
namic personality, was introduced
by Walter Friederichs, manager
of the Morehead City state port.
William H. Smith, vice-president
at the Morehead City branch of
Wachovia, in introducing Mr. Ed
wards, stated that Mr. Edwards
pioneered Export Expansion coun
cil
Mr. Edwards noted that North
Carolina is 13th in the nation in
export of manufactured products
and first in tobacco exports at a
value of $1W million. It exports
$83 million in textiles and $4 mil
lion in furniture.
Farm product exports are valued
at $210 million. Imports are worth
$200 million annually for a total
of $800 million “foreign trade im
pact” Mr. Edwards noted.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
TUESDAY/JAN. *9
11:14 a.m. 4:57 a.m.
11:50 p.m. 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Jaa- B
12:08 a.m. 5:50 a.m.
- 8:22 p.m.
Thursday, Jau. 31
12:44 a.m. * 8:56 a m.
1:03 p.m. 7:26 pjn.
Friday, Feb. 1
1:39 a.m. 8:11a.m.
► Construction will begin this sum
mer on two buildings at the l)S
fisheries biological laboratory, Pi
vers Island, Beaufort. Cost of the
buildings will be $380,000.
They will be used by personnel
of the radiobiological laboratory,
headed by Dr. Theodore Rice,
Morchcad City.
One building, a two-story struc
ture, will provide office and la
boratory space. A smaller building,
of special design, will permit stu
dies using high levels of radiation,
wnich will be conducted in isola
tion.
The buildings will improve pre
sent facilities for biologists using
radioisotopes in research oil ma
rine organisms.
Architectural design and the in
speclion of the buildings during
construction will be under the su
pervision of the Navy’s Bureau of
Yards and Docks, Norfolk, Va.
The buildings are expected to be
ready for use by the spring of
1364, according to Dr. Rice.
Delegates Want
Jetties at Inlet
Ocean jetties, to protect the Beau
fort inlet, have been given priority
status, along with a proposal to
deepen the Cape Fear channel to
Wilmington, by the North Carolina
governor’s delegation to the Nat
ional Rivers and Harbors Congress.
The group, appointed by Gover
nor Sanford, met Thursday in Ra
leigh. Mayor W. H. Potter of Beau
fort, one of the members of the
delegation, was named to head a
committee to survey coastal needs
and to report to the delegation
prior to the national Rivers and
Harbors Congress in Washington,
D. C., in June.
Another committee was appoint
ed to represent the Cape Fear Riv
er basin development in Washing
ton when appropriation hearings
are held.
The delegation gave its support
to the State Ports Authority on de
velopment of a small boat harbor
at Southport.
uniy « per ccni oi in me manu
facturing firms in this country
ship their products abroad, accord
ing to the speaker. Although there
is a $7 billion margin of exports
over imports, Mr. Edwards said
the deficit in the country’s “bal
ance of payments” is due to US aid
to other nations, military expendi
tures abroad and investments of
private US firms abroad.
Private company investments, he
predicted, will come back to this
country in the form of profits. Re
ferring to the outflow of gold from
(See SPEAKERS, Pg. 7)
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Cecil Sewell
Wins Silver
Beaver Award
# County Receives
Boy Scout Honor
0 Dr. S. W. Hatcher
Takes Office
The Silver Beaver award wan
presented to Cecil Sewell of More
head City at the annual recogni
tion banquet of the East Carolina
Council, at Kinston Tuesday night.
The Silver Beaver is the highest
award which can be presented by
the local council.
Four hundred Scouters from the
twenty-county area heard a talk
by the Rev. Thomas S. llaggai,
noted speaker and minister of the
Enicrywood Baptist church, High
Point.
The Council President’s award,
made to the district or districts
with outstanding records in all
phases of Scouting during the pre
vious year, went to Carteret and
seven other districts. Harry Salter
received the award in behalf of
tV district. During the past year,
Charles R. McNeill was chairman
of the Carteret district.
Among the council officers in
stalled for 1963 by Dr. Robert Gil
bert, Kinston, former council pres
ident, was Dr. S. W. Hatcher,
Morehaad City, vice-president.
Mr. Sewell, recipient of the Silver
Beaver award, served as a mem
ber of a pack committee in 1936,
and since that time he has served
his district and the council in many
capacities.
He was institutional representa
tive for five years, chairman of a
troop committee for four years,
has been district health and safety
chairman, district leadership train
ing committee chairman, camping
and activities chairman, and is
presently serving as organization
and extension chairman.
He has gone as a leader to Phil
mont Scout reservation in New
Mexico, attended the Jubilee Jam
boree as one of the leaders of East
Carolina council. He has served as
an area chief at the East Carolina
Council camporee, and will serve
in that capacity again this year.
He has been an executive board
member for seven years.
Mr. Sewell is active in the Bap
tist church of Morehead City.
Wins Shrine Office
Harvey W. Smith, Beaufort, was
elected assistant rabban at the
annual winter ceremonial of Sudan
Shrine Temple in New Bern last
week. The election took place dur
ing a business session Thursday
morning at Sudan temple.
Block Tower Topples
Longshoremen Unload Fish
Meal from Nopal Branco
North Carolina ocean ports were back in business yes
terday after a 34-day longshoremen’s strike, the costliest
in Atlantic port history.
Being unloaded at Morehead City port yesterday morn
ing was fish meal, brought in from Peru aboard the
Nopal Branco.
Charles McNeill, assistant operations (manager at the
port, said actual dollar and cent*'
loss to Morchead City and the state,
because of the strike, would not be
known until n financial report is
made the end of this month, but
he said the “loss is considerable.”
Ixingshoremen are expected to
complete unloading of the Nopal
Branco today. Scheduled to make
port today is the l.oland I. Doan
and a Military Sea Transportation
Service ship. Sergeant Kelly, load
ed with military vehicles.
The Doan will pick up glycol and
return to Freeport, Tex* Both the
Doan and Kelly would have come
in, had the strike continued, be
cause military vessels and ships
that take on or discharge cargo by
pipeline were not affected by the
strike.
Due Friday is the llcdda Dan,
bringing in fish meal from Peru
and the Nordpol with tapioca and
■Tenoral cargo from Bangkok. Also
scheduled for arrival Friday is the
Rise Hugo Stinnes, which will take
on tobacco for northern Europe.
The Epperson Maorsk will load
tobacco for the Far East next
Monday. Due next Tuesday is the
American Surveyor, which will take
tobacco to northern Europe and
several military vessels involved in
Mediterranean operations.
Due Friday, Feb. 8, is the Sire
dal with fish meal and on Feb. 10
the Tilda Dan, bringing in fish
meal. Because of the poor men
haden season in this country, users
of fish meal for animal food must
get their supply from South Amer
ican producers.
Dock workers at South Atlantic
ports, Morchead City to Tampa,
Fla., were the last to end the walk
out. The strike ended Sunday. The
new contract gives the longshore
men a 37-cent-an-hour package in
crease over two years, with 24
cents in wages, the rest in fringe
benefits.
Longshoremen, who have been
averaging $2.96 to $3.02 an hour,
sought a 50-cent package over two
years with 26 cents in wages. The
New York Shipping association of
fered a 22-cent package in behalf
of its 134 member firms from
Maine to Virginia.
Those firms Included the opera
tors of the two largest American
pa'ssenger liners, the United
States and the America, both of
which were tied up at Newport
News, Va., for the duration of the
strike. The two ships now are
scheduled to go back into service
next month.
Ill ill, it least 24 voyages by
American-flag liners were cancell
ed during the strike.
The new contract will run until
Sept. 30, 1964.
A thorny subject in contract ne
gotiations was the number in work
gangs. Shippers wanted the gangs
cut from 20 to 17. This issue is now
being studied by the US Labor de
partments.
With the return to work, the
longshoremen have a month-long
backup of cargo to handle.
Millions of dollars worth of com
modities were piled up on piers,
in warehouses and railroad cars.
Maritime sources estimate it will
take two to three days for activity
to return to normal in the nation’s
busiest port, New York, and two
to three weeks elsewhere.
Three ships were scheduled for
unloading at the North Carolina
state port at Wilmington yesterday
morning.
Otway Youth Advances
To Scholarship Finals
Lorenzo Lewis, Otway, a senior
at Smyrna high school, has been
selected as one of six district fi
nalists in competition for the More
head scholarships at the University
of North Carolina. He is the son
of Mrs. Eunice W. Lewis.
success at interviews
conducted Thursday at, Williams too
was announced Saturday by C. R.
Wheafiy, Beaufort, chairman of the
county Morehead scholarship com
mittee. a
Mr. Lewis will now be interview
ed by the central scholarship com
mittee at Chapel Hill. Those chosen
by that committee will be inter
viewed by trustees the Morehead
foundation and the scholarship
winners will be announced March
it
f
Town Water
Dispute Will Be
Heard Feb. 5
Tuesday. Feb. 5, has been set as
the date for the hearing before the
State Utilities commission on the
dispute between the town of Beau
fort and Carolina Water Co. The
hearing will be at 10 a m. in Ra
leigh.
The town has appealed to the
State Utilities commission to rule
on the controversy relative to in
stallation of fire hydrants in new
ly-annexed areas, and running of
water lines to homes which are not
now receiving water service.
Where the water company has
:>grced to comply with certain
town requests, the cost to be chaf
ed the town for the work is exces
sive, town authorities contend.
John Jones Jr., Beaufort town
clerk, stated that about IS homes
in Highland Park and places on
Lennoxville road are without serv
ice from Carolina Water Co.. 2-inch
lines on Ann and Front streets ex
tended should be 6-inch, and hy
drants are required in that area
as well as in the Hancock and
Highland Park sections.
Club to Present
Merit Citation
Members of (be Emeritus Civic
club, met recently st the civic
center, selected the person who
will receive this years Emeritus
Civic club merit citation. A list of
five candidates was presented by
the citation committee, T. B. Sage,
H. S. Gibbs and Charles Schick,
for consideration by the members.
Of the five, one was selected.
The winner* of the merit award
will be announced Monday, Feb.
18, when the club holds ladies night.
Time and place of the February
meeting will be announced later.
C. B. Wade, J. W. Kellogg and D.
J. Odom were named to the no
minating committee. New officers
will be elected in March. N. L.
Walker spoke to the group of the
necessity of improving highways.
W. 0. Kilpatrick, Morehead City,
was welcomed as a new member.
Motorist Cited
After Crash at Roe
A Cedar Island resident was
charged with no driver's license
and driving too fast for road con
ditions Saturday after his car skid
ded on wet roads and struck a
garage at Roe.
Curtis Unwood Goodwin was go
ing east when be lost control of
his car and left the road, accord
ing to state trooper W. J. Smith.
The car went through a group of
small trees and hit a garage near
a home.
Damage to the car was about
$200, according to Trooper Smith,
and about $290 to the garage, which
belonged to a Goodwin family. The
accident occurred at 6: IS p.m.
Hr. wneauy, in announcing wrw
is’s preliminary success, said,
“The committee is, happy that Lew
is applied for the scholarship. He
has confidence. His scholastic rec
ord is high and he is outstanding
in many respects.”
Because Carteret is one of the
smaller counties in the state, it
may nominate only one candidate
for the scholarships. Lewis was
selected from among nine senior
boys recommended by county high
schools this yaar.
Two Carteret students are now
dllHC on Morehead scholarship
Llewellyn Phillips, Morehead Ctty,
and Charles (Pud) Hassell, Beau
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