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52nd Year — No. 10
Two Sections — Sixteen Pages
MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C.
Friday, February 1, 1963
Published Tuesdays and Fridays
Trustees of County Hospital Resign
Coast Guard
Tries to Float
Grounded Yacht
• Three Canadians
Treated at Sea Level
t Yacht Stranded Near
Portsmouth Island
Coast Guardsmen from Ocra
coko have been attempting this
week to refloat a 62-foot yacht
grounded Sunday night in the in
let between Ocracoke and Ports
mouth.
Three Canadians aboard made it
to Portsmouth island in a 16-foot
skiff and were admitted to Sea
Level hospital Monday, suffering
from exposure.
George Allen Stott, 46, Moncton,
New Brunswick, was discharged
Tuesday, but still hospitalized yes
terday were Leonard J. Leblanc,
23, Moncton, and Ray Albert Kinch,
42. Albcrton, Prince Edward Is
land.
The Coast’ Guard said Mrs. Ma
rion Babb, of Portsmouth Island
on the outer banks, called the Oc
racoke Island life boat station Mon
day reporting that three men had
walked to her home and said they
were shipwrecked.
The men said they were enroute
aboard the yacht Alosa from Al
berton to St. Lucie, British West
Indies. They said they ran ashore
about 7 p.m. Sunday and could not
send distress signals because their
radio wasn't working and their
flares were wet.
The Coast Guard took the men
from the island to the Sea Level
hospital by helicopter.
Red Cross Hits
Another Snag
Hopes of reactivating a Red
Cross chapter in this area were
dampened Wednesday night when
key persons involved in reorgan
ization failed to show up at a meet
ing at the civic center, Morehead
C y.
Glenn Holt, chairman of a More
head City Jaycee committee, which
is engineering reorganizational
plans, said that the following who
agreed to attend the meeting did
not show: Jim Hux, Red Cross
disaster chairman; Mr. and Mrs.
Garland Scruggs, former workers
with the Red Cross; Kenneth Wag
ner, president of the Civitan club;
qnd Joe Beam, president of the
Jaycces.
Present were Mr. Holt, A. N.
Willis, Morehead City, who was
there a few minutes before the
meeting started, Odell Merrill,
Beaufort, Arnold Ashley, Jaycee;
Hudson Bacon, and Arthur Para
deses, Red Cross representatives.
Mrs. J. C. Taylor, Mrs. E. M.
Dewey and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Simmons attended the meeting fol
lowing the conclusion of a Woman’s
club meeting, which was held in
the same building.
Mr. Holt said that he doesn’t
know the next step the Jaycees
will take until after the Jaycee
meeting Monday night.
Firemen to Give
Demonstration
Morehead City firemen will con
duct a demonstration of a new type
of firefighting equipment Monday.
The public is invited. The demon
stration will be of foam equipment.
Planned for the demonstration
are a gasoline fire, an asphalt fire,
and a burning house. The foam
equipment is capable of producing
100,000 gallons of foam'within am
minute, according to L. E. Wgde,
fire department supervisor. -
The foam, which does not daat
age the contents of a building, is
pumped into a burning home or
business place, smothering the
fire by completely filling the in
terior spaces.
The demonstration will begin at
1:30 p.m. Monday. Spectators
should go to the fire department
headquarters at the municipal
building and irom there they will
go to the demonstration site.
Names Switched
Names under two pictures on the
boy and girl page, page 4 section
2, are transposed. The picture
labeled Adron Barnes is Jeffrey
Deah Vinson and Jeffrey’s name is
under the photo of Adron Barnes.
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A pretty decoration for any valentine is Virginia Potter, senior at Beaufort high school. This is
the month of February which brings Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14. Our thanks to Carteret Drug store
ronwmnjug the backdrop for our calendar picture, and to Mr. and Mrs. Janies II. Potter 111, Beau
fort, for producing the model.
$15,000 Fire Destroys House
Of Prentiss Garner, Newport
Jim Hux Heads
County Scouts
Jim Hux, Morehead City, has
been named chairman of the Car
teret district, Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca.
He and other officers of the dis
trict will be installed at the recog
nition banquet at 7 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 7, in the fellowship hall of the
First Methodist church, Morehead
City.
The other officers are Thomas
Eure and Charles McNeill* vice
chairman; Ed Nelson, district com
missioner; Cecil Sewell, organiza
tion and extension chairman.
Harry Salter, camping and ac
tivities chairman; Gerald Murdoch,
health and safety chairman; Gor
don Willis and Mel Eyerman, ad
vancement co-chairman; Dr. Bob
Barnum, leadership training, and
Bob Howard, finance.
Jim Hux
. . . BSA official
Man Hospitalized
A 95-foot Coast Guard vessel ar
rived at Fort Macon lifeboat sta
tion about 4:25 Wednesday after
noon witb a sick man from Ocra
coke aboard. Warwick T. Boos
was transferred from the boat to a
waiting Bell-Munden ambulance
and was taken to Morehead City
hospital. Mr. Boos was brought
from Ocracoke by boat because fog
prevented a helicopter from land
ing.
K A, $15,000 blaze destroyed the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss
Garner near Newport Tuesday
morning about 10:30: No one was
at home at the time. It is not known
how the fire started.
C. A. Gould Jr., Newport fire
department reporter, said the
alarm was sounded by Claude
Murdoch, who saw flames leaping
from the house as he drove by.
The house in located on the Nine
Foot road where it intersects with
the Masontown road.
When firemen arrived, the two
story frame dwelling which was
Mr. Garner’s homcplace, was com
pletely enveloped in flames. The
family lost everything they owned
except the clothing they were
wearing. When it became apparent
that the house' could not be saved,
the firefighters turned their atten
tion to the Lawrence Garner home
next door. Heat caused the roof
to smoke, but no damage was
visible.
About $200 damage was caused
to the department’s pumper truck,
which was being supplied with wa
ter by the tank truck. Paint peeled
from one side and the dome on the
red light atdp the truck melted in
the intense heat. No injuries were
reported.
Mr, Garner, former county tax
supervisor, was at work at Hunt
ley’s in Beaufort when notified that
his home was burning. Mrs. Gar
ner was teaching at ■ Newport
school, Where their son and two
of their daughters were attending
classes. The family has another
daughter, Patsy, a freshman at
East Carolina college in Greenville.
Fire chief George Green said the
fire was probably caused by faulty
wiring.
The loss was partially covered
by insurance. Friends and neigh
bors collected some qlothing for the
Tide Tab{e
HIGH
Tides at Beaufort Bar
LOW
Friday, Feb. 1.
1:39 a.m.
2:02 p.m. ,
2:39 a.m.
9:20 a.m.
9:36 p.m.
3:06 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 3
3:45 a.m.
4:16 p.m.
10:22 a.m.
10:34 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 4
4:50 a.m.
5:22 p.m.
11:19 a.m.
11:29 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 5
5:49 a.m.
9:18 p.m.
12:14 a.m.
family Tuesday and several mer
chants in Newport have started a
fund to enable the Garners to re
establish their home as soon as
possible.
The fire was the second major
one in the county in less than a
week. On Wednesday of last week
a $95,000 blaze destroyed Styron’s
department store, Morehcad City.
The chief said that had the fire
department number been readily
available when the fire was dis
covered, firemen could have been
on the scene several njinutes soon
er. He urged everyone to post the
number in a conspicuous place on
the front of their telephone direc
tory. Roger Newby, assistant chief,
directed activities at the fire.
The Garner family is staying
with Mrs. Garner’s brother, Hen
ry Edwards.
Biltmore Motor Hotel Goes
On Market for $500,000
On the market for $500,000 Is the
Biitmore Motor hotel, Morehead
City, according to the publication,
Royal Market Place, published bi
monthly at Chapel Hill.
Liquidation of the owning cor
poration, West Ihdia Fruit 'and
Steamship Co., is the reason given
for putting the hotel up for sale.
A $10(1,000 down payment is re
quested, with the remaining price
to be'paid over a period of time
at 5 per cent interest.
The hotel, consisting of 102
rooms, is billed as “the state’s No.
1 coastal convention hotel.”
It was acquired by Dan, Wil
liam, Alfred and Leslie Taylor,
owners of West. India Fruit and
Steamship Co., May 1, 1957, at a
price reported to be $152,000. The
hotel immediately underwent re
novation and since then numerous
improvements have been made, in
cluding construction of a swim
ming pool and addition of a con
vention dining hall.
Known as the “Bogue Sound
Club” when it was sold to the
Taylors, it was dwned by a group
of 18 residents of Wilson, N. C.,
and contained apartments. It was
built as a hotel in 1926 at a cost of
$250,000 and was named the More
head Villa.
It is now -a going concern. It
operated in the black last year,
which was reportdely the best year
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20 Coast Guard
Men to Move
From Station
Men attached to Fort Macon
Coast Guard base will bo given
subsistance and quarters pay start
ing today and will no longer be
eating and sleeping at the base,
according to Lt. Gabriel I’ehaim,
commander of Fort Macon group.
The move will not affect men at
the Fort Macon lifeboat station,
who number 18. Lieutenant i’ehaim
said there was overcrowding at the
station and by giving the men
quarters allowances, the over
crowding will be relieved.
The change affects about 20 men,
most of whom are married and
living in this area. The men will
get an average of $77 per month,
with single men getting slightly
more than the married men.
Lieutenant I’ehaim said the
change is temporary, until new
buildings planned for construction
at Fort Macon are completed.
Accelerated public works funds
amounting to $200,000 were releas
ed this week by the federal gov
ernment for rebuilding the dock,
roadway and lifeboat station at
Cape Lookout, which is in Fort
Macon Coast Guard group.
More Thefts
Occur in Town
A persistent thief hit again a
group of cafes in Beaufort that
have been entered on other occa
sions this winter. The break-ins
were reported Wednesday morn
ing
Entered were the Pine ‘Tree)
Cafe, where an estimated $40 fropi
the juke box, ten cartons of cigar
ettes and approximately $10 in
change was taken.
At the Pollock Street Bar, the
juke box was robbed of an un-.
known amount of change. Both
places were entered by breaking
open the front door with a wreck
ing bar.
Also reported were attempts to
enter the Chicken Shack and the
Club Casino, in the same locality.
A thief took an electronic garage
door opener from the car of Edna
Heslep, Beaufort, sometime Wed
nesday afternoon. The device, va
lued at $25, was taken from the
ear while it was in a parking lot.
Vandals, apparently small boys
with air guns, damaged glass win
dows at a monument firm at Cedar
and Live Oak streets, chief of po
lice Guy Springle also reported.
Newport Firemen Get
Two Calls Late Friday
Newport firemen answered two
calls Friday afternoon. About 5
p.m. they were called to the War
ren Lockcy home, Masontown road,
to put out a grass fire under an oil
tank.
About the same time a defective
heating unit called firemen to the
home of Charlie Jones in Newport.
No damage was reported at cither
place.
in the hotel’s history. Business this
year is predicted to exceed last
year's by 30 per cent.
Eight thousand visitors came to
this area in 1962 to attend con
ventions at the hotel.
West India Fruit and Steamship,
whose main business was ferrying
trains between West Palin Beach
and Havana, Cuba, was struck a
devastating blow when Castro
came to power in Cuba.
It is reportedly now losing $2
million annually. The bleak out
look for Cuba and little hope for
any revival of business, in the
Mist, Rain, Fog
Prevail This Week
Partially cloudy weather with
chilly temperatures characterized
Monday and Tuesday this week.
iFog and rain arrived Wednesday
with warmer weather.
Lowest temperatures, occurred
Tuesday/ with 41 as the high and
24 as the low, according to E. Sta
nley Davis, Morehead City, weath
er observer. Highest were Wednes
day, with S3 as the top tempera
ture and 33 as the low for that day.
Mar. Min. Wind
Monday -.45 31 NE
Tuesday _:...4l 24 ESE
Wednesday -..-53 33 SW
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Resignation Requested Tuesday;
Board to be Reduced to Seven
Conducts Orchestra
Dr. Benjamin Swalin will con
duct the Little Symphony orches
tra in two concerts at Beaufort
today, at 2 p.m. for school child
ren and 8 p.m. for adults in the
high school auditorium.
Tickets for the symphony con
cert tonight will be on sale at the
door, announces Miss Nancy
Russell, chairman of the county
symphony chapter. Memberships
arc $:t per person, $5 for a couple
and $l for high school students.
Children under high school age
who are accompanied by ihcir
parents will be admitted free.
Miss Russell said Wednesday
that she believes the chapter is
$100 short of meeting the cost of
bringing the symphony here, $1,
’00. The price this year has in-'
1 vi'eased by $100.
No Reports Of
Asian Flu Here
The county health department
by Wednesday had received no re
ports of asian flu in Carteret.
Mrs. Leota Hammer, public
health nurse, says that there have
been grippe and intestinal flu eases
but none that doctors have report
ed to the health department as
asian flu.
The slate health department
states that asian flu has reached
epidemic proportions mainly in the
central part of the state. By mid
week the number of cases was ap
proaching 9,000.
Robeson county experienced the
first epidemic of asian flu about
10 days ago. The illness there is
now subsiding. Other counties af
fected thus far are Scotland, Hali
fax, Nash, Edgecombe, Cumber
land, Hoke, Bladen, Chatham, Per
son, Richmond and Wake.
Health officials state that it is
too late to get flu shots. It takes
about a month for the shots to
build up immunization. They are
estimated to bo effective among
75 per cent of the persons taking
Them. .
near future, between this country
and Havana has brought the Tay
lor brothers to the decision to li
quidate the firm, observers report.
Fisheries Institute Plans to Have
Economic Surveys Complete by June 1
June 1 is predicted as comple
tion date for the survey the In:
stitute of Fisheries Research, UNC,
is doing on the value of sports and
commercial fishing in North Caro
lina.
A preliminary report on dollars
and cents value of the sports fish
ing industry was made this week
to the state commercial fisheries
committee at Durham by Dr. Wil
liam Fahy, fisheries institute staff
member who is in charge of the
survey.
Value of both the state and com
mercial fishing industries, annual
ly, ia estimated at $150 million.
Fishermen using the 32 piers along
the coast numbered 20,554 during
the past summer and piled up a
total of 383,000 “fishermen days."
Details of the sports fishing sur
vey, which was conducted from
May through November, and re
sults of the commercial fishing
► The board of trustees of thH
"Carteret County Memorial Hospi
tal" resigned Tuesday night, in
response to a request from the
county board of commissioners.
Reason given for asking the re
signations was a conflict in the
number of board members allowed
under statutes that created the hos
pital board of trustees and the le
,gal acts that created the proposed
j hospital.
The board of trustees has met
formally t\vice since its creation in
November of 1960. Suits arising out
of disputes over the hospitai made
freque'it board meetings unneces
sary.
A dittoed letter of resignation
was presented to each board mem
ber by the chairman. Bud Dixon,
Morehead City, who had met prev
iously with county attorney Wiley
Taylor and chairman of the county
board of commissioners, William
Roy Hamilton. He said the two bad
requested the resignations.
The letter included a statement
that the resigning board members
would be willing to serve if reap
pointed, and allowed space for a
.signature below the statement.
Mr. Dixon explained to the trus
tees that the resignation was not
mandatory, and that the commis
sioners wanted the trustees to build
and operate the hospital.
The board was also shown a new
resolution setting up a seven-man
board of trustees, with the chair
man of the county board of com
missioners as an ex-officio mem
ber, with full voting privileges.
This resolution is scheduled to be
passed by county commissioners
Monday.
In the discussion of the letter
of resignation, trustee Charles liar
ris expressed the opinion that he
did not think that the county com
missioners wished to get rid of
any of the present trustee?.
Mr. Harris, along with several
other members of the board, are
due to end their job as trustee due
to appointment to other county po
sitions. Among the trustees going
off the board were all trustees
from Beaufort, except James H.
Potter III. This caused chairman
Dixon to say that he was sure the
new board would include repre
sentation from Beaufort.
Beaufort trustees at present arc
Herald Hill, Mr. Potter, Charles
King and Albert Chappell. Mr.
Chappell is building inspector. Mr.
Hill, since his appointment to the
hospital board, has joined the coun
ty welfare board. Mr. King was
recently appointed to the Beaufort
school board. According to legal
interpretation, this prevents them
from also serving on the hospital
board.
Mr. Harris is scheduled to' take
over the tax collector’s job when
E. O. Moore, present collector,
leaves the office in May.
Trustee John L. Crump com
mented that signing the portion of
the letter pertaining to reappoint
ment did not mean that any of the
present trustees would be reap
pointed. William L. Davies stated
that he wanted to know more about
the situation, and wanted “who
ever rented the ditto machine to
explain.”
Mr. Davies added that he owed
something to some segment of the
community and he did not feel free
“to sign the letter and walk out.”
Mr. Crump added that it looked
like the' county commissioners
wanted a new board of trustees.
Trustee Gerald Hill stated that it
appeared that the commissioners
were giving the trustees a “nice”
way out “before they say ‘we don’t
want you’ ”
At the request of the trustees,
county attorney Wiley Taylor even
(See TRUSTEES Pg. 3)
survey, now under way, will be
released simultaneously, Dr. Fatay
said.
The sports fishing survey in
cludes the value of outboard motor
boats and trailers, how owners help
put money into circulation in the
coastal area, and the amount of
income generated by charter boats,
headboats, fishing camps, sound
and ocean piers and surf fisher
men. It also evaluates the total
investment in fishing facilities.
The legislature provided $30,000
in 196f for fisheries surveys, of
which $10,000 was used to finance
the sports fishing and commercial
fishing studies. Four surveyors
were employed during the sum
mer months of 1982 to collect data.
Purpose of.this*study is to nail
down, for several years' at least,
the actual worth of sports and com
mercial fishing. Unverifiable fig
ures have, In the past, been pulled
out of the air by each group.
Officials Get
Formal Notice
On Port Use
Informed this nrrk of official ac
tion by the Morehead City town
board relative to handling of ra
dioactive materials at Morehead
City port were Adm. E. J. Roland,
commandant. US Coast Guard, and
Robert II Solomons III, executive
director of the Southern Interstate
Nuclear board.
A copy of the hoard's resolution
was forwarded to both officials by
Walter Kriederichs, port operations
manager.
Mr. Friederifhs said, “We look
forward to being accepted and list
ed as a port and a community
willing and able to handle and
compete for the commercial or mi
litary cargoes which this new age
is generating."
The (’oast Guard is responsible
for port safety and security. The
Interstate Nuclear board is involv
ed in obtaining port clearance for
handling of radioactive materials.
In its resolution approving pas
sage of such materials through
Morehead City and the port, the
town board noted that radioactive
materials will be carried in great
er amount on ocean going vessels
in connection with the growth of
nuclear industry.
Because the radioactive materi
als will be handled in such a way
that public health and safety will
be safeguarded, the board states
“. . . we will take pride in having
the port of Morehead City identi
fied as a pioneer among progres
sivc, forward-looking seaports
seeking, rather than discouraging,
the indirect ps well as direct bene
fits from nuclear technology and
advances."
17-Year-Old Youth
Held for Theft
At Beach Cottatt
Ray Vance Hopper, 17, MtNOcad
City, has been charged with break
ing, entering and theft and |i doc
keted for appearance in county
court Tuesday.
Hopper was apprehended by spe
cial deputy George Smith, who
patrols Ocean Ridge at the beach,
at Hopper’s home in Morehead
City Wednesday.
Deputy Smith said that Hopper
entered the home of Ronald Ste
venson, Rocky Mount, and took a
battery-powered hand spotlight, a
telescope set complete with tripod
and a pair of binoculars. The pro
perty has been recovered, deputy
Smith said.
Hopper was released in the cus
tody of relatives who assured of
ficers that he would be in court
next week.
TV, Bed linens Stolen
At Capo Carteret Homo
Investigated Tuesday at Cape
Carteret was theft of a tv from
the Grover Smith summer home,
Also missing, according to deputy
sheriff Carl Bunch, were bed li
nens. This is one of several recent
robberies of summer homes in the
western Carteret area.
According to the deputy, entry
was gained to the home by pulling
the hook off the screen door. Then
the door, which faced the sound,
was pried open and the lock forc
ed. The robbery victim's perma
nent home is in Kinston.
Forty-two hundred dollars was
used to finance a survey on trash
Ashing. It analyzes the type of Ash
caught by trash, also known as “in
dustrial” or “scVap fishing.” The
survey was prompted by fishermen
claiming that trash fishing is
“ruining sports fishing and affect
ing catches of edible. Anfish.
Five thousand dollars is ear
marked for a clam study, which
has not yet started, and the re
mainder of the appropriation wag
used for a study of shrimp. Pur
pose of the study, which has includ
ed sampling of shrimp caught at
different points along the coast
throughout the year, is to see if a
method can be devised of predict- ^
ing the shrimp catch a year in
advance.
The shrimp survey is being con
ducted by Dr. Austin Williams of
the UNC Institute of Fisheries Re
search.
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