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No. 11
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MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C.
Tuesday, February 5, 1963
Published Tuesdays and Fridays
County Board Appoints Seven
Trustees to Hospital Board
Six trustees and a county commissioner were appointed"
to the “Carteret General Hospital” board at the meeting
of the county commissioners yesterday morning in the
courthouse.
The new trustees are Leslie Moore, Beaufort, Bud Dix
on, Morehead City, five-year terms; W. L. Derrickson,
Morehcad City and James H. t'ot--'
ter III, Beaufort, four-year terms;
W. H. Livingston, Newport, and
Hugh Willis, Smyrna, three-year
terms. County commissioner Ru
dolph Mason is the ex-officio mem
ber.
The appointments were embo
died in a new resolution setting up
the county hospital board. The new
resolution also takes “memorial”
out of the hospital name.
The board also approved a re
solution authorizing the borrowing
of $75,000 that will be available
for use by the trustees in prelimi
nary hospital construction work.
Mr. Dixon was named temporary
chairman of the hospital board.
The board is scheduled to meet and
organize within the next two weeks.
He said that part of the $75,000
will be used to meet bills now on
hand from the hospital architect,
George Watts Carr. Ronald Earl
Mason, county auditor, will act as
treasurer until the hospital is con
structed.
Wiley Taylor Jr., county attor
ney, presented a consent judgment
getting rid of the former hospital
suit. It was signed by all commis
sioners except Moses Howard, who
said he wanted to think about the
matter for a while.
Commissioner Headen Willis ask
ed the hospital board to check on
whether there was going to be an
other hospital suit. Mr. Taylor said
that the rumors have been checked
and such rumors are false.
The vote on the hospital resolu
tion and borrowing $75,000 was
unanimous, although commissioner
Moses Howard said he felt the
terms on the hospital trustees
should have been arranged differ
ently.
Mr. Howard said he wasn’t
aware that the “county board of
commissioners” wanted the old
hospital trustees to resign. He said
he’s tired of “getting credit” for
things he doesn’t deserve credit
for.
He also said, “Why is it every
thing done by the old board (for
mer commissioners) now has no le
gal basis?” He said that in the
past‘the county couldn’t afford a
full-time attorney but perhaps it
should have had one.
Commissioner Mason, who said
he was quoting the county attor
ney, told about statutes under
which the hospital referendum was
held and under which the trustees
were appointed. The way the new
terms for trustees were arranged
and the manner in which they were
appointed would “take politics out
of the hospital,” he said. The state
ment brought laughter from every
body except some of the county
officials.
Relative to the “county commis
sioners” asking that the former
hospital trustees, numbering 12, re
sign, county chairman William Roy
(See BOARD, Pg. 2)
PTA Council to Sponsor
Orations Thursday Night
The Carteret County PTA coun
cil is sponsoring an essay contest
to be presented as an oration by
students from the county’s high
schools. The orations will be pre
sented Thursday night at 7:30 in
the Beaufort school auditorium.
Subject for the essays is Why
Carteret County Needs Consolida
ted High Schools. Prizes will be
awarded the winners. The PTA
council invites the public.
28-Member Orchestra Gives
Two Concerts Here Friday
A seemingly inspired group of 28
musicians comprising the state’s
Little Symphony orchestra present
ed a concert Friday night that was
enthusiastically applauded by a
large audience. The concert was
given in the Beaufort school audi
torium.
The guest artist, baritone Bert
Adams, gave splendid renditions of
Handel’s Where’er You Walk from
the opera Semele, Gounod’s The
Golden Calf from Faust, It is
Enough from Mendelsohn’s orator
io, Elijah, and Was It You from
Verdi’s opera, A Masked Ball.
The program opened with the
overture to Rossini’s comic opera,
The Silken Ladder, followed by a
serenade by Mozart in four move
ments titled A Little Night Music.
The third number was William
Boyce’s Symphony No. 1 in B flat
major, a symphony of three move
ments.
The number prior to intermis
Newport Takes
Steps to Borrow
Sum of $270,000
• Matter Will Go j
Before Voters
• $264,000 Would Help
Build Sewage System
The town of Newport has an
nounced its intention to borrow half
the cost of installation of a sew
age system, $264,000, plus $6,000,
half the cost of a new pumping
station for the water system, a
total of $270,000.
Town residents will vote on bor
rowing the funds at an election
tentative set for Tuesday, March
26. 1963.
The other half of the funds, if
voters OK the borrowing, are to
come from the federal government
under the accelerated public works
program set up to help depressed
areas.
The pumping station for the wa
ter system is in addition to the
present one. It is scheduled for
location at the intersection of John
son and E. Forest drive.
Newport, as is Beaufort and
Morehead City, is under orders
from the Stale Stream Sanitation
commission to handle sewage in
a manner that will not pollute
surrounding waters.
Mayor Leon Mann Jr., Newport,
aorf commissioner Dick Lookcy
met Wednesday, Jan. 23, at Ra
leigh, with W. E. Easterling, sec
retary of the Local Government
commission, relative to the issu
ance of bonds. Also attending the
conference was George Freeman
of the Freeman Engineering firm,
High Point, which has drawn plans
for the sewage system.
The Local Government commis
sion has the responsibility for de
termining to what extent towns and
counties may obligate themselves
m borrowing.
Further details appear in a le
gal notice in today’s paper.
Food Adiminstrator
Resigns; New One Now
C. Z. Chappell, surplus food ad
ministrator for the county, resigned
yesterday and county commission
ers appointed Tommie Lewis, Har
kers Island, former administrator,
in his place.
The food is distributed nine days
out of each month. Pay to the ad
ministrator is $100 monthly.
Mr. Chappell, in his letter of res
ignation, pointed out that he ac
cepted the job on a temporary
basis. The program, when initiated
in the fall of 1961 was on a trial
basis, he noted, but now appears
to have “some degree of perma
nency.”
He said that he felt his duties
to the county have been fulfilled
insofar as the original agreement
with the county was concerned. Mr.
Chappell is a member of the coun
ty board.
sion was the familiar Largo from
Dvorak’s New World symphony,
known popularly as “Goin’ Home.”
Coates, Debussy and Strauss
numbers comprised the presenta
tions following Mr. Adams’ appear
ance. English, French and German
dances concluded the program. En
cores were numbers from the mus
ical comedies, Miss Me Kate,
Sweethearts and Carousel.
As an encore, the orchestra
played Courtin’ Song by Robert
Marek from Four Americana.
The instruments were skillfully
blended to give the listener tbe
feeling that a much larger orches
tra was playing. It was quite a de
parture from several years ago
when—either struck by illness or
ether complications—the orchestra
came straggling in to tbe county
with about 20 musicians who play
ed as though they wished they were
somewhere else.
Miss Nancy Russell, chairman of'
Norman R. Webb Retires After Long
Career With State Fisheries Agency
Norman R. Webb, Morchead City,
retired Thursday afternoon after
37 years and 8 months with the
state fisheries division. Members
of the office staff presented Mr.
Webb with a pocket watch at an
office farewell party Thursday af
ternoon. Punch and snacks were
served.
The watch was presented to Mr.
Webb by C. G. Holland, state fish
eries commisisoner.
Mr. Webb said in an interview
Saturday that his family says now
he'll have to start looking for a
job. Mr. Webb said, “I hope they’re
joking, because I’ve been working
since I was 12 years old.”
Mr. Webb went with the fisheries
department in May 1925 (the age
of 12 was far behind him) when
Capt. John Nelson. Gloucester, was
fisheries commissioner. At that
time the fisheries office was on
the second floor of the Morehead
City building that Beasley’s TV
now occupies. The postoffice was
below.
After one year, the offices moved
io the Duffy Wade building and
remained on the second floor of
that building for 25 years. Twelve
years ago, the offices were moved
to state buildings at Camp Glenn
where they are located now.
Mr. Webb is a Wake Forest grad
uate, class of 1909. After college,
| he was principal of a school in
Warren county for a year. He re
turned to work in Morehead City
at the bank with which his father,
T. D. Webb, was affiliated. After
a short time he left and for the
(See RETIRES, Pg. 2)
High Cost of School Program
Jolts County's Officials
County Republicans Plan
Lincoln Day Dinner
The executive committee of the
county Republican club met Sat
urday night at the headquarters in
Beaufort and made plans for a
Lincoln Day dinner Feb. 16.
The program was discussed and
approved and was given to Os
borne Davis to be printed. The
women were advised to go ahead
with decoration plans and head
table arrangements for the dinner.
Clifford Tilghman, house chairman,
is in charge of tickets.
It was decided to have the reg
ular meeting this Saturday, as
scheduled, at the headquarters. All
Republicans are invited.
Civitan Club to Donate
Swings for City Park
Civitans Thursday night began a
drive to get children’s swings
placed in the municipal park, with
George Vickroy named as chair
man of a committee to contract for
the swings and have them erected.
The swings will be donated by
the club.
Also under discussion at the
meeting were final collections for
the club’s fruit cake sales and ad
ditional work on the club’s mem
bership drive. ,n
The club meets weekly at the
Blue Ribbon restaurant.
the symphony society, explained
after the concert, that the startling
background—the backdrop of the
stage pulled aside to expose con
crete blocks and pipes—was neces
sary because there was not enough
room on stage for the bells and
several of the musicians.
She also announced during the
concert that the society was $25
short of the $1,100 needed to bring
the symphony here. 'Donations at
the door after the concert brought
in $25 plus $4.
The symphony spent the weekend
—a rainy one—in the county, at
the ^erry Park motel, Morehead
City. Dr. Benjamin Swalin, direc
tor, played the violin in the First
Presbyterian church Sunday morn
ing.
Symphony members were delight
ed with response of the children
at the children’s concert Friday af
ternoon. Adults who accompanied
children said that the children’s
concert was exceptionally good.
Norman R. Webb
■ To consolidate and bring all pres
ent county schools up to par will
cost more than $3Vi million, ac
cording to a report given county
commissioners yesterday morning.
The report came from 11. L. Jos
lyn, county superintendent of
rchools and was transmitted to him
from Dr. J. L. Fierce, director of
the state division of school plan
ning.
The report was the result of a
survey made in the county by
school planning personnel. The sur
vey was requested by county com
missioners so that they could de
Education Board
Rescinds Ruling
The county board of education
yesterday retained its two rulings
regarding married high school girls
who become pregnant and girls who
have illegitimate children, but re
scinded its ruling pertaining to
married students taking part in
sports and extra-curricular activi
ties.
The board was advised by C. R.
Wheatly, attorney representing pri
vate clients, and Wiley Taylor,
county attorney, that the attorney
general has ruled that a board of
education cannot prevent an en
rolled public school student from
taking part in the school program,
regular ojr extra-curricular.
The question was raised when
John Hassell, a senior, was remov
ed from the Beaufort basketball
varsity two weeks ago when his
marriage was announced.
The county board of education
luling was adopted last June in
the hope of curbing high school
marriages.
Firemen Called
Beaufort firemen were called to
Mrs. Murphy’s store, across from
Beaufort school, about noon yes
terday. The heater in the. store set
a wall afire and seriously damag
ed one side of the ‘store.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Feb. 5
5:49 a.m.
6:18 p.m.
12:14 a.m.
Wednesday, Feb. •
6:42 a.m.
7:09 p.m.
12:42 a.m.
1:05 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 7
7:29 a.m.
7:56 p.m.
1:14 a.m.
1:53 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 8
8:13 a.m.
8:40 p.m.
2:01 a.m.
2:38 p.m.
Four Marines Meet Death
In Sunday Night Wreck
(ermine how much money might
be needed in a school bopd refer
endum.
The county board of commission
ers and the education board will
meet jointly at 7:30 p:m. next Mon
day at the courthouse to study the
school report.
Board chairman W. R. Hamilton
said following the morning session
that he is mainly interested in
schools but the $3 million plus fig
ures are awfully high.
Commissioner Rudolph Mason
said, “Those figures have to come
down.”
To consolidate Beaufort and
Smyrna, meet needs at all other
schools, and build a West Carteret
high school, the total cost is esti
mated at $3,569,500.
To consolidate Atlantic with
Beaufort and Smyrna in an East
Carteret high school and meet all
other needs, the estimated cost is
$3,844,500.
Estimated cost of the West Car
teret school is $1,450,000; East Car
teret $1,125,000; White Oak $250,
000; if Atlantic docs not combine
with Beaufort and Smyrna, cost to
upgrade thgt school would be
$170,000.
If a new building is put up at
Queen Street the cost will be $385,
000, plus $40,000 if W. S. King high
school is combined with Queen
Street.
If Queen Street and W. S. King
are retained as separate units with
all grades through high school,
$180,000 is recommended to upgrade
Queen Street school and $72,000 to
upgrade King.
(See SCHOOLS, Pg. 7)
Whitehurst Sisters, Gloucester,
Seriously Injured in Car Crash
Conditions of Miss Mary and Miss
Georgia Whitehurst, Gloucester,
who were critically injured in an
automobile accident Friday on
highway 301 north of Rocky Mount,
were reported satisfactory yester
day.
The Misses Whitehurst are in the
hospital at Roanoke Rapids. Miss
Mary (known as Mamie) is suffer
ing from a broken fomarm, broken
rib and hairline fracture of a small
bone in her leg.
Miss Georgia is suffering multi
ple fractures of both legs and a
cut chin. Both are over 70 years
of age.
Relatives here hope to have them
moved to a hospital in this county
as soon as possible. Miss Mary
may possibly be moved at the end'
of tyis week and Miss Georgia in
i
> Four young Marines died in a"
single car accident at 11 p.m. Sun
day just east of Havelock on high
way 70. The accident occurred in
Craven county, about 1,000 feet
from the Carteret county line.
The dead were identified by state
trooper Thad Jernigan, one of two
investigating officers, as Donald
L. Patterson, 21, William E. Whi
taker, 20, William E. Rugcr, 21,
and Allen A. Fassler, 21.
Two other passengers in the car
were injured. They were Virgil K.
Hacker, 22, who suffered multiple
fractures, and Cecil L. Turnbow,
19, who suffered only superficial
injuries.
Trooper Jernigan said the car
was a 1962 Chevrolet two-door. The
young men had been to Smitty's a
tavern just west of Newport, and
were en route back to Havelock at
the time of the accident.
The trooper said the car went
out of control and left the highway
on its right side, traveled for some
distance down the right shoulder,
crossed diagonally to the left side
of the road, went down a ditch
canal sideways for several hundred
feet, struck a pine tree 8 or 10
inches in diameter, uprooting the
tree and breaking it in two places,
and continued on 30 more feet be
fore hitting a second tree and com
ing to rest on the left side.
Whitaker was thrown from the
car. Trooper Jernigan said the
force of impact was one of the
greatest he had ever seen and that
the car was completely demolish
ed.
The car was equipped with Chev
rolet’s biggest engine, known as a
409. It had twin 4 barrel carbure
tors and a stick shift in the floor.
Trooper Jernigan said the car
was equipped with seat belts and,
although they were not being used,
he didn’t think they would have
been much help if they had been.
Trooper Jernigan was assisted in
the investigation by trooper N. H.
Kobinson. Carteret county officers
were also on the scene.
County's Two
Lawmakers Go
To Capital Today
State senator Luther Hamilton
and county legislator Thomas S.
Bennett will leave today for Ra
leigh. The state legislature con
venes tomorrow in the new state
house.
Members of the senate will be
sworn in at 11 a.m. in the Senate
and representatives will be sworn
in at noon in the House. Between
14 and 16 Republicans from Car
teret will attend the swearing-in
ceremony tomorrow.
They will also attend a reception
for Republicans serving in the
legislature between 3 and 7 p.m.
today in room 331 at the Sir Wal
ter.
Members of each party will cau
cus tonight to select House and
Senate leaders.
Governor Sanford will address
the legislature Thursday, and again
Friday to present the budget.
This is Mr. Bennett’s first term
in the legislature. Senator Hamil
ton is returning for his third con
secutive term in the senate. Both
plan to return home weekends.
While in Raleigh, they will live
at the Sir Walter hotel.
Does Not Seek Re-Election
W. H. Potter, mayor of Beaufort,
has announced that he does not
intend to seek a third term. Muni
cipal elections are in May. T. H.
Potter has been mentioned as a
likely candidate for mayor. Mayor
Potter said yesterday he believes
there is a lot of "good material"
for mayor around, especially in the
newer areas of Beaufort.
about three weeks. At present, they
are in room 314, Roanoke Rapids
hospital.
The Whitehurst sisters were in a
1955 Chevrolet sedan being driven
by Mrs. Helen Fisher, Falls
Church, Va., their neice. They were
en route to Falls Church to spend
some time with Mrs. Fisher.
The accident happened between
11 a.m. and noon Friday when a
1900 Studebaker headed south skid
ded in front of the Whitehurst car.
The Studebaker was being driven
by George William Lotz, Fayette
ville. He suffered a crushed pelvis,
two broken ribs and a punctured
lung but his condition in Roanoke
Rapids hospital yesterday was also
given asi satisfactory.
The.state trooper who investigat
ed said that Lotz skidded on a
patch of ice.
22 County Men Will Go
On Ocean Expedition
i
Potomac Issues
To Go to Court
At New Bern
• Pre-Trial Hearings
Held Thursday
• Federal Court Trial
Set for March 11
The United States Navy and Ma
rine Transport Lines Inc., through
eourt action are seeking to be found
faultless—or at least be judged
limited as to liability—in the burn
ing of the tanker Potomac at More
head City Sept 26. 1961. The Po
tomac was being operated by Ma
rine Transport Lines.
The case is scheduled for federal
court at New Bern Monday, March
11.
A pre-trial hearing was held in
judge'a chambers of eastern dis
trict federal court at New Bern
Thursday.
Judge Walter E. Hoffman of Nor
folk, Va., conferred with lawyers
for the purpose of determining ad
missible evidence and to mark
planned exhibits for the trial.
The tanker, destroyed in an in
ferno that threatened the state
port at Morehead City, was valued
at million.
One member of the crew, Clyde
V. I-eonard of Norfolk, Va., died
in the explosion and fire. Twenty
four others were injured.
The vessel captained lay A. W.
Hunter of Long Island, N. Y., wris
unloading four million gallons of
aviation fuel.
A fuel leak apparently occurred
and fire broke out on the water,
spreading to the tanker. Explosion
followed.
Fire departments from neighbor
ing towns and Cherry Point and
Camp Lejeunc Marine bases rush
ed to the scene to aid Morehead
City firemen.
They were able to prevent the
windswept flames from reaching
seven fuel storage tanks containing
an additional 10 million gallons of
aviation fuel.
Navy Notifies Air Base
Of Shortage of Funds
Cherry Point—The air base has
been notified by the Bureau of Na
val Weapons that the availability
of funds requires a reduction in
civilian employment of 42 person
nel. Every effort is being made by
air station officials to accomplish
this reduction through resignations
and retirements, according to the
informational services office. At
the present time it appears that
approximately 20 persons may be
discharged by March 15, the of
fice states.
Each year about this time, be
cause of budget problems, a cer
tain number of persons employed
at the base, is fired, pending adop
tion of a new budget and new in
flow of funds.
To Appear at Hearing
C. R. Wheatly, Beaufort town at
torney, and John Jones Jr., city
clerk, will represent the town of
Beaufort at a hearing before the
State Utilities commission today.
Mrs. risner suiicrea a Dronen
left knee-cap and cuts on her right
knee and has been moved to Fair
fax hospital near Falls Church.
Staying with the Whitehurst sis
ters at the hospital is Mrs. Robert
Lowe, Norfolk, Va., a niece.
Mrs. J. R. Sanders, Morehead
City, a niece, drove her aunts to
Rocky Mount in the Chevrolet Fri
day morning. The car is owned by
Miss Mary. There Mrs. Fisher met
them and Mrs. Sanders returned
to Morehead City by bus.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanders spent the
weekend at Roanoke Rapids. Rich
ard Whitehurst, Gloucester, brother
of the accident victims, was expect
ed home from Roanoke Rapids yes
terday.
Both cars were demolished in the
accident. It happened about three
miles south of the Virginia line.
’ Twenty-two Carteret men will be
going on an international venture to
gather information about previous
ly unexplored subsurface ocean
currents
The men arc orew members of
the US Coast and Geodetic Survey
ship, Explorer, which will visit Da
kar, Sengal, Africa; Freetown,
Sierra Leone, Africa, and Recife,
Brazil; before returning to Nor
folk in April
A total of It ships from five na
tions will participate, including
Russia, Brazil, the Congo, Ivory
Coast. Nigeria and Argentina.
The Explorer will act as radio
guard for the ships, except Rus
sian vessels, receiving radio data,
and reporting daily to the National
Hydrographic Center in Washing
ton. L>. C.
The Explorer, based at Norfolk,
left Friday for the first leg of the
voyage, the 1,000 mile journey to
Dakar. At one time in the "Opera
tion Equalant,” as the investiga
tion is called, the Explorer will be
on station with the “Lomonosov,”
3 7,600 ton Russian vessel that
is the principal Red vessel in the
operation.
The Explorer will carry several
scientists from the United States
and other nations. The studies
made are expected to shed some
light on the effect of the equatorial
ocean areas on storms. Data will
also be gathered to aid the Weath
er Bureau.
Among the crew of the Explorer,
under the command of Capt. John
C. Bull, are Kemp Styron and
Gene Autry Willis, llarkers Island;
Ray Neil Willis, Leland Wiggins.
Donald Copeland and Jimmy 11.
Willis, all of Williston.
Edward Willis and Guion Chad
wick, Beaufort; Bruce Babbitt Jr.
Davis; Clem Gaskill. Sea Level;
Mike Harris, Buddy Harris, Grant
| Lewis, Paul Lewis and Vernon
Lewis;'alt Of Marshallbcrg.
ffifdrgc A. Blake and Gerald Ma
son. Beaufort, and Larry D. Styron,
Walter R. Morris, Billy Nelson Jr..
Walter C. Willis and Samuel F.
Yeomans, llarkers Island.
Total Rises