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CARTERET COUNTY
52nd Year — No. 18
Two Sections — Fourteen Pages
MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N.
NEWS-TIMES ■<*
Friday, March 1, 1963
Published Tuesdays sad Fridays
S. A. Chalk Jr.
Files Protest
On Bond Issue
S. A. Chalk Jr., Morehead City,
has filed with the local Govern
ment commission, Raleigh, a pro
test against the issuance of $2,000,
000 in school building bonds in this
county.
Referring to a legal notice pub
lished Tuesday, stating the coun
ty’s intention to apply to the com
mission for the approval of bonds,
Mr. Chalk says in his protest that
“$228,500 and possibly $252,000 will
be used for maintenance of plants
in violation of state law (GS 115
78 a-4).”
Mr. Chalk claims that the county
board of education has had insuf
ficient funds to maintain buildings
for 30 years and deficiencies in
appropriations since 1953 amounted
to at least $10,000 at buildings
where renovation is proposed.
Mr. Chalk asks the Local Gov
ernment commission not to ap
prove issuance of any bonds until
the county board of commissioners
approves the county board of edu
caiton budget providing “funds for
all such renovation proposed under
the current expense budget as re
quired in General Statute 115-78
and made levy for same.”
If this isn’t done, then the
amount authorized for bonds, if
any, should be reduced by the
amounts required for renovation,
Mr. Chalk told the commission.
A copy of Mr. Chalk’s protest
was forwarded yesterday to Odell
Merrill, clerk of the county board
of commissioners.
Cedar Point
Station Robbed
Thieves again picked on Dudley’s
Gulf service station, Cedar Point,
Tuesday night. Stolen were tools,
a large amount of fishing tackle,
two one-dollar bills and possibly
some tires. The station was entered
two weeks ago but the thieves were
apprehended and convicted.
Deputy sheriff Carl Bunch, who
is investigating, said that the
phone, in a public phone booth at
the station, was torn off the wall,
but no money was taken from the
coirt box, which apparently couldn’t
be Opened.
Entry was gained through a rear
window of the station.
The lock was tampered with at
the S&R grocery at Cedar Point
Wednesday night, but entry was
not gained, the deputy said.
Marines Leave Port
For Caribbean Exercise
A reinforced Marine battalion of
1,800 men and their equipment
boarded a convoy of Naval ships
at Morehead City Tuesday, headed
for a two-month amphibious exer
cise in the Caribbean.
The Task Force flagship will be
the USS Monrovia, an attack trans
port. The force is using six ves
sels, plus several LSTs.
The Marine force is scheduled to
return here in early May.
Newport Medical Center Fund
Nears $23,000 — Not Enough
J. Stancil Bell, chairman of the-1
Newport Medical Center Fund
Raising committee, announces that
the total to date is near $23,000.
Approximately two thousand dol
lars more is needed to reach the
required $25,00. by the end of
today. However, DO NOT stop be
cause March 1 is near, says Mr.
Bell. Rush in your loans and con
tributions. Mr. Bell thinks the goal
will be reached if funds continue
to come in as they have in the past
few days.
Mr. Bell is hopeful that many
out-of-town residents will respond
before the deadline or shortly
thereafter. It is gratifying, states
Mr. Bell, that Newport has many
friends outside the vicinity, and
more should respond as they reap
part of their income from Newport
community residents. “A good po
licy is, YOU HELP US AND WE
WILL HELP YOU,” states the fund
raising chairman.
A medical center plus two doc
tors can mean more to Newport
community and nearby vicinities
than the average person realizes,
states Mr. Bell. Among other
things, it means economy in tra
vel, convenience and security.”
Many have stated that they will
respond with a greater loan if ne
cessary. Additional funds ARE
needed to reach the deadline mini
mum of $25,000. “We will still have
about ten thousand dollars to raise
before we reach our final goal by
June 1,” Mr. Bell reports. 1
“As you know, this is OUR com
munity project and we are sure
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Stephen Stafford, 6-year-old sou of Mr. and Mrs. George Stafford,
Mansfield Park, believes in being prepared. Here it is the first day
of March, and Stephen already has his kite ready to send aloft on
the March breezes!
14-Year-Old-Girl, Missing
Since Dec. 8, Now at Home
Tanya Eubanks, 14 - year - old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Eubanks, Beaufort, who disappear
ed Dec. 8, is back home. ■
Mrs. Eubanks reported yesterday
morning that she and her husband
left at 5 p.m. Wednesday for Char
leston, S. C., where they picked up
their daughter.
Mrs. Eubanks said their daughter
is nervous, needs sleep and they
haven’t questioned her at length
as to her aptjyities since she left
Beaufort with her younger sister,
Jennie, 11, and Shelba Joan Hardi
son, 22, almost three months ago.
Mrs. Eubanks said Tanya has
told them that the Hardison girl
has gone to her mother’s at South
port. She said that the two girls
have been in Savannah, Ga.
Tanya’s sister, Jennie, turned up
in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 12, four
days after she had left Beaufort.
Her parents went to the police de
partment there and brought her
back home. Jennie said then that
the three of them had hitchhiked
to Savannah and that she had been
put on a bus by the older girls, at
Savannah, and sent back to Char
leston.
Mrs. Eubanks reported that from
what she and her husband have
been able to learn, Tanya has want
ed to come home but has been led
to believe that her parents would
not want her.
Mrs. Eubanks said that they
picked up Tanya “at a judge’s of
fice” in Charleston and that “some
Hubert Davis Retires
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Hubert Davis, enginemau chief
master, retired Thursday from
the Coast Guard during a cere
mony at the Fort Macon Guard
station.
Mr. Davis was horn at Hark
ers Island and is now a resident
of route 2 Beaufort, where he
lives with his wife and three
children. He has served twenty -
Tanya Eubanks
. .. was in Georgia
man” had made a phone call to
them at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, from
Charleston, to let them know their
daughter was there. She said Tan
ya didn’t know how to place a long
distance call.
Mrs. Eubanks said that local au
thorities “had nothing to do” with
her daughter’s return. She said,
“As best as we can find out, no
information was put out. They said
pictures were published in bulle
tins and sent around the country.
“The only thing the Charleston
police knew,” she continued, “was
that Jennie had been located there
and they were supposed to be look
ing for her older sister.”
Tanya was 13 when she left home
and has since turned 14.
years and five months in the
Coast Guard.
His last three years of duty
have been at Fort Macon. Mr.
Davis served patrol boat duty
off the coast of North Carolina
during World War II. He served
also in the Pacific during the
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He says he has no immediate
plans for the future.
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Committees in Each School District
Will Explain Need for Bond Issue
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Hospital Suit Filed; Action
Halts Borrowing of $75,000
A legal action restraining Cart-4
eret county commissioners from
selling a $75,000 note in preparation
for constructing a county hospital
was instituted yesterday at the
courthouse, Beaufort.
The suit has been filed against
county commissioners and Carteret
county by Llewellyn Phillips and
Luther Hamilton Jr., Morehoad
City, who are acting as their own
attorneys.
Scheduled for sale T ue s d a y,
March 5, was a hospital bond an
ticipation note. The legal suit re
quests that all procedures toward
building a county hospital be re
strained.
Mr. Phillips and Mr. Hamilton
are private citizens of Morehead
City. Mr. Hamilton was county at
torney when a suit was filed in
1961 which prevented county com
missioners from putting a hospital
on a site on Bogue sound. A deci
sion has since been made to use
a site closer to Morehead City.
The two complainants base their
suit on allegations that Carteret
voters went to the polls Nov. 8,
knowing full well that the hospital,
if the bond referendum passed,
would be built at least three miles
west of Morehead City. (The Bogue
sound site, owned by Earle Webb,
is three miles west of Morehead
City.)
The complaint says that wide
publicity was given this fact by
newspaper and radio.
It further alleges that the site
now selected for the hospital, com
monly known as the Barbour site,
is about seven-tenths of a mile
from Morehead City and does not
comply with the announcement as
to hospital location made by the
county prior to the hospital bond
referendum.
The Barbour site, the complain
ants allege, is inaccessible and a
great deal of public expense would
be incurred to build a road of 1.7
miles, plus a bridge. (The state
has said it would build the road,
but with state, not county road
funds.)
The complaint claims that a dirt
road was hastily bull-dozed about
a year ago at the Barbour location
and fill for a causeway consists
partially of trash, that the site is
a knoll at the headwaters of Cali
co creek and looks out over marsh
land.
Calico creek is described as a
slow-moving creek, that it is a
breeding place for mosquitoes and
in one direction the proposed hos
pital would give a clear view of
the Morehead City trash and gar
bage dump.
The complainants note that a
$2 million hospital ($1 million to
be furnished by the county and $1
million by state and federal funds)
is to date the largest project un
dertaken by the county and the
location of the hospital should be
such that taxpayers could take
pride in it.
As proposed, it is visible from no
main thoroughfare and that the
county “would be hiding its light
under a bushel” to put it on the
Barbour site.
The complainants allege further
that it would be almost impossible
to give clear directions, in case of
an emergency, to any stranger who
may wish to find the hospital.
The taxpayers, the complaint
states, have no further recourse
and for that reason county offi
cials should be restrained from any
further move to build the hospital.
To do so would allegedly be “an
abuse of discretion,” in the com
plainants’ opinion.
Board to Meet
The County Hospital board of
trustees, who were scheduled to
meet Monday night, Feb. 18, with
George W.'Carr, hospital architect,
at the courthouse, did not meet
because Mr. Carr was ill. The
meeting is tentatively rescheduled
for Tuesday night, according to Ed
ward (Bud) Dixon, hospital chair
man.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, March 1
12:22 a.m. ,
12:50 p.m.
6:38 a.m.
6:58 p.m.
Saturday, March 2
1:19 a.m.
1:48 p.m.
Sunday, March 3
2:18 a:m.
2:53 p.m.
«• p.m.
Monday, March 4
n. 10:05 a.m.
n. 10:19 p.m.
9:02 a.m.
9:19 p.m.
3:25 a.m.
4:02 p.m.
4:31 a.m.
5:97 p.m.
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Heart Fund Helps Children
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Wendy Jean Chevalier, 6, and Hubert Geiges, 4, lend their per
sonal support to the heart fund drvc, which will end this weekend.
Both children suffer from heart delects.
Proceeds from the heart drive,
which ended yesterday, help fi
nance research that will eventually
lead to correction of heart defects
in children.
Two children in this county who
will benefit from heart funds arc
Robert Geigcs, 4, and Wendy Jean
Chevaliei, 6, both of Morehead
City.
Robert is the son of Mrs. Betty
Geiges. His father, Capt. Elmer B.
Geiges Jr., is stationed at Fort
Benning.
Robert is suffering from pulmon
ary stenosis, a congenital afflic
tion. Mrs. Geiges says that Robert
will, in four years, undergo an op
eration at Bethesda Naval hospital
in Maryland. The operation will
correct the condition.
At one time such an operation
was not possible. But research fi
nanced by heart fund campaigns
has opened the door to successful
surgical remedy, Mrs. Geiges said.
Robert has two older sisters who
are not fighting a handicap, yet
Robert* too, is normal in every re
spect except the heart condition.
Wendy Jean is the daughter of
S/Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Chevalier.
Sergeant Chevalier is stationed at
Cherry Point. Mrs. Chevalier said
that Wendy Jean has a heart de
fect, but doctors have not specif
ically diagnosed it.
When very young, she had a
Snow Covers Arendell Street
Arendell Street, Morehead City, was “the Great White Way” Wednesday morning alter snow cover
ed deetslick streets.
February brought two snowfalls.
The biggest one was early Wednes
day morning and some snow was
still lying on the ground Thursday
morning.
The snow followed a sleet storm
Tuesday night which made driving
hazardous. The snow on top of icy
roads Wednesday morning caused
most vehicles to slither and slide.
Because of the danger, which
would have made bus handling a
risk, school was closed for the day.
Many of the children get to school
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"heart murmur.” Although she
tires'tjuickly, Mrs. Chevalier said
that Wendy’s condition seems to
be improving and it is hoped that
she may outgrow the affliction.
Wendy Jean will start school next
year. She has two younger healthy
brothers.
Carteret Men Take
Four Fish Boats
To South America
Five Carteret residents and two
Southport men left Jacksonville,
Fla., Wednesday aboard four men
haden boats they arc taking to the
west coast of South America for
the Fish Meal Co., Beaufort, which
has menhaden interests through
out the world.
The men are A. L. (Bull) Brin
son, Leonard Willis, Rick Morton,
all of Morehead City; Jackie Simp
son and Fred Garner, Beaufort;
and Otis Garner and John Carl
Davis, Southport.
They left here Sunday and are
expected back home the early part
of April. The boats, slightly dif
ferent in style from the menhaden
boats used here, were to be deliv
ered to Taitai, Chile. It is also ex
pected that they will make port
in Peru.
by brs.
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, said that the day
lost Wednesday will be, made up
Tuesday, April 16, which had orig
inally been scheduled as part of the
Easter holiday. The Easter holi
days now will be Good Friday and
Easter Monday.
February’s earlier snowfall was
Sunday, Feb. 10, but flakes flew
for about 10 minutes and no snow
lay on the ground.
Temperatures and wind direc
Specific Plans for Each
School Yet to be Revealed
County chairman William Roy Hamilton has requested
that each school district appoint a committee of three to
help promote the proposed school bond referendum. The
request was made Monday night following a meeting at
the courthouse when plans for expenditure of $2,800,000
for schools was announced.
The committee of three would consist of a representa
tivo of the l’TA, the school com--*
mittoe and a member of tlic Better
Schools committee of the district.
The names of those selected were
to be forwarded to Mr. Hamilton
by yesterday.
When, at the conclusion of the
ineetiug, Mr. Hamilton asked how
many were in favor of the school
bond referendum, about three
(Details of the meeting appear
on page 2 of the second section
of today’s paper.)
fourths of those in the audience
raised their hands. There were ap
proximately GO in the room. Earl
ier. there were more, but some
folks left during a recess.
( ritieism of the program ranged
from ’'don't borrow money for
schools” to "you’re not borrowing
enough.”
On the latter point, Mrs. A. B.
(Jack) Roberts, Morchead City
school board member, pleaded for
more money tor one good consoli
dated high school. W. C. Carlton,
Morchead City, later spoke in favor
of her proposal, but the pleas gen
erated favorable response only
from Monroe Gaskill, Cedar Island.
Fosters advocating passage of
the school bond referendum were
placed on stairways leading to the
courtroom, where the meeting was
held, and in the courtroom.
Not announced at the meeting
was what the hoped-for school
funds would do at each school.
Ronald Earl Mason, county audi
tor, said that this will be announc
ed by the committee in each school
district.
County commissioners and the
county board of education will
meet at 10 a m. Monday. County
commissioners meet in the court
house and the other board in the
annex.
tion for the past week, as recorded
by E. Stamey Davis, weather ob
server:
Max. Mia. WM
Thursday _ 60 40 SW
Friday ...55 24 WNW
Saturday..... 46 23 • SW
Sunday_50 35 Var.
Monday 55 34 SW
Tuesday :. 51 24 NE
Wednesday _ 38 20 NW
' Heavy rain tell Sunday. Although
Monday was dear, rain started
again Tuesday and turned to sleet.
R. E. Butner Jr.
Buys Morehead
Hotel Firm
Rufus F. Hutner Jr., Morehead
City, has purchased the Bittmore
Motor Hotel Co., Inc., Morehead
City. Mr. Butner became owner of
the corporation, all its real estate
and other assets at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The price was reportedly in the
neighborhood of half a million dol
lars. The hotel was bought from
the West Indies Fruit and Steam
ship Co , which is dissolving its
assets. Controlling the West Indies
firm are Dan, Alfred. William and
Leslie Taylor, originally of Sea
Level, who built the Sea Level hos
pital.
Mr. Butner is president of the
firm; R R Butner Sr., Kinston,
vice-president; Mrs. Ruflis Butner
Jr., secretary-treasurer; and Dr.
John W. Gainey, Morehead City,
has been named a director.
Mr. Butner does not contemplate
any immediate changes in opera
tion of the hotel. It is remaining
open and all conventions scheduled
for the coming season will be ac
commodated as planned.
The new notel owner is a former
vice-president of Wachovia Bank
and Trust Co., Morehead City, a
position he resigned six months
ago. He now operates a realty
firm, R. E. Butner Jr. and Assoc
iates, of which he is president. He
is a vice-president of the Interna
tional Life and Accident Insurance
Co., Wilmington, is on the board
of directors and the executive com
mittee, and this month was elected
president of the Morehead-Beau
fort Board of Realtors.
Mr. Butner is a past president
of the Greater Morehead City
chamber of commerce (the name
has since been changed), is a for
mer director of the Neuse Devel
opment association, a former Jay
cec and has headed numerous civic
drives since he came to this coun
ty in 1957.
He owns and operates the Coral
Sands motel, Atlantic Beach, and
leports that he is in the process
of acquiring interest in a new ho
tel to be constructed in Wilming
ton.
Leaf Fanners
To Meet Tuesday
The 16th annual meeting of the
Tobacco Associates Inc. will be
held Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the
ballroom of the Sir Walter hotel,
Raleigh. ‘This invitation is being
extended to tobacco farmers on
behalf of the officers, board of
directors, and 400 delegates re
presenting 11 supporting organiza
tions,” announces R. M. Williams,
county agricultural agent.
Highlights of the meeting will in
clude president J. B. Hutson's an
nual report and a guest speaker,
an authority on World trade.
President Hutson will report on
Tobacco Associates activities, dur
ing the year, progress of the flue
cured tobacco overseas’ market
development programs, activities
of the Tobacco Associates office
in Brussels, Belgium, recent de
velopments in European Common
Market counties, and other factors
affecting the sale of flue-cured to
bacco abroad.
Tobacco leaders frbm all seg
ments of the tobacco industry, re
presenting the five flue-cured pro
ducing states, are expected to at
tend.
Morohoad City Rrtmtn
Called to Trailer Court
Marehead City firemen had a
call Wednesday at t:» p m. to
the trailer court el O. O. Fulcher,
where they extinguished a small
fire in the house trailer of Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmy Williams.
The fire department reported the
damage was negligible.
Beard la Meet
The Newport town hoard will
meet at T:J9 p.m. Tuesday at the
town hall, Newport.
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