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At Mitchell Village Get Your News-Times At Bryan’s Grocery 10/ 62n d Year — No. 25 Two Sections — Ten Pages MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C. Tuesday, March 26, 1963 Published Tuesdays and Fridays / Mayor Dill Questions Port Work ; If Federal Funds Not Granted Ed Richards, member of the State Ports Authority, which met yesterday at Morehead City, said that things would have to “slow up” at Morehead City if federal matching funds do not come through for the port program there. John M. Reeves, chairman of the SPA, commented that More head City would not be overlooked, as far as expansion is concerned, if federal funds are not approved. Mr. Richards said that things look good and “we’re optimistic” about receiving federal funds. The comments came in answer to a question by mayor George Dill, Morehead City. He asked, “What happens if we don't get the federal supplement?” Morehead City is eligible for “ac celerated public works funds” be cause it is in a depressed area, according to federal authorities. The entire expansion program at Morehead City port—and the port Dry weather caused serious out break of forest fires in the county over the Weekend. Fire-fighting personnel from Cra ven and Carteret counties fought two blazes at Adams Creek and a third at Merrimon Saturday. Three plows were in service, making fire lanes to check the flames, and the plane at New Bern was called in to help give directions to fire-fighters. Mrs. Vernon Lewis, spotter in the fire tower at Otway, said 16 signs of smoke were checked Saturday. She added that the land is extreme ly dry and persons planning to burn should be extremely cautious. Permits must be obtained if any one plans to burn between mid night and 4 p.m. If dry weather continues, it is possible that burn ing permits will be denied. Between 75 and 80 acres of North Carolina Pulp land at Merrimon burned Saturday. Some timber on the Georgina Yeatman farm, Open Grounds, was also lost. Interna tional Paper Co^ suffered loss of two tracts at Adams Creek. A fire at North River was allow ed to burn because it was in marshland and was checked by the river. Fire-fighting stopped when all fires were under control at 6 p.m. Saturday. But shortly after noon Sunday another fire broke out on the Lau rel road. Fire then broke out a' Stacy. A plow being used at Stacy broke and to control a third fire that started at Williston a plow had Charles McNeill Reports on 'Go East' Mission to New York City Charles McNeill, assistant opera tions manager, Morehead City state port, who is also chairman of the industry committee, county chamber of commerce, was a member of the North Carolina in dustrial mission to New York last week. He reports on the trip in the arti cle which follows: The mission was made up of 100 men from 40 counties in Eastern North Carolina whose mission was to induce industry to consider East ern North Carolina in their future expansion plans. Dr. John Costa bile from Wilson acted as chair man under the guidance of the De partment of Commerce and Indus try. Governor Sanford met the group at the Governor’s Mansion in Raleigh Monday afternoon, con gratulating the mission on its ef forts with an inspiring pep talk. Members of the press were pre sent and Frank Daniels Jr., busi ness manager, News and Observer, flew with the group from Raleigh, A short briefing at the Waldorf Astoria by Russ Hanson was held after arriving there about 9 p.m. Monday. Teams of two were set up and prospect cards passed out. Visits were made, starting Tues day morning with instructions to stress only Eastern North Carolina as a region. No individual “pitch” was made on any particular lo cality. My ten calls were made with J. I. Thomas of Dunn. All of our prospects were in the Empire State Beaufort Police Report Three Citations Sunday Beaufort police arrested Tommy Merrill Sunday on a charge of pub lic drunkenness and resisting ar rest. Merrill was placed under a $500 bond. Henry Taylor was cited for ex ceeding 35 in a 35 mph zone. Bill'Otis was arrested for putyic drunkenness and placed under a $25 bond. All arrests occurred Sun day, according to chief of police Guy Springle. Numerous Forest Fires Occur During Weekend budget for the next two years— is based on the assumption that the federal government will come through with $1,225,000. Total to be spent at Morehead City, including federal funds, is $2, 660,000. James W. Davis, state ports di rector, told SPA members yester day that plans are being drawn for the Morehead City improvements and he hopes state and federal funds will be available by July 1. He believes bids can be asked for in about two months. Dock exten sion, two transit sheds, two ware houses and other smaller improve ments are being planned at More head City. Mr. Davis and Mr. Richards re ported on their recent appearance before the joint appropriations committee at Raleigh. Mr. Richards termed the reception “good.” Mr. Davis explained to the com mittee that if the two state ports to be brought in from New Bern. Another fire occurred at Stacy Monday morning when a trash fire got out of control. Since the first of March, through last Friday, 27 fires occurred in the county. Of those, the fires in the open Grounds and on Brown’s Island across the Straits were con trolled burning. Nine were wild fires, three at Sea Level, two at Otway, one each at Mill Creek, on highway 24, Adams Creek and Williston. Tim ber of International Paper Co. was threatened at Williston. Persons who burn between mid night and 4 p.m. are subject to a $50 fine or 30 days in jail. It is believed that many of the recent fires were set or were caused by lighted cigarettes toss ed out windows. Driver Cited Following Saturday Night Crash Robert Stockman, Cherry Point, was charged with driving too fast for conditions after his 1961 Pon tiac left the Lake road on a curve Saturday night. The car ended up in a field but did not turn over. Neither Stockman nor two pas sengers with him were injured. Damage to the car was estimated at $150 by state trooper W. E. Pickard. Stockman was headed toward Newport from Cherry Point when the accident occurred. building. Even though no appoint ments were made in advance, we' were cordially received and much interest was shown. Groundwork (or these industrial missions had been made by previous industry caravans under former governor Hodges and recent visits such as the North Carolina Day held a few weeks ago. With few exceptions all visits were quite successful. Tuesday, March 19, a luncheon was held at the Waldorf at which an announcement was made to refer all port-related industries to the North Carolina State Ports Au thority for needed information. I was asked my questions by indivi duals in our group and great inter est was shown in our efforts to as sist in this program. Charles McCullers was master of ceremonies and the main speaker was the Honorable L. H. Fountain, Congressman, second district of Firemen Fight Grass Fire Saturday was a busy day for the Morehead City Fire department. The firemen answered four calls, all of which were grass fires. Two grass fires, were reported at Yaupon Terrace, one at 10:20 in the morning and another later that afternoon. Reports came from 1752 Fisher St. and Calico Drive of grass fires. Chief El Nelson said he would like to remind the citizens of Morehead City that it is against the law to start a brush fire inside the city limits without supervision from the fire department. He said the grass fires Saturday were started by people who were burning off the land and let the fire get out of control. . », The fire chief said the Morehead City firemen will supervise any burning-off or brush fires if they are notified. had in operation now the facilities that would have been built with funds from a $13 million port bond issue in 1961, all would be opera ting at full capacity. "We are in the ridiculous posi tion of having to turn down car goes of cotton, woodpulp and news print which should be moving through North Carolina ports,” the director remarked. He also reported that he and Mr. Richards met recently with state highway officials and plans for the Morehead City bridge will permit passage by train and truck beneath the bridge from the present port area, should it become necessary to use Marsh Island in the future. Mr. Richards said, “The state highway commission has done ex actly as they promised to do.” When the state refused to move the bridge farther upstream to per mit expansion of the port, it was agreed that provision would be made for access to land that is now north of the port area (Marsh Is land). The SPA went on record again in favor of a high level bridge at Wilmington. Mr. Davis was di rected to appear at an Army Engi neers’ hearing to state the SPA's position. Cooper D Cass, SPA member heading a committee to spearhead development of the Southport port project, reported on progress there. Operation of a state marina, which would accommodate fishing ves sels and other craft, is proposed. Mr. Cass was authorized to have an appraisal made of private lands proposed as the marina site and to take a six-month option on about 50 acres which has been offered to the SPA for $9,000 by the town of Southport. Part of the 50 acres front 2,400 feet on the inland waterway. The authority approved construc tion of a shelter for longshoremen. The building would permit the men to escape bad weather when they are waiting to load or unload a ship. Shelter cannot be taken in warehouse or transit sheds, which are always tightly closed. Further more, no smoking is permitted in those building, Mr. Davis said. Cost of the ^hetygi1 will probably be less than $3,000, he estimated. The building will be heated. Simi lar heated quarters will be recom mended at Wilmington when a new building goes up there. Because of the different type of operation at Wilmington, longshoremen there already have buildings where they can go in bad weather. Erection of a garage for steve dore equipment at Morehead City was approved, rental for the build (See SPA, Pg. 3) North Carolina. He was introduced by Frank Daniels. Invited guests included top ex ecutives from about 25 of our larg e s t corporations. Congressman Fountain made a dynamic address, the text of which appeared in sev eral leading newspapers. I was de lighted to have the opportunity to talk with representatives from Tex as Gulf Sulphur, Union Carbide, American Synthetic Rubber Co., W. R. Grace & Company and several others at the luncheon. North Carolina State Ports Au thority booklets and brochures were given to each guest and each prospect called on. Special packets of North Carolina information were made up by Vernon Morton 6f the Wilson Industrial Council under the guidance of commercial and indus try officials. Clifton Daniels of the New York Times was also present and made comments tat the luncheon. Positive interest was shown by several companies I called on in regard to our ports. One firm im mediately saw a possible savings for their firm in exporting their product through either Morehead City or Wilmington. Following a call to American Synthetic Rubber Co. I paid a visit to our new SPA office with Lou Larcombe. Needless to say, I was quite proud of our New York office located in the heart of the ship ping business. Time did not per mit calls with Mr. Larcombe on several firms that have been ex-, porting through Morehead City for a number of years. We departed New York 4 p.m. Wednesday for Raleigh. To sum up this mission, all par ticipants ami prospects agreed the efforts were certainly worthwhile, the actual value of which can only be determined by time. Fire Track Arrives Morehead City’s new fire truck arrived Friday. The truck will be put in service after it undergoes fire underwriter' tests, Morehead City commissioners were told at their -board meeting Thursday night at the city halL Court Order Sends Longshoremen At Two State Ports Back to Work News-Times Wins Award Aaron E. Fussell, left, chairman of public relations, North Carolina Education association, and II. L. Joslyn, Carteret superintendent of schools hold the certificate presented to THE NEWS -TIMES Thursday night at the NCEA convention at Asheville. (Photo courtesy Asheville Citizen-Times.) _ 4--— In addition to the certificate, THE NEWS-TIMES received “for distinguished service in the in terpretation of education” in 1962 a school bell. The school bell is 6 inches high, is engraved and is of heavy brass (silhouette above). THE NEWS-TIMES was one of six • newspapers throughout the state honored for its service to education at the NCEA conven tion. H. L. Joslyn, county school superintendent, who accepted the award on behalf of the newspa per, said yesterday. “I'm very proud of THE NEWS-TIMES.” The newspaper expresses its appreciation to Mr. Joslyn for accepting the award, since mem bers of its staff were unable to be in Asheville for the occasion. Morehead City Officials Get Ready for May Town Election Morehead City town commission ers agreed Thursday night at the I town hall to have a special meet ing to appoint the registrar and judges for the election Tuesday, May 7. The board passed a reso lution to take all the other neces sary steps in connection with the election — opening of registration books, setting of dates for filing by candidates and setting of chal lenge day. Retative to a request to permit a town at the edge of the town limits to tap in to the town sewer, the board reiterated its policy of not offering town services beyond the town limits. A question of speeding through town alleys was referred to the police commissioner and his com mittee for study. Deposit of gar bage and trash at the town dump was discussed. Placing a gate at the dump was authorized. The board discussed at length the problem of access to sewer lines where private property own ers refuse cooperation in permit ting a line to cross their lot. The matter was referred to mayor George Dill, the town attorney, George McNeill, and by Ray Hall, town supervisor. Mr. Hall reported on loading zones in the business section. The matter had been brought up at the February meeting. Mr. Hall said there are three loading zones. No action was taken on continuing or discontinuing the use of them by three businesses, Adams Furni Marine Officer to Speak AtVFWAuxiliary Dinner Lt. Col. Harry C. Dees,' USMC,< Cherry Point, will be the guest speaker for the VFW Ladies Auxil iary awards dinner Friday night at the post home, highway 101. The dinner will start at 7:30. Post commander William T. McKay Jr will introduce the speaker. The awards dinner is being given to honor winners of the auxiliary’s essay contest. Subject of the essay is What I Can Do for My Country. Honored with the first, second and third place winners will be their principals, teacher advisors and parents. Names of winners will be announced at the dinner. Judges for the contest were Lu ther Hamilton Jr., Miss Ruth Peel ing and H. L. Joslyn. Also present will be the fourth district auxiliary president, Mrs. Ervin Lupton of Morehead City, and the fourth dis trict post commander, Cecil Peter son of Beaufort. The awards will be presented by the auxiliary president, Mrs. Frank Nance, and senior vice-president, Mrs. Betty Geiges, who is essay chairman. ture, Morehead Floral Co. or Sea mon’s Nursery, pending further in vestigation. Commissioner Jerry Willis also suggested that the free parking places in front of the Dr. L. J. Norris office be checked on. Traffic around churches on Sun day mornings was discussed. It was. suggested that church-goers not park on the wrong side of the street against the traffic. Commisisoners were appointed to ask the various ministers to re quest cooperation of their congre gations on that point to prevent complication of an already hazard ous traffic situation. Dr. Russell Outlaw, commission er, presented a list of ways in which the Jaycees would Idle the town to cooperate in keeping the waterfront clean. Tide Table Tides at Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, March 2ft 8:54 a m. 8:17 p.m. 2:53 a.m. 3:14 p.m. Wednesday, March 27 9:45 a.m. 10:08 p.m. , 3:41 a.mu 3:59 p.m. Thursday, March 28 10:40 a.m. 11:05 p.m. Friday, March 28 1):37 a.m. U:fi0 p.m. 5:20 a.m. ft:34 p.m. Bill Chalk Talks To Rotarians Morchead City Rotarians heard member Bill Chalk at their meet ing Thursday night at Mrs. ltussell Willis’s restaurant, lie explained the state’s plans for directing tour ist traffic on US highway 17. He said that tourist trade is the state’s number three industry and state officials believe the opening of the Chesapeake tunnel next year could possibly boost the tourist trade to the number one industry. Also at (he meeting was Charles B. Wade, Winston-Salem, vice president of Reynolds Tobacco Co., who is on the state’s advertising committee. Mr. Wade said the opening of the new tunnel would turn a lot of the traveling public through eastern North Carolina. Commissioner femia suggested that property owners on the water front, town officials and Jaycces meet to determine what responsi bilities each should assume in keeping the waterfront clean. Mayor Dill reported that nothing may be known about the town’s application for sewage disposal funds until the fall of the year. Mr. Ilall reported that the town attor ney would start this week on col lection of delinquent taxes. He also commented on work be ing done to improve the city park. Dr. Outlaw said that the Civitans have donated swings for the park. The board decided to authorize police to tag cars parked on city streets if the cars do not have town tags. Police commissioner Femia was asked to check on need of a stop light at Kib Guthrie’s corner, 12th and Evans streets. He was also requested to contact the division highway engineer relative to widen ing ArendeO street. Atteadlag the meeting, in addi tion to those mentioned were com missioners D. J. Hall, S. C. Hollo way, members of the high school freshman civics class and several high school seniors.' The mayor reported that he had received a letter from Mrs. Ira Long relative to a dog probiem in Bonham Heights, west of Morehead City. The town officials remarked that they have no control over prob lems of that type outside the city limits. i Strike Followed Change In Line-Handling Jobs Under court order, longshoremen at Wilmington went i back to work Saturday night. The order, which restrains longshoremen at Moreheact City and Wilmington from continuing a strike which started Friday morning, meant that loading and unloading of ships at Wilmington was resumed Saturday night. The court order was obtained by stevedoring firms. An ultimatum was handed, at a meeting Thursday af ternoon at Wilmington, to stated ports officials by the union. It re quested that the longshoremen be permitted to tie up ships and loose lines as in the past and that a meeting be arranged for a later date. The ultimatum was rejected and the meeting, which was attended by both Morehead City and Wil mington union officials, ended in five minutes. The written ultimatum differed from an earlier verbal request in that South Carolina port longshore men were not mentioned and the “mediators” proposed were identi fied as “state and federal.” Neither did the written ultimatum say that New York ILA representatives would be present at the proposed meeting. Following the verbal request, which was made last Wednesday morning at Morehead City, union representatives were informed that the state reserved the right to es tablish its own practices and that legally it could not .agree to such negotiations, and that the State would not accept such ultimatums. Morehead City longshoremen worked the Oakville, which was in port Sunday. The Oakville and the Skive were in Wilmington port yesterday. Two ships are due at Morehead City today. The Letitia Lykes will load tobacco for Egypt. The Nopal Verde is due in with a cargo of fish meal. The African Groves will take on a cargo of dried milk Wedneaffay and the American Chief will load tobacco for northern Europe that day. On Friday the Erlangen will be loading a cargo of tobacco for northern Europe. The Lexa Maersk will pick up a cargo of tobacco for Bangkok Sunday. Without the restraining order, none of these ships could be hand led. The business they would gene rate would be lost and could pos sibly affect their schedule at North Carolina ports in the future, steve dores point out. There was no picketing at More head City. Actually, no time was lost in shipping operations at More head City except last Tuesday when longshoremen refused to work the Herland, a ship that came in with a cargo of fish meal. Late Tuesday, longshoremen did go back to work, pending a meet ing Wednesday morning with port officials. The agent for the Herland said the work stoppage delayed the ship about a day. The walkout Friday involved 375 members of ILA Local 1426 at Wil mington and about 150 ILA mem bers at Morehead City, Local 1807. The dispute arose last month when Morehead City longshoremen asked permission to do all line handling at Morehead City and all cargo checking. Up to that time, they had been handling lines only after-hours. • state ports director James W. Davis said that about eight years ago after-hour line-handling was permitted by verbal, not contract agreement. He said, “This permissive action was taken at the suggestion of the 1LA local at Morehead City in or der to hold together a core of ex perienced longshoremen during the time when Morehead City was struggling to develop as a port and did not have much carog handling for the longshoremen. “It was felt, at that time, that by providing these few extra jobs that the border-line longshoremen might remain available because of this additional work to handle car go at the time ships would call It the port. “It was clearly made known to the union, at that time, that this was not a contractual agreement and that the state retained the right to stipulate, at any time, em ployment practices.” Mr. Davis said reasons for re jecting present union requests are the following: 1. The reason for originally per mitting longshore labor to handle lines during off hours no longer exists, 6ince . tomuge through Morehead City has increased by over 100 per cent. 2. That this permissive action on the part of the ports authority was not being utilized by the union for the purpose intended, which was to make more jobs for the border line longshoremen, but was being (bee STUB. Pg.» Potomac Trial Ends Friday At New Bern • Court Probes For Cause of Disaster • Decision Expected In Six Months A two-wrfk trial to determine is sues in a $10 million admiralty case ended Friday afternoon in federal court at New Bern. The trial centered around the exploding and burning of the tan ker, Potomac, in Morehead City harbor Sept. 26, 1961. At the conclusion of the proceed ings, judge Walter E. Hoffman, Norfolk, Va., predicted a decision in the case would be forthcoming in about six months. After transcripts of the trial are made and final briefs filed, final argument will be heard either in New Bern or Norfolk, according to judge Hoffman. The United States, owner of the USNS Potomac and its contract operators, Marino Transport Lines, gftittoned for limitation of and ex oneration from liability. Aviation Fuel Terminals, Inc.. Morehead City, is alleged by the government and Marine Transport Lines to have committed negligible acts that contributed to damages sustained in the disaster. Aviation Fuel Terminals con tends and claims that its damages total approximately $140,000 for loss of dock facilities. Evidence during the trial disclos ed that the port sea suction valve (a 14-inch valve below the Poto mac’s water line) was open and locked in open position the after noon of Sept. 26. which allowed jet plane gasoline to flow directly into the water. This was alleged as the immediate cause of the fire and explosion. Claims have been filed in the cause by crewmen who were in jured and by families of two crew men who died in the disaster. Among Carteret residents who testified «t the hearing were Rufus Guthrie, Clifton Nelson, Leon Clif ton, William James Lewis, Mack O'Neal, L. G. Lewis, William Maull; G. L. Bennett, A. T. Piner, Wayne Sowers, Lester G. Murphy, Howard Fulcher, L. B. Willis and Thomas H. Sewell. Beaufort attorney C. R. Wbeatly Jr., representing Aviation Fuel Terminals, was one of several law yers involved in the hearing, which opened Monday, March 11. Driver Cited After Accident Ranald Ira Borowk-x, Cherry Point, was charged with passing a car without sounding his horn re sulting in an accident. Borowici’s 1959 Chevrolet convertible and a 1952 Buick were involved in a col lision Saturday night. The accident occurred at 8:40 p.m. - two miles east of Beaufort on highway 101. No one was in jured. 'State trooper J. W. Sykes, who investigated, said that Royce Pot ter, route 1 Beaufort, was driving the Buick towards Beaufort. Riding with him was his father, I. W. Pot ter. Potter signaled a left turn into « private drive but as he started to turn, Borowics, who was following him, pulled out to pass. Potter cut the Buick back to the right in an effort to avoid the collision, but the right front of the Chevrolet struck the side of the Buick. Trooper Sykes estimated damage to tile Buick at $350 and to the Chevrolet at $500. Group to Meet The Boaary Altar Society of St Ebgert’s Catholic church will meet at St. Egbert’s school tomorrow night at 7:30. All members are nak ed to attend. “ I
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