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MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C
New Direction
Taken on West
^Carteret School
Void Bids Scrapped;
Revisions Planned
• $1,100,000 Set As
Cost Limit
In a conference Wednesday morn
ing it was decided that new bids
will be requested on the West Car
teret school. Attending the confer
ence in the board of education of
fice were Archie Royal Davis, ar
chitect for the school; H. L. Jos
lyn, county superintendent of
schools, and Wiley Taylor Jr.,
county attorney.
Phases of the school plan are
being revised, Mr. Joslyn reported
yesterday, “but we’re not changing
the fundamental program,” he add
ed.
The architect was instructed that
$1,100,000 is the absolute limit on
cost. That is the amount set up in
the school bond program for total
school cost, $800,000 of which is
already on hand.
Mr. Joslyn stated that the attor
ney, who has been concerned about
the school’s cost and letting of con
tracts, remarked that if Mr. Davis
can design a school and contracts
can be let within $1,100,000, he will
do all in his power to see that the
school goes up.
Total cost of the proposed school,
under former plans, was $1,196,
970.17, which greatly exceeded the
amount of money scheduled to be
spent on the structure. Efforts to
renegotiate with the general con
tractor to bring costs down were
not successful.
Zoning Plans
To be Explained
Monday, April ll
Citizens interested in hearing
toning proposals for two areas of
the county are invited to a meeting
at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in
the courtroom of the courthouse,
Beaufort.
Date of the meeting was set at
the county board meeting Monday
at the courthouse. The meeting was
attended by W. C. Carlton, secre
tary of the county planning com
mission, which has drafted the zon
ing program, and Dexter Smith,
zoning consultant with the state di
vision of community planning.
The areas proposed for zoning
are two:
• Bogue Banks from the west
ern state park boundary to Emer
ald Isle, excluding the town of At
lantic Beach.
• The area immediately west
and north of Morehead City’s west
ern limits.
The Morehead City area includes
Bonham Heights, Morehead Bluffs,
Mitchell Village, Mansfield Park
and the section around the propos
ed West Carteret school.
Maps and the proposed ordinance
may be seen at the office of Albert
Chappell, building inspector, court
house, Beaufort.
Committees from each of the
areas have already studied and
endorsed the plans.
The county planning commis
sion’s regular meeting will be at
7:30 p.m. Monday in the office of
the Carteret-Craven Membership
Corp., Morehead City.
Newport Registration,
Filing Dates Set Tuesday
Newport town commissioners set
up candidate filing dates and regis
tration dates for the coining elec
tion when they met Tuesday night
at the municipal building.
Candidates may file now and un
til 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27. .The
fee is $10 for mayor and $5 for
commissioner.
Registration hooks will open at
9 a.m. Saturday, April 13, and will
close daily at 5 p.m. except the
closing day, Saturday, April 27,
when they will remain open until
9 p.m. The registration books win
be at the town ball on Saturdays.
Leon Owen Garner was named
registrar. Judges of the' election
will be Mrs. Louis Hibbs and Mrs.
Walter Roberts.
If legal, the board proposed that
these same officials preside at the
May 11 school bond referendum.
The board authorized purchase of
a new registration book and the
purging of all obsolete names from
the present book.
At the request of Joe Hill, de
veloper of the Lake Park subdivi
sion, the board voted to pave part
of Lake and Circle drives from
Lake View to Easy street and E.
Forest drive. The paving will be 4
inches of compacted marl, surface
treated.
Shark Yields Prize!
George Lockhart shows shark carcass in which he fviind ladies’
wristwatch.
In October a shark washed up
on the beach near Ocean Ridge.
George H. Lockhart, 15, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Lockhart,
Atlantic Beach, with some help,
cut off a fin and tail as trophies.
The other day he decided to go
back to the carcass and get some
of the shark’s teeth. But he came
back with something else, a la
dy’s wrlstwatch which he had
found where the shark’s stomach
used to be.
He didn’t find the lady—or
what might have been left of her.
It is surmised that the watch was
New Education Board Takes
Office; Budget Proposed
The county’s new board of edu
cation was sworn in Monday morn
ing with the exception of Jim Hux,
who was not sworn in until Tues
day morning. Mr. Hux had failed
to receive his notice of the meeting
in time.
A. H. James, superior court
clerk, administered the oath of of
fice. Dr. A. F. Chestnut was elect
ed board chairman and Dr. Her
bert Webb vice-chairman.
Members are W. B. Allen, Gray
den Paul, Joseph Davis Jr., and
John Bell.
The board adopted the biggest
budget in the history of county
schools, $3,284,700. It will be pre
sented to county commissioners
next month. H. L. Joslyn, county
superintendent of schools, express
ed the hope that the budget—though
subject to change—will be approv
ed.
Estimated for current expenses
The town said it will contract
with the state to do the work. It
authorized giving of a letter to Mr.
Hill, stating that the paving would
be done.
Accompanying Mr. Hill to the
meeting were Hugh Styron and Bill
Oldham of the Bestron Corp.,
Morehead City.
Four men appeared to seek the
town’s help in preventing the es
tablishment of a trader court on
Roberts street. They were Fred
Oorsett, John Stancil Bell, Harry
Smith and Miry Howard.
The town said it believed that it
could do nothing without a zoning
ordinance. The residents said that
they thought the town ought to be
zoned. Mayor Lean Mann Jr. said
that be would appoint a board to
begin work on zoning.
gtMr. Dorsett also requested that
a ditch be cleaned out and drain
tile lowered under a road. Com
missioner C. H. Lockey said that
the state highway forceshave been
asked on previous occasion to low
er the tile but nothing resulted.
The board agreed to install tile
along the Virgil Kincaid property.
Mr.'Kincaid said he will buy the
draitaage tile. . '
Mr. Dorsett suggested that the
(See NEWPORT, Pf. S)
either dropped by its owner or
got into the shark’s path, some
how, without owner attached.
The watch was white gold, the
crystal was slightly fogged, and
when George’s father wound it, it
started to run!
Mrs. Lockhart says she plans
to write the manufacturer and
tell the fantastic story. How long
the watch may have been In the
shark is unknown.
Why the shark was grounded
on the beach is unknown. Maybe
the timepiece ticking inside him
drove him mad and eventually
drove him ashore!
is $316,222; for capital improve
ment (building of schools) $2,968,
478. The last figure includes anti
cipated school bond money.
It is estimated that federal funds
to be used during the coming fis
cal year will total $234,700. These
are funds which help to pay voca
tional teachers, are distributed to
help areas where federal employ
es’ children require schooling, and
funds which finance teaching aids.
Distnbuted to board members
were copies of senate bill 177 which
will govern selection of education
boards in the future. Charles Car
roll, state superintendent of public
instruction, has requested that each
board member lead the bill and
give his opinion.
A delegation from W. S. King
school appeared to request im
provements felt necessary at the
school and to see if a gym could
be included in the forthcoming
building plans.
The board discussed applicants
for the superintendent of schools
job. Retiring from the school staff
this year will be Mr. Joslyn, Mrs.
Waldron Baily, and John Eaton.
Mrs. Baily is a faculty member at
Morehead City school. Mr. Eaton
is in the maintenance department.
The board approved requests of
three teachers to remain on the
teaching staff during the coming
year, past their retirement age.
They are Mrs. Sudie Guthrie,
Harkers Island; Miss Josie Pigott,
Smyrna, and Mrs. CHive Davis,
Queen Street.
Retiring from the board of ed
ucation March 31 were Robert Sa
frit Jr., Beaufort; D. Mason, At
lantic, and Theodore Smith, Davis.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Friday, April S
5:59 a.m.
6:29 p.m.
12:14 a.m.
Saturday, April 6
6:46 a.m.
7:11 p.m.
12:35 a.m.
12:58 p.m.
Sunday, April 7
7:27 a m.
7:49 p.m.
1:20 a.m.
1:46 p.m.
Monday, April 8
8:04 a.m.
8i24 p.m.
2:02 a.m.
2:19 p.m.
Grand Jury Says Special Group*
Should Study Welfare Practices '
Board Discusses
Trash Problems
• Bridge Petition
Endorsed
f Action on Deputy
In West Deferred
Concerning requests for county
board action relative to trash
around places of business, W. R.
Hamilton, chairman of the county
board, said Monday that 11. G.
(Buddy) Phillips, highway com
missioner, considers individual bu
sinessmen resoonsible for trash
around their business.
J. L. Humphrey, county road
superintendent, said that his crews
cleaned shoulders of the Atlantic
Beach caseway on a Friday and
on Monday it looked as bad as it
did before Friday,
Commissioners decided to send
letters to ail drive-in establish
ments, asking them to keep pre
mises clean.
Commissioner C. Z. Chappell re
layed a request that the 35 mile
speed limit on highway 101 to the
airport be raised to 45. He said the
request came from George East
man, Beaufort.
Mr. Humphrey commented that
the limit was reduced to 35 at re
quest of people in the area because
of the large number of children
there. Chairman Hamilton request
ed that C. Y. Griffin, district high
way engineer, re-check the mat
ter.
A written request from Dorothy
F. Goodwin, Mansfield Park, was
referred* to the clerk. She asked
that a road be added to the county
system, but did not make the re
quest on the form required. Pro
per forms are provided by the
clerk.
Mr. Hamilton asked Mr. Hum
phrey to check on a ditch problem
on highway 101 and conveyed a re
quest for extension of a road by
the flatter Day Saints’ church on
Harkers Island.
The board endorsed a petition
from Harkers Islanders requesting
a bridge from Lennoxville Point
to Harkers island. The petition was
forwarded to commissioner Phil
lips.
No action was taken on a request
from commissioner Headen Willis
about a road at Williston. Mr. Wil
lis said he wasn’t going to ask any
more about another road, the Nas
sau road. He said, ‘Til get the
Nassau road taken care of when
Jonas goes in.”
A Republican in a den of Dem
ocrats, Mr. Willis was referring
to Charles R. Jonas, Republican
candidate for governor in 1964. Mr.
(See BOARD, Pg. 2)
Filing Deadline
Is 5 P.H. Today
Five o’clock this afternoon is the
deadline for filing for Beaufort
town offices. By noon yesterday,
the only candidate to file for mayor
was Dr. John Costlow.
W. J. Mishael and James Stew
art have filed for commissioners,
as have the five present members
of the board, Dr. David Farrior,
Earl Mades, Glenn Wilis, Holden
Ballou and Osborne Davis.
Dr. Costtow is president of the
Beaufort Parent-Teacher associa
tion, president of the Beaufort His
torical association, and head of the
School Bond Boosters program. He
is a scientist who is working under
a Navy grant at Duke marine lab
oratory.
Mr. Mishael is a plumber and
Mr. Stewart is employed at the
Cherry Point Marine Corps air sta
tion.
The election will be Tuesday,
May 7.
Formal Endorsement by Leading
Officials Given to Bond Boosters
The School Bond Boosters club
bas bees endorsed by the new
county board of education, the
Beaufort school committee and the
board of county commissioners, it
was announced at the Booster
meeting Wednesday night at the
courthouse.
Dr. John Costlow, presiding, read
letters from the school committee,
Dr. A. F. Chestnut, chairman, of
the board of education and W. R.
Hamilton, chairman of the county
board, stating their endorsement*
The Booatora are promoting the
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New County Tax Collector
Began His Duties Tuesday
Charles Harris Jr.
. . . leaves seafood business
j Charles Harris Jr., Marshall
berg, assumed duties as county
tax( collector Tuesday morning,
succeeding Eugene O. Moore, Mar
shallberg.
Mr. Moore would have completed
26 years as tax collector May 3 of
this year. Prior to assuming the
county position he was a county
game warden for about six years
and then worked for a while with
Capt. John Nelson, former state
fisheries commissioner.
Mr. Moore is the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Tyre Moore, Mar
shallberg. lie says that he has no
specific plans now that he has re
tired. He says he doesn’t intend to
“do much of anything.”
Mr. Harris, for the past 14 years,
was a seafood dealer. He was
graduated from Smyrna high
County Officials Withhold
Action on Outer Banks Issue
After reading a letter from
Woodrow Price, chairman of the
Outer Banks Seashore Park com
mission, county commissioners de
cided Monday afternoon to take no
action on a request that they op
pose government acquisition of out
er banks land in this county.
Owners of property at Cape Look
out and other Core Banks sections
appeared before the board Mon
day morning to let it be known that
they don’t want to lose their land to
the government.
The outer banks Seashore Park
commission was formed last year
to devise means to keep the land
from being lost to the sea. The
banks, an outer barrier reef along
the North Carolina coast, have
been seriously damaged by storms
since 1954.
Core Banks is one of the worst
damaged sections—much of it is
awash at normal high tide.
Monday’s protest about govern
ment acquisition, deemed . neces
sary so that restoration work could
get under way the length of the
banks, was precipitated by a de
$2 million school bond issue.
H. S. Gibbs Jr., vice-president,
suggested that if the boosters could
get the county board’s promise of
$300,000 from next year’s budget
and add it to the $*,800,000 iset up,
the amount actually available for
schools will be $3,100,000. Those
who have been complaining that
the amount to be voted on “isn’t
large enough’’ may quit, he re
marked. * . _
J. O. Barbour Jr. stated that the
idea might cause faction and, for
that reason, the suggestion was
school in 1936 and East Carolina
college in 1940.
After college, I e taught school
for one year at Fairmont, and then
entered the Navy. He was with the
amphibious force during the second
world war and took part in three
invasions, at Sicily, Salerno and
Normandy (Omaha Beach).
He was discharged as a lieut
enant. Mr. Harris’s wife is the
former Cecelia Cobb of Merry Hill
in Bertie county. They have three
sons, twins, Ken and Mike, sopho
mores at East Carolina college,
and Jim, who is in the eighth
grade at Smyrna school.
Mike left college this quarter to
make a cruise with the Coast and
Geodetic survey vessel, Explorer,
on an expedition to Africa. He is
expected home April 20.
cision March 23. On that day the-*
outer banks commission decided
that the state should continue to
acquire Core Banks land as it has
been doing since 1959. To date
about 75 per cent has been bought.
It also recommended that the
Cape Hatteras Seashore Park be
extended southward to include
Portsmouth Island and Core Banks.
(Cape Lookout is at the southern
tip of Core Banks.)
This was recommended because
of the tremendous cost involved in
undertaking conservation work. It
is estimated that the cost on Ports
mouth Island and Core Banks will
run between six and ten million
dollars.
Mr. Price noted, in the letter
read to the county board Monday
afternoon that he has been ad
vised by the State Department of
Conservation and Development
that the state could not finance such
an extensive project.
Upon learning that, Mr. Price
said in his letter, "... I contacted
(See OUTER BANK8, Pg. 3)
not adopted. The proposed bro
chure was outlined.
It was decided that questions
from the public relating to the
school bond issue should be direct
ed to Dr. Costlow. A panel to dis
cuss the bond issue on radio was
selected.
The secretary-treasurer reported
that $25 had been received from
the county PTA council, $10 from
H. S. Gibbs Jr. and that the total
on hand is $150. Anyone wishing
to contribute may contact the sec
retary at 1012 Bay St., Morebead
• Iii an extensive grand jury re -
port returned Wednesday in su
perior court, the grand jury recom
mended that a study commission
review the county welfare program
and submit their findings and re
commendations to county officials
“as soon as possible."
Serving as foreman of the grand
jury was J. O. Barbour Jr., Beau
fort.
The jurors inspected all county
buildings, including schools, noted
some correction needed in physical
conditions of school buildings, re
commended additional fire extin
guishers at all schools except Camp
Glenn, and recommended that all
printed forms used by the court be
obtained locally, if possible.
Other recommendations:
• Establishment of a branch of
fice of the sheriff’s department in
the Western part of the county
with a deputy there
• That people who'obtain wel
fare funds and are able-bodied, In
put to work on county protects
• That illegitimate children be
provided the necessities of life but
that this money not go through the
hands of the “illegitimate parents."
• Increase jury fees to a flat
$10 a day
• Full support of the county
health department’s mosquito con
trol program
Excerpts from the grand jury re
port follow:
The grand jury found overcrowd
ed school conditions and inade
quate facilities everywhere. This
situation is currently recognised by
everyone concerned and the res
ponsible officials of Carteret coun
ty are calling for an early vote on
a school bond issue to improve and
expand our school program.
Housekeeping at all schools was
found to he excellent considering
the age of the buildings.
Particular credit should be given
to tjueen Street school in Beaufort
and W. S. King school in More
head City for their fine work.
Particular attention was given to
fire fighting equipment at all
schools as it is believed that many
small fires could be kept from be
coming big fires with jOTt a mi
nimum amount of fire fighting
equipment.
Such equipment need not be ex
pensive as a few small extinguish
ers of modern design will put out
a much larger fire than the mas
sive old extinguishers of a few
years ago . . .
We also wish to comment on a
subject that is becoming more and
more painful to the citizens of Car
teret county. WELFARE.
We recognize the need and value
of the welfare program to the dis
abled, the weak and infirm, and
underprivileged children. We ap
plaud and support this part of the
program.
(See REPORT, Pg. 3)
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Bridge Closes
For Repairs
To replace a broken piling under
the Morehead City bridge acroaa
Newport river, the bridge has been
open to only one-way traffic since
Tuesday. Yesterday it was closed
to highway traffic for six and a
half hours.
The part-time closure will con
tinue until repairs are completed.
The bridge didn’t dose yester
day morning as scheduled be
cause a flat tire on a crane be
ing moved to the bridge site de
layed arrival of equipment.
according to J. L. Humphrey,
county road superintendent.
The boars it is closed are 8 a.m.
to 11:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. to ,4 p.m.
It is not known how soon repair
can be effected. It depends on
weather and other unseen factors,
Mr. Humphrey remarked.
A boat missed the draw and ran
under die bridge a couple weeks
ago. It was believed then that there
was no damage to the bridge. Mr.
Humphrey said, however, that the
boat, pulled out by the Coast
Guard, must have hit one of the
pilings, because the piling was
broken in two under the wafer sur
face.
The broken piling is on the south
side of the bridge. Repairs are be
ing made by highway commission
crews.
Board to Meet
Beaufort town cos
will meet at 7:30 p.m.
the town hall for their
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10mm mm,
Longshoremen
Must Stay On
Job, Judge Says
• Unions Object, Say
They Will Appeal
# Case May Go Before
Labor Relations Board
The injunction which put long
shoremen at Morehead City and
Wilmington back to work March 23
was continued indefinitely by judge
Algernon Butler at Clinton Tuesday
afternoon.
That means that longshoremen,
by court order, are required to
work ships that come in to the two
state ports.
Judge Butler said he would va
cate the restraining order (this
would allow the strike to re
sume) if International longshore
men charges of refusal to bargain
are accepted by the National La
bor Relations board.
The union (1LA) contended
through its attorneys Tuesday that
judge Butler's federal court had
no jurisdiction in the case.
The judge said that he will re
tain jurisdiction until the NLRB
decides whether it will “determine
the issues between the parties.”
Longshoremen were not happy
with the judge’s ruling. They said
they would appeal.
No witaeases were called at the
hearing. Attorneys for the steve
dores, Heidc & Co. and Wilmington
Shipping Co., with whom the long
shoremen have a contract, and at
torneys for the unions merely pre
sented their case to the judge.
The hearing, called for 2:9» p.ro„
started at 2:45 in the Sampson
county courthouse and ended short
ly after 4. Present from Morehead
City were Walter Friederichs,
manager of the state port; Leroy
Guthrie, president of the Morehead
City longshoremen’s union, and
G. I. Thompson, secretary of the
union.
Longshoremen walked off the
job after the State Ports Authority
decided to have state employees
handle ships’ lines and do all
checking of cargoes.
Longshoremen objected. The SPA
says that they have no basis for
objection because the SP doesn’t
have a contract with longshore
men. The SPA is a state agency
and by law is prevented from bar
gaining with unions, it contends.
The unions, however, do have *
contract with stevedoring firms
and to win their point with the
SPA, struck the stevedoring firms.
In essence, this means that as long
as they are on strike ships could
not be loaded or unloaded st the
state ports.
Judge Butler said that it is in the
best interest of the parties involv
ed and the public generally that
the longshoremen be kept at work.
Kitchen Items
Stolen at School
Electrical apfUutei valued at
$85 have disappeared from the
home economics department at
Beaufort school.
Mrs. David Beveridge reported
Tuesday that the items were first
missed Monday afternoon. Missing
is a stainless steel electric mixer
with three stainless steel mixing
bowls, chopper and juice extractor
attachments, a pop-up toaster, an
electric fry pan that has never
been used and the cord to an elec
tric percolator.
Mrs. Beveridge estimates that
the items were taken sometime
between March 15 and this past
Monday.
She commented that she has the
serial numbers on all appliances
and that they can be identified if
they have been re-sold. Mrs. Beve
ridge said that the electric perco
lator is of no use without the card
that was designed toTte used with
it.
The Hems were last seen by a
home economies student who clean
ed the storage area where they
were kept. The home ec rooms are
located on the second floor of Beau
fort high school. V- • '
Vets to Neel
Veterans of World War I will
inert^ Sunday at^j alMtheEtoe Ittb
rttTte held ^thc^ftrst ^Sunday” of
each month in the future. £
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