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82nd Year — No. 36
Three Sections — Twenty Pages
MOREHEAD CITY *nd BEAUFORT, N. C.
Friday, May 3, 1963
Published Tuesdays tad Fridays
Pilot Commission Reactivated; SPA
Buys Marsh Island Near State Port
The arrow points to Marsh Island, which was acquired this week by the State Ports Authority. In
the foreground is Morehead City state port.
The Morehead City Pilot com
mission was put back in business
by the State Ports Authority this
week. The SPA also bought Marsh
Island, Morehead City, for $76,000
to permit further port expansion,
and authorized purchase of addi
tional land on the north side of
Arendell street in the vicinity of
the port.
The pilot commission was reac
tivated to handle details connected
with obtaining of pilots to bring
ships in and out of Morehead City
harbor. Members are Dr. B. F.
Royal, I. E. Pittman and Stanley
Woodland.
The Morehead City port matters
were handled at a meeting of the
SPA at Charlotte Monday.
Marsh Island was bought from
Dr. Royal, Charles H. Piner and
George R. Wallace. The other piece
of land, owned by Miss Delia
Ilyatt, consists of approximately
four acres.
The pilot commission was re
activated in the hope of starting
24-hour pilot service. But persons
familiar with port operations state
that “lack of pilots,” as alleged,
is not the whole problem. The
Coast Guard was requested to sup
ply certain navigation aids for
bringing in ships at night.
$ome have been supplied and
ships Will be taken out of the har
bor at night, weather permitting,
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Train Demolishes
Car; D. Sanderson
Escapes with Cuts
A car was demolished when it
was struck by a train at 7:20 a.m.
Tuesday at the Camp Glenn cross
ing on Arendell Street, Morehead
City. The driver, Delbert Earl San
derson, Morehead City, escaped
with cuts on his head.
Investigating officer, Sgt. E. D.
O’Neal, Morehead City police de
partment, reported that Sanderson
didn’t see the train coming. It hit
his right front fender.
Sanderson was driving a 1960
Falcon.
The Southern Railway train’s en
gineer was Durwood Bizzell, New
Bern. He estimated his speed at 25
miles an hour.
Williston Resident Issues Warning
About Giving Away 'Greatest Asset'
Elmer Dewey Willis, Williston,
commented this week on the pro
posal to have the government take
over restoration of the outer banks.
Mr. Willis, a resident of Willis
tan who is employed by a Greens
boro firm, says that this move to
put the banks in government hands
is “part of a guise to permit the
government to take over every
thing it can.”
“If people think this is not seri
ous, let any individual try to get
back ANYTHING he has given to
the government. We fight for li
berties, then turn and give them
away/’ he declared.
Mr. Willis said there is no reason
to two file outer banks over to the
government. “At least the reasons
listed th give the outer banks to
the government are not the real
reasons why the government wants
them/’ Mr. Willis ventured.
He aahl that the county is getting
ready, to “give away the greatest
asset Carteret county has. There’s
nothing else lige it in the world,”
he said. "Just compare the value
of ocean front lots at Shackleford
with what the price is at Atlantic
Beach.
‘The county wifi never get any
revenue out of waterfront property
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but pilots usually object to bringing
ships in at night because of the
hazardous conditions.
James VV. Davis, port director,
reported to the commission that
Esso has offered to sell a nine-tank
fuel farm on port property to the
state.
The nine tanks are located on
the west of the road leading to the
SPA office at Morehead City. For
merly used to store fuel, the tanks
are not used since Esso has been
sending petroleum products into
Morehead City in recent months
only by barge.
The firm has dispensed with
small tankers. Large tankers now
in use cannot be accommodated
at the Esso facility in Morehead
City. Therefore, Esso has found
its large tank farm at Morehead
City unnecessary.
In addition to the offer to sell,
it also has offered to dissolve a
lease arrangement with the SPA
for the land on which the tanks
are situated.
The SPA has authorized an ap
praisal of the tanks.
Boosters Get
Bond Literature
Literature promoting passage of
the school bond issue was distri
buted to the School Bond Boosters
who met Wednesday night at At
lantic school.
Plans for a radio forum and ral
lies were discussed. It was an
nounced that there will be an open
house at Queen Street school Mon
day night and that Queen Street
will stage a parade.
A rally was set for 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the Beaufort school.
Bond boosters will also meet again
Tuesday night, at 8:30 to make at
the courthouse, Beaufort, last-min
ute plans, in preparation for the
vote Saturday, May 11.
Everyone interested in seeing
the bond issue approved is invited.
Bill Wilkins will be in charge of
getting people to the polls in More
head City. Received from Beau
fort school bond boosters was $96,
according to treasurer W. C. Hor
ton.
if we give it all away. The state
and federal government know how
valuable that land is going to be
some day, that’s why they want it
so bad.
“We get no revenue from Fort
Macon state park and we’re going
to get no tax revenue at all if we
give away the outer banks. The
government certainly doesn’t need
the WHOLE beach.”
Mr. Willis was asked how the
banks were going to be kept from
washing away, as they have been
doing as the result of recent
storms.
“Leave the whole thing alone,”
he remarked. “Those banks aren’t
going to wash away. They’ve been,
there for millions of years. Already
southwest winds have built back
sections that were cut through
two years ago.”
Mr. Willis said that inleta are
cut by the water rushing out of
creeks, bays and sounds, BACK
into the ocean. Not by water from
the ocean pouring toward the land.
He harked back to the storm at
1933. In that year the -dunes were
high. “Where were the people
drowned?” he asked. “They
weren’t drowned on the ocean
front. They were drowned at
Adams creek and South river when
Student Chosen
Samuel Lilly, Newport school,
will represent this county at the
annual Governor’s Youth Fitness
conference at Raleigh June 8 and
9.
Samuel was chosen from among
four candidates Selected by
school principals from the junior
class. Chosen at Beaufort school
was Anna Salter; Morehead City,
Richard Cummins, and at Smyr
na, Elizabeth Baum.
A county committee made the
final choice. Those nominated
were selected on the basis of
leadership characteristics.
The successful candidate is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus T.
Lilly, Mill Creek. Last year’s
representative to the Youth Fit
ness conference was Lorenzo
(Buddy) Lewis, Smyrna.
Court Operations Move
Slowly This Week
Civil court moved at a sluggish
pace this week. Divorces were
granted the early part of the week
and two cases, Katje vs. Brown
and Wright vs. Lewis were tried.
Among the divorces granted were
James Edward Guthrie Jr. and
Hannah Julia Guthrie, and Eliza
beth Salter Rose from James Har
old Rose.
Judge Howard Herbert Hubbard
is presiding.
the water rushed back toward the
ocean after the wind shifted.
“When the water has to get out,
it goes out over the banks. Are
tb^y going tp build the dunes back
to where they were in 1933, /or
higher? If they do, Chef’ll drown
everybody in Carteret county,
Quite concerned over the issue,
Mr. Willis said, “The government
really don’t interested in oar safe
ty. If they are why have they wait
ed 30 years to do anything about
this?;’ —
lie admonishes thoke who have
questions about giving the outer
banka tp the government to “go
to Ocracoke. See what happened
there. TtMum people have lost all
the freedom they had.” .
Mr. Willis felt moved to com
ment on the outer banks situation
after reading comments by readers
in last Friday’s paper.
The Outer Banks Seashore Park
commission, a state agency, baa
proposed that the outer banka (bar
rier reef along the Carolina coast),
be turned over to the federal gov
ernment so that restoration work
can
says that the cost of
banka is too great to
state and county gov
Committee
Endorses Crab
Derby Aug. 23-25
# New Craft Replaces
Burned Cape Fear
# Fisheries Regulations
Changed Slightly
The state fisheries committee
formally endorsed the third annual
North Carolina crab derby at its
recent meeting at Greenville.
The crab derby will be held at
Morehead City Aug. 23-25. Especi
ally commended by the committee
was Wade Lucas, information of
ficer with the Department of Con
servation and Development, for
his efforts in promoting North Car
olina as a leading producer of
crabmeat.
The committee heard a report
from C. G. Holland, state fisheries
commissioner, that the new craft,
to replace the Cape Fear which
burned at Cedar Island in 1962, has
been completed. The committee
recommended that the new vessel
be named Cape Fear II.
Commissioner Holland also re
ported that the Institute of Fish
eries Research had found adequate
seed oyster beds in the Neuse
river, from which spat can be ob
tained for planting projects at
South river in Carteret county.
The committee formally approv
ed usage of a part of the park
at Morehead City for erection of a
chamber of commerce tourist in
formation center.
Regulations were amended set
ting up the following seasons:;
shad, May 5—June 30; oysters,
March 1—Sept. 30; scallops, May
l_Nov. 30; shrimp, to be opened
by the director of the C&D depart
ment upon advice of the commer
cial fisheries commissioner and
the director of the Institute of Fish
eries Research.
Mr. Holland said this week that
tries for shrimp indicate that the
shrimp are still “asleep in their
beds” at the bottom of creeks and
rivers and it appears as though
the season may start late this
year’s shrimp season was
one of the best in many years.
Among revised regulations is
one that prohibits hauling a net or
6eine by engine power in North
river, Carteret county, above high
way bridge 70.
A section on hard crabs was
amended as follows:
Taking, buying, selling or pos
sessing any hard crabs measuring
less than five (5) inches from tip
to tip of spike or impounding any
hard crabs except "peelers” which
may be floated in regular crab
floats is illegal. Crabs shall be
culled where taken, and all crabs
of less than legal size shall be im
mediately returned to the water.
Tolerance of not more than 10
per cent of any catch shall be al
lowed; however in determining
whether the proportion of under
sized crabs exceeds the 10 per cent
tolerance limit, the commissioner
and his agents are authorized and
empowered to grade all, or any
portion, or any combination of por
tions of the entire quantity of crabs
being graded, and may require
the seizure and Teturn to the wa
ters, or other disposition as- author
ized by law, of the entire quantity
being graded, or of any portion
thereof, if undersized crabs in ex
cess of the tolerance limit are
found in violation of the regula
tion.
Another revision follows:
"Shell fish relaid from mo
derately polluted water in a de
signated area of approved water
shall remain down for a period
of less than 14 days when the wa
ter in which relaid has the tem
perature above 50 degrees F. When
the water temperature is below
50 degrees F., shell fish shall not
be relaid.”
All of the regulations adopted by
the fisheries committee were ap
proved by the Conservation and
Development board, of which the
committee is a part.
year
Last
House Burns
At Money Island
A one-story frame house at Mon
ey Island owned by Raymond Puke
Jr. was gutted by fire at 2 p.m.
Wednesday. The home was located
off Fort Macon road in the vicinity
of Sportsman’s pier, *,
Atlantic Beach fireimn answered
the alarm but Roger Van Buren,
fire chief, said that none of the
contents of the home could be sav
ed.
The fire is believed to have start
ed from “explosion” of the heat
ing system. Occupying the home
at the time were a woman and her
children. The home was being rent
ed to a family by the name of Geet
ing.
Beach firemen fought toe Maze
for about 45 minutes before it was
under control. Occupants of the
house escaped without injury.
Beaufort Gets Ready for Big
Invasion Celebration June 8
George Equils
Gets Si-Day
Road Sentence
Judge Herbert O. Phillips III sen
tenced George Dewey Equils,
Beaufort, to 30 days on the road
Monday morning in Morehead City
recorder’s court.
Equils was charged with his
seventh offense of operating a ve
hicle without a driver’s license.
He was also charged with giving a
ficitious name.
Esveld Arnold Canipe, Morehead
City, appealed to superior court
the judgment on disobeying a stop
light. His bond was set at $50.
Harry Hankins, Morehead City,
was sentenced to 60 days on the
road for his second offense of
public drunkenness. The sentence
was suspended on condition he re
main on good behavior for six
months and pay $10 and court
costs.
Paying fines and court costs
were Daniel Stephen Griffin, Cher
ry Point, drunk driving, $100; Jo
seph Rose, Harker’s Island, speed
ing, $10; Robert Charles Naugle,
Camp Lejeune, disobeying stop
sign and no operator’s license, $50.
Three men were taxed with court
costs, George Dewey Morton,
Morehead City, improper turn;
William Howard Gaskill, Harkers
Island, public drunkenness; and
Paul P. Hannah, Scranton, S. C.,
expired license tag.
Taxed with two-thirds costs was
Stephen Stanley Stephenson, im
proper left turn.
Calvin Coolidge Hansley, Green
ville, was taxed with one-half costs
for operating a vehicle faster than
reasonable and prudent.
Allen Hausen, Cherry Point, wa
found not guilty on the charge of
improper brakes.
The case against Terry Leawood
Equils, Beaufort, no valid opera
tor’s license was not prosecuted.,
Prayer for judgment was con
tinued for six months against Wal
lace Guthrie, Morehead City, for
using loud and profane language;
disturbing the peace; doing dam
age to personal property of an
other.
Judge Phillips continued 21 cases
until a later date.
Scallop Season Will
Run Through May 15
The scallop season has been ex
tended through Wednesday, May
15.
C. G. Holland, state fisheries
commissioner, said this week that
there are still quite a few scal
lops in Bogue sound. Scallops are
a one-year crop. Those now mar
ketable will die and won’t be avail
able next year, so the commission
er said it is believed advisable to
let scallopers continue to work,
if they wish.
The season would have closed,
ordinarily, on Wednesday, May 1.
School Superintendent Honored
M. L.~Joslyn, county superin
tendent of schools, was initiated
into Phi Kappa Phi, North Caro
lina State College chapter, Fri
day night at State college, Ral- 4
eigb. j
Mr. Joslyn was one of nine
alumni Chosen for the honor, on
the basis of outstanding profes
sional achievements since grad
uation. Election to Phi Kappa
Phi is the highest honor that a
land grant college can bestow.
Mr. Joelyn, with his wife, will
return to the college for his 50th
class reunion this afternoon.
His 50 years in public school
education will end June 30 when
he retires from the office of coun
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Dance Will Help
Rescue 'Alphonso'
The Beaufort Junior Woman's
club reminds folks that it will
sponsor a dance at 9 p.m. Sat
urday at the American Legion
building. Proceeds will help keep
the whaling museum, Alphonso,
"afloat.”
Music will be provided by The
Mariners. Admission is $3 a cou
ple and only a few tickets are
still available. Persons who
would like to have tickets should
call Paul Motor Co. or Mrs.
Frank Langdale.
Official Pleads
For Members
In WWI Group
I). J. Odom, commander of Cart
eret County barracks No. 1128,
Veterans of World War I, this week
made a special plea to veterans
to join the barracks.
His appeal follows:
"As commander of Carteret
County Barracks No. 1228. located
in Morehead City, I am making an
urgent plea that you join the Vet
erans of World War I, so that we
can show Congress that we mean
business.
“We have the best chance of
winning our pension this year that
we have ever had. but we are
bungling what may be our last op
portunity, by being too lazy, to
help ourselves.
"Everything is geared up for us.
The major veterans’ organizations
are now back of us. Many labor
unions are supporting us, the pub
lic Is on our side, and they need
our votes next year. I am now beg
ging, and pleading with you to join
our organization, so that we can
win this year.
"So if we lose, 1 do not want to
hear any complaining, belly-aching
and blaming the politicians. It will
be our own fault. If you want your
pension, back us up with members.
If $100 per month, as long as you
live, isn’t worth $3.25 per year
dues, forget it.
“Carteret County barracks now
has a membership of 130, and
there are at least 60 to 75 more
veterans of World War 1 in Cart
eret County who do not belong to
any barracks. Our next meeting
will be held at the Blue Ribbon
club, Sunday, May 5, at 3 p.m. I
will be looking for you then.”
Symphony Society
Announces Coffee Hour
The county chapter of the North
Carolina Symphony society will
entertain members and anyone in
terested in the symphony at a cof
fee hour Tuesday night.
Miss Nancy Russell, president,
announces that the coffee will be
gin at 8 at the Webb civic center,
Morehead City.
Coast Guard Tows Boat
That Ran Out of Gas
The Fart Macon Coast Guard
gave assistance to Henry W. Noe,
Morehead City, Wednesday after
noon by towing him from the At
lantic Beach bridge to Cannon’s
boat works.
P. D. Mason, BMC, said Mr.
Noe’s 20-foot boat had apparently
run out of fuel. Aiding in the assist
were Phillip Yeoman, BM3, Mar
shall Cash, SN, and Mitchell Jack
son, SA. .
Chief Mason stated the Coast
Guard has found a 14-foot open
skiff and the owner may retrieve
it by describing it
► By MARTIN HOLLOWAY
June 8. 1983 is the big day in
Beaufort. The Pirate Invasion will
be held early this year. The his
torical association, merchants as
sociation. fire department and res
cue squad have again joined to put
on the event commemorating the
landing and capture of Beaufort
by Spanish Pirates in 1747.
The fire department will again
place a boatload of motley pirates
in action against the town. The
townspeople, as farmers, will again
repel the pirates.
The rescue squad will present a
gigantic parade of beauties along
Front Street to the reviewing
stand. Then, the breathtaking
beauty contest will begin. Miss Pi
rate of 1963 will be chosen, crown
ed, presented trophies and silver,
and the first and second runner
up will be presented silver.
From morning ’til night the res
cue squad will have concession
stands operating. A barbecue din
ner will be on sale at all times.
Mel Lawrence, chief of the rescue
squad, promises to have a swell
meal and fixings, so the public
can enjoy themselves without the
ladies' worrying about cooking. All
monies taken in will go to defray
expenses on the new rescue squad
building on Broad street.
At exactly 2 p.m. the Parade of
Beauties will start. The parade
chairman, T. V. Woolard, believes
this year's parade will be bigger
and better than ever before. Any
one wishing to enter floats, from
house trailers to dog carts, from
horses to maltese cats, please con
tact Mr. Woolard.
At the end of the parade route,
the reviewing stand built by the
efforts of Mr. Grayden Paul, will
become the scene of the second
annual Beauty Contest. Mrs. T. V.
Woolard intends to have all the
beauties that can be found vying
fpr the title of Miss Beaufort Pi
rate, 1963.
Anyone who wishes to enter the
contest, please contact her. After
the beauty contest, the girls will
be in front of the Inlet inn for
pictures.
At 4 p.m., the Pirates will begin
their bombardment of Beaufort.
After blowing up the defending
fort, they will land and invade
Beaufort at the site of the histori
cal association’s ship, Alphonso.
After the capture of the town, they
will go on their rampage, until they
are attacked and captured, and
hauled off to gaol.
The firemen promise that they
will have a dangerous crew afloat
that day. Mr. Paul is wondering
how dangerous, and to whom, since
they blew a hole in their own flag
two years ago, tried to drown
themselves the year before, and
last year shot the hat off one of
their shipmates.
The Beaufort rescue squad’s
street dance will be held in the
same ares that night. They want
all to come out and dance to a
good live band.
The merchants association wants
all to have a good time. They are
behind the whole Invasion Day.
The crown will be donated, the
loving oup will be donated, roses
will be donated to contestants,
the money will be donated by the
merchants association.
Tide Table
TMes si Beeafert Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, May 3
4:34 a.m. 10:57 a.m.
5:12 p.m. 11:34 p.m.
Saturday, May 4
5:28 a.m. 11:41 a.m.
5:58 pan. —
Saaday, May 5
8:15 a.m. . 12:08 a.m.
8:41 p.m. 12:24 p.m.
Monday, May
8:57 a.m. ' 12:54 a.m.
7:18 p.m. ft*: 12:24 p.m.
Tneaday, May T
7:36 a.m. 1:35 a.m.
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Hospital Suit
Slated tor Trial
On Monday
Docketed for trial in superior
court Monday is the suit, Luther
Hamilton Jr. and Llewellyn Phil
lips, Morehead City, vs. Carteret
county.
The suit concerns the propoaed
county hospital. Filing of the legal
action on Thursday, Feb. 28. 1963
stopped the sale of a $75,000 note
scheduled for March 5. The $15,000
was scheduled to be borrowed to
get the new hospital under way
and pay debts already incurred in
connection with it.
The complainants allege that vot
ers went to the polls in 1960 with
the assurance that the hospital
would be built on Bogue sound on
highway 24. Instead, they say, the
county has now decided to put it
on an ‘'inaccessible" site at the
headwaters of Calico creek, over
looking marshland.
Introduced in the state legisla
ture last week was a bill which
would wipe out all previous action
in connection with a county hos
pital, require a new referendum on
the matter and give the county the
authority to acquire and operate,
if it wishes, the Morehead City hos
pital.
A one-week term of civil court
is scheduled for next week. A one
week term was also hekl this week.
Legion Post
Elects Officers
America* Legion post No. 46,
Morehesd City, has elected offi
cers for 1M3-64.
Rqbert F. Reed wa# re-elected
cofnmaftdsr and T. Leawood Leo
first vice-commander.
Others elected to office were Ol
sen J. Pridgen, second vice-com
mander; William E. Wade, third
vice-commander; Walton E. Ful
cher, adjutant.
Walton E. Fulcher, finance of
ficer; George W. Ball, chaplain;
John E. Lashley, sergeant at
arms; I. E. Pittman, historian,
and Luther Hamilton Jr., service
officer. .
The installation of officers will
take place in conjunction with
Beaufort’s American Legion poet
no. 99, according to the adjutant.
At its recent meeting the post
decided to sell American flags to
business firms as well as to in
dividual homes.
The post approved the resolution
presented by Pitt county post No.
39 to increase compensation for
World War 1 veterans. This re
solution will be presented at the
American Legion national conven
tion.
Post members discussed raising
funds to send the Marsh end City
high school band to the MlftAadlri
can Legion convention in Winston
Salem.
The post also hopes to find a
way to finance and promote Ameri
can Legion junior baseball, either
as a post project or gs a county
project.
Fire Damages
House at Betfie
swered an alarm at Settle Wed
nesday morning.
Firemen said the alarm came
from the home of Mrs.. Altar .
Mason. Mrs. Mason sought thnaid
of the Sail Arthur Drilling Co.,
which was in the vicinity, and they
had the fire under control when
Beaufort firemen arrived.
Extensive damage resulted from
the blaze, firemen said. It Started
at a drop cord in a largo oMBity
room in the home. Thg alarm Was
received at the Beaufort1 station
< on a truck, too
at 6:45 a m.
The Arthur firm,
down wells,
500-gallon tank
the fire out. The well,
fered use of their task tc
any time it miy be in
where Beaufort firemeg a
job, said Elmond Rime,
partment engineer.
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