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52nd Year — No. 37
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MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C.
Tuesday, May 7, 1963
Published TuMduys mmd Friday*
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Three Towns Will Choose
Officials in Election Today
Voters in three towns, Beaufort, Morehead City and'
Newport will go to the polls between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30
p.m. today to choose their town officials for the next two
years.
The polling place in each town will be the town hall.
Running for mayor in Beaufort are Dr. John Costlow,
Gray Hassell and Alban Richey.-t
Running for commissioner there
are Holden Ballou, Osborne Davis,
Dr. David Farrior, Earl Mades, W.
J. Mishael, James Stewart, and
Glenn Willis. Ballou, Davis, Far
rior, Mades and Willis are mem
bers of the present board.
The newly-elected officials will
take office immediately following
the election.
George W. Dill Jr. is unopposed
for the mayor’s office in Morchead
City. Running for commissioner
there are Joe Collins, Mrs. Ernest
Coney, Dom Femia, Vernon Gar
ner, D. J. Hall, S. C. Holloway,
the Rev. W. C. Horton, John Lash
ley, Dr. Russell Outlaw, Bill Wilk
ins, and Jerry J. Willis.
Present board members are Fe
mia, Hall, Holloway, Outlaw and
Willis.
Herbert O. Phillips III is unop
posed as judge of recorder’s court.
Mrs. Mary Hughes is unopposed
as clerk of court. Running for two
vacancies on the Morehead City
hospital board of trustees are in
cumbents A. B. (Jack) Roberts and
Gordon C. Willis.
Vying for the mayor’s office in
Newport are the present mayor,
Leon Mann Jr., and Aaron Craig.
Running for commissioner are
Bill Dugee, Raymond Edwards,
Virgil Kincaid, Harry Livingstone,
C. H. (Dick) Lockey, Gilbert
Slaughter, Tom Temple and Mrs.
John Tomlinson.
On the board of commissioners
at present are Edwards, Lockey
and Ttemple. John B*. Kelly and
John Thrower are not seeking re
election.
Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
after serving two terms, is not
running for re-election.
Firemen Fight Blaze
At Perry Park Motel
Morehead City firemen answer-'
ed an out-of-town alarm Sunday
afternoon to the Perry Park Motel
on highway 70, just outside of the
Morehead City limits.
Chief El Nelson said two rooms
on the 21-room motel were badly
damaged and three others suffered
smoke damage.
The owner said the two units
will have to be completely re-work
ed and eight more will be out of
use for quite a while because of
fire damage.
Two trucks from the Morehead
City fire department answered the
alarm and the Atlantic Beach fire
department was also called, but
chief Nelson said their equipment
was not used.
The chief said the fire apparent
ly started from a explosion of a
stove.
The explosion was heard by the
owner’s wife, Mrs. Roy Keller,
and the window of the room that
was badly burned was blown out.
The fire department was called
to the scene again later in the
evening when the smoldering fire
again started burning.
Urn Morehead City fire chief said
firemen were hampered in exting
uishing the blaze because of so
many spectators.
Ground Fire Blazes Up;
Firemen at Work Again
A ground fire blazed up over the
weekend and started through the
Open Grounds again. The ground
fire was the aftermath of the 35,
000-acre fire of two weeks ago.
Fire-fighters went in to control
the blaze, to keep it from jumping
fire lanes. No timber was involv
ed. There was also a small fire
at Williston yesterday, but it was
quickly brought under control, ac
cording to forest rangers.
The Open Grounds fire was on
the eastern side.
Civil Defense Drill
Set for Wednesday
Pupils at Beaufort and Queen
Street schools will have a civil de
fense drill at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
All pupils will be evacuated from
the schools as rapidly as possible.
Gerald Woolard, Beaufort civil
defense director, says parents are
NOT to come to the school for the
children. Purpose of the drill Is to
get the children home as fast as
possible, preventing traffic con
gestion.
Complainants
Drop Hospital
Legal Action
Non-suited Friday afternoon, by
action of the complainants was the
suit against the county hospital
filed by Luther Hamilton Jr. and
Llewellyn Phillips, both of More
head City.
The two decided to drop the
case, which alleges that the pro
posed Crab Point site for a county
hospital is undesirable. The case
was scheduled to be heard in su
perior court yesterday.
The suit could be re-instituted
at any time, however.
In the legislature at present is
a bill that wipes out all previous
action in connection with a county
hospital. It requires that a referen
dum be held on the matter, and
if the referendum passes, the hos
pital trustees shall select a hospi
tal site.
The bill also provides that the
county may take over and operate
the present Morehead City muni
cipal hospital as a county hospi
tal, if such arrangements are
agreeable with the present owner.
The bill was introduced by Sen.
Luther Hamilton, Morehead City.
Senator Hamilton was asked over
the weekend whether the bill is ex
pected to meet with general as
sembly approval.
“It will unless I withdraw it,”
he remarked.
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Two Charged
With Pump Theft
Alfred Smith, 2207 Fisher St.,
Morehead City, and Terry Willis,
Morehead City, who is stationed at
Hobucken, have been charged with
theft of a water pump from the
beach, according to the sheriff's
department.
Deputy sheriff Billy Smith said
the pump was taken from the un
occupied Beckwith cottage Wed
nesday night and the two were ap
prehended Thursday.
Smith was released under $150
bond and the warrant was served
on Willis over the weekend.
The stolen pump was turned over
to authorities by a Morehead City
resident who had received it. Value
of the pump was set at $80.
Smith is about 20 years of age,
age, according to the deputy. Wil
lis is in the Coast Guard.
Two Cars Crash
Near Morehead
Ten people miraculously escaped
inury in a two-car collision Friday
morning at the intersection of
highway 70 and the Mitchell Vil
lage entrance, west of Morehead
City.
A 1961 Buick, driven by Mrs.
Bill Murray, Beaufort, collided
a 1955 Buick, driven by Mrs. Jo
anne Simpson, route 2 Newport.
Mrs. Murray has been charged
with failing to yield the right-of
way, Recording to the investiga
ting state trooper. W. E. Pickard.
The officer said that Mrs. Mur
ray told him she did not see the
stop sign as she was coming out
of the Mitchell Village road. She
collided with Mrs. Simpson’s car,
which was headed east on highway
70. :
Eight young people were in the
Murray car, headed for a church
Editorial
Time for Reappraisal
Persons who are against getting the school program
off the ground with a bond issue have many reasons
for their feelings. Often, the “cost’' is merely a cam
ouflage. Most don’t really have a reason, but if they
SAY they are against the cost, this makes them look
as though they understand financial matters.
The biggest fallacy in the "factual” arguments from
those against the bond issue is that they are saying
how THEY would build schools if they were county
commissioners. They are saying what they think
COULD be done IF things were done the way they
would do them.
Well this is fine. It just so happens that they are
not the county commissioners or the board of educa
tion. County officials have outlined a way that they
propose to better the educational system. And it’s
already being shot full of holes by little segments of
people who wish they were running the county so they
could do things THEIR way. It's the hospital hassle
all over again.
People should also remember that the no-bond math
ematicians are using absolutely the HIGHEST figures
they can come up with to try to sway public opinion to
their way of thinking. They are not approaching this
in a reasonable way. In their fanaticism to scare peo
ple off because of cost, they are NOT presenting a log
ical picture.
Schools ARE going to cost money. And the bond
issue proposed will cost $2 million plus interest. But
—by putting aside money each year* there are some
freshmen in high school today who will graduate from
the very same ramshackle building they are attending
now. They won’t be taking trigonometry in 1966 be
cause there are only two others in their class who want
it, and a teacher can’t teach * class of three. The
teacher could, however, if some of those in other schools
who want it were in the same building with the three.
The bond program proposes a merger of these pu
pils, a “wedding” of schools. How many young couples
waited to get married until they could “afford” it?
Very few. They went ahead and took the plunge. Car
teret has waited five years since the last—defeated—
school bond referendum and we’re still more than $300,
000 away from the first school.
County commissioners have NOT officially said they
would put aside $376,000 next year, or for each of the
next four years, for school buildings, if the bond issue
fails. Perhaps they could, but they haven’t said they
would, so how do the bond-aginners propose to force
them to do this? With a law suit? The only winners
are the lawyers themselves.
And we needn’t kid ourselves that the state’s pro
posed $100,000,000 school bond issue will do for Car
teret what our LOCAL bond issue will do. The state
proposal must go to the people, too. And the same
people who are against a LOCAL school bond pro
gram will be against the state bond program if they
adhere to their present thinking. If the state bond
issue isn’t approved in referendum, what then? Noth
ing. If it is, Carteret will get some more "patchwork”
money.
To believe that with a state bond issue we’ll get
schools that won’t “cost us anything” is, not so. We’ll
pay and we’ll get less for our tax dollar than if we
borrowed school money ourselves and spent it our
selves.
This school bond program is an opportunity for Car
teret to do something for itself — without the state or
Uncle Sam doing it for us. Our philosophy pf letting
“Big Brother” do it appears to have so hypnotized us
that we’re too frightened to launch any program on
our own.
State Proposes Fixed Span
In Bridge to Harkers Isle
The State Highway commission
announces that it will replace the
present drawspan in the Markers
Island bridge with a fixed bridge
(no. draw).
A hearing on the proposal will
be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday,
June IS, in the Harkers Island
school auditorium.
The fined bridge would be built
to the west of the present draw
and tie in the existing roadway.
Hie tie-ins, according to drawings,
axe designed as “temporary ”
of the new
for boats, will be
high water. Clt
chanob
with the fixed span now proposed.
Residents of Harkers Island, at
a meeting with highway officials
in February, said that a draw is
not needed in the bridge. This ar
gument was advanced in the hope
that the state would see fit to pot
another bridge to the island from
Lennoxville, near Beaufort.
Case Net
The case against
Equils” was net prosecuted hi
Norebead City recorder’s c
week because George
charged with operating a <
out a license gave bis brot
ry’s name, when picked u
ficers. Terry Equils is a
at, Niagara Falls, N. Y.,
oat been in this county ii
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Pirate Queen Candidates
Mary June Merrill, left, and Anne Clemmons, both of Beaufort,
will be two of the bevy Of beauties vying for the Pirate Queen title
Saturday, June 8, in Beaufort.
Plan for School Funds
The plan for expenditure of school funds, if the $2
million bond issue is approved, appears below. The
plan is for use of $2,800,000. Eight hundred thousand
of that amount is already on hand, having accumulat
ed over the past four years.
WHERE HOW MUCH
East Carteret High School $1,000,000
West Carteret High School 1,100,000
Queen Street additions 180,000
W. S. King additions 82,000
White Oak School 186,000
Atlantic school renovation 20,000
Smyrna school renovation 25,000
Harkers Island renovation 1,000
Beaufort school renovation 50,000
/Newport school renovation 65,000
Camp Glenn renovation 2,500
Morehead City renovations 65,000
Miscellaneous 23,500
TOTAL $2,800,000
Senator Hamilton
County School Bo
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Bill Expected
To Pass Senate
Expected to clear the Senate this
week is the bill that would enable
people to take shrimp, fish and
clams for personal use, and allow
the taking of oysters, for personal
use, during the closed season, on
Tuesdays and Fridays. The bill has
i already passed the house where
it was introduced by Carteret leg
islator Thomas Bennett.
Laws are already in effect which
permit these operations in New
Hanover,' Pender and Brunswick
counties (Chapter 444 of the ses
sion laws of 1959.)
The law provides that possession
of more than five bushels of oys
ters in a boat is indisputable evi
dence that the oysters are being
taken commercially, for sale.
Under this bill, persons who pro
fess to take dams, shrimp or fish
for “family use” and then sell are
guilty of misdemeanor and are sub
ject to $50 fine and 30 days in jail.
A companion Mil to the Above
would make it unnecessary for a
fisherman to buy a license to take
seafood for family use.
Examiner in Beaufort
David Morris, been*
will have office hours in Beaufort
ssmsABE!®
is in the same spot as voting
booths. His Beaufort office is in
■ State senator Luther Hamilton
endorsed the county school bond
issue at a meeting at the Biitmore
hotel Saturday night and has is
sued a formal statement on his
position.
The senator spoke at a meeting
of the county unit, North Carolina
Education association.
He commented that the county
has not been doing what it should
in education and that citizens
should support the bond proposal.
The senator feels that the state’s
$100,000,000 school bond proposal
will be approved by the general
assembly. Whether it will be ap
proved by the people is in doubt.
Senator Hamilton, in his state
ment endorsing the local bond is
sue, expressed the hope that the
people will approve the state pro
posal as well as the local one.
Stanley Woodland
Heads Pilot Group
The Morehead City Pilot commis
sion, reactivated last week by the
State Porta Authority, met Thurs
day night. and elected Stanley
Woodland chairman.
The other members are I. E.
Pittman and Dr. Ben Royal. The
commissioners took action toward
obtaining 24-hour pilot service at
Morehead City and obtaining need
ed aids to navigation in the bar-'
bor.
The SPA last week also author
ized purchase of four acres of land
from Miss Delia Hyatt, which lies
on the north side of highway 70
across from Fry Roofing. Some of
the land extends into what is now
the Morehead City Yacht basin
Schools on Pay-as-You-Go
Will Require Higher Rate
County commissioners foresee several years of increaa
ed taxes if the county’s school needs are to be met with
out a school bond issue.
(People will vote Saturday on whether to borrow mon
ey to update the county school system.)
The commissioners met yesterday morning at the courts
house, Beaufort.
According to the board’s view of school needs and
costs, the first tax raise would"
come in 1964-65 and would be nec
essary to complete the West Car
teret school. That “completion,”
they say, would not include cer
tain shops and auditorium.
To start the East Carteret school
in 1966 another tax raise is fore
seen. Under this “pay-as-you-go”
program, the board believes that
updating of the school system could
not be completed before 1969-70, if
then.
The board states that with the
bond issue, however, they foresee
no need to raise taxes.
Under the bond program, com
missioners say it appears that
bonds need not be issued until
1964-65 and that, in addition to the
$2 million, approximately $375,000
could be possibly be added without
upping taxes.
“Unless we have bond money, we
can't get school buildings under
our present tax rate," W. R. Ham
ilton, chairman of the board, de
clared.
Ronald Earl Mason, county audi
tor, remarked that without a coun
ty hospital debt, it appears that
the borrowed school money can be
repaid in 10 years.
“We have figured interest at 3V4
per cent,” the auditor said. “And
last week bonds were being sold
at 2'/i and some even at 1.9 per
cent, according to the Daily Bond
Buyer,” Mr. Mason commented.
But taking the highest interest
figure, he said that interest the
first year would be $70,000 and
would be reduced by $7,000 each
year thereafter.
Moses Howard, commissioner,
said that he believes schools cou)<j
be built under the pay-as-you-go
.program and “the tax rate will
have to go up anyway.”
Mr. Howard said he has been sit
ting on the board many years
“under a debt.”
Commissioner Rudolph Mason
remarked, “And to get out of debt,
we’ve let the schools run down.”
Mr. Howard said, “If the bond
issue passes, I’m 100 per cent for
it. If not, I’m still in favor of go
ing ahead and building schools.”
Unit to Train
Capt. Paul W. Cordova, USAR,
announces that the 824th Trans.
Co. (Heavyboat), US Army Re
serve, will undergo its annual ac
tive duty for training June 15-30.
The unit will go to Theodore Army
Terminal, Mobile, Ala., for the
training.
Endorses
nd Issue
This county, he says, would re
ceive 1600,000 from the state bond
issue (that is about half of the cost
of a school such as that proposed
for East and West Carteret).
Assuming that the West Carteret
school is already paid for by the
time the state bond money would
become available, the senator be
lieves an additional 1600,000 would
have to be raised “to meet rea
sonable school requirements of the
county.”
Senator Hamilton stresses the
point that IF funds are forthcom
ing from other sources, county
commissioners would not have to
issue all of the $2 million in bonds
that people might approve in Sat
urday’s referendum.
The veteran legislator points out
’that Carteret can’t “take any
chance” on the state school bond
referendum passing. “We should
go along and vote the local bonds
and then not have them issued un
less it becomes necessary.
“The issue in my opinion,” he
concludes, “should be strongly sup
ported in the interest of better
schools for the county.”
Tide Table
Tides at Beaafert Bur
HIGH
LOW
Tnesday, Hay 7
7:38 a.m.
7:53 p.m.
1:35 a.m.
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Wednesday, May 8
8:12 a.m.
8:27 p.m.
2:16 sr.m.
2:23 p.m.
8:48 a.m.
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Thursday, Hay 8
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Friday, May 18
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Board Selects
S. H. Helton
For School Job
• Education Board
Moots Yestorday
• Appointee Will
Succeed H. L. Joslyn
S. H. Helton of Troy (Montgo
mery county) was selected by the
county board of education yester
day as county superintendent of
schools. He will succeed H. L. Jos
lyn. who will retire June 30.
Mr. Helton is a native of Cald
well county. He was graduated
with a bachelor’s degree from
Appalachian State Teachers col
lege, Boone, in 1935. He received
his master’s degree in education
at the University of North Carolina
and has done additional graduate
study there.
Mr. Helton was district principal
in Gaston county for 13 years, was
superintendent of schools in Iredell
county for seven years, and was
superintendent in Mont gonerjr
county for five years.
The new superintendent is a
member of the Horace Mann
league, Phi Ddlta Kappa, profes
sional honorary; North Carolina
Education association, American
Association of School Administra
tors and attended the White House
Conference on Education.
He is married and has two sons,
one of whom is in the service.
Board Names
Group fo Check
Welfare Work
Complying with a recommenda
tion of the April grand jury, county
commissioners yesterday appoint
ed a commission to study welfare
department practices.
Members of the 'commission are
J. 0. Barbour Jr., the Rev. Billy
Mobley, both of Beaufort; Roger
Jones, Broad Creek; Kenneth Wag
ner, Morehead City; Winston Hill,
Atlantic, and M. Cornell Garnet,
Newport.
Commissioner Ueaden Willis
wanted to know if this group is
merely going to “investigate Misa
Hughes’ reports” or do investiga
ting work on their own. Miss Geor
gie Hughes is welfare superinten
dent.
Commissioner C. Z. Chappell
said that Miss Hughes has agreed
to “open files” to them. At pre
sent, all welfare cases are dosed
to public inspection.
The commissioners specified that
appointees to the investigating
group will serve at least a year
and shall furnish the board with a
written report on the results at
their investigation.
The board also agreed to appoint
a county fisheries advisory com
mission to work with statt fish
eries personnel. Commissioner Wil
lis said he’d like to be a member
of the board.
I Actual
red until next