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WILL OFEN
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52nd Year — No. 43
Two .Sections — Ten Pages
MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT, N. C.
Tuesday, May 28, 1963
Published Tuesdays and Fridays
Whaling Museum
to Open Soon
For Sumner
Beaufort’s whaling museum, the
Alphonso, will open Saturday for
the summer.
Added to the museum grounds
this year is a secretary’s office
and tourist information booth. The
museum, sponsored by the Beau
fort Historical association and op
erated by the Beaufort Merchants
association is unique in that it is,
itself, an old sailing vessel, a
sharpie.
Historical relics are located on
and in the boat. The museum is
reached by following Cedar street
(highway 70) in Beaufort and turn
ing south on Pollock. The Alphonso
is at the. foot of the street, across
from the postoffice.
"Come and see how the ^afar
ing men existed 200 years ago'”
invites Grayden Paul, who will be
on hand daily from 9 a m. to 6
p.m. dnd from 2 to 6 p.m. Sundays.
Donations to the museum are 25
cents per person.
Mr. Paul, who supervises the an
nual pirate invasion re-enactment,
also announces that this year the
town will be defended by Sgt. Maj.
Frank Cox and his Washington
Grays The invasion will begin at
4 p.m Saturday, June 8.
Fire Destroys
Adams House
A five-room house was destroyed
Friday morning at Broad Creek
when an oil stove in the living room
exploded and spread flames
throughout the house.
The owner of the home, Timmy
Adams, and his wife, were sitting
on the porch at the time of the ex
plosion, according to Morehead
City fire chief El Nelson.
Mr. Adams told chief Nelson that
he didn’t think the fire department
could have put out the fire had
they been at the scene at the time
of the explosion, because the fire
spread so rapidly.
Everything in the house was de
stroyed. ~ ~
The fire department prevented
the fire from spreading to sur
rounding houses.
Truck Driver
Hurt in Crash
Ross Andrew Willis, route 1 New
port, was injured at 10 a.m. Sun
day when two pickup trucks and a
car were involved in an accident
a mile and a quarter east of New
port on highway 70.
Willis, driving a 1962 Ford pick
up, was knocked out from under
the steering wheel. The pickup cir
cled and came to a stop of its own
accord. Willis was reported to be
in a serious condition yesterday
at the Morehead City hospital.
Owner of the 1960 Chevrolet pick
up involved was Clinton Garner,
route 2 Newport. According to state
trooper R. H. Brown, who investi
gated, Willis’s pickup was parked
in front of Rock’s grocery store on
the south side of the highway.
It was raining when Willis pulled
out onto the highway and into the
path of a 1960 Mercury driven by
Donald Thomas Davis, 603 Bridges
St., Morehead City. The Mercury
was headed west. It then bounced
into the yard of the grocery and
hit the parked Garner pickup.
With Davis waa his wife. Trooper
Brown says neither was injured and
credits the lack of injury to the
fact that the couple was wearing
seat belts.
Damage to each of the pickups
was estimated at $800. The car was
judged a total loss. Charges are
pending.
Coast Guard Aids
Disabled Craft
Fort Macon Coast Guard an
swered two calls for assistance
over the weekend. Early Saturday
morning a 14-foot outboard was
seen adrift with three persons
aboard, including the owner, J. W.
Stockhouse, Goldsboro.
Coast Guardsmen towed the
craft to the Gulf Marina, Beaufort.
The Stockhouse craft did Sail
an anchor, Coast Guardsmen said
and was drifting helpless in the
water. A passing boater who saw
the craft summoned the Coast
Guard.
A 20-foot craft belonging to Wal
lace P. Brickman, Newport, had
battery failure Sunday.
There were five persons aboard
the Brickman boat. It was towed
to Morehead City.
library to Close
The county public library will be
closed Thursday,
librarian, Mrs. W. G. Simpson. The
Kay is in observance of Me
morial Day."
Dire Predictions Continue
Waves crash over ore of the
barges being used in construc
tion of the ferry slip at Cedar
Island. This picture was taken
Friday and shows, according to
those who are shaking their
heads over the slip construction,
that attempts to make a ferry
landing slip at Cedar Island are
“foolhardy.”
“They’ll never be able to dock
that ferry in a northeaster,” one
of the down east residents says.
“And even if they do dock it,
they’re still going to have troub
le getting in to Ocracoke because
of shallow water.”
Those against moving the fer
ry landing to Cedar Island from
Atlantic term the operation “a
Citizens Pay Tribute Sunday
To Retiring Superintendent
Hundreds of citizens showed their
appreciation and gratitude to Mr.
and. Mrs. H. L. Joslyn at a recep
tion Sunday afternoon in the More
head City recreation center. Mr.
Joslyn is retiring as superintendent
of schools at the end of June.
The reception was a county-wide
event. Engraved gifts of silver to
both Mr. and Mrs. Joslyn were
from citizens throughout the coun
ty.
A silver bowl was given Mrs.
Joslyn, a silver tray to Mr. Joslyn,
both from county residents at
large, a gold loving cup from the
Queen Street Parent-Teacher asso
ciation and a silver chafing dish
from the county unit of the North
Carolina Teachers association.
The bowl and tray were present
ed by Dr. A. F. Chestnut, chair
man of the county board of educa
tion. The loving cup was presented
by Mrs. Mamie Oden, Beaufort,
and the coating dish by John Til
lery, Morehead City.
The tray was engraved with Mr.
Joslyn’s name and the significant
dates in his 50-year career in pub
lic school education. The bowl was
engraved with Mrs. Joslyn’s name
and the inscription “They also
serve who only stand and wait.”
First Shrimp
Catches Light
Catches of shrimp yesterday, the
opening day of the season in inside
waters, were light.
The trawlers were bucking a
northeast wind but the few shrimp
that were caught were of fair size,
SO to 55 to the pound, heads off.
Those boats which went out work
ed only half a night, coming in
soon after dawn. The season open
ed at 12:01 a.m. Monday in Bogue,
Core, Pamlico sounds, the Neuse,
Newport and North rivers.
Leon Thomas of the state com
mercial fisheries office, Morehead
City, said, “The shrimp ire the**,
hut they didn’t catch tod many.”
Friday will be the last day of the
scallop season. The season contin
ued through May, a departure from
custom. Catches of scallops last
week were reported good and the
price was good.
LOW
Tide Table
Tlin at
HIGH
Tuesday, May 28
12:15 a.m. 8:39 a.m.
12:58 p.nt. 6:57 p.m.
Wednesday, May 2t
1:09 a.m. 7:41 a.m.
1:53 p.m. 8:06 p.m.
Thursday, May 39
2:01 a.m. 8:40 a.m.
2:28 p.m. 9:08 p.m.
Friday, May a
2:56 a.m. 9:33 a.m.
3:42 p.m. 10:94
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political move.” They say the
thousands of dollars being sunk
in the ferry slip is money thrown
away.
They add that even after the
slip is built, the ferry will not be
able to make two trips a day as
anticipated.
The new landing point is being
built by the State Highway com
mission, which operates the fer
ry, Sea Level, between the Car
teret mainland and Ocracoke, a
village on the outer banks at the
southern tip of the Cape Hatteras
National Seashore park.
Persons in favor of the ferry
landing at Cedar Island say that
any opposition to it comes from
people at Atlantic who do not
Hip gbld cop was ejigravcd with
Mr. Joslyn’s name, date, .donor
and the words, “For Service Ren
dered.” The chafing dish also bore
the retiring superintendent’s name,
the donor’s name and the words,
“In appreciation.”
The gifts were displayed on a
table near the entrance to the main
lobby of the recreation center.
Guests were greeted throughout
the afternoon by Dr. L. W. Moore
and Robert Safrit Jr., past chair
men of the county board of educa
tion, and their wives.
Welcoming guests were Dr. Chest
nut and George W. Dill, mayor of
Morehead City. Mrs. Chestnut pre
sided at the guest register.
Two retiring teachers, Miss Lena
Duncan, Beaufort, and Mrs. Wal
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Joslyo show two of the gifts pretested them
by comity resideais Sunday. Two other gifts from the Qoeeo Street
PTA sod the comity salt of the North Ctrolls* Teschers associstteo,
were preseoted after this photo wss taken
To be considered this morning in
the commercial fisheries commit
tee of the House will be the reso
lution calling for appointment of
a commission to make a reorgan
ization study of the state com
mercial fisheries division.
The resolution, introduced Thurs
day at Raleigh by Republican Rep.
Thomas S. Bennett, was signed by
13 Democrats of coastal Carolina.
Mr. Bennett’s proposal is aimed
at development of a “concentrated
program te promote seafood pro
cessing, manufacturing and mar
The commission to study the
present set-up and fisheries prog
ress in ether states would consist
want the ferry landing-point mov
ed from their community.
The move was undertaken in
the belief that the Cedar Island
landing, because it is closer to
Ocracoke, will make it possible
for the ferry to make two trips
a day and thus increase the ser
vice to persons using the ferry.
Last summer many persons
had to be turned away or stay
over an extra day because they
could not get on the ferry.
At present the ferry is under
going routine repair. It is expect
ed to be back in service this
coming weekend. When will the
new ferry slip be ready?
Those against the Cedar Is
land construction laugh and
shake their heads.
dron Baity, Morehead City, poured
punch. 11
The refreshment table was cen
tered with an arrangement of yel
low gladiolas and chrysanthe
mums flanked with gold candles
in silver candelabra. The words,
“50 Years” and a gold bow deco
rated the front of the table.
Mrs Joslyn was presented a yel
low orchid corsage and Mr. Joslyn
a yellow rosebud boutonniere.
Among the guests were members
of the Joslyn family, Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Mereness, Summit, N. J., Dr.
and Mrs. Robert MacDougall,
York, Pa., Lt. Cdr. Harvey Joslyn,
USN, Mrs. Joslyn and their two
daughters, Norfolk, Va., and Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Joslyn, Morehead
City. _
of 11 members to be tamed by the
governor no later than July 1, 1963.
New Bill Calls for Electing
Two-Year County Board
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James P. Lewis to Try
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Crabmeat Process Plant
By WADE LUCAS <
James Paul Lewis, Davis, pre
maturely gray at 34 but obiviously
a man who believes he can suc
ceed as this county’s only crab
meat processor, was a puzzled man
Wednesday.
Mr. Lewis, who is associated with
his father in the operation of the
Luther Lewis and Son seafood op
eration, has started processing
crabmeat.
His operation is small, but it is
the first crabmeat processing plant
Crab fishermen and others in
terested in seeing the ban lifted
on sponge crabs (females about
to spawn) will attend a hearing
at 10 a.m. Friday in the commer
cial fisheries building, Morehead
City.
to begin operating in the state’s
largest hard crab producing coun
ty since Percy Davis’s processing
facility burned two years ago at
Marshallberg.
Mr. Lewis is puzzled because he
cannot hire enough pickers to pick
the three grades of crabmeat he is
planning to ship to the Baltimore
market.
"I can get all the hard crabs we
can use, but we can’t get enough
pickers at the federal wage of $1
per hour to meet the demand for
crabmeat,” Mr. Lewis said.
He has appealed to the State De
partment of Public Instruction for
help in training crab pickers under
a federal grant the state agency
has for training workers in com
mercial fishing operations.
Luther Lewis, his father, looks
after the firm’s shrimp business.
. The Lewises are operating on the :
same site where the late James P.
Salter opened a fishhouse over 50
years ago.
Accountants To
Convene Here
The North Carolina Society of
Accountants will hold its annual
convention at the Morehead Bilt
more hotel J.une 23-25, according
to Hoyle W. Davis of Rockingham,
president. J. C. Harvell, Morehead
City, heads the committee in
charge of the 16th annual affair.
Serving with Harvell are Mau
rice E. Richardson, Morehead
City; Rudolph Mason, Morehead
City; Robert K. Montague, New
port; and John C. West, Trenton.
Wives of the committeemen are
planning a program for the la
dies, under the leadership of Mrs.
Harvell and Mrs. Richardson.
Registration, vespers by the sea
and a seafood buffet dinner mark
the opening day’s activities on
Sunday, June 23. Monday’s events
include* a directors’ breakfast,
morning and afternoon business
sessions.
Tuesday, June 25, will see com
mittee meetings, morning and af
ternoon business sessions and the
society’s annual banquet. Newly
elected officers will be installed at
the banquet.
Heavy Rain Falls,
Coolness Prevails
Cooling air and drinly weather
kept the sunbathers home over the
weekend. Skiea started clouding
Friday and didn’t give Mr. Sun
shine a chance to peek through.
Two-and-one-half inches of rain
were recorded by weather observ
er Stanley Davis over the week
end.
High Lew. Wind
Friday .. W 52 NE
Saturday . 71 57 ENE
Sunday .- 63 58 E
vision of commercial fisheries to
the end that the commercial fish
ing economy of North Carolina can
be expanded and improved into the
area of seafood processing and
marketing and shall make recom
mendations and appraisals con
cerning the laws and regulations
relating to the commercial fisher
ies industry."
A similar study of the commer
cial fisheries division was made as
the result of a resolution fat the
1950 general assembly which es
tablished the commission of reor
ganization of state government.
That study dealt mainly with the
advisability of creating a
agency, apart from the
jnent of Conservation and
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Donnie Dudley is new president
of Beaufort Jaycecs. Mr. Dudley
was chairman of the iaycee com
mittee which recently supervised
renovation of the Beaufort civic
center, formerly the Scout build
ing.
County Schools Will
End 1962-63 This Week
Today is the last day of school
in the county, except for Beaufort
and Smyrna schools. At those
schools, teachers only will attend
today. The children will return to
morrow and school will be in ses
sion until 1 p.m.
Teachers are required to finish
up their work in two days after a
school yeaf closes. Beaufprt and
Smyrna teachers chose to take one
of their closing days today. At oth
er schools the teachers will attend
to closing details Wednesday and
Thursday.
St. Egbert’s Catholic school,
Morehead City, will close Friday.
Old Jail Museum Opens
meat, which would be known as
the North Carolina Commercial
Fisheries commission.
Mr. Bennett said that his resolu
tion is not particularly aimed at
setting up a fisheries commis
sion. “At present,” be said, “no
body knows what’s good for the
seafood industry and if improve
ment is possible by separating
commercial fisheries from CAD,
that’s OK with me.” '■$£'
» persons are di
in the commercial
22 per cent of the
ipod this cov
ers more than 10 per coot of the
state’s total population.
■ in refcard to other fisheries mat
Senator Hamilton Says
Bill Will Pass This Week
Sen. Luther Hamilton predicted yesterday that a bill
providing for the election of county commissioners every
two years and election of commissioners by districts, will
be ratified this week.
The bill is now in the counties, cities and towns com
mittee.
If enacted—and there is no indication that it will not
be approved—four districts will bd
established. District 1 will consist
of Morehead township with a pop
ulation of 10,054 and will have two
commissioners; district 2, consist
ing of Newport and Whiteoak town
ship with a population of 4,429 will
have one commissioner; district 3,
Beaufort township, with a popula
tion of 6,246, will have one com
missioner and district 4, consist
ing of the area east and north of
Beaufort, population 6,709, will
have one commissioner.
The bill stipulates that commis
sioner candidates from each dis
trict will run for office in 1964.
Political parties will nominate
their candidates in the primaries
and the successful nominees will
stand for election in the fail of 1964.
Each district will be a separate
entity, according to the bill. Sena
tor Hamilton emphasizes that in
no way can a candidate in one dis
trict, who may get more votes than
a candidate in another, displace
the man with fewer votes.
"Each district will have a rep
resentative in accordance with this
act,” the senator said.
Each candidate must be a quali
fied voter from his district. All vot
ers of the county will vote for five
candidates. For example, voters in
district 1 will vote for candidates
from 1 and the other three dis
tricts; voters of district 2 will vote
for their own candidate and the
candidates in the other three dis
tricts, etc.
The bill also provides that the
county board shall elect a chair
man annually. Under the present
-system, a chairman is elected
every four years.
By stipulating that county com
missioners shall be elected every
two years, the senator stated that
the bill merely brings Carteret
back again under regulations of
the state constitution.
(See BILL Pg. 2)
ters, Mr. Bennett mm that the
fisheries committee 1ms reported
favorably on a bill which would
allow persona to take seafood for
personal use, without a license, as
long as they use a host without a
motor.
provide for election of the county
board of t rfur alien rsmtiriatoa
would stand for election from dif
ferent districts, | but all would be
voted an by the county st large.
Given a favorable report last
weak by the fhuaee easamittee was
a bill which would enable the coun
ty^ establish an Industrial de
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Troopers Report
Three Crashes
State trooper* W. J. Smith and
J. W. Sykes investigated three au
tomobile accidents during the
weekend.
Trooper Smith was called to an
accident two miles east of New
port on highway 70 at 2:15 a.m.
Saturday. A 1960 Corvair, driven
by Karen M. Maryscuk, 16, Jack
sonville, turned over when the driv
er reportedly swerved to miss a
dog and lost control of the auto. *
The car was a total loss. Neither
Miss Maryscuk nor a passenger in
the Corvair were injured. Chargee
are pending.
Saturday night at 11:45 trooper
Smith investigated an accident a
half mile west of Salter Path on
the Emerald Isle road. The trooper
said a 1962 Corvair, going west,
failed to make a curve and turned
over. The driver said he was try
ing to get to Bogue inlet in time
to make the midnight ferry across
to Cedar Point.
Samuel Joe Lawson was driving
the car, owned by Clyde L. Yar
brough, Jacksonville. Two other
passergers were in the car. Yar
brough was taken to Morehead
City hospital by ambulance, but
his injuries were not serious.
Damage to the auto was estimat
ed at I860, Lawson was charged
with exceeding * safe speed.
1 1965 OMs mobile wrecked Hue
miles soufh of Newport on the Nind
Foot road, at 10:90 a.in. Sunday.
Trooper Sykes said the Oldsmabile
was being driven by Warren Al
' bert Gordon Jr., Marine Corps Air
Facility, Jacksonville.
The officer said the car was
headed south, it was raining, the
highway was slick and tires on the
Oldstnobile were slick. The ear
went around a curve, skidded off
the road and turned upside down.
Gordon bad sue passenger, but
neither was hurt. The car was
judged a total loss. Gordon was
charged with driving too fast lot
conditions.
Judges Will
Choose Princess
A panel of from various
parts of the county will select a
county dairy princess tomorrow
night at 7:30 in the Beaufort school
auditorium. Glenn Adair, Beaufort,
will be master, el ceremonies.
Four contestants had been named
at press time. It was hoped that
Morehead City would have a con
testant, but she had hot been select
ed yesterday. The contestants:
Nias Annette RaMnssn, sponsor
ed by the Atlantic Civic dub; Miss
Anne Clemmons, sponsored by the
Beaufort Rotary dub; Miss Anne
Baum, sponsored by the Gloucester
Home Demonstration dub; and
Mias Sue Gerock, sponsored by tbe
Newport Rotary dub.
Coaches for the entrants are
Mrs. Nadine Harris, Atlantic; Mrs.
Roy Clemmons, Beaufort; Mrs.
Victoria Baum, Gloucester; and
Mrs. Floy Garner, Newport. ;
Judges will he Mrs. Gaston
Smith, Atlantic; Gilbert Putter,
Beaufort; Headen Willis, Smyrna;
and Mrs. Robert Walters, Newport.
R. K. Montague, Newport, and
R. M. Williams’ Beaufort, are co
chairmen of June dairy month. Or.
W. L. Woodard is dairy princess
chairman.
Refreshments will be served at
the contest. The public wfll bn wel
come.