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52nd Year — No. 48
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MOREHEAD CITY and BEAUFORT* N. C.
Friday, June 14, 1963
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Pirates Take Beaufort
Photos by Norwood Young
From this sailing craft, the pirates bombarded the town of Beaufort in Saturday’s re-enactment
of the Spanish pirate invasion.
Retm
of Frank
defend the
Beanfort from Washington, N. C., to help
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The pirates jump from their longboat to begin the assault ou the batteries and capture the town,
bers of the Beaufort Fire department
Pirates, in teal life, are mem
Jet Crashes;
Pilot Bails Out
A Jet fighter plane, bound for
Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico,
crashed at Mill Creek and burned
some of the surrounding woods at
10:30 a.m. Wednesday. The pilot,
Capt. Donald A. Griffing, USAF,
Wichita, Kan., ejected and landed
safely.
Soon after take-off from Cherry
Point, Captain Griffing got a warn
ing signal that things were not
well. He radioed that he was re
turning to Cherry Point. But as he
was preparing to do so, smoke
filled his cockpit, so he got out.
He was picked np by Marine
helicopter and was treated for
scratches and bruises at the Cher
ry Point hospital.
The captain was an exchange
pilot, serving with the Second Ma
rine Air Wing at Cherry Point
(VMA-583) since October 1962. The
aircraft was an A4B Skyhawk.
Mill Creek is a community in this
county, a short distance east of the
Marine Corps air station.
Wrong Date 1
Most of Tuesday’s papers got off
the press before it was discovered
that the dateline on page 1 was
June 7 instead of June 11. The three
pretty girls on page 1 are in the
June: 11 paper, despite what the
date on that page says. All other
pages have the- June 11 date. To'
those who were troubled by this
error, our apologies.—The Editor.
W. C. Pugh Freed This Week
Of Charges of Embezzling
W. C. Pugh, Ramseur, arrested
in February on a charge of em
bezzling $2,000 from a bounty real
estate developer, was freed in Cart
eret superior court Tuesday.
Judge Howard H. Hubbard ac
cepted a motion to dismiss the
case, but not until a jury had been
empanelled and the state’s wit
ness, W. B. McLean, Emerald
Isle, had been examined and cross
examined. The order for non-suit
followed a conference between the
judge and lawyers, and the jury
was dismissed.
The charge against Pugh, which
dates back to Dec. 20, 1962, was
filed by McLean, his foniier em
ployer. The warrant charged the
41-year-old Pugh with embezzling
$2,000 and an adding machine.
Sheriff Robert (Bobby) Bell re
turned the accused from Hatties
burg, Miss., on Feb. 20, 1963. Pugh
was bound over to superior court,
and a Grand Jury indicted him
April 1.
McLean testified Tuesday that
Pugh had taken somewhere in the
amount of $1,657.62 from him while
working as manager of the Bogue
Inlet gas station and store, a pro
perty belonging to McLean.
He said that Pugh had been pro
mised a “fair percentage" of the
profits of the store as payment for
managing it, and that he and Pugh
bad agreed that Pugh would be
paid “enough to live on” while
the business was in a 'rial
stage. There was no wr ee‘
ment, however, *"«. ”*•
The store c > a few days be
fore Christm.* ^vinter, and
Pugh disappear' sai<*
Although the cVwK^yftmissed
before the defendaw w||!gmestify,
it was brought out ^pgjflf;;''oss
cxaminatiou that Put < P> a
substantial amount of money into
the business himself: The defens*
also pointed out that Pugh had re
ceived no salary or wage during
the entire operation of the store
from midsummer to December,
“except what he made in sales at
the store.” • •
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH
Friday, Ji
12:55 a.m.
1:49 p.m.
Saturday,
1.52 a.*.
2:47 p.m.
2:57 am.
2:41 p.m..
4:06 a.m.
4:49 p.m.
Tuesday,
5:11 a.m.
5:46 p.m.
LOW
14
7:39 a.m.
8:14 p.m.
15 * .
8:44 a.m.
9:24 p.m,.
16
9i41 i.m.
10:24 p.m.
17
10:36 a.m.
11:30 p.m.
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County Residents Object to Fixed
25-Foot Span to Harkers Island
Home to be Open for Tour
This is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe House, Moore and Front streets, Beaufort, which will be open
to the public during the Old Homes Tour Friday and Saturday, June 28 and 29. Six other homes will
be open on those two days, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will also be an outdoor antique show on Tur
ner street, between the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodge halls the same weekend.
W. C. Carlton to Make Survey
On Electrification in Costa Rica
W. C. Carlton, manager of the
Carteret-Craven Electric Member
ship Corp., is scheduled to leave
Morehead City Monday for six
weeks of work with the Agency
for International Development in
Costa Rica.
Costa Rica, sometimes called the
SwRaerland of Cdtjlral America, is
bounded on the north Nicaragua
and oh the south by Panama. Its
eastern boundary is the Caribbean
Other eases tried In this term of
criminal court:
L. G. Norris was not prosecuted
on a charge of cruelty to an ani
mal, shooting and wounding a dog,
in a case appealed from county
recorder’s court.
Malcolm Taylor Smith of Nor
folk County, Va., was found not
guilty of a charge of driving after
bis license was revoked, in a case
appealed! from Morehead City re
corder’s court.
K. D. Thompson of Jacksonville
was not prosecuted on
violating boating laws,
ing readily accessible life
ers for all persons aboard his boat,
ih a case appealed from a justice
of the peace court. Right was re
tained to reopen the case.
Halbert Thompson, Beaufort,
was sentenced to county jail and
assigned to the youthful first of
fenders’ camp on a charge of for
ging a $10 check in the, name of
Charles LaughinghousC. But the
judgment
Thompson Was
for four jftai*.
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slow
days on tlss-toads^on
assault and using loud and'pro
fane language against Roy L. Dil
beck and Geraldijie Weel. But the
and C3u
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and its western boundary the Pa
cific.
While in the Central American
country, Mr. Carlton will make
a survey to determine where a
pilot rural electrification coopera
tive could best be located. He ex
plains that Costa Rica, a republic,
has both private power concerns
Mid government po^er, but there’s
a problem of getting this power
to the people.
The private industries are hesi
tant to expand, fearful that they
may eventually be taken over by
the government, yet the country
wants to take full advantage of its
new efforts to generate power by
building dams and using water.
The principal aim, Mr. Carlton
says, is to get power to the con
sumer at the lowest cost.
Mrs. Carlton will accompany her
husband to Costa Rica, but at her
own expense. Mr. Carlton will
leave Morehead City Monday for
Washington, where he will undergo
three days of orientation.
On Thursday he will fly to Miami,
Fla., where Mrs. Carlton will join
him and they’ll leave by air Friday
for Costa Rica. Mr. Carlton will re
ceive the same salary in Costa Ri
ca that he receives as manager
of the cooperative here.
While in the Central American
country, the Carltons will live in
San Jose, the capital, which is in
the central highlands, 40 miles
from the Pacific and 50 miles from
the Caribbean. San Jose’s popula
tion is 102,000.
Fourteen men ilia ago, Mr. Carl
ton said that he filled in a form
volunteering to go to a foreign
country to do work in the rural
electrification field. He said he
had no idea that he would be
chosen, but when the offer came
to go to Costa Rica, he was pleas
ed as well as surprised.
The National Rural Electrifica
tion Cooperative association has a
contract with the Agency for Inter
national Development. The objec
tive of the cooperative agreement
is to promote rural electrification,
rural industry and community fa
cilities in cooperation with coun
tries of the free world.
Mr. Carlton is a national direc
tor, from North Carolina, with the
NRECA and a past president of
the Tar Heel Rural Electrification
administration.
He has been given a 60-day leave
of absence by the Carteret-Craven
board and in his absence bis du
ties will be assumed by B. F. Mor
ton, office manager.
State to Widen Ferry
Channel, Bogue Sound
W. B. McLean, Emerald Isle, re
_ yesterday that the State
vay commission has
for bids on
_I for the Emerald
afet ferry and the
me in the very near
On the first letting, no
the
a recent weekend, the one
ferry in operation carried 1,800
cars, according to the captain. Mr.
McLean predicts that when two
hrtes are in operation, as many
as 1,500 cars a day will be hand
led.' ’ •* ’ '■ ■■ ; •'
•'The ferries are operated by the
Mote and provide access to the
W. C. Carlton
. . . Costa Rica-bound
Capt. C. H. Piner Dies;
Funeral at 3 P.M. Today
Capt. Charlie Plner, who would
have been 71 years old yesterday,
died early Wednesday morning at
Duke hospital, Durham, after a
short illness. He was christened
Charles Herty Piner, but for many
years was known only as Captain
Charlie.
The funeral service will be con
ducted at 3 o’clock this afternoon
in the funeral chapel of George
W. Dill and Sons by the Rev. Cor
bin Cooper, pastor of First Baptist
church. Burial will be in Gethse
mane cemetery.
Capt. Charlie, whose education
extended only though the seventh
grade at Morehead City school,
became captain of a freighter,
head pilot in the Morehead City
harbor, and bead of two success
ful businesses, Piner Dredging Co.
and Carteret Towing Co.
The captain weAt to sea in 1906
aboard sailing vessels, primarily(
fishing boats. He became a har
bor pilot in 1917.
During World War II he was skip
per of a freighter, Southport, which
shipped out of Miami, Fla., into
the Caribbean. He often recalled
as one of his most harrowing ex
periences the time when a Ger
man submarine followed his
freighter for more than an hour
before dropping off. The incident
lappened off the coast of Cuba
luring the war.
Capt. Charlie retired as a
per in 1946. He first visited
la in 1905, but returned
svery year thereafter to spend
winter.
He participated in the early de
velopment of Miami and
Beach and Carried the first
load of building ipaterial,
nto developing that m
itrand. Prior to that first
he only structures on
Beach were fishing shacks
kpart.
Captain Piner returned
loon after Morehead City
ierminal was established and
ame the first pilot to bring ships
nto the harbor: He acquired
(Sea CAPTAIN, Ft- D
Army Engineers Conduct
Hearing Here Yesterday
Markers Island citizens and rep <
rcsentativcs of a marine railway
and the menhaden fishing industry
voiced objection yesterday morn
inR to the State Highway commis
sion's plan to construct a fixed
bridge from Markers Island to the
mainland. The objections were
made at a public hearing conduc
ted by Army Engineers who pro
pose a bridge with clearance of
25 feet above mean high water.
The hearing was held at Harkers
Island school.
Col. Joseph Gfygiel, district
Army engineer,1 conducted the
hearing. He said the Army Engi
neers are concerned only with the
bridge being proposed by the state
and how it affects navigation.
The existing federal project in
volved, he said, is a through wa
terway connecting Pamlico Sound
and Beaufort harbor. The chan
nel is 7 feet deep at low water,
75 feet wide and goes from Pam
lico Sound to Beaufort via Wain
wright Slough, Core Sound and the
Straits. An alternate route, he
said, is through Back Sound and
channels at the east and west
ends of Harkers Island.
A log of openings by the Harkers
Island bridge shows that 1,769
openings were made in 1958, 1,752
in 1959, 1,511 in 1960, 1,390 in 1961
and 1,517 in 1962.
lie asked that in presenting their
views, interested persons also sub
mit evidence to substantiate them.
Evidence will be accepted until
June 27.
Buddy Norris of the state high
way commission explained that the
proposed bridge will be located
parallel with and just west of the
existing bridge. The draw span And
1,800 feet of approaches would be
removed upon completion of the
new project, he said, with 1,500
feet dn the north end being retain
ed temporarily.
The navigation span would have
42 feet of horizontal clearance be
tween fenders and 29 feet vertical
clearance on high water. The
bridge would have a 24 foot road
way.
H. G. Phillips, resident highway
commissioner, remarked that prior
to the week of Feb. 13 the com
mission was asked to come to this
area for a hearing.
A hearing was scheduled, the
commission came and told of its
plans. The existing bridge is in
poor condition, he said, and the
draw definitely must be removed
or replaced. The commission got
(See HEARING, Pg. 2)
Cap*. C. H. Finer
. . . aboard pilot boat
Club to Meet
Dr. Paul Whitaker. Kinston, wffi
be the guest speaker whqp the
Emeritus Civic club observes La
dies night Monday night at the
Biltmore hotel, Morehead City.
Dinner will be served at 6:10 p.m.
Womans Club Invites
Artists to Show Work
tended an invitation to artists
exhibit in an art show during
i Old Homes Tour Friday and
turday, June 28 and 29. TM mc
it will be in the Eure budding
Aim Street Methodist church.
t exhibit will be hi
June 2T, and dism
f, June 29. The sb
Bouncy Wake
Flips Motor
Off Outboard
• Fort Macon Coast
Guard Aids Craft
• Seven Assists Made
In Past Week
Patrick Prince, Durham, lost the
12-horsepower motor off his out
board in the vicinity of the Atlantic
Beach bridge Sunday and had to
he towed to the Coral Bay marina,
west of Morehcad City, by the
Coast Ciuard.
According to Fort Macon Coast
Guardsmen, Prince, in his 14-foot
outboard, hit the wake of a passing
vessel and it flipped his engine
off. lie said he almost lost his wife,
too.
Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen
made four assists prior to Sunday.
They towed to Morehead City
Wednesday, June 5, a 36-foot cabin
cruiser which had engine failure
south of Core Creek bridge. On the
following day, the 32-foot Kathy
Barr, which went aground at Core
Creek light No. 24, was towed to
Morehead City. The 46-footer from
Fort Macon was used in both
cases. v.
The tugboat Evelyn, owned by )
James T. Gaskill, New Jersey, was '
refloated Saturday after it had
gone aground at Bogue Sound light
No. 14. The tug had a barge in
tow.
In the vicinity of the Biltmore
hotel Saturday, a 40-foot cabin
cruiser knocked a hole in its bot
tom and was taking on water. The
30-footer from Fort Macon went
to its aid, put pumps aboard and
towed it to Morehead City.
Th 40-footer relieved the Coast
Guard cutter Jonquil of the tow.
Dolphin II, five miles offshore
Monday. The Dolphin II, Alvin J.
Lewis, Morehead City, master, had
engine failure. Nine persons were
aboard the partyboat. It was tow
ed to its home berth at Morehead
City.
A 26-foot cabin cruiser had en
gine failure Monday, also about
200 yards from Bogue Sound light
No. 24. The craft was an experi
mental coastal engineering labora
tory, owned by the University of
Florida. It was towed to Morehead
City.
The Coast Guard escorted Ex
plorer Scouts, on rafts, from Wain
wright channel to Atlantic Beach
Saturday.
Men from Fort Macon involved
in the above assists were Rouse,
BMl; James F. Crawford, SN; S.
B. Shepherd, SN; P. T. Yeomans,
BM3; Powell, BM2; Henry W.
Nichols, SN; Snyder, SN; Hedge
cock, SN (Reservist on active du
ty); M. W. Jackson, SA; and Craw
ley,-SA.
Highway Commission
Soolcs Approach Bids
The State Highway commission
has requested bids on one-and-a
half miles of approaches to the
new highway bridge across New
port river at Morehead City.
The bids will be opened at Ral
eigh Tuesday, June 2S, and re
viewed by the highway commis
sion at its meeting Thursday, June
27.
The job calls for hydraulic em
bankment, base course, bituminous
concrete binder and surface. The
bridge itself is already under con
struction. '1; -