Year — No. 80
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Sections — Eighteen Pages
MOREHEAD CITY BEAUFORT, N. C.Friday, June 21, 1963
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Published Tuesday*
•ad Fridays
Guard Trains at Fort Bragg
Members of the Morehead City National Guard, firing their 106 recoiless rifle at Fort Bragg this
week included Sp-4 Vernon Cannon, Newport; Pvt. Edmund Willis, Morehead City, Sp-4 Jerry Garner,
Broad Creek and Sp-4 Arthur Johnson, Morehead City. All are members of the weapons platoon of the
National Guard. They will end two weeks’ active duty training Sunday.
I Publicity Pushed into High
Gearfor Beaufort HomesTour
Special effort has been made this
year to publicize Beaufort’s coming
antique show and Old Homes Tour
throughout the state and partic
ularly on nearby military bases.
Or. John Costlow, president of
the Beaufort Historical association,
reports that 500 postal cards im
printed with an engraving of the
Hammock House and dates of the
Beaufort event have been sent to
antique dealers, to Woman’s clubs
in eastern and central Carolina
and to former Old Homes visitors.
Window display cards have been
sent to stores as far west as Char
lotte and as far south as South
port. • -—■ ~ v . v
Antique dealers, bringing their
merchandise in station wagons,
will display from the wagons in a
“tail-gate” antique show on the
lot between the Odd Fellows and
Masonic lodges. Turner street, Fri
day and Saturday, June 28 and 29.
Admission to the show is $1.
Dignitaries to Attend Derby
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Sea Scouts
Get Charter
Presentation of a ship’s charter
for the newly-organized Sea Scout
post was the program for Monday
night’s meeting of the Newport
Rotary club.
Program chairman Clayton Can
non, who also served as institu
tional representative for the Sea
Scouts, was in charge of the cere
mony. The presentation of the
charter was4 made by Cecil Sewell
and Harry Salter, both of More
head City.
Milton Swain and Gerald T. Mer
rill represented the Sea Scout post.
Serving on the Sea Scout commit
tee are W. H. Livingston, E. T.
Vinson, Bill Boyd and Lester M.
Garner Jr.
Following the ceremony, Mr.
Cannon gave a brief talk on the
interesting sidelights of the trip
made by the “Incredible Flotilla.’’
The Newport Explorer Scout post’s
raft, the Sea Witch, led the flotil
la on its 186-mile journey from
Mackeys Ferry to Atlantic Beach.
Gnests at the Rotary meeting
were Ramie Davis and Bob How
ard, both of the Morehead City
Rotary club, and Robert Van Hook,
a Duke University divinity student.
9th and Evans
Gets Stop light
Chief Hubert L. Fulcher, More
head City police, announces that a
stoplight has been installed at Mb
and Evans streets.
The light was not operating yes
terday but is expected to be op
erating in die near future. The
corner is at Webb civic center.
Poor visibility creates a hazard at
the corner. V*?? uCii M f -
The chief also announced that
Sgt. Jack Miller has left the force.
He has been replaced temporarily
by Paul Fogo, Mr. Miller is enter
ing training as a Sears store man
Beard Meets
Morehead City town commission
ers met for the June session last
Bight at the municipal building.
Tours of the old homes of Beau
fort will begin at a booth there at
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. each of the two
days. The homes will be open until
noon and in the afternoon until
4:30. Tickets will be on sale at the
booth at $2 per person.
Two other attractions during the
weekend will be the arts and crafts
exhibit at the Eure building, Ann
Street Methodist church, on Ann
street, and a bus tour of historic
landmarks conducted by Grayden
Paul.
The bus tours are a dollar per
person and will leave the Ann
Street cemetery at Craven street
at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. each day.
The tour is a'tr hour Jon#. Forty
historic landmarks will be visited.
The art and crafts exhibit Will
be free.
Homes to be open, according to
the Beaufort Woman’s club, spon
sor of the homes’ tour, are the fol
lowing :
Morse House, built 1771, 215 Front
► Gov. Terry Sanford of North
Carolina, Gov. J. Millard Tawes
of Maryland, US Senators Sam J.
Ervin Jr. and B. Everett Jordan
of North Carolina, US Secretary of
Commerce Luther Hodges, and a
host of other dignitaries will be in
vited to the North Carolina Crab
Derby at Morehead City Aug. 24.
The names of the list of persons
invited to the crab derby also in
cludes the state’s 11 members of
the national House of Representa
tives, heads of all state depart
ments and agencies, Mayor John
Catlin and Commissioner John Hol
land of Crisfield, Md., and US Sen.
J. Glenn Beall of Maryland.
The list was released yesterday
following a Morehead City meeting
attended by Elmer Willis, Willis
ton, vice-president of the county
chamber of commerce and general
chairman of the crab derby, P. W.
Bullock, chamber secretary, and
Wade Lucas, information officer
for the State Department of Con
servation and Development.
The derby, which will be the
third, is designed to stimulate in
terest in and increase the use of
hard blue crabs, fastest growing
segment of the state’s comnfercial
fishing industry.
It is being promoted jointly by
the Carteret chamber of com
merce, the Fabulous Fishing club,
and the State Department of Con
servation and Development.
Mr. Willis and Mr. Lucas an
noihced judges for the derby:
Woodrow Price, managing editor
of the News and Observer, Ra
leigh; Edward H. (Duck) Lewis,
executive secretary, North Caro
lina Motel association; and Robert
Lowery, executive vice-president,
North Carolina Restaurant associa
tion.
Tide Table
Tides at Beaufort Bar
HIGH -£Y. LOW
Friday, Jane 21
8:00 a.m. 2:01 a.m.
8:20 p.m. 2:07 p.m.
Saturday,-Jane 22
8:54 a.m. 2:53 a.m.
9:09 p.m. 2:59 p.m.
8auday, June 23
9:48 a.m. 3:41 a.m.
10:03 p.m. 3:48 p.m.
Monday, Jane 24
10:45 a.m. 4:28 a.m.
10:57 p.m. 4:37 p.m.
St., occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Cheek.
Duncan House, 1790, 105 Front
St., occupied by Mrs. Julius Dun
can.
Davis House. 1812, 127 Front St.,
Mrs. Charles Davis, resident.
Nelson House, 1790 , 201 Front St.,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph House, resi
dents
Mace House, 1830, 619 Ann St.,
Mrs. W. A. Mace, resident.
Buckman House, 1845, 114 Ann
St.., Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor,
residents.
Henry Davis House, 1820, 200
Craven St., Mrs. Horace Loftin,
resident.
Blair House, 1779, 111 Marsh St:,
Mrs. N. H. Russell, resident.
Woman’s club members in colon
ial costumes will be hostesses in
the homes.
In case of rain, the events will
be postponed until the following
weekend, Friday and Saturday,
July 5 and 6.
“Three absolutely incorruptible
judges,” said Mr. Willis.
The derby will be the highlight
of a three-day late summer fes
tival arranged by the chamber of
commerce. It will include a pa
rade of shrimp boats on Bogue
Sound, a “Down East” clambake
prepared by Willis, the selection of
“Miss Crustacean” from among
waitresses in seafood restaurants,
and numerous other events.
Entries will be restricted to the
state’s 12 crab-producing counties.
Capt. Ottis Purifoy of Morehead
City was named chairman of the
platform-building committee to
build the plywood racetrack down
which the crabs will wiggle their
way for the right to represent
North Carolina at the National
Crab Derby in Crisfield, Md., the
Saturday before Labor Day.
JC's to Report
At 6:30 Tonight
The Beaufort Jaycees have asked
that all members report to the
civic center, Beaufort, at 6:30 to
night to work on the grounds and
property at the center. Work cloth
es are recommended.
At Monday night’s meeting of the
Jaycees, the rules governing the
use of the center were drawn up,
and the club plans to ready the
center for use.
The Jaycees decided last fall to
renovate the civic center by raising
money for the project and doing
most of the work themselves. With
that phase of the program just
about completed, the rules for the
center’s use have been established.
Anyone wishing to use the center
should contact Charles McKay for
full information.
In other business at Monday's
meeting, the organization’s budget
was completed. The Jaycees anti
cipate spending in excess of $506
on various civic projects during
the next year. One such project
under way is for the creation of a
town park. No site has been set
tled on as yet.
Donate Dudley, president, ap*I
pointed committee chairmen fori
the next year. They are Leslteif
Seagle, community development;
Bryan Loftin, ways and means;
and Charles McKay, budding man
ager.
Court Awards
$5,000 in Suit
For Damages
• Aaron George, Driver,
Held Responsible
# Two Died in Crash
Jan. 1, 1961
A Morehead City man was suc
cessfully sued for a total of $5,000
in superior court, Beaufort, Tues
day in a civil suit that dates back
to Jan. 1, 1961.
Aaron George was held legally
responsible for a New Year’s day
car wreck that took the lives of
Willie Hill and Susie Green, both
of Morehead City. The administra
tors of the estates for the two acci
dent victims were awarded $2,500
each.
The accident, which took place
on Highway 24 about 15 miles west
of Morehead City, involved only
the car driven by George. Patrol
man J. W. Sykes reported that the
car was traveling toward More
head City when it ran off the road,
turned over two and a half times
and traveled some 550 feet before
coming to rest on its side.
Both Willie Hill and Susie Green
were riding in the back seat of the
car when the wreck occurred. They
died shortly after the accident.
Other cases tried in this week’s
civil term of superior court, pre
sided over by Judge Walter J.
Bone:
An absolute divorce was granted
to Edith Wilson Brown, Carteret
county, from Henry Clay Brown,
now of New York. The wife, the
plaintiff in this case, was required
to pay court costs.
Lana Hancock Yeomans was
granted an absolute divorce from
Donnie Gene Yeomans, both of this
county. The wife was represented
by Louise Hancock, her mother,
since she is under 21 years of age.
The plaintiff was required to pay
court costs.
An absolute divorce was granted
to Bertha F. Willis, Beaufort, from
Barry W. Willis, Morehead City,
now rerving with the US Army in
.Germany. The court further order
ed that the mother be given cus
tody of Barry W. Willis Jrr, three
and-a-half-year-old, who has been
living with the mother since the
parents separated. The father was
ordered to pay $50 a month for
support of the child, to begin July
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Beach Court
Handles 13 Cases
Thirteen cases were disposed of
Tuesday night in Atlantic Beach
mayor’s court and one case was
continued. Mayor A. B. Cooper
presided.
Costs were paid by the follow
ing: John Thomas Mobley, Wash
ington, N. C., Cecil B. Harrison,
Tarboro; Carlton E. Shores, Cher
ry Point; each charged with pub
lic drunkenness.
E. M. Hudcovic, Cherry Point,
paid costs bn a charge of having
non-taxpaid beer. James D. Wells,
Newport, was given a 30-day sen
tence, suspended on payment of
costs. He failed to comply with a
former court order and has been
banned from the beach for seven
months.
Chris L. Silvey, Cherry Point,
paid costs for operating a car
carelessly. The same penalty was
put on Richard T. Ingram, Cher
ry Point, charged with having an
improper exhaust system on his
car. He was also ordered to fix
the ear.
Five dollars and costs were paid
by Donald M. Carter, Savannah,
Ga., charged with reckless driving
and having an improper muffler.
Hie same penalty was given Mi
chael A. Lyon, Cherry Point,
charged with trespassing and re
sisting arrest.
Bonds were forfeited by the fol
lowing: Regibald B. Adams, New
port, and William B. Greer, Beau
fort, indecent exposure and having
opened beer on the streets; John
Ray Corbett, Wilson, no operator’s
license; John Leslie Brewer, Rocky
Mount, public drunkenness and
opened beer on the streets
Aa Atlantic Beach town ordi
nance prohibits persons from walk
ing the streets drinking beer. The
beer must be drunk in the place
where it was bought.)
Continued was the case of Frank
lin W. Osmer, Laurinburg, charg
ed with driving a car on the beach
after dark with no lights.
Meters Yield 84S7.S7
Income from Beaufort parking
meters last month was |487.(T7, ac
cording to John Janes Jr., town
New Postal ZIP Code Will
Be Used Beginning July 1
Five Postmasters Give
Codes for Use Here
Beginning: July 1, the postal ZIP code will go into ef
fect throughout the United States. Postmasters of the
county announced the ZIP code numbers for their postal
areas this week. .
The new system is designed to improve mail delivery
by speeding mail on its way. It makes it unnecessary
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Driver Appeals
Case Monday
In City Court
A driver charged with traveling
“too slowly” appealed his convic
tion Monday in Morchead City re
corder’s court.
Henry Edward Crank, Newport,
pleaded not guilty to a charge tiled
on May 4 that he was driving his
car too slowly, thus causing a traf
fic hazard. Judge Herbert O. Phil
lips III found Crank guilty, how
ever, and ordered that he pay the
cost of court.
Crank then appealed the deci
sion. Bond has been set $50 for
his appearance in superior court.
Other cases in city recorder’s
court:
Hardy James* Killebrcw, More
bead City, drunk driving, $100
fine and court costs.
John David Edward, Morchead
City, “scratching off,” onc-half of
court costs.
James Donald Edge, Fayette
ville, making a “U” turn at an
intersection marked “no turn,”
costs.
William Benjamin Greer, Beau
fort, careless and reckless driving
carrying a concealed weapon, sen
tenced to six months in the county
jail to work under the supervision
of the state prison department.
The judgment was suspended, how
ever, and Greer was placed on pro
bation for one year and ordered
to pay a $10 fine and costs. The
court further ordered that Greer
accept psychiatric treatment at
North Carolina Memorial hospital,
Chapel Hill.
Nancy Lee Boyette, Morehead
City, no driver’s license and driv
ing the wrong way on a one-way
street, sentenced to 30 days in the
county jail. Judge Phillips suspend
ed the sentence, however, on con
dition that the woman pay a $50
fine and court costs, and that she
stop driving.
Isaac Parmley, Newport, issuing
a $10 worthless check to Colonial
Store, Morehead City, required to
honor the check and pay court
costs.
Ronald V. Hollingshead, Cherry
Point, having no car registration
and no driver’s license. Hollings
head was ordered to pay a $25
fine on the first charge, a $10 fine
on the second and court costs.
James Howard Pearson, Golds
boro, passing in a no-passing zone,
costs.
Lawrence James Badorek, Cher
ry Point, making an improper
turn, two-thirds of the court costs.
Leonard Benjamin Rhue, More
head City, speeding 00 mph in a
45-mph zone, $10 fine and costs.
William Horace Barksdale, New
port, driving a vehicle on the
wrong side of the road. Barksdale
was ordered to pay court costs,
and to attend a driver improve
ment clinic in New Bern.
Elver Clair Modlin, Williams ton,
driving the wrong way on a one
way street, two-thirds of the court
costs.
Mrs. John B. Gleason, New Bern,
issuing a $15 worthless check to
Colonial Store, Morehead City.
Mrs. Gleason was ordered to honor
the check and pay court costa.
Richard Henry Riddick, Alliance,
disobeying a stop sign, costs.
Tommy Russell French Jr.,
Bridgeton, disobeying a stop sign,
costu.
Gerald Duncan Harrelson, New
Bern, driving faster than was
reasonable and prudent Under ex
isting conditions, coats.
Kate Elizabeth Merkerson, Broad
Creek, public drunkenness and
disturbing the peace, HO fine and
costs.
Curtis Hoover Taylor, Newport,
public drunkenness and disturbing
the peace, $10 fine and costa.
David Ward Day, Morehead City,
speeding 65 mph in a 35-mph zone,
410 fine and costs, ~
James Willard "
gl> Ga., failing t# field the
of way at ^n
Charles
ry Point, was
charge of failing
on his trailer.
Billie Jean G
head City, was
. charge of -
throwing a
(See CITY
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for postofficc workers to read the
complete address, the postmasters
said.
The five-digit numbers announc
ed below are for people living here
to use on their RETURN address
on envelopes. If you write to some
one in Winston-Salem, you have to
put THEIR code number following
their address. It will be up to your
friends away from here to supply
you with their ZIP code number,
just as you are to supply them
with yours.
The code numbers:
Atlantic—28511
Atlantic Beach—28512
Beaufort—28516
Morehead City—28557
Newport—28570
A person living in Atlantic will
put his RETURN address on an
envelope as follows:
Mr. Cecil Morris
Atlantic, N. C. 28511
A person living in Newport will
follow the same procedure:
Mrs. Ira Mann
Newport, N. C 28570
These ZIP code numbers are
NOT to follow the address of the
person TO WHOM you are sending
mail. As stated before, you will
have to obtain from them their
code number, or make note of it
when you receive mail from them
which bears their return address.
Postmasters announcing their
ZIP codes this week were J. W.
Mason Jr., Atlantic; Mrs. Etta L.
Willis, Atlantic Beach; J, P. Betts,
Beaufort; Harold Webb, Morehead
City, and Robert Montague, New
port.
The postmasters said,
“The address on mail must often
'bd read as many as eight or ten
times by postal employees to get
it to the proper destination. Each
handling slows the process of mail
dispatch and adds to the opportun
ity for human error.
“With ZIP code, a clerk needs
only to glance at the code to know
immediately to what national area,
state and post office the letter is
destined, and to speed it on its
way, cutting up to 24 hours off the
time between deposit and deliv
ery.”
When ZIP code is in full swing,
the United States will have “the
most modern system of mall dis
tribution and delivery in exis
tence,” postal officials predict.
Town Officials Make
Trip to Atlanta* Ga.
Mayor George W. Dill Jr., town
attorney George McNeill and town
administrator Ray Hall, Morehead
City, spent Wednesday in Atlanta,
Ga. with the Housing and Homes
Finance agency.
They requested funds and per
mission to issue revenue bonds for
acquisition of the town water
works and to construct a sewage
disposal plant.
The trip was another step in the
long channels municipalities must
follow to obtain funds under the
federal area redevelopment pro
gram.
Andy Griffith and Family
Pay Brief Visit to County
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County Board Will
Serve Until 1964
Ratified by the state legisla
ture Tuesday was a bill which
reduces county commissioners'
terms to two years and provides
for election of county commis
sioners by districts.
Rep. Thomas Bennett amended
the bill and the amendment
would have made the two-year
terms become effective in 1966
rather than 1964, but the amend
ment was stricken prior to the
second reading in the House.
Mr. Bennett said he voiced ob
jection to the bill on the third
reading, but it passed. The bill
was introduced by Sen. Luther
Hamilton, Morehcad City, who
objected to the amendment.
Officials Get
Letters Asking
Help on Traffic
In compliance with a request by
the town board of Atlantic Beach,
M. G. Coyle, clerk to the board,
this week sent a letter to Rep.
David Henderson, congressman of
this district, requesting his help
in alleviating beach traffic jams
Sunday afternoons.
The letter asks that the congress
men determine whether the beach
drawbridge might be closed to
water traffic from 3:30 p.m. to S
p.m. each Sunday. *
The letter pointed oat thdtf open
ing of the draw, mainly for plea
sure boats on Sunday afternoon*,
causes traffic to back up for long
distances, -on each side of the
bridge. Request for closing the
draw on Sunday afternoons is for
June, July, August and Labor Day
weekend.
A copy of the letter was sent
to the Corps of Army Engineers
district office, Wilmington; W. F.
Babcock, director of the State
Highway commissioner for this
district; W. R. Hamilton, chairman
of the county board of commis
sioners.
P. W. Bullock, manager of the
county chamber of commerce; A.
B. Cooper, mayor of Atlantic
Beach; and George Dill, mayor of
Morehead City.
Mr. Bullock also sent a letter
from the chamber in support of
the beach town’s request.
His letter went to Merrill Evans,
chairman of the highway commis
sion; Gov. Terry Sanford, Col. J.
S. Grygiel, district engineer, Wil
mington; highway commissioner
Phillips and congressman Hender
son.
Summer Conies Today
This is the day that summer of
ficially arrives—but actually it will
come when this part of the earth is
in darkness, at 10:04 tonight. At
that time the sun shines farthest
from the equator in the northern
hemisphere. This is the summer
solstice.
■ One of North Carolina’s “favorite
people" was in the county Tuesday
and Wednesday: Andy Griffith.
The star of stage plays, movies
and tv, the likable comedian was
here to visit with his wife’s sister,
identified as a “Mrs. King” at Sal
ter Path.
Mr. Griffith, his wife, Barbara,
and her mother had supper at Mrs.
Russell Willis’s restaurant Tues
day night. After supper, at Mrs.
Willis’s invitation Andy went into
the kitchen to say hello to the folks
there.
Mrs. Willis said that she told
Andy she can’t get a bit of work
out of them Tuesday nights, any
how. when the Andy Griffith show
is onf
Andy and his three sons paid a
visit to the Atlantic Beach police
and fire station Tuesday afternoon.
Asked to make an entry in the log,
the tv star wrote under June 18:
“5:15 p.m. — Andy Griffith and
three sons visited Atlantic Beach
police station."
The officers who happened to bo
there said Andy “just wanted the
boys to sec the station.” Everyone
who saw Mr. Griffith were smitten
with his friendly manner. Mrs. Wil
lis said Mrs. Griffith told her that
her lemon pie dessert was “the
best’’ she had even eaten.
The Griffiths spent Tuesday night
at Atlantis Lodge and left Wed
nesday morning for Manteo, where
both Andy and Barbara played
years ago in The Lost Colony.
Red Cross Filins
Shown Tuesday
Two films were shown at a meet
ing of the county Red Cross chap
ter Tuesday night at the Webb civic
center, Iforefaead City.
Thoy were provided by Arthur
Paradeses, field executive, and
were titled Many Voice* and Pre
scription for Life. The first told
of the many calls the Red Cross
gets for help. The second dealt
with the blood bank.
R is anticipated that swimming
instruction will be offered thin sum
mer, with other Red Cross instruc
tion courses to begin in the fall,
such as first aid and Gray Ladies.
The next meeting of the chapter
will be in September.
Present Tuesday night were Gar
land Scruggs, chairman; Mrs. A1
Dewey, Mrs. Gus Davis, the Rev.
Mayo Little, J. R. Sanders, Dr.
John Gainey, Mrs. F. C. Salisbury,
and Mr. Paradeses.
Rain, Clouds Pervade
Carters* This Week
The sun hasn’t had much oppor
tunity to cast its golden rays this
week. Rain and dandy weather
was the menu for Monday through
Wednesday. A total oi 1.48 inches
of rain have fallen during the three
day period. With the temperatures
as they are, it doesn’t seem like
summer.
High Low Winds
Monday 70 08 NNE
Tuesday 75 88 NNE
Wednesday 78 08 Var.
The above records were kept by
the Atlantic Beat* weather station.
Cut-Away Picture of Building