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47th YEAR, NO. 76. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1968 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Civitans Get Charter
?*. Wesley Williams, Raleigh, left, Governor of the North Carolina
Civitan district, presents Morehead City Civitan Club president Jim- I
my Wallace with the club charter. The ceremony took place at char*
ter night at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel Saturday night j
The Morehead City Civitan Club
received its charter at charter
night ceremonies at the Morehead
Biltmore Hotel Saturday night.
Making arrangements for charter
night were members of the New
Bern club which organized the
Morehead City Civitans.
* Toastmaster for the charter ban
quet was Dallas Mackey, exten
sion chairman, North Carolina dis
trict. Morehead City Mayor George
Dill, who had declared Saturday
as Civitan Day in Morehead City,
made the welcoming address.
Richard B. Moffatt. past gover
nor of the district, introduced the
guests. Local guests included Jerry
J. Willis, president of the Jaycees;
Thomas Noe, president of the Ro
tary Club; W. B. Chalk, Rotary
vice-president; A. B. Cooper, may
or of Atlantic Beach; Mayor Dill,
E. C. Watson, president of the
Lions Club, Bud Dixon, president
of the Chamber of Commerce, and
Grover Munden of radio station
WMBL.
Out-of-town clubs represented
were New Bern, Durham, Albe
marle, Henderson, Kinston, Ra
leigh, Wilson and Greensboro. The
New Bern club presented the new
nprKaM&ttbii witn a Uwwifci trfHtiir
at its meeting place. Kinston Civi
tans presented a dinner bell.
G. Wesley Williams, North Caro
lina district governor, presented
the club charter to Morehead City
Civitan president Jimmy Wallace.
He commented that Morehead City
is the 91st active Civitan Club in
the state.
Baxter Ridenhour, assistant to !
the governor, inducted the chartcr I
members of the new club. Charter
members are Mr. Wallace, presi
dent, Walter Morris, first vice- j
preisdpnt, the Rev. Samuel S. |
Moore, second vice-president and
chaplain, Joe C. Beam, secretary, '
R. E. Butner Jr., treasurer.
Ralph Styron, director, George
W. Vickroy, director, M. L. Taft,
director, Kenneth Wagner, direc
tor, Bernard Iieary, director,
Charles N. Wells, Thurlow Whcal
ton, Harvey Hamilton Jr., Roper |
Van Horn, scrgeant-at-arms.
R. B. Parker, D. G. Bell, L. E.
Kelly Jr., J. A.DuBois, W. C. Wil
kins, Jasper Bell, E. B. Fleming,
Roy Denkins Jr., Charles N. Mar
key, Robert Freeman, Charles C.
Willis, Warren Beck, D. S. Femia,
Walton Hamilton, William H. Wil
lis, James B. Eubanks, George G.
Lore and Bernard F. Morton.
D. Livingstone Stallings, John
Blalock and Harold Orringer, all
of New Bern, were given a special
tribute for their efforts in organ
izing the new club.
The New Bern CiviUns conduct
ed the first actual meeting oa Aug.
12. Officers were elected at the
'*ur ? ?WHMI- T
Oivitan International has three
major projects to which every club
subscribes. They are safety, aid
to the mentally retarded and aid
to the physically handicapped.
The Morehead City Civitans will
meet at Capt. Bill's Restaurant at
noon Friday for their regular
weekly meeting. 4
Telephone Company Stops
Free Service for All Towns
Carolina Telephone and Tele--*
graph Co. has notified the town
of Morehead City that all free tele
phone service by the company, has
been discontinued. Mayor George
Dill read a letter from the com
pany at Thursday night's meeting
of the town board at the municipal
building.
The town currently has 17 tele
phones and extensions, the mini
mum charge for which will be
$152.25 per month. The commis
sioners asked town clerk John
Lashley to separate the telephones
by department and give a list of
phones in each department to the
commissioner in charge.
Each commissioner will then
study the situation to determine if
one or more phones in his depart
ment can be cut off.
Appointed to Board
The board approved the appoint
ment of Mrs. Clarence Taylor to
the hospital board. She will fill the
unexpired term of H. Karle Mob
ley.
Mayor Dill read a petition re
questing the governor and state
highway and public works com
mission to take tbe necessary ac
tion to provide car ferry service
from Ocracoke to Cedar Island.
Commissioner D. J. Hall pointed
out that the same petition had been
signed at a previous meeting. The
mayor said this petition was to re
mind the state that people still
wanted the ferry.
Commissioner G. E. Sanderson
presented a letter to the board
from Sound Chevrolet Company
objecting to a *5 per month sewer
charge. After discussioa, Mr. Lash
ley was asked to check with the
water company to be sure Sound
Chevrolet was being billed cor
rectly.
A light for the west alley of the
See TOWN BOARD. Page 2
Dredge Clarendon
To Arrive at Port
The dredge Clarendon will arrive
next week for approximately three
months of maintenance dredging
in Morehead City Harbor.
A report by th? Corps of Engi
^SfacfvSies^fifaf'the work^wffirc
quire the removal of an estimated
200,000 cubic yards of sand and
silt to restore the harbor to pro
ject depth of 30 feet.
A depth of 35 feet for the har
bor has been authorized by Con
gress but no funds for the project
have been allotted.
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W. Glenn Kennerly, left, governor-elect of the North Carolina dvt
tan district, Installs officer* of the newly-organized Morehead City
dab at charter night at the More head BUtmore Hotel Saturday night.
Photo# by Gem Bell
Officers, left to right, are M. L. Taft, Keueth Wagner, Ralph Sty ran,
Bernard Leary, Roper Vaa Hon, Rnfai Batner, Joe C. Beam, Ike
Rev. Samuel Moore, Walter Morri* and Jimmy Wallace.
New Civil Defense Set-Up
Put in Motion by Director
John Valentine, recently appoint
ed county Civil Dcfcnae director,
today announced names of key
personnel in the County Civil and
Defense Mobilization program.
They are as follows: Alvah Ham
ilton. legal advisor; Leon Thomas,
purchasing director; sheriff Hugh
Salter, law enforcement; Dr. John
Gainey, medical advisor; R. II.
Williama, plant protection.
Mri. Alban Richey and Miss
Mary Virginia Godwin, adminis
tration and personnel; Frank Cas
siano, civilian auxiliary to the mili
tary; George McNeill, communica
tions and air raid warning.
Mils Georgie Hughes, emergency
welfare; John L. Humphrey, pab
Uc worka; Miaa Ruth Peeling, di
rector, Grover Munden and Kay
e following: Dr. Alvah
Hamilton ? Jr., Morehead City;
CUybm Fulcher Sr., Atlantic;
Floyd Brown, SUcy; Elbert Pitt
man, Davis.
Wesley Willie, Williston; Stewart
Danlela, Smyrna; Edmund Plner,
Marshallberg; Meredith GUlikin,
Otway; James Marker, Markers
Island.
Murray Pigott, Gloucester; Guy
Carraway, Merriraon; Mike Ma
son, Harlowe; Mayor C. T. Lewis.
Beaufort; D. Cordova, Morebead
City; Jack Savage, Atlantic Beacb;
Joe Zajac, Salter Path; Dewey
Hardeaty, tone Mm aecUon.
public information.
i of the advisory coun
I
Mr. Valentine explains that there
are additional appointments to be
made but he has not yet contacted
the persons scheduled to fill the
positions.
Mayor Dill to Serve
On Civil War Committed
Mayor George W. Dill, Morehead
City, has been named to the Civil
War Centennial Committee of the
North Carolina Literary and His
torical Association.
The committee will hold its first
meeting at 3 p.m. Oct. 10 at Ral
eigh to -make North Carolina plans
for celebrating the 100th Centennial
?f tha Ctvtt War.
Two Cars Collide
On New Highway
- A 1953 Chevrolet driven by Bocco
Cadet te, Beaufort, and a 19S Chev
rolet driven by John R. Biysdcn,
Beaufort, collided at Haiih and
Cedar Streets at 7:15 p.m. Sati
day.
Aasistant police chief Carlti
Garner investigated the atcldent. |
He reports that Godette wi a driv
ing south on Harsh Street a id pull
ed into Cedar Street, collidi ig with
Bayaden, who was driving rest.
Damage to the front of G idette's
car was estimated at $25 while
damage to the right side ? ' Bays
den'a car waa estimated al $300
The men were unable t agree
on a settlement for the di mages,
so Garner cited both of i >em to
They are acbeduled to
before Judge Lambert Mori#.
How New Phone Rates
Will Affect Beaufort
Wins Scholarship
David Webb Nelson, above, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Nelson, 810
Arendell St., Morehead City, has
been awarded a four-year schol
arship at State College, Raleigh.
Nelson, an honor graduate of
Morehead City High School, is
one of 32 recipients of major
scholarships to State College
freshmen.
Winners were chosen through
the "Talent for Service" scholar
ship competition. The scholar
ships are, for the most part,
four-year awards amounting to
$500 per year or more.
Nelson has enrolled in mechan
ical engineering with an option
in aeronautics. In high school
he played in the band, was on
the basketball team, a member
of the student council and attond
ed Boys State.
Nelva More Returns,
To Leave for Kinston
[ Nrlvl JkTo'rr , movie and tv actress
who visited in Morehead City <his
summer, returned here this week.
She will be in Kinston tomorrow
and do a tv show Thursday morn
ing at Greensboro.
Miss More will leave New York
Oct. 1 to make the movie, O Rosa
Mia, in Rome.
Dan Walker, town manager of
Beaufort, estimated yesterday that
the stopping of free services to the
town by the telephone company
would cost the town $432 a year.
Mr. Walker said that he has not
yet received a letter from the
phone company about the new
charges, but he has been informed
by the League of Municipalities.
In its recent decision on the
phone company's request for high
er rates, the utilities commission
said that in the future it could not
consider the "loss" the phunc com
pany incurs in providing certain
free services for municipalities,
Mr. Walker remarked.
While all municipalities pay for
most of the phone services they
receive, ther are some free ser
vices provided.
For example, in the Beaufort
police department, the phone in
the Front Street station is consid
ered a free phone (the only fee
paid there is $1 a month for an
outside gong); the phone at the
foot of Craven Street on Front
with an outside gong costs the
town $3.63 a month. For the ex
tension to the Morehcad City cen
tral radio switchboard, the town
of Beaufort pays $1.75 plus $11.94
in mileage and 40 cents for a
switch. That is on a monthly basis.
(The switch allows the central op
erator to take Beaufort police calls
when Beaufort officers are not
within earshot of a phone ring).
Neither the chief of police nor
assistant chief pay local service
fees on their home phones, Mr.
Walker said. He estimated that
imposing the full rates by the
phone company will cost Beaufort
$12 in the police department, fire
department and town hall, or a to
tal of $36 a month.
Bus Company
Wants to Close ~
Town Station
The Seashore Transportation Co.,
which operates buses into More
head City, proposes closing the
Morehead City bus station and
maintaining a "bus stop" in More
head City.
Mayor George W. Dill, Morehead
City, said that R. C. O'Bryan, traf
fic manager of the bus company,
has requested the town to approve
the closing of the station and also
suggest a location for a bus "stop".
The matter was placed before the
town board Thursday night but no
action was taken. According to a
letter from Mr. O'Bryan to the
mayor, the town's approval, and
the approval of the Chamber of
Commerce, is needed before the
bus station can be closed.
The bus company claims that
the amount of business done in
Morehead City does not warrant
keeping the station open.
Mayor Dill said yesterday that
he would like to know the feeling
of the public on closing the bus sta
tion. He said the town board will
make no move until some expres
sion of opinion is heard from the
residents of the town.
Education Board
Meets Yesterday
George R. Wallace, Morehead
City, reported to the County Board
of Education, at a special meeting
yesterday morning, on the outcome
of a meeting last Monday with W.
E. Easterling of the Local Govern
ment Commission. ?
County officials met with Mr.
Easterling relative to the proposed
school bond issue.
The first step which must be
taken toward borrowing money for
schools is the publication of a legal
notice once a week for two weeks.
After that published notice, with
publisher's affidavit, has been
filed with the Local Government
Commission, the commission can
either approve or disapprove.
If it approves, the county board
of education can proceed with
plans for a referendum. The bor
rowing must be approved by the
voters.
H. L. Joslyn, county superin
tendent of schools, said the way
things appear now, the referendum
cannot be held before January.
Track Catches Fire
Trash on a city truck at Front
and Harih Streets, Beaufort,
caught fire at S:10 p.m. Saturday.
Firemen had the Haze out in five
mimtM. There was no daaag*.
Bogue Sound to Have Ferry!
Photo* by Bob Seymour
The Miss Carotin*, a ID-car ferry. Is SS feel long am) 37 feet wide. She draws slightly less than S feet.
Bought from the state of Virginia, the ferry passed through Morehead City Friday enroute to Cape Car
terette, a subdivision in the western part of the eounty. where it will be docked for the winter.
More head City Mayor George Dill and Aubrey Nichols, mayor of
Emerald Isle, Ret together on the deck of the Mill Carolina, a lt-car
ferry. The feny, owned by a non-profit organisation, l> to operate
between Swansboro and Emerald lale. Present plans call for the
ferry to be in operation next summer.
Emeritus Club
Adds Member
Edgar Bundy, Morchead City,
was unanimously elected to mem
bership in the Emeritus Civic Club
at the club's meeting at the Webb
Memorial Civic Center last Mon
day night.
N. L. Walker was appointed to
investigate the possibility of hav
ing a county-wide zoning ordinance.
If Mr. Walke- thinks there is good
in sOch a zoning ordinance, the
club will support a zoning ordi
nance as a civic undertaking.
Dr. S. W. Hatcher informed the
club that a shuffleboard has been
installed at the recreation center.
He invited members of the club to
use it.
The club expressed appreciation
to C. 11. Freeman for having mem
bership cards printed at his per
sonal expense, and to T. B. Sage
for his work on compiling a new
roster of members.
Several members of the club at
tended the mosquito control hear
ing at the courthouse, Beaufort,
Sept. 2. They were J. W. Kellogg,
C." A. Stone, N. L. Walker, W. S.
Kidd, G. W Huntley, C. B. Wade
and R. P. Warren.
A committee was appointed to
make arrangementi for a ladlea
night meeting Oct. 20. Mr. Free
man, chairman, will be assisted by
Mr. Wade and Mr. Walker.
Police Investigate
Weekend Robbery
The Ray Gordon Lewis Texaco
Station, Live Oak and Mulberry
Streets, Beaufort, was broken Into
late Saturday night or early Sun
day morning. Police Chief Guy
Springle says the back window of
the station was knocked out to
gain admittance to the building.
Missing were 12 cartooa of cig
arettes, five boxes of clgara, aeven
cartons of chewing gum, several
packs of razor blades, 100 pennies
and several packages of aapirtn,
and patent headachc remedies.
No arresta have been made yet
but the robbery is tinder Investi
gation, reported Otis Willis ot tbe
Beaufort police (ore*.
Port Calendar
V88 Ponner ? Loaded Marines
and equipment for maneuvers
Friday.
Breltensteln ? Docked Friday
and sailed Saturday with a cargo
of tobacco for Germany.
Glenville ? Sailed yesterday
with a cargo of tobacco for
Bangkok and fibre box boards
for Manila.
Houthwind ? Due today to load
tobacco for Bremen.
Tuebingea ? Due Friday to
load tobacco for Germany.
Rev. Sam Moore
Speaks to Lions
The Rev. Sam S. Moore covered
1,300 years in IS minutes at the
Morehead City Lions Club meeting
at the Hotel Fort Macon Thursday
night. Mr. Moore discussed the
history o( the Christian religion.
Mr. Moore, pastor of Franklin Me
morial Methodist Church, was the
guest of program chairman, O. J.
Morrow.
Cliff Edwards, chairman of the
White Cane drive announced that
Lions will be on the street* Satur
day selling White Canes. Proceeds
from the sale go to help the blind.
Lions are also selling member
ships in the state association for
the blind. Memberships are )1 per
year. Last year the club sold 1300
worth of memberships.
Visiting the meeting was Bill
Moore, Morehead City. He was the
guest of Lion Owens Frederick.
Tide Table
(Eastern Standard Time)
Tide* at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Sept. U
4:? a.m. 1100 a m.
5:09 p.m. 11:30 p m.
Wednesday, Sept. 24
5:41 a.m. 11:50 a.m. i
?:00 p.m.
Tharsday, Sept. 15
8:29 a.m. 12:16 a.m.
6:45 p.m. 12:36 p.m.
. Friday, Sept. 26
7:10 a.m. 12:59 a.m.
T:Spum. _ 120 p.m.
With the purchase of a ferry,
developers of Emerald Isle hope
to open the western end of Bogue
Banks to automobile traffic. The
town of Emerald Isle, which ex
tends from a point about two miles
west of Salter Path to Bogue Inlet,
has roads and streets cut through
to within about six miles of the
Inlet.
Mayor Aubrey Nichols, who op
erates a motel at Emerald Isle,
says the state has already sur
veyed a road to Bogue Inlet from
the town. The road was extended
and paved nearly three miles thia
summer.
The ferry, purchased from the
state of Virginia, will hold 10 cars.
According to present plans, it will
run from Swaiisboro to a point
near the Bogue Inlet Coast Guard
atation.
The state has surveyed a site for
a bridge to Emerald Isle from the
mainland. The location of the
bridge would be just west of Bogue
air field. Bill McLean, Red
Springs, one af the developers of
Emerald Isle, believes that the
bridge will be built in several
years, but adds that he and other
owners of the Bogue Banks devel
opment feel that operation of the
ferry, for as little as a year, will
be worthwhile.
Three Minor
Accidents Occur
Patrolman Buck Newaome of the
Morehead City police department
investigated three minor accidents
over the weekend.
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 7th and
Fisher Streets a Chevrolet driven
by David Garner. 702 20th St.,
Morehead City, collided with a 1949
Oldsmobile driven by Alex Delmas
Lewis, 449 Macon Court, Uorehead
City.
Patrolman Newsome said that
the Oldsmobile (ailed to stop at the
corner. Damage to the Chevrolet
was estimated at $100 and to the
Olds $25.
A 1951 Chevrolet driven by Henry
J. Julian, USCGC Chilula, ran into
a 1955 Ford parked at 509 Bridges
St., Morehead City, at 4:46 p.m.
Friday. The parked car was owned
by Claude P. Lewis.
Damage to the Chevrolet, owned
by Samuel L. Harvill, was esti
mated at $75.
At 22nd and Arendell Streets Fri
day a Chevrolet driven by Dennis
M. Goodwin, Morehead City, was
struck in the rear by a 195* Chev
rolet truck driven by Leslie Mc
Lean Webb, 105 S. 11th St.
Webb said that he started to pass
the Chevrolet, which was going
east on Arendell, and ran into its
left rear.
No citations were issued.
Bible Conference
Now Under Way
The Bible Conference being con
ducted by Dr. F. CroMley Morgan
in More held City will continue
through Sunday.
The aeriea of lectures by the emi
nent Bible itudent began Sunday in
the First Presbyterian Church.
They will end this coining Sunday
with two services in the First Meth
odist Church.
The conference is being sponsor
ed by the two churches. Services
are being conducted nightly at T :30
in the First Methodist Church.
Morning services, at 10 o'clock,
are In the First Presbyterian
Church.
Gets Reappointment
Roy Eubanks, Beaufort, has been
reappointed as commissioner of
wrecks for the Beaufort area for
a two-yew term expiring Sept il.