W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
43rd YEAR, NO. 35. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. APRIL 30, 1954 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRTDAYS
Miss Ruth Peeling Receives
Award at Banquet Tuesday
Horace loftin
Heads Jaycees
t
New Officers to Assume
Duties Next Month;
Money Lost on Show
Horace Loftin was elected presi
dent ot the Beaufort Jaycees at a
meeting of the club Monday at the
Inlet Inn. He will succeed Ronald
Earl Mason.
Other officers elected were Tom
H. Potter, internal vice-president;
Albert Chappell, external vice-pres^
ident; Danforth Hill, secretary;
and James Steed, treasurer.
Elected to the board of directors
were Wiley Tayloi Jr., Bill Sutton,
Jack McManus, Preston Mason, and
John Duncan. They will take office
in May.
The club voted to cease meeting
at the Inlet Inn until after the sum
mer months. They will meet in
the Scout building weekly start
ing with the first meeting in May,
Monday May 10.
Mp. Sutton suggested that the
club have some benches built to be
sold by the club. The benches
would be like those being placed on
the waterfront.
Mr. Mason appointed Mr. Sutton,
Mr. Loftin, and Carl Sadler to look
into the matter. They will report at
the next meeting.
A report of the ninth district
quarterly board meeting, held at
Atlantic Beach over the weekend,
was given by Mr. Potter.
tie also reported that the club
lost $52 on the Circle C Ranch
Hands hillbilly show sponsored by
the club April 14 at Beaufort
School.
155 Attend JC
District Meeting
Orte hundred fifty-five persons
registered for the Jaycee ninth dis
trict quarterly board meeting at
Atlantic Beach over the weekend.
Twelve club* were represented,
Beaufort, Iforehead City, Washing
ton, Kinston, Jacksonville, Green
ville, Farmville, Williamston, Ral
eigh, Henderson, Wilson, and An
napolis.
Guests were registered, starting
at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Ocean
King Hotel. Assisting in registra
tion were Mrs. Amogene Norwood
and Mrs. James Cratch.
A reception was held at the
Heart of the Beach Club from 5:30
to 7 p.m. with the Morehead City
Jaycees as host. Shrimp for the af
fair was provided by the Sanitary
Fish Mn-ket.
Highlighting Saturday's activi
ties was a dance from 9 p.m. to 1
a.m. at the Heart of the Beach.
Music was furnished by a New
Bern dance band.
The meeting entered its final day
Sunday with an "Eye Opener" at
the Heart of the Beach from 8 to
9 a.m. The business session started
at 9 a.m.
Speaking at the business session
was Dan Saieed, Greenville, ninth
district vice-president, and James
Wallace, Wilson, national director.
The meeting was termed a suc
cess socially by Jerry Frazelle, co
chairman of Morehead City club's
district meeting committee. Her
bert Phillips, reporting on the busi
ness meeting, said the session was
well attended.
Miss Ruth Peeling
. . . honored at banquet
Chairman Says
Results of Drive
Are Satisfying
Mrs. J. C. Harvell, county chair
man of the Easter Seal campaign,
reports that the campaign in the
county this year was better than
ever before.
Although all reports have not
yet been turned in, she says that
the amount received will exceed
that of past years.
Mrs. Harwell's statements ec
hoed those of Albin Pikutis, execu
tive director of the State Society
for Crippled Children and Adults.
"Although we don't have spe
cific figures as yet, we have many
indications that the 100 county
chapters have done a really fine
job and we are confident that this
will be one of the best years for
the Easter Seal Society in North
Carolina," Mr. Pikutis said.
He extended thanks to p* re than
900 volunteer Committee officers
and 3,000 helpers who contacted
various phases of this year's drive.
More people have actively partici
pated this year, and more Easter
Seals have been mailed than any
time in the 20 years of Easter
Seal campaigns in this state, he
said.
A total of 455,000 Easter Seals
were mailed to 323,000 families in
the state, 210,000 coin cards were
distributed through cooperating
schools, and more than 100,000
Easter Lilies were used in 165 Lily
parades.
The state goal this year was
$150,000, and "It is hoped that
final returns will put the society
well ahead of this amount," he
added. "Those who have not yet
mailed their contribution are re
quested to do so as soon as poss
ible,a so that county treasurers can
compile their final reports. A
summer camping program will be
scheduled if sufficient funds are
raised."
Port Calendar
Cowanesque ? Navy tanker
due at Aviation Fuel Terminal
Sunday. Will unload a part cargo
of aviation fuel. Port of de
parture, Beaumont. Texas.
Gloria ? Tobacco cargo ship
arrives today to take on 3,200
hogsheads of tobacco. Will tail
Monday for Bremen, Germany.
Mathieson Barge ? Leaves
Morehead City port today carry
ing 800 tons fertilizer via inland
waterway to Baltimore.
Miss Ruth Peeling, editor of THE
NEWS-TIMES, was presented with
the woman-of-the-year award at
the Business and Professional
Women's Club birthday banquet
Tuesday night at the Blue Ribbon
Club, Morehflgd City.
The presentation was made by
Mrs. Marshall Ayscue, past presi
dent of the Carteret Club and past
B&PW district director. Co-chair
men of the woman-of-the-year com
mittee were Mrs. Wiley Taylor Jr.,
Beaufort, ami Mrs. Walter Lasker,
Morehead City.
The speaker at the banquet was
Mrs. Lucy Rhodes Duncan, Smith
field, state B&PW Club president.
Mrs. Duncan spoke on the individ
ual's responsibility in civic and
political affairs.
She said that the only one who
can do the jobs that should be done
is 4 you." Mrs. Duncan urged her
listeners to participate in public
affairs and to take advantage of
the privilege of voting.
She was introduced by Mrs. C. L.
Beam, president of the Carteret
Club.
67 Attend
The program followed a fried
chicken dinner. Giving the address
of welcome was Miss Peeling
who was toast mistress. Sixty-seven
guests, including members of the
Duplin and Kinston B&PW Clubs,
attended.
Miss Peeling was presented with
an engraved silver chalice. Judges
who chose the winner were Mayor
George Dill, Morehead City; H.
Earlc Mobley, Morehead City; Dan
Walker, manager of the Beaufort
Chamber of Commerce;. Lock wood
Phillips, Beaufort; and Holden Bal
lou, Beaufort.
Miss Peeling was chairman of the
1954 March of Dimes in the county.
She is a member of the Carteret
B&PW Club and incoming secre
tary, a member of the Carteret
Community Theatre and publicity
chairman for the Beaufort Finer
Carolina contest.
Received Degree
During the past year she re
ceived her master's degree in jour
nalism at Florida State University,
Tallahassee, while on leave of ab
sence from THE NEWS-TIMES.
While there she served on the
faculty of the School of Jourpaltsm
and was elected to Phi Kappa Phi,
national scholastic honorary.
Miss Peeling is a past president
of the Carteret B&PW Club and a
past district secretary.
In accepting the award, Miss
Peeling remarked that she felt
other women in the county were
worthy of the honor and suggested
that the award be considered as
symbolic of what all of them have
done "to make Carteret the won
derful place it is."
The invocation at the banquet
was given by Mrs. Roy Clark, Beau
fort.
Guests Presented
The following honor guests were
introduced by Miss Catherine Gas
kill, Beaufort: Mrs. Annie Thelma
Harmon, Warsaw, B&PW district
director; Mayor and Mrs. Dill, Mr.
Mobley, Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood
Phillips, publishers of THE NEWS
TIMES; Mr. and Mrs. Grover Mun
den of radio station WMBL; Sheriff
and Mrs. Hugh Salter, O. L. Dun
can, Smithfield, husband of the
state B&PW president; Deputy
Sheriff and Mrs. Marshall Ayscue,
and C. L. Beam, county veterans'
service officer.
Dinner music and piano solos
were presented by Earl Smith,
Beaufort.
Decorations followed the spring
theme. Candles were light green;
and spring flowers were used on
the tables. In charge of decora
tions was Mrs. Roma Noe, Beau
fort. Mrs. Clark was in charge of
programs, Mrs. Julia Holt in charge
of reservations for the banquet,
and Mrs. Retha King served as
hostess.
Curtain Rises on Last Performance
Of Father of the Bride at 8 Tonight
Mobley Buick Co.
Gets Incorporation
Papers Monday
Secretary of State Th?d Eur* an
nounced Monday In Raleigh that
Mobley Buick Co.. Morehead City,
has been granted a corporation
charter.
The (irrn has $100,001 author
lied capital itock with $300 aub
?cribed stock by H. Earle Mobley,
Mrs. Hattie Mobley and Mrs. Mar
garet Barrow, ail of Morehaad City.
Mr. Mobley. bead of tlx corpor
ation, stated that this was a con
? tinuation of the Mobley Buick Co.
famlltea' 40 yean' association with
Buick and General Motor*.
Mobley Buick Co. opened In
Morehaad City In IMS and alace
that time Mr. Mobley. who served
la the 1053 general assembly, has
taken an active Interest in the
civic life of Morehaad City and Car
'Tonight will be the last oppor
tunity to see the Carteret Com
m u n i t y Theatre's production,
"Father of the Bride" when the
curtain goes up at 8 in the More
head City High School auditorium.
Last night's performance and to
night's is under the sponsorship
of St. Egbert's Catholic Church.
Father of the Bride is a three
act comedy which was recently
filmed with Spencer Tracy playing
the title role, the role played in
the Carteret production by Elmer
Dewey Willis of Williston.
Fran Phillip* plays the bride,
the role that was played by Elisa
beth Taylor. Other leads are Joyce
Willis. Morehead City, as the
mother, and James Lucas, More
head City, as the groom.
The scenes take place in the
home of a middle class family
where the daughter, Kay, decided
that she is 21, very much in love,
and ready to get married.
Picturing his beautiful youag
daughter still in pigtails. Father
i? far from platted with bar ideas
and consider! the young nun she
intends to marry as an upatart
he'll have to aupport the rest of his
life.
As the title of the play indicate*,
Kay and her young man do get
married but bringing Father
around to accepting "Shoulders"
as he calls the (room, keeps the
audience chucking from the rise
of tre curtain until the end of act
three.
Eleven-year-old Donny Smith of
Morehead City plays the part of
Buz Taylor. Abram (Tootle) Bal
lou. Morehead City, plays the role
of the bride's teen-age brother.
Others in the cast are Pfc. Leslie
Davis, Mary Davis, Floyd Stewart,
Ed Walaton. all of Morehead City;
Edith Lewis, Ellen Broad, Betty
Loo Merrill, Patricia Webb, Wayne
King, *11 of Beaufort, and Cbarl**
O'Connor, Newport
Tickets may be bought it the
door or from any member of St.
Egbert's pariih.
Third Tobacco
Cargo Will Leave
Here Monday
Ship Gloria Will Dock
Today to Take on 3,200
Hogsheads Bright Leaf
The third tobacco export cargo
to leave the port of Morehead City
will be loaded aboard the M/S
Gloria due here today. The Gloria
will sail Monday for Bremen, Ger
many.
The Gloria will come from Wil
mington, Del. A full cargo, 3.200
hogsheads, will be put aboard by
local longshoremen. The tobacco
has been accumulating at port
warehouses during the past several
weeks.
Exporters are firms in eastern
North and South Carolina. J. D.
Holt, port manager, said that for
the first time 25 carloads of to
bacco have moved in from Mullins,
S. C. This was due to a recent
favorable adjustment in freight
rates.
The Gloria is due here two more
times this year Mr. Holt com
mented that tobacco shipments
would be moving out constantly if
there were sufficent warehousing
here so the tobacco could be stored
until a full cargo was ready to
move.
H. A. Byrne, vice-president of
W. 0. Smith and Co., New York
freight forwarders will be here dur
ing the loading of the ship acting
as liaison between the exporters
and ship owners.
The Morehead City Shipping Co.
is acting as agent and the Wilming
ton Shipping Co. is handling stev
edoring.
The Gloria moved the second
tobacco cargo from Morehead City
in October. The first shipment,
2,619 hogsheads moved out in May
1953 on the Ludolf Oldendorff.
Both shipments went to Germany.
G. T. Windell
Names Speakers
Speakers for the Morehead City
Htgh School baccalaureate aervjy
and commencement have i
nounccd by G. T. Windell, prfflFi
pal.
The baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered by Dr. Edward A. Mc
Dowell of Southeastern Seminary.
Wake Forest. The service will be
gin at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 30 in
the school auditorium.
Commencement exercise^ will "be
held at 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 1, in
the school auditorium with Dr. Leo
Jenkins, dean of East Carolina
College, giving the address.
Fifty-five seniors will receive di
plomas which will be presented by
Dr. Darden J. Eure, chairman of
the school board.
Father of Traveler
Loses Brief Case
An SOS was sent out yesterday
morning (or the brief case belong
ing to G. B. Hughes of Oriental,
father of Miss Georgie P. Hughes,
welfare superintendent. Miss
Hughes left yesterday for Europe.
Mr. Hughes, who is in the I*
surance business, was putting bag
gage in his car in front of his
daughter's residence on Orange
Street, Beaufort. He set his brief
rase on the walk, forgot it, and
drove off.
Fifteen minutes later he dis
covered it waa missing and re
turned to the spot but the brief
case waa gone. It had hyi name
on it and contained important in
aurance records and policies.
Shortly after 1 p.m. yeaterday
someone returned the case to Mr
Hughes but refused to reveal his
name. Mr. Hughea waa mighty
glad to get it back.
Miss Hughes is flying to Europe
Accompanying her la Dr. Helton
McAndrew, woman psychologist
with the State Department of Wel
fare who ia consultant psycholo
gist with the welfare department
in this county.
They will attend a Family Case
Work meeting in London and hope
to attend a conference on excep
tional children in Holland.
After additional tours, the wel
fare officials will return to this
country June 7. Mrs. Glenn Adair
will be In charge of the county
welfare department in Miss
Hughes' absence.
Tide Table
tol al Bcaafart Bar
HIGH LOW |
Friday, April M
9:36 a.m. 11:48 a.m
6:<H p.m.
Saturday, May 1
8:32 a.m. 12:34 tf.m. |
6:97 p.m. 12:39 p.m.
8unday, May t
7:29 a.m. .1:28 a.m
7:4# p.m. . 1:20 p.m.
M? day, May I
8:18 a.m. 2:19 a.m. I
8:41 p.m. S:ll p.m I
Carteret's First Juvenile
Court Advisory Group Meets
Dr. C. S. Maxwell to Join
Doctors' 50-Year Group
Dr. C. S. Maxwell, Beaufort, has*
been invited to join the North
Carolina Medical Society's newly
organized "Fifty Year Club."
The club recognizes physicians
of the Medical Society who have
practiced medicine for 50 years in
this state under legal license.
Dr. Maxwell and others who have
been invited to join the clnb will
Dr. C. S. Maxwell
. . . honored by doctors
be honored at a ceremony during
the third annual meeting of the
State Medical Society at Finehurst
Wednesday. The ceremony will
take place at 5 p.m. in the Caro
lina Hotel.
James T. Barnes, executive secre
tary of th? State Medical Society,
in a letter to Dr. Maxwell, said,
I "On that occasion you will be ex
tended the proper recognition for
your service and attainments
through your presentation to the
fellows of the Medical Society of
the State of North Carolina and
you wiil be presented ?ith a CT'T;
titicate of record as w J\ as agit
able emblem which you may for
ever possess as evidence of this
high distinction and achievement."
Draft Board
Seeks Three
Mrs. Ruby D. Holland, clerk to
the county draft board, announced
today that three Negro boys have
been classed as draft delinquents.
Mail addressed to them has been
returned to the draft office with
the notation, "Address Unknown."
The delinquents are Charles Ma
jor, formerly of 1200 Avery St.,
Morehead City; Foy Lee Daniels,
formerly of 312 Queen St., Beau
fort; and Jasper Reese, formerly of
Lennoxville Rd., Beaufort, and Ft.
Pierce. Fla.
If anyone knows their where
abouts, they should contact the
draft board at the courthouse an
nex, phone 2-7111. The men are
subject to immediate induction.
Mrs. Holland said that Carteret
County has not been called upon in
cither April or May to supply men
for the Army, but an induction
call will be made in May.
Judge McNeill
Hears 33 Cases
Oscar B. Ellett, Charged
With D'unken Driving,
Gives Appeal Notice
Judge George McNeill heard 33
cases in Morehead City Recorder's
Court Monday. Fifty-three cases
were on the docket, but 20 were
continued.
Oscar B. Ellett, charged with
drunk driving, appealed the $100
and costs decision to superior
court. Judge McNeill set his bond
at $150.
William Fred Anderson, also
charged with drunk driving, was
fined $100 and costs. Donald Bro
den Montgomery, charged with
speeding and reckless driving, was
ordepcd to pay $25 and costs on the
first charge and $50 on the second.
Henry A. Fioto, charged with
reckless driving, was fined $50
and costs. Donald Knudsen,
charged with no operator's license,
was ordered to pay $25 and costs.
The fine will be refunded if the
defendant shows a valid license
to clerk of court in 30 days.
Found Not Guilty
Robert William Svarrer, charged
with reckless driving, was found
not guilty of the charge. However,
the court found him guilty of
driving on the wrong side of the
road. Judge McNeill ordered
Svarrer to pay $25 and costs.
William A. D'Avanzo, chargcd
with no operator's license, was
fined $25 and costs. The fine will
be refunded if the defendant shows
a valid license to the clerk of court
in JO flay*
1^*? fined Charles Francis
Metzger, charged with speeding,
$10 and costs. Prayer for judg
ment was continued for four
weeks in the case of Leon Eng
lish, charged with public drunk
' enness.
Bonds Forfeited
Bonds were forfeited by Wil
liam "Pete" Fulford Jr., charged
with possessing stolen property and
selling a stolen suit of clothes,
when he failed to appear in court.
The court issued a not guilty
verdict in the case of Delbert Reno
Burgdorf, charged with allow
ing an unlicensed person to drive,
but ordered him to pay costs on a
charge of no tail lights.
The state did not prosecute Roy
Sutton, charged with public drunk
enness; Robert William Miller,
Robert J. Johnson, Louis Jones,
and John G. Cecatke, all charged
with no operator's licenses. Miller,
Johnson, Jones, and Cecatke
showed valid licenses in court.
Neither did the state prosecute
Willie Budget, charged with steal
ing a suit of clothes.
Pay* Coats
Obrey Hester was taxed with
court costs when he failed to ap
pear in court to press charges
against Thomas Jones, whom he
charged with assault.
Charges were withdrawn against
George Shipp by the prosecuting
witness and the court ruled frivo
See TOWN COURT, Page 2
County Judge Dismisses Case
Against Guy O'Neal Willis
Moose Have
Blood Typed
Dr Herbert F. Webb, resident
physician at the Sea Level Hos
pital. and J. F. Abbott, technician,
typed the blood of 41 members of
the Morehead City Moose Lodge
during a meeting of the lodge
Monday night.
Dr. Webb and Mr. Abbott will
return May 10 to type the blood
of any other member who wishes
to be included on the lodge's list
of available Mood donors.
The Moose will hold a dance
at their lodge in Morehead City
from 8:30 p. m. (o 1 a. m tomorrow
for members and the gublic. Muaic
will be provided by th^Skln Jones
combo.
The genrfal public Is invited to
attend ia couples. No stags other
than club members will be admit
ted, Hid John* Junes Jr., lodge
governor
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' Judge Lambert Morris dismissed
a charge of drunk driving against
Guy O'Neal Willis Tuesday in
County Recorder's Court.
Willis was charged with drunk
driving by Highway Patrolman J.
W. Sykes after a collision April
14 one-half mile from the entrance
to the Harkers Island Road on
highway 70.
According to the prosecuting wit
ness, Alton Chadwick of Marshall
berg. Willis crashed into a trail
er being palled by a farm tractor.
Chadwick notified the highway
patrol after the accident and Wil
lis was arrested by Patrolman
Sykes about an hour later at the
home of Lloyd Davis at Smyrna.
Chadwick told the court that. he
was pulling the trailer at about 7
p.m. when Willis, going about "59
or 80 miles and hour" slammed
into the rear of the trailer, smash
ing it to pieces and damaging the
harrow on it.
Chadwick told Uie court that the
trailer waa iluminated by a white
spotlight on the rear of the tractor.
After the collision the wreckage
blocked the rend, Chadwick said.
Both men removed the wreckage
from the road and at thla time.
Chadwick said, Willia said he'd
pay for the damage and left his
name and address
It was Uring this time that Chad
wick said he noticed that Willis
was drunk, ataggering around and
talking thickly Alter Willis left.
Chadwick said he notified the high
way patrol.
Patrolman Sykes answered the
call, and in the company of Guion
Chadwick, owner of the tractor,
went to Smyrna to find Willis. Pa
trolman Sykes found him at the
home of Lloyd Davis sitting in a
wheelbarrow in the barn. Patrol
man Sykes said that Willis ap
peared in. an intoxicated state, had
a strong odor of alcohol, red eyes
and flushed face.
Patrolman Sykes said he asked
Willis if he had anything to drink
since the accident and Willia re
plied no. Guion Chadwick cor
roborated Sykes' statements.
One witness testified that at the
seen* of the accident Willia was
sober. Another ear carrying Nora
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The county's first juvenile court advisory committee has
been appointed and the initial meeting took place Tuesday
afternoon in the county welfare office, Beaufort. A. H.
James, juvenile court judge, presided.
Serving on the advisory committee are Mrs. George H.
McNeill and Mrs. W. P. Freeman, both of Morehead City;
Mrs. James numiey ana Mrs. u.
Merrill, both of Beaufort, Walter
S. Morris, and Fred Lewis, both of
Morehead City.
The appointments were made by
Judge James on the basis of ob^
taining representatives of tht* dif
ferent aspects of family life. Mr.
Morris is a father. Mr. Lewis, who
. is also a father, represents the
schools. He is teacher supervisor
for the county.
The women, two each from Beau
fort and Morehead City, are
mothers.
Attending the meeting also were
Miss Georgie P. Hughes, head of
the welfare department, who is
chief probation officer, and the fol
lowing case worker assistants: Mrs.
Glenn Adair, Miss Sarah Thomas
and Miss Patricia Webb.
Representing the State Depart
ment of Public Welfare were Nel
son Stevenson, consultant on com
munity resources, and Mrs. Doro
thea Tucker, field representative.
Judge James said the commit
tee was organized in the hope that
its members may be able to bring
to the attention of the court cases
of delinquency before they reach
the stage of formal court action.
It is an effort to protect both
wayward children and the public,
the judge said, the children being
saved from the paths of crime and
the public being protected from
thefts or other offenses committed
by minors.
Judge James said it is also hoped
that the committee members' con
tact with the public will enable
them to inform people of the work
of the juveuile court, with a view
to some day obtaining a home for
children who have no home or
proper parental supervision.
The committee will sit with the
court and offer advice as to dis
position of cases.
The purpose and functions of the
committee were explained to its
lii.cisbors ftt Tuesday's meeting,
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Cecil Guthrie
Freed on Bond
Plaintiffs Decline to Push
Prosecution of Alleged
Bigamist
Cecil Guthrie, Morehead City,
who was found guilty in Morehead
City Recorder's Court on charges
of peeping, was released from the
county jail Wednesday under $1,
500 bond.
Guthrie, after being sentenced
by Judge George McNeill, ap
pealed. He was held in jail in
Beaufort until bond was posted.
Sheriff Hugh Salter reported yes
terday that Wilfred N. Fenny,
USMC, Camp Lejeune, who was
being held on a bigamy charge, has
also been released.
The sheriff said that the pros
ecutors informed him they did
not wish to press charges. With
the consent of the solicitor for
this district, Fenny was set free.
His case would have come up
in the next term of Superior Court
here.
Warren Smith, charged with
theft of a piggy bank in this coun
ty. was tried in New Bern Re
corder's Court this week and given
60 days for passing a bad check.
The judge ordered that Smith's
previous suspended sentence, six
months for theft of an outboard mo
tor, be invoked. The two and six
month term are to run concur
rently.
Smith is docketed for trial in
this county during the next term
of Superior Court. Me allegedly
stole a piggy bank from a home in
the Mill Ureek section several
months ago.
Commentator Films Marine
Maneuvers for TV Show
' Edward R. Murrow's advance
CBS filming crew, headed by Joe
Wirshba, field director of the tele
vision show, See It Now, have com
pleted advance filming of Marines
in action at Brown's Island, off the
North Carolina coast.
The shots will be used on the
Murrow TV show describing ma
neuvers which have been under
way off this coast (or the past sev
eral weeks.
Panther Jets of Lt. Col. R. L.
Bryson's VMF-334 strafed Brown's
Island with 20mm cannon and 5
inch high velocity aircraft rockets.
The scenes depict Marine aviation's
participation in the gigantic am
phibious operation.
Advance work on the show start
ed April 11 and is scheduled to
cover points on the Atlantic coast
from Bloodsworth Island in Chesa
peake Bay to Wilmington, N. C.
Instead of setting up on the as
sault beaches and filming the ma
neuver on the spot and as It oc
cur!, the CBS men have filmed
as many phases, such as aviation's
part in the operation, in advance
as possible. For example, the work
of underwater demolition teams
(Frogmen) in the maneuver was
enaeted, for the benefit of the
cameras, at Little Creek, Va., and
the CBS team filmed the Frog
men's activities there.
Again, some of the Navy shore
bomb&rdment scenes were shot at
Bloodsworth Island where a de
stroyer and/ an LSMR (a rocket
launching craft) were utilized to
portray 5-inch and rocket bombard
ment of the aggressor's beach de
fenses.
The USS Burleson was employed,
also at Little Creek, to provide
scenes of a Marine assault platoon
being briefed and then trans
ferring, via cargo net, to an LCVP;
and a scene involving the beaching
of an LST also was shot at Little
Creek.
On-the-spot filming of the climax
of the maneuver (the assault on
Onslow Beach) is scheduled for
D-Day. Mr. Murrow has made ar
rangements for interviews between
himself and Maj. Gen. G. F. Good
on the beach when the General
transfers his command post from
the Mt. Olympus to the beach. The
famous commentator alsd will in
terview Rear Adm. H. P. Smith,
Commander of Amphibious Group
II, on the Mt. Olympus.
Cushioned Seats
Will Replace Old
Courtroom Benches
Cushioned seats will replace the
wooden benches formerly used in
the Beaufort Recorder's Courtroom
in the near future, Dan Walker,
town clerk, has announced.
Judige Earl Mason recently ob
tained some theatre seats from
Baltimore whifh will replace the
old wooden benches. The seats ar
rived in Beaufort Tuesday morn
ing and were set up temporarily in
the courtroom
Mr Walker says the floor will
be scrubbed and re-waxed before
the reconditioned seats are in
stalled.
March Liquor Sales
Amount to $37,915.10
Sales at county ABC stores in
March totaled S37.919.10, James D.
Potter, county auditor, reported
yesterday.
More head City sales amounted to
*19,098.89. Beaufort sales *11,
452.29 and Newport *7.386 state
sales tax amounted to S3.212.99.
Paid to Morehead City Hospital
was 1873 84, to the town of Beau
fort *92408 and to Newport
*337.20. Net profit Waa *1,191.14.
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