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46th YEAR, NO. 91. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROUNA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1967 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
The Bishops Mantle Plays
To Capacity House Saturday;
By ELEANOR STONE
The season's first offering by the
Carteret Community Theatre was
presented on Saturday night in the
club's new home, the Morehead
City Recreation Center, in both a
matinee and an evening perform
ance.
The evening show, which this
writer attended, played to a capa
city house, and deserved its en
thusiastic audience.
The play was The Bishop's Man
tle, a romantic comedy adapted by
Marian L. Johnson from the novel
by the same name by Agnes Sligh
Turnhull It was directed by Miss
Ruth reeling; and from where I sat
? on the front row ? it was a very
smooth performance.
The stage setting was appropri
ate. and showed really creative
imagination in all details. The cos
tuming was exceptionally nice. The
acting was consistently honest;
some of it was excellent. Under
Miss reeling's direction, the stage
business was deftly managed. The
comedy was really funny, and even
the emotional scenes were con
vincing.
As an old-timer in this business
of amateur and club dramatics, I
must add that the whole perform
ance stacked up well as compared
to many professional shows I have
seen.
The cast and supporting stage
crew were as follows
Hastings, II. L. Joslyn; Hilary
I.aurens, C. Edward Sharp; Miss
Mowbray, Elizabeth Lambeth;
Dick Laurens. Thomas Cordova.
Alexa MeColly, Virginia Sharp;
Miss Ilcttie Breckcnridge, Vivian
May; Mrs. Reed, Lillian F. Gid
dens; Mary Berkins McComb, Gun
hilde Gunnersen.
J. V. Dunn, Ron Harpe; Mr. Al
vord, Glenn Adair; Samantha
Adams, Joyce Willis; Maudie
Dunn, Thelma Memakis.
Stage manager, Lynn Hemdon;
lighting effects, John Hcrndon;
properties manager. Ruth H. Deyo;
prompter, Hilma Chadwick.
If I were asked to present spe
cial Oscars,, I might offer them to
the following.
Lillian Giddens, who as Mrs.
Reed, did the most clean-cut ? and
restrained ? job she has yet done;
Joyce Willis, who as Saniantha
Adams, proved her versatility in
adapting herself to widely differ
ent roles; H. L. Joslyn, for his ex
pert comedy as Hastings the
church sexton.
And to several of the theatre's
new players: C. Edward Sharp,
as a handsome and engaging rec
tor; Virginia Sharp, as a very
charming Alexa McColly, the rec
tor's fiancee; Elizabeth Lambeth,
as the rector's secretary, who act
ed beautifully with her face; Gun-1
hilde Gunncrsen, as Mary Mc-!
Comb, who shows promise of a ris- j
in.H actress.
It looks as if The Bishop's Man I
tie may have inaugurated the most
productive season the Carteret ;
Community Theatre has yet known, j
Photo by Bob Seymour
This is a reproduction of the
portrait of the bishop used in
the play. The Rev. C. Edward
Sharp posed for the photograph
after his hair was grayed and
face lined to make him appear
old. In the play, the biJiop was
the young rector's grandfather
who appeared in portrait only.
The young rector was played by
the Rev. Mr Sharp, rector of
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Beaufort.
Southern's President Wins
Honor as Business Leader
For outstanding achievements in
the fields of business and public
service, Harry A. DeButts, of
Washington, D. C., president of the
SoLihern Railway System, has been
named one of "America's Fifty
Foremost Business Leaders" and
was awarded a Citation of Honor
by Forbes Magazine of Business
and Finance in ceremonies Wcd
rcadcrs.
The citation awarded Mr. De
Butts states:
" 'Look Ahead ? Look South' is
the motto of this man's railroad,
but it seems equally right as a
Mrs. Lutie Jones,
83, Dies Sunday
Mrs. Lutic Carrow Jones, 83, of
Beaufort died at 1:30 Sunday af
ternoon at her houie. Funeral ser
vices were conducted from the
home yesterday afternoon by the
Bev. John Cline, pastor of Ann
Street Methodist Church, assisted
by the Rev. C. Edward Sharp, rec
tor of St. raut's Episcopal Church.
Burial was in Occanvicw Ceme
tery.
Surviving are two brolhers,
Thomas II. Carrow of Philadelphia,
Pa. and Charles S. Carrow of
Beaufort: two sisters, Mrs. W. A.
Mace and Mrs. Sam Thomas, both
of Beaufort: three sons, John G.,
Paul S. and Christopher, all of
Beaufort.
Four daughters, Mrs. C. Z. Chap
pell and Miss Mildred Jones of
Beaufort; Mrs. Jaincs A Moon of
I.inevillc, Ala , and Mrs. Harry
McGinnis of New Orleans; six
teen grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren.
Regular Steamer Service
Increases Imports Here
Value of Holland American line
regular slops at Morehead City
ports is indicated in the cargo to
he discharged at Morehead City
Thursday w lj e n the Slotcrdyk
docks. Imports here are going up.
Robert L. Hicks, agent for Heidc
and Co., reports that the Slotcrdyk
will bring in 13 tons to be put
ashore here: fishing nets, one lot
of 270 bicycles in crates, another
lot of 25 bicycles and 30 casks of
iron chain consigned to various
North Carolina importers.
The Slotcrdyk will take on to
bacco and general cargo.
Attends School
Dan Walker, Beaufort town
clerk, is attending on weekends the
school for municipal administra
tors at Chapel HilL
slogan for the man himself. Long
a leader of the new South ? a sec
tion of the country fast growing in
economic importance ? he has
helped build it by rebuilding in
brilliant fashion the road that is
its most vital transportation link."
nesday night at New York's Wal
dorf Astoria Hotel.
Mr. DeButts was host at a lunch
eon in Morehead City last Friday.
The luncheon was official recogni
tion of Southern Railway's acquisi
tion of the 90-mile Atlantic and
East Carolina from from Goldsboro
to Morehead City.
More than 1,000 of the country's
leading business executives wit
nessed the presentation of citations,
by Bruce F. Forbes, president of
Forbes Inc.
Votes for the "fifty foremost"
were cast by industrial, financial,
railway, insurance, utility, mercan
tile and other business leaders, in
cluding the magazine's own hun
dreds of thousands of executive
Henry Rowe's
15-Foot Prize
Boat Goes Down
Owner, Companion Res
cued Sunday by Passing
Boat After Ginny Sinks
Ginny V, a 15 foot cabin cruiser
owned by llcnry B. Rowc^ More
head City, capsiied 800 yards from
Shacklcford Point in the channel
Sunday morning.
Mr. Rowe and his companion. C.
L Scott, also of Morchead City,
were rescued by a passing fishing
boat.
The cabin cruiser was won re
ccntly by Mr. Rowe in a contest
sponsored by Colonial Stores. Mr.
Rowe is manager of the Co'?"}'
store meat market. Morchead City.
Mr Scott said yesterday that the
boat is a "fine little cruiser The
only thing that sunk it was the two
nuts in it."
He explained that they had taken
the hoat over to Shackleford safe
ly Thev had anchored and when
they pulled the anchor in, water
started coming in the hole in the
stern where the motor was attach
ed Then they opened a door in
the bulkhead to get at the self
bailer and the water poured in.
Mr Scott said they never should
have opened that door, but neither
was familiar with the boat nor its
construction.
"That hoat went down in 30 sec
onds," Mr Seott said, "stern first.
lie said he grabbed a life pre
server in the cabin and that was
all <te had time to dn lle had to
dn e to gel out from under t. Then
when he came up he couldn t find
Mr. Rowe. lie called to him, and
in a few seconds (but it sccme
like endless minutes), Mr. Rowe
answered. , A, .
Mr. Scott said he feared that Mr.
Rowe was trapped under the boat
1 and couldn't get out.
They both clung to the boat un
til picked up. They were takenI to
the Port Macon Coast Guard sta
[tion where the Coast Guardsmen
got out the CG30452 and went to the
scene of the capsized cruiser.
| The water was pumped out and
the cruiser lowed to the Coast
| Guard station. Yesterday it was
I towed to Sonny s Bout Basin. At |
jlalMr Scott, a mechanic, was work_ |
ing on the motor yesterday and,
said it is just as good as new.
I The fishermen lost all their fis
ing gear.
Tag Day Saturday
Nets Band $545
Collected during tag day Satur
day was $545 for the Morchead
City School band.
The band association said the
results were satisfactory and ix
tended thanks to all who contrib
uted Donations were solicited by
band members and maiorcttcs.^
i The band paraded at 1 o clock
Saturday and played several num
bers in the business section before
disbanding. ,
At 11 o'clock yesterday the band
marched in the Veterans Day pa
rade at Havelock. Director of the
band, which has won national rec
ognition for its outstanding per
formance, is Ralph Wade.
Harry A. DeBatta
... recofniied leader
Sea Level Hospital , Clinic
Will be Dedicated Saturday/ Nov. 23
Sheriff Graduates at FBI School
Sheriff Hugh Salter, a graduate
of the 60th session of the FBI
National Academy, experiments
with dusting powders used in the
lifting of latent fingerprints. This
was included in the instruction
he received in a 12-week course
at Washington, D. C., which
ended Friday.
Attending graduation festivities
in Washington were Mrs. Salter,
their children, and Mrs. Roland
Willis, Sea Level, the Sheriff's
sister. Lawrence Welk and his
orchestra played at a banquet
and dance Wednesday night.
Graduation ceremonies took
place Friday morning.
The entire family was fighting
the flu all the time they were
there, the sheriff reported yes
terday. They returned home
early Saturday.
Firm Plans Pier
At Atlantic Beach
Permission has been asked the
Army engineers to build a fishing
pier at Atlantic Beach just cast of
the location of the former Ocean
King Hotel.
The firm building the pier is At
lantic Beach Fishing Pier, Inc.
Among the firm members is A.
B. Cooper.
Mr. Cooper said that the pier
will cost about $60,000. He re
marked that Morehcad City is the
growing sports fishing center of
the Carolina coast and an addition
al ocean pier will serve to attract
more people.
He added that the pier is being
planned in accordance with com
munity development of Atlantic
Beach. Mr. Cooper is mayor of the
town of Atlantic Beach.
Plans call for a pier 16 feet wide,
with a 24 by 48 foot tec at the outer
end. The pier will extend 1,200
feet outward beyond the existing
bulkhead.
If the engineers approve the
plans, the pier will probably be
ready for use March 1, Mr. Cooper
said. He remarked that the addi
tional advertising which the pier
will do will serve to bring more
sports fishermen to this section.
Persons who may have objec
tion to the pier arc requested to
contact the Army engineers office,
Wilmington, by Dec. 7, 1957.
Mr. Cooper said that there will
be a line on the pier beyond which j
fishermen may not fish toward the
shore. This will be for the protcc- j
tion of surf bathers.
Newport Pupils Hope
Visitors Will Come By
Pupils at Newport School are
ready this week, American Edu
cation Week, to greet their parents
and other visitors.
In the elementary grades the
children have selected their best
work for display and arc anxiously
waiting to ,show the grown-ups
what they have done.
Mrs. Karl Murdoch, a mothrr
who visited the school yesterday,
said that a call at the school is
well worthwhile.
All schools this week arc open |
to callers.
Tide Table
Tides at the llraulort Har
HIGH I.OW
Tuesday, Nov. 12
11:14 a.m. 4:42 a.m.
. . 5:40 p.m.
Wrdarsday, Nov. 13
12:03 a.m. 5:33 a.m.
12:15 p.m. 6:41 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 14
1:03 a.m. 6:53 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 7:55 p.m.
Friday, Nov. IS
2:01 a.m. 8 26 a.m.
2:17 p.m. ?:03 p m
Romeo Crooms to Appear
On Non-Support Count
Romeo Crooms, Beaufort, will
appear in county court Thursday
*? answer to a charge of (ailing to
stifrnort his six children. The ehil>
drcn range in age from 3 to 17.
Assistant Chief Carlton Garner,
Beaufort, served a warrant on
Crooms Thursday. The warrant
was sworn out by Crooms' daugh
ter, Grace.
Apprehended Wednesday night
was Edward Wilson, Fernandina,
Fla., who was charged with failing
to stop at a stop sign. Wilbur Tay
lor, Moss Point, Miss., was locked
up Sunday night by Officer Garner
on a charge of public drunkenness
and indecent exposure. He was
placed under $50 bond.
Beaufort Officers Cite
Three for Drunkenness
Beaufort officers put three in
jail Saturday on charges of public
drunkenness.
Cited for appearance in county
court Thursday are Emmitt Hunt
er, Richmond, Va., George Turner,
Beaufort; and Vierga May Chap
man, Beaufort.
Chief of Police Guy Springlc
booked Hunter and Vierga May,
and Officer Otis Willis picked up
Turner.
Lions Observe j
Father-Son Night
Thursday night was father-son
night for the Morehead City Lions
Club. Fourteen fathers and 13 sons,
ranging from 4 to 18 years of age,
met at the Hotel Fort Macon for
a social get-together. Each hoy got
up and told his age, hobby and
favorite sport.
Publicity chairman O. N. Allred
announces that the club sent $304
to the state commission for the
blind. A total of $370 was raised
during the white cane drive, he re
ported. The club's gum ball ma
chines have netted $300 since they
were put out in July.
William Munden gave a behind
the-scenes report on the Morehead
City band's trip to Washington last
spring, lie told some of the zany
experiences of different members
of the band and said that the trip
was a great thrill for everyone.
The club visited the Sea Level
Lions last night. The Sea Level
club furnished oysters but warned
the visitors to bring their own
knives and wives.
The oyster roast took place out
doors near the Sea I^vel Hospital.
The new 20-bed hospital addition and the clinic build
ing, which contains doctor's offices, will be formally dedi
cated at Sea Level Hospital at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23.
Announcement of the dedication, which will be attend
ed by Gov. Luther Hodges, was made yesterday by Charles
Caudell Jr., hospital administrator.
In addition to Governor Hodges, other state dignitaries.
as well as county and town offi- ?
cials, will be present.
The dedication comes almost four
years to the day from the formal
opening of the hospital itself. The
hospital, established and operated
by the Taylor Foundation, was
dedicated Nov. 21. 1993.
In charge of the dedication pro
gram is Carl Goerch. Raleigh. The
ceremony will be followed by a pic-1
nic lunch. After lunch the new !
buildings will be open for inspec
tion.
Each of the buildings covers [
5,000 square feet and is located to i
the west of the main hospital. In ,
the new wing are 10 semi-private j
rooms, a solarium, recovery room. |
nurses' station, storage room, and i
bathrooms.
Mr. Caudell comments, "It's
probably the smallest hospital in ,
the state with a recovery room " i
The recovery room is the room j
where a patient receives special j
attention following surgery.
In the medical center, or clinic j
building, are examining rooms for 1
three doctors, office space and a
waiting room.
Both buildings are air-condition- I
ed. Contractor was T. A. Loving
and Co., Goldsboro The contract
was let Jan. 26, 1957 at West Palm
Beach, Fla., home of the president
of the Taylor Foundation, D. E.
Taylor.
Doctors now practicing at Sea
Level are Dr. Herbert Webb and
Dr. Harold Peacock. Dr. W. J.
DeWalt will join them July 1958.
At present he is available at the
hospital on a temporary basis.
Members of the Taylor Founda
tion, D. K., William, Alfred and
Leslie, and their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Malthy Taylor, Sea Level,
will attend the dedication cere
mony.
Others who have been invited in
clude D. G. Bell, county legisla
tor; Luther Hamilton and John
Dawson, state senators, and the
commanding officers of Cherry
Point and Camp Lcjeune.
Since the building of the hospital,
a nurses home has been built, a
hospital auxiliary is functioning,
and several benefit fish frys have
been held to raise money for the
hospital.
Thomas Noe Shows Film
At Rotary Club Meeting
Program chairman Thomas Noe [
showed a film on Rotary informa
tion at the Morehead City Rotary |
Club meeting at the Rex Restau
rant Thursday night. Allen Knott |
of Kinston was a visitor.
Rotary district governor Gene
Edwards of Wilmington will be
the guest of honor at this week's
meeting. All club committee chair
men will meet at 4:30 p.m. Thurs
day at the REA office on Bridges
Street.
The Gloucester Community Club
will meet at 7:30 tonight at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hub
bard.
Firemen Avert
Serious Blaze
At Church Friday
A serious fire was averted at
about 6 o'clock Friday night when
Morehead City firemen poured
water on flames in Franklin Me
morial Methodist Church, Arendeli
Street.
Firemen reported that flames
had eaten from the basement to
the first floor and then to the ceil
ing in one of the Sunday School
rooms.
Cause of the fire has been at
tributed to faulty wiring. The dam
age was being estimated yester
day by contractors and the insur
ance adjuster.
Firemen stayed at the scene
about two hours. They said that
had the fire been given 15 minutes'
more headway, the church could
not have been saved.
The flickering light of the flames
was seen through the church win
dows by Mrs. R. L. Whitehurst,
who lives near the church at 1106
Arendeli St. She said she told her
husband about the strange light
and he notified Walter Lewis,
church sexton, who lives across
from the Whitehursts on the south
side of Arendeli Street.
Firemen were called out again
at 10:30 Friday night. Some tim
bers to be used in building trawl
ers had caught fire at the More
head City Shipbuilding Corp. Dam
age was reported to be slight.
Invitation Honors
Morehead Mayor
Mayor George W. Dill, Morehead
City, will take part in the program
at the meeting of the American
Municipalities Association in San
Francisco next month.
Mayor Dill, who heads the North
Carolina League of Municipalities,
will be the interrogator on the
panel. City Responsibilities in Men
tal Health, Cultural and^ Recrea
tional Activities.
The invitation to participate was
extended to Mayor Dill by Patrick
Hcaly Jr., former head of the
North Carolina League of Muni
cipalities, who is now director of
the American Municipalities Asso
ciation, Washington, D. C.
Mayor Dill wired his acceptance,
saying he would be happy to be
"interrogator, interlocutor, end
man" or anything else Mr. llealy
wanted.
River Boat Replica Visits Here
The Ilivcr Queen, a SO-foot
repiiea of an uld time Mississippi |
River boat, arrived at Morehead
City Saturday nlRlil and left Mon
day morning for Kort Pierce, Fla ,
where it will operate as an ex
cursion boat.
Tlx River Queen, a gaily-painted
eraft, can carry SO passengers and
Is propelled by the distinctive pad
dle wheel at the stern.
She carried passengers on trips
up and down Tom'? River, N. J.,
thin part summer. At Fort Tierce, I
she will make trips on the Indian
Kiver.
Captain of the nivcr Queen is
Harold K Weber. lie and two other
men started building the craft in
September 1P58. It was launched
March 25 on Tom's River, then its
upper deck was built after the
launching. The River Queen made
its maiden voyage June 20, 1957.
Captain Weber la retired, lie
used to fix clock*, watches and all
kinds of timepieces, but he had
learned how to handle boats as a
small boy. Ills father was a river
pilot in Philadelphia.
The original plan was to tow the
River Queen, by tug, from Tom's
River to Fort Pierce. But the tug
broke a connecting rod at Solo
mon's Islard. Maryland, so the
River Queen is proceeding under
her own power.
The captain 'a wife, who joinod
him in Morchcad City (she is mak
ing the trip south by automobile),
-ays that the Queen is getting along
fine on her own. The only modern
feature about her arc her dicsd
engines.
The boat was built at a coat ul
about $33,000. It's 20 feet wide. 24
feet high and draws 3 feet of water.
Mate aboard the Queen is Ruag
Maher, Westbury, N. Y. The only
other crew member ig .Sandy, an
affectionate