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, 48th YEAR, NO. 8. TWO SECTIONS TEN PACKS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1969 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FS
Jaycees Present Five Awards
Photos by Bob Seymour
The Beaufort Jaycees presented five awards at the DSA banquet at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel Saturday night. Award winners, left to
right, are V. M. Morrison, certificate of appreciation; George Murray Thomas Jr., spark plug award, W. II. Potter, community scrvice
award, Jesse Taylor, key man award, and Glenn Willis Jr., outstanding committee < football) award.
The Morehcad City and Beaufort
Jaycees combined to give a DSA
.nd Community Service Award
banquet at the Morehcad Biltmorc
t Hotel Saturday night.
Floyd Chadwick Jr., Morehcad
City, won the Distinguished Ser
vice Award. In making the presen
tation, Jasper Bell, a former DSA
winner, pointed to Mr. Chadwick's
achievements with the Jaycees,
Little League Baseball and other
civic projects.
The Community Service Award,
presented by the Beaufort Jaycees,
went to W. H. Potter, Beaufort.
' Mr. Potter was described as a
man "devoted to the service of
iis community."
Certificates of appreciation went
to THE NEWS-TIMES and the two
local radio stations.
Other awards presented by the
Beaufort Jaycees were the Spark
Plug award to George Murray
, Thomas Jr., the Key Man award
to Jesse Taylor, the outstanding
committee award to Glenn Willia
- J?. and a certificate of apprecia
tion to football coach V. M. Mor
rison.
Principal speaker at the banquet
was Judge Luther Hamilton, who
spoke on the young men who
signed the Declaration of Inde
pendence. All awards given by the
Beaufort Jaycees were presented
by Ronald Earl Mason.
Morehead City mayor George
' Dill anounced that Llewellyn Phil
lips III was the winner of the More
head City Teen-Agcr of the Year
award. Llewellyn was unable to
attend the banquet since he was
taking examinations at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
P. R. Jones and his orchestra
played for dancing after the ban
, quet.
Maryland Society
Honors DeButts
Harry A. DeButts of Upperville,
Va , president of Southern Railway
System, received the Medallion of
Honor of the Virginians of Mary
f land Society at the annual dinner
of the society held at Green Spring
Valley Hunt Club, Baltimore, Md.,
Saturday.
The award is made annually to
"an illustrious Virginian whose
achievements have gone beyond
the borders of his native state and
reflected credit on Virginia."
Previous recipients of the award
have included Sen. Harry F. Byrd,
Lady Nancy Astor, Gen. Lemuel
C. Shepherd Jr., and the late Sen.
Carter Glass and Dr. Douglas S.
Freeman.
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Floyd Chadwick Jr., left, accept* congratulations from Jasper Bell
after receiving the Distinguished Service Award presented by the
Morehead City Jaytees. Mr. Bell made the presentation at the BSA
banquet at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel Saturday night. ? ' ^
35 Historians Meet, Will
Give $50 Award to Pupil
Thirty-five members and visitors
attended the quarterly meeting of
the County Historical Society Sat
urday afternoon at the civic cen
ter, Morchead City. F. C. Salis
bury, president, presided.
In the business session it was
voted to rescind a motion made
at the October meeting regarding
the awarding of $S prizes to any
student of the five high schools
of the county for the best historical
paper on Carteret County, and in
place give only one award consist
ing of a $50 government bond.
Papers are to be submitted for
judging before the April meeting,
1980.
Recognition was given Tucker R.
Littleton of Beaufort for his col
lections of poems, published under
the title of Shore Songs. Publica
tion of a most complete genealogy
by P. W. Fisher, Jacksonville, Fla.,
covering twelve families of the
county, was brought to the atten
tion of Uic society.
Mrs. Nat Smith of Gloucester
gave the society a number of in
teresting letters written by Samuel
Lcffcrs of Beaufort to his brother
John in Hempstead, L. I , dating
from 1800 to 1S21. The writer gives
vivid descriptions of his family
life, storms, both hurricancs and
lightning. The Lcffcrs family i?
one of the oldest in the Straits
settlement.
The historical paper for the
meeting covered the early history
of Newport and township. It was
read by Mrs. Lucille A. Smith. She
preceded the reading with child
hood recollections, when she vis
ited Newport on Sunday School
picnics which were held in a beau
tiful grove of oaks, and the gather
ing of pond lilies from a pond near
the village.
During the social hour several
visitors gave interesting sketches
about Newport happenings not
covered by the paper. The hos
tesses, Mrs. Luther Hamilton, Mrs.
E. G. Phillips and Mrs. F. C. Balis
bury served coffee and doughnuts.
TeaUUve plans were made for
the holding of the April meeting
of the society at cither Smyrna or
Marshallberg.
The teen-ager of the year
award went to Llewellyn Phil
lips, above, ion of Mr. and Mrs.
Llewellyn Phillips. Now a fresh
man at UNC on a Morchead
scholarship. Llewellyn was active
' in ftiRh school and the Firtf Bap
tist Church. He was not present
to receive his award.
Pleasant Weather
Reported in County
The county enjoyed pleasant
weather over the weekend, reports
weather observer Stamey Davis.
Mr. Davis points out that the tem
perature climbed over SO on Thurs
day and Sunday afternoons.
The coldest temperature record
ed was a 31 early Saturday morn
ing. Maximum and minimum tem
peratures and wind direction fol
low: .
Mai. Mln. Wind
Thursday 64 48 SW
Friday 48 32 N
Saturday 53 31 SW
Sunday 61 45 SW
Charles Wooten's junior English
class, Morehead City high school,
toured THE NEWS-TIMES edi
torial office and plant Wednesday
morning.
Drug Addict, Bad Check Artist
Picked Up at Sea Level Hospital
A drag addict who has duped and
fleeced almost every hospital in
eastern Carolina was picked up
t Sunday, Jan. It, at Sea Level Hos
pital.
George W. Morris, 50, of Ply
mouth, who has operated under at
least three aliases, has been sent
to Clinton for trial and is docketed
for trial in this county in the su
perior court term which opens
March 30.
Sheriff Hugh Salter says he ia
charged with obtaining narcotics
under false pretenses.
The sheriff commends the doc
tors at Sea Level Hospital for their
alertness and credits them with
bringing about the apprehension
? of Morris.
Morris went to the hospital Tues
day, Jan. 13, complaining of a kid
ney ailment. He pretended to be
in intense pain.
According to the sheriff, Morris
claimed be bad kidney stones. Id
*' thmplc of urine he would put
some blood from a finger prick.
To mike the set-up more authen
tic, he even had with him a bag
of kidney stones.
He showed the doctors one he
had allegedly passed. The second
time he showed them one, .it was
noticed to be of a different color,
the sheriff said, and the doctors
became suspicious.
Morris said be was "allergic" to
morphine and when doctors named
off drugs, be stopped tbem when
they hit the one he said he remem
bered aa having beep gives to hup
before.
Not only would Morris pretend
to be sick and get the drugs he
wanted, but he would pay the hos
pitals with bad checks, according
to sheriff Salter.
Clinton bat bad a warrant for
him for almost a year but couldn't
find him. Among the hospitals be
baa been "treated" at arc Samp
?on County Hospital, Robcrson
County, Jacksonville, Kinston, LaU
| rinburg, Tarboro, Greenville, Char
lotte, Wilmington, New Bern, Rex
Hospital in Raleigh, Whitevllle,
Moore County and Wayne Me
morial.
Morris haa gone by the names
of Joe W. Barnes, Joe Morris,
George Morris and what he claims
to be his real name, George W.
Morris.
The elusive patient was arrested
at Sea Level Hospital by the
sheriff, deputy Bobby Bell and con
stable George Smith.
Hit OB Head
George Godette, Beaufort, was
hit on the head with a bottle at 10
p.m. Saturday. He was picked up
by Beaufort police at 400 Pollock
St. and taken to the hospital. Sev
eral stitches were required to cloae
his scalp. The case Is being inves
tigated.
Beaufort Lawyer Named As
Probable Successor to Gilliam
Two-Story Harkers Island
Home Destroyed by Fire
A two ? story home
owned by Malcolm
Coits, Harkers Island,
was destroyed by fire
at 3 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. The home
was located near Coats'
Anglers Motel and was
used as sleeping quar
ters for guests.
Valued at approxi
mately $4,000, the home
was partially covered
by insurance. Only two
beds and a refrigerator
were saved.
The fire is believed
to have started around
the chimney. Mrs.
Coats had built a fire
in a tin heater and left
the house. When she re
turned, she discovered
that the blaze had
broken out.
Two trucks from
Beaufort went to the
fire but by the time
they arrived, the house
was beyond saving.
The house blazes in the background behind
the live oaks. It was located at the end of a
turntable off the Markers Island road.
(Photo by MrS. Don Coats)
Three Girls
Hurt in Wreck
Three teen-age girls were slight
ly injured in an aecident a mile
east of Stacy at 9:30 p.m. Sunday
on highway 70. They were Raclenc
Smith, 16, driver of the car. Dawn
Piner, 14, and Mary Elizabeth
Styron, 14, all of Davis.
Miss Smith was driving a 1955
Chrysler owned by her father, T.
B. Smith. She told Patrolman W
J. Smith Jr. that she was blinded
by the headlights of an oncoming
vehicle and lost control of the car
on a curve.
TUB nr went off the higmnry
and turned over in a ditch. Mils
Smith was headed toward Beau
fort when the accident happened.
A pickup truck, driven by Frank
Gaskill, Sea Level, believed to
have been the vehicle that was ap
proaching the Chrysler, noticed the
accident, backcd up and took the
girls to the Sea Level Hospital.
Miss Piner was suffering from
shock and bruises and was admit
ted to the hospital. The other two
girls were treated and discharged.
Miss Smith had a cut on her fore
head, cuts on her legs and bruises.
Miss Styron also had cuts (>n her
forehead and left leg.
The car was extensively dam
aged.
Investigation Under Way
David Munden, coroner, said no
inquest will be held in the death
of Mrs. Joyce Hill Hawlcy unless
the sheriff's department believes
someone else was in the car with
Mrs. Hawlcy. The woman was
killed Wednesday night when her
car upset on the Salter Path Road.
home
is best
Trying to keep cattle and other
animals oft Core Banks isn't as
easy as it sounds.
A mare whose owner lives on
Cedar Island says he has brought
her back to the island seven
times and every time she swims
back to the banks.
Some of the cattle owners are
now fixing pens into which the
cattle are to be placed.
Regardless of the difficulties,
law dictates that the livestock
must be taken off the banks, or
"tiTTgnnW*- IB MWWi*
from washing away, by planting
vegetation, will be useless.
Erosion of the banks is already
causing higher tides at mainland
towns such as New Bern and Bel
haven.
Coast Guard Ferries
Soldier to Doctor
Coast Guardsmen from Fort Ma
con met the US Navy ship Pvt.
Carl V. Sheridan at the Beaufort
Inlet sea buoy Saturday morning
and picked up CWO Andre C. R.
Feher and Capt. John Cappclc,
both of the Army.
Mr. Feher had injured his hand
in an accident aboard the ship.
Captain Cappelc escorted him to
Cherry Point, where doctors treat
ed Mr. Feher and released him
the same day.
Coast Guardsmen ferried the two
officers back to the ship before
noon. Making the assist were EN/1
Ronald Quidley, ET/2 Sam Wicr
steiner and SN Aulcie Farmer.
Senator Presents Awards
Srn. B. EvereU Jmln, left, |nml? pmi iwinh to M Beymoar at THE NEWS-TIMES TharWiy
night ?( Chapel Bin. Misa Beatrice CoM, Morf antoa, fecreUry of Ike North CiroUaa Prru Alloc Imtto, to
to the backcroand. (Photo by Hugh Murloo).
Federal Judge Will Leave
Bench March 12
Three candidate* for the federal judgeship now held
by ailing Don Gilliam attended a meeting of eastern dis
trict Republicans at Wilson Saturday night.
The candidates predicted as "most likely to succeed" in
winning the appointment are Claud It. Wheatly, Beaufort,
Algernon Butler, Clinton, and Julian Gaskill, Goldsboro.
Mothers Will
March in Two
Towns Tomorrow
? Folks Asked to Turn
Porch Lights On
? Legion Auxiliary,
Moose Conduct March
Mothers will march in Beaufort
and Murehead City tomorrow night,
Wednesday, to collect money for
the March of Dimes. In Morehead
City, even fathers will help.
The Mothers March in Beaufort
is being sponsored by the Ameri
can Legion auxiliary, Mrs. David
Hill, president, and in Morehead
City by the Moose Lodge and
Women of the Moose. Mrs. Earl
llolt is supervising the project.
Collections In Morehead City will
be made from 7 to 9 p.m. In Beau
fort they will be made from 6 to 8
p.m.
Everyone who would like to give
to the March of Dimes is asked to
turn on his porch light. Those au
Making the collection! in Beau
fort and vicinity will be the follow
ing: Mrs. G. T. Spivey, highway
101; Mrs. Vance Fulford, Front
Street from the Duncan house east
to the postofficc; Mrs. David Hill,
postoffice cast to Dr. John Way
home.
Mrs. Lockwood Phillips, Mrs. Al
bert Chappell and Mrs. Tommy
Potter, Dr. John Way home east to
Lennox villc | Mrs. James Crowe,
Craven Street; Miss Virginia Hill,
Marsh Street.
Mrs. Guy Daniels, Lennoxville
Road; Mrs. Price Johnson, Orange
Street; Mrs. Fred King, Moore
Street; Mrs. Dan Darling, Turner
Street.
Mrs. Billy Davis, Live Oak
Street; Mrs. James llunnings, Ann
Street; Mrs. Earl Lewis, Hancock
Park; Mrs. Claude Morning Sr.,
Glendale Park, Mrs. Pearl Day,
Huntley Park, and Mrs. Marzclla
Cain, Negro section.
thorized to make the collections
will be wearing arm bands or have
with them an official March of
Dimes coin collector.
Supervisor Announces
College Extension Course
An extension course on the col
lege senior-graduate level will be
taught in this county beginning
March 4, announces school super
visor Fred Lewis. Mr. Lewi* says
a professor from Eait Carolina
College will teach the course.
Any persons interested in taking
such a course can call Mr. Lewis
at the county school superinten
dent's office. The subject to be
taught will be determined by what
course is needed by the majority.
Tides at the Beaafort Bar
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Taesday, Jan. 27
9:57 a.m.
10:30 p.m.
3:51 a.m.
4:20 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 28
10:48 a.m.
ll:il p.m.
4:32 a.m.
4:59 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 2*
11:39 a.m.
5:18 a.m.
5:44 p.m.
Friday, Jan. J8
12:14 a.m.
i 12:33 p.m.
8:15 a.m.
8:? p.m.
' Judge Gilliam, who has been un
able to hold court in the eastern
district for almost a year because
of poor health, has asked to be
placed in active retirement after
his 70th birthday March 12.
A. Hand James, clerk of US Dis
trict Court for eastern North Caro
lina, made the announcement
Thursday. He said that while Gil
liam has shown marked improve
ment, his physicians decided it
would be unwise for him "to at
tempt to again take the responsi
bilities and duties of the judgeship
of his district."
Gilliam said that "during active
retirement 1 will then be - able to
perform such duties for the court
as my health will permit."
Although Gilliam is a Democrat,
the Republicans come in for first
cholcc at appointments such as this
because ? lest ye forget ? a Re
publican president is in the White
House.
Democrats had been hoping that
Judge Gilliam would hang on until
1960 when a Democrat may be
elected President and the job could
be passed on to a Democrat.
At the meeting at Wilson Satur
day night, Republicans discussed
the turn of events. The three can
didates who have expressed inter
est in the job ? and maybe one or
two others ? will be screened by
lawyer-members of the State Re
publican executive committee.
Candidates, traditionally, come
from the area covcred by the east
ern district federal court.
After the lawyer-members of the
executive committee name their
choice ? or choices ? these names
*Tfr passed -on lo the entire slate
Republican executive committee,
which will cither approve or dis
approve the candidates it a meet
ing in Raleigh Saturday, Feb. 14.
The state committee may give
blessings to as many as three of
those interested in the job. These
names are then passed on to the
President of the United States,
through the US attorney general.
Aa with most Presidential ap
pointments, the Senate must ap
prove. How the Senate votes de
pends on the attitude of North
Carolina senators, Ervin and Jor
dan. Should the President's ap
pointee be objectional to either one
of the Tar Heel senators, the other
senators, out of courtesy, will vote
against the appointee.
Beaafort's native soa who is in
the running, Mr. Wheatly, is 40,
the youngest of the three who have
expressed an interest in the $22,500
a year job.
He is also the only one with a
combat record in World War II. An
See JUDGESHIP, Page 5
Science Club
To Hear Marines
Cherry Point ? The Morchead
City High School Science Club will
heir a lecture on the use of
RADIAC instruments from two Ma
rine atomic, biological and chemi
cal warfare instructors from the
2nd Marine Air Wing Wednesday
at 10:30 a.m.
The instructors, acting S/Sgt. K.
I.. Bearnes and acting Sgt. Michael
Dominguez, will demonstrate the
use of instruments contained in a
radiological kit the school received
from the Civil Defense Adminis
tration.
Instruments in the kit are used
to measure atomic radiation. In
cluded are a Dosimeter, two Ion
chambcrs and a G. M. Counter.
Vehicle Damaged
In Wreck Sunday
A 1955 Ford Ranchwagon, driven
by Vernon Mann, route 1 Newport,
was damaged at 10:45 p.m. Sun
day two miles west of Newport on
highway TO near PJ's service sta
tion.
Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr., who
said investigation on the accident
is not complete, reported that
Mann was headed east. He told
the patrolman that a car in front
o I him applied brakes and gave no
dgnal.
To avoid hitting the ear, Mann
said he ran off the left aide of the
highway, struck a tree and glanced
into a house. The house, according
to Mann la owned by hi* uncle.