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These girls will serve as hostesses during the Old Homes tour today and tomorrow in Beaufort. The
girls are on the front porch of the Mace House built in the early MM’.. Thehousebasbeenhometo
five generations of the Mace family. Pictured here are Jamie Lawrence Judy Ballou
Helen Slater, Cookie Guthrie, LaVonne Huntley, Kay I^ew.s, Charlotte Nelson, Cynt^a M.»on and
Diane Booth. Four girls not shown, but who will act as hostesses, are Jackie Paul, Cathy Willis, Judy
Johnson and Rachel Davis. Tickets for the historical tours are available at the booth at the antique
show on Turner street. The arts and crafts show, graveyard tour and jail museum are free.
Six Girls Enter to Date
In Miss Morehead City Show
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Board Hears
Sewage, Water
Plant Reports
Morehead City town commis
sioners, continuing Monday after
noon at the city hall their Thurs
day night session, heard a report
from mayor George Dill on pro
gress in securing water and sew
age disposal plants for the city.
The town proposes to buy the
Carolina Water Co. and operate
it in connection with the sewage
system. The town is under man
date from the State Stream Sani
tation commission to stop pollu
ting surrounding waters with sew
It is lutped net acquisition of
the water plant and erection of
sewage facilities will be financed
by the federal government and by
issuing bonds which would be paid
off with revenue from the water
works
A delegation, consisting of the
mayor, Ray Hall, administrative
officer qnd George McNeill, town
attorney* recently returned from
Raleigh where plans have been
tentatively • concluded for purcha
sing the plants. The overall cost
of the project is expected to be
approximately $2,136,000. „ . .
Bonding attorneys in New. York
have been engaged by the city
to work out details, but a break
down of expenses places the city’s
financial responsibility in the
neighborhood of$1,371,000. The
rest of the money Is expected , to
come through matching funds from
the Federal Housing and Finance
agency and the Public Health ser
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The board has been in commu
nication with both federal agen
cies and the North Carolina Local
Government commission as to how
a«d when the project can be un
dertaken. Mayor Dill told the board
that final word should be receiv
ed within 30 days.
The board of commissioners also
opened bids for the purchase of
two new police cars. The lowest
bid—for two cars—was submitted
by Parker Motor Co., Morehead
City, at $2,375 plus the old cars
as trade-ins. The bid was accepted.
The board awarded the contract
for foe annual town audit to A. M.
Pullen k Co., New Bern, the same
firm that has gone over the town’s
accounts for foe past two years.
Present were S. -C. Holloway,
J#rry Willis, D. J. Hall and Dom
Femia, commissioners; adminis
trative officer Hall, attorney
George McNeill and mayor Dill.
Three More Postmasters
Give ZIP Code Numbers
Three more postmasters have
announced ZIP code numbers.
They are as follows: Salter Path,
Davis, 28524; and Wild
28575; Dl
_ at Salter Path is
James Smith, at Davis, Mrs.
r. Davis and at Wildyood Mrs.
M. Murdoch.
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► Six girls have entered the Miss
Morehead City of 1964 pageant,
which will be sponsored Friday,
July 5, by the Morehead City Jay
cees. The entrants are Miss Linda
Pringle, Newport; Miss Norma
Merrell and Miss Anne Clemmons,
Beaufort; Miss Nancy Nelson, Miss
Georgia Mixesko and Miss Kay
Canipe, Morehead City.
Mayor George' W. Dill, More
head City, has issued a proclama
tion setting aside July 5 as Miss
Morehead City Day, according to
Bill Munden, Jaycee co-chairman
of the project. The proclamation
calls “attention to this custom de
dicated to choose Miss Morehead
City on the basis of charm and
talent from among the daughters
of this area.”
Ed Gaskill is chairman of a pa
Man, Who Walked Out Last
Year, Returned to Court
A Beaufort man who walked out
of Morehead City recorder’s court
last year was back again Monday.
Nathan D. Jones was charged
with careless and reckless driving
and hit and run. On June 25, 1962,
he was fined $75 and costs of court.
But when it came time to pay up,
Jobes was nowhere around.
Police re-apprehended him re
cently and he was brought before
judge Herbert O. Phillips III a
second time. The charge read,
“failpre to comply with a court
order.” Jones was told pay tlft
fine and costs and to spend one
day in jail for contempt of court.
Other cases in recorder’s court:
Alfred Watson Anderson, Beau
fort, charged with having no driv
er’s license, wak ordered to pay a
$25 fine and costs.
. George ' ICarlis Williams Jr.,
Morehead City, drunk and disor
derly qud using, loud and profane
language on a public street, costs.
Cecil Guthrie, Morehead City,
three charges of public drunken
ness, confined to jail for 90 days,
under the supervision of the state
prison department.
William . Jerry Willis, Morehead
City, charged with operating a
vehicle while undet the influence
of intoxicants or narcotics, case
transferred to the November term
of superior court.
v Lin wood Willis, Morehead City,
failed to appear, to answer charges
of disturbing the peace, fighting in
a public place and being drunk
and disorderly. The Carteret Coun
ty Bonding Co., being held respon
sible for forfeiture of the bonds,
was granted a continuance. Bond
was reset at $15®, and a bench,
warrant issued for Willis.
Harrison Long, Morehead City,
was charged by his wife with as
saulting her with his fists. But the
warrant was withdrawn. Mrs. Long
was found guilty of malicious pro
secution, and ordered to pay court
costs.
In other charges, both Mr. and
Mrs. Long were charged with pub
lic drunkenness and sentenced to
30 days in the county jail. Long,
who was cited in two charges of
public drunkenness was required
to serve the sentence, while sen
tence was suspended for Mrs. Long
rade, scheduled for 12:30 p.m. on
the day of the pageant. The con
testants will ride through down
town Morehead City, extending an
invitation to everyone to attend
the pageant Friday night at More
head City high school.
Members of the Jaycettes, la
dies auxiliary to the sponsoring
organization, will give a tea for
contestants and judges at ? p.m.
Friday.
The winner will receive a scho
larship, a wardrobe, a trip to the
1963 Miss North Carolina pageant
as an observer and a trip to the
1964 state pageant as a contestant.
The local pageant will be modeled
after the state contest, in which
the girls are judged on beauty,
talent, in bathipg suits and evening
gowns.
on condition she remain on good
behavior.
Cleveland Westberry, Morehead
City, was found not guilty on a
charge of assaulting Dora Mann,
Morehead City, by hitting her with
his fists.
William Jeffries Ryan, Morehead
City, charged with careless and
reckless driving, requested ? jury
trial. His case was transferred to
the November , term of superior
court, and no appearance bond
was required.
f'uraie Pittman, Morehead City,
was found not guilty on a charge
of making an improper turn signal.
Edward Henderson, Morehead
City, improper passing at an in
tersection, costs.
Rodney Gavin Nelson, Atlantic,
was charged with drunk driving
and careless and reckless driving.
The first charge was not prose
cuted, but Nelson was ordered to
pay $100 fine and court costs on
the second charge.
Coy Taylor Wray, Newport, re
quested a jury trial on a charge
of drunk driving. The case was
transferred to superior court for
the November term, and appeir
ancc bond was set at $150.
Talbot Fort Parker, 1 Morehead
City, starting from a direct line of
traffic without regard for safety,
costs. , ,
Edna Brice, Morehead City,
waived a preliminary bearing on
a charge of forging a $35 check
in the name of her brother, Leo
(See COURT, Page 3)
Tide fable
Tides at Beaafart Bar
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LOW
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8:30 p-m.
Tuesday, Jniy 2
Morehead City Decides to Name
Committee to Study Racial Issues
Driver Wins
Case Against
Education Board
# Appeal to Supreme
Court Filed
# Suit Decided During
Civil Court Term
The county board of education
was ordered to pay $4,516.25 in su
perior court last week for dam
ages suffered by a Beaufort resi
dent in a truck accident May 25,
1962.
The board of education has ap
pealed the decision to the North
Carolina supreme court.
Jack Nicholson O’Neal was
awarded the damages after testi
mony by police officers and a
doctor showed that O’Neal suffered
injuries to his chest and legs in a
wreck that occurred over a year
ago. *
The accident involved a truck
driven by Earl Haywood Willis,
then an employee of the county
school system, and the O’Neal
truck. According to testimony, the
two vehicles met head-on on a
curve about three and a half miles
from Beaufort on highway 70.
Willis was throws from the cab
of the county truck, landing on his
head, and died the next day in
Morehead City hospital. O’Neal al
so was taken to the hospital where
he remained for 18 days.
O’Neal originally $led suit for
$10,000 to cover an estimated $800
damage to his truck, hospital and
doctor’s bills and compensation
for loss of work.
In addition to the $4,516.25
awarded to O’Neal, the county
board of education was ordered to
pay the cost of the action and a
$35 bill from a doctor who parti
cipated in the trial as a medical
expert witness.
The board of education asked
that the verdict be set aside as
“contrary to the weight of evi
dence presented.” But the request
was denied, and the board appeal
ed to the state supreme court.
Other civil cases tried during
the term presided over by judge
Walter J. Bone:
Mrs. Ollie Godette, Harlowe, vo
luntarily accepted a motion for
non-suit against Lewis Price Inc.,
Morehead City, and was ordered
to pay the court costs. Mrs. Go
dette originally claimed that the
company had “detained”" her 1956
model car without any apparent
reason.
Joyce Lee Townsend, Forsyth
county, was given until Feb. 5,
1964, to re-plead to a charge made
by LeRoy Guthrie, Carteret Coun
ty, that she has failed to pay a
$3,800 debt owed to Guthrie.
Gutkrie filed -salt for returu of
the money which he Said he paid
to the First-Citizens Bank and
Trust Co., Morehead- City. Guthrie
Claimed that he signed two promis
sory notes for Miss Townsend, and
that she had failed to repay the
bank and refused to repay him.
In a special proceeding, the court
acted in behalf of the heirs of W.
P. Taylor and determined the per
centage of a 276.38-acre piece of
land near Jumping Run creek be
longing to each of the heirs. The
action was taken in preparation
for public auction of the land.
bi another action during last
week’s civil term of superior court,
Pearl Virginia Jackson was grant
ed alimony without divorce from
George E. Jackson, both of Cart
eret county. i
Mr. Jackson, who was employed
as a school teacher, was ordered
to make monthly payments of $256
beginning July 1 and continuing
until Oct. 1, at which time, the
court ordered, he is to increase
payments to $400 a month. During
summer months, the amount will
be $250.
t? It was brought out in court that
Jackson earns $416 a month as
a school teacher, and receives $271
a month, from the Veterans Ad
ministration. His wife has been
receiving $134 a month during
their estrangement, and that
money is to be considered part of
the alimony
further ordered that
Jackson pay the $100 attorney’s
r his wife. Custody of the
children. Linda. 13. Kather
vuusuvu, 1 ir-r»inrr
12. and David, 10,
to ‘ -
rt. Jacksdn. However, the
upheld the right of the fath
er to visit the children.
Jackson could appear to protest
the $400 payments during vhool
Disaster Strikes
Duke Marine Lab
Disaster has struck Duke Uni
versity Marine Lab, Pivers Is
land, in the form of polluted salt
water. Marine animals being
used in experiments by scientists
were found dead yesterday morn
ing. The pollution is believed to
have been caused by foreign
matter dumped in the water by
nearby factories.
Dr! F. J. Vernberg, assistant
director for research, said the
extent of the loss can’t even
be estimated. Some of the ani
mals involved were in controlled
experiments that now have to
be started again from scratch.
This will mean dollars and cents
loss to individual investigators
as well as an irretrievable loss in
time.
Four research grants were in
volved. The loss of the animals,
because of the pollution, is more
disastrous than a menhaden fac
tory burning to the ground at
the height of the season, one of
the scientists remarked.
MethodistYoung
People Finish
Migrant Work
Thirteen Methodist young people
of eastern North Carolina returned
to their homes Tuesday after an
eight-day stay in this county doing
work in connection with the mi
grant ministry.
The young people, 2 boys and 11
girls, were accompanied by the
Rev. Conrad Glass, director of
youth work, North Carolina Meth
odist conference.
The project was known as a
Youth Work Camp and in the opin
ion of the Rev* J. P- Mansfield,
chairman of the County Migrant
Ministry committee, was “extreme
ly successful.” He said this was
the first time a project of this type
was attempted in this state, indeed,
on the east coast, although there
have been youth work camps op
erating on the west coast.
The young people unpacked and
hung up the clothing that has been
donated to the migrant program
but had not been distributed. It
was sorted to size, for man, wom
an or child, boy or girl.
The clothing is stored in the Lof
tin building on Craven street across
from Ann Street Methodist church.
The group built a fence at the
day care center, taught Bible
school, served as clerks in the med
ical trailer, showed movies and
(See YOUTH GROUP, Page 2)
Airport Under New Lease;
Commercial Flights Arrive Daily
The Beaufort-Morehead City air
port at Beaufort has been leased
to Maj. Frederick Henry Seitz,
USMC, chief test pilot and assistant
production manager at the Marine
Corps Air station. Cherry Point.
Until completion of his tour of
duty in the Marine Corps, in three
years, the county-owned airport
will be operated by his brother,
Robert W. Seitz.
Commercial passenger service
started at the airport Wednesday.
The airport is being served by
South Central Airlines, Major Seitz
announces. This provides connec
tion with Piedmont flights at New
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Outer Banks
Committee
Hears Report
• Group Gathers
For Meeting Today
• State Appropriates
Funds to Curb Erosion
The general assembly has ap
propriated slightly more than $lVi
million dollars to finance preser
vation work on the outer banks,
Frank Cox, Grifton, told members
of the Outer Banks Seashore Park
commission at a meeting at the
Buccaneer motel, Morehead City,
yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Cox is chairman of the com
mission’s sub committee on protec
tion. He reported to the commis
sion’s executive committee and the
siib-committees on Core Banks,
Shackleford and Portsmouth at a
meeting yesterday afternoon at the
Buccaneer.
Members are here to attend the
meeting at 10 today at the court
house, where National Park serv
ice officials will outline their pro
posals for establishing a national
seashore park at Cape Lookout.
The general assembly approved
the following appropriations for
protective work on the outer
banks:
1. One million dollars for con
structing sand dunes and other de
vices and for other civil works
projects.
2. Fifty thousand dollars for
grass research and grassing.
3. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars for the purchase of
thin strips along unprotected, un
developed coastal areas, to serve
as the rights-of-way for future
dunes.
4. Two hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars for protective meas
ures at Fort Macon State Park.
The appropriations total $1,50,
000. Mr. Cox also pointed out that
the cost of protective work to be
borne by local governing units,
such as the county, will be only 15
per cent of the balance due after
the federal government has paid
its share.
The committee had recommend
ed that local units bear no more
than 25 per cent of the cost.
Local, state and federal officials
here fpr today’s meeting attended
a social hour, followed by a dutch
treat clambake at the Buccaneer
motel last night.
Bern. There are two flights daily,
one arriving at 8:10 a.m. and leav
ing at 8:15 a.m. and another ar
riving in the afternoon at 4:05 and
leaving at 4:15.
Although Piedmont had one flight
into the airport daily last sum
mer, the service was not resumed
this year.
Major Setts plans to upgrade air
port facilities by installing runway
lights and a “UNICOM” system.
Facilities and services will also be
provided for private planes and
charter service.
South Central airlines operates
as far north as Norfolk and as far
south as Savannah, Ga., with stops
at Danville, Va., Manteo, Cape
Hatteras, Roanoke Rapids, Wilson,
Raleigh - Durham, Fayetteville,
Southern Pines,
Lumberton, Laurinburg, Char
lotte, Greensboro-High Point, Sbel
by-Statesville, Greenville-Spartan
burg, S. C., Anderson-Newberry, 8.
C., Augusta and Statesboro, Ga.,
Florence, Sumter, Orangeburg,
Hampton, Hilton Head and Beau
fort, S. C.
The airport now meets federal
standards for commercial flight
operation. New fueling arrange
ments for planes are also in the
plans. ! > ’ alsJLy
Major Setts was born in 1828 in
Baltimore, #4- He. grew up in
Brooklyn, Md., attended Glen, fur
nic high school and attended East
Carolina college extension courses
after coming to this area.
He enlisted in the Marine Corps
In May 1848, attended flight school
in June 1848 and was commission
ed November 1850. He flew 109 mix
in Korea, was awarded the
Flying Cross and
The integration issue turned out to be the major item
of business at Monday afternoon’s meeting of the More
head City board of commissioners.
In a letter to the board written by Albert T. Mills,
Morehead City, an appeal was made to “take steps in
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Rites Conducted
For C. M. Willis,
Crash Victim
The funeral service for Charles
Makley Willis, 27, Harkers Island,
who was killed in an auto accident
Tuesday morning in Virginia was
conducted at 3 p.m. yesterday in
the Harkers Island Methodist
church.
Willis was killed when the 1962
Ford in which he was riding was
struck by a freight train at Chesa
peake, Va Sylvester Lawrence Jr.,
Otway, who was also in the car,
suffered a fractured right arm and
internal injuries. He was taken
to Portsmouth General hospital in
a critical condition.
Driver of the car was identified
as Otis D. Nelson, 21, Harkers Is
land. He was not hurt. All were
en route to their work on a dredge.
Conducting the funeral service
for Willis was the Rev. Ray West,
pastor of the Methodist church. Bu
rial was in the Virgie Mae ceme
tery.
Survivors include Willis's wife,
Arlene; two sons, Larby and
Charles Jr., and a daughter, Dar
lene, all of Harkers Island.
Young Driver
Gets Citation .
Hoary W. Brown, 16, route 1
Bethel, was charged with driving
while under the influence after he
drove a 1959 Cadillac twice through
the concrete block fence around
the Coral Bay club at 10 p.m.
Wednesday. The club is located on
the. Salter Path road.
State trooper .J. W. Sykes said
that Brown was driving with a
learner’s permit. With him was
John A. Grecson, Burlington,
whose father owned the car. Neith
er of the youths was hurt.
Damage to the fence was esti
mated at several hundreds of dol
lars; damage to the car about
$200.
Trooper Sykes said the car was
headed toward Atlantic Beach
when Brown lost control. It zig
zagged across the road, went
through the fence, around the Co
ral Bay club parking lot and out
through the fence again before
coming to a stop.
The car traveled 525 feet after
it first left the highway.
ijor Seitz has held positions as
[cer in charge of an airfield and
is a former assistant operations
officer at Cherry Point.
He Mates that his intentions for
the airport are to ‘Improve the
overall service provided, render
new services to the area, clean up
and maintain the airport in a man
ner consistent with good business
practices and FAA regulations.”
Upon retirement, he plans to
ipgjry his home in the vicinity of
the airport.
Glenn Adair, chairman of the
County Airport commission, said
the. commission approved arrange
ments made with the new lesseeat
a -meeting Saturday morning. The
lease begins officially on Monday.
They commended Earl Taylor,
Beaufort, for his interest in the
airport and his operation of it in
recept years. . .
“Major Seitz has already done
a great deal of work around the
airport in the past two weeks, Mr.
Adkir said.
The raaafj chamber of com
merce lent its assistance in making
the new arrangements for airport
operation. Attending Saturday
morning's commission meeting
were Mr. Adair, members John
Morrison and P. H. Geer Jr. Mem
hers W. ^Potter and Leon Mann
Major Seitz has served five tours
at Cherry Point and one at New
River. His wife is the former Mary
Louise Yesko, Freeland, Pa. They
have three sons and a daughter.
ax: j
appointing a bi racial committee
to study the racial problems in our
city."
Mills told the board that some
parts of the state are moving for
ward in solving racial problems,
and "we here in Morehead City
cannot sit back and hope ours will
go away.”
The letter charged that Npgroee
here are "aroused, and want more
action in ending discrimination.*’
Mills said the pattern of segrega
tion is practiced here from the
time a Negro baby is born in the
segregated city-owned hospital to
the time he laid to rest in the
segregated city-owned cemetery.
Mills also charged that there
are more “white only” signs in
Morehead City "than in a lot of
other towns of similar size in North
Carolina.”
After a reading of the letter by
mayor George Dill, the board de
cided to act on Mills’ suggestion,
and made arrangements for ap
pointing a bi-racial committee. The
board members agreed that the
committee should be staffed by
three Negro and three white More
head City residents who wiD be
willing and able to handle the
problem over a conference table.
It was further noted by the board
that chances are good for solving
racial problems without any de
monstrations. The board members
commented that some businessmen
in Morehead City have already
said they would serve Negroes on
an equal basis with whites.
Approximately a dozen persons
were suggested as likely commit
tee members. As soon as six notify
Ray Hall, town administrator, that
they will serve, mayor Dill said
that he will call a meeting of
the committee and the town at
torney, George McNeill, to discuss
the responsibilities of the commit
tee.
“I want this committee as a
buffer, should any controversy
arise,” the mayor said yesterday.
"This is no make-do, make-believe
committee. I think some people
ought to understand both sides of
this issue and this is the best way
to get it done.”
Shrimp Season
To Close Monday
At 12:91 «.m. Mtaiijr, the
shrimp trawling season in all in
land waters win be closed to pre
vent the taking of millions of un
der-size shrimp.
This was announced yesterday
by Robert Stallings, director of the
Department of Conservation and
Development. The decision was
made after conferring with Dr.
A. F. Chestnut, director of the
Institute of Fisheries Research,
C. G. Holland, commercial fish
eries commissioner, shrimpers and
shrimp dealers.
Tiny shrimp, running 90 to 120
to the pound are showing up every
where, the commissioner said.
“We’re pleased that shrimp are
here,’’ he added, “but most of
those being taken are not market
able because they’re too small.
Hundreds of pounds are being
shoveled back overboard, dead.’’
He expressed the hope that the
season would be reopened in a
couple weeks.
Doe to the scarcity of edible
shrimp, the commissioner asks
that ALL boats with shrimp nets
aboard stay off the water. “In
my opinion, it’s illegal to have
nets on the boats if the season is
closed,’’ commissioner Holland
said.
Beaufort Group
Seeks Drainage