Carol Ann Laverne Morris – Beauty, Brains, Brawn, and Breathtaking – Iowa’s National Treasure - Miss Universe!

Miss Universe – The Pride of Iowa

So, Ottumwa, Iowa is not exactly a household name to most people and were it not for Radar O’Reilly on Mash, whose fictional hometown was Ottumwa, Iowa, or Tom Arnold who married Roseanne Barr for a time and starred in movies like True Lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger, one might not know it exists.

Could you ever imagine this small town in Southeastern Iowa was also the home of someone who earned the title of the most beautiful woman in the world?

I know, it is truly a stretch but truth often involves some rather strange situations.  This is one.

You see, once upon a time back in the Golden Age of the 1950’s for a brief moment of time Ottumwa could brag about being home to the most beautiful woman in the world.

Not only was she beautiful but smart, athletic, played violin, sang in the choir, and was a preacher’s daughter.

Let me introduce you to Carol Ann Laverne Morris, perhaps the most famous person to ever grow up in Ottumwa, Iowa.

    

Born April 8, 1936, in Omaha, Nebraska Carol Morris lived for a time in Scott City, Kansas before moving to Ottumwa, Iowa where she spent most of her early life and attended Ottumwa High School.

The only child of Minister Laverne Morris and his wife, Carol became a lifeguard at the public swimming pool, taught swimming, and was an exceptional swim team member.

She was also smart, for in high school Carol finished 4^th in her class of 300 students.  At the same time Carol was a violin virtuoso and a member of the church choir.

Attending college at Drake University in Des Moines where she studied elementary education, she became a swimming star and in 1954 she broke the national junior Olympics backstroke record.

This intellectual, athletic, musically inspired and beautiful young woman was invited to join the prestigious Kappa Alpha Theta international sorority, the oldest Greek sorority in America for women.

Also during three years at Drake she played viola with the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra.

That was when Carol developed into a stunning 5-foot 7-inch beauty weighing 131 pounds with blue eyes and nearly dark brown hair.

Perhaps she was destined to be a beauty queen when, during high school, she won the Miss Ottumwa competition.  She was sponsored by the South Ottumwa Boosters Club.

While at Drake University she entered and won the Miss Iowa beauty pageant of 1954 and in 1955 represented Iowa in the Miss America competition.  In the talent portion she played the song Stardust on her violin.

The next year, 1956, she represented Iowa in the Miss USA beauty pageant which she won in Long Beach, California.

Her final competition was the 1956 Miss Universe contest where she beat out 83 worldwide competitors to become only the second American and the first Iowan to win the international honor.

In fact, no other Iowan has ever won the Miss USA or Miss Universe competitions.

Miss Universe Competition

During her year reigning as Miss Universe she toured with Bob Hope and got to meet Presidents Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover.

Miss Universe 1956 Carol Morris, was a Guest on 'What's My Line' Show (Aired August 5, 1956).  Carol also was “mystery” guest on two of the most popular game shows of the 1950’s What’s My Line and To Tell the Truth (Aired April 23, 1957).  She was on the same What’s My Line episode as Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago.

She did manage to return home during the year to Ottumwa where over 2,000 people made the 12-mile trip to greet her at the airport while thousands swarmed the parade downtown including me, to see the stunning beauty and her four-foot tall Miss Universe trophy. 

Joining the festivities was Iowa Governor Leo Hoegh.

One of the prizes from the competition was an acting contract for a year at Universal Studios after her year as Queen and she co-starred with actor Jeff Chandler in her debut movie, Crazy Love.

A movie and television career followed and she acted in many productions such as the movie Born to be Loved and a TV episode of Ozzie and Harriet but performed in her last movie, Paradise Valley, released in 1962.

In June of 1959 at age 23 Carol married a 45-year old Texas oil tycoon from Houston, Ed “Buzz” Burke.  In April 1960 they had their first child, a boy, and then two more children.

Her husband died and Carol remarried and had one further child.

In 2007 she resurfaced in the Hollywood scene as Executive Producer of the motion picture The Cake Eaters, with Mary Stuart Masterson producing and directing and Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Ashley, and Bruce Dern starring.

According to friends, Carol still lives in Texas and is doing well, happy, and content with life.  From an old Ottumwa friend and classmate I got the following update on Carol.

"Carol lives in Houston, Texas and is as lovely and sweet as ever.  Carol is very family oriented and does not live in the past that much. She never attends any of her OHS class reunions either!  She loves her life in Texas, but does respond to her Ottumwa friends when notified!"

Coltons Point settled in 1634 - Oldest chartered community in Colonial America - Check out the Fascinating History of St. Clements Island, Coltons Point, and Southern Maryland

Some of us cannot get enough of history, and we know the history we read is not complete, is biased, maybe fabricated, and often contains little resemblance to truth.  Actually most historians try but they have an outline or agenda that distorts the truth.

We at the Coltons Point Times have no vested interest in Southern Maryland history other than wanting it to be complete, factual, and not boring.

Thus, we have produced a series of fascinating stories about the prehistory and history of this quite sacred area, and where possible, have filled in the missing pieces from earlier works.

Submissions of the material to the St. Clements museum and other historians has failed to generate any response so you be the judge on whether our findings better explain our history.  Here are the stories published to date in the Coltons Point Times and links to them.

Southern Maryland and St. Clements Island History

Histories Mysteries - Next King of England (Prince William) Shares St. Clements Manor, Maryland bloodline

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/01/histories-mysteries-next-king-of.html

Histories Mysteries - The Voyage of the Ark and the Dove

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/09/histories-mysteries-journey-of-ark-and.html

Histories Mysteries - The Landing at St. Clements Island in 1634

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2015/06/histories-mysteries-landing-at-st.html

St. Clements Island and Manor - Four Centuries of Interrupted History

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/07/st-clements-island-and-manor-four.html

St. Clements Prehistory Part 1 Ame4rican Colonial History

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/08/st-clements-island-prehistory-part-1.html

St. Clements Prehistory Part 2 American Colonial History

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/08/st-clements-island-prehistory-part-2.html

Scenes from Coltons Point

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/03/scenes-from-coltons-point.html

The Miracle of St. Clements Island

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2008/04/miracle-of-st-clements-island.html

Histories Mysteries - A Lighthearted View of the Pilgrims Progress in Coltons Point

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2007/02/pilgrims-progress.html

CPT Monarch Factoid - King's Stuff Headlines

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2013/07/cpt-monarch-factoid-kings-stuff.html

Histories Mysteries - The Story of John Wilkes Booth, the Black Diamond, and St. Clement's Island

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2016/04/histories-mysteries-story-of-john.html

Histories Mysteries - St. Clements Island - Coltons Point - and the mysterious 7th District in Maryland

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2015/06/histories-mysteries-st-clements-island.html

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The Melchizedek Chronicles – We have forgotten the creative power of Magick – It must be recovered to help save humanity!

Magick – the pathway to miracles, creation, and Sacred Truth

We need to re-examine the role of magic in our creation and life.  Our centuries-long efforts to destroy it have failed and for good reason.  In fact, there are those ancient practitioners of Magick who are held in the highest regard by the Holy Ones in the Kingdom.

There are several crucial aspects to magick. First, the difference between “Magick” and “Magic.”  With Magick being the ancient term, it is magick based on the occult, while magic is performance based, as in an illusionist on stage.

Aleister Crowley, perhaps the greatest and most terrifying Black Magick practitioner in history, defines occult magick as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with will.” 

Crowley saw Magick as the essential method for a person to reach true understanding of the self and to act according to one's true will, which he saw as the reconciliation "between freewill and destiny."

   

According to Melchizedek, Magick is a frequency created by the Creator and like many such frequencies, it is the free will of the human using it that determines whether to embrace White Magic or Black Magic.

The Celtic Connection website defines the ancient Magick as follows.

Magick is finding your connection to the Earth and all that is natural, alive and moving in the universe! It binds all that exists together. 

Magick is living in balance with the flow of life and knowing that you are a vital force within that flow.

Magick is everywhere! In the trees, rain, stars, and in the sea. It is the spark that quickens a seed to rise up from the soil. 

Magick is laughter, joy, wonder and truth of the world around us! 

It is the subtle enchantment that reminds us not to waste a single moment of this gift that we call life!

Magick is not greed, or power, or pretense...It is real. It exists. And it works. 

Magick is the mystery that lies in the secret soul of the world. It is the essence of creation. What we imagine, we have the power to create! 

MAGICK IS WITHIN YOU... 

With it you can create your dreams, heal your world, love your life and find the peace that lives in every human heart. 

Author Unknown

Certainly, Magick was far more prominent in ancient times than at present and the loss of the occult Magick has left a serious setback in the use of Magick to help our spiritual evolution.

Melchizedek describes Magick as an essential part of the process of Creation.  Magic is an energy frequency, like most things in Creation.  Truth has a specified and unique frequency as well.

Magick provides a pathway to many critical events in our lives.  It can help us in comprehending the Creator and Creation to understanding miracles and how they happen.  When used properly, it stimulates the creative energy of people.

The frequency of Magick was indeed a creation of Father Creator.  It was a necessary bridge between dimensions such as the Earth dimension verses that of the Kingdom.  In time it became a preferred way of telling prophecy and working miracles.

In our physical form on Earth we have a great deal of difficulty understanding things such as miracles, ancient prophecy, or the concept of prayer in terms of directly talking to the Father or Jesus.

Thousands of years ago all responsible rulers, kings, emperors, or war lords had various forms of occult magicians in their innermost circles of power.  Wizards, Oracles, Fortune Tellers, Mystics, Mediums, Star Gazers, Astrologers and others often had the last words of wisdom for their leaders over the generals and admirals.

Ever since Christianity came to Earth two thousand years ago the new form of religion needed a scapegoat, someone to blame for anything that went wrong.  In the process of forming this new religious movement, a decision was made to condemn magic as evil, and the source of magic was the Devil, Satan, or the Demons of Hell.

Father Creator did not create evil, only human action in denying a human connection to the Creator.  In fact, Father Creator’s power of magic is embedded in every aspect of Creation from the magic of the human body to the wonders of the galaxies.

It seems when something becomes miraculous to us, it was something magical that triggered this ability to defy limitations based on our physical existence.  When miracles were performed they were performed in the name of God or Jesus, the true wielders of such power to alter what is.

Most important, Melchizedek warns that our ability to communicate with the entities of Heaven is dependent on our successful use of white magick just as the Oracles, wizards, prophets, healers, sorcerers and mystics used it to channel information to earth.

Out of the magicians over time came one of the most powerful forces of good to ever walk the earth, the Druids.  Melchizedek says they are one of the closest cultures to identifying and understanding the will of Father Creator to ever walk the earth.

He describes their dominance in terms of 25,000-year cycles that have taken place numerous times in our billions of years of history, as part of the Creator’s plan in that Druids understand the need to protect Mother Earth and protect the Prophecy of God.

Because of their importance, they were given the ability to travel to or send people to the Underworld, where the dead go after a not too good of life.  We might call it Purgatory.  Others might call it Hell.

Druids could access the souls in Hell and use them to possess people trying to conquer the lands of the Druids, like the Roman Emperors.  Druids did not take sides with warring parties such as the local clans, or even invaders from beyond their shores.

Yet everyone, competing clans to invading Roman legions, feared them more than anything or anyone in the world.  The Druids had no conventional weapons, but they did have the blessing of the Creator to use whatever powers they could to protect the plan and prophecy of God.

In return for their loyalty to God’s plan, some Druids were given extended lifetimes because of the rare nature of their knowledge and wisdom.  It would be impossible to teach a new person the complexity of the Druid system of working across dimensions. 

Instead some Druid leaders were given extended lifetimes spanning up to five generations before dying.  At the same time adepts were also regularly found in Druid communities, those rare people sent in to help jumpstart our spiritual evolution when needed.

Melchizedek refers to this magick and the powers associated with it as the “Merlin magick,” so special it has a frequency all its own.

The most important part of the discussion of magick is that it needs to be brought back into all our lives so those Seekers can use it in three ways.  First as a tool for miracles.  Everyone should know there are far less miracles taking place than any time in our history.

Second as a way to bring sacred and ancient information back into our world where it is desperately needed.  There are many secrets that were protected over the years because people were not prepared to hear the truth.  It is time the secrets be brought back to the Earth.

However, since many of the source materials have now been destroyed by natural causes, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, it is only possible for the information be transferred back to earth through the mystics and healers who once played a crucial role in God’s plan.

If we understand that magick is good, very good in creation, and needed back on Earth for inspiration, then those resisting or repressing magic over the years must stop trying to control it for their own purposes.

Many potential mystics, prophets, and psychics will be channeling much of the missing secrets of Creation in the next few years and we must give them credibility and honor their efforts on behalf of humanity, the very people trying to destroy them.

Because truth also has its own frequency, we will know what information coming to earth is true or the work of the Dark Side.  This ancient knowledge is critical to reactivating our spiritual evolution.