NEWS By
PUBLISHED BY THE SCHOOL OF GRAPHIC ARTS
AssnriatPii Press
Volume 2 — Number 1
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1961
WEATHER
Cloudy and rainy today, to
night and Wednesday with rain
mostly ending Wednesday.
Heavy rains in northeast por
tion tonight. Continued rather
cool through Wednesday. High
today in low 60s in mountains
to upper 70s along coast. Low
tonight in 50s in mountains.
Chowan College
HURRICANE WARNINGS!
Bulletin
At 3:00 p.m. it appears that
Hurricane Esther will hit Cho
wan’s campus with no greater
than gale winds. Hurricanes,
however, have been known to
turn directions without much no
tice . . so students and others
at the college should remain on
the alert.
Keep in touch with radio re
ports in order to follow the path
of Esther.
CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. AP
The advance winds of Hurri
cane Esther, clocked as high as
40 miles an hour, began whip
ping the extreme east coast
of North Carolina at 2 p.m.
today. Hundreds of residents
fled inland.
The Weather Bureau said the
storm at 2 p.m. was a little
less than 300 statute miles
southeast of Cape Hatteras.
Hurricane force winds-75 miles
per hour and up and tides
of 4 to 8 feet above normal
were predicted for tonight
and early Wednesday from
Cherry Point, N.C. to the Vir
ginia Capes.
The bureau warned that tides
would be even higher if the
storm should take a more
westerly turn than exppepcted,
Rising Waters closed off
some roads-leaving some stub
born old-timers marooned in
island fishing camps.
Hurricane Esther
To Threaten Coast
By NOEL YANCEY
CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. AP — Hurricane Esther con
tinued her relentless path toward the North Carolina
coast and Virginia Capes today, while hundreds of per
sons fled to higher ground.
At 11 a.m. the Weather Bureau said the dangerous
storm was 260 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras bear
ing on a course which should bring 150 mile per hour
winds to the battened-down coast early tomorrow morn^
ing.
Hurricane warnings were raised this morning from
Cherry Point, N.C., northward to the Virginia Capes.
Gale force winds were forecast for that portion of the
coast this morning and were forecast to increase to hur
ricane strength — 75 miles per hour — by afternoon.
Gale warnings were extended northward from the Vir
ginia Capes to Cape May, N. J., and over the south half
of Chesapeake Bay. Hurricane watch continues north
ward from Myrtle Beach, B.C., to Cherry Point and from
the Virginia Capes to Cape May.
The whirling giant carried winds up to 150 miles per
hour.
At 3 a.m. the Weather Bureau said the big storm was
335 statute miles southeast of Cape Hatteras and bearing
toward the coast at 14 miles per hour.
Rising tides and seas already were buffeting this fa
bled coast line, known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic,
and hurricane force winds of 75 m.p.h. were expected
this afternoon.
But the Weather Bureau said the northwesterly curve
of the storm could carry the eye, or center of the storm,
just off the coast.
Coastal residents, veterans of many a big blow, wark-
ed throughout the night, moving house trailers from At
lantic Beach and Salter Path to higher ground at More-
head City, about 75 miles south of Cape Hatteras.
Tides were running up to three feet above normal and
the ocean was rough with heavy swells. The Coast
Guard said the swells have existed for “two or three
days,” possibly caused by earlier hurricanes.
U. N. Delegates Arrive
In Naola; Peace Talks
NDOL, Nodthem Rhodesia
AP -A high-ranking U.N. dele
gation arrived in Nodla today
seeking to carry through the Kata
nga peace talks shattered by U.N.
Secretary-General Dag Hammar-
skjold’s death in a plane crash.
The chief U.N. negotiator is Ma-
hmoud Khiari, chief of civil oper
ations in the Congo.
He flew to Ndolafrom Lec^ld-
vill while U.N. intelligence ex
perts probed riddles of the wreck
that killed the secretary-general.
A British government statement
said a further task for the delega
tion will be to help identify the
mutilated bodies of some of Ham-
marskjold’s entourage.
The statement said Britain is
doing all possible to facilitate con
tact between the delegation and
President Moise Tshombe of Ka
tanga, who pulled out Monday af
ter an overnight stay at this neu
tral border town.
Tshomb returned to Katanga
after vainly waiting for 24 hours
for Hammarskjold to arrive for
peace talks. Only late Monday did
Tshmobe and the world know Ha
mmarskjold was dead in the shatt
ered wreck of his aircraft.
Salvage workers puUed another
body from the wreck this morning
making a total of 15 dead. There
is one survivor.
Lt. Col. Ben Matlic, U.S. air
attache from Leopoldville, who
inspected the wreck today, said
he was convinced that specula
tion that the plane may have been
shot down was groundless.
The possibility of sabotage or
armed attack had drawn banner
headlines in Rhodesian newspa
pers. The lone survivor, Harry
Julien an American U.N. security
guard, was quoted as saying a
series of explosions shook the
four - engine DC6B before it
plunged into a forest reserve
north of town and burned.
Seasonal pilots who viewd the
fire-blackened wreckage agreed
with Matlick. They said it looked
like typical results of a crash
caused in a landing approach by
loss of power or faulty instru
ments.
Col. Maurice Barber, civil avia
tion director of the British-run
Central African Federation, heads
the inquiry into the crash.
World Briefs
BERLIN AP — Five East Ber
liners crawled over rooftops Mon
day night and then slid down a
rope to freedom in West Berlin,
police reported today.
A woman in the group fell be
fore reaching the ground and was
taken to a hospital.
In another daring escape re
ported by police, two East Ber
liners crossed the barbed wire
fences Monday in a storm of bul
lets from submachine guns of
Communist police.
KUWAIT AP — British forces
began a gradual withdrawal from
Kuwait today.
A big beverly transport plane
headed out over the Persian Gulf
carrying the first men to leave—
80 sunburned soldiers from the
2nd Parachute Battalion — too
Bahrain.
The British troops were flown
in at Kuwait’s request last July
after neighboring Iraq laid claim
to the little Sheikdom, a former
British protectorate rich in oil.
Hurricane Esther
Is Shifty Storm
ANKARA, Turkey AP — A
Cabinet crisis in the wake of
weekend executions of ousted
Premier Adnan Menderes and
two other desposed former minis
ters was resolved today.
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. AP
— Big, powerful Hurricane
Esther stood poised off the
North Carolina coast today,
seemingly undecided whether
to swing into the mainland.
Coastal residents, veterans
of such storms in the past,
kept an eye on the storm,
which packs up to 150 mile per
hour winds, but were waiting
more definite information be
fore beginning final storm pre
parations.
/ A “hurricane watch” was in
effect today from Myrtle Beach
S.C., along the entire North
Carolina and Virgina coastline
as far north as Cape May, N.J.
The Weather Bureau urged
persons along the coast to keep
posted in case Esther veers
more to the west for a punch
at the North Carolina coast.
Gov. Terry Sanford of North
Carolina, when informed Man-
day that the storm might strike
his state’s coast, called a meet
ing with state officals. “While
we are very hopeful the hurri
cane will not strike our coast,”
Sanford said, “we have taken
every conceivable step to save
lives and minimize the dam
age.”
The South Carolina coast,
which appears safe from the
storm’s full brunt, was visited
Monday by Harry Walker,
legal aide to Gov. Ernest Hol-
lings. “We plan to be ready
if the hurricane hits,” Hollings
said. Walker visited Charleston
and Beaufort for conferences
with Civil Defense, municipal
and county officials in these
areas.
Col. David Lambert, com
mander of the North Carolina
Highway Patrol, alerted pat
rolmen in coastal areas to be
prepared if the storm should
strike.
Sanford said North Carolina’s
patrol and Civil Defense would
be on a 24-hour alert until the
storm crisis passes.
Along North Carolina’s ex
posed Outer Banks, which jut
into the ocean to a point at
Cape Hatteras, some prepara
tions were begun.
The highway about 12 miles
north of Hatteras was under
water for two hours Monday
at high tide.
The State Highway Depart
ment urges tourists or anyone
with nonessential business not
to drive to the Outer Banks
until the storm passes. Service
of the coastal ferry to the
Outer Banks also was curtailed
by the departments.
State Ports Authority worker
at Wilmington and Morehead
City took just - in - case pre
parations Monday. Jack Lee
of the authority, in ordering
ports personnel to action, said
if Esther continues her present
course “somebody is going to
be in for trouble.”
In the Wrights Beach-Carol-
ina Beach - Wilmington area
a few preparations were un
derway Monday. Residents and
business operators at Wrights-
ville and Carolina beaches
were battening down in case
should hit there. “We’re hop
ing for the best,” said Town
Manager Stacy Thomas of
Carolina Beach, “But if it
comes we’ll be better prepar
ed than ever before.”
The Coast Guard said late
Monday night it had sighted
the crewless Liberty ship J.
Warren Kiefer adrift in the
Atlantic Ocean 1000 miles east
of Wilmington. The Coast
Guard said it hopped the wea
ther would ease up so a tug
could attach a line, but no at
tempt would be made to recap
ture the vessel until conditions
improved. The Kiefer went ad
rift Sunday when a tbwline
snapped as it was being towed
from Wilmington to Philadel
phia, Pa.
Gov. Sanford Urges
Residents To Leave ^
RALEIGH AP — Gov. San
ford today strongly urged re
sidents and visitors to North
Carolina’s Outer Banks to eva
cuate at once.
“It will be impossible to
evacuate the Outer Banks once
the hurrricane hits,” Sanford
r eclared in a statement,
declared in a statement.
“Therefore, I hope everybody
will leave now.”
Hurricane warnings are up
from Cherry Point to the Vir
ginia Capes. Heavy rains and
high winds are expected along
the coastal sections as Hurri
cane Esther appproaches.
Sanford announced Monday
that preparations had been
made “to save lives and mini
mize the damage” if the hurri
cane hits the coast. ■
Meanwhile, Highway Patrol
units were busy on the Outer
banks urging persons to move
to the mainland higher ground.
State Civil Defense Direct
Edward F. Griffin said Thomas
Goodman of Thomasville, Ga.,
regional director of the Office
of Civil Defense, will arrive
in Raleigh area today to work
with state officials at the Civil
Defense headquarters.
All civil defense directors
in coastal counties have set
upp local control centers.
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