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put on by the Marine Resources Center fresh in our minds, now is the time
to reviev/ our personal plans and readiness to meet hurricane conditions.
The Pine I^noll Shores Interim Plam v/hich each resident should now have will
help you with that.
All of us owe the aarine Resources Center staff and their guest speakers
deep thanlts for their excellent and timely overall program and informative
individual presentations.
Our town Civil Preparedness'^ organization again has asked us to urge all
residents to make their plans now to evacuate promptly if advised to do so.
Hurricanes can move at 30 miles per hour or more, and in hurricane Eloise,
for example, the hurricane surge brought an increase in v/ater level from
three feet above mean sea level to I6 feet above mean sea level in only 30
minutes. Time for evacuation may well be quite limited, and our evacuation
may be slowed by the opening of the Atlantic Beach bridge to permit passage
of Coast Guard and other vessels seeking sanctuary in the creeks into Bogue
Sound,
In the end, the decision to evacuate or to stay is yours to make, a personal
one. But remember that if you do stay, others must stay to take care of
you. If there is major damage, this emergency care ma.y be necessary over
an extended period. VJe urge you to evacuate if you are advised to do so,
NEVJ NEIGHBORS : NONI and GEORGE EASTLAND have been coming down here for
years, and are now cozily established in our midst on Salter Path Road.
They've lived a lot of places during their careers, from New York and
Chicago to Clinton, lov/a, Dayton, Ohio, and Omaha, v/ith a few in betv/een,
but their most recent address v/as Vfarren, New Jersey, Both have been news
paper people: Noni in the advertising end, and George has not otily been a
political reporter but started the house organ for the Chicago and North
western Railroad as well. His v/riting experience is vast and it is earnest
ly hoped that both Noni and George will become a big part of our ovm Shore
line endeavors They have tv/o sons: one is the Chairman of the
Chemistry Department at Saginav/ Valley State in Saginaw, Michigan, v/hile
the other v;orks for Union Carbide in Houston as Manager of Development,
Special about their house - the laiob and lock on the door is solid brass
from the Lackawanna Railroad terminal in Hoboken. It is about one foot
high vrith LRR on it and v;as made especially for the railroad. And their
doorbell ]plays 22 different tunes such as Happy Birthday or Jingle Bells,
Fun!
As v;e promised, the GEORGE EASTLilNDS are joining our, for v/ant of a better
v/ord, “staff”, and we are enormously pleased, nighing v/ith joy, actually.
They've done a couple of stories for us this time. You're goiiig to love
the new style and approach to things,
I'iARTHA P. LA;".;SEN has moved into her home on Holly v;here she is busily
settling in. She has a special interest in Pine Knoll Shores because her
father v/as a "Rough Rider", and this v;as property which once belonged to
the Theodore Roosevelt family. Sh:; and her husband used to visit here,
and Martha's family ties are to Carteret County, J The P in her name stands
for Physioc, a Beaufort name going back there to the early 1700's. She
moved here from Ridgefield, Connecticut v/here she managed a small social
v/ork agency which offered family and children's services. Martha says she
"drifted" into social v/ork by v/ay of a part time job v/hen her children v/ere
in college, VJay back she taught dancing in an Arthur Murray studio. And
before that, she majored in French at Duke. Her husband v/as Danish and a
marine engineer. Their daughter is a children's illustrator, and their
son teaches in Beaufort, Her hobby is genealogy, and she is also interested
in antiques. In sports, she plays tennis*
ALICI; ROOSEVELT SLEPT HERE! ,,, In the Pine Knoll Shores office building,
that is. The building, which in due course v/ill be vacated in favor of a
new municipal complex for PKS, was a part of the wing on the eastern end of
Alice Hoffman’s spacious and sprawling home on Bogue Sound, This wing
included tv/o guestrooms and a bathroom. The guestrooms, v/hich faced the
Sound, were fronted v/ith French doors and shutters that were closed at sun-
dov/n. One of the guestrooms, the floor of v/hich v/as covered with a stun
ningly brilliant red shag-like carpet Mrs, Hoffman had brought from Europe,
was always used by Alice Roosevelt v/hen she visited her cousin, Mrs, Hoffman.