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Hurricane Cripples States Commercial Fishing Industry National Guard Commander Asks Employers' Indulgence Lt. Norman Masters, command ing officer of the Beaufort National Guard Unit, this week asked that employers of men in the Guard be as understanding and patient as possible during the present emer gency. "We are under the governor's orders," lieutenant Masters said, "and our men have to be on duty around the clock." When the National Guard was first called on after the hurricane hit, Lieutenant Masters said that he tried to stagger guard duty so that the men who absolutely had to be at their regular work would have to stand guard only at night. But as the week wore on it be came impossible, he said, to place the burden of duty on the same men during the day. "Employers should consider that these men are guarding valuable property and helping to save lives ? it very well could be the em ployer's own property or the lives of himself or his family," comment ed Lieutenant Masters. There are 32 men in the unit. Four are on duty at Atlantic Beach, one on each side of the Beaufort draw, and two at North River on round-the-clock watches. Others are on duty at 1heir headquarters at the Beaufort School gym. Lieutenant Masters hopes that by Sunday night things will go back to normal and members of the Guard unit will be released. He anticipates that men will be need ed again Sunday to direct traffic at the beach. PIA to Sponsor Carnival Oct. 29 The Newport Parent - Teachers Association will sponsor its annual Halloween Carnival Friday night. Oct. 29, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the school cafeteria. At the PTA meeting Tuesday night in the school auditorium a balance of $457.09 was reported in the treasury. The theme of the program war "Art in the Public Schools." The speakers were Mrs. Floy G.'irner, Newport and Mrs. Karl Murdoch. Wildwood, who spoke on schools in Germany. There was a display of classroom art and of paintings by local resi dents in the hall ,of the school building. The budget for the school year was presented and approved. As part of the program Edward Can-a way and Mrs. Kathryn Montague sang a duet. Mrs. Virginia Pollard led the de votional. Winners of attendance banners were Mrs. Millis's first grade, Mrs. McKeon's seventh grade and Dr. Walton's twelfth grade. , Elected Director Mrs. W 1.. Loftin, Beaufort, has been elected a director of the State Society of Crippled Children and Adults, Inc., according to an an nouncement by the president, Dr. John D. Messick. Greenville. Joins Honorary Jack Cutler, Beaufort, is among 10 men students at East Carolina College who have been elected to membership in the campus chapter of Phi Sigma Pi, national honorary education society. Phone Company Makes Report On Repair Work Carolina Telephone and Tele graph Co. employees are working around the clock to restore at least limited service to the 116 ex changes it serves in eastern North Carolina. All these exchanges were iso lated from telephone connection with the rest of the world following Friday's devastating hurricane. According to J. F. Havens, public relations vice president of the com pany, service to Raleigh from New Bern was available Sunday morning and connections with Raleigh from Rocky Mount and Tarboro were ex pected before dark Sunday. This connection will provide an outlet from such towns as Wilson, ?Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Williamston and many others. Lonnie Daniels, telephone man ager in Morehead City, said yester day that calls could be gotten through to Marshallberg by late Monday and phone service was scheduled to be resumed as far east at Atlantic by late Wednesday. Extra Men Arrive Mr. Daniels said that two erttra men were sent here from Have lock Wednesday morning to assist in making repairs. By Wednesday 40 per cent of an estimated 430 telephones knocked out of service here were back in operation. He said the lines hardest hit wera in the wa terfront areas of Atlantic Beach, Morehead City and Beaufort. In the Henderson area, long dis tance service is available through Greensboro and Richmond and a number of points such as Oxford, Norlina and Warrenton now have at least limited long distance ser vice* ? -The rayettcvjile area, which in dttMk Whltevtlle, was perhaps the hardest hit area of the company. Fayetteville, primary toll outlet for that area, now h?s service through recently constructed underground long distance cable. Connections from Fayetteville to other towns such as Dunn. Clinton and Smith field arc being made as quickly as possible. Tree* Cause Damage Local service, in the majority of the company's 116 exchanges, has been maintained and in many cases, where power failed, aux iliary generators were placed in service to keep local telephones Working. There were, of course, many telephones out of order be cause of damage to the exchange plant by trees and limbs. Vice President Havens stated that in addition to company forces, about 17 crews of outside contrac tors have been employed to expe dite the restoration ef service Generally speaking, Mr. Havens laid, the hurricanf affected the entire area of the company which serves all or part of 41 counties, in eaatern North Carolina. Hurricane Hazel was the worst ?torm anyone in the company can remember and estimates of damage to telephone property and equip ment will be in terms of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Mr. Havens concluded. ? Hurricane Hazel has dealt the North Carolina fishing Industry a lethal blow. C. G. Holland, assistant fisheries commsisioner, More M?ad City, said this week that oyster beds have been buried in sand, and fish dealers aa well as fishermen themselves have sustained heavy losses. All commercial fisheries department employees were assigned Tuesday to make a survey^ of the damage in the state's 21 1 commercial fishing counties. Com missioner Holland said boats, nets and fish houses to the south of Carteret County have been virtual ly obliterated. Fisheries inspectors checked 15 crews of oystermen Monday and the total catch was three tubs. Be fore the hurricane the average catch per boat was 15 tubs. Commissioner Holland has re quested that any fisherman who has not yet been contacted by a state fisheries inspector to get an estimate of loss should submit an estimate of his damage or loss to the fisheries inspector in his com munity or give the estimate to the Morehead City commercial fish eries office.. Commissioner Holland has asked that fishermen do as much as they can to get themselves back in op eration for the fall fishing season. He said that attempts will be made to get the fishermen assistance but no promises can be made and aid, if it comes, probably will not be immediate. Commissioner Holland remarked that the Gordon C. Willis Seafood Co. lost all its boats and nets on Bogue Banks and the fish house in Morehea-d City is so badly damaged that it probably could not be used if fist) were being taken. The fisheries official said fish dealers, who have always extended credit to the fishermen, have been as hard hit as the man who lost his boats and nets. "This on top of a poor summer for food fish and shrimp catches is really disas trous." commented Mr, Holland. The fisheries official will go to Charlotte Monday to attend the three-day fall meeting of the Board of Conservation and Development. Mrs. Holland will accompany him. Others who will attend l he meet ing from this county will be Ernest Nelson, Cecil Morris and W. A. Ellison Jr. Beaufort A&P Opening Delayed Curl P. Short, New Bern, .super visor of A&P stores in this area, said this week that the A&P Store in Beaufort may riot reopen until the middle o I next month. The reopening date will depend. Mr. Short said, on how soon equip ment can be replaced. The hurricane hit the store, lo cated at Front and Queen Streets, with full force. The high water even floated the ice cream cabinet. All the food, canned, packaged, and fresh, was condemned. The food was inspected, at the request of Mr. Short, by A. D. fWord, county sanitarian. It has been destroyed. Mr. Short estimated total loss at $35,-000. Ten thousand dollars of the loss was in merchandise. Equipment loss was estimated at $25,000. "AJcP customers in Beaufort are invited to continue their patronage at the new and modern self-service A&P super-market in Morehead City," said Mr. Short. Manager of the Beaufort store is W. T. Hewitt. The six full-time and three part-time employees at the Beaufort store will continue on the A&P payroll until the store reopens. ? Driver Killed In Smash-Up Tuesday Night Jesse Luna, Jr., 21, ORS, Cherry Point, was killed at 11:50 Tuesday night, when a rar he was driving overturned on Highway 70 one and a half miles east of the Carteret Craven line. Ridfng with Luera was Robert E. Bahr, 19. ORS, Cherry Point, who was injured. Both were taken to the Cherry Point Dispensary and Luera was pronounced dead on ar rival. He had a fractured skull and broken arms and legs. The car, a 1950 Ford coupe, was demolished. It was owned by Paul M. Hricik, also of Cherry Point. According to State Highway Pa trolman R. H. Brown who investi gated, Luera was headed toward Cherry Point at an extremely high rate of speed. The accident occurred on a straight stretch of road. The car skidded 90 feet on the shoulder and then rolled over and over for 134 feet. It came to rest with the back part in a ditch and the front end on the highway. Both Luera and Bahr were thrown from the car. 'Martin Luther' To Play Here "Martin Luther," the (ilm named by The New York Times as one of the ten best of 1953, will show for the first time Wednesday at the Morehead Theatre, Morehead .City, According to an announcement from the producer, Louis deRoche ment Associates, the opening date for the film in Beaufort will be Nov. 9 and It will play again Dec. 7 at the East Drive-In Theatre, Beaufort. Its run in Morehead City will be two days, according to O. J. Morrow, theatre manager. Mr Mor row said the run in Beaufort will probably be three days. Borden Mace, son of Mrs. W. A. Mace. Beaufort, and president of the RD-DR Corp. which made 'Mar tin Luther," gave a special show ing of the film in the Beaufort Theatre last Christmas season. The movie, hailed everywhere as a stirring and documentary ac count of the man who brought Pro testantism to the world, will be shown here at popular prices. When the film was ready for distribution, regular channels .were closed to it. Distributors called it "too hot to handle," "poison at the box office," but with a determina tion to show the people a truly marvelous motion picture, the RD-DR Corp., in cooperation with the Lutheran Churches has proved that the film is a classic. Had Wind Come from 'North Island Might Have Floated By Mr*. Theodore Reodthaler Ocracoke ? The Washington, D. C . weather bureau reported that had the northwest cold wave come ? Uttle farter and aooner, the now famous Hurricane Haiel would have struck full force at Cape Hatteraa and Ocracoke. As It was, compared with the devastation wrought on the mainland, Ocracoke land well Indeed. Old timers say we had the worst sea tide aince 1013. Anyway the Atlaatic Ocean came rolling acroaa cutting its way through to the har bor and Pamlico Sound wherever K could find a low spot, and mak ing deep ravines and gullies along the concrete highways and under mining the road in many places, causing a number of cave-ins. Damage to the roads is estimated at between *1.000 and 115,000. At several palate the highway ia en tirely impassable. Many homes, particularly those on the aaat side of the village were Hooded with <? mm 4 to 15 Inches of water. Flsh enaen at Wahab Hotel ware sloeh ing arouad ia 4 inchea ef water. One beat waa sunk ia the kaitar. A Jeop waa caught ia the surf be ? ween Ocracoke village and Hat terai Inlet, and pretty much dam aged before it was rescued by the Coast Guard. During the height of the hurri cane Nurse Kathleen Bragg was called out to officiate at the birth of Phil Monroe Styron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Styron. Several ialanders were caught away from home. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Wahab weathered the hurricane at Beach comber's Club, ten miles north of the village. Irvln Oarrlsh made It back as far as Hatteras with * truck load of goods, but was forced to bring the goods from there down by boat on Sunday, due to the condition of the beach between Hatteras Inlet and Ocncoke Vill age. Many sports fishermen were ma rooned on Ocracoke and could not head the Coaat Guard warning to tourists: "Oct out of the low placet and stay out." One Winston-Salem group left late Thursday afternoon by track, but were rumored to have reached oaly Hatteras Island. Many left after the storm on the Ocra?oke-Atlantic mailboat, only to discover that they could" not get their cars oat at Atlantic to Beaufort due to the fact that North River Bridge had been wash ed out. Others coming in on the Sat urday afternoon boat reported that they had left their can on the other aide of the North River and come acroas in a small motor boat and thence by hired taxi to Atlan tic. Everything waa back to normal, except the village highways, on Saturfay. Capt. Thurston Gaakill'i party brought in 13 big channel basa from Ocracoke Inlet and fish ing has contiued good since then. Hurricane Carol has flooded a good many homes, but Hazel flood ed .still more. Water at the school house was Just below floor level. Old-timers alao say that it was lucky the storm hit from the south east; had It struck, as did the 1M4 hurricane, from the northwest, the Island would have been really i|> undated. Experiencing as it has the brant of many tropical atorma, Ocra cokers are thankful that this one waa merciful. At the aame time they can fully aympathlae with those on the mainland who suffer ed from ita fury. Motorist Runs Off Highway A Cherry Point motorist, being clocked by Sgt. C. L. Teague of Um State Highway Patrol, ran off Highway 70 at 8:25 Sunday night just east of the Carteret-Craven line. According to State Highway Pa trolman Pickard, the driver, Frank W. Murray, passed Sergeant Teague and the sergeant started checking his speed. As Murray reached a curve, hia car left the road and skidded into a ditch. Sergeant Teague said Mur ray was going about 73 miles an hour when the accident happened.' He has been charged with driv ing under the influence, speeding and careless and reckless driving. Damage to his car, a 1952 Chevro let, waa estimated at (25. shoppe Mores The Fashion Shoppe of Beaufort haa moved to 424 Front 81., the former Pender building, and will operate from this new location per manently. Mrs. Ralph Eudy, man ager, said. "We hope our customers and friends will find shopping more enjoyable in our spacious new quarters." Campaign Dale* Set Mrs. W. f. Loftln, Beaufort, Car teret Girl Scout official, announced that the drive to raise Girl Scout (unda in the county will begin Nov. 1 and continue until Nov. 16. Goa) for Carteret County la ll^M. Waves Came Crashing Down Looking aoutheaat arrow the Beautort-Morehead Ctty causeway, the ktghUeer got an eyeful of the de itiurtioD property owners withstood there. Summer homes in Morehead City, along Rogue 8 ound, at the height of Friday's storm were pounded by the waves. Morehead City's waterfront after Um Mar tub sided TO a heap of rubble la which falka' homes and fsasJliar possession lay l?rn foreign debris awopt la from the ocean a mile away. Buildup at Fart Harm SOU Part wan twlated late Ink. The newly-laid boardwalk b Md W kilter aad damage there will ran lata the thaaeaada af dallara. Fisheries Official Says Summer Season 'Poor' C O. Holland, aaaiatant comnur :ial fiaheriee commiaaioner, h aa re leaaed the report covering com MTtU! (iahing in North Carolina water* for tho three month* end ing ?. Tho report, compiled prior to the hurricane, follewi: Tho quarter ]uit ended, July, Auguet and September, iaw very Ilttlt production tt aeafood, ?? pecially finflah. The ihrlmp catch for thli period ?M below normal for wvartl raaaoni la air opin ion, tba dry aaaaon Km dltetad our catdm tremendously . We hare alao had tw? (arm hurrlranea which were a factor in Boring our local flah farther aouth, especially see nqglouts, Pa** I Driver Faces Three Charges Kennetii R. Hightower, who was involved in an accident at 11:30 Sunday night on Highway 70 4 thousand (eet east of the Carteret Craven line, has been charged with drunken driving, careless and reck less driving and speeding. He is docketed for trial in County Re corder's Court Tuesday. According to State Highway Pa trolman W. E. Pickard, Hightower was headed west In a IMS Ford when he sideswlped a 1091 Pontiac headed west. The Pontiac was driven by Ernest A. Trader. fl* patrolman said that High tower wu evidently going at such a high rate of speed he ran over into the left lane of traffic. Each driver was alone in hit car. Neither was hurt. Damage to each automobile was estimated at ?MO. County, Town Concol This Wsok's Court Soatiom Carteret County Recorder's Court and Beaufort ! Recorder'* Court were not in session thli week. The date of Superior Court, which be fore the storm was slated to open Monday, has not (wen sot. Recorder's Courts will be held as usual next# week The shellflahery investigation lab on Pi ren Island waa (damaged by high water last Friday. Morehead Town Damages Set * At S64,49/.79 Mor*h*od City Hospital Board S*ts Hurricane Damag* at $20,170 Hurricane damage to Morehead City municipal property was esti mated at 964,497.20. John Lashley. town clerk, said a resolution set ting forth town loases as a result i>f Friday's storm, was forwarded to the governor's office Tuesday. The town board and the More head City Hospital bo.ird of trus tees met Monday night at tlir mu nicipal building. Mayor Georg^ Dill requested that <he hospital board submit an estimate of its losses first thing Tuesday morning. The hospital, ..unicipally-sup ported, was badly damaged when the water crossed the seawall in front of it and ran Into the base ment. The hospital damage was es timated at $20,170. Alarm System Out Fire Commissioner Ted Garner said that the fire alarm system was knocked out, three boxes were not operable, and wire and insulators would be needed. The pumper on the truck, used to pump out the basement of the hospital, also needed overhauling, according to Mr. Lashley. The fire department loss, accord ing to Commissioner Garner was somewhere between $600 und $800. Preliminary estimates submitted by Dr. John Morris, street commis sioner, and J, V. Waters, street superintendent, were as follows: storm sewer damage, $962.50, san iatry sewer damage $3,010, side walk damage along the seawall 85.612, curbs and gutters $3,692, >unkeh intersections along water Front $5,4*7.50, traffic lights $100, labor and use of trucks for 30 days ?f clean-up $4,144. In requesting estimates of dam age, Mayor Dill said there was "no need to go overboard on estimates. They're going to back-check on this and if we can get our actual dam iges, we'll be doing well." He was referring to re-checking to be done by the federal inspectors. Concerned About Fishing Mayor Dill expresstjd concern for he fishermen who depend largely >n the fall fishing season to carry hem through the winter. "They've got to get back into business soon," lie commented. He said that th^, money the town jot from the . federal government in disaster aid would not have to be repaid. He said that grants made by the Red Cross did not iiave to be repaid, and added, "But in the past you couldn't raise $100 tiere for the Red Crosa without in sulting people!" Fred Lewis, town recreation manager, appeared before the ooard to report on the damage to the Recreation Center. He said the , building inspestor, A. B. Roberts, ' lias condemned the center. The front part of the building bas parted from the back, leaving a crack eight inches wide. Mr. Lewis said that Grady Rich, con tractor, estimated cost of repairs it $1,682. The board authorized work to proceed on getting the building back in shape. Portions of the front part of the building are >11 right for use, Mr. Lewis said, but the auditorium cannot be used. Attending the meeting, in addi tion to those mentioned above, were George McNeill, town attor ney; Commissioners S. C. Hollo way, D. J. Hall; A. B. Roberts. Robert Hicks, Mrs. J. C. Taylor, Mrs. E. A. Council, John Crump, Gordon Willis, all of the hospital board, and Hoyle Greene, hospital administrator. Cub Scouts Tour News-Times Plant Eight members of the Cub Scouts, Den 2, Morehead City, with two den mothers, made a tour ot THE NEWS-TIMES plant Tuesday afternoon. They were Ty Higlumith, Irvin Hepler. Dickie Wade, Larry Swin dell, Bruce Reed, Chris Hardy, Roger Conner, Billy White, and Mrs. Ted Hardy and Mrs. William H. White, den mothers. Marvin Willia Jr., and Bernard Leary are also members of the pack. Marvin b den chief. The pack is sponsored by the First Baptist Church. Morehead City. Rotarian Conducts Quiz Monday Night The R?v. /. Herbert Waldrop, Jr., wis iq charge of the program ?t Uic Newport Rotary meeting Monday night. He conducted a quia on international affaira. The Rev. Hr. Waidrop ia chair man of the Rotary international service committee. RoUriana diacuaaed the Mobil ity of giving a year's aubacriftion to "Boya Life" to members of the Boy Scout troop which they spon >or. They decided to ghp year's ?ub acripUona to the firat is acouta to roach the rank of (Irat claaa. Viaitors far the evening werr Walter Edwards. Theodore PhflUfa ud P. K Brwch. aU of Uoroboad City.
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