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Brunswick Between Bookends
By Eugene Fallon
HURRICANE. By Majory
Stoneman Douglas. Rinehart
& Company, New York. 393
pp. Illustrated. $5.95.
Here’s a well-written story on
a powerful subject. And if it
is a subject calculated to raise
the hackles on the neck of many
Carolina coast-dwellers, to be
forewarned is, as they say, to be
forearmed.
Mrs. Douglas emulates her
subject in that she does not stick
to one particular point, or place
or time. Thus her book never
lags, but rushes along like, well,
like the wind. And the lady spent
some time right here at South
port.
Inscribed on the flyleaf of this
book are the following expres
sions of gratitude and apprecia
tion, dedicated to a Southport
resident:
“To My Dear Friend, whose
hospitality and kindness in help
ing me collect material about
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Cape Fear, for inclusion in thi
work, has never been forgotten.
It is signed by the author an
dated October 27, 196ft,
First-reading for most of thos
who read this book is the ter
rible hurricane of August, 1892
Mrs. Douglas writes: “The grea
hurricane which swept from th
Cape Verde Islands across t
the American mainland and thei
up the coasts of Georgia and th
Carolinas, was one of the wors
ever recorded up till that time
For a solid week—from Augus
22, that year, until the 30th o
the same month—terrific wind
hurled smashing waves over is
lands and beaches and home:
Crowded with vacationing peo
pie. A thousand lives were lost
Corpses lay in the mud of rici
fields. The city of Charleston wa:
a wreck. Whole families wen
lost, and damages amounted t<
ten million dollars.”
There was little or no storn
warning-system set up 70 year:
ago. To that fact Mrs. Dougla:
ascribed the heavy loss in botl
lives and property.
To bring this great disaster t<
a more localized point, the authoi
writes of the experiences of Dun
bar Davis, whom she identifie:
as "the keeper of the Oak Is
land Lifesaving Station at thi
mouth of the Cape Fear River.’
Seven ships bearing 55 seamei
were lost in the vicinity of thi
Southport harbor bar, accordinj
to the author, who identifies al
vessels by name, and adds: “Ships
cargoes and men were never seei
again.” Seems today as if i
whole flotilla of merchantmer
were making madly for South
port harbor.
The hurricane-hunter ther
moves forward in time to Oct
ober of 1954, and traces with ex
actitude and the courage of sec
ond-thought the wild rantings ol
hurricane Hazel. We will dispense
with the scandalous doings oi
this evil water-witch as she
switched past South Carolina anc
accompany her through her in
termediary, Mrs. Douglas, as she
flew ashore in Brunswick coun
ty.
“In North Carolina,” writes
Mrs. Douglas, “Captain Fulforc
of the shrimp boat Nina Fay re
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’ cane, about fifteen minutes o
i calm, passed near Holden Beac
at 11 a. m. of the (Oct.) 15. O
Long Beach’s 377 buildings, 35
were utterly destroyed. At Hoi
den Beach, 200 was gone. Oceai
Isle was swept bare . . . the oli
town of Southport was devestatei
by wind and the seas broke ii
the house doors along the water
front and crashed huge shrimj
boats up to verandahs. Nineteei
lives were lost in North Caro
lina . .
Mrs. Douglas, kinder thai
Hazel, mercifully bypassed Wil
mington, to take up the thread o
her terrible tale in Virginia, Mary
land, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and New York State and even
tually in Canada. Hazel was ;
traveling woman.
Hurricanes Diane and Hildi
i come in for scrutiny, as well a:
some lesser blows which did littli
damage on the local scene. Bu
, it is in her earlier chapters, herd
, ed together under the heading o
Olden Times, that more reader:
will be most interested. A storn
, lived through, no matter how bad
excites about as much attentioi
as last month’s newspaper. Anc
Mrs. Douglas does well with hei
description of the ancient disas
ters all but unknown to moderi
readers. She writes of grea
European storms, for example
and hurricanes dating as far bad
. as the latter part of the 15tl
Century.
If you like your winds in grea
gulps, this book is for you. Reat
all about them—why, when an<
where. Then go out and flaun
the next one if you must—evei
shaking your fist at the torture<
skies. You might even survive it
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: Ky. And they reached Floyd Col
1 lins. On the twelfth day.’ Hf
was dead. One of the big news
stories of the fabulous twenties
■A nation’s heart went out to i
mountain boy trapped in a cave
| because he wanted to rescue his
dog. They placed Floyd Collins
in a niche approaching immortal
ity, when they wrote a sad bal
lard of those terror-filled last
days of his life. In parlors from
Savannah to San Francisco; from
Bellows Falls, Vt., to Broken Bow
Oklahoma, the phonographs sob
bed of the “Death of Floyd Col
,lins.”
In a neat six-room home at
Tranquil Harbour is a fragment
of gray cap; another of a toy
balloon. These rest alongside a
chip of boulder. The cap belonged
to Floyd Collins. The toy balloon
was one of those purveyed to
the great crowds who came to
gaze at the incredible scene pre
sented when the best mining and
engineering brains in the coun
try sent shaft after shaft down
into the Kentucky loam in an
effort to save the life ®f a poor,
country boy. The mementos be
longed to Ed Morgan’s late
father.
Yes, the citizens of Tranquil
Harbour-Long Beach, many now
retired, have stories to tell. Ed
Morgan is too busy making a
story still far from complete to
think of retiring. But he is doing
his utmost to find the right lot
on the right beach property for
the right people.
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Hi, here is your reporter again
giving you news and happenings
around the Dolphin home.
Well, all of the plans are made i
except for the last-minute added j
touches, for the Junior-Senior j
banquet and prom. Everyone i
who goes to it be sure to have i
lots of fun.
.In the baseball line this week i
the Dolphins play the Bolivia !
Bears on Thursday. Be sure to |
come out to watch a good game, j
Your Roving Reporter’s quest
ion this week is: "Do you think I
the twist is here to stay or will
it go out like other fads?”
Chuck Smith: “I think it’s
going to stay as long as other
dances have.”
Joe T. Reaves: “No, because
I can’t twist.
Craig Caster: “Don’t make no
never mind to me.”
Mary Belle Holden: “I think
it's here to stay.”
Foxy Howard: “Yes, I think
it's here to stay as long as
people dance.”
Seen Around: Mr. Bowmer
trying to get to Raleigh . . .
Seniors debating . . . Robert H.
how are things down the battle
ship road??? . . . Linda K. being
impossible to find Thursday night
. . . Good to see Sonny home . . .
Sally always saying “let me in”
. . . Steve celebrating his anni
versary.
Well, that’s all for this week.
See ya'll around S. H. S.
With The Men
In Service
Wayne Lewis, Bolivia, N. C.
recently enlisted into the United
States Army according to M-Sgt
Richard F. Hand the local Army
Recruiter in Wilmington. Wayne
attended Bolivia High School
prior to enlistment. He qualified
to enlist under the Army Choose
your-training program and select
ed the Airborne as the field to re
ceive his guaranteed training in.
After being sworn in the Army
at Raleigh he was sent to Ft.
Jackson S. C., to start his basic
'raining. Upon completion of ap
proximately 22 weeks of training
he will receive his wings.
Airman Basic Maurice T.
Caison, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie H. Caison of Supply, is
being assigned to the United
States Air Force technical train
ing course for air armament
mechanics at Lowry AFB, Colo.
Airman Caison, who has complet
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| the airman attended North Caro
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Roberts, Daytona Beach winner
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as the athlete-of-the-month and
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Roberts won the inaugural
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His latest being the world’s 24
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AT 12 O’Clock Noon
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