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42nd YEAR, NO. 65. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Arnold Borden
Gets $100 Fine,
Loses License
Appeals to Higher Court
After Being Convicted
On All Five Charges
Arnold Borden was given a 90
day suspended sentence Monday in
Morehead City recorder's court
after his trial on five charges grow
ing out of an automobile accident
June 25 on Arendell street. Six
persons were injured in the acci
dent.
Judge George H. McNeill found
Borden guilty of speeding in ex
cess of 75 miles per hour, speed
ing in excess of 55 miles per hour,
speeding in excess of 35 miles per
hour, careless and reckless driving
and assault with a deadly weapon.
Judge McNeill suspended the
sentence on condition that Borden
pay a fine of $100 and costs and
refrain from driving for a period
of one year.
Borden's counsel, Claud Wheat
ly of Beaufort, served notice of an
appeal to the October term of su
perior court. Bond on the appeal
was set at $1,000.
Several witnesses testified that
Borden was driving at a speed at
least 75 miles per hour when he
struck a car operated by Mrs. Rey
nolds May of Greenville and knock
ed it into a tree, a telephone pole
and a parked car.
Officers who investigated the ac
cident testified to the amount of
damage to the three cars involved
in the accident and to the distance
the cars were knocked by the force
of the crash.
Testifying in his own behalf, Bor
den said that he did not know what
happened. He maintained that he
remembers nothing about the ac
cident or the events immediately
before it. He said that he did not
know whether he suddenly blacked
out or whether the spell came on
gradually.
Borden said that his last con
scious recollection was when he
passed ihe Webb Memorial Presby
terian church about 14 blocks from
the scene of the accident. He said
that the next thing he remembers
is when he woke up in the hospital
several days lifter the ^ident. He
said that he was not sure how many
days later it was.
Borden also testified that he had
not known the time of the accident
until he heard a police officer tes
tify to the time at the trial.
lie said that it could be that he
was conscious at the time of the
accident and has since suffered
retrograde amnesia. He said, how
ever, that he did not know if that
had happened.
Mrs. May, who suffered multiple
fractures in the accident, is still
undergoing treatment at the More
head City hospital. Her daughter,
Mary, 11, who suffered a ruptured
spleen, ruptured liver and frac
tured arm, was released from the
hospital about three weeks ago.
Mrs. May's mother, Mrs. Mae
Garris, was released from the hos
pital with her granddaughter.
Louis May, 14, ' and Sue Parrish,
12, were treated and released after
the accident.
Borden received lacerations of
the head and arms and chest in
juries. After treatment at the
Morehead City hospital, he was
taken to Memorial hospital, Chapel
Hill, for further checkups. He was
released a few weeks ago.
New Bank Location
Is Royal Theater
The Commercial National bank
of Kinston has made arrangements
to put its Morehead City branch
in the old Royal theater building,
Harry C. Wooten, vice-president
of the bank reported this week.
"The architect's drawings are
almost complete and we have con
tractors studying them," Mr. Woot
en continued. "We have chosen
the vault doors for the branch."
Permission for the branch was
granted by the comptroller of the
currency in May. The initial per
mission had a requirement that
the bank open the branch within
six months, but Mr. Wooten said
an extension may be easily ob
tained.
"We certainly hope to be open
and doing business in Morehead
City around the first of the year,"
he declared.
The opening will probably be
governed by the vault doors which
usually require 90 to 120 days
for delivery.
No definite decisions have been
made on personnel for the new
bank, Mr. Wooten continued. "We
want to have as many local peole
as possible and we want the branch
to be as nearly independent of
Kinston as is practical," he said.
Mr. Wooten emphasized that the
director! of the Kinston bank are
working to get the best personnel
they can to head up the branch and
form its local policies.
The Commercial bank was found
ed in Kinston in 1940. Since that
time it has opened a branch in
Kinston and has had a continuous
growth. Since it is a national bank,
the approval for opening the new
branch came from the comptroller
of the currency in Washington.
The state banking commission does
not have such authority over na
tional banks.
Before the permission was grant
ed investigators for the government
surveyed the situation here to de
termine if another bank was eco
nomically justified in Morehcad
City, Mr. Wooten commented.
The new branch of the bank will
have a commercial department for
savings and checking accounts and
an installment loan department.
Earlier the Morehead City Cham
ber of Commerce conducted a sur
vey of its members to determine if
the new bank had the backing of
the town's business firms. Ac
cording to reports the survey
showed that a majority of local
businesses favored the opening of
a second bank in town.
County Agent Reports
Leaf Crop 'Pretty Good'
R. M. Williams, county farm^
agent, says that he feels that the
county's tobacco crop this year has
been pretty good especially when
compared with the crops in Craven,
Wayne, Lenoir and Johnson coun
ties. Much of the tobacco in those
counties was ruined by the dry
weather.
Carteret county tobacco crops re
covered from the hail which struck
early in the growing season and
managed to survive the drought.
Most of the damage to tobacco in
thi? county was caused by nem
atodes.
Some of the fanners in the coun
ty hue already, told tobacco an
the Georgia markets and several
reported good average prices. Most
of the farmers, however, are wait
ing until next week when Eastern
Belt markets open.
Mr. Williams says that almost
every tobacco field in the county
shows some sign of nematode dam
age He said that the damage
would have been much worse if the
drought here had been as bad as in
some other parts of the state.
He urged farmers to take steps
now to guard against nematode
damage next year. He suggests
that, after the last pulling, farmers
cut down the stalks and plow out
the roots, exposing them to the
sun as soon as possible. He said
that this will destroy many of the
nematodes and nematode eggs. He
said that the nematodes winter in
the soil and decaying roots.
He says that one excellent way
to eliminate them is to turn the
roots out with a turning plow or
middle buster and then drag them
over wiffc a section harrow or weed
er a few days later to expose more
roots to the sun. He says that after
four or five days the field can
be prepared for planting winter
crops if desired.
Driver to Pay
Heavy Fine
Robert L. Jones was given a 60
day suspended sentence Tuesday
in county recorder's court on a
charge of driving after his license
had been revoked. The sentence
was suspended on condition that
he |Jay a fine of $200 and costs.
Jurcl Lee Dudley was fined $25
atid costs for driving after his
license .had been suspended.
, W. A. Wiggins wu^given ?- 90
day suspend&.4?ntence for pu#*C?.
sion of non-tax' pald whUk*y*- The
sentence WW suspended on condi
tion that he pay a fine of S2S and
costs. He was also ordered to pay
costs for assaulting an officer.
Donald P. Covelski was fined
$100 and costs for driving while
under the influence of alcohol and
hit and run driving. Watson E.
Wyatt was fined $100 and costs for
driving while under the influence
of alcohol.
Howard W. Cope was fined $25
and costs for driving on the wrong
side of the highway
Leonard Benjamin Rhue was
fined $25 and costs for speeding
and following too close in the line
of traffic.
Dennis N. Koenig was fined $25
and costs for speeding and driv
ing a car with an improper muffler.
Bennie Murray paid costs for
driving on the wrong side of the
highway and driving a car with
an improper muffcr. James Isaac
Higgins was fined $15 and costs for
driving a car with no lights. George
W. Brimmer paid costs for driving
a car with an improper muffler.
Graden E. White was fined $25
and costs for speeding and driving
without a license. Robert J. Hart
Waterspout Stages Brief
Performance off Beach
Most Carteret countians have
been feeling lately that the weather
was up to ?o good with thunder
otorms every night, unseasonal
rains, and sudden changes.
The peculiarity of the weather
almost became tragic for Atlantic
Beach Tuesday afternoon at ap
Beaufort Rotarians
Hear Scout Official
R. B. Howard, county Boy Scout
leader, described the scouting pro
gram throughout the county at
Tuesday night's meeting of the
Beaufort Rotary club.
Mr. Howard told of the work be
ing done with the various troop*
in the county and of the new
troops which have been formed in
recent months.
Charles Hassell. scoutmaster o <
one Beaufort troop, described the
expansion of his troop and said
that he now has 29 members and
has applications from an additional
ten boys.
Mr. Haaaell said that he would
like a member of the dub to vol
unteer to serve as awistant scout
master. He said that the tire at
the troop makes it impassible for
one man to do all the work. iW
also mentioned the possibility that
it might become necMaary to form
a second troop to take car* at all
proximately 3 o'clock when a
waterspout formed off the beach
and appeared to be beading for the
shore until it disappeared after a
few minutes.
Waterspouts while uncommon
in these parts have long fascinated
the sea-faring mind. According to
the Encyclopedia Britannica, a
waterspout is "a local vorticular
storm occurring over a water sur
face, and in origin and form simi
lar to a tornado over land."
"A whirling, funnel-shaped cloud,
first observed as a pendent from
the mass of storm cloud above,
seems to grow downwards, taper
ing, towards the water surface,
which is violently agitated, and
finally (when the spout is fully de
veloped) appears to be drawn up
to meet the cloud.
"This appearance is deceptive as
the bulk of the water carried along
by the whirling spout is condensed
from the atmosphere and, even
when the #out is formed over a
salt water Surface, a found to b?
fresh.
"Waterapdfcts occur moat fre
quently over the warm aeaa of the
tropica, but they are not confined
to the warmer tropical aeasona, or
even to low latitudes."
Aa for that laat comment in the
eaainent Britannica, those who aaw
the spout off the Carteret coast,
?either tropic nor low in latitude,
cat assure the encyclopedia writer
that he is right What this will do
for book sales is difficult to fore
ana uoromy wara i\owau wuif
each fined $10 and costs for driv
ing without licenses. ?
James E. Morris and Leroy Bol
ton each paid costs for exceeding
the load limit on the highway.
Robert Charles Micbach was
fined $10 and costs for speeding.
Elmer T. Schmitz paid costs for
speeding.
Adron Clyde Morris paid costs
for driving on the wrong side of
the road.
Otto Leeuwenberg served notice
of appeal to superior court after
bis bond was forfeited when he
failed to appear to answer a
charge of maintaining a hog pen
In flotation of statute.
Leonard Bruce Reels paid costs
for permitting an unlicensed per
son to operate a motor vehicle.
Bonds were forfeited by William
A. Rogers, Tommy McNeill Mem
ory, John Bidwell Elliot, Otha
Frank Bullard and Prince Purcell,
jr.
Case* were continued against J.
W. Thomson, Richard L. Beckwith,
Donald C. Dolle, Johnie Ray Wad
dell, Marion J. Bateman, Carl
Bruce Turberville, George Samuel
Goias, Arthur Samuel Butler, Sam
A. Mayes, Edward Harold Culpep
per, James Carroll, Jesse N. Har
tel, Roland Adair Small.
Faaddie Jane* Hardesty, David
r. Jones, Wallace B. Jenkins, Er
vin Gray Morris, Parker R. Beam.
William E. Salter, Mack Donald
GOHtin. Willis W. Poe. Clyde M.
Woeds and Abraham Williama.
AM Convention
Sheriff C. G. Holland and Chief
M. K. Guy of the Beaufort police
department attended the conven
tion of tbe North Carolina Sheriffs'
aaeoctation tl
this week at Kill Devil
Beaufort School
Completes Plans
For Coming Year
All Faculty Posts
Filled Except One,
Tarkington Reports
All faculty positions in the Beau
fort graded school for the next
school year have been filled ex
cept one, B. E. Tarkington, prin
cipal, reported this week.
Mr. Tarkington said that all of
the new teachers coming into the
school meet qualifications which
will assure the community of the
continuance of the school's excel
lent instructional program.
The curriculum in the high
school has been expanded to in
clude several new courses. These
include civics, elements of gener
al business, secretarial practice and
advanced typing and Latin.
New teachers coming into the
school are Miss Ruth Gibbs and
Mrs. Madeline Chadwick, first
! grade; Mrs. Virginia Andrews, sec
ond grade; Miss Laura Gibbs, third
grade; Miss Isabella O'Neal, fourth
grade; Mrs. Shirley Babcock and
Norman Chadwick, eighth grade;
and Kenneth Stargardt, tenth grade
and coach.
In discussing the coming school
year, Mr. Tarkington said the year
shows "promise of being one of
accomplishment for the community
in its work of improving our
school.'' Mrs. Ben Jones is presi
dent of the school's Parent Teach
er association. Other officers are
Mrs. Carlton Rose, vice-president,
and Miss Gertrude Styron, secre
tary.
Mr. Tarkington urged all parents
of children in the school, and pa
trons of the school to join the
PTA.
The new school age require
ments state that a child who is six
years old on or before October 16
will be eligible to enter Mr. Tark
ington pointed out. All children
are required to have had a physical
examination, small pox vaccination
and other shots before entering the
first grade. Birth certificates must
be witnessed by the first grade
teacher.
The Beaufort school will begin
the 1953-54 school year on *Ved
"fllsday, Sept. 2. The doors will be
opened at 8:45 in the morning. A
short schedule will be followed
Wednesday and on Thursday the
normal schedule will begin.
Jaycees Hear
Jimmy Wallace
The Beaufort Jaycees at Monday
night's meeting heard a talk by
Jimmy Wallace of Morehead City,
national director of the Jaycces.
He congratulated the club on its
showing at the ninth district meet
ing in Kinston and urged the mem
bers to attend the state quarterly
board meeting Aug. 29-30 in Rocky
Mount.
Mr. Wallace ga\c a brief sum
mary of the work being done by
clubs throughout the state and also
said that it is important to get
more clubs started. He urged the
Beaufort club to continue Its ex
tension program.
The members discussed setting
aside some money to pay the ex
penses of one or two members to
next year's national convention.
The first issue of the club's new
bulletin, the Jay-Cee Buoy, was
distributed at the meeting.
The bulletin contained the re
vised list of committee appoint
ments made by President Ronald
Earl Mason. Internal committees
under the direction of Vice-Presi
dent James Steed arc membership
and extension. Jack McManus, Ed
die Paull and James Steed; publi
cation and radio, Ronald Earl Ma
son; finance. Tommy Potter, Billy
Davis and Harry Davis; inter-club
relations. Willard Willis, Billy Lof
tin and R. C. Blankenship, and
awards Holden Ballou.
External committees under Vice
President Jack Price are agricul
ture. fire prevention and safety,
Sam Gibbs, Frank Langdale, Ger
ald Myers and Bobby Stephens; re
ligion and Christmas program,
Ralph Hancock, Charles Davis and
Van Jones; sports, Wiley Taylor,
John Jones, Ottis Jefferson, Hay
wood Snell and Albert Chappell;
civic improvement, public affairs
and public health. Jack Barnes.
Ben Keel, John Duncan and Vic
Bellamah; and Americanism, Carl
Chadwick and Leslie Davis.
Tide Table
Tide* it Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Aug. 14
11:01 a.m. 4:48 a m.
11:04 p.m. 5:18 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. IS
11:39 a.m. 5:19 a.m.
11:41 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 1?
5:55 a.m.
12:18 p.m. 8:48 p.m.
landay, A ug. 17
12:23 a.m. fl:W a.m.
1:09 pjzl 7:44 pjn.
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Coast Battens Down Readying
For Migrating Florida Storm
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Towns to Receive
Street Aid Funds
The State Highway commission
has announced that Morehead City
will receive $18,029 as its share
of the $5,244,143 in Powell street
aid funds to be distributed to 394
North Carolina cities and towns.
Checks for the money will be
sent out next month. The money
comes from a one-half cent per
gallon tax on gasoline. The funds
are allocated for building and
maintaining streets not on the high
way system.
Each town's share of the funds
is determined on the basis of pop
ulation and the number of miles
of non-system streets. Charlotte,
largest city in the state, will re
ceive the largest check, $384,061.
The smallest check, for $323, will
go to Falkland in Pitt county.
Powell aid last year amounted
to $4,948,842. In 1951 it was $4,
543,096 Morehead City received
$17,251 last year and Beaufort re
ceived $8,551.
The 1953 general assembly
amended the original Powell bill
to provide that towns of less than
5,000 population may ask the high
way commission to do the work
, on the town streets with the high
! way commission receiving the gas
oline tax money from the town. It
a town asks the commission to do
this work it must enter into a two
year contract with the commission.
Another amendment to the acl
allows towns to contract for work
on the streets in anticipation of re
ceiving the gasoline tax money. The
contracts may be entered into at
any time after Jan. 1, but they
must be for no more than 90 per
cent of the amnunt received during
the last fiscal year. The accounts
are then to be paid when the mnoey
is received from the state.
The interruption of telephone
communications by the storm made
it impossible to contact the high
way commission office in Raleigh
to find out how much Beaufort and
Newport will receive this year in
street aid funds.
Registration Dates Set
For School Bond Vote
Fred R. Seelcy. chairman of the
county board of clcctions has an
nounced that registration will be
gin, Saturday, Sept. 5 for the Oct 3
school and mental hospital bond
election.
The 1953 general assembly
passed acts authorizing the refer
endum on the $50 million school
bond issue and the $22 million
mental hospital bond issue. In
passing the acts, the legislators
said Uiat money ls needed bully for
both purposes.
The registrars will be at the pol
ling places throughout the county
from 9 a.m. until sundown on each
of the three Saturdays beginning
Sept. 5. Registration will end at
sundown Sept. 19. The registrars
are allowed to register any eligible
voters at any time or place before
the deadline.
Saturday, Sept. 26, will be chal
lenge day, and challenges of any
registrations will be accepted from
9 a.m. until 3 p.m. The election
board will pass on the challenged
registrations.
In order to be eligible to vote
in the election voters must be 21
years old on the day of the election
and must be citizens of the United
States. They must have been res
idents of North Carolina since Oct.
3, 1952, and residents of Carteret
county and the precinct since June
3. 1953.
Mr. Seeley says that this will not
be a general registration and that
those who have registered for pre
vious elections will not have to
register again unless they have
since moved to different precincts.
Supporters of the bonds issues,
important items in Governor Um
stead's program, have already be
gun to campaign for passage of the
issues in the referendum. An or
| ganization has been set up similar
to the one which was successful in
promoting Kerr Scott's secondary
road bond issue four years ago.
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Farm Bureau
To Plan Drive
R. M. Williams, county farm
agent, has announced that plans
for the 1953 membership drive
will be mads Tuesday aba district
Farm Bureau meeting .af the ?ourt
house in New Bern.
Farm Bureau leaders say that
since the membership drive is to
start Sept. 1 plans must be com
pleted as soon as possible. Rob
ert Laughton and Floyd Garner,
county leaders, have urged all
Farm Bureau members to attend
the meeting.
County bureaus have been asked
to have men and women present
at the meeting to serve on mem
bership, resolutions, insurance and
publicity committees. Represent
atives of all agricultural agencies
and leading farm bureau members
have all been asked to attend.
At the meeting, bureau members
will be asked to assist with Secre
tary Benson's proposed survey of
farm problems. The secretary has
asked for opinions from rural
people on various agricultural
problems. He hopes that the re
sults of this survey will assist the
agriculture department in future
policy making.
Those attending the meeting will
also be told of the steps which must
be taken in order to obtain charter
policy holders for the proposed
Farm Bureau Insurance company.
The charter policies must be ob
tained before the company can be
licensed to do business in North
Carolina.
Similar meetings arc being held
this week in Farm Bureau districts
throughout the state.
County Groups Continue
Appeals for Highway Aid
Carteret county towns and or
ganizations are last becoming pro
ficient at sending resolutions to
the state highway commission en
dorsing the effort to have highway
70 made a four-lane highway from
New Bern to Morchead City.
The city of New Bern has long
been calling for such a road from
New Bern to Cherry Point. The
Morchead City group endorsed this
but told the commission the four
lanes should be continued to the
coast:
A. H. Graham, commlaaloner in
Raleigh, replied that the "highway
commission is aware of the traffic
problem and is anxious to improve"
the existing condition.
The commissioner and his im
mediate predecessor, Dr. Henry
Jordan, have also been receiving
resolutions for an extension of
state highway 12 from Pollocks
ville to Havelock to retttve traffic
on highway 70 from Kiiaton to the
coast. This would by-pass New
Bern and that city and Mi organiza
tions are reported to look unfavor
ably on this particular ache me to
relieve traffic conditio* on high
way 70. ,
The town of Beaufort was all for
this Pollockaville - Havrtoek road
but only if the highway 12 exten
sion would join highway 101 in
Havelock. The board indicated
that it would not favor in the least
an extension of number 12 which
joined highway 70 below Havelock.
The extension of highway 12 is
a project of the Emeritus club of
Morehead City which has members
from both Morehead City and
Beaufort.
And finally there is the Coastal
highway, a project of the Morehead
City Chamber of Commerce which
envisions a combination of roads
and ferries letting tourists come
down the Outer Banks from Nor
folk to Atlantic, Beaufort and
Morehead CKy
At the present time there is talk
that a ferry is available for the At
lantic to Oeracoke run and all that
is delaying the completion of this
dream is approximately 18 miles
of paving on Ocracoke island.
Meettag Postponed
Last night's meeting of the Beau
fort town board was postponed be
cause of the weather. The meet
ing had been called to open bids
on a new police car. No date has
yet been set for the meeting.
Coastal North Carolina and particularly the area from Wilmington
to Nags Head was battening down for a heavy blow yesterday as a
tropical hurricane, born off the coast of Florida, moted up the coast.
At press time yesterday the latest reports were that the storm
center would pass very near Cape Hatteras sometime last night or early
this morning. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning the center of the storm
was several hundred miles off Charleston, S. C.
The winds and rain moving in advance of the hurricane were already
showing considerable power for disrupting normal life yesterday morn
ing and afternoon. Telephone service was cut off at about noon for
much of Morehead City and reports coming from the eastern end of
Newport Rotary
To Hear Officer
The Newport Rotary club will be
host to Charles L. McCullers of
Kinston, governor of the 279th Ro
tary district, Monday night. Aug.
17. at a meeting in the Newport
school cafeteria.
The meeting will start at 7
o'clock. Prior to the dinner, an
assembly of officers, directors, and
committee chairmen will begin at
5:30. Mr. McCullers will confer
with the officers on Rotary admin
istration and service activities.
Aaron R. Craig, president of the
club, will preside over the meet
ings.
Manager of the Kinston Chamber
of Commerce, Mr. McCullers is a
member and past president of the
Kinston Rotary club. He was elect
ed district governor for the 1953
54 fiscal year at the annual Rotary
convention in Paris, France, last
May. He is one of 212 district gov
ernors supervising the activities of
more than 8,000 clubs with a com
bined membership of 372,000 .men
in 86 countries and geographical
regions throughout the world.
Rotary was organized in Chicago
in 1905 and has had a steady
growth throughout the years. The
Raleigh club, founded in 1914, was
the first club in North Carolina.
Wilmington became the first club
in this district in 1915 with Kinston
and Fayetteville running second
and third There are approximates
ly 1,600 cjub members in the 279th
district.
Each year the international
service organization has grown in
members and strength. The activi
ties of every club are similar to
those of the Newport club, promot
ing fellowship and community im
provement.
Morehead City
Woman Injured
Mrs. J. L. Pitchford, 3107 Evans
street, Morehead City, was serious
ly injured Wednesday morning in
a three car collision three miles
west of Kinston Three others were
admitted to a Kinston hospital for
treatment of less serious injuries.
Mrs. Pitchford was rushed to Kcx
hospital in Raleigh where she was
found to have suffered severe in
ternal injuries, fractures of the hip
and pelvis, contusions and lacera
tions and possible fractured ank
les. ?
Others injured were Ben West of
Kinston and David Kdmondson of
Kinston and James Henry Brown of
Goldsboro, both passengers in
West's car.
Edmundson received severe lac
erations of the head and face, and
West received multiple bruises and
a possible fractured ankle. Brown,
a hitchhiker who was riding in the
back seat of West's car, was only
slightly injured. He was released
from the hospital Wednesday after
noon.
Sgt. John Laws of the highway
patrol said that the two cars col
lided head on. A third car, driven
by Thomas E. Smith of LaGrange,
then ran into the rear of Mrs
Pitchford's car. Smith was not
hurt. ,
Smith told highway patrolmen
that West was driving on the
wrong side of the road. Sergeant
Laws said that West will be
charged with reckless driving.
Coast Guard Recovers
Drowned Body Friday
The body of Marine Corporal
Jack E. Whisenhunt from Cherry
Point was recovered last weekend
by Coast Guardsmen on Atlantic
Beach.
The 24-year-old- mechanic
drowned Wednesday night, Aug. 5,
while swimming off the point near
Fort Macon. He lived on Lennox
ville road, Beaufort, with his wife,
the former Mildred Mason of Beau
fort.
One of a party of seven, Whisen
hunt waa missed soon after 10
o'clock after being seen swimming
between the jetties on the Fort Ma
con side of Beaufort Inlet. Coast
Guard beach patrols searched the
are* at each changing tide and
found the body Friday afternoon.
The corporal was the son of Mr.
and Mrs Emmet J. Whisenhunt of
Tulsa, Okla. The body was buried
at Camp Lejauna.
?the county indicated that telephone
service was interrupted there.
Electrical service interruptions
were also reported.
Many low-lying streets and
streets with poor drainage were
flooded in both Morehcad City and
Beaufort and county roads east of
Beaufort were flooded.
| Unofficial reports said that the
mailboat to Ocracoke went aground
sometime yesterday morning be
tween Atlantic and Portsmouth.
The last very bad storm to strike
this area was in 1933 when a large
amount of damage was done. A
smaller storm was experienced in
1944
High Tides
The Coast Guard yesterday
warned local residents to be ready
for abnormally high tides which
would be a part of the storm.
According to the Mimai Weather
Bureau, the storm would pass near
Cape Hatteras. if it didn't curve
out to sea or curve inland. Wed
nesday night while the storm was
still east of the Florida coast Grady
Norton, chief storm forecaster, said
there was a "better than even
chance" that the storm would curve
eastward out to sea.
Few people were taking chances
with the "if's," however, and the
whole of the Carolina coast was
placed on hurricane warning 1 by
the Coast Guard. Winds of gale
strength or better were anticipated
for late Thursday afternoon, night
and early this morning.
The hurricane was moving with
a gradually increasing speed at
about 10 12 miles per?4u>ur av
generally north-yorth west pain
cUret*fty toward*. 'the stale's Outer
Banks. Winds of gale force ex
tended approximately UK) miles to
the southwest of the storm and
about 150 miles in other directions.
The lowest barometer reading re
ported by the Coast Guard was 29.9
with top wind velocities in the hur
ricane an estimated 95 miles per
hour in squalls.
Wednesday afternoon storm
warnings for small craft were dis
played from Myrtle Beach, S. C.. to
Cape Hatteras, and early yester
day morning the warnings were ex
tended as far northwards as the
Virginia cape.
The hurricane was discovered
Wednesday morning by a hurri
cane hunter place about 325 miles
east of Daytona Beach Fla. The
storm was then tracked by the
weather service as it moved north
ward along the east coast.
This storm was callcd Barbara
because it is the second tropical
storm of 1953. The first, Alice,
formed south of Cuba in May and
I moved into the Gulf of Mexico
I but did riot reach hurricane force.
Jaycees Discuss
Sale of Bonds
The Morehead City Jaycees at
their meeting Monday night dis
cussed methods of promoting the
sale of the $8,000 bond issue which
will provide funds for the comple
tion of the new football field.
It was reported at the meeting
that 20 of the bonds have already
been sold with 60 more remaining
to be sold. .All members of the
club were urged to contact resi
dents and ask them to purchase
bonds.
The club voted to give a bond to
the member who sells the most
bonds before the drive ends. A
member must sell at least ten
bonds to be eligible for the prize.
The bonds may be obtained at the
First-Citizens Bank and Trust com
pany's Morehead City office.
Walter Morris reported that the
poles for the lights at the field
have arrived and are ready for in
stallation. The lighting fixtures
and transformers, which are be
ing shipped from Springfield. 111.,
have not yet arrived. Installation
of the lighting system and the new
bleachers will complete the work
on the field.
Dr. Russell Outlaw reported that
all the equipment for the team ia
now ready. He said that football
practice will begin next Thursday,
and the first game will be Sept. 11.
Final plans were made for the
outing held Tuesday night on the
Danco. Arrangements were made
for obtaining the necessary refresh
ments and the members were tokl
to be at the dock at 6:30 p.m.
The seven members who attend- i
ed last week's ninth district meet
ing in Kinston gave reports on the s
trip and the business which waf y
conducted at the meeting. j