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42nd YEAR, NO. 66. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. AUGUST 18. 1953 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Local , State Officials
To Set Bridge Opening
Good Com Crop
DamagedHeavily
The hurricane Thursday left the
county corn crop, one of the best
in years, flat on the ground, Alvin
C. Newsome, assistant county farm
agent, reported today.
On Friday, Mr. Newsome travel
ed over most of the county check
ing on possible crop damage from
the high winds and rain. "We fear
that the corn crop is almost a total
loss," he said.
Until the storm's advent the
prospects for the corn crop were
the best in years, he commented.
After the rains most of the corn
was beginning to dry up but was
not completely dry. The strong
winds toppled the mature and top
heavy stalks to the ground where
in many instances it was covered
with water.
The agent's office reported that
probably the best method for har
vesting the corn now is to "hog
off'' the crop by letting hogs gather
arid feed on the crop. If the torn
stays on the ground a total loss is
certain, but hogs can convert some
of the crop into a marketable prod
uct, he pointed out.
Other damage reported by farm
ers included trees uprooted, prac
tically all electric and telephone
service interrupted, and a small
amount of damage to farm build
ings. Mr. Newsome said that some
farmers thought the storm was the
worst since 1933.
The Carteret tobacco crop was
largely harvested before the storm
except for a few fields in scattered
parts of the county. Some damage
was done to these fields and to
other fields where the priming of
tobacco was incomplete. All the
plants in these fields were blown
down to the ground making prim
ing of the leaves very slow.
The only crop in the field not
damaged by the storm was the per
manent pastures^lthouf h auny of
these were under water.
? The date for the opening of the<
new bridge to Atlantic Beach will
probably be decided today.
R. Markham, division engineer
for the aecund highway diviiion,
will inspect the bridge and meet
with local officials to set the date
for the opening of the bridge.
George W. Dill, jr., mayor of
Morehead City, and Alfred B.
Cooper, mayor of Atlantic Beach,
are co-chairmen of a committee
planning a gala celebration to mark
the opening of the bridge.
The decision on the bridge was
to have been made last Thursday,
but Mr. Markham reported he
could not make the necessary in
spections and tests because of the
winds and rains that came in ad
vance of the hurricane.
Governor William B. Umstead
will be invited to cut the ribbon
officially opening the bridge. Many
other state and national officials
will be invited to participate in
the ceremonies.
Present plans call for the erec
tion of a speaker's platform on the
Morehead City approach to the
bridge where the ribbon will be
cut. Several brief speeches will be
made by officials and dignitaries
attending the celebration.
The Beaufort band will play at
the ceremony and tentative plans
call for band concerts during the
afternoon. A luncheon for all
guests at the ceremony will be
given at the Heart of the Beach.
Beach merchants are sponsoring a
free street dance that night from
8:30 to 12:30 to be interrupted by
a mammoth aerial fireworks dis
play at 10 o'clock which will cli
max the entertainment.
Committees of beach merchants
have been appointed and are work
ing on the preparations so that the
celebration can be held whenever
the hignway commission gives its
notice that the bridge may be put
in operation.
Plans for the bridge started in
1950 with the actual construction
starting in the fall of 1951. The
T. A. Loving company of Golds
boro was the general contractor
on the bridge which cost the state
more* (bio U- million in bond
funds.
Restoration of Telephone
Service Finished Monday
The Carolina Telephone and Tel--"
egraph company finally completed
restoration of its service in the
county yesterday, four days after
Thursday's storm.
The area which went the longest
without service was the north side
ol Arcndell street in Morehead
City. Telephone service in this
area was disrupted shortly before
noon on Thursday when under
ground cables became soaked with
water. Most of the service was
restored in the area by 5 a.m.
Sunday and the repairs were com
pleted yesterday morning.
L. A. Daniels local manager for
the company, said that the under
ground cable, containing 400 pairs
of lines became soaked by the
heavy rains which fell Thursday
and had to be replaced witK a new
cable on Bridges street. Splicers
finished installing the new cable
yesterday morning.
Toll circuits, which had been out
since the height of the storm, were
restored late Friday afternoon. Tel
ephone service in Beaufort, which
had gone out gradually during
Thursday afternoon, was also re
stored late Friday.
Mr. Daniels said that there was
only one time Thursday afternoon
when the entire county was without
telephone service. He said that
there was service on the south
side of Arcndell street during most
of the period. With the exception
of the north side of Arendell street,
most local service was restored Fri
day. The manager said that there
may be some scattered trouble
which has not yet been reported.
Mr. Daniels said that damage to
company lines and equipment waa
heavy but he has not yet been able
to make an accurate estimate of the
amount of the damage.
When the storm struck, Mr.
Daniels called for help from other
company offices and extra men and
equipment were sent in to asiat
with the restoration of service. Not
all of the extra men were working
at any one time, but a total of 90
extra men and ten extra trucks
supplemented the six men and
three trucks stationed in Morehead
City. The extra men and equip
ment came from Fayetteville,
Rocky Mount, New Bern and Wash
ington
. Equipment shipped in included
I water pumps, blowers and extra
I cable which were uaed in restoring
l,?nrk* in the oortbera part W
Uorebead City.
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Rotarians to Hear
District Governor
Charles McCullers of Hinston,
district governor of Rotary Inter
national, will make his visit to the
Beaufort Rotary club tonight. He
is visiting each of the 40 clubs in
the 22 counties of southeastern
North Carolina which nuke up his
district.
While in Beaufort he will con
fer with President Gene Smith and
Secretary W. L. Woodard and other
local officers on club administra
tion and service.
The annual club assembly of of
ficers, directors and committee
chairmen will be held at 5:45 p.m.
immediately before the regular
meeting at 6:45 at the Inlet Inn.
Mr. McCullers is the manager of
the Kinston chamber of commerce
and is a member and past president
of the Kinston Rotary club. He was
elected district governor at the an
nual Rotary convention in May in
Paris, France.
CP&L Action
Clears Damage
To meet the storm threat and
clean up damage in its wake, the
Carolina Power and Light company
sent nearly 100 men to Carteret
county Thursday, Friday and Satur
day.
"I've never seen anything like
it," said George Stovall, district
manager (or the utility. "We had
line crews running out of our ears."
The major trouble was near
Cherry Point. Two poles just out
side Cherry Point were pushed
over during the storm shorting the
line and cutting off all power to
Morehead City at 7:22 Thursday
night. Trees falling across the line
to Beaufort put it out of commis
sion at 5:32 but Beaufort was then
tied to the Morehead City line.
Two trees also caused breaks on
the Morehead City line. Mr. Stovall
said that the pole trouble at Cher
ry Point was largely caused by the
fact that the rain in rccent weeks
had softened the earth and the an
chors on the poles did not hold.
Four crews were dispatched to
Morehead City before the storm
struck and three crews and two
radio cars were sent soon after the
storm struck. Ten more crews and
two radio cars came in Friday
morning, four crews late Friday
afternoon. Approximately 300 miles
of line were affected by the storm.
The company used airplanes to pa
trol much of the line looking for
breaks. Two broken poles on the
Beaufort line were discovered from
the air. Cars and crews came from
points as far distant as Southern
Pines. Dunn, Clinton, Kinston,
Wilmington, and Wallace.
Mr. Stovall reported that damage
to the company's property in the
storm was very slight. The line
break at Cherry Point prevented
short circuits which might have
ned transformers throughout
county lauY in die storm, he
pointed out.
Pcwer was restored to Morehead
City at 5:17 Friday morning and
the line to Beaufort was cleared
at 7:35 Friday night. Prior to that
time Beaufort was fed from the
Morehead City line. By Saturday
morning, Mr. Stovall said that al
most all of the damage in the
county had been repaired.
Repairs were hampered by the
failure of telephone communica
tions, he said, which meant that
consumers could not report breaks
to the Morehead City office.
Many of the line crews worked
a full day Thursday, then were call
ed out and worked all night and
through Friday until 4 o'clock in
the afternoon. Mr. Stovall express
ed great satisfaction with the work
and the fact that no men suffered
injuries during the hazardous work.
On Friday 11. B. Robinson and
Joseph Richards, vice-presidents of
the company, and W. R. Doar, dis
tribution engineer, all of Raleigh,
came to Morehead City to help in
the operation. Other company of
ficials were T. H. Hall, division su
perirttendnt. Roger Stuart, division
line superviser, Bill Hayes, division
engineer, and N. E. Everson, di
vision right of way inspector, all
of Wilmington.
In the absence of telephone com
munications the line crews were
directed by radio from the More
head City office.
Storm Confuses State Papers
By Clare M. Cotton
Considering the damage that was
done, Carteret county was for
tunate that Barbara, the shy hur
ricane, couldn't read her press no
tices or follow the radio broadcasts
on her performance.
As one man put it after reading
a Raleigh newspaper Friday morn
ing, "Somebody's been destroyed.
Is there a Morehead City, South
Carolina?"
Unlike many ladies, Barbara eon
fused all the gentlemen recording
her actions for posterity by arriv
ing several hours ahead of sched
ule. This was, however, not the
only bit of confusion centered
about "our Barbara."
How fast did the wind get? This
is a good question and there seem
to be as many answers as there
are newspapers. One report up
state Included the suspiciously ac
curate figure of 103 miles per hour
at Cherry Point. This figure be
comes even more suspicious when
you read a release from the Cherry
Point public information office
which states the air station's wind
meter blew down in an 80-mile
gust and that was the highest re
corded on the base.
Storms in general are pretty
freakish things, but some people
in Morehead City had a few very
bad nmnaaft when they looked out
their windows and saw frogs ? it
was raining frogs. According to
reliable but unofficial sources, the
area around 24th and Bridges
streets was covered with thousands
of frogs at the height of the storm.
Included in those damage , fig
ure* was a boat in Lije Piner's ship
yard which was almost finished.
The waterspout which hit Marshall
berg Thursday morning, a little ad
vance notice of Barbara's visit,
lifted this boat into the air, trans
ported it several hundred feet, and
dropped it very much the worse
for travel.
Rumor has it that the boat was
being built for Dan Walker, Beau
fort's peripatetic philosopher, town
clerk, tax collector, manager of the
Tide Table
Tides it Beafart Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, Aug- 1*
1:18 a.m.
2:07 p.m.
8:47 p.m.
7:31 a.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 19
2:22 a.m.
1:10 p.m.
8:39 a.m.
8:53 p.m.
Tfcaraday, Aug. M
3:32 a a.
8:42 a m.
10:94 p.m.
4:1* p.m.
Friday, Aug. 21
4:38 la
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10:40 ajn.
11:4B PA.
Chamber of Commerce, clerk of the
recorder's court, and booster.
After Barbara passed us, she
flirted with the idea of improving
the fair city of New Bern by re
moving the Trent river bridge,
which must rank high in any "worst
bridge" contest. She dropped this
irfea throwing that inelegant piece
of steel *? ck to the highway com
mission. ?
When telegi service was re
stored, a national press association
wired Dan Wade, Morehead pho
tographer. asking for "disaster"
pictures. Hard pressed for just a
minute. Dan wired back "few tree
limbs down."
Finally, to show that she appre
ciates the appropriate and the dra
matic, Barbara blew down the
screen at the East Drive-In. The
movie for Thursday night was
"Trouble Along the Way."
SUrn Ruins Flaking
Fishermen who tried their luck
in waters around Morehead City
and Beaufort over the weekend re
ported almost no luck. Most of
them attributed the poor fishing
to fresh water left by Thursday's
storm. The U. S. Fish and Wild
life service laboratory at Piver's
Island reported that the salinity
of the water was about half or
ooraiaL
First Hurricane of Season Causes
Little Serious Damage in County
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Carolina Beach Youth Saved
By Officers Seeking Boats
Engineers Office Move
Opposed by Sfate Board
The state Board of Conservation
and Development meeting in Ra
leigh Friday voiced protest against
a proposal to abolish the Army en
gineers office in Wilmington and
consolidated with others in Nor
folk.
The district office of the corps
of engineers has been in Wilming
ton for 69 years. Governor Wil
liam R. Umstead joined the board
in passing a resolution asking that
the office be kept in Wilmington.
It is the only agency of the fed
eral government interested in
North Carolina's extensive water
resources, it was pointed out.
Closing the office would be
detrimental to the state, the reso
lution said. Eric Rodgers, a mem
ber of the board, emphasized that
North Carolina has a greater mile
age of inland waterways than any
other state with more inlets and
navigable rivers with which the en
gineers are particularly concerned.
At the special meeting of the
board conditional approval was
also given to the terms of a con
tract with the New York engineer
ing firm of Carson, Brickerhoff,
Hall and MacDonald for a survey
of eastern counties to inaugurate
a program of development of the
state's inland ports. The approval
was given after the proposal was
broadened to include industrial po
tential.
This survey of small, inland
ports is being made under the di
rection of the board's water re
sources committee. The North
Carolina Marine council with head
quarters in New Bern has been
spearheading the drive for inland
port development. Under present
plans the small ports would be un
der the direction of the C&D board
to work cooperatively with the
State Ports Authority. The SPA
manages the state's two deep
water ports at Morchead City and
Wilmington.
At the special meeting, Gov. Um
stead, who is acting as its chair
man. told the members he was
"deeply grateful" for the serious
approach they had taken to their
duties. He commented that the
members would probably find it
necessary to do extensive work be
tween the quarterly sessions of the
board.
The schedule for industrial de
velopment forums was released by
the board's industrial development
committee. The first will be held
tonight in Zebu Ion with Gov. Um
stead making the keynote address.
The others will be Marion, Sept.
1; Bryson City, Sept. 2; Statesville,
Sept. 14; Burlington. Sept. 24;
Scotland Neck. Oct. 6; Burgaw,
Oct. 13; Elizabeth City, Oct. 27;
Elizabethtown, Nov. 10; and South
ern Pines, Nov. 17.
Thirteen-Man REA Crew
Resides 390-Mile Line
Working around the clock, a 13-4
man crew from the Carteret-Craven
Electric Membership corporation
restored service to most of the 390
miles of power lines by 8 p.m. Sat
urday.
The REA crews, working without
any outside help, began work at
6 a.m. Friday and worked steadily
until 2 a.m. Saturday. After a few
hours of sleep, the crew began
work again and worked until 8 p.m.
The crews went out again Sunday
to make scattered repairs and went
out yesterday morning to patrol the
lines.
W. C. Carlton, manager of the
coop, said that most of the trouble
was caused by falling trees which
broke lines, ye said that there
were very few instances of wires
being blown down.
The damage to the coop's lines
was found in Merrimon, South
River, Harlowe, Mill Creek, Crab
Point, Newport and the various
communities along Bogue sound.
The most extensive damage was in
the Cherry Point-Havelock area
where there were more trees down
than in any other spot in the coop's
service area. Mr. Carlton said that
there were six trees down across
See REA, Page 3
Atlantic Postal
Job Still Open
Due to an insufficient number
of applications, the Civil Service
commission has extended the dead
line for applying for the post of
Atlantic postmaster until Aug. 25.
All applicants must have resided
for one year in Atlantic. The of
fice is a third class post office and
the pay is $3,400 per year.
Postmasters at third class of
fices have personal custody and
care of the stamp stock and all
funds, they personally keep and
submit all accounts, supervise one
or more employees, and must be
familiar with all the work of the
office.
A written test will be held in
New Bern to screen applicants.
The background of applicants
must show that they can meet and
deal with the public effectively
and that they are reliable citizens
who would command the respect
and confidence of the patrons of
the post office.
Applicants must also show that
their experience and training have
provided them with the ability to
maintain simple records of ac
counts or records of comparable
difficulty or have provided them
with a knowledge of postal pro
cedures.
The written examination will
consist of two parts. The first part
of the test will include 80 ques
tions of a general nature covering
verbal abilities, practical judg
ment. and arithmetic applied to
practical problems. The second
part of the test will consist of 45
questions on post office manage
ment. These questions call for ap
plication of official instructions to
common problems arising under
them.
Applications should be sent to
the Civil Service Commission,
Washington 25, D. C.
Old Patrol Boat Hatteras
Sinks After Hurrican*
The only boat reported sunk as
a result of Thursday's storm was
the old state patrol boat Hatteras
which went down Saturday after
noon at its dock on Piver's Island.
Vance Fulford, jr., of Beaufort,
caretaker of the boat said that it
began to leak after the storm and
began shipping water faster than
it could be pumped out. It ia
now resting on the bottom in about
ten feet of water. The cabin and
part of the deck and aid* are show
iag above watar.
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? LeRoy Paite, 17-ycar-old Caro
lina Bead) youth, was rescued Sun
day afternoon by two marine cap
tains looking for rowboats after
being lost and presumed dead as a
results of Thursday's hurricane.
The boy's ordeal included more
than 18 hours floating in the wa
ter, followed by two days' exposure
as he waited on a bombing target
near the Point of Marsh for possi
ble rescue.
"I kept telling myself, 'I'll make
if it's the last thing I do,' " Paite
told his rescuers.
Young Paite's near miraculous
rescue came long after the search
for him had been given up. Dur
ing that search, Capt. Joseph R.
Bolen, Cherry Point air-sea rescue
helicopter pilot, spotted some aban
doned rowboats near a target and
Sunday afternoon, he and
Capt. Walter S. Catlow took a Cher
ry Point boat to see if they were
salvageable.
By accident they stumbled onto
Paite and took him back to the air
station. The rescuc came none too
soon, since Marine Corps reservists
at Cherry Point have been prac
ticing their bombing since yester
day morning.
Thursday afternoon when the
hurricane struck, Paite was aboard
a powerless 42-foot boat being
towed from Norfolk to Carolina
Beach by Carl Winner, party boat
operator. The hawser between the
large craft and winner's smaller
towing boat snapped during the
storm and the youth's ordeal be
gan.
Soon after the rope parted, Paite
told rescuers Sunday his boat sank
and he was in the water floating on
a hatch cover. About noon Friday
he spotted the target area and was
able to work his way to it.
During the three day period,
Paite ate raw crabs and a tin of
K-ration jelly. When he was
checked at the air station his gen
eral condition was reported as good
except for the inevitable effects of
exposure.
His mother, Mrs. Exie Paite, was
hospitalized in Wilmington soon af
ter she had been informed that her
son was missing and presumed lost.
Paite was taken to Wilmington
Sunday night.
He told Marine Corps officers
that he saw the helicopters search
ing for him Friday but was unable
to attract the attention of any pilot.
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Old-Time Residents Say
Storm Only Mullet Blow'
By Bob Gately
Residents of Carteret eounty who had taken elaborate precautions
against Thursday's first storm of the season were wondering Friday
morning what had happened to the promised hurricane. Most of them
saw little damage from the high winds which had been expected to
cause extensive damage Thursday night.
For most people of the Morehead City-Beaufort area, recovering
Second Clinic
Attended by 44
G. T. Windell has reported that
44 persons attended the second or
thopedic clinic held Saturday at
the Morehead City hospital annex.
Mr. Windell said that the clinic
was attended by 26 adults and 18
children. Of the 44 who attended,
29 were new cases.
The clinic was directed by Dr.
Lennox Baker, chief orthopedist
at Duke hospital in Durham and
president of the North Carolina
Orthopedic association. Dr. Baker
was assigned to the clinic by the
state board of health.
Other* state representatives at
the clinic were Miss Lily Fentress
of the department for crippled chil
dren and H. A. Hendricks of
Greenville, rehabilitation special
ist. Dr. F. E. Hyde, acting health
officer, and Mrs. Leonard Lewis
represented the county health de
partment.
Volunteer workers at the clinic
were Mrs. W. C. Carlton. Miss Eliz
abeth Lambeth. Mrs. Alvah Hamil
ton, jr., Mrs. Frank Exum, Mrs.
Mattie Glancy and Mrs. Madge
Nelson. They handled the regis
trations at the clinic and assisted
the nurses in the examining room.
The clinic is sponsored by the
Morehead City RoUry club in co
operation with the county health
department and the state health
department. The clinic was set up
to provide diagnostic service and
some treatment for persons in the
county with various orthopedic ail
ments.
Mr. Windell, chairman of the
Rotary club committee in charge
of the clinic, said that he wishes
to commend H. L. Greene, hospital
superintendent, and his entire
staff for their cooperation during
the clinic.
Mr. Windell has also issued an
appeal for chairs which can be
used in the waiting room at the
clinic. At the . first two clinics,
chairs were obtained from the
recreation center and had to be
returned after each session. Mr.
Windell said that he hopes that
people who have serviceable chairs
will donate them to the clinic.
Fire Department Pumps
Flooded Beaufort Streets
The large pool of water on the
700 block of Ann street. Beaufort,
was finally drained Sunday morn
ing after Beaufort firemen had
pumped the water through storm
sewers to Taylor's creek.
Mayor Clifford T. Lewis ordered
the fire department to begin pump
ing Saturday morning after receiv
ing requests from residents of the
block. Ann street was closed to
traffic from Pollock to Marsh and
a fire truck began pumping opera
tions at about 9 a.m.
By mid-afternoon, much of the
water had been pumped down
Marsh street and into sewer lines
at Marsh and Front streets. Early
in the night, however, It became
apparent that the clogged drains
could not handle the water and it
began to back up into the street
almost as fast as it was pumped
out.
When the firemen finally ceased
pumping operations at about 9:30
p.m., the pool was rapidly reaching
its original size. Within an hour,
the street was again flooded and
water was reaching almost to the
front steps of houses in the neigh
borhood.
The fire department returned at
about 9 a.m. Sunday and resumed
pumping operations. By this time
the drains had cleared enough to
handle the water, and the street
was cleared in about two hours.
Thr firemen then began pumping
out some of the streets and flood
ed yards in the northern part of
town.
The pump on the truck was op
erating at about 290 gallons per
minute, and more than 200.000 gal
lons of water were pumped from
the street during the approximate
ly 14 hours of operations.
The street had been flooded
since Thursday morning when the
heavy rain which accompanied the
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Morehead Calls
Zoning Hearing
The Morehead City board of com
missioners has called a public hear
ing for Thursday night, Aug. 27,
to hear opinions on the zoning of
the area recently annexed to the
city.
Before the annexed areas were
taken into the city the property
was not restricted as to zoning
regulations. The commissioners
are asking that resident* and inter
ested citizens attend the hearing
so that all sides may be heard.
The area annexed is west and
north of the old city limits between
highway 70 and the sound west
ward to the Camp Glenn state prop
erty line.
During the annexation cam
paigns residents of the city south of
Arendell street and west of 28th
street were particularly anxious
that restrictions be placed on the
property north of the railroad
which was at that time not in the
city. They pointed out that prop
erty values would plummet if low
grade commercial buildings were
constructed directly across the
street and railroad from their
homes.
The zoning question has assumed
importance largely because of the
relocation of highway 70 to come
down Arendell street. Before the
annexation one side of the high
way would have been in town and
the other side out of town. The
annexation now gives the city con
trol of both sides.
The city may zone the property
to be used exclusively for residen
tial dwellings, business buildings
w inriviftrUl
?from the effects of the hurricane
meant only clearing away a few
fallen trees and limbs which litter
ed some streets and yards or mop
ping up water which had collected
during the driving rain.
Few people suffered any exten
sive damage to property during the
storm and there were no casualties
in the county. Most of the damage
consisted of shingles torn from
roofs and only a few scattered
places reported any heavy dam
age. The greatest annoyance for
most people was the interruption of
utilities services during and after
the storm.
The reaction of many residents
was that the threatened hurricane
had not turned out to t>e much of
a storm. Several old-timers, when
asked what they thought ibout the
| storm, said, "What storm? We've
had more wind than that in mullet
blows."
The worst of the storm struck
in Morehead City and Beaufort be
tween 5 and ti p.m. about three
hours before it was expected. The
storm reached its peak at about
5:30 when high winds swept
through both towns. Driving rains
which aceompanied the wind ob
scured vision and made travel al
most impossible.
There are no instruments in the
Morehead City area for measuring
wind velocity, but it was estimated
that the wind at the height of the
storm never exceeded 80 miles per
hour and was probably less than
that. Winds at Cherry Point
reached 80 miles per hour when the
indicator blew down. It had been
predicted that winds at the center
of the storm would reach about 120
miles per hour.
Many Leave
After the worst part of the
storm had passed Morehead City,
it was still believed that even more
severe winds would strike at about
8 p.m. Many people who had weath
ered the early blow left and head
ed inland in an effort to escape the
rest of the storm.
Winds increased in velocity at
about 8 but did not reach the in
tensity of those at 5:30. Strong
winds continued, however, until
early Friday morning. Those who
left to go inland said that they ran
into the storm again in the vicinity
of Cherry Point and Havelock.
After passing over the Morehead
City-Beaufort area the storm con
tinued inland to Newport, Cherry
Point and Havelock. At New Bern
the storm headed north along the
coast of North Carolina and Vir
ginia. Heavy damage, especially
to crops, was reported in several
eastern Carolina counties.
High winds and heavy seas ac
companied the storm as it passed
over the Virginia coast and Chesa
peake bay. Gale winds were also
reported in Maryland and Virginia.
As the storm continued up the
coast it turned more out to sea. It
passed the eastern tip of I.ong Is
land Friday night and continued
along the New England coast.
Southeastern New England was
buffeted by gales and abnormally
high tides from the fringe of the
storm.
The heaviest damage in More
head City was at the Yacht Basin
where two cement block walls were
blown out of the side and back of
a boat storage shed. The roof sup
ports and the roof of the structure
were left standing.
Car Demolished
One of the falling walls demol
ished a car which had been parked
beside the building. The car was
almost completely buried under the
pile of cement blocks and shattered
glau.
A trailer owned by Warren Sty
ron, dock master at the basin, was
also damaged by one of the fal
ling walls. One end of the trailer
was crushed when the wall fell
on it. Mrs. Styron, who was in the
trailer at the time, escaped unin
jured.
Television antennas and signs
were also blown down by the north
east winds which struck the Yacht
Basin at about 5:30. None of the
expensive boats moored at the
basin dock or in the damaged shed
were damaged during the storm.
The most extensive damage in
Morehead City was confined to the
area around the Yacht Basin In the
northeast end of the city. Tree*
and light and telephone lines were
down on several blocks of Bay,
Fisher and Bridges streets tnm,
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