W CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ?<>' 43rd YEAR, NO. 86. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1954 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS In Case You Didn't Get a Friday Paper ... Typical of many of the ocean froai cottages is this one with a collapsed front. Many otheri were more aeverely damaged. National Guard Unit Continues On Active Duty Commanding Officer Re views Outfit's Service Since Hurricane National Guardsmen from, the Beaufort unit were still on duty this week with a definite date still not set for termination of active duty which began Sunday night, Oct. 17. First Lt. Norman Masters, battery commander, stated that the entire personnel of the unit would be available to county and city authorities as long as they were needed. The unit. Battery A of the 295th Field Artillery battalion, was call ed on active duty Oct. 17 before midnight and within an hour mem bers of the unit began the 24 hour continuous guard duty at Atlantic Beach. Other areas served by the unit included personnel stationed at the North River bridge on Highway 70. assisting the highway department and Marines from Camp Lejeune in keeping urgent supplies and passengers moving across the river. Personnel has also been stationed at the Beaufort bridge around the clock since Monday afternoon. jljjljiojLtbe State Highway patrol men iff prohibiting vehicles e*cWlT" ing the three-ton gross limit from crossing the span. Full cooperation was Wn| given Carteret Sheriff Hugh Salter and his staff, as well as the police forces of Beaufort and Atlantic Beach. Lieutenant Masters, in a state ment yesterday, said that he was ? glad, that the unit was available to assist in the emergency. Full authorization was given him by the Adjutant General's office in Ra leigh the day of the hurricane to call the unit on active duty at his discretion. Much good could have been accomplished, he added, at the beach Friday night and Sat urday morning to stop the reported heavy looting that took place with in hours following the storm. No formal request was made for the battery's services, however, un til Sunday afternoon when Sheriff Salter requested the aid of the unit to help in guarding the beach and other areas, according to the lieu tenant Members Volunteer Various members of the unit vol unteered their services Friday and assisted the Beaufort police in guarding the Front street area and business district all night Fri day in an effort to prevent looting. One of the battery's trucks was pressed into service on the east See NATIONAL GUARD, Page 7 Parents of Girl Scouts to Meet All parent* of Girl Scout* In the county are requested to attend a meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Scout Building. Pollock Street, Beaufort. At the meeting plana will be made for the Girl Scout drive in the county Nov. 1-H. Car teret'* quota this year la (1.290.48. "Your interest and rapport will determine whether our county< stays a member of the council thia year," Mrs. W. I. Loftin. Beaufort, said yesterday. This past year waa the ffrst time Girl Scouting in Car teret had council affiliation. "We need trained leaders for these girl* who are to be our lead era in the future. Parents you owe It to your girls. Don't allow some one else to sh?lder your re*pon*i bilities." Mrs. Loftin said. "If it It Impossible for you to be pre*ent Thursday night, write your daughter's leader s card, or write to me if your daughter hunt registered this year. Scout troop* should be organteed east of Beau fort. Pleaae attend this meeting if you are interested," Mrs. Loftin concluded. Officer* from the office In Qolds boro will be present. Mrs. Loftin Is district chairman for the Car teret Girl Scout*. Looking southeast across the Beaufort-Morehea d City causeway, the sightseer got an eyeful of the de struction property owners withstood there. I I Ifci nil ? u^iimij mHiUitlMg WHH WW II HW Ij Willi linn' Ha1 bridge in juflt five days. This shows the west end of the bridge as it appeared the day after crews started work. The Atlantic Beach Hotel lost its front porch, boardwalk and dining room walls in the storm. The concrete block wall in front of the Ocean King Hotel col lapsed, as did the roof. The rear part of the hotel, away from the ocean la being used to accommodate guests. fttrtMlrii "WAi ' I iHt 'Ml In the right foreground above ta all that remain a of the akiting rink oe Shepard Street hi Mare head CHy. At the left a tin roof haa craahed between the two qpdar tree*, knocking down the porch of the brown ihlngled houae. (More pictarea appear oa page ?). Telephone Official Makes Report on Line Repairs Although virtually 100 percent of the long diitanre circuit* and an rati mated 30.000 telephone* of Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company were knocked out by Hurricane Haiel. employees of the company are well on the way to reatoratloo of normal service This was disclosed today by W. C. Dallow, district commercial man ager. Working the longest possible hours, every day since last Friday, the men of the telephone company, with prearranged outside aula tanee. restored better than 80 per cent of (he damaged long distance circuits In leas than four days after the storm hit. Lonnie Daniels, manager of the Carolina Telephone and Tale graph Co. in this county, yesterday ex pressed thanks to the nine tele phone crewmen of Southern Bell who were lent here to halp make repair*. They were P. H. Alexander and J. E Spears, both of Anderson, S. C.; 1. E. Barton, C. T. Scott and Carlo* Scott, all of Gj-eenvllle, S. C.; D. D. Zimmerman, E. B Tollotson. 1. H. Long, and W. J. Ware, all of Spartanburg, S. C. The men came in Wedneaday and have now left to nelp make repair* at Weldon and Ahotkle Mr. Daniel* said telephone Mr vice in the county was ju*t about back to normal Saturday night. Yesterday call* could be made any where in the county, aa well aa See PHONES, faff 7 Mai I boat Operate* Despite Shoaling Atlantic Ocraeohe mallboat to operating dei pit* itKulinf of the Wainwright Slough portion of the Pamlico Sound-Beaufort Har bor channel. Army cnglneera have tamed bids for rratoriag the cbaanel with bid op*ntag art for Nor. 2 and actual dredging arhednled to begin Nov. It. It to believed that It diya will be required for dredging. Piano Pooted The Corpa of Engineora an nounces that more detailed plana have been polled on waterway! projacta undertaken by Troy Hoc ria Jr. and Cannon Boat Work*. The projects are located o* Pelle tler Creek weat of Morehead City. The plana are pouted in the More bead City poa Iodic* Board Will Weigh Police Issue at Meeting Tonight County Farmers Suffer From Saltwater Damage By ALVIN C. NEWSOME Assistant County Agent It is evident to all passing through Carteret County that Hur ricane Hazel dealt this area a se vere blow. Buildings, boats, homes, piers, and other property have re ceived untold damage due to water and winds. After travelling through a good part of northeastern North Carolina, one can see the wide spread damage of the storm. Wind damage seems to be the worst in that area ever experienced. In fact no storm has ever done such wide spread damage in the state so far as I can find out. The farm people of the county have reported quite widespread damage to crops, land and build ings. Probably the greatest loss was experienced by the sweet pota to growers of the eastern section of the county. The communities of Bcttie and Otway have reported salt water covering a majority of the area for several hours. Roy Keller of Bettie reported 16 acres of potatoes covcred by water. Warren Glllikin ?and Clarence Finer in the Otway community re poit their potato Tields were cov ered also. Salt water will kill al most any kind of plant growing jn land. The potato vines are dead or soon will be dried up. As 1 see it, the only hope for those having sweet potatoes covered by water is to dig them as soon as you can set in the field. Usually the most of our pota 'oes are dug from the last week in October on until they are all dug. With the vines dead you can expect fhe potatoes to rot in about a week. So the only way to save your crop ia to dig it and sell it as soom as possible. 1 don't believe it would be advisabfc to try to store pita toes cover by salt water. How 1 ?ra Qui -sure abotu that. When we get more information on See FARMS, Page 7 j Hurricane Pictures Re-Run to Meet Demand Because Fridays NEWS TIMES was a complete sell out, I pictures of the hurricane dam | age are being reprinted in this issue, along with sou>4 new ; photos. We regret that all of the or ders received for Friday's paper cannot be filled and hope that the re-running of the pictures in today's paper will In part meet the demand for pictorial reports | of Hurricane Hazel. ? The Editor. Property Owners At Beach Will Meet Sunday A. B. Cooper, mayor of Atlantic Beach, announced yesterday that beach property owners have been invited to a meeting at 11 o'clock Sunday mornin'g at the Heart of the Beach. The meeting has been called by the mayor and town board to in form property owners of progress made in clearing up the after-ef fects of the storm and to discuss plans for rebuilding. May&r Cooper said he is espe cially anxious to have ocean-front property owners and beach busi nessmen attend. The town of Atlantic Beach has hired bulldozers, trucks and crews to clear streets and move debris. The mayor said that some persons still are not able to reach their homes, but most of them now have access to their cottages. ~A few, he added, have started to , make repairs. National Guardsmen at the Beach went off duty Sunday night but an extra police officer is still on duty. Road Official Thanks Beaufort for Bulldozer John L. Humphrey, county road superintendent, expressed his thanks today to Dan L. Walker. Beaufort town clerk and the town of Beaufort for loaning Beaufort's bulldozer to clear hurricane debris from the causeway. "All of our equipment was tied up behind the North River bridge which was washed out by the storm, and the highway department would have been unable to cope with the vital causeway situation had it not been for Beaufort town crew help," Mr. Humphrey said. An ocean ironi view oi ine Heart of ui?Beach apartment*. la Uiii building, undamaged on the land aide, property owners at Atlantic Beach will meet at 11 a.m. Sunday. I Beaufort Draw Open to Cars "Now it's open, now it's not" seems tp be the itory on the Beau fort drawbridge. At presstime yesterday, the bridge, though cracked and sadly sagging, was open to all vehicle* three gross tons and under. At 2 p.m. Saturday it was closed to both foot and vehicular traffic but was reopened at 9 p.m. to peo ple wanting to walk across. Twen ty-four hours later It was reopened to vehicles. That was at S p.m. Sunday. Then a few hours later it was stated that it may have to be closed again to cars, but inatead It re mained open. The status at press time was the same as It was last Tuesday: open to all vehicles of three gross tons or leae. The draw can be opened an4 closed to let water traffic through. Repairs to U? bridge, damaged by the hurricane, are being made by the State Highway Department and Numa Sure, Beaufort contrac tor. , * I Newport Carnival To Start at 5 P.M. The Halloween Carnival at New port School will get underway Fri day at 5 p.m. with a supper in the school cafetetia. Barbecue, chicken salad plates, hot dogs, pies, cakea, popcorn, peanuts, candy, coffee and soft drinks will be sold. At 5:30 booths will open. There will be a gift shop, grab bag, flak ing pond, photo shop, spook room, bingo, duck pond and fortune tell inf. In addition to a program in the auditorium at 7 p.m. there will be a costume parade and cake walk. Tides at the Beaafert Bar Tide Table HIGH LOW Tuesday, Oct U 7:44 a.m. 7:55 p.m. 1:77 a m 2 09 p.m. Wednesday, Oct 17 8:20 a.m. 8:30 p.m. 2:03 a.m. 2:40 p.m. Thursday, Oct tt 8:54 a.m. ?:06 p.m 2:37 a.m. 3:31 p.aa. Friday, Oct ? 0:29 a.m. 9:40 Mt 3:09 aja. * M p *. ? What Beaufort's Town Board, meeting in special session tonight at 8 o'clock in the town hall, will decide about sus pended Chief of Police M. E. Guy is anybody's guess. Based on its past record of vacillation and womanly mind-changing, the odds favor reinstatement of Guy. The board, with Comissioner Carl Hatsell absent, order (Ml dismissal of Guy at a special* meeting last Tuesday night. Guy claims a technieal foul on the grounds that notice of the special meeting was not given the com missioners 24 hours in advance as required by the Beaufort charter. Mayor Clifford Lewis has seen to it that there will be no techni cal foul surrounding tonight's meet ing. He sent notice of it to all commissioners last Friday. Mayor Steps Down It was Mayor Lewis who made the motion to dismiss Guy. Un ier Robert's rules of parliamentary law he relinquished his chair to Commissioner (mayor pro-tem) W G. Temple. The only votes not polled in favor of Guy's dismissal were those of absent Hatsell and Temple. Temple, as acting mayor, could not vote. Mayor Lewis, who was appointed acting police chief by the commis sioners relieved Guy of badge, gun, and prowl car Wednesday. Thursday night a meeting of three of the commissioners. Hat sell, Temple and Gordon Hardesty, was held in Guy's Front Street apartment where they decreed that Guy was still chief as he claimed. Just previous to that impromptu meeting, virtually secret. Commis sioner Gerald Hill had been a caller at Guy's apartment, but as a member of the staff of Johnson Saunders' dry cleaning establish merit to pick up Guy's police uni form for cleaning. Phone to Clerk The trio not only decreed that Guy was still chief but phoned Town Clerk Dan Walker to return eun. badge, uniform and prowl car to Guy. Walker phoned Mayor Lewis and the mayor, in the dual capacities of mayor and acting police chief ordered Gay's suspension on {he grounds that Guy had sold town property, a .confiscated gup. and nad been gvilty of other charge* of conduct not befitting a chief of police. Since then, and until conclusion of tonight's board meeting. Beau fort will buzz with speculation. If the commissioners stick to their last Tuesday night decision on this Tuesday night, Guy is out. C&D Official Feels Survey Of Little Help Fisheries Commissioner Estimates Industry's Losses at $1,750,000 The fall session of the State Board of Conservation and Develop ment in progress at the Hotel Bar ringer, Charlotte, is expected to probe the $47,000 survey of Inland Waterway potential and consider Assistant Fisheries Commissioner C. Gehrmann Holland's report that Hurricane Hazel damaged commer cial fi^hinji by $1,750,000. Criticism of the waterways re port came from Miles J. Smith of Salisbury, vice chairman of the CIcD board and chairman of its Committee on Water Resources, Inlets and Coastal Waterways. He made his statements in a prelim inary committee meeting. "I'm disappointed in the report," Mr. Smith flatly advised his com mittee. "I had hoped it would pin point industrial opportunity for Eastern North Carolina, which sorely needs it." He described the report as "very general" but said it is "of tome value." "It has gotten together much worthwhile information." Mr. Smith said, "some of which already was available in other publications." The report was prepared by the New York engineering firm of Hall. Paraons, Brmrkc/4)off and McDonald. The $47,000 for the sur vey was provided by