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.
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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 <he 1953 Gen
eral Assembly. It waa recommend
ed by Governor Umstead and waa
pushed by the North Carolina
Coastal Marine Council.
At Mr. Smith's suggestion, the
C&D committee voted to accept the
See CAP, Page 2
Phillip Ball, George Brooks
Vie for Surveyor's Post
Phillip K Ball, Morehead City,
seek.vig re-election as county
surveyor on the Democratic
ticket, was born in Raleigh Oct.
1. 1896
He attended grammar school and
high school in Raleigh and entered
the Army in June of 1918.
He attended officer's training
school while in the Army and after
hia discharge enrolled at the Uni
versity of Washington at Seattle
in 1819. He was a member of Kap
pa Sigma fraternity and majored
in engineering and business admin
istration.
He has been a surveyor, land
scape architect and engineer for
the past 30 years.
Mr. Ball has served as county
surveyor for approximately 20
years.
He married Mrs. William E.
Baughara, of Washington, N. C., in
December of 1943 and has three
stepchildren, Mrs. Graham Elliott,
Waahlngton, N. C., Mrs. Alex C.
Bonner, Irving, Tex., and Capt.
William E. Baugham, Fort Hood,
Tex.
Mr. Ball is a member of the
Epiacopal Church and the North
Carolina Society of' Engineers. He
alao belongs to the Society of
American Military Engineers and
the American Society of Engineer*.
George Brooks, a native ol Beau
fort, who is running (or county
surveyor on the Republican ticket,
has been in the surveying and en
gineering business ever since his
return to Beaufort after the first
world war.
Mr. Brooks was graduated from
Beaufort High School and attend
ed Wake Forest and State College.
While in the Army he studied road
construction at Edinburgh Univer
sity, Scotland. He was a captain in
the Corps of Engineers.
In 1817 he attended the War
College at Washington. D. C.
Mr. Brooks is married to the for
mer Sarah Parkin of Beaufort.
Their daughter. Bitay. is now a
sophomore at Kast Carolina Col
lege. Greenville.
They have five grandchildren.
M/Egt. George Brooks, now sta
tioned in Austria, has two daugh
ter*, and Mrs. Richard K. Williams,
Alexandria, Va., wife of Major
William* who is serving with the
Army at the Pentagon, has three
youngsters.
Mr. Brooks is a member of the
Masons and Elks and belongs to
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Beau
fort.
Mr. Brooks ia a past exalted ruler
of Morehead-Beaufort Elks Lodge
No. 1710.
Welfare Department
Distributes A&P Food
Mix Georgie Hughe*, superin
tendent of the County Welfare De
partment. said yesterday that all
o< the hurricane-damaged food in
the A4P Store, Beaufort, waa not
destroyed.
Cart Short, district manager of
the A*P, told THE NEWS-TIMES
last wHk that none of the food waa
edible, but Miss Hughes ??ld it was
later decided that the food could
b? safely consumed if it were used
within a few days.
Miss Hughes said the welfare de
partment. with the cooperation of
ministers and the sheriffs depart
packed the food and dis
tributed it te needy families, ask
ing that they wasa all cans and use
She si id that W. P. Freeman,
Morehesd City, " and Paul Jones,
Beaufort, eatimated the value o f
the salvaged food at 12,300.
"We perhaps could have done a
better job of getting the food to
folk! who needed it," Mias Hughes
commented, "but it had to be done
in a hurry and we did the best we
could"
Fear Guests Attend
Four guests attended the meet
ing of the Morebead City Rotary
Club Thursday night. They were
L. S. S pence, Melbourne, Fla.,
Lee Nance. Aydea; 0. T. Mkdyettr.
Oriental, and Jack Lewis, More
bead City, wfc* was a guest at
BoUrUn H. auto Msklsy.