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44th YEAR. NO. M. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. AUGUST 12, 1965 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Carteret Battens Down for Connie
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Origin of Hurricane, Course
It Will Take, Defies Analysis
Red Cross Workers Move
In With Storm Approach
With the information that the-*
hurricane was moving northward
to the Cape Lookout area, Red
Cross workers started coming in
here late Tuesday afternoon.
Headquartered at Morehead City
were Frank Hollowell, Goldsboro:
Lynn Warren, Southern Pines, and
Mrs. Janet Benedict, Camp Le
jcune.
Refugee centers were established
throughout the county at the
school and teacherage, Atlantic;
the Sea Level Inn. Smyrna School,
the courthouse at Beaufort, Queen
Street School at Beaufort, the mu
nicipal building at Morehead City,
and W. S. King School at More
head.
Churches and other schools in
the area were opened to take carc
of folks who were in the predicted
path of wind and high water.
Among thi-m were the Swanaboro
grammar school, the Mormon Rec
reation Center on Harkers Island,
and the Bogue Sound Club.
Irvin Davis, chairman of the
County Red Cross Chapter, request
ed persons taking refuge in the
designated centers to bring their
own food and bedding and any spe
cial food needed for babies.
Moose Offer Aid
Put at the disposal of the Red
Cross by members of the Moose
Lodge was the lodge home on
Bridges Street just west of 28th.
In charge of the refugee center
at Atlantic was Cecil Morris and
members of the school faculty and
at Beaufort J. D. Potter.
Very few people turned up at
the refugee centers Wednesday.
From 20 to 23 persons from Salter
Path were at the Morehead City
Municipal Building, but the rela
tively calm weather was not con
ducive to urging people to safer
ground.
The picture changed, however,
Wednesday night. Approximately
-40 people, refugee* from Atlantic
Beach and quite ? few from Salter
Path staved at the Morehead City
Municipal Building. The Red Cross
served sandwiches, coffee and nlilk
Wednesday night.
Cote Seat
Cherry Point sent 200 cots to
Morehead City at 4 o'clock yester
day morning. Members of the po
lice department set the cots up.
Before they came, people were
sleeping on mattresses from the
jail.
Some of the cots were sent to
the courthouse in Beaufort and the
remainder were kept in reserve at
the Morehead City Municipal Build
ing.
Hotels in Morehead City were
accommodating storm refugees.
The lobby of the Jefferson was
full of people all We<inesday
night.
It was reported that 100 to 190
persons from Salter Path went to
Cherry Point and about half a
dozen persons had taken refuge in
the W. S. King SchooL
After Hurricane
Passes...
The United States Weather Bu
reau has issued eight safety meas
ures to be observed after a hurri
cane passes:
1. If medical care is needed, go
to a Red Cross disaster station.
X Don't touch loose or dangling
wires. Report such to power com
pany or nearest police mah.
3. Report broken sewer or water
mains.
4. Guard against spoiled food in
electric refrigerators or deep
freeters if power has been off for
any length of time.
9. Remove any temporary shut
ters and store (or fimire use.
9. Remain away from disaster
areas unless qualified to furnish
valuable assistance.
T. Drive cautiously as debris can
be dangerous and nods may be un
dermined it not flooded.
8. Be alert to prevent fires. Low
ered water pressure makes fire
fighting difficult.
Btaufqrt Play* It Safe,
Remove* Periling Meter*
Remembering the terrific lass
experienced during Hasel, Dan
Walker, town clerk, had all park
ing meter heads removed la Qeau
fort Tuesday.
. During Hasel, v saltwater ruined
* the works In the meters and the
town had to replace them fell with
rebuilt one*.
Along the
Hurricane Trail
. . . Pelletier Creek and Coral i
Ray bristling with boats, look- 1
in? like a miniature United i
States Navy had pulled in.
. . . Husband, who owns house 1
on Bogue Sound: Darling, do
you want to stay here or go back
upstate? |
Wife: Listen, the last time the
insurance companies said it was
water. I want to stay and SEE
what it was. J
. . . Local radio announcer do- j
ing a double take Wednesday
when he starts to read, "Streets ,
of Morehead City underwater" |
then adds, "It sez here." i
. . . Standby power company 1
crews, in their orange shirts, loll- I
ing around the CP&L office wait
ing for Connie. I
. . . Dan Walker, disgusted at 1
Connie's approach when Beau
fort hasn't even recovered yet
from Hazel, told General Griffin, '
state civil defense director, that
Connie was not his idea.
. . . Picture of what the well- j
dressed man should wear in a
hurricane was Dick McClain, who '
turned up at his office in More- J
head City yesterday wearing
shorts and a raincoat.
. . . Agassiz Coast Guardsman, (
puzzled at stationary tactics of
Connie Wednesday, said. "She
speakv Spanish and haan't read J
Bowditcb." (Bowditch is an
America mathematician who
wrote a book on how hurricanes
should behave).
Fire Damages
Sutton House
Three hundred dollars damage
was caused to the home o( Mr.
and Mrs. William Sutton, Beau
fort, at 9 o'clock Saturday night
when hot grease caught (ire in the
kitchen.
Mr Sutton said that the) were
getting ready to broil steaks in
the back yard and Mrs. Sutton was
heating (at in the kitchen to make
(rench fries.
While she was out in the yard,
however, the fat caught (ire. Mr.
Sutton and the couple viaiting
them rushed into the houae and
tried to put the (i?r out by throw
ing water on it, but that just
caused the (at to explode and
spread throughout the kitchen.
By using blankets, the (lames
were finally beat out, but only ?f
ter most of the kitchen had been
damaged. All dishes, pots and pans
were lost.
The Beaufort Fire Department
was not called. "We were too busy
trying to get the (ire out," Mr.
Sutton said. He (eared (or a while
that the whole house would go up
in (lames.
A (ire man from the Beau(ort
department went to the home Sun
day to inspect damage. The Sut
tons live in a frame house at Sun- i
shine Court on Eaat Front Street i
Town Officials
Ponder Price Tag
Town o((icials throughout Car- i
teret were concerned yesterday I
over how much it would cost them i
to pull out o( this slotta. I
They are dreading clogged sew- i
ers. streets littered -with debris and I
rolling equipment drenched with I
saltwater.
Hoyle Greene, administrator of I
the More (lead City Hoapital. said at i
noon yesterday that water had not I
yet entered the basement of the <
hoapital. All equipment that could '
be moved was taken out of the
basement ?nd patients were moved
te upper floors.
Port Calendar
8. 8. Atlaatk Explarer ? Left
Aruba Saturday and is due at
Aviation Fuel Terminals with Jfet
fuel this weekend U the hurri
cane doesn't Interfere with her
schedule.
U8N8 Tecwiic ? Will unload
aviation gas at the Aviation Fuel
Terminal Thursday, Aug. .18.
Port of departure was Marcus
Hook, Pa
By EARL UBELL
Science Editor
New York Herald Tribune
Hurricanes are the most unpre
dictable in behavi&r of all weather
phenomena. Their ortgini and the
tracks they will follow are among
the thorniest question marks in
the entire scientific field . . .
Weather scientists know little
about these storms that pack more
energy than a doien hydrogen
bombs. They are trying to learn
more by flying Navy and Air Force
bombers into their centers, using
radar to track their courses, and
applying high-powered mathema
tics to gain insight into their basic
mechanisms.
They do know that late summer
>nd fall is the hurricane season.
They know that the belt of com
pressed air that forms across the
Atlantic from Bermuda to the
Azores has something to do with
the gathering of wet. hot air from
>11 over the Caribbean.
They know that there is a layer
it cool air that comes from the
northwest from somewhere in
upper Canada -that forms over
this warm air, stirring it a< a cold
towel docs a prizefighter's face.
And they know that the spin of
the earth gives the hurricane its
whirl.
Energy From Sun
All the energy for the storm
?mes from the sun, which heats
up a vast area of air and water
just below Bermuda. The warm,
wet air rimt, like steam from a
kettle. The water in the air in va
por form has SM alories for every
gram of water.
As the rising warm air hits that
cold overhead layer, it condenses
into rain, just as if it had hit a
cold window pane. The 550 calories
tor each gram of water are re
leased into heat, warming the air
still more and making more of it
rise still faster.
Partial Vaoram
With all this air goihg up plus
all the heat released fai tons of
rain, a partial vacuum *? faT*
Warm, wet air from all over to*
Caribbean rushes in to fill Um va
cuum.
Because the earth is spinning,
the winds, now reaching velocities
close to 200 miles an hour, begin
to spiral counter-clockwise over a
500-mile radius. The effect is
somewhat like water plunging
down a drain, only in a hurricane,
when the air reaches the storm
area, it rises upward.
Not ail the air rises in the hur
ricane area. At the very center,
there is a down current. This dis
sipates the clouds and prevents
the high-speed winds from join
ing to dead center. This center if
the baffling eye of the storm
where the sun sometimes shines
through.
Hints, Not Evidence
But this explanation only hinta
at the formation of the hurricane
itself.
What causes the storm to move
northward? The cause lies in su
per-highspeed broad rivers of air
at 40,000 feet. These Jet streams
move at speeds of more than 190
miles an hour, but they rarely get
down to earth.
Aa the riaing air from the hurri
cane hita one of these jet streams,
the jet? in an unexplained way
takes the hurricane in ita grasp
and pulls it along. Most of the jet
streams go north, but their courses
can b* erratic, making the course
of the hurricane erratic, Mo.
Therefore the problem of pre
dicting where a hurricane will go
is really one of tracking the jet
streaaia (a tough job at 40,000
feet), and then determining which
of these jet streams will carry a
hurricane along.
?The hurricane can maintain it
?elf through its air-raising, water
condenaihg mechanics over water,
but once it hits land, the friction
ot houses, trees and hilla Ukes up
much of the energy. In a rather
ihort distance of unaccustomed
land travel, the hurricane is us
ually spent
Some believe that the explosion
>f atomic bombs haa generated
new weather conditions, but there
? no sure evidence to relate these
explosions to hurricanes.
Tick TobU
Tides at the Beaofert Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday. Aug. II
1:20 a.m. S:50 a.m.
I:0B p.m. 9:58 p.m.
Saturday. A?. It
1:37 a.m. 10:03 a.m.
|:1< p.m. 10:57 p.n
Sunday, Aug. 14
I S3 |.*i. 11:04 a.m. I
1:31 p a 11:53 p.m.
?today. Aug. IS '
l:M a.m. '
1:33 p.m. 13:03 p.m.
T?me4?r, Aug. 14
1:53 a.m. ? 13:45 *.m.
M3 PJB. 13:57 p.
Safety Record Noted
Photo by Jerry Schumacher
Ottis Purifoy, More head City member of the American Automobile Association, presents a certificate
to Police Chief Herbert Griffin of the Mwhead City department as Mayor George Dill looks on. The
presentation marks the fifth year In succession that Morehead City has received a certificate for no pe
destrian fatalities. The awards were started in 1950, and according to Chief Griffin, Morehead City hasn't
had a pedestrian fatality since 1942.
James Denning, Civil Defense
Official, Arrives in County
Governor Rushes
Back from Chicago
Gvr Lather Hodge* flew back
l? lUletfh Wednesday from the
governors' conference in Chicago
when he was advised that Con
nie would probably hit the North
Carolina coast
Governor Hodges phoned
Mayor George W. Dill of More
head City Wednesday night to
check nn conditions in this area.
Mayor Dill said the governor was
contacting mayors of towns all
along the coast to see what
preparations had been made to
cope with the storm.
Jaycees Discuss
Plans for Dance
Plans for a dance Friday night,
Aug. 26, were discussed at Mon
day night's meeting of the More
head City Jaycees at the Hotel Fort
Macon.
Chairman of the- dance Is Her
bert Phillips, With L. G. Dunn,
Luther Lewis and Hal Shapiro on
the committee.
The dance will be held in one
of the warehouse buildings at the
Port Terminal, according to Mr.
Phillips.
L. G. Dunn, chairman of the
football committee, announced that
the season tickets for the Morehead
City team are now on sale. They
may be purchased from Jaycees or
from business places in town.
A report on the miniature golf
tourney was given by President
Russell Outlaw and he announced
that 20 members of the club were
stil) in the running for the cham
pionship.
The first state quarterly meet
ing will be held in Durham Aug
27-28, and all members interested
in attending should contact State
Director Bob McLean.
Safety stickers will be placed on
cars sear the Carolina Racing Asso
ciation dog track over the Labor
Day weekend, according to Jerry
Frazelle. Morehead Jaycee, and
Tommy Potter, president of the
Beaufort Jaycees. Both clubs are
cooperating with the State High
way Patrol in a safety check.
Pap?r Out Early
Recaaae ?( Ike Impending
stem, this Issue af THE NEW8
TtMBA went to press early la
M"l distributed early.
This move was take* ta get the
payer te Its readara hafare pasai
ble power failure forced a delay
hi priatlag, which asigM have
happturi had the regular eehed
ale been fallowed. All Usaa ret
ereaeea age hi aeesidaare with
the usMl pabHeatlaa day, Fri
day. '
? James Donning of the State
Civil Defense office, arrived in the
county Tuesday night.
At the request of Miss Kuth
Peeling, county civil defense di
rector, Mr. Denning helped estab
lish oti Wednesday afternoon addi
tional emergency docking stations,
to be used if the storm puts high
way bridges out of operation.
Names of boatowners who volun
teered their services to the rtvil
defense director and the sites of
emergency docking stations were
furnished J. L. Humphrey, county
road superintendent, yesterday
morning.
Mr. Humphrey said that if any
of the bridges go out, the state
will try to set up temporary trans
portation by boat as it did after
Hazel.
Emergency docking stations, rec
ommended by the county civil de
fense director if the Beaufort
bridge is unusable, arc the Ma
chine and Supply Co. dock on the
causeway and the dock at the rear
of the Sinclair Service Station,
Front Street, Beaufort.
Emergency docking stations in
Mnrchead City are Ottis Purifoy's
and the Gordon C. Willis Seafood
Co. These may be put to use if
either the Morehead City draw
across the Newport River or the
Atlantic Beach bridge is closed to
highway traffic.
The emergency docking station
at Atlantic Beach will be Sonny's
Boat Basin.
"We hope none of these docks
will have to be used," Miss Peeling
said, "but if docks are needed, the
state knows which ones have al
ready been cleared by civil defense
authorities for uae."
See CIVIL DEFENSE, Page Z
Beaufort Bank
Delays Opening
James Davis, cashier and gen
eral manager of the Ftm-CiU
sens Bank and Trust Co., Beau
fort, has postponed the bank
opening until next Friday night,
Aug. 19.
Mr. Davis said ? yesterday that
because of the storm, he doubted
if many people would attend.
Guests expected from upstate
would surely not attempt to
make the trip, he remarked. The
opening was originally scheduled
for tonight, 'friday.
The hours aaxt Friday will be
7 to 9:30 p.m.
Reporters Flock
To Carteret
Special reporten from news ser
vices and broadcasting systems
moved into Carteret County Wed
nesday.
Harry Snyder of the Associated
Press, Washington, D. C? reported
here after another reporter, sent
down Wednesday morning, return
ed to the Washington office.
Representatives of the New York
Times contacted the Morehead City
Red Cross headquarters Wednes
day and amateur radio operators
were contacted by upstate radio
stations for on-the-scene reports
from this area.
Adam Mayer of Carteret Elec
tronics who put up the emergency
ISO-watt transmitter early this
week, was featured on a Raleigh
TV station Wednesday nigh*
Gov. E. F. Ruble Speaks
On Resources of Rotary
Beaufort Rotarians were remind
ed Tuesday night of the resources
Rotary has to carry it through the
next SO years. E. Frank Ruble,
Washington, N. C., governor of the
279th RoUry district, commented
on those resources at the club
meeting at the Inlet Inn while
making his official visit.
The governor, introduced by
President Gerald Hill, remarked
that ltotary had an abundance of
manpower, 419,000 members
throughout 92 countries in this,
their 90th anniversary year.
He pointed out that Rotary now
has a one and three-quarter million
dollar headquarters in Chicago. He
called it the heart and nerve cen
ter of Rotary.
Governor Ruble commented on
the excellent organiaation of Ro
tary. He Mid the international
president heads the group and la
assisted by 14 directors as admin
istrators. In addition to the presi
dent who la chairman, and the
past president, five directors are
elected from this country, and
others Iran Great Britain, South
and Central America and Canada.
The lawmaking body of Rotary
is the International convention at
which every club ia represented
either by a delegate or proxy.
The duties of the dlatrict gover
nor were described aa well as the
Rotary pNgraai. Governor Ruble
also coaa? nil il on the Rotary
Foundation which finances stu
dents' education in different coun
tries.
The district official reminded
his liateners Uut their resources
cannot h* hoarded or they will be
lost They can only be kept by put
ting Rptary to work in business
snd the community it. large
Club visitors were Ollle Van
Nortwick Jr., pretiaent of the
Greenville Rotary Club, Or. A. F.
Chestnut, president of the More
head City Rotary Club, James R.
Sanders and Robert Howard. More
head City Rot aria na; Jamea Flem
ing, and Ray Green, Tallahassee,
Fla. .
Following the meeting, Gover
nor Ruble conferred with the
board of directors.
Hazel's Sister Moves
Toward This Coast
With Hurricane Hazel still fresh in their memory, county
residents resignedly battened down this week to meet the
onslaught of Connie, the hurricane which stalled and
whined off Myrtle Beach for two days before moving to
ward this coast.
Coastal residents started getting ready for the big blow
Tuesday. Until early yesterday morning, they still hoped
the storm would change direction and head away from
the mainland.
But in the dark of Thursday morning, wind picked -up
and by 9:30 a.m. lashing rain was swirling downward. The
ocean was aboil, a churning cauldron of whitecaps which
leaped toward land and crashed against dunes and sea
walls.
Summer residents started leaving Atlantic Beach Tues
day. Evacuation of the beach, Salter Path and Emerald
Island was formally ordered Tuesday night by Kenneth
Baum, commanding officer of the Fort Macon Coast Guard
station.
Property-owners planning to stay on the strand were
asked to notify the Coast Guard that they were staying.
Mayor A. B. Cooper of Atlantic Beach issued urgent pleas
that sightseers stay away from the beach.
National Guard Alerted
National Guard units along the coast were put on stand
by order Tuesday night and members. of the Morehead
City National Guard unit were alerted to go on guard duty
at any time.
Late Wednesday, several towns in South Carolina were
hit by freak tornadoes and Swans
boro reported winds up to 75 miles
an hour for a brief period soon
after midnight Wednesday.
J. L. Humphrey, county road su
perintendent, was called on an
emergency job to the Carteret side
of the new Swansboro bridge late
Wednesday afternoon. Some of the
fill had been washed out by tides.
Crews soon repaired it with clay
and marl.
R. Markham, Greenville, division
engineer ?ith the State Highway
and Public Works Commission,
phoned THE NEWS-TIMES Wed
nesday afteronon to report that the
highway commission waa standing
by to help if and when Connie hit
)lr. Markham also attempted to
notify Mayor George Dill by phone
of the Highway commission's readi
ness to help, but the mayor eould
not be reached.
Emergency Crews
George Stovall, manager of Caro
lina Power and Light Co. in this
area, reported that his company
had seven emergency crews based
at Goldsboro Wednesday, ready to
move into any coastal area. Two
en>ergency crews were also station
ed at Jacksonville and two tree
crews were sent into More head
City.
By 8:45 a.m. Wednesday the
power company had a set plan for
rushing service to any point in its
coastal territory.
Record Number Calls
L. A. Daniels, manager of Caro
lina Telephone and Telegraph in
this county, said his crews were on
stand-by alert. The switchboard was
busy Wednesday, but the business
didn't come anywhere near Tues
day's when a record-breaking num
ber of long-distance calls were
Sec CONNIE. Page 2
Beaufort Woman
Hurt in Wreck
Mrs. Swanna Waddell, Beaufort,
was taken to the Morehead City
Hospital at S:45 p.m. Tuesday after
she was thrown off a motorcycle
at the intersection of Highway 70
and Chestnut Street, Hancock
Park.
The motorcycle collided with a
car driven by Harry Padgett,
Beaufort.
According to State Patrolman W.
J. Smith Jr., Padgett wss attempt
ing to make a left turn and was
waiting for an oncoming car to
pass. The motorcycle attempted
to pass him snd struck his car.
Patrolman Smith said no charges
were filed.
Mrs. Waddell wss not seriously
injured snd wss taken to the hos
pital by the Adair ambulance even
though she claimed she was "all
right" Driver of the motorcycle
was not identified.
Mitt Sarah Pat* Joins
County Wotfaro Staff
Miss Sarah Pate. New Bern, a
graduate of Meredith College. Join
ed the county weHsre department
sa a caaewbrker MoMay.
Other staff member* are Mrs. An
dra Pond, a psychiatric social work
er. and Mrs. Catherine Wilson, case
worker. * j
Miss Georgia Hughes, county
welfare superintendent, said yes
terday that the welfare department
was ready to assist the Red Cross
in sny way possible during and fol
lowing- tbt (tana.
Training Steps
Up as Camping
Date Approaches
Training for the Morehead City
National Guard Battery has become
more intense as the date for sum
mer camp approaches. From Aug.
14-28, 7,500 members of the 30th
infantry division will camp at Fort
Bragg and at Camp Stewart, Ga.
Morehead City men will be at
the North Carolina camp.' Their
commanding officer, First Lt. Mer
rit E. Bridgman, remarked yester
day that the 15 days' active duty
climaxes the year's >vurk for men
in his outfit.
Priority during the first week of
camp will be given to squad and
platoon training to develop leader
ship in unit officers and non-com
misioned officers. Secondary ob
jectives the first week will be re
cruit and individual specialist
training and weapons firing which
could not be completed during
armory training periods or week
end drills.
The entire division, except for
the armored, anti-aircraft, and re
connaisance elements will be at
Fort Bragg. The 130th AAA Bat
talion, 130th Tank Battalion. 30th
Reconnaisance Company, and Tank
Companies of the 119th, 120th and
139th Infantry Regiments will be
at Camp Stewart.
The forthcoming training is the
first summer encampment for "Old
Hickory" Guardsmen since the 30th
Division became an all-Tar Heel
division in October 1954.
The division is commanded by
Maj. General Claude T. Bowers of
Warrenton.
At present over 10,000 citizen
soldiers are members of the North
Carolina Air and Army National
Guard. Battery C, 690th FA Bat
talion, Morehead City had 54 of
ficers and men.
Wyoming Girl
Wants Pen Pals
A 13 H -year-old girl in Wyoming
would like to have a pen pal in this
area.
The following letter was written
to THE NEWS-TIMES by Donna
Dee Baker:
386 W. Foote St.
? Buffalo, Wyoming
Dear Sir:
I am writing you in hopes of
your publishing my letter in your
paper.
My name is Donna Baker and I
would like very much to cor
respond with either boys or girls
from your city.
I am 13 H and favorite pastimes
are swimming, and drawing. I have
chosen your city to write to it's
on tile sea coast
I have never had the privilege
of seeing the ocean although it is
my desire.
I close now with a thank you for
publishing my letter.
Boys or girls who would like a
pen pal should write to Donna at
the above address.
Circuits to Atlantic were out of
order, due to the storm, at 9 o'clock
yesterday raralM'