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44th YEAR, NO. 66. THREE SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1965 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Diane Hits County Too; Any More?
Morehead City Port to Get
New Shed , Fumigation Plant
Morehead City Two install!-'
lions to be constructed at the state
port here have moved a step near
er realization, according to an an
nouncement today by Col Richard
S. Marr, executive director of the
North Carolina State Ports Author
ity.
A contract to build a 39,600
square foot transit shed has been
let to Steel Erectors Co. of Char
lotte, and plans are proceeding to
put in a tobacco fumigation plant
without delay.
Steel Erectors will put up a pre
fabricated building manufactured
by Luria Engineering Co. of New
York City at its Bethlehem, Pa.,
plant. The building in knocked
down form will be shipped to
Morehead City, where it will be
assembled this fall at a cost of
about $100,000.
Preliminary work for this build
ing has already begun, Colonel
Marr said. Preparation of footings
and foundation work is now in
progress.
Specifications call for a build
ing 100 feet wide and a little over
360 feet long. A single row of
columns will offer support, and a
canopy will extend over the area
between the new transit shed and
the railroad tracks to protect ear
goes being moved in that area.
The proposed fumigation plant
is expected to coit about $80,000,
and will be used to process raw
tobacco exports. The installation
will offer fumigation services as
an added inducement to shippers
contemplating moving their car
goes through Morehead City.
The State Ports Authority, meet
ing here last month, tentatively
approved the fumigation plant if
financial arrangements could be
worked out. These financial plans
have now been approved. Colonel
Marr disclosed, with the result that
the State Ports Authority can now
commence detailed planning and
the drawing up of specifications.
A single chamber structure,
equipped for hydrocyanic and me
thyl bromide gases, is envisioned,
and loads of some 7,000 cubic feet
can be accommodated in a single
operation.
Colonel Marr pointed out there
has been a growing demand tor
fumigation facilities here. The lo
cation of such a plant will attract
much additional commercial ton
nage through the Morehead City
port, which is proving increasingly
valuable to shipping .interests, he
said.
Driver Faces
Court Action
John' G. Decker, Cherry Point
Marine, driver of a car which
wrecked across the railroad tracks
in Morehead City Monday night,
has been docketed (or appearance
in court Monday.
Three other Marines were with
Decker, who was driving a 1954
Ford.
According to Capt. Buck New
some of the Morehead City Police
Department, Decker tried to croas
the tracks goiitg north on 33rd
Street where there ia no street
crossing.
The chassis of the car jammed
up against the tracks. One of the
men was seriously cut about the
face. They all walked to the Shell
Service Station where Captain
Newsome found them and took
them to Morehead City Hospital.
Captain Newsome said the lad
with the cut face was bleeding pro
fusely. Decker was put in jail and
two others were taken to Cherry
Point by ambulance. The fourth
was not hurt. *
Decker has been charged with
driving without a license and driv
ing drunk.
Young People Hurt
In Wrack Monday
Mis* Jane 8a frit and Pvt. Robert
Sa/rit, daughter and son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Safrit Jr., Beau
fort, were Injured in an automo
bile accident weat of Jacksonville
Monday afternoon.
Private Safrit, home on a 10
day leave, was driving his car and
collided with a truck which turned
in front of Mm. Both he and his
sister were taken to the Jackson
ville Hospital where they were
treated for severe cut*.
It wu expected that they would
be discharged late yesterday. Pri
vate Safrit and hi* sister were re
turning to Beaufort from Falaon
when the accident happened. He
J* stationed with the Army at En
flewood, N. J.
Soldier Named
Son 'Beaufort'
A Union soldier named his new
born son, Beaufort, in honor of
the town in which he was sta
tioned.
How this came about was a story
told some time ago to Justin Sal
ter, Milton, Pa., who was born in
Beaufort. Mr. and Mrs. Salter
happen to be here now visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Salter, More
head City.
Mr. Justin is in the antique re
pair and refinishing business at
Milton and one day a man by the
name of Charles Anchor went to
see him about restoring a Chippen
dale chest.
The conversation moved around
to Mr. Salter's birthplace, Beau
fort, N. C., and Mr. Anchor an
nounced that his grandfather was
stationed there during the war be
tween the states when he received
word that his wife had given birth
to a son.
The soldier went in to Beaufort
to celebrate and apparently had
such a good time that he decided
the new baby boy would be named
"Beaufort." And that's how Charles
Anchor's father, Beaufort Anchor,
got his name.
The Anchors were originally
from New York State.
3.12 Inches Rain
Falls This Week
A total of 3.12 inches of rain hit
the county since Monday, according
to E. Stamey Davis. ob
server. Mr. Davis reported that
Diane alone brought 2.45 inches.
The high temperature for the
week was 87, recorded both Mon
day and Wednesday. The low *as
70. recorded Wednesday. The high
and low temperatures, plus the
wind directions for the week are as
follows:
Max. Min. Winds
Monday 87 75 ENE
Tuesday ..SI 85* 74 ENE
Wednesday ... 87 70 NE
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Beaufort Bank Postpones
Its Opening Indefinitely
James Davis, cashier of the First
Citizens Bank and Trust Co., Beau
fort, announces that the bank open
ing haft been postponed indefinite
ly
It was hoped that the opening
could be held tonight but a leak
in the roof developed during Diane
and repairs must be made before
the open house can be rescheduled.
Regular banking hours are contin
uing as usual.
Army Engineers Dispatch
Survey Teams Along Coast
Wilmington -Survey parties with*
sounding gear and recording de
vices have begun a comprehensive
check on navigable inland water
ways to determine effects result
ing from last week's Hurricane
Connie, the District Office of the
Corps of Engineers announced this
week.
Three other parties traveling in
cars departed to observe beach
erosion and structural damages in
the coastal area reaching from
Little River, S. C., to Elizabeth
City, including Ocracoke and Hat
tcras on the outer banks.
Each observer will tabulate his
findings for a report to Col. R. L.
Hill, district engineer, who will
use the "general summaries'' for
action pertinent to responsibilities
of the Corps of Engineers.
The group was briefed by Tho
mas J. Hewitt, chief of engineer
ing, who has been associated with
the development and mainten
ance of waterways in coastal North
Carolina for over 42 years.
Louis Leiner will head a locally
based survey party to check on
the intracoastal waterway from
Little River to New River near
Camp Lejeune with special atten
tion to points -where shoals are
likely to have resulted from the
storm.
The waterway from New River
through Bogue Sound to the Neuse
River will be examined by a sur
vey party based at Beaufort with
L. E. McLam in charge. This group
will also check on Core Sound up
the Ocracoke area and including
Wainwright Slough.
W. will examine storm
effects 7 aT WrighUville Beach,
Southport, Long Beach, liolden
Beach and additional areas as far
south as Little River.
Carolina Beach, Kure Beach,
Fort Fisher and intermediate
points will be examined by N. C.
Magnuson.
Duvall Greer will survey areas
around New Bern, Washington,
Hertfard, Edenton, Elizabeth City,
Manteo and the outer banks south
to Hatteras. Greer will return
through Hyde County, checking
storm effects at Stumpy Point,
Engelhard, Swan Quarter and Bel
haven.
R. W. Leonard will check on
Surf City, Swansboro, Morehead
City, Beaufort, Atlantic, Ocracoke
and Intermediate points.
Me Toe!
Mrs. Sue Harris, operator of the
Jefferson Coffee Shop, announced i
Tuesday morning that her restau- I
rant was open during Connie. Mrs. ;
Harris said she even had a bottle- l
warming service. <
County Receives
$3,443 in ABC
Store Revenue
Under New Distribution
System, Equal Amount
Divided Among Towns
Under the new system of distri
bution of ABC funds Carteret
County received $3,443.25 last
month and an equal amount was
divided among Morehead City
Hospital, Beaufort and Newport
according to their liquor sales
volume.
The total July sales volume this
year was $70,611.10 as compared
with $06,121.55 in July 1954.
Morehead City sales last month
totaled $44,405.75, Beaufort $15,
767 05 and Newport $10,438 30 Es
timated net profit was $7,248.94.
Paid to Beaufort (22.4 per cent
of sales) $768.87, to Morehead
City Hospital (628 per cent of
sales) $2,165.38, and to Newport
(14.8 per cent) $509.
The ABC Board reported that
$780.13 was paid to the county
general fund July 28, 1955, part
of the net profit due the county
for the 1954-55 fiscal year. That
brought the total paid to the.
county /or that year to $43,738.71.
Also paid the county was $900
received from the town of Beau
fort for the north 17 feet of the
old ABC lot, Turner Street, Beau
fort. The 17 feet was purchased
to make a through alley between
Turner and Craven Streets.
4-Foot Alligator Killed
At Atlantic Boach
A 4-foot alligator was killed by
MP's at Atlantic Beach over the
weekend. The reptile was discov
ered on the Fort Macon Read and
brought into Atlantic Beach proper
where he was killed by running
over him with a truck and beating
him to death.
Police Chief Murphy Jenkins, at
the beach, said that it was the first
gator he had seen in those parts.
Garth dooper, who works at the
beach, said, however, that there
are "a lot of alligators" in the
rreah water ponds at the west end
of Bogue Banks.
In Connie s Wake
This is what Connie did to to
bacco it Newport Other tobacco
farmers had the tame experience.
Harry D. Lock ey, left, and Wayne
West, survey the damage. The two
farmers grow a total of 43 acres
of tobacco. Twelve of their curing
barns were extensively damaged
and all were in operation whea
Connie came along.
Mr. West >aid two-thirds of th?.
tobacco had been harvested, bat
beat grades of the leaf. ?t the top,
were a total lots Wind flattened
corn and high water cove rod 50
acre* of Mr. Weit'a soybeans and
7S'acres of corn.
R. M. Williams, county farm
agent', said yesterday.- "The farm
era in several communities have
expreased great concern over the
financial loaa due to crop damage
in dry weather last year, damages
eauaed by Hurricane Haiel laat
fall, low market prices on many
of the farm commodities, contin
ued kith coat of production, plus
i-ikxo oj nay ummi
what damage was caused by the
storm last week.
"Many of our farmers during the
past few daya have inquired about
government emergency loans. Un
der preeent condition* many of
oiir farmers will have to have ad
ditional credit or capital to con
tinue with the operation of their
farms. An investigation is being
made at the present time to offer
any assistance that we potiibiy
can to help our farm people who
have suffered b$avy leu.
Connie Blows Bubbles
One of the cats at Ottis Purifoy's fish house, Morehead City, was delighted when bubbles started ap
pearing up out of the floor. She started to play with them but stopped from fright when one of the bub
bles grew 316 feft high. There's a hole in the floor just to the left of the cat. The floor was being
scrubbed and the high winds from Connie got in under the fish house, forced air up through the hole
an0 giant bubbles resulted.
No Sleep for Them
Photo i>y Jerry Schumacher
Adam Mayer, Mated, and Ted Davit, llcemed amateur radio op
erators, kept round-the-clock vigils in front of the lM-watt emergency
transmitter. The equipment was set up at Carteret Electronics, More
head City, in preparation for Connie. It was in operation all Tues
day night during Diane's visit too.
Civil Defense Director
Thanks Henderson CAP
Miss Ruth Peeling, county Civil
Defense director, yesterday ex
pressed appreciation to the Civil
Air Patrol of Henderson which
came to Carteret early this week
with a portable radio transmitter
and mobile radio units.
Their presence with such equip
ment made it possible to assure
the area east of Newport River
contact with the outer world during
Diane. Prior to Diane, there was
no way of getting word out of
Beaufort or any area east of Beau
fort except by police radio.
The unit, with Lt. Thomas Stew
art in charge, set up headquarters
in the Morchead City Recreation
Center. At the request of Mayor
Clifford Lewis. Sheriff Hugh Sal
ter and the civil defense director.
Lieutenant Stweart agreed to send
a mobile unit east of the Newport
River.
Dan Walker, Beaufort town
Tid* Table
Tide* at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Aug. 1?
9:17 a.m. 3:07 a.m.
9:34 p.m. 3:29 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 20
10:0ft a.m. 3:49 a.m.
10:21 p.m. 4:16 p.m.
Huaday, Aug. 21
10:93 a.m. 4:29 a.m.
11:08 p.m. 4:93 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 21
11:40 a.m. 9:08 a.m.
11:99 p.m. 9:40 p.m.
Taeaday, Aug. U
9:48 a.m.
12:28 p.m. 8i32 p.m.
clerk, suggested that two units be
sent down east if possible. Lieu
tenant , Stewart contacted wing
headquarters at Charlotte and two
more mobile units were sent here
late Tuesday.
Onq was sent to Sea Level and
the operator was housed and fed
by J. A. DuBois. manager of the
Sea Level Chamber of Commerce,
at the Sea Level Inn. The other
unit stayed in Beaufort and the
third mobile unit stayed at the rec
reation building.
Wednesday afternoon the mobile
unit at Sea I -eve] went to the east
end of the North River Bridge and
the one in Beaufort went near the
west end and reported on condi
lions at the bridge. At that time
water was over the highway at
North River and over the road cast
of the bridge.
State highway men at the bridge
at that time asked the CAP units
to radio requests for signs, warn
ing people of the high water The
state also sought temporary clos
ing of the bridge so it could be in
spected.
A CAP mobile generator was at
tached to the sheriff's radio units
by Charles Chappell. Beaufort. Mr.
Walker also gave full assistance to
the men who were hampered by
their unfamiliarity with the lay of
the land.
With Lieutenant Stewart were
Lt. Peter Carlson. LL Early John
son and Jim Overton, a senior
member of the patrol. They loft
their tegular Job* to come here and
also used their personal cars.
They pulled out Wednesday
afternoon after the stora had
pasMd.
Harvey Lewis
Fined $150, Costs
In Court Monday
Harvey Lewis was fined $150 and
costs in Morehead City Recorder's
Court Monday for driving drunk
and having no operator's license.
He was given a six months' sus
pended roads sentence on condition
that he stay on good behavior for
two years. A charge of forcible
trespass against him was dropped.
WL^iam Duberry was fined $73
and costs for having no operator's
Tfe<<f?se and insufficient brakes. He
was given a 30-day suspended roads
sentence on condition that ho be
and remain on his good behavior
for one year.
Acie Eugene Cook was fined $40
and costs for no operator's license
and speeding, with $25 of the tine
to be remitted should he show a
valid operator's license to the clerk
of the court within two weeks. He
was also given a suspended 30-day
sentence on the roads.
Erwin Gary Morris was fined $30
and costs for speeding, failing to
stop for a stop sign and having an
improper muffler. Ten dollars of
the fine will be remitted if he has
a proper exhaust pipe installed
within two weeks.
Billy Eugene Jones was fined $10
and costs, and Charles Leonard
Warden was fined $15 and costs
for speeding.
Dave Strickland was assessed
costs for running a red light. All
but $2 was remitted.
Co6ts were assessed against the
following: Curley Lee Murray, Paul
Richard Taylor, Andrew Ronald
Nance, Arthur G. Davis Jr., Chris
tian Ledrich, William H. O'Neill,
David Phillip Cliff, all charged
with speeding, and Irene T. Roli
son, following too close.
Cases against the following were
continued: Freddie Gaston Smith,
Harry C. Rivera, Reginald Conway,
Dorothy # Hester, James Johnson,
Clarence* Willis, Harvey Lewis, Ray
Lee Harrison, Doulph Austin Gol
den, Roland W. Lakeman. Warren
Davis Mann and Bobby Willis.
Diane Drives 175
Persons to Shelter
One hundred seventy-five per
son* took shelter in evacuation
centers in the county during Hur
ricane Diane, according to Frank
Hollowell. field representative of
the Red Cross from Goldsboro.
This number was well below the
number who took advantage of the
centers during Hurricane Connie.
There were 75 persons at the
Municipal Building in Morehead
City; 40 at the Baptist Church in
Morehead City; 45 at the court
house in Beaufort and 15 at the
Morehead City Becreation Build
ing.
They were fed sandwiches, milk
and hot soup by the Red Cross.
Education Board Affirms
Stand on Assignment
At ? special meeting of the
County Board of Education Tues
day afternoon in the education of
fice, Beaufort, the board reaf
firmed its position regarding aa
signment of school pupils to dis
tricts throughout the county. -
The board will hold its next
meeting Monday afternoon, Sept.
12.
? Hurricane- weary residents
are now recuperating from
Diane at the end of one of
the most unique weeks,
weather-wise, in the annals
of the county. Even old.
old-timers cannot remember
when two severe storms,
such as Connie and Diane,
struck one right after the
other.
Even before Connie had really
disappeared Friday, announce
ments came warning folks along
the Carolina coast to look out for
Diane. First reports were that
Diane would hit the Georgia coast,
but she worked her way northward
and struck the North Carolina coast
in the Wilmington area.
Intermittent hard showers oc
curred all day Tuesday. TTie wind
picked up Tuesday night, blew hard
all night long with gusts up to 82
miles an hour. Torrential rain pour
ed down and for Diane alone the
number of inches totaled 2.45.
Lowest barometer reading dur
ing the storm was 29.28, according
to Coast Guard reports. During
Connie the reading dipped even
below that.
Backlash winds Wednesday
reached a velocity of 45 to 55 miles
an hour at times. After the wind
stopped blowing from the east
Wednesday about noon, it swung
around and blew from the soath
for the rest of the day and part of
the night, something highly un
usual for this area.
Visually Shifts
A due south wind may blow fpr
about 20 minutes, but those well
acquainted with wind and water
here, say it either shifts to the east
or west in a short time.
People on the beaches were fear
ful that the steady and strong
south wind would do more damage
on high tide Wednesday night than
all of the previous storm days. But
due to the emergency sand dune
building, damage from the high
tide was negligible.
Beach businesses are operating
full-tilt and are looking forward to
a big weekend.
Twenty-three homes at Salter
Path were damaged by high water.
At Emerald Isle there was one
washout on the north road and the
road to Thompsons fishing pier
was washed out. But ocean piers
are still standing and repairs are
expected to be made soon to the
Atlantic Beach pier which lost a
total of about 140 feet at the end.
The heavy rains of Diane in
creased the damage to county roads
and bridges that had already been
seriously damaged by Connie.
Washouts washed bigger and more
fill was carried away.
Although the North River Bridge
was reported "out," it was not
washed away. A request to close
it temporarily to traffic was made
by the State Highway and Public
See DIANE, Page 4
Phone Company
Battles Storms
Restoration of telephone service
after Connie was completed with
minor exception on Wednesday.
Diane didn't help any, though.
The toll line to Atlantic, restored
after Connie, went out again Wed
nesday
According to Manager L. A.
Daniels, the primary trouble
brought about by Connie was wet
cable, fallen tree limbs, and ex
cessive rain.
Long distance circuits were re
stored on Saturday and work i*
nearly completed on restoration
of service to about 332 telephones
which went out of order because
of the storm.
Manager Daniels praised his fel
low employees for their efforts
which resulted in such rapid re
storation of service to telephone
subscribers of Morehead City,
Beaufort, Newport, Atlantic and
Marshallberg.
A total of 24 of the 110 ex
changes of Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Co. were isolated from
long distance telephone communi
cation with the outside world it
on* time or another while an es
timated 3.000 of the company'a
129,000 telephones were out of
service as a result of the hurri
cane which passed along the North
Carolina coastline.
Alarm Circuit Expected
To b? Repaired Today
The west circuit of the Morehead
City fire alarm aystem ia expected
to be in operation thia afternoon.
Engineer Mack Edwarda reported
yesterday. The cast circuit ia in
operation. The trouble ia due to
Diane.
Mr. Edwarda aaid that one fir?
alarm box burned up in Connie
and the whole ayatem wia In op
eration until Tueaday night**