NEWS-TIMES OFFICE 504 AtmkUU St. Monhttd City Phoo* 6-4176 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "" 44th YEAR. NO. 67. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1965 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Blast Damages 22-Foot Sailboat At Shackleford Mist Maxine McLohon Gets Cut on Head; Five Others Escape Injury A 22-foot sailboat owned by Sammy Hughes, 707 Fisher St., Morehead City, was damaged in a freak explosion Sunday afternoon and Miss Maxine McLohon, daugh ter of Mr ard Mrs. J. S. McLohon, Morehead City, was slightly in jured. Five others in the boat es caped injury. Miss McLohon had a cut behind her right ear and three fingers on her left h.uid are severely bruised She was still unable to hear out of her right ear yesterday. The accident happened about 3:15 p.m. when the boat evidently hit a detonator or explosive of some sort about three-quarters of a mile north northeast of the dock at Shackleford Banks. The Coast Guard was investigating the acci dent yesterday. It is believed that the explosive may have been blown into inside waters during the re cent storms. A 16-inch piece of plank was blown out on the starboard side near the stern and it is believed that a splinter probably cut Miss McLohon. Others in the boat be sides the owner and Miss McLohon were Miss Betsy Fulford of Beau fort, Gilbert Arthur, and Paul and Carlos Cordova. A passing motorboat was hailed and Miss McLohon was put aboard to be taken to Fort Macon Coast Guard Station. Mr. and Mrs. George Stovall, in their boat the Miss Fritz, were nearby and they radioed the Coast Guard Station to have an ambulance come and pick up Miss McLohon. Mr. Stovall said he had to get the message to the Coast Guard Station by relaying it to the Rita C, which in turn called the station. The Dill ambulance carried the in jured girl to Morehead City Hos pital. Mr. Stovall lay by the damaged sailboat until Mr. Hughes could unship his mast, furl the sails and right the boat. Miss Fulford was taken aboard another sailboat skip pered by Buddy Bailey and the boys stayed in the Httghes b6at while Mr. Stovall towed it back to Morehead City. Yesterday it was tied up at the foot of 4th Street. Mr. Hughes said the explosion sounded to him like "a muffled report from a .12 gauge shotgun.'' Miss McLohon was sitting nearest the spot where the hole was ripped in the deck. Mr. Stovall said he was "about a city black" away from the Hughes boat when he saw it sud denly keel over. He said he couldn't understand why because there was no wind. Neither did he hear an explosion. He said the boat was right in the tide line which was quite pro nounced Sunday afternoon. Miss Fulford said no one was panicky but they were all fright ened for Miss McLohon who was bleeding. None of the personal bo longings in the boat were lost. Diane Was Here Photos by Charles Tolson The K. W. Cobb cottage at At lantic Beach, upper left, was left high on a "cliff" after Diane. The bank rises about 12 feet from the beach and it is estimated the dune was cut back about 15 feet from the high water mark. At the upper right is the Atlan tic Beach home of Warren Macon j Rabb. probably one of the most I seriously damaged beach homes. Water washed through under the house and continued across two roads, running back 900 feet from the ocean front. In the picture at lower left are several homes. The first two to the left are those of Louis G. Cooper pnd a Mr. Hooker. At the Cooper home the porch fell off and | the lower wall was washed away, exposing a bed. The bed spread and the curtains at the window were left Happing in the wind. At the Hooker home the sun deck collapsed and the steps top pled forward. At the low r right the sunporch on the Higgs and Goodson cottage fell forward, but it was intact. FHA Supervisor Will Be Here Soon; Farmers Report Losses Farmers needing loans as the* result of damage they sustained in I Connie and Diane should contact I. M. Robbins, FHA supervisor, at the postoffice in Beaufort Thurs day. Mr. Robbins keeps office on the second floor of the building and will be there all day, begin irrfng at about ? o'clock in the j morning. ! Mr. Robbins regularly visits the county every second and fourth Thursday. Horace J. Isenhour, state FHA director, has announced that 28 eastern Carolina counties have been designated "disaster areas" in which production emergency loans are available to stricken farmers. Applicants, Mr. Isenhouer said, must be unable to obtain adequate credit elsewhere. He stressed that each application would be con sidered "on its individual merits." The loans bear an interest rate of three per cent. Both Rep. Herbert Bonner and Rep. Graham A. Barden of New Bern urged FHA officials to "cut red tape," be "generous" in mak ing loans, and speed up processing of applications as much as possi ble. Homemaking Aids Are Now Available at Schools Wreck Damages Cars at Newport Three cars were involved in a wreck at Newport at 11:30 Satur day night. Policeman Dan Bell, Newport, uid the driver of one of the cars, a 1949 Chevrolet, will be charged with driving drunk and careless and reckless driving. According to Officer Bell, a 1951 Hudson, driven by Harold A. Hor ter, USMC, Camp Lejeune, was struck from the rear by the Che vrolet. The accident occurred on Highway 70 about 200 feet east .of the railroad track. Both cars were headed west. Driver of the Chevrolet was Douglas R. WaMron, USMC, Clwr ry Point. The car was owned by Paul Carson, also a Cherry Point Marine. A buddy riding with Wal dron had a few scratches. After the Chevrolet hit the Hud son. it bounded off and ran into G. D. Henderson's yard where It hit Mr. Henderson's 1942 Ford and knocked it 4 feet ahead Into a tree. State Highway Patrolman W. E. Pickard took Waldron and his friend to the county jail In Beau fort t No estimate on damage to the Hudson and Chevrolet was made, "was considerable," Officer Bell but damage to the Henderson ear said. He added that the craah never ?ven woM Mr. Henderson up. " The county's three vocational home economics teachers went on duty last Monday. Until school begins Tuesday, Sept. 6, these teachers at Atlantic, Beaufort and Morehead City will be in their respective departments from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday and Thursdays from 2 to 5 p.m. At that time adults and students may use the sewing machines, ovens or other facilities in the home economics departments and they may obtain assistance from the vocational economics teacher. Girls wanting to make clothes for school, or their mothers, are welcome to use the sewing aids in the home economics departments. After school opens, adults may continue to get this type of as sistance on Thursday afternoons. Teachers are Mrs. Marraret Gib son, Atlantic; Mrs. Datid Bever idge, Beaufort, and Mrs. Delfido Cordova, Morehead City. "So many people don't know that our homemaking facilities are available to them" Mrs. Cordova aaid, "and we are anxious to be of assistance. Especially should mo thers of teen-age girls acquaint themselves with what our depart ments have to offer." Toastmaitar* Offer Services as Speakers County Toastmastars have of fered their services as speakers to groups throughout the county. The speaker will be supplied | free of charge. Anyone wishing to book one of the Toastmasters should contact Theodore Phillips, Box 332, Morehead City, phone *4020. Truck Backs Over Two Youngsters Two Beaufort children were in* jured at about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon when they were run over by a truck driven by Gray Hassell, Beaufort. The children were Ros coe Conway, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Conway, and Chester Ray Conway, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Conway. The accident occurred as Mr. HasseH was backing an unloaded dump truck on property north of the Lennoxville Road. Mr. Hassell was travelling the property all day getting loads of dirt and said he had repeatedly chased the young sters off the truck. They insisted on hitching rides. Right before the accident hap pened, he chased them off the side of the truck where he could see and then they apparently went around and hid on the other side. The accident happened in front of the Conway home which is lo cated back of the Standard Net Co. Chester Ray has a broken leg and his cousin, Roscoe, was suf fering from bruises and shock. Mr. Hassell took them to the Morchead City Hospital. According to the youngsters' tale later, they were behind the cab and tried to jump off and got caught under the truck. The truck was privately owned. The fathers of the two injured children work for the town of Beaufort. No officers investigated the ac cident because it occurred on pri vate property. Driver Pays $35 Following Wreck Jimmy Hoots Willis, Williston, who was involved in ap accident Thursday night at 8 o'clock at the intersection 6f 24th and Evans Streets, was fined $35 and costs yesterday by Judge Herbert Phil lips in Morehead City Recorder's Court. Willis pleaded guilty to having I no operator's license and running a stop sign. Walter Thomas, police officer who investigated the wreck, stated that Ifrs. Margaret Boatic Hodges of Farnjville was travelling north on 24th Street, headed towards Arendell Street, when her car was struck by Willis's truck headed weat on Evans Street. Willia ran the stop sign and rammed into the right side of Mrs. Hodges' 1053 Oldsmobile doing $350 damage, Patrolman Thomas said. The truck, a 1954 Ford owned by Ward Ballou. had $150 damage. The C?rter?t BfcPW Club will' meet at T tonight at Fleming's Res taurant, Atlantic Beach Causeway. , ? County farmers, contactcd over the weekend, reported that their tobacco, soybeans, corn, and sweet potatoes had been seriously dam aged, if not ruined, by the recent hurricanes. N. A. Avery, Beaufort: "I lost five barns of tobacco stm jn the field? worth $4,000 to $5,000. And my soybeans are one-third gone, if not half." Earl G. Campen, Beaufort: "Well, I'm on the shelf, not doing any farming to speak of. My s?n Neal's taking care of all that, but our section was hit about like the i others. Hadn't gotten all the to- j bacco out. about 25 per cent was still in the field and that was a total loss. "Our sixty acres of soybeans were in the blossom stage and they j were mighty nice, but if the blos soms washed off there'll be n "th ing there. Corn loss is about 50 per cent. Saltwater got on some pastureland and did a bit of dam age and there was a little bit of fresh water standing in the fields But it wasn't nearly as bad as Hazel and Hazel wasn't anywhere like the storm of 1933. "1933 was the worst storm I ever saw. That blew the windows out of my home." (Mr. Avery and Mr. Campen have farms on Highway 101 north of Beaufort). i Dr. C. S. Maxwell, North River: "The roof blew off one of my barns. Connie started to take it and Diane finished it. Our vege table garden is ruined, like every body else's and the pastures had* saltwater over them." H. T. Carraway, Beaufort RFD: "I fared pretty bad. Lost approxi mately three barns of tobacco and there was quite a bit of damage to the tobacco stored in the pack house. Water beat in the pack house and ran under the tobacco. i believe 90 per cent of my soybean hay is gone; had in 50 acres of soybeans, some peanuts and quite a bit of corn. I don't know how much of my corn is gone. It wasn't too well matured and it was partly under water, { damaged by both salt spray and heavy rain. AH my vegetable < crops were in." L. D. Springle, Runells Creek: "Lost all my 15 acres com and 35 : acres of soybeans and my three acres of sweat potatoes had water all over them They would have been ready to dig in October. I didn't have any saltwater damage this time." , J. T. Oglesby. Crab J?oint: "I had j^ee FARMS. Pag e 2 Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Aug. 23 12:26 p.m. S.48 a.m. 6:32 p.m. Wtylneaday, Aug. 24 12:42 a m 1:12 p.m. 6:36 a.m. 7:36 p.m. Tluuiday, Aug. 25 1:29 a.m. 2:02 p.m. Friday, Aug. U 2:23 a.m. 2:94 p.m. 9:42 pml | State Sends Plane to Spread Mosquito Spray Down East I Luther Hamilton Jr. Will Serve as Assistant Judge Luther Hamilton Jr. was ap* pointed assistant judge of More head City Recorder's Court by the town board Thursday night. He will preside when Judge Herbert Phillips cannot be present. Also appointed Thursday night during the board meeting at the Morehead City Municipal Building was Jerry Willis, who will serve on the board of adjustment. Mr. Willis was appointed in place of Sam Adler, who has resigned. George McNeill, town attorney, said that he thought the board would also have to appoint some one to replace Mr. Hamilton on the board of adjustment since Mr. Hamilton had been made assistant judge. No additional appointments were made that night, however. Plans Approved The board gave approval to plans submitted by Roper Van Horn who plans to put a bulk oil plant at the south end of 4th Street. Mr. Van Horn also sug- t> gested that the town ask for bids on gas and oil used by the town mobile equipment. ? The town attorney expressed the opinion that during the recen'. legislative session a law was passed i I which allowed towns to buy gas 1 and oil under state contract. 1 Referred to Fire Commissioner s D. J. Hall was a letter from Caro- ' ' lina Water Co. relative to supply- ' ' ing the new Morehead City Fire sub-station with a water line. The < water company said a 2-inch line s is adequate but a 4-inch line had 3 been requested by the fire chief. The water company said it would ' be glad to put in the 4 inch line if the town would pay the difference between the cost of a 2-inch and 4-inch line, a total of $454 New Chassis Needed Street Superintendent J. V. Wa: ters appeared before the board and said It had been discovered that the chassis ordered for the town's new garbage packer was not heavy enough to take the packcr. Commissioner Gibbie San derson was appointed to confer with Sound Chevrolet Co., from which the chassis was bought, with a view to obtaining the proper chassis. For more than an hour the ooard discussed a system of get ting sewer lines down without losing money and at the same time making the cost as low as possible to the home owner. It was pointed out that the town is losing money on laying sewer lines, regardless what prop erty owners pay. Street Commissioner Sanderson said that whatever amount of mon ey was paid the town for streets and sewers, he wanted it to be paid to the street department ac count and not to the general fund as in previous years. The board agreed. Mayor George Dill presided. Dr. David Farrior ( Speaks to Rotary Dr. David Farrior of the Beau- , fort Rotary Club was the guest J speaker at the weekly meeting Thursday night of the Morehead City Rotary Club as part of the exchange program recently insti tuted between the two clubs. Dr. Farrior spoke on the depres sion of 1929 and the trying times that went with it. He compared the depression days with condi tions as they exist today, and com mented on things the government has done to make certain there won't be a recurrence of the dark days. Dr. Farrior cited the Gl Bill of Rights aa an example, stating that the veterans in college have been better students than non-veterans, and have come out of collcge pre pared to work for a better econ omy. Visiting Rotarians included Jim Mason, Gaatonia; C M Wade, Charlottesville, Va.; Jim Fleming. Greenville; Wilbur Ormand and Lee Nance, Ayden; B. W. Elliott. Durham, and Edgar Hibbs, New ,, port. , Port Calendar U8N8 Tecmlc? Due in at Aviation Fuel Terminals, docked instead at Norfolk and unloaded its cargo of aviation gaa. The channly to one-way traffic in some ipots. The same was true of High way 24 to Swansboro. Mr. Humphrey said, however, hat no one was stranded. On the state system wherever there was i blockade because of a washout, here was another way open over vhich the motorist could get to vhere he was going. The main motor on the Atlantic Seach Bridge quit Tuesday when t got wet, but it was back in op eration, mechanically, Thursday, in the menatime, the bridge was >pened and closed by manpower, >risoners from the Newport Pri lon Camp. In addition to working on roads, he State Highway Commission vas pushing up sand dunes at At antic Beach to save property there rom future storms and it also put i line across the Salter Path Road o the sound to drain low areas it the beach filled with water as j he result of the storms. ' To battle mosquitoes in eastern Carteret County the State Mosquito Control Commission sent a plane to Sea Level over the weekend to put in 20 hours of spraying time. J. A. DuBois, manager of the Sea Level Chamber of Commerce, said that the plane sprayed a 25 per cent solu tion of DDT Saturday, Sunday and finished up two hours n( ? W? A. ? "? liic lime j cavci uajf inui iiiii^. Two hours was allotted to Oera coke and a portion of that time to Portsmouth Island. Also covered were the marshes to North River, Markers Island and all down east communities "We doubt that many of the mos quitoes now flying were killed, but the insecticide has been spread on the water and will kill the larvae," Mr. DuBois commented. He commented that the Mosquito Control Commission is probably giving help first to those communi ties which offered cooperation and who have thus far been trying to help themselves. According to in formation supplied him, the coastal towns which have already been designated for help in mosquito control are Jacksonville, Richlands and Belhaven. Richlands has agreed to supply the spray for their town, Mr. DuBois said. "All communities can get in on it," he added. The Mosquito Con trol Commission recently sent a letter to coastal communities ask ing whether they would be able to match state appropriations for spraying in their area. Sea Level Chamber of Commerce replied in the affirmative and reported that $1,500 had already been spent by them to fight mosquitoes. It was reported that Onslow County has appropriated $5,000 for mosquito control. "If this county would just go along on this project, we can get rid of the mosquitoes," Mr. DuBois said. "The state commission needs the cooperation of the people and the people should express their ap preciation for the help," he added. The plane came from a Rich lands flying service and was pilot ed by Martin Hodges who has done mosquito control work in Florida. It flew from the airport at Atlan tic. In Dare County the Diane will bl fiuWwitd and the st?ie wit) tup ply the chemicals. Mr. DuBois said that towns down cast are continuing to use fog trucks. He added that anyone wanting help, especially Atlantic Beach and Newport, which have started their own control programs, should con tact him. Mosquitoes have been thick in the county ever since Diane. Yes terday drug stores in both Beau fort and Morehead City had sold out o( the popular mosquito sticks. I People spent all weekend swatting I mosquitoes, rubbing on repellant.l spraying and scratching. Four Teachers Needed To Fill County Vacancies Four teachers are still being sought to fill vacancies on facul ties in the county. Needed at Morehead City School are a librarian and sixth grade teacher, at Camp Glenn a fifth grade teacher and at Smyrna a home prnnomirs teacher. William Bell Appeals Decision To Higher Court William Bell noted an appeal to Superior Court and his bond was set at $4(X) by Judge Lambert Mor ris in County Recorder's Court Thursday. Bell was found guilty of disposing of mortgaged property belonging to C. T. Cannon, New port. Bell was given a three-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay Mr Cannon $335 within 60 days. He was also assessed costs. Dudley Lee Cragg was fined $10 and costs when he was found guil ty of speeding 70 miles per hour. Costs were assessed in the fol lowing cases: Guy Benjamin Guth rie, failing to stop for a stop sign; Jean Harles Warren, improper li cense; John Sapio, speeding, and Charles E. King, improper lights. Bonds Forfeited The following forfeited bonds: Everett Donald Merrill, improper muffler; Robert J Smith and Mary K. Garner, no operator's license; Thomas Marion Garner, allowing unlicensed person to operate ve hicle; Van Dyke Hatch and Paul L. Laundry, speeding. Leonard Collins Jr., blocking traffic and improper exhaust; Tho mas C. Morris, two counts of pub lic drunkenness; Charles Timothy Bosely, failure to yield the right of way, and James Carroll, resist ing arrest. A warrant was also is sued for the apprehension of Car roll. The charge of DC an impro per muffler, against Oscar Wil liam Overfield, was left open for future prosecution, and the chargc of issuing a bad check against An thony J. Alfieri was dropped. Cases Continued Cases against the following were continued: Ervan E. Haniscey, Roy Eugene Mills, James F. Souther land, Jack Gillikin, Charles Jeff ery Imber, James Edward Law rence, Jack Marion Green. Wil liam Harold Lamareaux, Duncan Warren, Isaiah Reels, Gurnie Tho mas Murray. William Jerry Willis, James Smith, James Taylor, Earl Mcin tosh Noe Jr., Robert Primrose Gooding, William Henry Lee, Ves ter Mclnvale, Alton Dickinson, Richard L. Bower, Irene Frazier, Solomon Garnwell, Wesley Gordon Fulcher, Manley Garner, Kcnnard Andrew Taylor. Delsie Cheek Bailey, Lasalle Hankins, Ralph H. Perry, Walter T Hewitt, William Rodney Law rence, Dennis John Holisak. Wil liam Roger Hardy, Gerald J. Klesch. and Clarence H. Wiggins. County Polio Chapter Helps Meet Nationwide Emergency At the request of the National foundation for Infantile Paraly is, half of the funda in the county hapter were mailed yesterday to lational headquarters. All chapters in the nation which lave funds available have been re luested to do this to meet emer ;ency needs in areas hard hit by i idio this summer. The amount sent by Carteret ounty was $2,300 72. announced ifrs. C. L. Beam, chapter treasur r. An equal amount has been re ained in the treasury here. In previous years when Carteret , unds were insufficient to meet ocal needs, money was advanced o this l ounty by the National foundation ? George P. Voss, national direc or of chapter*, said that requests or advances now total $400,000. n a letter to Miss Ruth Peeling, ounty chapter chairman, he said. Each mall brings new requests, know September will bring a de uge of requests from chapters in ligh incidence areas such as Maa achusetts, which is threatened vith the biggest epidemic in Its listory. We must take care of hose advances we are holding and le able immediately to help chap ers meet the heavy demands now icing made upon thfem." Miss Peeling said that abe waa [lad there was sufficient money n the local treasury to help out n the emergency "Other chapters hroughout the nation Mri* money i available to ui when we needed* It, and now we have an opportun ity to return the favor." Miss Peeling has also (..lied a chapter meeting for Friday night, Sept. 2, at 7:30 in the civic cen ter, 9th and Evans Streets, Moro head City. At that time, Jack Mc Gee, eastern repreaentative of the National Foundation in this state, will be present "Anyone interested in polio pre vention and treatment and in ihe work of the local chapter is in vited," Miss Peeling said. A finan cial report, as well as other re ports from officers, will be given. Jaip?r toll to PrMide At Meeting Tomorrow Jasper Bell will be toastmaster at the meeting of the Toastmas lera tomorrow morning at 7 at the Hotel Fort Macon. P. H. Geer Jr. will be topic mas ter and Ted Davis will be topic critic. Prepared speakers will be Dr. David Farrior, Walton Hamilton, Dr. W. L. Woodard and Charles Summerlln Alternate speakers will be Frank Casslano and W. C. Mat thews Jr. Critics will be Ted Davis, J. P. Harris, Dan Walker and Ronald Earl Mason Dr. Ruaaell Outlaw will be master critic and Gerald Hill will give the educational speech. Sprinkler Foils Firebug Attempt A sprinkling system put out a fire in the Woolard Metal Finish ing Co. at the east end of Broad Street Saturday night. Chief of Police Guy Springle said the fire had been set. A window on the northeast side of the building had been knocked out and "something thrown" in two different places inside the shop to start the fire. The firebug attempt was dis covered Sunday morning at 8 o'clock when Gerald Woolard, own er and operator of the shop, went in. The inside of the building was smoky, but Mr. Woolard said that damage was not extensive. Chief Springle said that police are continuing their investigation. Manager Complimented Ted Davis, manager of the More head City Chamber of Commerce, this week received a letter from the Noble T. Praigg Advertising agency. High Point, commending him on compilation df the chamber booklet "Year Round Vacation land." Mr. Praigg said he haa seen hundred* of such booklets but none superior to Morehaad City's.