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44th YEAR, NO. 79. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1955 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
lone Caused More Saltwater
Damage Than Other Storms
By R. M. WILLIAMS
County Farm Agent
During Hurricane lone there was
considerably more saltwater as well
as fresh water damage here than
there was during Connie and Diane.
Livestock deaths ran into a higher
figure.
Miss Georgina Yeatman lost a
thousand Angora goats and some of
her flock of sheep. Judge Lambert
Morris reports the loss of a good
many banker ponies and cattle.
Some banker ponies and cattle are
reported to have swum from the
banks over to the mainland.
Mr. Cecil Morris of Atlantic has
a cow that swam a distance of
miles and landed at his store. He
is feeding the cow at the present
time and is waiting for the owner
to call by for the animal.
Several home flocks of poultry
were destroyed in the Bettie com
munity. During Hurricane lone,
Mrs. Berta Midgett had a mysteri
ous experience. Her poultry house
was picked up by the wind and
turned upside down. The next
morning when Mrs. Midgett visited
her inverted poultry house, what
cfid she find? Fifty-one of her flock
of 56 chickens still in the poultry
house unharmed, singing and lay
ing eggs as though nothing had
happened the night before.
A. B. Lewis, of Otway. lost a
hundred of his commercial flock of
layers, many of which were found
on the farm of Jacob Lewis ap
proximately half a mile away.
The Carteret County Hurricane
Committee of which 1 happen to
be chairman, has sent to Raleigh
as accurate an analysis as we could
determine on damage that has oc
curred in this county. This report
included damage to all crops on
the land at the time that the storms
occurred, damage to farm build
ings, loss through soil erosion,
ditches, forest, drainage canals,
farm machinery, and fresh and
saltwater damages.
We stated the farmers' wishes,
desires, thinking, and needs with
reference to hurricane damage.
Most important of all, we empha
sized the importance of a long
term refinanced loan that would
extend over a period of five to 10
years. Judging from the latest re
f torts, the.,j*rofcpcjuts at t,he present
imc look more encouraging for
farmers getting some assistance.
A large number of our farmers
who have sufferwi heavy crop
losses are being faced with an em
barrassing situation of not being
in position to pay off their debts.
At the present time if a farmer is
so low down the economic ladder
that he has either never had, or
has lost his credit with the local
credit agencies such as his local
time merchant, banker or the Pro
duction Credit Association, and if
he has sufficient collateral, he may
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Shows Calf
i
Henry Jenkins, Stella, shows his 3-year-old Jersey which he enter
ed in the Southeastern North Carolina Junior Dairy Show. Henry
was a showmanship winner. Henry's brother, Wilbur Harris Jenkins,
is a sophomore at State College, holder of a talent-for-service scholar
ship.
County- Board Takes Action
On Trenton-Havelock Road
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Train Finally
Arrives Monday
At 3:30 yesterday afternoon, a
train from west of New Bern fi
nally rolled into Morehead City.
It was the frist shipment of
freight to the Beaufort-Morehead
City area in two weeks. Since
Sept. Uk no teatos could com?
east of New Bern because lone
washed out the railroad trestle
across the Trent River.
The train which came in yester
day was pulling cars which were
sent over the Atlantic Coastline
Railroad from New Bern to Jack
sonville, then across the federal
Lejeune-Cherry Point line to Have
lock and into Morehead City.
The two-week delay in getting
trains in here was due to wash
outs on the ACL and inter-Marine
base line and negotiations with
ACL to get permission to use their
tracks.
Coast Guard to Mark New
Lookout Shoais Channel
Death Caused
By Encephalitis
The County Health Department
received a notice yesterday that
Vincent M. Rhue, 25, Newport, died
in July from infectious encephalitis.
This disease is comomnly referred
to as "sleeping sickness" because
it causes lethargy or a stupor.
Dr. Luther Fulcher, county
health officer, said that places
where encephalitis has broken out
have frequently been found to be
infested with mosquitoes.
He earnestly requests that peo
ple throughout the county get rid
of pails of standing water, drain
pools wherever possible, put kero
sene or cylinder bil on waters left
from the storms and even go over
the grass with a mop dipped in
cylinder oil.
Mr. Rhue died Saturday, July 2,
at the Veterans Hospital. Durham.
He was a graduate of N. C. State
College in industrial engineering
and had served two years in the
Army as a Reserve officer. He was
also assistant Scoutmaiter of the
Newport troop.
Mayors Issue Suggestion,
'Employ Handicapped'
Mayor* George Dill of Morehead
Citjr and Clifford Lewis of Beau
fort have issued a proclamation
observing this week as National
Employ the Physically Handi
capped Week.
The proclamation states that
physically handicapped men and
women seeking employment should
have equality of opportunity with
others and' that performance rec
ords have proved that handicapped
workers, when properly prepared
and placed, can perform their task
creditably la a great variety of
fields.
? William H. Potter, vice-president
of Beaufort Fisheries, Inc., has re
ceived a letter from Congressman
Graham Barden setting forth Adm.
R. E. Wood's recommendations for
marking a newly-surveyed channel
across Cape Lookout Shoals.
The old channel has filled to
such a depth that fishermen are
afraid to use it.
Admiral Wood, commander, Fifth
Coast Guard district, says that dur
ing the week of Oct. 23, the fol
lowing changes in aids to naviga
tion will be made to mark the cen
terline of the recently-surveyed
passage across Cape Lookout
Shoals. Depth will be 8 to 9 feet
with an average width of about 200
yards:
a. Cape Lookout Slough north
end lighted buoy 3 will be discon
tinued.
b. Cape Lookout Slough east
lighted buoy, painted black and
white vertical stripes and showing
a short-long flashing white light of
130 candlepower, 13 feet above
water, will be established in about
25 feet of water, 7500 yards, 160'
from Cape Lookout Light.
c. Cape Lookout Slough ap
proach lighted buoy 1 will be dis
continued. ?
d. Cape Lookout Slough west
lighted buoy, painted black and
white verticle stripes and showing
a short-long flashing white light of
130 candlepower, 13 feet above
water, will be established in about
31 feet of water. 7940 yards, 198*
from Cape Lookout Light.
e. Cape Lookout Slough buoy
will be relocated in about 12 fe?t
of water. 7400 yards, 177* from
Cape Lookout Light. No other
change.
Chart 1233. 1234 and 1110 ? List
of Lights, 1955, Nos. 1925, 1926
and page 299.
Warrant Served
Alonza Becton, Beaufort, was
served a warrant Tuesday, charg
ing him with assault on his wife.
The caae was docketed for hear
ing in county court Thursday.'
- Members of the County Board
of Commissioners, in session yes
terday at the courthouse, Beau
fort, authorized the writing of
letters to Sen. Sam Ervin, Sen.
Kerr Scott, Congressman Harold
D. Cooley, chairman of the House
agriculture committee, and Con
gressman Graham Barden relative
to the proposed road from Tren
ton to Havelock.
N. L. Walker, appeared before
the board and presented letters
from H. Maynard Hicks, second
division highway commissioner,
and John D. Larkins, stating that
the forestry division of the Na
tional Park Service has not yet
appropriated its share of. funds
for the work.
Mr. Walker suggested that the
county board ask North Carolina
representatives in Washington to
check on release of the funds. Mr.
Walker said the road has already
been surveyed and staked out but
the delay now is being caused by
the forestry service.
In another road matter, the
board approved a petition asking
the state to take over the Pine
Acres Development road in New
port township. According to the
petition, the road is 500 feet long
and has seven homes on it. Peo
ple living there say it is impass
able in wet weather.
Moses Howard, chairman of the
board, also asked J. L. Humphrey,
county road superintendent, about
the streets in Mansfield Park. Mr.
Humphrey said that the streets
designated for improvement in
the petition, do not correspond
with the streets in that area and
for that reason nothing has been
done nor can work proceed until
the situation is clarified.
Men to Organize
New Civic Club
Plant are underway (or organ
izing a civic club Jaycees, Lions
or Rotary? comprised of men 21
to 34 years of age in Atlantic,
Sea Level, Stacy and Cedar Island.
A letter to approximately 80
men in that age bracket will be
sent out next week, inviting them
to attend a meeting at the Sea
Level Inn Monday night, Oct. 17.
At that meeting will be repre
sentatives of the three civic cluba
mentioned above. The men will
decide which of the three groups
would best serve the needs of
their communities.
The dinner will be dutch and
will begin at 6 and the meeting
will start at 7.
Further information may be ob
tained by contacting J. W. John
son or Joe Mason Jr., Atlantic.
Carl Chadwick Suffers
Burnt Sunday Morning
Carl Chadwick, 408 Ann St.,
Beaufort, suffered burns to his
hands, arms, face and neck, wben
a gaa pump he was working on
Sunday morning at 9 a.m. next to
Ms home exploded and caught fir*.
Mr. Chadwick went to More
head City Hospital Sunday and
returned to his home yesterday
morning.
The Beaufort fire department
extinguished the blFPV
Beach Crew Makes
Terrific Haul
One of the biggest catches
ever made with a beach seine
was taken last Monday by Capt.
Ottis Purifoy's crew on Bogue
Banks.
In one haul they pulled in
48,650 pounds of spots, 50 boxes
large mullet, 19 boxes of me
dium mullet and three boxes of
speckled trout.
The crew operates just west
of the state park in the vicinity
of Tar Landing.
Fulcher Home,
O'Neal House
Burn Friday
Two houses burned Friday, one
near Highway 101 north of Beau
fort and another on Harkers
Island.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fulcher
and their children were living in
the home near Highway 101, but
no one was living in the Harkers
Island place, a summer home own
ed by the sons of J. D. O'Neal.
The Fulcher fire alarm was
phoned in from the B. A. Phelps
residence shortly after midnight,
but by the time the Beaufort Fire
Department got there, the house
was beyond saving.
It is not known how the fire
staited. Mrs. Fulcher is reported
to have received cuts on her hands
from glass in a window which she
| knocked out to get one of the chil
dren out.
The home was owned by Gray
don Jordan and is located on the
former Dory Merrill farm. The
Fulehers are now living in the Tom
Merrill home on the highway,
which is also owned by Mr. Jordan.
Mr. Fulcher was reportedly at
Cherry Point, where he works,
when the fire broke out. As soon
as the fire department was noti
fied, Mr. Phelps went to the home
and soon after he got there the
roof of the building fell in.
None ol the Fulcher's belongings
were saved.
The call to the Harkers Island
fire was received at the Beaufort
Fire Department about 2:25 Friday
afternoon. The home was located
on the old acadcmy school grounds,
across frtmi the site proposed for
a new Harkers Island School.
When smoke was seen billowing
from the two-story home, the Beau
fort Fire Department was called,
but the house was practically lM|rn
ed to the ground by the time wc
men got there.
The home was owned by Mr
O'Neal, a Henderson businessman
who died last year. One of his sons
who lives in Virginia has been no
tified of the loss.
MethodistWomen
Will Meet Today
Mrs. W. B. Landrum, field wor
ker in the woman's division, Wo
man's Society of Christian Service,
will be the speaker this morning
at a joint meeting of the Morehead
City and Jacksonville sub-districts,
WSCS.
The session will start at 10
o'clock in the First Methodist
Church, Morehead City, Registra
tion will begin at 9:30.
Mrs. Gerald Whitehurst, leader
of the Morehead City sub-district,
said, "I think every woman should
make an effort to hear Mrs. Lan
drum. She's a noted speaker and
is anxious to meet the women of
the Jacksonville and Morehead
City districts."
The WSCS leader for the Jack
sonville sub-district is Mrs. He
drick Anan.
The session will adjourn at 1
p.m. and the women will have
lunch at Morehead City water
front restaurants.
311 Attend FHA
Rally Saturday
Thirty-eight Future Homemskeri
of America and their advisors
from this counly attended the dis
trict rally at Rock Ridge High
School, Rock Ridge. Sunday.
Filling the chartered bus were
13 FHA girls from Newport with
their advisor, Mrs. Y. Z. Simmons:
three members from Smyrna, 13
from Beaufort with their advisor,
Mrs. David Beveridge. and aix
from Morehead City with their ad
visor, Mrs. Delfido Cordova.
The Morehead City chapter was
in charge of the response to the
welcome and the Beaufort chap
ter served on the program. The
theme was "Portraits of a Grow
ing Chapter." The Beaufort girls
presented a Drag Net skit, "Ten
Ways to KU1 a Chapter."
TTie FHA theme this year is "A
Key to Better Living."
Carol Lynn Garrla, district FHA
president, presided.
Navy LST Loading Ramp Will
Be Completed by Nov. 8
Firemen Finish Training Course
cut Mm u *iut< u
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Photo t>y Jerry Schumacher
Capt. Otis Dowdy, right, Charlotte Fire Department, presents a card signifying completion of a week's
fire-fighting course, to Chief Vernon Guthrie, More head City Fire Department. Looking on are Chief
Charles B. Harrell. left, Beaufort Fire l>epartment; Curtis Flannagan. Farmville, secretary of the State
Firemen's Association; Lloyd layman, director of the fire services office, Federal Civil Defense Adminis
tration; and B. T. Smith Jr., chief of the Newport Fire Department. Cards were presented to 47 firemen
Friday night, Sept. 23. Captain Dowdy was the instructor for the county-wide firemen's training school.
Venezuela's Far Away
Ocracoke .Dredge Boat Captain
Would Like to Get Home Soon!
Ocracoke ? Capt. Marvin How
, ard, commanding the hopper dredge
Chester Harding down in Lake
Marataibo, Venezuela, is showing
signs of homesickness for his na
tive Ocraeoke.
Lured last June from his quiet
life of retirement in his native
Ocracoke by an urgent call to cap
tain the Chester Harding and per
haps, too, by the pay-check offer
ed. Captain Howard took a tem
porary leave of absence. And now,
after three months, he wishes he
was back at Ocracoke with his
church, his Sunday School, his
PTA, his Boy Scouts, his Civic
Club, and last but not least, his
wife.
All of his recent letters indicate
this fact. Each time Captain Mar
vin gct? the wanderlust, he de
clares it is the last time, hut there
is always one more last time after
the last time. Active in many com
munity affairs: on the Methodist
Church Board; superintendent of
the Sunday School; vice-president
of the PTA; Scoutmaster, and on
ad infinitum. Captain Howard is
missed at Ocracoke, and lots of
friends will be #*?ad to welcome
him back when the job down there
in Venezuela is completed.
Meanwhile Captain Marvin wants
the news from home and has sub
scribed to the Ocracoke School
News, monthly publication, and,
not satisfied with this, he wants
each and ev^ry Boy Scout to write
him a letter, and he wouldn't mind
,
some from the older boys and girls
too.
Tie writes: "Tf*r^'r>*ix jM
dredges here in Lake Maracaioo.
and of the six, two are ciptaincd
by Oracokers." This bears out the 1
fact that wherever Ocracokers go, 1
they usually run up with other
Ocracokers. So Captain Marvin
wasn't surprised when he discover- i
ed that one of the dredges was cap- 1
tained by Capt. Kelly F. O'Neal,
native of Ocracoke, now living in 1
Texas and on a dredge out of Gal- ]
veston. (This reminds us of the
time the elder Capt. Kelly F.
O'Neal met up with Mace Garrish 1
way over in Siam. These Ocra
cokers arc travelling men!)
"Three of the dredges are work
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Mayors Name Civic Leaders
To NEPH Week Committee
Mayor Clifford T. Lewis of Beau
fort and Mayor George W. Dill of
Morehead City have appointed a
committee in observance of Na
tional Employ the Physically Han
dicapped Week, Oct. 2-8.
Mrs. Julia P. Tenney, Morehead
City, manager of the office of the
Employment Security Commission,
is committee chairman.
Other members of the committee
are, from Beaufort, Tommy Pot
ter, president, Jaycees; Norwood
Young, president. Chamber of Com
merce; William Norris, command
er, American Legion; Gerald Hill,
president. Rotary dub; Roy Eu
banks, commander, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Miss Georgie
Hughes, County Welfare Depart
ment, and Ray Cummins, manager,
radio station WBMA.
From Morehead City committee
members are the Rev. E. Guthrie
Brown, rector of St. Andrews Epis
copal Church; Alva (Naughty) Wil
lis, president, Lions Club; Dr. Rus
sell Outlaw, president, Jaycees;
Walter Edwards, president, Cham
ber of Commerce; A. Donald Ava
llone, president, Moose Lodge; J.
B. Rice, commander American Le
gion; Dr. A. F. Chestnut, presi
dent, Rotary Club; Gro'ver Mun
den. manager, radio station WMBL,
and Lockwood Phillips, publisher
of the Carteret County News
Times.
Both Mayor Lewis and Mayor
Dill have expressed the hope that
all civic and veterans' organizations
will cooperate In observing NEPH
week, and help In bringing to the
attention of the public efforts
which are being made to rehabili
tate physically - handicapped per
sons.
Mrs. Tenney has assured the co
operation of her office. Special ef
forts and methods are employed
by the local staff of the Employ
ment Security Commission in coun
seling physically-handicapped per
sons. and in attempting to plaei
such persons in gainful employ
ment.
Mrs. Tcnney stressed that em
ployment of physically handi
capped persons should be empha
sized the year 'round, and that
hiring the physically handicapped,
where possible, reflects sound bus
iness judgment.
She stated that employment rec
ords and employer experience in
dicate that the average physically
handicapped worker is a steady
producer, is capable and conscien
tious, and in many instances out
produces and excels in ability his
normal counterpart.
Salvation Army
Aids Storm Victims
Sam Adlcr, Morehead City,
chairman of the Salvation Army in
this county, reported Friday that
the Salvation Army ' distribution
center on Front Street, Beaufort,
last week distributed 2.SOO pieces
of clothing, blankets and sheets.
The center was opened to help
people who lost belongings in
lone. It was manned by Salvation
Army personnel.
The office closed Friday, Mr.
Adler said, after it was felt that
the needs in this locality had been
met.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Oct. 4
8:38 a.m. 3:28 a.m.
10:09 p.m. 4:09 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 5
10:32 a.m. 4:10 ajn.
11:00 p.m. 4:56 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. ?
11:23 a.m. 4:55 a.m.
5:53 p.m.
Friday, Oct 7
12:10 a m 5:94 a.m.
12 :M pjn. 7:08 p-m.
Swansboro . . .
Town of the Month
Swansboro was named Town
of the Month for September in
the Finer Carolina Report for
October. i
Pictures in the booklet show i
some of the varied activities
of the Fnier Carolina Program
in Swansboro, Including recrea
tion, educational improvements;
a newly remodeled firehousc;
clean-up and paint-up of homes,
and a new water supply tank.
In spite of hurricane8%the
Navy LST loading ramp on
Radio Island between Beau
fort and Morehead City is
expected to be complete by
the original date set in the
contract, Nov. 8, 1955.
According to the Navy public
information office, the storms
caused no delay of her than work
stoppage until the weather cleared.
Already laid out is a road
branching lrom the main island
road to the loading ramp. This
road will be hard-surfaced, requir
ing 13,400 yards of double bitum
inous topping. An additional 13,500
square yards of concrete and stone
surfaced staging area will be con
structed which will be used for
parking of equipment prior to load
ing.
' The ramp itself will be concrete,
measuring 430 along the waterfront
by 31 feet, constructed on concrete
piling. It will be able to accommo
date more than one LST at a time.
Also included in the contract are
wood piling mooring dolphins, a
gate house and lighting facilities.
The ramp, located at the south
end of Radio Island and north of
Fort Macon Goast Guard Station, is
being built by the McLean Con
tracting Co.. Baltimore. Theirs was
h low bid of $396,500.
Other low bidders were the Dia
mond Construction Co., of Savan
nah. Ga., with $411,000, and the L.
O. Chapman Co., of Charlotte, N.
C., with $418,954. Bids were opened
April 12, 1955 in Norfolk, Va.
The contract was awarded May
27. 1955.
Resident officer-in-chargc of the
project is Cmdr. V. G. Lauters,
Civil Kngincer Corps, USN, Camp
Lejeune.
Engineer Will
Inspect River
Mayor Leon Mann, Newport, has
been informed by T. J. Hewitt,
Wilmington, chief of the engineer
*>K *ciuy Engl
beers, that an engineer will be
sent to inspect the drainage situa
tion along the Newport River "at
the earliest practicable date."
After the inspection is made,
Mr. Hewitt said the Corps of En
gineers would be glad to discuss
the matter with Mayor Mann. Mr.
Hewitt also said, in his letter dat
ed Wednesday. Sept. 28, "This of
fice has no authority for dredging
Newport River or for providing
other remedial measures at this
time."
A similar letter was sent by Mr.
Hewitt to R. M. Williams, county
agent. Mr. Williams had written
Gov. Luther Hodges, Congressman
Graham A. Barden, Civil Defense
Director Edward Griffin and Mr.
Hewitt relative to the Newport
drainage problem.
Governor Hodges replied and
said he was referring the matter
to General Griffin, General Grif
fin replied and said he was refer
ring the matter to Col. R. L. Hill
of the Corps of Engineers and
Congressman Barden also referred
the matter to the engineers.
The upshot of it all, including
letters from Newport civic cluba
and town an^ county governing
bodies, is that an inspector from
the Corps of Engineers will come
sometime and look at the river.
Whoppin' Billl
7955 Hurricanes Cost
State $169,054,730
Brig. Gen. Edward Griffin. State
Civil Defenae director, says Hurri
canes Connie. Diane and lone coat
Morth Carolina an estimated (169,
954,730, nearly (46.000.000 more
than Hurricane Hizel.
Haiel, he recalls, caused an ea
Limated S123.SOO.OOO worth of da
mage Reports on the havoc
worked by the three 19S5 storma
still are not complete.
Hazel, which struck last fall.
:auaed heavier damage to build
ngv he said, but the losses cauaed
?y the 1955 storms were greater
because of damage done to crops
"We did not have the huge agri
cultural damage In Hazel," he ex
plained, "that we had in these "
rhat's largely due, he said to the
tact that most crops were in when
Hazel blew across the state Oct.
IS. 1954.
The 1055 damage totals now
stand officially at (106.629.246 for
larm crop and other agricultural
loaaes; (2.000.000 for public utili
ties; 1500.00 for state hospitals and
institutions; (1,500,000 for high
ways and bridges; (49.520,000 for
private property other than'farma;
17.639,500 for county and munici
pal property.
In addition. (300.000 has teen
marked down for the cost of con
trolling mosquitoes resulting from
the storms and $565,982 for the
cost of services and contributions
of state agencies such as the Na
tional Guard, Highway Patrol and
highway commission to disaster
areas.
G?n. McCaul Welcome*
Squadron 122 Thursday
Chefry Point ? Marine Fighter
Squadron 122 wu greeted by the
commanding general of the Second
Marine Aircraft Wing, Maj. Gen.
Verne J. McCaul. on it< return to
the Marine Corps Air Station here
Thursday, following >ix month* of
intensive operations in the Medi
terranean with the U.S. Sixth Fleet
aboard the aircraft carrier USS
Coral Sea.
First to land hi* jet fighter FJ-2
"Fury" wan the squadron com
mander, Lt. Col. Carroll E. Mc
Cullah, who was immediately fol
lowed by the other squadron air
craft. In addition to General Mc
Caul and hi* itaff, wive* and chil
dren at squadron personnel and
the Wing band were on hand to
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