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-~5= CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 47th YEAR, NO. 79. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Pine Limb Pierces Pan i-icHO fry u oty.uour The pine limb shown here pierced Ike'i feed pun during Hurricane Helene. Ike's master, deputy sheriff Bobby Bell, says this gives a good Idea of bow hard the wind was blowing. Foot Inches of the limb went through the bottom of the pan. County Sets Property Loss at $3,030,000 Mrs. Hugh Jones Dies at Age 83 Mrs. Hugh C. Jones of Beaufort died Tuesday morning at Sea Level Hospital. Mrs. Jones, who was familiarly known as MHs Amrte, was 83 years old. Mrs. Jones was active in church and civic affairs. She served as president of the WSCS of Ann Street Methodist Church, of Beau fort Woman's Club, the Beaufort Parent - Teachcr Association and the library board. She was a member of the school board for many years and was a leader of the Epworth League. She taught Sunday School for more thai 30 years. She was a lifelong meinber of Ann Street Methodist Church and her marriage to Mr. Jones was the first performed in tbe present sanctuary. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon in Ann Street Methodist Church by the Rev. John ? Cline, pastor. Interment was in Ocean View Cemetery. Surviving are four daughters, Miss Annie Neal Jones of Williams burg, Mrs. Jack Windley of Beau fort, Mrs. J. T. Bradley of Kipling and Mrs. Carlton Dobson of Rich mond, Va.; two sons, Howard C. and Ben L. Jones of Beaufort and six grandchildren. Hotel Manager Lists Heelings Eight group meetings at the Morehead Biltraorc Hotel were an nounced yesterday by Michael (Bill) Taft, hotel manager. The Board of Medical Examiners will be at the hotel today through Sunday. The North Carolina branch of the United Freah Fruit and Vegetable Association will meet there Oct. 11- 19. The branch in cludes growers, dealers and whole salers in the produce industry. The North Carolina Elks Asso ciation will convene at the hotel Nov. 6-8. Conventions booked fdi" next sea son are the North Carolina Asso ciation of Broadcasters. May 21-23; North Carolina Medical Veterinary Association. June 23-26; North Car olina Association of Insurance Agents, June 25-2T; Farmer Co operative Exchange, July 12-14, and North Carolina Press Associa tion July 16-11. Fir* Guts Upstair* Room Of Dudley House Morehead City firemen were called to George Dudley's house at SOT N. 13th St. at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday. A fire of unknown origin waa blazing in an upstairs bed room when the firemen arrived. In about an hour the fire was oat. There was not much damage to the house Itself except for paint and window glass. The furniture and some clothes in the room Were l*~ > Damage to private property^ throughout the county was esti mated this week at $3 million by county officials. Damage to county property alone, including school buildings, was estimated at $30,000, according to Moses Howard, chair man of the county board of com missioners. The North Carolina coastal area, including Carteret, was declared a major disaster area by President Eisenhower Wednesday. At ? re sult, federal funds will be made available to repair public facilities. Morehead Damage Morehead City estimated Its damages as follows: debris clear ance, cleaning storm catch basins, $15,000; sanitary sewer lines, $23. 000, and uninsurable damages to public buildings, $5,000. Beaufort estimates: damage to streets, storm and sanitary sewer lines, $404,000; dar-.age to private property, $500,000; cost of tem porary repairs to essential public property, $73,000. Dan Walker, town nfanager, estimated that the town would spend in excess of $10,000 in immediate rehabilitation work. Bogue Banks Bogue Banks area : erosion where there were no sea walls, $203,000; damage to private dwellings, $200, 000; damage to businesses, $90,000. Town of Atlantic Beach: damage to private property, $400,000; dam age to public property, $3,000; cost to town to make immediate tem porary repairs, $3,000. Wednesday Meeting Officials of Beaufort, Morehead City and Atlantic Beach met Wed nesday afternoon with Civil De fense officials in the Morehead City municipal building. Damage esti mates were presented at that time. At the meeting were Gen. E. F. Griffin, state Civil Defense direc tor; Robert Folger, his assistant, both of Rateigh; Earl Mader, R. Van Dame, and Victor Perrota, all of Thomasville, Ga.; Mayor Clif ford Lewis, Mayor George Dill, James Potter, Moses Howard, Gray Hassell, J. V. Waters. Mayor A. B. Cooper and Dan Walker. Governor Hodges has requested estimates of damage from town and county officials in 20 counties. Four Attend NCEA Meeting at Kinston D. G. Bell, county legislator; Moses Howard, chairman of the county board of commissioners; R. M. McClain, chairman' of the County Citizens Committee for Batter Schools, and H. L. Joalyn, county superintendent of schools, went to Kinston last night. They attended the legislative meeting of the eastern diatrict. North Carolina Education Assort a tion. Dr. W. H. CartwrighC pro fessor of education, Duke Univer sity,' was the speaker. Claude Farretl presented the United Forces for Education pro gram, and Raymond Stone. NCEA legislative committee chairman, presided during the question and answer period. Jayceea to Meet Beaufort Jaycces and tbeir dates and wivea will meet at tb? Blue Ribbon Club tor dinner tomorrow night. The Jayeeea did n?t meet Monday night Storm Hits Part Of Warehouse Saturday'* storm, better known as hurricane Helene, knocked down 14 to 18 concrete panel walls of th? new warehouse going up at Morehead City state port. ^ The warehouse is being built by R. N. Rouse Co., Goldsboro. Steve Simmons, superintendent in charge of warehouse construction, said that in insurance adjuster sur veyed the damage Wednesday. Mr. Simmons was not notified of the loss in dollars and cents. Mr. Simmons said that some of the steel also came down. Although the loss will cause some delay, he hopes that the warehouse will be completed in December. Work on other parts of the structure were proceeding yesterday. Otherwise, there was no dam age to any other part of the port buildings or property. Charles R. McNeill, assistant operations man ager, said, "We were lucky." To bacco people were happy to learn that all their tobacco, stored in the warehouses, was snug and dry. Port personnel have been busy in recent weeks storing the new crop of tobacco at the rate of sev eral thousand hogsheads a week. Mr. McNeill said, "We need that new warehouse mighty bad." Clifton Farrow Hurt In Wreck Near Beaufort Clifton Farrow, passenger in a 1949 Ford driven by Amos Lock lear, suffered a fractured rib and shoulder at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday when the Ford went into a ditch on Highway 101 north of Earl Tay lor's residence. Farrow was rushed to Morehead City Hospital in the Adair ambu lance. Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr. said the brakes on the car locked. Locklear, Beaufort RFD, owned the car. He was not hurt. The car was a total loss. Helene Causes Filling of Main t Channel into Morehead City Port Regular FHA Program Will Meet Needs in Storm Area Marines From Lebanon Will Dock Sunday ? Three Navy Transports Due at Morehead City ? Wives, Mothers, Kids Will be at Docks Wives, mothers and children will be swarming at the Morehead City port Sunday as three Navy trans ports bring back Marines from Lebanon. Making port will be the l)SS Cambria, USS Olmstead and USS Muliphen. The Cambria left Morehead City Sept. U and although destination was not announced, it was specu lated that it was headed for Beirut to pick up Marines who landed there in July. The Associated Press reported Sept. 11 that more than a thou sand Marines would begin board ing vessels the week of Sept. 14 for return to the United States. Although the Morehead City channel is shoaled in on the west side in the vicinity of buoy 9, Capt. Charlie Piner, pilot, hopes to be able to maneuver the large Navy ships to the east and thus bring them to dockgide. Because of the sharp drop-off of the channel on the ?ast, such maneuvering ia tricky business, since accidental scraping of cast aid* may cause the wall ts: collapse and fill in the chkunrt from the cast. Navy captains have implicit faith in "Captain Charlie" and are con fident he can bring them in. Boy on Bike Hit By Car Sunday Clyde Walter Guthrie, 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Guthrie, Markers Island, ia recov ering in the Morehead City Hos pital from injuries he received at 11:25 a.m. Sunday when struck by a car on the Harkers Island Road, lie suffered a broken leg. Patrolman W. J. Smith Jr. aaid that Clyde was riding hia bike and apparently cut in front of a 1938 Ford driven by Mrs. Jack DdVis, Harkers Island. The accident hap pened in front of the store next to Dixon's Cafe. Mrs. Davis was headed west. The patrolman said the boy waa on the right side of the highway, also headed left, when for some reason he cut in front of the car to get over to the left side of the road. Damage to the car was estimated at $75. No charges were fttad. Centennial Report J. R. Sanders, finance chairman of the Morehead City Centennial Committee, reports that the Can tennial deficit now standa at $4, 111.48. The deficit committee raited $250 on the color television give away conducted during the sum mer. ? Raleigh (AP>? The lUte head of the Farmers Home Administration ?aid today a preliminary survey indicated that regular FHA loan programs were broad enough to meet the credit needs of farmers who suffered damage from Hurri cane Helene. Horace J. Isenhower said that although additional reports will be received and studied, the prelim inary survey does not Indicate a need for a disaster program in the farm credit field. Leas Damage Hurricane Helene did not inflict as much damage to farm crops as Hurricanes Connie, Diane and lone did in 1955 or Hazel did in 1964, Isenhower reported. He said the storm affected a smaller area and did not cause as much flood ing as the previous' blows. He said regular credit services of the FHA are immediately avail able to farmers in the stricken area. These include loans for the repair and replacement of farm buildings. Operating loans may be obtained by family type farmers for the purchase of equipment, livestock, seed, fertilizer, fuel and other farm and home operating expenses. These loans are repayable over a period up to seven years. Crop Loans Loans for crop production are usually scheduled for repayment when income from the crop is nor mally received. Farm housing loans are avail able to farm owners for construc tion, replacement and repair of farm buildings. These loans are repayable over periods not ex ceeding 33 years. Isenhower pointed out that FHA loaoi are available only when other lenders are unable to supply the needed credit. Applications for loan* should be made to tha county offioe of the Fir men Home Ad miitf?tratt(*i. ?In Carteret the FHA office it fai the courthouse annex. Touring English Tobacco Men Meet Helene on Visit Here J. F. Rhodes from Nyasaland and R. L B. Cockland from Sou thern Rhodesia came to Morehead City for a weekend's "vacation" on their tour of United States to baccolands, and ran right square into Helene. Mr. Rhodes, < London-born en gineer with Imperial Tobacco Co., called it "quite an experience". When asked if he bad ever been in any natural catastrophe before, he stated that he lived through an earthquake on the Gold Coast ( now the new nation of Ghana). That, however, wai quite disastrous in comparison with Helene. Many persons lost their lives. Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Cockland, who is a buyer with Imperial, were guests at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel. They spent the storm hours "having a party upstairs". The two arrived in this country three weeks ago to atudy Ameri can methoda of selling tobacco and factory organization in this coun try. The Rhodesian tobacco ia flue cured, very similar to North Caro lina's. Expert to UK The majority of the leaf grown in the South African area is ex ported to the United Kingdom. Of a total crop of about to million pounds, between 40 and 45 million were handled l??t year by Im perial. The visiting tobacco men have been impressed with the way to bacco is moved by lift trucks in warehouses. That, they said, was most impressive. In South Africa, the tobacco bundles sre rolled. This country also has more la bor-saving devices "due to the high scale of wages paid here", Mr. Rhodes commented. The men hadn't yet seen a tobacco harves ter. When asked it South African tobacco is taken to the warehouse, as it is here and then auctioned to the highest bidder, Mr. Rhodes said it was, but added rather hesi tantly that the method of handling the tobacco was much inferior to the way it is handled in South Africa. The men were reluctant to com ment further, but when asked how handling it here differed from their method, they said that the leaf, as taken to the market in their countries, was carefully packed in burlap bales? not just thrown on piles on the warehouse floor. Packed la Press The tobacco Is packed by a screw press into 200 pound bales. Then, wh?n the time came for in specting the tobacco and buying, the bales were opened and a few of the leaves pulled out to show the quality. When it was suggested that the method of packing the leaf in bur lap was expensive to the grower, Mr. Rhodes explained that the burlap bags arc always returned to the owner. In Southern Rhodesia there is more mechanization in tobacco growing than in Nyasaland. There fire-cured tobacco is the main crop. All tobacco there is grown by to, 000 natives who produce 30 million pounds. Nyasaland is about the si m of North Carolina with a European population of only 7,000. It derives its name from * steam er-traversed lake, Nyasa, which is 350 miles long and 50 miles wide. In addition to the fire-cured va riety, burlcy and sun-cured leaf is produced. Fire-cured tobacco is strong and pungent, used mostly for pipe to bacco and chewing. It il cured in a mud hut with an open fire on the floor. Curing requires three weeks, when it is packed in baa keta and bought by atate -owned organizationa. The grower gets about 20 cents s pound for it. , Sun-cured tobacco is similar to flue-cured except that it la dried in the sun over a period of three weeks. Every night the tobacco is carried inaide a grass hut and brought out again the next morn ing. August Seeding In South Africa, the seed beds are planted in August and the to bacco harvested in January (sum See ENGLISHMEN, Page Z Shipbuilding Shed Collapses at MoreheU CKj SUfMUtag <W coU>?m4 nlct the atnh ? t WM Tide TabU ( Eastern Standard Time) TMes at Ike Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Oct. 1 11:06 a.m. 4:38 a.m. 11:33 p.m. 5:28 p.m. Satarday, Oft 4 11:52 a.m. S OS a.m. 6:14 p.m. ftnday, Oct. 5 12:25 a.m. 5:52 a.m. 12:44 p.m. 1:42 pm. Monday, Oct. 6 1:24 a.m. 7:07 a.m. 1:41 p.m. 8:59 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1 2:29 a.m. 9:09 a.m. 1:8 JUB. 9:56 p.m. Army Engineers Send Gerig Here on Emergency Job Helene Causes Much Damage To Schools "A lot of damage" was fullered by Carteret school buildings in Helene, H. L. Joslyi, auperintei dent, reported Wednesday. He esti mated damage at J7.000. Mr. Joslyn and John Kntan, he^d of the school maintenance crew visited as many schools as they could Monday and surveyed the damage, from roof top to base ment. The roof over the kitchen at the new Harkers Island School blew off. The roof of the gym at Atlantic was deposited on the gr ound by the high wind, a door in the cafe teria was blown out. allowing tile on the floor to become water soaked, and the chimney at the Atlantic leacherage went down. Temporary repairs were made at the Atlantic gym and work was about to start at Harkers Island when the rain started Wednesday. Three windows blew out at New port school and one was smashed by something flying through the air. The chimney on the Newport teacherage fell. Morehead City school suffered roof damage. The fence around the playground at Beaufort School went down A few shingles on the roof over the shop at Queen Street School came off and a leak developed in the main building. Gaskets around sky light* at Camp Glenn School ewne loose W S. King School ?earns to have come through all right. I Shoaling o<f the main channel to Morehead City port, due to hurricane Helene, has brought swift ac tion by the Corps of Engineers. The sea-going hop per dredge Gerig will be here Monday to dig out the channel to the authorized depth of 30 feet. The Gerig will arrive Sunday. The shoaling has hampered shipping operations. G. L. Bennett, manager of Aviation Fuel Termnials, reported yesterday that a Navy-leased tanker, due Sunday with aviation fuel may have to discharge some of its cargo at Charleston, S. C. The tanker draws slightly more than 25 feet. National Guard Answers Call The Morehead City National Guard unit was called to state duty ! during hurricane Itelene. Unit ad ministrator M/Sgt. Dennis Goodwin reports that 34 enlisted men and two officers saw duty between 4:30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday. Among the duties performed by the unit were patrolling open build ings to prevent looting, working with Civil Defense and Red Crosa communications systems, supply ing the county nurse with hot water and housing the Atlantic Beach auxiliary police department. The coat to the state was $614.47. Sergeant Goodwin broke the total down into- the following categories: $108.15 for gasoline; $29.11 for food; and $477.21 for two days' pay and . allowances for tba men called to duly. ? Robert Gaaklll, manager of Trumbull Asphalt Co., reported yesterday that the Patella, due here tomorrow ' with asphalt from Curacao, Venezuela, has been (ic toured to Wilmington where it will discharge IS, 000 barrels to lighten its load. The Patella will proceed then to Morehead City, arriving Monday where it will put off 15,000 bar rels, half of the original shipment destined for Morehead. Mr. Gjs kill said that the partial delivery will hamper operations here. The Morehead City plant ia running out of asphalt. Some of the asphalt plants for merly served out of Morehead City will be serviced by asphalt term inals at Wilmington. Pilot's Report The shoaling of the main chan nel, in the vicinity of buoy 9. was discovered this week by Charlie Plner, harbor pilot. The Army Corps of Engineers office, Beau fort, was notified. The engineera verified the pilot's report that the weat aide of the 400-foo; channel had sloughed in to a depth rang ing from 24 to 29 feet Walter Frtederichs, port opera tions manager, reported that main tenance dredging in the harbor it self and the turning baain ia now under way. The La Porte Dredging company's dredge. Clarendon, ar rived Monday to atart that work. Congressman Called In connection with the emer gency, Mayor George Dill, More head City, called Congreasman Graham Barden, who in turn talked to Col. H. C. Rowland, en gineer, Wilmington diatrict. Congressman Barden notified Mayor Dill by telegram Wednea day afternoon that the Army Corps of Engineers had authorized the Gerig, then in Tampa, Fla., to pro ceed to Morehead City aa soon as the Tampa job was completed Given Priority The telegram pointed out that the Morehead City emergency dredging has been put ahead of five other Joba, including dredging at the Cape Canaveral missile test ing baae in Florida. Barden, in the wire, commend ed the Army engineers for their cooperation and fast action. U. Col. W. K Shaffer, Colonel Rowland'a executive officer, noti fied Mayor Dill yesterday that the Gerig would be here Sunday, five days earlier than had been thought possible. BCDC Officers To Meet Tonight The executive committee of the Beaufort Community Development Corp. will meet at 7:30 tonight at the town hall. The meeting waa called by chairman W. H. Potter. The meeting will be devoted to hearing report! of committee chairmen. Each chairman waa to have called hia committee togeth er. sine* the laat meeting, to le lect projects to be undertaken. At the laat general membership meeting on Sept. 22, committees were organised. Th$ committees 'held brief meetings that night. Per sona who make donations to the organization are givfcn a member ship card. Officers and committee chair- k men make up the executive com mittee. Officers are Mr. Potter, Glenn Adair, vice-chairman, Dr. David Farrior, secretary, James Biggs, assistant secretary, and Dr. Theodore Salter, treasurer. Committee chairmen follow: Norwood Young, roads and trans portation; Holden Ballou. munici pal affairs; J. O. Barbour Jr., wa terway i and haitors; C. R. Has scll. recreational facilities; B. E. Tarkington, schools; Braxton Adair, Industry and agriculture; and Clarence Guthrie, local bus iness.
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