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49th YEAR, NO. 14. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Sea, Wind, Salt Spray Spell
Death for ShacMeford Banks
* By RUTH PEELING
Law requires that cattle, sheep,
goats and pigs shall be removed
from the outer banks of North Car
olina The livestock are supposed
to be off Core Banks by now. Next
in line is Shaekleford.
But persons who think th.it re
moval of livestock will automatic
t ally assure the restoration of the
banks may be mistaken.
Judging from what was seen on
a trip to Shaekleford Tuesday,
the greatest sinners are the sea,
wind and salt spray. Remove the
animals without also pushing back
the sea, and the deadly erosion of
the outer banks will continue.
Core Banks is more deeply erod
ed than Shaekleford. Things are
in such bad shape there that every
blade of grass eaten by livestock
meant a push closer to the preci
pice of total destruction. In fact,
, at this point, even a seed eaten by
a bird on Core Banks is a step to
ward total disappearance of Core
Banks.
Some folks contend thai all the
vegetation on Shaekleford is being
eaten by the animals there That
all the dead trees and low shrubs
are the result of animals' gnawing
on them.
Explain then, why in a wooded
glade, we saw gras? two to three
inches high, and cedars and live
oaks of good size. Animals fre
quented the glade. There was evi
dence of that everywhere. (Some
body could go over there arid start
a fertilizer factory).
The glade was in a deep ravine
behind a high dune. The dune
formed a natural protection from
the incisor-like wind and killing
salt spray. As we moved up out
of the glade to the tops of the
' dunes, the dead, weather-beaten
cedars again dominated the scene.
One can only theorize that at one
time these dead cedars were far
from the sea's edge. Between them
and the poisonous salt spray were
dunes. But storm after storm cut
away the dunes, tides flowed in
where they had never been before
?and claimed the trees.
If wind and salt spray are the
big culprits on Shaekleford and
Core Banks, why then i* Bogue
Banks not in a similar state? It
would be, except
1. Man regularly inhabits Bogue
Banks. He is attempting, if he's
wise, to prevent the erosion ? at
Fort Macon and where cottages
stand
2. Bogue Banks is differently
situated along the coast. Core and
Shaekleford take the brunt of swift
currents and high winds. Bogue
lies back, more in an east-west di
rection, protected from a direct
, attack by the elements.
Unless we are very careful, in
another hundred years Bogue
Banks will be in the same pre
carious position as Shaekleford.
Where are the large pine forests
on Bogue Banks? Situated a good
distance from the sea. Unless the
scrub vegetation has been bull
dozed down by ignorant property
owners, the scrub growth survives
closer to the ocean, but no large
trees can withstand' the steady
wind that bears the life-stealing
salt landward.
Perhapa there exists a document
ed survey giving the land area of
the outer banks in 1850 or prior.
If so, we don't know of it, but
would be willing to bet that the
width of the banks many years
ago was much greater than it is
today.
There are different theories as
to how to save the outer banks.
After the visit to Shaekleford Wed
nesday, I go along with Conrad
, Wirth, national parks director. Mr.
Wirth says a two-story high bar
rier of sand must be built to keep
the sea from smashing into the
Hatteraa Seashore National Park.
Otheri have recommended jet
ties and groins Jutting out into the
ocean.
It could wen be that both are
See SHACKLE FORD, Page Z
Zoning Official
Assumes Office
Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
administered the oath of office to
1 Mra. Lockwood Phillips, new zon
ing commissioner, at a meeting of
the zoning board Friday Bight in
the office of J. P. Harris Jr.
Gilbert Potter, chairman of the
commission, presided. He report
ed that pending advice from the
town attorney, the commission
probably will conduct a bearing on
rezoning a section of Front street.
Attending the meeting, in addi
tion to those mentioned were
James H. Davis, Earl Mades, and
Mr. Harris, zoning commissioners.
1 Ralph Thomas was present in an
ex-officio capacity. Originally a
member ot the cowmisaion, he has
been declared ineligible to serve
because he does not live in town.
Mr. Thomas is expected to re
main. on the commission if annexa
tion plana go through.
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So you think you're alone! Though Shackleford on a February day may seem bleak and lonely,
you've got lots of unseen company as these tracks of sheep across a windswept dune prove.
Sneaking up over a high dune, we came across this group of white and black goats feeding in a little
valley. Soon they discovered that humans were near and took off.
In Ik dock (DUKWI belonging to Bob Simpson, Ken Newsome ami Owen Dail, we went to Shackle
ford Banks Tuesday. Bob Is driving. Standing In the "cockpit" are Mr. Newtome, Joe DnBoia, man
ager of the More bead City chamber of commerce, Mrs. Bob Simpson, and Rath Peeling.
(Pboto by Tom Kellam)
Atlantic Beach Board Starts
Street Improvement Program
Atlantic Beach aldermen decided
Saturday morning at their meet
ing in the town hall to start a pav
ing program that has as its object
"almost all streets paved by 1M1."
Cost will be met with funds on
hand plus proceeds from the ABC
store.
At pre seat, ABC fnnds are being
set aside to buy the town hall from
the Atlantic Beach Improvement
Corp., but M. O. Coyle, clerk, be- ,
lieves that the town can pay the
$20,000 plus the interest due on the
building by April.
Funds that accumulate from the
store thereafter will be applied to I
the street paving The board ap
proved uie of ABC funds up to
$5,000.
The first street improvement
work will be the following:
? Charlotte Avenue from Salter
Path Road to Atlantic boulevard
open for traffic and use a surface
cover of 3 inches marl.
? Wilson avenue from E. Board
walk alley to Fort Macon road, 2
inches asphalt, 20-foot width
? Raleigh avenue from Salter :
Path road to Atlantic boulevard
with 2 inches asphalt, 20-foot width
Estimated coat of the work is
(7,000. Of that, the town can pay
(4,000 in cash. The contractor has
agreed to wait until Sept. 1 (or the
balance. The board passed a reso
lution permitting setting aside
ABC funds (or the work, beginning
July 1, 1960.
The second phase of street im
proving approved:
? Beaufort avenue from E.
Bogue avenue to Fort Macon road
marled to depth o( 3 inches
? Kinston avenue (rom W. Bogue
to W. Terminal marled to depth o (
3 inches
? All unpaved streets dragged
and put in good condition
See BOARD, rue 2
Demurrer Says It Does Not
Show Annexation Hurtful
The town of Beaufort demurred'
Saturday to the request for court
review of its annexation proceed
ings. A petition filed Wednesday
by 200 property owners in the area
asked that judge W. J. Bundy sign
a restraining order which would
block annexation March 1.
The demurrer, filed by C. R.
Wheatly Jr., attorney for the town,
asks that the action be dismissed
and that the petitioners, G. W.
Huntley and others, pay court costs.
The town contends that the peti
tion fails to show how any individ
ual property owner would be hurt
by becoming a part of the town.
Reference is made to the law under
which potential citizens may ob
ject to being taken into a town.
The town says the petition gives
no location of any specific property
in the to-be-annexed area, that it
does not state specifically who may
be affected by a fire hydrant's NOT
being located at a certain point,
that those who are complainiifg
about no sewage proposal from the
town are already served by sewage
systems.
The demurrer further states that
each petitioner is interested in his
own property and has no interest,
whatever, in what other property
may be annexed, therefore all the j
petitioners could not be identical
ly affected by annexation.
The demurrer points out that the
petition makes no statement rela
tive to the fact that all the peti
tioners have joint ownership in the
?o-be-annexed area.
A. H. James, clerk of court, re
ported yesterday that Judge Bundy
has as yet taken no action, either
on the petition or the demurrer,
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Students Hurt
InAuto Accident
Miss Portia Salter, route 1 New
port. injured in an auto accident
Wednesday night, was discharged
from the Morchead City hospital
yesterday. Gerald Lovick, More
head City, injured in the same ac
cident. was discharged from the
hospital Friday.
Miss Salter, Lovick, Nancy Duke
and William David Ballou, all stu
dents at Morehead City high
school, were in a 1960 Rambler
which crashed into the rear of a
stalled Marine truck at 10:30 Wed
nesday night on highway 24, six
miles west of Morehead City.
Lovick was driving. Patrolman
W. J. Smith, who investigated, said
Lovick estimated his speed at 55
or 60 miles an hour when he crash
ed into the rear of the truck.
The truck was headed west and
a wrecker from Camp Lejeune had
just latched on to tow it when the
accident occurred.
Lovick said he didn't see anyone
flagging down traffic. His lower
front teeth were knockcd loose.
Miss Duke suffered cuts on the
chin and forehead and a bruised
hip. Miss Salter was bruised and
shaken up. Ballou was not injured.
They were taken to the hospital
by a motorist, Vernon Cannon,
route 1 Newport. Miss Duke was
treated in the emergency room.
Operator of the wrecker was
Donald C. Roland. Camp I-ejeunc
The truck was a 1953 Studebaker
M35. It was not damaged. Dam
age to the car was estimated at
MOO. No charges were filed.
Coast Guard
Refloats Tug
A barge-pulling tug, the Mary
land, joined the long list of vessels
run aground by high winds and
tides over the weekend as it struck
bottom in Bogue Sound Sunday
night and had to be refloated by
Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen.
The Fort Macon station received
a call at 6:20 Sunday night saying
that the Baltimore-bound Maryland
and ita 197-foot barge was aground
in the sound.
The Coast Guard 40-footer was
dispatched to the scene and re
floated the Maryland and its tow
in a matter of minutes. The crew
aboard the tug included seven men
including the operator, S. D. Hu
bert. The tug and barge are own
ed by the Norfolk, Baltimore and
Carolina Lines Co., Inc.
Engineers to Meet
The American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, Eastern North
Carolina section, will meet at 6:30
tonight at the College Inn restau
rant, highway M, lUteigh
t mi
Crowd Expected
At Friday Meeting
Several hundred persons are
expected at 7:30 Friday night in
the Morehead City school audi
torium at the Save Morehead
City chamber of commerce meet
ing.
Five hundred fifty letters have
gone to business and profession
al men throughout the county,
inviting them to the meeting.
A. B. Cooper, chairman of the
chamber finance committee, will
preside. Mr. Cooper declares
that it's time for the free-loaders
to get off the backs of the few
who have been bringing good
business to the county, and start
paying their share.
Bathers Were Frolicking
In Surf Friday Morning
So you think it's cold?
M. G. Coyle, clerk at Atlantic
Beach and A-l beach booster, says
folks were swimming in the surf
near his ocean cottage Friday
morning.
Friday really was a spring-like
day. But Old Man Winter assert
ed himself Saturday with high
winds and drenching rain.
Garage Burns
Firemen extinguished a fire that destroyed the contents of a
garage at 1413 Shepard St. early Friday evening. The garage is own
ed by Mrs. G. C. Ifedgepath and was used as a storage building for
furniture, tools, garden and lawn equipment. Damage was also heavy
to the garage itself. Cause of the fire was unknown.
J. M. Davis Jr., Richard Cummins
Receive Highest Award in Scouting
James M. Davis
. . . Eagle Scout
Richard Cummins
. . . Eagle Scout
Smyrna Coach Proposes
Summer Recreation
Winds Blow
Ship Aground
Winds of almost *5 miles per
hour and driving rain hampered
efforts of the Coast Guard cutter
Chilula to refloat the French ves
sel Tocansa Saturday. The Tocan
sa ran aground near berth 3 at the
western side of the Morchcad City
turning basin about 8:20 a.m. Sat
urday, while trying to tic up at the
state dock.
The Tocansa requested Coast
Guard aid at 8:30 a.m. and by the
time the Chilula had attached lines
to it, the tide was falling. Several
lines parted in the first effort to
pull "her off. She was blocking
the inland waterway channel.
At 3:30 p.m. the Coait Guard
tried again, exerting as much as
80,000 pounds of pull on the 473
foot (hip. She came free at 4:20
p.m.
The Tocansa, whose home port
was given as Dunkirk, is owned
by the Compagnic de Transports
Oceanique of Paris, France. Her
captain is John Bcrtrand. She left
yesterday morning with a cargo of
tobacco for Bangkok.
Tide Table
Tide! at Um Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Feb. 16
10:37 a.m. 4:31 a.m.
11:06 p.m. 4:50 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 17
11:23 a.m. 5:11a.m.
11:56 p.m. 5:28 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 11
12:17 a.m. 6:01 a.m.
6:16 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 1*
12:51 a.m. 7:15 p.m.
1:14 p.m. , I'M gjm.
Coach Jim Parkin, S m y r na
school, announced at PTA meeting
last Monday night that a summer
recreation class would be in pro
gress at the school.
Cost to each child enrolled would
be $2 a week or $20 for the ten
week period. Lower rates would
be provided a family with several
children.
Coach Parkin hopes to enroll at
least SO. Parents interested are
asked to contact him.
Stewart Daniels, principal, an
nounced that the school has re
ceived its first piece of equipment
through National Defense Act
funds. It is a film script reviewer
usable at a pupil's deak.
Balance in the treasury was re
ported at $189.12.
Attendance awards were won by
Mrs. Minnie Davis's first and sec
ond grades, Mrs Nellie Willis's
fourth grade, and Walter Fulcher's
9B.
Devotions were conducted by the
Rev. Clifton Styron, pastor of the
Free Will Baptist Church, Otway.
Several songs were presented by
the Otway Christian and Baptist
churches. \
Dr. Dennis Will
Speak March 8
In Beaufort
Dr. Katherine Dennis, state su
pervisor of home economics edu
cation, Department of Public In
struction, will speak Tuesday,
March 8. in Beaufort.
Dr. Dennis, a member of the
Governor's Committee on Aging,
has been invited here by the coun
ty committee on aging.
The committee, headed by Miss
Grace Wilson, Beaufort, was form
ed several weeks ago. The purpose
is to find and develop resources
for more full living for senior citi
zens.
The county committee will meet
at 1:15 p.m. today in the welfare
office, courthouse ""w*
James M. Davis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Morton Davis, and
Richard Cummins, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Cummings, both of More
head City, received the Eagle
award in Scouting at the Court of
Honor Sunday night in the First
Methodist church, Morehead City.
The awards were presented by
Joel Tyson, field executive, East
Carolina Council, and climaxed the
first full court of awards ever con
ducted in the county. All ranks in
Scouting were conferred. The pro
gram ended the county observance
of Boy Scout Week.
James, 14, is in the eighth grade
at Camp Glenn school. Richard,
14, is a pupil in the eighth grade
at St. Egbert's school.
Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Cummins
were presented pins designating
them as mothers of Eagle Scouts.
Receiving the Bronze Palm, a
recognition for work beyond Eagle
rating, were Bobby Sellers and
Jimmy Ross.
The rating of Life Scout was con
ferred upon Claud Williams and
Bennie Ketner of troop 371. Wild
wood. Harry Salter, chairman of
the district health and safety com
mittee, made the presentation.
Star Scout awards were given by
Dr. Robert Barnum, district com
missioner, to Phillip V. Sellars,
Bruce Golden, Robert Tyler, Steve
Willis, Tommy Dickinson. Wayne
Ketner and Louis Maggiolo.
Cecil Sewell, chairman of the
district leadership training com
mittee, gave first class awards to
Phillip Golden and Tommy Dickin
son.
Second class awards were pre
sented by Gordon C. Willis, chair
man of the district advancement
committee, to Kenneth Lewis, John
Lee, Ray Ball, Donald Crowe, Al
fred Chestnut, John Hohl, and Jim
mie Forest.
Recognized as a tenderfoot, by
Ethan S. Davis Jr., Scoutmaster of
troop 130, was Jimmy Willis.
Fifty-three merit badges were
presented by Robert B. Howard,
chairman of the district finance
committee, to Harry Williams,
Tommy Dickinson, David Muffle
man, Lewis S. Maggiolo, Wayne
Ketner, Bennie Ketner.
Billy McCabe, Leon Murdock,
Claude Williams, Bruce Golden,
Jimmy Ross, Robert Barts Jr.,
Gordy Eure, Robert McLean, John
Hatcher, Phillip Van Sellers, Steve
Willis and Robert Tyler.
Dr. D. J. Eure was in charge of
the court of honor and presided.
Host troop was 130, sponsored by
the Men'% Club of the First Meth
odist church.
Three Attend Two-Day
Session at Raleigh
A. H. James, juvenile court
judge, Miss Georgie Hughes, wel
fare superintendent, a n d Carl
'Rhodes, case worker, attended a
two-day meeting in Raleigh last
week.
The session, which opened Wed
nesday, was conducted by the De
partment ol Public Welfare in con
junction with state probation of
ficers. Juvenile delinquency was
the major subject rliarusawrl
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