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THE NEWS-TIMES
49th YEAR, NO. 76.
TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1960
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
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Slashing, Howling Hellcat Named Donna Visited Here
Red Cross Sets
Up Morehead,
Beaufort Offices
Families needing Red Cross as
sistance may apply at offices in
Beaufort and Morehead City. Peo
ple in Beaufort and east should
contact the office on the second
floor of the courthouse annex,
Beaufort. Those in Morehead City
and west should go to the second
floor of the municipal building,
Morehead City, according to Odell
Merrill, chairman of the county
Red Cross chapter.
The Small Business Administra
tion, a federal agency, has desig
nated Carteret a disaster area.
Owners of homes, businesses and
charitable institutions which suf
fered damage in Donna may apply
to SBA for loans at 3 per cent in
terest.
Applications for such loans
shduld be addressed now to 102
W. Trade St., Charlotte. Whether
branch offices will be set up in
eastern Carolina remains to be
seen.
Joe Ferguson, Red Cross work
er out of St. Petersburg, Fla., who
was here during the storm, has
been sent back to Florida and has
been replaced by Les Ray, Red
■ Cross worker from Cherry Point,
j Four additional case workers
] have been sent in from Atlanta.
Jtm Hux, Red Cross disaster chair
man, said that anyone in dire need
and unable to replace homes
through insurance or means of
their own, should apply to the Red
Cross.
He said, “The Red Cross does
not replace all losses. It is not
an insurance agency. Red Cross
meets those needs that you can
not meet yourself without undue
hardship.”
Jj When it looked as though Donna
might come this way, Mr. Merrill,
Mr. Hux, and John Valentine,
county civil defense chairman,
> met to discuss shelter plans.
With the 200 refugees in Beau
fort school were a dog and four
cats. In Queen Street school, Beau
fort, were 150 persons from Merri
mon and North River; there were
about 25 persons in the First Bap
tist church and 35 in the court
house, Beaufort.
Schools and churches were open
throughout the county to care for
refugees.
Lack of communications facili
ties throughout the county after
the storm hit was termed the big
gest problem by county Red Cross
officials.
Late Monday night, a Civil De
fense radio was set up at the More
head City municipal building and
was operated in shifts by Ray Dan
igtson and George McNeill, More
head City, Mr. Hux reported.
A federal Civil Defense team
from Atlanta, Ga., visited the
Morehead City-Atlantic Beach area
Tuesday.
Insurers Give
Instructions
Atlanta — Property owners who
suffered damage from hurricane
Donna should
• Report their loss to their in
surance agent
• Take action to protect the
property against further loss, says
Glenn H. Duffy, Raleigh, of the
advisory committee of the Insur
ance Information institute.
Capital stock insurance com
panies are rushing adjusters to the
stricken areas in North Carolina
and Virginia to expedite the set
tling of claims and the. restoring
of the property.
George B. Raine, associate man
ager, Southeastern Department,
General Adjustment Bureau, Inc.,
Atlanta, Ga., estimates their ad
jasters will handle 30,000 claims
in North Carolina and Virginia and
60,000 in Florida.
The General Adjustment bureau
will open temporary catastrophe
claims offices in Wilmington,
Goldsboro and Morchcad City, and
in Norfolk, Va.
National Group Asks
ChecMIp an Bridge Plan
The US Highway 70 association,
in national convention at Ruidoso,
N. M., last week, passed a resolu
tion asking the federal bureau of
public roads to make “a careful
check” of the plans for the New
port river bridge at Morehead City
“to make sure that when built the
bridge will not be a bottleneck
t« highway and water traffic.”
Morehead City was chosen as
site of the nationaj convention next
year. J. A. DuBois, Morehead City,
was elected a vice-president of
the association.
Damage at Fort Macon state
park, from hurricane Donna, was
extensive.
The Oliver Chadwick home, Gloucester, lost its roof in a twister that arrived about five hours before
the height of the storm. Mr. Chadwick points with a hammer in the direction of the route taken by an
other roof which was on the side of the house opposite the side pictured. Mrs. Chadwick is at the right.
The ocean ripped through the protective dune, upper left, at Pine Knoll Shores. The water in the
foreground inundates Knollwood Drive. The picture was taken from the front of the Shelby Freeman
home.
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Beaufort lost more of its beautiful trees to Donna. This section of Ann street was impassable Monday
morning.
A shrimp trawler, owned by Kenneth Meadows, Morehead City, was left high and dry on the Morehead City waterfront next to Sanitary
Fish Market restaurant. She was refloated Tuesday and had hardly no damage. Peering over the stern at sightseers on the sidewalk is
Alvin Wade, Morehead City.
The main floor of the Danes club lies on the Fort Macon high
way. A Coast Guard truck is stopped at the east side. The highway
caved in here, isolating the Coast Guard station and points east of
this spot. The highway was expected to be open yesterday.
Framed by pilings of the Oceanana pier is the toothless gap in
Sportsman’s pier, located several hundred yards west of the Oce
anana.
Highway patrolmen and National Gaardsmen checked can head
ing for the Atlantic Beach bridge. Sightseer* were kept off the beach.
Patrolmen on duty at the north end of the bridge Monday morning
wen L. G. Pato, 8. H. Newman and W. 1>. Pariah, aU of Kiaaioa,
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A bulldozer was hard at work Monday morning trying to clear the
main street in the Heart of the Beach. In the right background is
the Atlantic Beach hotel. The hole in the lower right corner is typi
cal of many washouts.
Donna’s winds rolled together sections of the copper roof on the
new chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on
Barkers Island. Dedication af the chapel, scheduled for Sunday, has
been postponed.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Sept. 16
4:56 a.m. 11:10 a.m.
5:14 p.m. 11:43 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 17
5:48 a m. 11:55 a.m.
6:02 p.m. .
Sunday, Sept. 18
6:31 a.m. 12:25 a.m.
6:43 p.m. 12:38 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 18
7:10 a.m. 1:07 a m.
7:22 pjn. 1:23 p.m.
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Wind Moves Box Car;
Kids Enjoy Ice Cream
Donna's high winds carried a
railroad box car from the Carteret
Concrete Co., Morchead City, all
the way to Newport Sunday night.
The car stopped near June Has
kett’s house, Newport, as it started
uphill.
Colonial Store, Beaufort, had to
throw out gallons of melting ice
cream Monday morning, but it
didn’t go to waste. Little colored
young'uns dived into the barrels
and lapped it up. They were ice
cream from bead to LoOL