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49th YEAR, NO. 76
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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1960
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Officials Estimate Donna's
Farm Damage at $656,600
County agriculture officials esti
I mate Carteret’s total farm dam
age in Donna at $656,600. This does
not include an estimate of the
damage to timberlands.
Farm leaders say that the loss
is greater than in any storm in
recent years. Three hundred Car
teret farm families have been af
fected.
Seventy per cent of the county’s
pastureland has been damaged, 50
per cent of the corn crop, 25 per
cent of the soybean crop and 40
per cent of the feed grain crop.
R. M. Williams, county agricul
tural agent, said that the only loss
on animals he has heard of were
Dewey Hardesty’s hogs. Some of
them drowned when water rose in
their pens.
B. J. May, chairman of the Coun
ty Agriculture Technical commit
tee, and committee members filed
Friday a request for emergency
assistance, which will be forward
'ed from Raleigh to the US depart
ment of agriculture disaster com
mittee.
. Mr. May says that farmers will
be able to get feed for their live
stock for a limited period of time
if the government agrees that
emergency conditions exist.
The Agriculture Stabilization and
Conservation office, headed by Mr.
: May, will assist farmers in get
ting gypsum for their fields. Gyp
sum helps counteract the salt.
It is also expected that ACP
funds for approved farm practices
. will be offered under relaxed re
strictions. For example, a farm
er who gets money to help improve
pastureland is not eligible for funds
for the same practice until three
years elapse.
Under disaster conditions, a
1 farmer may receive, Mr. May said,
ACP funds, even though the three
years required have not lapsed.
It is also anticipated that addi
tional emergency loans will be
Biadc available.
ASC Committee
Chairmen Will
Meet at 3 Friday
The Agriculture Stabilization and
Conservation county convention
will be held in the ASC office,
[ Beaufort, at 3 p.m. Friday, an
nounces B. J. May, ASC manager.
Attending will be the chairmen
i of each county ASC committee.
They are J. W. Young, White Oak;
George Creech, Morehead; John
A. Kelly, Newport; Noah Avery,
Bcaufort-Harlowe, and Roland Sal
ter, East-Merrimon. These men
polled the highest votes in the re
cent ASC election in their respec
tive communities.
They will elect the county ASC
committee for 1961. That commit
tee and the community commit
tees will officially start their du
ties Oct. 1. ■
Community committeemen,
elected Thursday, Sept. 8, were
the following:
White Oak: Leslie Dudley, Le
land H. Morris, Lee Sawrey, Al
len J. Vinson, and J. W. Young.
Morehead: J. Bonner Bell, Lea
mon Corbett, George Creech, John
1. Smith, and Arthur Williams.
Newport: George Bryan, C. T.
Garner, Jack Garner, John A. Kel
ly', Charlie Quinn.
Beaufort-Harlowe: Noah Avery,
Gordon Becton, John Felton, Sam
Gibbs, and Archie R. Hardesty.
East-Merrimon: Herman Arthur,
Duffy Carraway, Heber Golden,
S. W. Lawrence and Roland Salter.
Three Injured
North of Cape
Three persons from Winston-Sa
lem suffered cuts and bruises Sat
urday night when their Oidsmo
bilc beach buggy ran into a sand
I hill 12 miles north of Cape Look
out light. They were removed
from the banks by Coast Guards
men from the Cape Lookout sta
tion.
According to the station report,
Albert E. Jarvis, Sanford Jarvis
and Master Billy C. Jarvis came
.to the station about 8:15 p.m. and
requested that they be taken to
Harkers Island, where they could
find transportation to a hospital.
, They reported that their injuries
were not serious enough for an
ambulance. No details of bow the
accident happened were reported.
William K. Moore, BM3, and
Gary Cagle, SN, took the three to
Harkers Island. Albert Jarvis and
Billy Jarvis were admitted to Sea
Level hospital at 12:38 a.m. Sun
day. Billy was discharged later
that day.
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County Democrats Welcome
Jack Kennedy at Greenville
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Magazine Racks Presented
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Kenneth Lewis, left, governor of Moose Lodge No. 1069, More
head City, presents one of two magazine racks to the MoiWhead City
hospital. The racks are equipped with rollers and can be rolled into
patient’s rooms. Accepting the racks for the hospital is David Willis,
hospital administrator.
Fisheries,Commissioner.
Reports oil Storm Damage
C. G. Holland, commercial fish-'
eries commissioner, announced
yesterday that any fisherman who
suffered extensive loss in Donna
is invited to contact the state com
mercial fisheries office at More
head City.
If funds are made available for
help to the fisherman, the fisheries
office will assist fishermen in fill
ing out the necessary applications.
Mr. Holland said that as far as
his office could ascertain, most
fishermen put their boats and nets
out of the way of Donna. But Wil
lie Jones at Mill Creek lost an oys
ter house.
“It appears that the greatest
damage was to fishermen’s homes
at Stumpy Point in Dare county,”
Mr. Holland said. "There are only
75 or 100 homes there and every
one was damaged.”
The commissioner said there arc
still a few shrimp being taken. It
can’t be determined at the moment
whether Donna has seriously dam
aged the fishing potential for the
coming weeks, he added. ,
“With Florence making up off
Cuba, fishermen just don’t know
what to do," Mr. Holland said. The
state boats were put into safe har
bor near Morehead City during the
storm and only one was out work
ing yesterday.
Causeway Open
To All Traffic
The Beaufort • Morehead cause
way was opened to all traffic at
7 p.m. Saturday, following storm
repairs. Beginning Friday after
noon, it was open periodically to
local traffic.
John L. Humphrey, county road
superintendent, reports that the
Atlantic Beach road to Ocean
Ridge was opened to traffic yes
terday and the Emerald Isle road
opened Friday.
To accomplish the tremendous
fill-in job on the Beaufort-More
hcad causeway, Mr. Humphrey
said that for periods of time a load
of marl was being dumped every
20 seconds.
Moses Howard, chairman of the
county board of commissioners,
yesterday thanked the State High
way commission, highway patrol,
utilities companies, Civil Defense,
Red Cross, National Guard and
state officials Edward Griffin and
Harry Brown for their assistance
in the county after the storm.
Car Catches Fire
A 1959 Buick in West Beaufort
caught fire at 9:15 p.m. Sunday.
Fire department engineer Elmond
Rhue said the owner of the car
was not identified. The front seat
burned.
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Beaufort Merchants Say
Thank You for Storm Aid
Earl Mades and W. R. Hamilton,
publicity chairmen for the Beau
fort Merchants association, yester
day expressed their appreciation
to Cherry Point Marine Corps air
station for furnishing generators,
during the power stoppage last
week, to Beaufort businesses seri
ously hampered by loss of elec
tricity.
The merchants association also
thanked the. Red Cross, Civil De
fense, the National Guard, town
officials and others for their aid to
businesses after Donna.
■ Approximately 50 Carteret Dem
ocrats went to Greenville Saturday
to welcome Presidential candidate
John Kennedy to North Carolina.
A. H. James, chairman of the
county Democratic party, said
since seeing Mr. Kennedy, “I like
him a little bit more, but I liked
him to start with.
“He got a bigger reception than
1 anticipated. There was a great
deal of enthusiasm. The crowd
was really charged. Thousands of
people lined the streets from the
airport to the ball park where he
spoke.”
Mr. James and other county dig
nitaries were at the Greenville air
port when Mr. Kennedy, in his pri
vate plane, preceded by two large
four-engine planes with his staff
and reporters, arrived at 9 a m.
Mr. James said there is no doubt
in his mind that Mr. Kennedy's
visit to North Carolina was a suc
cess. The chairman of Carteret’s
Democratic party shook hands with
the Presidential candidate as did
Prentiss Garner, Newport, who is
now allowing people to touch his
right hand—the hand, he says, that
shook the hand of the next presi
dent of the United States.
Among those who went to Green
ville from Carteret, besides Mr.
James and Mr. Garner, were sher
iff Hugh Salter, general assembly
man D. G. Bell, Irvin Davis, for
mer chairman of the county Dem
ocratic committee; Sen. Luther
Hamilton.
Mayor George Dill of Morehead
City, Mrs. Arnecia Warren, Mrs.
D. F. Merrill, Mrs. Phil Thomas,
E. B. Comer and C. H. (Dick)
Lockey.
Car Strikes Parked
Car at Intersection
In Morehead City
One car was heavily damaged
and another escaped unharmed in
a traffic accident investigated by
Morehead City police Sunday after
noon at the intersection of 20th and
Fisher streets.
According to police, Zebedee
Lewis Wilkins of Morehead City
was going south on 20th street. As
he made a right turn at Fisher,
his car slid over and crashed into
a 1953 Plymouth parked at the
curb. Charles Andrew Bell, Beau
fort, was the owner of the parked
car.
Bell’s auto received damages
amounting to approximately $250,
according to police. Wilkins’ 1952
Ford was not damaged.
Sergeant Bill Condie investi
gated.
Red Cross Pays $4,000;
Florence Brews Off Cuba
Aware that hurricane Florence'
may head this way, Odell Merrill,
chairman of the county Red Cross,
said yesterday that arrangements
will be made to open the same
shelters that were open in Donna.
Florence was reported north of
Cuba yesterday morning, headed
toward southern Florida, but it was
expected to change to a northward
course, as did Donna.
Mr. Merrill said that means of
radio communication to all parts
of the county are being discussed.
No means of contact between
Beaufort and Morehead and outly
ing communities was the greatest
difficulty during Donna, disaster
workers said.
President Eisenhower has de
clared coastal Carolina a major
disaster area. Maj. Gen. Edward
F. Griffin, state Civil Defense di
rector, announces that the Small
Business administration will open
an office in New Bern tomorrow
in the chamber of commerce of
fice there.
SBA provides loans at reduced
interest rates to owners of busi
nesses, homes and to charitable in
stitutions.
Judge Dismisses
Charges Against
Mrs. E. C. Lowe
Judge Herbert O. Phillips Tues
day dismissed two cases against
Mrs. Ernest Clyde Lowe of More
head City for lack of evidence.
Mrs. Lowe was charged in More
head City recorder’s court with
aiding and .abetting in disturbing
the peace and neglecting her mi
nor children.
The court noted that Elijah Lew
is of Morehead City had entered
an appeal on a six-month jail sen
tence given him Aug. 22 for public
drunkenness. Lewis's case was
transferred to the next term of
superior court and the defendant
posted bond of
A Cherry Point defendant, Rob
ert P. Jones, was acquitted of mul
tiple traffic violations which in
cluded careless and reckless driv
ing, failing to give a proper hand
signal and passing in an intersec
tion.
Another Robert Jones, from
Morehead City, charged with tres
passing, was not prosecuted. The
prosecuting witness, L. A. Willis,
was ordered to pay court costs for
malicious prosecution.
Two defendants forfeited bond
by failing to appear. They were
Odell Cornelius Innman of Reids
ville, charged with public drunk
enness and Daniel Gordon Taylor
of Morehead City, charged with
speeding.
Donald Meredith Joyner, Ply
See COURT, Page 2
Schools Will Make Up
Donna Holiday Next Month
Schools in the county will make
up the second “Donna holiday”
next month.
Atlantic, Harkers Island, Smyr
na, Beaufort, Morehead City, Camp
Glenn and Newport pupils will go
to school Friday, Oct. 21, a day
that ordinarily would have been a
holiday because teachers would be
at the North Carolina Education
Association meeting.
Now the teachers will stay home
and tcagh school.
Stella, Queen Street and W. S.
King pupils will make up the day
Friday, Oct. 28, when teachers at
those schools would have been at
the North Carolina Teachers as
sociation meeting.
Newport and Stella students did
not go to school this past Saturday.
Other pupils throughout the county
did.
All schools were closed Monday,
the day after Donna. Only New
port and Stella reopened Tuesday.
The others were without power. In
the rural schools lack of npower
means that water pumps arc not
working.
H. L. Joslyn, county superinten
dent of schools, reports that Donna
caused a lot of expensive damage
to the schools. The main buildings
were not hurt too badly, except at
Harkers Island wheie the roof
went off practically all of the audi
torium, the offices and one room.
There a skylight went out also.
Gymnasiums took a beating. But
temporary repairs were made so
that school operations could con
tinue.
Mercury Drops
During Night
Cool night - time temperatures
have moved into the coastal area
following hurricane Donna, reports
weather observer Stamey Davis.
Ranging from a low last Tues
day night of 50 to a high of 70 Sat
urday and Sunday night, the aver
age temperature during the night
hours has been 65 degrees. Day
time temperatures, rising into the
80’s, remain at their seasonal nor
mal.
Temperatures and wind direc
tions for the past week:
High Low Wind
Monday 86 70 SW
Tuesday .87 50 W
Wednesday .79 64 ENE
Thursday 84 67 Calm
Friday .80 68 . NE
Saturday .84 70 E
Sunday .87 70 NE
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J. A. DttBois, manager of the More head City chamber of commerce, depicts the proposed bridge across Newport river.as the chamber of
commerce sees it. Mr. DuBois says, “When sprawled across the Newport river, the Monster will slowly, hot surely, destroy all progress in
Morehead City, Beaufort, Down East communities and the ocean port, by obstructing truck, railway and tourist traffic. Until the Monster is
destroyed he will block, for generations, all industrial and port expansion along the 18-mlie shore line of the Newport river.” He chamber of
commerce to now circulating a petition requesting the county commissioners to put to a vote In November the question of putting the bridge
when the highway commlssinu has planned it, or moving it farther to the north.
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Beach Mayor
To Call Special
Board Session.
• Town Faces High Cost
Of Repair, Clean-Up
• Crowds of Sightseers
Swarm to Beach
Mayor A. B. Cooper, Atlantic
Beach, said yesterday that the
town board will be called into spe
cial session to discuss cost of pull
ing the town out of the hole in
which Donna left it.
"It’s going to cost a lot of mon
ey,” the mayor said, "and we just
don’t have it. But we’ll work
things out some way.”
Sewage problems, debris, and
sand 4 and 5 feet deep in certain
streets are the major problems.
There have also been street wash
outs where hard-surface will have
to be replaced.
Where houses have washed into
the streets, the town will have to
wait until the owners get squared
away with insurance adjusters and
the houses moved, before the town
can go to work.
Mayor Cooper said the town is
going to apply for federal assist
ance to help meet the cost of com
ing back.
The mayor commended all agen
cies which assisted at the beach
after the storm. “Everyone work
ed well. I never saw anything so
well planned," he ftmarMdL He
said no reports of looting had been
brought to his attention.
Sightseers at the beach Sunday
were checked, as they left, to make
sure they were not carrying away
loot in their cars.
Crowds were tremendous. One
motorist reported that it took him
half an hour to get from Fleming’s
motel to the beach highway inter
section, a block away.
“We anticipated a big crowd,
but not as many as we had,” the
mayor said. Extra policemen were
on duty.
The mayor reported that all but
two rooms in Oceanana Resort mo
tel were in use over the weekend.
"We put plastic on the wet car
pets, so that the rooms could be
used," he said. All new carpeting
will be installed later.
The Fort Macon road, washed
out wnere part oj me Dunes club
floated over it, was reopened
Thursday.
Rotary Hears
Of Farm Pests
Arthur Brannan of the pest con
trol division, US department of
agriculture, was the guest speak
er Thursday night at the Morchcad
City Rotary club meeting.
Mr. Brannan, who has been liv
ing in Morehead City for the past
four months, spoke on pests af
fecting agricultural crops in this
area and some of the methods of
controlling them.
He noted that although a number
of the insects which plague the
farmers arc able to fly, almost
without exception they are carried
by humans. He described the
white-fringed beetle, first seen in
this state in 1942, as a most vora
cious eater of cotton and corn.
It affected, at the height of the
infestation, 27 North Carolina coun
ties. He said that control meas
ures, mainly of chemicals, have
now reduced the area to five coun
ties.
Visiting Rotarians were Fred
Deane of Fayetteville and Jack
Sharpe of Blowing Rock. W. Allen
Knott of Kinston and Bob Meadows
of Morehead City attended as
guests.
Tide Table
Tides at Uw Beaufert Bar
HIGH
LOW
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Tuesday, Sept. 20
7:45 a.m.
7:57 p.m.
1:47 a.m.
2:04 p.m..
Wednesday, Sept. 21
8:19 a.m.
8:31 p.m.
2:24 a.m.
2:42 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 22
8:53 a.m.
9:Q8 p.m.
2:59 a.m.
3:21 p.m.
Friday, Sept 23
' 9:30 a.m.
i 9:49 pan.
3:32 a.m.
3:38 pJB.
-+ By 10 a.m. yesterday, the Red
Cross had approved payment of
$4,000 to help persons in need of
food, clothing or shelter as the re
sult of Donna’s sweep through Car
. tcret.
I Since the Red Cross first started
accepting applications for aid last
Monday, 150 have been received,
according to Frank Reeves, who is
in charge of the Red Cross office
on the second floor of the court
house annex, Beaufort.
Mr. Reeves requests that persons
in need of food, clothing or repair
to their homes should contact the
Red Cross as soon as possible. The
office will not be open indefinitely.
Red Cross assistance is made
available only to those persons
who cannot meet,, disaster-caused
’ needs from their own resources,
Mr. Reeves emphasized. On ma
jor repair requests, he added, a
full investigation is made before
the funds are granted.
Applicants are given orders for
food or roofing, etc., which they
take to a store. The store owner
supplies the items, then sends a
copy of the order to New Bern,
headquarters for the North Caro
lina disaster area. From New
Bern a check is sent to the store
owner. Getting the checks out
takes a bit of time, Mr. Reeves
said, and store owners should not
expect the checks immediately.
The Red Cross office is open
daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mr. Reeves is from St. Louis,
Mo., and is assistant director of
disaster services for the mid-west
ern area which covers 16 states.
Also here is Mrs. Harriett Ray,
Pittsburgh, Pa., chief casework
supervisor for the eastern area,
plus 12 members of the Red Cross
disaster staff and volunteers.
First Baptist
Church Expands
To Nearby Home
Beginning the first Sunday in
October, the members of the First
Baptist church in Morehead City
will relocate and reorganize their
nursery facilities, announces the
Rev. Corbin Cooper, pastor.
A house has been purchased be
hind the church at 206 N. 9th St.
and redecorated for this purpose.
Included in this new arrangement
will be a reception room, four nurs
ery departments, a kitchen, apd a
rest room. All of this area has
been prepared for children from
birth through age 3.
Nursery facilities will now be
made available for parents during
all of the Sunday services and oth
er special services.
Actually, the members have
made this arrangement as a tern
porary mdve only, Mr. Cooper
said. The ultimate objective is to
tear down the house and build an
additional educational building.
Plans arc now being prepared for
this project.
The congregation has sought to
visualize other needs for the pres
ent and future by expanding its
parking area. Another house has
been purchased and torn down at
800 Bridges Street for this purpose.
Some landscaping has been done
and the lot is about ready for use.
The church has purchased anoth
er lot for parking on 9th and Bay
Streets. Some filling-in has been
done there, with more landscap
ing to be done in the near future.
The total investment in the ex
pansion program thus far this year
has been approximately $13,500,
the pastor reports.
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Ports Director
Praises Personnel
D. Leon Williams, ports director,
announces that because of diligent
advance preparations by the per
sonnel at Wilmington and More
head City ports, loss due to hurri
cane Donna was comparatively
negligible.
Mr. Williams congratulated Wal
ter Friederichs, operations man
ager at Morehead City, and A1
Smith, operations manager at Wil
mington, on the report that no ap
parent damage to any cargo or
customers goods was incurred.
Mr. Williams said, "We feel ex
ceedingly fortunate and are most
grateful for the efficient way our
personnel reacted in protecting the
property and cargo of our cus*
tomers.”
Ferry Stops
Due to Donna’s closing Wain
wright channel, the ferry between
Ocracokc and Atlantic will not op
erate for an indefinite period of
time, according to Ed Willard of
the Sea Level inn. On its return
from Ocracoke Tuesday, the ferry
was four hours late because of the
fillftjl.iw nhaniwl.