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THE NEWS-TIMES
49th YEAR, NO. 86. EIGHT PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1960
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
State Deputy Fire Marshal
Meets with Planning Group
Kern Church, deputy state fire
marshal, of Raleigh explained the
enforcement of the state building
code Thursday night to Carteret
county builders and contractors
and the county planning commis
sion. The group met at the REA
building.
Dr. L. J. Dupree, chairman of
the planning commission, presided
at the meeting, which is a prelim
inary step toward rigid county-wide
building standards. Milton G.
Coyle, Atlantic Beach, is chairman
of the subcommittee on building
regulations. He gave a brief talk,
establishing the critical need for
, immediate action toward adoption
of building codes.
Unanimous favorable action was
taken by the builders and contrac
tors in'recommending that county
wide enforcement of the state
building and residential codes be
carried out by inspection. Three
inspections are customarily con
Seashore Highway Group
Wants Channel Re-Opened
Children Will
Collect Funds
The Morehead City Woman’s
club, with the help of churches in
the area, will again sponsor the
Halloween collection to help the
world’s children next Monday
night, Oct. 31.
Sponsored by the United Nations,
the program uses funds collected
on Halloween to provide food and
medical care to needy children
throughout the world.
Collected last year in Morehead
' City was $340.04. Chairman of the
program this year is' Mrs. W. C.
Carlton.
Children will wear identifying
arm bands and carry milk cartons
with stickers denoting that they
are collecting funds for UNICEF,
the UN children’s organization.
Churches cooperating, according
to Mrs. Carlton, are First Metho
dist, Franklin Memorial, Camp
Glenn, Broad Creek, Faith Free
Will Baptist, First Free Will Bap
tist, St. Egbert’s, First Presby
terian, St. Andrew’s, and Park
view Baptist.
Other communities throughout
the county also plan to participate
in the UNICEF program.
Truck, Auto
Crash Thursday
A state gas truck and a 1960 sta
tion wagon collided at 10:05 a.m.
Thursday on highway 70 seven
miles west of Morehead City.
According to patrolman J. W.
Sykes, who investigated, the two
ton gas truck, driven by Samuel
H. Conner, route 2 Beaufort, was
headed east and had signaled to
make a left turn into a side road.
The station wagon, driven by
Edwin D. Yoshida, Cherry Point,
tried to pass as the truck was turn
ing left, the patrolman said. The
two collided. Yoshida has been
charged with passing at an inter
section.
Damage to the station wagon
was estimated at $400 and to the
truck $150. With Yoshida was Ger
aldine Ancona s No one was hurt.
Second Hospital Comes
To County Seven Years Ago
(Note: This is the second in a series of articles on the proposed
county hospital, presenting general views of those in favor of the
hospital. Views of persons opposed have been appearing for the
past month on the editorial page).
Until seven years ago, Morehead
City hospital was the only one in
the c.ounty.
Folks, from all over the county
went to it. '‘They still do. Sea
Level hospital has been a godsend,
in that patients that might have
put even heavier burdens on the
facilities of Morehead City hos
pital have been able to get treat
, ment at Sea Level.
Morehead City citizens, for many
years, to attract doctors to this
area and to provide hospital serv
ices needed for themselves and for
summer visitors, have paid taxes
to keep the Morehead City hospital
going.
The hospital has gone about as
far as it can go.
The Medical Care commission of
North Carolina sets standards for
1 hospitals so that citizens are as
sured they will get safe, sanitary
care when they enter a hospital.
The commission regularly inspects
hospitals.
The Medical Care Commission
has been recommending for sev
eral years that the Morehead City
hospital ha replaced.
ducted on each building by the
building inspector during the pro
cess of construction.
Church explained that the build
ing code does not cure all ills, as
it takes time,for its. effect to be
felt. He said that much of the-re
building in the county that has
been done since the hurricane has
been of the same substandard na
ture as before.
He said that while the state build
ing code does not have the rigid
requirements of the supplementary
hurricane codes adopted in sea
port towns, damage would have
been much less following the hur
ricane if buildings had been con
structed by the minimum require
ments of the state code.
An estimated 85 per cent of all
building contractors in the county
were present. All agreed that prop
erly built residences weathered
hurricanes of recent years much
better than those of inferior con
► The All-Seashore Highway Asso
ciation, meeting at Nags Head last
week, voted to push for resumption
of ferry service from Ocracokc to
the mainland. Ferry service was
suspended when hurricane Donna
caused filling in of channels used
by the Sea Level-Atlantic-Ocracoke
ferry.
Norwood Young of Beaufort,
president of the association, and
Joe DuBois of Morehead City, sec
retary, said the demand for this
link in the Seashore Highway proj
ect last summer was tremendous
and suggested that if the route
were changed to Cedar Island in
stead of Atlantic, it would be feas
ible for the state to take over the
ferry and resume runs in the
spring.
Young said it might be neces
sary for the state to use a differ
ent type of ferry, possibly a craft
of shallow draft.
A report on beach erosion work
was given by Col. Harry Brown,
director of the state water re
sources department, and Robert L.
Gibbs, superintendent of the Cape
Hatterls National Seaaftore park.
The group adopted a resolution
urging immediate federal and
state assistance for this work as
well as inlet stabilization projects.
Discussing the Virginia Beach
Nags Head link in the highway
were Maj. J. L. Murphy of Kill
Devil Hills, vice-president of the
northeastern division of the asso
ciation, Merrill Evans of Ahoskie,
former highway commissioner and
Melvin Daniels of Wanchese. All
agreed that prospects for the link
are brighter than ever before.
Continued support of the plan to
link Fort Fisher and Southport by
ferry was voiced. Also discussed
was the need for improving high
way 17, known as the Ocean Route.
Motorist Hits Guy Wire,
Power Outtage Results
A motorist backed into a guy
wire near the Newport postoffice
Friday night and as a result power
was off in Newport and on the
Nine Foot and Masontown roads.
Carolina Power and Light Co.
reports that when the motorist hit
the guy wire it shook the pole and
caused several lines to burn off.
Power went off at 7 p.m. Lights
came on in part of the affected
area about 8 p.m., but it was near
ly 10 p.m. before linemen had
completely repaired the damage.
Hospital trustees have spent thou
sands of dollars to make improve
ments to the building that the state
requires, but it is patch-on-patch.
After expensive repairs and reno
vations, there is still an old hos
pital building with old-fashioned
equipment.
In the words of “new hospital”
proponents, money spent on the
Morehead City hospital now is
"just pouring money down a rat
hole.”
Hospital trustees feel that it
won't .be many years before the
present hospital will have to be
closed.
The federal government and the
state of North Carolina have al
ready made available to the coun
ty slightly more than a million dol
lars for a new hospital IF the coun
ty will put up the remainder to
build a completely equipped, fur
nished $1,700,000 hospital.
The county can borrow that “re
mainder” if the voters approve the
borrowing (bond issue) when they
go to the polls Nov. 8.
(Next: What would a new hospital
I belike?) .
struction.
The inspection of residences and
other buildings during construction
as an administrative problem was
discussed. Mr. Church said such
matters would have to be worked
out at the county level.
Members of the planning com
mission present, in addition to the
chairman, were Dr. W. L. Wood
ard, C. H. Lockey and W. C. Carl
ton. Moses Howard, chairman of
the county board of commissioners,
attended, as well as building in
spectors from Newport and Beau
fort; A. D. Fulford, county sani
tarian; and representatives of real
estate companies, insurance agen
cies, and chambers of commerce.
The group numbered about 35.
The chairman announced that
Leigh Wilson of the North Carolina
League of Municipalities would
meet with the planning commis
sion Nov. 1 to discuss the writing
of a hurricane building code.
Survey Will Be
Made Tomorrow
Each child in Carteret schools
will go home tomorrow with a “pu
pil-parent survey sheet.’’
Parents are asked to answer the
questions on the form and have
their child return it to school the
next day. Purpose of the survey
is to establish the basis for the
county’s receiving federal school
funds.
ALL parents are asked to com
ply with this request, not just par
ents who are federally-employed
in this area.
This survey is made at the end
of the second and seventh months
of the school year, as required by
law. H. L. Joslyn, county super
intendent of schools, says that
prompt return of the survey sheets
will be greatly appreciated.
Non-Suit Ruled
In Court Ca$$
A non-suit was ruled in the case
of Paul B. Bradshaw versus Ed
ward Howard and H&N Chevrolet
Co., by judge W. H. S. Burgwyn
in last week’s civil term of su
perior court. The plaintiff gave no
tice of appeal and bond .was set
at $200.
In the case, First-Citizens Bank
and Trust Co. versus Agatha Ful
cher Ballou, Debrah Fulcher (nee
Ballou), C. Holden Ballou and oth
ers, the court upheld provisions of
the will of William H. Ballou, de
ceased.
The court ruled that Agatha Bal
lou is the legal widow of William
H. Ballou and that Debrah Ful
cher is his daughter and is the
same person referred to in his will
as Debrah Starr Ballou.
As provided in the .will, Agatha
Ballou will receive $35 per week
and Debrah Fulcher will receive
$15 per week. Mrs. Ballou is to
provide the executor-trustee of the
estate with a sworn affadavit every
three months showing that she has
not changed her marital status
from widow to married woman.
Lather Hamilton Jr. was award
ed $200 as fees for acting as guard
ian of the minor, Debrah Fulcher.
A motion to dismiss, for lack of
jurisdiction, in the case, K. D.
Federson and Co., versus Walter
Zinglemann, was overruled and
denied. The defendant gave no
tice of appeal and bond was set
at $200.
Dora Mae Clontz was granted a
divorce from Charles Ervin Clontz.
She was granted custody of the
two minor children and certain
property settlements.
Robert Ward Williams and Anne
Ward Williams were granted $20
per week for their support. The
case was brought by their next
friend, Lallah Adler Cordova,
against their father, Waldron R.
Williams.
60 Attend Rally
At Broad Creek
Sixty Republicans attended a pre
cinct rally Friday night at Dixon’s
community store, Broad Creek.
Speakers were Claud Wiheatly
Jr., Elmer Dewey Willis, and I. D.
Gillikin, chair ma/i of the county
Republican committee.
Mr. Wheatly spoke on local po
litical problems and methods of
correcting them. Mr. Willis spoke
on the significance of the election
and cited instances when a minor
ity group changed the course of
history.
Mr. Gillikin, who is running for
general assembly on the Repub
lican ticket, outlined his , program
and stressed the need for better
representation of the people at Ra
leigh.
License Returned
The North Carolina Department
of Motor Vehicles has reinstated
the driving privileges of Robert
Hilton Gas kill, Harkers Island.
Honor Goes to Mrs.
Charles Stanley Jr.
Mrs. Charles Stanley Jr., Crab
Point, was named county Home
Demonstration Club Woman of
the Year Friday night at the
achievement program in the N.
F. Eure building, Beaufort. Mrs.
Stanley was presented with many
gifts donated by county business'
men.
Previous women of the year
have been Mrs. Billy Smith,
North River, 1956; Mrs. Dyon
Simpson, Bettie, 1957; Mrs. J. R.
Stallings, Merrimon, 1958; and
Mrs. E. C. McLawhorn, Harlowe,
1959
One hundred twenty-.ive at
tended Friday night’s program.
Four Injured
When Car Upsets
Thursday Night
Hospitalized Thursday night fol
lowing an auto accident at Bettie
were James Aubrey Chadwick,
Gloucester; Charles Mason,
Charleston, S. C.; Stuart Pigott,
Gloucester; Jerry Davis, Williston,
and Ray Golden Jr., Bettie.
All except Davis were still in
the Morehead City hospital yester
day.
The boys were thrown from a
1953 Oldsmobile hardtop at 9:50
p.m. Thursday when the car skid
ded and turned over. Driving it
was Chadwick, who suffered cuts,
bruises and a back injury. Mason
has chest and back injuries; Pigott
a cut tongue and nose cuts; and
Golden a back injury.
Although Davis was admitted to
the hospital, he was discharged
after a short time. Ambulances and
sheriff Hugh Salter took the in
jured to the hospital.
Patrolman J. W. Sykes, who in
vestigated, said that the car ran
off the right on a curve and skid
ded a total of 400 feet: For anoth
er 100 feet, the car turned over
V/2 times, landing on its top.
Patrolman Sykes said the car
was apparently traveling at a high
rate of speed. Charges are pend
ing. The car was demolished.
Boys Hurt When
Car Hits Train
Two youths, Ronald Tracy Jor
dan, 19, Morehead City and Troy
Hunter Jr., 19, Newport, received
facial cuts at 1:05 Saturday morn
ing when the car in which they
were riding collided with a South
ern Railway engine at 7th and
Arendell streets.
According to police, the engine
was backing into a side track off
Arendell street when it was hit by
a 1953 Ford that was going east on
Arendell. Jordan was the driver
of the car.
Police estimated the car to be a
total loss. Little or no damage was
done to the engine. Operating the
Southern switch engine was G. R.
Gardner of New Bern.
Both Jordan and Hunter were
treated at the Morehead City hos
pital. Hunter was admitted to the
hospital.
No charges were filed against
Jordan. jPatrolman Buck Newsome
investigated the mishap.
SBA New Bern
Office to Close
C. R. Shaw, manager, announced
today that the temporary New
Bern disaster field office of the
Small Business Administration will
be closed after Friday, Oct. 28. He
asked that all persons interested
in filing for loans due to losses
from hurricane Donna do so before
the closing date.
After the New Bern office is
closed, however, applications may
be filed at either the Charlotte
branch office, located at 1116 In
dependence building, or at the re
gional office, 900 N. Lombardy St.,
Richmond, Va., up to March 31,
1961.
Shaw said that to date 53 appli
cations have been received from
homeowners and businesses in the
15-county area. Eighteen business
loans, totaling $112,375 and four
loans to homeowners, totaling
$4,625, have been approved. Other
applications are being processed.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Oct. 25
11:55 a.m. 5:20 a.m.
. 6:18 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 26
12:35 a.m. 6:27 a.m.
12:57 p.m. 7:31 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 27
1:38 a.m. 7:52 a.m.
2:00 p.m. 8:43 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 28
2:41 a.m. 9:07 a.m.
i 3:04 p.m. 9:46 p.m.
Chairman Comments Further
On Hospital Site Selection
New Walk at School
This is a newly constructed
' sidewalk at the Atlantic high
school. Through the cooperation
of the PTA and school officials,
the Atlantic 4-H club members
chose this as a part of their
school improvement project.
Before this sidewalk was con
structed, the students had to
walk daily through deep sand,
to cross from one part of the
building to the other side.
To complete this project at the
rear of the building, plans arc to
put another walk along one side
Teachers Assembly Stone
Moved to Raleigh Location
By F. C. SALISBURY
A large block of white marble
which stood by the side of the
highway in the Camp Glenn section
for more than 25 years was a
source of wonderment to many.
Those interested enough to stop
and read the inscription learned
that it was the cornerstone of the
North Carolina Teachers Assem
bly building and not a grave mark
er of some early settler.
This ancient reminder of those
days when the school teachers of
the state came to Morehead City
for summer training, has been
presented to the North Carolina
Education association by Ted Hall
on whose property the stone has
stood since taken from the assem
bly building in 1933.
It will have a place of honor in
front of the association’s building
on Morgan Street • in Raleigh,
where it has been moved.
The history of the Teachers As
sembly goes back to 1884 when it
was organized at White Sulphur
Springs in the western part of the
state. Yearly meetings were held
at different places in the state for
the next three years.
In 1887 the Assembly met in
Morehead City at the Atlantic Ho
tel. It was during that session that
a proposal for a permanent home
was made and Morehead City was
selected as the location for an as
sembly building. An acre of ground
east of the Atlantic Hotel was giv
en the assembly as a building site
by the Shepard Point Land co.
Before erecting a building, the
site was traded to the Atlantic Ho
tel Co. for a site west of 4th street.
Construction work on the building
started in January 1888. On May
1, with elaborate ceremonies, the
cornerstone of the building was
laid. The rites were conducted by
the Grand Lodge of Masons of
North Carolina.
At 2:30 p.m. the Grand Lodge
convened in the Baptist church
with Grand Master Charles H. Rob
inson and other officers in charge.
The parade to, the assembly build
ing was led by the Raleigh Silver
Cornet band. In honor places were
the two past presidents of the as
sembly, Dr. R. H. Lewis, Kinston;
and Prof. E. A. Alderman, Golds
boro. The assemblage formed in
a triangle at the northeast corner
of the building with the Grand Of
ficers on a platform at the center.
Dr. M. F. Arendell, mayor of
Morehead City, welcomed the vis
itors. F. H. Busbee of Raleigh
was the orator.
Among the articles deposited in
the vault of the cornerstone were
a history of the North Carolina
Teacher’s Assembly, copies of the
North Carolina Teacher; School
History of North Carolina; Char
ter and Laws of the City of Ra
leigh; Masonic Code, Constitution
Photo by R. M. Williams
of the building, grade and grass
the lawn, establish a wind break
to prevent sand erosion and set
shrubbery.
Representing the 4-H clubs in
this picture, from front to rear,
are Bertie Mason, Worth Mason
and assistant county agricultural
agent David Warrick, who super
vised the project.
R. M. Williams, county agri
cultural agent, reported that
these 4-H club nfembers wielded
their tools with the skill of ex
perienced masonry workers in
construction of the walk.
of the Governor’s Guard; Knight
Templar Tactics and list of officers
of Raleigh Commandery; copies of
the News and Observer,. Evening
Visitor and New Bern Journal; a
program of the exercises; several
business cards and scaled pack
ages.
Dedication services were held at
the building June 14, 1888, at which
time H. W. Wahab named the
building "The Sea Breeze.” The
attendance at this meeting reached
almost 2,000.
' This building served the assem
bly as a meeting place until 1900,
when the annual sessions were held
in Raleigh, being more centrally
located. To establish better school
facilities, a group of Morehead City
citizens leased the building in 189S
in which was conducted a public
graded school for the next three
years.
Eater the building was purchas
ed by Mrs. Frank Barnes of Wil
son who remodeled it into a sum
mer home. After the property was
sold in foreclosure proceeding in
1933, the building was sold to Wal
ter Hancock, who with Ray High
smith tore the structure down, sell
ing the good material.
The cornerstone was taken to the
Highsmith home at Camp, Glenn.
The property was later purchased
by Ted Hall. When the stone was
removed from the northeast cor
ner of the building, nothing re
mained of the contents of the vault
placed there 45 years before.
If is believed that during the
years the building stood vacant,
curiosity seekers raised the cap
stone and removed the contents. <
► Moses Howard, chairman of the county board of com
missioners, elaborated yesterday on the brief announce
ment of last week regarding the site for the proposed
county hospital.
Mr. Howard said that the subject came up incidental
to the major purpose for which a special county board
meeting was called last Tuesday*
mgni.
The special meeting was re
quested by A. D. Fulford; county
sanitarian, relative to Civil De
fense funds and how they should
be used if granted to this county
for mosquito control.
The hospital resolution, which
passed unanimously, outlined a spe
cific area in which the proposed
hospital would be built. It speci
fied a site at least three miles west
of Morehead City, at least 15 feet
above sea level and a minimum
of 100 acres, preferably 500.
The Medical Care commission,
which supervises building of hos
pitals where state and federal
funds arc used, recommends a
minimum of 15 acres.
Mr. Howard said yesterday that
the board feels a hundred acres
may be desirable,, to allow space
for development of a park. He also
said that there should be sufficient I
ground around the hospital to pre- i
vent other structures going up
close to it.
The chairman of the county
board remarked that there has
been tremendous pressure put on
the board to select the hospital
site. He said a decision was made
to eliminate speculation over which
of the two sites, already donated,
would be chosen.
One site is in the Crab Point sec
tion and the other on highway 101.
He remarked that the bond# for
the hospital, if approved, would
provide money for purchase of a |
site. “Of course, we would be hap- |
py if someone would donate a site |
in that area,” he remarked.
When asked if specific delinea
tion of the site might not cause
landowners to up the*price, he said
that such as possible but he hoped
some honest realtor or landowner
would not take advantage of the
situation.
“I don’t believe we should build
’a $2 million hospital on a site,
just because it is donated,” Mr.
Howard said. He said it was the
board’s intention, in specifying a
spot about three miles west of
Morehead City, to put the hospital
in the vicinity of the highway 24
and 70 intersection.
Mr. Howard said that Craven
county approved bonds for a coun
ty hospital, but many months have
lapsed since then because of a con
troversy over a site.
“We wanted to be fair to the peo
ple and let them know where the
hospital would be built,” Mr. How
ard said.
He is of the opinion that specific
location prior to Nov. 8 will en
hance the chances of the hospital
bonds being approved when peo
ple go to the polls that day.
Relative to the mosquito control
question, for which Tuesday’s
meeting was called in the first
place, the board decided to ob
tain equipment on a rental-pur
chase basis, if CD funds are made
available.
Mr. Fulford said yesterday that
he still doesn’t know if funds will
be available or how much.
Beaufort Yule Program
To Begin Friday, Dec. 2
The Christmas committee of the
Beaufort Merchants association an
nounces that the town Christmas
program will get under way Fri
day, Dec. 2. Details of the pro
gram will be announced later.
The Christmas committee met
Thursday night at the home of the
president of the merchants asso
ciation, J. O. Barbour Jr. Co
chairnten of publicity are Gilbert
Potter and W. R. Hamilton.
This cornerstone of white marble is more than usual sise: 3 feet
in height, I feet across aod 2 fqct thick, weighing well over a too.
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F. C. Salisbury
Re-Elected Head
Of Historians
Entering upon its seventh year
of organization, the County Histor
ical society met Saturday after
noon in the Methodist educational
building, Beaufort.
F. C. Salisbury who has served
as president for the past three
years was re-elected president;
Thomas Respess, secretary, John
S. MacCormack, treasurer, and
Miss Amy Muse, curator.
A committee was appointed con
sisting of Mrs. John R. Gibson,
Miss Amy Muse and Tucker Little
ton to arrange for the publication,
in some form, of the historical
papers given before the society
each year.
In return for sponsoring her
forthcoming book of history, Mrs.
Nat Smith offered to the society
20 per cent of the profits from the
sale of the book as a starting fund
toward an historical building and
museum. Mrs. Smith’s book deals
with the history of a group of early
white settlers who associated them
selves with a friendly band of In
dians in the eastern part of Car
teret county. ✓
A paper prepared by Mrs. Earl
Davis of Harkers Island and read
by Mrs. Smith, covered the early
history of Shackleford Banks from
the grant by King George to the
time of the exodus of the people,
following one of the most severe
storms in the history of the coun
ty.
Being a descendant from one of
the early families of the Banks,
Mrs. Davis was well versed in her
description of the life of the peo
ple, their hardships and living con
ditions, of whaling and shipwrecks.
She exhibited a number of quaint
relics which had been given her
by her grandmother, some of
which are believed to have come
ashore from shipwrecked vessels.
During the social hour, dough
nuts and coffee were served by
the hostesses, Miss Muse, Mrs. D.
F. Merrill, Mrs. Phillip Thomas
and Mrs. H. G. Loftin. F. C. Salis
bury, president, presided. In the
absence of Mrs. E. G. Phillips,
secretary, Mrs. F. C. Salisbury
acted in that capacity.
School to Stage
Carnival Friday
A program in the school audi
torium will be a new feature of the
Morehead City PTA’s annual Hal
loween carnival this year. The
carnival will be held Friday from
5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on the
school grounds.
At 8:30 everyone will go to the
auditorium. Children in grades 1
through 8 who are wearing cos
tumes will be judged and the boy
and girl wearing the best costumes
will be named king and queen of
the carnival. A prize of $2.50 will
be given each winner.
The third and fourth grades will
give a program and the band, di
rected by Ralph Wade, will play.
A $5 prize will be given the best
decorated booth.
Food on sale will include hot
dogs, hamburgers, french fries,
soft drinks, barbeque, coffee, snow
ball, candy, ham, potato salad, can
dy apple, cotton candy and sweets.
Booths planned for the carnival
are wax'and sacks games, let’s go
crabbing, country store, wheel of.
fortune, Hobo the clown, fish pond,
shoot, the witch, ferris wheel,
dance, cake walk. There will also
be mechanical rides and live
ponies.
Coast Guard Officer
Comments on Oil Slick
Lt. John Riddell, commanding
officer of Fort Macon group,
USCG, said the Coast Guard has
not been able to determine where
recent oil and tar slicks on the
water are coming from. ®
He said the grease, oil and tar,
or whatever it may be, is prob
ably washing in from offshore. It
has affected ocean beaches and
the sounds.
Lieutenant Riddell said that some
weeks ago the Coast Guard traced
oil troubles to a barge being used
by the dredge, Peru. But the
dredge and its equipment left this
area three weeks ago.