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291 DAYS AND THE POTOMAC STILL RUSTS IN THE HARBOR COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 51st YEAR, NO. 56 TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES ✓ ——, - CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES, MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1962 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Carnegie Commission Honors Four Morehead City Heroes Four Morehead City men have been named winners of the Car negie life-saving medal and will receive a total of $2,250 in cash, in addition to bronze medals. Being recognized by the Carnegie Hero Fund commission, Pittsburgh, for saving seven crewmen from the burning tanker, Potomac, arc Capt Arthur K. Lewis, 34; Joseph F, Morris Sr., 27; Delmas F. Wil lis, 33, and Joseph A. Huber, 20. The tanker burned in Morehead City harbor Tuesday night, Sept. 26, 1961. One crewman suffered a heart ; attack and died and another, the radio operator, was never found. According to David B. Oliver, manager of the Carnegie Hero commission, Captain Lewis, owner and operator of the partyboat Bun ny Too, will receive $750, and the other three $500 each. The four received this week a letter notifying them of the awards. A copy of the letter to Capt. Lewis (the other three letters arc sim ilar), follows: CARNEGIE HERO FUND COMMISSION Oliver Building Pittsburgh, Pa. July 9, 1962 Dear Mr. Lewis: Through the courtesy of Mr. J. D. Rivers, of Durham, North Car olina, and Mr. Lockwood Phillips, President, Carteret County News Times, • Morehead City, the atten tion of the Commission was called to your heroic rescue act by which you helped to save Arthur W. Hunt er and six others from burning and an explosion on Sept. 26, 1961. A report on your act was furnished to us later through the courtesy of Mr. Bob Simpson of Morehead City. After thorough investigation and consideration of your case, we take great pleasure in advising you that, in recognition of such outstanding heroism, the Commission has awarded you a bronze medal and the sum of seven hundred fifty dol lars. We trust you will accept the award, and if your reply is affirm ative, your medal will be ordered immediately and we will write you concerning your award money. Kindly fill out the attached card and return it promptly in the en closed envelope so there will be no delay in the production of your medal. With our congratulations and best wishes on this announcement of your award, we arc, •Sincerely, David B. Oliver, Manager Soon after the Potomac burned, the Carnegie commission sent an investigator to this area to check on the report it had received from Mr. Rivers relative to the worthi ness of the four men to receive the Carnegie medal. The investigation was meticulous and extensive. This is the account of the rescue as published by THE NEWS-TIMES Oct. 3, 1961: Capt. Arthur Lewis of the More head City partyboat Bunny Too said yesterday that his boat sus tained no damage as a result of its rescue mission Tuesday night. Captain Lewis ran his boat under the stern of the tanker Potomac and picked up seven men who were making a quick get-away from the ship. The second explosion, at 7:10 p.m., came just as the Bunny was picking up the seventh man. “It rocked us a little bit, but that’s all,” the captain said. The sur (See AWARDS Page 2) Rains Cause Drop in Catches Recent heavy rains have affected not only the income of the farmer, but that of the fisherman. Heavy volumes of fresh water pouring from the hinterlands into the sea reduce the amount of salt in the waters of bays, sounds, tidal rivers and the ocean. When shrimp, menhaden, and fish of other kinds find their home has some kind of new characteristic, they move off in search of waters where they will feel “at homfc” again. They seek, in other words, waters of higher salinity that have not yet become “infected” by the heavy fresh, muddy water that flowed off lands away from the sea. Shrimp catches fell way off after July 4, date of the last heavy rain fall. They started to pick up again this week but five to six day* were “lost” by the shrimper, in addition to the days he couldn’t work be cause of rain. Channel netters were . put out of business. The trawlers still plied the waters, but got little in return — mainly the expense of running the boat apd paying a crew. The big shrimp, which before the deluge were bringing shrimpers 30 or more cents a pound, heads off, disappeared after the rain. Scheduled to receive Carnegie hero medals are Dclmas Willis, left, Joe Morris, Capt. Arthur Lewis, and below, Joseph Huber. Woman Injured On B&M Track Mrs. Carl Rice, 110 Ordngc St., Beaufort, suffered painful injuries Tuesday when she tripped on the railroad track in front of her home and fell on the rock ballast around the recently-laid track. Mrs. Rice sustained cuts in her knee and elbow, which were closed with stitches. At the time she fell, she was carrying her 18-month-old child in her arms. The baby was not hurt. Mr. Rice was among the delega tion at the Beaufort town board meeting Monday, which complained of the hazardous condition of the track and the hardship it is creat ing to residents in the blocks west of Turner street. Mr. Rice said that the tracks are so high that no fuel truck, emer gency-type vehicle or anything on wheels can gel too his house. Other residents state that the highly-elevated cause water to drain off the railroad bed and flood their property. hiew Ranger' Richard Hinkley has replaced William J. Chapparo as district ranger of the Croatan National Forest with offices in New Bern. The forest consists of 156,000 acres of forest service land in Carteret, Craven and Jones counties. Only little shrimp, still in the pro cess of growing, were being caught. The price dropped to 20 cents a pound. Capt. David Beveridge, Beaufort, says that if there arc no hurricanes and other storms there’s a pos Governor Views Fishing Setback Interest was expressed by Gov. Terry Sanford at Boone this week on the effect of tHe recent heavy rainfall on fishing in coastal Carolina. C. G. Holland, state commercial fisheries commissioner, reported Wednesday that the governor is concerned about the plight of fishermen in Carteret, Pamlico, Hyde and similar counties. The fisheries committee ap proved, commissioner Holland said, an investigation of damage suffered by fishermen because of the rains. - ' He said that the investigation will be conducted by W. W. Barnes, financial advisor to the state’s commerce and industry division. The four men who risked their lives at a flaming tanker to pull seven men from the water insist that they’re not heroes. But they say that there’s no worry about finding a place for the money that will accompany their bronze medals. Mr. Willis says he and his wife are planning to put their $500 in a savings account and add a little to it now and then for their children’s education. They have a daughter, Linda, 8, and a son, Delmas Jr., 4. Mr. Willis is captain aboard the private yacht, Skate, at the Mosquitoes, Just Like Sun, Always Follow the Rain! Whenever there’s an unusual amount of rain,( folks can count on plenty of mosquitoes. Beaufort, Morehead City and county spraying machines have been at work during the past week, attempting to knock down the heavy mosquito population that exploded following the rainfall at the end of June and first of this month. The pests are the saltmarsh mos quitoes — a large brown kind and a little black type. Keith Oates, Morehead City, sani tary engineer with the State Board of Health, who is working in the mosquito control program over* the southeastern part of the state, says that all the mosquitoes des tined to hatch because of the recent rains, have hatched. Unless there is more rain or another flood tide, the county won’t be bothered with a new crop. Without water, mosquito eggs do not hatch, Mr. Oates said. Peo ple can help control future hatches by getting rid of any standing water in their yards or by putting oil on water that can’t be drained. “Spraying is a very costly opera tion,” Mr. Oates said. “It’s some thing that is done in emergency situations, usually, when the mos quitoes get real thick.” He said cost of spraying, depending on the rig used, runs from $12 to $20 an hour. A permanent mosquito control program, under state supervision, is now under way: ditching. Mr. Oates is engaged now in locating ditches so that they will drain east ern Carolina's vast marshlands. sibility that good shrimping may extend into the fall. There are in dications that there is a very good crop of young shrimp. Bill Jones, manager of Carteret Quick Freeze, Beaufort, believes that the heavy rains have washed many of the young shrimp out of the tidal rivers. Boats, he said, have been catching this week a spft-shelled gray shrimp or ‘"river shrimp.” Those caught in the ocean arc usually of a brown or tan color with harder shell. These, he said, moved elsewhere after the rain. Catches he remarked, were way down. Four boats that had been shrimping here left Monday for Southport and McClellansvillc, S. C., where shrimping was re portedly better. Mr. Jones j>ays the big shrimp have probably moved south. Wheth er they move because of change in salinity', change in water tem perature or both, has never beep unquestionably decided. It is expected that the mature shrimp may move back north or the shrimp still in inland waters will mature and take their place, but Mr. Jones concludes that the heavy dose of fresh water "has made a Morehead City Yacht basin. Mr. Morris is employed by Car teret Towing Co., is building a new home, has two children and another is expected any day. Captain Lewis, skipper of the Bunny Too. says lie’s going to pay $2,730 worth of bills with his $750. He and his family live in Mitchell Village. Mr. Huber is in charge of a newspaper route and until re cently his wife worked as a wait ress at Captain Bill's waterfront restaurant. The men have not yet been notified as to when they will re ceive their awards. Two .draglines are now at work in this county in the Newport river area north of Morehead City; one is in Onslow and three in Pamlico. Purpose of ditching is to get water out of the marshes within five days after flooding. Mosqui toes hatch in seven to ten days, depending on temperature. Ditches arc 6 feet wide and 3'" to 4 feet deep. “Marshes develop a lip around them, like a saucer,” Mr. Oates explains, “and once a flood tide washes over them, it can’t get out. Drainage ditches provide an opening for outflow.” How much maintenance will these ditches require? Mr. Oates says it is hoped that none will be necessary. He said drainage ditches dug in this county in WPA days arc still open and they arc smaller than ones being dug now. Carteret, he said, has 57,000 acres of marshland and it will take a long time to get drainage ditches through all of it. He said the county, has more marshland than any county to the north or south of it. Pamlico has less marsh land, but is putting more money into its mosquito control program, Mr. Oates remarked. To dig the drainage ditches, eas ments must be obtained over pri vate property. Generally, property owners are cooperating, Mr. Oates said, because the ditching im proves their property by knocking down the mosquito menace. No dirt is taken off the property in the ditching, it is merely dis placed, he explained. difference” in the shrimping pic ture. , What effect the fresh water may have on oysters has not been de termined as yet. Dr. William Fahy, finfish specialist at the Institute of Fisheries Research, UNC, said it is likely that oysters would suffer more than fish that move about. Oysters can’t go in search of friendlier water. They must stay I (See RAINS Page 2) Tides at the Beaufort Bur Tide Table HIGH LOW Friday, July 13 5:31 a.m. 5:59 p.m. 4:32 a.m. 5:09 p.m. Saturday, July 14 10:57 a.m. 11:48 p.m. 14 11:43 a.m. Sunday, July 15 6:23 a.m. 6:44 p.m. 12:37 a.m. 12:31 p.m. Monday, July 16 7:11 a.m. 7:29 p.m. 1:24 a.m. 1:20 p.im Tuesday, July 17 7:59 a.m. 8:13 p.m. 2:09 a.m. 2:06 p.m. Action Sought to Curb Cutback in O&R Personnel Carteret WELCOMES The North Carolina PRESS Association 11 Heavy Rains Bring Problems To Town Board Water — too much of it — was one of the major topics at the Bcatifort town board meeting Mon- j day night at the town hall. ] The board passed an ordinance ! making it a misdemeanor for a • property owner to permit water from his property to drain off on j to another’s and thereb', create a ! problem for the neighbor. I Appearing before the board, at j the invitation of the mayor, W. 11. j Potter, were Clarence Stamper and I Jim Wheatley, Front street bus inessmen who reported that build ings they occupy were subject to water seepage during the recent | rains. | The water seeped through the j ground and ran in their buildings at floor level. Gray Hassell, town engineer, said that property owners involved should install a storm drain with proper catch basins. But even that would not take water off in the volume it occured during the recent rains. Mr. Wheatley said he had water in his store three months ago. The merchants said they would pay for materials for a storm drain and catch basins if the town would in stall it. Mr. Hassell said he has told one owner of the property in volved, at least 15 times, what must be done and gave him the cost, and his only reply was, “My, my, my!” It was then that the board passed the ordinance making it a mis demeanor to let water from one building or property run on to another’s. Albert Chappell, Dave Clawson and Mrs. Jack Neal appeared to report on conditions caused by the rains on Front street. Mrs. Neal said that water running between j Arthur Rose’s and Mrs. George Brooks’ has washed out the drain fill to her septic tank. The mayor said he would take the problem up with J. L. Humphrey, county road superintendent. (Ann street is in town but Front street from Live Oak east is still maintained by the state who em ploys Mr. Humphrey as superinten dent of state-maintained roads in Carteret.) Mr. Chappell said that the run off from Ann street has literally floated septic tanks. Ronald Earl Mason, town clerk, said that the state has already recommended a ditching plan to handle the excess water. Mayor Potter said the town will confer with the state and the pro perty owners will be informed of the outcome of the meeting. Two CD Officials To Help in Drafting Survival Program Col. Wallace Dawson and Col. David Spivey, civil defense of ficials, will be in Morehead City next Thursday and Friday to con fer with chairmen of the various civil defense programs in the county. They plan to draft in final form the county’s survival plan. When the plan is mimeographed and ap proved, it will enable the county to participate again in purchase of surplus property for civil de fense use, according to Harry Wil liams, county CD chairman. Mr. Williams says that since the epunty has not accepted bis res ignation, he will continue as chair man in the hope that work done to date in civil defense will not have been in vain. lThe county has budgeted $1,500 for civil defense. _ _N Morning Speaker Delivering the break! ast ad dress this morning to the North Carolina Press association will ! be Dr. William C. Archie, direc tor of the North Carolina Board I of Higher Education. Court Convicts Inn Operator Joseph Suggs, Stella, lias been convicted in county recorder’s court, for failing and refusing to file sales tax reports. Suggs, operator of the Joe-Joe | inn, was sentenced to a year in jail, suspended on condition that he file all the required reports and j pay ail the money due the state ■ department of revenue within 30 days. II. W. Dickson, who is assigned to this county by the state depart ment of revenue, said that other businessmen have been failing to file sales tax reports. Unless they comply with the law, they too will be prosecuted, Mr. Dickson said. New Presidents Dr. John Gainey . . . Morehcad City Rotary * w'-- s /fo •' ’ Clarence Stamper . . . Beaufort Rotary Congressman Contacted On Job Cuts at Air Base Action has been taken in" this county to curb, if pos sible, a lay-off of 95 persons at Cherry Point air station’s overhaul and repair depart ment. At the request of persons employ ed ;il the b?' \ W. H. Taylor Jr., Heyufort attorney, reports that he sent the following telegrapv Wed nesday to congressman David Hen derson "Bureau of Naval Weapons ad vised civilian employees Overhaul A. Repair Department, Cherry Point, N. (’. that 95, or about five pel cent of department would re ceive discharge notices on July 15. Action will result in payroll loss to area of half million or more an nually. This has long been desig i tinted as depressed area. In re cent days declared disaster area | as result of destructive rains. The 1 reduction in force at Cherry Point will greatly aggravate local eco nomic situation. Respectfully urge you to seek to have order counter manded so as not to further dis turb local conditions.” j The Pentagon announced Wed ; nesdav that 856 workers would be i laid off at eight Naval and Marine | Corps air stations throughout the 1 country. Such lay-offs occur peri odically. usually toward the end | of a budget period. Notices of discharge given this month will become effective Aug. 15. J. II. Clarkr O&R repair officer. Cherry Point, in a bulletin issued Wednesday, stated that all em : ployees relieved Aug. 15, will have f the opportunity of re-employment I as vacancies occur in the future. "It is hoped,” he said, “that | within six months all those sep , arated on 15 August and who de sire to return to the O&R will be j re employed.” On June 29, tile officer said, num | ber of employees was reduced from 1,872 to 1,839, but due to resig nations, retirements, transfers, etc-, only six persons had to be I relieved of their jobs. O&R was notified Wednesday by : the Bureau of Naval Weapons that the ceiling was to be reduced to 1744. Mr. Clark added, “I have been assured by the bureau that i every effort was made to min | imize the cut at Cherry Point and the first plan to apportion cuts j among all the O&Rs was modified to alleviate the situation at Cherry Point. I am told that, had this not been done, our cut would have been approximately 145 personnel.” The O&R officer expressed the opinion that the fine performance of Cherry Point O&R employees and the resultant savings time wise led him to believe that the (See JOB CUTS Page 2) John B. Tomlinson . . . Newport Rotary Hearing Dates Set on South River Oystering # State to Buy Two New Fisheries Craft # Shell Dredging Work Approved The commercial fisheries com mittee will conduct a hearing Fri day and Saturday, Sept. 7 and 8, at Morehead City on the leasing of oyster beds in South river. The dates were set at the committee meeting this week at Boone. South River residents claim that the state is leasing natural oyster beds to private individuals, thus cutting off source of supply to South river oystermen. South river oystermen state that a private lease prevents them from | carrying on any fishing activity ] within the bounds of the leased i area. The committee also decided to ; buy a 42-foot boat and a 24-foot j boat. The 42-footer would replace ‘the Cape Fear which blew up and j burned this spring in the Thorough j fare at Cedar Island. ! The full C&D board approved a pilot operation on dredging of dead shells 'n Albemarle sound. The ap proval recommended by the commercial fisheries committee. The committee’s decision was . based on several opinions by fish eries specialists, including that of Dr. Gordon Gunter, director of the Gulf Coast Research laboratory, Ocean Springs, Miss. Dr. Gunter said, in part, “Ex periments on shell dredging in con nection with the production of fish eries and water flow have already been carried out on the Gulf Coast on a vast scale and it has been shown to be harmless, or quite possibly beneficial. “It will be most unfortunate for the general welfare for the State of North Carolina if fresh water biologists and the general popu lace, who do not understand the situation, prevail in this instance because of political pressure. North Carolina has a great potential re source for wealth in its shell de posits which can be utilized for many years to come without any damaging effect upon the bay en vironment. “The same type of resources brings a ipinimun of twenty-five million dollars a year to the Gulf States. The State of North Caro lina would do well to utilize its similar resource.” Long Beach Will Be Derby Site Long Beach will be the scene of North Carolina’s second annual crab derby Aug. 25 and 26, an nounces Wade Lucas, of the De partment of Conservation and De velopment, who is derby ring master. ! Dan Walker, Beaufort, now town clerk of Long Beach, put in a bid for the derby last summer when it was first held at Morehead City. The commercial fisheries com mittee of the C&D department of fered full cooperation to Mr. Lucas while in session this week at Boone. Purpose of the derby is promo tion of the state’s hardcrab in dustry. All eight hardcrab pro ducing counties and any community in them arc eligible to enter their best blue crab speedster in the derby. * The winner and its handler will be sent to Crisfield, Md., Satur day, Sept. 1, to participate in the national crab derby there. Rotary Club Hears Talk On Constitution, By-Laws Newport Rotarians heard a talk on the Rotary International con stitution and by-laws Monday night, and discussed the by-laws in rela tion to the Newport club. The talk was given by Graham Baker, program chairman. Also discussed was the club's picnic table project, which is nearing com pletion on US 70 north of Newport K
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