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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOL. XXVI NO. 12 TYRRELL COUNTY GETS ITS SHARE OF STORM DAMAGE "Hazel's" Memory Diminished As Estimates of Damage Come In COLUMBlA.—Hurricane Donna, the report of which is the story of the week, made a lasting im pression also on the populace of Tyrrell County. The memory of “Hazel” regarded by far the fiercest blow of recent years di minished in proportions here and made its bow before the mighty Donna. With her wiles, she kept us guessing, first lulling us to sleep twice, and then to come back each time with a much more powerful punch. Since the storm, roofing is sell ing here like the proverbial “Hot Cakes”. A good guess would be that at least 75% of the homes were left with leaky roofs or none at all. Especially noticeable was the many huge Oak trees that went with the impact, some twisted of at the stump. The solid Oak —the vulcan of the forest, lost its solidity rating when Donna decided to take over. Hugh limbs, small limbs and uprooted trees belitter the whole countryside. Pecan and walnut trees gave up their fruit, abortive at their feet. Gone is the football fence at Carawan Memorial Field, which was in the process of being re painted by Jim Liverman. The Gymnasium at C.H.S., a compara tively new buuilding was left with only part of roof, A power pole with transformer crashed down on top of a new 1960 Chevrolet car owned by Miss Hettie Jones on north water street. A mule owned by Clement Alexander in Travis section was killed when the stock house collapsed. A 216 foot stump age tree at the right front of the Chapel Hill Church in Travis sec tion twisted and fell, falling away from the structure as if some powerful Being spared the Holy place. Another crashed in the yard of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Reynolds, with top just skimming the house —but leaving damage to chim ney and window pane. A pecan tree fell in the drive way of the Rev. J. A. Brickhouse, where his car is usually parked. It was driven away just minutes before the tree crashed. Calves be loinging to Robert Weatherly were found unharmed when the collapsed bam in which they were lodged from the tempest, was flattened i on top of the animals. A huge : limb from the top of a pecan tree from the yard formerly belonging to Paul L. Liverman fell on the garage at the A. L. Walker home. ' A empty garage at the home of Mrs. Blanche Woodard blew down, I and numerous others. When the wind changed about 4:30 a.m., a deluge of water from the Scuppernong River pushed in —waist deep in the yard of H. T. Davenport; many inches deep in the lobby of the Columbia Hotel, and knee deep at the intersection of Elm and Bridge Streets. Pour ing out as quickly as it came in, it left behind about three inches of silt over its wanderings. Warned of the nearing of the storm about 200 people sought shelter in the Columbia High School Building and about 15 in i Tyrrell Training School. Civil De- Ifense Director L. P. Scott, Cecil Lilley and John A. Haridson, I V.E.&J*. Co., representative all ! night made rounds throughout the . town for possible victims in dis tress. Most of Columbia was without 1 power for about 12 hours—some ; See TYRRELL, Page Four ’ CHARLES W. MANN. 84 DIES AT MANNS HARBOR Charles Wilse Mann, retired fisherman and a popular citizen of Manns Harbor, died early Tuesday morning following a lingering ill ness. He was born Feb. 5, 1876, at East Lake, son of the late Lovie Marie Rogers Mann and Charles L. Mann; but was a lifelong resi dent of Manns Harbor. He was married to the late Mary Everton Mann, and from this union nine children survive: four sons, j Glenn and Curtis of Norfolk and j Hoff and James of Manns Har | bor; five daughter, Mrs. Dallas | Gray of Stumpy Point, Mrs. Colon | Wescott of Manteo, Mrs. Cecil Midgett, Mrs. Odell Tillett and 1 Mrs. Stanford White of Manns j Harbor; 30 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. * He was a member of the Modern Woodmen Lodge and Mt. Carmel ' Methodist Church, Manns Harbor, where services were conducted i Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., by Rev. • Charles R. Olsen. Interment follow- I ed in Twiford Cemetery. Pallbearers were Ira Spencer, B. Wilbur Pinner, Henry Armstrong, , Thetbert Tillett, John D. Crees and | Wallace Taylor. THE COASTLAND TIMES WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA KITTY HAWK WILL BE FIRST IN COASTLAND TO GET MODERN POSTOFFICE BUILDING DUE JANUARY I ________ ; ■ ®2< *>f W^,4. -a* ?& ■ -gfcgtffc Ll , . • Ml flEHwrW; ---■~ ....... ,y.'.-._~-~... y. , -■ ■<■ > FIRST COMMUNITY in our immediate coastland area to get a new postoffice .building under the program of the department will be Kitty Hawk. The picture shows an artist’s drawing of the new build ing soon to be erected under contract by Keith Fearing, Jr. of Man teo, and will be leased to the Postoffice Department. The building is Expected to cost in the neighborhood of $25,000. The Department also wishes to build a much larger postoffice in Manteo with ample parking space. However, this effort has been delayed by action of several merchants in the down-town area who sent a lengthly peti tion protesting it, to the postoffice department. ALLOCATIONS TO I AREA TOWNS FOR POWELL BILL AID RALEIGH. Allocation of $7,- 015,112.19 in Powell Bill funds to 409 participating municipalities was announced last week by the State Highway Department. The funds are distributed annually to qualified cities and towns for use in non-highway street work with in their coroprate limits. Cheeks will be mailed to the municipali ties on September 30. Powell Bill funds represent ons haf cent of the regular State gas oline tax and this year’s total al location represents a 3.6% increase over last year. Over the ten-year period in ■which the Powell Bill law has been is effect, a total of $58,797,140.55 has been distributed. The number of participating mu nicipalities has grown from 386 in 1951 to 409 this year. The allocation is proportioned among the eligible and qualifying municipalities on the basis of rela tive population and relative non- State System local street mileage, as specified in the Statutes. Five largest allocations this year are: Charlotte. $574,828.03; Greens boro. $363,903.49; Winston-Salem, $352,526.94; Raleigh, $277,403.93; and Asheville, $263,176.48. Small est allocation again this year went to Falkland in Pitt County with $422.42. Rates for computing the alloca tions this year are $446.88 per mile of non-State system streets plus $2.30 per capita using 1950 census figures. Area allocations are as follows: Belhaven, $11,626.60; Columbia, $4,- 474.91; Creswell, $1,906.72; Eliza beth City, $46,202.02; Kill Devil Hills; $8,504.91; Manteo, $2,814.12; Pantego, $895.97; Plymouth, $17,- 326.32; Roper, $3,923.70; Washing ton, $37,604.50. CARGILL PURCHASES BELHAVEN ELEVATOR Purchase by Cargill, incor porated of a 55,000-bushel grain elevator at Belhaven, N. C. was announced in Minneapolis this week by the nationwide farm pro ducts firm. The elevator, leased and operated by Cargill since 1954, was owned by Pungo Grain Company of Bel haven. Its location on the Ihingo River, adjacent to the inland wa terway along the Carolina coast, enables it to receive local grains by truck and ship them by both rail and water. Benjamin IS. Jaffray, Cargill’s southeast regional manager, said largest-volume grains through Bel haven are soybeans, mainly for the company’s recently completed pro cessing plant in Norfolk; corn, shipped both to Norfolk for ex port and to mills serving the Del marva poultry industry, and oats and wheat for merchandising throughout the Atlantic coastal area. Fred H. Poor, Belhaven man ager, said, “Our experience in the last six years has been one of steadily increasing volume from the most rapidly expanding grain production area on the eastern seaboard. We are confident this trend will continue allowing the Belhaven area to realize fully its geographic advantages relative to export markets and to the increas ingly important feed industry of North Carolina.” DARE COUNTY PUT ONLY $27,000 IN SCHOOLS IN 1950 That's All the County Treasury Provided; Ten Years Later the Contribution Is Over SIOO,OOO With perhaps /less pupils than ten years ago, and decidedly fewer buildings to keep up, Dare County has increased its contribution to its public schools, from $27,000 in 1950-51, to $102,000 is 1960-61, and last year, the appropriation was $105,000, Ten years ago, the county didn’t i have some SIB,OOO a year coming in from court fines, and it didn’t have all the big investment by non resident property owners •on its beaches whereby unlimited oppor tunity was offered to raise money by taxation. Ten years ago, the county was operating schools at East Lake, Manns Harbor, Stumpy Point, Wanchese, Colington, Rodanthe, Avon, and Hatteras, all of which were in addition to present schools, but have since been closed. Today, the county operates schools at Manteo, Kitty Hawk, and Cape Hatteras. Here is a list of the items as appropriated ten years ago, and this total as shown, was an increase over the preceding year: Office $100; County Board $400; Audit $300; Instructional supplies $200; Janitors salaries $2,672; Fuel $600; Water & Lights $500; Jani tor Supplies $200; Telephone, school buildings $140; Repairs, bldg., outside $3,431; Repairs, bldgs., inside, desks $3,429; Heat and plumbing $4,429; Ins ur ance $3,000; Bus drivers $3,804; Gas-oil $895; Contract Transporta tion $400; New school buses $2,- 500. Total, $27,000. It is of interest to note that now 64 per cent of all pupils are schooled at Manteo, and nearby, incuding the 6 per cent represent ing the colored school enrollment. Cape Hatteras schoo accommo dates 26 per cent of the puoils, an dten per cent go to the Kitty Hawk school. K.D.H. MAYOR PRESENTS CHEST OF PEBBLES DESTINED FOR JAPAN 5 * ; '' 7 '• * r r X?!' * AlOx ijhhl Br SB Illi < COL. H. K. ROBERTS, U.S.A.F., retired, and MAYOR R. H. COOK of Kill Devil Hills, shown as Mayor Cook presented a chest of pebbles last Thursday for use later this year in Japan’s 50th yeai commemoration event of flight. The pebbblcs were attractively packed and will be sent by U. S. Ail Force to Kiyoshi Goko, President of Japanese Aeronautic Association in Tokyo. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1960 LOSS EXCEEDING $250,000 IS FELT BY BELHAVEN AREA Sudden Onrush of Water Causes Record Damage to Area The Belhaven community was hard hit on Sunday night when Hurricane Donna dealt a full blast of wind and water. Losses within the city are esti mated to be over $250,000, which doesn’t cover water damages in homes. Power lines are down and it still is not known just when power will be restored to all sub scribers. Several strets are still blocked by fallen trees with extra crews at work. A large part of the town is still without telephone sendee and it will be several days before! service is resumed. This is by far the heaviest wind to hit Belhaven; the tide, although not as much as in previous storms, did more dam age due to the force with which it came. The people of Belhaven are grateful that things were no worse, and that no lives were lost during the night long struggle with the wind and water. A number of homes were dam aged severely by fallen trees and power and light poles. Roofs and awnings were blown off and win dows broken; T. V. antenna and chimneys were blown down and shrubbery of all kinds took a ter rific beating. All in all Donna was not a Lady but a nightmare when she visited the Town of Belhaven. RECORDER'S BUSINESS TUESDAY GOOD IN SPITE OF HURRICANE DONNA Hurricane Donna did not dampen business in Recorders Court here Tuesday. A total of 18 cases were disposed of by Judge Baum invol ving cases ranging from public drunkenness and assault to speed ing and indecent exposure. There was one abandonment and non-sup- ■ port case tried and one defendant! paid a fine of SIOO and costs for' drunken driving. : Catherines Lathe!mA Smith, Man teo, charged with assauulting Ro-■ bert Ashley and the possession and. sale of liquor paid $lO and costs; on first charge while the second; ,was dismissed for lack of evidence. Milton Hugh Meekins, Avon, for-1 feited bond of $25 when he failed to appear to answer charges of| having liquor with seal broken in his possession. Richard Wade Wharton Jr., Nor folk also forfeited $25 bond on speeding charge. Janice Martinez of Wanchese was sentenced to six months in jail for abandonment and non-support of her child. The sentence was suspended upon condition that Mrs. Martinez pay SSO monthly into the office of the clerk of court for support of the small child. The prosecuting witness was Mrs. Bernice Midgett, mother of Janice Martinez. Halsey W. Salter, Norfolk, paid fines and costs totaling $66.20 on charges of drunkenness and for damaging an auto owned by James H. Bowen. Donald L. Smith, Brookmont, Md., was fined sls and costs for speeding at 70 miles an hour. A similar fine and costs was im posed upon James E. Smyth of Northville, Mich., for speeding at seventy. Juan Bayer Price, Avon, paid See COURT, Page Five VOTERS SAY NO TO STAYING IN SANITARY DIST. Atlantic Township Citizens With draw by Nearly Three to One Majority Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Beach residents of Atlantic Town ship will withdraw from Dare Beaches Sanitary District, the re sult of Saturday’s election with nearly three to one majority in favor of separation. Nags Head voters also participated in the election. Two hundred and five votes were cast; 148 favoring withdrawal from the district as compared to 57 who washed to continue in the area. Dare Beaches Sanitary District was founded eleven years ago, principally to formulate plans for a water and sewerage system. Elections were held on the estab lishment of these systems but were defeated each time. Within the last year or so the district has pur chased fire fighting equipment, and that which is now in Kitty Hawk will be moved to Nags Head pre sumably. The Town of Kill Devil Hills has maintained its own fire trucks for several years. This change will bring about some adjustments in insurance rates during coming months. OCRACOKE HARASSED BUT NOT TOO MUCH HURT BY RAVAGES OF HURRICANE Ocracokcrs had much, much to be thankful for compared with the havoc wrought elsewhere. Donna came at midnight; winds of 102 miles per hour (verified by W. T. Boos’ anemonmeter readings) last ed as long as 3’6 hours. It was the worst hurricane that many had experienced; the storm of 1944 did far more dmage, but some say it was no more severe a storm that this one. Electricity went off about mid night, which cut off radio contact with the mainland, and was re stored by noon Monday. Antennas ■were blown down, fences, screen : ing on porches, gutters, windows (broken or blown out, several chim [neys blown down and house dam la ged by this (Mrs. Ben Gaskill’s, ! Mrs. Helena Willis’, Herman | Spencer’s are those we know of definitely), and of course lots of I shingles blown off roofs. Greatest damge: the big new trailer at Rudolph Waller’s, be longing to the Breligs, was blown off its blocks and taken by wind and tide over in front of the Wal ler home and is now lying on its side thm-e. No, the Breligs were not in it; Kay and the Baby had gone to the C.G. Station where i Bill was on duty. Several others | sought refuge at the Station as i[the storm gained in intensity. I A storage house, back of Alec i 1 Eley’s home was blown completely ’ | over, ruining all of Marie’s furnish ' ings stored there temporarily. | Greatest damage: to the new, ! I Pamlico Motor Court, on the Hat | teras Highway. The entire porch I roof on the east side of the Court i was blown off. ' The entire porch at Jake’s Place i of business was blown away, and (all of the housing around Hunter > | Robinson’s trailer was demolished. The boat “Silver Lake”, belong ing to Mrs. Albert Styron, was • sunk at the N.P.S. docks Damage to the Highway was -.severe . . . several washouts, and 'damage to steel matting approach I to the ferry landing. Division Engi ' See OCRACOKE, Page Five LOSS OF LIFE AND SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE THE RESULT OF HURRICANE DONNA Three Roanoke Islanders Die Early Monday In Flood Waters Near Nags Head Causeway; Stumpy Point Hard Hit; Motels, Cottages on Dare Beaches Destroyed; Flooding in Manteo Has Disastrous Results for Stocks of Mer chandise. KENNEDY'S VISIT TO GREENVILLE IS SET FOR SEPT. 17 Presidential Nominee's Address Scheduled for 10 A.M. at College Stadium GREENVILLE. Detailed plans are being completed for Sen. John F. Kennedy’s visit to Greenville— his first campaign stop in the Southeast—duuring his whirlwind tour of North Carolina Sept. 17. Pitt County Democratic leaders here have been working closely with state party chiefs and Demo cratic chairmen of Eastern N. C. counties in formulating a time table for the presidential nomi nee’s visit here. According to the tentative sched ule for Kennedy’s 700 mile jaunt through five key cities, the 43- year-old nominee will arrive by plane in Greenville about 9 a.m. the 17th. From the airport he will go to one of Greenville’s tobacco ware houses where he will witness a to bacco auction and then hold his only formal news conference of the day, also in a warehouse. Graham Jones, member of the state campaign committee, has an nounced for the state headquarters some 50 national news reporters, and an estimated 100 representa tives from Tar Heel newspapers, radio and television stations are expected for the press conference here. The formal conference is ex pected to last 30 minutes. From the news conference, Ken nedy will go via motorcade through Greenville to College Stadium on the East Carolina College campus for his first major address in the South since receiving the Demo cratic nomination in July. According to the schedule, the candidate’s address at the stadium is on tap for around 10 o’clock.! From the stadium he and his party will return to the airport and set off for Greensboro and the second stop of the one-day campaign in North Carolina. State headquarters has announc ed Kenedy’s party will include Gov. Hodges, gubernatorial nominee Terry Sanford, Rep. Herbert C. Bonner of the first district, Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., members of the Council of State, and other mem bers of Congress from Eastern N. C. Kennedy’s visit here marks the first time in history a presidential candidate has visited Greenville and the first such occasion for Eastern N. C., this century. Wil liam Jennings Bryan selected Golds boro and Rocky Mount as speech sites in his campaign of 1898. Pitt County Democratic Chair man John G. Clark, Sr., and Charles OH. Horne, Jr., are co chairmen for arrangements for the Greenville visit. Some 20-25,000 Eastern Tar Heels are expected to greet Sen. Kennedy here. State and local par ty leaders have urged those at tending to gather at the stadium to avoid traffic congestion that would interrupt the candidate’s planned time-table. SCHOOLS RESUME USUAL TEACHING SCHEDULE THU RS. Dare County schools resumed normal schedules Thursday morn ing, following three days interrup tion due to storm conditions, ac cording to Mrs. Mary L. Evans, Superintendent. Cape Hatteras High School at Buxton, less hamp ered than others in Dare, began a regular schedule Wednesday. Several buses were victims of the storm, though negligibly. One at Nags Head was trapped on a park ing area when telephone lines toppled, thus preventing it from be ing driven onto highway. FIRE DEPT. AUXILIARY WILL MEET ON SEPT. 20 The Ladies Auxiliary of the Hatteras Fire Dept, will meet Tueusday Sept. 20, at 8 p.m. The meeting will be at the communi ty building. Be sure to attend. MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 7£ Winds in excess of 100 miles-an hour accompanied by torrents of rain and raging flood waters left death and destruction throughout much of Dare County, the result of Hurricane Donna’s northward sweep during early morning hours Monday. Tragedy struck heavy in many communities leaving families homeless, disrupting utilities and curtailing livelihoods. Three Roanoke Island young men, one white and two negro, died the result of drowning near the causeway leading from Roanoke Is land to Nags Head. The white youth, Donald Everett Barnett, 21, son of Mrs. Nellie Crank Barnett and the late Seldon Barnett of Wanchese, and the two colored youths, Frank Collins and Ben jamin Mann of Manteo, were en route to Norfolk about 4 a.m. Mon day with Oscar Berry when the car stalled in water crossing the causeway. Berry went to summon aid in moving the car. The other three presumably sought haven in a nearby cottage which was soon swept away in rampaging waters which carried them to their fate. The body of Collins was recovered Tuesday morning; those of Barnett and Mann in early afternoon about a quarter mile from the causeway. The four men, all Coast Guard personnel, were enroute to duty in Norfolk area, excepting Mann, who was scheduled to return to Bermu da. Frank Collins, 27, was a son of Marshall and the late Mrs. Col lins of near Manteo, a highly re spected colored family; Benjamin Mann was the son of Mrs. Amy Mann and the late Luther Mann. Funeral services for Donald Everett Barnett were conducted at 3:30 Thursday afternoon at the Wanchese Assembly of God Church by Rev. Charles Etheridge. Burial followed in the church cemetery. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Nellie Crank Barnett; three brothers: John, Jessie and Roger Barnett; four sisters, Mrs. Earl Thompson, Farmville, Va.; Mrs. Dixie Honebein of I.lantep;_ Mrs. Lyle Payne and Miss Lottie Bar nett of Wanchese. Double funeral services will be held for Collins and Mann Sunday at 2 p.m. at Haven Creek church, with burial in the church cemetery. Collins is survived by his wife, the former Delava Wise, and two small children. Mann’s wife, the former Odias Wilson of South Nor folk, survives. Flood Damage in Manteo Rapidly rising waters about 6 a.m. Monday as the storm’s winds shifted northwest brought record flooding. Downtown businesses, homes and automobiles were sub merged for several hours, as well as those in other low-lying sec tions of town. Water depth was five feet in some areas, indicating a rise of seven or eight feet above normal in little more than an hour. Damage to merchandise in the tens of thousands of dollars re sulted, as little could be done to preserve stocks due to short notice and severity of the advancing tide. South of Manteo, perhaps the 'hardest hit was the automobile firm of R. D. Sawyer as tide wa ters advanced into eight new auto mobiles and several dozen used cars. Manteo’s new high school suf fered possible extensive water damage. Homes in this area south ward to Midway junction were flooded resulting in loss or dam age to most all furnishings. Kellogg Supply Company of Manteo lost a lumber shed back of its main office north of Manteo when heavy winds whipped under it and threw it into trees east of its former location. The shed re mains in the trees, testimonial to strength of winds experienced. Waterside Theatre at Fort Ra- See STORM, Page Five A WORD OF WARNING FROM HEALTH OFFICER Dr. W. W. Johnston, director of the Dare-Hyde-Currituck Dis trict Health Department, strong ly urged precautionary measures this week to all residents of low lying areas which experienced flooding and who depend on shal low, unapproved wells for water supply. He recommended that all, water be boiled before drinking and that all persons not having had typhoid vaccination within the past two years, have sama at once.
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