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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
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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
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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.