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VOLUME XXVII —NO. 37
. LOANS BEING MADE
BY AGENCIES HERE
FOR STORM RELIEF
Small Business Administration Of
fices Will Open For Bus
> inessmen Monday
Individuals and businesses are
expected to struggle back to their
feet again in time for the summer
tourist season on the Outer Banks
■with assistance from the various
loan agencies and relief organiza
tions which are sending representa
tives into this disaster stricken
area.
Clarence Moore, area administra
tor for tire Small Business Adminis-
* tration has declared the North
Carolina coast as an official disas
ter area and has wired Governor
Terry Sanfod that an S.B.A. dis
aster office will be opened in the
Manteo Courthouse on Monday and
agents "are expected to remain
‘ through Tuesday.
Any. individual, church corpora
tion non-profit , organisation or,
partnership that has suffered a pro
perty 1 loss in the areas, as a. re
sult of the storm, (p generally eli
gible so file an application for the
loans which will be provided by
the agency at 3% interest per year.
The maturity of the loan is geared
to the applicant’s ability to repay
but in no case can it exceed 20
* years, according to John E. Home,
Administrator for S.B.A. »
Under the S.B.A. program, loans
may be made for the restoration
of homes and furnishings by the
owner as such, or homes at resorts
or other places rented to tenants.
. Loans may not be made to restore
summer cottages where the owners
occupy theft for only a portion of
the year.
Home has stated that approved
loans for less than SI,OOO will* be
secured by personal notes. Those
in excess of SI,OOO will require
collateral. Where mortgages al
ready exist, second and third mort
gages can be accepted as collateral
in many instances.
In an effort to expedite the re
building program, in time for the
tourist season, agents from the
6.8A. will set up shop here to
eliminate the time—consuming eva
luation process for loans which - or
dinarily requires six months. Pro
cessing will require two weeks flor
completion,-according to Home, and
individuals who desire loans are re
quested to contact the S.B.A. rep
resentatives, as quickly as possible,
since there is a limitation on the
time in which applications can be
made.
William M. Speaks, investigator
for tiie Veterans Administration
has already been in the area to
check on homes covered by the G. I.
Bill Mid Title 38 of the U. S. Code.
G. I.’home owners may defer pay
ments on their homes, obtain fi
nancial aid for repairs and receive
arthitectural advice through that
agency.
Speaks has stated that anyone
desiring further assistance from the
Veteran’s Administration should
write to the Loan Guaranty Divi
rion, V- A. Regional Office, in Win
ston-Salem.
Farmers and stockmen should
contact George Sturgeon, Co. Supt
with the Fanners Home Adminis
tration for a housing loan, which is
available at 4% interest The loans
are for permanent residents and
do not include rental or business
property. Mr. Sturgeon is being
assisted by D. Gi Mddlin; areas su
pervisor for the Farmers Home
Administration. Agents from this
bureau may be contacted on Mon
days and Tuesdays between the
hours of »:30 am. and 3:30 p m. in
the license examiners room at the
courthouse in Manteo.
NAT. SEASHORE PARK
DAMAGES OVER A MILLION
-■ Restoration of the Cape Hat
teras National Seashore is expect
ed to cost $1,250,000 according.to
a “very rough, horseback-type es
timated made by a Park Service
air-observation crew on Tuesday.
The nation’s only oceanside rec
reation area, which consists of
Cape Hatteras, Ocracoke and Bodie
islands, was ravaged by the Ash
Wednesday Gale which struck with
out, warning last week.
* A Park Service spokesman has
indicated that available funds will
< be used to install pure water out
lets and restore sanitary facilities
for daytime visitors and fishermen.
Nearly 35% of the barrier dunes
at Cape Hatteras have been washed
away, according to Park Service
personnel. ‘These dunes protected
the islands and the highway,” a
spokesman stated. “The Park Serv
ice and others have worked on it
for decades.”
The highways in the seashore
park were ravaged by the water
and current efforts there amount
to a gigantic undertaking, for tons
of sand must be removed before
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
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BUSINESS HIGHWAY 158 was handling littie traffic on Friday morning of last week when highway
crews worked overtime to remove sand and debris from the water-soaked link from Kitty Hawk to Nags
Head. The photo was taken one-half mile north of the Dolphin Motor Court. Owens Restaurant is shown
on the right with the Sea Oatel.and Dareolina Restaurant in the background.
HELICOPTER RESCUES HATTERAS NATIVES
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A MARINE CORPS HELICOPTER from Cherry Point is shown here
at Manteo Airport discharging evacuees from Hatteras during the peak
of rescue operations on Thursday morning. All stranded Outer Bankers
had been accounted for by Thursday afternoon.
THREE-WAY RACE
FOR HOUSE SEAT
IN DARE COUNTY
The Dare County political pot
is beginning to warm, with the
announcement of a third man enter
ing the race for Representative in
the N. C. General Assembly. Wal
lace R. Gray, Manteo attorney and
Buxton native, made public his in
tention to file for this seat.
M. K. Fearing, Jr., the incum
bent, and M. L. Daniels, Jr., of Man
teo have both announced candidacy
for the post
Mr. Gray said in announcing:
“My outlook for the future of Dare
County is extremely optimistic des
pite the fact that we are now in
the throes of a terrible natural dis
aster. However, we are experienc
ing a great cooperative effort for
reconstruction from which I am
confident we shall emerge more
united and a stronger county than
ever before. But to -do so must nec
essarily require the very best which
lay in each of us.
“Thus, I shall become a candidate
for Dare County’s most important
office . .
HARBOR ENLARGEMENT
LIKELY, CHAIRMAN DECLARES
Melvin Daniels, Chairman of the
Harbor Development Committee of
the Wanchese Ruritan Club has
announced that word has been re
ceived from Raymond Leonard, har
bor investigator %t Wilmington,
which causes him to believe that
“the enlargement is going to be
made somewhere besides on paper.”
Daniels received a letter this
week from the investigator asking
for details of dock construction at
Wanchese, which was completed
this month, in order that the Corps
of Engineers may use the data in
adding “finishing touches” to the
project which is planned there.
A 200 foot enlargement is being
planned for Wanchese which will
be located on the north end of the
present dredged harbor. The en
largement is being instituted
through efforts of the Dare County
Board of Commissioners and the
Wanchese Ruritan Club.
The Ruritan chairman says he is
“encouraged” by the letter and
feels that the project may become h|
reality within the near future.
“Funds are obtainable from a per
manent monetary source available
to the Rivers and Harbors Com
mission and do not require legisla
tive action for their allotment,"
Daniels stated.
INOCULATION CAMPAIGN
BEGINS BY HEALTH DEPT.
FOR ALL OUTER BANKERS
A tray of sparkling needles and
grimacing faces told the story at
Mann’s Sunoco Station on Tuesday
afternoon when residents of Nags'
Head rolled up their arms for the
“this won’t hurt a bit” approach of
Miss Bessie Draper, county nurse,
as she jabbed away at some 50 resi
dents who were anxious to avoid
typhoid fever and lockjaw.
The inoculation program for
Dare County is well underway and
Miss Draper is giving the needle to
screaming children and not so
brave adults-who desire her serv
ices, which are free of charge. The
nurse will be at the Kitty Hawk
Elementary School on Friday from
10-12 a.m. and in Manteo every
Wednesday for shots. Collington
Island has already been canvassed
by the, hard-working county em
ployee on a house-to-house basis
and present plans call for more
shots at (Hatteras on Monday.
Miss Draper reports that no dis
ease or serious accidents have oc
curred as a result of the storm
and says that the condition “is
miraculous.” “We have treated a
few people who have been injured
See HEALTH, Page Seven
TEMPORARY NAGS HEAD INLET NOW CLOSED AGAIN
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THE -IwLET ’ at Nags Head; credited with saving m .ny tro.u worse Hooding, also played havoc with some
houses and other property in the area of “Old Nags Head.” It so reported that when the road (By-Pass
158) broke, the water level dropped as much as a foot aa far north as Kill Devil Hills. This photo, made
Friday afternoon, shows a make-shift walkway being used by displaced persons returning to their homes.
The break has been filled hy highway crews, and is now passable to motor traffic.
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MANTEO. N. G, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1962
FARMERS HOME LOANS ON
COAST ARE AVAILABLE
GEORGE W. STURGEON, who is
supervisor for the Farm Loan
Home Administration in Dare Hyde
and Tyrrell counties with head
- quarters in Swan Quarter stated
this week while in Manteo, he would
in future be in Manteo *on Mon
days and Tuesdays to receive appli
cations for Farm Home Loans to
' aid persons in the
i area to rebuild their homes. Loans
■ are made for as long as 33 years,
, and at 4 per cent interest, and up to
full value of the building erected
, may sometimes be borrowed, pro
vided the borrower owns the lot.
, He will be at the Fann Agent’s
See STURGEON, Page Seven
ANNUAL MEETING MARCH 31
OF. DISTRICT POSTMASTERS
The annual District Meeting of
the N. C. Chapter of the National
Association of Postmasters will be
held in Elizabeth City, March 31
in the Virginia Dare Hotel at a,
luncheon at 1 p.m., according to
Roland L. Garrett, Elizabeth City
postmaster, who is district director. I
Congressman Berber C. Bonner
will be the principal speaker, and
other distinguished guests and
Chapter officers will attend. Post
masters may take their wives or
husbands, but Mr. Garrett wishes
to know the number who plan to
attend.
“WORST IN HISTORY”
MERRILL EVANS SAYS
OF ROAD DAMAGE
“In the history of the Highway
Commission of North Carolina, no
thing like this has ever happened
on the coast,” Merrill Evans said
Wednesday. The N. C. 'Highway
Commissioner stated that over 109
pieces of large equipment and sev
eral hundred men have been im
ported to the banks in an effort to.
start the monstrous reconstruction
program which is beginning.
Highway crew.- are already add
ing the finishing touches to the 500
foot breakthrough north of jigsaw
road and transportation along 158
By-Pass continues to be on a one
way basis. “It is impossible to de
termine how much damage has been
endured on the business highway
until equipment ean haul away the
tons of sand,” Evans declared.
The commissioner stated that
heavy equipment has already land
ed at Hatteras to begin shoveling
out sand deposits and more is ex
pected. “We have a survey crew
from the U. S. Corps of Engineers
which is working with our reconnai
sance team in estimating damage
at Hatteras,” he stated. “We do not
know at this moment whether a
bridge will be necessary for the
new inlet north of Buxton or not”
The highway head was asked
whether or not elevation or location
changes are being considered for
the banks because of the storm. He
said that “none are contemplated
to my knowledge.” Criticism has
been made by some residents of the
present highway locations and ele
vations, which are said to have re
tarded the flow of water across the
beaches and contained houses in
a pool of sea water. Jethro Midgett,
one of the more outspoken old
timers from Nags Head has said “I
told them exactly what was going
to happen . .” “When the road
was put here, I asked them, the en-
See ROADS, Page Seven
REV. MIDGETT TO HOLD
REVIVAL AT WANCHESE
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REVIVAL services begin at Beth
any Methodist Church in Wan
chese on Sunday night and will con
tinue through Friday, March 23
Each service starts at 7:30. The
i visiting preacher, the Reverend P.
ID. Midgett, HI, a childhood resi
dent* of Wanchese, is now minister
I of Aldersgate Methodist Church in
Chapel Hill. The church choir will
render special music at each serv
ice and a special feature of the
services will be a nightly sermon
ette for the children, A prayer vigil
will be held at the church Sunday
from 1 to 7 p.m. The public is in
vited.
REHABILITATION OUTLINED
AT CIVIL DEFENSE MEETING
AS BEACH RESTRICTION HOLDS
Area Leaders Confer Wednesday To Outline
Plans; Highway Patrol Will Continue Beach
Surveillance of County To Allow Highway
Reconstruction And Protect Beach Property
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BONNER GETS THINGS
ROLLING AFTER SURVEY
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"I love the people here on the
Outer Banks and am here to find
out what your needs are, so that
I may be of help,” Congressman
Herbert Bonner declared here Sun
day.
Bonner, who arrived by plane
early Sunday morning at Manteo
Airport, spent several hours con
ferring with Civil Defense heads
and then took an airplane recon
naisance of the area before return
ing to Washington to "get things
rolling.”
On Monday morning the repre
sentative conferred with Mr. John
i Home, Director of the Small Bus
iness Administration, in regard to
having a temporary office opened
in Manteo to receive applications
for loans. Through the congress
man’s efforts, an office of the
SB.A. will open here next week.
The Congressman has also re
ceived assurances from the Navy
Department that helicopters would
remain here as long as Civil De
fense considers them necessary.
Representative Bonner has also
been in touch with the Director of
Fish and Wildlife, who has agreed
to send a representative to Manteo
and Stumpy Point to explain their
program on loans on boats, boat
; equipment and fishing gear.
The busy North Carolinian has
made arrangements to dispatch en
gineers from the Office of the
District Engineer at Wilmington
to appraise the damage to the
channel across Oregon Inlet and
the channel to Wanchese and Man-
■ teo. “I have urged that emergen
. cy dredging be done so as to clear
the channel,” Bonner has stated.
■ * In a letter the Congressman stat
i ed: “This morning I talked to the
I Governor, who informed me that
personnel of the National Guard
> would be rotated as long as is nec
essary. I also talked with Mr. Ev-
I ans and the Governor with respect
’ to reconstruction and rehabilita
tion of the roads. It is my under-
See BONNER, Page Seven
NAGS HEAD SPORTSWEAR
BURNS TO WATER-LINE
Bikinis and* beach robes burst
into flames at Nags Head during
the height of the storm last Wed
nesday when the Nags Head
Sportswear Shop, owned by Mrs.
Florence Bowen, burned to the
water-line. The cause of the fire
is unknown.
Mrs. Bowen who was visiting
the Julian Oneto home, near the
shop, when the fire occurred, has
reported that she first noticed the
flames at about 8:30 a.m. and look- i
ed out the window there to ste
“everything I owned on Are.”* The
40’x30’ shop was loaded with a
fresh stock of apparel for sum
mer vacationists who will never
wear the water-soaked ashes which
are all that remain oF a once
prosperous business. Damage esti
mates are not yet available.
Mrs. Bowen stated tiiat water
around the building, when it burn
ed, was at shoulder height. Ob
servers have reported that fire
fighting attempts would have been
futile and dangerous. The building,
which was laced by high winds,
, ’ ««rid to have been almost totally
wiaa m to, .tg
Bowen Ito an her peraonal be-
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Orderly rehabilitation is well un
derway in Dare County, according
to state Civil Defense officials and
the Dare County Board of Copi
missioners, who met in Manteo
Wednesday evening to coordinate
efforts as the coastiand slipped in
to its final phase of disaster oper
ations after the most damaging
storm in history.
The reduction of security, sani
tation, potable water problems ahd
water drainage-occupied the atten
tion of the group which met be
tween the hours of 8-11 on Wed
nesday >in the courthouse to sever
tiie Gordian Knot of red - tape
which accompanies disaster opera
tions over an extensive area.
Major J. L. Murphy, Mayor of
Kill Devil Hills; Julian Oneto,
Nags Head mayor; P. J. M. Bayne,
C. D. sector chief for Nags Head;
D. W. Patrick, ferry operations
manager; George Fuller, Jr., com
missioner and Hatteras Island di
rector of C. D.; David Stick, chair
man of the commissioners and Kit
ty Hawk area-C. D. head; I®w
rence Swain, commissioner and
Nags Head C.D. director; Cpl. Ar
thur Fields, New Bern Highway
Patrol, Lt.. Earnest Guthrie, dis
aster patrol director; Sgt. Logsta
Lane, E. City Highway Patrol, and
Sheriff Frank Cahoon, Area Civil
Defense Director, were present for
the discussion.
D. W. Patrick kicked off the
meeting with an announcement
that emergency ferry service will
be initiated between North Oregon
Inlqt and Rodanthe on Friday,
March 16. The first ferry south
since the storm will leave Rodan
the at 7 a.m. and depart from
North Oregon Inlet at 2 pan.
“Emergency needs will be handled
first,” Patrick stated. “After food
stuffs, fuel and medical supplies
have been accommodated, passen
gers will be served on a first-come,
first-served basis,” the ferry man
ager said. Other emergency ferries
are now plying the waters between
Avon and Engelhard, Hatteras and
Ocracoke and the route from Hat
teras to Engelhard.
George Fuller, Jr., C.D. director
for Hatteras Island then arose: to
vigorously protest the removal of
communications facilities in his
area. Fuller stated tiiat a Captain
Zimm of the U. S. Navy had con
tacted him and announced that
plans were being formulated for
the removal of radio hook-ups and
other aid on the water-torn island.
Fuller asked the group to take
every step necessary to protect
natives on Hatteras. “We still need
radio badly,” Fuller asserted.
While Hatteras Island received
a minimum of physical damage
during the storm, as contrasted
with the devastated area at Kitty
Hawk, water still floods the roads
there and transportation is impos
sible at many points because of
sand which is four feet deep on
the highway. The new inlet, a 500-
f oot-wide breach just north of Bux
ton, continues to be a transporta
tion hazard.
The Civil Defense group agreed
to a man that security reduction
on the beach should be released
gradually. Transportation to and
from the beach areas will continue
to be regulated. Patrol . check
points will be established at each
bridge from Friday until Monday
morning, according to the board.
Officials are in agreement that
looting problems officially ended
here on 5V cdne sd&y. Present ac
cess to the beach will be regulated
by some 63 members of the N. C.
(Highway Patrol who are in the
| county to ensure that oncoming
traffic in damaged areas does not
interfere with highway reconstruc
tion. Through traffic on tiie beach
from Nags Head to Kitty Hawk
is still for emergencies Ohly.
Lt. Earnest Guthrie informed
the board that out-of-town cot
tage owners whose property re
quired repairs to prevent thdft,
had been notified. More than 43
owners had been contacted by the
patrol at the request of the CD.
board. Many of the owners are
C ° Unty tWa week
Major Murpliy cmDhsisizcd Oi
' need for keeping movement to and
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