davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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was originally reported de-
Stroyed, but actually it suffered
only minor damage.
The contour Of the coast is
not radically changed, al
though millions Of tons Of sand
were shifted and it will take
some time for the beaches to
build back to their former height.
At present they appear wider
and harder than before the
blow, however.
Numerous sloughS were cut
and at least two inlets were
widened. It will take some time
to see how they shape up.
The Army engineers did a
fast job of clearing and remark
ing the Inland Waterway, and
traffic is proceeding as usual.
There was some shoaling in
Pamlico Sound, on the mail
boat route from Atlantic to
Ocracoke, that requires re-
charting and more dredging.
Charter Boots Running
A count by Jack Farrell OF
the South Eastern IN. c. Beach
Association indicated that only
about 20 of $50 charter fishing
boats from Swansboro to Shall
lotte were put out Of commits
sion. The others are busy with
a heavy autumn run of fish. In
the Morehead City area, with
the largest single fleet, virtually
all sports fishing craft are doing
business as usual, according to
a survey by Ted Davis of the
Morehead City Chamber of
Commerce.
Hazel centered its fury on
Long Beach and areas on both
sides, dropping off somewhat
in intensity as it reached At
lantic Beach and sparing the
Outer Banks from Cape Hatteras
north from serious damage.
The newly developed beaches
Of Long, Holden and Ocean Isle,
which range northeast in, Bruns-
wick County from the South
Carolina line to. the mouth of
the Cape Fear River, were vir-
tually swept clean of cottage
and small business establish
ments, but bridges to the main
land across the Inland Water
way held intact and paved
highways on the island remained.
Bulldozers have already clear
ed these beach roads of millions
OF tons of sand and the islands
are accessible by automobile.
Evening star., 1954-11-14

None Of these beaches had large
hotels or motor courts for tran
sient vacationers, most of the
structures being private cottages
or small rental units and eating
places. Most of them were total
losses.
Rebuilding has already been
begun, however.
Southport, q Brunswick County
fishing center. took a terrific
waterfront lacing, but thanks to
timely aid from Army engineers
and cranes of private contractors
at work on the Army's huge
Sunny Point ammunition load
ing project, the heavy debris
was cleaned up faster than any
where else. Southport's motels
and restaurants are back in busi-
ness and busy caring for hunters
and fishermen.
Across the Cape Fear, New
Hanover County beaches suffered
the heaviest damage. because
they had more to be damaged.
Here are Carolina and Wrights-
vile Beaches, largest in the
State. Here were nine of the
States 13 ocean fishing piers.
Here was the largest oceanfront
hotel and the most elaborate
boardwalk.
All along waterfronts, from
Fort Fisher, through Kure, Will
mington, Carolina and Wrights-
vile Beaches, the damage was
enormous, but all these beaches
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BY chorIes Parker

Visitors by the thousands.
drawn to the Southeastern North
Carolina coast by a fine run OF
autumn fishing, are witnessing
the rapid cleanup and rebuild
ing after Hurricane Hazel.
All beaches are now accessible
by highway, and there are plenty
Of all-year hotels, motels, hunt
ing and fishing lodges and camps
to take care of visitors. Restora-
tion of seasonal beach facilities
already is going ahead.
With the exception Of pier
fishing. practically all beach ac-
tivity normal to the late autumn
Evening star., 1954-11-14

SCdcOu lS LII luu SWlQS. a new
steel pier. just completed at Surf
City, is the only one in full oper-
->-.--->-------e
Whot did Hurricone Hazel do to the
beaches and resorts Of that populor
vocation area, North caroIino's Outer
sBonks? Todoy's Notebook guest
detoils not only the damose but
plans to bet focilities in 'tip-top
shape for next summer. The guest
is ChorIes Porker Of North coroIino's
Stote News Bureau. who personally
made o three e-doy survey Of the oreo
and reports his recent findings here.
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alton south of Nags Head at this
time, but others from Atlantic
Beach to Kure Beach are being
rebuilt. Nine ocean fishing piers
were lost. and their place is being
taken by fishing from the surf
and from remnants of the piers.
Upward Of 200 charter boats are
operating from Morehead City
south.
Smaller Beaches Damaged
Hatteras and Nags Head were
not badly damaged. and the
older beaches to the south
those serving higher percentage
of transient vacationers, Allan
tic. Wrightsville and Carolina
came through the great storm re-
latively best. They all had a lot
Of building back from the ocean.
1t was the newer and smaller
North Carolina beaches that
were relatively worst hit-Long.
Holden. Ocean Isle and New
Topsail. Private cottages and
small businesses on these
new beaches took a fearful
beating. but If the owners can
find solace it can be In expert
ence about beach building.
A great deal of loss was
caused by building too low and
too close to the surf. AS q rule,
older construction on wooden
piles and elevated land. back
from the surf, stood up through
Hazel. Construction on the sand
and close to the ocean without
foundation proved a miscalcu-
lated risk
Hotels Being Restored
Only one large hotel, the
Breakers at Carolina Beach, ap-
pears to be a total loss. Other
hotels stood the blow. The
Ocean Terrace at Wrightsville.
the States largest beach hotel,
was buffeted but can be re-
stored. The Ocean King, built
of brick and concrete close to
the surf on Atlantic Beach, had
its front Dashed in, but was
open for business barely a week
after the blow. The Atlantic
Beach Hotel, a rambling wooden
structure, Jared worse, but most
Of its rooms were not damaged.
Motels generally. being back
from the ocean, came through
with small damage. Most res
taurants are open as usual, in
cluding the large oceanfront
seafood place known as Captain
Bills on Atlantic Beach. This
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RESORTS.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.

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Stogecouch Still Runs
WICKENBURG, Ari,

WICKENBURG, Ariz.
Guests at the Flying E, one
of the Wickenburg working cat
tie ranchers, travel to town in a
100-year-old stagecoach powered
by four horses.
Evening star., 1954-11-14
The Travellers Notebook
Resorts Along Outer Banks
Recovering From Hurricane

season is in full swing. A new
steel pier. just completed at Surf
City, is the only one in full oper-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03
.NCWC Sends India
Is Million Pounds
OF Food Supplies

MADRAS, India--(NC)-War Re-
lief services - National Catholic
Welfare Conference will distribute
100000 pounds of relief sup
plies in India before the end of this
year.
This was announced by Father
Alfred r. Schneider. an American
priest who is now in India to esti-
mate this country's requirements of
aid from the N.C.W.C. agency.
Father Schneider said that the
contemplated shipment would in
clude milk powder, butter, cheese
and vegetable oils.
The special representative of
War Relief Services stayed here as
guest of French-born Archbishop
Louis Matthias, S.D.B., of Madras
Mylapore who will act as liaison Of
ficer for the consignment's distri-
button in South India. The priest
arrived in India from neighboring
Pakistan where he announced
plans for a 10000, ,0O0-pound relief
campaign in that country.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03

Whoever has followed carefully
the happenings of our national
life since 1948 - after which, ac-
cording to Reports, 'the persecu-
ton" began - and observes the
facts, not isolated and taken from
their social environment as they
are presented by Reports, but ra-
ther in their real environment of
Columbian society of the last five
years will discover the following:
Some Protestants have suffer
ed very much, but not for their
religion but because of their poll
tics.
The Reports which relate these
sufferings are not relating relig-
ious facts but political proceedings.
Protestant leaders in Co
Iombia have used this falsiFiea-
fion as a weapon which appears
70 defend . religious cause, but
in reality has a political obiee-
tive.
The total fact is that the suffer
ing of Protestants has no religious
basis and there has not been, nor
is there now, religious persecu-
tion against Protestants in Colon
bia,
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03


said he was "only half dead" at the
time-from chains, beating, back
injuries, endless questioning and
sleepleSsness.
Father Sohier, who spent three
years and four months in a COM
munist Jail in Peking, was released
early this month and arrived here
by ship. He said from his hospital
bed that he did not know why the
communists arrested him nor why
they released him.
A native OF Elizabeth, Bel
qian Congo, Father SohieE Is still
weak from his treatment in isit.
He has . lump in his back from
q disIocsfed vertebra which was
NOT attended 10. He has chain
sears on his wrists and ankles,
and slash sears on his hips and
back.
The Belgian priest, who spent
II years in China, said he was tor
tured mostly by his Chinese cell
mates, who we're egged on by COM
munist guards. His cellmates were
anxious to show their change of
heart to communism, he said. And
they beat him almost daily during
the first month of his imprison-
ment.
He wore ankle chains for SO long
that his legs are still paralyzed,
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03

but the 39-year-old missionary is
recovering slowly. The back in
jury may never be entirely correct.
ed. Doctors say it went unattended
too long.
A member Of the Mission Aux.
iIiary Society, Father sohier went
To China in l947 TO work under
the Archbishop of Peking. He
was arrested in ons OF fhe first
roundups OF priests on July Is,
1851. Father Harold RigneY,
S.V.D., OF Chicago, rector of Pei.
ping FUsen University, was
among those taken in fhe same
roundup.
Father Sohier said he saw Fa
ther Rigney last June in the same
prison. He said the American priest
looked thin and ailing "but coulC
still walk"
The Belgian missionary reported
of daily indoctrination by commun
lists during which he was required
to read communist papers from Pc
king, London, India, France, Mos
cow, Germany and Holland.
When the Reds told him he was
being released and deported, they
instructed him to "tell the worlc
that we have stopped physical tor
ture in jails."
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03

political persecution since Septem-
Der, 1949. More than 450 of these
have been substantiated by inves-
tigation and signed statements in
the past six months"
We do not know on what infor-
nation Mr.. McCorkle based his sta
tistics. We know, however, that up
to the day on which Mr.. McCorkle
spoke, the secretary of the Evan
geIicaI Confederation had not in
vestigated more than Sc cases re-
lated in the first three issues of Re-
ports.
In spite of impetUous Protest
ant accusations abroad, no doeu-
menf has ever been cited indiest-
ing that ecclesiastical or civil aU-
thorities of coluombia as such
have proposed, approved or en-.
eovraged violence against Prot
esfanfS IS Profesfanfs.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03

The first issue of Reports
March 81, 1882 related % cases
of violence, the second issue also
%, the third 20, the fourth 20.
Additional issues bring the total
to more than 200 cases of vio-
lence, some of which are nauSeat-
ing, frequently bloody, and all sup
posedly done by Colombian Catho-
lies against Colombian and foreign
Protestants.
Foreign Protestants not only fail.
ed to reflect that there might be
exaggerations OF inexactitudes in
such atrocity reports, but at times
increased them.
Opening a debate in the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States May
1882, Henry L. McCorkle assert.
ed:
There have been at least 1000
individual cases of Protestant non
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03

The agency added that eight
Vietnamese priests were liberated
by the communist Vietminh at the
beginning of October, but said 1t is
estimated that about 100 priest
prisoners are still in captivity
about whom there is no precise in
formation.
Q.ast July, mission authorities
in Vietnam reported that there
were 118 priests in Vietminh Gus
tody. They said that 102 of the
prisoners were Vietnamese, one
was a Laotian, Is were Frenchmen
and two were Belgians. The author
tiles added that one of the four
Bishops in the Vietminh area at
the time of the cease-fire was in
Jail, and the other three had been
removed from their residences and
virtually interned)
Fides stated that six members
Of the Paris Foreign Mission So
ciety were among the priests who
had died in prison. II said the 9TH
ers were a Franciscan superior, the
Sulpician director of the seminary
at Hanoi, and two Belgians belong
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03

ing to the Society Of Mission Aux
iliaries.
According to Fides, one of the
Sisters who died was the superior
of the Carmelite Sisters at Thanh
Hoa, and the other was a member
of the Sisterhood of Our Lady of
the Missions.
The two Belgian priests were ar.
rested during a Vietminh raid in
the summer of 1858 on the semin-
ary at Buichu during which four
nuns were repeatedly slain. Both
priests suffered torture before they
died.
THE torture of the Belgian
priests Is difficult to under
stand" Fides said, because they
were members of q society known
TO be 'anfi-coloniaIisf.' They
were chained hand and foot TO-
yefhsr for long periods without
care, and suffered from sores
and beri beri. However, they did
have the consolation of priesfIY
administrations at the end from
. number of vietnamese priests
imprisoned with Them"
Fides stated that about 10C
priests-more than so of them
Vietnamese-and 19 nuns are re
naming in communist-occupied
Hanoi. Among the group. it said
were Irish-born Archbishop John
Dooley, Apostolic Delegate to Indo
China.
Fides said it had received a re
report that 1000 Catholics in the
town of Ke sat, near Haiphong, had
taken their church bells with them
when they evacuated south to sci
up a new town near Bien hoa. The
report stated the Catholics were
already building a church to re
semble as much as possible the
structure they had to leave be
hind in Ke sat.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03
Pope Returns
To Vatican
For Retreat

VATICAN CITY - Radio,
NC) - His Holiness Pope Plus
XII returned to the Palace
from his summer home in Cas-
telgandolfo in time for the
opening of the annual retreat
which begins on the First Sun
day of Advent in preparation
for the Feast of Christmas.
This years preacher at the
spiritual exercises, which are
traditionally attended by the
Holy Father and members of
the Roman Curia, is Father Luigi
Abruzzi, So.
It was rumored that Pope Plus
would pass by the Basilica of San
Ia Maria in Trastevere on his re-
turn route from Castelgandoifo to
visit the famous Roman Madonna,
Our Lady of Divine Love, which
was brought recently from its
shrine in the south of the city for
special popular devotions lasting
until Advent Sunday.
However, the Pontiff did not do
so, it being too difficult to pass
through the narrow, congested
area, and his advisers having ad-
vised against 1t since he is not as
we'll as might be hoped.
IN was reported that there Is
nothing new In the Pope's eondi-
tion, but he Is not considered
we'll enough to multiply such
trips and visits outside the Vsti-
can Palace.
Secular news sources reported
rumors that the Pope had suffer
ed a recurrence of the ailment
which afflicted him last winter
and that he had recently been
given the last of a series of in,
| iections from DIR. Paul Niehans, a
Swiss specialist, to help build uT
his strength. According to the ru
mors, the injections, however, have
not had the hoped-for results, and
the doctors have ordered the Pope
to take a complete rest)
On leaving Castelgandolfo, the
Holy Father was given a send-ofi
by a group of local officials and
citizens headed by 27-year-old
Mayor Marcellos Costas, a Chris
tian Democrat. The ceremony wa:
dampened slightly by bad weather
and the fact that the Pope, heed.
ing his doctors advice, refrained
from speaking to the group anC
merely waved to them.
However, this did not prevent
the Pontiff from personally receiv
ing the mayor and about half
dozen other officials, who paiC
their formal respects and offered
the Pope the customary gifts oi
fruit and wine, and fish from Lake
AlbanO which the papal summer
residence overlooks. Accompanying
the group was Father Dino Sella
pastor of Castelgandolfo.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03
Il Foreign Missionaries
Die In Vietminh Prisons

ROME - NC - Twelve foreign missionaries - ten
priests and two Sisters have died in communist prisons in
Vetnam according the international Fdes Service Caho
lie missions agency here.
m not possible to guess how many VetnameSe priests
have died in prison." Fides reported
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03
Missionary Back From Dead
Tortured Belgian Priest
Freed By Chinese Reds

HONG KONG - QNC) = Father Albert Soher, Belgian
missionary whose and presumed death the sub
ect of pamphlet published in Belgium in 1882 has arrived
here from Red China.
Bearing the marks of communist torture bis body he
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03

CASTELGANDOLFo, Italy -
NC|-Vice President Sarvapalli
Radhakrishnan of India was re-
ceived in private audience by His
Holiness Pope Plus XII at the pa
pal summer palace here. Accom-
panying the Indian statesman, who
spent half hour conversing with
the Holy Father in his private
study, was Abid Hash Safrani, In
dian Charge d'Affaires to the Holy
See.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03
6--THE CATHOLIC TIMES
Friday, Dec. 3, 1854

BY using want ads. you can
count your chickens before they
are hafched.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03
Pope To Attend
Closing Rites
OF Marian Year

VATICAN CTTY-(Radio, NC)-
Reports that His Holiness Pope
Plus XII will attend official cere-
monies here marking the solemn
closing of the Marian Year we're
confirmed by the Vatican press
office. The ceremonies will take
place on December 8, the Feast of
the Immaculate Conception.
According to an announcement
by the press office, the closing
rites will be considerably simpler
than those which marked the open
ing of the year-long commemora-
ton of the proclamation of the
dogma Lf the Immaculate Concep-
ton by Pope Plus TX in 1854.
Plans call for the Holy Fathers
presence in the Basilica of St.
Mary Major-the worlds leading
Marian shrine-for a Solemn Tie
Deum of thanksgiving, and the inn
parting of Solemn Apostolic Ben.
edietion both inside the basilica
and from the outside balcony.
No mention was made of a pro.
cession to the basilica similar to
that which accompanied the open.
ing of the Marian Year, and appar-
emily no such feature is planned.
During the procession last year,
Pope Plus stopped at the Pizzza di
Spagna Spanish Square) in Rome
to lay wreath before the statue OF
the Immaculate Conception there
The ceremony in st. Mary Majors
is scheduled to begin at 4:30 in the
afternoon. In addition to the TIE
Deum, there will be Benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03

QUITO, Ecuador - NC)-"Cath-
ollie Doctors Day." which coincided
with the Feast of st. Luke, was OBJ
served here for the first time. II
was marked by a Mass offered by
Archbishop Opilio RoSsi, Papal
Nuncio to Ecuador, in the chapel
of the st. John of God hospital,
one of the oldest hospitals in
America.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1954-12-03
Writer Finds Persecution
Reports In Colombia Inexac1

o is
of and
of
ebaS
EduadoO
federation Colombia (CEDEC shocked the civilized world
When
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-07-29
Richard Gratz
Accepts Coaching
Post At HarrOd Hi

Richard Gratz, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chris Gratz, Route 2, Bluffton, has
accepted the position as head coach
at Harrod high school it was an
nounced this week. He resigned a
similar post at McGuffey high school
recently.
Gratz, a Bluffton high school grad
uate of 1912, was a member of the
Pirates state basketball semi-finalists
that year. After serving in the Ar
my for three years with duty in the
South Pacific, he graduated in 1850
from Bluffton college.
As head coach at McGuffey for
four years his basketball teams COM
piled 45-43 record.
Gratz succeeds Tom Hanna n,
another Bluffton college grad, who
resigned to become head coach at Lii
ma ST. Gerard's high school. In ad-
dition to his coaching duties he will
teach physical education. He and
his family will live in Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-07-29
New Type Sewage Disposal Plant
Expected To Save Ada 100000

The village of Ada, now tussling
with its sewage disposal problem, is
estimating that it will be able to
construct a disposal plant at nearly
100000 under the cost of the Bluff
ton unit.
This was revealed in a recent issue
of The Ada Herald, which carried a
news story stating that the plant
designed for the village by Robert
C. Sheldon, town engineer, is a COM
pact new type of unit, which would
be the first of it's kind in this
area. They estimate its cost at
S188, 500 in contrast to $285,000 out
lay for the Bluffton plant.
The plant will have a capacity of
100000 gallons, and all excess water
will go into the Grass run, east of
town. The new plant will be erected
along the run.
The article pointed out, however,
that the big problem facing the town
is economical operation of the system.
This stems from the fact that Ada
has no municipality operated water
plant, and will mean employing
separate operating personnel.
In connection with the water plant
problem, town councilmen are look
ing with favor on the possibilities OF
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-07-29
Births

The following births We're recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week: I
Mr.. and Mrs. Max McCafferty
Maxine Criblez), Bluffton, boy,
Robert Charles, born last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Kempf, Bluff
ton, a boy, Ronald Lee, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Dale Ingold, Nc.
Comb, a girl, Lu Anne, born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Spallinger,
Jenera, boy, James Ray, born Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Huntley,
Bluffton, girl, Mary Jane, born
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs, Dale Hector, Findlay,
a girl, Debra Dee, born Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Dukes, Pan
dora, a boy, Don Allen, born Monday,
Mr.. and Mrs. David Reichenbach
Col. Grove, a girl, Lisa Anne, born
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Green, Bluff
ton, boy, William James, born
Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-07-29
Maurice FeH Acquires Triplehorn Farm;
Ownership Has Been In Family 1I9 Years

Negotiations were being completed
this week whereby Maurice Fett,
Bluffton hardware dealer, will
acquire ownership of a farm which
has been in his mothers family for
119 years.
He is purchasing the farm of his
late Grandfather John Triplehorn,
who acquired it through a succession
of ownerships within the family back
to May %, 1885 when the original
deed was presented to Maurice's
Great Create n d ther John
Carnahan.
Mr.. Carnahan acquired the original
IA acres from the u. S. Land Office,
located at the time in Bucyrus, Ohio.
Maurice will acquire with his pro-
perty this original deed along with
another from the same office year
later in 1886 when an adjoining ST
acres was added to the Carnahan
farm. Both deeds carry the sigma