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The Independent i -s& ^XWII.: NO. 1,444. 1 " ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935. . SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Ex-Waitress Takes Poison ' After Hotel Mgr. Insults Her By Ordering Her Out of Hotel Wounded and grieved because she felt that Ray I 5. Jones, manager of the Virginia Dare Hotel, had t Qtfcd insult to injury by ordering her out of the hotel 1 abont two weeks after causing her to lose her job as :* ? raitnss in the hotel coffee shop, Susie Willey, 27-1 gnr-nld white rrirl, took six bichloride of mercury} tablets lust Friday night in an unsuccessful suicide\ mMtniot. IWilley has a room at 205 I see d McMorrtne Street, half a1 I from ' no Virginia Dare Hotel.' I * v hone of Mrs. Selma GrifTin. I *og supper for Mrs. Griffin s I gns Friday evening, she walked I street In front of the hotel I gK mull ml a man whom she I .md been out with ocj I gad occasions. He asked her if j I ild like to have a drink with I I ^ Sbe assented, and he told her I - tn his hotel room in a j I ft% minutes. I a was between 7:30 and 8:00 ? (dock in the evening when Miss If icy ?e:r. to the man's room.1 I H ri'.y had she reached the room I - Manager Jones, accompanied I ? Miceman Charlie Lane, knocked I oc the cloor. I Mttng BOSS Willey that he was! I tSeg under authority from the j I rectors of the hotel, Jones I ordered her to leave the hotel at1 I OB* ( I She left, and about on hour later. | ?amd 9:00 o'clock that night, she' I jnDowcd six bichloride of mercury! I;.. y :i - year-old Tommy' I 6efin hearing her crying, discover-, lg that she was ill and called his I Bother. Officer Raymond Provo. who 1 I hiopened to be nearby at the time,! Ins told to locate an ambulance. I Has he did. and the girl was rush-1 Is to the hospital where it was, I :ad that her condition was not | I al and that she probably would | I .rover I I ?r:or to the arrival of the ambu-j I tee. and enroute to the hospital lithe ambulance Mrs. Griffin and) I Officer Provo heard the unhappy j Isaying He insulted me ... I; I ? a lady . . I'm not a common | | toman . . I'm not . . . He insulted Tiie "he of whom she spoke un ccibiedly was Manager Jones. townspeople expressed sur upon hearing that Miss Willey in been ordered out of the Vir (ca Dare when she went to a room to have a drink with Many local girls do this same ?z; frequently. Besides, a hotel iusit presumed to have the right ?o ?r."- rtam any friend, male or fenuie. :n his own room. How It All Began For about six years. Miss Willey >ai worked in the hotel coffee shop, lie had come to be one of the most efficient waitresses in town. Then, Jon took over the manage-! -?u: of the hotel. When Mr. Jones over the management of the -? '.n h looked into the coffee shop *?: thoug:;: he could effect certain *onomie., and an improvement in -ce. He ouggested to the lessee,1 Chiv Van: ire. that salaries be cut ton $30 to S20 a month, that the ttitresse* wear uniforms and that 1 Ms., Rena Tillett, an employe of 4 months, be given the posi of head waitress. Hell began 50 i?p. Mr Vanture, to clear the Jo^on fog m his coffee shop dis gorged all of the white waitresses put m colored male waiters in ?toir places. Mr Davis and Miss Willey to- ptlv .sought to even the score Manager Jones by going to each Sector of the hotel and "spilling" j* ry about Jones and the Tillett jy: The directors were not in ?ed ;o ^ivo too much credence to uus story. Tton Manager Jones, expecting -?at Susie Willey might try to make trouble for him, gained the j*m;, ion of the board of directors * ?ep her out of the hotel. This ^hority lie used the first time an ^?rt'ui.ity presented itself, which **> Friday night. That his ac d . not rcsiUt in Susie Willey's "?4-u was due only to Providence 'to to the fact that she took such ?'?rong do.se that her system "'Ptly exoelled it. v- ?? C. STORE REPORT B; 11 ss in Eluabeth City's A. B. '"e feli ofr slightly during the ~ ,JU(i veek of its operation, as com with the sales during the first * Manager C. C. Reid reported this week. R,'lci blamed the heat for Pul' l!le decline. but said alsc i, .. difference between the re -on the score's opening day 'bt' first day of the second ,p- practically accounted for the wciuie. Mhat 15 tips save gas money? ,ee Page live. Beach Erosion Work \ To Be Started Soon i J Representative Lindsay Warren J! this week had another conference j with Harry Hopkins, Relief Admin istrator. in reference to his beach erosion project on the North Caro- " Una coast extending from the Vir- j ginia line to Cape Lookout. Mr. Warren stated he was author ized by Mr. Hopkins to announce j ( that the project had his full ap- j proval and that it would be pushed to an immediate consummation. It j ^ will call for approximately One Mil- j lion Dollars and will not come out' j of North Carolina's allotment of |; WPA funds. Eighteen hundred white,, transients will be used and eight ' camps constructed, five of which will ( be in Mr. Warren's district and three , in Mr Barden's. the latter strong- j ly endorsing the project. The proposal was first presented j by Mr. Warren to Mr. Hopkins three s weeks ago who called for detailed j, information. R. Bruce Etheridge. j Director of Conservation and Deve- j lopment caused a preliminary sur vey to be made and went to Wash- j ington with facts and figures. This is looked upon as one of the most ' worthwhile and necessary projects that could come to North Carolina, ' and will mean the saving from de struction of what is known as the Banks. It is estimated that the work will require two years time. It is proposed to build a sand fence the entire length of the beach,, against which the wind wUl blow the sand. After that the mound will be j grassed in a systematic mode of sand fixation. What father would like most to ' get out of his new car is rest of the family. I Many a man feels like kicking himself who wouldn't let anyone else do it. ' Pasquotank May 1 Be Included In: New Fish Plan I Despairing of ever being able to estock the fresh waters of Eastern 'Jorth Carolina with the bass .perch tnd other game fish with which hese waters once teemed, the State Board of Conservation and Develop- j nent has hit upon a plan whereby, tight rivers will restock themselves?! laturally. And there is a possi-j lility that the Pasquotank River vill be one of the rivers selected for his unique program. Next year, the first under the plan,' he Department will block off and| >lace under special warden services I 0-mile stretches in eight rivers.'c The Wacamaw, Black. Northeast' > Bape Fear, Trent and Alligator; ' ?ivers already have been selected. ' fhere is a strong likelihood that the 1 'asquotank River may be one of |1 he other three that are yet to be' ( lelected, for it possesses all the re-i juisites?it is more than 50 miles in 1 ength. affording several 10-mile? i stretches where fish may spawn un-, i nolested, and it already is the habi- j 1 sat of several varieties of perch, i iream and bass. it This natural fish-culture program.1! vhereby the State hopes to redeve-j' op her game fish so that there will t le more fish for fishermen, will bej inique in the United States. It wil^ jet underway on January 1, 1936. )i In the Eastern section of the State, 11 there are a number of Clearwater l streams which are the ideal habitat : if numerous varieties of smaller I jame fish. But these streams are 1 fished, and fished hard, by an ever-' increasing number of anglers and ] sportsmen, with the result that the1 number of game fish is constantly!1 diminishing. Natural Restocking: The plan itself is simple, but all fish experts apparently are agreed that it is practical and will be pro-| ductive of the desired results. The plan, since artificial restocking of the Eastern streams is impractical, 1 resolves itself around natural re- j stocking. This is to be accomplished, ac cording to the plan as outlined by Commissioner Chalk, by blocking off sections of certain streams for an entire year, so that brook-stock may spawn without any sort of disturb-, ance. ' "There is plenty of brook-stock in each of these streams," Commission er Chalk said, "and if the spawning is allowed to go on undisturbed, the streams will be restocked every year by the blocking off of one small (Continued on Page Four) j Four Contestants Pass Million Up With Closing Date Near Vote Mark As Contest Heats Voting hits new high levels in THE INDEPEN-J DENT'S Subscription Campaign this iveek, the fourj leaders all passing the million mark with some thou sands to spare. Mrs. B. Ray Cohoon repeats to win the week's special cash prize of $5. Another $5 prize J will go Saturday to the contestant turning in the, greatest amount of cash subscription business this' week. | Those who have been "wanting to. - see voting" will get their fill before! j this campaign is done. Some of | them likely will be surfeited. A total j of 960.000 votes were printed to the | credit of eight contestants register- j ing gains during the past seven-day period. j ! "Uneasy rests the head that wears the crown" and while Mrs. Will j Godfrey has maintained the leader-1 ship right straight through the j 'campaign, she has worthy competi tion, and Mrs. B. Ray Cohoon, Mrs. j John A. Holmes, and Mrs. Mary j Jennings all press her hard. 1 Confidence is a good thing, but i "over-confidence" has lost many a ?race. One or two contestants have just that failing. With the racej workers are on the down-hill side of j 'slack one's efforts. |j Any reader who has promised a .contestant a subscription or renewal ( ; should make good that promise . NOW. Time is shortening up. and j j ending August 24, NOW is no time to , jthe campaign. | Prizes are: Choice of an $895 ; ! Dodge Four Door Sedan, an $805 iPontiac Two Door Sedan, a $7941 j 'Master Chevrolet Four Door Sedan, jj a $785 Ford V-8 Four Door Touring!] Sedan or $700 Cash as first prize; n Second award is $300 Cash; Third' award is $75 Cash; Fourth ward is j ;$25 Cash. Contestants are getting!, within smelling range of these prizes, 'and to come in under the wire as); winner of any prize means a genu-j ine battle from now on. Following are the standings:"?" j Mrs. Will Godfrey, I | Shdoh 1 015.000 i/Irs. B. Ray Cohoon, Columbia 1,012,500 klrs. John A. Holmes, Edenton ..1,007,500' Ars. Mary Jennings, Elizabeth City RFD 2 ..1,002,500' vliss Edna Mae Hancock, J Elizabeth City 900,000 klrs. James Earnhardt, Elizabeth City 752.500 ylrs. Lessie Albertson, Elizabeth City 412,500 ilrs. W. C. Moore, Edenton . 175,000 Latiner Commander 102,500 Mrs. Jas. G. Fearing ,Jr., Elizabeth City 87,500 SCHOOL MEN NAMED The City Council, meeting Wed nesday night, re-elected J. H. LeRoy, Jr., and J. Cliff Sawyer as members )f the Board of Graded School Trustees of this city. Both men nave been on the Board for several ^ears, and Mr. Sawyer is now chair nan. Their terms will run for four pears. A. G. James was named to take the place of Buxton White, who re signed from the School Board upon becoming a member of the Public Utilities Commision in the spring. Specimen of the "White oriole" one of the world's rarest birds have been received by the Smithsonian Institution from Siam. Read Southern Loan & Insurance Company's answer to a Motorists' Prayer on Page 4, columns 7 and 8, of this paper. c-JylP-7t Guides Fear Worst Hunting| Season in History as Result' Of New "Drastic Regulations" For Sale?Thousands of live decoy geese and ducks, priced reasonably. Forced sale. Reason The use of live decoys in hunting migratory wildfowl during the 1935-36 season is prohibited under the new regulations announced last week by J. N. "Ding" ^ Darling, chief of the Biological Survey. And this is but one of several of the "most drastic regulations in the history of American wild-fowling." | Guides and "sportsmen In this sec- i ;ion, notably in Dare and Currituck, >wn thousands of live decoy ducks I ind geese which they use to attract the wild species of these migratory j vaterfowl as they are passing over | ;his section on their anual South- I ward flight. Forbidden to use these iecoys during the coming season.' and far from certain that they ever i will be allowed to use them again, many of the owners of decoys here abouts will be anxious to dispose of their decoy ducks and geese. Which makes it quite probable that the ;ables of Elizabeth Citizens will be graced by more ducks and geese1 luring the coming fall and winter j than in a good many years. This year's duck hunting season/ regarded by conservation officials j as being the only alternative to an absolutely closed season, will last for 30 days only. In the Southern! zone, which includes the states South of Maryland, the season opens1 November 20 and closes December 19. So far as this section is concern ed, such a season is practically equivalent to a closed season. Ini the event of a late fall, which is! usual hereabouts, few ducks and geese will reach this section before; the middle of December. Besides,! the mild weather that usually pre-! vales in this section between Novem- j ber 20 and December 19 is far from being conducive to duck hunting., | Another drastic restriction to be in force this season is a change in' the daily bag limit on ducks from 12 to 10, and a change in the pos session limit from 24 to 10. Last season the daily limit was 12, and the possession limit was two days' bag limit. Another change in the regula tions that will be highly displeasing to many hunters is a restriction on the use of automatic shotguns. Heretofore, a hunter could load an automatic with five shells and fire the entire load into a flock of ducks or geese as fast as he could pull the [Continued on Page Four) J D. P. Stores Not Parties To Share Planting Evil In reporting the failure of the] commission house of Guy Capps, of] Norfolk, in this newspaper, issue ofj July 19 it was stated that the D.j Pender Grocery Co. and 15 other' chain store organizations purchased potatoes thru the Capps organiza tion. An executive of the D. P. Stores j assures this newspaper this week j that the D. P. Stores have' never had a contract with Mr.j Capps or with other share-planting1 outfits. "The D. P. Stores go into the open market for their potatoes | and other produce and, whenever i possible, deal direct with the grow-' er," said this executive. He stated! further that the D. P. Stores do! not engage in share planting actM-j ties or lend encouragement to tie ] share-planting evil by buying thru] share planting agencies. That is good news from one chain store organization in which both Virginia and North Carolina share much pride and this newspaper is glad to make correction of a mis leading statement. The statement' appearing in this newspaper was. based upon information from a sup- j posedly reliable source, which the reporter failed to verify. LICENSE SCHEDULE The City Council on Wednesday! night adopted the license schedule: for the two fiscal years of 1935-361 and 1930-37. The licenses arc a lit-1 tic higher in some cases, lower in others. The licenses will fall due on September 1. and a penalty will ap-l ply on all licenses not paid for by September 15. ?; ? ^ 1 , LSJ An"/r.s - f ? i e/h^?BANK CLERK TUE SODA JCRKE.R "TAKE YOUR MILL AND GO TO HELL!" "I see by the papers that a bill; has been introduced in Congress to provide for the coinage of one mill and half cent pieces," said the Soda Jerker to his friend the Bank Clerk. "Yes," replied the Bank Clerk, "just as if bank tellers don't have, enough trouble counting small' change now!" Cl "Then you don't think much of f the proposition to give us coins suit ed to the payment of the sales tax?" inquired the Soda Jerker. | "That feature of it is all right," admitted the Bank Clerk, "but I am thinking of the infernal nuisance of having to count a thousand little coins to give some one a dollar , change. Our change holders that 'count coins automatically are not equipped to handle anything less than a cent." j "Sorry for you and the rest of the bunch in the bank," said the Soda Jerker, "but I think the new frac . tional currency bill is one of the best things yet. I'm derned tired of pay ling a ten per cent sales tax." J "I never heard of a ten per cent sales tax," said the Bank Clerk. I "Well, it amounts to just that) 'every time you make a single ten! cent purchase in any store in North! Carolina," said the Soda Jerker. ' | "Why, man alive, the Ave and tenl j cent stores are reaping a harvest on i 1 the sales tax. Every time you make 'a single purchase of 10 cents in a 1 flve-and-ten store, or any other store for that matter, you are taxed jone cent for sales tax. If that aint [collecting a ten per cent sales tax, I'll eat my hat. Of course, if you 'have so much as 50 cents to spend, the store collects only two cents I sales tax. But that amounts to a four per cent sales tax, or as much as the banks used to allow you for j interest. I "Now if Congress will give us those one mill piece.;, a fellow can walk into a store, make a ten cent pur-| chase and throw down three tenths1 of a cent for the sale tax and not feel that he is being robbed of seven tenths of one per cent for the en richment of the chain store. '"If you don't think-the plain folks out of whose pockets the sales tax is ;ollected won't welcome the one mill | oins, you don't know plain folks. "The coinage of coins of one tenth of a cent denomination will do some thing else; it will enable thousands of folks to feel the jingle of money in their pockets for the first time since Hoover went out of office. Of course, ten coins that make only one cent won't be any money to speak of, but the fact of handling a little money has a wholesome phychological effect on anybody. And just think of the satisfaction Nathan Leary would derive from having a pocket full of one mill pieces to hand out to the poor!" "Which is going to make it hard on the preachers and the mission aries," said the Bank Clerk, "for don't forget that thousands of folks who still cling to the notion that 'religion is as free as water' will make their contributions to the col lection plate in the new fractional currency." "Well, all I got to say to that is, if. I were a steward of a church and having to agonize over keeping the church budget balanced, if any one tried- to palm off a fraction of a c?.nt on me when I passed the plate, I'd tell him in the words of Old Saint Peter, 'take your money back and go to hell'." NOTE: A new book of The Bank Clerk and The Soda Jerker, 84 gen erous pages, printed on antique finish book paper from a new face of Garamond type, attractively bound in paper covers, now obtain able of this newspaper at 50c a copy, postage prepaid in the U. S. A. and 1 y TALK LIKE THIS COULD POT MR. HIOOI ON SPOT Friends of Julien Wood, Sr., of Edcnton, First" District member of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion may unwittingly be put ting Commissioner Wood in an unfavorable light by voic ing the assumption that Mr. Wood favors or will favor the construction of a bridge over Albemarle Sound from a point nea^Mackeys in Washington! County to Sandy Point, in Chowan County. It happens that Mr. Wood and his brother Harold G. Wood have extensive real estate interests that would be benefitted by a bridge atj Sanely Point. Commissioner Woodj owns an 825-acre tract known as Athol, a 900-acre tract known as' Mulberry Hill, and an 800-acre tract that is mostly under water. All of this is located near Sandy Point and would be touched or traversed by the highway that would have to be built from Sandy Point to Edenton in the' event that a highway bridge is built at Sandy Point. Furthermore, Mr.j Wood's brother, Harold G. Wood,, owns a 700-acie farm light at Sandy Point 'mis propel.y owned by Commis-. sioner Wood and his brother, now! listed on the county tax abstracts at upwards of $56,000, would un doubtedly increase in value to the extent of thousands of dollars if a bridge were to be built across Albe-; marie Sound to Sandy Point, and a road constructed from Sandy Point! to Edenton The statement has been freely made hefe that Mr Wood had ad-1 vocated the Mackeys-Sandy Point j route Those who know Mr Wood's | reputation for sincerity, integrity j good judgment questioned the state-1 ment In a telephone conversation! with W. O .Saunders Wednesday; afternoon Mr. Wood assured the senior editor of this newspaper that he had made no such commitment and had advocated no particular , location for the much discussed bridge. And so that's that. Two Locations Outside of Edenton, there are few proponents of the Sandy Point loca tion. Pasquotank, Perquimans, Hyde,! Tyrrell and most of Washington; County favor the alternativ* location; between Deweys Point in Tyrrell County to Reid Point In Perquimans 1 County. This bridge would be per- j haps two miles longer than the other, but the shallow depth of the Sound ' at this point would enable the con- 1 struction of causeways for a con- 1 siderable portion of the distance, 1 whereas the Sandy Point location would have ta be bridged almost in 1 its entirety. The distance across the J sound at the former point is 6.70 miles, while the distance at the other point is 4.37 miles. The Tyrrell-Perquimans location is deemed more practicable, tho, be- 1 cause it will serve the greater num ber of people and a greater area. It will provide farmers, fishermen and oystermen of Hyde, Tyrrell and Washington counties with an al most straight route to Elizabeth City, Norfolk and the Northern markets, cutting off as much as 100 miles for much of that section. On the other hand, those opposed to the Sandy Point location claim that a bridge at this point would be of no great benefit except as a means of developing Edenton's trade territory. PHILANDERER IS SHOT Over in Chowan Ciunty, near Edenton, an Edenton youth was shot twice last week by the irate husband of a young married woman to whom he had been paying clandestine at tention. The young man was not seriously wounded. Details of the shootings are vague. The fellow who wouldn't think of asking a merchant to throw in a pair of socks when he 'buys a pair of shoes, has no compunction about asking the newspaper for a lot of free advertising . The Tragic Story of a Youth] Whose First Love Turned Out To Be Deceitful Gold-digger Some of mankind's greatest achievements have been accomplished thru woman's aid and inspiration. Contrawise, women have driven many men to de spondency, thievery, insanity, degradation and sui cide. A good example of a ivoman's, or a girl's, dis astrous effect upon a male has occurred over in Per quimans County. Richard Mansfield, 2t>-year-oia i jYeopim Station youth, has tried to' take his own life no less than four j I times within a period of six months, j 1 simply because a girl on whom he , had wasted his money and affec- ( tion for some time proved to be de- , jceitful and unappreciative. I | The girl is Mary Wilma Farmer, , attractive 10-year-old daughter of ( i Mr. and Mrs. Will Farmer of the ? Bethel section of Perquimans Coun- ' ty. Young Marvsfleld became at- ] tracted to her about two years ago, ' when she was 16. Up to that time girls had not figured in Mansfield's I life, but Mary Wilmo appealed to j him strongly, and he began to court j her. ' For more than a year they saw each other nearly every night, and ; he finally asked her to marry him. She accepted the proposal, and he I gave her an engagement ring, altho | purchasing the ring imposed some thing of a strain on his limited and! hard-earned income. Meanwhile, the girl ha<^ not stop ped going with other boys. Nights that she was not with Richard, she; [usually was with some other fellow.! Richard didn't think much of this, j and he told her so, but she kept it up. Last winter, Richard rented a little bungalow in the neighborhood. His: mother died when he was a small [child, and his father went to Rich mond to work, leaving Richard with ' kind neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Al-! I phonso Thatch, who raised him from! j the time he was about six years old. j He felt that he had enjoyed thej Thatch's hospitality long enough, I and besides, he, probably would hpj setting married in the spring. So lie rented a bungalow. Meanwhile Mary Wilma had been corresponding with a Perquimans County youth in1 the Coast Guard Service?a former swain?and she told Richard that this boy was coming home on leave ind that he probably would be the :ause of a split between them. Richard begged her not to go out with the other boy when he came borne, pointing out to her that he was renting a bungalow and that they could get married In a short while. She promised him that she wouldn't give the other boy a date, but she gave him several while he was home. In fact, they rode past Richard's bungalow the very day he was moving into it. This deceit and faithlessness was too much for the boy. To think that the only girl he had ever been with?the girl he loved and was planning to marry?would lie to him and treat him in such a manner. He got hold of a pistol and was go ing to blow his brains out, but some one walked into the room where he was and took the pistol away from him. A few days later he tried to hank himself, and again his at tempt was frustrated. - Mary Wilma promised him thatj she would do better thereafter, so' he went to Norfolk and got a job j in the Navy Yard. Each Friday,1 when he got his pay envelope, he! immediately sat down and mailed half his pay to his girl. Occasion ally, when he went home for a week end, he delivered the money to her (Continued on Faw Fiwei j This Looks As If the State Has About Abandoned Idea of Bridging Albemarle Sound Dare County Asked to Withdraw Demand For Stumpy Point-Manna Harbor Road In Favor of a Bridge Over Alligator River That the State Highway & Public Works Com mission is not seriously interested at this time in bridging Albemarle Sound at any point, but is nurs ing an ambition to bridge the Alligator River between Fort Landing and East Lake, giving the State an east and west route to and from Roanoke Island and the Dare coast, is indicated in the following report to this newspaper. By I. P. Davis On the heels or an understood assurance from the State Highway and Public Works Commission that the Stumpy Point?Mann's Harbor highway .would be started within sixty days, appears the ghost of an other county ambition that may or may not be realized, but which has In either emit the probabilities of stopping the Stumpy Point-Mann's Harbor road. This is the sentiment of several leaders, who have been active for the past several years for the Mann's Harbor-Stumpy Point con necting link in the chain of coastal highways passing through this coun ty "Frankly," one leader is overheard to say, "Dare County has no con tinous highway that passes through it." There are those who have come forward now with a proposal that the State first build a bridge across the Alligator River, and they have brought over to their side a number of those who were two weeks ago favorable to the Mann's Harbor Stumpy Point road in perference at this time to any road in Dare Coun ty. These persons have the interest of the county at heart. There is no doubt as to their good intentions, according to reports, but the claim is that they are confusing a State obligation to itself and State obli gation to Dare County people. Those who are standing tight for the road are highly in favor of a bridge over the Alligator River. In fact they say the bridge across the river will be of a greater future value pro bably than the road will be be tween the two little villages on the west side of Croatan Sound. These men feel, however, accord ing to their expressions, that the State owes the bridge across the river to the entire State, as it wui be of greater benefit to the people of Charlotte, Raleigh, Winston Salem, Oreensboro and other places in the central and western part of the state than it is to Dare Countjr people directly. On the road side, they claim that the State owes to Dare County the connecting link be tween Mann's Harbor and Stumpy Point, because it is a direct benefit to the county. It is also argued on behalf of this road that it will be of great benefit to that section of the State Immediately south and south west of Dare. There are those wht 101.. that the surrender of the Roai.okc S ?und bridge to the State was doi.-: with an unconditional agreement, ver bal, that the State begin work on the Stumpy Point road within a reasonable length of time. Press reports that went out after the visit of Chairman Waynlck and Attorney Roos and their conference at the Nags Header with the county com missioners to that effect have not been controverted. The county released the Roanoke Sound bridge for several thousand dollars less than its cost or the value of the bonds outstanding against it. The comissloners who have been talked with by The Independent representative, say they did so ab solutely in favor of the road between Mann's Harbor and Stumpy Point and the road In Colington village from the beaih highway. They claim that there was no doubt in their minds of a distinct promise of these two roads. The visit of Chairman Waynick, and Commissioners Woodard, Miller, and Hardison last week was expect ed to bring forth the statement from them that the road to Stumpy Point would be let at the next letting. Now, there has developed the whast of a bridge argument that may stifle the prospects for the connected road. The Stumpy Point people have not been talked with, but it is learned that a number of citizens of Manns Harbor and Cast Lake are in favor of the br!4ge. "Surely, we are all in favor of a bridge across the Alligator River," one prominent citizen said. "But we cannot release the State from its agreement to give us the road on the west side of the sound. It is | a moral obligation not only of the county to these people, but it is an I 'Continued on Paee F?ve)
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