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aovemor ‘^ooigea eaked 15o be drivea up the beach“plalna into tlie dione region who^ any propoeea road would gOo i^and-driver Wcl3.aco Spencer laade the trip to ‘^eoond HaE- mook Hills without getting atuck^f as might have been the case with roiy mainland ohauTfen&c ,Ia 111., tiO. oi‘ 7-h.t> -i ^4x£iuoj^'y ol u iui' said that }.'© had received letters from all o\ror America about the oado Some had written, "It will spoil the Island"; others said, "Please do something for Ocracoko," Governor Hodges expressed the hope that spoil ing would not come with progress. 3e said that Ocraooke "must share in the At 1 P.m,, an Oornooke scafcon «. eon was served to the visiting dig nitaries, with officers of the local Givio Club as hostso ^aforta- nat93_y Benjamin QJJleal, president of the Civic Club, coult not be present duo to his line of duty on the UeS. Coast Guard patrol boat (Semper PciratusS), and vice-president Elmo Fulclior hxid to be away because of llinoGs In hla famllyo Treasurer Hoiitford Garrlsh was present but dldn®t went his eating interrupted by any unnecessary duties, so socvotary Theodore Rondthaler tin good professorial manner) did any § residing that was called for. thers of the Civic Club officials present were lo So Oarrish, Benjamin Ea Spencer, Wahab Howard, Jack Willis, and Jesse Garrlsh, all mom- bera of important committees; and. problems’ ^ » . "Ocraookers are the tind of people we need a lot of; try to preserve those traits of character that have made you great and simple o • to me these are synonymoua o o invite the world in, but continue to keep your informal, lawful (without law) relationships." He mentioned the difficulties of building a goad down the Reef: thae and oioneyo It would take patience, but "we must make a start." According to Highway Coomissloner A. H, Graham a survey of the entire route has been authorised, and J. Emmett Winslow and others of the Division will v.ork with the local committee "for the greatest good." (The individual)am which marks all Ocraookers will bring forth a hundred and one as above mentioned,two other nieffibors*:t;;:^;^^^J ‘ ^ nnd All-. ^Ideas which will gradually be amalga- Park Ranger Hasen Brooks and All Seashoro-Hlghway yioe«-preoldent, Ro3 Waliab o At aboat 33*15 p.m. the group adjourned to the School Recreation Ha.ll;, \7hero about 250 citiaena were EFkif.g ueo of the about. 200 chairs owned by the school. Scouts and "oung people courteously stood aa woll a*y a few able adults® Kveryone was impressed with Governor Hodges. Yenit, Vidlt, Vicit (he oama,- he saw, he conquered) as the old T>ntin slogan reads. ’'That8a a fin© mani You can tell it by just looking at him, even bofora he says anKthing at a31»" The masting was Rev. Walter Whitaker 7voaci in prayer. Theodore Rondthaler proaidod, intro- mated with those of the highway officials find engineers into a concrete road2) At about 2j30 p.m» the Governor and his pax*ty were baok at the Coast Guard Station. Before leaving,Governor Hodges stepped down to the CO 83-footsr to shake htmda with the Civic Clvh^a absent president, Bcwajamln O’Seal, o-u duty there. Then he boarded one of th© twe heliocopters,and with much blowing of sand as the propellers whirled * round, up went the two black birds into the blue sky, circled the harbor in farewell and disappeared into the southwest mainland haze. Visitors from Swan Huarter,in addition opJn.a Slth the 3lnglr>g of "ASerlea". Rav. Waltor Vhltaker load in uravar. their daughter. Sue; Comnlasloners H. jL,Sadler ..nid Seth Cradle; Sheriff G. Suclng first Rep. Huoaell Swindell, IJ" 5 who in turn introduced, oiu? visiting icoun ’“"rs'ijfrv^'swindali• RoSs^fr County Cfficlala. Then meinb^ra of U? the Highway Department and oi the Oovornor’a party ««r. totroSuoed,«.rl|sv,^l.;„;^ suilans, sooke orloilyo - '
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