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VOLUME XVII NO. 50 COST OF RUNNING COUNTY MAY RUN HIGH AS $200,000.00 Larger Amounts Sought for Various Departments for Coming Fiscal Year If the various requests for in creased appropriations for opera ting Dare County are met, the budget this next fiscal year will run well above the $200,000 mark. The Board of Commissioners will hold a special meeting June to consider the requests and fix the budget. The schools are asking for some SIB,OOO more than last year’s budget. A tremendous increase in welfare funds is asked to help the needy of the county and hire help to give the money out. A new full time worker for the blind will be established in the county, bringing the total of the welfare staff to seven. Frank Hemilwright, Forest Fire Warden appeared before the Board this week requesting the appropriation for Fire Control be increased from $.1,700 to 2,040. An appeal has come for help from the County Library Com mission. There is need for a buil dipg for the library. The number of books have increased in ten years from 2,228 to 14,000. An increase in funds for the Health Department is asked. There is need for a county infirm ary. The Welfare requirements are most rapidly growing because of need of the clients in the face of rising costs of living. The budg et set up last year was for $37,- 335, or $7,000 more than the school budget. The cost of ad ministration was estimated origi nally at about $14,000. The total estimated cost last year, . of the county budget was set up at $171,000. Nearly $23,- 000 of this sum goes for interest and retirement of county bonds. The total property valuation was $12,116,000. This year the valua tion has increased to about $13,- 100,000. Cost of operation of the county four years ago was about $138.- 000. Like everything else, the cost of living is going up. The total increased tax income with the present tax rate of .90 should yield some seven or eight thousands in readily collectible taxes over last year’s income. Whenever some new money ap pears in sight, there are many demands on every hand to call for it. In this year’s case it looks like three or four times the anticipat ed increase will be needed. The Commissioners will have some headaches before it is over. Maybe those who didn’t get nominated in Saturday’s primary can be thankful they didn’t get into what looks like a stormy term ahead. MISSOURI PUPILS MAKE BUS TOUR TO SEE DARE Group Travels Long Distance to Lost Colony Site and Wright Memorial Twenty nine students of the Can alon, Missouri, public schools visi ted historic Fort Raleigh, the site of Paul Green’s drama The Lost Colony and the Wright Memorial on Kill Devil Hills here in Dare this week, 2,100 miles after leav ing for a two weeks trip that has already taken the group to Canada. From Roanoke Island, the students moved westward via the toll-free ferries on U. S. Highway 64, bound for the Great Smokies. H. H. Harlan, the school’s sup erintendent, stated that his stu dents were considering he toll free ferry trip as one of the high lights of their trip. “This will be the first toll-free ferry we have crossed on our long tour.” he said. The Canalon group left Missouri on May 15 and plan to arrive back home on or about June 1. The Missouri students are only one of dozens of groups of school students making trips to histori cal Dare County during the past' few weeks. On some days there are several groups here to visit America’s English speaking birth place at Fort Raleigh, the great Waterside Amphitheatre, where Paul Green’s symphonic drama is presented each summer—begin ning this year for its 12th season on June 28—Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers conducted their first flight experiments and nearby Kill Devil Hills where hey flew the first heavier-than-air powerod plane on December 17, 1903. Robert L. Atkinson, superinten dent of Fort Raleigh National His toric Site indicated that there had THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA NEXT FIRST LADY OF NORTH CAROLINA f ' jfl I W Ji I S jWf "S s lit IB * IMiM I •■■'l’ iZ A " J aB 7" ’fl r ~' ' itS - ggg|g|i . w - WwOr vi MRS. WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD, above, is shown in her home in Dur ham. Although her husband, Gubernatorial Candidate William B. Urn stead, has a long record of public service, she-says she still ‘‘feels new” in politics. She like her husband is a Methodist, and she is granddaughter of a Methodist minister. (Photo by Bill Ray) SHORT COURSE IN DRIVING; PERMITS TO BE REQUIRED Highway Safety Division to Begin Campaign to Get Hatteras Islanders Op erators Licenses By BEN DIXON MacNEILL Buxton on Cape Hatteras, June 6.—Until they have learned traf fic laws and regulations and ac customed themselves to obser vance of them residents of the Seven Villages of Hatteras Is land will be cited to appear at the school house for admonition and remonstrance rather than to the court house for trial and pun ishment and so can be chalked up another American “first” for Dare county and for American law en forcement. Long without any sort of road residents of Hatteras Island have driven whatever they could get to drive and have driven it where ever, whenever and however they could, without any thought of reg ulations. No license has been re quired either for driver or for vehicle and, curiously enough, often the more delapidated the vehicle the more satisfactorily would it perform against the haz ards of a roadless terrain. But times have changed on the Island. Already there is a stretch of 35 miles of more or less com pleted pavement with more build ing, and by mid-July the length of the Island from Oregon Inlet to Hatteras Inlet will be traversed by a paved road. And for some time the need of some sort of traf fic regulation and control has be come increasingly apparent, and the need is more apparent than ever with the constantly thicken ing stream of traffic. Tourist traffic on the Island has already trebled this year. There have been accidents. Sev enteen of them already this year requiring the services of either undertaker or doctor and a dozen more where happily only ’he se'v ices of garage mechanics were required. This week Col. Landon C. Rosser, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and Colonel Smith, com mander of the State Highway Pa trol, came down to acquaint them selves with conditions and with the need of some sort of traffic supervision. Already a patrolman has been assigned to the Island for duty over weekends, when most of the accidents seem to happen, and after July 1 and the completion of the road, a man will be on whole time duty here. They checked the Island thoroughly, visiting the scene of each accident and stud- Sm COURSE, Page Five REPUBLICAN CONVENT’N ANNOUNCED IN DARE CO. V. G. Wiliams, County Chairman Says June 18th Chosen; Wilkinson Expected to Speak After many years of inactivity in Dare County, the Republicans are showing signs of life, and County Chairman, V. G. Williams of Wanchese announces a county convention will be held at the Dare County Court House at 8 p. m. Wednesday, June 18th. This meeting he says, is to elect the party officials and to nomi nate candidates for various county office in the November election. Mr. Williams says he expects to have Hon. John A. Wilkinson, prominent Republican leader of Washington, N. C., attend this meeting to speak to the gathering. All people who believe in our two party system of American govern ment are urged to attend, he says. The Republicans have not had a county ticket in the field since 1934. At that time most of the leaders of the party were of the older generation that are now nearly all dead. During the Roose aelt administration many of the younger members became affilia- See CONVENTION, Page Five PRINCIPAL FIGURES IN CEREMONIES AT TABLET UNVEILING AT MANTEO AIRPORT FRIDAY I KMI ' : ' Bill ‘ I - ’IM ■HIHiH ■ fk jji >■■; _ BMT ’ BlFIbiA.. f ~ W WMr » wMM f 1 ■w .W. ft t 7 Sim aB » /wahr-v i* 1.1 i jflrMflfl' ''inrafl J ! i v MMH.1 > ’fl? I liW S wfl At the unveiling of a plaque in memory of Dave Driskill, pioneer aviator in Manteo, N. C., Friday. Immediately at left of tablet are fi|r. and Mrs. M. F. Driskill, of Knoxville, Tenn., parents of the flier. Others in the picture are Mr. and Mrs. David Black of Morris town, Tena., relatives of Dave Driskill, Major Al Williams, Victor Meekins, Arvin and Thos. Basnight, Jr M Captain Mac Diarmid, Com mander Rrtjwbtom, Melvin R. Daniels and Mrs. Arvin Basnight. — MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1952 ROT’RY ASSEMBLY AT NAGS HEAD SUNDAY-MOND’Y The Rotary Club of Manteo is again Host Club to the annual 278th District of Rotary Inter national Assembly for incoming officers. Registration Headquar ters will be at the Carolinian Ho tel 3:00 p. m. Sunday afternoon. Highlight of the meeting will be the Fellowship Dinner on Sunday at 7:00 p. m., to be held at the new Dare County Shrine Club building on the Dare Beach. Dr. Ike Greer of Chapel Hill, N. C., is the principal speaker of the even ing. Governor Elect George D. Col clough of Burlington, North Caro lina expects representatives from 32 clubs spreading from Manteo to Henderson, North Carolina at the assembly. Bob Smith, presi dent of the Manteo Rotary Club is Assembly Chairman, and pres ent indications are that over one hundred and fifty Rotarians and their wives will combine a week end vacation with the Rotary meetings held on Sunday and Monday. This is the second year for the Assembly to meet at Nags Head with Manteo as the Host Club. The meeting is arranged for the benefit of the incoming officers of each club in the District, and as a training program for them in preparation of the 1952-53 Ro tary year. President Elect Z. Vance Brinkley, and Secretary Elect, Wallace McCown will at tend the various programs for in coming officers representing the Manteo Club. TRIBUTE PAID TO DAVE DRISKILL IN SPITE Os WEATHER Prominent Figures Speak at Unveiling of Plaque at Manteo Airport Last Friday Despite the bad weather of the weekend, which prevented many people from reaching Manteo as they had planned, by airplane last Friday, the ceremony at the Man teo Airport proved highly success ful as many old friends and neigh bors and prominent people paid tribute to the late flier’s contri bution to aviation. Officials from the Kellett Air craft Co. for whom Driskill tested helicopters at the time of his death, were grounded because of weather and could not come as they had planned. Likewise num erous other fliers from many states. The tablet carries the following inscription: “This tablet in tribute to John David Driskill, manager of the Manteo Airport, 1946-49, pioneer pilot of the North Carolina Coast land, who after a lifetime of safe flying and many missions of mercy gave his life to make aircraft safer for others, Moorestown, N. J., October 3, 1949.” parents Present The memorial, just outside the airport hanger, was unveiled by Driskill’s father, M. F. Driskill, who with Mrs. Driskill had come from their home in Knoxville, Tenn., for the ceremonies. The mother tenderly laid a wreath at See DRISKILL, Page Eight DARE’S BEAUTY QUEEN ENJOYING SEASHORE ISb JKi Wk ’’IB Iw’ *** fl * 'if k- Si'' * : X - t ''-J ■ |K * #*> '** SMBif:,. - W Wkl 77 . ..7-& WdiF Wk ; MISS AGNES FULCHER, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hayes Ful cher of Buxton, is home enjoying the warm sun and swimming on the Dare Beach off Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. She returned Sunday from Elizabeth City, N. C., where as Miss Dare County, Queen, she rode on the Queen’s Float in the 1952 Potato Festival parade. La ter at supper Senator Richard D, Russell of Georgia was the honor ed guest at the Queen’s table. A large dance followed the corona tion ceremonies. Agnes won “Miss Dare” in Man teo and was presented a loving cup and bathing suit. In Elizabeth City Agnes took second place with Miss Jennette Merrell of TWO CASES HANDLED IN DARE RECORDER’S COURT Judge W. F; Baum disposed of two cases m Recorders Court in Manteo Tuesday. Will Midgett, charged with being drunk and dis orderly and damaging the county jail, was fined $25 and costs, and ordered to pay S3O for damage to the jail; given a two-year road sentence, suspended on condition he stay away from Dare County two years. Payment of S4O was made on account. Robert Harrison Suppler of Norfolk who was charged with reckless driving, following col lision with a car driven by B. M. Hedrick of Kill Devil Hills was fined $25 and costs. i- Currituck winning the “Miss Po tato Festival of 1952.” Tuesday May 27, Agnes and the other queens with Miss Merrell, queen of the Albemarle, appeared on R. Trafton Robertson’s TV program over WTAR. Four Cars bearing the queens were escorted by North Carolina highway pa trolmen, were met by state troop ers at the Virginia Line, then at the Norfolk City limits the city police met the group and carried them to Virginia Beach. The queens were guests at the Cava lier Hotel pool and they had lunch at the Princess Anne Country Club. The mayor of Virginia Beach presented each queen with a silver link bracelet with Virgin ia Beach, Va., on it. MANTEO SCOUTS HIKE TO FORT RALEIGH Some three dozen members of Manteo Boy Troop 165 hiked to Fort Raleigh' Thursday afternoon to spend the weekend with 100 other teen-agers from the East Albemarle District of the Tidewater Council. Tours of historic War Between the-States fortifications, Wright Memorial and the Indian mounds at Colington were slated for Fri day under the direction of Robert Atkinson of the National Parks Service. Scheduled for Saturday morn ing are Scoutcraft contests, such as pitching tents and making fires with flint and steel, while See HIKE, Page Five Single Copy 70 VIGOROUS WORK PAYS OFF DARE’S WINNERS SAT. Etheridge Retains House Seat, Duvall Wins for Board; Ballance for Schools Candidates for county offices winning in Dare in Saturday’s pri mary found that hard work and a vigorous campaign paid off. R. Bruce Etheridge veteran house member was renominated over D. L. Hayman by a two to one vote. Mr. Etheridge made a vigorous campaign throughout the county, and his well organized workers rolled up a big vote. His workers were also success ful in getting out a big vote for R. O. Ballance for Board of Edu cation from Nags Head Township, winning clearly over three other candidates. James W. Davis of Wanchese and Mrs. Mabel Jone 4 and Victor Meekins of Manteo. The Etheridge forces put out a lot of work to get Dave O’Neal of Avon nominated on the board of Commissioners, but James W. Scarborough, the incumbent now serving his second term was the easy winner. Likewise, Claude C. Duvall, Board Chairman won a big vote and the renomination from the Mainland District over C. L. Holmes of Manns Harbor. Ellis Gray of Avon an easy win ner for board of Education over N. E. Price, also of Avon. Dick Best of Stumpy Point defeated Wallace Taylor of Manns Harbor. Gray and Best both are' serving their second term. The following candidates were unopposed and are declaimed the nominees also: Commissioners, Lawrence L. Swain, Manteo; W. H. Lewark, Kill Devil Hills; W. L. Scarborough, Buxton. Board of Education; Chairman Walter Perry of K. D. Hills; Roy Gray of Hat teras. The vote for the various candi dates in Dare County Saturday was as follows: For County Commissioner: Du vall, 827; Holmes, 472; Scarbor ough, 796, O’Neal, 467. For Board of Education: Jones 341, Ballance 429, Davis 380, Meekins 279, Best 674, Taylor 591, Gray 881, Price 308. For Representative: Etheridge 910, Hayman 535. For Governor: Umstead 875, Olive 539, Dunnaway 9. For Lieu tenant Governor, Kerfees 36, Rowe 408, Hodges 420, McDonald 149. For Commissioner of Insur ance, Cheek 481, Frederick 391. Associate Justice of Supreme Court. For short term: Valentine 138; Efird 50; Parker 768; Bob bitt 100; For Long Term: Valen tine 118; Efird 34; Gwyn 31; Phil lips 28; Parker 703 and Bobbitt 103. Two Republicans filed in the primary for Lieutenant-Governor: Warren H. Pritchard drtw a total vote in the county of seven, while William C. Lehew got 2. SEEK INCREASED TRIPS OVER OREGON INLET Big Influx of Visitors Make* It Difficult for Normal Traffic to Be Accommodated Commissioner James Scarbor ough of Avon voiced the distress of Hatteras Island people over the crowded condition of the Oregon Inlet ferry when he got the Dare Board to request increased day time service at the inlet, plus one trip during the night. Due to the enormous amount of publicity that has been going out about Hatteras Island and the new road, a great increase in tou rist travel has swamped the ferry until many times cars are turned back. Some cannot wait for the next boat. Moreover citizens of the island in the normal course of their busi ness find themselves greatly in convenienced and delayed in trav el. They are frantic about getting more trips. Close observers say there is lit tle prospect of getting much in crease in service. A road now be ing built under contract is not quite complete—lacks some weeks of being fully put down. Moreover, it is expected to not be complete at all before the fall, because it must be worked over and over. It is to the interests of the con tractor to discourage as much tra vel as possible, during the period of construction. Some of the high way employes also wish to dis courage traffic, and this small number take it as a personal af front if the needs of the public inconvenience them, in any de- pect vo Buiier unvow ara inconven ience and expense. i
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