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** OLUME XXI NO. 14 DARE COMMISSIONERS SEEK $172,485 IN DISASTER FUNDS TO DEVELOP COUNTY PROJECTS Stumpy Point Projects Top $42,000; Kitty Hawk $68,000; Manns Harbor $13,500; Manteo Negro Section $10,700; Kill Devil Hills Projects Separate, and Not Shown. The report filed this week by the Board of Commissioners ask ing for disaster relief funds, seeks a total of $172,485 of which $3,300 would be contributed from county taxes. This report, compiled by Commissioner Lawrence Swain, spokesman for the Board lists the sums that are considered necessary to repair the damage done by three recent hurricanes to public projects, and put these facilities on an operating basis in the in terest of debris clearance, sanita tion, health, safety and the public welfare. The town of Manteo has filed • on request for disaster relief funds, not finding that any damage re sulted that could be attributed to the storm, but the town of Kill Devil Hills is filing a request for some $27,000 to spend principally on drainage. In the brief filed by the Dare Board, the largest single project calls for $68,400 to aid public facilities at Kitty Hawk. Broken down, the items are $63,400 for a breakwater around the shore, and $5,000 for a drainage canal from the Kitty Hawk school to Kitty Hawk bay. Stumpy Point is next largest in list of claims, where $42,425 is re quested, which includes $5,000 for repairing a main drainage canal; creosoted lumber for outlet of a dike $2,400; for a breakwater $33,000, and for replacing a sand •barrier $2,025. The Stumpy Point program is listed as first in order, and first attention is requested to same. For Manns Harbor, two miles of •' nd barrier to cost $13,500 is re- uested. For Frisco, drainage in the sum of $2,700. Avon, whose long-abandoned dike was rebuilt last year at a cost of $3,000, is now set up for $1,460 additional repairs which is requested in emergency relief. A breakwater costing $30,000 is asked for the village of Duck in the upper end of the county. In the Roanoke Island Negro section, $10,700 is set up as follows: For repairing drainage canal, $7,500, and for repairing dike at outlet, $3,200. The amount for which the county’s proposed share of $3,300 is to be spent is listed as follows: Supervision by the Commissioners ’ $2,000; Stenographer $400; ac counting S4OO and Miscellaneous SSOO. Nothing appears in the list for the following cpmmunities, whose needs will probably appear in a later report: Wanchese, Hatteras, See FUNDS, Page Four PLENTY OF FISH FOR ANGLERS, EAST LAKE, MANNS HARBOR AREA Reports of good fishing are coining this week from East Lake, Mashoes and Manns Harbor. Fine gray trout were being caught in Croatan Sound at the rate of 50 to 150 per day, and these trout weighed one to two pounds eaeh. W. S. White, County Game Warden reports that parties fish ing on East and South Lakes are landing large white perch at the rate of 100 to 300 to the boat in a day. Guides in Manns Harbor taking out parties are Carl Mann and tons, the Craddock Boys, Tom R. Midgett of Mashoes, J. H. Bratten and Clifton Sarvis on East Lake waters. Mr. White reports on the game situation this year. Deer and bear are considered to be greatly re duced in number due to intensive hunting as the result of good roads the past few years. But both ™ jar and deer are more in evi dence, because they are being driven by desperate hunger out of the deep woodte and near the villages. Salt tides have killed just about all the grazing.. Grapes in the woods were destroyed, along with other good food for bears. Both bear and deer are said to be unusually poor, and often young fawns are seen by the roadside in emaciated condition. Occasionally, when a gum tree is cut down back in the swamps, as many as five deer will rush up to nibble away at the foliage on the top, so hungry are these ani mals now. It looks as if a lot of conservation will have to be in order this season. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA DARE COUNTY IS GLAMORIZED BY THE GEOGRAPHIC Twenty Nine Pages, Mostly In Color, of Exceptionally Fine Publicity The most magnificent bit of pub licity ever done for the Dare Coun ty Coastland came out this month in the National Geographic Maga zine, published in Washington, D. C. which goes to several hundred thousand of high class readers and members of the society. The Geo graphic has done several lengthy articles about the N. C. Coast dur ing the past 20 years, but this one, with its 29 pages, and 37 photo graphs, all in color save three, has outdone ’em all. It more than makes up we hope, for the lousy bit of work about our coast, by which one Ben Burman discredited both it and the Readers Digest this month. The Geographic article by Nike Anderson is correctly and intelli gently done. It is something that couldn’t be bought for $50,000 and will probably be worth much more to our business interests by rea son of the favorable impression it will make. In this number Gov ■ ernor Hodges is shown crowning the beauty queen, Sara Alford, at ' the Pirate’s Jamboree in this early • summer. This picture reveals many > local people resplendent in pirate ' costume. Outer Banks pictures shows the ; red brick tower at Corolla, the ’ wild-ocean in color; several pic -1 tures of the Omar Babun which was stranded at Pea Island last * year. Miss Petty Harrell of Hert -1 ford is shown listening to a conch shell. Scenes include the Nags 1 Head jeep races, the strand filled with bathers; two maps illustrat -1 ing the location and the distance 1 from larger centers to this area 1 are well done. Several of the pic- > tures occupy a full page. The Wright Memorial and the replicas > of the workshops are shown. Also > John Evans Midgett’s yard orna ments at Buxton, the Cape Hat- ! teras Lighthouse; George Oliver 1 O’Neal’s famous ship models at ’ Avon; the moss-festooned road 1 winding through the live oaks of ’ Colington Island;.Big fish caught ' at Oregon Inlet. Toby Tillett waiting on a customer in his store, and a party boat fishing out of Oregon Inlet. A group is shown playtime digging for treasure at the site of an old shipwreck at Nags Head . Scenes among the dogwoods on Roanoke Island are illustrated in color, along with wisteria, iris and pinks. There are several fine scenes from the Lost Colony, in cluding one of the Queen in a group. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Turner See DARE, Page Four JURORS DRAWN TO SERVE AT OCTOBER DARE COURT * List of jurors drawn this week on serve in the term of Superior Court in Dare County on October 24th, is al follows: f Manteo: Mrs. Lina Harbour, Ezekiel Midgett, George Crees, Mrs. Georgia Midgett, and Wynne Dough. Wanchese: Iris Gallop, Paul M. Daniels, James W. Davis, Mrs. Mary Forbes and Wayland Baum. Kitty Hawk: M. M. Meekins, Charlie Spruill, Henry H. Beasley, Clyde A. Beacham, L. J. Henley, Alvin Gamiel. Kill Devil Hills: Mrs. Emily Mustian, Mrs. Annie Powell, H. C. Lawrence and Dan S.. Harris. Nags Head: Marshall Tillett, Mrs. Jethro Midgett Jr., Thos. C. Twiford, and James A. Scarborough. w Rodanthe: Mrs. Alethia Midgett, Mra Ersie Midgett. Waves: Hora tio* Midgett, Salvo: Graves Midgett. Buxton: Delmar Williams, William H. Hehl, Martin B. Tolson and Mira; Joyce Gray. Avon: Seymour Gray, Mrs. Agnes Scarborough, Ignatius Scarborough. Frisco: John Rollinson and' Mrs. Myra Twiddy; Hatteras: Dameron Gray, Ronald R. Stowe, Mrs. Cecil Ballance, Dennis Robinson. East Lake: Lundy Twiford, George W. Ambrose, John W. Am brose, Stumpy Point: Mrs. Goldie Best, Ralph O’Neal, Mrs. Wilma Midgett and Bernice L. Payne, Manns Harbor: Mrs. Leta Pinner, John T. Ambrose. VOTE ON BONDS FOR $200,000.00 KD HILLS SCHOOL Commissioners Approve Holding Election To Replace Kitty Hawk School The Dare County Board of Com missioners voted Tuesday to set up an election to vote $200,000 in bonds for construction of a school at Kill Devil Hills, which would take the place of the school now located at Kitty Hawk. State School authorities have approved an elementary school only at this site, but the committee urges building a combined elementary and high school, and last month the commissioners voted the sum of $15,000 to buy ten acres of land for an elementary school. It takes ten acres for an ele mentary school and 25 acres for a combined high schpol and elemen tary school. The Kitty Hawk School Commit tee however are greatly opposed to building only an elementary school. They appeared in force, with Attorney Wallace McCown with them Tuesday to pursue the subject further. At the request of the Board of Education a second survey has been made by 'State School authorities, but no report has yet been made on this survey. At the July 25th meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, the sum of $15,000 was set up to buy a site for this school, which if an elementary school, must have ten acres of land. However if a combined school is finally ap proved, the requirements call for 25 acres of land. The Kitty Hawk citizens are represented by a committee which is enthusiastically working for the interests of the community. This committee consists of Adolphus Hines, chairman, Mrs. Susie Briggs, Jackson Twiford, Oscar Sanderlin and Robert Young. An election is being asked to vote on up to $200,000 in bonds on the property in the Kitty Hawk District, which includes a large part of the former Nags Head township, and also a large area of the remaining part on Nags Head beach, reaching from Cat’s Meow neighborhood to soundside jigsaw road in old Nags Head. It is in this latter named area that some 12 school patrons live, who desire their children to go to Manteo School and not to Kitty Hawk. About a dozen of these patrons appeared before the board Tues day with Attorney Wallace Gray to plead their cause. Their cause is that they desire to send their children to Manteo school, and are willing to trans port them to the Jigsaw road, which is the terminus of the bus route from Manteo Schools. But the Dare County Board of Edu cation has ordered that they not be allowed to ride on this bus at all. The Board has said if these peo ple wish their children to go to Manteo, they must transport them in their own vehicles all the way See VOTE, Page Four DARE RECORDERS COURT TRIES SEVERAL CASES Judge W. F. Baum tried several cases in Recorders Court as fol lows: Wallace Lee Peele Jr., 38, of Hatteras submitted to a charge of drunken driving and was fine SIOO and court costs. Graves Midgett Jr. submitted to reckless and care less driving and paid a fine of $25 and costs. Norman Leroy Cahoon of East Lake paid sls and costs for speeding 70 miles per hour. Lin Farrier Henderson, colored, paid $lO and costs for driving with improper license plates. John Howard Barnett of Wanchese paid. $25 and costs for driving with im proper license and lights. John Arthur Williams of Wan chese, now under suspended road sentence growing out of his parti cipation in setting off a fiery cross at the home of Deputy Sheriff Daniels some weeks ago, was charged with driving without an operator’s license, and got his case put off by asking for a jury trial; Edgar Donald Pentecost, Ft Bragg soldier charged With operat ing a car at 70 mph, failed to ap pear. A capias was ordered. James Clay Bryant, colored of Manteo, got a 30 days suspended sentence and was fine $lO and' costs for operating a car without brakes.. Bryant is also held in connection with Doran Mitchell Washington charged with taking eight gallons of gas from the boat of Robert Ashby, and with seriously assault ing Ashby. They appealed to Superior Court from a six-months road sentence. Jack Paul Thompson pleaded guilty to driving at 70 mph and paid' sl's and" costs. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1955 YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE SEA WILL BRING UP -’1 ! - r - IB"" . . FV ' if J - ■si SWORDFISH PUNCTURES PILING . . . There’s never any knowing what will turn up on the beach after a storm and in keeping with an cient custom on Hatteras Island, the villagers go searching when the sea calms down. Last week, after lone, Ralph Scarborough, of Kinna keet, set out to see what he could see and ’discovered the surprise of his and a good many of his neighbor’s life—a nine-inch creosoted pile thrust through with the sword of a swordfish. Times were when sea-faring men came home with the planking of their schooners impaled by a swordfish, sometimes even three-inch planks being penetrated, and there is legend on the Outer Banks of one ship that came home with nine swords in it—and each time the skipper thought he had had a collision with something. But that one of these critters could penetrate nine inches of solid timber is some thing else. Nobody could quite believe it, but there it was. Swordfish are sometimes taken off Cape Hatteras but usually people avoid them. They can get to weigh as much as 1,000 pounds and old seamen say they can swim at a rate of 100 miles an hour. It would take som velocity and some power to penetrate heavy planking. Scar borough is assistant superintendent of the Outer Banks REA plant. The photograph is by Ben Dixon Mac Neill. WEATHER FROM HATTERAS TO LAST A LONG TIME Big New Weather Station Now Being Moved to the Cape's Old Steel Light Tower in Woods. Those hurricane weather date lines which have caused so much concern and driven away so many tourists from Hatteras Island, may now be expected to intensify in fury and force during forthcom ing hurricanes. Uncle Sam, ac cording to news this week, is going to move the whole business of weather machinery from Hatteras Village, and set it up near the abandoned steel light tower in the woods of Cape Hatteras. Henceforth, the announcements will be dated Cape Hatteras and while Buxton community will have the glory of being the site of a great weather station, the harass ment of Hatteras Island folks hasn't yet been anything to com pare with what may be coming when the announcers turn loose in style. The move some 12 miles east ward is expected to add to effi ciency in tracing hurricanes and other coastal storms. In revealing plans for the change in location to Senators Sam J. Ervin Jr., and W. Kerr Scott, the Weather Bureau said the Cape Hatteras site would be more desir able for several reasons: (1) It is one of the most easterly points along the Atlantic coastline and is closer to the historical paths of hurricanes; (2) will provide a bet- See WEATHER, Page Four STUMPY POINT LOSES ONE OF ITS BELOVED WOMEN The death of Mrs. Clara Mason Hooper Monday night, removes from the community onq of its best loved citizens. She had been a faithful servant of her church and. community. She was 72 years old, the wife of E. Marvin Hooper, well-known merchant. She left three daughters: Mrs. Caigin Wat son and Mrs. Allen Osborne of Norfolk and Mrs. Earl Meekins of Winfall. She is survived also by three brothers: W. T. Mason of Rocky Mount; Alex Mason of Gul rock, and Roscoe Mason of Nor folk; two sisters, Mrs. Fran Credle of Bath and Mrs. Warren Payne of Gulrock; five grandchil dren and five great grandchildren. Mrs. Mason was born at Gul rock, the daughter of Christopher and Clara Midgett Mason. She died after a long illness, at the home of her Mrs. Earl Meekins in Winfall. She was a member of the Stumpy Point Methodist Church where the fpneral servicse were conducted Wednesday after noon at 2 p.m. PROVIDE SI,OOO FOR KITTY HAWK HARBOR Dare Board Also Names Committee to Build It; Mosquito Control Appropriation The Dare County Commissioners have set up SI,OOO to build a small boat harbor at Kitty Hawk, and Tuesday they appointed a commit tee to find a location for this har bor which will please everybody, and then proceed to build it. This committee is W. H. Lewark, Willie Rogers, Orville Baum and Walter Perry. The Board agreed to furnish right of way for the harbor im provement at Hatteras soon to be carried on by Army Engineers. It was agreed to pay $778.22 on mosquito control work to be done with State aid, on which the state will pay the sum of $1,276. 78 The Board gave $350 for clean ing out a drainage ditch at Frisco. It tabled for the time being, a proposal for another survey of the Cape Hatteras Health Center lands, some of which adjoining landowners claim, although it had been in possession of the Federal I Governorment for 40 years. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Kitty Hawk was appointed a Trustee of the Dare County Tourist Bureau. GOVERNOR GETS ADVICE ON REPAIRING ROADS The Dare County Commissioners this week voted to send a letter to Governor Hodges, urging him to give the State Highway Com mission more money to repair storm damaged roads in Dare County. It seems a puzzle to un derstand how this conclusion was arrived at, or where the informa tion came from to make such re quest, but they are asking the Gov ernor to give the commission $200,000 for this job. j WILD YOUTHS IN WRECK;. FOUR SERVE ROAD TERMS While attempting, to* straighten' out the roads in Colington Tuesday night, Alvin Farrow and Chester Austin Jr. came to grief in an old Ford couple. Farrow, a Coast guardsman was taken to Marine Hospital in Norfolk for treatment. Austin, who has recently com pleted a term of 30 days on the road along with Billy Ballance of Hatteras, recently returned to his home in Biixton. Last week Ballance’s brother, ; Drayton, and Roy Austin, both of ■ Hatteras, were sent off by Justice Turner for 30 days, for similar offenses of disorderly conduct. DARE BOARD DETERMINED ON WASTE FOR RATTLETRAP JAIL COME HELL OR HIGH WATER Commissioners Vote Tuesday to Hold Another Election to Get People To Approve Scheme Re jected by Voters in July By Two To One; Would Increase Taxes With County Already in Red. The Dare County Commissioners seem determined to go ahead with their wasteful plan to build a new. jail costing around SIOO,OOO, des pite the fact that the voters last July 9, rejected the scheme by a vote of two to one. It cost the tax payers some $3,000 wasted to find out their wishes in the matter, and it seems that would be enough. The Board was so chagrined at the defeat of the measure by the voter, that at their next meeting, they voted to go ahead and spend the money anyhow. They did write the Attorney General for an opin ion, but they have not revealed his opinion. They also sought the ad vice of the County Government advisory commission, and they got back an opinion that it shouldn’t be undertaken unless the Board had all the money in hand. Tuesday of this week, the Board decided they will put the people to the expense of holding another election at an early date. They are confident they can get a different result. For one thing, the board has been somewhat generous re cently in giving out county funds, and they hope to get some votes this way. The motion to hold this second election was made by Commis sioner Lawrence Swain of Man teo and seconded by James Scar borough of Avon. Commissioner W. H. Lewark of Kill Devil Hills abstained from voting, which in dicated he didn’t have the nerve at the moment to vote with the people of county, nor to vote against the Board. Some months ago he said he was against the scheme, but he didn’t say so Tues day. » The prediction is expressed that the county is headed for a red mark of about $50,000 by the end of this year in operating expenses, due to having been spending be yond budget figures and out of bounds of anticipated income. This figure is expected to reach the $75,000 mark in another year. The Board has raised taxes by some-30 per cent this year, the new tax bills were due to have been out some weeks ago, but have not been sent the people. In connection with the scheme to waste the money for a new empty jail in Manteo, it seems it might have occurred to the Board to see if the people of Dare County wish to hold another election, with out going to all the expense of holding one. Petitions could be circulated fairly, and if enough taxpayers signed to form a major ity, then would be time enough to talk about an election. It is a pity the people can’t vote on the county officers who back this plan See RATTLETRAP, Page Five SCHOOL ACTIVITIES BUS IS GOAL OF BAM CLUB The BAM Club of the Manteo High School, which gets its name from its motto of a Buck a Month, the sum it asks of its members, is busy this week trying to raise a fund for the purchase of a school activities bus. This bus will be used to transport the school’s atheletic teams from town to town for engagements with other schools. Due to the long distance to other towns from the unusually isolated town of Manteo, the need for a bus of this type is more acute than in any school in eastern North Carolina. Heretofore the team has had to get about as best it could through the generosity of a few people who furnished cars, and often paid the bills. INCREASED ENROLLMENT GIVES EXTRA TEACHER The Manteo School was notified by the State Department of Edu cation that another elementary teacher had been allotted the school due to the large enrollment the first ten days of school. The enrollment this year thus far is 76 in comparison to 9 at the close of school last year or 196 at this same period last year. The new teacher who has not been employed will teach a section of the 7th grade which now has 50 students. The new teacher will give 9 teachers in the elementary school and six in the high school, three more than last year. Single Copy 70 HUNTING PERMITS CONTINUED ON W; VA. WOODLANDS Diminishing Supply of Game May Be Due to Storms; Non-Resi dent Fee $5 This Season Licensed hunting will be permit ted again this year on West Vir ginia Pulp and Paper Company’s timberlands in Dare County, it is announced by William Ernst, Jr., woodlands manager. Mr. Ernst said company hunt ing permits for the season open ing Oct. 14 will be issued to Dare County residents for a fee of sl, as in past years, but that the fee for out-of-county residents is be ing raised to $5. The woodlands manager explain ed that a higher fee for non-resi dent hunters is being introduced this year in an effort to conserve the game supply in Dare County. He said that local sportsmen are concerned about the diminishing game supply in the county and attribute the situation to the grow ing popularity of Dare County as a hunting ground among non residents. It was pointed out that during the three year the company has owned its Dare County timber lands, the number of non-resident hunting permits has more than doubled, while the number of per mits issued to local hunters has remained relatively stable. “We feel obligated to do our part in conserving the home game supply for Dare County hunters,” Mr. Ernst said, “and hope the higher fee will reduce the outside traffic sufficiently to accomplish our aim.” As an added protection, the Woodlands Manager said the com pany also would close Company built roads to hunters during the season, except when supervised hunts are held for Dare County residents. Mr. Ernst also called upon hunters and guides to help out by seeing that bag limits are See HUNTING, Page Four DELEGATES NAMED FOR SOUTH ALBEMARLE MEET The list of Dare County dele gates to the Southern Albemarle Annual meeting in Williamston on October 28th was announced Thursday by Melvin R. Daniels, the Association Vice-President for Dare County, and is as follows: Manteo: Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Swain, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Daniels, Jr., R. Bruce Etheridge, Mr. and Mrs. Frank White, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Tarkington, Mr., and Mrs. Frank Cahoon, C. S. Meekins, A. W. Drinkwater, Mr. and Mrs. Vic tor Meekins, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chears Jr., Mrs. Mary L. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy Tillett, Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Fearing Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Davis, Bob Smith, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Daniels Sr., Martin Kellogg Jr., Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson, W. R. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Swain, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace R. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Basnight. Frisco: John L. Austin, Julian Austin, Hatteras: Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Burrus, Dan Q. Oden. Buxton: Mr. and Mrs. E. P. White, Ben Dixon Mac Neill. Wanchese: Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Dan iels, Ralph Meekins, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Daniels. Manns Harbor: Mrs. Grace Mann, W. S. White, Tom Sutton, C. W. Mann, C. L. Midgett, Mrs. Helen D. Warde, Stumpy Point: Dewey Wise, George Wise, Calvin Payne, Harvey Best. East Lake: C. C. Duvall, George Am brose, C. C. Smith. Kitty Hawk: Pennell Tillett, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Hallett Perry. Kill Devil Hills: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lewark, Walter Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Elton Twiford, W. S. Gregory. Nags Head: Pat Bayne, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Car los Dowdy. Rodanthe: Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Meekins, Mr. and Mrs. Levene W. Midgett. Waves: Asa i H. Gray. Avon: J. W. Scarborough. Col -1 ington: Sam Liverman, Mrs. I Ernest Haywood, Mrs. Lewis t Meekins. Mashoes: John W. Mid gett.
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