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VOLUME XXII NO. 45 ANTI-MUNICIPALITY GROUP LEADING IN KILL DEVIL HILLS New Board of Aidermen Named and Write-in Contest Reduce Mayor's Vote. Three men elected to the Board of Aidermen in Kill Devil Hills Tuesday, are considered to be ad vocates for abolishing the munici pality, Eddie V. Melson, hotel oper ator, led with a vote of 71, while R. H. Cook, and R. E. Parker Jr., both motel operators, carried votes of 64 and 59 respectively. Mayor Emily Mustian, who got 55 votes was challenged by write in votes for two candidates. Walter D. Perry, former Chairman of the Board of Education got 35 votes and four disputed ones, while for mer Mayor J. L. Murphy got six votes and one disputed one. Runners up in the race for aider men were E. C. Twiford and Thos. H. Briggs incumbents, with 54 and 46 votes respectively. R. A. Young, incumbent, who didn’t seek re-elec tion got One write-in vote for alderman. Major Murphy got two, votes as a write-in candidate for alderman. Miss Jennette Gray, unopposed for re-election as town treasurer, led the ticket with a vote of 88. Jack Ballance, who had previ ously been an announced candidate for Aiderman .withdrew from the race a week before the election. BIG BOAT RACING EVENT IN MANTEO ON MAY 25 and 26 Next big event scheduled for the Dare Coast will be the American Power Boat Sanctioned Regatta in Manteo Harbor on Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26. Sponsored by the Dare Power Boat Association of Manteo, this event will feature outboard races on Saturday follow ed by fast inboard classics on Sun day afternoon, it was stated here today by Dr. W. W. Harvey, who has charge of the publicity for the coming event. The races follow by exactly one month the Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree. “Because we can expect more favorable weather than usually prevails in late April, we expect to have the biggest races in the his tory of our annual regattas,” said Dr. Harvey. Real reason, however, that the races were postponed, is that May 25-26 are the only dates open this Spring when it was possible to get APBA-sanctionship. “Without this national organization, it is diffi cult to get boats from a wide area, as we expect this year,” Dr. Har vey explained. Tentatively scheduled for the regatta are 15 classes of fast boats. These include for the Sat urday outboard races: A-B-C-D Stock Utility craft and A-B-C-D Stock Hydroplanes. The first heat on Saturday begins at 12:20 o’clock and the final heat will be at 5:20. There will be special Elimination Races between 11 and 12 noon on Saturday. . On Sunday, ’even classes of m boards will include 48 cu. in. hy dros; Pacific in one class; 135 cu. in. hydros; 136 cu. in. hydros, 280 cu. in. hydros, 225 cu. hydros, and 266 cu. in. hydros. 40 JURORS CHOSEN FOR MAY TERM DARE SUPERIOR COURT The following persons were chosen for jury duty by the Dare County Comissioners Tuesday, to serve in the May term of Dare Superior Court. From Manteo: Le- Roy Etheridge, Sr., Peggy Ether idge and John B. Etheridge, three out of one family, and I. Newton Davis. Thos. E. Dough. From Wanchese: Robert S. Barnett, Warren Gallop, Robert Daniels and Rondal Tillett. From Manns Har bor: Wilbur Pinner, G. C. Gard, Lester Sawyer, and John M. Crees. From Stumpy Point: Edna Wise, Muri P. Twiford, Carson Meekins, Gaither Gray, and Guy Best From East Lake: E. B. Crees, and Eth eile Twiford. From Mashoes: Thos. R. Midgett. From Kitty Hawk: Lewis Tate, Mrs. Carlos Dowdy, Leon Perry, Mrs. Guy Hayman, and Orville Baum. From Coling ton: Sam Liverman, and Emest E. Rogers. From Kill Devil Hills: Alice Dean Tillett, and Mrs. Manie Haywood. From Nags Head, Mil ton T. Henley, Andrew Wiler, W. L. Mann, and C. S. Culpepper. From Buxton: N. F. Jennette, Jr., John E. Midgett, Frederick B. Gaskins, from Salvo, Garland A. Hooper. From Hatteras: Janie R. O’Neal, Laura Lette, Mrs. Donald Stowe, Carlos Peele, and Levin Ful cher. From Rodanthe: W. V. Wat son. From Waves: Salina Midgett From Kill Devil Hills: Charlie O. Basnight. From Frisco, Geo. W. Austin. From Avon: Arkansas Hooper, D. J. Gray, Willard G. Gray, Jr., Eugene Gray, and Per cy Williams. J.. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA NEW OPERATOR OF OREGON INLET FISHING CENTER I I I 1 I ■ H. A. CREEF, Jr., heretofore manager of an oil business at Man- ' teo, has taken over the operation of Oregon Inlet Fishing Center through arrangements made with Capt. Toby Tillett of Wanchese, and approved by the Cape Hatter as National Seashore Recreational Areh. The fishing center, near Nags Head, is one of the largest, and busiest along the mid-Atlantic Coast with berthing facilities for up to 100 sportsfishing cruisers. Crees, shown inside the Center’s headquarters surrounded with tackle, is associated with his fa ther, H. A. Crees, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Gray, and George ’Creef. (Photo by Brantley Brown) FUNDS DENIED TO BEGIN PROGRAM OF FLOOD INSURANCE Rep. Bonner Expresses Renewed Hope However for Amendment Authorizing sl4 Million Washington, May 3.—The pro posed federal flood disaster insur ance program suffered a major setback last Friday when the House Appropriations Committee denied funds for .tlje new_program. The committee accepted the rec ommendations of the Indepedent Offices Appropriation subcommit tee headed by Rep. Albert Thomas (D-Texas) in denying the SSO mil lion requested to start the program authorized by Congress last year. An amendment, offered by Rep. Edward P. Boland (D-Mass.) to provide sl4 million for the pro gram, also was voted down by the full committee. The two North Carolinians on the committoe, Reps. Hugh Q. Alexander and Charles R. Jonas, voted fro Bo land’s amendment, which was re jected 19-14. Reps. Herbert C. Bonner and Graham A. Barden, staunch sup porters of the program, voiced dis appointment at the committee’s action. Both expressed the opinion at that time that the only hope of launching the program this year was through Senate action. The two Congressmen, together with Reps. Alton A. Lennon and L. H. Fountain, earlier testified be fore the Thomas subcommittee on the need for flood disaster insur ance and urged that funds be pro vided for the program. Renewed Hope Rep. Bonner expressed renewed hope Monday after conferring with several members of the House Ap propriations Committee and other See PROGRAM, Page Seven BLUEFISH RUN REPORTED GREATEST IN MANY YEARS ,From Southern Shores to Ocra coke, great hordes of bluefish were hitting bait and lures of anglers this week, regardless of where an angler was fishing. On Wednesday night Ranny Jennette of Buxton called Manteo to report that more than 2,000 blues had been landed by some 40 fishermen casting in the surf at Cape Hatteras. The fish were still biting at dusk and with weather conditions such as they are, this should be a record breaking bluefish weekend, at all Dare coast points. Earlier Wednesday, Brantley Brown, covering Oregon Inlet with his camera, reported that all ang ler-laden boats in the area had caught plenty of blpes. “Some of them ran to 2% pounds each,” he said, and added “they also caught channel bass.” E. P. White of Bux ton reported unusually good catch es. Jack Willis at Ocracoke, report ed earlier this week that anglers there were catching channel bass in the surf and also by casting from boats anchored in sloughs near Ocracoke Inlet. Hatteras reported an unprece dented number of blues in the in let there, and also several channel bass landed during the week. Gulf Stream fishing was also reported on the upgrade. NPS CONCESSION AT OREGON INLET BOUGHT BY CREEF J. B. (TobeyJ Tillett Sells to Man teo Men, Business Catering to Tourists and Fishermen Largest business deal of the year in Dare County appears to be the sale of the NPS concession at Ore gon Inlet, heretofore operated by J. B. (Tobey) Tillett for the past four years, and which is announc ed this week. Mr. Tillett states he has sold the business to H. A. Crees, H. A. Crees Jr., George Crees and Wallace Gray. The purchased price is not dis closed, but is said to be in the neighborhood of $40,000, which is in line with other offers that had been made for the concession,! which is granted by the National Park Service, owners of the prop erty. Several interests in Dare County and Elizabeth City were interested in getting the property, negotia tions having been underway for several months. Mr. Tillett will remain with the new operators for an indefinite period while the operation is get- See OREGON INLET, Page Seven BIDS INVITED ON 45 MILES DITCHES IN DARE Projects Include Manteo, Wanchese, Kitty Hawi, Nags Head, Col ington and Hatteras Island Wilmington, May B.—An invita tion for bids was issued here today by the Corps of Engineers for the restoration of some 45 miles of drainage ditches in Dare County. Bids are scheduled to be opened here May 28 with the successful bidder required to begin work in 15 days and complete the job in six months. The work will be performed by private contractors and supervised by the Corps of Engineers for the Federal Civil Defense Administra tion. The areas involved are, in linear fert: Manteo, 43,000; Wanchese, 70,000; Waves to Hatteras, 33,000; Kitty Hawk, 48,000, and Stumpy Point, Nags Head and Colington, 45,000. These are projects that were worked up a year ago to be paid for from disaster relief funds re sulting from the storms of the fall of 1955. AS THE SEASON OPENED FULL BLAST AT NAGS HEAD BEACH 100 YEARS AGO ONE HUNDRED years ago, Nags Head was a thriving summer resort, as indicated by the above picture, drawn by a Harper’s magazine artist and published in the New York paper. When people came from var ious parts of Eastern North Carolina by steamer, they brought their household furniture, and carried it back at the end of the season. This furniture was hauled up the wharf on a truck that was pulled by an ox. Many of the summer visitors to Nags Head today recall when oxen were used to pull carts about the beach. Nags Head has been popular as a resort for 150 or more years. Today, almost everything has changed at Nags Head. AIT traffic is by motor vehicle. Few houses re main on the sound-side where in the old days all population centered. A great development has sprung up, and the cottage line is thickly developed from end to end of the beach, and includes large groups at both Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills which rival Nags Head. All areas of the beach are served by modern motels, hotels, stores, cases and amusement placeo. Homes now range in cost up to $60,000 and no longer do people carry their cast off furniture to< their seashore cottages, but furnish beach homes with latest beach innovations. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1957 OUTSTANDING CADET IN EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE f f a, * ’■■■ O k I SHE HOWARD WADE NIXON, of Manteo, a Cadet Ist Lieutenant in East Carolina College’s Air Force ROTC is among top cadets who were accorded unusual recognition for superior achievement last week in ceremonies conducted during the annual Federal inspection of the campus detachment. Cadet Nixon receives the Re serve Officers Association Certifi cate, for excellent appearance, pre cision, courtesy, scholastic work, leadership and fundamentals of good citizenship. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Nhcon of Manteo, and at tended school in Norfolk, Va., and was a 1953 graduate of the Man teo High School. This is his first year at East Carolina, where he is majoring in accounting and business administration and is a member of the Junior class. He attended N. C. State College in Raleigh for two years before en tering East Carolina. DRINKWATER TO FLY OFF AS GUEST OF EASTERN LINES A. W. Drinkwater, only living Manteo authority on the first air plane flights, is to get a fine trip next Tuesday, when he will fly to Charlotte as the guest of Eastern Airlines at a special celebration being held by this company. Mr. Drinkwater will spend Tuesday and Wednesday nights in Char lotte, and on his return renew his acquaintance with a number of his widow friends across the state. iNtW rlOMb AGENT EMPLOYED TUESDAY BY DARE CO. BOARD The Dare County Board of Com missioners voted on Tuesday to employ Miss Francoise Alexander of Roper as county" home agent, beginning June 1, to fill the posi tion that has been vacant for near ly a year. Miss Alexander was recommended by County Agent Robert Smith and by Miss Florence Cox of Raleigh, district home agent. The board also granted a request that she be allowed to take one week’s training with the home agent of Currituck County. In response to a complaint, the board voted to ask Representative R. Bruce Etheridge to have the present law prohibiting cars, trucks, and jeeps on the back of the beach from Oregon Inlet to Southern Shorse amended so as not to apply to the vehicles of com mercial fishermen who are in pur suit of their vocation, provided the fishermen remove any debris, scrap fish or any other matter which they cause to be strewn on the beach. Z. Russell Perry of Nags Head was named a member of the Dare County A.B.C. Board to fill the un-expired term of C. E. Parker, who resigned. The board decided to sit as a Board of Equalization and Review on May 21 and 22. Melvin R. Daniels, clerk to the board, was instructed to write Col. H. C. Rowland Jr., district engi neer, U. S. Corps of Engineers, to inform him that the date of May 28 set for hearings on hurricane problems would conflict with the spring term of Dare County Su perior Court and that the meeting would have to be held in the com munity building instead bf the courthouse as planned. In other action, the board went on record in favor of anything that could be done to improve gar bage disposal and the cleaning up of streets and highways, voted to ask that the Wilson Ambrose Road at Manns Harbor be placed on the state highway system, instructed that the State Highway Commis sion be written to determine what had been done about placing on the state system the road at Hat teras leading to the home of Adol phus Burrus and others, and voted to suspend the appointment of R. E. White as county electrical in spector for the duration of his illness. MANTEO VOTERS CHOSE VEPCO ELECTRIC SERVICE BY LARGE MAJORITY AND LARGE VOTE Aidermen Who Favored Plan Ran Lowest on Tick et as Board Picks Up New Member in Tuesday's Election When Record Vote Was Cast; 179 to 58 Votes Favor Vepco; Registration Had More Than Doubled. HYDE CO. EDITOR JOINS COASTLAND TIMES STAFF k 1 K » - * PRATT WILLIAMSON, Jr., who for the past three years has edited the weekly papers at Belhaven and Swan Quarter, this week joined the staff of The Coastland Times at Manteo, and henceforth will be seen in his former haunts only on week ends. Editor L. E. Fay, re cently editor of the Clarendon (Ark). Sun, has taken over the Belhaven and Swan Quarter pap pers and with Mrs. ‘ Fay will live in Belhaven. Mr. Williamson is residing in Manteo, and may be reached by Manteo phone No. 44. COMMENCEMENT SCHEDULE GIVEN BY MANTEO SCHOOL Manteo High School has an nounced plans for this year’s com mencement exercises, which will conclude with the presentation of diplomas to the 26 members of the graduating class on Tuesday night, May 28. The speaker for this pro gram, which will begin at 8 p.m., will be Dr. Nile F. Hunt of Ra leigh, co-ordinator of teacher edu cation of the State Department of Public Instruction. The Baccalaureate Service will be held on Sunday evening, May 26, at 8 p.m., in the school audi torium. The sermon will be preach-, ed by the Rev. W. E. Cholerton,' pastor of the Manteo Baptist Church. Other local ministers on the program will be the Rev. George W. Burch, the Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson, and the Rev. C. L. Warren. A special solo will also be sung by John H. Long. Class night exercises, entitled “The Senior Wonderland,” will be presented on : Monday night, May 27, at 8 p.m., under the direction of P. D. Mavrommatis. All seniors will take part. Mabel Jean Basnight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Basnight. has been named valedictorian, and Martha Rae Rogers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Rogers, will See COMMENCEMENT, Page 7 HEARING ON BEACH EROSION POSTPONED UNTIL TUESDAY. 28*4» The date set for the public hear ing in Manteo on hurricane prob lems affecting the Outer Banks has been changed from May 15 to Tuesday, May 28th, according to Col. H. C. Rowland Jr., District Engineer of Wilmington. This meeting is to hear views of interested parties between Hat teras and the Virginia State line as to such problems resulting from hurricanes, a need of assistance of the Federal Government JAMBOREE MEETING FRIDAY All officials, committees and r>ersons participating in the 1957 Pirate Jamboree are urged to at tend the Jambore meeting Friday night at 8:30 at the Town Hall in Kill Devil Hills. Reports on all activities of the Jamboree and plans for the Jamboree Regatta May 25 and 26, together with fi nancial reports, are expected to be given. Chairman Wallace McCown asks that everyone connected with the Jamboree attend this meeting so that a complete record of the 195 T activities will be available for early plans to be made for the 1968 Jamboree. Single Copy 70 With 92 per cent of the town’s registered voters casting their choice Tuesday, the proposal to put the town in the electric power business was snowed under by a majority of more than three to one. Only four voters failed to register their choice on this issue. The vote in favor of the town proposition was 58, while 179 votes were cast in favor of granting the Virginia Electric and Power Company a 30- year franchise in Manteo. High runner for Board of Aider men was G. T. Westcott with a vote of 189, and next to him the new comer in the field, Barnett, got 170 votes. Westcott, a member of the board, and Barnett, the newcomer, both favored Vepco. Sam Midgett, present member of the board, drop ped down to 117 votes and is elect ed, but M. L. Daniels, Jr. lost out, his vote being only 100. Both these men advocated putting the town in the power business. The citizens of Manteo had fair weather in which to express their desires. Heavy voting began early in the day. A few names were writ ten in on the ticket. Belton Bur rus, as a write-in candidate got 12 votes for aiderman, Vernon Dav is, a former board member, five votes, while Ralph Davis, W. M. Jolliff and Mrs. Molly Andrews got one vote each. Keith Fearing Jr. and Vernon Davis each got one write-in vote for Mayor. Next highest vote cast, 178, went to Martin Kellogg, the re-elected in cumbent mayor. It was the biggest vote ever known in the town of Manteo. It was a clear verdict that the citi zens do not approve of a municipal power system in Manteo. Consid erable activity had been manifest on both sides of the issue. Roanoke Utilities Company, which favored the Vepco side, and aided by Vepco advice and counsel, had liberally besieged the town with argument in their behalf. The town board had also sent letter after letter to the citizens, making claims of great benefits that would accrue to the town by handling the power business itself. During the registration period, the town’s list of registered voters increased from 124 to 261, or a gain of 137. The total vote cast exceeded by six the last estimate made by this newspaper. The vote ' for Vepco exceeded by 12, the guess also likewise made. No Regrets and No Complaints M. L. Daniels Jr., the one can didate for Aiderman who was nosed out in the race, after having served some nine years on the Board, said he had no regrets and no complaints. He said he only wanted to bring out all the facts in the issue, and now that the peo ple have spoken, he accepts their decision, and had it not been Jie will necessarily be out of town Monday of next week at the Board meeting, he would graciously ap prove the Power Company’s appli cation for the franchise on the first reading, when it comes be fore the board. This is in accord with his original statement of position. “In fact,” he said, “I feel as if I have a 200 pound load lifted off my shoulder, for the stress of a campaign of this kind naturally creates some tension. I have avoid ed saying anything about any of the participants that I would re gret, and I have refused to believe numerous rumors brought to me by tale bearers, about what the oppo sition may have said about me.” “I wish everybody well, and have no envy or malice in any respect. I believe all parties will find me still their friends. I have worked as best I could for the town’s in terests, and most of it has been very pleasant, and I think I have gained much of value personally in my association with others in this work. It has been pleasant. I am grateful to those who supported me, and it is some satisfaction to know that many who opposed the municipal power issue, voted for me just the same.” I Ray Goodmon, Vice President of Vepco said Wednesday morning his company would present their appli cation again on Monday afternoon, May 13, to the Manteo town Board, and should it be approved on first reading and again approv ed at the June 10th meeting he was confident, that upon approval of other regulatory agencies, • If® OCViMI
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