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VOLUME XXIII NO. 19 JAMES M. VANNOTE APPOINTED TUESDAY AS DARE CORONER Other Matters Taken Up at Reg ular Board Meeting; Reports Given James M. Vannote of Manteo was Tuesday appointed Dare County Coroner by the county commissioners to fill the unexpired term of the late Marvin Rogers, which expires in December, 1958. Mr. Vannote served as acting coro ner whenever needed during, the illness proceeding Mr. Rogers’s death. A Hatteras delegation appeared before the commissioners in the interest of some drainage in Hat teras and the dredging and deep ening of Hatteras Inlet The board ordered that the Special Committee for the Improvement of Oregon Inlet be changed to the Dare Coun ty Special Committee for Water way Improvement and that the membership be changed to include: M. L. Burrus, Wheeler Ballance, William Gibson, and Millard Bal lar.ce, Hatteras; Alvah H. Ward, Jr., and Lawrence L. Swain, Man teo; Ben Dixon Mac Neill and £. P. White, Buxton; and Melvin R. Daniels, Wanchese. The new com mittee was specially charged with assembling information and pre paring presentations to improve the waterway through Hatteras Inlet as well as the promotion of Oregon Inlet as a waterway, pro vided that consideration of flood control or waterway projects . be developed in other areas as they become needed and evident and that the necessary expense of prep aration of documents and briefs be borne by Dare County except that such expenditures as are made must have prior approval of the commissioners. The board directed that the clerk to the board contact the U. S. Coast Guard to ascertain if the State Highway Commission could be allowed to operate the ferry across Oregon Inlet as late as 6 p.m. The county accountant was or dered to advertise for bids to fur nish fuel oil for Die Courthouse, Community Building, and Health Center. The bids are to be opened at the board's regular meeting De cember 3. A. H. Ward, Jr., president of the Dare County Tourist Bureau, made a report on the workings of the Tourist Bureau, citing the many benefits derived from its activi ties. In other action, the board ap pointed Mrs. Nellie Perry as sec retary to the farm and home agents to succeed Mrs. Elizabeth Grace, who resigned; appropriated $350 for the Wright Memorial As sociation celebration to be held December 17, with SIOO of this amount to be used in getting out a brochure; and agreed for the county to assume payment of the electric bill for the county Civil Defense radio facility. LIONS BROOM SALE WILL START NEXT WEEK Members of Manteo Lions Cluh will begin door-to-door sales ol brooms next week, offering twc types to householders and a special warehou sebroom to business firms This is an annual, event for the club. Prices will be $1.50 for stan dard brooms, 75 cents for whisl brooms. The brooms are manufac tured by blind personnel at the Industries for the Blind, Greens boro. Profits from the sale will re main in the club treasury for fur therance of local projects. PAST GRAND NOBLES HOLD EASTERN STAR MEETING The Eastern Star meeting al Wanchese on November 4 was con ducted by the past noble grands with a program on “Friendship” Those taking part were Mesdames Lyna Harbour, Pattie Smith Katherine Kennedy, Elizabeth Parkerson, Salina Midgett, Tracj Ward, Susan Ballowe, Lois Mid gett, Lessie Davis, Bernice Can nady, Hilda Francis and Gilds Swain. BAZAAR NEXT WEEK The public is reminded of the Eastern Star bazaar which is tc be held November 14, 16 and It in the show room of the Dare County Ice and Storage Company in Manteo. Many items will be or sale, and it might be a good time to begin Christmas shopping, al the same time helping out a gooc cause. I MRS. LYDIA R. SMITH Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith of Man teo were called away Saturday due to the death of Mr. Smith's moth er, Mrs. Lydia R. Smith of Vance boro, who had been ill for some time. The funeral was held Mon day at Vanceboro. 1 THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA DARE COUNTY YOUNS DEMOCRATIC CLUB OFFICIALS '■kssi .*'■* m«. HI V ML , I Aycock Brown photo RECENTLY elected officials of the Dare County Young Democratic Club are shown in the following group. Jack Tillett, .President, Horace Hooper, Stumpy Point, Whip; Mrs. Dotty Fry, Secretary and Alvah Ward Jr., Treasurer. Dr. W. W. Harvey Jr., Vice President is not shown in the picture. MANTEO ROTARIANS HEAR ABOUT INDIA MONDAY FRpM KANNAIAH KONURI A tobacco farmer of Guntur, India, speaking to Manteo Rotar ians Monday night gave a contrast of living in the United States and the democracy of his native coun try. For the past several months, in the role of goodwill ambassador the speaker, Kannaiah Konuri, who is a member of the Rajahmundry Rotary Club, has been making a study of tobacco farming and mar keting in North Carolina and be tween times, he has been guest speaker at civic clubs from the mountains to the coast. He stated that one of his primary purposes in this country was to promote good will and a better understand ing between his people and the peoples of the United States. .Soqp he goes to New York and the United Nations for a visit, and then he Returns to India. A member of the Indian Cham ber of Commerce, Konuri is an Advocate of the Indian Supreme Court and president of the Nagar juni-Sagar multipurpose R iver Valley Project Committee in Gun tur, South India. “This project,” he stated,” is costing 240 million dollars and will irrigate four million acres of land in famine-stricken South India.” While he is primarily a tobacco dealer and explorer he stated that his main purpose for coming to North Carolina was to increase his knowledge of the tobacco indus try. He has been in the tobacco industry for the past 25 years, Konuri is interested in building up business connections with the United States and improving Indo- American relations, understanding, and good will. He began his talk by stating that the Constitution of IndiS was copied from our Consti tution and that the Supreme Court has authority to interpret the Con stitution, and that the citizens of India enjoy today the same liber ties as do Americans. His nation, he said, is divided into 14 states based on languages but they are now attempting to establish a unified language. Konuri pointed out that the In dian nation is in great need of raising its economic standards. The present per capita income of an Indian is only S6O per year and i the average citizen consumes only 2,000 calories daily while the nor mal consumption should be 3,000. The principal food of the masses is rice and vegetables. “India is a democratic nation and about 10 million of its 380 million inhabitants are Christians, largely because of the work of American missionaries,” said Ko nuri. He, himself, is a Hindu, American industry is invited to participate in India’s economic de velopment by acquiring properties and helping produce needed foods and other necessities that will help an Indian know a better life. He urged this especially because In dia is a stronger believer in peace ful settlement of problems, a sort of “testing ground for future Democracy.” If Ihdia fails, due to Communistic influences that are continually being injected into Asian countries, the “repercussions would be felt far beyond India’s borders," it was stated. Arrangements for Konuri’s ap pearance in Manteo was made by Rotarian Roland Sawyer. Several guests were present at the meeting Monday including for mer District Governor P. D. Mid gett of Engelhard. In the absence of club president Ernest Meekins, now on vacation in Canada, Aycock Brown presided See ROTARIANS, Page Eight COMMANDER DANIELS GOES TO CALIFORNIA ! COMMANDER ROYCE L. DAN . IELS, SC, USN, of Wanchese has ‘ been transferred from Norfolk to ' the Long Beach (Calif.) shipyard ( after service at the Norfolk Naval I Supply Center, where he will be I succeeded by Cdr. A. L. Hughes. Cdr. and Mrs. Daniels were honor ' guests at a luncheon last week. ( He was detached on Oct. 25. He j was in charge of the Norfolk . Naval Supply Center’s Provision > Supply Depot. Mrs. Daniels is the former Celia Stowe of Wanchese. [ He is the son of Mr. and Mrs . Willis Daniels. MANTEO MEN MEET UNEXPECTEDLY ON WEST COAST r , , i/' . ...v. t' ! . ... // . jj JR - TAR HEELERS—It’s a small world. When Andy Griffith (left), a ■ resident of Manteo, N. C., went aboard the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter t Heather for filming on Warner Bros.’ "Onionhead,” he was welcomed 5 aboard by a fellow townsman, Lt.- Comdr. Marvin H. Twiford, USCG, ’ the C. O. of the ship. Twiford, born and brought up in Manteo, joined | the Coast Guard in 1924. Griffith commutes to Hollywood for film 5 assignments but continues to maintain his home in Manteo. Lt. Cdr. Twiford retired from the service in October, and will continue to make his home, in California. Mrs. Twiford is from Con . necticut. They have three children living, and lost one a few years t ago, a son who while in the Coast Guard service was killed in a mis hap to his ear when it skidded on a live opossum on the highway in t New Jersey. The Twiford* visited Manteo last about two years ago, ’ and are expected here again next year. His father was the late Henry ' Smith, who lived in Manteo 40 years ago, and the late Mrs. Betsy , Harris Smith of Kitty Hawk, but he was adopted and reared by the , late George W. Twiford, his uncle, former Manteo police chief. In Man ] too Cdr. Twiford visited his brother, Belove Twiford, and other rela tives in this area. , MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1957 SCOUT FUND DRIVE KICKOFF IS HELD MONDAY MORNING With a kickoff breakfast at the Carolinian Hotel Monday morning, the Boy Scout fund drive was launched in Dare County. Also kicking off at the same time was the Currituck County drive. This is the first time that the Scout drive extends into every community from Moyock to Hat teras. There are over 260 Scouts, Cubs and Explorers in Currituck and Dare Counties with represent ation in most every community. The Boy Scouts of America are served in this area by over JSO volunteers who are dedicated to ! building better citizens for another day. Through assistance given by the Tidewater Council this job is accomplished. This assistance con sists of training, supervision, and programming, and a trained execu tive is assigned to help these coun ties and others in the program. These volunteers seek ,to instill i into boys through the program of , Scouting, citizenship participation, ■ leadership, training and physical’ fitness. i Volunteer workers who are - carrying on the drive to make . possible the continued expansion . of the Scouting program include: Currituck County: Leroy Powers, ’ Moyock; Sam Walker, Snowden ! and area; Walter Smith, Currituck; i Lyle Forbes, Shawboro and Greg i ory; Burnice Taylor, Maple, Mrs. , J. L. Havman, Coin jock area; Mrs. Iva Hampton, Barco; Mrs. Carson Matthews and Mrs. Edith I Hampton, Aydlett; Norman Hugh- I See SCOUTS, Page Eight REPORT PROPOSES $204,000 MANTEO STREET PROJECTS The engineering firm of Wm. F. Freeman, Inc. of High Point Mon day presented to the Manteo Board of Aldermen a report pro posing that the town undertake street and storm drainage projects amounting in all to $204,000. The board received the report for con sideration, but took no action on the proposed projects. The only official action taken by the board was to approve the fore closux-e on all property subject to unpaid town taxes without any exceptions, and to approve the in-* stallation of a public telephone booth in the town’s business sec tion. In a detailed report, the engi neers recommended that the Town Board investigate the possibility of constructing curb and gutter, storm drainage and paving on an assessment basis of essentially all the unpaved streets within the town’s limits. The assessments are computed on the basis of the town assuming 1/3 of the total cost. The town is presently responsible for maintaining 1.08 miles of hard surfaced streets and 1.95 miles of unsurfaced streets. The total street milage within the town limits i 9 approximately 3.63 miles, with the State Highway Commission, re sponsible for Highway Street and Little Street within the town) limits. AFTER SERVICE IN ITALY HAS BALTIMORE ASSIGNMENT j I . a • jf* Baltimore, Md.—First Lieutenant Major Irving Hooper, son of Mrs. Florine Hooper and the late Loran zo D. Hooper of Stumpy Point, has been assigned to Headquarters Air Research and Development Command (ARDC) here effective November 16. He will be assigned as an Administrative Officer in the office of the Staff Judge Advocate. Lieutenant Hooper entered active duty with the United States Air Force shortly after his graduation in May 1954 from East Carolina College, Greenville, with the de gree of Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. He has been Adjutant of the 7207th Air Base Squadron at Aviano, Italy, for the past two years and nine months. He holds the National Defense Service Medal and the Army of Occupation Medal (Germany). Lieutenant Hooper and his wife, Marietta, are the parents of a son, Major 1., Jr., 14 months. Lt. Hoop er was named for his grandfathers, the late Capt. Major Pugh of Man teo, and C. Irving Hooper of Stumpy Point. BIG ROCKFISH CATCHES MADE NEAR MANNS HBR. Largest catch of rockfish (striped bass) taken from the wa ters of Croatan Sound in the Manns Harbor area was made by Glenn Bonner and party of Man teo. In one morning of fishing, he and his fishing friends accounted for 201 stripers .. . Junie Baydush, John Timberlake and J. T. Owens of Norfolk, aboard the cruiser Mar-Sue reported catching 194 stripers in one day of fishing near Manns Harbor, a few going to three pounds each. The Nor folk party had been fishing local waters of Roanoke Island and Manns Harbor for several days and with Manteo friends in on some of the catches they caught a total of more than 500 stripers ... All the stripers taken were landed with trolling lures . . . Chick Craddock and Clarence Holmes of Manns Harbor, pro fessional fishing guides report ed more stripers this year than since before the hurricanes of two or three years ago. Outlook for surf and sound fish ing for channel bass and striped bass during the remainder of No vember in waters of the Dare Coast and Outers Banks is very POSTMASTERSHIP CHANGES TWICE IN WEEK AS SHANNON SUCCEEDS SWAIN WEDNESDAY Movement Started in Washington Snowballs Ben Shannon Into Job Despite Republican Protest, Overcoming Appointment of Ralph Swain Who Got Caught in the Gears and Served Six Days, Succeeding Ray Jones. BONNER TO SPEAK STUMPY PT. MONDAY m -m m ' Ifik M HERBERT C. BONNER, Congress man from the First District will be the speaker at the Young Demo cratic Armistice Day rally at Stumpy Point Monday evening at 7:30 at Stumpy Point. Horace Hooper, young Democratic Club whip and his committee at Stumpy Point have promised a big time with a choice oyster roast, and Young Democrats from all parts of Dare County have been invited. The president of the Dare County Young Democratic Club is Jack Tillett of Manteo. A. H. Ward, Jr. is Treasurer. Dr. W. W. Harvey Jr. of Manteo is Treasurer, and Mrs. Dotty Fry is Secretary. Mr. Hooper says old Democrats as well as young ones are invited to hear Mr. Bonner and to enjoy this oyster roast. INVESTITURE CEREMONY FOR HATTERAS SCOUTS Girls Receive Bathes in Recent Meet ing, Mrs. Carlos Oden Leader Hatteras, Nov. 4.—An investi ture ceremony and court of awards for the Girl Scouts of Lone Troop No. 1 were conducted Wednesday, October 30, at the Hatteras Com munity building. Piior to the ceremonies, the leader, Mrs. Carlos Oden, gave a brief outline of the projects, bad ges and activities towards which the girls will work*in the coming year. The ceremony opened with the song, “Girl Scouts Together”. This was followed by the flag ceremony, with Ann Styrorf and Jennifer Aus tin serving as color bearers; Elaine Miller and Geraldine Meekins as color guard. The investiture ceremony was conducted by the leader. Tender feet welcomed into the troop were Chalaron Hudgins, Etta Stowe, Marianne Heald, Susan Williams, Mamie Gaskins, all of Hatteras, and Yvonne Frontis and Ruby Jennette of Buxton: The assistant leader, Mrs. E- J. Miller, awarded second class bad ges to Elaine Miller, Jennifer Aus tin, Geraldine Meekins and Ann Styron. She also awarded profi ciency badges as follows: My Community badges—Roberta Austin, Joanne Austin, Reba Bur rus, Sandra Gray, Jane Gaskins, Susan Heald, Susan Midgett, Ce celia Scarborough, Natlie Stowe. Dabbler badges—Joanne Austin, Roberta Austin, Reba Burrus, Jane Gaskins, Sandra Gray, Susan Heald, Susan Midgett, Geraldine Meekins, Elaine -Miller, Cecelia Scarborough, Natlie Stowe, Ann Styron. First Aid Badges—Roberta Aus tin, Joanne Austin, Jennifer Aus tin, Reba Burrus, Sandra Gray, Sandra Gillikin, Susan Heald, Cha laron Hudgins, Jane Gaskins, Cece lia Scarborough, Elaine Miller, Su san Midgett, Ann Styron, Gerald ine Meekins. A refreshment and game period completed the ceremonies. Host esses were Jane Gaskins, Mamie Gaskins, Reba Burrps and Chala ron Hudgins. * NARROW ESCAPE IN WRECK Louis Latham Midgett of Manns Harbor had a narrow escape Tues day night about 11 p.m. southwest of Stumpy Point on Highway 264 when his 1956 Chevrolet ran off the road near Payne’s Creek and was wrecked into a total loss. Single Copy 7p Orders out of one branch of the Postcffice Department do not al ways agree with orders from an other branch. Witness the surpris ing change made Wednesday night when post office inspector Paul Osgood came into Manteo, and an nounced that he had come to check out the postmaster and put in a new one. The new one now is Ben Shan non, but on November 1, Ralph Swain of Mante6 had been apoint et on the sudden resignation of acting postmaster Ray Jones. The snowball of political effort begun in behalf of Ben Shannon last May, had finally caught up and put him in the post for which he was destined. But in the mean time, one branch of the Depart ment had sent word for Mr. Swain to take over when Mr. Jones de cided to resign. It was a sort of embarrassing situation for Mr. Swain, caught as he was in the cogs, after holding the office since Nov. 1, to find himself relieved and nobody could give him any explanation. A bit of unique history sur rounds the effort for the post mastership at Manteo. Under the Eisenhower Administration, Repub lican leaders had been trying to fill the place with one of 'their members. A popular young Manteo businessman, Ray Jones, son of former postmaster, the late R. C. Jones, was selected and given the interim appointment as acting postmaster, pending examinations of applicants, but when the appli cations had all been processed, it was found that Mr. Jones was not one of the top three candidates. The list was last headed by Ben Shannon, a permanent clerk in the Manteo postoffice, and the other two on the list, the brothers Swain, Ralph and Lawrence. This was indeed a painful dilemma for . the Republicans. Mr. Jones had the general good will of the community, his party leaders, and the help of many who are so-called Democrats, but some of them gave him some bad advice. He filed a number of childish charges against Ben Shannon, the clerk in his office who was top man on the list. The obvious pur pose being to discredit Shannon, get him fired from the postoffice and out of the list of candidates. In this manner, Mr. Jones might have then moved into ithe list of ' three. It’s all history how the move back-fired, hurt Mr. Jones, and gave Democrat leaders a chance to have some weight in the situa tion. The situation didn’t offer much hope for Mr. Jones; he con sidered resigning, some say his friends had hopes he’d be given a clerkship in the postoffice, any way, he and the Republican lead ers, along with some others back ing him woe determined that any thing and everything possible would be done to keep Shannon frojn getting the appointment. As one self-styled Democrat who is not a resident of the community, but likes to run things, told a post office inspector, it was unthinkable that a Shannon be given the Man teo postoffice; it would be a dis grace. Republican County Chairman Vernon Gaskill of Wanchese, who shortly before the Eisenhower elec tion, had been registered as a Democrat for a spell, offered Ralph Swain his endorsement. Mr. Gas kill and Mr. Jones considered Mr. Swain the least undesirable of the three who were on the qualified list. , The Manteo post office carries a salary of about $4,800 a year. It is rated a second class office, and has two permanent clerks, John Krider and Ben Shannon, and two substitute clerks, Mrs. Marilyn Midgett and Frank White. Mr. Swain *who Is a we’l known groceryman and former insurance salesman, has lived in Manteo for the past 12 years, coming here See POSTMASTERS, Page Eight WHOPPING DRUMFISH REPORTED AT BUXTON Here’s a catch of drumfish out of this world, as the saying might have it, but reported from Bux ton by Raymond Midgett, the well-known bus driver. Three fish, ; taken from the surf Tuesday night were weighed in at 60, 68 and 75 pounds, Mrs. Midgett re- Fuller’s • /liill - ,'J {/'■ J.--
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