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VOLUME XXIII NO. 30 VALUE OF ANCIENT HURDLE OAKS AT KITTY HAWK S6OO An Interesting Suit Against VEP CO Heard This Week in Dare Courthouse Various estimates on the value of some 30 or more live oak trees, some of them more than 30 inches in diameter, were given by wit nesses giving testimony in a com missioners hearing at Dare Coun ty Courthouse on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The loca tion was the former home of the late Professor Hurdle of Kitty Hawk. The damage to retired Air Force General and Mrs. Charles Y. Banfill’s property on the shores of Kitty Hawk Bay, when the trees were cut down for a power line right of way ranged S3OO in the opinion of Herman Tillett of Kitty Hawk community to $4,760 according to testimony given by Robert Young of AValon Beach real estate development near the property. The Banfills had brought the property in 1941 for SI,OOO and planned to build a retirement home there. Norman M. Armstrong of Chap el Hill, former president of the National Arborist Society and a member of the National Shade Tree Conference’s committee oh establishing the value of trees said the trees were “worth $10,866 and even $33,318 if each had been in perfect condition.” ‘ He based his opinion according to a formula the Shade Tree com mittee uses in arriving at the value of a tree. He explained the formula stating “that measure ments of a tree’s trank from the ground to three and half feet is taken. Then the square inches in that measured stumpage is taken and the total inches is multiplied by $5.” This information, plus other testimony evaluating the damage done to the property by cutting the right-of-way apparently did not impress Superior Court Ap pointed Commissioners Jesse Baum, Kitty Hawk, Elton C. Twiford, Kill Devil Hills and Onslow J. See TREES, Page Four ROTARIANS HEAR AGENT DISCUSS FARM ECONOMY The Manteo Rotary Club Mon day night heard County Farm Agent J. L. Rea discuss the coun try’s farm economy, in which he pictured with a chart the rise in farm production during the past several years, the rise ii? popula tion to 170 millions, and pointed out the needs by 1978 that will result. He showed today the aver age farm investment as being $27,000 which is far more than the investment required for each worker in the country’s big indus trial plants. Julian Oneto made a plea for a contribution from the club to as sist in paying for a piano at the Manteo High School, and a motion was made to give SIOO which was referred to the Board of directors. Mr. Oneto was sworn in later in the evening as a newly appointed member of the N. C. Cape Hat teras National Seashore Commis sion. Another coastland resident, Theo. Rondthaler of Ocracoke has also recently been appointed on this commission by Governor Hod ges. Dr. W. W. Johnston expressed his appreciation to the club for the numerous remembrances from many friends during his recent ill ness. Several visitors were pre sented to the club. These included W. H. Smith of Kitty Hawk, Mr. Rea, and Gene F. George, of the Wachovia Bank of Raleigh, who is temporarily assisting on the orce of the Bank of Manteo. Mr. Rea also urged attendance at a meeting of citizens this week who are working on a plan for beautification of the local high ways in effort to make them more appealing to our tourist visitors; ROBERT A. MURPHY Robert A. Murphy, 60, died in Norfolk Thursday. He was a brother of Major J. L. Murphy of Kill Devil Hills, and a native of Norfolk, Va., and his funeral was conducted Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery. Mr. Murphy was a retired execu tive of the North American Ship ping & Trading Co. He was the husband of Mrs. Margaret E. Mur phy, son of Mrs. Margaret A. and the late Michael J. Murphy, and is survived by two brothers, Major Murphy of Kill Devil Hills and Vice-Admiral Vincent Murphy, U SN retired. Also by two sons, R. A. Murphy Jr. and Jas. E. Murphy • both of Larchmont, N. Y. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA FIRST NEW BERN MAN TO HEAD ITS SHRINE TEMPLE OTIS M. BANKS of Cary, above, executive secretary of the N. £ State Highway Employes Associa tion, was elected potentate of Su dan Temple Shriners at their an nual winter ceremonial in New Bei-n Thursday. The temple em braces all of Eastern North Caro lina. SHRINERS IN FORCE IN NEW BERN THIS WEEK: ELECT BANKS New Bern, Jan. 23.—Eastern North Carolina Shriners elected Otis M. Banks potentate of Sudan Temple today, and he became the first native New Bernian ever to head the 41-year-old temple here. He succeeds Dr. Ralph L. Fike of Wilson. Banks, now a resident of Cary, is executive secretary of the State Highway Employes Association. More than half the temple’s 6,400 membership were in attend ance today at the annual business meeting, opening of the new temple, addition, and initiation of new ’Shriners. " Other officers elected were Clyde G. McAuley, Rocky Mount, chief rabban; Otis G. Sawyer, Dur ham, assistant rabban; Horace T. King, Wilmington, high priest and prophet; W. A. Prince, Goldsboro, oriental guide; I. V. Stephens, New Bern, treasurer; and Lester H. Gillikin, New Bern, recorder. On the committee for crippled childrens’ hospitals, the charity to which the Shrine is dedicated, Po tentate Banks appointed Paul L. Strickland and Curtis Ennis, both of Dunn, and Past Imperial Poten tate Hubert M. Poteat of Wake Forest. Arthur T. Moore of Fayetteville was placed in line for potentate ten years hence by his appoint ment as outer guard today by Banks. The potentate’s aides for the year will be T. Manly Honeycutt, Richard Pendergraph, R. Lloyd Young and Guy L. Honeycutt, all of Raleigh. Other 1958 officials named to day included Charles A. Harris, See SHRINERS, Page Four CREW OF DARE COUNTY'S NEWEST MILITARY INSTALLATION ’» 4W ... \ A, rim». > .w* -1 -» • >. »> ■ ..W:W •”***»%,■ • t*H IMFBI HUESE9M i 1 wjM ,4 -# i - ' gK ? 'K' 5mK : M .***■■' ■ W JKjKW-' ■ <’-?'' •. ar ”>• *' ‘‘ *• I Wr “ BBBb • wf-v i ivl-. £1 JK&r ’ wm, »&. < u . .wk w« ■ Hk Jl <;fun-*# feti -IFT* ; WW * wi JKri •< 7Mf !&.•’ ■ jwgs bßh^'• “■r WVi -' tR 'lf 5 -&mh Ji ~...» . > IO 111- W<c JLW . p&L 1 d 3 1 Mk f .jjLr.yhfc. AT STUMPY POINT, the Navy in an old LST in the center used as M. Rush, the Methodist Church at .Willey G. Allen, AB2, Columbia, August last year opened a new facility officially named “U. S. 1 Naval Target, Stumpy Point" Seven men were in the original crew which took over the modern barracks building from the con-' tractor, but the crew was increased to twenty after actual operations began in September. Under the command of Chief Stanley D. Webb, the men daily man three observation ftowers bordering a practice target area 18 miles out in Pamlico (Sound from Stumpy Point. The towers form a triangle three miles along each side, with 1 NPS OPERATING AIR SAMPLING PROJECT AT BODIE ISLAND Long Range Study Will Determine if Pollution Is In Our Coastal Air Cape Hatteras National Sea shore Recreational Area is oper ating a special air sampling sta tion during 1968 in cooperation with the U. S. Public Health Serv ice, it was revealed today by Superintendent Robert F. Gibbs of the National Seashore. The station is one of 160 constituting the Na tional Air Sampling Network, part of a long-range study to de termine the nature and extent of air pollution over the U. S. and its relationships to such influences as climate, geography, population, and industry. All major popula tion areas and many remote non urban areas are being sampled. The Public Health Service provides the equipment, analyses the samples, and reports on findings. Headquarters of the Network are in the Service’s Community Air Pollution Program at the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Cen ter, Cincinnati, Ohio. The sampler is set up at Bodie Island Visitor Center adjacent to Bodie Island Lighthouse. It is an improved high volume sampler, which acts and sounds like a vac uum cleaner as it sucks air for 24 hours through a glass filter to trap air borne particles. The filter IS sent to Cincinnati for physical, chemical, and radiological analysis, and the data on the results are returned to State and local author ities to aid them in then’ own studies of air pollution. This is no small task, even if the 160 sta tions of the Network sample only once every two weeks, but PHS and local engineers believe the broad picture sought is well worth the effort required. WANCHESE CITIZENS TO CONSIDER STREET LIGHTS AT MEETING JANUARY 27 A meeting of the citizens of Wanchese has been called for eight o’clock, Monday night, Janu ary 27th at the school, to consider means of putting in some 20 street lights in the community. This proj ect, which was first sponsored some months ago by the Wanchese Ruritan Club has been tentatively worked out, and at the forthcom ing meeting the costs will be ex plained, and attempts made to get enough citizens to underwrite the cost each » The cost is estimated at approxi mately $360 per year for 20 lights. Rev. C. L. Warren, Chairman, Wayland Baum and J. T. Daniels are the committee members work ing on this project. A fashion show using men models, is expected to provide a lot of fun, and bring in some money for the community work of the club. This show will be held about February 14th in the school building. A similar show by the See LIGHTS, Page Four a target for practice bombing by I Navy planes from as far away as > Florida. The tower personnel ob serve and score the bomb drops. Operations are normally conducted i each weekday and occasionally on . week ends. Transportation back I and forth by boat to the towers ' is provided under contract by Le i land Wise of Stumpy Point. The Navy men found no trouble ■ fitting into the social life of the community, and several of them ; have moved their families to ' Stumpy Point With the men’s co : operation, particularly the leader* 1 ship of one of the sailors, Clarence MANTEO. N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1958 $190,000 GRANT TO CAPE HATTERAS LIGHT SYSTEM With Funds on Hand Will Add 11 Miles Distribution Line; Add 100 Customers The Rural Electricfication Cor poration. advised this week it had granted a loan of $190,000 to the Cape Hatteras Electric Member ship Corporation of Buxton, James S. Turner, President, according to information from Congressman Herbert Bonner’s office. They wil’ use this money together with some that they have from a previous loan to build 11 miles of distribu tion line. That will bring service to 100 new rural consumers. They will also use this money to make some improvements to their serv !ce for their 'present consumers. This corporation serves Hatteras Inlet, Pamlico Sound villages of Hatteras, Frisco, Buxton, Avon, Salvo, Waves and Rodanthe. Hat eras Island is 60 miles long, and all but 12 miles of this area is served by the lines of this com pany. These lines stop at Rodanthe. REALLY NEWSY IS OCRACOKE SCHOOL NEWS BULLETIN Sprightly Paper Records Just About Everything Happening on The Island We learn many things about the Island of Ocracoke that we don’t, earn elsewhere, upon reading the Ocracoke School news, a sprightly bulletin that comes out once a month during the school year. We thought our paper carried most of the news, but there really is a lot more, and here are some of the things we i-ead in the School news: There’ll be a special dance on Valentine’s day to raise money for the Junior Senior dinner and party . . hunting was reported good at Ocracoke since New Year’s ... The postoffice was rushed with busi ness this season as never before ... a new 185'KW generator has been installed at the light plant ... it cost $55,490 . . . School Principal Rondthaler has been ap pointed by Governor Hodges to membership on the Cape Hatteras Seashore Commission . . . Mr. Rondtaler has also revealed the :old weather records for the island recently . . . His thermometer dropped to 23 degrees the coldest night and remained below freezing for two days, and freezing temp eratures continued for seven nights ... a list of holiday visitors, many of them back to their old home to see relatives includes people from just about every state, and some foreign places, which shows how far afield our Ocracokers have wandered in pursuit of their avoca tions . . . Also many Ocracokers have been some distance from home doing a little visiting. The community store still flour ishes, and Mr. Garrish is adding See BULLETIN, Page Four Stumpy Point has opened a youth center that offers the only place in the community for supervised recreation each week end. The names, ratings and home town addresses of the crew mem bers, as pictured above, are: (left to right) front row, Elwood Har kins, CSS, Asheville, N. C.; Robert E. Thrasher, AN, Huntingburg, Ind.; William H. Acord, BTB, Portssmeuth, Va.; Homer F. Fain, AN, Springfield, Ohio; Wilton G. Branch, CS2, Lumberton, N. C.; Martin E. Insley, BMI, Currituck, N. C.; Second row, Chief Stanley D. Webb, CD, Tahlequah, Okla.; NEW BERN COUPLE TO GIVE CONCERT IN MANTEO MONDAY f II ■ .JseW Imb I “ f -w ■y bt ' s' APPEARING IN RECITAL at 8:15 on Monday evening, January 27, Mr. and Mrs. Arvids K. Snornieks of New Bern will bring to residents of the Manteo area a program of vocal and piano music which is ex pected to be well worth the effort to hear. Mr. and Mrs. Snornieks, natives of Latvia, now making their home in New Bern, had given many concerts in Germany before coming to the United States to live, and have recently been much in demand in North Carolina. Mr. Snornieks is the vocalist and Mrs. Snornieks will play the piano and accompany her husband. The public is invited to attend. A nominal admission charge will be will go toward the fund for the new school piano. The concert will be given in the Manteo school auditorium. DCTB BOARD TO MEET IN MANTEO WED. JAN. 29 Winter meeting of the Dare County Tourist Bureau Board of Directors will be held in the Com munity Building at Manteo next Wednesday, January 29, at 10 o’clock. All members of the Board as well as members of the County Board of Commissioners have been notified and urged to attend the meeting. There will be reports by the Chairman of the Board, the Sec retary and Treasurer and the Gen eral Manager. Plans for making 1958 the big gest vacation year in the history of the Dare Coast will be discuss ed at the meeting. While it is a Board of Directors meeting, any person interested in the Tourist Bureau and its publicity and pro motion program are always wel come to attend, it was stated by the chairman, Alvah H. Ward, Jr. SEASHORE COMMISSION MEMBERS APPOINTED Theodore Rondthaler of Ocra coke and Julian Oneto of Nags Head have been named to the North Carolina Cape Hatteras Sea shore Commission for four-year terms ending Jan. 12, 1962. They replace P. Bruce Bateman of Plymouth and S. Bunn Frink of Southport. Reappointed to the commission were Ben Dixon Mac Neill of Buxton, Miles Clark of Elizabeth City and Aycock Brown of Manteo for terms expiring Jan. 12, 1962. S. C.; R. L. Santurno, ET3, Den ver, Colo.; Clarence M. Rush, MM3, Ada, Ohio; Glenn H. Mc- Cranie, AKAN, Valdosta, Ga.; Melvin S. Jones, CN, Dover, N. C.; Harold D. Dockins, AN, Sikeston, Mo.; Henry J. Braddy, Jr., ADI, Washington, N. C.; back row, Ray mond G. Budney, EMB, Oxone Park, N. Y.; Blaine B. Wolf, AN, , Dublin, Ohio; Cary D. Smith, Ai . KAN, Athens, Ga.; Donald C. Reny, • SA, Waterville, Maine; Clyde W. Payne, AN, Ashland, , Va.; Samuel L. Shorter, HM3, Chatham, Va. (Photo by Pratt Williamson, Jr.) DEMOCRATIC RALLY AND OYSTER ROAST ON OUTER BANKS Rodanthe Meeting Pepped Up By Address by Chairman John D. Larkins The Young Democratic Club of Dare County met at the commu nity building in Rodanthe, eastern most region of North Carolina Saturday night, to hear remarks from Chairman John D. Larkins, Jr., of the State Democratic Party Executive Committee, following an oyster roast in the yard of the community center. At the conclusion of the meeting dollars poured into the club treas ury from the more than fifty per sons present from Hatteras, ’ Avon, Rodanthe, Salvo, Manteo, and other party of Dare County, in payment of YDC membership dues. County YDC President Jack Til lett of Manteo presided at the meeting, and among those present were Dare County Representative Bruce Etheridge, and Sheriff Frank Cahoon. State Chairman Larkins in his remarks contrasted the principles of the Democratic Party opposed to those of the Re publ can Party, following his intro duction by Fred Whitaker of Kin ston. Larkins characterized the philo sophy and principle of the Repub lican Party was one of ’’trickle down” from the private wealth of the nation and pointed to the wide based principle of the Democratic Party as “boiling up” from the majority of the people. The senior party, official also stressed the need for knowledge of the different principles of the two parties by the younger voters who have come of age without practical knowledge of the difference. Lar kins said, “The administration and principle of democratic government should bethat of the majority of citizens it effects—in true democratic process.” Interesting sidelight of the visit of State Chairman Larkins to the Outer Banks of North Carolina was the number of people who approached him with a direct ques tion on his intentions in the Guber natorial Primary of 1960. Larkins was non-committal under the bar rage, but admitted having been asked the question many times re cently. He is regarded as a strong possible contender for the gover norship in 1960. See RALLY, Page Four REBEKAHS WILL ASSIST ODDFELLOWS ON BRIDGE The Manteo Rebekahs met Mon day night at the lodge hall with the new Noble Grand, Mrs. Alda Francis, presiding. The lodge members were read a message of thanks for their help with the Odd fellows dinner held last Saturday night. The pddfellows also asked the co-operation of the Rebekahs in the local March of Dimes. The two organizations will on Satur day and Sunday, January 25 and 26, solicit donations from all who cross the Roanoke Sound bridge or the Croatan Sound bridge. These “tolls" will go toward the March of Dimes, and will be col lected between the hours of nine a.m. and four p.m. A program on the life of Thom as Wildey, founder of Oddfellow ship in America was presented by Mrs. Minnie Kames. The social hour committee, Mrs. Gaston Mid gett, Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Mid gett an<j Mrs. Louisa Williams, served refreshments. Single Copy 7g MRS. JULIA GRAY GETS $21,000 FOR INJURIES IN SUIT Consent Judgement Awarded in Dare Saturday Night After Jury Seems Stalled After it appeared the jury was on its way to be deadlocked, a consent judgement of $15,000 was awarded Mrs. Julia C. Gray Sat urday night in Dare Superior Court, which with hospital bills of some $6,000 that had been paid Elizabeth City hospital, brought the total sum to $21,000, according to court officials. Defendants in this case were Mrs. Ethelyn Watts of Norfolk, and Leonard Midgett of Manteo, both of whom carried insurance, and the sum awarded Mrs. Gray appears to be equal to the liability canied, and about what defense attorneys had offered in settlement the day before. Mrs. Gray sustained serious in juries in July 1955 when her car, which was being driven by Mrs. Watts, piled into the truck owned by Mr. Midgett, which was used in the removal of trash on the Nags Head highway, and was be ing driven by George W. King of Mahteb. • Mrs. Gray, the famed maker of dolls, claimed both Mre. Watts and Mr. Midgett were negligent, in he was parked on the highway, she alleged without rear lights. She testified her hospital bills as a result of the mishap came to more than SB,OOO and that she is suffering from permanent injuries. She has been often commended for her brave fight during the long confinement and suffering. She walks with a cane, and doctors say her injuries are permanent After three days of trial, the case got to the jury Saturday eve ning. At ten p.m. it had not reach ed an agreement, but the parties in the suit did reach one, and the jury was notified. GARBAGE COLLECTION RULES EXPLAINED BY MANTEO’S TOWN BOARD The town’s garbage collection system has been put under a severe strain recently due to a misunderstanding by some home owners, it was reported Monday at the monthly meeting of the Town of Manteo’s Board of Com missioners. In order to alleviate the situation, the board issued a notice to all residents requesting co-operation in placing garbage out for pick un. It was pointed out that a collection service is pro vided by the town only for house hold trash and garbage, and the town is not responsible for the collection of such trash as tree limbs, shrubbery trimmings, and building material scraps. It was further pointed out that the collec tion crews are supposed to pick up such household trash and gar bage only when it has been placed in covered containers. The installation of four addition al street lights was approved by the board. The costs of two of the lights, which are to be on the school grounds, are to be paid by the PTA and Board of Education. The other lights are to be located on the waterfront at the foot of Main Street and at the corner of Pine and Church streets. In other action, the board de cided not to allow a water line of less than two inches in diameter to be connected to the town’s water mains and to make it a misde meanor for anyone to excavate in any of the town’s streets without first getting a permit from the board. STEERING COMMITTEE MEETS SUNDAY JAN. 26 Steering committee members of the forthcoming Dare Coast Pirate Jamboree scheduled for April 24- 27 this year have been urged by Chairman Alvah H. Ward, Jr., to attend a meeting in the Cypress Room of The Carolinian on Nags Head Sunday afternoon, January 26 at 2 o’clock. While the meeting is especially for members of the steering com mittee, Chairman Ward stated all persons interested in helping make plans for the Jamboree were in vited and that their ideas would be considered and appreciaated for new activities. . First day of the Jamboree this year will mark the official dedica tion of Cape Hatteras National Seashore. “We must complete tentative plans on Sunday and then work hard to make those plans realized,” said Ward. The steering committee includes members from the Dare Beaches, I Roanoke Island, Hatteras Island and the Dare Mainland. They were n P ?° m u o* ® meetin £ h ®M on
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