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VOLUME XXIII NO. 36 KILL DEVIL HILLS HASSLE RESULTS IN VOTE CHALLENGING Hearings Held Tuesday and Con tinued to Saturday to Hear Registrants For the first time in the mem ory of this generation, there has come up a considerable challenging of votes in Dare County and this time it is in the coming municipal election of Kill Devil Hills, where the right of some'lß people to vote on the abolishment of the town charter is the issue. On Wednesday of this week, the three judges of election met to hear evidence on the qualifications of voters who had been challenged. Some could not attend, some hus bands could not attend because of their employment elsewhere. The hearing was continued to Saturday of this week when it will be resumed at the town office. Mre. Jean Beacham is registrar, and the other Judges are Mrs. Ira Partridge, and Mrs. William Mann. The election is to be held on March 15th. Registrations of John Bell, Edith Harlow, Robert Stewart, Jack Chapman, E. H. Short, Viola Short, Thos. H. Briggs and Mrs. Susie Briggs, were challenged by E. V. Melson and R. E. Parker Jr., town commissioners, and Ira Partridge and Dan S. Harris, two of the original opponents of the municipality in the first anti-elec tion. Mayor Robert A. Young, N. R. Smith and T. H. Briggs challenged several other registrants including avowed antis: Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Baum, Raymond Jackson, Clarence Beacham, Evelyn Beacham, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Tillett, Mr. and Mrs. Ephey Priest, and Herbert Harding. The challenge to the young Priest couple was withdrawn by the challengers. This couple had recently moved from Manteo to the Kellogg Apartments at Kill Devil Hills. Herman Tillett and Mrs. Tillett’s case will be heard Saturday as a result of bringing up the subject of whether Mr. Tillett could read and write the constitution. EVANS ERECTING STORE BUILDING NEXT POSTOFFICE Construction began this week on a large store building in downtown Manteo on the property of Charles R. Evans, adjoining the postoffice building, which he owns. The new building will be two stories high, of masonry construction. The main section of this build ing on the corner of County and Fronts Sts., will be 50 x 50 feet, and to the southeast an addition 30 x 30 feet will be extended. The store is on the site of the former John W. Evans store, which was operated by C. R. Evans for many years until the fire which swept the town in 1939 put it out of business. The late John W. Evans, an uncle of C. R. Evans erected the store about 70 years ago, during the time he ran one of the biggest mercantile businesses in the coastland. C. R. Evans stated this week he might rent the building, but chances are he will establish a business of his own on the proper ty. The second story will be suit able for conversion into apartment or office space, or may be used in connection with the store. ROTARY CLUB ENDORSES ALL-SEASHORE HIGHWAY Petition to Governor Asks State to Dredge 1,200-ft. Channel Into Cedar Island Soon. A petition, signed by many clubs and citizens from Wilmington to Dare County urging further sup port for the All-Seashore High way, received the enthusiastic en dorsement of the Manteo Rotary Club Monday night The petition was presented by R. S. Wahab of Ocracoke, and for three days this week he has been getting many endorsers for the project. Principal object of the current petition is to enlist state support which will cost some $25,000 to dredge a 1.200 foot long channel from Pamlico Sound to Cedar Is land, making possible landing of a ferry boat which it is proposed to operate between Ocracoke and U. S. TO in Carteret County. It is sought thus to provide a continuous highway route along the coast from Nags Head to Ocra coke Island, and which would be come part of a New York-Florida coastal route. Many people con template eventual completion of the road between Kitty Hawk and Virginia Beach as a part of this route. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA THEIR REIGN WILL END ON APRIL 24 IRKMbiW 'WL/E : WflsO & w Pirate Queen Virginia Swain of Manteo and Pirate King Pat Bayne of Nags Head are shown as they were taking off last Friday morning along with several costumed subjects for Washington, N. C., to parti cipate in the events staged in the world premiere of the movie “Lafay ette Escadrille.” At the Jolly Rogers Ball on April 12, successors to Queen Virginia and King Pat will be selected. On April 24, as a finale feature of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore dedication at Coquina Beach, the new king and queen will be crowned, and afterwards a gala ball in their honor will be presented without the usual coronation con fusion at Buccaneer Ras Westcott’s Pirate Den Casino, with music by a nationally-famous orchestra. (Dare County Tourist Bureau photo) 1958 PIRATE KING, QUEEN ARE TO BE CHOSEN APRIL 12 Coronation of the Pirate Jambor ee Royalty Will Be on April 24 at Coquina Beach Dare Coast pirate royalty to suc ceed Queen Virginia Swain and King Pat Bayne will be selected on April 12 at the Jolly Rogers Ball, and the ruling buccaneers of 1958 will be crowned in coronation ceremonies to be presented’ as a. finale of the Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore dedication at Co quina Beach April 24. The Jolly Rogers Ball, most colorful of pre-Pirate Jamboree events, will be held in Buccaneer Ras Westcott’s Pirate Den Casino on Nags Head. Also planned, with the date to be scheduled, will be another teen-age buccaneer dance at which a Prince and Princess will be selected. The teen-age dance last year resulted in Frankie White of Manteo and Diane Tillett of Wanchese winning the honors, and they, played their role during the past year, just as King Pat and Queen Virginia have done, with distinction. Moving the coronation ceremon ies to the first day of the four-day vacation launching celebration will give the new king and queen an opportunity to actually rule over their subjects during their election year. Previously the crowning of the king and queen took place at the coronation ball on the second or third night of the celebration. A gala coronation ball honoring the new king and queen will be held on Saturday night in the Pi rate Den Casino, but without the actual crowning ceremonies. Buc caneeer Westcott has promised to have one of the best bands avail able to provide the music for the ball. At the Coquina Beach crowning of the king and queen, Governor Luther Hodges, NPS Director Con rad Wirth and other dignitaries will be in attendance, and they will be asked to have roles in the actual crowning of the 1958 royalty. In the meantime, plans are be- See JAMBOREE. Page Five MRS. MARTHA* STOWE. 86. DIES AT FRISCO, N. C. Mrs. Martha Stowe, 86, wife of John" M.* Stowe died Wednesday morning at her home in Frisco, after an illness of three weeks. Funeral services were conducted at the Little Grove Methodist Church Thursday at 10 a.m., with the pas tor, Rev. R. L. Sparrow, officia ting. Besides her husband, she is survived by one son, John Preston Stowe, and one sister, Mrs. Nancy Stacy of Portsmouth, Va. BECOMES SOLE OWNER OF MANNS HARBOR GROCERY Wilbur Pinner of Manns Harbor this week became sole owner of the general store business operated heretofore under the name of Pin ner’s Grocery and he will continue to operate it, with larger stocks. He is now engaged in repainting the store, and carrying on business just the same. His brother and former partner, Bill Pinner, will remain at Manns Harbor and en gage in the fishing business. TO LEAD IN METHODIST REVIVAL IN MANTEO DR. J. V. EARLY, pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Wilmington, N. C., will be spiritual leader for a week of visitation-evangelism at Mt. Olivet Methodist Church be ginning Sunday, March 9th, and continuing thru Friday night, March 14th. Pastor of one of the large churches in North Carolina Methodism, he comes to Manteo with words of great inspiration from his wide field of experience as pastor, church builder, and evangelist. Since 1934, he has serv ed seven apointments in North Carolina Annual Conference and at present, in addition to his pas torate at Wilmington, is serving as secretary of the Conference Commission on World Service and Finance. According to the Rev. L. A. Ait- See REVIVAL, Page Five REPRESENTED FOREIGN NATIONS IN MANTEO PTA PROGRAM 1 IBL/31 WJofc.JaWby *HUB i it. - & ■ A W ■Mrcplg!* a Xrl?*-. F'-'V I• mHH - ~.’2. fT -jl x* W VdSBL i J 11 f v Commemorating the long and successful history of the Parent-Teacher Association and its spread to foreign lands, a special program marked the meeting at Manteo School last week. Pupils of the school dressed in native costumes appeared on the stage to say their lines about the country they represented. Taking part in the presentation were from left to right: Dale Wescott, Mexico; Johnnie Gibbs, Eskimo; Stormy Gale Brown, Scotland; John Podolski, Holland; Susie Basnight, Spain; Mary Elizabeth Earle, Japan; Barbara Wescott, Hawaii and Claudia Long, United States. (Aycock Brown photo) - MANTEO, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1958 MAKE-UP SCHEDULE FOR DARE SCHOOLS IS ANNOUNCED One -day To Be Given For Pi rates Jamboree Participation; Full Sessions on < Saturdays Due to the closing of schools during the recent freeze, all schools in Dare County will be in session on some Saturdays in order to make up the lost days. Cape Hat teras School will be in session on Saturday, March 8 and March 15. Kitty Hawk, Manteo, Wanchese, Manns Harbor, and Stumpy Point will be in session on the two Sat urdays: March 15 and March 22. The Roanoke School did not lose any days. Besides being in session on Sat urdays shown above, each of the schools will have only one day for the Pirates Jamboree instead of the two days originally scheduled. Cape Hatteras will have a holiday on Friday, April 25, but will be in session on Thursday, April 24. The other schools will be in session on Thursday, April 24, and Friday, April 25. All Saturday sessions will be on a full gix-hour schedule instead of half-day 'schedule. The Dare County Board of Edu cation regrets the necessity of holding school on Saturdays to make up the lost days but the early tourist season which results in em ployment of many of the students, and early opening dates for sum mer schools for teachers, made Saturday teaching more advisable than extending the school term at the end of the year. The Board of Education is requesting that all parents cooperate in seeing that their children attend school on the make-up days in order that the average daily attendance will not drop. Allotment of teachers for next year depends upon average daily attendance this year and it "is to be hoped that absences will not be responsible for a decrease in teacher allotment. SEVERAL .MAY FILE FOR OFFICE SOON IN DARE COUNTY Citizens Hopeful for Change, But Few to Accept Responsibility Reports this week indicate tha there will be several candidate: for County Commissioner and may be other offices in Dare County to file before the deadline next month. While practically every one of the Commissioners have said they did not intend to run again this year, it is a rare thing that one of them ever keeps this prom ise, but does file and run again. All the present Board may be expected to run again, except Lawrence Swain of Manteo who said yesterday that he positively would not be a candidate for com missioner, and further that he thought he had served long enough. Friends of Hallett Perry of Kitty Hawk report him as saying he will not run, but do not believe it will be the case, and that he will change his mind. Newcomb Midgett of Waves has said several times he would not run again, but many believe- he will change his mind. Woodrow Edwards of that community has said positively he exnects to be a candidate. E. P. White of Buxton has said See POLITICS, Page Five COMMISSIONERS OF DARE GET REQUEST FOR TWO HARBORS Petition Endorsed Seeking Dredg ing To Permit Ferry from Ocracoke to Cedar Island The dredging of harbors at both Wanchese and Buxton were among items taken under consideration at Tuesday’s meeting of the Dare Coujlty,..ClMßlßissioners. In attendance were all five com missioners, Chairman C. C. Duvall, E. P. White, H. F. Perry, New comb Midgett, and Lawrence Swain. The commissioners unanimously voted approval of a petition being prepared by R. S. Wahab in sup port of a dredging project from Cedar Island to Ocracoke to permit a ferry service between these two points. This ferry service would permit an uninterrupted flow of north-south traffic by doing away with the present dead-end that motorists headed south encounter at Ocracoke. This would bring a considerable increase in the flow of traffic through the Dare Coun ty area. In the matter of the harbor projects, a petition from a group of Wanchese citizens was present ed asking that a short piece of county ditch, located at Mill Land ing, about 250 feet long by 30 feet wide, be deepened to a depth of not less than 5 feet. It was pointed out that the federal government has made a deep water channel into the fish houses at Mill Creek, but the petition stated that the dock facilities are still not ade quate for the number of boats that use Mill Landing as a harbor, most of the present space being private ly owned and taken up by boats owned by the property owners. To ask for bids on the project, the following committee was appoint ed: Melvin R. Daniels, Macon Meekins, and Willie Daniels; this committee will report to the com missioners at the board’s April meeting. N. F. Jennett appeared before the board to ask that a harbor about 250-yards long be built at Buxton, and he offered to deed to the county the necessary land for such a project. To investigate this problem further, a committee was appointed made up of E. P. White, N. F. Jennett, and Albin Fulcher.’ The commissioners voted unani mously to accept a contract for ? U u itS for 1956 ' 57 an d to be made by R. O. How- See BOARD, Plage Five UNCLE TOM FROM TRENT WRITES: DEAR MISTER EDITOR: Great landmarks was falling fast in the nation last week. Smith Brothers cough drops went from a nickel to a dime. That was the last stronghold of the American nickel. The year gold was discovered in Califor nia these brothers put their beards together and set the price of their new cough remedy at a nickel. Buffalo roamed the prairies, the Civil War come and went, railroads was bililt, Dan McGrew was shot, more and bigger wars come and went, telephones, tele visions, jets, electric razors, but the Smith Brothers held fast. Last week up in upstate New MONEY TO MAKE POSSIBLE QUARTER MILLION FOR ROADS IN DARE COUNTY ALLOTTED Highway Commission Allocates SB7 Millions For State This Week; Projects Long Since Approv ed by Commissioners Including Surface to Du vall's Buffalo City Super-market. DARE COUNTY JUDGE SAW AHEAD OF HIS NEIGHBORS Kb * MM —Photo by Morrill Washington Franklin Baum of Manteo has attained a long record as a judge, having served the past 27 years as judge of the Dare County Recorder’s Court. During last year, he reports that his court handled 552 cases and turned over to the county close to $20,000 in fines and costs. It was in 1931 that he became recorder’s judge. He was named by the Dare county commissioners, under the law by the legislature shortly before which created the court. He, was in the mercantile business at the time, he recalls, and was asked to take the office after two previous appointees had been offered it and refused it. He agreed to give it a try, somewhat fearful at first that it might inter fere with his work at the store. He admits that at times his court actions may have offended custo mers, but says he believes that, looking at the overall picture, he See BAUM, Page Five York the directors had a meet ing and decided it couldn’t go on forever. It toas a sad day. About the same time, in down state New York, Sophie Tucker, knowed everywhere as “the last of the red hot mamas,” announc ed her retirement. Another old landmark had fell. Then in Washington, President Ike stated again he was holding steady fer that five-cent postage stamp on mail out of town. Con gressman Barratt of Illinois sug gested that the first series of these new stamps ought to carry a picture of two pirates. I would suggest that the second series have a picture of Jesse James with his horse and gun. But while things seemed to be falling apart everywhere, there was one ray of hope. Up in West Sand Lake, N. Y., the West Sand Lake Association for. Protection against Horse Thieves held its 109th annual meeting. Now there’s a group of .fellers that’s got the proper determination. If we had more like ’em, Smith Bros, cough drops would still be a nickel and Sophie Tucker would be announcing her plans fer 1970. Well, I set down when Con gress convened and wrote my Congressman a letter. I told him in a nutshell, that I wanted more farm relief and less taxes. I fin ally got a letter back from him yesterday. It was a masterpiece in butness, ifness, and however ness. He promised a little tax re duction but mixed the promise in with a little butneps, and the if ness and howevemess completely outweighed the less taxness. Them fellers can write more and say less than anybody this side of eternity or on the other side of infinity. But I think the soil bank pro gram is safe fer another two year. I see where Ike got $2,009.- 60 fer not farming 46 acres on his Gettysburg plantation. That’s the first time Ike’s ever got his hands on some good farm relief money, and it’s a mighty catch ing disease. Yours truly. Uncle Tom from Trent ■ Single Copy 70 A total of $87,000,000 has been alloted for improvement and main tenance of secondary roads in North Carolina, which may or may not be a big help just before the primary to Boards of Commission ers in their campaigns for re-elec tion. It will also make possible big expenditures to build roads to de velop super-markets in out of the way places like Buffalo City. An nouncement from Raleigh is that Commissioners will be given “con siderable discretion” in determin ing whether their available funds will be used for paving or for general improvement. The Highway Commission in Ra leigh reported the SB7 million will be split up: 60 million for main tenance, 25 million for road im provement, and $2 million for im provement of bridges. A Dare County bridge project calls for building an elevated bridge in Kitty Hawk community so boat men can bring their vessels up into the woods. The bridge will cost $3,060. The money will be allocated to counties on the basis of a recent survey, according to announcement this week. The recent survey in Dare County made with approval of the Commissioners, calls for the following road improvements at an expenditure of $220,060. Two-tenths of a mile at Avon to cost $6,000; two miles to Chairman Claude Duvall’s store at Buffalo City, $63,000; Bridge at Kitty Hawk, $3,060; seven-tenths mile to Skyco landing $21,000; one and a half miles from county street, back of Manteo, $45,000; one and sixth tenths miles in Kitty Hawk $60,- 060; eighty-five hundredths of a mile to Long Point, Kitty Hawk, $5,50; fifty-five hundredths of a mile near Fresh Pond, Kill Devil Hills, $16,500. EFFORTS FAIL AFTER FULL WEEK TO FLOAT OREGON INLET FERRY The ferry boat, Herbert C. Bon ner at Oregon Inlet, is still ashore on a sand shoal to the westward of the main channel, after having remained there since Thursday of last week, when it ran off its course during a fog while being skippered by Capt. Luther Mid gett. All efforts to float the boat dur ing the past week have failed, and one of the older ferries now used as a work boat which went to aid it, is also ashore. Assistance has been rendered by men of Oregon Inlet Coast Guard station. Cars remain on the boat, but the passengers were taken off. Other boats are keeping service normal on a usual half hour sched ule across the inlet. Plans now are to use a small dredge owned by M. L. Burrus of Hatteras to dig away out for the stranded boat. TWO REMAINING SCHOOLS ON DARE MAINLAND OUT This year marks the end of the two schools on the Dare mainland at Manns Harbor and Stumpy Point. The Board of Education this week passed an order that the pu pils of the mainland could be bet ter taken care of at Manteo, and next year they will go the way of the schools at East Lake and Ma shoes. Two large buildings will remain at Stumpy Point and Manns Har bor, and the problem will be to turn them to good advantage. The Mashoes school building was brought to Manns Harbor and turned to good use as a lunch room. The East Lake school was turned over to a group to use as a commu nity house, but it is being allowed to come to nothing, when it might have been sold for a residence, and brought extra money back into the school fund. HEART FUND REPORT Woody Fearing, Dare County Heart Fund Chairman, reported Wednesday that reports of last Sunday’s Heart Sunday campaign were beginning to come in, and that by noon Wednesday he had received a total of $604.31. He said indications were that the final re sults would be somewhat better than last year .A complete report on the drive is to be available next week, Mr. Fearing said. ' .. Al
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