PAGE TWELVE GIANT SIZE BLUE MARLIN LANDED OFF HATTERAS BY ANGLERS THIS WEEK Hatteras—Henry Wieche, Seven Mile, Ohio, boated a 423 pound blue marlin near Diamond Light ship at the edge of the Gulf Stream off Hatteras on Wednes day. It was the second of the giant species of billfish to be taken there in two days. On Monday, George Beveridge, a Pulitzer prize win ning staff triember of the Wash-| ington Evening STAR, and two! other anglers had done some pis-1 catorial collaboration to land a 30412 pounder. His two compan ions each of whom had a try at boating the big fish were Charles Cutler, Bethesda, Md., and Gordon Vangsness, of Villa Park, 111. 1 Both catches were made from Capt. Edgar Styron’s Blue Marlin Dockbased cruiser “Twins” skip pered by Capt. Elmer Ballance. The first fish bit bait, the second an 8-ounce yellow tuna feather jig. The Monday marlin measured 10 foot four inches from tip to tip while the specimen taken Wednesday was 10 foot 10 inches. The latter fish had girth meas urements of 57 inches. Both fish were landed on the same type tackle, a 12 /0 Penn Senator reel, on a Hornell boat rod. Thirty-nine thread Golden Spot linen line testing at 117-pounds was used on each marlin. Billfish Outlook Good Mrs. William Arnott of Florham Park, N. J., who had landed the first of some 30 blue marlin taken by anglers off the Dare Coast in 1957, on May 17 was back again this week hoping to catch an even larger speciman than the 387- pounder that placed eighth in the international Field and Stream Fishing contest last year. She had not boated a blue marlin by Thurs day noon, but had raised one to bait on Monday and hooked and lost a large one Wednesday. Fishing with Capt Edgar Styron aboard his cruiser “Twins II” Mrs. Arnott did hook and boat the first white marlin of the season on Monday, May 19. It scaled' at 65 pounds. ACCIDENT (Continued from Page One) don’t even know he is one of them. His property was raised from a value of $1,850 to $2,340. By applying the rate of $1.05 to the $1,850 for 1957, and the rate of .70 for 1958, it will be seen that the officer will save $3.04. Things like this happening unanimously among public offi cials who cry about their spot less faithful service for many years, makes one wonder at the strange coincidence creating an accident of the sort here. VICTOR MEEKINS SAYS TO PEOPLE CONCERNING VOTE I thank all of you, so many of you who have so nicely shown ap preciation for the single-handed fight I have been waging for bet ter county government, and against unfair discrimination in taxing property in Dare County. From all the reports I get, the people of the county expect to make drastic changes in their of ficials Saturday May 31. It will be necessary to have a new crowd if good results may be ex pected. Persons who stand in the way of improvement will do no good if voted back into office. I have talked with all the new candidates and all say the people tell them they want the books audited, and they want a report on what the officials are doing. They say the people want to fire any persons who are useless and incompetent. They say that they think a lot of money is being wasted which could be better spent on schools. This is the kind of program I expect to work for. I will not work for quick deals, nor rush action on important projects without con sulting ' the people. It will be the people’s office, not mine. 1 do not expect to publish furth er items opposing individual can didates. If the people don’t know about them by now, they will nev er know. I stand back of all I say in black and white, but I will not rush out with last-minute state ments to which they have not time to reply. I have told nothing which is not true, and I have sat isfactory evidence to show any in terested person who is in good faith. I do not expect to reply to any of the last minute stuff they are getting out about me. The things I have heard about are completely false, and my record is in the courthouse, attested by audits, re ceipts, and other records. Any at tempt to falsify these records would be distortion, and stupidity. Despite anything they say, there is nowhere a record of dishonesty or unfair dealing. I shall fight for an audit of the books. I am being fought by some people who don’t want an audit of the books. I ask that you ask them why they fight me, and why hasn’t audits been made and revealed to the public Best wishes, VICTOR MEEKINS •i . ♦ ■»* 5' ■ * ' * ‘■ MANTEO COLORED NEWS REMARKABLE~ACHIEVEMENT BY ROANOKE ID. WOMAN ff Mrs. Elizabeth Scarborough of Manteo has successfully completed the Course of Study and Training for the Piano as prescribed by a nationally known correspondence school of music in New York, and upon examination has passed with satisfactory grades to receive a certificate of award for this out standing accomplishment. For a period of two years, Mrs. Scarborough has studied and prac ticed diligently. In addition to pre paring meals for her husband Maloyd, and maintaining her household, she is presently serving as organist of the Haven Creek Baptist Church for the Junior and Senior choirs. On many occasions Mrs. Scarborough has given her time to render musical assistance to the Roanoke School and to any other organization in this commu nity requesting her services. The time taken to achieve this skill has already meant much to the colored people of this commu nity and will mean more in the years to come. DOCK (Continued from Page One) when I get in, I go right to sleep and sleep sound. That’s about all for this time, except I can’t understand why they are fighting so hard to hang on to the courthouse, when they say they don’t get anything out of the job. I can’t understand why they ain’t willing to have the books audited. I can’t understand why some of the tightwads in that ring are spending money to get out a lot of stuff, and why they go to so much trouble to carry on a whis pering campaign and work in the dark like they do. Mr. Editor, you can tell all that new crowd I wish them well. 1 believe what my neighbors tell me, and that is the courthouse is going to be cleaned out this time, and that is no dream. That is the faith and hope and sincere belief of all of us. , Indignantly yours, UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK SHOW (Continued from Page One) won by Mrs. Lucetta Willis. It was a beautiful arrangement, suitable for a church, of purple Dutch iris and purple iris and Baptisia with Hasta leaf foliage, in an alabaster container. In the Horticulture Class, which was not judged, probably the more outstanding were, Mrs. Lyna Har bour, Peace rose; Mrs. Leo Mid gett, St. Charles rose buds; Dr. W. W. Harvey, Anemone; Mrs. A. Q. Bell, Rhododendron; Mrs. Bar din, African daisy; Mrs. Leigh Hassell, Guava buds and Mrs. Dan Cannady, Talisman rose. Besides the fifty arrangements in the ten classes and the twenty specimens in the Horticulture Class, many containers with flow ers were brought in and colorfully filled what would have been bare spots. , One of the outstanding features of “Springtime on Parade” was the Art Exhibit which formed a varied background for the flower ar rangements. The artists were Frank Stick, Bess Williams, M. Evans Jones, Fred Ley, Lucile Winslow, Anne Corey,'Helen True, Ralph Tillett, A. Q. Bell, Sally Bardin, Enola Smith, M. Charles, Anna Bolin, Lucretia Etheridge and Ina Evans. All the pictures drew favorable comments, but those which seemed most popular were a large oil of three hunting dogs by Frank Stick, an oil of the water gate at the Elizabethan Garden by M. Charles, a still life of shells and sea oats by Bess Wil liams and a still life of zinneas by Ina Evans. Among the many persons attend ing the show were visitors from Belhaven, Moyock and Elizabeth City, who made the trip to Man teo especially for that purpose. The Roanoke Island Garden Club is greatly to be congratulated for an outstanding flower show. It is hoped that “Springtime on Parade” will become an annual event. THANKS A MILLION The Sophomore class of the Manteo High School thank parents and families for their cooperation extended in connection with the turkey dinner given the class Sat urday night, May 17, which clear ed |61.42 for the class treasury. BIG HOLE (Continued from Page One) circumstances. We also asked them to make public the results of the appraisals of these strangers be before April 15, this being the last date to file for office. They didn’t accept this challenge either. In the face of the long continued attitude of the Commissioners, in disregarding the public wishes as expressed at the polls; in reck lessly wasting money and raising taxes for foolish projects while the schools are on a starvation basis; in the high salaries paid, and the creation of jobs for people who render little or no service;—in the face of all this, it is no wonder that the people clamor more every day for an audit which will be a true accounting, and an uptodate report as to what their money goes for. Is there good reason why a person shouldn’t have a right to fear that the county is now SIOO,- 000 in the hole? If it isn’t, why doesn’t the Board come clean, and let everyone know they are clean. If it isn’t in the hole, why so des perate and anxious to put through a hasty re-valuation which no well nformed and unbiased person can consider a job worth $22,000 tc Dare County in any sense of the vord. And may we ask in conclusion, ‘s the reason the old Board is fighting so desperately to stay in office that they are afraid for somebody to get in the courthouse who might dig up reasons to show they have been neglectful, or in competent in managing the peo ple’s affairs? LITTLE LEAGUE RECEIVES' GOOD BACKING IN MANTEO The Manteo Little League base ball team, which has been organ ized as an official part of the state-wide Little Tar Heel League, has received excellent support and backing in the past several weeks from civic clubs, and friends in the Manteo-Stumpy Point commu nities. Enough money has now been raised to buy the equipment and uniforms needed by the team. Members of the team this week sent notes of appreciation to the Manteo Lions Club, the Manteo Rotary, the Manteo Oddfellows, to all parents and friends who at tended the fish fry, and especially to Mr. and Mrs. Robtert Gibbs and Mr. and Mrs. Nevin Wescott for the great amount of work they put forth in preparing the fish fry and other- help. Purchase of the uniforms and equipment will be made this week, with delivery of the uniforms ex pected in two weeks. The Manteo team’s next home game will be Friday, May 30, against Kitty Hawk. UNCLE SAM (Continued from Page One) ing to see frying size gals walk ing around up town these warm days in not enough clothes to keep a jaybird frpm freezing to death on a cool morning. And he says their mamas is as bad if not worse. The only diference, he says, is that the gals has got that certain someput that their mamas don’t have no” more. In fact, Ed allows, if these mamas knowed how they looked going north to a feller coming from the south they would go home and put some clothes on. Yours truly, Uncle Sam NAGS HEAD CASINO Saturday, May 24 - IN PERSON Johnny Day AND HIS ORCHESTRA ♦ ♦ » COMING BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND MEMORIAL WEEK END. MAY 30 AND 31 FUZZY WADE AND HIS FULL ORCHESTRA THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. FREE WHEELING - FACTS . . . Employees in one unit of the big Motor Vehicles De partment work elbow deep in a welter of figures, picked from a flood of auto accident reports that arrive in their office daily. Abandon the idea that once the wreckage is dragged off the high way, the injured ministered to, and investigations complete, the acci dent’s history ends there. Actually it’s ohly begun. First there are minutely detailed reports to file. One each from the parties involved and another from the investigating trooper. What they have to report would never make the best seller list, nor is it always pretty, but more im portant it is informative. It aids enforcement officials, engineers, and other safety authorities in planning new attacks on what is one of the nation’s, and North Carolina’s most persistent and alarming problem—the loss of life from motor accidents. The figure-sifters work is fan tastically involved! Were it not for a.battery of efficient, gray-painted IBM machines, whirring busily all day long, officials would be largely in the dark as to the “why, where and when” of Tar Heel road mis haps. Already tentatively established is a death toll of 1069 for last year, with injuries expected to round off to 20,000. Os necessity, statisticans are constantly some three months behind in their cal culations. In every published report, once the figures are in, revelatory facts like driver violations, driver ex perience, age, sex, residence of driver, cause of accident are care fully documented for study. The report also lists a break down of highway defects (if any) contributing to the accident, type of vehicle involved, road surface, locality, highway number, day of week, light and weather conditions. Little is left to guesswork in com piling the accident’s history. And there are approximately 45,000 traffic crack-ups a year. Arriving from the field literally by the bushel, the reports are first assembled by clerks in the statistical unit. In this preparatory phase, each factor involved in the accident is slugged with a key, then punched into the familiar IBM card. The cards, thousands of them, are fed into the maw of an IBM machine (which the Army once used, according to legend, to find the only left-handed bassoon player in the Armed Forces dur ing World War II) and rapidly sorted into proper receptacles where they are then gathered and filed for reference. At the same time, other workers pin-point the accident location on a set of county maps, swinging loose-leaf style in their office. Once a month workers gather their facts and figures into sup plementary reports which are mim eographed and distributed to the press, to libraries, and to safety authorities throughout the state. While Tar Heel auto accidents haven’t been completely stopped, few folks have to wonder what causes them. EDITOR GOES TO TEXAS TO SERVE IN AIR FORCE AVT B B