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VOLUME XXIV NO. 2 TAXPAYERS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE $200,000 AT .80 RATE FOR THE 1958-59 BUDGET Commissioners Set Up $300,000 Budget This Week; Some Cuts Made in Poor Funds, School Requests Slashed; One Salary Eliminated; Courthouse Fund Cut. Total Valuation Stand- ing at $25,124,783. With some $25 millions left on the books from the controversial new tax appraisal the Dare Coun ty Board of Commissioners decid ed this week to try out an 80 cent tax rate this year, in order to raise about $200,000 for the coun ty’s running expenses. This lacks SIOO,OOO of being the full amount of the budget, but it is assumed the difference will come in from various sources, including state and Federal funds, intangible, beer and privilege taxes, liquor profits, etc. The total amount that the Board has approved for spending during the coming year is only $135 short of being $300,000 and the largest budget ip the history of Dar| County. The budget last year to taled $266,410.17. This year’s bud get is higher by $33,554.37, and it rooks doubtful there will be enough income to pay off, with further risk running for insufficient safe ty margin to cover poor collections and corrections yet to be made in valuations. The bulk of the property will cost its owners more taxes than last year even under an 80 cent rate. A iarge part of the county will have in addition to this rate, additional school bond taxes to pay. Some heavily populated sec tions oof the county will find their tax burden less. Some savings have been made. The Clerk of Court’s office gets s'6so less; the courthouse fund is reduced by $4,225; the poor fund, which was set up whereby the county commissioners could give aid to the needy without being Ijound by welfare red-tape, has been reduced by $3,765; S2OO has been cut off the fund for feeding prisoners; the elections fund has been cut $250; the Register of Deeds office has been cut by $225 due to extra equipment being tak en care of in last year’s budget; the Veteran’s Service officer is re duced by $1,515, the officer re questing his salary be eliminated by reason of anticipated conflicts in social security, and he has agreed to work without pay, save for travel allowance, which is in cluded in the $1,894 budget for thia year. School Request Cut $71,314.07 The schools of Dare County were not granted the sum requested. It was cut more than half, down to a See COUNTY, Page Four TRAFFIC SURVEY TO FIND OUT IF THERE IS NEED FOR ALLIGATOR R. BRIDGE On Saturday, Sunday, and Tues day, July 12, 13, and 15, three roadside traffic interview stations will be operated in the vicinity of Dare County. All motorists pass ing through the stations will be stopped and asked about the origin, destination, and purpose of the trip which they are making at that time. The survey is not connected with law enforcement, but will be under the protection of the State Highway Patrol. Locations of the three stations are: (1) on the 'Alligator River Ferry Boats, (2) On Route U. S. 264, just south of Manns Harbor, and (3) at the West end of the Currituck Sound Bridge (U. S. 158). All motorists are asked to cooperate in answering the survey questions. The purpose of the survey is to determine the economic feasibility of a proposed bridge to replace the present Alligator River ferries on Route U. S. 64. The New York engineering firm of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall and Macdonald has been engaged by the State Highway Commission to conduct the study. Henry D. Quinby is project engineer in overall charge 1 of the study. BUILDINGS AT HATTERAS TRANSFERRED TO NPS •» , —— The National Park Service is getting a little closer to the Hat terns community. A bill has been passed in Congress which will give| to the Cape Hatteras seashore project two buildings at Hattears. The former weather bureau sta tion which was used for many yearn by observer Richard Dailey, and the newer building, formerly used by the Coast Guard, and later as a weather station. The buildings will be used for personnel' residence and other pur poses. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IH THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA AYCOCK BROWN PRESIDENT MANTEO ROTARY CLUB «* / L B r > IRVj , AYCOCK BROWN assumed office as president of the Manteo Rotary , Club Monday night. Other officers ’ are Julian Oneto, Vice-president; O. J, Jones, Treasurer, William I Ernst, Secretary. ! E. E. Meekins ended his year as . president. He will be one of the ; directors with Bob Gibbs and Thos. Chears, Jr. ’ The club had many visitors, as is usual during the summer sea . son, when so many vacationists come in to make up their attend ance. The club o-k’d a petition to the ' Highway Commission via the Dare Commissioners, asking for im ’ provement to the shoulders of the beach road. [ • WORLD'S RECORD : IN BLUE MARLIN IN DARE WATERS Report 44 Billfish Taken Since May 19th, Ranging From 150 to 570 Pounds By AYCOCK BROWN A world record catch of blue marlin has been made in waters off Cape Hatteras and Oregon In let since May 19 with the current total for the Dare Coast being 44 of the giant billfish. Farther south off Cape Lookout where blue mar lin fishing has developed a big game piscatorial sport for anglers aboard Morehead City and Harkers Island craft, during the. same per iod 28 of the great fish have been boated. Big time big game anglers who have fished at Hatteras recently have made the statement that no where else in the world have so many of the big blue marlin been taken in an equal length of time. Favorite blue marlin waters, un til the current blitz of the big fish off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, were the Bahamas, Puer to Rico and Jamaica. Os the total catch, 38 have been i landed by anglers aboard Hatteras craft and six by anglers aboard Oregon Inlet cruisers. The largest fish to date was 570 pounds, and the smallest 150 pounds. Only 11 of the total from off the Dare Coast have weighed less than 300 pounds. The average has ranged between 340 and 375 pounds per See MARLIN, Page Four TWO MEN APPOINTED ON DARE CO. ABC BOARD Two new names appear on the three man Dare County ABC Board. Ralph Davis, prominent Manteo businessman was appoint- this week by the County Com missioners to fill out the unexpired term of the late Guy Lennon, who had been a member of the Board since it was created in 1939, and whose last term had until Dec. 1958 to run. Sherman Culpepper, a highly regarded citizen of Nags Head, retired Coast Guard officer, and nephew of the Board Chairman M. L. Daniels was appointed due to the resignation of Russell Perry of Nags Head, who was named last year to replace C. E. Parker, re signed. It developed that Mr. Perry was disqualified by reason of being a beer retailer, and wish ed to resign anyway. Mr. Culpepper is the son of the late John E. Culpepper of Nags Head, who was an original mem ber of the Board when it was created. The term for which he was appointed is said to expire also in December, 1958, along with that of Mr. Daniels. MADE 100 MPH ON ROUGH ROAD ON HATTERAS ISLAND Many Complain That It is Danger ous; Some of Its Drivers Are More So It is possible to drive a car at 100 miles per hour on the rough Hatteras Island highway which is becoming the despair of many citi zens who think 1 it is too rough to be safe. This week, Darrell T. 21, of Hatteras paid a fine of SSO and costs on his conviction of driving it at the rate of 100 miles per- hour. He was arrested Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Ray mond Basnett. Other court cases tried this week by Judge W. F. Baum made a lengthy string, and yielded about $640. In the $5 fine and costs cases were John Dudley Stevenson of Langley Field for ignoring a stop sign; Allen Roy Robinson of Raleigh, who failed to give proper signal; Luther Mayo Mann of Mantecf, J. E. Shumane Jr., Ports mouth, Va., wrong signals; Simon Lee Cooper, Swan Quarter, im proper passing; and Gilbert Mc- Laughlin of Lynchburg, Va. R. W. Edwards, Murfreesboro, improper exhaust. For speeding in a 35 mile zone the following were fined the num ber dollars in excess of 35, which is set opposite their names: Wal lace D. Carson, Jr., Lynnhaven, Va., sls; Victor Ahmed Malik, Edenton. Sallie Cecil, of Ports mouth, Va., sl2. Frank "A. Coley, Portsmouth, $10; Betty jean Tay lor, Norfolk, $lB. Edward Lake Barrett, Richmond, $10; W. A. French Jr., Huntington, W. Va., $10; Solomon E. Cherry, Roxobel, sl2; Richard A. Bright, Columbus, 0.. sl7: Sherwood J. Jones. Whaleyville, Va., $10; Billy F. Forbes Jr., Mamie. sls; E. Earl Cooper, Manteo sl2; Clayton E. Allison, Pittsburgh. $10; Gene Rogers Alligood. Elizabeth City, $35: W. E. Powell Jr.. Suffolk, sl2; David L. Daughtrv, Norfolk, S2O; W. R. Cowper, Windsor, sl2: C. L. Brantley, Roanoke Rapids, sls; R. D. Gaimel, Colington, S2O: Ar thur M. Farmington, $10; Ervin Lee O’Neal'of Hatteras, $lO. Fines of SIOO and costs were charged Harvey Lee Sawyer of Norfolk and G. A. Parks Jr. of Elizabeth City for driving while drunk. Parks paid $5 extra for driving too close. For reckless and careless driv ing $25 fines were assessed against Howard N. Maypn of Portsmouth, Va., Edward P. Austin of Hat teras. Constantine Ambrose Mc- Carthy of Portsmouth, drunk on the highway, $25. Robbers Bound Over Leonard E. Gibbs and Robert E. Gibbs Jr. of Elizabeth City were each bound over under $2,500 bonds, held for probable cause in the robbery of Butler’s grocery of some SBO, at the point of a gun. They will be tried at October Su perior Court. Ray Baker, an escaped convict, who was recaptured in Hyde County, was held for Superior Court, and remanded to the cus tody of the Currituck Co. prison camp. UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES: Approaching Season Reminder of Early Education Gained on a Watermelon Boat Dear Mister Editor: This is the time of the year when the watermelon season ought to get underway. It is one of the things that remind us we are not as efficient as we used to be, for every year it seems like they come along a little later. When I was a boy, we would be pulling melons by now and this year I ain’t seen one bigger than cucumbers. Maybe the reason we don’t have melons early these days is because the novelty and excitement of melon season has wore off before it starts, what with so many of them already coming in a month or two ahead of time now that motor trucks can get here over night from Florida. I got a lot of my early educa tion from experiences on a water melon boat. In those days, the farmers used to boat the melons offshore in a skiff to some fellow who had a schooner, and he’d freight ’em to Norfolk for a nickel apiece. Many a time I have worked all day from sun to sun, toting melons out of the field for 50 ceiits, and then I would be allowed to go to Norfolk-on the melon boat when she left It was quite a bit of excitement, that trip through the canal, and after we tied up at Roanoke Dock, we could go ashore and See the sights and wonders of the city. It was a noisy place, what with the racket of wagon wheels on the cobblestones of the market, and the clang, bang and grinding of MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY. JULY 11, 1958 TO SPEAK SUNDAY AT FORT RALEIGH fwlMßsr ' ISM Hi tL JB Bk - 9 Murfreesboro. Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, president of Chowan College, will speak at the tradi tional Sunday Morning Worship Service in the Lost Colony Water side Theatre on July 13. The prominent young educator preacher, who has just completed his first year as head of the 110- year old institution in Murfrees boro. is a native of Cleveland County. - Prior' to assuming the top ad ministrative post at Chowan, Dr. Whitaker had been director of reli* gious activities for Baptist; stu dents on all North Carolina college campuses, and had served on the faculty of several Christian col leges. He holds the B. A. degree from Wake Forest College, and three degrees, including the Th. D., from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. BELHAVEN FIRM SETS CONTRACT $98,000 NPS JOB Johnston Builders To Erect Cape Hatteras Improvements; Wa ter Tank Job $11,620 A contract to erect two «omf«ri stations and a garage uyU shop for the sub-maintenance area of the Cape Hatteras National Sea shore at Cape Hatteras has been awarded to Johnston Builders of Belhaven, for the sum of $89,150 according to Robert F. Gibbs, NPS Superintendent. Also included in the contract is the necessary plant ing and landscaping for the facili ties. To provide the necessary water for this facility, a contract has been entered to with a Louisville, Ky. firm to provide a 25,000 gallon elevated water storage tank at Cape Point, to cost $11,620. With reference to the larger contract Mr. Gibbs said it will further develop the Campground at Cape Point and provide the necessary maintenance area for servicing all the facilities on Hat teras Island, and is in line with the MISSION 66 program propos ing preservation and adequate de velopment of the National Park System by 1966 when the National Park Service will observe the golden anniversary of its estab lishment. street car wheels and bells. My Daddy would allow me to go ashore with 50 cents to spend, for he kept the rest of my money so I wouldn’t “throw it away.” That was the first time I learn ed it’s not good policy to trust a stranger. There was a boy on the street who was selling papers. “Read all about the big robbery,” he said. I handed him my 50 cent piece to buy a paper which was only two cents. He looked at it, : and said: “wait until I run in this | store and get some change.” I would be waiting right now so far as that boy coming back. I got tired of waiting, and I went to the door to look for him. I said. “Where is that boy selling pa pers ?■” The man said, “why he went through the back door an hour ago.” When I told by daddy about it, he said he ought to lick me, but let that be lesson enough. I didn’t have any more money to spend on that trip. Mr. Editor, I am always think ing about how much more we got out of life in those times when folks went about on boats. A fel low had time to do a lot of think ing and planning in those days. Many was the time when he had to help a fellowman, or be helped himself. A boat could get ashore, or have its sail blowed away, or have to tie up some place to get water or something to eat when the weather got too bad. See UNCLE DOCK, Page Four FULL INFORMATION ON BEACH WATER SYSTEM AVAILABLE Office Maintained At Kill Devil Hills To Supply Information To Citizens, Says Chairman Full information is available to any person interested in the propo sal to establish the much needed water supply on the Dare Beaches, Chairman Pat Bayne of the Dare Beaches Sanitary Board advises. The office is located to the west of the road opposite Sanford Gregory’s store, and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mr. Bayne advises, that the total outlay of funds in making surveys, exploring for water, and preparing the necessary briefs, legal ex penses, etc. have been only $14,000 since the project began in 1949- and no taxes have been collected for this purpose since 1955. The total collected has been $16,000 and all bills are paid, with some $2,000 remaining on hand to take care of all expenses, including the election which is scheduled for Sept. 6. i When the election was held in 1953, the district had an oppor tunity to get the system built for about SBOO,OOO with a Ijirge con tribution from a Federal grant, on which the law has expired. At that time the bond issue was defeated principally because of opposition in the Kill Devil Hills municipality where many people gained the im- the town itself could establish a water system and de rive a profit by sale of water to other areas on the beach. The present proposal for bonds includes $40,000 for a fire fighting system which it is estimated would effect sufficient saving in fire in surance premiums to ease the bur den of taxes on owners of build ings. The saving on insurance is estimated to run from 28 to 56 per cent, depending on class of construction. The issue to be voted on Sep tember 6, calls for $1,140,000 for the water service and $40,000 for fire fgihting equipment and appa- See WATER, Page Four CASUALTIES END HYDE-DARE RACE WEDNESDAY NIGHT Two Cars Wrecked Near Manteo After 90 Mile an Hour Chase By Patrolman John Alexander Meekins, 17, of Manteo, and Albert Freeman 22, of RFD Engelhard, may not have any landing field to race on but they were doing their best to win glory for their counties of Hyde and Dare, when their race ended Wednesday night at a speed of 90 miles an hour, as charged by Highway Patrolman D. W. Corey. Due to Patrolman Corey’s inter ference, the young colored men are in jail in Manteo, held in de fault of SSOO bond. Both their cars are out of commission in a roadside ditch of a dirt lane that leads west from U. S. 158 at the neat looking village sometimes called little Kinnekeet, about three fourths mile north of Manteo. Judge Wash Baum in Recorder’s court next week may not decide who won the race. It appears both drivers were disqualified, and it was never determined how fast they might have gone had not they ran in the ditch while being pursued by the patrolman. COMMISSIONERS BENEFIT BY COSTLY TAX APPRAISAL Month by month, the cost of the $22,000 New Jersey tax appraisal job continues to climb, and it is costing more than ever in history for time spent by the Board of Commissioners, most of whose work is in straightening it out and discarding the greater portion of it. It has previously been reported how the Board paid itself $1,050.00 for the month of May. Now they have paid themselves $561.10 for the month of June, and they are meeting several days during the month of July. For June their pay ments were as follows: Duvall $129.50; Swain S4B; Perry, $62.00; White $163,20 and Midgett $158.40. Plus SIOO worth of postal cards at the time, and additional expense in the office of the tax supervisor. The much talked about county audit for the year ending June 31, 1957, which there was great prom ise in May of being complete right away, has not yet been pre sented to the Board, although the Board made payments on the job during June totaling $475.00, on a $1,200 contract. The audit, which is being approvad on a basis of $5 an hour, did not have approval by the County Advisory Commis sion in Raleigh until May 25th. At this time a contract was also approved for SI,BOO to audit the books for the year which has just i ended on June 30th. i LOST COLONY IS REPORTED FROM MANY QUARTERS AS BEST IT’S BEEN IN YEARS In Nearly Two Week's Operation of 18th Season, Most Opinions Express Approval of Big Im provements in Script, Scenery, Costumes and Actors. Show Started Auspiciously on June 28th for Two Months Run. COLUMBIA MAN NAMED FOR MARSHAL AGAIN - X* w B. RAY COHOON, the former Sheriff of Tyrrell County has been named for another term of U. S. Marshal for the Eastern district of N. C. Marshal Cohoon, a Re publican succeeded the. late Ford S. Worthy of Washington on his retirement some four years ago. President Eisenhower recently signed the new appointment. “I plan to continue the impartial' service which has been a tradi tion of the marshal’s office for many years,” said the veteran law enforcement officer. Cohoon’s career both as sheriff! and marshal have been marked' with controversy. It took a ruling I See COHOQN, Page Four . I : X—- TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION WILL CONTINUE APPEAL FOR BETTER APPRAISAL The Dare County Taxpayers Association expects to continue its appeal for an equitable ap praisal of Dare County property, by carrying a number of glaring and discriminatory cases to the State Board of Appeals in Raleigh, Walter D. Perry of Kill Devil Hills, the Association chairman said this week. W. H. McCown, attorney for the Association appeared before the Board of Commissioners on Tues day, and stated the position of the Association in regard to appraisal appeals, and the Association’s po sition on negotiating an adjust ment of the sum promised by The Board in payment for the apprais al, which was made by an out of state firm for a contract price of $22,000. The Association has contended that the remaining $11,500 unpaid on this contract has not been earned, in that the job was too sketchy, incomplete, inequitable, and the county has been put to un reasonable expense because of the nature of what had been done. Mr. McCown found the Board not inclined to do anything furth er this year toward adjusting the assessments. The Board has wiped off eight and half millions of a to tal of 15 millions since the citizens offered objections and began or ganizing. Chairman Perry said the cam paign for members of the Associ ation will continue. Because of lack of time, only a few of the taxpay ers, who were embraced in ths most glaring areas of discrimina tion have been contacted and sufficient clerical help in this busy season has not been available to carry on the work. However, many taxpayers have joined and made contributions of from $5 to SSO to assure employment of counsel. Mr. Perry said all would soon get acknowledge ments of their aid, and a com plete report on results to date, and plans for the future. TELEPHONE SYSTEM TO BE EXTENDED TO GUM NECK Some 50 rural applicants for telephones are to have their ambi tions realised after many years of effort. Construction forces are scheduled to begin work soon on this extension of the Carolina Tele phone & Telegraph Company from Columbia, 12 miles away, accord ing to L. D. Worley, local mana ger for the company. The commu nity has been seeking telephone service for the past eight years. •Single Copy 7# By VICTOR MEEKINS The Lost Colony, now in its 18th season, if not better than ever, is ' the best show it’s been in irany years. It began on Saturday night, June 28th, and it will run through August 31, every night except Mondays. It opened with a good sized crowd for the first night, and it’s had several good nights since. This writer is not a competent critic of the theatre, art or litera | ture, hence we have delayed writ- . ing about the Lost Colony until we could hear several other opinions. [ln the nearly two weeks since the show opened, we have heard many people express opinions and with . out exception they have agreed [with ours. I Most people who are wise show -1 goers operate on the same basis as the ordinary fellow, and just about everybody who’s going to invest three dollars in a show wants to wait a week or ten days until everything gets to running like clockwork. Opinion is widespread that it is necessary to have at least a week’s waiting period be fore all the kinks are ironed out, the actors at ease, with every thing falling into place. There has been some talk in prior years that the Lost Colony, i by changing its script in search of [thrills to compete with TV and movies for the delight of the young, with its battles with In dians, the firing of a lot of blank .cartridges and the overdone ver bosity of John Borden’s lovemak ing, had gotten too far from the original show. The original show had away of 'getting down deep into one’s heart, of sending the blood to the brain and making the skin tingle like nothing else in this world. The more they cut out of this original show through the years in search of the kind of thrills one sees constantly on his 21-inch screen, the less voltage was left in the show to’ set up one’s blood pressure and make love of coun try spout out. It was the most inspiring thing a fellow could see, and it made him proud he was an American, proud of his country’s history, and made him want to have a part in great deals, and noble causes like comes with the third mint julep. That’s the kind of a show they have just about got out this year, and this writer is glad he saw it on opening night, and expects to go back to it. A Community in Debt More than any place in the Coastland, Roanoke Island stands See PAGEANT, Page Four RUSSELL A. GRIGGS, PIONEER BEACH HOTEL OWNER DIES TUESDAY AFTERNOON Russell Aubrey Griggs, 82, pop ularly known as "The Skipper,” who with his wife, the late Bernie Hampton Griggs, pioneered 25 years ago in building the Croatan Hotel, died Tuesday afternoon at 12:30. Death came at the Lane Nursing Home near Woodville, where he had been cared for since last year, shortly after the death of his wife. He had been in failing health for several years. Mr. Griggs was highly regarded, and the couple had a wide circle of friends, during their long life of serving the world of tourists and sportsmen who came to their door, both at Hampton Lodge in Waterlily and Croatan at Kill i Devil Hills. He was the husband of the late Bernie Hampton Griggs and son of Alvertie and Mrs. Elnora Parker Griggs, a lifelong resident of Cur rituck County, and Kill Devil Hills. He was a member of the Pil more Memorial Methodist Church, Currituck, and resided at Kill Dev il Hills for 25 years. Surviving are one daughter, Miss Jeanette Gray, of Kill Devil Hills; two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Baum and Mrs. Walter E. Wil liamson, Sr., both of Norfolk; three brothers. Van B. Griggs, of Coinjock, N. C.-, Rawdan E. Mid gett, of Washington, D. C., and William G. Midgett, of St. Peters burg, Fla., and several nieces and nephews. The body was taken to the Pil more Memorial Methodist Church for funeral services Thursday at 3 p.m. Burial was in the Hampton am •••"“** ’**■**•
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