VOLUME XXIV NO. 7
HEARING HELD BY
LOCAL GOV. COM.
ON DARE PROJECT
Kill Devil Hills Officials Oppose
Issue For Water System
Monday
RALEIGH, (Special).—The lo
cal Government Commission,
through its Secretary, W. E. Eas
terling, ruled Monday, Aug. 11,
in Raleigh that the proposed bond
issue for a public water supply for
the Dare Beaches Sanitary District
is feasible and has the approval of
_Jhe Commission. A meeting was
called in Mr. Easterling’s office to
discuss the bond issue after- a pro
test of the issue was filed by at
torney Tom Chears, Mayor of Kill
Devil Hills. Mr. Chears’ protests
were discussed fully by the group
attending the meeting: P. J. M.
‘ Bayne, Chairman of the Board of
the Sanitary District, and the other
two members, William H. Smith,
Jr., and Orville Baum, and their at
torney. Martin Kellogg, Jr. Pres
ent with Mr. Chears was R. H.
Cook; Major J. L. Murphy also
took part in the discussion. Techni
cal information was furnished by
W; S. McKimmon, Chief of the
Sanitary Engineering Section of
the N. C. State Board of Health in
Raleigh, and R. D. Stout, engineers
with the Southern Mapping and
Engineering Company of Greens
boro, as well as Dorothy Duggar,
• who is associated with them. Mr.
McKimmon declared that the State
Board of Health considers the sys
tem of getting water from- shallow
wells completely unsatisfactory be
cause of the present extent of pol
lution and the danger of getting
the entire water supply perma
nently polluted. The present ex
tent of pollution is known from
’tests made of water supplies of es
tablishments serving the public,
and of tests run on private and
semi-private welis. These tests
have shown that as many as 60%
of the wells tested showed indica
tion of pollution. He explained that
pollution is the term used when
the examination of a water sample
shows that organisms which live
t in the human intestine are found
in quantity in the water sample.
These organisms themselves do not
cause disease, but their presence
proves conclusively that the water
has been contaminated by excreta.
Under these conditions, outbreak
of a water borne disease is a con
stant hazard.
' Mr. Easterling said that the of
ficial attitude of the State Board
of Health on the matter was the
basis for his opinion that the bond
issue is a necessity. He said that
the State Board of Health had es
tablished the Sanitary District in
1949 on petition of residents in or
der to provide machinery for the
people of the area to provide them
selves with a safe, adequate water
supply.
Regarding the statement of the
protest that the taxes which would
he levied to finance the water bond
issue would be burdensome, Mr.
Easterling stated that after thor
ough study of the material fur
: nished him, his opinion is that the
protest is not justified. On a valu
ation of $11,698,370.00 for the dis
trict in 1958, the bond issue of
$1,180,000.00 is sound. The tax
rate can only be estimated, but the
estimate is that it will begin at 38c 1
per SIOO valuation, decreasing at
• varying rates over the thirty-five
years in which the indebtedness is
being paid off. This is a reasonable
tax rate, comparing favorably with
that of other Sanitary Districts
and municipalities which have un
dertaken the same activity. Ac
cording to Mr. Easterling, the to
fel debt senice charge is alto
gether reasonable.
With regard to the provision of
fire protection, which the protest
declares is a duplication of facili
ties already available, Mr. Easter
ling pointed out that the Sanitary
District Board is authorized to car
ry out this function by provisions
of the General Assembly.
Mr. Easterling commented on the
protest that information had not
been made available to the public
by saying that this meeting was
an effort to give information.
The informal meeting was char
.ncterized by full and frank discus
sion. The question of the method
of tax assessment was brought up,
and it was explained by Mr. Kel
logg that assessment by property
valuation was the only method
which is acceptable to the agency,
The Housing & Home Finance
Agency, a federal agency that has
expressed interest in buying the
bonds. Mr. Easterling commented
that this is the way such financing
~isdo«e.
Mr. Stout gave each person at
tending the hearing a sheaf of
and charts, and called atten
tion throughout the meeting to
pertinent points. His information
included details year by year, 1959-
See HEARING, Page Seven
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
LEADS OF HIS DRAMAS IN SPECIAL LOST COLONY PROGRAM, MONDAY, AUGUST 18
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“A IRIBUTE TO PAUL GREEN”, the only living man to have five outdoor dramas runt' ig at the same
time, will be the theme of a special performance of The Lost Colony at Wat rside Theatre,
Manteo, N. C., Monday night, August 18. Not only will the leads of ear) of the five
dramas, “The’Lost Colony,” “The Common Glory,” “Wilderness Road,” “The Founders,” and “The Con
federacy” have roles in the special intermission program but the famed atithor himself, in person, will be
present. In the audience to see the special program, which comes on the 371st anniversary of the birth
of Virginia Dare, will be the cast anil company members of each of the five dramas.
MONDAY SHOWING
OF LOST COLONY
A SPECIAL EVENT
“Tribute to Paul Green" to Take
Place at Intermission on Vir
ginia Dare's 371st Birthday
By JOHN PALMER
An estimated 300 cast and com
pany members representing the
five outdoor symphonic dramas
Pulitzer Prizewinner Paul Green
currently has playing in Virginia,
North Carolina and Kentucky are
exnected to congregate at Water
side Theater here on Monday, Aug
ust 18, for a special performance
of “The Lost Colony” and a trib
ute to the famed North Carolina
author, dramatist and historian.
Green will be present to ack
nowledge the tribute, according to
R. E. Jordan, general manager of
“The Lost Colony.”
This special Monday presenta
tion of Green’s oldest outdoor dra
ma falls on the birthday of Virgin
ia Dare, the first child born to
English parents in the New World,
and will commemorate the 371 an
niversary of her birth. Regular ad
mission prices will prevail.
“The Lost Colony,” with regular
performances scheduled weekly
Tuesday through Sunday at 8:15
p.m., will close its eighteenth sea
son August 31.
The story of Sir Walter Ra
leigh’s ill-fated attempt to colonize
Roanoke Island in what is now
North Carolina’s Outer Banks va
cation area, the drama has been
presented each summer since 1937,
except for the war years 1942-45
when blackout regulations along
the eastern seaboard prevented its
showing.
Led by Oliver Link and Lois
Garren, who play John Borden and
Eleanor Dare in “The Lost Colo
ny,” the male and female leads
from all five productions will be
presented to the audience during
the scheduled 14-minute tribute to
Green.
June and Jim Moffat as John
Rolfe and Pocahontas from “The
Founders,” David Weston, Jr., and
See MONDAY, Page Seven
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JIM C. TILLETT, NATIVE
OF NAGS HEAD IS DEAD
Funeral services were conducted
, Thursday for James C. Tillett, 83,
a native of Nags Head, who died
; in the Portsmouth Naval hospital
Tuesday afternoon. He was buried
in Riverside Cemetery, Norfolk.
Mr. Tillett is survived by his wife,
Nancy Baum Tillett, a daughter,
Mrs. Ethel Tillett Dickens of Wil
mington, Del. four grandchildren,
Ernest S. Dickens Jr., of Newark,
Del., and Lewis T. Hall, Jr., James
C. Hall and Richard D. Hall, all of
Norfolk and six great-grandchil-i
dren. 1
Mr. Tillett had been a resident'
of Norfolk for 54 years, residing
at 3745 Nansemond Circle. He was
a veteran of the Spanish American
War and World Wars I and 11.
Mr. Tillett is survived by sev
eral nephews and other relatives
in Dare County. He resided for a
short time in Kitty Hawk a few
years ago, and returned to 1 Nor
folk, following his retirement from !
Government service. J
DANIELS' DAY PROGRAM
AT WANCHESE TUESDAY
One of Coestland's Biqgcst Family Fes
tivals To Come Off on Schedule
The annual re-union of the Dan
iels family which has been been
held at Wanchese Methodist
Church for the past several years
will be held as usual on August
19th, —Tuesday of next week. The
program will begin at 4 p.m. in
the church, with Robert Lee Hum
ber, speaker for the occasion. Mel
vin R. Daniels is master of cere
monies. Following this program, a
picnic dinner will be served on the
grounds.
The Daniels Day program for
many years has been one of the
coastland’s most important family
festivals. Until his death, the late
Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, and
other members of his family were
regular attendants, and after his
death one or more of his sons have
continued to be present. The occa
sion is usually favored with the
presence of members of the family
and friends from end to end of
the Nation, and it brings together
many relatives and old friends for
a re-union after long separation.
PORTSMOUTH MAN DIES
WHILE VISITING MASHOES
While on a visit to the home of
his wife’s parents, at Mashoes,
Dare County, Joseph Marinus An
derson, 48 died Sunday at 7:30
p.m. His wife is the former Alma
Liverman, and they were visiting
with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Twiford.
He was a native of Annapolis, Md.,
and had lived in Portsmouth for 11
years, residing at 215 Charles
Ave. He was the son of the late
Marinus and Mrs. Rose Clark An
derson.
He was a silk spotter for Vir
ginia Cleaners in Berkley and a
member of St. Paul’s Catholic
Church. He was a veteran of World
War 11, having served four years
with the Navy.
In addition to his wife, he is
survived by two daughters, Miss
Virginia Ann Anderson and Mary
Catherine Anderson; one son,
Michael Anderson, all of Ports
mouth; and two sisters, Mrs. Rosa
Lee Hilton of Annapolis and Mrs.
Marie Olive of Pennsylvania.
The body was removed to the
Twiford Funeral Home. Rosary
services were conducted at St.
Paul’s Catholic Church Tuesday at
7:30 p.m. Funeral services were
conducted at St. Paul’s Church
Wednesday at 10 a.m. by Rev.
James Francis Clifford. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
EDITOR PLANS TO WRITE OF
1,800 MILE TRIP NORTH
Victor Meekins, editor, Mrs. Meek
ins and Miss Estelle Meekins re
turned to Manteo Tuesday evening
from an 1,800 mile motor trip to
northern states, including a short
visit to the province of Ontario,
Canada, returning byway of New
York City. Next week he will tell
our readers of some of his impres
sions gained on the trip, a large
part of which was spent on the
toll roads of Pennsylvania, New
York, New Jersey and the new
turnpike in Virginia.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958
CLUBHOUSE BURNS
AT MANNS HARBOR,
LIGHTNING FIRES
Dufant Island and Woods at Ma
shoes Also in Flames From
1 Unusual Fires
J
Foilowing a lightning blast at 2
. p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, fire
i | broke out and completely destroy
.l ed a clubhouse at Manns Harbor.
. The building was owned by Out
. doorsman’s Club Inc. of Greens
boro, W. S. Gregory and others,
and was established several years
ago by James H. Bratten of Manns
• Harbor in front of whose home the
■ club was located. The property
■ was used as a fishing and hunting
> club and was unoccupied at the
I time it was strack by lightning.
. It was valued for taxes at $1,078.
: The Manteo fire department
■ went to the scene as soon as noti-
■ fied but it was too late to save
■ the building.
The 3,000 acre Durant Island
tract north of Mashoes was being
' swept by fire Thursday, result of
a lightning strike on Tuesday, the
second of two such strikes, the
first being near Mashoes on the
property of West Virginia Pulp &
i Paper Co. The first has been ex
tinguished, but the Durant Island
. fire is in heavy timber. On the is
land is a clubhouse owned by
Rocky Mount, N. C. men. Consider
able damage to the timber tract
is expected.
Several other forest fires have
been set by lightning on the Dare
mainland, during the month, Bill
Erast, West Virginia Woodlands
manager, reports.
UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES:
In This New Day People Feel No Shame In
Being Advertised for Not Paying Taxes
. Dear Mr. Editor:
The old woman was reading the
i paper the other day, and she said
i “what is the world coming to ?
■ Here I see folks being advertised
, for taxes who’ve got TV sets and
. two cars, and live in big houses,
; and some of them must have the
, money to pay up.”
And for a fact there were folks
, who owed a pile of taxes who
. everybody knows are able to pay.
When I was a boy my father
. thought to owe his taxes was the
' worst thing that could happen to
’ a man, and he was always in dis
tress until he got ’em paid. Now
j adays folks don’t seem to mind it
being advertised that they are let
ting their neighbors pay the bills
for running the county.
Well, it’s a great world. When
: I was a boy, it was considered a
terrible thing too for anyone to be
supported by the taxpayers. Most
people took pride in caring for
their old folks, but nowadays they
go to a lot of effort to get their
; parents on the welfare. It is heart
, breaking to see the people who are
being put away in homes, where
: they never see anyone they know,
where little individual attention is
given them, and where there is
i too often, downright neglect.
How much happier an old and
' sick person would be in his own
home where every sight and sound
SHOOTING CASE
FROM AVON TO BE
TRIED AUGUST 19
Columbus Baum Jr. Held For
Wounding Gerald Williams,
Trespasser in Trailer
Friday Night
Columbus Baum Jr., 33, of Avon
is held for shooting Gerald Wil
liams 25 while Williams was in
Mr. Baum’s trailer home at Avon
on Friday night, August 8. A
hearing is to be held in Dare
County on August 19, Sheriff
Frank Cahoon said this week.
Williams is in a hospital, being
treated. Baum, who is stationed in
the Navy in Virginia told Sheriff
Cahoon that he had been called to
Avon unexpectedly Friday evening
because of the serious illness of his
grandmother, Mrs. Grant O’Neal,
and’ that he and his wife and chil
dren had left their trailer home
and gone next door to his grand
mother’s house to spend the night.
He said that late during the night
he decided to go over to his trailer
and make a pot of coffee, and when
he went, discovered Williams nude
in one of the beds, and his shoes
and clothing scattered around in
other rooms. Williams, he said had
been drinking, and he got a gun
and tried to frighten him out of
his trailer, but couldn’t reason wiah
him, and when Williams started
toward him, he shot to discourage
him from the attack.
Williams has been in trouble be
fore due to drinking, and now has
a case pending in the October
t rm of Superior Court for theft
of an automobile.
A HEAVY DOCKET
OF TRAFFIC CASES
IN DARE COURT
A heavy docket of traffic cases,
most all of them for exceeding the
35-mile limit on the beach high
way was disposed of Tuesday by
Julge W. F. Baum in Dare Re
corders Court.
For being drunk and disorderly
at Gabriels Inn, Geo. Jacob Mc-
Cleese was fined $25 and got a
suspended sentence of 30 days.
Thos. C. Callahan, a prisoner
who escaped from the Currituck
County prison camp was sent up
to Superior Court.
George M. Scott Jr. of Eliza
beth City was fined $5 for having
a defective muffler. Walter H.
Collins of Portsmouth, Va. paid
$25 for driving at 60 mph.
Speeders in the 45 mile class
drawing $lO fines and costs were:
W. P. Branch, Roanoke Rapids;
Kelly L. Bowser of Nags Head
Casino; Clyde G. Connette, Crad
dock, Va.; Harry Lee Powell of
Norfolk; James B. Cooper, New
port News; Ollie M. Narren,
Yorktown, Va.; Davis McCoy Dan
iels, South Norfolk;
In the 50-mile class drawing
fines of sls each were: Florian
E. Evans, Harbinger; Edward B.
Saunders, Blountsville, Tenn.; Ver
na B. Chase, Kingsport, Tenn.;
Kenneth N. Taylor, Como, N. C.;
David E. Devere, Mooganton, N.
C. Thos. H. Morris, Barco; John
D. Berberick, Richmond; John H.
Edwards, Atco, N. J.
For driving too close to another
car Ernest D. Mills of Norfolk
paid $5 and costs. Fines of $lB
See DOCKET, Page Six
is familiar. Where now and then
an old friend or neighbor would
call on him?
It looks like August is going
to wind up a hot summer. If we
had the hot weather earlier, folks
couldn’t stand the heat and the
hard work that would come with
it because of so much tourist busi
ness.
Seems like everyone tried to put
off coming to the beach until hot
weather drives ’em to it. Business
seems to be pretty good lately.
I see where the goose hunting
season is going to be ten days
shorter this year. They gave us
ten extra days during the past
two seasons, but they are knock
ing ’em off again, claiming the
fowl has grown scarcer, due to so
many people hunting all over the
country.
Must be something that makes
’em scarce for I know they didn’t
come here last year, and there’s
been a lot of complaint every
where I heard from.
You' know most folks don’t
realise that good roads, automo
biles, and a chance to get away
has turned more hunters loose in
the country in one week these
years than we had in ten years
when I was a boy. And they got
more and better ammunition.
A good thing can’t last forever,
See DOCK, Page Seven
BONNER’S WORK ACCLAIMED
FOR MAKING POSSIBLE AN
ATOM ICEBREAKING SHIP
National Recognition Given North Carolina Con
gressman For Legislation For Larger Ship; Rus
sians Already Constructing Vessel of This
Type; Ours Would Be Larger.
National acclaim is being given
North Carolina Congressman, Hon.
Herbert C. Bonner of the First
District, for his part in legislation
making it possible for America to
build a large atom-power icebreak
ing ship. The New York Times on
Sunday gave extensive publicity
to his work, and said “if the
United States proceeds with the
construction of a heavy atomic ice
breaker, it will be in large part,
the result of the enthusiasm of one
man . . . Herbert C. Bonner . . .”
The announcement follows close
on the heels of a widely acclaimed
achievement of the voyage under
the North Pole of America’s
atomic powered submarine on the
week end. Mr. Bonner was also
interested in the developed of this
sub, and has made undersea trips
aboard it.
The Senate last week passed
and sent to the White House a
measure authorizing an atomic
powered ship that would be super
ior in its service possibilities to
any ice ship now in the Navy or
Coast Guard. With almost unlimit
ed cruising range and endurance a
nuclear-powered icebreaker would
greatly advance this country’s mil
itary, commercial and scientific
operations in polar regions.
The craft .would be at least 350
feet long, larger than any now in
service, and it might cost in the
neighborhood of $60,000,000.
An odd legislative history is in
the background of the proposal.
Mr. Bonner, who is chairman of
the House Committee on Merchant
Marines and Fisheries, has long
felt that the Coast Guard needed
a construction program. Last year
when he began a personal study
of the question, he came to the
conclusion that this country was
seriously ill-equipped to meet the
challenge of expanding polar acti
vity and responsibility.
The deeper he delved the more
he became convinced that an
atomic icebreaker was imperative
for the United States Fleet. Last
December, Soviet Russia launched
the hull of a 435-foot icebreaker,
the Lenin. In January Mr. Bonner
held hearings on a committee bill,
obtaining extensive testimony
from polar experts and officials
of the Department of Defense.
Mr. Bonner said the idea, first
came to him when he heard about
the Russian ship.
“There was something very
pointed in the fact that the first
Soviet atomic vessel was to be
an icebreaker,” he said. “There
was some meaning in that and
I wanted to find out what it was.
“Also, I felt that the Coast
Guard has been in an unfortunate
position. It is under the Treasury,
which thinks about money and
perhaps looks on the Coast Guard
as only a police force. Actually it
has many important functions, but
it is just about a shell, living on
the crumbs of other agencies. They
are going to have to rebuild, and
they now have many friends and
supporters in Congress.’
In the beginning Mr. Bonner
was in the unusual position of be
ing more enthusiastic about the
icebreaker than most of the mili
tary experts.
But the cumulative testimony
began to develop a serious picture.
In pressing for the legislation Mr.
Bonner was joined by two Repub
licans from the State of Washing
ton,* Representatives Thor C. Tol
lefson and Thomas M. Pelly. In i
the Senate, Senator Warren G.
Magnuson, also of Washington, in
troduced a similar bill.
Polar experts who testified at
the House hearing said that even
with the eight icebreakers now
used by the Navy and the Coast
Guard, ideal methods of operation
were denied to the United States
by inadequate or insufficient ice
breaker facilities.
The most modern United States
flag ship, the 311-foot Glacier, can
stay in polar area for a maximum
of three months, after which she
must turn back and get out of the
ice or face the prospect of run
ning short of fuel and being
caught.
Atomic energy would give the
proposed new vessel several major
advantages over the conventionally
powered craft. Nearly a third of
the loaded displacement of an ordi
nary icebreaker is taken up by the
fuel, measured in thousands of
tons. By saving fuel space, the
power of the propulsion machinery
can be increased, as can the
strength of the hull.
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APPEALS TO STATE
BOARD IN BEHALF
OF DARE TAXPAYERS
Association Fighting For Fair Val
uation for Its Members
Interest continues in the effort
for continued adjustment of tax
valuations in Dare County recently
set up at a cost of $22,000 by men
brought in from New Jersey. It is
now pointed out that these values,
now having been fixed by the
Board of Commissioners, they will
stand for the next four years, and
taxes levied thereon accordingly
unless they are changed on appeal
to the State Board of Equalization
in Raleigh.
As individual appeals would
cost as much as several hundred
dollars if taken to Raleigh alone,
there was formed in May a volun
tary group organized as the Dare
County Taxpayers Association.
For those of its members who
wish their interests protected
through appeal to Raleigh, an at
torney has been employed. Action*
in behalf of the Association’s mem
bers must be arranged for right
away, or for others who now wish
to join.
All individual appeals to the
State Board of Assessment for
Dare County taxpayers, resulting
from recent appraisals of property
must be filed with the Board of
County Commissioners by August
16th, it was announced today by
Walter D. Perry, Chairman of the
Taxpayers Association. Appeals are
being filed for approximately one
hundred members of the associa
tion, by its attorney, and of course
other taxpayers may file appeals
through counsel, or individually in
writing. Chairman Perry stated
that written authorization was
necessary from each member of the
association before ■ appeals would
he filed; and ’that taxpayers who
had not yet joined the Associa
tion’s effort for equalizaton, might
contact him before Saturday, Aug
ust 16, and protect their right of
appeal.
Appeals to Raleigh on the re
valuation is the second step in the
Association’s effort to bring relief
to the members; the Association
already having gone on record re
questing the Commissioners to re
quire the appraisers to complete
the work according to contract.
Both programs, it is hoped, will
bring about the equalization for all'
taxpayers, which was the object of
the 1958 revaluation contract.
RURAL CARRIER SERVICE
SOUGHT FOR ROANOKE ID.
Petitions are being circulated
this week for forwarding to Con
gressman Herbert C. Bonner, ask
ing him to intercede with the
Postoffice Department for rural
carrier service to partons of Roa
noke Island living, northward,
westward and southward of Man
teo.
This service, long desired and
needed would be of advantage to
about 1,000 patrons of the Manteo
postoffice, some of whom are re
quired to travel more than four
miles for their mail from the win
dow of the Manteo postoffice; some
two miles further than residents
of most other parts of county, and
many of these sections* have had
rural carrier service for years.
BIG FERRY OUT OF
ORDER AT BAD TIME
Raleigh. The State High
way Commission announced Mon
day that its ferry boat, “Governor
Umstead" has been sent to the
Commission’s Manns Harbor ship
yard for replacement of a broken
shaft.
First Highway Division Engi
neer W. N. Spruill said he hoped
to have the shaft replaced and the
“Umstead" back in service by
Thursday morning. The break
down came at an unfortunate time,
what with the heavy tourist traffic
underway.
The “Governor Umstead" oper
ates between Hatteras Island and
Ocracoke. A smaller ferry boat,
“The Hatteras Inlet” was pressed
into service while the “Umstead”
is out for repairs. “The Hatteras
Inlet" carries four cars while the
“Umstead” is a 15-car ferry.