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VOLUME XXIV NO. 15 < FOREST RANGERS FROM SEA TO MOUNTAINS ASSEMBLED AT NEW HOLLAND LAST WEEK Training School of State and Federal Forestry Work Conducted in Hyde County Attended by 125 Rangers in Two Sessions Daily; Hyde, Tyrrell, Dare and Washington Counties Under I District Ranger Berry. District Ranger Archie Berry of • the forestry service in Hyde, Dare, > Tyrrell, and Washington bounties had his hands full last week in assisting in the conduct of a for estry school which lasted a full week at New Holland in Hyde County, with two sessions daily, si and its success was largely due to t’.ie efforts of Mr. Berry of Fair- • field. The Ranger’s Training School was held at Mattamuskeet Lodge, . and it was the first time that all rangers from the mountains to the sea had been assembled to gether for such meetings. There were 125 rangers in the assembly. Ralph Winkworth, Regional For ester for Region One, presided over the State-wide meeting. Fred Claridge of the State forestry service of Raleigh was the instruc tor. Various owners of large timber tracts sent representatives to at tend this school. Companies repre sented included West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. with offices in Manteo, Riegel Paper Co. of Acme, N. C-, etc. The long-standing need for such schools, and more of them, might have been amply demonstrated, had the.group driven a few miles across the line into Dare County and have seen the millions of blackened trunks of sturdy young pines left after the disastrous fire ■' of last year, which was the largest forest fire in coastland history. Here more than 50,000 acres of growing timber was denuded of a i thriving crop that in a few short years might have brought millions of new dollars into the area, and would have given employment to many people and new business for many merchants. A ride through this area is worth-while today in the lesson it will teach concerning the value of protection and conservation of our forest resources. Fourth Annual School l ' The school held at New Holland last week was the fourth annual school of its kind, and the train ing a continuation of the one held at Singeltary Lake last year. The first session was held September 28th. The sessions ended Saturday, October 4th. The fire plan adopted by the Southeastern States Forest \ Fire Compact Commission was adopted. The use of pumper equip ment was featured and training in fire behavior as it affects safety of personnel. A day was devoted to field problems. Each man got detailed instruction in the work. Mr. and Mrs. Dick O’Neal were hosts to the large group at Mat ,. tamoskeet Lodge with part of the group being quartered at the Les lie O’Neal lodge nearby. PLANS MOVE ON FOR BIG KITTY HAWK CENTENNIAL Homecoming and Laying of Cornerstone For Church Annex Scheduled . on October 25 Plans seem to be going well ac cording to reports, for the two-day homecoming centennial celebration of the Kitty Hawk Methodist church set for October 25 and 26th. A committee has set up plans on a big scale, whereby a large group may be housed and fed. During this event, the cornerstone laying for the new $50,000 church annex will be held. Mrs. Jack Twiford is director of the celebration committee. Other committee chairmen are Mrs. Kathryn Perry, Carlos Dowdy, Mrs. Edith Best, P. A. Tillett, Mrs. Hettie Baum, R. M. Best, John Evans and Mrs. Oscar Sanderlin. Mrs. Jesse Baum is music chair man. The committee is expecting many old residents, members of the church, a number of distinguished visitors, all contributors to the cause, all former ministers and their families, Snembers of neigh » boring Methodist churches and many others to attend. breaks leg in game Billy Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aycock Brown of Manteo, suffered a broken leg Friday night in the football game between Man teo and Weeksville schools. He was taken to Albemarle Hospital, Elisabeth City, where the break was found to be in a small bone below the knee. Billy, in a cast, was permitted to come home this week and will re-enter school’ in a few days. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA MANTEO HAMPERED BY UNCOLLECTED FUNDS DUE TOWN Auditor's Report Shows Govern ment Getting Along Well With County's Aid Some interest has been shown in recent changes in the personnel of the governing body of the town of | Manteo, with respect to a succes sor for town aiderman, created by the advancement of G. T. Westcott to Mayor. Mr. Westcott was prom ised at the last meeting, following the resignation of the veteran Mayor, Martin Kellogg, Jr. The town of Manteo in recent years has operated on a better financial basis than in the old days when business was done haphaz ardly. carelessly and sometimes dishonestly. Now regular audita are made by a CPA, and that rea sonably soon after the end of the fiscal year. The audit for the year ending June 30th, 1958 reveals that the town had a decrease in assets of $1,599.01 under the preceding year. While it had a slight decrease in cash in the bank, it has a large decrease in accounts payable. The following statement appears in the audit: Assets 1958 1957 Cash in Bank 18,223.39 22,693.91 Accounts Receivable 17,430.23 23,537.52 Property __ 205,953.40 196,974.60 Total 241,607.02 243,206.03 Liabilities, Reserves, Surplus Accounts payable 1,337.74 11,371.06 Reserves 20,338.02 26,388.67 Bonded in- debtedness 22,000.00 23,000.00 Surplus 197.931.26 181.946.30 Total 241.607.02 243.206.03 The audit shows that the town is reducing its bonded indebtedness by the sum of SI,OOO a year, and now owes $22,000. A big lift for Manteo comes from Roanoke Is land and Dare County. Island and county last year gave the town some $6,300, beside paying its Chief of Police from ABC funds. The Roanoke Island fire tax paid $2,300; county funds paid for See FUNDS Page Four MANTEO LIONS WORKING ON BIRTHDAY CALENDAR; WHITE CANE REPORT MADE Among projects underway in the Manteo Lions Club is the popular annual Community Birthday Calen dar. A canvass is being made of all the homes on. Roanoke Island for sales of calendars, birthday and anniversary listings. The calendar drive has been a great success in past years, with promise of even better results this year. Areas have been set aside for Lions to can vass, but anyone who should hap pen to be overlooked may contact Lion Melvin Jackson prior to Octo ber 22. In other business, the club at its meeting Tuesday night announced results of the White Cane drive re cently conducted with the help of Manteo High School students. One hundred and seven dollars. was raised which will be forwarded to the State Commission. I The club had as its guests Tues day night members and leaders of Sea Explorer Ship 165. Awards were issued as follows: Billy Tay lor of Manns Harbor and Raymond White of Manteo received the Sea Explorer Apprentice rank. The apprentice rank is the first rank of four in the sea explorer pro gram. Also awarded were merit badges which the boys had earned, as follows: Billy Taylor—swim ming, gardening, citizenship in the home; Bobby Dough, Manteo swimming; Melvin Twiddy, Manns Harbor—swimming. Rev, Robert Turner of Saint Andrews By the Sea Episcopal Church presented the awards. Sea Explorer Ship 165 is spon sored by the Manteo Lions Club and is open to all boys 14 years old and older. The ship’s charter was to have been presented to the unit by Dis trict Governor Phil Sawyer, Jr., on behalf of the National Council of Boy Scouts. Due to a change of plans at the last moment, Lion Sawyer was unable to be present. The charter will be presented at an early date. '•’Am.' ~ ■ TYRRELL'S TRIBUTE TO ITS CONFEDERATE DEAD liw ■jp i i JKL <3l - BBbWW < IN THE YEAR 1900 devoted women of Tyrrell County spurred on somewhat by professional veterans and perhaps by salesmen of monu ments, set about doing something toward commemorating noble deeds of its sons in the terrible war which had ended 35 years previously. Among these women was the late Mahala Melson Meekins of Gum Neck, who was the mother of the late U. S. Judge I. M. Meekins of Elizabeth City. Before her marriage to Jere miah Charles Meekins, Tyrrell County farmer and business man, she had lost two husbands, one Pledger and one Davenport, before she mothered a large family. One of her grandchildren is Attorney J. C. Meekins of Columbia, who as a small boy, went around the county with his grandmother, in a horse and buggy, soliciting con tributions to erect the memorial to the Confederate soldiers. This memorial, now on the courthouse lawn has been twice moved. Quar ters, dimes, arid even nickles made it possible. Back in 1901 when the dedica tion took place, Mr. Meekins re calls that the speaking was from a platform, across the street, and one Col. Wm. F. Beasley, a former Tyrrellonian was a speaker, and another noted citizen, Rev. Wm. Carawan of the Primitive Baptist faith did the praying. During the prayer, the speaker’s stand collap sed, but the preacher, unpeturbed, continued with his prayer, and there was no interruption of the program. It was a great day in Columbia, some 56 years ago, and the crowds came by excursion boats from Elizabeth City and other towns across the water. Os the counties of Currituck, Dare, Hyde and Tyrrell, Tyrrell is the only one to have completed a public memorial to its confederate dead. RODANTHE COUPLE HOME AFTER 7,600 MILE TRIP Rodanthe.—ln order to attend a family gathering at Long Beach, Calif, Mr. and Mrs. W. Verde Wat son of this community have com pleted a 7.600 mile journey. They left here on August 16th and at tended in California, the 90th birthday of Mr. Watson’s father, and the 60th wedding anniversary of his parents. They got home Sept. 26. The Watson’s returned via Chey enne, Wyo., where they visited their son Bnice, and on their way out, visited their son Kent in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where he worked during the summer, and again visited him on their return, at N. C. State Col lege. They also visited Bryce Can yon, and Zion National Park in Utah. Several National monuments in Arizona, one in Ohio and vari ous state parks. In California they visited Disneyland and on return spent part of a day on a Missis sippi River Parkway. They travel ed in a foreign station wagon equipped like a trailer for camping and stayed moat nights in trailer courts or State Parks. TAKE OFF FOR TRINIDAD Mrs. Marvin Forbes and Miss Lou Tillett of Wanchese, departed by airplane Monday for Trinidad where Mrs. Forbes will Join her husband who is stationed there with the armed forces. Miss Tillett is expecting to take up civil serv ice work. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1958 STICK REVIEWS 125 YEARS TOURING IN DARE COUNTY Banquet Speaker Recites Interest ing History and Appeals for Enlarged Support of Tourist Bureau Friends and officials of'•the Dare County Tourist Bureau, attending i a banquet at the Carolinian Hotel Wednesday night heard a highly entertaining address by David Stick of Atlantic Township on the history of the tourist business in Dare County. The tourist business really began about 125 years ago, with the first setlement at Nags Head, Mr. Stick said, and it has been paying off ever since. He told how the planters of the Albemarle country discovered healthful conditions along the sea coast after having suffered from disorders, probably malaria, which they attributed to the vapors which arose off the swamps in spring time. The first people to build a cottage at Nags Head were from Perquimans County, he said, back in 1832. He recited the growth and development of the hotel business on the soundside shortly thereafter, and told of the social prominence of the resort long before the Civil War. ife enjoined all who are interest ed in the future progress of Dare County to discourage jealousy and bickering about who gets most benefit from Tourist promotion work. He recited the history of the county, paid tribute to Aycock Brown and the various people who had worked to organize and devel op the bureau, mentioning former officials, including Wally McCown, Lawrence Swain, Mrs. Elizabeth Baum, the late Guy Lennon, Mrs. Lucille Winslow, and others. He paid tribute to Judge Wash. Baum who as Chairman of the County Board back in 1926 had the nerve to start out on a project to bridge Roanoke Sound, remarking that it could never have been put across without a little guile, for the proj ect was launched under the pre text of building a boat canal, the material making a road-bed, and several canals were built, which of course were approved by vari ous citizens. The vision of the Elizabeth City promoters of the Currituck Sound bridge then came up for attention, and it was brought out that private enterprise built this bridge after two years when state officials said it wouldn’t be built in 50 years. The Cape Hatteras National Sea shore, the Lost Colony, the Wright Memorial, and many other mile stones in the progress of the Coast land came up for attention, and credit was given those who aided in bringing them abdut. About 60 people attended the dinner. Retiring Chairman A. H. Ward of the Bureau presided, and paid tributa to many who had aid ed in the The new president, Gordon Kellogg was presented. TOWNS GET STATE FUND FOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS Allocations for 1958 Received Last Week Total Over Six Millions Raleigh.—Checks totaling $6,- 477,457.37 were mailed by the State Highway Commission last week to the 407 eligible munici palties participating in the alloca tion of Powell Bill funds. The Powell Bill, passed by the General Assembly in 1951, author izes the setting aside of % cent from the regular tax on each gallon of gasoline, in an effort to aid municipalities in the mainte nance of non-system streets. All Powell Bill funds are allocated in cash to active incorporated muni cipalities which are eligible and qualified for improvements on their non-highway system streets. Allocation of the Powell Bill funds is made proportionately to the eligible municipalities, half on the basis of population and half on the basis of relative non-sys tem mileage. Allocations for some of the eastern North Carolina towns are as follows: Popu- Allo- Towu lation cation Aurora 525 $ 3,169.90 Bath 381 1,472.19 *Bayboro 453 2,048.32 Belhaven 2,528 11,486.67 Columbia 1,161 4,120.95 Eliz. City 12,685 42,867.19 Edenton 4,468 16,378.03 Hertford 2,096 6,971.93 Kill Devil Hills 735 8,407.52 Manteo 635 2,773.41 Pantego 275 913.21 Plymouth 4,486 16,787.74 Roper 793 3,894.25 Washington 9,698 36,523.35 Washn. Park 421 2,873.78 During 1951—the first year of its existence—a total of $4,543,- 096.20 was allocated to the 386 eli gible municipalities. This figure has increased over the years to $6,477,457.37 for 407 participating municipalities in 1958. The six millions dollar figure, allocated this year from Powell Bill funds, brings total allocations over the past eight years to $45,- 013,664.66. According to the figures re leased this month, the 407 parti cipating municipalties had 6,887.57 miles of non-highway system streets. Their total population, ac cording to the 1950 census, was 1,524,960. Payments range this year from a low of $393.05 for Falkland in j Pitt County to a high of $347,322.- 59 for Greensboro. TWO SURF TOURNEYS ON DARE COAST THIS MONTH J NAGS HEAD Under the 1 direction of Willard Shaner, Mar gate City, N. J. and James Scar borough, president of the Nags Head Surf Fishing Club, the sev enth annual inter-team and open individual surf fishing tournament will be launched here next week end. The tournament is expected to attract 40 or more teams from North Carolina, Virginia, Mary land, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and other states. Competition will oficially begin on Friday morning, October 17 with five-man teams competing during the first two days followed by one day of open competition on Sunday. A high spot of the tournament will be the gala banquet in The Carolinian Hotel, headquarters of the event, on Saturday evening. At that time trophies and prizes val ued at hundreds of dollars will be awarded winning teams and indi viduals on the teams. Second Tournament A second tournament will be pre sented on Hatteras Island during a three day period beginning Oc tober 23. This will be sponsored by Cape Hatteras Anglers Club head ed by Edgar Hooper. Hooper has announced that at least 15 clubs would enter teams in the Hatteras Island event. This is the first tournament sponsored by the Cape Hatteras club. DARE RECORDERS COURT The following cases appeared before Judge W. F. Baum in Dare Recorder’s Court this week: Thos. C. Dickens, Nags Head, public drunkenness $25 and costs. Eliza beth Spencer Owens of Manteo, for assault with a knife on two others, Raymond Charity and Pearl Charity, resulting in painful injuries, $lO and costs. Lillian G. Cohoon, speeding, sl2 and costs. Darrell Merrill, 18, Hatteras, drunk and disorderly, resisting arrest, $35 and costs. Garland A. Underdown, Wanchese, driving on the wrong side, $5 and costa. Rob ert O. Quidley, Manteo, improper muffler, $S and costs;. AUDITOR’S REPORT SHOWS DARE’S UNCOLLECTED TAXES NOW ABOVE SIOO,OOO MARK Dismal Report For Year Ending June 30th, Re veals Deficit Still High With County Funds Overspent Nearly $48,000; Auditor Warns Against Loose Methods and Insists on Curtail ing Non-Essential Spending to Get Things Straightened Out. GOES FOR COURSE IN NAVAL MUSIC SCHOOL PVT. JIMMY L. BRADDOCK, of Buxton, has finished his basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C. He is the son of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Braddock, who are the pastors of the Buxton Assembly of God Church. Pvt. Braddock has been assigned to Special Services, and will be attached to the Naval School of Music in Washington, D. C. for the next sixteen weeks. He graduated from the Cape Hatteras High' School in June. WILLIAM LEWIS TILLETT, 74. WAS LIFELONG RESIDENT KITTY HAWK COMMUNITY On Tuesday afternoon, William Lewis Tillett, went to his final rest in the beautiful and peaceful Austin Cemetery, in Kitty Hawk, the community where he was born and had been h lifelong resident. Mr. Tillett, at 74, died in a Vet eran’s hospital last Saturday after an illness of three years. He was 14 months in the hospital. He was a highly re garded citizen of his community, i a good neighbor with a wide circle I of friends. He was a member of i one of the oldest and largest fam ilies of the area, and was born at Kitty Hawk, Nov. 28, 1883, the son of the late Benjamin F. and Almira Hayman Tillett, and the husband of Mrs. Helen Stetson Til lett He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. R. M. Best, Mrs. John W. Evans of Kitty Hawk and Mrs. Ira V. Partridge of Kill Devil Hills; by one son, F. Linwood Til lett of Kitty Hawk; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Love Perry and Mrs. Jennie Beasley of Kitty Hawk and Mrs. Almira O’Neal of Manteo; eight grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. He served in the Guard for 27 years, principally in the nearby coastal area, and retired in 1945 as Boatswain’s Mate Ist class. Mr. Tillett was a member of Fort Raleigh Post No. 26, American Legion of Manteo. The body was taken to the Twi ford Funeral Home in Manteo. Services were conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church by the Rev. Stanley S. Snead, pastor. The body lay in state one hour before the funeral. “A Closer Walk with Thee,” was sung by the church choir; “Ivory Palaces,” sung by Mrs. Minnie Belle Twiford; Mrs. Jesse Baum, organist. Red and white carnations formed the pall. There was an im mense floral offering. Pallbearers were Colon Perry, James O’Neal, Cal Perry, Ervin Clark, Jennings Beasley, and Al vah O’Neal. SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR MANTEO WOMAN’S CLUB The Manteo Woman’s Club will meet Tuesday night, October 14, at 8 o’clock at the Community Building. The program chairman, Mrs. Arthur Fields, will give a talk on “Club Awards.” As an added feature a movie “The Mayflower Story” will be shown. This film is taken from the actual voyage of the Mayflower 11, setting out from Plymouth, England in 1957 on her voyage to Plymouth, Mass. All members are urged to be pres ent' • Single Copy 7# The last dismal chapters of the disgraceful Duvall-Daniels dynasty in Dare County’s government are being written, and this week on the recommendation of the Tax Supervisor that the job was 97% completed, it was ordered to pay Associated Surveys, a New Jersey outfit, a balance of $2,545.10 re maining due for the $22,000 tax appraisal job which took property owners of Dare County for a cost ly ride this year. At the same meeting Tuesday, the Board of Commissioners got' an audit report made in three months time, after a lot of prod ding, for the year ending June 30, 1958. This report showed Dare County with over 100 thousand dollars in uncollected taxes, and a total deficit in Dare County funds of nearly $48,000, an increase over the period ending a year previous ly- The auditor made some sharp comments about the methods of handling funds in various depart i ments, indicating the great need for establishment of a modern ac- • counting system. The teport showed that funds in excess of its pro rata share of tax collections had been transferred to ' the Manteo School district; that county funds had been used to pay in an excess of the amount due for hospitalization of county employes and same had not been collected from the employes; that funas col lected separately for the Roanoke : Island Fire District, the Dare Beaches Sanitary District, the Kitty Hawk School District, and the Manteo School District had not properly been handled sepa rately or paid in pro rata as col lected. This situation affected the Tourist bureau which is due 50 per cent of the county’s ABC Funds. The auditor’s comment on this situation is as follows: “It will be. noted that some of these funds had excesses of revenue over ex penditures, while others had ex cesses of expenditures over reven ue, we again call attention to the fact that in view of the overall deficit, it is absolutely imperative that expenditures for non-essential purposes be curtailed.” This clearly marks the path for the next board to follow,’ and it looks like a lot of weeding and hoeing will have to be done. Tuesday, the Board of Commis sioners, with all members but one present, passed the situation off lightly enough. Their comment on the transcript of minutes, reads as follows: “ . . . Recommendations accom panying such reports were noted and discussed with Mr. Howard, (the auditor). It was pointed out by Mr. Howard that progress had been made to adjust the inequities heretofore found in the various funds of the county, and that such inequities may be speedly resolved in the near future with proper attention to their causes.” The near future means that someone else will have to take steps to make the corrections, and new employes must be found to do the job, as these same conditions have been commented on by audi tors now and then during the past ten years. The present Board has one more regular meeting before winding up its term. Let’s see how much progress it has been making in wiping out the “inequities,” or rather “iniqui ties,” complained of. During the past two years un collected taxes have jumped from $86,211.89 to $100,642.35, according to this same auditor, while the county has been spending twice as much for tax collecting and law enforcement. During the past two years, the deficit, that is overspending, has only dropped from $54,000 to $47,71840, which ineludes $25,- , 794.63 of General funds. This doesn’t show much improvement in view of the tremendous jump made in the tax levy each year. For sev ’ era! year*, the present Board of Commissioners have been increas ’ ing the budget at the rate of about ■ $25,000 a year. 1 The $100,642.53 in uncollected * taxes renresents anlv tha suvnmn. f appear to have been ■ further audit including prior yeurs
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