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VOLUME XXIV NO. 24 RESOLUTION BY DARE BOARD AND COMMITTEE NAMED TO ADVOCATE INLET BRIDGE Fuller, Stick and Edwards Head Committee to Continue Promotion of Project as Prime Essen tial to Economy of Outer Banks; Oregon Inlet Channel Needs Also Receives Consideration Monday. At the meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners Tuesday, a resolution calling for united effort in behalf of bridging Oregon Inlet was presented by Commissioner David Stick, and unanimously adopted. Mr. Stick’s resolution set forth that “the ferry service is unsatisfactory and a de terrent to the furtherance of the tourist industry on which the res-' i dents of Hatteras Island and of the county are now dependent for a livelihood. Messers Stick, George Fuller of Buxton, and Woodrow Edwards of Waves were named by the chair man as a permanent committee to go forward with continuous efforts ■in behalf of the project. In time,' contacts will be made with all agencies which may have a common interest in making a reality of this project Mr. Stick’s resolution says further: “The construction of a toll-free bridge over Oregon Inlet is of ut most importance to the future well-being of the citizens of Dare County; and that such a bridge is essential to the proper development of the Cape Hatteras National Sea shore in which both the State of North Carolina and the United States of America have a vested interest.” Among othei* business transacted by the Board Monday was appoint ment of Robert F. Gibbs, as Civil Defense director in Dare County, preparatory to organizing the county for this work. The Board heard Lawrence Swain, Chairman, and Alvah Wal'd Jr., of the Dare County Water - wsye Committee, discus. 3 the chan nel problem at the inlet, and ac cepted plans for enlarging and aid ing the committee through active interest in getting improvements made to Oregon Inlet Channel at this time. Representatives of the Corps of Engineers office in Wil mington met with the committee Wednesday for further discussion of the problem. Woodrow Edwards was appointed to represent the Board on this committee. The Board, on the recommenda tion of Tax Supervisor Pennell Tillett, named the following tax listers: Nags Head Township, Mrs. Lucy Midgett; in Wanchese com munity, Miss Doreen Midgett; Cro atan Township, Mrs. Florence Joneg of Manns Harbor; East Lake Township, Mrs. Nina Basnight. At lantic Township, Mrs. Oscar San derlin; Kennekeet Township, Mrs. Meilie Edwards, and in Hatter as township, Mrs. Edna Gray. Martin Kellogg, Jr., Co. attor ney, inspected the bonds of various offices, and the Boards ordered these brought up at the next meet ing for approval and some in creases. The Board will meet again on December 22nd for the purpose of drawing a jury for the January term of Superior Court, and such other business as may properly come before it. The Chairman noted that it would be well to invite the public to read the posted minutes of the Board at the courthouse and in the office minute book, to observe the new system which records how every member of the board voted on the people’s business affairs. This system it is hoped will pre vent claims later by persons whose actions might be misconstrued. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT MANTEO HIGH, DECEMBER 19 A Christmas program will be staged by the Manteo High School at 12:30 on Friday, December 19, just prior to the school's closing f for the holidays. The public is in vited to attend. Replacing the usual Christmas parties in the school,* a joint pro gram is being put On, and under the large Christmas tree will be placed baskets of food to be given needy families. Lach child is aeked to contribute s anething for the baskets, which will be presented to Mrs. Goldie Meekins, Dare Coun ts Welfare superintendent, for dis tribution. Each grade will take part as follows: ninth grade will furnish ushers; 10th grade will make up the chorus; eleventh grade will type the programs; and the twelfth grade will conduct the Bible read ing and the presentation speech. 'li-r-ja ,v. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA THRILLING STUNTS SET UP FOR FIRST FLIGHT ANNIVERSARY By AYCOCK BROWN Thrilling aircraft demonstra tions, music by Elizabeth City’s colorful high school band, the plac ing of wreaths at the base of the national monument atop Kill Devil Hills and an array of dignitaries will mark the 55th anniversary cel ebration of the Wright Brothers first flight at the actual site of the happenings which the ceremonies commemorate next Wednesday, De cember 17. The ceremonies begin at Kill Devil Hills at 10:30 o’clock and conclude with a luncheon in Dare County Shrine Club at Nags Head at 12:30 o’clock. Senator A. S. Mike Monroney will deliver the address at the luncheon following remarks by National Park Service Regional Director Elbert Cox. The Senator, a gifted speaker, hails from Oklahoma and in the U. S. Senate he is one of the leading figures having to do with civil and military aviation. Bob Smith and Raymond Wescott are in charge of the luncheon for the sponsors and Shrine Club’s Crippled Children Fund. The Air Force will provide part of the exciting aerial demonstra tion when 11 F-100 Century Series jets fly southward over the monu ment in a “lost buddy” memorial formation. The Air Force planes, led by Major Paul P. Hoza of the 333rd Fighter Squadron of the 4th Bomber Wing, Seymour Johnson AF Base, Goldsboro are part of the Tactical Air Command of Langley AF Base at Hampton, Va. They will be flying in excess of 400 miles an hour, (more than 10 times the speed of the Wrights first flights See STUNTS, Page Four [ HOW MacNEILL GOT THE MAYFLOWER CUP (Editor's Noto . . . Ben Dixon MocNeill came to Dare County in 1937 to report the opening of The Lost Colony for the Raleigh News & Observer. At the direction of the late Frank Smethurst and the late Josephus uanieis he srayed with it through the pag eant's first years and afterward he suc cumbed to the lure of the Coastland and put a decade into the writing of "The Hatterasman" which last week was awarded the coveted Mayflower Cup for the bast book produced in North Carolina this year. This is his f<st and only account of how it happened.) There are so many share-holders in this year’s Mayflower Cup that, when I look at it, I have a feeling of guilt when there is just my I name on it. There ought to be hnudreds of names on it, along with the fingers-prints of the for mer President who handed it to me with a homely gesture, the memory of which I shall cherish even when I’ve worn out the cup by just looking at it. Although I had been getting ready for the presentation for fifty three years I went through it in a sort of daze that did not begin to clear until I was off stage and there was my nephew and namesake, who I had last seen when he visited me on Roanoke Island twenty years ago. And right behind him was Mary Blanche Meekins, shy and amazingly pretty. She was also kind: she kissed both my withered cheeks. Before she had finished these pleasant ministrations Governor Hodges was there, off stage, and he carried my nephew, who had arrived from Fort Wayne, Indiana in the nick of time to see the do ings, over to present him to Mr. Truman, who at once spotted his Michigan speech. He grew up in Michigan and graduated from the University there . . . And in the background, waiting helpfully upon my peed as they have for these thirty five years, were Dud ley and Ida Bagley. Their names ought to have been on the -cup my nephew was carrying for me. Without them there had been no book—and no me. How many more I just don’t know. The vast ecstasy of posses sion of the cup I had experienced fifty three years before, when I was 15, in a cotton patch in my native Scotland county. It was on See MacNEILL, Page Eight REBEKAHS TO MEET The Manteo Rebekah Lodge will meet Monday night, December 16, at eight o’clock. Each member is urged to attend and to bring a gift of food for a needy family. MYSTERY OF WHAT GOT THE SAND BAR AT OREGON INLET Engineers Say Channel Was Filled By Sand Coming From the Sea and Not By Spoil The local fishermen appear to be all wrong, according to engi neers. The sand shoal at Oregon Inlet pumped out to the westward of the channel in 1957, most of which has disappeared, didn’t go back into the channel, the engi neers say. Nobody knows where it went then; it’s gone, but the engi neers say the channel was filled up by sand which came in from the seaward shoal, eastward of the dredged cut. Old fishermen took note of the circumstance that as the shoal left by the dredge fast disappeared, the channel fast filled up. The nat ural conclusion was that westerly winds and ebb tides naturally took the sand back where it came from, which was only a short distance away. But it evidently went some where else, the reports of the en gineers show. Congressman Herbert C. Bon ner, who has been a tireless power working for the Inlet since the project began, has been urging the Corps of Engineers to action re cently because the ferries and fishermen have been handicapped by shoal water. The following let ter, he recently received from Col. Stanley G. Reiff, acting assistant, Chief of Corps of Engineers is printed for information. “Dear Mr. Bonner: “Further reference is made to your recent correspondence con cernin the development of shoals in the vicinity of Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. “Oregon Inlet is approximately one mile wide. A deep water gorge about 800 feet wide is located on the southerly side. A massive shoal area extends southeasterly a distance of 4,000 feet from the northerly side of the inlet. Just inside Oregon Inlet a much larger See MYSTERY, Page Eight M J* | J - MB r 'fMjß ’ ■ m la If WBla Mwb Ora Newly elected officers of the, Cape Hatteras Anglers Club are | shown above. They are: (1 to r) j Jesse Stamey, island NPS ranger, vice president; Mrs. Kitty Lourie, Cape Hatteras Sportsman Center, secretary; Albert W. Philbrick, LIONb CL A STAGING PRE-CHdISTMAS DANCE AT NAGS HEAD DEC. 20 Manteo Lions began last week selling tickets to their annual dance and Christmas party, sched uled for Saturday, December 20 at Nags Head Shrine Club. This affair is one of the social highlights of the Christmas sea son, and is open to the public. Ad vance sale tickets ary priced at SI.OO, door admission set at $1.50. A gala affair is promised by the committee headed up by Lion H. A. Crees, Jr. Many prizes, favors, a program and live music are promised. Tickets are avail able from all Manteo Lions. Pro ceeds will help finance the club’s community betterment activities. FBI IN WASHINGT*N EMPLOYS SEVERAL DARE CO. PEOPLE Several Dare County young peo ple in recent years have been em ployed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its huge Washing ton, D. C. headquarters. Among these many thousand workers from Dare County now are Miss Merlee Tillett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Tillett, and Miss Ruth Cud worth, daughter of Mrs. Alma Cudworth of Wanchese. Also Brantley Twiford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Twiford of Stumpy Point. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958 WANCHESE GIRL IS NOW GRADUATE NURSE ■ ■ RUBY YVONNE GALLOP, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elton F. Gal lop of Wanchese, who has received registration in the field of nursing, is a graduate of Manteo High School, class of 1955. She com pleted her education at DePaul Hospital School of Nursing. On September 1, she received her di-, ploma and wrote state board ex aminations in October. Last week she received her registration in the state of Virginia. She is now employed at DePaul Hospital in Norfolk, and making her home there. MIDDLE EAST CLOTHING DRIVE TO END SATURDAY The public is reminded that the drive for clothing for Middle East relief, being conducted by the Manteo MYF, will come to a close Saturday. Anyone having clothing to donate, is asked to take it the church parlor before then. NEW OFFICERS OF CAPE HATTERAS ANGLERS CLUB ELECTED FRIDAY NIGHT president and Dewey Parr, treas urer. All are residents of Buxton. Elected at the annual banquet on Friday night which drew an at tendance of approximately 40 per sons, the new officers succeed President Edgar Hooper of Bux ton; Wheeler Ballance, vice-presK DARE RECORDERS COURT NEWS FOR THIS WEEK The following cases represented the grist of Dare County Record ers Court at its weekly term Tues-' day. . ’ Melvin R. Moore of Virginia for feited a $35 bond when he failed to appear to answer a reckless driving charge. Chas C. Funderburk for im proper equipment, $5 and costs. John Harvey Lucas, Plymouth, 55 miles in a 35-mile zone, SSO and costs. T. N. Williams, reckless and careless driving, $25 and costs. David W. Gaskins, Wanchese, improper exhaust and lights, $5 and costs. James McClellan Midgett of Ro danthe, $5 and costs for failing to report an accident to his car. OUTDOOR LIGHTING CONTEST ~, The outdoor lighting contest be ing sponsored by the Manteo Wom an’s Club, and to be judged on the evening of December 23, is at tracting a number of entrants. The club hopes many more will take part in the outdoor lighting con test. Apnlication blanks can be ob tained from the VEPCO office in Manteo. Attractive prizes are being offered, and the local winner is el igible to enter the national contest ODEN TO LEAVE HATTERAS LIGHT PLANT JANUARY I Co-op Manager Has Been With Organization Since It Began; Loss Regretted The loss of Herbert Oden of Hatteras as manager of the Cape Hatteras Membership Corp., who has resigned to enter private busi ness is considered a heavy blow to the co-op, according to Capt. Geo. H. Meekins of Avon, the president. Mr. Oden has been with the sys tem since it organized, and has worked day and night to make it go. He will enter the oil business of M. L. Burrus Oil Co., as a working partner. The light plant located at Bux ton has grown until its six motors have a capacity of 1,700 kva, while its peak load now doesn’t run above 800. It has a system 35 miles extending from Hatteras to Ro danthe, and served 638 consumers. Its total business is nearly $55,000 a year. In eight years it has ex perienced a steady growth, its rates have not been increased. Good service has been maintained See ODEN, Page Five SEVERE DAMAGE RESULTS FROM AUTO COLLISION Damage of about $2,500 resulted and severe injuries occurred in col lision of two cars at Manns Harbor Saturday night. A Buick driven by Floyd Hooper of Stumpy Point was run into by a Ford and demolished. Mr. Hooper was riding with his wife, a teacher in the Manteo school. In the Ford were Louis Richard Roe of Manns Harbor, I. B. Gibbs and Luther Berry of En gelhard. Roe said Gibbs was driv ing, but some doubt has been ex pressed and that Roe might have been driving. Patrolman Arthur Fields is investigating the case. The Hoopers escaped with slight in juries, but Gibbs and Berry were taken to the Elizabeth City hospi tal for treatment for cuts. I '’ent. Hatteras, and Hayes Fulcher, Buxton, treasurer. Mrs. Lourie, i who had succeeded Mrs. Ormond Fuller as secretary during the past ■ year, was re-elected to that post. I A review of the club’s activities during the past year was given » by Hooper and plans for 1959 in- Pl RATES JAMBOREE PLANS FOR 1959 TO BE MADE DEC. 17 Plans, for the annual Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree of 19f>9 will be discussed at a meeting to be held in Dare County Shrine Club on Wednesday night, December 17 at 7:30 o’clock, it was announced this week by Alvah H. Ward, chairman of the steering committee which presented the fourth annual Jam boree in late April this year. Tentatively planned for the last week end in April as a Dare Coast spring vacation season launcher, the Pirates Jamboree of 1959 is expected to be designed somewhat like those presented in ‘he nast. The event each year have brought widespread publicity to the Dare Coast and already the Dare County Tourist Bureau which serves as news agency for the Jam oree has received requests for ad vance story material. Dolores B. Jeffords who did a story about the Jamboree last year in The New York Times wishes to use the Jamboree as an opening feature of the Outer Banks in a vacation story she is now prepar ing. All who are intertsted in the va cation business are invited to at ■ tend the meeting on Wednesday . night, December 17. RELIEF FOR SCHOOLS COMES WITH APPROVAL OF NEW ABC BOARD IN OFFICE THURSDAY Urgent Need for Funds Finds Available Help to Tide Schools Over Until Taxes Come in to Pay off $14,000 in Bills Overdue; Schools Fund Short From Overspending for Other Purposes; New ABC Board Sworn in Thursday. NEW WINDOW BOXES GIVEN DARE LIBRARY Ki M MRS. JAMES C. BARDIN, Presi dent of the Roanoke Island Garden Club, and Mrs. A. Q. Bell planting the new window boxes recently presented to the Dare County Li brary by the Garden Club and Mrs. Bell. Growing plants and flowers add to the beauty and interest of any home. The home of Dare County’s excellent collection of library books See LIBRARY, Page Eight eluding the second annual club sponsored fishing tournament were discussed. The anglers club has about 180 members, manv of which are non-residents of the island who consider the island as their favor ite fishing locality. (Photo by Claude Rogers, Virginia Beach.) PTA CHRISTMAS PROGRAM The Christmas program of the Manteo P.T.A. will be held Tues day, Dec. 16, at 8 p.m. in the audi torium of the grade school. Miss Holland Westcott will be in charge of the program “Christmas for the Children”. The first grade pupils from Mrs. Midgett’s and Mrs. Leppard’s rooms will take part in the program. Mr. Ayers will discuss problems concerning the athletic program of the high school. All parents are urgently requested to attend this meeting. Refreshments will be served. NEARLY $20,000 TO CHRISTMAS CLUB MEMBERS To nearly 300 customers of the Bank of Manteo’s Christmas Sav ings Club went $19,300 recently as the club paid out to its members I money saved during the past year. The club has grown by several' thousand dollars volume over the past few years, but the increase this year was negligible. Most of the bank’s customers of the plan are from Roanoke Is land, and were happy to get this additional money just before Christmas. The bank has already started the club for 1959, but anyone wish ling may still join. • • nisi’’’’* Single Copy 7< Dare County had an avenue to turn to this week when it found itself in desperate need for more than $14,000 to pay off urgent bills for the operations of the schools, sqme of the bills being six months old. The next day help came from an advance from the ! county’s ABC profits which en abled the b\irden to be lifted until taxes started coming in. ABC Superintendent Robert H. Midgett, with the approval of the new ABC officials considered it worthy to render substantial aid to the schools, in keeping with the promise made to the people when the ABC stores were established, in 1937. At that time the claim was mpde that the income from the ABC system would go for the support of the schools and the needy. The system has developed until it has given the county a sizeable sum each year, but the funds have not always been spent in the direction intended, after getting in the hands of the Coun ty Board. Ten thousand dollars in a single instance has been di verted in a case of unnecessary spending. Today one half the pro fits, regardless of what they may grow to be, is given carte-blanche to the Dare County Tourist Bu reau. On Monday of this week, as the result of the action of the Board of Commissioners in spreading out representation on the three-man ABC Board, one man is now allot ted to Nags Head Township, one to Hatteras Island and one to At lantic Township. Terms of all the Board members had expired any way, so the Dare Board named the following members: Leigh D. Has sell of Manteo, Chairman, for a term of three years. Joseph Curtis ■« Gray of Kit,ty Hawk for a term of two years, and William (Scotty) Gibson of Hatteras for a term of one year. The new Board met Thursday of this week and organ ized. It is fortunate for the county schools- that the Board had a sur plus of operating capital following the slack season at the end of the tourist business. The stores carry a stock valued at close to $70,000 and has operating capital of about $40,000. It was from these un divided profits, the property of all the people of Dare County, that an advance was made to help the schools. The new County Board this week said henceforth it is their desire, since the Control Board is a public agency, to hold their meet ings when convenient in a public space where the citizens might know what is going on. For 21 years they have been held in the back room of a store, and no no tice is given the public. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board was established in 1937 as the result of the efforts of those who believed legal control of the sale of liquor was better than bootlegging with all its attendant evils, which during prohibition, days enabled gangsters and other , criminals to attain enormous pow er. It is the duty of the ABC Board to encourage temperance, to bring bootleggers to justice, and to encourage decency among drinkers. Fortunate for Dare County has been the tourist trade which brings two thirds of the business of these stores to Dare County, so that like in most other things, Dare County’s income is largely from sources outside the county, making a lighter burden on the citizens. In the bootlegging eradication program in Dare County, the re tiring ABC Board has kept two men employed to catch bootleg gers: M. C. Mitchell of Manteo,, and Clarence Hassell of Manns Harbor who have the sole respon sibility throughout the year to carry out the Board’s policy and instructions. When the Board was first or ganized, it consisted of M. I* Daniels and Guy Lennon of Man teo and J. E. Culpepper, a brother in-law of Mr. Daniels at Nags Head. Mr. Lennon and Mr. Cul pepper remained on the Board un til their deaths. When terms of all members ran out recently, there was on the Board C. S. Culpepper of Nags Head, a nephew of Mr. Daniels, and Ralph Davis of Man teo. The decision of the County Commissioners to decentralize the ABC board made a change in per sonnel necessary, they, and some of those appointed preferred not I See SCHOOLS, Page Eight
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