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VOLUME XXIV NO. 28 ONE MAN’S NERVE AND VISION CREATING UNIQUE SEAFOOD BUSINESS AT ENGELHARD Shrimp, Crabs, Fish and Oysters, Clam Soup Aid Remarkable Enterprise Created by a For mer Barber and Fur Dealer Whose Abunadnce of Energy Has Provided Hyde's Biggest Pay roll. , Growing like the proverbial bay tree, a unique and highly interest ing industry has become the big gest single seafood business in Hyde County in barely more than a dozen years. Started when many people viewed with alarm the frightening decline of commercial 'fisheries, Harry J. Jarvis, closed his barbershop in Belhaven in 1945 ;ibd came to Engelhard buying shrimp. Today Harry Jarvis employs 150 to 200 workers in season, including his regular staff of 20. Most of his helpers are pieceworkers, but this payroll contributes something like SI,BOO a week to the economy of I the community. .Harry Janis is a remarkable 'man. He hasn’t minded working 18 hours a day nor getting out at all hours of the night. He is 50 years old, and says he may stick around until he is 65. Right now he has launched out in the face of contra ry advice from others with a 70 per cent increase in space, He is ’ completing a new building for the processing of seafood, adding 5,500 more square feet to his sprawling plant on Fur Creek. Added to the capacity of the three other large buildings which have been built through the years, he will have some 13,000 feet of floor space. Mr. Jarvis is a man who believes in making use of everything. He takes shrimp heads and scrap fish, cooks them and converts them in to meal valuable for fertilizer and animal feed. A few years ago, a terrific stench in the shrimp sea son which greeted tourists along U. S. 264 near Engelhard came from decaying shrimp heads which had washed ashore. All this refuse is cooked now and not allowed to decay. From buying shrimp and oysters, Mr. Jarvis got to handling fish, crabs, etc. He now expects to get into the clam chowder business. He is planning to process sea food by a vacuum pack method whereby it may be frozen for two or three years. He expects to whip the mar ket situation which has always been 'master of the seafood industry. He is sometimes told he is the only man in the state with his eyes ahead of the industry. In fact he See JARVIS, Page Eight TWO MORE ABC STORES ASKED FOR THE BEACH , Although having been in office less than a month, the Dare Coun ty ABC Board this week were confronted with demands for open ing two more ABC stores in At lantic Township. First was a let ter from the Kill Devil Hills Town Board which represented the town of Kill Devil Hills as a central point for a store and would serve a large area of people. The second request came in the form of a petition signed by about 100 people in the upper end of Kitty Hawk Beach requesting a store be established in the Low throp building at the turn of U. S. 158. Commissioner Curtis Gray of the Board is reported as favoring this location. , ' Chairman Leigh Hassell said the requests had been taken under advisement and in the interests of fairness and investigation would lie made whenever the Board could get to it. He pointed out that this Board has had no time yet to be ciVme familiar with the situation; that a number of things must first i ,be worked out and policies estab | lished. He was definitely of the , opinion that surely three stores could not be operated, and said that any consideration of a second store at this time would have to * depend on results of a study of the probable profit and benefit to . the system. 1 The stores have now abolished the Wednesday afternoon closing, about which there had been so mudh complaint. It is of interest to note that the store sales were $4,810.40 less during the past year than in 1957. With November 1958 having been $875.39 less than November of 1958, nevertheless, store sales jumped in 1958 December by sl,- 232.05 above Dec. 1957. Total sales for the year 1957 $326355.84; total sales in 1958 $321,545.45. Sixty per cent of the total business is done by the Nags Head store during the summer 1 months. Sales in winter do not jus- I tity» clerk hire, freight, and rent ■ paid for the beach store, ft Is I stated. THE COASTLAND TIMES . ? ' I I V• . PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA 18 COUNTIES WOULD SUFFER IF HIKE IN INSURANCE RATES Situation Critical For Dare, Hyde, Beaufort, Tyrrell, Currituck and Others A propsed hike in insurance rates charged in 18 coastal counties, be ing sought this week by insurance companies has posed an alarming threat to the economy of these counties, which include Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Beaufort, Currituck and others. The rate increases asked would double extended coverage, raising it from 20 to 40 cents, and double the deductible as far back as 50 to 60 miles inland against windstorm and hail. This would be jumped from SSO to SIOO and would no longer cover loss to paint and wa terproofing. Among visitors to Raleigh pro testing this rate sought by insur ance Companies was Mayor Thom as Chears of Kill Devil Hills. Many other officials along the en tire length of the coast attended this hearing before the State In surance Department. It was point ed out that 11 insurance companies had withdrawn from writing busi ness in this area, and not any of them are expected to come back. The situation is expected to prove costly economically to the counties affected, since few build ings are erected on which loans are not carried, and first requisite in completing a loan is that ade quate coverage be provided for the benefit of the lender. MOSQUITO CONTROL DISTRICT FOR TWO COUNTIES PROPOSED The Dare County Commissioners this week heard a discussion of mosquito control problems, with several qualified persons giving opinions as to laws and regulations governing establishment of pro grams for this work. Sidney H. Usry, Walter H. Lackey, and Dewey Boseman, engineers for the State Board of Health, and Dis trict Health Officer Dr. W. W. Johnston discussed the situation, and agreed to outline some meas ures whereby the work might be resumed. Dr. Johnston was of the opinion that the methods of spray-! ing and fogging as heretofore prac-j ticed had been merely a waste of money, worth no more than throw ing it down the drain, since it only offered temporary relief and only then when done carefully and un der most unfavorable conditions. At one time there was a plan be tween Hyde and Dare for sharing the cost of a trained man to super vise a program for the two coun ties, and it was proposed that this situation be reviewed to see if it would be of value to ask Hyde to join in such a program. The State Health men plan to submit proposals for some sort of program; either for temporally use, or for a long range plan. A long range plan might not be in effect for two years. Such a plan is now being considered in Carteret Coun ty. LATEST REPORT FROM DARE RECORDER COURT Tuesday report of cases disposed of by Judge Wash Baum in Re corders Court discloses the follow ing: Daniel E. Moulson, throwing trash on the highway, $5 and costs. Ira B. Gibbs, Engelhard, care less and reckless driving $25 and costs. Guy Ward Daniels, Wanchese, reckless and careless driving, $25 and costa. Dorothy B. Gibbs, Manteo, im proper license plates, $5 and costs. Ray H. Austin, no operators li cense, driving on wrong side of center line, $5 and costa. John T. Morrison, Jr., 65 mph; improper license plates, sls and costs. Madison Scarborough, Avon, drunk on highway, $25 and costa. Ernest Ray Ballance, Hatteras, improper license plates, $5 and costs. Irving E. Rogers, driving on wrong side of center line, $5 and costs. Charles Thomas Gregory, Nor folk, Va., expired license tag. no operator! license, $25 and costa. IN CONNECTICUT BOOSTING DARE COASTAL EVENT a BsWHrfi r™ IF/ __ FROM A BOOTH at the Hartford, Conn. Travel Show beginning this week end two Dare Coast “pirates” will tell the visitors there about the forthcoming April Jamboree and likewise the other attractions of the Outer Banks region with emphasis on Nags Head and the Carolin ian Hotel. They are Julian and Lima Oneto shown here on Nags Head Beach as Dare Coast Pirates. PIRATE JAMBOREE MEET SET FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 11 AT NAGS HEAD LODGE Members of the steering com mittee and other persons in '■“rest ed will attend a meeting of Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree in the Nautilus Room of Beacon Motor Lodge on Nags Head at 2:30 o’clock, Sunday afternoon, Janu ary 11, it was announced today by L. L. Swain of Manteo. Mr. Swain was recently selected chairman of the steering commit tee of the forthcoming Jamboree which this year will be presented during the week end of April 24-26. In addition to discussion of events to be held in Dare Coun ty, additional steering committee men for various localities of the area will be named at the meeting. Already steering committeemen for the Northern Dare Beaches, George Crocker, Orville Baum and Julian Oneto have been selected. Since one of the biggest days of the Jamboree is held on Hatteras Island each year, Mr. Swain indi , cated that he was especially anx- I ious that a good representation I from the communities there be present on Sunday. “We will dis cuess Hatteras phases at the be ginning of the meeting in order that persons from the island may easily catch one of the late ferries and not have to remain off the is land overnight,” Swain stated. Some of the males of the coast land are now growing beards for the Jamboree. MRS. EVA LEWARK, NATIVE OF NAGS HEAD IS DEAD Mrs. Eva Tillett Lewark, 74, died in a Norfolk hospital Thurs day, Jan. 1, after a long illness. She was a native of Nags Head, N. C., and had lived in South Nor folk for 15 years. She was a daughter of the late Willis and Mrs. Martha Russell Tillett ,and the widow of Lewis L. Lewark. She was a member of Nags Head Methodist Church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Edith Bowden, Mrs. Leatha Ferguson and Mrs. Amandel Payne, all of Norfolk, and Mrs. Essie Webster of Great Bridge; two sons, Roy Lewark of Harbin ger, and Claude Lewark of Nor folk; one sister, Mrs. Callie John son, and one brother, Mack R. Til lett, both of Nags Head. Funeral services were conducted at the Powells Point Christian Church, Sunday at 2:30 p.m., by the Rev. Jerry Hurtt, pastor. HATTERAS FISHING FAME I IS PUBLICISED IN MEXICO HATTERAS—The fame of fish ing off Hatteras is being publi cised in Mexico City, according to a clipping from the News sent to M. L. Burrus here by J. D. Masso letti who is now sojourning in Mexico. Mr. Massoletti, who owns a home here, writes of pleasant days and cool nights in Mexico at an altitude of 7,300 feet. The pic ture referred to in the Mexican paper is of John Twachtman of Ardmore, Pa. with his 62-1 b. chan nel bass recently caught here. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1959 SEVERAL AUTO MISHAPS OCCUR IN DARE COUNTY A series of auto mishaps in Dare County occured during the past week end. Near Manns Har bor, Francis Eugene Gellico, Coast Guardsman, returning to the Dare beaches Friday morning after a visit to Engelhard, got his 1949 Chevrolet damaged . about S3OO worth when it went off'the road. The driver was not injured. Gus Etheridge, Jr. 16 suffered minor injuries when the 1957 Mercury he was driving Thursday afternoon north of Manteo had a flat tire and went into a ditch. On this same highway, 264 north of Manteo, Mrs. D. Ludwig suf fered considerable injury and her car a total loss Friday when it went out of control and onto the lawn of the Manteo Motel, tore down a sign and wound up in a drainage ditch. UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES: Don't Be Afraid of Your Job If You Have To Keep Whistling in the Dark Dear Mr. Editor: Up country when I was a boy this was a time of great unrest among some folks who were not so well off as others. The roads were full of carts and wagons moving people from one farm to another. Some people would be go ing a long ways to other counties. The tenant farmer had a tougher life in those days. When the new year began, it was often a period of uncertainty with him.; some times he had hopes for the better; sometimes he was driven to a new home because the farm had been sold and he had been let off by the new owner. We don’t see so much of this thing these days, now that farms are run by machinery and ro many of the operators ride long miles daily, to and from their work. Actually, some of our farm workers live, in towns. We had another class of people who were always troubled as to what the new year had in store for them. They were people who worked by the month. Fishermen hired their help in January; farm ers also made deals for qxtra help then. Men who had no regular jobs were out looking for some thing to do that would give them the security of a regular monthly wage. Often through the year a fellow would feel a lot of concern about getting his old job back. Some clerks at Christmas time would be afraid the merchant might let them go if business had been bad. I have seen 'em come and go, but I always noticed that the really good men were always kept on, or were able to get as good a job the next day. You can always .bet a man who is really doing a good job never considers he must rely on the help of relatives or politi cians to keep him drawing a pay check. The smart guy has no wor ries, and never has to whistle in the dark to keep his. courage up at Christmas time. \ Now Mr. Editor, I wish I could get it in to every young fellow’s 1 LOST COLONY IN CRITICAL STATE; MEETING SUNDAY Paul Green and Robert Humber Called to Manteo for Meet ing in Shrine Club Ways and means of financing The Lost Colony during its forth coming season scheduled to begin on June 27 will be discussed at a meeting of Roanoke Island and Dare Coast business leaders Sun day, January 18, it was announced here today by General Manager R. E. Jordan. The meeting will be held in Dare County Shrine Club at 2 o’clock. Robert Lee Humber, president of Roanoke Island Historical As sociation and Paul Green, author of the play which has run longer than any other outdoor production, will attend. Also Clifton Britton, director of the show. “The Lost Colony suffered se vere financial losses during the past two seasons and at the pres ent time approximately SII,OOO in accounts payable is outstanding,” said Jordan. “The sponsoring asso ciation has applied to the State of North Carolina for an allotment See LOST COLONY, Page Eight HATTERAS ISLAND WOULD BUILD NEW $40,000 CLINIC William Gibson, treasurer of the Cape Hatteras Health Center this week said a study is being made of plans for ways and means to raise funds to build a small clin ic to cost $40,000 or more to serve the area. He appeared before the County Board of Commissioners seeking information on legal steps to be taken, in event the citizens wish to vote a tax for construction. The health center is now housed in a former Navy building which was given to Dare County. A reg ular doctor is subsidized by the Government, and the County con tributes $3,500 a year to the sup !port of the project, which has been operated some ten year's. The •health center had its origin, due to some preliminary work done by A. W. Drinkwater, Victor Meekins and the late Walter G. Etheridge of Manteo when by interceding with the Coast Guard, two well euipped infirmaries were given the county for hospital purposes, at the end of World War 11. The one at Kill Devil Hills was allowed to come to nothing through local po litical marieuevers, but at Cape Hatteras there was developed the :present facility which renders a considerable service. head that he has nothing to be ’ afraid of except himself. A man : doesn’t need to be afraid of any ; thing if he is trying to do good i job. He doesn’t need to be afraid 1 t of any man if he is living up i rightly and is meeting his obliga • tions. Too many men nowadays are afraid of losing their jobs. The only men who aren’t afraid are I men who belong to unions and out ■ of their blind obedience that their union will feed them and has the ' power to force their continued em -1 ployment, walk boldly out on strike, regardless of the damage that results from their actions and i the suffering to be endured by i See DOCK, Page Eight I _______________________________ : HARVEY C. SUTTON OF 1 MANNS HARBOR DIES Harvey Crawford Sutton, 53, well-known and highly regarded ' Manns Harbor citizen died Sunday ’ afternoon of a heart attack while sitting in his car. He was the son of the late Charlie T. and Virginia Dare Mann Sutton, and was a lifelong resident of Manns Har bor. He was a veteran of World War 11, a member of Mt. Carmel Methodist Church and is survived by a brother, Thos. 0. Sutton of Manns Harbor and a sister, Mrs. Jay Burrus of Elizabeth City. The body was removed to the Twiford Funeral Home in Manteo. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Mt. Carmel Church by the pastor, Rev. G. M. Kelley and burial was in the Midgett Ceme tery at Manns Harbor. The funeral was held in Mt. Carmel Church. “Whispering Hope” and “The Last Mile of the Way” were sung by the church choir. Mrs. J. D. Crees accom panied at the piano, at the grave,, the choir sang “Travelling On.” The casket was covered with a pall of white gladioli and fern. Pallbearers*.were Wallace Taylor, Jaccie Burrus, Huff Mann, Cleve land Gard, Thelbert Tillett, and Hugh Craddock. VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS HAD SPENT IN RED $14,000 WHEN NEW BOARD MET DECEMBER 1 Commissioners Take Steps to Begin Collecting Taxes From Delinquents; Review of County Offices to Be Made With View to Eliminating Useless Employes; Hurricane Repair Appli cation for $35,500 Filed. WANCHESE SPEAKER ■ aH •' MRS. LOUISE EGGLESTON, of Norfolk, Virginia, a nationally known speaker and writer on prayer will be guest speaker at the two worship services of the Wanchese Methodist Church on Sunday, Jan. 11. She will speak at both the eleven a.m. and the seven thirty p.m. services. On Monday, Jan. 12, she will hold a Day Apart speaking on the subject of prayer. The Day Apart will begin at ten thirty a.m. There will be a mor ning session closing at twelve noon and an afternoon session be ginning at one pan. and closing at two-thirty. The public is most cordially invited to attend the services on Sunday and for the day apart on Monday, the twelfth. Those coming to the day apart are asked to bring a small picnic lunch. Coffee will be provided by the Wanchese Church. The hour of twelve until one will be set apart for lunch and for fellow ship. LAST TERM THIS YEAR FOR WANCHESE SCHOOL The closing of the current school term will mark the end of Wan chese elementary school according to a resolution passed this week by the Dare County Board of Educa tion. following an inspection of the building. The Board found that the school does not have sufficient Students to warant allotment of more than four elementary teach ers for grades one through eight; that the building and equipment are inadequate, obsolete and in sufficient for the educational re quirements of the students; while at Manteo there is ample room, eaniument and facilities. Hence the entire Wanchese school will be as signed to Manteo next fall. Resolutions were passed by the Board praising the work and inter est in the schools manifested by Lloyd Scarborough of Buxton, and Ellis Gray of Avon, who did not seek reappointment on the Board of Education. Appointments to the Dare County unit of the North Carolina Citizens Committee for better schools "were given to Mrs. Carlos Oden and Mrs. Donald Oden of Hatteras and Julian Oneto of Nags Head. The Board announces the Manns Harbor school is-to be offered for sale to the highest bidder on Tues day, February 3, and the Stumpy Point school on Monday, February 9th. The sales will be at the court house door. SEYMOUR SAWYER, NATIVE EAST LAKE DIES SUNDAY Seymour Sawyer, 81, died Sun day morning in the Albemarle Hospital. He was a native of East Lake, Dare County, a retired mer chant and a member of the City Road Methodist Church, of Eliza beth City. He was the husband of Mrs. Dakins Holmes Sawyer. Be sides his wife he is survived by four daughters, Mrs. J. H. Fulton of Charleston, S. C., Mrs. Bill Tanton of Portsmouth, Va., Mrs. Earl Hewitt and Mrs. Frank Wil liams, both of Elizabeth City; three sons, McKinley of Elizabeth City, Lutrell (Shirt) of Norfolk, Va., and Willard of .Burlington; nine grandchildren; six great grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday in the chapel of the Twiford Funeral Home, Elizabeth City by Dr. L. Sigsbee Miller. Burial was in Hol lywood Cemetery. •r> A&ajaflMiCTgaktaSP. -fc\ Single Copy '• The continued tendency of Dare County Departments to spend themselves into deficits was strik ling revealed this week in Auditor’s figures showing that a total over spending of budgets in the first five months of the fiscal year end ing on November 30, had amounted to $14,711.59. Some departments were already overspent sufficient to run them in the red for the bal ance of the year to the total sum of $1,912.86. This tendency indicates, that without being checked, the county spending in the next seven months could run to a deficit as large as that revealed in last year’s audit as being in excess of $38,000. i Pursuant to a campaign state ment of Commissioner Woodrow Edwards, the New Board on taking office on December 2, had ar ranged for an auditor to make a statement of the current-budget po sition as of November 30th. This report was completed this week, and reviewed by the Board. Heaviest overspending was in welfare items, tax supervisor and sheriff’s offices. With these figures as a guide post, the Commissioners now have before them the limitations of the budget, for the remaining seven months of the fiscal year, and to prevent running further in the red, it may be in order to let off some of the un-needed county employes. The Board passed a resolution to begin at once on compiling a list of all unpaid taxes, the col lection of which has been sadly neglected for many years, and the committee named to proceed with the work: David Stick, Victor Meekins and Woodrow Edwards. The resolution to enforce tax collections was introduced by Da vid Stick seconded by Woodrow Edwards and passed unanimously, and is as follows: “WHEREAS at the present time more than $50,000.00 in de linquent taxes is owed Dare Coun ty, of which more than $35,000.00 is for the year 1956 and earlier. “AND WHEREAS it is the obli gation of each property owner to pay his proportionate share of county taxes, and thus bear his ■ proportionate share of the ex penses of the county. “AND WHEREAS the failure to i collect these delinquent taxes in i past years has resulted in a large deficit for Dare County. !• “AND WHEREAS by State law County Commissioners are auth orized and directed to take posses sion of both real and personal property of those property owners who refuse to pay their taxes, and to sell the samo in nublic manner. “NOW THEREFORE, it is re solved by the Dare County Board of Commissioners that a program be instituted as of this date to col lect all delinquent taxes owed the county, and in lieu of such delin quent tax collections to pursue all means within the power of the Board of Commissioners to acquire | other security from the delinquent tax payers, including the attach ment of personal property and the foreclosure of real property. “It is further resolved that, in carrying out this program, the De linquent Tax Collector be instruct ed to compile a list of all delin quent taxpayers, together with the amount each owes the county in de linquent taxes and penalties; and that the County Attorney be in structed to prenare a letter, to be mailed to each such delinquent taxpayer, setting forth the amount owed the county, requesting that payment in full be made immedi ately, and informing the delin quent taxpayer that failure to comply will result in the attach ' ment of his personal property or I the foreclosure of his real proper ty, and the attendant public sale of such property as is required in this manner by Dare County.” David Stick reported that he had filed application for $35,500 in Federal funds for repairs to erosion caused by Hurricane Hel- See COUNTY, Page Eight , SUPERIOR COURT CONVENES IN MANTEO NEXT WEEK The January term of Siroerior Court will convene in Manteo, Monday January 12th for the trial of civil cases only. Judge Malcolm p nul of Washington will preside. There will be no grand jury at this term of court. We recently for this term.
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