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VOLUME XXIV NO. 32 MORE MACHINERY WORKING ON PROJECT AT ENGELHARD TO DOUBLE HYDE’S ACREAGE Pumping Equipment Installed This Week, and More Machinery in Next 60 Days Will Repre sent Quarter Million Dollar Investment, Man ager Says. Expect to Get 10,000 Acres in Cultivation During the Year. Within 60 days there will be a quarter million dollars worth of mechanical monsters tearing through the woods north of En gelhard, where the Pamlico De velopment Co. is determined to double the acreage of farm land in Hyde County by clearing its recently purchased 73,000 acre •tract. Jos P. Smith, company man ager, said this week 65,000 acres *>f the land is excellent for agri culture and he expects a total of 10,000 acres to be ready this year for cultivation. In service last week went three pumping units, each with a capac ity of 15,000 gallons per minute. Two of these are located on U. S. 264 about three miles north of Engelhard and one farther to the ■west. A dragline is busy digging ■, Out the roadside ditch which serves as an outfall canal, and this week the water table in the land has been lowered by six inch es or more in preparation for three additional large land clear ing machines which will arrive this month. The company has had two such machines in operation for several months. These five are Caterpillar type machines, with what is called a K-G blade. Value of the equipment is placed at $390,000. Each machine can clear up to 12 acres of land a day. Mr. Smith has planted a portion of his newly cleared land in oats. He is negotiating for the construc tion of new fabricated homes for ‘the use of some 15 to 20 families expected to move into the area, contingent upon a deal with a group of Florida agriculturists. The 73,493-acre tract of land, on which development on a large scale is now so far underway, was bought last August fbt two and a half million dollars. The Pamlico Development Co. consists of Wm. ‘ A. Bowe, of Hattiesburg, Miss., and Mr. Smith. A loan of one and u half million dollars was nego tiated on the property. Mr. Smith, who is resident man ager of the project, left this week for Fort Worth, Tex. where he is See FARMING, Page Four ; VALENTINE SEASON FOX HUNT WILL BE HELD AT NAGS HEAD ‘ NAGS HEAD—America’s most widely publicized informal fox hunt will take place again at Nags Head, the 10th annual Valentine Season Fox Hunt. John Ray Watkins of Oxford, N. C., will again be mas , ter of the hunt, and here to follow tsp to 100 or more hounds from several North Carolina fox hunting areas will be scores of hunters and spectators. The Valentine Season Punt was established by operators of The Carolinian Hotel in 1949 for the ’purpose of presenting an unusual offseason attraction during Febru ary when tourist travel is normally at a low ebb. In addition to the hunt, informal because those participating do not wear the pink nor ride horses, will. be nightly social events including dances, hospitality sessions, hunter horn blowing contests and hunt breakfasts. Instead of horses the hunters follow the hounds in stock cars. r Hunts are usually held in the I. " Bodie Island section and also at Colington Island. Hunt headquar ters will be The Carolinian which opens next week after being closed for renovations. The Valentine Season event this year begins on February 12 and continues through February 14. $205.40 FOR MARCH OF MMES The Manteo Oddfellows and Re bekahs on last Sunday, February 1. netted a sum of $205.40 for the j * 1959 March of Dimes by collecting “toll" on the Roanoke Sound bridge. Members of the two organ izations manned the bridge all day and report generous ontributions from those crossing the bridge. CAS PRICE FALLS AT A NAGS HEAD STATION According to announcement this, week by Owens Garage, Nags ( Head, gasoline prices have taken a, sharp downward turn. Lawrence Owens, operator, says regular gas oline will sell at 26.9; premium 32.9. This price is in line with the discount prices which have pre- H ■ vailed at most stations in Curri-, tuck County for several years. I '“**■ • THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA CAPT. BILL PERRY DIES TUESDAY AT AGE OF 97 I fl fl ■ r y fl ■bi CAPT. WILLIAM AVERY PER RY, for several years holder of the distinction of being Dare County’s oldest man, and also the most active for his age, died Tues day in the Albemarle Hospital after an illness of several days. A year ago he was active enough to set nets and fish them in Curri tuck Sound. He was a widely known man in Eastern North Carolina. He had survived two wives, and is now survived by Mrs. Jeanette DeMary Perry who has blessed his life immeasura bly. He was a member of the Mis sionary Baptist Church. He was born October 28, 1861, the son of the late Nancy Rogers and Brit- See PERRY, Page Four HEARINGS ON WATER PROJECTS: HATTERAS AND STUMPY POINT Engineers Set March 12th For v Hearing at Hatteras and March 19 at Stumpy Pt. Meetings are to be held at Hat ' teras and Stumpy Point in March ’ whereby all interested citizens can 1 put before the Board of Engineers , their arguments in behalf of much needed waterways improvements in ’ these communities. Col. H. C. Row land District Engineer, in Manteo this week arranged the meetings while in session with the County Board of Commissioners. The first meeting will be held at ' Hatteras on March 12th at the • community building, and a com ! mittee of citizens are now assem bling the material they wish to ’ present to the engineers. M. L. Burrus, and a committee of other citizens have already begun to as semble material. Attendance of all interested persons is urged. The | imnortant waterway under con sideration is Rollinson’s Channel, the entrance to Hatteras harbor. In these harbor projects, the Gov ernment now is adhering to a long-neglected law which requires that free docking space be provid ent, before Government money can be spent The second meeting will be held at the Stumpy Point school build ing on March 19th, and Horace Hooper heads a committee to make up a brief for this case. He is call ing for a large attendance to assist in presenting the case for this much needed channel. The project calls for improving 8,000 feet of channel 75 wide to a depth of seven feet, with a turning basin on the inner end, of 50 by 600 feet SWIMMING POOLS ADDED FOR DARE VACATIONISTS Three new swimming pools will be ready here by late Spring in the Nags Head area, as a vacation attraction, making six pools for the area. Nearing completion is one at Archie Burrus’ Sea Oatel motel. Soon will be swimming pools at Owens Motel, and the 1 Carolinian Hotel. The Sea Oatel ' Motel is also building a new res- I taurant Other swimming pools on the Dare Beaches are at Beacon Motor Lodge, Nags Head; Cavalier Mb -1 tor Court, Kill Devil H'lls and The Sea Ranch at Kitty Hawk. BOARD TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST STREET BLOCKERS Plans to Halt Unauthorized Per sons Taking Over Streets In Subdivisions Tlie continued taking over of public streets for private use, but which had been dedicated to the public in various subdivisions of Dare County, has become a big thorn in the flesh to numerous peo ple who protest against such trampling on of their rights. This week it was brought to the at tention of the County Board of Commissioners, and they instruct ed that immediate action be taken by the County Attorney, whereby marking of all such streets will be undertaken, and the trespassers driven off and made to pay for any damages they may have caused. The preceding Board of Com missioners had taken notices of six instances of such made by greedy people and in July 1957 started action to open some six . streets that had been blocked by selfish people. These streets were set aside by various subdividers of property, for the use and enjoyment of the buyers of lots in projects through out Dare County. There have been no complaints other than on the Dare Beaches where the situation is pretty well aggravated and in i many instances aggression on the ocean side has denied owners of west side lots the use of the streets to the ocean, which is one of the principal considerations in buying other than oceanside lots. The most aggravating offenders are persons who own corner lots, and take it on themselves to move into the adjacent street area which doesn’t belong to them, but usually not being improved, they believe they can get away with it. They erect buildings on them; use them for private parking, or pile them with trash and rubbish. Court action will be taken, the Dare Board stated. It became nec essary to go to court some years ago to save a public road which . had been pre-empted by a greedy landowner. HATTERAS ISLAND MEETING TUESDAY TO CONSIDER CLINIC Citizens Called on February I Oth at 7:30 To Discuss Bond Issue For Hospital The whole of Hatteras Island is expected to be well-represented at 7:30, Tuesday evening Feb. 10th at ' the Buxton school building to dis cuss the probability of erecting a modern clinic to replace the Cape Hatteras Health center now in use . at Cape Hatteras, which was do t nated by the Federal Government 1 and is partially supported by coun s ty funds. t . John L. Austin of Frisco, chair i man for some time of the Trustees' . of this health center, in Manteo , Thursday said he hoped all people i would come out and try to get a ■ complete understanding of -the sit uation. Reports from health au- ■ thorities at Raleigh do not recom , mend using the old building much , longer. Mr. Austin, who said he had to be , away for medical treatment, ex pressed the hope for a large at tendance Tuesday night. Hq said . R. A. Job of Hatteras, the Board’s » secretary had been acting as tem porary chairman, since he, (Mr. . I Austin) had to give up the work. Members of the Board of ' Trustees also include W. Gibson, Donald Oden, James Rollinson, Boyd Gray, G. H. Meekins, Perry i Farrow, Nick Gray, Julian Gray, . A. H. Gray, and Julian Austin. HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO VISIT DAKE COAST SITES Kitty Hawk—Dare will be vis ited by members of the North Carolina Society of County and Local Histori'ins on April 19, it was announced here today by Dav id Stick who has been assisting in making arrangements for the tour. Stick is cooperating with Dr. W. P. Jacocks, state tour chair man of Chapel Hill and Jesse F. Pugh, vice-president of the so-' ciety who lives in Old Trap. The Society enlisted the aid of Mr. Stick because of his knowledge of historic sites on this coast, all mentioned in books he has auth ored. The Dare Coast tour continuing for one day will include historic sites north of Oregon Inlet, with suggested visits to Kitty Hawk village; Kill Devil Hill, Fort Ra leigh, Roanoke Island, the Eliza bethan Gardens nearby, with its antique statuary; the site of Reg inald Fessenden’s wireless experi ments dn Roanoke Island and also the site of the Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1959 THE REV. EARL MEEKINS TO CONDUCT REVIVAL SI *W* M 1 I i ML Olivet Methodist Church will hold Revival Services during the week of February 15 through 20, with The Rev. Earl Meekins, former Dare County native as vis iting minister. Mr. Meekins is at present serving the Friendship Methodist Church, Burlington. The revival will be opened on Sunday night, February 15, at 8 p.m. by Mt. Olivet pastor, the Rev. L. A. Aitken. Mr. Meekins will arrive from Burlington on Monday and remain as preacher for the rest of the week. The services will begin each night at 8 o’clock and the pub lic is invited to attend. THOUSAND DOLLARS BID FOR SCHOOL PROPERTY TUESDAY Manns Harbor Property Up; Stumpy Point School to Be Offered Monday For a ten thousand dollar build ing and some four acres of land on Highway 64 and 264 in the village of Manns Harbor, a single bid was offered in the amount of SI,OOO Monday when the schoolhouse was put up for sale. The bid was made by H. G. Craddock who represented some citizens in the community ■who wish the building turned over to them by the Board of Education for “community use.” This bid will remain open for ten days in event someone wishes to buy the building at a higher figure. Then it will be up to the Board of Education to decide whether they wish to give the property away for any such ridicu lous sum, or to endeavor to get more money out of the property, for the benefit of the children for whom the school was built. On February 9th, the School at Stumpy Point will likewise be of fered for sale. There are citizens in this community also, ’who hope the Board of Education will give this building to the community. See SCHOOLS, Page Four i in ■- UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES: Most Precious Memory Anyone Can Cherish Is Great Sacrifices Made for Them by Parents Dear Mr. Editor: I got to thinking about the ex travagance of this age and the multitude of expensive things that every family thinks it can’t get along without these days, and about the high cost of living, and I don’t see how in the world a lot of folks do get along at all. You know in a small place, most everybody has a pretty good esti mate of how much his neighbors make, and the most amazing thing is how some who have apparently no income, seem to have as much as anybody else, sometimes more. About the only conclusion I can reach is that they are better man agers than the general run of folks. As we all know, a lot of people put on a good front, al though things may be pretty tough with them where their can’t see. They skimp and save, and make great sacri fices for their children. They go without things they’d dearly love to have. Their pride drives them to deprive themselves in order that their children may dress well, go to college, have big weddings, and be spared the disappointments that sometimes produce an embit tered and unhappy person whose whole life'may be a drawback to his community. I sometimes think that parents overdo this business of making sacrifices for their children, so many of whom apparently have no sense of appreciation for what is done for them. And on the other hand, I sometimes think it is the noblest thing I know of: To see a person who recognizes that real < love is simply sacrifice in its high- * est analysis. Mr. Editor, I can look back on people who wore rags, who didn’t always have all they wanted to eat, and who gave up all. pleas- ( EMERGENCY REPAIR JOB PLANNED SOON AT OREGON INLET Engineers Report Plans For $50,- 000 Dredging Job to Ease Ferry and Fish Boat Problem Bids on an emergency repair job soon to be undertaken at Ore gon Inlet are being considered this week by U. S. Army Engineers, Col. H. C. Rowland, the District Engineer told Dare County citizens when he met with the Board of County Commissioners in Manteo Tuesday. The job will cost about $50,000 to be paid for from emergency funds, and is an endeavor to over come the shoal conditions which disrupted the fishing industry, and have handicapped ferry service, depressed the economy of the en tire area. The channel filled up i during Hurricane Helene. Col. Rowland brought with him i to Manteo several engineers. These , included N. C. Magunson, Chief ■ planning and repairs; D. A. Gard ; ner, Chief Operations Division from i his office, and with him was Col. i Harry Brown of Raleigh, Governor ■ Hodges’ advisor on Civil Defense. The engineers went over charts . and plans covering the emergency ■ job, with several visitors present. I They also gave Hatteras Island visitors a mu down on plans for i the meeting at Hatteras community ■ building on March 12 for a hearing on nearby harbor needs. Attending this meeting from Hatteras Island were Emul Fostor, William Gibson, M. L. Burrus, Wheeler Ballance, Lee Robinson, and others. Col. Rowland and his party were entertained with an oyster supper at Oregon Inlet fishing center Tuesday evening by the Dare County Waterways Association with A. H. Ward, Dr. W. W. Har . vey, Jr., Wallace Gray, L. L. Swain i and others. i DARE SCHOOLS GET • $6,178.24 IN FUNDS i LONG PAST DUE F , y in >i i ■ • Beach Property Taxes and Increas i ed ABC Allotments Ease Up Situation ; This week the schools of Dare ~ County got repayment of the sum , of $6,178.24 of school money past , due since June 30th of last year , and being the balance of the 1957 . budget. At the same time the . Board allotted the schools another $6,000 from funds on hand. ’ Reports from County Account ant C. S. Meekins, and Sheriff Frank Cahoon indicated that more ' than 50 per cent of the 1958 taxes had been collected. The most of 1 this money came from non-resi ' dent taxpayers of the county, and ! principally on property in Atlantic Township, and other nearby beach See FUNDS, Page Four ■ ———■* ures themselves in order that their children might have the op portunity to go to college. In a majority of cases, the people who have done most for their children and who saw that their children went to college have been those who could least afford it. I think such people deserve more credit and praise than any one else in the community, for they have discharged at heavy See DOCK, Page Four SEVEN BIDDERS ON MUSEUM PROJECT KILL DEVIL HILLS Seven bids were opened Wednes day at the Wright Brothers Na tional Monument for construction of a museum building at Kill Devil Hills by the National Park Serv ice. No bids have as yet been ap proved. The following is the list of bidders: Wilson H. Wright, Hampton, .Va.. $218,935: Hunt Construction Co., of Norfolk, $257,203; Kellogg-Cuthrell of Man teo, $271,200; Luke Const. Co., of Norfolk $277,700: J. T. Hardison & Son Inc., Washington, N. C. $285,850; Thorington Contracting Co., Richmond $328,387; C & C ■et-mjetion Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., $351,571. In this wide range of bids, the highest bidder was $132 326 above the lowest bidder. The plans on this job call for a large structure of concrete, wood, steel and glass. This building would house an ex hibit room big enough to accom modate a replica of the first air plane; a museum and lobby, com pass station, administration of i fice, and machinery room. 1 HIGHWAY OFFICIALS PROMISE DARE PEOPLE FAIR NOTICE ON FUTURE ROAD PROJECTS Improvement to Hatteras Island Road Expected This Year; Meeting Held This Week With County Board of Commissioners, and Attend ed by Many Citizens From Hatteras Island Interested in Roads and Waterways TOWNSHIP MEMBER OF DARE TOURIST BUREAU I BB ■ Jil ft KEITH FEARING, Jr. of Manteo, who was appointed this week by the Dare Commissioners to serve as director of the Dare County Tourist Bureau from Nags Head Township, succeeding Gordon Kel logg who has become Bureau president. At the same time the Board appointed Horace Hooper of Stumpy Point its representative member on the Bureau, following its new policy of spreading out representation in various county activities. These positions pay no salaries, but require a considera ble contribution of time in the public service. 7 OTH ANNIVERSARY METHODIST CHURCH IN MANTEO FEB. 15 Many Former Pastors Invited; Sermon to Be By Rev. Wise, A Member Who Became A Minister On Sunday February 15th. the Mt. Olivet Methodist Church of Manteo, will celebrate its 70th An niversary, with a Special Worsh’n Service at 11:00 a.m. Invitations have been extended to former Pas, tors of the church for participation in the Special Service. Six living members of the church, who join 1 prior to 1900 will be paid a spec : -’l tribute. They are: Miss Ozella Payne, Dennis Evans, Mrs. O. J. Jones, G. Bright Midgett, Mrs. M. L. Daniels, Sr. and Mrs. John Wes cott. The oldest living member of the church, Mrs. Caroline Midgett, will also be honored. The former pastors who have been invited to participate in the service, are as follows: Rev. D. W. Charlton, Rev. J. H. Overton, Rev. H. R. Ashmore, Rev. M. W. Ma ness. Rev. A. E. Brown, Rev. David Willis, Rev. W. H. Brown and Rev. J. B. Hurley. The program on Sunday morning will feature a sermon by the Rev. Wilford D. Wise, formerly of Man teo, the only living member of the’ church to enter the ministry. A coffee hour will be held at 3:00 p.m. with a cake cutting, and informal reception of guests. Mrs. Raymond Wescott is in charge of this portion of the program; and a history is being prepared by Mrs. Lucetta Willis. An accurate mem bership roll is being prepared by Mrs. Nevin Wesott, for distribution during the celebration. Rev.' L. A. Aitken has extended an invitation for all of the friends of Mt. Olivet to attend the special activities for this occasion. "NO MAN'S LAND" FOLKS PETITION FOR ADMISSION A petition to be included in the Manteo School District, and asking for an election for the purpose, was considered Tuesday at a | meeting of the Dare County Board of Education. The petition came from 40 per cent of the vot ers in the area south of the Kill Devil Hills town line and. north of the Jigsaw or Soundside road at Nags Head. This is the area that had been gerrymandered out of either the Manteo or Kitty Hawk districts, during the periods when elections were held to finance new schools at Kitty Hawk and Manteo. Now, the citizens wish to be paying par ticipants in sharing the advan 'tages of the Manteo High School. Single Copy 7* The promise of the Highway of ficials to the Dare County Com missioners, that no secondary road jobs would in future be undertaken in Dare County without giving the board a chance to express their views on same, was received in Manteo Tuesday with much grati fication on the past of the mem bers, and numerous visitors to the meeting. Attending this meeting were Harold H. Makepeace, Director of secondary roads in the state, his assistant, William M. Ingram; W. N. Spruill, Division Engineer, and Geo. K. Mack, District Engineer. A large attendance from Hatter as Island came hoping for promise of early attention to the Hatteras Highway. Mr. Makepeace gave them to understand that repairs to the road would be undertaken this year, but could not say when. Con ferences are underway with Fed eral authorities in hope of getting some of the funds from this . source, but he said if not, the work would have to be done anyway. All of the County Commission ers attended the meeting. The high way officials answered questions. Questioned about a high bridge over a canal at Kitty Hawk to ac commodate rowboats, they said the job, to cost $7,000 had been urged by a former Board, even while in some other parts of the county, numerous citizens were in sore need of a usable road. Mr. Makepeace said some mis tkes had been made, some of them on the basis of old traffic surveys made before the new officials came on the scene, and others be cause of defective traffic surveys. It was mentioned that it had been necessary in some gases, to station men in the woods to detect fake traffic gotten up to increase the travel count. It was brought out that one of the biggest dampers to road prog ress on the coast had been the ter rific expense of the Ocracoke road because of the damage by Hurri ane Helene. Citizens of Hatteras Island asked for a change in ferry schedule to permit a boat to leave the south side of Oregon Inlet earlier in the morning. This would require a boat , to be stationed on the south side. Figures read at this meeting show that there are no more funds to be spent on secondary roads in Dare County during this year. A petition was forwarded to the commission by the Dare Board, which came from the Kitty Hawk Civic Club which opposed the put t’ng in of large drain pipes, on U S. 158 near the Currituck sound bri '<re, to allow flow of water be twe a the ditch in the woods and See HIGHWAY, Plage Eight INSURANCE SURVEY W’LL BE MADE FOR DARE PROPERTIES The Dire Commissioners moved , this week to accent the free offer of an insurance survey of county properties, to determine if the county buildings are adequately protected, and if the right kind of insurance at the right rate has been bought This ’"ill be furnished without cost to county, at the in stance of the Out-r Banks Insur ance Agency, whose owner, M. K. Fearing. Jr., appe red before the Board. He said he was also speak ing from some other insurance agents in the county, expressing the hope that the -ounty would in future consider all local insurance agencies equally in awarding its insurance business. The Board acce ted the offer of the survey, stating that it would be glad to give it consideration | and to refer same to the local Gov ernment Commission for approval, and to the N. C. Association of County Commissioers. NAGS HEAD C OF C TO MEET FEBRUARY 12 The Nags Head Chamber of Commerce will meet at the Bea con Motor Lodge, Nags Head, on February 12 at eight p.m. At that time a report will be heard on the . amount of money raised at a re cent benefit card party. i Also, there will be consideration , of a proposal to revise the consti tution to reduce the number of : n, ' mbOTh "’ *
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