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VOLUME XXIV NO. 34 HATTERAS HEARING MARCH 12 FOR CHANNEL THRI UG I INLET AROUSES INTEREST IN AREA Engineers to Meet at 10 a.m. to Learn Needs of Area; A Favorable Report on the Situation Expected to Lead to Great Benefits for Coast land; Development of the Area and Improve ment of Fishing Industry. There is more than usual inter est in the forthcoming hearing to he held at Hatteras on Thursday, March 12 when officials of the U. S. Engineer Corps will receive evi dence of the need for improve ments to the channel leading into Hatteras harbor from Hatteras In let. This due to dependency of num bers of persons in need, is consid ered the most important harbor on the Outer Banks, serving as it does the heavy shipping of the en tire island and a large fishing in dustry, is in need of improvement and deepening to conform to the existing depth in the inland water way. A denth of 10 feet for this proj ect has been proposed, but evidence will now be reviewed showing need for a depth of 12 feet. Leading a committee of citizens of the community in preparing in formation to present to the Engi neers are M. L. Burrus, Donald Oden and others. They will furnish blanks for the use of all boat own ers or other interested persons. A delegation from the Dare County Waterways Association is expected to attend this meeting, A. H. Ward, Jr. said this week. The project has been worked for a long time. Continued efforts in Congress by Rep. Herbert Bonner succeeded in July 1957 with a bill in favor of deenening the channel to ten fret. In July 1958 he got ap proval of a survey for the 12 foot depth. This harbor is one of the most important on the whole coast, and of particular value to the economy of Dare County and Hatteras Is land. It can be instrumental in great development from the area, and the encouragement of a tre mendous seafood industry from ocean waters. The outcome of the meeting planned for March 12 can be of more serious importance to the whole area than at this time may be realized. Considerable effort is now required to collect suitable data for this hearing. Here is some of the information needed: In order to determine whether economic justification exists for possible improvements of Rollinson Channel and of the channel between Hatteras Inlet and Hatteras Har bor, it is desired to obtain detailed data on items specified in the No tice. Information on the project as a whole is desired and also for specific vessels. Accordingly, each boat operator is requested to fur nish the following data on all boats, if over 5 feet loaded draft, now using or desirous of using pro posed improved channels at or near Hatteras. Complete the appli cable blanks in accordance with use of vessels. Information desired is not limited to that requested below. I. Terminal and Transfer Facili ties: a. Brief description of exist ing wharves and docks. Needs in way of harbors, slips or basins, wharf or pier areas, and available frontages of wharves, docks, or piers under municipal and other public control. Same information for private facilities, b. Informa tion on number of boats which use port for refuge harbor—number which use port while waiting for outside weather to clear up, or prospective number if improvement is accomplished. • 11. Benefits Expected From Im provement Os Channels And Basin: a. Savings in operating costs due to increased project depths—speci fy. b. Value of increased catch due to availability of more adequate channels and basins. Edible fish and shellfish, c. Decrease in spoil age due to more or better channels and harbors (estimated in pounds of fish or shellfish), d. Prevention of storm damage to vessels be cause of access to harbors through new or improved channels (this should be given for each class of vessel, including number of vessels suffering storm damage and cost of repairs), e. Reduction in damage to hulls, rudders, and propellers, by class of vessel, due to more ad equate channel (furnish informa tion on number of vessels dam aged, type of damage, and cost of repairs), f. Statement concerning increased safety and convenience to navigation, including possible saving of lives, resulting from ade quate channels and basins, g. Same information as in "b” above is re quested for additional vessel that would be added to present fleet THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA LEADS HATTERAS GROUP ON NEW CLINIC PROJECT r : > k HI WILLIAM (Scotty) GIBSON, Hat teras Hotel and restaurant owner has been pushed to the front by his neighbors to lead a movement for establishment of a modern health center on Hatteras Island, and he presided at a citizens meeting in the High School at Buxton Tuesday night when the possibility of cre ating a district to support the cen ter was discussed. Mr. Gibson is treasurer of the Board which manages the present Cape Hatteras Health center, now housed in an old Navy building considered by health authorities as inadequate and obsolete. The Health Center committee is continuing in its ef forts to find a solution of the prob lem. Unfortunately for the meet ing, the Chairman of the Trustees, John Austin of Frisco could not See GIBSON, Page Four NEW FERRY BOAT IN OPERATION TO OCRACOKE ISLE Highway Commissioners and En gineers Visit Area and Make Plans for Summer Ocracke, Feb. 16.—One of the two new ferries assigned for use at Hatteras Inlet is now making the daily run from Hatteras to Ocracoke, replacing the W. B. Um stead. This is the “Ocracoke,” sis ter ship to the “Hatteras” which is at a Norfolk shipyard and is said to be 78% reconditioned at this time. These two femes will make the Hatteras Inlet run this coming summer when tourist trade warrants. The new “Ocra coke,” arriving here last week Thursday, surprised people, though many heard the news of its com ing shortly before arrival time and were down at the Park docks to see and board it. It is similar in design but slightly larger than the Umstead and is equipped with a longer ramp. The ramp well is cut considerably farther back in the boat than was the old one, af fording a more gradual slope with less danger of damage to the un derworks of automobiles. It is es pecially designed for easy and safe access from the beach. A mechan ical wench replaces the old chain hoists. Seating space for passen gers is double that of the old ferry and the rest rooms and lounge are steam heated. On Thursday, Feb. 12th, High way Commission Chairman James Melville Broughton, Jr. and secon dary roads director, Harold Make peace, flew down from Raleigh to inspect repair work on the Ocra coke highway. While here they met with members of the Ocra coke Civic Club’s Roads Commit tee and discussed problems and possibilities for locating a perma nent landing site for the ferry. Repeated storms and shifting channels, and especially the dam age to the road by Hurricane Hel ene, have made it necessary for the ferry to abandon the Hatteras Inlet route and come all the way down through the sound to Silver Lake Harbor at Ocracoke, a 3% to 4 hour trip. Until the perma nent landing site can be chosen for a ferry slip, the mats are be ing replaced on the road at the upper end of the island so as to reach the Hatteras Inlet landing point used last summer. Present at the meeting were Monford Gar rish, Chairman, Thurston Gaskill, R. S. Wahab, Wahab Howard, Ben jamin E. Spencer, and Theodore Rond thaler. CONSIDER MEANS TO GET CLINIC FOR HATTERAS ISLAND Growing Needs of Area Dis cussed Tuesday Night at Bux ton; Plans Continue Upwards of 60 citizens of Hat teras Island met Tuesday night at Buxton in the High School to dis cuss the probability of erecting a modern building to house the is land’s health center activities which have been canned on for some ten years in the old radio station given to the county by the Navy. Age and condition of the building has reached a stage which ’’orecasts early abandonment, and he community might be without greatly needed medical facilities Citizens have become aware of the ’’kelihood that without a medical clinic, they would also be without a doctor. William Gibson, Hatteras hote’ owner who is treasurer of the Health Center trustees, presided at ’he meeting and read a letter from State Health authorities which told of the hazards of the old building, and offered some suggestions and a plan for a new structure up to standard. W. H. McCown, county attorney, was present and answered ques tions concerning the legal steps es sential to establishment of the de-’ sired objective. Also attending this, meeting were Woodrow Edwards, George Fuller and Victor Meekins of the County Board of Commis sioners. For several years the county has been contributing $3,500 annually from tax funds to aid the’ upkeep of the clinic. The first steps toward financing a new building which would cost an 1 estimated $35,000 to $50,000 would! be the establishment of a district, and the group present voted that; this be done, and in a few days' petitions will be circulated for this purpose. This being done, it will be ’ in order for a Board of Trustees; to submit a plan to the voters, as' well as a plan for its financing through a bond issue. , If sufficient voters ask it, an election may be called whereby a choice can be made whether the island may lose its health center, or vote a special tax on the prop erty of the district to provide the new clinic. There have been some reports of interest among Ocracoke Island people in joining such a proposed district, whereby the 800 citiizens See CLINIC, Page Four 1 NORFOLK SINGERS TO APPEAR IN MANTEO MONDAY NIGHT K ■ 9 THE WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE SINGERS will appear in a musical program Monday night in Manteo High School auditorium. The three pictures above are, left to right: Director Harold G. Hawn; dramatic soprano Athena Bassil; and baritone Robert Randolph. INQUEST IN DEATH OF MRS. GRACE WARD TO BE HELD MONDAY NIGHT The postponed inquest in the death of Mrs. Grace Ward which had originally been planned for Friday night of last week is def initely set for Monday night, Feb. 23 in the Dare County courthouse at 8 p.m., Coroner James M. Van note said this week. There has been much interest in the case, inasmuch as the young mother of three children was found dead of bullet wounds in her home near Manteo on the morning of Friday, February 6th. She had been struck by three bullets, one in the wrist and two in the body. Sheriff Frank Cahoon considers it a case of suicide, but referred the investigation to an agent of the State Bureau of Investigation. Solicitor Walter Cohoon and SBI Agent Edwards are to be present at the hearing Monday night. In view of the wide interest in the case, a large crowd is expected. BAKE SALE SATURDAY A bake sale will be held Satur day, February 21, at Rogers’ Bar ber Shop in Manteo, by the Man teo Rebekah Lodge. Sales well be gin at 10 a.m. and the public is in vited. MANTEO, N. C„ FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1959 A HOMETOWN BOY COMES HOME TO PREACH Wk - TIW- REV. WILFORD D. WISE left I Manteo six years ago to enter the' Methodist ministry and his home | folks and members of Mt. Olivet Church in Manteo have been fol lowing his career with interest. Last week they had him here to .preach in the home church for the first time and he was well re ceived and pleased a large congre , gation with his sermon on prayer, a timely topic at this season in I Methodist activity. Mr. Wise, 43, |is the son of Mrs. Bertha Wise 'and the late Claude Wise of Man- I teo, and was born at Stumpy Point, jHe is a graduate of Manteo High j School, and Louisburg College.; During World War II he served in , the 95th Infantry, one of three brothers all near each other in the I Battle of the Bulge in Europe. During which time a brother, Gerald who also served on this t front, was killed. Returning home .he took an active part in church [work, studied and prepared him ■ self for the ministry. The third i brother mentioned is R. Willis Wise, who is a prominent church leader and asnirant to the minis- ' try. Rev. Wilford Wise’s first as signment was at Bath for two See WISE, Page Four 'iy • WILLIAM AND MARY SINGERS IN MANTEO Will Present Varied Program Monday Night in Manteo's High School Auditorium An evening of live music, featur ing the William and Marv College Singers of Norfolk. Va., will be pre sented at 8:15 Mondaj) evening, Feb. 23. in the auditorium of Man teo’s new high school. Excerpts from “Oklahoma.” “Carousel” and “Traviata” will be heard during the evening. Lovely Athena Bassil, who is a dramatic soprano, will sing the female roles. She is soloist at one of the Naw chapels in Norfolk. Robert Randolph, who is in leading choirs, will sing the bari tone parts. The teno, Henry Bernick, is also soloist at two of Norfolk’s leading churches. The director is Harold Hawn, of the music faculty of William and Mary, and also minister of music in a Norfolk church. John Halvorsen, minister of mus ic in a Norfolk church, and former assistant organist for The Lost Colony, will play the accompani ments. The program has been designed to appeal to lovers of all types of music, and a large crowd is expect ed to attend. Admission charges will be nominal. MT. OLIVET HAS A SPLENDID BIRTHDAY 70TH ANNIVERSARY Manteo Methodists Honor Old Members and Enjoy Sermon By One of Their Number In spite of inclement weather, Mt. Olivet Methodist Church cel ebrated its 70th Anniversary Sun day, with 225 in attendance at the morning service. At that service, the Rev. C. Freeman Heath, Supt. of the Elizabeth City District Methodist Churches, presented certificates of appreciation and cross pins to six members who had joined the church prior to 1900. They were: Miss Ozella Payne, Mrs. Mabel E. Jones, Mr. Dennis Evans, Mrs. Eugenia Wescott, Mrs. Belva Daniels, and Mr. G. Bright Midgett. Also presented with pin and certificate was Mrs. Caroline Midgett, the church’s old est member at 92 years, and moth er of the late Julian Midgett, one of the two men from the church to enter the ministry. The Rev. Wilford D. Wise, as See METHODISTS, Page Four Saggy Io jflHh LLOYD MIDGETT, POPULAR TAXICAB MAN, DIES TUES. A long illness claimed Lloyd Midgett, 47, a popular citizen of Manteo, who died at the family residence at 4:20 pm. Tuesday. He was a popular citizen, and had been engaged in the taxi business in Manteo for several years and operated a grocery store at Wan chese. For many years he was em ployed by Capt. Tom Baum on the Croatan Sound ferries. He Was a member of the Manteo Baptist Church. He was a native of Powells Point, Currituck County, and had lived in Manteo for the last 35 years. He was the son of Mrs. Sallie Coefield Midgett, and the late John W. Midgett. Besides his mother, he is sur vived by his wife, Mrs. Elnora Gallop Midgett; two daughters, Mrs. Minnie Siebert and Miss Lin da Midgett, all of Manteo; one brother, Louis Midgett of Nor folk, and one grandchild. The funeral services were con ducted at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Manteo Baptist Church by Rev. W. E. Cholerton, the pastor, assisted by Holiness minister Ernest Eth eridge of Wanchese. Songs, “Whis pering Hope” and “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” were sung by the church choir. The casket was cov ered with a pall of red and white See MIDGETT, Page Eight JAMBOREE BOOSTERS AROUSE INTEREST THROUGH TRAVEL AND APPEARANCES ON T.V. Coastland Talent Giving Time to Join Caravans Across State To Invite Visitors to Fourth An nual Three-Day Festival Planned at Hatteras, Nags Head, Kitty Hawk April 25th. SECOND SALE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY SET FOR MARCH 5 Disposition of Building and Grounds at Manns Harbor Center of Interest A second sale at the courthouse door of the building and grounds ">f the discontinued school at Manns Harbor has been ordered for March sth, at the courthouse door, by the Dare County Board of Education, the bidding to start at $l,lOO. The property consists of a building appraised for insurance at $25,500 and some four acres of choice land on Highway 264 and 64. Interested in obtaining the property for a playground is a group of citizens who had expect ed to obtain title for some small sum and who placed a bid of SI,OOO at the sale held earlier this ' month. But there are other citi zens of Manns Harbor who .say the property should bring some reasonable price to be used for the continued benefit of the pupils of the area. While there are many citizens of the community who de sire the property to remain of community use, there are many others who have communicated with this newspaper, and who for obvious reasons do not wish their names printed, insist that the community could not be expected to assume so heavy a financial burden of maintaining a property which would cost a large sum to keep up. Some ten years ago the county through the Board of Edu cation gave the community a building for public use, and which has been improved and kept up as a community center through the efforts of club women, Ruritan Club members, and other public spirited citizens, but this has been done at great effort, and some dis appointment to the hard workers who have carried the burden. In three communications to this newspaper, the following state ments have been made: 1. “Many of us think that if | the property is sold, the Board of ' Education should stipulate that it i bring a fair price. If less than a 1 fair price is accepted on the bas’s I it is sold to persons representing I themselves as buying for the com- See SALE, Page Four MEETINGS IN MARCH FOR FISHING PROGRAM H. B. Hooper of Stumpy Point Named Chairman of Committee to Inform Dare County Fiihermen in Community Meetings Horace Hooper of Stumpy Point has been elected chairman of the recently appointed Dare County Advisory Committee on the Com mercial Fishing Program. The county committee is composed of the following persons: Horace Hooper, chairman. Stumpy Point; Rondal Tillett, Wanchese; Ronald Craddock, Manns Harbor; Herbert L. Perry. Kitty Hawk; Shelley Frontis, Buxton. The committee held its first meeting on February 17 in the Board of Education Office in Manteo. Russell E. Swindell, In dustrial Education Coordinator, outlined the advantages of setting up training courses which would be of help to the Commercial fishing industry in the county. Some of the courses considered were: net mend ing, crab pot making, navigation, diesel engineering, crab picking, and oyster shucking. Mr. Swindell emphasized that any course could be set up if at least ten people were interested. After discussing the advantages of the program the Board sched uled the following community meetings at which time the people of the communities could decide in which courses they were interest ed: Stumpy Point, Tuesday, March 24th at 8:00 p.m.; Manns Harbor, Wednesday, March 25th at 8:00 p.m.; Wanchese, Thursday, March 26th at 8:00 p.m. Representatives on the epunty committee agreed to notify inter ested persons so that good attend ance at these community meetings may be possible. Since the representatives from Kitty Hawk and Hatteras Island were not present for the meeting, it was decided that classes in those areas could be established at a la ter date if the people in those sec tions desired such programs. Single Copy 7< Plans move along toward arous ing interest in the forthcoming three-day Pirate Jamborees fifth annual appearance on the Dare Coast from Kitty Hawk to Hatter as, beginning April 25th. Local talent has begun to schedule its appearances across the state to take part in TV and radio pro grams, according to Aycock Brown, publicity director. On Tuesday, February 24, a trip to Washington will see costumed “buccaneers” of the Dare Coast participating in a big street pa rade celebrating the 27th anniver sary of Radio Station WRRF. W. H. McCown stated that a minimum of four car-loads of pirates in cos tume is dasired for this trip. Plans are to leave Manteo not later than 10 o’clock and arrive in Washing ton (traveling via Engelhard and Belhaven) not later than 1 p.m. The parade starts at 2 o’clock. Ar ; rangements may be made for radio iand television appearances. , Another tentatively planned I trip, according to McCown, will be |to Raleigh on Thursday, February 26 to attend the N. C. Travel Coun cil meeting, to leave the Dare Coast early Thursday morning, and tell Raleigh about the Jamboree, and visit Governor Hodges. Ar rangements are being made for radio or TV anperances in Raleigh. “It is hoped that we will have at least four car loads of pirates from Hatteras and the Dare Beaches-Roanoke Island area for this trip. Costumes should be worn,” he said. The Jamboree is represented in Charlotte at The Sportsman’s Show this week via Julian Oneto who is in charge of a Carolinian Hotel booth there. Oneto wears his buccaneer costume daily and will appear at a Rotary Club mret- See JAMBOREE, Page Eight HEAVY, HEAVY WHAT HANGS OVER THEE, DEFENDANT? Nothing But a Thirty Day Road Sen tence Suspended By Paying on Installment Plan Suspended sentences to the ex tent of four months on the roads were given Ellis Ray Berry, 24, of Manteo Tuesday by Judge W. F. Baum in Recorders Court, also time to pay up in installments fines totalling $75 plus court costs. On one count he was charged with putting sand in the gas tank of the car of Chief of Police M. C. Mitchell, which cost $6.50 to clean out; for this Berry got a 30-day read sentence a $lO fine and court cost, and the $6.50 bill. F >r being drunk and disorderly and assaulting officer Mitchell, 30- day entence, $25 and costs, on the first count; on the second count sls -nd costs; on a charge of as saulting officer Dan Cannady, $lO and costs, and repairs to Mr. Can nady’s glasses $5. For damaging Lloyd Midgett’s taxi > i the care of Harry Hayman, he g t a 30-day suspended sen tence, a $5 bill for repairs to doors. Dorian M. Washington, negro, was found guilty of being drunk and disorderly at the home of Eliz abeth Owens, got a 30-day sus pended road sentence, a $25 fine. For knifing Emmerson Scarbor ough another susv-nded sentence, total assessment $57.20 on install ment plan, $lO per week. This de fendant had been in court p week before and found guilty of other serious offenses. W. F. Mathias, 16, Nags Head, sls for speeding. O. V. Gray of Stumpy Point, $5 for driving on wrong side of the ,- oad. Roy Gray, Jr., 19, of Hatteras, sls for speed ing. TWO CHANNEL BASS NETTED AT HATTERAS An oft-quoted sign of Spring is word from Hatteras of the first channel bass of the season. Two this week were taken in nets of commercial fishermen. Wheeler Ballance reported on Wednesday | that Fulford Peele aboard the trawler Mitzi boated one of the bass off shore on Monday when the crew also caught some 90 or more boxes of trout | Another channel bass, one that weighed 55 pounds, was taken in the beach nets of Zack Austin. It was caught near Hatteras Inlet The first channel bass are taken in nets usually about three or four weeks before an angler lands the first of the season. sf . M'V* v ■' Im
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