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VOLUME XXIV NO. 37 ANOTHER MEETING FOR LOST COLONY SET FOR SUNDAY Fund Raising Campaign to Be Discussed at 2 P.M. March 15 in Community Building The fourth meeting of a pro gram which was launched January 18th to raise $15,000 to finance the opening of the Lost Colony in June, has been announced for Sun day afternoon, March 15 at 2 p.m. in the community building by David Stick, chairman of the com mittee of Friends of the Lost Col ony. The problem before the house at the meeting in January was to raise $15,000. At this time con siderable enthusiasm was aroused and several donations of $l5O each were made. To date the pledges have totaled $3,900 and of this sum $1,700 in cash has been paid in. Apparently no effort has been made to collect the other $2,200 in pledges, and considerable time has been lost. Mr. Stick had to be in Florida for some two or three weeks, and in the meantime no work has been done. He hopes to get the committee going. One great trouble with Dare County meetings is to keep them on the track—in this case the is sue is to go to work and raise $15,000. But the meetings have gone astray with lengthy and com plicated discussions lasting far in to the night, with everyone putting in his oar about how to run the show, and how to finance its oper ation in the years to come. The upshot is that some have become tired and have lost interest, con tending that all the committee needs to think about now is to complete raising the fund the goal being $15,000. The only prob lem is to get a few people to go to work—there has been too much time wasted in talk and none in work. On this committee are Keith See LOST COLONY, Page Five QUARTER MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT LET AT K. D. HILLS Norfolk Firm Awarded Job To Build Visitor Center This Week The award of a $257,203 con tract for construction of a combina tion visitor center-administration building at Wright Brothers Na tional Memorial, North Carolina, wae announced this week by the National Park Service of the De partment of the Interior. National Park Service Director Conrad L. Wirth said the contract calls for construction of a one story concrete and wood structure with approximately 10,000 square feet of floor area. The public-use portion of the building will contain an assembly room, exhibit area, and lobby, while the administra tion portion will include offices and workrooms or management, in -a terprertation, protection and main tenance personnel. Hie contract was awarded to the Hunt Contracting Company of Norfolk. Virginia, lowest of seven bidders. The project is a phase of the over-all conservation and improve '• ment program for the memorial under MISSION 66, the broad 10- year program launched in 1956 which has as its goal the achieve ment of a fully developed, equipped, and staffed national park system by 1966, the 50th anniversary year of the National Park Service. Thus far, approximately $370,000 in im provements have been placed under contract in the memorial area, with an additional $300,000 proposed for development in later years of the program. Wright Brothers National Me morial was established at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty. Hawk, N. C., in 1927 to commemorate the achieve '> ments of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the first success ful power-driven flight in history. During 1958, more than 240,000 people visited the memorial. YOUNG DEMOCRATS PLAN MANNS HARBOR MEETING An oyster roast and election of officers is planned by the Dare County Young Democratic Club at Manns Harbor at 6:30 p.m. on March 20, President Jack Tillett stated this week. The event will be held at the community Friday at the Community Center at Manns Harbor. Jaccie Burrus is in charge of the entertainment which consists of an oyster roast and sneakers. This is a meeting to solicit mem berahip of all the Democrats in Dare County and to encourage and help unify the Democratic Party of Dare County, Tillett says. Ad ditionally, there will be an effort to get as many people as possible 'to attend the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh on March 28, 1969. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA WANCHESE METHODIST CHILDREN'S CHOIR CONSTITUTE A HIGHLY APPRECIATED GROUP ~ ~ ■MI I wwßflßflflaflflflflMflflflHflflMflMflflHßfl iI * - ' I a ' ' : ! MM I I | : H JB 4 ■ • I ' ajrlcaiTjfrlr reW 1 w W WM' If fl, ” i r; mK o » ** sMB ad JE tw .y feat-. , 1 _ _ ... ..... .. THIS is one of the most highly appreciated group of church work ers in the Coastland. The Chil dren’s Choir of Bethany Methodist church of Wanchese is shown with DEMOCRATS RAISE PARTY FUNDS FOR RALEIGH DINNER Activity In Dare County Greatest Since 1940; Over SSOO Rais ed; Old Debts Paid More than SSOO has been paid into Dare County Democratic par ty funds during the past 60 days, the largest amount raised since 1940 when the county was second highest per capita in fund raising among the counties of North Car olina. Robert H. Midgett of Man teo, the fund treasurer, said this week a total of $523 had been paid in. Os this sum, $l5O was paid by the Young Democratic Club of Dare County from funds raised during 1958. Os the balance, $373 has been turned in by various Democrats in Dare County, including three $lO contributions from Washington, D. C., in response to a letter gotten out by Mr. Midgett and Victor Meekins of Manteo. There have been 32 contributors to the $lO club now being formed, and sever al other contributions have been promised. Prior to March 4, Mr. Midgett turrned over $202 of these funds to County Chairman M. L. Daniels, which with the $l5O from the Young Democrats made a total of $352, and leaving a bal ance of about $125 after paying off the party debt of $227 in the Bank of Manteo since March a See DEMOCRATS, Page Four HIGH WINDS AND TIDES ON WEEK END HAMPER SHIPPING AND FISHING High winds on Friday of last week, bringing high tides in some communities, hampered activities in general and fishing particular ly, cancelled ferry schedules in Dare County and did some minor damage. Due to shoal water and the dan ger of navigation, fishing trawl ers could not get into Oregon In let and had to run away from the wind. Vessels which might have discharged their cargoes in Dare County ports had to go to Hampton Roads for safety, and there they sold their fish. Heavy rains prevailed, flooding some road areas. High water rose in some communities in the lower sounds. Fishing of nets was in terrupted and there was some damage to nets and boats. .•... MHR 1 VI. j V When a group of Dare County men, headed by Dr. W. W. Harvey, Jr. and A. H. Ward, Jr., Waterways advocates of Manteo, met with Senator Everett Jordan and other officials in Washington, at a din ner at the University Club Friday night of last week, full endorse ment was given to Governor Hodges’ plan for the rehabilitation of the Outer Banks. The Dare County men told Senator Jordan that building up the land would bring about a great additional benefit in creating bolder inlets ' | their organist standing in the -(back: Mrs. Rena Baum Tillett. ■ | Rev. C. L. Warren is pastor of t the church. The following young i ■ people are shown in the picture by NAMED PRESIDENT OF ALL SEASHORE HIGHWAY ■ ■ - ■ z JU, J a w At its annual meeting Wednes day, the All-Seashore Highway Association of North Carolina adopted a resolution urging the State to obtain as much land along the Outer Banks by gift as possi ble. Major J. L. Murphy of Kill Dev il Hills, long a tireless worker in behalf of this and kindred causes in the coastland, was chosen as president of the organization. Guest speaker, Colonel Harry Brown, director of the Hurricane Rehabilitation Program, urged that the Outer Banks land be sav ed in order to conserve the main land of the State. Brown said that in the last 50 years, either the Atlantic Ocean has risen 12 inches or the land has sunk a foot. He added that six inches of this change has occurred in the past 10 years, according to sstatistics. Brown said the General Assem bly would be asked to consider a $400,000 allocation to acquire land between Ocracoke Inlet and Cape Lookout. Three other resolutions adopted by the association were (1) favor ing ferry service as soon as pos sible from lower New Hanover County to Brunswick County (2) See SEASHORE, Page Four "BUILD UP THE OtITER BANKS AND MAKE BOLDER INLETS," SENATOR JORDAN TOLD along our coast for the aid of the fishing and shipping interests. Presiding at this meeting was Dr. Fred W. Morrison of Wash ington, D. C. and Kill Devil Hills. Reading from left to right they are as follows: Lt. Major Hooper, USAF, of Stumpy Point; Jack Spain, administrative assistant to Senator Sam Ervin, Jr.; Alvah Ward, Jr.; Victor Meekins, Dr. Morrison, Senator Everett Jordan; W. H. McCown, Dare County at torney; Dr. Harvey, Major Russell Nixon, Jr., USMC, Stumpy Point; MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1959 Dan Morrill: David Wagstaff, Marcia Daughtry, Karen Love, Santa Tillett, Linda Brothers, Pa tricia Rogers, Margaret Joy Walk er, Judy Gallop, Betsy Ballance, HEARING ABOUT FISHING PIER AT CAPE HATTERAS Engineer Corps Reports Plans of Virginia Man to Install Pier Near Buxton The office of the Corps of En gineers has reported it will receive ■ comments concerning a proposed . fishing pier planned to be built in , ‘he ocean at Cape Hatteras 825 feet north of the Naval facility. Details about the pier are con- . tained in the following letter from , the office of Col- H. C. Rowland, , Jr., District Engineer of Wilming- , ton. , “R. L. Williams, Virginia Beach, Virginia, has made application for ■ a permit to construct a fishing pier 1 >n the Atlantic Ocean approximate ly 825 feet north of the U. S. Naval Facility near Cape Hatteras ' Light at Buxton, North Carolina. “Plans submitted show a pier 20 feet wide extending 750 feet sea ward beyond the mean low water line. Plans may be seen in this of fice and in the post offices at Man teo and Buxton, North Carolina. “As information, a Department of the Army permit merely ex ’ nreses the assent of the Corps of . Engineers so far as concerns the i public rights of navigation. Per ; mits 'are issued in cases where ■ there are no valid objections from the standpoint of navigation. How- See PIER, Page Four i . i , BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR DARE COUNTY APPOINTED , , Nominations from numerous I counties of North Carolina were! . included in the “Omnibus” bill . passed last week end in the Gen eral Assembly and Rep. Bruce ) Etheridge of Manteo offered two i new names on the Dare County s Board of Education to fill vacan : cies. Floyd Hooper of Stumpy I Point was named to replace Leland > Wise, board member who had been nominated in the primary, but who ■ resigned last month. Charles T. i Williams 111 of Avon was named I to fill the vacant place from Ken-! ■ nekeet Township from which there was no candidate in the primary. I Mrs. Helen Briggs of Kill Devil - Hills, Robert O. Ballance of Man- • teo and Shelley Frontis of Buxton • are the other members of the i Board approved in the legislature test week from Dare County. ' i and Henry Oglesby, administrative I assistant to Rep. H. C. Bonner, i' At this meeting it was proposed that there be created an Associa tion of Friends of the Outer Banks ' of N. C. to work on many fronts , for the advancement of the area, and Victor Meekins was appointed > chairman of the group to assemble leaders of four coastland counties, Currituck, Dare, Hyde and Carter et who are the ones chiefly inter ested and which Governor Hodges considers immediately and essen- ; tially in need of improvement for _____ Carol Forbes, Deanna Daniels, Myrtle Joyce Meekins, Mildred Gallop, Rusty Stetson, Eleanor Gallop, Nellie Daniels, Christian Wagstaff, Becky Ballance, Mona ABC BOARD POSTPONES ESTABLISHMENT OF ADDITIONAL STORES The Dare County ABC board has turned thumbs down on the establishment of additional stores in Dare County, following one re quest brought by the Kill Devil Hills town officials, and another from citizens of Kitty Hawk beach. Each group contended establish ment of a store in their area would be profitable and convenient to the customers. Prime object of the Kill Devil Hills town board was the hope of getting 15 per cent of the store’s profits. Now that half the money is given to the Tourist Bureau, the county’s share is fast being whittled away. The experience of the ABC sys tem is that any store on the beaches would be more profitable i if closed in winter, although the beach store yields over half the total business of the system dur ing the summer months. Chairman Leigh Hassell, in a statement concerning the Board’s decision against opening more stores, said this week: “The ABC board has given con sideration to the various requests See BOARD, Page Four NORPORT CHORALIERS FEATURED FRIDAY NIGHT Group of Young People Singing Popular Music, Folk Songs And Other Se lections At Manteo High School The Norport Choraliers, directed by George E. Hauser, will be pre sented in a program of varied and interesting numbers Friday night, February 20, in the Manteo High School Auditorium, proceeds to go toward paying for the piano that was put in the auditorium last year. All children under 12 years of age will be admitted free if accompa nied by parents. Others will be ad mitted for SI.OO for adults, 50tf for school children. This group is a select assembly of young people from various choirs in Norfolk and Portsmouth, dedicated to the principle that mu sic should be enjoyed by everyone. In any program presented by this group will be found a wide variety of music—popular—patri otic—folk songs. Among the num bers that will be heard Friday night are “I Wonder As I Wan der,” “Dark Eyes,” “Deep River,” “Goin’ Home,” “Catch A Falling I Star,” and many others. its own needs and to remain a bar rier to protect the mainland. Several • other officials of Dare County had planned to attend this meeting, which had been in the discussion stage for a month, but they were prevented by the heavy storm of last Friday. At the last minute Friday afternoon, Dr. Har vey and Mr. Ward had gotten a plane out of Norfolk, but had to return to Norfolk that night after the dinner, and then drove back home. Meekins and McCown had gone on earlier in the day and re- Brothers, Yvonne Meekins, Delone Daniels and Lois Midgett. RATED AMONG HIGHEST TEN FEDERAL WORKERS Jr JLmb ißh s ,' j|||S|||| CONRAD L. WIRTH, Director of the National Park Service, a man well-known on the Outer Banks, has reached a high position be cause of his long and dedicated service to the Government Last week, at a dinner in the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, he was given a distinguished career serv ice award. The National Civil Service League rated him with the ten outstanding employes of the Federal Governemnt who exempli- • fy the highest attributes of the career service. The league, for 78 years, has been a non-partisan citizens group working to im- I prove the public service through • better personnel at all levels of I See WIRTH, Page Four i STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION > UPHOLDS WANCHESE RULING The State Board of Education ! last week upheld the decision of the Dare County Board of Education ■ to consolidate the Wanchese school with Manteo at the beginning of ’ the 1959-60 term. On Thursday of 5 last week a committee appeared in , Raleigh before the State Board; ■ this group of ten Wanchese citizens • consisting of Melvin R. Daniels, ’ spokesman, J. W. Davis, Malcolm ■ Daniels. Arnold Daniels, J. T. Dan - iels, Willie Daniels, Willie Eth- • eridge, Jr. Ralph Meekins, Ronald r Tillett, and Paul Daniels, Jr. The ■ Board heard their appeal from the ’ action of the Dare County Board, ; but in a later action upheld the | consolidation move. mained over on Saturday to visit with the Senators and to further discuss the needs now before the coastland area. On Saturday night, they attended the dinner in the Shoreham Hotel, given by the N. C. Society in honor of Governor and Mrs. Hodges, and which was attended by practically all mem bers of the North Carolina dele gation in Congress. Guests of the Dare County men at this meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Percy W. Meekins and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Stratton, formerly of Manteo. Single Copy 70 CHANNEL HEARING AT STUMPY POINT THURSDAY MORNING Second Project Next Week in Dare; Strong Appeals Yester day at Hatteras An imnortant hearing on the need for harbors and channels was held yesterdav at Hatteras before the Corps of Engineers. A second hearing will be held Thursday morning. March 19th. next week at 10 a.m. at the Stumny Point school, concerning the need for a deener channel at that place. Both projects have received efrong endorsement from shinning, fishing and recreational interests and have been heartily endorsed by the Dare County Board of Commis sioners who have assisted in ar ranging the meetings held by engi neers from the office of Col. H. C. Rowland, Jr. District Engineer. The meeting at Hatteras yester day had a large attendance and was presented with an overwhelm ing array of facts and figures on ‘Ho imnortance of this, the nrinci pal harbor of Hatteras Island. In a letter presented by W. H. McCown, County Attorney, the Dare County Board of Commis sioners offered the following ap peal, which typified the arguments presented: “The economic life of over two thousand year round residents of Hatteras Island, dependent upon water transportation; for the mov ing of heavy freight to and from the island , is at stake. Situated as it is, with northern traffic limited by the capacity of State operated ferries across Oregon Inlet, the bulk of heavy freight, fuel oil and fish products, move through the project area. The electric light See HEARING, Page Four SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN DARE UP FOR SALE THIS MONTH Spring Hope Man High Bidder on Manns Harbor Property; Kit ty Hawk Sale Monday At the re-sale of the Manns Har bor school property on March sth, the high bid of $1,200 was offered bv B. F. Joyner of Spring Hope. The bid remains open, subject to raise until Monday night, March 16th. The property consists of two buildings, and three and a half acres of land on U. S. Highway 64 and 264. The property is now in sured for $23,200. On Monday March 16, at noon, at the courthouse door in Manteo, the Kitty Hawk School property will be offered for sale. This nrop- ‘ erty consists of a large building and five and eight tenths acres of land. The building is insured for $32,700. . The bid on the Stumpy Point school property in the amount of SSOO has not been raided. It was made at the sale on February Bth by a committee of citizens consist ing of Floyd Hooper, Horace Hoop er, Harvey Best, Ralph O’Neal and Talmage Best. The property con sists of three and two tenths acres of land and a building insured for $15,500. It is considered least val uable of the four school buildings being abandoned in Dare County. Next year, the Wanchese school, now insured for $33,200 is expected to be sold. Before the sale of the school property is confirmed, the Board of Education must meet and make formal resolution to accept the price offered. NEW ASSISTANT NAMED FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF HATTERAS SEASHORE Floyd B. Taylor, superintendent of Shiloh National Military Park, Tenn., has been appointed assist ant superintendent of Cape Hatter as National Seashore Recreational Area, North Carolina, Director Conrad L. Worth of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, announced today. All of Taylor’s assignments since he joined the Park Service in 1933 have been in Civil War units of the National Park System. He has been superintendent of Shiloh National Military Park since 1956, and earli er served as superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield Park and Petersburg National Mili tary Park, Virginia, and as an his torical technician in Fredericks burg National Military Park, Vir ginia. Assignment of Taylor to the 28,500-acre Cape Hatteras area bordering on the Atlantic Ocean will broaden his experience in park administration, protection, and in terpretation, Director Wirth point ed out. Taylor is a native of Fine Creek Mills, Powhatan County, Va., and attended the College of William and Mary from which he received a B. S. degree in Economics and Business in 1981. -
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