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VOLUME XXV NO. 4
UNDERTAKE TO RUN
COUNTY WITHOUT
INCREASE IN RATE
New Budget Much Larger, But
Board Pins Hopes on De
linquent Money
The tentative budget estimate
for the operation of the County
of Dare, which has .been set up
by the Board of Commissioners,
for the fiscal year 1969-60 totals
$324,913.21. It is an increase of
$23,638.67 over the budget of the
year just closed, which was set at
$301,274.56.
While considerable savings were
made possible through no further
need for appropriations for court
house and jail and high priced tax
appraisals, a large increase, more
than $40,000 was given the
schools, and increases given the
Sheriff for his deputies, etc. The
basic countywide tax rate is
eighty cents as before, but spe
cial school districts which embrace
all the county save Hatteras Is
land will pay the additional spe
cial tax for debt- service on the
new schools at Manteo and Kitty
Hawk, which are the result of
votes by the citizens. This tax
will add about 20 more cents to
the rate.
In addition, all of Roanoke Is
land pays the usual tax of nine
cents for maintenance of the fife
truck stationed in Manteo, and
manned by the Manteo volunteer
Fire Department.
Further, property owners in the
Dare Beaches Sanitary District
will probably have to pay the tax
ordered by the Commissioners of
the District, which is three cents
in the town of Kill Devil Hills and
24 cents on all the people outside
the town, on the north and south
ends of the districts.
The tentative budget which is
now open for inspection at the of
fice of C. S. Meekins, County Ac
countant is shown herewith, to
gether with comparisons with last
years budget:
Proposed Last Yr.
Department Budget Budget
Co. Commrs. 5,448 3,540
Co. Accountant 4,260 3,080
Clerk Sup. Ct. 6,800 4,098
Co. Farm Agt. 1,508 1,441
Coroner 490 240
Treasurer 300 300
Fire Warden 3,750 3,480
Jails 900 2,850
Sheriff 25,875 20,050
CH & Grounds 2,865 3,065
Register Deeds 8,236 8,466
Elections . 1,350 2,200
Gen. Assist 7,300 7,800
Pub Assist. 24,731 25,942.74
Welfare Admin 15,900 18,930
Health Dept. 32,415 33,140
Sup. Courts 3,200 3,530
Recorders Court 3,150 3,530
Co. Home Agri 1,478 1,466
Vet Officer 2.334 1,894
Tax Supr. 12,900 21,300
Gen. Co. Gov’t. 17,640 28,620
CH Improvements .... 5,000
Co. Bonds * 21,074 22,000
Revaluations 2,500
Schools 105,00444 60,000
324,913.21 301,274.54
See RATE, Page Six
"BUG" TILLETT A NOBLE
SON OF THE COASTLAND
TO BE INTERRED FRIDAY
The funeral of William Frank
lin Tillett 67, one of the finest
citizens of the Coastland, who
died suddenly Thursday at his
’ Nags Head home, will be held at
Mt. Carmel Methodist Church,
Manns Harbor Friday afternoon,
(today) at 4 p.m. TLe body will
lie in state from 2:30 at the
church, and the funeral will be
conducted by a former pastor,
Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson of
Rocky Mount, and the pastor,
Rev. Charles Olson.
Mr. Tillett had lived most of
his life at his birthplace, Manns
Harbor. His wife, the former Mat
tie Beasley Tillett, died several
years ago after they removed to
Nags Head to operate their motel
business. The couple brought up
two orphaned nephews as foster
sons, Jaocie Burrus and Richard
Mann, and helped them toward a
substantial start in life, and to be
citisens of consequence. Five
“grandchildren and one great
grandchild” from these sons
blessed Mr. Tillett’s last days.
Most of his life was spent in
the fishing industry, and he was
successful. He was a generous
church and community man. His
instincts were always charitable,
helpful, and honest to the high
est degree. He came of parents of
sterling character, the late Sam
uel and Varina Hayman Tillett
He was affectionately regarded by
everyone, and the childhood nick
name of “Bug” stuck with him
through his lifetime.
Four sisters survive him: Mrs.
R. L. Thompson, Mrs. Herman
Mrs. Charlie Midgett, and
Mrs. R. E. Twiford, all of Manns
Harbor. ' ■
THE COASTLAND TIMES
WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD DURING JULY AND AUGUST
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
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ing from Capt. Clarence Holmes’ cruiser Secotan when they landed the white marlin, the large 25 pound
dolphin and many smaller dolphin in the Gulf Streaam off Oregon Inlet last week. Roscoe Owens caught
the marlin. Capt. Holmes and his mate Jack Hoffler are shown in foreground. (Aycock Brown Photo)
ROAD FUNDS FOR
DARE $106,750 IN
THIS FISCAL YEAR
State Sets Up $83,550 for Main
tenance of Secondary
Roads; New Road*
$23,200
A total of $106,750 in secondary
road funds has been allotted Dare,
Couny for the current fiscal year,
according to a letter from .Harold
Makepeace, Secondary Roads of
ficer to D. V. Meekins, Chairman of
the Dare County Board of Com
missioners. The larger part of this
sum is for maintenance of present
roads—sß3,sso. For road construc
tion or stabilizing, there has been
allocated $23,200.
While this sum is in excess of
last year’s allotment, it is indicated
that it vgill mean little more, due to
increased costs. During the past
two years, only two communities
have had any new construction. In
Kitty Hawk, a year’s allotment was
used in building a bridge; in Avon
a road costing some $3,000 was
built.
About all the $34,000 then re
maining was spent in putting
drainage under existing roads,
which was caused by the enormous
amount of ditching done by hurri
cane relief funds. It now turns out
that a great part of this money
was wasted, since .many people are
filling up ditches which cross their
lands, rights of way not having
been obtained before digging was
done. I
In his letter to Mr. Meekins, Mr.
Makepeace said the “allocations to]
counties are based on the total i
numbers of miles on the secondary
system as of Jan. 1, 1959 ... the
funds allocated for secondary road
construction was based on the . . .
needs survey recently completed by
the state.”
Within a few weeks, state and
county officials will confer on the
survey’s results. This survey shows
the actual traffic count on each 1
road under consideration . . . Con
structions funds allocated might do
only about three miles of road this
year. The mileage desired would
run to 25, Meekins said. It it there
fore apparent that first considera
tion be given to roads worse need
ed, particularly school bus roads.
MISS NORTH CAROLINA
TOURS. OCRACOKE ISLE
OCRACOKE, July 21, 1959
“Welcome to Ocracoke Miss North
Carolina” printed on the sands of
the flat beach at Ocracoke wel
comed the 1959 Miss North Caro
lina, “Judi” Kliphel, to Ocracoke
on Tuesday, July 21. Miss Kliphel
and her companion, Miss Betty Jo
Wallace, the 1959 Miss Beaufort,
flew from Beaufort with Earl Tay
lor to make a tour of the village
here. Ikey D. O’Neal hailed them
as their plane arrived and escort
ed them around the island point
ing out places of interest. The
North Carolina beauties were par
ticularly impressed with the Oc
racoke ponies and tjie Whitford
yacht where they were enter
tained. After posing at the his
toric lighthouse for snapshots the
beauties were driven back to their
plane where they graciously
signed autographs and again
posed for more pictures. Miss
North Carolina’s trip here was a
day off from her week’s vacation
at Atlantic Beach. Miss Kliphel
charmed the Ocracoke citizens who
formed a parade of cars and fol
lowed her back to her plane where
a child was heard to say, "She’s
pretty; I hope she’s our next Miss
America.”
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North-end on Roanoke Island dis
plays a 12% pound sheepshead he
landed while fishing near the pil
ings of the Nags Head-Roanoke
Island bridge Friday. He was us
ing sandfleas for bait. His fish is
believed to be the largest sheeps
head caught this summer in local
waters. (Aycock Brown Photo)
OCRACOKE-CARTERET
FERRY PLANS MOVING
Big Vessel Expected to Be In Service
Labor Day; Taylor Bros.
Builders
Another step was taken last
week toward inaugurating ferry
service for automobiles as well as
passengers between and
the Outer Banks Island of Ocra
coke.
The Sea Level-Atlantic-Ocrar
coke Ferry Company, incorporated
last June by the wealthy Taylor
brothers, asked the State Utilities
Commission for operating authori
ty to begin the service.
A small boat, carrying about 40
passengers and the mail, now plies
the 30-mile stretch of water be
tween Atlantic in Carteret County
and the Village of Ocracoke on
Ocracoke Island.
Ansley O’Neal and J. M. Saun
ders Jr., are now authorized by the
Commission to operate this service
and, according to Utilities Commis
sion’s files, they are willing to give
up the run when the Taylor broth
ers, natives of Sea Level, inaugu
rate their proposed servec.
The board of directors of ‘the new
ferry company is composed of D. E.
and L. M. Taylor of West Palm
Beach, Fla., W. R. and A. T. Tay
lor of Norfolk and Claud R. Wheat
ley of Beaufort The latter is
agent for the firm.
In its petition, the company said
that “a public demand exists for an
automotive connection between
these two points and the public
would be greatly convenienced and
benefited by a ferry that would
transport both nassengers and au-
See FERRY, Page Six
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1959
RAINS AND RUSTY
EQUIPMENT DELAY
MOSQUITO WORK
Complete Round of Spraying in
County Has Been Made
Despite Handicaps
Fortunately for Dare County
people the mosquito season did not
set in until late in July. Due to
lack of funds to carry on the work,
the county would have been hard
pressed to maintain an adequate
program. Mosquito “experts” say
that the kind of work that has been
done in the county in the past is
largely wasted money, but it has
some psychological effect in pacify
ing citizens who suffer from the
mosquito influx.
This week, despite many handi
caps, all communities north of Ore
gon Inlet have received treatment
with DDT spraying equipment.
Several weeks ago, one machine
was turned over to the committee
on Hatteras Island, for the purpose
of spraying that area. Os the two
machines left at Manteo, one has
been in the shop this week follow
ing a breakdown. This equipment
has not been looked after too well
in past years.
The county Board, on taking of
fice found equipment in bad state
of repair as a result of neglect, and
no money left in the pot to carry
on the work With a new fiscal
year underway, an appropriation
has been made. The men with ex
nerience who formerly carried on
the work have been available this
week to get the county sprayed.
What most people don’t under
stand is that the overall cost of
operating one of these machines
See RELIEF, Page Six
SAFETY AWARD IS
GIVEN BELHAVEN
GROUP THIS WEEK
Second Place Award Brought By
Carolina Motor Club
Tuesday
A plaque commemmorating Bel
haven’s achievement of second
nlace in the Pedestrian Saftey
program of the Carolina Motor
Club, was presented Tuesday night
at the regular meeting of the Ro
tary Club held in Flossies House,
Pantego. The award was made by
Linwood Boyd of Williamston, club
membership representative, and
accepted on the part of the Pedes
trian club by Mayor James Younce,
who was flanked by several school
boy members of the Safety patrol
urogram, directed by Chief of Po
lice Wm. Clagon who was a guest
of honor. Another truest was Sel
by Jones of Valleyfield, Que.
Gene Purvis, President. of the
school and Charles Latham, retired
president of the PT A which spons
ored the financing of the program
were present Mr. Purvis and Chief
Clagon were called on for remarks
about the program. In the absence
of the president, Marion Dilday, H.
VanDorp, a former president pre
sided.
Attending from the school patrol
were the following lads: Captains
Bud Wahab and Rodney Gaylord;
Lieutenants, Johnny Cox and How
ard Riddick; also Lonnie Flowers,
Linwood Adams and Ray Jarvis.
Mrs. Carolyn'Lloyd, teacher who
formerly taught driver education
was an invited Other guests
included John Gibbs of Atlanta, a
former member of the Rotary
Club; two guests accompanied Ro
tarian Bill Bulluck: T. B. Slade 111
of Enfield and Les Rucker of Rocky
Mount
ENGELHARD PLANT
WINS GOVERNMENT
PALLET CONTRACT
Blanchard Box Company To Build
$75,000 Worth of Cargo
Pallets in Fall
A contract for approximately
$75,000 has been awarded the
Blanchard Box and Crate Co. of
Engelhard by the U. S. Army
Transport and Maintenance Com
mand for construction of 8,150
stevedoring pallets, according to
R. T. Blanchard, owners of the com
pany.
The pallets, are actually small
platforms, 4x6 feet in size and
made of hardwood, one and a quar
ter inches thick. Cargoes for over
seas shipments are loaded on them
in the warehouses, and at the time
of shipment, tthe entire stack may
be readily moved from yarehouse
to shipside.
Mr. Blanchard expects to add
about eight employes to his force
by the time construction starts in
September. He plans to use as
much of native hardwoods as he
can find, gum, sycamore and oak.
Each mat requires bolts valued at
$1.60. The timber required is of a
type usually in little demand. De
livery will be made in a six months
period.
Mr. Blanchard established his
box plant at Engelhard in 1951. It
occupies a building 50 x 160 feet.
This new contract is expected to
be considerably helpful to the com
munity, considering it will fumiish
both labor and materials that go
into the product.
GARBAGE SERVICE
ON BEACH HAS ’
UPS AND DOWNS
New Contract Calls For Removal
of Garbage Only; Trash
Not Included
Some changes were made in the
system of garbage collection on
the Dare Beaches under a new
contract entered into on July 1.
Agitation for similar service had
been made in other parts of the
county. Contention was made that
such service was not legal unless
extended to all alike. Legal opin
ion gave it that only in those con
gested areas where garbage might
become a health menace, is there
authority to continue the program.
The new contract at a saving of
$5,000 a year to the county, now
provides the collector must pick
up such garbage as is placed at the
street the night before, in covered
approved garbage containers. If
persons have other refuse than
household garbage, such a.s lumber,
trash, packing crates, discarded
furniture etc., they wish moved, it
must be done at their own expense.
The Dare County Board has is
sued notices of the contractor’s re
sponsibility in this connection, and
no person has right to complain to
him for not doing something for
which he has not contracted to do.
Garbage is picked up early in the
morning. Some persons, after the
truck has passed, have carried their
See GARBAGE, Page Six
UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES:
Says This Year Blows Wet and Dry,
Hot and Cold, With August a Scorcher
Dear Mr. Editor:
In my last letter to you pub
lished June 19th, I predicted by my
weather signs and marks, a lot of
rain in July, and by golly I was
right. I said a lot of rain would fol
low a dry June. I also noticed that
the State ABC association was
meeting in Nags Head that same
week, and it never fails; their an
nual convention is followed by a 1
lot of rain.
Now according to my weather
marks, the moon having fulled
Monday, we are going to have a lot
of hot weather, and dry weather
through August to help kill up the
mosquitos. This as about the only
thing that will get them, that and
a strong breeze every evening to
beat’ em to the ground.
Mr. Editor, I don’t see much in
the papers about how much taxes
we’re going to have to pay this
year. I see in some of the papers
that most of the counties rounda
bout are reducing expenses and
cutting tax rates. I don’t know
how much we could hope to get
taxes cut if any, but I would like
to see us clear up the old deficit,
even if the tax rate stays the same.
Now to my mind, if we keep on
ignoring what we owe, there is a
sad day coming when we have to
face up to pay day. I
I know there may come a time
when the folks who have been
giving us our tax money won’t be
able to pay up promptly, then how
will the county pay its bills. It
looks like this year might be one
of the years when this could hap-
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CHARLES L. GWYNN, adminis
trator of Pungo District Hospital in
Belhaven for the past five years,
has accepted a position with the
Good Hope Hospital in Erwin, N.
C. He and Mrs. Gwynn and theif
two sons expect to be settled in
their new home by August Ist.
Mr. Gwynn’s successor at the
local hospital is Lonnie E. Moore,
a native of Chocowinity, who has
been most recently connected with
the Beaufort County Hospital in
Washington as Chief x-ray tech
nologist. After graduating from
Chocowinity High School in 1949,
Mr. Moore attended the Gradwohl
School of Medical Research in St.
Louis, Missouri, where he became
a registered medical technologist.
For the next three years he was
connected with the Bartow Memo
rial Hospital, Bartow, Florida, and
later became administrator of the
Citrus Memorial Hospital, Inver
ness, Florida. From Florida, he re
turned to Beaufort County with
the opening of the new county
hospital.
Mr. Moore is married to the for
mer Sadie Rogerson, of Bear
Grass, N. C., and they have one
son, Lonnie, Jr., aged three and a
half months. They are at present
making their home in Pantego at
the home of Mrs. Estelle Lancas
ter.
HYDE COUNTY MAN IS
BELHAVEN CITY CLERK
J. Harold Lupton has been
named City Clerk for the Town of
Belhaven. He began his duties on
July 15th.
A native of Hyde County, Mr.
Lupton has lived in Belhaven for
34 years. For a number of years
he was connected with the Saw
yer Wholesale Grocery Company
before founding the Lupton Tobac
co Company. He continued in this
business from 1935 to 1957, when
he suffered a serious illness which
made it impossible for him to
travel his route serving custo
mers. Before accepting his pres
ent position, he served on the
Belhaven police force for several
months.
Mr. Lupton succeeds John Brin
son, who took over the job upon
the death of B. F. Keaton, long
time City Clerk.
pen. Our folks in business haven’t
been having it too good this sum
mer for rainy weather has driven
away a lot of their trade, and with
it, their profit of course.
You know there is less than pro
fit, when people run a business a
whole month, with a lot of expense
for payroll etc, and nothing coming
in. Mr. Editor, I think we should
I pay more attention to these good
I folks who have staked all they have
lin investments in business estab
lishments which provide a lot of
employment and helps everybody.
It’s an old, old story about kill
ing the goose that lays the golden
eggs, and some of our folks, con
tinue to be experts at this kind
of slaughter.
Well, we got to learn somehow,
but it looks like it could be too
late. When I was a young fellow I
used to go around with a boy
named Joe, and together we’d stroll
down the road; he would go to see
his girl, and I would go to see
mine. One night I found Joe had
left early and next day when I
saw him, he was down in the
dumps. I asked him if he was
making any headway, and he said
no, he got disgusted and went
home. When I asked for details, he
said:
, “I ain’t no fool. We was setting
on the eofa, and when she blowed
out the light, I know what that
meant, I can take a hint, so I
went home. I’m through with any
body who treats me thataway.” •
Yours for light, when needed,
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UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK
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DREDGING WORK
IN OREGON INLET
CHANNEL BEGUN
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Long Project Begun on South
End Below Wanchese; Roots
and Logs Encountered
The Atkinson Dredging Com
pany of Norfolk which started
work on its contract on the Ore
gon Inlet-Manteo channel Friday,
ran into an unpleasant surprise
south of Roanoke Island when
their dredge Northwind encounted
stumps of trees and logs inbedded
in Pamlico Sound. One log was 30
inches in diameter, Mr. Atkinson
said. This may indicate that in the
dim and distant past, heavily tim-
Irered land covered the area.
The project, which will last near
ly a year, has been started in the
roughest water to be encountered,
in hope that the south end may
be completed and the dredge up
in more sheltered waters before
winter sets in. The Atkinson com
pany’s contract calls for the re
moval of upwards of three million
cubic yards of sand at a cost of
$545,000, and will make possible
the entry of vessels of 12-foot
draft into Mill Landing and Man
teo harbors.
An additional contract is to let
for construction of the channel
through the bar at Oregon Inlet,
and which requires larger equip
ment and is more costly to operate.
The history of the Oregon Inlet
channel project is a long one. It
was conceived back in January 1948
by the late Alvah Ward of Manteo.
It enlisted the support of numer
ous towns and citizens of all the
area and Congressmen Herbert
Bonner worked hard on it for years.
It finally was passed in Congress
after many ups and downs.
WOMAN WHO CROSSED
ATLANTIC IS SEEKING
FURTHER ADVENTURES
Six years ago an adventurous
Englishwoman, Mrs. Ann Davidson,
arrived in Belhaven aboard the
“Felicity Ann”, a small sailboat
in which she had crossed the At
lantic alone. This week she again
visited Belhaven, no longer an
Englishwoman, no longer a widow,
and no longer a sailor in the
strictiest sense, but still filled with
the spirit of adventure.
Since her last visit, she has be
come an American citizen and has
married a Miami business man
named Billheimer. Her craft this
time was a sleek Glass Magic Ran
ger cabin cruiser powered by twin
Evinrude 35 Larks. It has ample
sleeping quarters and cooking
facilities. Mrs. Billheimer, or Ann
Davidson as she remain to the
readers of her books, said that
this trip is being made because she
promised her publishers another
book and she has a deadline to
meet. The book will recount her
adventures as she travels alone to
New York, across to the Great
Lakes, down the Mississippi and
back to Miami by the Gulf of Mexi
co. She has a tentative title in
mind, “Hobo at Heart”, but is not
sure that it will be used.
“Last Voyage”, Mrs. Davidson’s
account of her lonely trip across
the Atlantic, told the dramatic
story of her husband’s death at sea
and her determination to complete
the voyage. On her visit to Bel
haven, the brave woman showed
the effects of her loss and the
See ADVENTURER, Page Six
125 BLUE MARLIN IN
BILLFISH SCORE 168
By AYCOCK BROWN
Blue marlin number 125 for
waters off the Dare Coast Outer
Banks this season was landed on
Tuesday. Landed by James H.
Adams of Hillsdale N. J., the big
blue, scaling at 316 pounds pushed
the billfish score for water off
Oregon and Hatteras Inlets to 168
for the current season which
started on May 9 when the first of
1959 was boated off Hatteras
Billfishes include in addition to
blue marlin, sailfish, broadbills
and white marlin.
A total of 26 white marlin, 15
sails and two broadbills have been
taken by anglers aboard Oregon In
let and Hatteras-based cruisers
in k addition to the record breaking
score of 125 blue marlin.
Last year a total of 78 blue mar
lin and approximately 200 white
marlin were caught off the Dare
Coast The billfish season continues
in waters off the Outer Banks un
til mid-November.
Spanish Mackerel
HATTERAS—Spanish mackerel
are being caught by trailers in
Hatteras Inlet and by anglers
casting in the surf here at the
present time according to Willie
Newsome. He reported the largest
Spanish mackerel taken this sea
son to date scaled at five and half
pounds. It was caught on Monday
by an angler from Kingsport,
Tenn.