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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS SECTION ONE VOL XXV NO. 10 HIGHWAY OFFICIALS GIVEN APPRECIATIVE RECEPTION IN WASHINGTON ON WEDNESDAY Warren Scores Critics of Bridge Projects io Eastern Part of State; Said Charges Made Against Commission Completely Untrue. Two Day Meeting Held by Board Member and En- gineers. State Sen. Lindsay Warren took two of his fellow legislators to task Wednesday for criticizing the State Highway Commission’s recent de cision to build three multi-million dollar bridges in eastern North Carolina. Warren spoke as the Highway Commission assembled in Washing ton, N. C., to hear citizens of this coastal section tell of their road needs and also to hold its monthly business meeting. Warren leveled his sights at State Sen. John R. Jordan Jr., of Wake and Rep. Walter Jones ofi Pitt Jordan has been highly critical* of the Highway Commission in two' recent speeches. In the first one he pointed to what he called the “political timing” of the Highway Cometission’s announcement that it would build bridges over the Alli gator River, Oregon Inlet and the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, i ‘No Truth’ Warren said there was “Not one’ iota of truth” in Jordan’s charge. He added that “It is a reflection on the Highway Commission, on the governor and on a great many distinguished eastern North Caro lina public officials and citizens.” Warren said Jordan had charged that bridges were “Politically in spired and a policital slop” for eastern representatives in the General Assemby. However, Jordan said that all he said about them was to point to “the political tim ing” of the commission’s announce ment it would build the bridges— before next year’s political cam paigning. Warren said he thought it was up to him to “Set the record straight” because he led a group of eastern legislators and citizens who appeared before the Highway 1 * Commission and called on Gov. Hodges to urge construction of the bridges. Jones introduced a bill in the recent legislature to reduce the Highway Commission membership from 14 to 7. It was opposed by Hodges administration supporters and was defeated. Recently Jones told newsmen he felt introduction of his bill had speeded up the Highway Commis sion’s decision to build the bridges. Warren said Jones had intimated that eastern legislators had been promised the bridges if they would help defeat the reorganization bill. This is the most ridiculous state ment I have ever heard a responsi ble legislator’ make,” Warren de lared. The Highway Commission heard two others praise their decision to build the Alligator River and Ore gon Inlet bridges. They were Rep. Herbert C. Bonner and Victor Meekins of Manteo, chairman of the Dare County Board of Com missions. “This will open up the great Sea shore National Park to North Caro linians and give us direct contact between the Albemarle and Pamli co areas and the outer banks with a direct highway connection,” said Bonner. ' z . Meekins told the commisson that the Alligator River and Oregon In let Bridges “will pay off more than any highway improvement you will build during your administration.” He cited the millions of visitors through the years, attracted to the area largely because of the Park and mostly from other states as being huge contributors of gas taxes, and the tremendous boost to the economy of what has formerly bben considered an area of “pauper counties,” but now being able to stand on their own feet. Earlier in the day, Meekins ap peared on a panel with other news papermen and highway officials • at TV station WTIN, and on in quiring about the status of plans for repairs to the Outer Banks highway, was told that the work is expected to begin shortly, and the delay has been occasioned when held in abeyance pending develop ment of highway legislation and decisions in Washington. GARDEN OPEN NEXT WEEK The Elizabethan Garden on Roa noke Island, which was scheduled • to have closed next week, will re main open all of next week, and perhaps longer, The hours will be from 10 a. in. until 4:30 p. m. THE COASTLAND TIMES WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBUSHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA MORE INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS MADE AT ENGELHARD Fish Scrap Plant Built; O'Neal Buys SBO,OOO Trawler From Key West Industrial progress continues at Engelhard, thq bustling commer cial center of Hyde County where a growing seafood business has mushroomed during the past ten years under the management of Harry Jarvis. Latest development in the field of commercial fishing activity went into use this week in a new ly completed section of what is expected to be a huge plant built by Clyde Potter of Belhaven and Dick O’Neal of Hyde County. This first section is a building 60 x 80 feet, equipped with heavy ma chinery for turning fish scrap into meal for use in stock feed and fertilizer. The plant, projected more than a year ago, is owned by tw'o men who have long been active into the seafood business on the Engelhard waterfront. What is called the largest sea going trawler ever based at Engel hard is the 80-foot Annette G. brought in from Key West this week, and purchased by Rep. Dick O’Neal of Hyde County at a re ported price of $85,000. Harry Jarvis of Engelhard was unsuc cessful in his bid of SBO,OO for this craft, which is a sturdy, new look ing vessel powered by a 375-hp caterpiller diesel. NEW ROAD TO DRY UP INCOME FOR DARE SCHOOLS Big Decline Expected in Fines For Speeding on The Dare Beaches The 35-mile speed limit on the Dare Beaches results in the major part of the sl2 to sls thousand dollars a year paid in fines from hapless mortorists through the Dare Recorders court to the coun ty school fund. It will not be long before the new, wide road the length of this area will be open to traffic, and next summer the schools will fall short of several thousand dollars. Heaviest traffic fine of this week SSO was taxed against E. W. Wright of Nags Head for no op erators license and reckless driv ing. A $25 fine each from W. F. Mathis, Nags Head for reckless driving; W. C. Basnight, So. Nor folk, speeding, W. W. Prescott, Hobgood, reckless driving; Elbert Simpson, Mamie, no license; T. M. Early, Jr. Charlottesville, Va., and Wallace Womble, Nags Head, public drunkenness; Gary J. Dow dy, Manteo, allowing unlicensed operator to drive car; Marjorie B. Stone, Sharboro, no operators li cense, all $25 each. Assessed $lO fines each for ex ceeding the limit in the 35-mile zone elsewhere were: R. E. Sim mons, Columbia, Guy Ward Dan iels of Wanchese, T. H. Jones, Hertford, D. M. James, Mebane; S. M. Carrington, Chapel Hill; E. M. Levin, Newport News; T. A. Culbertson, Elizabeth City; D. G. Matthews of Hamilton, $29; W. E. Powell, Jr., Suffolk, reckless driv ing s4or-Neil Early, El Segundo, Calif., speeding S2O; Robert Chambers, Jr. S2O. Ignoring stop signs cost $5 each for D. L. Williams, Kitty Hawk, R. W. Feur, Fairfax, Va., and S. E. Phillips, Chesterfield, Va. • Speeding, and passing wrong side, Cola E. Bryant, Engelhard sls; other sls fines, J. W. Helms, Charlotte, Gloria Small, Durants Neck; J. C. Denson, Franklin, Va.; D. M. Wilkinson, Eliz. City; B. F. Turner, Portsmouth, Joseph McC. Migett of Rodanthe $lO for improper steering gear and driv ing on wrong side of road. Five-dollar fines were paid by each of the following: R. W. Hoop er, Eliz. City, improper exhaust; T. B. Richer, Garrett Park, Md.; D. A. Morse, Hertford, improper passing; Allen M. Peterson, Nags Head, wrong side; J. C. Blowe, Ahoskie, speeding. T. R. Mooring of Snow Hill paid sl2; Joe T. White, Merry Hill, sll, for speeding. A PILLAR AND LANDMARK OF HYDE COUNTY PASSES |y iggßfe ■ A ! > T __ s DAN L. BERRY, Swan Quarter merchant and funeral director who died suddenly at his desk Wednesday morning. DAN BERRY'S LONG CAREER AS A HYDE LEADER IS ENDED Widely Known Merchant and Funeral Director Dies at His Desk Wednesday The long career of Dan L. Ber ry 73, merchant, funeral director, church and civic leader in Swan Quarter came to and end suddenly when he had gone to work. Mr. Berry had walked from his home to his store, in high spirits, Wednesday, had seated himself at his desk, and lighted his pipe pre paratory to launching forth into the day’s work, when he slumped in his chair and died immediately. A man of exceptional determi nation, and devotion to the causes he favored, he had fought his way back to activity, refusing to give up, after several physi cal seizures, during the past ten years. At times his life had been despaired of when he underwent hospital treatment. Beside his wife, he is survived by four sisters, Misses Ella and See BERRY, Page Five BELHAVEN HIGH OPENED AUG. 27 ENROLLMENT 52 8 Three New Members of Faculty; Bulldogs Preparing for Big Season The John A. Wilkinson High School in Belhaven opened on Thursday, August 27, with a total enrollment of 528, and increase of nine students over last year’s open ing enrollment. Os -this number 375 are elementary school students and 153 high school students. Reg istration was held on Wednesday, and a full schedule began on Thurs day. Three new teachers joined the faculty this year. Mrs. Sally E. Holton, whose home is in Wenona, is teaching the first grade. A na tive of Pinetops, Mrs. Holton was graduated from East Carolina Col lege in 1949 with a B. S. Degree. She has had seven years experience in first grade work, having taught for five years in Chocowinity and for two years in Tarboro. She is married to Nat Holton, and will commute daily from their home in Wenona. Mrs. Mary Nicholson Broome is beginning her teaching career with the fourth grade. A native of Kins ton, Mrs. Broome was graduated from Duke University in June with an A. B. in primary education. She was married to the Rev. John Broome in July and they are mak ing their home in the Episcopal rec tory on East Main Street. New to the high school faculty is Baxter A. Moose, of Statesville, who replaces William Spears as science teacher. He holds an A. B. degree from Lenoir-Ryhne College, and has had twenty-three years ex perience in the teaching field. Mr. Moose was an umpire in profes sional baseball for nine years. His most recent teaching experience was in Ruby. Mr. Moose is un married and is making his home in an apartment in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hodges on East Main Street. Coach Howard Chapin’s Bulldogs are getting in good shape for the football season, but a change has been made in the schedule pre viously announced. The opening game with Fremont, set for Sep tember 4, has been canceled, as Fremont has dropped football from school activities this year. An an nouncement will be made soon con cerning the first game; in the meantime, .season tickets are on sale and may be purchased from any member of the Boosters’ Club. MAbiTEO, N? C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1959 MANTEO SCHOOL OPENING. READY FOR SEPT. 4TH Announcement has been made by Principal R. A. White that all stud ents who are assigned to the Man teo School will assemble on Fri day, September 4, at 9.00 a. m., for registration. High school pupils will go directly to the high school auditorium, where there will be a short devotional before, assignment to rooms and classes is made. After 'the devotional, there will be an an nouncment of the enriched curri culum for the year, along with statements concerning school poli cies and procedures. Since all par ents of high school students are vitally concerned with these mat ters, Mr. White urges that all who can possibly do so attend the open ing program. After the assign ment of students to home rooms, fees will be collected, and indivi dual schedules will be worked out in order that Tuesday, September 8, may be a full day of work. Mr. White feels that with the offering of a much broader curriculum and with additional extra-curricular ac tivities many students will find courses of interest and great value. WILL NOT ABDICATE UNDER HARASSMENT MAYOR COOK SAYS Kill Devil Hills Head Says Positive Action Will Be His Course They’ll never force me out of office by their campaign of har assment, Mayor R. H. Cook of Kill Devil Hills told this news paper yesterday. Mayor Cook in sists that certain members of his own board are waging a campaign of annoyance to force him to quit. While difficulties on the town Board have been brewing for sometime, the issue of feeding some snakes calculated to catch the pennies of children and tour ists in this small city by the sea, brought up in the town meeting at Kill Devil Hills this week, precip atated the latest outbursts in the official family. Mr. Cook says he has it on good authority, through the well or ganized underground he maintains, that Aiderman C. A. York, the Mayor pro tern, has declared he is going to harass the Mayor and make his blow his top and him self out of the town picture. “But I am going to stay in and positive action will be my con sistent course all the way through. I’ve already outlived one member of this new Board,” he says. Last month, Aiderman Bob Young, himself an appointee replacing one who had resigned, quit also. Another hustling realtor, W. C. Foreman has been put on the Board in place of Mr. Young. There be within the boundaries a tourist attraction known as Croatan Village, having among other things some snakes. Aider man York launched this new cri sis this week by charging in open board meeting that the Mayor, ac cording to the Indian Village own er, had threatened to put him out of business if he didn’t stop feed ing live chickens to his snakes. York had it the Mayor used aw ful profanity. Policeman Jack Ballance said no profanity; he heard it. Commissioner Ira Part ridge echoed York, the complaints having also been made to him, he reported. “Mr. York isn’t going to take over, as it’s been reported he is telling, Mr. Cook said. I am tired of too much yackety yack at these meetings when we ought to be conducting the business of the town. If there is any more of it, I am going to swear out a sub poena. I am going to get Mr. Ro land, (the .snake owner) and Chief Ballance, to make a deposition un der oath, and submit it to the At torney General to verify my po sition, and I will submit to any decision the Attorney General makes. Mr. Cook said the controversy about the snakes arose out of his humanitarian heart, following complaints from some of the guests of his motel that it is a cruel and gruesome thing to feed live chickens to snakes, right be fore young children, as well as grown-ups. TRIP TO PUERTO RICO Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wescott recently enjoyed a trip lasting nearly a week, given them by General Electric for which their firm, the Manteo Furniture Co. are dealers. The flight was made from the Raleigh airport in two planes, carrying some 200 dealers and their wives from Virginia and the Carolinas. They spent several days sightseeing and being other wise well-entertained in Puerto Rico. NEW POSTOFFICE QUARTERS NOW BEING CONSIDERED Department Contemplates Struc ture More Than Double Size of Present One The growth of business at the Manteo post office has caused the department to make plans for a new building, and after considering the present comparatively new structure inadequate for further use, is making overtures to en courage construction of a larger building at some central point downtown. This, according to notice sent during the month by the Depart ment to Senators Ervin and Jordan. The Department says the present quarters consist of only 1163 square feet of floor space, while a minimum of 2,893 feet is needed. They also say the parking space is only 744 square feet and they need several times this sum. They desire the building on a corner lot, not less than 60 X 158 feet, or if on an inside lot not less than 70 X 160 feet. The present building is owned by C. R. Evans, who was for many years a highly valued postmaster until his retirement for disability some three years ago. He built the building to specifications for the needs of about 18 years ago. One of the sites under considera tion is the old Tranquil House prop erty, which for nearly a half cen tury was operated as a hotel— widely known, and in fact the only one in Manteo. Change is Opposed Representatives of the Post office Department have obtained a tentative option from the own ers, Fearings, Inc., whereby a structure according to P. O. re quirements would be built and leased by the department for a period of years. The location is Main and Water Sts. Opposition developed suddenly with M. L. Daniels, operator of a mercantile business on County Street where the Postoffice is now located, circulating a petition and asking for signers, to appeal to the Government to not make the change. A few persons have signed the petition, one of whom has said it was done first without realizing what was being done. Some others refused, saying they would not fight progress in the community. Reports Thursday indicated that a further petition will be circulated with the view of sending an over whelming list of names to offset Mr. Daniels petition, and asking the Department to continue with its plans. Some express the belief that the situation may develop in to a political fight before it is over. BAPTISTS TO HOLD 151 ST ANNIVERSARY HOMECOMING SEP. 6 Roanoke Island Church Near Man teo Plans Picnic and Several Services The Roanoke Island Baptist Church which has continued for 151 years, three miles north of Manteo, will hold its annual home coming with dinner on the grounds on this week end, Sunday, Sept. 6, and a large crowd is expected, be followed by the dinner. The many returning from other com munities. The morning service will pastorate at this time is being filled on a twice a month basis by Rev. Caleb Goodwin, formerly of Durham, who also serves the church at Powells Point. He will speak at the morning service. Services are held regularly on the first and third Sundays. At 2 p. m., the services will be resumed with a special musical pro gram, additional speaking, and rec ognition of former pastors. All those now living have been invited. Rev. Gilbert Mister of Weeksville, who grew up in the church will be a guest speaker. The church plans to holds its an nual re-union and homecoming every year on the Sunday preced ing Labor Day. The public is in vited to this and all other services. EAST LAKE HOMECOMING OF METHODISTS SEPT. 27 The annual homecoming of the East Lake Methodist church is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 27, ac cording to John A. Twiddy, Sun day School superintendent. Mr. Twiddy says this will observe the 72nd anniversary of the church. Rev. C. R. Olson, pastor, will be the speaker. The public is invited to attend. These annual homecom ings usually attract a large crowd, many old residents returning to en joy the fellowship and the big pic ic dinner on the grounds. ROANOKE ISLAND MAN GETS S4O MILLION MINE BECAUSE HE AIDED AN AGED WIDOW Fantastic Story of Tom Howlett's Fabulous Gift of Mercury Mine in Alaska, From Woman He Provided With a Rocking Chair in California Village After Joining Pentecostal Holiness Faith FIRST HOME EC. TEACHER IN MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL ....... ft*- ftllHk. A MISS KATHERINE E. BOWMAN, former science teacher at Manteo High School, will teach Home Economics this year. Miss Bowman has a Bachelor’s Degree in Home Economics from Russell Sage College in Troy, New York and a Master’s Degree from New York University, in New York City. She has taught Vocational Home Economics for several years in New York State, Delaware and North Carolina. In addition to her experience as a teacher, she has worked for B. Altman and Co. of New York City and has been a 4-H Club Agent in Albany, New York. Many of Miss Bowman’s summers have been de voted to employment in occupa tions that grow out of Home Eco nomics training or at summer school increasing her knowledge and skills as a teacher in this field. HOME ECONOMICS OFFERED IN MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL For the first time in the history of Dare County, Vocational Home Economics will be taught in Man teo High School this year. Home Economics is a series of courses that are offered for all four years of high school. Primar ily it is a course elected by girls. In recent years it has become in creasingly popular with boys too. It will be offered to the senior boys this year. “Cooking” and “Sewing” is the usual idea people in general have of this subject. Modern homemak ing is much more than this. Home Economics, today, is centered around the family and all the problems that beset it in a “fast changing” world. . Naturally the preparation of meals and the use of modern equipment is included. There are others of equal importance such as: the roles and responsibilities of each member of the family; how to buy all of the products See SCHOOL, Page Eight PLANS DEVELOPING FOR OCTOBER SURF TOURNEYS Plans are now being developed for two Dare Coast-Outer Banks surf fishing classics in October. The first will be the eighth an nual Nags Head Surf Fishing Club-sponsored surf tournament. This year the event will be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 15-17. At the present time club members are preparing the souvenir program of the Dare Beaches event. Edgar Hooper and others of the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club are also preparing their souvenir booklet. The inter-club tourney to be sponsored by this group with headquarters at Buxton is sched uled Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 29-31. The Hatteras Island tourney will be the second one held there. STANFORD WHITE CHAIRMAN DARE CO. WELFARE BOARD W. Stanford White of Manns Harbor was recently elected chair man of the Dare County Welfare Board, succeeding Pennel A. Til lett Mr. White was recently ap pointed to the welfare board by the Dare County Commissioners, for a three year term. Other members of the Board arc Rany Jennett of Buxton and George A. Daniels of Wanchese. MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS SIXTEEN PAGES THIS WEEK Single Copy 70 CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., August 27—Technical Serge ant Thomas L. Howlett is probably the only multi-millionaire in the United States Air Force. But all of the enticements and possibilities of his newly-found fortune have not affected his determination to com plete his Air Force career. Sergeant Howlett, a crew mem ber on one of the Strategic Air Command’s giant B-52 bombers at Castle Air Force Base, California is the heirato what may be the largest mercury mine in the world. And yet, in the face of this mam moth inheritance, he will continue his career as a tail gunner in SAC. His explanation is deceivingly sim ple. “I’ve been in the service for 10 years, I like to fly and it would be foolish to throw away all the experience I have had and time in grade I have earned.” Tommy Howlett grew up in the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. T. Howlett near Manteo, after he was orphaned by the death of his mother, leaving seven small children. His father, Atwell How lett, now in the printing trade in Norfolk, worked with the Coastland Times as a printer in 1937. After his grandfather’s death, the lad re moved to Norfolk. A sister, Frances, honor student in the Man teo school married Watson Drink water Jr., and now resides in Portsmouth, Va. Some people might think, and in deed many have told him, that it would be anything but foolish to give up his career for which he is presently making about S4BO a month (including flight pay) and devote his complete attention to turning millions into more millions. With Howlett, however, the deci sion is based on a conviction that the pursuit of money is definitely not the ultimate goal in life. In his thinking, it doesn’t even come close. This intriguing, sometimes un believable story of how Tom How lett and his young wife, Nova, came into such a vast inheritance gives new credence to the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction. All events in a person’s life ap pear, in retrospect, to have been a part of whatever is happening at the present, so it is hard to go back to the true beginning of the story. Suffice it to start with Howlett’s assignment to Castle as a student in SAC’s training school for B-52 and KC-135 crews. This was in January of 1957. After completing the 11 weeks of training, Howlett was kept at Castle as an instructor in the tail gunner phase of the training pro gram. A Religious Man A deeply religious man, Howlett made a habit of spending some time in the base chapel almost every night of the week. On one oc casion he met a member of the Pentecostal church in Merced, California, who was also a frequent visitor to the chapel. In the con versation that ensued between the two, Howlett was invited to attend the services of the Penacostal church. Howlett had been dissatisfied for some time with his own church and was eager for an opportunity to learn more about other faiths. This decision to visit the Pente costal church was the real begin ning of his fantastic inheritance. Howlett liked the church, liked the people and the way they wor shipped. He began attending the services regularly. It wasn’t long before he met Nova Mayberry, the 18-year old daughter of Delhi, California, turkey grower Clyde Mayberry and his wife Maude. On June 11, 1957, Tom and Nova were married in Carson City, Nevada. For many years Nova and her family had known of Jim and Cora Dinsmore, an old prospector and his wife who had gone to the same church as the Mayberry s. Jim Dinsmore died in 1955 and “Sister” Dinsmore was left a widow and a cripple who seldom moved from her small trailer house in Livingston, California. After their marriage, Tom and Nova moved to Livingston and began spending as much time as possible visiting and doing er rands for Mrs. Dinsmore. Because of a weakened back con dition, Sister Dinsmore was con fined to a hard chair where she spent both her days and nights. She slept with her head resting in her hands. See FORTUNE, Page Four . ■ •
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