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ALLIGATOR RIVER
BRIDGE LETTING
IN JANUARY 1960
Oregon Inlet Bridge Plans Report
to 1 Be Completed
This Fall
Plans are moving along for the
Alligator River and Oregon Inlet
Bridges. The State Highway Com
mission in session in Washington
Thursday announced progress on
these projects, along with many
others in the state. The Alligator
River bridge is expected to be
cleared with the corp of Engineers
during this month, leaving only de
sign and right of way acquisition
to be completed.
The contract will be let in Janu
ary 1960 if plans go as scheduled.
The first plan report on the Ore
gon Inlet bridge will be completed
thia fall. Two types of bridges may
be designed..
The U. S. Engineers have stated
they expect the channel through
Oregon Inlet to be completed by
July 1960, and if plans do not have
other handicaps, contract for this
bridge should be cleared shortly
afterward.
BIG FISHING ON
WEEK-END FROM
COASTAL POINTS
Majority of Anglers Reported
From Other States; Bill
fish Score Heavy
Twenty five billfish, dozens of
wahoo, hundreds of dolphin, and
thousands of bluefish were taken
from ocean waters of Dare County
during the week ending Saturday.
About 90 percent of the total
catch was taken by anglers from
Virginia and other states north of
North Carolina.
'Best example of this was re
flected in the billfish catch. Dur
ing the week 19 sailfish, three
white marlin and three blue mar
lin were boated off the Dare
Coast. All but one, a white mar
lin, was taken by fishermen from
Virgina, and that by Kent Hanson
of Garden City, Long Island.
The billfish score for Dare wa
ters since May 9, when the first
was taken off Hatteras, now
stands at an even 350. Broken
down the totals for species to
date follows: Blue marlin 148;
white marlin 127; sailfish 72;
Broadbills 2 and spearfish, one.
Largest billfish of the week
was a 302 pound blue marlin
taken by Robert B. Holland, of
Norfolk, and boated from the
crusier Albatross 111, skippered by
Capt. Oliver O’Neal, off Hatteras
on Friday. On the same day
C. A. Penick, Jr., South Boston,
caught a 72 pound blue marlin,
one of the smallest of this species
taken this year, from Bill Foster’s
Albatross II off Hatteras. The
third blue marlin, one that scaled
at 154 pounds was caught by Sgt.
Ollin Hall of Fort Lee, Va.
Two of the three white marlin
and 15 oT the 19 sailfish taken
during the week were landed by
anglers aboard Oregon Inlet
based cruisers, and all, except
Hanson’s white marlin were boat
ed by Virginians.
In addition -to billfish, fishing
during Labor day week end has
been exceptionally good by anglers
after blues, Spanish mackerel and
See FISHING, Page Six
STATE HIGHWAY TO MOVE
NAGS HEAD BAPTIST CHURCH
The State Highway Commission,
meeting in Washington last week,
agreed to honor the verbal com
mitment of former highway com
missioner Emmett Winslow for al
most $3,000 for the Nags Head
Baptist Church.
Commissioners were told that
US 158 right-of-day through Nags
Head had come within 20 feet of
the church. The highway depart
ment had offered the Rev. F. B.
Dinwiddie, pastor of the church,
$397.50 for the intrusion, but Din
widdie replied recently that he had
been promised by Winslow that the
church and parsonage would be
moved by the Commission.
After some discussion of the
matter, the roads group agreed to
honor Winslow’s promise and allo
cated $1,359 for moving the church
and $1,525 to move the parsonage.
DRIVER EDUCATION IN
DARE COURTHOUSE TUES.
Sgt. Logan Lane of the N. C.
Highway Patrol will preside oyer
an educational session pertaining
to the point system affecting
drivers licenses soon to become
effective, to be held in the Dare
Courthouse Tuesday, 'Sept. 15 at
3 p-tn. Sgt Lane will be accom
panied by another field represent
ative and will offer information
and answer any questons which
may arise. The meeting is open
to the public and will last about
an hour.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEW DISTRICT GOVERNOR
TO VISIT MANTEO LIONS
•ML
DON GLISSON of Nashville, gov
ernor of Lions District 31-J which
includes 36 clubs in the north
eastern section of the state, will
pay his official visit to the Man
teo Lions Club on Tuesday, Sept.
15. The local club will meet at
Owens’ Restaurant, Nags Head,
at 7 pjn. Willett Tillett is presi
dent.
Glisson will be guest speaker on
the program and will confer with
new club officers and directors on
administrative work and communi
ty service projects.
The Manteo club is an active
unit of the International Associ
ation of Lions Clubs, largest
service club organization in the
world. Lions clubs are located in
99 countries and geographical lo
cations and have a total member
ship of nearly 600,000.
203 ENROLLED ON
OPENING DAY IN
MANTEO HIGH SCH.
Five New Courses Added to
School; Three More Pupils
Than Last Year
Manteo High School opened on
Friday, September 4, with an en
rollment of 223. Several parents
attended the opening exercises.
Rev. R. W. Turner, rector of St.
Andrew s-by-the-Sea Episcoppl
Church, conducted the devotional.
Mrs. D. E. Evans, County Super
intendent of Schools, introduced the
new principal, Allison A. White,
who, in turn, presented the new
members of the faculty, Both Mrs.
Evans and Mr. White lauded the
enriched curriculum and encour
aged students to take advantage of
their opportunities. This year vo
cational home economics, business
arithmetic, solid geometry, dra
matics, and French I have been
added to the courses given in
former years. A 30-minute activity
period each day will permit meet
ings of homeroom organizations, of
clubs which students are interested
in forming, and of the student
body for various purposes.
Mr. White, a veteran school ad
ministrator, comes to Manteo from
the Shallotte School. His work in
the field of education, which has
covered / almost twenty-five years,
has been favorably recognized in
State and national education associ
ations. He has traveled extensively
in this country and in Mexico and
Canada—in the later countries he
From the North Carolina Division)
studied the public school systems,
of Certification he holds certifi
cates for high school princilpal and
for superintendent. Mr. White is a
graduated of Guilford College,
where he obtained his BA degree,
and where he participated in ath
letics and on debating teams. His
graduate work has been done in ad
ministration and in counseling at
State College, Duke University,
and the University of North Caro
lina.
Mrs. Viola Bowden Dudley, the
new mathematics teacher, comes
from Kinston. She is a graduate
of Littleton College and has done
work at Wake Forest and the
University of North Carolina. She
has taught mathematics in the
high schools of Lenoir, Wayne, and
Duplin Counties.
H. J. Hankins, Jr., Leaksville,
attended Wingate Junior College
and received his AB degree from
East Carolina College, where he
majored in political science and
English. He has taught in Albe
marle and Clayton. At Clayton he
was the football, basketball, and
track coach.
Mrs. Helen O. Britt, the science
teacher, is a graduate of Atlantic
Christian College and has done
graduate work at East Carolina
College. She has taught science in
two schools in North Carolina and
Red Springs, South Carolina.
The other members who taught
here last year are Mrs. Matilda
Inge, Miss Catherine Bowman,
Mrs. Betty Gibbs, William Tark
ington, and Adrian Ayers.
Reported on opening day in this
high school last year were 220.
PROGRESS REPORT
ON PLANS FOR A
NEW BANK IN DARE
Officers and Directors to Pre
sent Petition to Be Named
By Sept. 30
A movement launched some six
months ago by interested citizens
and business men and women of
Dare County, announced this week
through their attorneys, Wallace
H. McCown of Manteo, and J.
Melville Broughton, Jr., of Ra
leigh, that substantial progress
had been made in locating invest
ors for the project, as well as
adequate business for the ven
ture.
A group of over twenty five
interested persons met to go over
the information gathered from all
parts of Dare County concerning
investors, prospective depositors,
and business prospects. The facts
indicated great interest in every
area of Dare County, Roanoke Is
land, the beach area, Hatteras Is
land area and in the Croatan
Sound communities.
Preparation of application pa
pers for presentation to the ap
propriate State and Federal agen
cies is in progress, and a meeting
to be held the last week in Sep
tember will elect the first officers
and directors of the proposed in
stitution, pending its authorization
to do business.
Approximately three fourths of
the proposed capital stock has been
subscribed to date, and total sub
scription is expected by the final
meeting. A great factor in the in
terest has been the desire to build
adequate banking facilities for all
of Dare County within the area,
and keep much of the business, be
ing handled elsewhere of necessi
ty, at home.
MANTEO PARACHUTE
SOLDIER GRADUATES
will
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(AHTNC). —Army Pvt. John B.
Etheridge Jr., 20, whose parents
live on Route 1, Manteo, recently
was graduated from the 101st Air
borne Division Jump School at Fort
Campbell, Ky. He received three
weeks of intensive ground and
aerial training which included five
parachute jumps. A member of
Company A in the divsion’s 187th
Infantry, Etheridge entered the
Army last January and completed
basic training at Fort Jackson, S.
C. He is a 1958 graduate of Man
|teo High School. Before entering
the Army, Etheridge was employed
at Ralph Swain’s City Market.
TAR HEELS AFLOAT
ANCHOR AT OCRACOKE
Fourteen yachts of the Tar Heels
Afloat flotillg held a rendez-vous
at Ocracoke Harbor Saturday and
Sunday, with Commodore Cecil
May of New Bern, in charge of the
cruise. In the flotilla were the
“Tommie Tucker” and “Reggis S”
of Rocky Mount, the “Ronnie G” of
Tarboro, the “Pepsie Ford” of
Greenville, the “Harriet Lane” and
“Patienne” and “Elsie III” and
“Leah II” of New Bern, the “Sea
Dream” of Morehead City, the
“River Forest IV” and “Lola Jane”
of Belhaven, the “Anna Lee IV” of
Jacksonville, the “Jo Ann” and
“Miss Behaving” of Cherry Point,
and the North Carolina State
Yacht from Morehead City. £bout
ninety people were on the cruise;
they enjoyed a buffet supper at
the Island Inn. Many of them spent
Sunday fishing off-shore or in the
Inlet.
CONTRIBUTION BY TRUCK
LINES FOR LOST COLONY
Coastal Freight Lines, operating
out of Elizabeth City made a gen
erous cash contribution to the Lost
Colony last week in the sum of
$350.15 which represented their
‘gross receipts on freight coming in
to Dare County from Elizabeth
City the week of August 18-20.
This generous spirit is the only in
stance of the kind reported to us
this year, of a company making a
donation based on receipts.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1959
BELHAVEN PHYSICIAN
TO BE HONORED OCT. 5
f K
■ .
DR. ELLIS G. WINSTEAD of
Belhaven, who will be honored at
a celebration staged by residents
of Hyde and Beaufort Counties on
October 5. The recognition comes
on the anniversary of Dr. Win
stead’s 30 years of practice in Bel
haven, and will be in the form
of a family style picnic preceded
by a program at the Community
Building in Belhaven. The hours
will be from 4 to 6 p.m. The pub
lic is invited to attend.
Dr. Winstead is remembered by
many friends for his career in
World War 11. The first enrollee
from Beaufort County, he enlisted
in the Marine at the age of 17,
and became a champion rifle shot
of the corps. He has been a gen
erous civic leader and played a
vital part in the establishment of
the hosiptal in Belhaven ten years
ago.
HYDE WATERSHED
GROUP HOLDS ITS
COMMITTEE MEET
A committee meeting of the
“Water Shed Group” representing
the area of Swan Quarter to the
Outfall Canal was held Friday
night.
The object of this “Water Shed
Group” is to construct dikes, and
install drainage pumps and tide
gates.
After a canvas has been made
about 85% of the land owners are
interested State Conservationists
have been asked to meet with the
group to inform them about the
certain requirements necessary to
be elegible for help toward the
muscle needed project.
The committee members are
Curtis Howard, Jay Boomer, Mel
vin Swindell, Urban Fisher, Carl
Cahoon, Gilbert Tunnell, John H.
Swindell.
UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES:
People Not Allowed Some Os Own Money
While Giving Billions To Foreigners
Dear Mr. Editor.
I have been reading about the
bill President Ike vetoed whereby
a lot of public works projects
could have been completed in this
country for the benefit of our
people. These projects included a
lot of much needed waterways that
would help our people make a
living and our communities to
grow. This represented a lot of
hard work on the part of many
Congressmen, including our own,
and yet our president wipes it off
the book with a veto. It called for
only a billion dollars, but the presi
dent never sneezes at giving away
several billions to foreigners, who:
have long since learned they don’t :
have to work but need only to call
on the United States for provisions
and cash.
The Congress almost passed this
bill over Ike’s veto, and missed it
by one vote, Had North Carolina’s
lone Republican Congress man
Jonas, joined with the rest of the
State’s delegation, the bill would
have been passed and benefitted
many North Carolina communities.
Now I admire those Congress
men for taking it up and passing
another bill, and this same. Jonas,
says he is going to stick by Ike
again, and to hell with North Caro
lina because he’s going to vote to
uphold Ike’s last veto.
Well my friends, that’s what we
get by betraying the party that has
been the friend of this state, in
order to vote for Ike. Maybe they’ll
get a belly full sometime but it will
be too late to help us old folks.
People needn’t expect much
when they won’t stand by their own
household, but this can be said.
Everytime a man betrays his
friends, a lot of innocent people
can'get hurt too.
Mr. Editor, do you ever stop to
think that here when the war has
been over for some 15 yean, we
are still giving many nations, some
of which fought us, billions of dol
lars every year. Now this couldn’t
HOWLETT'S FORTY
MILLIONS SUBJECT
TO OTHER CLAIMS
County Moves to Attach Mining
Claim to Repay Wel
fare Fund
The County of Merced, Calif., has
moved to attach the S4O million cin
nebar mine in Alaska now claimed
by T/Sgt. Thos. T. Howlett to
whom it was given by the widowed
Cora Dinsmore whom he and his
wife befriended shortly before her
death.
According to the Merced Sun-
Star, Kenneth Riggs, the Public
Administrator has filed a petition
with the court to have the property
surrendered for probate, and to
have himself named as administra
tor, for the estate of Mrs. Dins
more and her husband James who
died in 1955.
Riggs said the county’s claim is
based on the fact that nearly $20,-
000 in old age assistance was paid
to the couple between 1939 and
1958. According to old age assis
tance law, discovery of assets after
the receipients death, entitles the
welfare department to recovery of
benefits paid. If fraud is dis
covered, the claim is doubled.
Whether the map of the mine by
itself constitutes property will be
up to the court to decide.
It is to be expected there will be
controversies about so big a piece
of property, whether it turns out to
be worth anything or not. Some
mighty smart people will move in
seeking gains. Perhaps the foster
children and a son, or imposters
will turn up, and make claims.
Apparently Dinsmore didn’t at
tach much value to the mining
claim. He had worked as a carpen
ter in Alaska from 1892 to 1895.
In 1936 he was in Merced, Calif.,
seeking emergency relief. His son
Orin entered military service and
was transferred to Alaska in 1954.
Whereabouts of the two foster
children were also unknown last
week. One of them, Marie Mines
was living in Fresno in 1952.
There are some confusing angles
about the mine. Lt. Hal Wingo, as
sistant information Service Officer
at Castle Air Force Base where
Howlett is stationed said he had
seen copies of the Recorded claim.
He said there was no doubt in his
mind as to the presence of the
mine.
However, Don Eberlein of the"
Interior Department’s Geological
Survey Section in San Francisco
said he had heard of no mercury
mine “of this magnitude” in Alaska.
He said however, that the Red
Devil Mine near Fleetmute, Alaska
on the Kushokwim River was an
active producer of mercury.
A 40-million dollar mercury mine
See HOWLETT, Page Six
happen if the American people
didn’t fold their hands and let it
pass.
Os course they tell us that we
are building up these countries to
make good customers of them so
they will buy our products. But
that doesn’t work out, for these
countries are buying their products,
with the money we give them, from
wherever they can buy cheapest,
and wherever they can sell most of
their own stuff. Mostly this busi
ness goes to our enemies, all of
whom owe us money.
And too often we cannot sell
them as cheap, if we wanted to,
nor transport them so quickly.
Hog-wild union racketeering has
brought down production in this
See DOCK, Page Six
HOPEFUL FOR NEWSIER
PAPER NEXT WEEK
Due to unavoidable delays,
we were unable to provide
coverage on several interest
ing news items in Dare Coun
ty, but which we hope to fur
nish our readers next week.
These items include:
1. Review and comment on
the Lost Colony this season,
and its probable future.
2. Comments on County af
fairs, doings of county offi
cials, statement of plans
about speeding up delinquent
tax collection program; col
lection of large amount of
fines due the school fund, but
which defendants in court are
not required to pay.
3. Some of the reasons for
delay in improvement of
County Government and pin
pointing responsibility.
4. Review of several proj
ects of great magnitude now
under way or projected in
the coastal area.
Watch label on your paper,
and send in renewal of sub
scription before expiration
date.
NINE STATEWIDE BOND
ISSUES OFFERED VOTERS
IN ELECTIONS OCT. 27
Would Provide Capital Improvements For State
Educational Improvements, Mental Institu
tions, Small Colleges, Ports and Historical
Sites, Without Ad Valoreum Tax.
WOODLANDS MANAGER TO
REMOVE TO SO. CAROLINA
L L - ’ JOS!
WILLIAM ERNST Jr., who since
1952 has been manager of the
woodlands properties of West Vir
ginia Pulp & Paper Co., in Dare,
Tyrrell, and other local counties,
has been awarded a step-up in com
pany operations and about Novem
ber 1 will go to Summerville, S. C.,
to take over management of com
pany properties Georgia and South
Carolina, consisting of some five
million acres. The company oper
ates a pulp mill in the Charleston
area where Mr. Ernst will be sta-.
tioned.
This week, Mr. Ernst is on a trip
to Toronto, Canada to sit in on a
conference on Canadian foresty
practices, and to study means for
fighting forest fires by the dump
ing of water from airplanes.
The departure of the Ernst fami
ly and their three children'will be
much regretted on the part of their
wide circle of friends in the Man
teo community, where they have
rendered a large and greatly ap
preciated contribution to civic and
educational interests.
A FISH FRY DAY
AT BELL'S ID.
IN HYDE COUNTY
Rose Bay was all aglow with
anticipation Monday, as Monday
was not only ‘.‘Labor Day” it was
the annual “Fish Fry Day” for the
community.
Among those gathered at Bell Is
land for the affair were: Mrs. C.
B. Jennette and Sonny, Mr. and
Mrs. Alford Dodge and children, A.
C. Credle, Mrs. Sidney Credle,
Charles, and Miss Becky Anderson,
Mrs. Annie Silverthorne, Mrs.
Thurman Evans, Martin and
Yvonne,, Mrs. James Hodges, Lo
retta, Linda and Betsy, J. M. and
Garland Jennette, Mr. and Mrs.
Alvah O’Neal and David, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul O’Neal, Roy, Mrs. E. G.
Deckard, Mrs. Jodie Williams, Al
thea and Kelly, Troy Lane and
Gary Mayo, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Sadler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sad
ler, Mrs. Carol Gibbs, C. D. Gibbs,
Miss Rachel O’Neal, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Basnight, 1 Mr. and Mrs.
Chesley Carawan, and Philip of
Belhaven, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allen
and James, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Woolard, Marlene, Ray, Ashley
Woolard of ‘Pantego, Andy Hardy,
Rose, Lynn, and Ami of Staten Is
land, N. Y., Glenn O’Neal of Wash
ington, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Hodges.
FERRY BUSY IN AUGUST 1
CROSSING HATTERAS INLET
OCRACOKE, Sept. 7.—Hatteras
Inlet ferries carried 5,981 cars ;
during the month of August and (
did not miss a scheduled trip. This
was within 16 cars of 6000, the j
highest number carried any month
this summer, The July figure was j
slightly over 5000. In figuring the
number of persons who came to the
Island this route, one must bear in ]
mind that the count is made on a
car both coming and going, i. e.
any visitors to the Island come in 11
and go out and come back in, so
actually the number of cars is half
of 6000, or three thousand. With ,
an average load of four persons :
per car, this means that 12,000
people visited the Island in August
At any rates hotels, motels, inns,
tourist homes, and cottages were
filled to capacity. I
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
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Nine Statewide bond issues are
to be offered the voters of North
1 Carolina, on October 27; the total
sum of bonds that may be issued
amounting to $34,400,000. Election
date is on a Tuesday in every pre
cinct in the State and state funds
will pay the costs of the election
without expense to the counties. •
The election, authorized by this
' year’s General Assembly would
' provide $18,891,000 in capital im
provement bonds for State Edu-
I cational Institutions; $12,053,000
1 Community college capital im
provement bonds; $500,000 for
hospital capital improvement
bonds; SIOO,OOO for State Armory
Capital improvement bonds; $466,-
000 for state training schools;
$140,000 for the State blind reha
bilitation center; a half million for
improvement of the port of South
port, and quarter million for con
struction and improvements at our
state historical sites.
While all of these proposed is
sues are of direct value to the
state as a whole, the last mentioned
has a particular interest to the
counties of Beaufort, Hyde, Dare
and Tyrrell, which have some of
the states foremost historical sites.
Any sum would be helpful in mak
ing more attractive such interest
-1 ing historical places as Bath,
Mattamuskeet, Lake Phelps, etc.,
and might provide a nucleus for
' much larger gifts and endow
ments.
In the improvement of such sites,
considerable economic benefits re
sults from tourist trade attracted
to the areas.
There is a great need for funds
for the state’s educational institu
tion. This is a day when college
training is essential to every per
son who hopes to earn an adequate
living in the complex world of to
day. The increased prosperity of
the country, and other advantages
has made it possible for many
times more students to enter col
lege, and today, facilities built
adequate for the needs of only a
few years ago, are overcrowded,
and incapable of providing the ut
most that is due the young people
of the state.
The complexities and stresses of
today’s living has taken heavy toll
of the health of our people. Mental
tarian people to meet the challenge
health, as well as the consciousness
of it, and the desire of humani
imposed, demands that the State
assume this responsibility. For this
reason more than sl2 millions are
sought to improve the buildings
and provide the service needed for
these unfortunate people, in order
they may be set upon the road to
recovery, or when in more ad
vanced stages properly cared for
while being removed from sur
roundings that are unsafe or
hurtful.
Smaller sums are asked for
hospital care, to supplement funds
provided from other sources, as
well as funds for improvement of
schools for the benefit of our way
ward young people, whereby they
may be directed into the paths of
good citizenship. Every county;
shares in these benefits.
It may be that all of these, or
only some of them will pa§s in
the election of Tuesday, October
27, but all have merit, and are
worthy of the fair consideration of
every citizen. It is not planned that
there shall be imposed any addi
tional county tax, or property tax
burden, but that they shall be re
tired from state collected revenues,
whereby the many improvements
may be provided now, while being
paid for over a period of years.
FUNDS APPROVED FOR
BUILDING HYDE SCHOOL
After a long delay occasioned by
a legal fight State school funds
will soon be available again for
construction of the consolidated
Mattamuskeet High School in Hyde
County.
The State Board of Education
l last week authorized controller, C.
D. Douglas, to send along $19,000
to Hyde school officials as soon as
legal technicalities are cleared up.
Superior Court Judge Malcom
Paul has dissolved an order re
straining the construction but his
judgment in the case hasn’t been
entered in Hyde Superior Court be
cause no term of court has been
held since he lifted the order.
Hyde officiate requested the $19,-
000 to pay off bills on the school
whose foundations had been laid
when construction was halted by
I legal action.