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SAA MEETING PLEDGES AID
TO THE LOST COLONY AND
HISTORIC BATH RESTORATION
Permanent Ferry Terminal at Ocracoke Island
Advocated in Meeting at Pantego; Commit
tee Appointments Made for Years Work in
Meeting at Home of the President, Mrs.
Scott Topping in Pantego Wednesday.
Without waiting for the full
three months to roll by since the
annual meeting Noember 7 in Co
lumbia, Mrs. Scott Topping of Bel
haven, held her first quarterly
meeting of the Southern Albemarle
Association of which she is presi
dent, at her home in Beaufort
County Wednesday, and completed
the list of nearly all committees
and set up plans for the 25th year
of the Association.
Beginning at 10 a.m. with time
out for lunch, the officers of the
association completed the business
which ended at 2 pun. with a bene
diction by Rev. Alexander Corey
of Jameville. a former President
of the Association.
Hie executive committee was
completed in full, and most all the
standing committees were listed. A
few vacancies are awaiting recom
mendations from county Vice
presidents.
By unanimous approval, the exe
cutive committee on Wednesday did
the following:
1. Set up committees to carry
on the work of the Association
during the coming year which will
conclude with the annual conven
tion Beaufort County on Wednes
day, Nov. 9, 1960, closing 25 years
of continuous activity.
2. Pledged its favor and great
interest in the work of the Com
mittee for the restoration of his
torical Bath, and appointed Dr. W.
T. Ralph Chairman to name a com
mittee to work with the Historical
Hath Commission appointed by the
Governor.
3. Asked for construction of a
permanent ferry landing on the
north end of Ocracoke Island, to
rarnove the handicap now occasion
ed tourist traffic in this area.
4. Pledged the Association to
work for renewed dedication of
spirit and effort through the
Southern Albemarle Region in be
half of the Lost Colony, and to
.support the new Chairman, Mrs.
O. Max Gardner and those who are
working under her banner in be
half of the drama this year.
That Association will endeavor
to stimulate a program for home
and highway beautification to make
the region more attractive to its
visitors; to encourage courtesy
among business interests and seek
the adoption of business-like opera
tion of state owned ferries.
The county executive committees
usually includes four women and
four men in addition to the Coun
ty Vice president who is ex-officio
chairman. In Wednesday’s appoint
ment. some deviations from this
rule were noted, and a few of ths
county lists are incomplete, but
appointments announced are as
follows:
BEAUFORT: Sam T. Moore,
Chairman; Mrs. Muriel Windley of
Aurora; Mrs. C. E. Venters, Bath;
Dr. W. T. Ralph, Belhaven; Ashley
See S.A.A, Page Four
SUPERIOR COURT MONDAY
CONVENES IN DARE CO.
Judge J. Paul Frizelle of Snow
Hill is expected in Manteo Mon
day Jan. 19 to preside at the usual
mid-winter term of Dare County
Superior Court for the trial of
Civil cases only. A calendar has
been set for three days, mostly
damage suits growing out of auto
mobile mishaps. One case of more
than usual interest involves the
claim of W. R. Deaton of Kill Devil
Hills against the State Highway
Commission, in which the claimant
asks for a more liberal settlement
than was allotted him by ap
praisers who valued a large area
of beach property near Kill Devil
Hills, and which was taken by the
State Highway Commission in the
process of building the new U.S.
158 by-pass, through the area. Mr.
Deaton contend, and has shown by
testimony in preceding hearings,
that much larger amounts were
paid other owners for similar prop
erty, and asks that he be awarded
a aeittleiment in line with those
made with other property owners.
SEA FOOD SUPPER
The Engelhard H. D. Club will
hoM a supper Saturday night. Jan.
16 at the dub room of the Com
munity Building. Shrimp plates
and oyster stews wil be served also
sandwiches, cake, pie and coffee
will be for sale beginning at 5
o’clock. Prices reasonable for a,
worthy cause.
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
SANFORD MAKING QUICK
VISITS IN THE COASTLAND
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TERRY SANFORD was a visitor
in Dare County Thursday morn
ing and talked with a number of
friends about his campaign for
Governor of North Carolina. He
also visited Currituck Courthouse
at 11 a.m. and on Wednesday
was in Columbia.
Sanford said he will make for
mal announcement of his candi
dacy next month. About 35 peo
ple came out to hear him talk at
a meeting at the Roanoke Inn
near Manteo arranged by R. O.
Ballance.
“Public education will be the
dominant issue in my campaign,”
he said. “Improvement of schools
is North Carolina’s most urgent
need.” He also talked about in
lets, converting gas tax to sup
port small harbors, the Seashore
Park and tourist income.
Sanford is well known here
abouts and has many friends in
the area. He is a native of Laur
inburg and since 1948 has prac
ticed law in Fayetteville. He re
gretted that this visit was brief
and said he will retrn during his
campaign and talk more with
people of interests of the area
and state.
Sanford is a former State Sen
ator and member of the State
Ports Authority. He has been
president of the North Carolina
Young Democratic Club, and a
Democratic National Convention
delegate. He was a paratroper in
combat in World War 11, after
having been a Special Agent in
the FBI.
“Our industrial expansion pro
gram must continue,” Sanford
said in touching on aspects of
I North Carolina life. “Our agri
cultural economy must get simi
lar interests and emphasis, to
1 match the success in industrial
growth.”
Mr. Sanford was accompanied
to Manteo by several of his top
aides: Roy Wilder of Spring Hope,
Burk Bennett of Winston-Salem,
and Merrill Evans of Ahoskie.
DARE CqfjNTY REPUBLICANS
CALL CONVENTION JAN. 30
* L. V. Gaskill, Chairman of the
Dare County Republican Executive
Committee, has called a Conven
tion of all Republicans of Dare
County, to be held at 8:00 P.M., on
January 30th at the Courthouse in
Manteo. Business before the Con
vention will include the election
of. delegates to the Republican
State and District Conventions.
The State Convention for North
Carolina Republicans will be held
in Raleigh, February 27. The
featured speaker will be Senator
Thruston B. Morton, Chairman of
the Republican National Commit
tee.
Headquarters for the Convention
will be at the Sir Walter Hotel.
The State Convention also nor
mally endorses the Republican
candidates for their state ticket
Four delegates-at-large and four
alternates, to represent North
Carolina Republicans at the Na
tional Convention in Chicago, will
also be selected at this State Con
vention.
M.Y.F. WILL WASH CARS
The Manteo M.Y.F. will sponsor
a car wash at Midway Station No.
2 in Manteo Saturday, Jan. 16
land 28 from 8:80 a.m. to 4:80
I p.m. Price is $1.50 per car wrshed.
IMPORTANT UNIT OF
COAST GUARD AT
HATTERAS PLANNED
Finest Lifeboat Station On Our
Coast to Be Built This Year;
Plans Near Complete
Construction work on a new
lifeboat station at Hatteras Inlet,
on the north side near the town
of Hatteras will begin this month
Coast Guard officials in Norfolk
said this week.
The new station will replace
the one formerly located on the
northern tip of Ocracoke Island
which was washed away some
years ago.
The new Hatteras Inlet Life
boat Station will be located at the
site of the Gobseville Gun Club,
where the Coast Guard has main
tained a temporary station since
1954, in the building formerly
housing the shooting club.
Though the building design is
still on the drawing boards, plans
however, point toward a two-story
masonry structure with detached
lookout tower and combined ga
rage-equipment building. The
buildings will be faced in brick
veneer. It will be the first brick
lifeboat station erected in either
Dare or Hyde Counties.
The initial contract, for con
struction of a boat basin bulk
head, dredging, piers, boat hoist
and fuel storage facilities on
Austin Creek at the Gun Club
site have been awarded. J. T.
Hardison & Son, Inc., of Wash
ington, N. C. won this contract.
Coast Guard officials at Nor
folk headquarters indicated that
contracts on the buildings will be
offered in the near future, with
long-range planning for commis
sioning of the new installation
early in 1961.
Meanwhile Coast Guard person
nel will continue its search and
rescue activities out of the tem
porary quarters. Archie Wahab of
Ocracoke is at present officer in
charge. Previously in charge was
Nevin Wescott of Manteo who is
now stationed at Oregon Inlet,
but who will retire from service
on January 31.
The Hatteras Inlet Lifeboat
Station will be the second new
station to be constructed in the
Fifth Coast Guard District in re
cent years. The station at Little
Machipongo on the Eastern Shore
of Virginia was completed last
April.
Key locations for Coast Guard
lifeboat stations up and down the
coast of the Unted States, like
the site at Hatteras Inlet, greatly
assist the Coast Guard’s tasks of
providing search and rescue serv
ice to the maritime industry and
to the boating public.
MASONS HAVE A
PLAN FOR VISITING
SICK MEMBERS
Wanchese Masonic Lodge, in Dare
County has nome up with a help
ful plan to remember members
when sick in hospitals away from
home.
Instead of sending cards, and
"ometimes flowers to the occasional
members mentioned at the semi
monthly meetings of the lodge, the
lodge will form a committee of its
members in other towns who will
be notified and who in turn will
visit tee sick and convey the af
fection and thoughtfulness of the
lodge members back home.
For instance, in Norfolk there
are several who are on a committee
recently nqmed, and these include
Gus Montague, Amos Daniels, W.
L. Montague, George Daniels, Wil
bur Daniels, Harry Hayman anl
many others, all former residents
of Wanchese.
In other cities where so many
coastland people congregate, other
lodge members will be asked to
serve.
This lodge is unusual in that of
its 200 members, many of them by
occupation are seamen or connected
with seafaring, or the Coast Guard
service, hence they are away from
home much of the time. Singularly
too, they are usually hospitalized
in institutions which serve these
occupations and they are easy to
find, and often several will be
found in the same place at the
same time.
MANTEO P.T.A. MEETING IS
MOVED UP FOR A DAY
Regular meeting of the Manteo
P.T-A. is to be held on January
25th instead of the 26th, due to
a hometown basketball game. At
an executive committee meeting
held Monday this week, plans
were set up by Chairman John
Long for a variety show to be
staged soon. On this committee
are Mrs. Arthur Fields, Mrs. Bet
ty Gibbs and Mn. McCoy Tillett.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1960
DENTIST AND LONG TIME PUBLIC SERVANT ROUNDS
OUT 45 YEARS PRACTICE IN BELHAVEN COMMUNITY
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WHEN Jan. 15th rolls up, Dr.
William T. Ralph will have com
pleted 45 years as a practicing
dentist in the town of Belhaven,
and he holds a record for public
service not exceeded by any other
person of his area. Although ha
was only 64 years old, the past
October, he has given a total of
55 years service to his community
and county, in public capacity. Os
course the terms of some of these
offices ran concurently, making it
possible to do several jobs at ones
but none of them paid salaries.
Dr. Ralph served 14 years in all
as Mayor, retiring last year with
out offering for re-election. He had
served an additional eight years as
Aiderman. He served <pn the Beau
fort County Boaid of Education for
15 years; and on the County Draft
Board for 12 years, during the lat-1
ter years being its chairman. He
served six years as a member of
the Belhaven Light and Water
Commission.
Aside from these responsibilities
which took much of his time, and
much of his money, he has served
in numerous other capacities. Ho
has served as President of the
Regional Dental Association of N.
C.; has served as Vice-president
and was the First President from
Beaufort County on its admission
to the six-county Southern Albe-I
marie Association. He has been]
active on committees and groups
I interested in improvement, of the
'section’s fisheries and agriculture,
waterways betterments and num
erous civic responsibilities.
I It was his contribution that gave
to Belhaven the Fannie Mebane
Ralph Memorial Library some ten
years ago; he was a large contribu
tor to the Pungo District Hospital,
and he has given generous assist
ance in hundreds of needy cases
which never came to the public eye.
Like all men who have followed
a long career in political office and
civic affairs he has met with op
ponents. But he has a long record
of winning the things on which he
set his heart, in his home com
munity. |
In other political affairs, he has
served many years as Precinct
Chairman on the Beaufort County
Democratic Executive Committee;
has represented Beaufort County
once as Delegate and once as Al
ternate at the National Democratic
conventions of 1952 and 1956, and
for many years as a regular dele
gate to state conventions and mem
bers of District commßtees.
Dr. Ralph was born in Chowan
County, and he came to Belhaven
to establish his office January 15,
1915 shortly after his graduation
from dental college in Atlanta. His
mother was from Tyrrell County
and he spent much of his boyhood
with relatives in Columbia.
In business life he has been
succesful. A friendly, helpful man,
he lives modestly, but some of his
neighbors believe he is a million
aire. He owns much Belhaven real
estate, timberiand which he
vests; and farmland which he
leases. Next October he will be 65.
He wants to slow up, and he is
looking for • young fellow who
will come to Belhaven to relieto
hint, and who can be expected to
stay • long time too.
NEW DIRECTORS OF
BANK OF MANTEO
ELECTED TUESDAY
Some Changes In Officers; New
Stockholders Recognized;
Gain In Resources
The Bank of Manteo added five
new directors at the annual meet
ing ' held < Tuesday. These are
Stanford White of Manns Har
bor; W. C. Foreman of Kill Devil
Hills, W. W. Tarkington, Wood
son B. Fearing and Maynard
Mangum of Manteo.
W. R. Pearce was re-elected
cashier, but Mr. Mangum was
named Assistant Cashier and Gen
eral Manager. H. A. Crees of
Manteo was re-elected President.
Other directors are Frank B.
Turner’ and Mrs. Turner of Ra
leigh, Martin Kellogg, Jr. and
W. R. Pearce of Manteo. The late
Mrs. Z. V. Brinkley, was chair
man of the board, but this place
was not filled. Mr. Turner is
Vice-President.
Reports showed improvement in
resources of the bank over the
same period a year ago.
OREGON INLET DREDGING
SCHEDULED IN FEBRUARY
WILMINGTON.—The dredging
of the new inside approach chan
nel at Oregon Inlet is scheduled
to get started in late February,'
the Corps of Engineers District
office here advises.
Col. R. P. Davidson, District
Engineer, reports that bids for the
dredging are scheduled to be open
ed here February 16 with the work
to begin within 30 days after re
ceipt of the notice to proceed is
issued. This procedure usually fol-'
lows the bid opening by only a
few days. Plans require that the
job be completed by June 15, 1960.
The dredging will involve about
662,000 cu. yds, and will be to a
depth of 12 feet to conform with
depths of connecting channels. I
Meanwhile, Colonel Davidson
said the dredging of the channels
from the inlet to Wanchese and
Manteo is about 75 per cent com
plete and, weather conditions per-,
matting, this project should be
finished by March 1.
The dredging of the bar chan-'
nel to 12 by 400 feet is planned
for the spring months with a
Corps of Engineers hopper dredge
doing the work.
CHURCH AT SCRANTON
HAS NATIVE SON PASTOR
A native North Carolinian is
now serving the Scranton, Swan
Quarter and Fairfield Churches
of Christ, Garland Bland, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Bland of
Robersonville. Mn. Bland was
1 formerly Miss Sallie Drewry of
Norfolk. They have one daughter,
Mary Teresa, age 12. The family
is now residing in ths Scranton
Church parsonage. Mr.’Bland will
preach at Scranton the first and
third Sunday in each month, at
Swan Quarter on second Sundays
anl at Fairfield on fourth Sun-
MISSING WORLD WAR II PLANE
SNAGGED AFTER 17 YEARS BY
FISH NET IN CROATAN SOUND
Manteo Citizen Loses $125 Net Where Many
Other Fishermen Have Lost Nets Off Roa
noke Marshes Lighthouse; Recovers Huge
Propeller Lost When Plane Disappeared De
cember 13, 1943 Enroute to Cherry Pt.
BEACH MEN PLEASED
OLD 158 IS TO
RETAIN IDENTITY
Highway Commission Announces
Decision to Number Roads
As Citizens Wish
Expresssions of gratitude have
gone to Director W. F. Babcock of
North Carolina Highways this week
for decision to retain the identity
of U.S. 158 which has served Nags
Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty
Hawk Beaches for 30 years. Mr.
Babcock, in a letter to Victor
Meekins, advised that the brief
submitted in favor of this plan had
been approved.
Old 158 will be numbered U.S.
158 Business and the new road re
cently completed to the west will
be numbered U.S. 158 By-pass.
Citizens and business people on
U.S. 158 in December appealed to
the commission against the plan to
number this road with a mere tag
carrying the symbols “1200.” They
feared that the loss of identity of
this long established road would
reduce its importance to tourists,
as a result of its loss of identity
on future road maps. This could
mean a tremendous loss in busi
ness from visitors who would find
themselves unknowingly routed
past the business on these beaches
they might wish to patronize.
It was shown to the Highway
Commission that on this older road
is nearly half the total property
valuation of, the area which yields
taxes to support Dare County.
Further, an estimated half of the
summer tourist business comes
from this road, with its many;
stores, service stations, hotels,
motels, several fishing piers and
amusement centers. The previous
plans of highway engineers con
cerning the numbering ad mark
ing of the two roads was there
fore universally considered a grave
economic threat.
1960 CENSUS WORK
UNDER SUPERVISION
OF JOHN R. BRINSON
All Counties Os First Congres
sional District Served From
Office in Washington
Establishment of a district of
fice for the 1960 Census of Popu
lation and Housing at the Post
Office Bldg., Washington, was an
nounced today by Director Joseph
R. Norwood of the Census Bureau’s
regional office at Charlotte. I
I John R. Brinson of Belhaven will
be supervisor of the district of
ifice. He will direct a force of 15
I crew leaders and 242 census takers
in the following counties: Beaufort,
Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare,
Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyr
rell and Washington.
Taking the 1960 Census national-'
ly will require the services of 160,-
000 enumerators, 10,000 crew lead
ers, and 400 district supervisors, all
temporary workers. The district
supervisors, working under the
general direction of the permanent
regional field directors, are re- r
sponsible for a phases of the cens-1
us in their districts. Duties of the
district supervisor include the re
cruiting of tiie crew leaders, ob
taining space for crew leader train
ing, recruiting and training a small
office staff, reviewing the com
pleted questionnaires, and direct
supervision of the field canvass
which begins on April 1.
Prior tn the start of the census,
all households will receive in the
mail an Advance Census Report
Form, a new census-taking device
which is designed tn speed up the
field canvass and provide more ac
curate statistics. Distribution of
this form, which contains the basic
population and housing questions,
gives the family chance to as
semble information about each
member in advance of the census
taker’s viaß.
VETERANS SERVICE OFFICER
AT BUXTON JANUARY 20
James M. Vannote, Veterans
Service Officer for Dare County,
will be at L C. Jennette’a Store
in Buxton on Wednesday, Janu
ary 20, about 10:30 a.m., and will
consult with veterans on any type
of veterans service.
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
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By AYCOCK BROWN
A shell encrusted airplane pro
pellor which William L. “Snooks” .
Tillett brought to the surface
from the bottom of Croatan
Sound near Roanoke Marshes
Light station recently may solve
the mystery of a military plane
which disappeared without leav
ing a trace enroute from Norfolk
to Cherry Point Marine Air Sta
tion during World War 11.
Tillett was dragging for crabs
when his net became fouled in the
propelled. Retrieving the propel
ler he brought it into port at
Wanchese when he unloaded his
crab catch at the Chief Wan
chese plant, and finally put in tha
yard of his home near Roanoke
Negro School.
Victor Meekins learned about
the propeller this week from L.
V. Gaskill, retired Coast Guard
officer in Wanchese. He was told
about the military plane which
had disappeared on its flight
from Norfolk to Cherry Point in
1942 or 43. Course of such a
flight could have been over the
area where the three-blade pro
pelor was found. One of the
blades was missing. The remain
der of the plane is believed to be
submerged on the spot as com
mercial fishermen frequently re
port that their nets snag on
something in that section.
Meekins telephoned Coast Guard
headquarters in Norfolk, but was
unable to get information on a
plane lost so long ago.
The propeller had obviously
been in the water for several
years, as indicated by the amount
of barnacle, oyster spat, mussels
and other crustaceans clinging to
the metal.
Ben Dixon Mac Neill, the dis
tinguished author of The Hat-
See PLANE, Page Four
HOW WELFARE CAN
BRING HAPPINESS;
HELP DESERVING
A Strong Appeal Made By Hyde
County Welfare Department
For Needy Causes
“I don’t want to stop school, I
want to graduate but my parents
liave seven other childrdn and they
can’t help me even though they
want to see me finish school. My
Dad hardy makes enough to feed
the family.” This statement was
made to the Superintendent of the
Hyde County Welfare Department,
by a girl who is in high school.
She swallowed her pride and ex
pressed the initiative to come and
ask for clothes and shoes to wear
in order that she might not bo
embarassed by her school mates.
The only thing this department
could do was to promise her that
we would make an appeal for help
not only for her but for the many
who are in school and wish to re
main there. We have many requests
such as this by persons who can
not qualify for the many services
given by the Welfare Department.
It usually comes from the parent
but the need is such now that the
children make an appeal for them
selves. Many come from families
whose parents work every day they
can but still make too little to
clothe the children in the family.
It takes it al for the food con
sumed and there is nothing left
for the school child but to con
tinue wearing the rags and trying
to conceal their humiliation.
About a year ago, the Hyde
County Welfare Department made
an appeal for clothing and shoes
to help the swelling tide of chil
dren. who remain out of school—■
violating a state law—because they
are barefooted and without the
needed clothing. Many children
leave home early and return late
and eat nothing between break
fast and supper. They can hide
their hunger but they can’t hide
their feelings of humiliation that
cornea from their having to wear
ill-fitting and ragged clothing and
shoes. We can do much to eliminate
this problem. Os the clothing and
shoes given last year to the Wel
fare Department, we were able to
issue 248 pieces of clothinar and
shoes to 90 persons. They would
not have had them if you had not
made it poseible through your wfll
ingness to help by giving. Many
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