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LOVING’S $2,848,758 BID FOR
LINDSAY WARREN BRIDGE
ON ALLIGATOR RIVER LOW
Nearly Half-Million Saving Under Estimates of
Engineers Tuesday as 14 Compete for Big
Project to Connect Dare and Tyrrell; Loving
Built Croatan Sound Bridge; To Be Named
For Former Congressman and State Senator.
The bid of T. A. Loving Co., of
Goldsboro Tuesday of $2,848,758
for the building of the bridge over
Alligator River, was the lowest re
ceived by the State Highway Com
rncßsion. The Loving Company
built the Croatan Sound bridge,
completed in 1955. The new bridge,
on which work will begin soon,
■will connect Dare and Tyrrell
Counties and has been officially
named tho Lindsay Warren bridge,
honoring a present State Senator,
former Congressman and Comp
troller General.
Some 15 contractors, including
out of state firms bid on the job,
the low figure being $410,-
000 under estimates of engi
neers. The low bid of $130,-
380 for the approach on
the Dare County side was sub
mitted by Hodges Dredging Corp.,
of New Bern. Entry to this road
will be some 1,800 feet north from
East Lake postoffice. The bridge
wtßl be three miles long, and its
Tyrrell end will be 100 feet west
of the Sandy Point ferry’ landing.
The project was announced in
April and is the culmination of 25
years of effort on the part of hun
<lreds of people in Eastern North
Carolina. Mr. Warren lias long
been a strong advocate for a toll
free bridge at this point, and he
led a united delegation of legisla
tors this year in its behalf. By
popular request, the Highway Com-
See BRIDGE, Page Four
COUNTY BOARD AUTHORIZES
REPAIRS TO COURTHOUSE
Petition A»ks for Establishment of Hos
pital Voting District on Hatteras
island; Boat and Drainage
Ditch Problems Up
What started off as a $24 dam
age to the roof of the courthouse
in a hurricane three years ago,
but which was neglected, wound
up this week in the Board of Com
missoners having to let a $1,222.-
30 job of rebuilding one side of the
roof, to R. O. Ballance, the low
bidder. Next low bid was $1,500.
It was also noted that the new
jail has a leaky roof, which was
never repaired. This is in line with
negtect generally accorded county
pronerty, as witness the flooding
of the auditorium of the Manteo
High school on the week end with
much damage to floors.
A petition was presented the
County Board, signed by 315 citi
zens of Hatteras Island, asking the
entire area be bet up as a hospital
district, preparatory to voting a
bond issue fcr the erection of a
health center at Buxton to replace
the present building, the former
Navy station. This petition is be
ing forwarded to the Medical Care
Corn. l , mission in Raleigh.
The Board heard a request from
the Rodanthe area that the old
community drainage ditch be re
opened, a project which will cost
$609 to SBOO, and th it it be in
cluded in mosquito drainage pro
gram. It will be brought up at the
Matrdh meeting.
Wallace R. Gray, attorney,
brought a petition signed by 121
Manns Harbor citizens, seeking
the help of the Board in- estab
lishing certain rights, in the Manns
Harbor canal built'by the county
some 35 years ago, and maintain
ed by county funds from time to
time. This matter was referred to
a committee for investigation.
Mutters discussed by the Board
but which were not brought to
formal action was a favorable
opinion on behalf of better con
servation and protection of public
ojtitor grounds; the instruction to
the County Attorney to start fore
closure proceedings- against prop
erty owners to force them to pay
delinquent taxes, and the amount
of the fee to be paid the attorney.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST RIFLES
BEGUN IN BELHAVEN
Great damage and danger from
air rifles and other types of Ju
venile weapons has resulted in a
rash of complaints to the Belhaven
town Board and the Board is ap
pealing so the citizens to cooperate
in controlling the carelessness of
youthful people with rifles and un
less held in check, more tragedy
will result. The situation is more
or less the same in all communities,
and Christmas gift guns have had
a lot to do with it during Janu-
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
NAGS HEAD FOX
HUNT ON WEEKEND
AT NAGS HEAD
NAGS HEAD.—Twelfth annual
Nag Head Valentine Season Fox
Hunt will be held during the cur
rent week end beginning Febru
ary 3 and continuing through
February 6. A hundred or more
hounds representing fox chasing
packs of owners in Oxford and
othei- East Carolina towns will ar
rive late Wednesday to begin
hunting, probably in the Bodie
Island sector on the first day, on
Thursday morning.
The hunts are held each year
under the sponsorship of The Car
olinian Hotel. Through the years
the annual Valentine Season clas
sics have attracted fox hunters
from many states and on occa
sions from England.
Chandler Watkins of Oxford is
scheduled to become master of
the hunt succeeding his brother,
the late John Ray Watkins who
was hunt master at the Nags
Head hunts since they were first
inaugurated. John Ray Watkins
died about six weeks ago in Ox
ford.
When first established the
hounds were usually followed
across the marshes or dune lands
by hunters aboard jeeps. Today
conventional automobiles can be
conveniently used by the hunters
as paved roads lead into all the
sectors where foxes are chased
whether on Bodie Island, in the
Nags Head Woods sector or on
Colington Island.
DARE COUNTY MAN HEAD
OF NORFOLK DETECTIVES
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ROXEY CURLES, Captain of De
tectives, is another Dare County
boy who has worked his- way up
in the ranks and .becortie top man
in his Department. The command
ing officer of the Norfolk City De
tective Bureau was born on Coling
ton Island and moved to Norfolk
with his parents during his boy
hood. He has been commanding of
ficer of the Bureau since June 29,
1959.
He joined the force Jan. 11, 1936
and worked his way up through
the grados. He has served in the
detective bureau 20 years.
Several of his relatives remain
in Dare, land Lower Currituck
Counties as well as in Elizabeth
City. His parents are Silas L. and
Femelia A. Curies who live with
him on 9520 Warwick Ave., Nor
folk. He was 52 years old on Jan.
28.
POLICE OFFICERS NAMED
BY K. D. HILLS BOARD
The Kill Devil Hills town board
Tuesday night filled the vacancies
for Policeman and Street and
Building Inspector by naming
Thos. M. Dowdy Chief of Police
at S2OO per month, and Avery Til
lett for the last named duties in
cluding part time police work, at
a total salary in the same amount.
In splitting up the jobs, the town
budget will show an increase of
about S6OO a year. The new men
will go on duty Fdb. 15. They re
place Jack W. Ballance who re
signed last month.
The town expects to get more in
return for the new arrangement,
whereby the Street Superintendent
will be a working one, and will
operate the motor-grader. Thia ex
pense is part of the Powell Bill
KITTY HAWK MAN RETIRES
SETTLES DOWN AT HOME
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THOMAS M. DOWDY, at the age
of 42 has settled down at home
after retirement from the U. S.
Coast Guard where he had a varied
and interesting career. He was
bom at Kitty Hawk, the son of
Capt Ivey Dowdy and the late
Elinora Dowdy. He graduated from
his home high school, where he was
captain of the basketball team. He
did some boxing in his last year
in high school, and in the Coast
Guard, where he enlisted Sept. 8,
1939. After nearly two years he
was rated chief machinist mate,
and for ten years served on sea
going ships, and in World War II
served on convoy ships from Nor
folk to North Africa.
His seagoing duty included serv
ice on the Cutter Mendota, and
other cutters, including ice-patrol
and weather cutters. In 1941 he
graduated from diesel and engine
school; went to Washington, D. C.
in 1947 and graduated as a criminal
investigator. In 1950 he went to
Jekyll Island, Ga., and attended the
Treasury Department investigation
' and law school and graduated as
a criminal investigator land law en
■ forccment officer in which capaci
’ ties he served for eight years. Dur-
I ing his last year in service he was
on the Nantucket Lightship, Bos
ton, Mass.
Since liis retirement in Novem
ber last ,he has maintained ms
usual busy pace, being employed
with the Hunt Construction Co., at
Kill Devil Hills, and selling auto
mobiles during his spare time. He
is a member of Fort Raleigh
American Legion post, No. 26,
Manteo.
HIGH SEAS UNDERMINE
KITTY HAWK COTTAGE
Trawler Grounded in Oregon Inlet Shal
lows But Saved Without Great
Damage Tuesday
A Kitty Hawk beachside cot
tage owned by Robert Graham of
Hampton, Va., was believed to be
damaged beyond repair as a re
sult of high seas 'and ■winds of
the week end northeaster. One
resident of the area where the
damage occurred estimated Gra
ham’s loss to the house, its furni
ture and the seawall was approx
imately $15,000.
Two other cottages in the im
mediate vicinity were also dam-
I aged by the tides, seas and wind.
One of these cottages was owned i
by Gus Pappas' of Ahoskie, the
other by Edwin Pearce, Edenton
and Kenneth Morton, Hertford.
( Some of the low-lying high
ways between Kitty Hawk and
Hatteras were covered by tides
during the storm. In some sections
blowing sands covered sections of
the roads.
Only maritime disaster report
ed during the northeaster was the
grounding of the trawler Nancy
Jean owned by W. Harvey Cox
and Gordon Meekins of Engel
hard. The vessel went ashore on
a shoal inside the inlet on Sun
day. Capt. Meekins, one of the
owners and a two man crew were
aboard at the time. Oregon Inlet
Coast Guard and other trawlers
in the area were successful in re
floating the 70 foot Nancy Jean,
on Tuesday afternoon at 1:45
o’clock.
HEART FUND DRIVE IN
HYDE COUNTY UNDERWAY
The Heart Fund Drive for Hyde
County began Feb. Ist, and will
reach its climax on Heart Sunday,
Feb. 28 when a number of volun
teers in each community will con
duct a house-to-house canvass for
contributions. The Heart Fund
Drive supports the Heart Associ
ations research, education, and
community service programs.
The following are area chair
men: Mrs. Lydia Stowe, Ponzer;
Mrs. Gaston Sculler, Scranton; Mrs.
B. W. Williams, Swan Quarter,
Mrs. Odessa Jarvis, Engelhard;
Mrs. T. V. Jones, Fairfield; and
Mrs. Jack Willis, Ocracoke.
Mrs. A. B. Hanis of Fairfield
is county chairman and CL J. Ca
hoon of Swan Quarter is Treas
urer.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1960
HOMECOMING FOR
FOUR COASTLAND
COUNTIES NEXT
All Clubs Asked to Send Dele
gates to Meeting in Manteo
on Feb. 29th
The Manteo Rotary Club on
Monday night endorsed the pro
posal for a four-county homecom
ing, this summer to enable form
er residents to return and enjoy
the variety of events scheduled on
’his coast. Rotary President Julian
Oneto has named the following
committee from the Rotary Club to
aasist this project: Julian Oneto,
Bill Merritt, Lawrence Swain, Mar
tin Kellogg, Jr., Gordon Kellogg,
W. R. Pearce, W. R. Gray, D. V.
Meekins, R. D. Sawyer, Aycock
Brown.
Letters are going out from the
COASTLAND HOMECOMING
Committee to School Principals
and Superintendents in the coun
ties of Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell and
Currituck, to all Civic and Home
Clubs to appoint a community or
township chairman to attend the
meeting in Manteo at the Com
munity Building 7:30 p.m., Feb
ruary 29th.
Os particular interest to Dare
County people is that this celebra
tion will be 90th annhersary of
the founding of Dare County from
parts of the other three counties
in 1870.
At the Feb. 29 th meeting a
permanent general chairman will be
named. Each county will select its
own chairman and plan its own
attractions. Various communities
which have meeting places may
have programs welcoming their
visitors.
Invitations will be mailed to
many thousand former residents
whose names are made available
to the committee. The several
county committees will he request
ed to receive names and addresses
of persons to be invited to the
numerous communities in the four-
See HOMECOMING, Page Four
MARY CHARLES WHITE
MONTH'S HONOR STUDENT
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MARY CHARLES WHITE has been
named Student of the Month for
Manteo High School. Mary Charles
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Erwin White of Manteo.
She is fourteen years old and in
I the n:n h grade. In b >r school life
he is president of ..the freshman
class, a member of the Student
Council, a member of the basket
ball team, and a member of the
Science Club. In community activi
ties. she sings in the Mt. Olivet
Methodist Church choir and is an
officer in the 4-H County Council. .
Mary Charles’s name is always on
the list of honor students for Man
teo High School. ,
DANGER FEARED FROM
ERECTION OF HIGH
POLE BY SHERIFF
A plan to erect a discarded fir
nole 102 feet loiig. from the Navy
installation near Duck, on the nar
row strip of courthouse land along
side the Sheriffs office in Man
teo has aroused considerable op
position. The sheriff wants it to
install a radio antenna, but neigh
boring property owners fear the
pole will have danger in it, for it
will have no guy wires, and can
threaten heavy damage in a storm.
Other citizens say its black un
sightliness will be a disgrace to the
town and county. No authority has
been granted by the County Board, 1
and the subject has not been
brought before the Board but it
is reported the Sheriff had made
his requests individually to three
Bdard member*, namely from At- 1
lantic, Hatteras and Croatan Town
ships, and got their individual
agreements ft‘would be all right
A contract was made with a Wan
chese dragline firm to erect the i
pole for $lB5, but there is no esti
mate of the total cost of installa
tion. It would hate no supports, i
but merely stock in the ground |
with some concrete poured around I
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MacNEILL AND SANFORD THE CANDIDATE, BOTH
LAURINBURG NATIVES MEET IN MANTEO
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When Terry Sanford held a meeting in Manteo some weeks ago,
to let folks know he was running for Governor, on hand to greet him
was Ben Dixon Mac Neill of Buxton, who is also a native of Laurin
burg. Mr. Mac Neill is now in Kecoughtan, Va., Hospital, having been
flown there Tuesday, while Mr. Sanford is continuing his campaign.
Terry Sanford formally an
nounced in Fayetteville Thursday
that he is campaigning to become
North Carolina’s next Governor.
“There is a new day in North
Carolina, with new challenges and
new opportunities for a program
for progress,” he said in announc
ing his intentions. “We will, work
ing together, make the most of
these opportunities.”
Sanford spoke from a bunting
covered platform erected at
Fayetteville’s historic Market
House. His statement was the
highlight in a noon-time celebration
of “Terry Sanford Day” in the
Cumberland county seat.
'"‘The dominant need of the peo
‘ple of North Carolina is to pro-
I vide tire boys and girls of this
state with a higher standard of
educational opportunity,” he added,
setting his campaign theme.
Sanford, 42, is a Fayetteville at
torney and has long been in poli
tics. He has been a State Senator,
a Democratic National Convention
delegate, was president of the
North Carolina Young Democratic
Clubs, and managed W. Kerr
Scott’s campaign for the United
States Senate.
He is prominent in affairs of the
Methodist Church and chairman of
the Board of Trustees qf the Meth
odist College being developed at
Fayetteville. He has been a Dis
trict Lay Leader and was a dele
gate to the 1953 General Confer
ence of tire Methodist Church.
Sanford was a member of the
[State Ports Authority, in 1950-53,
when the Morehead City and Wil
mington port faculties were built,
and is a director of the Fayette
ville Area Industrial Development
Corn.
He was bom and raised in Laur
inburg, where his mother is a
school teacher. He attended Pres
terinn Junior College and was
graduated from the University of
North Carolina, and from the
University’s law school. Ee worked
his way through college; he had
a newspaper route, was a bus boy
in Swain Halil, was a dormitory
manager.
He was in the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, as a Special Agent,
in 1941-42, and was assigned to
help hunt for Roger Touhy, the
notorious Chicago gangster who
recently was ambushed and mur
dered just after being released
from prison.
Terry resigned from the FBI to
become a paratrooper in World
War 11. He was in combat in five
European campaigns.
Terry is maried to the former
Margaret Rose Knight, of Hopkins
ville, Ky. She had been a co-ed at
Chapel Hill and was a school teach
er. They have two children, Betsy,
11, and Terry, seven.
CONGRESSMAN BONNER FILES
IN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
Rep. Herbert C. Bonner this
week paid his $225 filing fee to
the State Board of Elections and
thereby filed his intention to run
for re-election. Mr. Bonner, rep
resenting the 14 counties of the
First Congressional District, has
served ably in Congress since 1940,
prior to which time he was for
15 years a congressional secretary.
He now heads one of the moat im
portant of the 18 house commit
tees, and enjoys strong prestige in
the Capitol.
NEW HEAD OF ENGELHARD
P.LA. FOR THE YEAR 1960
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MRS. ELSIE BERRY has been
chosen head of the Engelhard PTA
for 1960 and the public is invited
to attend the meeting of the PTA
to be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Engel
hard High School Auditorium. Mrs.
Berry hlas proved a wise and ef
ficient PTA leader. Great progress
. is anticipated under her leader
ship this year. Her duties include
the planning of study courses, and
appointing all committees from the
Goal sheet, which enumerates the
requirements to be met by local [
PTA’s aspiring to meet the stand-1
ai-d for top rank. The president
■ must see that these reports from
committees are completed and
forwarded to headquarters on
schedule. Mrs. Beny is an active
churdh member, Sunday school
teacher, and a member of several
community clubs. Beaman Bern-,
her husband, is one of the com
mum tv’s progressive young farm
ers. With their three children, Fer
rell, Pamela and Gregory, they re
side on Lazy Lane just out of
Engelhard.
STRIPED BASS
BY THE TONS
TAKEN IN NETS
Bv AYCOCK BROWN
BUXTON—Some 30 tons of
striped bass, were caught in nets
in Hatteras Island surf during the
Txist week end. It was one of’the
biggest catches for the species on
the Dare Coast in many years?
Several commercial fishing crews
shared in the catches which began
during a northeaster Friday and
continued through Saturday, in
cluding Roy Gray, William Foster,
Zack Austin, Tine Willis and
others. Names of Nags Head com
mercial crews reported making
heavy catches could not be learned
immediately, although one of the
outfits was using an amphibious
DUKW to assist in making the
hauls.
“The fish weighed from 20 to
60 pounds,” said Rany Jennette
operator of a gasoline station here
who is an official weighmaster for
game fish taken by anglers.
“I halve not heard of any striped
bass being caught by anglers dur
ing the past week end,” Jennette
added.
The commercial fishermen re
portedly received 25 cents per
pound for their striped bass. Most
of the bass were heavily laden with
roe, an Indication that they were
on their way to spawning waters.
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ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
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RED CROSS WORK
BLOOD PROGRAM
BEING REVIVED
Chairman Ralph Davis Reports on
Red Cross in Dare; Boyd
Taylor on Blood Program
Ralph Davis, Chairman, Dare
County Red Cross Chapter, in re
porting on last week’s special meet
:ng with Red Cross officials and
'ocal supporters, gives an encour
aging outlook on several projects
cheduled for 1960. Uppermost on
’•he agenda at this meeting Was
’he subject of the County’s need
for participation in the Blood Pro
gram made possible through a
regular plan offered by Red Cross.
Davis reports an active interest
expressed by those present. “In
fact”, Davis said, “it was really
'ike a new transfusion to have, a
new-comer to our town and com
munity to volunteer to serve as
Chairman of the Blood Program.
Floyd B. Taylor, Assistant Super
intendent, Cape Hatteras Natioonal
Seahore, a resident of Manteo since
last April, expressed considerable
interest in the Blood Program dur
ing open discussion, and when I
asked for a Chairman he offered
his services.” Mr. Davis pointed
out the great need for an active
blood program in Dare County, and
indicated that a lot of preliminary
work is necessary even before Red
Cross will honor an application to
enter their participating program.
Other items of importance han
dled at this meeting included the
definite confirmation of a 5-day,
30-hour Water Safety Program,
See RED CROSS, Page Four
LADIES NIGHT FOR
ROTARY CLUB ON
MONDAY, FEB. 8
Manteo Club Celebrates 23rd
Anniversary At Caro
linian
On Monday night, February 8 at
7:00 p.m. the Manteo Rotary Club
will hold an anniversary dinner at
the Carolinian Hotel, with members
and their wives or guests in at
tendance.
President Julian Oneto an
nounced this week that the Ladies
Night and Anniversary Committee
headed by Wallace McCown, Dick
Jordan, Gordon Kellogg and John
ny Long, had prepared an interest
ing program for the spacial oc
casion.
The speaker for the evening as
guest of the club is Stavros Steph
anokos, Athens, Greece, the Dis
trict 771, exchange student study
ing at N.C. State College, who
will emphasize the International
Aspects of Rotary’s Service, and
the Vocational Service rendered by
the exchange of students from one
county to another for study on the
college level.
Special recognition will be given
to Charter members of the club,
and a review of the accomplish
ments and challenges of the Man
teo Rotary Club will be presented
by Martin Kellogg, Jr.
The Rotary Quartet, most of
whom are boarded in readiness for
the Pirate’s Jamboree, will also
render some musical numbers.
The Charter Night for Manteo
Rotary Club was held 23 years ago,
at which time the Elizabeth City
Rotary Club, headed by S. Wade
Marr, sponsored the formation of
the Manteo club. The club presently
has a membership of twenty eight
members, and the highlight of its
23rd year will be the District Con
ference at Manteo and Nags Head,
to be held May 13th and 14th, with
the Manteo Club as Host to the
more than thirty clubs forming
District 771, from Raleigh to Man
teo.
DARE REPUBLICANS MEET
IN CONVENTION JAN. 30
Dare County Republicans held a
convention in the courthouse in •
Manteo Saturday evening, Jan. 30,
and despite bad weather, had the
largest attendance in many years.
Chairman L. V. Gaskill of Wan
chese said he was well pleased that
as many of 25 members of the
faithful, some from distant parts
of the county attended, and plans
were made to send a delegate to
the State Convention in Raleigh
on February 27. There is a proba
bility that the Republicans will
put one or more candidates in the
county race this year, the party
being encouraged by the State and
National election situation to create
more interest.
EASTERN STAR TO GIVE
ANNUAL DINNER FEBRUARY*
Roanoke Island Chapter No. 79
Order of the Eastern Star will give
its annual dinner for the Masons
and their wives at seven o’clock on
February « in the Manteo lunch
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