SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOL XXV NO. 32 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 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 it ' "* 1 MacNEILL AND SANFORD THE CANDIDATE, BOTH LAURINBURG NATIVES MEET IN MANTEO I i »• s / y 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 r: ■ J 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. / MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 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 roonu