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HOPE GLEAMS AGAIN FOR
ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW
HATTERAS HEALTH CENTER
Confidence Restored in Project To Provide
Modern Facilities By Levy of Small Tax on
the District; Citizens and Officials Hear Out
line of Methods by Medical Care Official
Monday.
A glimmer of hope for a small
hospital or clinic of four to six
beds on Hatteras Island came out
of a meeting Monday held at
Cape Hatteras Court, which was
attended by a few of the trustees
of the Cape Hatteras Health Cen
ter and the entire County Board
of Commissioners.
In attendance at this meeting
and leading the discussion with
valuable information was William
F. Henderson of Raleigh, Execu
tive Secretary of the N. C. Medi
cal Care Commission, who looks
with compassion on the need for
such a facility as is contem
plated at Hatteras.
Representing the 12 or 15
trustees of the Cape Hatteras
Health Center were Asa H. Gray
of Waves, J. C. Morgan of Rod
anthe, Shelley Frontis, William
Gibson, Mrs. Leola Rollinson, Mrs.
Blanche Midgett, John L. Austin,
Julian L. Austin. Also attending
were Melvin B. Midgett, of the
Coast Guard; Lt. F. D. Platt of
the Navy; Dr. T. C. Suther, resi
dent Public Health physician, and
: Jess Stamey of the National Park
Service.
Previously, a petition signed by
several hundred citizens of Hat
teras Island had been sent to Ra
leigh in which it was asked that
the Island be st up as a Hospital
District. This would enable the
citizens to vote on issues to be
submitted, whether the island
should be bonded for funds to
build a hospital, or to levy a tax
merely to guarantee the operation
of one.
But Mr. Henderson explained
that his Commission could not be
in position to consider the sub
ject before their June meeting;
or to call a public hearing until
the Trustees themselves could
provide some definite program of
what they were asking for.
Should the Commission in Raleigh,
consider it advisable, the next
step would be to advertise a pub
lic hearing to be held on Hatteras
Island, which would be duly ad
vertised, whereby all citizens in
terested might come out and ex
press their wishes.
Should it be determined that
the district should be established,
then an election would be ordered
to vote on any project that might
by then have been adopted as best
suited to the needs of the area.
While Mr. Henderson was not
able to make any committments
for the Commission, he said its
technical and advisory services
would be available on a prelimi
nary basis when requested by the
people of the Island. Some of the
things necessary to determine, is
the size of the site, the cost of
the building; how it shall be fi-l
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THOSE WHO HAVE FILED
FOR DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
The list who have filed for of
fice in the Primary on May 28th,
in Dare County is as follows:
R. Bruce Etheridge, incumbent
for Representative.
Lindsay C. Warren, incumbent,
Dick O’Neal of New Holland and
P. D. Midgett, Jr., of Engelhard
for State Senate.
Flay Kemp of Manns Harbor and
Floyd Hooper incumbent of Stumpy
Point, to represent the Mainland
District on the Board of Educa
tion.
Charles T. Williams, 111, incum
bent, for Board of Education for
Kennekeet Township.
Shelley Frontis, incumbent, for
Board of Education from Hatteras
Township.
Victor Meekins, incumbent and
Lawrence Swain of Manteo for
County Commissioner from Nags
Head Township. Also D. L. Hay
man of Nags Head.
David Stick, incumbent and T. J.
(Jepp) Harris of Kitty Hawk for
County, Commissioner, Atlantic
Township.
' Horace Hooper of Stumpy Point,
incumbent, and Ira Spencer of
Manns Harbor for Commissiondr,
Mainland District of Dare County.
On (he Republican ticket, Daniel
W. Burgess of Stumpy Point has
filed for this office.
George R. Fuller, Jr., incumbent
for County Commissioner of Hat
teras Township.
Woodrow W. Edwards, incum
bent of Wares, and Fred Gray,
Jr., of Avon, for. County Com
misafoner, Kennetoeet Township.
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P. D. MIDGETT, Jr., church and
civic leader of Engelhard in Hyde
County has filed for one of the
Senate seats from the Second Dis
trict and this week said he will
make an active campaign of all
seven counties. Mr. Midgett, a son
|of the late Peleg D. and Mattie
(Midgett of Wanchese, grew up on
Roanoke Island, was educated at
Duke, taught school at Hatteras,
a season before entering the elec
tric power business and some 25
years ago established the electri
cal system which serves Hyde
County and mainland of Dare
County’. During this period he has
devoted much of his time to civic
affairs, having organized the Ro
tary Club in Engelhard and server!
as its president, and has also been
District Governor of Rotary. He
was an organizer of the Southern
I Albemarle Association and has
served it both as Vice-President
and President; He is a Mason and
a Methodist, and teacher of the
Men’s Bible Class; a director of
the Business Development Corp., of
N. C.; a director of the East Caro
lina Bank; a director and member
of the Conference of Ameri
can Organizations of Small
Business of Chicago, 111. He
served as chairman of tire
Shellfish Committee appointed by
Governor Cherry, and which formu
lated such protective laws for the
state’s oyster resources as are now
on the books.
I Other candidates for the Senate
from the Second District are
Lindsay C. Warren of Washington,
now an incumbent, and Dick O’Neal
of New Holland, the Hyde County
representative for two terms.
DARE BOARD TO
I CLEAN MESS MADE
BY GARBAGE MAN
Hatteras Citizens Make Vigorous
Protest Against Piles of Ref
use, Rats and Ries
At the opening of the Board of
Commissioners’ meeting at Cape
Hatteras Monday, a summary
was given concerning the amount
of county aid now being given
’ various functions on the island,
I which amounts to some $40,000 a
year. It was at this meeting
which the contention over the
. garbage nuisance at Hatteras
I was forcefully brought before the
Board by indignant citizens, who
objected to all the trash and gar
bage in the township being de
posited near the village of Hat
teras.
This they said created a nui
sance, due to rats, flies odor and
unsightliness. They asked the
help of the Board to stop the
; situation. The garbage was haul
ed there by a man paid by the
county, yet the county Board
voted to give SSOO to someone to
clean it up, and burn it up.
It was brought out at the meet
ing that many citizens had also
deposited garbage in the same
spot. It was also learned that the
; garbage man had been working to
suit himself, and there was com
-1 plaint about the quality of the
service. For some years, the
county has been sending a check
1 for S2OO a month, without any
specifications whatever as to just
'• what the man ought to do in re
turn for this money. In future,
it is proposed that the garbage
' disposal be let by contract, with
. complete specifications, as is the
requirement in the north end of
Dare County.
DISCUSS PLANS FOR ALL SEASHORE MEETING APR. 18
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SHOWN HERE are Joe Dubois, Secretary of the All Seashore High
way Association and Stanley Wahab at Ocracoke discussing plans
for the annual meeting of the Association to be held at the Ocra
coke Hotel at noon on Monday, April 18th. Mr. Wahab is one of the
earlier presidents of the Association which is currently headed by
Major J. L. Murphy of Kill Devil Hills. The group has steadily
plugged for an ocean highway from Virginia Beach to the South
Carolina line—one that will follow the ocean. Vice-Presidents- are
Glenn Tucker of Carolina Beach and Wayland Sermons, Representa
tive of Beaufort County. At the April 18th meeting officers will be
elected.—Aycock Brown photo.
ALL-SEASHORE MEETING
AT OCRACOKE MONDAY
Two Hour Annual Convention to Be
Held Aboard New Ferry; Elec
tion of Officer*
Annual Meeting and election of
officers wiU be held aboard the
Sea Level-Atlantic-Ocracoke Ferry
on Monday, April 18, while the Fer
ry is docked at Ocracoke, from
12:00 Noon *til 2:00 p.m., Joe Du-
Bois, the Secretary advises.
Those coming from the South and
Southeast, will board the Ferry in
Atlantic, N. C., at 8:00 a.m. The
Ferry leaves Ocracoke by noon.
Because of the uncertainty of the
number of people who will attend,
it was deemed advisable to eat
sandwiches, hotdogs and coffee
aboard the Ferry, Where there is
ample room to seat around 75 for
our meeting. Those coming on the
Ferry will most likely get hungry
and eat before noon.
If you are taking the Ferry in
Atlantic, and intend to return the
same way, you may leave your car
there, or take your car through and
get acquainted with your Dare
County, Hyde and Currituck neigh
bors.
The one-way fare is $2.75 per
adult passenger, $6.75 per car and
driver, and $1.38 per child under
12.
CITIZENS MEET
WITH TOWN BOARD
OF BELHAVEN
Request Repeated For Sewerage
in West Belhaven; New Sur
vey Agreed Upon
A group of citizens from West
Belhaven attended a meeting of the
Light and Water Commission in
the Mayor’s office on Wedneday
night, to repeat a request made to
the Town Board on Monday night
for sewerage in West Belhaven.
Eddie Voliva presided; Dr. J. T.
Wright and L. R. Smith were both
in attendence, as was Mayor James
Younce and alderman C. B. Till
man, C. R. Potter, 0. H. Johnston,
W. R. Edwards and clerk J. Harold
Lupton.
Mrs. Jesse Keech, spokesman for
the citizen’s group, asked why
nothing had been done about sew
erage for this particular neighbor
hood despite repeated request by
the citizens over a period of years.
Mr. Voliva brought the group up to
date on proceedings, he explained
that a survey which is necessary
before such a project can proceed,
was made by Carl Mengel of the
Olsen Engineering Co., of Raleigh.
A contract was drawn and sent to
the Town Officials for approval
and signing. At the next meeting
of the Board of Aidermen four
members voted to accept the con
tract. Mayor Younce and C. R.
Potter were not present at this time.
At a later date, when the contract
was examined by Mr. Younce and
Mr. Potter, they felt they could
not go along with such a con
tract, and asked the board to re
consider. Realizing the great re
sponsibility of handling a project
that would cost the tax payers
more than $60,000, they voted not
to accept the contract.
The Town has been advised that
a sewerage disposal plant for Bel
haven is a must in the future;
therefore the survey must present
a plan that will tie in with this.
Mayor Younce requested the clerk
to read the contract that was tun
ed down, ho did sad the group pres
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MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1960
STANLEY WAHAB RUNS
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
R. Stanley Wahab of Ocracoke
Island this week filed in the Dem
ocratic Primary for Representa
tive of Hyde County, following re
quests from numerous prominent
citizens of the Island and the
Mainland.
A native of Hyde County, Mr.
Wahab is widely known through
North Carolina and is recognized
for his ability and his long public>
service, and particularly for Ocra
coke Island where he had aided
numerous improvements.
He initiated the establishment
of an electric power plant on Oc
racoke; the construction of com
munity roads during the Scott
administration; the building of a
highway to Hatteras Inlet, s and
has worked* for the ferry service
now connecting the island with
its neighboring communities. He
is a former President of the
All-Seashore Highway Association,
is a large property owner and
taxpayer and a liberal supporter
of all civic projects.
Mr. Wahab believes that with
proper leadership, there is a
splendid new day ahead for all
of Hyde County. He has always
worked for better harbors in
eastern North Carolina; has a
sympathetic interest in the prob
lems of oystermen, fishermen and
farmers. He believes in more
state aid for these important in
dustries.
During the coming weeks he
expects to visit all areas of Hyde
County and hear the views of the
people and acquaint them with
his program for Progress through
out Hyde County.
JAIL REQUESTED
FOR HATTERAS BY
HIGHWAY PATROL
Finding the Money May Depend
on Voting a Bond Issue For
General Purpose Bldg.
Leading a request for construc
tion of a jail at Buxton on Mon
day, before the Dare County Com
missioners, was Captain Sam
Mitchell of the State Highway
Patrol, who attended in company
with Lt Frank Kennerly, Sgt.
Logan Lane and Cpl. D. S. Skiles.
It was pointed out that a lock-up
would be invaluable to enforcing
traffic laws, and an assurance to
visitors of safety on the roads.
The estimated cost of an ade
quate building would be about
SIO,OOO. It would serve as an of
fice for the Patrolman assigned
i to the island, who has been doing
a good job enforcing traffic laws,
according to statements made at
the meeting.
The Board expressed full sym
pathy with the need for such
building, but it was pointed out
that in view of the large amount
of county funds now going to the
island, some three dollars for ev
ery one in taxes paid, and in the
absence of any law permitting
the taxing of other parts of the
county, it might be necessary to
hold an election for this purpose,
so that a bond issue or a tax levy
could be authorized by the people
to pay for the jail.
The importance of having a
Deputy Clerk of the Court at
Buxton was brought to the at
tention of the Board and promise
was given to try to get one at
an early date, if one could be
found willing to serve.
INLET DREDGING
CONTRACT $25,000
APPROVED THURS.
Work Must Begin In 20 Days
From Execution; 45 Days to
Finish Job
The contract was let Thursday
to Cottrell Contracting Corp., of
Norfolk for $25,000 calling for the
removal of 40,000 cubic yards of
sand from the ferry channel at
Oregon Inlet, according to a tele
phone statement made by C. W.
Lee, Chief Highway Engineer in
Raleigh, to Victor Meekins in Man
teo Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Lee said the work must start
within 20 days after contract is
executed. A proposal some two
weeks ago to do the job while put
ting the sand ashore was rejected
as too high. It was for SBO,OOO. The
sand under the new contract will
be deposited nearby. Mr. Lee said
the contractor will have a 45 day
period in which to complete the
work.
The figure of $25,000, coincident
ally is the estimate that Victor
Meekins gave Governor Hodges in
December when a desperate appeal
was made to do something urgent
in order to save a situation which
through the intervening months
has been extremely costly to the
economy of the region. Governor
Hodges expressed a willingness to
do the job, and highway engineers
went out of the way to discredit
the need for the work, so that the
Highway Commmission all but dis
missed the project. Meekins said
it was the most shameful circum
stance he had ever known on the
part of Highway officials. Reports
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FORMER HYDE AUDITOR
COMES OUT FOR HOUSE
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DICK LUPTON, well known Swan
Quarter farmer and businessman,
former County auditor, and a lead
er in fraternal and civic circles,
has come out for a Representative
of Hyde County and promises a
vigorous campaign. Heavily backed
by anti-administration forces, he
has made strong gains in the east
ern end of the county.
NOON FRIDAY THE LAST
DAY TO FILE FOR AN
OFFICE IN THE COUNTY
At noon, Friday, (today) 15th
is the last time a candidate may
file for public office in the coun
ty. In order to file, one must
sign a blank, and pay a fee. For
Board of Commissioners, the fee
is $10; for Board of Education $5.
For other offices the fee is based
on the salary of the office.
It’s a fine opportunity for
everybody who wants to have a
good time to run for office this
year. Weather is beautiful; it’s
been a poor commercial fishing
season. The Casino seaon hasn’t
opened yet, and a little diversion
is needed. Besides, the election
fund is in the hole, and the fees
will help pay the bills.
BOARD TO HEAR COMPLAINTS
ON TAXES IN DARE COUNTY
The Dare County Commission
ers will hold a short session on
Monday, May 16th, at Manns
Harbor Community Building from
9 a.m. to 12 noon, to hear com
plaints from property owners who
have added to or built new prop
erty during the past year, and
who may object to the assess
ments. In the afternoon, the
Board will sit at Manteo to hear
complaints from Roanoke Island.
On Tuesday, the 17th, the Board
will sit from 9 to 4 at Kill Devil
Hills town hall to hear from
property owners of Atlantic town
ship, and Nags Heed precinct
Questions as to valuations placed
during the 1958 revaluation by a
former Board of Commissioners
qannot be considered at these
hearings, since they were estab
lished for a four-year period.
1960 PIRATES JAMBOREE
EXPECTED TO BE BIGGEST
AND MOST COLORFUL YET
Buccaneer Royalty To Be Selected At Dagger
Dance For Teenagers and Jolly Roger Ball
For the More Mature Pirates; Numbers of
Goodwill Junkets Have Preceded Event,
Costumed Pirates Going to Far-Away States.
LARKINS TO SPEAK IN
MANTEO SATURDAY
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HON. JOHN D. LARKINS, Jr.,
candidate for Governor is to speak
at 7:30 Saturday evening in Man
teo in the courthouse, following
which he will be entertained at an
oyster roast at Mill Landing, Wan
chese. Also attending this meet
ing will be P. D. Midgett, Jr., of
Engelhard, a candidate for the
Senate.
BOATING EVENTS
WILL CONCLUDE
PIRATES JAMBOREE
Second Annual East Coast Fami
ly Runabout Races in Man
i teo May I
The second annual Ipist Coast
Championship races for Family
Runabouts will be held in Shallow
bag Bay in Manteo on Sunday aft
ernoon, May 1.
The event, which is sponsored by
Dare Power Boat Association in
cooperation with the sixth annual
Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree, will
be the concluding featured attrac
tion of the latter event which will
be presented for three days. The
Pirates Jamboree this year begins
on Hatteras Island April 29, mov
ing to the Dare Beaches and Roan
oke Island on the following day,
Saturday April 30, for the bucca
neer landing and battle on Kitty
Hawk Bay and the colorful corona
tion ceremonies at Waterside Thea
tre near Manteo.
Tommy Daniels of Manteo an
nounced the following information
relative to facilities. He is the rac
ing chairman and he stated that
two ramps were available in Man
teo, close to the location of the
boat racing pits.
“Closing time for entries will be
12:45 o’clock noon, on May 1 with
a drivers meeting following at 1
o’clock at the pits,” said Daniels.
“There will be trophies for first,
second and third place winners in
the six classes, which will race in
a course of one and two thirds
mile, three laps per heat,” he add
ed.
Classes follow: 14 foot, 25-35
HP, Ist heat, 1:30; 2nd heat, 3p.m.;
16 foot class, 25-35 HP, Ist heat
1:45, 2nd heat 3:15; 14 foot and
up class, 40 HP, Ist heat 2:00 and
2nd heat 3:30 p.m.; 14 foot and up
class, 45 HP, Ist heat 2:15 and
second heat 3:45; 14 foot and up,
50-60 HP, Ist heat 2:30 p.m. and
2nd heat 4:00 pan.; 12 foot six
inch and up, Unlimiteds, heats at
2:45 and 5:15 pjn.
JABIN S. CAHOON, 82,
DIES AT ENGELHARD
Jabin S. Cahoon, 82, died Wed
nesday morning at Engelhard. He
had spent his entire life at Engel
hard and was a retired carpenter,
member of Engelhard Christian
Church. Surviving are his wife,
Mrs. Mary Bell Cahoon; seven
daughters, Mrs. Guy Gibbs of
Engelhard, Mrs. M. L Horsley and
Mrs. S. O. Love of Hampton, Va.,
Mrs. M. L. Sellers, Mrs. Roland
E. Gibbs and Mrs. James Ed Lyon
of Newport News, Va., Mrs. R. C.
Hall of Durham; two sons, Dennis
of Norfolk and Horace Cahoon of
Engelhard; 13 grandchildren. Fun
eral services were conducted at
Engelhard Christian Church Thurs
day at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev. F. W.
Wibiral. Burial was in Swindell
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 42S
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
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Most colorful of all pre-Pirate
•Runboree events will take place on
Nags Head next week end when
the teenager’s Dagger Dance is
presented on Friday night, April
22, and the Jolly Roger Ball is held
on Saturday night, April 23. De
signed to select accessors to the
current pirate prince and princess
and a new king and queen to reign
during 1960-61, both events will be
held in Ras Wescott’s spacious
Nags Head Casino, the scene of
similar royal events during the
years since the Pirate Jamboree
was created to serve as official
launching time for the Outer Banks
vacation season.
The reigning teenagers who will
lose their titles at the Dagger
Dance are Prince Raymond White
of Manteo and Princess Joanne
Midgett of Hatteras. On the follow
ing night at the Jolly Roger ball,
Pirate King Julian Oneto of Nags
Head and his Pirate Queen Winona
Peele of Hatteras will lose their
crowns to successors. These Royal
•buccaneers have had a busy year
since coronation ceremonies in
1959.
It has been the chore of King
Julian to arrange junkets to many
places and on these trips go the
bearded costumed pirates and their
ladies. Already this year Oneto has
made costumed trips in company
with his pirates to Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and
several Eastern Carolina towns.
Two of the trips during the past
week, goodwill spreading junkets
for the event, were to Washington
where the group was received by
U. S. Senators and Congressmen
and to the Norfolk area again. In
the Norfolk area on April 9, 120
teen-age pirates invaded the great
port city to be filmed for a one
hour long television show to be
presented over a Norfolk station
April 16.
Pre- Jamboree events on Hatteras
Island where the first day of the
Jamboree will be held April 29.
with beach buggy races, the world’s
biggest free salt water fish fry,
costume contests, games for chil
dren and demonstrations of horse
manship by Ocracoke banker pony
riders as featured attractions, have
been regular Saturday night dances
at the Hatteras community build
ing.
Week end after next, will mark
the sixth annual Dare Coast Pirates
Jamboree, with events scheduled
for following places: Hatteras,
April 29; Dare Beaches and Man
teo, April 30; Manteo Bay, May
1. The May first events will be
boat races.
FISHING PROSPECTS ARE
EXCELLENT FOR EASTER
Good weather has been predict
ed and sportsfishing prospects
for the Easter season should be
excellent in all Dare Coast wa
ters. The prediction is based on
the fact that during the past
week catches have been better
than average for this time of the
year.
More than 50 channel bass have
been landed with rod and from
the surf and inlet on Hatteras Is
land. Most of the early catches
were made in the Hatteras Inlet
section. Largest reported was a
52 % pounder taken by Edgar
Hooper of Buxton. Charles Sim
mons of Petersburg brought in a
51% pounder from the surf. Andy
Weiler of Nags Head boated a
49 pounder casting at Oregon In
let.
Large mouth bass and stripers
were taking artificial lures in the
fresh waters of South Lake dur
ing the week and with live bait
some excellent catches of crappie
and jack (pickerel) were also re
ported from mainland waters.
WILL OF HERBERT CREEF
PROBATED IN DARE CO.
In the will of the late Herbert
A. Crees, prominent Manteo busi
ness man who died this month, all
personal effects were left to his
wife, Mrs. Anne Crees, and certain
other rights in the remainder of the
estate, with final disposition to be
shared equally by his five children.
His sons, George Crees and Har
bert, Jr., wore named Executors of
the will. The estate is believed to
be one of the larger ones in Dare
County.