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VOL XXV NO. 43
THE LOW DOWN ON THE
LATCH-UP BY OLD RING
TO TAKE OVER COUNTY
The Crowd Kicked Out Two Years Ago Think
Citizens Are Suckers Enough to Turn Back
Progress, Restore Waste, Mismanagement and
Higher Taxes And Turn Affairs Over to A
Favored Few People.
The Duvall Ring which was
overwhelmingly repudiated tw o
years ago by the voters of Dare
Counity comes forth again and by
their actions take the people of
this county to be simple minded
enough to put them back into con
trol of county affairs.
C. C. Duvall, long chairman of
the Board, himself has filed for
renomination, along with his form
er associate, Lawrence Swain. Un
able to get Hallett Perry of Kitty
Hawk, his former board member
back into the race, he is counting
on one or two others of the pres
ent board to accelerate their partial
allegiance to his followers, and his
old pal M. L. Daniels, has made his
boasts that he will again take con
trol of the County ABC Board come
next December.
The entry of the Duvall-Swain
ticket back into the field last week
followed a series of planning con
ferences in offices of Sheriff Frank
Cohoon who fears the recent pub
lic awakening will jeopardize the
$26,000 he has been given to run
his office each year, where he has
employed numerous deputies, none
of whom he ever entrusted with
collecting taxes, and some of whom
he allowed to never pay their own
taxes.
Hie word has gone out that the
prime object of the Duvall ticket
is to unseat Victor Meekins. The
“geniuses” lending their eager as
sistance have long been peddling a
series of lies by word of mouth
in their attempt to destroy Meek
ins. Meekins says that on the basis
of some of the lies that have been
circulated he may likely bring suit
in the courts for malicious slander,
and to demand punitive damages.
Hallett Perry, a former member
of the old Duvall Board sounded out
sentiment when he was urged to
join this ticket, and found that the
people of the county, while hav
ing high regard from him, would
not encourage him to sacrifice him
scflf again for Duvall’s glory. Mr.
Perry is just becoming convinced
of the bitter truth that while he
was stoutly defending Mr. Duvall
to the last ditch, and until the last
ballot was cast in the 1958 prim
ary, tfiie Duvall forces had deserted
him a week before and were work
ing for Perry’s opponnent David
Stick, taking away Perry’s sup
pot where he had been strongest
in East Lake and Manns Harbor.
Immediately after the primary,
Duvall then tried to make another
throw by encouraging Stick to be
come Chairman of the New Board
but thia maneuver failed. Duvall
is now expected to lead Iris forces
in behalf of Stick.
M. L. Daniels, who for many
years has held the title of chair
man of the County Democratic
Executive Committee, which again
this year has a note of indebtness
in the bank, although other Dem
ocrats raised funds -last year to
pull the party out of the hole, has
long worked hand in glove with
Duvall. Duvall kept him in control
of the County ABC Board which
handles about $300,000 a year, and
returns had been dropping steadily
for two years. The Daniels ABC
■ Board had remained in office, for
a long time after their appoint
ments had run out
When the New County Board
came into office another ABC
Board was named, and by cliange
of management, an increase in
monthly income immediately fol
lowed, to the tune of more than
$25,000 in a year. This singular
circumstance is one which should
give everyone who believes in ef
fidmt government, pause for seri
ous consideration.
One of the charges levelled at
Duvall during his administration
wm that he used his office to high
jack a large taxpayer into giving
him a weekly pay check under
threat of forcing them to pay an
exortitant tax bill. It was a fact
that he was receiving SSO a week,
and the saving this “client” gain
ed in to vex for a total quadrennial
aawaenient cost the "people of Date
Coonity $25,000.
It was pointed out then by this
newspaper that a dirt road on
wMab four domiciles were situated,
leading to Mr. Duvall’s store back
into the woods of Dare mainland,
stood on the approved list of roads
with top priority to be paved, at a
cost of $63,000 which would have
coasumed all the county’s secon
dary road money for two years or
mere. These and the fact that Du-
See RING, Page Four
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
BELOVED HYDE WOMAN
HAS 90TH BIRTHDAY
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dow of the late James Edward
Swindell of Engelhard, celebrated
her 90th birthday at a dinner given
in her honor on April 16th at her
home by her children. April 20th
is her birth date but due to the
Easter Holidays the dinner was
held early when her children could
be with her.
The table was covered with a
crocheted table cloth made by ths
honoree several years ago. The
centerpiece for the table was a
three tiered birthday cake and
silver cookie jar from Scotland
dated 1860. which was a gift for
this special
Mrs. Swindell (Miss Sallie) was
born near Engelhard Tpril 20, 1870
and has lived her entire life in
that vicinity. Although handicapped
by poor sight, she still helps her
daughter with some of the house
hold chores. Miss Sallie, as she is
known to her friends, is able to
read a few verses each day from
her Bible which has very large
print. It was a gift from her pas
tor Rev. A. M. Cameron. She en
joys haring someone read other
devotional books to Iter and also
enjoys talking books on records
which she plays on a record play
er.
Mrs. Swindell’s memory travels
back to when the business section
of Engelhard consisted of a post
See BIRTHDAY, Page Five
BLOODMOBILE UNIT TO
VISIT DARE MAY 19-20
Davis and Taylor Commended From At
lanta For Their Splendid Prepara
tion Work
The bloodmobile unti will come to
Dare County on May 19th and 20th
on an important mission in con
nection with the saving of human
life, and all those people who have
been benefitted, or have had their
lives saved in hospitals because
there was blood at hand, will wel
come an opportunity to make re
payment. Those who have seen
loved ones thus saved from death
will remember their obligation.
The unit will stop in Manteo for
all residents north of Oregon In
let, and spend a day at Buxton for
residents of Hatteras and Ocracoke
Islands to yield their tributes of
mercy. Persons who give blood
must be between the ages of 18
and 60.
Ralph Davis of Manteo, chairman
of the Dare County Red Cross
Chapter, received notice of ap
proval of Dare County’s sponsor
ship of the blood program. Gladden
F. Ostrander, Associate Director,
out of Atlanta, wrote Mr. Davis:
"We want to congratulate you and
the chairman of the Blood Prog
ram, Floyd B. Taylor, on the ex
cellent plans that you have made
for participating in the blood pro
gram. We are sure it will be suc
cessful in your community.”
Mr. Taylor has done a prodigious
amount of work in arranging for
this scheduled visit of the blood
mobile to Dare County. He is a
dedicated worker. He will be glad
to give information to all who are
interested. His phone number in
Manteo is 27-J.
City, county, Federal and educa
tional agencies, all civic clubs and
members of the medical profession
have cooperated fully with Mr.
Taylor in his magnificent job of
assisting Mr. Davis in this prog
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FISHERMEN OUT
O F ENGELHARD
TURN UP WELL
Belhaven Men Report Week
Adrift In Sound After Motor
Trouble
Two fishermen out of Engelhard,
feared drowned in the waters of
Pamlico Sound walked into the Ore
gon Inlet Lifeboat station Monday
morning alive and well.
Bill Bullock and K. Daniels, both
of Belhaven, said they experienced
trouble after they left Engelhard
on April 19 aboard their 41-foot
trawler. They could not start the
engine after replacing a fan belt.
Monday night they were aboard
their refloated trawler Sybil and
being towed by a Coast Guard cut
ter back to Engelhard. The boat
was undamaged.
They were adrift for a week they
reported before the trawler went
aground near Gull Shoal Island,
about 12 miles north of Cape Hat
teras, After they walked ashore, a
Coast Guard boat found the trawler
stranded with a distress signal on
its mast.
The empty boat was found at 7:10
p.m. Sunday, and the two fisher
men were hitchhiking to the Coast
Guard station where they reported
themselves safe.
Bullock, owner of the trawler,
returned with Daniels to the boat
The Coast Guard cutter, dispatched
to assist the trawler, arrived at
4:15 p.m.
The Coast Guard’s search for the
missing men began Sunday evening
after the trawler was reported
overdue.
FISHERMEN REACH
DARE SEACOAST;
FERRIES JAMMED
Extra Good Channel Bass Fishing
Reported at Oregon Inlet
and Hatteras
By AYCOCK BROWN
What may develop into a late
bluefish blitz for anglers was get
ting underway Wednesday in Hat
teras waters while trailers at Ore
gon Inlet using spoon lures boated
more than 30 channel bass.
Donald Oden at Hatteras report
ed that George Braddon and party.
Wellsville, N. Y., caught 48 blues
while trolling off the inlet aboard
Capt. Edgar Sytron’s cruiser
Twin 11. The party also landed five
false albacore.
Rany Jennette weighmaster 'at
Buxton reported several channel
bass from the surf there Wednes
day by anglers, one going over 52
pounds. It was caught by a mem
ber of a Life Magazine team on
the Outer Banks working on a
surfcasting photo essay.
“They are also catching blues
from the surf for the first time
this season” said Jennette. The
blues were averaging two pounds
according to the Hatteras men
making reports.
Traffic on ferries at Oregon and
Hatteras Inlet has been extra
heavy, with long lines of cars
waiting, with sportsmen bound for
fishing grounds. Due to heavy traf
fic, all state ferries will adopt their
more frequent Summer schedule a
month early—May 1.
H. A. Crees of Oregon Inlet Fish
ing Center stated that this was the
most productive day of the season
so far for channel bass anglers.
“This was surprising to some an
glers as we are having cool weath
er so different from Saturday when
the first of season was taken from
Oregon Inlet,” said Crees.
A 23-pound channel bass was
taken Tuesday from the new fish
ing pier at Kill Devil Hills, first
of species reported from a pier
this season.
W. T. Lanham of Arlington, Va.,
landed a 60% lb channel bass while
fishing with Omie Tillett Wednes
day.
Clarence Butler of Kill Devil
Hills reported that 41 anglers fish-
See FISHING, Page Four
MRS. ALICE K. GRICE WHO
LOVED OLD NAGS HEAD DIES
Mrs. Alice K. Grice, 85, a woman
noted for her love for Old Nags
Head, who lived there many years,
wrote poems about it, and who left
it with reluctance as age' ap
proached, died Sunday in a Chapel
Hill hospital after a short illness.
She was the widow of the late
Charles W. Grice and was a na
tive of- Elisabeth City. She was the
daughter of the late Simon and
Gussie Holmes Kramer of Eliza
beth City. She had recently made
her home with a nephew, Robert
Barrett, Jr., in Chapel Hill. She is
survived by a half sister, Mrs.
Plummer Warren of Norfolk.
Interment was in Old Bollywood
Cemetery, Elisabeth City Monday
with graveside services conducted
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1960
KING AND QUEEN TO SURRENDER CROWN SATURDAY
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PIRATE KING JULIAN ONETO of Nags Head, and QUEEN WI
NONA PEELE GRAY of Hatteras will surrender their crowns Sat
urday night when their successors are chosen, to head off the big
celebration next week-end and to guide plans for another big cele
bration in 1961. The crowning of their successors will take place
at the Fort Raleigh amphitheatre in a public event, at which Con
gressman Herbert Bonner will play the part of Governor Eden.
There is widespread belief that the man with finest beard will come
from the group of “Pirates” on Hatteras Island, who are giving so
much of their time to make the event a sitecess. King Julian, one
of the foremost promoters of the annual Pirate Jamboree has given
liberally of his time and has travelled much to create the success
ful institution of fun and frolic that this festival has come to mean
to the N. C. coast King Julian is president of the Manteo Rotary
Club, and a partner in the Carolinian Hotel at Nags Head. Mrs.
Gray is the wife of Hal Gray of Hatteras.
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A REPORT TO DARE COUNTY PEOPLE ON A STRUGGLE
FOR COUNTY SOLVENCY; FINANCIAL RESPONSI
BILITY; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS PROVIDED THROUGH
SAFE MANAGEMENT AND SENSIBLE HANDLING OF
PEOPLE’S MONEY TO GET MAXIMUM BENEFITS AT
LEAST COST.
By VICTOR MEEKINS
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To the People of Dare County:
As Chairman of the Board of Commissioners it becomes
ny duty to report from time to time on what is being done
ibout management of your affairs. While our records are
systematically set up on the books and now audited for any
and all to see at the courthouse, there are explanations and
interpretations that should be offered the people from time
to time, but which I have had to neglect because it has been
physically impossible for me to go to all the places I have
needed to go in the county’s behalf, and to do all talking
and letter writing that needed to be done. At the same time
one has to continue to earn a living.
Our Board of Commissioners went into office with our
county in a financial hole of some $40,000. It is hard to get
people to understand that the county could not continue
spending money in numerous directions as had been done
through the years, until it first got out of debt, and its
credit and prestige restored. We found the books showing
SIOO,OOC in uncollected taxes, and apparently negligible ef
fort through the years to collect them, some accounts 12
years old; single accounts running up to $4,000; county em
ployes for many years drawing tax payers’ money each
month, never bothering to pay their own taxes and never be
ing asked to pay them, by the people who were paid most ex
pensively to do the job.
We found that part of the school money had been spent
for other purposes, and some SB,OOO had to be made up, to
get the school system squared away. Before we had been
in office long it became necessary to apply advance pay
ments of taxes, in order to redeem our pledge with our bond
holders and to keep our credit good with the New York
Bank which handles our affairs. I know that in all cases, —
personal or county,—default in one’s financial pledges is a
most humilating circumstance, and out of my wide know
ledge of public affairs, I moved in time to save the situation.
Yet from within our own board came most unreasonable
abuse for this action. Interest and retirement on school bonds
had been paid; I had been wrong in doing it, but no one else
had another solution.
The average citizen, busy with his own affairs can
not see these things, and many cannot understand them.
But let me say that the operation of Dare County is big
business. It is not something that can be operated as a
man operates a small store. We must go by a plan, we must
know how much our income is going to be, and then we
must spread this out through the various agencies, sup
posedly in our best judgement, but often through compro
mise when we can agree on one. For instance some mem
bers may wish to turn an unreasonable sum over to the
Sheriff’s office, as we are now doing; another may want
to spend more for promotion; another may want to add
more employes and raise salaries; etc. A single unseasoned,
unreasonable, impractical person in any group can harangue
and thereby hold-up adoption of a budget for a long time;
one or more who don’t understand what it s all about can
unite with the reactionary element, and make one depart
ment topheavy and leave others undernourished.
It would be fine if the average citizen would take time
to think that the time of an average man competent to ap
nroach these responsibilities is worth $25 per day or more
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SIXTH PIRATES’ JAMBOREE
ON NEXT WEEK-END BIGGER;
FILLED WITH MORE THRILLS
Its Usual Pattern Greatly Enlarged Offering A
Colorful Series of Dances and Balls. Con
tests and Ceremonies; Simulated Battles,
Treasure Hunts, Boat Races; A Program at
Fort Raleigh.
SUMMER FERRY
SCHEDULES ARE
EFFECTIVE MAY I
Begin Month Earlier Due to
Heavier Traffic On All
State Ferries
RALEIGH.—The State Highway
Department announced Tuesday it
is placing toll-free ferries on a
summer schedule effective May Ist.,
to take care of increased traffic
moving to the Outer Banks during
the tourist season.
The ferries, operating over the
Alligator River, Oregon and Hat
teras Inlets, normally begin sum
mer schedules on June 7st. The
summer schedule ends on Septem
ber 30.
Ferries over the Alligator River
leave Sandy Point each morning at
5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15. 10,
10:45: and 11:30, and in the after
noon at 12:15, 1 p.m., 1:45, 2:30,
3:15, 4, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:30, and
8 p.m., until June 15, when ad
ditional night trips will leave at
9:20, 10:4., 12 midnight and 1:20
a.m.
Ferries leave East Lake headed
west at 5 a.m., 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:45,
830, 9:15, 10, 10:45, 11:30, 12:15,
I p.m., 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, 4, 4:45, 5:30,
6:15, 7, 7:30. Beginning June 15,
night trips leave East Lake at
8:40, 10, 11:20 p.m., and 12:40 a.m.
The Oregon Inlet Ferry, operat
ing between Nags Head and Hat
teras, leaves the north shore at
Bodie Id., beginning at 5 a.m.
and makes half-hour runs through
6:30 p.m. Ferries leave the south
shore at Hatteras, beginning at
5:30 a.m., and each half-hour
thereafter, until 7 p.m.
The Hatteras Inlet Ferry, be
tween Hatteras Village and Ocra
coke, leaves Hatteras at 5 a.m.
7:30, 10, 12:30, 3 p.m., and 5:30
pan., and ferries leave Ocracoke
bound for Hatteras at 6 a.m., 8:30,
II a.m., 1:30 p.m., 4 and 6:30 pan.
STATE AND COUNTY
CAMPAIGNS CALLED
POLITICAL PARADOX
Never Was Such a Time of In
consistency; Divided Opin
ions, Perplexity and In
gratitude
By FLOYD WOLFE
(Political Correspondence)
RALEIGH, Apr. 20 lt may
well be said that this is a year of
inconsistency and perplexity such
as is not remembered before in
a political campaign. It is a time
of strange and complex align
ments, and a time such as never
before, when the sound advice of
seasoned political leaders has
been disregarded by the younger
element.
The campaign for Governor
waged by four candidates: may be
compared to a weather vane, with
the candidate representing the
four cardinal points, and the ar
row flip around, first toward one,
then another. Seawell makes a
speech sound with sense and
soothing to the Governor’s ear.
ano we note a reaction in his
favor. Then we note that Negro
students have made another stu
pid demonstration and Lake’s
stock rises like a thermometer in
August. Larkins comes out with
a promise of 25 million more for
schools, and the arrow shifts; but
next day Sanford says all the
roads of every kind should be
hardsurfaced and there we go
again.
Summing up the situation, it
appears at this writing, that with
Sanford holding a long lead, at
tention has been diverted for a
time from his campaign. Maybe
like Larkins, he has lost some
support to Lake and Seawell, for
Lake has been gaining by leaps
and bounds among white folks in
the black belts, and Seawell has
been lining up solid and conser
vative support. We now find three
definite beliefs widely expressed,
as to the outcome of this primary.
1. There will be a second primary
between Larkins and Seawell. 2.
It will be between Seawell and
Sanford. 3. It will be between
Seawell and Lake. And a few peo
ple contend, as from weeks ago,
that it will be between Larkins
Sec CAMPAIGNS, Page Four
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SIXTEEN PAGES THIS WEEK
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By AYCOCK BROWN
Congressman Herbert C. Bonner
will have a featured role in the
Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree’s
colorful and exciting coronation
ceremonies at Waterside Theatre in
Fort Raleigh here on Saturday.
April 30, when he places the crown*
on the new buccaneer royalty se
lected for Hie coming year.
In the meantime, two events this
week end to be held at Nags Head
Casino will feature the selection of
new royalty. On Friday night at
the teenagers Dagger Dance, a new
pirate prince and princess along
with their courts will be selected
to succeed Raymond White, Manteo
and Joanne Midgett, Hatteras.
On Saturday night in the Ca
sino at the Jolly Roger Ball suc
cessor to the Jamboree royal throne
for the coming year will be se
lected to succeed King Julian Oneto
of Nags Head and Queen Winona
Gray of Hatteras. Fuzzy Wade and
his pirate band of Norfolk will
make the music. To be chosen al
so on Saturday night will be a
Governor and Lady Eden, a Tobias
Knight and an Anne Bonney who
will participate in the Coronation
ceremonies an event of pageantry
•which will fill the great stage of
Waterside theatre.
Launching at Hatteras
The sixth annual Jamboree will
|be launched at Hatteras next Fri
day, April 29, as the 1960 vacation
season is officially started. Al
Schenke and his associates of the
Hatteras Jamboree committee have
prepared an interesting all day
program to end with a big bucca
neer ball on Friday evening at the
Hatteras community building with
live music.
Live music will also, for the
first time, be a feature of the
daytime attractions at Hatteras
this year with the Belhaven High
School Band present as special
guests. Features of the Hatteras
phase will be the world’s biggest
salt water fish fry, the thrilling
beach buggy races, games for chil
dren and costume contests. The
game fishing contest originally an
nounced has been scratched and it
was uncertain whether there would
be a Coast Guard Life Saving Dem
onstration this year, according to
last word from Schenke. He did
indicate that there was a strong
possibility that the Ocracoke bank
er ponies and their riders would
See JAMBOREE, Page Four
NORWOOD YOUNG
NEW PRESIDENT
ASH ASSOCIATION
Annual Meeting at Ocracoke Is
land Fouled Up by Mishap
to Ferry Boat
The annual meeting of the All
Seashore Highway Association was
fouled up Thursday when it was
due to meet at noon on arrival of
the new auto ferry “Sea Level”
from Atlantic. The vessel ran
aground before it got well under,
way, and will not be in commission
for several days.
However, with two regions of
North Carolina represented aboard
the Boat, a meeting was held,
which named Norwood Young of
Beaufort as president for the com
ing year; this and other actions
being unanimously confirmed by an
assembly of other members with
the retiring president, Major J. L.
Murphy of Kill Devil Hills, at noon
on Ocracoke.
Major Murphy paid high tribute
to the cooperation that had existed
during the past year, and recounted
the accomplishments of the associ
ation in seven years. A motion
made by R. S. Wahab, was passed
to ask proper authorities for a sur
vey looking toward measures
against sound-shore erosion on
Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. Mr.
Wahab pointed out that unless re
lief is given erosion can take away
the benefits of roads.
Following the election of new of
ficers the members offered a testi
monial in appreciation to Major J.
L. Murphy, retiring President, for
his outstanding efforts as Presi
dent of the Association.
Two other resolutions were pre
sented and pased: Continued effort
for the proposed road from Nags
Head to Virginia Beach, this to re
quest aid from Currituck County,
See HIGHWAY, Page Four