SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS SECTION ONE VOL XXV NO. 47 OCEAN BOULEVARD COMMITTEE IS SET UP AT CURRITUCK Association Formed and Officers Named for Highway Along Outer Banks Former State Senator Dudley Bagley of Moyock and Sidney Kellam of Virginia Beach were named Co-chairmen of a two-state group comprising the Ocean Boule vard Association which will pro mote constuction of a toll free road south ward from Virginia Beach to Kitty Hawk at a meet ing held Monday night in Currituck courthouse. Choice of a name for the as sociation and election of officers was unanimous, as all agreed that construction of this road is a neces sity for the economic life of the area, and would also make possible a large development with fiscal benefits to the counties. « Representatives from Kill Devil Hille, Virginia Beach, Princess Anne County, Currituck and Dare counties attended the meeting. Five vice chairmen, one from each of the areas backing the move, were named. Thep are Maj. J. L. Murphy, Kill Devil Hills; Fred Haycox, Virginia Beach; H. E. Bishop, Currituck; Victor Meekins, Dara, and James T. Darden, Prin cess Anne. Wilton F. Walker, Currituck County attorney, was named exe cutive secretary. The co-chairmen, executive secretary and the five vice chairmen will constitute the •ucecutive committee of tire associ ation. In addition to officers named, there attended from Dare County, Horace Hooper, Woodrow Edwards and David Stick of the Dare Coun ty Board of Commissioner's and Walter D. Perry of Kill Devil Hills. The ocean highway, as presently conceived, would begin at Virginia Beach and run along the Outer Banks through Princess Anne and Currituck counties to Dare County. GREAT VALUE OF TIMBER INCOME TO FARMERS SHOWN Management Can Bring Profits From Pulpwood Speaker in Hyde Points Out SWAN QUARTER. The close relationship between Hyde Co. forests and the nation’s economy was dramatically shown at a meet ing of the Lions Club. This month, in support of the “Pulp and Paper Week” objectives. In a program held in conjunction with the southwide observance of Pulp and Paper Week, K. Pit man of Weyerheuser Company, North Carolina Pulp Company. Subsidiary, said that supplying the i-aw maberiaf needed for the na tion’s expanding pulp and paper industry has placed “the trees of the South in the mainstream of America’s modern marketing econo my.” During a color slide film presen tation entitled “Care of the Forest Helps Paper Have Its Day,” Mr. Pitman said, “There are 193,000,000 acres of commercial forest land in the 12 states of the South which al ready supply nearly two-thirds of the raw material needed by the pulp and paper industry.” K was pointed out that immature, fast growing trees in well-stocked stands soon crowd themselves out of full productivity unless enough space is provided to give each tree plenty of sunlight, food and water at each stage of its development. “The wise landowner provides this needed space 'by periodic cut tings,” Mr. Pitman said. Trees cut in these operations when forests are young give the remaining trees adequate space for continuous and intensive development of a much healthier forest, better able to withstand attacks from insects and diseases, he continued. Total forest productivity means more than just the production of pulpwood, it was explained. It in corporates the utilisation of a va riety of sizes and kinds of trees for such products as lumber, poles, piling, veneer, hardboard and many others, the speaker said. Many public - minded agencies in the South are working together to promote this pattern of con tinuous productivity among indivi dual landowners, Mr. Pitman said. One of those agencies, the South ern Pulpwood Conservation Associ ation, has developed a three-fold program of service, information and demonstration designed to give landowners assistance in forest fire control, tree planting and marking trees for thinning, the presentation pointed out He pointed out that the industry 5s now the fifth largest in the na tion and in the South employs over TIMJBKRy 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 NEW COUNTY DEMOCRATIC ELECTED ON SATURDAY ■r \ ■HE a 1 > A /-J* 1 ! ■ ’ * v < WALTER D. PERRY of Kill Devil Hills former chairman of the Dare County Board of Education was elected Chairman of the Dare Coun ty Democratic Executive Commit tee Saturday with all precincts' rep resented save Avon. Mrs. Grace Mann of Manns Harbor was elected Vice-Chairman; Bobby Owens and Dr. W. W. Harvey, Jr., of Man teo the first and second Vice-Chair men. Robert H. Midgett who served as Secretary of the County convention announced after a short executive session the unanimous election of the party officers. Mr. Perry was not in Manteo, and had not cam paigned for the place. Resolutions of respect and appreciation were offered from the floor for M. L. Daniels the retiring chairman, for his long sendee, he having held the office for 26 years, and who was not a candidate for re-election. Mr. Perry made an announce ment later as follows: “I am grateful to the precinct chairmen of the county for electing See PERRY, Page Four OLDEST WOMAN ON WANCHESE CUTS BIRTHDAY CAKE BP*'. imSP® , - - 2 MRS. DORA DAVIS of Wanchese who this month celebrated her 92nd birthday, and who is the oldest woman on Roanoke Island. See story last week about party given by her children. —Aycock Brown photo. VIOLENT WRECK INJURIES FIVE AT STUMPY POINT An automible headed southward out of Stumpy Point, early Satur day night while making a curve at the highway intersection col lided with a bridge, five persons were injured, three of them seri ously. Alvin Farrow, was driver of a car belonging to Miss Jean Nehrie of Pa. Farrow had a broken arm, his brother Joseph a leg injury. Both boys are of Buxton. Hobby Willis of Frisco received a brain concussion. Miss Nehrie had a broken hip. Troy Hooper of Stumpy Point was also injured in the ac cident. , . RUN OF BLUEFISH Oregon Inlet.— A big run of little bluefish Mt at Oregon Inlet last week end and anglers aboard char ter boats have been averaging from 50 to 150 fish per day. The blues are of the snapper or pan site. SMALL HARBORS PLAN APPROVED BY CO. BOARD Survey To Be Made of Needs of All Communities To Determine Project Size and Cost A plan whereby the small har bor needs of Dare’s several com munities can be met is to be set up for early action. The County Commissioners this week agreed in principle on making a survey of the needs of the communities, whereby size of projects desired and costs could be established in older to plan for financing the im provements needed. Several small harbors of the county, planned for the needs of more than 30 years ago, are now insufficient and some are in a con dition impossible insofar as bene fits to most fishermen go. The small long used by fishermen and aided by the county from time to time, include the cotn munties of Duck, Kitty Hawk, Col ington, Wanchese, Manns Harbor, Stumpy Point, Mashoes, Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras. Random estimates place the sum needed to repair and put these har bors in condition at about $50,000. Studies of the projects have been underway by the county board for a year. The community of East Lake is expected to have one of the finest harbors in the area as negotiations are underway to get the ferry slip conveyed to the county for public use on completion of the Alligator River bridge. Already scheduled for early im provement is the Manns Harbor ditch built by the county many years ago. Estimates are being pre pared for repairs to the county ditch at Stumpy Point. CONTENTION WAGES OVER PRETTY SAILING YACHT ASHORE IN DARE COUNTY When six Dare County men on , May 10, found a sailing yacht, called a Ketch, in the breakers near ’ Salvo last week, one of them swam out to her, put a line on the boat, ; and they got it ashore and saved it from pounding to pieces. Proceed -1 ing on an old rule that finders are keepers in cases where vessels are abandoned at sea, they laid claim to the boat in its entirety. But when the insurance under writers heard about the boat, they also claimed it, since it was their risk to pay for it. The boat is said to have cost $125,000. The boat, named the “Dutch Treat,” was abandoned on May 3. Following an arbitration hearing in Manteo Wednesday, six residents of Hatteras Island through their attorneys Martin Kellogg, Jr, and Wallace Gray agreed to accept $5,200 for the role they had played in salvag- See YACHT, Page Four MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1960 PARTICIPATED IN CEREMONIES AT OPENING OF HATTERAS AIRPORT Kt' > " r Xrf’jl r ' 1 //■ ■■ ' > " Ofc; **”■ r Sly MITCHELL aiddaht TAKING PART IN THE formal opening of the B