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BEFORE EXPIRAHON DATE ON ADDRESS SECTION ONE VOL XXV NO. 50 SECOND PRIMARY IN GOVERNOR’S RACE TWO WEEKS AWAY Tight Race Predicted Between Sanford and Lake; Much Inter est in Coastal Area "More than usual interest is in dicated in the coastland in the run off election which will take place on June 25th to decide the Demo cratic nominee for Governor. In the first primary, the coastal area went for Terry Sanford. A tighter race is predicted in the run-off as the leaders of the campaign for Dr. I. Beverly Lake move into the coastal area, and intensify their efforts. Robert O. Ballance of Manteo is the manager for Dare County of Sanford’s campaign. John T. Davis announces this week his appoint ment as the assistant manager for Manteo precinct in this race. Al ien Lee Mann of Manteo, who was appointed Dare County manager for Lake some weeks ago, says he is now really going into action. Several county races are out of the way, and many who were rela tively inactive in State campaigns before, will join the fray. Returns from the first primary indicate that Sanford got 269,436 votes; Lake 181,692 and the run ners-up, Malcolm Seawell 101,148 and John D. Larkins 100,148. A difference of 12,000 votes in San ford’s favor would have given him the nomination. The gamble now is, what percentage of the votes that went to the losers can Sanford hope to get in the run-off? The vote in the second primary elec tion, as is customary in such cases, is expected to be much lighter than that cast on May 28th. In the race for Lieutenant Gover nor, Cloyd Philpott led C. V. Henkel by a vote of 238,353, to 181,850, and David McConnell lost in a vote of 175,150. There will be no run-off in this race. OCEAN TRAGEDY TAKES LIFE OF SMALL BOY A boating accident in Oregon In let Monday took the life of three yar-oki Donald Ray Woodard of Raleigh and almost cost a Lucama woman her life. Mrs. Annie Ruth Joyner Woodard wifeof Millard Woodard of Raleigh thought Donald Ray was playing along the beach of the National Seashore Park Area, where the family was camping, when the tragedy occurred. Mrs. Agnes Batten of Lucama, another of the six persons aboard the boat, was trapped underneath the twin-engined outboard when it hit a breaker. She was revived with artificial respiration. Donald Ray Woodard was said to have been sleeping in a small cabin at the front of the boat and was trapped inside the cabin when the boat spilled the other occupants. They included his father; Wilbert Lee Batten of Lucama, half-brother of the Raleigh man; David Wood ard, 6, Lucama; William A. Batten, husband of Mrs. Agnes Batten. Rescue efforts were made by the fishing boat Bumbaloo, of which Gilbert Tillett of Wanchese is cap tain, and by another fishing boat piloted by Willie Etheridge of Wan chese. The Woodards and the Battens had gone on the camping trip as a family outing. The child’s ‘body was taken to the Grizzard Funeral Home at Ken •iy, pending completion of funeral arrangements. Suvivors in addition to his par ents are one sister, Vicki Dianne of the home; his maternal grand rparents, Coley J. and Lola Joyner of Kenly, Rt 1; his paternal grand parents, Wilbert and Flora Mae Woodard of Princeton, RFD. SUDDEN DEATH CLAIMS A DELAWARE SPORTSMAN Edward R. Cordray, Jr., 37, of 516 Ferris St, Wilmington, Del., died Thursday 5:45 p.m. at Hatter as, on the boat dock. He had just stepped ashore and waved his hand in farewell,' after fishing all day •with Ernul Foster, with whom he had been fishing for several years. He had brought to gaff four blue tnariin during the day, one of which wm landed, the others released. It had been an exciting day. Coronary thrombosis was given as cause of death. Dr. T. C. Suther of Bux ton was called to the scene. Die re mains were conveyed from Hat teras by Twiford’s Fbneral home. He was an engineer with DuPont in Wilmington, Del. Ha was the son of Margaret G. OoHins and Edward R. Cordray, a Navy Veteran of World War 11. Burial was scheduled at Silver brook Cemetery, Wilmington, Del. 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 RATES ■•A" IN COLLEGE MATH AT AGE 13 BL - / / yl FREDDY ROUSH of Manteo, shown above as he persues the examination he recently took at the University of N. C. in Chapel Hill, before turning it in for final approval. The following story sent out from the University News Bu reau is self-explanatory: Last September, young Freddy Rousch of Manteo enrolled in a correspondence course in college algebra at the University of North Carolina. He was only 13 years old and was the youngest ever to be en rolled for a course at UNC. Freddy, an eighth grader, has now completed the course with fly ing colors. PERFECT PAPER “He made an A on the course, and he handed in a perfect paper on the final examination,” said math Prof. L L. Garner, who guid ed the youth in the course which he took through the UNC Exten sion Division. Garner said the youth is one of the brightest and most promising young mathematicians he 'has ever seen. When he came to Chapel Hill recently for the final exam, Freddy told the professor that probability is his favorite part of algebra. “Most of my students in the uni versity have the most trouble with probability,” said Garner, “but Freddy sailed through all of it with out an error.” UNUSUAL PROCEDURE UNC officials said it was a bit unusual for anyone to enroll for a College course without first com pleting high school work. How ever, the correspondence course was arranged when teachers at his Manteo school discovered Freddy’s talent for mathematics and his in- MacNEILL'S ASHES FALL IN GRAVEYARD OF SEAS The remains of Ben Dixon Mac- Neill were dropped from an air plane on Saturday, June 2, in the waters about Cape Hatteras, the land that he loved, and where his activities for the past dozen years may have contrived to create for him the status of a legendary fig ure on the Outer Banks. Mac Neil! died on the night of May 26 while seated in a chair in his cottage on a dune at Cape Hatteras. His many newspaper articles and his book “The Hatterasman,” published two years ago, had done much to create interest in the area, and to bring new visitors to it. He had left instruction that aft er cremation his ashes would be spread upon the waters of the Cape. Die plane, piloted by William Henderson, out of the Manteo air port, took off between thunder squalls to fulfill the 70-year-old Mac Neill’s final Wish. Henderson flew his small craft along the rugged Outer Banks coastline as a 1 shimmering rain fell from the over-' cast sky. ' Henderson banked the ship and MacNeiH’s ashes were scattered into a southwestward wind which carried them into the calm, blue waters of the Atlantic. Quentin Bell of Manteo was a passenger on this flight. METHODIST HOMECOMING AT MANNS HBR. .JUNE 12 Die annua! home qi'nwlfe of Mt Carmel Methodist Church at Manns Harbor will be held Sunday, June 12th, beginning with Sunday school at 10 a.m., a worship service by the Pastor, Rev. C. JR. Olson at 11 a.m., and special inksic. At 12 o’clock a pot luck diAag. be served on new picnic tSMes in the grove at the rear ofAhe chureh, drinks, plates, cups, forks, nap kins etc., will be furnished. At ( 2:00 p.m., there will be a abort singspiration service. When Rev. R. L. Jerome, Superintendent of the Elizabeth City District will deliver a brief message. An invitation is extended to all to come ,and invite friends and all former members of Mt Carmel to help make this Homecoming a most joyous occasion. terest in going as far in math as he could. Although he’s good in his school work, Freddy has time for out side activities. He’s a patrol lead er in the Boy Scouts and likes fish ing and sailing. Last year He Won first prize in a “pram race” man aging a sail boat. Freddy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Roush of Manteo. Mr. Roush is historian for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Mrs. Roush is active in many community projects, especially the library. (U.N.C. Photo Lab. Photo) . TOURS DARE FOR LAKE 'Jn w**! ‘ MB it g ■ Jb. Ji KERMIT U. GRAY of Winston- Salem, a native of Hatteras, who enjoys the game of politics, this week has made a tour of Dare County in the interest of the cam paign in the run-off primary of Dr. I. Beverly Lake for Governor. Mr. Gray, the son of Mrs. Carrie Gray of Black Mountain, and the late W. W. Gray, will be remem bered for his candidacy for Com missioner of Agriculture four years ago in which he rounded up some 200,000 votes on a campaign in vestment of S2OO. He is a frequent visitor to Dare County, and an avowed champion of Dr. Lake. CASES SUBMITTED, YIELD RECORDERS COURT $320 Out of 20 cases submitted in Recorder’s court this week in Dare County only one was brought in by any of the several deputies em ployed by Dare County. Fourteen of them were brought in by Pa trolman Whitehurst, two by Patrol man Skiles of Hatteras, two by Kill Devil Hills policeman Tom Dowdy; one by Deputy Sheriff Twine; one came over from Patrol man Fields. In this case, H. B. Cartwright of Nags Head forfeited a $35 bond. He was charged with driving without operator’s license. Total fines and forfeits, all other cases being submissions, was $320 for the school fund. R. M. Johnson of Norfolk for driving while under the influence paid $100; Elizabeth H. Moore of Elizabeth City for having no opera tor’s license and failing to yield the right of way, paid S3O. George N. Dulaney of Sea Pleasant, Md., paid $25 for being intoxicated in public. Other fines were for traffic vio lations, which included speeding, ignoring stop signs, improper pass ing, failing to yield right of way, improper license etc., as follows: Ten dollar fines by Willie E. Waterfield of Buxton, J. B. Scott of Elisabeth City, W. H. Seawell of Hopewell, Va., Gilbert L. Ratcliff of Pantego; sls fines- by W. C. Bryant of Windsor, E. S. Kalkin of Durham, John D. .Vincent of Norfolk; Five dollar fines by H. E. Markell, York, Pa., Bobby Sadler of Manteo, L. W. Gurkin, Sr., ot Plymouth, Paul A. Crocker of Manns Harbor, R. W. Gray of Wan chese, G. W. Knox of Nags Hoad, Henry C. Price of Elizabeth City and R. C. Thomas of Reading, Ohio. -..t' •: MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1960 PLANS SHAPING FOR OPENING NIGHT OF THE LOST COLONY University Group Featured on Date of Second Primary Elec tion in Carolina Opening night performance of The, Lost Colony in Waterside Theatre, • Fort Raleigh, on June 25 has been officially designated as “Consolidated University Night,” J. Sib Dorton, general manager of the show reports. Heading the list of those who will be present forth drama’s 20th season premiere will be William C. Friday, president, Consolidated University of North Carolina and Vice President and Finance Officer William D. Carmichael, Jr., of Chapel Hill, Chancellor Gordon W. Blackwell of Woman’s College, Greensboro and Chancellor John T. Caldwell of State College in Ra leigh. Alumni of these three insti tutions which comprise the Con solidated University are being urged to attend the opening per formance of the drama which has outlived all other outdoor produc tions. “We are going to place special emphasis on getting the resident alumni in our immediate area and northeastern North Carolina gen erally attend the premiere,” said Dorton. “In the meantime, The Lost Col ony Company of more than 150 persons will be making ready to produce what we believe will be the most polished and best per formances in the history of the drama,” Dorton added. Rehearsals began on Monday, June 6, under direction of Clifton Britton of Goldsboro, assisted by Music Di rector George Trautwein, also of Goldsboro and a former member of the Westminster Choir voiced Lost Colony Chorus, and, Walter See LOST COLONY, Page Four DIVINITY DEGREE WON AT DUKE BY ENGELHARD MAN ■ P. D. MIDGETT,- 111, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Midgett, Jr., of Engelhard (Bachelor of Divinity degree) is included among approx imately 1,100 students who re ceived degrees from Duke Uni versity, Durham on Monday, June 6. The picture is five years old, when he was less mature looking, but none the. less dedicated to the life work he has chosen. Preceding the graduation exer cises, the Commencement Week end program included the tradi tional baccalaureate sermon Sun day morning at 11 a.m. in Duke Chapel, delivered by Dr. Goodrich C. White, chancellor of Emory Un iversity, Atlanta, Ga., on the top ic, "The Ordered Life.” HEAVY VOTE CAST ON OCRACOKE ISLAND Although somewhat late, a re port of the primary election re turns on Ocracoke Island is of in terest Its long time friend, Lind say Warren led the ticket for State Senator with 163; Dick O’Neal got 89 votes and P. D. Midgett, Jr., 68. For representative, Chariie McWilliams got 95 votes, Stanley Wahab 88 and Dick Lupton 5. For Judge, D. D. Cuthrell got 98 and J. M. Long 62. For Commissioner, Seth Cradle 24, Troy Mayo 50 and H. B. Hart 5. For Board of Education, Gratz Spencer got 140; Geo. Bush 133, Ray Spencer 139, Crawford Cahoon 136, Walter Lee Gibbs 72, W. I. Cochran 66, Earl Topping 64, Cecil Silverthorne 52; W. T. Howard 63. For Governor, Sanford got 118; Larkins 26, Seawell 19, and Lake 4. For U. S. Senator Jordan got 129, Hewlett 25, Gregory 7 and Mclntosh 6. For Congress Bonner got 114 and Jones 71. For Lieuten ant Governor Henkel got 92, Mc- Connell 46 and Philpott 30. For Supreme Court Justice, Moore got 126 and Cocke 24. For Insurance Commterioner, Gold got 115 and Fredericks 87. DARE COUNTY'S ONE SURVIVING VETERAN OF SPANISH WAR Sixty-Two Years Shows Little Difference In Gratitude For American Benefactions Wanchese Man Who Fought In the Phillipines in 1898 Says Turn Your Back on Any of Them and They're Ready to Knife You. Edward C. Green Is Last Spanish War Veteran in Dare County. By VICTOR MEEKINS Sixty two years ago this month, Edward <3. Green, tßr-ef Wanchese, enlisted in the Marine Corp, in Norfolk, Va., for the sure salary of $15.80 per month, and saved money. In a few months he had sailed from San Francisco and in September was fighting in Phili pine jungles, where the Spanish- American war was raging. During six years service in the Marine Corps., he served in Samoa and in China, where he fought in the midst of the Boxer rebellion. This was a .period of great ad venture for any 18-year-old boy fresh out of the Coastland country where few boys took off to go far from home. His father had been dead eight years, and his mother four years, so he had come up through life as a working man, although only a boy, and he knew his way around. It did not take him long to learn that the out- ■ landish objects of our unbounded charity and sympathy were then as limited in a sense of gratitude,! then as now. Although in the rough fighting he encountered, when his rifle bar rel got so hot he had to throw it aside, he came through this war without being wounded. More of his comrades were killed by dis ease and canned foods in this war than by the enemy, which state ment seems apparently well estab lished by the records. In the early fighting in the Phillippines, Mr. Green would be sent into the jungle with from one to three companies CAPE HATTERAS SCHOOL HAS 12 SENIORS IN CLASS Mrs. Mary L. Evans, Dare County Superintendent of Schools made the commencement address and presented the scholarships, at the exercises ait Cape Hatteras' school Wednesday, June 1. She was presented by Rev. Ray Sparrow; the presentation of awards and di plomas was by ‘Principal John W. Hamilton; the salutatory was by Jo Anne Midgett, and the vale dictory by Claudine Williams. The benediction was sung by Reba Bur rus, Cornelia Batten, Jo Anne Wingate and Sandra Gilliken. Mas cots were Carola Burrus and Buddy Gray. The pianist, Mrs. Hilda Brown. Marshalls were Chalaron Hudgins, Chief; Roger Sutton, Johnny Quidley, Clarence Jennette and Dewey Edwards. The members of the Senior Class are Robert Earl Austin, William Dale Burrus, Ervin Miller Farrow, Gloria Jean Gray Cox, Ruby Jen nette, Ruby Fagley, Betty Rollin son Gray, Wanda Leigh Gray, Jo Anne Midgett, Maggie Orenda Midgett, Betty Mercedes Price, Mary Virginia Tolson and Claudine Gray Williams. Claudine Williams and Jo Anne Midgett won S3OO scholarships to Atlantic Christian College. of men. It was a war of ambush, of sniping, and of double-crossing, and the enemy, ‘lee said; were only dependable once they had surrend ered, so long as you had your gun barrel pointed toward them. Turn your back, and they’d chop your head off, he added. It will be remembered, that the United States fought and paid for a war to free Cuba, and the Phil lippdnes from the oppresion of See GREEN,-Page Four A BUSINESS GRADUATE OF MARS HILL COLLEGE [Mb Ikhr--'' ■ MARS HILL. Melvin Thomas Twiddy, Jr., whose parents live at Manns Harbor, was one of 194 stu dents graduated this week at Mars Hill College. He received an “Associate in Arts” diploma from President Hoyt Blackwell for the completion of a two-year course in business at the Baptist junior college. He is a grandson of Mrs. Molly Gallop of Manns Harbor and Norfolk. HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SALE OF BROOMS BY LIONS Manteo Lions on Tuesday night, June 14 will canvass Manteo and surrounding area in the interest of their annual broom sale, pro ceeds of which will further the club’s community activities. Time es the sale is set for 7:30. The Lions* perpetual light bulb offer will accompany the brooms. Ip the event a home is missed, those wishing brooms or bulbs may contact Melvin Jackson, dub sec retary, and prompt delivery will be made. Acting Tuesday night at their regular session, the Manteo club voted to accept the offer to op erate the concession stand in Wa terside Theatre this season. Roa noke Island Historical Association, producers of the Lost Colony, has operated the stand in past years, but failed to make a material gain in reveunes from this operation. Through a good part of voluntary prontaoie venture. MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS SIXTEEN PAGES THIS WEEK Single Copy 70 JUDGE HOOKS FIRM AND LEVIED HEAVY FINES IN HIS COURT First Time in Many Years Fines Have Equalled Expense of Holding Court Term For the first time in some 34 years, fines were assessed in the Superior Court in Manteo last weak, which almost equalled the cost of the term. Judge W. Jack Hooks of Kenly bore down upon traffic violators, as well as others and fines totalled some $1,900. Although all fines go to the school fund, the amount collected relieves the burden on the taxpayers. Highest fine in a traffic case was assessed Jas. R. Hairfield. For driving while intoxicated, the pen alty was S4OO. Judge Hooks took the view that testimony of the de fendant and his wife was obviously incorrect. Hairfield was also given a suspended ‘sentence, 18 months to two years, conditioned on being of good behavior and violating no laws for two years. The judge re quired he pay S3OO down, and the other SIOO by October 1. Irene Chitty Saunders Gordon of Norfolk was required to pay a SI,OOO fine, sentenced to tjiree years in State prison, suspended on condition she pay SSOO now, and the other SSOO by September 1, 1961. She had been charged with having 'entered into a bigamous marriage [with J. R. Bulluck of Virginia. The couple had registered at a beach motel. The couple were located and reported to officers by Bulluck’s wife. Mrs. Saunders has since been divorced by her first huusband, and is married to one Gordon. Bulluck, had been free since his case for falsely registering had been nol pressed. Carrell Harris Midgett, 19, form erly of Waves, was sentenced 18 months to two years on the reads, judgement suspended on condition he pay a fine of $250, get rid of his car by July 1, not own another, 'be of good behavior and not vio late any law for three years. Mid gett was given a heavier sentence after the state had claimed that since buying his car, he had been involved in numerous traffic cases, and the Judge thought he should be restricted from driving on high ways. Midgett is employed as a shipping cleric in Norfolk. Norman Perry and Robert Alex ander were sentenced to 18 months on the roads for stealing an auto mobile and breaking and entering and stealing property on Roanoke Island. Involved with these two See COURT, Page Four GARBAGE CONTRACTS LET FOR TWO TOWNSHIPS While it appears that the Dare County Grand jury last week rec ommended that some plan for gar bage collection be worked out on Roanoke Island, that emninent body was surely off the track, for the County Board had long since agreed to establish this service, and ad vertisements for bids were already out, along with specifications for the upper Dare beaches. First to advocate and preas for this service before the county board more than 20 years ago was Vic tor Meekins, who this year insisted at this time that the more populous places of the county be likewise considered. Two months ago, the County Board finally agreed, after several delays, to include Roanoke Island in the bids effective July Ist. Meekins said it is his hope that all places in the county be added on basis of need as soon as possible. However, there is the question, of finances, and some places that do not get garbage col lection are not so greatly in need. Leonard Midgett of Manteo agreed this week to take on the limited service provided for Roan oke Island, along with the job on the Dare Beaches for the total sum annually of $13,200 which is SBOO less than the county was paying for the work on the beaches alone, two years ago. Orlando Burrus of Manteo asked $17,000 to do the job. The hew schedule is effective July 1, and provides for collections three times a week on Roanoke Island during July and August, with reduced service in succeeding months. Only such household gar bage as is placed in covered metal garbage containers near the state roadside will be collected. The time has come when so many homes have been built whose own ers have nothing more than a building lot, that it becomes import ant in the interest of health and sanitation that such service be established. There will naturally be delay in broadening this service, but communtties most in need are being taken care of now. Hope is expressed, that the legislature next spring will make possible a service for everyone, or establish • wnunuai ‘ I He* wiUCu UvSlrC.
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