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ELECTION DAY IN
KILL DEVIL HILLS
ON THIS SATURDAY
Many People in Large Area Want
Out Rom Dare Beaches Sani
tary District
It’s election day again, Saturday,
Sept. 10, in the Dare Beaches
Sanitary District at the expense of
Dare County, in order tp give a
large’ number of people a chance
to get out of the District. Voting
will be all day at the Kill Devil
Hills town hall. A registration has
been held, and a hearing was held
Thursday to rule on challenges of
some of the voters who it was al
leged were not bona-fide residents
of the area.
The entire area of the town of
Kill Devil Hills and that part of
Atlantic township north of the
town would pull out of the dis
trict if the issue carries. Then
would be left only the smaller por
tion of the district which lies be
low the town’s south boundary, or
Nags Head proper.
In the new registration, much
interest was shown, and 238 per
sons registered. Os these, 133 were
residents of the town; 60 lived
north of the tqwiy apd 45 south
of the town. Residents of the
Kitty Hawk area, or northern por
tion wish to be relieved of a .11
tax rate. In Kill Devil Hills town
a 3 cent rate is paid. In Nags
Head 11 cents.
Fire equipment has been bought
and housed on both ends of the
beach, named Kitty Hawk and
Nags Head. The town had its own
fire Department.
Twenty registrants had been
challenged by Orville Baum, Mrs.
W. N. Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith
and Mrs. Ted Wood who wish to
keep things as they are. The other
side had not challenged any regis
trants. The hearing was scheduled
for Thursday. Saturday is voting
day.
i OLD HYDE COUNTY
RECORDS ARE BEING
s PRESERVED ON FILM
Project Now Underway Expected
to Be of Historical as Well
as Material Value
Hyde County is fortunate in
never having suffered any serious
losses of records from fire or other
causes. More than a third of the
100 counties have not been so for
tunate and as a result, invaluable
records, administratively and his
torically, have been forever lost.
Because of the serious losses which
have occurred, and will continue to
occur, State and county officials
i have for a number of years studied |
' plans for the preservation of our
county records. As a result of th »se
studies, it was determined that
i microfilming provided the most
i economical and satisfactory answer
i to the problem.
With the enthusiastic support of
I county officials throughout the
State, the State Department of
■ Archives and History sponsored
i legislation in the 1959 General As-
I sembly which would provide funds
for a program of inventorying the
records of each county in the State,
and repairing as necessary and
' microfilming for security purposes
[, nil records classified as permanent-
I ly valuable. Such records include,
among others, deeds, real estate
' maps, marriage records, ■ court
[ minutes, judgment dockets, wills,
estates records, and minutes of the
; various county agencies.
The proposed legislation passed
without opposition and became law
(G. S. 121-5.1). The Department
began operations in the counties in
i August of 1959 and by the end of
1 August, 1960, had completed nine
j counties, mostly the older counties
along the eastern seaboard.
i During August 23-25, a complete
1 inventory was taken of the records
in the various Hyde County offices.
! During that period older records
were inspected and a few in need
I of repair were taken back to the
■Department’s repair section where
they will be restored by lamination
' and rebound by a commercial bind-
I er, after which they will be re
i turned to the county.
On August 31, the work of micro
filming the permanently valuable
records began. This work is being
done in the courthouse and the rec
-1 oids are replaced in their custo-
■ mary storage place as soon as they
' have been microfilmed. It is antici
pated that it will require six or
seven weeks to complete the work.
Security copies of the film will
be stored in an air conditioned
vault in the Department in Ra
leigh. In the event of destruction
or loss of any of the original rec
ords in the future, page copies or
[ microfilm copies may be procured
, from the Department After the
| counties have been completed, it is
' planned to come back and micro
film up to date the newly created
See RECORDS, Page Five
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
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ROANOKE ISLAND BAPTIST CHURCH had a big day Sunday,
observing its 152nd anniversary with an outdoor picnic, followed by
a song program. In this picture is shown, from left to right, the
pastor, Rev. J. W. Godwin, Rev. H. B. Hines of Sanford who held
the pastorate longer than any other man; Alpheus W. Drinkwater,
85, the oldest living member, and Rev. Frank Dinwiddie, the pastor
of the Nags Head Church which was organized by the Roanoke Is
land church. Mr. Drinkwater holds in his arms the seven weeks old
son of Mrs. Pearl Capps, who is a great grandchild of his cousin,
the late Capt. Adam Etheridge. An estimated 300 persons attended
the picnic, which brought home many former residents.
ROTARY DIST. GOVERNOR
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The Rotary Club of Manteo on
Monday evening, September 12
will be host to James M. Bates,
governor of the 771st district of
Rotary International, who is mak
ing his annual official visit to
each of the 39 Rotary clubs in
his district. He will address the
local club and confer- with Presi
dent Robert F. Gibbs, and com
mittee chairmen on Rotary ad
ministration and service activi
ties.
Mr. Bates is vice president and
actuary of the Home Security
Life Insurance Company in Dur
ham, North Carolina, and is a
member and past president of the
Rotary Club of Durham. He is
past president of the Inter-Club
Council, past chairman of the
Shawnee District of the Boy
Scouts of America, and past
chairman of the all-important
budget committee of the Durham
United Fund. He was elected as a
district governor of Rotary Inter
national for 1960-61 fiscal year at
Rotary’s 51st annual convention in
Miami-Miami Beach, Florida,
U. S. A., in June of this year.
He is one of 267 district gover
nors supervising the activities of
more than 10,6000 Rotary clubs
which have a membership of near
ly 500,000 business and profession
al executives in 116 countries
throughtout the world.
MANTEO BAPTISTS PLAN
PICNIC SEPTEMBER 9th
The Rev. M. J. Davis from the
Lafayette Baptist Church, Fayette
ville will be the guest minister in
the Manteo Baptist Church for the
morning worship. Rev. C. W.
Guthrie of Wanchese will be in the
pulpit for the* evening worship
hour.
The Manteo Baptist Church will
enjoy the annual family picnic on
the church grounds Friday, Sept.
9 at 7 p.m. Every member of every
church family is urged to attend.
No finer fellowship can be experi
enced than at these gatherings—
Don’t disappoint us, Mrs. W. R.
Pearce says.
HATTERAS MAN IS 90
Alonzo J. O'Neal, oldest resi
dent on Hatteras Island celebrated
his 90th birthday Monday, Sep
tember 5 with Open House for his
relatives and friends. Mr. O’Neal
resides with his daughter, Mrs.
Lora Willis.
INTER-CITY ROTARY
MEETING PLANNED
COLUMBIA SEPT. 20
Picnic to be Held for Belhaven,
Manteo, Engelhard and Plym
outh Visitors
An inter-city Rotary meeting is
to be held in the form of a picnic
dinner at Columbia on Tuesday,
Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. Visitors from
nearby clubs are expected. There
will be a series of such meetings
including the Manteo, Belhaven,
Plymouth and Engelhard clubs.
Two months ago a similar series
of inter-city meetings were con
ducted between Columbia, Engel
hard and Belhaven. Belhaven is in
the 773rd District, while the other
clubs are in the 771st district.
Dr. W. T. Ralph of Belhaven has
recently been elected the District
Governor for the 773rd district.
District Governor for the 771st dis
trict is Jim Bates of Raleigh.
CHANGING NUMBERS
ON PHONES IN HYDE
EFFECTIVE OCT. 16
Kenneth Wilkinson, manager for
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Company, in Belhaven, stated to
day that a group of telephone peo
ple will soon begin work in Engel
hard and Swan Quarter to change
the number plates on each tele
phone for all subscribers in these
areas. Th enew plate will display
the new seven numerals which
make up the new numbers.
Wilkinson reminded us that these
new numbers are not to be used
until after 2:01 a.m., October 16,
1960, at which time the central of
fice equipment and all relative fa
cilities will be changed to coincide
with the new numbers. After this
change, it will necessitate dialing
seven numbers to reach subscribers
in your own exchange. The change
will also enable customers to dial
their own long distance calls, on
a station to station basis, without
th eaid of a long distance opera
tor.
Work is now being completefl
on the new modern central office
system which goes into use on
October 16, 1960.
A new directory has been pre
pared listing all the new numbers
along with the pertinent informa
tion pertaining to “Direct Distance
Dialing” and will be delivered to
each telephone subscriber just be
fore the change.
RALPH TILLETT, FAMED
AS WANCHESE ARTIST;
MERCHANT. DIES THURS.
Relph Elverton Tillett, 76, famed
for his self-taught artistry in oils,
long time merchant and leading
citizen of Wanchese, died at 12:15
a.m., at his home Thursday morn
ing after, a two-weeks illness.. He
was the husband of Mrs. Mabel
Tillett and the son of the late
Joseph Gideon apd Matilda Ether
idge Tillett. He is survived by a
son, Ralph Tillett, Jr., a daughter,
Mrs. Ralph Meekins, both of Wan
chese, arid by a half-sister, Mrs.
W. C. Tillett, and by six grandchil
dren and one great grandchild. He
was a member of the Methodist
church and the Red Men.
Funeral services are not com
plete. The body was taken to Twi
ford Funeral Home in Manteo.
RECORDERS COURT
BUSINESS DROPPING
AS SEASON CLOSES
Labor Day Week End Cases Pro
duce More Than S6OO in
Fines in Dare Court
The business of Dare County Re
corder’s court took a tumble from
the usual SI,OOO and $1,200 gross
fines, weekly, -when the Labor Day
week end business was closed out.
Fines totaled approximately $620
Tuesday.
Moses Peterson of Manteo was
ordered to pay his mother’s doc
tor bill, the court costs and a $25
fine. He was charged with assault
ing his mother, Edna McCleese,
with a flashlight, resulting in
serious injuries.
T. B. Wood of Edenton, charged
with driving while intoxicated,
was found guilty of reckless driv
ing and fined $25. Donnie A. Wil
liams of Frisco, F. H. Reber of
Nags Head, W. <C. Dunning of
Murfreesboro, Thos. Warren of
Spring Lake, N. C., were each
fined $25 for public drunkenness.
H. D. Bondsack of Highland,
Calif., was fined S4O for driving
after his license had expired, and
for speeding. J. W. Hodges, 19,
of Norfolk had no driving license,
and was speeding and was fined
$35. The SSO bond of E. B. Mc-
Quarter of Yorktown, Pa., was
ordered forfeited when he failed to
appear.
Preston Stallings of Jamesville
had given four bad checks on the
South Banks in the total of $135.88.
Was required to pay court costs
after making good the checks.
J. W. Lee of Manteo allowed an
unlicensed operator, Norfleet P.
Lee to drive his car. Each were
required to pay $25 and court costs.
See COURT, Page Five
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MR. AND MRS. FREDERICK WARREN, with their twin daugh
ters, reading from left to right—Linda, white suit and Sandra, of
Washington, D. C. visiting the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Is
land Saturday. Mr. Warren s a consulting engineer, member of the
firm Pickard-Warren-Lowe Associates in Washington. Mrs. Warren
is a daughter of the late Marvin Mclntyre, who for eight years was
appointment secretary of President Franklin Roosevelt, and who got
his newspaper start on the Asheville papers, always calling North
Carolina his second home. Linda is a junior at Hood College, Fred
erick, Md. She was a class mate of Myra Morrison at National Ca
thedral school. Sandra is a junior at Goucher College, Baltimore.
Next is Mrs. Warren, and finally Mr. Warren.—Staff photo.
BRIGGS ELECTED TO
C OF C PRESIDENCY
AT WEDNESDAY MEET
Tom Briggs of The Croatan Ho
tel, Kill Devil Hills, was elected
president of Nags Head Chamber
of Commerce at the organization’s
early September meeting at the
Outer Banker Restaurant on
Wednseday night. Ben Ivey, own
er-operator of the Outer Banker
was elected vice president.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Vir
ginia Dare Hardware at Kitty
Hawk was re-elected treasurer and
Miss Sarah Halliburton was re
elected executive secretary of the
organization.
Briggs succeeds George Crocker
of Beacon Motor Lodge who had
headed the Chamber of Commerce
for the past term and a half.
“He has served with distinction,”
said Julian Oneto, former presi
dent, “and under his leadership
the Dare Beaches area has re
ceived much publicity and promo
tion.”
Ivey succeeds Ted .Woods as
vice president.
Both Miss Halliburton, the exec
utive secretary and Mrs. Smith,
the treasurer, were highly prais
ed for their work in the interests
of the Nags Head Chamber of
Commerce.
Later this fall there will be a
general meeting of all member
ships. Date of that meeting will
be made by President Briggs at
an early date.
LOST COLONY HAD
GAINS IN SPITE OF
A RAINY AUGUST
Had 1,751 More Paid Admissions
Than During Last Year Late
Report Shows
By AYCOCK BROWN
Despite the rainiest August in
several years the Lost Colony
drama, under management of J.
Sib Dorton during the 1960 sea
son ending Sunday, showed a five
percent increase in paid attend
ance over 1959.
“A total of 35,866 through box
'office ticket purchases, paid ad
mission to see the drama present
ed for its 20th season in Water
side Theatre here during 1960. Thi
was a total of 1,751 more paid ad
missions than last year, or an in
crease of approximately 5 per
cent,” said Dorton.
The foregoing total does not in
clude 866 person who saw perform
ances of The Lost Colony through
membership in Roanoke Island
Historical Association, sponsors of
the show. Mrs. 0. Max Gardner,
Selby, N. C., is chairman of the
association. The memberships
ranging from $5 to SIOO includes
season ticket privileges. Approxi
mately SIO,OOO in memberships
i were sold this year which aided
materially in production of the
i show for its 20th season beginning
The national membership drive
■ was under the leadership of Mrs.
i Fred Morrison, Washington, D. C.
. Mrs. Emmett Winslow was in
J charge of the solicitations in North
Carolina, with county and area
i chairmen giving time and support.
Dorton stated that of 63 per
> formances scheduled this year
, three were totally rained out, with
See LOST COLONY, Page Four
KILL DEVIL PEBBLES
AIRLIFTED TO JAPAN
FOR BIG OBSERVANCE
When the town of Kill Devil
Hills showed a lack of interest
in the shipment of sands from the
first flight site to Japan where
the Japanese will celebrate their
50th anniversary of their first
powered flight this year Mayor
R. H. Cook made a personal proj
ect of this opportunity to get in
ternational publicity for the area
made famous by Orville and Wil
bur Wright on December 17, 1903.
On Thursday this week a U.S.
Air Force plane from the Tactical
Air Command, Langley Field,
landed at Manteo Airport, was
met by representatives of Mayor
Cook who transported them to
Kill Devil Hills where pebbles, not
soil (due to an agreement be
tween Japan and the U.S.A, that
no soils would be transported from
one nation to the other) packed
in an attractive chest was turned
over for the airlift to the Oriental
site of another famous “first
flight” occurring in 1910.
The chest of pebbles from Kill
Devil Hills was addressed to Ki
yoshi Goko, President, Japanese
Aeronautic Association in the Hi
kokan Building, Tokyo. With it
went a package of North Carolina
pine tree seeds for the planting
of a forest at the site of the first
Japanese flight of an airplane 50
See PEBBLES, Page
BEAUFORT CO. ROTARIANS
ELECT DIST. PRESIDENT
if
DR. W. T. RALPH, prominent Bel
haven citizen and dentist, was
elected President of the 773rd
Rotary District, which numbers 43
clubs in eastern N. C. southward
from Belhaven. Supported by the
Washington club and put forth by
Belhaven-Pantego, his home club,
Dr. Ralph was the winner over Dr.
W. L. Woodard of Beaufort who
is also one of the district’s most
popular Rotarians. Dr. Ralph,
many times Mayor of Belhaven,
has been president of his club, and
served on all club committees. He
is expected to be a delegate to ths
International Convention in Tokyo
COAST GUARD APPRENTICE
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RAYMOND E. WHITE, 111, Sea
i man Apprentice, USCG, son of Mr.
! and Mrs. Erwin White, Jr., of
North Little St., in Manteo, N. C.,
graduate of Manteo High School.
Will report to a petty officers’
school at the Coast Guard Train
ing Station in Groton, Conn.
COLINGTON TO GET
DITCH CUT WITHOUT
LOCAL CONTRIBUTION
The same Dare County Board
member who so vigorously opposed
spending public money on com
munity ditches as being unlawful,
this week favored the letting of
a contract to build one in his own
bailiwick. Commissioner Stick,
changed opinions before the pri
mary, and favored deepening Col
ington Ditch, which the citizens
considered too crooked and too
shallow.
At the request of the Board of
Commissioners to enable county
funds to be spent on such projects,
a bill was passed in the General
Assembly last year that such funds
could be spent not from ad va
loreurn tax money, but other un
appropriated money, provided local
interests had contributed a sum
equal to half the cost.
In this instance ,the Colington
project is being dug at a cost of
$950.78, and none of the 140 peo
ple of the island have been re
quired to contribuute. The low bid
was by Stetson and Daniels of
Wanchese. One other bid in the
amount of $1,320.50 was submitted
by Sam Liverman of Colington.
The ditch is to be dug 20 feet
wide and six feet deep.
An effort to get a drainage mos
quito control drainage ditch dug
at Rodanthe at a cost of SBOO has
failed because easements have not
been signed by three of the in
tervening property owners. The
committee that had agreed to get
the signatures to the rights q£ way
had not done so by Tuesday. Com
missioner Edwards had been autho
rized by the Board tb issue pro
posals on the job, only when ease
ments had been completed.
It is considered a complete waste
of money to dig ditches when one
or more property owners could im
mediately fill such ditch across his
land whereby a worse problem than
before would be created by a pool
to catch stagnant water. Upwards
of SIOO,OOO of Hurricane relief
funds were spent in Dare County
some four years ago, which so far
See COLINGTON, Page Five
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
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WANCHESE HARBOR
FISH FRY PROGRAM
PLEASES HUNDREDS
Bonner Recites Difficulties; Admi
ral Colmar Mentions $25,000
Worth of Beacons Built
Speaking before some 500 peo
ple gathered at Wanchese Mon
day, Rear Admiral Peter V. Col
mar, Commander of the sth
■ Coast Guard District said the
Coast Guard has recently com
| pleted SIO,OOO worth of aids to
navigation in the channel leading
to Manteo, had another $15,000
worth in process of construction,
and also would establish a radio
beacon at Oregon Inlet.
Admiral Colmar was presented
by P. D. Midgett, Jr. of Engel
hard, a native of the Wanchese
community, whose citizens staged
a celebration honoring Congress
man Herbert Bonner, for his ef
forts in Congress in achieving the
one and a half million dallar
dredging job by the Corp, of En
gineers.
Prevented at the last minute
from attending, Col. R. P. David
son, District Engineer was repre
sented by L. P. McDuffie, chief of
the Engineering division of the
Wilmington office. He was ac
companied by D. A. Gardner, chief
of the operations division. Mr. Mc-
Duffie told of the many complex
ities in finally establishing the lo
cation of the channel. He was pre
sented by Dr. W. W. Harvey, Jr.
chairman of the Dare County Wa
terways Committee.
The address of Welcome was by
Melvin R. Daniels, Register of
Deeds of Dare County and one
of the promoters of the project.
Victor Meekins, chairman of the
County Board of Commissioners
presided.
The only thing lacking to com
plete the project Meekins said,
was the public dock on the new
harbor that had been pledged by
the county board, and which was
a prerequisite to getting the gov
ernment funds for the project.
Private donations had provided
money to buy a docksite, and the
state had agreed to surface an
access road to it, Meekins report
ed, and read a list of contributors
to the land as follows:
Public acknowledgement was
made of the financial contribu
tions to the fund to buy land for
a public dock on the Wanchese
Harbor during 1959. The names
included Virginia Electric & Pow
er Co., First and Citizens Nation
al Bank, Norfolk and Carolina
Tel. & Tel. Co., Miles Clark, San
ders Co., Industrial Bank, all of
Elizabeth City; Ben Dixon Mac-
Neill of Buxton; Taylor Johnson
of Virginia Beach; O. L. Baum of
Kitty Hawk; W. R. Deaton of
Kill Devil Hills; Fearings, Inc.;
A. H. Ward, Jr.; Roanoke Oil Co.;
M. L. Daniels Oil Co.; Wescott
Bros.; Oregon Inlet Fishing Cen
ter of Manteo; Chief Wanchese
Packing Co.; James Griggs; Mack
Etheridge; H. L. Davis; Willie
Etheridge and Willie Etheridge,
Jr.; Wayland, Billy and Harry
Baum; W. C. Tillett; Ralph Til
lett; Elton Gallop; Roscoe Gallop;
R. H. Vanderslice; Jesse Ether
idge; Richard Tillett; Edmond
Wright; George and Arnold Dan
iels; and Victor Meekins who pro
vided the land for harbor exten
sion at a cost of several hundred
dollars.
Numerous political leaders and
other friends present were recog
nized. These included county repre
sentatives or nominees as follows:
Dick Lupton of Hyde, Dr. J. M.
Phelps of Washington, Walton
Griggs of Currituck, C. D. Ferrell
of Pasquotank, M. K. Fearing, Jr.
of Dare, Mayor H. T. Davenport
of Columbia, Mayor W. H. Potter
of Beaufort, Senator Elton Ayd
lett, and Lorimer Midgett of
Elizabeth City, Senator and Mrs.
Elbert Peele, Jr., former Senator
Robert Cowan, Ray Goodmon and
Charles Sale, all of Williamston;
R. K. T. Larson of Norfolk News
papers, Robert F. Gibbs, Supt.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore,
Walter D. Perry and Major J. L.
See HARBOR, Page Five
NAGS HEAD TEAM IN
NEW JERSEY TOURNEY
Six men from the Dare Beach
will leave Wednesday of next
week for Atlantic City, N. J., to
participate in the Greater Atlan
tic City Fishing Tounament be
ginning Thursday the 15th. There
will be about 65 teams entered in
the contest, of which Nags Head
was second place winner last year.
Those scheduled to go are as fol
lows: Bob Preston, president of
Nags Head club and W. A. Wil
liams of Nags Head; W. N. (Bud)
Rose of Kitty Hawk and John
Weaver of Kill Devil Hills, plus
two others who have not an
nounced definitely.
Nags Head’s tournament will bd
held October 13-14-15, and indica
tions are for the largest group
in several years to be present.