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RONALD PAYNE, 17
KILLED IN AUTO
MISHAP, WANCHESE
Deatfi Occurs at Midnight; Five
Occupants of Car Overturned
at 10 p.m. Near Church
A car in which five young Wan
chese youths were riding over
turned at Wanchese Wednesday
night about 10 p.m. Ronald Payne
17 died of injuries, Cary Stetson
21, suffered severe gashes on leg
and thigh. The three other occu
pants of the car, David Daniels
13, Richard Scarborough 13, and
Donald Payne, the driver, suffer
ed bruises.
Twiford’s ambulance went to
the aid of the injured boys, and
after reporting to the office of
Dr. W. W. Harvey, Jr., took Ron
ald Payne to Elizabeth City hos
pital where he died on arrival
about midnight.
There was no patrolman in
Manteo at the time and Sheriff
Frank Cahoon and Deputy D. F.
Twyne went to the scene.
The driver lost control of the
car at the fork of Highway 345
with the Wanchese wharf road,
and skidded a distance of 321
feet, turning over several times.
Ronald Payne, and Stetson, who
had neck injuries and cuts, were
thrown from the car. All the
glasses were broken and the car
is a total wreck. It is a 1955 Ford
owned by the dead boy’s father.
It was reported in the communi
ty that the accident followed a
>-ace along the highway, with an
unidentified car at a speed of 110
miles per hour, and the car could
not be slowed down in time to
make the curve toward Mill
Landing.
Payne was the son of Wesley
Corbett and Ida Daniels Payne,
and a lifelong resident of Wan
chese.
He was a driver of one of the
Wanchese school buses.
Besides his parents, he is sur
vived by a twin brother, Donald
Payne, the driver, two other
brothers, Corbett and Jar vi s
Payne, a half sister, Mrs. Nor
man Paquette of Oxford, Mass.
He attended the Assembly of
God church at Wanchese from
where the funeral will be con
ducted Friday at 2 p.m. by the
Rev. Carroll Daniels. Burial will
be in the Cudworth cemetery.
MORE MOTELS ON
DARE BEACHES FOR
COMING SEASON
Two new motels are underway
for the coming beach season. John
Bell, super-market operator at
Nags Head is erecting a 22-unit
motel north of Parkersons which
will be of modem construction,
and having a capacity of 47 beds.
R. O. Ballance, Manteo contract
or is beginning constrauction of
ten units, the first of a motel to
be built by Horace F. Parker of
Portsmouth, Va. on lower Nags
Head, northward from the Tar
Heel Motel. Mr. Parker, who is a
summer resident of Kitty Hawk
beach, is a native of Gatesville.
Enlargement of several business
properties has been begun on the
beach. Donald Dough has recently
added to his store aand service
station at Kill Devil Hills.
EVANS OFFERS PLEA FOR
LEADERSHIP FROM AREA
f - ''
Merrill Evans of Ahoskie, form
er Highway Commissioner, in a
speech last week before the En
gelhard Rotary Club recommend
ed the development of leadership
from the northeastern section of
the state that can go to Raleigh
and hold its own with leaders
from other areas.
"The extent of the development
of this region will be determined
by the energy and vision of those
who participate in it,” Mr. Evans
told the club. We have been held
back, he said, because we had
few people, and were far from
Raleigh, aand we have lacked
trained technical leadership. He
pointed out the great value of the
propeesd road from Virginia Beach
to Nags Head.
He recommended development of
a sense of emergency to act now
to get this region moving ahead,
and to get its fair share of roads.
The speaker was presented by
Roy Lowe, program chairman.
Guests included Royden Neal,
John L. Mann, William I. Cochran,
R. L. Patrick, Horace Gibbs, Cole
man Davis, Hubert Watson, Allen
Forest Gibbs, Cecil Silverthorne,
Billy Farrow, Raphael Farrow and
James Emory Midgett and four
visiting Rotarians, Borden Mc-
Cleeee, W. J. White and Jake
Walker, all of Columbia and Billy
Broadfoot of Columbia.
The meeting was held at the
Hotel Engelhard with Earl Pugh,
president, presiding.
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
EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR VIEWS OF THE NEW
VISITORS’ CENTER AT THE WRIGHT MEMORIAL
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tHE NEW VISITOR CENTER, which cost $300,000, at Kill Devil Hills,
scene of the first airplane flights in 1903, is shown from the exterior in the
top picture. Bottom picture is an interior view. Below these lines you will
note a picture of the first airplane to fly. Impatient people might well gain
a lesson from meditating on the fact that all great things grow slowly, and
might compare the feeble beginning made 57 years ago by the Wright
Brothers in Dare County; with today’s airplane industry, which can circle
the world in non-stop flights, and move faster than the speed of sound.
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CAMPAIGN BEGINS
FOR CENTRAL HIGH
SCHOOL-BEAUFORT
Mrs. John Winfield Named Chair
man of Committee To Work
on Proposal
A central high school to serve
Belhaven, Pantego and Bath areas
of Beaufort County is the object
ive of a committee formed last
week, and of which Mrs. John
Winfield has been made chairman.
Jasper Warren of Chocowinity
has been elected Vice-Chairman.
An educational campaign is to be
conducted in Beaufort County to
acquaint all people with the pro
posal.
Several citizens have volunteer
ed to go before civic clubs and
others to discuss this situation.
The steering committee on Dec.
8 set a county-wide meeting at
the Washington High School audi
torium on Jan. 26 for further dis
cussion in the form of a panel on
which will be Dr. John W. Wilson,
superintendent o f Mecklenburg
County schools. Dr. I. E. Reedy,
director of curriculum for N. C.
Department of Education, Guy
Swain, formerly of Aurora, now
school superintendent of Rowan
County, Gene Purvis, Belhaven
Principal, Mrs. Linwood Harring
ton, Bath P.T.A. President and a
parent, J. D. Davenport of Bath,
school committeeman, Mrs. Rachel
Swindell of Bath, teacher, and the
following five students: at Gallo
way, Aurora, David Clark, Choco
winity, Leroy Waters, Bath, Ro
berta Taylor, Belhaven and Lou
Bishop, Pantego.
A prior steering committee
meeting is set for Jan. 19 to form
ulate final plans for the county
wide meeting of Jan. 26. Mrs.
Ashley Winfield of Pantego was
named Publicity chairman of the
committee.
Members of the steering com
mittee present Thursday night in
cluded Mrs. John A. Winfield,
Yeatesville, Jasper Warren, Choc
owinity, Mrs. Elaine Paul, Pat
Galloway, and Charles Bennett,
Aurora, David Clark, Chocowinity,
J. ,D. Davenport, Mrs. Linwood
Harrington, and Leroy Waters of
Bath, Russell Johnston, Mrs. Le
on Smith, Gene Purvis and Rober-
See SCHOOL, Page Five
PARKING PROBLEM
REARS UP BEFORE
BELHAVEN BOARD
New Rules Designed to Make
Room For Shoppers Now
Problem to Merchants
By ELIZABETH G. WINDLEY
Problems arising from enforce
ment of Belhaven’s new two-hour
parking law lighted up the De
cember meeting of the Belhaven
Board of Aidermen Monday. Mrs.
Vonnie Tinker and Miss Sallie
Smith, proprietor of the Adora
Beauty Salon, appeared before the
group to ask that some considera
tion be given to their patrons, es
pecially during the weeks before
Christmas. Mrs. Tinker stated
that it is often impossible for
patrons to complete their appoint
ments during a two hour period.
Aiderman C. B. Tillman said he
had received numerous complaints
from out of town shoppers, who
felt they were being mistreated by
having to pay overtime parking
fines. Mayor James Younce ex
plained that the law was passed
in an effort to provide parking
space for those shoppers since the
board had repeatedly failed in an
effort to persuade local merchants
and workers to use off Main
Street parking areas and leave
space for visitors. Mr. Tillman
said he had not been in favor of
the law when passed and believed
the problem could be solved with
cooperation of the merchants.
Majority of the board members,
however, backed by the opinion of
Police Chief Bill Clagon, agreed
that the law should not be re-
See PARKING, Page Five
BONNER WILL GIVE HIS
AWARD TO A COLLEGE
Congressman Herbert C. Bonner,
who has been awarded SI,OOO for
his work in promoting safety on
the water, says he will donate the
money to some colltge. Mr. Bon
ner is to be given this award Jan
uary 9th in New York by the Evin
rude Boating Foundation for his
efforts in directing and influencing
legislation for boating safety, and
promoting boating as a recreation
al activity. He is chairman of the
House committee on Merchant Ma
rine and Fisheries.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1960
' UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES:
Theory in Appointing Women Treasurers;
Recommends Baby-Sitter Cabinet Job
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Dear Mr. Editor:
I saw in a paper somewhere
that another woman is considered
for Treasurer of the United States
to replace Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest,
now in office. Now if it meant
anything more than having her
name put on our paper money, I
would say it is most appropriate
a woman be the treasurer. When
it comes to handling money,
there’s nobody half as smart as ?
woman. Not many of tfiem throw
it away, and most of them will
drive 25 miles to buy something
marked down eight cents.
But being Treasurer is not even
a cabinet job, while the Secretary
of tne Treasury is a cabinet offi
cer and he swings around all the
weight Congress will let him have.
Mr. Editor, I don’t see how
there is any chance to expect any
savings soon in Washington. We’re
Loaded so heavy in debt that our
interest bill is the second biggest
expense of the country. The Fed
eral budget is 25 times bigger
than it was 30 years ago.
If men who made two dollars a
day 30 years ago lived now on the
same scale, they’d all have to
bring home 50 bucks a day, after
deductions. Impossible!
We all want security wrapped
up in a package, but no one is
willing to make sacrifices for it.
Thirty years ago, we got along on
a trifling three billion dollars for
running the country, and now it’s
jumped to 79 billions. We owe 285
billion dollars, besides what we
are going to owe to veterans and
others from year to year. And
now we are letting all our gold
go to countries which demand gold.
Yes sir, I’d be for a woman if
they’d give her a free hand to
get and hold all the money she
could.
Mr. Editor, it looks like noth
ing can be done, but I am in fa
vor of creating a new cabinet job.
There ought to be » Department
of Baby Sitting. Os course the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare would want this un
der its wing, but I think it ought
to have full cabinet status. Since
people stopped ridging their chil-
OFFICIALS FAVOR A
$700,000 PROJECT
FOR FORT RALEIGH
Governor Hodges and Director
Wirth Discuss Possibility for
Elaborate Extension
A proposition for a $700,000 de
velopment at Fort Raleigh Histor
ical site on Roanoke Island was
discussed Wednesday in Washing
ton by Governor Luther Hodges
and Conrad Wirth, Director of the
National Park Service. This is in
line with previous announcement
that N.P.S. had been contemplat
ing expenditure of $400,000 dur
ing the next two or three years
for the development of a visitor
center, in keeping with a similar
project at Kill Devil Hills to be
dedicated Saturday of this week.
Wirth, in confirming details of
the conference, said the master
plan would involve:
• Acquisition of another 125
acres of land for expanding the
historic Roanoke Island site.
• Construction of a visitors
center and museum.
• Improvement of tourist park
ing facilities.
• Restoration on an improved
basis, of “The Lost Colony’’ out
door theater which was wrecked
last fall by Hurricane Donna.
Wirth emphasized the discussion
involved no commitments or de
cisions either by Hodges’ part or
by the National Park Service, but
that the park service was “defi
nitely interested’’ in including the
development in its “Mission 66”
plans.
That is the name given the
agency’s 10-year program for
bringing all national parks up to
standard by 1966.
Wirth said, however, efforts
might be made to include the Ft.
Raleigh money in next year’s
budget if arrangements can be
completed by then. Either the
state or some private source would
have to provide the extra land,
cost of which is estimated at S2OO
-
The federal share would go to
ward the capital improvements.
Cost of replacing “The Lost
Coiony” theater, originally built
with private and state funds,
would be about $50,000 to $75,000,
Wirth estimated. If restored, he
indicated the theater would be of
a somewhat more permanent type.
The joint federal-state develop
ment would be similar to what
has already been done at two oth
er sites on North Carolina’s Outer
See PROJECT, Page Five
dren and turned them over to so
called baby sitters, the situation
has grown into a national crisis.
After awhile somebody will in
vent a machine to raise children,
but meantime the Government
ought to step in, and draft all
people suitable for baby sitters,
and send them out where they are
needed.
Baby sitters are just not avail
able in well-to-do neighborhoods
where nobody need to earn any
money; except now and then some
gal takes on the chore for a
chance to entertain her boy friend
where they won’t be interrupted.
In places where you can get baby
sitters, they ron in grades, good,
bad - and indifferent.
The very small percentage of
young mothers now who stick to
the old German precept of “Child,
Church and Kitchen,” leaves it
necessary that the profession of
baby sitter be given special recog
nition. It is important to train
them, for the whole future of the
country depends on the quality of
baby sitters today.
There are some folks who be
lieve juvenile delinquency didn’t
get any headway until mothers
began giving up the business of
See DOCK, Page Five
SENATOR AND MRS. WINSLOW
BUY FIRST COLONY INN
Senator J. Emmett Winslow of
Hertford, and his wife, Lucille
plan to operate the First Colony
Inn, which they recently pur
chased at Nags Head. It was own
ed by the late Mr. and Mrs. C. P.
Midgett. Mrs. Winslow has play
ed an important part in the de
velopment of The Carolinian. The
new owers will live in the cottage
where the Midgett’s made their
home adjacent to the hotel.
Senator Winslow plans construc
tion of a service station and
snack bar opposite the hotel and
which will be connected with both
the old and new highways. The
new owners hope to bring back
the “rocking chair comfort and
lesiure,” for which the First Colo
ny was famed while operated by
the Midgetts.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
TAKING PART SATURDAY IN
DEDICATION OF AIR MUSEUM
Dual Program Recognizing $300,000 Park Serv
ice Project Includes Governor Hodges, Gov
ernor-elect Sanford, Major General Benjamin
tional Parks; Other National Figures, And Air
Force Flyover.
By AYCOCK BROWN
Aviation from the days of Leon
ardo da Vinci who dreamed of fly
ing in the 15th Century to the
modern missile era will be discuss
ed by the speakers appearing on
the program that will dedicate
America’s newest National Park
Service visitor center in which is
displayed the story of the Wright
Brothers’ experiments at Kitty
Hawk and Kill Devil Hills 57 years
ago.
At a luncheon following, Hon.
Terry Sanford, Governor elect will
be principal speaker.
The dedication ceremonies begin
ning at 10:15 o’clock on the morn
ing of December 17th will feature
addresses by Conrad Wirth, direc
tor of the National Park Service,
Governor Luther Hodges of North
Carolina who was recently named
as the forthcoming Secretary of
Commerce in the Kennedy cabi
net, and Maj. General Benjamin D.
Foulois, America’s first military
aviator who flew a Wright plane
in 1910. At the Wright Brothers
Memorial Luncheon to be held in
Dare County Shrine Club at Nags
Head, near the site of the Wrights
famous first flight of 1903.
“It is in commemoration of that
first flight—on December 17, 1903
—and other flying achievements of
these intrepid pioneers that the
Wright Brothers National Memori
al was erected as a monument to
the two men who opened the sky
ways of America and the world,”
says National Park Service Direct
or Conrad Wirth.
The new visitor center is a part
of the national monument com
memorating the memory of the
Wright Brothers who took the de
cisive step in man’s slow strides
to conquer the air. There, too, was
the cautious but giant step that
set man sprinting towards outer
space, the National Park Service
director stated.
“Like many other visitor cen
ters in our National Parks and
Monuments, the new visitors cen
ter here at Kill Devil Hills will
contribute to a better understand
ing of America’s heritage. Here we
record the Wright Brothers’ ex
ploits—their planning, their labors,
and their courage,” he added.
The two phase program begins
at the exact site of the first flight
on December 17, 1903 at 10:15
o’clock where the visitor center
dedication will take place and then
moves to the Dare County Shrine
Club nearby where the Wright
Brothers Memorial Luncheon will
be held under sponsorship of Kill
Devil Hiils Memorial Society.
An exciting and dramatic phase
of the dedication program will be
the flyover of super-jet aircraft
of the U. S. Air Force. This fly
over, an aerial tribute to the
Wrights whose first flight covered
120 feet in 12 seconds 57 years ago,
will take place at 10:37 a.m. the
exact time of the first flight from
the base of Kill Devil Hill here in
1903.
Detailed program of the dedica
tion and memorial luncheon fol
lows:
Invocation by the Rev. Peter M.
Denges of Kill Devil Hills, 10:15
a.m.; words of welcome, Mayor R.
H. Cook, of Kill Devil Hills, 10:20,
following National Anthem by
Elizabeth City’s High School Band
under direction of Scott Callaway;
Welcome and remarks by Governer
Luther Hodges of North Carolina,
10:23 a.m.; Description of Flyover
by U. S. Air Force 10:35 o’clock
followed by U. S. Air Force fly
over and aerial tribute to Wright
Brothers; NPS Director will intro
duce distinguished guests follow
ed by dedication address by Maj.
Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, U.S.A.
Corps, (Ret.). Following General
Foulois’ address will be a presen
tation by the Dare County Boy
Scouts followed by the wreath lay-
See PROGRAM, Page Five
DARE COUNTY FEELS FIRST
SHARP WEATHER OF SEASON
Following an unusually mild
autumn, Dare County people Mon
day night felt their first freezing
weather, the temperature dropping
to 12 degrees. Tuesday was a
sharp day, some small amount of
snow fell on Monday afternoon.
Tuesday night the temperature
was 22, and conditions improved,
with Thursday being mild. Consid
erable ice banked up along the
shore.
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ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
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COUNTY SEAT ASKS
OCRACOKE FERRY
TO NEW HOLLAND
Hyde Interests Prompt Resolution
By County Board, Seeking
New Route
Little publicity has been given
to the action of the Hyde County
Board of Commissioners’ resolu
tion passed this month, calling on
the State Highway Commission to
establish ferry service across
Pamlico Sound to a point near
the Mouth of the outfall canal
which would connect by road from
New Holland.
This comprehensive and strong
ly worded resolution voices ex
pressions of sentiment that have
prevailed on the Hyde mainland
aa long time. Some of this senti
ment is the outgrowth of appre
hension over the growing move
ment in Ocracoke Island to have
their township annexed to Dare
County for the convenience of
citizens who wish to deal with the
courthouse and for other reasons.
The Hyde County Board in their
meeting last week re-elected O.
L. Williams their county attorney,
and instructed he prepare a resolu
tion which has been circulated.
The Board had also endorsed the
resumption of ferry service be
tween Ocracoke and Atlantic. In
the petition for service to their
own mainland, they point out that
the distance to be crossed is only
17 miles, or a two hour journey
from Ocracoke to the courthouse
aat Swan Quarter. They mention
there is only seven miles of road
to be surfaced to connect with
U. S. 264. Summed up in the first
paragraph of the pettition is the
principal argument for this serv
ice, as follows:
“This Board is fully aware of
the present and future potentiali
ties of Hyde County as an area
where progress should be the aim
and goal of everyone. That the
natural resources of the County
should be and are sufficient to
furnish every citizen, men and
women alike, with profitable em
ployment That the fertility of the
soil, which will produce most any
crop useful for food or for pur
poses most beneficial to man; the
wild life of this area compares
favorable with that of any section
of the State or even the nation;
the numerous lakes, creeks, rivers
and Pamlico Sound are rich in fish,
oysters, shrimp, and an abundance
of seafood, both for hose consump
tion and for foreign markets; that
every section of Hyde County
should have ample opportunity
to participate i n every natural
resource of the County with
out the inconvenience now
existing between the mainland
and Ocracoke Island and that the
established routes of travel be
tween the mainland and Ocracoke
Island range in distance from 168
miles to 175 miles via Manteo, cross
ing Oregon Inlet, Hatteras, cross
ing Hatteras Inlet, then a travel
of some 12 to 14 miles from Hat
teras Inlet to the village of Ocra
coke That although Ocracoke is
a part of Hyde County, the resi
dents there have to travel approxi
mately 175 miles to the Court
House in Swan Quarter. That so
far as this Board has any knowl
edge, the citizens of no other
county in the State are compelled
to travel that distance to the
County seat to attend to any busi
ness in their respective Court
Houses.
NO SIGNS OF BODIES OF
FOUR LOST FISHERMEN
Despite a long and intensive
search for four men apparently
lost in the chilly waters off Ore
gon Inlet in Pamlico Sound on
Wednesday of last week, no trace
of their bodies had been reported
Thursday of this week.
The men, members of a party
of ten sportsfishermen from New
England were Vick Nelson, Jack
Steadman, George Albrecht and
i Tony Castagnaro of Westerly, R. I.
| Their overturned 19-foot motor
boat was found ashore on Green
Island, next day, one mile west
of Oregon Inlet Lifeboat Station.
The Coast Guard has maintained
a continuous watch for these men.
A total of six persons have re
cently been lost from small motor
boats at Oregon Inlet