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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOLUME XXVI NO. 27 MINIMUM FERRY SERVICE APPROVED FOR OCRACOKE Highway Commission to Work Out Details To Restore Route To Mainland After Governor Hodges had al located $1,075,000 for Highway Purposes in the state, the State Highway Commission Wednesday rescinded its position as to rees tablishing ferry service between Ocracoke Island and the mainland, and named a committee to work out plans for resuming the service established by the Taylor Broth ers, which was abandoned in Sep tember. It is stated that tolls will will be charged. It has not been announced if the Taylor Brothers boat will be bought with the $375,000 allocated by the Governor, or new boats will be acquired for the route. A Plans may mean establishing a new terminal at Cedar Island in Carteret County. In approving es tablishment of tolls, the State has departed from a policy effective since Governor Broughton remov ed tolls from ferries, and which has been of great value in devel oping the N. C. coast There will be much opposition to putting tolls back in any part of the state, and many will wonder drhy some part of North Carolina will be thus penalized while the rest of the state is not discriminated, against in this manner. It is con sidered a backward step in North Carolina, and may be expected to be very detrimental tw the eco nomic interests of the Coastland, and might open the way to tolls ■4 on all other ferries The Commission will decide on these questions at their meeting late in January, after Highway Director Bill Babcock and Engi neer Cam Lee have made their report. ' It was brought out at Wednes day’s meeting, that inasmuch as Ocracoke has highway connection by ferry to the northward, it will be the intent of the Commission to provide only the minimum ad ditional service that may be nec essary for the southward route. .. SCOUT RECOGNITION FOR > HYDE MAN IN BILOXI, MISS. Airman second-class Pratt Wil liamson, Jr. of Swan Quarter was presented a ten-year veteran’s award by the Boy Scouts of Amer ica on December 13th at the an nual Scooter’s recognition ban quet of the Biloxi District of the Boy Scouts in Biloxi, Miss. The ten years active registration in cluded membership as a Scout in Troop 213 at Swan Quarter, serv ice as Assistant Scoutmaster of the Swan Quarter Troop and as Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 244 at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. A former member of the staff of Coastland Newspapers in Man teo, Airman Williamson is now an instructor in Data Processing (computers) at Keesler. Since the chartering of Troop 244, the base’s second Boy Scout Troop, in March 1959, he has served as its Assistant Scoutmaster. During that time, the troop has grown from a membership of 13 boys to more than 50 active members, ' with an Explorer Post being form ed to serve boys over 14 years of age. At an awards ceremony on December 14th, Eagle Scout rank was presented to two Scouts in the troop by Major General John S. Hardy, the base commander, in the first such ceremony ever held on the base. Airman Williamson is now home for a holiday leave visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pratt Wil liamson, in Swan Quarter. MANTEO BAPTIST CHURCH OBSERVANCES SCHEDULED Student’s Day and Layman’s Night will be observed at the Manteo Baptist Church on Sunday, January 1, 1961. At the eleven o’clock hour Frankie White a student at East Carolina College will be in charge and bring the morning message. He will be using other students home for the holidays from differ ent colleges as well as several of the students of the Manteo High School At the evening hour which is seven thirty, Frank Cahoon will be in charge. He will lead the * singing with Roy King reading the scripture and R. L. (Trell) Payne bringing the evening mes sage. Melvin Jackson will lead the evening prayer and Sanford Stall ings will pronounce the benedic tion. The pastor, Rev. M. J. Davis, joins the congregation of the church in extending a cordial invi tation to the public to attend these special services. 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 MARCHANT MEEKINS 84, DIES MONDAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS Roanoke Island Citizen, Retired Surfman and Lover of Antiques Succumbs in Norfolk Hospital Johnston Marchant Meekins a popular and highly regarded re tired Coast Guardsman and citi zen of Roanoke Island, died Mon day morning in the Public Health Hospital in Norfolk, following an illness of five years. He had been taken to the hospital the week be fore, having had several sieges of illness in the hospital. During the past five years he had lived mostly in a wheel chair, and was cared for by a niece, Mrs. Brown Etheridge in her home near Manteo. He was born in the fam ily home on Roanoke Island near Fort Raleigh, April 6, 1876, the son of the late Daniel W. and Emily Marchant Meekins. He never married, but gave his early years to maintaining the home for his aged father. He was one of five sons and the only survivor of six children in the family. He is sur vived by five nieces and eight nephews. His home was immacu lately kept, and it was visited by ; many tourists who marvelled at his good house-keeping, his fine garden and his collection of an tique silver, china and furniture, * which had been handed down in ’ the family. He was a member of Roanoke Island Baptist Church, had been a lifelong resident of the comma ’ nity and was a charitable man, a helpful neighbor and a loyal supporter of his church. Until his ‘ last days, he retained a remark ’ ably clear memory, and was noted for his knowledge of local history. [ Out of his recollections he enter tained numerous visitors who called at the home to chat with ■ him. 1 The funeral was conducted ‘ Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the chap el of the Twiford Funeral Home 1 by Rev. C. C. Goodwin, pastor of ' the Baptist Church, and burial ’ was in the family plot on Roanoke Island. STANLEY TILLETT KILLED IN AUTO AT WANCHESE , Third Death in Family In Few Weeks; George Davis Toler Injured Friday Morning Stanley Tillett 34 of Wanchese died suddenly in the automobile he was driving at 2:15 a.m. Fri ' day. George Davis Toler who rid ’ ing with him was injured and taken to Elizabeth City hospital, 1 but was released the same day ' after treatment of minor injuries. ’ The car left the road, and went ’ into the woods on the left hand ’ side a distance of 70 to 80 yards. The mishap occurred within a few hundred yards of scene of ' the death of Ronald Payne the 1 week before, near the Methodist • Church. ' ’ Tillett, who was a merchant ' seaman, had recently come home ’ to attend the funeral of his un ’ cle, Sigsbee Tillett. Several weeks * ago, his father, Dallas Tillett died. He was the son of the late Dallas L. and Mary Daniels Tillett, and * was bom at Wanchese August 28, j 1926. He was a member of the ‘ Bethany Methodist Church. : He is survived by his step t mother, Mrs. Rena Baum Tillett, i The funeral service was con , ducted at Bethany Methodist r Church Christmas Day aat 2:30 pan. by the pastor, Rev. J. M. s Carroll, and Rev. C. W. Guthrie, i former pastor. Burial was in • Cudworth cemetery. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the Wanchee Methodist Church by the Rev. J. M. Carroll, pastor, ) assisted by the Rev. C. W. Guth rie, retired Methodist minister. s A solo, “Crossing The Bar,” , was sung by Miss Mary Jolliff. Mrs. Rennie Williamson accom panied at the organ. r The casket was covered with a t pall made of yellow mums and j fem. Active pallbearers were Melvin j Daniels, Jr., Willis Tillett, Larry . Tillett, Gilbert Tillett, Rondall f Tillett and Dan Parker. k Burial followed in Cudworth Cemetery. • I > RURITAN CLUB r > The Ruritan Club of Sladesville - held annual Ladies Night Dec. : 21st. Several were absent due to ■ illness but the ladies of the Bap- - tist Church served a delicious turkey supper to Ray Spencer and > Allen Credle of the program eom- > mitte and several others. The ■ group sang carols, played games, i and then opened the presents for the ladies. Barely Sixty Years Ago Since Windmills Ceased As Important Utility On Coast The Bread Supply of the Outer Banks Depended on These Mills Which Ground Meal and Hominy for the Family Table, Feed for Livestock, and Sometimes Pumped Water and Drained Low Land. Editor's Note: Within the memory of many < living people are the old windmills which , flourished throughout this coastland. They existed in all counties. In Hyde they were widely used for there was an abundance of grain to grind into meal/ hominy or chicken feed. Some of them operated on Roanoke Island. Nowhere were they more . important than on Hatteras Banks where J fishermen went across the sound and traded salt fish for com, and must have a place . to carry it to be ground. Some f’ve years ■ ago, the following article about old wind- . mills on the Outer Banks by M r . MocNelll was printed in the News and Observer: By BEN DIXON MacNEILL BUXTON.—Two tolling 1 ? of the i story continue and the hearer of them, seventy-odd years after the event, is so enabled to exenrse a certain cho’ce as to whether it was Bateman Miller, while reefin'’’ the sails on his windmill in Kinnakeet began to rotate ranidly when his son, Jones Miller, thinking that his father had finished with shorten ing sail, released the brake and continued merrily with the milling. Some inheritors of this item of Outer Banks folklore hold that it was Mr. Miller who loosed the brake before his son, Jones Mil ler. had finished with reefing the windmill’s sail and so began to rotate in the freshening breeze and the creaking of the mill’s ponderous gears completely neu tralized his anguished howling. But the mill ran unevenly and was presently stopped, whereupon whichever one of the Millers it was, descended to the earth unharmed. In Great Hurricane. Either way the Millers, father and son, continued to grind corn and wheat, as their forbears for perhaps two centuries had done, until the end of the windmill in North Carolina came with the Great Hurricane of 1899 which blew three days and three nights with peak winds reaching 155 miles per hour. The mill might have ben rebuilt but the era of the internal combustion engine had come and, despite the opinion of Capt Ban nister Midgett who had installed one of the things in a skiff, the unsanctified device had come to stay. There were at least ten of these ponderous machines on Hatteras Island. These I have discovered records of and there are as yet not wholly verified accounts of two others. There were others on Ocra coke, probably two, at least one on Harker’s Island, at least three on Roanoke Island and on the tip of land where Camden County touches North and Pasquotank rivers there were at least five. These add up to 22 windmills in the tidal reaches of the Sound country and no trace of them re mains except here and there, a pair of weathered mill-stones. Massive things they were, these windmills, with a sail diameter of 40 feet and more and they be gan to dot the landscape long be fore there was a North Carolina, They were, indeed, the subject of legislation of general protent pass ed by the Governor and Council not long after Charles Eden came as governor of the province under the Lords Proprietors. On November 23, 1715. meeting at the house of Capt. Richard Sanderson on the south bank of Little River in Per quimans County these worthy statesmen passed “An Act to En courage Windmills.” Still on Books. He began what a latter generation would denounce as creep-socialism in America. It was stated that anybody who would agree to erect a windmill for the grinding of corn and wheat would be given a half acre of land upon which to estab lish his industry and that the land be paid for out of public money, provided the mill was put into op eration within two years from the time application was filed. The same act fixed the tolls that a miller might charge for his serv ices and the law continues on the statute books until this day—one eighth of the grain ground. Present and subscribing their names to the law were Charles Eden, governor; N. Chevin, C. Gale, Frank Foster, Tobias Knight and Edward Moseley. And so windmills for the grind ing of com and wheat began to ap pear. There is no knowing which of them was the first, or where it may have been, but it may have been, but it is now generally agreed by those who can remember them that the mills built in eastern North Carolina, below the fall line where it was possible to turn a mill-stone with water power, were of the German type as opposed to the Dutch type. The books say that the windmill was the first power plant to be devised by man and that they were in general use in Europe before the end of the 12th century. Between the German and the Dutch types of the windmill the MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1960 essential difference was simple: The Germans turned the entire house around to face the sail into the wind and the Dutch merely turned the roof and for this they had a device not unlike the tail ro tor of a modern helicopter. The Dutch windmill automatically turn ed into the wind and the Germans had to get down and swing the en tire structure, which turned unon a massive wheel set at the end of a strut. Many Sources. Why the German type windmill was adapted to the villages of the Outer Banks no man can now say. There is a lot that no man can say, with any definiteness, about the development of these early power plants. Nobody has been able to set forth any generally acceptable theory as to where the mill stones came from. There is just no record that I have been able to discover and geologists who have examined specimens of the stones say they came from many sources. Some of them are definitely European, some of New England, some from those curious stone quarries n Craven and Onslow counties where the formation in its natural state can be cut with an ordinary knife and. after exposure to the air, it hardens to a flinty fixity. From my very earliest recollec tion the grist mill has been a domi nant interest. This was the first powered thing that I ever saw and when I came to this Island first, now 30 years ago, I brought w : th me a sort of conditioned wonder about where they got their grind ing done. Since I began residence here I have continued in wonder about and have from time to time, made tentative inquiries of an ob lique sort. ... I had long since learned that direct inquiry serves no sensible purpose anywhere. W’ndmills, yes, there used to be windmills. But nobody, somehow, remembered very much about them But in this region you learn pati ence and you get to know that, 'sometime, the thing will appear. But it never had occurred to me that I would owe so profound a debt to the late Dr. Collier Cobb, or that I might begin to know him anew on a somewhat casual visit to the Mariner’s Museum in New port News, where Dudley Bagley and I had gone for a day’s out ing. There Was Picture. Cn-ually enough John Lockhead, the librarian there, got out some of he Collier Cobb pictures, made from negatives done on visits to the Outer Banks beginning back in the late 1880 s. And there was the windmill picture, which appears herewith. Lockhead gave me a print of it, or rather we traded for one. He has added to an al ready magnificent collection some stuff of my own done in this coun try during the past 35 years. Dr. Cobb had, insofar aS I have been able to discover, taken the only picture in existence of a North Carolina windmill. And with that picture I went very casually about the Island. In every village,, when anybody of the age of 70 or above saw the picture he began to remember the wind mills in this village or that. Up in Avon a good dozen old timers recognized the picture as the Bateman Miller mill. Some were of the opinion that it might have been the Farrow Scarborough mill ,also in Avon. Nearer home, in Buxton, Kit Midgett’s, when he came down from the attic with Garfield’s preserved horns Gar field was a fabulous ox current in Capt Midgett’s boyhood he was sure that it must be one of the two windmills that were in this village. Rocky Rollinson was sure that it was the mill down in Fris co—“or one just like it” And so the story—the stories— began to come tumbling out of their long hiding, their forgotten ness. There was this one about See WINDMILLS, Page Four WESCOTT FAMILY REUNION The family of Mrs. John Wes cott of Manteo held its annual family reunion Monday night at the home of Mrs. Wescott’s son, Raymond Wescott, in Manteo. A dinner was served at six o’clock and the following were present: Mrs. John Wescott; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wescott and son, Stu art; Mr. and Mrs. Nevin Wescott and children, Miss Janet Wescott, Nevin, Jr., and Johnnie Wescott; and Mrs. Wescott’s father, Judge W. F. Baum all of Manteo; Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hill and children David and Helen, of Elisabeth City. DEFEBIO DIES BY OWN HAND IN EAST TENNESSEE PARK Man Involved in Violation of Com pulsory School Laws in Dare Died with $2,000 in Cash in Pockets The bearded Frank Joseph De- Febio who twice served time in the Dare County jail for refusing to send his children to school was found dead Sunday in a national park in East Tennessee. He came to Dare County some 12 years ago, and began life in the old Coast Guard Station of Paul Gam iels Hills, north of Kitty Hawk. Aided and advised by his wife, Theo DeFabio and some local con genital trouble-makers and obvi ous fellow travellers, they at tempted to make their own laws for Dare County, and caused much trouble and expense in that the county supported his four children for some months due to court or ders because he wouldn’t properly support and send his children to school. He was a most unhappy man, and once or twice while in jail he attemtped or simulated at tempts to commit suicide by slash ing himself with razor blades. Mrs. DeFebio was a Washington, D. C. taxicab driver and was oft en seen in the county, she would w’rite long letters to newspapers and brought suits against several local people for a total of $200,000 alleged damages, all of which were thrown out of court. Some radical newspaper reports in the North left the impression the fam ily was being persecuted here. Until recently he had been liv ing in the Southern Shores area where he worked at odd jobs and apparently had saved his money during a long period of time. Sev eral months ago he had consider ed buying a mercantile business at Kitty Hawk beach, with the money he had saved. The body was found in East Tennessee in a section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Federal officials considered he died by his own hands, according to a news dispatch from Maryville, Tenn, which said: “The FBI Mon day was called to check the death of a Kitty Hawk, N. C., man who officers said apparently shot him self Christmas Day after driving his jeep into Little River in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.” The victim was Frank Joseph DeFebio, about 45. The FBI has jurisdiction on Federal property. Officers said the man was first believed to have been an accident victim, but a doctor at Blount Me morial Hospital found a .22 cal. bullet wound hidden in his head by hair. A rifle was found at the scene of the jeep accident. At Gatlinburg, Chief Ranger Bill Watson said DeFebio had left an unaddressed note which said: "There is about $2,000 ip. my pock et. Please send it to Theo De- Febio, Kitty Hawk. Bury me any where.” Theo. DeFebio, his son is an honor student in Manteo High School. The chief ranger said witnesses who had seen the jeep accident asked DeFebio if he needed any help. They said he replied, “No.” He was found later lying on his jeep. Some $1954 was found in his pockets. Watson said DeFebio was unshaven and badly in need of a haircut He said the only contact De- Febio had had with the park came Saturday night when he was found sleeping in his jeep at Indian Gap near the highest point in the peak on the Tennessee side. A ranger checking parked vehicles as a precaution against carbon monox ide deaths and freezing, said De- Febio then appeared in “good spirits.” Rangers said they had reports that DeFebio may have been a conscientious objector during World War II and was possibly familiar with the park if he served in a park camp for conscientious objectors. It was unknown where DeFebio got his rifle or jeep. See DEFEBIO, Page Four A NEW YEAR’S WORKSHIP SERVICE AT SWAN QUARTER The Swan Quarter Christian Church will hold a New Year’s Eve worship service Saturday night 11:01-12-01. It will be con ducted by Garland C. Bland, min ister. The public is invited to end 1960 right and begin 1961 right. Sometime during the worship service Mr. Bland promises to do something that has never been done before in the. church, or in Hyde County as far as he is aware. The subject for the service is as follows: “Thank You Lord.” The subjects for Sunday, Jan. 1, as follows: 11 a.m.—"Goodbye I 960;” 7 p.m.—“Good Morning 1961.” HATTERAS WOMAN KILLED IN NORFOLK BY TRUCK THURS. \4rs. Marion Willis, 39, Victim of Reckless Driver; Police Car Struck Also A 39-year-old North Carolina woman became Norfolk’s 17th traffic fatality of 1960 Thursday morning in a two-truck collision at Church Street and Brambleton Avenue in Norfolk. Mrs. Marion Willis of Hatteras was dead on arrival at Norfolk General Hospital 8:43 a.m. of se vere head injuries. Police said Mrs. Willis was a passenger in a 1950 panel truck driven by her husband, Tine Wil lis, Jr., 42. The truck is owned by Newsome Seafood Co. of Hat teras. Neither Willis nor their 4- year-old daughter was injured. A 1955 dump truck, loaded with oyster shells, struck the Willis truck on the right door and fen der, throwing Mrs. Willis to the street. The dump truck ran over the victim, continued across Church Street and rammed a stopped po lice car headed north on the Southeast comer of the intersec tion. Patrolman R. D. Sawyer, driver of the patrol car, suffered an in jury to his elbow. With him in the car was Patrolman W. R. Knowles, who was uninjured. Dock Belin, 34, of the 1200 block of Republic Avenue, driver of the dump truck, was charged with manslaughter, reckless driv and having no state operator’s permit and no state registration card. Investigating the accident were Lt. R. E. Kowalsky, Sgt. L. E. Miller, Detectives Mark Woods and Fred Henley and Patrolman E. A. Caminati. She is the daughter of Mrs. Rhody Tucker of Avon, and the late Arthur Tucker. She was a native of Avon and lived at Hat teras. She was a member of Pen tecostal Holiness Church in Hat teras. In addition to her husband and mother, she is survived by three daughters, Margaret Baum Willis and Eunice Mae Willis of Hatter as and Mrs. Tinie Louise McKin ney of San Diego, Calif., and an uncle, Bradford O’Neal of Avon. GOLDEN WEDDING FOR MR. AND MRS. ETHERIDGE Manteo Couple Honored With Open Home Given by Their Children and Grandchildren Mr. and Mrs. E. W. (Ned) Eth eridge were honored Friday eve ning, December 23, with an Open House celebrating their 50th wed ding anniversary. The party was given by their children and grand children, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Webb of Pensacola, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. Edward Etheridge of Manteo, Miss Beckie Moulson of Norfolk, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Danny Moulson of Norfolk. Greeting guests at the door was Mrs. Edwin Midgett. In the re ceiving line were Mr. and Mrs. Etheridge, the honorees, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Webb and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Etheridge. In the dining room the table was laid with a lace cloth, with a golden center arrangement and golden candles. A gold and white three-tiered cake, topped with miniature bride and bridegroom dressed in gold, was cut and served by Mrs. Caleb Brickhouse. The gold-colored punch was served by Mrs. Wayland Baum. Also as sisting in serving were Mrs. J. B. Peterson, Mrs. Edward Wescott and Mrs. Seldon Midgett. Miss Beckie Mouson and Miss Linda Webb were in charge of the gift room. Mrs. J. M. Williams presided at the guest book. Mr. and Mrs. Etheridge were married in Manteo, Mrs. Ether idge being the former Alvania O’Neal. Among guests attending the Golden Wedding in addition to those previosuy mentioned, were Charles Edward Webb and Kevin Etheridge Webb of Pensacola, Fla.; Mrs. Lizzie Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Meekins, Mrs. Frank Sikora, Miss Elaine Brickhouse, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wescott, Edward Wescott, Brantley Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Horace A. Dough, Mr. and Mrs. Carey Quarles, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. O’Neal, Mrs. L. D. Tarking ton, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy Tillett, Miss Patsy Midgett, Mrs. Ray Jones, Mrs. Edna E. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Meekins, Mrs. Etta Midgett, Mrs. Leo - Midgette, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wescott, Mrs. F. F. Hasty, Mrs. Elmer R. Midgette, Mr. and Mrs. Dan C. Midgett, Mrs. Rennie G. Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Davis, Mrs. G. T. Westcott, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Mann, Jr. and Mrs. R. D. Sawyer, Sr., | See WEDDING, Pago Fear MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 42S MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS — Single Copy 70 MANY GAINS NOTED DURING YEAR 1960 IN THE COASTLAND Numerous Projects Viewed As Os Great Economic Advantage; Others Contemplated The year 1960 has brought many great projects to the North Caro lina coastland, the most signifi cant being the construction of the . Lindsay Warren bridge connecting Dare and Tyrrell, which is well underway, and surveys for a bridge across Oregon Inlet to be built in 1961. Hatteras Island has been given the Billy Mitchell Air port at Frisco, the Highway put on the Federal system, improved and widened, and numerous local roads have been surfaced in the vicinity. The National Park Service has completed the visitor center at the Wright Aviation Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, and many other accommodations for visitors in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Large additions have been made to the Sea Oatel, the Sea Foam Motel, the Ocean House and the Sea Spray cottages at Nags Head, construction is underway on two new motels in the same area. En largements have been made to motels on Hatteras and Ocracoke Island. Three fishing piers have been built on the Dare Coast. Telephone service has been ex tended to many new areas in the Dare County Coast; and several improvements to power lines have been made. A new draw span was completed on the Wright Memorial Bridge across Currituck Sound. New motels and cases have been completed in Hyde County. Notably by Axson Smith and Gene Ballance at Fairfield. A deep water harbor, and chan nel to the ocean via Oregon In let has been completed at Wan chese, whereby fleets of trawlers may find safe harbor in these waters for the first time in his tory. In Dare County, many new homes have been completed, some of them costing $30,000 and even more. The Lost Colony, Roanoke Is land’s most valuable tourist at traction ran in the black this year for the first time in many years, but sustained heavy losses during hurricane Donna. Construction has been started on a new modern post office at Kitty Hawk. A new post office building for Manteo is in prospect. Many new projects are contem plated for 1961. Privately owned auto ferry service between Ocra coke and Carteret County was be gun during the year, interrupted by Hurricane Donna, and is to be resumed shortly by the State Highway Commission, according to a decision made this week. SHOOTS BROTHER IN BELLY IN A ROW OVER A WOMAN MANTEO (AP) A quarrel Monday night between brothers in a South Manteo home ended in the fatal shotgun shooting of a Roanoke Island negro man. George Govan was taken to Al bemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City with a gunhot wound in . the stomach. His condition was listed at the hospital as critical. He died Wednesday morning. His brother, Edgar, is being held by the sheriff’s office for questioning, Deputy Sheriff D. F. Twine said. A neighbor, Earlene Gibbs Dan iels, also told the sheriffs office that the Govans came to her house on a visit and started fighting around 7 p.m. She order ed them to leave, she said. Both men are reported to have been suitors of the woman, a cook in a Manteo case. The brothers, who were said to have been drinking, went outside and continued fighting. Edgar Govan went into the house and grabbed a 12-gauge single-barrel shotgun, returned to the side of the house where his brother was, and fired. He was 12 feet way when he pulled the trig ger Deputy Sheriff Twine said. Sheriff Frank Cahoon said Tuesday no charge had been filed against Edgar Govan. GETS APPOINTMENT Wednesday Herbert C. Bonner, First District Congressman nomi nated Robert Franklin Noble to the U.S. Naval Academy at An napolis for 1961. Young Noble is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin E. Noble of 304 Cedar Street, Belhaven and the grandson of the late H. Frank and Annie Bishop Noble of Belhaven.