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VOLUME XXVI NO. 37
SALE OF EASTER
SEALS TO BEGIN
IN DARE COUNTY
Mrs. Hughes Tillett, Jr., of Wan
chese, Heads 1961 Campaign
to Aid Crippled Children
Mrs. Hughes Tillett, Jr. of Wan
, chese, will lead the Dare County
Society for Crippled Children and
Adults, in its 1961 fight against
crippling. Mrs. Tillett was announ
ced last month as chairmas of the
Seal 'Campaign in Dare
County with Mrs. Thomas Big«rs a3
Secretary-Treasurer. They will di
rect volunteers in an all out effort
to finance the fight on conditions
that cripple children and adults in
Dare County.
The Campaign, marking 40 years
of Service to the crippled by the
Easter Seal organization, is schedu
led March 2-April 2. Seals will go
through the mail to approximately
500 homes in this county. Everyone
is urged to use these seals to help
fight crinpling in the community.
Many other homes will be called
upon for donations by volunteers
who will take part in a “lily day”
sale March 25.
Easter Seals in 1960 brought aid
to a number of children and adults
of all ages and races, and with all
kinds of crippling conditions, in
cluding birth defects, strokes,
speech disorders, or any crippling
condition caused by accident or
disease.
Volunteers are needed to offer
their services in the 1961 Easter
Seal Campaign to raise funds for
these services. Mrs. Tillett invites
clubs, youth organizations and any
interested groups and persons to
join in making the campaign for
crippled children and adults a suc
cess by donations or volunteering
services. If anyone knows of a
crippled child or adult, regardless
of race or religion, who needs help,
please contact your local' society
by calling during the hours of nine
to five, the number's 44 or 116, or
at night 190-w3, or by writing
Mrs. Tillett or Mrs. Biggs at Wan
chese.
Remember! Your dollars through
Easter Seals give care and hope to
crippled children and adults.
ROLAND S. MEEKINS, 70.
DIES OF STROKE THURS.
Roland Sullivan Meekins, who
was stricken on Wednesday, his
70th birthday, died at 5 a.m. Thurs
day morning in a Norfolk hospital.
He had been in failing health for
several years. He was a native of
Roanoke Island, son of the late
Charles P. and Winnie Meekins and
the husband of Mrs. Ella Lowe
Meekins. His surviving relatives
are a brother, Wm. S. Meekins, two
sisters, Mrs. Gladys Brantley and
Mrs. Ruth Jones all of Manteo, and
a step-daughter, Mrs. Frances Cox
of Virginia Beach, and three step
grandchildren.
He was a member of the Masonic
Lodge, a member of Manteo Bap
tist Church, and was a veteran of
World War I. He was a retired
carpenter, having worked with the
Norfolk Naval Shipyard for many
years, and had returned to Roan
oke Island 12 years ago, to be near
his people, and had built a new
home where he resided.
On the morning he was stricken,
he received several remembrances
for Ms birthday, and was conscious
all morning. He was taken by Twi
ford’s ambulance to Norfolk Gen
eral Hospital Wednesday afternoon
where his
Miss Kay Cox is a nurse.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Man
teo Baptist church. Burial will be
with Masonic services in the Meek
ins Cemetary on Roanoke Island.
KEECH LOW BIDDER ON
CAPE HATTERAS JOB
Keech Construction Co. of Pine
town was the lower bidder Tuesday
in the sum of $117,825.50 on the
expansion of camp ground facilities
of the National Park Service at
Cape Hatteras. The project includ
es a mile of road, some 2,000 feet
of walkways to the ocean, and pre
paration of sites for an additional
100 campers, including parking
areas, for 50 cars. Other bidders
were Stetson and Daniels of Wan
chese at $118,317 and Dickerson
Co. of Monroe at $128,980. This is
the second large job on which the
Keech Co. has been low bidder for
the Cape Hatteras Natjogal sea
shore.
CHARLES BRIGGS IS ON
LOCATION IN PHILIPPINES
Charles Briggs, frmerly of Kill
Devil Hills, and now of North Hol
lywood, California, left California
on March 4 for the Philippines,
where he is on location with the
filming of "The Marauders”, which
will star Jeff Chandler, and in
which Charles will play the comedy
Mad, according to word received by
Ihfis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
H. Briggs of Kill Devil Hills. He
expects to be in the Philippines for
two months.
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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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BELHAVEN.—Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Manning of Route One, Belhaven, will celebrate their golden
wedding anniversary on Sunday, March 12, at their home, in the friendly community of Ponzer in Hyde
County.
They will be at home to their many friends f.-om 2 to 5 p.m.
Their children will be present for the occasion. They are Lt Commander F. A. Manning of Nor
folk, Chief Warrant Officer James H. Manning of Charleston, S. C., Mrs. John Kehoe of Norfolk, Floyd
Manning of Atlanta, Ga. and Deering Manning of Bluff City, Tenn.
Another son, Lt. Edward Manning, was killed in France during World War 11.
Mr. and Mrs. Manning also have 12 grandchildren who will be present for the occasion.
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MRS. LENA JOHNSON DIES
IN NORFOLK AT AGE OF 91
After more than five years ill
ness in a Norfolk H'» < sn ? *'»l M—,
Lena W. Johnson, whose daughter
married R. Stanley Wahab of Ocra
coke was the mother of his three
children, and died many years ago,
passed away Saturday in Leigh
Memorial Hospital. She was a na
tive of Surry County and had lived
most of her life in Norfolk. She!
was a church leader, a member of
Epworth Church. The funeral was
conducted Monday and burial was
in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Surviving are one granddaugh
ter, Miss Lillian E. Wahab of
Norfolk; two grandsons, Judge
Robert S. Wahab Jr. of Birdneck
Point, Virginia Beach, and Wil-1
son H. Wahab of Princess Anne
County; two great - grandsons,
Robert S. Wahab 111 and Willson
R. Wahab of Virginia Beach,
and one stepdaughter, Mrs. Her
bert M. Schachte of Asheville, N.
C., and St. Petersburg, Fla.
NEGRO GIVEN SIX MONTHS
FOR BEATING UP ANOTHER
Russell Lee Blount of Engelhard.'
who beat up and stomped John
Coollidge Mann at Louvada’s place,
near Manteo on February 19th, was
heard by Judge Baum in Recorder’s
court Tuesday, who accepted a plea 1
of assauult. Mann had a medical
and hospital bill in the Elizabeth
Ctty Hospital of $121.08. The court
ordered Blount to pay this off at
the rate of $lO a month, and fined
Blount S4O and costs on condition
of a six months suspended sen-i
tence.
For speeding and improper pas-!
sing, Adrian O. Haynie of Buxton
paid S2O and costs. For reckless
and careless driving, Calvin H.
Saunders of Wanchese paid $25
and costs.
A. F. Capps of Newport News
and George C. Gray*Jr. of Avan,
each paid SIOO and costs for driv
ing while intoxicated. For operat
ing commercial fishing equipment
without license, Calvin Payne of
Stumpy Point paid court costs, for
the same offense Victor Daniels Jr.
of Wanchese was fined $lO. For
possessing unculled oysters, Lind
say Tate and Curnie Hopkins, both
of Belhaven were each fined $lO
and costs.
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SHERRY JOHNSON, Nags Head,
a Manteo High School senior is
wearing the frock she made in the
Woman’s Club sponsored Vogue
serving contest. Runnerups were
Brenda Daniels, Wanchese, Char
lotte Perry and Betty Finn, Kitty
Hawk. The contest judging was
held at the local school on Satur
day afternoon.
(Aycock Brown Photo)
FRESH WATER FISHING
IN MAINLAND-LAKES
MANNS HARBOR Summery
weather of late has started fresh
water fishing in waters of East and
South Lake near Manns Harbor,
according to W. S. White, merchant
and motel operator here.
“They are catching large mouth
bass and crappies (speckled perch)
with live bait in both lakes,” he
said.
Anglers are also catching striped
bass in the lakes, some going to
four and six pounds, according to
White’s report.
“The stripers are being caught
with Pet spoons, trolled in the wake
of inboard and outboard powered
boats,” said White.
In addition to the good fishing
accompanying the recent warm
weather in the lakes, one angler
caught four largemouths flyeasting
in the roadside canal adjacent to
and at the intersections of U. S.
Highways M and 264.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1961
2ND BLUE MARLIN
TOURNAMENT AT
HATTERAS JUNE 17-22
HATTERAS Second annual
Hatteras International Blue Mar
lin Tournament will be he'd here
June 17 through June 22. with four
days of tournament fishing, it was
announced today by Willis Slane
Jr., of High Point, N. C., president
of the Hatteras Marlin Club.
“There will be both team and
individual competition,” said Slane
who indicated the pattern of the
event would be the same as last
year.
No announcement was made re
lative to the name of person who
will direct the tournament or serve
on the various committees that are
associated with an international
tournament.
Last year 19 blue marlin were
boated by anglers of the teams
competing in the event. A partici
pant at the first annual tourney in
1960 was Governor Luther H. Hod
ges of North Carolina who is now
(J. S. Secretary of Commerce in
the President John F. Kennedy cab
inet.
UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK SAYS:
Jobs for Americans Play Out While' We Go
Nuts to Give Everything Away to Heathen
Dear Mr. Editor:
I have read so much about unem
ployment in this country that it is
getting me down. It seems to be we
hould have been given the facts a
little earlier. I can’t understand
why most of our news in the papers
and on TV is concerned with
cramming negroes in with the
whites in our Southern Schools, and
in listening to the demands of self
anpointed kings of savage lands
who tell us what we’ve got to do.
And strange to say, we really take
•them seriously.
Jf we had left the savages alone,
they would have eaten each other
up by now and there would be no
problem. Suppose Russia had taken
them over; they’re one morsel not
even the Russians could digest, and
had Russia attempted to feed them,
she would have gone broke by now.
Mr. Editor, it seems ridculous to
me, that we should attach so much
importance to these savages who,
after we have fed them, and endea
vored to provide them independence
and safety, that our whole country
has to spend half its energies in
conference in the United Nations,
begging them to accept our way of
life. There are two dozen of these
black savage nations and among
them all no two can agree on any
thing.
Every day on the TV we learn
of our unemployed is greater than
ever, and we learn that integra
tion continues to be a problem in
some parts of the south, but noth
ing is said about the same situa
tion in the north. It seems rather
odd, that those people who refuse
the negro equal rights in the North
are so intent on forcing them down
the throats of southern people.
I recently read some figures on
the amount of money we spend
buying foreign made junk under
the delusion we are saving money.
GRIGGS COUPLE
LIKE BOTH FISH
AND WILDFOWL
Mrs. Walton Griggs Gets Big Kick
Out of Visiting with Legis
lator Husband in Raleigh
By JOAN BROCK.
(In The News and Observer)
The seaside huntress in the
Sir Walter Cabinet, Mrs. Walton
S. Griggs of Point Harbor, says
she was “brought up with a .30-
.30 rifle in one hand and a .45
automatic in the other.”
1 Hailing from a heroic Coast
Guard family with a long history
of life saving—sparked by a col
lection of Life Saving Medals—
Ruth Midgett Griggs learned to
shoot a gun when she was 12. “But
I’ve never saved a life,” she smiles.
I The wife of the second-term
House Representative from Curri
tuck County lived on Hatteras
Island until she was in the third
grade. Then she moved to Florida,
where her Daddy, Jarvis Midgett,
operated a Coast Guard Station.
“But home is home,” says the
brown haired, blue-eyed sport. "So
I returned to North Carolina every
chance I got.” And when she mar
ried the Representative, they de
cided to settle on the coast at
Point Harbor, his boyhood home.
Former Nurse
Formerly a surgical operating
nur=e, Ruth Griggs gave up the
white uniform when Margie (17)
and Molly (16) came along. For
13 years now, she and her hus
band have managed a restaurant
on Currituck Sound.
The huntress who loves to "shoot,
clean, cook and eat wild fowl,” aims
only at geese and ducks. “I could
never kill a deer,” she confesses.
“They are too beautiful.” She adds
that her husband shares her senti
| ment
. The captor of numerous swim
ming awards in her younger days
admits, “I should have been bora
a duck.” Reared among sounds, la
. goons and seas, she loves to go
barefooted in the sand and takes to
’ | the surf and salty air with the
’ gratitude of a gull. And though
she’s “never caught anything big,”
’ a favorite pastime is flounder fish
■ ing.
' “The prettiest sight in the world
is to watch the birds glide in to
' meet the decoys," sighs the hearty
’ huntress, who often bags the daily
1 limit of three ducks and two geese.
'■ From November into January of
each year, she keeps one eye on the
soup and the other on the sky. And
1 when the birds start coming in,
i she sheds her apron, grabs a gun
i and heads for the marshes.
I Nothing that her husband’s fath
er was “one of the greatest shots
in the county,” she tells of the days
• (before limits were set) when he
brought down as many as 500
i ducks a day.
Another tale she tells is of the
September day in 1959 when she
i learned the true value of the Coast
Guard "first hand.” When the fall
See GRIGGSES, Page Eight
| The best way to save money is to
i-! keep it at home. We spend billions
s abroad for little cars, sewing ma
e chines, typewriters, cosmetics, and
a God knows what else, while in
d America we can’t sell the cars that
s are made, and our people are laid
h off from work. The labor union
e racketeers have got so much power,
d and so little sense, that they call
- strike after strike in hoping of re
s lieving the employment situation,
». which only makes matters worse,
8 for in time they will drive our man
ufacturers out of business, and fin
■> ally the communists will take over,
r Ours may be aft age of progress,
5 education and enlightment, but it is
1 surley not an “age of reason.” We
t have too few leaders who have any
1 commonsense by which to lead an
, [ age of reason. Nearly everyone
. I who gets an office goes hog-wild in
> hope of becoming a political dicta
» tpr, always seeking to unload on
, the taxpayers, more deadbeats and
• freeloaders With their hand always
s out. Unfortunately, these free-load
r ers vote, and what makes it hard
i on the taxpayers.
, Mr. Editor, I wonder if anyone
! can be elected to office these dys
' who wlil give the taxpayers any
consideration?
Yours for Commonsense,
L UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK
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i DANCE AT ENGELHARD FOR
BENEFIT MARCH OF DIMES
• A dance for the benefit of the
• March of Dimes, will be held at the
i Poparena at Engelhard, with Bob
i Jones Orchestra, admission $2.50
per couple at the door, Saturday
i night, March 11th, from 9 to 12 p.
1 m., according to announcement by
■IRoy L. Lowe, Chairman for the
r.Hyde County March of Dimes.
EIGHT SEEKING NEW TAX
COLLECTORS JOB IN DARE
COUNTY; OPPOSITION AROUSED
Taxpayers Oppose New Move by County Board
In View of Large Amount Now Expended; Like
wise Oppose Creating New Tax Department
to Provide Additional Gravy Trains For Polit
ical Purposes.
MANTEO BOY IN DULUTH
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MARSHALL T. SMITH JR., whose
parents live in Manteo, having fin
ished his Coast Guard boot training
at Cape May N. J. Has been assign
. ed to the Duluth Life Boat Station
in Minnesota. He is a grandson of
Mrs. Pattie Smith and the late Her
i man Smith of Manteo, his grand
father having been one of the most
popular Coast Guard officers in the
. District, who retired from Bodie
, Island station, prior to World War
11.
SIX TEEN AGERS
TO CHICAGO FOR
YOUTH-POWER MEET
Manteo Girl With Party Repre
senting North Carolina 4-H
Boys and Girls
Six teenagers from North Caro
lina are attending a National
Youthpower Congress in Chicago
■this week. According to Commissio
ner of Agriculture, L. Y. Ballen
tine. “The major emphasis of the
Congress will be placed on raising
the nutritional standards of Amer
ica’s teenage people.”
The six delegates include: Cole
Porter of Wilmington, Rodney Ho
well of Deep Gap, Rusty Taylor of
Greensboro, Miss Freda Britt of
Murfreesboro, Miss Nancy Coles
Basnight of Manteo and Dairy
Princess Dianne Monroe of Rock
ingham.
These youths represent both rur
al and urban areas of the State and
were selected on the basis of their
outstanding records of leadership
and interest in nutritional problems
and in improving diets of young
people.
Each of the delegates receive
this expense free trip to the three
day Congress in Chicago. Sponsors
for the delegates include: The
North Carolina Bakers Council,
The North Carolina Dairy Pro
ducts Association, The Farmers Co
operative-Exchange, The North
North Carolina Chain Store Coun
cil and The North Carolina Food
Dealers Association.
“This meeting will provide an in
formation-training ground on the
importance of eating a balanced
diet,” declared B. C. Mangum,
President of N. C. Farm Bureau
Federation, the Coordinating or
ganization for the program in this
Dramatize national concern
about teenage eating habits, deve
lop cooperation of youth serving
groups in improving the nutri
tional patterns of youth and in
crease understanding of the farm
to-table story are the three overall
objectives of the Congress.
See TEEN-AGERS, Page Eight
CHANNEL BASS HAVEN’T
APPEARED AT HATTERAS
HATTERAS Channel bass
which usually begin to show up in
commercial nets of Pamlico Sound
fisherman here with the first sedge
of warm weather in March, are
slow to show this year.
To date there have been no re
ports of channel bass being caught
in pound nets.
By mid-March last year channel
bass had entered the sounds here,
but it was not until Saturday.
April 2, that the first was taken
with rod and reel.
Although the surf has been
fished by local anglers during re
cent warm weather, no catches
have been reported, of any kind of
fish to date with rod and reel.
Commercial fisherman have been
having fair luck with catches of
shad, and other varieties reported.
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
Single Copy 7#
Eight applications were received
by the Board of County Commis
sioners this week, for the job of
collecting delinquent taxes in Dare
County. To make a selection, Com
missioners, Stick, Swain and Hoop
er were named a committee to in
terview the applicants and decide
on their abilities.
The job will be collecting taxes
which the Sheriff’s office fails or
neglects to collect, and this job has
been done for about two years with
out exti-a pay by Pennell T. Tillett,
the tax Supervisor, who has collect
ed about $70,000 by asking for the
money.
The new job, originally planned
to provide a nice plum for some
political favorite, and applications
have come from as far away as
Baltimore. William E. Van Dyke,
who owns property at Buxton, a
former government auditor, and
now an auditor with a Baltimore
hospital is one of the applicants.
Claude C. Duvall of Manns Harbor,
for several yeai-s a member of the
' Board of Commissioners, is another
• applicant, and some believe he has
i an inside to the job. Richard E.
Jordan of' Nags Head, Milton L.
■ Perry of Kitty Hawk, Charles W.
■ Johnson, Carlisle E. Davis, Guy H.
• Midgett and Alexander Worth Mid-
• gett of Manteo also applied.
- The Board heard two requests
from Buxton. A large delegation
asked for establishment of a flood
gate on the E. J. Midgett property
to keep waters from Pamilco Sound
from flooding gardens through the
ditches dug about four years ago as
■ part of the hurricane relief pro
gram. Another was for the Dare
Ridge road improvement.
No bids were received for the
county project of building a bulk
head at an estimated cost of $3,000
at the mouth of the old county
. ditch at Stumpy Point.
I Confirmation has been received
, that hurricane relief funds in the
amount of $65,000 has been award
. ed in Raleigh, to build a dike on the
, shorefront at Stumpy Point near
the center of the village. This is
to be a dredged fill 1.200 feet long.
The sum of $408,000 had been
requested for this job at Stumpy
, Point, and 6,800 linear feet had
■ been askefl. The total demands
■ from Dare County had approached
; a million dollars, a sum equal to
■ all the money granted North Caro
. lina and were considered unreason
able, since there were many other
, counties which suffered damage
I during Hurricane Donna.
New Tax Department Wins
, Little Support
i A proposal by the County Com
missioners that a law be enacted to
create a costly new tax depart
. ment in Dare County has failed to
. arouse much support and opposi
i tion has developed in some quar
, ters. The Board has so far failed to
, get a commitment from Rep. Keith
. Fearing that he will sponsor much
legislation. Most people express
themselves as believing that the
Sheriff having been duly elected
to discharge this repsponsfibility,
and having many employes at hand
to assist him should carry out the
duty as before. The Commissioners
have budgeted some $25,000 a year
to run this office, an outlay of ad
ditional money is not considered
fair to the tax-payers. Many peo
ple see no advantage to be gained
other than to set up new jobs to
create political weight for a pow
er-happy group of officials who
seek only absolute control and dom
ination of the county affaire to
their own benefit and enjoyment.
This week, there is talk of an or
ganization of taxpayers heading
for Raleigh to oppose the proposed
legislation, and reports are that
some Board members declare the
plan will be carriied out, although
legislation may be lacking. This
has happened before, as witness
the present nlan to build a jail at
See JOB, Page Eight
DARE YDC MEET SET FOR
7:30 FRL AT COURTHOUSE
Several items of business, nom
ination of new officers and discus
sion of the Jefferson-Jackson Dey
Dinner will be attended to Friday
night, the 10th, beginning at 7:30
p.m., by the Dare County Young
Democrats, according to Dr. W. W.
Harvey, Jr., the club's president.
A special invitation is expressed
to school and college stulents to at
tend this meeting and become fa
miliar with Democratic principles
as advanced by this organisation.
The group will gather in Dare
County Courthous.