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VOL. XXVI MANTEO. N. C„ FRIDAY. MAY 12, 1961 NO. 46
BEACH INTERESTS SHOULD HAVE FAIR
TREATMENT.
With half the property valuation and half the population
of Dare County situated in Nags Head township wnich in
cludes all of Roanoke Island, and the entire beach resort area
between the town of Kill Devil Hills, and Oregon Inlet, it
would seem that some sort of representation in keeping with
the proportions should be arranged on the Board of Com
missioners and Board of Education in Dare County.
Unfortunately, the situation has grown to the stage
where this half of the county is practically voiceless in coun
ty affairs. It is at the mercy of tne whims of representatives
from other areas, some of whom take the viewpoint that
they are required only to ignore the half of the county that
pays the bills, and drag everything away to their own areas.
This situation could not exist if an equitable method of elec
ting officials were set up, one which more nearly honored
the situation on the basis of population and contribution to
the county treasury.
The law ought to be changed pronto, back to the former
method whereby the five candidates receiving greatest num
ber of votes were declared the proper persons to serve the
county. Under the present system, the candidate from a dis
trict with more votes than a competitor in the same dis
trict becomes a member of a Board. This has resulted in
grave injustices to some areas of the county. Two evils in
particular accompany this plan:
L If there is insufficient public spirit in any one dis
trict to bring out a worthy candidate, it means the whole
county is punished by having its affairs in the hands of some
one who for numerous reasons may be completely lacking in
qualifications or abilities, or is lacking in a sense of obliga
tion to his county. Too often he is a person, who without re
gard to justice or consequences, seeks to strip other areas of
their rights, merely to satisfy personal greed and to divert
the just benefits of government to his own area. If he can
keep the greedy happy at home they will discourage opposing
candidates, whereby he can continue to stay in office oy de
fault—without opposition he stands elected, regardless of
whether any appreciable number of people of the county de
sire him, or consider him worthy.
2. The second great evil from this system is that it en
ables three members of the Board to combine and divide all
the county’s resources among themselves so to speak. With
out regard to their oath and their duty to represent the
county as a whole, and give fair and impartial consideration
to all citizens alike, there have been instances where three
members, unite solidly in dividing all the county’s benefits,
leaving the other two members helpless to serve their peo
ple. Three unscrupulos men on a board can deny the majori
ty of citizens and taxpayers, who pay the bills an equitable
share in the rights and benefits that are justly theirs. Three
unscrupulous men can appoint and hire their friends and po
litical buddies as they please, and practically perpetuate
themselves in office. The system opens the way for demago
gues to thrive, for denying justice, for corruption of local
courts, and for numerous other evils. The system ought to
be changed, whereby those five men whom most voters con
sider best qualified to serve the county, will stand nominated
in the primaries.
No man should assume his particular area has more
rights than another. No man is fit to hold office who would
take away from any other area in the face of honesty, justice
and duty. It is clearly a situation that the legislature should
resolve, and the legislator who makes this possible will have
rendered an outstanding public service to all citizens. Failure
to work for this just measure can add nothing to one’s poli
cal rating at home or abroad.
Now we see what has come about. Vitally essential to
the livelihood of Dare County is the continued good will of
those who have invested their money here,who live here
during vacation seasons, yet have no voice at the ballet box.
The little that has been given our beach residents who pay
most of our school taxes, our welfare taxes, and the vast
sum of money wasted by officials in supporting incompetent ,
job-holders, and trying out schemes born of adolescent
minds, and time wasted by wishy-washy, empty-heads. Peri- ,
iodically, they raise the taxes to unreasonable sums which ‘
these hopeless people have to pay, to support a wasteful and
extravagant regime against which they are helpless to de- ]
fend themselves. While they support our schools and wel
fare, they get no benefits in return. For many years now, a !
token benefit has been given them in the form of garbage
removal, on the beaches. The summer resident has no area
on which to dump his trash; its accummulation would be
come a health hazard, and unsightliness would destroy the \
attractiveness of our beaches, whereby we hope to bring
more visitors and more investors.
A meeting has been proposed for Monday morning at
the courthouse in Manteo, whereby the general commotion
may be promoted, and confusion confounded, under the
threat that the country will have to cease picking up the gar
bage on the beaches. Those wo do not know, may be sur
prised to learn that this is some of the so-called strategy
cooked up by county officials, as the outgrowth of a move
ment that has been going on for some two or three years on
the part of town officials of Manteo with the objective of
also unloading the cost of their city garbage collection ser
vice on the county taxpayers. Failing to remember that the
business interests of Manteo thrive on trade from the beach
es, this situation has been developed in the usual bottom-up
manner that prevails in a courthouse operated under a sys
tem of confusion and coffee-breaks.
It is folly to even threaten the beach residents with
denying them garbage removal. Subject as these people are
to the continued vandalism and robbery that prevails
through the season they are away; without the county using
its money to provide adequate police protection, or making
an effort to apprehend the offenders, it is adding insult to
injury to offer this threat to our benefactors. There is a
simple solution to the whole matter. Let all pay for garbage
service and extend it to every community. Since so many
people have ignored that fact that cleanliness is next to god
liness, and since so many manifest lack of civic spirit and also
lack of community pride, as witness the trash and other
eyesores that meet the view of the visitor, it now becomes
an official responsibility to clean up the whole county for
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SUMMER FERRY SCHEDULES
1961
AHIGATOR-RIVER
lv. Sandy Point Lv. East lake
5:30 A.M. 5:00 A.M.
6:15 A.M. 5:30 A.M.
7:00 A.M. 6:15 A.M.
7:45 A.M. 7:00 A.M.
8:30 A.M. 7:45 A.M.
9:15 a m. 8:30 A.M.
10:00 A.M. 9:15 A.M.
10:45 A.M. 10:00 A.M.
11:30 A.M. 10:45 A.M.
12:15 P M. 11:30 A.M.
1:00 P.M. 12:15 P.M.
1:45 P.M. 1:00 P.M.
2:30 P.M. 1:45 P.M.
3:15 P.M. 2:30 P.M.
4:00 P.M. 3:15 P.M.
4:45 P.M. 4:00 P.M.
5:30 P.M. 4:45 P.M.
6:15 P.M. 5:30 P.M.
7:00 P.M. 6:15 P.M.
7:30 P:M. 7:00 P.M.
8:00 P.M. 7:30 P.M.
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Ferries operate every hour on the hour from
each shore beginning at 5:00 A.M.; last
trip 8:00 P.M.
HATTERAS INLET
lv. Hatteras lv. Ocracoke
4:00 A.M. (5-15 thru 7-15) 5:00 A.M.
6:00 A M. 7:00 A.M.
8:00 A.M. 9:00 A M.
10:00 A M. 11:00 A:M.
12:00 Noon 1:00 P.M:
2:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M.
4:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M.
6:00 P.M: (6J thru 7-31) 7:00 P.M.
ATLANTIC-OCRACOKE TOLL FERRY
Lv. Atlantic 8 A.M.—Ar. Ocracoke 11:45 A.M.
lv. Ocracoke 2 P.M.—Ar. Atlantic 5:45 PM.
On April 6, 1909 Commander
Robert E. Peary hoisted the Stars
and Stripes at the North Pole and
took possession of the region in
the name of the President of the
United States.
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the good of all.
It were a waste of the people’s money to spend $20,000
a year to operate a tourist bureau to tell people to come here
only to be met on their arrival by such unsightliness, and if
tempted to invest money in order to enjoy our seashore, to
be raided constantly through higher taxes to satisfy the
greed of stupid and selfish county officials in whose selec
tion they have no voice. We have constantly offered admoni
tion against those among us who stupidly kill the goose that
lays the golden egg, or who wish to pluck all the fowl’s fea
thers at one time. This we will always oppose as being
against the best interest of all of us. It is time for a change.
It is time to give consideration, not only equally to everyone
on a county-wide basis, but to those especially who pay the
freight.
WHO IS THERE QUALIFIED TO SAY,
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one gen
eration can lay down the best and only rules of government
for those who are to come after them, and under unforeseen
contingencies. At the time of the framing of the Constitution
the only physical forces that had been subdued and made to
serve man and do his labor, were the currents in the streams
and the air we breathe. Rude machinery, propelled by water
power, had been invented; sails to propel ships upon the
waters had been set to catch the passing breeze —but the
application of steam to propel vessels against both wind and
current, and machinery to do all manner of work had not
been though of. The instantaneous transmission of messages
around the world by means of electricity would probably at
that day have been attributed to witchcraft or a league with
the Devil. U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, 1885.
MAN’S PLACE IN NATURE AND THE UNIVERSE.
The question of questions for mankind—the problem
which underlies all others and is more deeply interesting
than any other —is the ascertainment of the place which
man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe
of things. Whence our race has come; what are the limits of
our power over nature and of nature’s power over us; to
what goal we are tending; are the problems which present
.themselves anew and with undiminished interest to every
1 man born into the world. Thomas Huxley.
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SOCIETY
HATTERAS PERSONALS
The Rev. Mr. Van Cash christen
ed infants during the eleven o’clock
services Sunday at Hatteras Meth
odist Church. The babies were
Gaston Lewis Foster, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Foster and
Stanley Ellsworth Ballance son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ballance both
of Hatteras.
Gaston L. Foster 8.M.2 of the
U. S. Navy spent the week end
with his wife and two children at
Hatteras. He was injured last Sept.
14, aboard the “U. S. S. Canisteo”
during a N A. T. O. craise in the
North Atlantic He was hospitalized
in London, England with both legs
broken later he was transferred to
Portsmouth, Va., and is still a pat
ient in the Naval Hospital there.
WANCHESE PERSONALS
Mrs. Glenn Dough of Marguerite,
Canal Zone, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. Ryan Midgett.
PHONES
(Continued from Page One)
New Bern; Washington Manager
B. S. Oliver; Public Relations Man
ager P. J. Long, Tarboro; and Su
pervisor of Information and Ad
vertising Harold N. Simpson, Tar
boro.
A slver plate, identifying the
200,000tth telephone, was placed on
the insti-ument, a color set of the
latest design, by J. C. Moore who
installed the telephone.
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FREE
WHEELING
By BILL CROWELL
Ever give a thought to just why
success in traffic safety promotion
comes so slowly and grudgingly.
Largely I suspect because it is
so easy to find and blame a scape
goat for all society’s ills whatever.
On one side, for example, you
have tlw hurry, hurry driver who
complains bitterly that it’s the
“slow driver” who’s at the bottom
of most accidents; the drawdler
who ties up traffic, who pokes
along, irritating those following for
miles behind. His argument is just
as often countered by the consera
tive type driver who points to speed
and speed alone as the principal
accident culprit.
If you are a teetoatler, you’re
convinced that most if not all our
traffic troubles comes in bottles,
cans and glasses. But the one-or
two- cock-tails-before supper type
is morally certain his imbibing has
no part .in his later driving and that
accidents spring from some entire
ly different source.
This summer I wonder just how
many lives might be spared if the
drinking driver, the* speeder, the
overly timid driver, the encroacher,
the tailgrater and so on would some
how miraculously become convin
ced that each respectively—drink
ing, speeding, slow poking, crowd
ing and following too closely—is
the deadly sin.
It was said thousands of years
ago: “Why beholdest thou the mote
that is in thy brother’s eye?”
Instead, why not let’s take a re
flective, sober, honest, open-eyed
look at the habits that prevent us
fr«*n being North Carolina’s an
swer, even in part, to the traffic
accident problem.
SUDDEN THAWT ... If you
don’t read traffic signs you have
no advantage over the driver who
can’t read period.
UNLUCKY 7 ... The Journal of
the Intel-national College of Sur
geons lists these seven basic in
juries to driver-victims of auto
mobile smash-ups:
1. Cut or fractures of the head
from slamming against the wind
shield.
2. Injuries to the spine from
bouncing back after the impact.
3. Crashed chest and broken ribs
from being “compressed” into the
steering column.
4. A hole in the diaphram
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FOOD
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hies for side dishes. The Rotarians
were pleased and assuming that
their meal was a sample of what
one could expect there will be 26
persons of different business or
professional men in the area ready
to recommend a “good place to eat”
when the question arises during
coming months.
The Dareolina story is given as
only one example. There are manyi
other places which have made im- |
provements in their eating facili
ties for the 1961 season. The al
ways popular restaurant, The Sea-,
fare Dinner House, of Dewey and
Phoeby Hayman on Nags Head, is
this year enlarged and has opened
for the season.
The rebuilt Oasis of Mrs. Violet
through which the intestines are
forced into the chest cavity.
5. Ruptured spleen, .liver and
or kidney from the steering column.
6. Injuries to the kneecaps from
smashing into the instrument
panel.
7. Sprained thumbs from grip
ping tlie steering wheel at the time
of the collision.
Deposits made by mail Vk
lie given our prompt, VaL
careful attention. Vtlk
First & Citizens National Bank
ELIZABETH CITY. N. C.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
3% interest paid on savings accounts
FRIDAY. MAY 12, 1961
Kellam, practically destroyed by
Hurricane Donna last fall has been
rebuilt and so has The Reef, direct
ly across the highway on the Nags
Head-Roanoke Island Causeway.
Owens’ Restaurant on Nags Head
—a family type sort of place dur
ing recent years. The Sea Ranch,
Croatan, Kitty Hawk, Wilbur
Wright, Carolinian, Nags Header
and other hotels have each improv
ed their dining rooms, promising
(food that people will go home and
talk about as being good places for
good food.
Other than the natural publicity
sources, the two people who prob
ably have done more to start an
improvement in good eating here
on the Dare Coast are a Mr. and
Mrs. Spencer who operate “Spen
cers’ Case”, in a building near the
old ferry dock in Manns Harbor.
Their simple service and excellent
food has made them famous—so
famous that nearby places like
Polly’s Kitchen, the restaurants
in Manteo and on the Dare Beadhes
and so far south as Hatteras an
following their lead and are hoping
to make 1961 a new era for good
food on the Dare Coast.
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