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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS -UME XXVI NO. 50 ARE BOARD FIRING AX SUPERVISOR IN DARE CO. JULY 15 an Who Took on Extra Work /Hhout More Pay and Assist ant Get Axe This Week. Pax Supervisor Pennell A. Til was fired this week by the Dare unty Board of Commissioners af ' some eight years in office. Dur f this time he has given faithful ■vice. He is. to be relieved July Along with him will go Miss a Tillett of Wanchese, an assist ; in his office. ?rior to assuming complete con -1 of the Board, the present airman David Stick had made o attempts to fire Mr. Tillett, ; had failed when other mem 's voted to retain the Tax Su nvisor. But Commissioner Fuller 9 been given a nine thousand lar jail at Hatteras, to be paid • by the rest of the county, and namissioner Hooper at Stumpy int has received some greatly de ed projects, they too voted to » Mr. Tillett. Gray of Avon was ; present. Phe work is to be turned over to in H. Long who will employ an listant. For nearly two years. . Tillett has taken on the duty ich someone else had been paid collect, but had accumulated in a me set by auditors at SIOO,OOO. . Tillett has collected about $75,- ) of this money, some of it 12 its old, and without any extra p. An unusual circumstance in re County where so few do nge for free. Part of the work of the Tax Su rvisors’a office is io be sent to 1 company out of the State iich works up tax books for a >. So the county will not be re vod of any expense. It looks like ither example like the time >y brought in the New Jersey >wd to value the property, which Kilted in so much confusion and ir dealing for property owners. Ur. Tillett is paying the penalty ■ aot having supported Chairman in his first bid for office, and 10 has had it in for 'him ever ee. And so Dare County affairs ve more tightly into a totalitar i government operated as firmly any other dictatorship, where ler officials have completely sur idered to the domination of one in, delighted with power. H. DOWDY AWARDED HATTERAS JAIL JOB L H. Dowdy, well-known Manteo itraxrtor, was the low bidder in i sum of $9,250 this week for •struction of a jail at Hatteras, ich has become an obsession h Commissioner George Fuller, 1 has already been described by > Hatteras resident as Fuller’s Uy. This is a project that was >ed down heavily by the citizens Hatteras Island, when the issue the jail at Hatteras and at Mant was submitted to the voters and sated about three to one. The anty Board had some cash on id, and being wild to spend it, ew it into a jerry-built job in nteo without proper safeguards, 1 the jail still leaks. The con ctor went broke, the County aid accepted a bum job without [airing it to be made right, and Its continue for repairs and main- It is a job poor in plan, appearance, and in execution. I. A. Johnston of Belhaven of od a bid of $9,550 on the Hat as jail project. NG MACKEREL SHOW UP IN KAT NUMBERS, HATTERAS IATTERAS. —Hundreds of king ckerel have been landed by jfers aboard Hatteras based its this week. [he kings Showed up in great mots on the weekend and the h, of schooling size, have ranged m five to 12 pounds. Jome of the best catches have ■n made by parties guided by pt Eph O’Neal, and practically of the catches have been made the vicinity of Hatteras Inlet, from waters of Raleigh Bay 1 Hatteras right close offshore, teflsh and Spanish Mackerel re also been a good bet for £ecs fishing Hatteras waters 9 week. SSINGER TO RETIRE AS NAGS HEAD POSTMASTER ft Roy Kessinger, after some 12 ixw as Postmaster at Nags Head planning to retire from the ser a this month. He celebrated a tirfay on May 27. Already, sev d citizens are seeking support • this job. The postoffice is op ted in * building owned by Mr. aainger, who is * prominent mjHead merchant, and a veteran World War 1. 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 WILL REPRESENT TYRRELL AT GIRLS STATE IN GREENSBORO - • - SWt. Will w r m W iO J . Wife JSL Hi* MISS MARY RUTH WOODLEY, MISS DANA DAV ENPORT AND MISS SHARON K. BERRY will rep resent Tyrrell County at the 21st annual Girls State a t WCUNC, Greensboro. These girls are sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary of iScuppernong Pos t No. 182. Miss Nancy Hassell was also chosen for this honor, but is unable to attend. Girls are chosen from the rising senior class with five qualifications: mentally alert and physically fit; enthusiastic and cooperative; honest and dependable; capable of developing qualities of leadership and aware of opportunities in Girls’ State, and personally concerned to improve the ability of their citizenship. HONORED ON BIRTHDAY •' * '' .si ■ ■ ■ w IB M ' M. C. MITCHEL!., Manteo’s Chief of Police was honored last Friday evening with a dinner at Walker’s Diner, the occasion being his 65th birthday, and the hostesses were Mrs. Mitchell and their daughter, Mrs. Doris Walker. Red roses, Mr. Mitchell’s favor ite flower, were used as decoration and the white birthday cake was topped with large red sugar roses. A thrce-course dinner was served. The grace was said by the Mitch ell’s granddaughter, Erlene Walker. Those present included Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Walker’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lloyd Walker of Jacksonville her son and daughter, Carl and Erlene Walker; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mid gett, Mr. and Mrs. Seldon Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Cannady, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sears, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lee Mann, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Midgett, Woodie Fearing, Mrs. Juanita Parker, Martin Kellogg, Jr., Donnie Twyne, Frank Cahoon and Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Meekins. t MANY EASTERN N. C. TOWNS GETTING NEW POSTOFFICES Some 15 new postoffice buildings are scheduled for the northeastern North Carolina area, some of them already completed, some under con struction and others in the planning stage according to Postal Inspector J. T. Johnson of Ahoskie. Hatteras is among the list of prospects, a survey now being underway to pro vide a new building A modem building has just been built at Kitty Hawk, but is not yet in commis sion. A project at Manteo seems to have fallen by the wayside follow ing a petition by a number of citi zens to continue the postal service from the present building, built some 20 years ago. A new budding is to be dedicated at Winton on Saturday. Other towns on the list approved for new postoffices are Littleton, Halifax, Murfreesboro, Hobgood, C'cswcil. Shawboro, Roxobel, Aulander, Gatesville, Colerain, Como, Lewis ton, Hertford, Fairfield, Scotland Neck and Nags Head. UNIQUE DESIGN EXECUTED IN CONSTRUCTION OF VIVIANNA THE VIVIANNA MOTET-, recently completed under the direction of Robert 0. Ballance, adds a distinctive new look to motel accommodations at Nags Head. The building is of gray stone construction and has a roof over each unit; is air-conditioned and heated for year-around use. PLANS SHAPING FOR MARLIN TOURNEY AT HATTERAS JUNE 17-21 i * South Africa and Panama, Among Other Countries, Represent ed In 2nd Annual Event Albert R. “Duke” Doucet has arrived at Hatteras from West Palm Beach, Florida, to make final preparations for the Hatteras Mar lin Club-sponsored second annual International Blue Marlin Tourna ment which he will direct. “Clubs from South Africa to Panama, a total of 11 through June 8, had entered three man teams in the competition which begins June 17 and continues through June 21,” Doucet stated. “This compares with five teams in the first annual event last year that was won by Club Nautico de San Juan,” he added. “Clubs entering teams to date,” said Doucet, “include: South Afri can Anglers Union, Club Nautico de San Juan, Puerto Rico, Panama Marlin Club, Sailfish Club of Flor ida, Palm Beach; West Palm Beach Fishing Cluib, International Wom en’s Fishing Association, Palm Beach; New Hanover Fishing Club, Wilmington, N. C.; New York Ath letic Club Anglers Club, Ocean City Light Tackle Club, Cape Hat teras Billfish Club, and Hatteras Marlin Club.” Tournament committee this year is Charles F. Johnson, Palm Beach, Fla., chairman; Willis S. Slarne, HMC president and Earl N. Phil lips, High Point, N. C., members. Last year no women anglers par ticipated, but this year they will be in the competition. Last year’s winners were Club Nautico de San Juan, first place and Ocean City Marlin Club, sec ond. Bimini Big Game Fishing Club (not entered today for the second annual) came in third, with the South African and Hatteras Club showing for fourth and fifth place. Anglers should find good fishing again this year as more than 30 blue marlin have been caught off Hatteras since the season’s first was taken on May 21. Last year 16 blue marlin were officially tak en, the heaviest fish being 465 pounds. Already this year two marlin scaling at over 533 pounds have been caught, with several scaling over 475 pounds. Six of the fish caught this season were released while still alive. Probably most outstanding catch was by 87-pound Melinda Lucas, a Nantucket, Mass., teenager. She boated early this week from her family’s private cruiser “Siki” a 427 pound blue marlin—approxi mately five times her light weight. Other Fish at Inlets In addition to blue marlin, a few whites have been caught This week near Hatteras Inlet hundreds of king mackerel were caught. Also taken offshore —first amberjack of season, and plenty of dolphin and tuna off Hatteras. Inshore at Hat teras and Oregon Inlet cobia showed this week with the largest being a 66-1/2 pounder. One cobia, See TOURNAMENT, Page Four MANTEO, N. C.. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1961 GRADUATES FROM MEREDITH 7 j■ it®- * 5 ’’l' 1 - MISS MABEL JEAN BASNIGHT of Manteo received a Bachelor o£ Arts degree, with a major in math. English and foreign languages. Monday night, June 5, when she was graduated from Meredith Col lege in Raleigh. Miss Basnight is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Oscoe Basnight of Manteo. Attend the graduation exercises were Mr. and Sirs. Basnight and Mr. and ■Mrs. J. O. Basnight, Jr. ■ BIG COBIA LANDED BY ARLINGTON WOMAN ANGLER ■ NAGS HEAD.— Os six big cobia ■ taken by anglers trolling in Oregon 1 Inlet on Tuesday as these fast fighting crab eaters showed up was a 66 Vi pounder by Mrs. James j Rhyne of Arlington Va. She and | her husband caught three, the 1 smallest a 57 pounder. They were fishing from Capt. Joe Berry’s cruiser “Phylis Mae.” ' Anglers aboard Capt. Charles 1 Midgett’s “Lois C” and Capt. 1 Buddy’s cruiser “Mel-O-Dee. Billy Brown mate aboard the Phyllis ; Mae reported that he had seen ■ schools of 30 or more cobia in the ! clear waters of the inlet—which is unusual as they usually travel ' singly or in pairs. ‘ BIG BLUES— In addition to ; cobia anglers have caught up to ’ 550 blues per charter boat at Ore ' gon Inlet this week as the second J big blues-blitz of season began. ; ) ! HOMECOMING AT CARMEL METHODIST CHURCH. ‘ The annual Homecoming off Mt Carmel Methodist Church in Manns t Harbor will be held June 11, begin ning with Sunday School at 10:00 ’ a. m., followed by the regular morn ing Worship Service at 11, at which t the Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson, form i er pastor, will be the guest speaker. ’ Following the morning services, , a pot luck dinner will be served ’ on the picnic tables in the grove I at the rear of the church. After the dinner and fellowship i hour, a song service will be held, ; led by Robert Leverenz, a student , iof Duke Divinity School.. I AM are welcome. VIVIANNA MOTEL FORMAL OPENING SET FOR SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. Horace Parker Hosts at Public Showing 4 to 6 P. M. The fascination of the Dare coastal area has again lured a Vir ginia couple who for several years spent their holidays here, to invest in business and become residents. Mr. and Mrs. Horace F. Parker, who previously lived in Portsmouth and operated a wholesale distribu ting business, are formally open ing their Vivianna Motel this week, and on Sunday will be hosts at a showing of this new facility. An invitation is extended to all in terested to call between the hours of 4 and 6 p. m. The Vivianna is located on the ocean front between the 16th and 17th mile-post. Built of gray stone basically, it features “A” roofs over each unit, spacious porches overlooking both the east and west. All units are efficiencies, with two double beds, carpted floors, ceramic tile baths, and the motel is com pletely air-conditioned and heated. A glass-front lounge and office combination is located in the cen ter of the building where television and other relaxation conveniences are provided. Mr. and Mrs. Parker make their home in a spacious apartment above the office. Robert O. Ballance of Manteo, general contractor, and many other suppliers, this week are extending congratulations to the Parkers through our columns, and are look ing forward to the showing this week end. While the motel has not been officially open, the management has found itself quite busy for the past two weeks taking care of guests, and even had one request for a year’s rental for one unit. Mr. Parker, who is an anient fish erman, has had to dispense with some of this sport for .the present. LARGE ALLIGATOR KILLED IN TYRRELL COUNTY WHIb lit COLUMBIA A seven foot seven inch Alligator estimated to weigh 150 lbs. was killed in the Sound Side Community, about five miles north of here Sunday, May 28. t . The gator was spied in a canal known as the Avenue Canal, which opens to the Albemarle Sound, about one mile inland, by -J. T. Brick house, Driver «for the Trailway Bus Co., whose home is adjacent to the canal. Using a 30-30 rifle, Brickhouse shot the animal, which immediately dived into the mud. Assisted by Grover Liverman, Brickhouse managed to pull him to the surface Thursday. This is the first known Alligator reported seen or killed inland in the Tyrrell County area, and the first recalled by local fishermen to have invaded the Albemarle Sound. I DUKE STUDENT AND WIFE TO ASSIST DARE CHARGE Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leverenz anil spend ten weeks working with the pastor of the Dare Charge at' ’ Stumpy Point, Manns Harbor and East Lake conducting Vacation ‘ Bible School and working primarily ’ with the children and youth groups. I Mr. Leverenz is a native of. . Kingston, New York, a graduate of I ! Morningside College, Sioux City, . lowa and has just completed his second year at Duke Divinity ’ School. While at Morningside, Mr. [ Leverenz was a member of The , Melodiers Quartet, singing in var ious cities throughout the Midwest , He also spent several months in ' a “Work” camp in Germany, under ’ the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee. Mrs. Leverenz is also a graduate of Morningside College and is at the present time employed as Seceretary of Duke Memorial Church at Durham. Mr. and Mrs. Leverenz will reside at the parsonage at Stumpy Point during their stay here. SURPLUS COMMODITIES The June schedule for distribu tion of Surplus Commodities is: Tuesday, June 13 East Lake and Stumpy Point; Thursday June 15 ' Manns Harbor and Mashoes 9 to. 11 A. M. at the 4® camp; Colored, division 1 to 3 o'clock. AVON BOY JOINS THE . "VOICE OF AMERICA" SHIP «** JB s jfl s I * ENGINEMAN JOHN O'NEAL, 27. ' of Avon, left for New York, on the s first leg of his journey to join the crew of the Ship, “Currier” the j Voice of America Ship, planning to , leave N. Y. for Greece Friday of ’ this week. J Mr. O'Neal is married to the j former Olive Gray also of Avon. ' He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. t Frank O'Neal, and is highly re .l garded by his homefolk’s. • | i COBIA FROM PIER, BLUES WHITING AND TROUT NAGS HEAD. A 15 pound ; cobia was caught by an angler i fishing from Jennette’s Pier here at Nags Head on Tuesday. It was i the first cobia to be taken from a Dare Beaches Ocean Pier so far . this season. Name of the angler ; was not immediately available. i Other anglers fishing the ocean ’. piers from Kitty Hawk to Rodanthe ; and along the beaches of Kill Devil . 'Hills and Nags Head have been bringing in plenty of nice blue, i Whiting, trout and occasionally . flounder. COMMITTEE TO BE NAMED FOR HURRICANE WARNINGS A Hurricane Warnings Coordi nation meeting held Wednesday in ' the court house in Manteo resulted in plans to establish a committee for Dare County, probably under the Civil Defense organization, which is headed in Dare by Sheriff Frank Cahoon. | The meeting was one in a series being conducted along the Eastern Seaboard by the U. S. Weather Bureau in Washington, D. C. R. C. Schmidt of the Washington office and Gordon Dunn of the Na tional Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., were present to discuss plans with approximately 40 people who attended. Col. Harry E. Brown, director of the Department of Water Rescourees in Raleigh, and former director of hurricane re habilitation, attended. A number of others from Dare County and Pas quotank counties were there, as well as several members of the N. C. Highway Patrol and other U. S. Weather Bureau officials. ROANOKE ISLAND BAPTISTS TO HAVE REVIVAL JUNE 12-18 Revival services will be conducted at the Roanoke Island Baptist Church June 12 through 18. Ser vices will begin wt 8:00 ITMto tto Ralph W. Knight. Jr., pastor of the Wilmont Baptist Church, Car lotte, wild be the visiting speaker, i It is hoped to have these churches render music for the meeting. MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 70 FORT RALEIGH LAND PROJECT MOVES FAVORABLY N. C. Would Add $125,000 to Fund For Enlargement and Improvement of Histori cal Area The long planned objective of Director Conrad Wirth of the Nat ional Park Service to give more worthy recognition to Fort Raleigh as a great National Shrine, appears nearer with legislation underway in Raleigh for a state appropria tion of $125,000 to aid in a quarter million dollar project for develop ment and improvement of the pro perty. More land is to be purchas ed. The bill, which has wide sup port is solidly backed by Reps. Fearing of Dare, Griggs of Curri tuck, Cohoon of Tyrrell and Lup ton of Hyde, and Senators P. D. Midgett Jr., Lindsay Warren and others. The bill will help pay for 125 ad ditional acres of land. The National Park Service now owns Fort Raleigh, which for years had languished under private own ership. Many improvements have been made. The project is admin istered and protected by NPS and widely advertised whereby many thousands of tourists are attract ed annually. Meanwhile, in other quarters plans are shaping up for further recognition of this historic spot where the First English settled in the New World. Prospects are that private donors will contribute a matching to that provided by the State. CAROLINA TELEPHONE GIVES LARGER ENGELHARD SERVICE Carolina Telephone Company consti-uction forces have completed work on a project which has prov ed additional facilities to Nebraska and vicinity South of Engelhard, North Carolina. Upon completion of this project some 20 applications received new service and several others received primary grades of telephone service. This disclosed by K. C. Wilkin son, local manager at Belhaven, who stated the accomplishment of this project involved placing ap proximately 12.4 miles of buried cable at an estimated expenditure of $29,569. This project in Engelhard is one of many that have been construct ed by Carolina Telephone and Tele graph Company to provide up to date service in its operating terri tory. COOLISH MAY WEATHER CUT TRAVEL ON COAST Cool weather in May cut into Cape Hatteras National Seashore travel, as compared to the same month last year, but two other National Park Services installa tions in Dare showed an increase during the month. The 42,539 visitors counted at the National Seashore was 20.5 percent less than May 1960. National Park Service officials attribute the decrease the tempera ture from day to day which aver aged 5.6 degrees below normal dur ing the month. Other travel of ficials believe that the 45 minute ferry trip across Oregon Inlet, as compared to about 20 minutes last year, may have also reduced visita tion to the National Seashore. Both Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and its museum, and the Wright Brothers National Memorial, which also has a museum reported increases this year in May as compared to 1960. With 4, 532 visitors counted, the calendar year total to date for Fort Raleigh increased to 14,855 —an in crease of 11 percent. In May last year 16,510 persons visited Wright Brothers National Memorial as compared to 17,651 during the same month in 1961. Coolish May weather also cut in to the business of vacation opera tors, but all sportsfishing, the big gest late spring attraction on the Dare Coast-Outer Banks, has been up to par and better except for channel bass catches. FORMER MANTEO MAN TRAINS IN ELECTRONICS “Ernest E. Meekins, Jr., —22 West 9th St., Port Angeles, Wash., recently completed an intermedi ate course in radio and communi cation electronics from Cleveland Institute of He passed an examination con ducted by the Federal Communica tions Commission and now holds a Commercial First Class License. The Cleveland Institute of Elec tronics, located in Cleveland, Ohio, has been training men in intermedi ate and advanced radio-television electronics for more than a quarter of a century.” Mr. Meekins is * native of • • ■ . . ... ... .... *
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