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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOLUME XXVII NO. 19 z )ARE TAXPAYERS WALLOPED HARD BY HIGHER RATES ••9 Jump in 1961 Taxes As Board Continues to Increase Expense; No Notice Given of Increase. Dare County taxpayers on re viving their 1961 tax notices some iiree months late this week, got severe wallop in greatly increas d tax rates the result of extrava gant spending by their county board uring the past year, and which ondition shows no signs of letting p. Taxpayers got increases rang ng from 25 to 33 per cent. On toanoke Island, the rate has jump d from 31 to a total of 1.36, 'hile on Hatteras Island the rate as jumped from 80 cents to SI.OO. While some $15,000 a year is bo ng spent to attract newcomers to ivest their money in Dare County, nd whose expenditures provide mployment and income to trades eople and workers, the neweom rs are finding themselves gouged nreasonably, as the great increase s taxes they bring to Dare County i beihg extravagantly spent, with sore persons being coihtdntfy add d to the public payroll with ef idency and economy words that re lost sight of. Thia week, the County Board ap roved employing Thos. H. Briggs, perator of the Crouton Hotel at atty Hawk, as a tax collector, for rhich he is to receive ten per cent f amounts collected. The total levy s about a quarter million dollars. Us job in addition to $31,240 a ear to run the Sheriffs office, rhich is charged with collection of axes, although several employes of bis department never havb been aed to help collect taxes. The ioard also approved of an assistant 3 John H. Long, County manager, rhose office already is budgeted at a year. The Commissioners lan to spend more than a half xillion dollars during the current iacal year in the operation of tore County. At the rate of spending, and em loying new job holders, it looks he another year will require a big ix jump again. This week, the loard approved a new expenditure ot to exceed S9OO to build a cis em for the new $9,000 jail re ently built at Hatteras. The tax notices which arrived so rte, r were prepared by an out of swn concern at a reported cost f $2,400 whereas the estimated ost of doing the job at home as sual should have been about S7OO. ‘axpayers did not have an oppor imity to take advantages of the iscounts due them, because the otices were not mailed in time. No ices should have been mailed in eptember. Taxpayers had no advance notice f the new rates, the Board having riled to publish a uniform annual udget estimate in the summer as rovided by law, whereby all inter sted persons might have an oppor inity to know what the budget is nd what their officials planned to Io with their money. lIG CHANNEL BASS RUN HITS OUTER BANKS SURF By AYCOCK BROWN I One of the greatest runs of big aannel bass ever to hit the Outer auks surf has been underway nee November 1. I From Nags Head southward to vracoke the big bronze back fight ■s have been providing sport for undreds of anglers daily and the range in weather after several hal pon days did not curtail the pheno lenal catches. As matter of fact it was not un -1 the northeaster set in late Tues ly that channel bass catches were sported from the Nags Head area, i fess than 24 hours after the rst was taken at Jennette's Pier, tore titan 40, ranging in size from i to 55 pounds, were caught. The total catch of channel bass ong the Nags Head surf and from mnette’s Pier was small in com arisen to hundreds taken earlier iring calm and warm weather *om November 1 through the wenth. Surf fishing was good «n the Chicamacomico Ocean Pier ; Rodanthe-Waves southward to te inlet. Reel hotrspots for the surfers as at the ocean pier at Rodanthe 'aves, in a slough just south of slvb, at several sloughs north of von and in the Cape Point and nxton area, and also from Frisco rath to the Inlet. Through Wednesday the largest tannel bass reported was a 61’/ 2 Hinder landed by Burgess Hooper South Norfolk near Salvo and ra <0 pounders, one by a woman id another by a man angler near- Buxton on the Cape. All who died agreed that it was one of the oatest channel bass runs ever town on Hatteras Island. 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 ENGELHARD MAN IS ASSIGNED TO CONNALLY AFB Second Lieutenant Jerry W. Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Spencer of Engelhard, has been assigned to James Connally AFB in Waco, Texas for undergraduate navigator training. A 1956 graduate of Engelhard High School, Lt. Spencer received his comriiission in the Air Force upon completion of the Officer Candidate School at Lackland AFB, Tex. Students in the navigator pro gram receive basic, radar and celes tial navigation training in T-29 air craft, the Air Force “flying class room.’ After their 35-weeek training period at James Connally AFB, the officers are assigned to Air Force installations throughout the world, serving with Strategic Air Com mand or Military Air Transport Service units. James Connally, an Air Training Command base, trains personnel for America’s expanding aerospace force of aircraft and missiles. TURKEY DINNER NOV. 16 A turkey dinner will be sold by members of the WSCS of Mount Olivet Methodist Church of Manteo in the Manteo High School cafeter ia on Thursday, November 16, be gining at 5:30. Plates will be SI.OO each for adults, 50c each for chil dren under 12. Plates can also be ordered and taken out. The public is invited. WANCHESE COMMUNITY BLDG. ELECTION IS POSTPONED Several citizens of the communi ty of Wpnchese have organized to maintain a community center, hav ing sometime ago acquired the former school property, and on which several people have donated considerable labor in making im provements. Plans had been made to vote in Tuesday’s election on a proposal to levy a small tax to maintain the building, but due to overlooking a technicality in mak ing proper announcement of the election it was found necessary to postpone voting until a later date. Thirty days notice must be given by due advertisment before such election can be held. James W. Da vis, is chairman of the community building Board of Trustees, and the citizens on this committee have shown a commendable spirit which should be of value to the communi ty. VISITORS CAN, NOW TOUR N. G r BATTLESHIP The Battleship North Carolina, super-dreadnaught veteran of 40 months in the Pacific during World War 11, is the newest all-year visi tor attraction at the historic port city of Wilmington, North Carolina. Saved from scrapping by North Carolinians who raised funds to bring their State’s namesake home for preservation as a permanent war memorial, the 35,000 ton U.S.S. North Carolina is moored on the Cape Fear River at a site opposite the Wilmington waterfront and ad jacent to U.S. Highways 76, 74 and 17. Visitors may go aboard between 8 am. and sundown, daily and Sun days. Initially the top decks, fully arm ored, are accessible to sightseers. Preparation of additional areas of the ship for public inspection is proceeding. A 500-car parking area is under construction at the site. At the time of her commissioning on April 9, 1941, and for many years afterward, the U. S. S. North Carolina was the greatest set weap on ever built by the United States Between August, 1942, and August, 1945, the ship earned 12 battle stars in naval engagements from Guadal canal to Tokyo. She was decommis sioned in 1947. Acquired by the State of North Carolina' on September 6 of this year, the ship was towed to Wilm ington from Bayonne, NJ. She was moored at Wilmington on October 2, and opened to visitors October 14. HIGHWAY SPEED CAUSES DEATH OF AVON GIRL OF 15 Miss Linda Scarborough Dies In Collision On Hatteras High way Saturday Afternoon. A 15 year old girl was killed and two men were injured Saturday when their cars collided a mile north of Avon at 5 p.m. Saturday. State police called the Coast Guard who sent a helicopter from Eliza beth City to take the injured to Albemarle Hospital. Killed was Linda Kaye Scarbor ough, 15, a high school student, daughter of Dewey H. and Edith Meekins Scarborough. Police said she was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 5 p.m. She was riding with Bradford Midgett, 17. Injured was William Shoemaker, 24, a Coast Guardsman stationed at Hatteras Life Boat Station at Hatteras. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, multiple external in juries. Also injured was Bradford Mid gefcte, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Midgett, of Buxton. He w&s admitted to the hospital with in ternal injuries. State Patrolman D. S. Skiles said witnesses told him Shoemaker was headed south at high speed, pulled out to pass a car and struck Midgette’s car. The first passing motorist, Thom as B. Gray of Virginia Beach, Va., said by the time he had gotten the Scarborough girl out of the wreck she was dead. Officer Skiles said Shoemaker’s car skidded 217 feet before the crash and traveled anoth er 120 feet afterwards. Besides her parents Linda is sur vived by two sisters Joan, and Cathy of the home. Her maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Branch Meekins; her paternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Dewey H. Scarbor ough. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Assembly of God Church with the pastor Rev. Henry Wright officiating assisted by Rev. M. L. Johnson Jr., pastor of the Avon Methodist Church. The Choir consisting of members from both Church Choirs, accom panied by Mrs. Ervin Gray, sang Jesus Lover of My Soul and I Need Thee Every Hour. Mary Vir- Serving as pallbearers were mem bers of her class at school: Guy Padgett, Lawrence Woods, Donnie Gray, Seymour Gray, Maurice Quid ley and Elton Miller. All members of her class attended in a body. The casket pall was of red and white carnations. There were many floral offerings. Interment was in the family plot, ginia Tolson of Buxton sang There’s Room at the Cross. LOST COLONY’S “AGONA” HONORED IN CHAPEL HILL Mrs. Cora Mae Basnight of Man teo, who plays the role of Agona in The Lost Colony each summer, was honored with a surprise lunch Sun day at the home of Mrs. Irene Raines in Chapel Hilk Mrs. Raines, costumer for .The Lost Colony and The Carolina Playmakers, is a former Dare County resident. Mrs. Basnight was returning with her grandchildren, Hannon and Claudia Fry, from Carthage, where they visited Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Fry. Others at the brunch were Misses Della Basnight and Roxie Ethe ridge of Manteo, who were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bob Thornburg in Chapel Hill; Mrs. Thornburg, Mr. and Mrs.' Bill Hannah, and Mr. and Mrs. Bob BloodwortitKall of Chapel Hill; Glenn Vernon of -Mars Hills; Miss Susie Cordon of Chapel Hill; and Mrs. Dorris Fry .of Manteo. All guests have been members of the Lost Conloy cast or staff. ... •. OFFICIALS OF SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE ASSOCIATION !/■ l. • . , jR • Mew ttMf t READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT Rep. Dick Lupton of Hyde County who was re-elected Friday as Hyde’s Vice-president of the Southern Albemarle Association. In the center is the new president, E. E. Harrell of Plymouth, and next is A D. Swindell, of Pantego, the now Vice-President of Beaufort County, succeeding Dr. W. T. Ralph. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1961 WILDFOWL HUNT . BEGINS FRIDAY IN N. CAROLINA The Wild goose season opens to day, Friday, Nov. 10, and closes January Bth. The Duck season opens November 21 and closes Dec. 30th. Wildfowl shooting was once for many years a big industry in North Carolina, and brought a livelihood to many people. A scarcity of game has caused a loss of interest in the sport, and this year, the bag limit for geese is two in a day, with only four allowed in possession. Snow geese may not be killed, and hunters are urged to shoot only male ducks, and leave female ducks to nest next year. As many as ten brant may be killed, and as many as ten be in possession. But limits are low on ducks. The daily bag limit is three six in posses sion. One may kill six coots, and have six in possession. LOCAL GRID CLASH SCHEDULED FOR NOV. 16 Os coming interest to local foot ball enthusiasts will be the clash scheduled between the Manteo town team and Army. Game time is set for 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 16 at Manteo Ball Park admission will be SI.OO for adults and 50c for cmidren with all proceeds being forwarded to the Manteo High School Football team for purchas ing needed equipment. The powerful Manteo town team boasting a fast, 210 pound average line has Already been sharpened by several victories this season over various local talent. They are con fident of another win off Army. DISTRICT MUSIC CLUBS TO MEET SAT. IN GREENVILLE The Northeastern District of the North Carolina Federation of Mus ic Clubs will meet Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Woman’s Club building in Greenville. The North Carolina president, Mrs. H. G. Deal, of Hickory, and the vice-president, Mrs. Floyd Me haa, of High Point, will be present. Members will be in attendance from Manteo, Hertford and E.iza beth City. Mrs. Julian Oneto of Nags Head, a member of the Roa noke Island Music Club, is district director. NAMED CHAIRMAN TO HEAD BIG BRIDGE CELEBRATION ■ ■■ st, W. J. WHITE of Columbia, who was named Chairman of the over-all program for the celebration to be staged in Columbia in May 1962 to recognize the completion of the Lindsay Warren Bridge over Alli gator River. Mr. White is a former Supt. of Tyrrell Co. schools, is a prominent merchant, and has served several terms as president and as vice president of the SAA. 61.5 MILLIONS IN BONDS VOTED DOWN HEAVILY TUESDAY Dare County Went For All Is sues By Large Majorities; Lost By Two To One By an average of nearly two to one in a light vote, Dare County gave approval of the 61.5 millions in the state bonds submitted to N. C. voters Tuesday. However, by a vote of upwards of two to one a gainst, the voters of the state turn ed down the proposals, and all were lost, thereby giving Governor Sanford, a major blow in his am bitions to bring about many state wide improvements. Dare was the only county in the area which gave approval to all the issues, in entirety, but a few counties, approved one or two of them. The issues would have provid ed some 13.5 million for the ports of Morehead City and Wilming ton; 31 millions for higher educa tion institutions; nearly three mil lions for buildings in the capital area in Raleigh to house state of fices; more than- 2.5 millions for libraries and the departments of archives and history; nearly 1.5 mil lions for community colleges; over a million for state training schools; a half-million for local hospitals; nearly a million for parks, and over a quarter million for agricultural research. DARE MEN CHRISTEN FERRIES IN CEREMONY R. Bruce Etheridge end A. W. Drink water Break Bottle* on Boat* Named For Them Two of North Carolina’s newest ferries, already operating on regu lar schedules across Oregon Inlet were featured in a delayed christen ing ceremony here Monday after noon. Also featured in the ceremonies were two distinguished Dare citi zens, R. Bruce Etheridge and Alpheus W. Drinkwater, for whom the ferries were named. Each of the two, both of whom have been active in Dare for more than 60 years, broke the gaily wrapped bottles over the bows of the former landing craft which were loaned permanently to North Carolina by U. S. Department of Interior. The state in turn has spent more than $200,000 in converting the vessels and a third ferry now operating at Hatteras Inlet into the finest of the highway depart ments fleet of ferries. Travel Memories Paying tribute to the men the vessels were named for was Mer rill Evans, chairman of the State Highway Commission. Also parti cipating in the ceremonies were Dare County Rep. M. Keith Fearing and Melvin R. Daniels, representing the Dare Boai'd of County Com missioners. Drinkwater recalled travel along the Outer Banks, Etheridge thank ed the highway commission for the honor and said he hoped soon these two ferries would be replaced by a bridge. Evans assured that the bridge would be built, that present plans call for letting the contract for the Oregon Inlet Span early in 1962. He praised the leadership of Dare County and said: “This county has seen great development as re sult of its leaders. I don’t know another place where so few have done so much, with so little in so short a time.” Bridge Promotion Fearing thanked the commis sion head for the interest he and his group have taken in pushing the Oregon Inlet Bridge. Ferry Mana- See FERRIES, Page Eight SIX COUNTIES VOTE TO NAME OREGON INLET BRIDGE FOR H. C. BONNER Southern Albemarle Group in Williamston Unani mous in Honoring Senator Ervin and First District Congressman; Plans Launched for Celebration in May In Columbia Over the Lindsay Warren Bridge on Alligator River. CLIFTON BRITTON RECENT TAR HEEL OF THE WEEK jaW W II ■sHF 3LIFTON BRITTON, longtime di rector of the Lost Colony, who re sides on Roanoke Island each sum mer and returns to Goldsboro for wintering, was recetnly featured in the News and Observer as Tar Heel of the Week. The interesting com ments writen by Gene Roberts, Jr., follow: In mid-November the lights will dim in Goldsboro’s high school audi torium, the stage curtain will start its slow ascent and Clifton Britton, a small boyish-looking bachelor with a crew cut, will present the opening production of his 20th sea son as director of Goldsboro High School’s award-winning “Goldmas quer” drama group. Britton arrived at the high school in the fall of 1942 with a satchelful of scripts, a master’s degree from East Carolina College and a freshly typed master’s thesis—“ How to Or ganize a Successful High School Drama Program.” On Stage In Good Footing. A few weeks previously an Army doctor had assured him the war years would not interfere with his plans for putting his thesis to work. “Your feet are so bad,” the doctor told him, “that even the Salvation Army wouldn’t take you.” Once at the school, Britton found 26 would-be drama students and a highly sympathetic principal. “Clif ton,” Principal C. W. Twiford said, “You can’t really educate a child unless you expose him to the arts— that’s your job.” The exposure began with "Death Takes a Holiday,” which Jud just completed a successful Broadway run, and continued with plays by such proven playwrights as Thorn ton Wilder and George M. Cohan. Britton, meanwhile, learned- that the auditorium’s 1,256 seats weren’t enough to hold all the people who wanted to see his productions. He was forced to schedule all of his plays for three-night runs. Drama Grew In Learning. In his second year at Goldsboro, 185 students enrolled in dramatics art courses and Britton was forced to drop four English courses he had been teaching. Among the flood of new drama students were athletes who only a year before "wouldn’t have been caught dead” on a stage. But the students quickly learned that Britton’s conception of drama was more than acting. He required them to read playwrights ranging from Shakespeare to the contem poraries. Advanced students found themselves writing original plays, designing and assembling play set and costumes, adapting musical scores and choreography and direct ing lighting and sound effects. Students with a flair for art de signed and printed playbills, pos ters and play tickets. Student writ ers ground out press releases and radio commercials plugging the plays. Under Britton’s direction, ballet dancers pirouetted under dancing lights. Music faded in and, out to heighten the air of mystery, Su spense and romance. Stage seta no longer looked like wallpaper cover ed panels, but like walls of homes. Painted clouds and water floated and rippled under the glare of in tricate lighting systems. A Harvest of Awards. After two seasons of watching Britton’s directing, few in Golds boro were surprised when he took the student drama group he had MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 7p The Southern Albemarle Associa tion with great harmony prevailing, launched its 27th year Friday in Williamston, where some 300 dele gates, representing six counties, voted Unanimously favoring a reso lution to give the name of Con gressman Herbert C. Bonner to the proposed $4,000,000 Oregon Inlet bridge, and to begin plans for a huge celebration in May commem morating the opening of the Lind say Warren Bridge over Alligator River. E. E. Harrell, a Plymouth Businessman was named President of the Association. To manage and guide the celebra tion to be held in Columbia honor ing Mr. Warren, W. J. White of Columbia was named general chair man of the affair, with control in the hands of the Tyrrell County delegation. The resolution favoring Rep. Bon ner’s name for the Oregon Inlet Bridge was introduced by Rep. Keith Fearing of Dare County. The Highway Commission, on request of the Southern Albemarle Association, already has named the Alligator Bridge for Lindsay C. Warren of Washington, N. C.» former Congressman, former comp troller general of the U. S. and long a political leader of the area. The resolution asking that the Oregon Inlet bridge bear Bonner’s name was adopted unanimously. So was another resolution, offered by State Sen. P. D, Midgett of Hyde, asking that State ferries freed when the Alligator Bridge is com pleted be transferred to a new route across Pamlico Sound from Engel hard to Hatteras. Congressman Bonner was one of two principal speakers heard by the Association. The other was Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., who urged that America "maintain a national de fense posture so strong as to deter any potential enemy from nuclear war and which, if any such war de veloped, could destroy the enemy.” Ervin was critical of the U. S. foreign aid program, the adminis tration of which, he said, "has presented the United States to the world as a rather bewildered old gentleman.” He also urged that “we realize' the nature and relent less purpose of our enemy” and that the country recognize that “there can be no appeasements, ne paying of blackmail.” Speaking just before Ervin, Congressman Bonner took the oc-> casion to plug for approval of the $61.7 million in State bonds on which a referendum will be held next Tuesday. “We should in the Southern Al bemarle and all organizations of this kind get in behind these bond issues,” he said, "... so that the wealth of our young people will not continue to be exported but will remain in North Carolina.” He said the bonds had been pro posed by "a great, great young man” (referring to Gov. Terry Sandford) and submitted to popular vote by tiie General Assembly “for the forward movement of our State.” In electing Vice-Presidents from the several Counties for the year, some were re-elected, and some who had previously served were named unanimously. The list follows: Al len D. Swindell of Pantego, from Beaufort; Victor Meekins from Dare, a former Vice President and President; W. J. Lupton, Hyde County Representative was re-elect ed; Mr. Effie A. Brickhouse from Columbia was also re-elected from Tyrrell; George W. Corey of Wil liamston and Lewis Combs of Cres well were also elected for Martin and Washington Counties respec tively. M. A. Matthews of Columbia, who has been treasurer since organi zation, was re-elected. Harrell, was chosen president to succeed John Hatton Gurganus of Williamston, who became president when Robert Cowen, also of Wil liamston, resigned on being ap pointed district attorney for the Eastern District. Gurganus presid ed over Friday’s meeting. The meeting was one of the most successful in many years. Visiting the meeting briefly were Merrell Evans, Chairman of the State High way Commission* and Federal Judge John D. Larkins of Trenton and U. S. District Attorney, Robert Cowen who served as President of I See BRIDGE, Pago Eight
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