SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOLUME XXVII NO. 21 NAGS HEAD C OF C TO SPONSOR DRIVE FOR "CENTER” FUNDS WBB Attempt to Raise Balance of $90,000 December 12-15 Under Nags Head Chamber of Commerce sponsorship, a one vjeek drive will be held on the Dare Beaches, December 11-15, in an ef fort to complete the raising of an initial amount necessary for con struction of the proposed “Conven tion Center and Museum of the Out er Banks of North Carolina.” The project, planned to be built on the south side of Colington Is land road, adjacent to the Wright Brothers-National Memorial reser vation and close by U.S. Highway 158 is expected to cost approxi mately $275,000, Completion date is now expected to be in late 1962 or early 1963, it was announced today by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, secretary of the Nags Head Cham ber of Commerce. Under her direction, approximate ly 100 key members of the chamber are being contacted through a unique plan of daily poet card mailings starting early next week. Each member will be urged to at tend a general meeting on Friday, December 8, at Nags Head to dis cuss final plans for a kick-off breakfast in St. Andrews Parish House on December 11 which will begin the one week drive. "Already we have raised through cash investments or pledges almost $30,000 of the $90,000 needed in order to borrow the balance neces sary for construction,” said Mrs. Smith. Practically all of the 100 key members who will be urged to par ticipate in the week-long drive De ' comber 11-15 are vacation opera tor owners of hotels, motels, cot tage courts or other businesses which share in Dare’s big tourist in dustry. They are in business at Kit ty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head or on Nearby Roanoke Is land. The Convention Center project when completed would put the Dare Beaches area on a par with any eastern North Carolina resort for handling large convention groups. The main auditorium will be large enough to handle 850 persons in mass meetings or more than 500 at banquets. A feature of the center may be a special facility where the population could seek refuge from nuclear fall-out or during severe storms, it was stated. LELAND WISE NAMED DEPUTY SHERIFF IN DARE CO. Leland Wise of Stumpy Point, who for several years has been an oyster and fish inspector for the State Department of Conservation and Development has been employ ed by the Dare County Sheriff as a full time deputy. Mr. Wise, a pop ular Stumpy Point man, was re cently detached from the Fisheries Department, following a disagree ment in policies with the Commis sioner, Gehrman Holland of More head City as the result of the re cent attempt by the Board to insti tute new conservation measures based on more vigorous prosecution of violators of the fishing and oyster laws. The salary of a Deputy Sheriff in Dare County is about $3,600 a year, an income comparable with that paid by the C & D Department. The Deputy is furnished a county owned automobile and will be based in Manteo. MRS. SALLIE C . MIDGETT DIBS IN NORFOLK TUESDAY NORFOLK Mrs. Sallie Sue Coffield Midgett, 84, died in a Nor folk hospital Tuesday at 8:10 a.m. after short illness. She was a native of Bertie Coun ty and lived in Manteo, most all her life, many years before residing in Norfolk at 8009 Galveston Blvd, the last year. She lived for a few years in Currituck County where the family engaged in farming. She was the widow of John W. Midgett and was a member of Man teo Baptist Church. Her husband was a long time Captain of the ferries at Roanoke Island. She is survived by a son Louis Clyde Midgett of Norfolk; four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The body was taken from Derry- Twiford Funeral Home to Manteo Baptist Church Thursday at 1 p.m. for a funeral service at 2 p.m. The Rev. M. J. Davis officiated. Burial was in the Manteo cemetery where her husband was buried sev eral years ago. She was the mother of the late Miss Clara Midgett who died in Richmond, and the late Lloyd Mid geft n own driver ' / ' ' ' ‘'• "' v ‘. 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 POSTMASTER IN LONELIEST COMMUNITY IN CAROLINA NORRIS W. AUSTIN, who is the postmaster at Corolla on Currituck Beach has the distinction of serv ing the loneliest community on the Carolina coast, now that its school is gone, and so many of the fami lies have moved away. The blood of Hatteras and Nags Head ancestry flows deep in Mr. Austin’s veins, and he loves his community and see great things in the future for it especially after a road is built to connect Nags Head and Virginia Beach. Mr. Austin grew up in this community, and he loves it He first attehded school there, then the Griggs High School in Popular Branch, and Kees Coastal business college in Norfolk. When his father, Johnny Austin retired early this year, as postmaster, Norris was ap pointed. There was no scramble for the office in Corolla, as only about a dozen people live in the com munity. In the famed Whaleshead club owned by George T. McLean and others of Portsmouth, a boy’s academy is conducted in the sum mer. More and more people each year are attracted to this quiet area, which has North Carolina’s most beautiful beach area. In all, about 53 people get mail at Corol la postoffice. Before the Coast Stations in the area were abandon ed, and the crew removed from the light tower. Corolla was a large and happy community, with a two teacher school. It has Baptist church, and services are held there by visiting preachers. HUELL B. CARTER, BEACH TOURIST COURT OWNER DIES SUDDENLY SATURDAY Huell Brantley Carter 51, a beach cottage owner for the past six years, died suddenly at his home on lower Nags Head Satur day afternoon. He was born in Zeb lon, N. C., Dec. 23, 1909, and for many years was an employe of a large merchandising firm in Dan ville, Va. Following his retirement because of failing health, he came to Dare County, and at the time of his death had enlarged his cot tage court, with several buildings nearing completion. He was highly regarded as a neighbor and citizen. He was the son of the late Ara bella Brantley and Bailey Burtis Carter of Wake County, and the husband of Mrs. Doris Mae' Carter, the only surviving relative. The body was removed to Twi ford’s Funeral Home in Manteo, and transported to Zebulon for funeral Monday afternoon and burial in Brantley cemetery. The funeral service Monday at Screws and Hudson funeral chapel in Zebulon was conducted by Rev. William K. Quick, pastor of Zebu lon Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. Joseph ■ Burroughs of Nags Head. Zebulon Methodist choir sang “Rock of Ages” and “Son of My Soul.” Pallbearers were Frank Wall, Donnie Evans, Harold Ferbee, Len wood Brantley, Bob Brantley and Will Brantley. ’MISS AMERICA PAGEANT” WITHOUT WOMEN NOV. 39 A “Miss America Pageant” with out women will be presented at eight o’clock Thursday night, Nov ember 30, in the auditorium of Manteo High School, sponsored by the Manteo Schools Booster Club. Judges will make their decisions in three categories: evening gown, sun suit and talent. Already entered in the contest are Glenn Bonner and “Miss General Supply”, Ralph Swain as “Miss City Market” and Ralph Umphlett. Entrants will come from Manteo, Wanchese, Manns Harbor and the Dare Beaches. If anyone who has not been contacted would like to place an entry, it may be done by contacting Mrs. Gordon Kellogg in Manteo. R. E. (Dick) Jordan will be ac companist, and John H. Long will be master of ceremonies. NO OPPOSITION TO PHONE RATE INCREASE VOICED Work Proceeds on Construction of New Exchange Building in Man teo; Dial System Next July. An increase in phone rates that will amount to an estimated $87,000 a year, met with no opposition Tuesday when the request of the Norfolk & Carolina Telegraph Com pany was heard by the Utilities Commission in Raleigh. A wage increase costing the com pany $59,000 a year recently ne gotiated with the union was cited as a reason for the request. The company said.it planned to spend more than one and a half million dollars in improvements. One of these improvements is a dial exchange in Manteo, construc tion of the building having been started by the company on the lot formerly occupied by the J. A. Evans homeplace. The dial system will not be joyously received by about 20 operators now employed at the Manteo exchange who will be out of work. However, the dial system is now used at the Kill Devil Hills and Buxton exchanges whose subscribers will not be af fected by the rate increase. The annual payroll of the Man teo exchange is estimated at about $60,000 a year. The Edenton Construction Co. is building the new exchange in Man teo. President of the Telephone Co. L. S. Blades Jr. said Wednesday company plans are to change over to the diay system July 1,1962. The project will include construction of a 1000 ft. microwave tower in Man teo, a 180 ft. tower in Mamie, where a new exchange is planned to hand le the lower Currituck traffic, and a tower also in/Coinjock and Eliza beth City. In Manteo service personnel will be maintained, and an office with attendant to handle company busi ness, also garage and storage space will be built. With the changeover, the company will abandon all man ually operated exchanges in its sys tem, most of the phones having been converted to the dial system long ago. Mr. Blades stated that his is only one of three com panies left in North Carolina with out dial systems, and when the change is made in July, there will be only one manually operated ex change left in North Carolina. Long distance calls will be hand led through Elizabeth City after the changeover in July, Mr. Blades said. GERMANS PAY TRIBUTE TO WW II DEAD SUNDAY DIED OFF WIMBLE SHOALS In Hampton, Va., at the National Cemetery on Sunday, West German Consul R. W. Weiss of Norfolk and three West German army of ficers paid a somber tribute to 55 World War II dead buried there. Wreaths were placed and a U.S. Navy bugler sounded taps. Then the living who paid homage left the dead in peace after Consul Weiss said; “It is not my purpose today to review the causes of the great conflict w’hich necessitated these men being called into ser vice.” Twenty-nine of the men honored were drowned in the sinking of the U-85, first enemy submarine “kill ed” during the “battle of the At lantic” when it came close to Amer ican shores in early 1942. Already many merchantmen had been sent to the ocean’s bottom by enemy subs, before the tide of bat tie changed on April 14, 1942. It was on that date that the old World War I destroyer Roper made contact with the U-85 between Wimble Shoals and the outer Dia mond of Diamond Shoals, off the North Carolina Outer Banks near Cape Hatteras. The U-85 had fired one torpedo towards the Roper and missed be fore the destroyer opened fire with her deck guns on the target which showed plainly in the light of the searchlights. Seriously damaged while trying to submerge, the Roper’s depth charge finished off the U-85 and af ter daylight the bodies of the vic tims who had lost their lives after trying to escape. Although they were “the enemy” the bodies of the U-85 crew were taken to Norfolk, and buried with military honors. With far less honors, a number of bodies, mostly gun crewmen of English or Allied merchant vessels were recovered along the North Carolina coast and buried at More head City, on Cape Hatteras and at Ocracoke Island where an “English Cemetery” with the buried bodies of four members of the crew of HMS Bedfordshire, lost off the Outer Banks in May 1942 is visited each y **^ by many who vacation on «»• MANTEO, N. C.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1961 TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS, SUPPORT, AFFRAY, OTHER CASES TUES. Variety Prevails In Recorder's Ses sion In Dare County This Week Chester Lupton Austin of Norfolk ran into difficulties last week end while in Dare County and was in Dare County Recorder’s Court Tuesday charged with similar of fenses on both the 17th and 18th. Highway Patrolman D. S. Skiles of Hatteras on Friday charged Austin with driving without a license and no libility insurance, and on Satur day the same charges plus another disturbing the peace were brought against him. Judge Baum found him guilty on all charges and sentenced him to six months on the road. An appeal to Superior Court was made, the cases scheduled for the May term. Austin has been a fre quent customer in the Dare courts, this being the sixth time in three years, the last visit being in August 1960 when he was found guilty of being under the influence, resisting arrest and assault upon an officer. At that time in addition to fines imposed he was given a suspended sentence, conditioned upon non-ap pearance in the Dare courts on any criminal charges within two years. Gethsemane Gallop, Manteo color ed, had charges dismissed in the case growing out of another fracas involving the establishment of Catherine Latham Smith. It is un derstood that Gallop was in the company of several friends on the night of October 29 seeking the relaxation and entertainment be ing offered, when Mrs. Smith ord ered them out. Gallop moved, but not quick enough, and suffered knife injuries. She paid a fine of $25 and costs of this charge! Officer D. F. Twyne, making the arrest the following day, additionally charged her with being drunk and disorderly in a public place; another fine and costs in the same amount was paid in this case. Gallop was charged by her with failing to leave when ordered to do so, but the case was tossed out. Gallop, however, says he will move quicker hereafter. Arthur Robert; Johnson, Manteo colored, was in court charged by Brucie Midgett with failure to sup port their two children, ages 4 and 7, while Johnson was enjoying all the comforts of home. He was found guilty and given a sentence of two years on the roads, suspended on condition that he pay through the Clerk of Court office $12.50 per week for support of the children, and court costs of $8.70. This was precipitated by an assault two days before, when Johnson assaulted Brucie with a rod and reel, inflict ing injuries and bruises. He got a 60-day road sentence, suspended on payment of $35 fine and costs. Jack Reagie Buff, Norfolk, un der the influence, requested jury trial and bond was set at S2OO for appearance in May Superior Court. John Marshall Hobgood, USN, Buxton, charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper regis tration plates and no liability in surance, was found guilty and fined S2O and costs. Submissions during the past week included the following, court costs being imposed in addition to the fines imposed: Jerry Bennett Cox, Suffolk, Va., improper lights, $lO. Major Edward Curies, Kitty Hawk, speeding. $lO and costs. Linda .Lawson Harris, Stumpy Point, driving on wrong side of road, not in passing, $lO. Paul Kendrick, Manteo, creatinv See COURT, Page Six $62,000 FOR IMPROVING HATTERAS CAMP GROUND Congressman Herbert C. Bonner has been notified that a contract has been let for $62,318 for en larging the water and sewer sys tems at the Cape Point Camp Ground at Cape Hatteras. The Nat ional Park Service advises that John A. Johnston and Son of Bel haven were the winners of the con tract. This Belhaven firm has done Sny major construction jobs in i Cape Hatteras National Sea shore. MINOR ACCIDENT IN MANTEO An accident Wednesday after noon on Highway 64 near the Dare County Community Building in Manteo involved a 1962 Chevrolet driven by Mias Helen Farrow of Manteo and a 1969 Ford driven by Kilman Cooper of Nashville, N. C. When Miss Farrow stopped to pick up a hitch-hiker, Mr. Cooper’s car hit tiie rear of her car, with about S2OO damages to each car. Both cars were headed north on the high way. The accident was investigat ed by Highway Patrolman Prid- WILL THERE BE A PIRATES JAMBOREE IN 1962? n • s'* £ W- WK —U3 . .X— _Z ... —..<z. .. MEETING TO PLAN JAMBOREE CALLED FOR THIS SUNDAY Poor Attendance at Nov. 12 Meet ing Results in Postponement of Planning Action All area residents interested in the advertising and promotion of the Dare Coast-Outer Banks region through the Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree which has officially kicked-off the vacation season for the past seven years, are again urg ed by Herbert VanVleek, 1961 chair man of the event to attend a meet ing in The Anchor Club of Caro linian Hotel at Nags Head next Sunday (November 26) at 2 o’clock. VanVleek had called a meeting for Sunday afternoon November 12, but due to a variety of other activi ties such as good fishing and much autumn vacation patronage on Hat teras Island, a YDC-meeting in Raleigh on that week end, etc., only a handful of people showed up. “Therefore, we took no definite action on organization plans for a Pirates Jamboree in 1962,” said VanVleek. “The interest shown by residents of the county in attendance at the meeting on Sunday afternoon, may or may not determine whether we continue launchnig our Dare Coast vacation season each year with the Pirates Jamboree,” he added. A notice of the second meeting, the one scheduled for Sunday af ternoon, November 26, has been forwarded a list of persons who have been most active in the spring festival during former years. “This does not meap that persons who do not receive one of the notices by mail is not urged to at tend. We are most anxious for all persons interested in North Caro lina’s most successful and unique advertising and promotion festival, the Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree, to attend the meeting on Sunday. WANCHESE MEN APPROVE MASONIC LODGE MERGER A proposal for the merger of the Wanchese Masonic Lodge with the Manteo Lodge was approved by a heavy majority Thursday night of last week, it is reported by lodge officials, and the final outcome awaits a vote by the Manteo Lodge on Monday night of this week. The plan would take over the membership into the Manteo Lodge No. 682, which would be given the number of the Wanchese Lodge No. 521. The Manteo Lodge has under construction in Manteo a large mod em hall, which is a creditable achievement for a lodge with a small membership. Merger of the two lodges would mean a total membership for the Manteo Lodge of nearly 500, which is an unusually large number of members for lodges in areas of this size. The Manteo Lodge would have more than $5,000 a year in membership dues, plus the worth of the assets of the Wanchese Lodge, which was found ed nearly 60 years ago. $25,000 MAILED BY BANK IN CHRISTMAS CLUB CHECKS Approximately $25,000 was mail ed last week by the Bank of Man teo in Christmas Club checks. This amount may have been slightly more than the previous year, which; was also in the neighborhood «r $25,000. Last year’s figure was an increase of $4,000 over any amount mailed out before that time. The bank has announced December 5 as the starting date for the 1962 Christmas Savings Club, as can be seen in the advertisement elsewhere in this issue. CHANNEL BASS FISHING HATTERAS While catches have dropped to some extent, ang lers fishing the surf of Hatteras Island are still taking channel bass with rod and reel. In addition to channel bass the surf fishing for speckled trout, flounder and sea mullet has been fair to good recent ly depending on weather and surf conditions. ATTENTION SPORTSMEN: COMBINATION SEASON PREVAILING FOR YOU A sporting combination offered on the coast at this season is hunting and fishing. It is possi ble for a wildfowl or game hun ter to get his limit of dudes and or geese at Bodie Island, Wan chese or Mattamuskeet, during the early. morning and then go fishing during the afternoon in the Manns Harbor area and get a good catch of striped bass. SNOW GEESE ARRIVE IN LARGE NUMBERS AT PEA ID. REFUGE First contingent of the Greater American Snow Geese, a flock of 35, arrived at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge about November 1. On November 11, following tradition which is said to have star ted on Armistice Day, 1918, flocks of several hundred of the rare waterfowl arrived. First count after Novtmber 11 placed the estimated number of ■ the Greater Snows at the refuge at more than 4,000 and there have been new arrivals almost daily. When word got out via press, radio, television and wire photos that the geese had arrived bird watchers from many sections of the , country headed for the Outer Banks to observe not only the ■ Greater Snows, but also the Cana -1 das, the swan, and just about every : species of duck known to the At lantic flyways which had also ar- i rived at the protected feeding area i of the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. Most interesting to bird watchers at this season of the year are the ! Greater Snows, because these un , usual geese, seeming to know they , have protection from hunters, be come almost as gentle as barnyard fowl. Already several writers of nation al magazines and moving picture makers have visited the area this year for stories. One of the better known writers was Van Campen Heilner, the famous fishing and ; outdoor writer. The Greater Snows are rare. At last count there were only about 35,000 known to exist. They are unlike the Lesser Snows of the Louisiana marshes and the Pacific. That species is still very plentiful. Except for the protection they have had for many years the Greater Snows may have become extinct, not that they are very platable, but because they pro vide easy targets for the man in a hunting blind. But “woe betide” the man who kills one of the Greater Snows especially if there is a game protector in the area. IMPROVEMENTS MADE TO TOWN’S STORM DRAINAGE The recent improvement to the main storm drainage sewer in Man teo has resulted in enlarged park ing space, after filling a ditch southeast of County Street Mayor Ras Wescott and his street commit tee, with the help of Chief of Po lice Russell Sears, have cleaned out the old sewer which originates in the Main Street area, and comes down beneath the bus station and the furniture store owned by the Wescott brothers. Clearing out boards and other debris has permitted water to flow through uninterrupted to Manteo Bay. The town has installed con crete sewer pipe, and covered the ditch to make more parking room, which is of value to the shopping district. IMPORTANT PTA MEETING The P.TA. of the Manteo Ele mentary School will meet Monday night, November 27, at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. The bud get and finance committee will pre sent means of raising funds for school betterment. There will be no December meeting and it Is im portant that members attend this ' meeting. The contest for the most partents present is still in process. | MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 421 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 7# GREAT OPPOSITION AROUSED IN HYDE OVER BOMB RANGE Hearing by Armed Services Com mittee Set for January; Fear Damage to Wildfowl Interests A delay in the plans of the Air Force to establish a bombing range n Hyde County is expected, as the Senate Armed Services Committee rill hold a hearing in January. The tearing will be held as the result >f a request from Rep. Herbert C. 3onner, whose First Congressional district includes Hyde County; and i request from Sen. Sam J. Ervin, lr., who himself is a member of .he Armed Services Committee. The flights paths of the Air Force planes would run close to Lake Mattamuskeet,’and it is fear ed the noise from the jets would disturb the thousands of geese and ducks that migrate to Mattamus keet each fall. Next to farming, the largest amount of income in Hyde is said to derive from the sportsmen. The North Carolina General As sembly, reacting to an earlier con troversy over a similar Air Force proposal, adopted a resolution this year opposing a bombing range near Mattamuskeet. Gov. Sanford reportedly has asked the White House to intercede against the Air Force plan. The Air Force said it has search ed at least five years for a range suitable for all types of bombing and strafing practice. The only existing facility of this type is at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, and the yearly cost of sending fliers there from East Coast bases is estimated at $2 million greater than that it would cost if they trained at the proposed Hyde County range. Also, the Air Force feels that regular practice at an all purpose range is necessary for the best training results. The Navy has such a range in Pamlico Sound, where it uses a sunken LST off Stumpy Point for a target, and has offered to let the Air Force use it part time. The time tiie Navy could spare is not considered sufficient for Air Force purposes, however. Navy jets pass within six miles or so of the Pea Island Waterfowl Refuge on the Outer Banks and have not disturbed the geese, the Air Force says indicating that a similarly happy relationship be tween its pianes and the Matta muskeet geese can.be expected. The 25-pound practice bombs, are loaded with the equivalent of little more than a shotgun .charge, officials says. BIG ROCK CATCH ON TUESDAY BY PARTY OF ELM CITY SPORTSMEN S. G. Winstead and party from Elm City enjoyed fishing in Cretan Sound Tuesday, the first good day in several due to unfavorable weather, their catch of 80 rock weighing 240 pounds. Fishing with Capt. Chick Crad dock, the group trolled near the Umstead bridge which like Manns Harbor and Roanoke Island. The largest fish weighed in at fourteen pounds, while several others ran close second in site. The smallest were around two pounds. Craddock stated that with moder ating weather, large schools of the popular fish would be showing up in the vicinity of the bridge, and should provide good sport through December. DONKEY BASKETBALL IN MANTEO SATURDAY NIGHT An event promised to be hilar iously entertaining will take (dace Saturday night, November 25 at the Manteo High School gymnasium, when the Manteo Lions Club spon sors a donkey basketball game. The Kentucky donkeys booked for this program will be manned by members of the Lions club, and are scheduled to begin performing at 8 p.m. THANKSGIVING SERVICES A Thanksgiving service, will be held in Manteo Thursday morning at ten o’clock in Mount Olivet Methodist Church. The Rep. M. J. Davis, pastor of the Manteo Baptist Church, will deliver the message. Music will be from the combined choir of all churches participating. CUB SCOUTS MEET NOV. 28 win bThddrt £*2?^ out p * ck

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