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SEND RENEWAL . OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS * • VOLUME XXVII NO. 35 WORK IS UNDERWAY AT OREGON INLET BYMcLEAN FIRM Advance Party Arrived Monday To Begin Storage Area At Inlet Work began Monday at 3 p.m. on the 13/100 foot, $4 million, arc shaped bridge project over Oregon Inlet by McLean Contracting Co. of Baltimore, Md. Barge supported Cranes have already begun scooping much from the brine at the inlet in preparation for a bulkhead which •will be used as an assembly and storage yard for the maze of con crete piles, steel girders and rein-' forced steel parts which go into the' construction of the concrete span. W. T. Sutton, job superintendent for the bridge project who arrived! Monday with an advance party of I construction workers, has stated J that the main difficulty connected: ■with his firm’s operation is ex pected to be shallow water and the fast moving ebb tides which gush through the inlet To offset the hazards connected with shallow-wa ter operation, the company will em ploy their own dredges to maintain a sufficient depth in the channels to accommodate barges which will support machines for driving piles and pouring concrete. The fast ebb tides whl be com pensated for by the use of “spuds," according to the supervisor. The “spuds," which are actually 20 foot long,, triple-strength lengths of pipe, wiH be anchored at the four corners of each barge in the three barge fleet. Two surplus LCM’s will also be in operation at the site to transport equipment and supply fuel and water to the dredges. “We expect one of these to be in opera tion around the clock,” Sutton stated. After the completion of the stor age area, which is now under con struction, the first work under taken by the company will be the establishment of an embankment on both sides of the inlet. Equip ment for the hydraulic deposit will be furnished by J. D. Cottrell Co., which has sub-contracted .for the. job. The next step will be the driving of five test-piles to deter mine the necessary pile length for approval by the N. C. State High way Oommision. Once the pile length is determined, S. & G. Pres tress Co. of Wilmington, N. C., will furnish the supports for the piles and concrete girders to be used on the project The additional concrete for the bridge will be poured at the job site and is expected to consume approximately 5.000 to 8,000 gal- See INLET, Page Seven TWO FILE FOR JOBS IN DARE'S MAY VOTE FOR ALL DEMOCRATS Monde L. Daniels, Jr. and Dan L. Cannady announced for the first time that they will seek offices in the Democratic Primary in May. Daniels will seek the seat in the General Assembly now held by Rap. Keith Fearing, Jr. The Manteo oil distributor is a vice chairman of the N. C. Oil Jobbers Association and a director of East Carolina Oil Heat Council. He is a native of Manteo. A former member of the Manteo Town Board, Daniels is chairman of the board in his position as trus tee for the Mount Olivet Methodist Church. In making his announce ment, Daniels stated: “I believe the next few years will be the most important in Dare-County’s long history, and that the decision made during this period will shape our future. Because of my concern that we plan for this future on a fair, impartial and sound business basis, I would like to take part in making those decisions; this is my sole rea son for seeking this office.” In announcing his candidacy, Daniels listed five projects as the most important needs facing Dare County at this time. They are: Strengthening of basic income sour ces, tourism and commercial and sports fishing; getting additional ■ small industries suitable and skills ■ and geographic location; completion , of the long-awaited network of roads and bridges; better harbors | and waterways, and more for the tax dollar. M. Keith Fearing, Jr., present representative from this district, is completing his first term in the legislature. The Dare County phar macist and businessman is presi dent of Fearings Inc., Mantea drug and hardware firm. Fearing an nounced his intention to run again about two weeks ago when he paid his fee to C. S. Meekins, Clerk of . Court. Fearing is a member of numerous committees in the Gener till Assembly including 1 the commer* insurance committees. He was a THE TIMES WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD C BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALffgri COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA COMPLETES COURSES AT EAST CAROLINA igHMMHaraMi law ALFRED McCOY TILLETT, JR., of Manteo, on February 28 Complet ed work required for a Bachelor of Arts degree at East Carolina Col lege, Greenville. Mr. Tillett majored in geography and social studies and is a member of Gamma Theta Epsilon, geography fraternity. He is the husband of the former Donna Fortes of Wanchese, and they have one daughter, Ester Gay Tillett. DARE REPRESENTED IN .N. C. TRAVEL GROUP IN EUROPE Sen. and Mrs. Winslow Departed Sunday with ."Travel Am bassador" Group To Nags Head residents heard Governor Terry Sanford bid them good-bye at Raleigh on Sunday be fore their departure for Europe in connection with the “Visit U. S. A.” program of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Mrs. Lucille Winslow and State Senator ~J. Emmett Winslow joined with 39 fellow Tai- Heels in the flight to publicize North Carolina as “The Variety Vacationland” to European trave lers visiting this country. The group was officially des ignated by the governor to represent the state on this mission, which began in London on Feb. 25 and extends to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris. The tour will terminate on March 8. In an effort to induce European passport holders to this country, discounts of 50% are being offered bn designated accomodations and attractions througlwut the state. Information about North Carolina travel and all-expense tours is available through the U. S. Travel Service and travel agents in Europe. A new folder in English, French and German is also being distributed to European prospects which emphasizes tourist attrac tions from the Great Smoky Moun tains to beaches on the Atlantic Coast. Governor Sanford, in bidding the group farewell dawn on Sunday, stated that: The new United States Travel Service in the Department of Commerce is opening up new opportunities for expanding trade and .travel throughout the world, and North Carolina is proud of the leadership of this mission to Eu rope in capitalizing on them. North Caroina’s travel-serving industry is its third largest business. We have an outstanding product, and it is good business to introduce it in market overseas and facilitate ex change of visits by people of the friendly nations of Europe and of the U. S. A?* > N. C. WATER RESOURCES CONVENTION DURING MAY EXPECTED TO BRING 200 Col. Harry Brown, director of the N. C. Water Resources Com mission, was on the coast this week to lay plans for convention in May and to visit Outer Banks areas, including Ocracoke Island, where he met with the Island’s civic club on Wednesday night. The convention, expected to bring upwards of 200 delegates, will be that of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Associa tion, which has as its objective what the name implies. At Ocracoke, Col. Brown led a discussion on thq need for mainte nance dredging of the channel lead ing into Silver Lake Harbor from Pamlico Sound. The channel is said to be shoaling rapidly and to take care of visiting yachts, commercial fishing boats and the “Sea Level,” state-owned ferry which is scheduled to resume its daily service between the island and Atlantic on the mainland next week, it is said to be very impor tant that the channel be deepened NEW HEARING IS SET ON SHELL DREDGING AROUND DARE CO. Interested Parties Urged to At tend Feb. 9 Meeting in Elizabeth City Attempts are again being made to allow pilot dredging operations for dead oyster shells in lower Albemarle Sound. The proposal of an Elizabeth City group, reported to be fronting for Gulf Coast in terests, are asking for permission to dredge for oyster shells from North Carolina sounds for conver sion into chicken feed and have re ceived a public hearing which will be held on March 9 to determine whether such an operation would be in the best interests of the area. The hearing will be con ducted by the Commercial Fisher ies Committee of the State Board of Conservation and Development. Eric W. Rodgers, of Scotland ■ Neck, committee chairman, has stated that the hearings wiH be gin at 10 a.m. and will be held in the auditorium of the agricultu ral annex to the Pasquotank Coun ty Courthouse. At that time, Rod gers stated, proponents and oppo nents of the dredging will be heard. The attempt to stir up waters in the area by dredging operations has been attempted on numerous occasions in the past. Proposals for dredging in the coastal sounds have been advanced during the ad ministration of Governors Scott and Umstead and were defeated each time through efforts of the North Carolina Wildlife Federa tion. Turner Battle of Rocky Mount, executive secretary of the Federa tion, said that “dredging for these shells or minerals in the coastal waters would be detrimental to fish and wildlife.” Local opposition to the shell dredging has come from the Currituck County Board which passed a resolution two weeks ago protesting any attempts to use Currituck and Albemarle sounds for such a purpose. Preliminary surveys in Currituck ' Sound indicate about three million cubic yards of shell are present with the possibility of 100 million cubic yards available from the area. Exploratory surveys in the eastern portion of Albemarle have located about 700 million cubic yards of shell. Local oyster interests are vi tally concerned over the disturb ance of their bed by such an oper ation, and fishermen fear the tur bidity of the dredges will limit penetration of light in Water and inhibit the growth of bottom i plants, which are essential in the diet offish. _ < - BAUM HEARS CASES OF SPEED AND PEEP IN RECORDER COURT Larry Donald Goldfine, a service- ' man with the U. S. Naval Training Facility at Buxton, appeared in Re- : corders Court on Tuesday to face 1 charges connected with the Feb. ’ 19th accident at Frisco when his i “super-stock” 1962 Chevrolet Im- < pala skidded into a swamp at mid- < night after traveling a reported i speed of 95 miles an hour along the ] highway north of Frisco. I Goldfine, whose shaved head was < still marked with scars from the i accident, told Judge W. F. Baum 1 that he was “unable to remember j anything which happened after four i o’clock on the afternoon of the ( wreck.” Tommy Veal, Barry Peele and Edwin Wilson all gave test!- . mony for the state before Judge : Baum delivered a verdict of guilty j to the defendant on charges of , careless and wreckless driving and { the operation of a motor vehicle at , a speed of 95 mph in a 35 zone; k Veal, who is also stationed at , Buxton, described how he and Gold- j fine left a drive-in at Frisco and attempted to pass a car about 7 J miles north of Frisco, approached a curve in the attempt, and skidd- . ed 600 feet into the swamp. Veal, > who was unable to state how fast ’ the vehicle was traveling at the ! time of the accident, did state that ! “the tachometer showed an accel- , eration of 7,000 revolutions just be- j fore the wreck occurred.” Veal stat ed that the last thing he remember- ] ed, before the car left the road, , was “hearing the wheels leave the , highway and a lot of rumbling nois- , es.” Veal, who received injuries in the accident, along with Goldfine, ' said that he was still under doctors care. Goldfine was flown by helicopter 1 to an Elizabeth City hospital after ’ the accident occurred and was later ! taken te Norfolk for treatment of « face and body lacerations which he < sustained in cr&sh. Patrolman < D. S. Sidles appeared as a key wit ness for the state and estimated the i MANTEO, N. G, FRIDAY, MARCH 2,1962 LARRY D. McCARTER 1 ASSIGNED IN INFANTRY PVT. LARRY D. McCARTER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. McCarter of Manteo, has been assigned to Company D, 6th Battalion, 2d Training Regiment of the U.S. Ar my Training Center, Infantry, at Fort Jackson, S. C. where he is un dergoing eight weeks of Basic Com bat Training. TRAVEL PROMOTERS DEPART DARE FOR CINCINNATI SHOW The group that will be in charge of the Dare Coast-Outer Banks ex hibits at the Ohio Valley’s Vaca tion and Travel Show opening in Cincinnati on March 3 and con tinuing through March 11, depart ed Thursday morning. It will be the second travel show in which Dare County Tourist Bu reau has participated in this year. The first was at Charlotte during late January and early February. In charge of the Tourist Bureau booth and a similar booth to be exhibited by the Carolinian hotel See SHOW, Page Seven ED CRAIN---FERRY PILOT ' Veteran River Pilot Eddie Crain Speaks of Boredom and Dangers During Old Alligator River Run By LAWRENCE MADDRY Eddie Crain has wrinkles of char acter that reach towards his eyeball when he squints like the pronged setting for a diamond. Their pre sence is no accident. Their indelible impression has been grooved by years of searching and scanning through bursts of rain and engulf ing explosions of fog for the boat that might lie somewhere just ahead beyond vision en the Alliga tor River run. The opening of the Lindsay War ren Bridge closed an era in Eddie’s life that murky February afternoon when he pulled the Emmett Win slow into her slip and watched as Governor Sanford rode the last car over the ramp to end the ferry service from Sandy Point to East Lake. For Eddie is a ferry pilot on the Outer Banks. (He is one of a dying breed. The waiter is his life, mistress, ahd teacher. Her instruc tions have been written in his face, in the wrinkles there; and she taught him to grin in a funny nris chevous way. Eddie has been working on boats Since he was eighteen years old: He started “on a tug boat out of Elizabeth City.” He worked for a while on trains as a fireman and took a turn at logging for a saw mill, but it is “working around the water" which suits him best. Eddie Crain started working the Alligator Raver run about 10 years ago when as a deck hand he learned the mo notonous routine of lowering the ramp, counting the cars, placing them at just the right position for ballast and answering the thou sands of uncanny questions which tourists can pose “when a man has his mind on other things.” “It was six days on and two off back then.” he says. “We worked the first Gov ernor Scott and the first Sandy Graham, but they wore out.” Eddie, who is 60, will probably never “wear out” but he djd put in more time on the Alligator Raver than anybody around. Eddie is proud that they made him a pilot He wouldt tell you so, but you can tell. He hasn’t the authority of a ship’s captain and he “ain’t never married anybody aboard,” but there is a dignity of office that suits hint in his meek conversation with the crew. We asked the soft-epoken pilot about the hazards in commanding a ferry and the two answers receiv ed were wind end fog. "The win dows here in the cabin sweat up so f; . • .l ift-- ft? DELEGATION FROM HOUSE AND SENATE TO VISIT PAGEANT Bonner Introduces Resolution Call ing for Congressional Commit tee to Visit Lost Colony Congressman Herbert C. Bonner announced this week that on Mon day, February 26, he introduced in the House of Representatives a res olution creating a joint Congres sional committee to represent Con gress at the ceremonies commemo rating the 375th anniversary of the landing of Sir Walter Raleigh’s col ony on Roanoke Island, North Caro lina, and the birth of the first English child in America, Virginia Dare. The ceremonies -will be con ducted on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during the week of Aug ust 12-18, 1962. The Congressional group will be composed of six members of the House of Representatives, to be ap pointed by the Speaker ■of the House, and six members of the Senate, to be appointed by the Pres ident of the Senate. The resolution provides that the members of the joint committee -will select a chair man from among their number. The ceremonies will be conducted jointly by Congressional Committee and the Governor’s Commission for the Celebration of the 375th Anni versary of the Birth of Virginia Dare. William C. Friday, President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Chairman of the Governor’s Commission. This year’s celebration will also be significant as the silver anni versary of The Lost Colony, a pa geant successfully produced for the past 25 years by the Roanoke Is land Historical Association to per petuate the memory of the first English settlement in America on Roanoke Island in 1587. Mr. Bonner said, “I think it is particularly appropriate that this significant milestone in the history and cultural heritage of the United States should be marked by joint ceremonies participated in by rep resentatives of the State of North Carolina and of the Congress of the United States”. • ■ f , J s J * 1 fl much in the fog that you wear ’ yourself out kepping ’em clear,” he ! said. Eddie says that they were smoking up quite a bit in the fall about two years ago when the ’ worst incident within his memory ■ occurred on board. “We left Sandy Point in a 60 mile wind we had 14 1 cars and two log trucks loaded with 1 iron on board.” “I hope to never ■ see a truckload of iron again as 1 long as I live.” About half way ! cross the Alligator, water began ’ coming over the ride. “We had 1 water on the deck about three feet ■ deep, and it found its way into the 1 back of a ’53 Plymouh and wet ‘ some groceries in the back seat ' there.” Eddie says he didn’t notice the waiter until Billy Mann came 1 tearing up the steps in the pilot 1 house to see what was wrong. The j knowledgeable pilot just cut both motors until it ran off and steamed on in to East Lake without a hitch. Eddie says he wasn’t scared until I ■ afterwards. “I was too excited to “ be scared,” he relates. The 60-year-oid Pilot says he has had some embarramng moments too. “I suppose the time we got grounded out there for about an , hour is the worst,” according to > Crain. “Then, there is the time we came close to hitting the “Tiger Shark”; she was a 200 foot long boat with a steel hull.” “We passed her in a blanket of fog and missed her by about- 20 feet! that wasn’t . much good either.” The stoop-shouldered pilot, who smokes a pipe when he isn’t wiping steam from Windows or putting See CRAIN, Page Seven EVANGELICAL SERVICES AT DUCK AND COLINGTON W REV. HAROLD F. LEATHERMAN The Methodist churches at Col ington and Duke -will be the scene for special evangelistic services un der the direction of Rev. Harold Leatherman from March 1 through 9. The services, which have “Jesus Christ As Lord” for their theme, ; will feature sermons, gospel hymns ■ and Chrwtian fellowship in serv ices designed to “create a new , awakening of enthusiasm in the life ; of the church itself.” An attempt i will be made “to secure commit i ments from those who have not dedicated their lives to Christ and > the church," Rev. Leatherman has stated. Rev. C. W. Guthrie, assistant pastor for the Duck and Colington churches, and Rev. Horace McLaur in, pastor of the Kitty Hawk - Methodist Church, will be on hand ■to assist with the services which will begin on Thursday, March 1 at Duck where services will be con ducted at 7:30 p.m. until the follow ing Monday. On Monday, March 5, the serv ices will be held at Colington and last through Friday, March 9. Tire evangelical services are being con ducted in an effort to revive church activity in the Colington and Duck communities and represent the first attempt at evangelical preaching at those sites within the past year. OFFICERS CHOSEN FOR DARE Y. D. C.: NO NOTICE GIVEN A young Manteo man who has had varied political aspirations for some time Wednesday night was elevated .to the presidency of the Dare County Y.D.C., in an unan nounced “election” begun at 8 p.m. sharp. Observers noted that the meeting was unusually prompt for Dare County, where custom has it that assemblies of any type are slow in gathering. This promptness apparently bore fruit, for Robert V. (Bobby) Owens walked away with the top post in that organi zation at the meeting held in the courthouse. Those members present, who re ceived word-of-mouth notification of the election of officers, refused to accept the two motions of the new president that the meeting be held “behind locked doors,” and ' proceeded to elect a. slate of offi- ' cials for the group. Only notification of the meeting appeared in The Times last Friday < when Mrs. Dotty Fry, former, pres- j ident of the organization, request ed last Thursday that a notifies- ' tion be placed in the paper to the effect that a meeting for the se lection of “planning committees” would be held in the courthouse on Wednesday night. Mrs. Fry was asked at the time her request for the announcement was being made ' if the meeting was for the purpose of the election of officers; she re plied: “No!” Owens, the brother-in-law of the outgoing president, Mrs. Fry, intro- 1 duced two motions from the floor during the Wednesday night meet- 1 ing, before being elected president j of the local Y.D.C. The first mo- 1 - See YJJ.G, Page Seven WORLD PRAYER DAY - ■ Rev. M. J. Davis has announced tliat the Manteo Baptist Church I will observe “World’s Day of Pray- 1 er” on Friday, March 9 at 10:30 i a.m. All denominations are invited i to share in the services which will 1 be held at the local church. ; TALENT SHOW MARCH 2 FOR DARE HEART FUND A talent show for the benefit of the Dare County. Heart Council will be held Friday evening, March 2, in the Manteo Elementary School auditorium at eight o’clock. Ad- I the affair. —■l ■ MAIL SHOULu BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO. N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS • Single Copy LOST COLONY’S 1962 BUDGET SET AT NEAR $90,000 Mrs. Morrison, Dorton and Thom as Among Attendants At Saturday Meeting The Lost Colony Board of Di rectors approved an operational budget of 369,000 last Saturday af ternoon. The exact figure of $89,- 600 was passed upon by Mrs. Fred Morrison of Washington, D. C. chairman of the group, who joined with Sib Dorton, Jr., former man ager of The Lost Colony, and F. Edgar Thomas, newly-appointed manager of the drama in approving the sum. Others present included Rep. Keith Fearing, member of the exe cutive committee of the Roanoke Island Historical Society and Mrs. Ina Evans, secretary-treasurer of that organization and former chair man of the Dare County Tourist Bureau. Actors and dancers salaries were the biggest expenditure listed in the 1962 budget with an expense of $19,000; the figure was closely fol lowed by . a sum of SIB,OOO which will represent expenses for produc tion staff wages. Publicity expen ses, another large item, will cost approximately $12,000. The sum of $9,500 for the choir rounds off the list of “high cost” expenditures for the drama. The group was relieved to note that maintenance expenditures this year will be considerably smaller this year than, the $22,000 figure which was alloted in 1961. A sum of only $2,000 Will be used for up keep during the current period. To balance the costs for the out door drama, which is now in its 25th year, a total of $75,000 is an ticipated from gate receipts, and SIO,OOO in income as a result of subscriptions and contributions from interested patrons. The bal ance of approximately $5,000 will be collected from concessions, cush ion rentals and souvenir programs which will be on sale at the Fort Raleigh site. The directors are planning quite a few additions to’ the souvenirs available to the public and are expecting a marked in crease in sales as a result of the change. The directors, who were joined by Aycock Brown, Lawrence Swain, Mrs. Bob Preston, Archie Burrus and Wallace McCown of the Dare County Tourist Bcreau, also decided to invite members of the N. C. Gen eral Assembly to Manteo, as guests of The Lost Colony, at some time during the performance this sum mer. New promotional efforts were also discussed before the group ad journed. The organization will place particular emphasis upon the anni versary of the 375th birthday of Virginia Dare, first child of En glish parents to be bom in the Wes tern Hemisphere. Commemorative plans to mark the event include the creation of a joint congressional committee to represent Congress at the exercises in celebration of the anniversary. The anniversary will be celeorated here on Aug. 12-18 and Rep. Her bert Bonner has already announced his intention to introduce a bill which would bring a congressional delegation to join with Governor Sanford and University of North Carolina President, William Friday, in observing the occasion. SECONDARY ROADS OKAYED BY DARE COUNTY BOARD IN SPECIAL MEETING FRIDAY. The Dare County Board of Com missioners appropriated $24,926 to ward the construction of roads in the county in a meeting last Friday which followed a conference with will be used for secondary road con local highway officials. The funds struction at Kitty Hawk, Wanchese and Scartorotown Extension and will result in a total addition of 1.2 miles for the secondary system. The board conferred with John Gilliam Wood, Highway Commis sioner from Edenton, W. P. Spruill, Division Engineer, George Mack, District Engineer and Ernest Wal ker, Highway Superintendent for Currituck and Dare Counties before arriving at a decision in regard to the paving areas. The sites selected were choeen because of the homes, traffic and use by school buses which were used as criteria for determining the secondary road areas. A car count was made of possible road sites and a minimum of 50 cars per day was necessary for the construction of a road in any given area. In allocat ing the state funds which were available for secondary road con struction, the board appropriated a sum of $2A56.79 in surplus high way money from the 1961-1962 period, amounting^ See ROADS, Page Seven
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