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PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
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VOLUME XXVII NO. 43
RESEARCH FIRM TO LOCATE
IN CURRITUCK AT COROLLA
FOR ROCKET FUEL TESTING
Manager of Atlantic Research Corporation
Indicates 360 Plant Personnel Will Be Em
ployed In Area To Develop "Gel-Solid
Propellant" for Rocket Booster As Outer
Banks Moves Further Into The Space Age.
A definite go-ahead for a
piissde fuel test facility at
Corolla, on the Outer Banks
some 40 miles north of Nags
Head, was given this week by
Philip KK. Reilly, Sr., manager
of Atlantic Research Corp’s
development department.
Work on the facility is to
begin in the early future. The
company plans to hire 50 to 75
persons by the end of this
year, Reily said, and to expand
that to 150 to 100 plant per
sonnel and 25 to 30 profession
al workers by the end of 1963.
The following year, the com
pany-hopes to expand to some
360 plant personnel and about
75 professionals.
“ Reily said the facility will be
staffed from the rural area on
the mainland, and that blight
young fellows, preferably high
school graduates, will be train
ed for the work.
The company’s announce
ment was made in Raleigh at
a conference called by Con
servation and Development
Director Hargrove Bowles in
the absence of Governor Terry
Sanford, who is on vacation.
Atlantic Research is work
ing on a paste-like fuel capsule
capable of powering large
rockets to the moon. It will test
its, fuel by firing missiles from
a static pad, which keeps the
rocket pinned to the ground
and measures its performance
by means of gauges. The com
pany has an Air Force contract
to develop what it calls a “gel
. solid propellant” which is be
lieved to have many advan
tages over propellants now in
use.
The new capsule should pro
duce millions of pounds of
thrust to push space vehicles
beyond the earth’s atmosphere,
a company official said.
The gel-solid booster may
give the United States the
means to overtake Russia’s ad
vantage in large booster rock
ets, according to Dr. Arch C.
Scurlock, president of Atantic
Research. Advantages over
conventional solid fuels include
markedly lower cost and short
er development time. Materials
used are readily available, and
the fuel is relatively safe to
handle.
While the “gel-solid fuel” is
the company’s key project at
Corolla, Atlantic . Research al
ready has begun work on an
aluminized solid fuel for use in
third and fourth stage rockets,
ReUy said. He added that five
or six vehicles using this type
of fuel have been tested at Cor
olla.
The fuel is said to be similar
to that used in the Polaris un
derwater missiles which also
was developed by the company.
‘The Outer Banks site was
selected for the new tests be
cause of its isolation, acces
sibility to navigable waters
and ibe work force potential in
th* area. The site has more
than eight miles’ frontage on
the Atlantic Ocean and is
bounded on the west by Cur
rituck Sound. North Carolina
has promised to biuld a road
connecting the site with the
state highway system at
Duck, a few miles north of
Kitty Hawk.
' Preliminary work already
has begun at Corolla. Company
workers have moved into a
doaen cottages and lodges in the
area, and more housing is to
be built.
FIRST MEETING MON.*
FOR COMBINED PTA
The Manteo Schools P.T.A.
will hold its first meeting Mon
day night, April 30, in the
Manteo High School auditorium
at 8 o’clock. New officers for
the coming school year will be
installed.
, PRECINT MEETINGS MAYS
Walter D. Perry, Chairman of
the Dare County Democratic
Executive Committee, has an
nounced that the county pre
cincts will hold their meetings
Saturday, May 6 at 1 p. m. at
the polling palces. The Dare
County convention will be
held in Manteo on Saturday,
May 12 at 2 p. m. in the court
house.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER
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ANDY GRIFFITH, whose TV
. show delights millions, has ar
. rived for a long anticipated va
, cation at his home on Roanoke
'■ Sound, near Manteo.
‘ By RALPH POOL
Andy Griffith, most popular
s of all TV stars in the NortR 5
' Carolina oostland, has come
t home at last.
Andy arrived Monday at his
. comfortable, ranch-type home
. on Roanoke Sound, a couple of
, miles north of Manteo, after an
absence of a year and a half.
. He has spent most of the time
? in Hollywood, at work on “The
. Andy Griffith Show,” seen
each Monday night over the
CBS Network.
’ Andy expects to spend about!
> two months here, just taking
. it easy. “I just had to come,”
. he said, simply.
'Having learned that Andy
. was back, a member of the
. Coastland staff drove out to
. pay him a call. Two brick
. columns mark the entrance to
i his 53-acre farm. Bordered by
[ dogwood trees, a lane runs
, from the highway into a pine
woodland and winds down to
( Roanoke Sound, where the TV
; star’s home fronts on a wide
’ expanse of blue sea and sky.
, Esconed happily in a bright
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’ANDY GRIFFITH
TO KISS BEAUTY
AT MAY CONTEST
- T.V. and Movie Star Will Bun
Lovely Lass Selected As
1 Miss So. Albemarle
Sheriff Andy Griffith will put
1 a star on some pretty local gal
1 on May 10, several of them, in
1 fact. The comical sheriff of May
-1 berry has jumped at the oppor
-1 tunity to crown Miss Southern
' Albemarle and give her a kiss
jat the Lindsay C. Warren
1 Bridge celebration in Columbia.
1 His official duties include the
; placing of a star-studded crown
and a buss on the head of the
lovely lass selected to rule over
the gala celebration which prom
’ isea to be one of the most fun
-1 filled occasions ever held in the
1 Albemarle.
’ Governor Terry Sanford, Com
merce Secretary Luther Hodges,
Congressman Herbert Bonner,
Highway Commission Chairman
Merrill Evans and a host of
other celebrities are expected to
be on hand for the parade, ban
quet and contests associated
• with the May festivities. Sena
tor Warren, whose name em-
’ bellishes the |3 million bridge,
i will be the guest of honor at
the celebration.
The selection of a Miss South-
> ern Albemarle from a field of
lovely contestants will be but
' one of the highlights planned
■ for the fun-scheduled affair.
- Bands from Washington, Bel-
• haven, Edenton and other towns
» in the Albemarle area will be
J on hand to furnish music for
> the ocasion. The Southern Al-
> bemarle Association has also
> planned a dinner for over 1500
; guests a* another function in
the May celebration.
BUSINESS GETS
BACK TO NORMAL
AS BRIDGE OPENS
Hatteras Island Tourist Travel
Underway; Lost Patron
age Returning
Opening of the temporary
bridge over the new inlet cut by
the Ash Wednesday storm
north of Buxton took place
Friday, April 20, as scheduled,
and brought an brought an in
flux of Easter visitors to the
Hatteras Banks.
Previously since the storm,
the section south of the inlet
had been cut off except for
slow And tedious ferry service
that enabled the Hatteras and
Buxton people to get in and out
but kept away nearly all of the
usually large influx of sports
fishermen and other visitors.
Fishing is reported pretty
good down Hatteras way now.
Ten drum were taken off Hat
teras Inlet Sunday,- according
to Scotty Gibson,, proprietor of
Scotty’s Restaurant and the At
lantic View Hotel. Also, a few
bluefish are being taken in
nets, he said. The usual heavy
run of blues likely will show up
in the next few days if the
weather continues good, he add
ed.
Meanwhile, the fate of the
new inlet continues to be the
chief subject of speculation on
the Hatteras Banks. Petitions
have teen circulated on both
sides of the question, with
many persons south of the in
let urging that it be filled in,
while others at the north end
of the banks favor keeping it
open.
Like many of his neighbors
south of the new inlet, Scotty
hopes that the inlet will be
closed, as the Army Corps of
Engineers planned before the
controversy arose. “A north
fcteter tomorrow might put the
new bridge in Hyde County,’’
he said.
The Hatteras country is look
ing forward to a good summer
■if the 48-mile highway running
the length of the banks can be
kept open. If it goes out, ca
lamity is expected.
PILES ARE DRIVEN
AT OREGON INLET
1600 MORE NEEDED
The first of more than 1600
piles were driven at Oregon In
let Tuesday as McLean Con
tracting Company began the
first major step in the con
struction of the ♦4* million dol
lar structure which will span
the two and one-half mile gap
between Hatteras Island and
lower Nags Head. ' .
Construction crews have been
at work since February on the
northern approach to the
bridge and suction dredges
draglines, bulldozers and heavy
earth moving equipment have
succeeded in paving the way
for the gigantic construction job
which lies ahead.
By May 14 the concrete
operation at the bridge will be
well underway and bridge work
ers will be in the process of
capping the piles and installing
concrete beams, which are being
supplied by S&G Prestress Co
of Wilmington, N. C. Sutton
indicated that carpenters and
reinforcing iron workers and
their assistants will be needed
by the firm during this period.
He noted that three local work
ers were already employed by
McLean in connection with pile
driving operations.
The Baltimore firm now has
three cranes working at the in
let site and expects another
soon. The mechanical equip
ment features one steam oper
ated crane with a3O ton lift
ing capacity, one 40 ton steam
operated crane for pile driving
See PILES, Page Four
STURGEON AND BASS
TAKEN FROM WATERS
ALONG DARES COAST
A 450-pound sturgeon with a
length of over 9V4 feet was
netted by Melvin Twiddy and
Chick Craddock of Manns Har
bor on Thursday while the pair
was fishing the waters of Croa
tan Sound. The catch was the
largest sturgeon reported caught
from sound water in recent
years. The sturgeon yielded 110
pounds of caviar reported to be
worth over >3OO.
Catdies of channel bass con
tinue to be improving, as evi
denced by the successful venture
of Captains Buddy Cannady and
Omie Tillett, who led a fishing
party from Washington into fish
laden waters on Wednesday and
' emerged with twenty channel
i bass. The largest fish taker
scaled at 58 pounds.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1962
SWASHBUCKLING ROYAL TY FOR 1962 JAMBOREE
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, CLARENCE WINSLOW of Hatteras and MRS. NELDA DAVIS
of manteo are shown above in a regal pose, at the Jolly Roger
; Ball which was held on April 14, where they were selected as
king and queen of the'Tirates Jamboree for 1962. They are being
tutored for their royal roles by ex-king Dock Austin of Hatteras
and ex-queen Margaret Davis of Kitty Hawk, who have just ab
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MISS D’ANDREA MIDGETT and HERBERT BLIVENS of Man
teo are flanked by buccaneer master-of-ceremonies Ralph Swain
sifter having been selected as Pirate Prince and Pirate
Princess of the 1962 Pirates Jamboree. The couple was chosen
at the Teen-age Dagger Dance on Friday 13 and will assist the
King and Queen in the performance of their regal duties here
this weekend.
JIM MORTON FEDERAL
HIGHWAY ASSISTANT
JAMES G. MORTON h’s been
appointed Special Assistant to
Federal Highway Administra
tor Rex M. Whitton, it was an
nounced this week.
Mr. Morton will be in charge
of public affairs and informa
tion at the Bureau of Public
Roads, U. S. Department of
Commerce. He had been serving
as a consultant in the Office of
the Federal Highway Adminis
trator prior to his appointment
Until recently Mr. Morton was
Vice President of The American
Weekly, nationally distributed
newspaper supplement He has
a 20-year background as a writer
See MORTQN, Page Four
MOVIE FILMED IN DARE
A camera crew and several
beautiful models arrived at
Nags Head on Thursday to be
gin filming a movie entitled
•‘Variety Vacationland" which
will publicize the unique resort
attractions of the Outer Banks
and other scenic areas of the
state.
The film is being produced by
Bennett Advertising Agency of
Raleigh under the supervision
of Ted Kramer, an official with
the Bennett firm. The group has
established headquarter* at the
WOODEN BRIDGE
AT BUXTON NOT
| LIKELY: LEWARK
Veteran Observer of Tides and
Winds Says Temporary
Bridge Unstable
It will be impossible to
I build a permanent bridge of
wood across the inlet cut across
the Hatteras Banks by the Ash
Wednesday storm, in the opin
ion of William Vanderbilt Le
wark, who has spent all of his
81 years* on or close to the
often stonn-battered Atlantic
Coast.
He says that every new blow
will carry an ocean torrent
through the inlet, undermin
ing the bridge and eventually
carrying it away, unless ex
pensive jetties are built or
other steps are taken to st
| abilize the inlet. Also, he pre
dicts that the new Oregon In
let Bridge, now in the first
1 stages of contraction, will
cause that inlet to sand up and
eventually close.
Lewark, who celebrated his
t eighty-first birthday Sunday,
April 22, at his home just out
side Manteo, was born at Cur
rituck Inlet on the Outer
' Banks. His father, John H. Le
wark, was a guide at the near
by Monkey Island Club, main
tained for sportsmen, among
i them the millionaire William
i Henry Vanderbilt of New
I York.
i Vanderbilt was at the club
' when * Lewark was bom. He
asked that the boy be named
' after, him. and nromised to
See BRIDGE Page Four
SHORTER HOURS FOR SBA
I Offices of the Small Business
Administration in the court
house in Manteo, beginning
1 Wedesday, May 2, will be open
' only on Wednesday and Thurs
day of each week, from nine
’ until 12 o'clock noon. .
! A representative will be in
i on these days to help applicants,
i The Virginia Beach office will
i remain open until May 18, and
' applications will be processed in
that office.
BTH PIRATES JAMBOREE
BEGINS SATURDAY; R. I.
CAPTURES MOST EVENTS
Fun and Frolic to Prevail As Annual Season-
Launcher Gets Underway Saturday; Events
at Hatteras Cancelled; Many Beach
Events Set for Roanoke Island; Short But
Enjoyable Program Scheduled for Visitors.
The eighth'annual Dare Coast]
Pirates Jamboree will be launch
ed in Manteo on Saturday as
bearded buccaneers and their
gals are expected to turn Roa
noke Island into a grand mix
ture of Treasure Island and
New Orleans at Mardi Gras
time for what promises to-be
an exciting week-end of fun.
The day-long program of pa
rades, treasure hunts, costume
contests and glimpses of pirate
royalty will continue as in years
past, despite the inability of
Hatteras Islanders to partici
pate. Residents of lower Hat
teras Island, who were cut off
from the mainland by the new
inlet which was created during
the March 7 storm, were unable
to plan for the numerous activ
ities which have customarily
launched Pirate Jamborees in
the past.
The Hatteras events, which
include the world’s biggest salt
water fish fry, fishing contests,
dory races and beach buggy
scrambles, have all been cancel
led for 1962. Ralph Swain, co
chairman of the 1962 Jamboree,
has stated that “We know that
Outer Bankers on Hatteras
would have joined in the fes
tivities with the same spirit
which had been such an inspira
tion to us in the past, if it had
been humanly possible." “We
only hope,” he added, “that they
will visit us during the Jambo
ree and join in the fun.”
All events, except the Pirates
Grand Ball, for the ’62 Jam
boree will be-held on Roanoke
Island for the first time in the
history of the affair. Kitty
Hawk Bay, the traditional scene
of the Pirates Landing and Bat
tle, will not be used this year
because of shoalled waters
created there by the recent blow.
The day-long celebration will
begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday
when a children’s costume con
test and treasure hunt will be
held at the Old Tranquil House
site which adjoins Fearing’s
Restaurant. The'frolicking
youngsters will be able to rub
elbows with royalty at that time
when Pirate King Clarence Win
slow. and Queen Nelda Davis
drop by to give their royal bles
sing to the youngsters. Mrs.
Hope Wright, chairman of the
two events, says the initial
phase of the Jamboree program
will last until 10:45 a.m.
Shallowbag Bay will be invad
ed at 11:30 am. by two fac
tions of warring pirates who
will cast anchor after a skir
mish of fireworks from their
boats. The swashbuckling buc
caneers will alight from their
vessels at the Dare Power Boat
Association’s Dock just after the
arrival of the Pirate King and
Queen who will be presented
with the Key to the Outer
Banks. D’Andrea Midgett and
Herbert Blivens, the Pirate
Princess and Prince, will also be
on hand to add a further touch
of royalty to the gala affair.
After lunch, frolicking va
cationers and townfolk will be
treated to a parade led by the
Washington High School “Pam-
Pack” Band. The rocking pro
cession will feature pretty drum
majorettes, pirate royalty and
10 floats occupied by winners of
various competitive events con
nected with the Jamboree.
Rachel Morgan, Miss Dare
County, is expected to occupy
a prominent position in the
winding caravan of beauties and
beards, and present plans call
for the presence of a host of
other lovely young ladies, who
will vie with Miss Dare County
for the title of Miss Southern
Albemarle on May 9 in Colum
bia.
Alva Ward, chairman of the
parade, has indicated that the
procession will begin at Manteo
High School and cavort its way
through the streets of Manteo
until 3 p.m.
The parade will be followed by
the coronation ceremonies for
Pirate King Clarence Winslow
and Buccaneer Queen Nelda
Davis at the Manteo waterfront.
The royalty will be crowned in
the presence of their court while
aboard their royal yacht, the
“Sea Hag.”
On Saturday night the rolick
ing affair will terminate with
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EUROPE'S PICTURE
' OF U. S. HURTFUL.
TRAVELER REPORTS
I Mrs. Emmett Winslow Sees
Distrust Bom of TV
and Tourists
By RALPH POOL
America needs a new na
: tional image abroad, to re
i place that projected by our
news media, television and
• tourists, Mrs. Lucille Winslow
; told the Manteo Rotary dub
Monday night.
Mrs. Winslow, wife of State
Senator Emmett Winslow of
’ Hertford and Nags Head, told
’ r of the couple’s recent air trip
to Europe as members of a
' caravan sponsored by the
North Carolina Travel Council.
1 Twenty-one North Carolinians
' took part in the trip, paying
> their own way. They visited
England, Holland, and Ger
' many, France and Switzerland.
In London, Mrs. Winslow
' laid a wreath at the foot of
J the statue of Sir Walter Ra
’ leigh in Whitehall. Every
. where they went, she said, she
' found Europeans intensely in
, terested in her accounts of
, the Outer Banks and the North
, Carolina coast country general
ly-
In Holland, Mrs. Winslow
, was shown flourishig crops on
fields that had been reclaimed
’ from flutisea {Jnly six months
, before. This was accomplish
' ed, she said, by pumping fresh
, water on the land and leaching
\ out the salt. ' - .
In teHng reasons for Eu
( ropeans’ relutance to visit the
, United States, she said they
l genearily were afraid to fly,
and feared they would find the
people unfriendly. “They fear
we are brash and loud,” she
' said, Also she added, few Eu
i ropeans are able financiallly
, to mal*»*the trip. They like
; our cowboys and Indians, she
. said.
Everywhere, the visiting
! North Carolinians ' found Eu
ropeans busy and prosperous.
Travel bureaus were uniform-
See TRAVEL, Page Four
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COLONY TRY-OUTS
HELD ON MONDAY
60 SOUGHT ROLES
More than 60 aspiring actors
, and dancers from all over North
Carolina and Virginia pulled a
switch on Sir Walter Raleigh
' and made a voyage to Roanoke
1 Island from the mainland on
Monday, as try-outs began for
supporting roles in Paul Green’s
1 “The Lost Colony."
Cliff Britton of Goldsboro, di
! rector for the outdoor drama,
1 and F. Edgar Thomas of Chap
’ el Hill, new general manager
• for the symphonic production,
! interviewed over 60 teen-agers,
1 college students and Manteo
• townfolk for coveted roles in
• the nation’s oldest outdoor dra
' tea.
! Walter Stroud of Goldsboro,
■ choreographer, marshalled over
twenty 16th-century guys and
, dolls and sent the group
1 through a variety of steps and
patterns in the Manteo High
' School Auditorium. The ahort
-1 shorted young ladies, who will
evolve into a contingent of prim,
■ pretty pre-colonial dancers, went
1 through their routine with the
’ youthful enthusiasm that has
■ made the production a fresh
and eloquent expression of the
New World.
! Several veteran actors were
i on hand to assist with the caat-
• ing while searching for rooms
’ in Manteo. The group included
• Mary Lon»ef Rock Hill, S. C.,
a fifteen-year veteran with "The
' Colony” whose Queen Elizabeth
' has drawn huzzahs from critics
’ throughout tiie nation. Susie
t Cordon, another polished per-
■ former, also made the trip to
» her new assignment as Dame
Coleman in the drama Misa
• Cordon, who made her debut
i with the ihow last year with her
See Y Patfe Four