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ATLANTIC PLANT
IN CURRITUCK CO.
WELL UNDERWAY
<Firm Is Host to Media Repre
sentatives On Friday
i Tour
COROLLA—Work is pro
ceeding rapidly on a new test
stand for a new rocket propell
ant at the Atlantic Research
Corp, facility, and it should be
completed by May 21, some 25
press and radio representatives
( were told Friday during a tour
of the property.
The new propellant looks
something, like peanut butter;
there the resemblance ends. It
is said to be more powerful
than the propellant used in
some half a dozen tests already
'.made at the facility. These
drove a large concrete block six
feet into the sand at the test
site, a company representative
said,
As guests of Atlantic Re
search, most of the members
of the press group boarded a
charter plane in Washington,
Di C. or Raleigh, where the
plane stopped before proceeding
to Barco to land. From Barco,
'the newsmen and newswomen
went by car to Waterlily, Where
power boats picked them up for
the six-mile trip, across Cur
rituck Sound to Corolla.
Lunch was served at the
former Whales Head club
house on the ARC property,
land a tour of the area followed.
The present site is some six
miles fpm. the .reach
ed by jeep over a firm, wide
and level beach comparable to
that at Daytona, in Florida.
A huge concrete mixer was
in action where the test stand
is being built. Not far away is
the smaller stand used in the
tests already made. The ap-
looks somewhat like a
moonshine liquor still on a con
crete base. It was idle at the
time we were there.
Atlantic Research hopes that
North ‘Carolina will build the
promised road from Duck to
Corolla as quickly as possible,
Philip K. Reily, manager of the
company’s development depart
ment, said, adding that the road
will cut production costs tre
mendously. Supplies and equip
ment, as well as personnel, must
now be brought in by plane, fer
ried across Currtiuck Sound by
gasboat, or hauled along the
beach, which is usable only at
low tide.
No flight tests of rockets are
planned at Corolla, Reily empha
sized. The engines are fastened
to concrete pads and the new
fuels are tested on the ground,
he explained. Tests conducted
thus far have been inaudible on
the mainland across Currituck
Sound. I
ARC plans to erect a plant
near the north end of its eight
mile-long property to manufac
ture solid fuels. Probably 75 per
sons will be employed by the
end of this year, with the num-
See ATLANTIC, Page Four
TWO LOCAL GIRLS
TO STAR IN FILM
DEPICTING STATE
Two local beauties have been
asked to appear in “Variety
Vacationland,” the film which
will be shown ovet the nation to
{'publicize the scenic wonders of
North Carolina. - Miss Rachel
Morgan and Millie Burrus were
asked this week to serve as
models for the Bennett Advertis
ing Agency production by Bob
Bean, the producer from New
York City.
Miss Morgan achieved fame
recently when she was selected
as "Miss Dare County” in a
>fbuty contest which was pre
sented by the Manteo Lions
Club on April 6. The talented
Manteo High School Senior, who
is also a "twist specialist,” rep
resented Dare County on Wed
nesday in the Columbia contest
'to select a "Miss Southern Albe
marle.”
• Miss Burrus is a Ift year old
star basketball player with the
Manteo Redskins Who was run
ner-up in the Miss Dare County
Conteet. Both young ladies have
accepted and declare that they
are “very excjted” about being
m-their first-movie.
: The Bennett firm has been in
She area for the past several ■
'weeks obtaining cbldtr shots of
the coast Ted Kroner, director
of the film had several profes
sional models and the camera
crew running'through a variety
of scenes at the Wright
Brothers Memorial last week,
and the two local movie stars
«*nfcve been asked to join the cast
at Cape Hatteras this week end
for more camera work, near the
THE COASTLAND TIMES
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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
REVIVAL SPEAKER
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REV. GEORGE TYSON, pas
tor of the Rosewood Methodist
Church, Goldsboro, will hold re
vival services at the Wesleyan
Memorial Methodist Church, Co
lumbia, beginning Sunday night,
May 13 at 8 o’clock and continu
ing through May 19.
Rev. E. R. Meekins, pastor, in
vites the public'to
Family day will f be observed
Sunday, May 13, at the Wesle
yan Memorial Methodist Church.
Every family is urged to bring a
picnic basket which will be
spread together in the church
annex for lunch at 12 o’clock.
Please come to church Sunday
and remain for lunch.
MICHELANGELO.
PERHAPS KNEW
ISLAND GARDEN
Mrs. Corbett E. Howard Will
Check Up on Coat
of Arms
Michelangelo, a Titan of the
Renaissance, may have strolled
in the English Knot garden
whose beauties delight visitors
to the Elizabethan Garden at
Fort Raleigh.
The 16th century sculptor,
painter and poet reluctantly did
a commission for the Farnese
Family, powerful in Italy in
his day; and the coat of arms
that appears in the fretted
stonework of the fountain is
believed to have belonged to
that family.
So says Mrs. Corbett E. How
ard of Goldsboro, chairman of
the Elizabethan Garden . Com
mittee of the Garden Club of
North Carolina, Inc., who was
on Roanoke Island Thursday for
her annual inspecton of the
gjarden.. . ,
Mrs. Howard said she plan
ned to leave May 19 on a trip
to England and Italy, in the
course of which she hopes to
trace the origin of the coat of
arms. While in England, she
will visit Cqmpton Castle, seat
of the descendants of ‘Sir
Humphery* Gilbert, half-brother
of Sir Walter Raleigh and a
famous Elizabethan in his own
right
In Manteo, where she stayed
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Midgett, Mrs. Howard con
ferred with local members of
her committee, Mrs. Fred Bas
night and Mrs. Lena Pearsall;
See GARDEN, Page Four
DARE DEMO. CONVENTION
WILL CONVENE SATURDAY
The Dare County Democratic
Convention will assemble at the
Dare County Courthouse on Sat
urday, May 12 at 2 p.m. for the
purpose of electing a chairman,
three vice chairmen and a sec
retary-treasurer for 1962. Wal
ter Perry, present chairman for
the county has stated that each
precinct chairman. and vice
Chairman will be allowed < one
vote.
The Manteo election to deter
mine a precinct committee was
conducted last Saturday at 1 p.
m. in the Dare County Court
house. The following slate was
elected: Ralph Swain, chairman;
Mrs. Nancy Beals, vice-chair
man; Mrs. Betty Alice Mann,
Carlisle Davis and St. Clair Bas
night,. Jr., committeemen.
Precinct chairmen for the 15
other voting areas, are as fol
lows’ P. J. M. Bayne,. Nags
Head; Alva Wise, Stumpy Point;
Rondal Tillett, Wanchese; Melba
Jones Manns Harbor; Robert
Young, Kill Devil Hills Alex
ander Meekins, Waves; O. G.
Gray, Avon; E. S. White, Bux
ton; Julian Austin, Frisco; Fra
zier Peele, Hatteras; George
Ambrose, East Lake; 0. R. Til
lett, Mashoes Creek; Sol Whit
son, Duck; Louis Midgett, Col
ington Hallet Perry, Kitty
Hawk.
ACTION IS SOUGHT
ON INLET'S FATE
BY OUTER BANKERS
Petitions Presented to County
Urging Closure of
Ocean Gash
Emotions ,on the Outer Banks
have reached fever pitch over
indecision oh the part of state
and local officials as to the fu
ture of the Buxton Inlet, which
was created during the Asn
Wednesday Storm. Outer Bank
ers on, and south of, Hatteras
Island appear to be split on the
question of whether or not to
fill the inlet as originally plan
ned. ,
The problem was thrown in
the lap of the Dare Co. Com
missioners on Tuesday when R.
S. Wahab of Ocracoke and Wil
liam Alfred Gray of Buxton
presented the county heads with
two petitions containing the sig
natures of 717 residents of Ocra
coke, Rodanthe, Frisco, Avon,
Buxton and Hatteras who advo
cate the immediate filling of the
inlet because of the dangers and
expense which preservation of
the inlet would require.
The petition presented by Wa
hab has been addressed to State
Highway Commissioner Merrill
Evans requesting that “immedi
ate action be taken to close the
inlet by dredging up material
from the Pamlico Sound bot
tom, replacing the land in the
same or an improved manner as
that prior to the storm or in
any other manner which might
be feasible to accomplish .the
same purpose.” The Wahab pe
tition contained the names of
389 persons who recently joined
in the request to the highway
commissioner.
The Gray petition, which was
issued early in April, contained
a total of 328 signatures from
residents of Frisco, Rodanthe
and Avon. Both are similar in
content, but the Gray petition
, was addressed earlier to Goyer
i nor Sanford, Congressman Her-
I bert Bopner, Senator Sam Er
; vin, Jr., Senator Everett’Jordan,
See INLET, Page Four
PROMINENT OFFICIALS
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JOE HUNT, JR., Speaker of th.
the Cape Hatteras National Sea
of Washington, D. C., President
they discuss driftwood during a
Monday.
ASBPA GATHERING
DRAWS DELEGATES
FROM ALL OF USA
Hundreds Attend 36th Annual
Meeting of Seashore
Preservationists
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Nearly 250 delegates from all
,over the United States gathered
in Nags Head Monday for the
36th annual meeting of the
American Shore and Beach Pre
servation Association which
met at the Carolina Hotel for a
two day conference on shore
preservation.
Major General Charles G.
Hoile, President of the ASBSA
presided over the conference,
' which drew delegates from such
remote points as Alaska and
California in a discussion of
’ beach erosion and shore control
which was punctuated by speech
es from state and national digni
' taries.
An array of knowledgeabje
i speakers including Joseph M.
Hunt, Jr., Speaker of the North
Carolina House of Representa
tives; Hon. Capus Waynick, Ex
' ecutive Vice President of the
See ASBPA, Page Four .
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1962
ANDY GRIFFITH READS CITATION FOR SNARING SEASON'S FIRST
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SHERIFF ANDY GRIFFITH, who trapped the first Riha of the 1962 season this week, is shown
receiving a citation in appreciation of his accomplishment from a local contingent while his wife,
Barbala, joins in the fun. The group includes (left to right) Alvah Ward, Jr., Mrs. Violet Kellam,
Andy, Barbara and Mrs. Ina Evans.
DUNE SKIPRING
ANDY GRIFFITH
GETS FIRST ONE
Wild Chase Over Dunes Snares
First Riha of Season
for Comedian
Andy Griffith, the Sheriff of
Mayberry, and star of “The
Andy Griffith Show” was
scurrying all over Roanoke Is
land with a butterfly net on
Monday looking for a riha. The
comedian, bare-footed as a yard
dog, was recognizable by his
flapping shirt-tail as he leaped
over dunes and stirred dust
just a hollaring and we don’t
know what all for the first
riha of the season. Andy says
they’re at least 375 rihas in
Dare County and “they’re
g-o-o-d.”
Mrs. Ina Evans, chairman of
the Roanoke Island Historical
Association’s membership drive
See RIHA, Page Three
i PRESENT FOR ASBPA CONVf
'WHO
ie N. C. House, is flanked by H.
ishore Recreation Area (right) am
t of the American Shore and Be;
break in the ASBPA’s conventioi
BLOOD QUOTA
FOR DARE CO.
IS 150 PINTS
Every minute . . . over eight
bottles of blood are used in
this country to treat the ill and
injured. Dr. W. W. Harvey, Jr.
of Manteo has estimated that
I every family in Dare County
has used blood to prevent death
or hasten recovery of an ailing
person within the past 50 years.
When you sit in church or
attend a civic meeting, take a
’ look at the person next to you.
At some time in his or her life,
the lif e-giving nourishment
which only blood can offer will
be needed to save someone in
that person’s famiy.
The medical uses of blood are
many and varied. Whole blood is
used most commonly in surgery
1 and for accident victims. Often
it is needed before, during, and
after surgery to strengthen the
patient and speed recovery.
• Many accident victims lose
large quantities of blood, and
transfusions may be required
to replace the blood loss. Blood
is often needed in childbirth, for
the severly burned and in in-
See BLOOD, Page Four
OUTER BANKS FISHING
IS* RECORD-SHATTERING
Two blue marlin led the May
fish parade, as anglers on the
Outer Banks have found every
variety taking the hook in large
numbers. Sport fishing for early
May is better than any previ
ously reported year. From the
surf, they’re taking them in
large numbers from Nags Head
southward to Hatteras Inlet.
Biggest news of the early
season came last Wednesday
when Capt. Buddy Cannady
led the “Mel-O-Dee” and four
sportsmen to a 395 pound blue
marlin while cruising 35 miles
southeast of Oregon Inlet.
The second marlin of the sea
son was bagged last weekend
when an gngler aboard captain
Edgar Styron’s “Twins II”
hooked a 212 pound denizen
near Diamond Shoals. The two
Blue Marlin were caught three
weeks earlier than the first of
ENTION AT NAGS HEAD
' & JS? snral
Reece Smith, Superintendent of
id Major General Charles G. Hoile
>ach Preservation Association, as
m schedule at The Carolinian on
OUTER BANKS
ART EXHIBIT
MAY 20-JUNE 3
NORFOLK, VA. The Ocra
coke Art Colony, a group of 27
artists who have made painting
pilgrimages to the Outer Banks
; for the last three years, has
invited all artists in Virginia
i and North Carolina to enter the
first Outer Banks Art Siow, to
be held at the Ocheltree Art
. Center, 509 Botetourt Street,
t May 20-June 3.
All entries must deal with
, Outer Banks subjects. They may
; be abstract or realistic, and
must be' framed or matted.
Sixty works will be selected
for showing, and there will be
i awards in all media. Entries
i should reach the Ocheltree Art
Center no later than May 14.
Entries in the show will be
exhibited at Nags Head this
summer, the place and date to
be announced later, according to
Lindsey Oheltree, Art Colony
’director.
I Ocheltree’s own one-man show
I of Outer Banks watercolors was
* a sell-out -at the Island Inn at
Nags Head during the Easter
week end.
their breed to be snared in 1961.
Dolphin, false albacore and
oceanic bonita are also being
taken from the waters on the
western edge of the Gulf
Stream. False albacore, normal
! ly a warm water species, also
hit in at Point of Cape Hatteras
1 and 50 or more of the fighters
were taken there by surf angl
ers early this week. Hopkins
lures have proved to be the
most effective bait for these
fish.
Perhaps the most gratifying
news for anglers fishing Outer
Banks waters this week were
the phenomenal catches of blue
fish, that averaged from three
See FISHING, Page Four
! BUILDING CODE '
AMENDMENT SET
BY DARE BOARD
Building Code Amendment For
Unincorporated Areas
Enacted Tuesday
The Board of Commissioners
adopted an amendment to the
Dare County Building Code and
approved budgets for the Dare
County Schools and Board of
Health on Monday and Tuesday
of this week as they met in a
regular session with ail mem
bers present.
The building code, which is
I similar to the amendment pass-
I ed by the Nags Head Town
Board three weeks ago, will sup
plement the North’ Carolina
Building Code, already in effect
in Dare County. The amend
ment became effective on May
8.
II The amendment, officially
I designated as “Amendment to
I the Building Code of Dare Coun-
I ty to provide for Hurricane
I Resistant Construction,” would
I apply to those areas not govem
lled by municipalities. The pres-
II ent amendment, including the
I one adopted at Nags Head, was
I; fashioned by a committee of
I seven headed by Ralph Swain of
I Manteo. The code requires rigid
| standards of construction to pro
, tect structures from the high
' winds and flooding which ac
' company storms on the Dare
' Coast.
The adoption of the amend
ment was another step for the
county towards the establish
ment of a uniform building code
for the entire county, and the
, eventual employment of a build
-1 ing code for the entire county,
and the eventual employment of
-a building inspector for Kill
1 See CODE, Page Four
i NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
» TO FEATURE OUTER BANKS
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! The “National Geographic
> Magazine” will contain a story
t on the Outer Banks in the near
, future. Stewart, chief
photographer for the magazine,
i and Nat Kenny, a star writer
/ for ‘'National Geographic” were
1 in Nags Head earlier this week
gathering information in con-
I nection with the story. They will
9 remain on the Outer Banks
9 through this week end.
BUOY AUTHORIZED
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“ Congressman Herbert C. Bon
, ner announced today has been
, advised by the U. S. Coast
, Guard that a buoy would be
placed to mark a near-by wreck
f during the Blue Marlin Tour
-9 nament off Cape Hatteras, as
t has been cone in previous years.
r The Tournament is scheduled
for June of this year.
WARREN LAUDS LEADERS;
GRATEFUL FOR HONORS,
AND FAVORS FOR REGION
Large Crowd Hears Distinguished Coastland
Friend Deliver Address at Columbia Thurs
day; Presented by Congressman Bonner at
Dedication Ceremonies For Bridge Over
Alligator River; It Was Tyrrell County's
Day of Glory.
Manteo met Murphy on
Thursday as over 1500 specta
tors swelled the town of Colum
bia into a joyous celebration
city to herald the opening of
the $3 million Lindsay C. War
ren Bridge which connects the
state from east to west in a
span of concrete.
Officials from the state and
nation joined with highway offi
cials and the general publit in
a gala celebration sponsored by
,the Southern Albemarle Associ
ation to show their appreciation
for the long-awaited concrete
arm connecting Sandy Point
with East Lake, Manteo with
Murphy and Los Angeles on the
Pacific with Whalebone on the
Atlantic.
The highlight of the celebra
tion came at approximately
10:45 a.m. when Miss Diana
Warren of Wilson unveiled the
plaque which embellishes the
concrete arc over the Alligator
River with the illustrious name
As her grandfather—Lindsay C.
Warren. The dignified former
Comptroller General of the Unit
ed States stood silent as words
of praise were showered upon
him by Governor Terry Sanford,
Congressman Herbert C. Bonner
and W. J. White, chairman, who
praised the aging Tar Heel
statesman as “one of our great
est Americans.”
Andy Griffith, star of stage,
screen and radio, added a col
orful note to the celebration
when he opened the day-long,
fun-filled affair by placing a
kiss and a crown on the head
of the lovely Miss Linda Bunt
ing of Martin County, who was
selected as Miss Southtrn Albe
marle.
Griffith surprised the delight
ed crowd when he made a five
minute speech to the spectators
present on Thursday afternoon
and described the new bridge as
being similar to a cow being
milked by many hands. “Both
are good examples of pulling
together,” he said.
At 11 a.m. the musical blare
of trumpets announced a grand
parade, which wound its way
through the streets of Columbia
in a flourish of floats, musicians,
majorettes and beauty queens.
The Murphy High School Band,
which was present by special in
vitation from the Association*
led bands from Belhaven, Plym-'
outh and Washington in a mus
ical frolic accentuated by the
presence of local beauties who
waved to an appreciative crowd
from magnificent floats repre
senting their counties.
The Tyrrell County Choral
Group opened the dedication
ceremonies at the Columbia
High School campus by a ren
dition of “The Old North State”
I which was followed with a per
formance of the “Star Spangled
Banner” by all bands present.
W. J. White of Columbia,
i chairman of the bridge celebra
tion, acted as master of cere
monies for the dedication serv
: ice and introduced Mayor H. T.
Davenport, who, in turn intro
’ See BRIDGE, Page Four
EAST CAROLINA STUDENT
IS MISS SO. ALBEMARLE
Polly Linda Bunting from
Martin County jvas selected as
Miss Southern Albemarle at a
' pre-bridge celebration contest
held in Columbia High School
: Auditorium on Wednesday night.
’ Over 350 spectators were on
’ hand to see the shapely 2ft-year
! old sophomore’crowned as queen
, of the Lindsay Warren Bridge
: Celebration.
> The auburn-haired, brown
: eyed beauty overcame five other
■ contenders, representing the
1 various participating counties in
i the Southern Albemarle Associa
tion for the coveted honor.
Miss Bunting is a sophomore
at East Carolina College and
was recently chosen as .Miss
■ Greenville in a contest to select
i that city’s contestant for the
; Miss North Carolina Contest of
! 1962. Runners-up were rwt se-
eflz RacHd D&re; Jan-
> ice Gayle Styons, Washington;
i Hardison, Hyde and Linda Rae
Patrick Tyrrell.
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 42S I
MANTEO. N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
Pages I through 6
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Hundreds crowded into- Co
lumbia Thursday to attend the
dedication ceremonies of l the
Lindsay Warren Highway
Bridge over Alligator River
which went into service several
weeks ago. The bridge was
named for Senator Lindsay G.
Warren of Washington, N. C.
who was introduced yesterday
by Congressman Herbert C. Bon
ner.
Mr. Warren delivered the
following address:
I don’t know how to ade
quately express myself today.
I have tried to think of some
thing fitting to say but have
failed in formulating it. It may
be difficult for some of you to
believe this, but I tell you in the
deepest sincerity that I did all
I could to prevent the giving
of my name to this great struc
ture.
Somehow, I think that an
honor of this kind should ’not
come to a living person. Now
that it has, I am overwhelmed
with appreciation and grati
tude. My heartfelt thanks go to
those who brought it about. I
am grateful to my associates
in the General Assembly of 1959
who initiated this movement;
to the State Highway Com
mission of 1959; to the Boards
of Commissioners of the coun
ties of Tyrrell and Dare; to the
Southern Albemarle Association
and to a large number of friends
, throughout the State.
I humbly accept what you
have done for I regard it per
haps the greatest honor that
has come to me. The generosity
of those who 1 have been as
sociated with over the years
has deeply touched me.
I The completion of this mag
‘ nificent 3 mile bridge comes as
a fulfilment of a, dream that
it seemed would never come
true. For many years disap
pointments and heartaches piled
up. Many who had advocated
it passed on. The Coastland
Times for years wrote powerful
and effective editorials for free
bridges. It never wavered! The
Albemarle Association
with tenacity and determination
refused to give up and I know
hots happy that organization
is today for they kept the torch
; burning. When anyone talks to
me about the bridges, I always
reply “There is glqry enough
for all.”
I pay tribute today to the
State Highway Commission; to
Raymond Bryan and T. A. Liv
ing Company, the master build
er; to W. F. Babcock, Director
of Highways to the Chief Engi
neer and the numerous engi
neers under him, and to all those
who worked on it and brought
, it about. They did a masterful
1 job.
When the General Assembly
of 1959 convened, the 7 reprfn
sentatives and 2 senators li'qMfc
the 2nd. Senatorial District im
mediately discussed the bridg
ing of Alligator River and
Oregon Inlet. I like to again
publicly call out these namee-"--
R. Bruce Etheridge of Dare,
Charles Cohoon of Tyrreg,
Frank Everett of Martin, Dr.
J. M. Phelps, now deceased, of
t Washington, Dick O’Neal Hyde,
j Ned Delamar of Pamlico, Way
t land Sermons of Beaufort, Sen
t tor Elbert Peel, Jr. of Martin
I and myself.
The group was kind e
-1 nough to select me a? its spokes-
- man, although each one of
i them strongly and ably present-
> ed his views. We had abundant
evidence to see how badly past
- efforts for the bridges JMW
r been bungled and mishandled,
s We found the region split and
i unorganized. Some day I may
- return the letters sent me over
the years insisting that I favor
: toll roads and toll bridges M
I the salvation for Eastern Caro
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i In January 1959, the two
> bridges were as; dead as the
' proverbial dodo bird. We enterea
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