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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS 16 Pages in 2 Sections VOLUME XXVIII NO. I BUXTON INLET WILL NOT GET 1 PUBLIC HEARING Authority Lacking, Dare Board Told; Bids to Be Opened July 19 A request for a public hearing on the fate of the new Buxton Inlet has been turned down by two agencies, State and Federal. In a letter to David Stick chairman of the Dare Board of I County Commissioners, Harry E. Brown, director of the North Carolina Department of Water Resources, advised that his de partment did not have authority to conduct such a hearing. Col. J. S. Grygiel, district engineer, in another letter to . Stick, advised that, in his opin ion, the U. S. Army Engineers have no authority to take any action “other than that specif ically authorized.” Cannot Hold Hearing For that reason, he wrote, in his belief the Army Engineers could not hold the requested hearing. The two letters were placed before the County Commission ers Monday at their monthly 5 meeting. No action was taken on them. The Commissioners asked for the public hearing June 15 on the request of a delegation from the north end of the Hatteras p, Banks, representing those who wish the inlet, created by the Ash Wednesday storm, to be kept open. Many other Hatteras residents contend that the inlet should be closed. Advocates of the closing of the inlet have won out, as of now. The Office of Emergency Plann ing has authorized the closing, and the Army District Engineer at Wilmington has asked for bids on the work. The bids are to be opened July 19. It has been estimated that the work can be completed by October, and that it will cost about $225,000. v Value Questioned In his letter to Chairman See INLET, Page Four BONNER BRINGS NOTABLE PARTY TO DARE COAST California Senator and C. G. Commandant, Several Congressmen Here For Week-End A quite notable party came by chartered bus to the Dare Coun t ty Coast on the week end as guests of Congressman Herbert C. Bonner, and they returned to Washington Sunday morning, af ter seeing the coast all the way to Hatteras. For many years Mr. d Bonner has brought ranking senators and Congressmen to this coast, and many other eminent officials as well. Many of these have returned time after time, and they have told others who came. This visiting group, which included the Command ant of the Coast Guard, one of the California Senators and sev eral top officials in the biggest I steamship line of the country, were impressed by the great worth of the Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore. A picture made of this group went astray, but may be published in the next * issue. Mr. Bonner was obliged to rush back to Washington in the interest of the Bill which was scheduled to come up Monday, whereby Federal funds in the amount of a half million dollars would be allocated to relieve the load on the state in building the $4,000,000 Oregon Inlet bridge. i 'Ris party included Admira.’ E. J. Roland Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, D. C., who went to Hatteras to view the new Coast Guard sta tion; Admiral J. S. Hirschfield, retired, former Assistant Com- j mandant of the Coast Guard; " Senator Clare Engel of Californ ia; Congressman Thos. Tellefson { of the State of Washington, and who is the ranking Republican on the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Congress man Bob Casey of Texas; Con gressman W. S. Maillard of Cali fornia; Col. Noah Brinson Vice- President American President Steamship lines; Nicholas Pas coe, Vice President American , Export Lines; Thos P. Bartie of Leikes S. S. Lines; Ira Ewers, attorney for Moore-MacCormack Lines; Howard Adams of Pacific Far East Lines; F. R. P. Flana gan of W. R. Grace & Company, and James Lee of Bethlehem Steel Corp. The party stopped overnight at the Carolinian Hotel at Nags Head and left for their return shortly before noon Sunday. . | 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 DR. GRAHAM LAUDS GREEN AT ANNIVERSARY PF 1 fl |k S » fl m ’u XsiFJflfl fl ■ IS U. N. MEDIATOR FRANK P. GRAHAM (left) was the featured speaker at intermission exercises in The Waterside Theater on Wednesday night during a ceremony honoring Paul Green (right) author of The Lost Colony, on the occasion of the 25th Anniver sary of the symphonic drama. During his speech, Dr. Graham praised the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright as: “A philosopher who raised troublous questions . . . whose dramatic realism is al ways touched with a divine fire of inner faith and triumphant hope.” LEIGH HASSELL NAMED TO AUTOMOTIVE POST * Ms?.. - •* I —4fl C ‘ I I X_ MBfIJMBI LEIGH HASSELL of Hassell and Crees Motor Co., Inc., in Manteo, has been re-appointed Area Chairman of the North Carolina Automobile Dealers As sociation for Dare County. Hassell will act as liaison of ficer between new car and truck dealers in Dare County and NC ADA and the National Automo bile Dealers Association. It will be Hassell’s respons ibility to keep his area informed of state and national affairs as fecting the automotive industry and, in turn, to advise the state and national organizations of events on the local scene. He will also head a county-wide membership campaign for both Associations in the fall. NEW TENTATIVE BUDGET DRAFTED AT K. D. HILLS No Tax Increase Contemplated; Final Action Set for July 24 A tentative budget of $36,860 ’ for the fiscal year 1962-63 was approved by the Board of Com missioners of Kill Devil Hills at a special meeting Tuesday. The town’s tax rate is to re main unchanged at 55 cents per SIOO property valuation. Final action on the budget is scheduled at a meeting of the board Tuesday, July 24. Limit on Swimmers An ordinance p r o h i b i t in g swimming or bathing more than 50 yards beyond the high tide mark, and barring power boats from the area inside the 50-yard limit, was adopted at the meet ing. This parallels an ordinance adopted recently by Virginia Beach. Swimmers may go beyond the 50-yard limit only with the ex press permission of police or life guards on duty in the beach area. Also, the board approved two resolutions. One calls on the De partment of Water Resources to take steps to end the nuisance of tar on the beach. The tar, pump ed as bilge out of tankers off the coast, is tracked by bathers into motels and cottages. Engineers Tarred Maj. J. L. Murphy, mayor of Kill Devil Hills, in laying the resolution before the board, said that after complaints had been made to Raleigh, U. S. Army Engineers from Wilmington had visited the beach and not only observed the tar but also tracked a considerable amount of it away with them. See BUDGET, Page tear p; r ' i ' 1 I Ft 1 "i JPO * jg ! COLONY AUTHOR IS PAID TRIBUTE BY DR. GRAHAM Paul Green Honored During Ceremonies Marking Show's 25+h Year The Fourth of July fireworks may have been quenched by the rain, but it failed to extinguish the warm enthusiasm and spirit of Dr. Frank Graham, as the U.N. mediator praised Paul Green, author of the Lost Col-I ony, for the “insight of an imag-' inative, creative and gracious ■ spirit,” during intermission cer- I emonies on the 25th birthday of the drama at Waterside Theater on Wednesday evening. Dr. Graham, guest speaker for the owmsitth, was introduced by Rep. Keith Fearing who noted that he was “one of the most beloved and distinguished Tai- Heels of all time, and my friend since school days at Carolina.” Mrs. Fred W. Morrison, Chair man of the Roanoke Island His torical Association and Edgar Thomas, Lost Colony manager, were also on hand to add their tribute to Dr. Graham’s glow ing salute to the Pulitzer Prize winning author from Chapel Hill. The United Nations represen tative to Pakistan and India, who spoke exactly 25 years aft er the July 4th opening in 1937, described the symphonic drama as a “pioneering art form in the history of America.” “On this very spot, twenty five years ago tonight, there came into cooperative conjunc ture the Government of the United States of America and the State of North Carolina; the University of North Carolina and the Rockefeller Foundation; the Federal Actors and the Car olina Playmakers; the Westmin ster Choir and the Indian Folk Dancers; the Roanoke Island Historical Association and the I Manteo Chamber of Commerce (led by Bradford Fearing; the dramatic direction of Frederick H. Koch and Samuel Selden; his tory, mystery and the genius of Paul Green,” Graham declar ed. Tracing Green’s early life, he described the young, future playwright’s struggle with dis ease: “Stricken as a boy with osteomyelitis, by sheer will power and rugged physical dis cipline, he triumphed over its hazards, became the star two handed pitcher on the champion Lillington baseball team and de veloped a robust, symmetrical, physical strength reminiscent of the Greek glory of a graceful body, the vigor of an inquiring mind and the insights of an imaginative, creative and gra ciuos spirit.” Dr. Graham noted that Green was an author whose courage and faith were above selfish in terest: “A philosopher, who raised troublous questions in the dialectic manner of Socrates and Horace Williams, his dramatic realism is always touched with a divine fire of inner faith and triumphant hope,” Graham said. “In the front lines of the First World War, which he hop ed would end wars, he has ever since, no less courageously, been I in the front lines of the battles ■ of peace for freedom and justice I for all,” he added. Dr. Graham stated that “in the cloud” of witnesses gathered to honor the author, there were faces seen and unseen. “Among them are Bradford Fearing, W. See TRIBUTE, Page Six MANTEO, N. C.. FRIDAY, JULY 6,1962 INLET BRIDGE BILL TO PASS, BONNER THINKS Fund Measure Has Temporary Setback; Before House Again July 16 Despite a temporary setback, prospects are that Congress will approve an additional federal contribution of $500,000 for the Oregon Inlet Bridge, according to Herbert Bonner, member of the House from this district. After a weekend stay at Nags Head, Bonner hurried back to Washington Monday to urge the House to approve the bridge bill by unanimous consent. One Congressman, however, objected Gross of lowa, a Republican, contended the bill would mean a “windfall” for North Carolina. Bonner argued that was not the case. He pointed out that the bridge is being built entirely within the Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore and thus is eligible for the increased ap propriation. The National Park Service, which has jurisdiction over the seashore area, would contribute the $500,000 asked However, the unanimous consent move failed. Bonner said the bridge bill will be brought up in the House Monday, July 16, under suspen sion of the rules, and that he was confident it would pass. A similar measure is pending in the Senate. TIMOTHY GAYLORD WILL ATTEND WORLD JAMBOREE WfiH fl| WILLIAM TIMOTHY GAY LORD, 15, son of Mrs. Beulah W. Gaylord of Manteo, has been elected to join with thousands of Scouters from all over the globe as a delegate to the Eleventh World Jamboree to be held in Marathon, Greece in August of 1963. Timothy, who is a life scout, was notified recently of his se lection by James H. Gelwicks, contigent director of the Jam boree. Eligibility requirements for attendance at the world scouting meet included the pos session of various scouting merit badges, a record of personal fit ness and the ability to discuss world affairs. The Manteo Scouter, who needs only three merit badges to fulfill the requirements for eagle rank, attended the Nation al Jamboree at Colorado Springs in 1960 and last year was a camper at Philmont Scout Ranch in Texas. An 11th grade student, he was honored last week by his selection as a mem ber of the Order of the Arrow at an Order meeting in Eliza beth City, where he was also tapped as vice-chief of the ex clusive scouting brotherhood. Young Gaylord is a native of Roper and moved to Manteo three years ago. The Scouter is a leader in high school activi ties at Manteo and was a guard See GAYLORD, Page Four CHALLENGER STOPS HERE ON RECORD RUN ATTEMPT Sam Griffith in his boat “The Hotsy Totsy” will stop for fuel at Nags Head this week as he makes an attempt to break the speed record for the Miami-New York boat run. Griffith will make his short stop at the Oregon Inlet Fishing center where he will refuel with Mobile gasoline which has been shipped ahead in 55 gallon drums in preparation for the run. Griffith has six drums of fuel waiting at Oregon Inlet If the ‘’Hotsy Totsy” is successful in her attempt, she will break a speed mark which has stood for 41 years. On board during the fuel stop here will be William S. Campbell, general manager of Motor Boat ing magazine. Griffith’s boat is expected to reach the inlet Sun day evening at 6:46 p m. HONORED wWw W’”"' ■ WflEB w fl RICHARD MAURICE DAILEY, born and reared at Hatteras, who has been designated Tar Heel of the Week. DICK M. DAILEY WINS ACCOLADE OF NEWSPAPER Native of Hatteras Named Tar Heel of Week by News & Observer Richard M. Dailey, born and reared at Hatteras and State conservationist for the last three years, is a recent choice of the Raleigh News and Observer as Tar Heel of the Week. One of three children of Rich ard B. and Dinah Dailey, Dick was bom at Buxton July 31, 1913. His father was a meteror ologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau until his retirement sev eral years ago. After graduation from Hat teras High School, Dick went to Oak Ridge Military Institute and then to the University of North Carolina, where he won a degree in civil engineering. Shortly thereafter be went to work for the Soil Erosion Serv-’ ice, which in 1935 became the Soil Conservation Service when the agency was transferred from the Department of Interior Ito the Department of Agricul ture. Married in 1935 In 1935 he was married to Mayme Bryant of Dobson, whom he had met some two years be ! fore on the beach at Hatteras. They have three children—Rich ard M. Jr., a UNC graduate now in the Navy; James E., a part time student at State College who works with a Raleigh coil tractor, and Ann, a student at Leßoy Martin High School in Raleigh. Dick came up through the See DAILEY, Page Four HEALTH CENTER AT HATTERAS IS URGED BY BOARD Dare Commissioners Vote to Acquire Land For Medical Unit The Dare County Board of Commissioners pledged efforts on Monday to obtain land for a proposed Hatteras Island Med ical Center to service Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. Comissioner George Fuller, who has backed the project to provide a six-bed medical facil ity for the village of Hatteras, stated that the board is anxious to obtain the land formerly used as a weather station by the U. S. Government. “The National Park Service officials have indicated that they do not need the land and we feel that Hatteras needs a medical center for residents liv ing south of Buxton,” he said. “The facility, if completed, would also be available for those living on Ocracoke Island,” he added. Fuller noted that a copy of the board’s resolution favoring the land transfer has been for warded to Congressman Herbert C. Bonner, aking his aid in ob taining the land transfer. Tar pollution, road restoration and the Buxton ferry harbor were other items which the board considered. Horace B. Hooper, commis sioner from Stumpy Point in troduced a motion, approved by the board, asking the Depart ment of Water Resources and the U. S. Army Corps of Engi neers to use their influence to punish boats dumping oil over board in violation of the 0 1 Pollution Act. Hooper noted that large quan tities of the so-called tar has been washed up on the beaches in Dare County. “It’s causing a great deal of discomfort, incon- See CENTER, Page Six MELLON VISITS CAPE HATTERAS SEASHORE PARK Benefactor of Coas+land Has Photos Taken at Famed Lighthouse Paul Mellon, a member of the wealthy family whose $600,000 gift 'helped make possible the Cape Hatteras National Sea shore Park, paid a flying visit to the Hatteras Banks Monday for a look at the park and for photographs to be used in a forthcoming issue of Fortune Magazine. Mellon flew down in a chart ered plane from New York City, accompanied by free-lance pho tographer Robert Phillips, on as signment from Fortune Maga zine. They landed at Manteo Airport Monday morning, went by automobile to Oregon Inlet, crossed on the ferry and were met by H. Reese Smith, park superintendent, R. K. Rundell, assistant superintendent, and District Ranger Jack Stark. Notes Work Done Stark then took Mellon, Phil lips and Rundell down to Cape Hatteras. On the way, Mellon observed rehabilitation work done since the March storm, and asked how the grass on the dun es was planted. He was told when the elevation was under eight to one, it was planted by machine, and above eight to one by hand. Mellon commented on the fact -•hat land for the projected Cape Cod Seashore Park in Mass achusetts could have been picked up cheaply 10 to 20 years ago, but now would cost about $15,- 000,000, and noted that in other propspective park and recrea tional areas, speculators had bought up the land and made public acquisition difficult. Mellon posed for pictures be side the wreckage of an old ghip at the cape, with the light house and ocean as background. He said he would like to go swimming, but gave up the idea for lack of time. Late in the afternoon, a plane See MELLON, Page Seven WANCHESE FAMILY BOASTS FIVE GENERATIONS '9 i & fPsE r aJbx > H 1 Mr : X fl J -I ■Rr J IM . F VW A • Mg |||| MRS. ELEAZOR TILLETT, 88, is shown above (foreground) hold ing her great-great granddaughter, Charlene Rogers, 8 months, while three other members of her five generation family stand proudly in the background. Mrs. Tillett, Wanchese’s oldest lady, has 35 great grandchildren. Other members of the family shown are (rear, left to right) Charles Scarborough, Mrs. Magdalene Scarborough, and Mrs. Andrea Scarborough Rogers (mother of the baby). Photo by D’Amours. ELEAZOR TILLETT, 87, OF WANCHESE RECALLS EARLIER DAYS ON R. ISLAND Community's Oldest Citizen Remembers Childhood and Romantic Courtship of Youth in 1880 s By LAWRENCE MADDRY Mrs. Eleazor Tillett, the spirited spec of a lady shown holding her great-granddaughter in the photo above, is 87 years old, Wanchese’s oldest and cer tainly one of its spriest citizens. She is the pride and joy of five children, 13 grandchildren, 35-great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren, who look to her for advice, stories of “the old days” and an occasion al ballad or two when, as she says, “the spirit moves her.” Aunt “Leaz” as her children call her, is one of the more re markable products of a forgotten era, when the buggy, square SECRETARY HODGES LAUDS CAST AND DIRECTORS LOST COLONY ’62 DEBUT President Friday and Mrs. Morrison Join With Commerce Secretary in Celebration of 375th Anniversary of Virginia Dare's Birth date As Hundreds Witness Paul Green's Historic Drama At Roanoke Island's Re stored Waterside Theater. RAINS DAMPEN OBSERVANCE OF FOURTH OF JULY Nofables Vacationing at Nags Head Gather at Informal Luncheon Capricious weather that has plagued the Dare Beaches all season reached something of a crescendo on the Fourth, when rains varying between a drizzle and a downpour kept all but the hardiest vacationers indoors. Only the ducks could have called it a glorious Fourth. Hotels and motels reported a spate of cancelled reservations and shortened stays by guests dismayed by the chilly, wet spell. The most ardent of beach boosters, while not yet ready to admit that it was raining at Nags Head, had to concede that the dew was extra heavy. In terms of dollars and cents, the loss ran far into the thous ands, though with the FourtH falling in the middle of the week, those catering’ to visitors had not expected the influx that is normal when the holiday is a week end affair. Notables At Luncheon At luncheon together at the Carolinian on the Fourth were Dr. and Mrs. Fred Morrison of Washington; Sam Ragan, exec utive editor of the News and Observer and Raleigh Times, and Mrs. Ragan; Paul Green, author of “The Lost Colony” See RAINS, Page Seven dances, skirts to the shoe-tops and wages of twenty-five cents i a day were common but vital , products es the Wanchese way of life. Aunt Leas’s hearing is begin ning to fade a bit, and her hands ’ are not as steady as when she , was, say 60; but her mind is ' as keen as a knife blade and > there’s a sparkle in her eye when ' she’s questioned about the old days. You ask her about the past; perhaps she doesn’t hear you and the question is asked again. Then she responds, smiles, and rears back excitedly in her i rocker and starts in with a hint > See EARLY DAYS, Page Fow MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO. N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Pages I through 8 Single Copy 70 The vapors were vanquished last Sunday evening when Paul Green’s Lost Colony opened its 25th Anniverary Season, before a near capacity audience for the I,lolst performance of the New World drama. A warm afternoon sun chased a vaporous and overcast atmos phere from Roanoke Island on Sunday afternoon, Sir Walter Raleigh asked Queen Elizabeth to chase the vapors during the play with a pipe, and Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges followed suit during intermis sion ceremonies by quoting from Thomas Hariot’s report of the vapor—chasing advantages of the golden leaf. Secretary Hodges, who attack ed the vapid critics of tobacco smoking, asked those who say “tobacco is bad for you” to ponder the word’s of the new world’s first English chronicles, who suggested that “They (tobacco) purge gross humors from the the body—and natives keep in excellent health—they have sucked it through clay pipes into stomach and head.” The former governor paid tribute to all involved in the 375th Anniversary Celebration of the Birth of Virginia Dare. He noted that the play “was certain to prosper. . .with such a marvelous chairman as Emma Neal Morrison,” head of the Roanoke Island Historical Soci ety. The Secretary recalled tell ing Mrs. Morrison, recently, that he had just returned from the White House and a visit with the president. Her only com ment was: “Did you mention The Lost Colony,” Hodges noted. The Commerce Secretary re ferred to a recent celebration at Williamsburg over the first shipment of tobacco from Vir ginia, and noted that he had told the vice-president of the Phil ippines that it would solve many of our problems if we quit re ferring to “Virginia Tobacco” and call it “Carolina Tobacco.” The Silver Anniversary Season was opened with a brief welcom ing ceremony featuring Presi dent William C. Friday of the University of North Carolina, Chairman of the Governor’s Commission for the Celebration of the 375th Anniversary of the Birth of Virginia Dare, Mrs. Fred W. Morrison, Chairman of the Roanoke Island Historical Association, and Edgar Thomas, General Manager of The Lost Colony. President Friday read a mes sage, prepared for the premiere performance by Governor Terry Sanford, who was unable to at- See COLONY, Page Seven SPACE CAPSULE LANDS INSIDE WRIGHT MUSEUM A space capsule in the Wright Museum ? It’s an actual fact, or will be soon. The Dayton news papermen and m-whanics might be expected to slip a scratching finger inside their stiff stanch ed collars in amazemet were they here today. Still they probably wouldn’t be more awe-struck than the hundreds of tourist who will view an exact replica of the “Friendship 7” capsule when it arrives at the Kill Devil Hills museum on July 11. The capsule will give the Na tional Park Service what must be the alpha and omega of space transportation. The airy canvasa and wood mobile known as the Wright glider of 1902, now in the museum, will soon be hover ing over a 28 ft. metallic space cacoon similar to the one which Allen Shepard used in his first American orbit of the earth. The temporary museum addi tion is a cooperative venture made possible by the National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration and the National Park Service. Mrs. Fred Morrison, who con ceived the idea, stated on Tues day that James Holland, a Na tional Park Service represent ative, will arrive at the Museum on Thursday to make arrange ments for the capsule’s trans portation to the scene of man’s first air conquest
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