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David Stiwk Kill Devil Hills, K. C* 8-21-62 SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS 16 Pages in 2 Sections 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 MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Pages I through 8 VOLUME XXVIII _ NO. 9 MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST 31. 1962 Single Copy 7^ AUGUST BUSINESS CALLED BEST IN BEACH HISTORY SEPTEMBER VISTA BRIGHT Crowds Expected for Labor Day; Boom Spills Over on Roanoke Island as Resorts Pros per; Conventions to be Held Next Month; German Tobacco Men to Visit Outer Banks BEACH PATROL HELPS SAVE MAN'S LIFE Robert McMillan Might Have Died Without Resuscitator By RALPH POOL Business on the Dare Beaches this month, up to Sunrl-iy, has been the best in history for a like period, in the opinion of many who should know. July was good, loo, after a bad start on the Fourth. H o w- evor, there were some vaenncie.4 at hotels, motels and rented cot tages, and things generally were hot altogether as good as they might have been. For August up to last Sunday, the picture was different. The "no vac.aney” sign got a real workout while its companion gathered dust. Hotels, motels, service stations, stores, beach sei-vices and restaurants have been kept on the jumt). The Wright Memorial and its Muse um have averaged 2,000 visitors a day this month, and the good times have been reflected bv heightened activity at the Or egon Inlet Fishing Ccntei- and on the Hattcras and Ocr.'coke Banks. Boom Spills Over The boom has spilled over to Manteo and Port Raleigh, where “The Lost Colony,” showing nightly except Sunday hut with one special Sunday showing, has finally tossed away its red ink bottle. The Elizabethan Garden, too, has had hosts of visitors, with the climax for it, as well as the Paul Gi'oen drama, coming on Virginia Dare Day This week, there is a lull, beach patrolmen said. However, Some cottagei-s arc closing up they took him on a .stifteher to and moving out, to put their the Saridnipcr Cottage, where children back in school. Hotels he was stajing and motels are noting a Mvv va- Might Have Died eancies-.' Fishing piers''are"'iiotT'”WftH6ut someone present'Who' quite as well people as they knew where the resusc'tator were. I could be obtained, the m.nn Labor Day I might have died, Horton and The final fling will come on Richardson said. See BUSINESS, Page Seven Sec P.ATROL, Page .Seven The new Dare Couiily Bcaeh Patrol chalked up its first real rc.scue last Friday. Robert ^IcMilliaii of Bruns wick, Ga., was sighted about noon by Richard Dodd, life guard at .Avalon Beach, ap parently in troiililc a good way out frnm .shore As he started out to lir'ng in the di.strcs.sed swimmer, Dodd had someone tclepiiono t h e Beach Patrol at the Ci\.slier Motor Court, its headipiartcrs. Barely Conscious The patrol jeep, manned by Lloyd Horton and George Rich ardson, was on the .scene w.ien Doild brought McMillan in H- was in shock and barely con scious, they said: and tliey sent for the Kill DcmI Hills resusci tator while giving Me.Millai) first aid. With the u.se of the resusci tator, the ro.scued man was brought back to full const ious- ness, and was practically al’ right within 15 minutes, the HOME IN SPRING CHARLES BRIGGS: ACTOR WANTS CAREER AS WRITER By LAWRENCE MADDRY Tlie fact that Chrales Briggs will have a starring role in “Jlerrill’s Marauders,” the tecni- color movie appearing at the Pioneer Theater on Thur.sday and Friday of next week, just doesn’t seem to imprc.=s his mother and father, Jlr. and Mrs. Thomas Briggs of Kill Devil Hills. • • “I saw the movie in ^lorfolk and Charles and the whole fam ily feel that it is his best role thus far,” Mrs. Briggs says, "but Charles wants to be a writ er; that’s what we’re interested in.” I At a time when other .actors would sell their celluloid souls for the roles which Charles has talented into, Charles Briggs considers his i-eccnt porforman-' ces in "How The We.st Was Won,” a Cinerama specfaculcr with Debbie Reynolds and Spencer Tracy, and his recent appoarance on “Route GO” a.s stepping stones and bread win ners to support his writing am bitions. I Gruo.some Stuff I Mrs. Briggs .says that Charles has wanted to be a writer since his student days at East Caro lina College, where he majored in English and directed a stu dent production of "Mi.stcr Ro berts.” What kind of writing doc.s Charles do. “Mostly gruesome stuff,” she said with a kind of shiTig “I think he calls it action material, to me it’s gme.some. “Serious drama is his field,” she recalled. “He’s that kind of per son, our Charles.” I don’t know Charles Briggs, I’ve only seen him from the an onymous armchair of a darkened theater, but he acts well and there’s a hint of concern that smolders behind a pair of intent eyes, and his versatality as an actor traces my image of the man with the quality of under standing. After expressing surprise that a succe.ssful actor want® to write, Mrs. Briggs reminded mo that Bob Armstrong, t. v. st.ar and another former Colony per former, as John Borden, also has writing ambitions. “They see each other every day, play golf together and talk about their frustrated writing careers,” she chuckled. Wants To See Son Seeing Charles eveiy day is a pro.spcct which iHrs. Briggs her self would relish “We last .saw Charles in July of last year.” “We planned to get out to California earlier 'his Sec BRIGCS. Page Seven NAGS HEAD BOARD ASKS DUNE FUNDS 3ARTLET F. GARRISON OF WANCHESE MAN WITH A GROWING KIND OF SHRUB Commissioners Request Use of Unexpected County CD Balance At a special meeting T'lesd.iy, the Nags Head Board of Town Commissioner.s passed a resolu tion requesting State Civil De fense iuithorilie.s to ask the Dare County Board of Comnii.s- sirners to use unexpended Cl\ il Defense funds to rc-ostaiilish wa.shed-away .'•and dunes on the beach side of U. S. 158 Business. The Nags Head request al- re.'idy has been okayed by the Office of Emergency Planning and other agencies, and he is willing to sign the town’s appli cation to use .surplus CD fund." for it, David .Stick, chan man of the Dare Board of County t oiii- missLoners, said Wednesday. To Be Done in October The work probably will begin .shortly after October 1, Stick added, explaining that tlie bull dozers, pans and other necessary equipment are in use on Hatteras Island and it was thought best to fiiii.sh the job there first. One bulldozer would take a long time on tlie job, ho I'xiilain- cd, whereas by using several, witli pans to move the .sand in fivc-or six-ton 1 ots, it e.m be done quickly and efficiently. This has liecn a ticklish matter since the .March 7 storm Tlic See BOARD, Page Seven FERRY ARRIVES FOR OPERATION "KNOTTS ISLAND" i HUNTERS AND WILDFOWL ESCHEW BOMBING RANGE SEN. MIDGETT CHARGES New Ferryboat Will Save Kids 100 Mile Schoolbus Trip To Attend Classes The new Kneti- Island ferry- An+I-Bomb Range Forces Claim Air Force Ac- hoat arrived in Currituck at c tivities at Mattamuskeet or Lake Phelps Post threat to Wildfowl, Timberland and Bird-Seeking Hunters at Special Meeting Held in Raleigh Before Gov's Committee. •X 1 By LAWRENCE MADDRY What kind of man is it that will allow a .shrub to grow be tween the boards of his house ind watch for years while its greenness spreads to the second lory and then emerges tlirough the roof? It is a man like Bartlet F. Garrison, 84, Wanchese’s oldest male citizen, who allowed a privet shrub to grow until it pushed the window out of his attic "for the sheer heck of it,” and refused to charge tourists CITIZENSHIP ANALYZED WINNING ESSAY WRITTEN BY MANTEO HIGH SENIOR An essay written by Charles I Evans, a senior in Manteo High School, has won first place in a i statewide Youth Fitness con-1 te.st conducted in the school.s. * Evans, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Evans of Manteo, was the wipner ip the Boys State’ Speaking Contest last ycni*. His winning essay, entitled “Citizenship through 4-H,” fol-1 lows: j Citizenship according to the diction:iry means the act of owning allegiance to a govern- ■ mont or lieing a member of a state. In a way belonging to a 4-H club makes you a type of citizen. You are a “momhor” of; the organization and to it you owe your “allegiance.” But that; IS only the beginning of citizen ship through 4-H. What about tlie projects in which one participates ? Do they develop citizenship? Yes, defin- have developed his citizenship in itely. This is true in many ways, some way. While doing tliis pro- Take for instance the electric ject, one meets people to talk project, in which I have partici- witli them about the project, pated. Everyone that completes Demonstrations and talks may be this project satisfactorily will' given. I demonstrated to several — people how to read an electric CHARLES BRIGGS. FORMER COLONY PERFORMER AND repair cord.s and DARE RESIDENT, IN FILM AT PIONEER THEATRE city, I won a trip to the Elec tric Congress in Winston-Salem. I Meeting people and making new friends was an outstanding fea ture of this program. The safety project is also a groat contributor to citizenship. By learning to remove harmful obstacles and dangers from. around the house, you develop See EVANS, Page Seven CHARLES EVANS MOSQUITO PLAN GETS UNDERWAY AS SURVEY ENDS who want to photograjih the curiosity. Remarkable Person By any standard, Bart Garr- i.son is a remarkalilo person. A fi.sherman, mate, carpenter, and groceryman in his liflotime, the dean of Wancheso citizms still wields a paintbrush or a saw when tlie need demands. At 84 years of age, Bart Gar rison still arises at 4 a.m., rides his pony. Tomahawk, like a Tex an and jumps off the porc'i of his 102-yenr-old home lilce a youth of 19. A kindly man who is describ ed by friends as having “mor-» hor.se sense than philosophy.” Mr. Garrison is probably Wan- chose’s most beloved personal ity. Lived in Same House Bart Garrison was born and raised in the while two story house which his father, Jona than T. Garrison, built in 18G0 Bart says he’ll “live in the house with the shrub until I die a.id 1 I'opc it isn’t ton soon.” His father, Jonathan, was a yaTikiBC“saiIor frdm New Jersey who fellin love with Sarah Daniels, a Wanchese girl, mar ried her, and joined the Confed eracy when the Civil War began at Fort Sumpter. Jonathan, a corporal, who helped defend Roanoke I.sland against the invading .sw.-trm of blue uniforms which .stormeil through tlie marshes on the morning of February 7, 190*2, loved to tell Bart stories “about the war” on winter evenings. Bart remembers his f.ither saying that he “climbed .t tall cypress tree when he first heard the yankces were coming.” Mr Garri.son says his father was a scout and a coward. Knowing See GARRISON, Page Seven a.m. Thursday after a two day journey from Wilmington, but will not begin its operation in time for school transporiain on at 4:30 p.m. Ferry Operations Manager D. W. Patrick said Tuesday that the .$125,000 ferry will “(l.'finitt ly Mot bo in service Friday.” “It will be ready for the Sept 4 uf- fical opening,” ho .stated .School officials in Curritiiek County had hoped that the feriy, built by Wilson Marine Railway Co., would bo availalde to carry Knotts Island children to the first day of classroom nioetings on Friday. Direct Link When put into service, the ferrylioat will provide a direct :t transportation link witn the mainland and save the 50 Knotts Island students a 100 mile round trip, half of it through Virginu, as they joumey to and from school. Patrick said the fall and win ter .schedule will have the boat leaving the mainland at C.30 a.m., for tlie first trip daily, and departing for the final trip dady at 4:30 p.m. The boat will carry 14 cars and have facilities for 50 pass- Seo FERRY, Page Three ALMA THE STORM FAILS TO HALT BANKS FISHING Giant Billfish Still Caught Along the Outer Banks In Quantity By LAM HENCE .MADDRY State .Si'iiat u- I’ D .Midgi-tt of Hyde a.seit-d on Wediiesd:iy tli.it Ins ohjcitioii to an Air iFoice boiiihmg laiige in eillicr Hyde or \\a.-!iiiiglon County was based not on wlu-re the wild igoii.-'O goes hut vthero the luin- ] ter travels. I Mi'lgctt told a .sjieci.d commit tee .studying tlie liomhing range Tropical .-torni Alma, morc watched th.in wrathful, inter-1 problem in Raleigh that he was rupted fi.shuig for one day over; not convinced the range would the past week, but mid-week! not play ha\oc with waterfowl reports indicated tiuit angling' or start fires, was back to normal by Thurs-1 Midgett, who noted that hunt- day. I ing and fisliing is his county’s On the eve of the Caribbean-- second largest indu.stry, assert- spawned di.'turbance’s projected ed tiiat it makes little difference arrival off the Outer Banks, the wliether the planes frighten the Gulf Stream criii.sers w’ere hav- birds or whether hunteis think ing good results with billfi.sh and tlioy do. blackfill tuna out near the Hun-' “If ho is convinced by fact or dred Fatliom Cui-vo, on Tue;(!:iy by p.sychologiciil rca.son, the ef- Skipper Olds of Groat Bridge,' feet is the same,” the senator Va. caught a 255 jiound blue said. The hunti r will still slay marlin while fishing from the' away, he claimed. Sportsman, captained by Omiel Anti-range forces, headed by Tillett, do.spite the ocean’s chop See FISHING, Page Three LARGEST CROWD SINCE '49 STANDING ROOM ONLY AT COLONY LAST SAT. THREE R'S CALL DARE'S STUDENTS BACK TO CLASSES Sudden Quiet Strikes County As School Kids Return To Studies The attraction of an immoit- al drama, starry skies and five busloads of Home Demonstra tion workers from eastern N'li th Carolina wen the major ingre- alents in an attendance formula vyhi.cli produced a standing-room- only audience at The Lost Colony last Saturday ni.ght as 1,949 theater-goers crowded the aisles of Waterside Theater. It was, according to Aycoek Brown, publicity director for the show, “the first time in the post World War 11 history of the Colony that there was st'inding room only.” Brown said that the audience was the show’s largest since August of 1949, a lioom year for the Paul Green -Iraina In an attenduneo break down Brown indicated that there were 1737 paid admissions, approxi mately 160 youngsters under six who were admitted free, 53 press representatives or mem bers of their families, two public relations admissions, an 1 nine R. I, H. A. members present. A season’s record of sorts is in the making, too. Total at tendance of 39,191 up to Mond.iy was about 3,000 ahead of the figure at the corre.sponding time last year. In fact, this soasen is ninning neck and neck with 19- 56, which was the best recent year. The season’s total in 1956 w.as Midgett, argued lliat even if biologists i)io\ed that the birds could adjust to the bombing oxen ist s, thi-y -till would op pose the range in the ground lliiil it would eaiisc' a psycholog ical bar to gun and dollar toting hunters. The Wednesday meeting fol lowed a similar discussion of 42,201. With a little luck, that GohLshoro on * , * [Tuesday when Reii. David Hen- figure may be surpassed any' phird District Democra- day now, and this may turn out t,(. Cougi-es.-'man, had argued to be the best attendanee year ti, the lange would not eu- since 1953. ' dangi'r gi'( >e and waterfowl, at Back in the early years of eitln r of the iiroposed range “Tlie Lost Colony,” however, the! sites—Mattamuskeet or Phelps foregoing figures were f.ir|Lake. eclip.sed. For in.stance, pereons saw it in 1941 The last show of the season will be given Suiid-iy niglil See COLONY, Page Three 60,0001 He pointed out then that I flights have not molested wild life at tlie Navy ranges in Dare County or al a range located .See BOMBING, Pago Three STATE ACTION AWAITED BEACHES' WATER PROBLEM MAY BE NEAR SOLUTION Solution of the Dare beacho.t’ ] storage tanks and many miles of water problem—a problem Hial j pjpp lines are contemplated. The has existed since John Wliile’s (lay —may be at hand. Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills town boards are awaiting word—that may come any day now—that the State Local Gov ernment Ciimmission has ap proved roferendums, and t li a t their application to the U. S. Community Facilities Adminis- tr.ation for help in financing a water system to serve the beach es has been acted upon favor ably CHARLES BRIGGS, one of the brightest stars on the Hollyivood horizon, was raised in Manteo and Kill Devil Hills. A versatile actor who performs with equal ease before television or movie cameras, Charles has played "everything from a sadistic killer to a sympathetic policeman.” Further proof of his versatili ty will be displayed to theater-goers at the Pioneer Theater on September 6 and 7 when he will appear as “Muley” a comic character in the technicolor movie “Merrill’s Marauders,” a film depicting the route of Japanese troops in Buiona by heroic G. I.’s in World War II. A former Lost Colony actor, Charles is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. H. Briggs of Kill Devil Hills, operators of tlie Croatan Hotel. The current Dare County Mosquito Control Pi-oject re ceived further impetus last week by an a n n o u n q e in e n t from Dewey Bosenian, sanitary en gineer with the State Board of Health, that a preliminary sur vey and tentative drainage pro ject outline have been complet ed. The 1962-1963 project is to be concentrated in two sites, one in the Colington-Nags Head area and another on Hatteras Island. The mosquito protection program will bo financed with an expenditure of $22,000. At least $15,000 will be furnislied by state funds, if possible, ac cording to County Accountant John Long. The first project, 1962 C con sists of approximately 3000 ft. of new ditch construction an the property of Walter D. Williams on the Wright Memorial Road at Colington, and approximately 8000 ft. of fill between the Caro linian Hotel and the First Colony Inn at Nags Head. George Daniels, county mos quito control supervisor, has indicated that the Colington- Nags Head project would dim' See PLAN, Page Three The sudden silence which per The sudden silence which per- grounds of Dare on Wednosd.ay moniing seived notice to those who didn’t already know that school had started again. By 9 a.m. on Wednesday they were all in the schoolhou.ses, j . some 1,260 schoolage children | who ranged from the bawling, i pig-tailed, first grader who c.ame with her mother to Cape H.itter- as Eloinetaiy School to the bearded senior tncklo who pa.sh- ed his girl through the door of Manteo High. Mrs. Mary L. Evans, Superia- Icndent of Public Schools said the fir.'st day, a half-one at that, was orderly and one of the nio.st routine in memory The first school day of the new year lasted until 12 p.m. when the fidgety crop of schol ars was given a reprieve from the world of chalk, books, pen cils and classrooms for one more afternoon of pleasure in a fastly fading summer. After they left the perspiring teachers made out roM books, arranged seating charts, counted the book fees and tried to leave as early as possible for the sanity of a cool fan and an easy chair. Teachers and students return ed to classes on I’hursday morn ing for a fall day of education beginning at 8:30 a.m. and last ing until 3.30 p.m. Some relief from the heat and sudden indmr confinement was offered by the holiday on Labor Day, Sept 3., when teachers and students can snatch a few more hours away from the books before summer’s Sec STUDENTS, Page Seven SPECTACULAR WATER SHOW AT POINT HARBOR Kt'V . - -i-■ co.st will be considerable—$900,- 000 IS the estimate for Nags Head—but the project is regard ed as vital to the future of the beaches. On Long-Term Ba.sis If Federal money is unde a- vailable for the work, it would be repaid by the property own ers in the area seivod. R'-pay- meiit would bo on a long-term basis, at a low interest rate. The whole thing binges, liow- Filtering plants, elevated! ever, on the outcome of a ref erendum that will he called, once the funds are av.ailablc. The referendum must be adver- I tised ill advance, w'hich mc.ans loss of time. However, projion- entil of the water system arc daring to hope tiiat il can he installed and ready to operate by the opening of the 1963 sum mer season. Meanwhile, the beaches have selved, at h'.ast teniporarily, the water problems brought by the .•\sh Wednesd.iy storiii. Pollu tion was tlie biggest one, with salinity a close se''nnd Tanks Yaluahle The first step was the install ation of two tmegency filler plants near Kill Devil Hills, drawing water from the Fresh Pond.s. A eomp.an'on step was the placing of ten 500-gallon stor.age tanks at regular inter vals along the beach and on U. S. 158 Bypass. This was done by the State Highway Commission, with the cost met from Civil Defense funds?. The operation the State r.c AMONG THE MANY popular events slated for the La^o^ Day P^c'IpartniSt and the week end, is the third annual water show sponsored by the Ski Lagoon at Point Harbor, under direction of H. A. Sargent. The program will get underway at 1:30 p.m. and the general public is invited to attend. A featured guest of the show will be LaVerne Watson of Norfolk, “Cousin Tibbie” of WTAR-TV fame. He will present comedy and stunt water ski acts. Again featured in the program Mall be the Outer Banks Ski Club of Virginia and North Carolina, performing pyramid skiing with six men. In addition, spectators will see water ballet, trick skiing and mixed doubles during the show. Barefoot skiing and a kite-flying skiier veill be two of the more outstanding events. In past performances a kite-flyer has gone as h'gh as 100 feet. The Ski Lagoon is located on Pine Grove Lane one-quarter mile from the bridge over Currituck Sound. In the event of Incle ment weather, the show will be postponed until Sunday. Dare Board of County Commis sioners. Water Changed Daily Filtered and chlorinated, the water supply is renewed daily. Tanks are emptied each day, regardless of the amount they contain. Their 5,000-gallon daily, take has not affected the water level of the Fresh Ponds. Thousands of pollution tests were made by the State and’'' Dare County Health Depart-.,, ments, and cottagers and others warned, where necessary. As a result, there has not been a See WATER, Page Two ^
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