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David Sti0k Kill Devil Hills, K. C* 8-21-62 SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS 12 Pages in 2 Sections VOL XXVIII — NO. 10 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 6 MANTEO. N. C.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1962 Single Copy 7^ NAGS HEAD WATER PLANT OUTLOOK BRIGHTENS WITH STATE APPROVAL OF PLANS Town Board to Meet Monday for Check With Engineers on Application for $945,000; Federal Loan; Burden on Taxpayers to Be Lighter than Many Had Expected, Figures Disclose —— KITTY HAWK MAN SOUGHT, CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION SCHOLARSHIP WINNER RESIGNATION OF CD CHIEF NOT TAKEN By RALPH POOL Prospects that Nags Head will liave a central water system by next summer grow brightei- this week with unofficial woixl tliat tlio State had approved a pro posed outlay of $045,000 for the system, to be financed through n Federal loan. Also, an analysis of the fin ancing plan revealed that the water system will be a much lighter burden on Nags Head taxpayers than many had sup posed. Mayor Julian Oncto has called a meeting of the Board of Town Commissioners for Monday at 2:30 p.m. to hear C. C. Tilley, supervising engineer for Will iam Freeman Inc. of High Point, the engineering firm working out plans for the water system. Apparently Approved W. Ewart Easterling, assi.^t- ant director and secretary of the 1 Local Government Commission, apparently has approved the Nags Head water financing pro gram, whicli calls for $945,000 in bonds to be repaid in .about 38 years at 3-3/4 per cent in terest. Under the plan, the tax rate for the bonds the first year your would be six cents on the $100 property valuation. This would jump to 25 cents the second yeaia Then the rate would begin to decline. The figure for the third year would be 22 cents and for the fourth, 21 cents. This would decrease steadily until it reached one cent in 1981-82, when the lo.aii would he paid off. At the Town Board meeting ' Monday, tlie engineers .arc ex pected to present a completed application for a loan to be .submitted to the Community Facilities Administration, a division of the House and Home Finance Agency, with head quarters in Atlanta. Tile board and Town Attorney Martin Kellogg will go over the application carefully to assure that there wall be no undue bur den on the taxpayers. If appi'ov- ed, it will be fonvarded to At lanta for CFA scrutiny. Hearing and Election Approval by the Federal agen cy will set in motion a series of Meinnis Midgett and Ramona Perry, 15, Believed Seeking To Marry Slate Highway Patrol men throughout North Carolina have been alerted to pick up Mclnnis Midgett, 28, of Kitty Hawk, wainled in Dare County on an abduction charge. A warrant charging abduction was sworn out by Raymond Perry of Colington. He alleges that Jlidgett abducted his daughter, Ramona, 15, Monday afternoon. Perry said he believed the couple were on their way to South Carolina to get married. The abduction charge stems from the circumstance that the girl is under the age of con.sent. Kill Devil Hills Town Commis sioner to Retain Second Office NATIONAL PRESS CLUB PLANS NAGS HEAD TRIP Members of the National Press Club have planned a fall fishing trip to Nags Head for the week end of Friday, Octobor 5, according to Jay Royen, chair man of the club’s fishing com mittee. At least 50 journalists from PHILLIP B. TILLETT of Man- teo has been awarded a one year football scholarship at Carolina Military Academy, according to Clyde Parrish, Athletic Director at CMA. Tillett, who left Manteo on Aug. 20 to begin fall training with CMA, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. McCoy Tillett of Manteo. Philip was a 1962 graduate of Manteo 'High School and was selected as the school’s “Most Athletic Boy" by the student body. Coach Jerry Gaboon, Manteo Redskin football coach has prais ed Tillett as “the most outstand ing player on our team last year." Gaboon noted that Tillett was the “number one pass re ceiver on our squad and easily the best defensive lineman." “Coaches considered Tillett a threat and planned their offense to offset the strength he dis played at his position,” Cahoon said. A football and baseball star at Manteo High School, Philip was an All Conference End in 1900 and 1961 and received an An opinion by the State At torney General that it is “not advisable” for a town commis sioner to hold office also as Civil Defense director drew no support from the Kitty Devil Hills Town Board Tuesday night. C. A. York, who holds both offices, offered to “step dowm happily” if the board wished, though he pointed out thai ilm Attorney General’s opinion was “interpretation, not law.” Ruling Reguested Other board members di.scuss- ed the matter briefly, concluded they knew of no one they pre ferred in the position, and pass ed on to other matters. The At torney General had been asked to rule on the legality of York sei-ving both as a Town Com missioner and as Civil Defense chief. However, his ruling went no farther than to question the advisability of York’s holding two offices. It was pointed out in passing that the sheriff of Dare County is also county CD director. JIany other matters were tak en up at the meeting TIic boai’d decided to buy a dump truck from the State Highway Depart ment for $450, subject to appro- Scc K. D. HILLS, Page Tlirce WRIHEN BY EDITOR’S SON ATKINSON NAMED SUPT. OF HOT SPRINGS PARK ‘i) ROBERT H. ATKINSON has boon named superintendent of Hot Springs National Park, Ar kansas. The appointment was announced by Elbert Cox, Reg ional Director of the National Park Service’s Southeast Region. Atkinson, who will report to his new post on September 7, comes to Hot Springs from Hyde Park, New York, where he ws super intendent of the Home of Frank lin D. Roosevelt and the Vander bilt Mansion National Historic Sites. He succeeds H. Raymond Gregg, who was recently ap pointed to superintendent of Jef ferson National Expansion Me morial in St. Louis, Missouri. Cox said Atkinson began his See ATKINSON, Page Three LABOR DAY CROWDS SET NEW RECORD Beaches Thronged; Sunny Weather Lures Bathers Into Surf STORY OF W. O. SAUNDERS REFLECTS TURBULENT ERA the nation’s capital are expected to make the trek to Nags Head, honorable mention selection on and Royen has announced that I the All-Eastern team in 1960. the trip date will bo changed only in the unlikely event tliat Congress stays in session after the end of September. He was co-captain of the squad, during his senior year and snar-' ed 35 passes in his final season See TILLETT, Page Three BEST YEAR SINCE 1954 TERCENTENARY PROGRAM ENDS ‘62 COLONY SEASON The Lost Colony, America’s oldest outdoor drama, held it.s grand finale for 1962 on Sunday night as 833 spectators paid their admissions to boo.st total paid attendance figures to 43, 696 for tlie year; the Colony’s be.'it since 1954. The 1962 attendance figures represent an increase of 3,399 over 1961 and make the year steps necessary to bring the , the finest commercially since 19- water .system into being. The. 54 when 45,227 paid admissions first will be a public hearing, I were recorded at the end of the duly advertisited. Then a bond election will be held, iii which only resident fi-eeholders of Nags Head will be entitled to participate. If the election carries, it will be possible to begin construc tion almost immediately, ac cording to Oneto. This Icad.s to strong hopes that the water sy.stem will be in operation by next summer. Need Emphasized Need for such a system Sec WATER, Page Four IS Korean War. The North Carolina Charter Tercentnry Commission was honored during the final perfor mance of the drama’s Silver An niversary Season, which was the 1,156th showing of the Paul Gi-een play. Francis Winslow, State Cliair- man of the Tercentenary Com- niis.sion and a member of the Rocky Mount Bar, and David Stick, commission member and chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, shared the spotlight at the brief pre- performance ceremony on Sun day night. During his introductory re. marks, Winslow stated that the drama and the prcperforniance ceremony could be considered a.s “an introduction and preview to the state-wide celebration of next year’s tercentenary obser vances.” Win.«low explained that 1963 will mark the Icrcenlenary of . . ... I the charter by which King $75 ,n damages was received by:c,,„,,cg jj of England conveyed a station wagon on U. S. 64 1 when struck in the rear by a ONE DARE AVRECK LISTED OVER LABOR DAY PERIOD Despite a freightening record of fatalities from across the nation over tlie Labor Day week end, Dare County escaped the death list during the lioliday with only one accident to mar an otherwise safe driving vaca tion period. Dare’s single accident occurr- ed on Saturday evening ^bon | j',’;’ V whidr'king v'Tk aw H^warirrac «fno nV 1 _ . pick-up truck near Roanoke Sound Bridge, at approximately 8:05 p.m. The struck vehicle was operat ed by George Miller of Washing ton, D. C. who was headed east on U. S. 64 in a ‘54 Chrysler station wagon. Miller attempted to make a left turn into a cot tage approximately 100 feet east of Roanoke Sound Bridge when he was struck in the rear by a ® ‘59 Clicvrolet pick-up truck, ac cording to Highway Patrolman Martin King. King stated that the truck was operated by an unlicensed driver. Smith White, colored, of Manteo. Wliite was indicted for operating a vehicle without a valid operator’s license. Charges were also listed against Elean or Bowser, colored, Manteo, for allowing an unlicensed person to ^•iy.p tier land to the Lonls Proprietors and created the state as an Eng lish colony. He called on *he Lost Colony audience and all North Carolinians to aid in the celebra tion of the event “which consti tutes a major landmark in the early histoi-y of North Carolina as an English colony.” Winslow introduced David Stick, who traced the early his tory of Virginia and its develop ment under the Lords Proprie tors. In speaking of the Paul Green drama Stick said “The play covers a brief four-year period, from 1584 to 1588. It deals with men and women, with their am bition and hopes, their trials and disappointments. And it ends on n note of mystery and uncertainty.” “Yet it does not end there, for the dream which was the moti- see depicted here tonight—tlie dream to cstabli.sh in this New World a colony of English .speaking peoples—has come to fi-uition.” Fufilled Dreams ‘‘Raleigh’s colony was lost and yet its very presence on these shores deterred the Spaniards in their plan to dominate the North American continent," he said. “A^rginia was the name the Raleigh colonists chose for this land—for Roanoke Island. . .Vir ginia it remained until 75 years after Raleigh’s colonists were lost The first grant of land (by Charles II) was to Sir John Colleton, one of the proprietors, for the island known as Carlisle. The new owner changed the name to Colleton Island and the following year sent the first Proprietary colony there. Col leton, now Colington Island, is visible tonight, to members of this audience, across the sound beyond the Lost Colony stage.” “Tlie Colleton colony was not successful, and the Proprietors’ Cliiefe Towne on Roanoke Is land did not materialize. But in Sec PROGRAM, Page Four THE INDEPENDENT MAN. By Keith Saunders. Saunders Press. 282 pags. $5.- 00. AV. O. SAUNDERS EAST LAKE NATIVE DIES IN NORFOLK Mrs. Rena B. Benjamin, 65, of of Norfolk, Va., widow of Ed ward R. Benjamin and daughter of Alva and Mrs. Cora Sawyer, died in her home AVcdnesil.ay .at 4 p.m. A native of East Lake, she lived in the Norfolk-Portsniouth ai'ea most of her life. She is suiwived by a daughter, Mrs. Shirley J. Evans cf Nor folk; a sister, Mrs. Martha D.avis of Great Bridge; and a brother, Alva Sawyer Jr. of Portsmouth. A funeral service will ‘oe con ducted in Hollomon-Bi-own Fu neral Home Friday at 3 p.m Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The family will be at 333 E. Little Creek Road. BEST YEAR SINCE 1954 COLONY MANAGER CREDITS CAST FOR GREAT SEASON As the stage lights dimmed on the 1,166th performance of Paul Green’s drama at Waterside ’Theater, Edgar Thomas, general manager of The Lost Colony took a deep breath and admitted that the Silver Anniversai-y Sea son had been a success. “I feel,” he said, “that we ful filled the high expectations of this significant anniversary sea son and am assured that the intrinsic vitality of the drama ensures its perpetuation.” As compared with last sea son’s attendance, the production was unquestionably more suc cessful. The 43,396 paid admis sions for 1962 represented an increase of 3,396 paid admis sions over 1961 and made the Silver Anniversary Season the best, attendance-wse, since 1954. Tliomas noted that “we were successful despite the unseason ably bad weather during the early yreeks of the show.” “The Its ‘W .??? Cpi‘0-NY» Page Four under considerable pres.sure which was not relieved, really, until August, when we began to catch up 'vith last year’s attend ance.” Credit to Cast The new general manager, serving his first year with the drama, gave major credit for the successful year to the c-ast. “I think Clifton Britton assem bled an exceptionally fine group of actors here this season,” he said. “We are especially grateful that company morale remained high throughout the season," Jie said. “Many people feel that the cast reached its highest level of performance with the last showing.” “Naturally,” he stated,” a lot of credit must go to the under studies who stepped into diffi cult roles when the principal performers were sick or injur ed.” Thomas had particular praise for Tom Hull of Golds- Thc story of an unconven tional editor in a conventional Southern town is told by that editor’s son in a volumn that is more than a biography. It IS a mirror that reflects a third of a century in Elizabeth City. AV. O. Saunders came first to Elizabeth City to report a sen sational murder trial. The Nellie Cropsey case was the big story of its day. AVhether justice was done, we can never know. Saunders must have lilccd the town. After a bit of wandering he came back to Elizabeth City and in due course founded his own newspaper, the Independ ent. In the very nature of things, lie tangled with the powers that were. Dared to Speak In The Independent, Saunders challenged accepted beliefs, dar ed to say that things that always had been need not necessarily be right. He exposed graft, bared hypocrisy, tunied the light of humor that sometimes was salty on bigotry and intolerance and a host of human frailties. The Independent Man is a re flection of a turbulent career dedicated to righting wrongs, to making the world a better place for mankind. Keith Saunders has done an honest and compe tent job where a less capable writer might have failed. Ho has presented an accurate picture of AA'. 0. Saunders and his era. Taught Many Things It was my good fortune to have worked on The Independent at the start of my newspaper career. I knew AV. O. Saunders intimately, and learned from him many things that were in valuable in later years. Not the least of these was journalistic integrity. He who writes for the jiublic carries a grave resiion- sibility; and I learned about that from Saunders. I learned, too, that to present bare facts was not cnoagh. They had to be presented interestingly, or no body would read your writings. These things, and many more, I learned from AV. 0. Saunders and The Independent. The Independent Man makes See SAUNDERS, Page Four The Outer Banks from Kitty Hawk to Ocracoke Inlet and probably more visitors over the Labor Day week end than in any similar period in their hi.story, a suiA'cy thi.s week di.sclosed. Business was good up and down the beach Motel.s and cot tages for rent drew cap.icity patronage, for the mo.-it imil, and otlicr bu.siness were corres pondingly acti\e. The weather was all th.at could have been hoped for. It was sun ny and warm, with a mild breeze most of the day. 'The ocean was calm, and drew its full quota of devotees. No serious mi.shajis in the surf were reported. Single Drowning In fact, with the single excep tion of a skin diver who lo.st his life while exploring a wreck off Kill Devil Hills, there hasn’t been a fatality directly atti ibut- able to drowning on the beach this summer. Two fishermen at Oregon Inlet lost their lives from strokes or heart attacks, however. The Labor Day week end started off with a bang, but tapered off sharply Monday as vacationers began returning home for the more prosaic d.iys ahead. 'I'he traffic across O ’egon Inlet reached a peak Muiulay niglit, with several hundred c.ii-;- banked up at the ferry landing on the Hatteras side. However, the ferries kept right on operat ing after the usual midnight deadline, until not a car was waiting. Six 17-car ferries oper ated on the 45-minute run. Fishermen Happy At the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center, business was good and most of the fishermen were hap- ]>y. The 35 boats operating out of the center were kejit busy. Those fi.shing in and around the inlet reported fair catches of blues and a good many .Spanish mackerel. Fishermen venturing farther out did very well, too. Many bonits were caught. Two medium sized blue marlin were brought in Sunday, and a larger one, weighting about 350 pounds, was caught Monday. As in past seasons, the fish ing at Oregon Inlet is expected to continue good until the middle of October. Brach activitie.s in general will continue least, though at a lessened tem po compared with the earlier summer months. In fact, more See CROAVDS. Page Three KNOTTS ISLAND JOINED TO TAR HEEL MAINLAND BY NEW FERRY SERVICE Gov. Sanford, Commissioner Evans and Rep. Bonner Gather With Crowd ot 500 For Christening ot the State's Newest Ferry; Speeches Welcome Connection ot the Is land to North Carolina's Mainland. I OZ.O DECT VC A D Knotts Island, for years an is- I YOZ DCO I T C/\K elated step-child of the state, FOR FISHING ON was connected with and rcc'aim- TLJC /^1 iTcn DAkIt/c *’>' Carolina on Tuc •- INt UUIcK dAINKo day as Gov. Terry Sanford of- jfieiiilly opened ftee ferry ser- For Sporlsfishing Ever Recorded Aufumn Breaks on Best Year | vice between the island and Cur- rituek Courthouse on the main land 'J'ho new ferry service will en- Tackle tugging hillfiMi are Knotts island children to still taking the bait in Daretko first time Coast waters and 1962 is al- ' fh's fail ijy I’oat. It will save the ready the best billfish season in I-“tudents a 100-mile round-tnp the history of the North Caro- I’i'le through Virginia to ac- lina coast. jtind school, a necessary journey The Dare County Tourist Bur- j Past- eauhas reported that 1962 ha J, ^ been the best sports fishing sea- 1 son for all varieties of fish from on Tue.sday as Sanfoid bluefish and channel bass to ‘aak part in dod-eaiion services dolphin and blue marlin. ' Siad Usually the big game fi.sli ng season off Oregon Inlet is ovi-r by late August, but it’s .1 diffe rent story this year and even llio to have Knotts Island clo:sely mainland connected with the by late August, but it’s .1 diffe- I Sa>;f°>-‘1 ■‘^aid. “Your boys and girls will not have to ride before sunup and into the late evening liours to get to and from school, he told brushing tropical storm Alma gave the Outer Banks on Tues day, August 28 did not curt id , catches of billfish by anglers , an appreciative audience, boaril Oregon Inlet-based ciu-i "It.has a broader, long-range I meaning:* nowovor, in Unit it is ■ Since Alma, (August 29 “ I’a'd of the economic develop- througl. September 4) the blue ° f’’® northeasle.m part marlin catches have averaged of North (Carolina and of the en tire state, the governor said. Camp.aign Promise Highway Commission Chair man Merrill Evans of Aho.skie, a native of Currituck County, said the ferry represents "pay ment on a campaign promi.se by Sanford to bring Nortlmailein Noiih Carolina back into North Carolina ” Evans stated that the ferry a “very substantial payment on better than one each day off Oregon Inlet, as follows: August 29: Dr, John 11. Moon, Richmond, cruiser Mel-O-Dee, 163 pounder: September 1- Jim Boradus, Coloinal Height.s, Va., crui.ser Sportsman, 356 poui'dei; Jerry Erlandson, Norfoll., Va . craisler .To-Boy, 165 pounder; an unidentified angler, cruiser Erma Queen, 190 pounder; September 2, AV. JI. Johnson, Posquoson, Va., craiser Chec promise tliat many in the heat of the campaign fell was Chee, 2o2 pounder Cruiser Ger- . , . . , . tko , , • j . 1 II just to pick up votes. 1 he mel, anger unidentified, sm.ill r. , , ^ • 1 i.w , , ’ , o . 1 o high wav chairman s:i d “Wo are blue marlin; September 3: Crui.ser Slow and Ea.sy, ;ingler unidentified, 350 pound"-; Si-p- tember 4: Robert AV. Goodlove, Silver Springs, Md, cruiser Lois C., 198 pounder; an 1 Carl Reichenbach, Raleigh, cruise:- higlnv; licre today to repent of our neg lect and welcome you home.” Ferry Christened The well-attended dedicat'on ceremonies weie climaxed when JIiss Marion Irving, 13, young est member of the freshman JIartha Ann, 120 pounder. 1 , . a,, - , . , i- t j c ass from Knotts Island broKC The eight landings pushed champagne bottle ag-iinst a ctivitie.s in general will , 1^’“® stanchion at the bow of the new through September, at boat and said, “1 christen you Hatteras inlets) to 145 for the 62 season. During the same period, 12 See FISHING. Page Three YOUTHS COMPLETE LOST COLONY READING PROGRAM I - Jare County /! ^Library “The Knotts Island.” The bottle broke on the first swing and a cheer erapted from, the crowd. The ceremony took place at the ferry slip on the soutlnvest tip of Knotts Island which is about seven miles long -ind two miles wide at the w-idest point. JIany Guests Roger Jackson Jr., assi.=tant to Chairman Evans, was master of ceremonies at the event and See FERRA', Page Three FAMILY REUNION The family of Jlr. and Mrs. Llewelyn Daniels, Sr., of AVan- chese, held a reunion on Labor Day, in the form of a cookout at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Daniels, Jr. Others attending were Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie T. Daniels and children, Debbie, Vickie, Lori and Erlene; Mrs. Bebe Kee and children, Kenny and Stanley; Jlr. and and Mrs. Tommy Biggs; Mr. and Mrs Dixie AV. Daniels and chil dren, Barabara and Tori; and Bobby and Myra Daniels. NEARLY $500 THE PRIZE FOR SNEAK THIEF SAT. NIGHT A BROAVSING BUNCH OF BOYS AND GIRLS who completed the Dare County Library’s Lost Colony Reading Program for 1962 are shown above practicing their favorite pastime on the steps of the Community Building. The assembled group is, according to librarian Mrs. Jean Ward, only a representative sampling of the more than 50 youngsters who have achieved recognition by reading 25 books during the year to celebrate the Silver Anniver sary Year of TTio Lost Colony. The readers are: (Front row, 1. to r.) Susan Meekins, Phil Rea, Hilda Swain and Lynn Green. (Back row, 1. to r.) Harry Pridgen, Jean Marie Watkins, Dean Fearing and Jaccie Burrus. A thief with an eye for money over the holiday week end stole $475 from the cash register of ILi.ssell and Creef Chevrolet Co. ill .Manteo on Saturday night while the only attendant on duty was filling the gas Uink of a car. The Dare County .Sheriff’s Department lias reported that $475.00 was taken by the robber, who apparently entered the store area of the building through a hack window. Charlie Shannon, the only employee on duty at the time, stated that he found a screen from one of the windows in the rear of the shop •ajar, immediately after discover ing the theft. “The theif took all the bills in the cash register but left quite a bit of change,” Shannon said. Around 9 P, M. Shannon indicated that he had last seen the bills in the cash drawer at about 8:45 p.m. after making a sale. He returned to the register 15 minutes later to make change for a gas sale and discovered the robbery,.he'-said. Sheriff Frank Cahoon" has stated that the Sheriff’s Depart ment has two suspect8->linder investigation for ' the crime. Cahoon indicated that'^he was notified immediately after-' the money was discovered missing and tiiat fingerprints have been lifted from the area around the cash register.
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