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C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1962 Single Copy 7^ HOIST THE SPINNAKERS FOURTH ANNUAL REGATTA SETS SAILS ON SATURDAY contestants are, ^ expected to be trimming the . sheets and setting the spin nakers on Saturday and Sunday in Croatan Sound when indivi dual sportsmen and yacht club members compete in the 4th An nual Sailing Regatta at Nags Head. 40 sailboats, ranging in class from the long, sleek, English Jolly to the Pram, will compete for trophy honors beginning at 11:50 a.m. on Saturday when the boats will jockey for posi tion along a three mile course just north of the Mantco Air port boat ramp. The regatta, sponsored by the Carolinian Hotel and Anchor Club at Nags Head, will bring sailing craft from a three-state area into competition. A new cla.ss of sailboat, the French 420, believed to be the fastest .sail boat ever designed, is e.vpected to give land and boat-based L C. DIRECTORS • REVIEW 62 SEASON AT SATURDAY MEET Mrs. Morrison Cited For Effort Which Made Year A Success A report by Edgar Thomas, general manager of The Lost Colony and a standing ovation for Mrs. Fred W. Morrison high lighted the .season-end meeting of the Lost Colony Board of Dir ectors last Saturday, at Mrs. Morrison’s Kill Devil Hills home. Thomas told the board that a 14 per cent increase hail been .made over monies collected dur ing the 1901 season and JIrs Morrison was hailed as “the driving force behind a successful season,” by Melvin Daniels, a member-of the boai-d. Artistic and Financial Success The general manager told the V board that the production was an artistic and financial success. Atfer distributing copies of an attendance chart, a ‘62 budget a financial statement up to Sept. 0., Thomas noted that attendance showed an increase of nine per cent over 1901, with a 14 per cent increase in monies collected. The figures represented a pro fit to date of $12,973.78 with an additional anticipated income of $1,500, he said. He indicated that } an additional e.xpenditure of $3, 000 was e.'cpccted before the fin al accounting for the Silver An niversary Year of the Paul Green production. Total expenditures to date were listed at $92,341.45, with a total income, thus far of $105, • 315. Mrs. Morrison I.,auded During the meeting, Melvin Daniels rose to shower the Chairman of Uie Roanoke Island Historical As.sn. with praise for a job well done. “The major share of credit for a successful season goes to Mrs. Morrison, for her work in Wa.shington and —throughout this state." See COLONY, Page Tlircc when the boom vangs are set Dare Boaters Assist Julian Oneto, Regatta Chair man stated that course buoys had been placed on Thursday morning by members of the Dare Power Boat Association. Arnold Tolson, Commodore of the Association has indicated that the group will provide power boats for the judges and members of the Regatta Com mittee during the races. Oneto stated that the racing course will be transferred to Roanoke Sound in the event of bad weather, where the sailboats will travei'se a diamond-shaped course one mile east of Baum’s Point. He noted that Coast Guard patrol boats will be on hand to render aid, regardless of the weather. The Pram Race, always a pop ular feature of the Regatta, will be conducted at Shallowbag Bayalong a two and one-half mile triangular course between Baum and Ballast Point. Six Classes Six Sailboat classes will be represented at the Regatta: Jollys, Hamptons, 420s, Pen guins, Sailfish and Prams. The most skimming competition is expected to be provided in the Hampton race, where 15 entrys arc expected to vie with the Easting Down II, last yeai''s winner, manned by Chuch Mar shall of Norfolk. A briefing .session, prior to the Regatta will be held in the Anchor Room of The Cai’olinian on Sat. at 10 a.m. Warning guns will sound at 11:50 a.m. on Sat- See REGATTA, Page Four ALL VOTERS MUST REGISTER IN OCT. CHAIRMAN STATES ABUNDANT SUPPLY KEEPS THIS SCENE PERPETUATED Old Registration Books To Be Wiped Clean Next Month For Nov. Vote CHANNEL BASS NOV/ APPEARING ON DARE COAST Heavy Run Predicted During Fall; Other Fishing Good By AYCOCK BROWN Channel bass, tbe rugged cop per-colored fighters of the surf began to tug the lines of fish ermen on the Outer Banks this week. A 38 pounder was caught by an unidentified angler from the ocean pier at Rodanthe a few days ago, but most of the catches have been made along the beach from Oregon Inlet southward to the Point of Beach at Hatteras Inlet. Although catches of puppy drum—the name given young channel bass which arc in the “puppy” or earlier stages of growth—were frequent, a not able exception was hooked by Bob Preston, one of the best known fishing guides on the Outer Banks. Preston snai'cd an 18 pounder from the surf on Monday while leading parties on fishing ex peditions along the coast. Blues and W'hitiiig Blues and whiting have also See FISHING, Page Three OCTOBER 5-6 HATTERAS MARLIN CLUB SPORSORING TOURNEY ■i ) HATTERAS. — Twenty five or more anglei's are expected to compete in the Autumn 1962, club tournament sponsored by Hatteras Marlin Club here Oc tober 5 and 6, it was announced today by Earl Phillips, presi- I dent. Unlike the big international CHANNEL IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDED TO HOUSE FOR HAHERAS DREDGING A $668,000 project to improve n.ivigation channels at and near Hatteras was recommend ed by Army Engineers to a House public works subcom mittee on Tuesday. The suggestion included a pro posed deepening of Rollinson Channel from 6 to 12 feet and a similar deepening of the Hat teras harbor, with .a 10 foot chanel extending form Hatteras Inlet gorge to Hatteras. Federal funds would cover $652,000 of the project if the Congress approves, $16,000 would be paid out of state funds. The recommendation was sub mitted to a subcommittee head ed by Rep. John Blatnik, D-Minn. The subcommittee is investigat ing navigation projects which might be included in a water projects •■uthoruakioa biU. tournament which was presented for its third year in June, the club tourney, open to members of the Hatteras Marlin Club, will not be limited to blue mar lin, Trophies will be presented, according to announcement by Phillips, for the following catch es: Large.st billfish; largest of any wahoo, dolphin, channel bass, cobia, tuna, cobia or tar- poon; largest game fisli of any species in relation to lino classi fication; largest shark boated and weighed at Hatteras Marlin Club dock; and, also a trophy for the angler having the hardest luck of any fish hooked in the tournament. “Actually," said Phillips, “this will be a fishing fun tourna ment.” The classic will be open to club members, their families and their invited guests. Several non resident boats arc expected. The Marlin Club’s tournament is the first of three scheduled for the Dare Coast-Outer Banks this Fall. On October 18-20, the 12th annual surf fishing tourna ment will be held at Nags Head; and, on November 1-3, the fifth annual Cape Hatteras Anglers’ Club tournament will be held on Hatteras Island. Teams from more than 60 clubs, will partici pate in ‘the two -aurf olaeaioa. The first new voter registra tion for Dare County in over 20 years will be conducted'in Oc tober, and Jack Tillett, Dai-e Elections Board Chaiman, says evei-yone must register who wants to vote in the November elections. Tillett emphasized that every voter in the county must regis ter, regardless of how many times he or she may have voted before. The Election Board Chairman said the “purge” of old registra tion books was recommended after a conference with Ray mond Maxwell, executive secre tary of the State Board of Elec tions. “Maxwell suggested that we conduct a new registration as soon as possible,” Tillett said. Tillett indicated that quite a few duplications and eiTors were known to exist in the old regis tration books which now list 4,100 person.^. Tillett said the new registra tion is expected to list “consider ably less than 4,100 voters.” “We feel sure that there are a number of dead persons listed on the books and any number of people who have doubtless mov ed out of the county,” he added. Moshoea Excluded Tire new registration, which will wipe previous books clean, will cover every precinct in the county except Mashoes. Tillett noted there were only 11 voters in the Mashoes Precinct. “We felt that the expense of a new registration in the Mashoes Precinct would be prohibitive See VOTERS, Page Four APPROVAL GIVEN FOR WATER LOAN BY N. H. BOARD FRO.M A HUMBLE BEGINNING three decades ago, the busi ness of sport fishing along the coast has grown into a large-scale .summertime industry, employing or aiding the support of hundreds of families. The .scene above may be witnessed dozens of times daily during the .season, as anglers search for fighting species in watei’s near the Gulf Stream. IMPROVING EACH YEAR- SPORT FISHING HAS GROWN INTO BIG COASTAL INDUSTRY By TOM JACKSON With one shout, “Marlin there,” the sluggish group on the little boat was exploded into activity: The captain dropped as nimbly as a squirrel from the flying bridge and scurried to- waard a rod whipping in its hol der; the mate, who had already been on the main deck made a REDSKIN STALWARTS PREPARE FOR BATH GAME TWO REDSKIN VETERANS, center Tommy Toler and blocking back Benny O’Neal are shown running through signals in pre paration for the football opener with Bath High School on Friday night. Manteo coach Jen-y Gaboon, noting that the Bath squad won their first contest with a 20-6 victory over Vanceboro, has ob served that the Manteo Club must be honed to "razor sharpness” to carve a victory in the conference game at Manteo Ball Park which begins at 8 p.m. (Photo By Maddry) FOOTBALL BEGINS FOR MANTEO H. S. ON FRIDAY NIGHT An untested but determined squad of 38 players will take to the Ball Park gridiron for Manteo High School this Fri day at 8 p.m. for the season’s opener with Bath High in a game as unpredictable as Sep tember weather. Coach Jerry Gaboon and his charges will be given a throaty send-off on Friday afternoon when the Redskin cheerleaders for ’62 swirl and shout the gold and black to fever pitch in the high school auditorium. Coach Cahoon stated on Thursday that the Redskins will need all the encouragement they can get to take the measure of a gambling eleven from Bath, who took Vannsboro last Friday night with a thumping 20-6 vic tory. Unpredictable Cahoon and Asst Coach Steve Basnight have both been tight- lipped about the Redskins chan ces of victory in their first pig skin effort of the season “The club is unpredictable,” they say. The two coaches, both pleased •SMFOOTBALii^ P«Ce IVnur DAMMON MEEKINS DIES IN NORFOLK HOSPITAL Dammon Elwood Meekins, 60, a native of Avon, died on Tue.s- day afternoon in a Norfolk Hospital after a year’s illness. He had been living in Norfolk for the past 16 years. He was a member of tbe Man teo Masonic Lodge, the Cam- postella Heights Methodist Cliurch, a veteran of World War II, a retired lieutenant in the U. S. Coast Guard and had been recently employed as a labor foreman at the Hampton Rhodes Port of Embarkation. He was the son of the late Leffis William and Indianna Gibbs Meekins and the husband of Mrs. Alice Farrow Meekins. Other survivors include one daughter, Miss Grace Mae Mcek- ins of Norfolk and two brothers, Otis S. Meekins, Sr. and William Earl Meekins of Oman Beach, Fla. Funeral services were held Thursday at 1 p.m. in Campo- stella Methodist Church, Va. Fin al services will be held at the home in Avon on Saturday at 2 p.m. Burial will follow in the family plot, with JIasonic rites being conducted by Manteo Lodge No. 52L dash for the rod too when he heard the line sizzling off the reel; the fishermen, six of them, seemed to increase in number as they stumbled and fell across the tossing deck, coliding with each other, grabbing for hand holds that weren’t there, trying two at a time to get into the fighting chairs while still hold ing the cool drinks and sand wiches they had been eating for lunch. The boat, a sport fisherman, broad and with clean lines, had left the inlet hours earlier and churned its way across the choppy Atlantic waters to the Gulf Stream. Behind lay the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and clocks for a sport fishing fleet that had access to some of the best fisliing waters in the world. Many yc.ars of work, financial investment and both good arc! bad luck lie behind this scene, this boat, and the repuuilion of these fishing grounds. Sport fishing from the Outer Banks originated sometime in the late 1920’s and has developed far since that time. In the early clays sport fi.sh- ing began as a summer fill in ac tivity for the several hunt clubs, owTted mostly by out-of-town people, along the Banks. Those were the clays when the game was plentiful and the regula tions sparce. Wealthy hunters owning hunt clubs along the banks annually made game kills which would startle the present day sportsman. It was a time wlien the Outer Banks natives hunted as well as fi.shod com mercially. Yet in the summer months even the rich hunting grounds of the Outer Banks fail ed to provide enough activity to pacify those with enough money and too much time. When com mercial fishermen along the Banks (no one seems to bo really sure who first conceived the idea) discovered these winter hunters could also bo amused by catching fish they converted their inter commercial fishing boats into summer sport fishing boats to increase their income. The venture was a succcs.sful one which has even today not reach ed its peak. The early “sport” fishing boats then were mo.stly small open shad boats or work and hunting boats witli an occasional cabin cruiser thrown in. None of them were equipped for sport fishing and many hd a piece of gold plugged into the keel by their Roanoke Island builders for good luck. Often the sport fisherman sat on an empty fish box and fished as often with a hand line as he did with rod and reel. Equipment, as we know it to day, was scarce or non-existent. Artificial hires were practically impossible to find and rod and reel outfits were expensive, pri mitive, and hard to get. Cut bait was almost always used and the "game” fish were channel bass, trout and cro.akers. The pioneers of sports fishing on the Outer Banks were native commercial fishermen. Some Assuming Taxpayers Vote For, System May Be Ready By Next Summer The Nags Head Town Board gave a nod of approval to the $945,000 loan application by William Frecm.an, Inc. of High Point on ^Monday for funds to finance a central water system for the resort community Members of the town board met with town attorney Martin Kellogg and C. C. Tilley, super vising engineer for Freeman, Ine. to assure that no undue burden will be worked upon tax payers by an anticipated bond issue for the water sy.stem. Mayor Julian Oneto noted that the board has fonvarded the loan application to the Community Facilities Administration, a di vision of the House and Home Finance Agency, in Atlanta. Tire Nags Head mayor indicat ed that the board could not an ticipate how long CFA approval might take. “We hope to hear from them within 30 days, but there is actually know way of telling; it takes time,” he said. System Next Summer An approval by CFA would pave the way for a water system which Nags Head Town Board officials hope would he in oper ation by next summer. Town board members Lionel Eclv/ard.s, Tom McKimmey, Jim Scar borough and Onteo wore all pres ent for the two-hour meet.iig on Monday at the Nags Head Town Hall. A previous application by Nags Head for a federal loan was turned down because other projects, not related to the water plant, had been included in the loan request. Board members cxpressol their belief on Jlonday that the cufrent application would be tp- ^roved. Sec WATER, Page Three AIR FORCE BLASTED BY ANTI-RANGE SUPPORTERS WORRIED ABOUT WILDLIFE Governor's Committee Told Birds and Bombs Don't Mix, By Wildlife Service Official; Congressman Bonner Says Area Has Con tributed Enough To Nation's Defense at Hearing on Air Force Attempts to Locate on Coast. By LAWRENCE MADDRY A concerned group of state legislators and a Tar Heel con-1 gressman dropped a number of verbal bomb shell.-i on Air Force attempts to locate a bombing range at Lake .Alattamuskeet or Lake Phelps on Monday, at a public hearing in Bcihaven. Led by W. T. Davis of Atlan ta, Ga., regional supervisor for the U. k Fish and Wildlife Serv ice, the bomb range opponents asserted that serious loss of wa terfowl was apt to occur with bombing operations in the Hyde- Tyrrell area. Davis told the governor’s com mittee, appointed to investigate the controversy, that waterfowl populations have decreased in all North Carolina counties where bombing ranges are located. Davis was one of 40 persons who spoke against the Air Force proposal at the hearing at John A. Wilkinson Auditorium. Currituck Cited Davis cited Currituck County as an examiile of waterfowl de cimation. He said the county had a gamebird population of 180,- 000 in 1962, but that the pre sence of a bombing range drop ped this total to 100,000 in 1962 In Hyde County, whore the Air Force desires to locate a range near the Lake INIattamus- koet Wildlife Refuge, the water- fowl population increased from SAYS W. VA. OFFICIAL AIR FORCE RANGE WOULD THREATEN N. C. ECONOMY More than 20 political cliiefs and newsmen received dramatic evidence that a bombing range at either the Lake Mattamuskett or Lake Phelps sites would have a serious effect on the state’s economy on Wednesday when West Va. Pulp and Paper Co, played host to visiting members of the press with movies and lectures showing possible dam age to timberland by Air Force operations. A. T. Bi-ust, public relations manager for West Virginia told the group, in a meeting held at The Carolinian on Wednes day, that “It is conceivable that fire, by burning us out, would seriously curtail our activities and consequently li.ave an ad verse effect on the economy of tills state ” “We do not w.ant to impede our country’s defense efforts,” he said, “but we believe that our timberland activities arc of great importance to the state and that a bombing range can be located at some other site where the potential danger and economic loss is not so great.” 140,000 Acres Destroyed W. J, Crumpacker, manager of North Carolina woodlands for the paper company, acted as host for the journalists and presented a film Wednesday morning which reinforced Brust’s remarks. The film showed drainage systems, tree reproduction, the after-effects of fire, a water drop from an airplane, logging operations, road and canal build ing, the contrast between mangl ed and unimproved areas and the loss of game habitat as the result of fires. Brust noted tliat 140,000 acres of West Va. land had been de stroyed by forest fires since 1962 “This has meant a considerable loss not only in money but in time and effort involved in con- verting unpoductive, often marsh, timberland to a well in Dare, Tyrrell and Hyde Counties.” The group was conducted on a tour of Tyrrell County timber tracts by Biust and Crumpacker and learned from first hand observation of the efforts being made by West Virginia to con trol fires in the Tyrroll-Hyde area of the firm’s operation. View Tyrrell Tract Dramatic evidence of fire damage to timber was e.xhibitod to the traveling group whicn treked through the woods of Tyrrell and Dare to witness areas devastated by fii'cs. At 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday 112,000 to 135,000 in 10 years, he said. ContributMl Enough Rep. Herbert Bonner, who lias led the fight against the bomb ing range in liis 1st District, which includes Hyde and Tyrrell Counties, told Chester Davis, Winston-Salem newsman and chairman of the Governor’s Com mittee, that “We feel we have contributed enough to the na tion’s defense by permitting the other bombing ranges in this district.” Stanford White of Manns Har bor a former game protector lashed away at attempts to lo cate the bombing range nearby while pointing out tlie threat to the areas economy by such a move. “When you drive away our waterfowl,” ho said, “you threaten our economy. A hunter is a tourist and he won’t come if there are no birds to slioot at.” No Lack of Patriotism Melvin Daniels of Wanchese, member of the Southern Albe marle A.s.sn., told the group of Air Force representatives pres ent that efforts to prevent the location of a range in the area did not stem from a lack of pa triotism. “There is not a person here,” ho .said, “who wouldn’t -sell his house and properly . . . and glad ly give it up to prosen'e our liberty and way of life.” “It just seems to me tliat Air Force officials have overlooked the fact tliat tiiero is a wide area of this country, from Maine to Florida, that could be used for a bombing range . . . without destroying wildlife.” Thomas Litchfield of Wash ington, N. C. was perhaps, the only sup)jorter of the range who spoke on Monday. Ho asked, •‘Are there not grounds for a compromise so that the various branches of the armed^^Jorces can use existing ranges outside hunting seasons.” Litchfield, re portedly a land speculatoi’, was one of SIX range supporters pres ent at the meeting. West Va. Co. Objects W. J. Crumpacker, manager of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Go’s N. C. timherlands told the committee that David Luke, pres ident of the company, had noti fied Gov. Terry Sanford that the range w’ould jeopardize his com pany’s plans to develop the area. Turner Battle of Rocky Mount, the group w’itncssed the charred remains of a tract five miles executive director of the State See TOUR, Page Four ROTARIANS WILL AID LIONS WITH PROGRAM FOR DARE BOYS CLUB Plans for a co-operative sup port program for the D:ire County Boys Club w’ere begun on Mond.iy night at a meeting of the Jlanteo Rotary Club when a committee of three Rotarians was appointed to discuss a mut ual support program with Lion Louis Jlidgett, Boys Club co- chairman. George Whitfield, Rotary president, announced this week that Gordon Kellogg, LawTcnre Swain and Wallace Gray Imd been appointed to discuss Rot ary Club support of the project with the Lions Club represent ative this week end. Whitfield said the decision wa.s made to assist “in whatever way we can, with what wc con sider to bo a fine program for the development of youth in the area.” He notel that the Rotarians Wildlife Federation, told the committee he has infomation that the Air Forec now- is look ing favor.'ibly at another site not in this area. “I am not at liberty to say where it is,” he said, “but it will be disclosed shortly,” he said. Battle also suggested thrtt Uie Federal Aviation Agency bend its airways to make other sites available. No Waterfowl .Teopard|y Chester Davis, chairman, told the group that tlic matter is one of national interc.st. “We know you are concerned,” he said, “but we have talked with the Air Force and we know they have investigated 13 sites in North and South Carelina. They need a bombing range and their men arc not being adequately trained now. But we will not hurry this decision, and I can assure you that whatever answer wo find will not jeopardize waterfowl.” Davis indicated that his com mittee will meet in Rocky Mount on Sept. 17 and Uiat it may make its recommendations to the Governor then. State Sen. P. D. Midgett, an outspoken critic of Air Force attempts to voted to aid in the program after a business meeting and supper which was held at the Manteo locate in the Hyde County area, Motel on Monday evening. acted as moderator at the meet- The Dare County Boys Club was organized in February of managed, productive area that _ ■ , v r will contribute immeasurably this year by the Manteo L’ons, JOINTLY-SPONSORED more to the state’s economy than it has already.” “We are opposed to Air Force acquisition of land in this area . . .our principal concern is forest fire,” he said. Brust emphasized tliat since the company had invested sever- tried tbe new venture for one'al millions of dollars in manag- season and stonped, others cor- ■ lag what once was unproductive ried parties off and on for sev-1 forest land. “We also have add- eral years, and some stayed with 1 cd, directly and indirectly, sever- it and are still taking parties al millions of dollars to the ec- Sec SPORT, Page Three onomy of the area, particularly REVIVAL IN MANTEO in an effort to provide a super vised recreational program for area youth. More than 80 young- Tlie second annual revival sters have responded by signing- sponsored by the Dare Minister- up for the program which is de- ial Association will be held signed for youths from 13-17 September 26-30 at Mount years of ago. Olivet Methodist Church in Man- An essential feature of Ihe teo Each night a different min- program has been a sign-in ister of the association will policy whereby Boys Club mem- preach, and a different choir will bers have individual cards on render special music nightly, which their times of arrival and The public is cordially invited departures from meetings are to the services which will begin listed. at 7:S0 each evening. I ** I , * *>^l