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David Stivk Kill Devil Hills, II* C. e-Ei-^f^ Q3 , SEND RENEWAL OP SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS THE COASTLAND MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS 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 Pages I ffirough 6 VOL XXVIII — NO. 26 MANTEO. N. C.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1962 Single Copy A BRIGHTER 1963 DAWNS FOR HATTERAS ISLAND AS INLET’S CLOSURE ASSURED Office of Emergency Planning Gives Green Light to Army Engineers to Close the Gash Which Has Brought Economic Distress Since Early 1962; Additional Dredge Ex pected On Site Within A Few Days. The controversial and storm- swept Buxton Inlet, the 1,050 foot gash across Hatteras Island will be “filled as soon as pos- sibo,’’ accoiding to officials of the Office of Emergency Plan ning in Thornasville, Ga. who made the announcement as The Coastland Times went to prc.ss Although complete details were not available officials in Thornasville indicated that At kinson Dredging Co., the Great Bridge, Va. firm under contract to place 225,000 cubic yards of material into the inlet for a partial-fill, may be given the ^ igreen light for a complete clo- '^sure of the waterway. O.E.P. officias said that a dredge now being used for dune restoration by the National Park Seiwice, near Avon, will prob ably be dispatched to the inlet’s south-side to expedite the clo- ; sure News of the O.E.P. decision W!is expected to bring a sigh of relief to natives on the Out er Banks living south of Buxton who have been cut-off fram north Hatteras Island since a storm on Dec. 3 destroyed the temporary bridge which had .spanned the island-severing in let. An emergency ferry service 'lin’as established to connect the islanders after the storm, but natives have been forced to make a three and one-half hour trip from Hatteras to Avon The journey would noimally take less than 30 minutes by car. The inlet fill will also mean rf that students living north of Buxton can return to their class es at Cape Hatteras School. More than 67 students have been attending a temporary school at Kinnakeet Coast Guard Station since the wooden bridge over See INLET, Page Four FIRST AIRPLANE CASUALTY BIG BIRD YEAR WHAT YOU HEAR OF '62 SEASON SEA HAGS WHOOP IT UP OVER HOLIDAYS Good Gunning Reported From Hunting Areas Of Coastland OFFICE STAFF FOR L COLONY TO BE REDUCED Gen. Mgr. Calls For Economiz ing In 1963 Operation Of Outdoor Drama The Lost Colony will begin its operation this year with a reduced office staff and its old headquarters, .iccording to Jo.hn VV. Fox, the drama’s new gen eral manager who was in Man- teo Tuesday and Wednesday of this week to make plans for the 1963 season of the nation’s oldest outdoor drama. Fox, 54, is the executive di rector of Raleigh’s United Fund campaign who was named to the $12,000-a-year post in early December, as successor to F. Edgar Thomas of Chapel Hill. He will begin his official duties with The Lost Colony on Feb. 1. The new general manager stated this week that the show’.s offices will bo located in tne Dare Community Building. “We do not expect to use the old Quinn Furniture Building this year,’’ he said. Although he did not say what reduction would be made in office personnel dur ing the post-Silver Anniversary year, Fox stated that: “We plan to operate as economically as possible with not as many peo ple behind the scenes.’’ Virginia Dare Day Virginia Dare Day may have more of a religious emphasis this year, according to the now manager. Fox indicated that plans were being discussed for a celebration on August 18 which may include a visit from a prominent member of the Episcopal clergy in Canada. See COLONY, Page Tlrree CAPT. JOHN T. DANIELS OF MANTEO "SWEPT OFF HIS FEET BY HISTORY" As the hunting season for geese and ducks in the north eastern North Carolina coastland rapidly approaches its conclu sion, hunters began taking a gander at kills for the season, and the general opinion, 'hat most couldn’t duck, is that “1902 has been a good year.’’ Saturday, Dec. 29 is the close out date for duck bunters in the Tar Heel State and the gee.se are off-limits after Tuesday, Jan. 8, but hunters in the coa.st- land, whose shotguns go into mothballs soon, will be able to remember the season as a bird- b ringer. The best bag boasting booms from Hyde County’s Lake Mat- tamuskeet Wildlife Refuge, where Manager L. B. Tunnell reported on Monday that 3,123 geese have been killed since the Nov. 10 opener. Tunnell, who says that "we expect a lot more to get the gun before the season ends,” noted that the figure for 1962 exceeds the 2,030 geese killed in 1961 by over one thousand. Most of the geese bagged were Canadian, he said, hut he noted that several hundred blues and snows had appeared at Luke Mattamuskeet this year to join the 87,000 Canadians who winged their way south along the Atlantic Flyway. Although it was a record year for geese at Lake ^latta- muskcct, ducks weren’t being decimated in large aumbers. Only 1,000 were reported killed at Mattamuskeet thus far. Tun nell said there were 25,000 few er ducks this year than in 1961, but was unable to explain why. “It’s just one of those things,” he said. Although ducks were dwind ling at Mattamuskeet, the hunt ers weren’t, and Tunnell noted that 3,800 sportsmen have tak en to the blinds this year as compared with n season-end to tal of 3,020 in 1961. Plentiful At Park The birds were thick at the blind areas which dot the mar.shlands of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Park, where Sec BIRDS, Page ’Iltrcc NEW OFFICERS CHOSEN BY DARE CO. SHRINERS DURING DECEMBER MEET VOTERS FAVOR WATER PROJECT OFFICIAL SAYS Registrar At Nags Head Claims 85% Of Registrants Will Vote Yes OLLIE BELL SWAIN of Manteo entertained new and retiring officers of the Sea Hags with a mid-December party at her home recently. The pack of piscatorial pretties are shown above. They are: (left to right and front to back) Ollie Bell Swain, new president; Elizabeth Baum, retiring president; Vivian Parker, director; Texine Britt, new secretary; Elizabeth Smith, retiring director; Lima Oneto, new director; Ruby Rozitvich, new treas urer; Joan Bender, new director; Susie Briggs, new vice-presi dent; Ethel Wood, retiring director. ETHERIDGE GETS NPS AWARD FOR 24 YRS. SERVICE LIFE MAGAZINE FEATURES WRECK OF LAURA BARNES IN ITS CURRENT ISSUE By LAWRENCE MADDRY Fame is a fickle lady who may smile on a man for any number of nonsensical reasons. If he drops over Niagara in a barrel perhaps, or sires five sets it identical twins, or runs the wrong way o/» a football field. But there was some basis for Jier love affair with Capt. John T. Daniels of Manteo, a man who not only grappled with his tory, but had it crash around Ills shoulders. When Capt. Daniels grabbed V-thc wooden strut on the Wright’s flying machine in the Wednesday morning of 1903 and was hurled off his feet into the twisted wreckage of wii-e and canvas—lie became the world’s * fir.st air;>lanc casualty. It may have been the only accidental inident in the cap tain’s association with the Wright Brothers, for he was a loveable, mechanic:il kind of man who nature seems to Imve blown, magically, like the wind, into the right spot at the right time for the birth of aviation. Three Qualities John T. Daniels had three 1 qualities which must have en- ' (leared him to the two dark- suited brothers from Dayton: a strong body, a mechanical mind, and a clever wit which his daughter, Mrs. W. R. Pearce of Manteo, admits made him “the , devil untied.” He was a strapping, hand some man over si.x feet tall whose 218 pounds was laced with the hard muscles that develop from lifting barrels of fish onto lioats headed for Elizabeth City in your youth and pulling winches for the Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station during your ./nanhood. y John Daniels was 30 years old that December when he met Orville and Wilbur, and they ob viously liked him right away. He is often mentioned in their letters and the three spent many a night singing in the frame shed at Kill Devil Hills by the ^ flight of a kerosene lamp while Capt. John played his fiddle. Capt. Daniels mai-velcd at the "queer Wrights” and their fab ulous flying machine when he •trolled over from the Coast CAPT. JOHN T. DANIELS FIRST PLANE CASUALTY A new slate of officers was elected by Dare County Shrin- ers at their December meeting in the Shrine Club. Sam Burrus of Manteo was elected president to replace retiring president An drew Tillett. Other officers elected for the iw year are: Dewey L. Hay- man, Nags Head, vice-president, and Woodson B. Fearing, Jr., secretary-treasurer. Local Shriners have been en couraged to attend the annual business meeting of Sudan Tem ple which will be held in New Bern on Thursday, Jan. 24. The meeting will be followed by ini tiation ceremonies and a fish fry at the New Bern Temple. The meeting will be climaxed with a Potentates Ball. ISLAND RESIDENT DIES AT AGE 84 Guard Station that December to sec what was going on. “I never saw men so wrapped up in their work in my life. They liad their whole lieart and soul in what they were doing, and when they were working we could come around and stand right over them and they would n’t pay any more attention to us than if we weren't there at all. “But we couldn’t help think ing they were just a pair ofi poor nuts . . . they would stand on the beach for hours at a time just looking at the gulls flying, soaring, dipping. They seemed to be interested mostly in gannets (gulls). “But they were a long way from being fools. We began to see that when they got their glider working so that they could jump off into a wind off that hill and stay in the air for several minutes, gradually slid ing down to the beach almost as graceful as a gannet.” Mind For Motors And John Daniels was no fool cither. True, he had only ex perienced four years of school ing, but there was a mechanical side to his nature that must have come in handy for the §01 George Brumsey Twine, 84, a retired carpenter, died Wednes day at 9:36 a.m. in his home near Manteo after a long ill ness. A lifelong resident of Manteo, he was a son of Abraham and Mrs. Ada Bca-sley Twine. He was a member of Roanoke Island Baptist Church. Suiwiving arc his widow, Mrs. Bonnie Rogers Twine; five sons, Howard Twine of Winston-Sal em, Brinton Twine of Baltimore, Wiley Twine of New Orleans and Donnie Twine and MacAdoo Twine of Manteo; and a grand child. A funeral service was con ducted Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in North End Baptist Church by the Rev. C. W. Goodwin. Burial was in Manteo Cemetery. Brownley R. Etheridge of Manteo was honored for 24 years of service to the National Park Service last Thursday during special ceremonies held at the Wright Visitor Center at Kill Devil Hills. Etheridge was presented ''■vith a citation, a bronze medal, a lapel emblem and a lifetime pass to the national parks for him self and Mrs, Etheridge by act ing superintendent Ray Rundell. The citation for commendable service rend as follows: “Upon retirement after twen- ty-foUr years of service with the National Park Service, Depart ment of the Interior. Mr. Ethe ridge joined the National Park Service on December 16, 1935, as a laborer at Wright Brother.s National Memorial. During the period 1939-40, he served as a guard. In August 1957 he was promoted to caretaker, the posi tion he held when he retired on September 20, 1962. During his career he helped make it pos.>:ible to stabilize the shifting .sands at Kill Devil Hill by grassing and sodding to maintain this histor ical site for a permanent mo nument in honor of the Wright Brothers. He was responsible for the maintenance of the en tire area, which he kept in an attractive and aesthetic condi tion. In recognition of his faith ful and devoted service, the De partment of the Interior gi-ants to Mr. Etheridge its Commend able Sendee Award.” Those attending the ceremony held in the Visitor Center at Wright Brothers National Me morial W'cre; Edward Nash, park engineer; James Groce, park See ETHERIDGE, Page Three A two page photograpic spread depicting the wreck of the Laura A. Barne.s occupies an honored spot in the current is sue of “Life" magazine in a photosccnario of the sea captur ed by photographer Leonard McCombe. McCombe traveled 6-3,000 miles in a joumey around the world to photograph the sea scones. The picture of the Laura A Barnes was taken immedi ately after the Ash Wodne.sday Storm, according to Aycock Brown, director of the Dai-e County Tourist Bureau, who as sisted McCombe in setting-up tlie color shot, entitled Sunrise, Cape 'Hatteras. A poll official at Nags Head predicted this week that “ap proximately 83%” of the regis trants for the bond election on Nags Hoad proposed $945,000 water system are for the pro ject. C. S. Culpepper, registrar, made the announcement on Mon day and noted that Saturday is the final day to register for the Jan. 12 election. Next Saturday, January 5, is Challenge Day. The registrar said that 150 citizon.s at Nags Head had rog- i.stercd for the election and in dicated that “tile majority seem to he for the project.” The Nags Head Town Boaixl has been mustering support for the new water system which members of the ba:ird have described as “the mo.st crucial need ever to face our town.” In an effort to .stimulate in terest and answer questions about the pr 'ject, a public meet ing was held last week in the ,Nags Head Community Build- I ing, where town officials met w i t h representatives of the State Board of Health and an engineer from William Freeman and Sons to discuss the system. Reduced Fire Insurance An election on the proposed water system wa.s assured on Nov. 7, when word wa.s received fi’om Congres.sman Herbert Bon ner that a $945,000 loan, subject to the election, had been approv ed by the Federal Housing and Homo Finance Agency in Wash ington. The bond issue, if approved, is expected to provide a reduction in fii'C insurance rates for citi zens living within the town limits of the resort community. Mayor Julian Oneto of Nags Head noted in December thn* in- 'surance reductions of as much as 124c per $100 of v:iIuation may jbe expected at some places, if [the bond issue passes and tlie system is completed. 1 Nags Head Town Board mem bers also feel that the system can bo consti’ucted for less than the $945,000 loan promised by the Home Finance Agency Commissioner Lionel Edwanls of Nags Head indicated that "the co.sts may be reduced with lowered bids from contr:ictoTs. Edwards said be felt some ex- .Soe WATER, Page Six ASH WEDNESDAY STORM DARE NEWS HEADLINER DURING HISTORIC 1962 Most Des+ruefive Slorm In History Of CoasI Was Major News Item In Year Filled V/ith Drama and Crises. Edged Warren Bridge Celebration and Silver Anniversary Of The Lost Colony As News Story of The Year. LT. REYNOLDS GETS NEW DUTIES ON MOSOPELEA LT. KEITH A. REYNOLDS as- ■sumed his first command on December 17lh when he relieved Lieutenant Command'’!' Paul D. Butcher as Commanding Officer of the Fleet tug USS JIOSO- PELEA (ATF-158) Lt. Reynolds reported to his A viciou.s ?Jarc'h 7 northeaster which broke acio.-is the Outer Banks without warning, I'ipped an inlet across Hatteras I.sland, and caused millioii.s of rtollar.s in lii'operty damage was the nmjor newsmaker for the Dare C last in 1902. The Ash Wednesday Storm, the most destructive in the his tory of the Outer Banks, edged the Lindsay Warren Bridge Celebration, a bombing range, a decision to close the Buxton In let, a celebration of the Lost Coloiiy’.s Sdver Anniversary and a loan for two town water sys tems, in its bid foe headline honoi's in The Coa.stland Times. It was a year filled with as tronauts, Cuba, the twist, the death of Marilyn Jlonoro, inter continental t. v., a church council in Rome, hut for the coastland, as always, the battle with nature and the turbulent Atlantic shap ed the nows in ’62. March 7 Headliner The Ash Wednesday Storm struck the Dare Coast at ap- proximatly 11:30 pm. on March 7. The entire beach area was submerged in water which varied from depths of one to six feet. Waves breaking on the beach were estimated to luavc been in cxce.ss of 20 feet high. Damage est'inates varied be- new duties from the Enli.slod tween eight and ten million dol- Per.sonnel Di.strilndion O f f i ce. L'irs. Scores bf cotUges were U. S Atlantic in Norfolk where I mot.-ls and stores he .served .ns Plans. Control .and Mobilization Officer. Lt. Cmdr. MANTEO P. O. LOBBY OPEN EVENINGS TO 10 MRS. MARTHA ETHERIDGE DIES THUR. IN WANCHESE Arrangements have been made for the convenience of lock box holders in the Manteo postoffico whereby patrons may enter the lobby 10 p.m. evenings. The last mail for the day is u.sually put up at 9:30. The Manteo night policeman will keep an eye on the lobby to watch loiterars and will lock the fi-ont door at 10 p.m. according to Postmaster D. V. Meekins. SHRINERS USHER IN YEAR WITH DANCE ON DEC. 31 Dare County Shriners and their invited guests will cele brate the new year with a dance at the Shrine Club on Dec. 31. The hours for the event arc from 9 til 2. Hats, favors :md noise-makers will be funiished. Alvah Ward, Jr. of Manteo is in charge of the function. JIrs. Martha Gallop Ether idge, 85, of Wanchese died on Thursday afternoon after a six months illness. She was a mem ber of Wanchese Methodist Church, where a funeral will be held, pending notification of next of kin. Burial will follow in Cudworth Cemetery. Mrs. Etheridge was the daugh ter of the late Mr. and 51 rs. Peter Gallop of Wanchese. Her husband was the late James Al bert Ethorklgo of Wancli'ise. Survivors include four dutgh- tei's, Mrs. John Cudworth, Wiai- chese; 5Irs. Jackson Midgett, Manteo; Mrs. Harold Culpepper, Nags Head and Sirs. Murray Dick, Newport News; one con, Theodore Etheridge, W.-jnclmso; one brother, Ezekial Gallop, Wanchese; three sisters. Sirs. Charles Tillett, Sirs. Robei-t Green and Mrs. Tucker Daniels, Wanchese, 18 grandcliildren and 34 great-grandchildren. Butcher will report for duty with the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D. C. During World War II. Lt. Reynold.'; seived as an enlisted man aboard the attack transport USS GENERAL STRATFORD and the battleship USS NORTH C.AROLINA. In 1948 he volun- tcred for submarine duty and spent the next five ycar.s of hi« naval career in the Silent Seiv- ice aboard the submarines USS RAZORBACK, in the Pacific, and USS CUTLASS in the At lantic. While solving as a n.avigation instructor at the NROTC Unit of the University of Pennsyl vania in 1954, Lt. Reynolds ap plied for and was accepted as an Officer Candidate in the Navy’s silt. Power line.'! were down all over Nags Head and the Kitty Hawk area. The beach at Kitty Hawk hardest hit areas of Dare, was littered with fragments of cottages and homes which piled up like splintered matchboxes on the busiiic.ss highway. Jcnetle’s pier at Nng.s He:ul was swept to .sea. Although no casualties were reported, Donnie Twyne. Nags Head Chief of Police awoke to find his newly pui-chased town car completely inundated and swam to safety. Ephey Priest, a highway employee, became a hero by saving dozens of isolat ed and freezing persons from peril with a motor grader. Coast Guard helicopters from Elizabeth City and Norfolk be gan evacuating beach residents. “Seaman to Admiral Program.” Red Cross and Salvation Army SCOUTERS REACH HIGHEST RANK IN TRAIL OF EAGLE ’'lyi ANCHOR MEN TOOT-IN ’63 AT CAROLINIAN PARTY The Carolinian Hotel will be the scene of a gala New Year’s Eve Celebration on Monday evening. Music for dancing will be furnished by Woody Pittman and his Anchor Men, one of Eastern North Carolina’s most popular combos, from 10 til 2. A buffet breakfast will follow at 2:80 a.m. The management suggests that reservations be mlA Vi fiP-WLWfe workers moved into the county. Special emergoncy shelter areas were established in schoolhouses and civil defense leaders set-up an around-the-clock vigil. Traffic on the beach roads was restricted by National Guards men and the Highway Patrol. Congres.sman Bonner flew in to Dare to suivey the damage personally and offer assistance in Washington. Govcnior San ford arrived and promised all possible state aid. S.B.A. loans were offered. Highway Commi.ssioner Mer rill Evans surveyed road des truction and then called the storm “the w ii-st in history.”^ Special ferries began plying the waters between Engelhard and Hatteras, and across Oregon Inlet. Beach residents began moving back to their homes and businesses to dig-out, and Con gressman Bonner called for a faster procc.ssing of S.B.A. loans. By March 23, Outer Bankers were still licking their financial wounds but were rising from their knees. Although highway officials declared that storm- created the Buxton Inlet would be bi'idged, many wondered how long the stracturc would stand, others called for an immediate fill for the inlet and all Hatteras Islanders predicted further He received his commission as an En.sign in June 1955. Since receiving liis commission he has served a.s Assistant Navigator and Auxilary Ma chinery Officer, USS SALEM (CA-139); Opevation.s and En gineering Officer, USS WIL- LIA.M D. WOOD (DDR-716); Plans, Control and Mobilization Officer, Enli.sled Personnel Dis tribution Office, U. S. .A,tlantic. Lt. Rovnolds wears the follow- See REYNOLDS, Page Three SAFE HOLIDAY IS REPORTED; ONLY I WRECK A minor automobile mishap was the only accident to mar the Christmas holiday according to officials of the N C. Highway Patrol and the Dare County SherlfPs Dept, who have called the holiday .season “one of the safest on I'ccord thus far.” The automobile accident oc curred at 11:30 pm. on Dec. 24, when an automobile operated by Miss 5Iyma K.ay Owens, 16, of Wanchese veered off Jlothcr Vineyard road and crashed into a fence belonging to R. Bruce Etheridge of Manteo, Miss Owens and four passeng- cr.s in the car escaped without injuries. Tlie car’s left front and i trouble would bo caused by the ,, .side received $200 in damagc.s j oce.an gash. In December of 19- and cost of the fence repairs 62, the prediction was still valid, was c.stimated at $125. According to Highway Patrol officials, the vehicle veered to January A month by month survey of 1962 indicates that January’s the left of the road and strock .biggest stories dealt with a approximately 75 feet of con- bombing range, a rocket rese-, cret post and fence before com ing to a stop. areh center, the appointment of a new manager for the Lost Tlie driver told patrol officals Colony, and the Oi’cgon Inlet that she “blacked out” and did Bridge THREE HONORED SCOUTS are shown above after having been awarded Scouting’s highest sym bol of rank, the Eagle Badge, during special court of honor ceremonies on Dec. 16 in Mount Olivet Methodist Church. The youths, all from Manteo, are: (left to right) Fred Roush, son of Mr. and Mra. J. Fred Roush; Spencer Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Smith, and Timothy Gaylord. Mn of Mrs. Beulah Gaylord. not remember hitting the fence. Other passenger’s in the ve- Ihicle included: Myrtle V. Meek- Air Force officials announced that a 32,000 acre tract of land in Tyrrell County was being con- , ins, 16, Sheilah Tillett, 16 and sidered as a possible bombing y William C. Owens, 22, all of,range site. The announcement w Wanchese, and Betty Dec Ward, was followed by strong protestj^S' 16, of Manteo. 1 See 1962 EVENTS, Page Three?;
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